i was. there among five children with their relatives after their parents took them to iraq and they joined. our islamic state suffers a major blow is the syrian army one of the terrorists' largest and most active groups in syria will have the details. from islamic state. is that. what the people.

have gone through and there was no other to see nothing to almost. three here in moscow. where we bring you the biggest stories of the past seven days and also if you have today developments to update you on as well first off a story we've given a lot of coverage to in the past week or so five children from southern russia who were stranded in iraq have been reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taken to iraq by their parents who were killed while fighting for myself the film the children in a baghdad orphanage where they were taken after the liberation of mosul we've also been helping to find their other relatives in russia among the five children are two sisters. and what they went through is heartbreaking.

i know mom or dad each. one of them i could i said i've heard her. third say. i feel. that goddamn thing. of a son and i have to travel to dagestan to see how the two little girls are now adapting to life back home. tears of joy and relief the 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 some to some the maillot see through witness of the horrors of i still the loss of their parents and being left all alone to bug out over that. for their 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 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 ground 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. 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 granddaughters there are still many wounds left on healed. and then as i think 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 once and she jumped as if she'd had an explosion. in the.

conflict the creation of adults but it's often children who pay the heaviest price while country it's even thousands of youngsters who remain trapped and lost in what appears to be the ruins of a self-proclaimed caliphate had leisure and that seems along with a few lucky ones who escaped well now hopefully learn how to be happy children you can find all our reports of the videos of those children at the baghdad overnight there online now for you at r.t. dot com that appeal still active to if you recognize any of the more you think about any information about their families then do contact us by the e-mail address you can see right there at the bottom of your screen. syrian army backed by russian forces have destroyed one of the most active islamic state groups in syria eight hundred militants were killed in the operation in the euphrates valley a large amount of heavy machine guns were destroyed along with tanks and artillery weapons that information is coming to us from the russian defense ministry. as part of why distractedly to break isis blockade of the key city of dia as all the battle

itself took place in this village here at the resort is one of the terrorists' last strongholds in the country in the syrian army's advancing on multiple fronts to lift a three year long siege the let's get more on this now from our middle east correspondent paula slayer paula good to see you tell us how strategically important is this battle. it is very significant basically the taking of the year as old would point to the strategic defeat of islamic state in syria and i as you mentioned at this point on the ground there were major groups belonging to islamic states that are messing around the city so if the message they're impost in is they are not going to give up without a fight it follows weeks of fighting between the syrian army that is being assisted by the russian air force and islamic state and in the pos few weeks we have witnessed and number of breakthroughs that the syrian army is making against the terrorist organization.

that is. still in the. game. now there is or is a city that islamic states has completely surrounded for the better part of three yos there's only a small part of the city that is in the hands of the syrian army and they're completely blockaded there's no way in there's no way out and that's the reality also for residents of the city if you can just imagine that this is

a city that is home to some one hundred thousand people and for the last three years this has been every on that. they are going to go about their job or their boss. like them feel no one would like to make sure their support coming to know much. for the good. eventually your money in your i mean. now the defeat and the kicking out from syria of islamic state is a major challenge and is of course the major goal of the syrian army at the same time if we look at this particular city if islamic state was able to be defeated here it would be a major significant achievement by the syrian army because essentially islamic state fighters would be cut off from any kind of other military forces and also from major financial resources and sources for them and so it would signal the

final chapter of islamic state in syria. and certainly a significant development for. iraqi military says it's retaken the strategically important town of tal afar one of the last islamic strike strongholds in that country but the u.s. backed offensive has come at a heavy cost for civilians. that operation started a week ago i saw militants have dropped back from tel afar but they still hold nearby territory but i guess they have reports from that we're at the airport of 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 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 sow 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 the tens of thousands of iraqi soldiers will mobilize for this operation the u.s.

led coalition is brought to bear its full mice its people fleeing from california and more than. 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. did you fail to catch them and 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 the. operation but is striking similarities with the recent campaign in nearby mosul in iraq which left thousands dead the two cities were strongholds besieged by u.s.

backed iraqi forces thousands of civilians were trapped inside both telephone and mosul and to come from many of those who tried to flee were killed in the crossfire and those who remained quickly ran out of basic supplies and the operations have been moving forward of course we think that there are others that. would of course be part of hardly any consequence what the move from our very own beloved food water is that the people who want to be able. to lean on you know then. not have that would be. like it's the same old story for the u.s. strategy on afghanistan now that donald trump finally got a few more details out more on that after the break.

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back on monday double 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 timeframe for withdrawal all those administration hinted at a boost in numbers of troops he chose to keep exact numbers secret he also wants nato allies to throw ball troops and money into the pot to stop departure from trump's views before he became president. 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 i mean the past trump was highly dismissive of obama's approach to afghanistan trump called for a speedy withdrawal and condemned the loss of american lives and money wasted we've

been asking locals in afghanistan for their views. how did you go you couldn't hear 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 who is hit by a drone strike and another man was on his way home when he was killed. during a u.s. operation into the house and so schoolboy they shot him dead later they said they had killed a taliban finds 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 and as kind of open report 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 it 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 even 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 strike 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. life 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 also former u.s. congressman ron paul about troubles comes to newton's. changes the words that makes it sound like the world will come apart if we don't continue to be the world's policeman he says he's now 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 then 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. the number of deaths from the recent terror attacks in spain has risen to sixteen a german woman injured in last rambus in barcelona since died of her injuries in

hospital on saturday evening half a million people took part in an anti terrorist march in the city the crowds carried banners chanting we are not afraid walking alongside them with confetti but the major focus of the past week has been on the town of republic where the terrorist cell was believed to have been radicalized peter all of a traveled there and talked to the people who knew the suspects. radicalizing force. spy in the rock and bull in a month police now believe the ripple was at the center of the. the small spanish town took the way 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 in wasilla alone 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 if. they were behind what happened around here we can believe it the seem to be very nice people who will. be probably be roaming around but it's just that i was up to the saloon with

a whole slew of things that the cell melted into 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 as part of a jihad to sell off 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. 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 and at the moment the authorities are writing that off as that his own potential weapons of mass 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 of a small tranquil communities like this could potentially be harboring fatal terrorist cells peter all of a day and that's the week as reported here on the back again it's a five minute. called the feel we don't need to. cover the world should in theory a window that you get it oddly will. go according to just. pick up tomorrow we'll come back for the raw. data.

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