ukraine's president declares the cease fire in the east of ukraine over international calls for peace talks. the jihadist march through iraq to break away sentiment in the oil rich kurdish north of the country and attracts foreign companies hoping to cash in on the chaos. mercenary maneuvers 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. and the british police target protesters are pushing for the use of violent dye in water cannon so they can mark and track anyone taking part in rallies.

welcome thanks for joining us once again money until harvey and you're watching r.t. and. now the temporary cease fire in eastern ukraine has ended in kiev is refusing to extend it president petro poroshenko says that there will be no more troops accusing the self-proclaimed republics of failing to abide by it. but we will advance and we will liberate. ukraine's armed forces the national guard and rather divisions will never use force against civilians they will never target residential areas. almost simle tain asli an artillery attack was launched on the city of chroma tosk.

locals say they were woken by the deafening sound of a song over and signaling that shelling hundreds of news correspondent mary if the notion of details. here that's the army's raids and attacks have been resumed and at least one town in eastern ukraine even that screech in the town of comatose the t.'s to be one of the two major epicenter is off what key of cold it's anti terror a should we have been able to speak to t. foreign journalists currently working in the town of comment or risk and this is what they told us about the situation on the ground after the cease fire is over we are now you basement or the crematorium otoh there are measures three different way into the mortars. somewhere between. thirty five and forty fire to. burn out of people most of them all the people all the women we are in

a 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 i do you know yours but because i'm going to lose your piece was the day you get your you find you get so you block all you wish you could of the regime you're welcome as you probably don't need to be surprised if when you made your government does israel you know student she they were stunning was not the best human feeling yet when you know you made of about here is. less than thirty so there's a motion sickness for you. now it seems that hopes to resolve the

crisis peacefully are fading away with this recent decision by the ukrainian leader . well a ceasefire was announced ten days ago in an attempt to restore peace in the east kiev and the self-proclaimed republics met for the first time and agreed a seven day truce on wednesday the legal permission for the use of russia's military force in ukraine was cancelled i was at 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 on the ukrainian military to work together on the russia ukraine border. well russia has called for the ukrainian president to prolong the ceasefire or the e.u. is stressing the importance of the peace talks and u.s. said it would support any decision that the ukrainian leader makes and demanded that moscow do more to diffuse the crisis whether to extend the cease fire is a 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 but foreign affairs analyst in the bowser mallets thinks that statements like these 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 whole. of the people in donbass and then the western powers backing to whom to in kiev i

find the whole thing of you know this is ukraine's decision and well respected extremely cynical because ukraine's 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. well the conflict has taken its toll on the 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 fled for safety nazis are mine cost of just returned from several weeks in one search area caught up in the violence here's 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 that waking up from all this noise so that 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 that 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 are certainly becoming somewhat of a gold right now and heading for famine knew they have been no electricity supplies they have no water supplies no food we could see lines of people like about five at least five kilometers long to get simply to get a little bit of water so local authorities are already saying that we are heading for a famine and more than half the residents of slovyansk and chronic tours and. lugansk

that have already left a lot of them have found refuge in russia. in the region in particular in 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 to me 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 in backyards there's a 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 her kid shit picked

him up she grabbing her arms 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 discovered thirty shell fragments in his head and that house was far away from any kind of a block 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 update on the background on the mounting crisis in ukraine just head to our web site r.t. dot com. now in other news the u.s. was reportedly threatened and held hostage by a missionary 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 war that the incident allegedly took place just weeks before one blackwater unit 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 allowed it to have its own military camps but despite rebranding the renaming the company's failed to escape its past this marina portnoy exploits. 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 a lot porter's 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 quote 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 blackwater 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 nine r.t. new york. intimidated us state department agent described his view of blackwater at the time he said that they believed they were above the law and actually run the place until right to shoot 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 hardest declared an islamic caliphate in the northeast of the country on a moving towards the capital and going violence has spurred up the divisions in

society with iraqi kurdistan in the north pushing for independence the region's deputy pm is already urged the central government to move some power to the regions threatening the kurds will break away from baghdad's rule if that doesn't happen but as artie's political 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 or 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 for my 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 well headquartered here in london working in kurdistan is beneficial they get access to oil reserves in the north of iraqi 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 give nels planned exports and even stepping in with an arbitration suit to stop the first batch of oil from being sold on world markets. by the.

national oil. company. in one way or could be. that process analysts say that iraq's crumbling or thora 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. for a major oil fields in iraq so what about a bet if. they're getting away with it but they will never. will never. can now energy isn't the only british oil found to operate in kurdistan gulf keystone owns several sites in kurdish north iraq the city 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 by the baghdad likes it or not. r.t. london well the idea of a kurdish breakaway from iraq has been already backed by the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu believes that the kurds have proved their political commitment to moderation and should be granted independence political analyst says that 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 in very clear in their 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

kurdistan. so there has not been an equal handed or even handed policy toward baghdad and kurdistan received favoritism to kurdistan that could stand 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 kurds take over the oil of course coke and because kristen needs that oil to be a function and state that's one one of the last part of what kurdistan wants. hope you stay with us here on out a still plenty more news the coming fluting japan is ready for war but thousands of protesters all happy that for the first time since world war two soldiers could soon be allowed to fight the military campaigns overseas. in the white.

house for the country's population works in farming but despite this it produces less than ten percent g.d.p. find out why the rich and fertile land rumania is not bearing fruit for its own people. is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the same motions to cure. all your party visible. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politic. parties.

a russian cameraman is killed in eastern ukraine after a bus carrying journalists and civilians is shot say some of the foreign leaders and yet screeching just destroys their black flag over the new islamic state stretching from syria to iraq the arab world as extremists continue advancing on baghdad iraq's minorities are left unprotected. what are the media turns a blind eye to you get on and see. welcome back now protesters in london could seem find themselves marked by an ultraviolet dye which police normally use to track thieves and burglars police commissioners are pushing for the use of the dian water cannons controversial crowd control weapons are just being bought by the mayor of london they use is yet to be approved by the home secretary as the debate rages on over the harm they could

possibly cause there boris johnson even said that he is prepared to be shot by one himself just to show that they are say the rights campaigners insist that there is widespread evidence of the dangers water cannons pose ninety eight percent of those people consulted were against buying water cannons and yet boris johnson 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 fischbacher a retired pensioner effectively was blinded by the use of a water cannon water cannon to inflict serious injuries on on people whether they

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holding a referendum. and the change could affect the balance of forces in the region as japan could fight abroad at the same time the u.s. is deploying 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 conn hallinan believes this has the potential to evolve into a regional conflict. this move by the jeopardy is prime minister to essentially change the constitution by feel you know the words this is not good not going to go to voters to change the constitution debited may not even go in the diet change constitution there would be an true pretty so that self-defense now allows the japanese military forces i'm in other places they have two very powerful countries china japan and japan is as a military alliance with the united states so if they are so 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 and they are. you know the news rumania millions of acres of land but a huge both of it stems and use the government's failing to door enough domestic investment and so it's now selling it off to florida's gold base going off explains what this means for the local farms. from dusk till dawn for yanna 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 fertile land 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 while a proper overhaul of the agriculture sector would need big investment that 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 bores 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 in 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 its own likely things will improve on their own you've got it going over romania. stay where there's a bit where the news headlines in just over half an hour in the meantime is breaking the set without the martin.

war is probably the most complex and difficult human activity is. all. locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. to kill a bunch of people you know don't know if they're on their premises there are a us people. reading. this some of them shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it because it was ny times four in the morning even the best commander was given the mesh shoulder. for going to make mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood and author and that and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place.

this is what we do we kill people and break things we can see something if simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players and if you see the ball. you can only see his facial expression you can see he is now open and crying out. maybe he cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for us. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.

as a going i'm abby martin and this is a rake in the sack so as you know this country is struggling mass water shutoffs in detroit homes are being foreclosed upon and our infrastructure is collapsing of course the reason we're not fixing these problems is because we don't have enough money right all the enough to looks like we just found half a billion dollars in the oval office couch so the obama administration just asked congress to authorize a whopping five hundred million dollars to further train and equip the so-called moderate members of the syrian opposition and considering how strong support from across the aisle looks like he's going to get his way because there's anything both republicans and democrats can agree on it's funding disaster.