ukraine's president says he's ready to reestablish a truce in the country's east but the army steps up the offensive on the final 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 . the standoff between asylum seekers barricaded in an abandoned school and authorities put on edge triggering protests in support of the refugee it's.

nice to have you company with 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 restart the truce during a phone call but let's see what the picture is at the moment on the ground these are the scenes from the city of clymer tosk one of the main targets of kiev's military operation ukrainian forces have stepped up artillery fire there since the truce ended on monday unless you can see residential areas are coming under heavy fire some shells of even exploded next to a playground there and a government forces say one man was killed and twenty injured in recent attacks local residents living in fear of the shelling. but he'll go you. know take you so there might be a move the boat goes very well larry used to be i knew. that

you were you got the large you are oh. good homes will be no use you will go there you go on. and this is the video we've received from our up to the agency film the small village of concert a show of locals the bearing those killed by an army airstrike strike on tuesday eleven people lost their lives then including a five year old child when ukrainian commander suggested the assault was in fact an accident had bad not to target residential areas but those living in the village don't think the army is defending them this gives. them what is going to show them what is you know you know what is coming with you this is your you really need. super accused of giving these no. more. news not to cover look. good to be new year's eve been so good to

you when you come get. it with meanwhile this is a russian t.v. crew getting caught up in the crossfire in the cities of the answer on thursday you can hear loud explosions the channel one journalist try to hide from the bombardment a camera man from the same t.v. station was killed in the region on monday. ukrainian troops have also been making their presence felt in the social media with videos like this missing on the web they are shouting good quality presenting army regiments as well organized combat units who have been picked up by media outlets across the world if an ocean of their went to see the reality behind the scenes members of the ukrainian army's elite unit demonstrate it is very special equipment. this is the.

business new deal. from gaza or the priesthood. forces there. are a propos of. the national guard was created four months ago to bolster the country's defenses its fighters were supposed to get the best and the nisshin but so far they say they've been fed with empty promises and staying the brand on a muzzle so we had to got most of the bread from these eight lovejoy with the player they only have a small edible part in the middle but there are a lot of people here the holocaust for them this is the army's position outside slovyansk the key battleground and was key of calls it's anti terror of the ration books and while the president declares it's active and decisive phase five is on the ground a confused as to where they stand often and literally i've got a bunch of lot of muslims have got all of the knowledge of the employee but they're

going to give him a larger picture of the moral equivalent of their lives are going to be left alone without them within your eyes just because that is always there you know if you come when you will it is almost belittling you know just a lot of them no matter how hard it gets everyone should do what they're supposed to do when it would if that happens will win very quickly we're going to. get in the way as fast as two weeks the minister believes but many don't this is realistic stressed i mean there's nothing terrifying about returning to a checkpoint after it's been attacked ocoee worries us is what will happen next will we doubt all nice capabilities of the us. to begin with the future looked bright for ukraine's soldiers and officers as well as those willing tiering to join the military. sure everyone can hear it you know this will be our priority army volunteers will get to be quibbling 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 paid their salaries but we didn't get any money my husband didn't get it and they keep promising it will happen to morrow my two year old daughter woke up this morning and said that she's hungry what i'm supposed to tell her. but the result was last. year that does that mean that you could. come was that your job. as a response to the country's inability to take care of its own service personnel a number of unlined fund raising 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

a lack of basic supplies and weaponry many complain they are not been sent to fight but rather to die. while struggling to crush maybe unrest in the leaders in kiev also have another major issue on their hands a looming gas crisis they've already dipped into long term storage tanks after russia cut off supplies over pay bills and the e.u. heads fear that it could have a knock on effect for them when this is energy chief and he says germany could suffer and that's because gazprom is unconcerned is concerned ukraine may start siphoning off gas destined for europe meanwhile russian prime minister dmitry medvedev believes there could be a full scale gas crisis as soon as the autumn making the claim on his facebook page . so why is there so much concern about a wider gas crisis in europe well over here is a map and it will help explain things to us essentially you countries will save gas

from russia via pipelines that go through ukraine however it is fated that ukraine may tap into the 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 geo political analyst we mingled thinks that brussels should put more pressure on kiev to avert another cold winter even with fish oils are really acting very stupidly in this whole 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 would discourage 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 for a stable economy and stable energy prices. coming up in our international whiskey no champagne is the u.k. launch used in the 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. with jihadi militants making significant advances in iraq saudi arabia has started moving military personnel close to its front with the war torn country the reports come after iraqi troops are reported to be withdrawing from the area something baghdad denies. it's called the. 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 so 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 are 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 but experts believe saudi arabia has helped create the floors in ways more than just providing funding and fighters they need to think. that this and i think the saudi arabia means to realize. a lot of their teaching contributed to the kid a year. 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

a profiteer or is that it now controls both iraq and syria the question is whether saudi arabia sees the isis as a serious threat. it has warned against foreign military interference in iraq and now iran is reportedly sending fighter jets to help the iraqi government fight the jihad its army while saudi arabia sits still lots of questions one thing is clear the holderness to carry intentions is only getting more explosive in washington i'm going to take on r.t. . and some believe reality seeking to gain the upper hand in the region his german jew and his man while oxen right 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 a very important battlefield since the biggest competition for saudi arabia of course is iran iran is the big she stated 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 their influence washington meanwhile has left the door open to an expanded role for its military in iraq with one general saying strikes remain an option but russia's president believes america's involvement in so far proved to be destructive. school books would not 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 can also collapse rudy. we discussed the legacy of america's occupation with security analyst michael

maloof and he thinks the u.s. has opened 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 in 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're moving on. now are you still using online services that you can see with your identity and you're like well that means that you will a potential terrorist in the eyes of america's national security agency stay with the details on the story.

number one the people in queues independence square we're not terrorists and the people of the boss they all the terrorists also just because we don't agree with what kiev is trying to impose on us and stand by all rolled up conviction this is reasonable to assume those would. be. economic down in the final. days. and the rest. will be every week on.

the stories we cover here you're not going to hear any right story at the. same time there's a reason they don't want to know more. now let's break the set. automatically with r.t. now anger german immigration policies have reached a boiling point in berlin after dozens of refugees barricaded themselves in a disused school their plight has attracted crowds of protesters furious at what they claim is the unfair treatment of the asylum seekers peter all of that 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 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 of 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 other countries 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 about 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 to come on the program she is russia's top talent on the tennis court but right now this woman is feeling the full force of the world's cricket fans we explain why in a few minutes time. and your 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 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 boyko has this report its birth is taking place in

scotland which is why the queen is christening the u.k.'s new super carrier with whiskey instead of champagne cording to the u.k.'s defense secretary it's a demonstration of britain at its very best the royal navy has sixty 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 seen lord has warned that the royal navy is already constrained by budget cuts and a split with scotland would further weaken the effectiveness of britain's maritime defense says 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 base nuclear missile system that station in western scotland tridents unique deep water location is a 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. 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 with thoughts but if they vote yes to independence britain's new us super aqua carrier could be the last to be launched in scottish waters playboy r.t. well both sides in the iraq campaign have promised to step up their game haven't even discussed the possible scenarios with campaigns i feel depressed at the thought of scotland breaking away i think it diminishes us all by 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 the cost of redeploying of 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 senate defense and distance 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 see area 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. 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. it has just gone twenty past ten in the morning here in moscow let's have a look at some other world news now the israeli military has bolstered forces along the volatile border with the garza strip the move came in response to intensifying rocket fire and mounting tension in the region officials say the deployment includes tanks artillery and ground forces meanwhile in tel aviv a 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 marked the anniversary of the ousting of egypt's president mohammed morsi pro morsi protesters blocked traffic and burned car tires chanting slogans against egypt's new elected president. meanwhile police have been mixed in extinguishing fires and trying to reopen. on the fly over has collapsed in southeast brazil killing two people and leaving at least nineteen injured the accident took place in bel orders on a 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 terrorist just visiting websites which hide uses ip addresses puts you on the agency's radar also even searching

information about them on the internet where one of the whistle blows he's 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 those limits what n.s.a. looks at and can take in and store in its database so that other like law 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 you 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're starting to build they started last summer in in fort meade on fort meade. and then 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 they were not called we show you hi ruth deals with online villains by physically disconnecting its camera and microphone. also online this is coming in the hurricane spirals up the atlantic coast new york residents are drawn to the spectacular light show before the thunderstorm touches down you can look at a picture. she says well and tennis royalty but russia's maria sharapova has crashed out of wimbledon just one round before the quarter finals she still trending on twitter all the hashtags nothing to do with her familiar beforehand but rather he waits to

reassure out of a. 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 back and i had been watching a game in center court marshall 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 intent 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 the 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 has 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 never something goes on on twitter that there's always be something in the states but it might be said but they might be some cricket fans there anyhow india and the u.k. took to it thought it was hilarious and what happened was basically means sprung up such as these with luis suarez getting in getting involved in others that gave 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 the you know one of the great sportsmen of our generation and certainly in the highest earning sportswoman of a generation but she was nevertheless 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. now official brag so if you have

a nice to talk to a refugee from eastern ukraine. 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 going 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 shields her children from wandering gypsies who could give them the evil eye i seriously question that 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. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world writes next. to pictures of six days. from around the globe.

look. don't get me. indecision in the ukraine while it appears there is a commitment to a multilateral ceasefire in the country fighting continues and talks the talk of peace which forces pursue their assault in the east is controlled. by welcome to. russian cities. one. children were forced to flee. they say.