this is the bones. and moonshine here on. the key eastern ukrainian cities of lugansk and it done yet scar reeling from a barrage of deadly shelling attacks launched by kiev's army. this week russian trucks have brought tons of aid to people in war torn ligaments but the u.s. and others in the west have called this humanitarian mission an invasion of the ukraine. calls for justice over the killing of an unarmed black teenager in the u.s. city of ferguson are replied to with tear gas and rubber bullets even journalists were harassed by the security forces. captain john said what's the reason for

ordering the press out what's the reason for going right out there on the president the president. should i buy what i was going to. and as a u.s. journalist was brutally beheaded by a judge hottest who appears to be a brit you look into the p.r. campaign by the islamic state group it is prompting some citizens to join in the militants. casting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. another round of artillery strikes on the city of done yet killed two people as ukraine marked independence day on sunday earlier an eleven year old girl and her parents were killed while running to a bomb shelter on saturday night some residents say there were times when shelling

went on for twenty four hours with barely any breaks kier this trying to take over done yet which is a key anti-government stronghold is in the city. this is how independence day is being marked here in didn't it's massive shelling particularly in the eastern part of the city as you can see something like thirteen fires that have broken out in the city just of a heavy some smoke warehouse has been hit knife we walk in here you can actually see that was part of the market i think has been destroyed i mean the windows are blown away and you can see a lot of the merchandise on the ground the scary part about being here right now is that you can actually smell in the air this burning but if you look these little bits of universities that it goes it gives the idea that it's you know this is not all the same to square in the early hours of sunday morning the local time in hospital was hit they were at least five more were fired at the local morgue. but.

this is a very different mood she was trying to make you know we're not a problem in the way of people showing their support for russia. here in laymen's way people are setting out to show that this is my kids continuing military offensive they were main reason to go to see our team you have to meet eastern ukraine. is also being attacked a daily by the ukrainian government notional was lucky to escape a bout of shelling attacks while filming this report. the devastation of we worried shelling we were here last fall days ago and we've returned to find lugansk bearing the scars of sustained attack kiev is calling this a full on assault the final stage of its military operation and the fact it's having the locals is all too clear every day residential areas of the city of largo

and sky being targeted fortunately when this five story apartment building was hit no word was heard by the time had happened almost all the residents have already fled minutes later we come across two of the handful of people still living here and they're clearly terrified. was. the. many of those still here high the elderly told to seek to leave. and like elenor they're forced to take shelter in their basements when the shelling begins but they do as they're dug did you look out at me mohammad got a chilling look at the large media i don't know what they're all eventually they're your buddies bought you going to the hornet across the globe get your point of

doing our videos clear told the obama i know but did you know that oh by the minute the boat but it really angered her i was there although this is the scene in lugansk central market it was hit on monday but the smell of burning still hangs heavy in the air and it's teen in the line of fire this is a ghost city market and mon cher she moved here because it was. we rushed to the nearest bomb shelter another basement. candles can still be found in the shops and they've become crucial in a city without electricity. who just about to start feeling of peace to have her own show just minutes away from us the near constant bombardment is taking its toll on locals who don't. know i never.

make sure it tells us she has little choice but to state what you usually only a couple. never seen are going. thousands of refugees have poured out of the guns to escape their recent shelling and even if this turns out to be the final assault on the city as the government in kiev claims the effects of this is stained fighting will be felt by civilians here for many years to come. or even ocean r.t. iligan ski crane. now these are just some of the people who also received much needed russian aid in lugansk the city has been facing a humanitarian catastrophe and even essential items are hard to get tons of food medicine and other supplies were delivered it to advance quite a convoy of russian trucks humanitarian column was stalled at the border for over a week because kiev was a reluctant to lead it in the red cross was also involved in the mission it

criticized the delay citing the terrible humanitarian situation in the city. the i.c.r.c. regrets. that customs and inspections as agreed to between the russian federation and ukraine you know sir it is where delayed by the ukrainian authorities that even any german situation there is dire. we from the city with old quarter. without electricity without supplies. and cut off from the rest of the world and we as a mage is to add sensual infrastructure to give authorities describe the crossing of the border by the russian aid convoy as a direct invasion that is despite earlier giving the green light to the mission the sentiment has been echoed by a handful of western media outlets with headlines comparing the convoy to a trojan horse and even saying that the trucks were in fact artillery units however

as i.q. stations have been dismissed by many as hypocrisy they have really off the scale isn't it because it seems ok for the western powers to bomb sovereign states for humanitarian reasons but it's not ok for russia the same did a humanitarian aid convoy if russia did invade ukraine we know about it would only the ukrainians we're not going to allow this convoy is pretty clear they're going to find any excuse to stop it from going through and as they were doing this people are being killed and dying in the east of ukraine and that really is outrageous the double standards here this is. pinnacle of hypocrisy there it's clear that there is no invasion it's clear that the convoy is purely humanitarian and it's clear that the arrival of the convoy has a point to underscore to the rest of the world that there is no invasion that the only people suffering here are the peaceful people in eastern ukraine that their own government is trying to murder and that's a problem and so they need to divert attention from this to some sort of

hypocritical talk of russian invasion. russia's journalistic community has appealed to kiev authorities and international organizations to do everything possible to save the day standing the russian photojournalist has been missing in eastern ukraine since august. various rights groups and activists around the globe have also been involved in an online campaign calling on kiev to secure his release thirty three year old stand in has worked for many international news organizations including reuters and the associated press the international red cross has already joined the search for the missing photo journalist after his mother appealed to the committee refusing to give up. the most of them in. the beginning you'll sit down with a good mom would be schools a school didn't. have to push to get the most to lose even with the tamils because over the base yes it is due. to this tour.

that. simplistic. heavily armed units and armored vehicles not a war zone but the streets of the u.s. city of ferguson where protesters calling for justice for a teen shot dead by the police have been met by security forces willing tear gas and rubber bullets outrage over michael brown's killing has echoed all across the country and it's very important for us. unrest driven by anger over michael brown's death carried on for a second week demonstrators on the streets of ferguson once again met with tear gas rubber bullets and flash grenades freedom of the press was also under threat as our own correspondent was engulfed in a cloud of tear gas so right now you can see behind me look they're firing ah this is either tear gas all are small cannons that have also been used throughout these

night so i will wait let's go let's go to the. sound guys she gets right in the states if i could say oh my god i did other reporters faced death threats from police. have. had to have her. in the seat louis city the first amendment was confined to a media pan and at least six journalist were arrested for attempting to do their job captain john so what's the reason for ordering the press out what's the real border guard about throwing a break at the president but i did not write a catch i am sure why you are on the river on the back of the troika way of life totals was circling or walking with very little saw those were all the photos photos and butts of the office on trotsky side if that's so it will be good of you decided that we got her in the real brawl tool trejo roughly two hundred ten people have reportedly been arrested since the aug tenth protest began including nineteen

year old holocaust survivor hedy epstein the police has and try to incite the people in ferguson of the people that come to the demonstrations. so if they become live the more violent then the police will become even more violent will be their excuse criticism surrounding heavy handed police tactics deepened wednesday when a few miles from ferguson another black man who allegedly shoplifted from a store was shot dead by white police officers may powell brand was. dishing a knife but instead of using a taser or other nonfatal methods cops fired nine shots into the twenty five year old the militarization of america's law enforcement has made front page news around the world critics say arming local cops with war weapons fuels a more aggressive type of policing that lacks accountability the ugly images of america's military police beating our people in the streets and riot. troops and

soldiers in the military on its own citizens has woken the world up that america speaks with a fork by the end of the week police clashes and protests decreased significantly as temperatures in ferguson have around thirty seven degrees celsius meanwhile the st louis grand jury has already begun hearing evidence to determine if ferguson officer darren wilson is should be charged with the death of michael brown a decision is expected in october but the makeup of the jury may give night a wave of backlash to see nine white people and only three black people were chosen as jurors the on even representation may spark a new feeling of injustice causing the public to accuse the process of being bias in a poor nial r.t. ferguson. in new york has several thousand people gathered to protest against police violence. those were the

last words of eric garner a forty three year old asthmatic who died when officers wrestled him to the ground and held him in an illegal stranglehold he and michael brown are only two names in a long list of young black men who died at the hands of police this year. now this april and a police officer shot a don tre hamilton ten times during a struggle in a park or garner died only three months later and then earlier this month john crawford was gunned down when he picked up an air rifle from a shop shelf. in ohio now also in august this mentally ill man was shot and killed despite acting in compliance with police orders and then there's dante parker he was killed after repeatedly being shot with a stun gun on suspicion of a robbery former police captain ray lewis says the actions of officers have infuriated the public just like in ferguson. the fact that the police

chief jackson took several days to come out with any information and identifying the officer is outrageous when something like this happens that information has to be given to the public as quickly as possible when he came out with the information about who the officer was what he did was he made michael brown look like a thief in the community saw that exactly for what it was and they were outraged now after that they bring in the military cops right dress these are individuals as occupying officers their armored from head to toe and when you bring when you dress officers like an occupying army they like an occupying army and we all know what happens in other countries that we have occupied atrocities are committed.

another story of over the top police actions this time in europe coming up after a short break to watch more to international stay with us. 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.

and west introduced sanctions against russia and obviously russia retaliated and basically confrontational rather it goes on and on what do you think about sanctions that isn't a way of solving economy and business hostage to politics is russia did invade east ukraine i mean that i don't think that the west still russia would trade their lives until it's been twenty or thirty years so you know this is no easy rifle wrong but it. is better than complex. and welcome back you're watching r.t. international now a horrific video of an american journalist being beheaded by a judge hottest from the islamic state group has left the whole world terrified before his own killing the man was forced to read a statement blaming the u.s.

for his death. also showing was the revelation that his killer is likely to be a radicalized to britain according to media sources british intelligence has already identified him through voice recognition in the video the jihadist says that the beheading is in retaliation for u.s. airstrikes on iraq the islamic state has also threatened to execute another captive american journalist if washington does not halt its operation the group has been effectively recruiting new members across europe thanks to a broad online p.r. campaign artie's going to camp as more. the hardest of these lawmakers state use all the west can offer to spread their message and not to hollywood in this hour long film featuring slow motion explosions you walk a soldier's digging their own graves and a catchy title the claiming of the swords for. these lawmakers state has flooded social media with videos of their sadistic attacks and they were when they stormed

most many iraqi soldiers fled their post apparently aware of what their fate would be if they were captured while on duty. the islamic state has launched a sophisticated social media application which allows them to use their followers accounts to send out centrally written updates thousands of already downloaded the sample occasion released simultaneously their messages swamp social media it gives isis a far larger online reach than their own accounts would otherwise allow not only images of beheadings that militants distribute through social media but also skillfully edited promo videos showing their soft side in this one jihad is star handing out ice cream to kids another video shows an islamic state militant visiting his fellow fighters in hospital with an encouraging message. to the best medium for them to me it's all they live in the us all in few years these people

are able to carry on. and he would be ordered he. will sort of mated with this violent. isis is also working to recruit young people all over the world bragging about their advances leaflets like these are spread through social media sometimes their call for martyrdom comes with a nod to popular video games like call of duty some of the images look like postcards with his story keira p.s. sites in the background jihadi sympathizers or even calling for people to join the islamic state on the streets of london or using. dollar tree in terms of advertising very well islamic state finders post photos of their day to day life on social media my first time writes one british jihadi underneath a facebook photograph of his bloody tent apparently after killing someone first of many writes a friend after images with severed heads some post pictures of their cats state is

even promoting a hipster variation of a jihadi this is a law school graduate from cairo who before joining the isis was apparently preoccupied with his body having posted a series of photos in a gym their recruitment propaganda targets young people those who use modern gadgets who play video games and watch hollywood movies and those who are perhaps going through an identity crisis of some sort in this self promotion the islamic state has gone farther than any other jihadi group in washington i'm going to check on r.t. . the merciless islamic state group whose speedy advance in syria and iraq remains very troubling seems to have a weak spot and that is a female kurdish soldiers they are willing to fight alongside male soldiers to avenge for the hundreds of women captured and killed by the jihadists and it is not only their vigor that is posing a threat to the islamic state the jihadists believe that they will not go to heaven

. if they are killed by a woman in battle here is a video of the group of these kurdish fighters in training they will be forming all female humans to join male soldiers in combat. at least ten people were injured five of them seriously when mounted riot police charged demonstrators in sweden on saturday police horses trampled several people while one man was hit by a van a few arrests were also made it occurred when a planned rally against a far right party spiraled out of control in the city with clashes erupting between police and protesters fifteen hundred activists had gathered to disrupt a speech by the leader of a swedish neo nazi party kitchen mounted when firecrackers and smoke bombs were thrown in rest comes ahead of the country's parliamentary vote the chairman of the communist party of sweden in sweden told my colleague that in his country the police can do what they like. we have seen many protests against the new nazis

groups three or four months. to police. you know this kind of paralysis to be disturbed so it would be good. control in the case at least ten people ended up in hospital do you believe that the police will be held accountable for their actions and not is sweden never a police accountable for these sort of things we have seen situations similar today . several times. and if. europeans have been growing increasingly critical of brussels decision to impose sanctions on the russian economy the move has triggered fears of considerable trade losses as moscow in response banned certain european foods. spanish farmers have been dumping produce in the streets and burning you flags angry over lost revenue some producers are bracing for

a sharp drop in prices due to. the recently imposed russian embargo a trade union say that this will also mean significant job losses farmers have now been left wondering how they're going to make ends meet. which i think will fix them so the sanctions people are very pessimistic know nobody explains to farmers what's happening they don't know what the future will hold right now we have no other market to send produce to apart from the russian one i really disagree with the use decision to impose these sanctions on russia it was a big mistake because we never had any problems with russia. listen we have a group we've come to a dead end nobody cares about us except nobody cares how much money we knew how are we going to support. seeking to neutralize any backlash from russia's food ban brussels has been offering compensation to producers european commission plans to spend one hundred twenty five billion million excuse me euro's to help cover the losses though the numbers however show that this is only

a drop in the ocean as the cost to the worst hit nations is expected to be about nine times that amount. sun take a swing around the globe to look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour for the strongest quake in twenty five years to hit california has endured over one hundred twenty people six of them critically in a state of emergency has been declared after the six point zero magnitude earthquake hit the san francisco bay area there has been significant damage to buildings and public facilities nearly seventy thousand homes have been left without power. thousands of pro and anti-government protesters have gathered in the yemeni capital after negotiations with rebels failed president hardy's envoys held talks with the rebels commander since thursday asking him to abandon protests demanding the resignation of the government and a reversal of fuel price increases meant later halted talks with the shiite rebels

accusing them of attempting to restart the fighting the demonstrators took part in different parts of it. with no clashes between the protest groups occurring. voting has ended because yaz the nation chooses a new leader who will inherit a legacy of years of rampant corruption that's brought to the country to the brink the opposition leader is currently in front in the race according to exit polls morag. reports from the scene for two. this election is seen as a race between two main contenders on the one hand there is the opposition leader who led the protests the spring while on the other there's the form a new will soldier of the old president been seen as his successor the security services minister they've both got very similar programs they both promise to lift the country out of the poverty to utilize its tremendous resources and to secure more international recognition for this tiny location state as you can see the ballot boxes being behind. they will be counted into the night but

turnout has been huge in this polling station alone seventy two percent of registered voters turned out to vote across the country more than fifty percent turned out so this election by the countries that was is considered legitimate now it's no surprise the residents of the high turnout given the lead up to this early election the president would say alstad after a series of protests this spring protest against corruption protest against rob and years of broken promises it is episode of news team next year on r.t. . if you look at my generation of americans and even more so at the millennium there are a lot of people with all sorts of piercings and tattoos everyone wants to express themselves by getting the exact same cliché tattoos and piercings as everyone else

but can we discriminate against these people because of their and out appearance normally people are against discrimination because of punishes people for the way they were born that raise search gender but no one was born with big metal loops stretching out their ear lobes so essentially yes you can't judge someone by their tattoos and piercings because they got these done consciously as an adult i mean we all know that you need to dress up on a first date or job interview to make a good impression and will. having the words thug life written up your forearm are not very convincing to me that you are going to make a valuable employee or girlfriend one of the worst things that we tell children is that you should never judge a book by its cover the problem is that no one has the time to open up all these books and investigate so obviously ninety percent of the time we're going to be judging each other by the cover of our book and if that cover is full of dead fetus tattoos like one guy i know that you should expect a lot of bigoted reactions over the course of your life but that's just my opinion

. the news today and signs of more tragic progress in secret peace talks. many many. answers straight square stranger feaster a case of saying what if sick you see the. risk.

a very good morning to you from all of us here at aussie international sushi live in moscow just after eleven am right now. an easy truce has been reached in ukraine talks between the president and the opposition aimed at stopping the bloodshed which is staying in the country over the last few days now in total twenty eight people have been killed in clashes at least ten of those were police offices both sides and taking captives and what is beginning to look like a full on conflict our correspondent alexia chefs he is on the spot right now that's across live to him alexia good to see you and any chance this overnight truce will hold. no rory it seems like this is not suicidal in fact right now the protesters are no here they're literally just behind me that is right in the air it's not safe anymore he i'm afraid but.