visit. a russian humanitarian convoy is finally on the move after being stalled for three days its cargo for civilians trapped in east ukraine 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 u.s. ferguson with police using tear gas military weapons and the power of arrest protests over an unarmed teen shot dead by an officer have lasted almost a week now. and the u.s.

continues its biggest intervention in iraq since its troops pulled out three years ago as it launches more air strikes against islamic state islam is back control of the country's biggest. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international and the first batch of russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid has reached of the border with ukraine the convoy carrying two thousand tons of supplies spent three days awaiting. to doubt about the humanitarian nature of the cargo. to see the contents for herself. these sixteen tracks 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 out this route and mr lee is going to open it for us. military to see here truck is almost. it's about. resume were simpler we carrying eight tons wasn't born group book wait it's back within 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 the route one hundred sixty bags here which means

a total. eight tongs and this is he tells me the maximum of what they struck can 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 he crinan border now as the trucks wait idly on the border the situation of people in eastern ukraine becomes increasingly desperate let's listen to what the residents themselves are saying. look up to them yet but generally. i didn't buy into it all day at the slot that this town moved up a false night out. i see just as many below transponder me i'm not going to pull

nice to meet you when you yet they mean really here's an idea of the edge of the us even though the details 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 doesn't deal in the atmosphere yet . not just the bill on the economy but it's not the little problem on the list but you just read anything the commission has both to say did he tell them that he's going to need to do is connect the community for full for you critique from this newsgroup and if it is good but if we don't model the going was usually because the money is needed but usually. ukraine has admitted one of its attack jets has been shot down by anti-government fighters in your low gaunts commune while government forces say that they have

managed to bring down the two more incessant shelling by the ukrainian army though is still 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 in 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're actually capable of in terms of warfare now the missiles maximum range is up to one hundred twenty kilometers and at that distance it is able to hit targets with an accuracy of one hundred meters now there are various types of warheads available for this system including chemical and even new clear though with

a conventional payload it is still able to inflict significant destruction destroying an entire house with ease and as former u.k. army officer charles shoe bridge told us the people of eastern ukraine may face many other dangers as well. what if this video is genuine and should be said that such fog is nothing to suggest that it isn't that indeed it does share many of the characteristics one would associate. phosphorous or very similar incendiary in particular you've got. 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 burning 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 reports now from berlin with details. 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 ukraine and russia now he said that they were looking it's 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 powerful 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 so you can allow for over now he's going to be meeting with journalists that eight am local time here in central and 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 the ukrainian interior ministry has begun a search for russian photo journalist on the day stand in who was reported missing in ukraine almost two weeks ago 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 spain is the latest

country to join a global plea for missing russian a photo journalist on the day stand him. and here you can see some of his work stand in is a well known do photo journalist who covered conflicts in ukraine syria and gaza the thirty three year old who disappeared in eastern ukraine and since kiev has both confirmed and then later denied holding him stand and was working outside of done yet square putting on kiev's assault on anti-government fighters when connection with him was lost. now the european union is threatening more measures against russia saying that the crisis in ukraine is being fanned by moscow more than that it is urging countries around the world to respect to europe's economic sanctions against russia however inside europe the unity appears to be fracturing artie's he got a piece can offer ports 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 and 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 currency. curation creates great opportunities for ecuador but it would have been unwise to pass up 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 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. big. reported that he potentially could lose. orders as a result of the sanctions and as a result of that would lose jobs over here watching this economic battle swing back and forth like a pendulum one is reminded of newton's famous law every action has an equal and opposite reaction which a school be the last to retaliate is very hard to predict right now. now statement by statement evil leaders are gradually turning against sanctions slovakia's the prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in new member states then 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 meanwhile the czech leader claimed that the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could only lead to a spiral of worsening relations that achieve actually nothing now on top of those the leaders of hungary and finland have also changed their tune motivated by the potentially huge losses that they now face western agricultural companies and farmers face billions of dollars in losses from russia's food sanctions and its european union says that stands to lose the most the e.u. is already brittle economy it's now facing recession over the trade war with russia and experts say brussels is desperate to avoid it landing into yet another crisis. to other news now a curfew imposed in the us 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 on us to see if you're going to reports now from ferguson. and 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 streets in their hands up until don't 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 as being the normal thing for police to be. just take advantage of 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 august in 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 just there is no reason to the young

man should be right. thousands have protested only. these rights was 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 youth league 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 a target 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 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 in this video. michael brown at the same time to kind of deflect the fact that he was murdered but this kind of what it feels like they were trying to do the video justify them shoot him nine times eat eat eat eat the team tough 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. in a fury over the killing of the unarmed teenager spread to some ninety cities across the united states from washington to los angeles and even across the pond to 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 it is out of proportion just last night five armored vehicles were deployed and images from one of the rallies show an officer wearing some pretty serious combat gear let's take a look at his equipment it includes a military helmet and tactical goggles his weapon of choice possibly

a grenade launcher or even a tear gas launcher with an advanced gun side and then on his hip he has not one but two different nine s. 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 a 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 two thousand and 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 here with our to international stay with us for more of our weekly program. eugenics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never the least one could be innately feeble minded still today so that if you don't know why . but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology don't stop at just sterilizing.

go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed. till now i'd really rather not talk about that right. but 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. call them back to watching the weekly here at r t international now and 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 aimed 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 and the airstrikes were ordered by u.s. president barack obama who said his civilians as well as u.s. personnel and facilities could be threatened if islamic state fighters keep control of the dam white house has given into sure and says that the mission will be to limit. it in duration and scope the escalation follows the e.u.'s decision to send weapons to the kurds and he's going to try to camp as 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 or 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 u.s. energy giants exxon mobil and chevron are among. firms large and small now drilling there seems that the american oil companies operating in the kurdish region in the north of iraq had some weight. it was one of the main considerations obama administration. took so why it's thinking about the engagement of turkey in iraq this month the same ayatollah miss 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 is 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 leave the

onslaught of these on the state in the political turmoil in baghdad many kurds see an opportunity to finally carve out a homeland by exclusively supporting the kurdish region washington may fuel their cause but the kurdish region is functional the way we would like to see it and it is tolerant of other sects 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 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 in the region almost every

side of the conflict including the kurds have in one way or another been armed by washington now the u.s. has been openly sending lethal aid to syrian anti-government of fighters some of them though defected from more moderate factions to the islamic state taking away or. benz with them now almost nine billion dollars worth of arms were sent to iraq but some of them again were captured by vieques stream ists as the country's army fled in an exclusive interview to our t.v. former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul spoke about the prospects for america's latest moves in iraq he told us that 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 him out of syria

and i'm sure there are some they 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 allies 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 of course we've got more stories for you on our website including the fact you might use it but you shouldn't trust it archie reports from a conference held about wikipedia and the murky side of the world's most popular encyclopedia that's on our website. and check this out the world's most peers to man was blocked from entering dubai for a show in a nightclub find out what outlandish excuse customs officers came up with to keep him out of the country that too is at r t v dot com. some other stories

making headlines around the globe this hour we start in africa where a new center for you full of patients has been attacked and alluded to by a crowd in at liberia claiming the current epidemic is a hoax according to liberian authorities seventeen patients fled with the mob while three more were earlier taken away by their relatives you tak has sparked fears that the deadly virus could now spread further in one of the country's worst hit areas. some two thousand palestinians marched in gaza on sunday against israel's military offensive 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 eastern waters of indonesia a number of people have been rescued from the waters and emergency services

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