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in the u.s. town where protesters. it's been imposed following nights of heavy protests over the killing by the police officer of an unarmed black teenager and the public outrage of the crackdown on the rallies. are. finally moving towards ukraine after being stalled on the border for three days with tons of goods for struggling civilians in the eastern regions. of the week's top headlines is the u.s. pause more weapons into the conflict supporting the plight of the. islamic militants
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here on the network we look at what washington is really trying to achieve. particularly of today welcome to the international. police reportedly fired tear gas at protesters in the u.s. town of where riots was when an officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager some of the latest pictures for you right here officials claim they only use smoke grenades came after an overnight curfew was broken following riots against police brutality it's currently in the morning in focus and missouri a short time ago i spoke with our tease. 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 up people
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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 firing have been smoke and not tear gas this is of course 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 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 unraveled throughout this entire week of let's now go to our report from ferguson. thank you a community filled with rage sorrow and grief is demanding justice ferguson
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missouri is a small town with twenty thousand residents. many of them took to the streets after a black on armed teenager was shot dead by a police officer. it's a loss that's shaken the community to its core. there's no reason in the young mission to be writing code thousands have protested only. the right guy 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. the militarized police force has resorted to firing rubber bullets and other heavy handed tactics to quell the unrest her were before. we were of a tear gas and we got sort of quite a while where they were shooting them into the complex and we were in the street so why you shouldn't and so the complex this key is the excessive use of force by
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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 freedoms go the other way 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 struggled to figure out how to handle the situation the identity of the officer responsible for the killing why 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 the kind of deflect the fact that he was murdered but this kind of what it feels like they were trying to do the video justify them shooting nine times.
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getting tough 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 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 time to quit work just a star let me tell what that looks like a distant goal as people here work out how to come to terms with their anger and their grief. ferguson missouri. there was a massive outcry over why the police turned out in full combat gear to tackle the
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mostly peaceful protests that so show you a picture here of one of from one of the rallies that doesn't take i supposed to work it out this officer is loaded with some pretty heavy duty well combat gear let's look more closely at what he's actually kitted out in for example his head gehring clude military helmet and tactical goggles a weapon of choice possible little mini beanbag shooter or grenade old tear gas launcher with a high tech advance side on his side two massive fighting. political columnist ted rall says the police are an awful long way off from that motto to serve and protect and 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
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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. the shooting of michael brown is not only spot of public outrage but also highlighted a trend of increasing police brutality in the country for example july this year and asked matic man died after an officer put him in a chokehold even though the victim repeatedly gasped that he had difficulty breathing this month a mentally ill man gunned down by police during a standard stop and search and one of the most distressing incidents took place in georgia in may when this baby was severely injured by a stun grenade during a police raid and though the offer the officers did apologize i should say they realize they suddenly got the wrong house. right this is r t international
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a russian humanitarian convoy finally moving to cross the border into ukraine and deliver aid to thousands of civilians in the east of clearly being caught up in the conflict that almost three hundred trucks have been stuck on the front here for three days kiev reluctant to let the convoy into its territory saying it could be used to smuggle weapons a short time ago i spoke with our teaser negotiator she's on the russia ukraine border. humanitarian aid convoy has been at the border for three days now or just overnight finally we've heard from kiev authorities that yes they have acknowledged the fact that indeed russia is bringing humanitarian aid 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 even though we have the documentation finally and the permission from the key of authorities the members of the i.o.c. the international red cross are still fearful about actually entering ukraine now they are demanding that both sides of the conflict seize their military operations
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so the convoy could pass through safely as far as that goes the military operation still continues in fact as i'm talking right now i can actually hear the booming of the mortar shells are happening across the border and this military action has been continuing here for the past several weeks essentially plunging people into a state of humanitarian catastrophe are actually has more on the plight of the people in the southeast. the. packing they have been no electricity in most of the city for almost two weeks now and the shelling continues. but indeed has already sent her to and the ground there to families friends in the russian they didn't see each other for a month we meet her when she's getting ready to follow them. kompany her all the way to the border.
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and when in the house. but in tunis husband was due to come back from a trip to the country house the small 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 when my the says any of the any monks of god that he might have it all moved with or new hope i hope my whole world to an internet puts in her girl's 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 optimism was not enough
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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 as soon as i left the bus stop a show 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 why is always going on but why is this for their peaceful people here zenaida leaves and just like many others hopes to come back but she fears that she would never be able to do so her. well we talked as he needed the nineteen reunites with her husband and three public transportation is sporadic at best and he least his bus with no way to call home. it's less than sixty kilometers from lugansk to the
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border but these journey might seem endless today's forced to flee. already in russia it's a mixture of pain and despair and hope as these people turning to their lives so made over nineteen 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 marty in ukraine and russia. meanwhile radicals from the ultra nationalist right sector group have threatened to unleash their full force on kiev this according to a statement published on the group's website it says unless president poroshenko meets their demands within the next forty eight hours they will withdraw their
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forces fighting on the eastern front and march to kiev in full battle gear the group of them are in the release of its members arrested by police on various occasions as well as the sacking of officials they consider sympathetic to anti-government forces in the east the right sector consists of several nationalist extremist groups the first emerged during antigovernment protests in the capital when they clashed with police a seized government buildings and torched cars all around the city later they form several special units which now fight against the separatists in the east. now this week or ukraine accuse moscow of violating its border claiming that a military unit crossed the frontier which russia has dismissed as nonsense the ukrainian president also said the vehicles had been destroyed although no evidence has been provided or two days after the claims. there exists no russian military convoy that crossed the russian ukrainian border either at night or during the day
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let's hope the ukrainian army only destroyed a friend and not refugees or their own soldiers however social networks and several newspapers very quick to call that a russian invasion it all started when two moscow based correspondents for u.k. newspapers posted on twitter the use or column of armored vehicles with the russian plates crossing the border they back their statements by enclosing a number of photos and unidentifiable locations all the while though the un american and european observers who are in that area all of them say they can't confirm any of the allegations and we did ask several political analysts what they think about 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 have to ask this if the russians were going to invade ukraine would they just send in some armored
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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 you that would be absolutely in changeful full 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 little situation regarding this conflict it would be absolutely sure sidelobe russia to do that. and spain has become the latest country to join a global plead to release a missing russian photojournalist thirty three year old. disappeared in eastern ukraine almost two weeks ago and since then kiev has been going back and forth confirming then denying that they have him russia the u.n. and international human rights groups are calling for his media to release followed
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by a wave of support on social media with a free andrew hash tag. is a renowned journalist who's been covering conflicts in ukraine syria and israel he was working outside on yet covering the crackdown on the anti government when he disappeared. after a very short break here and international we take a look at the fallout of a modern day trade war in the in the well in europe and across russia as the e.u. is now pushing for more sanctions against russia. sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato that would provoke some sort of free action on the part of russia is this a fly as far as the military calculus is concerned not what faces humanity east or
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west north and south none 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 it doesn't belong to civilization to kill each other. killing weaker though in. my. case it was true it's good it's good consensus get to. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose the stories could you please choose p.x. . to.
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thanks for joining us it's on sea international 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 stop cooperating with moscow however even inside europe the unity of a punitive measures certainly appears to be cheering for example slovakia's prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that just economic growth in various e.u. member states also austria's agriculture minister confirm the industry it is poised to lose at least six million dollars as a result of. while the check of the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could only lead to a spiral of worsening relations that achieve nothing. a few months we've definitely been witnessing a rising tensions between russia and the west but what's happening now is already
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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 for 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 that it's 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
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have damage in excess of eight hundred fifty thousand your rules if nothing is changed we are in a desperate situation and 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 dissent. 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
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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 just will be the last to retaliate is very hard to predict right now. however despite disappointment with the west russia should not friends. and that was a message from president putin during a visit to crimea for a meeting with the country's political elite in a speech he outlined a future course of russia's foreign policy noting that moscow reserves the right to pull out of international treaties if doing so. russian society to
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unite. should not be done but. we can find out much more about mr putin's visit to crimea ahead. also the. british school. jobs are soon to be found on the shelves of a. lot of the school. it was administered. although officials insist there was. a story. in the program to iraq we go where kodesh. to retake the country's largest. of the islamic state group the us is supporting the operation in military planes and washington along with the e.u.
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decided to send weapons to the 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 that 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 the. american oil companies operating in the kurdish region in the north of iraq had some weight and it was one of the main considerations obama administration.
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took wives thinking about engaging militarily in iraq this month the same maya thomas 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 is 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 all soft of these lawmakers 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
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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 breakup of iraq in washington i'm going to check out our team. the american weapons actually play an important role in the conflict that's including code so most every side and it has actually been in some ways supplied by the pentagon it's been sending lethal aid to syrian rebels but of course some of them ended up joining the she had just islamic state and taking their weapons with them almost nine billion dollars worth of weapons were sent to iraq but again the flight of the iraqi army left many warehouses open with these supplies and they went straight into the hands of his limits and exclusive interview to a full mile u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul spoke about the prospects for the latest moves and never walk the kurds have always had this reputation of being
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great fighters and that they're very good day out in a 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 and we 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 that. it's also international law from moscow
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