yes the world of politics or business i'm sure business also you the. islamic state claims responsibility for friday stabbing in london which left 2 people dead that the perpetrator was known to the authorities. some of us democrats are calling for the pray republican fox news t.v. network to be registered as a foreign agent. and in france residents of rwanda are still demanding answers and action from the government 2 months after a massive chemical factory fire left a toxic cloud over the city. knife from moscow studio this is our roundup of the last 7 days here on r.t.

international welcome to the weekly. the terrorist group islamic state says it carried out friday stopping in central london 2 people were killed in that attack and 3 others by a plea injured the perpetrator handsome of time for previous terror offenses before being freed early on license last year the british prime minister has criticised the practice of automatic early release. 28 year old can was released from prison last december he was jailed for planning a bomb attack on the london stock exchange in 2010 his other targets but then reportedly included the u.s. embassy and boris johnson who at the time was the mayor of london calm was still wearing his electronic tag when he carried out friday's attack video showing the off them off 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 this is describe what they saw. a mass rushing people falling over each other smashing.

the way but only by making the barrier the big flag of people rushing around willy holding every. a lot of movie going on the comic. con accounts or the like a wave of something going on. and then suddenly everybody said go down into the basement it was extremely frightening yeah but if you don't want to do it you know you can't just i don't want to do think twice gunshots going off and. again it's a 1st a terrorist attack on british soil since farse johnson became prime minister though not in recent u.k. history.

we discuss the incident with former british intelligence officer unemotional and the former head of the u.k.'s 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 been known to the intelligence agencies and police 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 being 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 now 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 it's pretty much impossible to stop as well so so the criminal justice system here is at fault. yes democrats have labeled fox news an

existential threat to the u.s. describe it as a russian stooge and some are now 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's agenda and propaganda well 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 democratic campaign oh i was there about you know you're out of the conflict between ukraine and russia because areas like i don't like to whitewash that one for russia which i folks 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 u.s. . but it's not the only case for a republican media being targeted by democrats in september conservative one american news filed a defamation lawsuit against m s n b c and its host rachel maddow it demands more than 10 $1000000.00 in compensation after she called it paid russian propaganda chadwick moore is a columnist at news magazine spectator usa and he says that insinuating a russian affiliation is a go to democrat strategy these days. it's just not the smear it's 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 be 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 now with the piece written 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 us 2 of those biggest issues the democrat party the left is fundamentally and type free speech meanwhile the washington post has started its increase 8 against republicans branding them russian propagandists but to as my guest see it now explains it boils down 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 bad 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 is no p is seeing 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 engaged 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 and 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 i helped hillary it would be better for us

a fact that ukraine's courts ruled to be interference election meddling ukraine's own chords 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 to reports that it's all a russian psyop and because she crossed that 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 so. ports 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 or clearance russian interests so if mueller is 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 it seems 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. a chemical plant in southeast texas was hit by 2 major explosions on wednesday the blasts happened 13 hours apart

and caused extensive damage. on friday an evacuation order for more than $50000.00 residents was lifted as the fire 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. or house was actually really damaged but all the garage doors pretty much all of the doors 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 but and it's half and around the area before but not to this extent it's never affected all boaters around the refineries i definitely did not expect you know something like this that happened but i guess it living in the area well 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. and really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufacturers on this site i think that really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this instant 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 it goes down of reports from. we're walking with a crowd of well it looks like a 100 maybe a bit more i can't really 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 the chemical just simply because of breathing the contaminated and they're accusing the government of failing to release the air samples they which were taken right after the fire and the government's position on lubrizol is 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. removed through the surgery to switch sides we want the truth to be revealed about what happened in the loop or zone accidents because now everyone's just passing the buck no one wants to take responsibility for it and the truth about the accident has not been established just today we should have health monitoring which we currently during it. denied more extensive blood tests we expect resignations over this was really people are concerned about the 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 the globe result blunt. still to come in the weekly with bolivia in the grip of political instability we talked to a local man who was brutally beaten and publicly humiliated by rivals of ousted president ever no doubt this that story and more after this short break. thinking of getting a puppy once we got in here she. didn't know what do these traps and this time you know why are we going to near the crate with him he will just stir freaking out when it's raining anywhere near thousands of breeding dogs are caged in the into lane conditions on puppy i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in cages

outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the courtier the rain the snow the funder nothing they have no protection. cooking you. know it's. across the u.s. cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and stores most of the puppies that are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold at stores even joined a group businesses are involved like ogling mom santa there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs. herschel breeding facilities most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't buy dog. labor has spent a mollusc in america and the average income for americans hasn't budged at all in

2030 years because they were neutered from their ability to compete for capital labor has no seat at the table labor has no seat at the central bank labor has been abandoned the jobs have been shipped overseas the wall street now gets all the crap they get 100 percent of the capital every dollar per to buy the fed goes directly to wall street bypasses labor bypasses way to. welcome back the mayor of a bolivian town who was brutally assaulted by anti morale this protest as it made unrest triggered by the country's political crisis says she will not leave her post a warning that there are also scenes come out you might find upset inc images of the attack on portraits say emerge from social media revealing the violence towards

politicians of the party of ousted leader ever motorola's at the start of the event off to setting the town hall on fire and the morale is more paraded have bethought cut her hair in public and read during the 4 hour ordeal she was also made to kneel and sign a resignation letter this also has now left hospital though she told us she still being treated with kidney damage sustained from the blows she received. when all what happened was disgusting i'm now recovering from bri no 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 calm. using at that moment many of them covered their faces but we recognized 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 but bolivia is now facing political uncertainty the self-appointed rightwing government of senator janine and years has

already been accused of abuses ever morale is resigned after weeks of protests over allegations of fraud while his supporters protest what they see as a coup join the country's post-election unrest 34 people were killed and more than 800 injured patricio are sick and says the violence must stop. did not quote that if you're going to be 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 the 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 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 severe risk during his a conservation in a q.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 song's require urgent expert medical assessment of both his physical and psychological state of health were such urgent assessments 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 credible witness reports from people who met or so on julian recent weeks so chairs his father. his barrister. and the former u.k. ambassador. and they all agree that julian's physical and mental condition

straight in the in seriously. so it's medical doctors we have to be counted 3000000 concerned that nothing was being done. by now in many consider him a political prisoner was. british brazen the doctors who come from a number of countries made their sessoms based on eyewitness accounts following his oktober court appearance back then it was reported that a song couldn't even 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 then when he said it has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions. well turning to some other news this hour 2 people have been killed and 10 injured in 2 separate shootings in the u.s. city of new orleans there was a mass shooting early on sunday morning in the city's historic french quarter one

suspect has been detained but not charged and then hours later in another part of town another shooting left 2 men dead police though said there appears to be no connection between the incidents. and some tragic news from russia where 19 people have been killed and 22 injured in a bus crash in eastern siberia 2 children are among the dead and the bus carrying 41 passengers fell off a bridge and landed upside down in a frozen river an investigation into the disaster is ongoing but it's believed that the driver lost control of the vehicle after a tire burst. elsewhere protestors have set fire to a shia shrine in southern iraq demanding the release of political prisoners on sunday the iraqi parliament approved the prime minister's resignation after 2 months of nationwide protests but opposition activists are valid to continue their rallies until the whole government is over at least $420.00 people have died since the start of the unrest in early october. well that is the weekly and that's it for

me diana hawkins will be here with you in about 30 minutes time to take you through the latest news from around the world right here on r.t. international. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by shaped by phone person.

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gun after a time share we're going underground as leaders of the nato military organization launched 70 years ago to wage war with the us i saw meet in london after one of its key members described nato as currently experiencing brain death coming up in the show the man who once ran nato on the responsibility of the secretary general to galvanize nato nations against the c.u. the enemies of the silence of others we speak of the director of an award winning

film about the brutal legacy of nato nations support for fascism cism and dictatorship all around the world all of them all coming up in today's going underground but 1st as donald trump arrives in london ahead of tomorrow's nato summit let's go straight to row. just beat with nature's former deputy secretary general is under a minute to resign thanks so much for the deputy secretary general you were actually acting secretary general for a while about the conference the bulletin of atomic scientists when estimating the threat of earth's destruction due to nuclear war claims with 2 minutes to midnight you think something like that will be on the minds of nato and leaders this week well i don't think so why do why you ask me this question on again stoltenberg is saying that nato faces a bigger and bigger threat and that in fact nato has to be prepared for coverage ations theoretically with russia and with china while you know. don't train that are more and more frets i mainly do was this confused but rather stable

i mean in terms of france as far as i know and so you know russia i've tried out they are where the yacht i bade i don't fit in they are actually menacing and frightening made all more than they did befall so i don't see it is a raising of threats let's put it that way so you don't agree with nato secretary general against bolton even saying that he wants to nato to make space an operational domain enjoying the success of nato missions while you know it depends what you mean by that you know it is not a day that he's agree with the secretary general is that i say that nato always always adapting you know it has been adopting say of the end though to cold war you know and so it continues to adopt and of course it is true that the way to that kind of sadat was changing and china's rise then made less what up so the secular now is writing his own times if you like.