islamic states last breath syria we get an exclusive look across the euphrates river. the west bank's now been liberated from the terrorists. north korea saying military action is a possibility the state department defends his approach to the crisis. devastating i can tell you the devastating for north korea the president certainly. is a very effective communicator. preacher who. security goes on trial with questions over why police didn't prevent some of his followers from carrying out terrorist attacks.

welcome to the program. with your world news from r.t. international before we get onto a top story i want to update you on the breaking news we first brought you last hour that attack on kabul international airport now both the taliban and. the rockets towards kabul international airport several mortars landed just hours after the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis and nato secretary general stoltenberg had arrived in the afghan capital there are no reports of any casualties and according to the local media the taliban says it was targeting and james mattis he of course is the first member of the trumpet ministration to visit afghanistan since president announced a new strategy on the war that thousands more troops. pledged to fight the taliban

has how the u.s. secretary of defense reacted to news of the attack at kabul airport. if in fact there was an attack i only heard some press reports so far not confirmed but a new tech on an international airport anywhere in the world is a criminal act by terrorists it's designed to go after generally innocent people to make some sort of statement and it's this is a classic definition of what the taliban are up to right now it defines their approach to how they see their role here and if in fact this is what they have done they will find the afghan security forces continuing on the offensive against them in every district of the country right now so it is what it is but it's also the reason why we've been together and we don't we don't question what we're doing here . until i had line news now syrian government forces have driven out i saw

terrorists from the west bank of the euphrates river near did it all and after a series of losses islamic state seems to be on the brink of defeat in the country with the syrian army and kurdish forces advancing on the terrorists on two fronts these are exclusive pictures we've got for you from the area several days ago the syrian army managed to get across some parts of the river allowing for a new advance on ice so the russian military is now established a bridge that enables armored cars to cross what i guess they have reports from the west bank of the euphrates for that palace once that is sort of the most exclusive resort's now a modern day fortress out of necessity. for three years the garrison here has was it isis attempts to cross the river at times it was a close run thing and today it has sawed going on in from the onset coming up to the roof was very dangerous because of the snipers it was really bad. but when the

army broke the siege he fell back a month ago it would have been suicide to film up here not anymore. these five star hotel seem better days but thanks to its grandiose design and height it's acted as something of a fortress here indeed as sort and just to show you how close we are if you have a look through this hole at that hospital while everything behind that is ice is part of the city of that as sort of across the river they also hold sway this is all their territory that's the euphrates river and across it is isis it's from there that they shelled the city at will and from there that they launched the occasional raid across the river taking the other bank is key to liberating the city entirely isis still sends fighters and dom's back and forth across the river

at night it may take weeks but it is inevitable isis in syria is on its last legs its collapse has been as spectacular as its rise since the beginning of the year the so-called caliph it has lost thousands of square kilometers losing precious oilfields and strategic towns to the advancing syrian army and the us backed rebels that is not to say it's over all that it will be. isis has nothing left to lose according to the syrian military and the families of isis fighters and diehard supporters have allegedly retreated to the town of my idea and they have nowhere else to go in the shrinking caliph it looks like a good indication of what they might do in the future everywhere they were or whatever of these areas where the. liberate the people who suffered the president.

have told us. about how you. could not stop driving at all if they would and there was no way for anyone to predict to what extent they would do that but. it would be hampered by any enormous of any reason or any more i live the past doesn't indicate that this is the final act the dream of an islamic state has been shattered but even in its death throes it will inevitably claim more lives. from there is sort of syria. i saw loses ground not only in syria but also in iraq as well the fate of the families of foreign ministers so it's a question we ask what should happen to the wives of vice all terrorists that's later in the program. the syria updates for you five for

a commander's behind an attack on a russian military police unit last week have been killed in a targeted missile strike that's been confirmed by russia's defense ministry and a separate mission russian strategic bombers have carried out strikes on my cell and al nasra positions in the syrian provinces on dinner at all and also include the defense ministry said that all targets were located outside of residential areas. are lower.

words continues to escalate between the united states and north korea donald trump is now said that the u.s. is fully prepared to explore military options against pyongyang if washington feels it's needed at the same time a state department spokesperson described the u.s. president as an effective communicator while trying to deal with north korea you are totally prepared for the second option not a preferred option but if we take that option it will be devastating i can tell you that devastating for north korea that's called the military option if we have to take it we will the president certainly it is a very effective communicator and the president speaks very clearly in terms of his position coming out of the white house well apparently donald trump is an effective communicator he doesn't want to attack north korea while at the same time he does

he has been threatening north korea with military options for quite a while and we've heard kim jong on in the leaders of north korea responding there was the recent statement saying little rocket man won't stay much longer we've seen angry responses from north korea heather nauert was asked at the state department about whether she thought it was helpful for donald trump to speak this way on social media i feel that the of the name calling and the statements made over twitter on north korea you feel like that is effective communication i think that the president is an effective communicator i think people know exactly where he stands we have had a good deal of success in pushing forward with our diplomacy campaign that hasn't changed that certainly hasn't changed in the president has helped rally the world together rally the world together in the peaceful pressure campaign against kim jong un's regime so apparently she considers threatening a country that. has nuclear capabilities with destruction to be

a great diplomatic success and this doesn't sit well with pianka they fired back with their own responses we've been having this warmongering rhetoric back and forth between the leaders of north korea and the leaders of an united states for months now the escalation of terms has increased the question is when will this rhetoric transform into something more serious. the era of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies were respected leader kim jong un said that the u.s. will be unhappy to see d p r k strategic power on its independence day and called her stands in big ass small gift packages. this make it worth the rest of the

united states. they will be met with fire. like the world has never seen north korea has finished preparation for a strike and will launch the us does not act sensibly and the threat to the united states george territories will be met with a massive military response of the us neglects the international community's will establish peace on the korean peninsula. against the sanctions and pressure from washington with powerful councilman's the forthcoming measures to be taken by the d.p. arche will cost the us the greatest pain and suffering it has ever gone through in its entire history if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. since the united states declared war. in our country we will have every right to take

countermeasures including the right to shoot down u.s. strategic bombers even when they are not inside our country's airspace. asia politics analyst joseph chang told us he believes president trumps trying to sound firm on north korea only to same tougher at home. the messages are certainly very confusing in his united nations general assembly speech president trump to totally destroy north korea the statement was aimed to please his right wing nationalists concert tour ends at the same time his government officials have been stating. the united space doesn't see a region. korea north korea is expected to continue to engage in nuclear. nollie rather frequent missile pairs since no

force no military action has been taken regarding previous as it is quite and imaginable. for further miss out the united states then choose to take military action against north korea. and islamic preacher known as isis ambassador has gone on trial in germany he's accused of having inspired several terror attacks in the country including the christmas market attack last year peter oliver has the details. his face in court he's also known for turning his back to the camera during his recordings called the faceless preacher he goes by several names more commonly known as. described as i saw as ambassador in germany with direct contact to the group's leadership according to prosecutors he's accused of being the main talent

scouts of islamic state in germany recruiting people to go to syria to fight to do this and that the goals of this network want to record people in germany and to send them to syria to fight and long side i say requires. we believe is a member of the arsenal terrorist group isn't just accused of recruiting flight. as for foreign jihad he also spoke regularly of the mosque that was attended by an ace armory who killed twelve people and wounded almost sixty after he rammed a truck into a christmas market here in berlin. apart from the perlin attack or it's thought that at least one of three teenagers who set off a bomb at an indian wedding were influenced by. willow was arrested in november twenty

sixth seen along with four associates he was charged with creating a regional salafist jihadist network an iraqi national will all right in germany back in two thousand and one police had been aware of him for two years before his arrest but all there was insufficient evidence to detain him just over a month after they finally did right before the christmas holidays germany was hit by the deadliest terror attack in years given security services say they've identified some ten and a half thousand radical islamists in the country that's up from less than four thousand back in twenty eleven. and his four co-defendants deny all of the charges against them and the trial is expected to continue well into twenty eighteen but should they be found guilty major questions will have to be asked of the security services over how someone who preached so openly the words of radical jihad could

be allowed to do so within germany and go unpunished for so long peter all of a. is not the only preacher accused of inspiring terror attacks police in spain found links to one one investigating a terrorist selling. last month's terror attacks in barcelona and campbell's the preacher in question died at the day before those attacks when a bomb factory inside a house exploded hey preachers also come to the attention of the u.k. authorities as well over the years anjem choudary is believed to have inspired an attacker who killed soldier lee rigby and twenty thirteen the preacher was jailed for over five years for openly supporting islamic state we spoke to counterterrorist specialist and he believes the phenomenon has a deep political background what government policy throughout the european and west the world bills is essentially neglect and reject the idea that it's

politics and political factors that are essentially driving political violence the whole idea of hate preachers what it basically say's is that the individuals who walk conducting the violence themselves have no political agency they are simply being manipulated and grooved and therefore we can stop this grooming from happening by dealing with the hate preachers when the reality of the matter is that these populistic or issues that are operating overwhelmingly on a structural level so whilst of course we can have a discussion and debate around individual ideologues the reality is that stability and some resemblance of peace will only happen when the structural change . images of top flight american footballers kneeling during the national anthem before games has fired up a nation wide row over patriotism but until recently there's been more behind the

tradition of opening matches with the star-spangled banner than you might have realized is miguel francis santiago. american football and donald trump just don't mix trump has lashed out at fellow players for bending the need during the national anthem and the protests just keep on coming let's recap would you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a up the field right now out of the sky used in sports platform to try to divide. this president needs a good history lesson of i'll be honest with you this is the news you got to not only our players but are we it's basically ignorance he doesn't understand it i'm not sure if our president understands those rights if the people who benefited most from america despise it and increasingly they do what does that leave the rest of us and there is also a hash tag war on the social media the date they need team defense players rights

in their protest against police brutality and they're up against the respect the flag team posting videos like this of players jerseys and n.f.l. memorabilia being burnt now the last time the bend the knee argument got this much attention was of course over the game of thrones i'm not here to bend the knee and join me over fees and down since there's a lot of talk about respect and pride when it comes to your country here is a patriot senator mccain i was appalled to learn last month that many of the ceremonies honoring members of our armed services at n.f.l. games are not actually being conducted out of a sense of patriotism but for profit in the form of millions of dollars in taxpayers' money going from the department of defense to wealthy enough self franchises back in two thousand and fifteen mr mccain came out with a detailed report on how in the fall national anthem celebrations were actually

being paid for by the partner of defense here's where the taxpayers' dollars were going. to on field color guard performances of the national anthem and full field flag ceremonies now this report lists sports teams who got the cash for patriotic ceremonies however the funds have dried up since twenty sixteen asked senators put a stop to what they called aid patriotism returning to trump's own to rot against the n.f.l. teams arthur blank owner of the atlanta falcons says trump creates division and undermines the ideals of american democracy but the falcons got a total of eight hundred seventy nine thousand dollars in just four years now robert kraft of the new england patriots said that he was deeply disappointed by trump's comments but he couple of years before that his team got seven hundred thousand dollars of funds for national anthem ceremonies now trumps remarks were divisive and this respectful the criticism coming from terry and kim of the owners

of the buffalo bills they took six hundred fifty thousand dollars from the d.o.d. back when pete patriotism was allowed let's not get it twisted for his sake in these billionaire owners like jerry jones of the day. in kraft in the pages they could care less about civil rights they could care less about the state of black america in this struggle against police terror but they knew that if they sided with the troll who was extremely unpopular in all spheres of american society the owners risked a walk of some type of players strike there was such incredible unity among the players that the owners had no choice but the logs are in with the players they were protecting their own interests and their own bottom was. despite british newspapers best efforts to put off football fans from coming to moscow falcons are championship matches and they've been telling us exactly what kind of welcome

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telling me you are not cool enough and let's buy their product. all the hawks that we along the ball of wax. hello again i was so i sold hughes is grounded in iraq and syria the fate of the children of foreign militants is in question a few days ago there were new arrivals at an orphanage in baghdad and as in previous cases most of the children appear scarred by their experiences or taken care of by their teenage sister was married to a militant while there's no argument that children should be allowed to return to their families deciding the fate of the wives of fighters is a deeply divisive issue. we have no idea what cons

a have committed or may have committee to so i don't think they should be allowed back in the lake be rehabilitated they used were able to when they chose to correct their actually i think we've got to sort out the war criminals who have been responsible for them crimes you talk of the talking about the women i think it's right that we screen them we find out what they've been involved in or why they made the decision to go out and actually that could be used as a good resource in terms of gathering intelligence do you honestly think that somebody is committed any kind of atrocity is going to hold their hands up and you have absolutely no way of knowing whether they did or whether they didn't they're not going to admit to it so i'm sorry what do you take that risk with the women and children in this country when we could actually pretty bringing i mean and they could be telling as yes we we've had a change of heart we realize we shouldn't have done a we didn't commit any crime they come in in the you know you've got

a plot for another terror attack in this country while the vast majority of terrorist plots and the terrorist activity that we've seen over these dreadfully seen over these past few months here in london or manchester are actually a whole growing problems. they're not people who come from outside decided. that actually it with your replies by people radicalized by isis and their ideology of violence or through the internet. preachers. we have to divide to close these people we have to make sure that they use the over the over them to do a little higher somebody who may have taken that i was ready to come on there's a slight difference i'm not talking about people beheading people if they've been involved in dog how was i know if i heard there was criminal are they how do you know they should be held to account for their war crimes. about children how would you know the people who know what i how do you know they are i gave them homemade how do you know what i see how do you know that they are and that's exactly the point how do you know that they are i can. we will not know three thousand five

hundred jihad is on a watch list in this country is three thousand five hundred extremists in this country right now the police have said they don't know where they all made the police have said that they do not know what the cone by his own admission is said he doesn't know how many idea where any of them are what you are talking about is somebody if i came to you and i had been and committed some atrocity but i swore to you or how did that how. how would you prove that i had or i had and you come out with one way or the other and i'm sorry to i you. can't have the law of the jungle we have the. man bring him back and those laws have to take their process and we don't see the point you have to make very clear yes we don't you know we don't find any blood guilty without which you process and we have to go through that process so there are there are terrorism laws there are process is in which the

intelligence agencies of police should be able to follow. more than two thousand british football fans have descended on moscow for european champions league matches but before any of the british football fans even flew to russia the media at home was giving them plenty of warnings on what they might expect many showing videos of hooligans and repeated that it's dangerous and unsafe to travel to russia nevertheless liverpool supporters got a warm welcome on tuesday before the match with spartak moscow ahead of that game that ended in a one will draw the visitors were given warm blankets and souvenir t. shirts it's part of a campaign called gentle fam russian warm welcome which kicked off in the city of rostov last march we'll see some of the fans about their experience here. the russian people are very very nice very good warm welcome political to go to sleep. if you. really feel very go through we gotta go very joy a ball and you're really god's people. will be on the

streets. i feel very very safe won't found a very good way on the make sure we beat the shit yeah yeah spacek fans are so yeah yeah they. remind you the most. lovable do think about the city and the big city the amazing i can tell you how lovely it's. i should then feel that we. need to just my help myself. and they were so it meant that they were maybe maybe. they had a good time at the manchester united game tonight i enjoy it too that's it for now i'll have your next world news update from a in just over half an hour.

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