president trump reverses on a bomb era rule which required officials to disclose the number of civilian deaths from drone strikes. in councils the us visas of seventy seven officials linked to the venezuelan president in the latest round of sanctions against caracas . and desperate families in war torn yemen in marrying off children as young as three and exchanged for food according to a new report by the charity. this is the one leaving the family i mean. they can make their daughters and they can bring some dowry and that just can't.

get any thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. civilians killed in drone strikes let's go to new york now and hear from our correspondent more pain. can you tell us then about this new executive order. well it's an executive order from the white house and it essentially overturned stipulations and requirements made by obama in twenty sixteen regarding u.s. military and other activities essential e the requirements made by obama they required the director of national intelligence to release a report of unclassified u.s. strikes against terrorists and this would be about strikes that took place outside

of areas of active hostilities and that he was then required that's the director of national intelligence was then required to give an assessment of noncombatant deaths caused by those strikes well this is now overturned that report from the director of national intelligence will no longer be released because of troubles executive order wednesday now a sensually if you look at the if you look at the executive order it's very clear that the pentagon will still have an obligation to report on civilian casualties caused by u.s. military operations that's mandated by the national defense authorization act of twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen now it's important to note to trump has long been critical of too much public information being released about military matters in the united states he's raised that issue before throughout his presidency and throughout his presidential campaign now it's also important that we've got a spokesperson for the national white house security council who said that they are still committed to minimizing to the greatest extent possible civilian casualties

and acknowledging responsibility when they unfortunately occurred during military operations now the spokesman he also went on to say. that at this point this action eliminates what they're considering to be really super perf lou is reporting that was required to take place regarding u.s. strikes and that they hope that this executive order will quote improve government transparency but rather distract our intelligence professionals from their primary mission that's that's getting rid of those those orders that improve government trance. parents even don't really do that but rather just distract intelligence professionals from the primary mission now it's important to note that the u.s. drone strikes have a rather ugly history there been a number of incidents over the years and let's take a quick review of some of what is happening.

now it seems pretty clear at this point that the u.s. drone strike program will continue but now there will be less transparency and the number of deaths that have resulted from it will be not public that information will not be as available as it once was due to this executive order from the white house. thing is that they left new york our correspondent kelli thank you. police in london have investigated a suspicious package left of the entrance to the houses of parliament it's now been confirmed the object was not dangerous tensions a heightened at the moment after three letter bombs were sent to separate locations in the capital on tuesday the details he's on he's ali. this is just really a pattern of incidents we've seen in the u.k. over the last few days that incident there being deemed non suspicious in terms of

false alarm but just yesterday we've seen reports of three packages containing explosive devices found at city airport heathrow airport and also at waterloo train station now police have deemed that those packages weren't aiming to kill but. explosives they were upon being opened by staff at those locations they caught fire and it's thought that they at least two of them had stamps or some kind of indication that they were sent from ireland but police are keeping an open mind and they're not concluding in any way that this is linked to any irish groups or anything to do with the while now finish conflict there but of course that remains one of the possibilities and also two universities the university of glasgow up in scotland the university of essex also having some of

their buildings and faculties being evacuated as well as a result of suspicious items so all of these seemingly to come together we've heard from the mayor of london that car and he says that authorities are treating them as a linked series and although again the motive is unknown but it will only really heighten the sense of security here we saw two years ago a number of terrorist attacks in the u.k. and ever since then the terror or the terror threat level has always remained at a very high level with authorities say that's an imminent terrorist attack that could be just around the corner at any point so this will do nothing to length lessen those fears and also do nothing to ease the worries of the towels or as he said. the humanitarian crisis in yemen is dead. every day with much of the country's population on the brink of famine some desperate families of even

resorted to marrying off the daughter some of them as young as just three years old all 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 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 li where they can make their daughters and they can bring some dowry and that just can 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 mention support are also even limited so they wouldn't mind trying to weigh that what are their immediate what and i mean so this is the one leaving the family i mean. it is very difficult to call family with this more little support and then often the humidity isn't seized

a phrase the safety or security concerns. are so aid also we are not able to deliver aid on un timely. according to the oxfam report girls in yemen are usually expected to consummate the marriage is around the age of eleven until then they live with their husbands and typically do housework. but being forced into relationships at such 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 in need of aid almost half a million suffer from malnutrition the director of oxfam's yemen office says that the current situation in the country simply catastrophic. what is really really. deteriorating and even alarmed me that almost one third of the total population is basically ten million just at the brink of a mean and children are malnourished and we are all there were dead due to this all

yourself wire and promptly and also. that it was an eighteen cholera course is that was the worst cholera purses in this century if. human agency called any ministers are not provided trying really and even the fault even the man is less than nonfunctional even for a day i mean importing the food will end the humanitarian more you just there'll be much more protest situation. you case departure from the european union is proving to be full of unknowns the u.k. government doesn't seem to know the best way out the british people don't know how europe's top brass even get their jobs according to a leading briggs it is. i couldn't tell you who they are on or what they do or how they came by their jobs or how they may be removed from office i have no idea how

to kick those particular. well the current going through the process of choosing its new has for example the commission president is nominated by the e.u. council with the candidate then approved by members of the e.u. parliament so we took to the streets of paris and berlin to find out whether europeans are any more aware than boris johnson. i think it will be in their pull something like that and yes i going to vote i never vote now. that maybe two or three years down i see i don't have a clue about that. yes of course but i don't know really. i think i will go to a very sort of course it's important for me to take part i'm for a federal europe this year what do you go to court or you go to court yes i will i don't know i don't know what you have towards about i don't know i don't know i am

not sure for the date but i would go to vote the lexus on the twenty sixth of may and i'm planning to vote for. the russian and syrian military as of issued a statement accusing american forces in syria of derailing efforts to evacuate people from the infamous look back and count parties as the story. dramatic humanitarian and security situation in a little bun camp in southeastern syria has been constantly trigger numerous concerns from the russian side that blamed america that is currently controlling the area along the militarized 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 traffic seeing 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 camp 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 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 rather than 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 duraid holds 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 we've contacted the u.s. led operation inherent resolve for its response was that you know what they say when we hear earlier washington insisted it's ready for coordinated efforts with the u.n. to organize safe passage for refugees from the record buying camp russia's efforts the white house claims did not meet security standards u.n.

coordinator mohammed said a cough is that there could be dangerous consequences if refugees on to evacuated. we should divert from the political issue that the american have with the syrian government or the syrian people and look at the human side aspect of the people living in the camps. they can't by law they should not you know this should not prevent any humanitarian assistance to the camps is not just the call it is the way they live in the camps you have a family all the normal people living in one tent with their mother and crew and children and one of the sad stories that also we came across where they came across two is the dead we don't have a place to bury them in any camps outside syria you will see a similar disaster with. the flooding and the suffering of the children on boats refugee camps we might expect disease and we all saw would be. would be

harboring extremism because when you when you don't provide dignity this is when you have extremism and you see the issue would be increasing using you know the children. as a power weapon to take revenge. for. the escape room phenomenon that spreads across the world has sparked anger in greece where one game is reference the holocaust in particular is based on the story of the german businessman oscar schindler you save more than a thousand jews during world war two the game's website says that place after his sister schindler in saving innocent people after the public outrage the company changed the name from schindler's list to secret agent although the story itself wasn't altered the jewish community in greece has condemned the game all i 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. so we put up for debate whether games like this are a good way of raising awareness of history. i mean it's a disgrace that today people are even thinking to make. toys or games abodes of all of course 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 ourselves i mean you really believe that to make such a game we make people aware more by the locals no they just make them playing a game we go to any real feeling about the issue we have been witnesses of witnessing the last year's games of both the day about tell all the young

people even young muslims that wanted 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 easy to search 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 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. united states is increasing the pressure on the venezuelan government u.s. vice president mike pence has announced the seventy seven officials linked to president maduro will have the u.s.

visa is revoked after forty nine people were added to a sanctions blacklist back on friday and they've now from washington our correspondent dan cohen is that don tell us more that about these latest moves against the venezuelan government. well the u.s. is threatening to impose sanctions on foreign banks if they deal with the venezuelan government national security adviser john bolton issued a statement this morning saying quote the united states is putting four in the financial institutions on notice that they will face sanctions for being involved in facilitating illegitimate transactions that benefit nicolas maduro and his corrupt network he also said the u.s. is quote pursuing several economic new diplomatic and economic initiatives in support of that transition but he did not specify what they are and this comes a day after a special envoy for venezuela elliott abrams threatened when he called secondary

sanctions that would target third party countries saying that would quote depend on the conduct the conduct of the regime over time the u.s. has also begun to increase pressure on cuba which it claims is controlling venezuelan president nicolas maduro both wrote in a tweet that the u.s. will continue to tighten financial restrictions on cuba's military and intelligence services venezuelan authorities in turn have declared the german ambassador daniel crean are persona non grata after what it called interference into its internal affairs he became the first european diplomat to be expelled from the latin american state however during his tuesday address to the national assembly one goh i dos says it's not the german ambassador who is the real persona non-grata. everyone in venezuela knows who the persona non-grata is and he's the only one who is known in the region in the world because in the old accounts of the two they

recognize the venezuelan fight for democracy as a constitutional right. now we duro responded by saying neither the opposition nor the united states wants to help venezuela and have their own interests like venezuela's natural resources russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov also condemn u.s. sanctions against those who support saying quote it is another evidence that the american diplomacy is quickly losing that sense and its ability to use diplomatic instrument and their fears over military intervention the trump administration continues to say all options are on the table but elliott abrams says the u.s. will use other ways to push for what he called democratic transition in venezuela. nobody is talking about american military steps except the regime and the russians actually. i made it clear repeatedly our policy is as i just

stated diplomatic political economic financial pressure. moving toward a peaceful democratic transition in venezuela that's what we want. now we've just learned that the attempted delivery of so-called humanitarian aid on the bridge crossing at the border of colombia and venezuela nearly turned into a bloodbath according to a report in bloomberg news two hundred exiled soldiers were preparing to clear the way for the aid trucks but the plan was actually scrapped by the colombian government why do we also learned was planning to tour european capitals after finishing his tour of latin america but the united states told him to return to venezuela for fears that. his movement was losing momentum so this

suggests that it is not go i don't know who's calling the shots so much but it's actually the white house. from washington thank you. well by simply recognizing opposition leader one as friend as well as interim president the u.s. seems to think it's already succeeded in effecting regime change with the state department even going so far as to break journalists who say 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 corrects relying on venezuela's constitution one guy joe became interim president of venezuela on january twenty third and millions of americans and more than fifty countries recognize as interim president of venezuela and get this for your complaining because ease of lives are part of the but it's hard when 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 week 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 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 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 functions to look we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current dictator. well in a similar vein u.s. senator marco rubio also tried schooling the media lambaste thing c.n.n. for using the term self proclaimed when referring to suppose that interim presidency he said that the phrase was used by russia to undermine the constitutional legitimacy of claim rubio even jokingly him to deposit book allusion

between c.n.n. moscow so let's see if we can clarify things and gauge the state of world opinion on the matter of why does legitimacy fifty four countries recognize him as the leader of venezuela the rest of the world either supports nicolas maduro is neutral or backs the opposition run national assembly yet without recognizing go i don't want to stay with their zero took part in a ceremony commemorating the sixth anniversary of the death of his predecessor chavez the duras rivaled why don't meanwhile met with public sector unions urging them to take strike action to help bring down the government political analyst chris bambery thinks the u.s. isn't in a position to remove the president. the united states has got a breeze and. you know the pumping this out this is its position and we know the united states does not apologize it doesn't back 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 the dog in

a position to talk will more durable moderates routinely in the support of the armed forces in particular and the united states must be hoping you must be working towards trying to wean a section of the armed forces to break with the dura and to launch some kind of military coup because at the moment given the fact that we do or has been able to respond with or with these old mobilizes sions on the streets it would seem to me that it's only by breaking the alliance between withdraw and the army that we do is going to force from office that must be what the united states is working on people in various way or may have their issues would do in particular economic issues at the moment but they also remember that 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'd all in terms of its record of governing the country. prison guards in france have been blocking access to around twenty jails in the country in support of two of their colleagues who were stabbed on tuesday

radicalised inmate in northwest france left those guards with severe injuries the protesting guards have been burning tires and building barricades in front of the prisons they say that they're making a stand against the growing number of radicalized prisoners being held in cells which they claim pose poses an increased threat to their work two days knife attack or have been serving a thirty year sentence in a high security facility for kidnapping armed robbery and extremism at the time of the incident he was being visited by his wife who was killed by guards in a shootout that followed the woman is believed to have smuggled the ceramic knife he used into the prison our sister channel r.t. france spoke to the head of a french trade union who told us. why the attack was no surprise. but i think the tools that we have today metal detectors cannot detect these types of knives as they don't contain metal so when you go to a concert football match or theme park you and your bag searched but not in jails this woman was actually able to enter their completely freely with

a weapon the security measures mean to provide stuff with the things necessary for working with prisoners for example or body armor that protects vulnerable body areas for knives especially when it comes to entering the cell of a violent prisoner and it's also necessary to update all communications systems and equipment that help to cope with aggressive prisoners to build prisons adapted for the maintenance of those convicted of terrorism or radicalization it is necessary not only to separate them from other prisoners but also to deprive them of the possibility of contacting each other in order to prevent the effect of the group thinking and yet the introduction of all these security measures postponed in one way or another by the heads of the prisons. the list turn to champions league football now where the team acts stunned real madrid trancing the spanish home so for one on tuesday night it means the current champions are out of the tournament while x.

despite losing the first leg to rail where they go through to the quarterfinals five three on aggregate now for more insight into this match and all the other action manchester united former manager is going to be back with r.t. on thursday with a new show called on the touchline in jos a marine. more news for you in half an hour. join me every. time i'm sure i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics.

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