sunday shoes are a new round of strikes in northern iraq in an effort to stop the advance of jihadists we report on how the same militants were actually empowered by washington's foreign policy. ukraine threatens to stop russian gas from running through its transit pipeline. international we look at why the statement comes as a warning signal for europe. and the ukrainian army evolve to take back the rest of cities in the east street by street brick by brick. he is on the border trying to get into ukraine but bombings and fighting is making it very difficult. in the war in gaza may provoke huge debate worldwide but israel is trying to silence the

voices of those who stand against its military ambitions. twenty four hour worldwide news international live in moscow from all of us here welcome to today's program. the u.s. has carried out new airstrikes on jihadist militants that have managed to occupied territories in northern parts of iraq now the attacks took place in the kurdish town of erbil right there where u.s. personnel happen to be based now fighter jets along with the unmanned drone of their convoy and dog hillary positions of the so-called islamic state militant group the attacks come off of president obama's pledge to protect u.s. personnel in iraq threatened by the wrath of the violence of islamists but as. many

believe it's washington that actually paved the way for the rise of jihadists in iraq were leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq three years on is america coming back so they are authorized to operations in iraq targeted airstrikes to protect our american personnel. and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians the target this time is the islamic state formally known as isis a terror organization which hasn't only been rampaging through the country with tremendous speed and extreme violence but is even proclaimed its own state stretching from iraq to syria so radical even al qaeda says it's too much brutally murdering anyone even muslims in its way destroying holy sites attacking religious minorities taking control of key infrastructure including would refineries and dams military hardware as well while certainly potentially more dangerous today than al qaeda there are very extremely radical group with increasing capabilities

capabilities which you are only slightly state to set its sights way beyond iraq and syria. and continue. and no i don't know how to put that to another but it wasn't just the two of you know that come. out of the not enough. of the cells on the model. because you can't buy shelob in the data that got sold enough on. the innkeeper will of dealing with them on its own baghdad that's to washington for help woodward to be slamming state or isis fighters come from we are where we are because we armed the syrian rebels we have been fighting alongside al-qaeda fighting alongside isis isis is now emboldened into countries but here's the anomaly we're with isis in syria we're on the same sort of the war so those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria that is the real contradiction to this whole policy but the state department has a different point of view we were asked by the iraqi government to come in and help

we may could not handle it themselves we had the capability to do so and we did so it's really to stop the advance of ice all turned towards or be ill because obviously it's a very strategically important city and also because we have a large number of americans there white house says that the limited u.s. military action in iraq could be stay. it was easy for the state tightens its grip on iraq according to the u.n. and around two hundred thousand new refugees have fled their homes what isis claims it's made more than a dozen military gains over the past five days alone you are just going off r t. the u.s. claims its involvement in iraq will be a limited one with obama promising not to send any more troops back now u.s. soldiers are first applied in iraq in march of two thousand and three and their numbers peaked four years later reaching a one hundred sixty six thousand the presence began to shrink when president obama announced a withdrawal in two thousand and nine but war correspondent eric margolis says

despite obama's promises the new campaign in iraq will soon demand more and more soldiers are told in the years strikes they're designed to scare the. sunni forces and to boost the morale of the sheer forces the problem is this is a classic situation we used to call in vietnam mission creep and to the u.s. has already sent in at least eight hundred combat troops special forces into iraq lot of americans in the kurdish area in erbil and the miserable performance of the iraqi army suggests that the u.s. will have to be more forcefully it wants to prop up the current government and in today's edition of breaking the set abby martin and i guess to try to find out whether a bombing iraq again will solve any of its problems is

a preview of what's coming your way. since the u.s. and its occupation of iraq the country has only fallen deeper into chaos the horrors continue as isis also referred to as the islamic state of iraq in the levant can ten years to seize more of the country obama has responded to the crisis with the military strikes but is bombing iraq for the third time the solution to stopping the rise of islamic extremism to help me break it down earlier i was trained by george galloway respect party member of u.k. parliament i first asked george if he worries that these military strikes could turn into a full blown military intervention for the third time. i would think so but of course there are many mysteries in this story wrapped up in many. mystery why it's taken so long for president obama to organize these airstrikes a mystery that makes many people in the arab world suspicious about who isis really

are who they are really working for. him it's a bit later in the program for now though the ukrainian army says it's preparing to take. yet skin the east street by street and building by building two cities are regional capitals and centers of anti-government resistance son for that they are paying heavily at least four people were killed in the very latest attack in the guns now the army shelling has actually left very much of the city destroyed locals and. well plotting on amount of areas that have been struck by such bombings and let's bring up the pictures for you here on r.t. international ultimately it's been a days of heavy bombardment and you can see the map more or less obliterated of a half a million people who used to live there almost half of now left. and often are reporting from the russia ukraine border by thousands are trying to escape the war

zone. it's the final countdown for the games indiana unions are now eastern ukraine remains under the control of and together and forces the challenger in this intense moment were trying to constitute a cover grevilleas to come the next checkpoint at the russian ukrainian border the line of cars and people stretches for kilometers and almost nobody is willing to cross into ukraine once you are through here we're in the empty terror here ration zone where no one can guarantee your safety few hours research for a driver to take a step towards the guns with little success than we met and the tolly he's sixty three years old an ace from the guns almost every day he travels to russia and then betty clayton with a mission. when people escaped from the attacks they took very little with that that's why many of the refugees don't even have documents when they arrive in

a new delhi yes there's a library on the way mr recently people have started to ask him to bring them to claims they've lost hope of a quick and to the crisis. and the two he says sometimes he arrives too late and the house he has been sent to has either been looted or dies in ruins we ask him to take us along on one of his salvage treats but he says he hasn't been able to get across the border for two days himself the reporter go on you don't know if you will be shot at or not when you're driving through the guards there is an area the army uses to attack the city by him if they're surrounded but they keep attacking the city. so instead we try to get to deniece we ask an anti government fighter with lies ahead for alexander tells us his small town which lies between the seats and the border has seen some of the most intense shelling in the area he's driving

back there and he had meets the rocky tree six. i think they don't want to let their initial g.'s cross the russian border which is why they are shooting at the road they're also trying to cut us off from humanitarian aid food and water the moment it's not xander politely refuses to take us with him we take his number and agree to keep in touch to check on him and the route once he reaches his destination the wrong several times but no one is answering we've notion r t on the russian ukrainian border. and playing an active role in kiev scrapped out of the east is the national guard a private funded special group that largely consists of ultranationalists this video here showing one of the units going on which are what they call the separatists you can see the soldiers storming the house they end up to tending a man who's ultimately beaten they put a bag over his head and then throw him in the back of a car. the national guard is believed to be behind the disappearance of a real novelty photo journalist andre stan and went missing in eastern ukraine four

days ago is reportedly now being held captive by the agency has demanded stand in is released a hash tag free andrew has been set up on twitter to help him clyde it was just two weeks ago a british correspondent who occasionally works for r.t. was also detained he says he was beaten and tortured for three days before being deported. by ukraine could cut the transit of russian gas to europe here believes it will help contribute to the pressure on moscow brought about by the e.u. sanctions was artie's a report say wouldn't just be russia that ends up getting hurt. obviously it will affect russia's shipments to a euro but it will should look at the implications this situation will have on russia's european partners especially of the countries that are in the center in the east and in the south of europe some of them are getting as much as almost hundred percent of their gas supply from russia via ukraine and of course with all

those countries have already found themselves out in the cold literally during the so-called gas wars between russia and ukraine some years back and they could be looking for another repetition of that experience if indeed ukraine does go through with its promise of sanctions and we may assume that ukraine wants to punish russia by posing these sanctions but as a result what we're looking at really is ukraine punishing its european neighbors and political analyst my tires dawn felt he believes ukraine's announcement is likely to certainly raise some eyebrows among its european partners. i seeing that this proposal will never gets reality since the pressure from brussels by commission and other actors from the national states but furthermore it shows that the ukrainian government is not willing to cooperate at all and sees only their own interest after hearing this is for all the states in southeast europe like slovenia hungary serbia and bulgaria to lobbying much more to get

a very secure supply of gas and if you create is not willing to guarantee it there will be other options. well one of those options which could be used to pump russian gas into europe bypassing ukraine is the south stream pipeline now the construction of the pipe is stalling under the pressure of e.u. lawmakers who were arguing it doesn't comply with certain regulations it's by south european nations involved say they are ready to adopt the necessary laws in order to finish the construction or are back in just a couple of minutes here on r.t. international the rest of your top world headlines just a sec. in fish farms waters do you have a problem a because. i saw it spread all over norway is the most toxic food you have in the whole world prophet drowns out an official inquiry furthermore tells restrictions.

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killing them easy we were serve the right to kill any person anywhere any time you. make it look you can but they can't throw them out so well that makes these things are. politicians. a new kind of power this technology savvy is very tempting. thanks for sharing some of your saturday morning with us here on r t international oil giants from russia and america set to begin the joint project to a spall the arctic. will be using a giant rig to drill the first well in a program that will be rough. most northerly platform are covered with us for most

of the year see whether two will be operating as up to three hundred fifty meters deep but underneath all of that is an estimated six billion tons of extractable oil belongs to the west siberia basin which already provides russia with most of its oil and gas and it keith boy field of the center for policy studies he thinks that while despite the sanctions this has potential to become a successful example of international cooperation this particular project they've been working on it for several years. mobile have already invested many many millions of dollars they could do with the oil and they're going ahead the sanctions do not apply to this particular project because the deal was already signed that russian state oil company has a twenty percent investment by b p or mobil exxon are really looking to find new

sources of hydrocarbons so they really need this find and they've already invested a considerable amount of money so they'd have to write that off if things didn't go ahead so i think in that respect prospects are relatively optimistic. a quick look at what would lined up for you online this hour learn how cancer patients in the u.k. are losing the battle for life while drugs producers and hospitals lock horns over medicine purchase this. last internet bullying is a sad trend among today's teens but apparently one youngster has found a way to fight back what's in her toolbox dot com. right to see. her straight. and i think you're.

on our reporters. today and. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international israel has renewed attacks on gaza after the fragile cease fire with hamas crumbled but there's another battle tell of even fighting and this time it's actually inside its own borders aimed against those daring enough to speak out against the offensive paula silly of reports the what is going gaza is becoming a hash tag hideki the air war in the skies has been joined by the hot a war online with almost two thousand casualties across the border it's no wonder maybe i would be sweeties or rebelling in support of the gaza brave men but sometimes there's a price to pay as russia no space in the most russia helped organize demonstrations

against the israeli army and posted online about what he and others call the i.d.f. massacres in gaza the police investigated me several times for my political activity especially during the war period and also i received threats through the phone through facebook. by right wing callers who work for things like. killing and things like that several israeli mayors have suspended arab workers for posting support for gaza's fighters online some israeli universities hospitals and even mobile phone companies have followed suit one student who wore a t. shirt with the word palestine and a cafe or a traditional palestinian scarf now faces possible expulsion they are expressing their opinion it might be in a sarcastic way but it doesn't have any incitement to violence it doesn't have an incitement for its isn't it doesn't call for any act of faith violence and

therefore legally speaking it is part of the speech that should be given the protection of the constitutional protection arab students were too frightened to speak to us on camera but what they would say is that the university had completely ignored posts calling for the death the reality shows us not only now but also before that when it gets to the freedom of expression of the arabs it is easily more easily distracted deals with such cases as the head of a worker's rights organization he's now contacted almost daily baraboo poor yes we've been fired or suspended for speaking out against israel's operation in gaza even those who condemn the racism of far right wing israelis face punishment sadly we have been in this before the first second intifada of a situation of love like this time it's much more wider. your fear that sort of

hates the situation of really going to the bad. i'm not feeling the government is doing anything for a country that claims to be the only democracy in the region it's a serious charge in today's world that the fight for public opinion is arguably as important if not more than what goes on on the battlefield as critics of his. operation in gaza continue to climb both in and outside the country tel aviv will need to find a more efficient weapon than just merely trying to silence her detractors. tel aviv and pakistan opens up the world update where supporters of an anti government cleric of clash with police in several cities one person killed in the violence several arrested. returned to pakistan in june and valley to stage mass protests to topple the government all the while accusing it of deep corruption in southern yemen where al-qaeda militants have executed at least fifteen soldiers

when is to say their bus was near the town of show and according to unconfirmed reports their bodies beheaded earlier this week al qaeda claimed responsibility for a number of attacks on the army in the south and southeast of yemen claiming the lives of twenty soldiers. so four thousand libyans protesting in tripoli in misrata against the official handover of power to the country's newly elected government the violence has sharpened libya's political divisions pro-government forces clashed with groups of former rebels and is in the midst meanwhile the newly inaugurated parliament has threatened to act against warring militias who don't abide by its call for an immediate cease fire the struggle for power began immediately after the overthrow of the regime of moammar gadhafi in twenty eleven. well they are one of nature's most spectacular displays a great ox of light freezing with vast energy and power and when

a storm comes they can strike anytime anywhere but as our. reports a huge facility right outside moscow brings some control to the seemingly uncontrollable. for thousands of years piercing the sky with the force of lightning was an owner thought to belong to the gods. while i'm on a mission to learn how mankind acquired the divine powers an alarm to shoot thunderbolts and this brought me deep into a forest in the moscow region it was here the might of soviet engineering was able to turn more than three hundred capacitors and three hundred tons of wires and isolating material into a monstrous fifty metre high thunderbolt maker. but what was it for. we use a machine to test the impact of lightning on things like a craft if a plane is struck by a thunderbolt it could cause a disaster here we're testing models to make sure that if that happens the planes

are properly protected. the complex may be over thirty years old but when russia's newest serial production airliner the super super jet was being put together its designers came here to put a scale model through its paces and almost all watch and aircraft have been through the same tests now that will tell of his skills will show this mortal is exactly fifty times smaller than the original ill eighty six aircraft we put it here and checked which areas are hit the most it takes a few thousand lightning strikes to determine exactly where then we give the designers advice on where to place the vital equipment it's capable of creating bolts up to two hundred meters in length a split seconds output is enough to power moscow twice over no surprise then that the home of manmade lightning has become a magnet for fans and tourists and i was one of the luckiest. it's finally dark outside and now it's only

a matter for all of us with. people who work here tell me it's not just about testing model planes trains or buildings thunderstorms remain to this day one of the most unexplored phenomena in physics there's still a mountain of discoveries to be made by vladimir and his colleagues and no matter how old to this day will during tangle of generators is it will always have the wow factor. ilya patrolling cocoa r.t.e. . thanks for being with us on the weekend here are not the international just a moment on the way secret wars on secret drones a special report on what you'd probably rather not know about thanks for watching.

during a press briefing president barack obama said something very unusual and used a certain term you'll almost never hear from a government bureaucrat he told the audience that in the immediate aftermath of nine eleven we america did some things that were wrong we did a whole lot of things that were right but we tortured some folks here it is a rare thing to hear someone in the white house admit to torturing people after nine eleven but the question is why did he say this now please allow me to suspect first obama is the teleprompter master since he loves to read off a screen i doubt this was some sort of slip up this was probably done consciously. but why well it always helps if you look good by condemning the moral failings of previous presidents liberals and democrats love to hate bush so this could be subs

kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like obama condemns torture sound nice and drown out the fact that he sure approves of shelling civilians in eastern ukraine if obama really does feel that the post nine eleven torture was a shameful part of american history they've as the leader of the executive branch of the nation he could do a lot to punish those who did the torture then and prevent it from happening again in the future but if i do obama this is all just a bunch of sweet talk but that's just my opinion. as f. scott fitzgerald might have said free trade agreements are a racket like the movies and the brokerage business you cannot be honest with admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus the zero .

the slippery slope doesn't only concern the use made of these machines. technological evolutions give these weapons more and more sophisticated capabilities. to see ram is a cannon that destroys missiles while they're flying. it is fully automated and decides to shoot by itself. we can turn the machine on we can turn the machine off while the machine is operating we can stop it but when you have a missile coming in your reaction time is what i call mid curse for.