r.t. america. we have apparently better than. see people you've never heard of. the night. of the world bank we. were. seriously sent us an e-mail. in headlines this thursday morning top american senators say they didn't know the u.s. had troops operating in need yeah and they don't go and questions over a deadly ambush earlier this month. but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger europe's underground or you didn't know we had a thousand troops in the air did you. know i did not. elsewhere a muslim couple in france are under investigation by the authorities after they attempt to register the new born child with a name. and. the exit of independence some published in the alphabet book with words associated with the region push to break away from spain.

good morning for me kevin owen here at our team this morning just turned nine am this morning and first in this thirty minute update then as the u.s. military and congress try to piece together what led to the deaths of american servicemen in need generally this month it seems many lawmakers in the states have no idea about their troop presence in that african country three weeks ago a group of american and local troops were attacked by eisel fighters for u.s. servicemen and ten nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush the pentagon says the group had no full air support until two hours after the battle began according to estimates and he has the second largest u.s. military presence in africa eight hundred out of the total six thousand troops across the continent did you beauties in first place with four thousand servicemen then comes some. and come rude with four hundred three hundred soldiers

respectively however it will soon be difficult to tell how many total troops the u.s. has across the world those reports. so it's official washington has intervened in so many different countries even u.s. senators seem to have lost track but i didn't know there was a thousand troops and this is an endless war without boundaries no limitation on geography and senator graham is not the only one senator graham there you didn't know we had a thousand troops and did you know i didn't and there you have it two sitting senior senators one republican and the other a democrat had no idea the u.s. currently has over one thousand troops in news year so how is this possible past administrations have used the authorization for use of military force against terrorists or the. to warrant military operations involving non-state actors or terror organizations passed by congress right after september eleventh that allows

the president to use force against those who planned committed or aided the nine eleven attacks and only one person voted against it congresswoman barbara lee let's step back for a moment let's just just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control according to a two thousand and sixteen congressional research office report the bush and obama administration's use the on thirty seven to initiate military action in over a dozen countries and now with trump it appears there's even less oversight the pentagon has just announced that they will no longer disclose troop numbers in iraq and syria but can this apply to other regions besides iraq and syria. and really be. consistent in the complete. lack. of training and see it count. ministration you know it's gotten significantly

worse. how do dishes reform. reform this policy and undermine wonderful before you're going to have even less information. how many troops is the very place. when the former defense secretary and cia director leon panetta who was once asked about how many wars the u.s. was engaged in seemed rather lost it's a good question but you know if. i have to stop and think about this now with very little transparency in u.s. operations overseas may not exactly be quite the subject to laugh about. on our team washington d.c. . the syrian city of rock recently recently liberated from islamic state was once home to around three hundred thousand people but after months of military operations there by the u.s.

but forces less than one percent of its original population remains and those unable to flee or will be left behind still remain vulnerable in. fact kaput. only. thing i've been through maybe you might. want. to. check.

on the controversial rescue group the white helmets claimed to have saved more lives in syria this time on the outskirts of the capital damascus which came under rocket fire but questions remain of the group's allegiances and their status as heroes of the country as a looper trying to report. this is the newest you tube video of the syria civil defense group aka the white helmets they're saving lives after a rocket attack on a residential area just to the east of damascus so says the description i'm not trying to say they've been doing a bad job at rescuing but there are things that can destroy a reputation even if it's been built on saving lives social networks will show. how to look at the page of some a wearing a white helmet and his profile pick the hottest for the sake of god how's that for a facebook job field moving on to posted images this is the leader of jaish

thought that. pay your attention to what the hash tag stands for j. shelf represents me and my family and then smiley face feeling grateful. next profile with white helmets emblems and a bun but here's something else remember how russia's ambassador in turkey was shot in the back and killed right in front of an exhibition audience you can go back to the post from december two thousand and sixteen on that profile and find the picture of the gunmen followed by peace to your soul champ.

civil defense says this man's job description no worries till you get to the photo section with this pic and the text right next to it is smile as praising a member of eisel after his death you wished and you got what you wished for and you won with god's willing just some of what he wrote there and there's a couple of photos of his smile you featuring terrorist symbols and actual faces all who are written over an older graffiti the flag of all nusra or al qaida in syria and terrorist fighters themselves i also remember the video i saw somewhere else. speaking of the white helmet sometimes together with nusra even an al jazeera documentary telling the brave story of the syria civil defense could make you suspicious of how close the helmets could get to the jihad is why would activists keep the nusra

front flag at a place where they rest and i've got a question to ask whoever edited the subtitles of that film at al-jazeera is going to. some of the. sadness within the idea of as i've said reputation means a lot and nobel peace prize nomination and an oscar winning film have certainly helped cement it but it seems there's more to bear in mind for whoever next decides to award the white helmets with the prize. and you trying to reporting that the french couple's having a run in with the authorities over the choice of name for the new baby the concerns but it's predictable because the proud parents want to call the new born jihad show the dubin skills but get a reaction to. it. jihad was the first thing that comes to mind it's muslim terror terrorism and bobbins so what about as a butcher you do look at the wrong i.d.

maybe they don't intend it's with us but i wouldn't call my my son i think it's nice there is no problem to give any of them you know i don't like it personally but i think you know you should be able to call your child whatever you want well that's exactly what one couple probably. did name that jihad so easy to charity some day in a country that stuff that a wave of deadly terror attacks. and to bring forward it's look at this live picture miles it's been cool to think that you probably get these that perfect day that kind of change in two thousand and thirteen a mother will take it would be funny to send me a boat child to school wearing export with the slogan i am a poet and it had the points name he had on the back of his this day september that

he had letters that the school didn't carry that stuff for me and the mother ended up with a suspended jail sentence that mel even suggested all of the child jihad trips come to see us in the media in france and particularly in europe put the word jihad is associated with violence the word jihad at its root in its etymology means the effort of working on oneself self-control and. work towards a form of moral spiritual and ethical completeness it has nothing to do with the concept of holy war there is no holy war in islam it is a bad translation which unfortunately prevailed in society's representation of this concept forbes has strict rules when it comes to seeing baby date and looking at what's being referred to by a police state he's it seems that parents have to call to the more home to best see

. act. act out. in france which recently booted to a place in in the union long state of emergency but in trying to think that it's a terrible tearing to be different names they come across as twisting in the like in some very into the. soul that you can see on t.v.

. the british government minister says all u.k. citizens who go to fight for islamic state in syria and iraq should not return home alive is a rory stewart explained his reasoning. they believe in an extremely hateful doctrine which involves killing themselves killing others and trying to use violence and brutality to creates an eighth century or seventh century state so i'm afraid we have to be serious about these people are serious. and unfortunately any way of dealing with them will be in almost every case to kill not everyone so sure though with people online saying militants should be dealt with by the armed forces under the rules of war others fear that a policy of killing all jihadists would only provoke further radicalization and potentially create more terrorists well stuart later tried to clarify his position tweeting that competence he said should clearly be treated within the law but the

point he was trying to make was that i still fighters usually fight to the death according to official estimates the number of british citizens thought to be fighting for eisel could be as high as eight hundred fifty now we discuss the problem in the minister's blunt idea for tackling it with ben-ari squitti from a conservative think tank the bow group and also muslim rights campaigner someone but. you know everyone agrees that you know ice is bad and somebody's killing innocent people and all that kind of stuff is bad that's that's not the issue here issue is how do you know somebody who has gone there has gone there for the purposes of supporting the ruling classes and this so-called hateful ideology mr sharon and woefully unaware of the actual reasons the natural causes us to why people go out to isis it's not they're not you know advertising hey come over here and you know we can hate britain together with a whole propaganda message it's a false message but their whole propaganda message is you know you're not welcome

in britain you you know if you come here you'll be welcome here not only the practice should be to kill those people but that is the practice that has been in place for a long time these are people who pose a real threat not just to british people in fact not really to british people but more to the peace in the region and the united kingdom is committed to destroying lysis with the united states and russia as major actors as well and that is absolutely a strategy that i think almost everyone in great britain feels we should continue to pursue history has shown that when governments get that taste of that kind of power it's only a matter of time before it's applied on you know the they're the enemy combatant so to speak or the bogeyman of tomorrow i would ask my interlocutor what he would do you know the body of the government today to get these types of powers what would happen tomorrow if a government came to power which which began to criminalize your own political

views and personal. beliefs and so forth so we have so you know you will of there you have said to the right now you're defending all you have rights for a reason i think that's absolute nonsense first of all you're talking about isis is some sort of force. i'm shocked to hear that isis is very clearly a vicious death cult. i'm categorizing is that he says that he's not attempting to come depending i so yeah i'm saying to get a very real i see what you want maybe that is exactly what you have enemies are very real that. exist why didn't write take me seriously our. way i'm with you all the way and how this is you know contradicted international law because what you're doing is you are willfully misconstruing what rory stewart said as to apply to you cases and that have remained in the u.k. so we're talking about a sort of whether they were actually where they were the on british citizens who have left i don't you know i think i'm travel to the. land to join ducks with

a vicious death cult. rule without any any any sovereign government must have the right to enter into war and enter into conflict with its enemies and that is all that is happening here. break coming up right off even update on the catalonia crisis in a couple of minutes plus the story behind a german police killer who's just been sentenced to lengthy spelled the.

same. here's what people have been saying about reject. the only show i go out. on my way to. the really packed the park. is the john oliver of party america is this. we have apparently better than. see people you never heard of redacted the night president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. again the fate of catalonia remains in limbo still the spanish region's parliament will meet on thursday to decide whether or not to push ahead with independence in

response to the threat of direct rule from madrid both sides continue to blame each other for the crisis says the row rumbles on especially about the lot of spain is acting like a dictatorship they want to frighten and intimidate us physically and the illegal instruments while accusing us of sedition and rebellion equivocal about this whole mess when i go we must remind the catalan government that in accordance with the constitution there is also president and councillors that they i think knowing their not to keep paying their positions by divine right. while the politicians tussle over what best to do next then the pro dependence movement seems to be rallying support among some very old folk corresponded with the coach and has been finding out. while consul on is lab hanging waiting for the local parliament to decide whether it will yield to madrid's demands the idea of independence has spread far beyond political wrangling or mass street demonstrations now this is

what we found in one a bookshop located right and the heart of a barcelona on sale at the children's section an alphabet of independence where teaching letters isn't the only lesson children will learn for example in this book i am stands for the a word when it is not yet which is the kaplan for both money faster or demonstration or it can be a letter as which stands for the word or yes well those behind the south of the clearly wanted people to vote and they were referendum on no prices for gas and for what i stands for and it is force the dependence well it's an aid to z. threatens to lose the attention off some children there were other alternatives on the shelves and some even came with a free gift this lack of an independent counsel law as we are in barcelona we decided to take to the streets and ask young kaplan parents if they want

independence spelt out to their children with the alphabet book i think they don't have to learn about police they are definitely too small they will have time to learn the boat it but maybe in ten years not know you never know and if you know what is going on well why not i can give it to my daughter i think it is a bit simple and doesn't properly explain things but still why not it can be interesting for her one life time. be. you should be scared of things to pete's i think it's something they have to learn by events in a started out at this age children don't have the ability to form their opinion properly they believe in what we told them. i don't support the idea of independence and therefore i won't show this to my children i want them to have the right to decide for them sounds. weird germany from next story were right wing extremist has been sentenced to life in prison for killing

a police officer in october last year the fifty year old man fatally shot a special unit officer and wounded two of his colleagues during a raid on his home now authorities were looking to confiscate at the time constantly his hunting weapons as the man was no longer deemed fit to possess firearms then as a separate incident a member of the same far right movement shot and injured an officer as police tried to a victim from his house both men were members of the reich citizens movements far right group based on the idea that germany's pre-war old war two borders still exist and it also refuses to recognize to even to this day the legitimacy of the german government in the country's laws while the organization which till recently had not been taken to seriously know though is raising some questions it's got some fifteen thousand members and it's considered a very real threat these days to german security. we see considerable readiness for violence among the right citizens movements therefore it is getting

more problematic that so many citizens have the right to own weapons. only. a plague for public administrator us because letters explaining the state has no right to tax or to find them and so they simply created work but in the last years when somebody from the police or somebody for sequester purposes came to them they refused to even apply it to violence my feeling is that the german state has lost a lot of its authority many people of all only like. see it or behaved as if the state would not exist because they were some of the founding german kingdoms will be clear themselves earth governor's office. it became fashionable so many inches money now do not longer believe the official media and public television and

the big newspapers they go into the internet where they simply believe in purely fictional theories about conspiracies taking over in so many countries like in germany. next russia is ready for a huge influx of visitors next summer of course they'll be here for the football world cup concerns over security the infrastructure of already proved one of the mark with plenty of people having made the trip this year to enjoy the fifa confederations cup and one man who knows what it's like to get really stuck into top flight football in russia. from italy the legendary former defender's current in charge of russia's most successful club spartak moscow has been sharing his thoughts with us. ah what people thought about the support means a lot to us we feel it's the teams one ounce of energy fans give them the strength to carry on. ah yes yes yes i think

we can do that for sure it's important for it seem to have fans who can support it the ninety minutes ah you know for think about you of course it's important for me what mass media say about us i usually pay attention to negative reviews i don't like them and i try to defend might seem quite often journalists cross the line but it's easy to criticize from the stands and most of the games of science ah. sports i had no crisis at school in football is hold to win all the time look at all the club's opponents still the old playing style and gradually find a way to gain the upper hand ah it's a message like i'll be still i think yes judging from what i've seen it's ready there are beautiful new stadiums built cities have changed the way they look it's a very important event full rochelle i don't doubt that the world cup will be able to very high standard. and like so much going to be

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big business against health. greetings and salutation syria the military industrial complex is favored money pit of mystery intrigue in danger is back in the headlines again or watchers with with even more twisted merit it was a twisted logic and twisted true but start with the announcement of the total liberation of the city of rock of the self proclaimed i. this capital and stronghold in syria u.s. backed militia rebel groups re took the city late last week after a four month long siege in massive airstrike campaign that essentially left the ones vibrant city in ruins the devastation of rock and even caused the russian

spokesman for the defense ministry to spark up a little controversy by stating publicly that rocca has inherited the fate of dresden in one thousand nine hundred forty five wiped off the face of the earth by anglo-american bombardments alice of course caused a massive string of denying his denials from the u.s. with reuters reporting that the u.s. led coalition says it is careful to avoid civilian casualties in its bombing runs against islamic state in both syria and iraq while at chase i mean that that settles it for me i mean how can you argue with careful bombing there they're being very careful when they bomb very carefully but despite all the controversy over the execution of the liberation of iraq u.s. president donald trump our body was quick to take credit for the victory exclaiming we have made more progress against these evil terrorists in the past several months than in the past several years.