interview and much. only on bombast and. you're watching r t international tonight ukraine's army pounds the center of the antique you have stronghold and that's the very first time at least seventy people have been killed in the city in the last three days. russia should not cut ties with its global partners but will not tolerate being patronized by them either that statement from president putin a c. address is senior politicians in crimea also. wrote these forces in missouri unleashed their heaviest crackdown on protesters yet during a fourth rest over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by

a cop. and as western governments step up military aid to iraq this trouble brewing on the home front with more jihad is volunteers being recruited openly on the streets of european cities we investigate this up. for a good evening to you where we want you around the world the season we appreciate your company it's ten pm here in moscow now i'm kevin autopsy locals in donetsk is saying the resistance has come under the most intense bombing to date at least two civilians have reportedly been killed today and ten injured as shells show at the center of the region's largest city for the very first time some of the following following images coming up disturbing here this video shows the aftermath of the attack i always see observers could be seen examining the scene of the violence. in

the last three days at least seventy people have lost their lives in that city amid the increasingly intent shelling the next used of a population of almost a million before the start of the conflict but of course many of now fled. also today in the region the defense minister for the self-proclaimed annette's republic has stepped down it's not clear why he's decided to quit yet ego stroke over his being replaced them by a local militia commander meanwhile kiev says it's also tightening its grip on the region's second city lugansk people there announced a humanitarian crisis over a week ago where fanaa should have met some of the. kiev calls these and large scale antiterrorist ration while empty government fighters in the east say they're trying to liberate the region from occupiers yet its 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 lugansk one of the biggest in the crane's east

lies in ruins and is almost empty but it 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 cemeteries cauchon the road not of the your side of the border in this where more law where you're more so stoked on your balcony i was another you look. at me over the. superdome the trick more than me the trees disappeared over here for. 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 not a morning person but you're a street in new york is both history did you hear django that was counted we don't do much kinetic miracle of the war for you pretty easy for mr clinton for his goal

but it is a whole dang the mark of globalization all of the boomers believe for good surely it will be sure to join up and safety is not the only thing listening only on a scale that all those we spoke to here told 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 who still loves it obviously going to have to trudge through the little sore to the left it can still years or even though a little skin there is certainly crystal illiterate did mr coco which is less leadership reinserted table most k w gore children out of nowhere kids to use a brainless quarter for much of your new film i should be approaching the usual desire to see if this handwritten note is hung going to tree in one of the most shelled districts of lugansk invites anyone who wants to flee the city to come to does ignited place on any given day yet those who haven't got out yet don't seem in

any rush to pack their bags and escape yet there was no we had none when you couldn't buy it in the city better than ever before that but there are those who want to get out but can't. get to the court but when you do i don't miss the leadership i think gephardt what is your what you guys wanted to do a couple of hours after we crossed the border back into russia we heard that violent clashes have erupted all along the road we drove alone and those who just spoke to in the ganske now find themselves trapped in the encircled city. nation ocean r.t. in eastern ukraine both of russia's foreign policy the president currently visiting crimea where he also met members of russia's lower house of parliament in the resort city of yell to roman cost of their force. the speech certainly garnered quite a lot of attention and it was really anticipated by observers from all over the

world especially considering the fact that took place on the back drop off a tit for tat sanctions between russia and the west that have certainly escalating tensions over ukraine now here's what putin had to say he underlined that's a russia should not wall itself in nor should it break any size with its partners from around the world however russia should not be mentored by other countries in its own decisions now the russian president also called on the countries that a society so unites the bloodshed that call for unification was not for a war not for conflict but in order to work as hard as possible for the nation itself and the underlining thoughts in all that was that russian foreign policy should be peaceful now despite all that lattimer putin added that russian army will continue to get its allocated funding and will continue to get advanced

weapons in order to boost its said defense capabilities and also added that russia reserves the right to withdraw from any international agreements if necessary now the speech also was considered quite optimistic and one a key example of that was the fact that russian stock markets grew right after his speech roman cost of the some of the main points again just recap briefly the president stressed russia should not it is really friends itself in or sever itself from its partners but it shouldn't either allow them to patronize it but in a pretty putin also called on russian society to unite that this be done not for conflict sake and you know to moscow reserves the right to pull out of international treaties if doing so serves its interests. russia's demanding answers over the fate of missing russian photographer

understanding how moscow says it will raise the issue at the u.n. and with the o. s. c.e. unless kiev reveals his whereabouts contact with him he was working in the east of ukraine was last more than a week ago now ukrainian interior ministry official told sterling's employer in august of that he could only assume that the reported being detained by the security services the thirty three year old disappearance has sparked an outcry among international rights groups are calling for his release there now drawing attention to the dangers facing journalists more generally covering the conflict in the country many of the reporters have been caught in the crossfire at least ukraine seven journalists have been killed others have been abducted interrogated or tortured in fact here are the faces of those who risked their lives covering armed operation more on their stories at r.t. dot com where we're all supposed to of course any updates on the missing photographer under a stand into. on

the way or not international a trade war retreat while a top european bank predicts brussels of moscow will soon stop hurting each other with sanctions some analysts of that claim on the program very soon. british officials have admitted that elite s.a. a special forces are on the ground in iraq but london claims its troops in aircraft are only there to help kurdish refugees who've been cut off by jihad his forces some british lawmakers want a broader intervention meanwhile extremists are openly recruiting on the streets of london as polly boyd discovered. 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. given to fifty people trying to promote. the highly fight the spread of pro islamic state material has become a major concern factor and he terror police in the u.k. i thought ok this is wrong something else going on 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 before the highly provocative gesture took pace as the islamic states murderous campaign has left thousands of refugees stranded in northern iraq r.a.s tornado jets have been sent to support a drops for refugees and to carry out surveillance operations images of islamic

state forces really so rampage through iraq have been splashed across the media and it's starring public opinion where the demonstration outside downing street and you can see the signs talking about standing up to ice says the u.k. prime minister is under growing political pressure to follow the lead of the us and launch airstrikes to try to stop the terrorists of violence 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 vacuum the war created there is also a sense that because of the iraq war this is you know this is the worst responsibility many people consider that of course there's the alternate few that the worst has already been into iraq and it hasn't worked out so they should just stand back the u.k. government is limited itself to providing humanitarian assistance but with growing

concerns over the islam mix states reign of terror and over the spread of extremist ideology at home westminster could be forced to reconsider i. see london. summer u.s. and e.u. officials say the jihadists must be dealt with because they pose a direct threat to western countries and these warnings were backed up with some powerful social media images like this one we showed you a couple of days ago a young australian boy in syria holding up a cup with a good head at age and this latest photo now to put to apparently british rapper who also traveled to syria and join the radical movement one prominent was remarked of his told us the actions of european governments though as it was driving people towards the jihad is kind of the first place. and government policy is actually alienating more people and the other part is is this double sort of misses that on one side we have to be involved in the move all of the syrian government and the

other side you know really it is a confusion messages going up and use the unfortunately there is always number of which are confuse which can be said to get even more confused and double that message just i mean unfortunately these are wrong or will people which are being exploited then something needs to be done and the government indeed needs to set an example here we need to educate people that this are action it is just illegal that is counterproductive and the reality is create more havoc more killing and indeed rather than solving anything that message is not going out. coming up more about we'll bring you the latest on the could his struggle for survival in northern iraq they feed genocide this new begging to be evacuated to safety more a little full story coming up.

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again report by dan's capone one of scandinavia top lenders says brussels and moscow will but paired log tit for tat sanctions within the next few months here's a quote in fact from the document for you and escalating trade war would be on bearable it says for both russia and the e.u. goes on to say both sides will likely revoke the sanctions within one disagree months economic restrictions were first imposed by the u.s. and the e.u. lashed out at russia over the crisis in ukraine moscow then retaliated by imposing a ban on european food imports i spoke to the. food analyst for euro monitor she thinks no matter how long the sanctions stay in place fresh fruit manufacturers in

the e.u. are going to be hit hard here though from both partners both in the e.u. but also for russia and we've been much better for this ban obviously to be lifted when it comes to fear they'd steves are being produced and especially when it comes to fresh products. these need to find new destination market rather quickly there's a lot of pressure in the short term because a lot of countries are in fact that at the moment to find a new retail you distributing partner however a long term it has to be seen what the consequences are but everyone is trying to find new export partners here the u.s. to clear the highest level of emergency in iraq warning that thousands of refugees trapped by jihadists could face it wouldn't genocide within days a u.s. helicopter delivering food to the area was mobbed by desperate crowds begging the crew to take them to safety the pentagon claims a complete evacuation is not necessary because far fewer people are under siege as previously thought but the kurdish minority would beg to differ. throughout.

should know right. when you be doing it where they're clearly. that had a rug i like. that and then there's an old canadian even adelaide that hold the set up now and this could someone with the help anyone had to hand the way and then came in atlanta magnetically here i am going to have to learn. them now it is so set up now we've got home b. and the possibility. of the house with a rock i said. i don't think you are in this loon i got our rules. over the rose monarch but that had them an out of our bargain sorry hall well let's see the west intends to assist germany's pledged lethal

military aid and here's what other countries are doing to help the embattled people of northern iraq america first of all and some of its allies as a roadie of course released arms and ammunition to the kurds washington was one of the first to offer firepower the say providing local militia and light weapons to weapons and bullets on the france which had only had humanitarian involvement before now but now it's also agreed with the supplies some weaponry over paris has not specify what exactly it will send the iraqi government to have been reluctant to help the separatist kurds but is now also arming them while the u.k. is helping transport soviet era weapons left over from the cold war in some eastern european countries still foreign policy expert robert neumann says the supplies will be a fresh incentive for kurds know them to seek independence. there are on resolve obviously deep on resolve issues between the regional government of kurdistan the central government in baghdad it doesn't seem to be any prospect that they will

do so if it doesn't have any prospect that really any outside force can physically stop iraqi kurds from declaring independence in the areas that they control the kurds have all 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 day the british and french are also concerned about the oil fields and in northern iraq possibility that islamic state arise say as the world trade center to control of iraqi oil fields. those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria and we still should be doing

everything we can to support the free syrian opposition we will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. missouri police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a largely peaceful demonstration in ferguson join a fourth night of violence over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a cop two journalists for arrested an allegedly manhandled one news crew even reported being shot by police but has condemned the excessive use of force. and i was in focus and force. 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. 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. and. 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. 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 in 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 well joining us now from new york is political political cartoonist ted rowlands talked to him so he thinks about it by the barack obama's call for a thorough investigation into the killing of this guy mr brown what do you think about it is that really going to be enough and to that there is a real going to calm things down or is it too little too late well obviously it's too late we were looking at a fourth possible night of civil unrest on the on the streets of this small town outside st louis. and it's not the first time this is happened you know this is a situation that repeats itself in all sorts of african-american communities across streets that are policed has though they were occupied territory by highly militarized i would say u.s.

troops but local police who are equipped as though they were occupying afghanistan or iraq so you know that there is no connection whatsoever but just hostility between the communities that are being policed and the police that are supposed to be serving them that's the big issue that's the big problem and i don't see how the president in his investigation over this one incident would be able to make much headway there this would mean to be it's going problem would it help if this was a very public trial or you know the office that was it was publicly brought to book over this trial fairly over it do you think that make a difference while the police apparently being so heavy handed right now barack obama again is criticize out as well again too little too late you tell me. well transparency is obviously would be very welcome here the police still refuse to release the name of the officer who was involved in the shooting if it were you or me who was accused of shooting someone of course the names would be released by the police immediately they're protecting themselves and there's you know there's not

much of a history in the united states of police being found guilty of these kinds of shootings white cops shooting black kids and when there are sentences which are very rare tend to be very short slaps on the wrist i was talking with my journalistic colleagues recently nobody could recall an example of a police officer facing any kind of serious prison time for this kind of incident in our memories oversight even the journalists have been roughed up a reporting on this story doesn't bode well there's a while they being so heavy handed nichols that the backdrop of this is well many police forces across the united states are getting heavy duty weaponry from the overseas war zones i mean it's a real but mixing pot isn't it that's right i mean the history of this really goes back to the one nine hundred seventy s. and when los angeles created a military militarized swat team as it was called and other police departments have

opted swat tactics but things have really accelerated during since nine eleven and the wind down of the wars in iraq and afghanistan and all this equipment in terms of the head heavy handedness i think that when you're a hammer everything looks like a nail and that's what's going on here the more equipment you give the cops the more they're going to be inclined to use it there's also economic incentives for them to use them they're told that they're going to lose this equipment if they don't use it from time to time so in the city of st louis in fact or in st louis county you can't even deliver a warrant to someone without swat team a company so even if you're delivering a warrant for a minor nonviolent offense the swat team shows up at your front door armed to the teeth it's a it's a combustible such. should be going to could generally have respect for the police to they gonna respect for this how they like to not like what's the position you know we also gave the police telling people to be calm tonight but judging by the way the police handling the people it's going to count against them surely isn't

going to go the other way well in america it's deeply divided by race and by and by politics so if you to if you're african-american if you're if you lean to the left the odds are you don't have much respect for the police or you view them mostly with fear certainly the way i look at them but there are people there are certainly people who respect the police particularly on the right and particularly white middle class people who don't feel that if they feel that if you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to fear all right ted rall political cartoonist thank you for your thoughts thanks me on the program so it is a bit quiet of the thank you for watching as well after the break take a look at another will be on the scenes and see how the news is made here and see international it news team the late edition only if they're actually.

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 are 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. it's awful for associating with certain people on a street corner at midnight although legally this is ok ideologically there is 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. elite. athlete.

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