b. . washington hits the venezuelan government with a raft of new sanctions but also pledging humanitarian support to the struggling country. also donald trump's decision to pull out of a key arms control treaty with russia has left the world on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe that is the warning that from the twenty twenty u.s. presidential candidate. a move. french m.p.'s pass a bill that would force us to use the word parent and parent instead of mother and

father on official forms we've got reaction to that proposal. this is. around the world who are in the traditional family this is. now in moscow first washington's continuing to ramp up the pressure on the venezuelan government on friday it hit the crisis stricken countries state owned oil company. top officials the fresh wave of sanctions the u.s. sought to justify the move by repeating its claim that the embattled president is undermining democracy and continuing to violate human rights. while the u.s.

is attempting to send divergent ca to venezuela to is currently suffering the worst humanitarian crisis in the western hemisphere but nonetheless nicolas maduro is refusing to allow the food and medical supplies to be poured into his country from colombia he says it's a cynical ploy by the trump of ministration and an attempt to justify a possible military intervention even as well the president's also hit out of the colombian government which he's accused of extreme aggression. for our part our policy for colombia is peace and respect i cannot say the same about the government of the colombian president even to kate who has war plans against venezuela supported by the us empire i am not exaggerating donald trump and even in the white house announced war plans using colombia against venezuela. meantime the country's opposition leader who inquired doe's continuing to enjoy washington's full support he's blaming were doing for the humanitarian catastrophe in venezuela

as well and said recently he hasn't ruled out calling on the u.s. military to intervene against the president now says cullum open explains this morning washington's meddling in south america those sometimes are disastrous consequences in the past elliott abrams the trumpet ministrations new special representative for venezuela has been assigned the task of restoring democracy in the country and he says he's up to it just look how well he did in el salvador from the day the president was elected in a free election to this day el salvador has been a democracy that's a fabulous achievement. yes the pro-u.s. carried it to war to a won the elections but how democratic was the situation there were human rights abuses and death squads everywhere in fact one of the worst massacres in the history of latin america happened around that time for the from.

now abrams got confronted about the gruesome details before congress yes or no do you think that massacre. was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch that is a ridiculous question and i guess our no no i literally miss i will make you happy yes i am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not a question now the civil war between the us backed factions and the marxist revolutionaries continued until one thousand nine hundred two and slaughter by us backed forces also continue the death toll was as high as seventy thousand people but ronald reagan did not consider that to be a deal breaker the people of bills have adored had another free election in march

economic reforms are continuing and communist guerrillas are losing ground and none of this would have been possible without the economic assistance and military training and equipment that we provided so what have been the results is el salvador now a land of prosperity and freedom hardly in fact in twenty seventeen el salvador had the highest murder rate of any country in the world it is not currently at war those three years only decreased slightly in twenty eighteen now somebody might look at this and say well that was decades ago why bring it up now well the fact that abrams wants to repeat is democracy restoration project in venezuela is certainly alarming and when asked about this before the us congress he didn't deem it necessary to give an answer would you support an armed faction within venezuela that engages in war crimes crimes against humanity or genocide if you believe they

were serving u.s. interest as you did in guatemala el salvador and nicaragua i'm not going to respond to that question i'm sorry. the number of children living in conflict zones has doubled since the end of the cold war according to a new report by save the children the charges one in five youngsters now live in areas affected by armed conflict. the credit card the fact. that a while one mother kept siap door to get. rowdy. had the hoodie. on that i really am i did.

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four hundred twenty million children live in these conflict zones and at least a thousand of them die as a result every year since twenty ten the number of recorded cases of rights violations against children in fact is almost tripled but includes cases of killing maiming abduction and sexual violence the increase comes despite many of the world's most powerful politicians nonetheless campaigning for the protection of these young people it was a. forces continue their advance bearing down on the city of benghazi. home to nearly seven hundred thousand men women and children prevent images of amaze seeded children how many more children have to die the whole route the humanitarian disaster that is killing tens and tens of thousands of defenseless children the death of children the destruction of hospital and all of that is

a massacre which needs to be condemned. our reports say shows that right now almost one in five children on the planet living in conflicts and that's more than at any time in the last two decades. the consequences of living in these war zones catastrophic we estimate around three hundred babies are dying due to the consequences of war every single day well in twenty seventeen four hundred twenty million children of what i think we're living in areas affected by conflict that is an increase of two million on the previous year so what this is is really disturbing trend where more and more children are being caught up in conflicts in the international systems and sure of accountability breaking down so that when people commit crimes against children they know they can get away with it so what we're calling on this for the government to stand up for children and wasn't sure that when people d. perpetrate crimes against children held to account what we're really calling for today is for the u.k. government its protection of civilians in conflict started first of all the u.k.

government needs to ensure the curator of the heart of all of the defense diplomacy and ate and that they need to use i see some of the most powerful tables in the well of the u.n. nato to ensure that other countries policy. well this report identifies afghanistan iraq syria and yemen as being among the most dangerous countries for children nobel prize nominee and peace activist kathy kelly told us the international community does need to be doing more to safeguard young people living in these wars of this children certainly can't be held accountable for their governments whether it's military war economic war and i think that because of greed and pry it and dishonesty countries all around liberal continue to war against the child the race of the child should certainly be held countries could work together. much more effectively and so we have to take

responsibility ourselves and then encourage other people to do lank ways they must do everything think counties start this war and to start killing in staring children. eighteen years after washington launched its war on terror al qaeda remains a growth global threat and could be poised for a resurgence in the coming year that is the warning coming from a number of western intelligence chiefs with the details peter all over this morning. there is being presented as a real and present danger by the united kingdom how kind it has undergone a certain resurgence as a result of the degradation of diaspora and is a force that should also be taken seriously its deftly notes down and out the hopes just a little strange as. the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps

and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan today we focus on afghanistan but the battle is broader since then has spread to all of these countries they've also changed the name as well in syria alone they've gone through at least three rebranding so whatever they call themselves they still control the lion share of the syrian province of idlib the thing america is in the king to get involved as it was previously it is time to give our brave warriors in syria. a warm welcome home it's also currently battling al qaeda in yemen since the beginning of twenty seventeen we have conducted more than one hundred forty strikes to remove key leaders in the arabian peninsula and disrupt its ability to use. these to recruit train and plan operations against the u.s.

and our partners across the region u.s. allies in the region doing their share of the heavy lifting in fact. the united arab emirates have been accused of passing weapons on to terror groups something they strongly deny almost eighty years after his slaying by u.s. special forces the woods of asama bin laden about the al qaeda network standout. it appears he may have been proved right. showing signs of confidence what will for action. the threat from radical islamic terrorism the continuing threat posed by al qaeda as it stands that you'll be likely to be around for a while you'll be asked peter all over forty. democratic congresswoman tulsi gabbard who's twenty twenty u.s. presidential candidate has introduced a bill that could stop president trump's pullout from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. to.

make this right now. are our stories to be right. here. the landmark treaty was signed in one nine hundred eighty seven by then leaders ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev and it's been one of the pillars of international security since that ban nuclear capable missiles of intermediate range however thirty years later president trump facing constant accusations of collusion and not being tough enough on russia decided to withdraw from the treaty citing alleged violations by moscow now with the two countries to quit the deal fears are growing over a new arms race and research remarks by trump aren't helping to quash those concerns perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement it being china and others. or perhaps we can't in which

case we will outspend and out innovate all of those by far russia has denied any violations and said that it's been open to washington for any necessary checks but that didn't help and for now the treaty has been suspended by both sides paving way for a potential arms race if not worse and now till see gabbert is trying to impede trump's move and it's not the first time she's taking action against a foreign policy that she considers controversial back when obama was in office she proposed the stop arming terrorists act this prohibited funding or support for any militant group with links to eisele or al-qaeda after it turned out that some of the weapons provided to the so-called moderate rebels in syria surfaced into terrorist hands but despite how different republican president donald trump and democrat presidential candidate tells he gathered are that one thing in common both have been accused of being candidates flecked of by russia shortly after she announced that she's running with an anti-war platform and b c news claimed that

russia's propaganda machine has been working in her favor citing a discredit at source a company that was caught fabricating russian bots so we're now in the situation where two merican politicians accused of being actually russian have drastically different views on a russia related issue that concerns the whole world well i certainly hope it will be effective i mean i agree with ms gabbert that this is pushing this move by trump is pushing the world closer to the possibility of nuclear war these are the type of missiles these intermediate range missiles that a country like the u.s. might be willing to use on a limited basis so i hope that is gabbert bill works i have doubts though because it seems like there's bipartisan support in the united states for war and for confrontation with russia now if if someone drinks. russian vodka their russian agent apparently it's silliness but it's dangerous because this is an attempt to

mark any peace activists any activist for social justice is some type of a pawn of the kremlin again very much like the old mccarthy period which links similar people with that with moscow. ten seventeen in the morning here in moscow thanks for watching richard did run the world ahead here off the break on r.t. tensions flared again between india and pakistan following a devastating terror attack in kashmir province smallman we come back.

what politicians do so. they put themselves on the line they did accept it over and checked. so when you want to express. some want to. have to go right to the press this is what the korean people are. interested in the why.

again good morning protests in taking place across india in the wake of the suicide bombing that killed over forty paramilitary police in the province of kashmir on thursday suffer a pakistan based terror group which the indian government claims received support from the authorities in islamabad took responsibility for the attack. on how the aftermath demonstrate has been filmed chanting anti pakistan slogans and burning effigies of the country's prime minister the bombing has dramatically escalated tensions between india and pakistan that should be fighting for control of kashmir since in this petition in one nine hundred forty seven. but i want to tell the terrorist organizations and those who patronize them that

they have made a huge mistake they will have to pay a huge price for its part pakistan's government firmly denied india's claims that it was involved in the attack and has offered to help investigators spoke to our melissa both countries about what this bombing means now for bilateral relations. pakistan is being extremely extremely provocative and distended may have just gone one step too much so yes i mean people in india are extremely have chance i'm not somebody who was saying you know. the fact i think the anger in the country is extremely high so it's a constant fight and it's just a question of escalation you see an escalation then you see it in addition it goes back and forth i don't think that anybody in india at a moment is in any any bend of mind to have a dialogue because you just blown up forty forty two people in the middle of you know out of a town so don't come to the municipality community countries and talk about peace

is to is to really make fools of everybody else in the world although you might recall that in similar incidents in the india has been quick to blame pakistan for the of the mess which we have in this is over the in the far. region what again they have a mixture of a lot of harsh words between two countries to start with on it appears that there may be a similar situation and then we will find a solution and so to solve we are certainly cooperating with india number one comes up with hard evidence of bold involvement of anybody as a useful citizen or it will not in this data which i think is unlikely because gesture mom of the group which has been in this possibility the rare the suicide bomber who has conducted this that. he is he's a best indian controlled kashmir so pakistan has apparently not a link because of what this new site or dark and the second possibility i think

which is that in the broader picture last fall back and go situation x. missed and that is in the bush and between india and pakistan. schools could be said replace the words mother and father with para one apparent to all official documents itself or a new bill was passed by m.p.'s in the national assembly the lawmakers in the countries lower house say that this proposal would challenge quote old fashioned family models the bill still got a pass through the senate but the m.p. behind it believes it will be successful. this amendment aims to root in law children's family diversity in administrative forms submitted in school it got radios jungle and human rights activists speeded each other's throat slightly over there so we got their proposals what we thought was their mean for french society if indeed it is adopted in the end. this particular proposal is to try and ensure that the kids in the school the staff and the parents all feel

included that in the case of you know two women who are parents to a child that is obviously not appropriate to have mother and father there are two mothers and the same with ok dad is pathetic isn't it because they could be called moment mom well that while the proposal actually actually says he's parent one and parent two if they want to call them moment momos got a problem with that nobody's got a problem with a kid who now has got two two moms but we don't need to legislate for it parents who on have parent to what do we just give the kids a number the number seven it's nonsense yet you know just the fact that saying with a parent are a minority doesn't make discrimination or second class status right if a child has two moms or two dads then i think it's probably not correct to say father and father because obviously one will be the biological father and the other

one won't i would suggest that possibly an alternative or there's probably a lot of hard booze them become a comp a compromise might be mother to give people the option mother father or legal guardian so that the word legal guardian would account for the other person in that same sex relationship where my mother died when i was eleven and it would have been my own say so my auntie was really her guardian and she was my own c. nobody batted an eyelid and the same religious you can record legal guardian peter that's not what they're suggesting they're suggesting you can't use the word father or mom and dad that's what they're suggesting this is an attack on the ninety five percent of people not only in france for around the world who are in the traditional family the traditional family is constantly being attacked at the moment by globalists. all around the world this is not meant as an attack upon you know traditional families this is just

a temp to broaden the terms or make the terms more gender neutral so that everyone feels included the whole world is going crazy these minorities have got too much influence in the media let's stop emphasizing our differences and let's come together and let's put the children first. lost john goal there are always more that come to play to cause a whole range of other world news stories most of our team don't come on my site you know kevin i'm for the rest of the team here in the moscow h.q. today this saturday morning i have a great weekend. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and

a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else you think i was going to go. by the way ways of that slide here. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube clip the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still or here i mean your list put video in the new bill is that i mean you're spoiling you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took. it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.

presidents going to take you there to tell you. close welcome back to the night is the comedy show where americans in america cover an american news or call the foreign agents. representative phil han omar just a few months ago it was celebrated it was celebrate with some fans it was celebrated by democrats everywhere is the first naturalized citizen from africa to be elected the u.s. congress as well as one of the first two muslim women ever elected it was a huge show of inclusively people across the country said wow the democrats really do have a big tent that does include some women of color. this is massive

this is tremendous so now it is time to crush those women. you see last week the democratic leadership realized omar holds views that don't facilitate the imperial war machine the way you're supposed to do if you're a member of congress either party so the d.n.c. as hastily change their. goals whiteboard from we want women of color to we want women of color who don't question our imperial rampages over seas and oligarchy and daughter sister of all political rivalry. what happened a few days ago was glenn greenwald tweeted about how the g.o.p. was threatening punishment for omar's criticisms of israel then representative omar responded by saying it's all about the benjamins baby. now if

anti-semitism is all you have on the brain and you're already prejudiced against non white women then you go now on o. was using anti-semitic troops and she must apologize and one geology eyes example not be on. which is what people did and it's what the media did it was joe scarborough this this was sort of distressing to say the least her apology was to stress and. i hope she takes another swing at it and is is we're on the quizzical in her apology but yeah i support the blowing up of civilians with our bombs every chance i get but this tweet stating there's money in politics was beyond the pale. oh more negs to clarify that she's not an eight pack the israeli lobbying group then half of congress and even donald trump

himself responded to that they were horrified by this use of anti-semitic tropes let's focus on the fact that if you're a rational human it's easy to see omar was not being anti-semitic and i can be considered an expert on this because i'm jewish all right which is also why i can say jewish everyone else has to say f. ing jewish. full disclosure i'm jewish by birth but no longer religious by choice i stayed in it until i was thirteen for the bar mitzvah guess. which means it was all about the benjamins. but here's the thing recently revealed undercover recordings have proven omar correct apac and israel lobby have full control over congress people by wielding money aka benjamin's these recordings were captured forward.