yeah. this is. better than. the see. the world bank. i was sitting next to it when it stalled and i didn't. know. there were people. lying. on the floor terrorists who killed fourteen people in spain were planning an even bigger cording to police the country is in mourning driven into crowds in barcelona on the resort town of. the latest in a series of incidents in which. to strike terror in europe deadly events in from germany on the u.k. since last summer. also ahead this hour

a knife wielding multiple people in the finnish city of killing before being shot. by police. the psychologist in the cia so-called interrogation program agreed to settle a court case. of torture victim. to the world this is r t international my names you know neal welcome to the program our top story say the suspects in the country's deadliest terror attacks in over a decade were planning an even bigger atrocity on thursday night was driven into crowds in the popular tourist area of us in barcelona killing thirteen people and injuring over one hundred hours later a car crashed into

a group of people in the resort town of. even one day. islamic state claimed responsibility a word of warning the video we're about to show you 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 at this point i saw everyone from the. start running on i headed for my music when it was so close to me and i. just panicked like everyone everyone ran you know no one no one kind of knew what to do.

i was next to it when it stopped and i didn't. get fifty feet behind me there were people people lying face down. sort of videos off the woods and it was a nice a watch. pretty . well this is how the events unfolded in barcelona run five pm local time a bond was driven into the popular pedestrian ice street all of. which was packed with tourists travel five hundred meters hitting speeds of up to eighty kilometers per hour and plowing through masses of people before stopping at a central square the driver then fled on foot with more from barcelona here is

a partridge. behind me is when. they have right in the consulate around the us they started to lay a makeshift memorial has been candles that had been messages one was really really savvy written which was we remember the innocence and that sums 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 if you go back to the rubble and so many people are here and it's like normal life but some put. some candles on this on this play is. everywhere but i feel incredibly lucky and we do consider that love just continues shopping it's just so nice to be yeah but we just i don't know we'll go back and catch up with a lot of the friends in that decision was just for show and just copley that we did

that and we would miss this instance but now there are those stones who to go back to how exactly it was before there is a normality is there 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 to swear i think weeding 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 smaller feeling out of respect for the dead and a memory for what happened here only a day. before people are currently in police detention three of them are often as was spanish earlier media reports suggest that seventeen year old beer was a name is suspect. said they haven't been able to identify the driver.

of the second incident as we mentioned took place in the resort town of birtles around one hundred thirty kilometers south of barcelona police opened fire on a car after it failed to stop for a security check six people were injured one later died of her injuries all five attackers inside the vehicle were shot did the authorities are now saying that one of those killed in the vehicle may have been the driver of the van in central barcelona since the attacks took place it's emerged that one family had already been affected by terror in europe elsewhere in europe don't you hawkins brings us. 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 reconcile herself was staying in the room that we actually spoke to mr atran last year interviewing him his daughter was involved in the attacks and thoughts on how optimistic he was all of this threat being tackled effectively the threat of terror being utilized 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 has a unitary message and

a unitary and universe. people 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 manchester 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 fulfilled their pledge of targeting westerners in every major european city

if you remember. after the me set tax of twenty sixteen the prime minister at the time i knew all viles he stated that tara is a new reality in france something people have to learn to live with his comments at the time very much provoked control to see criticism but what we've seen today really proves that this is not only a view 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 police are also linking the attacks to a blast on whedon's the night in a house in a small town not far from barcelona it was initially thought to have been a gas leak but police now say it was a homemade explosive device that the stronger the building counterterrorism experts tell me to open a little so people need to be more aware of the valving 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 jihadists i think we

need to change our narrative do we in which we put these individuals need to be much tougher with them we need to and make them understand humor that is not absolutes you calls to equate to mosco to equity with clean hands and this individuals who are no get away with these barbaric act i. think we need to start becoming more aware i think there is more that could be done by the muslim community in trying to rain down some of the individuals that they had identified as being vulnerable to violence extremism are reporting them to security agencies to the muslim community. you know saying that to know this kind of action is not a set that will individuals involved and their parents should be walking to know to keats. ok well let's try and cross live and go back to our correspondent kate partridge she's been keeping us up to date on the vents in barcelona all of these

reports and more you just saw there hi kate can you describe what you're seeing there. hi there you know i mean i gather there's a big delay here but let me just set the scene for you we're on at la rambla where the attack occurred on thursday afternoon and if you're looking at the reports that are sent earlier cheering the day that the atmosphere has changed considerably here when we first arrived here very early in the morning in barcelona it was a very somber thing gradually as time increased the mood is sort of lifted effectively all the businesses all the cabins that have always that lined along here on law. this this road this predestinarian this almost a mile long connecting the center of barcelona going down to the sea well that was

effectively it was very quiet then to say all these cabins started to open people started to come back the to is came back the sun started to shine and people started to get a sense more of normality of what life was like before here in barcelona the tourists were here but now what's happened at seven o'clock local time is that there's a demonstration has been called and it was being called by the far right and also by the far left so we effectively have people we have people who are effectively fascists and islamophobia on one side and the anti fascists on the other and what they called us for a meeting of the two factions effectively for a demonstration down at la guardia which is the famous market here. which was effectively almost the end point two two when the van actually stopped on his rampage and what's happened over the past past few minutes or so is that there was a big there was a scream and a cry of run and everybody ran up around there and it was actually really frightening and in the meantime as well what the police have done is they got the

situation under control because it was starting to get particularly feisty here so what started what was starting to become more a kind of a song the mood in a sense of everybody then coming together and a bit of normality returning and a bit more kind of joy and tourists and holiday makers returning has not started to get very edgy resort lots of people coming along here running they were on their phones and they were crying but now it seems to have calmed down a little bit and we're seeing people by the makeshift memorials that they that they fashioned here even candles and teddy bears flowers and balloons so it's starting to con down a little bit but it's just a few minutes ago it was getting very edgy indeed and very tense so it's been a roller coaster of emotions here in central barcelona. you know there were some very disturbing scenes last or a cake a partridge's live from barcelona thank you very much for that. moving all night finish officials say two people have been killed six. injured in a stabbing attack in this side the western city of turku police have shot on the

tane one person who they believe was likely acting alone authorities say vincent is not being treated as an act of terror people have been urged to stay away from the city center security measures humping stepped off airports and railway stations to we spoke to a local journalist for more information. several people have been asking that are not they can confirm that the perpetrators were shouting allah akbar police did not confirm deaths but they did say that two people have been died and several other injured and several have been going on to surgery not to go spittle the perpetrator have 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 to be. a kind of a dark skinned person let's put this way social media is. sending around

interesting videos very dark skinned people running 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 put some helicopters and re-inforce the airplane the airports and the rover station in downtown i would see and other important traffic points well given the timing of the attack people were quick to panic and assume it was terror related caution of explained. the incident that took place in felons was quick to spark panic with alarming post about another terror attack spreading through social media and this is the new reality really when people see you have lines like this and these outlines popped

up just within the first hour after the attack now we see words like knife wilting attacker multiple victims stabbing terror well people immediately think of yet another terrorist attack and no one even waits for any confirmation from officials and this just demonstrates the level of fear many people are experiencing there are constantly expecting attacks to take place and believe nowhere is safe anymore i witnesses on local t.v. were claiming that there were three attackers and that they were not friends they had dark skin now a few moments after the incident took place a video emerged apparently showing the attacker screaming god is great in arabic right before being shot by police people where we posting this video repeating the claim that he was shouting just that but then it turned out that someone in the video was just screaming look out and finish all this just shows that people are

saying terror africa where now. the american civil liberties union has held a historic victory after a case involving the cia's torture program was settled it was filed against two psychologists who were in over eighteen million dollars for the developer to be agency's so-called enhanced interrogation program because of their status as private contractors the lawsuit target of them as private citizens the plaintiffs were to torture survivors family of roma who died in a secret cia prison partially the crossfire cia report describes what happened to them. treated roman harshly because of romans and. he's uncompromising reactions to the interrogation and lack of cooperation the pressure to break him and lack of experience with a committed interrogation resistor 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 cell raman was only clothed in a sweat shirt they sat directly led to romans death by hypothermia. the psychologist lawyer claimed their clients were a public servants whose actions were authorized by the u.s. government they say the actions were illegal in an effort to protect innocent lives from suspected terrorists the american civil liberties union attorney said the case said son important president 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 or we discussed the implications of a settlement with former cia analyst and whistleblower junk area. 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 sleep. 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 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 the cia's torture program that the cia will seek to have that case dismissed. and

another case of brutal torture rox prime minister has acknowledged the country's security forces abuse prisoners during the operation to liberate mosul from islamic state many were suspected extremist militants who had not face trial please be aware that some very graphic images are about to be shown.

i. think if thanks. an investigation was launched after a photographer released pictures of the torture suspects were beaten raped tortured to death we talked to the photographer earlier calving 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 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. and. 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 this

morning that the foreign secretary the foreign minister jeffery has requested. assistance of the u.n. to look into crimes committed and more so and that is going to be a positive steps because iraq do need to assist and from the u.n. and we can feel that maybe some of the pressure has been put on the on the government to take and take further and frustration into a 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 see and also to take people into people accountable about this incidence. r.t. is campaigning to help orphans stranded in war torn iraq to find their relatives and returned home they were taken there by radicalized parents who joined us lawmaker state we're appealing for family members who might recognize the youngsters to get in touch with us and some relatives may have been found but many

are still waiting. james closed the film on the list of all of the old. age a big. step to just. that here boom boom boom boom boom boom if it ever no me a little. old . me you. take him back can you please. tell us a joke. it's time to. bring it here. for. a moment use of the load by the throat wound

a blow for the last not during your last go to your own 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. she didn't stand up to morgantown is this is still true. says that her hands shook her i am not sure we are ready to 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 looked after me or she. chairs five of the people that had no support on constitution intended to go to dinner together no sisters of since then only mysterious calls a few times a year at one point even a bit of video oh yes i am just doing this and you live. to show they

got a bright future ahead in the land of jihad. was now 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 said here i say ok those are our military blue skies he was married here was married. or we've also been contacted by a couple from ted g. castello and they believe they've recognized their granddaughter who is also called mario the girl says she saw both her parents die it was all about she is originally from to take a stand where continuing to look for their relatives all of these children if you have any information that could help please contact us at the e-mail address on your screen children r t t v dot.

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