from. politics. now you're looking at live pictures from the ferguson missouri in the united states police target outraged protesters in that town as a curfew was extended for a second night again these are live pictures coming from the scene of the ongoing on ren's. 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 right now. high level talks on how to resolve the crisis in east ukraine have concluded in berlin with germany's foreign ministers saying some progress has been made also. the us continues

its biggest intervention in iraq since its troops pulled out three years ago as it launches more air strikes against islamic state islam lists to rest back control of the country's biggest dam. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories this is r t international glad to have you with us now protests against police brutality and the killing of a black teenager have escalated in the u.s. town of ferguson with police firing tear gas into the crowds on us to see a trick and joins us live from ferguson right now thank you very much for being with us now give us an idea if you could of what's happening there on the ground.

well shawna you know as the days unraveled today marks the seventh day in a row that mayhem and chaos continue to break loose on the streets of ferguson it's really becoming hard to separate what we're seeing on the streets here really from a war zone so it's really not clear exactly what u.s. officials and law enforcement are trying to achieve with that with these tactics that have been ongoing tonight this sunday the amount of tear gas and clashes that we're seeing on the streets of ferguson really are quite unprecedented it's really hard to imagine that this is happening over police brutality protests over protesters coming out onto the streets demanding justice and accountability over a killing of a teenager by a police officer who was unarmed now tonight the situation has gotten extremely chaotic what we have going on on the ground is enormous amounts of tear gas going on that police are firing absolutely sound grenades we know and we hear reports that children are on the ground with their families all of this is going on hours

before a curfew was supposed to take place at midnight local time this madness began just several hours before the curfew was to take place raising questions as to why a tear gas is being used right now when protesters are gathered on the streets we're hearing that there are families with children there there are reports of a woman in a wheelchair speeding away from tear gas so certainly just extremely chaotic situation shots are being fired we are right now currently trying to get as close as possible to where all of this is taking place but four hours in advance police had closed off the area for cars and blocked off any entrance we're also hearing reports that these are unconfirmed for now but this is being reported that again journalists have been arrested on the ground that tear gas is reaching more and more journalists and this has been the case over the last couple of days but the events unraveling tonight are really really quite chaotic so we're going to have to wait and see where exact. this leads as the night unravels all right art he's an associate there for us in ferguson. now please stay safe as the events unfold

there on the ground. 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 the police aggression against ferguson demonstrators is out of proportion just last night five armored vehicles were deployed and images from one of the rallies show an officer wearing well some very serious combat gear let's take a look quick it includes a military helmet to including some tactical goggles his weapon of choice possibly a grenade or tear gas launcher and you can see that is armed with a very specialized advanced site and on his hip he has not one but two different types of knives and the people of ferguson on 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 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 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. 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 and oceano went to see the contents for herself and these sixteen tracks from the russian humanitarian convoy are the first to reach the russian ukrainian border they are now pocs here literally meters away from donetsk is where in a border checkpoint you know today the cargo these trucks are carrying has only been inspected by the representatives of international red cross and now we're going to do the same i'm going to pick up the truck and the city is going to open

it for us. military to see here. this is a. resume was simpler carrying it. wasn't going. book wait it's buckwheat in the backs of the just in case anyone suspects it's guns and you national something else like weapons of mass destruction. that is tells me that each flag is fifty kilograms and the right one hundred sixty bags here which means a tool told. eight tongs and this is he tells me the maximum of what they struck can carry where these trucks are now ready to cross the border to

deliver its humanitarian cargo to those in eastern ukraine who are in desperate need the driver as we have been able to speak to here told me that there will be two more inspections at the checkpoint from the russian and from the ukrainian side and after that security will be the major challenge for these tracks as the convoy is supposed to travel through regions in eastern ukraine where clashes are still continuing my solution r.t. russian he korean 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 looks that the me and. i didn't buy into it that. night out. i said just as many below transcona me i'm not going to pull nice to meet you when you yet they mean really here's an idea of a near the edge of the us even the. dead yet those of both of us to say that the

new cuts so far out into the state i know but i haven't been in the atmosphere yet . not just the below not economical but it's not a good morning but you just need anything of that nature and you know it's both to make it easy to come home to need a view which can if you can get it for full for your critique disease from this newsgroup and if it is good but if we don't model the goldwing was a sure way to get the most beautiful gift. 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 the two more incessant shelling continues by the ukrainian army.

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 the military is using soviet era weapons that were left in ukraine after the union collapsed so let's take a look at what they're actually capable of doing. in terms of warfare now the missiles maximum range is up to one hundred twenty kilometers and at that distance it was able to hit targets with an accuracy of one hundred meters now there are various types of warheads available for the system including chemical and nuclear even though with a conventional payload it is able to inflict a significant a destruction destroying an entire house with ease and as a former u.k. army officer charles troubridge 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

has 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 pots of codes of very brightly shining material that incendiary fact is particularly severe against buildings and particularly against people. if indeed that's what's happening and being used because white phosphorus is a potent incendiary it's burning through to the button and copy put out with water meanwhile a second round of talks to resolve the ukrainian crisis has concluded in berlin a with the 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 reports now from berlin with the details

. well after five hours of what seemed to it 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 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 again allow for over now he's going to be meeting with journalists 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 and these negotiations look set to continue for a long while yet ukrainian interior ministry has begun a search for a russian photojournalist under 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 plea for the missing journalist. here

you can see some of his work stand in is a well known a journalist who's covered conflicts in ukraine syria and gaza the thirty three year old disappeared in eastern ukraine and since then a kid has it both confirmed and then later denied holding him stand and was working outside done yet reporting on kids assault on anti-government fighters when connection with him was lost. watching r t international more news after a short break. eugenics was huge and it's vulgarize ation of darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted crying i was there are things to learn from being in eighty feebleminded 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

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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 civilians as well as u.s. personnel and facilities could be threatened if islamic state fighters keep control of the downed white house has given its assurances that the mission will be limited in duration and scope the escalation follows the use decision to send weapons to the kurds or he's going to 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 the world that militants

threaten not just the people of the kurdish region but also its oil production since the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three iraq's kurdistan has seen a boom in energy production us energy giants exxon mobil and chevron are among the many or oil and gas firms large and small now drilling there seems that. 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 thinking about the engagement of. the semi autonomy region has shown to be friendly she. u.s. into 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 arguing that the central government

doesn't give the region its fair share of oil revenue and meet the onslaught of the islamic state in the political turmoil in 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 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. american weapons have flooded in the region almost every side of the conflict including the kurds in one way or another has been armed by washington the u.s. has been openly sending lethal aid to the syrian anti-government fighters some of them though defected from more moderate factions 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 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 that the u.s. risks sinking deeper into conflict and less it leaves the iraqis to deal with the islamic state on their own i'm surprised that they haven't retaliated a little bit better. there but one of the reasons why they haven't done very well is that ice is ended up getting a lot of weapons from us and if they captured weapons they've got them out of syria

and i'm sure there are some 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 allowed a mess to develop and there's nothing about amassing chaos there and in a way we're partially responsible for that because we've got more stories for you on our website including the fact he might use it but you might not want to trust it r.t. reports from a conference held about wikipedia and unearth the murky side of the world's most popular encyclopedia of that song our website. was the world's most piers to man it was blocked from entering dubai for a show in a nightclub find out what outlandish excuse customs officers came up with it to keep him out that also is on our t.v.

dot com. and the european union is threatening the more sanctions against russia saying the crisis in ukraine is being fanned by moscow more than that though it is urging countries around the world to respect europe's economic sanctions against russia however inside europe the unity appears to be fracturing as artie's you go to peace 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. was slapped russia with sanctions targeting whole sectors of its economy for me banks were hit and one airline was completely grounded but in russia. announce 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 sent several trucks a week or so that is going to. it will take two or three months to collect our remaining. 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. me 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 what 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 the could well be job losses coming along with j.c. big. reputed to he potentially could lose. as a result of the sanctions and as a result of that would lose jobs to him and 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 you go to prison off for us there now the statements keep rolling in e.u. leaders are gradually turning against sanctions slovakia's prime minister criticized them as a quote meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth for e.u. member states now austria as 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 claimed that the restrictions themselves are ineffective and it can only lead to a spiral of worsening relations that actually achieve nothing and on top of those sanctions the leaders of hungary and finland have also changed their tune motivated by the potentially huge losses they now face western agricultural companies and farmers have faced billions of dollars in losses from russia's food sanctions and

it's europeans that stand to lose the most the e.u. has 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. now to other news in tel aviv thousands of people turned out to call for a peaceful solution to the israel gaza conflict it carried banners urging an end to the israeli occupation of gaza and chanted slogans like jews and arabs 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 go shaders are gathered in cairo as the end of a five day cease fire looms israel wants guarantees that rockets from gaza will stop while hamas is seeking to have the blockade lifted as harry fear reports despite the cease fire tension remains. since the latest israel gaza conflict began there's been

a spike in racial violence and tension between jews and arabs throughout both the occupied territories and his relatives 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 must queue 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 were really few of the settlers one leaves the house with fear in his heart the situation's 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 him back i'm

really religious so i can't drive my myself. an arabic drive 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 of a murder. a girl let's go to a while and they killed her. but that's politics this is the symbol. of the. hamas idea. they voted for him for the from us and no though we'd be what they get the bomb. needless to say the palestinian people see the current situation from a very different perspective as biased opinions we cannot accept living occupation we cannot accept to be violated on daily bases and say we are fine with it but this

ten years do not take people because what they all do they don't hate people because they are jews simply by listing the ends do not accept your patient and its policy. see jerusalem. the city take a look at back at our top a story of protests against the police brutality and the killing of a black unarmed teenager have escalated in the us a town of ferguson police have fired tear gas into the crowds who are responding with rocks bricks and it is being reported even molotov cocktails we're also hearing two reporters have been arrested that's as a curfew that is been brought in for a second night is just about to come into effect now here on r.t. international coming up a tempers flare over the u.s. policy of containing russia that's on cross talk coming up next day with us.

this is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the scene bush is secure. your party isn't the. issue is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics only on our team. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle after the famous but failed washington moscow we said it appears now the obama administration is preparing to embrace a very different though historically familiar policy towards russia.