they don't give a damn if you do the chores or not sleeping enough to put them back in. the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the usa in breach what she is behind such success. moscow time headlining top american scientists is say they didn't know the u.s. troops operating in egypt made questions over a deadly ambush earlier this month. but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger units under ground there you didn't know we had a thousand troops in the air did you. know i did not. come up to this muslim couple in france are under investigation by the authorities after they attempt to register their newborn child with the name of jihad. and the independent learn to read the book appears in stores in catalonia in an attempt to create a very young to the idea of breaking away from. afternoon

for me kevin zero in this is our international so we're starting with this than this as the u.s. military and congress try to piece together what led to the deaths of american servicemen in this month it seems many lawmakers had no idea at all about their troop presence in that very african country three weeks ago a group of american and local troops were attacked in the fight for u.s. servicemen and ten year in soldiers killed in the bush the pentagon says the group had no full air support until two hours after the battle began according to estimates as the second largest u.s. military presence in africa eight hundred of a total six thousand troops across the continent if you look at the stuff. since

gently. comes in first place for four thousand servicemen then somalia and cameroon with four hundred three hundred soldiers respectively but soon it could be really difficult to tell how many troops the u.s. has anywhere as similar cans been finding out. 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 the 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 did not and there you have it two sitting senior senators one republican and the other a democrat had no idea the us currently has troops in news year so how is this possible past administrations have used the authorization for use military force against terrorists or the to use force against those who planned committed or aided the nine eleven attacks and only one person voted against it. my friend let's step

back for a moment let's just pause 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 administrations used on thirty seven occasions 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. only. lack. of transparency and accountability on british racing you know it's gotten significantly worse. touted this is

a reform you want reform that's part of the undermining wonderful read where you're going to even listen to me. how many troops do you play with. when the for. 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 it started. 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. our team washington d.c. . the syrian city of rock 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. forces less than one percent of its original population remains and those unable to flee or who were left behind still to this day remain vulnerable in. defacto

capital. only. thing i've been through with my make. up that it was. what. i just. said. meantime controversial rescue group the white helmets claimed to have saved more

lives in syria this time the outskirts of the capital damascus which came with a rocket fire but questions remain on the less over the white helmets group's allegiances in the states is says heroes in the country as you put trying to explain. 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 pic jihad ists 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 to. pay your attention to what the hash tag stands for jay 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 exit mission 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 tara symbols and actual faces all who are written over an older group the flag of all new straw 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 nusra front flag at a place where they rest and i've got

a question to ask whoever edited the subtitle. of that film al-jazeera is going to become of the. within the. within the idea 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 is more to bear in mind for whoever next decides to award the white helmets with the prize. french couples having a run in with the authorities over their choice of name for their new baby the concerns about predictable as the proud parents want to call their newborn gehad charlotte who burns he's been getting reaction in perth i think. he had one. thing that comes to my muslim terror terrorism and bobbins so what apparently has been

a picture that you did look at her id made me they don't intend it's words but i wouldn't call my my son i think it's nice there is no problem to defending them you know i don't like it personally but i think you know you should be able to call your child whatever you one quote that exactly what one couple probably moved to he didn't name that he thought it suited me to ease that choice are they in a country that suffered a wave of deadly terror attacks. have been to bring forty it's not the first time a child has been called jihad in france it was a popular arabic name but how times have changed in two thousand and thirteen a mother thought it would be funny to send his three year old child to school wearing a top with the slogan i am a bomb on the back it have the boy's name jihad and his birthday september

eleventh the school didn't find the stunt funny and the mother ended up with a suspended jail sentence but now even the suggestion of cooling the child jihad provokes controversy because of its perceived connotations in the media in france and particularly in europe that 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 france has strict rules when it comes to policing baby names and looking at what's been added to the banned list over the years it seems parents have been courting ever more controversy.

and act. out. in france which recently voted to a place in almost two year long state of emergency by introducing a tough new anti terror little daring to be different with names may come of course to stick in these very include. ati paris

a british government minister says all u.k. citizens who go to fight for islamic state in syria and iraq should not return home alive here's 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 create an eighth century or seventh century state so i'm afraid we have to be serious about the fact these people are serious danger to us and unfortunately any way of dealing with them will be in almost every case to kill not everyone so sure that's the way to go about it with people online saying that militant should be dealt with by the armed forces crucially under the rules of war others fear that a policy of killing or jihad is really provoked further radicalization potentially create more terrorists double edge sword sort of speak or stewart later tried to clarify his position tweeting that combatants should clearly be treated within the law i think that the point he was trying to make was that i saw members usually

quote fight to the death but either which way according to official estimates the number of british citizens thought to be fighting for eisel could be as high as eight hundred fifty right now we discussed the problem of the ministers blunt idea of tackling it with one side ben-hur is quickly from the conservative think tank the bow group on the others muslim rights campaigner salman but this is how the conversation played out. 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 in this so-called hateful ideology mr issue 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 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 majorettes 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 bogey man of tomorrow i would ask my interlocutor what he would do about it this is not 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 false bogeyman and i'm shocked to hear that isis is very clearly a vicious death cult. categorising is that he says that he's not attempting to come defending i so yeah i'm saying to get a very real i say what you want maybe that is exactly what you have an enemy it is a very real that. exists why that and right to take an interest with our emotion is only my 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 know i think i'm travel to the divine arbitrary line to join ducks with a vicious death cult we are well we've ruled without any any any sovereign government must have the right to enter into war and enter into conflict with its enemies and that's all that is happening here and the conversation went on come up here after the break we've got an update on the catalonia crisis for you plus two the story behind a german police killer who's just been sentenced to a lengthy spell behind bars you're watching our international.

what politicians do you think. they put themselves on the. they did accept the reject. so when you want to express. something wanted. to write to the press this is what would. really be good. interesting. question. again so the fate of catalonia remains in limbo today again as this drags on the

spanish region's parliament now set to meet next on thursday to decide whether to push ahead with independence in response to the threat of direct rule is coming from the dreaded both sides continue to blame each other for the crisis as the rebels own a spaniard up to a lot of strain is acting like a dictatorship they want to frighten and intimidate us physically and via legal 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 the day i think knowing they're not to keep buying their positions by divine right that while the politicians tussle over what to do next the pro dependence movement seems to be rallying support amongst a very young crowd is our correspondent in barcelona has been funny. 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 and won 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 the referendum on no prices for gasoline for what i stands for and it is force the dependence well if an aid susie's 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 both 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 line on. the. you should be scared of things to pete's i think it's something to be hopped up there and by events. 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 themselves. stories of germany no where

right we 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 authorities were looking to confiscate hunting weapons as the man was no longer deemed fit to possess firearms at the time apparently and in a separate incident a member of the same far right movement though shortly injured an officer during an eviction or both men were members of the reich citizens movement a far right group based on the idea that germany's sprit world war two borders still exist in fact it still refuses as well to recognize the legitimacy of the german government of the country's laws the organization which till recently haven't been taken too seriously now though both some fifteen thousand members and it is more and more being considered to be a real threat 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 to speak of plague for a public administrators because. explaining the state has no right to take same or to find them so at the beginning it was only low ranking public officials who got into problems with the rice burger but in last year's this movement has grown when somebody from the police came to them they refused and even applied violence there was a kind of wait and see attitude and when these are exposed a started to do war then famed sea org amends apply of violence towards a public official then they started to be considered as much more then only a. side effect of a liberal society and it seems that their state no longer will handle with them

in their messy if their state has displayed for so long time. a couple of stories in germany this one next that countries prided itself on being a welcoming host to thousands of refugees over the last couple years isn't it now a new website it's been launched which at first glance appears to be a helpful tool for newcomers but reflections a correspondent there to day she's taken a closer look up because the opposite when you really look at it realize there is an official website was a total cheetos bit more. yes kevin it is an official website it was launched by germany's foreign minister the website is called rumors about german effects for migraines it's user friendly actually a very nice website very easy to use services feature is bright small colorful posts busting what the website describes as mist and big lie that human traffickers

in smugglers are famous for feeding the would be asylum seekers with such as a welcoming payment of two thousand euros false the website says a house or a job for every new arrival complete nonsense the website says explaining that the best one could get in germany would be crowded mass accommodation center often in remote areas because big cities are no longer available to feed more refugees and that means the chances of very high that no one would understand of speak the language that the migrant speaks it also warns about the journey to the well desired destination itself say it remains to be very dangerous dangerous and continues to cost thousands of lives it also warns about forceful returns giving very. many dark details and all in all. it gives a very grim picture of what life could be for migraines coming for

a better life to germany the website is available in french english and not surprisingly in arabic because syria afghanistan and iraq are top three countries from where most of the migrants have been coming throughout last year interesting that target audience for this west side are exactly same people that just a couple of years ago were so welcomed here in germany following uncle merkel's so-called open door policy you all remember those pictures where germany's chancellor who was opposed. in with the refugees and you'll remember that warm welcome that they were getting at the railway stations throughout germany so that this website shows a dramatic political shift but a very long one because that policy was not quite popular you remember following.

the. elections here in germany the far right and turn to for germany enjoyed historic success and anti migraine sentiment very high even now while merkel was party and their allies in germany suffered their worst results in more than half a century so it's quite close to me now there and some extras say trying to fix the situation to show that they're ready for some changes in that poll is the it's very fair to mention that the west side does an only give a green picture of what life could be for migraines came asylum in germany but it also describes knew a particular cities and improvements that these people can find in their countries there were chapters in this website calling stability in iraq or germany creates jobs in middle east so. explain things in this way that maybe these

people should think about staying in their countries instead. we going to. break thanks for updating us though from village or thank you for what watching this we're allowed to dot com four stories twenty four seven as well of course. greetings and sell you. syria the military industrial complex is favored. money pit of mystery intrigue in danger is back in the headlines again watchers with with even more twisted narrative was and twisted logic and twisted truth is let's start with the announcement of the total liberation of the city of rocco the self proclaimed isis 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 rocket 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 careful but despite all the controversy over the execution of the liberation of iraq u.s. president donald trump our bodies.