it's morning. suspects under the age of eighteen faced terrorist charges in two european countries as a younger people become radicalized. amid fears of possible islamic state terror attacks during the upcoming holiday season european old dorothy's beef up security while trying creatively not to spoil the christmas mood. that you. believe can't carry doesn't mean any protests outside the european commission as the e.u. votes to renew its or approval for a controversial weed killer produced by monsanto that allegedly causes cancer. and kurdish forces say they're ready to join the syrian army if they're rewarded

with a federal state softer suggestions the u.s. could cut its military support for the kurds. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow i'm neki aaron good to have you with us now islamic states may be losing its hold over iraq and syria but it's still inspiring europeans to carry out attacks at home and as a younger ones at that two of the most recent cases involve suspects under the age of eighty looking out for us live to our london correspondent laura smith for more on this there laura good to see you know it looks like obviously is winning ever over ever younger hearts and minds what more can you tell us. that's right we've got two stories in the european media on tuesday showing really how younger minds as you say a falling victim is to radicalization the first is

a story from over in denmark a danish girl a muslim converts who was convicted of planning bomb attacks on to copenhagen schools police found bomb making equipment in her bedroom and also writings expressing sympathy with i still she's seventeen now but she was only fifteen years old when she was arrested for these plans evidence police say indicated that she was planning bombing attacks on her own former primary school and on a nearby jewish school the high court recently extended her sentence actually from six to eight years they said reflecting her age of course and the nature of her crime and then the second story that we're hearing today in the british media is a british a welsh teen who was found guilty of plotting to ram a car into a crowd in cardiff he had a range of targets in mind we understand but one of them was

a justin bieber concert so similar to the manchester attack also on a teen music venue and another was a cardiff shopping center again in his bedroom police found a martyrdom letter which said he called himself a soldier of the islamic state and they also found a large knife and a hammer in a bag in his bedroom the c.p.s. is saying that he was planning an attack very much like the westminster attack you'll remember that a man drove a van into a crowd on westminster bridge and then got out and stabbed a police officer so along those lines this boy who also can't be named because of his age just seventeen years of age posted i still propaganda on instagram and actually his instagram password was truck attack we understand and this is part of a growing trend really. i mean the figures are quite recent and quite scant but we do know that one hundred seventeen people under twenty five were arrested for tariff offenses in the year up to june two thousand and seventeen june this year

half of them were in the seventeen to twenty age bracket and the other half were slightly older twenty to twenty five. some of those arrests didn't lead to charges but still home office figures do show a rise in the number of young people charged with tara fences and do very concerning figures that are saudis laura smith for the latest going slower. now with less than a month to go until christmas european cities are starting to dress up for the festive occasion but with the threat of terror high across the holiday season a little forty's are coming up with creative ways to maintain a heightened security without spreading panic and explains. festive trees aren't the only thing being installed in the run up to christmas on the streets of britain you're likely to see decorations christmas markets and an extra dose of concrete new security measures being put in place at festive markets across the country and

steel barriers like these around london's winter wonderland are intended to protect pedestrians from i still style truck attacks for anyone put off by all the steel and concrete this could be the answer or thirty's in the city of whole have come up with this novel way of dressing up their antiterrorist crash barriers london's metropolitan police have said that this year the public may see additional protective measures and security checks at festival vents around the capital and it's not just rings of steel and concrete permanent bollards like these have become common place they prevent cars and trucks from entering pedestrians though is you feel a bit more cypher seeing the police knowing that they were part of it ok so the extra security visibly makes you feel better from a different way you know we just expect more security everywhere now is it because that's just fortunately the way of the world. after the deadly terror attacks this

year many in the u.k. are feeling vulnerable last week a security alert at london's oxford circus tube station triggered mass panic. nine people were injured when crowds ran to escape what they believed to be gunshots after a security lockdown the incident turned out to be a false alarm as well as an illustration of just how nervous many a feeling this festive season. london. and it's not just in britain but all across europe or thirty's or seeking to secure locals and tourists visiting christmas markets concrete blocks have been installed in berlin at munich the budapest and other cities. as europe steps up security over

the festive period an ominous picture has spread online of an islamic state fighter holding a knife with the caption soon on your holidays written in english french and german our guest told us messages like this one so that i saw it on the back foot we have witnessed the use of media by terrorists in order to. prove their presence. prove their hire or their falls and that's why i believe based on the use of reports these precautions were taken by western governments fighting terror. directed against civilians it's a very hard task because. actually the terrorists are getting. a soft part of. the society. nor where the world nor government. ensure the safety and security for each and

every individual. by targeting civilians because per panic so the fight against terrorism i believe that it's a long struggle it's a multilevel struggle. kurdish forces fighting in syria said that they quote to have no problem joining the government army if they're allowed to form a federal state in the north of the country the statement comes after turkey claimed that the us president had promised to stop arming kurdish forces however there is apparently no clear position in the white house on the matter. once we started winning the campaign against isis the plan and part of the process is to always wind down support for certain groups and now that we're continuing to crush the physical caliphate that we're in a position to stop providing military equipment to certain groups. kurdish forces have been successfully fighting islamic state in northern syria you can see who

controls what areas on this map the u.s. has long been providing the kurds with military equipment something that's been a worst case in washington's nato ally turkey as not is more of galatea explains. as the probably says you can't ride two horses with one back side makes sense right unfortunately it doesn't stop people from trying to support turkey in the first fight against terror and terror groups like isis and the p.k. k. the president authorized the department of fence to equip kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces we should be using we should be doing the kurdish whatever the reason is it is not something that is acceptable for our friends and nato ally turkey is an ally obviously a strong partner certainly over the specter and friends here's how it is to us allies the turks and the syrian kurds as sworn enemies washington has on the kurds

to the teeth saying they need these weapons to fight the jihad ists and turkey sort of understood since when do you need to cooperate with one terrorist organization to fight another terrorist organization it's not the way a serious state should behave and it does not suit the united states so what next does the u.s. abandon one of its most trustworthy partners try to take back those guns the kurds are stupid they can play that game too there is no problem for our forces to join the syrian army if a new syrian constitution is drafted on a federal basis and the rights of all syrian parties are reserved this is a two pronged approach it's a warning to the u.s. we can dump you before you dump us and the message to ash that give us what we want autonomy and we won't need the americans now we need and as

a kurd i can say that our people want to build a syria syrians with no forth or ethnic group dominating any other group i believe it is in the interests of the kurds the second largest ethnic group in syria to build on. federals with the interests of the kurdish people would be in trying to. allowing kurds to participate in parliament and join the army and all the state institutions. a new constitution for syria is on the horizon russia iran and turkey backing the initiative but what the kurds get out of it is still up for debate. the us is never viewed the syrian democratic forces as partners unfortunately the us has only been using them to fight i saw him destroy iraq or i believe the alliance between the us and forces on the ground including the s.d.f. in syria and kurdish groups in iraq has never been a true partnership the us provided assistance and weapons for self-defense purposes

and for combating eisel but these agreements have never been linked to military action. which leaves us with the us and its two horses betrayed the turks a valuable nato ally or betray the kurds in syria alternatively wait for them to betray the states. well it was the turkish foreign minister who said that donald trump had promised president earlier want to cut military aid to the kurds we asked the u.s. led coalition about the issue and this is the response we received the coalition says it's committed to providing the syrian democratic forces the support they need in order to defeat islamic states author and analyst nicholas davies says washington's pronouncements on the issue of arming the kurds shouldn't be taken at face value. i think we have to wait wait and see exactly what this means

but at the same time we should be very conscious that most of the arming of rebel groups in syria by the u.s. and its allies what was done covertly so whatever they are saying publicly is not necessarily the whole story there's a lot of holes in that story that a big enough to drive. you know ships planes and trucks loaded with weapons through . the european union has extended its approval for a controversial weed killer produced by u.s. agricultural giant monsanto germany and poland were among the eighteen states who voted in favor of it while france and italy were among the nine against with portugal abstaining the move was met with protests in front of the european commission depicting the struggle its president supposedly faces.

i believe. that. you can stare it doesn't mean anything because you. see the. third floor of all. today we're standing here hoping to get a message through to the commission to young to specifically that democracy is standing behind a ban on privacy they can either choose to stand behind monsanto and good visit or they can stand on the side of citizens opinion polling has been clear those that sign that you see i have been clear we want a ban on going to seat that is where democracy guys have a choice now the chemical in question in crisis eight is found in the world's most popular weed killer here's how its inventor and line producer monsanto describes it in its promotional videos but what about their main active ingredient life estates

is it harmful how does it work in addition to the u.s. e.p.a. regulatory agencies and more than one hundred sixty countries have approved places a place products like the state is applied to leads once absorb it travels to the roots blocks a specific enzyme found in plants not animals or humans. however concerns over the chemicals impact on humans were raised by the world health organizations council watchdog which said it could probably cause the deadly disease and these concerns fueled the debate that preceded the e.u. vote. very concerned that this process is scientifically flawed there was sufficient evidence of cancer in animals and there were strong evidence for mechanisms that we know to be associated with carcinogens garble lack of dry cleaning products burnt toast cold all issues which would be carcinogenic working night shifts cutting human hair sitting in front of a log far and eating processed meat if we are going to bend life to sate on the

strength of its carcinogenic risk don't you agree we have to ban these things as well for for figure eight smoking for example i'm telling you it's a hazard i'm not going to tell you how many cigarettes you must smoke in order to get cancer and i can confidently tell you that the story of the company's top selling chemical glaive to sate is not one of truth but one of deceit carefully calculated and choreographed deceit well it's a member of the european parliament from greece a country that voted against the weed killer as a prayerful why the e.u. was for its full of money and that's basically what it will be you know it was so good to be bullied. by you or the big pharmaceutical in general. but i was able to call or see what was the big brother. the. days are still ahead for the people that are going to. be he will soon discover what is.

the strongest generals on the edge that are going to look you should be the nation we do some revision for which careful people of the farmers as one of the goals. of the brothers that will be made with the user who. is going to be dealing with god. the number of u.s. soldiers in syria and iraq is around four times higher than the official figures that's according to a new report we'll bring you more on that after the so break stay with us. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the sixty's the lawn are still the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs a punch oh just leave yap is the john oliver of our two year marriage is going to say we are apparently better than blue that you see people you've never heard of

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welcome back the u.s. could have more forces in syria and iraq than it did mitt that's according to data provided by the us defense none power data center its latest report suggests there are almost two thousand u.s. soldiers in syria while the official sega has just over five hundred on for iraq the number provided by the manpower data center and more than three is more than three thousand higher than the pentagon's. well however the pentagon itself says the numbers provided in the report were initial estimates for syria and iraq including short term deployments and the rotation of the troops well as discuss this further now let's cross live to our guests middle east analyst allie risk thank you for joining us on the program mr risk now what could explain this discrepancy in the numbers. one i think maybe you know it's for quite possible that the official numbers or the real

numbers sorry are higher than the official numbers which are given by the u.s. officials so you have to bear in mind that. before the killing of four u.s. troops in nigeria many people didn't know even probably that most of the world didn't know that the u.s. actually had troops in that country so bearing that in mind one wouldn't be surprised to know that the real numbers of u.s. troops in iraq in syria and elsewhere in the middle east would be a higher given the fact that you know this u.s. troop presence in africa nigeria and elsewhere in the african continent wasn't known what also may be could do make it quite possible that the real numbers are higher than what is being announced is the fact that you have the generals many of the trump though many of president strums closest associates so you know the members of his cabinet they are military men. general about march third general

james mattis james kelly except for and so they would be more prone to send a high number of military personnel abroad at the same time the u.s. public probably wouldn't receive that kind of deployment to very well would probably raise its objections which would require from the trumpet ministration turn to maybe hide these facts and to increase troop presence without actually announcing it so for all these factors it could be quite possible that we do indeed do have larger numbers than what is being heard about its rise and this would be the first time the u.s. has been unclear about its chip numbers in iraq and syria would it let's just remind ourselves of that previous sound bite. we have. approximately fifty five thousand syrian or five thousand who are i'm sorry i think it's all over four thousand u.s.

troops in syria right now that are supporting efforts in. against the dice in supporting the. that was a major general james jones are they getting a little confused why does the pentagon apparently want to give the impression that has fewer troops that it really doesn't the region. well as i said i think it's were related to what i would call the. post iraqi war and of the only war syndrome it's similar that in the situation we had in the aftermath or of the war in vietnam the american war and we get naam the same thing you know the american public has exhausted its against any increase in troop presence and so i think that the pentagon is very intent on keeping this message that it has a low level of troop presence in order not to not to lead to an outburst

or an outcry from the american public which as i said is very war weary and would be very much order very much object to submit increased american presence so this is the current state of the american public so i think it's mostly related to the american public and the fact that the exhausted with these wars at the same time we do have generals a lot of generals who want to increase or who want to maybe would be more prone to pursuing military solutions were having a military build up in the foreign countries say so what about it i mean we're nearing hopefully nearing the end of the the end of islamic state in syria and iraq when the battle against the terror group is over do you expect the u.s. to leave us as a number of troops in these two countries. yes i do in fact secretary of defense james mattis so even. very clearly

he said that after isis is defeated that doesn't mean we're going to pack and leave for you need said we were going to leave after isis is defeated so america will maintain its presence so i think that you know there is a clear. but there are voices i would say inside the u.s. with a straight including matters himself and some others who basically say that the u.s. convoy leave syria quote unquote russian iranian presence because that would mean that the u.s. has lost the game to russia and to iran and so if you take that mind set off some american officials into consideration it is indeed very farfetched that america will pack and leave as much as said john after isis was defeated maybe trump himself personally would like to do that but i doubt that he'll be able to confront the pressures from the establishment and particularly from his military advisors like matterson like mcmaster ok that's middle east analyst ali risk i thank you for

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internet customers here in the united states on the eve of our holiday of thanksgiving pie outlined his dystopian science fiction vision of the internet last week and his resorting internet freedom order what a name and a statement declared from up on high that under my proposal the federal government will stop micro-managing the internet instead the f.c.c. would simply require internet service providers to be transparent about their practices so that consumers can buy these service plan that's best for the. who cable internet giant comcast also chimed in adding comcast commitment to our customers remains the same we do not and will not block rodell or discriminate against lawful content and we will be transparent with our customers about these policies. well i mean in my book that pretty much settles any debate whatsoever i mean if you can't trust a corporate lawyer and

a cable company i mean who can you trust right in keeping with the postings giving beam democratic absolutely commissioner in your own cliburn called pi's new vision a cornucopia oh full of rotten fruit stale grains and wilted flowers topped off with a plate full of burnt turkey. food metaphors aside the dismantling of net neutrality due to corporate greed and lust to can troll the last great britain tear of britain that is our internet that is the very reason that we always must be watching the hawks. but you get the. real with. the bottom. like you that i got. this.

week so. while there were watching the hawks science i robot and on top of the wallace. bird turkey bird offering is going to have seriously i mean it's kind of funny i have to say a funny it is the idea that oh we don't want the government to be micromanaging the internet all we've heard from the trump administration before and now in the election is this idea of keeping us safe by limiting what we can see this is an administration that during the during the campaign said i just shut the whole thing down i mean the idea of all would try and suddenly you care about transparency and freedom when really all this does is just. well it is easier for big corporations why didn't they just do their job well and customers would come to that why do i have to waste more taxpayer dollars. going through you know policy after policy

right i mean they just about obama. and lawyers and democrats aren't clean in this so knowing there's gonna ones or you know reining in the most sensor and dismantle all things russian on the internet and you cannot and you are not allowed to see any of these things because of my goodness it could influence you what is your your to the public to understand what you you know read on the internet is apparently the message from god you know it's not a product stocking clients and anyone should live under these proposed rules broadband service providers would now have a right to charge higher rates several prioritize ation and basically and selectively degrade certain services out their own discretion so you know like certain things we'll charge a little bit more for other things we're going to just make sure you don't really see them because we'll make them so slow that you can't really pay attention to them write the rule change. writers to be transparent in their actions so basically like what i.