yampa is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than food that you see people you've never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank so they. really. seriously send us an e-mail. children who had been stranded in the united with loved ones in russia. trying to adjust to a normal life. everything but. the winds. victory out of the iraqi army. stronghold human rights groups fear for the fate of civilians in the city of.

repeated pledge to quit. locals say no one is safe. operation. with the recap of the past seven days plus the big events this sunday welcome to the weekly in our t.v. international our top story five children from southern russia who were stranded in iraq have been reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taking to iraq by their parents who were killed while fighting for our 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 a teacher and. what they went through is heart wrenching. i know never more give each and. so. one of them are going to third grade dessert. preferred so. much guilt. if it does bad thing.

are to him i have travelled to digest stunned to see how the pair are opting to life back home. tears of joy and relief a 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 military who witnessed the chorus of i still the loss of their parents and being left all alone into bug out orphanage. where the little sisters had vision and for thema bases and other thing of the past here is then your home and their family has agreed 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 the asia and she's clearly to leeds of that back it seems to cruising 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 realise 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 the has to offer his granddaughter there are still many rooms left on here. today and as it was 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 rep up by popping it i did it once and she jumped as if

she'd had an explosion. this. 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 used to be the ruins of a self-proclaimed caliphate had seizures and that seemed along with a few lucky ones who escaped well now hopefully learn how to be happy children. they are rocky moultrie same as ed has retaken the strategically important town of tal afar one of the last islam 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 militants have drawn back from tel afar but they still hold nearby territory right because they have reports from the recaptured city. we're at the airport of telephone mere five kilometers from the city itself where the operation to liberate dela is underway this actually serves as a sort of said fold based serving the entire. operation and soldiers from the frontlines they come here to rest and to eat before heading back their 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 so 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 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 a murky and nobody knows exactly what happened. 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 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. these are the scenes of unrest this sunday in pakistan's largest city not 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 as a trying to make its way to the u.s. consulate president trump laid into pakistan on monday saying it's making the lengthy conflict in neighboring afghanistan worse pakistan swiftly responded pointing out how the country suffered severely from terrorism itself the foreign ministry also out of the trump statement ignores the sacrifices made by pakistanis

in tackling terror. well u.s. leaders 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 promise the main idea is that u.s. troops will be staying in the country although his administration hinted as a boost in troop numbers he chose to keep the exact figure a secret from poll so once nato allies to throw more troops and money into the pot the president's new plan though provides no timeframe for withdrawal it signals a move away from the campaign promise to get boots on the ground art 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 had been dismissive of his predecessor proc obama's approach to the

afghan conflict as you just saw from call for a speedy withdrawal then while condemning the loss of american lives and money we asked locals in afghanistan for their views to the latest developments. 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. and there was a doctor is of course sulu is hit by a drone strike and another man was on his way home when he was killed. during a u.s. operation there into the house and so schoolboy they shot him dead later they said they had killed the taliban fine before they left they blew up the entire building . the u.s. strategy for afghanistan comes amid a shakeup and donald trump's inner circle now on a scale of mopping 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 kinda 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 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're live in berkeley later in the program but stay with art. back in ninety seconds.

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in the. first. sixty minutes into the program welcome back the syrian army backed by russian forces destroyed one of the most active islam mixtape groups in syria eight hundred militants were killed in the operation in the euphrates valley a large and mind to heavy machine guns were the straw along with artillery weapons that's according to information from the russian defense ministry well it's part of a wider strategy to brick eyes those blockade in the key city of jurors or now the battle took place near this village it's around eighty kilometers away from terrorists or one of the terrorists last strongholds in the country now the syrian

army is advancing on multiple fronts to lift a three year long siege there you're sure maybe correspondent paula sleeper. it is very significant basically the taking of deer as 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. the earlier. in the.

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 should first of course come to know much of you know that look for the journey the journey of the morning in your 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 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 see. no the final chapter of islamic state in syria. the number of deaths from the twin terror attacks in spain ten days ago has risen to sixteen on saturday evening half a million people attended a march of the fines through barcelona with the message we are not afraid but the major focus of the past weekend's been the tone of where the terrorist cell was believed to be in radicalized people all over traveled there and talked to people who knew the suspects. radicalizing force they were radicalized by a moroccan born police now believe the revolt 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 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 their 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 we can believe it the seem to be very nice people who will. be. roaming around but it's just that now we have to salute a whole slew of things that the sale 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 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 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 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 and 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 tranquil communities like this could potentially be harboring fatal terrorist cells peter all of a. let's go to be u.s. state of california live pictures from a controversial far right rally in berkeley where scuffles broke an arch after demonstrators right number by left wing counter protesters as you can see there a lot of polish in full riot gear as well trying to keep the opposing groups apart .

well reviews are the latest pictures we have to from this scene the violence lead to police making some arrests despite the initial organizer counseling the rally for security reasons both left wing and right wing protesters attended with police trying to keep the two groups separated. well across the u.s. a movement to take down statues of confederate heroes on other controversial historical figures has gained momentum and it all started in charlottesville in virginia violence broke out there two weeks ago when a rally in support of the monument of the confederate general was met with the country of protests since then several money have been destroyed or covered up in other parts of the country although sometimes the targets are question.

i don't care if the george washington or thomas jefferson statue or robert is that they fall into. the s.p.l. executives have decided that play by play announcer robert lee 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 it 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 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 moved from it i think we're heading to a very dark place and it scares me quite a bit. well that is the news of the week from r t thanks for watching i'm you don't know any of our programs continue right. with this manufacture consent to public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous.

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