How is Russia financing its war in Syria?

Russia has added an unpredictable new measurement to Syria's four-year common war in the wake of unleashing an influx of air strikes the nation over. 

Moscow has sent several troops, warrior planes, helicopter gunships, tanks, overwhelming mounted guns and other gear, in light of a "solicitation" by President Bashar al-Assad. 

Assad's administration has been wavering on the edge after a string of overwhelming misfortunes to revolts and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and the entry of Russian troops is an endeavor to stem the tide. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has assigned $60bn from a mystery trust to quicken the military development in spite of the nation's battling economy. 

Authorizations forced by the West on Russia since March 2014 over its asserted backing of genius Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have taken a toll the nation some $40bn. 

From that point forward, its cash, the rouble, has drooped, oil costs have tumbled, and billions of dollars worth of benefits have left the nation. 

So how is Russia ready to fund its war in Syria? 

Igor Sutyagin, a senior exploration kindred at RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, joins Counting the Cost to talk about the cash trail. 

Denmark cuts advantages for refuge seekers 

Denmark's conservative government has cut advantages for haven seekers as it looks to cut down the quantity of displaced people entering the nation. 

Under another arrangement of tenets, shelter seekers without youngsters will get not exactly $900 a month in advantages, a large portion of the $1,700 they already got. 

This comes weeks after Denmark set promotions in four Lebanese daily papers declaring more tightly regulations and slices by up to 50 percent for recently arriving displaced people. 

As such, more than 350,000 Syrians have stopped shelter claims in Europe, and Denmark anticipates that around 20,000 will touch base at its entryways this year. 

The possibility of a superior life in Europe has driven numerous to make the misleading voyage to Europe in the midst of a contention which has executed around 250,000 individuals. 

Marcus Knuth, Denmark's representative on coordination and movement for the decision Liberal Party, joins the project to clarify why his administration has taken such an intense measure.