i. hate spain leaving fourteen killed in one hundred more with the country now joining the ranks of european states affected by unsophisticated low cost terrorism. tensions flare a rally in texas demonstrators that confront a group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate on human. nazis campaign to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in iraq you'll find their parents travel to the country

to join reveals more heartbreaking stories. thanks for joining us this. and you all watching our team. this week deadliest terrorist attacks in thirteen years two separate incidents plowed into pedestrians killing fourteen and injuring one hundred more and we're going to show you in a moment the immediate aftermath of driving into a crowd in barcelona i must warn you though this video disc contains some distressing images. think it was was was was. was. was was.

i so many people wanting to covered 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 on and i didn't see the van i just heard a boom boom boom sound and people screaming. and the ballroom looked all of the bull in the floor and i saw all of the blood he was. there able to look down on the street like it's crazy it's christmas. and around five pm on thursday

a white van was driven into people on the popular pedestrian our streets of los around us that's a focal point for tourists in the city the van drove home for around five hundred meters until it reached the plaza book area where the driver fled on foot now he's still on the loose the authorities say they don't know its location saying that he could have actually left the country hours later a similar incident occurred in the resort town of cumbria. police opened fire on a car after it failed to stop at a security check the vehicle carried on that struck people on the problem dog before overturning five occupants emerged and tried to attack the dishes with knives they were seeing shot dead by the police authorities believe that the perpetrators of the two incidents would that they were planning even bigger attack the skate park which has more now from spain. i'm here on the rambler in the hearts of vassallo now 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 the work 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 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 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 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 on the around that it looks like it's already returned to normal take partridge azzi oscillates. also this week in finland two women died in a knife from page in what's being described as being the country's first ever terrorist attack eight more people were wounded before police managed to shoot the suspect in the leg and to arrest the people of the nerds since stay away from crowded places security measures have been stepped up at airports on railway stations attacks in spain and ireland is just the latest in

a wave of terrorism which is spread across europe particularly in the last two years. isis magazine directions to rent a truck and even. days

after the terrorist attacks in spain australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull and veiled plans to make crowded places in his country more secure against such atrocities proposes police vising local businesses safety and security measures

they cannot 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. in other news around the protesting white supremacies in your city of dallas resulted in tensions with a group of activists calling for the protection of the confederate statue. everybody please don't tell me about it. i do. police moved in to protect them group of demonstrators in favor of the monument remaining both sides are reported to have been armed however there were no reports of shots fired tensions of all of the fallout from last weekend's deadly violence in your town of charlottesville which has also sent it around the location of the civil war monument to the office to take down the statues of god by some of

symbolizing the racism have taken place across the country throughout the way. but this simply i just. think they were told in our dallas sorry to. hear. that for thomas jefferson statue barbarity that they now think that'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.

tensions in the united states have been stoked after donald trump the paid to back down from signaling out the role of white supremacists in last saturday's brawls in virginia rallies similar to the one in charlottesville occurred in boca. today there are thousands of counter protesters marched against the plan dryly for free speech on the mind of clashes between demonstrators and police thirty people were arrested while earlier this week hundreds protested against trump himself outside his residence in new york and also in washington d c. also a petition has been launched on the white house website calling to recognize anti far as a terrorist organization related to six thousand people have already signed up in just three days with one hundred thousand required for the white house to issue

a response get more put it's been looking at how america's political debate is increasingly about labeling divided groups the most what you those report contains scenes of 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 are being tarred with the same brush as white supremacy. i. i got 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 a law 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. 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 of the attack was carried out by a lone republican made up you had an 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 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 the other side so no matter what your political outlook is the best strategy seems to be the same generalizing demonize. art see your. career as warning washington the nuclear war could be on the horizon i'll explain all the bring. me.

in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around cooperation cooperation from washington washington. over voters elected a businessman to run this country business you. must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. a comeback north korea has threatened a merciless strike and warned washington of the risk of uncontrollable nuclear war

if plans ten day military drills between south korea and the u.s. go ahead on the annual war game simulating a military conflict with an isolated country young young says the drills are a provocation the u.s. maintains they're merely defensive in nature they share some seventeen and a half thousand pentagon troops are expected to take part done done emeritus professor at king's college cambridge in the u.k. says there will be retaliation if gang attacks american soldiers. this very dangerous situation because the waters happened in the past when north korea has actually attacked. has always been that is attacked south korean military or naval targets obviously if it is attacked american forces i mean there would be retaliation i don't know 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 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 not all crazy . looks at how us 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 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 man will not get away with what he's doing only they will be met with fire and fury. like the

world has never see. the escalation in brest freak certainly doesn't solve the problem the solution to this crisis must be political the potential consequences of military action. to even contemplate. the two thousand and fifteen iranian nuclear deal and agreement 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 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.

tell 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 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 dying we have many options for event as well. including a possible military option. 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. r.t. washington d.c.

. ati's been campaigning to help find the relatives of orphaned russian speaking children stranded and in iraqi often it's it's believed their parents traveled to the war torn country to join deisel and then either abandon them or were killed they've already received responses from people who've recognized some of the children one of those spotted was little mariam. 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 as i. studied us that maybe. it wasn't that good looking 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 and 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 feel that there were the children but in that. it took oakley for. a school kid and you will find it is crucial that. 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 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. a moment this is just. the living. the mom we 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 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. acquired good food good wash. this you

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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 this country that 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 beech 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 copernicus ideas but now the church wants it 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 i run across a village and when i despise all religion on the other hand a beautiful cathedral is a beautiful cathedral and i value the artistic contribution that religion has made of the centuries but don't you think that despite all your efforts to popularize critical thinking to popular atheism religion seem to be having some sort of a comeback not only in this country but also around the world well give us a few more decades. in america.