the dutch foreign minister quits after revealing that he lied about a meeting with the russian president in two thousand and six where he mr putin spoke about ambitions for a greater russia. inside a former fighter for the terror group who fled to syria surrenders to russian security services he tells the jihadists expected often. while i was lying in the hospital people came up to me and tried to convince me to become a suicide bomber. a cradle of terror we report from a notorious paris suburb where dozens of residents so full ready been recruited by islamic state. here in moscow welcome to the program for me in the team here at r.t. h.q.

this wednesday the fourteenth of february this is your global news update and an embarrassing end to a career for the dutch foreign minister he's been forced to resign after admitting that he lied for more than a decade about meeting president clinton you know a little she often asked me. to be no i said in my state. myspace in my eyes. but in a full over. for . an emotional resignation that 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 were worth it after all. because. if in early two

thousand and six i was a lad a mere putin's countryside house i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well in talking about a greater russia he said this included russia belarus ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would also be nice to have. now acknowledged that was a lie and he wasn't even in russia in two thousand and six he said he did it to protect his source a person who was presumably at a meeting of some kind that he now describes this as the biggest mistake of his political career and it looks like some of his fellow dutch citizens couldn't agree more. not at the ville or more boston that's a narrative that fits into a frenzy that you want to create but it slowly turns on you like a boomerang because it becomes this thing that gets linked to his foreign policy experience from the trustworthiness of the netherlands is questioned internationally making the things strewn with difficult the last of this and then

it will be his time if he needed a lance wants to remain credible you can't have people saying that your minister is lying about being at a specific location at a specific time that's not right especially not about that place that time. but he seems to have at least found his nation on social media twitter exploded with hashtags flying dutchman and help featuring photoshop pictures of him at some historic events and also visiting landmarks now when he first made his claims no one questioned them at the time back then of course russia was frequently accused of many things including aggressive politics author in russia and the list martin mccauley thinks the now former diplomats false remarks were just 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 still is

which is basically under russian sees video putin 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. an alarming report predicts increased terror attacks across europe this year carried out by returning fighters some skilled in high tech warfare defense analysts jane's terrorism and insurgency center warns that some will have knowledge of drones and sophisticated bomb making techniques and the number of returning eisel fighters is increasing with the problem spreading across europe fighters have returned to germany britain and belgium but it's france where i saw recruiters had the most success. former russian i saw 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 the conflict zone you're able action was raised an orthodox christian but converted to islam and in twenty fourteen went to egypt to study the religion he told r.t. it was there that he was recruited by eisel to fight in syria. but it's fucking open to them and. 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 and so here is your 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. while 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 however he avoided punishments verizon decision to leave the terrorist yuri was one of the thousands of russians who went to syria and iraq to join eisel. today we're. sitting here after an

explosion i lost my sight and felt a sudden pain and 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 that 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 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 him 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. that's for france out of almost two thousand known citizens who travel to join islamic state intelligence sources that say that sixty seven came from one particular paris suburb from wash other do best get reports. a short train ride from paris is trapped on the surface there's nothing much to set it 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 is a widely practiced and trap has become synonymous with jihadism. and dozens of people. islamic state i was have carried out attacks on french soil have been linked. in paris in two thousand and fifteen 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 branded. by the authorities that syria is becoming the land. the full veil covering has burned cheese some women a few wanting the new the police are often reluctant to intervene off the riots in two thousand and thirteen when offices try to a woman who is fully covered with 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 bid to fight fundamentalism but some experts say that's a pipe dream radicalization in places like this they say it's already too deep rooted to take out. ski party trap. former u.s. president barack obama's 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 cut him open as the details about 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 animal up 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 fish's 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 is now being 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 sign she was hauled up in the ecuadorian embassy in the u.k. a 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. and you wouldn't usually expect a classic two hundred story about a family of rabbits to spot a boy called but a new hollywood version out this month has already got people riled i just need to keep the wildlife out where they belong there to write. these. traps and. he put. his face was so classic he was not. this is peter rabbit it's a modern twist on the beatrix potter but there's one scene in particular the parent that shows the rabbits attacking the human ox nemesis by throwing black berries at him but he's allergic and starts choking having to inject himself to stave off a dangerous reaction that's led some parents to call for a boycott of the movie claiming that it makes light of

a serious issue and could encourage bullying the astronaut of the foundation of america has also hit back. sony pictures has apologized for the scene and its admitted being insensitive we got reaction from the president of the other g. foundation as well as a schoolteacher and 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 probably two children in every classroom with this condition so making fun of it taunting bullying in any fashion due to a disability or a medical condition like in a flock those is simply unacceptable what 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 look 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 in the moral of the story from beatrix potter is 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 and it 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 and anti bowling behavior the big issue here is that hollywood license and hollywood values are not necessarily going to reflect those of the larger viewing public it is these are ways we deal with the problems and 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 you know what's a god say north korea's reissued its threats against the united states off to washington revised its nuclear weapons policy more on that when we come back.

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welcome back north korea has renewed its threats against the united states in response to a new nuclear policy the washington unveiled earlier this month pyongyang says it increases the risk of a nuclear war adding that those fond of fire will perish in flames which might be a reference to donald trump's threat made back in august they will be met with fire fury. like the world has ever seen donald trump's nuclear posture review the first rethink of u.s. policy of its kind in seven years includes an option to unleash nuclear weapons in response to a non-nuclear attack it also calls for the development of less powerful weapons which critics say might trigger a new arms race however pentagon officials are trying to show that the united states is actually lagging behind its perceived adversaries here's the chart included in the review makes it look like u.s.

rivals have moved far ahead with the development of new systems but it doesn't show some of the missiles that washington has in the making or upgrades to its existing stockpile it also puts countries on the same scale despite key differences in the weapons they hold making north korea look mightier than china even though it's estimated to have some twenty times less what it the head of the nuclear monitoring organization the los alamos study group says there's a powerful lobby in the u.s. government pushing for more weapons. or 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 masses use the chart we showed you earlier to argue for increased investment in america's defense budget which already vastly outstrips all of its rivals. committee is pleased to welcome the secretary of defense on board james mattis no strategy could survive as you pointed out without the funding necessary the resources and insufficient funding for the military sustained investment budget investment the budget for military budget funding and for the most nato allies also increasing their defense.

the pentagon's confirmed that it destroyed a pro-government tank in a drone strike in eastern syria on sunday calling it an act of self-defense. we did the song the. us. continued to. huge insult of its rules of engagement protect themselves. that was something that we always have the right to do make sure you do that. no u.s. military personnel or coalition backed forces were killed in the strike at the weekend i comes less than a week off for another major clash with pro-government forces such incidents could result in a dangerous escalation in the region as samir khan now 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 air strikes in retaliation for what they saw as an unprovoked attack but according to reports more than one hundred fighters aligned with the syrian government were killed in the airstrike 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. 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 us 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 or chemical shipments originated and he has kool-aid and such an. interest why and the military situation with all 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 things spiraling out of control. are very very real and that does not have to be good with the intervention of the decision to intervene. on the part and one part of his part it could have been the climbing of the

escalation ladder as it 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 ladder can be a larger war. police in the u.s. city of boston a facing a barrage of criticism for that choice of person to on a during black history month they picked a white baseball coach to provide to black players. and around six thirty tonight p.p.d. post a tweet saying in arnor 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 can do you know missing the whole point of black

history month good part of black history month don't you understand. b p d realizes that i know the tweet may have offended some and we apologize for that our intentions were never to offend. the people of boston deserve an apology and not between 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 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. a virus that can access your computer and mine for cryptocurrency before sending it back to hackers has reportedly infected thousands of government websites around the world it's even affected the u.k.'s own data protection watchdog and the malware uses a technique known as crypto jacking where criminals harness the power of as many computers as possible and effectively hijacked computers the visit. infected websites and covertly mines for crypto currency it then sends 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 including the video streaming giant you tube and we heard from scott helman he's a cyber security specialist and the first to notice the malware he thinks we're witnessing a new kind of online crime. so 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 you proceed to increase their worth more we will see the rise of more crypto jocking the types like this partially motivated by the crease the value of crypto currency is impossible motivated right now by the ease with which these attacks can be carried out criminals of use cash for hundreds of years and criminals will move to the next former currency which is cryptocurrency fortunately this was a quiet a 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 been to virus 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 ok that she needs for this hour thanks very much for watching i'll be here to update you again and about thirty four minutes or so now of the winter olympics in full swing stay with us as we bring you all full exclusive interview with the head of the court of arbitration for sport whose

decisions about major ramifications for russian athletes next. see we have a great see what we need to strengthen before the freeflow world cold and better than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that winning spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be the best form since my last world cup on the. thousand zero zero zero zero his.

life drive. left left left more or less ok stop that's really good that. the games have begun the younger sister of north korea's ruler kim jong un has captured the attention of the media while the u.s. vice president mike pence was mocked as a dud even undiplomatic the two koreas are engaging each other. welcome to max kaiser financial survival guide. looking forward to your pension account. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. watched as a report. with this manufacturer came sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. with the famous merry go

round to be the one. doing the middle room sit. mr reback i'll be honest with you russia is baffled and this is how people see the story first the i.o.c. bans a group of russian athletes from competing ever again then your court says no the sanctions must be lifted but then n.p.r. and chang cass rejects the appeals so i thought that the sanctions were about competing in the first place how is that possible maybe to summarize this

without being too legalistic we call the first case the sochi case and the second is the case such a case was a disciplinary case initiated by the international olympic committee versus many athletes many russian athletes and we had that case that we heard in geneva two weeks before the start of the games involving thirty nine russian athletes. this was a totally unusual case i think in the history of cast because it was not a classic doping case where you have a positive test by an athlete in the athlete has to establish his innocence here it was the national olympic committee which had to prove to establish the guilt of these athletes so it had to show evidence and we decided i mean the cast determined that on eleven cases there was sufficient evidence to confirm that there was an anti-doping rule violation but for twenty eight cases.