if you see if you see a t.v. . but it was. live from moscow nine pm 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 its liberation of the rest of the east of the country. battled iraqi prime minister nuri maliki refuses to step down as the country's president names a new premier maliki's forces reportedly taking up the positions across baghdad now and. riot lockdown swat teams are deployed to stop looting and street violence in the u.s. state of missouri after the killing of unarmed black teenager by a police officer. i

followed a very good evening chief which is george's small arms kevin zero in this is r t international first in this says it's entering quote the final stages of its mission to liberate donetsk but so far this appears only to have meant stepping up and shelling of residential districts of east ukraine's biggest city leaving the people there on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe thousands in the resistance stronghold have been living without electricity with heavy shelling crippling power stations across the city and now to a major water filled plants also been destroyed by air raids that's left several districts without any drinking water meantime or major supply routes a big cut off leaving donetsk with a severe shortage of medicine as well russia says it's set to supply the threatened regions with humanitarian aid with the move. already know cleared by the earlier

had been opposed to any help from moscow amid the ongoing violence the patients and staff for instance of this maternity unit have been forced to stay in the basement nurses say they managed only to get upstairs for about ten minutes at a time to try and get food and basic facilities there though the bombardment starts again also internet is not a snapshot of life dozens of it makes them go missing off the shelves posted the local jail one prisoner died there a number of others were injured when the cells were hit around one hundred convicted criminals escape try to save their lives about half of that mr tonight. as killed tries to wrest back control of the east and a major new threat submerged the region how did scores of industrial facilities and plant managers are now raising the alarm of a potential catastrophe these are projectiles that landed at a major chemical plant just outside the nets officials at the factory said that if the army carries on targeting its facilities there's a high risk of an environmental disaster. of the city and the

chemical plant continue day and night i officially announced they're due to irresponsible actions of the ukrainian army the citizens of ukraine russia and belarus are exposed to the deadly threat of an ecological disaster on a daily bases the size of which cannot be calculated the minimal impact zone would be at least three hundred kilometers this chemical plant you're seeing there in stores over two thousand tons of a substance known as blood poison apparently is used in the production of paint if it enters the body the experts say the folks the liver bone marrow worst case it can cause death on top of all that there are also thirty tons of t.n.t. at that facility nearby ten thousand cubic meters of liquid ammonia are also reportedly being stored exposure to that in high concentrations could lead to blindness learned damage and again death. now as we heard just a moment but from a plant spokesperson potentially could than effect near or over three hundred

kilometers in radius that would reach as far as russia's will stop region for instance and the waters of the as of the black sea the factories just one of one hundred forty five with potential biohazards located across the donetsk region which is now a war zone that these thirteen cities in the area have chemical plants that are considered to be at risk as to hey a professor of environmental toxicology told us more about the potential dangers looming here than. if it is vaporized in some way and that would possibly be by direct hits with explosives or the very intense fire the chemical gas that's a great once it's in the air it is there for a very long time. degrades in the atmosphere very very slowly if it lives on small or water it is also there for quite a long time it doesn't degrade 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. ukraine's avoiding the red cross now to organize aid for people in lugansk that's what president petro poroshenko told the u.s. secretary of state the eastern help of resistance declared a humanitarian disaster last week reflections in the devastated city for us. the ganske made luke abandoned but the rusting people here. those who didn't flee 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. in russian her name means home but she has little of that left logical but bummed out is even your fault not be double up with one beach well you did it doesn't look good you can show it's a need be insinuate what you cheer war got numb she got most of what's going to get that out but you know what you chill my little you know mom you're discussing it

because of q.'s form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough fuel to go around you'll know who they were there you don't you still i just as been below grandstanding you're not going to well nice to meet you when you yell at them if you have the nietzschean when you didn't get it real thorough feelingly up the up studio earlier here's an idea the near of the edge of the earth serve in the cool. editors of both of us did say that the new book so far and you'll never get the deliver but then billionaire financier. of the bowler and some of the city's districts residents have to use water pumps because it's a no go zone for trucks that could share out the precious liquid of fluid as well all of it was you were part of much of this stuff. and that's what we're going to do this city with no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world

. the big problems with connection now in the guns going all over the seats here we couldn't get any signal anywhere but there are some places where people say you might be able to connect this is one of the places we keep on trying and trying 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 shell an area. but people still try their luck they say they in ties cities a 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. nicholas flood 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 and he handed. the u.n. estimates over one hundred seventeen thousand people a confidence placed 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 and dark basements and other havens which aren't always as safe as they seem many more remain. in lugansk ukraine. at the developments the overseas demanding the russian photo journalist who's been missing in ukraine for almost a week now be released moscow's urge rights groups to help under a stand in well most international says reporters should not be taken hostage his colleagues from the real novice to use agencies know launched

a twitter campaign with the hash tag free andrew he was reportedly detained by ukraine security service but that's something that gives denying worth bearing in mind that it's not the first time a journalist covering the conflict in east ukraine has gone missing last month graham phillips from britain was working for r.t. when he was seized by ukraine security forces before releasing phillips they had also denied detaining him. baghdad is bracing for a possible coup the country's u.s. backed president's name a new prime minister now but incumbent nuri maliki is refusing to step down his forces are reportedly taking up positions across baghdad he's now lost the support of washington but had previously enjoyed it for years where maliki took up the premier's post in two thousand and six at that time he was checked in approved by the cia he positioned himself as a close friend of america always eager to shake hands with george w. bush that in december two thousand and six he signed saddam hussein's death warrant claiming the execution was necessary to pay homage to human rights however maliki

apparently took a different approach to freedom of speech and has been accused since of cracking down on the iraqi media in twenty ten you also proclaimed yourself interior minister reinforcing his grip on power maliki said it was a temporary move at the time but he still holds that post four years old on top of that he's got his own private army a shia militia which a base his orders alone get some reaction from antiwar activists brian becker joining us on the line now from d.c. father brian the last guest those folks who last hours said that maliki wasn't going to go without a fight do you think we'll see a coup attempt by maliki here. well we can see the u.s. government has made its move they want mali gone they believe that there needs to be a new face on the iraqi government a new way to patch together a unity government in order to save the country or. prosecute the struggle against the islamic with a leaky who was as you said hand-picked by the united states in two thousand and six and has ruled with an iron fist and has carried out a war against sunni areas

a war that sectarian war that's brutal a war that's alienated that parts of the population and fracture the country my leaky doesn't want to go and now he's accusing a possible coup d'etat it was the president in iraq who has occurred to us set up a confessional system on lebanon and so the presidency is held by a kurd he was the one who announced that there should be a new slate a new prime minister maliki is hunkered down they have tanks in the green zone we don't know what will happen it's possible that a wreck is coming apart again as a consequence a direct consequence of u.s. intervention and their occupation strategy was reckless feckless and now we can see a failed policy with all this change at the top with all this some certainty at the top you mentioned just now the islamic state use that they're only a couple of dozen kilometers outside baghdad at the moment they use that to try to make inroads into baghdad do you think. well the united states is signaling with the recent airstrikes in erbil in the kurdish area that there are certain red lines

they i think are are willing to let the islamic state hold big parts of iraq and not challenge them but if they come in baghdad which is the center of u.s. influence or erbil which is the center of the kurdish regional government another center of u.s. influence or jordan that will be a red line they're signaling the islamic state we don't necessarily challenge where you hold territory but don't challenge american interests where america still has the sites of influence in those parts of iraq or in jordan which are considered strategic asset what's worst case scenario there we've got some top u.s. officials saying the islamic state how this are a direct threat to the west and let's. use his image one image is being used to back this claim is thought of a young australian boy this guy holding up the set of the head of a syrian soldier we think. that. we've done our best to authenticate it but it's being used anyway as the evidence that the islamic state is a big threat to the west it well if the islamic state as i said threatens to take

the region the kurdish regional government erbil where a lot of the oil is or if they take baghdad or try to wear again that controls the southern oil regions of iraq or if they move on jordan which is considered a strategic asset the u.s. will view it as a threat to the west east will be islamic state is a reactionary awful organization but why is it in existence why did it get strong because the us fueled arms into the civil war in syria fueling arms to that same entity and of course the us fractured iraq allowing this group to grow three years ago they had six military operations just six and now they're a dynamic military force again as a consequence perhaps the unintended consequence but the consequence nonetheless of u.s. policy in iraq that has shredded that country as a national entity well the u.s. now says it's doing its best to try to make amends for that it's just cut in its fifth strike is it there because of the oil wells or because of the he wanted tarion crisis ribbit bugs. well we can see the islamic state has carried out

executions mass executions in syria and in other parts of iraq that by itself did not generate a u.s. military response but when they threatened or below which is the center as i said of the kurdish regional government where there are north northern iraq oil supplies are or if it threatens baghdad then of course it becomes imperative for the united states to try to carry out a military strike it's not the humanitarian crisis that's generating u.s. policy u.s. government really is kill as it's cynical about humanitarian causes and needs but they always dress up their mission with a noble sounding cause humanitarian of course is one of them life from u.s. capitol antiwar activists brought back a fun spring out to international thank you. thank you for watching us to come at fourteen has passed not at night moscow time just ahead adding insult to injury as the bill was put on hold promise to indians find. a party left by israeli troops on the walls of the room and departments talk about that after the break also coming

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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. captured on the bystanders camera new york police suspect the man of selling individual cigarettes i do so and just 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 this is the day of the officer who put very garner in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local communities why has the city not a bargain here been. targets zero deaths of police brutality but it's not just newark police that has been accused of using excessive force in recent months in arizona police confronted university professors or for jaywalking. i was never asked what my name was was never told but i was in violation of. in california at fifty one year old marlene pinette quote is walking along the highway when a patrol officer straddled her and began with p.

diddley punching her upper body. the woman is known to be homeless and reportedly suffering from psychiatric problems i think much of the brutality sounds firm cultural problem with police officers have been used to school from which in a power structure where 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 paper for prostitution for you is the officer apologised 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 plan palestinian delegations a stint in cairo hoping to secure a longer term ceasefire but the latest temporary truce appears to be holding off for begun late on sunday the conflict now over a month long is claimed more than nineteen hundred palestinian lives and left gaza in ruins. some hamas officials say rocket attacks will resume in three days if negotiations brokered by egypt lead nowhere the militants want the blockade of gaza lifted but

israel says easing access to the area will only allow hamas to restock its weapons again the previous seventy two hour truce ended on friday at least twenty palestinians have been killed since then. another snapshot of what's going on there many gaza residents returned to the devastated homes during the cease fire and as they search for their belongings in the rubble some of the messages like these and hebrew probably left by israeli soldiers this one for example reads pursue your enemy until you catch and destroy him is another cause ticker offense welcome to guests it says his house was thoroughly remodeled we hope you like it. now on another wall look what we got here that says peace written large in big letters even without these mocking insults of the conflict cementing anger among people on both sides of the border it has to be said as harry fear found. since the latest israel gaza conflict began there's been a spike in racial violence and tension between jews and arabs throughout both the

occupied territories and his relit solve 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 must queue 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 pined 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 a car palestinians labeled it a settler terror incident. since the war began were really few of 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 in back i'm

just so i can't devise 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 go to a while and they killed her. but that's politics this is the symbol. of the. hamas i choose. they voted for him for the summers and no though we've been worried they get their bombs on them. 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 years do not hit people because of what they are or are they to hit people

because they are jews simply by listing ians do not accept occupation and its policy harry fear r.t. jerusalem. if you give me a check and a website they are to dot com a composite picture gallery called stolen childhood contains images of children garza living trapped in the violence that has affected their lives so badly the city of. new amnesty international report slammed the us military of the torture and killing of civilians in afghanistan calling these apparent war crimes that have gone unpunished airstrikes are responsible for approximately one thousand civilian deaths and other key sources of alien casualties was an escalation of so-called force incidents when civilians were fired on at checkpoints or near military convoys the report says the u.s. military falls far short of what's needed to ensure accountability for the alleged atrocities too unless 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 an strikes where we see that it was only civilians who died for example a group of women and 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 seems to say seeing some high profile cases in general those have tended to come when. the person's own comrades have kind of brought this forward and where the authenticity really to bring it forward the trouble is we have a situation where the military is ready to investigate itself military commanders can themselves overrule. whether there is going to be an investigation or not we need to have external involvement we need to have above all for us or for it is the u.s. 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. three more tonight's top stories in brief the president of liberia is now quarantined an entire county to try to contain the a bowl or break 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 of over affected countries globally since december twenty third almost a thousand people now have been killed by what appears to be at the moment an incurable its. current prime minister the guitar bedouins won the country's first ever direct presidential election though the fifty two percent of the vote is two rivals were a little moment diplomat and a kurdish politician a presidential vote took place just three months afterwards conservative party one local elections. russia and china have agreed to create a joint university the project will be a collaboration between moscow state university and the beijing university of technology

a new campus will be opened in the chinese town of jensen in twenty fifty students they are said to be taught in russian chinese in english and they will receive jewel degrees. thanks for being without international is exactly twenty seven minutes past nine at night now the next live news update with me kevin zero in thirty three minutes hence but before that after the break we've got a report lined up about the wall of silence surrounding sexual assault at u.s. colleges. it was recently revealed that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as tourists you know 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 was just 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.

you got a lot of sneering and not getting fast for your engagements here in russia especially public appearances frequent and even though they weren't explicitly politically or just supporting sports. some people's regime has become very adept at is controlling the media to sample. right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i think i have an agenda i think through gender is is bought and paid for. america's colleges which through hollywood's television and the media have become very familiar. with vast campuses american football it's cheap and.