ukraine's president declares a cease fire in the east of ukraine over international calls for peace talks. about its march to iraq stokes a breakaway sentiment in the call rich kurdish north of the country and attracts foreign companies hoping to cash in on the chaos. and mercenary vinu there's an infamous private security firm used by the u.s. for high risk military operations overseas is accused of making death threats to government officials investigating its methods. plus the british police target protesters pushing for the use of ultra violet die in watertown and so they can track anyone taking part in drug.

welcome and thanks for joining us my name's neil harvey you're watching r.t. internet. the temporary cease fire in eastern ukraine has ended and kiev is refusing to extend it president petro poroshenko says there will be no more troops like using the self-proclaimed republics of failing to abide by it. but we will advance and we will liberate. you crane's armed forces the national guard and the other divisions will never use force against civilians they will never target residential areas. almost similar tameness leonor to louis attack has been launched on the city of chroma tourist locals say they were woken by the

deafening sound of a saw and signaling that shelling had resumed auntie's meant for notion of the details we hear that the army's raids and attacks have been resumed and at least one town in eastern ukraine in the nets creech in the town of comatose the t.'s to be one of the two major epicenter is off what key have called its antiterrorism ration we have been able to speak to t. foreign journalists currently working in the town of climate or risk and this is what they told us about the situation on the ground after the ceasefire is over we are in the basement or the crematorium hotel three different waves of the mortars. somewhere between. thirty five and forty fire to. burn out of before most of the old people all the women we are in the way or another we will mortaring. where so many that would be possible there are not.

despite the cease fire we heard about sporadic fire happening know all over the region often resulting in fatalities including among civilian population with both songs accusing each other of breaking the truce with people who call residents who have been able to speak to here have been telling us that they would prefer these peace even if fragile to any war how do you lose yours but just because i'm going to lose your previous was the day you get your you find you get so you block or you wish you could have the string you walk this year but when you've done it it doesn't have to be there because if when you made the decision you know student she died stunning was not the best you i'm seeing here when you know you made of ups here is. less than thirty days so there's a motion sickness to come. now it seems that hopes to resolve the crisis beliefs are fading away with these recent decision by the ukrainian leader

will cease fire was announced ten days ago in an attempt to restore peace in the east kiev in the self-proclaimed republics met for the first time and agreed a seven day truce one stay the legal permission for the use of russia's military force in ukraine was counsel to president putin's request two days later the truce was extended for seventy two hours with anti-government forces promising to abide by it and then on monday moscow invited international monitors in the ukrainian military to work together on the russia ukraine border. russia has called for the ukrainian president to prolong the ceasefire while the e.u. is stressing the importance of further peace talks the u.s. said it would support any decision the ukrainian leader makes and demanded that moscow do more to defuse the crisis whether to extend the cease fire is the decision that ukrainian only crane will make and would certainly support the decision whatever decision that they make there are steps that we've long been

calling for that are a part of what president has been calling for that russia has not done now they have taken some steps that have been. positive steps moving forward but there's a great deal more that they need to do in order to deescalate the situation foreign affairs analyst the things the statements like that from washington show a lack of objectivity towards ukraine i don't think that washington will stop blaming russia until the very last person refusing to recognize the nazi ukrainian state is either dead or imprisoned i think the whole process has been geared towards blaming russia for the national guard murdering people opposed to that hunter honestly russia isn't really involved in this this is between the hope. of the people in donbass and then the western powers backing to whom to in kiev i find that the whole thing of you know this is ukraine's decision and well respected

extremely cynical because you created the situation in november was not to sign a deal with the e.u. and the united states and the you did not respect that in fact the basically set their puppets forth to take over power in the february coup so this is just extreme cynicism. conflict has taken its toll on people across the region entire families are forced to hide in their basements or have nowhere to live because their houses have been destroyed thousands more have fled for safety nazis might cost over just returned from several weeks in one such area caught up in the violence is what he told me. well you know it's a sense of never ending fear it's like constant expectation. i know that for lack of a better word over you know during the day people might be you know less fearful but when it's good when it when it comes to nighttime it's constant shooting it's constant fire people hiding and you know kids get out from all this

noise so certainly very horrible scenes out there and we're seeing some of the destruction i mean does this match up with what you saw personally i mean it looks like a city that is devastated absolutely we see a shell shocked buildings and in the city itself because well people are completely scared they want to leave and they don't know what to do they don't know what the future holds for them those places a certain becoming somewhat of a gold right now and heading for famine they have been no electricity supplies they have no water supplies no food we could see lines of people like about five least five kilometers long to get simply to get a little bit of water so local authorities are already saying that's we're heading for a famine and more than half the residents of slovyansk and comics or scanned. the lugansk that have already left a lot of them have found refuge in russia. region in particular and south of russia

but that place is now filled to capacity they can accept anymore and there are other regions of russia now welcoming. those poor souls i mean i'm a on the outside listening in it appears like we're just talking about a war zone here we're talking about people who cannot find food cannot find water they got shells landing in a bag i mean it's been specially is just a horrific scene for normal people who cannot imagine what is going on well there was this scene where a missile flew like like you said into the back yards of private residence. a kid was playing in this backyards and the mother of this little kid was like five four or five years old and the mother heard the noise of a missile fly and so she was downstairs and she ran out to grab great kid shit picked him up shield grabbing your arms to prove to protect him and shell exploded

right there in front in front of them and they killed the woman instantly they tried to save the child so the doctors worked on him the entire night he died the discovered thirty shell fragments in his head and that house was far away from any kind of a block post any kind of. even the suggestion for a military position so definitely civilians feel they are specifically targeted by the ukrainian military. but you can always get the very latest dates and the background on the mounting crisis in ukraine if you just head to our web site r.t. dot com. next the u.s. was reportedly threatened and held hostage by a mercenary firm that it poured more than a billion dollars into a new report by the new york times alleges that blackwater threatened to kill a u.s. state department official who is investigating the company's actions in iraq during the water of the incident allegedly took place just weeks later. blackwater units

slaughtered seventeen civilians in the iraqi capital over the years the u.s. government has been accused of nurturing the company to do its dirty work abroad blackwater was believed to have assisted the cia's drone mission in pakistan the government paid out millions of dollars to the contractor in afghanistan and allowed it to have its own military camps but despite rebranding and renaming the company has failed to escape its past as a correspondent report now explains. when a newspaper publishes an exclusive story it's usually explicitly promoted like a journalistic badge of honor the new york times published a bombshell revelation monday but millions of readers may have actually overlooked the story due to the innocuous headline that was buried on the margin of the front page see here it says before shooting in iraq morning on blackwater well what this headline does not convey is that block orders top manager in iraq threatened to

kill a state department official who was investigating the company back in two thousand and seven according to the new york times this happened as jean richter a diplomatic security special agent and his colleague discovered a long list of contract violations and misconduct by the security company a company paid more than one billion dollars to protect american diplomats in iraq the reported death threat occurred when the state department investigator met with blackwater's project manager during questioning the blackwater official reportedly told the investigator float that he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in iraq unquote according to the new york times u.s. embassy officials in baghdad sided with black water over the dispute and the state department agents were ordered to leave the country because their probe disrupted the embassies relationship with the hired mercenaries the revealing story was

written by two time pulitzer prize winning american journalist and author james risin a man who the obama administration has been optically attempting to imprison for refusing to reveal his sources you see this is the type of story the white house does not want disclosed to the public and based on the boring headline critics believe that the new york times considered a friend of the obama administration wasn't too eager to publicize the amazing school. i story that shows just how much power blackwater wielded in iraq and the culture of impunity it operated in marina port ny and r.t.e. new york. lead to they did us state department agent described his view of blackwater at the time he said they believed they were above the law and actually ran the place and two or activists things that the firm managed to become the government's master these contractors and these lobbyist are so tied up because of

the revolving door that exist in washington of people moving in and out in the bush administration really in an unprecedented fashion accelerated the contracting out of basic tasks by the u.s. government writ large and i think we see that people are afraid to challenge all of these these contractors because they have tremendous influence they have quite a bit of money they're deeply tied to all of these institutions both in terms of people formerly working there and people who would like to work there when they leave so it becomes a sort of symbiotic relationship where those who are higher up on the chain in the in the level of the contractors are really on par with those in the state department and other agencies as opposed to being viewed as actual contractors abortion and sort those who are subject to the authority of a government entity. three hundred more american soldiers are to be sent to iraq to protect u.s. citizens from the radical extremists advancing on baghdad the jihadists to cloud an islamic caliphate in the northeast of the country are moving towards the capital ongoing violence aspersion up the divisions in society with iraqi kurdistan in the

north pushing for independence the regions deputy pm is already urged the central government to move some power to the regions threatening that kurds will break away from baghdad's rule if that doesn't happen but a lot is polevoy the reports now there are some western companies who could do very well out of the chaos. with iraq on the brink of all out civil war oil giants such as b.p. and shell pulled workers from oil fields in the south and east of the country earlier this month but north of kirkuk the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is an oasis of tranquility and smaller british oil companies are reaping the benefits take for example canal energy run by former b.p. boss tony hayward the company recently started pumping oil from its brand new k r i pipeline which runs from the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan over to turkey from where kurdish oil and gas can be sold to international markets for

smaller british oil companies such as headquartered here in london working in kurdistan is beneficial they get access to oil reserves in the north of iraq e kurdistan and in turn the money that they pay for it increases the financial independence of a separatist region that's desperate to break away from the rest of iraq where jihadist groups are running riot iraqi kurdistan insists that they have the moral and constitutional right to export their own oil with canelo bypassing the central government baghdad however isn't happy about it refusing consent to get mel's planned exports and even stepping in with an arbitration suit to stop the first batch of oil from being sold on world markets. by. national or.

could be. that process analysts say that iraq's crumbling all authority could be beneficial for smaller british oil companies which don't get a look in on oil fields run by corporate giants in southern iraq too small to really. four major oil fields in iraq so what about a bet if. they are getting away with never. never. can now energy isn't the only british oil found to pour it in kurdistan keystone owns several sites in kurdish north iraq this is now in production with their oil and canals pipeline that runs directly from the region these small british players could be in store for massive profits while the baghdad likes it or not. r.t.

. the idea of a kurdish breakaway from iran because the an already backed by the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu believes that the kurds have proved political commitment and moderation and should be granted independence and political analyst . the emergence of an autonomous kurdistan is in the interest of western powers. they want to see a kurdish state separate from iraq and that's very clearly. and very clear in the reaction and the way that the united states government for example dealt with the kurdish takeover of car coke the same has been done with the british government where you saw foreign ministers from the united states and the u.k. traveling to could descend to meet with them assad but as ernie in the new boss of course the stand. so there has not been an equal handed or even

handed policy toward baghdad and could the stand you see favoritism to kurdistan that could just and actually has been getting way more than its share in terms of iraq resources and power structure yet nobody's talking about the conditional or the negative conditional in what happened in the past two weeks basically allowing and accepting that the first take over the oil of coke and because kristen needs that oil to be a functioning state that's one one of the last part of what it could to stand once . do stay with us here on auntie still to come japan is ready for war but thousands of protesters all unhappy that for the first time since world war two soldiers could soon be allowed to fight in military campaigns oversee. half of the country's population works in farming but despite this it produces less than ten percent off the g.d.p.

and find out why the rich and the remainder isn't bearing fruit for its own people . this is the media leave us so we leave them to be. part of the same motion suit your. party visible in their shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. r t.

a russian camera man is killed in eastern ukraine after a bus carrying journalists and civilians is shot says of the foreign need done yet screeching destroys their black flag over the new islamic state stretching from syria to iraq the arab world as extremists continued phone signal in baghdad iraq's minorities and left unprotected. most of the media turns a blind eye to you get on and see. welcome back you're watching r.t. next this hour protesters in london could soon find themselves marked by an ultra violet dye which police normally use to track thieves and burglars police commissioners are pushing for the use of the dye water cannons controversial crowd control weapons of just being bought by the mayor of london they use is yet to be approved by the home secretary as the debate rages over the harm that they could

cause there boris johnson even said that he's prepared to be shot by one of them in order to show how safe they are the rights campaigners insist that there is widespread evidence of the dangers of water cannons popes ninety eight percent of those people consulted were against buying water cannons and yet boris johnson and the and the city corporation of london think it is an adequate idea to bring those water cannons which time again have brought forward serious injuries to hundreds of people on demonstrations exercising their legitimate democratic right to protest we have seen that the police has increasingly been militarized it is armed from head to toe when water cannons are used people get injured in germany in two thousand and ten cliff buckner a retired pensioner effectively was blinded by the use of a water cannon and water cannon to inflict serious injuries on on people whether they contain die or not. and here's some details of what we're covering on our

website for you a generation of tear ians and tie winds die hard fans of the t.v. sensation game of thrones show their dedication by naming their newborns after the characters find out who has the list at r.t. dot com. plus we will tell you how the people of one remote village in turkey finally got themselves online and all phones to a little help from a donkey. now japan's ruling parties have agreed to lift a self-imposed ban on military operations overseas for the first time since world war two thousand they can do the streets to protest the constitutional change comes a day after a man set himself on fire outside the prime minister's office in tokyo because of the new law around ten thousand people took part in the latest rally and they are angry because the government made the decision to change its constitution without holding a referendum. or the change could affect the balance of forces in the region or

japan could now help its allies to fight abroad at the same time the u.s. is the more troops to the area washington now has more than eighty thousand military personnel and more than forty bases across the asia pacific and columnist for foreign policy focus con how and believes that this has the potential to evolve into a regional conflict. this was moved by the jeopardy is prime minister to essentially change the constitution by feel you know the words this is not be not going to go to voters to change the constitution debited need only go to the diet change constitution there would be a true pretty so that self defense now allows the japanese military true project forces i'm in other places they have two very powerful countries china japan and japan is has a military alliance with the united states so if circe any kind of dustup between

japan and china then we're talking back to nuclear powers butting heads and i'm a little surprised that people are not maybe more concerned about this situation than they are. around the world headlines for you now israeli troops have raided and blown up a house belonging to a suspect accused of involvement in the kidnapping and killing of three israeli teens the bodies were found just hours earlier the boys disappeared two weeks ago near the west bank city of hebron prime minister netanyahu put the blame on hamas and vowed to respond. hundreds of farmers have rallied in the capital of the philippines disrupting the work of the agrarian office a place accuse the government of failing to deliver loans to london's farmers i have to say ninety of us have been killed in the past four years of campaigning the land sorry land that was promised way back in one thousand eight hundred eight. now

remains millions of acres of fertile land but a huge bulk of it stands unused the government's failing to draw enough domestic investment so it's now selling it off to foreignness it will be skin off explains what this means for the local farmers. from dusk till dawn for you leeana and her family farming isn't just a business it's their entire life. we have different types of animals here and also grow crops and we get everything from this land both our food and things we're trying to sell in the village. but typical story for millions of romanians so heavily depend on agriculture different types of crops and farms are seen everywhere across this for thailand nearly half of the country's population works in farming but despite this it produces less than ten percent off the g.d.p. due to the poor conditions most of the farmers are in more over nearly a quarter of all romanians works in agriculture just to survive so modernizing this

industry should really be one of the top priorities for the government romania was among the e.u. states its strongest by the global economic crisis and is still recovering well a proper overhaul of the agriculture sector would need big investment that's something the state currently doesn't have instead foreigners were allowed to enter the market which may not be working out exactly as planned. only ten percent of lands owned by foreigners seized agriculture for example in the west of the country millions of acres of boys are just to sell later it's a high price. so why is it more profitable to speculate with land rather than use it for production some foreign investors were met by an bureaucracy left over from communist times. when land was the nationalized and distributed to the public it was pure chaos the documents are still so confusing often it isn't even clear who the owner is this doesn't provide any guarantees to the banks and

modern agriculture is nothing without their loans so without loans and proper support from the state it's ordinary romanian squared up having to dig through these problems and unless the government finds the funds or at least changes. approached perhaps obliging investors to develop plans it's likely things will improve on their own you've got this going over r t romania after a very short break we'll have a special report on the work of doctors involved in the torture of detainees stateless. 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 on 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 person 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 this 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 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 for stuart but that's just my opinion. we speak your language as anybody will not advance the. program says documentary

some spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tune that if angle is stories. spanish find out more visit eye eye to. the abu ghraib pictures raise the question where were the doctors while this was going on either they directly witness they've given us or they witnessed the consequences of it why hadn't they protested. here the doctors weren't complicit they were the centerpiece of the torture the work enablers they were facilitators there.