in mosul as you told me before. i. tweet in terror a vehicle attacks hit spain leaving fourteen killed and hundreds more injured with the country now joining the ranks of european states affected by unsophisticated calls terrorism. tensions flare at an anti hate rally in texas as demonstrators confront

a group of activists quoted for the protection of the confederate monuments. dottie's campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in iraq it often a joke to their parents travel to the country to join and i still reveals more heartbreaking story. there and thank you for joining us here watching the weekly here on r.t. international the day's top headlines on the stories that shaped the week. this week in spain's deadliest terror attacks in 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 boston lona 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 got out and 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 like that on the street like it's crazy it's bittersweet for us. that's around five pm on thursday a white van was driven into people on the popular pedestrian i streets have last round as a focal point for tourists in the city the van drove on for around five hundred meters until it reached the plaza buck area that's where the driver then fled on foot now he's still on the loose central florida he say they don't know his location adding that he could have even left the country just hours later a similar instance according the results of come brill's. please open fire on a coffee or failed to stop the security check the vehicle carried on and struck people in the promo not before if it's hurting it's five occupants then and merge them try to attack pedestrians with knives but were quickly shot dead by police all

forty's believe the perpetrators of the two incidents were linked and were planning even bigger attacks on c.s.k. polish ridge has more from spain. 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 might 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 if these networks are starting to pick up on on their own and whether they'll become just more widespread and markers across your.

food so 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 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 here on it looks like it's already returned to normal partridge artsy oscillates. also this week in finland two women dying to make ny

front page and was 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 arrest him people have been urged to stay away from crowded places and security measures have also been stepped up at airports and row way stations the attacks in spain and finland the latest in a wave of terror which has spread across to europe particularly in the last two years. isis magazine direction the walls to rent a truck and drive into a crowd. was.

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you the former british home office counterterrorism advisor johann mahmoud believes that your opinion should be extremely cautious no. it could happen almost anywhere to be 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 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 the vacuum and they're now 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 fay flea and security measures they can

add the plan also aims to increase the number of ball ards to separate cars from pedestrians or the presence of officers and security personnel in public places should also be increased. now a rally protesting what 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. now everybody prays going to tell me about it was i thank god that police moved in to protect a group of demonstrators in favor of the monuments remaining on both sides are reported to have been armed however there are no reports of shots being fired the tensions are part of the full out from last weekend's deadly violence in the u.s. town of charlottesville which was also centered around the relocation of a civil war monuments similar efforts to take down 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 side. here to work to actually work thomas jefferson statue barbarity that they. think 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.

racial tensions in the u.s. have been stoked after 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 counter protesters marched against a planned rally for free speech with mind the clashes between the demonstrators and police although thirty people have been arrested also earlier this week hundreds protested against trump outside his residence in new york and in washington d.c. . and has been looking at how america's political debate is now increasingly about labeling divided groups a warning his report contains themes of violence. 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 supremacist. ok. needs to be. our. pal 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 and he made a choice in his presidential campaign the folks around with him to you know to 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 that got us here is as

real and condemn the bill as the white supremacists and i 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. 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 something. and demonize me and i don't give.

thanks that it. 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 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 your. we've got more now is he's campaigning to find relatives the russian speaking children stranded in the rocky orphanage coming up after the break stay with us. welcome to our already out there that what they're going back. which. is.

make this manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. with the flaming. lips and be the one person. in the middle of the room sick. to leave. the. room. hello welcome back now our team has been come paving to help find the relatives of russian speaking children who were stranded in an iraqi orphanage it's believed their parents traveled to the water in country to join i still and then either abundant. over killed we've already received responses from people who have

recognized some of the children and one of those is little area has a story. or 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. this psychological state she's struggling to answer a question as simple as what's your name got to do is the. most anybody else that might be a bit of this and that. because it's clear mariam is lucky to be alive there are scars why donor face surviving this head injury is 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 to kill the governor

the chill button that. it took oakley for. a school you will find a call for cooling. 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. said each buddhist it's just that you just don't you know that it will it will if it ever known it up 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. this is to. say. this. is.

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 we need. a stimulus from the do. believe me. 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 give all the stuff. to tell us that it was. it that you know. nothing to do that.

close to the allows us who are a good as deluded soon you close and you know it and i am. being cheated and that's the end of that is this is. sad that half handstand try not to even say. that to me was she. chairs that it did not separate i'm touching it in attention who didn't notice the stuff. 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 jake is down they believe they've recognized their granddaughter

who is also called maria the girl says that she saw both her parents die and that she is a witch nearly frontage a kister we're continuing to look for the relatives of all of these children but more and more keep arriving. the amish girls look your mom a little more the little girl. i. guess. you. are after baghdad but you. now with elections looming for europe's economic powerhouse germany campaigning seems to be somewhat lackluster despite the potential significance of september's vote especially so in contrast to how impassioned the french campaign was at this

same point one month before the country goes to the polls. thank god for some of them have been looking at you thank you. making sure if you look at you with. i. thank you. thank you. i. was.

the german chancellor seems to be taking the easy road on the election trail i'm glad local so far rejected facing down her rivals on live t.v. instead she's been chatting to bloggers on you tube and many see looks at why she might be taking the soft option. engler merkel should be feeling energized and a fresh after her three week break in the italian alps but judging from her latest election campaigning looks like she's still in vacation mode the chancellor spent time talking politics with several young celebrities here in germany one of them is a video blogger that specializes in german izing american pop hits another is a lifestyle blog where the shares her experiences and ventures with her viewers oh and there's also a fashion and beauty blogger. ok. this is stars. and this is me in

a quite nice outfit there protects my skin and how these beauty and tech bloggers were chosen to speak to merkel at the height of her campaign we don't know but hot political topics were brought up and the chancellor was cool calm and collected in her answers for. are there any plans for electric cars so. we need to create infrastructure which will motivate people to use electric vehicles many people are currently afraid they will be able to get to work but won't be able to get back home and that's what is your favorite smiley the smiley with the small hard on that he was surprised that i impute to a blogger was chosen to conduct an interview with you many have said that my subscribers are not smart enough to ask the right question. because it seems silly to me that some consider people from the beauty industry unable to make the right decision in the elections this is a everyone is able to. tell us honestly when you read donald trump's tweet by

phrases like. what do you think about what comes into your head we should generally be careful with language language is often a step towards escalation and violence i stand by all means. against this. instead of meeting with the legitimate media with people who are trained to detect when the politicians are playing games chancellor merkel has a group of amateurs with whom she can play and that's what's happening here it reminds me of a prizefighter who is that strange to me a real challenger it is the softest question and answer approach that she could face it is the i deal for a politician who wants to be. smooth sailing for angela merkel there but it certainly won't be so easy when she faces off her main rival martin schulte in

september. for everybody it should be clear what it means when a central government that when the headquarters of a governing party systematically decide through the debate on the country's future when a party comes and says we do not have anything to do with this and we do not debate this journey election campaign and it is the arrogance of power nothing else the ladies and gentlemen you know. german broadcasters want to read the sign of the bate so there's more room for spontaneity allowing the two politicians to challenge each other more but america's team reportedly threatened to cancel so the broadcasters gave up there were forty five minutes provided for each block of the t.v. programme the chancellor's representatives did not agree with such dramatic changes and refused to participate under these conditions with campaigning in germany stepping up appear before the election angle america seems to be making sure she's in the try thing seat and they say you are to. about lonnie's at the top of the hour.

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