ukraine's government forces pushed into the country's southeast. and many soldiers complaining about. as many as three hundred americans and. very latest numbers out of washington on the network we take a look at how the group is. winning hearts and minds. also the veil of secrecy in negotiations over trade deal between the e.u. and the u.s. pushing brussels to make the details of the public.

welcome to the program here on r.t. international. news team here. government forces in ukraine are advancing further into the country's southeast they have taken control of the. right on the coast and then a minute take over the region's biggest city of mariupol the ukrainian army meantime continues its shelling of cities all across the eastern region. i was ready for one hundred thirty. thirty. three years or so to get thank you

thank you thank you thank you theory furious but apparently it's not just civilians who have grown war weary about a thousand criminal cases have been opened against ukrainian soldiers for evasion of service desertion and defections in a recent case over sixty troops crossed into russia seeking refuge now the losses of the ukrainian army continue to grow the official stats from kiev suggesting over seven hundred soldiers have been have been killed over two thousand wounded but the government is accused of underreporting of the anti kiev forces claiming the army has lost something more like fourteen thousand soldiers whether both killed or wounded and in kiev itself have a look at these pictures where over four hundred people picketing the president's administration they say the authorities have abandoned soldiers in the city of it you know vice troops there have been encircled by anti government forces for five

days now and as artie's policy reports despair is growing both among the soldiers and their families. as the fighting intensifies and anti-government forces close in a call for hope goes on on food reinforcements bullcrap ukrainian troops also incoming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned. lately care in need of. women most reasonable you three are going. through a broker last year to almost everyone across the dark we're much more exactly what the op. remember swansboro you see i was one of them was who i met over various presidents was in washington and i really. don't mind if i laugh yet they demand that i look out of the middle and over to what the you want to look at that i just love when i just wanted to provide the jewel of a cup of the planet at all but. it's

a far cry from the tough talk of ukrainian president petro poroshenko talking of a strong country and strong army instead its young and often inexperienced soldiers as suggested by an alleged conversation between a commander and a tank soldier leaked online i do realise it was there was was was a i was there was the frustration is growing among the troops is the budget then it's delicious i think that you will have to go with the political dissidents that is on the families and to say i'm going to be enlightening and that i haven't done i mean it was only a movie that was unique menu was that it was a chance like writing it and i. did that and the government opens with the head of

the interior ministry is locking horns with the media of the radical nationalist white sector group which is taking part in the fighting in the country's east if our demands are not met we'll be forced to withdraw our battalions from the front line and launch marshawn to kiev to carry out speedy reforms in the interior ministry. you roche with your bragging you have to see people who you led into illegal armed units you were turning the people who believed you indicate an importer meanwhile losses on the battlefield are mounting and here in the same two have to me it's the ukrainian military defeat is on show the message is more than just symbolic a bad omen for the ukrainian soldiers encircled by self-defense forces in the region of who fighting not only for their lives but for an army that they are accusing of could train them and leaving them to die paula c.r.t. eastern ukraine. and the russian journalist and then is still missing in ukraine

the last contact with him was over three weeks ago now russia's foreign ministry is trying to locate the photo correspondent continues to deny that is holding him support for stunning though is coming from all across the world and online global campaign carrying the free andrew hash tag. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international today washington estimating now as many as three hundred americans are fighting with the islamic state in syria and iraq it could potentially pose a shooter risk to u.s. security if indeed they return home from war zones and new skills learned abroad to carry out attacks at home it has been confirmed now that a thirty three year old american who had joined the ranks of the she hardest was killed in battle over the weekend in syria a guy in a chicken now reporting on washington's growing realisation. the u.s.

president has diagnosed the islamic state rooting out a cancer why geisel won't be easy and won't be quick many are asking if the cancer could have been caught at an earlier stage when these lawmakers state group support of the syrian opposition was gaining momentum in the country and when rich donors in gulf states were funding and arming the group but until recently the west seemed more preoccupied with toppling the syrian president we will work with like minded states to support the syrian opposition to hasten the day when assad falls but the european union has agreed to bring to an end they arms embargo on the syrian opposition we are constantly consulting with the opposition on how they can get organized so that. they're not splintered and divided in the face of the onslaught from the assad regime for years the white house tried to present

a picture of the syrian opposition as consisting of quote former farmers and teachers some within the intelligence community had a really big red flag that was alarming the administration and elected officials that the problem in syria was bigger than anybody anticipated but the problem is that the elected officials chose to have a moment of dumb and dumber and hear what they wanted to hear so you had john mccain patrolling the streets of aleppo thinking that supporting the insurgents was a good idea one thing the west perhaps failed to see was the blurred lines between the moderate and the radical groups within the syrian opposition lysis until very recently was part of a broad sunni group in syria that was being supplied by the united states the extremist group makes use of modern technologies like no other radical organization they even use surveillance drones to plan attacks on the syrian military the question arises whether the. us has misjudged the scale of extremism in syria has

it focused all efforts on bringing down the syrian government you know so much cooperation. and help your government being with us. for free the last night out to last nothing less than. to see bills or charlotte when they come your way then we should take more money from them let these let me state group is now cheering about all the arms and money that they have see both in iraq and in syria isis sympathizers are posting pictures on twitter in the u.s. cities with a message saying we are in your streets something that is typical of isis is this vicious sense of humor if you will they're big fans of social media and they have been using all the west can offer to spread what president obama called cancer in washington i'm going to party the islamic state has proven to have one of the most

successful business models in the world of terrorism without assets worth an estimated two billion dollars a significant amount around two million dollars a day reportedly coming in from selling oil to code in iraq syria turkey and jordan all the very big discounts smuggling and kidnapping also a very lucrative sideline run some payments are brought in around ten million dollars at least in the recent years the islamic state even publishers a corporate style annual report to attract new sponsors for social media publicity is clear as arteries were in a course or other now investing. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western troops involved in flames these are just some of the grotesque methods employed by the slumming states illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to spread its message and message that even al qaida is uncomfortable with the visit. what was striking out can produce

some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of isis the photography is hyper real this nomics states markets and techniques are becoming increasingly more professional and widespread as its propaganda is found in different languages in news updates videos twitter accounts magazines and on t.v. the democratic they're targeting is you know they're relying on the ignorance of youth distorting the koran of course but they're also using various kinds of stylistic mannerisms which the youth are familiar with from the street from you tube from twitter and so forth in other words it has a very modern look and feel it feels like a media extravaganza but it's suffused with excitement now if we take a look at the cover of the islamic states latest magazine they will see that it's

a play on a noah's ark and wish the message is it's either there or the flood and experts say there isn't controversy and fear to get more followers how are they doing that they're using hate propaganda by showing their adversary is paradoxically as killing babies is they also are i think a remarkably harsh in their language they present their enemy is indeed humanized terms of some kind of humanity just as the nazis did so they only use pejoratives like crusaders while watching nations might be trying to bomb isis out of existence i says itself seems to have learned that those bombs that can reach social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever merino course of our reporting from london forty more than two thousand europeans are believed to have joined as you heard it's in the middle east and islamic state and in fact the recruiters for the exam make study working very hard. to keep up the

supply line the group has reportedly created a faction in denmark which enroll as young volunteers to fight for their cause in iraq and syria psychologist and political analyst nikolai sandals told us the radicals somehow know exactly who to target. it seems that they have quite son support from from especially from from your own muslim men what we have now here this year was our generation of civil generations of unhappy people with an islamic background but never had any success here and never managed to get in your pocket and social status here and now they're looking for other ways to get that status resolutely and go to religion than it is literally as a psychologist and worked with a lot of those young people in the prison and someone and i'm very concerned really concerned you know. i know there are a lot of young people out there on the internet you willing to do. anything but

think it's close to one hundred people now that police think that it's going to syria because i think it's about one fifth a kilt there but many come home again and there are they are here and it's not all of them gave up their give up working for isis but now they're here and waiting for orders here. and good to have you with us for the program today still to come for you and the international social media spiral of silence to lead one reporter a trend of people keeping their opinions offline trying to keep them away from the social media areas and about of the n.s.a. cyber spies. also ahead for us sheriff badger all holocaust there are a star of david a spanish clothing joy and sorrow coming under attack for a t.v. show but talk to you have not seen sheikh. differently here in syria and now many of the members of congress of both parties

have gone to syria in recent months has said they believe he's a reformer of the of mr president we choose diddy's telling him to get. stability and peace to syria is going to be the subject of. least. the single greatest thing that got america out of the depression was the securities act of thirty three thirty four there was stored a law in order to wall street it wasn't anything to do with repricing gold it had nothing to do our very little doing going into world war two it was bringing down an older what's happened in europe the disintegration of. the wild west mentality of letting a bank like goldman sachs totally destroy a country like greece you quit.

quarter past the hour here in the russian capital thanks for joining us italy has told the e.u. that it wants the details of negotiations. over a giant trade deal with the u.s. italy calling for all of it to be made public in a letter to its european partners italy has said all of this would help to dispel fears about what at sea is going on behind closed doors but investigative journalist john hillery says it's no accident that talks are being held in secret we've been told that the details of the e.u. u.s. trade deal is completely secrets i mean they pose a thirty year on all the key documents that we would like to see well the first reason for the secrecy is because the european commission and the u.s. trade representative they know that if people really found out about what was going on in these negotiations they would be up in arms there is already

a whole range across the whole of europe what we've already learned about the teeth to the trade negotiation beals so if people really could see the line by line what is being because he hated of weight behind closed doors then there'd be a revolution in the street for example in germany there's a very very high wonders of teach these new negotiations and people by and large are very very opposed to it and greatest poll that we've seen suggests the fifty five percent of people in germany are against these new negotiations. now the transatlantic trade certainly looks appealing on paper and the partnership would allow for the removal of trade barriers and regulatory differences which are seen to hinder the growth of the u.s. and e.u. economies would be washed away plus america and the e.u. as collective g.d.p. would be boosted by two hundred forty five billion but some critics say parts of

the puzzle just don't fit together and worried corporations could hijack the interests of taxpayers passing any losses on to them if anything goes wrong also feared it would be nearly impossible to hold any corporation to account because of a lack of transparency now people across europe have been protesting over the last month about this deal in particular in belgium police disperse the crowds using water cannons and not just there but also in berlin where activists staged a performance lying on the ground with banners saying the euro might be for sale but we are not also last month so hundreds marching in london as well against the plan the ratification of the pact saying it will harm everything from workers' rights to the environment. and i'm sure you've noticed just how the whole the ice bucket challenge has gone viral with many thousands taking part online one on one and it's gone a bit too far so many people taking part in it over the weekend that local water supplies have to be cut off five times story right now on our website.

and also for you that there's an african-american film producer heading to an emmy awards he finds himself handcuffed by police and held for six and a half hours why was he mistaken for a bank robber find out that ought to be. on the program a brand new poll suggesting americans are increasingly unwilling to debate the scope of government surveillance online it follows a whole series of leaks showing just how far reaching the n.s.a. spying program truly is. reports. social media may be good for keeping in touch with your friends but it's definitely not that good when it comes to discussing sensitive issues particularly the government surveillance that's according to a study released by the released by the pew research center suggesting that astonishing eighty six percent of americans were unwilling to discuss last year's revelations by the former n.s.a.

man ad word snowden online they say they prefer to discuss those revelations in private conversations during a family dinner and so on and so forth and only forty two percent of facebook and twitter users were actually willing to discuss those issues online but that's only provided that these people knew that the people they were talking with would agree with them those who felt that they will not find understanding among their own lying discussions they did not go into those sensitive. over the report are also lamenting that this may go beyond just social media that people who are not willing to discuss sensitive issues online are less likely to speak up even in their private life even even in their offline life. reporting from new york city or the trend now even has its own name spiral of silence the study also challenges the view of social media as

a platform for debate by suggesting sites like facebook and twitter actually encourage self censorship a former cia officer and whistleblower ray mcgovern he believes people actually feel cornered by government surveillance but americans are afraid you know when they hear all this we're going to hear people calling snowden a traitor. when they when they hear him call us why we choose not well they're essential to realize that if they find a show talking about it which nobody and expressing not only support perhaps she is questioning is she really has fire. or is he really a traitor well that will be picked to be used against intervention the reason government collects all this shit. is to use the only reason the only way to prevent this from really usually is sure is to root it be the first place

or let's give some other headlines from around the world time for the r.t. starting with thousands of shia muslims who took to the streets of yemen's capital calling for the downfall of the government of protestors in support of a key shia yemeni leader accusing the government of corruption and asking for a decision to cut fuel subsidies to be reversed demonstrators say they would continue their protests until the government has gone and the capital has witnessed large sit ins for a week now. a pakistani opposition cleric who has been leading mass rallies in islamabad says negotiations for the current government to be dissolved have completely failed as a result during his address to thousands of supporters outside parliament he declared a revolution demonstrators have been protesting for nearly two weeks demanding the prime minister leave office alleged election fraud and calling for reforms to pakistan's electoral system. the israeli prime minister has declared

a victory in the recent war against hamas in the gaza strip been human netanyahu said the military campaign dealt a heavy blow and a cease fire deal gave no concessions to hamas palestinian health officials say the seven week war killed more than two thousand two hundred people and left around one hundred thousand palestinians homeless. spanish clothing giant zorra has found herself in the middle of a scandal over one particular piece of clothing or striped baby shirt with a sewn on sheriff badges led to massive criticism on social media shoppers said the item bore a similarity to uniforms worn in death camps the word sheriff is barely visible in the badge looks a lot like the star of david that was a religious symbol of the nazis used to mark out jews as second class citizens while many twitter users were appalled going as far as calling for a ban on the clothing retailer as ari has since apologized and removed the item

from sale stating that the t. shirt was inspired by classic western films and wasn't meant to offend anybody however this isn't the first time the clothing giant has been accused of incense of the of the issue two thousand and seven zahra had to pull this handbag off the shelves you see the green swastikas another side there the aura shapiro who was part of a special israeli delegation to afterwards she believes society should be concerned about a trend of rehabilitating nazi ideology. does it woke their rent going to patients and i think that the focus again it's not something to me like though and for many it does cause pain so just think about it and you cannot ignore an emotion i think the rebranding or not the ideology is something new unfashionable in the younger generation and it's certainly something to be concerned about it's meant to be and to preserve this that and this is also left of the theater and i think it's very unfortunate. and it shows that writing

a level of ignorance about such an important part of history this is a t international live from moscow thanks for joining us today a very short break is next and i'll be oksana boyko the world's upon to. know a famous politician is tweeting that a for government is using excessive force against protesting citizens does this mean we're going to see yet another intervention to democratize their government into the dirt like in iraq or libya wait wait nothing is going to happen because that politician is russian but why is this so why can the police beat up or terrorize protesters in some countries but in others if you lift one finger you're

going to get a nato lesson in human rights well the answer simple this tweet any attempts to intervene from do a member of what happened because unlike what they tell you in school might does it make right for young and south their old group occurred the remembers the cold war and back when there were two great powers they had to at least behave well to woo people into believing that one side were the good guys now that's all gone the problem is they model polar world that we live in heck if the us. still had to deal with soviet or some other propaganda we would never see as much footage of flagrant police misconduct that we do now absolute power corrupts absolutely and the geo political monopoly that we all live in really isn't good for the average person in or outside of america especially if they want to protest but that's just my opinion .

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hello and welcome to worlds apart ukraine closer association of a b. european union was supposed to be all about economy but instead it provoked a political rapture of the kind of the continent haven't seen in decades can you really divorce politics from economy in the case of your brain full to discuss that i'm now joined by john brown a former british politician and presently senior market strategist for europe pacific capital mr brown thank you very much for being here folks are it's very good to be with you well and mr brown in minsk meeting between to me a putin and patrol pressure produced a lot of media coverage but in practical terms and it didn't lead to much or at least much that we are aware of and here i think both of them are under extreme pressure from multiple sides to produce some sort of progress towards peace what are the chances in your view of them agreeing to anything constructive well i think it's a pretty much a sideline at the moment and whether there are they're able to reach any form of

agreement depends on the compromise between the united states europe and russia. not really on the ukraine and syria really depends on those big as what they would agree to and of course we should be seeking compromise i totally agree with you well it's interesting that you say that because today the russian daily commerce sandro that impression could put in perhaps for the first time mad if not their worth their plan and then at least an equally skilled negotiator and i think it's also interesting that both of them when they were younger they used to practice judo so that perhaps impacted our way of conducting politics i want to if you believe that any win win is possible between putin and poroshenko yes i think it is possible but it would have to be a negotiation table and that in other words whatever was if such a compromise was reached.