now thousands of people have held a candlelight vigil in charlottesville here in the u.s. state of virginia they gathered to condemn ballance and hatred after a woman was killed while opposing a white supremacist rally there on saturday the state troopers were also remembered

they died in a helicopter crash while monitoring the arm rest of the outburst of violence started with a protest over the removal of a statue of the confederate general authorities citing security reasons and i taking down similar monuments right across the country move this drawn the ire of president trump. said to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments you can't change history but you can learn from it robert illegal storm will jackson who's next washington jefferson so foolish also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparable replaced. well and went to ask new yorkers where the monuments to other historic figures including some of the founding fathers should be pulled down as well.

meanwhile there is a fervent twitter campaign at the moment to name and expose the charlottesville protesters that is the u.s. justice department tries to identify people who visited a website used to organize protests during donald trump's inauguration with more on this his semitic.

become. a blanket intimidation against everybody protesting if this

caught on in the you know right wing group started publicizing the names of left wing people who participate left wing people publicizing the names of right wing people who participate. so it could be a backfire on whoever tries to do it because it could start becoming the thing to do and that that's the double edged sword of the social media that you know you can use it to organize but you can also use it to shame embarrass or intimidate. some of the campaigns against confederate supporters and white supremacists have already targeted not only their own paypal but also a real monument. this

is. us and this is me in the quite nice outfit there from texas my skin and how these beauty and tech bloggers were chosen to speak to merkel at the height of her campaign we don't know but hot political topics were brought up and the chancellor was cool calm and collected in her answers for how are there any plans for electric cars social.

for spontaneity allowing the two politicians to challenge each other more america's

team reportedly threatened to council so the broadcasters gave up there were forty five minutes provided for each block of the t.v. programme the chancellor's representatives did not agree with such dramatic changes and refused to participate under these conditions with campaigning in germany stepping up a gear before the election angle america seems to be making sure she's in that driving seat and they sue r t. south korea says it may send a special envoy to pyongyang if the north stops its missile and nuclear tests and that it is pursuing a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the peninsula that is in contrast to the much harder line the us is take as president travis made clear the era of strategic patience is over with regard to north korea all options are on the table in the united states will continue to bring the full range of american power economic and diplomatic. all those comments to come despite the fact that north

korea earlier said it would hold off a strike which donald trump called a very wise decision jaclyn vehicle looks now at how american foreign policy often goes against the wishes of the international community.

including a possible military option if that's or whatever happened in terms promises of making the world a less nasty place to live i would love to be able to get along with everybody right now the world is a mess but i think by the time we finish i think it's going to be a lot better place to live for now it seems the president has zero intentions of making friends with everyone. r.t. washington d.c. . ok we've got some breaking news here in r.t. because a van we're hearing has rammed into a crowd of people in the center of the spanish city of barcelona local authorities confirm this the incident is said to have happened near the rambler street these are some of the images that are coming through at the moment that street

incidentally is one of the main streets in the city a spanish police say several people have been injured that's what we know at the moment and continue to update you as we hear more. of the gym chances refugee policies under intense scrutiny once again a syrian refugees being tried in germany for alleged war crimes the suspected former commander of the free syrian army is accused of torturing civilians in the city of aleppo local media reports that he was arrested after one of his alleged fiction victims recognized him in the street because francis santiago has the story .

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