the old picture of these days is long distance from roads to to. look. breaking news here on r.t. international a russian cameraman is killed in eastern ukraine as the military opens fire on a bus carrying journalists and civilians hours before a ceasefire expires. jihadists in syria and iran declare the creation of an islamist state spanning across the border of both nations spurred on by washington's middle east policies. and the extremists continue their advance on baghdad we report on the plight of iraq's many minorities left unprotected in the collapsing country. per se look at the strange world of online selling where even the south african

president has been hurt or assailed the price negotiable. welcome and thanks for joining us my name is the harvey and you're watching r.t. international. a cameraman for a russian t.v. channel has been killed in eastern ukraine and another t.v. crew came under fire in the done yet screecher they were in a bus close to a ukrainian army base which was also carrying mothers of soldiers on their way to demand that their sons return home when gunfire came from inside the base. yagami. of the book. and then the driver turned the bus around to get to safety is the shooting continued.

to do. as you can clearly see there the bullets hit the bus the cameraman anatoly was fatally wounded despite the efforts of other passengers to help him and just to warn you may find the following footage of setting. you. can. like to play. catch. up. that you can.

totally die within an hour of being filmed the incident comes just a day before a ceasefire between ukrainian army and self-defense fighters expires another reporter from russia's channel one was also on the bus and here is how he described the attack. in the room when for me is 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 just a bullet whizzed past me and then i saw that it hit the driver myself blood on his hand 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 the holy 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 and the camera will do us then in the car he was conscious for a while but he lost consciousness when we got near the accident and emergency should they should they try to revive him for about half an hour but then they came out and said there was nothing more she could have nona. russia is demanding an investigation into the death of the cameraman and for those responsible to be punished it's not the first time journalists have been caught in ukraine's crossfire just two weeks ago army artillery fire killed a russian correspondent and a sound engineer while they were filming refugees outside the city of lugansk and so last month an italian photographer and his translator died in a mortar shelling and a reporter for artie's video agency ruptly was severely wounded by soldiers in the city of mariupol in may it took several days to negotiate his return to moscow journey so often detained without charge by government forces and correspondents

for various russian news channels have been apprehended interrogated and even beaten the incident came as a time of declared truce in the east of the country president putin along with his german and french counterparts is called on ukrainian leader petro poroshenko to extend the cease fire that expires at seven pm g.m.t. on monday they held a phone conversation overnight on these real financial reports now on how the cease fire is affected life in embattled areas. those we have been able to speak to here in the city of the gods going to three have been telling us that if the rain relative calmness and noise became more solemn for the finally people now could leave but of course we continue here hearing about sporadic fire often resulted in fatalities including the months of human population we heard that the city offices around the center of work here calls it and to tell of the ration repeatedly came under fire with residential area attacked and a woman killed

a church was also hit at the time when during mass was happening there there were also a series of explosions at a non-state internets no soldiers were there at the time we've been here in ukraine in military repeatedly that that checkpoints were attacked by self-defense forces well we can say that unfortunately whatever peace the reason in these parts of the country remains very very different job and of course people very tired they are exhausted of the situation of months of clashes and months of tensions many fled already the country with many stay here and who have been hearing from many of them that their plan is that in case of emergency in case of need they will use them shelters and we visited some of them and here's my report about that this is a bomb shelter watch out it was built decades ago when ukraine was part of the used

to store 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 sons are now coming back to life. as they see if you want peace prepare for war the diem as a resident volunteered to clean up soviet era bunkers they could provide a crucial defines against on the 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 going to brazil in the rubrum of that there were this not only this pulled on me of or all of rather the issue credible and i just hope that there were about the

last one more but the board there is the road to come who are not of but. the way i am that well human longer but i fear 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 to go with come out of. there is also a kitchenette with some basic food and first aid kits. because in more than two days it. suddenly we hear was sounds like distant shooting dogs organization. from of a. hostile origin after which all but at least one you've heard of a keyboard. when we filmed vitalis daughter noster stops by. she also heard what we did. there is a skier was laid out with explosions when we were walking home through

a filter then 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 in a. reef notion r.t. in lugansk eastern ukraine. and you can see dramatic images from the ukrainian conflict for yourself on our web site r.t. dot com. now in other news jihadist militants fighting in syria and iraq have declared the creation of an islamist state spanning parts of both countries in a notorious al-qaeda break way group known as the islamic state of iraq and syria or isis is behind the declaration and they are urging other jihadist groups to pledge allegiance to the new state as you can see clearly on our map here its territory covers the north of syria and the than half of iraq which is home to rich

oil fields so the question then arises where exactly does isis get the funding that it needs in order to seize power in the region but 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 has played its role in the rise of isis as artie's marina portnoy explains. then he was terrorist organization known as isis is over taking out his brain 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 sort 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 at a training camp and 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 in 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 to. arest 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. . it's not just go for countries or the u.s. behind the rise of the militants operating in syria we spoke to saying bhaji from the middle east technical university who says turkey has been widely supporting jihadists in his bid to undermine assad. turkish government and particularly in syria is. an entertaining strong. islamic groups who took which government have not moved. for about the rather are speaking about the certain elements of islamic groups the no. government friendly. group in. groupings also of. sympathy of the turkish government. well the us is attack on iraq has opened up the

already why divisions in it society there is religious strife between sunni's and she is along with the separatist sentiments among kurds in the north and then there are other minorities like christians and turk man who are in a position is this you catherine of explains. that he's exhausted terrified with nowhere to go but these are wrong snoozed 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 get nothing but the losing again that huge close medicines important papers everything we'll have behind i don't know how we'll get by someone donated 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 for past a hundred degrees fahrenheit there is power from a generator in a 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 calico and ancient christian community on the outskirts of the isis controlled city of mosul it was seen as one of the last safe havens for in walks do including christian population not anymore families like this one twice displeased with left baghdad at the height of the sectarian civil war lawyer gets up at the house there is no safe

place left in the rock and. they used to slaughter you for being a christian now we must suits the same thing and there is no one to protect us. that. this is the sound of a country torn apart sunni militants are sweeping across northwest along informed that in the south shiite militias are digging in the kurds to are on the move reclaiming long disputed territory iraq may be one pinch me but for how long that actually the 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 disarm. them. we'll really have to find a deserted village the families have all fled for safety these men stayed behind to defend the land. to 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. 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.

lucie county new problems iraq. and to stay with us here on all today after the break cool see what happens when i'm on the sets out to live all just products made in front of the ten hole but. there's a leader so we need to be. part of the scene bush and secure. the party there's a goal. is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. are. on the air and in the financial world. calment can't stop it is the dems only take it no to the credit not going to get it in life there are two.

i think right. now. but if. you like. welcome back you're watching r.t. international next this hour a helicopter carrying up to fourteen people has crashed in russia's far east the aircraft was apparently transporting eleven firefighters from the forest security service local authorities say they have managed to locate the helicopter but the cause of the crash is yet unclear as is the fate of those on board and we will

bring you more on this as and when we get it is there anything that money can't buy well apparently not online where even national leaders are being put up for sale and as r.t.c. go piskun 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 chewed bubble gum to supercars 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 has 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 of 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

thatching a biblical twenty eight thousand dollars no wonder presidents are being listed as well. a moving from mass to online that's a website where you can read about the russian company that slows to a pizza delivery service using drones but is unlikely to be getting any orders from an angry aviation agency. also that gets legal backing in california and that paves the way for a major advance a virtual currencies in the state of the full story on a website. and politicians often call on people to buy domestic to save local jobs and industry in the modern world is that even possible one paris based journalist tried to survive on just french made products for ten whole month sorties when the cost of i went to find out how we got along. how frank's kind of person really is in this day and age the answer is ninety six point nine percent if

you ask french journalist specially the play at ten. and then for most of the. rules of this experience were to get rid of everything that was not french and only use products that god 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 government pleads to stick to french products to stem the country's decades long industrial decline the problem is that there aren't many products like 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 been made in front but it's not. but benjamin's biggest surprise was that shoppers probably don't know where their french like goods are really from. today's rules of the european union a crazy if you take the shirt for example and you just so the buttons in front of

you have the right to put a made in france 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 it is hard to support the french all the me according to some experts claim the point is european 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 what everybody around the world agrees on that but we go from one extreme to another where there is no regulation at all 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 approved 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 just so long as they play fair one solution being put forward is to level the employment standards within the european union and police local industries so that it's not cheaper to buy for products or get them manufactured applause. i love my wife and i love to benefit from things and i think it's impossible to live completely with french products it costs too much anyway and it takes a crazy amount of time because it's hard to find needless to say benjamin. borders again but he's paying more attention to labels and ecological recycled products about where they come from the cost of paris art. ok times around some of the world headlines for you now first hundreds of people have 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 they accuse

the b.b.c. of being biased in favor of british unity. elsewhere the pakistani army has lost a massive ground offensive against taliban militants in the country's northwest operation follows weeks of airstrikes targeting their hideouts in the rest of. us which have reportedly killed hundreds to combat the taliban has been mounting after insurgents they deadly attack on the country's largest airport earlier this month. shooting in the u.s. city of new orleans is left nine people injured two of them critically the victims of course in a crossfire during a shootout between two men in the tourist area around bourbon street police are still looking for the suspects involved in the gun battle. and suspected baka harrumph ideas of attack several villages in northern nigeria reports say dozens of civilians have been killed back around with six to overthrow the government and

establish an islamic state has unleashed a bloody campaign in recent months killing hundreds they still hold captive scores of schoolgirls who were abducted in april. up next for you find out what it means to be a mercenary that's on the wane sophie and co and if you're watching is in the u.k. it's time for going underground with action at times. since the end of the cold war the navy environment is transformed almost beyond recognition today there is a global battle for hearts and minds and the west mainstream media is losing that. this is what we do we kill people and break things we can see something is simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players and if you see the ball. you can

almost see his facial expression you can see is a mouth open and crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. dramas the chance to be ignored to the. stories others who refuse to notice. the faces change the world lights now. on full picture of today's leaves my own two sides from around the globe.

look to. hello welcome to syfy and co i'm sophie shevardnadze interface will attack the world's mercenary business is booming despite their murky legal status cylinders of fortune are in demand and the pay is high but is it all about the money and the loss of five for casual care of which side they're on well i'm a man and a lead british s.a.'s officer turned mercenary who got paid to fight conflicts in africa but it ended up costing came his freedom is our guest. soldiers.