i. ukraine's military resumes the top aeration is in the east with attacks on several cities after the president refused to extend a ceasefire which expired overnight. did you how this march through iraq stokes break with sentiment in the oil rich kurdish north of the country and attract foreign companies hoping to cash in on the chaos. in mercenary maneuvering infamous a 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.

life for new center in moscow twenty four hours a day welcome to r t international has just gone at three pm this choose the afternoon in the russian capital i mean only the ukrainian army has resumed a full scale military crackdown on the eastern provinces attacking several cities the temporary ceasefire ended overnight and kiev is now refusing to extended president petro poroshenko say yes there will be no more troops accusing the self-proclaimed republics of feeling to abide by it we will have fun and liberate. crane's armed forces the national guard and the russians have visions will never use force against civilians he will never target residential neighborhoods and scoop was the almost simultaneously an artillery attack was launched on the city of trauma torso.

little say they were not going by the sign of a siren signaling the challenge how recent videos have emerged of partly showing the aftermath of the attack but we can offer a fight on this particular moment a minibus caught fire and least four people were killed or tease me from the house the details. we hear that the army's raids and attacks have been resumed and comatose the tease to be one of the two major epicenter is off what key of called it's anti terrorism ration we have been able to speak to t. foreign journalists currently working in the town of comment or what rights are. destroyed by war so somebody means well you don't want you to leave. us on the street. and we. all higher and higher then. now you know the moment go for. the

rules. about which was not all of us. just a moment why why would we not standing there and promise and our despite the cease fire we heard about sporadic fire happening in 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 local residents have been able to speak to here have been telling us that they would prefer these peace even if fragile to eighty four years but because i'm going to be bizarre as well don't you get your you find you get so you plug all you wish you could have the senior look the super really done it it doesn't have to be there but i was there for you made to the decision you know student she the word stunning was not the first you i'm seeing here when you know you made of about here is the muslims they just they you there's a machine with selena still you. know it seems that hopes to resolve the

crisis she's fully fading away with this recent decision by the ukrainian leader. there were more foreign journalists called off in the overnight shelling of kramatorsk this video has been sent in by photojournalists patrick and custer comes to get it. but you know. he was outside in the street and said he heard a run for it doesn't explosions he eventually had to hide in a basement. for. journalists from a russian t.v. channel hopping caught up in army shelling on the ukraine russia border according to rent t.v. their correspondent on camera months are for severe concussion but it comes just a day after a cameraman from russia's channel one was killed in a shooting near a military base in eastern ukraine since the beginning of the conflict four journalists have been killed and several wounded including one from the service and

correspondents for various other russian news channels have been opera handed interrogated and even beaten while covering the conflict on a ukrainian t.v. stations has one of its crews has been detained by self-defense fighters. some news just in we're hearing president poroshenko has now ordered journalist to be protected well ten days ago in an attempt to restore peace a cease fire began in the east of ukraine kiev on the self-proclaimed republics met for the first time and agreed a seven day truce but on whedon's they legal permission for the use of russia's military force in ukraine was consulate of president putin's request two days after that the truce was extended for seventy two hours with government forces promising to abide by it and on monday moscow invited international monitors on the ukrainian military to work together on the russia ukraine border. roche's the mining got to

stop shelling ukrainian cities on civilians in a phone conversation last night live near 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 the ukrainian leader makes and demanded that moscow do more to the fuse the crisis whether to send 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 foreign affairs analyst. 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 that 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 in kiev i find that the whole thing of you know this is ukraine's decision and 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. president putin is expected to a foreign policy at a meeting with russian diplomats starting shortly we'll be bringing you live all

the it's all about. the u.s. was reportedly threatened and held hostage by a mercenary firm and pored 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 is investigating the company's actions in iraq during the war there but according to the document government representatives could do little about the behavior of the firm because even the american embassy took blackwater side the instant 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 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 allowed it to have its own military camps but despite rebranding an renaming the company has failed to escape its past as marina porton 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 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. a story that shows just how much power block water wielded in iraq and the culture of impunity it operated in. new york. the intimidated u.s. state department agent described his view of blackwater the time he said they believed they were above the law and actually run the place. eugene thinks the firm mohnish to become the government's master. 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 change in the

end of the level of the contractors or those in the state department other agencies as opposed to the actual contractors abortion and sort those who are subject to the authority of a government entity. the u.n. sees 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 them or consider since from the radical extremist advancing on baghdad now that you have this declared an islamic caliphate in the north east of the country and are moving towards the capital the ongoing violence has further opened divisions in the society with iraqi kurdistan preparing to hold a breakaway referendum within the next number of months but as are 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 only 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 and that british oil companies are reaping the benefits take for example canal energy run by form of 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 tell. from where 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 canal 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 don't get a look in on oil fields run by corporate giants in southern iraq too small to really go for a major oil field so what about a bet if you are getting around. getting away with.

lever we. can now energy isn't the only british oil 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. the idea of a kurdish breakaway from iraq has been already backed by the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu believes the kurds have proved their political commitment on moderation should be granted independence and ali al akhmed director of the institute of go first sees the emergence of an autonomy as kurdistan is in the interest of western powers they want to see a kurdish state separate from iraq and that's very clearly. 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 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 ernie in the new boss of course distant. so there has not been an equal handed or even handed policy toward baghdad and quite distant you see favoritism to kurdistan that could distant 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 to stay with us here in r.t. international because in a few minutes we are back with lots more news. well know polder my language well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for submitting the pollution to the no i will leave them to stapling to comment on your latter point of the month to save the exists or k.l. a car is on the docket no sign. of a job no more weasel words when you made a direct question simply prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. printout of speech and a little down to freedom to cost. dramas

the chance to be ignored. stories others refused to notice. the faces the walls lights never. filled picture of today's leaves. on demand from around the globe. up to. fifty. welcome back japan's cabinet has approved the lifting of a self-imposed bomb and military operations overseas for the first time since world war two the mood has already seen thousands take to the streets and anger at the constitutional change in one man even set himself on fire in process a warning the footage were about to show is graphic demonstrator set himself

a flame in one of tokyo's busiest districts on sunday but was quickly hosed done on his being treated in hospital a day later i rally outside the prime minister's office gathered around ten thousand people there on green because the government made the decision to change its constitution without holding a referendum. but change may affect the balance of force is in the region as to punk could not help its allies fight abroad at the same time the us is the point more troops to the area was has more than eighty eight thought that military personnel had more than forty bases across the asia pacific region and columnist for foreign policy focus on how and believes this has the potential to evolve into a regional conflict this move by geography is prime minister to essentially change the constitution by c o two in other words this is not being not going to go to voters to change the constitution that it may not even go to the diet change strategy they were really in trouble for doing so that self-defense now

allows the japanese military true project forces i'm in other places that you 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 dust up 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. meanwhile this is just some of what we've got on line few right now a generation of joffrey. diehard fans of the game of thrones t.v. show their dedication by naming their newborns after the most loved one indeed. so we tell you how the people of a remote village in turkey finally got online all thanks to a little dumpy on a dusty road.

in the country of millions of acres of thailand huge bulk of it stands on used the government's failing to draw enough domestic investment so is now selling it off to foreigners going 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 moreover 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 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 brain bureaucracy left over from communist times. when land was the mash and the lies then distributed to the public it was pure chaos the documents are still so confusing

often it isn't even clear who the owner is this doesn't provide any guarantees to the banks and modern agriculture is nothing without their loans so without loans and proper support from the state it's ordinary romanian squared up having to dig through these problems and unless the government finds the funds or at least changes its approach perhaps obliging investors to develop plans it's unlikely things will improve on their own what was going on of romania i let's get some more news from around the globe israeli troops have shot that hamas member who attacked them during a raid linked to three kidnapped teens have been found earlier the i.d.f. blew up a heist belonging to a man accused of involvement in the killing the boys disappeared two weeks ago near the west bank city of hebron prime minister netanyahu has directly blamed hamas. president vladimir putin is meeting russian diplomats to outline the future of

moscow's foreign policy right now let's listen in to what he has to say. you find a new priority is he in you know foreign affairs to coordinate the activities of our missions abroad. and the workload. here in the ministry and in our embassy is very high and we realize that it will not decrease it will only increase just as the requirements in terms of accuracy flexibility of our actions in protecting and pursue were in russia's national interest you're well aware how dynamic international developments are useful in there what he means. situationally you look when you is. developing very fast you know all of them or you are positive you are a more laconically old conflict. spreading up again.

in years and very often we face them in. and i'm so pretty surprised ways and unfortunately you're saying is that about that we see that international law or fails it's that. simple rules of conduct fail. principle or lawlessness prevails that's all you see only by what ukraine the events which were provoked in ukraine when. the symbol of the policy of containment was to. use goes down it. woodenly way in decades back and that containment policy is not as strong after the end of the cold war as you say. they are compared to. found themselves under threat and russian. people of other ethnic groups

language in their rise which i guaranteed by european convention is these are russian speaking people you assure. people who feel themselves particularly as the greys to russian world it's not a sneak russian necessarily but those who feel themselves as russian we see acts in . russia but so what kind of response did our western partners expect from us because of what actually said given the developments in ukraine of course we had no ride to leave crimea on c n n people in service thought you did we lurch to the mercy of radicals nationalists and we didn't warn. our axis to the black sea restrict we've seen in the war on the. city of sevastopol and the. coast of crimea. occupied by nato forces so that there would be i dress to keep

the status quo into the balance of power. back see we didn't warn all of the achievements by the russian in russian history starting to the great to be done in . russia will promote the interests of the russians and will protect the interests of russians using economic political and any other gloominess humanitarian operation and simply losing and also the right for self-defense i should like to underline that what happened in crime is the culmination of a negative trend national affairs and with that has been accumulated over the past several years we have warned in advance about that and to our forecasts are coming true you have heard about the latest attempts to restore peace seen a crane in a chorus the stuff of the foreign ministry and the foreign minister have taken an

active role in securing the peace you've heard about multiple conference live in your goetia. unfortunately president poroshenko. it was a took the decision to resume the military operation when you smugly and we when we we were not able but when i say we it's me and my call counterparts in the west we have not been able to. persuade him that so the road to a long lasting peace cannot live through a war. and. mr poroshenko. never. had didn't have any thing to do with the previous military with us but now he's taken up the full responsibility for the continuation of this military campaign we have not been able. to

avoid the plan that we agreed between the war counterparts of crans germany you can . and in russia the declaration own the necessity to preserve feeds. of this is. the substance of negotiations never started to get when. there was just a lot all to make some available and was good enough i mean the declaration of ceasefire but that's not enough to settle the situation and to arrive at a last thing solution is. not all that and it's difficult. so what about the constitution it was declared a bush never discussed in there are still buried on the side you cry whether it's good or bad but no one consulted the east of ukraine on the.