The fate of hundreds of russian trucks carrying aid intended for civilians in the rebel held Eastern Ukraine remains shrouded in mystery at this hour. The trucks are parked in the southern russian city would ukraine accusing moscow of plotting to use them as a cover for an invasion. Fighting between Ukrainian Government troops and prorussian separatist has been intensified recently. That has led to more civilian casualties. The United Nations Human Rights Office shows the number of People Killed in Eastern Ukraine appears to have doubled in recent weeks to more than 2000. Russian television aired this video of the convoy headed toward the ukrainian border. 280 trucks, which moscow says are filled with supplies for the struggling civilian population of Eastern Ukraine. Russia originally said it would route the supplies through territory controlled by the Ukrainian Government. Kiev has now agreed it can pass straight into the rebel held areas. The Ukrainian Government is deeply suspiciou
We will speak with a local pastor who was shot on wednesday by a rubber bullet. We will also speak with radley balko, author of, rise of the warrior cop the militarization of Americas Police forces. Then to ebola in west africa. 1000 thats . The World Health Organization says that number fastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak. The debate over using experimental drugs to help halt the epidemic. Was an agreement among the experts that the special circumstances of this Ebola Outbreak, it is ethical to author unregistered interventions as potential treatment or prevention. There are caveats. The panel said the criteria must always guide such prevention. We will speak with samestore journalistscience Laurie Garrett, Lawrence Gostin, and adia benton. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Joined in a0 Cities National moment of silence thursday night to honor the memory of 18yearold Michael Brown. The unarm
Released, the Highway Patrol says he was a 32yearold man from the hillsburg area, they believe. Alcohol was a factor. A couple of the southbound lanes near todd road were closed for several hours. Now were going to take a look at the san mateo bridge. This traffic looks pretty good heading out to the high rise with no major issues as you drive through. And if youre driving this morning on 80 west, im sorry, 880 westbound to hayward, that looks good. 4 31. Lets go back to the desk. As weve been saying, happening today, San Francisco says hello to Paul Mccartney, goodbye to Candlestick Park. Workers now busy finishing work on a huge stage for the final event at the stick. Tonight mccartney will officially close the old ballpark with a threehour concert. Sir paul will take the stage nearly 50 years after another historic event there, the beetles performed their last big concert at candlestick back in august of 1966. The stage now set for another big night for bay area beetles fans. Ktvus
Try to end days of protests over the killing of a black teenager. And an icecold shower for the worlds richest man. Why bill gates is passing the bucket for motor neuron disease. The u. S. Says its carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group in iraq. The u. S. Central command said it is been targetting the group. Flights have been carried out by jets or drones, a dozen armoured vehicles have been damaged. Islamic state are targetting many minority communities in iraq. Members of the yazidi communities say fighters were stopped from attacking them. 80 have been killed there. Translation they separated women and children from the men, putting women and children in the haul, and the men on another side. They took the ids, gold and property. They took them and killed them until no men were left. They took the women by car towards sinjar. I dont know where they took them. Fighters from the Islamic State are accused of the brutal killing of at least 700 in syria. The syrian obse