good tens of thousands of ukrainian jews russians in a room. in korea. there was a time when hollywood in the entertainment business used to do exactly that. today there was a very different part of reality. their mission is to educate us and demand political conformity with the country evenly split is this a losing proposition. the remains of russia's most wanted terrorists found by the federal security agency. killed four years ago i was behind the moscow metro bombings.

islamic states on the brink in syria we've got exclusive footage from where the terrorists have been pushed back across the euphrates river. taken fifty thousand more. after the previous two year long. iraq increase. in kurdistan are overwhelmingly for independence. good evening welcome you're watching r.t. international start this hour with breaking news to you because nato has admitted an air strike in afghanistan has resulted in civilian casualties a u.s. strike was called to suppress a terrorist attack on kabul airport on wednesday. the afghan crisis response unit

responded quickly to confront the attackers and the assault u.s. forces acting in support conducted an air strike tragically one of the missiles malfunctioned causing several casualties or several mortar rounds 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 part of the taliban reportedly said it was targeting the u.s. defense secretary james mattis the first from the trump administration to visit the country since president trump announced a new strategy for afghanistan in which thousands more troops were pledged to fight against the taliban well here's how the defense secretary reacted to what happened earlier today. 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 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. a former member of the afghan parliament told us that the terrorist attack could be used by the u.s. and nato forces to justify their continued presence in the country. the taleban and their allies may be intending to send a signal to the united states and nato but the irony is that while the bad is their intention it all sort of least to the americans and nato justifies their presence in this lingering war even the afghan people with their patience there have to see some time to build results 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 that if there are interested in afghan rare earth material material and other mining

projects so i think we will see a new page in afghanistan and i hope the afghan government the international community should change this page with vigilance so our country is not polluted our country doesn't become a second africa where blood diamonds and other minerals and worth would be looted and the country will stay in poverty i hope that doesn't. now the grave terrorist leader dr model has been uncovered by russia's federal security service it was found in the caucasus region hawkins tell 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 taliban and all his soul 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. 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 his 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 side a huge sigh of relief when they reported that he had been liberated but of course he had other commanders under him and so on and they continued if you look at the arsenal if you look at the islamic state there may be in fact several thousand probably caucuses many of the merger jones so therefore it's in the interests of

both russia and america to come together to greet to cooperate to work with may never be because it may never be islamic state which clearly trained fighters will formidable fighting to go to 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. that syrian government forces have driven out eisel from the western side of the euphrates river in a theater saw seen as a hugely important gain in the conflict after a series of losses islamic state seems to be on the brink defeat in the country at the moment with the syrian army and kurdish forces advancing on the terrorists on so you 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 to a bridge that enables armored cars to cross but it gassed year for ports from the west bank of the euphrates. four out palace once that is sort of

most exclusive resort now a modern day fortress out of necessity. for three years the garrison here has thwarted isis attempts to cross the river at times it was a close run thing and we don't have saudi can on him 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 of the 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 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 well everything behind that is isis part

of the city of that is or 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 banking is key to liberating the city entirely isis still sends fighters and alms 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 who will that it will be. isis has nothing left to lose according to the syrian military 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 liberate the people who suffered the presence of isis. told us horror stories about how do you people as human shields could not surprising at all if they would there was no way for anyone to predict to what extent they would do 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 guys do you have see from their resort or syria well in a separate development in the conflict five owners are commanders behind last week's attack on a russian military police units have been killed in a targeted missile strike in syria the information does come from russia's defense ministry which released this video it apparently does show the building where the commanders were meeting the strike also killed thirty other terrorists and destroyed a weapons store as well as several the course also russians bombers have carried that strikes on i saw in al nusra positions in the syrian provinces of do this or as well as it clip the defense ministry said that all targets were located away from residential areas. to

or. or or or or. or. or. or or as are. or as. or. are. now also tonight a man suspected of recruiting islamic state fighters and planning attacks has been arrested in belgium spanish authorities have confirmed that belgian place of detained a twenty six year old spanish national of moroccan origin he is suspected to be the head of an islamic state recruitment cell well this is just part of the latest string of similar cases across europe an earlier investigation did find

a terrorist cell linked to last month's attacks in barcelona and also cambria was revealing the preacher police say was behind the atrocities he died the day before those attacks where a house being used as a bomb factory exploded while another case uncovered the man known as isis was in basque 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 more. iting 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 abu allah will 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 this is not the goals of this network want to record people in germany and to send them to syria to fight alongside the 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 of the mosque that was attended by. 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 here 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. government 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 eight team 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 over r t berlin. elsewhere in europe the european commission is proposing to take in another fifty thousand asylum seekers from north africa and also the middle east it is going to be part of any relocation scheme after the previous plan failed to meet its goals dubinsky has the story. you know the european commission has outlined 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 resect 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 profile their quotas including countries like germany world other countries in the european union point blank refused to take in a single asylum seeker including countries like hungry and poland which actually mounted a legal fight against those allegations 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's 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 my. gratian asylum seekers in what is over they say she's a disunited european union meanwhile stranded refugees are still attempting to illegally cross borders by any means possible here we can see asylum seekers jumping on trucks crossing from france into the k. . or to talk a bit more about this now we're joined by talent here. and a place to say yes with this much i thanks for your time tonight why do you think

the euro pain chiefs believe this new plan will work when the other one so obviously failed well i think that has really failed as well for a very busy careers and it is that now people believe those people those refugees are not worth or g.'s but they are basically economic refugees. sorry economic eat meat grants so the very big question for the public opinion is can we afford to host all these people coming. in a continent where the unemployment is very high and where all the policy of integration basically failed everywhere so there is a fear among the large majority of the european population and those fears are clearly. every time. that the trust vote so the government. knows the situation and they try to avoid the.

thousands of refugees as those that we see down on the screen would you predict a similar sort of scene then where we've seen countries such as hungry in poland just refusing to accept any body just essentially making the whole thing a failure. oh yes i mean but hungry in poland are just those countries who are in an extreme position look at france look at germany france and germany reverse their policy now if you go to the border from between eatery and france you find hundreds of policemen or french policeman that stop every. two to come that tries to come into france if you go from the border between illegally and austria is the same in the us also police made make street controls despite dition an agreement and they don't then they don't want to hear any reason germany straw is now relocating the

refugees from the european country. their first accepted them which means that they send it back to italy or to greece and this is not so he directly he sees in european sanction esle and this is creating. a situation where the european commission can make all the plans that they can imagine and the big majority of the european countries don't want to implement. they must understand the surely even a sense that this is the failing across europe it's just surprising is it isn't it that they come back with it with another plan so similar to the one that went before. yes. and this is a. somebody who think that behind all disciplines there is really a political pope or so the political purpose is really to bring to many people from different countries religion and culture in europe and we know very

well that when i think that immigration is positive when. it is done in a small number that can be easily integrated when this happens the nation becomes a richness for every where. and you are. actually good for coming in and no policy no policy to welcome that. they did the result is that people are afraid and there is a social problem the reason security and this is what's happening and the fact that you say to european countries you should accept the twenty or so thirty thousand people it's not enough to can reason governments to accept that because governmental that makes such a move becomes. immediately unpopular show ok much of it we're going to

leave it there we've been at a time and it's. a talent and it's an issue. now in other news the iraqi parliament has authorized sending troops to the courage. to take control of oil fields there it does come after the results of kurdistan's independence referendum were announced with over ninety percent of voters supporting it with details he's our middle east correspondent for slate the iraqi parliament has asked the iraqi prime minister betty to send 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 the flights. it is official and has been called in the story 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. i can only argue that stuff. seriously 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 as this video shows the last unit of russia's chemical ammunition being wiped out called farewell to chemical arms all part of an obligation moscow did sign up to back in one nine hundred ninety three the document was signed by almost two hundred countries as well although president putin complained it does seem only russia is meeting its deadlines at the moment stating that the us failed on its promise on three occasions due to what was said to be financial reasons some of it completely historically russia was one of the

largest holders of chemical weapons and the us remains one unfortunately the us 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 but russia launched its disposal program in one thousand nine hundred six a year before the us ratified their obligations to remove chemical weapons washington agreed to do that in its entirety by april twenty twenty 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. images of top flight american football is kneeling during the national anthem before games has fired up a nationwide row over patriotism as you may well have noticed but there's more to the tradition of opening matches than you might think is neither france or santiago now expects. 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 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 but 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 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 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 they'll franchise back in two thousand and fifteen mr mccain came out with a detailed report on how n.f.l. national anthem celebrations were actually being paid for by the part of the fence here's where the taxpayers' dollars were going to on field. regard 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 as 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 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 pigou of the owners of the buffalo bills they took six hundred fifty thousand.