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an iraqi orphanage off their parents' travel to the country to join i still reveals more heartbreaking story. hello there and thank you for joining us you're watching the week here on r.t. international all the day's top headlines on the stories that shape the week. this week in spain's deadliest terror attacks in thirteen years 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 a van driving into a crowd in barcelona 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. saw an avalanche of people running in every direction i would i knew it was total chaos we had no idea what was going on and i didn't see the plan i just heard a boom boom boom sound and people screaming. and the ballroom looked all over people in the floor i saw all of the blood it was . very well done on the street like it's crazy it's business for us. at around five pm on thursday

a white van was driven into people on the popular pedestrian high street of last round it's a focal point for tourists in this city the van drove on for around five hundred meters until it reached plaza but kariya as where the driver that fled on foot now he's still on the loose and authorities say they don't know his location adding that he could have even left the country just hours after a similar incident occurred in the resort town of come brill's. police opened fire on a car after a failed to stop at a security check the vehicle carried on and struck people on the promise before overturning its five all keep and then emerged and trying to attack pedestrian. and with no eaves it would quickly so dead by police all floridians believe the perpetrators of the two incidents were linked and were planning even bigger attacks on cheesecake poetry each possible from spain i'm here on the rambler in the hearts

of vassallo know where the deadly terror attack took place on thursday this pos at the city is a tourist hot spot people from my this thirteen 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. 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 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 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 that these networks are starting to pick up on on their own and whether they'll become just more wides. 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 with the police but no one seems to be in. him 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. 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 partridge azzi barcelona. also this week in finland two women dying to knife rampage and most being described as the country's first ever terror attack eight more people were wounded before police managed to shoot the suspect in the leg and to arrest him police have been urged to stay people have been urged to stay away from crowded places and security measures have

also been stepped up at airports and railway stations the attacks in spain and finland of the latest in a wave of terror which is spread across to europe particularly in the last two years. i use this magazine directions on the walls to rent a truck and drive into a crowd. the

former british home office counterterrorism adviser john the mood believes the europeans should be extremely cautious now. it could happen almost anywhere you'd

have to literally be watching everybody logarithm set to pick up key words and phrases in every single conversation and communication across an entire continent 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 out a vacuum and then looking to him i mean it was predictable it's nothing that we didn't expect. days after the terror attacks in spain australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull unveiled plans 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 ball odds to separate cars from pedestrians or the presence of officers and security personnel in public places should be increased.

now rallied protesting why supremacism in the u.s. city of dallas has resulted in tensions with a group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate statue. oh yes please don't tell me about it was i thank you that police moved in to protect a group of demonstrators in favor of the monuments remaining both sides are reported to have been armed however there are no reports of shots being fired as 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 were guarded by 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 actually four times the statue or gravity that they. think it's on by slave owners change 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 off the donald trump appeared 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 boston on saturday. thousands of council protesters marched against the plans rally for free speech with minor clashes between the demonstrators and police told them thirty people have been arrested also earlier this week hundreds protested against trump outside his residence in new york and in washington d.c. caleb maupin has been looking at how america's political debate is now increasingly about maybelline divided groups a warning his report contains the words of fine and. one of the chants most frequently used at the protests is no trump no k.k.k. no fascist usa essentially trump and his supporters are being tarred with the same brush as white supremacy. ok. do you feel.

that. 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 bannan 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 whole 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 some. and demonize me and i don't you. do that was yes.

thank you. thank you very much. 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 party's 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 be 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. we've got more on our t.v. campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in

a rocky overnight jump that they shall break stay with us. all the food we don't need. every the world should experience. and you'll get it on the open road. according to just. come from the. show seemed wrong why don't we all just don't hold. any of these yet to shape out these days becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello welcome back artie's been campaigning to help find the relatives of all fund russian speaking children who were stranded in the rocky orphanage it's believed their parents traveled to the war torn country to join eisel and then either abundance them or were killed now we've already received responses from people who have recognized some of the children and one of those spotted is a little merrier. 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 be as old. to you. both studied with us that maybe. it isn't that. 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 in 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 they'd like to kill the devil in the chill button that. it took oakley for. a school killing you. like it could go for 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. they teach this. is that they just don't need to do that it would. if it were known that a lot of 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 suggest. that you are living. the schools in my mind you will never. see. 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 we knew it will save us 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 food good wash. this you buy the stuff. you. tell us that it was. it tough you know. that i think that here it. are our. close to the allows us who are reading us deluded soon you know more soon you know and i am. being cheated and that's the end of that is this is still true. says that half and still try not to even

say. that to me was she. chairs that it people there is nothing but i'm touching it's an attention who didn't really notice the status of our our. eyes. 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 is also called mariam the girl says that she saw both of her parents die in the she is originally from to take a stand we continuing to look for the relatives of these children and more and more just keep on arriving. see.

the film on this little. story. so. many of you. can take to baghdad. now the news now north korea has warned washington of quote a most of the strike ahead of ten day joint drills between south korea and the u.s. the annual war games simulates a military conflict with an isolated country john young says the drills are a provocation while the u.s. maintains that defensive in nature those comments came despite the fines north korea earliest that it would hold off on any strike funding 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 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 kind of pitiable so the escalation in brest weeks certainly doesn't solve the problem the solution to this crisis must be political the potential consequences of military action. seek to even contemplate. the two thousand and fifteen iranian nuclear deal a group that took two years to reach and one that was hailed as a landmark diplomatic treatment this is is it.

and response to washington's threats of more sanctions to promise and that they could 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 at the white house wants to kill a divided society and political scene with more violence and 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. 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 intention of making friends with everyone. our team washington d.c. about with more news in about thirty minutes. what to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want. to go on to be the person. that's what before three of them or can't be good. interested always in the

waters about how. the city of minima so modest was hit the hardest by the twenty eleventh's or nominee but it was damaged mostly by the radiation after the nuclear disaster moved a little not even a novel if you did not know you were in the middle of that ok we'll also have the what if you know that i am a little slow to return it to the world decontamination is not complete but many locals could not leave their houses and farms most of us you know if you know stuff . if they're both food can also be a nice nice good thought feeling a few ticks don't want it they stay strong like their ancestors centuries ago did. for you. and i mean also you will fail

a lot but i want. to be sure that when i will there will and souls find a way to rebuild their lives in the world and lambskin. long welcome to worlds apart piece by dan president the pace of scientific breakthroughs humanity still seems to be as far away from the age of reason as ever

with really just extremism and political infantilism spreading around the globe aiding each other has the idea of governance based on critical thinking already become a delusion to discuss that amount joined by evolutionary biologist richard dawkins mr dawkins it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time now this is your first time in russia in st petersburg and this is a city that has long traditions of critical thinking of secularism but also a very in a jet a religious community which called for the cancellation of your visit did you have any second thoughts about coming here no i was not aware of any call for my consideration if i had been i'd have been more determined what is the reception that you has been receiving so far do people know about here in this country has a magnificent reception huge crowds at the picnic and then the gigantic books i think you i don't know how many books we're going to get you to now you know you

come here at a time when the city ease galvanised over the phaedo for its largest cathedral beach also happens to be the fourth largest cathedral in the world and it has a very interesting history because back in the early soviet times it was turned into the museum of atheism there was even the fuko pendulum there to install to demonstrate compare nicholas ideas but now the church wants him back and i wonder if that really demonstrates the. the neither atheism nor religion can every decisively win this battle for hearts and minds in the way your own cause will never be will be fully realized i look forward to seeing the cathedral very much i love seeing computer calls him i don't want to enter into any local political disputes but local is global these these days if you speak about the value of ironically the same religion when i despise all religions on the other hand a beautiful cathedral is a beautiful cathedral and.