tv News Weekly RT August 13, 2017 9:00pm-9:30pm EDT
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world's a stage. one person is killed as a car runs into a crowd protesting against a white nationalist unite the right rally in virginia president condemns the violence while his national security adviser called what happened to terrorism. and in other stories this week on t.v. launches a campaign to bring home russian speaking children left by the islamic state following the liberation in iran. and
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threats between the u.s. and north korea fears of a catastrophic escalation. is that we could hear a lot international with mean a day or two to that song roundup of the week's top stories and up to date means welcome to the program one person was killed and dozens injured today in charlottesville virginia when a man rammed this car into a group of people who were protesting against a white nationalist rally the driver has been charged with second degree murder and a warning that there was some disturbing images coming up. thank.
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you. so. much world there's room ready to. strike. intentional tears well we're right now here at the scene of the attack just behind me is where it occurred i think that the atmosphere here right now is so member a but also hopeful everyone that we've talked to has talked about the community here in charlottesville that it's very much so more like a family and that they will pull together and they have all been condemning the hate that happened yesterday most people do feel that those that were committing the violence yesterday were more out of towners than what the people from here are they said this is a very peaceful town i have with me the headline of a local newspaper here and there's a very intense picture you can see people were thrown up in the air during the
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attack as the car plowed down the street people were coming counter protesters were coming up to this alleyway when a car came down through the alleyway plowing through the crowd ripping through the crowd of protesters as you mentioned one woman did lose her life in the thirty two year old heather haier of course the driver of the car fled the scene but he has been i rested and identified as twenty year old james fields of ohio he is now being charged with second degree murder for the death of heather there were also nineteen more people injured in that attack at this point there are still five people in critical condition. this attack did occur while the city was still under a state of emergency there was a heavy police presence here but then the burgeoning national guard also here in the town of course it's been condemned nationwide quoting from the president he did say that all parties must be held responsible
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a comment that many people have attacked saying that he should have been more specific it's very clear who was responsible for the violence in the city. the organizer of the unite the right march attempted to hold a press conference he was continuously boot from the moment he appeared before the crowd and ultimately his microphone was hijacked. yesterday. very. sorry for. saturday's march began as a protest against the removal of a confederate general statue at least fifteen people were injured in the ensuing clashes and dozens of arrested pepper spray battens and makeshift weapons were used in the fighting and a separate incident a police helicopter which was monitoring the rally crossed outside the city killing two offices president trumps national security advisor condemned the call running as an act of terrorism where terrorism is is the use of violence to incite terror
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and fear and of course it was terrors we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many shots on many sides 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. our team were going down there to start a fight shame on them if they were if 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 are are funding it through through charities which i suspect they may be and in provoking violence around the country even in this in a minute sort of 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
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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 baby guilty of what offenses best to get them and punish them accordingly before we leap to a conclusion as to what may have happened. and went the violence of the gentleman and continue to blame it on deep divisions within american society an increasingly polarized politics. spitta by you and i do we stand divided people but i'm gutted that i try to i respect the people who guided. the democrats. one of the reasons i won the election is
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a very very divided nation. this week alte launched a campaign to help bring russian speaking children stranded as an orphanage in iraq back home it's believed they were smuggled into the country by their parents who joined islamic state and have now been killed or jailed after muzzles liberation leaving their children behind. mosul was a nightmare charnel house that orphaned generations not just iraq he's take this baghdad shelter that we filmed here live the children of i still victims together with the children of i sell fighters. to get them. all school just.
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these harrowing words touched people's hearts my heart broke watching this story will make a humbled but 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. in mixed with the messages of support that we received were claims from alleged relatives take little league. video video that. is. then there's five year old who d.j. and three year old fatima their parents joined the i.c.l.
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two years ago and were killed in a drone strike in june tells us their grandfather he says a seven year old girl living next door to him recognized fatima and her deja from our video and that he can't wait to see his beloved grandchildren again for the record i throw desert and his her. pretty ropey. little push. they're lucky dejah believe they're old enough to speak. this is. the. thing is important. but what about the many orphaned children to young to speak much less know their
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names even if their relatives know them it is only from photographs as an example one woman believes she recognized her grandson in our video by his eyes as someone completely different you cannot. question the picture. there are forty eight russian speaking youths in iraq orphanages that we know of and that's no way near all of them will continue visiting iraqi orphanages and documenting the children there in the hope that after all their pain and loss these young souls can be reunited with their relatives back home relatives who desperately love them or i guess the of. from dagestan russia.
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day pass this week without a fresh exchange of threats between the united states and north korea. they will be met. by your. head again it's a state. maybe it wasn't so. all this rhetoric between the two leaders has led to some colorful comparisons as came to them open explains. when donald trump threaten north korea with fire and fury everyone online apparently had the same thought game of thrones. north korea. best not to be one of threats to the united states. they will be met with five years as. like the world has never seen.
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now arguably the only other world leader whose tirade sound as much like a fantasy villains is kim jong un so we decided to go out and give americans on the street a little quiz we'll give them the quote and they tell us was it trump was it kim jong un or was it game of thrones the days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us game with their own game of thrones. game of thrones out. donald trump game of thrones that's kim jong un ok all right. i tried you know as many people as i can you never know which one you'll need. non-neutral also
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donald trump donald trump donald trump game of thrones you're correct that is game of yes all right our military will be given the resources that its brave warriors richly deserved. to. control them came of their own can join them. down a trail right now that's i will not allow the mistakes of the recent decades to define the course of our future. came of their own donald trump donald trump i'm just going to go with donald trump again that's correct and you're right you're right we can keep any cesspool of evils in the earth. including them within our striking range game of their own can influence. their own skill. direct your enemies steals and murders your children. kim jong un donald trump be. able to. tell the truth it's game of thrones.
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the great. accommodation between the two military powers has of course provoked a lot of international reaction while russia says the risks of war a high china warn trump against playing with fire over north korea some u.s. allies have also stressed they're not supporting the escalation germany says a harsh exchange of words isn't the correct response while the u.k. insists that the situation should only be dealt with through the u.n. some analysts we spoke to believe that both the u.s. and north korea should change their policy. i don't see the plus in these threats were we getting something in return from these president's threats i don't see it i've never seen the tension so high in the korean peninsula i'm extremely concerned i hope the president's advisors rein him in general kelly you know the new chief of
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staff he's got to tell the president you can't conduct foreign policy the way you're doing with words with fiery words i think the north koreans have put forth look we will stop our missile tests if you stop your war games we've been doing war games on that peninsula for fifty or sixty years from now so what good does it to walk away from that entry point is in the goshi a shien's other than the fact that the united states simply does not want to really enter into negotiations is not one we only want negotiations where the negotiating entry point is the north korean surrender. saudi arabia's military is continuing the demolition of a small town in time to strengthen been reduced to rubble supposedly in hunt think gunmen responsible for attacks on police residents tell us what's behind the operation and they asked for their voices to be disguised.
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the shooting. the shooting but i think it's good. to start tanks against civilians who are. known shootings now well. your. city. streets nobody's out because sure sure. sure. sure. sure more like you sure it's not. sure. i can't see it but. so would you like. to shoot. the biggest city in my home you. know i go no doubt one wants to know
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how the local less says the 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 that most locals wanted to see their neighborhoods that we developed our mayor has a population of around twenty five thousand people it's predominantly shia and it's mostly opposed to the sunni run government it was the hometown of the executed in. a critic of the country as well as over the way they treat the shiite minority given the ethnic background locals claim the renovation plans are simply an attempt to drive them out. no. that's just. one. direction. you can wear my question actually.
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much time. to be completely. true because. the months long crackdown has claimed its youngest victim a boy who died from his injuries. it's of my family. and i lost my students and friends. in the assault. on the city a child was shot by the saudi special forces and he doubts that he was shot in the car is this family. the so-called sidey renovations began in the spring and have been aided with the use of western equipment canadian military for calls for
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example are involved. we are looking at these claims very seriously and have immediately launched a review of saudi arabia is counted as second biggest arms by the u.s. and u.k. also routinely sell billions of dollars worth of equipment to the kingdom which had repeatedly been accused of human rights violations and activists tell us about the destruction of our mia. two thousand and eleven or me was. one of the strongest. calling for reforms calling for more right 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 displaced not to select some members who they know what with these then they will to the government narrative.
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some say that war is a racket while that sentiment has only strengthened after the founder of the natori is private security firm blackwater suggested the u.s. should privatized its war effort 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 but be profiting from the war. 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 every ten year period blackwater made around two billion dollars out of the u.s. government most of that came after it secured a contract bonanza following the two thousand and three invasion of iraq the firm gained notoriety over the conduct of its armed forces the company was rebranded and sold after four of its employees carried out
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a massacre in baghdad in two thousand and seven here's a reminder of what happened back then. i know when you're in a character class. i . think there were dead bodies everywhere or lucy's arguments going to be with you people and saw it among the dead bodies lying on the street that summer was illegal and seven years old that i. lick you. see.
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the black water found his proposal to privatized the war in afghanistan comes as the legal battle over those killings in baghdad continues in u.s. courts daniel hoare can support from iraq. the 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 iraq and american found that most of the civilian deaths were unjustified it took nearly eight years hope legal wrangling for justice to be served all the guards to open fire that they for were found guilty and sentenced to lengthy prison terms but now an american federal appeals court has overturned the first degree murder conviction
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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 baghdad on the sixteenth of september two thousand and seven i was delivering close 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 and my hand this wound is the 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 the source 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
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several people were murdered we know that justice and law are respected in the us we are 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 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 because 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
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how can the u.s. court acquit those criminals and release them on what grounds in a case that sparked outrage across the arab world many of the victims now feel that closure for them may be a search for a way as ever after that fateful day in the source square holkins for r.t. iraq. gunmen have stormed a restaurant in the west african nation of reportedly killing three people the shooting happened at a turkish restaurant in the capital. one of those killed is reportedly a turkish citizen soldiers are at the scene and an armed standoff is ongoing with the attack. extremists can foster has seen a surge in terrorist activity over the past few years and generally last year thirty people were killed in a mass shooting at a restaurant and a hotel. has
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spoken to a palestinian father and his son who say they were brutally beaten by israeli police in east jerusalem they described the video of the incident which emma shortly afterwards online. inductive to hold me to open a neighbor's house without any reason i replied that this is not my house and i do not have the key to it he started yelling at me and at the same time ordered the soldiers accompanying him to break my heart. was. was no sign of them it was some tough talk on china was a pleasure to hear that. there were five to six people they were employees of the special forces they attacked me twisted my hands behind my back and began to beat me. over for. her. whenever she should go to her her lawyer. they beat me
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hard on the head sharply twisted my right hand behind my back and started to beat it insistently so that my book was friendship. and his fifteen year old son ahmed told us that after being beaten they were taken to a police station in health for two days. they forced us into a car and drove to the police station they kept beating and insulting us during the ride at the station they confiscated our clothes one officer asked me to stand near a wall and smash my head against a two car fingerprints my father away i was kept at the station for two days for the head. but we didn't explain why they had beaten us we didn't give me my some didn't think. the incident comes amid growing concern over israel's treatment of palestinians in east jerusalem human rights watch warns the practice
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of removing residency may be a war crime the rights group has issued a report criticizing the practice in recent decades israel has shipped over fourteen thousand palestinians of their residency permits human rights watch says that residents guarantees civil rights of palestinians so when the permits a revote they're forced to leave their homes to work crime in question is the forcible importation of the occupied of the protected population. is part of the occupy territory here we're not talking about people forced to leave their home at the point to god we're talking about policies that in fact forced people to eat israel says the right to live in east jerusalem is usually removed when the city is no longer a person's main place of residence in recent years palestinians have also been stripped of their rights for attacking israelis and also as
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