RT News - September 21, 2015 (17:00 MSK)

The Pentagon is red-faced after admitting that only a few of the Syrian rebels it trained are still fighting. The Syrian President breaks down the refugee crisis and the US-led failure to beat Islamic State, in a rare interview with the Russian media, including RT. European countries resort to desperate measures to stop people crossing their borders - resulting in refugees being shunted en masse back and forth between states. RT follows a final leg of a former Afghan interpreter's illegal trip to the UK, seeking asylum from Taliban death threats.