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. the 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 at amnesty international following the suicides of two employees at the aid group. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our two international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us and the u.s. president has 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 artie's caleb oppen 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 upbeat 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 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 pump aoe 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 i still terrorists will entail and what these new tactics in fighting them will be i guess 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 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 been sent on slightly to the pressure and said that this is a tactical change although he has continued to say that they 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 a syrian envoy who was trying to achieve two different goals on the one hand he wants to how to protect the kurds reassure. the syrian democratic forces that the united states will protect them about same time there was also a clock of a burial zone whereby 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 that there is a special place in hell for those who promoted brags that without a plan or she's 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 that dream have 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 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 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 to only believe. opposition. i believe in heaven i have never seen out of. well 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 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 briggs it and everything that than tails. very european parliament's representative on briggs it has also weighed in he suggested that not even lucifer

would welcome the ukase leave campaigners as they would even manage to divide well we spoke to political commentator john bruce montu says brussels is making an example of the u.k. . 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 where they don't love them in the problem with this because he is just the bureaucracy that needs to preserve itself it's not a real unity of the people that is looking. in this little love between the different leaders that ideally is like a divorce there should be a divorce way in which you consent to reduce carol to this other than trying to maintain and that issue of union which is only in the end she doing and then they see to keep it says do you still counting on the british parliament to have heard it and accept their agreement with dating they want due to the new deal breaks it

becomes more and more closely bill on the other hand them not injured 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 and discrimination amnesty international is one of the world's oldest humanitarian groups but every view 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. well being that 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 you have a terrorist group researcher moved to was at amnesty for more than thirty years and

blamed the organization for pressures at work before taking his own life with more on the review years artes and associates work 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 have 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 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 as helps to revolutionize the ways in which people communicate

it 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 face for data to 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 dot 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 was hard 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 from 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 such 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 an arms shipment coming from miami that story much more still to come this is our two international. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express an injury. or somehow want to be rushed. to the right to be close it's like that before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the wives of our. first sitting.

around the stand and hear some of the. problem what i saw. that are are rather tricky and there are rather you know across the top the four or the down together that. i'm going to let them but i don't catch them then you cut them and kick and. i don't lose each other for a trifle that it doesn't have a. lot of work then i was going on the show little side of. the hey how do you do it.

if it's whole full plate choice where john the i knew you had a i think tom in theory has said. pretty she ought to have a. model for that after the whole fucking mr hates it for jim and then i hope that our friends in the course. of the money. this is our t. international the french government has lashed out at an italian deputy prime minister for a meeting with yellow vest activists the foreign ministry accused luigi di maggio of harming relations between rome and paris. this new provocation is not acceptable between neighboring countries and partners in 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. 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 in you 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 direct democracy and social rights as shared concerns last month the italian interior minister matteo 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 destiny and pride which a poorly represented by carries a light macro independent journalist a lucrative a believes president is largely to blame for the ongoing war of words

with italy. president model 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 we study mio gifts 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 us according to the interior ministry the stash includes rifles ammunition

and communications equipment they were apparently flown in from miami the authorities say that the bust was part of a broader crackdown on organized crime political analysts that look as colonel says this could be linked to an opposition request for u.s. support. she was very alarming she couldn't bear that you had an rip just a little while ago that they didn't invent a military option outside of the country we're calling on the ministration to provide them with arms and training in order to topple mother i'm in accord this with regulars back to the us and support are the big concert war they didn't cry when mercenaries invaded nic i was. under elliott abrams as secretary of what you have it's your bed with now but it brought back to oversee that as well as on a democratic transition in the top administration moreover we think we did it one of the reported just today that the british military british navy in particular i think inducting military action and it was an additional problem educated on.

u.s. military intervention and a lot of remains quote unquote an option on the table for the white house meanwhile the venezuelan military has barricaded a bridge on the colombian border to block a delivery of humanitarian aid as you can see two 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 this according to the colombian government venezuelan opposition leader who has said that the supplies will test the military's loyalty to the government but president maduro has rejected the aide saying of 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 efforts in aid to venezuela doubling its budget for the country but the group says its policy of neutrality means it cannot take part in the us aid 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 in the us that's the principal party. responsible for the action. right and it has been intensified in the last two years just last year the medical shipment of venezuela had ordered from abroad sacks nations for children for insulin for all the inflamed hundred patients of them the swelling and several other medical needs were completely blocked by the u.s. in ordering debate from accepting penicillin money then asked well how the money and the resources but it's been strangled by the united states so the u.s. economic war three years and then comes with crimes as a theatrical act to say that they want to help the venezuelan 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 official 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 a number of russian words are thrown in for dramatic effect as well including those winning lines and a descent from asian 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 the readers of the publication imagine a new york times op ed carroll is stating 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 analysis it also undermines the author's argument because if true who can blame volodya scary photo by the way this photo and the article are reminiscent of the hearst papers in a phobia 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 the legal and media analyst lionel gave us his own very unique take on the story i don't even know the adjectives though the word 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 russia. that goes without take that so kay i never thought i could say this we always say well this hit some new low i knew or lower journalistic. netgear 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 can't xscape truth can't escape i mean this is the lab or gas staying and i've got the headlines for you in about thirty four minutes just under that watching art international stay with us.

what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want. you to go on to be pros which is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. you know if putin said suddenly that oh if we recognize nancy pelosi as the president stays there we're not going to talk with donald trump the world of the you know how arranged but of course the u.s. has a stereo of exceptionalism and that no law plaza 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 but one market. i'm after times here we're going on the ground the day after the state of the union and there's even british governments follow the u.s. playbook called regime change in oil rich venezuela coming on the show has a u.k. cross party reports claim saudi arabia was torturing women activists we speak to you have any man detained for fifteen years in guantanamo bay without charge about allegations of government sponsored violations of the geneva conventions and we don't need this fascist rufe saying on live a little reagan would have been one hundred eight we look back at the song banned

by the b.b.c. the name checking him with it's all seven seventeen. martin where lots of the news find out who's bashing who about a brac sit back stop under the british army really have a shoot to kill policy against civilians in afghanistan all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first a reminder that you can get a job with the story of british intentions to deport former u.k. army veteran twain morgan today on a flight to jamaica on a you tube channel but now to even more sinister deportations in a country which like france has witnessed mass weekly protests against new liberalism serbia it's women too old they feed despite not knowing the language or anybody there has been put to serving fifteen years of the u.s. torture camp in occupied cuba guantanamo without any charge following then through his release he has been contacted by former inmates in saudi arabia's prisons with claims of torture claims echoed in this week's cross party report that included

a friend of prince harry's wife megan markel when she was a book art from going to animal is out soon and he joins me now via skype from belgrade went through a welcome do going underground or drum predictably didn't mention going tandem of the state of the union existed around seventeen years how do you remember us torture after being there fifteen years with no charge imagine a boy nineteen years all was shipped to guantanamo to we know where it was like a cemetery was like we were we were not alive or not dead but we were in like in between life and death so when i get there i like from four that was especially when you get that come back straight in comes out the one that i was at three when that tradition started applying some. torture techniques to interrogate detainees and it was like hell.