breaking news on r t a camera man working for russia's channel one has reportedly been killed and done yet skitt eastern ukraine. ceasefire between a pro and anti-government forces in ukraine is supposed to be in force until monday night but reports and video suggest the truce has been violated many times throughout the week. extremist fighters in iraq acquire a breakaway islamic state on lands they have captured as the army tries to keep the militants out of the capital. and poland foreign minister says his country's alliance with of us has proved a worthless and even harmful this comes from the leaked conversation.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas recapping week's top stories we start with some breaking news just in from done yet sc in eastern ukraine a camera man who was working for one of russia's leading television channels has been killed there activists in don yes were the first to report the news and channel one their team there confirmed the death to our teasin maria finish and we are still waiting for the channel's official confirmation she will be joining us a little bit later in this hour with all of the did you get details of this developing story. now sporadic fighting between pro and anti-government forces is still breaking out in eastern ukraine and despite a cease fire that was due to hold until monday night russia and many other countries helped broker that truce ukraine's president officially declared

a cease fire on friday then held its first ever talks with activists in the east and their leaders agreed to lay down their weapons russian and o s c e representatives were present during those negotiations president putin then discussed of the deescalation everett with the ukrainian french and german leaders in a telephone conversation the russian president then made another move to call the situation asking parliament to cancel an order allowing russia to use military force in ukraine the ceasefire was extended on friday and anti-government forces again said that they would abide by it they went on to release zero zero zero s. c.e. monitors who were detained in eastern ukraine nearly a month ago many civilians say their lives have been up ended by weeks of being trapped in a war zone the good i mean if you want to give them but neither. of us let us know that but i thought it was the. leaking. well you got news and you know we don't

know if you actually look like you're good with. children we would look at the. my eyes in the bush knew i was a boy you know i did a michigan. that can do that nationally is a national play the congress you. do you can get there you want. the leaders of russia ukraine germany and france again discussed of the peace efforts in a phone call on sunday they talked about the possibility of sending international monitors to the russian ukrainian border new reports have been coming in of fighting between pro and anti kiev forces at this burning army base in done yet the pro autonomy forces are believed to have taken over the facility and this was shot in slovyansk on sunday there's been another outbreak of deadly violence there

according to a local resident. we're good at you they started firing from the mountain with the ukrainian troops they hit presidential areas of the city it went on for forty five minutes i've seen it's all a couple photos on my phone the bunts cars the destroyed marketplace houses riddled with holes three people were killed and many more wounded and we haven't searched all the buildings yet. both sides of violated the cease fire on several occasions throughout the week people living in say that their city was shelled numerous times one woman was reportedly killed in the village of pretty bold noir during a spike of violence there and in slovyansk a woman and her twenty six year old son died during an army shelling outside the war ravaged city self defense fighters forced the army out of their checkpoint unconfirmed reports suggest that the military fought to take it back but ended up losing twenty soldiers in the battle and shells fired from ukraine fell across the

border in russia damaging a checkpoint there. well the turmoil in eastern ukraine has had a devastating impact on care facilities we have an ocean of visited an orphanage in lugansk which has found itself in the middle of a battle zone. these care home for abandoned special needs children on the outskirts of the ganske aims to be an oasis of calm and tranquility. children here have food toys but most importantly love. there are eight to six children they scare house all younger than three years old it's been a home and cosy home you have for all of them that once war reached its walls it's no longer safe. mines and shells blend just a couple of kilometers away. and while the youngster had no concept of the danger for the adults it's a different story now surrounded it as

a lordship but then most of the year it's so hard actually more than half our kids cannot move there are either too small or they have motor problems some have cerebral palsy they need special care any even if we want to evacuate and we need a very special place just like ours is very hard to do. she was in atlanta a mother herself and tries to remain positive but it's no easy matter no one can say how dangerous it becomes when they start firing here and internet compelling saved in boss kids was launched to draw attention to this particular case as well as many other often injures and care homes that have suddenly found themselves on the front line and where the sounds of shelling and firing have increasingly replaced gentle lullabies. lugansk in eastern ukraine. mark sloboda is a senior lecturer in international relations at moscow state university he says

that even though the ukrainian president has put forward a detailed a peace plan there are violent groups within kiev which the government cannot control the government such as it is in kiev has very limited control it depends to a large extent still on these nationalist paramilitary groups for its survival its hold on power in kiev and it has been afraid to challenge them we saw a trade union meeting in kiev attacked by an armed right sector mob with complete impunity and we have seen this repeatedly that they act they attack individuals groups buildings churches throughout the country and the government does nothing to rein them in and this holds true on the battlefield as well. now not everybody is on board with the cease fire currently in place in ukraine and members of the government's national guard protested against the truce in kiev and

demanded more weapons to fight activists in the east some in the crowd suggested that this might be their last peaceful rally unless president poroshenko gives in to vera demands. many people have been a fleeing the war torn east of ukraine ever since the conflict broke out the u.n. says over one hundred thousand have fled to russia this year but the u.s. isn't convinced that that number is legitimate. since the start of two thousand and fourteen one hundred and ten thousand ukrainians have arrived in russia we just have seen no evidence to support that we don't believe they're credible we're watching we just don't think that the hundreds of thousands number is credible we don't have anything to cooperate at but this is the u.n. this isn't the russians saying this is the united nations and there's this is an agency saying you guys give millions and millions of dollars to and they're now longer credible we don't have anything to back up that number matt. coming up

a look at a deal that has firmly realigned ukraine towards europe there is still no end in sight for the conflict in the east one which washington accuses russia of fanning but as we report later america's threats of sanctions are proving controversial at home. now the jihadist group isis which has made a rapid territorial gains in iraq over the past few weeks has announced the creation of a breakaway islamic state so called the caliphate covers much of northern iraq and also parts of syria where the group is in control of several regions i mean ousmane comes at a time of intense fighting across iraq government troops are trying to prevent the extremists from seizing key cities including the capital the latest clashes erupted just fifty kilometers outside of baghdad leaving dozens of soldiers set to speak more about the latest developments i'm joined live by robert naiman from just

foreign policy robert naiman thank you very much for being with us here on our t.v. now stephen isis has declared a breakaway islamic state is this just an empty claim or is this a new reality for the region. well there's nothing it's not empty in the sense that they control territory and so far neither the syrian government where the iraq government nor its allies seem to be any position to fundamentally change that that they need a change the boundary between the area. or islamic state is going to drop their meat but there doesn't seem to be any prospect of completely removing their so in that sense it's clearly not and it's i think an empty posts to the extent that they you know want to imply that they're sort of contesting. for our throughout the arab and islamic world that i think is an empty

threat and there's no prospect that turkey saudi arabia. palestine and lebanon are going to come under their control now this region is no stranger to war if syria and iraq proved unable to resist these jihadists are we going to be seeing more international troops on the ground. i don't think we will see u.s. troops on the ground you know depending we need by troops on the ground you know uniform u.s. soldiers in large numbers we're not going to see that they're already are. a small number of u.s. troops on the ground. near may not be used to order air strikes that could pass the school are clearly being put in place whether it will be used is very much. a struggle that's currently joined now in washington

with the increasing number of members of congress saying you have to come to us for years of military force and with the administration saying that they've made no decision yet what to do that they're flying armed drones over baghdad but they're saying that this is. purely preventative defensive about defending americans in baghdad and doing a baghdad made according to their public statements they've made no decision about . military force and i think that's a wise because there's no understanding that it would be a big gain or is step out for the u.s. government now to get involved directly militarily in a conflict between the central government in baghdad and the breakaway regions which remember you know in the eyes of many sunni iraqis regrows of what we think they see this more a terms of an uprising of the sunni arab areas against

a central government rather than you know. patient by a terrorist group all right appreciate your thoughts on the subject robert nailon front name and excuse me from a just foreign policy thank you for being with us here on r.t. good to speak to you. now let's go back to our breaking news story a camera man for russia's channel one has been killed and done yet ukraine artie's more if a national was able to confirm those reports with of the channel staff she now joins us live with more details right now maria thank you very much for being with us now what do we know about the cameramen and how he died. well this tragic news cameraman of russia's t.v. channel called first appeared of the channel well skilled well working in eastern ukraine and now the crew of the same channel is currently working here in the

lugansk where we are now we have been able to speak to these journalists and they call their colleagues to did nets and this information is now confirmed we know that the journalists were working in the city of donetsk and they were filming at one of the military bases in the city and the result so information that they were on board that bus that was also carrying the martyrs of self-defense fighters they were heading towards the military base currently controlled by ukrainian military to start negotiations over this stance and we know that journalists already finished their work and they were smoking cigarettes at. the moment when suddenly shooting started and it's very hard to say exactly who was firing but we hear information to these particular bars and its passengers were particularly targeted but again it's very hard to confirm any information at this point to do the very tragic news and so for the first time the journalists and russian journalists

become victims off this crisis here in ukraine and they are killed in the clashes and just to remind you of ceasefire in eastern ukraine expires in just a few hours back to you or to summary from notion of there in lugansk before we know that as a situation of keeping across the story and bring us the latest information as it becomes available thanks laura. now poland's foreign minister has made some strongly worded remarks about his country's relationship with the united states in a recording obtained by the polish magazine the provost he even compared the alliance to a sex act according to the magazine sikorsky believes his country is doing everything it can to please america while getting nothing in return he also thinks the partnership has been detrimental to warsaw's ties with other nations alienating both russia and germany and moscow has shown some sympathy for his comments of

those saying the colorful language was most likely in response to controversial remarks made by senior state department official victoria nuland back in february so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know the e.u. but it's not just the u.s. the polish foreign minister is less than satisfied with sikorsky pulled no punches when talking about the british prime minister dealings with u.s. skeptics suggesting david cameron bowed to pressure when he should have stayed strong and as if one to another sikorsky went on to recall other times he believes cameron misfired politically saying that he is not likely to change needless to say the embarrassingly frank diplomatic conversation has caused quite a stir here is what some of the commentators we talked to are saying. that means starring which is obvious foreign for everyone here in poland for most of the analysts as does the voiced the opinion which is shared by most of the population

here actually it raises other troubling questions about the judgment of a man who is after all his country's chief diplomatic representative who aspires to be the chief diplomatic representative of the entire european union and the governments he has been so scathing about the governments of britain and the united states are the very countries which have supported him throughout his career into what you feel so much i think it shows that there is a real awareness among the circles of power in poland as to what the relationship with the united states has really brought them which is nothing more news from ukraine after the break right here on internet r.t. international stay with us. this is the media leave us so we leave the. bush and secure. your party there's a goal. that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politic

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welcome back you're watching the weekly here on r t international now ukraine finally signed a trade agreement with the european union this week the refusal of the country's a previous leader to do so was one of the main triggers of the ongoing crisis in the country however the new leader insists this is just a first step toward closer ties with europe we see here that. ukraine as a utopian country under the forty nine article will have an opportunity. for the membership perspective this is a very important character for ukraine to work up. a financially challenged europe is still doesn't appear to be quite ready for ukraine the e.u. is a commissioner for and large mint has said kiev still needs to prove its european credentials and enact reforms the blocks energy commissioner has warned of

a bailout for greece is peanuts compared to what will be needed it to save kids' economy the president of the european commission says the e.u. is simply not ready to welcome ukraine right now and that sentiment is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe's powerhouse germany which comes as no surprise to financial expert patrick. ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how did signed a free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is a cop a strong move for the ukrainian economy the only winner is either this or a few sadly deluded egos whether they are in brussels whether they are in washington who believe some horror of their they've achieved a great deal of political victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hired here there's only going to be job losses washington has been blaming russia

for stirring up the conflict in ukraine since its beginning and threatening sanctions unless it stops but america's plans are facing staunch opposition from western businesses and here's why russia being an emerging market with a growing income has been quite attractive for u.s. companies the possibility of being cut off from that market is making american business bosses nervous joe but just who is involved in russia well boeing buys nearly a third of its titanium here and the country is also one of the fastest growing markets for pepsi u.s. car manufacturers also have a huge interest in the russian market with general motors and ford selling tens of thousands of vehicles here last year alone the chamber of commerce and the national association of manufacturers have launched an ad campaign to explain just why a new sanctions will backfire they say it will leave u.s. companies scrambling to keep up with firms from other countries earlier we spoke to the president of the franco russian chamber of commerce and industry. it should

have been because they actually. put it you could see to me such that white no. talking about it going to be called sanctions so we need two ways over but tell them that they shouldn't do it to the again they should use diplomacy to do so dude the ukrainian the place he's using it and taking him to host the g.'s companies with the us your pin off the french company is something which isn't acceptable for us what the sanctions are doing is isolating the united states' economy and instead of isolating russia they were meant to isolate russia but given the trend of world trade for all of the exports that russia has and for diplomacy it's their eyes and their backfiring in isolating the united states it's a very strange business logic it doesn't make sense logically so it has to be political austria doesn't seem to be all that enthusiastic about more sanctions

either vienna and moscow this week struck a major gas pipeline deal with president vladimir putin in attendance and the issue of ukraine came up during a lighthearted exchange don't want to know don't feel it but is it in poutine. was there just. tell us a bit. and the main. but the south stream gas pipeline deal between austria and russia isn't sitting all that well with washington you can find out why on our website. and an update on our breaking news story out of ukraine on

a totally. a cameraman working for russia's channel one has been killed there activists in the city said he was mortally wounded in the stomach during a bus ride to an army base with the soldiers mothers and crew from channel one confirmed death to artie's maria for notion but the station hasn't released an official confirmation as of yet. now behead oksana boyko looks at whether the west should change its perception of ukraine's turmoil amid military crackdown in the country's southeast stay with us for sure to international.

have you ever heard the expression pleasantly surprised well that is how i felt when i heard that the supreme court of the united states had ruled the digital information on cell phones of arrested people cannot be seized without a warrant finally the american people catch a break in a court decision this ruling is linked to the two cases in which the police used information on a suspect telephone to press for further charges against them i think that's the most important aspect of this decision is the press that it sets the court said that just because a cell phone is in a suspects hand it does not make the information on it any less worthy of protection for which the founding fathers fought so could we extend this to say something like just because i have a telephone or computer that doesn't make the information on them unworthy of protection from the n.s.a. or other privacy invaders the thing is that this supreme court decision is a good start but the police using your cell phone against you upon arrest is just the tip of the privacy destruction iceberg if the members of the highest court in a land really do feel that the founding fathers fought to protect our privacy then

they have a lot of paperwork and court decisions ahead of them for stuart but that's just my opinion. welcome to the. show thirty four countries spend over fifteen billion euros on culture she says thirty to one hundred fifty million degrees with some talk among. themselves from st petersburg to france the trouble in search of a song. we've got the future covered.

hello and welcome to worlds apart for years the west sold the so-called call it revolution is as a means to democratize the post soviet space are the current events in the ukraine with the bloodshed and divisions they've already produced likely to change that well to discuss that i'm now joined by timothy calls and a professor of government and russian studies at harvard university professor called and thank you very much for being here on the show the western media have so far avoided assigning any color to the events in the ukraine and i wonder why do you think that i think because the distance themselves have not assigned the color you're right there is no color assigned to it i think it's probably too late it's a revolution without a name. but isn't that also an attempt to mask the fact that the colored revolution has already been attempted in ukraine and unfortunately the supposedly pro democratic forces that already came to power a couple of years ago they failed to produce

a lasting democratic change in that country yes your and revolution. was a great disappointment and this may explain the fact that you know some of the same forces tried it a second time i don't know that it explains why they didn't decide it a color the assignment of colors is largely an accident i think it reflects associations often with flowers of one kind or another this happened in the winter maybe it wasn't so obvious but then case you're right it's it is a sort of unnamed revolution but i mean the fact that they were called colored revolutions also how to explain to at least western audience that you know the events in georgia ukraine alerted later kurdistan were sort of one of the same while it may or may not be the case i wonder if you see what is happening in ukraine now as a continuation of that same. tried that began back in the early two thousand. i think so it's. largely the same sort of phenomenon that has it's it's protests

very often in the past the. provocation or the trigger for the event was a disputed election so this was the case of course in ukraine in two thousand and four this time that was not an election there was no election on the horizon it was going to be another year year and a half before a coach had to. seek reelection that was as we all know the decision of his government not to sign the association agreement with the e.u. so there was a trigger it was a different one this time it produced an outpouring on the streets of the capital city and then what's really different though is that this took quite a violent turn it's different at least for. ukraine new kid who just on had to violent. revolutions or overthrows the second one of which doesn't have a name either actually the overthrow buckey of in two thousand and twenty ten his doesn't have.