as the ukrainian army drops more bombs on eastern ukraine people are forced to bury loved ones in their backyards cut off from cemeteries. islamic state militant step up their recruitment campaign with young muslims from across the globe joining the extremists we report on the scale and the threats of the jihadist movement. the u.k. and france from a growing border rift as a french port town is accused of becoming a refueling stop for thousands of illegal migrants hoping to get to britain. watching r t international coming to you live from moscow and eleven am in the

russian capital and it's good to have you with us. don yet skin eastern ukraine has enjoyed another twenty four hours of heavy shelling from the ukrainian army rocket launchers have once again ripped entire neighborhoods apart at least two locals have been killed the hospital also came under fire in the center of town yet two buildings were damaged you can see shattered glass everywhere locals say the horse was always fired out from a short distance some patients were transported to nearby hospitals others were moved to the basement. to. dismiss it just moves the others in the road. but. only. this is a good. the thousands of citizens of eastern ukraine shelling and bombing has become an every day gruesome reality people now are learning to cope with their families and friends falling victim to care of themselves as the story this is

a place where the living among the did and where they did are being buried among the living. under this mound of dirty lies the love of puddles life his wife media where. we have a. puzzle takes me to the place with million was killed it's only a street away she was walking home when the missile hit. and i was. in the. young. have all made through ten years ago he says god smiled down on him that day really ruined the. the streets quiet

except for a few children who braved the sunshine in between shelling residents hunkered down in sailors as mortar and artillery fire rains down telephones are broken mobile phones almost never work and shops are boarded up and running looting the mood for anything that a little bit of the credit goes to the prevailing sway with elian. but also don't. listen to trees about five kilometers away from the town of shaft tosk it's a straight road to get there but it's a very difficult to take when you're coming under shelling. if gainey is a volunteer grave digger he says one hundred fifty people have died in the past three weeks that seven a day many of whom never make it here. for most. of us for work of them are but the bodies are piling up and like pavel residents

are dazed in shock he gives us his daughter's phone number and asks if we will call her with no access to the outside world he hasn't told her her mother is did as the ukrainian army closes in terrified residents prepared to wait it out surrounded by the did poorly see r.t. shuttles eastern ukraine with war waging in the cranium president petro poroshenko is vowing to boost military spending by three billion dollars but where will that money come from a leading economists here is finances are in tatters and here's why on the surface things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted a seventeen billion dollars loan but it came with conditions most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio should be no higher than sixty percent it's now predicted to reach eighty seven percent in just four years time economic shrinkage in july is six and

a half percent last year it was only one point three percent on top of that ukraine owes nine billion dollars in various debt payments this year this when its currency as a an all time low economist jeffrey summers explains why he believes it's a catastrophe. we have this ever shrinking g.d.p. we have the loss of crimea horse the loss of production in the donbass region and the cost of the civil war itself so it's really quite a catastrophe and i would say that the i.m.f. is regarding the ability of ukraine to pay bondholders or itself. not only is the country's g.d.p. falling but its energy bill was increasing and this represents not only a worsening of its balance of payments position but also makes ukrainian industry you know what little there is left function and even less competitive even higher energy costs moreover we have the situation or it has to pay for expensive gas with a declining currency as. well the conflict has wrecked the heartland of ukraine's

economy they don't yet that's where the country's main plants and factories are based many of them have either been badly damaged or closed because it's too dangerous to walk in a war zone much of the regional infrastructure has also been destroyed exports from global financial markets patrick says no one would want to invest in ukraine's economy right now. the situation in ukraine is that obviously it's incredibly difficult when you've had some sort of an insurrection on the streets a revolution lots of all he evil because that impacts on the economy and therefore it's incredibly difficult to get your statistics absolutely precise in such a time it's really a tragedy for the people of ukraine and what we see at the moment is in a colony that is all the verge of a death spiral we've all the asli see all of the sorts of terrible warfare that are happening within the borders of the country that's a tragedy because actually it's the eastern corner of the country are run were the industry is that really adds to the overall g.d.p.

what's the news we hear out of ukraine all the time fighting warfare problems who's going to invest in the back of up nobody who's going to invest in a column a where you don't have a clear rule of law where you cannot appreciably believe that your asset. it will not be in some way squandered taken away through bribery or indeed all right still nobody. kiev remained silent over the whereabouts of missing russian photo corresponds down to a stand in that's despite ukraine's top human rights official expecting to be briefed on the case over the weekend stan and disappeared in ukraine three weeks ago there's a global movement calling for his release with argentina the latest country to join the campaign various rights groups and activists have launched an online appeal to kiev to do everything they possibly can to find him and we are posting all the latest information about standing on our website at r.t. dot com the.

islamic state militants waging war in iraq and syria have managed to carry out a successful global recruitment campaign as according to the latest report from a syrian human rights watchdog last month more than six thousand men join the jihadists some of them from western nations and it's not just adults an extremist don't mind having young other young fight for them too like this thirteen year old belgian boy earlier this year he traveled to syria with his older brother to fight alongside the radicals canada has also become one of the recruitment centers for the islamic state militants that's according to a local in man who claims the islamists infiltrating universities and mosques across the country. you have the isis. you know recruitment universe you are has been very successful and they have very successfully recruited comediennes europeans americans i says if. their computer. for their profit into the game has to be in writing get their number you know hundred thousands of people from best in rural who are fighting to be an island

garrido was created in a grammy. and you can see you know oh we're going to destruction and cross and he's the get it all around or similarly isis is worse. and they are not going to stay just in sudan there are going to come every really were. violent behavior and they are not going to stay in syria and iran believe me. and other news british politicians have lashed out at french plans to set up a refugee center the could help thousands of migrants get to the u.k. they say would act as a magnet attracting even more desperate people trying to enter britain through the french port city of cali where the u.k. has a border checkpoint authorities there say the city is already overrun by illegal immigrants takes a closer look at the growing rift. in the french quarter galle

this has become a familiar sight destitute migrants the majority from east africa and the middle east have made the town that temporary home these makeshift tents on an industrial wasteland have been nicknamed the jungle. i had never seen in my life you see i come from the war to produce for example in there for a life is a bit of gum disease estimates put the number of migrants here in cali over one and the hoff thousand of these men women and children have been queuing up for the past two hours to get some food provided for them by a volunteer organization and for many of them this is the only meal they are going to get to eat all day the majority of the people we speak to tell us their aim is to make the journey across the english channel it's believed hundreds try to get to the u.k. illegally each week stowed away in the lorries desperate to go to england you know

they really that's what they want they don't want to stay here it's not a very nice place to stay and even if they ask for asylum many stay on the street for weeks or months before the have logic cali's mare says the town is so besieged by refugees that locals fear for their safety and investors pulling out of the area so frustrated as natasha bouchard that she said she's willing to buy ferry tickets to send all the migrants over to britain she's even called for the u.k.'s border to be moved from its current location in the cali ferry terminal over to the port of dover. there is only one place in the world where countries borders are not physically located in their own country and those here in cali clearly doesn't work and we are hostages of the decisions and the policies of the british government i'm demanding that the border is not back to its own can. treat britain's borders should be in do work in the united kingdom it's not our job to control britain's

borders kelly come to coo and they don't care how bad things are for us the u.k. government needs to start doing its job and not leaving it up to us to do to here in france they are. just twenty miles across the channel here in dover the u.k. hasn't exactly got its arms wide open the british government is so concerned over the migrants desperate attempts to make it to britain in deniz and makeshift vessels that a special fleet of border force boats has been assigned to patrol this coastline as for the suggestion to move the u.k.'s borders away from france the u.k. government has told us it's not in their plans the locals in dover tell us that they've already had enough to service so many that we can tally is from just responsibility if they reaching their shores and buildings then they should

maintain a responsibility golden from the flood house was just simply is that it's a problem that no one wants to have isn't it back in cali dinner time is while they hear these men and women's lives are taken up by simple questions like where the next meal will come from or how they can get a shower while the authorities in france and britain continue to wash their hands of them. kalai and over. well the migrant situation in cali is growing increasingly was in the first six months of this yeah over seven thousand an eagle immigrants were arrested that was more than double the previous year and coming off a nazi international moments of the weeks of rage the u.s. town of ferguson prepares to pay its final respects to a teenager shot dead by police. the story of one man who made his dreams fly. story coming up after a short break. but

those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition who will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. as russia in the west continue to drift apart into a new cold war russia's worldview of international politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also has its own red lines.

necessity is the mother of invention is the saying go and for one russian man that means living the high life in a homemade plane artie's made in a question of a report on how his dreams took flight. sir gay and his eight year old son took a flight to their holiday destination there'd be nothing exceptional about that word not for one thing you will get little i made it plain we flew in myself i know every single tiny part of it and of course it gives me great comfort i feel confident about. his spend over five years building and from scratch using mostly fiberglass plastic old machinery parts and has inexhaustible

a few c.d.'s from sarah ganim has sonny kita spent a total of twenty three hours in the sky traveling from the heart of siberia to the coast of the black sea. i was born in a very remote area in a small village there were no roads there it was like living on an island once my father told me that when i grow up i would be able to build some type of cross-country vehicle that would get me anywhere i ever once it was i was always dreaming about it but his real passion for airplanes started back in ninety seven when russia introduced a new law that allows anyone to have a private plane for personal use so we didn't use a list but i had to overcome a number of challenges because it is a self made aircraft i had to obtain a special certification for the plane aviation experts had to acknowledge it is safe to operate so now i am a legal user of the flying space but the shaft cheek families and bishan reaches

even further. one day we took a globe and decided we wanted to go to the equator if you draw a straight line from the city of soo good to the equator you get to the most leaves you this is the place we now dream of visiting together with my son there's only one thing standing in their way the himalayas sergei sas he needs to obviate the engine to increase the flying out and as we've come to learn for him not even the sky's the limit. now from on to online and holocaust survivors lash out at israel for the ongoing military operation in gaza get the full story on our website. also there if you haven't once you are in town it's your lucky day one is officer in canada at a bargain price the full story of. her

street. and i would think that your. reporters. michael brown the teenager shot dead over two weeks ago by police in the u.s. town of ferguson will be buried today what started as a local protest over the shooting spots a wave of rallies brutally suppressed by police which only increased public anger or an important i reports in a community in mourning after weeks of violence. on what would have been his first day at university michael will instead be laid to rest in the coming hours an estimated five thousand five thousand people are expected to turn out first funeral including three officials from the white house on august ninth the on teenagers

were shot and killed by white officer down we'll sit and after that as the world has learned violence and police clashes with peaceful protesters kind of erupted in ferguson is the last or minute two weeks the past few days we have seen somewhat of a calm take for a purpose to see her side with the rest of us taking place but when it got very tense we saw the bullets and tear gas and flash raids thrown at night that was a state turning to the streets calling for accountability and justice for the killing of michael brown that one sunday several events took place see the wizard works including the one behind me where hundreds have gathered holding candles and and holding a mass one corner of michael brown and his family speaking to a crowd of hundreds are sunday michael moore's law there leading the community saying that he's hoping for a day. and peace for the finally there is a some reporting from st louis where you know portland there are tape to more news

now from around the world on three inmates have reportedly been beheaded in a prison watch in brazil and the seven hundred prisoners are reported to be involved in the uprising which is damaged much of the penitentiary the inmates took at least two guards hostage dissatisfied about how the prison is controlled as well as about food and hi jean. the strongest quake in twenty five years to hit california has injured over one hundred twenty people six of them seriously a state of emergency has been declared after the strong earthquake at the san francisco bay area has been significant damage to buildings only seventy thousand homes have been left without power. after more than a month of fighting islam is militias claim to have taken control of tripoli international airport in libya during the raid at least ten people who were killed and dozens wounded the fire has largely destroyed the airport ripley residents say that identified warplanes also attack targets in the capital.

and opposition candidate has won the presidential election in the caucuses republic of abkhazia claiming more than half of the vote the country's new leader will have to deal with a legacy of years of rampant corruption iraq as they have reports. sunday's election an apology i went through the route of the protest but unlike those of the arab spring some of the color revolutions the protests here did not snowball into vicious marlon's against the odds the president gave up his near actually our paving the way to an early vote. out of mcchrystal says no people have finally realized that we need changes as you've done it and we want the people to have work and to feel that they're living in a free country the race quickly boiled down to two candidates on the one side there is the man who championed the change and led the protest on the other a loyal follower of the ousted president who served as minister of security. both promise a new age for piety and then to mass poverty pandemic corruption and government

excess birth playing exactly on the citizens designed officials told us they did all they could to allow voters to have their say the elections unfolded in a calm atmosphere we did everything what we could that all that because people can company hold despite the very small budget almost one hundred international observers from twenty four countries were here joined by the locals we ran into the mid various polling stations they went about their duties and asked what they thought that this poll was when you're with me the voting has gone really well the election is fair open and has been held in accordance with the nation's laws. choose they will mark six years since surprise you have received its first international independence recognition there was a believe that from that day on life would change for the better unfortunately that didn't happen but the hope is now back why because they have. a positive.

finding in the u.k. dog and as i said to be killing their pets with kindness with britain's canines now some of the fattest in the world but as all things on the farm report is not just poorly pets that might need to know. diet's. bruce the boxer is fact and he's trying to shed some pounds but lack of exercise import diet saw him balloon in size to almost twice his ideal weight these will be honey and goat's milk every morning and any dinner in the evening and obviously the few treats of biscuits boni goes into he's in good company though research shows over half of britain's dogs are in fact obese that's up fifteen percent in four years and makes them some of the fattest in the world a quick straw poll of our own helped explain why what treats to give them chicken for the. cheery sticks and if you can get their arms will actually have of

proficiency is put in the ball through for the same results we don't think. julie jones is only too aware of the problem but says often dog owners aren't feeding their pet just one cup of tea is the human equivalent of eating a hamburger and being overweight consider fairly effect a dog's health it is their pets and they love them dearly and i generally say you killing with love they get joint problems ok then they get heart problems and then it's difficult to prove a thing. but surgeries like julie's are offering help in fact three courses if you k. vets now have at the city clinics should be canines including bruce being put on a diet of wholesome food and exercise well fifty five kilograms proof he used to be known as rochester's heavyweight boxer he's now down to forty nine kilograms but the thing is he's not the only saggy dog story in the u.k. there are currently four million dogs that are overweight. and animal experts don't

expect that figure to fall fast dogs are like their owners so the saying goes and what over sixty percent of britons now obese that is becoming. no. individual i mean as you can do something about it very quickly but again i think just like with you going to be city now it's got to the point of being so common that it's going to take a long time to do it with in sign the priest there's no looking back this much is losing he's got as an impressive right to hate middle east it's nothing tastes as good as sleeping félix. london. now on the way when r.t. international reports on iran medical condition that makes people age prematurely for our viewers in the u.k. pay to develop the new face of the cold war stay with us.

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a new cold war russia's worldview of international politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also how. to cross the world according to russia i'm joined by my guests ray mcgovern in washington he's a former cia analyst also in washington we haven't. molly cheez the director of the rights institute for serbian studies and in london we cross to mark macaulay he is a specialist on international affairs at the university of london are gentlemen cross-talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want if i go to you first it's almost any article you read in western media portrays russia is a very aggressive country bent on rebuilding the soviet union ribera bent on rebuilding an empire.