i. the coalition it was very clear that they were in the area and expressing deep concern over the mounting civilian death toll in the syrian city of the coalition reportedly killed dozens. pakistan hits back at washington after being labeled one of several countries who are now part of the problem in afghanistan. he visits a twelve year old yemeni boy who's suffered appallingly from the war undergoing no less than twenty three operations countries gripped by a conflict between the rebels and a government backed by saudi arabia's bombing campaign.

good evening to you my name is neil harvey you watching r.t. and. the un is raising the alarm over reports that airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition of killed dozens of civilians in the syrian city of. our humanitarian colleagues tell us they're deeply concerned by unconfirmed reports of a high number of civilians killed by air strike in iraq a city over the last twenty four hours these attacks if confirmed are shocking reminder that civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict in many parts of syria when you first hear some of these reports it's easy to believe that they exaggerations take a recent one by the u.s. led coalition is accused of bombing a house packed with civilians killing dozens and dozens of innocents you know and

multiple sources begin repeating the same reports footage begins to a much videos pictures that supports these that reports and these claims one thing to do more travel to the hospital and you know a witness and survive with testimonies anything to go by these things happen regularly is that we were directly targeted by the coalition it was very clear that they would new insurgents in the area there were children playing in the streets and we would carry water from a tap on house and civilly in homes would do great be targeted reports about the use of white phosphorus civilian areas being peppered with chemical weapons on a system in which 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 we've contacted the u.s. led coalition are asking them to comment on some of these allegations and we got

the standard response that they're taking all of this very seriously and that they are investigating concurrently one of the defacto we need is of the u.s. led coalition is actually in the edit be with us james mattis the u.s. secretary of defense and d.'s well optimistic we will continue to i mean by the iraqi people under military came the stability that will have been earning a very very high price a very. high cost hardly does justice to how much iraqis have lost take mosul an hour's drive from us once a city of two million now reduced to largely a wreck just west of that. wall james mattis is optimistic here in that two hours drive from here he's jets a pounding and now the community tens of thousands of people a trap now in a new war zone the iraqi military the u.s. led coalition of trying to push isis out of. the conditions there is said to be

desperate food is scarce medicine and even drinking water running out now did nobody live here is difficult there is no air conditioning there is no food with people running food people are in chaos everything you know life is destroyed at the end of the day there is little doubt that isis in iraq will be defeated albeit at a tremendous cost representatives of the red cross and the un told us about the horrors that telephone refugees face is the attempt to escape from the city. there are no three thousand years worth of billions for aid agencies and. military you are. going to get even more and then the people who are little we'll review your career. mean many of them when. i was

shot the day we received. we've to have children that must be going through which means taking the displaced iraqi to lower camps this woman told us she had been walking for three days she had been sleeping in ship part of those this the last month was killed by sniper fire some time back and she saw dead bodies outdoors sniper fire and eating landmines all the way these are the kind of cases we receive you know what camps. pakistan is hit back at donald trump's claim that supports terrorists is him veiled a new strategy for afghanistan under spondon that the country is being singled out as a scapegoat but other countries also face the president's rough the smear of can explains . afghanistan strategy is starkly similar to that of his of previous administrations specially promising to boost military presence but not setting any

withdrawal deadlines this raises questions of how original his policies really are but it seems like washington is actively looking around to find someone else in the region to fight the taliban or simply someone to blame for the failed campaign they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting but that will have to change this time for pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilization order and to peace suppose that u.s. ally pakistan was singled out by trump for providing safe havens for terrorists this is an allegation baucus done reacted angrily to accusing trouble of trying to find a scapegoat for the us is failures in afghanistan washington also threw india into the mix calling upon india's support to resolve the conflict though it wasn't exactly clear how we've got to put the pressure on india that they have to be part of the political solution or doing it together it's not mean ited states alone it's

not just to us allies who are told what to do of course all the usual suspects have been named as allegedly behind taliban successes on the battlefield we have two large the shore. russia is supplying arms to the taliban that is a violation russia has comically been accused time and time again of supplying arms to the taliban moscow however has stated that it has no illicit contacts with the taliban and insisted that they don't provide weapons to the insurgents but at the moment washington is just maybe searching for an exit strategy from a sixteen year deadlock by trying not to share the burden and the blame but also by issuing what some believe are unjustified demands. the mainstream media slammed afghanistan announcement for using it to also talk about last week's violence in charlottesville and he called it an attempt at damage control for supposedly

failing to condemn race hate just after the violence in his latest response doesn't go far enough takes a look at how the announcement was received. the way president donald trump is portrayed you think he is an evil leader the likes of which america has never seen shining light of democracy has gone dark one of the most radical inaugural speeches 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 tensions he wanted to speak to the nation about charlottesville and his comments he should have spoken to the nation about charlottesville 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 doubt will of 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 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 long held tradition and if we look at u.s. foreign policy over the decades it is one long to do pretty much on broken into our action or gender always regime change or military intervention is always the order

of the day diplomacy always takes a backseat over the years afghanistan has been a massive drain on both us 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. this in tahrir is intended to put pressure on with all the body through the taliban understand you will not win the battle there we may not win one but you knew some

of the outcome 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 hardly any opposition so despite the promises of making america great again that it seems that washington is just going to continue to fight an endless war that seems almost impossible i actually went to. washington d.c. . the demolition frenzy of confederate monuments in the united states has been raging for almost a week and now even stanch is completely unrelated to america's divisive civil war are under threat right across the country just recently a video has emerged showing a man hitting a crystal that columbus monument with a sledge hammer that she said to be the nation's oldest the perpetrator said that the explorer inspired a centuries old wave of genocides rape and slavery or evolution and now the idea of reversing the legacies of former heroes is spreading across the ocean as

a top british newspapers urge the demolition of one of central london's most iconic symbols nelson's column and it has more. we're in the heart of the british capital trafalgar square where a major landmark has also been a source of controversy following the piece in the guardian claiming it's time for the nelson column that has been here for over a hundred and fifty years to go from being offensive i am representing america just like the military and see. the hero look at least see him as a white supremacists and this since many were saying the line has to be drawn some i don't think they should be completely taken away i think they should be put in some type of museum i think it's about public opinion and it's about what the monument was commemorate i mean i don't know about slavery so i think it was up to commemorate a success in a battle there's always someone who's going to be upset by something but at the same time you have to think about you know what are your country's values right now

should definitely stay on an iconic you know statue of yeah rubbish the point that because it's part of our history supremacist or nor history you can't watch history just because it doesn't suit you know trying to get rid of no one well you can get rid of that. to show that your funds are that you can get rid of one of the pulldown questionable historic monuments is sparking some extremely violent divisions in the west but could this you see now be making its way across the atlantic. forty people have been confirmed through a saudi arabian air strike at a hotel near yemen's capital that's according to local officials and those are images of the hotel in question as you can see it's pretty much being reduced to rubble has been conducting air strikes in yemen for more than two years now says that the militia which will take control of the capital sanaa pose

a threat to riyadh borders many humanitarian groups blame the saudi coalition for causing numerous civilian deaths. meanwhile r.t. has been to visit a yemeni boy twelve who's already had almost two dozen operations after falling victim to clashes in his country i must warn you you may find these images coming up now disturbing. i mean it's father told all to say about the heartbreaking suffering his son has already been through in his short life. community even a slight cough affects him badly he's very weak his elbow has been damaged by frequent falls as you can see his neck is egypt as well these tragedies come from

war the boy spent a month in intensive care before regaining consciousness he's undergone surgery many times and will need more operations to could all his injuries he's lost all his hair. rarely gets the chance to leave hospital because of his constant battle against cholera. is being blamed for the widespread outbreak of the horrific disease in yemen thought to be the worst cholera epidemic ever recorded so after the coalition cut off supplies of medicine food to rebel controlled areas the conclusions came in a study from the queen mary university of london. someone living in rebel controlled areas is seventy percent more likely to contract cholera and fifty percent more likely to die from cholera than somebody living in government controlled areas so the internationalized government in yemen are supported by a saudi red coalition this coalition has bombed the rebel controlled

areas pretty much most of the. and without much concern for for civilian life. they've brought in civilian infrastructure so we've seen hospitals destroyed schools destroyed the coalition is also enforced and naval blockade on the rebel controlled areas this means that there are shortages of food shortages of fuel shortages of medicine all of which contribute to a situation where cholera can prosper. demands for tough first stance on turkey or intensifying of the burden accused of interfering in germany's elections now a top brussels officials also lashed out at ankara's quote behavior. i believe it's time for the member states to discuss the strategic implications of this behavior tricking shoulders alone is not a political strategy in the long run the interference of president reshape tayyip

erdogan in the national election campaign as well as extradition requests for alleged political opponents unacceptable president one had called on turkish nationals in germany not to vote for establishment parties including chancellor merkel's sparking this latest huge dispute brutal meddling german foreign minister signal but they are described to underscore branding it quote precedented interference in his nation's internal affairs but the turkish president didn't hesitate to hit back. he knows no boundaries who are you to talk to the president of turkey know your place he's trying to teach us a lesson how long have you been in politics how old are you gabrielle then took the war of words to a whole new level claiming that the e.u. should only back the quote democratically minded majority of turks who don't

support the one meanwhile the turks presidents now are facing a freeze on his financial assets also prominent german politicians have been calling to extend the freeze to one's family members as well. to discuss this in more detail i'm joined by. the assistant professor at the istanbul most university good evening to you we have a turkish minister comparing the statements of the top diplomat with the beliefs of the far right the german foreign ministry is branded that an insult so. it's a disagreement how bad can things get. first of all thank you very much for reminding me to such a such a discussion and i would like to stress the first topic that this tension is a tension you know for increasing the tension between those two countries bordering turkey side and the european side it will not help any of those countries which are collaborating for maybe hundreds of years in terms of economics politics or social

levels so i don't think that this increase these correlations by the parties from all sides will not help both countries to solve the problem so we need to find the common ground and solve the problem but on the other hand we know that the president and on position is just a back fire from what happened before days before the referendum agenda in turkey because as you may remember. followers will remember that during the referendum process the german government didn't let the politicians to campaign in the in germany and this has been perceived by the turkish politicians as an intervention to the turkish politics because there were many many people walking in germany for the elections in turkey as the turkish citizens and letting them not to campaign in germany was an intervention by the by the german government and now the turkish

government i think is just trying to trying to get a position to backfire what happened during the election process in turkey yeah it certainly does appear to be what you just explained payback but this is a serious situation because it's not just empty threats is it and now we've got german politicians saying they're going to impose sanctions on everyone and his family do you think they will actually go through with that. you know i think we have to be honest about this whenever whenever such a such a tension between those two countries happen to be such a such a sanction what is what is it. financial assets in europe or in the international level about this tension i don't understand this top again i think this is the most ridiculous thing that i have ever heard there are tensions in a political level between those two countries and as far as i know from the international relations that such kind of sanctions have been important to people who have some war crime or some other bad bad guilty of problems within the europe

end of rant when did when did the topic came to this level while there were two allies together for four hundred or pencil b. years and now we are we discussing about the president's financial assess to be you know this is this is this is the most ridiculous suggestion that i have heard from a german politician because as far as i know. there was a cold blood hole titian and she tries to figure out first what is the damage and then she she takes some positions but this is too too far away to get such a sanction to freeze the adults for families in europe that's that's i think that's very ridiculous. to me to get your insight on this going to happen because. firstly to get your insights on this we appreciate you coming on to talk to the mir the system professor at the istanbul camos university. now it's this fear that the french president's plan to relax the country's labor laws will unleash

a wave of unrest after one of france's biggest trade unions threatened strikes in september on tuesday the government began the latest round of talks with unions and employer groups implement reforms were one of the main pillars of physical action campaign and as mark runs popularity hit a new low this month lease seeking to allow employers to negotiate work conditions on a company level avoiding trade unions the reform also seeks a cap on compensation for dismissals and proposes to downsize workers councils critics say the plan puts business interests ahead of employees similar reform attempts resulted in mass protests in the past. the to the to the south africa as it was the to

her as her as. far as perhaps the french government are expecting trouble they've announced a twenty two million euro tender for riot gear for the upcoming four years and includes non lethal weaponry for controlling crowds such as stun grenade launchers and tear gas but the police union stress that the aid hasn't been sufficient for years they fear they'll be a recurrence of earlier violence they're demanding that the authorities boost resources. said dawn was a born warrior you're walking in september we're going to have multiple demonstrations including against the labor law who have seen very violent protests in the last months i'm a colleagues were injured in different places across france that's why it's important that officers are sufficiently equipped with non-lethal weapons to defend

the protesters and officers participating who want to draw the interior minister's attention to the worsening working conditions for police and let citizens know that under these conditions we can work effectively where in the state of emergency and concert to face the terror threat during the past fifteen years we have heard that the budget would be great however there haven't been raises sufficient to do all the french police the french police haven't had the necessary resources for years was. the sleeping spanish town of ripon now lies at the center of a major investigation into last week's terrorist attacks it's where members of the terrorist cell behind the atrocities grew up together and were radicalized.

police investigators have identified the less robust terrorist as eunice coos the suspected driver of the van comes from the pier in in town report. i. researched the apartment of a new mom in recall who it said could have been a radicalizing force the way they were used to very normal life i used to see them walking to buy bread oh jani there you see a small community and up until now we lived peacefully together but this piece has been broken. for us to believe the moon there are twelve people in this terrorists.

now these are the suspected members of the cell some people have expressed surprise at just how young many of them were eunice cooper example was just twenty two of a radicalized young men and even teens are by no means a new phenomenon last year a sixteen year old syrian boy was arrested on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack in the german city of cologne a fifteen year old boy was also arrested in paris on suspicion of planning an attack in public areas two girls aged just fourteen and fifteen at the time they were arrested on similar suspicions their homes were raided correspondent peter all of a travel to the now infamous town of ripple tomorrow you can see for yourself just what he found there is a taste for now of what's coming up. the image of the school located in the building just behind me are built by s. 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 how sheesh it's understood bro while he was in prison he turned to radical islam meanwhile following the spate of vehicle ramming terrorist attacks across europe major cities have been reinforcing security of popular tourist sites for example in milan concrete security barriers have been installed in the historic city center as well as at the entrance to its most famous shopping center the galleria concrete barriers have been put upon westminster bridge in london following two terror incidents in the british capital but locals are complaining the anti terror measures are ugly and spoil the look of the area of this maintain though it's a necessary price to pay for safety. all the sport attacks clearly demonstrated radicalization is getting younger but in belgium employees of one kindergarten have reported signs of islamic radicalization even among toddlers

children were said to have made death threats to nonbelievers calling them pigs and even displayed hand gestures imitating throat cutting claim that they have been reciting verses from the qur'an during played side or they reportedly skip classes because the kindergartens vision does not fit in with their beliefs we spoke to the co-ordination director of the facility spiegel here who says that they are even more concerned now about the children after what happened in spain. in fact there was a leak about an internal document made up by kindergarten leaders in the framework of an initiative to strengthen their garton leaders and to train them to recognize signs of possible radicalize ation is a very early stage with dollars and in the aftermath of. the barcelona attacks it's you know very it she about you know radicalization and

islam related terrorism or jihad isn't. the problem could be more widespread than previously thought across the e.u. almost five hundred cases have been found of schools with the radicalization issues it's called common today violence told us the roots of the problem go far deeper conventionally when we talk about radicalization we normally refer to i guess young man in there perhaps late teens early twenty's as we've seen for example in barcelona and we've seen the hernandez consequences in this instance what we're talking about is radicalization in the kender garden before the even got to primary school there being in call kid of unexposed to horrific ideas you know if we're actually having candor garton annoy as centers for potential you know enculturation of jihad theology.