well handle. today's top stories on a review all the week with. a russian humanitarian convoy is finally given the go ahead is poised to enter ukraine after being stalled on the border for three days with tons of goods for struggling civilians in the eastern region. and the u.s. town of. protesters. posed following nights of heavy protests all of this over the police killing of an unarmed black teenager outrage at the crackdown a peaceful rally. and as the u.s. pulls more weapons into the iraq conflict supporting the plight of the. islamic

militants here on our team international when we look at precisely what it is that washington is trying to achieve. top stories over the weekend the top headlines of today the weekly international thanks for joining us a russian humanitarian convoy is finally set to cross the border into ukraine and deliver aid to thousands of civilians in the east we've all been caught up in the conflict almost three hundred trucks have been stuck on the frontier for three days and it is on the russia ukraine border joining us live every day good to see you we were just last hour there have been reports that the convoy had actually started moving towards ukrainian territory now we understand it's not happening yet can you tell us why is it taking so long for humanitarian aid to get over the border.

well we could probably tribute that to wishful thinking because the convoy has been here at the russian ukrainian border for three days at this point facing various difficulties coming primarily from the ukrainian side who have been refusing until now to acknowledge the fact that indeed russia was bringing humanitarian aid to basic necessities such as baby formula dry foods water and medical supplies and medicine drugs to the people in the southeast of ukraine who are in desperate need for these things however ukraine was saying that they were not agreeing with that statement they were saying essentially that at some point expressing fears that russia was bringing in arms instead of humanitarian aid that prompted the convoy to actually open up some of the trucks for inspection so that journalists who have been here good for themselves see that indeed we're talking about basic necessities going over to eastern ukraine and just overnight finally we've heard from kiev authorities that yes they have acknowledged the fact that indeed russia is bringing

humanitarian aid and nothing more so now that all of these obstacles seem to have been moved we are waiting for the convoy to actually cross the border however there is a problem with that because the international red cross is demanding that all sides of the conflict in ukraine seize their military action and that unfortunately hasn't been the case in fact as i'm speaking to you right now i can actually hear the mortar shelling continuing on the other side of the border and that has been happening throughout the night and early in the morning so basically the civil war which has in fact envelop to the entire southeastern ukraine is still very much continuing however people in the southeast in the nets. are continuing to bear the brunt of these operations they're left without water they're left without food electricity basic supplies are actually has more on the plight of the people in the southeast.

they have. used to the city for almost two weeks now and the show. has a little to do to and. to families friends in the russian. they didn't see each other for a month we'll meet her when she's getting ready to follow them we will company her all the way to the border. on the u.s. . but the middle east the. two thousand but it didn't do well in london the us can only gain voting tina's husband was due to come back from a trip to their country house this morning but he's still not back the phones are down and she has no way of knowing what's delayed him. but with daily bombings she can't help but be worried but might this as any of the any minute you've got about

him and have it all moved with or knew your whole boho by a whole world to an internet puts in her girls winter clothes and finishes packing she leaves her home with six bags and a very heavy heart zenaida from the guns krege and has cancer in her home was shelled twice but she tries to remain bargain but even her optimist soon was not enough to do with what she saw that day that convinced her she can stay in lugansk bush. i was at a bus stop and then i decided to leave for some reason i soon as i left the bus stop a shell exploded right behind me five people died one man had his head blown off and a woman lost her leg took me three days to get over it she says making the decision to leave was not an easy one but it was a very quick one. it's not about the fear of death but more of outright

panic was always going on which was for their peaceful people here zenaida leaves and just like many others hopes to come back but she fears that you would never be able to do so her. well we talked as he needed vetting tina reunites with her husband and great public transportation is sporadic at best and he missed his bus with no way to call home. it's less than sixty kilometers from lugansk to the border but these journey might seem endless today's forced to flee. already in russia it's a mixture of pain and despair and who is these people telling of their lives so now you don't have a name tina and her husband will spend some time in this refugee camp at the russian ukrainian border until they manage to get to their final destinations joining thousands of others who have fled eastern ukraine living their lives and

homes behind them they do not know what tomorrow holds in store but at least they say they wore he's now behind them review no show our t. in ukraine and russia. in the meantime radicals from the ultra nationalist right sector group of threatened to unleash their full fury on kiev this according to a statement published on the group's website and says unless president poroshenko meets their demands within the next forty eight hours they will withdraw their forces fighting on the eastern front line and march straight to kiev and full battle gear the group is demanding the release of its members arrested by police on various occasions as well as the sucking of officials they consider sympathetic to the anti-government forces in the east of the right sector consists of several nationalist extremist groups that first emerged during antigovernment protests in the capital where they clashed with police seizing government buildings torching

cars all around the city later they formed several special units to now fight local forces 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 the vehicles have been destroyed although no evidence has been provided two days after the claims. 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. however the social networks and several newspapers very quick to call it a russian invasion it all started when two moscow based correspondents for 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 unidentifiable locations of the un us european observers who

are in that area none of the can confirm any of these allegations we did ask several political analysts what they might think about it this is a vision that happens the ukrainians the nato would have been desperate to get video of this of food to graps are up on the internet on the t.v. saying here is proof of a russian putin led invasion of ukraine they also have to ask 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 change will the russian armored vehicles to go in they will get a lot advertised what they were knowing that everybody's got cameras everybody can

take photographs and knowing the elliptical situation regarding this conflict it would be absolutely sure a side with russia to do that. and spain has become the latest country to join a global plea to release a missing russian photo journalist a thirty three year old under a stone and disappeared in eastern ukraine almost two weeks ago and since then kiev has been going back and forth confirming that and denying that they have him russia 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 hash tag i understand there is a renowned journalist who's been covering conflicts in ukraine syria and israel in fact he was working outside on yes covering crackdown on the anti government when he disappeared now seven journalists have been killed while many others abducted in terror gated old tortured in eastern ukraine here are the faces of those who have

risked their lives covering kiev operation more of their stories at r.t. dot com we're also posting any and all updates on the missing photographer. it's also international police have reportedly fired tear gas at protesters in the u.s. town of ferguson where riots were spotted an officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager latest pictures for you right here officials claim they've only been using smoke grenades it came after an overnight curfew was broken following nights of riots against police brutality. now has more from the focus for about twenty minutes that curfew lasted in peace when nobody was outside despite the heavy heavily militarized police force out on the streets but about twenty minutes into the curfew several dozen people did run out onto the streets and this was followed by shots fired by police initially it was reported that these were tear gas cannons

being fired however police themselves have said that what they have been have firing have been smoke and not tear gas this is a. or so yet to be really officially confirmed because according to some social media reports in fact tear gas was used it has to be said that for several nights in a row police did in fact fire tear gas on now tonight when this curfew is in place we do know that at least a couple of arrests have been made we will have to wait and see one official's number official numbers come out night after night hundreds if not thousands of people had been coming out onto the streets for more details on what exactly on ravel throughout this entire week of is let's now go to our report from ferguson. a community filled with rage sorrow and grief is demanding justice ferguson missouri is a small town with twenty thousand residents. many of them took to the streets after a black on a teenager was shot dead by a police officer. it's

a loss that's shaken the community to its core there was no reason it was a young man should be writing code thousands have protested only. these rights by writing and looting has also broken out which most residents criticize but tolerate 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. and. the 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 being tear gassed and we got sort of quite a while where they were shooting them into the complex and we were in the streets so why you shouldn't 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. 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 freedom spokeo the right of flight. and 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 struggled to figure out how to handle the situation the identity of the officer responsible for the killing away 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 deflect the fact he was murdered but this kind of what if it was like they were trying to do the video justified in shooting nine times. the teen deaths 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 allowed by and destroying us and while these people hope for a fair punishment for the officer behind brown's death real social change is what they want in the long run it's. just a start but that looks like a distant goal as people here work out how to come to terms with their anger and their grief and hearty ferguson missouri. now there was massive outrage as to why the police turned out in full combat gear to tackle peaceful rallies let's have a look at a picture from one of the rallies doesn't take really more than an expert to tell you about officer right there has got some pretty heavy duty combat gear on let's

actually look more closely at what he's pitted out with his headgear includes a military helmet and tactical goggles weapon of choice possibly a grenade or to gas launcher with a high tech advance side on his side too big fighting knives political columnist ted rall says the police are an awful long way off from them 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 go brown is not only spot public outrage but also highlighted a trend of increasing police brutality in the country july this year man died after an officer put him in a chokehold even other victim repeatedly gospel that he couldn't breathe then this month a mentally ill man was gunned down by police during a standard stop and search and one of the most distressing incidents took place in georgia in may where this baby was severely injured by a stun grenade and a police right officers did apologized because well they got the wrong house artists international law from moscow a very short break then we'll take a look at the forward out of a modern day trade war why well the e.u. is pushing for more sanctions on russia.

sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato would provoke some sort of free action on the part of russia this is part of the military calculus is. 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 outdate it it should go like cannibalism and slavery and child labor it doesn't belong to civilization to kill each other. do we speak your language of the. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little too and if angles stories. you hear.

the spanish. visit. it's aussie international thanks for sharing your sunday with us 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 the other countries outside the e.u. to stop cooperating with moscow however even inside europe the unity of a punitive measures appears to be fracturing slovakia's prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in the e.u. member states austria's agriculture minister confirmed the industry is expected to lose. at least six million dollars as a result of russia's retaliate atory food ban while the check cleared a claim the restrictions themselves are ineffective that could only lead to

a spiral of worsening relations that achieve nothing you got pissed off reports for the past few months we've definitely been witnessing a rising tensions between russia and the west about 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 i would say start getting whole sectors of its economy four major banks were hit and one airline was completely grounded but then russia announced counter measures 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 or so of those is going to. it will take two or three months to collect our remaining crop 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 your rules if 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. may 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 or 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 disappointment with the west russia should not friend. from its partners the message from president putin during

a visit to crimea where he's meeting the country's political elite in his speech he outlined the future. policy noting that moscow reserves the right to pull out of international treaties if it has to and also called on the russian society to unite all the should not be done for conflicts sake more details about putin's visit and his speech to crimea and. also there right now british schools unveiled islamic he jobs soon to become a part of the standard it u.k. school uniform also a. whole story right now. to iraq we go where of launch an offensive to retake the country's largest. of the islamic state group the us is supporting the operation sending its military planes to provide support. long with the e.u. has decided to send weapons to the kurdish forces. 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 that automatic an 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 the engagement of turkey in iraq this month the semi

autonomy us region has shown to be friendly with us into 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 bogged down 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 you 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 so imminent america's increased involvement may not have much opposition now even if the eventual outcome will be the breakup of iraq in washington i'm going to check out our team. the american weapons actually play an important role in the conflict as including most every side that is actually in some way being supplied by capitol hill it has been sending lethal aid to syrian rebels but some of them ended up joining the jihad islamic state of course taking the weapons with them almost nine billion dollars worth of was sent to iraq but again the flight to be iraqi army left many warehouses with these supplies right in the hands of his the mists and an exclusive interview to see a former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul he spoke about the prospects for america's latest moves in iraq he says it's a very worrying scenario for 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. are just around the corner here on r t

international you are coming back stage with us to see how we make the world's top headlines the artes news team that's coming your way. it was recently revealed that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as tourists young latin americans were sent to cuba by the u.s. government to overthrow that government yes the u.s. agency for international development organized for these young people to go to cuba to recruit and set up new political activists however the infiltrators were not very good at their jobs and the cuban authorities were able to nab these well funded travelers in their country this is nowhere near the first time that the u.s. government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine usa he tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with

western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is the justification why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right do you want doesn't have nukes put in america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us state department's help but that's just my opinion. today and it's signs of more tragic progress a secret peace to. many many people would see us as fred square straight at the feast of hate seeing what people sick you see the self. righteousness.

this is our international with the twenty four hours a day live from our studio center here in moscow which just turned eight pm and six pm in kiev where the rest has reignited in the city just a day after the government amnesty for protesters came into force. a child to circle the police line around. rather bizarre thing for central iraq. the flights to get out of the system get where we need to get to missing the start right now actually expect to be here at least two weeks or even a month later than we are now. but it's like a constant power check you never know where it's going to go. and.