ukraine's military resumes its operation in the east with attacks on several cities after the president refused to extend a ceasefire which expired overnight. and had its march through iraq stokes a breakaway 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.

hello welcome my name is neil harvey you're watching r.t. international. ukrainian army has resumed a full scale military crackdown on the eastern provinces attacking several cities the temporary ceasefire ended overnight in kiev is refusing to extend it as the petro poroshenko says there will be no more truce accusing the self-proclaimed republics of failing to abide by it. but we will advance and we will liberate our land ukraine's armed forces the national guard and rather divisions will never use force against civilians they will never target residential areas. and almost simultaneously an artillery attack was launched on the city of kramatorsk. locals say they were woken by that sound the sound of a siren signaling the shelling and resumed and videos have emerged apparently

showing the aftermath of the attack although we cannot verify those the moment a minibus caught in the fire and at least one person was killed in that incident fighting also erupted on the border with russia and checkpoints are now closed artie's rif an option has more. we hear that's the army's raids and attacks have been received and comatose the ts to be one of the two major epicenter is off what key of called its anti-terrorist aeration we have been able to speak to t. foreign journalists currently working in the town of comment or askin this is what they told us about the situation on the ground after the cease fire is over. or the majority hotel three different way into the mortars. they were wearing. 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 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 with those songs accusing each other of breaking the truce with people local 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 know yours but because i'm going to be because you don't you get your you find you get so you block all you wish you could of the regime you walk this year but when you don't need it to be there but i was there for you my dear god was the decision you know students you there were stunning was not the best human being yet when you have about here is. just moments that he. doesn't wish and said we can still do.

now it seems that hopes to resolve this crisis really 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 a new self-proclaimed republics that for the first time in agreed a seven day truce on wednesday the legal permission for the use of russia's military force in ukraine that was cancelled president putin's request two days later the truce was extended for seventy two hours we've done to government forces promising to abide by it and then on monday moscow invited international monitors and the ukrainian military to work together on the russia ukraine border. well russia says that president goes decision to terminate the truce is undermining international peace efforts in ukraine and a phone conversation last night putin called a news ukrainian counterpart to prolong the ceasefire while the lead to the fronts

in germany stressed 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 there to send 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 analyst it's 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 the junta in kiev 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 well respected extremely cynical because ukraine's decision 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 they basically set their puppets forth to take over power in the february coup so this is just extreme cynicism. and president putin is expected to outline moscow's foreign policy at a meeting with russian diplomats later we will bring you live updates starting from eleven am g.m.t. the conflict in ukraine has taken its toll on people across the region entire families are forced to hide in their basements or actually have nowhere to live

because their houses have been destroyed thousands more have fled for safety. nazis around cautious just return for several weeks in one such 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 a constant expectation. and i look for. you know during the day people might be you know less fearful but when it's one when it comes to nighttime it's constant shooting it's constant fire people hiding and you know kids 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's devastated absolutely those places are certainly becoming somewhat of a ghost town right now and heading for famine that 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 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 basically just a horrific scene for normal people who cannot imagine what is going on well the there was. where a missile flew into the back yard there's a private residence the mother of the school 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 and she picked them up and a 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 the entire night but he died they discovered thirty shell fragments in his head and that house was

far away from any kind of a block post any kind of even suggestion for a military position so definitely civilians feel they are specifically targeted by the ukrainian military. ok i want to bring you some news that we've just received and that is that a crew for a russian t.v. channel was caught in shelling on the russia ukraine border a correspondent has received a serious concussion we'll bring you more information on that incident as we get it moving on 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 recording to the documents government representatives could do very little about the behavior of the firm because even the american embassy took blackwater side 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 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 renaming the company has failed to escape its path as marina port meyer 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 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 rising 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. a story that shows just how much power blackwater wielded in iraq and the culture of impunity it operated in. r.t. new york. well the intimidated u.s. 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 and two or activist things that the firm managed to become the gut. 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 rewarded for it with those in the state department other agencies as opposed to being viewed as actual contractors abortion and sort those who are subject to the authority of a government entity. meanwhile 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 and islamic caliphate in the northeast of the country and are currently moving towards the capital the u.n.

says almost two and a half thousand people were killed in june alone the ongoing violence is further open divisions in society with iraqi kurdistan preparing to hold a breakaway referendum as soon as possible the region's deputy pm has 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 that is police reports now there are some western companies who could do very well out of the chaos. with iraq on the brink an all out civil war for oil giants such as b.p. and shell told workers from oil fields in the south and east of the country earlier this month that north of the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is an oasis of tranquility and small employers to spoil companies are reaping the benefits take for example can now energy run by for my b.p. pass 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 janell's 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 canal bypassing the central government baghdad however isn't happy about it refusing consent to canals planned exports and even stepping in with an arbitration suit to stop the first batch of oil from being sold on world markets the iraqi government is accusing the cordage

feeling. national oil. company. in one. could be hoping 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 be considered for a major oil fields in iraq so what about a bet if you're getting what i'm quoting. they're getting away with what they will never. will never be. what i. can now energy isn't the only british royal family to parade in kurdistan called keystone owns several sites in kurdish north iraq the city now in production with their oil and canals pipeline that runs dry. directly from the region these small

british players could be in store for massive profits by the baghdad likes it or not. the idea of a kurdish breakaway from iraq has already been banked by the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu believes that the kurds have proved their political commitment and moderation and should be granted independence and med director of the institute of go for affairs says the emergence of an old thomas 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 cold 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 put this sent to meet with them a sword 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 put the stand you see favoritism to kurdistan that could this turn 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 the first take over the oil of course because christa needs that oil to be a functioning state that's one one of the last part of what kurdistan wants. do stay with us here and i'll take still to come for you they sound ready for war but the protestors. be that for the first time since world war two soldiers could soon be allowed to fight in military campaigns overseas also in the way for you.

half of the country's population works for me but despite this it produces less than ten percent g.d.p. find out why the rich and the remain it isn't bearing fruit for its own people.

with. the consistency. to. choose the stories that impact the. welcome back you're watching r.t. international 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 thousands of taking to the streets to protest the constitutional change that comes a day after a man set himself on fire in one of tokyo's busiest districts in protest at the new

law and the activist remains in hospital the latest rally outside the prime minister's office in tokyo gathered around ten thousand people and they are angry because the government made the decision to change its constitution without holding a referendum about it and just to remind you this is the leader of the country shinzo are you can see here now who is just in for start agreement it looks as though japan have indeed gone through with this agreement to change their constitution giving. it a thought but that start with that little bit and the change which as we know is now gone through may affect the balance of forces in the region is japan could not help its allies 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 region columnist for foreign policy focus conn hallinan believes this is the potential to

evolve into a regional conflict. this move by the g.o.p. is prime minister to essentially change the constitution by see you know the words this is not going to go to the constitution definitely not a group of guys still. pretty so that self-defense now allows the japanese military true project forces in other places they have true very powerful countries trying to appear young pianists has a military alliance with the united states so if any kind of dust up between japan and china then we're talking back to nuclear powers butting heads and under a little surprise that people are not maybe more concerned about this situation than they are. ok plenty more stories of course available on our website let's see what we have online for you such as a generation of teary and toying with. diehard fans of t.v.

sensation game of thrones show their dedication by naming their newborns after the characters find out who's heading the list dot com. bus will tell you how the people of a remote village in turkey finally got themselves online all thanks to this little donkey on a dusty road. rumania post millions of acres of fertile land but a huge bulk of it stands unused the government's failure to draw enough domestic investment and so now it is selling it off to foreigners go piskun 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 oath our food and things we're trying to sell in the millage. 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 more so 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 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 higher price. so why is it more profitable to speculate with land

rather than use it for production some foreign investors will net blame 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 new romanian square end up having to dig through these problems and unless the government finds the funds or at least chain. as it approached perhaps obliging investors to develop plans it's unlikely things will improve on their own you've got us going over forty romania. and there are a reminder for you of our breaking news this hour journalists from a russian t.v. channel have been caught up in army shelling on the ukraine russia border according to rent t.v. a correspondent is been injured and his cameraman suffered

a serious concussion comes just a day after a cameraman from russia's channel one was killed in a shooting near a military base in eastern ukraine russia is demanding an investigation into the death of that cameraman and for those responsible to be punished it's not the first time the journalists are being caught in ukraine's crossfire just two weeks ago army artillery fire killed a russian correspondent and a sound engineer while they were filming refugees just outside the city of lugansk and last month an italian photographer and his translator died in mortar shelling plus a reporter for artie's video agency ruptly was severely wounded by soldiers in the city of mariupol in may it took several days to negotiate his return to moscow journalists are often detained without charge by government forces and correspondents for various russian news channels have been apprehended interrogated and even beaten. ok don't get more news headlines at the top of the hour stay with us because in a few minutes it's max and stacy with the latest kaiser report here on r.t.

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