i. i i i. british born man in syria describes the u.k. government's decision to revoke his citizenship as unfair and racist although the previously fighting in the walls. whether or not the long awaited miller probe into pollution will deliver a smoking gun us democrats look set to launch their own investigation intent it seems and still achieving. impeachment is a long way down the road we don't have the facts yet. some in washington continue to ratchet up talk of regime change in caracas the kind interim president returns home from a latin american soul without incident. the u.k.

primary school reportedly caves into pressure and suspends its lessons on homosexuality after hundreds of angry parents keep their children at home in protest. for getting out welcome this is international first this hour a british born man in syria has criticised the government's decision to strip him of his citizenship sheriff describes himself as an aid worker but admits. the story of a british born syria based aid worker fighting for justice has been making headlines in the u.k. this week to care sharif has spent years in syria as a prominent aid worker described as one of the most high profile for nationals in he's now speaking out against what he's dubbed a racist and unfair system of citizenship stripping laws i mean i came out here to

help the innocent people there were being massacred by the bashar regime i'm. the stories come to light following the lifting of the man's anonymity in a case that saw the u.k. government stripped him of his british citizenship back in twenty seventeen he was informed of the decision with this letter. it is assessed that you are a british pakistani jewel national whose travel to syria and is aligned to an al qaeda aligned group your return to the u.k. would present a risk to the national security over the united kingdom my decision has been taken in part reliance on information which in my opinion should not be made public in the interest of national security deemed a national security risk and twenty seventeen the man had been a media darling just a few years prior. she

reads appearances on prominent news networks as well as dispatches via his live updates from syria blog posts leftist political preferences no secret the reason why i came to syria is to help the syrian people who are being massacred by the bashar he rebels why do they do it the problem is is that the broad of of of the syrian regime is a force woman and children and civilians that are facing the arrest these individuals who take it we cannot take their word that they are that over there is aid workers because we know that these aid groups are operating in opposition held territory are only operating with the kid can items and at the messy of some of the most grievous and force violent terrorist groups that was either nor so these aid workers so-called cannot exculpate themselves from the activities of these groups because in and working in these opposition held areas controlled by these groups

they are giving sanction to these opposition groups and sanction to their activities surely this lawyer has been seeking evidence from the home office to find out why exactly his client was deemed a threat meanwhile the home office has had this follow up on the specifics of the case. we do not comment on individual cases but any decisions to deprive individuals of the citizenship are based on available evidence i'm not taken lightly the issue of british citizenship being revoked has been in the spotlight in the u.k. recently due to a spike in terrorism and crime according to official figures more than one hundred people were stripped of their nationality in twenty seventeen compared to just fourteen the year before as sharif's appeal continues he maintains his innocence but the home office seems to have already made up its mind. not reporting for duty in london. to the us now our senior us democrats are demanding access to

all communications between donald trump proves that amid claims the us president can seal details of what he spoke about with his russian counterpart the following request has been sent to the white house the committee's request by march fifteenth twenty nineteen the department produced all documents communications regardless of form and classification the refer all relate to any communications between president trump and president putin. looks like us democrats are doubling down on the efforts to catch trump on the alleged collusion with russia perhaps because there's been talk the current move the probe into the issue will prove a disappointment and i'm open house details. there's an old saying among cops and prosecutors if you throw enough at a wall eventually something will stick and this old saying usually expressed with less polite terminology seems to now be the montra of the democrats in congress gerry navl or has been selected to lead the charge impeachment is

a long way down the road we don't we don't have the facts yet but we are going to initiate. a proper investigation so you have peach somebody you have to persuade the american public that it ought to to happen to remember the bob muller investigation that highly expensive two year long probe into allegations that donald trump had colluded with russia not too long ago democrats had many people convinced that it would be a huge game changer. well the final report is imminent and some are worried that it won't contain a bombshell or smoking gun revelation but some democrats seem to have the same overall goal because we're going to go in there really. i eighty one people have received a letter from the house judiciary committee they plan on following up on every last

lead from the testimony of trump's former warrior michael cohen at this point they are planning to investigate the relations between the white house and trump's family the firing of james komi foreign trade deals and much much more and it won't just be the judiciary committee that is looking into donald trump all you have to do is follow the transcripts if there were names that were mentioned old records that were mentioned during the hearing we're going to take a look at all of that the u.s. constitution lays out procedures. for trying and removing a president who is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors the idea is to put a check and balance on the executive branch so that it is not above the law however it seems that has of late investigations and impeachment have turned into just another play in the never ending political football game. r.t. new york. trumps branded the new efforts to impeach him harassment of innocent people you also pointed out there's no evidence of collusion ties with russia only

us republican congressman michael patrick flanagan believes that a democrat controlled inquiry will backfire. the democrats knowing that it's not going to be much of a report are now trying to build their own campaign and continue the to video from all or in their own clumsy imperfect way and their goal is to take this president down and make sure that he is in no way possibly reluctant next year and so they will do their best to keep this alive if war was keeping his or it is a his son his investigation somehow alive they would be doing this because the need for this investigation would be would be vitiated by a bible or doing here this but now motors done and he's apparently not going to report much of anything this is the democrats furious so they're going to build an investigation that they control that they run that they can control the outcome of a surprise a price that will have the outcome that they wanted to have and no one will believe it. a primary school in britain second city birmingham has reportedly caved into

pressure and temporarily pulled the plug on its bt lessons after hundreds of parents reportedly kept their children at home in protest. as the story. well the cause of this route is a educational diversity program called no outside isn't it a means to teach kids about the different types of families that they might encounter and talking to them about things like the idea of having two mom or two dads and reading books to kids as young as four about the concept of same sex families a program was devised by the deputy head of the school at the center of this route his name's andrew marr fattened actually he's been nominated for the world's best teacher award take a look at him talking about the program. another was sick on both of them

mostly nearly got some tissues wiped them back. is about teaching to you are different you can still be friends with anybody there's a huge going to. the schools we have to find ways to teach children to talk to counter them. but the majority of the parents at the school are on happy with andrew marr fats teaching methods it's a predominantly muslim school and parents fundamentally dish some of our viewers might know that islam in islam homosexuality is forbidden so up until now the school had really held and said that they would continue this what they see as a very necessary diversity program but now a number of media outlets saying that the school has sent a letter to parents saying that the lessons are going to be stopped take a lesson up to the end of this term we will not be delivering any outsiders lessons

in our long term your curriculum plan as this often has already been blocked for religious education because you simply will continue as normal and welcoming outside as will be the. this comes after protests last friday some six hundred. parents said that they hadn't taken their kids to school that's eighty percent of the school's attendance of the school's pupils the school wouldn't confirm that number but these protests have been taking place for a while now ever since this rouse started and some of them have been pretty sizable take a look. at. that . i'm prior to the protests taking place there had been a big school petition that some four hundred predominantly muslim parents had

signed calling on the school to stop these lessons so this is clearly an issue that's really riled up the parents in this school in the community i reported on the storing from birmingham a couple of weeks ago and this is what the parents had to say to me it's not for the reappeared for the deception kids. to homosexuals you should learn about yet old age not right now because you can once did teach your kids no need to stick with boys and boys who that's not good thing this was a two hour live with a like it's because if you have to obviously clearly say you can't discriminate against religion and whatnot that's what they're doing it's ninety nine percent muslim it's not about the muslim that the jewish community the other communities the christian communities they're all have issues around the way things have been going now i've been in touch with some of those parents from the school and so far what i've heard is that this diversity program hasn't exactly been stopped it's

more that it's been posed for this task and some of the headlines would suggest that it says sort of a big final ending to it that doesn't seem to be the case. we've requested clarification from the school and we are still waiting for it but if the moment it looks that if the school sticks with this program and returns to it next or next year well it may well face the same protests all over again. u.s. led forces assert to expand the naval presence in the black sea that news was confirmed by nato supreme allied commander in europe in an address to the u.s. senate with more is our to speak to all of our. u.s. general curtis scuppered altie is being giving testimony before the senate armed services committee know he was how to create a question put to him by the chair over the u.s. is deployment in the black sea region who was it targeting and was it sufficient in

general skeptical of these view it needs more work both the united states and in nato has stepped up its presence in the black sea do you think it's sending a clear message to president vladimir putin i think it is i mean a the frankly don't like us in the black sea and it's international waters and we should seal and fly their scuppered off he isn't you common old garden general he also has a well he has quite a bit more power than not he's also the commander of the u.s. european command he's also the nato supreme allied commander and it was and what he's been asking for is for two navy destroyers to be sent into navy destroyers that are currently stationed in spain it wasn't just russia though that came in the crosshairs of general scaparrotti turkey nato ally was also in for some some treatment from the nato supreme commander and crew was basically put on notice and

told that should it pursue russian air defenses well they could well find that there deliveries of f. thirty five fighter bombers from the u.s. going to write this is a huge decision for turkey it connection in many different ways to that to the to the. employment and the. integration that they have within the system itself the f. thirty five but also the f.m. national other systems that that we we sold to turkey as well and so wide i would hope that they would reconsider this one decision on ash four hundred one system it but potentially. for. many of the other systems in the motion one of the most important systems that we. call the u.s. is a big part of the russian foreign ministry has put forward their thoughts on these

statements from this u.s. general they say that any activity like this risks worsening the security situation in the black sea and said that the black sea is all about cooperation well that cooperation from the u.s. side it would seem is that they want to send to washington into the region. explain how to run a brown who's the president of the international peace be a a very good living why does nato need to expand its presence in the black sea what's the motivation do you think. the motivation is very clear is the. pros of confrontation to russia they want to close the circle around russia send more troops so the west part of russia and this means also to send more troops about it see this is absolutely against peace and cooperation of the side of confrontation this is a sign of even lashing the military actions against russia so it is definitely

a bad sign it's a sign of the wrong direction we need a peaceful black sea a peaceful blacks you of cooperation between the different countries around the sea and what the u.s. is doing is u.s. need was absolutely the wrong way we saw general scott brought he was saying this in front of the u.s. senate russia doesn't like it when we increase our presence in the black sea the senator asking the question smiled at that suggested why would the u.s. intentionally and seemingly enjoy the fact that there antagonizing russia what do they aim to gain from it. you know every provocation as it can do against russia they're doing they're developing and even making strong other sanctions against russia they are sending more troops in military equipment to the east part of russia they even discussing to install on your new club in central europe this is

to try to develop a new way to visit russia with the big economic power of the nato countries and the u.s. in the weaker economic power of russia they really believe that they are stronger than russia and that they could get russia back on their side that they were russia give up their national interests and their own independent foreign policy i think this is it it lucian by the nato countries and above all the truck and his race believe this illusion who benefits from a new arms race. you know you can see the united states and the needless spending about one billion for military purposes this is a huge profit for the arms industry aren't investing in countries and in all the nato countries above all in the state capital of this country united states russia is spending a vast sixty five billion for military purposes and you know they need the money

for developing their own country for their health care the education system and that so what they're trying is to push russia to and i'm sleighs but you know who designs a four man us then he was very clever he said we really have an answer metric answer so every tank will follow up with a tank in russia but they would give military on to reach makes the international situation even more unsecured and is not good for peace ron i've quit to speak to run a brown is my guest president of the international peace bureau. a prison inmates in northwest friends has been detained have to stop being too gaunt severely injuring the interior minister described it as an act of terrorism the attack is currently serving a thirty year sentence in a high security facility for kidnapping armed robbery and extremist activity he

reportedly shouted goldie's great in arabic before lashing out at the gods in the prisons family visiting unit at the time of the stabbing he was being visited by his wife who is also being detained. i still remember brunn terrill from voices for creative violence attacks by islamic extremists in the last three to four years still on high alert in the country of affairs of islamic state jihadists returning from syria how could this latest incident affect that situation. well this issue ation is exacerbated by the trumpet ministration the united states insisting that france and other european countries. absorb some eight hundred. isis prisoners from syria in the next months. but this is a part of the larger. economic and military warfare

that here in the united states were affected by this with the border with mexico we destabilized no overthrown. elected governments in little most latest one hundred s. two thousand and nine destabilizing economies political structures and. this this causes a waves of immigration and refugees i think using the word terrorist to describe the uses is problematic to. the united states prison and one time ago in cuba had insured more than seven hundred people. and there's still some forty left there and only about a dozen words are evidence enough to. bring criminal charges against most many of these are people in the wrong place the wrong time mistaken identities people being sold for. you know for

a bounty is. the you know the this is the. you know the fruits of military actions that france a lot of the united states and u.k. and many other countries are have been involved in the father the top and brian in in a prison on the stage that how big a problem do you think the situation is that because authorities in france have raised concern about radicalization in prisons prison guards themselves to think things really all that. well. in france in particular there is hardly been an event like this where the words radicalized in prison. haven't come. and the numbers in france the the muslim population of france is between eight and ten percent and the prison population. the numbers are staggering it's. of

prisoners based on religion but estimates are from forty to seventy percent of those in in french prisons are are the employment unemployment figures it's a society that's. very polarized and when you put people in prison it only exacerbates that. it is how many times do we have to hear. those words radicalized in prison attached to an act of violence. before we realize that this is a failing it's a failed response to. you know to my limbs. appreciate your time to wrap things up there brian terrell my guest from voices for creative dumbfounds. that estate has extended sanctions against government officials in venezuela for another year that says venezuela's opposition leaders returned rallying support on why don't have been touring latin

america in violation it should be said of a travel ban that was imposed by caracas is return from to very different reactions on twitter from a cheering us state department to a defiant venezuelan president in his duel has welcomed back who are. good to see even as well and security forces standing on the right side of history the world must unite push to end the brutal murder regime and peacefully restore democracy. the world is watching as venezuela confronts imperial aggression and moves forward with dignity we will continue to hold high the flag of our free people who raise their voices against imperial interference all of venezuela will return to the streets determined to mobilize in search of freedom the ambassadors of france germany the netherlands and spain greeted the airport along with a crowd of journalists while flag waving supporters welcomed him home at a rally in the capital. to mobilize for yet another protest against the president

on tuesday. the u.s. has once again expressed his full support for why the issue was raised at a state department briefing that fifty four countries have now recognized. as interim president so we're going to continue pushing. we're going to continue pushing so you just mentioned the number again robert fifty four that's a that's only about a quarter. of the countries of the right if you told a number of countries but we've got a major supports in the western hemisphere and i would just point that out as well as europe. and. if we look at the mocker cease we're doing pretty well as well ok all right. meanwhile venezuela is becoming a problem for others in the region the u.s. has threatened to tighten economic screws on cuba over havana's proma tourist

stands the u.s. national security adviser said new restrictions would target cuba's military john bolton also tweeted the region's nations should condemn caracas. russia's foreign minister called bolton statement crazy adding american actions in the region are absolutely inappropriate gets the it takes a look at why washington thinks that it can dictate who side people should be on. the united states is exceptional literally bouncing by different rules to you and me of the nations states groups you see they have the right to decide who rules where like in venezuela they decide who is a dictator and who isn't they decide which dictators rule and which don't know the state supports any number of dictators who violate human rights including the leaders of egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. do you not see that the united states support for other brutal dictators around the

world undermines the the credibility of the argument you make no i don't think it does make it separate and i think look in this administration we're not afraid to use the phrase monroe doctrine. it's an odd chaotic nineteenth century policy that basically says new nation in the islands for europeans and everyone not from the americas a little later teddy roosevelt twisted this policy turned it inside out instead of protecting american nations the us now toppled governments that didn't like their now they've twisted it again now they think they can do this everywhere all over the world and a zoo l.-a and a bill that legitimizes us meddling that terry quire threat assessment a strategy to counter russian influence in venezuela. in effect they're trying to justify meddling invent no not that many asked for it not even america's

champ there but you don't see broad support for i believe that there is respectful participation of russia in regards to watching the fate of our country but the same goes for other countries that are paying attention here america knows better in syria half the world away it's the same story in syria the united states where used to plumb us in work with our partners to expel every last iranian brute and work through the un a process to bring peace and stability to the long suffering syrian people for the life of me i don't remember syrians are asking the united states to get rid of iranians but america knows better africa too many chinese there thinks washington up to no good now is the time to boot them out china uses bribes opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt

to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands goes without saying it wasn't the africans who asked for this in fact according to the latest gallup poll most africans approve of chinese investment plans leadership in africa but the united states knows better you know why because it's special exceptional better than you or me officially our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order this is a unique exceptional country. imagine mr monreal would turn in his grave if he could see what his but nine policy protecting the weak from european colonisers what that has been turned into.