all eyes on the capitol of valerie's where leaders gather to devise a solution to the ukrainian crisis the president of russia and ukraine are expected to meet one on one for the first time. the shell shocked population of eastern ukraine struggle for food and water as a tillery attacks go on r.t. it follows the anti-government forces bring relief to the suffering locals. the u.s. so proves drone surveillance on islamic state in the regions in syria but a common thread still fails to bring washington and damascus closer towards cooperation. and just a few weeks ahead of the scottish independence referendum poll suggests the yes

campaign stalls a victory in the final debate between the leaders of the two camps. welcome to our g international well off from moscow this evening thank you very much for tuning in with us time to bunk with say. peace in ukraine could be hammered out in the capital of bella ruse as the presidents of russia and ukraine and representatives of the e.u. get together most expectations are placed on a possible one on one meeting between moscow and kiev leaders and we're going to is watching the gathering closely for us and she joins us live now you know what's been said so far where you are. what we have seen the two presidents put in and they shake hands so perhaps that is a good me

a good sign but then again we do not know for certain there is still meetings going on behind closed doors in this palatial in this presidential palace right behind me however a lot of people here are expecting to see some sort of breakthrough in the ukrainian crisis and ukrainian president poroshenko spared no words when describing its importance. to doing minsk without any doubt the fate of the world and the viewer is being decided that's the potential of this meeting together we have to find the one and only solution upon which depends no more no less the peace on the entire continent. and of course russian president vladimir putin has presented his own view off the solution to the korean crisis. we're ready to exchange opinions on the crisis in ukraine which we're certain is impossible to resolve by for the escalating the use of force without taking into account the interests of the southeastern regions of the country and

a peaceful dialogue with their representatives. right. now of course if we go back in time to the underlying problem at the core of the crisis in ukraine it all goes back to the countries decision to sign trade association agreement with the european union and that is something that russia has for a long time in the morning was a bad idea now russian president vladimir putin has reiterated the point that the country will be forced to drop its for french treatment off ukraine in all matters concerning economy and that it will be in accordance with those with the rules set forth by the world trade organization of which russia is a member and he also said that of course russia would love nothing more than to trade as it used to or with ukraine unfortunately is not going to be. used to go along the course of signing the trade association agreement but still we're all here waiting for the one and one meeting between the russian and ukrainian presidents we do not know for certain when and if it is even going to take place

but of course as soon as that happens we will bring you all the latest here and i thought like there's lots to be ironed out there in better loosely really in a better room capitals right keeping us abreast of the situation. political analysts. believe it won't be easy for putin and poroshenko to find common ground because of the outside factors shaping ukraine's politics. neither pushing cork has a great deal of leeway in the proceedings he consulted for a military solution in the east and he cannot backtrack on that one without losing credibility with his base particularly in the west of the country but the elephant missing from the room if you will is john kerry and victoria nuland because it is the brother family that they will be european throwing in a friend from brussels where is the real policy and the agenda for clear is being

drawn up in washington d.c. it is not in the interest of moscow to prolong this conflict but at the same time the hard line from kiev supported unfortunately by some of the worst elements in the country such as the right circle. the snowball the party do not bode well for a political solution if there is the readiness in the west to prompt in the direction of a political solution we indeed could have it in me. military officials in kiev say they've detained a dozen russian soldiers who crossed into ukraine at night a source in russia's defense ministry has reportedly confirmed they went over the border by a state jury when teen patrol leslie is in the region. well the head of kid of security services says that he does not believe that these soldiers crossed over into ukrainian territory accidentally but rather that it was an order that was

given he says that they were armed they had documents on them and that there were ten of them he says that they are now being detained they are being questioned at an undisclosed location russia's defense ministry on the other hand says that this was an intentional that the soldiers were patrolling the russian ukrainian border at night where it's very difficult often to demarcate where the borderline is that there was also some training that was happening five kilometers away from the border inside russia the border crossing between ukraine and russia is very often not signposted it often goes through fields and forests and villages now they have been incidents in the past not so long ago you had two ukrainian armored personnel carriers that crossed over into russian territory one crossed over and then another came to rescue it they were found by russian border guards and they were late free they were not detained there have been and number of incidents where areas particularly residential areas around the ukrainian russian border have been

shelled it was one incident where one person was killed and another was injured when a house in the last of russian region was hit by a shell not far from here is of course eastern ukraine where you have most of the shelling that is almost daily now we visited the city of yes in ovata with the anti government fighters who were bringing emergency relief to people who have been under siege for the better part of a month and who are in desperate need of medical and other supplies these men have seen some of the worst fighting in this conflict but there's one thing they find even worse was trying to destroy the local population their own people basically those who survived kiev's onslaught are slowly starving for four long weeks residents of us in nevada have been without food and water the only way in the. all out is surrounded by heavy artillery believes there was war this will be a good initiative we're doing everything we can so the people there have enough

food we're not going to let a humanitarian crisis happen. it's now for an on the anti-government fighters to make sure cities under siege get supplies also stop is this bread factory they've been baking this bread for the last twelve hours and a half thousand blows give money for everybody knows that this is all humanitarian aid for the hungry people look at our ground it's further off but it's not so pretty driving into yesterday twenty kilometers outside of the next where some of the fiercest fighting is taking place to. get off an hour ago missiles hit in the street a man was killed in a woman injured yesterday they hit the central gas boy every hour there was shooting with shelling while you were here you will hear it all. would quickly spades that helps arrived those who haven't fled the town risk the thunder of shelling to come quickly and take what they can. hear.

that she one of their villages he's a muslim but the most. devout or you know what they want to share his games the groom i just was wondering tonight you spent all of it in the crowd over to marriage and really start to get video and it was no big deal it was well you're pretty. good you. really feel rested with there could be a victory for the government for years no for the older but lenient on the law of the border three days ago this bridge was still standing entire buildings have been blown up neighborhoods completely destroyed juba obviously scald bother them there are. story was that even the nodes of the north as you can see were the creatures they were specifically targeting the hospital they tried to destroy the place where

children injured are being treated for that they want to create panic unbearable conditions so that people leave your doors but for now with the emergency supplies still reaching the city at least there was momentary relief for the people who refused to be driven out paula c r t yes in a vata eastern ukraine. they train in armies attacks in eastern ukraine and relenting the forces sent by kiev are pushing on with their operation to crush the anti government forces there is a church they came under shelling during an evening mass and there you can see it's been severely damaged there's no roof and many of the walls have been reduced to rubble. to journalists who were detained in ukraine have now been released they were a correspondent and photographer for crimea based newspaper unfortunately the still no word on the missing photo journalist under a stand in he disappeared in ukraine three weeks ago numerous campaigns for his

release have been held across the globe backed by calls from the year when russia and international human rights organizations were posting updates on the search for andre stand on our web site r.t. dot com. the u.s. will deploy its on man drones to patrol the syrian skies to serve the positions of islamic state militants the move was approved by president obama making it impossible precursor for airstrikes however washington's decision came without any approval from the syrian government america refuses to see us us forces as an ally in fighting the jihadists are mounting speculation suggests the u.s. will eventually have to work with the syrian president if it wants to eliminate the extremist threat. reports. there is no love lost between the west and the

syrian president but while their enemies today they could meet each other tomorrow top former military and counterterrorism officials say the u.s. should be prepared to start working with the government of bashar assad in order to fight the islamic state you're going to make a choice if we want to eliminate this isis we're going to have to deal with people we don't like in a similar vein the former head of the british army was quoted as saying the old saying my enemy's enemy is my friend is going to have to have some resonance with our relationship with assad but those are former officials speaking the current ones reject the prospect of cooperation with the syrian government the regime there the assad regime by their actions has allowed this group to flourish. the claim has raised many eyebrows given that the islamic state is hell bent on destroying the assad government and has gained momentum in the syrian civil war despite his differences with the west damascus now says it's ready to cooperate when it comes

to fighting terrorism but that any efforts must be coordinated with the assad government whether syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate on the regional and international levels to confront terrorism in the framework of respecting the sovereignty of syria. all anti terror efforts inside syria should come after coordination has been made with the syrian government in advance. well after years of trying to topple bashar assad and it's time for assad to get out of the way we both agree that assad needs to go it may not be easy for the u.s. to be seen cooperate with him but while the west still liberates over going after the jihadists of these amik state in syria the issue becomes even more pressing well we're going to have to say something to the syrian government if we're going to start bombing in syria and the west may have already started helping us secretly a source told the independent that western intelligence agencies have provided the syrian government with details of the location of islamic state leaders targeted

air strikes the source claims the information was passed to assad's forces by the german intelligence service which acted as an intermediary even if there's a temporary act of convenience some sharing of intelligence which is unproven i believe the united states is still working primarily to overthrow the assad government imagine the president of the united states coming out and say i know i said assad is the enemy number one and all that but today well we may have to work together that may not be an easy thing to swallow for the presidential ego but it deal and cooperation could save many lives in washington i'm going to check out party. right in the city with me here is journalism foreign policy analyst michael hughes is joining us live today to discuss the situation that we've been talking about now technically the u.s. and the syrian army on the same slide in terms of fighting they stomach stage group could those common sort of try and pull them together u.s.

and damascus you would hope so de facto they're on the same side and it's kind of ridiculous now obama's top military advisers made two points number one we need to get them at their source which is number two air power alone can only do so much eventually you need boots on the ground and i draw an analogy to afghanistan the whole to. i'm the seekers in pakistan the head of the you know the taliban and we couldn't have on the ground there now pakistan has nuclear weapons so you know we are prevented from doing that but in syria you know we we have the surveillance flights going on overseas and all that means is they're probably establishing a plan to strike the country which would be a big mistake now ideally if they were smart they would start you know the military advisors should should you know propose a unified command you know you syria bring in russia i mean russia could help a lot the u.k. saudi arabia could help with the intelligence. so if they were smart that's what

they would do but u.s. politics gets in the way of domestic and we've had an anti assad stance from the beginning i just remember hillary's he's got to go and we've stuck to that line and obama with his red line politically going to shoot themselves in the foot the mythical the tables i'm turning now because this might mean that you know the u.s. might have to just shove little you know that hate the underside and actually get in the and say look we need you know we need your help so why go washington is only it's on the islamic state fighters in syria what could the operation result in to you did mention that if they started to you know so any kind of bombings without involving the damascus side of things what does this mean i mean that i mean then you know you have the. the drum drum beat of war between syria and you know a clash between syria and the us it would seem pretty insane to me that the u.s. are striking within syria without working with the assad regime it seems extremely

bold especially when you have a partner someone who wants to be a partner with you in order to do that so you know if it's nervous i'm nervous about the voice voices out of washington the people around obama his ambassador and his military and not his military advisers the politicians the state department officers that are saying that are unwilling to even. with syria but that's what's scary but typically you know the way they're going about it they're prepping the ground so to speak for airstrikes you know and i think that's obvious let me talk to you a little bit about this let me state we've seen videos roaming around they using social media as a tool to brainwash kids. on a massive scale could these kids become some sort of a jihadist time bomb could we see this is getting out of proportion for all sides. sure yeah it's this is been going on for a while in syria you know de facto the u.s. should have always been on sirius because from the get go the you know this revolt

against the saudi regime was radicalized within like a month or two and you have kids on the ground some of them were secular but these children they need a cause to really around and jihadism is a nice and they're a good for them you know with their backs against the wall that they reach out and so these and these you know extremists are providing them with the narrative they're providing them with the story providing them something to live for when they're in you know they're susceptible to this message so yeah it's very scary that you know the u.s. they should be they should understand they should see this and be willing to prevent a caliphate. you know there should be our number one priority. right because of this brainwashing from the you know start from the bottom up. when looking quite closely at the developments well in the u.s. i'm in damascus of course and like you just said hopefully they'll be some kind of coming together and the u.s. might have to speak to damascus after all thank you very much michael hughes here who's a foreign policy analyst as well as a journalist joining us now in the studio. differently here in syria.

many of the members of congress of both parties syria in recent months. this. week. to go. to. syria. subsystem. i mean after the show breaking on our t.v. international while celebrities in the west take up the ice bucket challenge the arab world is desperate to pull loads awareness of the toll victims of war by using the rubble of gaza instead of shows will tell me why back.

differently here in syria now many of the members of congress of both parties have gone to syria in recent months has a. former. president which is diddy's telling him to go. to go. to syria you probably saw the stuff. he's in for becoming independent schools a nation that nation should be self-governing govern the feels better to love someone else to do it for.

staying with us it's been that difficult to be on social networks of late and not to stop. thousands of people posting photos and videos of themselves getting dazed in ice cold water almost two million people have already taken part in the stunt to promote awareness of. no room disease more than sixty million dollars has already been raised by everybody from famous movie stars to the best filmmakers history of their face all co-founder as well as one of the wealthiest man over from american president george bush took part in the trend to some of the participants of his great exceptional creativity while others preferred a less extreme but very witty approach.

well other parts of the world are struggling to raise awareness of their tragic situation are hoping to use their own version of the popular campaign in gaza after weeks of conflict water is worth its weight in gold and a lack of power makes it hard to freeze so a palestinian journalist is using the one thing which is freely available rubble created by israeli missile strikes he's asking people to shower themselves in the degree of buildings instead mahmoud was there has taken part in the campaign so we asked him about the serious message palestinians are trying to send to the outside world. we've organized a campaign called we have hope for children in gaza in order to support child victims in the region these children are getting shelled in their houses with the roofs crumbling over their heads i want to share this picture with the world the

people not only in the arabic world who feel the pain of the children and people of gaza. meanwhile reports are immersion that the desperately desired relief is closer than it is to become us officials as saying a long term truce in gaza has been agreed with israel putting an end to the seven weeks of fierce fighting old world television has denied all the reports i read what r.t. dot com. the final televised debate between the yes and no camps in the scottish independence campaign turned heated the destiny of the country's future will be decided in mid september parties marion acosta was watching how the latest ed. it was very loud in the very fiery debates in which both men gave it their all but it appears the victory is in alex salmond's hands in favor of independence according to a snap poll some seventy one percent of voters thought he came out on top which is

a dramatic turnaround for scotland so first minister let's not forget that last time he was challenge over issues such as the future of scotland's economy and the future of the pound and this time he came prepared to give his currency options offer in free plan b.'s in fact something which he kept repeating but saying that sick into the pound would be best the economy going to probably the most important regulation. now they had all the better together campaign alistair darling head back saying that that would leave scotland at the mercy of a foreign country telling them how to spend its money just like eurozone countries which have to get their budgets signed in brussels. and videos you see you don't have a central bank so our financial services existence go and now other topics the two clashed on the world oil revenues the future of nuclear weapons as well as a health care the hour and a half debate ended up being a little bit of

a slanging match as the pair repeatedly shouted over each other to be heard there was very clear that the scottish national party leader was adopting a more emotional but more confident approach some said that the fact that he was shouting over his opponents could put off some voters but as we can see with the results of the snap election it seemed in his favor well a fifth of scotland's electorate will start receiving their ballots as early as this tuesday and many of them could be making their decision today based on that debates. public anger in the us at the military style police response to peaceful rallies over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager refuses to subside the protests that followed michael brown's funeral have been peaceful but more nationwide rallies against police brutality a planned from cheers to citizens all over the world will take to the streets demanding security forces stop using tear gas and heavy weapons during rallies they are planning to protest near police stations and u.s.

embassies and with the end arrest in ferguson two police officers have been suspended for the harsh rhetoric one went on twitter to say protesters should be killed like rep it dogs while another appears to have posted a video two years ago in which he says he's a killer who is ready to kill anybody political columnist ted rall believes the approach of the predominantly white police force in ferguson made the rallies in the habitable what we're talking about is a powder keg that was ready to explode we're talking about a predominantly black community that had been harassed and abused by a predominantly white police force for many many years and in a city that had declining economic status for most people who lived in it and so it was only a matter of time before something happened to set that off michael brown may or may

not be an angel were probably never going to really know the truth there he's dead he can't speak for himself but in a sense it doesn't really matter what matters is that the overall situation that created those riots was going to create a riot from something at some point was coming up after the break. 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 cliched 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 their 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 well 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 .

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