did you really told to by the coalition it was very clear that they would in the area the u.n. express his deep concern over the mounting civilian casualties in the syrian city of raka after coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens. of the. protests erupt outside a trump rally in the u.s. state of arizona following the president's keynote speech about the charlottesville violence this change. over afghanistan. so you know any boy aged twelve who's just three years he's gone he's undergone

twenty three operations in a country gripped by conflict with saudi arabia and suffering the biggest cholera outbreak in the world. just gone ten am here in moscow thanks for joining us here on the program today i'm daniel king's we start with the u.n. raising the alarm over reports. by the u.s. led coalition of killed dozens of civilians in the syrian city of raka. in recent days and weeks scores of civilians have reportedly been killed or injured in iraq judah airstrikes and shelling and up to twenty five thousand people remain trapped in the city the u.n. condemns any attack that is directed against civilians or civilian infrastructure at first it was a me a room of the united states led coalition had mistake again bombing

a house packed with civilians in rathke leaving dozens and dozens of innocents and dead and many more buried under the rubble one thing to know more see travel to our hospital in iraq and you know what witness and survivor testimonies anything to go by these things happen regularly is that if we were directly targeted by the coalition it was very clear that they would no insurgents in the area they were children playing in the streets and we were carrying water from a tap on house and civilly in homes who do great be targeted. we heard that the coalition used white phosphorous near iraq it was dropped by the warplanes who else could have done it it had to be the planes they were targeting a civilian neighborhood. regardless of what public relations folks will tell you there is no such thing as a pin point accurate bombing campaign especially not over city

a tightly packed been area a bomb doesn't discriminate it doesn't care whether it falls on a house full of isis fighters or civilians and in raca those bombs have been falling on the wrong people all too often or humanitarian colleagues tell us they're deeply concerned by unconfirmed reports of a high number of civilians killed by airstrike in iraq a city over the last twenty four hours yesterday unconfirmed reports indicate that over thirty people were reportedly killed in the us a so chini neighborhood well eight internally displaced people from the same family were killed in a separate attack in another part of the city these attacks if confirmed are shocking reminder that civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict in many parts of syria she got in touch with the u.s. led coalition we wanted to hear their side of the story and we got a template response there as always taking everything very seriously and as always

investigating perhaps soon enough we'll get another template response about his regrets and condolences but nothing will change the ad blitz over raca will continue the bombing has also expanded in iraq it's gone just west of mosul to tally up thought of where the u.s. led coalition and the iraqi army have launched a new operation to clear isis out of the area trapped in the middle of that tens of thousands of civilians in the crossfire between isis the u.s. led coalition and the iraqi military conditions is said to be desperate and it is a d.z. getting out take my word for it trying to escape of open ground in the middle of a battlefield that this heated forty five degree. heat is no easy task is often fatal but as survivors tell it it's helped black hole.

people are in chaos everything in our life is destroyed this is my mother she couldn't walk so i put her over my shoulder and we walk like that for thirteen hours but now we're here and we have nothing. difficult there is no air conditioning there is no food we pay for the room food the truth the moment. the united nations judging by how often they've started talking about telephone and what's happening there and fearing the worst we fear that iraqi civilians are largely to be held as human shields again and that attempts to flee could result in executions and shootings we call on all parties to the conflict to allow civilians to leave the country to area and to access safety we're also concerned about the reports that in some instances this plague displaced iraqi families from telephone are being denied access to safety in locations that have capacity to absorb them everyone's concert everyone's sorry and regretful when civilians die but nothing

changes it's the same exact scenario playing out over and over again where civilians are made to bear the brunt of liberation to play its cost with their lives. or for nicholas davies who's written about the invasion of iraq believes the u.s. doesn't take responsibility for civilian casualties they are not taking responsibility for the true scale of civilian casualties in two thousand and seven the un said very clearly the bombing of. civilian areas is a violation of international human rights law and that the presence of a few combat ends in a civilian area does not change the nature of that area it is still

a civilian area. the u.s. air force says it may intensify its airstrikes in afghanistan following president trumps the solution to step up the sixteen year long military campaign there on monday trump announced that open ended surge of troops and money to the governess thrown in a major u. turn on his election promises he then had to resign or speak in front of his supporters but was met with protests outside the venue. police formed a barrier to prevent unrest with smoke bombs and follow what's being thrown at them hundreds came out to protest more than a week off the violent scene charlottesville and the president's controversial remarks on the role of hate groups trump defended his response during the rally calling out the k.k.k. these racial tensions have intensified in recent days it seems they've overshadowed from his decision to drag the country into a bed and war. reports. the way president donald trump is portrayed you think he is

an evil leader the likes of which america has never seen shadow of moscow seems to haunt president trump the world's shining light of democracy as the most radical right wing you know if you're a speech is take a look at what some of the neo nazis are saying about his speech. even trump announcement of a new afghan strategy was skewed to supposedly show how the president was stirring up racial tension the president began his nationally televised address monday night urging americans to come together to rise above racial and ethnic divisions he wanted to speak to the nation about charlottesville and his comments he should have spoken to the nation about stroke and modeled it by putting it into a speech about afghanistan that's what i thought as an american can we just get back to afghanistan for a second please the president has made a fairly hawkish decision to boost america's military presence in the country sound familiar on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda

terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan i know that many of you have grown weary of this conflict. as you are well aware i do not support the idea of endless war given what's at stake in afghanistan i am firmly convinced that we should make this extra effort i don't know what both previous. presidents both democrat and republican chose to do so it seems hard but clearly not impossible to chalk it up as just another misstep by the big bad billionaire and we will also expand authority for american armed forces to target the terrorist and criminal networks that so violence and chaos throughout afghanistan this is in tradition with all u.s. president trump is no continuing that long held tradition and if we look at u.s. foreign policy over the decades it is one long today actually pretty much on broken interaction or gender always regime change or military intervention is always the

order of the day and diplomacy always takes a backseat over the years afghanistan has been a massive drain on both u.s. financial and human resources and yet trump is choosing to soldier on. and all of those resources have led to little measurable success loss to the quagmire of the afghan conflict understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now. and our effort is intended to put pressure on the taleban to have the taliban on the street and you will not win the battle there we may not win one but you do you

he's jumped straight back into the swamp rather than anything but clearing it off and clearing it things are going to get worse for the people of afghanistan especially the civilians we're going to see formal casualties their country in general is going to continue to spiral out of control some of the neo con generals the retired generals a couple years ago talked about a military u.s. military presence in afghanistan for at least fifty years. i can easily see that happening because there's this holiday in your position so despite promises of making america great again that it seems that washington is just going to continue to fight and this war that seems almost impossible of actually winning. washington d.c. trumps you plan the u.s. is expected to send up to four thousand troops to afghanistan however the exact number is being kept secret america's top commander in the middle east says the new forces could arrive in just a few weeks we spoke to former u.s.

congressman ron paul about the implication of the president's decision. to changes the words and makes it sound like the world will come apart if we don't continue to be the world's policeman he says he's not into nation building but there was a pretense anyway how many nations that we can really build or improve we've torn nations apart so he is seen as a flip flopper which i think politically is a bad position to be. going to be perpetual war nobody knows exactly who the enemy is and nobody will know when it is ended and i think.

welcome back to the program and over to spain where the town of reporter has found itself at the center of the investigation into last week's terror attacks many members of the cell was carried out those twin atrocities which killed fifteen had grown up together and been radicalized in this small town on the border with fronts . police investigators have identified the less robust terrorist and skewness abuja koussa suspected driver of the van comes from the pier in ian town of ripple.

the. police searched the apartment of an inn maman reporter who he said could have been a radicalizing force over here they were used to the normal life i used to see them walking to buy bread over there you know on t.v. there you see a small community open to now with that piece we're together but this piece has been broken. just to believe in the moon that there are twelve people in this terrorist cell. this shows us that we have prejudiced article viz

a radical islamist are are there not just people growing in the suburbs of our town in the doldrums outside of the cost city centers we can find them anywhere in europe in society today know in small villages which will see villages nobody will talk about it ripples very interesting village and i know catalonia and even there we have islamist bases i think that this shows how widespread this status movement or trend is in. europe today it's much bigger than what people thought and it can be actually anywhere. we sent peter all over to the town of paul on a search mission of his own to morrow you'll be able to see for yourself just what he finds there here's a quick taste of what's coming up the image of the mosque located in the building just behind me. he is understood accused of being the mastermind behind the terror attacks he spent time in prison in twenty ten until twenty

fourteen after he was charged and convicted for the smuggling hasheesh it's understood broke while he was in prison he turned to radical islam and may well have met with planned and carried out the two thousand and three madrid train bombing. let's take a look now at the suspected members of the terror cell in question there's been widespread surprise of just how young many of them were as you can see on the screen the barcelona attack was only twenty two for instance now radicalized teenagers of course are not a new phenomenon in europe just last year a sixteen year old teenager was arrested on suspicion of crossing a bomb attack in a german city of cologne a fifteen year old boy was arrested subsequently in paris on suspicion of planning attacks in public spaces two girls aged fourteen and fifteen back then were

arrested on the same suspicions and their homes were raided apart from their young ages the members of this terrorist cell have another thing in common. the twelve suspects and the boss loon cumberlands terrorist attacks girl from morocco and the mastermind is thought to have traveled to morocco before the killings. worker in spain is separated by the straits of gibraltar and the sea route between the countries has become a favorite for those seeking to reach europe. plus there are two spanish includes in morocco which are frequently been storm by mike ritz. the put calamity of the root continues to group spain has seen a three fold increase in refugee numbers since last year. i don't think just morocco i think it's over north africa is a problem but yes i mean there are a lot of moroccans in the u.k. there of markings throughout europe and some of them are obviously being

radicalized the countries as well world but i think the problem is the very close to europe so it's much so much easier transit point and they remember there are large numbers of moroccans living in a europe so obvious say that that may have something to do with it spain attacks clearly demonstrated radicalization is getting younger but in belgium employees of one.