really matters. to your facebook. base top stories in the news preview of the week ukrainian army raises in time villages in his bid to reclaim government strongholds in the rest of east of the country sending the civilian death toll soaring. was a report on those unwillingly caught up in. civilians the elderly children written off as collateral damage. the jihadist leader of the recently proclaimed islamic caliphate apparently makes his first public appearance as ruthless militants continue their advance in iraq and syria seizing control of vast oil fields and. the killing of

a palestinian boy in jerusalem triggers violence across the region is that the disgrace of concerns that the deaths of palestinian youngsters goes ignored like israel's. pm here in moscow this is the weekly with me kevin owen our roundup of the big stories of the last seven days in one dominated again entire villages raced to the ground dozens of civilians killed. this less than a week after kiev ended a cease fire with self-proclaimed republics in the east of ukraine some immediate resumed its resumed its so-called anti terror operation with heavy shelling and bombing.

military says it's targeting antigovernment fighters but is hitting residential areas in the process women children and the elderly all among the dead. to do. you think you've got. to do. it to. the minute. we get to the blood that then how do you. fear. it got the larger la barbera. girls you know you know you still go there is. a particularly bloody attack was carried out on the village of congress shove her on wednesday at least twelve people were killed there kevin first denied

responsibility though later a military commander admitted it was an accident read for national when there is to warn you there is some graphic images coming up in her report as we arrive in can just a village twenty five kilometers from the ground houses are still burning. at least five aerial bombs were dropped here disjoin an entire street and killing several people most. proud korean you know when you're. alexander invites us to follow him. his backyard has become a cat field joe you're going to go out on the water wasn't isaac yeah but i thought that's a good look up there on a big. just next door and other human tragedy for our part of northwest movement that all of us knew we would lose more than a couple wrong on the war it is not the war you want to but born with much of his

own that it's a very good year old and drays family was fortunately not at home at the time of the shelling of the foot he says it would have killed them. for doing think thank you to crane's air force just hours ago the cease fire and date and key agrees you would cause it's anti terror peroration in eastern ukraine and you should see a bold move in the middle devoted but it is the door that the hope was at least the good in the point of. that war it was still you it kills the would choose to be with you it gives you the reason e.g. when you're dealing with a need she would need to do it with great dignity it was a good neighbor a good didn't a boogie w. bush should be nurturing the floor as possible as good so you could feel as good as night suddenly we hear the sound of shells exploding you know my football talk when you're going to shoot but here now i carry the bad news so we have to run now.

on our way back we stopped by a local hospital. a day before the local power station was hit in another shelling since then there has been new running water and no electricity if you. are sitting in your silly troll children you will be the someone with whom you. wish to. see with you you what should we find alexander's father him and the injured he says he sees no point in leaving now that his wife's gone through three horrible. the slaughter moment a whole lot more you know no matter who you are who are our. it's getting dark and doctors tell us we'd better hurry up we come back to lugansk. missed this out phone calls generals going with our driver told us that this is the last

checkpoint will start again with a shock of evil in the world somebody happened and they say they are surprised why we're also the little village was targeted double sings and the check on the nearest checkpoint this time to one way it seems that no one has an answer for this question. refuse eastern ukraine. funerals for those who were killed in the air strike took place in what was left of the village square one woman was burying both husband and her young son. when you bought it from the family believe it beautifully. you couldn't you do what you want you to prove that you did you tell your family you boys you keep your dog with you the board is the one with the puzzle. the muslims the baby boy was the that's good. the destruction of congress shove could lead to heated debates about how much force

is too much by the united states rushed to its defense calling the army's actions quote an attempt to restore peace. our view is that the iranian security forces operations have then moderate and measured they've been taking steps to maintain calm within their own country but disillusionment with the actions of ukraine's military has reached the country's parliament and they this is one lawmaker interrupted president petro poroshenko as he was praising the armed forces i mean i . shouted not altogether was it. was immediate i mean their desire the idea that predicted national arab thousand and two government fighters have left the cities of

stavans can come a toss which were the epi center of the resistance now partly because they say both are indefensible and that they couldn't prevent civilian casualties caused by government bombardment so they've now pulled back towards the regional capital of donetsk to regroup and reinforce. in time the national guard says it will search for those who refused to lay down arms in the retaken cities and question them marks the border as an international affairs lecture at moscow state university told r.t. that local see the army as the opposite of liberators. the reports out this morning is that they are already going door to door looking for people who might have remained behind who health or are perceived as having helped these self-defense forces and the local say they are being executed we have seen some very grim results in the previously occupied towns most of the young and middle aged men are rounded up through what exactly is being done with them whether they are being

executed or taken off is not entirely known we have heard the defense minister of the ukraine several weeks ago speak openly and without even any attempting to hide it that all of the citizens of eastern ukraine when these towns and cities or reconquered would be taken tilth women children and men would be taken to filtration camps not even really trying to hide the connection with concentration camps of course. it is so with you in a little bit earlier on in lugansk the ukrainian army gave special assurances that it would not target residential areas in this city but locals say a heavy artillery attack was underway there was one civilian reportedly killed. we've been calling the events of the last week and before in detail on our website more images more analysis of what's going on in eastern ukraine than at r.t. dot com. this week the leader of the

jihadist group now known as the islamic state made his first public appearance he gave a sermon in the second largest city of iraq praising the creation of an islamic caliphate on the occupied territories the militants are making major gains capturing a key oil field on the syrian border that's on top of the other resource rich sites have already snatched from baghdad. let's take a quick look at how much land the islamic state groups already got under its control that we're about to see coming up here in black on the map is the self-proclaimed caliphate straddling the border between syria and iran as you can see the success of the islamic state group has seen a number of rebel factions in syria now pledge allegiance to it as well and the green group is eager to show off its military might to persuade other fighters to join their cause a parade of tanks and other combat vehicles some of them of american origin was filmed in eastern syria iraq insists it can defend the jihadists but as you see catherine of explains that could prove the heart of the thinks. jim hall just

formally known as isis this week to clear the completion of their islamic state this but up with a sham but now it's all one country there is no more or less. the iraqi army meanwhile is fighting back in televised news briefings the government takes a victorious tone. come 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 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 that's how in part isis has been able to see it so much territory so quickly the fighting has displaced hundreds of thousands of iraqis that many are scarred by the two thousand and three invasion and describe a sense of deja vu with the current crisis start again from two thousand and three it's coming back so it's a disaster actually things are getting worse we want to two hundred stand first hand how this war was playing out we're under way right now is one of the front lines of the village and some abdulla up until about five days ago when isis insurgents leave the country but entire territory the village that's on a strategic road from mosul the next several of the provinces so they really want to insist to a benchmark lost soldiers have been able to clear bits of it but they're still clashes ongoing and that's what we're getting right now. at the base commanders

take us to. an outpost overlooking an area controlled by militants this is the very first offensive position against the isis militants just two kilometers that way every single day there's been sniper fire attempts by the jihad is to enter this territory if they can push through the defensive position they would potentially take care could move into the territories and that could be a massive battle just waiting to happen moments later we have to leave and we just got word that the isis just might be willing forwards all the soldiers have been told to evacuate this area we're going to get out before things get intense we know that there was clashes last night and we definitely don't want to be here if that happens again it was apparent just how fluid a conflict this was the front lines change daily and no matter what military gains each day may bring if the iraqi civilians who lose as the war rages on no more on t.v. cuckoo province in iraq while the caliphate rolls out the u.s. is releasing half a billion dollars of military support to the moderate syrian opposition although

it's still fear that some of the money might fall into extremists terms investigative journalist mark karr says america helped bring about the islamic state movement in the first place. isis is not just the agent the syrian isis has its origins in iraq itself in the jihad its resistance to the u.s. occupation when they would do the troops in iraq 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 in power to iraq not just because of what in syria but also by the incompetence or terrorism and corruption of the government in iraq so all these different forces are going to situation which is very probable that iraq could fragment into three states because i can't see the moment of the time being any kind of m six area moving over the division but everything.