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rally in texas those demonstrators confront a group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate monument. and artie's campaign to find the relatives of russian speaking children stranded in a rocky all for the age of their parents travel to the country to join i still reveals more operator. hello there and thank you for joining us you're watching the week here on r.t. international the day's top headlines on the stories that shape the week. well this week in spain's deadliest terror attacks in thirteen years the 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 but just a warning the video contains distressing images. and i saw many people running the covered bodies of kids lying in the street this is a tragedy. and 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 man 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. very well done on the street like it's crazy it's going to scream for us. at around five pm on thursday a white van was driven into people on the popular pedestrian high street of last round less is a focal point for tourists in the city the van drove on for around five hundred meters until it reached plaza but kerio whether driver then fled on foot he's still on the loose and to far to say they don't know his location adding that he could have left the country now just hours later a similar incident occurred in the resort town of cum brill's. please open fire on the call after it fell to stop at

a security check the vehicle carried on and struck people in the prominent before the turning is five occupants then emerged and tried to attack pedestrians with knives but were quickly shot dead by police or forty's believe the perpetrators of the two incidents were linked and were planning even bigger attacks on seascape poetry which has moved from spain. 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 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 cross your. 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 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 the around it looks like it's already returned to

normal partridge azzi oscillates. also this week in finland two women died in a knife from beit rampaging most being described as the country's first ever terror attack a small people wounded before police managed to shoot the suspect in the leg under arrest him people have been urged to stay away from crowded places and security measures have been stepped up at an airport with and railway stations is hacked in spain and finland of the latest in a wave of terror which is spread across europe particularly in the last few years. thank.

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you. thank you. for days off of 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 adds the plan also aims to increase the number of balls to separate cars and from protest regions where the presence of offices and security personnel in public places should be increased. rally protesting why supremacism in the us city of dallas has resulted in tensions with a group of activists calling for the protection of the confederates that you are. i am going to praise them tell me about it was. thank

you that. pleased me it didn't to protect a group of demonstrators in favor of the monuments remaining on both sides are reported to have been arms however there are no reports of shots being fired attention's a 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 statue is regarded by some as symbolizing racism have taken place across the country throughout the week. but this symbol aren't just be. ok.

i think they are they are holed up in our sorry to. hear that your god didn't actually work on the statue or property that they. think it's owned by slave owners. 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 are paid to back down from singling out the role of want to supremacists in last saturday's brawls in virginia rallies similar to the ones in charlottesville took the. they say in boston on saturday thousands of counter protesters marched against the planned rally for print for free speech

with minor clashes between the demonstrators and police more than thirty people have been arrested or soberly this week hundreds protested against trump outside his residence in new york and in washington d.c. on the scale of more pain has been looking at how america's political debate is now increasingly about labeling divided groups a warning his report contains the violence. one of the chants most frequently used at the protests is no trump no k.k.k. no fascist usa essentially trumpet his supporters of being part of the same rush as white supremacy. 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 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 gorka in the white house and the klan in the streets it is now the white supremacists house. this 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 people said 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 bell 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 your mum. was. thank you. thank you that is. right 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 be 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 watch an excellent idea. 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 label pop and artsy new york. with more on all teens campaign to find the relatives of russian speaking children who are stranded in a rocky orphanage that's coming up after the break stay with us. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around

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hello welcome back now north korea has threatened a merciless strike and warned washington of the risk of uncontrollable nuclear war if planned ten day military drills between south korea and the u.s. go ahead the army will war games simulates a military conflict with an isolated country pyongyang says the drills are all close attention while the u.s. maintains their defensive in nature this year some seventeen and a half thousand pennsic and troops are expected to take part or let's discuss this further now we're going to be we are joined by john donne emeritus professor at king's college cambridge in the u.k. a professor of done thank you for joining us on the program now what do you make of the u.s. holding these exercises given the recent spike in regional tensions. well

i think they're just going on doing what they have done for a very long time and obviously whatever else is true about president trump he's not likely to stop doing something which has been part of the american strategy if you can call it that for handling relations with north korea for decades. but merely because he's threatened. this is a very dangerous situation because. what has happened in the past when north korea has actually attacked and. has always been that is attacked south korean military or naval targets. land areas and it wasn't really facing any serious danger of retaliation or obviously of

his tact american forces i mean there would be retaliation obviously so it would be a much more dangerous thing who are north korea to do and it's very difficult to tell with north korea what to take seriously and what not to take seriously and i just think that is the bottom line i mean nobody knows what you should take seriously and the last instance what is clear should be taken seriously is the level of risk involved in direct confrontation between american and most korean forces. or we've already had an angry reaction from north korea and surprisingly how might it was spawns once the war games actually start i mean do you think i can carry through with these warnings or the night is empty threats how concerned should we be. i don't think you should ever think of the. declared intention to use what could be nuclear armed weapons

as an empty threat because it is possible to use them and they have been used before and if they are used the results are absolutely appalling and i don't think that north korea wants to risk a nuclear war i mean it would have to be crazy to do so and actually a lot of talk crazy it's a very unpleasant state with. president lula and it's up against the numbers day which is a lot here steadiest of hands at the moment that's what it mildly but rick north korea is at the point of all of this from a north korean point of view this isn't just. new york impressively a threat for the regime to survive so i don't think the whole point of all these things is for the regime to survive and of course it can't just survive market uses

only kindly so i don't think those threats are likely to be. seriously intended in the sense that they're expecting korea to actually be executed we said and semi-colons and america's professor at kenya's college cambridge in the u.k. thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. and. well arty's been campaigning to help find the relatives of often russian speaking children who have been stranded in iraq you often it is believed their parents traveled to the war torn country to join eisel and then i there are paladins then or were killed and we've already received responses from people who have recognized some of the children and one of those spotted is a little area. 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. if you. will study with us that may be a bit of this and that. because 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 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. know i did it for. 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 a buddhist it's just that they just don't need to do that it would a. little if it were known that a lot maryam is not the only girl who has told us about the horrors by some river that's apparently where many children lost their mothers. some of this is just. yet 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 who we knew. will stay with us and go 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 for russia. this give all the stuff. to tell us that it was. it that you know. nothing to do which. are our. blow put us up there are a good as go at it soon you know close and you know it and i am. being cheated and that's the end of that is this is. the sad

handstand try not to even say. that to me was she. chairs that people that did not set foot on touching is an attention who did not the steps of our are. here i sit here and there is a i hate those that have. a blue sky. now we've also been contacted by a couple from t.g.t. stone they believe they've recognized their granddaughter who is also called merriam the girl says she saw both of her parents die and that she is originally from project to start continuing to look for the relatives of all of these children but more and more to keep on arriving.

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