another setback for islamic states as the syrian army liberates the city of day in one of the terror groups last stronghold in the east of the country. a landmark nuclear deal with iran is at risk and president refuses to certify it claiming it is breaching the spirits of the agreement the move has drawn severe criticism from european leaders. this is a dangerous signal present of united states us many followers not this one. had to head to the polls this sunday is predicted that the anti migrant freedom party is set for the big game.

you're watching r.t. international live from moscow studio with me in that era today welcome to the program syrian government troops have liberated the eastern city of the ng from islamic states that's according to the russian defense ministry mccarran has the details of my dean is one of the last remaining eisold strongholds so the liberation of the city is likely to come as a major blow to this terrorist group fighting a military source the sun the news agency has reported the soldiers a noun driving the remaining to harvest out of the city for what is underway on removing land mines and booby traps left behind by the militants fighting lies in the. situated just south of the provincial capital and this area has witnessed some

of the fiercest fighting between islamic state and syrian forces as government troops battle to push the islamists out syrian army troops successfully reached the outskirts of al my idea you know earlier this month effectively trapping isis in the city and of course russian forces have been actively supporting syrian troops to with the russian naval task force launching cruise missile strikes one terrorist positions in al my again while dozens of militants have been killed in a series of russian air strikes across the province in recent weeks and all this comes just one day off the russian general staff announced that islamic state now controls less than eight percent of syria you see a major successes of the syrian troops but controlling would you mr you would say less than a percent of syrian territory remains under control the russian view or simply will continue its operations against. terrorists with the plants that are completely

eliminated the liberation of. that islamic states presence in syria has shrunk further leaving the group wouldn't it and most crucially more vulnerable perhaps the perfect time for government troops to intensify its anti eisel campaign in middle east analyst. long he believes it will take to liberate the remaining eight percent of syrian territory held by. it will take some time but major city after a major city is forming and this is very significant the result of the had been divided as a city between those assyrians who did not want to. not accept basically to go under control. so the lines in the trenches and everything are very much stiff doesn't have apparently this divide within the city the syrian army having crossed the euphrates

a little bit south of daters or is now heading north back on the other side of the euphrates the eastern bank and is in circling those forces from behind so this would also hope for the speed up the clearing of the resort itself but it would also take some time just on another aspect to get your thoughts in the city of iraq north of who are looking all of them up there in in eastern syria that's where the u.s. backed up aeration is ongoing that russian military has said that the coalition is using the wrong target ticks as they're trying to destroy the city's water supplies which could of course impact greatly on civilians your thoughts on that aspect well yes i mean we're hearing a lot of reports that. the bombing of the american since this operation started four months ago. hasn't been very accurate the united states policy has backfired and they are forcing somehow to even if they don't do not necessarily wish so do

hide behind civilians so you know they haven't been very clever about this. for months now auntie's been trying to help all friends in iraq reunite with relatives in russia the youngsters a believed to have been brought to iraq by their parents who joined islamic state for many lost their immediate family in the military operations to rid the country of terrorists. more than a concerted desert and these three. are so. much

killed. i expect that god put everything. right in good order to do that to look over our. own was a symbol of them grown last but it was so close it was the safest and most true shoot i cherish it gives you right to. see.

so now five more children have returned home to russia asked recognized by their extended family but as neil harvey found out there's a huge death. prince of opinion when it comes to how the all for the should be treated. first and foremost these are children not responsible for the actions of their many fathers or their mothers should be treated as individuals in their own right to have protections on of the convention of the rights for children if we look at past experiences like the children of to use a horrible example them out so yes those children were effectively reeducate and they were reintegrated into the boy you know showing them the benefits of society i'm showing them the wrongs of what was. carried out in their parents' names those around about five thousand given to children in the in the caliphates you have to think about what constitutes the age of the top child some of these children are being used as suicide.

and if they are twelve years old does that still constitution and your guest was quite right about what happened to the nazis but the nazis were completely obliterated they ended after the second world war we have got fifty thousand. syria and other areas that have come through the borders ass are open borders. with the so-called refugees and economic migrants what are we going to do about them because they're not going anywhere so i actually have to take issue with what with what janice just said there is a very strong consensus in the international law. according to the united nations convention on the rights of the child a child is defined as anyone under the age of eighteen years. of age and that means the definition is very very clear i know what your definition is but

the reality of laws in individual company countries doesn't actually reflect what the international lorries and i think well into. national law and needs to be a no no but remember you're not going to. know there's no there's no question about that i mean you're making a valid bottom in their eyes you're mixing up two issues with respect because on the one hand the definition of child is very clear the age of criminal responsibility which is raising just now is an important issue and but that doesn't mean that if you commit a crime you're no longer a child i mean the non sequitur i want to hear from the russian children's rights commissioner she was saying that it's still possible to fight the radical ideas that may have been instilled into children by the jihadist let's just hear what was . done was arrested got the right influence good intentions and outlook of relatives and they take care of such young children can reduce even all the radical

ideas indoctrinated into them in iraq is well known that the vast resources of your child's psyche and now for a high chance of rehabilitation. i mean would you go along with the maybe a lot of hatred in some of these children may have seen family members killed they may have been told to hate the west or hate certain religions or mentalities do you think they can still be saved. you know i'm a mother of two children and as i said i've been the greek and i've been to cal a among those outs of the but very very very careful how we rehabilitate the child bodies in our country is that we've still got seventy thousand children. now we don't have the facilities we don't have the psychiatry's we don't have the foster carers except well the challenges can be addressed by by proper therapy you know by by the surrounding of you know a warm environment for a child it's incredibly important for

a child to have support the most important thing for a child and i watched with all friends of mine who worked with those children in the particularly the refugee youth service and in the comp and how incredibly important just sitting down beside a child and letting the child talk and really you know allowing them to open up and do you with the issues that they've seen you know support for children is that the only way forward all the way is what's the alternative that we put a tiger on their ankle that we criminalize these children that is not going to change anything it's going to make them worse it will it will make them turn towards what will feed their anger which is violence ok let's go to the racing out of auxilary i'm not united anything here that convinces me. this story need here agreement with iran is in jeopardy after presidential denials he won't said to find trans compliance with the court his decision comes to spite the global nuclear watchdog as well as u.s.

and european officials saying iran is keeping its side of the deal. we will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real threat of iran's nuclear breakout importantly a red is not living up to the spirit of the deal. the move means the u.s. congress now has sixty days to decide whether to reimpose the sanctions on iran were lifted as part of the deal that would likely see the agreement collapse some lawmakers were also trying to amend and make tougher existing legislation in iran if those negotiations for three trumpets the deal will be terminated here's why the american president may want to pull out of it. four reasons why trump needs to pick a fight with iran. after all his policy flip flops he needs to stand firm on something iran will do just to save face threat posed by iran whose chief

exports are violence bloodshed and chaos all nations of us must work together to isolate. washington's also getting worried by iran's growing influence in the region iran has been allowed to run wild throughout the middle east for the last eight years. but let's not forget money iran the evil enemy helps us so a lot more weapons than the compliant partner in response to the united states in our military. community is very happy with the thank you. and the cherry on top rushing iran means pleasing it close friend israel common doings your. ideas will face from iran for decades iran has fueled the fire is threatening the region and causing so much you buy alliance with its soldiers.

i want you to know how much we appreciate. the truth. in american policy on iran which you enunciated so clearly it's very hard to say what his what his goal is his is he trying to go to iran into taking some actually really the pressure on trump is coming from is his biggest sponsor is financial sponsors and fundraisers and they are absolutely all virtually ready for a war with iran. the iranian president responded to donald trump's claims by saying the us leader is not in a position to dictate the future of the agreement. this is an international multilateral deal that has been ready to fight by the un security council it is a un document is it possible for

a president to unilaterally decide to fight this important international deal apparently he's not in the know it is not a document between iran and the us so he can't treat it the way he likes. it took nine years of tough negotiations before the deal was finally reached in twenty fifteen although the standoff over iran's nuclear activities stretches back more than a decade and was widely regarded as one of the world's most urgent crises and it wasn't only the us that painstakingly negotiated the terms it was the combined efforts of russia china britain france and germany to the us actually a state has been trying to rally european allies over trans decision but so far they've mostly reacted angrily. i fully expected our allies and friends in europe maybe in the region are going to be very supportive president of united states us many posts not this one it is not a bilateral agreement it does not belong to any single country and it is not

up to any single country to terminate it we cannot afford as international community as europe for sure to dismantle and nuclear agreement that is working and delivering especially now this is a difficult and in our view dangerous signal that the agreement with iran has shown for the first time that it's possible to prevent war through negotiations the destruction of this agreement would mean that others around the world would no longer rely on such treaties it's therefore a danger that goes far beyond iran we in europe germany france the u.k. and the e.u. we stand by this agreement with iran we want to preserve the agreement i think it will will further it strange our relations with our european allies it will draw them closer together and i think actually closer to the russians and the chinese just things stand out the iranians have the support of the russians the chinese and all of our european allies it's washington this isolated. ukrainian far right radicals have been making seventy five marking seventy five years since the

creation of the ukrainian insurgent army in the country's capital yet. the nationalist guerrilla force was founded in one thousand nine hundred forty two during the second world it's called primarily union in poland at times collaborating with nazi germany in one hundred forty three the insurgent ukrainian forces adopted a policy of massacring and expelling the polish population from a crane which poland later declared is genocide it's also believed the army was responsible for the killing of ukrainian. russia's defense ministry has expressed concern over america's deployment of antiballistic missile systems around the globe saying is pushing the world towards a new arms race according to data compiled by moscow the us has sixty such

systems in europe and around one hundred fifty in the asia pacific region the total it expected to grow is to grow two thousand within the next five years. another source of unease in this for the kremlin is the development of the so-called prompt global strike system the u.s. hopes that the project will give it the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world using conventional weapons within just one hour jack explains. if you didn't think the world was scary enough this might just push you over the edge the russian defense ministry says that washington is one step closer to developing a prompt global strike system the pentagon has no moved a step closer to the development of approach global strike system such systems are designed to achieve the same results as nuclear weapons so let's break down the jargon problem global strike or p.j.s is a system that can carry out a person guided conventional air strike anywhere in the world within an hour

conventional air strike implies dropping projectile such as barrels or steel pipes from high altitudes and high speeds and anything release from the height of over one hundred kilometers instantly turns into a deadly bomb thanks to the gained momentum and explosion equal the power of a nuclear one except no fallout they even coined a term for it kinetic bombardment and here's the kicker kinetic bombardment is not prohibited by either the outer space treaty or the anti-ballistic missile treaty if that's not worrying enough wait till you see the report penned by a congress think tank earlier this year it's packed with possible drawbacks to the system saying that it could in fact prove destabilizing in a crisis for a number of reasons for example the report mentions the possibility of the us as adversaries taking the p.d.s. launch for a nuclear strike which could trigger a nuclear response and of course once one world power obtains a prompt strike system everyone will be racing to be the second pushing the world into a new arms race there are concerns by countries that. prompt global strike would

allow another country to do a strike on another country without using nuclear weapons as a way to take advantage of these new technologies and that's why that you're seeing this arms race either we need a new agreement between countries or we need to figure out a way to ban any kind of weaponization of space that would not be good for world security and again is just causing another cold war type arms race. so once again looking at a place in government ahead of this sunday's vote polls suggest a strong showing for the anti immigration freedom party that party is currently second place as you can see from the latest predictions out in front is the center right people's party current foreign minister sebastian coe says if he becomes chancellor he will end power sharing with the social democrats is likely to form

a coalition with another party perhaps with the freedom party with which he shares a strong anti immigration stance the latest predictions in austria are only adding concerns over the rise of white right wing populism in europe in france dortch immigration hardline and nationalist marine le pen was a leading contender in this year's presidential election that last month germany saw a right wing nationalist party and to parliament for the first time in sixty years and now austria might also be about to see a dramatic shift to the right. that gets. the deputy district. attorney told us. all but.

there is a history of frustration with the established political parties during the global recession and twenty nine europe in austria were hit hard and top of the stream of margaret's and twenty three. enormously increased popular discontent. following events in austria for us is paulus lier. there's a lot of intrigue over whether or not the right wing freedom party will do as well as its sisters elsewhere in europe in france and in germany form of fringe parties making it big on the political scene the us skeptic anti immigrant freedom party is seriously complicates things for the leading center right people's party the v p o v p started to harsh in its agenda to attract voters i'm here to pro freedom party rally the last one before sunday's parliamentary election in which the party is

expected to come second many here accuse one of its main rivals of stealing some of its proposals and if nobody is coming into the country without registration without a passport no one should be allowed to enter austria i list we will do everything possible to stop illegal immigration so i am asking that social benefits for non austrians be significantly reduced. we'll do everything we can to end the abuse of our social welfare system by immigrant the people's party has always been the pro european party quite conservative and now their copy to the nation those program after freedom party they're now trying to be like the blue party they're trying to be against foreign. multicultural things that's copy paste partly because of freedom but it was successful and so far it's working well for the people's party with its new young leaders sebastian kurtz at the helm

presenting himself as a bold reformist and not shying away from bowing the policies of the controversial freedom party it's slated to win sunday's parliamentary election some expose suggests curt's might even approach the freedom party to form a coalition government not least of all because of its fallout with its previous partner the social democrats i don't think that a big coalition the collision between conservatives and social democrats will come again because no. one wants i think there will be a change people want change people won't change the european political landscape is shifting with parties that were on the fringes wielding ever more influence policy r t vienna. at least thirty eight people have been killed and six thousand homes and buildings destroyed as wildflowers sweep across the u.s. state of california around ten thousand firefighters are battling the outbreak which began over a week ago and say they're now making some progress smell was so strong.

the winds were just incredible to see sheets of embers just coming toward you we had trouble for so you said are important papers on. a wedding album. the. whole time we have for local authorities say that one hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes this body. for the emergency services are having to deal with it's said to be the deadliest fire in california's history. one of the world's largest events for young people is under way in russia the nation's capital is holding the nineteenth will festival of youth and students over the next week we'll be bringing you all the highlights. i've seen and you can bet that after it oh well i just need this to write not an unforgettable do for you

have the days while dyson dowsing tell you something you stupid is in the you and you didn't move out the spear and i get up because. i do not have a mound it's not with the. colorful fire was this blame on the opening of this year's festival in moscow and thousands of students paraded through the city center caleb maupin was that. the crowd of young people have come out and they are not deterred by the bad weather it may be raining but they are here to march through the streets of moscow and celebrate unity of use of the world thirty five thousand students both russian students and students from around the world gathered it was a very carnival atmosphere with with parades and floats decorated to to look like different countries and represent different countries all of it representing how sixty years ago the world festival of youth and students was convened here in moscow in one nine hundred fifty seven now we were actually able to speak with some

of the young people from around the world who participated in the festivities in the carnival atmosphere in the parade i'm feeling the energy all fuel that and the people they're so excited and happy and i'm happy to do it's great to learn what's going on in the world and not only in your own community so to be here and to share our view of the world and to experience this culture shock that's enriching for us all students from different countries that dell continues to bring to wall to me to try to be one of his time to try to de talk to go beyond the pull of the teats and vetoes see him talk to him understand each other as human beings do steps like that maybe world peace because that we could have done it's wonderful being here what's coming up is the world festival of using suit students in sochi so. which is where the action will really be happening as we'll see thousands and thousands and thousands of young people from around the world gathering in sochi for this

festival now a lot is going on in the city of sochi different pair for this huge gathering of young people that are that are coming from around the world that kicks off on sunday so let's take a look at what's going on in sochi as they get ready for this huge international gathering promoting the ideals of peace and international cooperation between the youth of the world.

and made surveys will speak and they can do it will be at the festival in such a he have a sense why the young people that encourage them to always believe in themselves. i love russia and actually with the heritage of my parents coming from former yugoslavia we have a lot of similarities in our culture and i love the food the hospitality and russia is a beautiful country and i am very excited for the country as they're holding also the world cup so i'm glad to be planting seeds of hope and love all across the country especially to the next generation my expectations that had the world festival of youth i'm so excited that my story can inspire people to never give up and to help them conquer if he is overcome obstacles.