so if we have to choose to go to sleep with a little new clothes for those the girls who. are in this who could use to whom she shouldn't feel you should cook tool for the one who's doing the. british m.p.'s approve a brags that amendment had to renegotiate to the backstop with ireland which could change the course of three said maisie you divorce planned. the u.s. intensifies its efforts to oust venezuela's president maduro imposing crippling sanctions on the state oil giant and handing control of some financial assets to the leader of the opposition will continue to use all of our diplomatic and

economic tools to support introversion quiet oh how. it's done. meanwhile the u.s. national security advisor is seen holding a notepad with five thousand troops to colombia written on it leaving it to speculation over the trumpet ministrations next move against caracas also. human rights watch releases a report documenting dozens of cases of terrorists torturing civilians in northern syria we have documented eleven cases in which a. teen residents of. because they were either documented confuses the distinctive groups move six of those or we have documented have been tortured including minors.

our broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. in a high stakes vote british m.p.'s have just backed an amendment that will allow theresa may to renegotiate one of the most problematic aspects of her bragg's a deal the issue of the irish border parliament also approved an amendment to reject a no deal scenario the prime minister had this to say following the result. i agree that we should not leave without a deal however simply. simply opposing no deal is not enough to stop it the government will now redouble its efforts to get a deal that this house can support since we've had this debate in the house as in phatic they voted to reject the no deal option the prime minister was supporting cotto i say that we are prepared to meet her to put forward. to put

forward the points of view from the labor party of the kind of agreement we want with the european union to protect jobs to protect living standards and reject rights and conditions in this country tonight the only thing that parliament managed to agree on is that to resume a should go back to brussels and renegotiate the deal that she struck with those opposed to her plan failed to sink it and her deal is still bobbing around in the water to reason may chose to play to the euro skeptics and her party and that gamble seems to have paid off and it's a real change of course for the prime minister who has spent weeks saying that her deal that she struck with brussels isn't up for renegotiation but just before this series of votes this evening the prime minister said that she intends to do just that reopen the deal and renegotiate it she's managed to get the bad. king of the

hardline euro skeptics and the d u p which is the party propping up minority government so finally we've got a little bit of unity and the way ahead has been forged but there is one big problem and this plan is a fantasy some people are calling it a unicorn option because it doesn't really exist to reason has been accused of rising unicorns all the way to brussels so rather unexpectedly the votes this evening went to reason may's way there were reports of one cabinet ministers dancing through the parliamentary lobbies was this evening's going for the government to resign may well say that she's got a mandate now to go back to brussels and start talking again the big question now is what brussels will say in response to that and don't forget it's exactly two months until bragg's it day you council president.

his spokesperson has reacted saying that the e.u. withdrawal agreement is not open for renegotiation british historian and author adel darwish earlier told us the u.k. parliament's votes are not binding in talks with brussels. the police have you here as we sure are seeing before the program the negotiation inside parliament is one thing they're not taking it as a whole negotiating with your opinion is something that's now the european union have to think twice here because a lot of there was an amendment is called the spelman amendments but then is actually one of tory m.p.'s who want to remain. a government does not have to follow see the reason make and stay still go and see if we don't agree we're going to leave without a deed so having showed her success in managing to sail through an amendment no one thought is going to be true

then reason may might actually pull a lever rabbit out of the hat. you know the state is throwing its full economic weight behind venezuela's self declared interim president one. it has announced it is a transfer in control of certain state assets held by american banks to the leader of the crisis stricken countries opposition washington has also imposed sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company in an effort to choke off revenue to the government of nicolas maduro which has no legitimacy and she's really trying to go and caracas are based journalist notice our go to join us with the latest. this is a very bold move by washington isn't a well known this is the kind of support that any opposition leader turned self-proclaimed president would dream of anywhere around the world just think about it the u.s. state department has issued a document in fact it was six three of state might pump

a zero himself who is certified to have it all right here one guy though to receive and control certain properties and assets that belong to the government of venezuela that are in american banks that is after earlier this week washington punished venezuela's state owned all giant with sanctions and that meant immediately that the key source of revenue form of government was cut off besides this seven billion us dollars worth of assets in american banks were frozen and the american officials have made it clear that they won't hesitate to do more we will continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support interim president quiete the national assembly and the venezuelan people efforts to restore their democracy but we have continued to expose the corruption of madeira and his

cronies in today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people very strong would indeed that. we have to understand what the reaction has been from caracas have you know any idea how they have reacted to the american decision while president nicolas maduro likes to react with and he doesn't hesitate either he has already tried cutting all diplomatic ties with the u.s. and this particular case his authorities in caracas banned the opposition leader from leaving the country in order for him not to take advantage of these super generous gifts from america. besides this nicolas maduro sent a strong message to the americans it was shown on t.v. and believe it or not it was in english well at least he tried have a look golly only look at. him more on these communities how. venice runa. how. asked. for it inside

we're actually going to cross over to venezuela now and talk to a local journalist norris are going to. norris it would be interesting for us to understand what the situation in venezuela is this iteration right now somehow come to but the political tension is rising each day as part of their response of their majority government against the u.s. sanction today the public prosecutor asked to the supreme court. one way to go from leaving the country and also froze all his bank accounts after a criminal probe due to he's criminal activities against the government just beneath a jury meanwhile old mature and white flight in. control of their armed forces and both of them are talking to them trying to persuade them somehow to support either or the other if they don't want the soldiers of venezuela we are waiting for you to

be on our side. the soldiers of venezuela what we are waiting for you to be on the side of the constitution all you crew serious. we have made our position very clear about the tour your nature of this regime and so we want to take power never treated. install a transitional government and free elections. that's how it has to be. as we can see both political actors right now in venice all are trying to gain the armed forces support as of an assault and continue to try to resume their daily routines and they're expectant of then you said and rounds of protests call for your position for tomorrow at noon and for saturday thanks for giving us an understanding of the situation on the ground in caracas thank you very much. now

we know that the u.s. is supporting. all the any other countries who have decided that he's the right man for the job and that they are absolutely right most of the support is coming from america but we also have to take the european union into consideration and think america's allies are the strongest players there that includes the u.k. germany france and also spain and they have also said ultimatum for nicolas maduro they want him to announce an early election as early as this sunday and if that doesn't happen these countries will also recognize one as the interim leader of caracas however on the other hand thema door government has the full backing of moscow and russian officials the most senior of them have on numerous occasions blamed western powers for trying to orchestrate

a coup from outside as well as with the rouge we're extremely worried about the actions of the u.s. and its allies towards venezuela which are in play group violation of international law. we along with other responsible members of the international community would do everything to support the legitimate government of venezuela led by nicolas maduro in his decision of the constitution and the methods of crisis regulation within the constitution of the rules in any case it looks like we're definitely up for more and more protests in venezuela and we'll also be watching out for that sunday deadline but knowing nicolas maduro the way he is it is very unlikely that he's going to back down and there was no dear tutor my colleague earlier speaking with go unnoticed now at the forefront of america's attempts to undermine the madeira government are three of washington's most hawkish figures some media have in fact dubbed them the troika of tyranny artie's caleb mop and looks now at

the team taking on the authorities in caracas. i think a night of nations might pompei oh drew a line in the sand now it's time for every other nation to pick a side no more delays no more games either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with his made him sound familiar either you're with us. if you love freedom and with nations with your bridge freedom or you are the enemy yes their ideas are not new but now they're linking arms in the global spotlight some call them the axis of evil or the troika of tyranny meet mike pompei oh elliott abrams and john bolton the three amigos of imperialism john bolton was a big supporter of the iraq war and he represented the united states in the united nations an organization he really didn't care for very much the united states makes the u.n. work work and that is exactly the way it should be because the. united states is. now mike pompei o is the new kid on the block without very much

experience as head of the cia he tried to get the authority to conduct drone strikes in afghanistan without the pentagon's oversight and he worked day and night to rip up the iran nuclear deal at the center of it is not interested in a campaign of economic pressure to starve the regime of the revenue it uses to fund the stabilization of these throughout the middle east and indeed around the world now back in the spotlight after years of obscurity meet convicted criminal elliott abrams he was tied to massacres in el salvador any help to funnel weapons to the contras in nicaragua he was convicted for his role in covering it all up and he received a presidential pardon now he's a special envoy for venezuela it seems that his record in latin america has really impressed certain people america's new dream team is now taking aim at venezuela why because they just care so much for those poor oh pressed venezuelans they want

them to have a chance at freedom and democracy right or is it something else. it will make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela be good for the people of venezuela be good for the people of the united states we both have a lot at stake here yes honesty is always appreciated the u.s. is once again talking about basically another war for oil so that it introduces these moral complications and gives rise to some serious questions about the u.s. motivations here and it's very frustrating from an american point of view it's one thing for trump to announce oh i support this other guy and that's great but but but these sanctions are kind of an act of violence in themselves i think we have to but isn't that bad of the cave uing us ativan as well and the stranglehold that they put on the economy of the country which is having very real humanitarian

consequences for the people there it is a question of you know washington and it allies in europe and elsewhere want their cake and i do want to have their cake and eat it well i mean it's very they're double distorting or think here. as the sanctions were being announced some notice to the u.s. national security advisers notepad was turned towards reporters on it was written five thousand troops to colombia a country sharing a border with venezuela whether it was an accident or not colombia's foreign minister carlos holmes strongly rejected the idea saying that colombia intends to use only diplomatic tools. so the school most a reason and the reach of that note. let

little. little. little. little. little. glimmer. all right while the u.s. is ramping up its support for newfound opposition leader and self-proclaimed president won and why go some believe washington had more to do with his emergence than meets the eye one of those people is max blumenthal who is an american

journalist and senior editor at real news he's also the co-author of a recent article one. so thanks for being with us on arch international you know in your article you wrote that before january twenty second not so many people knew about one and then he proclaimed himself president after a phone call from the vice president himself mike pence how much do you think washington was behind this and how much was spontaneous by the venezuelan people. yeah one guy joe was he was a low level legislator in one of the least populous states in venezuela who was known his name was known by maybe one of five venezuelans and he's now emerged on the international stage as the u.s. selected with a pedia approved leader of venezuela and that's really because he is the perfect pawn he is the product of u.s. regime change factories u.s. government backed regime change factories specifically the group poor which has been backed by the national endowment for democracy usa id and according to many

reports that cia to topple slobodan milosevic and serbia that student group port trained. and a codger a of students between two thousand and five and two thousand and seven they ultimately formed the popular will party which became the most violent radical right wing party in venezuela functioning as the shock troops of oligarchies and assets of washington in order to restore washington's control over the country and they're largely discredited in venezuela they're seen as undemocratic they're hated by parts of the opposition that would like a resolution here and that would not want war and we know. that most venezuelans are not on board with his agenda the problem is that for venezuelans quite oh and his crew which were trained by washington are very popular in washington and do have a constituent base in the halls of power here so why do has so far been recognized

as president by the usa canada numerous other european and latin american countries however is he getting real support among venezuelans or is he more popular than majority. what his popularity is much lower than nicolas maduro is whose popularity is on par with emanuel mccrone in france he as i said is a in many ways a product of washington he was schooled in washington at george washington university under one of latin america's top neo liberal economists one of his closest colleagues the founder of d.c. a pretty pretty meadow whose d.c. which is an allied party john was actually given a half million dollars by the right wing koch brothers through a think tank here in washington the cato institute and it was the milton friedman award we remember milton friedman being the economic advisor to

a gusto pinochet so it's very clear what's happening here what the agenda is and for average venezuelans who at rates of over eighty percent oppose sanctions and oppose u.s. military intervention this crew that is surrounding why go and most of them actually exist outside venezuela are anathema because they have been responsible for so much violence in that country and so much destabilization. but again that's why washington is supporting them it's not about democracy it is not about human rights it's about oil and really briefly because we're running out of time from your point of view what makes one of so attractive such an attractive candidate for washington. where there is actually more and. a better known figure in his popular will party jose andres may he who is not selected because may he looks a lot like me he's white he's very wealthy he went to an elite private school may he comes from a more middle class background he looks more like average of attis whalen's and so

he was the perfect person to kind of sell the coup and try to rile up the venezuelan population against maduro i don't think that part may work we're moving into a new much darker phase right now and could be discarded at any moment as i said he's washington's pawn all right very interesting to hear your thoughts max blumenthal. helping us wrap our mind around this very. interesting time in venezuela for sure thanks for being with us on arch international. all right a top human rights watchdog has released a chilling report on abuses by terrorist groups in syria more details on that after a very short break international.

but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some want to. have to try to be close to see what the full story of the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first city.

international now a chilling report by human rights watch says. the group with links to al qaeda has detained and tortured civilians in syria the organization has also released the testimony of several victims that you might find some of the following images upsetting. they used to pull me out of the cell beat me and then return me no one asked me a single question no one asked me what my name was. these torture moments i remember them in detail every day people died in front of

my eyes the maximum you can do is move your shoulders a bit and scream for help but on several occasions they stuffed things in my mouth so i couldn't scream. they beat me they would place me absolutely down for hours beat me and interrogate me it became tougher physically and emotionally human rights watch claims the detentions and arrests were triggered by protests against the. militant group parties yours down of comments when syria's most ruthless battle hardened terrorist elements fled the advances of the country's military taking refuge in a province the u.s. and cole went overboard overboard about our side and russia would turn the lives of ordinary citizens there into a living hell to get to a handful of qaeda fighters when russia and the assad regime say they want to

counterterrorism they actually mean they want to bomb schools hospitals and homes there are more babies in italy than there are terrorists think of the children well now it turns out terrorists remain terrorists wherever they go and the children and adults of good liberal like are learning this the hard way this month. a un designated terrorist alliance subjugated the i. other rebel factions and seized power across the province any attempt of dissent big crush in its cradle the new human rights watch report details just some cases we have documented eleven cases in which. detained residents. because they were either documenting abuses or were testing. six of those that we have documented have apparently been tortured you can minors human rights watch isn't the first organization to produce such a report either as well as arbitrary detention and brutal beatings thieving looting

and corruption are rampant clashes and infighting are also adding to the anguish of civilians violence repeatedly spills beyond the borders of the province to just last week at least four hundred militants attacked the government forces in danger the tentative ceasefire brokered by russia and turkey. is known to know that it live remains a terrorist haven while we are still committed to the ceasefire deal the recent takeover by goes beyond the scope of the agreement the russian and turkish military's are working on a road map to deal with the threat but it's clear we cannot let live remain a terrorist hotbed so will the mainstream media have been portraying in syria as the final safe haven of the last major rebel held hotspot the last rebel holdout the last major stronghold of active opposition to the rule of president bashar al assad all those praying to survive to see another day there are unlikely to agree.

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