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yampa is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than food to see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight my president of the world bank so they. really. seriously send us an e-mail. london police say they are now investigating and acts of terror after a man shouting allahu akbar in just three offices near buckingham palace. the. stranded orphans of reunited with their relatives in russia after their parents took them to withdraw when they joined islamic state party has been running a campaign to help with their safe return. and digging up the past does demanding it be paid world war two reparations as the
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country struggles with its european neighbors i'd like ration. there is just turns nine pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me making arun good to have you with us first we go to london where police say they're now investigating friday's attempted sort of near buckingham palace as an act of terrorism has artie's on us to see which i. know that the mets counterterrorism command are treating this latest friday evening incident which did occur shortly after eight thirty pm friday evening near buckingham palace where three police officers were injured now what we do know in terms of what exactly had raveled we the police have said that a twenty six year old man from luton has pulled up had pulled up in his car up to
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a police found with three armed police officers who had approached this car and when they did they discovered that the man was trying to pull out a four foot sword while repeatedly shouting allahu akbar now of course a struggle ensued in which the three police officers who again where. in arms they were injured two of them had to be taken to hospital the third one sustained my minor injuries and did need to be hospitalized all of the police officers were just charged quite quickly from hospital and we do know that they were able to incapacitate this man with a c.s. spray and the attacker is now in custody at a police station in central london this latest incident is one more reason for concern because of course we have to keep in mind that throughout just recent months several terrorist attacks had taken place here in britain.
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we spoke to counterterrorism experts david law who says it's hard to link the attacks across europe but terror groups will continue to inspire a similar. i don't know if you could say this directly to a girl so some of these attacks again it be hard to prove was a direct command given by. the group. or
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islamic state these are the times that it's not like it's a expect for coming here and it looks as though this group has inspired many individuals and when you compare this to spain where clearly there was you know around ten or so people working together just to see what will come out from this one outside impasse was this a bit working off the road or do they have some form of assistance it's quite you know there was the turkey in finland as well last week that was suspected to be a terrorist incident i mean looking at philip i mean one people ask your wife to be broadswords one spade. if you look at the group what they have they don't recognise any j. graphical boundaries if you're not with the you're against them about their philosophy it doesn't matter whether you're christian or muslim or jew it doesn't matter which ethnicity or as regards your nationalism if you're not with if you're
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against them and i think this is what we're starting to see you know the incident outside buckingham palace happens just a minute solved a similar one in the belgian capital where a man was shot dead after a thai can two soldiers with a knife police that are investigating facts as terrorism the man was a thirty year old belgian of somali origin who shouted a lot as he began his attack on thor's he said he had two copies of the koran with him and a fake gun one of the victims has a slightly injured hand the incident took place in the sun katherine district which is full of bars and restaurants and is usually very busy on fridays a lawyer specializing in religious terrorism says europe has gotten used to living with terror some of the leaders and other. european countries have said that we just need to quote unquote get used to the fact that this is part of our lives and it's very sad to see that in a continent such as europe which has had so many freedoms has such diversity of
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different people and has allowed those freedoms it is sad to see that people are now no longer surprised i mean this was a lesser attack nobody was killed no mass casualty or massive billion casualties which is a more positive step but again this is a lot of backtracking they're having to go against major national or european union policies which state that you know they shouldn't do much they shouldn't look at religion they should look at other things and they certainly shouldn't police the streets for things like this meanwhile thousands of people are gathering in defiance of terror in barcelona but the message i'm not afraid locals that are taking a stand against the deadly violence that left fifteen people dead and one hundred twenty others injured the march is being led by those who helped the wounded as the tragedy unfolded islamic state claimed it was responsible for the acts of terror in barcelona and the nearby resort of cum girls a little over
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a week ago it was the first terror attack in spain over a decade. five russian speaking children who were stranded in war ravaged iraq has now been reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taken to iraq by their parents who joined eisel r.c. films there and also know where they were taken off the liberation of mosul we've also been helping to find the children's relatives in russia. target. shooting guard admiral who was the. question but it wasn't more than anybody unless it were. the work.
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the children on now back home runs can hope for a return so no one life in the family is but there they are safe some household breaking stories of that time in war torn iraq he goes down the it has the details . this is a second short of a childhood for these lucky youngsters some of them like this boy are too young to remember anything but war and the stream missed world that surrounded them so to norad's parents decided to join i so and took him to iraq he was just two at the time distant to remain an orphan stranded alone in baghdad his aunt recognized him in an r.t. can pay him to help the children. through
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. the earth. his story is similar to the rest of the children take ali he's mother took selfies with eisel flags and sent them to their family in russia ali's dad died right before his eyes they were only at. work. but his aunt was among the first relatives to get in touch with us. was. that you know. now he's going to leave with me and my children i want him to understand that he's still a child that from now on everything will be calm and peaceful of course he's going to visit his grandmother but not right now for now i won't let him go anywhere i
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want him to forget everything. one of the most remarkable stories is that of a d.j. and fatima a former neighbor and friend in dagestan just seven years old recognized the sisters she took our video to the sister's grandparents we filmed the grandmother and father to find out whether the girls would recognize them despite having spent almost half of their lives thousands of miles from home in a war zone they hadn't forgotten f.f.s. got a phone call can i tell my good escape. i've tried to. mom approach it could mean the range goes up again mom is good mom was really just so. this was a mom i knew never were mom or dad each day. and then there's a. new person you coach to go when you. just don't do. so.
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marry him she was scarred by the war both physically and psychologically. they just know. that the dish genital. it will. do it but there were no major loss there was just to go over the chill but and to keep it that took okoye for. a school killing you will of. course look at the world. they are the lucky ones none of them now with family again but for so many orphans back in iraq this ordeal is far from over. eager donna r. t.
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. the german government has abandoned a radical left wing web site blamed for inciting violence during the g twenty protests in hamburg this summer a raid on the homes of activists behind the sites uncovers knives and batons our europe correspondent peter all of a has the details. last month's g twenty and how vile and sudden unexpected and ferocious scale for the times seemed to catch german security services by surprise. that. far as i can tell and i'm from. i've never seen.
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the autopsy and why those violent scenes were able to happen so the interior minister here in germany decided to close the web site links saying it had been instrumental in organizing the violent scenes that marred the g twenty summit it's as model first of all it is about a ban of the associations not a news outlet from now on the operation of the site with immediate effect a crime even continues its operation then there will be reason to press charges surely follow starting from today. the web site was used to organize attacks on security services as world. at the big get together but finding out just where the website was based has proved harder that it may first seem we understand that some two hundred fifty offices were involved in searching five properties in the
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area around the city of freiburg as they try to find out the source of where the website was coming from the operation uncovered numerous weapons raging from. tons to pursue slingshots all things that could be used to cause real damage if in the wrong hands which all begs the. question is this now the new normal when politically active groups such as far are involved should we expect the violent scenes we saw in homburg to follow closely behind peter all over germany. the revolving door in washington has seen another high profile departure from the white house as donald trump's counterterrorism advisor sebastian gorka has left his position where he's been a strong supporter of the president's national security policies and was appointed deputy assistant and strategist in january this year who has been so convert it to
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have in his backing of trump that he's even been called the president's pit bull while he's the latest in a long list of losses for trump's administration which if no come on successive fridays last week president trump fired steve bannon every here. before him it was chief of staff raines priebus a press secretary sean spicer deputy chief of staff ok.d. walsh and national security advisor michael flynn or less discussed is further shall we and cross live to paul creek a martin a political and communications director he said action thank you for joining us on the program mr martin now a lot of people will be thinking here we go again yet another white house departure what kind of impact do you think this could have on. well hopefully we'll have a positive one in which people say the adults at the table will start having more policy influence you know i work for peace actions i'm not necessarily up
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a big fan of generals but i'm glad the generals are being around the president they are typically very deliberative and thoughtful in the way they do policy gorka clearly was not he had ties to nazi organizations in hungary he had ties to the hungary and guard which had to be dated outsiders he had ties to anti-semitic organizations people question whether or not his doctoral degree was actually real when there was lots of questions about this person and again it's a whole atmosphere in the white house of people with questionable views questionable backgrounds and clearly questionable ability to actually do the job that's needed in the white house when we need it so much right now a good steady hand and some foreign policy that has at least some common sense instead of right wing racism when us talk about his policies i mean a lot of key players have headed for the exit now it appears that trump is almost
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lost the nucleus of his team so do you think his policies will change on the back of this. well i have to take a look and see if you notice trump basically rides the wave of populism and will pretty much say whatever it takes to keep moving forward get ill or get elected or be popular or to rile up the press you can see how many times he has changed views he had said said one thing and done the other we can start looking at foreign policy he was clearly for the iraq war clearly you can take a look at his history and now he says he was against the iraq war he said he wanted to rip up the iran agreement as soon as stopped in the office and he has certified that agreement thank god several times since then and we can go down the list of ways he goes back and forth on policy he does not have a strong policy background he just does what the political winds are happen to be in the air so hopefully right now the political winds are we want to see
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a foreign policy that makes sense and we want to see racist out of the white house we want to see. muslims out of the white house we want to see anti immigration immigrants out of the white house and hopefully that will have an effect a positive effect on this president. jonathan priebus goal cut they were the main supporters of trans campaign promises now by government do you think the administration can realistically put any of them into action now. well we're here six months and what have they accomplished maybe one thing that's a supreme court nomination and got a new supreme court. through the senate but no nothing else has been accomplished and if you're looking down the road it's hard to see anything else getting accomplished they were supposed to talk all this month in august was supposed to be having a conversation about tax reform nothing has come out of the white house about tax reform because they've been embroiled in multiple multiple controversies whether or
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not it's his inability to quickly come out against white supremacy in the k.k.k. continue to concern about russia's influence you can go down the list of litany of . outrageous things coming out of the white house so it's it's hard to see what they're really going to get accomplished over the next six months when congress gets back in session in a couple weeks we will see but nothing has been accomplished yet and hopefully the president will learn he needs to moderate his his his bellicose talk if he wants to get anything done that's going to be helpful for the american people do you think this revolt indoor scenario that playing out in washington could play into the hands of some of trump's rivals. well the more people come and go the less likely that they settle in understand how washington works and is able to get down to the business of getting things
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accomplished right it takes time new administration takes time to get their sea legs takes time to make the connections and move things forward and that's if you're actually have someone who has the experience to work in government and is there if you have people coming and going especially ones without any legislative or policy or serious washington experience it's very difficult to get a singing competition that's why nothing has been done in the last six months because the people in the white house do not have the experience necessary to move this country in a positive way instead we we have been lucky that the former administration did some pretty good things around the economy so that the white house is taking right now credit for that but economists know that stuff trickles down over time so we've had a good economy we've had some good stuff but you know the american public has a short attention span and i think that's why has the president trumps approval ratings are dismal. political and communications director at pace action thank you
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holds if you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. yourself want. to be right. this is what. three people. are still. welcome back while poland is demanding millions of euros in reparations for its most it is jibbering the second world war as the country continues to struggle against its european neighbors over multiple sticking points in fact it could be said that poland is demanding justice we are a victim of the second world war the damage was not repaired just any way just the
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opposite they are talking about or pray sense is a claim for justice and for what belongs to poland. the majority of poles support the idea of germany paying war damages sixty three percent want compensation from berlin wall others disagree or are unsure about it however this isn't the only issue proving to be a stumbling block for poland and if he were pm paul. poland has long been critical of the migration strategy this week the polish interior minister blasted brussels policies saying that accepting so many migrants into europe is effectively putting a noose around the continent's neck and meantime poland has requested the european commission withdraw a legal proceedings against warsaw over its refusal to adopt mandatory migrant quotas poland is not the only e.u. country to fail to meet its obligation in taking in migrants it's joined by the czech republic and hungary warsaw was expected to take in seven thousand refugees
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but so far as you can see it's taken zero poland's foreign minister has defended his country's position after the french president said warsaw is isolating itself. i think that statements are another arrow in the strategy of the country and the manifestation of how this country wants to position itself on the margins of europe's history present and future the state chose today to isolate itself in the functioning progress of those counties and is not isolating itself is and has not been isolated because it seems to me that president mass grown carelessly polish media reports and doesn't know what's going on in all parts of europe still it happens sometimes journalists and eastern europe experts martin summers it says that ponens defiance against some policies will cause problems for the block. bolen's a big country a major player. and of course if the no in cheating with the european paul this is
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going to be problems for the down the law and of course the solution themselves from the big players in the european union specifically the germans in the french of course they resent they felicitous all the germans and the french and so on they're very skeptical of the policies being pursued by the european union. of the migration for example but of course the your opinion has got lots of other problems to resolve. the poles may dislike the european union but they get an awful lot of money from them if they leave the bloc than the left to find the money from somewhere else. well to get in touch and tell us what you think about the day's stories by following us on facebook and twitter you can catch me again at the top of the hour with more news but if you can't wait until then you can check out our website at r.t. dot com. but
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don't know. they don't make or. break. i'm afshin rattansi we're going on the ground thirty two years to the day france bombed and destroyed the greenpeace rainbow warrior killing photographer fernando pereira coming up in the show the worst refugee crisis since the second world war. britain tells us his country is being treated unfairly by the european union of a nature campaign on libya was fatally flawed and i don't think that you. knows too
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much about coral reefs or cares about them particular i don't think that's the motivation i would love for him to see the film and maybe it affects them emotionally maybe recognizes you know there is this beautiful life force on the planet trump left the g twenty summit could watching a new film by emmy award winning director jeff orlowski on air force one that changed his mind on manmade environmental catastrophe twenty four hours before one of the biggest strikes in n.h.s. history cuts to the national health service and the heart breaks it could kill off science innovation and put lives at risk all the civil coming up in today's going underground but first with every fire alarm or suspicious package in british cities raising fears of a terror attack this summer today might be a good time to reflect on u.k. ambulances today marks one hundred forty years since the formation of the st john's ambulance charity in the days before socialized ambulances paid by taxes in one thousand nine hundred.
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