this is arts international tonight fears of a possible environmental catastrophe after several ukrainian army shells landed a chemical factory as kiev prepares for what it calls the final stage now of its liberation of the rest of east of the country. to battle the iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki refuses to step down as the country's president names a new premier maliki's forces are reportedly taking up key positions across baghdad and. swat teams are deployed to stop looting and street violence in the u.s. state of missouri after the killing of an unarmed black teenager by

a police officer we've got the latest on that coming up to. live from moscow at eight pm it's kevin i am with you very good evening to you first in this hour the kremlin army says it is entering the final stage of its mission to liberate donetsk but. this appears only to have meant stepping up its shelling of residential districts of east ukraine's biggest city leaving the people there the population on the brink of a humanitarian crisis thousands in the resistance stronghold have been living without electricity and heavy shelling crippling power stations across the city and now that a major water filtering plants also been destroyed by air raids several districts don't have water either meantime or major supply routes are being cut off leaving donetsk with a severe shortage of medicine russia says it's set to supply the threat regions.

with humanitarian help with the move already cleared by cable though earlier it had been opposed to any help from moscow and amid the ongoing violence the patients for example and star fear of this maternity unit have been forced to stay in a basement and this is say they managed to get upstairs only for about ten minutes to try to get food and use basic facilities but then the bombardment starts again also internet some of the snapshot of life here dozens of inmates have gone missing off the shelves pounded a local jail one prisoner died a number of others were injured when their cells were hit around one hundred convicted criminals apparently escaped trying to save their lives but about half remain at large tonight. so as kiev tries to wrest back control of the east a major new threats emerge the region houses schools of industrial facilities and plant managers raising the alarm know of a potential catastrophe these are projectiles that landed at a major chemical plant just outside of netscape's officials at the factory say that if the army carries on targeting its facilities there's

a very high risk of an environmental disaster areas. because. of the city and the chemical plant continue day and night i officially announced they're due to the irresponsible actions of the ukrainian army the citizens of ukraine russia and build roots are exposed to the deadly threat of an ecological disaster only daily bases the size of which cannot be calculated at minimal impact zone would be at least three hundred kilometers. or the chemical plant in got a lot of stores over two thousand tons of a substance known as blood poisoning used in paint production apparently no if it enters the body the experts say it can affect the heart the liver bone marrow it can even cause death on top of that there are also thirty tons of t.n.t. at that facility nearby ten thousand cubic meters of liquid ammonia reportedly stored exposures of that in high concentrations can lead to blindness lung damage and again death alister hey a professor of environmental toxicology told us more about the potential dangers

stored up here. if it is vaporized in some way and that would possibly be by tourette hicks with explosives. very intense fire chemical gas that's a date once it's in the air it is there for a very long time. degrades in the atmosphere very very slowly if it lands on stall or water it is also there for quite a long time it doesn't degrade it will easily that has implications obviously for people for the environment for any crops that are grown so really a chemical plant ought to be a no go zone in any conflict. other developments ukraine's inviting the red cross to organize aid for people in lugansk that's what president petro poroshenko told the u.s. secretary of state the eastern harbor resistance declared a humanitarian disaster last week rif an ocean is in the devastated city for us.

the ganske made that can bend but the rusty people here. those who didn't have a daily struggle to survive. the city has been without electricity for more than a week now but it's the shortage of water which poses the biggest humanitarian challenge. this woman is called middle aged and russian her name means home but she has little of that left dozens of the buckboard got busy keeping your feet nonstop on the job that we did go to the blue did you can chose a newbie insinuate what nicci a warm up mum she got not much of what is going to shut out the window bored you to my life or your usual storm i'm sure it's getting a bit of queues form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough fuel to go around. there you've done you've still as it just has been below grandstand we're not sure of wellness to meet you when you yell it premiered you have the new chip when you did it there at the birth her field near the steely

years and the other near the edge of the earth even the. thirtieth of what i was going to say that the the new coke so far and you'll have a good deal of oh no bourbon deal in the atmosphere yet or another food not just the build up and some of the city's district's residents have to use water pumps because it's a no go zone for trucks that could share out the precious liquid before you are out of the way of the work of the most innocent americans. that's what we're going to do this city with no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world there are big problems with connection now in the guns going all over the city and we couldn't get any signal anywhere but there are some places where people say you might be able to get at this one of the places we keep on trying and try and we hope but still we don't have any signal but what we don't like about this place resists warning signs saying attention do not call shelling area. but people still

try their luck they say the entire cities shelling area now and at least here they can talk to relatives and friends on the phone and. every day in the guns at least a dozen apartment buildings and private houses are hate by tillery fire some of them more than once. mccloy's flat is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was hurried when it was hate this plasma television is the only thing he managed to save he makes one more trip to salvage his belongings. but comes back minutes later empty handed. the u.n. estimates over one hundred seventeen thousand people accounted displaced inside ukraine and russia's authorities claim more than seven hundred thirty thousand

ukrainians have crossed the border since the conflict started but in lugansk and other cities across eastern ukraine often huddled together terrified in dark basements and other havens which aren't always as safe as they seem many more remain. raif notion. in the gonski ukraine. the overseas demanding that a russian photo journalist in terms of missing in ukraine for most a week now be released moscow's urge rights groups to help under a stand in world international says reporters should not be taken hostage period his colleagues from the state news agency of launched a twitter campaign with the hash tag free andrew he was reportedly detained by ukraine security services but that something was denying it was not the first time a journalist covering the conflict in east ukraine has gone missing just last month graham phillips a british national who was working for tea when he was seized by ukraine's that security forces disappeared for a couple of days before releasing phillips they also deny detaining him to keep you

posted also. next baghdad is bracing for a possible coup the country's u.s. backed president has named a new prime minister but incumbent nouri maliki is refusing to step down his forces are reportedly taking up positions now across baghdad he's no lost support of washington but had previously enjoyed it for years where maliki took up the premier's post in two thousand and six he was checked and approved then by the cia the position himself as a close friend of america rose eager to shake hands with george w. bush at the time in december two thousand and six he signed saddam hussein's death warrant claiming the execution was necessary to pay homage to human rights and other maliki apparently took a different approach to freedom of speech and he's now been accused of cracking down on the iraqi media since. let's go forward twenty ten fast forward there he also proclaimed himself interior minister reinforcing his grip on power and maliki

said at the time it was a temporary move but to look at it he's now held that post for years on on top of all that he's got his own private army a shia militia which you base his orders alone let's get some insight and analysis from savva who heads the arab loads association is joining us now live by their server given to it does mr maliki have enough backing to cling on to power here is he. exist hales in all not what's going to happen do you think now i think he has lost the power now that the new prime minister has been appointed the new prime minister is being welcomed by various political groups within the parliament and indeed even within the party of maliki. the french have said they congratulated him they are expecting him to set up a government so all these factors shows that maliki is gone however money he still has the a hold of the powers so he's got the military now surrounding the the green zone he's got tanks on on the bridges and he's going to unleash his militias against

his opponents whoever the opponents might be without from his party or from the other grouping or whoever. is going to get in his way i think this is the beginning of a new problem which is going to create quite a lot of mayhem among people we hope we are wrong maliki is preventing in claiming that he will go to court and ask for the court to issue a decision in fact it's the same court in two thousand and eleven to give a decision in his favor although he lost the election then now the court is giving a decision in his favor again although he has been no he's been bound by his other groups so the picture is still not clear but i think maliki is gone now it's the matter of how to deal with post my leaky situation putting it put him what to

do putting it bluntly don't think he's going to go without a proverbial fight oh no this man if you wanted to do it he would have done it a long time ago and he's been told by so many by the americans by his milestones by iran by his party by the shouts by the sudanese by sistan me everybody indicated to him one way or another please gul we don't. and your third because the constitution doesn't allow you to stay a third term he got the judge to issue a judgment saying yes he can and he's saying he would adhere to the decision of the court so this is this man is not going to go on without a fight he is willing to sacrifice anything and everything we're looking at. and situation you know and of course on top of all this we've got the islamic state advancing of the north of the country the u.s. has said hey we're here to help guys go to great lengths isn't it to try to beat back the islamists in northern iraq it's an oil rich region on top of all the humanitarian problems there is it or oil or humanitarian reasons why they're

getting involved again no three years on america well it's an irony when when president obama came he said that don't hold went in iraq was illegal and it's crazy and it is not good and now he's ending his presidency in the in this revisiting you're right in intervening in there and i think the intervention is probably more of a. propaganda situation it's more of a media sure because the idea that you can fight terrorism from the air is a nonstarter anyway there is a serious humanitarian problem in that region instead of giving aid in how he's sending bombers which doesn't bode well it is going to reflect badly because the rest of the muslims in iraq who are the majority are going to say when we were being killed by the americans and by maliki nobody decided that we need help now that the christians are having this so so there is this this is a creation of a new problem within the country to come back to bite as you say just one final

thought how much of a danger is this islamic state to the greater west if you like to the greater world outside the borders of northern iraq now quite honestly in my view the biggest present is for the iraqis the iraqis are paying the price out of a can not only here and obama and i stop the world yes of course vast. concerned about terrorism terrorism knows no more of the bulk of the brunt of this terrorist act is being borne by the iraqis and it is only the iraqis that they will get rid of it you cannot do it from the outside provided that the outside does not treat the uprising as isis uprising several more live from london the head of the arab lawyers association thanks for your thoughts it's forty minutes past eight at night here coming up in the next few minutes how to game so to injury was the walls put on hold palestinian funds messages of carnage left by israeli troops on the walls

of the ruined flats have something to greet more on that than after the break also to torture and killing amnesty international reports on what it says could be war crimes committed by u.s. troops in afghanistan.

crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. well again rights are upset over night in the u.s. state of missouri over the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager by a police officer locals say they've had enough of law enforcement brutality of what they call racial profiling our correspondent got the latest. this monday michael brown black teenager was to begin his first day in college crowd

gathered to hold a vigil for him on sunday with people struggling to understand how police could shoot an unarmed teenager in broad daylight but the gathering quickly turned violent as anger and frustration took over about one hundred fifty officers in riot gear along with a swat team were sent to the area the teenager was shot eight times the officer involved in michael brown's killing has not been identified he was reportedly put on administrative leave this shooting triggered a deep frustration in the country about police brutality and racial profiling and the fact. that many officers get away with it nothing was captured on the bystanders camera new york police suspect the man of selling individual cigarettes i do so do you think it's moments later an officer puts him in what appears to be a choke hold and brings him to the ground. where forty three year old barry gardner

can be heard saying i can't breathe several times if you need. air garnett died lying at the feet of those police officers leaving behind a wife and six children my son is missing this day the officer who put very garnered in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty the video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local communities why has the city not a bargain a campaign that targets zero deaths of police brutality but it's not just newark police that is being accused of using excessive force in recent months in arizona police confronted university professors or for jaywalking. was back i was never asked what my name was i was never told what i was in violation of. in california fifty one year old marlene pinnock was walking along

the highway when a patrol officer straddled her and began repeated lee punching her upper body. the woman is known to be homeless and reportedly suffering from psychiatric problems i think much of the brutality comes from cultural problem where police officers have used to school approach in a power structure where they see that they can get away where almost anything because they are the police video cameras have only captured some incidents but many more took place away from the public eye more and more people filmed their interactions with the police on camera one officer from new jersey was caught saying this to someone who argued he had a constitutional right to take pictures in a certain area or they were carrying a writing course for office this. week so i'm sure there's a forecast for you if the officer apologized for the statement then resigned as the

case is so brutality and well documented on camera casts a shadow on the thousands upon thousands of police officers who diligently do their work in cities across america but the hope is that greater public awareness will make some police officers think twice before abusing someone in washington i'm going to check out our team. israeli and palestinian delegations are in cairo hoping to secure a longer term ceasefire the latest temporary truce appears to be holding after begun late on sunday the conflict over a month flow has claimed all the nineteen hundred palestinian lives and is left gaza are in ruins. so mass officials say rocket attacks will resume in the three days of negotiations brokered by egypt lead nowhere the militants want the blockade of gaza lifted but

on the other side of it israel says easing access to the area will only allow hamas to restock its weapons the previous seventy two hour truce ended on friday and at least twenty palestinians have been killed since that. many gaza residents return to their devastated homes during the cease fire as they searched for their belongings in all that rubble some of them though found messages in hebrew apparently left by israeli soldiers this one for example reads pursue your read only until you catch and destroy him and this one particular says welcome guests says this house was federally remodeled we hope you like it and no one final one of the walls hear the word peace written in large letters even without these mocking insults of course though the conflict to cement an anger among people on both sides of the border is harry fear scott. since the latest israel gaza conflict began there's been a spike in racial violence and tension between jews and arabs throughout both

yorkie pite territories and israel itself the army installed its system of checkpoints here in two thousand and six now thousands of palestinians who live in the west bank but work inside israel masse cue from dawn to reach their workplaces for business hours their attitude to us since the war began has changed completely they have become more aggressive even now when we try to find transport to get to work there's discrimination in the yorkie pide west bank civilians continue to suffer from what they say are random attacks by settlers in one recent incident an eight year old girl was hit by. palestinians labeled it as a terror incident. since the war began we really feel that the settlers one leaves the house with fear in his heart the situation's not like before and some israelis say they too now live in a climate of fear i am in the wife and and i when i walk him back i'm

just so i can't drive my myself. an arabic drive come to take me from my home and i'm scared i'm scared i'm scared to drive them because there was a case of a murder. a girl that go to her woke and they killed her i'm living here for eight years didn't feel any suspicion but it's politics this is the symbol. that only from here but hamas i didn't choose. they voted for him for the summers and now though we've been get the bomb but. needless to say the palestinian people see the current situation from a very different perspective as palestinians we cannot accept living in occupation we cannot accept to be violated on daily bases and say we are fine with it by listing as the people because of what the order they hear people because they are

jews simply by listing the urns do not accept occupation and its policy harry fear artsy jerusalem but if you get a minute check out our web site today the r.t. dot com we've compiled a picture gallery called stolen childhood containing images of children guards the trap of violence. and you honestly international report has slammed the u.s. military over the torture and killing of civilians in afghanistan calling the apparent war crimes that have gone on punished air strikes were responsible for approximately one thousand civilian deaths another key source of civilian casualties was nice collation of so-called force incidents when civilians were fired on at checkpoints or near military convoys now the report says the u.s. military falls far short of what's needed to ensure accountability for the alleged war crimes international steve crawshaw told us what incidents the human rights group regards as war crimes in afghanistan one end of the spectrum if they are

extrajudicial executions in other words if you just come in and kill civilians right there then clearly if you torture somebody to death that's clearly a war crime but beyond that what we're seeing is for example in our strikes where we see that it was only civilians who died for example a group of women girls and women collecting firewood or seeing an absolute lack of accountability we're seeing a lack of investigation we're seeing a lack of any consequence and so we have as you see scenes say seen some high profile cases in general those have tended to come when he's the person's own comrades have kind of. brought this forward where the or third is that we really to bring it forward the trouble is we have a situation where the military is ready to investigate itself military commanders kill themselves over rule. whether there is going to be an investigation or not we need to have external involvement we need to have above all the us or thirty's the us military themselves should of course wish to get to the bottom of things they should not wish crimes take place and if they are then they should really wish to

investigate for war the top will be headlines now around one hundred inmates who escaped from the main prison of haiti of this attack by our government the rate is met almost no resistance apparently among those who skate was a wealthy haitian being held on kidnapping charges so far only ten of the inmates have been recaptured. the president of liberia has no quarantine the entire county to contain your bowler there the army will force the quarantine in the region which has a population of two hundred seventy thousand the move comes on the same day the ivory coast banned all flights from a boulder affected countries globally since december twenty third almost a thousand people have been killed by incurable virus. turkey's current prime minister. was on the country's first ever direct presidential elections of fifty two percent of the vote is two rivals were a little moment diplomat than a kurdish politician the presidential vote took place just three months after reading and would conservative party one local. russia and china have

a greater create a joint university the project will be a collaboration between moscow state university and the beijing university of technology a new campus is set to be open to the chinese to shen's in then in twenty fifteen students there are set to be taught in russian chinese and english and they will receive. thanks your company or our teacher night speciated i'm kevin away about the next live update just over half an hour from now after the break crosstalk looking at the ramifications of washington's policy of containing its biggest rivals that's next here on r.t. . international. it was recently revealed that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as

tourists young latin americans were sent to cuba by the u.s. government to overthrow that government yes the u.s. agency for international development organized for these young people to go to cuba to recruit and set up new political activists however the infiltrators were not very good at their jobs and the cuban authorities were able to nab these well funded travelers in their country this is nowhere near the first time that the u.s. government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine usa he tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is the justification why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right do you want doesn't have nukes put in america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure

out their own future without the us state department's help but that's just my opinion. and. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world. i don't think civil to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger in the bushes. plaining about the son of an alumni gives millions of dollars to the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school if schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly.