a russian humanitarian convoy is finally on the move after being stalled for three days its cargo for civilians trapped up in the east of ukraine the conflict zone is undergoing checks at the border right now. unrest escalates in the u.s. town of ferguson a with police using tear gas military weapons and of the power of arrest protests over an armed shot and killed by an officer have lasted almost a week. the u.s. says it will expand its military support for kurdish fighters in iraq as a pitched battle continues to take the critical mosul dam up from islamic state

jihadists. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our international now the first batch of russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid to has reached of the border with ukraine the convoy carrying two thousand tons of supplies spent three days waiting as a kid have expressed doubt about the humanitarian nature of the cargo roof notion of want to see the contents for herself and these sixteen tracks from the russian humanitarian convoy are the first to reach the russian ukrainian border they are now pockets here literally meters away from.

with rita see here the truck is almost. it's about the. resume worst and we carrying it. thought it wasn't gone. book wait. it's buckwheat in the bags just in case anyone suspects it's guns ammunition or something else like weapons of mass destruction. it is tells me that each bag is fifty kilograms and there are one hundred sixty bags here which means a total. eight tons 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 tracks as the convoy is supposed to travel through regions in eastern ukraine where clashes are still continuing my flush now r.t. russian here christian border. as the trucks await i'd only on the border the situation of people in eastern ukraine becomes increasingly desperate let's listen to what the residents themselves are saying. well cooks for them yet but generally . it will go up a lot that the style move up a false night out. i see just as many below transcona me i'm not going to pull nice to meet you when you have yet to meet a steely here's an idea of

a near the edge of the us even though that gets a lot of us to say that the phone you've got so far and you'll start over to the state i know but then been in the atmosphere. not just the below not economical but it's not the road not i'm on the list but you just read and you can look at me she was bold to read you. i'm not going to need to do is can i think you know full well for your critique this from this newsgroup was going to leave hong kong a model of globalization would be the most beautiful usually. now ukraine has admitted one of its attack jets has been shot down by anti-government fighters and nearly gone while anti-government forces say they managed to bring it down to more incessant shelling by ukrainian army is continuing.

the self defense forces claim even ballistic missiles have been used against the city parts of a missile were found in one district that was similar to missiles previously used and done yet it is suggested that the military is using soviet era weapons that were left in ukraine after the soviet union collapsed now let's take a look at what they are actually capable love in terms of warfare now the missiles max maximum ranges up to one hundred twenty kilometers and at that distance is able to hit targets with an accuracy of one hundred meters there are various types of warheads available for the system including chemical and even nuclear now even with a conventional payload it is able to inflict significant destruction destroying an entire house with ease and as former u.k. on me officer charles shu bridge told us the people of eastern ukraine face many

other dangers as well while if this video is genuine and should be said that so far that's nothing to suggest that it isn't that indeed it does show many of the catcher sticks one would associate with the use of white phosphorus or very similar incendiary in particular you've got best of large numbers of small pots of cause of very brightly shining material that incendiary fact is particularly severe against buildings and particularly against people. if indeed that's what's happening and being used because white phosphorus is a potent incendiary it burns through to the button and calm people it out with water and spain has become the latest country to join a global plea for missing russian photojournalist andre stan in russia the u.n. and international human rights groups are all calling for his immediate release backed up by a wave of support on social media as well using the hash tag free andrew.

now here you can see some of his work stand in is a famous journalist who's covered the conflicts in ukraine is syria and gaza the thirty three year old disappeared in eastern ukraine almost two weeks ago and since then has both confirmed and denied holding him stand in it was working outside done yet reporting on kids crackdown on anti-government fighters when that connection with him was lost. and i curfew imposed in the u.s. town of ferguson missouri has failed to stop people demanding justice for an unarmed teenager shot by a police officer it has been rocked by protests for almost a week now and i was to see a truck in a reports from ferguson. i'm right now we're at a peaceful unity rally where hundreds of people have gathered yet again to voice their outrage about the lack of progress when it comes to more details being

released about this killing a sunday morning a curfew was imposed over the town of ferguson where from midnight to five am residents were not allowed to come onto the streets dozens of military clad military gear clad police officers were prepared to take action if people broke this curfew and in fact this did occur about twenty minutes into the curfew several dozen people ran into the streets this led to clashes between protesters and police where tear gas we do know that seven people were arrested throughout the night and at least one person was shot it's not unclear whether that person was a protester or not and this person remains in critical condition as we speak we spoke to some of the protesters last night take a listen. to you know come a bit closer to the shoot to get in when they started shooting two guesses you know the crowd kind of dispersed the room we don't agree with the kurds but we don't know when the power to fight. in the streets tomorrow of course we don't expect the

tensions here on the ground to die down any time soon as this community is quite set on getting all the answers they deserve for more on the story let's now go to our report that covers the events of the last week. a community filled with rage sorrow and grief is demanding justice for gibson missouri is a small town with twenty thousand residents. many of them took to the streets after a black teenager was shot dead by a police officer. it's a loss that she can the community to its core this is no reason the young man should be right. thousands of protesters only. right now. rioting and looting has also broken out which most residents criticize but tolerate you know by. if you don't as scientists 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. to please 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 be a target and they 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 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 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 i'm sure will nine times. eat eat eat 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 good to get a quick work to junk a star let me tell what that looks like a distant goal because people who. here work out how to come to terms with their anger and their grief is this if you're going to ferguson missouri. fury over the

killing of the unarmed teenager spread to some ninety cities across the united states from washington to los angeles even across the ocean in the u.k. demonstrators have gathered outside the u.s. embassy expressing solidarity with michael brown and his family now protesters claim that the police aggression against ferguson demonstrators is out of proportion just last night five armored vehicles were deployed images from one of the rallies showed an officer wearing some very serious combat gear and his equipment includes a military helmet and tactical goggles his weapon of choice possibly a grenade or tear gas launcher with an advanced side and on his hip you can see he has two different types of knives. now the people of ferguson aren't backing down despite law enforcement officers being armed to the teeth let's get more on this with dr mark mason who was part of the occupy movement

dr mason thank you very much for being with us here on r t now are these protests an isolated event or are they part of something bigger happening across the united states. this is really big this is the most important political statement a political uprising in the united states since the occupy movement of two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve no question that the energy for social justice and human rights in the united states is centered on the activities of these uprising here in bergersen as we're watching day by day now you mentioned this is big. do you see this small snowballing into something even bigger or will they die down after some time we know that we've seen some of these movements gain steam and then somehow they just dissipate after a bit bit of time. we'll have to watch the it is i believe the

real leadership again that is coming from the african-american community they understand police oppression they understand the oppression of the one percent they understand that the police work for the ruling class the one percent the police who work for and protect the wall street bankers the wall street bankers the own city hall the own the city council owned the state house they own federal government the president of united states and the congress they own the united states and no one understands political oppression better than the african american community what when we're talking about looting and i have heard if i may say quickly a lot of talk about looting in ferguson and yet we have not heard one word about the biggest looters in the united states and that's wall street bankers they looted

the public treasury sixteen trillion dollars and that's a good change and they are now out to try and loot the total economy of ukraine so this is wat the political political context is here it's very important and we may see other activities far beyond ferguson and we'll have to watch this very carefully and because the governor has instituted the curfew again tonight if i may say he is basically poking a stick in the african-american community because they came out last night very carefully and heard the cheers from the street. this no curfew now you have experience with the occupy movement now that particular movement brought a lot of attention to some of the issues at the heart of these particularly protests as well but it did little change to digital excuse me stumbling here did little to change the status quo will anything come of these protests in ferguson

and what needs to happen from here on out. i would like to beg to differ to say that it radically change the status quo the media the corporate media in the united states was giving one message about how bad the the poor in the middle class were how bad firefighters and teachers were and then we heard the message of breaking through this sort of iron grip here that we have the corporate media in the united states about the criminal activities of the one percent on wall street and so i think that's a very significant message that gone out of the wall street. the wall street ought to party movement and that movement by the way was suppressed the same way that the state and the police are attempting to suppress the uprising in ferguson through police violence all right appreciate your thoughts dr may send it with us here on r.t. speaking about the similarities between the occupy movement and what is happening

in ferguson missouri thank you for being with us here on r t international thank you now more news in a couple of minutes stay with us you're watching our two international. sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato that would provoke some sort of free action on the part of russia at the same as far as the military calculus is concerned none of what faces humanity the west north and south none of it can be solved by military means or crafts or satellites or nuclear weapons he's outdated it should go like cannibalism and slavery and child labor it doesn't belong to civilization to kill each other.

those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis is syria we still. you'll be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition who will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. and welcome back you're watching r t international now the white house has authorized targeted air strikes in iraq and and helping kurdish forces to retake control of iraq's largest dam now the strategically important facility was seized by. militants earlier this month now the airstrikes were ordered by the u.s. president barack obama who said that the failure of the damage could threaten

civilians as well as u.s. personnel and facilities it supplies water and electricity to the north of the country now this follows that he used decision to send the weapons into the kurds are she's going to change can has this report. the militants of these lawmakers 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 or the militants threaten 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 it ought american oil companies operating in the kurdish region in the north

of iraq had some weight and it was one of the main considerations. the obama administration. took wide thinking about the engagement it took me in about this month the same my autonomy as region has shown to be friendly to the u.s. and to u.s. business but the oil rich kurdistan has long sought to break away from iraq it has now moved to sell crude independently from bogged down arguing that the central government doesn't give the region its fair share of oil revenue and meet 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 for 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 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. now american weapons have flooded the region almost every side of the conflict including the kurds have in one way or another been armed by washington the u.s. has been openly sending lethal aid to syrian anti-government fighters some of them though defected from more moderate factions to the islamic state taking weapons with them almost nine billion dollars of arms were sent to iraq but some of them again were captured by the extremists as the country's army fled in an exclusive

interview to r.t. former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul spoke about the prospect. for america's latest moves in iraq he told us the u.s. risks sinking deeper into conflict unless it leaves the iraqis to deal with islamic state on their own 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 isis ended up getting a lot of weapons from us and if they captured weapons they've got them out of syria and i'm sure there are some that came from libya so they're well armed so we haven't done the kurds any favor whatsoever 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 we've tried for a long time we've lost a lot of lives spent a lot of money and we've allowed a mess to develop and there's nothing about amassing chaos there and in

a way we're partially responsible for that let's go back to our top story now and a second round of talks to resolve the ukrainian crisis has concluded in berlin the meeting lasted for five hours after a two month hiatus the foreign ministers of germany france ukraine and russia were giving direct talks. another try peter all over is in berlin and has been following the meeting for peter thanks for being with us so what has come out of these talks what can we expect. well right now we're still trying to filter through the information coming out of these five hours of talks that took place here just outside the city center of linnet a residence for the german foreign ministry now we are expecting a statement from the german foreign minister from walda steinmeyer very shortly but in terms of other reaction from the ukrainian foreign minister publicly and can he tweeted that after five hours of grueling talks that they would take it would take

five times not in order to make any real headway kind of stressing that these are steps that have been taken but they were a long way from any kind of real political and diplomatic solution just yet we are waiting to hear what steinmeier will say he of course hosted this event here in germany and early on later on monday morning we are going to hear from sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister he's going to be meeting with journalists in central berlin on monday morning to go through what he's taken away from what seems like was a very long a very grueling very tiring meeting for the the foreign ministers all taking part right artie's have peter all of our forces there following the situation in berlin is going to be interesting to hear what comes out of these meetings at a very desperate and interesting time yes now next it is worlds apart right here in art international stay with us.

trust me i like video games you could tell from my physique but they like all media can distort reality in the minds of kids and one swedish journalist in something very unusual to step his kids back into the real world journalist carl magnus held in sun seemed almost addicted to the legendary military first person shooter game call of duty so since they like killing people online with guns he decided to take them to the gaza strip to show them what war is all about mr helder and brought his boys to a refugee camp where they could see injured kids just like themselves getting their wounds to stop they got to see all the blood and tears apparently this in your face method of parenting works and his children have stopped their on line war this strategy might sound a little extreme and we're all very expensive i can't afford to fly my family to israel to prove a point but sometimes we all the to be smacked in the face with reality as

a man there's something attractive about roman conquests our ranks of musket fire and a pulley on a conflict those images are nice but the reality is blood and death and if more kids could have the same experience as a helper and family well we might have less war mongers around but that's just my opinion.

crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. 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 the major's eastward expansion is sweden rather than ukraine 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 yon 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 have 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 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 parliament 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 and the public discussion is not a wish to have a public discussion which was or reach release sweden's basic policy that everything we did in terms of common security neutrality disarmament and old that

was something that was anchored in a public discussion and the sweets would know what their country was standing for so i think there's no loyalty among eighty. it's 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 formulas speaking sweden is of course the 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 more fervently problem nato than some of nader's founding members how do you explain these sudden shift from neutrality to defacto intervention isn't what is good you take it up the neutrality because we are formally nonaligned in sweden bought neutrality was scrapped long ago.