the russian humanitarian convoy is finally on the move after being stalled for three days its cargo for civilians trapped in the eastern 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. in the us 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 have 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 air strikes against islamic state islam to rest back control of the country's biggest. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t with our week weekly program glad to have you with us now the first batch of russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid has reached of the border with ukraine a convoy carrying two thousand tons of supplies spent three days waiting expressed doubt about the humanitarian nature of the cargo went to see the contents for herself. these sixteen tracks 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 and you know today the cargo of 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. a. little three to see here is the truck is almost. it's about. resume worst and we carrying it. wasn't going. book wait. it's buckwheat and their bags are 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 tool to old. 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. race nationality russian ukrainian border. 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 about the situation on the ground looks that the me and. i didn't buy into it that this. 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. the subject of us didn't say that the new suffered in the state of the nose but then good enough. not just the economical but it's not feasible to mourn the loss but you can you can look at nature and he is bold to say did he change i'm going to need to do is can if you can get it for full for you critique disease from this it's going to be for the what if we don't model globalization well we don't want to be that but you sure you. know ukraine has admitted it one of its attack jets was shot down by

anti-government of fighters near lugansk while anti-government forces say that they managed to bring down two more incessant shelling by the ukrainian army is continuing. now local self-defense forces claim even ballistic missiles have been used against a the city parts of a missile were found in one district that was similar to missiles previously used in that done yet skitch suggested 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 warfare now the missiles at maximum ranges up to about one hundred twenty kilometers and at that distance it is able to hit targets with an accuracy of one hundred meters there are various types of warheads available for this system including chemical and even nuclear but with a conventional payload it is still able to inflict

a significant destruction destroying an entire house with ease and as former u.k. army officer charles shoe bridgette told us the people of eastern ukraine face many other challenges as well while 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 codes 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 button 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 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 is being discussed in this meeting between the foreign ministers of germany france. and russia now he said that they were looking at how to shear 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 to russia so again allow 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 the ukrainian interior ministry has begun a search for a russian photojournalist on that a 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 of free andrew spain is the

latest country to join a global plead for the missing journalist. and here you can see some of his work his stand in is a well known journalist who's covered conflicts in ukraine syria and gaza the thirty three year old disappeared in eastern ukraine and since then has both confirmed and denied holding him stan and it was working outside done yet reporting on kids assault on anti-government fighters when a connection with him was the last. now the european union is threatening more measures against russia saying the crisis in ukraine is being a fanned by moscow more than that it is urging countries around the world to respect europe's economic sanctions against russia however inside europe the unity appears to be fracturing artie's you've got a piece going off has details 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 four major banks were hit and one airline was completely grounded but then russia announced counter measures banning the import of billions of euros worth of fruit vegetables meat dairy and other products european producers are the worst hit and brussels has to compensate the losses the problem is the size of its emergency fund is around four hundred million euros while the estimated damage may reach five billion when you know we are going to lose one point three million euros but we're relatively small business imagine the other big firms such as like to lease which send several trucks a week or so those is going to assume. 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 euros of nothing has 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 at the. the current situation creates great opportunities for ecuador but it would have been unwise to pass up such a chance to diversify and expand our trading capabilities especially having received an offer to become a privileged partner with russia. some business analysts in the west have now started wondering how wise was it to start playing this game of tit for tat sanctions the sanctions will they really work and we don't think they will and

we've all been working in the russian market probably now for the last twenty years and times have always been difficult to do russian business in russia but i don't think the sanctions will really help and we just wanted to sort of voice could well be job losses coming along with j.c. being. reported that he potentially could lose. orders as a result of the sanctions and as a result of that would lose jobs over here watching this economic battle swing back and forth like a pendulum one is reminded of newton's famous law every action has an equal and opposite reaction which would be the last to retaliate is very hard to predict right now and the statements keep rolling in the e.u. leaders are gradually turning against the sanctions so lucky as prime minister criticized them as quote a meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in the e.u. member states austria's agricultural 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 claimed that the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could only lead to a spiral of worsening relations that would achieve 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 it's europeans that stand to lose the most that use already brittle economy is now facing a recession over the trade war with russia and experts saying that brussels is desperate to avoid it landing into yet another crisis. 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 and has been rocked by protests for almost a week now an associate churkin to reports 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 and start

clearing out 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. in this community is being more 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 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. 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. 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 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. 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 justify them shoot him nine times eat 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 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. now 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 show an officer wearing well some very serious combat gear his equipment let's take a look at it includes a military helmet and tactical goggles his weapon of choice possibly

a grenade or tear gas launcher with an advanced sight to boot and on his hip we have two different types of nine s. and the people of ferguson that are not 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 and more news coming up after a short break to watch monty international stay with us.

rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. 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 these terrorists. who will come back you are watching the weekly here on r t 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 aimed at helping kurdish forces to retake control of the country's largest dam now the strategically important facility supplies water and electricity to the north of the country and was seized by islamic state militants earlier this month now the airstrikes were ordered by u.s. president barack obama who said civilians as well as u.s. personnel at a facilities could be threatened if islamic state fighters keep control of the dam now the white house has given its assurances the mission will be limited in duration and scope yes collation follows that use decision to send weapons to the kurds as well as he's going to charge him as 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 threatened 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 the many or the. gas firms large and small now drilling there seems 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 it's thinking about the engagement of turkey in iraq this month the same my autonomy this 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 and 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 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 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. american weapons have flooded the region and 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 a lethal aid to the syrian anti-government fighters some of them though defected from more moderate factions or to the islamic state taking the weapons with them. almost nine billion dollars worth of arms were sent to iraq but some of them again were captured by the extremists as the country's army fled and now 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 isis ended up getting

a lot of weapons from us and if they captured weapons they've got them out of syria 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 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 now i've got more stories for you on our website including where you might use it but you shouldn't really trust it r.t. reports from a conference held about we could reveal and unearths of the murky side of the world's most popular encyclopedia that's on our website. plus the world's most appears to be a man who 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 that too is also at our t.v. dot com for. now in tel aviv thousands of people turned out to call for a peaceful solution to the israel gaza conflict they carried banners urging an end to the israeli occupation of gaza and chanted slogans like jews and arabs that refuse to be enemies the sides are due to resume egyptian mediated talks to put an end to the month long war between israel and hamas negotiators are gathered in cairo as the end of a five day cease fire looms israel wants guarantees of that rockets from gaza will stop while hamas is seeking to have the blockade lifted as there is fear reports despite the cease fire the tension still remains. since the latest israel gaza conflict began there's been a spike in racial violence and tension between jews and arabs throughout both your keep high territories and his relit self the army installed its system of

checkpoints here in two thousand and six now thousands of palestinians who live in the west bank but work inside israel mask you from dawn to reach their workplaces for business hours their attitude to us since the war began has changed completely they have become more aggressive even now when we try to find transport to get to work there's discrimination in new york keep in mind west bank civilians continue to suffer from what they say are random attacks by settlers in one recent incident an eight year old girl was hit by a car palestinians labeled it a settler terror incident. since the war began we really feel that the settlers one leaves the house with fear in his heart the situation is not like before and some israelis say they too now live in a climate of fear i am in the wife and and i when i walk in back i'm just so i can't survive my myself. an arabic dr come to take me from

my home and i'm scared i'm scared i'm scared to drive them because there was a case that a murder. a girl go to hell well as i killed her. for eight years didn't feel any special but that's politics this is the symbol. of the but hamas i the jews. they voted for him for the hamas and now though we've got the bomb but. needless to say the palestinian people see the current situation from a very different perspective as palestinians we cannot accept living. we cannot accept will be violated on daily basis and say we are fine with it but. people because of what they.