trump says restrictions on fighting terrorists in afghanistan have been lifted and the u.s. is no longer focused on nation building in a speech unveiling a new strategy for the country. the main suspect in last week's massacre in barcelona was shot dead by police for four days. people fleeing the islamic state stronghold of iraq in syria describe conditions at refugee camps one of u.n. official says strikes are taking a brutal toll on civilians. and especially.

the. twenty seven is more. placement then people. just go to seven am here. to live from the russian with me. or go to our top story this hour president trump says he's lived the descriptions on u.s. forces fighting terrorist groups in afghanistan and awaited speech he said there's no deadline for a withdrawal and any change in troop numbers will be kept secret. we will also expand authority for american armed forces to target the terrorist and criminal

networks we will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities ok let's cross now to some miracle from washington get some more insight on this samir that's for joining us just give us a quick recap what exactly did president trump say it's been a pretty little way to the speech as it. yes president trump has announced his long awaited new afghanistan master plan saying that the u.s. strategy under his leadership will change dramatically however the policy he outlined seems like more of the same with promises to fight against terrorism in the country obliterating i soul crushing al qaeda preventing the taliban from taking over afghanistan president trump though did say he will not be setting any deadlines in afghanistan and that future action will depend on conditions on the ground adding that a rapid exit would be unacceptable as it would leave

a vacuum for terrorists to fail. a hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists including isis and al qaeda. while trump refused to specify how many extra troops if any would be deployed he called to u.s. allies to increase their presence after trump's remarks u.s. deferent defense secretary james jim mattis indicated some sort of increase was on the cards saying in a statement several u.s. allies have also committed to increasing their troop numbers before he became president trump railed against obama's afghanistan policy and questioned why the u.s. was still in the country after more than a decade of war it seems like flip flopping on afghanistan is it so different to that of his predecessor who also promised to end the war initially pledging a total withdrawal only to later announced that about five and a half thousand troops would remain then eventually leaving eight and

a half thousand soldiers there one thing is clear that after sixteen years of u.s. operations in afghanistan unfortunately there is still no end in sight to the conflict. live from washington next joining us and giving us that insight today. well we can go in to bring in richard becker from the antiwar coalition is that now thanks for joining us today on all the international richard. as a correspondent so there's a little weighted speech a little bit of strategy he's left the door open for more troops and said there's no deadline for any withdrawal from the country but is this really different to anything we've seen over the last sixteen years he was criticizing obama for a quite heavily back in twenty thirteen what's the difference here. well it's very hard to say to see what the difference is president obama increased

the number of troops in afghanistan to one hundred thousand in two thousand and ten and there were one hundred thousand more contractors and then there were the allied troops now we're talking about eighty five hundred u.s. troops being there and adding perhaps four thousand to that number i mean the cause of the insurgency in afghanistan is the occupation of afghanistan and they're not going to be able to solve that problem by the speech that was made today or these slight adjustments in strategy one way or another we can see that it's been sixteen years now and really if you go back to when the u.s. intervention in afghanistan really began it was in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine and helped to create the conditions for the rise of al qaeda and isis and taliban and these reactionary organizations so after all these years why would anyone possibly think that this speech. slight adjustment was going to bring about

a different result that the answer to this problem is to end the occupation of afghanistan and trump also said in his speech he's lifted restrictions that prevent c'mon this from fighting terrorists what restrictions are those do you think he's referring to. i have no idea what he's talking about and i don't think there are any restrictions. this is some idea that trump has that you know that the u.s. has been gone too easy on the afghan people are too easy on the iraqis or other people i mean it's just it's kind of craziness and it's not going to lead to anything that resembles a solution that. the taliban control in afghanistan today is far greater than at any time that it's been since the u.s. invasion in two thousand and one we're still waiting for some sort of reaction from

the the afghan side it is awful the country that's going to be to be the focus of this of this policy said that as well little may use american military might to construct democracies i mean how do you think you have got authorities are going to react because they've been critical of u.s. policies in the pause when civilians have been killed by a strike for example over the last few months the last year or so do we expect a positive reaction here do you think. well that would be quite surprising and you would have to say even quite treasonous from their point of view are there now about forty people a day dying afghan people dying about three quarters of them are soldiers who are dying this is on a daily basis now and about ten civilians a day who are dying so the tall that's being taken on the country has been taken in the country has been unbelievable truly horrific but there are those who have gotten very rich from the hundreds of billions now well over

a trillion dollars that's been spent makers and elements within afghanistan in the ruling structure there who have gotten very rich from this part for the people of afghanistan and honest government would have to say this this is disaster upon disaster. you'll sit across while pakistan the nie accuse the country of providing safe havens to terrorists that how much truth there is in that statement but nevertheless could that cause a rift do you think between the u.s. and pakistan of course and diplomatic issues. well there are the forces of isis and al qaeda are in many many countries and other similar type organizations we must recall that the rise of those organizations to prominence really came about because of the u.s. invasion of iraq the destruction of the government of libya the war sponsored by

outside forces against the government of syria that's what open space for the real growth and development there was no isis in afghanistan before now is this is in many many countries and it really is due to this policy the war and this war policy and the use of things like torture as a weapon against against people who are suspected of something that's created great great bitterness as have the drone attacks and all of the brutality that has gone along with occupation of not a few tweets here from donald trump twenty thirteen saying very clearly that we need to get out we need to you know calling leaders stupid that have called for a troop surge the polar opposite to what he said today when he said a rapid exit would creates a vacuum for terrorists and that's what we need this this victory i mean is there in the end in sight do you think for the u.s. operation in afghanistan it's been sixteen years do you think we'll be sitting here

again in a few years time with perhaps a next president making a new strategy i think is very possible if. the government of the united states continues along the road that it is. i mean there are many many critics who are bitterly critical who have including soldiers who have fought in afghanistan u.s. soldiers who have what they're saying that this is there is no way out and also saying that there could be a negotiated settlement that what allowed the war to and but there is no government in the united states and neither bush nor obama there are now trying to trump government that wants to pursue that trump said as you mentioned in two thousand and thirteen the u.s. should get out of afghanistan by taking the office as c.e.o. of the empire which i think the presidency largely is means that you have to interfere at least in some respects to what the generals and the advisers and

the others who are around you have to say and so that's the road that we see the u.s. government continuing along and it's a road that leads really nowhere but to more death and destruction richard becker from the auntie was a coalition actually were inside today here on out international. thank you. now over to spain where the main suspect in thursday's terror attack has been shot dead by police just outside the city the man was wearing a fake explosive belts all t.s.k. partridge as well the details. cooper who's twenty two 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 boss alona apparently according to reports today he approached a police checkpoint and was waving what police believed to be an explosives belt about his said 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 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 the caribbean which is the main and famous market just all fly around and police have been hunting eleven since meanwhile later in the thing that was also an attack in county 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 one where a woman was later died meantime the police then five of those men were shot by police they were also wearing what police believe to be explosive belts which were

later proved to be false also a day before that been an explosion in a house in our canal which is also one of the coastal towns where they've 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 terrorist cell have either been killed or to have died in the process would have been due to. and and it's still an ongoing investigation after last thursday's attacks and that news from barcelona comes after the finish or third he's named the main suspect behind the friday's terror attack in a city of two of who. market a church traveled to the country from germany in late twenty fifteen that he's been to all of a 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 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 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 said 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. and going back to barcelona as we reported earlier the suspect there was initially thought of cross the border into france after the attack dog as you have looks at how the open borders can play into the hands of the hardest on the run from authorities. 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. 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 in and makes it as far as italy before

he's accidentally caught out mud mohammed traveled 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 the government's new legislation giving new powers to the police and security services not withstanding 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 remains

a possibility then you may have crossed the spanish border anybody that knows that border 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 say 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. where people fleeing iraq describes scenes of carnage home city after months of bombing raids video agency ruptly stories at a refugee camp. civilian people who 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 checkpoint is or was live in it and then i was able to parse . the un task force on humanitarian access in syria so all the civilians are being caught in the crossfire between terrorists and coalition. 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. whole thing as 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 i just heard from my colleagues in minutes and. 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 a day has been displaced by conflict. civilians fleeing leisel held territories have been speaking to the middle east news website they described her if a conditions in poorly equipped refugee camps they say the facilities are worse than prisons and refugees are not allowed to leave us allied syrian defense forces deny it the camps under their control yet egeland again told us that 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 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 the s.p.f. and indeed the u.s. and others on the day that you 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

a freedom of movement if someone is particularly suspect there is reason to believe that someone would be not civilian but fighting with one group or the other that person should be charged. at least forty civilians have reportedly been killed in a u.s. led bombing raid in the syrian city of raka according to local sources the u.s. coalition for comment but they refused to confirm or deny the civilian deaths saying goal is always for zero civilian casualties international law professor daoud qatada gave us his views on the story. issue of gross negligence which is equivalent of a willful misconduct is a major factor in any country any group any entity that has forces that resort to violence within syria with then a state without the approval of the government of that state is operating on very

thin ground and it simply gl they don't coordinate with people on the ground with the syrian authorities in the first place and apparently they don't have even among their own friends they don't have reliable information to avoid making major mistakes. i would to kind of an hour a group of anti-racism protesters have clashed with police the demonstrators were trying to disrupt a nationalist rally in quebec. dozens of anti fascist approaches this all dressed in black threw smoke bombs and firecrackers at police who were trying to separate the two rallies the second was a planned march against the canadian government's moderate policies. thank god.

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 seems also took place south of the border in the us where thousands of people showed up to confront a small rally against illegal immigration. i. there was some two hundred police call to the scene

two people were arrested one for pushing a trump supporter and another for carrying a knife cities across america have been on edge since clashes in charlottesville earlier this month and near non-si rammed his car into a crowd killing one person and injuring at least nineteen. there were also two major racism rallies on saturday the largest in boston thousands attended a white supremacy in dallas texas but everyone agrees with the idea fascist message a petition has been launched on the white house website calling for it to be declared a terrorist organization that's been signed by nearly one hundred forty thousand people in just three days and ministration it now has issued an official response here with his thoughts on the message the petition sends 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 a warning to organizers that they need they either have to police themselves

or they will be facing more serious sanctions in the future we're seeing and 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 far and ask them what the meaning of the word fascist is and what the history of the fascist parties in europe are they wouldn't know even the first word of how to answer that question. black lives matter activist has come up with a solution to racial inequality in the u.s. . and racial tensions since the deadly clashes in charlottesville this month. black lives a black lives matter organizer in lewisville kentucky wrote a post on facebook making ten suggestions for white people the first says what people if you don't have any descendants will your property to black or brown

family she recommends white people to downsize and give up their homes to black people the list also urges readers to get fired people who make racist comments in the workplace we heard from the author herself and also from writer and comedian jeff kline. one of the later numbers of the ten suggestions was to essentially seek out nazis in the workplace and get them fired and the word nazi has been so watered down lately that i don't think anybody really knows what it means anymore let's remember where the word nazi even comes from it comes from people who are who proclaim to like have the superior race that's what white supremacy is that's what white supremacy is in the us we are talking about a systemic economic barrier that prevents black and brown people black and brown people who are already on this land from even up painting land in various different

rays the main issue we're talking about here is there's black people who have never been slaves asking for money from white people who've never owned slaves and so it's difficult for me to be able to wrap my brain around owing somebody something when i clearly don't owe them anything and the notion that the that the list of ten things wasn't racist when it's when all it's doing is talking about race the list is essentially implying that black and brown people are incapable of achieving economic growth and as a result white people need to give them economic advantages i think it's very racist against black and brown people to essentially tell them they're not capable of this i think that is dangerous in this sense to say that what i wrote was they was was a racist or a dangerous because it wasn't in the least none of what i wrote was dangerous in the least i think was dangerous is the backlash that i am personally receiving from it in one of the points you even say something to effect of you have hands colin

use them very much harkening back to this overused phrase right now about punching nazis and we talk about nazis and plenty of nazis we are talking about white supremacy why is that purposely did deal some of the most deadliest types of genocide that our world has. we're not talking about something that's just in a ten a list of things and when i'm talking about using your hands because nazis are violent it's perpetuating a lot of this racial tension it's furthering the divide between races which i think if anything we should be trying to come together and it is encouraging some level of violence and experience to act like you don't think it. for now you can get more on the ball stories on our website more of course media will be back with more headlines from around the world at the top.