the remains of russia's most wanted terrorist a model for found by the federal security agency is thought he was killed four years ago almost behind the moscow metro bombings also the islamic state on the brink in syria we've got exclusive footage from dia resort where the terrorists are being pushed back across the euphrates river. do you propose is a new plan to take in fifty thousand more silencio kids after the previous two year long scheme fails and iraq increased to send troops to oil fields in kurdistan after the region votes overwhelmingly for independence.

for the welcome coming to you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international in our top story this hour the grave of terrorist leader dr model for speed uncovered by russia's federal security service it was found in the caucuses region of hawkins' tells us more now about the man who was once russia's most wanted. morrow's death was speculated on by media more than a dozen times since the year two thousand it was back in twenty thirteen he was eliminated in an f.s.b. operation but nobody was ever found that's all changed today a militant returning from syria gave the information pertaining to the location of his grave of was widely labeled as russia's bin laden he was an associate of the al qaida taliban and always told terrorist leaders he himself was the leader

of. a known terror organization and he personally claimed responsibility for some of russia's most horrific terror attacks in its modern history. docker more of was the militant commander in the first and second chechen wars many of his most prominent allies and associates were considered freedom fighters by some western governments in a battle of david and goliath against the russian state but after repeatedly

targeting civilians his status changed he was put on terror list early in russia but also with interpol with the united nations al qaida and taliban sanctions committee even the united states for the multimillion dollar reward for information leading to his killing or capture and today's discovery will bring closure to these many hundreds of victims and a final chapter in a blogger free of russia's most wanted terrorist in modern history really very very difficult to track down. so in many ways there must have sighed and huge sigh of relief when they reported that he had been eliminated but of course he had other commanders under him and so on and they continued if you look at i still if you look at the islamic state there may be in fact several thousand from the caucuses many of them much of chen's so therefore it's an interest of both russia and america to come together and agreed to cooperate so that their main enemy because i mean everybody is atlantic states especially trained fighters who are formidable

fighters they can be difficult to defeat but they have to be defeated in the end so russia and america have to collaborate they have to seek ways of collaborating to ensure this happens. syrian government forces have driven out eyesore from the western side of euphrates river media resource seen as a hugely important gain in the conflict after a series of losses islamic state seem to be on the brink now of defeat in the country with the syrian army and kurdish forces advancing on the terrorists on two fronts these are exclusive pictures from the area several days ago the syrian army managed to get across some parts of the river allowing for a new advance on i saw the russian military has now established a bridge that doesn't enable cars to cross but it has the ports in the west bank of the euphrates. four out palace once there is sort of most exclusive resort now

a modern day fortress out of necessity. for three years the garrison here has warded isis attempts to cross the river at times it was a close run thing and you don't have an animal 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 they 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 cardio hospital well everything behind that is isis is part of the city of the resort 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 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 calif 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 hoover will 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 at the pass is quite a good indication for what they might do in the future everywhere they were whatever these areas were liberated the people who thought for the presence of isis have told us horror stories about how they use people as human shields so it's not surprising at all if they would and there was no way for anyone to predict to what extent they were doing that but. would they be hampered by any norms 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 more at guys do you have see from that as sort of syria when in a separate development in the conflict five owners recommand is behind last week's attack on a russia. military police units have been killed in a targeted missile strike in syria the information comes from russia's defense ministry which released this video it apparently shows the building where the commanders were meeting the strike also killed thirty two of the terrorists and destroyed a weapon store as well as several the course also russian strategic bombers have carried out strikes on. news representations in the syrian provinces of deities or underwater we believe the defense ministry says all targets were located away from residential areas. or or or or or.

or. or. or. or or. are. now the european commission is proposing to take in another fifty thousand asylum seekers from north africa and the middle east in its new location scheme after the previous plan failed to meet its goals charlotte have been skiing as the story. you know the european commission has outlined that it set aside five hundred million euros for this new resettlement plan for asylum seekers and it comes as the current to your plan comes to a close on wednesday now this new plan will be regimented in take place over the

next few years and it will look to extend that to asylum seekers from the horn of africa and in the middle east now what we do know is that this two year plan that's just come to a close here on wednesday has not been a success at all and if we look at the figures you can see how poorly that's been implemented from resettling people from countries that have applied for asylum in places like greece and in italy and you look at those figures less than a fifth of the hundred and sixty thousand people that were supposed to be helped under the previous plan would only a fifth of them helped now some countries completely failed to set out and for phil their quotas including countries like germany world other countries in the european union point blank refuse to take in a single asylum seeker including countries like hungry and poland which actually mounted a legal fight against those obligations now this new plan will see that eight

thousand refugees or silent seekers from the previous panel also be included in that but it has been an abysmal failure and that's the description by many charities and organizations all of the european union plan including international two years after the scheme was a greet most e.u. member states have fundamentally failed refugees and asylum seekers shirking their responsibilities and leaving thousands abandoned in italy and greece where questions are being raised about this new plan when the previous two year plan was such an abysmal failure and there is still friction within the european union its member states over this thorny issue of migration and asylum seekers in what is over this issue a disunited european union. dubinsky there will stranded refugees are attempting to illegally cross borders by any means possible here we can see asylum seekers jumping on trucks crossing from france to the u.k.

we spoke to the head of the european freight transport association who believes the authorities do need to take more responsibility. get on board on the continent and then the cross that's usually under way the really goes it's very difficult to know how you get on board exactly they've become very clever at finding new ways of getting on board we've had incidents of violence. in migrants actually attacking drivers and trucks in order to. sneak in and get on board to try to get to looky i don't think we can ask the drivers to just protect themselves and take care of their own security they can do some things. to charge protect the truck but at the end of the day to the responsibility of the authorities to make sure that you feel safe. now elsewhere in europe

a man suspected of recruiting islamic state fighters and planning attacks has been arrested in belgium spanish authorities have confirmed belgian police detained a twenty six year old spanish national of moroccan origin he is suspected to be the head of an islamic state recruitment cell but this is just the latest in a string of similar cases across europe an earlier investigation did find a terrorist cell linked to last month's attacks in barcelona and also cam brill's revealing the preacher police say was behind the atrocities he died the day before those attacks when a house being used as a bomb factory exploded another case uncovered the man known as eyesores ambassador who is now on trial in germany he is accused of having inspired several terror attacks in the country including the christmas market attack last year peter oliver has been following the developments.

hiding his face in court he's also known for turning his back to the camera during his recordings called the faceless preacher he go. by several names more commonly known as abu allah were last described as ice souls 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 not the goals of this network what's a regular people in germany and to send them to syria to fight alongside guys who fires. we believe is a member of the arsenal terrorist group isn't just accused of recruiting fighters for foreign jihad he also spoke regularly at 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 pearl in 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 pan regional salafist jihadist network an iraqi national well all right in germany back in two thousand and one police had been aware of him for two years before his arrest but solved 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 on punished for so long peter all of. in other news this evening the iraqi parliament has authorized sending troops to the kurdish held for region of code to take control of oil fields there it does come after the results of kurdistan's independent referendum are announced with over ninety percent of voters supporting it with the details is our middle east correspondent. the iraqi parliament has asked the iraqi prime minister betty to

stay in troops to the kurdish region of cook and to take control of the oil fields there in response the security forces belonging to the kurdistan regional government have said that they will not allow iraqi soldiers into the area this follows monday's controversial referendum in which an overwhelming majority of kurds at least ninety one percent voted in favor of independence from iraq of course oil is a hugely important issue both in the referendum and in this part of the world and bad diet is trying hard to get oil fields that are currently in kurdish held territories back under its control we're also hearing from the iraqi parliament that they will prosecute those who were behind monday's referendum including the leader of the kurds now presented himself has asked iraq to engage in what he calls serious dialogue and not to threaten sanctions but baghdad has responded saying

that there is no way it will engage in talks said look at some kind of independent kurdistan being established its course this referendum to quote illegal and unconstitutional it wants the results canceled and it is threatening that the kurds need to hand over control of international airports otherwise it will bear rights. that it is official and has been called in the storage moment by the russian president the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has declared russia free from chemical agents earlier today russia did confirm it has destroyed the last of its stockpile three years ahead of shut your. the stuff. russia inherited a huge chemical weapons stockpile from the soviet union experts claim this arsenal could annihilate everyone on a number of times over today's an historical event the last agent from russia's

chemical weapons arsenal will be destroyed. while this video does show the last units of russia's chemical ammunition being wiped out cold farewell to chemical arms all part of an obligation moscow signed up to back in one thousand nine hundred three the document was signed by almost two hundred countries but president putin did complain it seems only russia is meeting its deadlines at the moment state and the us did fail on its promise on three occasions due to what was said to be financial reasons. historically russia was one of the largest holders of chemical weapons and the us remains one unfortunately the u.s. is not observing the deadline for disposing of its chemical weapons they have pushed the date back three times citing a lack of funding this frankly sounds strange russia loans the disposal program back in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight before the us ratified their obligations to remove chemical weapons washington agreed to do that in its entirety

by april of twenty twelve however they didn't and only managed to dispose of ninety percent of their stockpile now five years later they still haven't fulfilled their commitments. several mortar rounds have struck kabul international airport just hours after the u.s. defense secretary and nato secretary general arrived in the afghan capital both the taliban and i still say they were behind the attack at least one civilian was killed and four others were wounded the taliban reportedly said it was targeting the u.s. defense secretary james mattis he's the first from the trumpet ministration to visit the country since president announced a new strategy for afghanistan in which thousands more troops were pledged to fight against the taliban here's how the defense secretary reacted to what occurred earlier today. the new tack on an international airport anywhere in the world is a criminal act by terrorists designed to go after generally innocent people to make

some sort of statement and it's the classic definition of what the taliban are up to right now it is what it is but it's also the reason why we band together and we don't we don't question what we're doing here. well local media also say that more explosions have been heard in the city reports suggest that they were caused by a military asked strike on the position from where the airport last targeted a former member of the afghan parliament telling us that the terrorist attack could be used by the u.s. and nato forces to justify their continued presence in the country but. their allies may be intending to send a signal to the united states and nato but the irony is that while that's their intention it also at least to the americans and nato justifies their presence in this lingering war even the afghan people with their patience they have to see

sometimes a bit of dissolves that will change their lives for the better and that is not in the battlefield i think mr trump did not hide his intention he said there are interested in afghan radar material and other mining projects so i think we will see in. the national test of the emergency alert system this is only a test broadcast and cable operators. to the system and cooperation with. the sea and local authorities to keep you informed of an emergency if this had been an actual emergency an official message would have blown the alert this can this

national test of the emergency alert system. in hindsight really you can see the full confidence that it was a mistake after nine eleven we again it appeared the same mistake and what happens today that americans are accusing of harboring terrorists america not accusing of having sanctuaries on our soil in riyadh as. control almost forty percent of the dead tree they don't need. to operate from they have plenty of better they're going to have sanctuary they can have bases they're going to have their families over there they can operate for from there against anybody you know. gordon parks on scapegoating. by washington this is one acceptable you know box going apartment in the u.s.

over sixty seventy years have been partners in defense of alliances we have been their strategic partners so this is something you know which bits compels us to rethink the whole. alignment and. this. and then they tell us that they have given us billions or more billions. to this sort of thing they're more responsible led to childers of the most mortars sponsible approach is needed to solve this problem and it has to be politically you know military approach in the past in last three four decades in this region has not worked. that images of top flight american football is nailing two in the national anthem before games have fired up a nation wide right over patriotism as you might well know but there's more to the

tradition of opening matches than you might think is legal front to santiago explains. 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 but 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 these guys use the sports platform to try to divide. this president needs a good history lesson of i'll be honest with you but this is an issue go 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 have 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 of 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 down since there is 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 franchise 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 department 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 d.o.d. cash for patriotic ceremonies however the funds have dried up since twenty sixteen as senators put a stop to what they called aid patriotism returning to trump's own to ride 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 a 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 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. craft 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 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. not russia and the us are putting their differences on earth decided to team up for

a project building a new space station deep space base where all but the moon for research purposes but it could also be used as a launch pad for missions reaching other path. of the solar system too including mouse the living a base project is a joint collaboration between nasa russia's space agency ross cosmos and also other international partners expected to begin sometime in two thousand and twenty construction will take at least six years scientists from all the countries involved have hailed deep space as an important step towards human exploration and understanding and they also hope the technology could help accelerate human existence inspects. the basic understanding space science astrobiology a true geology. you know knock on effect benefits the science of way you know the costs the short term costs the long term benefits science. make these missions.