ukraine's military resumes its operations in the east to with attacks from several cities after president poroshenko refuses to extend a cease fire. that despite an intense diplomatic effort by the europa and russia vladimir putin now says that his ukrainian counterpart bears full responsibility for any bloodshed after scraping the truce. the western oil industry seeks to cash in on the instability in iraq that's as the u.n. reveals the advance of islamist terrorists may june the bloodiest month in the country this year. also in iraq a new report reveals blackwater most no reason threatened to kill u.s. officials sent to investigate them the progress eventually suppressed and the

details hushed up. hello warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our team international we're live from moscow are you with me. the ukrainian army has resumed a full scale military crackdown on the eastern provinces attacking several cities a temporary ceasefire ended overnight with kid of refusing to extend it this is a result of the attacks that began right after the end of the truce it's a school in the eastern ukrainian city of qom i tossed a hole punched through its walls by a mortar round the residential areas of the city enjoyed several hours of shelling overnight the journalist the film of that footage patrick lang tester caught in the shelling himself he sent us this video. comes in to. talk.

to. you. he said he heard around four dozen explosions and eventually had to take shelter in the basement. of. the. president para 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 almost instantly after that

statement. you know peoples in the city of come up to ask us to say they walk up to the sound of an a raid siren videos have emotion when the all of them are of the shelling and as you can see residential houses and shops have once again suffered heavy damage. and here is footage we've received from the region of a done yes you can see plumes of smoke of black smoke there reportedly the consequences of the fighting that resumed overnight another smoke that's coming from that spot where a great patriotic war memorial is actually located at is mary of national describe the situation in the area. 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 kut i'm a tourist in the nets krege and it used to be one of the two major epicenter was 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. jeff. did. it work hard. and you. really. slowed down scream aims another target k.-tel you to leave crane an 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 left in resulted in fatalities including him on civilian population and now again we start receiving alarm and massive just from these town as well within the realm of the what you will say in what is the on

scene when you were there well of which food that was received was for sure all done yet for service all of us the us with the course that they're. going to move. with. the border will be good but if you look at the for the news of the promos for the bomb you see much for the village. which would be able to i'm not in the city of the gods going from what she can see and hear you may think that it is calm here but overnight and early in the morning we heard a to reach 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 this part of the country but now these hopes are fading away and. that's

a look back at the ceasefire that failed to hold it was announced ten days ago in an attempt to restore peace in the east or the self-proclaimed republics met for the first time and agreed a seven day truce on wednesday the legal permission of the use of russia's military force in ukraine was cancelled and president putin's requests and two days later the trousseau was extended for seventy two hours with anti government forces promising to abide by it and on monday moscow invited international monitors and the ukrainian military to work together on the russian ukraine border by ordering a new offensive ukraine's a recently elected leader has a willingly and fully accept responsibility for the bloodshed in the ease so that bloody putin while speaking to top russian diplomats he added that despite efforts by both him and the european counterparts they were unable to influence security as 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 responsibility for events in the east of the country. that is. 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 putin 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 full video of president putin speech as well as talking points and discussions he had to id dot com where you'll also find much more background. and it's far from being calm and peaceful even in the capital kiev an angry mob has been blocking the exit of the ukrainian parliament shots were reportedly fired into the crowd as they vented over the poor economic state of the country. the key demand was that banks convert all loans to the local currency. well as you

can see here how the value of the greve has plummeted against the dollar and the euro the coup followed by political instability and now the winds in the east of the country of the country has all contributed to the current sea fall but now president poroshenko has a trade pact with the e.u. there are fears the financial troubles may worsen in the short term the new agreement paves the way for tough austerity and it experts warn it could potentially turn the country into it and i cannot make loads of greece's political writer john white agrees that the pact to will do more harm than good. this is going to be going over there faster this is ideologically driven is not driven in the interests of the people of ukraine it's ideologically driven i think it will spell enormous kills for the people of ukraine it's not going to get any better we need. your river of assertion of show and it's you very very hard to believe that

you would sure creative economy. how will the ukrainian crisis reflects on the long term relations between the country and its closest neighbors that's the point artie's of such a boycott discuss with european commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy stuff on fuel. i have difficulties. to compare and not only those two baskets neighborhood and enlargement but also the internal conflict within the borders we recognize and a good neighbor relations and by the way when it comes to the good neighbor relations most of our georgia and ukraine we are very consistent and make it clear that we expect. the continuation of the traditionally very good relationship and federation of the neighbors.

you can watch the whole interview with the european commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy on thursday here on r t international. it's come to light that the top commander of the american mercenary company blackwater threatened to kill government officials sent to investigate the firm another story broken by the new york times that shows the incident was recorded in state's department way back during the iraq war what's worse the special agents could do nothing about it 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 over the years the u.s. government has been accused of using the company to do is judy work abroad blackwater is believed to have assisted the cia drone mission in pakistan and the government paid out millions of dollars to the contractor in afghanistan and allowed it to have its own military base but is by the rebranding and remain in 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 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 to block porter 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 blocked water 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 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. after the threat be intimidated us state department agents tried to stay out of sight in iraq refusing even to eat dinner in public not the wrestler easily reported behaved as if they were above the low and ran the place on the u.s. state department official beat of unburned told as everyone knew blackwater was out of control it department 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. after a short break we'll bring you a report about the expectations that a west i'm all companies have with the conflict in iraq will be back. they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports of. the players and no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter part of the month to say the exists or k.l.a. call is on the docket delgado. they tell no more weasel words

when you made a direct question simply prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. pretty tough speech and a little down difference in cost. dramas the chance to be ignored to. stories others to a few still notice. the faces changing the world lights never. so picture of today's leaves a long list on demand from around the globe. up to. fifty. hello thanks for staying with us the u.n.

has named to juneau the deadliest month for iraq of this year with twenty four hundred people killed in the past thirty days alone all that because of the sweeping oftens of by radicals who have declared an islam a caliphate in the north east of the country and a moving towards the capital in a fracturing iraq is aside to do with the kurdish minority report me planning to hold an independence referendum in the coming months footage of storage fees are already demanding more political powers from the central government but as artie's pretty boy who reports some was the energy companies are 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. 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 well 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 independence of a separatist region that'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. 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 cords. national oil. companies who are operating in one. 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 for a major oil fields in iraq so what about a bet if. they're getting away with. lever we. can now energy isn't the only british oil from 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 by the baghdad likes it or not fully boyko r.t. london. protesters in london could soon find themselves mark why an ultraviolet dye which is normally used to track weaves and burglars now police commissioners are pushing for the use of dye in the water cannons three of these controversial crowd control weapons have just been bought by the mayor of london they use is yet to be approved by the home secretary but i debate has been raging over the harm they could cause. by the a powerful jets mayor boris johnson even said he's prepared to be shot by one to show their safe but rights campaigners including kerry and mendoza insist there is widespread evidence of the dangers they pose. this would be the first time these

weapons have been deployed in britain on the mainland in our entire history and it's a very dangerous to speak to the increasing militarization of the u.k. police force 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 regressive rules they're clamping down on i will rights to freedom of expression and freedom to protest peacefully against this ideological stereo to riches impoverishing the nation. 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 following footage contains graphic scenes one outraged man even

went so far as to set himself on fire. in hospital 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 criticized the government force waiting to hold a referendum on the issue. the change in may of the balance of power in the region as japan could now help its allies fighting overseas at the same time the u.s. is deploying more and more troops to the area washington now has eighty thousand plus military personnel at more than forty bases across the asia pacific region while some experts don't see the new changes particularly serious others warn it could have grave consequences in case of a future conflict. prosperous country. more united states.

this move by his prime minister to essentially change the constitution by c.e.o. we have true very powerful countries china japan. japan has a military alliance with the united states so just circe any kind of just being tried 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 than they are of my muscly u.k. independence party have not exactly given the warmest of welcomes to the new session of the european parliament headed by nigel raj they turned their backs on the right as it started to pay the e.u. and them to mark the beginning of the session as part of a way to express their protests against a new policies along with their rejection of the parliament's president and they

claim returning german socialist modern shills to the post was a quote done that deal even before the vote. romania millions of acres a fertile land but a huge bulk of it stands on use now the government's failing to draw enough domestic investment so is now selling it off to foreigners you get a piece going up explains what this means for local farmers. from dusk till dawn for uganda 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 to get everything from this land both 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 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 its strongest by the global economic crisis and is still recovering well a proper overfull 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 with 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 were met blamed bureaucracy left

over from communist times. when land would be nationalized and distributed to the public it was pure gallus the documents are still so confusing often it isn't even clear who the owner is is 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 of its own likely things will improve on their own what is going over r t romania. up next it's over to what. boom bust.

have you ever heard the expression pleasantly surprised well that is how i felt when i heard that the supreme court of the united states had ruled the digital information and cell phones of arrested people cannot be seized without a warrant finally the american people catch a break in a court decision this ruling is linked to the two cases in which the police used information on a suspect telephone to press for further charges against them i think this the most important aspect of this decision is the press that it sets the court said that just because a cell phone is in a suspects hand it does not make the information on it any less worthy of protection for which the founding fathers fought so could we extend this to say something like just because i have a telephone or computer that doesn't make the information on them unworthy of protection from the n.s.a. or other privacy invaders the thing is that this supreme court decision is a good start but the police using your cell phone against you upon arrest is just the tip of the privacy destruction iceberg if the members of the highest court in

a land really do feel that the founding fathers fought to protect our privacy then they have a lot of paperwork and court decisions ahead of them for stuart but that's just my pain. there i marinate it this is a boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today first up facebook's latest fanatic guinn's are making headlines and if you're feeling pretty crummy about it that may be because you spent too much time on facebook we explain coming right up then facebook's mischief isn't the only big

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