rarely discussed. till now i'd really rather not talk about that let it. be martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any rights separate story the extra headline same time there's a reason they don't want you to know. that time will reset. now let's break the set. a russian humanitarian convoy is finally on the move after being stalled for three days it's called the civilians trapped in the east ukraine conflict zone is undergoing checks at the border. unrest escalates in the us tom ferguson with police using tear gas military weapons

and the poem over arrest protests. by an officer had lost it almost a week. and a kurdish fighters attempt to push back. amid claims all sides of the conflict up benefiting from american weapons which have flooded the region. as a large cheese over the weekend with me to bang with say we're live from moscow this evening thank you for being with us. the first batch of russian tanks carrying trucks carrying humanitarian aid has reached the border with ukraine after three days stranded on the russian side they will now have to undergo checks on both sides of the border ukraine was reluctant to let them through saying it had doubts over the humanitarian nature of the cargo or if an arsenal went to see the contents

for herself and these sixteen trucks from the russian humanitarian convoy are the first to reach the russian ukrainian border they are now parked here literally meters away from the nearest because right in a border checkpoint you know today the cargo these trucks are carrying has only been inspected by the representatives of the international red cross and now we're going to do the same we're going to pick up trucks and it's going to require us. military to see here's a truck. it's about the last. resume was simply carrying a. gun wasn't going. buckwheat it's a banquet in the back of his just not use anyone suspects guns i mean something

else like weapons of mass destruction. denise tells me that each bag is fifty kilograms and there are one hundred sixty bags here which means a tool told. eight tongs and this is he tells me the maximum or what they struck in carry well these trucks are now ready to cross the border to deliver its humanitarian cargo to those in eastern ukraine who are in desperate need the driver as we have been able to speak to here told me that there will be two more inspections at the checkpoint from the russian and from the ukrainian side and after that security will be the major challenge for these trucks as the convoy is supposed to travel through regions in eastern ukraine where clashes continue. my flush now r.t. russian border. ukraine claims one of its fighter jets has been shot down by anti government fighters nearly ganske

a local self-defense forces claim the army has hit the city with ballistic missiles but a missile was found in one of the districts similar to those previously used in donetsk suggests that the military is using soviet era weapons that were left in ukraine after the union collapse right let's take a look at what they're capable of in terms of warfare the missiles maximum ranges up to a hundred and twenty kilometers and at that distance it's able to hit targets with an accuracy of one hundred meters various of course types of warheads available for the system including chemical as well as nuclear even with a conventional payload it's able to inflict significant destruction destroying an entire house with ease and as former u.k. army officer charles subrace told us the people of eastern ukraine face many other dangers to. war if this video is genuine and it should be said so far there's nothing to suggest that it isn't very indeed it does show many of the

characteristics one would associate with the use of white phosphorus or very similar in center in particular you've got bursts of large numbers of small particles of very brightly burning material that incendiary effect is particularly severe against buildings and particularly against people. if indeed that's what's happening and being used because what phosphorous is a potent incendiary it burns through to the bone and can't be put out with water. meanwhile radicals from the ultra nationalists the right sector group have threatened to unleash their full force on kiev the statement was published on the group's website it says unless president poroshenko meets their demands within the next forty eight hours they will withdraw their forces fighting in the east and march to kiev in full battle gear the group is demanding the release of its members arrested by police on numerous occasions the interior minister hit back at the

threats by calling the right sector and illegal armed group that's despite the sector's radicals playing an active role during the winters violent protests that helped overthrew the previous president and bring the current government to power. there's still no compelling evidence that a column of russian a.p.c. is penetrated into ukraine through and i quote hole in the border fence before being tracked and destroyed by ukrainian artillery moscow was firm in its response to kids accusations which were packed up in the west and picked up when the western media 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 lack of any evidence whatsoever that didn't prove an obstacle on social media for all for several newspapers now it

all started when two british journalists posted on twitter about seeing a column of armed vehicles crossing the border at night to back their claims a person daytime pictures of an alleged military convoy in an unidentifiable location the u.n. and u.s. and european observers who are in the area say they cannot confirm the allegations we asked a number of experts what they thought of it all. if the ukrainians had achieved this fantastic military victory over russia again you might think that apart from just a statement on twitter or on the presidential web so again they'd want to be sure in the world the proof of this fantastic triumph over the russian enemy will go out slaughtering so much effort is being made in the western media to demonize russia and they're using the same imagery i used during the cold war throughout the cold war in the western media the soviet union was often represented with with with tanks you know again called macallan pieces of machinery trying to portray you know

as if the soviet union was a country with people in it but it's all very good really isn't it to say look. what's happened to a well it's been destroyed this is a very convenient explanation isn't it sorry been destroyed. but it happened believe us spain has become the latest country to join a global plea to release a missing russian photojournalist thirty three year old andrei stan and disappeared in eastern ukraine almost two weeks ago and since then kiev has both confirmed and denied having him russia the u.n. and international human rights groups are calling for his immediate release backed up by a wave of support on social media using the hash tag free and rip here you can see some of his work stand and is a renowned journalist who's covered the conflicts in ukraine syria and in israel he was working outside reporting on kids crackdown on anti-government fighters when he disappeared.

seven people have been arrested and one critically injured in the u.s. town of ferguson as clashes between protesters and police escalate a curfew imposed in the town failed to stop people again coming out to demand justice for an unarmed teenager shot by an officer a week ago an associate is in ferguson for us. 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 details on what exactly on rival drug this entire week of his let's now go to our report from fergus. 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 is no reason it a young man should be writing code blue thousands have protested only. the right guy writing and looting has also broken out which most residents criticize but tolerate you know 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 here all the were before we were bitter gas and it got to the point to where it where they were shooting and so the conflicts and we were in the streets so why you shouldn't and so the car. appliques says 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 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 justified in shooting nine times. the teen death 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 got 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. theory over the killing of the unarmed teenager stretches some nine hundred. across the u.s. from washington to los angeles demonstrations all over the country demanded that the police be held accountable for their actions new york was shaken by one of the largest rallies with several protesters are restless about purchases claim that the police aggression against ferguson demonstrators is out of proportion just last night five ahmed vehicles were deployed images from one of the relics show and officer wearing some very serious combat yeah the his equipment includes a military how meds and tactical call girls as weapons of choice possibly

a grenade or tear gas launcher with an advance side and on his side. some experts believe civilians are being treated like enemies at war. 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 a number of studies show that what you put on gear is the police when you're training you store actually like a military unit like you're in a patrol and unfortunately what happens is the psychology changes in a lot of these local usually when they're approaching a house for a floppy break it's like they're moving you know well kyra don't go anywhere more news after this break.

this is a media lead us so we need to maybe. i will see motion security for your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with again that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are today. it was very interesting because they were dropped out of the sky in the wood rohrbach up that would shift across a few degrees. and do a circle in combat at a speed but you know just astronomical speeds.

things will stay with us here on our t.v. international kurdish forces supported by u.s. airstrikes have reportedly been advancing on a strategic damaged iraq in a bid to alice fighters of the islamic state terror group the vital facility supplies water and electricity to the north of the country the joint operation comes after the e.u. green lit the sending of weapons to the kurds archies ganesh if you can has this report. the 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

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 for arms large and small now drilling there seems that the fact 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 the engagement of turkey in iraq this month the same ayatollah most region has shown to be friendly see the 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 maybe also out 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 fuels their cause but the kurdish region is functional the way we would like to see it and it is tolerant of other sex 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 protect 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. the u.n. believes the thousands of refugees who are trapped by bit off a scene genocide religious minority is particularly vulnerable and already being slaughtered by militants who consider them devil worship here's how these people view their future. and can they in a vendetta led behold to shut up not someone with a one hundred. yen them even in the can imagine. and then to have. them now it is. home being. we had an intern job in may it's just loon i got a british. hope at the rose market that had them when i wrote about the

sorry the european union is threatening more measures against russia saying the crisis in ukraine is being fanned by moscow more than that it's urging countries around the world to respect to europe's economic sanctions against russia however inside europe the unity appears to be fracturing arches you've got me going off reports now. 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 a 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 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 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 could well be job losses coming along with j.c. being. 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 new can stream us law every action has an equal and

opposite reaction which will be the last we tell you it is very hard to predict right now statement by statement leaders are gradually turning against sanctions slovakia's prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in either member states also agree culture minister confirmed that the industry has already lost six million dollars as a result of russia's retaliatory food bag while the czech leader claimed their reactions themselves and restrictions are ineffective and could already be to a spiral of worsening relations that achieve nothing. on top of those the leaders of hungary and finland have also changed their tune motivated by the potentially huge losses they now face western agriculture companies and farmers of these billions of dollars in losses from russians food sanctions and it's europeans they're sent to lose my ears already brittle economy is now facing recession over

the trade war with russia and experts say brussels is desperate to avoid descending into another crisis. despite tensions with the west russia must not isolate itself or server relationships with partners that was the message from president putin during a visit to crimea where he met with politicians and members of the public then he outlined his visit for the future of russia's foreign policy he said moscow has a right to pull out of international treaties if it must even if that goes against the interests let him if we can also called on the russians decide to to unite or not for the sake of a comfortable position. in the. u.s. on r.t.l. son a boy looks at what nature has esau's expansion to sweden might mean for the current standoff between russia and the west.

it was recently revealed that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as tourists joe let the merican 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 nearby 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 or to come. done automatically the soviets did but now what is just why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes pointed america and they have limited it dust to a 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 the show just my opinion.

hello and welcome to worlds apart 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 nader's eastward expansion is sweden rather than ukraine and the next country to join nato and what will it mean for european security well to discuss that i'm now joined by swedish journalist and peace researcher young old bird mr over 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 a journalist in fact one of your recent articles that you wrote not so long ago was entitled sweden's elites 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 for you. research and my point is that the last twenty years or so basically since all of palmer 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 has happened basically without any public discussion there's not a wish to have a public discussion which was or reach really sweden's basic policy that everything we did in terms of common security neutrality disarmament and all that was something that was anchored in a public discussion and the sweets would know what their country were standing for so i think this loyalty among elites is a problem because we need

a public discussion a much more intensive discussion about whether to join nato or not and how we get sweden to contribute again to disarmament including nuclear evolution and formalised speaking sweden is of course and no one aligned and natural country and yet if we look at some of the recent statements and actions taken by swedish foreign minister carl bildt who played a very hawkish role i have to say in the ukrainian crisis. you know you think that sweden is a more fervently problem nato than some of nato is a founding member is how do you explain these sudden saved from the challenged to defacto intervention is where it is it's good to take it up the neutrality because we are formally nonaligned in sweden bought neutrality was scrapped long ago the argument was an awfully end of the cold war and the dissolution of the soviet union you could not be neutral because there were no two part is to be neutral between this of course is intellectual nonsense that we could still have.