you know why you should care about humans. which is why you should care only. about. the u.s. ferguson becomes even more militarized as the national guard is deployed to help the heavily armed police tackle protesters outraged over the shooting of a teen by an officer. a visibly frail julian assange says he's a ready to leave his a refuge in london but his supporters say only when police left a multi-million two year old blockade and guarantee him safe passage. and the first russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid at the ukrainian border checkpoint are ready to go but with little progress made toward the ceasefire it's

heading into an area of chaos and violence. live from moscow this is r.t. international it's good to have you with us this evening you are with me say. the national guard is being deployed in the u.s. double ferguson in a way the standoff between security forces and protesters has reached new levels of violence. police again tear gas against protesters and over the killing of a black teenager by an officer last week security forces say they were responding to molotov cocktails being thrown at them a curfew has came into effect for second night flowing more than a week of demonstrations which are now calling for the police to stop their

crackdown on peaceful protests the necessity to reports from the city but it will now would have been hard to imagine a moment where we would have to report in helmets from the streets of missouri earlier just hours ago complete mayhem and chaos was already unraveling on the streets police were firing tear gas at protesters l. rods were being used we know that at least one person was injured really may have on the ground people with children fell victim to the tear gas being used we know that or a woman in the wheelchair was trying to speed away from the scene and just really really hectic heavily militarized police for the second night of curfew here night after night this is exactly a week now since clashes began here between protesters and police after the death of unarmed eighteen year old michael brown because of multiple shots fired bullets by a police officer the community has been coming out on to the streets demanding accountability and justice they have not seen many answers if any at all to the death that took

place and they're continuing to come out onto the streets to demand that. the eighteen year old victim was shot at least six times four bullets hit his right arm and two hit his head proving fatal that's the conclusion of a preliminary private autopsy the doctor that examined the body concluded all the bullets were fired at the teen from a distance and it was the heavy handed approach that caused so much public anger so protesters in the streets and so i took the shoot and we just you know made me want to 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 those boys protect you and the people in this community as being your normal thing for police to be just. to take your parents situations. taking to the streets to demand justice is proving a risk for demonstrators who are facing police and military equipment guess miles

to protect the officers from the damaging effects of the to i guess the launching of protesters military grade weapons smoke and stun grenades complete the local offices also supported by armored vehicles that were used during the iraq and afghanistan campaigns dr mark mason and activists from the occupy movement is while we eat about the militarization off the police. 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 two thousand and thirteen one year the u.s. pentagon donated more than four hundred million dollars almost a half

a billion dollars of new 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 day don't know what they're doing with it and we should not have paramilitary troops not on the streets ferguson and not in the streets of central america either this is clear violent state suppression of dissent crowds of tell us it is have use the fragile cease fire to display their anger at the actions of israel were voted on some of the areas who escaped the israeli strikes but still have to cope with the psychological trauma caused by the offensive. to spending more than two years trapped in a tiny embassy room wiki leaks julian assange has made a sudden announcement. days. and.

see. what you know sons left out there was how exactly he's planning to do that though there were somewhat cryptic hints artie's pretty boyko was at the news conference for us. well we probably haven't had this bigger crowd outside london's ecuadorian embassy since julian assange first sought refuge here two years ago but the press is here because of reports that he's suffering from ill health and that he could be emerging from the embassy today to give himself up to british or forties now there's certainly no shortage of police waiting for him to grab him in case he should make an appearance he would be extradited to sweden where he's wanted for questioning and he's always said that he fears that he'd then be sent on to the us where he's been investigated for over four years now for publishing u.s. diplomatic cables back in two thousand and ten now i was just in a very small press conference with julian assange and ricardo patino ecuador's

foreign minister inside the embassy and in response to the question that's gripping all the press outside as to whether he's leaving today well he said very cryptic he that he is planning on leaving very soon but not for the reasons that the press is reporting i asked him about his health as well and reports that he's got a chronic lung condition and a dangerous heart condition and he didn't reply specifically about the conditions but he said that he is suffering as a result of spending two years inside the embassy now at the end of the press conference i can say that i saw ecuadorian foreign minister product leave the embassy and i saw julian assange go back to his quarters inside the embassy but for now we're outside and we're waiting in case he should make an apparent reporting from london i'm. so why would a son leave now well according to his associates it's due to

a new norbit bents extradition without charges. what's happened here which hasn't been widely reported but is certainly in print is that the law has changed regarding the european arrest warrant the laws changed in the sense that no one no one now in britain can be extradited against their will to a country without being charged and of course as everybody knows what's significant about julian assange has difficulty is that he's never been charged i could go for of the israelis or leave the embassy as soon as the police presence here is called off in the u.k. has already decided to give him safe purses to work with or. with so foreseeable why seward accordance to international agreements that they have signed you know massage log we kill leaks in two thousand and six the dedicating the project to making the truth public in two thousand and ten on the website posted throb of highly embarrassing documents mainly u.s. diplomatic memos and wall files that's a b.s. sweden issued an arrest warrant for songe over an alleged sexual assault which he

did night in two thousand and eleven a london court approved the extradition to sweden he tried to appeal but that didn't work so he fled to the ecuadorian embassy in june twenty twelve and asked for political asylum and within two months i wanted him asylum he's remained in the embassy since unable to leave director of the center for investigative journalism given make faded who's a friend of a son says it's all taking a huge toll on his health and his mental state. well it's very difficult for actively being locked in a room knowing that if you stepped outside the terrible things would happen to you the embassy itself is a warm and friendly place but but the rooms are cramped and crowded there's no sunlight there's no fresh air. it's not a great place to spend a month and a lot alone two years that's a long long time and i think it bears on you and i think there's also the worry that should he become seriously ill which obviously we hope he never does he'd have

to leave the embassy to get medical care and which case he'd be. immediately somewhere so it's a it's a very tricky situation for him and very trying i think emotional a physical in every important way. the u.s. is pushing on with is the largest military operation in iraq since its forces officially pulled out and britain could be next to military action as david cameron calls for a larger response to the jihadist threat posed to europe by slamming states military that's still ahead on. the first of almost three hundred russian trucks destined for isa new queena at the border checkpoint waiting to be let's room i took three days off hurdles and checks from camp to finally accept the convoy was indeed carry only humanitarian aid before the vehicles undergo their very last inspection or if a national went to see what's inside. these sixteen tracks from the russian

humanitarian convoy are the 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 . military to see here is the truck is on. it's about the. reason we're simply carrying it was important wasn't gone. back wait for. their bags or just in case anyone suspects runs

a munition or something else like weapons of mass destruction. it is tells me that each bag is fifty kilograms and the route one hundred sixty bags here which means a tool till. eight tons and this is he tells me the maximum or 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 border. the ukrainian media reporting that a refugee column has come under fire outside lugansk ukrainian military officials

say so after events forces are behind the attack which resulted in another number of casualties no evidence has been provided yet but we spoke to a leader of the anti-government forces. this room they're talking about is being shot from the roof of the entrance all the time and the reason the army's booming is because it's our road of moist it's being used to deliver the humanitarian aid to the city and it's the exit for the refugees who are fleeing to russia so this rule has been under fire for more than a month now i myself was once caught in the shelling our workers are facing the opposite direction with our backs to the road because we're defending it there's no way we could afford it. the ukrainian national guard says it's had twenty five skirmishes with anti-government forces over the past twenty four hours forces one to the connections between the two largest cities in the east so they'll be denied and lugansk now in order to do so they're trying to take control of

a dozen the small towns and villages on the road connecting the two now here in muse's right here now into government fighters destroyed a rocket launcher the army uses to shell the area and it's done of god it also came under fire many houses there were burnt arguably the most important town is mickey have for now because of its proximity to danny it's basically as close as you can get to the city without being in the city itself and fighting the continuous day and day and night and half of the town has been badly damaged if the army succeeds the near school will be completely blocked from the only humanitarian corridor left the city's authorities have already warned people that the water supply is being cut off there is no electricity in many districts and deliveries of food and drinking water arrive only every few days on top of that bombs and rockets rained down killing dozens and destroying what little people have. meanwhile

kiev has offered little help in the search for a russian photographer who has been missing in ukraine for two weeks now the interior ministry now says it doesn't want to be bombarded with questions about andre standen although about two weeks ago it did issue a search warrant and i q's anti-government forces of holding him before that ukrainian authorities briefly admitted they had him before backtracking stannin disappeared on august the fifth in eastern ukraine way he was covering the military crackdown on the reach him you can get all the details on our website r.t. dot com. after the break we have plenty more news for you to stay with us.

it was very interesting because it was dropped out of the sky the roar back up so that it would shift across a few degrees. of the circle and about at a speed but you know just astronomical speeds. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here you're not going to hear any right that are fixed or the hamster had one same time there's a reason they don't want to have you know what they're telling the phrase that we should think. now let's break the set. those who want to get involved i says you know run are allied with isis is syria we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition we will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government encourages forces as they battle these terrorists.

and so stay with us the u.s. has stepped up its strife in iraq making it the largest military operation there since its troops withdrew in twenty eleven american warplanes have been targeting jihad is and they hardware allowing kurdish forces to retake control of iraq's largest dam the strategically important facility supplies water and electricity to the north of the country islam is a menace should take over large areas of iraqi territory and declare a caliphate the u.k. prime minister david cameron has called for a broad response to the threat posed by the islamic state group suggesting british military involvement however the leader specifically pointed out there would be no british boots on the ground. research has been carried out into just how much

public support islamic state group has in of the three biggest european nation the apparently in friends it has reached fifteen percent john white an author who has written extensively about the middle east explains where those figures come from. but more than one issue being played a nice figures i think the domestic situation in france a regards to minorities in particular is not very good social cohesion is very weak there's a shoesmith of youth unemployment with the treatment of a noted tease that a lot of social cohesion because the french policy of assimilation of minorities is clearly a failed one the islamic state they're very cleverly playing on people's fears that able to pop fia a sense of moral panic and that's to say that it's the bellicose statements that we have seen from people like david common to david cameron is clearly the political equivalent of rip van winkle the fictional character who goes to sleep for twenty years before waking up to find that the world has changed. but as the british

leader calls for more involvement in iraq let's take a look at what the previous campaign costs a total of forty eight thousand british troops put their lives on the line in iraq the government expected to spend two point five billion pounds but eventually the campaign cost more than three times as much now and most of that spending was spent on the military was just five percent going to the post conflict aid efforts. in gaza people have used the last day of a temporary ceasefire to call on israel not to renew its military offensive but as a truce is expected to expire later today it's clear the bloodshed will begin again a month long call that has claimed more than two thousand palestinian lives with many others left with physical and mental fear is in gaza forty and one of those who has literally been left speechless. one after eighty from the northern

west bank is still unable to speak properly or move his legs following twenty eight days of israeli detention the thirty year old was returning home having attended job interviews in the united arab emirates when he was arrested at the crossing point between jordan and the west bank which is in part controlled by israel almost a month later he was released into palestinian jurisdiction in a critical condition with his medical records withheld doctors say when he arrived at the hospital he was rigid unable to move his wife says he could move nothing by his eyes and appeared to be dead or a kid i was really afraid for him he is the type who can't handle insult and humiliation and you must have been a very difficult experience for him he is an extremely sensitive person and he does not accept insult or humiliation. a high flying computer engineer who is apparently a normal health until his arrest. doctors say he was injected with unknown

substances that shocked his system sending him into a comatose state the patient was given medicine during his detention which are known to us that the emergency room of a hospital presenting symptoms of stroke and he was shaking his lawyer says israel claimed he was a member of hamas and supported the movement something his father vehemently denies and i know my son he doesn't. remember any association even but even how much he was happy even anybody and he just being at least thirty years. just good with his home with his family with his war with his job until a few days ago was mute and unconscious now able to mumble words he took hours to tell his father he did allegedly undergone harsh treatment forced into stress positions and kept in total isolation in what he called

a black hole or of the i didn't see him i didn't allowed me to see him or even see him a field research or for an israeli human rights group says the evidence suggest more earth was subjected to treatment that exceeds israel's own red lines it seems that he was broken psychologically africa did from atmosphere of detention from that we deal with him no one from the israeli prison service or army was available to respond to these serious accusations but a spokesperson for the defense ministry said no one is ever detained without a security matter connected to them one of the victim's neighbors visited him at the hospital he too alleged he been arbitrarily targeted at the same crossing ten days ago i was on my way to saudi arabia and they sent me back to the border this is another example. daily abuse imposed on people not just for their being

palestinian problem without having committed any crime. investigator abdul karim says israel stepped up its policy of restrictions since the beginning of the recent gaza conflict sometimes if you don't get it two hundred to three hundred person deny access and this is i think a disconnect the richmond mosque case although on usually severe highlights the tight control that israel's army and ministry of defense have a palestinians freedom of movement both inside and while returning to their own occupied territory the message from palestinians here is that it's not just the blockaded gaza strip that is at the mercy of israel's security apparatus harry fear r.t. the occupied west bank. there are more stories for you online including turkey demands an explanation after it was revealed that berlin secret services have been keeping an eye on its nature ally for years. also online it's reported british

courts are sparing no expense when it comes to needlessly locking people up in remonde prisons head to r.t. dot com to find out. more headlines from around the world now hundreds of people were killed or injured in fierce clashes in tripoli over the weekend according to local media reports rivalries erupted a month ago between two groups including brigades of former rebels who took part in the uprising that are said warmly that duffy one of the groups has reportedly taken responsibility for the recent bombings targeting islamists in the libyan capital and. an earthquake measuring six point three on the richter scale has hit a remote area near iran's border with iraq causing widespread damage water electricity and telephone lines were reportedly cut in. a city close to the epicenter local officials reported at least two hundred and fifty injuries and said

aftershocks could also be felt in neighboring provinces. tens of thousands opposition supporters are gathered in pakistan's capital of islamabad for an anti-government protest two separate groups of people on the city's main streets saying they will stay there until prime minister nawaz sharif steps down he's been given until monday night after which time opposition leader who serves write in to call for a march on top level government building. in the global world possible that bribery is the only possible in london and to fracking activists have superglued themselves to the department of the environment protesting at a report. released last week on the controversial drilling technique which had more sixty rejections made to it the campaign is claimed the government is trying to hide the true negative impact of fracking. here because last week the report was

released just about had sixty three rejections and i doubt the economic and social health risk of running so we're superbly unlocked on here. and we demand that the report be released in foal so that we can see exactly what jeffrey is trying to hide. to the russian cosmonauts an open space of launched a memo settle i designed by students from russia and the device is called which means korea in the language of peruvian indians students spent three years designing it satellite weighs just one kilo its memory contains information about human civilization including things like children's drawings that will be launched into outer space as a message to anyone who finds it just you will be observed from earth every day well six months. thunder and lightning for

centuries mankind has been amazed as well as terrified at the threatening beauty of nature is fury but these days has actually been domesticated and now we can even throw thunderbolts at the push of the button artie's for today and go reports. shooting thunderbolts at the click of a button. that takes something as tall curvy and alien looking as these three hundred tons of capacitors and wires deep in the woods and who cares that it's decades old when it can do this. this monster machine split second output is enough to power a city like moscow twice over but it's not there to kick out power stations hollywood effects maybe no but it could save your life. we use it to test the impact of lightning on things like aircraft if a plane a struggle by

a thunderbolt in could cause a disaster but here we're testing models to make sure the planes are properly protected and the designers know where to place their vital equipment one such test means at least a couple of thousand zaps the longest lightning zigzagged ever produced here was over two hundred meters no surprise then that the home of man made thunderstorms has become a magnet for fans and tourists and i think i was the luckiest. it's finally dark outside and now it's only a matter of this with. a . billion to train co r t. coming up on our international saying face of a not seem to change but from a canadian difference minister. 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 karl magnus held grandson seemed almost addicted to the legendary military first person shooter game call of duty so since they like killing people online with guns he decided to take them to the gaza strip to show them what war is all about mr helder 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.