tree story for you. because it. rushes first to channel confirms that one of its cameramen has been killed and done yet eastern ukraine. a cease fire between a pro and anti-government forces in ukraine as opposed to supposed to be in force until monday night but reports and video suggest that the truce has been violated many times throughout the week. extremist fighters in iraq declare a breakaway islamic state on lands that they have captured as the army tries to keep the militants out of the capital. and poland's foreign minister says his country's alliance with the u.s. has proved worthless and even harmful in a leaked conversation. and

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories this is r t with our weekly program now one of russia's leading television channels has confirmed that its camera man has been killed in the city of done yet his colleagues from channel one shared the tragic news with. before the official statement was released. so will it clear on seventy year old cameron one of one of russia's main t.v. channels died after he received a bullet to his toe mark while working in the city often ask in eastern ukraine he was nor to even at the frontline when it happened he was with his reporter and solid assistant they were driving towards one of the city's military bases they were even most 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 with this song and there were also another car there carrying journalists from life news to very media whose reporters her had been earlier arrested and later following tough negotiations released and they corresponded over the life has been. seen is that the shooting started very unexpectedly and the call was targeted and the pirates started at the moment when the cars were approaching the military base it is very hard to say at this moment exactly why the firing started and who exactly was shooting but again and live news correspondent reports that it was done by ukrainian military two russian journalists sound assistant and a reporter both very young man both whose families were paid 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. maria for national forests a very sporadic fighting between pro and anti-government forces is still breaking out in eastern ukraine this despite a cease fire that was due to hold until monday night russia and many other countries helped broker that truce now ukraine's president officially declared the ceasefire on friday can have been 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 of those negotiations president putin discussed of the deescalation effort with french and german leaders in a phone conversation with the russian president and 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 by they went on to release a c. e.

monitors who were detained in eastern ukraine nearly a month ago many civilians said that their lives have been up ended by weeks of being trapped inside a war zone. many give them but neither. of us let us know that but i thought it was the. beginning to look for you. with. my eyes even if i was a boy i. can see that now she is a national play the kids the kids what. do you contribute. the leaders of russia ukraine germany and france again discussed the peace efforts in a phone call on sunday they talked about the possibility of sending international

monitors to the russian ukrainian border now there have been reports of coming in of fighting a between pro and anti kid forces you can see this burning army base in done yet the pro tommy forces are believed to have taken over this facility and here's this video that the shot of slovyansk on sunday there's been another outbreak of deadly violence there this according to a local resident that we spoke to. who were good at you 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 burn scars 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 climatologist say that their city was shelled numerous times one woman was reportedly killed in the village of put of all 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 of the war ravaged city self defense fighters forced the army out of their own checkpoint and then unconfirmed reports suggest the military fought to take it back but then ended up losing twenty soldiers in the battle and of course the incident where shells fired from ukraine fell across the border in russia damaging a checkpoint and there 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 peace plan there are violent groups with significant clout in kids which of 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 arm the right sector mob and 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 into 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 broke out the u.n. says over one hundred thousand have fled to russia of this year alone but the us

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 corroborate it but this is the u.n. this isn't the russians saying this is a national and there's this is an agency you guys give millions and millions of dollars to and they're now all the credible we don't have anything to back up that number matt. well coming up a look at a deal that has firmly realigned to 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 we reported later america's threats of sanctions are proving controversial at home. on the other news now the jihadist group isis which has made 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 in control of several regions now the announcement 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 baghdad leaving dozens of soldiers dead but despite of the group's gains in iraq robert naiman from just foreign policy thinks that the jihad ists are unlikely to achieve the same success in nearby countries. they controlled territory. 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 then i think is an empty threat and there's no prospect of turkey saudi arabia. are going to come under their control. disturbing evidence is emerging of how the militants are gaining a new recruits as you can see 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 lucy come from 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 in 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 a one country as we know what's after this crisis may be posted 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 worried we have oil we have a strong army. they may help or 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 out 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 big 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 market and so people are stocking up they say that they don't know what the ring of the fear is but if you get a lot worse before it gets better that's a sentiment we heard from many here and it's not just a nice fleeing the violence we encountered shia refugees to octo gonzi job or came here six days ago from baghdad in baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse people are arming themselves and getting ready to fight one another all you see in the future is bloodshed and violence but if something doesn't change iraq will be

a country of new friends and we do see caffein of erbil iraq because for the silver star later this week the kurdish regional government said it was weighing up plans to establish a no autonomous state in northern iraq. and that goal has been endorsed by the prime minister of israel his position seems to clash though sharply with the u.s. government's views on how to quell the unrest in the region washington has called on the kurdish leaders to stand by baghdad but at the same time they are eyeing a military aid package for rebels fighting the government in neighboring syria. and us president barack obama has urged congress to approve five hundred billion dollars to be sent on training and equipping syrian opposition fighters if this funding is approved it would mark the first direct u.s. involvement in the syrian conflict let's now take a closer look at how washington's role has developed now just over a year ago washington gave the green light to non-lethal support for the so-called

moderate rebels but later that ended up in the hands of jihad ists and america was forced to suspend the aid however earlier this month america admitted it has been covertly sending weapons to opposition fighters and time war campaigner brian becker thinks that the u.s. is failing to learn from its past mistakes the united states appears they have a schizo front foreign policy there they're saying they demand unity in iraq behind the central government which is fighting what they call islamic extremists from i so where is this and at the same time they're funding these same armed groups in syria to take down an independent nationalist and sovereign government in syria what the u.s. is doing and has been doing this finally in money guns and more occupation tools in a region that it considers to be vital because it's resource rich that's about it. coming up in the program thousands of refugees from africa fall in the hands of ruthless smuggling gangs allegedly holding them ransom and of subjecting them to

captives to torture and this is according to rights groups more on that just ahead . poland's foreign minister has made some strongly worded remarks about his country's relationship with the united states and a recording obtained by the polish magazine it was approached even compared to be aligned to a sex act now according to the magazine sikorsky believes his country is doing everything it can to well 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 moscow has shown some sympathy for his comments though saying the colorful language was most likely a response to controversial remarks made by a 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. . just of the u.s.

the polish foreign minister is less than satisfied with sikorsky pulled no punches when talking about the british prime minister's dealings with euro skeptics suggesting david cameron bowed to pressure when he should have stayed strong and if that weren't enough sikorsky went on to recall other times he believes cameron misfired politically saying he's not likely to change needless to say the embarrassingly frank diplomatic conversation has caused quite a stir here's what some of the commentators that we spoke to are saying. that means sarin which is obvious far for everyone here in poland for most of the analysts as does the voice. 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 and 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 now as always we've got plenty more for you online including get this a tanker battle outside moscow. but fortunately it is not for real crews in armored machines are competing in a biathlon involving twelve different countries you can head to argue dot com for the full story and some pretty cool footage. plus robots are cool as well a humanoid capable of climbing ladders opening doors and even driving a car google presents a new robot which it says could save lives in emergency situations it is all just for you on our website r.t. dot com. ukraine finally signed a trade agreement with the european union this week the refusal of the country's

previous leader to do so was one of the main it triggers of the ongoing crisis however the new leader insists that this is just a first step closer toward ties with europe. we see that. you creating. a utopian country under the forty nine article will have an opportunity. for the membership perspective this is a very important matter for ukraine and to a cop. a financially challenged europe still doesn't appear to be quite ready for ukraine and that use commissioner for enlargement has said kiev still needs to prove its european credentials and enact reforms the blocks energy commissioner has warned that the bailout for greece is just peanuts compared to what will be needed to save kiev's economy and 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 it's 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 how to strong move for the ukrainian economy the only winners i do this are a few sadly deluded egos whether they are in brussels whether they are in washington who believe some horror that they've achieved a great deal of political victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hard here there's only going to be jobs and also. washington has been blaming russia for stirring up the conflict in ukraine since the very beginning and threatening sanctions unless it stops but america's plans are facing staunch opposition from western businesses and here's a look at 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 very nervous but just who's involved in russia well boeing nearly about a third of its titanic was purchased here and the country is also one of the fastest growing markets for pepsi as well as for u.s. car manufacturers they have a huge interest in the russian market with both general general motors and ford spending tens of thousands of vehicles here last year now the u.s. chamber of commerce and the national association of manufacturers have launched an ad campaign to explain just why the 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 this is what he had to say. it should have been because actually. the political system is such that white no. talking about it going to be called sanctioned so we need two ways

over it but tell them that they shouldn't do it to you again they should use diplomacy to do so do you condemn the crazies using and taking into host. companies with us your pin or french companies this 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 each their ice is their backfiring and isolating the united states it's a very strange business logic it doesn't make sense logically so it has to be a political austria's less than enthusiastic about the sanctions against russia the two countries 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 i don't want to feel ten but is it in putting what.

was there just. house. pale and. cold. however the south stream pipeline deal between austrian russia is not going down well in washington you can find out why on our website our team. figure swing around the globe to look at some other news making headlines at this hour hundreds of people gathered for a rally outside the b.b.c. studios in the scottish city of glasgow the demonstrators voiced their anger over the news organizations coverage of the upcoming independence referendum accusing it of bias in favor of british unity. for the middle east now

israel has carried out several air strikes on a militant bases in gaza officials say twelve locations were targeted destroying several rocket launchers and manufacturing sites palestinian officials say that a fighter was killed in an earlier drone strike meanwhile israeli troops are continuing their large scale search for three teenage boys believed to have been abducted by hamas. the protester has set himself on fire in front of horrified crowds in central tokyo a man was demonstrating against changes to japan's pacifist constitution to allow the deployment of troops overseas he survived with burns covering his whole body and is now being treated in the hospital the pan has a powerful defense force that has maintained tough restrictions on its use and since the second world who are. at least twenty people have been killed in two separate building collapses in india rescue teams are still sifting through the rubble of

a twelve story structure in southern india that came down killing at least nine people there a few hours earlier a residential building in new delhi toppled leaving eleven dead and dozens trapped officials say the disasters were caused by heavy rain along with poor maintenance and low quality construction materials. for thousands of israel bound refugees from africa the search for a better life ends up in torture camps when trying to cross the sinai desert in egypt they fall into the hands of ruthless smuggling gangs who demand cash for their hostages released this is according to numerous reports from human rights groups including amnesty international the captors demand ransom money and if the families refuse to pay up the hostages are executed more than four thousand people have been killed this way since two thousand and eight this according to un data rights organizations say that human traffickers also used torture and even

mutilation and rape against their prisoners. now despite of the president calling for an investigation egyptian authorities have turned a blind eye to the kidnappings israel's prime minister wants even described the refugees as infiltrators no matter on as stephanos is a swedish journalist and activist trying to raise awareness about the victims of torture by putting their plight on the big screen. shot sodium a shot that will tell your children my mission. was. there were melting plastic bags and dropping it in their backs this is a. matter on their stephanos also pointed to the difference in the way captives are treated depending on their nationality i

have seen kids children that are two years old being tortured the torture is not any as are tortured like we see a horror movie or something it's where people are tortured twenty four hours a day last year and not only a gentlewoman was kidnapped in the same area and it took about a week for her to be released americans getting kidnapped in the sinai but it took only twenty four hours to release them so this happens all quite often to westerners as well but they're out with them days and they don't get to experience the torture as a free country so it has to do with was race. you can watch of the full interview which was broadcast on in the now on our website r.t.e. dot com now coming up next it's a cross talk you're watching r.t. international stay with us.

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people playing a soccer game we can see individual players and if you see the ball. i can almost see is facial expression and you will see is a mouth open and crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe even asked. for forgiveness for us. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle since the end of the cold war the media environment has transformed almost beyond recognition today there is a global battle for hearts and minds and the west mainstream media is losing that war. to cross-talk alternative in mass media i'm joined by my guest storm samuel in new york he is a senior research fellow at london metropolitan university and author of the new book obama's for peace nato is humanitarian war on yugoslavia in washington we have austin peterson he is the c.e.o. of stone gate and editor of the libertarian republic dot com and in.