creational why you should care about. this why you should care only. high level talks on how to resolve the crisis in east ukraine have concluded in berlin with germany's foreign minister saying some progress made. meanwhile a russian humanitarian convoy is finally on the move after being stalled for three days its cargo for civilians trapped in the east ukraine conflict zone is undergoing checks at the border. of the us with police using tear gas military weapons and the power of arrest protests over shot dead by an officer have lasted almost a week. and the u.s.

says it will expand its military support for kurdish fighters in iraq as a pitched battle continues to take a critical day from islamic jihad. broadcasting live from moscow recapping our top stories with our weekly program this is thomas glad to have you with us and a second round of talks to resolve the ukrainian crisis has concluded in berlin with a german foreign minister stating that some progress has been made the meeting lasted for five hours after a two month hiatus top diplomats of germany france ukraine and russia were giving direct talks another try peter all of us are peter all over is in berlin and has been following the meeting for us peter thanks for being with us so what do we know about the outcome of these talks we hear that the german foreign minister just

spoke about the meeting. well after five hours of what seem to of being quite tough negotiations at times we heard from frank walter steinmeier the german foreign minister saying that some progress had been made he talked about what is being discussed in this meeting between the foreign ministers of germany france the ukraine and russia now he said that they were looking at how to secure up border security from the russian ukrainian borders also they spent a lot of time discussing the unveiling on route owned the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the east of the country and said that there needs to be something done in order to be able to provide humanitarian aid to those people who were caught up in fighting in the east of ukraine. they ended by saying this all of the foreign ministers will be reporting back to their relevant to their own presidents and

heads of government and that they would be pushing for more negotiations in the future now he said that they're looking into all possibilities to make sure that there are no further victims in this crisis than veiling in eastern ukraine no in terms of what we've heard from other representatives at these meetings the ukrainian foreign minister pavlo claim can he tweeted as he was driving away that it had been five hours of very tough negotiations but that it would take perhaps five times not before any real steps were taken towards a peaceful diplomatic solution to the crisis in the country and with regards to russia so you can allow for over now he's going to be meeting with journalists that eight am local time here in central perlin he's going to be running through what he took away from this meeting it does seem though that there have been some steps taken forward but there's a long way to go before any real framework for peace is put in place and these negotiations look set to continue for a long while yet and artie's of peter all over following developments there in

a berlin for us we know that you'll be keeping across the story as more information becomes available. now to discuss this further let's cross live to political analyst derek monroe who has been closely following the situation in ukraine. thank you very much for being with us here on r t now the german foreign minister has said some progress has been made during the meeting what kind of progress do you think he could be referring to. i think it's a typical diplomatic speak for a parallage it's been achieved and i think what's really taking place here is alignment of different oppositional forces within the you governments one thing people really have to understand is the huge impact of economic damage to the. pacific which in the east there's been a statement done by president misses in the business that stated that you know this this current situation with the embargo has been sanctions against russia has to end so there's

a lot of political pressure internally on the variety of different new members to basically bring this situation to discuss from conclusion a cease fire in peace versus bring the economic situation to something a degree of the said they've daily basis so i think what's really taking place right now is simply getting the ukrainians of those russians to the table to make sure they establish themselves some kind of benchmark of common reference which they can actually then negotiate as far as the troop movements political economic aid and what have you so it's just i think preliminary talk which unfortunately although there are some of the mystic taking place right here right now there's really nothing concrete on the table as of today but we know that after the immediate meeting they pretty much dispersed and they didn't have a joint press conference last set to meet with reporters tomorrow do you feel that we are now closer to any type of an agreement on the ukrainian crisis is it possible for there come to be

a political solution what i would hope so first of all the positive sign is that the date kompany from russia's actions according to the recent release by is allowed to go into ukraine although there's been some issues with the djinn it just need space red cross whether there will be a good security guarantees from both sites so i think those issues are right now being worked out but i think the first positive step is that people would look hans to donetsk and other places in eastern ukraine no diggity sound really fair. which is very much needed so i think just for dead sign itself it's a very positive sign of something going forward however i think it's really too early to tell since we're not privy to details of what's been discussed and what's been agreed or hadn't read to see exactly what's would take in place i know now from the very beginning the west has been blaming moscow for fueling the conflict in the east in ukraine but russia has been participating and even initiating a many international meetings to solve this crisis in fact they're sending this aid

convoy that you just mentioned what would you say moscow's role is in all of this i think one thing first and foremost if you look at any issues such as this inquires for the foreign policy analysis as well as the diplomatic purview you have to understand that there is really no one's interest especially russia's interest to have a huge degree of civil war and disarray and mayhem on its western border so i think for most of all russia's so far has been very constructive to bring the issues that to something positive resolution of the ukrainian government ukraine government and the approach of forces in the east so it's i think it's. you know it's the self interest line but it's also something which i think hopefully will bring some type of degree of resolution better sooner than later all right appreciate thoughts on the subject to derek monroe political analyst thank you for being with us here on our team interview will. now staying with this story the first batch of russian

trucks carrying humanitarian aid has reached at the border with ukraine the convoy carrying a two thousand tons of supplies spent three days waiting as a kid have expressed a doubt about the humanitarian nature of the cargo rif an ocean when to see the contents for herself. these sixteen charges from the russian humanitarian convoy others first to reach the russian ukrainian border they are now parked here literally meters away from donetsk is right in a border checkpoint earlier 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 i'm going to pick up the truck and really it's going to open it for us. with a three to see here truck is almost. it's about.

resume we're simply carrying it wasn't thought it wasn't going. buckwheat one of the bags as it is in case anyone suspects runs a munition 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 tool till. 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. right now r.t. russian here kryten border. the trucks where i live on the border the situation of people in eastern ukraine becomes increasingly desperate let's listen to what do the residents themselves are saying. looks that the me and. i didn't buy into it that this. false night out. i see just as many below transponder me i'm not going to pull nice to meet you when you have yet to meet steely here's an idea of the edge of the us even though. that gets a lot of us to say that the new cuts so far to the state of. the bend in the atmosphere. not just the below it can only. be little more nebulous but you can you can look at nature and he is both to make it easy i'm not going to do it we need to do is can execute it for full for you

critique disease from this is good for me for this goal but it leaves one song don't model the globalization movie because the woman is beautiful usually. ukraine has admitted it one of its attack jets has been shot down by anti-government fighters near lugansk while anti-government forces say they managed to bring down two more incessant shelling by ukrainian army though is continuing. local 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's suggested in the military is using soviet era weapons that were left in ukraine after the union collapse now let's take

a look at what they are actually capable of in terms of warfare now the missiles maximum ranges up to one hundred and twenty kilometers and at that distance is able to hit targets within an accuracy of one hundred meters. now there are various types of warheads available for the system including chemical and nuclear payload so even with a conventional payload though it is able to inflict significant destruction destroying an entire house with ease and as a former u.k. army officer charles schubert told us the people of eastern ukraine face many other dangers as well. as well if this video is genuine and it should be said that so far there's nothing to suggest that it isn't then 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. of large numbers of small particles of very brightly. material that in center effect 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 bone and can't be put out with water and saying with the situation in ukraine spain has become the latest country to join a global plea for missing russian photo journalist on the day stand in 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 entry. here you can see some of his work stand in is a famous journalist who's covered the conflicts in ukraine syria and gaza the thirty three year old who disappeared in eastern ukraine almost two weeks ago and since then kiev has both confirmed and denied holding him stand in it was working outside reporting on kids crackdown on anti-government fighters when connection

with him was lost. the united states now a curfew imposed in the u.s. town of ferguson in 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 i was to see a church 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 little bit closer to the issue. where they started shooting to guess is you know the crowd kind of disperse to really we don't agree with security but we don't know when the power the 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 unarmed teenager was shot dead by a police officer. it's a loss that's cheek in the community to its core this is no reason the young me should be right. thousands of protesters only. right now. writing and looting has also broken out which most residents criticize but tolerate noble. 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. at least the militarized police force has resorted to firing rubber bullets and other heavy handed tactics to quell the unrest very narrow we were before we were be it's a game and we got sort of quite a while where they were shooting them into the complex and we were in the streets so why you shouldn't and so the complex this key is the excessive use of force by police has riled up protesters even more and triggered strong criticism it defies

everything that 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 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 just shoot him nine times. eat eat eat the team duck here in ferguson has sparked broad motion but for locals it's just the most recent in just a state 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 good work just a star let me tell what that looks like a distant goal as people who. here work out how to come to terms with their anger and their grief as they see it you're going to ferguson missouri. for the fury over the killing of the unarmed teenager spread to some ninety cities across the u.s. from washington to los angeles and even across the ocean in the u.k. demonstrators gathered outside the u.s. embassy expressing the solidarity with michael brown and his family now protesters claiming that the police aggression against ferguson demonstrators is way out of proportion now just last night five armored vehicles were deployed and images from

one of the rallies show an officer wearing some very serious combat gear 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 there are two knives as well and the people of ferguson aren't backing down despite law enforcement officers being armed to the teeth earlier i was joined by dr mark mason an activist of the occupy movement who says militarization of the police force is a danger for the united states. what we have now on the streets these are not police these are paramilitary troops you go to central america and sure we're going to find the same thing i cannot over emphasize that i am old enough to see of fear you very frightening transition in the united states where the militarization of the police is

a movement by. the owners of this country the last year alone in twenty thirteen one year the u.s. pentagon donated more than four hundred million dollars almost a half a billion dollars of military grade equipment to police departments in the united states that's one year alone almost half a billion dollars of material they are not trained to use this material they don't know what they're doing with it and we should not have paramilitary troops not on the streets of ferguson and not in the streets of central america either this is clear violent state suppression of dissent watching r t international more news in a couple of minutes stay with us.

in december it's. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world. i didn't think that there when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger on the bus this. girl complaining about the son of an alumni gives millions of dollars to the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school if schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly. those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but we still should 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 east coast.

sunday saw the biggest u.s. military operation in iraq since the withdrawal of troops in two thousand and eleven and now the white house has authorized more targeted air strikes in iraq i aimed at helping kurdish forces to retake control of iraq's largest a dam the strategically important facility supplies water and electricity to the north of the country and was seized by islamic state militants earlier this month the airstrikes were ordered by the us president barack obama who said the failure of the damage could threaten civilians as well as u.s. personnel and facilities this follows that use decision to send weapons to the kurds or he's going to just you can file this report. militants of the islamic state have been seizing control of vast swathes of iraq for months now but

when they approached its kurdish region the u.s. took action this is a humanitarian issue of great consequence for all the world the militants threat not just the people of the kurdish region but also its oil production since the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three iraq's kurdistan has seen a boom in energy production us energy giants exxon mobil and chevron are among the many oil and gas firms large and small now drilling there seems that 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 that the obama administration. took so why is thinking about the engagement of turkey in iraq this month the semi autonomy this 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 that 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 we 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. with the humanitarian situation and

the threat posed by the islamic state so imminent america's. position now even if the eventual outcome will be the breakup of iraq in washington. course we have more stories for you on our website including you might use it but you'd better not trust implicitly. the murky side of the world's most popular encyclopedia of websites. and creative smuggling spanish authorities were they found two kilos of cocaine hidden in a woman's breast implants find out how she. will get more stories making headlines around the world this hour a new center for ebola patients has been attacked and alluded to by a crowd in liberia claiming the current epidemic is a hoax seventeen patients reportedly fled with the mob increasing the risk of the

disease could spread in one of the country's worst areas authorities opened the center in the capital saturday after the existing one was overwhelmed. some two thousand palestinians marched in gaza on sunday against israel's military often siv demonstrators burned israeli flags and chanted slogans denouncing the bombardment meanwhile hundreds of displaced people gathered outside a un food distribution center seeking assistance. but next to find out about the epidemic of sexual abuse right here on our two international students.

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 at something very unusual to step his kids back into the real world journalist carl magnus held grandson 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 healthy family well we might have less war mongers around but that's just my opinion.

america's colleges which through television and media have become very familiar. with. american football it's cheerleaders and the notorious parties. it's a life young people dream of but behind the picture is a nightmare for female students. if. victim of rape. according to the figures published by the justice. how and why is this happening. for the first time some of the victims. tells her story.