RT News - August 31, 2017 (17:00 MSK)

A former fighter for a Syrian rebel group claims that his unit was trained by the U.S. military, and his commanders sold arms to Islamic State. That's from an interview he gave to the Rossiya-24 TV Channel. Two blasts hit a chemical plant near the US city of Houston, Texas - after hurricane flooding cut off power to the site. 11 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan's Logar Province, when a NATO helicopter hit a house thought to be hiding Taliban militants. That's according to the local governor. A migrant camp in central Brussels swells daily, raising fears of another 'Calais Jungle,' the notorious camp cleared just across the border in France.  RT's crew visits the new site.