i. think i was. in the stories that shaped the way britain's terror attack this year sees thirty people injured in a bomb blast from the london underground a second man is now under arrest. as a ballistic missile over japan after the international community hits north korea with further sanctions and. the french president's proposed labor reforms triggered violent protests nationwide strikes they've been described as a declaration of war against workers' rights. hello

there the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international and we'll start with the news that a second man has been arrested in the u.k. in connection with friday's terror attack on the london underground which left thirty people injured an improvised explosive device went off inside a cheap train at eight twenty in the morning local time the blast caused a panic and the stampede with a young child among the injured islamic state claims it was behind me attack reporting now from west london is and the situation. 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 still 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 a stampede with people running for their lives just what is lost in memory of the baby in the car with the mom to men was shouting grand 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 jump over what old boy like. to transition with a beautiful bump and go into the steve jumping into over another terror attack has

slipped by the authorities but the location this time has left many shocked and questioning where they go from here is flying that anybody. can do anything like 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 seemed to be one step ahead creating a new unnerving and unpredictable norm and party london earlier this sunday the u.k. did reduce his national threat level from critical to severe means an attack is now not thought to be imminent although it is highly likely we spoke to journalist and political commentator martin some as he says the official level doesn't always reflect the seriousness of the threat. in the past they have been manipulated in this country and elsewhere political means so for example in the run up to the iraq

war in two thousand and three there was a big security alert heathrow which many people believe was part of the war mongering of the governments of the of the day and of course in the u.s. this constant shifting of the level of terror threats is used as a part of the political theater surrounding this whole war on terror and everything that goes with it one presumes from the if they've reduced the terror threat than they've they've got reason to do that but of course we don't necessarily always trust the government sells about these things of the capital's mayor in the past has said that living with the threat of terrorism is something that londoners just have to accept. you won't succeed but you want to fight us we will be cowered by terrorists.

you will see over the next few days i mean creased number off. across. the attempts to make countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together . and. they continue to 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. to be any. longer

as we'll see an increased number of visible police officers. now it has been another week of standoff over north korea on monday the u.n. security council passed a resolution on new sanctions after pyongyang's nuclear test earlier this month although the harsh original draft prepared by the u.s. was renegotiated to seal the fate washington had wanted a full oil and natural gas embargo against north korea but the final resolution imposed only a cap on the country's exports the original draft also demanded a travel ban and an asset freeze against the north korean leader but that didn't make it into the final draft either and then the u.s. president was not impressed by the compromise. we think it's just another very small step. not a big deal rex and i were just discussing. not big i don't know what has any impact

but certainly it was nice to get a fifteen to nothing vote but those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen well it's certainly disturbing to hear these words from donald trump in the aftermath of a vote at the u.n. security council at this point we're hearing u.s. leaders again talking harshly about more sanctions sanctions against russia sanctions against china if china doesn't follow these sanctions we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the u.s. and international dollar system and that's quite meaningful in the aftermath of a resolution being passed unanimously at the u.n. security council and what many saw as a victory for diplomacy the words that we heard from u.s. leaders on the floor of the security council were rather diplomatic we are not looking for war the north korean regime has not yet passed the point of no return if it agrees to stop its nuclear program it can reclaim its future if it proves it

can live in peace the world will live in peace with. the latest sanctions imposed by the u.n. security council a result of the heinous u.s. attempts to isolate and suffocate her own country they are a blatant violation of us over and that's why we totally reject and condemn these sanctions any people whose hopes had really been raised for peace and diplomacy being victorious well those hopes are starting to dampen the there is starting to be some some fear that perhaps once again we are in the danger of a global conflict or some kind of war breaking out and the crisis in the korean peninsula could be once again intensifying this is just another dip on the roller coaster and saying that every week with the war where it goes up very high than that maybe this conciliatory talk some cooperation some diplomacy and then more threats of military force we don't know what the next step is going to be can be the real question is going to be when do we actually get to

a diplomatic track that allows both sides to step down. well after washington's calls for new sanctions north korea did carry out a missile test on friday according to the south korean military the projectile here reached now to do seven hundred seventy kilometers and traveled almost five times that distance before falling into the ocean and just like the test carried out a few weeks ago the missile flew right over the top of japan triggering an alert on hokkaido island however but everybody in japan seems to feel threatened. but to be frank i don't feel like japan is their target is their target is the u.s. that's why the missiles are just bursting or would you prefer i don't think north korea will drop a meter of directly on us to say. it's a missile is dropped strength good because we won't have to go to school or leave and go home we were raised joking around never taking it seriously well in response

south korea reacted to friday's missile test with a military drill near the border with the north and although the south korean president threatened pyongyang with quote destruction beyond recovery he did rule out stationing nuclear weapons former u.s. congressman ron paul told us that washington should let the korean leaders resolve the crisis themselves. why couldn't we encourage and get behind saying look south korea we encourage you to talk to north korea and see if you're going to sit down maybe united states and china could both be observers or something and to get it moved on but not for us to constantly stir up trouble by having our military confrontation about building up and having these war games what are these war games where are they practicing you know is so unnecessary and confrontational and it doesn't mean that if we didn't have war games that we would give up something on our defense our side has to worry about the bush doctrine which tried just to you know make it our official policy that you need to have preventive war well

preemptive preventive war is aggression and that i don't lie. the french president's labor reform plans which this month was voiced on change day with nationwide strikes and hundreds of rallies protests in paris to invite into the project some being. yes was forced out of her. opponents of the labor forms to say they favor employers. compensation for unfair dismissal and

also reduce the power of the unions from paris his boy. one of the big newspapers here in france will miss him i know my son's christening of these all the biggest street protests to take place in front ever since he was elected president this year and people here are very unhappy about the labor laws that he wants to implement saying he wants to shake up the job market and make it easier to hire and fire personnel he thinks not full time is up and leave high unemployment rate here in front. of the rates in the u.k. and germany but the trade unions dead set against the changes and they have come out in full force hitting the streets in that sounds and in paris today in order to say no to manual micron's plans for changes to the law now this is being seen as a bit of a litmus test because i know mark one team spent

a lot of the summer trying to placate some of the smaller trade unions here nevertheless today's demonstration has been organized by the largest trade union and we've been speaking to people what the french railway network to add traffic controllers even people who watch as comedians in cars it comes as old it was wi fi you can to say that they believe. that doesn't sound like the employers in fun i'm not really take a listen to what they had to say. this lowers anti social because it's reliable for workers. but at the wall this law doesn't provide workers with rights to work doesn't give privileges in both the public and the private sector as we defend the interests of workers what conditions retirement should they fall in the draft or effects eighty million workers the majority of all french workers will significantly limit their rights and make it easier to find people even when it's

not justified that. it's about to low which is harmful for us this would leave us without any more guarantees among the monk was made a bit of that last week when he referred to all the people that i'm a. free man and i will be absolutely determined to that i will not yield in any way not to slack because you are not the cynics nuts are extremists. who are gathered here today to protest against macron and his policies which undermine the very existence of the workers from the spirit is this movement is necessary it is the response of the french people who are protecting their rights.

to positively use to take sun. and he was all about that later on looking foolish in the only people who is to get it at all possible absolutely if he's only thinking about it for me to put him in this hole leading to it made it clear he's also feel that if the school. well you know if. i was going to say some private health care at home and hang on the president who is determined to push the last three days that he has a strong mandate in order to implement that he has gotten off to the french caribbean you know if you feel with the fallout you have hurricane. bill. down between the pro-business president coming to power wanting to shake on the job market and the trade union. of the last of which you know looking to.

watch. over the next week. or just a few months into micron's presidency his approval ratings have already nosedived dr paul smith an expert in french politics in the case nottingham university says it is unclear at the moment of macron will be able to push through his reforms it's the same as we've seen over the last ten years the trade union movement toward least part of it in for all its likes to mobilize people and this is. these these changes all right a call but i think what we need to what we need to look at very carefully is just how many people really want this test is being seen as what today is being seen as is a test of the strength of opposition i do also the strength of one of the trade unions which the main trade union that called the action really remains to be seen whether over the months to come whether this government on like it's pretty decisive is able not only to talk the talk but she to walk the walk and that's to say to

deliver the reforms it wants to deliver. syrian media tonight is reporting that a dozen civilians have been killed in a u.s. led coalition air strike in water. will have a look at that in detail. here's what people have been saying about rejected and. pull. out of my way to. really pack the. currently better than. a c. . heard of. the. president of the world bank.

seriously send us an e-mail. to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so what you want to express. want to. write to the press this is what before. people. interested always in the water. all over again the syrian media is reporting that at least twelve civilians have been killed by a u.s. led coalition air strike. the u.s. central command for clarification it does say the strikes targeted i slim for structure. on the sixteenth of september military forces.

that engaged in. the u.s. air strike in question. remaining strongholds in syria. to the south of. the strike apparently according to these various sources killed at least twelve. of them women and children we've reached out to the u.s. led coalition. have no information regarding civilian casualties but they're investigating they usually do happen hundreds and hundreds of times. it is. isis. make a point to fight in buildings which are occupied by civilians this is their human shield their. shield. u.s.

led coalition. if there are. but. that isn't the case three weeks ago. told me that they expect as many as five thousand. out of the rubble out of. the city of mosul. doesn't seem to have changed its approach to despite. since the start of the operations in mosul time and again i think we lost count on the many times when the united states wanted to hit an isis or a target and then suddenly there is a huge massacre taking place and this is really hurting and reflecting negatively on the united states' efforts to you know establish its own project sort of the old

regime protected regime in the eastern part of syria. as islamic state does suffer a string of major defeat at the moment many of the fighters family members are ending up in refugee camps their future is highly uncertain r.t. has been the first to talk to some of the widows of foreign extremists in one iraqi camp where hundreds being hanged the location and their identities will not be disclosed for their safety i'll tell you how you know i want to point out yes call that does visit people silly but they even got a name that was apparently an army was it people would like to thank you guys still there it's actually. a couple that was here last among hundreds it was a third tell us it was the legal status of the wise advice of fighters is still not yet clear in europe last year almost six hundred people were put on trial for

terrorism with more than three hundred fifty prosecuted for ties to extremism we talked to a couple of political commentators about whether the wives of i still fighters who followed their husbands into conflict zones should be treated as extremists. well i think the most important thing we have to do is avoid these people coming back to our countries these people have joined a terrorist organization and they wish to join a state that isn't the united kingdom isn't america isn't russia what we're talking about wives and children of isis fighters who have gone out to syria to iraq to kurdistan and have been found themselves inadvertently getting in broiled as part of as much a victim as anyone else has been in power these atrocities let's be clear what the argument that no one saw is making is that you are an adult war have chosen to join a terrorist organization just because you're married you should have no

responsibility for that whatsoever what mr savage but you are in a terrorist organization so i want to not have you make your own please let me say ok side. so let's be clear on my position and let's be clear what i look at you actually look a little later a name for yourself as a showing for the majority of iraq just take the air piece out i keep talking the position of the majority of british people in my view is that they do not want terrorists back in the united kingdom they do not want the wives of terrorists back in the united kingdom but there may want the children who are entirely innocent to return to the united kingdom and with that in mind. these women many of them will be innocent people the children the innocent people they didn't sign up to a terrorist organization it's not like joining a club where you sign up to get a membership form they followed their husbands into a war zone people who have not committed any wrongdoing who are no risk to the state the answer is to integrate them we have the national security apparatus in

place to be able to tackle these issues right now. reports are coming in that five major shopping centers have been evacuated in moscow among them is the orkney riyadh center which is next to red square police say that the evacuations began after anonymous callers told authorities they were. there were explosives in the center's over five thousand businesses been evacuated and police and emergency services are seeing says the latest in a string of such incidents across russia recently on thursday one hundred fifty thousand people were evacuated from schools and shopping malls to after similar threats bring more details next hour. and i can keep all these stories to you at our website at art.

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