RT News - December 28, 2017 (12:00 MSK)

Vladimir Putin confirms an explosion at a supermarket in the Russian city of St. Petersburg was a terrorist attack. The identity of the attacker is not yet known. We speak with former Islamic State slaves from a Kurdish minority in Iraq, who escaped terrorist captivity. Yet half of those abducted reportedly remain missing. An Israeli court is set to decide whether to keep a 16-year-old girl from the West Bank in custody. Ahed Tamimi was arrested for attacking Israeli soldiers, after her 14-year-old cousin was shot in the head by a rubber bullet. Facebook reveals it has a unit to assist politicians in their campaigns - boasting that it helped the Scottish National Party in its landslide victory in 2015.