john oliver of r t america is. apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of. jack the. president of the world bank he. sent us an e-mail. breaking news for day manhunt police shot dead the terrorist who carried out of the tourist spot in barcelona the man was killed while reportedly wearing an explosive belt. president. highly anticipated new strategy for the afghan war with some expecting a radical change in approach to the sixteen year conflict. new witness accounts of refugees from. worrying picture of what is developing in the syrian city. general of the norwegian refugee council is that people are dying in

crossfire between terrorists and coalition airstrikes. urban warfare and especially here raids. masterfully risking civilian casualties these people are really caught in the. crossfire twenty seven is more of a. placement people are. very good even you see my name is harvey you're watching. with a start this hour with breaking news spanish police have confirmed the person killed in the last few hours in a barcelona suburb was. the man suspected of carrying out thursday's terrorist attack in the city. eunice cooper who's twenty two and of

moroccan origin has been shot dead in the suburb of soviet outs which is about twenty eight miles about forty five kilometers west of barcelona apparently according to reports today he approached a police checkpoint and was waving what police believed to be an explosives belt about his set and they shot him and then consequently there was an operation by the bomb disposal squad to check to see whether or not the explosives belt was for real meanwhile let's recap about those events that have been happening over the past five days while this manhunt has been underway last thursday eunice abuja cooper was one of twelve men it appears in this terrorist cell that police are now saying has been in some ways neutralized in other ways they have been detained but there still is an ongoing investigation looking for any other accomplices they performed what were several incidents over the course of nine hours first and some of his accomplices they were driving in a van that went along la rambla right in the heart of barcelona hitting at pedestrians knocking them down west thirteen people died and over one hundred

twenty were injured he then fled on foot is through love a korean which is the main and famous market just all fly around and police have been hunting eleven since meanwhile later in the evening there was also an attack in count brill's which is a coastal town not far from barcelona about one hundred twenty miles away where several men were in a car that rammed into pedestrians on the prominent where a woman was later died means on the police then five of those men were shot by police they were also wearing what police believed to be explosive belts which were later proved to be false also a day before the been an explosion in a house in al canal which is also one of the coastal towns where there been an explosion and several men have died there too and they're also believed to be part of this terrorist cell and also there is a belief by police and in the reports coming out that a gas explosion a bigger explosion was meant to be second place in the meantime what happened what unfolded in barcelona campbells was when the men subsequently took more actions into their own hands so so far it's a police investigation that's still ongoing as they say of the twelve men that were

what they think in the initial terror cell have either been killed or they have died in the process well they've been detained and it's still an ongoing investigation after last those days attacks. the news from barcelona comes just after finnish or thirty's named the main suspect behind friday's terrorist attack in the city of turkey it's also emerged that. car moved there from germany in late two thousand and fifteen police apparently knew about the suspects possible radicalization a year prior to the attack on the correspondent peter oliver has more from berlin finished 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. 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 says he hasn't so far appeared on any. authority as watch lists along that way before popping up in finland as they say being the main suspect in this fatal attack. well returning to barcelona as we reported earlier

the main suspect there was initially thought to have crossed the border into france following the attack is our correspondent guess the of breaking down now open european union borders can sometimes play into the hands of jihadists 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 won't 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 marie runs over almost seventy people in burlington 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 the authorities already had were being used but notwithstanding that they then introduced the authorities other governments. the national weather service in sterling virginia has issued a special memory warning for chesapeake bay from pools island to sandy point maryland chesapeake bay north island maryland until five pm at three o six pm a strong thunderstorm was located over back river moving east at ten knots hazard wind gusts thirty four knots or greater and small hail source radar indicated

packed boaters and small craft could be thrown overboard by suddenly higher winds and waves capsizing their vessel locations impacted include turkey point north point state park part miller island river north east river falls island special the island and aberdeen proving ground frequent lightning is occurring with the storm caught on the open water stay below deck if possible keep away from ungrounded metal objects. officials then were saying that he might have actually left the country. uninformed to actually be killed not far away from balsa lono is this a case of a failing in some way by the author of the place or is it actually just underlining how difficult it is to track down a suspect in this situation. i think actually on this particular occasion it's very much the latter. you know there's a there's a phrase trying to find a needle in

a haystack i think this is like trying to find a needle in a haystack sort of needles it's very very difficult and when you've got a country that you know very adept at fighting terrorism of course as we all know spain has spent decades fighting against the basque separatist group it has a lot of experience but in recent years it's actually been relatively quiet on the terrorism fronts so i don't think people have been sort of complacency anyway but i think there hasn't been the same degree of threats and still now which is one of the reasons of course why they've been attacked because you know they see it as a softer targets and of course you know when you look at incident like this. the you know the barbarity of the attack itself the vehicle its occupants in. using the van in barcelona people would terrify people of running for cover and the last thing that goes to people's minds when they see people in mown down at very very high speeds in a pressurized area is to go in apprehend the driver and cells so what you've got is

you know a driver that's a large you've got a extensive manhunt underway at the same time your thoughts are trying to piece together every piece of intelligence and evidence that they can get to identify you know if there's anyone supporting the individual which clearly there was in this case the size of the cell and i think actually if you look at the facts you know there were so many people in this group potentially going to be carrying out three large big borne improvised explosive device attacks that was their plan a we believe that actually you could say this was a very very successful investigation and apprehension but i think it's very very difficult you know in this sort of climate in that sort of landscape to actually succeed quickly so i think they did a good job actually i just think it was a terrible incident and else as now the cattle and police chief had talked about. there being a terrorist cell a twelve people and all of them are now either being killed or they're in police

custody yet they say that an international wide open ration remains open so why would that be does that suggest that they think there may be more people on a more of a support level that they're still pursuing well we certainly know that recent detainees from isis those that have fled iraq in particular at least one of them has talked about the al qassam brigades which is apparently allegedly a sort of special forces unit where individuals a sense off to do specialist training in counter-surveillance surveillance hostile reconnaissance subsidies living under cover basically you know and learning special weapons and statics with a view to being sent back to the european mainland and over to the united states and other targets as sleeper agents and we know that at least fifty of them reportedly been trained and you know are in europe and they're sort of ways to

carry out attacks so i think with any sort of terrorist incidents once it's been ascertained who the likely perpetrators are of the group isis in this particular case but of course there's always a likelihood of other cells operating even if they work unicellular environment where they don't necessarily know the other's existence you know it's definitely the right thing to do to carry out further investigation to see if there is anybody else there and to see what can be done to prevent any further attacks absolutely so have some some very useful information been gleaned then from those in custody what do you make about that the selection of barcelona as a target. well i think you know it is a major city it's a major tourist venue and it's very very iconic and all of those things go hand in hand in terms of terrorist targets in a lot of people say you know terrorism is all about killing as many people as possible that's not necessarily the case we can see from numerous terrorist attacks

you know in the last few decades that some of them actually have a comparatively small umber of deaths terrorism is about terrorizing it's about creating fear and the more shocking and the more barbaric the incidents then the more press coverage it's like it's yes and the more shock effect you slate's get which causes the facts are going to result in people being afraid and terrorized so i think you know it ticks all the boxes certainly for a european city and of course because plane has been involved in a number of allied operations in various difference. you know manifestations. because there hasn't been any they haven't made any previous incidents there in recent years is of significance in makes sense that's going to be it's argot they go for the softer targets so you know i think one of the lessons to learn from this is certainly that other european countries that perhaps haven't been targeted yet who are involved in coalition side and terrorism operations may need to look at

their or their own internal procedures as well you know be very sobering for the concerning one for lots of police or thirty's around europe i think of the moment chris it's been really good to get your analysis of the situation chris anderson i guess bomb disposal experts former british army officer joining us from london. now moving on to the news present donald trump is set to announce his new strategy for dealing with the afghan conflict the decision he said to been reached on friday that was at a meeting with u.s. army chiefs but the president has held off on making an announcement until now artists mira carney is following the story. 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 trump's mixed messages however on the subject made it extremely difficult to predict what he'll say exactly this destructive cycle of intervention. finally folks come to an end i took over a mess and we're going to. make it a lot less messy we will destroy the radical islamic terrorists there were reports that he had already given his defense secretary authority to send more troops but james mattis explained on saturday he held off on the move before the final strategy was in place that is also revealed trump wants to be the one to announce the move to the american people and this all comes just weeks after the founder of 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 in 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 experts that we spoke to told is the reason nor the conflict is drug. remembered 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. not talking at all seriously about negotiations print his was campaigning for the presidency trump wanted to move away from afghanistan pull troops out so

this is an unwinnable war and 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 to you know to keep involvement in a long term open ended commitment of troops and. failed for seventeen years and no sign to do will change anything in the future either what difference porto's the american troops are going to make i don't know but even for the down the road the americans fail to defeat and crush the taliban during over a decade of occupation even with substantially more troops being sent in over the over time i can't see how this is really going to alter the fundamentals of the situation i think the truth is is that there flown during the ever tempted to afghan allies the war if you like by turning it over to afghan for afghan forces this strategy is not succeeding the taliban have increased the amount of territory

they control they've grown stronger they've grown more of the ships and it would seem to me that yes there are some hopes that no afghan special forces might be of some use in this battle but if you're going to send in four thousand i'm extra american troops on to grow do seem to indicate that really the americans are going to have to step up and join the fight direct way. meanwhile new witness accounts of refugees from iraq are the self-proclaimed capital of islamic state in syria a painting a work in picture the u.s. leads the advance those who are most to flee from the city have been describing what it was like. a little bit of civilian people who die either from clashes of 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 pass. earlier on we spoke to young egland is the secretary general of the norwegian

refugee council he says 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 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 those who flee from iraq we try to help them but it does hurt from my colleagues in medicine standpoint the 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 and rucka 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 per day has been displaced by conflict. a recent article by middle east i reveals testimonies of civilians who fled territories that were under control they report her riffing conditions in poorly equipped refugee camps they say the conditions there were worse than in prisons refugees they say weren't even allowed to leave the territory u.s. are allied syrian defense forces deny the camps are under their control nagle and again told us the conditions are a violation of human rights. because. of too many towns and places and because of crossfire and because of so many activists 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 humanitarian workers the. post lists search and so on freedom of movement of of syrian civilians that fled and that is where that's for sure and that's something we are engaging b.s.d.'s and indeed the u.s. and of this on the then claim that it is because they don't know who would be sympathizers of the islamic state what we say is that seven million do have freedom of movement if someone is particularly suspect there is reason to believe that someone would. not civilian fighting with one group or the other that person

should be charged. islamic state has suffered another significant blow in syria after its color it was hit by the russian air force that's according to the ministry of defense in moscow and you know my colleague aaron discussed the details with. among the things that i saw have 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 eisel 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. a mixtape called what was heading to the city of deer 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 is indeed anything significant gain and i feel 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 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 bit this is where the kurds and the allies have made significant gains north of the resort but again these particular gangs and territorial invalid's 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 and this particular case just east of hama they were even able to encircle islamic state. with. now of course completely kicking. out of the errors or 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. is news just in a huge fire has destroyed more than eighty houses in southern russia been reports of a gas explosion as well police have been urging locals there to stay away from the site could russia's emergency ministry the fire spread over a sign that total more than ten thousand square meters the number of victims in rest of has reached thirty six five hundred sixty people have been evacuated from the area a sleeve of emergency has been declared in the region a special firefighting plane and helicopters are busy working to put out the blaze . in other news a group of anti racism protests this is a clash with police in canada this happened after demonstrators attempted to

disrupt a right wing rally in the city of quebec. it was. the . it was. dozens of anti fascist protesters dressed in black threw smoke bombs and firecrackers at the police who tried to separate the two rallies second was a planned to right wing event against migrant policies of the canadian government two sides also exchanging insults. but you know why. 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 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. civil a seems also took place across the border in the united states where thousands of left wing activists showed up to confront a mere twenty people strong rally against illegal immigration. i mean high. some two hundred riot police attended the scene in a bid to keep the peace two people were arrested left wing activists were pushing a trump supporter and an unidentified person with a knife tensions between americans right and left of an increasing following that violence in charlottesville on a neo nazi round his car into

a crowd of protests rallies similar to the ones in california of taken place across the u.s. throughout the week the largest of those in the city of boston left when protesters showed up there to disrupt planned right wing events resulting in clashes and arrests one of the sides is up the ante by launching a petition this is on the white house website and it calls for anti far to declared as a terrorist organization nearly one hundred forty thousand people have already signed in just three days now the administration has to issue a response is john both niche with his thoughts on the message the petition sense i think the way house is going to have to play a moderate line here and there is going to have to reject the petition but the petition will serve as a warning to ante for organizers that they neither either have to police themselves or they will be facing more serious saying.