people. who give their name i mean come on. jane need the whole. 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 some time probably next week that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate. the e.u.

council chief says there is a special place in hell for those who pushed for brags that without any plan to make it happen. a damning report lays bare the working conditions at amnesty international following the suicides of two employees at the aid group. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r g international i'm john thomas by the having with us the u.s. president has just given a speech to some eighty nations at a counterterrorism conference in washington d.c. so-called global coalition to defeat eisel is looking at ways of eliminating the terror group in the middle east artie's been comments. 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 the words that trump had to say well this is some of what we heard it should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate. but i want to wait for the official word and i 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 him 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 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 o 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's simply represents a new stage in an old fight what we did not hear from either tromp 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 edmund ghareeb says there are still major differences between world powers on how to tackle the situation in

syria because clearly the division in differences of view over syria over the way to deal with the kurdish forces that is here. with turkey ling with turkey but the president has the same slightly by the pressure and said that this is a tactical change although he has continued to say that they will draw the forces 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 help 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 of his own where by the united states with the help of allies would also

protect turkey's borders the problem is that this plan has. a measure weaknesses. 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 bragg's it without a plan for 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 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 there 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 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 but my good friend going. to want to believe you now but opposite. i believe in heaven i have never seen doubt of you and time. it's. oh this is all provided a bit of distraction from the actual business break that. there was some announcements make the statement made by sean quote young the european commission president saying that they 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. the european parliament's representative

on bragg's it has also weighed in he suggested that not even lucifer would welcome the u.k.'s leave campaigners as they would even managed to divide health he spoke to political commentator john breaux small 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 indeed those other countries made leave and that's why they don't love them in the problem we just because he's just of bureaucracy that needs to preserve it says the unity of the people that he's looking at. and this little love between the different lead us ideally is like a divorce they should be divorced when you consent eugene do this countless other than trying to maintain and that division of union which is only in the end sheeting and then that it. says. is to counting on the british parliament to be that it says an accident agreement we dating they want to

do so the new deal takes it becomes more. on the other hand then. that in the duplex 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 for bullying and discrimination amnesty 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 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 well being that 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. to was at amnesty

for more than thirty years and blamed the organization for pressures at work before taking his own life it's more on the review here as artie's an associate. 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 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 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 that the platform is a force for good and has helped to revolutionize the ways in which people communicate and comes amid growing scrutiny over the way the company handles users private data. 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 green cambridge and lived 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 that 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. facebook's policy boss who else would be behind sucks shoulder at all these troublesome government hearings. now that is him again alongside the riaa jordan the tech giants 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 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 and arms shipment coming from miami that story much more still to come this is are two different. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. take your chance to put. it against mubarak to have another political system

that's over. a social justice. and a spectro human dignity and so on but if you look quite a bit over what is going on in egypt right now most of the people have the feeling that. it was even better. they don't speak any i mean your vision of the situation. welcome back this is r.t. international of the french government has lashed out at in a tally and deputy prime minister for meeting with yellow vasta activists the

foreign ministry accused luigi myo of harming relations between rome and paris. this new provocation is not acceptable between neighboring countries and partners and the european union mr dimaio holds government responsibilities must take care not to undermine through his repeated interferences our bilateral relations in the interest of both france and italy. 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 you integration and populists like the italian interior minister who is seeking to challenge the dominance of germany and france and luigi de milo 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 direct democracy

and social rights as shared concerns last month the italian interior minister tell salvini had some harsh words for president. but i hope the french can free themselves from a terrible president and the opportunity will come or may the twenty safe when finally the french people will be able to take back control of their future just to me and try and poorly represented by carries a light macro. independent journalist lucrative a believes the president is largely to blame for the ongoing war of words with italy. president my whole could expect it because he started this rollup 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 electricity coming to to italy in french it was incredible a swear word to speak about the government and it's very normal that the study mio

gifts miss you might call something back and so it's very normal and five you meant to change we said a moment five stars own 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 an arms shipment coming from the u.s. according to the interior ministry the stash includes rifles ammunition and communications equipment they were apparently flown in from miami if they already say that the bust was part of a broader crackdown on organized crime political analysts to look as kerner says this could be a link 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 they didn't benefit from 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 were bitten and i was . under elliott abrams as secretary of western hemisphere. brought back to oversee that it's less than a democratic transition in the top of ministration moreover i think we just reported just today that the british military and british navy in particular i think inducting military exercises both of them as well and additionally. indicated that u.s. military intervention in minutes 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 i've 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

venezuelan opposition leader who has said the supplies will test the 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 a 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 usa deliveries through colombia. 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 principle party. responsible for the economic life and it has been intensified in the last two years just last year the medical staff that venezuela had ordered from abroad for tax evasion for children for insulin for

all the inflamed and patients of the swelling and several other medical needs were completely blocked by the us in ordering from accepting the smell of money venezuela has the money and the resources but it's been strangled by the united states so the us carries an economic war for years and then comes with crimes as a theatrical act to say that they want to help the venezuelan people from starvation . the clubs have 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. in new york times opinion piece earlier this week claimed controversially that corruption is hardwired into russian society corruption is in russia's d.n.a.

sharing is not the russian wait. the piece is accompanied by a menacing photo of lattimer putin number of russian words are thrown in for dramatic effect as well including those meaning allies and to descend from asian one however has been missing translated 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 references to genetics a former u.s. national intelligence director once said that russians are genetically driven to co-opt and manipulate legal and media analyst lionel gave us his own unique 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 attacks you would have been indicted for that why russians back. that goes about take that so k. i never thought i could say this we always say well this hits a new low i knew lower journalistic. no dear

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 escape truth can't escape i mean this is for lab or gas tank but doesn't for me in let's say thirty four minutes i'll be back with more news right now to international. country has gone into a nihilistic fever. thank god it hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america the schalit is the genius of the special american hero this is it we've come a point around which alan is going to send we always are on the margins something on this called gun culture is really important because.

we're starting last with this is the beginning heading east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i'm going to leave now doesn't get a more ground zero the net may be completely different but the end of this. make this manufactured come sentenced him to the public will. when the running closest to protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lives only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million more you'll need root.

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they need to hold. on i think just. as a presidential candidate donald trump lambasted america's endless and wasteful wars but as president he has surrounded himself with a division 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 prez. greetings and salutation us with the government shutdown finally in the past in the

internal revenue service finally back to work many of us here in the united states are nervously gritting their teeth he faced the cold harsh reality of tax season and once again well not all of us seems because according to matthew gardiner a senior fellow at the institute on taxation and economic policy our good buddies at netflix have themselves a pretty sick. tax season than two thousand and eighteen he writes that the popular video streaming service netflix posted its largest ever u.s. profit in two thousand and eighteen a whopping eight hundred forty five million dollars on which netflix didn't pay a dime in federal or state income taxes not a dime. gardner goes on to point out that netflix had such an epic year that they actually reported a twenty two million better.