so. the feeling. of the office in the. home at last children has been stranded in iraq three united with loved ones in russia often are safer to meet two sisters now trying to adjust to a normal life. she saw everything but she says her parents are. otherwise. also this hour of victory at a price the iraqi army says it's recaptured one of the last strongholds but human rights groups fear for the fate of civilians in the city of tal afar. from you turns on his repeated pledge to quit afghanistan with his new strategy showing no

sign of a planned withdrawal locals say no one is safe when the u.s. drones arrive. to please your u.s. operation. schoolboy. later they said they had killed its. travels to the spanish town where the terrorists behind the recent deadly attacks in the country were radicalized. by their sunday afternoon for. brighter edition of the weekly where we bring you the biggest stories as reported here on r.t. international over the past seven days first those positive developments to that appeal that we've been running in the past couple of weeks 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 off. fighting for eisel r t film the children in

a baghdad orphanage where they were taken after the liberation of mosul we've also been helping to find other relatives in russia among the five children are two sisters and for team and what they went through was heartbreaking. mom or dad each. so. more than one hundred thirty five deserted her. third so. much guilt. than that.

teaser saddam i have traveled to dagestan to see how those two little girls are now adapting back 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 of how to help these children some to some the my let's see who witnessed the horrors of i still the loss of their parents and being left all alone to bug those orphanage. 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 had these are and she's clearly the leader 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 granddaughters there are still many rooms left on here. so then there's others 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 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. in this. conflict is 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 at the asia and that seems along with a few lucky ones who escaped well now hopefully learn how to be happy children. among the other children returning to their families this week was nine year old mary a cheap was indeed a very fragile when taken in by the orphanage in baghdad a mother is whose aren't was among the first to contact us he's just three years old just like sultan munadi you can see here his relatives say he's already read just into everyday life at home. iraqi military says it's retaken the

strategically important town of tal afar one of the last islamic state strongholds in the country but the u.s. backed offensive come at a heavy cost for civilians. the operation started a week ago i saw militants have dropped back from tell of father but they still hold nearby territory radagast they have 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 from 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 tal afar have gone through 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 were mobilized for this operation the u.s. led coalition has brought to bear its full mice its 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've been 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 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 handed 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. on monday donald trump announced his new strategy for the war in afghanistan and it marked a complete u. turn on his election promise the main idea is that u.s. troops will be staying in the country although his administration hinted at a boost in troop numbers he chose to keep the exact figure secret trump also wants nato allies to throw more troops and money into the pot as well the president's new

plan though provides no timeframe for withdrawal signaling a move away from that campaign promise to get boots on the ground out of the country we will also expand authority for american armed forces to target the terrorists and criminal networks afghanistan is a total and complete disaster let's get with it get out of afghanistan the president has been dismissive of his predecessor barack obama's approach to the afghan conflict as you just heard called for a speedy withdrawal while condemning the loss of american lives and money well 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. there was a doctor as a horse sulu's hit by a drone strike and another man was on his way home when he was killed by

a drone the fact that i want to show us all creation into the house and saw a school boy they shot him dead later they said they had killed a taliban finds before they left they blew up the entire building. u.s. strategy for afghanistan comes amid a shakeup in donald trump's in a circle of course and this kind of open reports now the president's foreign policy decisions with his new team might 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 wrecked was 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 don't know ordered 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. 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 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 well as former u.s. congressman ron paul about trump's constant newton's. it 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 a 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 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 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 some read hope for syrian civilians and do a result with hundreds of i saw militants now out of the picture following a major operation there by the details up next. ths.

seems wrong. to say power. and in. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground.

welcome back the syrian army backed by russian forces has 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 tax and all temporary weapons that's according to information we've got from the russian defense ministry. it's part of a wider strategy to break eyesores blockade of the key city of dia's or the battle itself though took place near this village here there is although it's one of the terrorists' last strongholds in the country and the syrian army is advancing on multiple fronts to lift a three year long siege there here's our middle east correspondent paula slayer. it is very significant basically the taking of deer as all would point to the strategic defeat of islamic state in syria at this point on the ground there were major groups belonging to islamic states that are messing around the city so if the

message there impartially 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 past few weeks we have witnessed a number of breakthroughs that the syrian army is making against the terrorist organization. the world when there was a. story in the. arab . world. 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 for 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 their reality they are going to go about their work there was flat out. a lot of them feel i know you would like to know you shouldn't first of course come to know what to. look for the journey the journey of the morning in your i mean. now the defeat and the kicking out from syria obviously mixtape is a major challenge and is of course the major goal all. 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 finds his 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. emerged in the past few hours that the number of deaths from the twin terror attack in spain ten days ago has risen to sixteen a german woman injured in law from a bus in barcelona has since died in hospital on saturday evening half a million people marched through that city following the tragedy but the message we are not afraid crowds of the anti terror rally we're joined by king felipe but the major focus of the past week has been the town of ripple where the terrorist cell was believed to have been radicalized peter all of a traveled there and talked to people who knew the suspect. radicalizing force they were radicalized by a moroccan born police now believe that ripple was at the center of the plot.

this 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 around him boss a loner lived. the twenty two year old moroccan was gunned down on monday following it for 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. they were behind what happened around here can believe it the seem to be very nice people who want to be totally roaming around but it's just a big. ball saloon with a whole slew of things that the cell 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 on a quiet town and is part of a 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 room. behind the 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 is 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 of a. well these are the twelve suspected members of the terror cell that came from all the believed to be from the same moroccan community and of a similar age as well the eldest was twenty two the youngest was just seventy radicalized teenagers not a new phenomenon by any stretch last year of course a sixteen year old syrian boy was arrested on suspicion of plotting

a bomb attack in the german city of cologne in paris a fifteen year old boy was arrested on suspicion of planning an attack where political analyst nicholas berkovitz says islam is a nowadays can hide practically anywhere. so most of us that we have prejudice some of whom these are radical islamists are others not just people growing in the suburbs of our town in the golden globes outside of the posh city centers we can find them anywhere in europe in society today normally in a small villages which would seem religious nobody would talk about it ripples very picturesque village and i know catalonia and even there we have islamist bases i think that this shows how widespread this established movement or trend is in europe today it's much bigger than what people thought and it can be actually anywhere. a movement to take down statues of confederate heroes another controversial historical figures has gained momentum in the u.s.

it all started in charlottesville in virginia violence broke out there two weeks ago when a rally in support of the monument to the 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 are questionable. i don't care if the george washington statue or thomas jefferson statue or rather it is a statue of a fall into combat. 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 famed 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 was in its most of our founding fathers were slave owners right they were participating in the evil of slavery so examine we have tear them down so we take washington off the one dollar bill it's a teachable moment when you walk in with your kids through 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 on 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. but you are getting just a. coin

saul's for trust it's a mathematical formula. think about all the institutions in your life that require trust you trust people on the road are going to be not crashing into you you trust a doctor is professional you trust the hospital is working and you trust third parties all day long but the point is the first international currency doesn't require trust it just requires consensus to buy into every ten minutes protocol and why would you not be buying into the protocol if you're getting fabulously wealthy or watching central banks collapse i like about it i mean wealth comes and goes but watching central banks crawl into their p. themselves and try. to put themselves on the line. so when you want to be.