a russian humanitarian convoy is finally on the move after being stalled for three days its cargo for civilians trapped in the east ukraine a conflict zone is undergoing checks at the border. high level talks on how to resolve the crisis in east ukraine have concluded in berlin with germany's foreign minister saying some progress has been made also. unrest escalates in the town of ferguson with police using tear gas military weapons and the power of arrest protests over an unarmed teen shot dead by an officer of lasted almost a week. and the u.s.

continues its biggest intervention in iraq since its troops pulled out three years ago as it launches more airstrikes against the islamic state to wrest back control of the country's biggest dam. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international now the first batch of russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid has reached the border with ukraine the convoy carrying two thousand tons of supplies spent three days waiting as kiev expressed doubt about the humanitarian nature of the cargo no went to see the contents for herself. these sixteen trucks from the russian humanitarian convoy other 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 mr lee is going to open it for us . with a three to see here. it's about the. reason we're simply carrying it. wasn't bomb. book wheat it's buckwheat in the bags just in case anyone suspect it's guns ammunition or something else like weapons of mass destruction. it is tells me that each bag is

fifty kilograms and the route one hundred sixty bags here which means a tool till. 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 tracks as the convoy is supposed to travel through regions in eastern ukraine where clashes are still continuing resolution r.t. russian here kryten border. so as the trucks wait i'm only on the border the situation of people in eastern ukraine becomes increasingly desperate let's listen to what the residents themselves are saying the cooks that them yet but generally.

didn't buy into it that this town moved up a false night out. as you 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 just as live in the. bed yet those of both of us going to say that the phone you've got so far and you'll still have it at the state level but i haven't been in the atmosphere. not just the below not economical but it's not feasible to mourn the loss but you just need anything of that nature and it's both the speed you use each i'm going to need to do is configured for full force you can achieve disease from this newsgroup if that is the world but if we don't model the goldwing was usually because the woman is a beautiful gift. but. ukraine

has admitted 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 the ukrainian army though is still continuing. which is claiming 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 in done yet it is suggested that the military is using soviet era weapons that were left in ukraine after the union collapsed now let's take a look at what they are capable of in terms of actual warfare now the missiles maximum are. changes up to one hundred twenty kilometers and at that distance it's able to hit targets within an anchor's sea of one hundred meters and there are various types of warheads available for the system including chemical and even

nuclear even with a conventional payload though it is able to inflict significant of destruction destroying an entire house with ease and as a former u.k. army officer charles should 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 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 the best of large numbers of small particles of very brightly. 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's burned through to the bone and can't be put out with water meanwhile a second round of talks to resolve the ukrainian crisis has concluded in berlin

with german foreign minister stating that some progress has been made after a two month hiatus top diplomats of germany france ukraine and russia were giving direct talks another try peter oliver from berlin with the details. well after five hours of what same two 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 had been discussed in this meeting between the foreign ministers of germany france. and russia now he said that they were looking at how to sure up border security from the russian ukrainian borders also they spent a lot of time discussing the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the east of the country and 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 in terms of what we've heard from other representatives at these meetings the ukrainian foreign minister pablo claim can he tweeted as he was driving away that it be 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 for over now he's going to be meeting with journalists that eight am local time here in central in 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 in these negotiations look set to continue for a long while yet parties peter all over for us very now sticking with the ukrainian situation spain has become the latest country to join a global plea for missing russian photojournalist under a 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 andrew. now here you can see some of his work stand in is a famous a 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 and was working outside done yet reporting on kids crackdown on anti-government fighters when that connection with him was lost. to the united states where a curfew imposed in the us town of ferguson missouri has failed to stop the people demanding justice for an unarmed teenager shot by a police officer it has been rocked by protests for almost a week now honestly see

a truck in a reports from ferguson. 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 i saw protesters in the street in the hands of. the gun shoot and the police just you know let me move when they move in circling the

protesters they started with you it's hard to raise a kid in a world like this where you have to worry about. you know people in this community is being normal thing for police to be. just take it back to situations 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 she can the community to its core there is no reason to the young man

should be right. thousands of protestors only. these rights by writing and looting has also broken out which most residents criticize but tolerate 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. league to militarized police force has resorted to firing rubber bullets and other heavy handed tactics to quell the unrest very narrow were a bit more care we were being asked and it 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 away 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 come to 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. eat eat eat the teen duck 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. start with 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 ferguson missouri. fury over the killing of the on armed teenager spread to some ninety cities across the u.s. 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 protesters claim the police aggression against ferguson demonstrators is out of proportion just last night five armored vehicles were deployed images from one of the rallies show an officer wearing some very serious combat gear let's take a look his equipment includes a military helmet and a tactical goggles his weapon of choice possibly a grenade or tear gas launcher with an advanced science and you can see there are

two knives on his hips 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 very 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 the 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 more news coming up after a short break and watching our national stay with us. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the interviews intriguing story for you. to find out more visit.

those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria 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 these terrorists. and welcome back you're watching of the weekly here on our t.v.

international now 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 and at helping kurdish forces to retake control of iraq's largest 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 u.s. president barack obama who said civilians as well. u.s. personnel and facilities could be threatened if islamic state fighters keep control of the dam white house has given its assurances the mission will be limited in duration and scope the escalation follows the use decision to send weapons to the kurds are going to cheat you can't file 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 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 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 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 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 badat arguing that the central government doesn't give the region its fair share of oil revenue and leave 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 another 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 he 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 out our team. american weapons have flooded to 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 did affected from the moderate factions of the to the islamic state taking the weapons with them almost nine billion dollars of 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 prospects 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 the 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 i says ended up getting a lot of weapons from us and if they captured weapons they've got

a modest syria and i'm sure there are some 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 allowed a mess to develop and says nothing about amassing chaos there and in a way were partially responsible for the. we've got more stories for you on our website including going you might use it but you better not trust it reports from a conference held about we could pedia and the murky side of the word world's most popular encyclopedia on our website. and the world's most here's to the man who was blocked from entering dubai for a show in the nightclub find out what outlandish excuse customs officers came up

with to keep him out to. the european union is threatening more measures against russia saying that the crisis in ukraine is being fanned by moscow one that is urging countries around the world to respect europe's economic sanctions against russia however inside europe the unity appears to be fracturing artes you could get off reports. 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 i would say 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 is going to affect a small us it will take two or three months to go look to 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 of nothing's 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 russia 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. be. 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. a good piece going to force there now statement by statement leaders are gradually turning against sanctions so lucky is prime minister criticized them as a quote meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in member states austria's agriculture minister confirmed that the industry has already lost six million dollars as a result of russia's tit for tat food ban while the czech leader claims the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could only lead to for a spiral of worsening relations that achieve nothing on top of those of the leaders of hungary and of finland have also changed their tune motivated by the potentially huge losses they now face western companies and farmers face billions of dollars in losses from russia's food sanctions and it's the europeans that stand to lose the

most of the e.u.'s already brittle economy is now facing recession over the trade war with russia and experts say brussels is desperate to avoid landing into yet another crisis so more headlines from around the world for you this hour a new center for ebola patients has been attacked and looted by a crowd in liberia claiming the current epidemic is a hoax according to liberian authority seventeen patients fled with the mob while three more were earlier taken away by relatives attack has sparked fears the deadly virus could now spread even further and one of the country's worst hit areas. some two thousand palestinians marched in gaza on sunday against israel's military off demonstrators burned israeli flags and chanted slogans denouncing the bombardment meanwhile hundreds of displaced people gathered outside a un food distribution center seeking assistance. more than a dozen people are missing after a tourist boat hit a coral reef and sank off the east coast of indonesia

a number of people have been rescued from the waters and emergency services continue to scour the area ten of those missing are foreigners and the rest are indonesian crew who are working on board. next on our t. international it is the latest episode of news team 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 healthy family well we might have less war mongers around but that's just my opinion.

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