story. here. is that the spanish. visit. ten russian soldiers detained after crossing the ukrainian border have been released and returned home. also this week we have an eight a raise phase of a possible russian invasion while ukrainian troops say they are 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 group's mind it's a flourishing black market economy and the media campaign is attracting new recruits.

hello there the latest news and a look back at the events of the last seven days you're watching the weekly here on r.t. now russian soldiers detained in ukraine almost a week ago have returned home ten paratroopers were captured when they claim they unintentionally crossed the ukrainian border while on a routine patrol paula slayer has been following the developments and joins us live now paula it does seem to have been a bit of a struggle doesn't it to get these soldiers back home. well it certainly was a bit of a struggle be talks with complicated and difficult but as you say we can now confirm that all ten russian paratroopers crossed over into ukraine or back inside russia the soldiers were patrolling the ukrainian russian border at night when they unintentionally crossed over into ukrainian territory it was a part of the border that is not signposted they were later detained by the ukrainian security services such border incidents are not uncommon and on several

occasions ukrainian soldiers have in fact crossed over into russia but russia has never made much fanfare and it's always ensured that they are able to return safely back to ukraine there was an incident early in august when around some four hundred ukrainian servicemen appealed to the russian border guards for humanitarian colorado that would allow them to bring their injured and into russia at the same time it would allow them to stock up and food they'd run out of food they'd run out of ammunition they later returned to ukraine after they wounded had been treated inside russia also around three days ago some sixty three ukrainian servicemen soldiers shelter on the russian side of the border this was just scraped the shelling they later to also returned back into ukraine. ok thanks paula. live from than yes can be east of ukraine. and what we can tell you that russia has handed over the captured soldiers to ukraine just a few hours ago international expert alexander mccord has told us why he thinks

kiev was thrilled to have detained actually russian servicemen. korean government wanted to milk the. political. 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 actual ten action large soldiers and they were able to grade them and to put 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. the 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 being accused of underreporting and kiev forces say the number is more like fourteen thousand casualties. some of the fiercest fighting in eastern ukraine has been in the town of you know vice in the dinette screech in the ukrainian army has been encircled back by anti government forces so just claim they suffered serious losses because kiev didn't send any reinforcements and another report filed by forest layer 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 flee enforcement folks have to take in troops also in coming it's not the first time kiev soldiers feel abandoned let me take care

needless to say if i didn't appear women were forever more nearly three hours later sort of for some a global level sure your material across the park limits would probably was a lot whenever i saw it go usually i was almost was sure i met over there it was much more i was a 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 i was five i was i am i was i was i was i was i was was the way i was it was like i was out. of frustration is growing among the troops are going to shoot past it

then you could still be trapped i think that you will get work over the political dissidents that. at the government intervenes with the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist white city 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 roche with your bragging you have to see people who you led into illegal armed units you were turning the people who believed you into cannon fodder. nazis on the battlefield amounting. to see on t.v. . well her earlier this week ukraine's president petro poroshenko said russia had invaded his country international media outlets immediately ran with the story with headlines about russian troops launching a stealth operation weighing in on the claims nato released

a series of satellite images that apparently showed artillery movement inside ukraine of the pictures supposedly indicate activity in russia adjacent to the ukrainian border something nato says is part of moscow's the stabilising strategy daniel mcadams executive director of the ron 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 illusion air flight the existence of guns 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 when 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 if it's inside its

border you know there were businesses so 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. to me putin says russia is not seeking involvement in any military conflict but will stand up for itself and defend its interests he was speaking at a youth forum in central russia. russia is far from getting involved in any large scale military conflicts we don't want and aren't going to do it would obviously have to always be ready to respond to any aggression towards russia and our partners whichever state their countries are in and whatever foreign policy course they're taking but it usually has to understand they better not mess with us thank god i don't think anyone today would think of starting a large scale conflict with russia. you mean mark human rights watch has again called on kiev for information on russian photo journalist on that i stand in he

went missing in ukraine at the start of this month kiev says it has no information about the veteran photo journalist the watchdogs deputy director for europe and central asia said the rights of media were being violated violated in ukraine by militia groups and the army she also said the authorities have a track record of detaining russian journalists. in other news now the west is scrambling to form a coalition against the islamic state is the jihadists make further gains in syria and iraq washington is the world community to unite in efforts to reach at the militants at the same time stepping up airstrikes against them but as artie's gannett you can report it was the west that helped the jihadists to flourish in the first place. the u.s. president has diagnosed the islamic state rooting out a cancer why geisel won't be easy and won't be quick many are asking if the cancer

could have been caught at an earlier stage when these lawmakers state group support of the syrian opposition was gaining momentum in the country and when rich donors in gulf states were funding and arming the group but until recently the west seemed more preoccupied with toppling the syrian president we will work with like minded states to support the syrian opposition to hasten the day when assad falls but the european union has agreed to bring to an end a arms embargo on the syrian opposition we are constantly consulting with the opposition on how they can get organized so that. they're not splintered and divided in the face of the onslaught from the assad regime for years the white house tried to present a picture of the syrian opposition as consisting of quote former farmers and

teachers some within the intelligence community had a really big red flag that was alarming the administration and elected officials that the problem in syria was bigger than anybody anticipated but the problem is that the elected officials chose to have a moment of dumb and dumber and hear what they wanted to hear so you had john mccain patrolling the streets of aleppo thinking that supporting the insurgents was a good idea one thing the west perhaps failed to see was the blurred lines between the moderate and the radical groups within the syrian opposition and isis until very recently was part of a broad sunni group in syria that was being supplied by the united states the extremist group makes use of modern technologies like no other radical organization they even use of valence drones to plan attacks on the syrian military the question arises whether the you. this is misjudged the scale of extremism in syria is it focused all efforts on bringing down the syrian government you know so much

cooperation where you know all the help you got for being with us. for free the last america last november. sybil's or charlotte when they come if you're waiting for them we should take more money from that. these are big state group is now hearing about all the arms and money that they have seized both in iraq and in syria isis sympathizers are posting pictures on twitter in the u.s. cities with a message saying we are in your streets one thing that is typical of prices is this vicious sense of humor if you will there are big fans of social media and they have been using all the west can offer to spread what president obama called cancer in washington i'm going to shut down part. of the islamic state has managed create one of the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with assets with an estimated two billion dollars in the significant amount of that around two

million dollars daily reportedly comes from selling oil to kurds in iraq syria to and jordan smuggling and kidnapping is also a lucrative sideline ransom payments have brought in around ten million dollars in recent years new state even publishes a corporate style annual report to attract new sponsors while when it comes to attracting new fighters social media escape of course out of reports. pictures of need slated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western troops and golfed in flames these are just some of the growth task methods employed by the slavic states illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to spread its message and message that even al qaeda is uncomfortable with visit those what was striking out can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of. the photography is hyper real islamic

states marketing 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 their distorting 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 and wish 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 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 crusaders while watson nations might be trying to ball my sis out of existence i said. 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 threat posed by jihadists is top of the agenda next week's nato summit yet despite phase of an attack hundreds have protested against the belt getting involved in more military campaigns later this hour we report on why people tired of the west will policies.

differently here in syria now many of the members of congress of both parties who have gone to syria in recent months have said he's a reformer mr president which is diddy's time for him to get good. stability and peace to syria is really the most obvious step. dramas that trying to be ignored. stories others who refuse to notice. the faces changing the world.

to picture of today's you know. from around the globe. look to. logan you're watching near weekly here in our backyard could veto the e's attempt to impose more trade sanctions against russia next week the country's prime minister says the measures are meaningless and counterproductive 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 more school imposed a food import ban as brussels tries to curb the impact of this ban some western politicians have put forward their own ideas on how to lessen the pain. one keeps food you know that. the german agricultural minister

believes eating away the food which was supposed to go to russia could help local producers moneywise and also put additional pressure on moscow early estimate 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 u.s. first attempt to plug the hole with one hundred twenty five million euros compensation just do these are polish. by the sluggishness 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 a dish dish does was different sanctions than the trade with no means to improve the situation on the contrary we have a spiral of exclusion that hurts the german and european economies many people are check to the sanctions right from the start they have

a right to feeling that this is not too late to achieving the. sanctions are always prove that their political means fail they're useless and they are harming the population sanctions always lead to losses on both sides and you can already see the backlash from the sanction is but in the next couple of months it will be even more obvious now that i'm talking. from the beginning it was the wrong approach because sanctions escalated the situation and did not ease the tension is 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. well are tainted the speaker of russia's parliament who says europe should think for itself and shouldn't be pressured into imposing sanctions on moscow. million which were large extent

a european partners acted as advised or even instructed quite washington which 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 and 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. 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 out around a billion dollars in the near future and that's 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 terris freeze wages and

pensions and even introduce new taxes and this more the package includes slashing tax benefits for agriculture and allowing banks to repossess property but complying with the demands is hard for a country that's already in economic freefall for example the country's debt is expected to jump up to sixty percent of g.d.p. by the end of this share and this pace it will be eighty percent four years from now what makes the situation even worse is that the economy isn't growing on the contrary experts believe it will shrink dramatically between now and the end of the year is kiev digs deep into his pockets to find another nine billion dollars to pay off lenders wall street analyst michael hudson believes ukraine is facing a financial abyss. ukraine that's not meeting the i met condition nor is the i.m.f. meeting its own condition under the articles of agreement it's not a law just lend money to

a country that is unable to pay the repayment of these demands is going to force the ukrainian currency where you know they're going to make imports much more expensive for 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 will rise the 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 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 to the i.m.f. loan to greece it's a disaster. online if you 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 ag side the u.s. find out how the software giant plans to challenge the court ruling called also that pinpoint strikes against cancer cells tired by nano robots could revolutionize treatment of the disease because the full story for the website. the threat posed by islamic state jihadists will top the agenda at next week's nato summit in cardiff a new poll but the prospect of the ball getting involved in another distant war has disconcerted many with hundreds turning out in one of the high cities to protest against military action sorry favor ports not from south wales. well the leaders the organizers of this protest movement against a nato hope that in the coming hours and days ten to twenty thousand protesters from across wales the u.k. and even some coming from mainland europe are going to

a common here type protest nato summit which is taking place on thursday and friday around sixty leaders from around the world coming off for this very high profile and significant conference protesters here are against nato itself the the end which they see as they say just waging. one hundred they say it is symbolic of global equality now to protect the nato summit taking place in the next few days has been on trial precedented security operation by the police close to ten thousand police officers have been drafted in from across the u.k. now this operation that critics say has cost up to fifteen million pounds to secure a part of new port this city and also wells capital cardiff which has also been caught up significantly in the security preparations including the towns of

kilometers of security barriers being put up in the center of the south wales cities the police are trying to do many things first protect the nato summit itself second to also facilitate the democratic protests of peaceful protesters and third to try and keep wales and the u.k. secure given the increased terrorist threat which was raised just in the last couple of days with our taste has gone twenty five past eleven here in moscow let's have a quick look now at some other world news hundreds of protesters been injured in the pakistani capital islamabad when place tried to disperse a rally thousands marched towards the prime minister's official residence demanding his resignation by twenty thousand rival. please be deployed to blow up the demonstration pakistan has been gripped by unrest for weeks with protest leaders saying they will not back down until the prime minister resigns in ferguson missouri hundreds of people have taken to the streets to mark three weeks since

unarmed black teenager michael 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 the august ninth shooting calls nationwide outrage leading to protest and disputes over police tactics. and the european union has replaced two of its top officials polish prime minister dawn been appointed president of the european council taking over from her man who and is leased from minister for the rica more greener has been voted in as the e.u. 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. coming up next here not international the latest from the world of innovation in technology happening.

to know 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 all group of 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 . little slip what do you like of all these.

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