so picture of today's. on demand from around the. globe. to me. ukraine's military resumes its operations in the east with attacks on several cities after the president refused to extend a cease fire which expired overnight. budget hottest march through iraq stokes breakaway sentiment in the oil rich kurdish north of the country and attracts foreign companies hoping to cash in on the chaos. mercenary maneuvers and infamous private security firm used by the us for high risk military operations overseas is accused of making death threats to government officials investigating its methods.

for a warm welcome it's just gone two pm this choose the afternoon here in moscow you're into r t international my names you know neal our top story the ukrainian army has resumed a full scale military crackdown on the eastern provinces attacking several cities they temporary ceasefire ended overnight and kiev is refusing to extended president petro poroshenko says there will be no more troops accusing the self-proclaimed republics of failing to abide by it. we will advance and we liberate. the national guard and the russians the visions will never be civilians we will never target residential neighborhoods. almost similar tenuously artillery attack was launched on the city of kramatorsk.

the locals say they were woken by the sight of a siren signaling the shelling had resumed videos emerged of partly showing the aftermath of the attack the pictures we're showing you at the moment but we cannot verify it after the moment. we hear that the army's raids and attacks have been in a comatose the tease to be one of the two major epicenter is off what key if called its antiterrorism aeration 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 where you are in many dates and or the government for. so you're most in three different way into the mortars. we're going. somewhere between thirty five

and forty fired. with. our own grandmother before most of the old people although we have been away thing or another we will mortaring. well so many that it be possible. that despite the cease fire we heard about sporadic fire happening know all over the region often resulted in fatalities including among civilian population with songs accusing each other over breaking the truce with people local residents we have been able to speak to here have been telling us that they would prefer peace even if right to a war. because a quintile is your business what don't you get your you frank you see you block all you wish you could have the regime you're welcome to see but when you've done it it doesn't have to be that does it for you my dear god was the decision you know student she died standing was not the best. when you know you make of all but here is the west almost by the first day you. will sit with your stroke and you.

know it seems that to hopes to resolve this crisis many things in your way with these recent decision by the ukrainian leader. national reporting journalist from a russian t.v. channel have been caught up in army shelling on the ukraine russia border according to rain t.v. their correspondent on come on suffered severe concussion it comes just a day after a cameraman for us is channel one station was killed in a shooting near a military base in eastern ukraine since the beginning of the conflict for journalists have been killed and several wounded including one from service correspondents for various other russian news channels have been opera handed interrogated and even beaten while covering the conflict and not a ukrainian t.v. station says one of its crews has been detained in lugansk by self. defense fighters. well ten days ago in an attempt to restore peace

a cease fire began in the east of ukraine kiev and the self-proclaimed republics met for the first time and agreed a seven day truce on whedon's to meanwhile the legal permission for the use of russia's military force in ukraine was. president putin's request two days later the truce was extended for seventy two hours with government forces promising to abide by it and on monday in moscow invited international monitors on the ukrainian military to work together on the russia ukraine border russia says president bush's decision to terminate the truce is undermining international peace efforts in ukraine in a phone conversation last night vladimir putin called on his ukrainian counterpart to prolong the ceasefire while the leaders of france and germany stressed the importance of further peace talks the u.s. said it would support any decision ukrainian leader makes on demanded that moscow do more to defuse the crisis other 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 foreign affairs analyst. saying 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 a 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 a poster who into honestly russia isn't really involved in this this is between the

who to whom have the people in donbass and then the western powers backing to whom to kiev i find the whole thing of you know this is ukraine's decision and we'll 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. now president putin is expected to line moscow's foreign policy at a meeting with russian diplomats later we will be bringing you live all day it's starting from next hour. moving on the u.s. was reportedly threatened and held hostage by a mercenary firm and poured over 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 there are according to the 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 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 millions of dollars to the contractor in afghanistan and larded to have its own military camps but the spike rebranding in renaming the company has failed to escape its past. 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 warning on blackwater well what this headline does not convey is that a lot borders 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 jeanne richter diplomatic security special agent and his colleague discovered a long list of contract violations and misconduct by the security company company a. 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 black water 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 embassy's 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 scoop a story that shows just how much power block water wielded in iraq and the culture of impunity it operated in. r.t.e. new york. the intimidated u.s. state department agent described his view of blackwater of the time he said they believe they were above the law on actually run the place the war activist. thinks

the firm homage to become the government's muster. these contractors and these lobbyist are so tied up because of the revolving door that exist in washington and 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 a 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. the u.n. a state that almost two and a half thousand people were killed in iraq in june making it the deadliest month

this year the u.s. is sending three hundred more soldiers there to protect american citizens from the radical extremists advancing on baghdad the jihad is declared an islamic caliphate in the north east of the country are moving towards the capital the ongoing violence has further open divisions in society with iraqi kurdistan preparing to hold a breakaway referendum within the next number of months but those reports were some western companies who could do very well out of the chaos. with iraq on the brink of all out civil war for 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 the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is an oasis of tranquility and small in that british oil companies are reaping the benefits take for example canal energy run by for my b.p. pos tony hayward the company recently started pumping oil from its brand new u.k.

alright pipeline which runs from the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan over to turkey from one. kurdish oil and gas can be sold to international markets for smaller british oil companies such as canel 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 the iraqi government is accusing the

cordage. national or the british company. in one way or another lot of could be. that process analysts say that iraq's crumbling all authority could be beneficial for smaller british oil companies which to get a look in on oil fields run by corporate giants in southern iraq too small to really go for a major oil field in iraq so what about a bet if you're getting the go to. getting away with it but they will never be they will never be. can no energy isn't the only british oil 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 while the baghdad likes it or not. r.t. london. now the kurdish breakaway from iraq has been already bought by b.s. really prime minister binyamin netanyahu believes the kurds have proved their political commitment on moderation and should be granted independence and ali made director of the institute of gulf a first sees the emergence of an autonomy as kurdistan is in the interest of western powers want to see kurdish state separate from iraq and that's very clearly yeah and very clear in the action and the way that the united states government for example dealt with the kurdish takeover of kut coke the same has been done with the. saw foreign ministers from the united states and the u.k. traveling to kurdistan to meet with them a sword but

a sunny in the new boss of court system. so they had not been an equal handed or even handed policy toward baghdad and could the stand receive favoritism to kurdistan that's going to stand actually has been getting way more than its share in terms of iraqi sources and power structure yet nobody's talking about the conditional or the negative conditional in what happened in the past two weeks basically i lowing and accepting that the kurds take over the oil of course and because kristen needs that oil to be a functioning state that's one one of the last part of what could just wants. still to come this hour japan's ready for war but thoughts are protesters aren't happy about for the first time since world war two soldiers could soon be allowed to fight in military campaigns overseas. and the country's

population works in farming but despite this it produces less than ten percent of the g.d.p. find out why the rich and for thailand of romania is not bearing fruit for its own people. there's a so we need to be. part of the scene to secure the place your party there's a goal that 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.

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brotherhood and author and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place. to least be to language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. in trying. to find out more visit are a big don't all teeth don't call. welcome to punks ruling parties have agreed to lift the self-imposed bomb on military operations overseas for the first time since world war two thousand said taking to the streets to protest the constitutional change comes a day after

a month set himself on fire and want to to talk. busiest districts in protest of the new law the activist remains in hospital now the latest rally outside the prime minister's office in tokyo gathered around ten thousand people they are angry because the government made the decision to change its constitution without holding a referendum. to change may affect the balance of forces in the region japan could not help its allies fight abroad at the same time the u.s. is the poing more troops to the area washington has more than eighty thousand military personnel and more than forty bases across the asia pacific region and columnist for foreign policy focused on holman believes this has the potential to evolve into a regional conflict this was moved by the geography is prime minister to essentially change the constitution by c o two in other words this is not going to

go to voters to change the constitution that it may not even go to the diet to change the constitution there would be an true critic so that self-defense now allows the japanese military true project forces i'm in other places they have to very powerful countries china japan and japan is as 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 there are. here's a look at what we've got on line few right now a generation of just. diehard fans of the game of thrones t.v. series show their dedication by naming their newborns after the most loved and hated characters find out who has the latest over r t dot com. plus we tell you how the people of one remote village in turkey finally got online all thanks to

a little donkey on a dusty road. or romania boasts millions of acres of fur thailand by a huge bulk of it stands on use the government's failing to draw enough domestic investment is now selling it to foreigners you are pissing off experience what this all 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 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 hit strongest by the global economic crisis and is still recovering well 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 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 i left the government finds the funds or at least changes. is approved perhaps obliging investors to develop plans it's unlikely things will improve on their own hugo is going to romania. from romania to more stories from around the world israeli troops have shot at

a mosque member who attacked them during a raid linked to three kidnapped is really seems to have been fine today or the i.d.f. blew up a high speed long into a man accused of involvement in the killing the boys disappeared two weeks ago near a west bank city of hebron prime minister netanyahu has directly blamed hamas. former french president nicolas sarkozy was being questioned by police over possible corruption it's alleged that while in power he promised to reward a judge who reportedly warned that sarkozy's phone was being bugged as part of an inquiry into illegal campaign funding young priest into decision by police to detain him could be a possible blow to sarkozy's plans to make another run for the presidency in twenty seventeen. hundreds of farmers have rallied in the capital of the philippines manila disrupting the work of the agrarian office people accuse the government of failing to deliver land to farmers activists say that ninety farmers have been killed in the past four years while campaigning for law was promised way

back in one nine hundred eighty eight. the news for now but after the break an eye opening report on the work of doctors involved in the torture of detainees to stay with us. war is probably the most complex and difficult human activity. but. all of us are still locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder.

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ball. i can almost see his facial expression you can see is now focused in crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness. for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. but if wonderful shall marvel i should be thanking you polish face i decided to go . to. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm rollers to show. the

abu ghraib pictures raise the question where were the doctors while this was going on either they directly witnessed the abuse or they witnessed the consequences of it why hadn't they protested. here the doctors were complicit they were the centerpiece of torture we were enablers they were to salute taters they will authorize years. from apocrypha he's to now this.