this is. better than. the c. . heard of. the world bank they. sent us an e-mail. police in finland say believe. the main suspect is an eighteen year old moroccan. people or night during an assault in siberia russian police haven't confirmed it was terrorism. was responsible also. because any benefit from the u.s. civilian housing. program. donald trump fails to odd line a new strategy for america's longest running conflict. wherever

you're tuning in from right around the world this hour a welcome to moscow onto our team international my names you know neal good to have your company this hour's top story in finland have confirmed they are treating friday's must stop being which left two people dead. four people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack among them is the teenager believed to have carried out the stopping he's an eighteen year old moroccan on was previously known to the authorities we spoke to a journalist in the city of turku where the assault happened. but the fish bowl is just had a press conference very interesting details had been revealed about this terrorist attack here into a cool or least considers the possibility that the american eighteen year merican

asylum seeker had to be purposefully targeting the main dip two men actually got to pull indeed because they jumped in to protect the we mean close to death police also said that they are looking into the group of six maroko and possibly asylum seekers all of them the perpetrator who committed the stabbing 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 the van. 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 for readers one italian a university researcher one brit and one swedish person who did all these three are still in hospital police had. given decided that they think that this was

a planned action. 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. resulted to people dying on the streets of who had been very well planned and carried out the brutality. police in the central russian city of sirte among ted after he wounded seven people in a knife attack investigators say they're looking into a number of possible motives isel meanwhile has claimed it was responsible with the details here's down off. officially the police have not confirmed anything at this point we know that this is a high profile investigation and also the police are looking into the possibility into reports that the suspect may have been mentally unstable we've seen the

footage from the scene of attack some really graphic images of seven people have been injured some of them apparently heavily and if it wasn't for a regular police dispatcher the outcome of the outcome of the incident may have been much much worse much more gruesome because as the man was going on a rampage stabbing people somebody managed to call the police and just a regular police dispatch showed up and eventually the took out the suspect now the details of the incident and still pretty scars but we will be bringing you more as we get it. protests have erupted in the spanish city of barcelona in the wake of this week's twin terror attacks which fourteen people dead and over one. and t. islam demonstrators clashed with groups who had turned out to oppose them on less that i'm less wary than plowed into crowds of people. i. was i.

was. i mean while it's emerged that some of those caught up in the attacks in spain had been affected by terrorism in the past chris pauley was one of them he had survived the manchester bombing another is juliette monaco the barcelona attack was her third brush with terrorism while the family of scott who was also on last there on this has experienced two deadly attacks previously a partridge spoke with him. but what happened here in the heart of boss alone 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 to chelsea king twenty fifteen and about a cafe it. 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 of the attacks were fairly local laws 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 europe. 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 of security cameras captured the moment the van sped past. sharp on last run lists in barcelona pedestrians can be seen trying to get either its path islamic state later claimed responsibility for the atrocity we spoke to former british home office counterterrorism adviser just moved he believes attacks of this nature are impossible to prevent we always knew

there 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 filled that vacuum and then are looking to him i mean it was predictable it's nothing that we didn't expect i mean it could happen almost anywhere to be fair sometimes these are unpredictable like for instance what's happened in finland recently completely unprovoked attack despite the fact that their 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 toxic 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 that's remarkably difficult these are random attacks and they are difficult to ascertain and evaluate and assess. moving on know donald trump's chief strategist steve bartman has left the white house even before donald trump took office bannon was seen as a key figure in his team or he spent only six months as the president's chief strategist a white house statement explained the decision for balance the parcher as a neutral one he'll return to being the executive chairman of breitbart news one commentator we spoke to died not bannon's exit will help in the long. 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. icing on the cake for these people they will they like him the fact that he's being in the band 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 not something he going to ford by the way this from a political standpoint obama is the latest in a long list of departures from the trump administration following his loss on and said that he's ready to go to war for trump against his opponents on capitol hill as well as the media and corporate america however here's what he added later the trump presidency that we fought for in one is over we still have a huge movement and we will make something of the strong presidency but that presidency is over. well one analysts we spoke to believes the establishment is trying to push those who challenge. 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 and he embedded others were trying to change that but they came up against i think some globalists. staying stateside protesters in the u.s. capitol have poured red paint over a statue of a confederate military officer under demanding that it be taken down the monuments represents officer albert pike that they did in judicial risk where in washington scuffles broke out next to this statue and several men claiming to be a journalist argued with protesters the issue of racially divisive monuments is playing out across the country after the unrest in the city of charlottesville week ago. but a new york subway tiles at times square station will now be altered due to the

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. artie's caleb i've been reports now from new york on the controversy 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 yeah i think it's fine so if one person is the football there 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 didn't go to war to

defend slavery and i think concerts 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 own slaves mr president look i think the issue is that you and robert e. lee both own slaves right. that was bad that was wrong yeah 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.

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 trump is a racist or that everybody that supported trump is a racist or or even going further that every single white person is racism i'm completely against this. we've got to live reaction on the latest issue dividing turkey and germany for the great post office more stay with us. seemed wrong. just don't hold. me to these yet to

shape out these days comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. now if we were of tanks that's a seventy billion dollars potential loss and you point out it's mostly private investors which would include let's say goldman sachs and others but if these folks like a goldman sachs suffer any losses at all remember they've anchored on the government for a bailout so they could go to the government say we need a bailout and the government because it is staffed 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 into your personal account and grab that money.

frustrated off downs are growing increasingly uneasy over the u.s. led military campaign in their country seeing the civilian deaths on destruction are yielding few results in the fight against. can you see the damaged house they dropped the mother bombs in that area we didn't get any benefit from the u.s. they target civilian houses but they don't target militants they say their operation is to finish but in fact they don't most of the time they do target their value with islamic state groups are active.

when the u.s. and afghan commandos came here they first dropped the mother of all bombs in the area in the last six months they only captured a one kilometer area from islamic state militants we don't know what the problems were why they didn't advance if i had to have the coaches or the hundred armed men i could clear this valley of and he's in a matter of hours but they didn't do it you know all president trump spent several hours at a meeting with his military and foreign policy teams discussing the long awaited strategy update for the war in afghanistan he took to twitter to announce that decisions have been made but didn't specify the white house statement didn't give any details either instead saying information would be released at an appropriate time a washington correspondent 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 they don't 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 that hasn't worked when can we expect the 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 coming very close to a decision and to spend it in the 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. up or down doesn't look up r.t. washington d.c. . turkey's president. has hit back at germany's foreign minister with some scathing criticism after his ignore gabrielle accuse him of interfering in germany's upcoming election. he knows no boundaries who are you to talk to the president of turkey know your place he's trying to teach us a lesson how long have you been in politics how old are you well listen let us ride began over president obama's call for turkish nationalists not to vote for

establishment parties including chancellor merkel in germany and that caused a major stir in german media on gabrielle described as brutal meddling in internal affairs and also on preset that it comes just a month before the federal elections will happen this is a runner up publicist and former german intelligence officer joins us on the program to put some meat on the bones of this story very welcome to what extend first of all do you think or do on this call will influence the way the turkish community turkish people in germany vote. well i don't think. that given koreans the turkish the majority of the turkish hope your nation very much because they've made up their mind already anyway and that is. and the minute they meet up it's not a picture of grow do this technician parties at all because of the can feel it in

germany the atmosphere has changed also amongst the of the turkish. to push german citizens. so. i think it may only be the appeal of the so-called election recrimination. with only behalf some marginal impact on people who have not yet decided yet so why what you're seeing there you do think that the majority of turks in germany turkish germans i should say are going to reject the establishment parties or do want to also include the green party as criticism where do they turn who do they vote for. well. i think they're good just stay at home or are too small who have been created. to small muslim parties have in created

in in germany and one i think as far back as two thousand and ten. but there again there are indications i don't know to what extent and the supported by facts that these two muslim party or german muslim park used are again controlled by the. i mean by the. language we heard there from president or to one it was incredibly harsh wasn't personal how do you think it affects bilateral relations with the countries. i think he's given up out of the what to it became c. in his years rhetoric and in not only in the rich rico also in politics

the red cross to malkuth stronger to who to russia in the. one hundred discussion not buying them etc etc i think he is not not interested anymore with that or the european union. but i think it's more than just the interest of terence i think it reflects some deep. shit that has. developed between germany and what that meant that the european. need to in turkey. and i imagine this isn't going to help relations at all runner up publicist and former german intelligence officer thank you for your time. the syrian army's advancing on the embattled city of daraa zoran which has been

besieged by ice all for three years the blockade house taken a crippling toll on the city and its people. this public park is one of the most beautiful parks in this neighborhood it was full of trees and. the sieging hunger lots of the trees have gone and we now bury i would bet here locals just can't get outside the city to bury those killed by i still shelling. the terrorists burying our dead in cemeteries and snipers are positioned along the road so. it's not only this park others too are all bare and have been turned to disseminate risk.

and my friends used to play in the swings in the park but they were destroyed in the shallow. well you can always delve deeper to our teeth dot com on our other social media platforms too i'm going to know me a live news update from our to go in a but half an hour's time. oh no they are already out right. here at.

tenser we're going underground as president trump arrives in israel to meet prime minister binyamin netanyahu coming up with a sure rave against the machine we speak to an author and musician his music has

sold millions about the political power of music and fifty is a pink floyd we asked the creative director of the world famous rock bands iconic album art how music can be used to fight the power plus we uncover the stories that fell between the cracks in this week's barry news all the civil coming up a debate is going underground but first leaders of the iraqi energy industry convene in london today to discuss all island gas strategy well we certainly know what u.s. president donald trump thinks of the fourth largest producer of oil to russia saudi arabia and the united states old expression to the victor belong the spoils you remember you always used to say keep the oil i wasn't a fan of iraq i don't want to go into iraq but i will tell you when we were in we got out wrong how we said in addition to that keep the law now i said it for economic reasons but if you think about it if we kept the oil you probably wouldn't have isis because that's where they made their money in the first place so we should.