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ukraine's a military resumes its operation in the east with attacks on several cities after president poroshenko receive uses to extend the ceasefire. that despite an intense diplomatic effort by europe and russia vladimir putin now says that his ukrainian counterpart bears full responsibility for any bloodshed after scraping the truce. so the western oil industry cash in on the the instability in iraq that has the u.n. reveals the events of islamist terrorists may june the bloodiest month in the country this year. also in iraq are new report reveals blackwater
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mercenaries are threatening to kill u.s. officials sent to investigate them a probe was eventually suppressed and the details hushed up. from the ever you're watching from around the world to you in moscow now thanks for joining us here on our to international you with me what say the ukrainian army has resumed a full scale military crackdown on the eastern provinces attacking several cities a temporary ceasefire ended overnight with kiev refusing to extended this as a result of the attacks that began right after the end of the truce that's a school in the eastern ukrainian city of come up tossed a hole punched through its a wall by a mortar round the residential areas of the city indoor several hours of shelling over night. the journalist of that film to
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that footage patrick lang test for doing the shelling himself he sent us the first video. he said he heard around four dozen explosions and eventually had to take shelter in the basement. of. the. president of petro poroshenko says there will be no further truce accusing the self-proclaimed republics of failing to abide by it. but we will advance and we will liberate our. cranes armed forces the national guard in iraq and the visions will never use force against civilians we will never target residential areas. the military operation resumed to almost instantly after that
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statement. locals in the city of qom are tosca say they woke up to the sound of an air raid siren videos have emerged showing the aftermath of the shelling and as you can see the residential houses and shops have once again suffered heavy damage. and here's the latest which is we've received from at the dentist the region now you can see plumes of black smoke reportedly the consequences of the fighting that resumed overnight now the smoke is coming from a spot to where a great patriotic war memorial is located artie's maria for national describe the situation in the air force. the large scale military operation the king of calls anti terror operation is now officially resumed in eastern ukraine the most dramatic picture we see in the town of kind of
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a tourist in donetsk region it used to be one of the two major epicenter is of kiev's operation and we spoke to a foreign journalist currently on the ground and this is how he describes the situation there right now because of. our jet. blue we are barred. i mean. really. slim down screaming as another target can't tell you to leave crane in army for months these town in the next creighton show severe attacks by the ukrainian military and fierce clashes between the army and to government forces often resulted in fatalities including him on civilian population and now again we start receiving alarming messages from these town as well there are the what you will say in what is the morning when you
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were there well of which who. was for the who was for sure all done. this all of it yes there was the issue or silchar with. them. with. the broken record with both of you with the by the news of the pulmo there would be a bomb you see most of. your group which would be able to. i'm not in the city of lugansk and from what she can see and hear you may think that it is calm here but overnight and early in the morning we heard and these were the songs that work people up today they're very exhausted very very tired of the situation and they had help said the ceasefire will be extended and that will help bring peace to these parts of the country but now these hopes are fading. ukraine's
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president says peace is still possible if the anti-government forces agree to the plan he outlined earlier but foreign affairs analyst a number says there are a few reasons to believe partially. his proposal was not a peace plan it was essentially a demand for unconditional surrender offering zero guarantees to the people fighting for their self-determination that they would have any of their legitimate demands met by the government in kiev there is absolutely no chance for the rebels to take the so-called peace plan into a violent let alone consideration somebody is obviously lying if president poroshenko making a statement that is obviously not true on its face i think it's obvious who is lying. if we have documented instances of ukrainian troops people troops loyal to either a government in kiev or the oligarchy order right sector leadership they're all in the same side if we have documented instances of them bombing civilians and murdering innocents then i don't see why we should take president poroshenko at his
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word. let's talk back after the cease fire that failed to hold it was announced ten days ago in an attempt to restore peace in the east and the self-proclaimed republics met for the first time and agreed to a seven day truce on wednesday the legal permission for the use of russia's military force in ukraine was cancelled of president putin's request two days later the truce was extended for seventy two hours with any government formal forces promising to abide by it and on monday moscow invited international monitors in the ukrainian military to work together on the russia ukraine border. to russian journalists have come under fire near you ganske in eastern ukraine a shell exploded near a reporter and cameraman working for rent t.v. reporters spoke to us shortly afterwards to listen. after we filmed an interview there was a sudden explosion i don't know where it came from we were thrown to the side like
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dogs me become and the horse of defense fighters that were with us there was howling in my ears i've never heard anything like it quickly given first aid and sent to the hospital. 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 the results of his autopsy have now been made public according to the medics two bullets hit him one in the stomach which proves fatal the bullet tore through the man's a body with characteristic of an assault rifle round hitting an unprotected target a combination ceremony for the man who will be held in moscow tomorrow wednesday. now since the beginning of the conflict five journalists have been killed and several wounded including one from r.t. is roughly service and correspondent for various other russian news channels have been apprehended interrogated and even beaten while working them and now
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a ukrainian t.v. station says one of its crews has been detained in lugansk by self defense fighters . by ordering a new offensive over ukraine's recently elected leader has a willingly and fully accepted responsibility for the bloodshed in the east so said while speaking to top russian diplomats he added that despite efforts by both him and his european counterparts they were unable to influence kiev artie's pos got reports. well it was the latest events in the east of ukraine which resonated most strongly during president vladimir putin speaks to russian ambassador is here in moscow he stated that he believed a continuing ceasefire was the only way to secure long term pace for the troubled region however he adds that the recent ceasefire although a start was relatively futile that's because no meaningful dialogue or negotiation began between the two sides he also says that ukrainian president. now takes full
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responsibility for events in the east of the country. but unfortunately president pershing co made the decision to resume the military operation we my counterparts in the western media were unable to persuade him that long lasting peace cannot be achieved through war but mr pershing did not have anything to do with the previous armed operations but now he has taken full responsibility for the continuation of this military campaign while the president also went on to add that he believed the ukrainian military were deliberately targeting russian journalists in the east of the country he says that those that try and stop the flow of information are those that commit crimes those that have the most to fear and the most to lose person also added that if russia felt that its territory or its citizens were under threat then all options remain on the table these included he said political and economic moves as well as self-defense. but the fall of video of
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president putin speech as well as taking points and a discussion there head over to r.t. dot com where you'll also find must more background. and it's far from being calm and peaceful even in the capital kiev an angry mob has been blocking the exits of the ukrainian parliament shots were reportedly fired into the air as the crowd vented its anger over its economic state of the country and the demand was that banks that converge on. loans to the local currency. well you can see here how the value of the greens now has plummeted i kanes that the dollar and the euro the followed by political instability and now the vicious fighting in the east of the country has all contributed to the currencies fall but now president poroshenko has linked into trade pact with e.u. there are fears the financial troubles may worsen in the short term the new
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agreement paves the way for tough austerity and experts warn it could potentially turn the country into an economic clone of greece political writer john widely agrees the pad two will do more harm than good. this is going to be going over there faster this is ideologically driven it's not driven in the interests of the people of ukraine it's ideologically to think it was economic euros for the people of ukraine it's not going to get any better. of a session of zero and it's you very very hard to believe. you would sure creative economy. one other story we're keeping our eyes on it's come to light that the top commander of the american mercenary company blackwater threatened to kill government officials and to investigate the fram story broken by the new york times the sherries the way incident was recorded in state department documents all the way back to the iraq war what's worse the special agents could do nothing about it
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because of blackwater's power at the time even the american embassy in baghdad sided with the mercenaries the incident allegedly took place just weeks before one blackwater unit killed seventeen civilians in the iraqi capital and over the years the u.s. government has been accused of using the company to do its dirty work abroad but blackwater is believed to have assisted the cia's drone mission and pakistan the government paid out millions of dollars to the contractor in afghanistan and allowed to have its own military base but despite a rebranding and renaming the company has failed to escape its past as marina 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
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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 block order 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
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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 scoop. a story that shows just how much power blackwater wielded in iraq and the culture of impunity it operated in port not r.t. new york. after the surrender they intimidated us state department agents trying to
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stay out of sight in iraq refusing even to eat dinner in public they reporters behaved as if they were both little and ran the place only u.s. state department official peter then burn told us everyone knew blackwater was out of control deportment was so afraid of its mission in iraq being slowed down or delayed by replacing blackwater as a contractor that they were willing to accept almost any standards of behavior out of the company in order to continue the contract even though they understood it was detrimental to us aims blackwater was an organization out of control in iraq and we now have absolute proof that the state department who was supposed to control them knew that they were out of control knew that they were dangerous people knew that they were acting contrary to u.s. policy aims and did nothing. break we'll bring you a report about the expectations that western oil company has for the conflict in
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documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little eternity of angola's stories. are you here to. ensure quality spanish find out more visit actuality. hello there again protesters and london could soon find themselves. and ultra violent die which is not be used to track thieves and burglars police commissioners are pushing for the use of other die in water cabins three of these controversial control weapons have just been ordered by the mail in london their use is yet to be approved by the home secretary but a debate has been raging over the holiday to calls today's hits by the apostle jets
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johnson even said he's prepared to be shot by want to show this safe but rights campaign as insist there is a widespread evidence of the dangers they pose so i'm now joined live by kerry and mendoza a writer and activist to comment on this story miss mendoza what is your take on the water cannons being used in london for crowd control. i think the advent of water cannon being used on london streets this will be the first time these weapons have been deployed in britain on the mainland in our entire history and it's a very dangerous step peaks to the increasing militarization of the u.k. police force it's important to remember that while boris is making jokes about these water cannon they have in fact killed and given life altering injuries to protesters in the past as recently as two thousand and ten german pensioner named dieter wagner was blinded permanently blinded after being hit in the face by
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cannon he actually took the time to travel to london to petition polish johnson personally about the use of these water cannon germany is there looking to decommission those will to come in because of these dangers that have been evidenced by mr vargas case let me just jump in there and just response let me just jump in there while you're speaking about commissioners that they have proposed to even the air violet died to the water what happens to those innocent bystanders. well exactly but i mean we're all innocent bystanders we're not talking about you know the water cannon or indiscriminate you know they're they're not targeted to anybody in particular anybody who's in the street is going to get hit by these cannon started the project the people's will to come in because we figure if boris johnson is allowed three of these things and we can at least have one so we're
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actually in a crowd funding in london to raise ten thousand pounds for a cabin that we can then use perhaps back in boris's favor. the use of water cannons hasn't even been approved in the u.k. yet but doesn't there's talk of adding the dye to the water make it even sound more like a big deal like this should be ball people talking about this. absolutely i mean the silence from the mainstream media on this issue is is pretty much damning but nothing less you know than we would expect at the moment we're having a lot of trouble in the u.k. with these really egregious i'm aggressive laws there clamping down on i will rights to freedom of expression and freedom to protest peacefully against this ideological stereotype which is impoverishing the nation and these people who want to go out we're talking about people who are disabled people who are terminally ill people the elderly students and the government's response is not to alleviate that
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crushing poverty which is sweeping the nation but it's too we light water cannon too far upon these people who are simply standing up for their civil liberties. kerry and mendoza right and activists they talk him our civil liberties and those water cannons that we introduce in crowd control in the u.k. thank you. the u.n. has named june the deadliest month for iraq this year with twenty four hundred people killed in the past thirty days alone all dead because of the sweeping offensive by radicals who have declared an islamic caliphate in the north east of the country and are moving towards the capital on the glass that is fracturing iraqi society with the kurds a minority reportedly planning to hold an independence referendum in the coming months kurdish authorities are already demanding more political powers from the central government but as our political reports some western energy companies are
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ready to cash in on the divisions and violence. with iraq on the brink of all out civil war or oil giants such as b.p. and shell pulled workers from oil fields in the south and east of the country earlier this month but north of kirkuk the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is an oasis of tranquility and smaller british oil companies are reaping the benefits take for example canal energy run by 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 canel headquartered here in london working in kurdistan is mutually 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
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independence of a separatist a region that's desperate to break away from the rest of iraq where jihadist groups are running riot iraqi kurdistan insist 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 cords by stealing. national oil. companies who are operating in one way or could be helping that process analysts say that iraq's crumbling all authority could be beneficial for smaller british oil companies which turned get a look in on oil fields run by corporate giants in southern iraq too small to
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really consider the. oil fields in iraq so what about a benefit there are getting around. they are getting away with it but they will never be a lever we. can now energy isn't the only british royal family to present kurdistan called 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 polly boyko r.t. london. japan's ruling parties have agreed to lift a self-imposed ban on overseas military operations for the first time since the second world war the decision to change the constitution provoked a wave of protests the following footage contains graphic scenes one of us now one
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outraged man even went so far as to set himself on fire he's currently in hospital on the latest rally outside the prime minister's office in tokyo gathered around ten thousand people and even led to clashes with police the protesters criticize the government for failing to hold a referendum on the issue. that change may of fact of the balance of power in the region as japan could now help its allies fighting overseas not at the same time the u.s. is deploying more troops to the area washington now has eighty thousand plus military personnel as more than forty bases across the pacific region while some experts don't see the new change as particularly serious others want it could have consequences in case of a future conflict where. you
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are far more united states. this move by the japanese is prime minister to essentially change the constitution but i see we have two very powerful countries china japan you know japan has a military one of the few nice stage so just circe any kind of. trying to really drive down there we're talking back to nuclear powers but. i'm a little surprised that people are not maybe more concerned about this situation than they are. to bust is up next.
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