and financial commentary interview and much much. only on the bus and. convoy humanitarian aid hands from russia to ukraine's blockaded city of lugansk after moscow in kiev agreed to a red cross led mission also. police fired tear gas and enraged crowds in the u.s. state of missouri in a second night of street violence over and the police killing on an armed a black teenager. the u.s. is just saying weapons to kurdish militia in iraq which are struggling to push back heavily armed islamic state giada's. and why has britain's biggest

bank been pulling the plug on accounts belonging to syrian refugees and students. to bam in the russian capital watching our senior national with memory and joshua welcome to the program a convoy of aid from russia is on its way to a gun sco week after local officials declared a humanitarian disaster in the east ukraine city from moscow reached agreement on the mission which will be led by the red cross is on the russian ukrainian border for us. well 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 year of thirty six hours after so this is a very big can wait in close 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 terrible and very hard

situation the officials in charge told us that the calm was a teen raised not just clear but they are planning to travel all across the eastern and southern ukraine making stops at the 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 obviously 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 nobody tricity 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 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 shell city the surge in the region. that we're going to the super bowl with the rebels and the reporters who took my mother

to car solution for for children and then you put on a good bit of the when you can use not only do you have 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 craig but just on monday the red cross confirmed that it went through all necessary details and agreements with the russian side also add in the bay are also planning to send their own humanitarian aid to ukraine but later. people living in the two key cities in caves military sides are being told to leave their homes ukraine's security forces say they're preparing a major offensive to retake. local militia one of massive counter attacks. video from a town in the advanced region apparently shows the aftermath of recent shelling it's a residential area that appears to have been struck residents in these regions aerial

assault is a daily threat which ukrainian forces and local militia blame on each other. now moscow is urging king of to take action to help find and free a russian photographer who's been missing in ukraine for we now understand is reportedly being held by the country's security services which they deny colleagues of the thirty three year old journalist for drawing public attention to his plight with an online campaign hash tag free andrew the un expressed its hope that there an obvious seniors agency reporter will be found safe the new york based committee to protect journalist is calling for stand his immediate release and here's a reaction from human rights watch stressing that andree has to be freed because there have been no charges pressed against him and the european security watchdog also insist he has to be released condemning the practice of arresting journalists

. well i have no r t v dot com for constant updates on the search for the missing journalist and other developments in east ukraine we've got bad ground analysis and stories of what it's really like to live through the conflict. and. just to have for you here at your national brussels muscles in on the latin america to stop it stepping in to replace the goods now banned by russia. tear gas and rubber bullets have been fired at crowds in the u.s. state of missouri as protests over saturday's failed shooting of a black teenager by beliefs men continue to turn violent the eighteen year old was unarmed when he was gunned down in the city of ferguson on the future is there for us. 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 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 today to are 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 see it is across what's happening in ferguson city missouri of course you can also follow her on twitter for updates as they happen and pictures from the scene. the the in. they out of nations have appointed an expert panel to investigate suspected war crimes on both sides during the latest conflict in gaza israel's came out strongly

against the move accusing the inquiry of bias before it's even started well here's our middle east correspond policy or while 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 they'd 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 banking was also in the past spoken out in the poshest 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 accuses the u.n. 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. the month long conflict claimed more than nineteen hundred lives and has left gaza in ruins tens of thousands of homes were destroyed or damaged by israeli strikes universities hundreds of schools and mosques were reduced to rubble reports say half a million people have displayed been displaced and that's almost a third of the population for more than a million civilians there is no fresh drinking water openly supporting the plight

of palestinians in gaza has got a couple of hollywood stars in trouble it's rumored that the more we cruise and her husband's fear of boredom could be blacklisted for speaking out and that stories on our t. dot com right now. and it's planning to put pressure on latin america to stop exporting more food to russia moscow imposed an embargo on a range of european products and countries like brazil and chile are being countess to step in and fill the gap well here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. well following russia's decision to ban the import of certain foodstuffs and agricultural produce from from europe as well as other countries in retaliation to the sanctions that were opposed the economic sanctions that were imposed on russia as we understand that brussels are going to try and contact some countries in central and south america in order to dissuade them from selling the blockaded the

banned foodstuffs to russia at a decent price now what we're particularly looking at is countries like brazil and chile and brazil is already seen this is an opportunity it has long trading history with russia it's opened it's set to open around one thousand meat processing plants it's expected that brazil will be the place that russia goes to to try and get its beef and pork also chile which is said to be the place it goes to for fish imports that it's no longer accepting from the european union now those farmers that are here in europe well they're saying that when washington and brussels came up with the sanctions against russia they weren't thinking about them and they didn't think about the consequences it could have when making a decision to impose sanctions on russia the e.u. should have realized that businesses will have problems that russia will let it go and will take responsive measures for which we are paying right now we need access

to the markets could help solve the deadlock situation in which for example the fruit sector is in elsewhere poland is preparing an appeal to the w t o the world trade organization against the sanctions imposed by russia they say that it infringes upon the rights of particular apples were a huge import to russia from poland what they're saying is it goes against the rules russia says not in the slightest doesn't it fringe upon anything that suggests and it says that nobody was complaining to the w t o when sanctions were imposed on russia to what we're seeing is the side. actions starting to bite so and the people that they're impacting all the most of the farming business and the the agricultural industry in europe. and breaking news on r t international within the past a few minutes ukraine security officials have said russia's humanitarian aid convoy will not be allowed to cross the border they say it hasn't been certified by the

red cross earlier moscow and kiev reached an agreement on the relief mission which is supposed to be led by the red cross nearly three hundred trucks of aid are now heading to eastern ukraine from russia and we'll be bringing you more details as we gather here on our teacher national. fears of a jihad of threat in europe are seeing one of its biggest banks turned on its accounts folders britain's h.s.b.c. is under fire for targeting syrian students and refugees without explanation we'll tell you more about that in just a few moments. as the media leave us so we leave the. oceans your. mother your party there's a good. shoes that no one is that still with to get that you deserve answers from.

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back you're watching or to international while there's a pessimism at the pentagon over the effectiveness of america's airstrikes against islamic state fighters it senior military officer believes they are unlikely to affect the jihadist overall abilities in syria saying the strikes so would only have a temporary effect and a more comprehensive approach is needed for now though washington says a well armed militia forces in iraq's kurdistan to help prevent the area falling fully into these lamas who are targeting they are gripped with their self declared caliphate light weaponry and ammunitions will be dispatched but there are questions about what kind of match they will be against have only armed islamic state fighters and it should count as more. 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 hottest forces in iraq are probably the strongest the hardest forces in

the region and the world they are equipped with a vast american weapons and that's how they were able to ethnically and the minorities christian and it's the the minorities from many areas in kurdistan or south of course then another attack in 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 a no. deeply divided country with more weapons could backfire in the future if there is no american military solution for life i think in iraq the only lesson 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 said state of the currents but rock would like to bring to the region several days and most cities as well as major world

they see both kurdish and tested here now it's pressing as the kurds defense the dark the question is whether the weapons provided the defense today you've. been watching the need to track down. 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 was drew from iraq when islamist state militants captured a major iraqi cities like mosul earlier this year the also seized weapons and equipment which the iraqi army will have behind us made tanks trucks and helicopters and now washington sending the kurds some light weapons and ammunition but what about activists ryan gerar told us the u.s. is pumping in money to sward 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 chain opposition groups in syria the same time the us is supporting the iraqi central government against the 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 five total in iraq is considered an enemy of the united states but once they cross the borders to syria they are funded and armed by the united states definitely foreign interventions and foreign agendas and that each and have opened the doors wide for all of these extreme screw ups this time of 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 now america's long had an eye on iraq's sunni thomas kurdistan and the country's north which is home to massive oil reserves by a large section of the kurdish community also live across the border in turkey and 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 which 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's seizure of the central part of iraq is basically tied iraq into three with the united states directly controlling the

north but if. if they've they've used isis is leverage against the maliki government but they're not about to allow isis fighters to invade come into northern iraq that's under direct u.s. control they want to bomb and force them back toward syria or or places where they're more useful to united states corporate and military interests. at a remark of our breaking news story here in the international the green security officials have said russia's humanitarian aid convoy are not be allowed to cross the ukrainian border they say it hasn't been certified by the red cross at the same time the ukraine security council has made a decision on which border crossing the convoy will be received earlier moscow and kiev reached an agreement on the relief mission which is supposed to be led by the red cross the yearly three hundred trucks of aid are now heading to eastern ukraine from russia and we'll be bringing you more details as they develop here on r.t.

international. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and severe water shortages in colombia sparked clashes there were arrests and injuries as grounds demanded the government do more to tackle the crisis drier 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 in town 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 being offered for information leading to his recapture police have so far managed to find ten of the other prisoners and fears some may have fled across the border. spanish priest being treated for both has

died in a madrid hospital after receiving one of the world's few doses of a u.s. made experimental treatment is one of only three a bowl of patients to have received the drug manufacturer is making limited doses available but says it's working to increase production the priest was in fact that with a deadly virus while helping people with a bow at a hospital. in liberia he was later evacuated to spain. now britain's biggest bank is being accused of affleck we 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. met with some of those being financially for us now i've never expected that you know so that was a very shocking american to hear on that put my card and just one of my cards when i called the bank down by discovered that you know there was

a lot about my converse both 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 other than discrimination and he never made any transfers to syria not even outside the u.k. 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 the look of. 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 us 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. . 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 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 their 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 as well as father staking a unique approach to teaching his kids about the dangers of playing violent video games by taking his young sons to syria and the west bank to see the real effects of war but back home is being vilified as a bad dad we tell you why on our website also online today u.s. state department staff have been getting a rough ride when hosting a q. and a's now their bosses are getting them coaching lessons costing half

a million dollars so they can perform better following a string of embarrassing this whites. only bring you more on our breaking news from ukraine a security official saying that russia's humanitarian aid convoy will not be allowed to cross the border we'll have more on the that in thirty minutes time here and here national for now though a look at why sexual assaults in colleges across america are going under-reported. but you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances but. they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting sports one of the scenes that certain people's regime has become very adept at is controlling the media for example right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n.

is you know completely telling it like it is no i think is a have an agenda i think through is is bought and paid for. leaked. audio in reality radiation is still there and it is killing our children they are dying also hard conditions asked most leukemia but the authorities 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 them to protect our children should just. put it under the law should be. the face.

of pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. america's colleges which through hollywood's television. the media have become very familiar. with campuses american football it's chilly does and the new tories policies. it's a life young people dream of but behind the picture is a nightmare for female students. one in five will be

a victim of rape during the 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 complex. i didn't know what to do. over and over again. and i stopped after. her assailants was a boyfriend. so if you remember anything happened last night and we had. said yeah we have.