what. was. it was. the iraqi army says it's recaptured taleb fall from islamic state while rights groups voice concerns over the fate of civilians. islamic state claims it was behind friday stopping in the belgian capital alone attacker injured two soldiers plus. the. stranded all the reunited with their relatives in russia after their parents took them to iraq where they joined the islamic state party has been running

a campaign to bring them back home. you're watching altie international life from moscow i'm rosa lockwood thank you for joining us we start with news from iraq the army says it has retaken the city of tal afar one of the last islamic state strongholds in the country the u.s. back to friendship has come at a heavy cost for civilians but. the operation started a week ago islamic state militants have dropped back from tal afar but they still hold nearby territory emerge jail still has the latest from tal afar. it is important to note that while by all accounts the city of tal afar itself has fallen the province has not the battle has not ended the operation has not ended it

continues but as the commander of the operation told us today the city itself has largely been taken there are a few holdouts in the city a few jihad this isis fighters still hiding in basements waiting to ambush iraqi troops that are clearing the city that it checking for mines and booby traps but otherwise the city is largely under iraqi control and i believe they announced that in the radio for the troops to hit because all of a sudden in all directions people began firing in the edge and cheering in celebration nevertheless the fighting continues in the suburbs around and throughout the provinces well far from it they expect another few days at least of fighting before they declare mission accomplished civilians have tough few days ahead of them on top of what they've been through already tens of thousands of people have fled their homes trying to find some safety trying to get away from the

crossfire the edge strikes the artillery the explosions some of them brave the desert walking for ten for twenty hours through scorching heat in order to get to safety to find food water medical treatments they've been through a lot. that we were in from the shelling from the coalition we're left and the people from islamic state. children a sick we're stranded here without saying there is no fresh will some of the aid workers have been him. this is my son he is suffering we have no electricity. there will have. a number of interesting developments yesterday on the twenty fifth of august four hundred families of isis fighters managed to leave fahd it would

appear as though there was some sort of deal made with the iraqi forces that. because it is highly doubtful that four hundred families with women and children could have broken the blockade broken through all the fish oils have confirmed to us that these did indeed happen they were scotland details very a vase if and did not address many clues another interesting thing is that everybody expected isis to put up more resistance they expected the fight to be tougher than it was and many soldiers that we've spoken to expressed surprise that it had been so easy suggesting that perhaps some isis fighters at least had managed to infiltrate out get away get out of this area the area in. that is besieged but the fight isn't yet over there are still isis strongholds in areas they control throughout and there are civilians in those areas. the

operation bad striking similarities with the recent campaign in nearby mosul which left thousands dead in two cities well eisel strongholds besieged by u.s. backed iraqi forces thousands of civilians were trapped inside both tower far and mosul under constant bombardment many of those who tried to flee were killed in the crossfire and those who remained quickly ran out of basic supplies. in up the news islamic state has claimed responsibility for friday stabbing in brussels a man attacked two soldiers before being shot dead the assailant was a thirty year old belgian citizen of somali origin according to the soldiers he shouted god is greatest in arabic before lashing out he was apparently kind. copy of the qur'an and a fake go of the incident took place in a crowded district with several bars and restaurants soldiers have become a common sight on the streets of brussels since last his suicide bombings we heard

from a security consultant and an attorney specializing in religious terrorism. the modern vogue for vehicle and or knife attacks is easily explained bombs are difficult bombing components are hard to come by and they're getting harder what's easy to come by well a car or a van or maybe even a large truck or lorry and a knife or a sword you know these things can't be controlled by authorities terribly successfully not the way that bomb components could be controlled and what 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 different people and has allowed those freedoms has had very very liberal policies that protected the people so it is sad to see that people are now no longer surprised while those events were unfolding in brussels on friday night

a similar incident was actually taking place in london on a c. it is in the british capital city. 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 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 on arms they were injured two of them had to be taken to hospital the third one sustained my a 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 capacity 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.

counter-terrorism expert david lo told us the extremists involved in such instance may be an acting independently. i don't know if you can say this directly to a girl so some of these attacks again it be hard to prove who was a direct command given by. the group. or islamic state these are the times of the times when we're likely to expect it before coming here and it looks a lot of it is this group has inspired many individuals under new compares to spain where clearly there was you know around ten or so people working together be interested to see what will come out from this one outside impasse was this a bit working on their own or do they have some form of assistance it's quite sad thing you know there was a truck in finland as well last week that was suspected to be

a terrorist instead of by me but looking at philip i mean one people ask your wife and the people also ask you why spain. if you look at the group what they have they don't recognise any j. graphical boundaries if you're not with them you're against them because their philosophy is it doesn't matter whether you're christian or muslim or a jew it doesn't matter which they're still here as regards nationalism if you look within you're against them and i think this is what we're starting to see you know . five children from southern russia who was stranded in iraq have been reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taken to iraq by their parents who joined i self r.t. filmed them in a baghdad often age where they were taken after the liberation of mosul auntie's roselyn it might have travelled to russia's republican pakistan to speak exclusively to some of the returning children. tears of joy and relief were very evident at the plane carrying five children from iraq landed in grozny but for the

families waiting with stories and balloons there was also the question how to help these children read some to some the morality they witnessed the chorus of i still the loss of their parents and being left all alone to bug out orphanage. work. for their little sister had vision and foot sima base is another thing of the past here is then your home and their family has agreed to share their first day together with us the girls found the perfect remedy in their grandfather plenty of sweets and friends to play with. this is her deja and she's clearly to leeds of the pack it seems to crooning experience of football has made her even stronger for team a six comfort in the arms of her granddad who seems just too freight to part with her again even for a moment it looks like the perfect family image house filled with children's love to cries plenty of noise and forcing about it takes

a while to realize what's missing and. i know i need. to go instead. and yet even with all the love and care but has to offer his granddaughter there are still many rooms left on here to them as i think was the date. but the printer going to supply the other. i think it might have been a good big idea that this. was i should have it set up to do this to turn some of that i should give away there when you push it to get up to that i wanted to go up to that kind of alt modes and then and the fact that there are members of the flock but yeah which i applaud the other for the goodwill. that was in a conflict is the creation of adults but it's often children for pay the heaviest price while hundreds even thousands of youngsters who remain trapped and lost in

what appears to be the ruins of a self-proclaimed caliphate had seizure and fits along with a few lucky ones who escaped from now hopefully learn how to be happy children. artie has been running an online campaign to help locate the orphans relatives in russia. or. is i should like to take out that motorola was it was i who usually. did throw me to move was it what the menu by nine does support. what the were. both at the option.

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the venice reign and president has accused the us of waging an economic issue against his country that story and more still to come. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around. corporations run washington washington the media the media the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. anyone else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all.

get to shape out. comes to the ticket and in. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back the ministration president nicolas maduro has condemned the latest us sanctions as an act of hatred against his country. if you see only good will help these measures are part of an economy cooper has delivered a financial an economy blow against the recovery of the venezuelan economy that

once again insanity has been unleashed the insanity of in time any swelling hatred . the new rules on us from lending to the better swelling government the state oil company that the toughest measures so far against the country expanding the sanctions the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. accused president you're of touting venezuela into a dictatorship. 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 were an economic option we try to

integrate all elements together no military actions are 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 try 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 are pretty severe economic crisis so this is just going to agitate the economic situation in the country which is clearly the goal of the trouble ministration 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 us would desperately like to recover control of venezuela's oil industry and as long as there's a government in place in venezuela that refuses to subordinate to us agenda the us will always have a military option on the table in case it's necessary to ensure that they have control over venice was a while then a socialist foreign minister jorge spoke exclusively to altie he said his country needs to unite against hostile foreign powers.

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. poland is the mounding billions of euros from germany reparations for the second world war. 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 in any way just the opposite today talking about her pray sense is a claim for justice and for what belongs to poland so they show a majority of poles support the idea of germany paying compensation for the war the exact sum is unclear but one government estimate put it at more than seven hundred billion euros and this isn't the only issue of shadowing poland's relations with its european partners poland has refused to accept migrant quite as imposed by the e.u. this week the polish interior minister blasted the policy saying that accepting so many migrants into europe is effectively putting a noose around the confidence neck the czech republic and hungary have joined poland in resisting migrant quotas under the scheme walsall was supposed to accept seven thousand refugees but so far it's taken they were poland's foreign minister has defended his country's position after a warning from the french president. i think that all one statements are another

arrow 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 it seems to me that president macro in carelessly follows media reports and doesn't know what's going on in our part of europe still it happens sometimes eastern europe analyst martin summer says poland's refusal to toe the line is causing problems for the e.u. . poland's 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 solution and so from the big players in the european union specifically the journals in the french of course they resent they feel as if they talked about the germans and the french and so on they're very skeptical of the policies being

pursued boy the european union. the migration for example but of course the your 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 bloc then the lot of the foreign money from somewhere else. the german government has banned a radical left wing website for inciting riots during the recent g. twenty summit in hamburg these are all about have the details. last month's g twenty and how violent unexpected and ferocious scale for the times seemed to catch german security services by surprise. was. that.

as far as i can tell and i'm from. i've never seen anything like. the autopsy and why those violent scenes were able to happen so the interior minister here in germany decided to close the website links saying it had been instrumental in organizing the violent scenes that marred the g twenty summit it's . first of all it is about a ban of the associations not a news outlet from now on the operation of the site is with immediate effect a crime even from continues its operation then there will be reason to press charges that will surely follow starting from today. the web site was used to organize attacks on security services as world leaders mixed 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 officers were involved in searching five properties in the 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. question is this now with the new normal. politically active groups. are involved should we expect the violent scenes we saw in homburg to follow closely behind peter all of. germany. back from here almost studio in just a few minutes time.

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case that the controversies surrounding him flow from the democrats' bitterness about there are twenty sixteen lost and i have the best i want to start with this i want to get to this right away because i have to give it up and you have to run with it associates hopes clinton would also find a way to make a different contribution perhaps as a university president or a foundation head. there have even been suggestions that she moved overseas for a couple of years yeah there are suggestions that she moves overseas q like get out of town would you like to take a post in siberia somewhere kill get a stand there you know antarctica build an igloo and alaska move in with sarah palin that's what you need you know it's all about this notion of i'm still big it's the pictures i got small so says hillary clinton.