still hiding the truth from us and i don't know why don't they have children of their own hurts so much to know that to protect our children. a convoy of humanitarian aid heads from russia to ukraine's blockaded city of lugansk after moscow in kiev agreed to a red cross and admission also. police tried to gas at enraged crowds in the u.s. state of missouri in a second night of street violence over the police killing of an unarmed black teenager in. the us and 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 belonging to syrian refugees and

students. you're watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow where it's now me 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 have in moscow reached an agreement on the mission which will be led by the red cross is on the russian ukrainian border. now here when you can call me right has already started moving from a russian we expect to meet it here at the russian ukrainian border within the next year of thirty six hours i have to say this is a very big corn 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 and very hard

situation the officials in charge told us that the coin was a tin result 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 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 sleep with a heavy of curious shelling of the city continuing people have to shelter in the basements the power station was damaged and this is why there is nobody tricity 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 that's now listen to these voices from the shells sixty three thirty in the region you don't want to be with you know the very beginning of the rebels and the reporters who took the money to cover the crap solution for filter then you put on

a good bit of the when you can use not only your view but probably most of the gods 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 craig 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 pledging to send their own humanitarian aid to ukraine but later. well people living in the two key cities and here is military sites are being told to leave their homes ukraine's security forces say they're preparing a major offensive to retake don't yet skin new ganske well local militia warn of massive counter attacks. this video from a town in the new ganske region apparently shows the aftermath of recent shelling it's a residential area that appears to have been struck the 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 is stepping up the pressure over the disappearance of a russian photographer in ukraine andre stannin went missing a week ago denies reports that he's being held by security services colleagues of the thirty three year old journalist to drawing public attention to his plight with an online campaign hash tag three and now the un expresses hope that the ria novosti news agency reporter will be found safe the new york based committee to protect journalists is calling for a stand in 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 with the european security watchdog also insists he has to be released condemning the practice of arresting journalists. were allowed to r.t. dot com for a concert didn't for constant updates on the search for the missing journalist and other developments in eastern ukraine we got background analysis and stories of

what it's really like to live through the conflict. tear 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 to see it was there for us tensions chaos and mayhem really have been under. raveling 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 on to the street in the hundreds of 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 onto 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 the 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. and we'll be back with annas to see it throughout the day of course you can also follow her on twitter for updates and pictures of events as they 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 inquiry of bias before it's even started as a middle east correspondent paula slayer. well is what 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 world 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 and 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 forward 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 these radio 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. for the month

long conflict came more than one thousand nine hundred lives and has left gaza in ruins tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged by israeli strikes universities hundreds of schools and mosques were reduced to rubble reports say half a million people have been displaced that's almost a third of the population for more than a million civilians there's no fresh drinking water. now there's pessimism at the pentagon over the effectiveness of american airstrikes against islamic state fighters its senior military officer believed to unlikely to affect the jihadist overall abilities in syria and iraq saying the strikes would only have a temporary effect and a more comprehensive approach is needed for nalgae washington says it will all militia forces in iraq's kurdistan to help prevent the area falling fully to the islamists who are tightening their grip with their self declared caliphate like

weaponry and i mean nations will be dispatched but there are questions about what kind of much they'll be going to heavily armed islamic state fighters you can reports. thousands of iraqis are helpless in the face of terror from the islamic state that you hardly militants are ruthless and well armed there's the hardest forces in iraq are probably the strongest the hardest forces in the region in the world they are equipped with advanced american weapons and that's how they were able to ethnic cleansing minorities christian 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 look for

a shift 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 peace will say see the kurds will be brought on life saving the region several days and multi-ethnic cities as as well. well a bold prediction here now it's interesting as the current events are the question is whether the weapons by event today. in washington and baghdad are. all american weapons have constantly made their way into iraq during the last fifteen years the united states left behind billions of dollars worth of military gear when it withdrew from iraq when islamist state militants captured major iraqi cities like mosul earlier this year they also seized

weapons and equipment which the iraqi army left behind for example u.s. made tanks trucks and helicopters and now washington sending the cards some light weapons and ammunition political activist right jarrod told us the u.s. is pumping in money to thwart an offensive he 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 central government against the armed opposition groups in iraq the confusing part is that. 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 and the region have opened the doors wide for all of these extremist groups. state 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. well 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 which is long been engulfed in a violent struggle with its own kodesh 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 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 quite 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 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. fears of a jihadist threat in europe are seeing one of its biggest banks turn on its account holder as britain's h.s.b.c. is under fire for targeting syrian students on refugees without an explanation we'll tell you more about that in a few moments. and. there's

a media legal so we leave that maybe. privacy motion security play your part of the musical. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from . politics only on our team. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going here in iraq said our big story of the extranet life there's a reason they don't want international airport they raise that we should leave now let's break the set. choose your language. call it a killer though if you're going to going to stay still for the last six months later the place of a sick child is that the consensus of. choose the opinions that immigrate to.

choose the stories that impact your. choose the access to. britain's biggest bank is being accused of ethnic a singling out its clients human rights groups have revealed a pattern of abuse at h.s.b.c. which has been closing accounts belonging to syrian refugees and students living in the u.k. pretty boy came up with some of those being financially for is announced. i've never expected that you know so that was a very shocking american to hear on there put my car and just one of my car when i called the bank down by discovered that you know there was a word that my gun was loaded 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. 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 other than discrimination and he never made any transfers to syria not not even outside i'm not from the regime i'm just the students 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 birth 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. in london. now openly supporting the plight of palestinians in gaza has got a couple of hollywood stars in trouble it's rumored to be cruising the hudson how they have bought them could be blacklisted for speaking out about stories on our website. putting a poor performance us state department officials online we'll tell you how they're now getting coaching costing half a million dollars so they can perform better in front of nor makers in congress after a string of embarrassing display. your friend post a photo from

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marches strikes and power cuts this is how electricity workers are responding to government crimes to 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 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 how corporation remains the main employer here and the people who live 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 guarantee that

a 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 all 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 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 if your very. own 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 so we count marina cossar vive reporting from greece for r.t. . so more news now from around the world 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 drought some areas are going to mostly year without rain colombians are also angry at the 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 kidnapping charges a large reward being offered for information leading to his recapture place of so far managed to find ten of the other prisoners and face may have fled across the border. coming up a on r.t. international air an aid crunches the numbers in britain but stay with us.

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 what is the justification 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. there i marinated this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. we're talking tech on today's show and first up facebook is

getting into the t.v. ad buying business we'll tell you all about it coming right up then how are the winds and the co-founder of the stock twits down with me to discuss all things technology in particular what's going on with tech companies lately and you definitely don't want to miss what he has to say about the subject and with the boom bust the line off to vegas after the show today for the black had twenty fourteen conference we thought it appropriate to bring you the final part of our interview with mr bruce schneier now bruce tells us his thoughts on n.s.a. reform embedded heating systems and open s.s.l. time to get to it. our lead story today on this tech centric up

a sort of boom bust facebook now facebook is getting into the television ad buying business and it's going to be amazing i mean amazing for advertisers that is according to facebook now facebook executives argue that by using the site's massive analytics they can help advertisers reach exactly the right audience and measure exactly the impact that their ads have they can do this by tracking the searches social connections and histories of their one point three billion users worldwide now while television remains the dominant vehicle for advertisers trying to reach a mass audience faced. claims that it can get your product in front of the eyes of would be buyers far better than traditional t.v. ads now mind you they've never done this before and most people don't watch t.v. on facebook so they think they can do this i don't know but ten years ago when facebook began selling marketers doubted the value of this type of.