yes you. know oh. the u.s. state department brace journalist for refusing to refer to venezuela's opposition leader of the country's interim president. some outlets are incorrectly referring to one by joe as the opposition leader. or the self-proclaimed president. neither is correct. a british born man whose aid work in syria made him a media darling is stripped of his u.k. citizenship for alleged ties to the hottest. last desperate families in war torn yemen are marrying off children as young as three exchange for

food that's according to a new report by the charity oxfam. this is the one leaving the family i mean they're going to marry you know their daughters and they can bring some dowry and dad just can't just take the whole family so. this is artsy international bringing you your global news update this hour welcome to the program. we start in venezuela which faces yet more u.s. sanctions as washington tries to cripple caracas financially in its bid to oust president nicolas maduro by simply recognizing opposition leader one guy doe as venezuela's interim president the u.s. seems to think it has already succeeded in affecting regime change but the statement 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

quite go as the opposition leader. or the south proclaimed president neither is corrects 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 why go as interim president of venezuela to get this straight you're complaining because it means our lives are part of the title you don't think he made a complaint pointing out just trying to correct well it's almost like a complaint to me and it seems can we he's the is the 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 the interim president but they're all more than a hundred ninety members of the united nations so they're fifty countries is not even close to half. it's time to act in support of democracy

and some news coverage of the legitimate leader the president is going to the entire region more functional but you don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current chatter. in a similar vein u.s. senator marco rubio also charged schooling the media lambasting c.n.n. for using the term self-proclaimed when referring to quietist suppose that interim president c. he said the phrase was used by russia to undermine the constitutional legitimacy acquired us claim rubio even jokingly hinted at possible collusion between c.n.n. and moscow let's gauge the state of world opinion on the matter of white house legitimacy fifty four countries recognize him as venezuela's leader the rest of the world other supports nicolas maduro is neutral or backs the opposition run national assembly that without recognizing why go kill a mop and takes a look at my record as an alleged dictator there are a whole array of politicians who don't approve of nicolas maduro but one of the

labels that he's given is worth exploring according to them nicholas is a dictator nicolas maduro is a dictator period of the now defunct mature regime. a 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. 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 who have insights sets on foot assists or engages in any rebellion against you authority of 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 who would not if i was able to enter venezuela things to you and your movies asian in venezuela we feel that today we've made a decisive step towards the conquest of freedom hold the lopez great o's longtime ally was actually convicted of inciting violence against the venezuelan government his trial received huge international attention and after a 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 and 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 mid-air as it swept in and crushed the life of one but wedo 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 it will not die things are going well in venezuela opposition rallies and protests take play. all the time there are many thousand fifth kaleb up and r.t.

new york on tuesday a majority of part in a ceremony commemorating the sixth anniversary of the death of his predecessor hugo chavez murderous rival why don't meanwhile met with public sector unions urging them to take strike action to help bring down the government. our political analyst chris bambery thinks the u.s. is not in a position to remove the president. united states is going to breeze and face you know the pumping this out this is its position and we know the united states does not apologize it doesn't bite down until it's forced about their own so it's going to carry on carry on with this but the problem they've gotten the moment is is that they don't look in a position to topple more durable but do is retaining the support of the armed forces in particular and the united states must be corporate you must be working towards trying to wean a section of the armed forces to brickell madeira and to launch some kind of military coup by zetia is on the streets it would seem to me that it's only by

breaking the alliance between withdrew and the army that we do is going to force from office that must be what the united states is working on people in venezuela may have their issues with but do in particular economic issues at the moment but they also remember the whole track record of you know of the united states in the region and in the country and indeed of the local alit which is behind we draw. in terms of its record of governing the country. sixteen people have been killed in a twin suicide bombing and gun attack in the afghan city of jalalabad local journalists not on things he has more details. 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 solon's 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. a 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 their attacks especially in the recent weeks there killed over fifty security forces in south and

held month and now it's not clear whether it was the taliban or dice fighters who. attacked gelato about this morning no one has claimed responsibility. a british born man who's been working in syria has accused the u.k. of racism after it stripped him of his citizenship or alleged ties to jihad is take describes himself as an aid worker and denies any wrongdoing but admits to previously engaging in armed combat. has more details to cure sharif has spent years in syria as a prominent aid worker described as one of the most. i profile for nationals in ablett 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 there 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 kylie song 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 is being lost the conflict has been won by the sitting government and its allies you know they're thinking about how they're going to survive in the it pushed conflict world and so they're trying to picture. you know some kind of the strangest trait you claim to be in this is that there is work as it were there are humanitarian grounds the issue of british citizenship being revoked has been in the spotlight 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 and starts a new trick in our reporting for our team 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 comment and is waiting for a reply. the humanitarian crisis in yemen is deepening every day with much 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 between me and when i run away back to my father's house my father beats me again for a new way i don't want to get married i just want to go back to school son family as they did think that i mean this is no one really where they can marry their daughters and they can bring some dowry and that just can't protect the whole families and also their extended members so it is really unfortunate that this is

going after some of them that they have received emergency support but you know you wouldn't support are also even limited so they couldn't and find trying to weigh what are their immediate what are the means so this is the one leaving the family i mean. it is very difficult to create the whole family with this small little support and then often the humidity isn't seized a trace the safety or security concerns critiquing pretty military or 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 until then 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 in yemen 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 says the current situation in the country is catastrophic. what is really really. being an even alarm 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 all yourself water and conflict and also. the two thousand and eighteen the cholera crisis that was the worst cholera crisis in the century. cold and even assistance on not provided trying to leave 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'll

be much more protest of the situation the work of hundreds of secret agents was destructive and russia and the past here that's according to what we're putting that story and more after the short break. and all the truth seems wrong. why don't we all just don't hold. any world yet to shape out these days to come to kentucky. and in detroit because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. traditionally in the foreign policy with the assistance of the legacy media to find an immediate threat for

a foreign military intervention or coup their game has been to manufacture public support today it's different with virtually no public debate in his way what is the target of a forced regime change the probably is force regime change as a deplorable record. welcome back the russian and syrian military issued a statement accusing american forces in syria of derailing efforts to evacuate people from the infamous rippon camp we've contacted the u.s. led operation in here as all for its version of events r t s murder for national brakes on the story dramatic humanitarian and security situation out of the bun camp in southeastern syria has been constantly trigger numerous concerns from the

russian side that blamed america that is currently controlling this fost area along the militarized zone between syria and jordan for severe living conditions of the refugees inside the camp that were among other things were pool to 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 take control over some territories and also over human terror in a traffic scene the area basically taking people inside the camp hostage both a moscow and washington officials have repeatedly confirmed in fact that indeed some former or current islam is probably manage their way to one camp. russia has constantly been calling on some kind of rescue vaccination operation to take people out of the zone supporting this idea with the polls show in that most of the

people are willing to leave this area and has constantly been calling on america to join the effort. and damascus to help improve rather than deteriorate the situation of syrians trapped inside these zone according to different estimates it is right now home to 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 al tonfa zone fails 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 the ragavan camp in southeastern syria we have to admit that poor people trapped there continue to suffer and their fate remains quite unclear. russia for oil the activities of hundreds of foreign spies operating in the country last year farmer putin made that claim during a speech on national security or has been you will get together is intended to see how the security services performed in the previous year and put together a plan for the next it covers a wide range of national security issues from securing the state secrets to the fight against corruption and it's worth mentioning that the russian president actually headed the f.s.b. in one thousand nine hundred eight in one thousand nine hundred ninety now speaking about counterintelligence vladimir putin is. that foreign intelligence agencies have been ramping up their activities in the russian federation. thanks to

successful special operations one hundred twenty nine personally and four hundred sixty five agents belonging to foreign special services. we see that foreign intelligence is seeking to increase its activity in russia seeking access to information of a political economic no scientific and technological nature but all available now also on the priority list for the security services is the fight against terrorism both domestic and international now we know this is an especially important issue for russia as its on the list of one of the most targeted countries for terrorist activities brought up that about twenty terrorist attacks have happened in the country annually for the past three years and this is a high figure and it's putin said it was the result of the unstable situation in the middle east which he called a hotbed for terrorism and of course isis is on the ropes now but the future of political cooperation against terrorism is still in question and he said that

russia would be willing to work with other countries regardless of political relationships to fight terrorism putin also addressed the again the i.n.f. treaty this is the landmark cold war era nuclear treaty between the us and russia and which both countries ripped up after mutual allegations of violating the treaty should be going to the u.s. decision to withdraw from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty is a clear step towards unraveling the entire system of international security agreements of course it changes the operational environment for the worse what with diplomatic efforts still ongoing europe is still trying to save the treaty we saw how berlin even suggested that china be added to this nonproliferation treaty so again those are the main topics that were discussed at this meeting between russian president vladimir putin and f.s.b. officials. the champions league foot four one on tuesday night that means the current league champs tumble out of the tournament while i accept despite

losing the first leg game two will now go through to the quarter finals and the other game last night tottenham hotspur beat dortmund again one nil this time sending the germans packing as for wednesday night's fixtures. in portugal and at the same time p.s.g. are at home in paris taking on man u. united's former manager is back on our team from thursday with a new show on the touchline with a marine you. that's a global news update for this hour but i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more thanks for telling and. there.

wasn't. much. in a world of big. and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other. it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

my son miss doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just spent doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in the prison population. we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence and for whom minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier.

time after time to see what going on the ground as the u.n. security council debate syria for the first time since the o.p.c. w. refuted the sarin gas allegations used by trays of may justify aerial bombardment coming up on the show as the u.n. claims the highest level of civilian deaths since twenty nine we speak to an afghan politician recommended for the nobel peace prize but no one chomsky about cia death squads and the legacy of nature of democracy at the point of a gun and will celebrity culture of a stop polluting world politics deconstructing trump blair and diana in a new west end show by bafta winner. allison jackson and can cartoons capture a thousand words political cartoonists two former chancellor of the exchequer

george osborne newspaper takes us through this week's issues all the more coming up in today's going underground but first despite m.o.d.e. silence u.k. soldiers after parliament voted against ground troops have been on the ground in syria even as britain and israel to bomb syria in february this after even the state mandated b.b.c. reveal that the r.a.f. for sure programs in violation of geneva conventions for instance in what a u.s. senate armed services committee report exposed the report refutes in detail the contention that abu ghraib was the work of what then deputy defense secretary wolfowitz called a few bad apples low ranking soldiers like lynndie england committed the abuses but the senate armed services committee today released a paper trail leading back to the pentagon because according to middle of interrogators to abu ghraib prison at the height of the nato torture scandal covertly arguably means m i six and it's boss at the first televised intelligence and security committee denied torture allegations i do except the allegations that have been made against us he went on to reference ministerial accountability to

ministers answerable to tony blair the u.k. pm praised this week by jeremy corbin's shadow education secretary angela rayner for his performance on t.v. about anti semitism as for who was head of m i six during abu ghraib it was none other than so richard dearlove milne was a security risk who would need firing if corbin becomes prime minister corbin physically assaulted in london on sunday has like milne been on our t.v. opposing not only the iraq war but also britain's continuing war in afghanistan the reality is that there is huge opposition to the occupation of afghanistan by the western forces and the taliban has become a cipher for that opposition well with over ten thousand u.k. soldiers killed or wounded and veteran suicide still not recorded to resume. i mean sending in more soldiers as for afghans the u.n. says that just in twenty eighteen eleven thousand were killed or wounded of the

dead nine hundred with children joining me now via skype from afghanistan's capital city kabul is my lai joy she is a former afghan m.p. who has risked her life to speak out against the nato occupation of our country but i thank you for coming on the show so britain sending more troops will it help things in your country democracy you never class that by massacres by my best of our own specially democracy now but by more of a morning interview thought democracy peace and justice that wonder why our president create our own air for eighteen years. but there must be that's why situation dave by it is getting more disastrous and after all by a team we asked our one on terror why us tonight we're not spending got. all of our hundred billions of dollars that leaves the lower branches concert out on the list . what on track reduce our laps and happy and while that you know side is

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