all over a party america is going to say we are apparently better than. the sea diver heard of. jack the next president of the world bank very. seriously some of. the. police in finland say they now believe that friday stabbing attack which left two dead was an act of terror the main suspect is an eighteen year old moroccan asylum seeker meanwhile seven people were killed during an assault in siberia russian place haven't confirmed it was terrorism although islamic state claim it was responsible also. we didn't get any benefit from the u.s. target civilian houses but we don't target. stores progress and increasing casualties donald trump side on a new strategy for america's longest running. but

i welcome you watching r.t. international our top story this hour place in finland have confirmed that they are treating friday's mass stabbing which left two people dead as an act of terror four people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack and among them is the teenager believed to have carried out the stabbing he's an eighteen year old moroccan previously known to the authorities genista to the set is in the city of where the assault happened. but the finished polish just had a press conference very interesting details had to been revealed about this terrorist attack here into a cool considers the possibility that the american eighteen american asylum seeker had been purposefully targeting the main dip two men actually got to who indeed because day jumped into protective we mean close to damn police also said that they

are looking into the group of six maroko and possibly asylum seekers all of them the perpetrator who committed they stopped being yesterday killed two people and wounded eight others himself in a hospital in intensive care before all the asylum seekers had been arrested overnight and of on person a song where at large possibly in europe some finnish police go pretty close it together with the international police force with in support we also heard that there are two finnish people who died in this starving and three florrie nurse one it's holly and a university researcher one breit and one swedish person who did all these three are still in hospital police had. given the side deed that they think that this was a planned action and that this was not just out of the blue so more details they did not disclose during the press conference but they clearly think that this

action what will have to be this yesterday had to. result to two people dying on the streets of two of who had been very well planned and carried out the brutality. meanwhile police in the siberian city have shot a man dead after he will need seven people in a knife attack i saw has claimed responsibility for this we can get more details now from you because you done off if you insist you go i still have claimed this attack although russian police still haven't confirmed it is terrorism well no russian police have not confirmed officially anything anything in fact they are still looking into all versions including terrorism as far as we know but they're also importantly looking into the possibility of reports that this man the suspect may have been mentally unstable now the footage of the attack the footage was really world we've got some really graphic and gruesome pictures seven people have

been injured some of them apparently heavily and really the outcome of this whole incident may have been much much much worse because as the man once on a rampage stabbing people somebody called the police and the police it was just a regular police dispatch they arrived really really promptly and eventually took the guy out before he could wreak any more have or claim any lives and now we know right now this is pretty much all we know at this point but we will be keeping you in the loop sure ok thank you got you dan off there. meanwhile protests have erupted in the spanish city of barcelona in the wake of this week's twin terror attacks which left fourteen people dead and injured over one hundred demonstrators clashed with troops who had turned out to oppose them on less than blasts the street where a van plowed into crowds of people. i

i i was i. i. i i mean it has emerged see that some of those caught up in the attacks in spain have been affected by terrorism in the past chris pauley here was one of them and survived the manchester bombing while another person is julie monaco here the barcelona attack was in fact her third brush with terrorism while the family of scott earth ran he was also one last round blast has experienced two attacks a partridge spoke with him. what happened here in the hot to bosler not affected hundreds of people their relatives found their loved ones but what's perhaps even more tragic is that this also affected members of one particular family we spoke to

a man who was caught up in the attack here on that roundabout on thursday while his niece survived the hardest hit areas such as city looking twenty fifteen and about to craftiest. was painfully familiar you knew immediately what what was going on i mean i live this life my daughter lived next to the bottle in paris my niece was just here for me it's not like for most people here a sudden unexpected. event for me this is the life i live. i've been working in these immigrant communities and i've been working on jihadi networks all across europe and i thought immediately that it's most likely a moroccan network was interesting because isis had always use spain as this principal. jumping off point for getting recruits into turkey and syria and the

question for me is while isis was in control the attacks were fairly localized but now i ask myself if these networks are starting to pick up on on their own and whether they'll become just more widespread in the arctic or cross your. yes the fruit seller across from the bar in mumbai in brussels what's going on he knew a hell of a lot more that was going on than the police but no one seems to be engaged in understanding what is going on in these networks security cameras to capture the moment the van sped. passed the shop on last one blast in barcelona pradesh seeing trying desperately to get out of the way islamic state later claimed responsibility for the atrocity we spoke to former home office counterterrorism adviser mahmoud

and he believes attacks of this nature are impossible to prevent. we always knew that was going to be blowback for what happened in iraq the vacuum that was created by the illegal invasion by coalition forces in iraq and the fact that isis fill that vacuum and then are looking to hit back i mean it was predictable it's nothing that we didn't expect i mean it could happen almost anywhere to be sometimes these are unpredictable like for instance what's happened in finland recently completely unprovoked attack despite the fact that this security services did say there was a risk it is a country that is otherwise neutral so it's very difficult to predict and sometimes these are attacks of completely random which makes it even more difficult to ascertain like i said random unprovoked like for instance what's happened in finland recently it is very very difficult i mean you'd have to literally be watching everybody and have logarithm set to pick up key words and phrases in every

single conversation and communication across an entire continent but it's remarkably difficult these are random attacks and they are difficult to ascertain and evaluate and assess. look at other news now and donald trump's chief strategy steve bannon has left the white house even before donald trump took office bannon here was seen as a key figure in his team however he spent only six months as the president's chief strategist a white house statement explaining the decision for balance departure as a mutual one and their return to being the executive chairman of breitbart use one commentator we spoke to though doubts that ban in sex it will help trump in the long run. and it is the one guy in the white house that the deplorable the like they know him they like him they admire him and the fact that he's been hated by the media and hated by all the lefties is just the. icing on the cake for these people they will they like him they get the fact that he's being at that bennett is

being attacked raises him in there and there are. steam so the fact that trump fired him will hurt trump it's going to i think the white house polling is going to show him after this sinks in to everybody that it's hurt him with his own base it's not something he going to ford by the way this from a political standpoint. bana nice the latest in a long list of losses in team trump experts we spoke to do you think that the white house establishment is pushing out you see do try to challenge that. trump is still determined to fight unregulated globalism to preserve the constitution of this country to reform the vast excesses in spending in our government spend six trillion dollars a year all governments inside the united states just on government six trillion dollars is an awful lot of money to be spending on government and he embedded others were trying to change that but they came up against i think some globalists meanwhile protesters in the u.s.

capitol have pulled red paint tape or a statue of the confederate military officer and demanding that it be taken down the monument represented as the albert pike and is located in square in washington . next to the statue when several men claiming to be journalists argued to protest this the issue of racially divisive monuments is playing out across the country at the moment after the unrest in the city of charlottesville we keep. the mali new york subway tiles the times square station will now be able to do today a resemblance to the confederate flag. these are not confederate flags it is a design based on jus metric forms that represent the crossroads of the world and to avoid absolutely any confusion we will modify them to make that absolutely crystal clear. up in the reports from new york on the control facility which has brought america's historical figures to the forefront. not long ago we were out here on the streets of new york asking people if they thought that every monument

to a slave owner should be demolished even if their founding fathers. did they stop madison avenue. and rename it you know i think it's fine so if one person is the football that will be the city you'd be a good idea to take it to. anything that's owned by a slave owner should be changed yeah it should be washington to go to war to defend slavery and i think concepts is very important even though we didn't expect people to want to tear down monuments to figures that are almost sacred in american history like george washington or thomas jefferson the idea now seems to be gaining momentum he wasn't protecting my freedom i wasn't someone who my ancestors weren't deemed human beings to him and so to me i don't care if it's a george washington statue or a thomas jefferson statue or robert e. lee statue they all need to calm down and if those two aren't enough for you how

about we try let's blow up mt rushmore that was actually the title of an article from vice media before they changed it to something a little less insatiable but the point was pretty much the same now it's certainly true that george washington and thomas jefferson owned slaves mr president look i think the issue was that you and robert e. lee both owned slaves. that was about. that was wrong but if you want talk about owning slaves you should talk about thomas jefferson whoa. abraham lincoln certainly did not own slaves he was always an outspoken opponent of slavery which he ended up abolishing in the context of a civil war now you would think he wouldn't be a target for anger but the people who did this certainly think he is going to launch a full scale war against history you should probably expect that there's going to be collateral damage.

from. this type of actions should have been taken then perhaps fifty years ago with the civil rights movement this is whole situation has been created by certain media outlets like for example c.n.n. that they have you know pushed down on the narrative on the fact that you know that drop is a racist or that everybody that support a tribe is

a racist or even going further that every single white person is races and i'm completely against this. he was he also international still to come fyi this hour we hear from afghan citizens who claim they've suffered at the hands of the u.s. military operation in the country a story press on this take a break. here's what people have been saying about reject. the only show i go out of my way to. really packs a punch oh yeah john oliver of our. parents better than. see people you've never heard of. the president of the world bank so he. sent us an e-mail. tanks that's a seventy billion dollars potential loss and you point out it's mostly private

investors which would include goldman sachs and others but if these folks like the goldman sachs suffer any losses at all remember they banking on the government for a bailout so they could go to the government and say we need to bail out the government because the staff by goldman sachs employees mostly. they would rubber stamp that bailout and then to pay for the bailout they'd have to go into people's pension accounts and they have to grab that money or wells fargo and go in and grab that money. welcome back to afghans are growing increasingly uneasy over the u.s. led military campaign in that country civilian deaths and destruction yielding few results in the fight against.

can you see that damaged house they drug the mother of all bombs in that area we didn't get any benefit from the u.s. they target civilian houses but they don't target eyes or militants they say their operation is to finish high school but in fact they don't most of the time they didn't target their value with islamic state groups or active. when the u.s. and afghan commandos came here they first drop the mother of all bombs in the area in the last six months they only capture one kilometer area from islamic state militants we don't know what the problems were why they didn't advance if i had two helicopters with one hundred armed men i could clear this valley of enemies in a matter of hours but they didn't do it. meanwhile president trump has spent several hours there meeting with his military and foreign policy teams discussing

the long awaited strategy update for the war in afghanistan and he took to twitter to announce that decisions have been made but didn't specify the white house statement didn't give any details saying that they will be released at an appropriate time a washington correspondent checking the reports. america's war in afghanistan has been ongoing for sixteen years and seen three different presidents come and go on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan i know that many of you have grown weary of this conflict. as you are well aware i do not support the idea of endless war given what's at stake in afghanistan i am firmly convinced that we should make this extra effort seventeen years or longer stores it's a very big decision for me took over a mess and we're going to. make it a lot less messy the results while even u.s.

generals have a rather bleak outlook on the progress made or not understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate at this point u.s. casualties in afghanistan are approaching the same numbers as the victims of the nine eleven attack the tragedy that triggered the u.s. campaign the taliban still controls a significant part of the country and is making efforts to expand its influence investing in afghan forces at this point doesn't seem justifiable so far little has been achieved a new strategy settled on so what is team trump doing about it we know what the strategy was for the last eight years don't lose it hasn't worked when can we expect it congress united states to get a strategy for afghanistan that is a departure from the last eight years which is don't lose well on friday the president has national security team were moving over the options and according to

some reports trump has option a and b. one boots on the ground preferred by military officials hoping a strategy to break this stalemate and is it going to require additional u.s. troops and do believe it will involve additional forces. to ensure that we can. make the advise and assist mission more more effective or move out of afghanistan altogether and let private contractors help local afghan forces either way the u.s. defense secretary has indicated a decision is imminent we will move this toward a decision as i said i think it was yesterday publicly we are going very close to a decision. just better than a very near future so for now we all just have to wait on the edge of our seats to see which way the american troops rollercoaster will roll this time up or down doesn't go far to washington d.c. . in syria the syrian army is advancing on the embattled city idiot is saw has been

besieged by i saw for three years the blockade has taken a crippling toll so on the city and its people. this public park was one of the most beautiful parks in this neighborhood it was full of trees. the sieging. the trees have. just outside the city to bury those i still shelling. the terrorists have abandoned burying our dead in cemeteries. is a tradition. it's not only this park others too are all that have been treated to cemeteries.

francis to play in the swings in the park but they were destroyed in the shelling. for the very first time or searches in the u.s. have created a synthetic d.n.a. strand which can be used to hack computers. they successfully encoded malware into a small d.n.a. sequence they purchased on the internet and then when a computer was used to try and analyze the biological data the device was compromised although the scientists behind the experiment say that their breakthrough doesn't pose much of a security threat and that it was just about highlighting possible risks in the field of biohacking some experts do believe otherwise because they warn that cyber criminals could for example alter crime scene d.n.a. evidence is being held on a computer plant false information on a person's genetic profile and also gain access to sensitive computer records from our service levels says it's the start of the slippery slope it's just an

interesting thing the procedure at least logically it's not very complicated but we should look at the background of the the background each dead our lives human lives our identity it douche dollars shirish. so we are effectively entering some kind of a post human universe where everything our innermost identity can be reduced to a part of the fact that it was possible to break into a computer through d.n.a. d.n.a. means that our brain it doesn't mean by d.n.a. it's nothing more than just learned that a computer far more. you are with us this evening we'll have more news at the top of the.

thank. god thank you thank you thank you. thank. you. thank you again this is how. the economy is built around. washington. over voters elected to business natural run this country business. you must say it's

not business as usual it's business like it's never been done. one theory oh. well she was a good night my name a summer you know leave camp i'm named after and a descendant all of general robert e. lee who probably fire his publicist. i'm not kidding though he's actually my great great great great great great third cousin. really but he never even tells me a birthday card right so he is you know what he's dead to me is dead. anyway

both sides being named really descended from les growing up in richmond virginia the capital of the confederacy and attending the university of virginia in charlottesville last week and i was also ten feet from the charlottesville terror attack as it happened so that is who i am and where i come from and what happened this week and i'm saying it's time to take down the statues of robert. i tell you i'll tell you what we're going to have to take him down or i just move them all to a big building where anyone who wants to go see them can it will be called the museum of values most of all sort of all beyond. i don't have robert. stone wall jags ten and j. edgar hoover. and i joe paternalist hatcher they took

a. day after it came out he was defending a paddle. oh you know you and it'll have bill o'reilly not not attacks you just bill o'reilly. they just be greeting people and grab their whatever you know whatever he does you know because i don't like the creationist museum in kentucky you know that it has a display of jesus standing next to a dinosaur with a saddle on its back i mean that museum stays in business surely because malema you'll show up to post instagram's with the caption remember what i did was. i. there like we kind of find this annoying but if paying the bills ok. some people some people support the confederate statues and flags for openly racist reasons that is clear you could spot them by the pronounced brow the tiki torch and just

a little drool trickling. down their can but for many others it's much more complicated than that my parents who are in light and wonderful people i am i love the name of than. they did to me. they named me for the same reason a lot of people semi ambivalently support the statues because they want to recognize our history our ancestors outside of the racial implications but the problem is these things can be taken out of their time and place and you don't have to be overtly racist to unknowingly take part in and bolster a racist system removing the racism from confederate monuments is impossible it's like trying to remove the flour from a loaf of bread or the corporate money from congress or. or the war profiteers sack of shit from bill kristol. good stuff. frank in their

faith in their. statues are not just meant to honor our history they're also meant to sim. allies our values to remind our society how a great person behaves and judging by the statues apparently there were ninety nine percent more great men and great women and about ninety nine percent more great white men the great black men and essentially zero great hispanic people and maybe one great native american. i mean if you really look at the numbers there were apparently more and great horses than great women. and i like to say i disagree. i disagree. with you and thank you. guys really really tough to get applause in this room. but beyond just that confederate statues are worse than most.