until now. really rather not talk about that right. heavy artillery attacks killing at least three people in the outskirts of town yet east ukraine with residential areas pounded by shells as the army tries to retake the city from local militia. fast food is leaving a sour taste for russian regulators were suing mcdonald's today over quality against the backdrop of escalating tit for tat sanctions between moscow and the west. and washington considers evacuating iraqi refugees blockaded by jihadist fighters it's also sending over a hundred additional military advisers to help kurdish troops may concern the u.s. is getting too deeply involved.

you're watching r.t. international come to you live from moscow where it's now made days good to have you with us. at least three people have been killed in fresh ukrainian army attacks on the outskirts of done yet square troops are closing in and vowing a major offensive locals are being told to get out of the city this 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 is that it's a nineteen year old man and an elderly women 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 followed some of the refugees as they left their homes in the city of lugansk. valentino is

alone in her dark apartment in the gonski packing they has been no electricity in most of the city for almost two weeks now and the shelling continues. but indiana has already sent her daughter and her granddaughter to family friends in a russia they didn't see each other for a month we meet her when she's getting ready to follow them we will company her all the way to the border. in good cooks and going you live just stop for us we wake up stand in the bread line for two hours then get a water and have a 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 knees on the radio are very in tune 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. zenaida from the guns krege and has cancer her home was shelled twice but she tries to remain bargain but even her up to me soon 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 i 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 outright panic was always going on but she was this for their peaceful people here zenaida leaves and just like many others hopes to come back but she fears that you would never be able to do so. well we talked as he needed but in tina reunites with her husband and three public transportation is sporadic at best and he missed 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 anger despair and hope as these people turning the page of their lives so later valentino 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 we have no show our t. hen ukraine and russia. but we've just received from a don't know yet some of this. graphic up to fifteen ukrainian troops reportedly killed after their bus was attacked by local militia some media suggest those on the vehicle were fighters from the radical right sector group is that the past mistakenly arrived at an anti government checkpoint after being sent to the wrong location. kiev is sending mixed messages about the whereabouts of missing russian journalist andre stand in as international pressure grows for his release officials originally denied detaining the photographer but here's what an advisor to kiev interior minister told a latvian radio station. on.

the commute. to school in the russian men who will be looked at which. added that andre is being held because he's suspected of aiding terrorists when his employer the ria novosti news agency asked for a comment the ukrainian official made quite a huge. issue. of course if you will of course there's a lot of school was looking. the thirty three year old journalist has been missing for more than a week and rights groups are lining up in supports the committee to protect journalists if you crane your thorazine holding him the reporter should be released immediately and this day international is also voicing concern stressing that journalists shouldn't have any restrictions in their work and here is the statement from the reporters committee it says the journalist must be free to cover all controversies without being penalized for doing their jobs. i will keep you posted

on what's happening with andre stan in iraq r.t. dot com we've lined up a collection of some of the photojournalists most acclaimed work for documenting events in kiev and eastern ukraine. kiev says it's ready to accept the humanitarian aid being sent from russia after moscow agreed to a ukrainian presence in the convoy officials in kiev earlier refused to let russian trucks cross the border demanding the cargo be reloaded on to different vehicles is because kiev suspected moscow of using the relief mission as a cover to smuggle arms to anti-government forces in eastern ukraine it backtracked after russia agreed to let representatives of the red cross the european security watchdog and ukrainian authorities on board nearly three hundred trucks are now on their way to the border carrying generators hundreds of tons of products including baby food water medical supplies and sleeping bags the red cross confirms it's

received a detailed list of the aid russia's foreign minister says all the details of the deal with key have have been ironed out. there's a new bill i'm not sure. of the movement of the convoy has begun to know confirming ukraine's readiness to receive. on top of that's we took into account all the wishes of the ukrainian side regardless of the rationing including the route that was chosen even though this means we have to take a large d. to us that we are relying on the assurances given by the ukrainians they guarantee the security of the convoy during its movement through regions controlled by the country's army we also expect the same attitude across a difference in perspective you're going to. washington is stepping up its involvement in iraq it's considering the urgent evacuation of refugees who under jihad this aid un has warned the situation might escalate within days or even hours tens of thousands of civilians from the z.d. sect were forced to flee their homes but eventually found themselves trapped by islamic state fighters amounts in jargon iraq's north the us and its western allies

have been dropping humanitarian food parcels one hundred thirty military advisors have been sent to the area to assess the situation washington earlier announced it will directly arm iraq's kurds with light weaponry and ammunition considers why the u.s. is 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 or the militants threaten 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 us energy giants exxon mobil and chevron are among the many oil and gas for a large and small now drilling there seems that there are american oil companies

operating in the kurdish region in the north of iraq. somewhere. it. was one of the main considerations. station. took. thinking about the engagement it took me about this month to say my autonomy as region has shown to be friendly see if you were sent to us 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 leave 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 but 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 that space is protected 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 the 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 breakup of iraq in washington i'm going to check on our team. 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 the other. kurds have always had this reputation of being great fighters and that they're very good day out in town and 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 captured weapons they've got them out of syria and i'm sure there are some they 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 there to the better i think the policy that we should follow 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 allowed a mess to develop and it's nothing but a mess and chaos there and in a way we're partially responsible for that. in other news a record number of illegal african migrants heading to europe this year more may struggle to hold back the tide in just a moment including the latest mass border storming incident also. a third day of

race riots in missouri where angry crowds refuse to be quelled over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in a few minutes we'll take a closer look at how offices are harming the situation. in december two thousand and ten. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world. i didn't think people did that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger in the bushes. girl complaining about the son of an alumni who gives millions of dollars to 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 though so we need to be. part of the see who she truly for your party there's a goal to push use that no one is there still with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are today. 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 buggers and shakes disappeared from russian menus noughties arena joins us law you. are with maureen a good to see you

there looks like the consumer watchdog is losing its opposite from mcdonald's then . absolutely yes they have investigated a number of fast food restaurants and have said that in lieu of that investigation they have found that the nutritional value of the declared nutritional value of some of the most popular burgers such as world cheeseburger or folio fish simply do not correspond to the declared of value also some of the salads evidently contain traces of e. coli bacteria speaking of recall aids not the first time that mcdonald's has found itself in hot water in regard to the book to something very similar has been found just a couple of years ago and there burger patties but it didn't go past far as a court case and that is exactly what the consumer watchdog in russia now wants to do to mcdonald's they want to take them to board and ban some of their burgers a from that menu so today we're looking at the imagery hearings to start in that process now of course mcdonald's is one of the most popular fast food chains in the

world and is definitely so in russia there's more than four hundred restaurants operating here mcdonald's said that in the twenty five years of their operations in russia they have tried nothing but to provide the best customer service and quality of food to its customers and have also mentioned the fact that they know nothing about the possible court case and also that they try to that they actually comply with regulations is said by various russian authorities when it comes to going to show a value at the food that they serve now this comes. in the skills of the so-called would course which have been happening lately between russia and the west. this concerns primarily because intersects in. europe and with details of that here's what is going on. for the past few months we've definitely been witnessing a rising tensions between russia and the west but what's happening now is already being described by many as a full blown trade war first in late july the e.u.

slapped russia with sanctions targeting whole sectors of its economy four major banks were hit and one airline was completely grounded but then russia announced counter 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 when you know 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 or so to those is going to factor soon. it will take two or three months to collect our remaining. 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 euros if nothing is changed

we are in a desperate situation 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. may 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 thoughts on this i think you see the current situation creates great opportunities for ecuador. it would have been unwise to pass up the 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 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 russian business in russia but i don't

think the sanctions will really help and we just wanted to sort of voice that could well be job losses coming along we heard that j.c. being. 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 a school be the last to retaliate is very hard to predict right now. 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 mobs storm the barrier wall in waves most were repelled but those who got in will now be assessed for asylum or deportation or the surge is the largest in months is frequently targeted by people fleeing sub-saharan africa trying to make

it into europe but 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 as eritreans and sudanese citizens tried getting into britain or through the northern port of cali african migrants also risked their lives crossing the mediterranean to reach italy's southern coast and islands where boats carrying refugees are often overloaded and 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 italy greece spain animal to during the first half of this year well the subjects' a sore point for most europeans play which is think tank says migrants contribute more to the economy than they take but adds that mass immigration is strange the country's infrastructure we can investigation on that on our website.

right see. first. and i think. later. on. deaths from west africa spread ebola have now reached europe the first victim a spanish priest evacuated home after being infected in liberia the world health organization now says it is ethical to use untested drugs to treat infected patients as the number of victims exceeds one thousand dollars going live now to dr peter de walsh at cambridge university who's at work currently looks at the spread of ebola on the effectiveness of the vaccines thank you very much for joining us here on r.t.

international. people has been known about since the one nine hundred seventy s. why why hasn't more been done in that time to try and find a vaccine that works. the bottom line is that there's just not a market in developed countries for for vaccines and treatments because if this disease does not occur in europe the united states really isn't a commercial market and therefore all the money that's been spent on developing vaccines and treatments is really become from bio defense funding the u.s. military in particular is worried that somebody will try to use this is a weapon and therefore they're trying to develop countermeasures now spanish priest who was treated during the treated using an untested vaccine he's died when will it be known whether they say drugs will be effective well known. to really get enough data to tell where the drugs are effective in humans you need need tens of people to be treated at least and so just by treating you know two or

three people you're not really going to be able to tell whether it was really affective how much of a an infection threat then or ebola patients who already pay repatriated back to europe or other regions i think very little the facilities they're going to have very good containment and i don't think that people should be worried are anxious about that for instance the facility that they went to the united states in atlanta was designed specifically for this kind of thing they have all the nursing practices in place and in fact that's the difference between a developed country and these african countries these african countries just don't have the capacity to maintain all the protocols necessary particular the high heat they don't have air conditioning you know they don't have regular power and so the odds that this happens this spreads into europe or russia or somewhere else or very very very low so what are the things that people can do to protect themselves is there anything the people can do or if it's going to spread is it in a sprint. i think that it in europe they should worry about getting hit by

a car. because this is not really a risk in africa you need to just follow the bear nursery practices you know contact with somebody who shows the symptoms you wear the full pseudocode goggles respirator etc there's a lot of hygiene procedures involving using soap and beliefs are different factors self things like that dr peter de walsh from cambridge university thank you very much for joining us here on international thanks for your time the city of ferguson in missouri has suffered a third night of riots and violence in the wake of saturday's fatal shooting of black teenager mike brown by a policeman in one incident in what appears to have been a drive by attack a woman was shot in the head she's now in hospital but her condition is not known insisted locals say they refuse to yield until justice is done and still the police chief has granted anonymity to the officer who gunned down the teenager saying that

making his name public could endanger the lives of the policeman and his family not announcement to worsen the rage on the streets. in st louis county where ferguson is done sales at one store are on the increase and so to explain how more locals want to arm themselves for protection since the on on teenager was shot dead we always sell guns every day but the last two days people who have never really thought about the sense of urgency to go out and buy firearms see happening very close to their home so they are really in which kind of coming out and getting firearms to defend themselves. mike brown an eighteen year old african-american wasn't carrying a weapon when he was killed by the police officer who is believed to be white it feels racial tension in ferguson police is increased with supporting officers being brought in from other areas. up next on r.t. international sliced through the spin with breaking the set while in the u.k.

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a long way. from around the globe. dropped. to fifty. what's really good folks i'm mental ruppel of filling in for abby martin and this is breaking the set so for the third night in a row protests broke out in ferguson misery over the killing of eighteen year old michael brown by a police officer right cops clashed with dozens of protesters who refused to clear street launching tear gas and shooting rubber bullets into the crowd now journalists at the scene weren't sparred spared from the violence tweeting that they too were hit with tear gas and rubber bullets and washington post reporter wesley lowery even tweeted that police tried to force local media to leave the scene if they didn't want to put their lives at risk and because after all you wouldn't want images of police brutality against largely peaceful protesters to get

out and prove the exact point these demonstrators are trying to make meanwhile the lawyer for dorian johnson a friend of brown's who was with him the day he was killed told m s n b c that police have yet to interview johnson despite the fact that according to his lawyer he was just inches away from the scene of the shooting perhaps that's because his version of what happened that saturday is vastly different than the one being portrayed by police while they claim that brown assaulted the officer in question and reached for his gun johnson says that police off that the police officer told him to get the f. on to the sidewalk and began choking brown when they didn't immediately obey according to johnson when brown tried to flee he was shot multiple times now listen obviously we have to let the full investigation run its course but until this community starts to get some real answers we're only going to see these protests rightfully intensify and let's break the.