be the one. nor the roots to. believe. in the stories that shaped the week britain's fifth terror attack thirty people injured in a bomb blast on the london underground the second man is now under arrest. pyongyang fires a ballistic missile over japan after the international community hits north korea with further sanctions. the french president's proposed labor reforms trigger bond of protests and they too wide strikes have been described as a declaration of war against workers' rights. from

moscow this is the weekly altie international with me rose on a little quit. 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 chub train at eight twenty am local time the blast caused panic and a stampede with a young child among the injured islamic state claims it was behind the attack reporting from west london his alycia sure can. 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 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 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 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 jump over what old boy like. the teachers asian with a beautiful open door to the steve jumping into of 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 following that anybody. can do anything like that we're not taking this that way like let's take. this 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 of creating a new unnerving and unpredictable norm and a party london. earlier this sunday the reduced its national threat level from critical to severe that means an attack is now not full to be imminent although it is still highly likely we spoke to journalist and political commentator malton sunless he says the official level does not 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 at 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 terrorism and everything that goes with this 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 the capitals may ask has in the past said that living with the threat of terrorism is just something londoners have to accept. you won't succeed if you want to fight us world power by terrorists. you will see over the next few days i mean crease number of. across london.

the attempts to make countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together . they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of officers. love that is 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 we'll see an increased number of visible police officers.

it's been another week of standoff over north korea all monday the u.n. security council passed a resolution on new sanctions after pyongyang's nuclear test earlier this month although the hall she originally draft prepared by the u.s. was renegotiated nor to seal that vote in washington had wanted a full oil and natural gas mbogo against north korea but the final resolution imposed only a cap on the country's exports they were told to mando the original 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 on the us president was not impressed by the compromises at the u.n. . 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 but 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 he miss u.s. attempts to isolate and suffocate her own country. place in violation of us over and that's why we totally reject and condemn these sanctions many people whose hopes had really been raised for peace and diplomacy being victorious while those hopes are starting to dampen the are 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 in 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. operations of diplomacy and then more threats of military force we don't know what the next step is going to be the real question is going to be when do we actually get to

a diplomatic track that allows both sides to step down after washington called for new sanctions north korea carried out a missile test on friday according to the south korean military the projectile reached an ounce to just seven hundred and 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 over japan the triggering an alert on hokkaido island however not everyone in japan felt threatened by the lord. i don't feel like japan is their target their target is the u.s. that's why the missiles are just passing over japan and i don't think north korea will drop missiles directly on us to say. it's a missile is trops good because we won't have to go to school a leaf and go home we were raised joking around never taking it seriously south korea reacted to friday's missile test with

a military drill near the border with the north and over the south korean president threatened yang with quote destruction beyond a recovery he will doubt stationing nuclear weapons former u.s. congressman ron paul told us 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 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 tries 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 in talk news this hour russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson have met in new york on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly is the first meeting between the two top diplomats since the u.s. closed russian diplomatic offices in san francisco to new york and washington d.c. earlier this month it's been confirmed that the situation in syria was one of the topics discussed during that meeting well for some more analysis on this we can now call to former pentagon official michael maloof michael thank you for joining us there was we mention that it's the first meeting to listen in laughter of since the u.s. closed those three russian diplomatic properties could this me seem be seen as a sort of mini reset between the two countries. well i think the russians and the american never really wanted to cut off any kind of negotiation or more discussion

in fact i think these this is this is part of the plan to continue discussions because of the overarching security issues that both countries share in terms of syria afghanistan iraq these are all very important issues and also dealing with al qaeda and isis these are overarching issues that i think that are paramount and i think that the united states is not going to cut off the skies just because of the diplomatic flap. with regards to syria the u.s. has accused russia of bombing positions of syrian rebels it supports in provence russia says it on deisel positions and warned the u.s. that the strikes were going to take place could this meeting between into the same be a step towards restarting place a coordination. well i would hope so there is coordination already through the pentagon and with the ministry of defense and in russia they do have

a hotline and they do talk and the this is never been severed even though there was a brief pause but that was really really reinitiated they do discuss things and i think that it's important that they maintain that communication and they will and and i think that there may have been if russia feels that they were bombing isis positions it means indicates that. perhaps the intelligence is not keeping up particularly on the u.s. side and that needs to be a better coordination between the two sides on the who and what the targets really really are because i was important well that both russian and u.s. backed full says a closing in all i saw in the day resort province is they were rationed they could be a conflict between both signs within that area. well there already has i mean there's a competition between the syrian army and russia and united states the united

states is coming in from the east the. syrian army and the russians are coming in from the west and there's a there certainly is a competition particularly for the very or rich area of dyer's or and i think that that's going to be a major component of contention and i think ultimately the syrian army is going to have to take over that position because it is after all their country and i think. that the united states is going to have to acknowledge that even though united states wants to build a base there and they are being led by. kurdish forces and i think ultimately the and i've also been informed that the united states is actually invited. oil company representatives to come in and look over these oil oil reserves so i think that's i think through the russians and the

united states are going to have to take the opportunity at the telos and left level to really. work this out once and for all because you cannot have a clash otherwise there's going to be even greater consternation in that region i would hope that it can be a result result all know one of the major international security issues at the moment that will almost certainly be discussed between the two men is north korea and that rex tillerson has said in relation to north korea that the u.s. is pursuing a peaceful pressure campaign while making haley has said that the washington has exhausted all diplomatic means has the u.s. really tried all diplomatic options with north korea. absolutely not and i believe that the united states needs to take the russians and the chinese up and and actually sit down with the north koreans and even trump himself president trump had offered last year and again this year to actually sit down and actually offer what

he would call a hamburger at this and have a lunch over over discussions i would call it hamburger diplomacy but and but this we have not had an offer of direct talks and this i think is what kim jong il is looking for he wants to sit down with trump trump wants to sit down with him trump said that it depends upon the conditions that they're just right well i think they're right and they need to be done because the alternative is war and that is the last alternative you ever want to tell you i think that the that actually russia and china need to take the initiative on this on this score and call for such a meeting the u.n. in fact is actually offered to sponsor such and host such a meeting and i think that the united states needs to take the u.n.

as well as russia and china up on that offer. having to play with the certainly may be something worth exploring a full the pentagon official michelman this thank you for joining us pleasure thank you. deep anger at the french president's labor reform plans what to do this month was waste on tuesday with nationwide strikes and hundreds of rallies protests in paris turned violent with projectiles and fleda's being thrown. yesterday i was forced out of here you know your. opponents all of the labor reform say they favor employ is over what because limits

compensation for unfair dismissal and reduce the power of unions bully boy code reports from paris. and one of the big newspapers here in france will miss him i know my son's christening old resolve the biggest street protests to take place in front ever since he was elected president earlier this year and people here are very unhappy about the labor law that he wants to implement it he wants to shake up the job market and make it easier to hire and fire personnel he thinks not full time is on monday high unemployment rate here in france it is almost non of that rate in the u.k. and germany but the trade union scale are 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 my no micron's plan 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 sum up trying to placate some of the smaller trade unions to 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 walk as comedians in cars it comes as old that was we've spoken to say. they believe that they represent the likes of the employés in fun i'm not really take a listen to what they had to say. so this lowers anti social because it's a beautiful work was. good 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 be for the draw for effects eighty million workers the majority of all french workers and will

significantly limit their rights to make it easier to fire people even when it's not justified. it's about a war which is harmful for us this would leave us without any war guarantees among among one major bit about the last week when he told the people that i'm a. free man and i will be absolutely determined to do that i will not yield in any way not to slack because you are not to cynics not to extremists. who are gathered here today to protest against macron and his policies which undermine the very existence of the workers from all spheres this movement is necessary it is the response of the french people who are protecting their rights.

the positive that he's taking. and he was all about that made him on the fuselage in the only. does it at all possible absolutely mop up he's only thinking about it for me to put him on this holiday it made it clear he's also feel that he's going to kick. look at it little boy you know if. i don't know what i'm going to face here at home in town the president who is determined to push these last three days that he has a strong mandate in order to implement he has to get it off the french caribbean in order to deal with the fallout you have a hurricane that. we being billed as a showdown between the pro-business president who's come to power to shake up the job market and the trade union movement. as the last opportunity to.

plan for their. lives through mother over the next week. just a few months into my presidency his approval ratings have already nosedived dr paul smith an expert in french politics at the u.k.'s nottingham university says it's unclear if mark growing 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 towards possibly been for old slugs to mobilize people and this is. these these changes or 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 a what today is being seen as is a test of the strength of position i'd 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. an islamic state suffers a string of major defeats many of the finest 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 of being fat housed their location and their identities is not disclosed for their safety. until you know what's more important i guess colbert does a vision. and leave there was a board of. education that i. am. someone cut her intelligence is. the legal status of the wives of isis fighters is 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 times to extremism we talked to a couple of political commentators about whether the wives of isis fighters who followed the 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 is 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 part of these atrocities let's be clear what the argument that no one saw is making is that you are an adult have chosen to join a terrorist organization and just because you're married you should have no

responsibility for that whatsoever i want me strong saw savage journey to terrorist organizations that i want to not have you make your own piece of history they signed on for you and besides so let's be clear on my position and let's be clear what i look at your local you don't make your name for yourself as a showing for the majority of iraq just take the air piece out and 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. we can now share with you the

story of two children who have been reunited with their relatives here in russia after being rescued from territory which was on the ice still control in iraq here on r.t. we launched a campaign called bring them home to help with origins trace the offer. relations. were found in mosul it's believed the youngsters immediate families were killed in fighting the true traumatised to tell their own stories but it's thought the boy was rescued from a basement way hid with his mother two brothers and sister. in a baghdad offer that's when they arrived there two weeks ago. the relief. that they need. to get one. place out of the door.

is good. news night to get off for a moment it's nice to get bought by mom. jacqueline view go was at the airport for us when the youngsters arrived. both children were clearly traumatized clinging to the adults there finally bringing them home little usually kept touching her leg and at one point she lifted up her current leg and you could see bandages and scars from when she was injured during her time in mosul now we learned a little bit more of young of lund's story was probably around nine years old he told those that he was with apparently that he was in the basement for a long period of time in mosul surrounded by other kids in terrible conditions and that it was constantly hearing the sounds of bombs falling. father died separately and was in a basement with his mother two brothers and his sister he was the only one who

survived sadly these two are just a few among many many children for no apparent list and alone far far away from home. that's all round up of the week's news this hour and remember there's plenty more waiting for you on all social media pages i don't mind to join the conversation. a little but not a lot of muscle in the. islamic states claims it was behind the manchester terror attack by the. front so chill the priest every time

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