there's no such thing. president putin confirms an explosion at a supermarket in some petersburg was a terrorist attack identity of the attacker is still unknown. r.t. his from using the families in iraq who were previously held as slaves by islamic states both of those abducted remain missing. i was pregnant but i was so tired far lost my child my husband and my family were captured i was left alone with my mother so we took the boys and i decided it was better to die. and facebook reveals it has a unit to assist politicians in their campaigns and boasting that it helps the scottish national party and its landslide victory in twenty fifty.

five i will welcome you watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron good to have you with us this hour our top story lot about a person says an explosion that ripped through a supermarket in the russian city of some petersburg on wednesday was a terrorist attack fourteen people were injured in the blast. sure but you know would you yesterday there was a terrorist in some pieces and just recently security services prevented. these images from inside the shop where the explosion took place most of the counters and shelves have been destroyed we spoke to eyewitnesses who were in the supermarkets at the time of the attack. the blast happened as my mother

was painting i was totally disorientated a part of the ceiling was hanging above me. i started to look for my mom how. far. from the scene to the scene i couldn't see anything everything was black i couldn't understand where i was then i close my eyes and open them again and there was my son close to me. supermarket security cameras filmed this man entering the building and leaving his backpack in a locker where the bomb went off reports say police believe he was the perpetrator of the attack artie's a leper trying to travel to the scene as soon as the police left at the quarter. there's still blood on the stairs outside the supermarket but if we walk further down here you can see through the window the damage and side obviously nobody is

being let through the doors but right now we can say that the people that were wounded during the wednesday blast inside the supermarket can be almost one hundred percent certain that they were caught up and survived a terrorist attack the investigators that are still working right there they're walking in and out every now and then still haven't completely ruled out any version of events but the metal balls that the improvised explosive device was stuffed with warrant at the worst case scenario in st petersburg six people are still being treated. and a hospital they got trapped not once but the person who physically put the bomb inside that storage locker still hasn't been caught when addressing security bosses whatever who told them not to hesitate when dealing with terrorist suspects. instructed the federal security service to act within the law when dealing with

these thugs but if the law enforcement is in danger they must act decisively to take prisoners they must destroy these stocks on this book besides that the russian president called russia's military operation in syria a preemptive move against terrorism at home according to mr putin the threat of terrorist attacks could have been much worse if russia hadn't intervened otherwise he warned of thousands of trained attackers infiltrating russia we remember of course that the previous major terrorist blast happened in the metro train in this very city and that is especially alarming given that russia is in the peak of the holiday season security is heightened all across the country and it is definitely being felt here in st petersburg and everyone is really waiting for the suspect to be found and arrested. earlier we spoke to tell me one expert in

preventing terrorism he says russia's actions in syria helped to prevent a number of attacks in different countries. to fall is a thought. this is what can really how did people were picked up on this particular incidence of go without anybody being killed to move in for what we need to not. be mean trust lights on individuals who are likely to be involved in discount all small incidents a lot of countries whether they want to see it all not. to be good food to be to do the president of the russian federation for their work in syria because audio day. this will be returning back to your group are not a part of the war you can afford to walk. in getting rid of most of them on the battlefield in syria the global village regardless of what about. regional

politics. and it is every call to come to get a fight in this war against terrorism because he doesn't know why black green yellow religion they kill anybody because they down. families in syria and iraq are attempting to rebuild their lives following the fall of islamic state the kurdish speaking is it the minority in northern iraq has been among the worst hit thousands of people were killed and thousands more were kidnapped and enslaved by the terrorists only around half of them have a scaped or been returned those that did come back with the mercy of people smugglers that charged vast amounts while other families paid ransoms directly to isolate terrorists who are increasingly reliant on that income as other sources of funding collapsed artie's senior correspondent mark downstairs spoke with a woman held hostage by the militants and a mother forced to buy

a backhoe daughter from islamic state. it takes either great bravery or great desperation to act in the chaos of battle when the jets came far isis salmiya acted in years to manage it or they had locked the door but i broke the window and got out that way i run for a day and a night to make it to where did you run from there resort or a local family who are not with i still took me in they had me they told me where the kurdish forces were salmiya and her family were captured by isis back in two thousand and fourteen she escaped barely two weeks ago in your monologue and i was pregnant but i was so terrified that i lost my child my husband and my family were captured i was left alone with my mother so i took poison i decided it was

better to die when they caught me i thought that since my family my husband and my house were gone it would be better to die. she was a slave made to work in factories do menial work beaten for any offense and then. the men would offer us as gifts in the evenings they would get together and trade the women and have their fun with us. she now lives with her mother near doke northern iraq home to many displaced easy these and returned ones far from rape beatings and humiliation but there's no escape from the memories this photo was taken in two thousand and fifteen the rens ease and never happy family from northwestern iraq all of them but the mother were killed or captured as they fled from isis all but to

a dead or missing. it was indescribable for me laugh turned into endless suffering tears and hunger i couldn't do anything but cry. for years she lived in pain in torment it was a freak phone call the changed her life someone had recognized her daughter like the phone had someone contacted my relatives and told them that they have found a photo of a girl on facebook they asked if it was my child and they recognized her sister was in turkey but said he would deliver her to baghdad we paid over ten thousand dollars inas seems happy if a little hyperactive and boisterous and impatient and entirely adorable try as we might we couldn't get her to talk the mother says that she has trouble getting her to be quiet she was five when she was taken by isis nine when she was

returned. as. she didn't recognise me at first and i cried a lot about that later she told me that she was upset that i was crying the whole time. they both saved each other their reunion ones like it give hope to thousands of people hope that one day they'll be able to get their missing families and loved ones back before it's too late or i guess do you have tea from the hook iraq according to kurdish officials over six thousand years it is were abducted by eisel in twenty fourteen alone with around half of them still missing well as the number of humanitarian organizations for comment here's what they use it a humanitarian group and also human rights watch told us about the situation. but this community have been suffering haven't suffered so much throughout this genocide three years have passed the community still worsley displaced into

a critic of the woman who brought back to come from captivity. taken care of those who are still captivity are still good and it has been all of little difficulty whatsoever to look into the years you deploy to what do we feel that this is just a lot of gold and the russian community hasn't done much to repeal this genocide and in the process of the battles against isis of course thousands of civilians were killed and among them surely also you see the us use it is that we're being held prisoners by isis but what you have not seen is any serious effort by the group or baghdad government to ensure that the victims get their day in court and get justice for what has been done to them but this friday will be airing the story of one girl kidnapped by ice when she was fifteen that was almost

three years ago and she's now managed to return home for the story of her life with islamic state watch this channel on friday. the u.n. refugee agency has confirmed the number of syrian refugees in lebanon has dropped below a million for the first time it since twenty fourteen more than five million people fled the syrian war with many finding refuge in the neighboring lebanon the country has taken in the majority of syria's refugees along with turkey and jordan the recent drop in my quick numbers in lebanon comes after significant victories in the fight against islamic state.

lisa abu khalid from the un refugee agency says the vast majority of syrians living in lebanon dream of returning home one of the situation is stable it's a first time in since april two thousand and fourteen that the number drops below one million interest thousand and seventeen un h.c.r. estimates that a few thousands of syrian refugees from lebanon have returned to syria we know that most syrian refugees in lebanon the vast majority want to return to syria when conditions become safe for them to return in safety and dignity. lot of refugees have expressed that when the situation calms down even more and becomes more stable

in syria a lot of the development support that is going to other countries in the region will also be directed back to syria in order for the international community to support in the rebuilding of this country which would also help or support refugees who are returning. after losing ground in syria and iraq islamic state terrorists seem to be ramping up their activities in afghanistan the group now says it was behind multiple suicide blasts in the afghan capital kabul early this thursday which killed at least forty one people and injured eighty four local journalist a muslim says that reports the toll is rising from forty to forty one dead son also eighty four in jordan in recent attack and two that i can call paul moments ago the president got his spokesperson and a ministry of the spokespersons hailed a press conference and told about the rising of the tolls and the credit situation

of some people in this attack this is that is coming after the deadly attack on the shia mosque today shown that the new fears of attacks on kabul against the shia minority is going to increase the reason attacks or so-called islamic a city or die as this has a history of the last year the specially when we see these kind of attacks which was him on some on in the north of the kabul in twenty six of our october and after that the twentieth of august before that was the did the attacks on the shia minority use an inside of the country under attack which so-called islamic state clinton sponsibility talked about the we curate of fact immune which called against islamic disturbed and middle east especially and iraq and syria this costs that the afghan people especially nowadays especially today and the afghan people especially in social media are going very angry against the afghan government and.

the british military has caused a stir by zero ordering members of the armed forces to use gender neutral language . that which worked to change in a new era of equality. well these new guidelines are all about avoiding jen did language so we've heard that special posters have gone up in the toilets of one particular ad base that trains recruits for the royal navy the royal air force and for the army take a look at some of the very traditional phrases that army bosses have suggested amending. the union. to.

the. odyssey got in touch with the m o d to find out all about the new phrases and they have said that they are promoting a modern inclusive working environment to ensure individuals are recognised and feel valued now the guidelines were written by a unit called the joint equality diversity and inclusion unit which troops reportedly called jet died for sure but diversity and inclusion is a big issue for the british army right now to put this all into context last year women were finally able to take up combat roles in the army and from the end of next year women will be able to apply for school the same positions as men in the british forces. and israeli court has just decided to keep

a sixteen year old palestinian girl and two more of her relatives in custody for another week postponing its final ruling had to me a time to israeli soldier. in the west bank in front of her house after her teenage cousin was shot by a rubber bullets there an hour earlier the trial has sparked a fresh wave of protests against israel or the city of ramallah police responded by firing stun grenades a video of the incident involving our head to mimi has gone to trial with some hailing it as a symbol of palestinian resistance. and. the video shows our head and her cousin kicking and shoving i.d.f. soldiers and her mother then joins in as you can see the two soldiers do not respond all three women are currently in custody and israeli rubber bullet hits to

mimi's fourteen year old cousin mohammed in the face during protests against the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel father basle who is also an anti israel activist says his daughter feels she had no choice but to take action. before the present. what if for the palestinian issue she believe that we must study of the war the thought she needs to be over the sword in the. in the clashes with me. this is what you believe in. for that when they saw her when she saw. the movie she became more there the more she warned the leader to five we requested a comment from the israeli defense forces on the girl's case the i.d.f. says the court is investigating not just test expected assault on a soldier but also had the alleged participation in throwing rocks the girls

twitter account has also been deleted it's unclear whether had herself is behind the move form i.d.f. soldier r e winesburg says the israeli presence in palestinian areas is on a military level what happened last week and the video that's gone viral with her slapping and pushing two soldiers. is not part of a protest it went much more viral once they showed up. later on a few days later early in the morning and arrested her a sixteen year old girl for pushing somebody who was without any sort of authorization standing on her property image of a fearless young woman she's sixteen standing up to fully armed soldiers and the soldiers if you notice they come into these villages and i did when i served in the i.d.f. as well fully armed for battle the heavy military presence which in palestinian

communities is thirty years old the amount of force is overwhelming these soldiers are only partially trained for doing what are essentially police duties but you notice they are in full battle dress they don't look like police men i don't think that the i.d.f. sees. as in a precarious position. facebook claims it helps the scottish national party when i landslide victory in scotland during the u.k. general election and twenty fifteen the social media giant created a special unit to help politicians connect with the why the audience facebook is currently under pressure over allegations that helped russia to meddle in the u.s. election can have more can have the details when it all started facebook was fun and innocent was a place to share your holiday snaps and keep up with friends but then it got political facebook is even boasting about the fact that it helps the scottish national party to win sweeping victories in the u.k.

general elections of two thousand and fifteen campaign is across the political spectrum now recognize the using facebook and facebook accounts in particular made it to montreal difference to the final election results at this point little did we know but facebook has a government and politics team that helps you in victories for its clients right now the director of the team is katie harben a former republican party digital strategist and apparently she's quite good at her job. philippine president rodrigo did tard say took office after a strong campaign that included social media including facebook with the hash tag the leader i want. the trump campaign's digital director also says that facebook helped them to win the race so facebook now lets you get to places we took opportunities and i think the other side did their stuff a bit inside our office what we were doing inside the meeting teachers so use a platform. germany's rising anti immigration party the a f

d actually had meetings with the facebook team which was happy to offer them electoral advice doesn't this all sound a lot like election meddling you know that things supposedly done by evil russians who purchased ads and american lines i don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy that's not what we stand for so facebook is just completely square and bipartisan and that's why it has a special team that helps politicians to win elections that makes sense right i think social media the people that run it are very biased according to their own political beliefs and i think that that's very very dangerous and it's a shame and that's why i dedicated for a long time that concern because usually conservatives in this country are the victims of it i think conservatives in the united states should certainly think of forming and starting their own version of facebook and their own version of google

and their own version of twitter and i don't understand facebook's kind of subversive of political machine that i don't think most people are aware of and i think most people who when they become aware of it like me would be kind of concerned about it. japan is building up its military it says to counter the threat from north korea a country has decided to convert a ship into an x. kariya this will be capable of hosting f. thirty five jets which the country recently bought from the us this will be the first such vessel best alone by japan since the second world war well earlier this month the japan defense ministry announced it was considering acquiring we saw those capable of striking north korea the missiles will have a range of five hundred kilometers japan has also launched a study to determine if it spited jets capable of carrying missiles with a range of nine hundred kilometers the country's law prohibits japan from having

any of these missiles and the moves have been heavily criticized by china. you usually. change there usually historical reasons each move the japan makes in military security draws a great concern from its asian neighbors and the international community who have noticed the related reports in which some people think such moves might violate article nine of the japanese constitution article nine which the chinese foreign ministry referred to is the clause in japan's constitution that prohibits the country from having any means that can be used for offensive warfare asia specialist andrew long suspects japan's real reason for wanting an aircraft carrier is to contain china. both korea's main threat is against the united states. attacking the north koreans why should the law of korean attack japan that's the first point secondly the threat is nuclear. power or hydrogen

bomb and also the intercontinental missile delivery systems well this kind of threats cannot be resolved by developing aircraft carriers so that's the firstborn as far as the threat from north korea is concerned as for the threat from china the center on the disputed islands in the tire or the cargo islands but then. of course japan developing is. perceived to be guarding the that this island is of course would could pose a risk of escalation because according to china. a lot of the trial of the world so i think that the recipe for as collation. a spanish court has ruled in favor of a man who was sued by his ex-wife for reading their daughter's whatsapp conversations the mother claims that her child's privacy had been violated but the judge ruled that the parent's right to monitor their children's internet use now

way to any invasion of privacy the former couple also have a son who apparently refused to show his father his whatsapp chats their ruling could says had legal precedence for cases involving children's activities on social media i discussed the story with george barda political activist and social justice campaigner and also stephen morris from the english democrats. looking at the case it looks like these are obviously a bit of animosity between the two parents. something obviously not been reported between what's been going on between them too and he's obviously got concerns regarding what is going on obviously you have a responsibility to make sure that your children are using social media responsible you know there's a lot of. things happening in the world today and we've been told that we have to monitor social media to see what's going on and we have to be careful of what our children are actually. seeing and engaging in personally i don't think it should be

the norm at all i think you know. rewind sort of thirty years in a child's right to a diary and if the child finds out the parent has looked in their diary then probably the child will be very upset and will have very real grievances and concerns that the parent has not respected them appropriately in the parent will then have to justify the child why they did that. you know the child will probably that it's not an appropriate thing the pair will have to just like. in other words we go back to this question of right and wrong versus whether or not the courts should be involved so i think you know there are all sorts of issues here but i think it's important not to treat the current world as if it's entirely novel you know these issues of how parents and children negotiate questions of privacy versus parental responsibility even if children are raised without having their privacy respected isn't there a risk they're going to grow to be more tolerant of invasions of their privacy later in life for example government snooping perhaps well children something

memorial of always kept secrets from the parents that's a given it's always up and the issue now is with social media it's a lot greater and a lot wider than we ever envisioned when i was a child you know our interaction was just sent to the community centers. around the bush elton's which is what kids do but now the a lot wider people travel a lot for the first. and there's a lot more danger to the social media i think we are faced with a danger where the more authority governments and courts have to police the relationship between parents and children the more that ends up becoming a pretext for further surveillance of all communications itself so i think keeping the family private is important important part of keeping the government away from inappropriate surveillance of citizens. the new year celebrations are just around the corner and in preparation the russian capital has been putting up the decorations red square to our sky street and other main avenues have been adorned

with thousands of lights while more than two hundred fifty christmas trees are being placed in the capitol square as the new year's decorations will stay up for two weeks after the big celebration. for me getting thirty minutes of the headlines. saying is the eighth month and a very serious science and yet.