it was. in fact. monday morning the nineteenth of june breaking news to start with this hour a violent drives into a crowd of pedestrians outside a mosque in north london it's left one person dead and several more injured we'll bring you the latest. coming up to british prime minister to resign may saying that incident is being treated as a potential terrorist attack as london counter-terror police open an investigation . and other news conflicting claims over the downing of a syrian fighter jet by the american military this morning over a battleground disputed by u.s. forces islamic state and the syrian government real mess there will try and unravel what's happened. and the run launches missiles targeting militants in eastern syria

in retaliation for recent terror attacks in tehran claimed by ice. very good morning thanks for tuning to out international with me kevin zero in here r.t. h.q. it's eight am here it's six in the morning in london that's where we're starting again in the u.k. where at least one person has been killed and up to ten injured in what prime minister to resign mayes calling a potential terrorist attack just four hours ago a van drove into a crowd of pedestrians many of them believed to be worshippers leaving a mosque in north london. than me on my way home i hear the big noise the crash noise when i turned back i saw the fun hit the people and when i ran to the place i saw

a lot of people all florida the one that and the other badly injured one of them and that the with the guy who was under the van was seriously injured he took the whole load of the van. that the guy was all he's got hit in his head because he was standing looking at the guy like this and the valid she hit him here that's what happened well this all unfolded just after muslims were breaking fast for the holy month of ramadan let's take a look at where this. just as you can see circled in red that van drove into a crowd it's a junction close to the finsbury park mosque on the seven sisters road a real diverse suburb several kilometers north from central london it's got a large population area when a situation is there sean just now live the sun coming up on yet another. what looks like to be a terror attack we hear prime minister may. saturday were about to sit on another cobra meeting to discuss what's happened as you can confirm take us through the

events of four five hours ago then what do we know. will not have been where here is in north london just around the corner from where the finsbury park mosque is basically the location near which this incident unraveled and as you can see behind me there are still dozens and dozens of members of the local community still gathered here and they've been here all night since the incident took place shortly after midnight and people are quite certainly upset about what happened to say the least and the demand answers here is one person we spoke to says his family members were injured in the attack. team time as the play was finished it was just . i'm almost as wrong for to assume as it finished this guy came here one of the must mean ten so he must be saved if only one purpose built to one of those you know the language of the foot is on the road. sometimes my elder brother called me

divine there's a guy was driving that and intentionally tried to crush the people while they're having their coffee we just came out from the prayer time we're having a short break so you know and then we pray at night when the people have to rush to the man with driving the van de they bring him out the police came by the time they're booking him in the van i've got defeated you know he was raising his hand like so to finish in a victory you know what the what the tory sock that he has done to the most. is described this latest incident as a potential terrorist attack we do know this that the anti-terrorism command unit is investigating what exactly unraveled here throughout the night and teresa mayes going to be hosting holding an emergency an emergency cobra meeting later on today and of course this comes after already three separate terrorist attacks in the u.k. in the recent months.

god. told us certainly remember see here all the muslim community have been telling us throughout the night that they do see this as a deliberate. we have been talking a lot about islamophobia they have been saying that pieces of islamophobia have been on the rise they do expect officials to put more security in place around

mosques specifically we did talk to one leader of this community let's listen to what he had to say. but i think what's happened today is a serious it is a deliberate and but just we have to wait to clarify especially the more to force it is open for everybody to do the media to use this incident which we all have to condemn as we condemn other incidents like what's happened much just or or. london bridge we have to condemn this this this incident to go to school who is behind it. what we do know that one man has been arrested in connection with this attack and so far i've been described as a forty eight year old man officials have been saying that they going to take him sort of possibility is going to be undergoing psychiatric experts in and of course officials are going to continue investigating why this incident unravel so

certainly as the day develops we're going to be finding out more about the identity of this attacker you know right from now now surely get back to your head or more of what's happening there will come but you later as you say we spoke to former pentagon official he says this attack might show that more radical ideologies are attacking moderate muslims here. given the fact that this was a vehicle using the cheap means in fact it's the identical method that isis called upon. terrorists in place to to use because it's cheap it doesn't you have no intelligence on any of this and this is been this is been the history of what we've been seeing recently particularly during ramadan factor this happened during ramadan is also curious. but isis did call for greater. attacks but again your fact that it happened in a muslim predominantly muslim area throws a little curveball here and that that's

a little strange unless it was more radicalized individuals trying to go after more moderate. muslims the finsbury mosque opened back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. has often been in the headlines as the muslim population in the area began to grow there since then it's been one of the biggest prayer holes in britain however in the one nine hundred ninety s. the mosque was accused of radicalism and its preaches linked to al qaeda twelve years ago it was reopened under the new chairman there but political commentator mullen says says it's going to struggle to shake off its radical link. attacks on muslim communities are the same as the attacks. on any cuties from during a terror attack i think the frustration for the security so far i see a social group elsewhere has been born other news agencies have. told us or two in this hour people have been accusing new channels of dumbing down an attack on this when i'm not trying to give seemed or try to avoid trace

a situation with muslims i mean this is a terror attack i think it's going to be very unhelpful for people at either end of the political spectrum to try to use this we're going to change the first thoughts have to those involved but i think the office space of the walk was gracious. it's night. and people are out of returning to washington during the month of ramadan. busy news morning this morning on the news a syrian military jets been shot down by an american war plane there the embattled syrian city of rocca damascus says it's pilot missing in action was carrying out a bombing run against islamic state at the time but the pentagon claims it down the plane for bombing us but forces damascus based on this explains more. so if one of the u.s. refers to a certain demographic forces which is the militia group operating along with the u.s. led coalition trying to take the city off. from the control of ice all but we can also confirm according to suffer through sources from the syrian military

approaching in that area that the popular church was actually caring strike against a convoy from ice and that the fighter jet in no way you posed any direct or in direct threat to any militia group from those militia groups operating alongside the u.s. led coalition trying to get control over gain control of the city or for the warplanes of the so-called international coalition shut down one of war a fighter jets in the south and suburb of rock the fighter plane was in a mission to destroy slotnick state terrorists the aircraft crashed in the pilot is missing but i think there is more to that story and what's more clue that story is that is the u.s. is trying to true boundaries in the syrian conflict and red lines. for the syrian army not to cross the. battlefield is a very complicated one right now where it has the presence of various international and regional powers but what i can tell you for a fact is that it seems that the syrian army and the syrian government are adamant

on actually moving on with their operation to break the ice also usually on the city of there is sort of trying to actually to limit the ability of the u.s. . led coalition and the u.s. troops who are now on the ground in syria limiting their ability to move on limiting their ability to create influence centers on the syrian battlefield and we have to understand that this is not just a syrian issue this is more of an international conflict and power play between the u.s. and russia on serious. according to a statement released by the pentagon the syrian fighter jet that strayed into a so-called de confliction washington says the syrian military forbidding from entering that area where the u.s. backed s.t.'s for the syrian democratic forces a base however russia's foreign minister earlier rejected the use of the de confliction zone so good lavrov says the u.s. has drawn up its oban trees here without consulting with the syrian government. i'm not aware of that the conflict zones the pentagon is referring to maybe there is

own that have been established unilaterally where the coalition thinks that he will do whatever it wants we don't recognize such loans. as you know there are already discoloration zones that have been agreed on and established by syria iran turkey and russia any steps by the coalition which don't receive consent from damascus are not legitimate the downing of the syrian jets the latest in a series of u.s. strikes against forces fighting for the assad government the us led coalition recently conducted several bombing raids against pro-government fighters in syria in those cases the same justification was used by the pentagon that the pro forces have breached this deep confliction zone despite the managing editor of journal veterans today he says the u.s. is a willing to coordinate with other parties in this conflict right now. i would tend to believe the syrians because their sorties and their pilots are very valuable and they would be very careful the russians are wrong why it's all mapped out and they

know that the u.s. would just love to have that incident like this but there are i've sort of forces in the area of the u.s. coalition is the one that has refused to coordinate these types of missions and campaigns to avoid this type of thing soledad bear the responsibility of it. so you've syrian another story to tell you about this morning around this most missiles into eisel held eastern parts of the country nikki aarons in this you to tell us more about this on nikki. what's prompted run to do this see what sports pushed them to do as far as they're concerned what was been said well let me tell you about what happened first of all on sunday the iranian revolutionary guard which they lead defense force in iran launch ground to ground missile strikes from western iran into the eastern part of syria the region they said they were targeting a bases of militant groups that they say were responsible for those twin attacks we

saw into iran earlier this month you remember those there and you know actually horrific now in statements on the websites and the revolutionary guard a lot of the success of this strike base that they managed to kill schools off the militants and also inflict significant damage on their infrastructure and i want significance and unprecedented about this these missile launches this is the first part first time iran has launched missiles on syrian soil since it since that the two signed started working closely together iran as you know has been working closely with the assad regime in the fight against extremism. going but to these attacks about twelve days ago was in a into run because a lot of shock because this kind of thing doesn't normally happen then it was in two separate places was that remind us of it for of use the come quick. remember there all just to familiarized with it absolutely it was on june seventh there was almost. twin attacks targeting two of the most important buildings in.

the gunmen stormed the iranian parliament while it was in session and opened fire almost at the same time separate militants detonated suicide bombs at the muslim of the founder of the islamic republic of iran so really targeting the heart of the iranian capital there nineteen people were killed and dozens more were injured and that was claimed by islamic state so what we're seeing from it does seem that way certainly hasn't shied away from tough talk since that attack they found. and the country senior officials have also been pointing the finger of blame towards saudi arabia they said they continuously accused saudi arabia of supporting terrorist groups inside iran now something that riyadh has continuously denied of course but they say iran says that the fact that i still has claimed responsibility for these twin attacks is a clear sign that. study arabia is involved now in layman terms the message from iran is do most with those we're going to mess with you so this really does market

a significant deterioration in those floor to relations between the two sides such a complicated picture is now just a reminder. runs we're working on this side of the. year absolutely it seems like the longer the syrian conflict continues the more convoluted a mess the big at this point a number of different groups and states are involved in the syrian conflict as you know including fighters from the iran backed lebanese militant group hezbollah which were invited by the assad regime to join the fight against extremists and iran has also provided military support experts and training and advisers now sort of thing to the syrian government to help in its fight against extremists iran and syria closest of allies working in this fight against terrorists but one. extraordinary nevertheless this is this is the first time everyone has launched missiles on syrian soil thinks the syrian syria did you know this ended into civil

conflict in two thousand and eleven yet more complication added to it ok thanks so much for explaining that complicated picture to say we've got some thoughts as well religion chief iran's fars news agency told us what was behind the radio missile strike in syria as he saw it in tonight's a statement that the i.r.g.c. public relations has given it is warn that this is the beginning if the terrorists embarked on conducting any second attack on iran iran would provide a much more vigorous response to them and not just it has also warned the backers and sponsors foreign sponsors of the terrorist groups including the regional transfer regional and when i'm in the back years and when iran says trance regional backers of the terrorist groups specifically means the united states now it is believed by many in and outside the iran that the united states and many of

its allies there are backing the terrorist groups in the region especially in syria they need to reassess. their estimates and assessments and the calculations with regard to syria. coming up it's been brewing for months of arguing and months adjusting but breaks it negotiations finally when it's not going to mean get under way this monday will tell you what to expect the now for a short break. i don't see clear at a cost strategy is it any way i only see. you know all things good for today or tomorrow. you have team forward brief period of time and then

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a sort political asylum there's sweden investigated allegations of sexual offenses against him at the time artie's polly boyd connex looks over a century as a son just half a decade now in isolation five years inside it's not exactly the slammer but this is how julian assange describes it in my situation. frankly i would be institutionalize this is. this is the world. visually. the world will want to well there are some i but i haven't seen someone so long. the wiki leaks editor has to rely on the occasional balcony address to fans and journalists for his annual dose of vitamin d. almost five years here in this embassy without sunlight last year the u.n. ruled that he's being terribly to taint a person's then foreign secretary said he rejected the judgment and called it

ridiculous london's metropolitan police have spent millions of pounds in taxpayers' money staking out the building for the five years of the songes self-imposed exile in that time the country has enjoyed two referendums two prime ministers and a string of terror attacks but first sanjay little has changed last month a legal breakthrough after being wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault in sweden seven years ago prosecutors dropped their case against the week you said it or your home door i have today decided to leave the decision to remand judy in the sunshine in his absence and to recall the european arrest warrant specifying who should be transferred to sweden although julian assange himself was the first to acknowledge that he is by no means a free man the road is far from over. the war the proper war

is just commencing the u.k. has said it will arrest me regardless that's because there's still a british warrant for a songes arrest for breaching bail back in twenty twelve but that's small fry compared to the trouble he's in with the us or forty's in april the us attorney general said that arresting us. it is a priority this is a man this grown beyond anything i am aware is a narcissist who has created nothing of value you realize on the dirty work of others to make himself famous he is a fraud a coward hiding behind a screen the u.s. justice department is said to be trying to bring espionage charges against them we can leak setter for releasing trove after trove of top secret documents and songes greatest hits include the deeply embarrassing for washington cable gate in twenty eleven the afghan war logs in two thousand and ten and more recently the protest

e-mails and vote seven revelations about the cia's mass digital spying tools for now the u.k. government refuses to say whether it's received a u.s. extradition request for julian assange. and the embassy he's now forced to call home there are signs of strained relations with his hosts late last year ecuador cut off a songes internet connection if it is his leaks about hillary clinton which influencing the u.s. election then last month ecuador's new president was kind of mean about him mr songes the haka that's something we reject and i personally reject. by respect the situation he's in which calls for respect of his human rights but we also ask that he respects the situation he's in a songes legal team says that it's priority now is persuading the british government to allow that we said it to safe passage from the embassy here on to

a plane bound for ecuador way he could enjoy the political asylum that he's been granted but it's a tall order given london special relationship with washington and the prospect of a u.s. extradition request hanging over julian assange just head. check a lesson for half a million tickets have been sold so far for the fee for twenty seventeen confederations cup here in russia matches will take place almost every day for the next few weeks across four cities we go great coverage of it too for you moscow is of course one of those cities where it's all happening and played host to his first game on sunday between cameroon and chile before the tournament kicked off foreign media have been raising fears of racism in hooliganism with many reports pushing the idea that russia is unsafe for travelling fans but cameroon fans rubbish those concerns as they took in the atmosphere of the capital yesterday. no problems

getting erosion stiffy a very good people it's not the first time a comma in a russia i can see only better since for the moment about the but russia and of the opposition yes. our special coverage of the confederations cup will continue tomorrow with our team of experts neil harvey and former england football or stan collymore. i'm stan collymore and i'm neal half and. we're going to be your hopes for the two thousand and seventy confederations cup right here in russia we're going to be visiting the host cities of sochi. moscow is going to be great but i'm talking full of course also politics i think pretty much covering every topic the fans need to know about the head of the match so don't forget to join us on field it's going to be for live in the. u.k. some precedent to bricks it talks are set to begin on monday one year after the country voted to leave the european union british breaks it secretary has promised

a deal like no other in history as he heads into the go see asians of brussels and reports on what problems could lie ahead. there could be as many as seven thousand issues the u.k. and the e.u. need to go over if london wants a good divorce settlement possible rights for e.u. citizens whether or not to remain in the bloc single market and the fate of border controls are merely the tip of the iceberg theresa may has coined one slogan after another promising brits she's got their back bricks it means bricks it bricks it wrecks it wrecks it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it except this iron lady card she's been playing doesn't seem so scary anymore for brussels here's why. and in the ten to strengthen her bracks a negotiating hand she called for snap election and let's just say the idea looked better on paper may lost her majority as she is still struggling to hammer out

a deal with northern ireland's controversial democratic unionist party after all they don't see eye to eye on key issues including bracks it well or do you prefer soft may campaign for the exact opposite. then things went from bad to worse when she avoided meeting with survivors at the scene of the horrific grand cell tower fire which left at least fifty eight people presumed dead her muted response triggered mass protests outside downing street and gave fresh ammunition to her opponents it can be acceptable but in london we have looked through buildings and look three flights left empty land banking for the future will be homeless in the pool for somewhere to live. exploiting her weakened position some e.u. officials are apparently looking to rush through talks as well to e.u. powerhouses france and germany are even suggesting a happily ever after is still an option if you don't want to. remain so so we sold

going into the break should negotiations come to. i think it would be great if they were to reverse the bracks a decision so if they get wants a good settlement they may still need a better divorce lawyer will follow all the twists and turns is just better after eight twenty eight in the morning here this monday in moscow thanks for being with us next a live update from the thirty two minutes from now most across all of these stories twenty four seventh's at r.t. dot com when i show between now and then sophie and co after the break. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes

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