pleasure to have you with us here on r t today i'm sure. breaking news here on r.t. international the russian cameraman is killed in eastern ukraine as the military opens fire on a bus carrying journalists and civilians hours before a ceasefire expires. and the news jihadists in syria and iraq declare the creation of an islamist state spanning across the border of both nations spurred on by washington's middle east policies. and is the extremists continue their advance on baghdad we report on the plight of iraq's many minorities left unprotected in the collapsing country. plus a look at the strange world of online selling where even the south african

president has been put up for sale priced negotiable. welcome and thanks once again for joining us my name is neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. a cameraman for a russian t.v. channel is being killed in eastern ukraine and another t.v. crew came under fire in the den yet screeching they were in a bus close to a ukrainian army base which is also carrying mothers of soldiers on their way to demand the son's return home came from inside the base. and as you can see that bullets hit the bus one fatally wounding the cameraman he died within an hour the incident came just a day before

a ceasefire between the ukrainian army and self-defense fighters expires another reporter from russia's channel one was also on the bus here is how he described the attack. in the room he is on the when we got out of shooting range the driver stopped the bus to wait for other journalists who were following in cars when we all got out of the boss and everyone was either calling home or calling their editors and then about a minute we saw signal flare in the sky and then the shooting started everyone ran towards the bus they were shooting at the vehicle i was on the driver side and jumped in a bullet whizzed past me and then i saw that it hit the driver i saw blood on his head he started driving anyway but then fell dizzy and the bus veered into a ditch and stopped i ran out and saw someone was wounded and realized it was on a totally we were trying to find a car to get him to hospital and when we started taking him out of the bus he turned around and his last words were the camera on the camera then in the car he

was conscious for a while but he lost consciousness when we got near the accident and emergency station they tried to revive him for about half an hour but then they came out and said there was nothing more of the could have done it. well for the first time the russian journalists have been caught in ukraine's crossfire just two weeks ago army artillery fire killed a russian correspondent and the sound engineer or they were filming refugees outside the city of lugansk a reporter for artie's video agency ruptly was severely wounded by soldiers in the city of mariupol last month and it took several days to negotiate his return to moscow journalists often detained without charge by government forces and correspondence from various russian news channels have enough were handed interrogated and even beaten. president putin along with his german and french counterparts is called on ukrainian leader petro poroshenko to extend a ceasefire that expires at seven pm g.m.t. on monday they held a phone conversation overnight despite the truce sporadic fighting continues across

eastern ukraine on sunday the city of slavyansk came under fire a church in a residential area were attacked and at least one civilian killed were also a series of explosions at an arms depot internet of soldiers were there at the time and ukrainian military said on sunday that checkpoint was attacked while earlier if an auction i went to see just how exhausting constant conflict has been for the local population. this is a bomb shelter watch out it was built decades ago when ukraine was part of the us to start at the height of the cold war and it seems these dark times are returning to these parts of the war old the enemy may be different but these abandoned sites are now coming back to life series as they say if you want peace prepare for war the diem and the ganske resident volunteered to clean up soviet era bunkers they could provide

a crucial to fans against army air raids and to refine he says. we speak to the dean during what is supposed to be a cease fire they keep bombing us which is why we're working here the infrastructure is destroyed so we're taking the most important first steps to fix it and allow people to shelter here similar work is currently underway at many similar stories all over the city about one hundred bomb shelters already open what was called brazil and this is what brown of the they were this not only this boat on the river all of rather to be sure and i just heard that there were about the last one more that you're bored there's a road to come in who are not a group there is a legitimacy. that i am that well human longer but i feel you are far from up for me with there will be a priority at this program or in your home office of where we are through with come out of. there is also a kitchenette with some basic food and first aid kits. because in more than four

suddenly we hear was sounds like distant shooting dogs organization. from orphans of. which no households in the us after which all but at least when you should have a keyboard. when we film vitalis daughter noster stops by. she also heard what we did. there discover was laid out with explosions when we were walking home through a filter than there were sirens and area one started running away it was terrifying the same thing happened later that night this is fire expires in just a few hours time and no one can say for sure whether these long abandoned bomb shelters will be needed again regional lugansk eastern ukraine.

you are matic images from the ukrainian conflict for yourself on our website that's r.t. dot com. you have those militants fighting in syria and iraq have declared the creation of an islamist state spanning parts of both countries now notorious al-qaeda breakaway group known as the islamic state of iraq and syria or isis is behind the declaration and as you can see on our map here the territory covers the north of syria and the eastern half of iraq which is home to rich oil fields so the question arises where exactly does isis get the funding that it needs in order to seize power in the region well it's thought that the group has powerful sponsors in the gulf states which fund its activities isis is also involved in smuggling extortion and bank robberies in the course of its rapid advance on baghdad the group took control of stockpiles of u.s. made weaponry and even washington is played its role in the rise of isis as artie's marina portnoy reports. then he was terrorist organization known as isis is over

taking out his reign as public enemy number one sunni islamic militants are unleashing brutality and bloodshed in iraq but its next door in syria during a three year civil war where the extremist group got its start we are where we are because we armed the syrian rebels we have been fighting alongside al-qaeda fighting alongside isis isis is now in bold and in two countries but here's the anomaly we're with isis in syria we're on the same side of the war so those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria that is the real contradiction to this whole policy according to reports the us government may have inadvertently played a direct role in strengthening extremists they're also allegations that the united states may have been involved in some of the training isis insurgents went at a training camp in jordan so the saudis the qataris all those are directly

involved in this regime change policy in syria and in iraq and united states has helped and created these conditions and this will cause chaos an expanding war in the region according to german magazine der spiegel americans were still in jordan in march of last year training up to twelve hundred members of the free syrian army to use anti-tank weapon mary we have spent a lot of time trying to work with a moderate opposition in syria now the white house is ready to spend a lot of money the obama administration has requested half a billion dollars to arm and train syrian rebels fighting to topple president bashar assad u.s. officials claim only appropriate that it members of the moderate syrian opposition will receive american weapons and ammo problem is it's not always easy to differentiate between the moderates and. arist here's u.s.

senator john mccain posing with members of isis the photo is now reportedly being circulated by the group as proof of their legitimacy not to be disputed the legitimacy of isis is gruesome behavior violence so horrific some report osama bin ladin looks like a gentle soul in comparison as the newest group of terrorists is growing stronger and gaining more ground throughout the arab world their safe haven remains in syria where the white house is promising to send more weapons with the goal of establishing peace marina porton i.r.t. washington d.c. . and it's not just gold countries or the u.s. behind the rise of the militants operating in syria we spoke he talked to his same bhaji from the middle east technical university who says that turkey has been widely supporting jihad in its bid to undermine assad. turkish government and particularly in syria is. entertaining strong.

groups who took his government until now has not used turkey's for about the rather speaking to certain elements of the islamic group we know that the turkish government has been friendly. groupings and. also of course this is sympathy of the turkish government the isis attack on iraq has opened the already why divisions in society there is religious strife between sunnis and shias along with the separatist sentiments among kurds in the north and then there are other minorities like christians and men who are in a dire position as lucy catherine of explains. and he's exhausted terrified with nowhere to go but these are wrong newest refugees in

a single day tens of thousands of iraqi christians were forced to flee their homes after clashes erupted between isis militants and kurdish forces. all of a sudden we heard shelling and explosions we didn't know who was attacking us we just knew we had to get out there wasn't any time to panic most families are going to put nothing but the clothes in their backs food clothes medicines important papers everything we'll have behind i don't know how we'll get by someone deny to those blankets and pillows and that's all we have they found safety on the outskirts of the kurdish capital but not much else temperatures soar past a hundred degrees fahrenheit there is cower from a generator in the nearby theater but fuel is running out. it's hard to believe that just yesterday this was a completely empty parking lot overnight it's been turned into a makeshift refugee camp. the family has fled in the paddock an entire village emptied overnight the volunteers are doing their best to help however they can but

supplies are limited and more and more people keep coming most came from kara kosher an ancient christian community on the outskirts of the isis controlled city of mosul it was seen as one of the last safe havens for iraq's do enduring christian population not anymore families like this one are twice displaced they left baghdad at the height of the sectarian civil war. there is no safe place left in the rock in baghdad they used to slaughter you for being christian now i'm assuming it's the same thing there is no one to protect us. this is the sound of a country torn apart sunni militants are sweeping across northwest a lot in baghdad and the south shiite militias are digging in the kurds to are on the move reclaiming long disputed territory iraq may be one country but for how

long it actually is sectarian. divide it's real it's becoming more violent and that's why you need to separate the communities and have everybody take care of their own. in kirkuk province we need a leader of iraq's minority turkmen community he's taking us to meet the newly formed militia they face extermination from sunni militants he tells me but he doesn't trust the kurds to protect them either. which might be disarmed. that. we arrived to find a deserted village the families have all fled for safety these men stayed behind to defend the land. go up they used to be drivers teachers farmers and businessmen they took up arms two weeks ago after sunni extremists slaughtered dozens of their people in

a nearby village. no one came to protect us when they attacked not the iraqi army and not the person or god it was a wake up call now we are here to defend ourselves we have enough weapons and we'll fight until the last drop of blood as. determined but outnumbered and outgunned facing an uncertain future in an increasingly fractured iraq. nusi county. iraq. will bring you a taste of free running as a teenager's struggling under military occupation and find joy in jumping the. french can you see what happens when a man sets out to live only all products made in front of the.

language of. react to situations i have read the reports so i'm like. no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your part of the month. because i'm going to talk you know. no more weasel words. when you question me prepared for a change when you should be ready for. freedom of speech. and the freedom to question.

now. if. you like. a come back next here on r.t. international is there anything that money can't buy or apparently not online by reading national leaders are being put up for sale and as artesia going off found out that's not even the strangest lot. people can buy and sell or trade almost anything on e bay from britney spears through bubble gum to super cars and even someone's life one man in south africa seems to have taken things to the next level placing a lot to auction the country's president the description of the law says jacob zuma has five years' experience as the president is in great health has eight wives and

eighteen children the user nicknamed average joe placed a lot added he wanted to trade president zuma for someone with similar skills just cheaper to run and more clever many south africans have indeed been criticizing the president for becoming a bit too costly for the budget for instance he spent twenty seven million dollars just to restore his country house which was fixed with a new tennis court football pitch helli bad and other high life accessories despite many in the country still not being connected to the sewer system while around thirteen million are thought to live on just two dollars a day even though trading humans is a legal this isn't the first time a living person has been put up for grabs on e bay recently a ten year old girl from england tried to sell her own grandmother describing her as annoying what could only the biggest bid reach twenty thousand dollars but was taken down shortly after while one australian man actually sold his own life the lot included his house his motorbike and a car his business and even his friends and archer separated with his partner and

decided to start afresh his old life fetched three hundred five thousand u.s. dollars and now he's reported to live on an island near panama with a new girlfriend so really almost anything can be found on e bay even a partially eaten group cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the virgin mary fetching a biblical twenty eight thousand dollars no wonder presidents are being listed as well. maybe from all law and on our website you can read about the russian company that's the pizza delivery service using drones but is it sorry it is unlikely to be getting any orders anytime soon from the angry aviation age. check this out legal backing in california paving the way for a major advance of virtual currencies in the state get the full story at our website. and politicians often call on people to buy

domestic in order to save local jobs and industry but in the modern world is that even possible well one paris based journalist tried to survive only french made products for ten months. when to find out how we got along. how frank skin a person really. is the answer is ninety six point nine percent if you ask french journalist karl put a ten month ban. for. the roots of this experience were to get rid of everything that was not french and only use products that got most of their added value on french soil with an average salary of one thousand eight hundred euros a month i found myself in a situation where i had to buy everything again including furniture. inspired by a government plea to stick to french products to stem the conscience decades long industrial decline the problem is that there aren't many products left these days that a purely french what really surprised me is how much food we import each time i see

a foreign product i think it's crazy because it could have be made in front but it's not. but benjamin's biggest surprise was that shoppers probably don't know where their french flag goods are valid from. today's rules of the european union a crazy if you take the should for example and you just so the buttons in france you have the right to put a made in from label on it it's the last operation the product undergoes that matters. even though it's not hard to find economic patriots like benjamin clarke it is hard to support the french more than me according to some experts who claim the point here commitments are opening the door to point competition and force in french companies out of business. we estimate that in france there is roughly one plant closing every day between two hundred forty and two hundred sixty plants a year absolute protectionism like in north korea is absolute everybody around the

world agrees on that but we go from one extreme to another where there is no regulation at all the industrialisation comes from globalization but it doesn't happen because some bad guys took the jobs of the french but because the french companies think we will make more money by going abroad purchasing with patriotism takes some effort but shoppers here are giving it a go and the hope of saving local businesses and keeping them in the country retail experts say there's room for all just so long as they play fair one solution being put forward is to love all the employment standards within the european union and boost local industries so that it's not cheaper to buy farm products or get them manufactured the product. i love life and i love to benefit from things and i think it's impossible to live completely with for. products it costs too much anyway and it takes a crazy amount of time because it's hard to find needless to say benjamins now by n.p.r. his borders again but he's paying more attention to labels and opts for ecological recycled products no matter where they come from marina cost of our reports in from

paris for r.t. . around us and other global headlines for you now hundreds of people gathered for a rally outside the b.b.c. studios in the scottish city of glasgow demonstrators voiced their anger over the news organizations coverage of the upcoming independence referendum they accuse the b.b.c. of being biased in favor of british units that were. suspected fighters of attack several villages in northern nigeria say dozens of civilians have been killed. to overthrow the government and establish an islamic state as unleash the bloody campaign in recent months killing hundreds they still hold captive scores of schoolgirls abducted in a. shooting in the u.s. city of new orleans is that nine people injured two of them critically the victims were caught in a crossfire during a shootout between two men in the tourist area around bourbon street the system

looking for the suspects involved in the gun battle. and heavy rain battering southern china caused flash floods and landslides over the weekend in some parts traffic was brought to a standstill as roads were swallowed by russian built a downpour started on thursday last weekend forecast say the bad weather will continue in coming days. other countries dealing with a turf war extreme poverty and unemployment so palestinian teenagers cling to anything that is left untouched by the israeli occupation or as their reports now on how free running is helping them to taste freedom. on the move. tops of east jerusalem ovaltine mohammed and a woman up they'll getting ready to run but this time it's not from israeli soldiers park or for free running is a sport that's played outside the only things you need every day obstacles and

these boys have plenty of those. affordable sometimes i feel stressed and i want to break free so i practice the great thing about barak or is that you can do it whatever you want it's all dean and his friends represent a new breed of palestinian youth modern internet savvy and connected to the global social media sphere. with their audience. i watched a movie called b. thirteen me and a friend started doing part of course we watched movies on you tube and we practiced alone you practice in order to be professional and famous and while this seems an extreme activity in a deeply conservative society even their parents see the upside. of this are pairs that not accepted in the beginning because it is dangerous but after they saw our progress after they saw they were getting stronger in going away from smoking and problems they started to support us for these boys park or is more than just

a sport it's a form of resistance and an awareness that we are the father of the courts would do this sport in jerusalem to say here we are replace the unions who are alive and doing well. but that doesn't prevent the israelis from trying to stop them of lebanon how to kill why the british and tried hard to prevent us from doing this. but we get it up and wrong never stop and across the border just like to jerusalem brothers gaza's adrenaline junkies get a daily fix from jumping israeli hurdles filled with started doing it in our club in two thousand and eleven but it was a truck in two thousand and twelve was all we had to train in the street even israeli strikes don't ski garza's group a free one is it takes more than a pillar of smoke to stop the slaughter policy or r. t. e. street resulin of course we're back with the very latest news headlines at the top of the hour stay with us though here on r.t.

up next the shady side of doctors involved in the torture of detainees and if you're watching as in the u.k. something different a firsthand account from a former elite british soldier turned mercenary who tried to launch a coup that's coming up in sofia go. 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 and 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 this is 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 the 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 to restore it but that's just my pain.

the abu ghraib pictures raise the question where were the doctors while this was going on either they directly witnessed the abuse or they witnessed the consequences of it why hadn't they protested. here the doctors were complicit they were the centerpiece of the torture they were enablers they were to so it caters they would authorize here's. the. room. from apocrypha east to now the standard for the healing professions has been simple that obligation is first and foremost to the patients interest while being torture shatters that cover.