bombards eastern ukraine by land and raising entire communities in order to crush the anti-government movement sending the casualty list soaring. if. we report on most unwillingly causing here is onslaught civilians the elderly and even children written off as collateral damage . also radicals in iraq and syria secure the recently proclaimed islamic caliphate is they seize control of vast oil fields analysts say the advance of the militants is orchestrated from abroad and.

the killing of a palestinian boy triggers parlance across the nation is mourners accuse israel of a revenge attack over the earliest slaying of three israeli teenagers. the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you're watching a weekly here on r.t. international. raised residential areas reduced to rubble and even cities turned into ghost times all vested in a week since the collapse of the ceasefire between kiev and the east of ukraine. yes operation to retire those that cause terrorists and separatists has also

claimed the lives of dozens of civilians including children. to do what you did you got. to do. it to. someone who did it. we've got to believe that then how do you know. we're the goods. the larger. girls don't know you. very. well in a specially bloody air raid on the village of congress on wednesday left at least twelve people dead kiev of thirst and i'd responsibility although later on a military commander admitted it was an accident refund or should have visited the

devastated community. as we arrive in conditional a village twenty five kilometers from the grounds houses are still burning. at least five aerial bombs were dropped here this join an entire street and killing several people most put my. brows korean. alexander invites us to follow him. his backyard has become a planet field joe you're going to do a lot of it was or wasn't i just yeah i was all. good but there are. just decks door and other human tragedy for our part of north wind looking at all of this and you would think gordon a couple and i want you to give me the work you want to warn me of my ship assume that it's a very good year old countries family was fortunately not to blame at the time of

the shelling. he says it would have killed them. good do i think thank you to kareen their force just hours ago and the cease fire and date and he agrees you could cause it's empty terribly ration in eastern ukraine and you could use in your book you didn't need to do it but it was the daughter of the cause of the good in the point of the war it was killing you it gives the would choose to be with you it gives you the reason e.g. when you're dealing with the need she would need to do it with a degree a good neighbor a good didn't get a blue collar infest training retreat pollard told us why he thinks the village was targeted for death although there were a seven year. old girl got out of the grocery store yes i'll do you want to know if you will be a circle dozers of supposedly was going to do or not go on that you would work to always store the ability or more should be nurturing the floor as possible as

it's a good seal skins night suddenly we hear the sound of shells exploding you know on my porch or door when we're going to shoot but here now i carry the bad news so we have to run now that i get to go ok can you hear that. we're doing nothing. they say that. there might be back here sometimes forces base is. kilometers away here here. on our way back we stopped by a local hospital. a day before the local power station was heat in another shelling since then there has been new running water and no electricity. you. see no settling for all children to be just someone with whom you. just. see what you do you get what we find alexander's father him and the

injured he says he sees no point in leaving now or that his wife's gone lose her wolf. the thought of a moment i don't know but i want you to know you are who are our. it's getting dark and doctors tell us we'd better hurry up we come back to the guns. it's the last bridge before the city and there was sign of it out of the minds here at the plaza in uganda. the rules. of the bridge and it was a checkpoint. just this out front was generals were with through our driver told us that this was the last checkpoint people started with the shock of evil and sure there were some bodies happened and they say they are surprised why they saw the little villages targeted goebbels ins when the check on the nearest checkpoint

these time clock is way it seems that no one has an answer for this question. refresh nasty in eastern ukraine. the destruction of congress of course the firestorm of debate on how far is too far even the united states chipped in defending kids actions as quote a measured response meanwhile the shell shocked locals have begun to bury their dead including a five year old boy and his father dozens of people gathered to say their goodbyes and what was left of the village square there we met the woman who had to watch as her son and hug. we're buried together. we. believe beautifully. written with the booklet that. you boys. the book is the. board was. disillusionment with the actions

of ukraine's military has reached the country's parliament this is how a lawmaker interrupted president petro poroshenko as he was praising the armed forces. shouted. that predicted national. through the military's blunders and attacks have sown destruction and tragedy across the east of ukraine throughout the week on change day a school building was gutted during government shelling six people died and more were injured in the attack according to local media in the same old sot a minibus was also fired upon leaving four more people dead another military barracks hit a cancer hospital in mcgann's killing one woman and see here considerable damage

and these are just a few examples of what people in the east have gone three. not short on we were with. my eyes in the bush here. today yeah you with the boys you know good day michigan who should think that given the notion that measure pretty good if you look around you we see you going to the street and you're welcome this year but when you've done it it doesn't have to be when you made your god was the decision you know students use the word stunning was not the best you i'm seeing here when you know you might have appear well antigovernment fighters and now abandon the cities of surveillance income or tourist partly they say because both were indefensible the other reason given is that they could do nothing to prevent civilian casualties caused by the government bombardment they've now pulled back towards the regional capital here bunya sq on the ukrainian army has now entered

the towns after almost two months of deadly shelling that william daughters from the international action center says the horrors of war are far from over for the citizens of eastern ukraine. it's no great act of heroism to show a civilian community and then raise your flag over it is no great accomplishment for the first time in seventy years artillery and aerial bombardment is falling on the cities of eastern ukraine and villages this is an all out war by the poroshenko government on its own people. being funded by the united states it appears they are not willing to stop even with suppressing opposition in east ukraine and this week has also seen several run ins for russian journalists working in the conflict zone one of them thanks will. if you do choose it. journalists were forced to dive for cover on monday when their bus here came under

fire at night a sixty eight year old camera man was shot in the incident he died within an hour of this being filmed. from his colleagues from the same channel came under artillery fire you can hear the loud explosions here as the team tries to hide from the bombardment. we have been chronicling the events of the last week and before in detail on our website in there you can find much more video and images of the events happening in eastern ukraine. you know the new radical militants from the group now known as islamic state have boosted their finances by seizing an oil field in syria that's in addition to other resource rich sites they've already captured in iraq and the jihadists made have made gains in both countries this week all for one goal to secure a so-called islamic caliphate on the captured territories it's also alleged the

secretive leader of the terrorists appeared on video for the very first time apparently to shatter the claims of the iraqi government he had been wounded. and in a different show of force the militants were reportedly caught on tape parading tanks and other combat vehicles in eastern syria or this comes hot on the heels of washington releasing half a billion dollars in military support to the syrian opposition which phrase play is some of the money will fall into the hands of extremists investigative journalist matt carr says america helped bring about isis in the first place. isis is not just the asian of syria isis has its origins in iraq itself in the jihad its resistance to the u.s. occupation when they withdrew troops in iraq them up the so-called surge there was a. one of those groups have been defeated or at least neutralized that probably never really happened and isis has been an hour to iraq not just because of what in

syria but also by incompetence or terrorism and corruption at least i'm only good government in iraq so all these different forces are clever situation which is very probable that some iraq could fragment into three stages because i can't see the moment of the time being any kind of sectarian movement that could overcome the division but a really good shreds. well some rebel factions in syria have already pledged allegiance to what's now being the islamic state by militants so let's have a look at how much land the group already has under its control this whole black area on the map here is the so-called islamic state and you can see it actually straddles the border between syria and iraq that's the orange line there now iraq still claims that it can defeat the terrorists and reclaim the territories you see calvin of reports though that could be very tough to harvest formally known as isis this week to clear the completion of their islamic state this. but now

this is old or a one country is no more or less. the iraqi army meanwhile is fighting back in televised news briefings the government takes a victorias tone. from the information that the isis leaders have started to flee but on the ground we've found little evidence to back up those claims this used to be a territory controlled by the central government but the iraqi army fled this area the same day that the city of mosul was captured by isis millions of dollars of u.s. made equipment abandoned uniforms shared in haste. now this looks like a perhaps a breakout from the special forces the iraqi special forces this is obviously a vest that they discarded left behind they dressed in civilian clothes ran away essentially abandoned their posts and.