from rhodes to. look to. eleven pm right now there are moscow the top story tonight from r.t. international 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 told exclusively to watch c n rebuffs u.s. allegations that moscow has been testing cruise missiles banned by landmark one thousand nine hundred seventy treaty with washington. and three more people died today as ukraine's army pounds the outskirts of donetsk with shells the u.n. says more than two thousand people have now been killed in the war.

you just joined us my name's kevin o. indices international live from moscow our top story this is mentioned more of america's allies are getting involved in iraq says it will now join the u.s. in sending weapons to kurdish resistance forces in the fight against islamic state jihadists and the british prime minister is cut short his holiday to deal with the iraqi crisis is a london correspondent. the prime minister has just been speaking about the desperate humanitarian situation in northern iraq where the refugees are trapped on the. 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 that 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 france announced just a little bit earlier that 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 the picture from britain meanwhile 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 will be taking part in a finding that the u.s. already carried out a handful of airstrikes on jihadist forces in northern iraq and said that wasn't enough to go if you can has more than only 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 there's the hottest forces in iraq are probably the strongest the hardest forces in the region in the world they are equipped with advanced american weapons and that's how they were able to ethnic

cleansing minorities christian and is he 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 life i think in iraq the only lasting solution 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 kurds will be involved would like to bring the region several days and multi-ethnic cities as well as major oil holdings they both kurdish and testing shared tory now is pressing as the

current defense needs are the question is whether the weapons provided the defense today. in washington are any type. former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul spoke exclusively to t. about the prospects for america's latest moves in iraq he told us the united states risks sinking deeper into the conflict unless it leaves a wreck east 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 there today 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 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 in 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 former u.s. state department official and reckon veteran matthew hoh agrees with one pulls assessment he says washington's policy on dealing with the jihad this is proving consistently led to more problems there. what the impact of this now it for the u.s. to get involved is you have a lot of people in the 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 followed sweeps the streets of a missouri suburban again as locals wait for a third night over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by an american called covering. but next this the u.n. says more than sixty people a day killed or wounded in east ukraine with an estimated two thousand people have lost their lives so far in the conflict meantime kim says it's moving more closely

and on the encircled terms of donetsk and lugansk today that these three people lost their lives in renewed attacks on the outskirts of that market and several apartment blocks were pounded by shells it's thought a nineteen year old man and that elderly woman are among the latest victims there many of you know been left homeless as a result of the latest bombardment the conflicts lead tens of thousands across east ukraine to flee refreshen of followed some of those leaving their homes in the city of new gaps. 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'll meet her when she's getting ready to follow them we will company her all the way to the border.

in good health come on us. with the beginning the two thousand and eight. when and in the us can talk to her again very ingenious 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 monday says any of the any more of a human how it all moved with the new hope or hope by a whole world to one in tina puts in her girls 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 ball in 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 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 which 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 when tina 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 with an ocean are t. hen ukraine and russia. journalists around the world voiced their anger over the disappearance of a russian photographer in ukraine thirty three year old andrew stone him has been missing for more than a week now rights groups are joining the effort to try to get him released the

committee to protect journalists gave some comment this is what they said they said that if you cranes authorities are holding him they should release him immediately also want to alert as well amnesty international stressing that journalists shouldn't face any restrictions in their ongoing work from that war zone also a statement from the reporters committee as well for the freedom of the press as you can see there it says media workers must be free to cover all stories without being penalized for doing their job. or some of the work that i understand in a claim can be seen as screens now he's always been known for holding his camera even in the most severe conditions whatever was going on around the wanted a good job he wanted to do a good job these pictures were taken in east ukraine where he was documents in the ongoing horrors of the war started also works in kiev too early this year capturing then the most dramatic moments of the february chua what's that which there were so many we've put out an album of his work for you see if you want to catch more of it some really stunning if that's the right word amazing thrilling upsetting pictures

there r.t. dot com. russia's humanitarian aid is nearly at the border with ukraine the three kilometer long convoy set off for the moscow region on chews day the trucks occurring power generators under the terms of products in fact 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. amid the tit for tat sanctions of ukraine the e.u. is reportedly trying to talk latin america at a closer cooperation with russia we've got the latest from the front war of the front line of the trade war just a bit later in the program as our coverage continues but next another subject. another big story today russia says it's in full compliance with a landmark nuclear weapons treaty signed with washington in one thousand nine

hundred seven last month the u.s. issued a damning report accusing russia of violating the deal by allegedly testing an intermediate range cruise missile now as you can see on the news all of those claims were quick to dominate u.s. media headlines variously well russia's defense ministry spoke exclusively to r.t. today explaining why there are no grounds for blaming moscow we have all looked into the united states and the russians but i did detailed explanations which seems to have satisfied our medical cold parts of the term at least that's what they told us we are willing to continue our dialogue with the united states including the east your sea guide in their left treaty we expect russia's so-called violations to be substantiated with hard data rather than so-called evidence for absorb schol media. images images made by commercial satellites that have no

clear geographical references. or that comment was made just a little bit earlier on let's recap what the deputy ministers main points were he said that washington's already raised its concerns previously about this number of times most notably just last year twenty thirty he says that moscow addressed fully those concerns providing detailed explanations that at the time satisfied the u.s. but then the state department expectedly just last month brought up the issue again although it didn't provide any evidence. minister went on to stress that moscow has been complying fully with the treaty despite seeing it as being outdated these days and in need of revision anyway he noted that similar missiles are owned by many other countries too and indeed for to be broadened may be in scope to include them as well let's take a closer look at the treaty itself moscow and washington agreed to give up all their ground based ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of between five and

five thousand five hundred kilometers the removal of those weapons from europe is a lot of fears at the time of a possible nuclear armageddon if you lived in the seventy's eighty's you know what i'm talking about russia and the us also agreed to inspect each other's arsenals on a regular basis to make sure the treaties weren't being violated one the clock back mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan put pen to paper on that day in one thousand nine hundred seven that made so many headlines it's such a big news it marked the first time the two superpowers agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals the landmark agreement paved the way for the removal of other types of weapons and ultimately helped bring about the end of the cold war as well . and if you'd like to see the full interview with russia's deputy defense minister you can sign the website stream if you want to check it out of r.t. dot com sixty minutes past eleven at night now but with more news from moscow after this short break.

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politics only the mark to live. their dog days ahead it seems to finland economists say the country is heading for years of recession the tit for tat sanctions with russia hitting the nordic country hard it it could take a decade to recover it appears can offer ports. 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 a whole sectors of its economy for 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 the us 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 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 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 the 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. big bamford 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 it was going off there were my colleagues just years to spokesperson for the european commission peter starr know about whether the was really pressure in latin american countries and not to what they trade with russia in the wake of this moscow food embargoed. we are explaining the situation how the situation came speech were the reasons for the situation and we are basically explaining them in. our view was that it's not to have been done 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 no we are not pressuring anyone because it's not human nature how do you address. our own reasons what you do your decision but you should be very bold thinking about our values about our people and about the current situation. big stories public theory

of the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a policeman spilled into a third night of violence in the u.s. state of missouri a woman was wounded in a drive by shooting one a separate incident a police officer opened fire on an alleged attacker locals are demanding justice for michael brown's killing but officials still refuse to release the name of the officer who gunned him down in the street and close range and this is. 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 a police officer that led to at least one gunshot being fired inside the police car and then according to the police several gunshots were fired at the young man which led to his death 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 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 a house as we can stand out here on the sat wall until the dome on 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 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 that. my condolence 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. r.c. ferguson missouri. israeli police say a rocket fired from gaza has landed in the south of the country that's less than two hours now before

a temporary cease fire between israel and hamas officially expire as early as six people were killed in gaza after a you saw a window after a few times to dismantle it an associated press journalist and his translator are among the dead but instead home to the town of badly here in the north of gaza the threat to bring new violence is looming large is no solution is found to tough negotiations in cairo between both sides of the rip. israel tentatively agreed to allow some supplies into gaza and to relax curbs on cross border movement the war has been the bloodiest in years killing almost two thousand palestinians and sixty seven is right. on these updates twenty four seven figure tips l.t. don't call after the break we asked the question is the u.s. when he would global information war will people of ells us get anyway because they disguise what we enjoy that that's an international issue in the u.k. should returns we view going underground.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle since the end of the cold war the media environment has transformed almost beyond recognition today there is a global battle for hearts and minds and the west mainstream media is losing that war. to cross-talk alternative in mass media i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a senior research fellow at london metropolitan university and author of the new book obama's for peace nato's humanitarian war on yugoslavia in washington we have austin peterson he is the c.e.o. of stone gate and editor of the libertarian republic dot com and in paris we cross to any much shown she is a former british intelligence officer and writer all right cross talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it george if i go to you first here in new york we're calling this program hearts and minds and when i watch the state department briefings with.