good to have you with us your new today i'm sure. coming up on r t outrage continues after an unarmed teenager shot by a police officer just outside of st louis missouri now department of justice is getting involved but this may not be enough to satisfy those rioting in the streets . and the u.s. continues to fight back isis in iraq with more airstrikes coming up we sit down with former congressman ron paul to ask whether or not the u.s. should be involved. and the world is looking for answers as the a bowl of virus spreads across africa without a cure patients are ready to experiment with a new untested drug so what could this mean for the future of the virus more on

that later in the show. it's tuesday august twelfth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm a mirror david and you're watching our team america. we begin today with the latest in the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in missouri the family of eighteen year old michael brown is calling for peace after protests over the weekend led to rioting tensions are running high as the f.b.i. saint louis p.d. and attorney general begin their investigations into brown's death even president barack obama weighed in today in a statement he said we should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals not in a way that moons along with our prayers that's what michael and his family and our broader american community deserve artie's on

a stasia turkana is in ferguson which is just outside of st louis with the very latest on the community's response to michael brown's death. we're currently in ferguson in the suburbs of st louis missouri where tensions have been flying high ever since saturday when eighteen year old michael brown who was on armed was killed by multiple shots from a police officer who has so far been unidentified we do know that the accounts of what exactly took place different police say that the young man had had an altercation with the police officer by getting into his car and trying to take his gun police say that he was reportedly with another young man and they had been in this fight with the police officer that led to at least one gunshot being fired inside the police car and then according to the police several gunshots were fired at the young man which led to his death now as we know of course tensions chaos

violence and really mayhem have been an unraveling on the streets here for these last couple of nights mostly just fired tear gas. ok so tear gas being fired at the protesters even though there's only really a couple of dozen people here at least police have been issuing warnings and warnings for at least two hours now that this would happen if protesters didn't disperse most of the people here that we've spoken to are locals living on this particular street in this community they're not bothering anybody and they are showing the police you cannot make us go in fattah houses we can stand there on the side while unsealed the dawn comes if we'd like you can not force that vest more shalom are you telling us we get a car if you know it was on this street last night monday night that police in riot gear had used tear gas this tuesday in the afternoon it's obviously a completely different story and it was on an afternoon just like this on saturday that michael brown was killed with multiple gunshot witness accounts of what

happened differ a very much from what the police have been describing people have said that they saw michael running away from the. police car with his hands up showing that he was on armed when several bullets were fired the police has said that the number of bullets was more than a couple but not much more than statements like this have been causing the community to bring their outrage out onto the streets night after night demanding answers to this tragic death their windows shattered dozens of businesses like this one in ferguson have been boarded up and shut down after the looting and vandalism that has been taking place electronic cords ripped out and security cameras broken some of the store vendors. bought up and protect what's left. but i can understand a family. my condolences go out to the family this gas station convenience store was pretty much completely burned down after on sunday hundreds of protesters took to the streets after a vigil held for michael brown the eighteen year old was just about to start

college was just days away from going to school and this place and really this death has become a tragic symbol of the major disconnect that exists in this community between the police who are meant to serve and protect and the predominantly black community that lives here i'm supposed to chirk about archie ferguson missouri. announcer the latest in iraq u.s. military forces continued to target islamic state militants today by conducting an air strike on an isis mortar position north of send jar jar is in northwestern iraq near the syrian border is an area mostly inhabited by use edis a religious group that right now is under siege and attempting to evacuate the region the airstrike comes just a day after a senior official said the u.s. government had also begun to funnel weapons directly to kurdish forces fighting the islamist militants who are advancing in the northern part of the country it's

unclear what kinds of arms are being sent to the region however they are reportedly being sent through a covert channel established by the cia to talk about the latest u.s. military action in the country and its implications earlier i spoke with former texas congressman ron paul i first asked him about the latest developments and the arming of kurdish forces. well i think it's a little bit late to try to salvage all the mistakes that we've made for the past twenty four years i've been opposed to going into iraq all the way back to the beginning in one nine hundred ninety because i believe in nonintervention that we should mind our own business and it never works out very well so in spite of the problems and the obvious people suffering from this it's a consequence of us being in there and i don't think the solution is being involved even more so once again and renew all the efforts because i'm afraid it will end up with a lot more violence because they're putting more troops in there right now so i think the. blow is one designed to allow the iraqis to solve all

their problems and stay out of this let them deal with it because we've tried for a long time we've lost a lot of lives spent a lot of money and we've allowed a mess to develop and nothing about amassing chaos there and in a way were partially responsible for that and seeing the way isis has operated so far do you think the kurds are even capable of taking isis on at this point. well you know the kurds have always had this reputation of being great fighters and that they're very good at it and i would think that they're they're quite capable of doing this i'm surprised that they haven't retaliate a little bit better but one of the reasons why they haven't done very well is that isis ended up getting a lot of weapons from us and if they they've captured weapons i've got i'm out of syria and i'm sure there are some that came from libya so they're well armed so we

haven't done the kurds any favor whatsoever so it would have been much better of course you know when when the host crisis started in the early part of this century is just allow the courage to have their own country and by now they would be in much better shape but i think our policies in direct it has made it very difficult for the kurds to defend themselves because their enemies are well armed with american weapons and in the case of syria we saw the u.s. struggle quite as bad as they tried to decipher exactly who to arm with in opposition and as a result some of those weapons sell into the wrong hands in the case of iraq the u.s. is arming a much more organized kurdish force do you think there's still concern that weapons could really fall into the wrong hands here. absolutely they always there's us always the possibility that intentions are always good but there's always the danger of this happening so i would stick to the basic principle that we have

a strong national defense we defend our national security we don't get involved in fights around the world we don't get involved with civil strife and civil wars and especially what was going on in the middle east so no i think the argument stands on its own merits that we should and shouldn't be involved in doing this you might say well yeah but the kurds are a lot better people to support than say the unidentifiable groups of rebels that were in syria which is quite possibly be be the case but i think if we stayed out of iraq. the whole world would be a lot better off and i think the kurds would be a lot better off as well while the obama administration says it must act in order to protect american personnel and diplomats stationed at the u.s. consulate in erbil if the city falls to islamic militants isis could of course there radically progress even further under that logic do you agree that some kind

of military action is needed. yeah we should send in an airplane and bring him out because it's a war zone and why why why look for some disaster to happen like it did in libya you know and our ambassador getting killed so i would say yes the military has a responsibility to retreat when they need to and it's a fight that we have lost i think we have spent too much and look i lived through the time and was in the military during the vietnam war and what a disaster that was and ended up with a retreat and look how much better off of vietnam is today because we just flat out left after we and the french have been done such harm to the vietnamese so i think the sooner we get out there the the better we don't have a moral responsibility we don't have a constitutional responsibility has nothing to do with our national security

jeopardizes our national security and it's bankrupting our country and this is exactly what some of bin laden wanted he wanted to engage us over there because he says i'll bring you down like i brought the soviets down because we will take you to bankruptcy and we're doing the same thing because we flat out can't afford it it's a failed policy i think after so many years and so many decades we ought to admit the troops so you believe there is no moral obligation whatsoever on the part of the u.s. to go back in there. not as a government and i think people who are interested and they want to donate money and send the red cross over there to help people i think that's very legitimate but no i do not believe that we have any moral responsibility to pack up send more troops over there every day you read about more military going in and of course they said we had we don't want to have boots on the ground will we never got rid of the it's on the ground we had a special forces in the cia and others involved very much involved always prepared

to go back in so no i think it's a it's a bad situation and we do not have this obligation you did mention boots on the ground in the past president obama has said that combat troops are not going to be fighting in iraq he's made that clear several times that at the same time we've heard the obama administration say no option is off the table when it comes to military involvement do you think president obama will stick to his word or is this essentially mission creep as you see it. well of course it is a swathe both administrations have run things there's always mission creep and of course the republicans hockey's republicans in our hysterical that he's not bombing and killing and sending more troops in faster even with all these failures it's unbelievable when are they ever going to quit and say hey maybe our policies are wrong and yet we continue to do the same thing over and over again so yes i

think there will be mission creep i think it's already there i think we never really left iraq and now we're building up the troops again and who knows what the unforseen consequences will be may get worse before it gets better and then we're going to have to send a lot more personnel in and besides using bombers and using drone missiles it's an act of war we're committing war and innocent people die look how many innocent people have died at the hands of our drone drone bombs at the same time that this same thing will happen again and there will be a lot of unintended consequences and it certainly will be a expect a consequence when it will drive us further into bankruptcy and then of course there's the public opinion aspect of that now according to a recent a.p. poll seventy eight percent of americans think that history will judge the iraqi war as a failure and most say the u.s. was right to withdraw american troops from the country in two thousand and eleven

where do you think american public opinion stands on this latest retreat back into iraq do you think there are any americans that believe we should go back and you know i do and i think come fortunately i think the numbers are going to grow because all you have to do is describe you know isis and the ruthlessness of the way they act but you know that office ought to that we have to go in and rescue you know the tragedy that is happening in northern iraq but what about when all. all the christians were run out of iraq when we were in charge of the government there is no concern about the people who are suffering from from the war in gaza is everybody russian there's a there's a humanitarian concern what about the people in eastern courageous or in eastern ukraine where we're actually trying to stop russia from sending is somehow the same time we're trying to struct it from coming in and of course that to me i

think they're pure hypocrites on who whose which crisis they want to attend to and i think what we're seeing down around iraq and all the war that's been going on for all these years has a lot to do with oil quite frankly and right now it has to do with oil and probably rescuing our military personnel but we're digging a bigger hole for ourselves which we have been doing for decades. i was former texas congressman ron paul. and now it's the latest in ukraine new clashes took place today between police and protesters in the ukrainian capital of kiev up to two thousand people gathered in independence square to demand the route of the ukrainian government to vote in favor of a bill that would prohibit current and former members of parliament to run for office in the future the people who have been promised change from the previous president was ousted now want to see authorities keep good on their promise the

violence erupted after police tried to confiscate tires which the protesters tried to set on fire meanwhile a humanitarian convoy from russia has crossed the ukrainian border to provide relief to residents in war torn eastern ukraine moscow agreed to kiev suggestions and representatives of the red cross o. a c. e. and ukrainian authorities inspected the cargo and are present on board the trucks u.n. secretary general ban ki moon also welcomed the humanitarian mission and the new york based committee to protect journalists issued a statement calling on ukrainian authorities to clarify the status of the russian photo journalist andreas dineen the journalist reporting for ria novosti was reported missing on august fifth and his whereabouts are still unknown allegedly he was detained by ukrainian security forces but this information has not yet been confirmed. and the international investigation of the downed airliner m.h.

seventeen continues a special team from the royal malaysian police will be redeployed to the crash site in eastern ukraine under the condition that the ukrainian military and the separatists agree to a cease fire in the area now earlier i also had the chance to ask congressman paul about that investigation and get his thoughts on the way the incident has been framed by ukraine russia and the united states here's what he had to say. well it's a political football is what it is i personally don't know who shot down a plane i don't know the motivations but i've thought a lot about it i thought about who would benefit from shooting down airplanes one thing is russia would benefit by it i mean it would be foolish for them to participate in something like that the rebels possibly if they made a mistake thinking they were shooting something else down i guess as conceivable but if you're looking for a false flag a false flag would have to come from western ukraine and then blame somebody else

in order to stir up what is happening but the one thing that one point i try to make and i think it's a legitimate point is we do have a lot of technology sometimes we have a lot of information when we don't use it well and when matter of fact we get too much it becomes bureaucratic i am convinced that united states had lot of information about everything going on in the skies over ukraine and during this period of time i mean they know what was going on i mean we participated in a coup and it was very very important so i think our government has been talking a lot less about it at the beginning it was immediate oh russia did it and then they wanted to drop it and then when our intelligence group came out and says no there's no evidence that russia was a participant and it then the propaganda continued but they allowed it to stand i think most americans right now believe that russia was responsible for all this but

i think the important thing is is the american government is rather quiet now and some day somewhere will have a whistleblower come up and say well here i'll show you the evidence of a disaster what happened and where that missile came from or whether another plane was involved i quite frankly don't know all i know is that we'd be better off a long way from that argument and i think the ideal thing that could have. into ukraine is if if all governments european governments russian government and united states government just stay out of the way and i imagine what would happen there is what should have happened naturally in iraq you know had kurdistan and had the whole thing break up and i think you know there's sort of a natural breakup of ukraine it would be very healthy and maybe have a loose association but outside governments are tyrannical and they want control and authoritarians and we have them every government has and. i think the only

thing i can advocate for is a position for the united states because i pay taxes and i used to be in congress and for me i stick to my principles stay out of those messes there's no benefit to us and there's no threat to our national security is a greater threat to us if we're involved the way we have been for the last several years in ukraine. again that was former texas congressman ron paul. as the world continues to watch the growing threat of a disease without a cure today the w.h.o. endorse the use of an experimental drug in an effort to thwart a bola artie's manila chan brings us more on this developing story the death toll from the obolus epidemic now stands at over a thousand according to the world health organization and including a spanish priest who became the first european to die in the worst outbreak of the disease ever the world is bracing for a larger scale outbreak and pressure is mounting on president obama and u.s. drug makers to help mitigate further impact of this deadly disease now no proven

vaccine or cure really exists yet there is one drug made in san diego california that many hope could help the map a previously untested drug was first tried out on the two americans affected with ebola dr kent brantly and nancy now that prompted the four countries hit with the outbreak sierra leone liberia guinea and nigeria to ask why their countries haven't received the experimental drug in those countries six hundred people are currently suffering with ebola and according to the doctors that testified last week a bully hearing on capitol hill they suspect there may be several hundred more going undetected now liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf contacted president obama and asked for u.s. intervention to help save several west african doctors who are now afflicted themselves it's unknown at this time exactly how many doses of the vaccine were

given to liberia but the world health organization has made clear that those individuals who are choosing to take this vaccine are doing so at their own risk dr marie paul kinney the assistant director general at w.h.o. said in a press conference this week that. now patients in west africa is ethical but could in no way they would no way guarantee its efficacy now when asked about the coming availability of the drug dr kinney had this to say. brokering we do know what we do not get involved into a discussion about true should get what drug get it working movement what we have been doing is when we have been requests for example of who is they have looking such and such if we have the coordinates of book we would certainly give.

them the discussion. between somebody who has a drug number one would like to to obtain it so we can. sense but. contacts now w.h.o. the white house and all the bio pharma companies involved are already coming under fire from both sides of this vaccine argument the makers of the map say they have depleted their entire stock of the drug which was just set to go into animal testing phase and they were about a year away from being ready to test on humans when this outbreak hit now on the one hand because dr brantley is doing so well almost immediately following his vaccination some are hailing this as a miracle drug or even a cure for ebola it's also believe though that seventy five year old spanish priest miguel harris who died over the weekend was given that drug so pressure is mounting

on the makers of the map and the obama administration to facilitate faster production of the drug now the f.d.a. has not approved this medicine for wide public use and can in no way confirm that it can help patients so world health leaders are kind of mired in a catch twenty two. if they don't allow further use of the map the public will say they're allowing people to die unnecessarily on the other hand if they allow the use of the map on a broader scale of people the public will say they're experimenting on humans so it's kind of a tough call for doctors to make at this point but it is a decision that will have to be made sooner rather than later due to this apparent rapid infection rate from washington manila chan r.c. finally assured from the stylish but messy university student amir patel is set to release the first orders of his nanotech shirts that actually repel water twenty

one year old c.e.o. the twenty one year old c.e.o. and his team were looking for an alternative to the spray on method of water proofing clothes using nanotechnology and the natural mineral silica they were able to do just that the silica which is commonly used in cement production is bonded to the fiber of the shirt on a nano scale the process creates a material that is super hydrophobic that means water balls up and rolls off the material but tell claims that this process is completely safe for not only consumers but for the environment as well as far as long jeopardy itself says the shirts will stay waterproof for about eighty washes or roughly two years worth of use with a successful kickstarter campaign raising about three hundred thousand dollars tell of now ready to put the shirts into production and he will ship those orders out in the near future. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now and tonight's guest is new york rangers goalie henrik lundqvist here's here he

is joined by his twin brother and fellow hockey player jol. you played against the three seasons right. here when i played in dallas it was koran and it's. just a practice just to brag but it was a special games for short to play against him and see him on the other side of the it was it different when he was coming in i was so nervous that game because it was such a build up we played together for sixteen years. suddenly we were playing against each other for the first time and i was just weird and nerve wracking who's the older. right here how many minutes boarding that's forty minutes if i was there i was supposed to come first but you can't keep me in the wrong direction. so that was henrik lundqvist tonight at nine pm tonight here on r t america that does it

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