gyptian. human dignity and so on but if you look at what's going on. most of the people have the feeling that. it was even. a. situation. states are underway in washington d.c. . the best way to abolish the terrorists from the middle. east there is

a special place in hell for those who pushed britain towards. a plea for help. and the toxic atmosphere of bullying and harassment report of the working conditions at the world were known human rights organization . following this. wherever you're chiming in from right around the world are welcome to. my names you know neal good to have your company in our top story the u.s. secretary of state has opened the latest meeting of the global coalition to defeat looking at ways of eliminating. the terror group in the middle east will let school

live now to a corresponding field of mopin who is following developments donald trump is expected to speak shortly we believe all this took us through just want as expected those attending hope to achieve. what we've got seventy different countries that will be meeting with trump and pomp ale and the meeting is taking place and the focus is supposed to be on the continued efforts to defeat the i still terrorists and their organization however it seems that russia and the islamic republic of iran are also on the agenda 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 the political process now folks will remember that mike pompei o and donald trump of openly talked about the creation of an air of nato to coordinate their

antiterrorism efforts let's review. 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. so it was in twenty seventeen when trump was in the middle east he put forward the vision of creating an arab nato the idea is that this would be a military alliance including six gulf states as well as egypt and jordan and that it would be a military alliance that would coordinate antiterrorism activities military alliance and counter the islamic republic of iran now interestingly we're getting mixed messages from washington d.c. at the moment people will recall have donald trump announced that the usa was removing all of its troops from syria because the ice still terrorists had been defeated however we now hear from the secretary of state might pay zero that actually this was just a tactical move this is mike pompei o. 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's simply represents a new stage in an old fight so at this point people are anxiously awaiting to hear donald trump and hear what it is that he has to say there's talk of a new stage in n.t.i. so operations new tactics to utilize in defeating the terrorist organization now what new stage is going to take place what will these new tactics look like that's where they've kept us guessing so many people are wondering what exactly trump will say when he begins to speak very shortly live from new york city kill up and bring us right up to date thanks kaleb or let's get our teeth stuck further into this a lot to discuss

a lot to break done as well really edmund ghareeb middle east affairs experts on lecture at the american university in washington joins us always good to have an expert on board when something like this is going on and been thanks for joining us mike pump a o. ses that would draw from syria was just the talk to kill move and that the fighting against the will continue but we just heard trump before claiming i still had been defeated you know that's a big division why the contradiction do you think. that's a very good point i think there is clearly a division in different view over syria over the way to deal with the kurdish forces in syria with turkey dealing with turkey and also taking into account the positions of some of the allies and certainly the positions of countries such as russia as well as the syrian government as well so there are different perspectives different views there's been

a great deal of opposition to the. president's statements to his call announcement for. pulling back or removing american forces from syria and that is this opposition came from members of. congress that came from some elements within the defense department earlier it became clear that even former secretary of defense. follows that as well as some of the other military leaders and so while the president has at the same time he seems to have slightly bobbed to the pressure and said that this is going to be this is a tactical change although he has continued to say that he will draw the forces and clearly he said that repeated that last night when he said great nations do not fight and less wars and he said that american troops are going to return from

syria and called on allies of the allies to take on greater responsibilities do you think there's a particular aspect in the timing to this segment because we had heard earlier not only from pompei about the idea of creating this military discrete alliance with our ed nation yet it's just happening not. well there's been talk about this i think the idea or originally if i'm not strong but i had. heard that there was a sort of a plan or at least there are some recommendations earlier that were made by senator james jeffrey was syrian envoy who's trying to achieve two different goals on the one hand he wants to help protect the kurds reassure. syrian democratic forces most of which are kurdish forces that the united states will protect them at the

same time there was also the talk of a battery of his own whereby the united states with the help of allies would also help protect turkey's borders the problem is that this plan has. a major weaknesses first of all would european powers or middle eastern pollers be willing to go into syria into this area without. while the american troops are pulling out there is a big question about the french or the british willing to do to send troops and assume greater responsibilities out of these if they decide to go there would the opposition to them and would syrian government forces be more or less reluctant to attack them then that's attacking americans many experts think that they would be more likely to attack these forces and they would attack american forces so that's

an important issue also how would the turks spawn to this especially since there is a great deal of mistrust between turkey and the syrian kurds. and so this is going to be a big issue here you and nato powers. that's member of the nato alliance that's going to be opposed to this while you have other men members of nato taking a different position also even some of the kurds were somewhat hesitant and reluctant about accept. we don't know enough but these are some of the issues that. the nation and i just mean i just make another aspect to that issue or because washington has admitted that their presence is not only to kuntar terrorists but also around why is to run do you think such a concern for washington. well clearly iran has been it's been

a very important issue for president for candidate from the. nuclear deal between iran and for the national community. primarily a lot of this that is concerned about what's described as the so-called the shiite crescent which would extend from iran all the way to iraq through syria lebanon and maybe even gadget and this is seen as threatening israel which is a major issue for this administration and for the u.s. government so that is one of the factors behind this issue but in addition to that there is also concern that iran might pose a threat to some of the u. us allies in the gulf and that's another issue so the united states also and the president from p.s. today repeated iran is

a major sponsor. of terrorism in the world today so that's another factor but this is perhaps it's also used to how justify. some of these policies. we really appreciate your time and your take this hour edmund ghareeb middle east affairs expert and lecturer at washington d.c.'s american university. the head of the e.u. council has put the cats among the pigeons by saying there is quote a special place in hell for people who promoted brakes and without a plan our europe correspondent peter oliver earlier broke down the reaction. well yes i think certainly the european council president letting off a little steam at a press conference he was giving him brussels earlier on wednesday pulled no punches and left nobody with any question what he saw it's about those who pushed the brakes at camp. who'd supported breaks that who 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 grapes 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 in 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 dalton must 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 donal to us 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 statements 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 ship it dark humor really i'm in a skeptic that my good friend going to. be reduced to only believe you know. opposite. i believe in heaven i have never seen doubt of you and i will. do my job. well this is all provided a bit of distraction from the actual business of brigs this on wednesday there was some announcements made though statement made by john cloud younker the european commission president saying that. it would be no allowances for britain to

unilaterally pull out of an irish backstop to 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 that and everything that than tails meanwhile the european parliament's representative in those breaks and has also waded in it's been an eventful day suggesting that the devil would have turned his back on bragg's appears. that the you kids leave campaigners could leave hell divided the situation at the r n well we spoke to political commentator john pretty small who says brussels is making an example of the u.k. . the european union has made every possible effort to make the if you can because if it was easy then there really is other countries made leave and that's why they don't love them in the problem we dispute is just the bureaucracy that needs to

preserve itself it's not a real unity of the people that it's looking at. and this little love between the different leaders and ideally is like a divorce they should be divorced when you do consent if you didn't do this countless other than trying to maintain and that if union which is only in the end and then that it. says do you is to counting on the british parliament to have heard it and accept their agreements with dating they want to so there's no deal breaks it becomes more. on the other hand then. that in the deal breaks it will be such a disaster after a few weeks or months. a leading global human rights group is being accused by its own staff of bullying discrimination and abuse of power on the stand for national is one of the world's oldest humanitarian groups but a review 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 here or you should quit if you seen this position your life will be misery while the well being review was launched after to the employees committed suicide within six weeks of each other last year roselyn regret or worked as an intern said to the cute. during her time with the military in group researcher gayton motu was a mystery for more than thirty years on blame the organization for pressures at work before taking his own life with more on the review here celibacy 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 they 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 conflict will an adversarial culture will lose credibility as organizational rifts and evidence of nepotism and hypocrisy become public knowledge they 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. owes a facebook turns fifteen its founder has published 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 and it comes as the company faces increasing scrutiny over how its handling users' personal information. this is 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 cambridge and living 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 for 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 and 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 . and 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. to

another story we're closely following today and i tell you a deputy prime minister is seriously testing the country's already strained relations with france by meeting key figures from the yellow press movement on also european election candidates from the so-called r i 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 seen as a battle between centrist like the french president who wants closer integration populists like the italian interior minister who's pushing to challenge the

political dominance of fronts in particular germany luigi demaio say's the yellow vests which being a thorn in the french president sign since november have much in common with italy's five star movement which is currently the country's biggest individual party he highlighted direct democracy and social rights shared concerns. well leaders in rome have been very vocal against the french president in recent weeks with interior minister salvini even urging the french public to get themselves an upgrade on. when the 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 poorly represented by carries it like mastro earlier i got the thoughts saw of independent journalist luke over a vague who believes the deputy prime minister had solid reasons to meet with

french figures. put it in my home could expected because he stopped to this rob he was the one who said the left and right populist form the government in italy it was the one say saying that this was a let proceed coming to italy in french it was incredible a swear word to speak about the government and it's very normal that mr the mio gives him a call something back and so it's very normal that. meant to change respect a moment five stars own tries to find friends on the french side the lists the potential lists are launched by some yellow vests. let's turn attention to south america where the venezuelan interior ministry has claimed the

country's authorities have intercepted a weapons shipment alleging they were delivered from the u.s. the cash included high caliber ammunition rifles on the cartridges as well as radio . communication equipment were discovered on an international airport in the city of violence and it's being claimed the shipment arrives from miami the bust being called part of a crocked on known organized crime on financing terror with an investigation underway to the chairman who is jews who receive weapons we discuss the situation with lucas kerner political analyst based in caracas. she's very alarming you should consider that. just a little while ago that the dissident then is on military officers outside of the country calling on the trump ministration to provide them with arms and training in order to topple mother i mean of course this brings us back to the u.s. or the contra war to the nicaraguan mercenaries one bit and i was. under elliott

abrams as secretary of western hemisphere. brought back to oversee that as well as a democratic transition in the trumpet ministration moreover i think we just reported just today that the british military. did nothing military exercises both of them as well and additionally. indicated that u.s. military intervention and it remained an option on the table for the white house. well the venice wheelin. military just an opt out on an earlier story we were speaking about has barred humanitarian aid intended for the opposition from entering the country let's go through the optics of this president maduro ordered the blockade on a border bridge with colombia using large time trailers to shut down the route now the venice will and leader has described attempts to get aid into the country

simply as a catalyst for foreign intervention ma position neither one sees the deliveries as the military's loyalty to. the collapse of a residential building in turkey's largest city istanbul has left at least two people dead these are now live pictures from istanbul we are showing terrifying c.c.t.v. footage let's take a look at this this is earlier of course captured the moment it all unfolded on to a busy street officials say there were fourteen apartments in the eight story building located in a working class area of this city it's believed to house a total of thirty residents six people have been recovered off the stage from the. recovery operation is still ongoing investigation now gets under way it's called

all the. a mom who spent fourteen years and one of the world's toughest prisons without ever being charged with a crime has described life in guantanamo hell months or a day fee was jail when he was just nineteen he talks about what he endured there in the latest edition of going underground on r.t. . imagine a boy nineteen out of the all watched shipped to guantanamo to one where it was. a cemetery was like we were if we were not alive or not dead but we were in like and between life and death so when we get there i like from full there was apparently especially when you get to that come back straight in comes out to be one of the until i was a three when them tradition started applying some. techniques to interrogate detainees and it was like hill really. was some detainees

lost their minds breakdown i mean i was nineteen years old i didn't know why i was there and in the front lawn state we are i thought that he disconnected to the to the world outside i was afraid. i was going to have been totally without like they're going to kill us because we were. the situation we were before as if the cia or them to titian with that is going ok they're going to get us and think of us and they were telling us that they said that we are going to kill guys with you in the sea they told us yes he said the world they're not brought you here we work you for the purpose of interrogation to get information with you in the seat. apostle levon here in moscow just a reminder that all of those stories can be found in-depth on our web site plenty to keep you busy there are more great programs though ahead here all there are to international they start in moments.