ukrainian militia was responding to the russian president's request that they let in circle the government soldiers leave. by saying though they can go ahead and leave if they hand over their heavy weapons. grade city of donetsk. shelling leaving at least two people dead our correspondent witnessed the aftermath . and american police departments admit that some of the military grade weapons are missing it's raising fears that could now be on the black market.

welcome to the program here on r.t. international role research a bit you talk world headlines for now the ukrainian troops and circled by anti government fighters in the east of the country have received support from the russian president vladimir putin has called on the militia to release the soldiers to avoid pointless casualties that's. now standing by for us in eastern ukraine good morning to you paula can you tell us a bit more about how the russian president's request well the russian president vladimir putin has called on antigovernment finds his ukrainian soldiers who are coming inside the combat zone out freely he pointed out that they would not acting on the own will but simply following orders now the prime minister of the demands for public has responded by saying that they will make the soldiers out if they hand over their heavy weapons. we are ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for ukrainian soldiers on the condition that they hand over

heavy weaponry and ammunition in the future these weapons can't be used against us which was on the. now there have been wide scale protests inside the ukrainian capital where thousands of people who are demanding that their government no longer betray them they accuse the government of the military down at the same time they calling for the resignation of the ukrainian defense minister this follows comments earlier by the country's president petro poroshenko he directly accused russia of invading his country but later he suggested that there be some kind of cooperation between the two countries in terms of joint missions where ukrainian and russian soldiers would patrol the ukrainian russian border together so we are getting these kind of mixed messages out of kiev on thursday they was heavy shelling here in downtown donates the local authorities say that three civilians were killed just moments after those shells hit we went to the same tour

of the city. we hear and what was a small market right in the city same to opt in it's because you can see the rocket has hit the whole flight the whole facade of the bolding people it was killed while waking up at the local bus station here so we got up looked at a little of all of the people for the video look a little closer look a lot of. look here. if you look at a look at it where one person lost their life has been covered with his sheeting taken off into ambulances in the distance so what happened to you know it was the duty of a dormir down the spirit but it was reported quietly if you will throughout that this is to be understood by the doctor says a woman lying on the ground here she's being killed she was the worker and small stall she was hit by the impact of the rockets and the last. half of bodies

being blown away and we're waiting now for an ambulance to come and take. yeah your book the boiler smoking is no good if women use one and this is this is one of the residential buildings that has been hit people are coming back now to clean up their apartments and to see both means this is a bomb shelter here which is top of my door nano that is inside at the moment but immediately after the rockets wind people came time to put some sort of girders nurtured this worth of earth as large as they were didn't serve source the material and. it is now the sound of incoming artillery so we can get out of here what some people are telling us is that is an army barracks in the vicinity and they think that the ukrainian army was aiming for that rather than these residential buildings points here on t.v. downtown dates. and russia's defense ministry now saying that by releasing satellite pictures of power showing russian troops inside ukraine nato is only

going to taint its international reputation or the ministry says commenting on them is absolutely pointless let's show you some of the images that nato has presented as proof the pictures apparently show russian self-propelled artillery units moving in a convoy through ukraine's territory the images allegedly show activity in a russia or adjacent to the ukrainian border something nato says as part of moscow's de stabilizing strategy daniel mcadams the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity he shared his thoughts but i think these were released by the same they were taken by the same company that the u.s. had used to relieve its satellite information about m.h. seventeen the only asian air flight the existence of bones by the rebels in ukraine . very dubious credibility it's a private firm i don't think it shows anything i don't think what most people in the west understand is that everyone on both sides with the exception of some ukrainians having american weapons but everyone is using russian weapons the line

of russian tanks means nothing because we don't have the information to tell us where it came from as to whether russia has troops on its border it's inside its border you know their businesses so that if we had unrest on the border with mexico here in the u.s. he'd be sure we'd have a military presence there to make sure our borders were secure and claims by the ukrainian president that russia had invaded his country certainly still many media outlets taken up the story just running wild with it here's a tease guy nature can assessing some of that coverage. panic alert in western media after key if tweeted that russia invaded ukraine when reports started coming in that fighting broke out between the rebels and ukrainian forces in the port town of. many were quick to claim that it's russia's doing what seems to be happening on the ground however is that russian troops of pushing in

from russia photos of tanks emerged to social media with nothing to suggest that they were operated by russian soldiers kill you put out this video claiming it's a russian. zone but while journalists were grappling with the new developments and struggling with the pronunciation of the town that was supposedly being invaded this is no bus got u.s. and nato officials pushed ahead with accusing russia of deploying more than one thousand troops and heavy artillery into ukraine the media quickly picked up on the statement of the rebel leader saying that there are indeed russian soldiers fighting with the rebels but that they are either veterans or on vacation the part about veterans and vacation is often dismissed in the media last week ukraine called russia's delivery of humanitarian aid in eastern ukraine an invasion this week it accused moscow of quote unquote a full scale invasion the western media that is generally not putting much distinction between rebels and washer quickly picked up that side of the story that

is despite the fact that this thursday the ois sea which is now monitoring the russian border with ukraine said they saw no evidence of russian troops and tanks crossing the border the u.n. said it could not independently verify the reports of the russian invasion but a u.n. security council meeting was called upon where its western members push to hold russia responsible russia stop this conflict at least two thousand two hundred twenty people including twenty three children have died in the conflict in eastern ukraine. but we have never heard the u.s. ambassador to the un call on kiev to stop bombing its own people in washington i'm going to check out our team. and the international monetary fund saying that ukraine is so far on track to receive further financial aid later today the i.m.f. will discuss the next one point four billion dollar handout however the lender has

expressed severe doubt the money will not be enough to cover the government's needs in fact the country's economy shrank by almost five percent in the second quarter of just this year also major firms losing up to ten billion dollars just over the first half of the year over the same time last year there were several hundred million in profit or ukraine's national currency the grief is losing value of thora to you said said the economy will be unsustainable if the currency falls to more than twelve to the dollar and it's at or thirteen and a half right now well here's what the i.m.f. initially said that kiev would do to get the financial aid first of all the i.m.f. wanted ukraine to raise gas tariffs tires for electricity also for you to lety as well at the very same time freezing pensions freezing wages and raising taxes but now there are new conditions include slashing tax benefits for agriculture and allowing banks to reprocess properties and wall street analyst michael hansen

believes ukraine is periods straight into the financial abyss ukraine's not me edition nor is the i.m.f. meeting its own conditions under the article it's never just funny to look at a tree that is unable to repayment at least the man is going to force you brilliant currency where you know they're going to make imports much more expensive ukrainians they're going to increase the cost of living the government will withdraw. the price supports for gas and for other essential so the cost of living will go up unemployment all right ukrainians are going to be leaving to the west to the east because the economy will be filled by the conditions of this well this is what the i.m.f. economists inside internally have been complaining about they said wait a minute the i.m.f. loan to greece we've already seen that for the greek economy of tired you know

you're doing the same thing with you brain so if you want to see what will happen in ukraine look at what happened after two thousand and twelve to the i.m.f. loan reach it's a disaster and the foreign press association in london has now become the latest organization calling for information on a russian journalist who's been missing in ukraine for over three weeks now it's said that under a stand in must be released if indeed he's being held by ukrainian security forces the group also said that old media should be allowed to cover the ukrainian conflict freely and without harassment a photo journalist stunned then disappeared in eastern ukraine on august the fifth with online users setting up a global campaign carrying the hash tag free entry. i still to come on the program when i see international libya descends into the worst oil since the wall that alstad gadhafi back in twenty eleven the interim government

resigns under pressure from islamist forces coming up on the program expert opinion on who's behind the rival forces that are tearing the country up. big toys for a big voice we had to moscow's twenty fourteen car show to check out what's being rolled out by chinese and western companies a sanctions on no such. differently here in syria now many of the members of congress of both parties who have gone to syria in recent months has said he's a reformer of mr president which is diddy's talking for him to go to. stability and peace to syria is really the most obvious.

reason for becoming independent schools a nation that nations should be self-governing govern the woman feels better than allowing someone else to do it full. hello again libya's interim government has resigned after islamists tighten their grip on the country pushing it towards its worst crisis since twenty eleven and

this comes days after militants declared a breakaway regime to rival the elected parliament and libya though remains split between two rival camps one controlled by islamist backed rebel factions and the other by. it was a u.s. citizen and a rogue general from the area so on one side it's alleged the islamist militias are receiving support from turkey and qatar on the other the current regime apparently being backed by egypt and the arab emirates who both reportedly carried out air strikes against militia positions last week a political writer and journalist done glazebrook told us the conflict in the country has actually turned into a proxy war. if you look at what's happened subsequently to the destruction of the libyan state at the hands of nato and their rebel called allies on the ground is libya's been turned from being before twenty eleven a linchpin of reasonable stability to a safe haven actually for sectarian death squads and militias of all kinds. from

from around the region they're already still involved in the chaos in libya britain and the us both a huge deal as to there to tarrie regime there and qatar is the one who is arming the militias that are causing such chaos in libya so that would be that would be a start would be to stop arming those of their allies who are arming their militias in libya that that would be a great start to recognize the role they're already playing in destabilizing libya and to stop doing that. let's show you how the power struggle in libya unfolded this year it was in may that the rogue. launched a counter offensive against the islamists to try to bring them under control and then it was in june there was an election but straight after a number of officials defected to the islamists and formed a parallel government and last month an islamic emirate was declared in benghazi

and tripoli airport would see when the extremists finally took control of the airport this month the central government asked for foreign. well plenty more stories for you online right now including the risk of death is no reason to miss out on some fun with. the. u.s. . just one day after a nine year old girl accidentally shot and killed her shooting instructor came up with seven ways children with fun at the shooting. web site. this story as well and enduring swimming gets the shock of his life when he climbs out of the english because the u.k. border police were waiting with a towel and a pair of handcuffs they thought he was in a legal immigrant details on. the results of a meteor investigation suggest over one hundred eighty police departments in america have large weapons missing the findings come amid accusations that police

forces have resorted to using military style equipment to crack down on the protests in the town of missouri let's take just several states for example in georgia are not only pistols of banished but m. fourteen an m. sixteen machine guns as well and then to the golden state of california the same heavy weaponry has also disappeared right there. reporting on the very real concern about whose hands these weapons are falling into. debate over a heavily militarized police force in the us continues to rage on as another twist in how weapons are handled by law enforcement agencies across the country is revealed according to an independent investigation by media outlet fusion into the pentagon's ten thirty three program as many as one hundred eighty four state and local police departments have been suspended for losing military level equipment provided to them by the pentagon this comes following events that unraveled in ferguson missouri where law enforcement in the head to toe military gear attempted to tackle protests in

a largely unprecedented crackdown on civilian streets now the pentagon's equipment transfer and program is reported to have provided over eight thousand police departments with over four point three billion dollars worth of military equipment and weapons since nine hundred nineteen fusions investigation revealed an eyebrow raising trend recording instances of not only noncompliance to the pentagon's guidelines but dangerous weapons not being accounted for and essentially getting lost this list includes m fourteen an m. sixteen assault rifles pistols shotguns and even military vehicles like humvees and reportedly at least two cases when it comes to lost firearms in arizona alone one department was documented to have lost eleven or twelve weapons no less other states that have been poorly keeping track of weaponry include missouri california mississippi and georgia that's according to fusion and while the pentagon has said the goal of the program has been to improve homeland security its application is raising harsh criticism especially in the aftermath of recent events in ferguson

where issues of police misconduct overly violent heavily militarized and unaccountable behavior have been at the forefront so these last revelations on a poor bookkeeping track record and almost two hundred police departments across the u.s. are already drawing sharp criticism and a demand for answers from officials purview of the ten thirty thirty three program is currently being conducted by the white house and stacy target out party. you are right time to dive into the r.t. world update now will start with the demonstrators who were upset over the layoff of workers at a spanish airbase they've occupied city hall in the tunnel. they brought with their mattresses and spent the night just inside and just outside the building protesters said the company that manages the air base has been taking advantage of economic difficulties by cutting labor costs and terminating employees contracts with little notice inside the air base is one of the largest american air force bases in spain it's used by both countries. over one hundred thirty activists to be arrested and

several detained during a rally outside the white house they were demanding the u.s. president implement immigration reforms by the end of the summer the crowd were angry at the continued deportations of undocumented immigrants the march was part of a national day of action and similar protests held in twenty other cities. and a former general motors workers in colombia have sewn their mouths shut outside the american embassy to pressure the automaker to compensate them for work related injuries they say they are suffering from debilitating conditions caused by their work and that the company is trying to avoid paying medical benefits since twenty eleven protests have included a hunger strike and workers even crucifying or bury them so. now after insisting moscow is not doing enough to ease tensions in ukraine washington is preparing more economic sanctions against russia the sentiment was

echoed by the german chancellor angela merkel who said the e.u. is also considering similar steps however already though there are politicians who consider this policy to be very counterproductive and that number of politicians who feel this way is only growing. different sanctions a new trade war i know this means improving the situation on the country we have a spear old miscreation france the german any of. my experience that many people reached. back to the sanctions right from the start they have their rightful feeling that this is not the way to achieve anything. and devise sanctions are always proof that the political means feel they're useless and they are harming the population if sanctions always lead to losses on both sides and you can already see the backlash from the sanctions but in the next couple of months it will be even more obvious you know what i'm talking. from the beginning it was the wrong approach because sanctions escalated the situation and did not ease the tensions it

was clear when the you impose sanctions that there would be a counter reaction and the stakes would be raised and now because of that a lot of entrepreneurs as well as the general public in germany has been affected by that skiing type of eyes that one place you'd be hard pushed to spot the ill effect of sanctions is moscow's glittering twenty fourteen car show or european and chinese manufacturers rolling else some of the very latest models and actually saying that many parts of the auto market in russia are booming. she went to have a look and she got behind the wheel. but the last week on board just women you would be forgiven for thinking that because a lot of global sanctions again also wasn't a feature on the fact that the car industry is taking a little bit of a slump at the moment it's a bit of a rocky ride was the best market is still one that everyone here wants to tap into and not the case and about five years time that to overtake the german one that was

the biggest in the us if we do take thanks and that in mind this may not be germany to save her head by about twenty five but i spoke to the company now and they've been sleeping and they've been banged up take about base. to remain absolutely dedicated to our strategy of growth in russia we believe that differently and the growth is still going to continue over the next few months and years to come. and there and when you look at it two over two million vehicles are being sold in russia right now which is still one of the top both awarded markets in the world now there is talk about sites being imposed upon the college industry specific play now this won't affect foreign called companies that produce that they pay we've got some eighty percent of them some talk about so yeah it's up for this town but it would affect the importing of components not something that the modified just move i don't think really enthused about there will be some policy or they all joined us

here from russia garments they already start for a bit to keep or something european brands from europe to russia and. there will be something to you in the market i think we can see some have to space and we can lower your part aabs this one particular that that is still growing i'm not the luxury while the russians i love it russian still have a bit of looks right for sure they do. we're very happy here with a healthy market share so we typically have over thirty percent to about look through book you to the automobile sector they were the very best so whatever they buy this is the best and most days the international holds my mil mom is still set to be a red coat with a more boy clothes on side than ever before knowing global branding is on one million visits is expected still poland see enough to drive the markets. well thanks for joining us for an aussie international scotland gears up for his

independence vote also uses sophie shevardnadze discussing the most sensitive issues with the scottish first minister alex salmond we. are. no a famous politician is tweeting that a foreign government is using excessive force against protesting citizens does this mean we're going to see yet another intervention to democratise their government into the dirt like in iraq or libya wait wait nothing is going to happen because that politician is russian but why is this so why can the police beat up or terrorize protesters in some countries but in others if you lift one finger you're going to get a nato lesson in human rights well the answer simple this tweet and any attempts to

intervene from do a member of what happened because unlike what they tell you in school might does it make right for young uns out there old grandpa kirby remembers the cold war and back when there were two great powers they had to at least behave well to woo people into believing that one side were the good guys now that's all gone the problem is they model polar world that we live in heck if the u.s. still had to deal with soviet or some other propaganda we would never see as much footage of flagrant police misconduct that we do now absolute power corrupts absolutely and the geo political monopoly that we all live in really isn't good for the average person in or outside of america especially if they want to protest but that's just my opinion. polls are my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the

reports for. the new i will leave the state department comment on your letter. to secure yes because it's all you're talking no. thank you no more weasel. when you need a direct question be prepared for a chase when you know you should be ready for a. pretty speech let out on the freedom to watch.

i don't welcome one says a shevardnadze and today we're away from our usual moscow studio where in a very special setting astonishingly beautiful shetland isles off the northeast coast of scotland for the north sea. you will find the shetland isles and there is a way of harris to talk to the first scottish minister alexander salmond about the defining point of every land it's seventeen it's mr salmond's flagship policy to see scotland become independent from the united kingdom where the benefits and the drawbacks let's take a look. in scotland. and appealing sounds to at least a third of the country's four million voters who want the three hundred year old political union. who dares break with history to pay less to a foreign pocket retain its share of resource riches hundred it's environment of nuclear friction yes many believe strength lies in the union as referendum

countdown begins in earnest focus is turning to the key players in the campaign the leaders the media and london's reach. will take the high road and rebuild hadrian's. we talk to alex salmond the first minister of scotland on his personal and political quest for sovereignty. aleksandr salmond the first scottish minister thank you very much for being with r.t. to day i would great pleasure to be to be here what the light to have you fill me in scope so you have sat recently and this is your quote the political union does not work for scotland anymore it holds scotland back and imperils our future what is so wrong with remaining within the u.k. . a democratic. fifty years old.