The alarm over children of Islamic State fighters that have been brought to germany he says the youngsters are living time bombs and can be used in terror plots inside the country and hes peter oliver has more. Well hung old muhsin said the children all german parents who went off to join isis in iraq syria pose a potential Security Threat when or if they return back here to germany in fact he went as far as to refer to them in some cases as ticking time bombs they were confronted early with Islamic State ideology learned to fight and were in some cases forced to participate in the abuse of prisoners or even the killing of prisoners we have to consider that these children could be living time bombs there is a danger that these children come back brainwashed with a mission to carry out attacks or mustnt also went on to say that there was a whole network of online isis headhunters looking to recruit and radicalize potentially Vulnerable ChildrenIslamic State uses headhunters who scour the internet for children to can be approached and tries to radicalize these children were recruited children for terrorist attacks its no wonder that germany is concerned the country has seen a number of mine is involved in terrorist attacks over the last couple of years most notably there was a case back in twenty sixteen when a twelve year old boy tried to blow up a Christmas Market in the west of the country German Government figures showed that around a thousand people left the country to go and join isis now around one third of those have returned back to germany but the government also points out they have no way of knowing how many children are being born to those those germans that went off to join isis and how many potentially could come back to the country and pose a threat but that prompted mohsin to say that he thought that the Security Services should be given the right to launch surveillance operations against mine is in germany thats anybody under the age of fourteen years old that though of course comes with its own issues a particularly sensitive topic talking about launching why it tops and other types of surveillance operation against children that young. Murder rates in the us city of baltimore skyrocketed in two thousand and seventeen with fifty six killings per one hundred thousand people a new record in a city that already has a reputation for being dangerous and crime ridden. Cities in body american urban decay more depressingly than the city of Baltimore Baltimore struggles with a record high murder rate. Murder of old. Baltimore. To stretch. It all comes as baltimore has been rocked by be ongoing trials in one of americas Biggest Police corruption scandals begun trace task force in the lead a group of plain clothed officers were supposed to be reducing violence and crime however it now seems that they were actually adding to it and six out of eight of the members of the group have pleaded guilty to charges of organized crime including extortion and drug dealing is across the story for us. The Baltimore Police department is now involved in one of the biggest scandals in us Law Enforcement history for months now the court system has been trying to investigate corruption within the citys police force eight officers are on trial over Drug Trafficking racketeering robbery and planting fake evidence like drugs and b. B. Kept. We would create false reports to cover up the robberies we were involved in. It was like a well if life were got to weigh with a lot of things if Proven Guilty the officers that may face twenty to one hundred years in prison and six of them have already pleaded guilty and are now acting as witnesses in hopes of softening the moving verdict and their lawyers claim the officer spilled guilt over what theyve done mr jenkins is extremely remorseful hes been remorseful for a long time even before these charges were brought and hes relieved that today finally he was publicly able to accept responsibility for their client sorry for what they did or should. Be so it seems regretful of what what happened i really dont have any comment meanwhile officers cases continue to be dismissed with hundreds under review and most of them involve incidents of officer switching off their body cameras to plant drugs or guns and then reenact seizing the evidence they had already planted. And the Police Corruption trial is still ongoing in baltimore and we will be following it to its conclusion right here on r. T. E. International more news in just a bit but that was. What politicians do you should. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president injury. Or something want to. Have to do like the press this is what. Three of the four people that. Im interested always in the water. There should. They are imposing their sanctions we just start developing our domestic capabilities and topping our internal resources to those who remember how during the previous u. S. Administration they said that the russian economy will be in shambles but pointing to Falling Oil Prices and sanctions and all that stuff. Are we in shambles now quite the opposite. This is R T International the pentagon has acknowledged that it conducted an unsuccessful Missile Defense test on wednesday the missile was launched from land and failed to intercept an incoming target launched from an aircraft over hawaii the pentagon spokesperson confirmed the incident yesterday during a press briefing it did not meet our objectives but well learn something all the time with these tests and well learn something from this one and well continue to improve our capabilities earlier i was joined by Michael Maloof a former pentagon official he said that creating a workable Missile Defense is an extremely challenging task. To hit that missile because it has not yet achieved the high rate of speed that that missile will achieve once it starts in to react three and to hit a target on the other side of the world its like a bullet trying to hit a bullet and its very difficult and it may include technologies and involve technologies that are not quite ready to be to be made operational so this really needs to be done on an accelerated basis if youre going to have a real Missile Defense system and even these tests that they did occur were under very controlled conditions and the yet there were failures so theyre going to they have a lot of tweaking to do a lot of research and development that needs to be done and frankly this is extremely expensive and given the Budget Constraints that are coming from the other end it really raises questions on what can be achieved and whether it whether its achievable in the near future meantime we have the ominous threat from the north koreans as a consequence so policymakers are really going to have to double down and figure out a plan and execute that plan and its not happening right now. It will be a man who lost his whole family in a nato air raid is planning to take his fight for justice to the European Court of human rights he says the alliance of jobs two bombs on his house during its military intervention in the country in two thousand and eleven. Now we demand that i need to explain why our house and houses were showing all the military targets i dont understand why nato targeted our house sadly my dear wife died as well as my cousin and its my innocent children and our neighbors our friends were there with this it was a monstrous crime and nato has the latest equipment and technology which allows them to accurately determine the targets of the nato cross struck specifically at night when people were in their home they intentionally hit civilian targets the hospital schools gas stations they destroyed all the infrastructure while they were killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure apparently knowing there were no weapons there. So you can see here on this map where the nato attack took place as colleague mentioned thirteen people were killed in the bombardment including three children he says his house may have been targeted because his father was a general who served under libyas former leader Moammar Gadhafi but colleague says it was just a family home and not a legitimate target he began his battle for justice back in two thousand and twelve but as faced an uphill struggle to actually get his case heard in court nato which enjoys a degree of legal immunity in such cases argues that it had no intelligence suggesting civilians were in the house at the time of the strike however he says his lawyers have now found a way of challenging the protections afforded to the alliance and he hopes his case will set a precedent for others who also lost their families. When we gathered our families in different parts of libya we found a man whose wife daughter and son as well as his mother died during the shelling and there were other families in other cities a lot of families we compiled a report from all identified victims after having documented in photograph the materials so that this case could become a historical president. Campaigning for the mayor elections in the japanese city of nagar has again highlighted the controversial nature of americas military presence on the island of okinawa japans Central Government and authorities in okinawa where u. S. Troops are currently stationed have been doing battle over the possible relocation of their base to the Northern City of narco and recent poll shows sixty three percent of voters oppose the relocation while only twenty percent support the move incumbent mayor of the city who opposes americas deployment of troops to the island says a vote for him would be a vote for defending okinawas autonomy so that your selections are extremely important as they will have a great impact on the future of now go and our countrys Current Administration is attacking us with attempts to sway the power these elections are meant to defend japanese democracy and our autonomy were asking people from all over the country for their understanding okinawa is in a difficult situation right now but if many people support us we will continue what were doing. In one thousand nine hundred ninety six a review by japan and the us decided the american base should be relocated to the rote area of conoco and the decision was made in order to reduce the military impact on the populated communities of southern iraq you know but it has since been numerous crimes committed in relation to the us military presence there. Activists in okinawa believe the japanese government has been turning a blind eye to the tense situation playing out on the ground. I dont think they are mistaken i mean it is a really strong body oh refusing the it could have nation of the day but another candidate is a buck deputy by japanese Central Government so he agrees. Over the new military base in him though most people are against the new media the peace corps struction is government job is government hungry ignoring the voice against democracy and against the decision if the. Accept they base they can get the money many citizens who know the troops the facts are really. Worried japans government sent who sent. Ministers money and the mccall. Fake news of but we will let loose we will win. By the dozen for me i will be back in a little bit more or less than thirty five minutes watching my contractions there were. Eighteen years ago i traveled across the United States exploring americas deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with that better knife against secretary baier and hurting when i buy my baby says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa me. Alien americans have been killed by firearms in the u. S. And we had a thought to me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the plane my gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who id met and photographed those years ago i dont know this but we are not. The one i was told seemed wrong why dont we all just dont call. Any new world that is yet to shape out this day comes to advocate and engage with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart when we choose to look for common ground. This is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d. C. Im part shelton. And coming up what is the likelihood that congress will turn a page and Work Together to do what president hope for his state of the Union Address related to the nations infrastructure will ask steve morrow to weigh in plus we look at some dire and some darn Inspiring Stories from south africa but first lets get some business headlines. Facebook reported a sixty one percent surge in profits in its Fourth Quarter earnings this was a large part fueled by a massive holiday influx over the in the advertising season the q four percentage increase and profits does not account for nearly three point two billion in taxes almost two point three billion of that tax bite was due to changes from the recent tax reform bill facebook also reported its first quarterly decline in daily users that number fell by seven hundred thousand to one hundred eighty four million while the time spent actually at the site online is dropped by five percent or fifty million hours per day microsoft also took an offset to their tax cut windfall logging thirteen point eight billion dollars in tax payments in their pew for Earnings Report the Software Maker suffered a net loss of six point three billion dollars if that tax change was set aside microsoft would have booked eight point seven billion in profits and twenty seven teams last quarter a ten percent increase compared to that number for twenty sixteen. The European Banking Authority or e. P. A. Will investigate whether or how forty eight of the largest banks in the e. U. Could. Hope if the e. U. Exit from the European Union causes a Major Economic slump these sorts of look sees are generally called stress tests and lawmakers and regulators began requiring such stress tests after the two thousand and eight recession in which it was shown that the big banks are interrelated to one if one goes down well its like a domino the others could follow the e. B. A. s planning contingencies including stress tests and areas for significantly reduced e. U. Economic growth in two thousand and twenty due to breakfast. And irelands low tax strategy for luring jobs and core for corporate profits is coming under increased scrutiny the irish finance minister is qana mr recently said the ten largest Corporate Tax payers account for about six percent of the governments tax revenue and acknowledged quote exposure and boehner ability on that front last month facebook announced it will no longer book profits in ireland spurring fears that a corporate flight from the defacto tax haven ireland is sort of like the european Cayman Islands will continue while boom bust was at the World Economic forum in davos last week irish finance minister Pascal Donohue defended irelands tax policies denying that his country is a tax haven and also at davos economist Nobel Laureate joe stiglitz said ireland was leading a quote race to the bottom on taxes a day after french president mccrone complained of the irish tax policies saying irish corporate rate tax is only twelve point five percent which is so low that in twenty sixteen the European Commission found irelands tax benefits to apple constituted illegal state aid and later referred to irelands case to the European Court of justice by the way apple is just now reporting their quarterly profits will have more on those specifics tomorrow. Infrastructure was a key component of president trumps tuesday night speech to the state of the union and he spoke about the infrastructure deficit but the nation has a budget deficit already of roughly four hundred forty billion dollars how does congress reconcile the infrastructure needs with the lack of available funding here discusses conservative t. V. And radio commentator steve walz for steve whats your take on on this there really is an infrastructure gap we know that but they have this budget dilemma to what they can do well there were no details obviously there was like a silent gas if you will in the in the chamber when donald trump said one point five trillion dollars in infrastructure im told its going to be more like when push comes to shove one trillion with two hundred billion from the federal government the rest leverage from the states and localities private sector and impact taxes for instance they build a subway station in a shopping area all the Property Values go up in that area so theyll have to have an assessment there so but there were no details he didnt give any details it does seem like a lot of money and there are those you know and i dont necessarily disagree with them we could talk about this if you like who say infrastructure is not a federal government issue i mean if localities and states have a subway problems and bridge problems let the let the states and localities partner with the private sector but how about the interstate system i mean that well sort o