i was sitting next to it when it stalled and i didn't. know. there were people. lying. on the floor terrorists who killed four people in spain were even bigger attack according to police the country is in mourning after vehicles were driven into a crossroads in barcelona on the resort of. the latest in a series of incidents in which vehicles have been used to strike terror in europe. germany and the u.k. over the past year. a knife wielding multiple people in the finish.

before being shot by police. psychologist excuse me behind the cia's so-called enhanced interrogation program agreed to settle the case. of torture victims. twenty four seven news live from moscow this is r t international my names you know neil welcome to the program our top story spawn ish police say the suspects in the country's deadliest terror atrocity in over a decade were planning an even bigger attack on thursday night was driven into a crossroads in the popular tourist area of us in barcelona killing thirteen people then hours later a car crashed into

a group of people in the resort town of. leaving one dead on islamic state claimed responsibility a word of warning the video we are about to show is highly disturbing. come down here. the van was coming down the rambler and i was completely unaware of that. until it was pretty much alongside me and this point i saw everyone from the. start running on i headed for my music when it was so close to me and. everyone just panicked like everyone everyone ran you know no one no one kind of knew what to do.

was next to it when it stopped and i didn't. see you see behind me there were people lying face down. sort of videos off the woods and it was a nice to watch. party. let's get a sense of how the events unfolded in barcelona round five pm local time a van was driven into the popular pedestrian ice street all of. that was packed with tourists and the van drove for a ride five hundred meters before what speeds of eighty kilometers or so down in the street it hit people along the way before stopping at a central square where the driver he fled on foot with more from barcelona here's kate partridge. but behind me is when. they have right in the consulate around the

us they started to lay a makeshift memorial the thing candles that had been messages one was really really savvy written which was we remember the innocence and that summed up the mood of somber it was the people laying there tributes that teddy bears believes flowers and candles. and i guess nothing like that ever happened to me i hope they'll find the perpetrators and everything will be all right unbelievable but if you go back to the rubble i'm so many people are here and it's like normal life but some put. some candles on this on this play is. a terrorist everywhere but i feel incredibly lucky and we do consider that luck just continues shopping it's just so nice to be out but we just i don't know we'll go back and catch up with a lot of the friends and that decision was just for show and just copley that we

did that and we were nice to see the students but now there are those stones who to go back to how exactly it was before there is a normality is the was before police have taken away the tapes that was along the signs that we first saw when we first came here and the businesses particularly all the cabin sort of always being here and now starting to open up people are coming in the whole tourists are arriving to weaving their suitcases almost in an act of defiance in many ways you can't believe that this actually was a crime scene and it was a scene of a terrible tragedy but there are barcelona is now trying to get back to some semblance of normality but with a slightly song feeling out of respect for the dead and a memory for what happened here only a day. for people are currently in police the tensions three of them are of moroccan origin one is spanish earlier media reports suggest that seventeen year old will be your main suspect warped. have said they haven't been able to identify the driver yet.

the second incident as we mentioned took place in the resort town of comfort levels that's around one hundred thirty kilometers south of barcelona just along the coast there police opened fire on a car after it failed to stop for a security check six people were injured and one later died of her injuries all five attackers inside the vehicle were shot dead the authorities are now saying that one of those killed in the vehicle may have been the driver of the van in central barcelona well since the attacks took place it's emerged and one family had already been affected by terror in europe hawkins has more on that. now the tragic reality of the situation is that this is now such a cross border threat even families who were vacationing on the consulate find themselves victims of terror attacks multiple times whichever country they travel

to on the continent one such example scott atran his daughter was in the theater during the attack in paris in the twenty fifteen eighteen months on he finds himself in the middle of yet another terrorist atrocity bringing about some very painful memories take a listen to what he had to say because i was just bringing my he. didn't know what was going to happen my daughter was in the but. she still she still is very. very very broken server so i was staying in her room and we actually spoke to mr atran last year interviewing him his daughter was involved in the attacks and thoughts of how optimistic he was all of this threat being tackled effectively the threat of terror. in the european very much was not optimistic saying that there was very little chance things could ever be the same again the big problem is that

isis. as a unitary message in a unitary and universal appeal and the forces opposing them do not and we don't know really how to handle such a movement now another example of people being caught up in a double jeopardy if you like a man just the resident chris paul he narrowly escaped being caught up in the magistrate arena bombings just a few months ago he actually left the area just seconds before the bomb was detonated he was nearby mowed down dozens of people on the boulevard these attacks are something that we've sat down together and covered sadly many times over the last year to eighteen months or so they've become a pattern across the continent they all bear strikingly deadly similarities minimal planning preparation training equipment is required to carry out these attacks.

now a lot of people have drawn a clear foreign policy link between these attacks. and foreign policy spain whoever is very interesting because of course spain last fall victim back in two thousand and four two is the most terror of the two thousand and four madrid train bombings that the big impact on the election at the time the prime minister the ingoing prime minister withdrew spanish troops from iraq as a direct result since then they have been no attacks but this really goes to show why so fulfill their pledge of targeting westerners in every. major european city

if you remember after the attacks of twenty sixteen the prime minister at the time on all files he stated that terror is a new reality in france something people have to learn to live with his comments at the time very much provoked controller see and criticism but what we've seen today really proves that this is not only a new reality in france alone but on the whole of the continent just how safe do people feel now i think many in barcelona in spain indeed in europe will be questioning that in the aftermath of this latest attack. ok we're getting some live pictures now from. streets in the city of of course is the street. killing thirteen and injuring more than one hundred i've just been watching for the past few moments there was a quite a tense standoff there we know that third group some far right groups in the area also the anti fascists grouping is there as well as the police moved in

closer between them there was a lot of. picturing what has happened obviously some people struck as you can see the. face they not sure which side they are but you can see a groups of people earlier in barcelona people chanting i am afraid in a show of unity and defiance following the terror attacks a lot of those people have been on the streets but we know that this particular instance seems to be grouping some far right groups coming to chant. slogans. very far left wing groupings as well coming out to oppose them. as you can see people a lot of those people though what have been coming to pay their respects tourists locals to say we are not afraid but let's just take

a listen to what. i'll keep quiet for a few moments just to see what we can hear i can see the situation does seem to be quite tense there are police on either side of those protesters escorting them. straight possibly to the square just to disperse the two groupings apart quite disturbing scenes really. after what we saw yesterday this this happening obviously on both sides believing what they are saying is correct here one group saying is the slogans the other defying. whites considerably. so yeah we've got a lot of police presence there of course they would have been anyway after they see

vs today but there are trying to control these rival groupings cars in the way as well trying to separate them. these are the scenes of you just joining us from. central barcelona where thirteen people were killed in a car ramming. incident yesterday at five o'clock this is now this is what's happening live in barcelona police trying to get in the way between groupings there. because earlier in the streets a lot of people still would have been there coming to chant i am not afraid to show the unit see and defiance residents and tourists were clapping and shouting. really as they walked earlier in salt quieter than we see a lot more respectful as well. but the scenes do seem to be quieting down a little bit here the scenes being put up hard earlier when i was watching just all

for. coming closer but these are the scenes we'll keep a close eye on what's on hobbit develops here. in barcelona later in the program. well just on the causes of what occurred here police are linking the attacks to a block. in a small town not far from barcelona it was initially thought to have been a gas leak but police say it was a homemade explosive device that the straw and the building counterterrorism expert tomato peo load o. ses people need to be more aware of evolving threats. there's no doubt in my mind that we are now going into a new phase of extremism you know being carried out by islamic jihadist i think we need to change narrative doing which we put these individuals need to be much tougher with them we need to and make them understand human act is not absolute

comes to equity must come to equity with clean hands and this individuals who are no get away with this about it i. think we need to become in i think there is more that could be done by the muslim community in trying to rein some of the individuals that. are being vulnerable to violence extremism or to put in them to security agencies to the muslim community. you know to know this kind of action is not i said to individuals involved parents should be walking to know to keats. well let's go back to barcelona and live these are pictures from street in the city of barcelona that is the street of course just to reiterate where plowed into pedestrians on thursday killing thirteen injuring more than one hundred. islamization protest is taking place scores

of far right protesters are right in force after the attacks may have been met by kind of demonstrators. probably the most renowned of them but other left leftist groups arrived on the street as well they had been in very close proximity before police as you can see here from these scenes are standing in between them facing both groups of protesters the far right protesters on the protesters they have being kept apart here but as you can imagine the streets are full of people possibly one person being arrest. or at least moved away as you can imagine lots of tourists lots of locals lots of businesses opening up after the scenes trying to get back to some sort of. normalcy but earlier in the day there had been a quiet march and march of defiance against terrorism this has now become

a lot more vocal when the two opposing groups came on the streets a lot of police presence as you could expect from yesterday but they are not being utilized really to keep the. groups apart. really distasteful pictures it has to be said here. this is where yesterday at five o'clock in the evening a car of course thirteen people in broad daylight and these are the scenes today from there as you can see as well perhaps the camera is going quite fast the businesses are bach open for the main part. that was. part of the finance as well that barcelona wanted to say that we're not going to be . what we saw yesterday we are going to open. the come to the city.

we want to get back to a normal way of life but obviously that is being disrupted. by. groups of protesters and. the far left grouping coming out to oppose. islamization groups coming together. they are now being held parts huge huge amounts of. we're not sure whether they're all parts of the demonstrators demonstrations are simply coming out just to see what is going on on the streets and also to come out and pay their respects to the people. so we'll leave it there for now. they are not really just moving down the street from mine by police we will come to it we will keep a close eye on what is happening. in barcelona. but for now let's move to another part of europe finish officials say two people

have been killed six injured in a stopping at soccer in the western city of turku police have shot on the tamed one person who they believe was the likely acting alone authorities also say the instant is not being treated as an act of terror at this stage people are being urged to stay away though from the city center security measures have been stepped all poor railway stations to a local journalists we spoke to has more. several people have been asking that are not they can call therm that the perpetrators were shouting allah akbar police did not confirm death but they did say that two people have been died and several other injured and several have been going under surgery not to go spittle the perpetrator had been shot on the leg and had to be detained by the finnish police he's not born

in finland. this is a finnish television said that the perpetrator have the. kind of a dark skinned person let's put this by social media. sending around interesting videos very dark skinned people running go beat beat baseball bats in hand on the streets of tool cool it has not been confirmed by the police that are not this has been connected to this incident we also heard from social media that helsinki. alert because they have thoughts about a similar attack carried out in helsinki that could be one of the reasons why the finnish police put. or let's say put this way somehow to. force the airplane the airports and the rover station in downtown and other important traffic points. the american civil liberties union has hailed a historic victory after a case involving the cia's torture program was settled it was filed against two

psychologists who earned over eight hundred million dollars from developing the agency so-called enhanced interrogation program because of their status as private contractors the lawsuit targeted them as private citizens the plaintiffs were to torture survivors on the family of a cool iraq man a man who died in a secret cia prison here's how a partially declassified cia report describes what happened to him. treated rahman harshly because of rahman's alleged natch. he's uncompromising reactions to the interrogation and lack of cooperation the pressure to break him and lack of experience with a committed interrogation resister on november two thousand and two or did or approve the gods placing roman in the short changed position whereby he was compelled to sit on the concrete floor of his so rahman was only clothed in a sweat shirt they sat directly led to romans death by hypothermia the

psychologists lawyers claimed their clients were public servants actions were authorized by the u.s. government they say the actions were illegal and don in an effort to protect innocent lives from suspected terrorists the american civil liberties union of a two attorney has said the case sets an important precedent. this is a historic victory for our clients and the rule of law this outcome shows that there are consequences for torture and that survivors can and will hold those responsible for torture accountable it is a clear warning for anyone who thinks they can torture with impunity when we discuss the implications of the settlement with former cia analyst and whistleblower john kerry aka. this is absolutely a precedent for other victims to seek justice of course there are some who i think the cia would fight because their cases are very sensitive but there are so many other people who were sent to slee. torture for no reason people who had no

ties to terrorism but were just in the wrong place in the wrong time it's going to enable them to seek justice and to seek monetary compensation frankly i think the cia dodged a bullet here now there is a second case the american civil liberties union has filed a case study after that was a beta arguing that the cia and mitchell ingests and tortured it was a beta that case is going to be more sensitive so the cia hasn't really put the issue in its entirety behind it yet we have to wait and see what happens with that was a beta my guess is that because the opposite made a case is so much more serious because i was afraid it was the guinea pig of this yeas torture program that the cia will seek to have that case dismissed. in a nother case of brutal torture iraq's prime minister has acknowledged the country's security forces abused prisoners during the operation to liberate mosul

from islamic state many where suspected extremist militants who have been face trial please be aware that some very graphic images are about to be sure. i. think if. an investigation was launched after

a photographer released pictures of the torture suspects were beaten raped and tortured to death we talked to the photographer ali our cabbie earlier when the images came to light he described what he witnessed i thought they were heroes yes they were 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 and i kept thinking about the torture of 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'm there i know it was unbearable but i made myself continue to film because i knew it was important he tortured people and killed them over and over when we heard this morning that the foreign secretary the foreign minister jeffery has requested. assistant of the u.n. to look into the. committed and more so and that is going to be

a positive steps because iraq do need to assistance from the us and we can feel that maybe some of the pressure has been me. and on that on the government to take and you know to fake take further and frustration into the matter which is we find it very important to me that's what we're looking for from the government of iraq is to look into this kind of incident to to to to seize and also to take people into more people in accountable about this incidence. r.t. is campaigning to help orphans stranded in war torn iraq find their relatives and return home they were taken there by radicalized parents who joined us from extinct we are appealing for family members who might recognize the youngsters to get in touch with us some relatives may have been found but many are still beating. your mom and this was a little it's. a please. step to just. kill

. yourself let me. see. if they can put the. question to which it. might be. a moment use of the. body yeah. look for that's not going to get us going on you know more than 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 being cheated and that's the concern is this is it sure. says that her hands shook her i am not sure sorry i'm going to get most of you do not have any connection with mariam and her parents was completely lost for a while until the family got a phone call from an unknown number to me was she. chairs five of those people that have no answer but i'm trying to reach him it's an incredible dinner to get off the stairs of since then only mysterious calls a few times a year at one point even a bit of video oh yes i am doing this interview with you again to show they got a bright future ahead in the land of jihad. we knew it was now that put the mobs a garage 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 start hear more say ok those are our military bousquet he was married he was married. we've also been contacted by a couple of. they believe they've recognized their granddaughter who's also called the girl say she saw both her parents die on the machine is originally from them we're continuing to look for the relatives of these children if you have any information that could help please contact this up email address on your screen children r t t v dot r. i'll be back in thirty minutes time with updates from barcelona on more global news stay with us. thanks guys or financial survival.