so. i have to. go with the i was opening an ice cream and i have a habit. i did it once and she jumped as if she'd had an explosion. among five children. with their relatives in russia after their parents took them to iraq when they joined stories coming out. of the headlines of the week iraqi army says it's recaptured the key town of tal afar from islamic state their jubilation however is a start with what the people of talent have gone through and there was no other.

nothing to eat almost dying. on his repeated pledge to quit. as a new strategy doesn't see any plan for withdrawal locals say no one is safe when the u.s. drones come to town. during a u.s. operation. and so schoolboy they shot him later they said they had killed a taliban science or. hello there it's one pm here in moscow want to know if you're watching the weekly or an r.t.a. around over the big stories of the last seven days and first in the week there was an emotional story about five children from southern russia who were stranded in iraq but that now we've been reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taken to iraq. by their parents who were killed while fighting for

i still feel the children in a baghdad often age where they were taken out of the liberation of mosul we've also been trying to help find their other relatives in russia among the five children two sisters their names a d.j. and fatima what they've been through is heartbreaking. i know never mom or dad each in. national outs so. for them i'm going to be jerking her. preferred some. epic god damn thing.

in the week out is real slim i have traveled to dagestan to see how these two little girls are adapting to life back home. tears of joy and relief very evident that the plane carrying five children from iraq landed in grozny but for the families waiting their stories and balloons there was also the question how to help these children some to some the mobility to witness the chorus of i still the loss of their parents and being left all alone at a bug that often that i. or the little sisters had vision for thema 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 what these are and she is clearly the leads of the pack it seems to grueling experience

of football's own has made her even stronger for team zero six comfort in the arms of her grand that who seems just too afraid to part with her again even for a moment it looks like the perfect family image a house filled with children's love to 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 i got has to offer his granddaughters there are still many wounds left on here. and then there's other 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 you know what that

i was opening an ice cream the other day and i have a habit of opening the wrapper by popping it i did once and she jumped as if she'd had an explosion. going to lose most of. the. conflict if the creation of adults but it's often children who 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 leisure and fitzy about along with a few lucky ones who escaped well now hopefully learn how to be happy children. you can far more of our reports and video of those children from the baghdad orphanage our site their peal is there are two dot com if you recognize any of them of course any information about their family's contact is via the email address you see on your screens right now. talking of iraq developments there in the way the iraqi military says it's retaken the

strategically important town of tal afar big news this was one of the last islamic state strongholds in the country but the u.s. spoke to fences has come with a heavy cost for civilians. that operation started a week ago i saw militants have brought back from tel afar but they still hold nearby territory our senior correspondent laura gathers to have reports from there we're at the airport telephone mia five kilometers from the city itself where the operation to liberate is underway this actually serves as a sort of said sold 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 lead 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 so and when they refused they locked them up there was no interest in 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 will mobilize for this operation the u.s. led coalition is bored. the bed it's full mice it's people fleeing from telephone 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 room is complete another interesting development that we've learned of 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 that escaped out of california did you fail to catch them what did you let them do for humanitarian reasons. we have a system we handed over 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. the operation striking similarities to the recent campaign in nearby mosul which left thousands dead the two cities where i still strongly hold both both besieged by us back to rocky forces thousands of civilians were trapped inside both mosul under constant bombardment many of those

who tried to flee were killed in the crossfire and those who were made quickly ran out of basic supplies and the operation to have been moving forward of course we knew that there were others that. did of course perfectly clean. what the new from our very own love for not comport your version is that the people who are actually will be able. to lean in you know then. nine while being shot. on monday last donald trump announced his new war strategy for afghanistan the main idea is that u.s. troops will be staying in the country the new president's plan provides no time frame for withdrawal all those administration has hinted they will be a boost in numbers of troops and you chose to keep the exact numbers secret he did also say he wanted nato allies to throw more troops and money into the pot it's all been a stark departure from trump's previous 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 have been highly dismissive of obama's approach to afghanistan trumka called for a speedy withdrawal and condemned the loss of american lives and wasted money we asked locals in afghanistan for their views. on how did you go you couldn't 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 as a horse sulu is hit by a drone strike and another man was on his way home when he was killed by. the power of the u.s. operation into the house and so schoolboy they shot him dead later they said they

had killed a taliban fighter before they left they blew up the entire building the u.s. strategy for afghanistan comes amid a shakeup in donald trump's in a circle the next column open reports the president's foreign policy decisions with his new team he surprised 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 cut in 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 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 know you ordered a targeted new jersey storage 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. 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 deuce are all very pro-war people and those are trumps close advisors i think that most people who support trump hope that he'll 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 asked former u.s. congressman ron paul about. 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 but 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 mean 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 though 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 coming up developing story a massive explosion of fire at noms death when i suppose john blocks the country's main highway to russia will details after this break. eh. eh eh. eh eh. eh

lol. in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around. washington or washington. 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. half a million people have taken part in an anti terrorist march in barcelona the show of unity was also to remember the fifteen victims of the deadly attacks in spain

the crowds carrying banners chanting we're not afraid walking alongside them was king felipe of spain the major focus of the past week has been in that little town over there with a terrorist cell was believed to be radicalized in the week artie's peter all of a traveled there and talk to people who knew those suspects. radicalizing force they will batticaloa i spy in the uk in born in one police now believe the ripple was at the center of the plugs. 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.

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. who 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 since they were little but. of course. they were behind what happened around here can believe it the seem to be very nice people who will be. seeing the whole roaming around but it's just a big. ball saloon with a whole slew of things that the sale melted into whole 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 the jihad to sell. the answers to that many are 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 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 bad 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 other small tranquil communities like

this could potentially be harboring fatal terrorist cells peter all over. so these are the twelve suspected members of the terror cell that came from a cripple they're all believed to be from the moroccan community they're all in fact of similar age as well as young these guys are the youngest is seventeen the eldest one twenty two years old was a life they got ahead now radicalized teenagers in order a new phenomenon a cause just last year a sixteen year old syrian boy was arrested on. suspicion of plotting a bomb attack in the german city of cologne that in paris that was up to fifteen year old boy arrested on suspicion of planning an attack in the week one lawyer we spoke to specializing in religious terrorism told us europe's really got to get used to living with terror these days and security should be tolerant across the continent 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 it is sad to see that people are now no longer surprised again this is a lot of backtracking they're having to go against a major national you are 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 shorten the shouldn't police the streets. movement to take them start use of confederate heroes no the controversial story called figures as gay momentum in the u.s. in the last days all started in charlottesville virginia of course without violence broke out two weeks ago when a rally in support of the monument there of the confederate general was met with a counter protest and well the rest is history since then several more new months have been destroyed or covered up in other parts of the country although sometimes the target seem questionable. but.

i don't care if the george washington statue or thomas jefferson statue or robert is a politician. 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 same 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 my 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 it was in its most of our founding fathers were slave owners right they were 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 when you're walking 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 to reflect a what was and how we move from it i think we're heading to a very dark place and it scares me quite a bit the war on such issues doesn't end in the u.s. see the monuments to australia's colonial past including a statute captain cook in sydney and also drilled people's rough critics say it ignores tens of thousands of years of indigenous history this out over in britain that country's not escape the trendy that you felt one journalist for a major u.k. new. papers called for nelson's column no less in london's trafalgar square to be toppled she described the naval commander as a white supremacist of the defender of slavery we as people in trafalgar square whether the admiral should be given his marching orders or not. there's been an argument meade saying that in this day and age he would be perceived as a white supremacist. rubbish everybody as you see everybody seems to enjoy now i don't think it should be don't think it's going to do any harm time to get rid of

yeah i know why well you can get rid of is that. tends to show some of the be all fun stuff that you can get rid of. now but develop a new story for a leave you update on that but a massive explosion we're hearing about this cone in the last hour or so and a fire at an arm storage facility that forced authorities in the caucuses country to evacuate people from nearby residential areas initial reports suggested that explosion was caused by a fire inside the obviously i mean it could be worse it's seventy five kilometers northeast of the capital back at least six people have been injured and several shells of blown up in the blaze of hit houses in the area a highway that links the capital with russia has been closed for the time being colin brazier throughout the afternoon and coming out as you keep up with him and the rest of our weekly recap of news from me kev where are you hello for me kevin thanks for your company for the last half hour see again same times tomorrow

hopefully and enjoy the rest of your weekend. there was some of you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you start spreading tell you the gossip the public but the point. i was telling you all enough by. the hawks that we all. want.

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