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

country as terrorists from the islamic state group reportedly massacre an entire village of kurds. top news and commentary live from moscow this is our team glad to have you with us and ukrainian authorities have officially recognized that russia's humanitarian convoy fact carrying aid moscow has been trying to send help to east ukraine where locals are suffering from shortages of food water and electricity but the convoy is stuck at the border as the sides try to agree on how to get it through to civilians is there for. a few over six hours of negotiations with russian border control the international red cross spokesperson has 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 there's 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 your insides to give them guarantees that the kind of on will be safe with another challenge and this is maybe even more important is that the convoy cannot start moving until it's checked by the red cross and the red cross is hardly wait in ukraine to give them green light to start inspections the aid convoy from russia has been stuck on the russian ukrainian border for almost three days already one of the major reasons behind that he's been here too many questions to moscow regarding the congo itself and its route accusing more but it is trying to use the humanitarian corn boy as a pretext to send troops and weapons to support and t. here forces 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 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 terror appear ation has left towns and runes more than two thousand people dead and many without clean water to drink. but a whole ritual which are more. than watch. the lower level a very. moderate one is really a credible what you've got to punish you if you were an idea on the job and you know why they. don't have your ticket. you know you have to show that.

you're made to and a handful of western governments say russia could be using it as a cover for miniature support to and fighters it's not just exactly where the convoluted headed but it was certainly be travelling through the plains moved to in regions and the drivers say they're worried about they safety of gravity when you're first but you have to practice thriller to stubble the literally sped up in the bronx from billy kaufman for. all. the back were charged up at a. nationally. i was going to do it but you will hear more with the chinese critical person so what's the old news when you were in your group before the trip was issued with mushroom and you put on your with kirk broadfoot which was put on the american relief convoys ready to go 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 would take he says cease fire 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 caring to those desperate need for weeks locals have been sheltering in dark basements surviving on doing clean supplies for your tent and these are some of the people calling out for the material how it's already trying to encourage them to be delivered any reason ocean our teeth russian ukrainian border meanwhile russia has dismissed as nonsense reports of a military convoy has crossed from its territory into ukraine the rebuttal was in response to the ukrainian president who boasted that many of the vehicles had been destroyed now the un u.s. and european oh s. c.e. who have their experts in the area say that they cannot confirm cares 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 friend and not refugees or their own soldiers. the story was a broken by a pair of british journalists working for the u.k. the guardian and the telegraph newspapers they posted on twitter that they had witnessed the encouraging which happened at night as proof they posted pictures showing armored personnel carriers on a road at an undisclosed location during the day now despite the severity of the claims and a lack of evidence the allegations were taken at face value by a number of western politicians we spoke to several political analysts and investigative journalists and here's what they had to say on the matter this invasion that happens the ukrainians the nato would have been desperate to get video of this of photographs up on the internet on the t.v.

saying here is proof of a russian putin led invasion of ukraine and they also have to ask this if the russians were going to invade ukraine would they just send in some on the 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 to that would be absolutely insane for a russian armored vehicles to go in they will get a lot appetising what they can knowing that everybody's got cameras everybody can take photographs and knowing the little situation regarding this conflict it would be absolutely suicidal brush it to do that and the ukrainian army says it is in the last stages of its operation in the east of the country it claims that street

fights are underway and done yet scandal god scans it pushes out anti-government forces but this is what the constant shelling has been doing to these cities at least four civilians were killed in the latest attacks and locals say that they don't know why they're being targeted. thank you just call but you know what. you're going. to. have to listen to the next day so so you say you were going to stick it in. the works for. me. meanwhile seventeen more ukrainian troops have crossed the border into russia fleeing fighting in the east it is the latest incident but far from the biggest two weeks ago more than four hundred ukrainian soldiers were illegally crossed the border into russia seeking sanctuary here's how two of those who just made it out

of ukraine explained their decision. my unit was surrounded and the only way to save ourselves was to go into russia or to the region. i want to go home and just stay there i have a family i'm still young i don't want to die we will mobilize and they just sent to us of course i'm grateful i'm glad that i'm still a lawyer if not i wouldn't be standing here in front of you. at ease you is threatening a more potential sanctions against russia blaming it for the violence in eastern ukraine however the unanimous support required is falling away and quickly now slovakia's prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in you member states now while the czech president claims the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could lead to a spiral of war saying relations that achieve nothing that divide has deepened even further after russia's retaliatory ban on western produced food leaving exporters

facing billions in losses earlier 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 or may may face some losses and we'll be looking for as alternatives as a set specially those countries and those exporters of market who have been under scrutiny of drop its russian situations have faced certain sanctions and barriers they have successfully overcome by finding a new. however of course we came to maintain that trade value russian customer and i am sure the russian customer values you would be included and i hope will come back to business as usual soon and sticking with the situation in ukraine kiev has it reiterated it does not know where missing a russian photographer on the day stand in is the interior ministry suggested

anti-government forces could be holding him now he disappeared in eastern ukraine ten days ago and the ukrainian military has appeared conflicted on whether they have him or not at first they denied it then an interior ministry spokesperson confirmed in an interview to a lot of radio station they indeed held standing captive on accusations of assisting terrorists but then backtracked blaming a bad translation russia the u.n. and international human rights groups are demanding the correspondent who's immediately released a social media campaign called free andrew is now under way and there have been several flash mobs around the world in support of him. to the united states now where a state of emergency and a curfew have been declared for the town of ferguson that's been rocked by unrest the death of an unarmed teenager there caused public outrage and subsequent rallies

a strong response from the authorities the controversial incident has reached the residence of the president of the united states as well dozens of people gathered in front of the white house to hold a silent protest against a recent wave of police brutality in the united states protesters also demanded the demilitarization all the police force as well as justice for the teen who was killed. and i reports now from ferguson missouri. in the suburbs of st louis missouri protesters are continuing to come out onto the streets for justice in the case killing eighteen year old michael brown. should the name of the police officer be find the killing has been released dan wilson is twenty eight years old he is white and we do know that he has been in the police believe everything the shooting took place 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. there. is a lot more we need to learn about him especially if. you know his actions after. those days are crucial to determining. what we spoke to some people about this latest information. like information being released today you know with the name we kind of wanted information. you know we said before he got to this little initially i was afraid to come out here because when i saw our the militia you know the police out here. showing brzezinski threatening our weapons in this hour presenting themselves in a threatening manner i was afraid to come out here because when i sowed 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 a mostly of very heavily militarized police who were using tear gas and rubber bullets people still don't understand why. held by much by i. think really and i understand that. the protests in ferguson have led to some criminals taking the opportunity to loot local shops and some people have formed lines to protect those businesses protesters claim that the police aggression against the rallies is out of proportion the use of tear gas in ferguson sparked a somewhat unexpected online response from across the atlantic with palestinians taking to twitter advising protesters not to wash their eyes if they are hit with tear gas and also urging them to try to keep calm and to avoid running into the

wind and tear gas can have severe health effects include temporary blindness breathing problems miscarriages as well as heart and liver damage but tear gas is not the only tool used by police to counter the mostly peaceful rallies in a ferguson let's take a look we know that an m. four rifle is also in the security forces arsenal and weapon used in various military conflicts police have also been reinforced by light armored vehicles which were in service in afghanistan and iraq also an m k eleven sniper rifle was used in combat and is seen as a necessary tool to tackle the peaceful rallies now law enforcement expert john whitehead believes that the police are overreacting. a number of studies show that once you put on that gear as a policeman and you're trained 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 local policemen when they're approaching a house for a swat team or a it's like they're moving in on al qaeda supposedly where the masters and they're the servants but you know in ferguson 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 here 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 any way they want the local law of city councils and politicians just let them go. as i've written in a number of instances i've seen. it was innocence 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 your aussie terry in this country this is this is the face of the government that name what you're seeing in ferguson and it's only going to get

worse if we don't back it all. coming up a hero hands back his medal a dutchman hailed for saving a jewish child during world war two says he is returning it in protest at israel's bombardment of gaza. and find out what steps u.k. says it is willing to take to help iraqi kurds in their fight against jihadists all that up a short break this is our team international. sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato would provoke some sort of free action on the part of russia as far as calculus is concerned not what faces humanity the west north and south lawn of it can be solved by military means or crafts or satellites

or nuclear weapons military is outdated it should go like cannibalism and slavery and child labor to civilization to kill each other. we speak your language. there's all these programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here. reporting from the we'll talk sports of p.r. p. interviews intriguing story for you. troy. for a visit. and welcome back this is our team international a dutchman honored by israel for saving

a jewish child during the second world war. has returned his medal after six of his relatives were killed in gaza a ninety one year old hank zoli wrote a moving letter to the israeli ambassador he said keeping the honor israel granted to him would be an insult to his mother as well as to other family members who were affected by the attack in gaza those who survived the strike are now dealing with the shock of exactly 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 that 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

a 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 is 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. on television and online we've got more stories for you on our website including one absolute power corrupts absolutely texas governor and former presidential candidate rick perry is to be charged with illegally taking advantage of his position find out what got him in hot water logged dot com. and the british schools unveiled islamic a jobs are soon to be found on the shelves of

a top u.k. retailer to be sold as part of a school uniform and find out more about that dot com as well. in iraq militants from the terror group known as the islamic state have reportedly slaughtered an entire kurdish village of around eighty people the jihadists are expanding at the borders of their domain which is already made up of vast swathes of land on which they have proclaimed of their own caliphate their village was inhabited by people and religious minority considered by the extremists to be devil worshipers thousands of them have already fled fearing the sweeping advance of the islamic state would reach their homes you foreign ministers have agreed to supply arms to the kurdish forces to help them fight from the militants or to only boyko assesses what it could lead to a. halt on the heels of the u.s. and france the u.k.

has announced its readiness to supply arms directly to cut its forces which is trying to fight off for you till jihad gests in northern iraq the u.k. has said we will also consider favorably any requests for supplies of we already shipping ammunition and supplies mother eastern european countries into a bill but there if it is the lessons of the past haven't been lunt it's a quick fix to sink that you can on the group will send an aircraft and bomb and so on because that doesn't deal with the problem the main problem is that the politicians didn't plan to. there 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 point is testifying to a token istic 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 islam mix state was a problem only in the south of the country the prospect of an autonomous north began to look at spain a bowl last month one iraqi kurdish leader told local lawmakers to plan for an independence referendum gardening we should be encouraging secession in the middle east i think you sort of mean sort of having everything and it's quite risky independence would be complicated because you would create problems in iran turkey and syria under caution iraq itself but to encourage them in this way is.

potentially broken iraq government sources in the british media are reportedly came 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 scared facilitate the breakup of iraq but for those in favor of the need to stop the islam make states murderous campaign its. 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 car and look for old a middle east a journalist who has covered the region extensively believes that the e.u. and us are not actually interested in totally crushing the islamic state they are

reacting they are 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 this is 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. take a swing around the globe to look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour we start in africa where two u.n. peacekeepers have been killed and at least nine injured in a car bomb a suicide attack in the north african country of mali the vehicle exploded near a united nations patrol base about sixty kilometers east of the northern city of timbuktu it is the third attack on u.n. staff in the last week no group has said that it is carried out the attack as of yet. fierce fighting has again erupted between two rival militias in the libyan capital tripoli with two brigades made up of former rebels who helped else former leader moammar gadhafi are now battling for control of parts

of the city the country's newly elected parliament has voted to dismantle the militias the u.n. special envoy to libya is expected in tripoli next week to help establish a ceasefire between the two armed factions. coming up on our team for national manx keyser takes dodgy bankers to task the kaiser report is next right here on r.t. international stay with us. i was trained. in december two thousand and ten. more likely to be raped in college than in the real world. i don't think that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger on the bus this. girl complaining about the son of an alumni gives

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