our stories this hour islamic state find a. stronghold in syria yielding to advancing syrian democratic forces but general say the fight is far from over despite donald trump's for people claims to be true also ahead on the program. pages does it take to sign him evil evil is evil. on the splits in the u.s. democratic party deepens after disagreement on a resolution condemning anti semitism on muslim discrimination. and this trump scaring off u.k. millennial as we learn a growing number of young british people are showing america for other tourist

destinations yeah i can understand why people think and that makes sense. probably not to. profess to go so far but. culturally apart. from our international news center in moscow this is our team good to have your company. our top story. hundreds of islamic state fighters are surrendering to us forces in the syrian village. they lost i still held area near the iraqi border in addition to the who surrendered there are also women and children at the scene some of them are wives of the fighters and they still believe this is not the end of the caliphate.

well the village of by guus has been a focal point for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks despite donald trump repeated the victory over isel the top u.s. general says the fight is far from over here with more. have a look at but who's right there near the border with iraq we didn't really hear about it in the course of syria's civil war misery now's the time it is really being called the last remaining eyelet of territory in syria about to be stormed by u.s. backed kurdish troops we expect a fierce battle later at the end of the civilian evacuation given the will remain in bag who's of the ones brimming with the ideology and the ones who is not an option indeed we've seen crowds of escaping civilians and even jihad as

who did choose to surrender the current say they want to make sure all innocent people make it out of booze before the guns go off but the main still be trapped in there either not able or not keen to escape just a short while ago though donald trump was bragging about his army and allies crushing islamic state completely we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over ever since then however we've kept hearing absolutely different takes from those who are actually responsible for what's happening on the ground the head of u.s. central command is sure i still hasn't surrendered he's confident it's not been defeated instead the terrorists after some tactical thinking have chosen to lay low and wait for the right time to make

a comeback reduction of the physical caliphate is a monumental military accomplishment but the fight against isis and violent extremism is far from over we have won against isis now we've won and at least for now president trumps proud announcement that the american soldiers were pulling out makes less and less sense the. well out would have definitely scored mr trump some valuable political points but nothing seems to be certain here especially with this big goose thorn in the side you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence in our rooms going out to come back if we have to anyway whatever happens next depends on what ignites in this small but vital strip of land known as booze. middle east studies professor just you alone this believes the fight against islamic state is likely to suffer further setbacks. well as general

votel testified in congress recently and just today he said that. yes this is the end of the territorial state which is very important but it's not by any means the end devices there are a lot of fighters that have gone to ground and that have formed we believe a farm's sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know and at some future date trying to later clarify that this is the territorial state and that's why he's reversed his opinion on u.s. troops remaining in syria you know there's a there's a hundred ways to count troops and that may not include a lot of the regular soldiers perhaps special forces obviously advisers diplomats and an aid organization so there is likely to be a lot more americans there there's going to still be a lot of isis trouble and we're seeing bomb attacks being carried out in iraq on a weekly basis and there have been isis attacks in northern syria as well so i says

is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are misleading. the u.s. hoists representatives passed the resolution condemning hate and intolerance including anti semitism on muslim the scrim a nation it was drafted to the vote directed at any. of our fellow human beings just described as out against one who is anti-semitic so we come together today hopefully asshole there's a hand that can do to us image isn't bigotry racism every time that anti-semitism rears its ugly head we need to stop it how old is it time to figure out just. how many pages does it take to cite him evil evil is evil as we said the resolution was passed

a little the process of drafting the text was fraught with disagreements between party members and that's not the only issue the democrats have been quarrelling about it. digs deeper into the divide. top democrats in congress have spent the last week drafting a resolution condemning what they consider to be bigotry and offensive speech and it's not from trump or republicans it's from fellow democrat ilana omar the freshman congresswoman she talked about the israel lobby and they say that is offensive to jews i want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is ok for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country some democrats are demanding an apology for a comment they say represented blatant anti semitism i'm sat in the representative o'mara continues to mischaracterize to perjury israel i urge you to retract the statement and engaging ferdie dialogue with community on why these comments are so hurtful edition only questioning support for the us israel relationship is

unacceptable so the democrats had their resolution it was all set they were ready to put it to a vote but then they had a big problem because people from their own party came out swinging against it i'm curious if representative vargas will further explain his stance here that is unacceptable to even question u.s. foreign policy some democrats through willing to compromise and added language to the resolution condemning islamophobia as well as anti semitism what congresswoman omar said i thought was wrong and hurtful but i also want to say that what happened linking all muslims to the terrorist attack was wrong and hurtful if you look through everything that she has said it makes no references to jews or jewish individuals to the jewish people namely because there are jewish she added. to the netanyahu government is an indication that indeed deep state if you will the

additional democratic party structure is still in place is still strong enough and the divide is getting deeper at this point the hard left democrats are rallying around the green new deal this is a resolution that would completely revamp america's transportation system reorient the energy markets and build lots of infrastructure at first nancy pelosi had quite a few questions about it. the green dream or whatever they call it nobody knows what it is but therefore it's right it will be one of several maybe many suggestions that we received that republicans were ready to put the green new deal up for a vote but then democrats got fired up they're bringing a resolution forward so they can vote against it this cheap cynical ploy evidently represents the sum total of senate republicans leadership on the vital issue of climate change the same goes for impeachment the democratic socialists

want trump ousted right away when your silence is used as home alone if you want beliefs don't wait and see things also because we're going to go in there really is some of them. but the top dog democrats say they should cool their heels before you impeach somebody you have to persuade the american public that it ought to to happen you have to persuade enough of the opposite of the opposition party voters sort of trump voters this fight didn't begin in twenty nineteen back during the twenty sixteen democratic primary rank and file leftists felt as if the nomination had been robbed from them and later wiki leaks confirmed that it was indeed a rigged against them and they didn't forget about it either. the video from last night really shows the passion that these bernie sanders supporters have any anger that they have they feel like they are being shut out.

thank you. if. you are. the change that is happening in the democratic party is something that started with the recent elections that broods a moderate and brute others young program. the are pushing for new ideas i think that is a sign that perhaps more popular involvement in the party could shift on its within the party at increasingly challenge the traditional elites of the democrats and twenty sixteen trump swept in and took the republican party in a new populist direction and it's pretty clear that the democratic socialist way was to take the democratic party in a new direction as well but there are some pretty solid and entrenched leaders who are determined to stop them caleb lupton r.t.

new york well the internal conflict is not the only controversy connected with the party the democrats are also refusing to allow the conservative fox news channel to host any of its debates showing the twenty twenty presidential election campaign double trouble threatening to do the same with pro democratic channels although we haven't specified which ones yet recent reporting in the new york only inappropriate relationship between president trump his administration and fox news has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates therefore fox news will not serve as a media partner for the twenty twenty democratic primary debates democrats just block folks news from holding a debate goods that i think will do the same thing with the freak news networks and the radical lift them across in the general election debates. well in a none seeing their decision to boycott fox news the democrats cited

a report in the new yorker magazine describing the close relationship between the channel and the trump administration it say's that the network has turned into trump's propaganda machine well the article points out that various fox news pundits are working for the trump administration the include former fox co president bill's shine who is now the white house communications director it also claimed citing sources that mr trump was given advanced notice of a primary debate question with the help of the the six former head of fox news robert ailes although the leak of a debate question on the other side of the political spectrum and twenty sixteen was actually confirmed former c.n.n. commentator donna brazil admitted she used her position to give a heads up to hillary clinton on questions of the c.n.n. host a debate in twenty sixteen she was working as a party chairwoman at the time political commentator steve malzberg sees the

democrats' response as hypocritical. you know how many members of the obama administration are now staffing the positions at c.n.n. and m s n b c n n b c and c.b.s. and a.b.c. the whole thing is just of seen and ridiculous in the tank they all are the opposition to donald trump they're not fair and balanced this is just more dementia if you will or trumped arrangement syndrome whatever you want to call it they hate trump so much so you know we're going to take it from fox news fox news is the epitome and the body image of all that's evil in the world i think one way or another see it motivates their base and they were just looking for some excuse to pull off of fox and they came up with an excuse. dozens of ultra-orthodox jews have been arrested in a crackdown on a nun to conscription demonstrations in jerusalem take a look. at.

security forces used water coming to the officers to disperse to the street to traffic for several according to israeli law orthodox jews are exempt from munda tree military service but they still need to receive a deferral notice from the army otherwise they respond by that of course is draft dodgers and then that leads to i rest. now for young people in the u.k. taking a trip across the pond is becoming less of an attraction partly with many planning donald j. trump for making the united states on cool reporting from london here is probably. the transatlantic record trannie used to be most students dream day things like with sixty six still recreating the journeys of the beat makes from only a road all feminist fugitives like bella and we but according to the u.k.'s biggest youth travel operator the kids have today no longer considered the. the u.s.

a cool destination backpacking trips and holidays over to america are down twenty three percent from the start of the year and the travel operators are blaming it on something called the trump slump they say that socially conscious millennial is an generation's ias shunning america because their perch off by none other than the president himself would you shun would you shun a trip to the u.s. because of trouble yeah i can understand why people boycott and that makes sense would you very soon mark on holiday would it be kind of top of your list of where you want to go not the top of a line on him i don't know she's never really appealed to me and especially with all the poses going on as well it's not like i don't know you prefer to go some are a bit more. culturally appropriate. would you want to go to america or just donald trump but you're not personally so you're not bothered i'll go america which you.

do you go to trip you have the opportunity to go to america you still go you know like i wouldn't care about don i mean i i don't like what he does but like i like to go but it's probably not to my list major so we moneywise maybe i'd like to have me and. i think i may go for a holiday that is very different going over there to live a life actually migration and everything and so i don't think i would choose to live i think that everything going on is quite intense and i think i want to but then again you know with the whole thing like price and stuff you know it's not a great very very bastion of hard even here to say. you know coming to the u.k. because of political situations so i don't think that there really should have an impact on people choosing the whole day this nation so it's still still travel. america's great i don't know about in denver colorado where we're from but i can tell you i don't like the very much if you aren't from the u.s.

would you go to the u.s. on holiday probably in. really why not. i probably just want to stay here where where i know what's going on where there's no chaos whatsoever and it's still very very calm but eyes are on advertising. like you know that you. can come to america we're back in ninety seconds with more news. it's a religious thing duel between two dystopian nightmares brave new world in a few before they say you know you're in heaven there and that's like a brave new world with a soma is essentially you're clicking on discrediting yourself and then re crediting your soft through video games that would be more like i think brave new world the soma. digital. and then the us has more than ninety four when it comes to

an actual cell phone natural google ad with surrounded by a t.v. camera. with manufactured sentenced to public will. when the ruling closes some project. with the flaming. lips. to ignore middle of the room sick. buck e.u. officials are claiming the migration crisis on the continent house passed its worst on this essentially over not all are in agreement without sentiment however they

hung garion prime minister says the bloc could break up if it continues to impose pro immigration policies peter all of our unfolding developments. great news from the european commission this week the migrant crisis is over over the past four years the e.u. has made significant progress with tangible results in addressing the challenge of migration europe is no longer experiencing the migration crisis we lived through in twenty fifteen but structural problems remain it's a statement that's backed up by i think it is from the un refugee agency that show that one hundred twenty thousand people tried to cross the mediterranean last year and that is down almost ninety percent from the high in twenty fifteen but that doesn't mean that everything is sorted though crime statistics across europe show migrants are overrepresented in many countries the italian interior ministry say that while foreigners in the country represent only eight percent of the population

they make up over thirty percent of suspects in criminal cases people are job and my colleagues jobs are to ensure security and it can be provided without supporting the smugglers and n.g.o.s or accomplices to these criminals but by supporting those who actually check the borders here in berlin three quarters of those in pretrial detention came from outside of germany while in norway a journalistic investigation revealed to out of three people convicted of a violent crime were migrants those that work closely with refugees and migrants say it's no surprise that they feature so prominently in crime figures the armor vulnerable they have experienced more trauma some of them come from violent cultures and they take it with them among against the e.u. commission statement on gary and prime minister viktor orban has been the most vocal make that migration increases crimes especially criminal acts against women

and introduces the virus of terrorism in our midst but we cannot get stuck in our fears we have to understand that the european peoples have come to a historic crossroad. yes his government has launched an information campaign criticizing what he sees as brussels plan to encourage immigration that everyone has the right to know the proposals that fundamentally being hungry security in his mind or claims are dismissed as pure politics by the e.u. commission he says he's trying to create a baseless narrative of a shadowy constant received the commission has. been of the guardian government complaints that's distort the truth and six and seek to paint a dark picture of a secret brought to drive more migration to europe allegedly so what the europeans think about claims the migrant crisis is over totally disagree i don't think it's

over now not over the plastic coming just. europe. will probably continue coming we can't let you know when i mean you can pretend it's really all over with what's on the line of the things that the polity of the country etc. it has been worse but but. it isn't fixed that's not i don't think it's over and i don't think it will be over for a while we took a lot of people in only if you have we're only a child training or education and i think they should be integrated into society better while european chiefs may be claiming the refugee crisis is no longer a problem at the border others plea believe because the problems are already here peter all of r.t. . lots of debate over the following question china has defended its growing partnership with it please but is it

a good thing criticism coming from the united states by the way that's after the white house urged room not to join beijing's belt on road infrastructure project. we view belts and road initiatives as he made by china for china and initiative we're skeptical the italian government's endorsement will bring any sustained economic benefits to the italian people and it may end up harming italy's global reputation in the long run this position taken by the us side is lawful as a major country italy knows exactly what policies of its own interests and it can make its decisions independently well rome is expected to sign up to the initiative when chinese president xi jinping visits at the end of the month at least coalition government they have also been talking up the benefits one way for us to increase trade values is to first increase investment this is done by these memorandums one belt one road it is a very fertile area for investment let's just go through what we're actually

talking about here the belton road initiative spawns three continents all the way from china to europe and africa upon completion it's expected to connect nearly two thirds of the world's population by linking key cities by a road real way as ports beijing has pledged one trillion dollars in infrastructure development over the course of the next decade however the u.s. has expressed security concerns over the project and question china's motives sociologist paulo bernardine believes that lee has much to gain from the initiative . there is a strong political crisis because the last numbers they are thinking about this of these guys is to act in this particular. frankly. i mean not. telling us what we have to do it is only our acting for the poor the but i have. also put a band of them and america i think will be a great advantage for god he. will be really.

well. the both of. them. and they are always hopeful you will be a newly in the same great company in the open and i don't see the potential damage of distance on the sponsor and. the right switching gears now it's been an action packed couple of days in football champions league. shoes day while porto munch. on to the quarterfinals all three teams have been managed by chelsea marino is back here with a new show named on the touchline a quick glimpse behind the scenes. i hear you play football yourself not just among those with playoffs not define a sign. as you get on do you think so if you think so i think so. you know

what positions you look in the call for positions. how would you describe yourself as a player and. coach on the pitch you know organizing speaking the ending playing simple and left the. show with a little bit of creating. yeah i have a feeling he likes to talk a lot guy you can watch that in full and you choose and also our teeth dot com but right now politicking starts the moment. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from

fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to do. by the way what is the punch line here. can socialism bring about a radian future a growing number of voters seem to think so which of these voters and some members of congress mean by socialism free stuff for all the state controlling the means of production orders. why are so many falling out of love with. an economic slowdown in china what are the implications for the u.s.

economy and the green new deal is it a winning platform for democrats in two thousand and twenty president obama's former deputy secretary of labor joins us for a look on this edition of. welcome to politicking i mean homes in for larry king china is suffering an economic slowdown and its number two leader warns that the country faces a tough struggle so what are the implications for the u.s. economy and does this mean donald trump's china policies are winning and the green new deal there's been lots of talk about it and the g.o.p. is already using it to scare voters ahead of the two thousand and twenty election but what is it and can the democratic party win with it as a platform we begin with these as i'm joined by chris lew former deputy secretary of labor during the obama administration he's now a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center and he joins us in

washington d.c. chris thank you so much for joining us my pleasure amy great so let's start with china and the chinese economy china is suffering an economic slowdown and its number two leader warns the country faces a tough struggle so chris i want to ask you what are the implications for the u.s. economy well look we live increasingly in a global economy right now and what happens in china and frankly what happens in europe affects what's happened united states we've seen a slowdown in the u.s. economy in the fourth quarter and many economists believe that all will continue slow.