dr lee dependency is to give up drugs to go to. tendo russian troops detained in ukraine after apparently crossing the border accidentally are returned home. and also this week some of ukraine's most battle hardened units are trapped in a massive counterattack with the military blaming keven kiev blaming a stealth russian invasion. now we have a look at how islam and state terrorists are exploiting black market trade and online p.r. to nurture their jihadist empire in iraq and syria. is

there any international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing welcome to the program ten russian paratroopers have returned home after spending almost a week detained in ukraine the group was captured when they claimed they mistakenly crossed the border while on the routine patrol are to supposedly or has been following their story. the talks were complicated and difficult but we can now confirm that all ten of russian paratroopers crossed over into ukraine are back inside russia the negotiations weren't easy but thankfully common sense prevailed and the guards are back with us the soldiers were patrolling the ukrainian russian border at night when they unintentionally crossed over into ukrainian territory it was a part of the border that is not signposted they were later detained by the ukrainian security services such border incidents are not uncommon and on several occasions ukrainian soldiers have in fact crossed over into russia but russia has never made

much fanfare and it's always ensured that they are able to return safely back to ukraine there was an incident early in august when around some four hundred ukrainian servicemen appeal to the russian border guards for humanitarian colorado that would allow them to bring their injured into russia at the same time it would allow them to stock up and food they'd run out of food they'd run out of ammunition they later returned to ukraine after they wounded had been treated inside russia also around three days ago some sixty three ukrainian servicemen sought shelter on the russian side of the border this was just state the shelling they later to also were turned back into ukraine now international law expert always an american tourist told us why he thinks king of was delighted to put russian servicemen in the media spotlight. craning government wanted to milk the. political. they're trying to argue and have been trying to argue for a long time that they're not really fighting the people of the eastern ukraine but

they're fighting the russian army so here they had ten russian actually to an actual soldiers and they were able to grade them and to television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence. just know look. there are any russian troops there but of course one can have un convincing evidence if people want to believe and these ten russian so there's unfortunately worry if you like a gift from heaven in that respect and now been four months since cave launched its military crackdown in the east and since then it has officially admitted to the deaths of seven hundred government troops and more than two and a half thousand injured but kiev is being accused of a massive cover up and said government forces say up to fourteen thousand military

service men have died and that casualties are being under reported on purpose and in the last few days alone hundreds of government troops have reportedly been killed or taken prisoner near the town of ill advised in the their entire italians found themselves around adjoining a counter a tad by anti-government forces one of the commanders of those units accused of abandoning them his post to report on the growing frustration in the ukrainian army . as the fighting intensifies and antigovernment forces close in a call for help goes on on said three enforcements for trapped ukrainian troops also incoming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned let me go immediately to see if they didn't appear women a little more nearly three dollars what a third of her from a bloke level share your material across the back women's ones i wish there was a law when i mustn't go you see i was one of them was

a regional i met over there it was much more of a resume much it's a far cry from the tough talk of ukrainian president petro poroshenko talking of a strong country and strong army instead its young and often inexperienced soldiers as suggested by an alleged conversation between a commander and a tank soldier leaked online. by. was if i was there was was was. there was a guy. out there was frustration is growing among the troops who is there but it then it's delicious i think that you will it was you know it the political dissidents that is and the government for the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist white sect a group which is taking part in the fighting in the country's east if our demands

are not met will be forced to withdraw our battalions from the front line and launch a march on to key if to carry out speedy reforms in the interior ministry. you're roche with your brain you have deceived people who you led into illegal armed units you were turning the people who believed you into cannon fodder meanwhile losses on the battlefield of mounting. point of. eastern ukraine. now earlier this week ukraine's president accused russia of invading his country the international media didn't leave anyone waiting in may believe running a story about a russian stealth operation nato to chimed in publishing a series of satellite images which showed what the military alliance claims was russian armor in ukraine other pictures showed military in russia near the ukrainian border which nato says as part of moscow's so-called destabilizing strategy daniel mcadams executive director at the ron paul institute for peace and

prosperity says the credibility of the images themselves is open to question. but i think these were released by the same they were taken by the same company that the u.s. had used to release its satellite information about m.h. seventeen the elysian air flight the existence of guns by the rebels in ukraine and so i think it has very dubious credibility as a private firm i don't think it shows anything i don't think what most people in the west understand is that everyone on both sides with the exception of some ukrainians having american weapons but everyone is using russian weapons the line of russian tanks means nothing because we don't have the information to tell us where it came from as to whether russia has troops on its border if it's inside its border you know there would business as i know that if we had unrest on the border with mexico here in the u.s. you'd be sure we'd have a military presence there to make sure our borders were secure now the russian

president has shed some light on the behind the scenes diplomatic wrangling over ukraine in an interview with national media well whatever putin there revealed that he and his ukrainian counterpart have reached an agreement on how to peacefully resolve the conflict and he also said there needs to be substantial talks of the status of the region and it made it clear he thinks fabulous violin can keep his responsible for the ongoing conflict in the country's east russian president added that a winter is coming and hardship will only increase if the fighting doesn't stop now human rights watch has again called in kiev for information on the russian photojournalist understand who's been missing in ukraine since the start of august if insist it has no information about andres whereabouts the watchdogs deputy director for europe and central asia says the rights of media workers are being violated in ukraine by both militia groups and the army adding that the authorities

have a track record of detaining russian journalists. washington is leading the charge against anti islamic state militants urging other western states to form a coalition against the jihadists in syria and iran the us is also stepped up air strikes against the group but as r.t. has granted she can now reports it was the west that paved the way for radical islam to take hold. the u.s. president has diagnosed these lawmakers state rooting out a cancer why geisel won't be easy and won't be quick many are asking if the cancer could have been caught at an earlier stage when these lawmakers state group a support of the syrian opposition was gaining momentum in the country and when rich donors in gulf states were funding and arming the group but until recently the west seemed more preoccupied with toppling the syrian president we will work with

like minded states to support the syrian opposition to hasten the day when assad falls but the european union has agreed to bring to an end they arms embargo on the syrian opposition we are constantly consulting with the opposition on how they can get organized so that. they're not splintered and divided in the face of the onslaught from the assad regime for years the white house tried to present a picture of the syrian opposition as consisting of quote former farmers and teachers some within the intelligence community had a really big red flag that was alarming the administration and elected officials that the problem in syria was bigger than anybody anticipated but the problem is that the elected officials chose to have a moment of dumb and dumber and hear what they wanted to hear so you had john

mccain patrolling the streets of aleppo thinking that supporting the insurgents was a good idea one thing the west perhaps failed to see was the blurred lines between the moderate and the radical groups within the syrian opposition lysis until very recently was part of a broad sunni group in syria that was being supplied by the united states the extremist group makes use of modern technologies like no other radical organization they even use surveillance drones to plan attacks on the syrian military the question arises whether the you. essays misjudged the scale of extremism in syria as it focused all efforts on bringing down the syrian government you know so much cooperation where you know all the help you got for being with us. for free the last american last nothing to spend their lives to see bills or charlotte when they come if you're waiting for them which they call any of. these let me state

group is now hearing about all the arms and money that they have seized both in iraq and in syria isis sympathizers are posting pictures on twitter in the u.s. cities with a message saying we are in your streets something that is typical of prices is this vicious sense of humor if you will they're big fans of social media and they have been using all the west can offer to spread what president obama called cancer in washington i'm going to shut down party and the islamic state has managed to create one of the most successful business models in the world of terrorism a with. as it's worth an estimated two billion dollars and reports suggest a significant amount of that around two million dollars comes from selling oil to kurds in neighboring countries and smuggling and kidnapping is also a lucrative sideline with ransom payments bringing in around ten million dollars in

recent years and figures are publicly available as state publishes a corporate style annual report to attract new sponsors radical group is also social media savvy and key to getting new militants to join their fight as a unit costs are now reports. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western troops and gulf in flames these are just some of the grotesque methods employed by the slum extent it's illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to. but its message and message that even al qaeda is uncomfortable with visit hannity those what was striking out can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of isis the photography is hyper real. this little mix states markets and techniques are becoming increasingly more professional and widespread as it's propaganda is found

in different languages in news updates videos twitter accounts magazines and on t.v. the democratic they're targeting is you they're relying on the ignorance of you distorting the qur'an of course but they're also using various kinds of stylistic mannerisms which the youth are familiar with from the street from you tube from twitter and so forth in other words it has a very modern look and feel it feels like a media extravaganza but it's suffused with excitement now if we take a look at the cover of the islamic states latest magazine they will see that it's a play on a noah's ark in which the message is it's either them or the flood and experts say there is controversy and fear to get more followers how are they doing that they are using hate propaganda by showing their adversary is paradoxically as killing babies as they also are i think

a remarkably harsh in their language they present their enemy is indeed humanized terms of some kind of humanity just as the nazis did so they only use pejoratives like crusaders while watson nations might be trying to bomb isis out of existence i says itself seems to have learned that those bombs that can bridge social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever merino cost of our reporting from london forty and we'll gather impact of the trade tussle between russia and europe after the break to stay with us. differently here in syria. many of the members of congress of both parties have gone to syria in recent months. it is time well you can. still be

a peace to syria is going to be submissive. to what extent do you think the american and british policies in the middle east have contributed to the creation of these very terrifying terrorist groups the western governments of fully understood the policies of contributed significantly to the radicalization of young men and women around the world this is without a shadow over doubt i will confirm with all i would agree with the some of the young men that we work with certainly are being radicalized because of western foreign policy.

welcome back this is a teen or national poll as prime minister is to be the next president. takes over on december the first from herman van ryn boyd who says the major challenges are the economy ukraine and britain's place in europe well the blocs leaders have also nominated italian foreign minister federica long really to be their new foreign policy chief let's now cross live to political commentator and of london for her sauce thanks so much for joining us here ana but i don't want to ask is known for his strong anti russian stances or no but what does that mean for the prospects of a rapprochement between europe and russia over the ukrainian crisis. well it means the lot of the current constellation the current choice of heads of the institutions of the opinion reflects the profound schism between the eastern

countries new european countries and old countries that are much more pragmatic and they approach towards russia they are not touched by this emotions and the phantoms of the polished so are yes to go already during press conference we could notice how difficult and almost on reconcilable the approaches of italy. are. rini and donald are towards russia because they have completely different approaches completely different visions and completely different are ways to approach the conflicts so first of all are first of all i would like to say that it's not about the formal balance because many commentators say that it is a balance of forces of acres maurine is seen very much as tolerant candid as towards russia while the donald tusk is seen as tough men who will are wrestle with president putin about it's not about it it's about this relationship should be

functional and unfortunately it's not because the contradictions are so profound that there is no other way that this states try to built up by a letter of relations with russia because more complicated more profound the debate in europe is. less less vision common vision is represented towards russia are less chance is for european union to become a real player and our fulfill its role or its ambition to become a saver off ukraine what needs that russia has to or sorry i would like to finish russia has to build after the way she is with the member states bilaterally. well you just pointed out the. prince's between the two leaders the newly appointed. and of course donald tools so you know only time will tell how these two

will work together and what sort of policies they will work out but. also we have to look at the economic situation here because the e.u. now is going through some tough times here. president has a lot of donald tools for steering poland through a global economic crisis with. that without a recession. now. what about. europe i mean do you think he can actually pull europe out of the crisis. while first of all it's not the same thing there are a lot of there is a lot of doubt about his capacities because he always acted as a national politician he always was he's very knowledgeable about the situation in poland but even trying the first press conference you see that he doesn't speak english he is not very he's very shaky about about european issues because our for example he never presented his view on your act so the point is are to heimdall

europe with five hundred million citizens of this immense diversity of regions and needs and interests is something completely different than manage polish so i don't think that his experience from the past can be automatically are transmitted projected to europe i think it's a greatest challenge and all very few people understand why chosen because he is a man that never expressed his vision on the air and we know his that he is a liberal politician but a liberal mentality is not a remedy are against many are what say diseases europe suffers now and are of course there is the greatest concern that his tough stance on russia will be contra productive counterproductive because our lawyer really yesterday clearly stated that there is no military solution there is only one solution if you create a crisis it's negotiated solution and about

a tool of course many in all countries and a stand that the language of science is absolutely not admissable with russia because russia is and was and will be a strategic partner of europe there is no way out because that's a jogger for you and you can't escape it so i went. doubts of course about our his capacity to be a successful leader of europe in crisis to do this you have to add that poland is not a member if you're a grown up so they have no euro it's one more deficiency he has but. his when i was really sorry to interrupt you we're running out of time here and i'd like to thank you for sharing your views with us here on r.t. it was an intense few political commentator talking to us from. now slovakia could veto that you use attempt to impose more trade sanctions against

russia next week the country's prime minister called the measures meaningless and counterproductive adding that there is no point in supporting sanctions that could hurt the economy that was added by his czech counterpart who wants to revise the block strategy the further restrictions announced by european leaders at a summit in brussels will be the latest escalation in a trade war since moscow climbdown on food imports as it tries to curb the impact of the band some politicians there have their own ideas of how to ease the pain. keeps for to know that. germany's agriculture minister believes eating up the food which was supposed to go to russia could help local producers money wise and also put additional pressure on moscow. early estimates show the e.u. could lose up to seven billion euros over the food a bargain and at around one hundred thirty thousand people could lose their jobs.

now these polish farmers are seeking full compensation for their losses and they dumped several tons of papers outside the e.u. parliament building in brussels some german politicians think sanctions were a big mistake. especially does was different sanctions than the trade war i know means to improve the situation on the country we have a spiral of exclusion deterrents the german and european economies many people object to the sanctions trite from the start they have a right to feeling that this is not the way to achieving. sanctions or always prove that the political means feel they are useless and they are harming the population sanctions always lead to losses on both sides and you can already see the backlash from the sanctions but in the next couple of months it will be even more obvious. from the beginning it was the wrong approach because sanctions escalated the situation and did not ease the tensions it was clear when the imposed

sanctions that there would be a counter reaction and the stakes would be raised now because of that a lot of entrepreneurs as well as the general public in germany has been affected by that. and some of today's top stories now from around the world starting in pakistan where three protesters have been killed in clashes with police as they demanded the prime minister's resignation hundreds more were injured violence broke out as thousands of people tried to force their way through barricades to the prime minister's official residence police made dozens of arrests demonstrators have vowed to continue to camp out in the capital until their demands are met the prime minister nawaz sharif who is accused of rigging last year's general action has refused to step down. other people injured when a blast caused a residential building to partially collapse in a suburb of paris emergency teams are trying to rescue and the other ten people who

they said could still be trapped underneath the rubble it's thought a gas leak could have triggered the explosion but authorities have not yet said what caused the collapse. that's coming up here international excited boyko worlds apart. if you look at my generation of americans and even more so at the millennium there are a lot of people with all sorts of piercings and tattoos everyone wants to express themselves by getting the exact same cliched tattoos and piercings as everyone else but can we discriminate against these people because of their and out appearance normally people are against discrimination because it punishes people for the way they were born their rays search gender but no one was born with big metal loops stretching out their ear lobes so essentially yes you can't judge someone by their

tattoos and piercings because they got these done consciously as an adult i mean we all know that you need to dress up on a first date or job interview to make a good impression and well having the words thug life written up your forearm are not very convincing to me that you are going to make a valuable employee or girlfriend one of the worst things that we tell children is that you should never judge a book by its cover the problem is that no one has the time to open up all these books and investigate so obviously ninety percent of the time we're going to be judging each other by the cover of our book and if that cover is full of dead fetus tattoos like one guy i know that you should expect a lot of bigoted reactions over the course of your life but that's just my opinion . gender trying to symbolize it that gender madness in swedish an idea here because i found this. project. seventy thousand.

to investigate trying things from a gender perspective. hello and welcome to worlds apart it took an american being killed by a briton in the midst of the syrian desert but the danger of violent extremism to really hit home but why does the west only seem to care about really just radicalism when it compromises its own security well to discuss that i'm now joined by hani deer a co-founder of the u.k. based antics famous group active change foundation mystical here thank you very much for being on the show it's a pleasure thank you for inviting me now when extremism prevention is discussed in the british media it's usually in the context of young british muslims travelling

to syria getting radicalized there and then becoming a security risk once they decide to come back home and that strikes me as a bit selfish because if they were just to stay in syria and fired an unfriendly government of let's say bashar assad then radicalization is not really a problem i mean in fact the more radicalized there are the more likely they are to choose these regime change goal and it's only when they want to come hong the british government sees it's as problematic doesn't approach strike you as a bit self-centered it's a good question but it's a very very complex and difficult one to answer in that sense i can i can fully appreciate the fact that way when we got young muslims travelling abroad for humanitarian purposes and helping out to alleviate the suffering of innocent women and children but another thing is getting involved in the jihad which is ok fair enough they want to go and hope.