by a bunch. like. as in there's more than just the one. i'm the red. one so we're. coming up on arx me over the weekend the u.s. continued airstrikes and supply drops to fight isis in iraq so far american boots are not on the ground but u.s. weapons are an update just ahead. and a teenager is dead and crowds are taking to the streets in violent protests in missouri they want to know why a young unarmed man was killed by police we look at the case from st louis that's shining a spotlight on police shootings. and new talks are under way to end the war in gaza both sides are meeting in egypt under another seventy two hour cease fire but there are no signs of anyone backing down as time ticks away more on that later in the

show. it's monday august eleventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan the your watching our team america. the u.s. involvement in iraq is growing as islamic islamic militants gain momentum in the country's north u.s. air strikes over the weekend hit multiple locations around the city of irbil intending to keep the militant group known as isis at bay other strikes were intended to defend members of the izzy religious minority from isis attacks american air aircraft also drop food and water for thousands of years edis who have been trapped on a mountaintop in singe are but the strikes are just a part of an overall american effort to quell the conflict in iraq while the u.s. says it has no plans to send in troops artie's amir

a david brings us more on the obama administration's arming of the fighters on the ground. the obama administration is beginning to directly provide weapons to kurdish peshmerga forces to fight off islamic militants senior officials who announce the decision to the press on the condition of anonymity what i say exactly what types of weapons are being sent nor what government agency would be leading this effort now this comes as the islamic state militants threaten civilians and the u.s. consulate in the northern city of erbil in response the obama administration quickly moved some american diplomats out of the city erbil is a very strategic city in iraq and not just because it's home to american personnel but that he also happens to be the capital of iraq's kurdistan region located just east of mosul kurdistan is a geo cultural area in the middle east that shares parts of iraq iran and turkey now since the fall of saddam hussein iraqi kurds have built

a semi thomas region with their own regional government armed forces and even oil dependent economy but with isis is growing in strength and the possibility of kurdistan a generally secure region falling to the islamic state president obama has decided to up the u.s. involvement some say this could further fragment iraq which is already heavily divided the latest military action is storing a hot debate here in washington over what kind of role the u.s. should really have in this conflict with republicans like senator lindsey graham slamming the president for not doing more take a look at how the senator addressed president obama just yesterday mr president you have never once broken directly to the american people about the threat we use from being attacked from syria now iraq or lose your strategy the strategy to stop these people from attacking the homeland be expressed a desire to do so so there's no political reconciliation in baghdad going to

protect the american homeland that has to be a commander in chief with a strategy and a vision this commander in chief has no strategy has no vision opposing that position was senator ben cardin who says there is no u.s. military solution to the issue. that's our limited mission but we were not going to use our military to take care of what the iraqis should be taking care of and if you're looking at what the real cause here the real cause is that the iraqi government has not performed the way it should to protect the rights of all iraqis we are not going to get in the middle of a civil war use american military words should be iraqis taking care of their own needs of course senator cardin is referring to the political situation in iraq now many lawmakers blame the iraqi governments the significantly prime minister nuri al maliki for the deep into sectarian divisions which they believe has created the

breeding ground for isis iraq's kurdish president for wod most sume formally announce a belak he would soon be replaced as prime minister by shiite leader a body but yesterday maliki made it clear that he would not go easily in a surprise televised speech maliki said he would file a legal complaint against the new president on a technicality for neglecting to name the new prime minister by a designated deadline in washington i mean our david r.t. . and we're waiting on president obama to speak any moment now on the crisis in iraq the president is currently in martha's vineyard for vacation but he's supposed to deliver a statement at four forty five apparently he's running a little bit late so we hope to be able to bring you the statement as it happens so stay with us. and today would have been the first day of college for eighteen year old michael brown instead hundreds are taking to the streets to demand justice for

him after brown was shot to death by police in ferguson is a suburb of st louis missouri the armed teen was reportedly just jaywalking across the street when police attempted to pull him over for the infraction police say he made a move for their firearm while his friends he was walking with telecom. a different story saying his arms were raised and he was complying with police commands hours following his death many people took to the streets and what started out as a peaceful gathering that later resulted in a riot situation where three hundred police officers were deployed and at least thirty two people were arrested with two officers injured st louis county police are investigating the case the f.b.i. is also launching its own parallel investigation to see if any of his civil rights were violated now earlier i spoke with miss mary ratliff she's the missouri state conference president at the end of lacey p.

i first asked her what she thought this latest incident of lethal force by police on an another young black male represents and race relations today i think that this is a very unfortunate incident here in in st louis and we're seeing for too much of these incidents occur. and then a z p r or endeavoring to take legal action. our community action. to make sure that justice comes to this young man who obviously it appears was shot down without cause we are in there we're going to meet with we'll be meeting we are meeting now with mr crump the attorney for the family we hours president c.e.o. is. and i believe he's probably on the ground by now we hope to.

have. meetings but we hope to have productively is where the citizens will come together and say that this is on acceptable we will not it except that we are seeing too much of this and so that's what we are endeavoring to do here and we will we will be. of course there will be press conferences leaving there will be meeting later on. town hall meetings later on tonight so that we can come together we want this to be a nonviolent movement but we want to be a memorable movement that will take place to us to have the city of st louis and the nation to know that this is unacceptable and that if it happens that this in a c.p. and will come together to try to make sure that we get justice for this family who have been. childhood and gone down that much too early an age and now according to the officers that are involved they're saying that michael brown made

an attempt for their gun what are you hearing on the ground about the moments that led to have that. we are getting entirely different story and i guess the family will be meeting and the lawyers will be laying that out in more detail later on today but we are getting it i believe just with family members. who have said that this young man there was no threat to the officer at all that. this man without any arms was shot down. i believe one of his friends that was there with him correct me if i'm wrong said that he was walking with his hands already up in the air is that what you're hearing as well that was that clip we were told we were told after he was shot that he ran and i guess he was shot again and he was just down to his knees with his hands up in the air saying don't shoot anymore when he was shot again now and the following day or so after his death it

was peaceful protests later erupted and to large scale rioting on the streets and looting of local businesses and many people are saying that that is eclipsing the incident itself what can be done in terms of community leadership to keep people peaceful while calling attention to this tragic incident. well we certainly hope that we certainly cannot happen troll over all of the individuals that are actually attempts at the press conferences and the community leading the certainly that we will be calling for calm this and we will be trying to what we're doing here now that's why we have legal people here so that we can say to the people that we are looking seeking justice but we can justice looting and that sort of thing does not help our case any at all but we are saying that we do not have been told of all of those individuals we believe that when they know that we have we have mr crump here

that is there when the family we have the bobby who is representing the other individual and we have our c.e.o. coming into place and c.e.o. coming in of course in the st louis city people of our here on the ground to try to let the family let the community know that this is an assignment that we don't intend to get swept under the rug because you know we've contacted the f.b.i. all the legal agencies to have make sure and we've called on turning general to make sure that this case is due to cases in a fair and equitable way and we want to be able to say that to the community and to the family right and what i want what i want the rioting and the things that are the bad things happening on the streets to overshadow his death. absolutely we're

not going to allow that to happen we're going to make sure that our case is heard and that the community will hear what we have to say in the community will be receptive to the fact that actions are being taken and i think that this meeting tonight should do a lot to. help out with that do you feel that perhaps michael brown's gas could be another racially divisive case similar to the trayvon martin case. absolutely i think so i think there's a large you know fairly well between what happened there and what what happened here we're seeing we're seeing more of that and that's why we are taking the other as a faction that we are taking now to make sure that we put a stop to this now what do you feel that can be done to mitigate this kind of extreme violence or or use of lethal force by the start from their right to end this kind of violence and i have to mean what what what what has to happen is that

the those individuals who commit crimes and those are crimes of the police that commit and when they commit crimes that they are punished and if they're given punishment just punishment for what they've done we cannot continue to cover up what little police action and not take the cloak of law enforcement and not not make hold them accountable for that actions that they do i'm sure that we've got some good police officers out there but we also need to bag was that we've got there we need to read them out and they need to they need to do the time that they need to do and if they have committed because they have committed a crime. i thank you very much for that that was mary ratliff the missouri state conference president of the and the palacio payments rather thank you so much. has the pentagon covered up war crimes during operations in afghanistan today amnesty

international released a new report entitled left in the dark that examines the record of accountability for civilian deaths caused by international military operations in afghanistan during the four year period from two thousand and nine to two thousand and thirteen the report documents a possible cover up and deliberate disregard of potential war crimes committed by u.s. military forces in particular ten incidents where at least one hundred forty civilians including fifty children were killed under suspicious circumstances and later the u.s. military's investigative practices falling far short of what was needed to ensure accountability for the alleged crimes now rafi luden cash cocky the father of a sixteen year old boy who was killed by u.s. special operations forces told amnesty international quote we did everything we could to fight for justice but we don't even know if there was an investigation we

were left in the dark and we're still in the dark while u.s. military officials state that they take all allegations of misconduct seriously and that full investigations are underway into reports of abusive behavior amnesty international's steve believes that the system of military justice in the us is simply flawed the crucial flaws of the system all the reluctance to investigate in the front with military commanders can do so. whether there is going to be an investigation or not we need to have external involvement we need to have above all the us will for it is the u.s. military themselves should of course wish to get to the bottom of things they should not wish to take place on the face then they should really wish to investigate but one way forward is also to have that independent involvement and we can also see a change in the. solution which will make that possible we have not seen a second element that we really need to see actual accountability for home many

civilians have died it's very difficult to count so on all those subjects. will be kept but at the moment we simply don't know exactly what those numbers are all there is no way that the us government we are able to track it but the us government itself fails to do so the amnesty report concludes that only a full reform of the military justice system can begin to solve this problem. israelis and palestinians are back at the negotiating table in cairo trying to use yet another seventy two hour ceasefire to find a lasting resolution to the latest outburst of violence in the region the indirect talks are being mediated once again by egypt it's the fourth time the two sides have reached a ceasefire agreement since the beginning of the israeli operation called solid cliff commenced on july eighth their previous ceasefire

their temporary truce comes after another weekend of bombing in gaza overall since the recent cease fire ended last friday hamas has launched roughly seventy rockets into israel and the israeli army and turn struck about thirty targets in palestinian territory allegedly killing one senior member of hamas and raising the number of civilian casualties to nearly two thousand since the beginning of the ground operation over one thousand one hundred palestinians have been killed and ten thousand wounded most of those are civilians israeli losses amount to sixty four soldiers and three civilians killed heavy casualties in gaza provoked numerous protests in different parts of the world our new york correspondent alexy are a chef skee reports on the latest demonstration that saw hundreds gathered in manhattan. i have gathered in new york city to protest against the military operation in gaza this is

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and we couldn't get any signal anywhere but the raw some places we had people say might be able to get at this one of the places we keep trying and trying we hope but what we don't like about this place is warning signs saying attention do not call shelly an area but people still try their luck they say the entire city's belling area now and at least they can talk to sears and friends on the phone and. every day in the guns at least a dozen apartment buildings and a tile says i hate by to refire some of them more than once. but. mccloy's flat is on the eighth floor. none of his family was hurt when it was this plan b.

thing he managed to say. to salvage his belongings. but comes back. and. the u.n. estimates over one hundred seven counties placed inside ukraine and. have crossed the border since the conflict started. other cities across eastern ukraine. the havens which aren't always as aren't always as safe as they seem many more remain. reef notional r.t. in lugansk ukraine and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's special guest is music producer d.j. khalid here's a snippet of what's to come i did you know you want to be your producer of your

most deejays stay d.j. you know i think deejays wear many hats some of them don't realize i me has they wear like a d.j. just know music and know what the people want because when you're out there playing for crowd you have to keep the crowd excited so i love making beats and i would use that i love being in the studio putting things together if i was making a personally i knew what i wanted and i got the sounds and certainly assistance to get a brick good on you know i came up the game is basically you know put not tapes into a radio and do it and then you know shot a fat joe on somebody like osama early in my career big pine and then you know saying. you know i never want to be a singer and i never want to sing rap no you sell was going to be a music executive or you want to be a mogul absolutely that's what we're doing. so tune in at nine pm tonight right here on r.t. america. and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we've just

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now let's break the set. it seems like only really crappy companies managed to score lucrative government contracts like the company contracted by the government to feed prisoners in the midwest who keep getting caught with maggots all over their kids it's a company called aramark correctional services last fall and winter they scored over two hundred fifty million dollars in contracts to feed prisoners in ohio and michigan both of those states privatized prison or food relatively recently and it's been a mess percent there have been at least ten confirmed cases of maggots found the

wriggling on aramark food service or product lines and that's just a number of times they got caught invades that one of the prisons are so sick of the maggot problem that they all dumped out their food in protest recently aramark has gotten a ton of fines from both states for the maggots and for a host of other problems for instance in michigan about twenty five percent of the contractors workforce has been banned from prison property for things like showing up drunk and failing to pass breathalyzer test smuggling drugs into prisoners threatening to assault prisoners and also kissing prisoners all of these infractions have happened in only a few months mind you there are also more problems with the food besides wriggling disgusting maggots contractors hired by states to be prisoners have to meet certain requirements like serving prisoners a certain number of calories per day or only using approved substitution for menu items when they run out but am mark repeatedly uses unapproved substitution like

how does. guns to make peace lol the peace of mind too for popsicles instead of juice for breakfast or sometimes they just come up short on how many meals they serve altogether. aramark insists they aren't as bad as they sound they say they're just being targeted by people against privatization but all of these incidents and more are well documented the ones waking his stuff up so when i hear stories like this i can't help but wonder how these companies land such lucrative government contracts he'd think competition to score of them would make the cream rise to the top but instead the only thing that seems to always rise up is a bunch of baggage tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter as the resident.