you're certain be no civilians will be killed the war in. ukraine's president declares the ceasefire in the east of ukraine over amid international calls for peace talks. as to how this march through iraq started to break away sentiment in the oil rich kurdish north of the country and attract foreign companies hoping to cash in on the chaos. also 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 pushing for the use of ultraviolet die in water cannon so they can mark and track anyone taking part in rallies.

thanks once again for joining us my name is the harvey and you're watching r.t. international. now 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 truce accusing the self-proclaimed republics of failing to abide by it. 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 similar an artillery attack was launched on the city of kramatorsk.

and you can hear for yourselves locals say they were woken by the deafening sound of a siren signaling that shelling had resumed ortiz maria fanaa has the details. we hear that's 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 of cold antiterrorist the rationing we have been able to speak to the 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 in the you basement or the crematorium otoh there are many very different way into the mortars. who are waiting. somewhere between. thirty five and forty fired. our own ran out of people most of them all the people all the women we are in

a way or another we will mortaring. well so many that it be possible that 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 we've both saw as 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 don't know yours but because i'm going to be because the day you get you frank you see a black guy you wish you could have the machine you look this you've already done it it doesn't have to be there but i was there for you made you got the decision you know student she died standing was not the best human being yet when you know you made of ups here is. just don't think so there's a motion sickness to you. now it seems that hopes to resolve the crisis peacefully are fading away with this recent decision by the ukrainian leader

the 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 counsels that was that president putin's request two days later the truce was extended for seventy two hours with anti government forces promising to abide by another 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 while the e.u. is stressing the importance of further peace talks the u.s. it would support any decision the ukrainian leader makes and demanded that moscow do more to diffuse 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 but foreign affairs unless the numbers are mullets think the statements like the one 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 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 the conflict has taken its toll on people right across the region entire families are forced to hide in the basements or have nowhere to live because their houses have simply been destroyed thousands more of fled for safety. auntie's among cos i was just returned from several weeks in one search area caught up in the conflict 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 ear for but when it's when it when it comes to nighttime it's constant shooting it's constant

fire people hiding and you know kids over it waking up from all this noise so the 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's devastated absolutely 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 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 basically just a horrific scene for normal people who can't imagine what is going on well the there was this scene where

a missile flew into the backyard of this private residence the mother of this the 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 kids should pick them up and the shell exploded right there in front in front of them and they killed the woman instantly they tried to save the child the doctors worked on him. but he died they discovered thirty shell fragments in his head how long do you think they can go on like this because without you know necessities food and water and living the violence this can go on forever everybody is looking everybody is hoping for peace they can't wait for peace comes along in the refugees that are. in russia a lot of them they want to go home it's mostly women children and elders and seen this also a very heartbreaking scene when a woman was trying to contact her husband and their conversation broke midway

and she tried to call him back and obviously there's no electricity as loud as perhaps his phone died or something else happened and should try desperately to reach him and she couldn't and she broke into this cry i don't i don't know how to explain it's more like how willing not to cry because as i go to bed at night and. it's hard to pull sleep when i think about that certain horrible scene of course the kids are all so traumatized the kids in these refugee camps they hear is a loud sound they hear a sound of a helicopter and they run for cover right away because that's what they're used to back home constant shelling all the time. and remember you can always get the latest updates on the background on the mounting tri-city in ukraine from our website and sati dot com. now in other news the u.s. was reportedly threatened and held hostage by a mercenary firm 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 was investigating the company's actions in iraq during the war that according to that document government representatives could do little about the behavior of the firm because even the american embassy took blackwater's side of the incident allegedly took place just weeks before one mercenary unit slaughtered seventeen civilians in the iraqi capital over the years the u.s. government has been accused of nurturing the company in order to do its dirty work abroad and 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 this report i know 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 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 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 nine r.t.

new york. intimidated us state department agent described his view of blackwater at the time he said they believed they were above the law and actually run the place until war activist eugene pierre thinks the first man is 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 to be sent to iraq to protect u.s. citizens from the radical extremists advancing on baghdad jarvis declared an islamic caliphate in the northeast of the country and a moving towards the capital the un says almost two and a half thousand people were killed in june alone the ongoing violence spurred up the divisions in society with iraqi kurdistan in the north pushing for independence the region's deputy pm has 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 as our chief political reports 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 iraqi kurdistan and in turn the money that they pay for it increases the financial independence of a separatist region let'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. lash. in one. could be. that process analysts say that iraq's crumbling all thorough 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 field so what about a bet if there are getting around go to. they are getting away with it but they will never. never be. they.

can now energy isn't the only british oil found to operate in kurdistan gulf 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 from massive profits while the baghdad likes it or not. r.t. london or 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 political commitment and moderation and should be granted independence and political analysts. are mad says that the emergence of an autonomous kurdistan is in the interest of western powers the want to see a kurdish state separate from iraq and that's very clearly. and very clear in the action and the way that the united. with the

kurdish takeover of kut koch the same has been done with the british government where you saw foreign ministers from the united states and the u.k. travelling to kurdistan to meet with them a sword but as ani in the new boss of course the stand. so there has not been an equal handed or even handed policy toward baghdad and kurdistan you see favoritism to kurdistan that's consistent actually has been getting way more than its share in terms of iraqi 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 because kristen needs that oil to be a functioning state that's one one of the last part of what kurdistan wants

they stay with us to find out how japan is ready for war but thousands of protesters are not happy that for the first time since world war two soldiers could soon be allowed to fight in military campaigns overseas also in the white. of the country's population works in farming but despite this it produces less than ten percent of the g.d.p. to find out why the rich and fertile land remain yet is not bearing fruit for its own people.

there's a medium leave us so we need to be. by the same security. your party there's a goal. question is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . a russian cameraman is killed in eastern ukraine after a bus carrying journalists and civilians is shot say of the foreign leader and yet screeching destroys their black flag over the new islamic state stretching from syria into iraq to 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. about you watching out international or pleasure to have your company protesters in

london soon find themselves marked by an ultraviolet dye which police normally used to track them burglars police commission is a pushing for the use of the dye in mortar cannons the controversial crowd control weapons of just being bought by the mayor of london and they use is yet to be approved by the home secretary as a debate rages over the harm 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 but rights campaigners insist that there is widespread evidence of the dangers that water cannons compose. ninety eight percent of those people consulted were against buying water cannons and yet boris johnson and with 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 armed from head to toe when water cannons

are used people get injured in germany in two thousand and ten. or a retired pensioner effectively was blinded by the use of a water cannon water cannon to inflict serious injuries on on people whether they contain or not. ok let's take a look now what we are covering online for you is also a very interesting barclays bank story and yesterday how about these a generation of syrians entire wins diehard fans of t.v. sensation game of thrones show their dedication their naming their newborns after the characters find out who had the list at r.t. dot com. we will tell you how the people of a remote village in turkey finally got themselves online all thanks to a little donkey on a dusty road. next

japan's ruling parties have agreed to lift a self-imposed ban on military operations overseas for the first time since world war two thousands of taking to the streets to protest the constitutional change and the 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 there angry because the government made the decision to change its constitution without holding a referendum. on the change could affect the balance of forces in the region is japan could now help its allies to 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 asia pacific and columnist for 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 c o two in other words this is not the not going to go

to voters to change the constitution that it may not even go to the diet change constantly they were ready and true critic 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 the horse 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. rumania millions of acres of fertile land but a huge bulk of it stands unused the government's failing to draw enough domestic investment and so it is now selling it off to foreign as you go pick it off explains what this means for 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 hit 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 course 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 and 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 chain . is approached perhaps obliging investors to develop plans of its own likely

things will improve on their own what is going over r t romania. do stay with us a special reports into the work of doctors involved in the torture of detainees after a short break. for which probably the most complex and difficult human activity. all of us are still locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. just killed

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after seven years in prison the hermit job was finally released eric montell though kept his promise to be in kabul when the young man arrived and his mother couldn't even recognize him because he had physically changed so much because it was just a boy and he apparently had a certain shape to the back of his head from either a four what have you and she. was in total disbelief until she felt the shape of his head and then at that point she collapsed on the floor. in the case of. professionals when does it rise to the level of national.