islamic state claims responsibility for friday's stabbing in london which left 2 people dead the perpetrator was known to the authorities. some us democrats are calling for the pro republican fox news t.v. network to be registered as a foreign agent. and in france residents in rwanda still demanding answers and action from the government 2 months after a massive chemical factory file of to toxic cloud over the city. from our moscow studio this is our round up of the last 7 days here on r.t.

international welcome to the weekly. we start with this a terrorist group islamic state says it carried out friday stopping in central london where 2 people were killed and 3 others injured the perpetrator had served time for previous tera fences before being freed early on license last year the british prime minister has criticized the practice of automatic early release 28 year old was released from prison in december he was jailed for planning a bomb attack on the london stock exchange in 2010 and his other targets back then reportedly included the u.s. embassy and boris johnson who was at the time mayor of london called was still wearing his electronic tag when he carried out friday's attack video showing the aftermath of the stopping have been posted on social media and as you can see some civilians wrestled with the killer pinning him to the ground one man managed to seize a knife from the terrorist who was then shot dead by police i would assist describe what they saw. a mass rushing people falling over each other smashing.

the way. making the barriers the big flag people rushing around really holding every. lot of the. the comic. from a council is not like a why do you have something going on. and then suddenly everybody said go down into the basement it was extremely frightening yeah but if you don't know what to do you know you have done so i just don't know what to do think wise gunshots going off in my arms again well it's the 1st terrorist attack on british soil since british since boris johnson became british prime minister it's not in recent history.

oh we discuss the incident with former british intelligence officer and emotional and the former head of the case national counter-terrorism security office chris phillips. it's turned out that after all these so-called lone wolf attacks these lone wolves have indeed already be known to the intelligence agencies. and yet have not been prevented from carrying out the attacks happened and yet in terms of dropping the ball in this case i can't imagine a more egregious example where someone should be monitored on a day to day basis by the authorities after he's been released from prison so i

think this is a major concern and there are some serious questions our intelligence agencies in the west need to answer they have said for the last few years that they need all these new laws they need all these new secret powers to snoop on all our e-mails our electronic communications to protect us from terrorists and yet and yet all these people already know or at least seem to still get away with carrying out attacks no it's it's a real problem for a criminal justice system which is not doing what it should do when that's keeping the public safe for some reason our criminal justice system judges and the way our system works allows people out halfway through their sentence which means bible 6 years after e committed this apparent he was back on the streets and he was still radicalized so very difficult for the police to to monitor people like this in the course of the just want to pick up a knife pretty much impossible to stop as well so so the criminal justice system here is at fault. u.s.

democrats have labeled fox news an existential threat to the u.s. describe it as a russian stooge and some are calling for the channel to register as a foreign agent fox news should register with far as an agent of the russian federation if it's going to peddle the kremlin agenda and propaganda while hurting u.s. national security interests then it should be treated the same as our t. and nick. well the network is known to appeal to conservative americans and often challenges the common u.s. mainstream media narrative for example regarding the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma and 2017 which the west blames on syria's president assad here's what triggered the latest democrat campaign i don't like what they're about to go out of the conflict between ukraine and russia because areas like i don't like to whitewash that one for russia which i am fox news host says he roots for russia against the west he said the quiet part out loud this clip is just one more exhibit supporting the case that it's no longer left vs right but democracy versus

authoritarianism i think many still underestimate the threat to the republic at this point fox is openly fascist d.n.d. g.o.p. are existential threats to the usa. when it's not the only case of prayer republican media being targeted by democrats in september a conservative one american news filed a defamation lawsuit against m s n b c and its host rachel maddow it demands more than $10000000.00 in compensation after she called it paid russian propaganda chadwick noise a columnist news magazine spectator usa and he says that insinuating a russian affiliation is a go to democrat strategy these days. it's just to smear it then that's all it is and they make these outrageous claims with absolutely no backing your no support about being a foreign agent and of course the intent is not to actually get these organizations to register as foreign agents that's absurd the intent is to just plant this seed to plant this ridiculous notion which they've been doing all along they've been

doing this with the russian gates a lot that blew up in their face earlier this year and now with the future and hearings which is also blown up in their face democratic party in the left used to be the party of free speech the priest speech movement was started in the 1960 s. by left wing activists and and they're also the anti-war movement and they used to be the party of anti-war we've seen this dramatic shift the entire paradigm has been flipped on its head free speech and war and war relations is this 2 of those biggest issues the democrat party of the left is fundamentally anti-freeze speech meanwhile the washington post has started its own crease say it against republicans branding them russian propagandists that has marred get more aghast you have not explained it boils down to some muddled thinking about events in ukraine. we're going to go in a journey you and i a trip into another dimension a magical place written in the rated by the washington post where there are

assuming the russian agents in the united states they will soon outnumber americans themselves president trump has been disloyal to the united states not only and given russia a leg up in his war against ukraine but also in broadcasting his propaganda and for that republicans are just as guilty like to point out that it was the democrats who banned the sale of lethal weapons to ukraine and republicans who gave you create hundreds of millions of dollars in those weapons but what's the point there's no piercing this bubble of unreality an anomaly in the space time continuum of common sense that the washington post exists in it is up to means to media to directly challenge republicans who yes engage in un-american activity there deliberately assisted in a russian propaganda operation in this wondrous realm that jennifer rubin has

brought to life everyone who disagrees with her is a traitor a traitor as anyone who mentions that democrats accepted foreign meddling in the election willfully eagerly accepted foreign help to try to get clinton elected democrats cooperated and ukrainian election meddling official show the surprising lack of interest in the indications of ukrainian election meddling that deeply concerned the president whose pleasure they serve during the election ukraine released damning information about trump's then campaign head paul manifold causing huge damage to the tycoon in fact we have would you sit nick a ukrainian official using his powers of office then bragging about quote helping. hillary. little more i didn't help him trump when i helped hillary it would be better for us

a fact that ukraine's courts ruled to be interference election meddling ukraine's own courts said that but in jennifer's magical kingdom this isn't true she crossed out the old you his admission the court ruling and cited reports that it's all a russian psyop and because she crossed it out it's no longer true just because you try proving her wrong if congressional republicans have evidence our intelligence community is wrong they need to present it otherwise they need to be called out for deliberately assistant hostile foreign power evidence is something that supports jennifer's point of view if it doesn't it isn't evidence see when special counsel robert mueller root in his report that russian hackers seemingly and apparently quoted from the report hacked hillary's servers that's evidence but when you give her or her car in the recording a confession and

a court ruling you're an american in the course of this investigation i would ask that you please not from a politically driven false. interests so if new that's good enough for you let me do him some justice it appears the jennifer rubin is a 2 faced hypocrite allegedly she may also be a foreign agent see that she and her have done and are doing more damage to america as a nation than anyone else after all and correct me if i'm wrong but isn't rabidly undermining the us government spreading fear and hate on an industrial scale to every american home smearing half your country is traitors isn't that about as un-american as you can be. and some tragic news from russia now 19 people have been killed and 22 others injured in

a bus crash in the country's east 2 children are among the dead the bus carrying 41 passengers fell off a bridge into a river some passengers were trapped inside russia's investigative committee has launched a probe into the cause of the accident and preliminary reports suggest the bus had blown a tire leading to the driver losing control of the vehicle. a chemical plant in southeast texas was hit by 2 major oil explosions on wednesday the blast happened 13 hours apart and caused extensive damage.

on friday an evacuation order for more than $50000.00 residents was lifted as the front had been contained but it is still active in some areas and there is smoke in the air officials say it's hard to say when it will be fully extinguished we spoke to a local resident who told us about the extent of damage to nearby homes. our house was actually really damaged but all the garage doors that pretty much all of the doors put down the middle of all the windows blew out some of the the roof you know . so we had a lot of it you hear about the explosions and but and it's happened around the area before but not to this extent it's never affected around the refineries i definitely did not expect you know something like this that happened but i guess it is good to give the area of all the refinery owned by the t.p.c.

group produces thousands of tons of chemicals and petroleum based products health and environmental campaigner all of a tickle says a substantial investigation is needed. really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufacturers on this site i think that quite the really quite a lot of investigation we needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this and local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this golden triangle area but at the same time there are these pollution incidents i think that this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional political pressure on to the trumpet ministration not to cut the resources of the e.p.a. as it's intending to do. and it's 2 months since another massive fire engulfed

a chemical factory in the french city of ruin local residents fear for their health and took to the streets demanding transparency either stand off reports from. we're working with a crowd of well it looks like a 100 maybe a bit more time we'll see all the way to the end of this call them through on and indeed there are concerned people from all really the whole society spectrum is here all of them are indeed demanding transparency from the government and from lubrizol the company the chemical plant that while of that released all these chemicals into into the atmosphere some 2 months ago. many of the locals complained about the burning sensation in their throat for instance or about feeling nauseous after the release of

a chemical just simply because of breathing the contaminated air and they're accusing the government of failing to release the air samples which were taken right after the fire and the government's position and look results position has been that while there was no immediate health threat that all of those effects would pass and that there was no environmental impact but people here are not buying this i found this in my garden and every day i can find it it comes from the lubrizol. fire and so my children's doesn't go in the garden so that's that's why i am i am very very angry and i created this this exhibit to show that we are boring about people who we money and how our life are becoming like that. to remove through the surgery to switch sides we want the truth to be revealed about what happened in the liberals over accidents because now everyone's

just passing the buck and no one wants to take responsibility for it's the truth about the accident has not been established they're going to just today we should have health monitoring which we currently don't we. denied more extensive blood tests we expect resignations artificial. people are concerned about their health but it wasn't just about that local businesses local samas suffered immensely for instance some 1800 farmers who were banned from harvesting their own crops by the french government because all of that well because because of the fears of contamination so you can clearly see why people here are demanding more transparency and they would want an in-depth look as to what's going on that low brazil plant. still to come with bolivia in the grip of political instability we talked to a local man who was brutally beaten and publicly humiliated by rival of ousted president at the morales i have that story and more after this short break.

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallows. or come back the mayor of a bolivian town who was brutally assaulted by and those protesters amid all the rest triggered by the country's political crisis just says she will not leave her post a warning that there are scenes coming up the month find upsetting images of the attack on purchase the churchyard say emerged on social media revealing the violence towards politicians of the party of ousted leader ever morality at the start of november after setting the town hall on fire and anti morale is more paraded have barefoot cut her hair in public and then sprayed it red during the 4

hour ordeal she was made to kneel and sign a resignation letter miss arts a has now left hospital though she told us she's still going to treat if a kidney damage sustained in the blows she received. when all what happened was disgusting i'm now recovering from renal damage that i suffered during the assault and i'm still in pain the also cut off my hair they beat me up but they can change my views everything was so confusing at that moment many of them covered their faces when we recognize some of them it was sad to see all those people attacking me it's been a difficult time for my children to see their mother in such a condition i don't want this to happen again. or believe it is now facing political uncertainty the self appointed to a right wing government a senator janine and years has already been accused of abuses of morale is resigned after weeks of protests over allegations of fraud while his supporters protest what they see as a coup during the country's post-election unrest 34 people were killed and more

than 800 injured. say again says that the violence must stop. did not blow that easy or not i mean we're made. i can't betray my people those who believe in me i would like to express my gratitude to the staff who have stayed with me and are dedicated to improving this city we will keep working to achieve all our goals it was very difficult to return here after everything they did to me and it was terrible to see the city hall in the such a state after all the work that was done to improve it after everything that's happened how can it get any worse people need to reflect and stop harming each other we need to restore unity i've never hurt anybody i've always worked for my city and i want people to take a step back and think the believe in people cannot live like this. the health of wiki leaks founder julian assange has been put at a severe risk during his incarceration in the u.k.

prison that's according to 60 doctors who earlier this week signed an open letter to the british home secretary saying the whistleblower could die. mr saunders requires urgent expert medical assessment of both his physical and psychological state of health were such urgent assessment and treatment not to take place we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr sanchez could die in prison the medical situation is thereby urgent there is no time to lose and we have . reports from people. so on julia he said weeks so chairs he's further he's a barrister. and the former ambassador. and they all agree that julian's physical and mental condition strictly in seriously. so as a medical doctor we have become extremely concerned that nothing is being done.

by now or many consider him a political prisoner was. british reason all the doctors who come from a number of countries made their assessments based on eyewitness accounts following his october court appearance back then it was reported that a song couldn't recall his own date of birth and when asked whether he could understand what was happening the australian replied that he could not think straight but we can leaks editor has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions. we now bring in this breaking news 2 people have been killed and 10 injured in 2 separate shootings in the us city of new orleans according to police a group of people were gunned down early on sunday morning in the city's historic french quarter now as later in another part of the city another shooting killed 2 men police have said there appears to be no connection between both instance and one suspect has been arrested. that's the weekly for more on all these stories you

can head to our website r.t. dot com and download the r.t. app to get your news on them if. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy loon foundation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partisan group a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to

stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. we still got us into times how you can let's move. on to cool we're going you're cool with each person i know you. can do you want to think about me think about it. each of them tell me how good it was all. the time to read too much how to get to be a good tone crush on the author to get the if you're going to fail when i'm in the good with all this you can fire going next time you don't come fall.

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to keep a. secret. that . is so the elephants start off the day when the sun rises early in the morning the handlers come they clean out the stables they feed the fence and then they let them out and they walk with them from the nursery. to the bush which is a $300.00 take to pisa version bush that they've got to themselves just them and listen a few antelope so they come here in the morning they roam around freely together they feed they eat range of things leaves roots grass different things and they feed drink water they also swim. in the mud just do things that elephants do and they do it together as a herd so they come here every day and then when it starts getting dark at about 4

or 5 o'clock they'll start walking together with they had back to the nursery. we got a phone call to say that there was this very young elephant that had been orphaned and he is a victim of touching down in the south for the country. he was found i learn but in an area where there is heavy change going on currently it's very very hot down there it's a very hostile environment to be a tough environment so we sent a plane and we collected him. once on the airplane usually depending on the situation of the cough. we put up a drip with minister few hours.