ukraine recognizes russia's humanitarian convoy is carrying aid as more than two hundred trucks with help for struggling civilians are being stalled at the border. russia ridiculed online reports that one of its army units has been destroyed in ukraine with no evidence or wreckage to back up the allegations from kiev. the governor of missouri announces a state of emergency and brings in a curfew as rioters demand justice for a teenager shot dead by police in the us town of ferguson. the e.u. approves a to kurdish fighters in iraq pouring more weapons into the war ridden country as

terrorists from the islamic state group because of the massacre of an entire village of cuts. you're watching r.t. international we're coming to you live from moscow which one i am now here in the russian capital goods have you with us ukrainian authorities have officially recognized that russia's humanitarian convoy is in fact carrying aid moscow has been trying to send help to east ukraine where locals are suffering from shortages of food water and electricity the convoy is stuck at the border as the sides try to agree how to get it through to civilians. is that. a few over six hours of negotiations with russian border control the international red cross spokesperson for us said that both russian and ukrainian governments have agreed on the humanitarian aid from russia will be delivered to war torn eastern ukraine adding

though that they still remain two major challengers one is of course security concerns directly to trucks carrying humanitarian cargo or he's expected to travel through red cross will be waiting for war insides to give them guarantees that the kind of on will be safe with another challenge and this is maybe even more important he's a convoy cannot start moving until it's checked by the red cross and the red cross is hardly waits in ukraine to give them green light to start inspections the aid convoy from russia has been stuck with the russian ukrainian border for almost three days already one of the major reasons behind that he is that he has had too many questions to moscow brigades in the congo itself and its route accusing morse code but it is trying to use the humanitarian corn boy as a pretext to send troops and weapons to support and t. key a farces in eastern ukraine we have to say though that for all of these time

the location where two hundred eighty trucks are currently parked was open to media and many journalists including our channel have visited the location this is my reports from there. food water and medicine as well as warm blankets and sleeping bags welcome relief at a time of despair. this russian convoy has hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid destined for eastern ukraine and its help that saudi needed four months of end to tear up the ration has their towns and ruins more than two thousand people dead and many without clean water to drink. but a whole ritual which are more. than forty. below is not a very. marketable initially credible or tear gas to punish or to get when i go on the job and you know i. don't have a ticket. you know you have to show that. you're made to unfold

western governments say russia could be using it as a cover for military support to end to kiev fighters it's not just clear exactly where the convoluted headed but it has certainly be travelling through crane's war torn regions and the drivers say they're worried about the safety of gravity when you first but you have to practice religious subaltern literally sped up on your right from bill we can often afford. to back or charged you up but if you. actually. are going to put your wallet your work with the chinese critical person through your field news when you broaden your group you usually move for the trip was issued with mushroom in your brain you're on the correct order which are on the honor code and you need convoys really today but the red cross officials say it could take another week for international and ukrainian monitors to verify the cargo and decide on the route it will take place a ceasefire could be on the cards these two hundred eighty trucks have already

covered one thousand kilometer distance to reach the borders but this is not their final destination now they are waiting to cross into ukraine to bring humanitarian aid they're carrying to those desperate wind. need for me it's locals have been sheltering in dark basement surviving on doing clean supplies in walter and these are some of the people calling out for the material that's already packed and waiting to be delivered. race nationality russian ukrainian border. meanwhile russia has dismissed as nonsense reports that a military convoy has crossed from its territory into ukraine the rebuttal was in response to the ukrainian president who posted that many of the vehicles had been destroyed the un u.s. and european i will see who have their experts in the area so they cannot confirm allegations russia has said quite clearly that no military vehicles have gone

across its border there exists no russian military convoy that crossed the russian ukrainian border either at night or during the day let's hope the ukrainian army only destroyed a phantom and not refugees or their own soldiers and the story was broken by a pair of british journalists working for the u.k.'s guardian and telegraph newspapers they posted on twitter that they had witnessed the incursion which happened at night now as proof they posted pictures showing armored personnel carriers on a road at an disclosed location but during the day despite the severity of the claims and the lack of evidence the allegations were taken at face value by a number of western politicians we spoke to political and analyst an investigative journalist on the matter. but this invasion that happened the ukrainians the nato would have been desperate to get video of this of photographs are up on the internet on the t.v. see here is proof of a russian putin led invasion of ukraine and they also authorized this if the

russians were going to invade ukraine would they just send in some armored personnel carriers lightly armored vehicles this is the twenty first century in modern times you don't wage a war by rolling in twenty three tanks warfare in modern times as waged with drones and fighter helicopters there were an actual russian military invasion of ukraine we would know about it and there would be no debate about it would be absolutely insane to russia do that would it absolutely in changeful for a russian armored vehicles to go in they advertised what they were knowing that everybody's got cameras everybody can take photographs and knowing the political situation regarding this conflict it would be absolutely sure a side of russia to to do that the ukrainian army says it's in the last stages of its operation in the east of the country they claim street fights are underway and done yet to come new guns because it pushes out anti government forces this is what constant shelling has been doing to the cities at least four civilians were killed in the latest attacks and locals say they don't know why they're being targeted.

thank you so much you know but. i do. not think so so you've seen the pacific. ocean. meanwhile seventeen more ukrainian troops are crossed the border into russia fleeing fighting in the east it's the latest incident but far from the biggest two weeks ago more than four hundred ukrainian soldiers and legally crossed the border into russia seeking sanctuary is how two of those who just made it out of ukraine explained that decision. my unit was surrounded and the only way to save ourselves was to go into russia on christmas day to the region very different i want to go home and just stay there i have a family i'm still young i don't want to die i mean we will mobilize and they just

sent us a little some grateful i'm glad that i'm still a lawyer but if not i wouldn't be standing here in front of you. threatening more potential sanctions against russia blaming it for the violence in the east of ukraine however the unanimous support required is falling away so that his prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in a new member states meanwhile the czech president claims the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could lead to a spiral of worsening relations that achieve nothing but divide has it deepened even further after russia's retaliatory ban on western produced food and eating food exports is facing billions in losses we spoke to the european union's ambassador to russia he hopes for a quick return to business as usual. of course some companies. may face some losses. will be looking for alternatives as i said specially

those countries and those exporters to the russian market who have been under scrutiny of appropriate russian situations here faced certain sanctions and barriers they have successfully overcome by finding a new new new however of course we came to maintain the trade value russian customer. sure the russian customer values european product and i hope will come back to business as usual soon here has reiterated it doesn't know where missing russian photographer andre stanton as the interior ministry suggested anti government forces could be holding him he disappeared in eastern ukraine ten days ago and the ukrainian military has appeared conflicted on whether they have him or not first they denied it then an interior ministry spokesperson confirmed in an interview to a lobby in a radio station they indeed held then and kept him captive on accusations of assisting terrorists then they backtracked claiming

a bad translation russia the u.n. and international human rights groups are demanding the correspondent is released immediately a social media campaign called free andriy is now under way and there's been several flash mobs around the world in support. a state of emergency has been brought in for the whole of missouri and a coffee brought in from the town of ferguson is being rocked by on rest the death death of an unarmed teenager caused public outrage and subsequent rallies met a strong response from the authorities the police officer responsible for the killing has since been named the controversial incident has reached the residence of the president of the united states dozens of people gathered in front of the white house to hold a sign in protest against a recent wave of police brutality in the u.s. protesters also demanded the demilitarize ation of the police force as well as justice for the. reports from focus. in the

suburbs of st louis missouri. on to the street fight for justice. eighteen year old michael brown. from the police officer be fined the killing has been released there and will say he's twenty eight years old he is white and we do know that he has been in the police might be everything to leave earlier we spoke with one of the attorneys michael brown's family and this is what he told about the information that's been released by the police just a name. that. is a lot more we need to learn about him especially. you know his actions after he shot by going before he shot those things are crucial to determining. what

we spoke to some people about this latest information. like information being released today you know when. we kind of wanted information. you know we said before. initially i was afraid to come out here because when i saw the militia you know the police out here. showing brzezinski threatening weapons in presenting themselves in a threatening manner i was afraid to come out here because when i saw the tear gas in any manner that they were approaching and read arresting people the atmosphere here is certainly shifted somewhat because for the first four nights what we saw were pretty violent clashes between mostly of very heavily militarized police who were using tear gas and rubber bullets people still don't understand why this young man felt like. by i. think we are not in the camp. for the protests in ferguson have led to some criminal groups taking the

opportunity to new show some people form lines to protect businesses. the protesters claim the place aggression against the rallies is out of proportion the use of tear gas in ferguson spock's a somewhat unexpected online response from across the atlantic with palestinians taking to twitter advising protesters not to wash their eyes if they hit with gas and also urging them to try and keep calm and avoid running into the wind. that's a gas can have severe health effects they employ tempering blindness breathing problems miscarriages as well as hearts and liver damage to gas is not the only tone used by police to counter the mostly peaceful rallies in five to seven and m. four rifle is also in the security forces aust know a weapon used in various mini tree conflicts and he said also being reinforced by light armored vehicles which were in service in iraq and afghanistan also an m k a levin sniper rifle also used in combat was seen as necessary to tackle the peaceful

rallies were enforced next by john whitehead and he's the police all very acting a number of studies show that once you put on the gear as a policeman in your training you start acting like a military unit like you're in a patrol and unfortunately what happens is the psychology changes and a lot of these a lot of policemen when they're approaching a house for a swat team very it's like they're moving in on our car that supposedly we're the masters and they're the servants but you know it first and they're telling people to back off twenty five feet get in a zone they're violating their free speech rights you have a right to walk up to a civil servant and say sir why you doing this why you're there pointing guns at people and chasing them away that's not a policeman anymore again that's the military and that's what we're dealing with most police agencies operate basically anyway the lot of the local city councils and politicians just let them go. as i've written in a number of instances i've seen. local citizens get they get down to local city council meeting they get their signs and they say we're not moving into you change

this thing it's not you're going to see tyranny in this country this is this is the face of the government today what you're seeing in ferguson and it's only going to get worse if we don't back in our. coming up a hero hands back his medal and dutchman hailed for saving jewish children during the second world war says he's returning it in protest at israel gaza. find out what steps the u.k. says it's willing to take to help iraq because in their fight against the hottest all that coming up after the break. so now we're in a deep play sherry spiral where resources are scarce and people are going to war to get control of the remaining resources the works of everyone against everyone everyone's at each other's throat because all that money printing did not work it

was a failure it calls the very ticklish and they said it was going to eliminate they have failed miserably and as a result everyone's got up to their neck in blood. sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato that would provoke some sort of free action on the part of russia at the same fly as far as the military calculus is concerned not what faces humanity east the west north and south none of it can be solved by military means or crafts or satellite so nuclear weapons is outdated it should go like cannibalism and slavery and child labor it doesn't belong to civilization to kill each other.

a doctrine on it by israel for saving a jewish child during the second world war has returned his medal to six of his relatives were killed in go. a ninety one year old hangs in ollie wrote a moving letter to the israeli ambassador he says keeping the honor israel granted to him would be an insult to his mother as to as well as to other family members who were attacked by affected by the attack in gaza those who survived the strike and dealing with the shock of what happened. half an hour before our house was shelled two cars from gaza came to take us away coming to a new place i went to buy some food and when i came back my uncle told me my father was dead my younger brothers think our father went to heaven and my sisters were told he went to egypt for presents an article in this house was shelled on july twentieth by israeli air forces without any warning my six family members were killed as a result my mother three brothers my brother's wife and

a nephew and four story house was completely destroyed what's going on in gaza at the moment is an aggression of occupation forces against the people who live under occupation is seek justice and stand for their independence eighty percent of the victims are civilians with children and women among them no doubt what's going on is an aggression strikes on houses and schools without a warning the shelling of playgrounds bombardments on the first day of festivities what other thing can you call it the shelling of hospitals and emergency vehicles what can you call it. now we've got more stories for you on our website including one absolute power corrupts the governor of texas and former presidential nominee is to be charged with a nagin taking advantage of his position find out what got him in hot water an hour to. british schools unveiled is

a jobs assumed to be found on the shelves of a top u.k. retailer to be sold as part of the school new form you can find out more on our website. in iraq militants from the terror group known as the islamic state reportedly slaughtered an entire kurdish village of around eight hundred people the jihadists are expanding the borders of their demand which is already made up of vast swathes of land on which they proclaimed their own caliphate the village was. inhabited by easy to people a religious minority considered by the extremist to be devil worshipers thousands of them have already fled fearing the sweeping advance of the islamic state would reach their homes the foreign ministers have agreed to supply arms to the kurdish forces to help them fight the militants artie's pretty boy assesses what it could lead to. hot on the heels of the u.s. and france the u.k. has announced its readiness to supply arms directly to kurdish forces which are

trying to fight off brutal jihadists in northern iraq the u.k. has said we will also consider favorably any requests for supplies of arms we already shipping ammunition and supplies mother eastern european countries into a bill but there are fears the lessons of the past haven't been learnt it's a quick fix to to think that you can arm a group or send an aircraft and bomb and so on but that doesn't deal with the problem main problem is that the politicians don't plan ahead and was reacting to crises in syria the west backed the rebels who then warped into the mix state the very problem now being faced across the border in iraq and the two thousand and eleven western backed overthrow of colonel gadhafi led to three years of political chaos in libya with weapons again falling into the wrong hands and according to the un flooding west africa now the kurds need help fighting jihadists but what happens if they win with western weapons in hand to know on the kurdish front is

testifies to a tokenistic and indeed a short term solution to a very real problem which is to fight back isis let's not forget that by arming the kurdish fighters what is actually being encouraged is to break up of iraq as a sovereign entity the kurds are desperate for independence from iraq and when the islamic state was a problem only in the south of the country the prospect of an autonomous north began to. taina bull last month one iraqi kurdish leader told local lawmakers to plan for an independence referendum i don't think we should be encouraging succession in the middle east or simply sort of being sort of driving everything it's quite risky independence would be complicated because it would create problems in turkey and syria and of course iraq itself but to encourage them in this way is

a question but to iraq government sources in the british media are reportedly keen to stress that the u.k. is not moving towards direct military intervention in iraq and that sending arms is consistent with the government's response to a humanitarian crisis critics fear arming the kurds cared for silicate the breakup of iraq but for those in favor the need to stop the islamic states murderous campaign is so pressed saying that leaders may have resigned themselves to achieving their short term goal of driving terrorists out of northern iraq first and worrying about the long term consequences later boyko artsy london carluke for the middle east journalist who's covered the region extensively believes the e.u. and us are not interested in totally crushing the islamic state they are reacting not pretty active in preventing actually the civilians of being attacked

by isis groups and these isis troops they are well known where they are where they move they could be attacked before hand that they are not doing this. leads to the conclusion from my side that these isis groups working in some way in coordination with western interests as far as syria is concerned that's where isis has grown over the last year or so and they did not do anything to stop isis in syria those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition who will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists.

more news from around the world now in mali to un peacekeepers have been killed and at least nine injured in a car bomb a suicide attack the vehicle exploded near a patrol base about sixty kilometers from the city of timbuktu in the north of the country near united nations mission as the third attack on u.n. staff in the last week no group admits carrying out the attack. fierce fighting has been erupting between two rival militias in the libyan capital tripoli the two brigades made up of former rebels who took part in the uprising that ousted former leader moammar gadhafi and now battling for control of parts of the city the country's really elected parliament has asked the united nations on the international community to intervene and voted to dismantle the militias responsible for the violence. some about tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have gathered in support of opposition leaders prominent opposition

figure in one column let the crowd going to stay in the streets until the current prime minister nawaz sharif resigns a separate convoy was headed by a leading government cleric who's calling for a so-called green revolution the protestors accuse the government of corruption as well as failing to combat militancy and the little basics says. the international white world governments need to step up efforts to combat the deadly ebola virus stay with us. i was trained. in december two thousand and. more likely to be raped in college

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it's really good folks. filling in for abby martin this is breaking the set so with all the terrible news going on in the world right now we thought would be nice to feature some of our favorite musical performances on the show from the last months so coming up you'll see abby's interviews with am one from dead prez performing sacrifice and also prolific lyricist the nurses performing leap of faith and let's break the stage. it was a. very hard to take. once again. live happy ever had sex with the big hair.