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u.k. police arrest an eighteen year old in connection with friday's bomb blast in the london underground islamic state claims it was behind the attack that left the people injured. 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 cars it stand on the syria crisis shield a crucial agreement for deescalation zones in the water own country that includes
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italy province which is mainly held by forces opposed to the government. hello there come to you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international our top story this hour 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 somebody 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 barkeep bomb involved in the incident islamic state claimed responsibility for what has become the fifth terror attack in the u.k. this year was around eight twenty in the morning on friday an improvised explosive device went off inside the train pulling into parsons green station it left thirty people injured including. children are many suffered burns witnesses describe
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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's been forced to repeat a number of times already. you won't succeed but you want to fight us will be covered by terrorists. you will see over the next few days i mean creased number of. across. the attempts to. make countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. and. they continue to
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be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of armed officers . will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be a long road but. the. long that is will see an increased number of a visible police. will shortly after the latest attack british prime minister theresa may raise the terror threat to its highest level critical with more on how locals have reacted and what the mood is like following the spate of attacks in twenty seventeen his and to see
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a chalk. 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 now. you are you. following the van attack on westminster bridge they put up 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 steel spikes road mats to be rolled out a big events but just days after the announcement london was hit by a 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 grab and 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 poem is about to go off jumping over what old boy like. to transition to a beautiful open door into the steve jumping into of a piece. 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 mean if it's a show. it's not sure is flying that 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 seem to be one step ahead creating
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a new unnerving and unpredictable norm and a party london. protests against police brutality have turned violent in the u.s. city of st louis overnight thirty two people were arrested and ten offices were injured. demonstrates just throwing rocks and vandalizing them there is. enough for former police found not guilty of murdering a black man back in twenty eleven to tell you kind of around one thousand protests is built an intersection in the city's downtown area and gathered in front of the
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local police department to get some pepper spray that was then use trying to spin them. banks was following the demonstrations protests have erupted and the city of st louis and the national guard is on standby following the acquittal of 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 amounted to rupture and have stokely was acquitted. that the outcome would look a lot like progress in the potential for on the right has a great thing with reagan adverse stance ferguson officer jeremy life and tried and failed on an eight year old with michael brown back in twenty four. the syrian city of the resource slowly returning to normal after being largely liberated from islamic state this is the latest video we've received from there rebuilding as you can see has now restarted in the few remaining schools not destroyed in the battle have reopened their doors to students since i still see it was broken on the fifth of september humanitarian convoys have also managed to deliver much needed aid government forces with the backing of russia's air force
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are now battling to quell the remaining pockets of terrorists around the city where with syria making gains on the ground against are still positive steps are also made of peace talks held in the kazakstan capital istana the parties there have now agreed on the final boundaries of forty escalation zones across syria. is in the country. the talks in aston i now over and the race course is all to me is that the sides involved the syrian government as well as the rebels and the three sponsor countries that is russia iran and turkey have agreed on the establishment of decomp flicks and zones in syria where the fighting is fiercest between rebels and the syrian government three countries that have agreed to guarantee the deacon flexion zones that is russia again turkey and iran will have monitors on the ground watching for any ceasefire violations and taking action and as necessary he knew
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these de completions rooms will be set up in. aleppo here in the taqiyya in. the south of syria as well as in homs province these a areas again where the clashes between the syrian government and the rebels. 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 name or a 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 these decon 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. action nusra front here in aleppo in egypt who will try to spoil the right to rule in the. dictionary is to cease fires as they have in the past so it will be important to watch for that. there will martin j. lebanon based journalist believes that the opposition groups leaving the deescalation zones could still be a problem we'll see what happens in the next few days are still quite a number of ambiguity is about the deal that. is the al-qaeda coalition if you like in italy problems which is part of a new sort of you know what some of the fiercest groups. outside of what we've been
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used to do with the sort of fighting with isis so i mean that's going to be a real issue they're not going to give up very easily but the f.s.a. soldiers which we've called rather kindly i think over the years are moderate rebels and not always ready to moderate in all cases but the big question will will will hang over them it will they do they get some sort of a peace deal will they give up their arms and go back to the villages. where we've also been reporting on these two russian children who were rescued from mysore territories in neighboring iraq they have just been reunited with their families we're pleased to say after an r.t. campaign called bring them home help trace their relatives. thank you very much. i. look up. and would recognize the moment the doctor say
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he's all right we need some psychological treatment he won't go. with this 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 earth. without land and how they'd you were initially taken for baghdad often age after they were rescued from territory previously held by eisel in the city of mosul both were injured and too traumatized to talk about their experiences although it is thought that adland lost his mother and brothers in the conflict the two youngsters
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finally did return home they were after their relatives or are playing however as you can imagine this is just a drop in the ocean with many more children still stuck in iraq although our campaign still continuing. i. don't wish to look down. the good of the world. now in a clear show of defiance against spanish room hundreds of cattle and officials are meeting to show their support for the upcoming independence referendum large crowds of also gathered outside the city council building in barcelona to voice their
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commitment to the coals tattling president praised the will of the paper 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. i i however madrid strongly opposes the independence push and is investigating over seven hundred cattle and mez he pledged their support for the campaign last week with trade is doing all it can to scupper the referendum which is set to take place in october the first and spanish authorities have told catalan media outlets to stop publishing content and backing independence while police have raided a printing house the country's prime minister has praised the drive to stop the breakaway. carefully it is necessary to congratulate in particular the civil guard
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today they have seized more than one hundred thousand cattle on government propaganda posters i lost weight. the spanish constitutional court suspended legislation passed in the catalan parliament which allowed the vote to take place and 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 parts of catalonia its budget not a single euro of the catalans will be directed toward them a legal referendum that is wanted by if you could be more than a few though is as many as fifty percent of cash lands are in favor of independence according to the latest polls we spoke to says that mildred's treatment of catalonia to show democracy isn't in good shape in space.
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i think it's very sad it's more than just 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 wind up and learns eighty per cent of the cattle and six and ship 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 don't do it unilaterally because we want to hide anything. they keep offering the spanish to state. negotiate to. dissipate in these democratic exercise but is there.
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you're watching r.t. international will be back in two minutes. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be rich. but you do like to be crooks that's what before three of them all can't be good. interested always in the water. they should. seem wrong. just don't all. get to shape out this day. and in. the trail.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. with r.t. now there's been no 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 launch have since been released and with no new approach to the crisis agree this is how russia's u.n. ambassador described what is happening. we were discussing for
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a while that we're really in a vicious circle where. a resolution a provocation cation that is illusion than another provocation and we were contemplating as many people raised an issue that we have to think maybe out of the books so at the moment then it does seem that the current sanctions and military drills are failing to bring about a positive bright three on the pinch. this is the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation. these sanctions will cut deep with. 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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for her. three children have died after a fire ripped through a summer camp in the craning city of odessa they broke out in a dormitory broke i've been i on hundred fifty young people at the camp at the time and forty two were in the building when the blaze too cold according to an initial investigation the fire was caused by now that trickle felt there were some accounts from survivors and died within six. hours p.c. or. if you are. with you only. you're. the first of the dish to. mention it if you
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supporting them gathered in front of his town hall demanding to meet the mayor many of them accuse the mayor of corruption in the us nor in safety regulations at the camp soon the demonstration is joined by various nationalist nationalists screech to an attempted to storm the building police responded to gas as they tried to disperse the crowd. there are. i. i. i i i. know us president donald trump's critics have been a relenting since he took office and it seems now even some of his supporters aren't happy with his policies this is down to trump being unable to deliver on key
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campaign promises including the border with mexico on thursday did tweet though that is that it is being built and that existing fences are being renovated but that isn't enough the samir a car reports make america great again the slogan many trump supporters chose to stand behind wearing his signature maggot hats with pride. and now they're burning down words burke america's great. we love trouble we love true up. several campaign promises leave me no choice. so why are they angry all in their eyes trump has softened his tough stance on immigration one of his key campaign promises he's now. a deal with democrats to protect young undocumented migrants and there's no guarantee he's actually going to
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build his infamous border wall with mexico what building the wall we're building the wall folks we're building we're going to build a wall and mexico is going to pay for the wall for a while and we'll see how it works. and we're going to get the border security is part of that was the beginning of what but something. trumps bipartisan outreach seems to be the final straw for its most ardent supporters in return for this concession the president received nothing no end to chain migration the president isn't even getting a border wall though he insists it's all somehow get one later possibly if we're not getting a wall i'd prefer president pence at this point who doesn't want trump and peached critics are appealing trump's attempts to try and democrats as a transformation to a normal president. but this transformation might come across as confusing to both his supporters and his opponents donald trump supporters and i don't speak for all
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of them but. they expected donald trump to actually accomplish significant pieces of legislation and now here we are in the middle of september and there's not a lot of concrete to show for donald trump's time in office he hasn't managed to get a lot of people confirmed in key positions so i think we have to view donald trump as a young presidency as a presidency where the people who elected him elected a disruptor people are growing frustrated among his supporters and obviously they're saving anger and resentment among his opponents i think it's high time to actually see our concrete bills that address the core structural problems inside our country which households address humans address for some reason our washington d.c. crowd doesn't want to address that's what we want to see people are becoming impatient there's a lot of talk where's the action where the results. so the question is who will trump choose to please his base which carried him to the oval office or his critics
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