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british police. been arrested in connection with friday's bomb the london underground train the fifth terror attack in the u.k. this year. fierce police brutality protests break out in the u.s. city of st louis activists hurling bricks up police officers and the home put her. in a show of defiance against the spanish government. to voice their support for the
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region's upcoming independence referendum large crowds of people have also turned up to show their commitment to. the u.n. security council. meeting over north korea's missile launches as the international community looks for a new way to diffuse the crisis. has gone forty and lost. two in the afternoon here in moscow you're with r.t. you know neal good of your company our top story this hour british police say they have arrested an eighteen year old mum in connection with friday's rush hour a bomb blast on the london underground islamic state claimed it was responsible the incident is being treated. as the u.k.
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fifth terror attack this year an improvised explosive device went off inside the chub train of eight twenty in the morning local time the explosion the resulting stampede left twenty nine injured including a young child witnesses the scribe having seen a fireball shoot through the carnage the national threat level has now been raised to critical meaning an attack is expected imminently. well the city's previously said that living with the threat of terrorism is something that londoners just have to accept that was a year ago when the words preceded a deadly wave of violence and terror in the u.k. . you won't succeed but you want to fight us we will become with the terrorists.
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over the next few days i mean chris number. across. the attempts to. make countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. they continue to be visible patrols around. which include the deployment of. londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be a lot. both. londoners
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will see an increased number of visible police. looks now at the spate of attacks britain has witnessed in twenty seventeen. yet another terrorism related incident in the u.k. a twenty seventeen pandemic of terror with this now the fifth and every attack demands more security measures and public vigilance down there are you. following the van attack on westminster bridge they put up a concrete barriers to prevent a similar salt earlier this month london's metropolitan police came up with another measure to stop the vehicles targeting large crowds steal spikes road maps to be rolled out a big events but just days after the announcement london was hit by different kind of attack. the weapon this time was concealed in
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a simple plastic bag and bucket and left on the tube during rush hour cordoned off behind me is the area where the fifth terror related incident to shake the u.k. in recent months took place early friday morning in a train topped with commuters were a homemade device partially detonated commuters described the scene as a stampede with people running for their lives to men were shouting run run so we all piled off the train and just ran for our lives we were literally running for our lives and i saw for a second i'm about to die a bomb is about to go off you are jumping over what all's well like but with the trees asian we have to pull up and go into the steve to open in two of the people. that you understand another terror attack has slipped by the authorities but the location this time has left many shocked and questioning where they go from here to three feet from us and scream if you don't think so i haven't but that's the show so it's natural it's kind of flying that anybody. can do anything like
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that we're not taking the subway like let's take let's walk it's kind of scary as authorities investigate this latest incident to see what should and could have been done the attackers seem to be one step ahead creating a new unnerving and unpredictable norm and associate party london. police brutality protests in the u.s. city of st louis up to in violence with demonstrators vandalizing the merged home and assaulting law enforcement twenty three people have been arrested and officers . after a former policeman was far enough guilty of murdering a black motorist last year around a thousand protesters have been to the streets with groups blocking an intersection in the city's. area gathering in front of the police department tear gas and
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pepper spray were used to try to disperse the murder images of all submerged demonstrators vandalizing east. banks has been following the demonstrations for us. protests have erupted and the city of st louis and the national guard is on standby following but i'll quote oh a former police officer jason stokely thirty six year old stokely was charged with first degree murder in the case of twenty four year old anthony lamar smith shortly after the verdict was passed down several hundred protesters reportedly blocked a highway ramp and popular intersection near the courthouse as they march through the city local news reports police deployed pepper spray against several protesters and the early afternoon and this verdict was handed down even despite calls for the
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officers conviction from the ethical society of police according to the probable cause statement used in the case shortly before the answer then stokely approached smith's a window firing a five times into the vehicle hitting smith with each shot and killing him additionally prosecutors say a firearm was found in smith's car but it was later determined to only have the officers d.n.a. on it. now some activists in st louis they pledged quote math is a rupture and it stokely was acquitted now and that the outcome will look a lot like ferguson the potential for on the right has a grip of the thing with rejoined ever since ferguson officer jeremy lotion shot and killed unarmed eighteen year old with michael brown back in twenty four. to another over a headline stories this hour hundreds of cuts alone officials are meeting to show their support for the upcoming independence referendum in
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a clear show defiance against polish authority large crowds have gathered outside the city council building in barcelona to voice their commitment to the court's. role. and. has launched an investigation into seven hundred twelve. pledge their support for the campaign last week the referendum set to take place on the first of october madrid has been doing everything in its power to scupper it in the government's latest move to block council near regions coming independence referendum police have raided a printing house spanish authorities have also told. they must stop publishing content. related to the independence post the country's prime minister has praised the work being done to stop them. it is necessary to congratulate
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the super. sees more than one hundred thousand propaganda posters. last week the respondents constitutional court suspended legislation passed in the council on parliament which paves the way for the vote this friday barcelona the region's capital was given forty eight hours to sign an agreement guaranteeing that public money will not be spent on the referendum otherwise spain will take control over part of catalonia his budget not a single euro of the catalans will be directed toward them a legal referendum that is wanted but if you. well perhaps not so few actually according to numerous polls as many as fifty percent are in favor of independence we spoke to madrid streetman of culture lumia shows democracy is in a bad way and. i think it's very sad it's more than just
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indignation to see the democratic generation of the spanish state and this feels bad this is what we regret most of all but that's all we are calm we have a lot of work to do in the municipalities and we'll continue working for the people that's what is important for us the majority of the members of the parliament of the. parliament are in favor of the up and learns. of the cattle antics and shape is in favor of their referendum of several terminations to ask catalans if they want or not. the referendum by without despondence a state because that's what we want we don't do it unilaterally because we want to hide anything. keep on offering the spanish to state to negotiate to. dissipate in these democratic exercise but it's up
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to them. during a syrian city that's been on the brink and which is no almost free of the scourge of islamic state this is the latest video we've received from there where government troops with russia's backing are battling to drive the remaining pockets of extremist militants the city spent three long years on the islamic state siege in on the fifth of september was lifted humanitarian convoys were soon delivering aid to the people who've been suffering. we've also been reporting these two russian children who were rescued from territories in iraq they have no been reunited with their families for an r.t. campaign called bring them home trace the children's relatives. thank you. very much. i like. it if.
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you. found video and would recognize the man or the doctor say he's all right we need some psychological treatments he won't get better. it was painful at first then we felt joy we knew that we found him listed his be still him there were no words to describe it it was so hard to find garge that we found him and you brought him back to us. d.j. were initially taken to an orphanage after they were rescued from territory previously held by i thought in the city of mosul both had physical injuries they were too
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traumatized to talk about their experiences but it's thought lost his mother and brothers in the fighting. so two more youngsters finally home after their relative soar a plea but many more are still stuck in iraq and the campaign to help them continues. douglas for the. local good of the little. hopeful language has been emerging from russia after talks on syria held in the
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capital of cassocks let's cross live to murat as the of who's in the city of aleppo syria like hello there just bring us up to date well what we know from those talks and indeed on the ground what's occurring. to not have just wrapped up and by the looks of it there was some progress made they've agreed to establish sixty conflict zones in syria as where they were there will be a sort of enforced ceasefire that the ceasefire will be guaranteed by russia by turkey and by iran three principal sponsors all but they will have monitors on the ground in syria watching for ceasefire violations from either the rebels or the government reporting them and acting on those violations the russians will have for example military police units the iranians and the turks will also send similar
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units perhaps military police as well this is happened before these de confliction zones russia has had them with the united states they've implemented them in various areas of syria and by and large they have worked violence has been reduced drastically they have been many a lot fewer clashes and the hope is now that this ceasefire will bring about a similar effect the ceasefire is the de confliction zones are being established in egypt in homs in aleppo in the taqiyya and in nature in the south of syria the basically the hotspots of this civil war and the who plays the reasoning is that this will reduce the suffering of civilians the u.n. envoy stefan de mistura and the russian ambassador to syria have both said that this will be of a big relief to the civilians. we
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consider the establishment of the deescalation zones to be a major milestone and it has served as the light at the end of the tunnel for the syrian people and i made them feel more secure if it gives hope for progress in the near future but there will in geneva we will be continued talking and not only talking but taking action on the humanitarian big. the one thing worth mentioning is that these the flexion zones have been attempted in the past there is always somebody who tries to spoil them in this case in aleppo in it'll be al-qaeda in syria people the factions and sides who are not interested in the ceasefire and who who leave and cites for the war to continue there will be those elements and it will be important to carry on with the de confliction zooms to carry on with this ceasefire despite despite any attempt they might make to
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spoil them to ruin them you know a lot resting on this latest one spent on the talks in kazakhstan about the situation on the ground in syria at murat gal's dhea of in aleppo thank you. the u.n. security council has condemned the latest north korean missile test out an emergency closed door session it's called on all members to fully implement previously agreed sanctions the meeting was called after p.r. fired a ballistic missile over japan on friday photos of the launch have since been released by the north's media with no approach to the crisis agreed upon russia's ambassador to the u.n. security council said we are seeing quote a vicious circle of aggression we were discussing for a while that word it in a vicious circle where. it is illusion a provocation pro occasion that is addition of another provocation. we were
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contemplating as many people it is an issue that we have to think maybe out of the books it does seem the current sanctions and military drills are failing to bring about a positive breakthrough on the potential. this is the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation. these sanctions will cut deep. meaning today's resolution builds on what were already the deepest cutting sanctions ever leveled against north korea those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen.
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ok we're going to take a short break but after that french police are holding rallies or cross the country in protest over their working conditions we get into about some work it. seems wrong but. just don't hold. me. to shape out these days because the ticket and it. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.
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in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporate corporations washington washington post media the. voters elected to run this country business because. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. international french police are holding protests in cities across the country this sunday over working conditions they're calling on people to join them in support
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officers say they're frustrated with the increasing number of violent protests they have to cope with. the truth. when one illustration of how unhealthy french police officers are with their jobs four hundred twenty riot control officers reportedly failed to turn up to a labor law a protest on choose day one police union official told r.t. the number was actually higher around a thousand looks at the planned police demonstration. french police say the government isn't doing enough to protect them on the front line with the country in
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a permanent state of emergency and unions are complaining that office is a force to work in insufficient i'm delighted dated conditions. french citizens have a misleading image of what's actually going on with law and order all the police here whether it's on the street or the investigators they're working flat out they're doing everything they can but they don't have the resources to do everything that they can the national police are working and deplorable conditions offices have even tried to use some humor to george tension to their concerns these images of vermin and to run down police stations was submitted for a police union photo competition asking for proof of poor working conditions adding to the pressure is the increasing number of terror incidents with security services failing to prevent seven attacks within the past eight months alone and the police themselves are often becoming targets french police officers
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a fallen victim to increasing violence over the past year back in april it was here on the show say that a jihadist gunman shot dead a police officer and injured two others and in october twenty sixth outside of paris youths told petrol bombs four police officers one nearly died of his injuries . that incident sparked protests from police unions demanding that the french government do more to protect them and protests are under way again across from its new delhi the protesting simply because the resources is a rock bottom each subsequent government promises things the deliver the police have had enough and that's why they're protesting with emanuel not quantised president police unions in the country are even more concerned. promised to cut public spending and tackle france's public debt but french police say the country
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simply can't afford to cut corners when it comes to france's frontline security. two children died in a fire of a children's summer camp in the ukrainian city of odessa according to local police while the other child is missing several more people are said to be hurt the fire broke out in a dormitory block during the night a hundred fifty young people were at the time forty who were in the building when the blaze took place all the survivors have now been evacuated from this site it's believed to have been electrocuted fire that caused the blaze has no being brought under control you can see the firefighters through the night. if you like to know more in the story website will be covering it throughout the day and lots more. to
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