heavy artillery attacks killing at least three people in the outskirts of dawn yet east ukraine with residential areas pounded by shells as the army tries to retake the city from local militia. fast foods leaving a sour taste for russian regulators who are suing mcdonald's today over quality against the backdrop of escalating tit for tat sanctions between moscow and the west. and washington is sending over one hundred additional military advisers to iraq to help kurdish troops battle islamic jihadists and concern the u.s. is getting too deeply involved in the conflict.

you're watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow where it's now ten am in the russian capital it's good to have you with us. at least three people have been killed in fresh ukrainian army attacks on the outskirts of don yet where troops are closing in and vowing a major offensive locals are being told to get out of the city the area came under heavy fire on tuesday night and is the current front line in the conflict a market and several apartment blocks were pounded by shells in the main square residents helped firefighters put out the flames distort a nineteen year old man and an elderly woman are among the victims many have now been left homeless as a result of the bombardment tens of thousands of people across eastern ukraine have been forced to flee the violence in recent months most of them to russia and riff and followed some of the refugees as they left their homes in the city of new

ganske. one thousand nine hundred eleven in her dark apartment in the ganske packing they has been no electricity nased at the city for almost two weeks now and the shelling continues. but india has already sent her daughter and her granddaughter to family friends in russian they didn't see each other for a month we'll meet her when she's getting ready to follow them we will company her all the way to the border. only in good books of the new live just stop for us we wake up stand in the bread line for two hours then get a water and the other kook a meal to eat and the same thing happens every day at this time was said in line we can only send to the news on the radio or vetting team as husband was due to come back from a trip to their country house this morning but he's still not back the phones are

down and she has no way of knowing what's delayed him. but with daily bombings she can't help but be worried when my the says any of the there is no connection so i don't even know what happened to him maybe he went to visit his brother. in indiana puts in her girl's winter clothes and finishes packing she leaves her home with six bags and a very heavy heart zinaida from the guns krege and has cancer in her home was shelled twice but she tries to remain buoyant but even her optimism was not enough to do with what she saw that day that convinced her she can stay in lugansk bush. i was at a bus stop and then i decided to leave for some reason a soon as i left the bus stop a show exploded right behind me five people died one man had his head blown off and a woman lost her leg took me three days to get over it she says making the decision

to leave was not an easy one but it was a very quick one. it's not about the fear of death but more of our great panic was always going on but here was this for their peaceful people here zenaida leaves and just like many others hopes to come back but she fears that she would never be able to do so her. well we talked as he needed but in tina reunites with her husband and. public transportation is sporadic at best and he least his bus with no way to call home. it's less than sixty kilometers from lugansk to the border but these journey might seem endless to those forced to flee. already in russia it's a mixture of pain and despair and hope as these people turning to their lives so made over nineteen and her husband will spend some time in this refugee

camp at the russian ukrainian border until they manage to get to their final destinations joining thousands of others who have fled eastern ukraine living their lives and homes behind them they do not know what tomorrow holds in store but at least they say they wore his now behind them review notion r.t. in ukraine and russia. not here sending mixed messages about the whereabouts of missing russian journalist andre stern and as international pressure grows for his release officials originally denied detaining the photographer but here's what an advisor to kiev's interior minister told a lot of the in radio station. who come here. to warn them russian men who will look back. on tangata shango added that andre is being held because he's suspected of aiding terrorists but when his employer the real news agency asked for a comment the ukrainian official made quite

a huge. issue of the poor football of course if you're not part of one of the rest of the. well the thirty three year old journalist has been missing for more than a week and rights groups are lining up in support the committee to protect journalists says the committee said preston says if ukrainian authorities are holding him the reporter should be released immediately amnesty international is also voicing concerns stressing that journalists shouldn't have any restrictions in their work and here's the statement from the reporters committee he says the journalist must be free to cover all controversies without being penalized for doing their jobs. will be posted on what's happening with our understanding over at r.t. dot com we've lined up a collection of some of the photojournalists most acclaimed work documenting events in here and east in ukraine.

the united states is sending one hundred thirty additional advisors to iraq's kurdistan to help troops counter the islamic states insurgency president obama insists they will not be involved in combat operations or washington around so directly on the cards with light weaponry and i mean nations you can explains why the u.s. is so keen on protecting the minority. the militants of the islamic state have been seizing control of vast swathes of iraq for months now but when they approached its kurdish region the u.s. took action this is a humanitarian issue of great consequence for all the world the militants threat not just the people of the kurdish region but also its oil production since the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three iraq's kurdistan has seen a boom in energy production u.s. energy giants exxon mobil and chevron are among the many oil and gas firms large

and small now drilling there seems that there are american oil companies operating in the kurdish region in the north of iraq had some weight and it was one of the main considerations that the obama administration. took wide thinking about engaging militarily in iraq this month the same my autonomy as region has shown to be friendly to the u.s. and to u.s. business but the oil rich kurdistan has long sought to break away from iraq it has now moved to sell crude independently from bogged down arguing that the central government doesn't give the region its fair share of oil revenue and meet the onslaught of the islamic state in the political turmoil in baghdad many kurds see an opportunity to finally carve out a homeland by exclusively supporting the kurdish region washington may fuel their cause that the kurdish region is functional the way we would like to see it and it

is tolerant of other sex and other religion in a way that you would like to see elsewhere so we do think that it's important to make sure that. the obama administration likes the way kurdistan functions but doesn't like the way iraq as a whole functions the obama administration denies that it gave up on the central government in baghdad moving to directly protect u.s. interests with humanitarian situation so dire and the threat posed by the islamic state so imminent america's increased involvement may not have much opposition now even if the eventual outcome will be the break up of iraq in washington i'm going to check out our team. now on the story we're just learning that washington says it's weighing up the urgent evacuation of refugees trapped on sinjar mountain who are fleeing the jihadists former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul spoke exclusively to r.t. on the prospects for america's latest moves in iraq he told us the united states

risks sinking deeper into the conflict unless it leaves iraqis to deal with the islamic state on their own. the kurds have always had this reputation of being great fighters and that they're very good day out in a town 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 i says ended up getting a lot of weapons from us and if they captured weapons they got them 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 i think the sooner we get out of there will be the better i think the policy that we should follow is one designed to allow the rockies to solve all their problems and stay out of this let them deal with it because as 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 says nothing about amassing chaos there and in

a way were partially responsible for the. record number of illegal african migrants heading to europe they see a boy on the struggle to hold back the tide in just a moment including the latest massport of storming incidents. of race riots in missouri where i'm going crowds refuse to be quelled over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in a few minutes we take a closer look at how offices on the situation. i was trained. in december two thousand and ten. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world. i don't think supportive to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger and the question this. girl complaining about the son of an alumni gives

millions of dollars. the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school of schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly. this immediately bosal we need to be. part of the scene motions to cure the play your part of the musical the questions that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . hundreds of migrants have tried to breach a heavily fortified spanish enclave in north africa dozens managed to break through

into malaysia which borders morocco on the mediterranean coast using makeshift ladders mob stormed the barrier wall in waves most were repelled but those who got in will now be assessed for asylum or deportation while this is the largest in months millions frequently targeted by people fleeing sub-saharan africa trying to make it into europe spain is not the only country where african migrants are trying to make their way into europe to seek jobs and shelter this week violent clashes broke out in france and there are trains and sudanese citizens tried getting to britain through the northern port of kalik african migrants also risk their lives crossing the mediterranean to reach its in these southern coasts and islands now boats carrying refugees are often overloaded many capsize almost eight hundred people have drowned this year alone the un's refugee agency says the influx into europe through the mediterranean is already sixty percent higher than last year

more than seventy five thousand have tried to get into a tiny greece spain or malta during the first half of this year the subjects' a sore point for most europeans but a british think tank says migrants contribute more to the economy than they take but adds that mass immigration strains the country's infrastructure we've got an investigation on that on our website. first rate. and i think that you're. it. russia is taking mcdonald's to court today the fast food giant is accused of violating the country's nutrition and safety codes in some of its products which

could see some of the chains most popular burgers and shakes disappear from russian menus explains why the for food and food is proving hard to swallow for russian consumers. it's not that russians have lost their appetite for mcdonald's preliminary hearings are due to start on wednesday in the case against mcdonald's which were began by russia's consumer watchdog protection agency it comes after an inspection they have carried out a couple of months ago apparently some of the most popular burgers and shakes do not measure up to the standard which was said by they watchdog and they are saying that the color if a value simply does not correspond that what mcdonald's claims to be and now this is not the first time that mcdonald's has found itself in hot water in russia previously there have been cases of e. coli contamination in its products as well but this seems to be one of the biggest threats so far because the head of the consumer watchdog agency is saying that the violations that they have uncovered seem to put in danger the entire operations of

the fast food chain in russia now mcdonald's is saying that they haven't heard anything about this case that for the past twenty five years of their work in russia they have been trying to comply with the standards set by various agencies and of course they're saying that the traditional value off their product is actually said by the standards that were interned by various russian health agencies now of course mcdonald's is highly popular in russia it operates more than four hundred restaurants with thousands of people being employed there with of course dens of thousands of people going there almost for a daily meal but this could actually mean the end of a russian mcdonald's fix and of course this comes hot on the heels of a trade war that seems to be erupting between russia and the west as off now reports for the last few months we've definitely been witnessing a rising tensions between russia and the west but what's happening now is already being described to me as

a full blown trade war first the. whole sectors of its economy for major banks were hit and one airline was completely grounded within russia and. scouter measures banning the import of billions of euros worth of fruit vegetables meat dairy and other products european producers are the worst hit and brussels has to compensate the losses the problem is the size of its emergency fund is around four hundred million euros while the estimated damage may reach five billion we are going to lose one point three million euros but we're relatively small business imagine the other big firms such as like to lease which send several trucks a week is going to affect the soul for us it will take two or three months to collect our remaining orange crop and we don't know what will happen if no one buys it. now we're in

a bad economic situation more than two hundred families have been destroyed we will have damage in excess of eight hundred fifty thousand your rules if nothing is changed we are in a desperate situation and next to russia starts negotiations with latin america specifically ecuador brazil chile and argentina to meet the new eight percent shortfall in imports according to the financial times the e.u. me start trying to talk some of these states out of upping trade with russia perhaps promising to open its market to their products but here is the ecuadorian embassador to russia's thought on this i think the current situation creates great opportunities for ecuador but it would have been unwise to pass up such a chance to diversify and expand our trading capabilities especially having received an offer to become a privileged partner with russia. some business analysts in the west have now started wondering how wise was it to start playing this game of tit for tat sanctions the sanctions that will they really work and we don't think they will and we've all been working in the russian market probably now for the last twenty years

and times have always been difficult to do russia business in russia but i don't think the sanctions will really help and we just wanted to sort of voice could well be job losses coming along with j.c. big. reported that he potentially could lose. orders as a result of the sanctions and as a result of that would lose jobs over here watching this economic battle swing back and forth like a pendulum one is reminded of newton's famous law every action has an equal and opposite reaction which is will be the last to retaliate is very hard to predict right now. the city of ferguson in missouri has enjoyed a third night of riots in the wake of saturday's fatal shooting of black teenager mike brown by a policeman it's seen officers resort to normally for rounds and tear gas as well as issue a warning of the force of crowds do not display insisted locals say they refuse to yield until justice is done and still the police chief has granted anonymity to the

officers who come down the teenager saying that making his own public could endanger the lives of the policeman and his family but out of. st thomas to see which. 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 identified we do know that 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 gone shot 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 look we just fired tear gas. ok so tear gas is 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 and they're not bothering anybody and they are showing the police you cannot make us go inside our houses we can stand our ground . until the dawn comes if we'd like you cannot fall. that's best martial law you tell us we got a curfew now 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 craning. 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. artsy ferguson missouri. well in some louis county where ferguson is gun sales at one store on the rise it's owner explain how more locals want to themselves for protection since teenager mike brown was shot dead. selling guns every day but the last two days people have never really thought about a sense of urgency to go out and buy firearms see the crime happening very close to

their home so they're really intent about coming out and getting firearms to defend themselves from mike brown an eighteen year old african-american wasn't carrying a weapon when he was killed by the police officer he's believed to be white it's fueled racial tension in practice and policing is increased with supporting officers being brought in from other areas. in other world news alerts to any amount being arrested in possession of almost four thousand euros of the drug crystal meth in indonesia his arrest is the country's biggest drug bust this year this year indonesia's knockoffs explores a known to be strict in drug trafficking and seeing those convicted sentenced to death. on the group is made up for that is ten a million u.s. dollars at santiago airport in chile to talk is targeted now on the truck that was taking the cash to an aircraft what is one of the country's biggest ever robberies escaped into vehicles and in different directions leaving spikes in the road to

burst the tires of any cause in pursuit. the next your chance to see how all these reporters get the job done in the latest episode of news teams they with us. are going. well. it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances with would anyone though they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting swards listening is that certain people who she 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

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and the nice today and signs of montoya far worse says you're a pastry am many many markets are out she asked for his red square and demonstrators are feaster names and laurie kate saying i want you to stick to the current sales were. worried are in some sort of. this is our international with the twenty four hours a day live from our studio center here in moscow which just turned eight pm and six pm in kiev where the rest has reignited in the city just a day after the government's amnesty for protesters came into force.

a child to circle the police line around. doing a. rather bizarre thing for central keep right. on the slice to get the pulse of the system to get where we need to get kind of missing this target actually expected to be here at least two weeks or even a month later than we are now. but it's like a constant power to take you never know where it's going to go. and as far as you go i think you want to get off your ass and. i really do not find yourself in between the police and the protests. the first. rule of a riot correspondent. because if you do then your. average

. no idea what already will change which. would justify you have to change let's try to figure let's get out let's get out from this particular area because i think the strategy. home with. the i'm.

trying to get to that building over there ok you know that's when that's the life position we have. with the guys it's on the everything is left off. that's is the best idea i could have had right now just to park the things the belongings is one place and then try to work as we can feed nothing we can to get to the life position we have chaos. ha ha who will now try to get to the building from the other side. of. the word is that the part where our position is controlled by the police and they're not letting one anyone inside so this is giving us. pain in one one particular place of our bodies because. we need to get there. in order to broadcast live.