the russian ministry of defense has announced that russian air forces have eliminated a large convoy consisting of two hundred i still terrorist hiding to. syria. campaign to find relatives russian speaking children stranded and then a rocky orphanage after their parents travelled to the country to join i still more heartbreaking story it's. been terrible you call attacks can't spain leaving fourteen killed and hundreds

more injured with the country now joining the ranks of european states a fact it's by unsophisticated low cost terrorists. and tensions flare as an anti hate rally in taxes demonstrators confront a group of activists calling for the protection of a confab trade's monument. coming to you live from moscow you're watching them we see here on our international russian air force. two more than two hundred i saw terrorists hiding to their eastern stronghold there as the war in syria twenty vehicles were also destroyed along with ammunition and weapons including tanks and according to the russian ministry of defense the terrorists are trying to regroup and establish a new base we also say. it will prove to be

a strategic defeat for the terror group and syria meanwhile in the battle to completely rid dare as the war of terrorists as ongoing and he has film takes close of from inside the besieged area. so. we wanted to. keep doing the same thing i. did. who. he's been campaigning to help find their relatives or friends russian speaking children stranded in an iraqi orphanage especially if their parents traveled to the war torn country to join i sell and then either abandon them or work killed we've already received two responses from people who freak of nice some of the children

and one of those spot tests was little mariam. form called 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 to the. study because. of this. because it's clear mariam is lucky to be alive there are scores right on her 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 illinois. just that i'd like to

build. that and that to keep it with the oakley for. a school killing you will find it is closer to the us. 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 was a. little bit of unknown it 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 this was a living this. was

a mom i know never more to the age that 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 knew it was then listen to that do you. believe me. yet there is a glimmer of hope that she can grow up in peace and reunite with her family grandparents. acquired good the good russia know this good game of the stuff. it ate it tell us that it was. it that. death might be a good year itch. bloke put gloves up

we were reading you doesn't go to church soon you'll blow soon you will and i am. far. too thin that's the moon going down is this is. the sat half. true yes i am most needing us how. far. can you wish me. chairs of the people of the real numbers up until ching chong attention who didn't really know the status of. our. hero i said he and there is a i hate those that have oh doesn't it take a little step to lose now and he knows now. this week in strange deadliest terror attacks in thirteen years in two separate incidents plowed into pedestrians killing fourteen and injuring one hundred more

we're going to show you the immediate aftermath of the. crowd in barcelona just a warning the video contains distressing on the. actual many people roaming the covered bodies of kids lying in the streets this is a tragedy. novel and should people running in every direction but when i did it was total chaos we had no idea what was going on and when i didn't see the van i just heard

a boom boom boom sound and people screaming. and the ballroom looked in the floor i saw all of the blood it was. terrible to look at the street like it's crazy it's christmas for us. around five pm on thursday a white van was driven into people on the popular pedestrian street of last troublous a focal point for tourists in the city the van drove on for around five hundred years until a tree. where the driver then fled on foot is still on the loose and that's hard to say that they do not know his location adding that he could have left the country. a similar incident occurred in the resort town of kemp roles.

police opened fire in a car after it failed to stop at a security check the vehicle carried on and struck people on the promenade before overturning its five archaea princetown them trying to attack pedestrians with knives but were soon shot dead by police a story this believes that the traders of the two incidents were linked and were planning fake attacks or he's kate partridge has more 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 a this thirty nationalities became the victims of this atrocity. 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 all witnesses of

different attacks across europe we met one such witness while covering the events here impossible and. was painfully familiar you knew immediately what what was going on i mean i live this life my daughter lived next to the buffet 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. was interesting because isis could always use spain as the 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. but now i ask myself that these networks are striving to the couple on their own and whether they'll become more widespread and marker. 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. remember standing 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. and for another survivor moment the boss a loner attack was so rushed 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 also that. and also this week in finland two women died in a knife front page in what is being described as the country's first ever terror attack a two more people were wounded before a pretty small mission to shoot the suspect in the lab and arrest him people have been urged to stay away from crowded places security measures have been stepped up at airports and wally stations to the attack in spain and sentiments are at the latest in the wave of terror which has spread across europe particularly in the last two years. look.

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days after the terror attacks in spain prime minister malcolm turnbull month railed plans to make crowded places in his country more secure against such atrocities he proposes police advising local businesses on wide safety and security measures they can add the plan also aims to increase the number of footballers to separate cars from pedestrians while the presence of officers and security personnel in public places should be increased. so you there are some missing and five have been injured after a u.s. destroyer collided with the tanker east of the malacca strait the incident happened

to five am local time while the u.s.s. john mccain was heading toward a single pole a u.s. destroyer sustained damage in the collision and rescue operation is underway and it's the second collision involving a u.s. warship in the last two months. a rally protesting white supremacy in the u.s. city of dallas has resulted in tensions with a group of activists calling for the protection of a confederate statute was raised and i don't know about it. and the police moved in to protect a group of demonstrators and favor of them remaining both sides are reported to have been armed however as there are no reports of shots being fired the tensions are part of the fallout from last weekend's down the violence in the us telling of

charlottesville which was also centered around the relocation of a civil war monument similar forced to take down the statues are regarded by some and symbolizing racist and have taking place across the country throughout the week . i. thank. him but i just. think they were sold on our side. here. actually for thomas jefferson statue or gravity the statue they call the

thing that'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 stalked after donald trump appeared to back down from singling out the role of white supremacists and less of a scrolls than a virgin a rally similar to the ones in charlottesville took place in boston on saturday thousands of counter protest against a planned rally for free speech with minor clashes between the demonstrators and police more than thirty people were arrested also this week hundreds protested against trump outside his residence and york and also in washington d.c.

the position has been launched on the white house website calling for an t. fund to be declared a terrorist certainly zation over one hundred thousand people have already signed and just three days now the white house has to issue a response and has been looking at how america's political debate is increasingly about labeling divided groups a warning his report contains scenes of violence one of the chants most frequently used at the protests is no trial no k.k.k. no fascist usa especially trumpeters supporters are being tarred with the same rush as white supremacists like i am i think the below that i was like i was there was a callous suspect in the whole. with that charlottesville car ramming was in itself 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 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 bannan 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 when reality attack was carried out by a was a republican a guy you had an increasing intensity of hostility on the left because intensity has been building. i think since election night hyperball the 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 your mouth. was. thank you. thank you that is. 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 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 a good wife right watch 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. it will pop and r. to your. north korea has threatened to strike on war and washington of the risk of uncontrollable nuclear war of planned ten day military drills between south korea and the us i had the annual war game simulating military conflict with an isolated country killing young says that their drills are a provocation while the u.s.

maintains their stance of the nature this year some seventeen and a half thousand panag on troops are expected to take part. emeritus professor at king's college templates in the u.k. says there will be retaliation if killing in tax american soldiers this very dangerous situation arose. which is happened in the past when north korea has actually. has always been the. sort of real. time. to many in the forces i mean there would be retaliation i believe you should ever think to the challenge to use nuclear. weapons as a threat because it is possible to use. have been used before and they all use results or absolutely important. i don't think north korea

wants to risk a nuclear war i mean you have to be crazy to do so. she. said 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 in. 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 the kind of attitude will see the escalation rest breaks suddenly 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 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 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 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 a possible military option if necessary. whatever happened to trump's 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 in time chance of making friends with everyone. r.t. washington d.c. . the american civil liberties union hailed to his story factory after a case involving the cia's torture program was. saying it was filed against two

psychologists who arranged in more than eighteen million dollars developing the agency so-called enhanced interrogation program because of their status as private contractors of the last few targeted as private citizens the plaintiffs were to torture survivors the family of. a man who died in a secret cia prison partially declassified report described the events leading up to his death. treated rahman harshly because of rahman's alleged. uncompromising reactions or didn't terry cation and lack of cooperation the pressure on to break him lack of experience with a committed interrogation resistance on november two thousand and two ordered to approve the gods placing roman in the short changed position whereby he was compelled to sit on the concrete floor of his so roman was only closed in a sweat shirt. directly led to roman's death by hypothermia. the cia's torture

methods have repeatedly been criticized by human rights activists here is a reminder some of the other so-called interrogation techniques reportedly used in america's secret prisons. the. psychologist's lawyers claim their clients were a public servants who his actions were authorized by the u.s. government and they say that everything the defendants did was on the line of duty and carried out in an effort to protect innocent lives from suspected terrorists meanwhile an attorney for the american civil liberties union who represented the

plaintiffs sas the case said send important precedent this is a historic victory for our clients and the rule of law this outcome shows that there are consequences for torture and that survivors can and will hold those responsible for torture accountable it is a clear warning for anyone who thinks they can torture with impunity. former cia analyst and whistle blower john kiriakou believes that there are more similar cases to come but the cia won't give up without a fight this is absolutely a precedent for other victims to seek justice of course there are some who i think the cia would fight because their cases are very sensitive but there are so many other people who were sent to slee. torture for no reason people who had no ties to terrorism but were just in the wrong place in the wrong time it's going to enable them to seek justice and to seek monetary compensation. but says for now my

colleague daniel hawkins who will be back with the morning at the top of the hour. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the.