the truth and i don't know why. the role hurts so much to protect our children. a convoy of humanitarian aid heads from russia to ukraine's blockaded city of lugansk after moscow and kiev agreed to a red cross led mission also. out in rage crowds in the u.s. state of the second night of 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. and why has britain's biggest bank been pulling the plug on accounts belong belonging to syrian refugees i'm students.

are you watching r.t. 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 a week after local officials declared a humanitarian disaster in the east ukrainian city kiev and moscow reached agreement on the mission which will be led by the red cross is on the russian ukrainian border. but here when you can question why hasn't it 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 call in waiting flows 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 search area and very hard

situation the officials in charge told us that the corn was a tin raised not just clear but they are planning to travel all across the eastern and southern ukraine making sources big and small cities in the country who just came back from lugansk and it's in 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 reshuffling of the city continuing people have to shelter in the basements the power station was damaged and this is why there is nobody three city in most of the city's districts connection is also very unstable this is why people cannot even call for help but it seems that so far the shortage of water is the biggest challenge for the residents those who didn't leave the city and the country let's listen to these voices from the shell city of the surge in the region. that we're going to be with you soon you know the very beginning of the rebels and the reason

for them a little money to cover the cops a little far from sort of the new bit of the one you can use not only give you but probably most of the 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 that they are also planning to send their own humanitarian aid to ukraine but later or people living in the two key cities in kiev military sites are being told to leave their homes ukraine security forces say they're preparing a major offensive to. yes canoe ganske well local militia warn of massive counter attacks. this video from a town in the lugansk 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 militia blame on each other.

international rights groups and journalist organizations a stepping up the pressure over the disappearance of a russian photographer in ukraine understanding went missing a week ago denies reports that he's being held by security services now colleagues of the thirty three year old journalist a drawer and public attention to his plight with an online campaign hash tag free and very can see it that 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 like to r.t. dot com for constant updates on the search for the missing journalist and other developments in eastern ukraine we've got background analysis and stories of what

it's really like to live through the conflicts. now 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 an associate can i was there for r.t. pensions 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 into the streets protesting violence has been erupting and most certainly we can get in front of our eyes to d.t.r. 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 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 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 police a police officer who we know now is currently on the green even 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. i will be back with an associate throughout the day of course you can also follow her on twitter for updates on the pictures as events happen. in the. united nations has appointed an expert panel to investigate suspected war crimes on both sides during the latest conflict in gaza israel's come out strongly against the move accusing the inquiry of bias before it's even started his own middle east correspondent paula slayer. well israel has called the united nations human rights council a kangaroo court it comes after the announcement from the council that it was appointing a three member panel to investigate allegations of possible war crimes now the decision follows an announcement that was made several weeks ago by the head of the council navi pillay and she said at that time that there is the strong possibility

that israel is violating international law and that will powers should hold israel accountable for possible war crimes she went on to point out that the israelis had hit schools and hit homes and hospitals gaza's only power plant you in premises and that all of this was in violation of the geneva conventions the u.n. chief thank you moon has also in the past spoken out in the harshest terms against israel accusing it of hitting particularly in schools where thousands of gazans who have been displaced by the monthlong fighting were seeking refuge now israel has responded by calling this forty seven member state for women in the words of the country's foreign minister he said it was a terrorist rights council and that its investigations and conclusions were predictable israel excuses the un of being a biased against it and what the israeli argument is is that it is him us who should be investigated for what they call double war crimes number one firing

rockets at israel and number two using civilians as human shields militia forces in iraq's kurdistan 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 on the islamic state fighters reports. thousands of iraqis are helpless in the face of terror from the islamic state the jihadi militants are ruthless and well armed this year harvest 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 cleansing 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 could backfire in the future. there is no american military solution to love crisis 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 safe of the kurds of iraq would like to bring the region several days and multi-ethnic cities as well as major world holding both kurdish and testing cared for now is pressing as the current defense the czar the question is whether the weapons by the defense 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 gear when it withdrew from iraq when is the mistake militants captured major iraqi cities like mosul earlier this year they also seized weapons and equipment which the iraqi army left behind us made tanks trucks and helicopters for example and i washington's sending the kurds some light weapons and ammunition political activist right jairo 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 armed groups behind the uprising in syria and iraq are linked you know and 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 extremes groups. mixtape 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 but in iraq what'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 the 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 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 phase of a jihadi threat in europe is seeing one of its biggest banks town on its account

holder which is h.s.b.c. is under five fatah getting syrian students i'm refugees without explanation will tell me more about this in a few moments. on marriage in the financial world. it's not stopping only take it no demand it's not going to get any economic benefit in life. this is the media leave us so we leave the media. the same motions your. party isn't the. issue is that no one is asking with again that you deserve answers from . politics only on our team.

choose your language. call it a killer though if. the last six hundred sixty six is good that concerns you. choose you have to. choose the stories get him to. choose the access to. britain's biggest bank is being accused of ethnically singling out his clients human rights groups have revealed a pattern of abuse at h.s.b.c. which had been closing accounts belonging to syrian refugees and students living in the u.k. 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 what my car and just one of my car when i

called the bank down by discover that you know there was a word that my gun was floating majid is 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 our records sure this decision by the bank is not based on you as a customer i believe you find it hard not to think about it discrimination and you never made any transfers to syria not not even outside i'm not from the regime i'm just a 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 the look of the was of course 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 overzealous and h.s.b.c. spokes person told r.t. . h.s.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 that 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 playboy a london now openly supporting the plight of palestinians in gaza has got a couple of hollywood stars in trouble it's rumored that penelope cruz and her husband javier bardem could be blacklisted for speaking out stories on our website called. putting in a poor performance us state department officials online we tell you how they're now getting coaching posting half a million dollars so they can perform better in front of lawmakers in congress

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that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly. drama's the trying to be ignored. stories older is to refuse to notice. the faces change the world writes never. come full picture of today's you know i told you from rhodes to blow. up to. now with money being tight of pulling the plug power consumption has slumped and the state run electricity industries being lined up for privatization as more an across the river reports the

industry's work has deeply worried for their futures. marches strikes and power cuts this is how electricity workers are responding to government crime scene liberalize the greek energy sector to understand their concerns with travel to one of the largest mining areas in the country the plants here i'm telling my you then 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 who live in these areas fear that with this privatization the government is not only slowly selling the public well but it is also jeopardizing their livelihood which has already been dealt a blow. to this will be able ready expropriated our land for public interest

without even asking us we're talking about one bigger than the size of up until now locals were given preferential treatment because of that whereas the guarantee you 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 its plan in suspend of thirty percent to comply with its bailout conditions said by the european union and the national monetary fund it's a move they all believe will attract investment increase capital flows and improve quality as well as efficiency in this 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. 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 much. for him 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 has gone 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. . some more news now from around the world and survey water shortages in colombia

have sparked clashes there were arrests in injuries as crowds demanded the government do more to tackle the crisis dry weather and heat waves have been causing increasingly severe drought some areas of the year without rain be and also angry at the high water taxes infrastructure and the contamination of supplies. and an intense search is underway after hundreds of prisoners escaped from an overcrowded jail in 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 awards being offered for information leading to his recapture places so far managed to find ten of the other prisoners and some may have fled across the border . now up next a look at why sexual assault same colleges across america are going under reported stay with altie international.

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is you know completely telling it like it is no i see you have an agenda i think through is is bought and paid for. the reality of mediation is still there and it is killing our children they aren't dying also hard conditions asked no leukaemia 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's fund it. america's colleges which through hollywood television and the media have become very familiar. with. american football its

cheerleaders and the new tories parties. it's a life young people dream of but behind the picture is a night for female students. one in five will be a victim of rape during this studies according to the figures published by the department of justice. how and why is this happening. for the first time some of the victims of the epidemic. we are in los angeles. tells her story. i was raped in december two thousand and. the morning of december fourth two thousand and ten in my bed. in the cardinal gardens housing contacts at the university of southern california. i didn't know what to do i stop saying no over and over and over again and i stopped after

a while because it just didn't mean anything to. her assailant was a boyfriend. do you remember anything happen last night and we had. said yeah we have to remember a said no no and his face goes slack and i do know that i was so drunk i don't remember the sex at all i just figured we had sex. and yes i could have been more aware if i had been raised in an environment where i knew about but i didn't and this is something that people want to talk about and like i didn't know what to look out for because i didn't think that people were cable. capable of doing. that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger and the precious.

life is dominated by the fraternity groups of around thirty students commendation on campus. they are identified by the greek make up the fraternities name. they're everywhere and organize endless policies and drinking binges. angelos is a whistleblower and a form of. despite the risks. i had this may be this romantic notion of what was happening inside that you know it would be you know. drinking scotch and debating aristotle and you know things like god or some kind of you know cocktail party vibe which obviously it wasn't very like naive point of view. inherently have a binge drinking culture the main goal of a party. to get girls trying to sleep with them or to lower inhibition.