could be the consequences for him and. i. think. there's a special place in hell for those who pushed britain towards. the

working conditions of the world rights organization. has faced the fifty it's. the social media platform. ten pm here in the russian capital a warm welcome to our to international my name to you know. your company our top story. the head of the e.u. council. amongst the pigeons by saying there is quote a special place in hell for people who promoted break said without a plan our europe correspondent peter all of our breaks down the reaction. well yes

i think certainly the european council president letting off a little steam at a press conference he was giving in brussels earlier on wednesday pulled no punches and left nobody with any question what he thought about those who pushed the brakes of campaign who supported brakes that he told people to vote for break this without ultimately having a plan to follow through on that dream and we've been wondering what that special place. in her looks like for those who promoted groups it was out even a sketch of a plan on how to carry it safely but he was stood alongside the irish prime minister leo for a while he was saying that at the end of the press conference the mikes did pick up the irish leaning in and saying the british press are going to give you plenty of stick for this they've done exactly that we'll get a bit of the reaction from politicians first though andrea led them who's the leader of the house of commons said that doll to most apologize while the british

home secretary has said that he was out of order this is also being accompanied by well every arch breaks a tear in the british press the round clutching their pearls rending garments and saying see see this this is why we told you we wanted to leave because they're mean to us and they say mean things. to us at times has really been the good cop when it comes to relations dealings with the british side over break this this time around though after his statement about the special place in hell it fell to the european commission president sean claude younker to try and lighten the spirits a little bit although only he could manage a bit dark humor really i'm going to skeptic that my good friend going to. be reduced i want to believe you now but opposite. i believe in heaven i have never seen doubt of you and. well this is

all provided a bit of distraction from the actual business of break this on wednesday there was some announcements made the statement made by john cloud younker the european commission president saying that there would be no allowances for britain to unilaterally pull out of an irish back stock backstop i beg your pardon reason may is in brussels on thursday for more talks and we are fifty one days out from britain leaving as it would be at the moment with the no deal breakers it and everything that than details. let's go a little bit more in-depth here and live to paris with political commentator john three small john good to have your company. said it may be rather colorful language but remain asian britain there saying that it's really only voicing the very real frustration being felt in brussels over a hybrid that has been handled so far. but you see what is this clip of

nation where their leaders inserted each other all the time i mean not course being insulting the leaders of the of italy then the talionis have said that the french exploited africa and now you're saying that the british were not prepared to breaks it but of course the european union has made every possible effort to make difficult because if it was easy then there really is other countries made leave and that's what they don't want them in the problem with this bureaucracy is just the bureaucracy that needs to preserve itself it's not a real unity of the people there is little parliament and this little love between the different leaders so i think it's like a divorce there should be a divorce when you do consent between discount reason other than trying to maintain an after official union which is only in the end she doing and then that it be all classy to people. it's treason. it's going to try

and get more concessions from brussels but by the looks of it the language being spoken she won't be finding many allies how do you expect thursday's meeting with the e.u. to go to more of the same or any kind of breakthrough. is more of the same because to get to play two you would need to have him in the twenty seven counties and that's impossible to find so i think this is going to be at most a cosmetic agreement i don't think they're going to make the heel of him do you still counting on the british parliament to be hurt itself and accept that he meant we dating they want to sue the new deal makes it becomes more on the placebo on the other hand i'm not i'm still not convinced that the whole deal takes it will be such a disaster after a few weeks or months i'm not convinced i don't know i'm not going to export british yet she is pushing though to to get a deal isn't she within the next they're well less than two months now how strong is her hand to negotiate because she's got

a. a lot of pressure not only in brussels but back home as well. you see the pressure comes from different sides that people who really wanted makes it and even though deal with the people who want to actually him in the european union in britain and the european union. wants to make this easy to refute i suppose he's been there not since even if they wanted to be in the end if they really wanted to have good relations with britain enough to make it difficult that's because he didn't use the a flawed as a pretext to make it difficult because they didn't see how it was not i mean i didn't think the technical solution to the border open and then these lulu these a have to make you know. it's a symbol and be one person in the interest of. being if you can so we're not going to do we think you for your take this our political commentator bri small and always good to have you on the program. thank you very much. the

u.s. secretary of state has opened the latest meeting of the global coalition to defeat eyes a looking at ways of eliminating the terror group in the middle east some have called it though a direct affront to. what they are attempting to very well let's find out more about its with our correspondent kill up my pain killer but do indeed take us through what's expected and what those attending hoped to achieve here. today we've got u.s. president donald trump and u.s. secretary of state mike pompei all meeting with over seventy different countries to discuss the fight against iso and the next steps against the ice still terrorists however it appears that even though the meeting is about defeating ice all that russia and the islamic republic of iran are pretty high on the agenda of the discussion let's take a listen. today iran and russia are important players there and we've worked

diligently to take down the caliphate to reduce the risk from isis and they have a political process now that's my pompei o talking a lot about iran a topic that he has really been not shy to speak about now at this point we will recall that the united states back in two thousand and seventeen had talked about forming an arab nato to counter iran let's take a listen do you believe that you can still do a nato type alliance of some against iran i'm convinced that we can i think every country understands that it's in their best interest now that proposed arab nato was the six gulf countries plus egypt and jordan and the idea was that this kind of coalition would be formed in order to coordinate anti terror operations in the region and that it would bring these countries together and they would continue to fight against terrorism it would be kind of a military alliance now at this point we're getting some mixed messages from

washington d.c. donald trump had recently announced that he was pulling all u.s. troops out of syria because i still had been defeated however we're now hearing from the secretary of state mike pompei oh that was just a tactical move this is mike bomb pale the fight is one that we will continue to wage alongside of you. the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or thirty's on which the campaign has been based it simply represents a new stage in an old fight. so at this point there's talk of a new stage against fighting the eisel terrorist there's also talk of new tactics fighting the i still terrorist so what this new stage will involve and what new tactics will be implemented is something that they're leaving us guessing about you know we await to see caleb up in r t across one of the live in new york this hour thank you for breaking out on. the leading global human rights group

is being accused by its own stuff of bullying discrimination and big use of power the international is one of the world's oldest humanitarian groups but a review all of its workplace practices has revealed a toxic culture. there are multiple reports of managers belittling staff in meetings deliberately excluding certain staff from reporting or making demeaning menacing comments like yours or you should quit if you seen this position your life will be misery all the well being review was launched after two almost the employees committed suicide within six weeks of each other last year roseland mcgregor worked as an internal is said to have developed acute. during her time with humanitarian group researcher gayton moat he was there a lot longer thirty years or more blaming the organization for pressures to work

before taking his own life with more on the review here is honest to see a church. we're facing a situation where this world renowned human rights organization amnesty international is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons following revelations about a quote talk saying work culture in this organization that was discovered by an independent review carried out by the cantera group consultancy that found that things like bullying public humiliation nepotism discrimination over work are widespread at amnesty international this was discovered following interviews and discussions with as many as seventy percent of staff and the situation has been described as quote a state of emergency or it has to do with the atmosphere and working culture in the organization that is very isolating i've never before worked in the place where

everyone works so alone it's because of a system where everyone is scared stressed and overworked and thus can only focus on their own survival. there was a real culture of bullying right up until i left several years ago particularly of middle managers well this review found also what it described to be as martyrdom culture because of this reputation and status that amnesty international has throughout the world and according to this review the credibility of this organization could now come under question and the organization the touts protecting human rights as its mission but is itself mired in a conflictual an adversarial culture will lose credibility as organizational rifts and evidence of nepotism and hypocrisy become public knowledge will be used by the government and other opponents of amnesties work to undercut or dismiss amnesties

advocacy around the world fundamentally jeopardizing the organization's mission and terms of some numbers that were provided it was said that as many as over fifty percent of employees feel like they're not valued and as many as thirty nine percent have developed health and or mental issues as a result of the work that they do and in terms of the reaction we've seen from amnesty we know that they have found these conclusions troubling and have said that they will try to carry out some kind of reforms and all of this of course gets revealed following two suicides of employees of amnesty international that took place back in twenty thousand within six weeks of each other that prompted a series of reviews including this latest one. was facebook turns fifteen it's following published an impassioned defense of the social media

platform mark zuckerberg claims his site has been a force for good and has helped to revolutionize the ways in which people communicate it comes as the company faces increasing scrutiny over its humbling users' personal information. this has been an intense year. yeah mark wouldn't say that for nothing last year personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users transferred facebook data to green cambridge analytic or in violation of fair use for its data policies the largest security breach in the company's history this is this is a challenge for our cloud companies and i'm really sorry that this happened and it was a big mistake i'm sorry you think having to do so much damage control must have definitely taken its toll on facebook but apart from their fiftieth anniversary mark zuckerberg and co have another great reason to throw a big party not only they didn't lose money actually they've set

a record in profit for the final three months of twenty teeing it almost reached seven billion bucks privacy issues illegal datta harvesting and not doing enough about what the russians were up to all attempts to bring the tech giant to account made people on capitol hill realize the many many times that marks our cover has had to apologize and the takeaway for me from that is that we can't rely on self-regulation that facebook is not going to regulate itself and that we have to pass some laws well for now realizing in saying that way too often hasn't led to much action is facebook really being regulated the answer is no and with all that big money to day care less well to keep enjoying that comfort at least for now it once hired some very smart and influential people like joe kaplan as the president said in his remarks president the president the president laid out in his speech

yes here's george w. bush and here's mr kaplan he used to have an important job in the second bush administration and here you can see what he's up to now being called facebook's policy boss who else would be behind shoulder at all these troublesome government hearings. now that is him again alongside mariah jordan the tech giant's director of public policy guess what she worked for the white house administration to anything from the democrat era there you have it . he was once in charge of writing what president obama says here they are. an american century. welcoming. of everybody who was spiers to do something oh that was emotional well nowadays his dealing

with economic and social impact issues at facebook and that's just a few such career twist examples it helps to know people i mean even better if the people you know no more right people. on the telly and deputy prime minister is seriously testing the country's already strained relations with france by meeting key figures from the yellow vests movement and also european election candidates from the so-called r n c group who want referendums to decide national policy fronts as reacted furiously. this new provocation is not acceptable between neighboring countries and partners and the european union mr de mar you hold the government responsibilities must take care not to undermine through he's repeated interferences our bilateral relations

in the interest of both france and italy. or patience appears to be wearing thin ahead of the european parliament elections in may the election is seen as a battle between centrists like the french president who wants close surrey you integration and populists like the italian interior minister who's pushing to challenge the political dominance of germany and of france luigi de mayo the yellow vests which have been a thorn in the french president's side since november have much in common with italy's five star movement which is currently the country's biggest individual party now he highlighted direct democracy and social rights shared concerns both italian deputy prime ministers have been vocal against the french president in recent weeks with interior minister selvi even calling on french citizens to get rid of mr mcconnell. i hope the french can free themselves from a terrible president and the opportunity will come or may the twenty sixth when

finally the french people will be able to take back control of their future destiny and pride which are poorly represented by a character like macro. let's go live to brussels based journalist lucrative a for his take hi there look what do you make of luigi de mayo is meeting with key yellow vest figures and i put it to you that he's not a citizen he's a high ranking figure in the talian government and he's talking about a movement which has caused criminal activity in a fellow e.u. country what's your reaction. well put it in my home could expected because he stopped to this rob he was the one who said one the left and right populist form the government in italy it was the one say saying that this was a let proceed to italy that it was the plenty i mean you can't find a word showing how despicable they are more than that word you know in french

it was incredible a swear word to speak about the government it was incredible actually model said it twice or even more but at least twice and a few days later dhammananda is minister of finance said about the yellow vests that they were the brom plague referring to of all the fed and nine hundred thirty eight that's also something acceptable for the french who were demonstrating on the run the bouts of the single mothers and the unemployed people in the retired people we can all. you know make do with the end of the month so these people are really shocked in the yellow vests and it's very normal that mr the mio gives him a call something back and he's not the only one you have heard salvini you you mention him i mean both parties which are now in power in italy are faring much

against michael but michael started it all and so it's fairly normal and five meant to change he said a moment five stars own tries to find friends on the french side the lists the potential lists are launched by some yellow vests like a the firy right hair indeed look i saw it was a nurse above but but. but he is deputy prime minister of italy is should he really be interfering in another country's efforts that. well as mr marquand misses when he meets mrs merkel and together day speak about fake news and about the bad guys in moscow and about the bad guys the bed populists around europe don't they do exactly the same i mean it's very normal that mr t. my own comes to meet friendly parties or parties information in

paris oh by the way it was accompanied by a stalin or. your castaldo who was the vice one of the vice presidents of the european parliament of the m. five s. so it was really heavyweights from the movement of five stars who came to paris to meet these own yellow vests that are forming a party of course not all yellow vests support them on i would say even it's only a minority but it's the same trend as the movement in italy but it look you know it was coming from the grassroots the real people in the streets what do you think luigi the my oath means by tweeting the wind of change has crossed the alps bites his meeting. well you know in italy now the party is in power the populist have more than sixty percent approval in the population while the zuma home has maybe twenty percent max if he does have that so. the talent

ideas talent populism and the energy that comes out of their own government is moving to france and many people following europe what happens in italy to see if they will be able to to test europe with their budget if they will be able to impose some things they managed to stop immigration through the mediterranean in a few weeks and they agreed both on that the movement of five stars and of itself. they agree on many points like scotty like stopping migration and things like that so it seems to work because man is your point so let me consider this one of the main issues the yellow vests are talking about is the economy when you when you boil down the numbers front as economy actually grew more than expected it pleases back into recession there are those in italy who are saying that perhaps

their government should concentrate more on internal matters the next. well you can't blame the press of the telly government for the sort of situation that debt in italy and the deficit of course they've chosen to go for a deficit in their budget which is not accepted by brussels france is in a better condition economically speaking. it's all saw one of the bed pupils in europe you know you have the better of really bad ones like greece italy spain portugal then frances is not on the side of germany on this so do a lot northern countries within europe the scandinavian germany. the netherlands for example own have every good thing and france is just in between so i don't think you can make real comparisons but it's a trend that into the has economy problems more the trends just pick up maybe briefly look on another issue egypt spoke about some yellow vest figures they

weren't very happy but the mio meeting the candidates from the so-called citizens of referendum group the r i c list that i mentioned earlier there does seem to be division amongst the yellow vests here why do you think that is. what most of the yellow vests disagree with the lists they don't want their movement to become a mainstream party that's what they're afraid of they want to obtain the referendum . in populate an initiative he said he said where you you know the r i c they want referendums on the main issues that the power goes back to the people and they want to remain disorganised way david want to continue exert exerting power from the outside on the political world so they disagree with the think that these lists appear though they are sympathetic to them of course but there is a large disagreement among the yellow vests and i don't think these lists with make

a brilliant result by the way. the existence of these lists i'll miss you michael very much because it's a splinter ring of the opposition in a way and so. ideal to have several lists of the yellow vests against the least of michael at the european election so probably the majority of the office will not for. i say as always for your take journalist lugar of a speaking to us live from brussels this. the venezuelan interior ministry has claimed the country's authorities have intercepted a weapons shipment alleging they were delivered from the us the cash included high caliber ammunition rifles and cartridges as well as reveal mobile communication equipment were discovered an international airport in the city of aleppo is being claimed a shipment arrived from miami the bust has been called part of

a crackdown on organized crime and financing terror with an investigation underway to determine who was jus to receive the weapons we discussed the situation earlier with lucas kerner a political analyst speaking about caracas. she is very alarming you should consider that c.n.n. reported just a little while ago that the dissident venis on military officers outside of the country were calling on the trump ministrations to provide them with arms and training in order to topple mother and of course this reply goes back to the us in support of the contra war the d.n.a. code i went mercenaries one bit in that i was one thousand eight hundred under elliott abrams as secretary of western hemisphere was now but brought back to oversee that it's less than a democratic transition of the top of ministration moreover we were seeing we just the morning star reported just today that the british military advisers may be in particular has been conducting military exercises both of and as well and

additionally. indicated that u.s. military intervention and as well it remains quote unquote an option on the table for the white house. just in additional notes on this story the venice military has barred humanitarian aid quarter ended by the opposition leader from entering the country the authorities have barricaded a bridge on the border with colombia using a fuel tanker to cargo trailers and make shift fencing to block routes in both the national assembly in venice we are which is largely made up of opposition figures. is urging the military to allow the it through the border complicating the situation a little bit more despite nicolas maduro claiming it will boost any foreign invasion if it happens the venezuelan president is also backing his country to write above that price. all right that's our midweek news roundup

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