there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. breaking news on r t a camera man working for russia's channel one has reportedly been killed in done yet eastern ukraine. a cease fire between 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 who declare a breakaway islamic state on lands they have captured as the army tries to keep the

militants out of the capital. and poland's a foreign minister says his country's alliance with the u.s. has proved to worthless and even harmful an elite conversation. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping our week's top stories this is r t with the weekly we start though with breaking news a camera man for one of russia's main t.v. channels has been killed and done yet ukraine artie's marie for notional was able to confirm this with of the channel's crew there and joins me live now with the details maria thank you very much for being with us now what what do we know about the camera man and how he died. well we know that tenet told it cleland seventy year old cameraman of one of russia's main

t.v. channels pay to be or the first died after he receives a bullet to his toe mark while working in the city often ask in eastern ukraine he was not even at the frontline when it happened he was with his reporter and sound assistant they were driving towards one of the city's military bases they were in a cortege followed by abbas karine the mothers of ukrainian conscripts we know a little information about the exact mission of these women but most likely they wanted to talk to put in military controlling the base and negotiate over this song and would guess that this is what the report of the journalists who are working on was supposed to be about and there were also another car there carrying journalists from russia's life news the very media whose. reporters her had been earlier i rested in kiev charged with terrorism and later following tough negotiations released and they corresponded over life has been reporting from the

scene that the shooting started very unexpectedly and the quarter was targeted to and the firing started at the moment when the cause were approaching the military base it is very hard to say at this moment exactly why the firing started and to who exactly was shooting but again live news correspondent reports that it was done by military officers by miniature by ukrainian military life news correspondent and i'm told his colleague was a with the mormon told his staff are a lawyer we have been able to speak to the crew or over russia's part of the channel currently working here in the city of lugansk and we talked to that a pilot on a totally of the old described team as a very good friend a nice person. positive person but also has a very experienced cameraman he used to cover hearts for example he worked

in republic. of russia imagery campaigns there were a lot he knew what to do and how to behave in such places but many journalists and even we may confirm that a secret in crisis is very difficult for journalists to cover and it's very complicated you can never predict whether it is dangerous or safe to be in any place and it's very hard to predict from side into which direction the firing may start it is really a very hard to work here for the first time the journalists die while covering the conflict earlier and italian photographer and his sister and were caught in a crossfire in the town of slovyansk the. cold of calls it's anti terror curation and just several days ago two russian journalists sound assistant and

a reporter both very young man both families were hit by multiple not far from where we are now several kilometers from the city of lugansk and they also died at the scene which is bury them last week well and it's even said a new given that it happens at a time when cease fire is announced in eastern ukraine back to you. maria from notional there in lugansk eastern ukraine we're going to be staying across the story as more information comes in and also stay safe for us please while you're there. you know sporadic fighting between pro and anti-government forces is still breaking out in eastern ukraine despite a cease fire that was due to hold until monday night russia and many other countries helped broker a truce. now ukraine's president officially declared a cease fire on friday kiev 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 a deescalation effort with the ukrainian french and german leaders in a telephone conversation now the russian president then made another move to calm 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 the monitors who were detained in eastern ukraine nearly a month ago and many civilians say that their lives have been up ended by weeks of being trapped inside a war zone the good men to give them but neither. of us let us know that but i thought it was the. beginning to look well you know what do you mean you have to be you know you're good with.

my eyes in the bush if i had a guy with the boys i would they need to get new should think that given that national is a national play a case that covers you more by the politics. 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 given forces you can see at this burning army base in done yet the pro autonomy forces are believed to have taken over the facility and this video was shot in slovyansk on sunday there's been another outbreak of deadly violence there according to a local resident. the really good actually they started firing from the mountain

with the ukrainian troops they hit residential 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 violated the cease fire on several occasions throughout the week people living in say that their city was shelled a numerous times one woman was reportedly killed in the village of preval noya during a spike of violence there and in slovyansk a woman and her twenty six year old son died during an army shelling incident outside the war ravaged city self defense fighters forced to be army out of their checkpoint unconfirmed reports suggest that the military then 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. and mark sloboda is

a senior lecturer in international relations at moscow state university he says that even though the ukrainian parliament has put forward a detailed peace plan there are violent groups with significant clout in 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. not

everybody is on board with the cease fire currently in place in ukraine 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 their demands. many people have been fleeing the war torn east of ukraine ever since the conflict began the u.n. says that over one hundred thousand have fled to russia this year alone but the united states is not convinced that number is a 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 corroborate it but this is the u.n. this isn't the russians this is my united national team there's this is an agency you guys give millions and millions of dollars to in there now we don't have

anything to back up that number. coming up a look at a deal that has a firmly realigned ukraine towards europe there's still no end in sight for the conflict in the east one which washington accuses russia of provoking but as a report later america's threats of sanctions are proving controversial at home. and other news 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 the so-called caliphate covers much of northern iraq and also parts of syria where the group is now in control of several regions now the announcement comes out a time of intense fighting across iraq government troops are trying to prevent the extremists from seizing it key cities including the capital the latest clashes erupted just fifty kilometers outside baghdad leaving dozens of soldiers dead but despite the group's gains in iraq robert naiman from just

a foreign policy thinks that the jihadists are unlikely to achieve the same success in nearby countries. they controlled territory and so far neither the syrian government nor the rug government nor the dow was. any position to fundamentally change that now it sounds to me is not empty i think you need to be posed to the extent that the implied 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 of turkey and saudi arabia. are going to come under their control. disturbing evidence is emerging of how the militants are gaining new recruits as you can see here in this video boys armed with automatic rifles are traveling in an isis convoy some children are also reportedly being put to work as snipers and all of this is pushing iraq to the

brink as artie's loosely counted off reports. despite the chaos spreading across the country and eerie calm in the kurdish capital the city is just sixty kilometers from the isis front line but a downtown air bill it was business as usual kurdistan has often felt like a separate country altogether even at the height of iraq's most violence and bloodiest moments now but the current crisis treading the country to pieces it's closer than ever to becoming one kurdish soldiers are now in control of territory that used to be disputed but no one here seems to think that the hardest would dare march on them but i have full faith in the forces we won let anything happen. for some the prospect of a divided iraq was a welcome one do you think that iraq will remain one country as we know it after this crisis may be good may be that iraq will have to be divided will have area and

the sunnis and shias will have there is no one in kurdistan is more and we have oil we have a strong army. they may have oil but fuel is running scarce for days now iraqi forces battled with isis for control of the country's largest oil refinery this is one of the first things you notice here in our build these massive gas lines some of the cars have been here for hours since the morning many people in fact camped overnight to try to get online so they can get gas frustrated residents line up to get their share authorities have limited each individual to thirty leaders that's less than what it takes to fill two tanks the people we've spoken to said there haven't been lines like this for fuel since the outbreak of the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and three and although there are shortages here in erbil parts of northern iraq have run out of gas even on the black markets and so people are stocking up they say that.