drink. drink to feel normal. that's why it's this way you. shop while still going and there. still are cool under which these guys are going through to get it just needs to. boost need to be helped and pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs go you need to be helped. really shouldn't be looked at like numbers they should be looked at by people if they go to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention and. breaking news from syria the death toll from an explosion in the strategic syrian city of man bitch has climbed to twenty seven including five u.s. soldiers in an attack that has been claimed by islamic states. the u.k. prime minister faces a vote of no confidence

a day off to see she suffered the biggest parliamentary defeat in modern british history as both sides of the bring to debate have united against the deal. brick simonis is a common ministers have gone but the shambles has remained unchanged for shred of credibility because our government quit for goodness sake what you just call. europe was quick to react to the outcome of the vote some senior politician said the e.u. would make no further concessions of this urge the u.k. to clarify its plans. and there's also political deadlock in venezuela as the opposition leader announced plans to oust the elected president nicolas maduro with the u.s. throwing its support behind the bit. good evening and welcome this is r.t. international. we begin this hour with breaking news because five american soldiers

have been killed in after an explosion rocked a crowded area in the center of the syrian city and they were among twenty seven fatalities from the attack that's according to the turkish president efficient us army twitter account confirmed casualties but didn't specify the number of those killed local media published an unverified video of c.c.t.v. footage that captured the moment of the attack must warn you you may find these pictures coming up now disturbing. not. only on the show. me state has claimed responsibility for the blast shortly after the attack us military vehicles were filmed close to the scene video agency wrote a police source on the ground also confirmed u.s. troops have now placed the whole city on lockdown the pentagon military helicopters were flown in to evacuate the injured more details is obvious paula slim. etc as

a significant development we've heard from the spokesperson for the u.s. led coalition against islamic state known as operation inherent result now he has confirmed that they are american deaths although he hasn't given any specific numbers turkish media is reporting that there are wounded american soldiers who have been airlifted via helicopter to nearby hospitals now at the same time the spokesperson has said that they are gathering information and they'll release a report as soon as they have updated information but he did say that the american troops were on a patrol in the city what we do know according to eyewitnesses is that there were more than a dozen walking down the main street it is near a busy market it is also near a cafe where we've heard from eyewitnesses there was a meeting underway between members of the man bush military council and what they say are some foreign dignitaries but we don't have any information as to the nationality of those in the meeting. we assume they were american having said that

though there are reports that there were also fringe troops in the area now the american president donald trump has been briefed on the situation and has said that he is monitoring developments the city is in lockdown people are not being allowed to move around and american troops have been stationed at the entrances and exits to the hospitals of course among those injured and killed are civilians who just found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time now islamic state has claimed responsibility they say that they were targeting u.s. backed forces and that it was a suicide bomber with an explosive vest who carried out the blast there is a lot of talk back on social media between kurds and turks each blade mean each other because of course the man who is important to area it's in more than syria and this incident comes just weeks after the american president donald trump made the surprise announcement that he is withdrawing american troops from syria but that withdrawal will take time and in the meantime you do have american troops who

continue to conduct patrols in the area so man bridge is an area that holds interest to both the turks that could see who currently control the city the americans the russians and now islamic state. because now to the law professor of political science at damascus university pleasure to speak to everybody i would say thought because that's how it was reported in the media globally that i've been defeated in syria does not change things now this attack. grew emotional having me in your program feeling good it will be. giving birth to more evidence was his decision to withdraw from a good decision especially the president was afraid.

if the system will last its soldiers its promises or other players in the region generally i think it's a sign of defeating a few nights now with the new s in front of two options as a diversion. centers in that assist one of them the group of security studies which advised the white house to withdraw from syria because. the presence of. american soldiers in syria is not protected enough they want. we will not withdraw our soldiers who are will be killed or they will take or they would be kidnapped from our enemies this is one of the first of my information. i can say of my

information that this is not all of the first operation against americans there are more than ten soldiers were killed between iraq places but the nazis didn't declare it. so i think if we continue doing this with all we are in front of a difficult situation for for the united states and they think you need in the early is defeated in syria and they think. now isis why isis we don't know if the isis or other players in the region but in general i think i said she was a tool in the hands of united states now you know. us. now they want to. they want to continue using isis in the borders between syria and iraq in a way we are in front of a very calm. because it's the wishing and it sure thus this syrian situation was in

iraq there seems to worship in afghanistan sure you know it is presumed to be in front of a difficult options the one of them withdrawing the withdrawal of the soldiers from syria and they feel good next will be gone stone. professor. i guess many thanks professor of political science at damascus university my guest this hour. onto the news now the pressure just skips piling up on the british pm theresa may day after suffering the biggest defeat of a government in modern british history over briggs it divorce deal she now faces a vote of no confidence with the details his artie's honest. now following last night's crucial and massive defeat at the house of commons where she lost by two hundred thirty votes on her bracks that deal that she has been fighting for for two

years three some may certainly face lots of humiliation today a new day she's already back at the house of commons where she's facing a crucial vote of no confidence that was put forward by the opposition party leader jeremy corbin last night at the house of commons today she's been facing quite a grilling in parliament not just today but certainly in the previous days as well . to defeat the worst form you need you keep government westminster is an appeal still in denial on a customs union in denial on no deal in denial on the amount of money being spent retiring for no due in denial on last night's results he talks about being in denial the only person in denial in this chamber is him because he has consistently consistently failed to set out what his policy on the brakes is this government has failed in our country it cannot govern can only come on the support of most people

facing the most important issue for the moment which is predicted they failed again on the last of my last night on the t.v. child described as the key issues facing this country. with every hour the previous prime minister faced with the scale of defeat us now i feel very sorry. for you not being able to come along. well the best case scenario for the british prime minister as we speak is a very very long day of accusations and hanging by a thread but she gets to keep her job the worst case scenario is she might be shown the door lead. today if this vote of no confidence does not go in her favor now just to be clear many of the predictions here despite theresa me having seen this

massive defeat last night are still pointing towards her being able to stick around and survive yet another vote of confidence at the house of commons because the math continues to be in her favor and also there are plenty of conservative party m.p.'s who might have said no to her deal last night but who probably wouldn't want to see developments such as opposition party leader jeremy corbyn coming to power so all of those things could be coming into play and for now predictions are that she will be able to make it again through that difficult situation the bigger questions are what happens afterwards because if she wins she gets to stick around but what does she do because she can you know go back to appease her obviously very angry try to find out what it is that would make them happier to take that to brussels where the e.u. have said they wouldn't want to renegotiate the deal that was said no to last

night's still of the possibilities of this new deal brags that no bracks is second do a second referendum or a general election reshuffling the government all of those are still possibilities as right now at this minute it's clear that the u.k. is somewhere that is much more uncertain than when this whole process began. europe was also eagerly awaiting the outcome of the vote with e.u. politicians quick to react the czech republic said governments were prepared for any talk to predict some of the european leaders also expressed their readiness for anything. regarding the future relations the reason of course the possibility of further defining certain points if this helps to avoid a hard break that scenario we will of course do everything to find an orderly solution but who are also prepared if there is no orderly solution we still have time to negotiate but we are now waiting to see what the british prime minister proposes we want the u.k. work to rome from its red lines of the costumes union in the single market the

position could evolve also in leaders of long lamented that result from the two thousand and sixteen referendum but now that that deal that was on the table has been outright rejected by parliamentarians in the u.k. it seems that they think that the only option now is for the u.k. to remain possibly via a second referendum angler merkel the german chancellor said there was still times for talks and clarification there was also clarification from claude the president of the european commission who said he regretted that decision by the u.k. parliament meanwhile the president of the european council donald went even further saying that there was only one positive solution and that of course it seems to be a state in the year now other e.u. leaders have pretty much had it to the back of their teeth with the decision from

the u.k. with leaders from italy and france trying to put their own country's interests first rather than a president matt corners even to some degree started to give the u.k. the cold shoulder. the u.k. is heading towards a no deal despite there being no agreement it scares everybody the first losers of the british people maybe we can improve on one or two points i don't really believe that because we went to so far as we could in the existing agreements and just in. order to try and solve a problem of british internal politics we want not defend the interests of europeans the plenary session is taking place currently in the european union parliament it's being led by people of course talking about breaks it might have been hoping that they could have been dotting the i's and crossing the t.'s on this

deal today but not so it looks like it's back to the drawing board and in fact there are warnings now that a high risk new deal is a very likely outcome. of a no deal has never seemed so high our goal is to avoid such a scenario but we also have a responsibility to remain cool headed which is why i wouldn't turn support. for this possibility many voices are now suggesting that a second referendum is a very realistic possibility but briggs it is a warning that if a second referendum takes place it might produce the same result but actually with a larger majority for leave if the trial becomes complete and we are forced to vote in a second referendum you may be in for a big surprise the british may be very placid people very laid back but i promise you they get pushed too far it's a law that will roll we will be even more defiant if we have to fight

a second referendum i will win it by a big majority. as three zero prepares to face the no confidence vote let's just take a look now at the journey that has led to this point what promised david cameron he quit had to put in voted to leave the e.u. and to reason may win the race to replace him a year later she triggered article fifty and officially started the brig's negotiations last july she proposed the check is deal opposition to which sparked the resignation of key ministers including the foreign secretary boris johnson returning to talks with the e.u. her deal was reached the pm said it december date for parliament to vote on it but fearing defeat may postpone that vote that triggered a no confidence motion within our own party but she survived and then only last night made a deal as widely predicted was overwhelmingly rejected by piece of british independent m.p. jenny sack in some belief that it might actually be the new snow on the back foot how can they tell their electorate that their biggest trading partner is not going

to have a free trade deal with them that they haven't managed to negotiate and know their voters are going to punish them that punish them so that is a real threat and that is coming across very clear today in the chamber this morning so i think it may comes back and she actually grows a bit of stature about it and starts acting like a prime minister who is representing a majority of remain people of something point four million people and she comes in here she tells them what she wants she's never come here and she's never told them what what she wanted what we want the british people and they're open to negotiation and i could tell that terse. simmons' that all open to discussion and i think it's all to play for. but as well as facing a political deadlock to the country's opposition leader announced his party was ready to form a new government one guy though refused to recognise the authority of president nicolas maduro who's just been sworn in for

a second term but it turns out it's not only the opposition in the country that wants the duro out killer morgan explained. economic and political strife has taken place in venezuela with the opposition moving against the elected government of nicolas maduro now nicolas maduro was recently read an auger rated for his second term as president of the country with many south american countries that are allied with the united states condemning that election and that inauguration now at this point we've seen a leader of the opposition in venezuela wand wedo basically declare himself to be the legit president of venezuela despite the fact that he was not elected he claims that is not legitimate that the constitutional convention and elections that have taken place are not legitimate and that he is the actual president now at this point it's also surface that a phone call has taken place between vice president mike pence of the united states and. on that phone call the vice president of the usa was friendly toward mr wedo

and voiced opposition to this is some of what was said. nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power who is the precise the venezuelan people for. the united states strongly supports the courageous decision by. the president of the national assembly to invoke constitutional protections and declare the country's presidency vacant now there are rumors circulating at this point that u.s. president down trump may consider recognizing the leader of the venezuelan opposition as the legitimate president of venezuela and not recognizing the elected government that is internationally recognized headed by nicholas mcgirr and the united socialist party those are rumors are not exactly confirmed at this point however we have seen in the united states very widespread condemnation of election meddling and foreign meddling in the internal affairs of other countries however there have

been some voices in the united states that have spoken up and said that it would be ok to meddle in politics as long as it was done for the sake of defending democracy don't mess around other people will. only for a very good job do that to mine video and those former for a very good cause. back in september there was a meeting between the trumpets ministration officials and rebels in venezuela some coup plotters were attempting to carry out a coup apparently met with the trumpet ministration now this was back in september and at the white house they would not exactly get into details about what had been discussed in those conversations they did decline to get into specifics however they did say that they were for dialogue with all of them as wayland's who demonstrate a desire for democracy and they also said they hope to bring positive change to a country that has suffered under so for a very long time the usa has been criticizing in opposing the venezuelan government

led first by hugo chavez and now by nicolas maduro in the united socialist party but at the moment there are rumors that that opposition to the elected venezuelan government could ask a late. let's bring in lucas can a who's a political analyst and editor of venezuela analysis called lucas now the us has been to your used on numerous occasions of interfering in venezuela as in internal affairs in recent history is this more of the same. well we have to remember that april eleventh two thousand and two the united states supported many of the same opposition sectors including leopoldo lopez the leader of iran why those political party and. perpetrating a coup that ousted a democratic elected president who watch others for forty seven hours in which they dissolved the constitution they dissolved all acted by the government i mean this is the same body the government the same constitution and now they proclaimed the

defense so i think and this continues to this day when we saw the united states back violent insurrection anti-government protests in twenty fourteen and twenty seventeen and impose economic sanctions which are legal under the u.n. charter and under the charter as well as you know violation of the ban the geneva conventions better collective punishment because these are having a very severe impact on but as was already deep economic crisis harming ordinary but as one people i mean this is the reality what we're facing. washington is famously lashed out russia and china for allegedly meddling in u.s. elections in the past when americans affairs in of the sovereign nations voting. for humanitarian reasons. it's focus isn't it or is it something else. i mean we can go through the laundry list of us back crews in the region going back to the overthrow of the democratic elected global iran's government and their model and in

fifty four to. tell it already ended democratic elected government in seventy three the government and argentina nine hundred seventy six brazil and i think sixty five in the installation of brutal arguably in many ways terrorists dictators that were sponsible for massachusetts rights violations that it's amply documented by all respectable human rights organizations i mean and i say it does not really and obviously this continues today as i mentioned with in two thousand and one and all two thousand and nine with the overthrow of the elected government a hundred us and as well as supporting you know in brazil what are parliamentary coups you know how you have both an idol is does not really have a legitimate claim on the presence of brazil and do you know pointed that you know to the mainstream media its failure to recognize that fact and its obsessive focus on venezuela is quite revealing to where the interest of mainstream journalism. do you think it's ever ok for another country to come in and support

a candidate. i think this is the issue with men as well is that not only has the united states continually finance is one opposition and freedom of information act request. filed by evil going to show that at least fifty million dollars of u.s. financing has gone and i say usaid can you imagine if the russian government was financing a political party and i think the riyadh the public reaction but not only that it goes even farther to the united states when it's far to threaten to sanction the opposition presidential candidate last year had reached out gone for daring to justify the u.s. backed opposition going kind of that election you know on the argument that his kind of thing would confer legitimacy to the government i mean this is you know this is this is. washington claims to speak of democracy yet you know actively attempted to sabotage the democratic candidates electoral campaign lucas great speech and i guess lucas can add it to defend as well analysis dot com.

given to the news a new crisis been closing the internet that sees people posting a current picture of themselves alongside one from ten years ago i was noticing ten year challenge plenty celebrities of rush to get on board posting the results on social media it's the way to two thousand and nine was a boom year for the popularity of the small fine it was the first year that global sales topped one billion. as it is normal on the internet more light hearted versions of the challenge have appeared but some continue to warn that sharing your personal information including pictures photographs and social networks can come with hidden dangers critics point out the task is simply creating a global database of people's identities over time. so should we be worried let's speak to fry hughes he's a political commentator and political activist the new author of my walk with palestine for our a lot of people think this is

a bit of fun this challenge posed to an old picture of myself and a more recent one is there a genuine reason for us to be worried. unless you and i first saw the reports and i'm obviously active on social media i just thought it's another movie gimmick to encourage people to come back on the twitter and instagram and facebook it may be know a way for a way challenging friends the who took photographs but when i read an article on lane but highlighted it again the kind of convergence of social media with western digital intelligence services it did make me wonder is this. a ruse or an opportunity or a device used by the international a talent and community gathering eden seeks to get people to voluntarily put all. photographs of themselves and real time of real people. as of late yesterday your five minutes ago and that do you think when you burn and the passports and people's

revelations is their only opted out wants every ten years so people do lose we are people dealing with people who saw her the guy have people who fear to people's physical appearance canteens radically in ten years and if you want to see the dark side of this then i think it's quite another ball that any recently of beautiful would say this is me today can fall into the hands of the intelligence services. i think its people are increasingly aligned with our banking online these days so many of the things is the data becoming more valuable should we be careful about how much information about our lives we just put out there for free on the internet . absolutely because a lot of it's use for i mean when we bad things and we use like loyalty cards in shops and supermarkets we want to fail the things we buy the habits we have the even the time of day because shopping or the day of the week we go shopping the

things that we buy and use for leisure purposes for for business so there could be a link a financial and economic proof failing of the individual going forward for like targeted adverts i want to use we can to get outwards inviting me to check holidays in pieces that have been before tech to flex the copies of the pin before so we would definitely need to be to be were and that also includes the smart technology that we have in forms that uses like failure to print. and know some of the banking up to doing the same things not only we're giving a our information or the other part of our hearts or lakes or social interactions we're also given you know vital information like our are our kind of. fingertips for for along with use a resident recognition techniques so we know advertisers following this carefully and are all information online governments no doubt as well as anyone else i'm just

thinking maybe even employers are keeping a track on us. well people always said that be very careful what you put on social media space if you're going to talk about your boss or slag off your working environment but i would just say there is a presence of us in the physical we're never meant to tickle word just two quick examples i actually travel from or to speak in from time to time and who through the airport i would favor six years ago even though i have a modern photograph you know should my resemblance very clearly i have a who through machine. live up to that photograph of me and drinks be in a particular turn and i remember thinking i wonder if this is if i get involved in a traffic accident or criminal activity they will be able to say this is when i'm on a raid here's a lot of the photograph and you know that it's circulated to the police and i was actually in jerusalem on the fourteenth of may. last year when i heard they were

moving the american embassy to jerusalem observed a protest against the removal and had to fly through television for my solidarity visit to the occupied west bank one way back they noosed and tell of eve that i had a bad magic passport and they wanted me to scan in my fingerprint as part of the passport process which i refused to do so i think there is definitely an economic say unintelligence government said everything we put on social media which is who we are or what we believe in believe in what we do. yeah whatever you do looks like big brother certainly got one on all of us so many thanks feel perspective on this for he's my guest political activist and commentator. be watching you hope you're watching me in half an hour see them.