which doesn't do anything. to teach me why you should care about humans. this is why you should want only. coming up on r t another american dies overseas fighting for the isis cause we look at what may make fighting for the islamic state so appealing for some and asked if the us will have to team up with assad to defeat the growing threat of isis. plus the blame game continues in ukraine at this time met with the much higher stakes the west accuses russia of sending tanks and soldiers across the border while russia continues to deny any claims of involvement and update on the conflict just ahead. and when it comes to talking about the n.s.a. most americans now say they want to keep the conversation offline fearing for their

privacy but could this unwillingness to talk about big issues create bigger problems down the road more on that later in the show. you know thursday august twenty eighth four pm in washington d.c. i'm a military man you're watching r t america. isis may be waging their war for an islamic caliphate across the iraq and syrian borders however their recruitment efforts are hitting close to home a second american has reportedly been killed fighting for isis in syria durham on muhammad of many many applicants the state department has yet to confirm this death but caitlin hayden a spokeswoman for the national security council confirmed that officials will be following up on this lead meanwhile mohammed's family has reportedly been sent photos of his body right now little is known about abdul rahman muhammad but he is

believed to have been killed in the same firefight that killed douglas macarthur mccain i was joined earlier by john l. esposito a professor of religion and international affairs at georgetown university to discuss the growing trend of american recruitment by isis and how the u.s. will deal with the terror group inside of syria i first asked him why isis seems to be appealing to westerners in general. well i think that one of these we should get first of all is that isis actually is appealing far more broadly than we really thought for example indonesians chechnyans who would have thought that it would be already growing in indonesia. and i think in terms of the u.s. . and the and europe. if you think about it it's precisely what al qaeda has been trying to do in recent years and particularly targeting use disaffected youth in one way or another disaffected the first young person who died

as a suicide bomber from florida talked about he was raised in a good middle class background family but talked about never really feeling that he fit in. yeah you know and they can be a variety of reasons for that is sometimes you can just be a psychological personality but other times it can actually be depending on where you live for example if you're in florida or some of the politicians t.v. are very anti muslim and so you know here you are you may be raised feel that you're part of a country and in fact you feel you know when you're actually looking at media or looking at the politics and feel like you're the other you're not and then on the other hand you're looking at other people in a minute not only quote i look down upon because of my religion whether or not i actually practice it you know but because i'm labeled you know a muslim but look at these other areas of the country where in fact people are being. persecuted by authoritarian governments where you think that the u.s.

and some of the european countries have either invaded or involved in massive searches situations of injustice right now. moving on to this next topic here is what i think i think is on the minds of a lot of people right now the u.s. is now considering airstrikes within the syrian border in order to combat isis and this means that the u.s. might potentially have to work with bashar al assad in order to get this done. but considering that just a year ago we were bashing bashar al assad we were calling him a terrorist and a dictator and you know throwing these bombastic words out at him now we're faced with possibly having to make nice with him do you think number one that's something we're going to have got to do and number two can we make that happen can we can we defeat isis by teaming up with the charlotte but i don't think that can happen it

would be so contradictory to both the u.s. and even the international community a good deal the international community's attitude towards the so-called leader of syria i just don't i just don't see that i think that and in fact i think the syrians in a way don't because we've had their foreign minister in effect say if they come in to go after isis if they're coming into our country they better expect a kind of military or air force response which of course if there were a concerted move by the u.s. and other strong powers the syrians don't have the aircraft to do that i think the challenge for the u.s. will be what kind of policy what kind of targeted air strikes and also what kind of assistance to what's left of the moderate forces because unless they can rebuild the moderate forces the geodes will remain strong not just isis but others but in particular. so you've got to hit isis if you can in strategic ways to hurt it

militarily but you also have to be able to now rather belatedly start dealing much more constructively and robustly with with and see. what would be empty. and also anti assad forces ok now correct me if i'm wrong are you basically saying that if we wanted to throw our weight around as the u.s. and go into combat isis on our own without the assad regime's approval are you basically saying that we can do so because he kind of has no recourse against us no i'm saying that if you have a terrorist threat you can wind up with in a situation that chaotic or you can wind up with a situation in which not just the u.s. the u.s. would have to have broad if you will broad support from many of its allies allies in the region as well as in europe and so then you have an international response

and at that point if if if if if i said says publicly you know the in effect i am the ruler of this area we really obama's statements that kind of made it clear that we really don't recognize him his regime and his regime is legitimate leader and i think what the u.s. could say is we are not at all targeting assad or us its forces but we are going after this these are restore going to satiate you know speaking of alliances what role do you think the local alliances within the surrounding community what role of those people play how are they going to help us or can we help them to defeat isis i think you know there has been an interest really on from countries as different as cutter saudi arabia turkey in in a response and in the past they they would kind of be looking to the u.s. or the. e.u.

etc to be very much involved in taking the lead i think those are the countries that we will be looking to that they're in a better position i mean clearly jordan will be happy but jordan really doesn't have significant resources that. it can offer but i think that that they will and there also been reports out of washington that the u.s. is talking to australia ok we're going to have a broad scope of alliances here now the big question now is then how did we get here did did the us player actually play a role and in creating the current situation with isis did we have anything to do with this i think that that in fact it's the facts on the ground that made this happen the situation in syria the nature of the government the inability of the moderate opposition to really work constructively together that set a scene for the jihad is to come in but the failure of

the us and the e.u. to do anything by way of significant response to two years ago the fed you to do that then created a worse situation emory slaughter used to be in the clinton administration and then was a dean at woodrow wilson did an interview on the steps that needed to be taken this was several years ago and then i saw her a couple of months ago being interviewed and she you know like what do we do and she said i said what we should do two years ago but it's sort of like saying not having done that you now have such a chaotic situation that has kind of spiraled out of yeah i don't look to me at this point for a response and i think that's what makes it so difficult now the situation on the ground is so diverse and so divided in some ways for isis. is. in a funny kind of way a certain good reality you know operating right you know right now within the

country given the other alternatives so you know if isis and some of the more militant geodes groups have basically weaken the moderates it's not just what us it's military's been able to do so this is actually you know making him look a little better along and you know it's a little bit like frankenstein's monster right well thank you so much for sharing your insights today that wasn't john l s that you know a professor of religion and international affairs at georgetown university thank you so much for your time thank you. now many have called isis al qaeda two point zero given their adept use of the internet and publicity techniques that would rival a new york ad firms now that analogy may not be too far from the truth r.t.s. marina has more on the media savvy of isis. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of troops involved in flames these are just some of the grotesque methods employed by the islamic state illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to spread its

message a message that even all kind is uncomfortable with visit. striking out can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of. the photography is hyper real. this whole mix states markets and techniques are becoming increasingly more professional and widespread as it's propaganda is found in different languages in news updates videos twitter accounts magazines and on t.v. the democratic they're targeting is you they're relying on the ignorance of you distorting the qur'an of course but they're also using various kinds of stylistic mannerisms which the youth are familiar with from the street from you tube from twitter and so forth in other words it has a very modern look and feel it feels like a media extravaganza but it's suffused with excitement now if we take

a look at the cover of the islamic states latest magazine they will see that it's a play on a noah's ark in which the message is it's either them or the flood and experts say there isn't controversy and fear to get more followers how are they doing that they're using hate propaganda by showing their adversary is paradoxically i was kidding baby is they also. are i think a remarkably harsh in their language they present their enemy is indeed humanized terms of some kind of humanity just as the nazis did so they only use pejoratives like crusade while watson nations might be trying to ball my sis out of existence i says itself seems to have learned that those bombs that can bridge social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever marina cos of our reporting from london forty. and blackwater is back in the news but this

time new information is discovered in their favor for blackwater private security guards are presently standing trial for the september two thousand and seven shooting at a source square in baghdad that left thirty iraqi civilians dead or wounded lawyers for the blackwater guards say they were firing. in self defense against iraqi insurgents in downtown baghdad seven years ago in closing arguments the defense attorneys accuse the iraqi national police of removing evidence that would have helped prove that it was insurgents that initiated the firefight other evidence they championed included photos of shell casings from a k forty seven that the defense team claims insurgents were using against the blackwater crew however the prosecution countered that a trail of bullet casings isn't enough to prove that insurgents were there stating that seeing shell casings are extremely common in the city now one defendant faces

life in prison while the three others could face up to thirty years if found guilty by the federal jury. today the western world woke up to the breaking news clamor that can be best described in one phrase the russians are coming the western mainstream media anxiety followed the ukrainian president's statements about russian troops invading his country now while these accusations are not new both ukraine and the west have failed to provide solid proof of moscow's involvement and say these two what blurry photos were made public allegedly there are russian troops moving across ukrainian territory artie's paulus lior has more on these latest developments. said we are mixed messages coming from kids on the one hand we're hearing from the ukrainian president petro poroshenko a suggestion that russian and ukrainian troops jointly patrol the russian ukrainian border to prevent the movement of any kind of military hardware but the suggestion

is hot on the heels of an earlier statement in which he directly accused russia of invading ukraine when you were here today because of the escalation of the situation in the donetsk region and because of the french rule in gratian of ukrainian territory by the russian army i have decided to cancel my visit to turkey now russia has repeatedly denied that it's giving any kind of assistance or sending its troops to help the anti-government fighters here in eastern ukraine the anti-government fighters have admitted that there are volunteer russians among their ranks but they say that these are small in number and again that they are volunteers most of them but they were three to four thousand of them amongst many of them have already left time even more still here at least some have been killed many of those russian volunteers a former soldiers now these ukrainian claims of russian assistance come at a crucial time it's a crucial time because the ukrainian army is suffering

a loss often lost at the same time there was an incident several days ago when tamed a russian soldiers crossed over into ukrainian territory now moscow has pointed out that this incident happened at night the border in many parts is unmocked and that this was an intentional move by the soldiers there are also allegations that have been put forward that russian paratroopers who were killed in ukraine are being buried in various russian cities now moscow says it is looking into these claims that as of yet they remain on substantiated they have also been a number of instances when ukrainian soldiers themselves have crossed over into russia seeking shelter they them returned to ukraine. as the fighting intensifies and anti-government form. ciscos in a coup for home goes on on sci fi and faceless for trafficking in it's also me coming it's not the first time kids so kids feel about. what you can you can receive a good been a good women if we're here for you are one of from

a book club are sure to almost everyone across the park women would say oh yes that was the only response because it was almost was i'm over various was on your resume watching and i really. like yelling at him i never laughed yet i don't know i love. that i don't know what the look at the dr look when i look at it with the jewel of a couple of the band at all but. it's a far cry from the tough talk of ukrainian president petro poroshenko talking of a strong country and strong army instead its young and often inexperienced soldiers as suggested by an image conversation between a commander and a tank soldier leaked online. real life. was like a way i was yeah i

was. way i was the guy was out there was frustration is growing among the troops is there but it's still the surface i think that you will have to begin to think that it's that thing for the families and it must. be a fight that was i mean. it was you know when you yeah. i knew. that you. and the government servants were the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist whites are two groups which is taking part in the fighting in the country's east if our demands are not met we'll be forced to withdraw our battalions from the front line and launch a march on to kiev to carry out speedy reforms in the interior ministry. you're bragging you have deceived people who you led into illegal armed units you were

turning the people who believed you can and. losses on the battlefield of mounting and here in the same two of today it's the ukrainian military defeat is on show the message is more than just symbolic a bad omen for the ukrainian soldiers encircled by self-defense forces in the region often it's. not only for the lives but for an army that they are accusing of betraying them and leaving them to die for your. stupidity. and the u.n. security council held an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss the ongoing crisis in ukraine artie's marina portnoy is monitoring from our new york studio hi marina so tell us either who called this emergency meeting well we have to keep in mind this is the twenty fourth meeting that the united nations security council has had on ukraine this particular one the emergency one was called by lithuania

a non permanent member of the council and key ukrainian allies and now what are the u.s. and ukraine saying about the claims that some russian troops have now moved into eastern ukraine we just did a piece about that showed these blurry photos what are people saying about it. well i mean ukrainian officials claim that russia has launched a full scale invasion into their country u.s. and nato officials are backing up ukraine's claims alleging that at least one thousand russian troops have entered ukraine with quote sophisticated equipment ukraine and its western supporters say russia has moved tanks armored personnel carriers artillery and multiple rocket launchers into ukraine and they kept quoting figures of thousands or hundreds of thousands and they kept making a lot of these statements but there wasn't much evidence really to back up the claims and now what's russia saying what's their response will russia maintain said it's not assisting or helping separatists on the front lines in eastern ukraine

russian envoy to the un vitaly churkin says the current escalation of violence in ukraine is the consequence of the direct policy of kieve which ambassador churkin russian ambassador to the u.n. says kiev is carrying out a war on its own people the the russian envoy says the ukrainian president petro poroshenko keeps using the word peace but hasn't made any sincere steps towards peace instead russia says the ukrainian military continue shelling civilian quarters on tens of thousands of people that are sitting in basements without food electricity or medicine according to moscow over eight hundred fourteen thousand ukrainian refugees refugees have fled to russia to flee the violence that's being carried out by key investor churkin says the ukrainian army is stomping all over normal humanitarian law and is the only thing that's being seen is keeps fight against dissent during the meeting a russian related direct message to the u.s. calling on washington to stop interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign states and to rein in its own geo political ambitions it's also important to point

out that amid all the allegations of russia's invasion nothing has been independently confirmed a spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general said it cannot be verified that there are russian troops in ukraine and even jen psaki the spokesperson for the u.s. state department said the u.s. won't call it an invasion while she said. that washington doesn't doubt key assessments u.s. officials don't don't have any independent verification of what's happening there at the meeting investor churkin also called on the security council to vote on a press statement that called for an immediate and unconditional cease fire in ukraine and inclusive political dialogue within the warring parties in ukraine and he also called for an increase in humanitarian assistance in eastern ukraine this was a press statement that the council could have voted on but lithuania asked for more time to look over the text mentioning concerns about the wording ok so does that mean that lithuania is kind of leading the talks at this point. lithuania called

called this particular emergency security council meeting and it is an ally of ukraine as i mentioned we didn't i didn't have the draft in front of me ambassador churkin held it up during the meeting but one would think that if at all fifteen members of the security council that are invested in creating peace in ukraine if they are why not vote on this press statement that calls for an immediate cease fire and inclusive political dialogue and increasing assistance in humanitarian aid it's not clear yet why there was an objection by lithuania but if one council member out of the fifteen says they need more time to look over attacks of what can happen all right thank you so much keep us updated that was our tease marina portnoy our new york studio. and who says the internet killed face to face conversations ok so that's kind of true but that's apparently not true when it comes to talking about the n.s.a. a new poll finds that since the revelations of edward snowden talking about the spy

agency online has become a no no r.t.s. alexa alexy or a chef ski breaks it down for us. social media may be good for keeping in touch with your friends but it's definitely not that good when it comes to discussing sensitive issues particularly the government surveillance that's according to a study released by the released by the pew research center suggesting that astonishing eighty six percent of americans were unwilling to discuss last year's revelations by the former n.s.a. man ad words snowden online they prefer to discuss those revelations in private conversations during a family dinner and so on and so forth and only forty two percent of facebook and twitter users were actually willing to discuss those issues online but that's only provided that these people knew that the people they were talking with would agree with them those who felt that they will not find understanding among their online discussion partners they did not go into those sensitive issues and there's another side to the coin here as well according to the study only fifteen percent of the

people actually got their information about the snowden case from twitter and facebook as opposed to between forty seven and fifty nine percent compared to other big news which were which were released on facebook and twitter the authors of the report are also lamenting that this is not the way that the and for that information must be distributed in a democratic society and they're also suggesting that this may go beyond just social media that people who are not willing to discuss a sensitive issues online are less likely to speak up even in their private life even in their offline life. yahtzee reporting from new york city. according to a new report if the u.s. doesn't act soon we could see riots due to rising food prices now the study by the

new england complex systems institute says that they've come up with a model to predict when and where food costs can actually create civil protests and fight it so the any c.s.i. says uprisings in north africa and the middle east in the past few years were related to dictatorial regimes but rising food prices were the underlying cause now adding to the stress is the global food market which depends more and more on multiple sources of food and water to feed a growing population now their data says protest and civil unrest have increased and decreased along with the rises and falls of the food price index now one of the biggest threats to food prices are actually increased drought and speculation now on top of that increased use of corn for ethanol has actually driven up the demand

for one of the world's most basic foods now that any c s i believes that if something isn't done by legislators to curb the speculation we may actually face a major spike in prices within the next three to five years. and investigation is underway in canada after a leaked video shows a puppy being kicked in an elevator the video caught a man abusing a doberman puppy after the video went public it was revealed the man kicking the puppy is dez hague he's a multimillionaire and the c.e.o. of the sports catering company called center plate now the footage was obtained by a security camera and his private residence at hotel ga in vancouver he was caught kicking the dog several times and then dragging the puppy out of the elevator by its leash hague has since released a statement as an apology that what he did was totally out of character hague will

also be donating one hundred thousand dollars to the sede foundation which protects animals in vancouver and will be serving one thousand hours of community service at an animal protection agency sources at global news have said the dog has been taken away from the owner and did not require immediate veterinarian assistance but will receive a full examination and after seeing that video it's safe to say that the puppy probably doesn't feel like the c.e.o.'s best friend and i'm going to do it for now stay tuned boom bust is coming up next. well done. this month show bush's transports gets a facelift a new cancer being born we make the most of the sun in years on this science flourishes in tomsk and we check out some fun car let's say the most technology

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