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we should not be. normalizing. we don't need people that think like this on our. this is an incredibly tense situation. one person is killed as a call runs into a crowd during clashes at a unite the right rally and show all this film. because it.
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doesn't use two young girls reportedly taken to islamic state territory by the parents of recognized by the parents back in russia that's. visited a baghdad. there is a role for. her to meet her. north korean leader kim jong il and he will regret it fast if he continues to make threats against the united states. it is just gone past one am here in the russian capital my name is. international. the top story this hour one person has been killed and more than a dozen others injured at the unite the right rally in the u.s.
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state of virginia this is after a car plowed into a crowd of counter-demonstrators the driver has been arrested. i was. sorry. for all those wrong he was trying to get out it. wasn't the crowd so when they hear that yeah it was intentional tears. the mayor of charlotte phyllis expressed his grief over the deadly incident and he also called on everybody there to go home alex rubenstein for marty america's been following developments. it was a three car pileup oh i'm not sure how it how it worked physically but the person in front from what i hear was able to drive away and was followed by a state trooper that was told to me by an n.b.c. reporter i didn't see that personally i saw it i saw i did i saw two cars that were
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all totaled. the trunk was just completely smashed a woman was inside crying there was there was blood on the hood of her vehicle that was blood all over the place people about sixty people injured i saw i saw some of them flying through the air over the hood of the car. and i'm hearing actually one one possible feet how do you i can't confirm that but that's that's what i've been hearing on the ground and i also hear about sixteen people injured total but they were contra protesters they they were more of the variety they were breaking things or anything like that they were marching through a very very small road it was it's a one way and they had just a big number of people in that stretch and the car just plowed through three cars actually plowed through two of them and it appears to be unintentionally one of them and it appears to be very intentional so it's not completely locked down i mean the streets have been shut off on and off all day and charlottesville and later on some ambulances were able to show up after about like seven to ten minutes
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or so a lot of people crying a lot of people have friends that were that were hit by that car and just just all around sadness you know you know typically at a protest if if the police will ask you to get on the sidewalk protesters will say no i mean everyone was compliant everyone was just trying to do the best thing that they could do at that time for the injured people it seems. police have confirmed that one person died in the call ramming a nineteen. for the fifteen people wounded in of the clashes in the city.
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speak now to natasha sweet talk correspondent in washington the tasha take us through what the reaction has been from the white house. yeah that's right yeah the president he released a statement saying that the incident charlottesville is something that obviously almost everyone is following and he condemned the bigotry on both sides calling for unity in the u.s. and he says the hope and division must stop let's take a listen we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville virginia. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many sites on many sites it's been going on for a long time in our country not donald trump not barack obama. it's been
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going on for a long long time it has no place in america what is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives. so here the president is calling for the u.s. tonight but the country is anything but united at this point i mean we've seen violent protests ever since trump was inaugurated back in january both for and against him and you know while this particular incident seems to be targeted from the left wing protesters we've actually seen a lot of violence targeting the right this past year and one of the most prominent cases was back in june when the republican congressman was shot during a baseball practice or before a game and there has also been theater performances where the president was killed at the very end of it and you also may recall the video done by comedian kathy griffin where she held up the president's head similar to what you've seen in isis
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videos and what's interesting about today's incident is that even before the car drove into the crowd of protesters there had actually already been a student emergency declared and there was a very heavy police presence there as you know you know about a thousand officers were there and the virginia national guard was also present and it's still not exactly clear how it all unfolded as you can imagine there are cell a lot of details coming in but this original protest was underpinned by the decision to basically remove the confederate statue and what some solid as a racist symbol it's actually not the first incident though you may recall back in may another confederate statue was removed and that was actually done at night to avoid these type of protest and as you mentioned right now we know of at least one person dead but again those numbers could change as a lot of information is unfolding in some of these natasha sweet reporting from
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washington the thank you. now we have just received reports that the police helicopter has crashed in a wooded area in charlottesville so far it is unclear whether those on board survived any information pertaining to that story soon as it comes in we'll bring it. still further about the mess in the state of virginia is crossovers but it's a political cartoonist ted roll is on the line ted had some opportunity now to gather some of the news reports and information see some of the horrific footage what was your reaction when you saw the story. well i've been to charlottesville a few times due to do speaking arrangements and one of the things that strikes me and from watching this footage is this is a very very small town and it looks like it wasn't very well controlled by the police particularly the incident with the car i keep asking myself how where were the local authorities apparently there were state police as well as as local police
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who were on hand who didn't don't seem to have been really had a strong command and control of the situation i don't see how that car even could have gotten close to the protesters it seems like a situation where it's very reminiscent of ferguson missouri where it just seems like there is not a lot of intelligent policing going on to keep these two sides away from each other and to try to keep the situation as calm as possible i mean it's polarized but it doesn't have to become this chaotic this fast in terms of the far right to these white nationalists that actually organized this rally. do you think that they're feeling more involved in the united states than perhaps in previous years will not . well there's no question about that i mean there's many people say you know president trump said that this is something that went on under obama and under previous presidents but i can't and i'm fifty three years old and i don't remember any torchlight parades of far right. pro k.k.k.
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pro neo nazi people marching in the streets ever in my lifetime that's something that evokes a period that is really belongs to my parents or me my grandparents it's a definitely a lot of people you know figures like david duke who are very opportunistic the former klansman and grand wizard of the k.k.k. they are taking advantage of this moment in order to try to legitimize themselves unfortunately the president is playing into their hands by trying to play the gala tarried card in saying that all sides need to be peaceful but really there's one side that's been calling for anti-semitic and racist rhetoric the people who are protesting that side are not on the side of wrong only the people who are siding in favor of the forces of reaction are but the president is i think concerned that
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part of his base sympathizes with these people so he doesn't want to antagonize them and that's only making things more dangerous particularly when we see protests that violent anything when there's a fight tallaght it only intensifies the situation it makes those who feel aggrieved and the injured polities fame all in bold and to demonstrate because they feel that there's really even more to demonstrate now do you think this could escalate. absolutely i mean there is now a martyr and there may be more if the if the doctors at the local hospitals aren't successful in saving the lives of people who are injured in and near death so certainly there is a situation where look at it's summer it's august virginia it's hot people are tempers are are flaring and this scene is sort of feels like the first major confrontation of left versus right directly against one another in the streets of an american city since donald trump became president so there's
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a lot at stake i think and there's sort of a tendency to grandstand so yes i could absolutely see there's a school i mean that said hopefully it will not. get us foot into the saving about this story of said this isn't indicative of the political divide in the country they say these are the extreme fringes almost trying to take opportunity take advantage of an opportunity to to kalash. think the concept in the first place all the white nationalist demonstrating they said it was about rewriting of history do you believe that that was the reason they were actually marching in the first place or was that was it an excuse just to go out and spread the message. well i think my my take would be something in between those two points of view i mean i think that there is definitely i mean to say certainly extreme right nationalism and groups like the national socialist movement are on the far fringes of american politics and that's also true about the anarchists left as well but they also they
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penetrate deeper into the mainstream than most american political pundits would like to admit i mean certainly there are elements of white nationalism in the mentality that leads to for example police shootings by white policeman against young black man and there's elements of the far left within the progressive left and in terms of that level of militancy so on the one hand this is play this is definitely a far right versus far left story but it's almost like a team sport of politics where people who are perhaps not deeply invested in their own version of the left or the right are nevertheless sort of silently cheering for one or the other maybe this is just how it seems from my perspective when i watch on t.v. these incidents protesting violent in the u.s. is there more that could be done anything different that could be done there was police presence national guard on standby still we saw lots of violence can
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anything different be done. i do think so i mean this is politics is the process of people deciding what kind of country and society that they want to live in and americans could decide that they don't want to live in a society where people are beating up beach beating each other up in the streets over their political opinions i mean and certainly laws could be passed and even the constitution could be amended if necessary in order to to make that more difficult and to make that more controlled and so far we are kind of saying look the first amendment certainly gives you the right to say whatever you want in the street and to protest accordingly what it does not necessarily give you or does not give you is the right to go up and throw. to throw punches at each other space or chemical or spray proof chemicals in each other's faces and this is this is really embarrassing as an american i can only look at charlottesville and say this does not make us look good and it is really
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a very bad day for our country ted always good to speak to really appreciate you giving this. and add some more context to the story i believe political cartoonist ted roll that. and just to update you on that story that i brought you just before speaking to ted i can tell you now with two people have died in a police helicopter crash at the side of charlottesville virginia no suggestion that the my whether or not that is connected to events in the protests will bring information as it comes. it's about you united we stand divided we. the people of. the democrats.
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one of the reasons i want a. very divided nation. wrong . to shape our.
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common ground. bring them home the call after r.t. began campaigning to find relatives of russian speaking children who were stranded in an iraqi orphanage these youngsters have reportedly been taken to the country by their parents who joined islamic state.
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since we had stories of children for the first time we have received letters from people right around the world saying that they want to adopt them is one letter we received from a man in australia my heart broke watching this story will make a humble but on a slipping will gladly provide for those children should the remain displaced it's
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nice country here in australia and the children would be loved as our own some of the children have now got a chance to return to their actual relatives since we've started to receive calls and emails from people who think they know the children personally and correspond ragas the ever struggle to the russian republic of dagestan and that's after the grandparents of two sisters of the jar fatah maher came forward. the two elderly grandparents both pension has had never given up hope but as 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 all of them with your. research. there is no. place.
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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 killed in a drone strike leaving the children all alone they too much too. could be than i would be. nice guys who are busy i shouldn't have to take out that. movie j.p. . as it were to me and you by now and i support sieges grandfather who she used to call dhaka instead of die 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
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bureaucracy and procedures to follow before the girls had fatima are allowed to return to their grandparents. we're not going to be more. misguided with. the word of. the two sisters and several of the youngsters were identified off that we filmed them at the baghdad orphanage but they're the lucky ones according to officials as many as a thousand youngsters from dagestan alone were 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
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here in russia and you can use the e-mail address you can see the bottom of the screen now if you have any information you believe could be pertinent to those stranded children is r.t. continues its campaign to reunite them with their families in russia. in other news donald trump has warned of the devastating consequences for north korea if the regime follows through on its threat to target the u.s. territory in the west pacific he also stressed his support for the island in a phone call with the governor. he uttered was threat or if he does anything with respect to qualcomm or any place else that sort of american territory or an american ally he will truly regret it and he will regret it pass.
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has no posted emergency guidelines on how to act in the event of a nuclear strike locos a bit of advice to avoid looking at the flash or fall ball and to waste no time running for cover or pay the guidelines were released shortly after trump upped the tensions yet again he did this in a tweet the president informing the public that the u.s. army is quote locked and loaded against pyongyang and that was the latest in a series of ultimatums against. north korea. this make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire yuri. like the world has never seen the people that were questioning that statement was it. maybe it wasn't tough enough so that if there is a state that has nothing to do with there that's a statement meanwhile several media outlets have been claiming that the pentagon
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has plans for a preemptive strike on north korea's nuclear facilities that is raising fears across the border in seoul is really a potential explains. 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 take revenge what are they going to aim at. the north korea shop or to you and dignity army will launch the merciless own trip decision 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 tube artillery and twenty three hundred units of multiple launch rocket artillery.
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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 sue one over one million all these cities are in that zone and some estimates say that forty eight hours of artillery rage may kill one hundred thousand in and around
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seoul alone but what kind of specific north korean threat have we been mostly hearing about from the folks on t.v. the 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. and in the pacific how realistic is the threat of a successful launch a launch that would dog america's. worst. if
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you are us 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 mr trump pulls the trigger and also from a finale but you good night and thanks for staying with during this evening of what has been a very busy time of breaking you know my colleague will be here with the latest headlines at the top of the. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier.
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