so from these calls even from the western press you understand why people in ukraine eastern ukraine are waging war why they're resisting because this is exactly what they read every day in the nationalist newspapers from kiev this is what they watch and hear from television in kiev and in the wharf and in other cities or of ukraine including sometimes their own seat is because there are still some nationalists operating in hardock of even then yes so people watch it they hear it every day and they try to defend themselves and of course victoria nuland had no clue about the existence of such tensions in ukraine she doesn't know anything about what was the walled war to in ukraine for people to understand why you know the insurgents are in slovyansk are ready to die for the memory or all of the second world war i can just tell you of on figure in most of the places in eastern ukraine from von forth to yvonne third of the population perished during the war with germany there it's why it is sacred that's why they want given men well you know one of the things you know if you look at kin

even though at the moment ukraine is being in a very. painful place and it's driven by all this idiology and the new parliament promises to be a lot more radical than the current one and that i think is a mistake but the sooner they get there the sooner i think they will find they will fall out of love with that sort of course ok on that but that's a very interesting point and i will be will continue i different program on that later many thanks and i guess in london and here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time remember. these. as. well as. this will show bush transports gets a facelift and he cuts an important to make the most of the sun in years and signs flourishes it's almost a week check out. so let's say something else said knowledge i'm dangerous here on r.g.p. we've got the future covered gender trump and symbolizes the gender madness in swedish again here because i found this. project foreigners with seventy thousand euro to investigate the trunk from a gender perspective. we think

we are still under attack in ukraine. than ever, the terrorist forces still occupy considerable part of the region, although we have been advancing quite considerably. it is a bout a number of russian citizens, mainly russian who have links to russian special forces, who lead the terrorists. who not about the people represent donetsk. it's about propaganda machine. population into believing that splitting is with ukraine would mean a cleaned late -- clean slate in life. building up criminal gangs, and seduce others. the intimidate those who refuse to obey. they have everything. they have the most modern fire guns. now they can rely on sophisticated systems that can shoot down international airplanes. you can imagine, there is probably still the possibility of the kalashnikov on the market. how can you teach the terrorists ? forces areed increasingly more involved in fighting. ofhad a number of cases shelling our troops. intruding in ukrainian airspace, using all kinds of systems. it is a [indiscernible] kind of situation.

destabilize ukraine? outright annexation of eastern parts of the country to create a land bridge to the recently annexed peninsula? is the west prepared to do anything in retaliation to what they see is a move from the putin government. joining us for that conversation, constantine, program director for the center on global interests, from london, the senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations and robert hunter, former united states embassador to nato. let me start with you. are these collums of russian tanks are these elements of the russian army. >> i mean, reports on the ground certainly confirm that so called green men spotted not too far away from the southern city. indicate that perhaps these are special forces similars to the ones that were instrumental in securing crimea. we should also be careful to generalize and say that this is a full scale russian invasion. if you monitor social media of the separatist, it becomes clear by listening to the accents that a lot of them are

and secondly, since you are from the ukraine, what are the prospects of the ukraine ever coming back together with the crimea and the east and so forth? what is the future? >> well, thanks, thanks for these questions. i'll start with the second question which was ukraine. we are not sure, we don't know what will happen in eastern ukraine. what we know the way how things are turning out is that vladimir putin was talking about so-called -- [inaudible] the seven or eight regions of ukraine that would include donbas but also southern areas -- [inaudible] there were provocations in all of those regions. what we see today is that the conflict zone is -- [inaudible] so it is -- [inaudible] and it is too early to say what will happen there. my hope is that when on the 7th of june ukraine gets its legitimate president -- now we don't have really, we have interim president -- that the situation change on the ground in ukraine but also the situation change internationally. we'll see whether that will happen or not, but that is my hope. in terms of the crimea, crimea for the first time that hap

ukraine you know we're going to get in three i'll tell you corruption in ukraine it makes russians blush ok believe me joshua just let me go to you in new york one of the if you looked at some of the pictures taken at that summit it was extremely interesting you had the e.u. you had ukraine you had russia you had the customs union and you had also representatives of the association agreement with the european union it's amazing isn't it i mean we had that option by. back in november we had that option when everybody was around the table saying hey maybe we can kind of work this out you know we can finance this we can give a little bit on that we all can compromise but no brussel said no no no three times and then what and now let's go to the president how many people have died how many people are displaced how many people have been injured this economy is in tatters and all of a sudden i see lady ashton in minsk remarkable. it's just incredible because when president putin in november offered ukraine to have that or all economic relations with the e.u. and russia the e.u. didn't want to

leaders, as well ukraine accused russia of invading eastern ukraine, a claim denied. we heard from manual barroso who says the situation in ukraine was serious, but not too late to find a political situation. we are joined from milan, where e.u. foreign ministers have been meeting. what sort of help will the ukrainian president get from europe. this is why he's in brussels today. >> absolutely. he's welcomed the chance to meet the european union and heads of government in brussels saying it's an important show of solidarity towards the kiev government. it's far from clear what substance the e.u. will take next to support ukraine, and to punish russia for what some of those foreign ministers meeting in milan called an invasion of the e.u. foreign policy chief. katherine ashton will report back on the talks, and the leaders will decide how to act in relation to the violation of ukraine's sovereignty. many expect a widening of sanctions. they may ask the european union to come up with a plan. it looks like foot dragging. >> nadeem barb bear and italy. >>> saudi arabia's

violence escalating in ukraine. russia accused of fighting alongside rebels, moving in to take over more ukrainian territory. world leaders outraged. the united nations holding an emergency meeting. >> welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. 4:00 a.m. in the east. very, very busy news day. >>> reports of imminent air strikes against isis targets in syria. they are premature. president obama says there's no military strategy there, yet, in syria. he is under pressure to punish isis terrorists inside syria. he made it clear, he is not ready to take that step. doing that needs to be a regional effort. >> as i have said, ruling out a cancer like isil will not be quick or easy. i'm confident we can and we will working closely with allies and partners. it will be important for congress to weigh in. our conversations develop so the american people are part of the debate. i don't want to put the cart before the horse. we don't have a strategy, yet. >> the president says he is meeting with top adv

in eastern ukraine. the country's president petro poroshenko directly accused russia of invading his country but later he suggested that there be some kind of cooperation between the two countries in terms of joint missions where ukrainian and russian soldiers would patrol the ukrainian russian border together so we are getting these kind of mixed messages out of kiev on thursday was heavy shelling here in downtown donates the local authorities say that three civilians were killed just moments after their shells hit we went to the same two of the city. we here and what was a small market right in the city center of damascus you can see the rocket has hit the whole flight the whole facade of the bolding people that were killed while waking up at the local bus station here she got up looked at a little boy allegedly before the video looks a little tougher to look a lot look here shoot her brother could get a little credit where one person last night hates being covered but his shooting he can i think that

that ukraine so wishes and provided ukraine provide the necessary criteria. in the meantime, ukraine has decided to pursue a so called non alliance policy. we fully respect that. we fully respect if parliament decides to change. that policy because we adhere to principle that each and every nation has the right to decide itself without interference from out side. we hope that other nations adhere to the same principle. >> was that discussed at today's meeting? >> it was not discussed today. >> secretary general, we right now completely new situation, but i would like to repeat old question. how nato can really help or nato member countries in ukraine situation. thank you. >> at the summit in whales next week, we'll take decisions as to how we will will enhance our how to increase our cooperation with ukraine. among other initiatives, we are establishing four trust funds to finance concrete initiatives within four areas. command and control, cyber defense, help through military personnel including wounded personnel. i'm very please had already at today's meeti

they are being captured in ukraine. they claim those are russian tanks in the ukraine. those are all very strong indicators that those satellite pictures are telling the truth or at least part of the truth. >> nato may have a good case to stand on but what can it do? >> wheel was have to remind people that ukraine is not part of nato. they can reinforce the eastern border and have beefed up their presence there. nothing permanent yet. it might change. we have a nato summit next week and u.s. president barack obama is going to the baltic states. we assume people there that is there for them making -- having a major policy speech. >> thank you very much. if you're just joining us, the un security council in an emergency meeting right now. >> russian forces have entered the country. he is calling it a full-scale invasion. >> this video is of a russian tank in the middle of the ukrainian city. these images appear to show russian military vehicles just over the border. images and bits of information that put together seem to imply that russian troops are indeed operating on

even though at the moment ukraine is being in a very. painful place and it's driven by all this idiology and the new parliament promises to be a lot more radical than the current one and that i think is a mistake but the sooner they get there the sooner i think they will find they will fall out of love with that sort of course ok on that but that's very interesting i know you have and i will be will continue i different program on that later many thanks and i guess in london and here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember. you know. these. as. well drug dealers. will show bush just transports gets a facelift a new cancer import he makes the most of the sun in years and signs flourishes it's almost all. check out some fun car let's say the most technology some day just here on r.g.p. we've done the future coverage based on full scope becoming independent schools a nation that nations should be self-governing govern the feels better than allow someone else to do it for a look. see thi

even though at the moment ukraine is being in a very. painful place and it's driven by all this idiology and the new parliament promises to be a lot more radical than the current one and that i think is a mistake but the sooner they get there the sooner i think they will find they will fall out of love with that sort of course ok on that but that's a very interesting point and i will be looking at you i did for a program on that later many thanks to my guest in london and here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember. these. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're knocking here in iraq back story. time there's a reason they don't want to know more. now let's break the set. at the end of the school is a nation that nations should be self-governing govern the in a feels better than allowing someone else to do it for all of. this month showed precious transports gets a facelift and you got something for which makes the most of the sun india is on the signs flourishes in tomsk and

yesin of arter eastern ukraine. meanwhile the ukrainian army's attacks in any eastern ukraine are unrelenting the forces sent by care are pushing on with their operation to crush the anti-government forces there is a church that came of the shelling during evening mass energy can clearly see severe damage inflicted there no roof or many of the walls of been reduced to rubble. to journalists who were detained in ukraine have now been released that they were a correspondent in a photographer for a crimea based newspaper of fortunately though there's still no word on the missing photojournalist andris then when he disappeared in ukraine three weeks ago numerous campaigns for his release have been held across the globe backed by calls from the un russia and international human rights organizations were posting updates on the search for under a stand in on our web site r.t. dot com. the u.s. will deploy its unmanned drones to patrol the syrian skies to survey positions of islamic state militants the move was approved by

did its eastern ukraine. earlier international law expert alexander mercurius joined us to this just the release of the russian soldiers who had been held for five days in ukraine. training government want you to. listen. they're trying to argue and have been trying to argue for a long time that they're not really fighting the people of the eastern ukraine but that they're fighting the russian army so here they had ten russian actually jen. actual us soldiers and they were able to grade them and to live on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which will convince me that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have un convincing evidence if people want to believe and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven he that respect. meanwhile the self-proclaimed authorities and the nats say they have a large ukraine'

within ukraine ukraine no longer become part of the european union the won't tell tales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. we're going. to. put it on your arm and a lot of these. people. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. you know. this is. a low and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered on people of the western interest crisis in ukraine has revealed the extent of western media is the inability or unwillingness to report this important story to western narrative as closely mirror the talking points generated from the powers that be this begs the following question is what media merely the instrument of the rich and powerful. crosstalk media coverage of ukraine i'm joined by my guest when will oxon writer in berlin he's an editor and reporter and in moscow we cross to dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst. with the voice of russia radio station right gentlemen crosstalk roles in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it before you start the program graham phillips who wo

last week ukraine called russia's delivery of humanitarian aid into eastern ukraine an invasion this week it accused moscow of quote unquote a full scale invasion the western media that is generally not putting much distinction between rebels and washer quickly picked up that side of the story that is despite the fact that this thursday the ois sea which is now monitoring the russian border with ukraine said they saw no evidence of russian troops and tanks crossing the border the u.n. said it could not independently verify the reports of the russian invasion but a u.n. security council meeting was called upon where its western members push to hold russia responsible russia stop this conflict at least two thousand two hundred twenty people including twenty three children have died in the conflict in eastern ukraine but we've never heard the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. call on key to stop bombing its own people in washington i'm going to r.t. . the foreign press. association in london has become the latest organization to call for the release of a russian journalist who's been missing

in the west never support ukraine. it is so dependent on russia. russia subsidizes that economy to the tune of $5 billion to maybe $10 billion per year. ukraine's future depends on russia. it's just a simple fact. ukraine will never be a free, democratic, and flourishing country until wash a is at least moving in that direction. that is just the fact. and to think that we can somehow develop and protect and make a wonderful society and country movingukraine without russia in the right direction, i think that is utopian. on assistance to ukraine and whether or not -- i mean, that is often held up as -- there was an article about a week ago where the author said the challenge is to support ukraine. but if what you said is right, then that actually should not be the strategic objective, because it is destined to fail. >> i think cliff is making some really important points with this, and to be clear, my point was that russia had tried not the negative versions, although they had done the negative versions before, but that

ukraine. well the russian president vladimir putin has called on the anti-government fighters to late ukrainian soldiers out of the encirclement he is calling on them to allow those soldiers that are inside the combat zone to leave freely the russian president pointing out that they are not there because of their own will but they simply acting on orders the prime minister of the danites republic has responded by saying they will do this on one condition. we are ready to provide humanitarian corridor for ukrainian soldiers on the condition that they hand over heavy weaponry and ammunition so that in the future these weapons can be used against us. now there have been wide scale protests inside the ukrainian capital where thousands of people who are demanding that their government no longer betray them they accuse the government of the military down at the same time they calling for the resignation of the ukrainian defense minister this follows comments by the country's president petro poroshen

ukraine that's not meeting the i missed edition nor is the i.m.f. meeting its own conditions under the articles of agreement it's not just lend money to a country that is unable to pay the repayment of these demands is going to force in ukraine and currency way down they're going to make imports much more expensive ukrainians they're going to increase the cost of living the government will withdraw the price supports for gas and for other essential so the cost of living will go up unemployment will rise gradients are going to be leaving to the west to the east because the economy will be filled by the conditions of this level and this is what the i.m.f. economists inside internally have been complaining about they said wait a minute the i.m.f. loan to greece we've already seen that it tore the greek economy apart you know you're doing the same thing with ukraine so if you want to see it in ukraine look at what happened after two thousand and twelve to the i.m.f. loan to greece it's a disaster still to come here and the international libya descends i

integrity of ukraine. we welcome the meeting held the day before yesterday in minsk between the russian federation and ukraine, particularly in the presence of the european union. we hope that they -- that those talks will lead to concrete results and in particular to the establishment of a roadmap based on president poroshenko's peace plan. we are hoping the consultations between russia and ukraine will ensure better control of the borders and will be held soon as the parties will lead to the release of -- discussions will lead to the release of prisoners we obtained -- detained by illegal armed groups. the try lateral talks initiated by the incumbent chair of the o.s.c. are key to this regard as is it deployment of the observers of the o.s.c., the two border posts along the russian ukrainian border and hope the mandate of the mission will be broadened so it can contribute to a comprehensive and bilateral control of the russian-ukrainian border. securing the border is key for the restoration of peace beca

eastern ukraine. president putin has shed some light on the behind the scenes the placea over ukraine in an interview with russian national media refinance sums up the key points. i just came back from ukraine where we were working for one month and this time weakness to very dramatic escalation in speaking and made this very dangerous spread of violence in ukraine's east london airport he has his opinion on why it is happening. how can anyone say it's ok to open fire with artillery and multiple rocket launchers on cities do you really expect people to do nothing and wait for their own deaths so what's happening now is a natural reaction by the people who live there and who are defending their rights and one of those who took up weapons first blood and put in has also commented on upcoming parliamentary elections in ukraine saying that it will nor help is the tensions in the country. all the candidates want to show how tough they are in the current circumstances it's hard to imagine anyone will advert

in the gonski ukraine. well ukraine is threatening sanctions against russia and some of them may end up hating europeans the prime minister says key have may stop any kind of transport on its territory including the transit of oil and gas now on tuesday parliament is expected to vote on arson he gets a new plan and that could mean a cold winter for europe and find out why exactly right now the bloc gets about a third of its gas from russia most of that is delivered through ukraine cutting off the root could be harmful for industry in some european countries take slovakia area for example which almost entirely powered by russian fuel many others rely on their gas as a main source as well russia's gas of course the scene could be replaced by the south stream a pipeline project bypassing ukraine its construction is being hindered by e.u. lawmakers but southern nations say they're ready to push through with its construction the executive director at the ron paul institute believes that the consequences of the g

he did not mince words while talking about ukraine. he compared the ukrainian army's operations against rebel held cities with the nazi siege of leningrad during world war ii. he said separatists were simply defending civilians under attack. >> the part of the country that did not agree with the change in government is being repressed with harsh military force, aircraft, artillery, shelling and tanks. small towns and big cities have been besieged by the ukrainian army. it has been shelling residential areas with the goal of destroying infrastructure. >> putin did not comment on satellite imagery nato says proves russian troops are active in ukraine. in his comments, he called for the opening of a humanitarian corridor for ukrainian soldiers trapped in the southeast, a request that through this response from separatists in donetsk. >> with all respect to vladimir putin, we are ready to provide humanitarian corridors to the ukrainian army divisions surrounded in these villages, but only if they hand over heavy weapons and ammunition. >>

or for ukraine to be unstable for a long time. ukraine is too important. to get is the action now to the table and reach a solution? what are the red lines you foresee? >> thank you. i agree with what you said. since helsinki, 13 new countries have emerged. more than 20 or 25 in europe, borders are not unchangeable. they are changing. actiona'said in crimea is absolutely in accordance with international law. this is clear. this is crystal clear. territorial integrity and the right of a nation for self-determination. involved.at and great powers, this is their habit. .hey are picking if they like this, they take this. if they don't like this, they take this. i would like to tell you one thing which really very seriously struck me. for you to understand the modern russia. the grandson of molotov said on that now herograms is the chairman of the education committee in russian parliament. very influential member of the circle of people. thatid isn't it a shame russia supported the koreans, , latintnamese, arabs only ones and the they are not supporting our the

delivery at the eastern side of ukraine and pay themselves for the transit across ukraine. how this isund as going to play out? does that change anything? >> it depends on how gas prom reacts in that situation. the question will be, how will they respond? there may be a compromise solution. it also depends on the pricing of the gas. situation of gas transiting through ukraine to europe, the gas is still flowing. whatave to wait and see the reaction in moscow might be. what the price consequences of that would be. inin the broader picture terms of the europe energy are the on russia, what great minds such as yours thinking about how hard europe tries to reduce its reliance on russia as a supplier of energy assets? what kind of timescales are you have to have? how long of horizons to you have to have? i think this is a long-term prospect. acceptmoment, we have to that it is very difficult to replace a third of our natural gas imports into the european market, especially given conditions in global gas markets . energy supply is very high because of the situation in demand ingr

violence escalating in ukraine. russia accused of arming and fighting alongside rebels moving in to take over territory in ukraine. world leaders are outraged. right now, the united nations holding an emergency meeting. we are live in moscow. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is friday, august 29th. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. >>> up first, air strikes against isis in syria. president obama says there is no military strategy to attack isis in syria, yet. he is under pressure to punish them. he moving the threat needs to be a regional effort. >> as i said, ruling out a cancer like isil will not be quick or easy. we can and will working closely with allies and partners. it will be important for congress to weigh in and our consultations will continue to develop so that the american people are part of the debate. but, i don't want to put the cart before the horse. we don't have a strategy, yet. >> we don't have a strategy, yet. he's meeting with the advisers in syria

dates eastern ukraine. russia's deputy defense minister said kiev is accusations that moscow has been on the ground in ukraine or are supplying arms to anti-government forces are simply incorrect he made the comments to slovakia's media earlier on saturday. so it's gross. ukraine was part of the soviet union and there were many arms depots across the soviet union and when russia and ukraine became separate states millions of automatic rifles mines no tillery systems were left in ukraine's territory there were warehouses with arms on the turrets you were a kid is now conducting its punitive action against its own people and these warehouses came under the control of anti government forces people who took up arms to defend their rights so to speak about russia supplying arms to the net school lugansk is simply wrong just look at what ukraine's army is fighting with its fighting with russian arms or soviet hands to be exact. in while european leaders are at a summit in brussels and joining them ukraine's presi

weighs additional sanctions against russia for its actions in ukraine. we'll have a report from kiev. and the islamic state, using social media to win recruits by promoting its savagery. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. with thousands of russian troops now reportedly fighting ukrainian government forces in eastern ukraine, ukrainian president petro poroshenko appealed today for help from the west. and during a meeting with european union leaders in brussels, he warned that the crisis puts at "high risk" not only peace and stability in ukraine but throughout europe. >> i think

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

between the european union and ukraine. which is an important subject. we. urged our partners to begin. politicised professional and pragmatic dialogue. conversation about how the commitments of ukrainian state on the free trade area with the c i s and. the commitments of which the agrarian side is ready to take with him but not yet rectified association agreement with the e.u. . coincide so how they're actually made to put together. this topic as you know. is laying with the. existing prices because the accusations. towards president xi are no coverage last november were. the association agreement and that served as a pretext to. begin the possible action to organize the protests which ended in a military an armed. and before that moment and after that moment we regularly urged the card is to sit down at the same table and talk about the situation how would we find the. solutions to. where there is the contradiction of the commitments of ukraine towards the c.i.s. free trade area and the e.u. association. we are speak for.

this is the line we were talking about with gas coming through ukraine. it would go around ukraine. they don't want to see it built. european union has thus far resisted it. at 132ome coming in million, the expectation was that it would also be higher. again, a bit of a mess there. is company is saying that impacted by lower refining margins. i have to say we have seen trouble ever since reps all kicked off the season. omg shares are down close to 6%. they're down nearly 16% year to date. the most interesting ping about this company is simply what they do and what they intend to do. there've been working with russia since 1968. in june they hosted vladimir putin, the russian president, and agreed to build the final leg of this pipeline, and importantly, that pipeline will lead to their own baumgarten gas hub. we are talking about the idea of the ukrainians banning the transit of russian gas. one would think that would only play into a company like omg's hands. theeard the ceo earlier in week say sanctions would only lead to badness and also say that he thinks that pipeline will go a

ukraine's prime minister says his country's sovereignty has been violated. >> russia's goal is ukraine itself. it cannot accept the fact that ukraine made the decision to sign and association agreement with the european union. we are moving forward. we are part of europe. that's where we are heading and where we will end up. >> meanwhile, russia's state media and local officials are reporting that the first vehicles in the convoy have arrived in lujan's -- luhansk, a rebel stronghold. the eu and u.s. have condemned russia's latest move, saying it runs counter to an agreement with the red cross. the icrc was to export the -- escort the convoy, but it backed out because of the volatile security situation. kiev says neither its customs officials know the red cross know the contents of all the trucks and that the delivery is a ploy to resupply separatist forces. so far, moscow has ignored international calls to withdraw. >> our correspondent joins us now from kiev. ukraine is talking tough, describing the convoy coming in as an invasion, but what can kiev do about it? >> i don't think that

shop towards eastern ukraine. ukrainian president petro poroshenko has vowed to spend an additional three billion dollars on the military but leading economists say that the country's war chest is as good as empty as caves finances are in tatters on the surface things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted ukraine seventeen billion dollar loan but the terms of the loan could create problems most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio should be no higher than sixty per cent a figure that the i.m.f. itself forecast will be surpassed by twenty fifteen in fact it's expected to reach eighty seven percent and in just four years in july a great economy shrank six and a half percent a year on year that's compared with one point three percent in two thousand and thirteen on top of that ukraine has to repay nine billion dollars this year and all this when its currency is a all time low economist jeffrey summers believes it's a catastrophe. we have the ever shrinking g.d.p. we have the loss of cri

ukraine steps up its. government stronghold of done yet despite a local militia a truce to a humanitarian catastrophe. meeting on street violence in the u.s. state of missouri as police killing of a black teenager boils over witnesses say the eighteen year old was when he was repeatedly shot by the officer. israel and hamas agree a new three day cease fire amid hopes for a prolonged truce in the devastating month long war that's left more than nine hundred. you're watching the international we're coming to you live from moscow. in the russian capital as kids have you with us. i don't yes can eastern ukraine is reeling from the heavy artillery fire which killed one person and injured ten others on sunday here forces pressed on with its a sold despite local militia calling for a ceasefire and warning of a humanitarian disaster residential areas were again pounded by shells. for the. local officials say more than ten civilian buildings were damaged including a hospital in a shop then yes largest chemical plan

attempted violation of twenty one sixty six you know ukraine is now a playground. for western countries but especially for united states against russia and i don't think they are very. interested. about do it human rights question in ukraine you know it's double standard all the time the united states defending human rights in countries they don't like but they don't defend them in countries which are their ally so since kiev government is pro american it's obviously we're not different human rights in ukraine and kier now says it will extender cease fire near the flight and a seventeen crash site but only after it receives an official request from international investigators. to us gun rights advocates have written a children's book to provide the idea that attack is the best form of defense to trust your weapon and each account spoke to parents who support the idea and those who don't. a new children's book has hit the bookshelves of america my parents' open carry is designed to explain to children why it is a great idea for their parents to be carrying guns with

says at least thirty six people were killed on a bridge in east ukraine every day on t.v. reports from the scene of the latest devastating attack in the resistance stronghold yet. britain raises its terror threat level from substantial to severe in response to the conflicts in iraq and syria and the threat of radical muslims coming back to the u.k. . welcome thanks for joining us this hour my name is neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. and we start with breaking news here on r.t. poland has blocked the plane of the russian defense minister sergei sure goo from passing through space let's cross live now to our correspondent andrew farmer andy what more can you tell us about this incident where as you said his face plane was forced to turn around after being barred from polish air space mr was on his way back to moscow. after attending the anniversary of the slovakian uprising but shortly after takeoff the pilot was told that poland had actually borrowed it from its airspace we don't know exactly why this is. there's been no official comment from post authori

as a vital military installation and a vital interest to ukraine and that had to be taken back the ukraine was really the child of of the crimea because he was so successful in the crimea that he was tempted to start getting back some of the territory that they felt that i feel russians feel were taken from them in the end of the cold war and countries not moldavia and even the baltics should be extremely worried oh but mr brown is there any evidence to support the theory because we keep hearing it all the time from many western forces but you know they had the russian support for rubbles in ukraine ah there any concrete avid ends of that i mean i understand that some people may sympathize for you know all sorts of reasons but odds are any concrete evidence of the russian state supporting be insurgency in your crane i did what i recall as i'm sitting here in america don't know anything on the ground it's just that i know the russians are an old country of very old and experienced diplomatic nation and it would be unwise to allow those sort of things to leak out into the west i see the head

the russian is has invaded ukraine. and you just keep saying it over and over and over again but it hasn't happened bob if i could go to you again you know every time the reference to crimea is right after russia invaded crimea and you know i've watched that and c.n.n. b.b.c. al-jazeera etc etc and i would always like to like stop the frame and say can someone please tell me the date of the invasion and then you know hit play because you can't name a date because there was no invasion this is what we're fighting against go ahead well the problem is that indeed not a single person was killed during the so-called invasion of crimea of ukrainian troops stationed in crimea did not want to protect it they just left because the population was overwhelmingly for the union with russia but the problem is that when things don't go away according to a plan russia is always to blame it is quite clear that these parade in t. of which we've saw on august the twenty fourth it was supposed to be the victory parade you. were expected to

we spent millions in ukraine promoting the idea that ukraine should be moving toward nato. ignoring the fact putin won't find giving up the warm water port. in crimea the fact they want buffered states because they fear invasion from the west. we will just turn this into one of our countries. not realizing the russians wants to keep ukraine as part of their orbit about a hundred times more than we wanted to get it. and as a result we added to the problem. earlier, and this always goes to one of the reasons for the breakdown of the russian u.s. approach if you will will. you remember the baltic crisis in which the united states decided that self-determination required an independent kosovo which was serbia. the rushes who have always considered the southern slavic people to be their protector. they were protectors of the slavics. and they were outraged we would allow a part of a nation state that wasn't a nation to exercise self-determination and breakoff. if you listen to the russians they have saying we have the right to do what you did in the baltics because we have russi

. >> russia is responsible for violence in the eastern ukraine. it is encouraged by russia, the separatists are trained by russia, they are armed by russia and funded by russia. russia has deliberately repeatedly violated the sovereignty of the ukraine. >> major powers warning of costs. russia is adamant. the ukrainian government torpedoed all agreements to resolve the conflict. >> the reckless policy of key of his conducting a war against its own people. controle battle for rages on, president clinton shows no signs of bowing to international sanctions or threats of further isolation. >> and president putin did say that russia will continue to provide humanitarian aid to civilians in the eastern ukraine. generalto the retired has served as nato's supreme allied commander for europe. intolerable is the word europeans are using. adoptedia seems to have the incursion into the ukraine. >> strong actions by not just the united states and britain , this is what we have been working for since 1949. now clear breach of international law. 28 nations will