headlining now the dutch foreign minister quits after revealing that he lied about a meeting with the russian president in two thousand and six mr putin spoke about ambitions for a greater russia. while i was lying in the hospital people came up to me and tried to convince me to become a suicide bomber. inside he speaks to a former fighter for the terror group who fled syria and surrendered to russian security services. a cradle of terror we report from a notorious paris suburb where dozens of residents of ready been recruited by islamic state.

there is wednesday the fourteenth of february ten am here in moscow welcome to r.t. international this is your hourly news update with me called embrace first an embarrassing end to the career for the dutch foreign minister who's been forced to resign after admitting that he lied for more than a decade about meeting president putin she explained a little she often asked me to be no i said in my state to go to. myspace demise. we're going to fall over. the. images that we both want to. it's. over for. an emotional resignation mr departure comes just a day before he was supposed to meet his russian counterpart in moscow let's look at whether those false claims really were worth it after all. of fish in early two

thousand and six i was advised to move putin's countryside house but i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well vladimir putin talking about a greater russia he said this included russia roofs ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would also be nice to have one of. those now acknowledge that it was a lie that he wasn't even russia in two thousand and six he said he did it to protect his source a person the presumably had attended a meeting he now describes it as the biggest mistake of his political career. but he seems to have at least found his new show on social media twitter as you might imagine exploded with the hashtags lying dutchman and held for featuring photoshop pictures of him at some historic events and visiting landmarks and when he first made his claims no one questioned them because back then russia was frequently accused of many things including aggressive politics now author and russia analyst

martin mccauley thinks the now former dutch diplomats false remarks were a symptom of the times. there are two reasons why he made that statement one is that the projected him into the public newspapers the headlines and so on this was a sensational statement to make and the second thing would be that of course it fed into the need to. the needed narrative the narrative of the west at that time still is which is basically under russian seas put in as a threat to the national security and it fed into that and therefore for these two reasons then it appeared to be from the dutch point of view this is a very good very good thing to do. for myself fighter who fled the terror group in syria says he was misguided in his beliefs and pressured to become a suicide bomber he surrendered himself to russian security services on his return from a conflict zone and he's been speaking to r.t. your skin was raised an orthodox christian but converted to islam and in twenty

fourteen went to egypt to study the religion it was there he was recruited by eisel to fight in syria. over the next photo from that i got interested and started reading forums and watching video online i was given a phone number of a person who could help me get to syria he is sure me that those who came could leave it any time and no one would be kept there but they immediately took away our documents and telephones it was a shock for me i felt helpless so everything was different from what they told me who's. in syria he lost a leg in an airstrike before finally deciding to flee he returned to russia and surrendered himself to the security services a year it was one of the thousands of russians who went to syria and iraq to join i so. after an explosion i lost my sight and felt a sudden pain i realized my leg had been torn off i had surgery and went through

rehabilitation at the same time they were making a prosthetic leg for me while i was lying in the hospital people came up to me and tried to convince me to become a suicide bomber because they said that i anyway had no leg what else could i do because i couldn't refuse directly it could have caused a suspicion. i was first overcome with joy while on a bus in turkey and only once i was in russia did i realize i had managed to escape and so i went to the f.s.b. department and wrote a confession i decided that it would be better i was interrogated a lot and i told them the whole story now i have a new family i married a russian muslim girl i work at a construction company and still stick to islam but i don't want to go to mosques anymore i want to avoid questions. out of almost two thousand and known french citizens who travel to join the islamic state french intelligence sources

say that sixty seven of them came from one particular paris suburb from a shot to do bensky now reports. a short train ride from paris is trapped on the surface there's nothing much to set aside from the thousands of other towns in the country but you don't have to scratch very deep to see that trap is very different where you won't see any. and butcher shops there were i think at the moment over fifteen hundred prayer rooms and five mosques if you look at people on the street you won't see couples holding hands you'll see the women are dressed in strict islamic dress. there's a lot of home schooling so you couldn't really consider trap. typical french town anymore it's a little bit like a state within the state for decades it's been considered a magnet for muslim fundamentalists hardline salafism and one hobby isn't a widely practiced and trap has become synonymous with joe hardison. dozens of

people. islamic state i was have carried out attacks on french soil have been linked. in paris in two thousand and fifty while the terror threat appears to. think that. there is some plain white pride remaining bad but your heart is only a matter of time before we have another attack the basic problem is that the ideology that's driving this and this goes much deeper than terrorist cells planning and executing attacks that ideology is so ingrained that last year a poll of french high school students revealed thirty two percent of muslim students believed islamic doctrine was superior to scientific fact another in two thousand and sixteen showed that sixty eight percent believed islamic law was

superior to french law there's also concern that in an area like this that was once . by the authorities that syria is becoming the lands. the full veil covering has seen and he sees some women are flooding the law the police are often reluctant to intervene of the riots in two thousand and thirteen when officers try to i.d. a woman who is fully covered it's a very very fragile situation which the government doesn't want to provoke urban riots which would quickly spread like wildfire all over france. president says he wants to reorganize islam in a big to fight fundamentalism but some experts say that's a pipe dream radicalization in places like this they say it's already far too deep

rooted to take out jollity pinski party trap. you wouldn't usually expect a classic children's story about a family of roberts to spark a boycott but a new hollywood version out this month has already got people riled i just need to keep the wildlife out where they belong to right. these guys. you know they say traps if you think. he wouldn't want. his family is just so classic he was like. this is peter rabbit it's a modern twist on the beatrix potter tale but there's one scene in particular to infuriating parents it shows the rabbit attacking the human arch nemesis by throwing black berries out him but he's allergic and started choking having to inject himself to stave off a dangerous reaction it said some parents to call for a boycott of the movie claiming that it makes light of a serious issue and could encourage bullying the assman allergy foundation of

america has also hit back. well sony pictures has apologized for the scene and we've been getting reaction from the president of the other g. foundation as well as a school teacher in a political analyst for their thoughts. we believe that food allergies are a very serious condition again two people die daily from life threatening allergies and there are two children in every classroom with this condition so making fun of it taunting bullying in any fashion due to a disability or medical condition like enough locks us is simply unacceptable but wait a minute why does that assume bullying but what why do we assume that the consequence of showing this in the film is going to be bullying we believe that again we understand you know that movies are to entertain but we just simply do not believe that entertainment should include harming another person making fun of one because of that disability or because of that condition or you know taunting or even

putting them in that life threatening situation and making fun of it is really we believe irresponsible they're watching these rabbits ganging up on mcgregor and throwing what they actively know is an allergen into his mouth and then celebrating that and i don't think that that's ok at the moral of the story from beatrix potter original intent was to show that it's important to obey your parents and that that will lead to a healthy prosperous life and that if peter rabbit indeed disobeyed in the snuck into the garden with my dog we could just simply not take our children the movies we feel are inappropriate for them and furthermore the idea that we assume that this is going to lead to bullying is a false premise it's a false dichotomy i agree everyone has the have their own right to take their children to the movies that they choose to see if you choose to take your child to this movie that's your choice i simply hope that you'll use that to elevate the

conversation and a positive way around food allergy awareness prepares ness an anti bowling behavior the big issue here is that hollywood licens and hollywood values are not necessarily. going to reflect those of the larger viewing public at it these are ways we deal with the problems in by laughing at our own problems and our own challenges we actually can encourage education about them rather than discourage bullying i think bullying is a misplaced focus here. when u.s. president barack obama has reportedly received a letter containing an unidentified white powdery substance and he's among a number of high profile figures to be sent such men in the last couple of days come up and as the details now the incident took place at the office of former u.s. president barack obama this is his office on the northwest side of washington d.c. place he has been renting for the purpose of conducting business not too far from

his residence now this comes just hours after a similar package with a similar suspicious white powder was delivered to the house of parliament in the united kingdom so questions are being raised about that individuals are trying to get to the surface of that situation in the u.k. it's being investigated on the previous day we have the delivery of a suspicious and loke to the residence of donald trump jr the son of the u.s. president now when the package was delivered we then heard that his wife vanessa trump the wife of the president's son that she was taken to the hospital preemptively in the concern that this is specious white powder may have actually contained a dangerous substance like anthrax or something like that it was tweeted out that this could have come from the opponents of president trump however it has now been determined that in the envelope that was sent to the residence of donald trump jr all that was contained was simply cornstarch now keep in mind a week ago a suspicious package containing white powder was sent to the residence of julian

a son she was hauled up in the ecuadorian embassy in the u.k. lot of questions are being raised now a lot of people in the united states in the united kingdom are observing these events as they go on but at this point we really don't have enough information to draw any clear conclusions about who is behind this or what the purpose of these suspicious envelopes really is at this point we're still waiting for the truth to come out. the u.s. military says it destroyed a syrian government tank on sunday in self defense it's among all world news still ahead when we come back. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the sixty's. we only show i go out of my way to find you know a lot of the really packed a punch in the john oliver of marquee americans do the same we are apparently better than that see heard of love jack the next

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to get more of the world's global news now the pentagon has confirmed that it destroyed a pro-government tank in a drum strike in eastern syria on sunday calling it an act of self defense. we didn't song the to. be continued to me so we did you consult of the rules of engagement to protect ourselves in the movie that was something that we always have the right to do a major do that no u.s. military personnel coalition forces were killed in the strike of the weekend comes less than a week after another major clash with pro-government forces such incidents could result in a dangerous escalation in the region as some may recall reports the pentagon says that it was an act of self-defense accusing syrian forces of trying to attack kurdish forces but apparently with u.s. forces embedded they were forced to respond now on wednesday the u.s. said it carried out defensive airstrikes in retaliation for what they saw as an unprovoked attack but according to reports more than

a hundred fighters aligned with the syrian government were killed in the air strike now this latest escalation is definitely something to worry about on all sides especially considering that the syrian conflict spin a largely perceived as a fight against terror well against isis in particular which is almost wiped out but it's also opened way to a whole series of new conflicts we have the turkish kurdish conflict the tensions between israel and iran but even though isis is pretty much gone the u.s. is still wants to stay in syria with the secretary tillerson announcing plans to maintain an open ended military presence in the country some two thousand troops or so to prevent a resurgence of isis and to counter iran's influence. but

surprisingly the u. . this isn't the only one the french president said that france will attack if they find proof that chemical weapons were used against civilians promising to strike where chemical shipments originated and the escalate and such an. interest why and the military situation with all of these forces very close to each other in a medium sized country but in regions that are actually rather small regions then the possibility of the things spiraling out of control are very very real and does not have to begin with the intervention or the decision to intervene or escalate on the part and one party was perfect it could have been the climbing of the escalation ladder is sometimes called can happen without the intent being at the beginning and either side to have a larger scale war but

a product of that claiming that escalation letter can be a larger war the current us administration is known for shying away from proclaiming its military might but last week it tried to show that it was lagging behind its perceived adversaries some analysts say that a chart on nuclear delivery systems presented by defense secretary jim mattis might be worthy of a fact check if the charts it makes it look like the us has quite a modest austin home but it doesn't show some of the missiles that washington has under development or upgrades to their existing stockpile plus it puts countries on the same scale despite some key differences in the weapons that they actually hold . the head of the nuclear watchdog the los alamos study group told us that some u.s. politicians consider nuclear weapons a political tool to be used against russia and china there are those in the u.s. government who would like to increase the nuclear

military capability of the united states now some of that is just posturing on their part and i wouldn't say that this is necessarily a majority view the actual military is not for the most part that interested in nuclear weapons but there is a faction which is at the moment very powerful that you thinks nuclear weapons are an important symbolic tool for increasing pressure. of the russia and china secretary mathes was using the chart to auggie for increased investments in america's defense budget however it seems that it already outstrips its rivals it is pleased to welcome secretary of defense on a bold james madison no strategy could survive as you pointed out without the funding necessary. and insufficient funding in funding for the military sustained

investment budget investment in the budget for military budgets funded and supported most nato allies are also increasing their defense. and he said the u.s. city of boston a facing a barrel of criticism for that choice of person to on a during black history month. and around six thirty tonight p.p.d. post a tweet saying in honor of black history month we pay tribute to celtics legend red are back the first n.b.a. coach to draft a black player in one nine hundred sixty. zero zero world your couldn't think of

a single black person to honor. no myths in the whole point of black history month . part of black history month don't you understand. b p d realizes they don't know their tweet may have offended some and they apologize for that our intentions were never to offend. the people of boston deserve an apology and not the tweet that says may have offended some. people need to be understand that what has happened in this country with this group of people called african-americans as that they've made an impact on the world it's world history that we should be a part of and not just as victims but people who played

a role that would make america more sly than to pretend that we're not here or that we should only be recognized one month in the year. next a virus that can access your computer and mined for cryptocurrency before sending it back to hackers has reportedly infected thousands of government websites around the world it's even affected the ukase own data protection watchdog the malware uses a technique known as crypto jacking where criminals harness the power of as many computers as possible effectively hijacks computers that visit infected websites and covertly minds for cryptocurrency then send the coins back to the hacker leaving the owner of the infected computer unaware of the intrusion. many businesses have been hit with similar malware clued in video streaming giant you tube we heard from scott helman he's a cyber security specialist in the first to notice the malware he thinks we're witnessing a new kind of online crime. the rise of crypto jacking is related to the value of crypto currency so as

a crypto currency increases in value if you can stimulate or obtain it legitimately then then your proceeds increase and you know they're worth more we will see the rise of more crypto jacking the talks like this partially motivated by the increase the value of crypto currency and partially motivated right now by the ease with which these attacks can be carried out criminals have used cash for hundreds of years and criminals will move to the next form of currency which is cryptocurrency fortunately this was a quiet mild example of what the attackers could have done but i think common advice still apply and you know make sure that you keep your device up to date if it's an i phone do the i phone updates if its windows do windows update make sure you're getting the latest versions of maybe you have antivirus programs on your computer is all of the standard kind of advice still applies here. and you know that the wider industry just needs to react to this and start getting on top of these kinds of attacks but that's the way it looks from here this out thanks very much for watching look it up on your favorite social network news of the twenty four seven i'll be back here in thirty five minutes or so with your next world

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society. and. sometimes quite literally. want of the true colors of universities in the us. greetings and salutation. last year the caribbean in the gulf of mexico saw one of the most aggressive and damaging hurricane seasons in history and one of the territories hit hardest was puerto rico the un corporator the territory of the states was crushed under the rolling thunder that was hurricane maria strongest storm to hit the island in eighty five years and while the storm was devastating it was the response or rather lack thereof by the federal emergency management agency in the united states government that will leave

a truly lasting damage on puerto ricans than hurricanes marie or herb could ever even dream of suicide spiked in twenty seventeen by twenty nine percent and according to a newsweek report many help specialists and doctors said the spike in suicides can be linked to the aftermath of the storm and the destruction of basic resources like food water electricity and housing. and today some five months since the last storm four hundred thousand puerto ricans are still without power which gives them the dubious honor of being part of the longest the blackout in u.s. history but what about the evacuees according the new york times federal officials estimate that nearly four thousand families spread across forty states and puerto rico remain in hotels under freeman's transitional sheltering assistance program with more than fifteen hundred currently located in the state of florida alone william boo her of the most spokesman told the media the quote this is

a bridge to other longer term solutions survivors are responsible for their own recovery and to actively look for permanent housing solutions and tragically time is indeed running out not just with the evacuees waiting to return home but for those still in puerto rico because remember the next hurricane season is just five months away june first and we still haven't even cleaned up the last one we're taking care of the displaced peoples from the last one. think about that as we start watching the whole. the. real thing look. at. the like you got. the we.

were all the watching the oxer i robot and i'm top of the wall and over two hundred thousand residents of puerto rico have landed and are land in your own land area in the wake of hurricane maria recently i spoke with an al cruz the program coordinator for this panic office for local assistance in orlando about what help is available for those who lost everything and for those whose only wish is to go home. well we the hispanic office will look at us the stones it's part of the thing i want on the government and basically back in october i mean in september happened september twentieth i think it was a week and passed through then i will put a recall on the virgin islands. with the second i remember that i was called to the office where mayor of all the valuer and they inform us that the governor was going to open up the sas to remove center on the international airport and that he needed

us to be there to assist the people coming to evacuees coming from but let me go so on the third we are rivaled the or what i would wear there for a month from october the third through november first. we were able to see over one thousand families and i were table and basically what we do is we guide them through this are available at that time the center. of this has to really center and i want to call in the welcome center let's not call it the faster let's call him. and there at this time we welcome them we tell them where to go to get the services they need it it will be with their schools information about their schools driver's licenses many many good insurance transportation you name it everything they were looking for everything. and we guide them to all the services and then after that we move to our office here in the city of orlando and.