i will build a great great song on our southern border. and i want. the past. i was opening an ice cream and i have a habit of. popping it i did it once and she jumped as if she'd had an explosion visit. there among five children reunited now at least with the relatives in russia after their parents took them to iraq when they joined. the time the iraqi army says it's recaptured in the week the key town of tal afar from islamic state. jubilation however is that start with what the people. have gone through and there was no other. nothing to eat were almost dying. donald trump does a total u.

turn on his repeated pledge to quit afghanistan there's a new strategy doesn't foresee any plan for withdrawal local say no one is safe when the u.s. drones come to. the u.s. operation into the house of saud schoolboy. later they said they had killed a taliban finds a. ten am sunday morning in moscow my name is kevin zero in this is the weekly here in r.t. all round up of the big stories of the last seven days and first in the week that was an emotional story about five children from southern russia who were stranded in iraq but have now been reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taken to iraq by their parents and then joined and left the film them in

a baghdad orphanage where they were taken after the liberation of mosul we've also been helping to find their other relatives here in russia to among the five children or two sisters their names the d.j. and fatima what they went through is heartbreaking. i know never more devil. so it's. more than i could i said if i deserted. her so. much he'll be. damned paying the bill.

just a little chink of light in so much misery over the years from there roslin might have trouble to dagestan the see how these two little girls now are adapting to life back home. tears of joy and relief the very evident at the plane carrying five children from rockland in grozny but for the families waiting the stores and balloons there was also the question how to help these children some to some the maillot see to witness the horrors of i still the loss of their parents and being left all alone into bugged out orphanage. for the little sisters had vision and foot sima base is another thing of the past here is then your home and their family has a great 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 had these are and she's clearly the leads of the pack it seems the grueling experience

of footboards own has made her even stronger for team zero six comfort in the arms of her granddad who seems just too afraid to part with her again even for a moment it looks like the perfect family image house filled with children's laughter cries plenty of noise and fussing about it takes a while to realize what's missing and. she saw everything but she says her parents are alive. why would i tell her otherwise. and yet even with all the love and care has to offer his granddaughter there are still many wounds left on here. today under the weather because of the three days without food or water in a dusty dirty basement she told me when there were bombs they would go to basement and when she sees a helicopter now she's terrified and i tell her not to be afraid. that i was opening an ice cream the other day and i have

a habit of opening the wrapper by popping it i did it once and she jumped as if she'd had an explosion. conflict is the creation of adults but it's often chewed up or 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 these are unfit along with a few lucky ones who escaped will now hopefully learn how to be children or you can find our reports on our video of the children from baghdad orphanage on our site r.t. dot com the appeal is to if you do recognize any of these children of any information about their families please do contact as via e-mail you can see at the bottom your screens right now. you know the news of the week the iraqi military says it's retaken the strategically important town of tal afar one of the blast islamic

state strongholds in the country but the u.s. backed offensive come with a heavy cost for civilians. the operation started a week ago i said militants have dropped back from tel afar now but they still hold nearby territory with the latest word galatea reports from their. we're at the airport of telephone mia five kilometers from the city itself where the operation to liberate telephone is underway this is actually serves as a sort of central base serving the entire operation and soldiers from the front lines they come here to rest and to eat before heading back there exultant they say that the operation is almost over they've actually even got

a message for isis. i have a massive leave they are world now you have no place here will hunt you down wherever you are there jubilation however is a stark odds with what the people of talent have gone through what it was miserable we were under occupation imagine that and you know they turned the mosques into prisons there were thirty to forty people there we don't know what happened to them they demanded that molests recruited young people to join i sew and when they refused they locked them up there was normal to no food nothing to eat we were almost dying there was no work and no man to sing my kidneys have almost failed it's been three years without medicine or anything tens of thousands of iraqi soldiers were mobilized for this operation the u.s. led coalition has brought to bear its full mice its people fleeing from telephoned more than thirty thousand have escaped from the city escaped from the fighting they

had to brave walking through the you put in deserts which is all there is here for ten twenty hours to get to safety to find water to find food medicine medical supplies and indeed treatment and from what we've heard many of them didn't make it but the commander of the operation he spoke to us and he said they expect to be done in another four days. everyone thought deliberation would be difficult and we would be two months the deliberations. eight another interesting development that we've learned is that on the twenty fifth of august four hundred families of isis fighters were let out of the city the details are murky and nobody knows exactly what happened but the commander of the operation and he previously was the chief of the mosul operation he told us that indeed this had happened he confirmed it but again without details and what about the four hundred families that escaped

. did you fail to catch them or did you let them do for humanitarian reasons. we have a system we hand of all the refugees to the iraqi government and they handle them. still the battle in telephone is far from over from what the soldiers tell us most of the civilians have managed to get out and managed to flee nevertheless there are still thousands of people trapped in a shrinking area where isis still holds sway and where they still haven't been defeated and they have a terrifying few days ahead of them rigorously of reporting we hope aeration best striking similarities them with the recent campaign in nearby mosul which left found was instead the two cities where i still strongholds besieged by u.s. about iraqi forces thousands of civilians were trapped inside both and as we reported if you remember mosul and the constant bombardment many of those who tried to flee were killed in the crossfire and for those that managed to remain where

they quickly run out of basic supplies. and the operations that have been moving forward of course we've seen that there are others that are in it of course fifty billion per definitely mean. what they do from our very own beloved food water and that is that people who are actually will be able. to lean in you know then. nine while being shot. on monday donald trump announced his new war strategy for afghanistan the main idea is that u.s. troops will be staying in the country the president's new plan provides no time frame for a withdrawal although it's administration hinted at a boost in numbers of troops he chose to keep the exact numbers secret he also says he wants nato allies to throw more troops and money into the pot too it's a start departure than from trump's views before he came to power. we will also

expand authority for american armed forces to target the terrorist and criminal networks afghanistan is a total and complete disaster let's get with it get out of afghanistan in the past trump was wholly dismissive of a bomb his approach to afghanistan he called for a speedy withdrawal and condemned the loss of american lives and money wasted we asked locals in afghanistan for their views. how did you call you could an american and afghan forces carry out operations at night sometimes their intelligence reports are inaccurate civilians including women and children get killed. and there was a doctor is a horse sulu is hit by a drone strike and another man was on his way home when he was killed. while we look for us or curation into the house and saw a school boy they shot him dead later they said they had killed a taliban fine before they left they blew up the entire building the u.s.

strategy for afghanistan comes amid a big shakeup in donald trump's in the circle in this kind of mopin reports next the president's foreign policy decisions with his new team may surprise his supporters so you want to be an american president what gets you aleck to is it pledges of more wars or the opposite we've been moving from one reckless intervention to another kinda libya syria iraq iran this destructive cycle bad decisions we cannot be the policeman of the world whole show that promises a peace were key for trump voters more than half of americans said they would prefer that the next president curb u.s. involvement in military conflicts and trump isn't the only president to have gotten the job of writing hopes of peace but as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules. i believe the united states of america must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. that is what makes us different from those

whom we fight you got it they even gave obama the nobel peace prize preemptively but by the time he left office he had droned bombed and intervened even more than his predecessor many hoped that the donald would make a difference however it looks like he may be set on a similar track with words of love being replaced by war and i don't order a targeted new jersey story or if you can see who we are sending an armada very powerful we have submarines very powerful we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option north korea best not make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see but thinking out of policy is pretty far from

a one man job here are some of the people who help think out and develop trump strategy you know the one that got him elected well they're all gone except for one meanwhile the white house routinely invites people who have a pretty clear interest for wars to go on people voted for trump because they knew hillary clinton was a warmonger and that she had wanted to destabilize the middle east as she did with libya the people in charge of the white house are now jared kushner trump gary gary cohen h.r. mcmaster paul douceur all very pro-war people and those are closest advisors i think that most people who support trump hope they keep to his promises but they do recognize that all of his closest advisors are now opposed to the agenda that got trampled elected yes the new team trump isn't exactly made up of peace mongers and it's pretty far from the vision that americans voted for caleb oppen r.t. new york we also former u.s.

congressman ron paul of trump's constant. he changes the words and makes it sound like the world will come apart if we don't continue to be the world's policeman he says he's not into nation building but there was a pretense anyway how many nations that we can really build or improve we've torn nations apart so he is seen as a flip flopper which i think politically is a bad position to be. going to be perpetual war nobody knows exactly who the enemy is and nobody will know when it is ended i think trump has been maybe a little bit more upfront that his goal isn't to get done in six months or a year it looks like he's planning to be there for the long term. he wants to increase the troop levels in he will but we don't know exactly and we who

are on the pro peace side think that he should do very very little without the consent of the congress and yet it sounds to me like even he wants to give away some of his authority and say well the generals are in charge the generals in charge let them make all the decisions. even if he flip flops and goes along with the neo cons which it looks like he had he's not going to win them over the people who support mccain and graham and rubio they're not going to all of sudden say oh yeah it looks like trump is one of us now we're going to support a so i think he loses i think he loses in a political way he loses support from some of his base and he's not going to gain any support from the people who are now saying oh he looks like he's waking up in the he's accepting the neo con position approach to a war coming up in the week that was half a million people in barcelona to remember the victims of the terror attacks in spades.

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people have taken part in. the show of unity was also to remember the fifteen victims of the deadly attacks in spain the crowd was carried. out afraid walking alongside them was king from. what the major focus of the past week has been the pull with a terrorist cell was believed to be radicalized all of it traveled to and told to those who knew the suspects. radicalizing force they were radicalized by a moroccan born a month police now believe the ripple 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 in wasilla loner lived. the twenty two year old moroccan was gunned down on monday following eight four day manhunt by authorities. who our. local people here say they can't believe he lived within that community. they

play football together on the beach nearby with other kids from the neighborhood they were brought up here since they were little but. of course if. they were behind what happened around here we can believe it the seem to be very nice people who want to be the whole roaming around but it's just here they came up to the ball saluted with a whole slew of things that the cell 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 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. 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 will. see what do we know about the. 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 in 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 movement to take down statues of confederate heroes another controversial story called figures has gained momentum in the united states will score started in charlottesville virginia violence broke out there two weeks ago now when a rally in support of the monument of a confederate general was met with a counter protest since then several monuments have been destroyed or covered up in other parts of the country. although sometimes the targets of questionable.

characters the george washington statue or thomas jefferson statue or rather to the statue of a fallen into. e.s.p.n.

executives have decided that play by play announcer robert levy will not be in the broadcast booth for next saturday's college football season opener because of the similarity between his name and the famous confederate icon. this is a perfect example of what kind of a lunacy our country is going through connally's rice said it beautifully these are not these this is our history right and what the left is engaging is a storable revisionism this is the reality for better for. worst of what the u.s.

was in it's most of our founding fathers were slave owners right there are participating in the evil of slavery so then 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 the south and you see your mind at the jefferson davis or whoever it might be it's a moment to sit with your child reflect a 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 and it appears the war in statues doesn't end in the u.s. monuments to a strangely as colonial past including a statue of captain cook in sydney have also drawn people's wrath critics say it ignores tens of thousands of years of indigenous history britain's not escape the trend either a journalist for one major u.k. newspaper knows called for nelson's column no less in london to be toppled she described the naval commander as a white supremacist and defender of slavery we asked people in london whether the admiral should have been given his marching orders or not there's been an argument meade saying that in this day and age you could be perceived as

a white supremacist. rubbish everybody as you see everybody seems to enjoy now i don't think it should be to vote i don't think there's going to do any harm trying to get rid of nelson yeah i know why well you can get rid of the stand. tennis to show some of the deal finds out that you can get rid of. well as a thumbs up for me that's the news right for the week from kevin no info for much. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry

i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath . but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a case still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one to. speak to now as there were no other takers. the same that mainstream media has met its maker.

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