this is big business against. this study shows that. when terror vehicle at times hits leaving fourteen killed and more than a hundred injured but the country now is joining the ranks of european states affected by unsophisticated global terrorism. tensions flare as an anti hate rally in texas as demonstrators confront a group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate monument. and artie's campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in an iraqi orphanage after their parents travelled to the

country to join reveals more heartbreaking story. hello there and thank you for joining as you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international well today's top headlines on the stories that shape the week. well this week instead was spain's deadliest terror attacks in thirteen year vehicles in two separate incidents plowed into pedestrians killing fourteen and injuring one hundred more we're going to show you the immediate aftermath of the van driving into a crowd in barcelona but just a warning the video does contain distressing images.

and i saw many people running the covered bodies of kids lying in the street this is a tragedy. saw 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 plan 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 to look like that on the street like it's crazy it's going to scream for us. around five pm on thursday

a white fan was driven into people on the popular pedestrian a street of last row a focal point for tourists in the city now the founder drove along this road for around five hundred meters until it reached plausible kariya where the driver then fled on foot now he's still on the loose and the authorities say they don't know his location added that he could have even left the country just hours after this a similar incident occurred in the resort town of cum grills. please open a file on the coffin failed to stop at a security check the vehicle carried on and struck people on the promise before overturning its five all keeping them emerged and trying to attack pedestrians with knives but would quickly shot dead by police cars he's believe the perpetrators of the two incidents were linked and were planning even bigger attacks on cheesecake poetry which is in spain for us. i'm here on the rambler in the hearts of vassallo

know where the deadly terror attack took place on thursday this part of the city is a tourist hot spot people from my this thirty nationalities became the victims of this atrocity. and the tragic reality is that events such as this are now such a cross border stretch that even members of one family can become victims or 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 body. 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 principle. 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 local laws but now i ask myself what these networks are starting to pick up on on their own and whether they'll become just more widespread and marker across europe. 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 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 death again on their own blood and for another survivor to be a moment the boss alone or attack was first heard 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 take partridge artsy oscillates. also this week in finland two women died in a knife rampage in what is being described as the country's first ever terror attack and eight more people were wounded before police managed to shoot the suspect in the leg and rest him people have been urged to stay away from crowded places security measures have been stepped up at airports and railway stations to

the attacks in spain and finland are the latest in a wave of terror which has spread across europe particularly in the last two years . thank. you so this magazine directions the walls to rent a truck and drive into a crowd. thank you. thank you thank you.

thank you. thank you thank you. thank you. thank. days off the terror attacks in spain australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull unveiled plans to make crowded places in his country most 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 bowl logs to separate calls from pedestrians or the presence of officers on security personnel in public places should also be increased. a rally protesting white supremacists in the u.s. city of dallas has resulted in tensions with a group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate statue. for the other president tell me about it was thank you. police moved in to protect a group of demonstrators in favor of the more new months remaining both sides are reported to have been on to however there are no reports of shots being fired the tensions are part of the fallout from last weekend's deadly violence in the u.s. town of charlottesville which was also centered around the relocation of

a civil war monument similar efforts to take down the statues are going to buy some symbolizing racism have taken place across the country throughout the week. but this is simply not just be. ok. i think they are they are holed up in our dallas sorry to. hear that george washington that you were thomas jefferson statute for gravity that they all the thing that's owned by slave owners change you know this should be

there's a difference between honoring history and recognizing that we shouldn't repeat it. well. racial tensions in the u.s. have been stokes' off the government term prepared to back down from singling out the role of white supremacists in last saturday's brawls in virginia rallies similar to the ones in charlottesville took place in both and on sunday thousands of counter protesters marched against a plan to rally the free speech with mine the clashes between the demonstrators and police more than thirty people have been arrested also earlier this week hundreds protested against trump outside his residence in new york and in washington d.c. keller morgan has been looking at how america's political debate is now increasingly about maybe making divided groups

a warning this report contains the final. one of the chance most frequently used at the protests is no trial no k.k.k. no fascist usa essentially trumpet his supporters are being tarred with the same rush as white supremacy. needs to be. our. now the suspect in the horrific charlottesville car ramming was himself a member of the far right but the mayor of the 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 gorka in the white house and the klan in the streets it is now

the white supremacists house. the incitement of hatred to the got us here is as real and condemn the bill as the white supremacists you know was tweets 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 the attack was carried out by a was a republican a that you had an increasing intensity of hostility on the left three percent tension has been building. i think since election night the hyperball 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 something. and demonize me and i don't give. thanks. to our better. than that. was 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 tabletop and artsy new york. more news on the campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in iraq that's coming up the break.

seems wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days. and indeed equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello welcome back now artie's been campaigning to help find the relatives of also and russian speaking children stranded in a rocky orphanage it's believed their parents traveled to the war torn country to

join eisel and then either abandons them or were killed and we've already received responses from people who have recognized some of the children and one of those spotted is little miriam. a 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 over i. will study with us that might be a bit of this and that. because it's clear mariam is lucky to be alive there are scars right on our face surviving this head injury as almost a miracle. surrounded by other kids and caring shelter workers mariam gradually got to the point when she began talking believe it or not mariam gets

least stressed out when she speaks of her once over the just that i'd like to kill the governor the chill button that. it took oakley for. a school kid and you will find it is a trickle and. it seems the lucky escape happened shortly after that dreadful experience but here's mariam describing what happened just before she found herself at the epicenter of the war. they teach this. is that they just don't need to do that it would. cripple if it ever known that 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 mother to see just. a. yes or no 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 see a thing but do we need. a stimulus from below do you. believe . this yet there is a glimmer of hope that she can grow up in peace and reunite with her family grandparents. play good video or wash. the stuff you buy the stuff. you. tell us that it was. it tough to. steph and i think that it. are on.

the low put the allows us who are leading us to let it soon you know more soon you know it and i am. being cheated and that's the end of that is this is still. sad that half can still try and true yesterday was needing us out if. that's me wish me. chairs that it people that did not suffer i'm touching it's an attention who did not see the steps of our our. eyes. here i sit here and there is a i hate those that have. to step.

we've also been contacted by a couple from to take the stand they believe they've recognized their granddaughter who's also called mariam the girl says she saw both her parents die and that she is the originally from to take us down we're continuing to look for the relatives of these children and more and more just keep on arriving. range because look your mom this little. sister. here so. many of you. can't take their dad out but you. north korea has warned washington of quote a merciless strike ahead of a ten day joint drills between south korea and the u.s.

the annual war games simulates a military qualify it with an isolated country young says the drills are a provocation for the u.s. maintains their defensive in nature those comments came despite the facts north korea earliest that it would hold off on any strikes the next move to washington jacqueline vigor 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 volatile 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 see credibility of the escalation in brasserie certainly doesn't. the problem the

solution to this crisis must be political the potential consequences of military action. to even contemplate. the two thousand and fifteen iranian nuclear deal and a group of years to reach and one that was hailed as a landmark diplomatic treatment this is a historic day. in response to washington's threats of more sanctions to promise so that they can pull out of that deal altogether 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.

help bring an end to that trumps in 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. r.t. washington d.c. . to get in touch and share your thoughts on today's stories by following us on facebook and twitter and i'll be back in about. the municipal morning.

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on may twenty third twenty seventy during a raid on. the philippines in combat with terrorists who swore allegiance to isis. two groups of militants have joined forces. has been terrorizing the philippines for twenty years and another local group founded in twenty twelve by the brothers both groups leaders have declared their determination to fight for an independent islamic state in the philippines.

the man with the map is. one of the leaders of the brothers' military group attempting to take control of the town. to isis. in the middle is the philippines number one terrorist named. the leader of the other extremist groups. and. the philippines islamic state five million on his head.