this is. one person is killed as a call rams into a crowd protesting against a white nationalist unite the right rally in virginia president trump condemns the violence while his national security adviser calls what happened terrorism. and in other stories this week all tea launches a campaign to bring home russian speaking children left by their islamic state calling parents after the liberation of mosul in iraq. and.

threats between the u.s. and north korea's fears of a catastrophic escalation. is that we can hear on r.t. international with mena deal today that's our roundup of the week's top stories and up to date news welcome to the program we start with news from the west african nation of burkean faso gunmen have stormed a restaurant in the capital killing seventeen people and injuring eight others the shooting happened at a turkish restaurant. one of those killed is reportedly a turkish citizen soldiers arrived at the scene leading to a standoff with the attackers who are believed to be islamic extremists authorities say that standoff is now over the kenya faso has seen a surge of terrorist act. of the past two years in january last year thirty people

were killed in a mass shooting at a restaurant and a hotel. one person was killed and dozens injured on saturday in charlottesville virginia when a man rammed his 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 now there are some disturbing images coming up. thank you. so. far.

world there's room ready to go. right. 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 of 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 white people from here and 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 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 attack a 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 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 night there right monch 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 hard. for. saturday's monch 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 in a separate incident a police helicopter which was monitoring the valley crossed outside the city killing two offices president tom's national security adviser condemned the car running as an act of terrorism what terrorism is is the use of violence to incite terror and fear and of course it was terrorism we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many

shi'ites 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. car team were going to 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 to 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 investigate them and punish them accordingly before we leap to a conclusion as to what may have happened and the violence in the continue to blame it on deep divisions within american society and increasingly polarized politics. it's about you know do we stand divided. we. democrats. one of the reasons i won the election is. very divided. this week on t.v. launched a campaign to help bring russian speaking children stranded at an orphanage in iraq

back home it's believed they were smuggled into the country by their parents who joined as law mixtape but have been killed or jailed after liberation having of their children leaving their children behind. mosul was the night i charnel house that orphaned generations not just iraqis take this baghdad shelter that we filmed here leave the children of i still victims together with the children of i sell fighters. who want to. get good school just look first smiling as a. little. girl but we know.

these harrowing words touched people's hearts my heart broke watching the story will make a humble 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 as are our mixed with the messages of support that we. received claims from alleged relatives take little lead. let me give you doing that. he's. getting. me. then there's five year old who d.j. and three year old fatima that parents joined i sell 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 had deja from a video and that he can't wait to see his beloved grandchildren again want to make it a third grade dessert and her. peers who are open. to her. they're lucky dejah believe they're old enough to speak. this is. a. thing of foreign. companies always. but what about the many orphaned children to young to speak much less know their 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. from a completely different economic. station national compassion kitchen. 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 more i guess the. from dagestan russia. barely a day passed this week without a fresh exchange of the rats 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 some colorful comparisons as 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 of. life the world has never seen.

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 was it kim jong un or was it game of thrones the days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us came 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 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 deserve. to. control them game of thrones can join them. donald trump you're right that's donald trump i will not allow the mistakes of the recent decades to define the course of our future. game of thrones 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 of game of thrones can influence the game of thrones script can john direct your enemies steals and murders your children. kim jong un donald trump be. able to get on the train it's game of thrones.

the great. the confrontation between the two military powers has of course provoked a lot of international reaction while russia says the risks of war are high china want the games playing with fire over north korea some u.s. allies have also stressed that all supporting the escalation germany is a harsh exchange of was isn't the correct response while the u.k. insists that the situation should only be dealt with through the un 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 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 into negotiations other than the fact that the united states simply does not want to really enter into negotiations is not what we only want negotiations where the negotiating entry point is the north korean surrender. saudi arabia's amenities continuing the demolition of a small town entire districts have been meant to vote on supposedly in hunt for gunmen responsible for attacks on police residents told us what's behind the operation and they also have forces to be disguised. no the shooting. the shelling but i think it's good. to start three

tanks against civilians who are. known shootings now well. your. city has. to know. nobody's out because sure. to shoot everybody. i'm sure most more you sure are. sure. i can't see it. so what. are you going to shoot. the biggest sit in my house you. know i go no doubt one wants to know. how i was a local last says the bulldozers on the streets and nothing to do with fighting he

says they're clearing the area to make way for new infrastructure he also claimed that most locals want to see their neighborhoods we developed our media has a population of around twenty five thousand people it's predominantly shia and is mostly opposed to the sunni van government it was the hometown of the executed. a critic of the country's rulers of the way they treat a shiite minority given the ethnic background locals claim the renovation plans are simply an attempt to drive them out. government. fashion. they should it's just. cover. why. thank you i actually am. you can wear my question actually. bigger much time. to be completely. true to government standards the months long crackdown has claimed its youngest victim

a boy who died from his injuries. part of my family. and i won me and i lost some of my students and friends. in the assault. on the city a child was shot by the saudi special forces and he doubts us that he was shot in the car is this family the so-called saadi renovations began in the spring and have been aided with the used of western equipment canadian military vehicles for example are involved as with syria we are looking at these claims very seriously and have immediately launched a review saudi arabia is canada's second biggest alma's by the u.s. and u.k.

also routinely sell billions of dollars worth of equipment to the kingdom which has repeatedly been accused of human rights violations and activists told us about the destruction of our mail. two thousand and eleven or me was. one of the strongest. calling for reforms calling for more rights in saudi arabia not only for even for sunni's i will dare the governor 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 would they say then they will to the government narrative. some say that more is a racket well that sentiment has only strengthened after the founder of the

notorious 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 which would 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 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 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 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 and cities arguments going about even with few people and so i think among the dead bodies lying on the street that summer league next seven years going to. lick you. see. the blackwater found is proposing to privatized the one afghanistan comes as the

legal battle over those killings in baghdad continues in u.s. courts that deal holkins reports 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 a 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 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 close to the 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 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 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 several people were murdered we know that justice and law are respected in the u.s.

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 they'd the victims of the massacre. when i reached the square there was horror all 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 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. r.t. has 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 afterwards online. i mean that if the whole field of 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 still yelling at me and at the same time ordered the soldiers accompanying him to break my hands. was there. was no sign of them it was some tough talk on sure there was a pleasure however. 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 return to her lawyer that. day when they beat me hold on the head sharply twisted my right hand behind my back and started to beat it insistently so that my elbow was french of me. and his fifteen year old son ahmed told us that after being beaten they were taken to a police station and held for two days. they forced us into a car and drove to the police station they kept beating and insulting us during the right at the station they confiscated. 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. didn't think. the incident comes amid growing concern over israel's treatment of palestinians in east jerusalem human rights watch warns of the practice 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 the residency guarantees civil rights for palestinians so when the permits are revoked they're forced to leave their homes to work crime in question is the forcible deportation 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 being stripped of their rights for attacking israelis and also as a punishment against relatives of suspected attack. check us out on facebook a new chub and of course i website that's all to dot com you've been watching the weekend here on alt international i'm going to be back at the top of the out.

of a. ton of welcome to all the parties election of donald trump has polarized american society in many ways including in its attitudes towards clever and what's appropriate trial supporters still see him as a shrewd outsmart a deal breaker the salt of the earth while his critics describe him as the ultimate in the ramos worthy of nothing but contempt is there any middle ground between that you want to discuss that i'm now joined by lawrence krauss as theoretical physicists and cosmologists as well as a merciless critic of donald trump.