thank god. i was. two separate of a collect tax in spain leave fourteen killed and a hundred more were injured as in the country into the ranks of european states hit by unsophisticated low cost terrorism. tensions flare as an anti hates rally in texas where demonstrators confronted group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate monuments. and artie's campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in

a rocky orphanage off their parents traveled to the country to join i still reveals more thought breaking story. hello there and thank you for joining us you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international over day's top headlines on the stories the shape the week well this week spain's or its deadliest terror attacks in thirteen years after two separate vehicles plowed into pedestrians killing fourteen and injuring one hundred more we can show you the immediate aftermath of a van driving into a crowd in barcelona but just a warning the video contains distressing images. and

i saw many people running i saw the colored bodies of kids lying in the street this is a tragedy. an avalanche of people running in every direction that what i did was total chaos we had no idea what was going on and when i didn't see the van i just heard a boom boom boom sound and people screaming. and the ballroom the people in the floor i saw all of the blood it was. terrible like that on the street like it's crazy it's because just for us. at

around five pm on thursday a white van was driven into people on the popular pedestrian high streets of less ramblas a focal point for foreign tourists in this they say they found drive on for around five hundred meters until it reached plaza but kerio where the driver then fled on foot and he's still on the loose just hours later a similar incident occurred in the resort town of cumbria. police there can fire on a car after it failed to stop at a security check the vehicle carried on and struck people on the promenade before overturning its five occupants then emerged in trying to attack pedestrians with knives but was soon shot dead by police all thor's he's believe the perpetrators of the two incidents were linked and were planning much bigger attacks kate poetry is in spain now. i'm here on the rambler in the hearts of vassallo now where the

deadly terror attack took place on thursday this part of the city is a tourist hot spot people might this thirty nationalities behind the victims of this atrocity. and the tragic reality is that events such as this are now such across border threats that even members of one family can become victims all witnesses of different attacks across europe we met one such witness while covering the events here impossible or not. it was painfully familiar you knew immediately what what was going on i mean i live this life my daughter lived next to the buffet 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 the immigrant communities and i've been working on jihadi networks all across europe and i thought immediately that it's most likely a moroccan the work was interesting because isis had always use spain as this principal. jumping on. point for getting recruits into turkey and syria and the question for me is while isis was in control 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 and markers across europe. yes the fruit seller across from the bar in. brussels what's going on he knew a hell of

a lot more that was going on with the police but no one seems to be engaged in understanding what is going on in these networks and there are other examples as well manchester bombing survivor chris pauley also managed to escape again on their own blood and for another survivor to be a moment the boss alone or attack was first brush with terror and perhaps it's no surprise if you look at how often attacks rock europe these days experts now say that terrorism is a new normality in europe and here on the around it looks like it's already returned to normal partridge azzi barcelona. this week in finland two women died in a knife rampage and more turned out to be the country's first ever terror attack a smaller people were wounded before police managed to shoot the suspect in the leg and arrest him people have been urged to stay away from crowded places security measures have been stepped up at airports and railway stations to touch in spain

and finland to the latest in a wave of terror which has hit europe in little less than two years. thank. you so this magazine direction the i'm still going to try to drive into the wrong. thank. you.

thank. you. days off to the terror attacks in spain australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull unveiled a plan on how to make crowded places in his country more secure against such

atrocities he proposes police advising local businesses on what safety and security measures they can add the plan also aims to increase the number of balls to separate cars from pedestrians or the presence of police and security personnel in public places should also be increased. now that he is now a rally against white supremacism in the u.s. city of dallas has resulted in tensions between the protesters and the group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate statue. everybody's going to tell me about it was. it was that. police moved in to protect a group of demonstrators in favor of the monument remaining both sides how reported to have been armed however there's no reports of shots being fired the tension is all part of the fallout from last weekend's deadly violence in the u.s. town of charlottesville which was also centered around the removal of

a civil war monument similar efforts to take down the statues were guarded by some as symbolizing racism have taken place across the country throughout the week. but the simple minded just be. ok. i think they are they are holed up in our dallas side. here that we're watching that actually work on the statue barbarity that they call the thing that's owned by slave owners changed you know this should be there's

a difference between honoring history and recognizing that we shouldn't repeat it. racial tensions in the u.s. have been stoked after donald trump appeared to back down from singling out a role of white supremacists and last saturday's brawl was in virginia rallies similar to the ones in charlottesville took place in boston on saturday however the city managed to avoid any repeats of the violence thousands of counter protesters marched against a planned rally for free speech with minor clashes between the demonstrators and police more than thirty people have been arrested early this week hundreds protested against trump outside his residence in new york and in washington d.c. ahead of more pain has been looking in at how america's political debate is now all about neighborly his report does contain scenes of violence. and one of the chants

most frequently used at the protests is no trial no k.k.k. no fascist usa essentially trump and his supporters of being part of the same rush as white supremacy. do you think the. that. our. the suspect in the horrific charlottesville car ramming was himself a member of the far right but the mayor of this city was very quick to put his blame on the white house and president trump and he wasn't alone he should look in the mirror when he made a choice in his presidential campaign the folks around with him to you know go right to the gutter to play on our worst prejudices and i think you are seeing a direct line from what happened here this weekend to those choices trump has made it clear with bannon and gore can the white house and the klan in the streets it is

now the white supremacists house the inside mantle of hatred to do that got us here is as rino and condemn the bill as the white supremacists you know was treats the democratic response to the car ramming mirrors the way republicans responded to the shooting at the congressional baseball practice they blame democrats. for stoking up the atmosphere while reality of the attack was carried out by a loud republican hater you had an increasing intensity of hostility on the left sleepless intensity has been building. things since election night. that vitriol from the left has spurred threats and now action without historical parallel events like today are exactly why we took issue with and why elites glorifying the assassination of a president now most americans liberal conservative or otherwise are not violent however it seems like the leaders of the two major political parties try to make the other half of the electorate look like they are and that seems to be mobilizing

people in both camps if you want to start some. and demonize me but i don't. think. that is. that. the united states has created a political system in a way to demonizing one side means supporting the other side for many voters those who haven't really learned that much about their parties yet the the solution to this is to reduce some of these impediments to we need a system in which political parties have to fight for their own ideas they have to show why what they believe is good and why it's right and what's an excellent idea

and not just focus on demonizing the other side so no matter what your political outlook is the best strategy seems to be the same generalizing demonize. our see your. about with more than week's headlines after this short break stay with us. live. the feeling to. every the world to your ear. that you get it on the old the old. the old according to josh. coming from the. local blogs selling you on the idea that dropping bombs

brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that will. produce offspring to tell you the lobby gossip the tabloids by fell. off the bad guys and tell you that you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along the border will walk. welcome back now ati's been campaigning to help find the relatives of all for russian speaking children stranded in an iraqi orphanage it's believed that parents traveled to the war torn country to join eisel and then either abandoned them all

were killed now we've already received responses from people who recognized some of the children and one of those spotted is little miriam. the phone call to that very same shelter the voice on the other end says another girl has just been brought in from mosul. but it could be too early to talk for her any question and the girl may break down. in this psychological state she's struggling to answer a question as simple as what's your name got to do is a. study with us that. this is that. it's clear mariam is lucky to be alive there are scars right on her face surviving this head injury as almost a miracle. surrounded by other kids in caring shelter workers mariam gradually got to the point when she began talking believe it or not mariam gets

least stressed when she speaks of her once just build the chill button that. it took oakley for. a school killing you. like it. it seems the lucky escape happened shortly after that dreadful experience but here's maryam describing what happened just before she found herself at the epicenter of the war. said each witness that it's just that you just don't need to do that it will. pull it over no need a lot mariam is not the only girl who has told us about the horrors by some river that's apparently where many children lost their mothers. a moment this is just. the living.

the mom i know never. did what kind of other horrendous things these people went through somewhere by the river in mosul we can only guess mariam doesn't remember anything more or just can't talk about it we ask about her father but she can barely say a thing but who we knew. will stay with us and bill do you. believe me. yet there is a glimmer of hope that she can grow up in peace and reunite with her family grandparents. are quite good they would wash. the above the stuff. that elicited was. it tough to get into much death and i think that it.

blow put allows us who are leading us to go at it soon you know more soon you know it and i am. being cheated and that's the end of the narrative that is this is still true. says that half can still try not true yesterday yet most of you do not have it. that you wish me. chairs that of the people that did nothing but i'm touching it's an attention who didn't really notice the stuff. i come out here i sit here and there is a i hate those that have. to step. now we've also been contacted by a couple from to take

a stand they believe they've recognized their granddaughter who's also called mariam the girl says that she saw both her parents die and that she is originally from to take a stand we're continuing to look for the relatives all of these children but more and more keep arriving. to elaine's close look your mom a little more the old it. will all be so but. you. can't take them back out to you. north korea has warned washington of quote merciless strikes ahead of ten day joint drills between south korea and the u.s. they are new a war game simulate

a military conflict with an isolated country pyongyang says the drills are a provocation while the u.s. maintains that defensive in nature those comments came despite the fact north korea earliest that it would hold off on any strikes and in the next move to washington talking very good looks at how u.s. foreign policy is often seen as going against the wishes of the international community. when it comes to foreign policy it seems that trump is trying to twist the knife into some of the most balto international issues. there's fire and fury for north korea while the international community is calling for deescalation in the region trying to spouting some of the most aggressive rhetoric that's been heard in decades. and this may not get away with what he's doing only they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. the escalation in brest freak certainly doesn't solve the problem the solution to

this crisis must be political the potential consequences of military action are. to even contemplate. the two thousand and fifteen iranian nuclear deal and agreement that took two years to reach and one that was hailed as a landmark diplomatic treatment this is or to store. them. in response to washington's threats of more sanctions to promise so that they can pull out of that deal all together but america's u.n. ambassador doesn't appear all that concerned iran cannot be allowed to use the nuclear deal to hold the world hostage the nuclear deal must not become too big to fail. and then there is venezuela a country divided after months of violent protests and the run up to a key election.

tell bring an end to that trumps and just meeting fire with fire apparently the white house wants to kill a divided society and political scene with more violence we have troops all over the world in places that are very very far away venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and dying we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary whatever happened in terms promises of making the world a less nasty place to live i would love to be able to get along with everybody right now the world is a mess but i think by the time we finish i think it's going to be a lot better place to live for now it seems the president has zero intentions of making friends with everyone. our team washington d.c. . the american civil liberties union held an historic historic victory after a case involving the cia's torture program was settled on thursday it was found

against two psychologists who rakes in more than eighteen million dollars to developing the agency's so-called and honks the interrogation programs because at that stage as private contract is the most of tall get to them as private citizens the plaintiffs were to torture survivors and the family of roman a man who died in a secret cia prison here's how a partially declassified cia report describes the events leading up to his death. treated rahman harshly because of rahman's alleged his uncompromising reactions he didn't tarry cation and lack of cooperation the pressure up to break him lack of experience with a committed interrogation resistor on nov two thousand and two ordered or approved the guards placing rahman in the short changed position whereby he was compelled to sit on the concrete floor of his cell raman was only cloyd in a sweat shirt designed directly led to rahman's death by hypothermia. the cia as

torture methods have repeatedly been criticized by human rights activists here's a reminder of some of the other so-called interrogation techniques reportedly used in america's secret prisons. the. psychologist's lawyers claim that clients were public servants whose actions were authorized by the u.s. government they say everything the defendants did was in the line of duty and carried out in an effort to protect innocent lives from suspected terrorists meanwhile an attorney for the american civil liberties union who represented the plaintiffs says the case that's an important precedent this is

a story 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. from a cia analyst and whistle blower john kiriakou believes there are more similar cases to come but the cia won't give up without a fight. 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. about with more news

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