it. was. confirmed they're treating a car crash in westminster with a terrorist incident after a vehicle smashed into purity barriers outside parliament during the morning rush hour. also this hour a highway bridge collapses in the northern italian city of genoa city vehicles under one hundred meters twenty six people confirmed dead. and a lot an american news outlet telesur has blocked on facebook for the second time in two thousand the crazy questions over freedom of speech on the social media platform. this is r t international bringing you your global news update this hour into the

program. police in london have confirmed that they are treating a car crash outside parliament as a terror attack the vehicle crashed into security barriers after injuring cyclists and pedestrians during tuesday morning rush hour the driver was detained by armed police who rushed to the scene the suspect who is now in police custody on suspicion of terror fences has been identified as a twenty nine year old british citizen the head of the u.k.'s counter terror unit says the suspect is not cooperating he is not believed to have been previously known to british intelligence and is thought to be from the city of birmingham and the english midlands police are now searching three addresses in the region here's video of police responding to the incident.

at full speed to the. parliament. this would normally be. it's always very popular with tourists. gather. threatening injuries extra officers have since been patrolling the streets. and the government's emergency

response committee met to discuss the incident. we are as close as physically possible to the houses of parliament that area is now cordoned off as you can see behind me while police now investigate what it is exactly that happens what we do know is about twenty minutes before eight in the morning what is being described as a silver ford fiesta had hit cyclists and then crashed into security barriers right outside houses of parliament again the parliament right now is in recess so no m.p.'s were present there at the time and we know that armed police had arrested one man and taken him to into custody to a police station in south london where he is being questioned according to scotland yard however this mound is not cooperating with authorities quite yet this is what they had to say the driver of the fiesta who was alone in the vehicle was arrested

at the scene by armed officers who were already knew. the man is in his late twenty's and he's been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offenses and has been taken to a police station where he remains in custody. given that this appears to be. the method of this being an iconic site we are treating it as a terrorist incident and the investigation is being led by officers from the counterterrorism from the two people were injured and taken to hospital it's understood that they're not in critical condition and are going to be fine following this attack and we've been talking to a witness here a local resident who saw it all with his own my eyes let's take a listen to how he described what happened i've seen. a car driving directive lead to the parliament and the great should be. the one of the big logs the bear is did you see the man who was in the car who they arrest. and he's here with

court and the. he seemed quiet. to me didn't seem close and i didn't see him i didn't hear him screaming or anything all show in and didn't resist a raise is worrying because i'm a father of two young sons you know age almost seven and five and a half and it's worrying and i mean but. this is like this is one of this is like the number one city in the world in my prince of london you know you so many tourists come here throughout the year and you know it's beautiful weather and you know another thing i understand all the m.p.'s are on holidays or wherever the land is i don't know what it's all about well if confirmed by the police that this is a terrorist attack it's going to turn out to be the first one this year but unfortunately one of several have taken place recently.

he won't succeed and you want to fight us we'll be cowed by terrorists. if you will see over the next few days i mean creased number of. across london. the attempts to make countless acts of kindness that draws people closer together. and. they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of offices.

that is will see an increased police presence today and other. course of the next few days no reason to be alone ok. let me take. that as we'll see an increased number of visible police officers as. we discuss the incident with expertise police officer roger gray and former intelligence officer charles shoebridge. there's no question that intelligence is key to foiling sorting and i believe in preventing these attacks taking place and in that respect for example as we've seen today the intelligence systems fail to the extent that an attacker actually gets through to his target today it was against a hard target but it wasn't to be

a softer target in terms of civilians in the street for example tourists and so on then of course there's nothing can be done at that stage and very little can be done to actually protect them should this indeed turn out to be a terrorist attack but of course it's too early at this stage at least to speculate about today's incident and whether any of those considerations were actually applied but generally speaking of course intelligence cooperation between the different intelligence bodies and the trust that's needed between those intelligence bodies to actually share intelligence in a meaningful way and in a timely way rather than just sitting on the intelligence is absolutely vital and not just between europe in another partners but between the intelligence services and the police in the countries themselves including as it's been a problem in the past in the united kingdom to there's a danger of overreaction as well london is congested enough as it is it toyman if we start adding more thought of no go zones that were let's go to become worse but also we don't want to give any terrorists or the process any sense of success in

carrying us into doing one thing or the other the result of their actions so it's something we should be considered but why very carefully. a major highway bridge has collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa some vehicles plunging some fifty meters local authorities have put the official death toll at twenty six with fifteen people injured earlier emergency services said thirty five people have been killed including a child. it will stay breached like the general ones will be highly patch on or there we

are when he is low we the problem is that the concrete that is would be probably already cracked and the or solution dog or natural we blow we pull the release the risk of griego fracture or failure of this kind of pressure be a sudden and highly destructive maintenance costs actually should be used is highly costly there works. for the maintenance and where problem is he sent but apparently it was unpredictable on a such router structure the government would be managed by doing and the seizure that would be orderly so was afterward and rebuilt. the latin american news channel tell us or has been banned from facebook for the second time this year and the outlet is not alone and being sidelined by the social media

giant artist daniel hawkins looks into a possible new trend of censorship. a news outlets activist old radio host banned by a social media platform for violating terms of use some familiar nowadays just as one scandal over suspending or banning subsides another one brews this time it's the latin american news channel tell us stewart that's been on the receiving end of a facebook blackout and not for the first time back in january this year the news outlet temporarily disappeared from facebook allegedly due to an internal mistake on the platform today though things got more serious your beach tellus are english has been removed for violating our terms of use telesur a say they received no further explanation of why exactly their page was removed they see this incident as no coincidence but rather a pattern of censorship by social media giants now in case you're wondering this isn't a case of deja vu just last week in fact in four was an alternative controversial

media platform run by alex jones was also banned by you tube our poll and facebook for violating policies and terms of use now what do these have in common an independent platform criticized for spreading all right conspiracy theories and a left leaning channel publicly funded by venezuela cuba bolivia. and seemingly diametrically opposed views the answer is both a critical of the american establishment war lobby and global regime change both have in our face bands during the battle against fake news conducted by facebook along with its new partners such as the digital forensic research lab now this is an offshoot of the atlantic council think tank in turn a member of the atlantic treaty organization although formally independent of nato and washington openly sharing both their values and speakers fighting fake news is

a noble cause terms of use platforms. violet expect a burn increasingly though the question will be asked is it violating social media policies or violating mainstream consensus and prevalent narratives that can really do you in hot water we've asked facebook to comment on why they banned the outlet so far they've chosen not to respond earlier we spoke to tokyo not all the english multimedia director for telus or who says that facebook's move is extremely alarming. we're not aware and we didn't get an explanation we going to any mail yesterday afternoon saying that our page was removed and this e-mail said that we were violating the terms of use but it didn't we don't consider that an explanation since we've doing got a recently or we are they didn't explain how in what way were we violating supposedly violating the terms of use not a specific content that we pulls not a specific article or video nothing so we're still waiting for the tell us we

answer back and we got an answer saying they were there in generics we're checking in the case but that was it certainly we don't want to speculate but what it brings this remove it brings like. alarm about how facebook works and how. like any instructors to help them and to hold them into accountable and but they're not providing like greece and so it is arming we still hope with some estate we're still hoping for them to apologize for this mistake but if it's not we're going to prepare a response and we do think it's alarming and a bit scary that facebook could be yeah a place where. or a span and some voices are not allow it's we were not doing anything different from

what we have been doing since the beginning of our english lead. in in facebook so we were aware of the terms of use when we started and we were not violating this terms and we wouldn't like change the way our perspective is and the coverage we do for this not an inch why would we. the media is almost always hungry for more when it comes to details of the private lives of top politicians but one french channel got caught red handed with what turned out to be a very misleading report. live . live. live. shots look you get close to the if you

look in the polls a little bit closer. live. live. live. it's not fake but an involuntary arrow which the information direction from the television are correct. and in full in three areas it's a ploy to produce clothes for the incompetent. france who doesn't take time off from the breaking news. how to lose all credibility in two minutes lives. live. still to come thousands of syrians are returning home following the liberation of

large parts of the country in terror of that and other news coming up after this short break. player live. i. i.

i. thank you ok welcome back taliban militants have overrun a military base in northern afghanistan killing seventeen soldiers it says the u.n. has confirmed over one hundred civilians were killed in the latest clashes between the taliban and afghan forces in the city of gaza locals who managed to flee the area described what they saw. many people including the one of my neighbors were killed there i saw my friend dying he was among thirteen people including children

and women who were killed during an airstrike last night cause me problems i don't know not at all i have escaped from gaza province where the fighting is still ongoing it's been about five days since the conflict started but there is no attention from the government and no facilities for the residents dead bodies are still on the road sides i've also been injured. has long been considered a strategic area due to its close vicinity to the capital kabul fighting there escalated on friday when the taliban attempted to storm gosney and take control taliban fighters have been blocking the roads in and out of the city to prevent the afghan military getting reinforcements they were trying to look at how almost two decades of the american led war in afghanistan has failed to make the country that it appears any safer. this is what's happening just

a little more than one hundred kilometers from the capital kabul there's barely a camera in gaza any available to film this dreadful battle locals say there are stronger descriptions than simply the taliban is back in action and if it wasn't for u.s. airstrikes the afghan army could have been in far worse trouble so it makes you wonder do american diplomats and their military keep in touch there is nothing that precludes us from an gauging with the taliban we're doing everything we can to ensure that our actions help the taliban and the afghan government does the same table. everything they can only a few weeks ago the state department said talking with the taliban was a good idea and regardless of how hostile their actions the extremists say they're forward to this is what we wanted and were waiting for to sit with the us directly and discuss the withdrawal of foreign troops from afghanistan the rumor is there's

already been some direct contact at least we know for sure alice wells went to qatar last month where the taliban's got a political office i'm confused the armed group has all but regained its might which not so long ago or in them a reputation of outright islamist barbarians in america and pretty much all over the world we acted and the taliban no longer is in power in afghanistan which is not only good for the security of the free world it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in afghanistan on the barbaric rule time flies us administrations come and go fair enough but the things the people in charge say about insurgents today could be totally different tomorrow taliban this taliban that the taliban are fighting isis and we encourage that because isis needs to be destroyed. oh so they're good for something at least if it's about knocking out

islamic state yet just a few months earlier general nicholson said the taliban's fight against diana's was a piece of russian propaganda we see here and there are live that's being used that grossly exaggerates the number of isis fighters here this narrative then is used as a justification for the russians to legitimize the actions of the taliban and provide some degree of support complicated heart of ghana stand business as usual and the american strategy for afghanistan see above the american strategy strategy from the beginning of the so-called war on terror which was launched after the september eleventh attacks as this war has turned out to be an utter failure. you know i was we all know it was in a stronger position than it ever was in two thousand and one. so and so i think it's proof that the u.s.

has been pursuing a wrong strategy in defeating terrorism on the contrary i think that the u.s. involvement up until now when the focus on military force in the region has the growth of terrorism the taliban is not just pulling out a gun it's firing it it could be time for the pentagon and the state department to hunt for ideas together and be more precise. more than twenty five thousand refugees have returned to syria in the past four months authorities say people have been coming back since victory over terrorist groups there is a now because donna report. on the. border between syria and lebanon which is literally some two kilometers away from here is expected to become a major flood gate for those whose home sickness has turned into something big going to the actual return home right now we are one out of five ports of entry established by the soon. in government as they welcome its citizens whole way there

were many things to run from terror. pointless and unspeakable brutality but now there's one homeland. we suffered from terrorism for three years and eight months all kinds of weapons were used against us but we stood firm and did not give up and kept fighting until we were transferred here the terrorists who are against life itself against peaceful citizens women and children it was very difficult for us to leave but the terrorists were living in good conditions come to the terrorists left my city so i decided to return because it is safe there now and i learned my town in syria is safe now that's why i decided to return with my family the government has promised to restore infrastructure in amman scale from hospitals to schools judging by the wars in this school there's a new subject on the curriculum and it's called survival from different types of

landmines to improvised explosive devices and just simply objects that kids should be aware of this is what children in this school will be taught about when it opens this september but not everyone will be welcomed back to revive a peaceful existence here like the white house hailed as a rescue organization by the west damascus isn't looking forward to their return syria's living abroad who have committed nothing against their i mean you know citizens should feel nothing at all and the government will ensure their safety and those who chose to flee the country should have committed the crimes. which made them very afraid of staying in the country so their white helmets are criminals and they should be treated this way there are many displaced syrians who are being warned against getting ready to come home just yet we think that it's

pretty much. work to promote returns serious still very insecure are they still a lot of work going on in syria even though out of the seven million people that escaped the conflict. grew the rule of them to come back to syria but there will be no hope of rebuilding the country from the west far to do over to be a particular western countries should support the return of syrian citizens and lift economic sanctions against syria because people who want to return need schools hospitals food and shelter for their families the e.u. and the us have been and when we say the e.u. we must remember that britain is the driving force of the policy towards toward syria what britain and u.s. led you following along in its wake have since twenty eleven made it their policy to destroy syria to destroy the syrian government by any means necessary to facilitate a train and equip

a sectarian brutal sectarian insurgency that laid waste to the country their policy has been to make syria uninhabitable and their policy remains to ensure that it stays uninhabitable so syrian refugees in europe absolutely caught between well a rock and a hard place is putting it very very mildly on the one hand they have the e.u. then the us still continue to enact this policy of making their own country uninhabitable and then the same time you have this growing fascist street movement in. in the e.u. that's actually has even influence over for example the british government whose policy is to basically make europe uninhabitable for their hatred towards assad unites a lot of syrians who chose to flee their country well now at least judging by the promises the syrian government seems to be extending an olive branch to those who seek to do no more damage done a report. seen from syria see. that's our recap of the day's top stories and that's

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