as civilians please u.s. led coalition as trying to ice the militants in the embattled iraqi city of tal afar humanitarian organizations well that people could face the same devastation witnessed in mosul. r.t. travels to the hometown of the oman two suspected of radicalizing the group of men who carried out the recent pain attacks. it's clear that there are understood to have attended prayers led by. some of these been accused of being the running monster behind this terrorist cell. amid widening social divisions the u.s.

mainstream media pushes the idea it's big business that the country's new moral compass weeklies new yorkers whether they want to be inspired by corporations. and out there it's two pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me and karen good to have you with us. with the u.s. banks coalition forces advancing against islamic state in the iraqi city of tel afar thousands of civilians are being displaced they said they're forced to flee from both coalition bombs and the threat posed by the terrorists. we were in from the shelling from the coalition we lift the people from islamic

state along. with. our children a sick we're stranded here without saying there is no fresh water anymore some of the aid workers have been here but very few of them this is my son he is suffering we have no electricity. how far is the latest objective in the u.s. backed war on islamic state that comes after the recapture of mosul following a nine month campaign that left much of the city in ruins however the operation to liberate how the fall which has been under i still control for three years has done little to ease the suffering of civilians that. explains that up father is the new ground zero in iraq on the one hand you have a massive formation of iraqi forces backed by u.s.

led coalition air power versus isis entrenched in the area for three long years and in the middle of that you have desperate civilians and it isn't an easy choice for the risk staying. being used as human shields by isis risks being killed by the coalition air strike or make a run for it brave the cross the desert and the merciless heat in the hope that you get out it isn't an easy choice. we are hungry we need clothes we need food and water yesterday we get contaminated water even the animals one drink it we're living in terrible conditions the u.n. fears. for civilians in. suffering but the joy and the dead you danger of the face but giving away from me you may be the first part of the journey plenty

more obstacles to go if you travel throughout iraq it's very heavily militarized. numerous checkpoints on major transport routes to get through those checkpoints you need documentation if you don't have this or if you have the wrong kind of documentation you are prevented from moving further on the people who fled we understand it being prevented from going into east mosul and settling there and also coming into the kurdistan region bill and other places in kurdistan way that displacement camps when it comes to refugees there's a sense of paranoia here soldier manning the checkpoint seeing refugees approaching him. a real refugee from an infiltrator or a suicide bomber who's just trying to get close to blow his vest so the security precautions are absolutely necessary but they don't make the lives of refugees in

the. operation deliberate far less than a week old and. is much smaller we can only hope it doesn't end like mosul a city in ruins thousands dead more missing and with nobody to hold accountable. according to the un up to thirty thousand civilians remain trapped in the city basic necessities including food and medicine gas while thousands of been forced to flee and more are expected to leave as the operation intensifies early and my colleague was not date on the situation from unicef's representative in iraq the city of lead. but we know. the operation that's happening in. about thirty thousand people have already fled and between twenty to forty thousand people are still remain with dire humanitarian situation

nobody actually knows exactly how many people are inside what will we know is the condition of the people that are living in there is not something that is it's considered good both food and water and other necessities running short unicef and protection partners together had been addressing the issues of and combine it and separated children ten percent or close to ten percent of those are children that are and company and i combine it means they're coming in to be mustering going son comes with no bargains and with the nor one with them. does the operation to liberate telephone intensify as many have spotted striking similarities with the mosul campaign that left thousands dead indeed both cities where i saw strongholds besieged by u.s. spots coalition forces just like telephone now thousands of civilians were trapped

inside mosul and a bar of bombs for those trying to flee or caught in the crossfire and those remaining had no access to humanitarian aid its food water and basic necessities fast running out we spoke to sara. the car a from the red cross who says telefon may well face the devastation he witnessed in mosul and the operations that have been going forward of course we see that there are a lot of others to be have been of course the people in. need similar consequences to what will a very fun loving full of water is that if he's. going to get even more and the people who are really into careers leave many of them well. nine while being shot. it's emerged the belgian authorities contacted their spanish counterparts last year

and it concerns the a mom who's suspected of masterminding last week's twin atrocities in spain may have had terror links its claim to spanish police at the time denied the a mom had any connection to terrorism. well the main focus of attention is now on the small spanish town of ripon is where the a mom in question preached in a local mosque is also well all the members of the terrorist cell grew up and last week they carried out twin ramming attacks in barcelona on the resort of cambria was leaving fifteen dead it came just a day after what was believed to be their bomb making factory in al konar was destroyed in an explosion artie's place all of a traveled to riposte of finds the homes of the suspects and speak to locals who had known them since childhood. radicalizing force batticaloa used by a moroccan born in miami police now believe the reply was at the center of the plot

. this small spanish town took away in the foothills of the pyrenees is hardly what you think of as a hotbed of islamic terrorism but it was here in the fall that the terrorist cell which attacked barcelona recruited were indoctrinated and radicalized eventually going on to carry out their deadly mission. was. but it was here that the terrorists that rammed his truck into crowds of people impossible loner lived. the twenty two year old moroccan was gunned down on monday following eight four day manhunt by authorities was the our. local people here say they can't believe he lived within their community. they

play football together on the beach nearby with other kids from the neighborhood they were brought up here. but. of course the payments not the behind will happen round here we can believe it the seem to be very nice people he will. be probably be roaming around but it's just that i was saluted with a whole slew of things that the sale melted into a full society attending the local high school and being a fixture on local football fields so how did say seemingly quiet group of quiet teenage is on a quiet town and is part of a jihad to sell the answers to the vast many looking towards the mosque that they attended it's here that they're understood to have attended prayers led by our

society who's been accused of being the. ringmaster behind this terrorist cell the authorities pointed the finger at him and now that's being reiterated by some of those accused of being part of the cell have appeared in court but who is. what do we know about the thirty year old moroccan national we know that he had a criminal past in front back in twenty ten he was sent to prison here in spain for his part in a drug smuggling operation and it's in jail where he's understood to have become radicalized in fact he's believed to have spent time with those who plotted and carried out the madrid bombings we also know that back in twenty sixteen he spent time in belgium around the time of the bombings on the metro the airports in brussels. he is believed to have been killed it was announced by authorities that his d.n.a. was found at the site of

a bomb making factory did exploded and at the moment the authorities are writing that off as that his own potential weapons of death course him out in the end. as the investigation continues arrests continue to be made including that of the owner of an internet cafe that suspected members of the terrorist cell and no into a frequent it begs the question just how many small tranquil communities like this could potentially be harboring fatal terrorist cells peter all of a. meanwhile and rome police have used a water cannon to disperse more than one hundred migrants. i. i was i was.

crowds of migrants had taken to the streets in protest over the eviction of hundreds of people from an occupied building rioting refugees through projectiles at officers and blocked nearby streets with a number of like one still on the rise and europe questions have been raised over security on the continent we spoke to cal a deputy mayor millionaire who believes that those who pose a threat should be sent back to their native countries alongside special measures being put in place. i think we really need. a central office european office for intelligence to educated on that. i know there is in europe. project about it but it's not only projects we need we need to work on that and even if they are born in france or spain or whatever born in europe once they go in a country. to learn how to create

a tax. they must be. kept away from europe and they must stay in this in this countries it's not to decide whether they come back and we treat them differently and we found them to santa is to try to protect people that such i know they must be probated to come back and we need intelligence a real european intelligence service to work on that nobody in europe whatever they are migrants or not and nobody in europe can say i'm safe in my country we asked new yorkers who they think has the moral lead in the u.s. these days find out after the break. called the feeling of. every the world experience.

and you get it on the old the old. the old according to just. come along for the ride. the current situation is that there's concerns on the part of the four arab countries egypt saudi arabia emirates . as relates to policies of qatar but i have to be addressed to have had a very adverse impact on national security in the case of material evidence exists in the face of policies that have been adversely impacted has created and has caused a loss of life in egypt this is an intolerable situation. with

critics claiming america's moral compass has lost direction on the donald trump the us mainstream media is repeatedly pushing the idea it's big business leaders who now offer the best guidance kind of people in new york whether they share that view . with so much chaos and confusion these days many americans are looking for a new source of moral guidance so who should be giving that stuff i think the founding fathers have a lot of inspiration there donald trump is the moral compass the u.n. secretary general antonio terrorists jimmy carter you like jimmy carter yes a lot of mainstream media outlets have another voice in mind the top dogs of corporate america.

that's right the big boys in the boardrooms are now standing up for justice and fighting the power after charlottesville they just can't hold back any longer hate should be condemned and has no place in a country that draws its strength from our diversity and humanity prison draw missed a critical open to unity to help bring our country together i'm the most clarifying voice has been the voice of business these chief executives have taken the risk to speak truth to power yes truth to power and these men are just known for their good deeds j.p. morgan got caught overcharging thousands of military families for their mortgages and had predatory lending practices that specifically targeted black and hispanic people walmart is known to get their clothes from sweat shops in bangladesh where the workers get paid fourteen cents an hour oh and over here they've been caught paying out millions of dollars in bribes in order to get building permits and they're in walker's pepsi co they've been caught with discrimination in hiring

practices and been forced to pay out millions of dollars in settlements and who can forget their oh so classy advertisement featuring police brutality protests of pepsi are they a good moral company. or not i mean personally i don't think their products more heidi i don't think feeding sugar to you know americans in the quantities of nestle morrow. overall they're dependent on their products that are maybe not good for. not good for your health. no no do you want to do you think j.p. morgan the banking firm is a good moral compass for america i don't really trust any banking institutions don't think that a corporation should be morally reprehensible what about wal-mart do you think they're a good moral compass for america probably too big or too big of a monopoly when you hear people's experience it will not get one inside it doesn't seem so they employ a lot of people minimum wage laws are what they are perhaps it isn't just

a burning passion for social justice in the wall street suites but rather that they discovered that social justice is a great marketing strategy caleb oppen artsy new york. we spoke to economist christopher green who doesn't believe the marline days of wall street's big quakes make them a good fit for the row they're taking the moral high road is because they're being pressured by the system that doesn't support trump you see the entire system the establishment media the establishment elites are against donald trump he wasn't supposed to win the election so they've got to take him out right so they're incentivized by money and what they're trying to do is create this fiction divide the american people keep us focused on each other this is a very effective strategy it's definitely incentivized with a profit motive that's that's number one for these companies these companies have zero moral highground. ahead of germany's general election both the chancellor

and one of her key rivals from the social democrats on the all that happy with the country's closest ally i'm going to merkel has his title to the america first policy well martin schulz promised to remove the u.s. nuclear weapons from germany if he becomes time for with more on the deepening rift with washington has to go into. for years it seemed that you could safely assume germany and the u.s. would be best friends forever but as the trumpet ministration charges forward with its america first approach to foreign policy they might as well be leaving behind one of their closest and most important allies take the rising tensions with north korea for example that has shown a clear divide and opinions trump saber rattle and lashed out with. make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire fury while merkel flat out refused to back trump's plan and i have to answer that no i do not see a military solution from north korea i cannot accept that and just this week after

trump announced america's old i'm sorry new afghan strategy you know more troops and no end to the war and fight that also didn't exactly line up with expectations it is important that the us discuss with europeans how we can work together to ensure that the country becomes more peaceful and secure so the people in afghanistan do not have to flee to us we expect the worst to move cooled makes his actions with europe so it seems berlin is increasingly irked if not utterly hostile toward the number of moves coming from washington even when it comes to one of their usual mutual enemies russia germany was fuming when trump signed off on a fresh wave of sanctions against moscow no not out of some sudden newfound affection towards russia but because the measures were approved without heeding europe's business interests and could actually end up threatening them that must not happen we generally reject sanctions with extraterritorial facts meaning and impact on third countries friendship is as they say a two way street so perhaps washington should be wary of the fact that america

first could end up turning into america alone. r.t. washington d.c. . in charlottesville virginia a controversial monument of the confederate general has been covered in a black shroud it was carried out as part of the mourning for a woman killed in the recent mayhem that erupted over that for to. give us thought to the finals broke out almost two weeks ago when a rally in support of the monument faced a counter protest since then a war on the confederate her husband took claimed in different parts of the country with several monuments already demolished although sometimes the tall gets quite unusual. i don't care if the george washington statue or thomas jefferson statue or rather

to the statue they all need to calm down. e.s.p.n. executives have decided that a play by play announcer robert lee will not be in the broadcast booth for next saturday's college football season opener because of the similarity between his name and the famed confederate icon.

this is a perfect example of what kind of lunacy our country is going through connally's rice said it beautifully these are these this is our history right and what the left is engaging is a storable revisionism this is the reality for better or for worse of what the us was that is most of our founding fathers were slave owners right there are participating in the evil of slavery so it's i mean we have tear them down so we take washington off the one dollar bill it's a teachable moment you walk in with your kids to the south and you see a mine at the jefferson davis or whoever it might be it's a moment to sit with your child and reflect on what was and how we moved from it i think we're heading to a very dark place and it scares me quite

a bit now it seems the war on monuments is crossing oceans a journalist for a major u.k. newspaper is calling for nelson's call them in london to be toppled they all ticklish to much debate in the media some reduced defense the authors claims that the country's naval hero was a defender of slavery but many completely oppose the idea of taking down the key london landmark wealthy people in london whether apple nelson should be given his marching orders. there's been an argument made to us saying that in this day and age you would be perceived as a white supremacist. rubbish everybody has you see everybody seems to enjoy and i don't think it should be to moche i don't think there's going to do any harm trying to get rid of. no one well you can get rid of is that. tends to show some of the be all fucked up that you can get rid of but i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more news in the meantime tickets and such and share your thoughts on the day's stories by following those on facebook and on twitter.

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what is it when the swiss national bank the central bank and other central banks on behalf of governments are now the biggest owners of stocks when japan is the biggest seller of exchange traded funds that's called nationalization that's socialism and combined with the central bank the polling bureau that is fixing the price of money it's not a free money market for money and combined with purchases of open assets and that's moscow's assets that's pretty good communism that's nationalism that's why this joke global economy is shrinking because the social beliefs about what danny blanchflower power says they're not operating in ways to free markets.

greetings and salutations the average salary of all us human beings from having those small blue planets that somewhere around seventeen to twenty thousand dollars a year or to the international labor organization here in the united states your average salary sits around forty four thousand dollars a year in other words most people aren't living large these days which makes it a tad disconcerting when we see millions upon millions of dollars being wasted by governments corporations and other groups around the world here in the united states where the universal champion braga was near of wasting tax dollars this is due primarily to our obsession with the military industrial complex take for example the amount of money we've wasted on the beautiful island retreat to guantanamo bay cuba the gorgeous beach beach side war on terror prison resort and military base surrounded by a very fertile minefield just

a stone's throw away from a ban on miami beach this beauty has cost u.s. taxpayers about five point six billion dollars over the years for just the prison facility alone. and of course like a kid in college or your favorite political party it always needs more money yes according to the miami herald the pentagon is looking to spend nearly five hundred million dollars in new construction at the naval base including two hundred fifty million for a new earthquake proof house bed hospital two hundred fifty million dollars five beds five beds to fifty pentagon mathematics at its very best but it's not just the pentagon looking to squeeze money out of u.s. taxpayers and to know our lovely political parties are also looking to oring every last nickel out of their followers with the republicans raising a massive eighty six million in the first seven months of the year leaving the democrats in.