i'm going to go see if i can find some crazy why not into the south and i can't think i think that i'm good i think. a few weeks ago we discussed detroit's plans to shut off water to those who can't pay their bills logically what a basic human assessor he could get taken away some protesters gathered to give their opinion on the issue at our plaza and what is the response from the state maybe some sort of dialogue or explanation as to why they have to turn off the water you know they turned up on the high tech quote non lethal weaponry against the protesters they used an l. red system which basically blasted the protesters with sound which sounds but intended humane until you look into it and read that the weapon can cause permanent hearing loss the company even admits this is true at less than fifteen meters we

see all across the country so-called non-lethal weapons being used to very harmful and even to well we thought ns but why does this happen because they make breaking up protest easy unsafe for the cops remember in the old days when you had to physically break up protests well things like el read allow any coward to just flip a switch to disperse a crowd with not a drop of blood visible and the fact that it seems not harmful as the police to be justified in using it whenever they want for the sake of the constitution i think no police forces should be able to use a spell read technology but that's just my opinion.

crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. i guess this is the weekly with me kevin owen a round of the big stories of the last seven days we're going to spend the next couple of minutes talking about ukraine live in a series of incidents and a russian checkpoint on the border with ukraine the russian t.v. crew from the channel says a shell fired from the ukrainian side exploded near them earlier sunday european security want is confirmed that they'd witnessed

a separate attack there while another shell reportedly damaged a nearby residential home on the russian side with more on that is a corporate scandal. a group of always see observers were at the checkpoint at the time along with border guards and customs services officials and so only a shell had detonated thankfully no one got injured but the federal security service claims that the shell came from the ukrainian side and there are also reports that another shell had landed in a village nearby also on russian territory and this isn't the first time that russia that area comes under fire as the fighting in eastern ukraine continues and this definitely only aggravates the situation since one person is already being killed why in a similar incidents another shell came from also the ukrainian side and we have heard statements from several senior russian officials including before and minister will say that so far moscow is incidents that's what they're warning that

if it will be established that these are deliberate attacks of them russian media was inspired using military perhaps as well go pers can offer porting their one of the deeply sensitive area around the crash site of malays in flight m.h. seventy militias report further clashes in the nearby towns of. ukraine's president had initially ordered you may recall that forty kilometer zone around the area where the plane came down that's been reduced now it's down to a twenty kilometer radius this week international teams just about managed to get to the scene of the tragedy but only after having been prevented several times before because of the ongoing fighting then on saturday the experts at the withdrawal from a nearby village of they heard artillery fire kiev an anti government forces still blaming each other for getting in the way of the ongoing maybe seventeen recovery in fact finding mission on the ground. now these are the latest pictures we've been

getting today from the outskirts of the regional capital donetsk it's still the main hub of antique air resistance as you can see residential areas getting caught up in the violence is ukrainian forces close in there one anti government strongholds we've also been getting pictures from lugansk to another target of kiev's military operation we've heard there that three civilians have been killed in the last twenty four hours. and in a week just gone some disturbing images emerge from that city a care home for the elderly was shelved there five residents died both sides again blaming each other for the deaths this is only one of the many examples of populated areas being attacked president petro poroshenko had vowed that civilians would not be targeted ukrainian military forces the national guard and other units would never allow themselves to do harm to civilians ukrainian soldiers will risk their own lives but won't ever threaten women children and elderly men this is

the eternal chivalrous nature of the ukrainian army well that's the official line but a u.n. report released this last week raised the alarm over the growing number of civilians being killed by shelling in eastern ukraine it says not enough being done to protect them locals are devastated by the ongoing fighting i mean you can you see you know. or you sell. your morning. you look you have to you go. this is a different part of the. world. praise right jump start you know i got up what i want you know when you thought. well if you're going well you know. what this is you know you know that i was taught. this is the.

view of. the. fetus is that what it was really for the little you. made him as it was some of your own which was you know did i just. small for pictures they were getting the job done reporting back those pictures back those facts is getting increasingly difficult for some journalists in the week an american working for ati is roughly video agency in west ukraine was kicked out of the country alina eprom yen was filming a rally of local activists when security forces detained and questioned her for several hours having both russian and american citizenship she says she thinks she was forced out because of a russian passport and the this is how a leader described the incident to me. journalist with a camera you know just there was a rather nice sticker on my tripod and straightaway said you know russia today

first of all they questioned me themselves about seven of them i gave them all the details that could give them i gave them my press cards i had nothing to hide and they're my colleagues obviously i have i wanted to give them all the information they needed and you know fifteen minutes later three policemen came and three officials came from national security so it's in ukraine and they were asking me so many questions taking all my details and then when they didn't they didn't believe that by american passport was real shouldn't picture of it so they followed me to the hotel until they could see the actual passport they asked me that i absolutely had to give my foot into a and they had to raise it. first of all they put it on their computers so some. of the officials has it right now they have all the footage that it took of myself being questioned and also at the protest. and they gave it back to me it was blank

it was not just a leader many russian crews are being deported and banned from ukraine but this is the first time a u.s. passport so this is being. in previous cases journalists were expelled assumes officials learned they were from russia last month u.k. reporter graeme phillips who was working in eastern ukraine for r.t. was arrested and also booted out of the country. as ukrainian crisis unfolds the mainstream media across the atlantic seems to be focusing on just one person these days the russian president next takes a look at where the american media is real interests lie them. president obama said he does not believe this growing tension with russia could be the beginning of the new cold war no. no it's not a new cold war one could only wish turn this thought the same or at least those who are making covers of magazines because some of them hark back to the cold war as if

they were made back in the day no matter how complicated an issue you can be almost certain that the media are going to boil it down to personalities well with ukraine it's one personality the russian president what does he do when he's working all for an outdoor adventure and why don't we see him smiling very much he's not really driven by. we're distracted by alcohol he's very tough he's a very arrogant. person to deal with. and what kind of diplomacy can you expect moving forward when diplomats use this kind of language this is the you came back to the united states speaking to me three adjectives you'd use to describe a lot of your proof. i'm not a poet but. i think. dishonest afraid comes to mind because we've had all these lies. but i think that's a reckless to makes one wonder if they really want to solve the problem or if

they're good with the current state of affairs the media focus on the russian president has had its effect on twitter where users came up with the hash tag putin and now many use it to comment on pretty much anything it didn't rain in my country today i blame poison for it or a mosquito just bit me blame putin and then to the report that former georgian president saakashvili doesn't want to go back to his country to stand trial and says he blames putin this use of goes if you are in trouble just playing. it washington i'm going to show. of course it's more than just finger pointing western nations finger pointing out russia of ukraine saw them for the tighten the screws this week but the toughest sanctions since the cold war america's latest measures then stop some of russia's banking heavyweight small parading in the united states on the list russia's second largest bank. which operates in europe asia and africa all sorts of security as well bank of moscow and russia is

a great cultural bank which funds the farming sector is being targeted along with the united shipbuilding corporation which is the country's largest holding that's falling out of punitive measures too but the us senate it seems isn't unanimous in its support for sanctions. you know after it. fell there was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend of tremendous potential they withdraw their troops from eastern europe. the russians. were open to all kinds of interacting and being korean part of the world community and a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered. meantime as far as brussels is concerned moves there too this week big ones it barred some of russia's banks from trading in european markets most notably put the country's oldest biggest banks per bank in the firing line energy sectors targeted to western know and equipment for offshore fuel exploration under a bug of russian companies and arms sales all through strict it worth noting in

twenty thirteen russia's global weapons exports market was worth a huge amount about fifteen billion dollars now analysts tell us that the measures are of course a two way street well it's kind of obvious i guess european businesses should prepare for cuts as well they say estimates in germany for example suggest it could lose six billion euros in exports to russia this year alone as moscow's number one e.u. trading partner berlin's got a lot at stake here the annual turnover between the two comes to some seventy six billion euros six thousand german companies operate in russia and that could have a far reaching effect of hundreds of thousands of german jobs depending on business here with russia in the economist michael ross spoke to us he believes europeans will have to pay the price them for this political gamble. when you talk to the people on the street when you talk to people who haven't run a business. executives in a big company they're not for the for the sanctions i can tell this to you because

sanctions never a one way street always a reaction to a sanction when it comes to this imposed sanctions or the sanctions that will be imposed on russia then of course the germans are the ones who are suffering most it's easy for united states to shout for sanctions but the ones who are suffering are the germans of those countries who are close to russia because they naturally have the biggest business implications. and on our website we've got more analysis more perspective of what repercussions the fresh sanctions are likely to have for the global economy cause that said. now coming up here we've got the story of modern day slavery well preparing for the world's most watched sporting event migrant workers in qatar the host of the twenty twenty two world cup still stuck without pay and working in a humane deadly conditions we got the details on that in a couple of. fish

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same time there's a reason they don't want you to now that are important that we should all be completely outraged and let's break the set. and britain's open to public inquiry into one of the most talked about deaths of the decade the murder of the former russian security officer alexander litvinenko he died eight years ago now after drinking tea poisoned with radioactive polonium in a london hotel when a culture of looks into the case. sick and lying on his death bed this is how the world got to know alexander litvinenko a former f.s.b. officer who fled russia and made london his new home it was his accusations against the russian government which propelled his not serai stories of senior officials in moscow supposedly ordering assassinations and carrying out terror attacks and the

world ate it up because litvinenko was presented as a famous this of and of somebody who was upsetting the kremlin who was revealing some sort of secrets that were upsetting president putin himself this was not the case at all it's been nearly eight years since alexander litvinenko death yet his family are nowhere near the truth and very pleased to receive this decision in the public inquiry and i know it's in the as a long time to wait and it's not as it munce is in the air but frankly if it were to see if this but why has it been such a long road to this truth let's take a look at what's been achieved so far british prosecutors accuse the two men co's former colleagues of murder and him durance he both deny and involvements russia refuses to extradite any of its own citizens because the constitution doesn't allow it the british inquest is delayed as the coroner decides

a public inquiry will be better ministers rule out that option the high court supports the idea of an inquiry so a public inquiry is announced the main twist to this case came after revelations litvinenko was allegedly working for m i six as well us with the spanish security services and this is precisely the kind of data which will now be scrutinized as a public inquiry das allow secret sensitive government material to be examined i do this not it gainst. not even. for just if i do this for two years i would like to show people you able to get justice in any difficult situation. a truth which could turn out to be uncomfortable to swallow for some marine a coster of our artsy in the way curtis spoke to little one because brother in an exclusive interview he's got his own theory about what happened last year an indian

when you're reading on the wall so far we haven't seen one official piece of evidence that would prove the cause of alexander's death it's been eight years and all we've had our interviews and newspaper articles as far as i know alexander was trainee agents for m i six in that time he found out a lot about the life of russian dissidents in the u.k. he didn't know any english and after he lost his job he wanted to start a business in russia of course his previous employers didn't like the idea of him going back so i suppose the western security services decided to get rid of him. and another case that reemerge this week to european courts have ordered russia to pay more than fifty billion dollars in damages to the former shareholders of you cos the defunct russian oil giant was owned by mikhail khodorkovsky was arrested for tax evasion in two thousand and three the firm is then sold off or went bankrupt all of which was legal according to moscow but the new court decision says you cause in fact illegally was seized by the kremlin one analyst told us that this

is just another move in a wider political game it strikes me as a very political decision the west manages to create this illusion. a lot of steering is in the judicial process and this is a joke that is just sort of called ski and here is these have been found guilty not only in russian courts but their guilty sentence for tax evasion fraud was upheld by the european court of human rights it is outrageous that anyone should imagine that russia is going to pay fifty billion dollars to these criminals. facebook's speed accused of sharing a bit too much in this case an austrian student river see he wants a social networks one point three billion users around the world to join him a legal battle over it as well could kick off big time this one read of mort's online from us also here's two of the deadly spread of a bowler's

a real worry in the infected u.s. doctor one two infected is now in atlanta to be treated in a special isolation unit as a second american with the virus has yet to be flown to keep you posted. another story we've been following closely over the last few months migrant workers in qatar who've been building the luxury offices for the organizers of the twenty twenty two world cup haven't been paid for a year some are stranded in the gulf states without paperwork after their employer went bust britain's guardian newspaper in the weeks been investigating how foreign workers are enduring conditions described as inhumane and is indeed modern day slavery it discovered how they were living in unsanitary conditions with power cuts and up to ten men living in tiny rooms at a time while working sixty seven days a week for ten hours in of course the scorching heat there many of reportedly died of heat stroke and cardiac arrest investigation also discovered how their id papers have been illegally taken from them and no medical care provided salaries were

apparently paid for the first few months but then the money stopped chair and borrow from the international trade union confederation believes other governments that have chose to turn a blind eye to what's happening there. look at tower is a slave state it's a modern day slave state you're up our own by one person so your contract is signed before you leave your home country but when you get to get the employer can often simply tear it up or not pay your wages or treat you in any oppressive way they like workers above desperate for working poor countries so most of these migrants are from nepal india the philippines parts of africa and they don't understand because nobody tells them what they will face when they get ticket. it's not given enough attention by international governments companies governments they can say thank you we don't want to work with you until you change

the words until you abolish the foulest system until you've put in place fundamental like the right. britain's investigated and activities of bahrain's top human rights activist nobel roger but his family had the passport seize last week as their arrived at heathrow airport where he spent two years in prison you may recall in bahrain for campaigning for greater democracy from bahrain strict monarchy that bill told us he's stuck in the u.k. no because of its hypocritical foreign policy towards the gulf region driven by arms sales and oil profits. in the ground the more oppression more people in detention for thousands of people behind bars thousands of people have to leave their country thousands of people are hitting a lot of people thought people were killed hundreds of people were wounded. hundreds and thousands of houses being raided in a year liberated a lot of houses being robbed by the security personnel so the oppression is the war

according to human rights. organizations including the united nation nobody want to speak about it because nobody want to anger about playing government because angering bahrain government is like anger in saudi government and everybody needs the oil from those three from those countries everybody need to make treaties are saved for those governments to be more world news headlines for a living this is our first intense earthquake has hit southwest china which is now known to killed at least three hundred sixty seven people by last count that's going up as well and injured nearly two thousand others the six point one magnitude quake it cracked open and toppled buildings forcing people to rush into the streets for safety some survivors describe seeing nothing ruins and buildings reduced to rubble the state news agency says it's the strongest to hit the united province in fourteen years. in washington d.c. hundreds of protesters called on barack obama to keep up the pressure and stop the

mass deportation of illegal immigrants the president is trying to smooth the path to citizenship for thousands of mexicans in america illegally that arrived in the u.s. as children but republicans want to force through legislation to send the undocumented an undocumented immigrant but without a hearing which the activists are saying is cruel. it's five minutes to one of the morning are mosco thanks for being without international news continues this week's headlines on the big stories of the day with me kevin though in just about five minutes time the. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world writes never.

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but i. feel i should nation's chief condemns the latest attack on a un school in gaza were at least ten have died as a criminal act as israel steps up its attacks well deploying troops along the border. the german newspaper claims israel's been bugging the u.s. secretary of state's phone while he's mediated peace talks with the palestinians. russian checkpoints come under fire from the ukrainian side just as european security observers were monitoring the crossing the same attack also reportedly hit a family home.