dutch foreign minister quit self-revealing that he'd lied about a meeting with the russian president back in two thousand and six week late mr putin spoke about ambitions for a greater russia. side are you still a bite of the tell the group who fled to syria surrenders back home to russian security services tells r t what the jihadists expected of me while i was lying in the hospital people came up to me and tried to convince me to become a suicide bomber. and a cradle of terror report from the notorious paris where dozens of residents have already been recruited by islamic state.

my good afternoon just turned three in the afternoon this wednesday watching out international with we have no first this hour the dutch foreign minister has been forced to resign after admitting he lied that he had a meeting with president putin back in two thousand and six when are full of. deeds. for. an emotional resignation. 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. shifts in early two thousand and six i was a lad a mere putins countryside house 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 roof's ukraine and the baltic states

and that kazakstan would also be nice to have one of them this was no acknowledge that it was a law and that he was leaving in russia in two thousand and six he said he did it to protect his source however a person who presumably attended a meeting he describes it is the biggest mistake of his political career and it looks like some of his fellow citizens agree more it's better to have as not a t.v. or more boston that's a marriage if that fits into a frame 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 then the trustworthiness of the netherlands is questioned international move are making things extremely difficult the last there's a benefit is that if the media lands 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 at that time.

at least from his nation on social media somewhat to explode over the house towards lying dutchmen and featuring photoshop pictures of him it's a mystery events and visiting landmarks when he first made his claims no one questioned back then russia was frequently accused of many things including aggressive politics in response to the news now the dutch prime minister said that the remarks of his former top diplomat accurately. reflected russian policy at that time we asked author and russia a list martin mccauley about his confession. reasons why i made that statement one is that it 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 native narrative the narrative of the west still is which is busily under russian seizing video putting the threat of 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. 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 was that some will have knowledge of drones and sophisticated bomb making techniques the number of returning ice or fight his is increasing too with the problem spreading across europe this is long but warned about fighters have returned to germany to britain to belgium but it's fronts where i still recruiters said the most success meantime here in russia around four hundred eisel fighters have come back one of their move fled the terror group in syria says it 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 guy's name is yuri below action he was raised an orthodox

christian but converted to islam and in twenty fourteen went to egypt to study the religion he told me that it was there that he was recruited by i still to fight in syria from violence from the from from 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 here is sure to 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 everything was different from what they told me. in syria lost a leg at an airstrike before finally deciding to flee then returned to russia and surrendered himself into the authorities is now working closely with security services has been shown a certain amount of leniency but action is one of thousands of russians who went to syria and iraq to join i still. sit in here after an explosion i lost my sight and felt

a sudden pain from 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 i couldn't refuse directly it could have caused a suspicion probably. to some. 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 in saratov 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. in front sort of almost two thousand known

citizens who travel to join islamic state intelligence sources there say that sixty seven came from one particular paris suburb from wish other dubin ski reports next . 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. 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. dozens of people. islamic state i was have carried out attacks on french soil have been linked. 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 it's 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 . good. by the authorities but syria is becoming the rule of the lands. the full veil covering has been banned the eighty's yet the police are often reluctant to intervene off 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 mccord 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 far too deep

rooted to take out jollity pinsky r.t. trap. those winter olympics now and severe weather conditions probably evacuation of the olympic park in south korea on wednesday spectators were asked to go indoors for a while and a number of events of perspire the strong winds forced authorities to dismantle information tents trunk was in the eye of the storm so of course for. some very serious wind issues in this part of south korea we saw earlier on wednesday for the first few days of the olympics people were complaining about the cold and then when it finally got warmer some unbearable wind gusts here just a few hours ago i was working outside the coastal olympic park in need and we had to stop filming every other minute because it was almost impossible to work but the volunteers have to stay outside and i even saw one of them being carried away and

then taken away by an ambulance so there have definitely already been endure ease because of the high winds i saw the temporary tents with the merchandise being blown away fences falling things falling off the roofs and the trees so that is the reason obviously why the fans were being told to stay indoors but again the volunteers they just have to continue doing their job so it remains incredibly dangerous for them obviously this kind of weather is a headache for the athletes and the organizers and a number of sporting events have already been postponed including alpine skiing and biassed lawn anymore asian weather surprises here in korea we'll see. know the next she wouldn't usually expect a classic children's story about a family a rabbit a spark a boy cope it has a new hollywood version out this month has already go people riled i just need to

keep the wildlife out where they belong here to right. case he's going to. do the same traps again he says. he put. his face was so classic he was on a group bloop bloop bloop those pesky rabbits that's peter rabbit a modern twist on the theatrics part to tell but there's one scene in particular this infuriating parents it shows said rubber. attacking their human arch nemesis both throwing blackberries out it seems he's got an allergy to that starts choking i mean to inject himself and stave off a dangerous reaction that's led to some parents to call for a boycott of the movie claiming it makes light of a serious issue and could encourage bullying indeed the assman allergy foundation of america's also hit back where so many pictures for its parts apologize for the scene and admitted it was insensitive we got reaction from the president of the allergy foundation as well as a school teacher and 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 probably two children in every classroom with this condition so making fun of it taunting bullying and any fashion due to a disability or medical condition like in a flock of those is simply unacceptable what wait a minute why does that assume bullying 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 moral of the story from beatrix potter's 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 snuck into the garden he might die we can 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 that 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 and the debate went on coming up next north korea says the world faces an increased threat of nuclear war itself the washington's not recently revised its atomic weapons policy will talk about a lot more right ahead. seemed

wrong oh well we just don't. get to see a power. outage. and in detroit because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i guess north korea's renewed its threats against the u.s. 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 of course reference donald trump's threat made back last august they will remain with fiery fury. like the world has never see donald trump's nuclear posture review as it's been which is 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 that's new it also calls for the development of less powerful weapons that's new to critics say that could trigger a new arms race but pentagon officials are trying to show that the u.s. is actually lagging behind its perceived adverse series here's the chart included in the review check this out it 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 i.e. making north korea for instance look mightier than china even though it's estimated to have some twenty times less warheads. they had a nuclear monitoring organization los alamos study group says there is a powerful lobby in the u.s. government pushing for more weapons they want to shake money loose for new weapons systems and they want to break the taboo against new weapon systems that has gradually built up to do that they have to paint it essentially faults and alarming picture of u.s. capabilities with respect to other countries that it was an embarrassment but it happened 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. russia and china. to argue for increased investment in america's defense budget which already vastly outstrips old its rivals committee is pleased to welcome secretary of defense donald james mattis no strategy could survive as you pointed out without the funding necessary. funding for the military sustained investment budget investment in the budget for military budgets funded in nato allies also in their defense. reports in the media that the american led coalition in syria has killed dozens of russian mercenaries have raised the specter of a direct u.s. russia confrontation moscow that has now responded to those claims. russian

citizens might be in syria but they don't belong to russia's armed forces over if they do remain russian citizens but once again we are calling on everyone not to follow in terms of the long time from food from formation and serious approach and describing such an important issue to me because also suggested all media sources to reach out to russia's defense ministry to various five facts before publishing and as for the us side the world there has been no confirmation coming from the air on the contrary the u.s. defense secretary said that he has no information that a knee a russian army servicemen were casualties following the u.s. air strikes now a number of reports first appeared on different social media platforms last week suggesting that anywhere from several dozens to up to several hundred russian mercenaries were killed in syria and the reports of russian casualties were very quickly picked up by different international media sources including the bloomberg

c.n.n. and the daily mail the new york times and many others so as it stands for now there has been no confirmation provided it's a regarding the story if we could go pro-government forces were taught by the u.s. led coalition of the euphrates river the coalition said it repelled an unprovoked attack on u.s. backed syrian democratic forces h.q. who are fighting against the syrian president saw me here we can see survivors being treated in the local hospital. now for the world police in the u.s. city of boston facing a barrage of criticism for their choice of person to want to black history month the pick the white baseball coach who promoted 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 zero your couldn't think of a single black person to honor can do you know missing the whole point of black history month. part of black history month don't you understand. realize is 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 now 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 recognize one month in the year. virus that can actually see a computer and mind for crypto currency and then set about where hackers reportedly infected thousands of government websites around the world it's even affected the u.k.'s data protection watchdog ironically the mower uses a technique known as crypto jackie were cripples harness the power of as many computers as possible it affectively hijos computers that visit infected websites and then code. cryptocurrency then it sends the codes back to the hacker leaving the owner of the infected computer unaware of the intrusion many businesses have been hit with a similar malware to including video streaming giant you tube i spoke to scott

helman is the guy that flagged all this up a cyber security specialist 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 illegitimately then then your proceeds increase their worth more we will see the rise of more crypto jacking attacks like this partially motivated by the increase in the value of crypto currency is partially 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 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 or days make sure you're reading the latest versions of maybe you have antivirus programs on your computers 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 seems you sound advice to folks who or she we are the international broadcast from moscow were always grateful that you choose this is why we do it. for all the news twenty four seven for me kevin owen thanks for watching this update more for me in thirty minutes. the games have begun the younger sister of north korea's leader kim jong il has captured the attention of the media while the u.s. vice president mike pence was mom does it even on diplomatic the two careers or each other. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying as decades of. study did require. go through mediation to enter an elite society.

and. sometimes quite literally. launch of the true colors of universities in the us. greetings and salutation. last year the caribbean and 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 young incorporated territory of the united states was crushed under the rolling thunder that was or came a real stronger 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 bedroom 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 boomer a 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. thing. the. only.

one like you that got. the we. were all the watching the auxiliary 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 where local ses stones is part of 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 a 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 the evacuees coming from but he got so on october third we had arrived at the airport i were 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 it's available at that time at the center. of the necessity center and i want to call in the welcome center don't call a disaster let's call it a welcome sign there at this time we welcome them we tell them where to go to get the services they need it he could be with the schools information about the schools driving licenses many coming in.