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thanks for joining us. street brawls have turned to tragedy in the u.s. state of virginia where one person killed and more than a dozen injured when a. group of people protesting against a white nationalist rally driver has been arrested and charged with second degree. i like. the world there's room for how they got people. trying to get up. to it was intentional the fact is often they didn't get any of this is intentional tears

. dr who got reports from the scene in charlottesville. right behind me is the side of the incident that happened today hundreds of counter protesters were coming down the street and went to make a left up this alley here you can see two cars still parked here they haven't been removed those two cars were there as the protesters were walking and stopped to let them through at the same time a third car came down the alley and plowed through the protesters hitting the two cars that are still here behind me at that point he then reversed back up the alley again going through the protesters many witnesses say that people were thrown in the air due to the force of the impact he then fled the scene but has since been arrested and been identified as twenty year old james fields of ohio one woman was killed in the incident a thirty two year old whose identity has yet to have been released one thousand others were injured throughout the day there have been many clashes seen in

charlottesville between the white nationalists and the anti-gay protesters the counter protesters here in the city. the governor of virginia also spoke about the attack after it happened about how this is not representative of his city and condemned the division that's being seen the hatred and rhetoric that has gone on. it's intensified over the last couple

months is dividing this great nation the protests actually started on friday night and continued in on saturday saturday a state of emergency was declared for the city and actually all of the assemblies were declared unlawful and police were trying to break them up here in the city there was a very heavy police presence with many in riot gear and the virginia national guard was also here as well. protests in general they were started in reaction to the idea that confederate monuments here in the city would be taken down and so the last white nationalists came here to protest that happening. saturday's classrooms in charlottesville had become one of the bloodiest incidents to date over the removal of a confederate monument pepper spray buttons and make sure weapons were used in brawls between far right demonstrators on counter protest as well the thirty people were injured in the rest on school was arrested in a separate incident a police helicopter that was assisting with the rally crashed outside the town

killing two offices in time the u.s. president has voiced his concern over the standoff 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 going on for a long long time if the k.k.k. car team were going down there to start a fight shame on them if they were that was done in the guise of a charity that charity should be revoked and severely disciplined same for the anti for if there are people behind anti for who or are funding it through through charities which i suspect they may be and in provoking violence around the country even in this in the minutes that have passed between the time i was asked to come on the show i walked about a mile through places in new york where there are already protests they do not look

very spontaneous to me they have printed flags printed placards you know i think people on both sides are spoiling for a fight here and we ought to think very carefully about what actually happened find out who may be guilty of what offenses best to get them and punish them accordingly before we leap to a conclusion as to what may have happened. the violence in virginia is just the latest example of a deep division in american politics that's been going on since trump stepped into office. it's about you and i do we stand divided. the. democrats. are.

one of the reasons i won the election is very very divided nation. and is out international forty eight russian speaking children are stuck up in an orphanage in iraq after the liberation of more so from islamic state terrorists they were reportedly smuggled into the country by their parents who joined i was told that iraq the parents are now either being killed or fled iraqi forces ultimately leaving their children behind and r.t. has launched a campaign to find relatives of the children and bring them home. mosul was a night charnel house the orphaned generations not just iraqis take the baghdad shelter that we filmed here leave the children of i still victims together with the children of i still fight is.

not. the only. school just took. these harrowing words touched people's hearts my heart broke watching this story will make a whole. on a slipping will gladly provide for those children should the remain displaced it's nice country here in australia and the children would be loved. and mixed with the messages of support that we received the claims from alleged relatives take little and leave his aren't in russia recognised him the family desperately wants him back telling us how his parents had apparently joined i sell only to die and disappear

this is their last photo together notice islamic states black flag in the corner clearly. let us. get in. there. then there's five year old who three year old fatima their parents joined i sold two years ago and were killed in a drone strike in june tells us their grandfather he says a seven year old girls living next door to him recognized fatima and her deja video and that he can't wait to see his beloved grandchildren again for the desert

and her. for her to open. it to her. they're lucky. they're old enough to speak to know their names but what about the many orphaned children too we young to speak much less know their names the birth. the. thing is. even if their relatives knew them it is only from photographs as an example one woman believes she recognized her grandson in the video by his eyes

and some are completed in the. kitchen. there are forty eight russian speaking children in iraq you often ages that we know of and we continue receiving messages from potential relatives but this is just the tip of the iceberg. we'll continue to try and find more of these youngsters in the hope that more of them can be reunited with their families back here in russia. or i guess the. from dagestan russia. barely a day has passed this week without a fresh exchange of threats between the u.s. and north korea. they will be met. by.

the state. maybe it wasn't so. it's all comes off the last week the u.n. security council unanimously approved sweeping new sanctions against north korea exports of coal metals and food to other u.n. member states were restricted countries will not be allowed to increase the number of north korean laborers they employ and foreign investment is blocked. it's thought the measures will done the north's economy by around one billion dollars a year. now the confrontation between the two military powers has provoked a negative international reaction russia says the risks of war are high beijing warned trump against playing with fire over north korea beijing added that any accidental spot could trigger a conflict germany also believes that escalation is the wrong answer to the problem expose told us trump and kim jong un should turn down the rhetoric but this can't

be is an ego fight and right now what it felt like was a fight between trump on one side and kim on the other and to see who could make more outlandish statements and the fear is that if somebody flinches if somebody screws up there could be hundreds of thousands of dead people here this is a very real fight this is shockingly dangerous and the last thing we need to do is stand down and start bumping chests and talk about who is the bigger man with the president's rhetoric i think it's it's two leaders exchanging bombastic terms it would be a disaster a total disaster an arms race right on the peninsula even china does not want that so that's why we need to tone down this rhetoric corral and these folks and and try to get them to talk reasonably rather than being bombastic all the time and creating tensions however trump's approval rating has got a boost amid the tough talks on pyongyang his popularity has gone up six point

softer rewarmed the north korea would face quote a fire and fury of the likes of which the world has never seen before and one reason why trump's aggressive rhetoric is popular in the u.s. may be because polls show that over sixty percent of americans view north korea as a very serious threat and more than three quarters of respondents believe pyongyang is capable of launching a missile that can reach america but can they actually find the threat on them up his caleb. if you look 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 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 and 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 nets that's right 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 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've got it there you are like it's close somewhere furthermore 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 ok will mop and r.t. new york your weekly continues in just a moment. seems

wrong. to say power. and. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. thanks for joining us here on oxy international all right so what you are seeing

behind me now are images of from war ravaged cities almost school but a small share town in saudi arabia and more of the area have now been reduced to rubble by government forces who are supposedly hunting down the gunman responsible for attacks on police. very few journalists have been allowed inside the town most of the footage has been posted online by locals images show widespread destruction an army vehicles patrolling the area and we spoke to residents about really what's going on there they asked us to disguise their voices pull on the. shooting of the two or the shooting but i think it's good. to start to use tunks. i don't want you to snarl well.

no. doubt because sure sure. sure. sure sure i'm sure more war sure are for fremont. oh sure. i can see that you are trying. so wouldn't. we on to shoot. on. a bit of certain months in which you know i go no no one wants to go. the local mayor says bulldozers on the streets have nothing to do with fighting he says they're clearing the area to make way for new infrastructure he also claimed most locals want to see their neighborhoods being redeveloped well i want mayor has

a population of around twenty five thousand people it's mostly shia and is opposed to the sunni run government it was the hometown of the executed in my name out of vocal critic of the country's rulers over the way they treat the minority there and given the background locals claim the renovation plans are simply an attempt to drive them out. the government. can watch to. function. and it's just. come for the government to susan to. do. you can warm up twice to catch. one leave much time to. completely. true for much time during which the months long crackdown has claimed its youngest victim a little boy who just recently died from his injuries.

lots 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 saudi special forces and eat out after he was shot in the car is this family. all the so-called saudi renovations began in the spring and have been aided with the use of western equipment a canadian military vehicles for example are involved. we are looking at these claims very seriously and have immediately launched a review of saudi arabia is canada's second biggest buyer the u.s. and the u.k. you have also sold billions of dollars worth of course equipment to the kingdom

which has repeatedly been accused of human rights violations activist i mean it never told us about the destruction of a media. that's two thousand and eleven. was. one of the strongest tones in t.v. calling for reforms calling for more rights in saudi arabia not only for even for sudanese i will dare the government to invite independent investigation of what's happening to interview these twenty thousand who have been this it blazed not to select some who they know what they say then they will tool the government narrative. the founder of the notorious private security firm blackwater has suggested the u.s. should prioritize its war efforts in afghanistan erik prince believes the move would save lives and taxpayers' money there would be contracted people

professionals former special special operations veterans that have experience in that theater to go do that work which would be profiting from the war. well we're not there now but any vendor again that solves that solution that's that's capitalism that's that's what it's about over a ten year period blackwater made around two billion dollars out of the u.s. government most of that came after a secured contract bonanza following the two thousand and three invasion of iraq the gained notoriety over the conduct of its mercenaries the company was reprinted and sold after four of its employees carried out a massacre in baghdad in two thousand and seven is your own mind of what happened back then. i wonder if. there are.

there were dead bodies everywhere in the city. among the dead. lift. the black water fountains proposal to privatized the war in afghanistan comes as the legal battle over those killings in baghdad actually continues in u.s. courts daniel hawkins reports from iraq. two thousand and seven news source square

massacre in baghdad became one of the dog chapters of the iraq war seventeen iraqis lost their lives with nearly twenty more wounded in an incident where private security guards from blackwater now rebranded academy opened indiscriminate fire into crowds of civilians after bush official investigations both the rocky and american found that most of the civilian deaths were unjustified it took nearly eight years of legal wrangling for justice to be served all the guards to open fire that day four were found guilty and sentenced to lengthy prison terms but now that american federal appeals court has overturned the first degree murder conviction of one of the guards and recommended three others for resentencing citing the punishments as cruel and unusual we tracked down some of the people who were in baghdad on the day of the killings whose lives were changed forever. i was working for the post office magadan on the sixteenth of september two

thousand and seven i was delivering post to a police department in central baghdad and i saw blackwater contractors open fire randomly on civilians i was wounded as a result of the shooting. at my hands this wound is a result of the actions of blackwater contractors it still hurts and i still haven't fully recovered. on the sixteenth of september two thousand and seven we came under fire next in this square now we've heard that those responsible are going to be released i'm calling on every country in the world it's unfair i was wounded in both legs and several people were murdered we knew the justice in law i respected in the u.s. we're calling on all countries to interfere in this situation the scars are not only physical hussein lost. his brother in the gunfire he is in disbelief that real

justice may once again if aid to victims of the massacre. when i reached the square there was horrible around the cars were burning blood and bullets were everywhere i was looking for my brother among the wounded but he was already in hospital by the time i reached him he was already dead two days ago i heard they want to release these criminals from blackwater i hope that the u.s. court will not release them it is they are criminals they murdered fourteen people my brother was only twenty four he was working hard to support our elderly parents our family still suffers greatly with the humanity we are all human rights how can the u.s. court acquit these criminals and release them on what grounds in a case that sparked outrage across the arab world many of the victims now feel look closure for them maybe a so far away as ever after that fateful day in this source square daniel hawkins for auty iraq that's a joining us so far for the weekly here on this sunday on r.t.

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