the. world powers gather in washington d.c. seeking a joint strategy to wipe out islamic state and donald trump promises that goal will be achieved very soon sometime probably next week that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate. council chief says there is a special place in hell for those who pushed for braggs it without any plan to make

it happen. and a damning report lays bare the working conditions of amnesty international following the suicides of two employees at the age group. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international and john thomas are we glad to have you with us. u.s. president has just given a speech to some eighty nations at a counterterrorism conference in washington d.c. the so-called global coalition to defeat eisel is looking at ways of eliminating the terror group in the middle east artes and reports. trump sounded rather upbeat as he addressed the different countries gathered for this coalition to defeat i still conference now they are gathered from all over the world hearing from donald trump as well as u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei oh now some of the of the words that trump had to say well this is some of what we heard it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate. but i want to wait for the official word no want to say too early now that certainly sounds inspiring however people will recall that trump has made similar statements in the past let's review what he has previously said and knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon we have just absolutely decimated isis is absolutely obliterated isis in iraq we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly now we've won it's time to come back folks will remember that back in twenty seventeen there was talk of forming an arab nato for the purpose of coordinating antiterrorism efforts in the middle east region was to include six

gulf states as well as egypt and jordan now today we heard from mike pompei oh and he spoke about kind of a new stage in a shift in tactics for the region and for countering terrorism around the world this is some of what we heard from mike pompei oh 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 what we did not hear from either trump or pompei always what exactly this new stage in the fight against the ice will terrorists will entail and what these new tactics in fighting them will be yes they're leaving us guessing when it comes to that. middle east analyst admin ghareeb says there are still major differences between world powers and how to tackle the situation in

syria there is clearly a division in the differences of view over syria over the way to deal with kurdish forces in syria with turkey linked with turkey but the president has the same slightly bob for the pressure and said that this is a tactical change although he has continued to say that he will draw the forces that there was a sort of a plan or at least there were some recommendations earlier that were made by. james jeffrey it was syrian envoy who was trying to achieve two different goals on the one hand he wants to how to protect the kurds reassure. syrian democratic forces that the united states will protect them at the same time there was also the clock of a very a as own whereby the united states with the help of allies would also protect turkey's borders the problem is that this plan has. a measure reconnaissance.

the head of the european council has vented his frustration over the stalled talks on britain's exit from the e.u. donald tusk said there is a special place in hell for those who promoted by exit without a plan peter oliver reports. 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 the dream we've been wondering what that special place . in the code looks like for those who promoted works it was out even a sketch of a plan on how to carry it safely but he was stood alongside the irish prime

minister there 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 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 that it's around 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 and times has really been the good cop when it comes to relations where 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 in a skeptic that my good friend going to. be reduced only believed now by the opposition. i believe you now have a i have never seen doubt of you and. it's. all this is all provided a bit of distraction from the actual business of break this on wednesday there was some announcements make the statement made by john quote young the european commission president saying that there would be no allowances for britain to unilaterally pull out of an irish backstop theresa 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 a no deal breakers it and everything that than tails european parliament's representative on bragg's it has also weighed in he suggested that not even the

lucifer would welcome the u.k.'s leave campaigners as they would even manage to divide well we spoke to political commentator john briggs mont who says brussels is making an example of the u.k. . the european union has made every possible effort to make it if you can 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 it is a little parliament and this little love between the different leaders divorce they should be divorced when you consent to this countless other than trying to maintain and that issue of union which is only in the end and then that it. says to you is still counting on the british parliament to have heard it and accept their agreements we dating they want to sue the brakes it becomes more plausible on

the other hand. they entered in the deal breaks it will be such a disaster after a few weeks or months. a leading global human rights group is a being accused by its own staff of bullying and discrimination and nasty international 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 yours or you should quit if you seen this position your life will be misery. the wellbeing review was launched after two amnesty employees committed suicide last year rosalind mcgregor worked as an intern and is said to have developed acute anxiety during her time with the humanitarian group researcher who was at amnesty for more than thirty years and blamed the organization for

pressures at work before taking his own life is more on the review here is artie's honest as he assured her 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 well 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

journey 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 and within six weeks of each other that prompted a series of reviews including this latest one. as facebook turns fifteen mark zuckerberg has published an impassioned defense of his creation he claims the platform is a force for good and has helped to revolutionize the ways in which people communicate and comes amid

a growing scrutiny over the way the company handles users' private data this is an intense year. yeah mark why. and say that for nothing last year personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users transferred facebook data to cambridge and lived in violation of fair use for its data policy 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 could they care less well to keep enjoying that comfort at least for now they 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 nice for him on 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 said career twist examples it helps to know people. i mean even better if the people you know no more right people venezuela claims to have intercepted in the arms shipment coming from miami that story much more still to come this is our two international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. take your chance to put. the bag in the studio but i will have another political system that's. a social justice. and

a spectrum of human dignity and so on but if you look quite what is going on in egypt right now most of the people have the feeling that. it was even better. they don't speak. of the situation. welcome back this is our international now the french government has lashed out at an italian deputy prime minister for meeting with yellow vest activists the foreign ministry accused luigi de mayo of harming relations between rome and paris.

this new provocation is not acceptable between neighboring countries and partners and the european union mr de mar you holds government responsibilities must take care not to undermine through he's repeated interferences our bilateral relations in the interest of both france and italy. well this is the latest in a series of disputes between france and italy ahead of the european parliamentary election in may it is seen as a battle between centrists like the french president who want closer integration and populists like the italian interior minister who is seeking to challenge the dominance of germany and france luigi says the yellow vests which have been piling the pressure on the french president since november have much in common with italy's five star movement he highlighted directed democracy and social rights as shared concerns. last month the italian interior minister matteo salvini had some harsh words for president microns between 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 which are poorly represented by carries a light macro independent a journalist in the core of a believes president ma kwan is largely to blame for the ongoing war of words with italy. president my home could expect it because he started this rao 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 electricity coming to italy in french it was incredible a swear word to speak about the government and it's very normal that they study mio gifts you might call something back and so it's very normal and five meant to

change we said a moment five stars oh and tries to find friends on the french side. the lists of potential lists are launched by some yellow vests. the venezuelan government is claiming to have intercepted and arms shipment coming from the us according to the interior ministry of the stash includes rifles ammunition and communications equipment they were apparently flown in from miami the authorities say the bust was part of a broader crackdown on organized crime political analyst lucas kerner says that this could be linked to an opposition request for u.s. support. she is very alarming you should consider that c.n.n. reported 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 really brings us back to the u.s. and support the contra war to the naked eye when mercenaries motivated naked i was

. under elliott abrams as secretary of western hemisphere. brought to oversee that as well as democratic transition in the trumpet ministration moreover we just reported just today that the british military advisers may be in particular ducting military exercises both of them 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 meanwhile venezuelan military has barricaded a bridge on the colombian border to block a delivery of humanitarian aid as you can see here to shipping containers and a tanker truck have been placed along the highway a convoy of aid to donated by the u.s. is currently on its way from bogota according to the colombian government and venezuelan opposition leader. has said that the supplies will test a military loyalty to the government but president maduro has rejected the aide

saying the people of venezuela are not beggars and such shipments would be used to justify foreign military intervention the red cross is stepping up its own aid efforts in venezuela doubling its budget for the country but the group says its policy of neutrality means it cannot take part in the u.s. aid to deliveries through. according to the fundamental principles of impartiality neutrality and independence the i.c.r.c. cannot take part in the initiatives to hand over assistance for venezuela from colombia it is the us that's the principal party. responsible for the economic life and it has been intensified in the last two years just last year the medical staff of venezuela had ordered from abroad actually actions for children for insulin for all the inflamed and patients of venezuela and several other medical needs were completely blocked by the us in ordering from accepting them as well

and money venezuela has the money and the resources but it's been strangled by the united states so the u.s. carries out an economic war three years and then comes with crimes as a theatrical act to say that they want to help the venice when people from starvation. the collapse of a residential building in istanbul has left at least two people dead security cameras captured the moment of the disaster turkish officials say that there were fourteen apartments in the eight story building six people have been rescued from the rubble that recovery operation is still ongoing. a new york times opinion piece earlier this week a claim to controversially that corruption is hardwired into russian society corruption is in russia's d.n.a. sharing is not the russian way the piece is accompanied by

a menacing photo of him or putin number of russian words are thrown in for dramatic effect as well including those meaning lines and a descent from ation one however has been mistranslated as it means compromising material and not compromise the article was met with harsh criticism from a number of journalists and readers of the publication. imagine a new york times opeth cares real estate corruption isn't the jews' d.n.a. but as long as we're talking about russians these kind of groups xenophobia is totally fine corruption is in russia's d.n.a. this is racism masquerading as not a says it's also undermines the author's argument because if true who can blame volodya scary photo by the way this photo in the article are reminiscent of the hearst papers in a phobic and hysterical war fever drummed up to sell papers before the spanish-american war it is designed to build up hatred and not knowledge this is

not the first time russia's critics have made reference to genetics a former u.s. national intelligence director once said that russians are genetically driven to co-opt and manipulate illegal and manipulate excuse me legal and media analysis lionel gave us his take on the story i don't even know the adjectives though the words shocking disgusting deplorable racist let me make this very very clear if you had replaced the term russian with any other ethnicity nationality a group of people there would have been. just a cavalcade an avalanche of attack you would have been indicted for that by russians. that goes without take that so k. i never thought i could say this we always say well this hits a new low i knew lower journalistic a deer or a a new cows i'm with this has no depth this is the black hole of journalism this is

so much so so consumed so the gravity is so intense that light kit the scape truth can't escape i mean this is for lab or gas taking thirty four minutes and twenty seconds that's when i'll be back with more news watching our two international stay with us. just. you.

as a presidential candidate donald trump lambasted america's endless and wasteful wars but its president q. surrounded himself with individuals who have made defending and advancing american empire a full time career why did trump cave and what could be the consequences for him and his presidency. you know if putin said suddenly that oh if we recognize nancy pelosi has the president and i say say we're not going to talk with donald trump the world of the you know our age but of course the u.s. has a stereo exceptionalism and that no law applies to them and so they can do whatever they want but by the central banks buying gold as they are they are now coming to the conclusion that america has lost its mind and then when they run out of gold to buy i guarantee you they're going to start fishing around the clock market.

how do you hide this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the big bad world of business and finance the man picked upon all of us time bart chilton in washington thank you so much for joining in we're pleased that respect some time with us coming up today the clock is winding down and there are only fifty one days until brecht's it and as the numbers of days get smaller so too do the chances of a good deal plan for the u.k. the c.e.o. of strong mark henry ford which is standing by to break it all down and after u.s.

economic sanctions were imposed upon iran iran is piling event of whalers footsteps by establishing its own don't turn sea world will it go the way of the petrol r.t. producer saya tab in your brings us to latest plus last time on the program we brought you the top wine earnings numbers from disney and now we'll do a does the deep dive and take a look at a few other companies with adam mesh of adam they're trading groups and later a saudi shakedown appears to be in the works conservative t.v. and radio commentator steve fall for it helps us understand what's going on or going wrong in the monarchy all that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. global energy politics lead to a global report today as opec the organization of the petroleum exporting countries moves to formalize they d. facto alliance with russia the secretary general of opec mohamed keno is reportedly eager to extend its strength and strengthen the so-called opec plus arrangement

which we've discussed in the past under the agreement opec effectively manages global oil supply in consultation with russia with saudi arabia in a leading position within opec saudis surging sway within opec was among the factors that recently led to a car to leave the group now the idea seems to have grown to include nine other nine. on opec energy producing nations in addition to russia the proposed though why it's reportedly will be on the table at a meeting in mid february and holds the possibility restoring some of waning influence over prices which have been sinking in a global oil glut. and turning to the united kingdom online grocer a condo is warning that a massive fire at a warehouse in andover will seriously impact sales the site housed a ten percent of ten percent of a cut of inventory and that supply as well as their role.