ukraine's army pounds the center of it and to keep stronghold it didn't ask for the fairy first time at least seventy people have been killed in the city in the last three days. russia should break ties with its partner is that statement from president putin as he delivers and beat speech before the lower house of parliament in the resort city of yalta. militarized police forces in missouri unleashed their habeas crackdown on protesters here during a fourth night of unrest over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a cop. journalist also

got caught up in the violence two reporters allege they were manhandled during everest while a news crew reports being shot at by police. plus the british government admits it has already sent combat troops to iraq but claims they were not there to do any fighting that says some lawmakers urged london to step up its intervention. which aren't international live from moscow with me marina joshie locals into the outskirts saying the resistance hub has come under the most intense army bombing to date at least two civilians have reportedly been killed and ten injured a shell shower in the center of the region's largest city for the very first time now these are some of the latest pictures we have been getting from the city and

you can see smoke rising from the residential buildings at least seventy people have died in the increasingly intense shelling in the past three days meanwhile the u.n. has signaled a dangerous escalation in the region there saying the number of casualties there climb to zero. word two thousand since mid april when it here flaunted its military operation to retake the defined cities and towns in the country's east very few national met some of the residents of the region's second harbor of lugansk. key of course this and large scale anti terror operation while enter government fighters in the east say they're trying to liberate the region from occupiers yet it's civilians who are paying the highest price they describe what's happening on the ground and in their backyards as senseless violence the city of the guns one of the biggest in the crane's east lies in ruins and is almost empty but a to refine never stops while the shelling of the city continue not only

residential areas are being targeted just yesterday a shell landed right here in the middle of these graves at one of the city's main symmetries cauchon the road no doubt that your side of the border in this where more law where your more so stoke on your back on your lives in erbil you look. at all this pretty. good millions as an. suv parked on the street more than in the trees decide to go free because. dimitri and his family were caught in the sporadic fire when they tried to get water from a wild stream outside to see. my this national bulge and behold a lot more needs to be budgeted student if we were going to shoot you is bogus the good news each week of it was told to do it we will do it again i think not in a court of the law for you pretty this is from the seriously planning for the door but it was all done the mark of the globalization all of the drama is beautiful are you sure you will be sure to your health and safety is not the only thing listening

to you about that all those we supposed to hear tell us they are in need of practically everything humanitarian aid provided by city authorities is not easy to get. there is the yellow witch of the girl through study love that these two going to get that are the choice of a little sore to go but it's true continued miserably even though a little skin that decided to start them in the chip leader stucco which lets you do should be unsuitable most k w which is remotely low level but it gets to use a bloodless coup to pull much of the new home i should be approaching late you'll decide to see your street this hendry tonight. in one of the most shelled districts of lugansk invites anyone who wants to flee the city to come to dislike native place on any given day just those who haven't got out yet don't seem in any rush to pack their bags and escape musically you must know we have an image but then you buy it in the streets you get a sense of the water but there are those who want to get out but can't. give you

what you want then you do i don't miss the leadership or the gift card but this year what you did i'd say goodbye for i need to go to a couple of hours after we crossed the border back into russia we heard that violent clashes have erupted all in on the road we drove alone and then these who we just spoke to in the gun now find themselves trapped in the encircled. nation. in eastern ukraine. now russia is demanding answers over the fate of missing russian photographer andre stan in moscow says it will raise the issue of the u.n. and. unless cave reveals is were about contacts with a journalist who was working in east ukraine was lost more than a week ago a ukrainian interior ministry official told stands employer that he can only assume down the reporter was detained by the security services the thirty three year old's

disappearance at sparked an outcry among international rights groups which are calling for his release and highlighting the dangers facing journalists covering the conflict in a country. well many other reporters have been caught in the crossfire in a string ukraine seven journalist have been killed others were abducted interrogated or even tortured here are the faces of those who risked their lives covering caves armed operation more on their stories at r.t. dot com where of course we're also following updates on the missing photographer andre stan. well i'm reporting is on a visit to crimea he is meeting members of russia's lower house of parliament in the resort city of yatta and our correspondent is there for us thanks so much for joining us here to discuss this and of course the location and timing i'm

drawing a lot of attention so what the president had to say. well the speech certainly got garnered quite a lot of attention by observers from around the world and it was highly anticipated that it took place against the backdrop off the recent sit for tat sanctions by a russia and the west and that has certainly hiden tensions over the situation in ukraine but so here is what's of a lot of their putin had to say in his crimea speech to underline the fact that russia should not wall itself in nor close any ties though with breaking ties with the partners on the other hand he is for us that's a russia show did not in any way or form be patronized by its partners the russian president also called on the country's society to the united in light of recent events but so unite not for the purpose of war or for the purpose all for

a conflict and the underlining thoughts on there all of that was that russia's foreign policy should be completely peaceful now the effect of the speech was a certainly a felt and. one of the indicators all the most and that was the fact that it writes in the in the aftermath of it wouldn't speak russian stocks actually rose. thanks for following this for us and bringing us the details on cost of reporting there. are other stories here ninety international missouri police have stepped ob their crackdown on protesters during a fourth night of violence over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a cop officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a largely peaceful demonstration in ferguson our guest is there for us. mayhem and chaos continue to unravel on the streets of ferguson in the suburbs of

st louis missouri for a fourth night in a row police continue to clash with protesters coming out onto the streets an outrage over the death of eighteen year old michael brown. right now the air here is filled with tension and really smells of tear gas still hours after it was fired violence and looting began on sunday night as hundreds of protesters took out onto the streets dozens of businesses were looted we have witnessed tear gas in fact being used when protesters were quite peaceful when nobody really was doing anything but it seems to be a different story according to the police that have been quite heavily militarized out on the streets night after night expecting it seems the worse the local community is outraged because witnesses who say they saw exactly what happened during michael's killing report that he had been running away from the police car with his hands lifted up in the air showing that he was unarmed when he was killed

by multiple gunshots this community ferguson in fact has a population of twenty one thousand people two thirds of them are african-american whereas the ferguson police department is estimated to have only three black police officers out of fifty so the issue of race is certainly a huge one in these unraveling clashes and violence that have been taking place now locals are furious over regular police were taliban what they call racial profiling some of them had even stronger words to describe the latest events. when you got a lot of harassment by the cops you don't see enough just we go on a no no we were in the street so why you shouldn't and so the complex this who's going to be next which child is going to be next week jessie trayvon and jordan davis and the black children all around the world this is a systematic racist problem this is apartheid in america let's call it what it is

now let me also fell the have a hand of the law in ferguson to journalist said they were a man hound during arrest and one a news crew even reported being shot by police but detained reporters were later released but their treatment drew widespread outrage from the media the incident has sparked a fresh debate over u.s. police handling of journalists covering conflicts. following the occupy wall street protests that swept across america in two thousand and twelve the country's ranking in the index of press freedom has plummeted it's fallen from the twenty seventh in two thousand and eleven to the forty six today. while pressure on the sun journalist gets wide listening to others go unnoticed in the mainstream media and that's what happened in a twenty two r.t. reporter can we afford it was snatched after covering a peaceful rally outside an army training camp kayleen was handcuffed even though she followed instructions about filming at

a distance i'm sorry i met. you while furious responses are also pouring out online over the ongoing militarized police crackdown in ferguson and some recent tweets compare they have only armed officers to combat troops in iraq there's more social media reaction on our website r.t. dot com. british officials have admitted that a lead to s.c.s. special forces are on the ground in iraq but london claims its troops and aircraft are only there to help kurdish refugees who've been cut off by his forces some british lawmakers want a broader intervention meanwhile extremists are openly recruiting on the streets of london asked billy boy who now reports. shoppers on london's oxford street got more than they bargained for earlier this week when they encountered men handing out flyers asking britons to join the islamic state the violent organization

terrorizing northern iraq i was on oxford street with a group of friends of mine and i saw this. stance people were having like a table and they are getting defaced of people trying to promote. the highly fight the spread of pro islamic state material has become a major concern fact anti terror police in the u.k. i thought ok this is wrong something else going on and i was very angry i mean. i was trembling there using the democratic and that situation and freedom in order to promote something against it which is really really dangerous in one east london housing estate this black flag closely resembling that of jihadist groups was seen hanging above the gates for several days the highly provocative gesture to

pay says the islamic states murderous campaign has left thousands of refugees stranded in northern iraq r e s tornado jets have been sent to support a drops for refugees and to carry out surveillance operations it's also of course a political statement sending a combat jet is a statement of intent in any situation to provide flexibility for the government if the situation on the ground escalates to a point where they deem strikes to be necessary it would require much modification of the jets would be very quick resource to be there for quite a major is a bizarre mixture of course is very much so rampage through iraq have been splashed across the media and it starring public opinion where the demonstration outside downing street and you can see the signs talking about standing up to. said the u.k. prime minister is under growing political pressure to follow the lead of the us and launch air strikes to try to stop the terrorists advance that's despite lingering

anger over the deeply unpopular iraq war which cost the u.k. nine billion pounds and dragged on for almost a decade iraq's current crisis has been blamed on the power of vacuum the war related there is also a sense that because of the iraq war this is the west responsibility many people consider that of course as the alternate few that the west has already been into iraq and it hasn't worked out so that should just stand back but again there is pressure from both sides and certainly huge pressure from within iraq from the kurdish reason regions that desperate for us strikes so far the u.k. government's limited itself to providing humanitarian assistance but with growing concerns over the islam makes states reign of terror and day for the spread of extremist ideology at home westminster could be forced to reconsider. now the un has declared the highest level of emergency in iraq warning that

thousands of refugees trapped by jihad is could face imminent genocide within days a u.s. helicopter delivering food to the area was rushed to by desperate crowds begging the crew to take them to safety the pentagon though claims a complete about kuwait is not necessary because far fewer people are under siege them previously thought. for now america and the solomon towers are delivering arms and ammunition to the kurds washington was the first to offer firepower with the cia now providing local militia with light weapons and bullets friends which has only ever had humanitarian involvement before has ole so agreed with baghdad to supply some weaponry of the iraqi government which have been reluctant to help the separatist kurds before is now giving them weapons as well while the u.k. is helping transports a soviet era weaponry from eastern europe and foreign policy expert robert naiman

says the supplies will be a fresh incentive for kurds to seek independence. there are on resolve obviously deep on resolve issues between the regional government of kurdistan and the central government in baghdad it doesn't seem to be any prospect that they will do so. and it doesn't mean any prospect that really any outside force can physically stop iraqi kurds from declaring independence in the areas that they control the courage to have always been seen to have long been seen in the west as a more reliable partner better fighters militarily more cohesive politically course there are other issues at stake here besides. humanitarian. motivations that are being stated one key thing is the concern about the northern iraq it will fields of this is something that the british and french are also

concerned about the oil fields and in northern iraq possibility that this one exteriorize say yes that will threaten or take control of iraqi oil fields. bringing you the latest update on a story on a ariana lying to how to our website r t dot com for more insight and analysis also coming up. now to states military has told the entire well look at that today as zero tolerance to rape cases they have not helped me at all japan's revealed it's paying millions of dollars in compensation for crimes committed by u.s. soldiers and if some of the victims of these crimes are left without justice we'll hear from a one of them in just a few moments. but you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially

public appearances with today even though they weren't explicitly political. we were just supporting this point. is that some people's regime has become very adept at is controlling the media example i'll say it right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i think they have an agenda i think through gender is is bought and paid for. do we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news that will turn it into hangal these stories. you hear. and try altie spanish find out more visit eye to eye with that.

welcome back this is our to international while japan's defense ministry says it's paid out nearly four million dollars in compensation over the past decade for accidents and crimes involving american military personnel american now has around fifty thousand troops serving the u.s. military bases in japan at a turns out that thousands of crimes have been committed by u.s. staff in the last ten years and many while they were on official army duty under an agreement tokyo has to pay a quarter of the compensation for incidents that occurred during u.s. military duties even if the japanese have nothing to do with them in a victim of one of those crimes told cog her story about her course eight for justice. i was raped by united states military servicemen and at that time

i thought that perhaps i was the only person who was a victim and then i i did so much research and i have i have this here before me is the list of nine hundred forty five the this is only the rape cases alone that have happened since the one nine hundred forty s. and the list you can see is quite extensive here they're having like every every month or every couple of weeks and and i actually put this list. and i watch it you can see it's not that large but you can see i version on one some sheets here and what is what is on the list goes on it's all a lot of this is enough this would be these a list of just the rate crimes and our . and that would probably my would probably be quibbling to a twenty four store story building so how many of these. investigated properly do you believe i mean what happened in your case properly well let's say for example

since the nine hundred fifty s. there's been about two hundred thousand crimes and accidents that have been caused by united states military service men. and in my case. you know nobody wanted to help me nobody wanted to listen and the united states military has claimed and has blatantly told the entire world that they are zero tolerance to rape cases. and they're helping rape victims but that is completely the opposite they have not helped me at all. things are tam's between israel and gaza despite both sides agreeing to extend their ceasefire hours before the previous truce was do expire israel accused the militants of firing rockets and hit back with its own strikes our middle east correspondent paula for your brings us more. things on the ground are a little confusing at this stage the ceasefire does appear to be holding but both sides accuse the other of violating it we're hearing from him us that they say

israel is continuing with its shelling of a gaza but at the same time israel is accusing her months of rocket fire at southern israel there are simons that are currently sounding in the south of this country but it's not yet been cleared up whether in fact it would triggered by what could fire it was a seventy two hour cease fire that was due to expire at midnight on wednesday and two hours before that expired date went into effect there were around five rockets fired at israel israel responded by hitting some targets in the gaza strip and also moving lies in its troops on the israel gaza border so that certainly saw tensions here climb as both sides started feeling that they could be a resumption of fighting all of this happens while we have these in direct negotiations taking place in cairo there is this new agreement in place for a five day cease fire and it's hoped that this time will be used so that they can be a permanent deal reached between the sides what we are hearing from the teams in cairo is that there has been significant progress but that there are still outstanding

issues regarding the lifting of the seizure in gaza regarding security arrangements and also reconstruction efforts inside the gaza strip. on here is some more headlines from around the world in pakistan saudi security personnel have already had a massive anti-government march the rally from lahore to islam about will be led by opposition leaders calling for the prime minister to resign they say he has failed to investigate fraud in last year's elections as lama bot accuses the protesters of trying to disrupt democracy saying it has now launched a probe into allegations of vote rigging in the twenty third team poll. hospital in the u.s. state of nebraska has been flooded after a bout of heavy rainfall a security camera captured the moment a wall of water pushed through the calf. hearing indorse all the hospitals kitchen and eating areas have been damaged and can take months to repair seven northern parts of the u.s. have also enjoyed heavy rain and flash floods. never had eighty's action

movie star turned campaigner steven segal tells worlds apart how to build a bridge of trust between moscow and washington. baltimore is considering making their curfew for minors even stricter for the last twenty years children caught on the street up until midnight were in deep trouble with the police but now this will be made even earlier starting at nine or ten pm depending on their age and the day of the week can the government impose a curfew on youths well yes if we think about it people under eighteen can't sign contracts join the army smoke cigarettes or vote because they're legally not responsible for their own actions so yeah that whole freedom of association

guaranteed by the constitution really only applies once you're an adult who can in theory be responsible for associating with certain people on a street corner at midnight although legally this is ok ideologically there's something wrong with the idea i remember hearing in school all the talk about living in the greatest country on earth and how many freedoms we have in america but the problem is that it is hard for teenagers to believe all these nice slogans when they have to dodge police just for walking down the street in their own home town getting a two hundred fifty dollar fine for leaving your house doesn't make you feel like you're living in the greatest country on earth i mean it sure didn't when they put a curfew in my neighborhood in the ninety's but that's just my opinion. in reality mediation is still lives we think and it is killing our children they are dying also hard conditions. leukemia the feel for it is now still hiding the

truth for most still and i don't know why don't they have children on their own because you heard so much to know that up to protect our children and is. do we speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's when you hear. reports in from the world talks about six of the c.r.p. interviews intriguing stories for you. in troy arabic to find out more visit our big. dog called. hello and welcome to the park it's a ploy that seems unrealistic even by hollywood standards russia and the united

states that get so frustrated with each other that bad diplomatic communication is caught so they're minimal until one famous actually makes a couple of polls here and there on south's everything steven seagal played out ball in real life and he joins us now on worlds apart mr seagal thank you very much for your time now one of the first guests on the show was dana rohrabacher senator from california who came to moscow in june he was investigating suspects looking for information about suspects in the boston marathon bombing but he told me back then that that trip would have been possible. without your participation how did you become such an unlikely cultural ambassador for the two countries i think the danann i have been friends for a long time and. he knew of my relationship with russia for a long long time and he knows that i go back in russia a long time in that i have

a lot of friends here some of whom are very powerful and influential but he also believes that i have insight into the culture the heart of russia and the people who are running the country in some ways that's his opinion anyway. we were both concerned about not only the boston bombings but anti-terrorism or terrorism in general and he asked me if. i had any opinions on this and i said well i believe that really. face bad and spits knots. are some of the world's leading experts on on terrorism and i believe that. there's a reason for that were and it's because you know from from before beslan through beslan up until now russia has.