well you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and. the freedom to. ten russian soldiers detained after crossing the ukrainian border have been released and returned. also this week you have a night about possible russian invasion while ukrainian troops say they're being left to die at the hands of anti-government forces plus. as the jihad is from islamic state continue their rampage through syria and iraq we look at the two pillars of the groups might explosion black market economy and the media campaign that's attracting new recruits and drives.

the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you watch from the weekly here on r.t. international. a group of russian soldiers detained in ukraine several days ago has been returned home ten paratroopers were captured six days ago when they claimed they unintentionally crossed the ukrainian border while on a routine patrol has been following the developments all ten russian paratroopers who were earlier detained by the ukrainian authorities have now been handed over to russia the group was patrolling the russian ukrainian border when an intentionally they crossed over at night at a section of the border that is not well signposted they were then intercepted by the ukrainian security services can from what we understand the release talks were complicated and difficult but it is important to note that border incidents like this are not uncommon early in august there were around four hundred ukrainian

servicemen who crossed over into russian territory now they were encircled by the anti-government forces they asked a russian border patrol to give them a humanitarian corridor or so that they could evacuate they wounded and they were injured they also said they had run out of food and the mission later they returned to ukraine but not after some of their personnel received medical treatment inside russia there was also another incident some three days ago when some sixty ukrainian servicemen crossed over into russia seeking shelter. while russia handed over the captured soldiers to crane just a few hours ago international law expert alexander mccord has told us why he thinks kiev was thrilled to have detained actual russian servicemen. when government wanted to look. all. they're trying to argue and have been trying to argue for a long time that they're not really fighting the people of the eastern ukraine but

that they're fighting the russian army so here they had ten russian actually to an actual soldiers and they were able to grade them and them on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which will convince you that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have un convincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven in that respect or ukrainian government has been waging its campaign in the east for four months now kiev says over seven hundred soldiers have been killed in the crackdown on local militia there with over two and a half thousand wounded but the government is accused of underreporting and here forces say the number is more like fourteen thousand casualties or some of the

fiercest fighting in eastern ukraine has been in the town of. the ask in the dinette region ukrainian army has been encircled there by anti government forces soldiers claiming they've suffered serious losses because kiev didn't send any reinforcements in another report filed by poor slayer she looks at the growing frustration in the army. as the fighting intensifies and anti-government forces close in a coup for hope goes on on said for reinforcements for catching includes also incoming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned let me take care needed lizzie mcguire been appear women if a little more nearly three dollars what a sucker for some a bloke wabble sure to almost everyone across the back women's would say i wish that was the only response go you see i was one of the was original i'm over there it was much more of a resume much 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 alleged conversation between a commander and a tank soldier leaked online i feel five. forty five was like hey i was there i was there was was there was a way i was like. how dare i say what is frustration is growing among the troops and the issue but then it's delicious i think that you will have look over at the political dissidents that. and the government for the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist white sector group which is taking part in the fighting in the country's east if our demands are not met will 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. yeah roach

with your bragging you have deceived people who you led into illegal armed units you were turning the people who believed you indicate an imposter meanwhile the losses on the battlefield are mounting. point of c.r.t. eastern ukraine. earlier this week cranes president petro poroshenko said russia had invaded his country international media outlets immediately ran with this story and each again looks at some of the 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 in 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 last week ukraine called russia's delivery of humanitarian aid to 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 see 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've never heard the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. call on key to stop bombing its own people in washington i'm going to check out our team. well weighing in. the claims of a russian invasion nato released a series of satellite images apparently showing russian troops inside ukraine russia's defense ministry says they are too vague in commenting on them is pointless the first image apparently shows a russian artillery convoy moving through ukraine's territory other images allegedly indicate activity in russia adjacent to the ukrainian border something nato says is part of the stabilizing strategy don't you mcadams executive director

at the rome paul institute for peace and prosperity says the pictures credibility is highly questionable but i think these were released by the same they were taken by the same company that the u.s. had used to release. information about m.h. seventeen the elysian air flight the existence of bones by the rebels in ukraine and so i think it has very dubious credibility as 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 their 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 if it's inside its border you know there were businesses that if we had unrest on the border with mexico here in the u.s. you'd be sure we'd have a military presence there to make sure our borders were secure. we mark human rights watch the game called on for information on russian photo journalist on that

i stand in he went missing in ukraine at the start of this month the watch dogs deputy director for europe and central asia said the rights of media were close to being violated in ukraine by both militia groups and the army she also said the authorities have a track record of detaining russian journalists give says it has no information about the photo journalist. i. now in other news the west is scrambling to form a coalition against the islamic state as the jihadists make further gains in syria and iraq washington is in the world community to unite in efforts to root out the militants at the same time stepping up airstrikes against them but the latest report suggests the extremists do have enough funds anyway to replace any arms and equipment destroyed by the us well the islamic state has managed to create one of

the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with assets worth an estimated two billion dollars and a significant amount around two million dollars daily reportedly comes from selling oil to kurds in iraq syria turkey and jordan smuggling and kidnapping is also a lucrative sideline ransom payments have brought in around ten million dollars in recent years and the islamic state even publishes a corporate style annual report to attract new sponsors while its flair for social media publicity is clear as marine corps set of reports. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western 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 and message that even al qaida is uncomfortable with visit those what was striking. can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the

scale of isis the photography is hyper real islamic states markets and techniques are becoming increasingly more professional and widespread as its propaganda is found in different languages in news updates videos twitter accounts magazines and on t.v. the democratic they're targeting is you know they're relying on the ignorance of youth distorting the koran 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 is controversy and fear to get more followers how are they doing that they are using hate propaganda by showing their adversary is paradoxically as killing babies 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 crusades while watson nations might be trying to bomb isis out of existence. i says itself seems to have learned to those bombs that can bridge social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever merino call survive reporting from london for art's sake the advance of jihad is considered to be to reach for this even by al qaida have been followed by mass murders and executions later in the program we report on the plight of the easy minority considered devil worshippers bobbies on this amp of that subject to genocide.

london and paris khan deciding how to deal with the thousands of migrants massing the fronds from u.k. border we've got the stories in a couple of things. differently here in syria now many of the members of congress of both parties who have gone to syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer mr president that we choose diddy's poem for him to go. and still be at least to syria is really a subset of the. money . in. your c.v. is bizarre to see it more than the propaganda or feel that is the state sponsor of

russia today program just words like sabean not like i don't think analyze this or that is just ridiculous non-answer to my question. johnny's not be supportive of their safety and sometimes their lives all over the world to bring people stories the problem down the channels don't want you to see and we told her some. steam. hello again you're watching a weekly here on r.t. now slovakia could veto the attempt to impose more trade sanctions against russia next week the country's prime minister says the measure is a meaningless and candid productive and that there's no point in supporting sanctions that could hurt the economy further restrictions announced by european leaders at

a summit in brussels would be the latest escalation in the trade war since moscow imposed a food import ban as brussels tries to curb the impact of this ban some western politicians have put forward their own ideas and how to lessen the pain. well the german agriculture minister believes eating away the food which was supposed to go to russia could help local produce is moneywise and also put additional pressure on moscow early estimates show the e.u. could forfeit up to seven billion euros over the food embargo and this means around one hundred thirty thousand people could lose their jobs and some say the first attempt to plug the hole with one hundred twenty five million euros compensation just won't do these are polish farmers angered by the sluggishness of the european politicians when it comes to financial aid this week several tons of peppers right before the e.u. parliament some german politicians think sanctions were a big mistake. especially if it does was different sanctions than the trade war i

know means to improve the situation on the country we have a spiral of exclusion that hurts the german and european economies many people object to the sanctions right from the start they have a right to feeling that this is not due to achieving. sanctions or always prove that the political means feel they are useless and they are harming the population sanctions always lead to losses on both sides you can already see the backlash from the sanctions but in the next couple of months it will be even more obvious now. from the beginning it was the wrong approach because sanctions escalated the situation and did not ease the tensions it was clear when the imposed 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. well artie interviewed the speaker of russia's parliament who says europe

should think for itself and shouldn't be pressured into imposing sanctions on moscow. were large extent a european partners acted as advised or even instructed by washington college as for economic sanctions at times they look like a tool used for unfair competition an unlawful tool that is not based on a court ruling and is not sanctioned by the un if they go ahead this will not be the first time washington and the e.u. impose sanctions on us i believe that such statements by washington should scare europe not russia first of all it's europe who will be implementing these decisions should they be made secondly it's europe european businesses and european taxpayers who will have to pay the price for this policy. now despite losing money over the events in ukraine the e.u. is making sure kiev has enough cash to keep the country running ukraine's president says brussels is ready to hand that around

a billion dollars in the near future and that is on top of a one point four billion instalment already approved by the international monetary fund this however means ukraine will have to raise basic terrace freeze wages and pensions and even introduce new taxes and there is more to the package include slashing tax benefits raghav culture and allowing banks to repossess property but complying with the demands is hard for a country that's already in economic freefall or the country's g.d.p. shrank almost five percent in the second quarter of this year with major firms losing ten billion dollars over the first half of the year last year they were several hundred million dollars in profit and ukraine's currency the good evening is losing value to experts say the economy would be unsustainable if their currency forced to more than twelve to the dollar well it's their thirteen and a half at the moment wall street analyst michael hudson believes ukraine is facing

a financial abacus. ukraine is not meeting the i missed edition nor is the i.m.f. meeting its own conditions under the i.m.f. article freeman it's not a lot just lend money to a country that is unable to pay their repayment of these the mayhem is going to force in ukraine and currency way down they're going to make imports much more expensive for you gradients they're going to increase the cost of living the government will withdraw the price supports for gas and for other essential so would cost of living will go off unemployment will rise you craniums are going to be leaving to the west to the east because the economy will be filled by the conditions of this one and 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 it tore the greek economy apart you know you're doing the same thing with ukraine so if you want to see what will happen in

ukraine look at what happened after two thousand and twelve at the i.m.f. loan to greece it's a disaster. online view right now a battle for data privacy is being waged in new york where microsoft has been ordered to hand over e-mails and user data stored outside the us find out how the software giant plans to challenge the court ruling party dot com also there in point strikes against cancer cells carried out by now and i robot could revolutionize treatment of the disease we've got a full story for you at our web site. many from iraq's minority he managed to escape islamic state militants reportedly still trapped on mind near the syrian border that is despite assurances from washington the humanitarian crisis in the area has been resolved you see these have been ruthlessly targeted by the extremists massacred perry but him is easy the immigrant

in the netherlands he's launched a social media campaign called stop the genocide she told r.t. that her people are still fleeing the radicals in large numbers and need urgent help everyone things that the people of vermont enjoy are saved but that's not over it's happening now there's no food no water for the easy to people it's already too late because obama said he would help the people and afterwards obama was a bomb being near me and change and every you go to different places from far from each other and so forth do you see the people there must be help right now people are still fleeing we can call this a genocide because people are being killed in certain jar there are a rabid muslims there are kurdish muslims and at this moment none of these people are being killed only do you see the people just because they do not want to convert to islam. so look at some international news in brief now hundreds of

protesters have been injured in the pakistani capital islamabad when police tried to disperse a rally march towards the prime minister's official residence demanding his resignation about twenty thousand riot police were deployed to block the demonstration. in ferguson missouri hundreds of people have taken to the streets to mark three weeks since unarmed black teenager markel brown was shot dead by a police officer the demonstrators led by the victim's family members blockaded the local police headquarters after making their way to the spot where the killing took place and will use the night shooting calls nationwide outrage leading said process and disputes over police tactics. and the european union has replaced two of its top officials polish prime minister donald tusk has been appointed president of the european council taking over from her man. and italy's foreign minister federica more greener has been voted in is the senior diplomat in place of catherine ashton

the reshuffle comes at a time of deep divisions within the twenty eight nation bloc over the ukraine crisis relations with russia and how to revive economic growth. now france's interior minister has quashed plans for a temporary shelter for thousands of illegal u.k. bound migrants stuck in france earlier this week u.k. politicians blasted the idea by the mayor of cali accusing france of becoming a refueling point for illegal migration kalai where britain has a border checkpoint is overrun by thousands of migrants trying to reach the u.k. every year artie's. investigates. in the french quarter of galle this has become a familiar sight destitute migrants the majority from east africa and the middle east have made the town their temporary home these makeshift tents on an industrial

wasteland have been nicknamed the jungle. i have never seen in my life you see i come from the the war to produce for example in there for their life is better gum disease estimates put the number of migrants here in cali over one on the hoff thousand on these men women and children have been queuing up for the past two hours to get some food provided for them by a volunteer organization and for many of them this is the only meal they're going to get to eat all day the majority of the people we speak to tell us their aim is to make the journey across the english channel it's believed hundreds try to get to the u.k. illegally each week stowed away in the lorries desperate to go to england you know they really that's what they want they don't want to stay here it's not a very nice place to stay and even if they ask for asylum many stay on the street for weeks or months before they even have lodging cali's mess says the town is so

the scene by refugees that locals fear for their safety and investors pulling out of the area so frustrated as natasha bouchard that she said she's willing to buy ferry tickets to send all the migrants over to britain she's even called for the u.k.'s border to be moved from its current location in the cali ferry terminal over to the port of dover. there is only one place in the world where countries buddhism and physically located in their own country and that's here in cali clearly doesn't work we are hostages of the decisions and the policies of the british government i'm demanding the border is moved back to its own kind. treat britain's borders should be in do we're in the united kingdom it's not our job to control britain's borders kelly come to coop and they don't care how bad things are for us the u.k. government needs to start doing its job and not leaving it up to us to do here in

france are. just twenty miles across the channel here in dover the u.k. hasn't exactly got its arms wide open the british government is so concerned over the migrants desperate attempts to make it to britain in deniz and makeshift vessels that a special fleet of border force boats has been assigned to patrol this coastline as for the suggestion to move the u.k.'s borders away from france the u.k. government has told us it's not in that plans locals in dover tell us that they've already had enough to service so many that we can tell me this from just responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain a responsibility golden triangle for those words you should do so it's a problem that no one wants to have isn't it back in cali dinner time is while they're here these men and women's lives are taken up by simple questions like

where their next meal will come from or how they can get a shower while the authorities in france and britain continue to wash their hands of them. kalai and over thanks for being with us today up next is another look behind the scenes here at r.t. in the latest episode of me still. no a famous politician is tweeting that a for 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 is simple this tweet 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 you young ones 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 mano polar world that we live in heck if the us 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 .