john hendron, al jazeera, dondon eastern ukraine. >> u.s.resident barack obama has defended the decision not to charge a former ferguson police officer with the killing of unarmed black teenager michael brown. brown's brown's death led to proceed tests against police treatment against african americans. >> we may not know what exactly happened but officer winlson like anyone else who was charged with a crime benefits from due process and a reasonable doubt standard. and if there is uncertainty about what happened then you can't just charge him anyway just because what happened was tragic. that was the decision that was made and i have complete confidence and stand fully behind the decision that was made by the justice department on that issue. >> meanwhile, it's 50 years since peaceful civil rights protesters were attacked as they tried to cross a bridge in the southern u.s. city of selma. the incident which gave momentum to the african civil rights movement. the fight for equality goes on as rob reynolds reports. >> reporter: at the civil r

john hendron reports from the rebel stronghold, dondon. >> as the war in eastern ukraine began, so did olga bliznet's cancer. she was diagnosed for a second time, this time along with hepatitis c but she no longer gets her ukrainian welfare payments or prescrib drug payments for the cancer drugs she needs. even if she could find it here. >> i don't have money to buy them. in 2009 and 2010, the medicine was provided by the hospital which cured me. in 2014, they no long he were had the drug. >> reporter: so what happens if you don't get the medicine? >> well i don't know. if you don't treat serious diseases people dye. >> reporter: she's hardly alone. drugs are hard to find and expensive, with high inflation, unemployment and no functioning banking system. this man relies on donations for his heart medicine. >> there is no place i can get it. the pharmacy is closed. i have to buy less and the prices are high. >> the international aid group doctors without borders, tries to fill in the gaps making regular stops in rural towns, their waiting rooms crowded with the under served but it's not

john hendron, al jazeera. >>> leaders from the euro zone agreed to meet with greece yesterday to talkut extending the multi-billion bailout. greece is hoping for a final $8 billion installment of its bailout. europe will not release the money until greece lays out clear steps for reforming its economy. the head of the euro group says up to now greece has been wasting time. the current agreement is set to expire at the end of june. as john reports from athens one of the greece's biggest problems is corruption. >> reporter: two years ago ago an anonymous whistleblower left documents on his doorsteps. they show that some of the companies in the petro hauling business could not account for the delivery of thousands of tons of fuel. it was lost along with the tax paid on it. papers had been drawn up for a court case for tax fraud, which never happened. >> translator: these customs documents were hidden in drawers for years. they didn't come to trial. this is one way of taking care of business when faced with indictments. stuffing things in drawers until the statute of limitation passes. >>

john hendron donetsk eastern ukraine. >> moscow recognizes the breakaway regions as independent although they're officially part of georgia. after talks with kind counterparts, they have asked for assistance to strengthen their international profile. >>> there is evidence that the main suspect in the murder of opposition politician boris nem nemtsov was for tortured and forced to con assess to the murder. nemtsov was shot dead close to the kremlin at the end of february. >>> now the sanctions between the russia and the west are now being felt in murmansk, and it has left buyers and suppliers struggling to adjust. >> a statue of a young woman watches the port's cold waters waiting for her fishermen to report. murmansk is the largest city along the art arctic circle. but an icery grip of sorts has enveloped the fishing trade, a political one. the fish factory has stop operating. buying fish from norway is now banned. that's pretty much all this place did so it was particularly vulnerable. not all processing plants were so exposed but supply lines have been disrupted, and the effect is bein

here is john hendron. on the rebel front line the cease-fire is a noisy one. oleg sa.d. get down he says. did you hear that grenade launcher hit us. we are 800 meters from the front lines. we are told that grenade launchers are being used to fire on the donetsk people's republic positions. right now hen we are waiting for the firing to stop. >> on the other side of the front lines a few days earlier, ukrainian forces said it was separatists who were firing on them. >> in principle, the cease-fire is holding but there is regular small arms fire so complete cease-fire can't exist. before you arrived here, several small shells landed on our side. before we fired back there were again 5id launchers firing at us. >> saturday was the deadline for both sides to remove tanks, artillery and other heavy equipment from the front lines. both sides say they are compliant, though we spotted this separatist tank concealed behind a building in a residential neighborhood of done donetsk about 10 kilometers from the front line. each side accuses the other of violating the heavy weapons

inflation that is rocketing with food scarce and many people struggling to feed their families and john hendronhis report from the city of donetsk. >> reporter: in separatist eastern ukraine one prize of independence is a half shell and she had ten suppliers in ukraine to one in donetsk. >> translator: it's impossible to find new suppliers, for the future we just live one day at a time. >> reporter: at this grocery chain not far away you can still buy meat and fish but the choices are slim. what is left you can still buy if you can afford it. since january eggs have doubled in price, tea is triple. this fish was 45 then 95 now. separatists might consider themselves proudly independent but they are not happy about rampid inflation. >> translator: prices increased and salary and pensions have not, cooking oil used to be 19 and now it is 32. >> translator: it's worse and will not get better until we understand you shouldn't kill your own people. >> reporter: inflation pace for ukraine is annual 34.5% but here in donetsk it is much higher for those who have access to the money, pension and unemploy