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show. it's wednesday august thirteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america. the fatal shooting of michael brown the unarmed eighteen year old in ferguson near st louis has sparked several nights of unrest throughout the area brown was shot dead in broad daylight on saturday afternoon witnesses say as he was crossing the street with his hands up protestors speaking to the press have made statements such as it's not about michael brown it's about all of us that's referring to the widespread feelings of racial divide between police and the community that they serve and ferguson which is largely african-american now take a look at this the police department of ferguson has fifty three officers on the force of those only three are african-american

a clear disparity in the racial demographic makeup of that town a force that clearly lacks racial diversity overnight a drive by shooting occurred near the rioting area where one woman was shot in the head in that drive by but shortly there after yet another police related shooting reports say that police were dispatched after reports of several armed men taking to the streets now the subjects' gave chase and one of the men reportedly aimed their weapon at a police officer the officer responded by firing his weapon which led to the subject being critically injured in the exchange with more from ferguson is artie's honest. so we'll go with the family has got a town mortified angered and in search for answers. ferguson in the suburbs of st louis missouri a predominantly black community sees residents spilling out onto the streets

following the death of michael brown and an armed eighteen year old who was shot multiple times by local police officers on saturday riots looting and vandalism and sue one stores torched and burned down we've been dealing with injustice for so long when you got a lot of harassment out about a cops you don't say and i just forget that we go on and on and on him it's to me how police in riot gear used tear gas for two nights in a row we can see right police in full gear approaching towards protesters and somebody just threw a bottle against a pas look they just fired tear gas. we were bitter gas and it got sort of quite a while where they were shooting into the complex and we were in the street so why you shouldn't and so the complex shots were fired at police helicopters prompting the federal aviation administration to close airspace over ferguson on tuesday. after four days of chaos midweek you can still feel the tension in the air. police

remain on high alert while the community demands justice is on the reason we are is for peace for justice. there's no reason a young man should be writing details of how and why michael brown was killed remain unclear as accounts of what happened differ according to police and altered cation for a police gun took place between brown and the officer who killed him in the service for six years his race and name are being kept under wraps in fear for his life but witness accounts differ from the official version locals have been saying that they have seen michael brown run away from the police car with his hands up in the air showing that he was unarmed and despite this he was still shot multiple times and died for a community that has long lost trust in law enforcement the tragic death of a teen about to start college was the breaking point this baby has been taken down and destroy who's going to be next which child is going to be next we just had trayvon and jordan davis and other black children all around the world this is

a systematic crisis problem this is apartheid in america let's call it what it is local and federal investigations are currently ongoing but few here have trust and real accountability. while michael's life can't be brought back people here seen justice and a sweep of the system would bring back some relief to the streets there's this race is that we need to get all through when it's all said no you need to vote the burton did she get there. and we got very discouraged. fuel. violence that have taken place here b.b.c. desperate times call for desperate measures. to produce and misery. the chilling footage of eric garner being put in a chokehold by and y p d as he's heard saying i can't breathe repeatedly is a picture america won't get if it was all caught on video from

a bystander but what if that video was captured by cameras physically mounted on the officers well that's exactly what n.y.c. public advocate the t c a james is calling for james hopes to have at least fifteen percent of precincts in new york to try out this pilot program she argues that this sort of technology would not only create accountability and better behavior from the police but that it would begin to promote better relationships with the public at large so could officer mounted cameras be the future i was joined earlier by ian freeman the host of free talk radio to discuss the pros and cons of this potential game changer i first asked him if police officers have a right to privacy when performing their jobs. well i think the more cameras we can have on the police the better off we are whether it's the police having cameras or more importantly individuals having cameras i mean i've done

a lot with cup block dot org over the years one of the early the founders and kind of funders of that and i've seen a lot of police encounters and i've seen how cameras have changed those police encounters for the better in most instances it's certainly true that there have been instances of police freaking out about cameras becoming more violent as a result of that but i think overall it's a good policy to report police in and the police can have their own cameras that the public can access video from then all for the better now can you tell us what do you think are the concerns regarding the police officers having control over her over when to turn these cameras on and off when they feel like i mean what if they know they're getting in a sticky situation i mean when that affected because they can control absolutely i mean no you know the war control they have the war likely it's going to be that if you get into a situation with one of them that the video didn't record oracle claim that he did turn it on but the battery fillers will be some sort of we've seen this with the

we've seen it with the dash cam sprinters for instance where they'll be recording something that's really notable and then all of a sudden that you know and footage or the camera malfunction and so that's why it's so important for us to have our own cameras we can't rely on the police this is a good idea because adding an extra camera in can't hurt anything but we need to have our own dash cams we need to have our own cell phones with them to user which is a great free app that you can install and stream video right out of the internet and also store it on your phone so if they take your phone the video is still out there they can take the video away so these are important tools that we need to arm up with and now does the argument that police officers shouldn't have to wear these cameras because they claim it violates their first amendment. rights does do you think that are going to hold water because as far as i can see it's no difference between them being on camera and say a cashier at a store who is employers place

a camera right over their their register is right it's ridiculous i've never heard the claim the having a camera on a police officer would violate their first amendment rights i'm not sure what exactly you know that would buy only you know the first amendment supposedly protects free speech and freedom of the press you know the right to religion are the police saying it's against their religion to have a camera but it's bizarre well what about in terms of privacy i mean like like i said i mean when you're when you work for a private employer at at say a boutique they have the cashiers have cameras right above their heads right i mean what's the difference. there is no difference i mean if an employer in this case the government wants to install cameras they certainly have cameras in their department i mean i've walked into plenty of police departments and you're on video when you go in there and so are their officers so obviously it seems to me that any objection from police whether it be the individuals or the police unions to having

these cameras is based more out of the question of well what is it that you have i mean aren't you doing the public's were on the published on and should you be accountable and i know that here in new hampshire the police are supposed to be accountable for that and here in kenya where activists have regularly used cameras in the streets the police have become acclimated to that so again it really is really the key individuals getting out there and doing this kind of cop block stuff up wiped out or going to raid so you can really help i think train the police to understand cameras and to be more respectful towards them but there can be that issue you know kind of difficult learning period where they might arrest a few people where they work or so and so now on that note in these cities where cops don't have cameras you know not on their cars not on their person what can the public do to keep them you know at within their within their range. of. legal force i should say. well obviously using force in response to the police

is a terrible idea so remaining peaceful remaining as call it is possible and reporting video in whatever manner you possibly can whether it's having a dash cam which are so cheap these days there's no reason not to have one that way you're reporting you know what's happening in front of your car what's happening in the cab usually the dash cams have two cameras on them so you'll have you know all almost three hundred sixty degrees of coverage there and that also helps you get into an accident and you've got a video record of something that's happened there so it's also useful for other things you've got your smartphone many people have these more and more people have smartphones if you've got a smartphone you know there's a video up on there by default but again i recommend bambi user and user b. a and b. us are it's a free app it streams video live to the internet and selecting the really important question if you're out on the streets or not in your car you can just reach down have that thing set up where you can quickly access it and go and start recording situation and don't be afraid to record it takes practice the police are

intimidating they're trained to be intimidating and so it can be scary when you're reporting to police especially for the first time so it can help to actually go out specifically into the streets on like a friday or saturday night with other people who you know and trust and have multiple people with multiple cameras because we go out alone against the police there's a good chance we're going to pick on you they're bullies in a lot of cases and they you know two versus three three vs one whatever they're going to come after you so try to outnumber the police with your cameras as well asa thank you so much that this is definitely an ongoing topic and i'm sure we will talk about some more in a future that was airframe and the host of free top live thanks for being on the south thanks for having me manila. the united states is putting a hundred thirty more american troops in iraq as the conflict there becomes increasingly dire militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria or better

known as isis are overrunning much of the western and northern regions of iraq now trapping thousands of iraqi refugees on a mountaintop without food or water defense secretary chuck hagel confirmed the deployment while speaking to marines at camp pendleton california we're not going back into iraq in any of the same combat mission. dimensions that we once were in in iraq and very specifically this is not a combat boots on the ground operation. now the hundred thirty troops sent to iraq on tuesday will be tasked with assessing the security situation in the country's north while considering options to help the trapped iraqi refugees who started receiving humanitarian airdrops just last week in addition the u.s. announced it will be arming peshmerga kurdish forces with weapons and equipping

them to help ward off the isis. increase push into their kurdish territory now this decision further adds to the growing number of u.s. armed forces there in the region and this is where things get kind of complicated take a look. the u.s. has long been providing providing arms and equipment to the iraqi government much of which was left behind after the war and during the growing conflict in syria the u.s. has reportedly also provided small arms to what it calls the vetted moderate rebel forces fighting against the syrian army the syrian government scuse me but then there's this isis crisis a militant force that has seized and stolen much of that the us artillery from the iraqi and syrian rebels and in some cases the moderate rebels sold the arms and equipment to isis and others have changed sides and became members of

isis in to make this more powerful in the region now in the latest move the us is sending arms to the kurds to boost their power against isis and that's where the problem comes in as u.s. tries to help the iraqi government and the kurds squash the strength of isis they're faced with a mole isha armed with some of the u.s. is most powerful weaponry that's stores of arms and even armored humvees so now the u.s. has to give the kurds and iraqis stronger and more lethal weaponry in order to overpower the strength of its own arms being used by the enemy now that sounds very complicated but while the enemy today is clearly isis what happens when the enemy of tomorrow is a friend we've just armed today. and v. the u.s.

is not the only one sending arms into the country france is now weighing in on the battle for iraq french president francois olanda announced that the country would be sending arms to the kurds and humanitarian aid to ethnic yazidi as who are trapped on a mountain in sindh jar there's also word that the u.k. may soon be sending military aid artie's polly boyko has more from london. 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 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 fronts announced just a little bit earlier that they would be supplying weapons to cut a stun 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 was our tease polly boyko. the number of victims from the fighting in eastern ukraine have doubled in just the last two weeks that's according to figures released by the united nations human rights office we asked me to death toll is now over two thousand that means that an average of seventy people have been killed on a daily basis since the beginning of the conflict in mid april at least five thousand people have been injured overall the war has affected over eighty thousand people those who have had their homes destroyed or lost family members now most are victims of shelling and airstrikes in civilian areas as the fight ensues are take

or spawn it reaffirmed ocean or a company is one of the refugees all the way from the war torn region of gods to the russian border but in two days alone who don't deploy thousands in the guns packing they have 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 two family friends in the russian they didn't see each other for a month to meet her when she's getting ready to follow them kompany her all the way to the border. so if you live just stop for us we wake up stand in the bread line for two hours then get a water and the other who commutes to eat and the same thing happens every day at this time was standing in line we can only sing to the news on the radio but in

tunis husband was due to come back from a trip to the 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. one in thousand or puts in her girls 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 optimism was not enough to do with what she saw that day that convinced her she can stay in the guns. i was at a bus stop and then i decided to leave for some reason a 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 outright panic was always going on which was for their peaceful people here zenaida leaves and just like many others hopes to come back but she fears that she would never be able to do so. while we talked as he needed valentino 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.

it's a mixture of pain and despair and who is these people turning to the loners so made over nineteen and her husband will spend some time in this refugee camp with 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 he's now behind them. in ukraine and russia if you ever wonder what some of the ways that various government entities have misused or misspent their budgets you may or may not be surprised to find out that sometimes it comes in the way of an eight hundred thousand dollar goof and amtrak worker was the beneficiary of this mix up that the da fumbled from one thousand nine hundred five till now artie is alexa alexy jarosz has the details.

why getting vital information for free when you can pay thousands of dollars for it this may sound bizarre but this is the kind of corporation the drug enforcement administration and one of the amtrak employees have built over the years it was revealed that since one thousand nine hundred ninety five the da a spade in excess of eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars to a man identified as a secretary to train and engine crew at amtrak under an agreement the amtrak and the da have amtrak would provide all the needed information to the da absolutely free of charge this thing is not uncommon it relates usually to a passenger data such as credit card information credit phone number of emails and so on and so forth but then again it it can be done lawfully upon the consent of the amtrak executives and absolutely free of charge but in this case the da for some reason decided to circumvent official channels and they used this secretary

what makes this story even murkier is that amtrak actually lost money because of these payoffs under this very same agreement the amtrak police would get ten percent cut from every bit of money seized in drug in the joint drug task force operation on amtrak trains and the boss of amtrak tom howard already conceded that the company that may have been deprived of the money because of these payoffs despite what seems to be a clear breach of the company's rules and even financial damages the employee that secretary unidentified person has not been reprimanded it has been said in the statement that he was allowed to retire and the boss of amtrak did not clarify the lack of punishment or why it took so long to uncover these payments that's almost two decades but he did state though that amtrak will be revising its policies to council control weakness says there's been no statement whatsoever coming from the

d.a. by. this may not go down well at the capitol hill senator chuck grassley the senior republican at the judiciary committee at the senate already said that this incident greatly jeopardizes the credibility of the da to work with its trusted colleagues with other a law enforcement agencies and he will ask for additional information about this incident which he also described as a necessary payment let's see reporting from new york city and our team has been nominated for an international emmy for our extensive coverage of the guantanamo bay hunger strike to take a look. like active camera have to monitor their movements our course that's going on around here and the first strike never turned world's attention to the point that some gulag of our time. r t

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