you're watching our international it's nine pm here in moscow tonight france says it will join the u.s. in arming kurds in iraq as washington and its allies get ever deeper involved in the conflict. russia's deputy defense minister talks exclusively to r.t. and rebuffs u.s. allegations that moscow has been testing cruise missiles. one thousand nine hundred seventy three with washington. and three more people died today is ukraine's army pollens the school shelves the u.n. says more than two thousand people have now been killed in.

hello i'm kevin i'm going to be your top story more of america's allies are getting involved in iraq france says it will now join the u.s. in sending weapons to kurdish resistance forces in their fight against islamic state you had it's the british prime minister's cut short his holiday to deal with the iraqi crisis is our london correspondent. the prime minister has just been speaking about the desperate humanitarian situation in northern iraq where the refugees are trapped on the besieged mountain and david cameron has said that the u.k. focus remains on sending humanitarian supplies and the government is also clinton plaiting trying to airlift refugees using r.a.f. helicopters from the besieged mountain in northern iraq but the heat is by no means the prime minister he's under growing pressure to launch air strikes over

iraq a growing number of politicians have been calling for it in recent days and yesterday our tornado jets were sent to cyprus and then on to iraq to assist with. drops of humanitarian aid but technically the choice of those tornado jets is is interesting because if the government decided to change its mind or to suddenly step up its involvement they could very quickly do so tornado jets capable of carrying out surveillance missions which is what they're doing right now but they can also be bolted to carry bombs pretty quickly so fronts announced just a little bit earlier they would be supplying weapons to kurdistan and the calls here in britain are growing for britain to follow suit to do the same to accompany us as strikes and to step up its involvement but at the same time a number of voices that are very wary of so-called mission creep in this situation

with iraq especially given britain's legacy of its involvement in the very recent past. that's a picture from britain meantime the u.s. is expanding its own intervention in iraq washington sending an additional one hundred thirty military advisers and combat troops but claims they won't be taking part in the fighting there the u.s. already carried out a handful of airstrikes of course and forces in northern iraq but said that wasn't enough is going to future kerns got more the motives for america's involvement. thousands of iraqis are helpless in the face of terror from the islamic state the jihadi militants are ruthless and well armed this year hard us forces in iraq are probably the strongest the hardest forces in the region and in the world they are equipped with advanced american weapons and that's how they were able to ethnic cleansing minorities christian and is the the minorities from many areas in

kurdistan or south of kurdistan and now they're attacking kurdistan u.s. officials see no alternative to sending weapons to combat the extremists who now fight with american weapons you cannot confront isis with flowers at the same time flooding an already deeply divided country with more weapons could backfire in the future. there is no american military solution to look for a shift in iraq the only way. is for iraqis come together and form an inclusive government president obama may want a unified iraq but the kurds have long wanted out and arming kurdish militia forces could lead to a permanent breakup of iraq any peaceful cessation of the currents of iraq would like to bring the region several days and multi-ethnic cities as well as major oil holdings they both kurdish and testing cared for and now is pressing as the current

defense needs are the question is whether the weapons by the defense today. in washington and to track down. former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate wrong polls spoke exclusively to see on the prospects for america's latest moves in iraq he told us the united states was sinking deeper into the conflict unless it leaves a rocky has 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 i says ended up getting a lot of weapons from us and if they captured weapons they've got him 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 there

are 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 there's nothing about amassing chaos there and in a way we're partially responsible for that. u.s. state department official in iraq veteran matthew hoh agrees with ron paul's assessment he says washington's policy on dealing with the jihadists has proved inconsistent and there's only led to more problems but the impact. involved as you have a lot of people in the u.s. a lot of them has a congress who feel like we still have to win in iraq we have people whose legacies are tied up in the whole history of modern iraq and they somehow have to weigh in as well as we have a very very strong brand of intervention in both the democratic and

republican parties a year ago at this time we have very prominent members of congress people within the obama administration who are arguing that we need to get involved in the syrian civil war now if we had done that we basically would have been on the side of isis in syria now here year later we're saying that we have to intervene in iraq to fight isis we have a very confused foreign policy that is contributing problems that by our meddling is making things worse. on the way violence rips the streets of a missouri suburb again as locals rage for a third night over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by american cope . next un says more than sixty people a day a killed or wounded in east ukraine there with an estimated two thousand people having lost their lives in the conflict so far meantime care says it's moving more closely into the encircled turns of donetsk and lugansk at least three people lost their lives in renewed army attacks on the outskirts of the votes today

a market of several apartment blocks a pound for shells a sort of nineteen year old man and an elderly woman are among the latest victims many of the left homeless two of course as a result of the latest bombardment the a conflicts led tens of thousands across eastern ukraine to flee river national followed some of those leaving their homes in the city of ago. one thousand nine hundred eleven had dark apartment in the ganske packing there has been no electricity nased at the city for almost two weeks now and the shelling continues. bennington has already sent her daughter and her granddaughter to family friends in a russian 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. only in good books of the new live just stop for us we wake up stand in the breadline for

two hours then get out what are good and there were two camille 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 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 when tina 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 as 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 which was this for their peaceful people here zenaida leaves and just like many others hopes to come back but she fears that you will never be able to do so her. 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 who is these people turning new 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 their war his now behind them written all show our t. hen ukraine and russia. every day more harrowing video emerges from the conflict on each side this one from near donetsk again were up to fifteen ukrainian soldiers reportedly killed after the bus was attacked by local resistance fighters some media suggest those on the vehicle at the time were fighters from the radical right sector group it's thought that bus mistakenly arrived an anti government checkpoint

after being sent to the wrong location. journalists around the world voiced their anger over the disappearance of a russian photographer in ukraine thirty three year old andrew stanton has been missing for more than a week now rights groups are joining the efforts to try to get him released let's look at some of the latest comments the committee to protect journalists says that if you cranes authorities are holding him they should release him immediately that's their reactions look at some more honest international also on alert as well stressing that journalists shouldn't face any restrictions in their work more comment this time from the reporters committee it says media workers must be free to cover all stories without being penalized for doing their jobs. so the work that instead in a claim can be seen here he is known for always holding his camera but even the most severe conditions whatever was going on his job came first to him his latest pictures were taken in eastern ukraine where he was documenting the horrors of war

style and also works in kiev earlier this year capturing the most dramatic moments of february and if you want to see more of it is put up an album of his work at r.t. dot com. an update on the humanitarian side of it now russia's humanitarian aid is just hours away from arriving at the border with ukraine the three kilometer long convoy set off for the moscow region on choose day the trucks are carrying power generators under the terms of products baby food water medical supplies and sleeping bags russia's confirm the mission is being fully coordinated with kiev and the red cross which has been supervising the proceedings. sister village because you go about convoy they are. as you say the age should be arriving shortly well amid the tit for tat sanctions over ukraine the a use reportedly trying to talk latin america out of closer cooperation with russia we'll bring you more on the latest from the front line of the trade war just

a bit later in the program. moscow says the country is in for compliance with a landmark nuclear weapons treaty signed with washington in one thousand nine hundred seventy last month the u.s. issued a damning report accusing russia of violating the deal by allegedly testing an intermediate range cruise missile but russia's defense ministry spoke exclusively to our t. explaining its position ridiculous joins me now either real or what was actually said. well russia has expressed surprise that it is asians thrown at it by washington last month and in fact it turns out that this isn't the first time that the u.s. has raised such concerns they were indeed an issue all last year when the minister of defense says they have addressed all of them have looked into the united states calls on still the russians provided to explanations which seems to have cities fired on the come called but at the turn at least that's what he told us so you can

see why moscow would be surprised at these accusations being leveled at them at this point however the ministry of defense believe they know why. there also is a simple message we will use we use and the occasional use. and russian come we all believed by washington in connection with the real crisis in the united states is really to exclude any means to use great introduction. well now moscow says that the united states should stick to the procedure for addressing such concerns which are actually laid out in the treaty itself however the ministry also stresses that russia is ready to fully cooperate in washington to fully resolve the issue we are willing to continue our dialogue with the united states including the guardian they have left treaty we expect russia so-called violations to be substantiated with hard data rather than so-called evidence for

absorb shown media. images images made by commercial satellites that have no clear geographical references now despite sticking to the treaty russia says it has issues where they're of its own and that is the fact that back when the treaty was side very few countries actually had the missiles and questions now however the situation has changed so moscow believes the treaty should be expanded accordingly more live in moscow the kremlin thanks for that let's put a bit more meat on the bones of this see what arguments the defense ministry is putting forward they say washington already raised its concerns earlier of the last time was last year back in twenty thirty they say they were fully addressed them by moscow it went on to provide apparently detailed explanations which then at the time satisfied the u.s. the state department though then unexpectedly brought up the issue again just last

month and it made all the headlines again but presented no evidence to back it russia's deputy defense minister stressed that moscow has been complying with the treaty despite seeing it as in need of revision as a reader was talking about just then he went on to a similar. many of the countries that are not bound by any similar treaty again as we've just mentioned well let's look a little closer at the treaty see what's in it. moscow washington agreed to give all the ground based ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges from five hundred to five thousand five and a half thousand actually kilometers the removal of those weapons from europe at the time east fears of a possible nuclear armageddon russia in the us also agreed to inspect each other's arsenals in a regular basis to make sure that the treaty wasn't being violated maybe recall when nicole gorbachev and ronald reagan put pen to paper on that day back in one thousand nine hundred seven so the headlines it made that lamarck agreement paved the way for the removal of other types of weapons to would ultimately help bring about the end of the cold war. if you'd like to see the full interview with

russia's deputy defense minister you can restrain your website r.t. dot com i'll be back with more news after this break. that nixon decided to close the gold window and turn the monetary system into a painting on a dollar bill in exchange for this deal with a fee on the us economy would never end we were told we could lead lives to balance currency without cost. i've got news for you the portrait. has been hit in the basement of fort knox behind the barbarous relic called gold and the portrait of my dear people just a tired. old dude from monetary to power tree. empires of dead and banking immorality.

choose your language. make it with zero if you. will from my. place of history choose to use the consensus to. choose to continue to be great to. choose the stories but if you. choose. to. get their dog days ahead for finland apparently economists say the country is heading for years of recession the tit for tat sanctions with russia hitting the nordic country odd and it could take a decade to recover you don't just get off looks at how the trade wars being fought . 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 i would say start getting 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 those is going to. 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 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 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 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 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 just will be the last to retaliate it's very hard to predict right now you go pers can offer porting them a call it really just spokes person for the european commission peter starr know about whether the is really pressuring latin american countries know not to up their trade with russia in the wake of moscow's food embargo. explaining the situation how the situation came with that speech what were the reasons for the situation and we are basically explaining them in. our view that it's not too

beneficial you don't want them to try to benefit from the current circumstances but in the end as i said we are looking at is that again you are pressuring them not we are not pressuring anyone because it's not human nature how do you with this really are saying to our partners our own reasons what you do you see your decision but you should be in a very boat out thinking about our values about our people and about current situation. exterior of the killing of the mom teenager by a policeman spilled into a third night of violence in the u.s. state of missouri woman was wounded in a drive by shooting while in a separate incident a police officer opened fire on an alleged attacker locals are demanding justice for michael brown's curly but officials still refuse to release the name of the officer. in the street at close range unassisted churkin that is the ferocity. 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 cannot make us go in sad our houses we can stand out here on the side wall until the dawn comes if we'd like you cannot force. you telling 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. until isn't 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 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. archie ferguson story thanks for choosing out international for your news we fully know you've got a big choice so we appreciate it all the more after the break find out how people working minimum wage jobs are about to get even less for their labors in the latest edition of boom bust. you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances with food and even though they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting sports this is the sort of people's regime has become very adept at is controlling the media for example right here c.n.n.

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lists. over there i marinate it and this is a boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today now we're coming to you live from our new york city studio today and we kick off the show by looking at how e.u. and russian sanctions have seriously impacted greece's hopes for. exit from its deepest recession and how century that's a long time over it's not looking to break and we'll tell you why coming right up and we were in a loss in vegas last week covering the betty the annual cyber security summit black cast and today we're bringing you all the latest and greatest from the event kicking it off with my interview with mr jake coons now jake is the chief security officer at risk based securities and a black house veterans on.