they don't want to pay it so the waiting decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will. get the middle finger the movie is. delayed in. the headlines. two young girls reportedly taken to controlled territory by their parents all recognized by the grandparents back in russia. the film. here is a local. jewel with north korea. the president now warning.

u.s. forces of killing at least sixteen civilians in the strike but the. extremists we hear from the victim's relatives. here in my mind. my two brothers my sisters. live from moscow thanks for joining us here we're not. bringing home the cold off the odds he started campaigning to find relatives of russian speaking children in the rocky. these youngsters have reportedly been taken to the country by their parents who joined islamic state.

so. after we showed our clip from the back that all financial we started to receive coals on e-mails from people who thought they knew the children a correspondent but i guess d.f. traveled to the russian republic of dagestan after grandparents of two sisters and fatima came forward. the two elderly grandparents both pension has had never

given up hope but it was difficult they heard nothing they knew nothing other than that their grandkids were lost in a war zone but hope never dies just days ago she filmed fatima and had deja in a baghdad wolf a niche and their grandparents recognized them blowing them across your. research. there was no. place. we filmed this in the very yard in which grew up next to her beloved swing set and her sister were taken to mosul by her parents two years ago grandfather says they fell on the isis way to religious propaganda he says in june his son and his wife were killed in

a drone strike leaving the children all alone to nursery. could be no would be. bizarre. movie j.t. . as it were to the menu by now and i support a teacher's grandfather who she used to call dhaka instead of says that he's overjoyed he says that his life has meaning again but it's not over yet there are tough paperwork to file this bureaucracy and procedures to follow before the girls had fatima are allowed to return to their grandparents. but we're not going to eat there more dark rooms or theaters couldn't marry us now live with. murder in. the two sisters and several of the youngsters were

identified off that we filmed the baghdad orphanage but they're the lucky ones according to officials as many as a thousand youngsters from dagestan alone would taken illegally by their parents to syria and to iraq the parents perished leaving the children all alone in a country that isn't that oh. we'll continue to try and find more of these youngsters in the hopes that more of them can be reunited with their families back here in russia there is another story which could possibly have a happy ending people claiming to be the relatives of another child contacted us saying they think they recognize a total in a video the boy was born in iraq and they've only seen him in photos sent to them by his mother. some companies are going. to. be simply

getting. question could you. even see that you need to. keep. this if you keep. a campaign to reunite those stranded children with their families back home in russia continues if you have any information or think you know someone who does please contact us at the e-mail address on screen. donald trump has arrested up his rhetoric against the leader of north korea after the regime's latest threat of a missile strike near u.s. torch territory in the asia region the president sent the following warning to kim

jong un. he utters water threat or if he does anything with respect to qualcomm or any place else that's an american territory or an american ally he will truly regret it and he will regret it yes trump tweeted the u.s. army is locked and loaded against the secretive east asian state it is the latest in a long line of rhetoric from the american leader. north korea best not make it even worse threats to the united states. they will be met with fire. like the world has never see the people that would question that statement was it too maybe it wasn't tough enough so that if there is a state that has nothing to do with there that's a statement and while it's still a war of words for now western media report the pentagon has plans for

a preemptive strike on north korea's nuclear facilities that's raising fears across the border in seoul as aussies really put trying to reports. so what if mr trump goes forward and all these roughly two dozen north korean missile launch sites testing grounds and other facilities go boom there is no way kim jong un won't take revenge what are they going to aim at. the north korea shover to you and dignity our army will launch the merciless own trip rescission strikes from the ground. under water so they'd better stop being reckless and even without the stuff trump wants to wipe out they've got quite the arsenal toy unleashed hell over the thirty eighth parallel for decades north korea has been prepping artillery for that very moment and now what they've got loaded and ready to fire are twelve thousand pieces of two barks hillary and twenty three hundred units of multiple launch rocket artillery.

the direction southward is clear where precisely will kim point across here here are two words for you to learn counterforce and how to value targeting south korean and possibly even u.s. military facilities near the demilitarized zone versus an attack to destroy economically critical infrastructure and to cause immense civilian casualties i mean it when i say immense look at the range of north korean artillery beyond the border millions of people live there more than half of south korea's population so with roughly ten million residents and with almost three million and su one over one million all these cities are in that zone and some estimates say that forty eight hours of artillery rage may kill over one hundred thousand in and

around seoul alone but what kind of specific north korean threat have we been mostly hearing about from the folks on t.v. that dramatic escalation. tensions with north korea overnight the regime divides defy president trump with a new threat against the u.s. territory of guam a chilling new warning comes as the rogue nation threatens to strike guam home to thousands of u.s. service members this is a regime that's trying to not only establish its power but demonstrate its power everyone splaying the talent kim's missile range game though even if it is capable of reaching the u.s. island in the pacific how realistic is the threat of a successful launch a launch that would dog america's. worst. the. if you are u.s. citizen on the coast of no doubt you're still pretty stressed but hey say that to

south koreans from somewhere near seoul they'll be the first to get zapped if mr trump pulls the trigger i'm going underground host afshin rattansi discusses the u.s. north korea escalations with award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger the full interview all day here on r.t. but for now here's a quick preview. trump is a bit of a wimp compared with obama bomber ended. having put american to seven wars including the longest war in its in its history having increased the development of nuclear. warheads more than any president since the cold war obama's record was all the soup a whole trampas has a long way to catch up with he's pretty to set so that's what i really should stop simply looking at trump the man but trump as

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us today for you and yours at least sixteen civilians have died in a u.s. air strike in eastern afghanistan that's according to local officials the u.s. military has acknowledged the bombing raid in the province but claims only militants were killed afghan officials disagree we heard from an eyewitness of the strike and relatives of the victims. my father and my mother were both killed. eleven people being transported in the vehicle three women five children two men were killed and one of the women was wounded her legs to. the bombing was carried out by will points are still the place where the airstrike hit. my two brothers my

mother and my sister were killed. his claims about civilian deaths come amid increasing talk of a change of tactics by the u.s. in afghanistan. according to the afghan government these civilians were killed in eastern afghanistan the u.s. government says that that is not accurate it says that only militants were killed we reached out specifically to the pentagon to get a clarification and for more information about the situation we did not receive an answer now this comes as donald trump is talking about reworking u.s. strategy in afghanistan we just heard him speak on it and he says his intention is to make it quote a whole lot less messy it's a very big decision for the took over a mess. we're going to. make it a lot less messy but that has been a place seventeen years old there's horrors i read in one of your code and frankly . it's going to be a decision that's within the image version of now at this point roughly eight

thousand four hundred u.s. troops are in afghanistan they're joined by roughly five thousand nato forces that are there alongside them from various nato countries the united states has been in afghanistan for over sixteen years there's been a series of incidents in which civilians have been killed and increasingly in u.s. airstrikes we've also seen afghan security forces being killed much controversy surrounding u.s. activities in the country but as the u.s. intervention in the country continues there have been calls from the military for an expansion of the u.s. military presence in afghanistan now one proposal is being put forward on afghanistan and it's coming from erik prince now erik prince is the founder of a private security firm a military contractor formerly known as blackwater this quite controversial he's proposing that the usa privatized its war in afghanistan there would be contracted people professionals former special special operations veterans that have experience in that theater to go do that work would it be profiting from the war.

well we're not there no but in even the again that solves that solution that's that's capitalism that's that's what it's about now the expanded use of. terry contractors in afghanistan and other parts of the world raises questions of accountability when such forces violate international law or engage in activities that are questionable but this is just one of the many questions that are raging as the sixteen year intervention by the united states in afghanistan continues and defense analyst believes a change in approach will come sooner rather than later the u.s. has killed civilians and they usually say they are killing militants because they think that's the standard line i think the real issue is whether the united states should pull out of there and that's what's being decided in washington i think president trump is less enthusiastic about leaving u.s. troops there were increasing u.s. troops then the military is that the united states even when they're losing

conflicts they want to keep their finger in the dike hoping for a turnaround if they couldn't win with one hundred thousand troops u.s. troops in there it's very difficult to train afghan military that's corrupt and. very ineffective into a fighting force they've been trying to do that for you know sixteen years and has works. a german initiative designed to appeal to old in the community is facing a backlash for using talk names such as met. a members of the tuckers community in the city of do is book with the campaigns taking place to complain they're being singled out. i think it's a great campaign it will be nice to find your own name and it supports people to. not leave it on the streets. it's going to really get this message to the to

be a sad day i encourage people in cleaning up after themselves and not just on the street or on the outs. but one local politician and a member of the talkers community defends the initiative saying it's not against tuck's yeah he also didn't believe it was an act of exclusion or discrimination but we also spoke to a member of the alternative for germany party he told us they lack of integration could be to blame for the backlash. this whole issue is just

a symptom of failed integration if you feel that you are sidelining that you're being racist discriminated against you easily take offense luckily the german disposal company who started this initiative brushed off all complaints and carried on the business as usual it was just a very very harmless complaint i should say these are things that apply to all the people who live in that area it has nothing to do with racism as taught that again if you want to be offended you will always find something to be offended. a high school in the u.s. state of virginia has put forward its own plan to fight racial disparity it's written to parents reportedly saying regardless of a student's abilities in rolled into top classes will now be based on race

jacqueline bouvier has details the concept of affirmative action was introduced with the best intentions to combat racial discrimination but it just doesn't seem to be panning out the way it was intended to anymore especially when it comes to the education system the most recent scandal from a high school in the state of virginia left some parents furious they received this memo saying advanced classes will have quote proportional representation my initial reaction was disbelief i was taken aback i couldn't believe someone would put words like that into print and send them around to the homes of students for its part the school board defended the move thing absolutely nothing wrong with it. disagreed that those statements mean that students will be placed in classes based on race different ethnic groups have had their problems with the current educational system back in two thousand and fifteen a coalition of asian americans accused harvard university of discriminating against them based on race saying that they expected higher standards of them compared to black and latino applicants now the justice department is reportedly going to look into that it's an absolute shame and travesty that previous administrations saw fit

to ignore the well documented complaints of individual systemic discrimination against asian americans at ivy league universities and other colleges as other see affirmative action giving unfair advantages to undeserving candidates to expose that issue one indian man claims he was accepted into medical school despite his poor grades because he posed as a black student he's now hopeful donald trump will end what he sees as a race this initiative i believe that president trump i believe that he will and different action like lincoln ended slavery there's a large number of people who are whiter than winter in alaska who poses as minorities based on flimsy reasons and as a result it skews the statistics because they know that it can improve their chances of admission whether or not affirmative action sticks around it's clear the system is flawed with the vast majority of americans believing that college admission should be based solely on merit rather than the color of your skin and

half of african-americans agree i mean the effort to brew quality to the masses is being criticized even by those who the initiative is meant to help r.t. washington d.c. civil rights activists one lead believe such a move still won't eliminate the problem of inequality in various schools the race based affirmative action has been causing problems it has rendered lower income students in the asian american community and also in new york an american can you can without any help it as also lower income students. african community and hispanic community because when they are compared to a. student there's nothing to support them to say ideas are better than you because i have less and i worked really hard for this students are very much. they have to score. four hundred or three hundred points not. just have the same opportunity

and what they would have won is to be treated fairly and not to be treated you know with any lowering the standards for them they don't really want that they just want to be treated equally and fairly and not to have the bar raised for them. well thanks for joining us here on aussie international on this saturday plenty of news still coming your way and we were a little more than half an. inch to. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so would you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close to see what the before you became. interested always in the water.

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i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground in this season finale eighty one years to the day international brigade volunteers began arriving in spain to fight british backed fascism coming up on the show with barack obama's injuries amaze defacto isis an al qaeda linked rebels in syria all but defeated what next for nato nations the stabilization around the world we talked to legendary reporter and filmmaker john pilger about silence noise and distortion and the matrix is number wilson tells us about the odyssey's of jacques cousteau to educate human kind about

the depths of the world all the civil coming up in today's going underground but first when we began this season theresa may and our government are still banging on about using british taxpayer money to overthrow the only secular government in the middle east but as we hit high someone your liberal austerity policies have destroyed a majority and donald trump has counselled cia funding for isis linked rebels meanwhile nato nation mainstream media appears to have found new rebels to support this time in the nation with the world's moment just known resources or fossil fuel ball of aryan revolutionary venezuela former mayor of london ken livingstone to negotiate a deal with former foreign minister now president of venezuela naked to provide cheap venezuelan fuel for london's buses said mistakes were made on the chavez let alone the fact that killing some u.s. backed all agog could have prevented the current crisis that is one of the most cited scholars on earth he said when he shared the stage with the late to go chat.