the ukrainian army is to take back the rest of cities in the east street by street brick by brick and he is on the border trying to get into ukraine but the fighting is making it very dangerous. and ukraine stopped russian gas from running through its transit pipeline. we look at why the state has a warning signal for europe. u.s. unleashes a new round of airstrikes 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. and the mayor provoked huge debate worldwide but

israel is trying to silence the voices of those who stand against. a very well welcome to you from all of us here at the international. headlines the ukrainian army has now said that is preparing to take on yet skin the east street by street building by building in fact that the two cities are regional capitals and centers of anti-government resistance they are paying a very heavy price at least four people killed in just the latest attack in lugansk now the shelling has left much of the city absolutely destroyed in fact locals. areas struck by the bombing campaigns we have them out for you here. or national

the red spots show well decimation now of five hundred thousand people who used to live there almost half have now left riff and often are reporting from the russia ukraine border with thousands of. to escape the war zone. it's the final countdown for the gun east and demands warnings for now eastern ukraine remains under the control of and together and forces the challenge in the region is intensifying we tried to cross the border to cover wherever it is to come the next checkpoint of 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 terribly ration zone where no one can guarantee your safety for hours research for a driver to take us towards the guns with little success then 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 back to equate with a mission. when people escape from the attacks they take very little with that that's why many of the refugees don't even have documents when they arrive in a new place so i bring them what they need. recently people have started to ask him to bring their wing to close 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 lies 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 report of the world you don't know if you'll be shot at or not when you're driving through the ganske there is an area the army uses to attack the city 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 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 rock he traced. i think they don't want to let their if you cross the russian border which is why they are shooting at the roads they're also trying to cut us off from humanitarian aid food and water alexander 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 notional r.t. on the russian ukrainian border and playing an active role in kiev crackdown in the east is the national guard a privately funded special group that largely consists of ultra nationalists this video shows one of their units going on a witch hunt for what they call separatists you can see them storming the house

they detain that man there they beat him up they put a bag over his head and throw it in the back of a car. and canada is now sending four and a half million dollars worth of non-lethal aid to ukraine a plane loaded with helmets bulletproof vests and sleeping bags has landed in the airport in kiev and the canadian prime minister said it's intended for troops fighting in the east of the country and is in cooperation with nato allies sending similar packages. or the latest development is this that ukraine could now cut off the transit of russian gas to europe kiev believes that will help contribute to the pressure on moscow brought about by the e.u. sanctions the result is a ridiculous go reports it wouldn't just be russia that ends up getting hurt. obviously it will affect russia 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 one

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 here in 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 imposing these sanctions but as a result what we're looking at really is ukraine punishing its european neighbors. right now political analyst matthias dorn felt he believes ukraine's announcement is likely to raise eyebrows among its european partners. i see 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 austria.

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 these options which could be used to pump russian gas into europe bypassing ukraine is called the south stream project right now or for the meantime the construction of the pipe is actually stalling under the pressure of various e.u. lawmakers they are there arguing it doesn't comply with some regulations despite that south european nations involved say they are ready to adopt the necessary laws in order to finish the construction. it's already international for you thanks for joining us the u.s. has carried out new airstrikes on jihadist militants that have managed to occupy large areas in northern and northwestern iraq now the u.s. military has released video of the strikes that targeted the artillery positions of the so-called islamic state militant group the attacks come after president obama's

pledge to protect u.s. personnel in iraq threatened by the rapid advance of the islamists but going off the reports many believe it's washington that ultimately pave the way for the rise of the jihadists that. 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 call the sites attacking religious minorities taking control of key infrastructure including oil refineries

and dams military hardware as well while certainly potentially more dangerous today than al-qaeda they 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 control. and no i don't doubt that to another but it wasn't by. the way you know that can. not and of. itself on the model. because you can't buy shell. enough i'd say that the innkeeper will of dealing with them on its own baghdad that's to washington for help but where did the 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 in two countries but here's the anomaly we're with isis in syria we're on the same side 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 the white house says that the limited u.s. military action in iraq could be extended but while it deliberates the slammin state tightens its grip on iraq according to the un and around two hundred thousand new refugees have fled their homes while isis claims it's made more than a dozen military gains over the past five days alone you are just going off r t. and journalist john white he believes to help the iraqi people the u.s. will be better off reviewing its relations with the regional allies that support the jihad instead of getting involved militarily entire focus over u.s. troop western foreign policy in the region has been to isolate syria icily iran in both israel and snowballing back in their feces so if you're interested in alleviating the file as reaching across the middle east you have to understand that

the divide in the region right now is not between sunni and shia it's not between rich woman on this one it's between sixty and unknown c.t.d. and so the rule must be to isolate known it's a kenyan forces to bolster non-state pedia fortunes so they have to also look at their relationship with the so d. or e. b. and i could see that khatami's the kuwaitis we go for states who are for main thing in funding this chaos in the region and have been for quite a number of years now. now the u.s. says its involvement in iraq will be a limited one with obama promising not to send more troops back that u.s. soldiers were first a ploy in iraq in march of two thousand and three numbers peaked four years later reaching one hundred and sixty six thousand the presence began to shrink when president barack 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. told in the years strikes they're designed to scare the.

sunni forces and to boost the morale of the shia forces the problem is this is a classic situation we school in vietnam mission creep and so the us is that already sent in at least eight hundred combat troops special forces into iraq or 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 the world's largest oil joining forces for arctic exploration coming up here on r.t. international but also an exxon mobile this set to drilled russia's northern most well and a multi-billion dollar deal unaffected by the souring relations between moscow and

washington. they have to decide where their funds are going to go so some of it's going to textbooks and to tuition that leaves less money for people to put food on the tables and colleges across america setting up food banks to help hungry cash strapped students details on that in just a second. clean more zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is messy what do you do if they're innocent killing them easy we reserve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. they can do that in the gym but they come to drone to muslims makes these things

are very dangerous and politicians get a new kind of power via this technology that is very tempting. as f. scott fitzgerald might have said free trade agreements are a racket like the movies and the brokerage business you cannot be honest without admitting that it's constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus the zero . amount he martin the stories we cover here are not going here in iraq some are fixed or at the extreme at like the same time there's a reason they don't want to do now that are important that we should be completely out now let's break the set. there's a media legal so we leave the media. by the seat cushions secure the play you call

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to notice. things is changing. so picture. from around the. globe. to me. good afternoon from moscow oil giants from russia and america are set to begin a joint project to explore the arctic. and exxon mobil will be using a giant rig to drill the first well in a program that actually be russia's most northerly platform they're covered with thick ice for most of the year the sea where the two will be operating is up to three hundred fifty meters deep and underneath all of that is an estimated six billion tons of extractable oil now belongs to the west siberia province which

already provides russia with most of its oil and gas we spoke to a key boy field of the site of a policy studies think tank he believes that despite sanctions this actually has potential to become a successful example of international cooperation. this particular project they've been working on it for several years some mobility already invested many many millions of dollars they could do with the oil and they're going to have the sanctions do not apply to this particular project because the deal was already signed a russian state oil company has a twenty percent investment by. spin mode bill exxon are really looking to buy new sources of hydrocarbons so they really need this and they've already invested a considerable amount of money so they'd have to write that off if things didn't go

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thanks for joining us at least five palestinians are reportedly being killed in gaza on saturday a day after the fragile cease fire with hamas crumbled though there's another battle tell of eva's fighting this time it's actually inside its own borders aimed against those daring to speak out against tel of eve's offensive as artie's policy . the war going gaza is becoming a hash tag headache the air war in the skies has been joined by the hot air war online with almost two thousand casualties across the border it's no wonder many arab israelis are rebelling in support of the gaza braverman but sometimes there's a price to pay as russians are treating the most roger helped organize demonstrations against the israeli army and posted online about what he and others call the i.d.f. massacres in gaza police investigated me several times for my political activity especially during the war period and also i received

through the phone through facebook by right wing callers who were for things like. killing and things like that several israeli mayors have suspended our bookers 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 near 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 protection the constitutional air 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 districted deals with such cases as the head of a worker's rights organization he's now contacted almost daily baraboo police who've been fired. 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 right before the second intifada of a situation of like this time where it's much more wider. and 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 the fight for public opinion is arguably as

important if not more than what goes on on the battlefield as critics of israel's 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 poilus here r t tel aviv welled up a time to pakistan we go where supporters of an anti government cleric of clashed with police in several cities one person was killed in the violence several more arrested a kind of a based attack here a card that he returned to pakistan in june vowing to stage mass protests to topple the government accusing it of rampant corruption. and in southern yemen al qaeda militants have executed at least fifteen soldiers witnesses say their bus was ambushed near the town of according to unconfirmed reports their bodies were beheaded earlier this week al qaeda claimed responsibility for a number of attacks on the army in the south and southeast of yemen that claimed

the lives of at least twenty soldiers. several thousand libyans protesting in tripoli benghazi and misratah against the official handover of power to the country's newly elected government the violence has sharpened libya's political divisions as pro-government forces clashed with groups of former rebels and islamists meanwhile the newly inaugurated parliament has threatened to act against two 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 two thousand and eleven. skyrocketing tuition fees in america are now forcing many students to struggle for any food for thought so some universities are now setting up soup kitchens to make sure their pupils can make it through the day is out season to start. college enter a world of possibilities. well crippling student debt after leaving these doors is

one pandemic that's already well established in the u.s. what's not often talked about is another dangerous trend college student hunger i've often seen students in my classes you know eating chips or something like that and my first reaction is oh it's a little snack but very often that could be lunch that summer time so most colleges around america are largely deserted but even so in schools like this one preparations are well underway to feed those in need when they come back in september according to the college and university food bank alliance there are about one hundred twenty food pantries at higher education institutions throughout the u.s. dozens more are in the process of being set up like here at nassau community college in new york's long island they're choosing to do something to help themselves and to improve their lot in life by going to school they have to decide where their funds are going to go so some of it's going to textbooks into tuition that leaves less money for people to put food on their tables the food pantry boom is only beginning as prices for education skyrocket having grown by five hundred

forty percent since the eighty's according to the u.s. department of labor so people are coming here in the not even way. they can barely afford the tuition nineteen year old stacy abby is a originally from an upper middle class family in india living below the poverty line since moving to america it's a negative mentality sometimes when people say oh you're coming to a country and you're taking all the lead and all the food stamps we don't use any of that as my family is scared they were going to get stacey says there are many more students like her most of them she says keep their hunger to themselves it's kind of embarrassing to go and tell that to people when you see that other people have it and you don't. but i've seen a lot of students who are hungry and they. they say a muffin or something and you know. did you what did you have today. is what they told me in that space that in this community of twenty three thousand people the

pantry is not only meant for students but also college staff who are in need the plight of college students as part of a broader struggle in america where food security is a problem while policies to keep up with those in need often ignore reality when you listen to people in congress talking about yeah we'll cut food stamps by fifteen dollars a month they should well they should try to feed their families on food stamps on a.f.d.c. and see what a fifteen dollar cut would do well politicians narrow in on cutting costs rather than seeing the bigger picture it's volunteers like stacey along with two other students and faculty that are trying to help however they can by building and running what is for now a small space you don't have to be scared you don't have to be hungry there's someone out there who cares that they hope will make a real difference and archie long island new york. and some breaking news reaching us here at r.t. international live pictures right now as

a clear up operation has started on central square the city your stories have made another attempt to rid my band of ten sun barricades but protesters are burning yet more tires apparently angry at the decision again you're looking at live pictures right here from central kiev the tense of being on my down since november last year when the anti-government protests first erupted. we're back with more on that breaking news in half an hour's time of the rest of your world headlines for this saturday on arts and international at the next top of the hour for now though max keiser takes.

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 spec 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 some kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like obama condemns torture sounds 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 that 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. clean zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of warmongering politicians. capturing people is this see what he did there and this is killing them easy we reserve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. they can do that in the city but they can. that's what makes these things are very . politicians. new kind of power vs.