reposed what really matters. to your facebook news feed. ten russian soldiers detained after crossing the ukrainian border have been released and returned home. also this week kiev and nato raised fears of a possible russian invasion while ukrainian troops say they are being a being left to die at the hands of anti-government forces plus. as the javits from islamic state continue their rampage through syria and iraq we look at the two pillars of the group's might its flourishing black market economy and the media campaign it's attracting new crew in drugs.

are the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you're watching the weekly here and r.t. international now russian soldiers detained in ukraine almost a week ago have returned home ten paratroopers were captured when they claimed they unintentionally crossed the ukrainian border while on a routine patrol has been following the developments. the talks were complicated and difficult but we can now confirm that all ten of russian paratroopers crossed over into ukraine are back inside russia the negotiations weren't easy but thankfully common sense prevailed and the guards are back with us 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's 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 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 sought shelter on the russian side of the border this was just state the shelling they later to also were turned back into ukraine and international or expert alexander mccord has told us why he thinks kiev thrilled to have detained actual russian servicemen. craning government wanted to real. live. they're trying to argue and have been trying to argue. 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 gena actual soldiers and they were able to grade them and to television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the other didn't. does not look convincing that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have un convincing evidence if people want to believe and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven in that respect. well 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 accused of underreporting and here

forces say the number is more like fourteen thousand casualties some of the fiercest fighting in eastern ukraine has been in the town of in a vice can it in next creedon region. has been encircled there by anti-government forces soldiers claim they've suffered serious losses because kiev didn't send any reinforcements another report by police station looks at the growing frustration in the young. as the fighting intensifies and anti-government forces close in a call for hope goes on on said for reinforcements for trafficking in troops also incoming it's not the first time kiev soldiers feel abandoned in order to take care of native. women there forever more nearly three hours later sort of for some a block level sure to almost everyone across the park we're much more exactly what the law almost wanted to go usually i was when i was sure i'm over there it was

much more i was here 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 thirty five i was fired i was i thought i was. i i i. i was i i i thought. frustration is growing among the troops what is true but then they still get shut. up to the witnesses. and the government the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist white sick to group which is taking part in the fighting in the country ceased for demands are not met will be forced to withdraw our battalions from the

front line the launch marshawn to key if to carry out speedy reforms in the interior ministry your roach with your bragging you have to see people who you lead into illegal armed units you are turning the people who believed you into cannon fodder meanwhile losses on the battlefield are mounting. policy r.t. eastern ukraine. well 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 are the pictures supposedly indicate activity in russia adjacent to the cranium border something nato says is part of moscow's destabilizing strategy then with adams executive director of the wrong paul ince chief pace perspire if he says

the pictures credibility is highly questionable. well i think these were released by the same they were taken by the same company that the u.s. had used to release its satellite information about m.h. seventeen the allegiant 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 that 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 what business there is no doubt 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. meanwhile for that amount 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. that was that russia is far from getting involved in any large scale military conflicts we don't want and aren't going to do it obviously have to be ready to respond to any aggression towards russia and our partners whichever state of their countries or 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. and we human rights watch meanwhile has again cold on kiev for information on russian journalist on the day standing he went missing in ukraine at the start of this month kiev says it has no information about the veteran journalist the watchdog step you direct if the europe and central asia said the rights of media were is being violated in ukraine both by militia groups and the army she also said the authorities have

a track record of detaining russian journalists. now another you say the west is scrambling to form a coalition against the islamic state as the jihadists make further gains in syria and iraq washington is urging the world community to unite in efforts to root out the militants at the same time stepping up airstrikes against them but as artie's gannets young there reports it was the west that helped the jihadists to flourish in the first place. the u.s. president has diagnosed these lawmakers 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 as it focused all effort jumping down the syrian government you look for so much cooperation all the help you got for america being with us. for free the last america lost in afghanistan. and cereals in charlotte when they come if you waited for the nation to call any of the let these let me 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 us cities with a message saying we are in your streets something that is typical of prices is this vicious sense of humor if you will they're 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 party. at least my mixtape has managed to create one of the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with an asset with assets worth an estimated two billion dollars a significant amount around two million dollars daily reportedly comes from selling oil to kurds in iraq syria and jordan smuggling and kidnapping is also a lucrative sideline ransom payments thoughts are brought in around ten million dollars in recent years in the islamic state even publishes

a corporate style annual report to attract new sponsors while when it comes to attracting new fight is social media. 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 growth task methods employed by the islamic state illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to spread its message a message that even al qaeda is uncomfortable with visit hannity 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 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 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 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 ad with syria's 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 see. as itself seems to have learned to those bombs that can be huge social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever merino call survive reporting from london for it say the threat posed by jihadists is top of the agenda next week's ny tell you some eighty eight despite phase in attack hundreds have protested against the belt getting involved in more military campaigns we report on why people are tired of the west war policy. differently here in syria now many of the members of congress of both parties have gone to syria in recent months have. read.

these poems you can. still be released to syria is going to be the stuff. on there and the financial world. talked to goldman's cannot stop exuberance only take credit. in life there.

again you're watching the weekly here on our take naslund iraqi could veto the use 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 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. keeps put you know that. the german agricultural minister believes eating away the food which was supposed to go to russia could help local produce is money wise and also put it is no pressure on moscow early estimates show the you could forfeit up to seven billion euros over the food in bargo and this means around one hundred

thirty thousand people could lose their jobs and some say the use first attempt to plug the hole with one hundred twenty five million euros compensation just do these are polish farmers angered by the sluggishness of the european politicians when it comes to financial aid this week they done several tons of peppers right before the 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 contrary we have a spiral of exclusion deterrence the german and european economies many people who check to the sanctions right from the start they have a right to feeling that this is not the way to achieving. sanctions or always prove that the political means feel they're 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. 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 now because of that a lot of entrepreneurs as well as the general public in germany has been affected by that being. we also interviewed the speaker of russia's parliament who says europe should think for itself and shouldn't be pressured into imposing sanctions on moscow. knew you were large extent a european partners acted as advised or even instructed by 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 u.n. 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 even if you get a chance to take a look at our website we've got plenty of stories on their team including a battle for data privacy is being waged in new york where microsoft has been ordered to hand over e-mails and genes the data stored outside the us find out how the software giant plans to challenge the court ruling at r.t. dot com also there pinpoint strikes against cancer cells carried out by nano robots could revolutionize treatment of the disease we put the full story for you at our web site. the threat posed by islamic state jihadists will top the agenda next week's nato summit in cardiff in new port the prospect of the block getting involved in another distant war has disconcerted many with

hundreds turning out in one of the host cities to protest against military action have a fear now reports. the leaders the organizers of this protest movement against nature oh i hope that in the coming hours and days ten to twenty thousand protestors from across wales the u.k. i mean even the sun coming from mainland europe going to come here to show protests nato summit which is taking place on thursday and friday around sixty leaders from around the world are coming for this. very high profile and significant conference protests this year are against nato itself for the the end which they see as they see it just waging. one hundred they said it is all it off you know equality now to protect the nato summit taking place in the next few days has been on tressa dented 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 the heart of new port this city and also wells capital cardiff which has also been caught up significantly in the security preparations including 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 search 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 let's have a brief look at some other world news now hundreds of protesters have been injured and the number killed in the pakistani capital islamabad when police tried to

disperse a rally that different sources say between one and i people lost their lives there is this march towards the prime minister's official residence demanding his resignation about twenty days riot police were deployed to block the demonstration pakistan has been gripped by unrest but we spoke 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. because after making their way to the spot where the killing took place the always the ninth shooting calls nationwide outrage leading to protests and disputes over police tactics. the european union has replaced two of its top officials polish prime minister donald turse has been appointed president of the european council taking over from a man van rompuy and italy's foreign minister federica madina has been voted in as

the senior diplomat in place of catherine ashton the reshuffle comes though at a time of deep divisions within the twenty eight nation bloc over the ukrainian crisis relations with russia and how to revive economic growth that soldiers from around the world marched on red square on saturday to make not war but music our correspondent was in the heart of the russian capital to watch the annual extravaganza of military orchestras. every year at the end of august this place that's best known for being stomped on by thousands of russian military boots becomes an arena for the likes of mexican mariachis or chinese scholars the monks of woodall and many others it's time for the grand military tattoo on the red square. the festival is not really a contest but there's always

a slight feeling of competition as usual some try to well the crowds with tradition it's a move it's from yaz of up a little but in the nineteenth century it's always a not right for those. others get their round of applause for squeezing in a modern twist. and the designers make the most of the venue itself the audience stands are all packed in the space behind the military bands and orchestras from wherever you can imagine but of course there's no show without plenty of intense rehearsing. for this it's our first time here and there's a huge difference between rehearsing at home and on red square the air here is much

cleaner than back in polluted china so we're absolutely excited. calling the chinese team an army orchestra maybe a little far fetched but it's their guts and skills that perhaps receive the loudest and they should. of course the other eight nations taking part got almost as much. but it's the hosts who are served the right to bring the. to a final crescendo. all to be topped with fireworks over the world's best known on the indo. ilya patrolling co r t. always a great site coming up next here not internationally is time to catch up in the world of technology and technology up doc.

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 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 model 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 . this will show this time schools gets a facelift and you can see the board to make the most of the sun in. this science flourishes it's almost a week check out some car let's say. technology here on r.g.p. we've done the future. right from the scene.

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