Says black friday shoppers around the world we look at the darker side of the buying frenzy. You what you ought to International Stay within the next 20 minutes as we go around the world covering the biggest stories of the day starting with this one and donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving paying his 1st ever visit to afghanistan and greeting american troops based and he had a message for them revealing talks with the taliban about gone despite being declared dead just 2 months ago my colleague daniel this with. They call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2 decade long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to end it for his own for steve at home and called these global influence in that region and internationally of course and hes been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that shor
For myself. And welcome and thanks for joining us this friday evening. And we start with some developing news coming out of the british capital where its been reported a knife attack near London Bridge has left a number of people injured we can show you eyewitness videos taken from London Bridge which has a busy hour in the city police have confirmed they were cooled off to reports of a stopping one person has so far been detained. And our correspondent shot at woodstock she is at the scene for us so obviously this developing bring us up to speed on whats going on. In the world London Bridge is in the lockdown at the moment as you can see the vicinity is also being evacuated as we speak them to drive the city is now. A standstill now comes after an incident was reported shortly after 2 pm this afternoon now there are unclear messages coming out of this incident initially there were reports of emmanuel ting a knife running towards the public was then shot down by armed officers now that
Youre watching r. T. International. Breaking news story this hour unconfirmed reports say that at least 2 members of the public of being killed in a terrorist attack in central london. Eye witness videos taken in the area which is a busy thoroughfare in the city as we can see here people seem to be wrestling with the suspect trying to pin him to the ground just to get the knife off of the attacker an armed officer seen with his weapon drawn short time later the shot is heard Police Confirm that the attacker was shot dead at the scene our correspondent shadi Edwards Dashti has more details from the. London bridge is still completely on lockdown that follows the incident that broke out earlier this afternoon at 158 local time as you can still see there are still Mass Evacuations happening from the Office Building surrounding the London Bridge vicinity it was indeed a Major Incident and earlier this afternoon the assistant Police Commission and theyll pursue confirmed it was terrorist rel
Thanks for joining us youre watching. On the main shopping street in the. 6 thank you its good luck but theyve now from our correspondent a stand off good evening what is the latest information coming out on this story. Well indeed as youve said 3 people have been injured in the hague in the netherlands on the main shopping street the gras to mark now for your interest and of course it is friday so it is it was bound to be bustling with people but at the same time it is the black friday so theres even more shoppers out there in the streets of europe looking for the best deal so it does a very bad time if it was indeed an attack because we do not have the confirmation from the police just yet that it was terrell related by i mean theres plenty of speculation going on right now because of the events in london also all across europe right now theres plenty of Christmas Markets have been targeted by terrorist attacks in the past and now weve seen videos of people running in chaos and in ge
Good evening thanks for joining us here on r. T. And. Breaking news to start this hour from the netherlands where dutch police say 3 people have been injured in a stabbing on the main shopping street in the hague the incident sparked panic among the shoppers. I. I. I. Start off scurrying this covering this story for us so what details do we know at this point. Well 1st and foremost we do know that the police are still looking for the suspect we have seen a video of dutch police a pretty handing some man but we have not had any confirmation yet whether or not that person is indeed the suspect wanted in connection with this attack on the main street now 3 people have been injured and yes indeed it is the main street the main shopping street in the hague now this is a friday night so it was bound to be packed with the shoppers but at the same time remember that it is the black friday night as well which. The scale of the whole thing which has led even more people out in the streets seekin