today's top stories on the week. after almost three hundred trucks with. the border. and the fury over the killing of a teen in the us. boils protests despite officials imposing a curfew. the u.s. pulls more weapons into. supporting the plight of.

international we look at exactly what it is that washington is trying to achieve. today welcome to the international. days all of ukraine has finally accepted that russian waiting at its border is indeed carrying humanitarian aid almost three hundred trucks loaded with tons of food medical supplies water. destined for the eastern regions where people are in desperate need of basic essentials kiev was reluctant to let the territory saying it could be used to smuggle weapons. hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid from russia destined for war torn eastern ukraine has you can see behind me are currently packed and ready to be delivered but it has been stuck here at the

russian ukrainian border for more than three days already unable to cross while the red cross officials say it may take up to another week for four and more knitters to check the cargo meanwhile russia has warned that those deliberately preventing the convoy from entering ukraine will be responsible for humanitarian catastrophe and we can tell you that the situation on the ground is indeed very dramatic this week we were able to several times cross into ukraine and go to lugansk one of the major epicenters of what key of course is and to tear up the ration and one of the most shelled cities in the area and we saw a very sad picture on the ground lugansk made luke abandoned with the rusty people here. those who didn't flee have a daily struggle to survive. the city has been without electricity for more than a week now but it's the shortage of water which poses the biggest humanitarian challenge this woman is called. in russian her name means home but she has little

of that left dozens of the buck wind up is unique in your state not the gulf war between but we did go to the blue did you can chose a new being to new we've got new cheer war got mum she got most of what's going to shout out but even so bored you to my little your usual storm and you know it's getting a bit of queues form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough fuel to go around still no way back there you've done you've still as it just has been below grandstander me i'm not sure of fullness to meet you when you're really at premier you have the nietzsche when you get it is very rare third field near that's the real ear hears it the other near the edge of the earth so even the coke that gets us are both of us going to say that the new cook so far and you'll serve a good deal of i know but then billionaire financier gets a cut or a nurse or. the bill up and some of the city's district's residents have to use

water pumps because it's a no go zone for trucks that could share out the precious liquid before you out of the all of the words you work out of much of this sort of that. that's what we're going to do the city with no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world. there are big problems with connection now in the guns going all over the city and we couldn't get any signal anywhere but there are some places where people say you might be able to connect this is one of the places we keep on trying and try and we hope but still we don't have any signal but what we don't like about this place resists warning signs saying attention do not call shelling area. but people still try their luck they say the entire cities shelling area now and at least here they can talk to relatives and friends on the phone and. every day in the guns at least a dozen apartment buildings and private houses are hate by tillery fire some of

them more than once. mccloy's flood is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was hurried when it was heat these plasma television is the only thing he managed to save he makes one more trip to salvage his belongings. but comes back minutes later empty handed. the u.n. estimates over one hundred seventeen thousand people accounted displaced inside ukraine and russia's authorities claim more than seven hundred thirty thousand ukrainians have crossed the border since the conflict started but in lugansk and other cities across eastern ukraine often huddled together terrified in dark basements and other havens which aren't always as safe as they seem many more

remain. in the gonski ukraine. in the meantime radicals from the ultra nationalist rights group have demanded the ukrainian president fire interior ministry officials who they consider to be sympathetic to anti government forces in the east an open letter posted on the group's website says if their demands are not met they will unleash their full force song of the right sector consists of radical extremists and they first emerged during anti-government protests in the capital and they clashed with police seized government buildings and torched cars all around the city later they form several special units who now fight local militias in the east. and this week ukraine accused moscow of violating its border claiming a military unit crossed the frontier which russia has dismissed as nonsense the ukrainian president also said all the vehicles were destroyed although no evidence

whatsoever has been provided two days after the claims however social networks and several newspapers very quick to call it a russian invasion it all started when two moscow based correspondents were u.k. newspapers posted on twitter they saw a column of armored vehicles with russian plates crossing the border they backed their statements by enclosing a number of photos and an identifiable locations other un u.s. and european observers who are in that area all of them saying they can't confirm any of these allegations political analyst chris bambery says if indeed an invasion were to happen it would look nothing like this. suddenly we have these creams a russian invasion of ukraine if the russians were going to invade ukraine would they just send in some armored personnel carriers lightly armored vehicles and the answer is no or if you were going to invade a wall zordon world their opponents already have aircraft and artillery you would of course use heavy armor infantry airplanes and artillery the russians on

amateurs they know this so it's highly unlikely in any military our idea that you would just send in some lightly armored armored personnel carriers into ukraine it will miss the surfside mission so i think the whole thing is rather bizarre. and kiev can't decide whether or not it knows anything about the whereabouts of a missing russian for thirty three year old andrew disappeared in eastern ukraine almost two weeks ago ukrainian officials have gone back and forth confirming that denying the security service had detained him they've now issued a search warrant and a claim that standing is actually being held by government forces. the u.n. and international human rights groups are calling for his immediate release followed by a wave of support on social media with a free andrew. journalists have been killed while many others are interrogated or tortured in eastern ukraine and here are the faces of those who

lives covering. more or less stories at r.t. dot com we're also posting all updates on the missing from that of. thanks for joining us it's r.t. international officials have imposed a state of emergency and a curfew in the u.s. town of ferguson where a police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager just a week ago at the move came off the looting early on saturday and nights of protests public outrage over the killing is not losing paces people again hit the streets for yet another rally but what started as a local protest boiled over into a spate of nationwide rallies are spreading to some ninety cities across america all the way from washington to the city of angels los angeles demonstrators are all over the country demanded their security forces be held accountable for their

actions witnessing the public rage for. was was. a community filled with rage sorrow and grief as demanding justice was ferguson missouri is a small town with twenty thousand residents. many of them took to the streets after a black teenager was shot dead by a police officer five it's a loss that's shaken the community to its core just yet now three there's no reason it was a young man should be murdered in cold blood thousands have protested only god he writes was writing and looting has also broken out which most residents criticize but tolerate no by saddam hussein is the right thing to do but at same time there was a for that would have made headline news the police have hit back and hard you leap to militarized police force has resorted to firing rubber bullets and other heavy

handed tactics to quell the unrest very narrow were a bit more we were bad so yes they got sort of quiet so while it where they were shooting them into the complex and we were in the streets so are you showing them and so the complex this key is the excessive use of force by police has riled up protesters even more and triggered strong criticism it defies everything that my fellow marines and i fought for when we were defending the constitution in iraq and afghanistan the forceful response was followed by curbs put on civilian freedoms for the other was a flight ban over ferguson was imposed by the federal aviation administration on tuesday that was followed by a state of emergency and curfew on saturday as officials struggle to figure out how to handle the situation the identity of the officer responsible for the killing a white twenty eight year old darren wilson was kept under wraps for almost a week it was made public along with footage that allegedly shows michael brown robbing a store on the day of his death the local community reacted with anger they released

a name this video. michael brown. at the same time to kind of deflate the plague he was murdered but this kind of what if it was like they were trying to do the video just. as. the team down here in ferguson has sparked broad motion but for locals it's just the most recent injustice they've suffered they say the african-american community has been targeted by the police force for years if not decades and not just here but all across the country understand and recognize that we're dealing with apartheid in america it's not just what happened to mike brown it's happening to all of our children this is systematic racism still a lot louder and destroying us and while these people hope for a fair punishment for the officer behind brown's death real social changes what they want in the long run. is. what that looks like a distant goal as people here work out how to come to terms with their anger and

their grief is this is your going to party ferguson missouri. plated military vehicles the ones who roam the sons of iraq and policemen armed to the teeth at the rallies in ferguson other pictures causing a storm on social media online users mocking the local police comparing them to fully equipped soldiers in the military's arens let's show you some pictures here from one of the rallies this guy here well it doesn't take an expert to tell this guy is loaded with combat gear in fact let's address more closely what he's actually hit it out with for example is head gear including a helmet and tactical gogol's a weapon of choice possibly a grenade or tear gas launcher a high tech advance site on the side of this policeman to fighting knives and political columnist ted rall says the police are an awful long way. to soften protect. 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

the united states that are policed as 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 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 and the shooting of michael brown is not only spot public outrage but also highlighted a sad trend of increasing police brutality in the country in july this year and last magic man died after an officer put him in a chokehold even though the victim repeatedly said that he was having difficulty breathing this month a mentally ill man was gunned down by police during

a random stop and search and one of the most distressing incidents took place in georgia and may when this baby here was severely injured by a stun grenade in a police raid officers had got the wrong house well thanks for joining us here on r.t. international a very short break we take a look at a fallout of modern day trade walls as the e.u. is pushing for more sanctions against russia. sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato would provoke some sort of action on the part of russia as far as the military calculus is concerned not what faces humanity east the west north and south lawn of it can't be solved by military means or crafts or satellites or nuclear weapons he's outdated it should go like cannibalism and slavery and child labor belong to civilization to kill each other.

surely we can we know if. it's good consents to. choose to use the great. choose the stories get him to. choose. to. welcome to the weekly or naughty international to iraq we go where kodesh launch an offensive to retake the country's largest from jihad but are going to be islamic

state group of the us is supporting the operation sending its military planes and that's how it's washington along with the e.u. has decided to send weapons to the kurdish forces. with more on the motives of those getting involved. militants of the islamic state have been seizing control of vast swathes of iraq for months now but when they approached its kurdish region the u.s. took action this is a humanitarian issue of great consequence for all the world the militants threat not just the people of the kurdish region but also its oil production since the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three iraq's kurdistan has seen a boom in energy production us energy giants exxon mobil and chevron are among the many oil and gas firms large and small now drilling there seems that there are american oil companies operating in the kurdish region in the north of iraq had

some weight and it was one of the main considerations that the obama administration . took wide thinking about engaging militarily in iraq this month the semi autonomy this region has shown to be friendly to the u.s. and to u.s. business but the oil rich kurdistan has long sought to break away from iraq it has now moved to sell crude independently from badat arguing that the central government doesn't give the region its fair share of oil revenue and leave the onslaught of the islamic state in the political turmoil in baghdad many kurds see an opportunity to finally carve out a homeland by exclusively supporting the kurdish region washington may fuel their cause but the kurdish region is functional the way we would like to see it and it is tolerant of other sects and other religion in a way that we would like to see elsewhere so we do think that it's important to

make sure that that space is protected the obama administration likes the way kurdistan functions but doesn't like the way iraq as a whole functions the obama administration denies that it gave up on the central government in baghdad moving to directly part. u.s. interests with humanitarian situation so dire and the threat posed by the islamic state still imminent america's increased involvement may not have much opposition now even if the eventual outcome will be the break up of iraq in washington i'm going to check on our team. the american weapons actually play an important role in the conflict as including code so much different sides and it has actually been supplied in some way by washington it's been sending lethal aid to syrian rebels but some of them ended up joining the jihadist islamic state of course taking their weapons with them almost nine billion dollars worth of alms was sent to iraq but again the flight of the iraqi army left many warehouses with these supplies

straight into the hands of his limits in an exclusive interview to see a former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron polled spoke about the prospects for america's latest moves in iraq he told us that the u.s. risks sinking deeper into the conflict into leaves iraq has to deal with the islamic state on there. the kurds have always had this reputation of being great fighters and that they're very good day out in town and i'm surprised that they haven't retaliate a little bit better but one of the reasons why they haven't done very well is that i says ended up getting a lot of weapons from us and if they captured weapons they've got a modest syria and i'm sure there are some they came from libya so they're well armed so we haven't done the kurds any favor whatsoever so i think the sooner we get out of there when the better i think the policy that we should follow is one designed to allow the iraqis to solve all their problems and stay out of this let

them deal with it because as we've tried for a long time we've lost a lot of lives spent a lot of money and we allowed a mess to develop and there's nothing about amassing chaos there and in a way we're partially responsible for the. this week the u.n. has declared the highest level of emotion see in iraq warning that thousands of refugees who still remain trapped by jihadists could be facing imminent genocide a u.s. helicopter delivering food to the area was mauled by desperate crowds begging the crew to take them to safety the pentagon claims a complete evacuation is unnecessary because far fewer people are under siege than previously thought about the minority thanks to different. groups. and it should not. be doing now it could be

a. place. of how do i have a. house that none i know can they and even adelaide home to shut up and this could someone with a one had a hand then we hate him and you can imagine. i'm going to have to learn. it is to set up home be in the parts. of the country with iraq. who didn't enjoy our system. but the rose. but that had then went out of the bargain those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria 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

i. it's r t international thanks for joining us and the european union is threatening even more sanctions against russia as it puts the blame for the violence in ukraine squarely on the kremlin and even urged other countries outside the e.u. to abstain from cooperation with moscow however even inside europe the unity of a punitive measures appears to be fraying slovakia's prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in e.u. member states austria's agriculture minister confirmed that the industry there is expected to lose six million dollars as a result of russia's retaliates ory food ban and while the czech leader claimed the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could only deed to a spiral of worsening relations that achieve nothing. are you going to score pissing off i should say excuse me now look at the squabble and of course it's

possible consequences for the past few months we've definitely been witnessing a rising tensions between russia and the west but what's happening now is already being described by many as a full blown trade war first in late july the e.u. slapped russia with saying start getting whole sectors of its economy four major banks were hit and one airline was completely grounded but then russia announced countermeasures banning the import of billions of euros worth of fruit vegetables meat dairy and other products european producers are the worst hit and brussels has to compensate the losses the problem is. the size of its emergency fund is around four hundred million euros while the estimated damage may reach five billion when you know we are going to lose one point three million euros but we're relatively small business imagine the other big firms such as like to lease which send several trucks a week is going to. it will take two or three months to collect our remaining.

and we don't know what will happen if no one buys it. now we're in a bad economic situation more than two hundred families have been destroyed we will have damage in excess of eight hundred fifty thousand euros of nothing is changed we are in a desperate situation next to russia starts negotiations with latin america specifically ecuador brazil chile and argentina to meet the new eight percent shortfall in imports according to the financial times the e.u. me start trying to talk some of these states out of upping trade with russia perhaps promising to open its market to their products but here is the ecuadorian embassador to russia's thoughts on this i think the current situation creates great opportunities for ecuador but it would have been unwise to pass up such a chance to diversify and expand our trading capabilities especially having received an offer to become a privileged partner with russia. some business analysts in the west have now started wondering how wise was it to start playing this game of tit for tat

sanctions the sanctions will they really work and we don't think they will and we've all been working in the russian market probably now for the last twenty years and times have always been difficult to do russian business in russia but i don't think the sanctions will really help and we just wanted to sort of voice that could well be job losses coming along we heard that j.c. big. reported that he potentially could lose. orders as a result of the sanctions and as a result of that would lose jobs over here watching this economic battle swing back and forth like a pendulum one is reminded of newton's famous law every action has an equal and opposite reaction which a school be the last to retaliate is very hard to predict right now. however despite the current disapproval of the west of russia should not fence itself in all suffer itself from its patents but the message there from president putin during a visit to crimea for a meeting of the country's political elite in his speech that he outlined the

future course of russia's foreign policy you know it does moscow reserves the right to pull out of international treaties if doing so serves its interests a lot of important also called on russian society to goodnight although i added that should not be done for conflicts site. thanks for joining us here in the international research say in moscow next on the network we meet people living with a very rare genetic condition making them look decades older than their real age that's coming your way in just. 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 all the 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 let me put a curfew in my neighborhood in the ninety's but that's just my opinion.

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