yeah it is the john oliver of our country americans do the same we are verily better than blue. sea people you've never heard of low down for the next president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an email. relatives of russian families that left to join islamic states have contacted art see after they recognize some of the children filmed by our crew in a baghdad or. a brutal government crackdown on a shootout in saudi arabia is turning more districts to rubble we hear from locals who ask us to the skies or voices over safety concerns. and. the. course under. north korea brands donald trump a guy big raft of reason that's after he warns prong young any more nuclear threats will be met with fire and.

thanks for tuning in you're watching our to international is sixth in the afternoon here in moscow with you this hour is and the. top story now relatives of russian families that left to join us on the state say they recognize some of the children filmed by an r t crew in an orphanage in baghdad the russian speaking children are placed there after they were rescued during the battle to liberate the city of mosul from. so. you. can really turn them. loose leave me do i need to kill a doughboy don't need. to do. a bit of wood newness. and you'll solution to endless affecting me just. what does just looked up like.

and i love the list. sheesh it wasn't each. i need. not on no more. not coming in it only. you and mom what the draconian. one. one thing. each time one of the would put in a school just to find someone new as the book. is little money. that night. it's believed they were taken to iraq by their parents who joined arsenal 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 our social media pages and was shared by the head of russia's chechen republic rahm's on cutting off it was after this test some of the relatives contacted us and joins me now in studio live for more than i see again so tell us who has reach out to us so far so emily it appears that it only took a couple of days for the first responses to come in and to be honest with you we were very quiet and quite surprised about how quickly things were happening so let's take a look at some. of the photos that we received now the boy that you can see on the right here is allie has sent us this photo now on the left is a screenshot from our video that you've been talking about we cannot say for sure yet that this is the same person but definitely the boys do look alike now

alleys and told us that his father has definitely been killed but his mother last contacted the family sometime between the end of last year and the first few months of this year and here's also another photo that. the family got from her what makes it more horrendous that you can actually see the islamic state flag in the top right corner now ever since the time when that photo was received by the family there has been no contact whatsoever. my dear young people more. prevalent. in the past many of us at a particular. time just goes on and now of. course looking down last year as. the graphic just because that he some on the left. cheated to clash it to the national meeting with his

name if you don't know much but i've yet to figure out here. are some. on the needle in english getting. peachy when you. hear what. naturally. but in your belief in the space you. are going to have. to then you. do you look at that. time you know. besides they want to tell other children well i can tell you that three more kids could end up coming back to their families very soon if everything goes well now here is rod on the right again now the story of this boy along with

ali's they are strikingly similar and horrendous the father is dead and the mother got in touch with the family about ten months ago now here's also a photo of two sisters and they may actually turn out to be had and for team what we know about the people who sent us this photo that was. a few days ago is that this family fled to turkey about two years ago and nothing's been heard from them since they disappeared so of course it could be that they joined the islamic state right from there and this is of course also a horrendous story of the two girls well these are the obvious very horrendous situations and they've been subjected to i saw propaganda and also lived through the horrors of war how many such children could there still be out there you mention the horrors of war of course here we can talk about the liberation of mosul

and we remember the joy and the praise that we heard when the city was being liberated we saw the prime minister of iraq he was delighted is right when he arrived in mosul after declaring victory but what did he see there almost total destruction now when we say humanitarian catastrophe these words can mean many things but take a moment to think about the many very many children that were found amid this destruction some of these children that were treated at this iraqi shelter they were. russian speaking and when our journalists talk to them the only things that they could remember is hunger war and death and some of them were even able to describe the experience of how their parents were killed so it turns out that luckily now four of them pending a d.n.a. test could be reuniting with their families very very soon but of course there are

more left a total of almost fifty children and we are of course waiting for more e-mails and photos and hopefully we'll be able to help them well when these families relatives do reach out to us please come back to us to give us all the details for now thank you that was in the upper triangle. more districts of a small she is found in saudi arabia have been reduced to rubble by government forces is part of a crackdown that started two and a half months ago with security forces saying they're chasing gunmen responsible for attacks on police and now the town looks like a war so few journalists have been allowed inside the town and most of the footage which been received has been posted online by locals images show widespread destruction and army vehicles patrolling the streets residents told us exclusively what's going on in the town but asked us to the skies their voices as to fear for their safety.

but i think you could. turn. the whole operation has been going on for nearly ninety days now and. the city has been completely empty no movement on the streets and nobody's out because sure church actually are on duty to shoot everybody who's in the streets free here the sound of shooting range on charred i'm sure most more like a war sure it's not cheap fourthly much rock will surely. i can't see it by a show without the one built. on shoot shoot. bush league. recalls move a business in my house. now my going out going out one last two days ago. and as the months of violence to start

a crackdown has resulted in the death of a child. out of my family. and i want me and i lost my students and friends. in the assault. on the city a child was shot by the special forces and eat i just shut. the stand that. when asked about the situation and the region's mayor said the old districts are being cleared away for new infrastructure he also claims most locals want to see their neighborhoods we developed that doesn't have looks deeper into the reasons behind the conflict in that 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 on the syrian neighborhood have come under heavy terrorist find those pictures from our media the town of twenty five thousand people where they are foolish enough not to like the king or his family which is the government they're also shia as opposed to sunni and have resisted the 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. renovations began back in april then the u.n. condemned what it's called forced evictions and demolition people being thrown out of their homes with little or no compensation those who resist being shot at

by the way in no small part the western partners canadian military vehicles are reportedly at the forefront of these saudi 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 arms to one of the most repressive regimes on earth profits of course dumb question saudi arabia is canada's second biggest arms buyer heck 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 zero or me was. one of the strongest tones in qatif 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 sell elect some who they know what will they say then they will told the government narrative. r.t. has reached out to several human rights organizations over the situation in the town the red cross amnesty international and also the united nations have refused to comment citing a lack of information on the matter meanwhile a british contractor in afghanistan is accused of wasting millions of tax dollars that story and more after a short break. the

feeling of. every the world. that you get it out of the old world. according to josh. thanks. for the raw.

welcome back to the program the u.s. is ratcheting up its rhetoric against north korea the defense secretary jim mattis has warned of the destruction for north korea's people it continues with his nuclear weapons program. the d.p. arche must choose to stop isolated spot and stand on its pursuit of nuclear weapons but he should seize any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people washington had earlier already given a strong warning to north korea. north korea. make it even worse threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world never see is he exacerbating the president spoke to him to kim jong un in a language that secretary tillerson 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 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 south korea own north korea's they'd like to be a why is it owned by the u.s. 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 trumps comments as nonsense it went on to say no serious dialogue is possible with the u.s. president who described as a guy be reffed a freeze tom stark rhetoric against north korea has unnerved some on capitol hill u.s. congressman islet called the remarks reckless adding that charms undermining not only america's security but that of us allies and washington's threats have even caused concerns across the atlantic germany's foreign minister warns that such rhetoric could lead to another devastating. such rhetoric is causing concern and fear that we could sleep walk into war just like we did in the first world war and even time of war when nuclear weapons would be used when in doubt how big a threat is actually posed by north korea are to scale them up and has been gauging opinion in york. with 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 bravado and any time you're dealing with an a country that's led by your irrational dictator i think you know even you to appear 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. and it's that southeast asia that's you know that's like vietnam. man mark there you go yeah that that's that's north 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 well north korea. southeast asia that's cambodia that's. ok so it's here that's australia you're someone that's 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 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 table mopping r.t. new york. a pentagon audit 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 the see a church has more on the story this was revealed by a lead us to 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 are quote really quite fascinating they include seven luxury cars from up porches to all for males 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 automobiles nor verified to use was in accordance with contract regulations as an example and he admitted to using the cars during non-working hours without keeping adequate 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 in terms of the years that followed so certainly more is expected to be revealed than 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 do program remain trouble just last month special inspector general for reconstruction who pretty because of a lack of performance metrics it is 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

a russia in which lennon is still alive and these days embracing modern technologies and social media networks that's precisely what a special project on nine hundred seventeen live is doing today at the leader of the russian revolution live streamed from his secret hideaway. but wait a second if. at the height of the revolution lennon was accused of treason which is why he's now in hiding today he has been sending our messages saying he's fine. and it's not only on periscope where the father of the russian revolution has been popping up he's giving donald trump a run for his money on twitter to that if unlike lenin you want to embrace the past rather than the future r.t. nine hundred seventeen project has plenty of clips about russia's troubled history

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the project has been running for six months now and has build an army of followers if you want to join the community just fall the hash tag nine hundred something live on twitter at our website. in the first few months over one hundred six. is growing more than one hundred twenty. nine hundred seventeen lives generating more than twenty five million impressions historians politicians political scientists journalists and researchers from all over the world. life. you can also learn more about the project and get all the stories we're covering. for free right now and i'll be back at the top with more stories.

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eight hundred fifty children are now registered it was she to be center. i did but in the now i got one but it was not that i am so doubtful but to once again what was said about those about to would be incorrect let them side by side it says what to do i want to do it was good but i was going to have something joe goes out of a job of us got on my bus may and most of them one that makes a good choice the cubicle thing for nearly forgot them and that is that is a bit long but to the what they say it's almost as it will go getting it i members i mean i'm a young kid might give an example is upset them and tell you it was good but it was a myth that he let their soft above the law be that by the number you remember i doubt i will because that is a part of what they're saying.