this is the weekly from r.t. international tonight the ukrainian army raises entire villages in its bid to reclaim anti-government strongholds in the restive east of the country sending the civilian death toll soaring. if we report on those unwillingly courting. civilians the elderly and even children written off as collateral damage. headlining to this hour the jihad this leader of the recently proclaimed islamic caliphate proudly 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 point jerusalem triggers violence across the region as activists raise concerns that the deaths of palestinian youngsters go ignored unlike israel's casualty. live from moscow its one i am here. international and kevin and it's a weekly the round over the big stories of the last seven days and again ukraine dominates entire villages razed to the ground in the last week dozens of civilians killed all less than seven days after the ceasefire was self-proclaimed republics in the east of ukraine its army immediately resumed its so-called anti terror up or a ship with heavy shelling and bombing.

i. for its part the military says it's targeting on to government fighters but it's hitting residential areas in the process women children and the elderly all among the dead had to do with this it was it really was the do you got. to do. it to be someone new to do. we've got to blow that then how do you. fear the goods. you got the larger war but borrowing. girl you know you'll be you know used to although i mean there is. this last week witnessed a particularly bloody attack carried out on the village of congress it happened on

wednesday where at least twelve people were killed kiev at first denied responsibility though later a military commander admitted it was an accident or if an ocean a went there just to warn you there are some graphic images coming up now and her report. as we arrive in can just show a village twenty five kilometers from the grounds houses a steam. at least five area bombs were dropped here disjoin an entire street and killing several people most people my. brows korean. alexander invites us to follow him. his back yard has become a cannot field joe you're going to go out of what it was or wasn't as yeah because all that's a good clear cut really big. just deck store and other human tragedy a sort of core of more when looking at all of us knew we were good gordon

a couple wrong on the war if you know the war fall we only have one warning as much of the zone as it's going to get here over hundreds family was fortunately not a time at the time of the shelling though that's what he says it would have killed them. good do it think think you two cranes airforce just hours ago and the cease fire and date and kiev resumed would cause it's empty terribly aeration in eastern ukraine and if it is in your book moving needle you would but that is the deal with the locals at least the good in the point of political war it was kill you it kills the would choose to be with you or did you think it was your reason e.g. when you deal him with a need she would you begin with that would lead to a good neighbor is good didn't he boogie w. bush should be nurturing the floors before it's a good feels like his night suddenly we hear the sound of shells exploding you know

for my football top when you are going to ship it here now i carry the nationals yes you do so we have to run now. on our way back we still buy 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 unfortunately. it's you know settling for all children but only to someone who took with her you. still. see you in your ear which we find alexander's father him and the injured he says he sees no point in leaving now that his wife's gone from her wolf the slaughter moment i don't know but i want you in the know you have to worry about her it's getting dark and doctors tell us we'd better hurry up we come back to lugansk. missed this up the phone was generals going with our driver told us

that this was the last checkpoint call start again with the shock of the village and they were somebody it happened and they say they are surprised why we're also the little village was targeted doubles ins and the checkpoints the nearest checkpoint is time kilometers away it seems that no one has an answer for this question. refresh nasty in eastern ukraine. and so the funerals for those who were killed a mere strike took place in what was left of the village square one woman was burying both her husband and her young son preview the body for the family believed in beautifully. you need to do more you ought to think that didn't regard them as you boys if you're not with you the boy is over with either puzzle of. the world and the baby boy was able to go get those three. the

destruction of congress shove can lead to heated debate in the week about how much force is too much care of 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 modern 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 in a week this is how a lawmaker interrupted president petro poroshenko as he was praising we armed forces. which are not all good. was. was him i mean a desirable idea people predicted national arab thousand

so the picture now antigovernment fighters have left the cities of slovyansk and kramatorsk which were at the epicenter of the resistance partly because they say both are indefensible and also because they say they couldn't prevent civilian casualties caused by government bob this is where they've headed down south they pull back towards the regional capital of donetsk donetsk they say to regroup and to reinforce. for its part the national guard says it will search for those who refuse to lay down arms in the retaken cities and will question them the border is an international affairs lecture a moscow state university told r.t. that locals see the me 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 will help or are perceived as having helped the 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 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 are 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. this is squat you're seeing here just a few ago the city center is covering the heavy artillery attack was one civilian reportedly killed this despite special assurances from the ukrainian army that it would not target president there is say. we've been chronicling the events of the

last week before in detail on our web site you'll find more images more analysis of what's really going on in eastern ukraine you find it at our tito. this week the leader of the jihadist group now known as the islamic state made his first public appearance see gave a sermon at the second largest city of iraq praising the creation of an islamic caliphate on the occupied territories. militants are making major gains capturing a key oil field on the syrian border but so on top of the other resorts ridge sites they've already searched from baghdad let's take it one is look at how much they've made on the map here this black area coming up is the self-proclaimed caliphate now struggling a border between syria and an area a big amount of land the success of the islamic state groups see the number of rebel factions in syria no pledging allegiance to it as well and the groups we get to show off its military might to persuade other fighters to join their cause this

is a parade of tanks and other combat vehicles some of them with american origin by the way filmed in eastern syria iraq insists it can defeat the jihadists but not explain to us in the week but could prove harder that it thinks hardest formerly known as isis this week to clear the completion of their islamic state this. but now. 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. it is going from the information that the ice is looters 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 full of this area. that the city of mosul was captured by isis millions of dollars of u.s.

made equipment being and in uniforms shared in his. now this looks like a hat 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 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 and many are scarred by the two thousand and three invasion and describe a sense of deja vu with the current crisis again from two thousand and three it's coming back so it's a disaster actually things are getting worse we've gone to trial under stand first hand how this war was playing out we're on our way right now to one of the front lines the villages. up until about five days ago isis insurgents leave the country

but entire territory village that's on a strategic road from mosul the next several of the provinces that they believe want to answers to a question mark knopfler just happened to clear bits of it but there are still clashes ongoing and that's what we're having 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 that they would potentially take your coop and 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 just might be moving forward so 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 don't want to take care of that once again it was apparent just how fluid a conflict this was the frontlines change daily and no matter what military gains

each day he may bring if the iraqi civilians who lose as the war rages on for on t.v. kuku province iraq while the caliphate rolls out the u.s. is releasing off a billion dollars of military support to the moderate syrian opposition although it's still true that some of the money might fall into extremists investigative journalist mark karr says america helped bring about the islamic state movement of the first books. ice is not just the haitian of a syria or isis has its origins in iraq itself in the jihad its resistance to the u.s. occupation when they withdrew troops in iraq and after the so-called surge there was a view that. one of those groups have been defeated or at least neutralized that probably never really happened and isis has been out in iraq not just because of what out in syria but also by the incompetence or terrorism and corruption of the i'm only government in iraq and so all these different forces of crevasses regime which is

very probable that some iraq could fragment into three statements because i can't see the moment of the time being any kind of and sectarian movement that could overcome the division that are ripping iraq to shreds. still to come as if blackwater his reputation wasn't bad enough the new york times now says the notorious security contract to threaten to kill the state department official trying to expose its criminal behavior during the war in iraq. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something is simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players and you can see the ball. you can almost see is facial expression you can see his mouth open and crying out. maybe

cursed. or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for house. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. suspects have been arrested over the murder of a palestinian teenager who was thought to have been slaughtered in

a revenge killing an autopsy suggests the teen was burned alive. this test spot ferris clashes between the arab population and israeli police the boys believed to have been murdered over the killing of three jewish teenagers whose bodies were discovered last monday the instant sent tension soaring in the region within days israel arrested hundreds of palestinians and raided thousands of homes while trying to find the jewish teen's killers the senior advisor for the palestinians because political party told us that he thought israel's response here was over the top the case is that of military occupation of a country against people and civilians the case of sweeping corona zation it's very clear that israel has exploited this incident to really politicize the event in a way to reveal its real intentions and its real intention is the block to block

the emergence of a palestinian state is to make sure that gaza will never come back to the west bank and palestinians would remain for fragmented and the tools to it in this world is a state sponsored terrorism and the excessive use of force as you have just shown have you heard any word that there is a state that will simply kidnap an entire nation lay siege on communities because there are investigations and allegations so this whole collective punishment approach that israel has been using has to stop. well the emergence of this video certainly didn't eased the tension in any shape or form it shows israeli police brutally beating the cousin of the palestinian teenager he'd flown to jerusalem for the funeral but was arrested the day before friday ceremony a street clashes right. in the brutal deaths of those israeli teenagers give an emotional coverage across the western channels sense that there will be some retaliation for these deaths is becoming increasingly apparent that his promise to

make hamas pay three teenagers found out on monday there is a huge amount of grief the discovery the grim discovery of the three bodies of those israeli teenagers late yesterday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the three teenagers were murdered in cold blood by what he described as animals but what hasn't been seen so much of the hundreds of palestinian families who've been left to grieve for their lost children more than fifteen hundred palestinian children have died in fact and six thousand have been injured by israeli forces since the year two thousand indeed one palestinian child killed every three days but local activists fear the international media repeatedly chooses to turn a blind eye to israel's deadly record israeli army has been killing palestinians in cold blood for several years we are talking about thousands and thousands of

palestinians were killed by the israeli army and tens of thousands of people who were injured during forty seven years of military occupation their israeli army now is demolishing houses and the actions of collective punishments are continuing also in the form of air raids on gaza which the israeli army is using to provoke reactions from palestinians and then present these they are either the actions as cause or as the reason for their or positive behavior in gaza strip and in other places and palestinian to. it's in more of the news that shaped the week a top u.s. war contract through iraq threatened to kill a state department official who is looking into the wrong doings at the firm which used to be called blackwater the new york times has published a report which claims the manager gloated that there was little investigators could do about it because blackwater was so heavily involved in u.s. work the document indicates to me that blackwater's top manager in a low even tone of voice told one of the government's agents that he could kill him

without blinking an eye state department investigators who were in iraq before the curve but he further investigation they describe stuff that the notorious security firm is out of control and that it was operating above the law but the american embassy sided with blackwater former state department official peter van buren told us washington knew about the reckless and dangerous behavior the state department was so afraid of its mission in iraq being slowed down or delayed by replacing blackwater as a contractor and 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. just weeks after the death threat

a blackwater unit murdered seventeen people in the iraqi capital u.s. officials said they were shooting without cause and that innocent lives were lost there not that it stopped the firm from getting other lucrative contracts it's believed to have assisted the cia aides drone mission in pakistan but order also received millions of dollars from washington for housing u.s. troops in afghanistan to. reporting online there are more spy strains developing between germany and the united states check it out seed of comets turns out there was a double agent in the early mid stu's accused of feeding dated to the n.s.a. we've got the full story lined up for you there to what's this well this is of the all structures certainly it is a hugely powerful soviet era lightning generator and it's coming back online to ouch but it's powering tourism instead want to check out more about that thing it said r.t. dot com. now to try and spur jobs and

businesses were often told only to buy local that's kind of tricky there are this globalized world but one frenchman tried giving it a go we caught up with him in a coster of went to find out how he third surviving soley on french made products for nearly one year. how frank skinned a person really be in this day and age the answer is ninety six point nine percent if you ask french journalist special karl the part a ten month ban on anything for most of the expulsive the rules of this experience were to get rid of everything that was not french and only use products that got most of their added value on french soil with an average salary of one thousand eight hundred euros a month i found myself in a situation where i had to buy everything again including furniture. inspired by a government plea to stick to french products to stem the country's decades long industrial decline the problem is that there aren't many products left these days that are purely french what really surprised me is how much food we import each

time i see a foreign product i think it's crazy because it could have been made in france but it's not. but benjamin's biggest surprise was that shoppers probably don't know whether french flag goods are valid from. today's rules of the european union a crazy if you take the should for example and you just so the buttons in france you have the right to put a made in from label on it it's the last operation the product undergoes that matters. even though it's not hard to find economic patriots like benjamin clark it is hard to support the french more than me according to some experts who claim the point here commitments are opening the door to point competition and force in french companies out of business. we estimate that in friends there is roughly one plant closing every day between two hundred forty and two hundred sixty plants a year absolute protectionism like in north korea is absolute everybody around the

world agrees on that but we go from one extreme to another where there is no regulation at all industrialization comes from globalization but it doesn't happen because some bad guys took the jobs of the french but because the french companies think we will make more money by going abroad purchasing with patriotism takes some effort but shoppers here are given it a go and the hope of saving local businesses and keeping them in the country retail experts say there's room for all just so long as they play fair one solution being put forward is to level the employment standards within the european union and boost local industries so that it's not cheaper it's a buy for products or get the manufacturer. i love life and i love to benefit from things and i think it's impossible to live completely with french products it costs too much anyway and it takes a crazy amount of time because it's hard to find needless to say benjamin is now behind the on his borders again but he's paying more attention to labels and

ecological recycle products no matter where they come from marina cost of reports in from paris artsy. the evil of france. ok before i leave you let me have taken on some more world news headlines first of two separate attacks on neighboring coastal districts in kenya that killed more than twenty people during the first a soul government stormed the police station releasing several detainees some of them linked to a previous terror attack in the second incident heavily armed militants raided the trading center in the village of hindi because the ms group al shabaab says it was behind both attacks bad weather here rain storms battering eastern china into sunday it's caused landslides and cut off roads at least one person has been confirmed dead that number could rise the fear is rescue teams are still trying to assess the affected areas earlier in the week heavy downpours submerged treats and calls traffic chaos in the north and in the south of the country. three foreign engineers are believed to have been kidnapped in libya amid the deteriorating

security situation in the country on saturday night security forces now engaged in street battles in tripoli one soldier was reportedly killed fighting between pro government forces and various armed groups has been on the rice since the downfall of colonel gadhafi in twenty. one you see fingertips twenty four seven and r t dot com next an r.t. international expose the dark side of doctors involved in the torture and abuse of detainees an issue in the u.k. good evening good story of a tight knit community of people living in tents in the u.s. struggling to keep a shelter over their heads kevin oh and thanks for watching. what people talk about human rights violations use or involve some pro western protesters getting beaten up and response from mainstream media is usually to bomb somebody somewhere so good thing they haven't picked up

a story from detroit that the u.n. is calling a human rights violation residents of the motor city or sadly the former motor city who are her fifty dollars or more behind on their water bills. are getting their water shut off completely the desert water and sewage department is five billion dollars in debt and that is a justification to crack down on deadbeats on the surface the seems like an open and shut case of course i would have the right to water especially detroit which is near a huge bodies of fresh water that other cities could only dream of but on the other hand if the poor don't pay for water then us taxpayers will be paying for it for them and that's not fair i think this is not so much a case of a right to water but a right to disemployment in a corruption free city government back when people detroit had good salaries and a government that wasn't flagrantly corrupt they would have any problems paying for their water bills but that's just my opinion. the threat of terrorism the nature of terrorism is becoming increasingly internationalized

a local governments which may be the case in afghanistan i'm very limited in that militant to curtail that increasingly globalized spread so one how do you really strike a balance here before those can help by not fighting brooks he was quoted in the book stuff if we all start for i do books rather than the going to somebody that would be peaceful if you tried to help them but it doesn't. cause the government it's up to this big success. the abu ghraib pictures raised the question where were the doctors while this was going on either directly witnessed the abuse or they would notice the consequences of it why hadn't they protested.