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repeated. showing no sign of a. local saying no one is safe. with the recount of the past seven days plus the big events this sunday welcome to the weekly in our international our top story five children from southern russia who were stranded in iraq reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taken to iraq by their parents who were killed while fighting for. film the children in a bag down 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 or two sisters. and what they went through is heartbreaking. i know never more give each to. national arts so it's. more than i could i said i've heard her. third so. i still. have to cut down thankfully.

artie's risler and then my i have travelled to dagestan to see how the pair are adapting to life back at home. tears of joy and relief a very evident as the plane carrying five children from iraq landed 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 over that i. was a little cease to have vision and that 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 football's 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 a 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 rooms left on here. today under the guise 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. in the. conflict is 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 at the asia and that seem along with a few lucky ones who escaped well now hopefully learn how to be happy children respond to my other well among the other children returning to their families this week was nine year old mario she was injured and very fragile when taken in by the orphanage in baghdad another is ali who was among the first to contact us he's only three just like certain right here and his relatives say he's already readjusting to everyday life at home. the iraqi military says it has retaken the strategically important time of tell

a far one of the last there's no mixtape strongholds in the country but the u.s. backed offensive has come at a heavy cost for civilians. the operation began a week ago i saw middleton saab drop box from a telephone but they still hold nearby turtle rock as the of reports are from the recalcitrants. we're at the airport of talent five mia five kilometers from the city itself where the operation to liberate is underway this actually serves as a sort of said hold based serving the entire operation and soldiers from the front lines they come here to rest and to eat before heading back to their exultant they say that the operation is almost over they've actually even got

a message from isis. that i have a massive leave the our world now you have no place here who hunt you down wherever you are there jubilation however is a stark odds with what the people of talent have gone through what because 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 eisel 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 talent and 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'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. did you fail to catch them and 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 for a month 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. are the scenes of unrest this sunday in pakistan's largest city a rally against donald trump after he accused the country of harboring terrorists police were forced to block the path of the rally in karate called death to america to try to make its way to the u.s. consulate president trump laid into pakistan on monday saying it's making their

lengthy conflict in neighboring afghanistan worse pakistan swiftly responded pointing out how the country has suffered severely from terrorism itself the foreign ministry also out of the trump statement ignores the sucker a feiss made by pakistanis in tackling terror. the u.s. leader scathing review of pakistan came as he announced his new strategy for the war in afghanistan and it marks a complete u. turn on his election problems 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 recently trump also wants nato allies to throw more troops money into the pot as well the president's new plan though provides no time frame for a win for all it signals a move away from the campaign promise to get boots on the ground out of the country . 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 the president tells me in this missive elvis predecessor perak obama's approach to the afghan conflict as we just heard trump call for a speedy withdrawal while condemning the loss of american lives on money we asked locals in afghanistan for their views. how did you call 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. there was a doctor was of course sulu's hit by a drone strike and another man was on his way home when he was killed. during the u.s. operation into the house and. they shot him dead later they said they had killed a taliban before they left they blew up the entire building. the u.s.

strategy for afghanistan comes amid a shakeup in donald trump's inner circle. and reports 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 elected is it pledges of more wars or the opposite we've been moving from one reckless intervention to another in libya syria iraq iran this destructive cycle bad decisions we cannot be the policeman of the world polls show that promises of peace were key for trump voters more than half of americans said that 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 great peril 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 asked former u.s. congressman ron paul up on the president's policy turnabouts. 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 that 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 for the week's big news stories in ninety seconds.

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start back again in the mideast where the syrian army 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 the straw it along with tanks artillery weapons that's according to information from the russian defense ministry well it's part of a wider strategy brick blockade of the key city of. the bottle took place near this villages around ninety kilometers or so from jurors or this block area by the way is all i still. controlled at the moment it's one of the

terrorist last strongholds in this area in the country on the syrian army is advancing on multiple fronts to lift a three year long siege there with more here's your middle east correspondent paula sleeper it is very significant basically the taking of to you is all would point to the strategic defeat of islamic state in syria 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 and number of breakthroughs that the syrian army is making against the terrorist organization.

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 their boss flat out. a lot of them feel knowing without tonight. for support from to know what to. look for the journey the journey of i mean you know i mean 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. the strongest to hit america in over a decade hurricane harvey has battered the southern state of texas causing severe damage and flooding it's left least one person dead fourteen others injured after ripping through the city of rockport harvey is the first count of grief for storm to reach landfall in the united states since two thousand by the hurricane moved in from the gulf of mexico on friday night before being treated to a tropical storm and some today hundreds of thousands of people have been left without electricity with many of the more vulnerable in society stranded search and

rescue operations are on the way in the wake of the natural. the number of deaths from the twin terror attacks in spain ten days ago has risen to sixteen a german woman who was injured in last round less in barcelona has since died in hospital on saturday evening half a million people attended a march of defiance through the city with the message we are not afraid of crowds at the anti terror we're joined by king philippe but the major focus of the past week has been the tone of the report where the terrorist cell was believed to have been radicalized people all over travel there and talk to people who knew the suspects. radicalizing force they were radicalized by a moroccan born police now believe that ripple was at the same sort 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. but it was here that the terrorists that rammed his truck into crowds of people and lived. the twenty two year old moroccan was gunned down on monday following eight four day manhunt by authorities. why the. 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. of course if. they were behind will happen round here can believe it the seem to be very nice people who want to be the roaming home but it's just that now we have to salute a whole slew of things that the sale melted into 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 as 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 road. 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. 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 and 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 bad off as that his own potential weapons of. 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 communities like this could potentially be harboring fatal terrorist cells peter all of a. twelve suspected members of the terrorist cell that came from report all are believed to be from the moroccan community and are of a similar age the eldest was twenty two the youngest just seventeen were radicalized teenagers are not a new phenomenon last year a sixteen year old sure. boy was arrested on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack in the german city of cologne and in part

a fifteen year old boy was arrested on suspicion of planning an attack political analyst. islam ism can hide practically anywhere nowadays. this shows us that we have prejudice an old beast a radical islamist are others not just people growing in the suburbs of our town in the doldrums outside of the cost city centers we can find them anywhere in europe in society today normally in small villages which would seem religious nobody would talk about the ripples very picturesque village and catalonia and even there we have islamist bases i think that this shows how widespread this status movement or trend is in europe today it's much bigger than what people thought and it can be actually anywhere. now the crimean bridge which will link to a peninsula on the russian mainland is set to enter one of its most important

construction stages on monday the complex installation of a six tone real way arch likely to take around three day smore than a hundred specialists are involved in this next stage construction of the bridge but on the way back in twenty fifteen it will be a road real link the road section is expected to be finished by the end of next year with the reeling plan for the following year twenty nine thousand now it's hoped it will speed up trade goods going towards crimea that currently have to be shipped. more the big news stories that shaped this past week coming up in half an hour's time i'll be here hope you are too.

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