relatives of russian families that left to join islamic states have contacted artsy after they recognize some of the children filming the fire crew in a baghdad or. a brutal government crackdown on a shia town and saudi arabia is turning more districts to rubble we hear from locals who asked us to disguise their voices over safety concerns. but i think of course. north korea brands a guy bereft of reason that's after he want to pyongyang that a more nuclear threats will be met with fire and few.

broadcasting live from the russian capital you're watching our team to national with you is on the show. relatives of russian families that left to join islamic state say they've recognized some of the children filmed by an r t crew in an orphanage in baghdad the russians begin children were placed there after they were rescued during the battle to liberate the city of mosul from myself. so. you. can read them. let. us leave they do i need to kill a doughboy don't need. a little. bit of wood and no notice the problem and you'll solution in list for a fraction me just get good what does just the top which.

i mean you have the list. she's truly. i need to show you still. not all that not only. is. it only of the. only a bad. economy or one only. one thing. each in my proposed rule book it gets called just to put someone near the border. if close will money but. it's believed they were taken to iraq by their parents who joined eisel and who are now presumed dead russia iraq and jordan are working to track down other family members are to join the search

operation the video we just showed you was posted on their social media pages that was shared by the head of russia's chechen republic. and it was after this that some of the relatives contacted us and joins me now live in the studio and more so ilya tell us who has reached out to us so far and all the high again well as you can see it only took a few days for the first response was to come in and to be honest with you we are very glad and even surprised that this is happening now let's take a look at some of the photos that we have received. let's take a look at some of these responses the boy that you can see on the right is ali and his was the person that sent us that picture on the left though is a screenshot from one of our videos and we cannot say for sure that this is the same person but the boys definitely look alike ollie's and told us that his father has been killed and his mother last contacted us about

a year ago sent us another photo which she sent presumably from syria and iraq and in the top right corner we can see the flag of the islamic state which of course makes it even more horrendous now ever since then last time she contacted the family which was about twelve months ago it was just nothing a black out. and the but i got to. just because i was still on the phone so i'm the last looking down nice yes. but the graphic just because a he some on the left. cheated at splash it on the national meeting with his name if you don't know much but i've figured out

here. are some. took on a little english getting. peachy when you. hear what. so naturally but. still in your belief in the space you. have. already and. you don't really have besides all the what about the other children in the orphanage well i can tell you that three more kids could be very close to now coming back to their families of course it is a long process but we got more feedback. on the right again next to another boy that is in our video now their stories are strikingly similar around this dead

father and the last time that the mother got in touch with the family was about ten months ago then also there are two girls two sisters doubt they might well turn out to be her and for team their distant relatives and that picture but we also know about them is that their families fled to turkey about two years ago and. ever since then they heard nothing from them so their fate is completely unknown these children are innocent victims i saw propaganda lifted the horrors of war that's how many other such children could there be a mention of the horrors of war in mosul but we of course remember the joy the praise when it was liberated we saw an iraqi prime minister who was delighted when he arrived in mosul after declaring victory but what did he see there he saw horrendous scenes with almost total destruction and the words humanitarian

catastrophe can mean many things but just take a moment to think about the many very many children that may be found in that destruction and there were children found there it turned out to be that some of these children are now treated in iraq and shelters all across the country mainly in baghdad though they are russian speaking children and what they told our journalist journalist that visited one of these shelters is that they remember nothing besides hunger war and death some of them even described on camera how they remember their parents being killed the good thing right now is that at least four children pending a d.n.a. tath the children that we've shown you right now have a chance to reunite with their families and we're hoping for more e-mails and photos because there are as many up to fifty russian speaking children at the shelters waiting to be reunited with their families if possible and if we get more

. to have there's a happy ending for these children who spend their horrors of war and hopefully they'll be returned to the family thank you so much for that. what districts of a small shia town in saudi arabia had are reduced to rubble by government forces as part of a crackdown that started two and a half months ago with security forces saying they're chasing gunman responsible for attacks on police and now the taliban like a war zone they are journalists have been allowed inside the town and most of the footage we've received has been posted online by locals and we just show widespread destruction and army vehicles patrolling the streets residents told us exclusively what's going on in the tell but asked us to the skies or voices as they fear for their safety. and the intentional shooting. the shelling but i think you could endure superstar three tanks against civilians

who are. going on and on to days now. nobody's out because sure george we're actually. shooting everybody who's in the streets. i'm sure most more like a war sure. we must. surely. i can't see it but you know when i don't want i can be on shoot shoot. bush. because the british you know you have to now go knock one out one wants to do is you know let's months the months of violence decide a crackdown has resulted in the death of a child. part

of my family. is and i won me and i lost some of my students and friends. in the assault and so do you think on the city a child was shot by the saudi special forces and he died after he was shot in the car of his family when asked about the situation in al i mean their region is mayor said the old districts are being cleared to make way for new infrastructure he also claimed most locals want to see their neighborhoods redeveloped but i guess you have no state or into the reasons behind the conflict in the region. no that's not a war zone. that renovations

a little do over neighborhood remodelling with guns that's seriously what the saudis a calling this the workers who are conducting renovation works to ensure the safety of the our missouri neighborhood have come into heavy terrorist find those pictures from our media a town of twenty five thousand people where they are foolish enough not to like the king or his family which is the government there are also shia as opposed to sunni and have resisted authorities our media was home to many executed malcontents such as cleric. who wanted democracy in saudi arabia bad behavior is punishable by so-called renovations soldiers plowing through your home with bulldozers or the strong it with explosives and shells security is tight

but for some reason the renovators keep on being targeted by terrorists to government. is just. one. term. the renovations began back in april then the un condemned what it's called forced evictions and demolition people being thrown out of their. with little or no compensation those who resist being shot at by the way in no small part the

western part of canadian military vehicles are reportedly at the forefront of these . renovations. we are looking at these claims very seriously and have immediately launched a review remind me what did you expect would happen when you sold billions of dollars worth of vons to one of the most repressive regimes on earth profits of course dumb question saudi arabia is canada's second biggest arms buyer most western arms manufacturers sell all they can to riyadh weapons that eventually get turned on civilians both at home and abroad and then they feign outrage since two thousand and eleven. was. one of the strongest tones in calling for reforms calling for more rights

in saudi arabia not only for she even for certain is a will there the government to invite independent investigation of what's happening to interview these twenty thousand who have been displaced not to say let some who they know what would they say then they will to the government narrative. r.t.s. reach out to several human rights organizations over the situation and that's how we're bringing their responses as soon as we get them a british contractor in afghanistan is accused of wasting millions of tax dollars that story and more after a short break. greenspan doesn't really seem to understand that the point of having

a central bank is to try to mitigate the risks of these are a swings in interest rates in other words interest rates been through financial repression and they can look this up on google there's a term for it when the central banks are financially repressed the economy they're stealing from savers that's the definition of. manufactured consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. we can all middle of the room sick.

welcome back to the program the us is ratcheting up its rhetoric against north korea the defense secretary john mattes as warned that the structure for north korea's people if continues with its nuclear weapons program the d.p. arky must choose to stop isolating itself and stand down its pursuit of nuclear weapons the d.p. arky should seize any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people washington the earlier already given a strong warning to north korea. north korea best not make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen is he exacerbating the president spoke to him to kim jong un in a language that secretary television has said and said this morning in the kind of

language that kim jong un will understand have the president of the united states keep threatening to destroy north korea this is how shall i put it this is not the language of democracy is but by the way an act of war as well the north koreans either have a nuclear deterrent or they're pretending to but the only reason if they do have it the only reason they've got it is to keep themselves from being exterminated by the u.s. let's say the worst happens it could wipe out south korea it wipe out japan it could do just. to china the damage to russia i mean this is and then of course all the u.s. troops in south korea would all be killed too but this is this is not anything anybody should want why is this the u.s. is business why is the south korea own north korea they like c b a why is it owned by the us this would be such a horrific disaster it could be the worst military disaster in human history if the

north koreans actually have these weapons which by the way i'm not convinced they do have them in north korea and it's turned slam trams comments outs nonsense went on to say no serious dialogue is possible with the u.s. president him described as a guide the refs are from. some stark rhetoric against north korea has a nerve some on capitol hill u.s. congressman eliot engel called the remarks reckless i mean that trumps undermining not only america's security but that of its allies and washington's threats have even cost concerns across the atlantic germany's foreign minister warns that such rhetoric could lead to another devastating war such rhetoric is causing concern and fear that we could sleep walk into war just like we did in the first world war davis time a war where nuclear weapons would be used when in doubt how big a threat is actually posed by north korea are to get them open has been gauging opinion in new york. with the exchanges between washington d.c. n.p.r.

and becoming even more menacing fear is growing across the united states according to a recent poll as many as two thirds of americans possibly believe that north korea is a serious threat we decided to talk to new yorkers and see if they could pinpoint exactly where this serious threat is coming from if you feeling north korea is a threat to the united states i don't think so my paranoid no but i definitely feel that north korea is a potential definite threat i think north korea is a serious threat to the region but not to the united states not scared of of north korea i'm not scared but i'm scared of who our leaders are in many countries and how they're behaving they're not asleep behaving in the interest of of the people fully is becoming more of a birth votto than any time you're dealing with an a country that's led by your irrational dictator i think you know even you could care for the worst yes pretty threatening and we responded in

a threatening way that scary you point to north korea on this map. there no that's that's siberia ok. there that's that's still siberia. that's that's southeast asia that's you know that's like vietnam. man mark there you go yeah that that's that's i knew that she would get it and you find north korea on this map of the world her all that's australia actual oh wow korea. southeast asia that's cambodia that's. ok so it's here that's australia where someone at saudi arabia forget me i'm hopeless it's for a it's. around here around there yeah you're right that's that's north rim right there you go you got it there you are like it's close somewhere further more. it turns out there's actually

a correlation between knowing where north korea is and favoring military action those who don't know where the country is are actually more likely to want to send troops right now millions of americans are convinced that north korea is out to get them and it seems like those who are the least in the know are the ones running the most scared cable mop and r.t. new york. i pads are going ot it's accusing a british contractor in afghanistan of wasting vast amounts of money on some questionable practices they review found millions of dollars in taxpayers' money has been spent and this is going to has more on the story. this was revealed by a latest audit however somehow no no questions were asked on this case previously and now of course this is going to be unraveling and more are going to be demanded now some of the questionable items or quit really quite fascinating they include seven luxury cars from up porsches to offer a mayo's to

a bentley to an aston martin and a lender over new century consulting was unable to provide adequate documentation to neither justified a need for a luxury item of bills nor verified that the use was in accordance with contract regulations as an example and c.c. admitted to using the cars during non-working hours without keeping out of good records of didn't work. now also highlighted by this audit the approximately four hundred twenty thousand dollars each in salaries to was being described as significant others for working as executive assistants however not providing any kind of details in terms of what this work was exactly also the audit brings into the light about fifteen hundred dollars spent on alcohol forty two thousand dollars spent on automatic weapons as well as personal travel expenses now the british contractor in question has said to media outlets that these assessments are unfair and inaccurate we've also reached out for more detail for commentary obviously

we'll update if we hear back now we have to keep in mind that this particular audit focuses on the years of from two thousand and eight to twenty thirteen and all of this has come out into the spotlight but we do know that there is more auditing going on in terms of what the in terms of the years that followed so certainly more is expected to be revealed then and we have to of course keep in mind that this is far from the first time when the issue of contractor spending as well as the efficiency of those training afghan forces on the ground comes into the spotlight to prove graham remain trouble just last month special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction who pretty because of a lack of performance metrics it. almost impossible to assess why there are to hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the mentoring and training programs were effective while all of this is now being highlighted when of course the trump administration is considering its steps in afghanistan moving further so really it seems that there is quite a little bit to reconsider. imagine

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