to picture all today's. from around the globe. ukraine's president says he's ready to reestablish a truce in the country's east but the army steps up the offensive on defined cities with more residential areas coming under fire. saudi arabia sends thirty thousand troops to the border with iraq after a wave of radical islamist insurgents reportedly force iraqi border guards to flee . and the standoff between asylum seekers barricaded in an abandoned school and authorities in on edge triggering protests in support of the refugee.

camp you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international. now despite ukraine's leader petro poroshenko signaling he may be ready for a cease fire violence in eastern ukraine rages on ukrainian leader told us vice president joe biden he may reestablish the truce during a phone call but let's see what's going on on the ground there these are pictures from the city of climate talks one of the main targets of kiev's military operation ukrainian forces have stepped up artillery fire there since the truce and lead on monday and as you can see residential areas are coming under heavy fire some shells here exploded near a playground and government forces say one man was killed and twenty injured in the recent attacks local residents living in fear of the shelling. but a year where you. know it take you. there live for america to churches to

be and you will be a. cause that you who are you got the large you are. still good oh i'm still me no no it used to always be there are you. and this is the footage we're getting from a.g.c. filmed in the small village of congress show of bearing day was killed by an army air strike on tuesday eleven people lost their lives then including a five year old child when ukrainian commander suggested the assault was an accident earlier kiev had vowed not to target residential areas but those living in the village don't think the army is defending them. let's go through the time what is going to get there what is your you know what is coming with you got. to meet new. people to use don't you know it is no. more.

news now you are covering. the tour you beat new year's eve nearly new when you come get. me out and these are pictures of a russian t.v. crew getting caught in the crossfire in the city of slavyansk on thursday you can hear the loud explosions there as the channel one journalist try to hide from the bombardment a cameraman from the same t.v. station was killed in the region on monday. ukrainian troops have also been making have their presence felt on the social media with videos like this one servicing on the web they are shot in good quality presenting army regiment as well organized combat units picked up by media outlets across the world are these myth an ocean of went to see the reality behind the scenes. members of the ukrainian army's elite unit demonstrate their very special equipment. this is the.

business news. from gaza are the result. of course is there. a proper way. the national guard was created four months ago to bolster the country's defenses its fighters were supposed to get the best ammunition but so far they say they've been fed with empty promises and staying bread we had to got most of the bread from these eight love here they only have a small edible part in the middle but there are a lot of people here call of course for you this is the army's position outside slovyansk the key battleground in what's key of calls it's n.t. terribly ration and while the president declares it's active and decisive phase the fight is on the ground a confused as to where they stand often and literally of

a lot of muslims have got all of that of the of oil but they're going to give them a larger picture of the moral equivalent of their allies are going to be left alone without them within europe i was just going to go was there you know if you come when you will it is almost a little boring you know there's a lot of them no matter how hard it gets everyone should do what they're supposed to do if that happens will win very quickly. in the wind as fast as two weeks the minister beliefs but many doubt this is realistic test i mean there's nothing terrifying about returning to a checkpoint after it's been attacked all worries us is what will happen next we doubt all these capabilities. to begin with the future looked bright for ukraine's soldiers and officers as well as those volunteer him to join the military. surely included you this will be our priority army volunteers will get the equivalent of only five dollars per day and

solid life insurance as well. but it seems that president bush and co has not managed to keep the promises made in his election campaign they say they've pay the salaries but we didn't get any money my husband didn't get it and they keep promising it will happen to more of my two year old daughter woke up this morning and said that she is hungry what i'm supposed to tell her as a response to the country's inability to take care of its own service personnel and number of on line fundraising complaints were launched this is just one of many such projects they have raised enough to purchase a drone and some ammunition for them but most of the purchases are still in progress kids large scale operation is in full sweep but with the lack of basic supplies and weaponry many complain they are not being sent to fight but rather to die. while struggling to crush the unrest in the east the leaders in

here also have another major issue on their hands a looming gas crisis they've already did didn't see long term storage tanks after russia cut off supplies over unpaid bills are now each a sphere that could have a knock on effect for them well this is a quote from one of the chiefs and he mentions that germany here could also suffer and that's because gazprom is concerned ukraine may start siphoning off gas destined for europe to make up their shore for well meanwhile russian prime minister medvedev believes there could be a full scale gas crisis as soon as the autumn making the claim here on his facebook page so why is there so much concern about a wider gas crisis in europe well this map over here will help us explain a few things hopefully. you can train to see gas from russia via pipelines that go through ukraine however it's feed ukraine may tap into their supplies after having their own cut off by moscow and that in turn will mean europe won't get the gas it

needs this winter a similar scenario happened in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine and geo political analyst william angle thinks that brussels should put more pressure on kiev to avert another cold winter. the fish oils are really acting very stupidly in a school cranium to be sure they should be putting enormous pressure on the kiev government to come to their senses europe is dependent asked from russia that gas right now goes through ukrainian pipelines but fortunately the e.u. commission is trying to block the gas from south street pipeline which was discovered around the ukraine. as does the north pipeline so i think your policy is really flying blind i don't know who is right in the short. but it certainly has nothing to do with the interests of the european union first stable economy and stable energy prices still to come in the program it's whiskey not champagne is the

u.k. launch is a new aircraft carrier the british queen is heading to scotland to christen the u.k.'s biggest ever warship well the future of britain's nuclear missile system remains in question ahead of the independence referendum. but you have the militants making significant advances in iraq saudi arabia has started moving military personnel close to its front a with the war torn country the reports come after iraqi troops are reported to be withdrawing from the area something baghdad denies janacek e.-n. has got the details. saudi arabia has reportedly sent thirty thousand troops to its border with iraq across that border is a cauldron of sectarian infighting the isis is sunni it's a radical sunni jihadi are well armed and well funded saudi arabia also sunni doesn't want to be officially associated with the isis but it's hardly an innocent bystander many of the isis is most violent frontline fighters are believed to be

saudi nationals there widespread reports that wealthy donors in saudi arabia had been funding the isis throughout their fight in syria and beyond riyadh may now say that it has nothing to do with the rise of this radical group that it itself is spread by it but it. helped create the floors in ways more than just providing funding and fighters they need to think. that. and i think give the wahhabi to saudi arabia means studio. a lot of their teaching go to do that to you. just in the span of several years bolstered by the fight against assad in syria the isis has advanced so far as to declare an islamic caliphate across the territories that it now controls both iraq and syria the question is what the saudi arabia sees the isis as a serious threat it has warned against foreign military into ference in iraq and

now iran is reportedly sending fighter jets to help the iraqi government fight the jihad as army. will saudi arabia sit still lots of questions one thing is clear the coltrane of six kerry intentions is only getting more explosive in washington i'm going to check out our team. riyadh is seeking to gain the upper hand in the region. one site they finance and they support isis with their actions on the other side they supply their troops to the border ready for interfering so this is also a justification and of course an excuse for maybe later on entering iraq saudi arabia wants to play since a long time the role of the region the leading power in the east and iraq as well as syria by the way of very important battlefields and the biggest competition for saudi arabia of course is iran iran is the big state that influential

state with a lot of influence also on the shia population in iraq iraq is mixed we know that so saudi arabia tries there to expand the influence of washington meanwhile has left the door open to an expanded role for its military in iraq with one general saying as strikes remain an option but russia's president believes america's involvement has so far proved destructive. ok school bus would look like a bull in a china shop they came they salvaged the place and then left and all this with a noble pretext and good intentions and everything falls apart chaos and collapse route. we discuss the legacy of america's occupation with security analyst michael maloof and he thinks the u.s. has opened up a pandora's box in the region. they were aware of the disputes the sectarian disputes between the sunnis and the shia and the kurds but i don't think they ever

saw isis really take off the way the way that it did at the moment nobody is there to actually stop them in terms of military capability they are exercising some very professional type of military tactics and the question is will they be able to govern the territory that they've been able to take over the show in a very professional slick approach toward establishing this caliphate and and they are moving on now you still using online services that let you conceive your identity and your location well that means that you that you will a potential terrorist in the eyes of america's national security agency because the details on this after a quick break. this

is what we do we kill people and break so we can see something as simple as people playing soccer game you can see individual players and you can see that. you can almost see is facial expression to see is it. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or in. this immediate leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same bush to secure. all your party visible. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only one of our team.

again welcome back now anger jim an immigration policies have reached boiling point after dozens of refugees barricaded themselves in a disused who their plight is attracting cries of protest is fear is what they claim is the unfair treatment of the asylum seekers peter all of us was there when it comes to refugees the message from german leaders is clear. solidarity is first and foremost a basis for any relationship and a symbol of our democracy the refugees who arrive on the italian maltese coast are not just up to italy or malta to deal with however this is the reality around sixty people are currently holed up in the abandoned schoolhouse just behind me here in central and they're angry it's the way they see refugees being treated here in

germany now what we have seen is a standoff between them and police this road here in the center the german capital has been shot often is a large police presence here a large group of demonstrators gather at either end of this street and they're angry at what they see as a double standard by the german government when it comes to refugee rights they're actually recognised as refugees from the you and convention but germany doesn't accept to start with they just want to push them back into to delhi or depart and back into the country many of those inside the school which includes refugees from ghana nigeria and syria police are understood to be in favor of evacuating the building some opposition politicians are hoping a solution can be found that sees the group allowed to stay in the abandoned school bus and there should be no violent eviction of the refugees from the school despite the words of the german president doing more to help refugees this district in

berlin remains in uproar over what they see as hypocrisy on asylum peter all over r.t. belin. still ahead for you in the program she is russia's top talent on court but right now this lady sure are or is feeling the full force of the world's cricket fans we'll explain why a bit later on. a new generation of aircraft carrier is about to be officially named by the british queen on friday she travels to scotland for the ceremony the queen it is elizabeth is the first of two warships being built at a cost of over ten billion dollars is expected to be her majesty's last official engagement in scotland before yes no referendum on staying part of the u.k. in september artie's party boy has this report. it's birth is taking place in scotland which is why the queen is christening the u.k.'s new super carrier with whisky instead of champagne according to the u.k.'s defense secretary it's

a demonstration of britain at its very best the royal navy has sixteen ships and submarines and two royal marines commando units based in scotland the s.n.p. has promised to maintain all military establishment in scotland in the event of independence but the problem is that at the moment there's simply no agreement over what would happen to britain's defense says if scotland were to leave the union the u.k.'s first scene lord has warned that the royal navy is already constrained by budget cuts and the split with scotland would further weaken the effectiveness of britain's maritime defenses since the s.n.p. say that they would abolish nuclear weapons in the event of a yes vote many questions surround the future of trying to end the u.k. submarine based nuclear missile system that station in western scotland tridents unique deep water location is of key strategic importance as it provides quick

access to the atlantic finding somewhere else to park the u.k.'s nuclear deterrent would be a long and complicated process that's likely to make nato extremely nervous scotland's had a historical role in the royal navy at the battle of trafalgar almost a third of nelson's men was gawd's but if they vote yes to independence britain's new us super aircraft carrier could be the last to be launched in scottish waters ali boyko r.t. . well both sides in the iraq campaign have promised to step up their game kevin known discuss the possible scenarios with campaign news. i feel depressed at the thought of scotland breaking away i think it diminishes us all to be quite honest i don't think the s.n.p. had really thought through in detail the implications of some things and defense was one of the ones they haven't thought it through in great detail i think when we

talk about defense and independent scotland all roads eventually lead to tried and . based on the clyde and scottish government which is by no means a done deal then it would seek the speediest and safest removal of trident from scottish territory u.k. government's position has been that they don't think that this will happen cost of redeploying at the trident the ballistic missile submarines and the weapons is huge i've talked to the head of some of the big firms that have small offshoots in scotland they will move south it will be a catastrophe for scottish defense industry the certainly defense industries itself will be feeling very very carefully looking at their options at what they should be doing britain's defense for survive without scotland's assets and interests yes of course it will survive the should scotland separate the remainder of the u.k. will still have defense forces sierra air space is crucially important to us all

but of course we would we would actually fight to look after them that an independent scotland supplication to join nato was successful then then scotland would come under the article five of the north atlantic treaty and would expect the rest of the nato organization to come to their aid and vice versa. some international news in brief now the israeli military has bolstered forces along the volatile border with gaza strip the move came in response to intensifying rocket fire and nineteen tension in the region officials say the deployment includes tanks artillery and ground forces meanwhile in tel aviv the demonstration took place condemning the violence between israel and palestine. protests also took place in east jerusalem where palestinians mourn for the death of a teenager earlier this week. in cairo a series of demonstrations have marred the anniversary of the ouster of egypt the ousting of egypt's president mohamed morsi pro morsi protesters blocked traffic and

burned car tires chanting slogans against egypt's new directive president bullfighter al sisi meanwhile police have been extinguishing fires and trying to reopen. a fly over has collapsed in southeast brazil killing two people and leaving at least nineteen dead the accident took place in belarus on one of the city's hosting the world cup the bridge was reportedly still under construction when it came down the latest revelations on america's national security agency shows that it views all uses of encryption software as potential terrorists just visiting websites which hide uses ip addresses puts you on the agency's radar also even searching information about them on the internet one of the whistle blowers who has been testifying to a parliamentary committee in germany on thursday believes current laws are failing to curb mass surveillance. it doesn't it doesn't do what needs to be done i mean

they need to have. they did have a process that does limits what n.s.a. looks at and can take in and store in its database so that other like more enforcement or other agencies in the government can take advantage of it and use it illegally but fundamentally boils down to the respect for the rights of others and their rights to privacy and their rights to be left alone that's the foundation of our constitution you can take a look at that the storage facilities they're building to get an idea of how much they're taking in like a million square foot storage facility in bluffdale utah another six hundred thousand square foot facility they are starting to build they started last summer. in fort meade on fort meade. a four hundred thousand square foot facility they have down in san antonio and other stories that they've had existing all along at fort meade as well as other facilities around the world well one way around the snooping could be this tablet computer over an r.t.

dot com we know you have deals with online videos by physically disconnecting camera and microphone. also online mr software is coming as the hurricane spirals out of the atlantic case new york residents are granted a spectacular light show before a thunderstorm touches down you look at those pictures at r.t. dot com. she is world renowned tennis royalty but russia's maria sharapova has crash dieted wimbledon just one round before the quarterfinals she still trending on twitter the hash tags nothing to do with the middle beforehand but rather he weighs maria sharapova what am i talking about will match raise that head of social media what's behind it all. that's right who is maria sharapova well. unfortunately fell out of wimbledon a little bit earlier than we'd have liked but she was fielding questions from the press afterwards and was asked about the fact that david beckham had been watching

her game instead to court now she responded very positively about david attending the game was then asked by a journalist what she thought about the fact that indian cricket god sachin tendulkar had also been watching the game masha shook her head was honest and said actually i don't know who such an ten dollars per is that's where things took off and so who tell us who he is and why this is such a big reaction in his home country and how internet as a whole is really reacting ok well let's start with tendulkar himself he is the greatest cricket player of his generation and he is literally venerated as a god in india now as you can see that's where twitter took off so these are this is a hash tag map of who has show up and you can see basically in the cricket playing countries of the world not and i know as an american and like i say there's even one in the states you know so i think we're ever something goes on on twitter that there will always be something in the states but it might be super that might be some cricket fans there anyhow india and the u.k. took to it thought it was hilarious and what what happened was basically means

sprung up such as these with luis suarez getting in getting involved in others that gave up a bit of a slagging about it would not knowing who this fantastic cricket player is of course you know the quick playing world expects everybody to know who such interpreter is not everybody does and the fact remains of course that masha is the perhaps that you know one of the great sportsmen of our generation and certainly the highest earning sportswoman of a generation but she was never the less able to take a bit of a trolling on twitter whether i guess in the eyes of her fans it might be regarded as cricket or not fair play or not. you should know i was mary king he's next here on r.t. international with politics. yes

it's official the mainstream media must be made up of stereotypical gossipy teenage girls i mean how else can you explain the fact that michelle obama using the term chipped has become a scandal i don't white house summit on working families mrs obama explained that when she was working part time she realized she was getting chipped because she was actually working full time but only getting paid the part time salary technically the term gypped is somewhat racist and implies the gypsies are all con men but in the modern world i think most people don't even know where the term comes from i doubt michelle obama likes a medieval peasant shield her children from wandering gypsies who could give them the evil eye i seriously question if there is any deep racial intent in the statement i personally would let the first lady off the hook but the question is would she do the same for me or any other person in the media probably not but thankfully for mrs obama she can't be fired from being the first lady only divorced or her husband's term ends now for me and every other person saying their opinion

on camera we've got to be a lot more careful but that's just my opinion. it's about seven years old it's one of the largest ten cities on the east coast of america has it got about one hundred people here just because of economics the cost of housing in this area especially is very high and i believe as an american we have a right. about or possess public land in till something is created that's my house you see back there live in it send them to well the least then the. rest. if we had done that we wouldn't have been home i want to go we don't just have you know people of density we don't anybody that needs help so tell your friend to just give us more take care of him ok i just think i'm never going to get the sense that he incidentally in one fell swoop got a place to live once on monday i'll be out here with my dog.

i'm larry king and joining me from washington is the host of r t america's the big picture and the syndicated radio talk show host tom hartman tom is also a new york times best selling author his most recent book the crash of two thousand and sixteen in the book you say that the countries in the midst of an economic implosion that could make the great depression seem small are you an economist still lives just come from. i'm a reporter and at a commentator and better on the block a few times i've read a couple of books about economics.