it was. just. like. london police say they are now investigating and acts of terror after a man shouting allahu akhbar injured three offices near buckingham palace. were. stranded orphans are reunited with their relatives in russia after their parents took them to iraq when they joined islamic state party has been running a campaign to help with best play for time. and digging up the past poland is demanding it be paid world war two reparations as the country also

struggles with its european neighbors over migration. that is r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and the king air and good to have you with us and we start with breaking news this hour the iraqi army says it has retaken the city of tal afar one of the few remaining islamic state strongholds in the country the u.s. box offensive began last week but drew concerns over the fate of civilians both trapped in the city and displaced by the operation well our correspondent. is in tal afar for us he joins us now live on the phone thanks for speaking to as a search short notice what's the latest from that you can tell us. well city of tal afar so apparently. the men may still be

a few. holdouts in the city itself of huge are holding out high the basement so preparing you know suicide attacks as they usually do but the city itself was being largely pyramid declaring victory for the city it is important to make the distinction between the province of tal afar which doesn't yet see them because it itself may you have budgeted ten days for the opera he said you don't see people that it was overly optimistic that they would make it but they have made it a great call it will be it's tens of thousands of indians as you go through through a whole hour there is no other way to describe the would feel that they face especially when you recognize the fact that tens of.

we ran from the shelling from the culmination we left the people from islamic state a lot. of. our children a sick we're stranded here without aid that there is no fresh water and some of the aid workers have been here but very few this is my son he is suffering we have no electricity. and all that is losing the connection with our correspondent there who's in telefon we will try to fix the problem i'm bringing back later in the program now where the operation to liberate the city of tal afar now seemingly completes many have spotted striking similarities with the mosul campaign that left thousands dead indeed both cities were i saw strongholds spy us banks coalition forces and thousands of civilians were trapped inside both tal afar and mosul and

a barrel of bombs for those trying to flee or caught in the crossfire and those remaining had no access to humanitarian aid with food water and basic necessities fast running out i spoke to sar as a colleague from the red cross about the situation. until christians have been moving forward of course we see that there are a lot of others to be have been of course that he. needs to learn consequences to what the. very fun they love food water is that's it he's the man who. turned the people who are clean bill. lehman you know. nine one shot. to london now where police say they're now investigating friday's attempted sort of betting on palaces and acts of terror his artes and associates with more in the

know that the met counter terrorism 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 on ravelled we the police have said that a twenty six year old man from luton has pulled up and pulled up in his car up to 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 were unarmed they were injured two of them had to be taken to hospital the third one to steve minor injuries and did need to be hospitalized all of the police officers were discharged quite quickly from hospital and we do know that they were able to and past eight 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.

that's the southern as close live to our guest senior policy consultant of the british american security council at ten c.m.'s to say thank you for joining us on the program it's good to have you now police are investigating the attempted assault as a terror act now even though it happened late last night what exactly needs to be a stop place before they open this line of inquiry is it as simple as astonishing that someone shouted a lot. under the circumstances i would say that's pretty good circumstantial evidence that in the forefoot sword with which this person attempted to attack three unarmed police now the u.k. is already on high alert to any potential terror threat what do you make of the security situation in the capital right now. i think there's a balancing involved because there's a sense a very strong sense here that if one goes overboard in trying to prevent any possible avenue of terrorist attack then one is in fact handing victory to the

potential terrorists so people are still going to be out and about especially if the weather is pleasant which in london's case of course you can never count on but they're not going to sequester themselves away in secret hiding places they're not going to put ball ards and barriers up everywhere to prevent potential vehicle attacks they're going to try and live life pretty much as usual as best they can under these circumstances the thing to remember though is that this is not a single attack because more or less the same time in brussels there was a man with a long knife who attempted to attack soldiers they of course being soldiers shot him dead and that's the difference between the outcome in brussels and in london but the fact that there were two men with long pointy objects yelling allahu akbar tells us that this is not something that was spontaneously thought up that there is some element of coordination involved here so i think the authorities are right to call this a terrorist attack. and i'm at the ted say senior policy consultant at the british

american security council thank you for your time sir. we have more breaking news this hour i'm still has now claimed responsibility for friday's attack in the belgian campus or where a man who shot dead after attacking two soldiers with a knife police are investigating that as an act of terror the man was a thirty year old ben belgian of somali origin who shouted a lot who act but as he began his attack all thora to say he had two copies of the koran with him and a fake gun one of the victims slightly injured and the incident took place in the sun katherine district which is full of bars and restaurants and is usually very busy at that time on a friday evening now a lawyer specializing in religious terrorism says europe has got used to living with terror. some of the leaders in 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

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 you are european union policies which state that you know they shouldn't do much they should look at religion they should look at other things and they certainly shouldn't police the streets for things like this. five russian speaking children who were stranded in war on iraq have now been reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taken to iraq by their parents who joined eisel r.t. films them in a orphanage where they were taken after the liberation of mosul and we've also been helping to find the children's relatives in russia. the. target.

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order. to. make my. must see. the children are back home and can now hope for a return to normal life in their families but though they're safe some have heartbreaking stories of their time in war torn iraq igor's dawn of the stories. 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 sew and took him to iraq he was just two at the time distant to remain an orphan stranded alone in baghdad he's aren't recognized him in an arty complain to help the children. through. 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 and was only at. work. but his aunt was among the first relatives to get in touch with us.

tonight. 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 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 ed god god they will all come back to my go to school. i think that i've tried to.

mom approach it cleaned. up again mom that's good mom allegedly just so. this was a mom when your only other mom or dad each day. and then there's a. new person. to go and he's going to lose don't. marry him she was scarred by the war both physically and psychologically. that it would just not good at this that they just didn't need to do that it would do. it but there were no middle of the over the just they like to kill the governor chill good enough to keep it but the quaver.

of. a school killing you. but it is close with a trickle. they are the lucky ones none of them now home with family again but for so many orphans back in iraq this ordeal is far from over eager donna r.t. . poland is demanding millions of euros from germany with all the details of the short break. anyone else chose seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape our disdain comes to educate and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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sanctions against his country as an insanity. this is the only good to have played these measures are part of an economy coupe to detroit has delivered a financial an economy low against the recovery of the venezuelan economy and once again insanity has been unleashed it's the insanity of in time any swelling hatred the u.s. sanctions prohibit financial dealings with the venezuelan government and state oil companies the move is believed to be the biggest economic blow against the government washington says the restrictions are warning to madeira to curb his dictatorship but officials in venezuela say it's the people of the country who are already struggling on the economic crisis that will suffer the most. it's a strong message for the people of venezuela and it's a strong message to the dural we are not going to tolerate the dictatorship he's trying to create venezuela's president has come out with

a very strong reaction to the sanctions that nikki haley is referring to that were signed off on by trump president trump on friday and target the country's energy sector terms national security adviser did comment on the possibility of military intervention the country there's no such thing really anymore as as only a military option or de or diplomatic option or we're already in economic option we try to integrate all elements together no military actions or into subpoenaed in the near future and not long ago trump stated that a more physical plan of action could be possible when it comes to the south american country we have many options for that as well and by the way i'm not going to rule out a military option but those comments put trump in direct contradiction to what he himself recently promised when he said the u.s. would no longer participate in nation building and trying to force other countries to live and their image we've been moving from one wrecked was it divergent to another we cannot be the policeman of the world we do not seek to impose our way of

life on anyone we will no longer use american military might to construct democracies in faraway lands would try to rebuild other countries in our own image those days are now over so government officials in venezuela have criticized the sanctions saying the u.s. is possibly trying to do just that and the thinks it could have consequences prevent as well as people that it has already facing a pretty severe economic crisis so this is just going to agitate the economic situation in the country which is clearly the goal of the truck administration what is unclear is what exactly is their objective certainly a military option has been in the plans of the u.s. government for venezuela for. many years simply because it's a large oil supplying country the u.s. would desperately like to recover control of venezuela's oil industry and as long as there's a government in place in venice well that refuses to subordinate to us agenda the

u.s. will always have a military option on the table in case it's necessary to ensure that they have control over venezuela's oil. in an exclusive interview to venezuela's foreign minister who are already as us has said it's time for the country to move forward as one of your. words now is a moment a decision has to be made whether venezuelans will take our side on the sanctions and be a nation united we need all of our wits about us to withstand the threats and consequences of these actions. the whole region must react in the same way like when we reacted to the threat of force against venezuela we must be ready to use any resources to protect our people we are waiting for a reaction one that corresponds with international law the most essential reaction is that the sovereignty of our country must be respected that there is no need to

interfere in venezuela's domestic affairs and that the policy of one sided sanctions that violate international law must not be tolerated. and poland is demanding millions of euros in reparations for its loss is during the second world war as the country continues to struggle against his european neighbors as a multiple sticking point. 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 anyway just the opposite today talking about her prey sions is a claim for justice and for what belongs to poland the majority of poles supports the idea of germany paying war damages sixty three percent want compensation from berlin while others disagree or are unsure about it however this isn't the only issue proving to be a stumbling block for poland on this european partners. poland has long been critical of the e.u.'s migration strategy this week the polish interior minister

blasted brussels policies saying that accepting so many migrants into europe is affectively putting a noose around the continent's neg meantime poland has requested the european commission withdraw legal proceedings against warsaw refusal to adopt among the migrant quotas poland isn't the only e.u. country to fail to meet its obligation in taking in migrants is joined by the czech republic and hungary warsaw was expected to take in seven thousand refugees but so far as you can see it's taken. poland's foreign minister has defended his country's position after the french president said walsall is isolating itself. i think that golan statements are another era in the strategy of the country and the manifestation of how this country wants to position itself on the margin of europe's history present and future the state chose today to isolate itself in the functioning progress

a few years poland is not isolating itself and has not been isolated because it seems to me that president max grown carelessly follows media reports and doesn't know what's going on in our part of europe it happens sometimes journalists and eastern europe experts martin some us says the potence defiance against the e.u. policies will cause problems for the bloc owns a big country the major player. and of course if the no in cheating with the european partners there's going to be problems further down the line of course the isolation themselves from the big players in the european union specifically the journals in the french of course they resent they feel as if they talk down to all the germans and the french and so on they're very skeptical of the policies being pursued by the european union. the migration for example but of course the opinion has got lots of other problems to resolve you know. the poles may dislike the european union but they get an awful lot of money from them and if they leave the

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