really rather god about that what. a russian humanitarian convoy is of finally moving towards ukraine after being stalled on the border for three days with tons of goods struck and civilians in the eastern regions. violence violence escalates in the u.s. town of ferguson where protesters defying a curfew imposed following nights of heavy protests over the police killing of an homage a teenager and outrage at a crackdown on peaceful rallies. and look back at the week's top stories as the year was paul's war weapons into the walkie conflict supporting the plight of the kurdish fighters against islamic militants what it did what

washington is trying to achieve. today and the week's top stories you're watching are g.'s the weekly with me till on monday it's good to have your company with us. seven people have been arrested in the u.s. china ferguson police dispersed a rally over the killing of an unarmed teenager a week ago by an officer reports also say one man was critically wounded by security forces deny shooting the victim protesters to fight a curfew that followed looting on saturday and nights of riots against a crackdown on peaceful rallies artie's an associate drinking up as the latest. 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 up 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 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 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 let's now go to our report from ferguson. thank you 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 picture there was no reason in the young michigan right. thousands of protesters 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 bring her over to where we were before we were bitter gas and we got sort of quite a while where they were shooting into the complex and we were in the street so i you shouldn't and so the car. 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 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 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 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.

the teamed up 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 is this it you're going to party ferguson missouri. there was a massive of why police turned out to end. i get to tackle peaceful rallies now

have a look at this picture from one of the rallies it now it doesn't take an expert to tell that this officer has some heavy duty combat on his shoulders let's look more closely at what he's actually kitted out with now his head is included a military helmet and technical goggles weapon of choice possibly a grenade or tear gas launcher with a high tech event site and on his side to nice and political columnist ted rall says the police are a long way off from their mortar to serve and 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. as though they were occupying afghanistan or iraq so that 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 the shooting of michael brown has not only respond to public outrage but also highlighted a set trend of increasing police brutality in the country in july this year and asthmatic man died after an officer put him in a check took hold even though the victim repeatedly said that he had difficulty breathing this month a mentally ill man who was gunned down by police during a stop and search and one of the most distressing incidents that took place in georgia in may when this baby a severely injured by a stun grenade and a police raid offices had got the wrong house. russian humanitarian convoy is finally moving to cross the border into ukraine and

deliver aid to thousands of civilians in the east you've been caught up in the conflicts now i believe these are. live pictures if i'm correct of you can see there of trucks going through that are just waiting to go through the checkpoints and almost three hundred vehicles have been stuck on the front for three days here of was reluctant to let the convoy into its territory saying it could be used to smuggle arms. is on the russian ukrainian border she tells us this 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 a desperate need for these things even though we have the documentation finally and

the permission from the kiev 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 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 archies marie from notion actually has more on the plight of the people in the southeast. valentino is alone in her dark apartment in the gonski packing they has been no electricity in most of the city for almost two weeks now and the shelling continues. wellington has already sent her daughter and her granddaughter to family friends in a russia 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. only in good books of the us. why didn't the little thirty eight. when and in the us can talk to her again but intern as 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 when my this as any of the any more of a human i have it all moved with or new hope or hope by a whole world to winning tina 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 head home was shelled

twice but she tries to remain buoyant but even her optimism was not enough to do with what she saw that day that convinced her she can stay in lugansk wish. i was at a bus stop and then i decided to leave for some reason as 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 this 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 well we talked as he needed but in tina reunites with

her husband and three 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 to those forced to flee. already in russia it's a mixture of pain anger despair and hope as these people turning need page of their lives so later valentino 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 their war his now behind them with no show our t. hen ukraine and russia. ukrainian forces claim one of their fighter jets has been

shot down by antigovernment fighters near lugansk that's as local self-defense forces claim the city has been shelled by the army using tactical ballistic missiles now they found part of a rocket in a district of the city the same misato have been previously used in didn't it as well it's just that the military is using the touch coat pocket systems that were left in ukraine after the fall of the soviet union now let's take a look at what such missiles are capable of in terms of warfare its maximum range is up to a hundred and twenty and twenty kilometers and at that distance it's able to hit targets with an accuracy of one hundred meters there are various types of warheads available for the system including chemical and nuclear even with a conventional payload it's able to inflict significant destruction destroying an entire house with ease now meanwhile radicals from the ultra nationalist or right

sector group have threatened to unleash their full force on here another statement was published on the group's website it says unless the president poroshenko meets the demands or with the within the next forty eight hours they will withdraw their forces fighting out of the eastern front line and it must stick here in full battle gear the group is managing the needs of its members arrested by police on various occasions as well as the discharge of officials they consider sympathetic to the anti government forces in the east the right sector consists of several nationalist extremist gangs it was at the forefront of anti-government protests in the capital when they clashed with police to seize government buildings and torched cars around the city later they were also rise to from special needs to help the army fight local militia in the east. this week ukraine accuse moscow of violating its border claiming

a military unit across the front here which russia has dismissed as nonsense 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 of night or during the day let's hope the ukrainian army only destroyed a friend and not refugees or their own soldiers however social networks and several newspapers were quick to call it a russian invasion it all started when true moscow based correspondents of four u.k. newspapers posted on twitter that they saw a column of armored vehicles there with russian plates crossing the border are they back to their statements by enclosing a number of photos in an identifiable locations the un u.s. and european observers who are in the area say they cannot confirm the allegations we are several political analysts what they think. this is a vision that happens the ukrainians and 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 word invasion of ukraine and then you also have to ask this if the russians were going to invade ukraine would they just send in some armored personnel carriers whitely 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 actually in strange russia to you that would be absolutely in change for the russian armored vehicles to go in they advertised what would work knowing that everybody's got cameras everybody can take photographs and knowing the political situation regarding this conflict absolutely suicidal pressured to do that spain has become the latest country to join a global plea to release

a missing russian photo journalist that its three year old and wrist and then disappeared in east ukraine almost two weeks ago and since then kiev has been going back and forth confirming then denying they have him russia and the u.n. as well as international human rights groups are calling for immediate release followed by a wave of support of social media with a free andrew hash tag now here you can see some of his works as andrew stanton is a renowned journalist to use covered the conflicts in ukraine syria and israel he was working outside and yet reporting on kids quite down on the anti-government fighters they went he disappeared. right stay where you are be back with more news after the shop rick. it's.

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i. want to stay with us here on r.t. 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 compared cooperating with moscow however even inside europe the unity over punitive measures appears to be fracturing so i guess prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that would have threaten economic growth in e.u. member states as aquaculture minister confirmed that the industry there is expected to lose six million dollars as a result of russia's retaliatory food bag while the czech leader claimed the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could only lead to

a spiral of worsening relations that achieve nothing i did as you go it was going to have looked at the squabble and its possible consequences for the last 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 would sentients 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 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 and resort to those it's going to factor soon. it will take two or three months to collect our remaining orange 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 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. me start trying to talk some of the 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 just will be the last to retaliate is very hard to predict right now. however despite a disappointment or with the west russia nonsense and solve in all serve itself

from its partners there was a message from president putin during a visit to crimea for a meeting of the country's political elite and his speech there he outlined the future course of russia's foreign policy you noted that moscow reserves the right to pull out of international treaties if doing so serves its interests that immigration of a hold on a russian society to unite a bow added that that should not be done for conflicts. in iraq kurdish fighters have launched an offensive to retake the country's largest dam from the harvest of the islamic state group the us is supporting the operation sending its military planes to provide support that is washington along with the e.u. has decided to send weapons to the kurdish forces artie's granted you can reports. 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 or oil and gas firms large and small now drilling there seems that the fact 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 wives thinking about the engagement attempt in iraq this month the semi autonomy as region has shown to be friendly to the us 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 bogged down arguing that the central government doesn't give the region its fair share of oil revenue and move 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 on our team. coming up next worlds apart. in december two thousand and ten. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world. i don't think that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger in the bushes. girl complaining about the son of an alumni. millions of dollars in the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school of schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly.

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ideology don't stop at just sterilizing and now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed. till now i'd really rather not talk about that right. hello and welcome to worlds apart of the current standoff between russia and the west has many nuances but ultimately one core reason at least as far as moscow is concerned and this is maters is toward expansion is sweden rather than ukraine the next country to join nato and what it means for european security well to discuss that i'm now joined by swedish journalist and peace researcher yon old bird mr

oberg thank you very much for being on the show it's my pleasure i'm not a journalist i would like to say it's my pleasure and you know well i've seen quite a number of your articles that's why i called you're a journalist in fact one of your recent articles that you wrote not so long ago was entitled sweden's that leads more loyal to nato than to their people and that's a pretty controversial statement what makes you say that well first of all the foundation that i'm the director of is an independent foundation that means we can say what we want we're not dependent on state money and we're not dependent on corporate money and that means that we have we're doing free research and. my point is that the last twenty is also basically since all of palmar died and since the e.u. membership of sweden sweden has stopped having an independent foreign policy we have come very close to nato without a formal. membership application yet this.