know well what this comment means for diplomatic relations between russia and ukraine remains to be seen russia have taken their concerns over saturday's events to the united nations that calling for a resolution condemning the attack on their embassy which is apparently being blocked by western nations now police say it all started on saturday when around one hundred demonstrators arrived outside the embassy carrying anti russia placards and shouting anti putin slogans but the mood soon turned sour and the atmosphere deteriorated when masked men believed to be from the right sector turned up they started pelting the building with paint and with aids and they smashed windows as well they overturned vehicles and smashed cars to pieces the demonstrators are angry accusing russia of supplying arms to anti-government forces in the east of ukraine it's believed that many of the masked men were from the right sector because they were red and black right sector has given their identity away and the russian flag flying outside the russian embassy here in kiev has also now been replaced by the uk

we call on russia to stop destabilizing the situation in eastern ukraine. >> russia is turning the screw. it has suspended guest liveries to ukraine in attempts to to joint pipeline a project. . >> a large portion of the gas russia provides to your goes pipelines.aine's in theory without russia's participation, no one would be interested in ukraine's gas transit system. presidently elected and his cabinet are determined to keep steering the country towards europe. then june 27, i will sign e.u. agreement. >> european leaders have called russian president vladimir putin to urge him to bring an end to the standoff. >> for more, let's bring in our moscow correspondent. there seems to be a lot of confusion when it comes to the russian-ukraine border. tell us what is happening on the ukrainian side. >> ukraine said its military forces have restored control of its border with russia. ukraine's defense minister made the announcement early friday. according to him, this means ukrainian forces can prevent military equipment being wrought from russia to ukraine by pro-russian separatists. represen

russia calls for an investigation over claims the ukraine army used banned weapons in east ukraine as a military expert tells r t they bear the hallmarks of bosphorus bombs. he gets its final deadline to sort out its gas agreement with russia with a price tag still stalling the talks. began washington considers sending drones and launching air strikes in iraq where radical islamists have seized control of the north and are setting their sights on the capital. which are had a national coming to live from moscow a marina joshie russia is demanding an investigation over claims that the ukrainian army used phosphorous bombs in the eastern city of slovyansk residents there say they were woken by what they believe were fire bombs being dropped these weapons are banned by the un and king of denies their use and here's what locals are saying . we all saw what happened here yesterday they used rocket launches as well as incendiary bombs against us the ground was on fire on the ground burned by itself it burned for about forty minutes. you know but it's going it's starting from two am everyone

>> it is a blow to russia that ukraine did not join the customs union. let's show you a map of that union that now comprises russia, kazakhstan, and belarus. ukraine would have expanded that market significantly to 220 million consumers. it would also have protected russia's southwestern flank, as you can tell from looking at that map. protecting it, making it a buffer zone with nato and e.u. countries to the west. this is a loss for russia. a tussle between russia and the west continues. lost to thebe association agreement, but eastern ukraine is not lost to russia yet. russia will continue to exert influence using the gas issue and its influence through those militants in eastern ukraine. >> you mentioned a buffer zone. we are also seeing moldova and online to sign association pact with europe. hopefully wetries, can show you where they are situated as well. george and moldova are both ex-soviet states and like ukraine have difficult relations with russia. moscow backing breakaway territories in mulled over and georgia. the reason is because nato cannot

russia calls for an investigation over trying to the ukrainian army use banned weapons in east ukraine is a military expert tells r.t. a bad the whole whole mopsa phosphorus. gets a spinal deadline to sort out its gas agreement with russia with the price tag still stalling the talks. and wanting to sit is sending drones and launching air strikes in iraq where radical islamists have seize control of the north and assessing their sights on the capital. thanks for watching with r.t. international. that russia has demanding an investigation over claims of ukrainian army use force response in the eastern city residents say they were woken by what they believe were fire bombs being dropped these weapons a ban by the un and kiev denies their use is what the locals say. we all saw what happened here yesterday they used rocket launchers as well as incendiary bombs against us the ground was on fire how can the ground burn by itself it burned for about forty minutes. you know this building is starting from ten am everyone every man has such a sore throat and all the time i think this is because o

our top stories, the european union signs a controversial deal with ukraine. russia warns of serious consequences. >> the largest region of ukraine. >> i'm lucy hawkins in brussels. we bring you reaction to this deal. we bring it to you live here on "bbc world news." >>> fanatic or freedom fighter? we find out about the leader of boko haram from some of those who claim to know him. >>> also, not worth the gamble. sponsors of luis suarez say they're ending the relationship after he's banned from the world cup after biting an opponent. >>> hello. it is the biggest trade in political deal the european union has ever agreed with any other country. ukraine's president petro poroshenko signs the association agreement in brussels. here he is. so, in fact, did the leaders of georgia and moldova. they had their own to sign. and they shook hands with mr. poroshenko, a great day, he said it was. but not if you're russian it's not and certainly not if you're this man. president putin warned of serious consequences as the result of this deal. now, earlier a senior adviser to the

supplies now watching nervously as europe which gets thirty percent of its gas from russia and much of it goes through ukraine it's feared death of could start siphoning off european supplies of a gets cut off in a large part of the deadlock is over price so let's have a look at that now russia wants three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters which is one hundred dollars less than what some european states pay and it's roughly the same price that was agreed on by former prime minister yulia timoshenko back in two thousand and nine but back then ukraine got some have to discounts for one the price was reduced significantly as part of russia's lease of military facilities in crimea now three years later than president jiang garbage agreed to and to a customs union with russia and that's all the gas prices go down to two hundred and sixty eight dollars with key of projecting a trade union with russia and crimea no longer part of ukraine those discounts are now gone but ukraine insists it should get gas at the same low rates are these are english explains. somewhat surprising given that ukraine i

what this means for diplomatic relations between russia and ukraine remains to be seen russia have taken their concerns over saturday's events to the united nations that calling for a resolution condemning the attack on their embassy which is apparently being blocked by western nations now police say it all started on saturday when around one hundred demonstrators arrived outside the embassy carrying anti russia placards and shouting anti putin slogans but the mood soon turned sour and the atmosphere deteriorated when masked men believed to be from the right sector turned up they started pelting the building with paint and with eggs and they smashed windows as well they overturned vehicles and smashed cars to pieces the demonstrators are angry accusing russia of supplying arms to anti-government forces in the east of ukraine it's believed that many of the masked men were from the right sector because they were red and black right sector has given their identity away u.s. ambassador and he didn't seem to mind ukraine's denouncing another country's president here is we were he praises ukra

ukraine wanted to package deal that you cannot see and only not agree with russia on the gas price that we can agree on bottom of the outstanding debt ukraine is calculated it's much lower and russia's calculations and they cannot agree on the bottom of guesses that russia transmits ukraine annually because in a country signed two thousand and nine between the us going many of the ukrainian gas company now the. ukraine is out reduce by as much as fifty two billion cubic meters of gas from russia and it's much too much for the parent state of the ukraine economy is what ukraine is also acting mounted for is lowering one of gas that it did buy and really proud so there is a great deal of open. verses and bones of contention between jews and others it seemed a package deal was not possible sure ok look it we're not it can be very much for giving us your analysis that they had man got professor of political science at in the brook university thank you i think. now as well as ramifications for ukraine europe could also thought over refusal to pay its way and it's been argued that russia's in

gets around 15% of its gas supplies from russia via ukraine. is a situation we are keeping a close eye on this monday. russia's envoy to the european union has criticized the e.u. for imposing economic sanctions. says it as bulgaria suspended work on the pipeline which would pump gas from russia into europe. years after a highly touted deal in less than two years since construction began, the project has hit a stumbling block. under pressure from the e.u. and ae united states, bulgaria, key player in the project, has suspended work on the pipeline. >> the construction will resume only after removing any concerns by brussels and after we certify how we will proceed with the plan. >> running under the black sea in the balkans, the new pipeline will allow russia to export gas directly to europe while skipping over ukraine. questioned. recently whether the project was being carried out in compliance with european law. is themain concern company set up for this project has been awarded the contract to , construct, and operate the gas pipeline withou

russia calls for an investigation over claims the ukrainian army used to ban type of weapons in east ukraine is a military expert tells r.t. they bat resemblance to phosphorous bombs. kiev gets its final deadline to sort out his gas agreement with russia with the price still stalling the talks. in washington mole sending drones and launching air strikes in iraq where radical islamists have seized control of the north and i have the capital in that. and i welcome it's good to have you company you're watching r.t. international with maybe andrey pharma. now russia is demanding an investigation over claims that the ukrainian army you spoke for response in the eastern city of slavyansk residents there claim they were awakened by what they claimed were fire bombs being dropped these weapons a ban by the u.n. in kiev denies their use is what locals a say you don't feel what. we all saw what happened here yesterday they used rocket launchers as well as incendiary bombs against us the ground was on fire the ground burned by itself it burned for about forty minutes. and it's starting from ten am ever

if ukraine wants to receive cheap gas and resell it basically making money using russia it's a very odd positions. another stumbling block what to do with ukraine's foreign a half billion dollar gas dad to russia. ukraine that the gas is not going to pay is there to get from until we reach a package agreement by its occurrence because that the strategy of the ukrainian side is outright blackmail according to kiev a deal can be reached only and exclusively on ukrainian terms russia's gas from. for to save the day or at least offer it a huge saving pay half of the debts and get a twenty percent discount on the rest otherwise ukraine would be switched to a pay in advance system russia needs to make sure that ukraine is paying the market price no ifs no buts no can't claim to know what flynn the market price as an upper country does. so far the quarreling sides have failed to reach an amicable solution if like teachers practically ukraine's acting prime minister has operated the talks from the start ukraine took no constructive steps made no compromises and apparently wants to maximally agg

the leaders of russia ukraine germany and france have once again spoken on the phone they discuss the ongoing peace effort and suggested international monitors could be sent to the border crossing between russia and ukraine this is a sunday is footage of former the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk where the truth doesn't seem to be holding. they started firing from the mountain with ukrainian troops are they hit residential areas of the city it went on for forty five minutes i've seen it all a couple photos on my phone the burned cars the destroyed marketplace houses riddled with holes three people were killed and many more wounded and we haven't searched all the buildings yet. the ceasefire was breached by both sides are several times throughout the week people in the city have come a task or claim their city was shelled on numerous occasions by the village of all the years saw a spike of violence with one woman reportedly killed and in slavyansk a woman and her twenty six year old son perished in army shelling outside the embattled city self-defense forces took control of a milit

of ukraine wants to receive cheap gas and resell it basically making money using russia it's a very odd position. another stumbling block what to do with ukraine's four and a half billion dollar gas debt to russia. ukraine's naftogaz is not going to pay its debt to gasp from until we reach a package agreement by its occurrence because that on the strategy of the ukrainian side is outright blackmail according to kiev a deal can be reached only and exclusively on ukrainian terms russia's gas from offering to save the day or at least offered a huge saving pay half of the debts and get a twenty percent discount on the rest otherwise ukraine would be switched to a pay in advance system russia needs to make sure that ukraine is paying the market price no ifs no buts no cackling no waffle in the market price as another country does. so far the quarreling sides have failed to reach an amicable solution if a teacher's practically ukraine's acting prime minister has scuppered the talks from the start ukraine took no constructive steps made no compromises and apparently wants to maximally aggravat

russia called for an investigation over claims the ukrainian army used a banned type of weapons in east ukraine as a military expert tells our to a bear the hallmarks of phosphorous bombs. yet it's its final deadline to sort out its gas agreement with russia with the price tag still stalling the talks and washington knows sending frightened and launching air strikes in iraq where radical islamists have seized control of the north and now have the capital in message. good to have you come here watching r.t. international now russia is demanding an investigation over claims of ukrainian army used force response in the eastern city of sort of residents there say they were woken by what they believe were fire bombs and drop these weapons are banned by the u.n. and kiev denies there you see here's what locals say. we all saw what happened here yesterday they used rocket launchers as well as in some very promising stocks the ground was on fire. starting from ten am everyone i've met has a sore throat and is coughing all the time i think this because of the burning i think will feel the true consequen

russia has given ukraine its final deadline to sort out its gas agreement with europe nervously watching from the sidelines a third of the continent's gas comes from russia through ukraine and if it gets cut off that is likely to cause headaches for european homes and businesses so let's break down these prices are in fact worked and right now it stands at three hundred eighty five dollars per cubic meter which is one hundred dollars less than what western europe generally pays and it's roughly the same price that was agreed on by former prime minister yulia timoshenko back in two thousand and nine since then though moscow has applied a few discounts in two thousand and ten the price dropped to three hundred fifteen dollars because of the agreement to station russia's black sea fleet base in crimea three years later then president any code which agreed to enter a customs union with russia and the us or the gas price go down to two hundred and sixty eight dollars these agreements though no longer exist but ukraine insists it should get gas at a bargain price which no one else gets artie's

by russia's actions in ukraine, both of those priorities are in profound jeopardy and, indeed, so is president putin's compact with his people to deliver that influence, to deliver that prosperity. there's a way out. integrate russia's economy with the world, diversify it away from fossil fuels, play by the rules, and that way out remains on offer, but ultimately it's up to president putin whether he wants to pursue it. i have to tell you that my concern is that left with few choices in terms of sustaining his power, there will be a strong incentive on president putin to continue to play the nationalism card, and that means to continue to take the kinds of actions we've seen in order to produce a jolt of short-term support that then evaporates as people understand the costs, which requires another jolt. that's the danger. my hope and certainly the hope of the entire administration is that is not the course that russia chooses and i will come back to that briefly at the end. the second big line of effort we pursued over these months of support of ukraine and there was an equal effort t

pro and anti-government forces is still breaking out in eastern ukraine despite a cease fire that was due to hold until monday night russia and many other countries helped broker a truce. now ukraine's president officially declared a cease fire on friday kiev then held its first ever talks with activists in the east and their leaders agreed to lay down their weapons russian and o.s.c. e representatives were present during those negotiations president putin then discussed of a deescalation effort with the ukrainian french and german leaders in a telephone conversation now the russian president then made another move to calm the situation asking parliament to cancel an order allowing russia to use military force in ukraine the ceasefire was extended on friday and anti-government forces again said that they would abide by it they went on to release the monitors who were detained in eastern ukraine nearly a month ago and many civilians say that their lives have been up ended by weeks of being trapped inside a war zone the good men to give them but neither. of us let us know that but i thought it was the. beginning to look wel

now to summarize the facts for ukraine so far as russia more than four billion dollars what russia demanded women said its final deadline was that it received at least half of that money now mostly have stress that it will continue supplying europe as before ukraine has been demanding that moscow cut the price on gas supplies the e.u. has called gas from his final offer of three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters a reasonable proposal and as you can see that number is lower than the estimates of what many e.u. countries pay for russian gas and here's how they get a pipeline that goes out from russia into the e.u. the majority goes through ukraine's territory well despite assurances from moscow that supplies to europe would not suffer gazprom says that here has threatened that it will take as much transit gas as it needs for free which it has done before and ukraine's prime minister has said me yet the new guy has ordered a review of the transit fees for russia's gas supplies to europe right now we're going to go live to london's political experts alexander crossover who j

ukraine's energy minister said gas splice have been reduced to nothing, zero. russiag enough to cover the rest of europe's fuel needs. ukraine must may russia upfront, kind of pay as you go for supplies that comes after this morning's deadline to kiev to repay literally billions moscow says it's owed. talks were broke down last night. the energy chief says european gas supplies should not suffer. let's talk to chris from the advisory. great to have you on the program. let's start with this chris. ukraine signed a contract with russia's gazprom to supply gasoline. it hasn't paid bills. gazprom turned the pumps off. some say gazprom had the contract. >> that's gazprom's position. they're saying this is about unpaid utility bills. it's more complicated when the contract in place was signed taken into account russia's lease of the naval base in crimea which is now part of russia. ukraine says there needs to be a new contract with a new price put in place. so i think both sides clearly have a case to make in this argument. >> is there more to it than just the dispute. head

ukraine said yes, russia shade no. now they are producing an idea where the ukrainians could pay $1 billion and pay the rest throughout the year. it makes sense that both want to do business with each other, but as you say the backdrop is quite horrific. this dates back to the civil war in the south and east of the country. a lot of other issues discussed here at the world petroleum congress, including the ultimate buyer in china and india clearly where we are seeing the big drivers of growth. but there are question marks over the short-term as raised by the chief economist over at bp. he said the numbers at the moment regarding china are just not stacking up. >> personally i find it hard to reconcile the energy slowdown with the constant gdp growth. i find it easier to explain why the u.s. with sluggish gdp growth has the high energy growth pointing to a better future. >> longer term china will be voracious in the demand for oil and where it comes from, all energy, that will be needed over the next 20 years. but what

the foreign minister said that if you know ukraine signs an association agreement with the european union russia wants ancient ukraine i mean we keep hearing this over and over again but the ukrainians keep saying no. well my guess for and i think ben's right ukraine's on its knees economically as i've said before publicly and c.n.n. with former congressman russ carnahan the way to go forward on gas is actually to diminish or decrease our reliance on gas or oil i know the u.s. government and u.s. industry is very keen to come in and supplant russia's gas imports into the e.u. which make up a third of their gas imports much of which crosses ukraine with replace it with renewable energy unfortunately republicans in the u.s. and industry in the u.s. is quite keen to send in crude oil shale gas that's not the way to go now in terms of other negotiations i think ukraine president has shown that he's keen to negotiate when it comes to the east i think forays by the german foreign minister steinmeier in the polish foreign minister sikorski any effort to deescalate sikorsky saying that nato is not on th

by russia's actions in ukraine, both of those priorities are in profound jeopardy and, indeed, so is president putin's compact with his people to deliver that influence, to deliver that prosperity. there's a way out. integrate russia's economy with the world, diversify it away from fossil fuels, play by the rules, and that way out remains on offer, but ultimately it's up to president putin whether he wants to pursue it. i have to tell you that my concern is that left with few choices in terms of sustaining his power, there will be a strong incentive on president putin to continue to play the nationalism card, and that means to continue to take the kinds of actions we've seen in order to produce a jolt of short-term support that then evaporates as people understand the costs, which requires another jolt. that's the danger. my hope and certainly the hope of the entire administration is that is not the course that russia chooses and i will come back to that briefly at the end. the second big line of effort we pursued over these months of support of ukraine and there was an equal effort t

the union without russia -- union without ukraine was of no interest to russia. the interest of russia was at no interest to any other republic. belarusians are unprepared for what would happen. as for the resources are. so this is true for kazakhstan. so once brescia is not fair, it is just an empty shell. it is just gorbachev, then the baltics left a long time ago and are not interested in that. they are almost pushed out of the crumbling empire. the ukrainian scott and at some point. brescia decided it's not interested in the m. tire. but the central asian republics are still there and it was only on the 21st of december of 1991 that they also joined the commonwealth. in the remaining few minutes, what i want to say this about the possible insights that this story and the way i tell it might have for events today and in the region and the russian ukrainian conflict. well, one of the main arguments of the book is the soviet union files not because of the relations between russia and the center, not because of the policies of the united states, but because the t

ukraine rejected that. it wants a lower price. russia has now run out of patience and said that ukraine will only get gas that it pays in advance for. and it is also russia and gazprom are taking a case to the stockholm court of arbitration, essentially suing ukraine for lots of other unpaid gas bills which amount to some 4.5 million. >>> we know that politically things are tense between russia and ukraine with all the trouble going on. surely russia wants to get some agreement. it doesn't want to turn the gas off. it will lose a huge customer. >> yes, of course. everyone wants this to be resolved. nobody wants a situation of unpaid bills, and gas being shut off. so the europeans want it sorted. ukraine wants it sorted, and russia wants it sorted as well. the question is at what price, that is what all the dispute, and all the labouring, the discussion has been about. we are in a serious situation. we are in a situation in which it looks like the gas will pretty much be shut off to ukraine. that may have an impact on europe and gazprom t

and ukraine will not be a member of nato. but by the same token, russia has to understand that ukraine will not be member of some mythical your ration the union that president putin is trying to promote on the basis of this new doctrine of a special position for russia in the world and special claims outside of russia, vis-À-vis some of its fellow natives. ukraine will not be a member of the eurasian union our ukraine can have a separate trade agreement with russia, particularly taking into account the neutral benefits of the fact that certain forms of exchange and trade our mutual beneficial. agriculture products, for example, from ukraine to russia, industrial products that russia needs are now being produced in ukraine. not many people realized that some of russia's best rockets, most of the engines and some of the rockets used by the united states, are produced in ukraine. and that, therefore, should be continued under an arrangement whereby ukraine and russia have a special treaty. i think something like this might actually at some point become appea

it back but ended up losing twenty soldiers in the battle and shells fired from ukraine fell across the border in russia damaging a checkpoint there. well the turmoil in eastern ukraine has had a devastating impact on care facilities we have an ocean of visited an orphanage in lugansk which has found itself in the middle of a battle zone. these care home for abandoned special needs children on the outskirts of the ganske aims to be an oasis of calm and tranquility. children here have food toys but most importantly love. there are eight to six children they scare house all younger than three years old it's been a home and cosy home you have for all of them that once war reached its walls it's no longer safe. mines and shells blend just a couple of kilometers away. and while the youngster had no concept of the danger for the adults it's a different story now surrounded it as a lordship but then most of the year it's so hard actually more than half our kids cannot move there are either too small or they have motor problems some have cerebral palsy they need special care any even if we want to evacuate and

thousand and six gas supplies were cut off after ukraine siphoned fuel intended for europe from the transit bipes in two thousand and nine it did it again russia has already given ukraine the benefit of the doubt and shift to deadlines to help negotiations now the ball's in kiev court. the e.u. criticize prime minister demand that any deal be exclusively on ukraine's terms a statement of torpedo the latest negotiations because probably the interview came magazine politics first was amazed by the boldness. the city of the ukrainian government is breathtaking and this is the same that governments wants to place ukraine into the west's influence and then ukraine wants to have discounted prices from russia for russian natural gas russia has been more than accommodating to a government which is totally on repentance that ukrainian government has never apologized for or paid in the russian language law has never apologized for the destruction of russian historical and cultural monuments by ukrainian nationalists for example world war two ones but at the same time it wants to have a discounted rate from russia. ukrainian crisis in whole is focus of t

president has accused russia of destabilizing ukraine. they are being warned that more sanctions could be imposed. >> the kinds of destabilizing activities that we are seeing funded and encouraged by russia are illegal and are not constructive. and that there is a path in which russia has the capacity to engage directly with the ukraine president and he should take it. >> the meeting is over and has anything really changed? >> well, probably not, david. what we are seeing here is a determined show of unity by these seven members of the g-7 in the face of what they have described at interference in the ukraine sovereign affairs. they have kicked russia out of the g-8. they are showing they are standing together against russia over the events in ukraine. president obama did note there was a possibility of a change of course, a change of direction by president putin, noting the partial withdrawal of the russian forces and noting the fact that putin didn't outright reject the election that took place in ukraine but sounding caution, you must s