the specs under the age of eighteen face charges in two european countries most of the young people become radicalized. the fears of possible terrorist attacks in the upcoming holiday season you know both use discretion when it comes to big think of the security. and there could be more u.s. soldiers in syria and iraq than was officially claimed that's according to new findings coming from the u.s. think tank. very good evening to you my name is the harvey this is r.t. international first this hour islamic state may be losing its hold over iraq and syria but it is still inspiring europeans and it seems a younger ones at that to carry out attacks at home

a danish court has extended the sentence of a teenage girl who'd been planning bomb attacks in the country on monday she was given eight years in prison after initially being sentenced to six the girl who has not been named was fifteen when she was arrested in copenhagen that was in january of last year when a family alerted police after becoming suspicious about chemicals they'd seen in the basement of the home during the search police found bomb making ingredients and notes expressing sympathy with islamic states evidence indicated she had planned to attack a former primary school and a jewish school in a state that the court revealed that since being jailed the girl is standard teacher with a broken mirror floor smith explains now there's been a growth of radicalized youngsters in europe seventeen year old boy in wales found guilty of planning to ram a car into a crowd in the city of cardiff he apparently had several venues for this attack.

situation one of which was the shopping center another was a justin bieber concert so reminiscent old the teen that we saw attacked in manchester earlier this year. in his bedroom they found martyrdom in which he said he was a soldier of the islamic state also a large knife and a hammer in a five police say that he was planning an attack similar to the westminster attack in which a man in a van rammed a crowd on westminster bridge and then got out and stabbed a police officer. he posted i still propagand on instagram and his instagram post would believe it or not it was truck attack now this comes at the end of a year of terror in the u.k. which has seen a number of attacks including a failed attack on an underground station in parsons green it turns out the

full of the seven people arrested in connection with that attack were under the age of twenty five in the person who is ultimately being charged is just eighteen not all of those attacks were committed by youngsters but we do see a trend emerging one hundred seventeen people under the age of twenty five rested for terror offenses in the year up to the end of june two thousand and seventeen hauffe of those were in the seventeen to twenty age bracket and the other half was slightly older twenty to twenty five some of those arrests of course didn't lead to charges but home office statistics do show a rise in the number of young people being convicted of terror offenses with less than a month to go until christmas cities across europe are getting into the swing but with the threat of terrorism high all through to sort of come up with a way to maintain security without spoiling the atmosphere 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 steal barriers like these around london's winter wonderland are intended to protect pedestrians from ice 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

those you feel a bit more sorry for seeing the police knowing that they were top of it ok so the extra security visibly makes you feel better from a different way you know we just expect small security everywhere now is just 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. r.t.

london. measures have been taken to secure christmas markets concrete blocks have been installed in berlin munich budapest and several other cities. meanwhile the picture spread online of an islamic state fight to brandishing a knife it comes with the caption soon on your holidays it's written in english french and german he spoke to political commentator graham or he believes that if a terrorist is determined to carry out an attack well putting up barriers won't help bridge the situation in europe with while still flooding. into this country you can't really protect against anyone who is determined whether it be a thirty three thousand annoy someone staying in a mother who whatever it is if someone is determined to carry out criminal acts and we must remember all. terrorism is wrong and the ultimate crime is murder it goes the christian faith and terrorism is

crime it's the mind thing you know it's remember what we saw use of a budget of. thinking on the sidelines here there are barriers to all of these things but determined to cure you. it doesn't modo but what you know it's now you sit back and enjoy christmas what i want is you to be. out christmas tradition. the u.s. may have more forces in syria and iraq than it's admitted now this is according to findings from a think tank the us defense manpower data center auntie's correspondent kill him open has been following the story with a new report indicates that the united states has roughly two thousand troops in syria at this time while officially the pentagon is only acknowledge the presence of about five hundred others a similar discrepancy when it comes to iraq the numbers provided by this reporter

about three thousand higher than the numbers provided by the pentagon now in response the pentagon has said that the numbers they provided was only based on. estimates this is the pentagon's response to the discrepancy between the think tank report and their own numbers the d.m. d.c. numbers not the official deployment count the numbers that we provided the approach the five hundred in syria and approximately five thousand in iraq is the official deployment count at this point the united states is in syria has a military presence there are courting to the report its more than two thousand troops but they haven't done this without the permission of the internationally recognized syrian government at no point has the syrian arab republic given permission for the usa to enter its territory however the usa maintains a military presence there at this point we've heard james mattis secretary of defense say that even after i still is defeated the united states does not intend to immediately withdraw those forces that are in syria without the permission of

the internationally recognized syrian government furthermore donald trump has raised the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan at this point there are roughly fourteen thousand u.s. troops occupying afghanistan so questions are being raised it's important to point out that at this point polls continue to show that public opinion in the united states is opposed to further meddling and intervention around the world but yet the number of u.s. troops located in the middle east and in other countries continues to rise more than two hundred afghani families a truck to open desert in the east of the country people had to flee their homes running from crossfire between the taliban and islamic state militants now they live in makeshift tents in the desert when to the broaching. they want the government and international forces to help us. out with we don't even have access to medical care but doing back would cost us on line and women and children are in a condition how can we live in these tents during this code winter. kurdish troops

fighting in syria have said that they have no problem joining government forces if they're allowed to form a federal state in the north of the country the statement comes after turkey claimed that donald trump has promised to stop arming kurdish forces but there's apparently no clear position on the matter in the white house once we started winning that campaign against isis 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 who could the forces have been successfully fighting against the islamic state in northern syria and you can see who controls what areas on this map the u.s. has long been providing the kurds with military equipment something that irritated washington's king nato ally turkey with more his right because the. the problem says you can't ride two horses with one back side makes sense right

unfortunately it doesn't stop people from trying we 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 with respect and a friend 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. 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 sad give us what we want autonomy and we won't need the americans now you need and as a kurd i can say that our people want to build a syria. but no force or ethnic group dominating any other group i believe it is in the interests of the kurds is the second largest ethnic group in syria to build a function. federal syria with the interests of the kurdish people would be in showing. allowing kurds to participate in parliament and join the army in 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 america the us has 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 with these agreements have never been linked to military action. which leaves us with the us and its two horses the trade the turks a valuable nato ally or betray the kurds their ace in syria alternatively wait for

them to betray the states it was the turkish foreign minister who said that donald trump and promised to cut military aid to the kurds so we asked the u.s. led coalition about the issue this is the response we've received the coalition says it's committed to providing the syrian democratic forces with the support they need in order to defeat islamic state and this nicholas davies believes that washington's words should 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 for rebel groups and 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 agricultural job on some toes in the limelight once again as the e.u.

commission votes in favor of a license extension for a weed killer that's been linked to cancer who bring all the details after this break. here's what people have been saying about redacted and. the only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than. the sea people you've never heard of. jack to the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. before. the dropping bombs brings me to the chicken hawks wants me to fight the battle. for you folks for the tell you that will be gossip to the public but.

i'm telling you pull it out by. me along the border walk. welcome back the european union has voted to extend the license of the controversial weed killer produced by agricultural giant monsanto despite the product being linked to cancer and other health concerns eighteen countries including germany and poland voted in favor of the license renewal france and italy were among the nine against with only portugal abstaining the decision was met with protests outside the european commission in brussels.

cancer doesn't mean. you. the. third. today we're standing here hoping to get a message through to the commission to young specifically that democracy is standing behind a ban on going to see big can either choose to stand behind monsanto and vote as it or they can stand on the side of citizens opinion polling has been clear those that sign that you have been clear we want a ban on going to see that is where democracy guys have a choice of the chemical in question which you heard mentioned there glyphosate house being marketed as being the world's most widely used herbicide and here's how monsanto's described it in its promotional videos but what about the main active

ingredient. is it harmful how does it work in addition to the u.s. e.p.a. regulatory agencies in more than one hundred sixty countries have approved places a base product glacis it is applied to once absorbed it travels to the roots blocks a specific enzyme found in plants not animals or humans. life saved is used mainly on food crops but also on public lawns and in forestry the world health organizations council watchdog has raised concerns over the impact of this chemical on nature and humans labeling it as probably cost of the journey the potential dangers the fuel debate is well ahead of the 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 here like 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 sleep on the strength of its carcinogenic risk don't you agree we have to ban these things as well for figure out 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 glyphosate is not one of truth but one of deceit carefully calculated and choreographed deceit we asked for grace one of the countries that voted against the weed killers approval why the e.u. was in favor. full of money it is basically fully gentlemen you know it was so good to be pulled by. the big pharmaceutical in giving. those are going to. do what was the big brother. who. took the days are still here for

the people that are mentally. beat you will soon discover is. the scariest generals on the edge. you should be sure the nation will be decent revision for the careful people of the farmers as well as the going. well the brother gets there will be made with the usual who. is going to be dealing with governments. the u.s. and south korea will be conducting a major military exercise close to the north korean border next week russia has voiced its concern over the drills which will involve around twelve thousand american soldiers not easily potential is in seoul for us with the latest what has been donald trump's approach to sorting out the north korea crisis in a nutshell all options remain on the table second option not a preferred option they will be met with fire and fury do not underestimate us and do not try as the distance from here to the

border with north korea is only about forty kilometers and once you end up in seoul which is well in the firing range of kim's artillery you can't help looking at that rhetoric from a different perspective especially if there is what you'd call a totally different approach. is absolutely no alternative to dialogue but in order to start a dialogue everyone has to stop take a deep breath and a step back from the red line which will my stance so why can we hope that the only option according to moscow will prevail well the. south korean capital is hosting a russian valdai discussion club conference where local officials and experts have gathered to hear what the russian diplomats and researchers have come up with so russia's been saying hey we've got a plan step one north korea should completely halt its missile and nuclear tests

for the u.s. that means and ends two almost nonstop war games with seoul moscow calls it a double freeze step two might be very tough direct talks between washington and pyongyang on rules of peaceful coexistence and finally they should lead to step three establishing a security framework for the entire region with every player involved. the doors are closed for the main session and one of the south korean officials who is taking part is the president's advisor for foreign policy mr. what do you think about the russian road map i think that the proposal is very realistic flexible i hope it and your cage in the pentagon winter olympic all the parties concerned between particularly between nelson selves who do come up with the most best westray behavior but do you think it's enough in this case of course not enough in the day

should to be some new initiative to create and sustain the senate only impatient donald trump keeps saying that all options are on the table north korean knew that the military option it's always under the table. by putting the military option and on the table. it's not likely changing your screen behavior as the advisor of the south korean president what do you tell them about the drills no you know i personally in the favor engagement dialogue and negotiation with north korea and some people in the government may have different ideas that brings us to why the russian road map may never actually work. because i think most korean politicians believe the trills must be pursued tried to fence now we're not canceling us korean exercises we just want to postpone for the olympics. others

openly reject moscow's plan like the neighbors in tokyo who simply can't imagine security without the drills with their allies so for now south koreans have no other choice but to welcome us raptors in co for the vigilance ace war games oh that's just in a few days anyway for those who live in seoul or poor here to talk about keeping the peace in korea there's something to bear in mind be it for war games or. for real strikes that would put millions of lives at risk the decision to send let's say warplanes to the korean skies may depend on one single man miles and miles away on the other side of the pacific. the drills will be going ahead despite low in military activity from the north the regime is conducted no missile or nuclear bomb tests in september can from the national campaign to end the korean war gave us his take on the situation at a time in which there is this standoff and this misunderstanding and lack of

communication creates a very volatile situation it may be seem somehow as intimidating but these have never worked the proposal that anyone who cares about peace in the region is putting forth right now is that these military options are not realistic and you need to sit down at the table and when they do those exercises something could be mistaken as invasion something could be mistaken as live attacks and such and so we put the millions and millions of people in the seoul area in south korea in japan and other places that risk this seems like folly and foolishness when we have such a volatile situation thanks so much for joining us this evening don't forget if you like your news on the go you can always follow as we're on facebook and twitter and also there are plenty more news stories available for you on a website that's r.t.

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