john oliver of r t america is doing this. better than. to see people you've never heard of. president of the world bank he. sent us an e-mail. breaking news after a. police shoot dead the terrorist who carried out a vehicle attack the tourist location in barcelona was killed while reportedly wearing an explosive belt. president set to announce his highly anticipated new strategy for the war with some expecting a radical change in approach to the sixteen year conflict. witness accounts of refugees from the wording picture was developing in the syrian city of the secretary general of the region refugee council tells us people are dying in crossfire between terrorists coalition air strikes. urban warfare and especially

air raids. or massively risking civilian casualties. in the horrific crossfire twenty seventeen is more. displacement than people had thought. good to have you with us this evening my name is neil harvey you're watching international. i'm going to start with breaking news because spanish police have confirmed that the person killed in the last few hours in a barcelona suburb was eunice the man suspected of carrying out thursday's terrorist attack in the city with the latest from barcelona his local journalist mark figure although delgado. and as escape the third of the. more people in the

last. school of a market the market with is very close to the sport what if you left it on after wards he went by he. was on on even the other side of barcelona. he killed a man stabbing you. then you stole the. run away before shutting in the. police officer who was you know who wasn't going at the moment. your nose was missing scenes since thursday he was found today in the gaza station in down from here after the goal of one you were at the beginning thought it was still people. but afterwards the police went to the police and the queue was he was kind of funny to see who the

police believe shot him down he. you were something that it looked like a belt plenty of the explosive. child remember that. day also heart and explosive well the yes and the it went out that it was fake. and the news from barcelona comes just have to finish authorities named the main suspect behind friday's terrorist attack in the city of turku it's also emerged that. moved from germany in late two thousand and fifteen police apparently knew about the suspects possible radicalization a year prior to the attack auntie's correspondent peter all about 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 said he hasn't so far appeared on any.

authorities watch lists along that way before popping up in finland as sad as they say being the main suspect in this fatal attack. going back to barcelona as we reported earlier the suspect there was initially thought to have crossed the border into france following the attack is what i guess the f breaking down now open e.u. borders can sometimes play into the hands of jihadists on the run. in this day and age of truthful 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 won't be a single border checkpoint the entire way could 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 been in the last three years the sad and tragic truth is europeans have largely lost track hearts were 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 and live in and makes it as far as italy before he's accidentally caught out mud mohammed traveled all the way from greece to affronts 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 be. authorities already had weren't 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 and the same applies to border controls but it remains a possibility doing in may have crossed the spanish border anybody that most are. 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 itself that 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. ok let's bring in a guest now former british police officer peter kirk and joins me on the line good evening to you peter the police believe they did find the man they were after and they've. neutralized him as sometimes is said what do you make of the manhunt and how they carried it out. they were faced with the sort of difficulty the french police and others have faced when terrorists have actually disappeared from the scene of attacks quite a lot of the side and there are the killed or detained at the scene of attacks but

when they go missing that gives huge problem there was discussions about whether he could have passed across into france and into the rest of europe. or whether he remained in the area it turns out he remained in the area those sorts of inquiries can take a huge number of officers and it's in fact something that i've been concerned about for some time in the u.k. if the u.k. was faced with that situation which needs lots of armed officers and the vast majority in the u.k. are not armed. we would have real difficulties carrying out that sort of securing of large areas of open space carried out of searches checkpoints and such like all of which needs armed officers and it's something that i think the authorities in the u.k. need to catch up with in spain where police officers are armed routinely they were able to conduct the operation thoroughly and effectively and they got hold of him relatively quickly. due to the public overestimate the ability of the authorities

to track people using surveillance and manpower is it actually quite a difficult process. yes they do they watch t.v. they watch all the films and the t.v. shows and they think of the press of a button the author. instantly link into the latest c.c.t.v. and the latest action on bank accounts and all the rest of it it's just simply not like that in real life at all it can be a very time consuming in a very fraught fraught time when you're looking for somebody. quite often you'll find yourself a little bit behind the pace you'll be finding out where they were a couple of hours after they were there and that can be incredibly frustrating technology is improving and the access to information is improving for the authorities but it's still nothing like it is on t.v. usually of you know officials if they have nothing good to say don't tend to say

too much but in this case we had the spanish authorities saying they don't they didn't know where the suspect was in that they might have actually fled the country that they've actually you know monies to catch up with him in the end it didn't surprise you for them to make that admission at the time. not i wouldn't say it surprised me a matter of professional judgment for investigating officers what they say they're trying to balance the need not to overtly or overly alarm people and to raise too many concerns and scare people but equally they need people to be alert to what's going on and they need therefore to explain to people what the possibilities are it's no use. letting people think that they're probably still in the location when they could be miles away because then people miles away and keeping their eyes open here i think i heard in the reports that it was members of the public that first of all source something suspicious and called police onto it and that turned out to be this guy and they then arrived and with him paid to get

your thoughts appreciate you coming on speaking to his former u.k. police officer peter kirkwood. ok move on to other news now president will trump is set to announce his new strategy for dealing with the afghan conflict now this is according to a white house statement the decision is said to have been reached on friday that was at a meeting with u.s. all the chiefs but the president has held off on announcement until now let's discuss this with our correspondent in washington samir assault samir or just take us through that and what's being reported about the statement so the white house confirms we're set to hear the long awaited new afghan master plan and. suggestions are a radical shift may very well be on the way the strategy was supposed to be unveiled much earlier in trump's presidency but it will still mark the latest change in

approach since president bush first sent troops to the country back in two thousand and one trumps mixed messages however on the subject made it extremely difficult to predict what he'll say exactly this destructive cycle of intervention a. modest finally folks come to an end took over a mess and we're going to. make it a lot less messy we will destroy radical islamic terrorism. now there were reports that he had already given his defense secretary authority to send more troops however james madison explained on saturday he held off on the move before the final strategy was in place mattis also revealed that trump wants to be the one to announce the move to the american people and this all comes just weeks after the founder of a notorious private military company blackwater proposed to privatized the afghan war effort using firms like his to replace the pentagon some even suggest that the

president will send more troops to afghanistan as much as four or five thousand troops 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 and yet again it failed to resolve the afghan conundrum so it waits to be seen whether trump's new approach can finally make a difference in america's longest war. correspondents in washington many thanks no we do have a guest of just sitting getting ready in the studio just putting his monocle to see if you can speak international affairs coming to jonathan steele if you can hear me joe and to neil harvey the most good show you do with. great stuff first of all

what do you expect them to say in this statement do you think it's going to mean more u.s. troops in afghanistan something else. well it sounds as though it means more u.s. troops i mean we may be shocked and surprised by something different but that seems to be what it is so it's really back to a very traditional approach looking for a military solution to the war increasing u.s. troops and not talking at all seriously about negotiations. what do you make of defense secretary mattis holding off on deploying more troops as per trump's request well i think that was to sort of diplomatic move within the games that go on inside the white house the civil war if you live that goes on inside the white house. but the main point was that i think when he was campaigning for the presidency trump wanted to move away from afghanistan pull troops out so this is an unwinnable war and we don't need to be involved in this kind of thing in the future but he seems to of fallen. victim to the normal traditional imperial sort of

tendencies of u.s. foreign policy. you know to keep involvement through long term open ended commitment of troops and it's failed for seventeen years and people change anything in the future either the u.s. commander in afghanistan recently pledged full support for local troops you think that's hinting at what's to come. well it's better than one idea was being hinted out earlier in the summer which was mercenaries that private contractors would go in instead of official us troops there would be even worse that would cost a lot of money and would they'd be totally on display and gone accountable. local troops if you means local afghan troops well the fact is that the afghan army is taking fantastic casualties something like thirty one men in the police and security forces in the army are dying every day that's an annual total of about

eleven thousand now if you consider that in the fifteen years up till now rather the nato troops were there the u.s. troops with a huge presence there only lost three thousand five hundred men it means that in one year three times more than the us lost in the whole of the previous decade and a half will be lost and so the afghan troops are dying at a fantastic rate. it's really a tragedy that so many young afghan men are being killed for nothing what do you think jonathan is the likelihood that america's allies are going to back donald trump on whatever his solution is. well over there already are i mean there's something like eight thousand four hundred american troops in many of them special forces and there are just under seven thousand troops from various allied countries including later sort of i think there will continue to back trump they want to show willing and also as bankrupt in new thinking as trump himself is or at least the

advisers around trump jonathan appreciate you coming on giving as your opinions international affairs commentator jonathan steele is my guest thank you. meanwhile new witness accounts of refugees from rock are the self-proclaimed capital of islamic state in syria painting a worrying picture as the u.s. leads the advance those who managed to flee the city even describing what it was like. a little bit civilian people 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 in the aircraft targeted the ten point is i was living it and then i was able to pass. earlier on we spoke to an egland secretary-general of the norwegian refugee council who said that people are dying in crossfire between terrorists and coalition airstrikes. urban warfare and especially air raids are always massively risking civilian casualties in iraq which is

a heavily dense densely populated town there has been now some bartman from the coalition for a very long time inside the islamic state by 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 flee from iraq we try to help them but i just heard from my colleagues and medicine standpoint doctors without borders that there are medical facilities had to see very few of late it is very hard for people to escape from the remaining enclaves in iraq twenty seventeen is more of a year of displacement than people had thought one point three million

times as syrian has been displaced seven thousand people a day has been displaced by conflict. a recent article by middle east i reveals testimonies of civilians who fled territories under i still controlled they report a riff it conditions in poorly equipped refugee camps they say conditions are worse than in prisons and the refugees aren't even allowed to leave the territory u.s. are allied syrian defense forces deny the camps under their control and england again told us that the conditions are a violation of human rights. it costs. too many towns and places and because of cross fire and because of so many factors on the ground it's very very hard to reach. very many places there are also some areas where the the 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. host on freedom of movement of of syrian civilians that fled and that's where that's for sure and that's something we are engaging here and indeed the u.s. and others on the event who claim that it is because they don't know what would be sympathizers of the islamic state what we say is that millions do have freedom of movement if someone is particularly suspect there is reason to believe that someone we are not a million bucks fighting with one group or the other that person should be charged . let me state suffered another significant blow in syria after its convoy was hit by the russian air force that's according to the ministry of defense here in moscow

that my colleague niki arrant discuss the details with. among the things that saul have lost in this strike by the russian 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 according to the russian military now with these kind of figures any such. strike would count as a big success in any part of syria but let me just point out the strategic geographical importance of this particular war on this islamic state because of what was heading to the city of dare 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 sensually when we are very close to the end of islamic state in syria is indeed an insignificant if it can gain and i feel has been losing a lot of ground in syria recently i think that 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 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.

going to. now of course completely kicking state out of the air resort province is a massive challenge indeed a tough one but of course the military commanders in syria are contemplating bad day when that can be done because this will really signal the final chapter of

islamic state in syria. a group of racism protests this is clashed with police in canada it happened after the demonstrators attempted to disrupt a right wing rally in the city of quebec. it was. the . dozens of. protesters dressed in black through smoke bombs and firecrackers and police tried to separate the two rallies the second was a planned right wing event against the migrant policies of the canadian government the two sides also exchanged insults. well. i mean i think.

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 this 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. well similar scenes also took place across the border in the united states where thousands of left wing activists showed up to confront take twenty people strong rally against illegal immigration. i. two hundred riot police attended the scene in order to keep the peace two people were arrested a left wing activist for pushing a trump supporter and an unidentified person with

a knife tensions between americans left and right have been increasing following the violence in charlottesville and was when a neo nazi round his car into a crowd of protests. rallies similar to the ones in california have taken place across america throughout the week launched of those being in the city of boston by left wing protesters showed up to disrupt planned right wing events resulting in clashes and arrests and one of the sides has upped the ante by launching a petition on the white house website and it calls for anti fark to be declared a terrorist organization nearly one hundred forty thousand people have already signed it in just three days and now the administration has to issue a response is john bosnich once again with his thoughts on the message the petition sense. i think the white house is going to have to play a moderate line here and is going to have to reject the petition but the petition will serve as a warning to organizers that they have neither and they either have to police

themselves or they will be facing more serious sanctions in the future we're seeing and they even have the phrase for the salem witch hunt which which originates in the united states where they burned people if they if they didn't float on water and so on i think that if you interviewed one one hundred members of anti and ask them what the meaning of the word fascist is and what the history of the fascist parties in europe. they wouldn't know even the first word of how to answer that question. ok then stay with us here on our team to nashville join me for the latest headlines at the top of the out. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present. with some want. to go on to the

press this is what before three of them can't be good people. interested always in the why is it the. question. the next election will be in twenty twenty one do you absolutely certain i'm not going to be calling it's not election. we are live in downing street where the prime minister is a significant announcement of. a meeting of the cabinet where we agreed that the government should cool a general election another election. that's accused the.