because the. ukrainian army shows no mercy is continues with this deadly crackdown on antigovernment fighters in the east with entire settlements race to the ground. it is easy. and heartbreak across the region we report on those and willingly courting what kiev's called accidental attacks. of the so-called islamic state terror group games ground in iraq journalists scrutinize a rare video of its leader and the pricey watch on his wrist raising further questions about the money behind the operation.

plus the killing of a palestinian boy in jerusalem triggers violence across the region with activists saying israeli casualties get the lion's share of attention all the deaths of palestinian youths go ignored. welcome thanks for joining us you're watching the weekly on our team here with today's headlines and a round of the week's top stories. deadly fighting goes on across eastern ukraine and residential areas continue to be caught up in the army's assaults despite promises not to attack them now these are images from the city of league square shelling reportedly left at least one dead and four others injured it's the latest in a string of heavy raids on eastern ukrainian cities this week seen dozens of civilians killed and entire villages razed to the ground.

and civilians of hand to seek cover and avoid being caught up in what the military says are precise attacks on anti-government fighters spike that women children and the elderly have been among the victims did you. meet someone new. to the book that. you got the large you were bored by. girls i was doing you know you refused to order me. in while at least twelve people have been killed in the small village of congress which was

left literally in ruins after an air raid on the settlement of a said that the deadly attack was an accident refreshing when therefore isn't a warning you may find some in images in her report distressing. as we arrive in can just 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 managed to my own bill. browder corner unit never knew of. alexander invites us to follow him his backyard has become a carrot field joe you're going to go out of what it was or wasn't as yeah yeah yeah but i thought that's a good point there are big shots. just decks door and other human tragedy a sort of part of north wind looking up that leaves all of us and they were glued

gordon a couple run away you know there were the only abundance of warnings much of presume that it's got a good year old andré's family was fortunately not at home at the time of the shelling goes for them he says it would have killed them. would do it think thank you to crane their force just hours ago and the cease fire and date and he agrees you would cause it's empty terribly aeration in eastern ukraine and if you just knew about them they didn't need to do it but it was the door that the hope was it was good in the point of political war it was going you it kills the would choose to do with you or did you feel that the reason e.g. when you're dealing with the need she would need to deal with it would be to get a really good neighbor if he didn't get a blue collar forward in europe or should be nurturing in the floor as possible as it's a good feeling is night suddenly we hear the sound of shells exploding you know on

my porch or two up when we're going to shoot here now i carry but god knows your resume 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 and sure you. see no settling for all children only to someone over here you. are still. here but you knew what we find alexander's father him and the injured he says he sees no point in leaving now that his wife's gone through through her work all. the slaughter moment a whole lot more you know no no. no. it's getting dark and doctors tell us we'd better hurry up we come back to look guns. and just this out

of line was generals who thought this through our driver told us that this was the last checkpoint will start again with a show of the village and they were somebody it happened and they say they are surprised why was a little of the first target doubles ins and the check on the nearest checkpoint a nice time kilometers away it seems that no one has an answer for this question. refresh nasty in 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 bearing both her husband and a young son preview the body for the family believe it beautifully. you need to determine what you want to cut did you tell your family you boys even eat with you the boy is the one with the puzzle. the muslims the baby boy was the that's good. but despite the horrific attack on congress to washington continues to offer

excuses for kids actions. our view is that the reigning in security forces operations have been moderate and measured they've been taking steps to maintain calm within their own country and though many say the ukrainian military is justified in his actions the country's parliament is hardly unanimous on the issue president poroshenko praise for the army was met with a rather chilly response earlier this week. i mean. it should be a matter or. was it was. i mean a desirable idea people predicted national arab thousand lanty government forces of pulled out of the cities of slovyansk and kramatorsk which were hubs of resistance and the key targets of kiev

crackdown they withdrew towards the regional capital done yet and the city of for reinforcement thousands of gathered in support of un to care forces in donetsk central square they waved banners calling pace and appealed to care to stop its assault on the country's east refugees from the devastated cities of slavyansk and cover towards continue to flow into the region's capital and here is what they told r.t. . they were ready to. move you to them and you most of those are pretty dumb when. they're going to do media you can have you there you hear music each was a lot of. human secret. in the meantime ukraine's national guard says it will come after fighters who are refusing to lay down their arms as well as others who have helped them in the newly retaken cities here's mark sloboda an international affairs lecturer at moscow

state university the reports out this morning is that they are already going door to door looking for people who might have remained behind health 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 what exactly is being done with them whether they are being executed or taken off is not entirely. you know 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 to women children and men would be taken to filtration camps not even really trying to hide the connection with concentration camps of course. and there's lots more on the fast moving

developments in ukraine on our website also there for you a u.s. news channel proved its geographic knowledge of the stricken region might not be quite its strong points find out how c.n.n. came to a place ukraine's eastern city of slovyansk hundreds of kilometers from where it's supposed to be. right on the scene. and i think you're. on. now this week the leader of the jihadi scroope now known as the islamic state made a rare public appearance iraqi officials are working to verify the video in which the self declared head of the renegade state delivers

a speech in the country's second largest city but the serious leader was widely mocked when it turned out he was sporting a watch that appeared to be worth thousands of dollars the extremist group has been strengthening its positions capturing key oil fields in the region on their latest major gains was the resource rich sites on the iraqi syrian border. let's have a look at just how much land the islamic state group already has under its control and if take a look at the black area on our map or that is the self-proclaimed caliphate straddling the border between syria and iraq the success of the islamic state group has seen a number of rebel factions in syria now pledge their allegiance to it and the group is eager to show off its military might to persuade other fighters to join the cause a parade of tanks and other combat vehicles some of them originally supplied by america was filmed in eastern syria iraq insists it can defeat the jihadists as lucy catherine off explains that could prove to be

a tough task. to harvest formally known as isis this week to clear the completion of their islamic state this that up with a sham but now. one country there is no more or less. the iraqi army meanwhile is finding back in televised news briefings the government takes a victorious tone. come from the information that the isis leaders have started to fleet but on the ground we've found little evidence to back up those claims this used to be 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 that's how in part isis has been able to see it so much territory so quickly the finding 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 again from two thousand and three it's coming back so it's a disaster actually things are getting worse we want to understand first hand how this war was playing out there on our way right now to 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 village stands on a strategic road from mosul the next several of the provinces so they really wanted answers 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 having right now. at the base commanders take

us to an outcome. overlooking an area controlled by militants this is the very first defensive position against the isis militants just two kilometers that way every single day there's been sniper fire attempts by the hardest to enter this territory if they can push through the defensive position than 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. moving 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 don't want to be here is that once again it was apparent just how fluid a conflict this was the front lines change daily and no matter what military gains each day he may bring if the iraqi civilians who lose as the war rages on. or on t.v. cuckoo province iraq. still to come for you this hour as if blackwater's reputation

was a. new york times says that the notorious security contractor threatened to kill a state department official trying to expose his criminal behavior during the war in iraq. plus could. be nothing for a french we gave it a go and we'll tell you how he's a year long project to live locally. much more right after venture capital up next here on out. terrorism the nature of terrorism is becoming increasingly internationalized a local governments which may be the case in afghanistan very limited in their ability to curtail that increasingly globalized threat how do you really strike a balance here before. but not for the books he was for the good stuff if we all start for the books you are going to. hear. greg i don't believe that. i got

a good job of this because it's. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here not getting here in the right story the answer at once in terms of reason they don't want them around point during the race that we don't really know what's break the set. hello welcome to venture capital coming up we just don't spank in secrecy confines as well as a facebook abuse full of july. american tim cabbage gives us a peek at his a forever bulging. is the latest country to recognize the phenomenon

that is the the plan hey it has to figure out how to approach the budget car as seen with regulations so as it stands is not illegal here like in china way it's officially bound also as a vice president of the bank of russia said it's impossible to deny this instrument which might have a future although having said this that dulls still seem to be an air of caution involved to it because for its use on the black market for illegal drugs what happens so from all the calling i'm now joined by car as the expert been able to say do you think bitcoin has a future here in russia that. i actually think and read the cautious statements from the rational central bank more as an acknowledgement that monetary innovations are really a prerequisite for economic stability and resilience and then again bitcoin is only

one of the many that are on the mend to come and already had its positive experience with these occurrences particular in the transition after the fall of the soviet union so i guess this is really just a new phase of if you can all of this directly and of course but coyness the big marriage that's asking the regulators to make a public statement about this and paycheck to flee in this field but also this week we had a big didn't weigh getting thirty thousand. but he's pledged to go to the emerging markets with that he's going to going to india south america parts of asia as well do you think with the big oil and that's where it belongs well that depends how you define corner of course if you talk about the payment protocol of bitcoin this has huge benefits for the financial excess and find some spread in these markets we have traditional banking sectors really failing most of the population with our experience in developing countries particularly in kenya and south africa and brazil and it's really more of the credit comes with. interest free and

collaborative issues credit that helps local communities to get better cohen as a payment system is really of great advantages there that's also partly why we're at the university of payments for our foreign students because that is way easier than using traditional banking systems and now europe should update its laws to reflect the rise of digital current does that is what the head of a big coin startups. a successful u.s. . do you agree with this is it seen as broadening the a pail of bitcoin is now the time for more regulation. we're absolutely in favor of revising regulations in the light of these new currency that just came to to the playing field with bitcoin making the news so prominently but they have always been these conversations about the power of currency that we already know of in europe now we are engaging actively again with the regulators in our you partners to show the central banks and the f.c.a. and the friends that any kind of currency from time banking to local currencies to

business to business currencies and bitcoin has their right in an ecosystem offline and and actually delivered to their policies and to their communities on the ground directly and that has to be recognized in the legislation which is still written in a way as if money was only gold and it takes a quite a lot of effort to revise the terminology and understand what money actually means i can't landed binge of all thank you so much for talking to us from sunny london today radio plays a bad as we know with the basic line it's a working progress isn't as we always say. absolutely somehow everywhere isn't it has been a week of banking fines foes france's largest bank. agreed to pay a record nine point five billion dollars to u.s. prosecutors the settlement is over allegations that france's largest bank violated trade sanctions that were imposed against trade with sudan iran and cuba and then there was goldman sachs the u.s.

bank was fined eight hundred thousand dollars by a u.s. regulator for failing to ensure that trades in its don't feel took place at the best price outdoor pools are trading areas that keep prices private but they're still expected to offer the best prices available on the u.k.'s barclays could be next the british bank is accused of falsifying documents missed representing benefits to clients including pension funds in response to the finding of the case shares of the bank dropped five percent. fund in russia then banking data will soon no longer be private the tax man will now have the right to demand access to anyone's account details at any time you also have to inform the tax service about the opening and closing of savings accounts within three days though this procedure is aimed at preventing tax evasion so i'm joined

now by mark rubenstein from your bank here in moscow. the question is will this measure stop tax evasion harry must. move rather this moves there you definitely going to direction the. russian government now once this is already in there in their tax reform to go into there is a direction there there is that they're going to be one of the actions of tax authorities to their records not only. companies but of individuals as well basically this is copying the current legislation the state of the state in terms of the taxes in the in the developing countries where. in most developed economies tax authorities can gain access to the individual accounts i think. this will suddenly. stop a some tax evasion in russia i think it will certainly send another signal to tax

evaders and they will be forced to be sort of more inventive fifi fief i could say that but it differently and will have some impact in terms of tax collection do you think that it is invading people's privacy do you think it maybe is a step too far. always do it certainly it certainly is and that it is invading people's privacy. in my view is that access to bank accounts should be only giving into the taxes stories when there is a little brown said and investigation and. has been started he used to haitian terms of on tax evasion so it's got to be order. that would go low allow the tax of stories to get axes to people bank accounts i was just giving tax authorities

playing with her mission to gain access to any bank account of a change of egil i think that definitely he's an invasion of privacy and i came out quickly that that thank you very much indeed for your time today talking to us from some of the most guy this time and on to a different type of fine entirely the next time you fill ten to keep posts in this what you saw in part as a facebook page well don't move. it's because it's not nice because you can't end up with a hefty fine for doing this i first year old man from ireland has been forced to pay over two and a half thousand dollars for posting a piece on his ex girlfriends page i don't know he just the friend the ex in all honesty is normally better that way this guy is the culprit is it wasn't happening here russert the story of his post of russell is determined to solve the problem of missing post and is ready to pay over half a million dollars for

a brand new mobile. parcels on their journey that will also take eight the nearest post office fund the syrian government has signed an agreement with the russian companies to the oil gas the deal is to construct an irrigation project to fight drought in the northeast of syria and is worth over two hundred and a half million dollars russia from could get one of the projects of germany's winter's haul in argentina to do it would reportedly be part of the exchange of assets between the two gas mages i'm talking of gas problems the price of china will pay for russian gas was revealed this week the various reports point to the same twice it is paid by germany currently it was only four but china would pay much less than a country that has been buying russian gas now for forty years. time for ten well

even up to this week all last week it came up superstar all russian steel which is a great name for both the steel company and eighty's action movie or russian steel but the interesting thing is due to the crisis that's happening in ukraine a demand for steel increased and so they were up by three percent and i made about five hundred dollars if you could believe that so you're also one interesting thing about super star is they're not only a couple but they have their own dedicated hockey team not just some team that they put their our logo on the jersey but let's see who are going to invest. this week you don't think we need to really stack this death with a couple of companies that are less successful because we just keep winning. the ball and it is all of whom waste money went on to explain that all of it waste of money that means have to waste one hundred dollars on something fun the last time it was pizza and we're stuck with. for bad or good for ok well it's worked out well so far this is also not too bad to be stuck with that last time as well when you

had to waste money you didn't spend one hundred dollars on piece of pizza. over best of luck with the matter. color coordinated for a steel company this way we certainly are also working for us and good luck or thank you very much we will soon know we. u.s. citizens of course celebrate his independence day this wake on the cost of doing so well it was more than ever before because not only were the fireworks expanding but also food prices the cost of buff a favorite son talking about beef ice cream and even salad all sauce prices but beef all sixteen percent higher now this is due to a shrinking u.s. council has the drought in california as well has also boosted production costs if you all watching for america still matters to you and just how often and had

a great day and to everybody else as well i was eating wheat that is venture capital done and dusted have a great one to buy. when people talk about human rights violations usually volves some pro western protesters getting beaten up in response the 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 are well sadly the former motor city who are hundred fifty dollars or more behind on their water bills are getting their water shut off completely the detroit 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 it open and shut case of course everyone has the right to water especially detroit which is near a huge bodies of fresh water that other cities can 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 decent employment and a corruption free city government back when people in 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 pain. your friend posts a photo from a vacation you can't afford comment differently. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry keep tabs nora's. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook news feed.