oh. all right now. twin terror attacks in spain thirteen are dead after a van plowed into them in barcelona while several others are injured as police fall a similar attack in a town to the south. it is the latest in a series of atrocities in which vehicles have been used to strike terror in the heart of europe echoing attacks in france in germany and in the u.k. since last summer. our daughter was in the but. she's still here she still is very. this attack is being linked to an explosion two and

a house earlier this week in a suspected bomb making facility leading to more questions this morning over whether more could have been done to prevent thursday's killings. good morning this is art international with me kevin and it's ten in the morning here now one story dominating our coverage spain this friday waking up evening of terror at multiple locations the country in fact in june its deadliest day in thirteen years one of barcelona's most popular tourist streets there thirteen died when a van was driven deliberately into pedestrians in a place called last ramblers also to the south to the resort of canberra's something happened there to three protests trains and three police officers were injured as security forces sorted a similar attack five terrorists was shot dead islamic state claims to be behind the killings but no direct link has been established horrifying video of the

aftermath has been posted online word of warning the images robot to show you a very disturbing. well here is how events unfolded in barcelona last evening it all started around about five o'clock in the evening local time that's when the white at the top there was driven into people along this road this popular protest on a street called les rambus a focal point for foreign tourist to the city and ended up down there we'll talk over that over a minute the victims of from at least twenty four countries that van went on for five hundred meters until it finally reached plaza book area where the driver then fled on foot i can tell you as it stands at the moment he is still on the loose the

police are looking for him let me tell us more about the area where this deadly attack happened why there was so many people there last ramblers one of the most famous landmarks of barcelona packed with lovely places souvenir shops cafes especially this time of year nice warm night tree lined avenues drawing many thousands of visitors many of them foreign as well as i said we've been speaking to witnesses in that cattle and capital. and i saw many people running i saw the covered bodies of kids lying in the street this is a tragedy. you. saw an avalanche of people running in every direction and when it was total chaos we had no idea what was going on and when i didn't see the man i just heard a boom boom boom sound and people screaming.

and the ball rambler. i saw a lot that. it was. a lot of work done on the street like it's crazy it's great to scream for us. cartridges in barcelona at a hospital where the injured are being treated. or awful even awful my the soul of these people been through spurring waking up in absolute shock is no tell us what it's like where you are the. average with or at the hospital in the early hours after we first arrived in barcelona where they there was one of the three hospitals where they're treating one hundred twelve people as reported already come through we knew that so she died and what they did is that they took all the injured across those different hospitals and we were there last night where it was a pretty somber mood in the early hours and we were when getting any updates then

because barcelona frankly was in a state of shock what we did do is drive past us on the way back from the hospital to see that it had been totally cordoned off along the whole of its length and there were there was a policeman walking along the whole length of it it was very somber and subdued this morning during class like us alone which is just up from not unless it's just which is down behind me here and in front of the the truck the basically which were matched to some of the the trademark signs of barcelona but it is still a state at this very eerie here we have not any updates on the amount of people who have died that still some thirteen people among them we understand we don't have this confirmed yet is a three year old girl and as a say we're still waiting to hear any updates on the injured meanwhile kevin she was talking about in camp overnight there have been more developments there where they're at least that was what we believe to be a second attack there they shot five terrorists the last time we were updating it was for nine hundred one of them these men were wearing as you said explosive of explosive belts and also they had had a fan and plowed into pedestrians as well the last time we were reporting in the

early hours that was five people that's going up to seven people here injured one of them critically as well including a policeman in the meantime though we've had. lots of condolences and a sense of shock and solidarity around the world but the mayor of barcelona was effective as distraught when they were giving their condolences earlier. premier alyson did. he absolutely start honestly commands and that's funny because from there's enough. someone asked that same but in the ears of the other we. want to hear that but in their own eyes who thought where then one more little that i see where they want to see that as soon as you've done your side arson. well the whole the other point as well as well is that these two incidents were also they were the only of the main incidents of the evening but also we got reports also from police that the connecting the attack in barcelona to him is that

it happened in a place called out come out which is where on wednesday night house had exploded and placed at originally didn't have any kind of connection that this would be a link to terrorism the reports are coming through that one of the men one of the suspects that was arrested after the event in barcelona was was connected to these events there were explosions of a gas canisters that went off killing and injuring people there and they believe that one of the suspects was involved in that particular incident also last night as well there was also a ramming by car checkpoint where two police officers were rammed by a car and the perpetrator that the driver was shot dead so lots of instance there unfolding meanwhile here in barcelona this morning is still that great sense of shock particularly even amongst the press as i'm standing here now and as you can hear from the people there the response here after yet another tragedy has been a sense of just shock and sadness. but i guess nothing like that ever happened to me i hope that they find the perpetrators and everything will be alright i feel

incredibly lucky and we do consider that law just continues shopping it's just so nice to be but we just i don't know we'll go. backing catch up with other friends in that decision was just crucial and i just can't believe that we did that and we in this instance. ok just to give you another update as well which you've probably been reporting on which was the fact that the police have also been interested in a second van that they found in the in the town north of boston called vic where they believe that a second van was hired so that the perpetrators could then flee in this they're going through all the details there and finally as we've been hearing that this has been declared an act of terror as we now know and i guess has claimed responsibility. there will you get your ear back to the grow the throat the morning as well because a lot of news developing as you say and as as is happening i'm picking up so you said before just a few hours after the attack in barcelona there was yet another instant under

twenty kilometers to the south in a place a resort called. i. where police opened fire on a van after it failed to stop at a security check the vehicle carried on and then struck people on the promenade before overturning its five occupants then emerged and tried to attack the strings with knives all those terrorists were shot dead by police six civilians and the police officer were injured police then found explosives inside that vehicle and carried out controlled explosions so potentially something big was going to happen there but it was foiled. shortly after the attack. back in barcelona a car struck two police officers in another part of the city during a traffic check the car was later intercepted on the outskirts of the city with a dead body found inside a link to the earlier attack has not been ruled out. since last summer europe suffered eight attacks now involving vehicles as daniel hawkins reports this tactic

using a commercial large vehicle to plow through crowds would have been used to devastate . ating effects witnesses describe the vehicle travelling at speeds of sixty eighty kilometers an hour for around five hundred metres before coming to a stop terrifyingly weaving left and right to kill as many people as possible and this is a tactic which has not only affected multiple countries across the continent this was not a lone wolf attack because there were of course multiple attackers here some of which have been shot dead by police others have been arrested but they used devastatingly simple cruel methods minimal planning minimal equipment simply to drive into those people and this tactic of course has been used in france in germany in london twice a story that we've tragically seen far too often. i

. think. you. know. now we can't separate this attack from events of course in the middle east i sill islamic states is losing ground very quickly in both iraq and syria they've lost mosul they've pretty much lost rocka zor their last stronghold province in syria is being rapidly advance the pawn by the syrian arab army so as a battlefield force there diminishing rapidly that means they'll focus their

tactics on it on defenseless civilians or hitting soft targets across europe increasing these sorts of attacks as they have threatened to do. so many times the very fact that they've hit spain of all countries which has not had such a history of islam is terrorism as has france in recent times for example is also very telling many analysts have drawn a link between foreign policy and these terror incidents over recent times spain of course after two thousand and four the madrid metro bombings drew its troops from iraq and since then has had no successful attacks at least as france has seen very much the opposite but this very much goes to show that islamic state has fulfilled its promise of striking at the very heart of every european city regardless of their involvement or not in any middle east interventions or conflicts years down was saying that the prevalence of terror in recent years in europe has meant some

families could even get caught up in different attacks as well case in point check this is the experience of one man in barcelona that shared what he knows with us listen to this. because i was just bringing my piece of you're not out yet and didn't know what was going to happen my daughter was in the bus. she's still here she still is very. very reconcile herself going in her room and. some of the experts have been talking to have been describing the spade to vehicle attacks is a new reality maybe for europe with people increasingly having to live with the threat of terrorism. i think people have to open their eyes each week at least two weeks ago it was true and you asked me to france this week spain or i think no. we're talking about europe but there are similar attacks elsewhere in the muck in the middle east and no country can say it's safe from such an attack today so this is widespread unfortunately each month we're discovering that this can happen in

a new country in a new place in a new town so this is the london mayor said the chance that we had to get used to this french president roh macross of the same thing and unfortunately very distinctive you're right how do you fight how do you stop someone sharing is ramming his van and truck of you calling the crowd this is extremely difficult but they do have to be prepared in the u.k. has issued a statement saying they stand side by side with spain against terror this is not the first time the u.k. and spain have stood side by side they stood side by side in two thousand and three . alongside the us of the invasion of iraq and it was that invasion that unleashed this process of handing over ever larger swathes of territory to al-qaeda and isis the process that's continued right up today in libya syria and now yemen is more in on this now within the past spanish police have confirmed now the rest of the third man in connection with the barcelona attack although the driver crucially is still

largely still a live event going on here. earlier police released a photograph or one of the arrested men his name drifts cab it is documents were used apparently to rent the vehicle used in the attack it's thought he's not the driver though on the run now the guy's describes a twenty eight year old border morocco he was reportedly known to police he'd spent a month in prison several years ago seems he turned himself into police after the atrocity in barcelona saying there is id papers had been stolen the police be following up obviously we use. his papers the police are also linking the attacks to a blast on wednesday night as kate was saying earlier on in a house in a small town not far from barcelona it was initially thought had been a gas leak but now police say it was a homemade explosive device that destroyed the building. we have arrested two

people related to the attack or its preparation they are also related to an incident that happened in the region of al canard of where there was an explosion in a flat resulting in one person dead in a few others injured or for the former british intelligence officer the mash told us that authorities had all the necessary information she thinks but the attackers again slipped through the net. and how it's capability and the will to do for all it's in our nation of the patient if they take all the information and we see time time again pretty much every lone wolf it's in north america across europe and in australia is what these people always already in one includes radar but you know what happens is there's so much information out there. and say i'm taking. you there cannot without the people who call the nazis during the present

intelligence waltz. operation to stop that's what they have that's just the big database stuff and it happens walling. campbell. but then they can find out because it didn't say that this is not intelligent people want to be safe on the streets you know a bunch of people don't want to give them you don't say what the space. same wrong but all wrong just don't all. get to shape out these days become educated and gain from it because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions.

i guess r t is campaigning to help orphans the stranded in war torn iraq to find their relatives and return home to safety again they would take her initially by radicalized parents who joined islamic state we're continuing our appeal for family members who may recognize any of these youngsters to please get in touch with us and indeed account reports some relatives may have already been found that's the good news we'll tell you about the minute the flipside is many are still waiting to . see. the film on. the steps of just. tell.

me you. can't. now the girl you saw at the end this is a grammar of a shoulder whose plight we're talking about yesterday luckily her relatives may have been found merriam's grandmother recognized the little girl from our pale more

about that. imagine being a grandmother who strolled in and grandchildren once vanished and never came back home at least you hope they're ok thanks to a couple videos sent from unknown phone numbers. yeah. they did they don't live yes yes it was you then someone shows you a t.v. report. where your main granddaughter says her mother's been shot dead this could turn out to be the exact feed of. question to which it. might be. a mom use of. by the right look at the last that oh yes go to your own hero for this one you know. and i am so she's desperate to prove the girl we filmed in

baghdad is indeed her granddaughter having lost her once and being in the dark about merriam's whereabouts for over three years. she cannot stand going down this is sure. that her hands should try and ensure that i get most of us have a connection with mariam and her parents was completely lost for a while until the family got a phone call from an unknown number that you wish me. chairs . were there is nothing but i'm trying to watch it it's an attention getter to get off the stairs of since then only mysterious calls a few times a year at one point even a bit of video. to do this and here. to show they got a bright future ahead in the land of jihad but we already know that wasn't the case . yeah it was now that put the mobs a grise just

a step away from bringing her granddaughter back home after all the horrors we let her record a message to. come out. here i said here is a i didn't know that how i tried to discuss feelings larry here was. so story with a happy ending we'll hopefully know we've also been contacted by a couple from to jake his stunt who believe that they've recognized their granddaughter too incidentally she's also called lariam. give me the. remark. that he was a. father to others for the. good of the it was a. virtual posy far more of a great deal. more of washed up over the course of the married if you can predict

the return from perfect for if you do a super fit with feels like it's not working. in other events in iraq to bring it up to speed with now this morning the country's prime minister has acknowledged that security forces abused civilians during the operation to oust i sell insurgents from mosul many were terrorist suspects who had not face trial crucially these be aware that graphic images are about to be shown here.

i. think if. an investigation was launched after a photographer released pictures of the torture suspects were beaten raped and tortured to death the top refer earlier caddy explains what he witnessed. i thought they were heroes yes it was so brave fighting on the frontlines every day but then i saw the other side the torture the raping the killing first they didn't want me to film the torture and other bad stuff it affected me my psychology i kept thinking about the torture all those people and their suffering it got worse and worse and after five weeks it became so horrible that i decided to publish

everything. i. know it was unbearable but i made myself continue to film because they knew it was important to torture people and kill them over and over what we heard just this morning that the foreign secretary the foreign minister jeffery has requested. assistance of the u.n. to look into. this committed and more so. given all the positive steps because iraq do need to assistance from the un and we can feel that maybe some of the pressure has been put on the government to take and take further and frustration into a matter which is we find it very true that's what we're looking for from the government of iraq to look into this kind of incident to to to to seize and also to take people into court people accountable about this incidence. this is a let me just bring up to speed our main news this friday morning the terrorism in

spain overnight last evening that's left thirteen dead and scores injured in barcelona three men and now under arrest is the latest i can tell you the driver the still on the run we'll keep abreast of all this you come to it r.t. dot com my name's kevin o. and thank you for watching. isis militants have just chosen to patrol base on. enemy troop movements have been spotted on the pulse of the rhythm. here in the. troops of militants have joined forces. those groups leaders have to

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