thank you. president trump reverses and obamacare rule which required officials to disclose the number of civilian deaths from drone strikes. in washington cancels the u.s. visas of seventy seven officials links to the venezuelan president in the latest round of sanctions against caracas. and desperate families in war torn yemen are marrying off children as young as three in exchange for food that's according to a new report by the charity. this is the one leaving the family i mean. they can marry you know their daughters and they can bring some dowry and just can't protect

the former prime minister. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with mina care and now our top story president revokes and obama era rule requiring u.s. intelligence to publicly report the number of civilians killed in drone strikes and has the story. a new executive order from the white house is reducing the amount of transparency when it comes to u.s. drone strikes now the executive order basically revokes regulations made by the obama administration in twenty sixteen essentially the director of national intelligence will no longer be required to release information regarding un classified u.s. strikes and the non civilian deaths that are associated with them and that would be

in areas outside of active hostilities the pentagon will still have an obligation to report on civilian casualties in compliance with the national defense authorization act of twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen that was very clear in trump's executive order now this is certainly not the first time that donald trump has indicated frustration with the level of information related to military activities that has been made public with fighting wars and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public the public believes the enemy the enemy reach those reports are still going to learn those reports you've heard the reports let him do a report. but they should be private reports it's also important to note that that we have a statement that is reportedly coming from a spokes person for the white house security council now it was given on the condition of anonymity it's being widely reported we cannot confirm it what it is saying is that apparently this was the activity of the the intent of this executive order is minimizing to the greatest extent possible civilian casualties and

acknowledging the responsibility when they unfortunately occurred during the military actions but the same time getting rid of what they're calling supreme flew us reporting and requirements that don't actually improve government transparency but rather distract intelligence professionals from their primary mission the history of drone strikes is quite shocking there have been a number of rather tragic incidents that have taken place over the years. peace activist kathy kelley believes the decision is a way of protecting the arms industry from scrutiny. i think it's an excuse i think that they want to make sure that lockheed martin raytheon and bellowing in other major defense contractors can can continue to sell the germans in to sell their

weapons when u.s. people are under educated about the consequences of u.s. military strikes to kill civilians it doesn't enhance anybody's security in fact when other people feel enraged or just completely confused and frightened this is something us people need to understand and if anything we need to understand a whole lot more i mean a imagine if it's a home in your neighborhood ted you didn't know why and where were the women right with the children killed so. is it proper to deny more information to the united states in a country where democracy is supposedly based on education. the u.s. is tightening the pressure on the venezuelan government u.s. vice president mike pence has announced that seventy seven officials linked to president maturer will have the u.s. visas revoked softer forty nine venezuelans were added to

a sanctions blacklist back on friday r.t. correspondent dan cohen has more. 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 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 what he called secondary sanctions that would target third party countries saying that would quote depend on 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 creamer 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 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 laugh. 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 there are fears over military intervention the trumpet ministration 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. 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 the 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 by simply recognizing the opposition leader one but as well as into him president the u.s. seems to think it has already succeeded in affecting regime change with the state

department's going safe. journalists who think otherwise. we have noticed in news coverage that some outlets are incorrectly referring to one 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 well it's reported that you'll think he made a complaint pointing out just trying to correct well it sounds like you completely simply he is he's the is the interim president and we don't want to consider him to be the interim president as you said fifty other countries. recognize him as you know president but they're all more than

a hundred members of the militia so you're fifty countries is not even close that. it's time to act in support of democracy and that news coverage of all of them the legitimate leader the president is going to encourage more from trees to work we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current dictator u.s. senator marco rubio made a similar point criticizing c.n.n. for using the term self-proclaimed when referring to go i don't suppose it into him presidency he said the phrase was used by russia to undermine the legitimacy of quite o's claim rubio even jokingly hinted at possible collusion between c.n.n. and most go well as gauge the state of world opinion on the matter of quite o's legitimacy fifty four countries recognize him as venezuela's leader the rest of the world either supports nicolas maduro is neutral or backs the opposition run

national assembly but without recognizing why dove on tuesday mature i took part in a ceremony commemorating this that kind of a story of the death of his predecessor hugo chavez mature as rival guy domain while met with public sector unions them to take strike action to help bring down the government. journalist max blumenthal gave us his views on the latest u.s. measures against caracas. seventy seven new officials having their visas revoked is not necessarily going to change the situation in venezuela however there is a concern within the venezuelan foreign ministry that this could affect their ability to represent and this whale at the u.n. which is supposed to be a neutral body i don't know if that would be the case but it would be an unprecedented escalation from the u.s. and in an attempt to completely disrupt diplomacy. after four years of devastating conflict in yemen much of the population is on the brink of starvation and 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 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 an emergency support but you know you wouldn't support are also even limited so they couldn't and 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 call family with these smaller little support and then

often the humidity isn't seized a trace the safety or security concerns. are 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 so then they live with their husbands and typically do the housework but being forced into relationships at very early age is any 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 yellen 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 is basically

ten million just at the brink of a mean and children are malnourished and we are all there were due to this all yourself war and conflict and also. that it was an eighteen color of crisis that was worst for persons in this century if. you manage and support any ministers are not provided trying to lead and even the fault even the means less than one function of even for a day i mean including the food will end the humanitarian mauritius there'll be much more protest to the situation. the 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 and the british people don't know how europe's top brass even get their jobs according to a leading briggs's here i couldn't tell you who they are or what they do 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 e.u. is currently going through the process of choosing its new leaders for example the commission president is nominated by the e.u. council with the candidate then approved by members of the e.u. parliament we took to the streets of paris and berlin to find out whether you are opinions are any more aware than boris johnson. i think it will be in their pull something like that and yes i going to vote. never to vote. when he may be due to the he's done i see i don't have a clue about that. yes of course but. who really. i think i will go to very sort of course it's important for me to take part in 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 do you have two or two but i don't know i don't know i am not sure for the date but i would go to vote the lectures on the twenty sixth of may and i'm planning to vote. for a british born man who's been working in syria has accused the u.k. of racism after it stripped him of his citizenship of alleged ties to the hardest to care sharif describes himself as an aid worker and denies any wrongdoing but admits to previously and gauging and armed combat and us to stay a check in a house that easy. 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 post left his political preferences no secret the rebels why do they 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 carry 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 the so-called rebel groups and to which development has 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. survive. it push conflict world and so they're trying to put together some kind of the stranger trait you claim to be interested in that they need workers who were 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 and 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 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 awaiting a reply. please in london have investigated a suspicious package left as an entrance to the houses of parliament it's now being confirmed the object was not dangerous tensions are heightened at the moment after three letter bombs were sent to separate locations of the capital on tuesday artie's it is army has the details 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 suspicious in terms of

false alarm but just yesterday we've seen reports of three packages containing explosive devices found city airport heathrow airport and also waterloo train station now police have deemed that those packages weren't aiming to kill but were. explosives they were upon being opened by staff at those locations they caught fire and it's thought that they are these two of them had stamps or some kind of indication that they were sent from ireland but police are keep. being an open mind and not concluding in any way that this is linked to any irish groups or anything to do with the now finished conflict there but of course that remains one of the possibilities and also two universities the university of glasgow up in scotland and 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 saw the car and he says that authorities are treating them as a linked series and. again the motive is known 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 lessen those fears and also do nothing to ease the worries of tea towels or if he's here. the russian and syrian military is have issued a statement accusing american forces in syria of the railing efforts to evacuate people from the infamous rock band camp artie's maria phenomena breaks down the story dramatic humanitarian and security situation and

a lot 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 fast area along the militarized zone between theory 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 as moscow believes not without some help from the u.s. military on the ground but also take control. all 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 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 by damascus to help improve rather than deteriorate the situation of syrians 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 altantuya 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 are 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 result for its response and will let you know what they say earlier washington insisted it's ready for coordinated efforts with the u.n. to organize safe passage is full of refugees from the work of russia's there fits the white house claims do not meet security standards u.n. coordinator mohamad circle fears there could be dangerous consequences if refugees evacuated. we should divert from the political issue that the american have with the syrian government or with 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 of the normal ten people living in one tent with their mother and kids 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 will see similar disaster that we've seen the flooding and the suffering of the children on the us refugee camps we might expect disease and we all saw would be. will 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 powerful weapon to take revenge thanks for joining us on r.t. international we're back in thirty minutes see that. 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 is way way is the target of a forced regime change the problem is force regime change as a deplorable record.

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town see we're 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 tourism may justify aerial bombardment coming up. 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 by no one chomsky about cia death squads and the legacy of nature 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. may have been killing civilians in iraq but has the u.k. cooperated in u.s. torture 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 east i written pentagon counterpart the m a d covertly deployed a team 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 the allegations

that have been made against us he went on to reference ministerial accountability to ministers on civil 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. sir richard dearlove in the news here in britain for claiming jeremy corwin's communications director seamus 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 r t 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 tourism is.