and you see. this is from. a bomb blast in the london underground leaves at least twenty two people injured including children. lots of people running towards me to me that something is it is a cop and police say they are treating the attack as an act of terror making it the fifth in the u.k. this year meanwhile the use migration chief the change of heart on border controls in the schengen area after according to the checks to be dropped he goes on to say that the bloc may still need protection around the world anti-doping agency's president lashes out at several national agencies after new calls for russia to be

banned from the twenty eight winter olympic games. welcome you're watching r.t. international. starts in london because the number of people injured in a bomb blast on the cheap train in the southwest of the city has now risen to twenty nine police are treating the attack as terror lated witnesses report seeing a fireball or tear through the carriage offices say though that the device only partially detonated in that the destruction could have been far worse. there are. some. serious political observers i'm sure others clearly history the face.

that is lost to. the baby of a problem with the mom. if. the matter has been declared a counterterrorism related incident. with more now on today's attack on the ongoing investigation to his our correspondent in london and to see a check we're still outside parsons green tube station which is just behind me behind that cordoned off area where journalists have been parking all throughout this morning when after an explosive device went off inside one of the trains on the district line at eight twenty am this morning this device detonated partially

raising lots of questions about whether or not more damage could have been caused how did explode it fully we do know that a manhunt is currently underway officials have not made a mistake statements or concerns of possible suspects or arrests having been made quite yet we do know that the british prime minister teresa mayes hosted over meeting where this situation was analyzed these threat level remains at severe that means to terrorist attack is highly likely but this will be kept under review is the investigation progresses and the public should go about their daily lives but remain vigilant and people who are traveling in london will see an increased armed peace presence on the transport network and they will see security will be increased in the police will of course do what is necessary to protect the public. well we have to of course keep in mind that this is indeed the fifth terror related incident to take place in the u.k. within recent months really causing lots of concern and the scene earlier today one

after the explosion took place was indeed quite chaotic eyewitnesses have described it as a cold stampede when people were trying to get out of the tube station it has to be said that throughout london it was reported earlier today that as many as two hundred fifty people were evacuated not in relation to this incident but certainly twenty two people had been taken to hospitals including children and this is what eyewitnesses have been saying have been saying earlier today i remember is the sound explosion sound i cannot tell oh it's a public beach or city next to do tosha carries a few jokes over what all's well like but with the trees asian with a beautiful open door into the street jumping into over. you understand well while this investigation continues obviously trying to figure out who specifically was behind this attack whether it was one individual or several people those questions are yet to be answered one of the officials to have reacted to this latest incident in london was u.s. president donald trump who not only true to fashion referred to terrorists as quote

losers but he also seemed to have taken a job at the way british officials have been handling the situation it seems because he has somehow insinuated that this particular person behind the sitar could have been in the sights of scotland yard referring to previous cases where it was in fact revealed that people involved in attacks that had taken place in the u.k. were somehow monitored by officials yet were still able to carry out these attacks theresa may did reiterate to this that an investigation is ongoing right now so it's too early to comment but this is certainly something that's going to be watched as an investigation continues where the use anti-terrorist chief said earlier this month there are as many as twenty five thousand radical extremists in britain smaller than n. in any other european country three thousand of them. considered a direct threat to the u.k. by the intelligence agency m i five and five hundred of them are under constant surveillance just yesterday the u.k. home office said that the number of terror to the arrests in britain raised sixty

eight percent between june twenty sixth seen in june twenty seventh and the figures include arrests made after previous u.k. terror attacks in london and manchester two this is the fifth terror incident in the u.k. the sheer. ok

well to discuss this a bit further when i joined by a former police officer from the u.k. peter kirk and he joins us good evening ching peter we just did this is the fifth terror attack in the u.k. this year despite everything that said it does seem that an awful lot more can be done to stop them is that fair. it's very difficult to stop these sorts of attacks they're not all the same type of attack they're not or not all on the same types of venue they're not all by groups that are connected with each other it's almost impossible to prevent these sorts of things whilst there are people there that wish to carry them out it's incredibly difficult to do everything and that's the best of times it's particularly difficult to do it for the u.k. police service which has frankly been decimated by this government as home

secretary and now as prime minister since two thousand and ten she has removed fifteen percent of police officers the same again of support staff at a time when we all knew the terror threat was going up and other things were happening and we were accused of crying wolf well frankly the wolf is here we told her it was coming it is now here and she needs to act or its mates will turn up very shortly and it will be out of control she was saying today wasn't she that she'll ensure that the police will do all they can to protect the public him people are likely to see more police on the streets too is that sort of comment cosmetic do you think is there a lot more behind the scenes that needs to be done. and so entirely cosmetic she uses the phrase more police extra police things like that quite regularly there are no police no more police there are no extra police there are in fact fewer police all that there is all that is happening is that they're being moved from over

duties and other places into a particularly focused area all that's leaving gaps elsewhere is leaving gaps in of of services there are parts of london for instance where there are emergency calls going on answered and that is with the routine policing demand not with this on top of it it is on the point of collapse in so many places it's not a pretty picture that you're painting there but with regard to this particular attack on the manhunt that's under way in your opinion gee think they're likely to have identified him by now some reports are coming out to say that they have given the c.c.t.v. surveillance and everything that's there in central london would you expect him to have been identified by now. if it was my investigation i'd be very hopeful i'd have an image of them by now whether or not i've been able to put a name to their image would be another matter i would be extremely hopeful that at some point in the very near future i'll be able to put

a name to them or at least have fingerprints or d.n.a. profile that when i find the right person i'll be. them but where whether we know or don't know who they are where they are is going to be a big issue and that is the type of inquiry that just drags in loads and loads of police officers there will be loads of scenes to be protected and whilst a suspect capable of doing this remains at large who knows how many more devices they may have prepared and planning to use them so there is a larger areas to protect plus they'll be large numbers of searches being done as soon as they start getting information and potential places where this person might be coming in and needing investigation it's going to draw in loads of police resources but frankly. from what you've seen today t.j. you think this was a sophisticated attack or was this just a rudimentary device that wasn't well put together. from the small amounts of information that's out there already and from some of the footage and pictures that

we've seen it does appear to be frankly quite rudimentary we've had these sorts of devices before people will remember that weeks after seven seven we had a sort of mirror image attack with multiple devices on two trains and on a bus and they didn't detonate properly they sort of smoked and fumed and found over and we've had devices like this from on occasion failed to detonate properly or as planned they tend to suggest that there's somebody that's not particularly skilled the types of device or the type of device it appears to be is at the lower end of sophistication. the advantage from the attackers point of view of that is that they don't need a huge logistics chain backing them up getting them complicated complex explosives and skills you can almost do it yourself with a d.i.y. store and access to the internet ok pay to look at thanks the time tonight and your

insight that was there former police officer there from the u.k. peter thank you. in other news the saving russia says the finalized agreements on deescalation zones in syria opened the way for a genuine cease fire in the devastated country early you know neal spoke to train crew about the latest peace efforts. the news that we are getting from the capital of kazakstan as round six of the so-called talks concludes you know there really a good reason for optimism because it has been announced that the very long and straining this process of forming the four deescalation zones in syria has been completed by russia iran and turkey even and the north and the problem it's difficult yet it was most difficult to get to an agreement there and it remains

most volatile when it comes to the clashes between the government troops and the opposition now according to russia's special envoy to syria talks and asked and the people that will be making sure that there is no escalation and the deescalation zones will be russian military police and also similar units from the other guarantors turkey and iran besides this mr law says that the results of round six of astronaut will be really a massive relief for the people of syria but smaller through we consider the establishment of the deescalation zone will still be a major milestone and soon it is served as the lawyers at the end of this on the roof of the syrian people and you are made to feel more secure. in the near future as you well we have you here as well just to update us on the actual fight what's going on against islamic state well when it comes to peace in syria there is no peace without choking islamic state and the forces the many forces that are

currently involved in fighting the terrorists on the ground and the past few weeks they have actually done a really good job of very important milestone we can see the celebration here was the breaking of the dare resort c three years. and that was after a massive push by the syrian government troops east towards backed by the russian air force not what these people are doing right now is they're trying to kick mixtape completely out of the. arizona province i just want to show you a map here what they are also doing is they are trying to recapture the oil fields and the province of dare was or is the most all rich province in syria if us so loses control over this you can see it here all the map it means they will be in real trouble with cash the already lost the all fields outside palmira also here in the north east the kurds recaptured the all fields outside al and speaking of the

efforts by the u.s. backed kurdish units and also other elements of syria's moderate opposition mr love ranty of the envoy that we listen to he praised their efforts in the operation to retake rock up along the euphrates river and in the north of syria moderate kurdish an arab groups that are to some extent under the influence of the us a fighting i saw a noun is written and quite successfully. evident if you look at the partial liberation of iraq and as we will this city will be fully liberated from the terrorists in a month or two so you know and finally a steady flow of positive news from syria both when it comes to the peace process and also the fight on terror. now the u.s. is prone sanctions relief for iran for another three months in line with the twenty fifth they need a deal on thursday doubled from escaping though the original agreement brokered

under his predecessor barack obama. but you're right they are still never seen. certainly not a spirit you. just wrote if you think you're on the right you are. not a fair and you know. it's you never ever. you'll see what we're doing. eric i think that your to be it's going to be. well trump is delaying an announcement on america's new iran policy but washington has been very critical of terrans alleged hostile activities towards the u.s. and its allies and has upped its bad behavior in many instances we've seen the harassment of our sailors we've seen what they've done in syria we've seen has vala going into syria causing more problems we've seen our rand continuing to supply weapons to other fighting forces they are doing a whole lot of bad things we have to consider the totality of iran's activities and

not let our view be defined slowly by the nuclear agreement so it continues to be under review no final decisions been made but while there is relief or ran from some sanctions the u.s. is extending sanctions in other areas including an engineering company linked to iran's missile program until ukrainian firms accused of supporting a rainy and airlines plus seven individuals allegedly part of a network which has been implicated in attacks on u.s. financial systems well let's talk about all of this a bit further to you with the size mohammad marandi he's a professor at the university ronnie's with us now good evening she sighed. again we have donald trump calling this the worst deal ever used jeev fair that this around there will just fall through and and america will pull out of it. it's difficult to say at this stage their differing views about how trump will

behave and since he's very unpredictable i think it's best to wait and see there are many in iran who believe that it's not a good deal and the americans got too much but the fact is that the two sides along with other countries in the p five plus one they signed on to this agreement and the iranians have abided by their commitments and i think this is really important for the international community. to look at because it shows basically that the united states is untrustworthy and the whole during the whole decade the previous decade before the whole crisis about the iranian nuclear program was a manufactured crisis back then the americans were dishonest and americans are being dishonest today as well after they've remained the americans under obama they violated the agreement time after time both in spirit and in the letter of the agreement they added new entities individuals to the sanctions list through the

treasury department and they also increased sanctions through laws such as visa restrictions laws under obama such as the iran sanctions act which was a huge violation of the agreement under trump we have the continuation of the same process so trump and obama the congress and senate are all have all been violating the agreement time after time after time. it's confusing as you said because on one hand he's saying look this is the worst eleven but on the other he's saying ok we'll extend sanctions relief why is he doing that why not just say ok no no more sanctions relief. again it's difficult to say because if the united states throws the deal out the window on the one hand the iranians will feel free to change its policy with regards to the united states with regards to its

peaceful nuclear program and on the other hand it will isolate the united states further right now trump already has trouble with china he has trouble with the e.u. with canada with mexico he's he's not a consensus builder he cannot build coalitions and the only area which trump was trying to improve the u.s. status abroad was with russia and the senate and the house congress blocked that by the sanctions against russia so he is going to have a very difficult time making friends and allies when it comes to iran especially since the iranians have been seen as abiding by the agreement the i.a.e.a. has said repeatedly that he one has not violated the agreement that iran has fulfilled its commitments and i think the united states has many problems on a tear in north korea one crisis even when the north koreans twice

fired missiles over japan we saw that the united states didn't even try to bring down those missiles and it raises questions about the u.s. ability to actually bring down the missiles themselves does us u.s. technology work so when the united states has all these problems with regards to korea financial conflict with the chinese political problems with the iranians and the russians i think it's going to be very difficult for the united states. to push against iran very hard ok side always good to see we run out of time and that was side mohammad marandi a professor at the university of toronto. and the world anti-doping agency has. sighs fresh calls to ban russia from the twenty eighteen winter olympics yesterday seventeen national doping agencies had made the demand over doping allegations this is what he said at a session of the international implement he currently being held in peru. the

comments that have been made by the group. entirely the work that has been done to develop the proper system in russia. should backwards or rather than looking forward i want to make it very clear that. is not the policy of the world. in my view not helpful. to iraq with. no mincing of words there from the wired ahead so craig reedie in a week which is seen in russia and doping thrust back into the headlines and in his speech there he clearly lashed out at the national anti-doping agencies for daring to question his all farty it comes after seventeen national anti doping agencies including the u.k. and the u.s. called on the international olympic committee to take action against russia in

a strongly worded statement the agency's accuse the i.o.c. of not doing enough to investigate allegations of russian doping adding that the reluctance to take action against russian athletes could even threaten the future of the olympic movement itself what these agencies really want to see is a blanket ban on russia from taking part in the upcoming winter olympic games to be held in south korea but this statement didn't come out of nowhere it came hot off the back of revelations from was a that the ninety five out of ninety six of the russian athletes who were mentioned in that mcclaren report and the notorious mclaren report has been found clear of any wrongdoing due to a lack of sufficient evidence but rather than being relieved at the news these agencies would like to be banned anyway so it comes as no surprise that during this session being held in for the end. national limpid committee the topic of russian

windowpane has come up more than a few times in some prominent figures have also had their say on the matter here's the president of the international ice hockey federation i am and actually we are totally against. you just mentioned greek. needing to be heard in denver and we will never accept some kind of collective punishment if we are here to clean house to. clean just suspending for some reason we are not superior now what we may have gotten used to russia being in the headlines it comes as a refreshing surprise to see prominent figures actually standing up for the fact that it would be incredibly unfair to see a blanket ban on all russian athletes from taking part in the olympic games without any solid evidence however there's no clear sailing for the russian athletes just yet they're going to have to wait on a final decision on whether

a blanket ban on russia taking part in the olympic games will be in place or not which is the do it from the i.o.c. in november. porting now on thursday london was stormed just briefly by germany by be hit by twenty thousand football fans supporting their team's return to european football after two decades arsenal football club welcomed f.c. cologne to the english capital in the first game of the u.a.e. for europa league but the game was delayed by sporadic violence while there to get the details on this we're now joined by peter all of a good evening to you peter a lot of tension wasn't there before during and after this match what caused it all . well this was supposed to be a day of celebration for cologne football club and its pounds it was twenty five years since they last played in european competition and they were drawn against arsenal in the group stages of the europa league twenty thousand fans from cologne made the journey to london when you remember there was less than three thousand

tickets allocated to the club from western germany people realized it was going to be problems fairly early on on thursday is this huge crowd marched through central london stopped traffic there were scuffles what police have described as minor incidents some punches were thrown bottles were apparently thrown in flares set off but it was at the stadium dates it became very clear that a large number or at least a significant number of cologne fans had tickets to be able to get in to the home end to the home stands in amongst the arsenal fans now it's bit treat people are speculating that these have been found through touts or even online through third party sources the match was delayed as punches were thrown pushing and shoving flares again set off and small clashes between founds and stewards inside the inside the ground there now both teams how being charged by the european football governing body you wafer cologne logo put an interesting statement out on friday

they said that it's all arsenal's fault and distanced themselves from the members of their travelling support that caused any trouble they said that arsenal would not adequately prepared for the event of the arsenal are carrying out an investigation of their own as well but this isn't the first time we've seen problems concerning german fans the smuts earlier in the month found supporting the national team travel to prague where they weld disgrace themselves really by. chanting nazi slogans during that game it prompted yaki low who's the manager of the head coach of the the gym. national team the world champions say that they were disgrace to germany also german captain mark hummels pulled his players off the field not allowing them to go and go it applaud the traveling support there but of course fire behavior fun safety and how fans act is in the spotlight ahead of that

world cup that's coming up in russia next year. ok thanks peter that was our europe correspondent peter all of that. now if you are increasing the increasing number of terror attacks on mainland europe the question of border security is a major political concern there used migration chief earlier had a change of heart on the issue of identity checks in the shank in zone before he met with e.u. interior ministers he was adamant that stricter border controls were not needed anymore during the last two years ruth you've been working in crisis mode. now this is the moment to step out of the groceries or i believe this is the moment to to go back to the normal function of washington however a few hours after that during a q. and a session he didn't seem say sure saying the existing schenkkan code may not be adequate in terms of addressing new threats. security challenges have

appeared. during the last. the past few years is the most. recent shots in barcelona. the school may not be sufficiently adapted to address the evolving security challenges the migration commissioner was referring to the systematic id checks that were brought in during the height of the migrant crisis in two thousand and sixteen the this measure will be phased out in november unless officials decide to prolong it. well over the past couple of years europe has seen a whole range of deadly terror attacks where free movement within the e.u. has seemingly played into the hands of terrorists.