why you should care only. push. countries. as. many soldiers complain about. as many as three hundred americans. according to the latest figures from washington. we take a look at how the group is actually winning. the veil of secrecy lifted from negotiations over a trade deal between the e.u. and us pushing.

for me. welcome to the program. in ukraine have launched a counter offensive. in the country's southeast that's. good to see you what do you know about the government forces a new push. it certainly does seem as if it is a new push what we do know is that these antique here find his have now made further advances in ukraine's south east they have taken over the town often over as and they are aiming for the city of mario paul which is the second largest city in the region this comes as the media sensationalizes what's happening on the

ground with quite dramatic over the top some would say headlines some of the headlines talk about a russian invasion about incursions on the russian border but the point to make is that none of these stories actually give any kind of hard facts or any kind of evidence to support these claims it might be fuelled by the fact that on monday ten russian soldiers crossed over into ukrainian territory but moscow has made the made the point that these soldiers were patrolling the border this happened at night this is a border that is very badly signposted and certainly these soldiers were did not put up any kind of resistance when they were detained they were also allegations that russian paratroopers have been buried in several russian cities now again no proof what we have heard is from the russian president spokespersons office saying that they are investigating these claims all of this comes as the prime minister of the self-proclaimed republic of donetsk admits that he never denied that there were

russians fighting among the ranks of the anti kid fighters but he did say that all of these volunteers. as the fighting intensifies and anti government forces close in a call for hope goes on on sword for reinforcements for crap you claim you saw showing coming it's not the first time kids. know. at the same time we are hearing more more reports of the ukrainian military complaining that they have been abandoned by their government latest reports suggest that sixty two craney and soldiers on wednesday evening crossed over into russian territory seeking sanctuary there is intensify seeing at the moment in the town of ill advised this has been a city where the ukrainian military has been surrounded by anti government forces what we're hearing and this is just one example is an increasing chorus of

criticism by the soldiers themselves and by their families against what they say is a government in kiev that has betrayed them and not given them much support. as the fighting intensifies and antigovernment forces close in a coup for hope goes on on said for reinforcements for catch you came in saw so many coming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned. when i go needed to see if they go didn't appear women if the women here are three you obviously know what a superman really broke level sure two were mostly male across the park women would say always but the more women should go you see i was one of those who was sure i'm over there if i was on your resume watching and i really. don't mind about that yet they demand that i learn. that i don't know nobody knew what the meaning of that i just love when i did the did you look at the top of the piano 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. by was the love was there was was was was was was there was frustration is growing among the troops that we want is to question it then it's delicious i think that you will have looked over at the political dissidents that. they families and it was sure to be a fight with me then i need you more it was you when you got it but it was

a chance like your writing it. did not and the government of the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader 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 will be forced to withdraw our battalions from the front line and launch a march on 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 into cannon porter meanwhile the losses on the battlefield are mounting and here in the same two of today it's been 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 tonight's who fighting not only for their lives but for an army that they

are accusing of betraying them and leaving them to die paula c.r.t.c. eastern ukraine and in the meantime the army's shelling of cities in eastern ukraine continues eleven civilians were killed in dawn yet scorn on wednesday this according to local authorities. every ago i was interested a reversal of. theory her before you go over the theory of a russian journalist under a stone and still missing in ukraine or lost contact with him over three weeks ago russia's foreign minister is trying to locate the photo correspondent still denying

it's holding him there support for a stand then has come in from all around the world a global online campaign carrying the free andrew. thanks for joining us for the program today it's r.t. international washington estimates as many as three hundred americans are now fighting with the islamic state in syria and iraq and they could potentially huge risk to u.s. security if they return from war zones and use skills learned to broad to carry out attacks at home it's been confirmed that a thirty three year old american who joined the ranks of the she harvests was killed in battle over the weekend in syria. now reporting on washington's growing realisation. the u.s. president has diagnosed these lawmakers 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 staked group that's part 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 a 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 and isis 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 of valence drones to plan attacks on the syrian military the question arises whether the you. his misjudged the scale of extremism in syria as it focused all efforts on bringing down the syrian government you know so much cooperation.

being with us. before he said last night out there last night that it's been. since you will see charlotte when they come if you're waiting for them we should take more money from them to let these state group is now cheering about all the arms and money that they have seen 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 the cancer . party and the islamic state is proving to have one of the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with. two billion a significant amount around two million dollars

a day that's reportedly coming in from selling oil is being sold to kurds in iraq syria turkey jordan all of very big discounts there were smuggling and kidnapping also a very lucrative sideline run some payments are brought in iran at least ten million dollars in recent years islamic state even publishes a corporate style annual report to attract new sponsors while it's for social media publicity is clear his arteries were in a culture. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western troops involved in flames these are just some of the growth task methods employed by the islamic state illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to spread its message and message that even al qaeda is uncomfortable with visit those what was striking. can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of isis the photography is hyper real islamic states marketing 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 qur'an 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 in which the message is it's either them or the flood and experts say there is controversy and fear to get more followers how are they doing that they are 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 watson nations might be trying to ball my sis out of existence i. ices itself seems to have learned to those bombs that cam reach social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever merino call survive reporting from london for its us all to come here and on the international the social media spiral of silence there on the program reports of people keeping their opinions from online they keeping them away from the social media platforms on the n.s.a.'s cyber spies. also ahead check it out i sheriff a holocaust era star of david spanish coding joins zora coming under attack for a t.

shirt with perhaps a touch of nazi sheik. differently here in syria 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 to be a mr president we choose deedes tell him fool you can. still be a beast to syria is going to be a subset of 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 and order to wall street it wasn't anything to do with repricing gold it had nothing to do or very little to do with going into world war two it was bringing down law and order what's happened in europe the disintegration of applause order the wild west mentality of letting a bank like goldman sachs totally destroy a country like greece for a few quid. hello again italy has told the e.u. that it wants the details of negotiations over a giant trade deal between the u.s. and european partners to be made public in a letter to its european officials italy says it would help dispel fears about what's actually going on behind closed doors well let's have a look right now of what the agreement would mean for both sides for example the transatlantic trade deal certainly looks tempting on paper the partnership would

allow the removal of trade barriers and regulatory differences which are seen to hinder the growth of the u.s. and e.u. economies those would be washed away plus america and the e.u.'s collective g.d.p. would be boosted by two hundred forty five billion dollars there are critics that say some parts of the puzzle just don't entirely fit together they're worried that corporations could hijack the interests of taxpayers passing along any losses on to them if anything goes wrong it's also feared it would be nearly impossible to hold any corporation to account because of the lack of transparency and investigative journalist john hillery says it's no accident the 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 put a thirty year loan 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 learnt about the teeth to the trade negotiation beals so if people really could see the line by line what is being negotiated of weight behind closed doors then there'd be a revolution in the street for example in germany there's a very very high awareness of t.-t. up of these new negotiations and people by and large are very very opposed to it but greatest poll that we've seen suggests the fifty five percent of people in germany are against you to these new negotiations. and people across europe have been protesting over the last month about this deal in particular in belgium police dispersed the crowd using water cannons but not just in belgium but also in berlin activists staging a performance by lying on the ground with europe may be for sale but. last month

saw hundreds marching in london as well just against the ratification of the. everything from workers' right through the environment. i'm sure you've noticed how the ice bucket challenge has gone viral with many thousands of people taking part online one on one. to. so many people taking part in it over the weekend the local water supplies had to be cut off. time. an african-american heading to an emmy awards. finds himself by the police for six and a half hours why was he mistaken for a bank robber. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow spanish clothing giant under fire a big scandal now over one particular piece of clothing that one. baby showed with

a sewn on sheriff has led to massive criticism on social media shoppers said the item bore a similarity to uniforms worn in death camps and the word sheriff is barely visible and the badge looks a lot like the star of david a religious symbol the nazis used to mark out jews as second class citizens now many twitter users were appalled going as far as calling for a ban on the clothing retailer as our house since apologized and remove the sale stating that the t. shirt was actually inspired by western films and wasn't meant to offend anybody. however though it's not the first time the clothing giant has been accused of insensitivity on the issue back in two thousand and seven zahra had to pull these handbags off the store shelves because of the green swastikas on the far side as well. let's get some other global headlines in the world update time thousands of shia muslims taking to the streets of yemen's capital to call for the downfall of the government protesters in support of

a q a shia yemeni leader accused the government of corruption and asked for a decision to cut fuel subsidies to be reversed demonstrators said they would continue their protests until the government was gone the capital has witnessed many protests over the past week. a pakistani opposition cleric who has been leading mass rallies in islamabad says negotiations for the current government to be dissolved have failed completely as a result during his address to thousands of supporters outside the parliament he called for a revolution demonstrators have been protesting for nearly two weeks demanding the prime minister leave office over alleged election fraud and calling for reforms to pakistan's electoral system. the israeli prime minister declared victory in the recent war against hamas in the gaza strip binyamin 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 homeless in the palestinian enclave. now germany's minister of agriculture has come up with his own way to fight russia's ban on an e.u. food imports. he keeps forty no it. appears to eat more and consume the extra supplies that would have been sent to the russian supermarkets the belgian farmers clearly don't think that they work their anger showed right there on wednesday when they dumped actually four tons of vegetables in front of the e.u. parliament they say their harvest is going to waste and the e.u. is not doing enough to compensate protestors also handed their excess products out to the public in brussels and. from the international association for free food protection i believe that people will need to eat a little bit more than just an apple a day. so this is a commercial but we have to be realistic and straightforward about the fact is the

huge amount of fruit and vegetables and it's difficult consume this amount of apples are not the worst case because they can be kept for up to one year which is not possible with other vegetables it's impossible to eat twenty kilos of tomatoes a day so the slogan is clever the farmers want clear and quick solutions from the e.u. today the actions of the european commission are not enough producers are expecting more support in response as they say in their products to the poor or food banks produces expect compensation for the products they have already spoiled the money provided today would not compensate the actual losses so. a new poll suggests americans are increasingly unwilling to debate the scope of government surveillance online but the trend now even has its own name called the 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 eighty six percent of americans apparently will now only discuss last year's revelation. by edward snowden in private face to face conversations between friends and family the survey also suggests only forty two percent of all facebook and twitter users feel comfortable discussing cyber spying online their report also suggests the self censorship used on the internet could be leaking into real life with people less likely to express unpopular views a former cia officer and also blow ray mcgovern believes it's because people feel cornered by government surveillance. but americans are afraid you know when they hear all this when they hear people calling snowden a traitor which he is not when they are they are a sly would choose not well they're sensitive enough to realize that if they find themselves talking about it with snowden and expressing not only support perhaps

just questioning his will is he really is by or is he really a traitor so that will be picked up and could be used against him eventually the reason government collects all this information is to use it the only reason the only way to prevent this from being used against you is to remove it from being collected in the first place. right after the break when the international we take you behind the scenes here at the network to show you how we cover the worldwide headlines. no a famous politician is tweeting that

a foreign 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 is simple this tweet any attempts to intervene from do a member of a push go what happened because unlike what they tell you in school might does it make right for you young ones out there old grandpa kirby 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 . these are for becoming independent schools a nation that nations should be self-governing they govern the feels better than allowing someone else to do it for. do we speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing stories are you. trying arabic to find out more visit arabic don't call. today

and made signs of more progress in secret peace talks. many many. would see us as friends where demonstrators are feaster case saying what if six you'll see the covering themselves. international news line from moscow this is an international with me. and we'll start with breaking news from ukraine to sound like an hour live to our correspondent is going all for the update on the situation that right now in kiev

hi there you go. give us a heads up of the situation that way you are and frankly it's not clear who opened fire first but these were life rounds a shot there overnight and there are injuries and fatalities on both sides both among the rioters and to the police but like i said right now it seems more or less peaceful but tensions are really high and who knows what could happen next. one by one. so vitally needed key if. that if you live reports and basically i'm just now waiting for cameraman to go down there and film just a report from from the square just washington from here it's surreal because it's like it's like a war zone is there swat team there on the rioters on the other side there are a lot of all.