unfortunately it doesn't sound anything. to teach music creation and why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only. to ensure that you. are killed in ukraine after a bus carrying journalists and civilians is shot out comes one day before a ceasefire expires. the u.s. sends its first batch of military aid to help the iraqi government contra the sweeping offensive of fighters as they proclaim islamic order on the lands they captured. as the black flag rises over parts of syria on iraq we report on the defenseless minorities left at the mercy of the job.

you're watching from around the world your welcome to moscow and to r.t. international i mean and our top story a cameraman for a russian t.v. channel has been killed in eastern ukraine he along with other t.v. crews came under fire and that the next creature. you. can't buy things. like that. anyway. yeah sure. they can get. that yeah. but

here's how it happened that he and other journalists were on a bus close to the ukrainian army base the vehicle is said to be carrying the mothers of soldiers on their way to them on their son's return home gunfire reportedly came from inside the base. of the little people use these today i can see anciently like the lippy at least that's the way he is because if he had any. the driver turn the bus or run to attempting to get to safety as to shooting continued. he did it. you can see the bullets hitting the bus and dot's went on atomically and was fatally wounded despite the efforts of the other passengers to help him he died within an hour or two of the reporters onboard described what occurred. in little things that we were trying to find a car to get in the hospital and when we started taking him out of the bus he turned around and his last words were the camera the camera well 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 they could have done. on a program going to trauma one of the shooting started with no warning and they were shooting to kill not as a warning to activists who later examined the boss told us on one of the bullets was from a sniper rifles nighter. on a totally clear and spend forty years working for one t.v. company filming in war zones like the iraq and syria he survived by his wife two children and several grandchildren and this is what his colleagues had to say about the mother. he knew his work he always helped the correspondents until today i never knew how old he was i couldn't believe he was sixty eight it's really hard to talk about him and the pakistanis. that his job was his life i saw him and then

that he told me that when you get back from his assignment in ukraine he would go fishing in september. i've known him since one thousand nine hundred seventy two but he was an outstanding cameraman and cheerful sympathetic but this is a great loss of trust for analysis of the situation journalists are facing in ukraine let's talk to investigative journalist tony gosling tony thanks for joining us now there's been suggestions that journalist was killed on purpose do you believe that could be the case or could it have been a mistake because it was i guess dark we're going to a conflict zone a military base at night albeit a deadly mistake what's your thoughts on that. well some ceasefire isn't it we've had five journalists dead now this is the latest all it seems killed by the kiev regime i mean these are our eyes and ears and they all whether it's actually political noise is almost impossible to tell in these sorts of situations but they're our eyes and ears and it means that. massive dissuasion for journalists to

cover these subjects it means they have to get all sorts of gear proof gear this sort of thing into going to the injuries it's much much more difficult but i think actually it should be encouraged to report more on these sorts of scenes but we're seeing really over the last maybe ten fifteen years or so more and more of a focus on trying to take out journalists we had terry lloyd died in the very first days of the iraq war for example he was an independent journalist who wasn't being protected by the military on either side he was working for i.t.n. also in the iraq war we had the royal artillery taking out the main transmitter tower of saddam hussein in baghdad which people. actually was a war crime so we're seeing the different type of warfare them that has been traditional this kind of media war and also cause the very important economic warfare going on too so i think it's impossible to say at this stage whether this was deliberate or not and just on that point there was another incident of journalists caught under fire this same day let's take

a listen to one of those journalists. we will see why there was a panic i didn't know what to do i just lead on the route. runs also to sleep myself from the constant shelling. it was very scary specially for a person who isn't. is amid a ceasefire why are such violations being allowed to only. well i think it's because the ceasefire at the moment doesn't really seem to be a serious one doesn't seem to be holding i mean we've got a very serious problem with these key positions within the kiev government to say the attorney general. the interior ministry and the defense ministry all held by people who are members of fascist parties and i think really in order to move forward we've got to have the germans and the french some real heavyweights in europe putting some pressure on the kiev government to remove these fascist released key positions and here government i mean we've seen quite a lot of bias also in reporting and we're talking about the media war just now we

keep hearing about the pro russian separatists but we don't hear about the pro nato side of the kiev regime because actually they are very pro nato nato it looks like were involved in supporting elements of us which is a fascist group in ukraine in the run up to the coup which happened in february so you know what we need is better reporting and more balance from all sides if at all possible yet russian media workers have been killed wounded kidnapped threatened numerous times that i've been sitting in this seat i've been talking about stories for a long time now moscow has been demanding investigations time and again why are these calls being ignored. well i don't think as a political will for it and this is where it comes back to the e.u. particularly the u.s. is quite clearly behind the new kiev government but he is wavering a little bit i mean it's given a lot of money to this new government and he should be asking for a quid pro quo for that and say well look if we're going to keep propping up this

kiev regime we've got to make sure that there is actually a democratic government not fascist we can't cope with having fascists in europe we saw what happened to that so thirty forty years ago and all the time that there is this influence within the regime i'm afraid we're going to have all sorts of double dealing with journalists possibly even being targeted as you were suggesting there that's the last thing we need and the e.u. is really got to put the pressure on to stop the international freedom of press bodies of sounded the alarm over the threat to journalists but there has been very little reaction from western leaders just briefly why is that. well i think that there is a tacit acceptance of what's happened i mean. you've had your intro of aleutian many years sort of was it eight years ten years ago which was where the government was brought over to more be more progress and so there's been a tussle over ukraine going on for the last twelve years or so we had victoria nuland saying that something like eight billion dollars has been spent maybe

a bit less than actually but certainly billions of u.s. dollars but been spent on trying to get regime change in ukraine and this is where we really have to stop this idea that we can go around the world doing these regime change like happened in libya incidentally in libya also violating international law british ships with jamming colonel gadhafi broadcasting systems so as you can see we've really got to step back from this idea that we can try and control the perceptions of people and of course killing journalists is one way that these fascists are doing that investigative journalist tony gosling thanks for your input . the ceasefire which is set to lapse in hours has been repeatedly broken by both sides president putin along with the leaders of germany and france has called on the ukrainian leader petro poroshenko to extend the truce they held a phone conversation overnight but the spike the peace drive locals were purring for the worse for national reports. this is a bomb shelter watch out it was built decades ago when ukraine was part of the u.s.

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 seriously as they say if you want peace prepare for war the diem of the guns can resident volunteered to clean up soviet era bunkers they could provide a crucial to funds 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. brazil is rubrum of that there were this not only this board on the river all of

rather to be sure and i just heard that there were about the last one more that your border is the road to come in who are not of birth to the legitimacy of. the way in that boat or human longer profit off of them up for me with their will it be your priority at this program or in your models of where we're through with comet offer but. there is also a kitchenette with some basic food and cursed keats. was in more than four suddenly we're here with sounds like distant shooting dogs as organization not government only a form of a. shortened after which more but at least when you should have a keyboard. when we film vitalis daughter nasty stops by. she also heard what we did. the sky was laid up with explosions when we

were walking home through a filter than there were sirens and everyone 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 grief notion r.t. in lugansk eastern ukraine. the ceasefire has been breached again according to our government fighters they say the army has shelled the city of slovyansk while attempting to advance on the self defense positions there but the bombardment has once again hit residential areas reportedly injuring a girl and killing and on specified number of people i don't i just don't think when the shooting started i dropped what i was carrying and run to the leaders house to do as you're close but i shouted so loudly that someone came down and that me and when it was over i ran back like everybody else crying in panic this is outrageous what can we hope for will wake up tomorrow how can you call this

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are. dramas the chance to be ignored. stories others refused to notice. faces changed the world lights never. told pictures of today's news. on demand from around the globe. up to. fifty. approaching a quarter of an hour into the program welcome back you're watching or to international the u.s. has rushed a three day supply of hell fire missiles to the iraqi government in an attempt to help the desperate authorities bottle it to how the militants the army is once again trying to agree in control of to create

a scene here on the map as the extremists aim to capture baghdad now this comes after the radicals proclaimed islamic order on territories they captured both in iraq and in syria the area that now hold is this summit contains economically vital oil sites now the islam extent in iraq and series urging other extremist groups to pledge allegiance to the new state so the question does arise where does isis get the funding it needs to snatch power in the region but it's thought the group powerful behind the scenes sponsors in the gulf states 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 i mean even washington has played its rule in the rise of isis as artie's marina explains. the new ways terrorist organization known as isis is overtaking 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 i says isis is now emboldened 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 there are also allegations that the united states may have been involved in some of the training isis insurgents 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 and 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 terrorists 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 a stablish increase marína porton i.r.t. washington d.c. . the eyes attack on iraq is further widening existing cultural and religious divides sunni's are fighting shias. muslims versus christians tribes against the government and kurds against all caught in the tide vise or the minorities who are more a threat than ever before reports. that 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 useless militants and produce 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 clues in their backs that food clothes medicines important papers everything we left behind i don't know how we'll get by someone deny to those blankets and pillows and that's all we have. 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. families like this one twice displaced were 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 in baghdad they used to slaughter you for being christian now in a suit it's the same thing though there is no one to protect us. not but this is the sound of a country torn apart sunni militants are sweeping across northwest along in one dead in the south shiite militias are digging in the kurds to are on the move reclaiming long disputed territory in q two province we need a leader of the rocks minority turkmen community he's taking us to meet the newly formed. they face extermination from sunni militants he tells me but he doesn't trust the kurds to protect them only their. rich might get something better 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 slaughter 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 nusi campaign of kuku province iraq. but iraq could be heading towards an even more fractured future as kurds have earned a strong ally for the strive for independence israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has supported their statehood so for more on the story let's get more

from journalist david morgan who's written about the kurdish issue thanks for joining us sir israel's policy on kurdish independence well it goes against washington stance on this doesn't it as america calls for a unified iraq why such a difference between the allies. well often israel says things that america can't say and there have been far more diplomats like peter galbraith wrote a book called the end of iraq calling for the breakup of iraq in two thousand and six and the brenner plan when they took over after saddam hussein's toppling did break up iraq into three provinces and some see that as a deliberate policy to lead to a breakup of iraq and joe but there is a joe biden plan which was formally accepted by this discussion to go in and amongst academics and diplomats and so it's not unusual

that israel has relations with a argy kurdistan regional government because they've had that for a long time but to publicly state is new especially coming from a prime prime minister. netanyahu and obviously so that's a new development but friends like the old. saying the advocates of human rights in places like palestine for example i don't think it's good for the kurdish cause if you want to see in that respect. as a supporter of the kurds i don't see a good thing for the kurdish cause. if kurdistan was a stubbly in iraq only of them and only a minority of kurds live in in iraq as more kurds in syria in right area are not receiving any support the you know they have a. autonomy their place called rajiv or and they say actually i let me just put in

there because i'll ask you but i think we've got limited time not really seriously for that because we're continuing hearing iraq is having a disastrous time dealing with isis the country managed to remain intact do you believe by the end of the conflict. well we don't know when the conflicts going to end and then look at a long it's been going on in syria i think this triggered off once maliki was reelected i think he received more support than people x. expected so this is been triggered off recently by that i mean maliki does have support amongst the population majority of the population and i think it should be given a chance to form a new government and then then they should they should have the support that america says it says it supports. peace in iraq and they also say that maliki shouldn't be the next should be the prime minister it's not for america to decide who the prime minister is of

a contest and it just suddenly lexan which was seen as generally fair a fair election so i think. the breakup of iraq is something that american policy makers may be thinking about long term and i think to some a very macchiavelli and they might not see this is such a problem and we saw the breakup of the soviet union the breakup of yugoslavia and this was preempted by a lot of western intervention ukraine we see you mentioned john mccain it was john mccain was in in maidan square in kiev. encouraging the rebellion in only a few months ago so it's the same personnel the same you know the same characters young a tragedy actually it's a tragedy for the kurds up there. if they if they're going to be on the neighbor or neighbor with the state of isis how would south kurdistan survive that ok. morgan asked me another question david morgan journalist and writer on the kurdish

issue we could talk to you all day but thanks for your input very interesting sir. it may not be able to buy you happiness but online money can attain you just about everything else even national leaders and as r.t.c. your peers can all find died not far from where the peculiar in this and it's people can buy and sell or trade almost anything on e bay from britney spears through bubble gum to super cars and even some one'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 lot says jacob zuma has five years' experience as the president is in great health has eight wives and eighteen children a 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

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fetching a biblical twenty eight thousand dollars no wonder presidents are being listed as well. up next sophie shevardnadze talks to a former british s.e.'s officer who later fought as a hard mercenary in the war in one call a stay with us. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something is simple as people playing soccer game you can see individual players and you can see the ball . you can only see is facial expression you can see is a mouth open and crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe even the war in.

since the end of the cold war the needy environment is transformed almost beyond recognition today there is a global battle for hearts and minds and the west mainstream media is losing that. right from the scene. first straight to you and i think that you're. on our reporters' twitter. and instagram. to be in the know so much.