live. i clashes break out between protesters and police in the us city of seattle during rival pro free speech an anti hate marches comes a day after violence at a white nationalist rally in virginia. children are being reunited with their relatives after aunties campaign to bring home russian speaking orphans of islamic state in iraq. and syrian forces in a special joint operation with russian troops have retaken three villages from islamic state. plus germany's foreign minister accuses angela merkel of.

the american president by committing to increase the country's military spending. thanks for joining us this hour you're watching international. tensions between rival pro free speech and anti rallies have pulled over in the u.s. city of seattle after police moved in with purpose spray and stun grenades to disperse protesters. i i i. i. i.

i. i have a conservative rally was organized by. a group called patriot prayer builders a supporter of free speech was confronted by counter protesters who were shouting insults before riot police. group of demonstrators attempted to force their way through the barricades some of them through fireworks and stones forty people have been arrested. with the seattle scuffles came just one day after street brawls at a white nationalist rally in virginia turned deadly when a car rammed a crowd of counter protesters and in the latest developments a twitter campaign is now underway to try and find out who took part in the the right rally one person already losing his job for attending america and has more on the division in us society recent clashes in seattle and the tragic events that took place in virginia have really exposed the extent of the division in us society

and not even the president and his team can deny this let's take a look we can in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence it has no place in america where terrorism is is the use of violence to incite terror and fear and of course it was terrorism it all began way back during the u.s. presidential campaign with pro and anti trump rallies springing up all across the country but both sides had been throwing accusations and insults at each other even before election day as you might expect given a campaign was in full swing. i would say were more open minded were kind of more moderate well educated people a lot of educated people that are sensible. they were kind of arrogant weren't they i'm not to judge what other people's education and stuff is it's not supposed to the country is divided in half but following the bombshell result of the

election half of the country was left in discontent so much so for that so much so that for some they went beyond rhetoric to vent their frustration as we saw with the violence in berkeley which became one of the main battlegrounds. was. extreme left wing activists gone even as far as attempting to assassinate a republican lawmaker now both the newly formed far right and the far left are feeling sufficiently and bold and to come out onto the streets and wreak havoc all across america the violence in virginia over the weekend should have been a sign to stop but even more took place in seattle so it seems that seething tensions and violent clashes which resulted in doesnt injured and even one death

are becoming the new way that americans result their political and social disputes . the dean of durham university law school told us that both the rights and the left are becoming more extreme. the political dimension is you have very much a clear right in the left splits in american politics right and left split that seems to be without much of a center ground as you know with the a lot of space in the middle of the right has become more rights and and someone say the left has become more left of the country's become more polarized and people are not in total trump his promise to bring people together but it seems that people have never been further apart under under his rule spitta by. divided. democrats.

one of the reasons i want to be very divided. continuing its campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children who was stranded at an iraqi orphanage bring them home is the call that we are seeking to be heard globally among those identified so far the sister's five year old cottage and three year old fatima. reportedly been taken to iraq by their parents who joined islamic state kills relatives in russia recognize them in a video that we filmed in baghdad just a few days ago now my grandparents' home as soon as possible. it is remarkable how coincidence can change entire lives

a seven year old neighbor recognizes her former playmate. on instagram she shows the video we filmed to her grandparents who hadn't given up. and her sister was last call it fate call it divide intervention but it changed all of their lives on or get in there under the book or in africa because then you were just eating do it. it's a very you know sort of school for. the elderly grandparents cried a lot it was a whirlwind of emotions and they found a new purpose in life to bring the girls back into a family but had deja was only three when they last met and tried to mount me a months old would she remember two years on.

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witness love in its purest form we wanted big grandparents to know that despite her young age and the terror of most though she remembered them more i guys do you have to see from dagestan russia. and if you have any information about the children you can get in touch with us using the e-mail address on screen now children at. all you. syrian government forces assisted by russian troops have conducted a special joint operation targeting islamic state by lifting troops behind enemy lines three villages into all reservoirs were retaken without incurring losses.

thanks. to. this operation was conducted one hundred kilometers from dare as or i still say can largely stronghold after rocka another king in town also know it she's also close to dare as always recently liberated by the syrian army these are the latest pictures from inside also as filmed by r.t. if l. into the hands of jihadists in may two thousand and fifteen in the same battle in which i salute captured palmira for the first time in the last major town on the road to a resort and now all the way to liberating the i still held city is open early we asked writer and commentator. about the significance of these events. it is extremely important because. we in full control of the syrian army the

syrian government on the whole of which is very very strategic city they would like to clear out. all the interest organization from the me just city of syria the manage actually to recapture a little they've managed to recapture most but actually that. damascus is their country sized now they are told. it is extremely important. to see it's the first one is means the syrian army will capture only feeds that gas the stats even economy is this game to be on it's the second it is actually it will be a springboard. germany's foreign minister

meanwhile has accused anglo-american live kowtow into the american president commitment to increase military spending. the chancellor is positioned to practically voluntarily bend over and promise to double the german military budget after the bundestag election is nothing less than a sign to trump that they will give in to his pressure the forthcoming federal elections in september will be a vote on whether germany remains a peaceful power or joins trumps weapons madness. this statement comes days after the social democrats germany second biggest party which occupies roughly a third of parliament rejected nato's target of spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense is what the party's bundestag leader said about the post bending boost. we think this is the wrong way and with the s.p.d. in the government there will be no such thing defense expenditures will increase not to me irrelevant quotas but soon sure comprehensive security. has discussed

the story more depth now i'm joined by bruno can't chairman of the burden branch of the pirate party getting to you know what do you make of those statements from cigna gabrielle and mr open yeah well i think it's at the moment just about the rally for the dark so basically their statement sounds like this is the social democrats are going a completely different way then this if you will but basically they have many months before already confirmed that they also would raise the funds for the military up to two percent of their many politicians of influence in germany to support the chancellor in increasing military spending to two percent. i think there's a lot of politicians who of course would like to raise it specially if you look at our. our minister for defense or some left on the line she always tries to make me on more strong and. it needs to be said that the.

all there is some ply us into technology is really on a bit level so basically there is really needed some money to spend but it became a special it got a special twist when our donald trump came and was asking to raise the funds and i think there is a lot of leftist politicians who don't want to go this way who want to say and truly germany should get out of the nato and on the other side this the law and order people from the more conservative parties who definitely want to raise this fund. what's your opinion in the opinion of all politician germany be increasing its military spending. well basically my opinion is even true to leave the nato because the nato has just broadband things but basically. this will not come i definitely i'm totally against raising this fund i think at the moment we have to

nothe weapons everywhere it is more about the escalation and deescalation needs communication talks instead of playing with the new military options and possibilities and if you look how the nato is trying on the east bordeaux if you roll through to play like. that they are ready for a big strike against russia i think it's time to really show all to demilitarize again and specially germany with its own history and with the important history gives us is german the main voice for being peaceful to be into negotiations and i think today it's time to step out of nato the times of cold war and definitely over what about other night time and the country think they will follow the latest crazy spending time they will increase spending. well that there will be most likely a few will like to have really strong military which have

a strong tradition into military if you look into france they always had a strong military if you look at the u.k. the they also had course u.k. is since will be not anymore inside of europe but part of nato i think that most of the sad european countries will try to find ways to sneak out because it's painful for everybody and basically raising the military found means to lower the funds for social payments in our union and this is what we basically need at the moment as there is so so little of work and so big unemployment rate we need more social care in european union and this is just not existing. in the social democrats he mentioned earlier that they're very vocal against ireland akhil of late it is this just the run up to the elections and the fact that so far behind in the polls. it is basically just about the elections it's no more that the social democrats are

always played like. it's interesting social democrats running in the rally for elections they always try to keep their own image of social democrats like being totally on the left side being against retiree but when they're then part of the government and they always carry out the same terrible mistakes like the cons of the tiffs and basically they will also raise the percentage but at the moment that's the only subject for the rally and as they really as you said play way behind and that chancellor candidate is really a lame duck which is having at the moment no chance at all they will need that and basically they will use this issue all i think now in the next weeks mainly to somehow heat up the rally which is at the moment really late thanks for speaking to saving my guest burn a crown chairman of the berlin branch of the pirate party. russia

will do all it can to bring peace and stability to libya which has been engulfed by civil war for years that announcement came as the chief of the libyan national army which is opposed to neighbors internationally recognized government visited russia's foreign minister in moscow. it's a role as these brokers does not pay much finding a recipe but at end they bring the creation of the best conditions for dialogue between libyan figures to allow them to negotiate the future of their own country. the results of our negotiations is very good russia is now thinking about what part it could play in bringing peace to libya we will be happy if russia continues to play a part of this process that. libya is currently mainly governed by two competing or thora to use the un backed government of national accord has its headquarters in libya's capital tripoli and controls the western part of the country and the brook government is representative is in moscow controls the east of libya the political

unity of the country was broken back in two thousand and eleven following anti-government protests. i. think a reaction on this from oliver miles former you can bust there to libya. russia doesn't want to be associated with one party the u.n. effort to bring all the parties together there are too many people in libya who have some power at the moment they have weapons probably afraid of what will happen

if they give up the weapons they know that they might. be called to account for crimes perhaps that they've committed or even if not crimes and they might be called to account by their enemies i think that's the bottom line and the difficulty is to bring all these groups together and convince them that they have to work together because otherwise libya is going to go down the drain it may be as a rich country in terms of oil and therefore of money but at the moment you wouldn't think it was a rich country at the moment everybody is living hand to mouth. the ongoing the verbal spat between the united states and north korea is generating plenty of headlines amid growing fears that it could actually erupt into a real confrontation. military adviser is also raising the alarm i think we're not closer to war than a week ago but we are closer to war than we were a decade ago and this has been a problem that we've procrastinated on for

a long period of time and now it's coming to a head where the threat from north korea not only to the united states but to the world is very very clear. people are worried google searches in the u.s. for how to survive a nuclear attack in their own trending such as how to get rich and how to be happy . hawkins has been taking a look at who actually benefits from any scaremongering. the higher the tension the halt the rhetoric we've certainly had no shortage of that in recent days but who stands to gain from this war of words for one the u.s. president has kept busy sounding military drums against north korea. they will be met with fury. that is their it's a state. maybe it wasn't. and it's tough talk like this that brought him unique popularity according to one poll trump's

approval ratings jumped to forty five percent on the back of those comments. next on the list the north korean all me twenty young claims a whopping three and hoff million volunteers have signed up for the country's military all because of the recent escalation if true definitely a win for his all the recruits is. now moving on to go on the u.s. territory located closest to north korea people there have already received god loans and what to do when they see a mushroom clouds but there's an unexpected cause for celebration because apparently all the hype will actually do the good.

and where there is war all even the talk of one is always big money and this time it's ten points for the bunker business really worried for my family my kids you know i just want to make sure the room protected sales are going through the roof on the way. apocalypse styria now with military tensions running high bomb shelters are alas making a comeback client scott helps people who are really bridge and really freaked out his clientele has changed from people afraid obama would take their property to those of great trouble started a nuclear war all this drama with north korea is paying off in a big way for this company take a walk at what they are selling here these are massive bomb shelters one such companies even advising people to form an entire survival community if nuclear armageddon talk has you scared for your life you could move to one of these bunkers

scattered around a whopping twenty square kilometers in south dakota yet another says they're completely sold out are even true did so but we have the capacity to me. years. of around the world. so plenty of point scoring on the back of needs planning while the big bosses are reaping the rewards large communities of people are left losing sleep over the fear of yet another conflict. russia's federal security service is detained in ice a little group allegedly planning terrorist attacks on moscow's public transport system the detainees will be held in custody for at least two months during investigation as they await trial has been following the security services operation. powerful explosions on public transport services and at moscow's shopping malls it looks like if it wasn't for this raid by the washing

feds we could have seen bloodshed in the russian capital among those who have been detained are a suspected islamic state member besides this two men that appear to be suicide bombers and also someone who is responsible for putting together explosive devices by the looks of it russia remains one of the primary targets for terrorists the number of attempts that had to be prevented by the russian police and special forces looks quite impressive in the year two thousand and sixteen forty two terror related acts from war to twenty seven teeing so far twelve out of thirteen the attack that couldn't be prevented though was of course that horrific suicide bombing on the same petersburg met for which took the lives of sixteen people in april. several n.g.o.s including doctors without borders is said that

suspending the rescue operations in the mediterranean sea. representative explain to his the reasons of the possible consequences of the. the league now of course reluctantly established a search and rescue zone of competence of libya which seemed to react to cede international organization to recognize this and that we had a very much concern because of this development because we think it's just the next step back for keeping the people in need now too but i thank them for departing if i can assume and got a very much closer for dave sixteen in the in the country this stopping of settling goals a real effect of the capacity of search and rescue the center of it and peace might in danger of that i think be all about that a war we hold responsible the need to include wall street for such a good ass and threatening act if you look at any way we had a much more concern for the fact that very few people at even the cost of the ground these days i mean just one week more than one thousand four hundred people

have been taken back into had we had always ready to go back and tool to stop that was such a rescue operation to central military man at sea but we need to have some government is that we can do that on the group that measure not at all under international refugee know and that our west safety and security would be governed. meanwhile the e.u. migration commissioner has called for member states to get tougher on illegal immigrants and ensure they get deported on the seventy six across the story. there is certainly a change in rhetoric from the e.u. migration commissioner or dimitri opera marple as who one here ago said the e.u. should work harder to accept more asylum seekers let me remind you that you're already has the highest asylum standards in the world and we have to uphold those and our commitment to protect those seeking protection. we need a stricter and more effective policy for deportation too few migrants are being

deported the european states have to do more his change of term really boils down to the e.u.'s relocation policy for the refugees and migrants is apparently falling apart i mean in the beginning it was mostly the eastern european states like hungary and poland in the baltic states being against that used balkan policy for the migrants and refusing to taken more and more refugees but now we're hearing more voices of this content from other countries as well particularly italy which really has been bearing the brunt of the migrant of the refugees arriving from africa as well as the middle east in search of a better life in europe since the beginning of this year we're talking about new the one hundred thousand migrants who have arrived in italy and we can really see that things are reaching a boiling point a situation is particularly worsening in the small italian town of than so miglia were locals have been protesting against building a new refugee shelter for under age migrants.

who took a look at did you know that if we are on the police a minute approached a friend of mine and got into his car he was trying to come back we couldn't handle the situation any more i don't blame this people i blame the government i don't know what they're doing i'm just here to see that we can't take it any more we don't want them here. we give them a place to sleep and food we give them eighty euros a day but first we should be taken care of our own children our own people only. the men. a year up this town says ventimiglia simply has been left alone to deal with a crisis by themselves and he's one of the many who has been accusing the e.u. of not providing its countries with enough support to take in more migrants in europe. the european union we've never seen do anything here i don't think the e.u. has given us any real support the big expense for us comes from underage migrants.