a few weeks ago we discussed detroit's plans to shut off water to those who can't pay their bills logically one of basic human assess if 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 hour and 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 and safe 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 disperse

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welcome back to today's headlines and the week's top stories here on r.t. international now there have been a series of incidents at a russian checkpoint on the border with ukraine a russian t.v. crew from these vesta channels as a shell fired from the ukrainian side exploded near them earlier on sunday european security monitors confirm they witnessed a separate attack while another shell reportedly damaged a nearby residential home on the russian side with more on the. 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 show came from the ukrainian side and there are also reports that another show 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 show came from also the ukrainian side and we have heard statements from several senior russian officials including before and minister of the say that so far moscow on these incidents that's what they're warning that if it will be established that these are deliberate attacks and then russian media was. using military perhaps as well. in the deeply sensitive area around the crash site of malaysian flight m.h. seventy militias report further clashes in the nearby towns of shocked and told us now ukraine's president had initially ordered a forty kilometer no combat zone around the area where the plane came down but that's now been reduced to a twenty kilometer radius this week international teams just about managed to get

to the scene of the mh seventeen tragedy but only after having been prevented several times because of the ongoing fighting there on saturday the experts withdrew from a nearby village after they heard artillery fire kiev and down to government forces still blame each other for getting in the way of the emirate seventeen recovery and the fact finding mission and these are the latest pictures we're getting from the outskirts of the regional capital down yet one of the main hubs of until resistance residents are being killed in heavy shelling as ukrainian forces close in on anti-government strongholds and the latest military attack on another eastern city of new guns reportedly left three civilians dead and at least eight injured several buildings including a school under supermarket also suffered heavy damage. some disturbing images emerged from the city earlier this week a care home for the elderly was shelled and five residents were killed both sides are blaming each other for the deaths this is one of many examples of populated areas being attacked president petro poroshenko had previously vowed the 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 threaten women children and elderly men this is the eternal chivalrous nature of the ukrainian army so that's the official line but a u.n. report released this week has raised the alarm over the growing number of civilians being killed by shelling in eastern ukraine is not enough is being done to protect them locals are devastated by the ongoing fighting. i mean when you say leave you or he's out of obscene you go when you get that you can morning you knew you would say you cover the collusion. we've also talked with. the.

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break up the concert of the ukrainian singer several people were injured and to react to this were reportedly detained just three months ago forty eight people most of the monte government protesters were killed in a desert during the standoff with radical cleric activists. and reporting the facts is getting increasingly difficult for some and journalists an american working for artie's ruptly video agency in western ukraine has been kicked out of the country alina yepremian 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 was forced out because of how a russian passport is how alina 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 of history i have i wanted to give them all the information they needed and you know when fifteen minutes later three policemen came and three officials came from national security service 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 my 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 footage away 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 or many russian crews have been deported from ukraine but this is the first time a u.s. citizen has been kicked out in previous cases journalists were expelled as soon as

officials learned they were from russia last month u.k. reporter graham phillips who was working in eastern ukraine for r.t. was arrested and then booted out of the country fortified by ok as the ukrainian crisis unfolds the mainstream media across the atlantic seem to be focusing on just one person that's the russian president gone into context a look of where the american media is real interests lie. 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 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 a 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 a hash tag putin and now many use it to comment on pretty much anything it didn't

rain in my country today i blame voting 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 putin in washington i'm going to show. well the strongest sanctions against russia since the cold war have been put in place over the ukrainian crisis america's latest measures stop some of russia's banking heavyweights from operating in the united states on the list russia's second largest bank the tb which also operates in europe asia and africa as well as his subsidiary bank of moscow russia's agricultural bank the which funds the farming sector has also been targeted and the united shipbuilding corporation which is the country's largest holding falls under the punitive measures as well but the us senate isn't unanimous in its support for sanctions you

know after the soviet union 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 coming part of the world community and a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered. brussels is also barred some of russia's banks from trading in european markets it puts the country's biggest and oldest bank in the firing line the energy sector was also targeted western know how and equipment for offshore fuel exploration is under embargo for russian companies arms sales are also restricted in two thousand and thirteen russia's global weapons export market was worth around fifteen billion dollars analysts tell us that the measures are a two way street and european businesses should prepare for cuts as well as estimates in germany suggest it could lose six billion euros in exports to russia

this year alone as moscow's number one a huge trading partner berlijn has plenty at stake the annual turnover between the two comes to around seventy six billion euro six thousand german companies operate in russia and that could have a far reaching effect on hundreds of thousands of german jobs dependent on the business with russia economist michael morris believes europeans will have to pay the price for this political gamble when you talk to the people on the street when you talk to people who have a run a business or executives in a big company there are not for the journey for this sentence i can tell is to you because sanctions never are a one way street you have always a reaction to a sanction and when it comes to this imposed sanctions or the sanctions it will be in polls on russia then of course the germans are the ones who are suffering was this easy for united states to shop for the engines but the ones who are suffering

are the germans or those countries who are close through russia because they naturally have the biggest business implications. website we've got more analysis on perspective on what repercussions the fresh for the global economy coming up we've the story of modern day slavery preparing for the world's most watched sporting event. twenty twenty two world cup still stuck without. humane deadly conditions we'll have details for you in a few minutes and. react to situations i have read the reports from. the no i will leave the state department comment on your point of the month to say. mr kerry a car is on the docket. thank you no more weasel words.

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the week's top stories here on r.t. international and britain has opened a public inquiry into one of the most talked about debts of the decade the murder of former russian security officer alexander litvinenko he died eight years ago after drinking tea poisoned with radioactive polonium in a london hotel artie's marina cossar of a looks into the case. sick and lying on his deathbed 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 see this decision in the public inquiry and i know it's in there as a long time to wait and it's not as it months is in the air but finally 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 of the sides of 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 does allow secret sensitive government material to be examined i do this not it gainst. russia not. this for just if i do this for two years i would like to show people you able to get justice in it any difficult to create a chef. a truth which could turn out to be uncomfortable to swallow for some marine a cost of artsy a latte spoke to live in yonkers brother in an exclusive interview he has his own theory about what happened. and then when the 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 training agents for amite 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 at this week to european courts have ordered that russia pay more than fifty billion dollars in damages to the former shareholders of you cos they defunct russian oil giant was owned by mikhail khodorkovsky who was arrested for tax evasion in two thousand and three the firm was then sold off and went bankrupt all of which was legal according to moscow the new court decision says you cos was in fact illegally seized by the kremlin one analyst told us they say is just another move in a wider political game it strikes me as a very political decision the west manages to create this illusion of fair play of rule of law of steering this in the judicial process and this is

a bad joke mr holder called ski and he is he's have been found guilty not only in russian courts but that guilty sentence for tax evasion and 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. on a whim and a prayer the leaders of germany's three largest religious religions are set to build a joint place of worship now they need is the money and they're trying to get people to donate the nearly fifty million euros needed online you can find the details visit our website for more on the dot com also there are no you're not seeing double this is a parade in the united states that is only for twins all the details online for you . migrant workers in cattle who've been building the luxury offices for the organizers of the two thousand and

twenty two world cup haven't been paid for a year some are stranded in the gulf state without paperwork after their employer went bust now britain's guardian newspaper has been investigating how foreign workers are enduring conditions described as inhumane and as modern day slavery now we discovered how they were living in unsanitary conditions with power cuts and up to ten men living in tiny rooms or working six or seven days a week for ten hours a day in scorching heat many have reportedly died of heat stroke or cardiac arrest the investigation also discovered how their id papers were illegally taken from them and no medical care is provided salaries were apparently paid for the first few months but then the money stopped sharon barry from the international trade union confederation believes other governments have chosen to turn a blind eye. 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 out or not pay you 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 i 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 and t. you change the lords until you abolish the foulest system until you put in place a fundamental labor right. britain is investigating the activities of bahrain's top human rights activist now bill rajeeb and his family had their passport seized last

week as they arrived at heathrow airport he spent two years in a bar in prison for campaigning for greater democracy from bahrain strict manas monarchy and bill told us he's stuck in the u.k. because of its hypocritical foreign policy towards the gulf region driven by arms sales and oil profits. in the ground more oppression more people in detention for thousands of people behind bars thousands of people have read 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 the yearly basis a lot of houses being robbed by the security person so the repression is the worst according to human rights. organizations including the united nations nobody want to speak about it because nobody want to anger to bring government because angering bahrain government is like anger in saudi government and everybody needs go either from those three from those countries everybody need to make treaties are safe for

those governments so who's today's world news now is an intense earthquake which hits southwest china is now known to have killed at least three hundred sixty seven people injured nearly two thousand others the six point one magnitude quake cracked open and toppled buildings forcing people to rush into the streets for safety some survivors describe seeing nothing but ruins and buildings reduced to rubble a state news agency says is the strongest to hit the union province in fourteen years. militants from the jihadist group islamic state have continued their arms sweep through iraq taking control of the country's largest dam they've also taken three more towns under their control as well as an oil field overrunning the dam is a major coup for the militants who can use it to stage attacks and yet more cities formally known as isis the islamic state has declared a caliphate over a large swathe of land extending from southern syria deep into iraq.

thing in the middle east not least thirteen soldiers and two civilians have been killed in north east in lebanon as syrian rebels clashed with the army thirteen security force members were taken hostage by the militants the national front militias have attacked several military checkpoints on the border as they try to really set fire to help by the lebanese army. the rains have lashed southern europe bringing areas and a handful of countries to a standstill in northern italy at least four people were killed and more than twenty injured when a flash flood tore through a festival two people have drowned in bulgaria and more than nine hundred five hundred one are of a bus its banks and floods have paralyzed the turkish city of istanbul backing up traffic across the city. and i'll be back with more news on this week's headlines in just a few minutes they were naughty international stay with us. crosstalk

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united nations chief condemns the latest attack on a un school in gaza criminal acts ten people died in the incident as israel steps up its average tax deploying ground troops along the border. a german newspaper friends israel's been bugging the u.s. secretary of state while he mediated peace talks with the palestinians. russian checkpoints come under fire from ukrainian territory just as european security observers were monitoring the crossing. reports of a family hired by. the international the malaysian plane crashes.