polity is such a big gains. you're watching r.t. international live from a moscow studio mean a day or two to welcome to the program syrian government troops have liberated the eastern city of almaty and from islamic state as according to the russian defense ministry mccarran has the details. 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 its soldiers are now driving the remaining jarvis out of the city for what is underway on relieving land mines and booby trapped that behind by the militant fighting lies in the province situated just south of the provincial capital and this area has witnessed some of

the fierce fierce 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 again earlier this month effectively trapping isis in the city and of course russian forces have been actively supporting syrian troops to with a 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 due to major successes of the syrian troops but controlling would you wish that you would see less than eighty percent of syrian territory remains under control the rear the russian view or simply will continue its operations against isis. with the principles that are completely eliminated. the liberation of diem means 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 n e l r's 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 of the appearing of theirs or itself but would it would also take some time just on another aspect to get your thoughts in the city of iraq north of for looking all of them out 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. in 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 to

hide behind civilians you know they haven't been very clever about this. a month style artie has been trying to help reunite old friends in iraq with their relatives in russia and the former soviet republics hundreds of russian speaking children whose parents are believed to have joined islamic states are currently stranded in the middle eastern country many lost their immediate family in military offenses against the terror group. one of the more conservative guy deserts and he's sure.

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now five more children have been returned home to rush hour after they were recognized by relatives but as neil harvey found out there's no consensus of the how the orphans should be treated. first and foremost these are children not responsible for the actions of their many fathers or their mothers and they should be treated as individuals in their own right to have protections on the convention of the raw. it's for children if we look at past experiences like the children of to use a horrible example them out so you see those children were effectively reeducated and they were reinterpreted into the society boy you know showing them the benefits of society i'm showing them the wrongs of what was. carried out in their parents' names there's 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're 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 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 international 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 by going there is 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 and that 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 or even count so all

the radical ideas indoctrinated into them in iraq is well known that the vast resources of the child's psyche and out 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 to 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 in the great camps 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 in in the comp and how incredibly important just sitting down beside a child and not going to try to 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 or otherwise what's the alternative that we put a tiger on their uncle 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 i will if i would have to die i don't know the straightening out of auxilary i'm not you know danny thing here that convinces me. the historic nuclear agreement with iran is in jeopardy after president time pounds he won't certify terrans compliance

with the accord his decision comes despite 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 iran is not living up to the spirit. the deal. then means the u.s. coal west nile has sixty days to decide whether to reimpose the site lifted as part of the deal that would likely see the collapse some lawmakers will also try and amend and make tougher existing legislation on iran if those negotiations fail says the deal will be terminated here's why the american president may want to pull out of it. for 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 violent bloodshed and chaos all nations of its most worked 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 cups is so a lot more weapons than the compliant part not. to the. military. very happy to take you. out of the cherry on top rushing iran means pleasing your close friend israel carman. for decades iran is. threatening the region and causing so much by

a land with its soldiers. i want you to know how much we appreciate. an 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 and. taking some actually really the pressure on trump is coming from is his biggest sponsors financial sponsors and fundraisers and they are absolutely all virtually ready for a war with iran 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 for it by the u.n. security council it is a u.n.

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 u.s. 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 all of the standoff over iran's nuclear activities stretched back more than a decade and was widely regarded as one of the world's most urgent crises and it wasn't only the u.s. that painstakingly negotiate the terms it was the combined efforts of russia china britain france and germany to the u.s. secretary of state has been trying to rally european allies over chances asian but so far they've mostly reacted angrily. i fully expected our allies for it in europe maybe the region are going to be version or to present the united states as 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 and 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 this 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 knocking seventy five years since the creation of the crane insurgent army in the country's capital here. the nationalist guerrilla force was founded in one thousand nine hundred forty two during the second world war it fought primarily against the soviet union and 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 ukraine which probably related declared as genocide it's also believed the army was responsible for the killing of ukrainian jews. now russia's defense ministry has expressed concern over america's deployment of antiballistic missile systems around the globe saying it's 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 number is expected to grow to a thousand within the next five years. another source of uneasiness for the kremlin is the development of the so-called problem 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 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 will start system everyone will be racing to be the second pushing the world into a new arms race there are concerns by countries that the 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. austria's right wing nationalist so once again looking at a place in government ahead of this sunday's vote poll suggest a strong showing for the anti immigration freedom party that party is currently in second place as you can see from the latest projections and in front is the center right people's party its leader and current foreign minister sebastian says if he becomes chancellor he will and power sharing with the social democrats is likely he will then seek to form a coalition with another party perhaps the freedom party with which he shares

a strong anti immigration stance the latest predictions in austria are only adding to concerns over the rise of rightwing populism in europe in france to store immigration hardliner. pen was a leading contender in this year's presidential election last month germany's still a right wing nationalist party enter parliament for the first time in nearly sixty years and now austria but also about to see a dramatic shift in the right. 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 on top of the stream of margaret's and twenty three all that enormously increased popular discontent. following events in austria for us pulis 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 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 they're copied to the nationalist program of the freedom party they're now not trying to be like the blue party they're trying to be against foreign. multicultural things that's copy paste party because of freedom party was successful and so far it's working well for the people's party with its new young leader 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. one of the world's largest events for young people is underway in russia the nation's capital is holding the nineteenth well festival of youth and students over the next week we'll be bringing you all the highlights. i see and you can bet that after it oh well i just need this to write not an unforgettable you feel for you have the days while dyson dowsing on tell you something we used to do that is we.

didn't move out the spirit nitrogen you get up mickey d. i do need a man with scout know with. a colorful fireworks display mafia thing of this year's festival in moscow a final sense a student's pride and through the city center caleb maupin was there for us. 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 are in to bring to wall to me to try to be on this time to try to d. talk to go beyond the politiques and the joes see him talk to him understand each other as human beings do steps like that maybe world peace recall that we could have done some big it's wonderful being here what's coming up is the world festival of using suit students. sochi sochi 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 motivational speaker and nick will be at the festival in such a he helps inspire the young people that is the twelve ways to 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'm very excited for the country is there 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 as thought she had the world festival of youth i'm so excited. that my story can inspire people to never give up and to help them. overcome obstacles and really come to

a whole new level of of happiness in their lives so i hope that they receive it well and i just want to let them know that a beautiful and to never give up. on top of the news this hour i'll be back at the top of the hour with the headlines. do you know more of the. underwater. total room. or not he did not want to. open your room go to. see this move for your.