americans do. better than. see. the world bank. vehicle attacks hit spain leaving fourteen dead and one hundred others injured with the country now joining the ranks of european states affected by unsophisticated low cost terrorism. elsewhere tensions flare with. in texas is demonstrators that confront a group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate monument. and also his campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in iraq you'll find each of the parents traveled to the

country reveals yet more heartbreaking stories. for joining us this evening my name is neil harvey you're watching the weekly here on r.t. and. this week in spain the deadliest terrorist attacks for 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 first i must warn you the following video just contains some distressing images. it was was. it was.

was. was it. and i so many people running i saw recovered bodies of kids lying in the street this is a tragedy. you. saw an avalanche of people running in every direction when i mean it was total chaos we had no idea what was going on and i didn't see the van i just heard a boom boom boom sound and people screaming. and. all around the people in the floor i saw all of the blood he was. there able to look down on the street like it's crazy it's going to scream for us.

around five pm on thursday a white van was driven into people on the popular pedestrian on a street of us it's a focal point for tourists there in the city the van and drove on for around five hundred more meters until it reached plaza book area where the driver then fled on foot he's still on the list of thirty say they don't know his location adding it may have even left the country i was later a similar incident occurred in the resort town of campbell's. police opened fire on a car after it failed to stop at a security check the vehicle carried on and struck people on the problem not before overturning survival and then emerged and tried to attack pedestrians with knives but they were soon shot dead by police authorities believe the perpetrators of the two incidents with links were planning an even bigger attack. 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 thirty nationalities became the victims of this atrocity. i. was. and the tragic reality is that events such as this are now such across borders 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 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 the attacks were fairly local laws but now i ask myself if these networks are starting to pick up on their own and whether they'll become just more widespread and markers 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. the boss a loner attacked 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. it looks like it's already returned to normal partridge azzi. so this week in finland two women died in a nine from page in what's been described as the country's first ever terror attack a more people were wounded before police missed the shoot the suspect in the leg and the rest of the people have been urged to stay away now from crowded places security measures have been stepped up at airports and railway stations attacks in

spain and finland is just the latest in the wave of terror which is spread across europe particularly in the last two years. isis magazine directions to rent a truck and drive into a crowd. i am.

cool. cool. days after the terrorist attacks in spain australia is probably 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. also aims to increase the number of balls to separate calls from pedestrians all the presence of officer personnel in public places should be increased. around protesting white supremacist in the u.s. city of dallas has resulted in tensions with a group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate statue. and everybody please do not tell me about. the police moved in to protect a group of demonstrators in favor of the monument remaining both sides are reported to be unarmed however there were no reports of shots fired the tensions are part of the fallout from last weekend's deadly violence in the u.s. town in charlottesville which is also centered around the relocation of the civil

war monument and similar efforts to take down the statues regarded by some as symbolizing racism of taking place across the country throughout the week. but simple i just. think they are older than our. here. in fort jackson statue. that they. think it's owned by a slave owners. yeah it should be there's a difference between honoring history and recognizing that we shouldn't repeat it.

racial tensions in the united states of being stoked have to dumb trumpeted 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 occurred in boston. on saturday thousands of counter protesters marched against the planned rally for free speech with minor clashes between the demonstrators and police told thirty people were arrested also earlier in the week hundreds protested against trump outside his residence in new york and also in washington d c. while a petition has been launched on the white house website calling to recognize the far is a terrorist organization over sixty thousand people have already signed up in just

three days with one hundred thousand required for the white house to have to issue a response killam opens been looking at how america's political debate is increasingly about labeling divided groups must warn you his report contains scenes of violence and one of the chants most frequently used at the protests is no trial no k.k.k. hell fascist usa essentially trumpet his supporters are being tarred with the same rights as white supremacy. i. have a 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 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 the 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 of the attack was carried out by a was a republican a that you had an increasing intensity of hostility on the left because 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 something. 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 tabletop and art see your. own use analyses campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in an orphanage in iraq that's up to the break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted.

to go on to be the first this is what before three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first. level was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce offspring to tell you that what we gossip and tabloid but also the most important. of advertising tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. that we along with all. watch.

north korea has threatened a merciless strike and want washington at the risk of uncontrollable nuclear war if planned ten day military drills between south korea and the u.s. go ahead and you a war game simulate a military conflict with an isolated country young says the drills are a provocation of the u.s. maintains they're merely defensive in nature and this year some seventeen half thousand pentagon troops are expected to take part done news about a professor at king's college cambridge in the u.k. says that there will be retaliation if pyongyang attacks american soldiers. this is a very dangerous situation because. waters happened in the past when north korea has actually attacked. has always been that is attacked south korean military naval targets honestly if yours is attacked american

forces i mean there would be retaliation i don't think you should ever think of this declared intention to use what could be nuclear armed. weapons as an empty threat because it is possible to use them and have been used before and they are used the results are absolutely appalling and i don't think north korea wants to risk a nuclear war i mean it would have to be crazy to do so and actually crazy. chuckling looks at how us foreign policy sometimes goes against the wishes of the international community. oh see 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 and done. and this man will not get away with what he's doing believe they will be

met with fire and fury. like the world has never see kind of example 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 to reach seek to even contemplate. the two thousand and fifteen iranian nuclear deal and a group that took 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 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. help bring an end to that trumps in just meeting fire with fire apparently the white house once a hill divided society and political scene with more violence we have troops 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 the . 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. . auntie's been campaigning to help find the relatives of orphans 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 abandon them or killed the already received responses from people who recognize some of the children and one of those in question sports it is little mario. 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 be as old i. studied

us maybe a bit of us like 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 kid knew. i did it for. 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 were 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. promise this is just. a. good living. the mom i know never. told him what kind of other her endless 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 bill do you. believe . this yet there is

a glimmer of hope that she can grow up in peace and reunite with her family grandparents. good food good wash. this to you by the stuff. tell us that it was. it tough you know. nothing to do it. are our. blow to the allows us we were a good as to what is soon you losin you know it and i am. being cheated and that's the end of that is this is. the sat half that's to try not to even have a. meeting as if. you wish me. care is that people that did nothing but i'm

touching it in attention who did announce the steps of our are. here i sit here and there is a i. guess. you're watching on t.v. international to stay with us if you can about the latest news headlines at the top of the oh. god. god. you. are not. a i am not that i. thought.

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dollars going to. u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their what they believe service connected health interests say that k.b.r. short sighted didn't install center raters when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it was a guess the regulations to do so and as a result they're sick all the contracts that k.b.r. and held. require them to comply with e.p.a. regulations the allegation is that k.b.r. rather than complying with the contract.