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we can all middle of the room sit. in the. u.k. police arrested eighteen year old in connection with friday's bomb blast on the london underground islamic state claims it was behind the attack that left thirty people injured also. in a show of defiance against the spanish government catalan officials throw their weight behind the region's upcoming independence referendum large crowds also turned out in support of catalonia secession and talks in kazakstan on the syria crisis a crucial agreement for deescalation zones in the war torn country it includes it
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live province which is mainly held by forces opposed to the government. welcome it's ten o'clock here in the evening in moscow you're watching r.t. international. now british police have raided apartments in the southwest of the capital in connection with a terror attack on the london underground on friday properties in the town of sunbury have been evacuated and cordons put in place it comes just hours after the arrest of an eighteen year old man who suspected of planting the bucket bomb involved in the incident islamic state claimed responsibility for what has become the fifth terror attack in the u.k. here well that around eight twenty in the morning on friday an improvised explosive device went off inside a train pulling into parsons green station it left thirty people in. including
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children and many suffered burns witnesses describe seeing a fireball ripping through the carriage. the city's mayor city car has said london won't be intimidated by terror but it is something he has been forced to repeat a number of times already. you won't succeed and you want to fight us we will be cowed by terrorists. you will see over the next few days i mean chris number. across. the attempts to make countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together . and. they continue to be
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visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of offices. will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be a long road. a feet. long that is we'll see an increased number of peaceable police. so. while the british prime minister theresa may has now raised the terror threat to its highest level critical with more now on high locals have reacted and what the mood is like following the spate of attacks in twenty seventeen days and to see
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a choke. 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 get out if you 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 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
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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 old boy like but the other trees asian with a beautiful bump and go into steve jumping into over. it 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 so we see crossing the screen you don't think so i haven't but that's the show so it's not sure if. anybody. can do anything like that we're not taking this that way 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 seemed to be one step ahead of creating a new unnerving and unpredictable norm and
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a party london. protest against police brutality have turned violent in the us city of st louis overnight thirty two people were arrested and ten offices were injured. i. mean. there were. demonstrations were also seen throwing rocks and vandalizing them as young rest began. the policeman was found not guilty of murdering a black man back in twenty eleven a total of around one thousand protesters brought to an intersection in the city's downtown area and gathered in front of the local police department to get some
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pepper spray will use trying to suppress the americans actually banks has been following the demonstrations. protests have erupted and the city of st louis and the national guard is on standby following but i'll quote all 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 this verdict was handed down even despite calls for the 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
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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 amount to rupture and it's . stokely was a credit bowing that the outcome but what a lot like ferguson the potential for on the right has a great thing with reagan adverse stance ferguson officer daring life and shot and killed unarmed eighteen year old woman michael brown back in twenty four. the syrian city of the resort is slowly returning to normal after being largely liberated from islamic state this is the latest video we've received from there the rebuilding process has now started as you can see in the few remaining schools not destroyed in the battle have reopened their doors to students since i saw siege was broken on the fifth of september humanitarian convoys have also managed to deliver much needed aid forces with the backing of russia's air force and i think to quell
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the remaining pockets of terrorists around the city well with syria making gains on the ground against positive steps are also made peace talks held in the kazakstan capital stana the parties there have now agreed on the final bantry to four deescalation zones across syria. is in the country. now and every school means that the sides involved the syrian government as well as the rebels and the three countries that is russia iran and turkey have agreed on the establishment confliction zones in syria where the fighting is fierce between rebels and the syrian government three countries that have agreed to guarantee the g. confliction zoom studies russia again turkey and iran will have monitors on the ground watching for any cease fire violations and taking action. as necessary move
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these deep completions rooms will be set up in. aleppo here. in. the south of syria as well as in the province these a areas again where the. clashes between the syrian government and the rebels as fear and where civilians have borne the brunt of all this suffering that they have had to have to endure the u.n. envoy to syria stefan de mistura as well as the russian ambassador who is just optimism again and they said that if these swoops that this will be a big relief for the people of syria perhaps there will in geneva we will be continued talking and not only talking but taking action on the humanitarian of victims which is a natural consequence of a difficult issue the more difficult issue the more humanitarian access. we consider the establishment of the deescalation zones to be a major milestone it has served as the light at the end of the tunnel for the
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syrian people and made them feel more secure it gives hope for progress in the near future it's worth mentioning that the sticking with de confliction zooms on to a new idea they have been implemented by russia and the united states and by and large they have worked nevertheless it's important to bear in mind that there are sides that actions nusra front here in aleppo in egypt who will try to spoil and try to ruin the decomp fiction areas to cease fires as they have in the past so it will be important to watch for that but i guess if reporting now will martin j. and lebanon based in a sense believe that the opposition groups leaving the deescalation zones could still be a problem. but we'll see what happens the next few days there's still quite a number of ambiguity is about the deal that. is the al-qaeda coalition if you like in italy products which is part of and these are you know well some of the
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fiercest groups. outside of what we used to be the sort of fights of devices so i mean that's going to be a real issue they're not going to give up very easily and the f.s.a. soldiers which we've called rather kindly i think over the years are moderate rebels and not always very moderate in all cases but a big question will will will hang over them it will they do they get some sort of a peace deal where they give up their arms and go back to the villages. but we've also been reporting on these two russian children who were who were rescued from my school territories in neighboring iraq and they have just been reignited with their families we're pleased to say after an r.t. campaign called bring them home helps trace their relatives. thank you it would. i. ever. look up. and would recognize the moment doctors say
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he's all right we need some psychological treatments he won't get but. it was painful at first then we felt joy we knew that we found him mysteriously still here there are no words to describe it it was so hard to find god that we found him and you brought him back to a. trip to. atlanta and had a.j. worked initially taken to a baghdad often age after they were rescued from territory previously held by i saw in the city of mosul both were injured and too traumatized to talk about their experiences it is thought though adland lost his mother and brothers in the
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conflict or the two youngsters finally did return home after their relatives or are played however this is just a drop in the ocean as you might imagine with many more children still stuck in iraq although our campaign does continue. to. grow those who lurk around. the world of the little. now in a clear show defiance against spanish rules hundreds of catalan officials are meeting to show their support for the upcoming independent referendum large crowds have also gathered outside the city council building in barcelona to voice their
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commitment to the calls to catalonia president praised the will of the people i. do not underestimate the strength of the people of catalonia the central government may have many laws many politicians but there's one thing that they don't have they don't have you know they don't have the people of catalonia like you. was i where the madrid strongly opposes the independence push and is investigating over seven hundred cattle and mayors who pledged their support for the campaign last week the trade is doing all it can to scupper the referendum which is set to take place on october the first spanish authorities have told cattle and media outlets to stop publishing content and adverts backing independence while police have raided a printing house the country's prime minister has praised the drive to stop the breakaway. very carefully it is necessary to congratulate in particular the civil
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guard today they have seized more than one hundred thousand cattle on government propaganda posters and last week the spanish constitutional court suspended legislation passed in the catalan parliament which allowed the vote to take place and then on 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 if it is madrid is threatening to seize control over part of catalonia his budget not a single euro of the catalans will be directed toward a legal referendum that is wanted by a few. there's more than a few though as many as fifty percent of cash lands are in favor of independence according to the latest polls one man we spoke to says madrid's treatment of catalonia does show that democracy isn't in good shape in spain. i think it's very sad it's more than just indignation to see the democratic
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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 municipality i will 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 wind up and learns eighty percent of the cattle and six 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. they keep offering the sponsor state. never share it to. dissipate in these democratic exercise but is. he watching r t still ahead we've got un reaction and rallying call to put pressure
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on north korea that story more after the break. the international community continues li emphasize about what iraq or united iraq this is a slogan maybe an approach with the politicians but in reality on the ground iraq is not one and the record was united and years kurds are not the ones to be blamed for what is happening in the rest of iraq and the direct wrong directions that iraq has gone through. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around. preparation washington washington media the media the. voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals. boom bust
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it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. there's been more condemnation from the u.n. security council over north korea's latest missile test an emergency closed door session members called on each other to fully implement sanctions against pyongyang the meeting came after north korea fired a ballistic missile over japan on friday photos of the known to have since been released and with no new approach to the crisis agreed this is how russia's u.n. ambassador described what's happening. we're discussing for a while that circle where. it is illusion
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a provocation. with another provocation. many people it is an issue that we have to think maybe out of the books so at the moment then it does seem the current sanctions and military drills are failing to bring about a positive breakthrough on the peninsula. 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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in other news tonight three children have died after a fire ripped through a summer camp and ukrainian city of odessa it broke out in a dormitory night one hundred fifty young people were at the camp at the time and forty two were in the building where the blaze to cold according to an initial investigation the fire was caused by now that trickle felt there were some eyewitness accounts of what happened.
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french police along with their family protesting across france over their working conditions offices among other issues they are frustrated with the growing number of violent demonstrations they have to deal with. i. was. with.
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him one illustration of how unhappy french officers are four hundred twenty riot control officers reportedly failed to turn up to police a label or protest on cheese day one police union told r.t. the number was actually higher i'm probably nearer one thousand from today's demonstration in paris his party. french police and their thousands are testing on this three hours today and in cities across bronx places they all fed up with having to put up good working conditions to last a day to build a fire they quote made on one cleric around god they say that they're worried that what looked on your investment is going to lead to greater risks being taken by the police and the police i'm sure you can see here is a warning worked to the bergen and stretched beyond snoop maximum of their
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resources and they're worried that it not only affects them and their lives unless family's lives detrimental late but more importantly that it affects their ability to protect the french public at a time when the country needs their protection and the most french police say the government isn't doing enough to protect them on the front line with the country in a permanent state of emergency and unions a 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 draw attention to their concerns these images of vermin and to run down police stations was submitted for
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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 of fallen victim to increasing. and so over the past year back in april it was here on the show say that if you had this gunman shot dead a police officer and injured two others and in october twenty sixth outside of paris you 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 france. protesting simply because the resources is
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a rock bottom each subsequent government promises things that the never deliver the police have had enough and that's why they're protesting with emanuel micron as 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 simply can't afford to cut corners when it comes to france's frontline security. reporting that thanks from with us tonight we'll have more news from headlines in half an.
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