a russian cameraman is killed in ukraine after a bus carrying journalists and civilians is sure that it comes one day before says fire expires. the u.s. sends its first batch of military aid to help the iraqi government counter the sweeping offensive already called fighters as a program islamic order on the lands captured. as the black flag rises over parts of syria and iraq will report on the defenseless minorities left at the mercy of the jihadist advance.

welcome to argy international live from moscow to see venue with me. i cameramen for russian t.v. channel has been killed in eastern ukraine he along with other t.v. crews came under fire in the. yes but. like. everyone.

else was i mean. well here's how it happened today he and other journalists were on a bus close to a ukrainian army base their vehicle was said to be carrying the mothers of soldiers on their way to do this son's return home gunfire reportedly came from inside the base. of the community would be pretty. used to. live my day will be upgraded. to get me. the driver turned out the bus around to attempt and get to safety as the shooting continued. to defuse it if. you can see bullets hit the bus that's when and not only the was afraid to be wounded despite the efforts of other passengers to help him he died within an hour to all the reporters on board describe what occurred.

but we were trying to find a car to get him to hospital and when we started taking him out of the bus to turn around and his last words were the camera 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 they could have done. but i could read one picture in one of the shooting started without warning and they were shooting to kill not as a warning to activists who later examined the boss told us that one of the bullets was from a sniper rifle writer. and i spent fourteen years working for one t.v. company filming in a war zones like yugoslavia iraq and syria he survived by his wife two children and several grandchildren this is what his colleague had to say about the man. does not he knew his work he always helped the correspondence 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 as a past tense between. his job was his life i saw him in the nets 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 he was an outstanding cameraman cheerful sympathetic but this is a great loss of interest russia's demanding an investigation into the death of the camera man a move supported by international journalists associations and this is the comment r.t. received from human rights watch on the case this is a threat to do that must be fully investigated by ukrainian authorities the government of ukraine should do more to avoid harming civilians during law enforcement operations journalists unless they're taking a direct part in the hostilities a civilians and on the international humanitarian law may never be targets over an attack during an armed conflict. shortly before

the attack that killed the cameramen a crew from the russian life news t.v. channel was shot at near the same military base now they managed to escape unharmed but they car was badly damaged here's what one of the men had to say. there was a panic i didn't know what to do i just laid on the roof. to save myself from the constant mortar shelling the last of the. it was very scary especially for a person who isn't entirely sure. but let's take a look at what journalists have been facing in ukraine in the past just two weeks ago army a tillery fire killed a russian correspondent and his sound engineer while they were filming refugees outside the city of lugansk last month and italian photographer and his translator died in mortar shelling and a reporter for artie's video agency ruptly was a severely wounded by soldiers in the city of mariupol in may it took several days

to negotiate his return to moscow journalists also been detained without charge by government forces and correspondents for various russian news channels have been apprehended interrogated and even beaten investigative journalist tony gosling believes that the media are under threat because kiev can dream in the radical elements in power. some cease fire is near we've had five journalists this is the latest all it seems kill by think here for regime it means that. massive dissuasion for journalists to cover the subject it means they have to get all sorts of gear fright proof gear this sort of thing into going to these results makes it much more difficult to see for 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 here government. or the interior ministry and the defense ministry or help are 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 flashes from these key positions in the kiev government. the ceasefire which is said to elapse in hours has been repeatedly broken by both sides present butanol long 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 stating that talks between kiev and the east of ukraine must immediately resume despite the peace drive locals are preparing for the worst as many of the national reports. are this is a bomb shelter watch out it was built decades ago when ukraine was part of the u.s. to soar at the height of the cold war and it seems these dark times are returning to these part of the war old the enemy may be different but these abandoned sides are now coming back to life. as they say if you want peace prepare for war the

diem of the ganske resident volunteered to clean up soviet era bunkers they could provide a crucial defines 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 in an islamic a rubber room of the euro this is not only their fault on the river all of rather the issue credible and i just heard that there were about the last one more but the border is the row with the kamakura market but. the way i am that boy in the longer profit off of them up for me with their would be appropriate to this program

or in your mother's of where we're through with come out of. there is also a kitchenette with some basic food and first aid kits. and more than that for suddenly we hear was sounds like distant shooting daughters organization not only a form of a. shortened after which more but at least more unusual to have a keyboard. when we film vitalis daughter noster stops by. she also heard what we did. the sky was lit up with explosions when we were walking home three felt very and there were sirens and everyone started running away it was terrifying the same thing happened later that night the ceasefire expires in just a few hours time and no one can say for sure whether these long abandoned bomb

shelters will be needed again raef notion r.t. in lugansk eastern ukraine. the ceasefire has been breached again according to antigovernment flights as they say the army has sold the city of slovyansk while attempting to advance on the self defense positions they by the bombardment has once again hit residential areas reportedly injuring a girl and killing an unspecified number of people i don't know just when the shooting started i dropped what i was carrying in the run to. the doors were closed but i shouted so loudly at that someone came down in that me is when it was over i run back like you everybody else crying is panic here because it's outrageous what can we hope for who will leave camp tomorrow see how can you call this a ceasefire. right you can see more dramatic images from the ukrainian conflicts on our web sought out see the doc com. we'll be back with more news after this short break.

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food picture of today's. culture from around the globe. look to the. desired international some news just coming into russia's a president of putin has suggested ukraine and russian border guards should jointly defend the border crossings in eastern ukraine others according to foreign minister sergey lavrov will have more details on the story as soon as we get more information to stay with us on our international. the u.s. has rushed a three day supply of hellfire missiles to the iraqi government in an attempt to help the desperate authorities battle jihad as militants now the army is once again trying to regain control over the city of tikrit as the extremists aim to capture

baghdad this comes after the radicals proclaimed order on the territories they captured both in iraq and in syria the area there now hold a contains economically vital oil sides now this state in iraq and syria is urging of its extremist groups to pledge allegiance to the new state so the question arises where does isis get the funding it needs to snatch power in the region it is a thought of the group has powerful behind the scenes sponsors in the gulf states isis is also involved in smuggling extortion and bank robberies and 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 miniport my experience. we knew this terrorist organization their own as isis is overtaking our fighters brain as public enemy number one sunni islamic militants are unleashing brutality and bloodshed in iraq but it's 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 i says now i'm golden into 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 there also allegations that the united states may have been involved in some of the training of the 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 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 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 gras. throughout the arab world there are safe haven remains in syria where the white house is promising to send more weapons with the goal of establishing peace. r.t. washington d.c. . the attack on iraq is further widening existing cultural and religious divides sunni. muslims versus christians tribes against the government and kurds against all and caught in the time the minorities are more at threat than ever before as reports. exhausted terrified with nowhere to go these are overall newest refugees in

a single day tens of thousands of iraqi christians were forced to flee their homes after clashes erupted between and this militants and kurdish forces. all of a sudden we heard shelling and explosions we didn't know who is attacking us we just knew we had to get out there wasn't any time to panic most families were going to cook nothing but the cruciate that. close medicines important papers everything we left behind i don't know how we'll get by someone tonight of 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 families fled in a paddock and 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 gift the gift that the left but 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 there is no one to protect us. god but this is the sound of a country torn apart sunni militants are sweeping across northwest log in again dead in the south shiite militias are digging in the courage to are on the move reclaiming long disputed territory and you could province who need a leader of the rocks minority turkmen community he's taking us to meet the man we formed militia they face extermination from sunni militants he tells me but he doesn't trust the codes to protect them either. this might be something. that. we really have to find a deserted village the families have all fled for safety these men stayed behind to

defend the land. you're they used to be drivers teachers former zenda businessmen who 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 the iraqi army another 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 you see counter no problems iraq. while iraq could be heading to was an even more fractured future as kurds have earned a strong ally from their strive for independence israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu has supported this statehood let's get more on this now from a professor at tel aviv university dr pangea who joins us now professor if kurdish independence is given how could that affect the regional geo political situation. i think it will enable or stabilize the region because the kurds are force of stability there are. west oriented they are secular more secular than the rest of the people and they are in good relationship with turkey so i think there might be a kind of triangle of very democratic or let's say them a crowd thick and the western oriented. groups namely or countries or i wouldn't say no stealing not a country but israel in turkey and the kurdistan if it ever declares independence so in my opinion it will be

a force of stability for the whole region and we know that for ten years already the good this time of iraq is that is really a very stable was it's of stability israel and the kurds have rare history of corporation of course but that can you say that the same about israel and the us i mean is letting algiers in kurdish interests over washington. i think that the two parties in washington in israel do not see eye to eye on this issue on the could this time issue because the united states is still hoping to keep iraq as a unified state but it isn't a use of goal because it doesn't work anymore the kurds have been having a state of their own for a long time even though they did not declare it and iraq has no say in good this time of iraq so but the united states is still fighting if you can say their war of

the past not of the present in the future but israel understands that this is what's going to happen even turkey who used to be so much against kurdistan of iraq since two thousand and eight has been working with good this time of iraq and he has and able to facilitate that the export of oil through its territories no one could believe that this would could happen but the turkey are quite. understanding what is happening and they see that against. and against what's happening in syria should they have to have a buffer zone and the kurds are playing a kind of a buffer zone for was going on for containing the problems in iraq in syria speaking about that i mean we are seeing isis making a lot of ground in terms of capturing more and more cities and settlements out the

iraq but how can iraq win this if they don't have washington's help or can they wanted without washington's help but the breakaway of the kurdish will those be even more difficult for the iraqi government to get out of the problem they are in right now. i don't think it to make it more difficult because their problem right now is isis and they have to come together to try and stop isis from going down to bug that to care about after all these places and there should be at the same time political solution and some military solution for political solution the lead there molecule or someone else would have to be right all the parties together but so far he has failed and i don't know the proper professor i have to say thank you very much we have to leave it right there i'm running out of time but thanks very much for your time. back to our breaking news

story russia's president has held phone talks with his ukrainian counterpart as well as the leaders of germany and france with the statements following those discussions he has just a little bit more with us every day let's talk about what the russian president is suggesting well this is the information that we're getting from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and he's essentially saying that there has been an offer coming from russian president wasn't put in to install to essentially open the opportunity for ukrainian border guards to. coordinate lee with russian border patrols monitoring those border checkpoints which have been taken over by and to key of protests on top of that russian president is suggesting that it's always see observers israel are being stationed at these very russian checkpoints on the border with south east ukraine now all of this is coming literally on the heels of

a very heated two day discussions happening between the russian president and he's french. german and ukrainian counterparts essentially russia germany and france have been exerting pressure on the ukrainian president. in accordance with the peace plan now there are two major steps in that peace plan the first one of course is to extend the truce the very fragile truce which has been in effect for a little over a week right now in southeast ukraine and of course the second part is to immediately restart the peace talks between ukrainian between the kiev officials and the key of forces so this is what we have at this very moment of course as soon as we get any more information on this we'll bring you all the latest. right here in our village where they're just giving us some of the runabout of what's happening from that statement we also know that the plan could be active after the ceasefire so will bring you more as soon as we get it let's just remind you the steps of this peace plan now the weeklong truce was declared in the east last

friday that was followed by talks between here and the self-proclaimed republics for the first time since the conflict started other problems vowed to recognize a ceasefire in the presence of russian and international monitors on wednesday the president of ukraine and russia as well as the french and german leaders to discuss the peace process over the phone the same day the legal permission for the use of a russia's military force in ukraine if needed was cancelled at putin's request this friday the truce was extended for three more days with anti-government forces promising to abide by if not the peace effort also saw always see monitors released after they were detained in the deniece grecian we'll keep you updated as these new developments emerge the foreign minister has stressed though that the invitation for ukrainian border guards to join the crossings only last as long as the seas flyer is in effect stay with us we'll have more in the next thirty minutes or so

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these. hello and welcome to cross talk for 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 paris we cross to any much shown she is a former british intelligence officer and writer all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it george if i go to you first here in new york we're calling this program hearts and minds and when i. watch the state department briefings with jen psaki i have to wonder if the mainstream narrative is really losing this battle to make people believe in the elite of today. well it's very hard to say it's. the mainstream media is obviously taken a palm aling through the emergence of new media. it's certainly taken a pummeling through the emergence of new outlets such as he however i do.