all of the border just hours after accusing russia of invading ukraine says it all reports of russian troops on ukrainian ground are unfounded. tensions run high at an emergency meeting of the un security council this russian and american boys exchanged fire with remarks over those latest allegations of moscow's being in ukraine. as well hundreds trying to storm the general staff building in central kiev demanding the president. of the all the stuff as major losses in the rest of. the u.s.

government is after some three hundred americans thought to be fighting with islamic state jihadist in iraq and syria will be looking into why the group is enjoying such white ranging appeal. thanks for joining us this hour my name is neil harvey and you're watching international. ukraine's president says that moscow and kiev are set for the first consultations on how to patrol the border together shortly before petro poroshenko accused russia of invading ukraine something that moscow did nice meanwhile the self defense fighters in eastern ukraine of launched a major counter offensive against forces they've entered the city of. mariupol which is among the most important locations in the region. ortiz

spotlessly yes and she joins us live now with the very latest thanks for joining us once again paula so we can apparently we've had mixed messages from ukraine's president is army's also said to be reeling in what more can you tell us. well certainly the messages that are coming out of kiev are mixed indeed the latest comments from the ukrainian president petro poroshenko is an offer of cooperation that ukrainian and russian troops jointly patrol the ukrainian russian border so that no kind of military hardware can cross through that border now this comes hot on the heels of an earlier statement in which he directly accused russia of invading ukraine or is it. just today because of the escalation of the situation in the donetsk region and because of the french rule invasion of ukrainian territory by the russian army i have decided to cancel my visit to turkey new york or any other. now russia has repeatedly denied that it's giving any kind

of military assistance or troops to the government finds has a spokesperson for the united nations secretary general has said that there is no verification that indeed russian troops are inside ukraine now spokesperson for the anti-government fighters has said that there are some russian volunteers fighting within their ranks. there were three to four thousand of them among us many of them have already left home even more still here at least some have been killed many of those russian volunteers of former soldiers. now these ukrainian claims that russia is providing assistance to the anti-government fighters come at a crucial time and why it's so critical is because we see these anti-government fighters pushing the ukrainian soldiers back from previously held positions the antigovernment commander also went on to say that the aim of this counter offensive

operation was to protect the civilian population of the debates region from the ukrainian military he also said that the army was targeting populated areas and critical infrastructure in terms of water gas and electricity supplies so that the result would be a burnt land earlier on thursday there was a barrage of rockets that hit the same to deny it city we arrived there just moments later we saw at least two dead bodies one was a woman who had been killed washee was manning a local convenience store and another was a person who was waiting at a bus stop now as residents started to emerge from the bomb shelters they reactions were shock disbelief anger and incredible sadness and entire residential apartment blocks that had simply had their facade blown away people were sweeping up shattered glass and simply sobbing and telling us they could not believe what was happening. ok thanks paula we'll get back to in just

a moment first that we're going to show viewers what is happening in the down yet school region and elsewhere in ukraine some of the fiercest fighting has been underway in the town of el advice ukraine's paramilitary national guard that's fighting alongside the army was surrounded there by anti government militias now these pictures have been posted online by the national guard who have reportedly suffered serious losses in the fight as of now being surrounded almost a week and the beginning no support from here. and these are pictures that we've been getting from central kiev this is where hundreds of people have apparently attempted to storm the general staff building there was stopped by police the protesters have been demanding mean peach mint of the president over what they are calling the ongoing slaughter of troops. that's. going to speak to fall asleep in donetsk again paul it seems as though the tide could be turning in the conflict down in eastern ukraine according to the latest

reports what is happening with kids military. well earlier there was a meeting of the ukrainian security council where the ukrainian president petro poroshenko gave a reason as to why his military was suffering in these losses in a vice can he said it was because the taliban's had deserted the irony however is that it's soldiers and families of soldiers who are criticizing the government for deserted their men saying that they've simply left them behind to die on the battlefield. i. as the fighting intensifies and anti-government forces close in a call for hope goes on on food reinforcements bullcrap to training troops also incoming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned. let me go native. women are forever more you through i was one of. from a broken level sure sure most people across the park women would say oh yes that

was the only response though you see i was one of them was sure i'm over there in the present was a resume watching and i really. like yelling at the end of eilat yet they demand that i learn. that i don't know but what the look at that i just love when i just wanted to provide the jewel of a cup of the brand of it 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. why was the was there was no way i was was

a i was ok i was frustration is growing among the troops who is there but is it then this delicious i think that you will have to go with the political dissidents that. the families tend to. be and i mean you haven't done i mean. it was you know when you. wouldn't. you know you think that you did not and the government servants were the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist white sect a 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 a march on to kiev to carry out speedy reforms in the interior ministry. your roche with your bragging you have deceived people who you lead into illegal armed units you are turning the people who believed you into can importer meanwhile losses on

the battlefield are mounting and here in the same two of today 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 jeanette's who fighting not only for their lives but for an army that they are accusing of to train them and leaving them to die paula c.r.t. eastern ukraine. polls across the very latest developments in done yet she's online at least fifteen people were killed in the region on thursday an army shelling and she's been posting pictures from the scene on her twitter feed you can see the speed by following her. u.n. security council held an emergency session at ukraine's request on thursday report our joins us from new york you can tell us exactly what was. called a little bit of it myself some pretty feisty stuff. here things did get feisty

this was the twenty fourth u.n. security council meeting on ukraine it was extremely heated with harsh accusations being thrown from all sides of the table now as we've been reporting ukrainian officials claim that russia has launched an all out invasion in their country which moscow has denied at the emergency security council meeting u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power accused moscow of repeatedly lying insisting that russia has moved troops tanks armored personnel carriers artillery and multiple rocket launchers into ukraine she insists that moscow cannot be trusted and presented her own case to council members. one of the separatist leaders that russia has armed and backed said openly the three or four thousand russian soldiers have joined their cause he was quick to clarify that these soldiers were on vacation. but a russian soldier who chooses to fight in ukraine on his summer break is still a russian soldier yet still according to the russian government the soldiers were

never there they were never in crimea either until russia and now it's the those soldiers who were never there had annexed crimea. there shortly after the u.s. envoy spoke her russian counterpart the triage work and fired investor churkin said with the support of washington kiev has continued shelling civilian quarters and tens of thousands of people are sitting in basements without food electricity or medicine during a meeting russia called on the u.s. to stop interfering in the international affairs of sovereign states and to rein in its own personal geo political ambitions and i. know most would think everyone knows that it's just that there are russian volunteers and indeed some parts of the queen no one is hiding that was before but i would like to see similar transparency shown by other countries for example maybe our american colleagues can tell us about what to the tens of american advisors who are in the building of the ukrainian security council are doing or how many so-called mercenaries from the

so-called military enterprises are waging war thousands of kilometers away from their land where did the crimean security forces get the latest american weapon this. now during the emergency security council meeting ambassador churkin presented a draft piece of paper to the council it was actually a press statement that was drafted for the council to vote on he wanted a vote it was a statement that called for an unconditional cease fire in ukraine for inclusive political dialogue between the warring the warring members and poor and increase in humanitarian humanitarian assistance in ukraine now he wanted this vote to happen on a press statement but some members including lithuania said they wanted to read through the tax before a vote would be hot in the meantime u.s. president barack obama is stressing that he has no plans to use military action to solve the problem speaking to reporters he said that the u.s. is mobilizing the international community to apply pressure on russia president

obama says russia has been isolated and weakened by western sanctions insisting that evidence will eventually become apparent later now on the heels of an upcoming made a nato meeting the u.s. leader reiterated unwavering support to all members of the alliance a ukraine which is not a nato member has received ongoing assistance and support from the alliance so maybe that was a somewhat of a statement obama was making to ukraine an extension outside of nato that's marina pornography is the latest from new york. russia's defense ministry says that the release of. pictures apparently showing russian troops in ukraine the organizations image across the world but also others it's pointless to comment on them and these are the images that nato has presented as proof the pictures apparently show russian so propose to units moving in a calm voice through ukraine's territory their images allegedly show activity

inside russian areas that are adjacent to the ukrainian border something that nato says is part of moscow's so called the stabilizing strategy and daniel mcadams executive director of the institute for peace and prosperity shared his ideas on how credible these statements could be. well i think these were released by the same they were taken by the same company that the u.s. had used to release its satellite information about m.h. seventeen the malaysian air flight the existence of guns by the rebels in ukraine and so i think it has very dubious credibility as a private firm i don't think it shows anything i don't think what most people in the west understand is that everyone on both sides with the exception of some ukrainians having american weapons but everyone is using russian weapons the line of russian tanks means nothing because we don't have the information to tell us where it came from as to whether russia has troops on its border if it's inside its border you know there what business is that of that if we had unrest on the border

with mexico here in the u.s. you'd be sure we'd have a military presence there to make sure our borders were secure. stay with a seance international have more news for you after this short break. differently here in syria. members of congress of both parties have gone to syria in recent months. which is diddy's telling you can. still be peace to syria you really.

think that got america out of the depression with the securities act of thirty three thirty four door a law and order to wall street it wasn't doing repricing nothing to do our very little doing going into world war two it was bringing law and order what's happened in europe the disintegration. of the wild west mentality of letting a bank like goldman sachs tolling much like. welcome back senior u.s. official said that they are tracking around three hundred americans now believed to be fighting with islamic state militants in syria and iraq washington fears that they will pose a huge risk to u.s. security if they return a new skills learn to war zones to carry out attacks at home and this comes after a thirty three year old american who joined the ranks of the jihad this was

confirmed dead by his family douglas mccain was killed over the weekend in syria while fighting members of another government group on each account reports from washington. 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 the islamic state group a 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 you. u.s. is misjudged the scale of extremism in syria as it focused all efforts on bringing down the syrian government you know so much cooperation. help your government being with us. for free the last night out to last in afghanistan they're losing cereals in charlotte when they come if you wish then we shall take more money from them let these let me state group is now cheering about all the arms and money that they have seized both in iraq and in syria isis sympathizers are posting pictures on twitter in the us cities with a message saying we are in your streets something that is typical of isis is this vicious sense of humor if you well they are 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 check on party. islamic state is one of the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with us it's worth an estimated two billion dollars significant amount two million dollars a day reportedly comes from selling crude oil goes to kurds in iraq syria turkey and jordan smuggling and kidnapping is also a lucrative sideline ransom payments may have brought the group around ten million dollars in recent years islamic state even publishes corporate style annual reports to attract new sponsors a culture of has been finding out. 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

a message that even al qaida is uncomfortable with visit hannity those what was striking out can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of isis the photography is hyper real islamic 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 they're relying on the ignorance of you 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 bomb isis out of existence on. is itself seems to have learned that those bombs that can breach so some media and therefore its existence online well songbird that never got cos of our reporting from london for artsy. meanwhile forty three un peacekeepers are being held by an unidentified group in the syrian area of the golan heights they

can't see joining a shootout between rebels and government troops and this comes just a day after the rebels took control of the crossing into israel following along. the game of tit for tat sanctions is hitting all the sides involved the russian food embargo fall of the washington led economic sanctions against russia in the u.s. the poultry and pork industry suffered the biggest blows earlier i spoke to phil saying president and c.e.o. of the u.s. meat export federation about the food. or the russian made market for u.s. producers was an important market back when the market was open we were shipping about or a little over six hundred million dollars worth of product to russia this would include our beef in our pork so you know the loss of the russian market it's an important factor for us as floors or total portfolio among the supplies over there which ones would you say have been hit hardest by the. well i think all the

countries whether it be the united states or australia or canada i mean all the countries that were traditionally exporting to russia have been impacted by this as you know since one thousand nine hundred nine for the last twenty five years there's been a lot of work done by companies in all these countries to try to build relationships and establish contacts in russia and the russian companies as well as the the exporting companies are dependent upon each other so it's been a very tender relationship and you know we lament the fact that you know things of escalated to the degree they have and we would like to see some normalcy normalcy restored as far as the relationship. let's go to europe now where germany's minister of agriculture has come up with his own way to fight versus ban on food imports. he keeps putting over it. the minister urged europeans to eat more and consume the extra products that would

have been destined for russian supermarkets embargo may cost you opinion up to seven billion euros as well as put one hundred thirty thousand jobs at risk european commission's one hundred twenty five million euros compensation is seen by many as just a drop in the ocean. of polish farmers dumped four tonnes of peppers in front of the parliament they say their harvest is going to waste in the e.u. isn't doing enough to compensate them the protesters also handed out vegetables to the public in brussels on shakedown now from the international association for food protection believes that people need to eat more than just an apple a day. for this is the matter if it's like that 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 from the 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 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 producers expect compensation for the products they have already spoiled the money provided today would not compensate the actual losses. and some news just in for president putin has just made a statement addressing the self-defense forces fighting troops in eastern ukraine is address comes as tensions in the region and once again spiked president putin said that russia will be providing humanitarian aid to ukraine's embattled eastern region he said that what is happening now in the. east of the nation is a humanitarian catastrophe the russian president once again reiterated calls for a cease fire urging the parties to take part in for the talks early ukraine and

accused russian troops of trespassing over the border a moscow dismissed those allegations saying that kid is out of touch with reality and i hope you stay with us of the very latest news headlines for you at the top of the hour next month since they say they'll be busting the bank is in the kinds of reports. no 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 is 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 you young that's 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 u.s. 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. protest but that's just my opinion.

polls are my language as well but i will only react to situations i haven't read the reports so i'm not pushing the no i will leave them to stay current comment on your latter point of the month to say it's six am a car is on the docket no god. no more weasel words when you have a direct question be prepared for a change when you have to punch be ready for a. printout of speech and little down the freedoms of costs.