she uses. the. u.s. state department journalist for refusing to refer to venezuela's opposition leader as the country's interim president. some outlets are in correctly referring to one as the opposition leader. or the self-proclaimed president. neither is correct. a british born man has worked in syria made him a media darling is stripped of his u.k. citizenship for alleged links to jihad and. also this

hour desperate families and humanitarian crisis stricken. children as young as three and exchange for food that's according to a new report by the charity oxfam. the family i mean. they can make their daughters and they can bring some dowry and that just can't protect the prime minister. and the reality adventure puzzle game in greece sparks outrage references to the holocaust players are asked to help save people from concentration camps are. young people today learn in ways that they didn't learn when i was a kid it's a disgrace that people are even thinking to a kid the. games of.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow where it's just turn two pm thanks for tuning in this hour. we start in venezuela which faces the specter of yet more u.s. sanctions as washington tries to cripple caracas financially and its bid to oust democratically elected president nicolas maduro or simply recognizing opposition leader as venezuela's interim president the u.s. seems to think it has already succeeded in affecting regime change with the state department going so far as to break journalists who think otherwise we have noticed in news coverage that some outlets are incorrectly referring to one guy joe as the opposition leader or the self-proclaimed president. neither is correct relying on venezuela's constitution one guy joe became interim president of venezuela on january twenty third millions of americans and more than fifty

countries recognize as interim president of venezuela you get this for your complaining because you said let's replace it with by the title you don't think he made a complaint pointing out just trying to correct all that's all it's like a complaint to me in that seems pretty weak he's he's the easy interim president well and we don't want to consider him to be the interim president and as you say fifty other countries to recognize him as you know president but they're all more than a hundred members of the militia so there are fifty countries is not even close to half. the time to act in support of democracy and some news coverage of calling them the legitimate leader the president is going to encourage more functional but we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current chatter and a similar vein u.s. senator marco rubio also tried schooling the media lambasted c.n.n.

for using the term self-proclaimed when referring to supposedly interim presidency he said the phrase was used by russia to undermine the constitutional legitimacy of bardos claim rubio even jokingly hinted at possible collusion between c.n.n. and moscow and let's gauge the state of the world opinion on the matter of why does legitimacy fifty four countries recognize him as bad as well as leader the rest of the world either supports nicolas maduro is neutral or backs the opposition or on national assembly without recognizing do i go and take a look at my record as i suppose a dictator. there are a whole array of politicians who don't approve of nicholas min dural but one of the labels that he's given is worth exploring according to them nicholas woman is a dictator nicolas maduro is a dictator period of the now defunct mature regime there in his brutal dictator and you call this material and has made him so what exactly is a dictator now the term generally refers to authoritarian leaders who crush their

opposition and have absolute power but what's been happening in venezuela lately. thank you i at this point we've got a minor opposition figure one kwaito declaring himself to be the interim president and at this point he's got the united states and britain backing him he was then banned from traveling by the supreme court so what did he do he then went on a speaking tour of latin american countries rallying support from those who want to violently overthrow the venezuelan government after that what did he do he stayed in exile fearing for his life knowing that if he returned the harsh regime would kill him right well no he actually felt safe enough to get on a commercial flight and go back to venezuela he still has not been arrested and the united states itself forbids people from doing this kind of thing whoever incites

sets on foot assists or engages in any rebellion against you authority of the us shall be fined or imprisoned no more than ten years will both imagine that some kind of fringe activist pulled a grade zero in america and declared himself to be the president with say venezuela or iran backing him well wait a hasn't been arrested and he's walking around giving speeches freely in venezuela you point out i was able to enter venezuela things to you and you'll know why he's asian in venezuela we feel that today we've made a decisive step towards the conquest of freedom the cold though lopez go. those longtime ally was actually convicted of inciting violence against the venezuelan government his trial received huge international attention and after a brief stint in prison he was in house arrest and from his home he was once again rallying people to overthrow him and this is how lopez wife described his treatment by the supposed dictatorship now put those in contact with everyone every day constantly has been sitting together in opposition that's totally united and strong

now some people might say that it's only because of the immense pressure on venezuela the material as it swept in and crushed the life of one guede oh however that doesn't exactly add up because at this point only twenty five percent of the countries in the world recognize kwaito as the president the rest of the world says that the girl is the legitimate leader now in any other country in the world arresting this kind of provocateur would pretty much be standard practice however one boy is free he's walking around venezuela giving speeches inciting people to engage in violence for his made for social media revolution. has been born and he will not die things are going well in venezuela opposition rallies and protests take place all the time there are many things that you can say about nicolas maduro but the brutal dictator is a profile he just doesn't fit caleb oppen r.t. new york on tuesday madeira took part in a ceremony commemorating the sixth anniversary of the death of his predecessor hugo

chavez his rival quite oh meanwhile met with public sector unions urging them to take strike action to help bring down the government political science professor call and ask of l. believes america's us them rhetoric is not helping. with the trumpet ministration is doing is forcing us. and other countries to choose are you sure this is a growth to do. with the elected government of venezuela or are you going to go. board there is this government that the united states does not like so it is international the venezuelan conflict on a very dangerous basis because countries now are being forced to choose are they going to go with an aggressive imperialist action or are they going to support democracy and the ride's other people there as well. sixteen people have been

killed in a twin suicide bombing and subsequent gun attack and the afghan city and jalalabad journalists all time flies it is in kabul reports. well five assailants who have been involved into this attack were all killed by government forces and the security forces are still looking for three more suspects so these are salience interred a private construction firm which was in contract with the airfield there in jalalabad and they were constructing for them so sixteen people have been killed and nine other. been wounded this situation of two have been critical. in this attack actually is happening while president ghani visited eastern cannot province to you know a great hospital so that security was quite tight but still the assailants could do

manage to enter a house which was very nearby to the airport which is you know well equipped and has drawn down everything so. actually is showing also a failure since the prison is there and the highways and everywhere is also secure it has been a stronghold for a diet in jalalabad also the taliban have increased you know attacks especially in the recent weeks they have killed over fifty security forces in south unhealed month and now it's not clear whether it was the taliban or dice fighters who. attacked journal about this morning no one has claimed responsibility. a british born man in syria has accused the u.k. of racism after one stripped him of his citizenship or alleged ties to jihad this. describes himself as an aid worker and any wrongdoing but admits to previously

engaging in armed combat in syria to see a turkey that picks up the story. pickier sharif has spent years in syria as a prominent aid worker described as one of the most high profile for nationals in series appearances on prominent news networks as well as dispatches via his live updates from syria blog posts left his political preferences no secret the rebels why did it do it the problem is is that the broad of of of the syrian regime is a force women and children and civilians are facing the rest he's now speaking out against what he's dubbed a racist and unfair system of citizenship stripping laws i mean k. i came out here to help the innocent people that were being massacred by the bashar regime i'm an aid worker 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 sharif's lawyer has been seeking evidence from the home office to find out why exactly his client was deemed a threat what is it the british government is so frightened of that they don't want these individuals in a court of law and they want to quickly shut them of their citizenship and export them somewhere else i do think that some of these individuals kylee some very sensitive information it will be deeply embarrassing to the british state given the british government's role in the conflict in syria over these past three years i.e. how much support has a british government various points along we've been given these so-called rebel groups and to which development has it been supporting them in terms of the atrocities are being committed by these rebel groups to exculpate themselves of any

criminal offense because you know that they've lost the war has been lost the conflict has been won by the sitting government and its allies you know they're thinking about how they're going. device. it. is really trying to piece together some kind of the strangest trait you claim to be interested in that the aid workers where there are humanitarian grounds 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 responding to other media the u.k. home office refused to comment on the case saying only that every decision is well substantiated r.t. has also requested a comment and is waiting for a reply. the humanitarian crisis in war torn yemen is deepening every

day with most of the country's population on the brink of famine some desperate families have resorted to marrying off their daughters some of them as young as three years old just to get food. my mother in law keeps beating me and when i run away back to my father's house my father beats me again for a new way i don't mourn to get married i just want to go back to school son family is a good thing that i mean this is no one really where they can make their daughters and they can bring some dowry and just can't protect the whole families and also their extended members so it is really unfortunate that this is going on some of them have received emergency support but you know you couldn't support are also even limited so they couldn't and find trying to weigh what are their images what it means so this is the one leaving the family i mean. it is very

difficult to hold family with these smaller little support and often the humidity is it isn't seized a phrase the safety or security concerned will critiquing pretty much out there so aid also we are not able to deliver aid on timely according to the oxfam report girls in yemen are usually expected to consummate their marriages at around the age of eleven and tell them they live with their husbands and typically do the housework but being forced into relationships at a very early age is only one of the traumas faced by children and yet and according to humanitarian organizations yemen is one of the worst countries for children to live in more than eleven million are in need of aid and almost half a million suffer from malnutrition the director of oxfam's yemen office so the current situation in the country is catastrophic. what is really really. hurting and even alarmed me that almost one third of the total population which is

basically ten million is just at the brink of a mean and children are malnourished and we are all there were due to this for yourself water and conflict and also. the two thousand and eighteen the cholera crisis that was the worst cholera persons in the century if. anyone assistance i'm not provided i'm trying to lead and even the faults even the minutes less than nonfunctional even for a day i mean including the food will end the humanitarian community just there'd be much more protest of the situation. russia in syria urged the u.s. military to stop blocking the back you ation of a refugee camp the details on that after this break.

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sick. welcome back the russian military along with its syrian colleagues have issued a statement accusing american forces stationed in syria of derailing efforts to evacuate people from the infamous camp waiting for the u.s. led operation inherent resolve to get back to us with their version of events meanwhile russia's foreign minister says there's no reason the americans can't help . when the americans were calling so insistently for the organization of humanitarian convoys we asked the following question how do you send supplies to your troops stationed in the vicinity of the camp it turned out the supplies were being brought in across the border from iraq and jordan as well if the americans

are so concerned about the civilians trapped in very difficult conditions in this group bandcamp why didn't they bring humanitarian aid through the same route across the border as opposed to trying to do it through the outcomes territories mostly controlled by militants. artie's maria from national takes a closer look at the joint russian syrian statement and the current situation at the repent camp. dramatic humanitarian and security situation in a little bun camp in southeastern syria has been constantly trigger numerous

concerns from the russian side that blame america that is currently controlling this area along the rise between syria and jordan for severe living conditions of the refugees inside the camp that were among other things reportedly openly threatened by jihad is that not only had managed to settle in that camp believes not without some help from the u.s. military on the ground but also to take control over some territories and also over humanitarian aid traffics in the area basically taking people inside the camp hostage both moscow and washington officials have repeatedly confirmed in fact that indeed some former or current islam is probably manage their way to russia has caused them to have been calling on some kind of rescue vaccination operation to take people out of the zone supporting this idea with the polls

a show in that most of the people are willing to leave this area and has constantly been calling on america to join the effort by damascus to help improve rather than deteriorate the situation of syrians inside these zone according to different estimates that is right now around forty thousand people eighty percent of them women and children and earlier on wednesday we heard the statement from russia's defense ministry saying that america remains deaf america does not want to support any evacuation and rescue efforts the american stationed in the zone failed to take responsibility for ensuring a safe and unhindered passage of humanitarian convoys through the fifty five kilometers own they are controlling this is. essentially derailed the implementation of a highly important humanitarian operation aimed at rescuing syrian citizens trapped

in the rueben camp and while the sides of blaming each other for what's going on inside their ragavan campaign southeastern syria we have to admit that poor people trapped there continue to suffer and their fate remains quite unclear. the reality adventure puzzle game in greece has sparked an outcry over its references to the holocaust in particular it's based on the story of german businessman oscar schindler who saved more than a thousand of jews during the second world war the game website says that players have to assist schindler in saving innocent people after the public outrage the company changed the name of the game from schindler's list to secret agent so the story wasn't altered the jewish community in greece has condemned the game. only wish is for them to take a trip to auschwitz to sense even for a fraction of a second the terror of death in a german concentration camp only then can there be hope that they no longer move to

debase human suffering we discuss whether games like this are a good way of raising awareness about history or not with our guests. i mean it's a disgrace that today people are even thinking to make. toys of games abodes. such a game is part of this rise of fundamentalism there are many people who graduate from high school and don't know about the holocaust or don't know about auschwitz don't know the story of oskar schindler which in itself i think is a tragedy because i think it's important that we always remember what happened there let's be frank and clear with all serbs i mean you really believe that to make such a game we make people aware more by the locals know. just make them bring a game we go to new real feeling about the issue we have been we finished the witnessing in the last year is games of both the day about till all the young

people even young muslims that want to just to repeat what they saw during the game and some of them even left their home on went to syria to iraq to become terrorists so you don't know when you produce such a computer a ysu so it's a game what would be the output what would be the result from what i understand it was certainly not something that was encouraging anti-semitism or making light of the holocaust but instead was putting its the users of this experience into this fear in which they were encouraged to save the lives of other people who are under threat by the nazis. to champions league football now we're dutch team i aks stunned real madrid trouncing the spanish home side for one on tuesday night it means the current league champs tumble out of the tournament while the

sons of the gods despite losing the first leg game to real now go through to the quarter finals three five in the other game last night tottenham hotspur. again one nil this time something the germans packing and the londoners forward us for wind wednesday's night's fixtures it's pour over says roma in portugal at the same time p.s.g. are at home in paris taking on man u. and united's former manager is back on r t from thursday with a new show starting on thursday on the touchline with a marine you. that's your global news update for this hour but i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more thanks for tuning in.

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