mission to teach me why you should care about humans. this is why you should care. a convoy of humanitarian aid heads from russia to ukraine's blockaded city of lugansk moscow and kiev agreed to a red cross led mission. police fired tear gas i didn't rage crowds in the u.s. state of missouri. street violence over the police killing of an unarmed black teenager. the u.s. is to send weapons to kurdish militia in iraq which is struggling to push back heavily armed islamic state jihadists. britain's biggest pulling the plug on accounts belonging to syrian refugees and students.

you're watching international we're coming to you live from moscow. in the russian capital it's good to have you with us a convoy of aid from russia is on its way to look after local officials declared a humanitarian disaster in the east ukrainian city here in moscow reached an agreement on the mission which will be led by the red cross. is on the russian ukrainian border. but here when you can clear on what has already started moving from a russian we expect to meet it here at the russian ukrainian border within the next thirty or thirty six hours i have to say this is a very big con which includes around three hundred cars and tons of humanitarian aid including food drinking water medicine blankets and some other things that people in troubled areas in ukraine may now need in this terrible hundred very hot situation the officials in charge told us that because it was

a teen result just clear what they are planning to travel all across the eastern and southern ukraine making stops as big and small cities in the country we just came back from lugansk in eastern ukraine and we have to say that the situation on the ground is very dramatic and very dangerous from humanitarian point of view over a city with a heavy a killer the shelling of the city continuing people have to shelter in the basements the power station was damaged and this is why there is no electricity in most of the cities the streets connection is also very unstable this is why people cannot even call for help but it seems that so far the shortage of walter is the biggest challenge for the residents those who didn't leave the city and the country let's not listen to these voices from the shells sixty three thirty in the regime. that we don't want to be with you soon you know the very beginning to reduce the number to call them over to my mother the car solution for a filter and then you put on a good bit of the one you can use not only your view but probably mostly guards we

heard accusations from kiev that this is not a humanitarian aid but in such a way russia is trying to send its troops and weapons to you crave but just on monday the red cross confirmed that it went through all necessary details and agreements with the russian side also adding the they are also planning to send their own humanitarian aid to ukraine but later or people living in the two key cities and hears military sites are being told to leave their homes ukraine's security forces say they're preparing a major offensive to retake. it's going to ganske well local militia one of massive counterattacks. this video from a town in the region apparently shows the aftermath of recent shelling it's a residential area that appears to have been struck for residents in these regions aerial assault is a daily threat which ukrainian forces and local militias blame on each of them. international rights groups and journalist organizations is stepping up the

pressure over the disappearance of a russian photographer in ukraine andras then went missing a week ago he had denies reports that he's being held by security services colleagues of the thirty three year old journalists are drawing public attention to his plight with an online campaign has tagged free the un expressed its hope that the ria novosti news agency reporter will be found safe the new york based committee to protect journalists is calling for stand ins immediate release and here's the reaction from human rights watch stressing that andre has to be freed because there have been no charges pressed against him the european security watchdog also insists he has to be released condemning the practice of arresting journalists while he thinks r.t. dot com the constant updates on the search for the missing journalist and other developments in east ukraine we've got background analysis and stories of what it's really like to live through conflicts.

to gas and rubber bullets have been fired at crowds in the u.s. state of missouri as protests over saturday's fatal shooting of a black teenager by a policeman continue to turn violent the eighteen year old was unarmed when he was gunned down in the city of ferguson and it was there for us well people like you said of course tensions chaos and mayhem really have been unraveling here in suburban st louis in the town of ferguson we witnessed tear gas. being fired at just a couple dozen people standing around on a street where of course people have been coming out onto the street in the hundreds and thousands since the killing of an unarmed eighteen year old michael brown took place here the community is outraged because the young man had no weapon however he was fired at multiple times by a police officer and he died as a result of this people have been coming out on to the streets protesting violence

has been erupting and most certainly we can get in front of our eyes today tear gas was fired at least twice and one of those times when the numbers of people in the street really had died down it was only just a couple of dozen people who live in this neighborhood and the police had issued several warnings that they would fire tear gas and they in fact proceeded to do this and of course so we do not expect any of these tensions to die down because the locals that we've spoken to most certainly intend to continue coming out to protest in outrage of what happened and while we don't know exactly what unraveled the police have been claiming that an altercation took place between michael michael brown and this police officer but many of the details remain a big mystery including the identity of this belief a police officer who we know now is currently on paid leave and this is something that the local community wants to change they want to see accountability happen to certainly police misconduct and police brutality has been

a huge issue in this country throughout the last several years. and will be back with honest to see it throughout the day of course you can also follow her on twitter for updates and pictures. then. the united nations has appointed an expert panel to investigate suspected war crimes on both sides during the latest conflict in gaza israel has come out strongly against the move accusing the inquiry of bias before it's even started let's go live to our middle east correspondent paula slayer who can tell us more paula good to see you or what can you tell us then about this probe. well israel has accused the united nations human rights council of being a kangaroo court this comes after the announcement by the council that it was appointing a three member panel to investigate allegations of war crimes that were conducted during israel's recent operation protective edge in gaza now there was an

announcement made several weeks ago by the haid of the council navi pillay and in that she said that there was a strong possibility that israel was violating international law and that willpower was should hold israel accountable for possible war crimes she went on to point out that israel had attacked schools hospitals gaza's only power point as well as homes united nations premises and that all of this was in violation of the geneva conventions the u.n. chief ban ki-moon has also spoken out in the hospice criticism against israel particularly for targeting you in schools way thousands of displaced gazans were seeking refuge now israel has responded by accusing this forty forty seven member states of bias it says that its investigations and conclusions are predictable at the same time the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman has called it a terrorist white council the argument that the israelis put forward is that it is

hamas who should be investigated for what they call double crimes they say that hamas has committed the crime of firing rockets at israel and at the same time of the using civilians from wait to launch its rocket fire. paula thank you very much . militia forces in iraq's kurdistan ought to be armed by the united states in an attempt to prevent it falling fully into the hands of jihadists who are tightening their grip with their self declared caliphate light weaponry and i mean asians will be dispatched but there are questions about what kind of much they'll be against heavily armed islamic state fighters you can reports. thousands of iraqis are helpless in the face of terror from the islamic state the jihadi militants are ruthless and well armed there's the hardest forces in iraq are probably the strongest the hardest forces in the region and in the world they are equipped with advanced american weapons and that's how they were able to ethnic cleanse the minorities christian and is the the minorities from many areas in kurdistan or

south of kurdistan and now they're attacking kurdistan u.s. officials see no alternative to sending weapons to combat the extremists who now fight with american weapons you cannot confront isis with flowers at the same time flooding an already deeply divided country with more weapons to back fire in the future. there is no american military solution. in iraq. only last thing is for iraqis come together and form an inclusive government president obama may want a unified iraq but the kurds have long wanted out and arming kurdish militia forces could lead to a permanent breakup of iraq any peaceful says see how the kurds will be brought on life saving the region several days and multi-ethnic cities as well as major world they say both kurdish and testing shared corey now is pressing as the current

defense needs are the question is whether the weapons by the fence today. in washington they need to track down are. all american weapons have constantly made their way into iraq during the past fifteen years the united states left behind billions of dollars worth of military when it withdrew from iraq one when islam a state militants captured major iraqi cities like mosul earlier this year they also seize weapons and equipment which the iraqi army left behind the u.s. may time strikes and helicopters for example and now washington sending the cuz some light weapons and ammunition political activist told us the u.s. is pumping in money to thwart an offensive it created the conditions for in the first place. on the one hand we see the u.s. look eating hundreds of millions of dollars to support fund and train opposition groups in syria the same time the us is supporting the iraqi central government

against the armed opposition groups in iraq the confusing part is that the groups behind the uprising in syria and iraq are linked you know and the armed opposition fighters in iraq is considered an enemy of the united states but once they cross the border to syria they are funded and armed by the united states definitely foreign interventions and foreign agendas in the region have opened the doors wide for all of these extreme screw ups this time extend it is a small group with five to ten thousand soldiers mostly on pickup trucks they took out thirty five percent of iraq's territory in a week when america's long had an eye on iraq semi autonomous kurdistan in the country's north which is home to massive oil reserves but large sections of the

kurdish community also live across the border in turkey supplying weapons to iraqi kurds could put the u.s. in a tricky position with turkey which has long been engulfed in a violent struggle with its own kurdish population the kurdish region of iraq is the one region of iraq that is more or less firmly under u.s. control the united states is against the kurdish movement in turkey because it doesn't control it in iraq but it's basically existing in northern kurdistan is a u.s. protectorate. and that's the the region that's where the oil is under u.s. control. basically the whole to get the name of the game from washington is to keep the oil money flowing in and isis is the seizure of the central part of iraq is basically kind of iraq into three with the united states directly controlling the north but if. if if they've they've used isis as leverage against the maliki government but they're not about to allow isis fighters to invade to come into northern iraq it's under direct u.s.

control they want to bomb and force them back toward syria or. places where they're more useful to united states corporate military interests. over fears of a jihadist threat in europe is seeing one of its biggest banks turn on its account holders which in sanctions b.c. is under five to targeting syrian students and refugees without explanation we'll tell you more about that in a few moments. as the media leave us so we leave the media. the same motions your. party there's a bill. that shows that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics only on our team. on air and in the financial world. it's not stopping

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only boyko met with some of those being financially frozen out i've never expected that you know so that was a very shocking american to hear on to put my card and just one of my cards then i called the bank and i discovered that you know there was that my canvas clothes images from syria he's in the u.k. on a student visa studying at london's institute of education in december his h.s.b.c. bank account was suddenly closed with no explanation they said that you know i would record sure that this decision by the bank is not based on you as a customer i believe you find it hard not to think about it other than discrimination and you never made any transfers to syria you know not even outside i'm not from the regime i'm just the student here so why don't why you like. targeted the u.s. the e.u. and the arab league have all imposed sanctions on syria. first of all this is.

an investigation by the independent newspaper revealed that a number of syrian citizens living in the u.k. have received letters from the bank telling them that their accounts would be shut down h.s.b.c. cited increased requirements concerning payments to and from sanctioned countries two years ago h.s.b.c. was fined nearly two billion dollars by the u.s. after it was discovered that mexican drug money was being laundered through its accounts the bank now says that it follows a five assessment system of its customers but critics say that in trying to stay out of more trouble the high street bank has been less and h.s.b.c. spokesperson told r.t. . ages b.c. is committed to adopting in enforcing the most effective standards to combat financial crime across its operations globally this applies to customers with links

to a country that is subject to international financial sanctions it's not just syrians living in the u.k. who have been left on able to access their cash though last month h.s.b.c. closed the accounts of three muslim organizations one of the groups has said they believe their stance on the conflict in gaza may have triggered the move h.s.b.c. didn't outline a specific reason for the account closures but said that the organizations fell outside of what they called that risk appetite now the banking giant that calls itself the world's local bank could face a formal grilling in parliament to get to the bottom of the accusations of discrimination by ethnicity. london. supporting the plight of palestinians in gaza has got a couple of hollywood stars in trouble it's rumored penelope cruz and her husband could be blacklisted for. speaking about stories on

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from around the globe. brokenly. now with money tight greeks have been literally pulling the plug power consumption has slumped and the state run electricity industry is being lined up for privatization as marina costs are over reports the industry's workers worried for their futures. marches strikes and power cuts this is how electricity workers are responding to government crimes to liberalize the greek energy sector so i understand their concerns with travel to one of the largest mining areas in the country the plants here i'm telling my that and the surrounding areas used to produce seventy percent electricity all the economic crisis slashed overall demand and the national output dropped to roughly fifty two percent having said that the public power corporation remains the main employer here and people living in these areas fear that with this

privatization the government is not only slowly selling the public well but is also jeopardizing their livelihood which has already been dealt a blow. to the us will be able ready expropriated our land for public interest without even asking we're talking about one bigger than the size of up until now locals were given preferential treatment because of that whereas the guaranteed go to private investor will choose to employ these people this place could become that there is no security you will be slaves and dependent on big corporations greece currently owns over fifty one percent of the country's biggest electric power company but it's planning to spin off thirty percent to comply with its bailout conditions said by the european union and for national monetary fund it's a move they all believe will attract investment increase capital flows and improve quality as well as efficiency and the sector. we have successful examples of privatization the arguments you hear now against this are the same that were used

during the partial privatization of the main telecoms provider in the end we got great results for the greek. people lower prices and higher quality and in this case two we'll see how successful competition will result in higher quality of service for all but back in the mining fields people are not convinced and even though the government promises that only good can come out of this it's falling on deaf ears thank you very. trying to turn the government has been saying not a single public workable be fired thousands were let go they said salaries won't be lowered but they were by over fifty percent this government never tells the truth no one believes them anymore and the money they will get from the sale will go to the public power corporation not the government and it will only equal one year's profit. greeks are having a hard time letting go of a company which contributed to the growth of their economy for sixty years but

since the government is going ahead with this privatization plans these people are going ahead with their rotating blackouts hoping that one day their opinion will be taken and some account merino call survive reporting from greece for r.t. . so more news from around the world now and severe water shortages in colombia have sparked clashes there were arrests and injuries as crowds demanded the government do more to tackle the crisis dry weather and heat waves have been causing increasingly severe droughts some areas have gone almost a year without rain colombians are also angry over high water taxes bad infrastructure and the contamination of supplies. and an intense search is underway after hundreds of prisoners escaped from an overcrowded jail on the outskirts of haiti's capital three hundred twenty nine inmates escaped during an attempt to free the son of a prominent businessman who was being held on kidnap charges a large reward is being offered for information leading to his recapture police have so far managed to find ten of the other prisoners and fair may have fled

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there is relativity in the way people get their information there is relativity in the way people value their money there is relativity in the way people. relate to each other but with the botching technology which is mass based which is completely objective store transparent and to turn all these relative differences our big point away so to speak and read trying a new paradigm or a new era of absolute truth. you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances with food and even though they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting sports the scenes the sort of people regime has become very adept at is controlling the media for example right here on c.n.n.

do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i think have an agenda i think through is is bought and paid for. in reality mediation is still there but we need to skilling our children they aren't dying also hard conditions asked most leukemia the feel stories are still hiding the truth for most still and i don't know why don't they have children on their own because you heard so much to know the two counts protect our children from this. what's really good folks some and all rob lowe filling in for abby martin this week

and this is breaking the sutt so over the weekend the u.s. continued airstrikes against isis. members in the northern kurdish territory of iraq court of the white house the goal of the strikes is to protect american interests in the area and to prevent mass slaughter of christian minorities five hundred of whom have already been killed according to iraqi officials now thankfully as many as twenty thousand to c.d.'s were able to escape from a mountain surrounded by isis forces after u.s. strikes but thousands more remain trapped and concerns over the u.s. expansion of u.s. military operations there where and whether the military solution is even possible still about part of it still abound but these concerns have only been exacerbated by president obama's statement on saturday that this operation is quote going to take some time meanwhile a political crisis is blue is brewing in baghdad as iraq's president just nominated a new prime minister deputy parliament speaker hi there a body this action will likely oust current prime minister nuri al maliki whose

exclusionist policies have largely contributed to the crisis now moloch he has vowed to legally challenge the president's decision leaving the country's stability of the in limbo at a time when the country needs it the most but hey i guess that's what iraq is supposed to look like post mission accomplished right now expects. a. very hard to take. that that we are right there.