industry secrets revealed. this was. the worst. relatives of russian families left to join islamic state of contacted r t f today recognize some of the children film crew and of baghdad orphanage. a brutal government crackdown on a shia town in saudi arabia just turning more districts to rubble we have from locals who asked us to disguise their voices over safety concerns. shooting people who were of the shooting but certain troops to thorsten tools.

in the syrian army steps up its surface to break islamic state seizure of the city of dare result we'll have exclusive video from the fans. great to have you with us this evening my name's neil harvey you're watching international. relatives of russian families that left to join islamic state say that they've recognized some of the children who were filmed by naughty crew in an orphanage in baghdad the russian speaking children were placed there after they were rescued during the battle to liberate the city of mosul from. so. you know. that the. u.s. lead one to kill a dog boy don't mean. it's

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it was believed that they were taken to iraq by their parents who joined deisel but who are now presumed dead russia iraq and jordan are working to track down of the family members join the search operation the video we just showed you was posted on our social media pages and we shared by the head of russia's chechen republic and could derail it was after this that some of the relatives contacted us earlier we spoke. to find out more. 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 glad 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 alley has sent us this photo now on the left is a screen shot from our video we cannot say for sure yet that this is the same

person but definitely the boys do look alike and told us whose father has definitely been killed his mother last contacted the family sometime between the end of last year and the first few months of this year and the family also received this photo from her the most horrendous thing about it is the islamic state flag that you can see in the top right corner now ever since that there have been no contacts with the woman whatsoever nothing company young people more. prevalent. in the past many of us but i'm going to send them out. because they are still on the. looking down nice yes. but they're going after it just because a he some on the. last. time. cheated that plan should do it

in the national meeting with his name if you don't know much but have yet to get out here. are some press your presciently. getting. peachy when you. hear what. naturally. but you believe in the spirit. i'm going to have to cut us. a little look at that if you. will tell me. if they want to tell other children well three more kids could now be very close to reuniting with their families if everything goes well here's a picture of. the right again just next to a boy from our video the story. and the story of we they are strikingly

similar and horrendous their fathers are definitely dead and the last time soul tom rugs mother contacted his family was about ten months ago now also take a look at these two girls now they might well turn out to be sisters. and for the team we got this picture from one of their distant relatives and we were also told that their mother and father fled to turkey along with the girls about two years ago and ever since then they've heard nothing from them they disappeared and since they ended up in mosul it looks like the family joined islamic state in the office the second they're here in a situation and they've been subjected to i sell products and also lived through the horrors of war how many such children could there still be out there and 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. more districts of a small town in saudi arabia have been reduced to rubble by government forces as part of a crackdown that started two and a half months ago with security forces saying that chasing gunmen responsible for attacks on police but now the town looks like a war zone few journalists have been allowed inside it most of the footage we received from there 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 disguise their voices as they fear for their safety. but i think you could. turn.

action has been going on for non cheater use now. the city has been to complete no move the streets and nobody's out because sure. to shoot. down to shoot range on chart i'm sure most moral award show you are just not for free much rock you sure you. can't see that by the show would know no one can be trying to shoot. bush. on brickell a british citizen my hunch. now might go no no one wants to do judo and it's the months of violence the saudi crackdown has resulted in the death

of a child. but of my family. and i one me and i lost my students and friends. in the assault so if the city a child was shot by the saudi special forces and he died after he was shot in the car. and when asked about the situation in our me where the region's mess said the old districts are being cleared to make life a new infrastructure he also claimed that most locals actually wanted to say their neighborhoods we developed a taste rug as they haven't had a permit to the reasons behind the conflict in the region.

no that's not a war zone they'll be down after that renovations a little do over neighborhood remodelling with guns that's seriously what the saudis a calling this the workers who are conducting an invasion works to ensure the safety of the on the syria neighborhood have come and heavy terrorist find those pictures from our media town of twenty five thousand people where they are foolish enough not to like the king or his family which is the government there also sheer 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. trumped. the renovations began back in april then the un condemned what it's called forced evictions and demolition people being thrown out. their homes with little or no compensation those who resist being shot at banks by the way in no small part

to 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 say let some who they know what would they say then they will told the government narrative. lottie has reached out to several human rights organizations over the situation in the town the red cross the international also the united nations have refused to comment citing a lack of information on the matter enjoying the news this evening to stay with us plenty more after this short break.

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welcome back the syrian army is stepping up its efforts to break islamic state siege of the city of. tripoli video agency obtained exclusive video of that offensive. thank you. i. thank you i. one. of the besieged city of there is or is located in east an excuse me eastern syria

as you can see from the map we've prepared here is completely surrounded by terrorist forces the syrian army is in blockaded in a tiny portion of the city for almost three years and what's more the jihad this are refusing to let civilians leave. however i learned very late and even a bit as isis terrorists raided our house my thirteen year old cousin was staying with us i had her in a water tank so that the terrorist didn't take her as a slave it was obvious that it's not cowardice the situation in there is or is catastrophic terrorist from iraq executes civilians in the streets and leave bodies lying there for up to five days by secretly drove my sons out of the city otherwise isis militants would recruit them by force inject psychotropic substances and later

use them a suicide bombers. ok let's bring in a guest to discuss this middle east expert on our walk off is the founder and director of the grossest think tank good evening omar is it possible do you think for the syrian army to break this seiji just seem like there's an overwhelming terrorist presence in the area. or is a bit of a terrorist presence in the area but the syrian army is stepping forward efforts it has gained a lot of crown in the past few weeks. from different axes towards the city of peters or they're coming down towards the south. south east from the city or from the local area and there are other forces the proper she would ne woods from palmira and and tell me mike about

a hundred kilometers or so until they reach there but it's a plain area and once they. are sick your the main on the last stronghold before dinner is don't choose the city go on the town of. it should be an easy well whatever and easier ride towards the original so yes perhaps in the next few weeks that would be a tangible objective to see it happen if there was a successful effort there by the syrian army would it mean anything for the syria war overall. it would mean a lot we need to understand that unlike previous operations where the syrian army liberated certain areas. where by in most of the cases they were like a military garrison that held out against terrorists and rebels and what have you. this time around we're talking about two hundred or so thousand civilians caught in

traffic that have refused to submit to the ice is or will. there be no sort of in unison with syrian army. if they are liberated and they can you know suddenly have supplies and roads open to them to go for medical reasons for an occasional reasons or whatever and to the rest of the country that this is a huge psychological. and fan page due to the syrian government having liberated not only the syrian army unit over here stationed over there but also these this large chunk of civilians there's also the fact that there is or is the city within its vicinity. is the main producer of oil and gas in syria. specifically oil that's where the bulk of the oil industry is situated and if the

syrian state would be able to restore and operate those on would feel only feeds usual feeds the biggest and cereal in this would also be used konami could be used to. state so by all means this you know the direct effects are quite huge there are others in direct effects there has been some some sort of talk about separating the the syrian east from the rest of the country. in order to. try to prop up this sort of sunni ideology racin identity. that's how these release going to be tallied the americans have been talking about it so this is syrian state securing the city of the arizona is a is a huge dent. in the coffin of that project in a sense to be and it dramatic so on all accounts this is a huge or this would be

a huge achievement. and are great to get your thoughts on this thanks for sharing your expertise with this middle east expert i'm a walker founder of the grossest think tank thank you very much for having. us where the united states is ratcheting up its rhetoric against north korea the defense secretary jim mattis says all of the destruction for north korea's people if pyongyang continues with its nuclear weapons program the d.p. arche must choose to stop isolating itself and stand down its pursuit of nuclear weapons the d.p. arche should seize any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people and washington adderley 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 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 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 the 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. 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 the south korea own north korea as they like it 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 in turn slammed trumps. sit went on to say no serious dialogues possible with the u.s. president to describe this being to the rest of reason but just how big a threat posed by north korea on the scale of more peace been gauging opinion in new 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 birth votto than any time you're dealing with an a country that's led by your irrational dictator i think but you do appear for the worst yes pretty threatening and we respond and threatening way back 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 right i knew that she would get it when you find north korea on this map of the world her all that's australia actual oh well 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 ridge right up there you go you got it there you are like it's close somewhere further more. or 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. r.t.

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