heavy artillery attacks kill at least three people in the outskirts of the ne and in east ukraine with residential areas pounded by shells 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 considers evacuating iraqi refugees blockaded by jihadist fighters it's also sending over one hundred additional military advisers to help kurdish troops amid concern the u.s. is getting too deeply involved.

in the russian capital you're watching r t international with me marina josh welcome to the program now at least three people have been killed in fresh ukrainian army attacks on the outskirts of we're troops are closing in a valley a major offensive a locals are being told to get out of the city and this area came under heavy fire on tuesday night and as a 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 it's thought a nineteen year old man and an air of the only 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 if an ocean of followed some of the refugees as they left their homes in the city of

lugansk. valentina 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 is getting ready to follow them we will company her all the way to the border. in good books and going to 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 sing 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. an indian or 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 her home was shelled twice but she tries to remain buoyant but even her optimist 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 as soon as i left the bus stop a shell exploded right behind me five people died one man had his head blown off

and a woman lost her leg she says making the decision to leave was not an easy one but it was a very quick one. but you would never be able to do so. well we talked as you know but in tina reunites with her husband and. 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 and despair and who is these people turning need to have 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 in their lives and homes behind them they do not know what tomorrow holds in store but at least they say they war he's now behind them. in ukraine and russia. now this is the video we have received from near dinny ask some of which is graphic up to fifteen year granny and troops were reportedly killed after their boss was attacked by a local militia some media suggest those on the vehicle were fires from the radical right sector group it stopped the bus mistakenly arrived and an anti-government checkpoint after being sent to the wrong location. came sending mixed messages about the whereabouts of missing russian journalist andre stan and as international pressure grows for his release officials originally denied detaining the photographer but here is one of the visor to keep the interior minister told

a lobby and radio station on tuesday. but i. am here. to win them russian men who were millibars. the russian co added that andre is being held because he's suspected of aiding terrorists but when his employer the real novice to a news agency asked for comment the ukrainian official made quite a u. turn. you should vote for. you in or through the part of. the phone. now 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 if you bring the stories are hiding him the reporters should be released immediately amnesty international is also voicing concern stressing that

journalists shouldn't have any restrictions in their work and here's a statement from the reporters committee it says the journalist must be free to cover all controversies without being penalized for doing their jobs. now take a look at some of andris most acclaimed work he was documenting the events in eastern ukraine when contact with him was lost and he was photographing people caught up in the war zone and what was left of their homes standing also worked in key of capturing the most dramatic moments of the revolt so had to r.t. dot com to see a collection of some of his best images. just hours from now the russian humanitarian convoy is expected to arrive at the ukrainian border nearly three hundred trucks are carrying power generators hundreds

of tons of products baby food water medical supplies and sleeping bags however it's not clear whether the aid convoy will be let into grain within the past hour the country's interior minister had said it won't be allowed through making his point with a pretty harsh post on his facebook page that's despite russia saying it's got approval after it agreed to having representatives from the red cross there would be an security watchdog and kiev on board the red cross confirms it's received a detailed list of the aide saying they will handle its distribution. we will take charge of this consignment once it is in ukraine and we will independent of the distributing to the people who most need it. this coming in such a situation on less all parties concerned or in the greenman with how things are going to be done we don't function with armed guards we don't function with any kind of protection through weapons we function with

a protection through the agreement of those who have to go and yes we accept your mission we accept your transport and we will make sure that you're safe. and record number of illegal african migrants are having to europe this year more on the struggle to hold back the tide in just a moment including the latest massive border storming incident. washington is stepping up its involvement in iraq it's considering the urgent evacuation of refugees who are under jihad a siege the u.n. has warned the situation miles collated within days or even hours tens of thousands of civilians from the u.c.d. sector were forced to flee their homes but eventually found themselves trapped by islamic state fighters on mountain jar in iraq's north the u.s. and its western allies have been air dropping humanitarian food parcels while one hundred thirty military advisers have been sent to the area to assess the situation washington earlier announced it will directly arm iraq's kurds with light weaponry

and ammunitions and it's you can consider is why the u.s. is keen on protecting the minority. the militants of these lawmakers 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 us energy giants exxon mobil and chevron are among the many oil and gas firms large and small now drilling there seems the. american oil companies operating in the kurdish region in the north of it all up. some weight. it was one of the main considerations that the obama administration.

took so why is thinking about. this moment the same ayatollah missed region. has shown to be friendly to us and to us business but the oil rich kurdistan has long sought to break away from iraq it is now moved to sell crude independently from badat arguing that the central government doesn't give the region its fair share of oil revenue if i move 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 with the kurdish region is functional the way we would like to see it and it is tolerant of other sects 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 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 a former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul spoke exclusively to r.t. on the prospects for america's latest moves in iraq and he told us the united states risks sinking deeper into the conflict unless it leaves iraq used 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 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. and coming out of a third day of race riots in missouri you were angry crowds refused to be quelled over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager a few minutes we'll take a closer look at how officers are handling the situation.

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welcome back this is our national russia's taking we don it's to court today and the fast food giant is accused of violating the country's nutrition and safety codes and some of its products are read english explains why the firm's food is proving hard to swallow for russia's consumer watchdog they have investigated a number of fast food restaurants and that found that the magician all valued that some of the most popular burgers such as world cheeseburger or fully a fish simply do not correspond to the declared of value also some of the salads evidently contain traces of the coli bacteria speaking of a call eight snot the first time that mcdonald's has found itself in hot water in regard to the bacteria that something very similar has been found just

a couple of years ago and there are burger patties but it didn't go asked far as a court case and that is exactly what the consumer watchdog in russia now wants to do to mcdonald's so today we're looking at the image you're hearing still 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 and also that they actually comply with regulations is said by various russian authorities now this comes hard in the fields of the so-called food force which have been happening lately between russia and the west this concerns primarily the seat of sanctions is to russia when you were up and with details of that your support has been off 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 within russia announced countermeasures banning the import. 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 those it's going to affect a small. it will take two or three months to collect our remaining 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. 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 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 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 that could well be job losses coming along we heard that jaycee being. reported to. he potentially could lose. 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 will be the last we tell you it is very hard to predict right now now hundreds of migrants have tried to breach heavily fortified spanish in north africa dozens managed to break through into malaya which borders morocco on the mediterranean coast using makeshift ladders mobs stormed the bare your wall in waves most were repelled those who got in will now be assessed for asylum or deported. the surge is the largest in months millar is frequently targeted by

people fleeing sub-saharan africa trying to make it into europe and spain is not the only country where african migrants are trying to make their way into europe to seek jobs and shelter this week's violent clashes broke out in france as eritreans and the sudanese citizens tried getting to britain through the northern port of calais african migrants also risked their lives crossing the mediterranean to reach italy's southern coast and islands boats carrying refugees are often overloaded the man to 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 and more than seventy five thousand have tried to get into italy greece spain a multitude the first half of this year the subject a sore point for most europeans but a british thing 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 in our website r.t. don't. write this. first strike. and i think that your take. on a report. in. the in the. now dance from west africa spreadable i have now reached europe the first victim a spanish priest evacuated home after being infected in liberia the world has organization now says it is applicable to use untested drugs to treat infected patients as the number of victims exceeds a thousand a bowler researcher dr peter walsh from cambridge university told me that dozens of

cases need to be treated with a new vaccine before its effect in this becomes clear. really is the commercial market and therefore all the money that's been spent on developing vaccines and treatments has really become from bio defense funding the us military in particular is worried that somebody will try to use this is a weapon to really get enough data to tell where the drugs are effective in humans you need tens of people to be treated the 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 effective the 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 that this spreads into europe or russia or somewhere else or very very very low. now the city of ferguson in missouri has suffered a third night of riots and violence in the wake of saturday's faile shooting of black teenager mind brown by a policeman in one incident in what appears to have been a drive by attack

a woman was shot in the head and she is now in hospital but her condition is not known. insistence local say they refused to move until justice is done its job the police chief has granted anonymity to the officer gunned down the teenager saying that making his name public could endanger the lives of the policeman and his family but that announcement only served to worsen the rage on the streets. is there for r t. 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 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 can not make us go in sad to have. as we can stand out here on the sat wall until the dawn comes if we'd like you cannot force this mess more you tell him as 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. board up and protect what's left. but i can understand a family praying. 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 and artsy ferguson missouri. and st louis county were ferguson is a gun sales at one store are on the rise and so on are explained how moral locals

want to arm themselves for protection says armed teenager was shot dead we always sell selling guns every day but the last two days people who 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. my ground and eighteen year old african-american who wasn't carrying a weapon when he was killed by the police officer who is believed to be white it's fueled racial tension in ferguson where policing is increased with supporting officers being brought in from other areas. when ian man has been arrested in the possession of almost four killers of the drug crystal meth at the indonesian airport is rest is the country's biggest drug bust this year in these are caught its laws are known to be strict with drugs trafficking and see those convicted

sentenced to death. an armed group has made off with at least ten million u.s. dollars at santiago airport in chile the eight attackers targeted an armored truck that was taking the cash to an aircraft in the what is one of the country's biggest ever robberies they escape into vehicles heading in different directions leaving spikes in the road to burst the tires of any cars in pursuit. i'm next watch how our reporters get the job down in the latest episode of news stream.

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