fire but. like. as in there's more than just the one. i'm the red. one so we're. coming up on our t.v. over the weekend the u.s. continued airstrikes and supply drops to fight isis in iraq so far american boots aren't on the ground but u.s. weapons are an update just ahead. 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'll look at the case from st louis that's shining a spotlight on police shootings. and new talks are underway 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 eight pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america. the u.s. involvement in iraq is growing as islamic militants gain momentum in the country's north and u.s. airstrikes over the weekend hit multiple locations around the city of erbil intending to keep the militant group known as isis at bay other strikes were intended to defend members of the religious minority from isis attacks american aircraft also drop food and water for the thousands of his eighty's who have been trapped on a mountaintop in sindh jar but the strikes are just a part of an overall american effort to quell the conflict in iraq while the u.s. says it currently has no plans to put boots on the ground another potential issue

looms sitting prime minister nouri al maliki refusing to step down from his post claiming he deserves a third term now this poses the threat of a political coup in a statement from martha's vineyard president obama said that he would back president masoom the new prime minister hyder out of body and the new members of the iraqi government have a listen a pleasure support you as well as to president and speaker you were as they work together to end this govern. the political leaders to work peacefully through the political process in the days ahead. with more on iraq is our tease a mirror david on what the obama administration is doing about arming kurdish 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 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 kaname 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 that. from being from syria now iraq. strategy to stop these people from attacking the homeland 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 and this commander in chief has no strategy because nobody has been 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're 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 and 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 cifelli 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 announced that 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 right david r t. 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 a st louis missouri suburb. zero zero zero zero zero zero was. the unarmed teen was reportedly jaywalking across the street when police attempted to call him over for the infraction police say he made a move for their firearm while friends he was walking with tell a different story saying his arms were raised and 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 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 u.s. attorney general eric holder has chimed in on the incident and said it deserves a full review earlier i spoke with ms mary ratliff the missouri state conference president at the end p. i first asked her what she thought this latest incident of lethal force by police on a young black male represents in race relations today i think that this. unfortunate incident here in st louis and we have seen for too much. occur. over.

legal action. community action. to. justice comes to this young man who. asli it appears was shot down without cause we are and they're going to meet. we'll be meeting we are meeting now with mr crump the attorney for the play only we hours president c.e.o. is on his way and i believe he's probably on the ground by now we hope to. have nonviolent meetings but we hope to have productive meetings where the citizen will come together and say that this is unacceptable 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 this evening and 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 it to be a memorable moment that will take place to to have the city of st louis and the nation to know that this is unacceptable and that if that happens that in a sleepy and will come together to make sure that we get justice for this family we have been. solved has been gunned down at 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 guy and what are you hearing on the ground about the moments that led to his death. 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 what i am 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 in the

act but the attempts at the press conferences and the community pleading with certainly that we will be calling for calm this and we will be trying to what we are doing here now that's why we have legal people here so that we can say to the people that we are seeking justice but you 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 control of all of those individuals well we believe that when they know that we have we have mr crump here that is there when the family we have bob levy who is representing the other individual we have our c.e.o. coming into place and c.e.o. coming in of course in st louis city people off 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 contacted the f.b.i.

all of them legal agencies to have last make sure and we've called on current gen to make sure that this case is due to katie in our 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 when 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 want 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 tightened 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 arbitrary 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 address that vaccine 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 police department i mean it has to 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 that the police are committing when they commit crimes that they are punished and if they're given punishment just punishment for what they've done which we cannot continue to cover up what little police action and not take and under 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 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 placing of 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 needed to ensure accountability for the alleged crimes rafi cauchy the father of a sixteen year old boy who was killed by u.s. special ops forces told amnesty international the following he said we did everything we could to fight for justice but we don't know if there was an investigation we were left in the dark and we're still in the dark now 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 crawshaw 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 kill themselves. 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 third 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 legislation which will make that possible we have not seen not a second. with that we really need to see is actual accountability for ho many civilians have died it's very difficult to count so on other subjects a public count will be kept but at the moment we simply don't know exactly what those numbers though there's 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 and it's the fourth time that the two sides have reached a ceasefire agreement since the beginning of the israeli operation called solid cliff which commenced on july eighth the previous cease fire agreements have not brought the two sides any closer to peace since neither has been willing to compromise the 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 the israeli army and turn struck back with about thirty targets and in palestinian territory allegedly killing one senior member of hamas and raising the number of civilian casualties to nearly two thousand now since the beginning of the ground operation over one thousand nine 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 now heavy casualties in gaza provoked numerous protests in different parts of the world our new york correspondent alexy yara chefs the reports on the latest demonstration that saw hundreds gather in manhattan. well have gathered in new york city to protest against the military operation in gaza this is a pre post time protest and we keep hearing things about the ongoing onslaught in israel but essentially this is more than that this is about stopping the us more machine. this protest in new york as part of a global free palestine campaign happening everywhere across the planet the cross bureau it is a very multinational here we see flags of different countries from latin america from europe of course the palestine it is the same in terms of the slogans that what we see in iraq but it's different altogether not every day you can see such

a big march through the streets of new york but this is a particular city and they are going to have particular place. close to. the final destination of the free palestine protests just literally across the street from the u.n. headquarters in new york it's a weekend the diplomats are not in the office but this book are here pretty much tells the story of how angry the protestors are about the u.n. according to them doing not to save people in gaza of course again it's we can diplomats i know the office but people here are genuinely hoping that their voices will be heard let us just be artsy reporting from new york city. and in ukraine relief is on its way to help those who are caught a mits fighting between government forces and anti kiev separatists in the east many are struggling without access to food and water government forces say they are surrounding the city of donetsk in eastern ukraine the government has called on

residents there to leave as they threaten to try to win back the separate a stronghold and not too far from there another the siege city lugansk will finally get much needed help today russia announced that in cooperation with the red cross it's sending a truck convoy with humanitarian aid to ease the plight of of thousands. evil ukrainian government has confirmed that multinational humanitarian mission is also being launched by the european union and the united states now those who could not leave the war torn areas were left without basic necessities like water and medical supplies the help from abroad for many is the only hope for survival maria the notion our reports from the besieged city of the ganske lugansk made luke abandoned but there are still 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 nadezhda in russian her name means hope and she has little of that left. isn't even you're not one bit couple of. days other guys. who did you can show it's a new being so new we've got new cheer warm up mum she got not much of a. shout out but even if i want you to my life. you know it's getting a bit of queues form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough water to go around still not. didn't get a feel for the earlier years and the other near the edge of the earth even though. that gives us a bit of a bit of a good look at the new party and you. know but i haven't been in the atmosphere.

of the below 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 around the precious liquid a lot of. the most of this. and that's what we're going to the city with no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world. that make 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 out 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 the entire city's shelling area now and at least here they can talk to relatives and friends on the phone every day in the ganske at least

a dozen apartment buildings and private houses are hate by tillery fire some of them more than once. mccloy's fled is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was hurt when it was hate these plasma television is the only thing he managed to save he makes one more treat to salvage his belongings but comes back minutes later and he 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. in the ganske ukraine. sad news to report out of hollywood actor comedian robin williams was found dead in his home in marin california in an apparent suicide williams has been a household name for over thirty years starring in such films as the birdcage good morning vietnam aladdin good will hunting and who can forget his iconic role as mrs doubtfire he was also the lovable illian in mork who came to earth from the planet ork in the t.v. show mork and mindy he quietly suffered from depression for many years and was in and out of rehab as late as last month in july he leaves behind a wife and three children. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is music producer d.j.

khalid here's a snippet of what's to come. did you know you wanted to be you know a producer of the most deejays. well you know deejays wear many hats i mean stay where you d.j. just no music and no with 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 use that i love being in the studio putting things together if i was making it personally i knew what i wanted and i got the sounds and certainly did you get a break. you know the game is basically you know put not tapes and doing radio and doing and then you know shot a fat joe somebody like osama early in my career big pine and then you know saying . you know they want to be a singer and never want to sing a rap no you sell was going to be a music executives or you want to be a mogul absolutely that's what we do in. so to manage nine pm tonight right here on

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places change the world right and. wrong. to take your. from around the. globe. it seems like only really crappy companies manage 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 kitchens 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 ever since there have been at least ten confirmed cases of maggots found wriggling on aramark food service or product lines and that's just a number of times they got caught in base that one of the prisons are so sick of the maggot problem that they all dumped out there's food in protest recently aramark have gotten a ton of fines from both states to 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 rush alive there's 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 aside wriggling

disgusting maggots contractors hired by states to feed 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 aramark repeatedly uses unapproved substitution like how does. to make pizza mole the peace of mind two or popsicles instead of juice for breakfast or sometimes they just come up short on how many meals they serve altogether aramark and since 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 and waking this stuff up so when i hear stories like this i can't help but wonder how these companies land such lucrative government contracts you'd think competition to score them would make the cream rise to the top but instead.