john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than food to see people you've never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank though kate was really seriously send us an e-mail. breaking news this hour a man wearing what appears to be an explosive the belt has been shouldered in upon slowness according to police to bring you the more details on this story as it develops. the attack he went through a deadly stabbing rampage in finland this friday on friday is said to have moved from germany raising fresh concerns on that border controls. new witness accounts of refugees from iraq paint a worrying picture of what's developing in the syrian sissy meanwhile the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council tells us people are dying in crossfire

between terrorists in coalition air strikes. urban warfare and especially. for massively risking civilian casualties these people are caught in the horrific crossfire twenty seventeen is morbid fear of displacement that people saw. there at seven pm here in the russian capital when you're watching r t international with me making an error and we start this hour with breaking news a police operation is underway in one of the suburbs of boston lono after a man apparently wearing an explosives belt was shot dead by also says well as he escaped partridge now joins me live with me on base kate good to see you so what's the latest on this incident that we know. why the energy world is as you

describe the operation is underway in so good rats which is a suburb of barcelona about twenty eight miles or forty five kilometers to the west of the city and demand this is the reports coming through from the official catalonian police the most of the squad are effectively saying that they have a special operation underway now involving the bomb disposal squad what's happened as you reported that a man reportedly wearing an explosive vest has been taken down by police has been shot dead by police in the meantime for the past half an hour or so now what they've been using is a robot effectively to check out the area and also to see whether or not it is a truly explosive vest or what the reports are on the ground before they take any further action i mean there have been wide reports about this particular incident as you can imagine we're looking at the official police reports but other outlets other media outlets have been speculating that this could be the barcelona attack of the driver from last thursday the man who drove the van along killing thirteen people but we don't know yet that yet that is only speculation at this stage at the

moment the police are only saying that they have taken down a man wearing what they consider to be an explosive belt and explosive device and they're checking out the area and they've been doing that for the past thirty five to forty minutes ok that's artie's parsers thanks for the update on the well as kato's police have been searching for the man believed to be responsible for thursday's attack in barcelona we are qube is believed to have been part of a twelve members cell responsible for what was the deadliest terror attacks in spain in thirteen years the incidents took place in barcelona and come brill's according to the latest figures fifteen people were killed in the two attacks new pictures of also emerged of the alleged perpetrators showing them in their cars before they carried out the atrocities with the manhunt for the barcelona driver still under way. breaks down how open borders have long been playing into the hands of the hardest on the run. in this day and age of tootle surveillance

radicals who are often known to police could move down more than one hundred people in broad daylight and get away they can cross twenty six european countries and there will be a single border checkpoint the entire way good the suspected barcelona have crossed into france we don't have any specific information on this but it cannot be ruled out frightening isn't it you would have thought europe might have learned its lesson the first time around or the second or the third how many terror attacks of their even being in the last three years the sad and tragic truth is europeans have largely lost track. broken by the attacks in paris nice berlin stockholm manchester london and other cities these days unfortunately the wave of

international terrorism is brutally hitting us turning barcelona and campbell's into the latest scenes of terrorist injustice here is a little map of recent europe trips undertaken by jihad ists i miss our marie runs over almost seventy people in berlin and makes it as far as italy before he's accidentally caught out mud mohammed travelled all the way from greece to france through at least eight european countries with a fake passport before blowing himself up in paris salah adel salam involved in paris attacks that killed and injured need five hundred people travelled through at least nine european states before the attack he was on terror watch lists and they eventually found him in belgium often it's been the case that the powers that

the. authorities already had were being used but notwithstanding that they then introduced the authorities of the government's new legislation giving new powers to the police and security services notwithstanding that it wasn't any lack of those powers in the first place that led to the intelligence failures and it may well be that that's true here the same replies to border controls but it remains a possibility and may have crossed the spanish border anybody that knows our border know so as indeed is the case throughout very much of western europe that those borders are extremely porous you can go across as a car in a car in the back of a vehicle or even walk across in some cases they see it isn't punishment that the deters crime it's the inevitability of punishment but thanks to europe's open borders perspective terrorists can be sure no matter what they always have that chance to slip away. finish or thora teams have

names the main suspect behind friday's terror attack in the city of tokyo and that the roman met his he moved from germany in late twenty fifteen police apparently knew about the suspects possible radicalized ation a year before the attack on paper all of a has more from berlin. finnish courts of started giving out more information about their main suspect in friday's deadly stabbing attack deadly knife attack on the streets of the south western city of third go they've named their main suspect is eighteen year old abdel rahman meche car moroccan national who had according to the authorities failed in an asylum application in finland it's also been revealed though that he had spent time in germany now. is the main suspect as he was shot at the scene following the attack that took place on friday that left

two people dead eight more wounded in what authorities are saying is an attack that was designed to target women now it's also being put across is that the it's the first ever terrorist attack that's taken place in finland it does throw up more questions about one of the key founding principles of the european union that of freedom of movement when we look the. it seems was able to travel from germany where they understood he lived back in twenty fifteen over to finland we don't know the route in which he took but he's he hasn't so far appeared on any. authority as watch lists along that way before popping up in finland as as they say being the main suspect in this fatal attack. meanwhile a new witness accounts of refugees from iraq at this hour proclaims capital of islamic state in syria paint a worrying picture as the u.s. lead to the advance those who managed to flee the city describes what it was like.

a little bit of people who would die either from clashes or from the aircraft. we people died as a result and yes many people died would you think though many people died the aircraft targeted the check point is i was living it and then i was able to parse. well earlier we spoke to you on a line secretary-general of the norwegian refugee council who said that people are dying in crossfire between terrorists and coalition air strikes urban warfare and especially air raids are always massively risking civilian casualties in iraq which is a heavily dense densely populated town that has been now been bartman from the coalition for a very long time inside the islamic state quite this. holding civilians as human shields these people are really caught in

a horrific crossfire we know that there are casualties are very many we in the region refugee council are receiving those flee from iraq we try to help them twenty seventeen is more of a year of displacement than people had thought a recent article by middle east i reveal of testimonies of civilians who have fled territories under eisel control and they report horrific conditions in poorly equipped refugee camps and they say the conditions are worse than in prison and refugees are not even allowed to to leave the territory u.s. allied syrian defense forces deny that the camps are under their control and on a again told is that the conditions are a violation of human rights. because of the besiegement of too many towns

and places and because of cross fire and because of so many armed actors on the ground it's very very hard to reach. very many places there are also some areas where the the big camps are held by groups that are not allowing neither freedom of movement of the civilians no freedom of movement for the humanitarian workers the s.t.'s has imposed restrictions on freedom of movement of of syrian civilians that fled rucka and have swear that's for sure and that's something we are engaging b.s.d.'s and indeed the u.s. and others on. islamic state another thing if it can blow in theory or after his convoy was hit by the russian after force that's according to the ministry of defense in moscow earlier i discussed the details with any of her trying to. among the things that i saw how lost in this strike by the washington air force are

several tanks over two dozen armored vehicles with high caliber weapons on board plus more than two hundred terrorists have been killed as well this is according to the russian military now with these kind of figures any such anti strike would count as a big success in any part of syria but let me just point out the strategic and geographical importance of this particular one this islamic state convoy was heading to the city of daire as zoar and as you can see on this map this city is still controlled by the syrian government but it has been completely encircled by islamic state for three years now the russian army is now saying that if they manage to kick out state from this province and this case we will find ourselves in a situation essentially when we are very close to the end of islamic state in syria

and indeed anything can gain and i thought has been losing a lot of ground in syria recently as well just look at this map the area which is black is indeed the areas that are still controlled body still but if we looked at this map just three weeks ago most of this area this is mostly the hama and homs provinces was controlled by islamic state as you can see the yellow bits this is where the kurds and the allies have made significant gains north of their resort but again these particular gangs and territorial advance advances by the syrian army they were made possible thanks to several successful operations by the syrian government army backed by the russian air force and as you can see in this particular case just east of hama they were even able to encircle islamic state.

well of course completely kicking islamic state out of the their resort province is a massive challenge indeed a tough one but of course the military commanders in syria are contemplating that day when that can be done because this will really signal the final chapter of islamic state in syria. president trump is set to announce his new strategy for dealing with the afghan conflict that's according to

a white house statement the decision is said to be reached on friday at a meeting with u.s. army chiefs but the president has held all four announcements until now and we can discuss this further with our correspondent in washington d.c. and also the mayor of con good to see is the mayor now can you talos what's being reported about this statement in the u.s. highest american you hear me as nikki in this studio and mosco yes i can i can you tell us what is being reported about this statement planes so the white house confirms were set to hear the long awaited new afghan master plan and suggestions are a strategic shift may be on the way which will mark the latest change in approach since president bush first sent troops to the country in two thousand and one however trump's mixed messages on the subject make it extremely difficult to predict what he'll say exactly. this destructive cycle of intervention

a. bust finally folks come to an end it took over a mess and we're going to. make it a lot less messy we will destroy radical islamic terrorism some suggest the president will even send more troops to afghanistan but that would actually break his election campaign promise to deescalate the conflict it would also undermine trump's criticism of his predecessor ramping up the war effort barack obama first pledged a total withdrawal from afghanistan only to later announce that five and a half thousand troops would remain then eventually leaving about eight and a half thousand troops there but yet again it failed to resolve the afghan conundrum so it waits to be seated whether trump's new and pro choice can finally make a difference in america's longest war. ok that's our taste america speaking from

washington d.c. thanks for the update. well more now breaking news about the shooting of a suspect in barcelona is coming up just after this break stay with us. anyone else. just don't call. me. yet to see. these things come out. and it gets really. betrayed. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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but some reports suggest that it is it comes as police hunt twenty two year old you know oppy yaku who suspected of driving a van into dozens of people on the last run list tourist hot spots in barcelona we're going to be keeping you updated on our breaking news story as it develops. moving on now a group of and see racism protesters has clashed with police in canada it happened after the demonstrators attempted to disrupt a right-wing rally in the city of quebec. thank. the. dozens of anti fascist protesters dressed in black three smoke bombs and firecrackers that police were trying to separate the two valleys the second was

a plunge right wing a vent against the migrant policies of the canadian government the two sides also exchanged info. oh oh. oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh there's nothing wrong with showing up at right wing demonstrations but there is something wrong with coming there with billboards and placards that you're only carrying for the express purpose of using the stick on which the paper is fastened as a battering ram or as a as a sword or or as a baseball bat to hit your opposing demonstrators so it seems to be the case here is that especially the side has been showing up masked and carrying weapons and has been attempting to provoke a crisis. similar themes also took place across the border in the

us where thousands of left wing activists showed up to confront a twenty people strong rally against illegal immigration. be. some two hundred riot police attended the scene in order to keep the peace two people were arrested a left wing activist pushing a chump supporter and an unidentified person with a knife tensions between americans left and right and been increasing following the violence in charlottesville where neo nazi rammed his car into a. protests. rallies similar to the ones in california have taken place across america throughout the past week the largest scene in the city of boston left wing protesters showed up to disrupt plans right wing of ben's thing and clashes and arrests. one of the sides has now upped the ante by launching

a petition on the white house website calling for anti far to be declared a terrorist organization nearly one hundred forty thousand people have already thought and in just three days and now the administration has to issue a response his tone both in its weekend with his thoughts on the message the petition stands by i think the white house is going to have to play a moderate line here and it is going to have to reject the petition but the petition will serve as. organizers that they neither they either have to police themselves or they will be facing more so. in the future we. have the phrase florida state law which which originates in the united states where they burned people if they didn't float on water and so on i think that if you interviewed one one hundred members of too far and ask them what the meaning of the word fascist is and what the history of the parties in europe are

they wouldn't know even the first word of how to answer that question. now the british prime minister to resign may house rejected an appeal by survivors and families of the nine eleven attack they would be monitoring the publication of a u.k. report into the role of saudi arabia in funding islamic extremism then to see a check in the story following a series of appeals actually from campaigners m.p.'s and other politicians here in the u.k. nine eleven survivors now become the latest group to see a refusal from the british government. to release the full contents of this quite controversial report focusing on extremist funding in the u.k. this was a report that was commissioned back in two thousand and fifteen and is largely believed to be focused on saudi arabia's activities and now the nine eleven survivors had sent a letter to theresa may demanding answers we respectfully urge you to release the report now finished or unfinished we'll see you to consider all the victims of

state sponsored saudi finance terrorism families in the survivors in the u.k. and all over the world the longer saudi arabia's complicity is hidden from sunlight the longer terrorism will continue while the british government has long maintained really for months now that diplomatic relations with saudi arabia have nothing to do with this decision to not reveal the contents of the report they've also said that it's actually reasons of national security as well as private information contained in the report that's keeping them from publishing it and they've also said that the media has been misinterpreting this relationship with saudi arabia when it comes to this report let's take a listen to what theresa may had to say on this at some point bush explained to her refusal is simply because the contents of the report would embarrass the government's friends in saudi arabia or is it because ministers come rather more about arms sales to riyadh than they do about public safety. it is absolutely

nothing to do with that there is there is certain confidential information in the reports that means that it would not be appropriate to publish it but my right shoulder from the home secretary has made it available on a pretty council basis to opposition parties well we have to keep in mind that despite the british government and the home office particularly saying that saudi arabia is not in fact the focus of this secret report and it's in fact something that looks at overseas funding in general criticism really has been running rampant that the british government would have released this report if they had nothing to hide specifically these nine eleven survivors who had sensed this. letter in the latest plea to see the contents of call this decision of the british government's quote shameful really believing that it's a special relationship that the u.k. has long had with saudi arabia this marriage of convenience this cozy relationship that has led the u.k. to decide to not reveal this information again and again we have to say that obviously this is something that the british government denies but does have quite a history of protecting the special relationship they have with saudi arabia now

here's a quick reminder of how similar calls from families were made in the u.s. in two thousand and two the u.s. congress began its inquiry into the nine eleven attacks two years later the families of nine eleven victims sued saudi arabia over reports of links between saudi government officials and the hijackers declassified pages of the inquiry reports later confirmed those links with congress then approving a bill that allowed families to take legal action against the gulf kingdom. saudi arabia has repeatedly denied any involvement in the nine eleven attacks inbreds eagleson who lost his father in the tragedy he says the fact that the u.k. report is being kept secret shows otherwise. it's very clear to us that all the nine eleven that there is a relationship that exists between our government u.k. government between saudi arabia that our governments do not want to inconvenience

or they do not want to interrupt this report that we're requesting to be released would be a very inconvenient truth to both governments this report makes clear connections between terrorist financing and the government of saudi arabia right now if you're in a vehicle case with saudi arabia as it stands right now you're going to court. the united states and we hope for is really the only way that we think that the truth will prevail is just another small step back for us we've been facing setbacks in the past sixteen years but we don't give up we think that alternately white meat and there is in this report will be that. ok back to our breaking news story this hour now spanish police have now confirmed that the person killed in the last few hours in a bus alone a suburb is you know a yok this is the man who is suspected of carrying out the terror attack in the

city on thursday a police operation is now underway police are trying to find out whether the man was wearing a genuine explosives belt the twenty two year olds drove a van a into dozens of people on the last round less tourist hot spot a few days ago we're going to be keeping you up to date on this story as it develops. ok my colleague neil harvey will be with you in thirty minutes with more news in the meantime to get in touch and share your thoughts on the day's stories on twitter and facebook. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your

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