especially on the west side of chicago. the outpost of deadly gang fighting took place right after an anti violence protest on thursday a protest march was organized by gregory livingstone. cargo was intentionally segregated segregated in terms of geography. segregated in terms of educational assets health care assets capital investment plans it's been second gator for quite a long time matter of fact we martin king said all throughout the south he had march to chicago was the most segregated city he had ever been in and we're still facing the the. via product of this legacy because when you segregate the city you insulate one part of the city it's such a way in comfort and you ostracize the other and a lack of a lack of assets poverty challenge of disadvantage which generate a certain level of violence. u.s. sanctions against iran now in effect have seen

a spike in all prices with analysts predicting the upward trend will continue and what the u.s. preparing to impose yet more sanctions the e.u. iran's second largest trading partner has shown it's ready to protect european companies doing business with iran we are determined to protect european economic operators in gauged in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force on the seventh of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business with iran from the impact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans in this case to decide with home to trade. the first round of sanctions prohibits iran from using american currency and put restrictions on trading special precious metals. looks at the kind of impact u.s.

sanctions have had in the past the trumpet ministration has imposed so we ping functions on iran with the goal of her tailing so-called iranian aggression and blocking all paths to iranian nuclear radiation now the outcome of such a move is hard to predict but from what we've seen so far unilateral u.s. sanctions are rarely successful but that certainly wasn't for lack of trying the department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice of the united states has issued sanctions on key russian oligarchs we will enforce the ban on tours that the united states will not stand idly by as venezuela crumbles we will enforce the embargo the question is are sanctions affected. the u.s. announced it would be sanctioning turkish officials over on crowe's detainment of an american pastor turkey didn't respond so highly you know shown patience but the step america has taken does not with its a step taken towards

a strategic partner in america has shown serious disrespect towards turkey as you can guess the pastor is yet to be released. the u.s. has imposed round after round of sanctions against moscow but have any demands been met now even some russia hardliners have admitted that previous sanctions against moscow have been ineffective the current sanctions regime has for you to deter russia from meddling in the upcoming two thousand and eighteen midterm elections and the republican senators groundbreaking solution more sanctions but years have gone by and crimea is still part of russia russia still in syria and russia is apparently still trying to influence elections at least according to some american politicians and media what. cuba has been under u.s. . in the early sixty's and have and it's still under u.s. sanctions but those restrictions haven't been successful in a capitalist overthrow the cuban government was still very much a communist state the unilateral sanctions don't work we've seen that in cuba for

many many years where the u.s. tried to unilaterally crush the economy of cuba didn't work it didn't work in iran under both republican and democratic administrations previously it's just a stepping stone towards possible military actions what they do is to some extent they have an impact and to some extent their political organizing and by imposing the sanctions first it's a step that were in their view would help legitimize it or sit in washington you think that the u.s. is all powerful militarily and can win any war that it wants. to kick him to the negotiating table but those things since it weren't unilateral but multilevel things is backed by the u.n. security council we've brought new accountability to the north korean regime when north korea continued its illegal missile test we brought all the nations of the

security council together including china and russia to impose new sanctions but some would argue the sanctions lead to pretty disappointing results. in israel around twenty ultra-orthodox jews have been arrested at a rally against conscription. i was was iraq was a week was hundreds of people took to the streets and the city have been ibaraki blocking traffic by this follows the arrest of a religious student who failed to report to a military enlistment office please try to break up a sit in using water cannons a limited number of religious students in israel are exempt from military service but only if they report be authorities on proof vest office a month ago

a bill was passed cutting funding for religious colleges that fail to meet their enlistment articles i and we're back in just a moment. the

americans are still in shock they're still dealing with the psychological damage of nine eleven they still need enemies they still unjustified they still are having troubles walking through it meanwhile the rest of the world is. going on hunger strike to stop his father being tortured that's what the son of a jailed opposition figures said he's doing outside buck rains in london embassy and we spoke to him about why he's resorted to this particular course of action.

my father was seventy years or serving life in prison and behind it was they thought chilling they will tell you they are feeling the denial from medical treatment there for me because it is access to books even what it but i. spied that my father court for robbing the dictator of regime in my country i'm talking about the basic rights which is medical treatment to man who is seventy eight is all. i'm calling for family visitation because he did i mean see

my family for me to form a team here tomorrow but this is the reason for denying medical people for seventy years one man it is not nor the pursuit if he did is not acceptable reason. yeah right. he continues to receive medical attention along with these prescribed medications and the special diet aspired of his medical regime. i don't let the door and bs. for human rights organization about my father situation but because nothing changed and they in my father is dying destroyed. by iran's foreign affairs ministry to comment on the allegations of human rights violations. thousands of displaced syrians are returning home as government forces drive out the last pockets of men. it's in the resistance according to syrian state media a special refugee committee is being set up to coordinate the process of resettlement and to help millions of citizens to rebuild their lives but some media

see the situation a bit differently as he is eager to offer explains. a brutal despot a mass murderer a children gassing animal the nicknames the international media tag the syrian president bashar assad with self-explanatory as to why seven million syrians had fled the country since two thousand and eleven pundits prophesies the dictatorship must come down before anyone would dare to go home when we asked them about president bashar al assad they said they don't want him dead because that would be too easy is the syrian government in fact more than isis that has ruined their lives and led to so much of the refugee crisis they escape with their children and if you possessions but as they cross the border to safety many also bring their hatred of the man they blame for leaving them homeless come twenty team the syrian

army is one by one retaking new areas from opposing factions and he assad forces once in charge of the larger part of syria are reduced to two small pockets of land and what's that a tide of refugees is coming home. to go back we want to return to our beloved syria i want my daughter to have a future she doesn't. have then i want to go back to syria return to our home less of that as for why i'm going back there is no place like home we were not happy here thank god safety and security are back in syria and danny now we are hopefully returning home it's not a case of a few mad men who are for some twisted reason seeking to return under the regime of a tyrant according to the russian defense ministry out of those seven million that escape the conflict more than one and a half are seeking to come back to syria now there's more on the path has already

been paved for them the u.n. recorded more than seven hundred thousand series. who returned last year and began rebuilding their lives. when the shop thank god look the city back and life went back to normal again and i want to fix my handsome leave and sleep with peace of mind of course there are millions who are still too afraid to go back for many it is indeed the dread of a sad event stopping them but those who did and are returning may very well inspire hundreds of thousands more to go back to their roots. germany's homeland security office is raising the alarm over the rise of islamic radicalism among youngsters in the country and this has prompted some politicians to call for the minimum age when someone can be surveilled to be lowered the current limit is fourteen years old this is not about criminalizing people under the age of fourteen

but about warding off significant threats to our country like islamic terrorism which also targets children the inhibition threshold for violence is lower in these children. the authorities therefore need the tools to take care of traumatised and violent return these under the age of fourteen according to the german homeland security officers report there are currently around three hundred children who have been quote educated since birth with an extremist worldview the document also says that these children come both from families that have gone to war zones and those that have not but the german interior minister says that families that travel to conflict areas need to be prioritized when it comes to surveillance. and sleep can we have knowledge of more than one thousand is the missed german nationals all from germany who've traveled in the direction of syria and iraq to become part of the islamic groups about a third of these people return to germany is mainly about extremely meticulously

evaluating the danger that lies within these people. or their main opposition party in germany the anti immigrant alternative for germany says that putting miners under surveillance could prove a useful measure but their counterparts from the left parties say that the authorities should concentrate on adult extremists fast. do potential victims care whether they're being attacked by a thirteen year old with a knife whether it's a big islam is stabbing them it is necessary to go with an iron broom and transport all fanatics where they belong the real issue is not that sure no one is scared of some nine year old children are not legally liable for their actions under the age of forty one of them going to do they actually read you should instead be focusing all the efforts on the real terrorists that we have and as long as we have terrorists running around on the streets and recruiting people of course it will

threaten our should be recruited i think what the domestic intelligence services try to distract strong their complete and utter failure to deal with the real islamic terrorists and the. wildfires raging across california have become the second largest in the state's history a fire doubled in size over the weekend their photos have claimed the lives of at least seven people prompting the government to declare a major disaster vast areas of forest have been destroyed along with dozens of homes and with local services overloaded australia and new zealand are even sending over their fire crews to assist i twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow thank you for sharing your time with us here at r.t. we are back with more of your stories.

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broken eastern. you don't get more on string you don't roughly don't t.v. . greetings and salutations despite the fact that chicago was reportedly on track to have fewer gun related homicides than average this year it week end of violence in the windy city has brought the issue back into the national spotlight over seventy people were shot in chicago from the evening of august third to the morning of august sixth it is being reported that at least twelve of those people have died due to their injuries sunday evening thirty people were shot in just three hours and while the police seem to have no idea what possibly could be causing the increase in violence it is by their own admission that the highest rates of gun violence happen disproportionately in low income minority neighborhoods on the

city's west and south side chicago looking to increase social services in these areas are they studying how economics may be exacerbating the issue or is there a police force doing more to put away those responsible for violent crime instead of chasing down people for an ounce of marijuana you know mayor rahm emanuel says the problem is that there is a shortage of values about what is right what is wrong we as a city in every corner have an accountability and responsibility if you know who did this being a neighbor speak up. guess what rahm the department of justice did speak up back in january of last year when they released a hundred sixty four page report that concluded that chicago's police force was improperly or poorly trained far too quick to turn to deadly and excessive force for which there was no consequences and that most of those violations were against black and latino residents the leaders of chicago or now have to face their own failures their own complicity in the deaths of innocent civilians and their utter

and complete resistance to taking responsibility for their actions so maybe it's time to stop blaming the victims and start watching the hocks. the only legal the. real that is what. lies at the bottom. of the like you lie down i got. there. i. welcome everybody to watch and not uncommon to lawless and joining me today from chicago is the national director of the y.p. one hundred charlene a caruthers and joining us here in washington d.c. is local community organizer with b. y. p.

one hundred cars at hampton thank you both for joining me thank you for having me thanks so at a press conference on monday chicago police superintendent eddie johnson has had a few fingers to point in the direction of his problem take a listen to what he had to say. we need the community and community leaders to work with us we parents to be parents we need neighborhoods to be neighborhoods you all know who these individuals are. so. when i start with you charlene rudy giuliani fights faulds the democrats that's all of this is because of the democrats the mayor blames the governor and the judges and the police blame the people being victimized by gun violence does this. first i want to ask you both when i see this it seems to be a trend that's been happening for many years in chicago where it is historically been to blame and sort of no matter what the numbers are it's the worst and it's

all because of certain reasons so limit me ask you first why is chicago so historically always this very violent city and it's always in these black and latino neighborhoods like this what what's going on. so that's a great question and i first have to start with it's very difficult to have this conversation coming out of the kind of weekend that we just had in the city and what we know is that chicago is a landing place for hundreds of thousands of black folks during the great migration and immediately during that period of time black folks were segregated they face violence so we're talking decades of that vesna from our communities and violence from various public officials and what we're seeing right now is the finger pointing of blame going everywhere except for people looking with and saying this is how i'm responsible i have control over millions of dollars hundreds of millions of dollars and i'm making the wrong decisions for my city let me ask you close one

what is that you know what is that historically what do you feel like as a historical aspect and also. is i you know i don't want to be that person who just points at someone and says racist but isn't it kind of racist to tell people that the violence being perpetrated against them is their own fault that they should rather on their family members that if you just did something as if it's their fault what kind of rhetoric does that how does that play in a community is definitely downplaying the structural inequalities that we see in chicago and that we've seen even since daley consistently the city of chicago has spent over forty percent of the city budget on policing we have just seen a ninety five million dollars police academy be pushed through city council we also see the continued disinvestment in divestment from community resources from community based organizations and a lot of these things have not just come into play and they aren't just rahm

emanuel but rahm emanuel station and the position that he uses in order to extend his power and further his power in order to make sure that he's not being there he's not being blamed for a lot of these things that we see happening in the city and i think that him pushing the blame on communities and calling for accountability on communities this morning was very interesting when he made sure the chicago police officers don't face any. convictions or they don't face any accountability themselves as a matter of fact we see divestment for mental health resources we see the closing down of over fifty schools in chicago but you see a beautiful new school ninety five million dollars coming to police and so who does he really want to invest in is it the community members that he's supposed to serve or is that the police officers who serve him and his interests but a lot of that comes to do with police here in the end i grew up in wisconsin and just about three hours north of chicago and the idea that chicago is where all the

bad stuff comes from has been perpetrated on a lot of people for a long time and both of those there's always been this idea of the chicago mayor always sort of. skirts the blame and then you go to say it's like wisconsin and there are governors then start the blame to chicago and the whole thing is well you're letting them come up here and that's where the idea of welfare queens and all these myths came from and what really taught all of us was that if you are poor and white you should not like people are poor and black because there is a problem and the sort of rhetoric just builds and builds showing up and then what they do isn't you know that's what they do is a tool of divisiveness what we know to be true that in the city of chicago as close at mention we are our local government decides to spend nearly forty percent of our public service budget on the chicago police department that's about four million dollars a day and as they spend nearly four million dollars a day what we see in our communities is a continued divestment right and what we also see is people literally having

a feeling and the material like reality that their lives don't actually matter and while we continue to see millions of dollars invested in sports stadiums and and what's coming to chicago the obama presidential center that is endorsed by the mayor and overwhelmingly by city council saying that we're going to spend we're going to put tens of millions of dollars in the would live neighborhood and we're not going to actually commit to a benefit agreement that says that this is going to benefit the community and is not going to displace people what we know is going to happen when the obama presidential if if actually built but at a community benefits agreement is that there's going to be more policing and more pushing out of black people and entire and there will be more violence in our communities taking away more black lads and you've seen the police also and with the rahm emanuel's help sort of push back against any accountability there was earlier the police union about a month ago had said that they didn't want to have to report every time they

pointed their common gun at somebody and i find that reprehensible and one of the other things i find pretty reprehensible about all of this this violence that happens which. cargoes is almost entirely pointed at being young black men being killed by other black men but there's a lot of women suffering from you know who don't go to police when they get raped who are dealing with domestic violence and those numbers are just sort of washed under that there's a whole system of play. let me start with you because we've got a couple minutes of just a minute let's how does that sort of underpinning of this taking women out of the equation and making it about this what effect does that have on black women as part of that community that rahm is saying you know you should just work harder well i mean since twenty eighteen began the city of chicago has already spent over twenty million dollars in misconduct cases settling and that right there is a brutal highlighting of how the city instead of actually holding itself

accountable for the harm that it does from false arrests to illegal search and seizure how they fail to hold themselves accountable and how they consistently put in effort or coppa all of these different institutions that the mayor sponsors that is supposed to hold. the c.p.d. accountable but they don't and who you who ends up facing the brunt of all of these things being black women there was officer gwen evans who. was able to avoid being prosecuted for harming a black woman where there was saliva found on her neck well the prosecutor says that there is no saliva that they can prove whether the d.n.a. was from his hand or from saliva washing his hands or his mouth be playing eleanor naaman so you have these black women who are trying to avoid the surveillance the overt surveillance that comes with navigating the systems that they have to in order to survive and being told that there will fare queens and also being told

that they are lazy when in reality black we have black women equal pay day tomorrow and we. black women are drastically underpaid and especially in cities like chicago where most of them have to work in survival economies and continuously see themselves criminalized and placed in jail instead of their communities and this includes black trans communities and their communities getting the resources that they need completely completely marginalized surely we were your thoughts on this couple of about a minute i have two minutes left. so if serves none of us to tell a single story about the impact of gun violence or any kind of violence in the black community right so a story that says that yes black men and boys are disproportionately victims of violence in this city we should say that we have a duty to make sure that the story of police violence is about them killing us and it is also about them raping us it is about them harassing us it's the policing

that black women and girls experience when they go to the public aid office when they go to the hospital to the abortion clinic it's all of those things that are reflected in those numbers of killings and in all reality the killing of the physical body is absolutely a killing and the killing of the spirit is another type of killing and that all matters so we got to tell a more complete story about what's happening to black people in chicago and across this country and frankly around the world from chicago to south africa where women are fighting right now is in sexual violence and as long as we tell an incomplete story we're going to have incomplete solutions so once we start telling the full story of what's happening to our people we can have much better solutions i that's so both of you thank you so much i mean this is a lot of work and i think honestly it's interesting those three women having this conversation with alternately it kind of does fall to us to sort of take up that mantle and be the community leaders thank you so much charlene.