twin terror vehicle attacks in spain leaving fourteen killed and one hundred more injured with the country now joining the ranks of european states affected by unsophisticated low cost terrorism. tensions floated an empty rally in texas as demonstrators confront a group of activists pulling 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 travel to the country

to join i saw reveals yet more breaking stories. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. and. now they sweep in spain the deadliest terrorist attacks for thirteen years vehicles into separate incidents plowed into pedestrians leaving fourteen dead and one hundred others injured we're going to show you the immediate aftermath of a van driving into a crowd in barcelona but the first must warn you the following video could you can may find this distressing. i. i i i. i i i.

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 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 the. people in the floor i saw a lot of blood it was. terrible. it's crazy it's just. at around five pm on thursday white van was driven into people on the popular

pedestrian state of last time bless it's a focal point for tourists in the city there on the drive on for around five hundred for the mates until it race plus a book. that's where the driver got out fled on foot and remains on the loose the authorities say they don't know his location and about it he may have even left the country i was later a similar incident occurred in the resort town of cumberland's. police opened fire on a car we have failed to stop at a security check vehicle carried on and it struck people on the problem knowledge before overturning five occupants emerged and tried to attack pedestrians that would not but they were shot dead by police authorities believe that the perpetrators of the two incidents were linked and that they may have been planning even bigger attacks. has more from spain. i'm here on the rambler in the heart of

barcelona where the deadly terror attack took place on thursday this part of the city is a tourist hot spot people from my this thirteen nationalities became the victims of this atrocity. i. was. and the tragic reality is that events such as this are now such across border threats 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 and i. was painfully familiar you knew immediately 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 with

a sudden unexpected. event for me this is the life i live. i've been working in the immigrant commune. these 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 if these networks are starting to pick up on on their own and whether they'll become just more widespread and marker cross you're. 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 good 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 roundabout it looks like it's already returned to normal partridge azzi oscillated. also this week in finland two women died in a night from page in what's being described as the country's first ever terrorist attack a to this wooden did before police managed to shoot the suspect in the leg and arrest him 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 terrorism which is spread across europe particularly in the last two years. greg. little. isis magazine directions to rent a truck and drive into a crowd. our. little.

crew. or days after the terror attacks in spain australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull has unveiled plans to make crowded places in his country more secure

against such atrocities he proposes police said vising local business is on what safety and security measures they can and also aims to increase the number of balls to separate calls from pedestrians or the presence of officers and security personnel in public places should be increased. thanks to rally protesting wind supremacy in the us city of dallas has resulted in tensions with a group of activists who calling for the protection of a confederate statue. i was going to tell me about it when. i did. the things you didn't to protect a group of demonstrators in favor of the monument renaming both sides of the pole to be known for the other there are no reports of shots fired tensions are part of the fallout from last weekend's deadly violence in the us town of charlottesville which was also centered around the relocation of the civil war model and similar

efforts to take down the statue use we go to by some the symbolizing racism taking place across the country throughout the week. but this simple i just. think they were holed up in our dallas. here or washington or jefferson statue or radical that they. think that's owned by a slave owners change yeah this should be there's a difference between honoring history and recognizing that we shouldn't repeat it.

racial tensions in the us of being stoked have to 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 the planned rally for free speech mind clashes between the demonstrators and police more than thirty people were arrested also earlier in the week hundreds protested against chump outside his residence in new york and also into the. well petitions been launched on the white house website it calls to recognize the far is a terrorist organization related to one thousand people have already signed up in just three days with one hundred thousand required for the white house to issue

a response at more pins been looking at how america's political debate is increasingly about labeling divided groups must warn you though his report this contains scenes of violence one of the chants 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. 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 and he wasn't alone he should look in the mirror when he made a choice in his presidential campaign the folks around with them 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. 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 been increasing intensity of hostility on the left three percent tension has been building. i think 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 that i don't give. you. thank you. thank you that. 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 . 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. career is warning washington nuclear war could be on the horizon who explain why after this break.

seems wrong. we all just don't. get to shape our. active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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 annual war game simulate a military conflict with an isolated country and pyongyang says the drills are a provocation the u.s. throat maintains they're simply defensive in nature some seventeen and a half thousand pentagon troops are expected to take part long done america's professor at king's college cambridge in the u.k. says there will be retaliation if young attacks american soldiers. this is a very dangerous situation because. waters happened in the past when north korea has that for the attack. has always been that it is attacked south korean military targets. only stevie's is attacked american forces i mean there would be retaliation again 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 they are use 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 creates it. takes a look at how u.s. foreign policy sometimes goes 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 balto 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 attitude will see the escalation resurrect suddenly doesn't solve the problem the solution to this crisis must be political the potential consequences of military action have to rethink to even contemplate. the two thousand and fifteen iranian nuclear deal and a group that took two 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 said 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 the white house wants to kill a divided society and political scene with more violence we have troops all over the world the 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 event as well. 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.

. auntie's been campaigning to help find the relatives of often the russian speaking children who were stranded in an orphanage in iraq it's believed their parents traveled to the war torn country to join i saw and then these are abandoned the kids where they were killed were already receive responses from people who've recognized some of the children one of those spotted was a little. 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 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 that i'd like to kill the governor the chill button that. it took oakley for. a school kid and you will like it was 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 a buddhist it's just that they just don't need to do that it would. occur.

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. a mother to suggest. that you are 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 to do. believe . this yet there is a glimmer of hope that she can grow up in peace and reunite with her family

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