protest script. we report. on american. movement. across the country for the seventh consecutive weekend. the terrorist. strongholds near the iraqi border. there it's sunday that means the weekly so a bit later in the program we'll bring you some of the headlines stories over the

past seven days also bringing you up to speed on the weekend's events as well starting with venezuela sanctions threats accusations and protests the political crisis there is deepening the capital caracas has been gripped by both pro and anti-government demonstrations opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president would rest his supporters. powers to bring down the government. solution. thief . germany they tried to fabricate this whole show claiming the military would join them but there is only one answer yes to loyalty to be true it. is a clone. in a criminal. after a very tense week opposition supporters are back on the streets to protest against the government of nikko last month europe they called was made by the one why don't

monday after rejoining an international tour don't heat up the already tense climate menace was up and you are three days in a row in a massive blackout the biggest ones of venezuelan history at the moment the whole capital is powerless but at the foot of the town i'm protesting because i want a different government there is no electricity you know water new food the government should step down there were no i'm here to defend the democratic choice of all people when we voted for nicolas maduro as our president under the constitution he is the only president unlike one door and proclaimed himself it is a coup and a violation of our democracy and freedom. and while. i was side hell washington's trying to cripple caracas financially and a bit i was nicolas maduro the u.s. state department even went as far as to break journalists who didn't agree with the united states view on venezuela. 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. you don't think he made a complaint pointing out just trying to correct well that's all it's like a complaint since for the week he's the is the interim president well and we don't want to consider him to be the interim president though as you say fifty other countries. recognize him as the interim president but they're all more than a hundred members of the militia so they're fifty countries is not even close

that. it's the time to act in support of democracy and some news coverage of all of them the legitimate leader the president is going to inter age more functions to work we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current dictator pressure was stepped up further on the venezuelan government for the way u.s. vice president mike pence announced that seventy seven officials linked to nicolas maduro would have their u.s. visas revoked washington special envoy to venezuela elliott abrams hinted at sanctioning third parties for their support of the venezuelan leader and the u.s. national security adviser john bolton said there will be new restrictions targeting venezuelan ally cuba adding the whole region should stand against caracas. takes a look at why washington thinks it can dictate who site people should be on. the united states is exceptional literally bound by different rules to you and me of the nations states groups you see they have the right to

decide who rules where like in venezuela they decide who is a dictator and who isn't they decide which dictators rule and which don't now and state supports any number of dictators who violate human rights including the leaders of egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. do you not see that the united states support for other brutal dictators around the world undermines the the credibility of the argument you make no i don't think it does make it separate and i think look in this administration we're not afraid to use the phrase monroe doctrine. it's an odd chaotic nineteenth century policy that basically says new nation in the americas may be colonized by europeans out of bounds for europeans and everyone not from the americas a little later teddy roosevelt twisted this policy turned it inside out

instead of protecting american nations the us now toppled governments it didn't like there now they've twisted it again now they think they can do this everywhere all over the world and a zoo l.-a and a bill that legitimizes us meddling that terry quire threat assessment a strategy to counter russian influence in venezuela. in effect they're trying to justify meddling in venezuela pogany because it's too friendly with russia and saying no not that that is who asked for it not even america's champ there but you don't see broad support for i believe that there is respectful participation of russia in regards to watching the fate of our country but the same goes for other countries that are paying attention here america knows better in syria half the world away it's the same story in syria the united states where used to plumb us in

work with our partners to expel every last iranian brute and work through the un a process to bring peace and stability to the long suffering syrian people for the life of me i don't remember syrians are asking the united states to get rid of iranians but america knows better africa too many chinese there thinks washington up to no good and now is the time to boot them out china uses bribes opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands goes without saying it wasn't the africans who asked for this in fact according to the latest gallup poll most africans approve of chinese investment plans leadership in africa but the united states knows better you know why because it's

special exceptional better than you or me officially our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order this is a unique exceptional grave and if he could see what is but nine policy protecting the weak from european colonisers what that has been turned into a license. to kill to meddle to topple governments and politically but continents oh you've got to be special whole right we have all sorts of recent cases libya syria iraq where u.s. intervention has essentially obliterated any possibility of democracy but this is true throughout the decades that the united states has meddled in the affairs of latin america overthrowing one democratically elected government after another

whether in one thousand nine hundred eighty four with arbenz or the interventions that he carried out in the one nine hundred eighty s. supporting brutal military regimes in countries like el salvador although venezuela is in the vise the moment cuba nicaragua are also mentioned by figures like bolton in the same breath this is clearly a concerted effort to bring latin american countries once again under the iron control. on top of the headline news the yellow vest movement has again taken to the streets of paris in its continuing stand against the french government.

as. well as you saw right officers used tear gas after mind of clashes flared among the crowds in paris but more than twenty eight thousand protesters rallied across the country yellow vest protest to be an ongoing now for seventeen consecutive weekends with demonstrators about changes to moving standards that's despite president becomes attempts to calm public opinion by canceling proposed fuel tax hikes and launching a national debate over erupted in the french cities of leo leo where hundreds of demonstrators have gathered reports that there were a number of injuries the protests to sustained standoffs with kurds. hundreds of islamic state fighters have surrendered to u.s. backed forces in the syrian village of buy goods the last i still held area near the iraqi border. this most syrian village of book has been out focal point for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks now and it's been

a cold of the last remaining on clay for feisal forces since they react and not without good reason the world has seen crackdowns suffer scaping civilians and even jihadists who chose to surrender and addition to the terrorists there also their wives and children too. praising the islamic state with the different slogans they also showed the soles of their shoes as an insult even now they still believe this is not the end of the caliphate just a short while ago though donald trump announced that his army and allies crushed islamic state completely we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent of the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over ever since then however there has been

a wave of different opinions from those who are actually responsible for what's happening on the ground for instance they had of us central command while he is sure that islamic state hasn't surrendered and the threat is still real he says the terrorists after some tactical thinking have chosen to lay low and waits for the right time to come back. reduction of the physical caliphate is a monumental military accomplishment but the fight against isis and violent extremism is far from over and at least for now it's more and more in doubt but nothing seems to be certain in this ongoing conflict especially with the unpredictable situation and douglas you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of isis see a resurgence you know where we're doing our work come back if we have to well as general votel testified in congress recently 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 that forms sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know it's some future date trungpa 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 one hundred ways to count troops and that may not include a lot of the regular soldiers perhaps national forces you see advisers diplomats and an aid organization so they'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. in the village of booze has been a hot spot for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks last week the u.s.

backed troops launched an assault on what they called the last i still held area in the country that's off to donald trump an already declared it mission complete however as islamic state continues to make its last defined stand those who fled the two remaining stronghold faced new threats hunger. the man honestly i didn't leave to join i cell i left sick in jihad for god because we are all muslims and we have versus about jihad in the koran. what about the killing slaughtering and torturing that i let someone experience free and out of their religion they left the islamic state but especially in the beginning it had divided.

the conditions are definitely dying in the camp the problem is nobody was expecting these kinds of numbers so it has been overwhelming and it hasn't stopped. coming welcomed us into the camp but there is no medicines i wish they would give us medicines i can sleep well because of my pain i have severe pain to them and you can't get any match was. relatives of the children of french jadis of appeal to the un for the youngsters to be allowed back to front the government being held in camps in syrian co to start the lawyers who helped launch the play says the children will be able to adapt to a normal life in front gotten its peak when the french people every day for three years in a row are being told that these children are time bombs they want to prove their

repatriation but in fact they are being deceived eighty four children have already returned to france to have a deficit they're being socialized the are ok they were safe from the worst life and what are we going to do are we going to leave those children just because they were born into families which left four flights but these children hadn't asked to be born there they hadn't asked to be taken there they're innocent. this is according to the save the children charity there are now more than two and a half thousand children in camps in northern syria and they're from around thirty different countries marie dos the lawyer we just heard from there thinks around one hundred of them are french now france is currently dealing with them on a case by case basis the thing is the majority of french people seem to be against the children's return a new poll found that around two thirds sixty seven percent of respondents did not want them to be in france and we spoke to the father of one of the victims of the better clan concert massacre in paris which was masterminded by i so he thinks the

children of jihad is should suffer the consequences of their parents' actions. all parents are bearing responsibility for the future of their children they've left france voluntarily nobody forced them out they've decided to fight against bronze they've crossed themselves out of frauds and unfortunately their children should account for the consequences for me these children coming back is out of the question i don't even consider them french nationals but there have been lots of attempts and directed radicalization very sophisticated ones there have been attempts to get the country into the help of a social media with facebook with google and at the end of the day the results are small so the government is well aware that there's a lot majority of the french you do not want these children to come back to not see them as being french see them as being out the children of jihadi fathers whom they might be mourning so the government has got a hot potato on this it's a difficult decision to eat it's not popular and earth there's also the

understanding in france that many of the terrorist acts that have been committed in france were by people who were actually watched by the police and at the end of the day the police could not determine at what time they would. take action and so these people were well known and still they managed to go out and kill french people that doesn't make you popular to bring potential more of the. coming out more of the week's coverage including a setback for anti racism in south africa and why young british tourists a shunning the united states when the weekly returns after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic looking only.

very. are very reluctant to. formally and also to make that they were perhaps stronger in. the war so. by the prolongation of sanctions i think it was in countries. where we can start. our russian by the way.

welcome back to the weekly told up wearing lipstick. has been spotted in madrid barcelona on the side of a bus. part of a campaign by ultra conservative catholics who are unhappy about spanish laws on gender violence which they claim discriminated against men the bus told several other spanish cities in the run up to international women's day on friday the campaign was organized under the harsh tag stop. which is how the organizers refer to certain types of feminist it spokesman explained why. the gender laws are really very. very very bad laws because louis discriminate men from women in the penalty of the pinnacle discriminate also or in the presentation or in a situation what we are asking is for it already that is what's always we've got ministers are asking for but in fact there are they're not asking for a lot of it but they are asking for supremacism in

a giant way and the campaign is seeking the repeal of a two thousand and four more on gender violence under way to special courts and rehabilitation centers were created to protect women who were at risk of people on twitter a bit and back coming up with a few of their own alternative bus slogans and accusing the campaign of being a very behind the times body confidence advocates joanne the morale is thinks the headline bus fails to get its point across. i personally think it's quite hard to take a group an organization seriously when they use someone that has inflicted so much pain or many people so it's quite a hard to just read the picture understand what the organizations phanatic and i don't think he's the right person to use the base of this campaign specially what they're trying to do that i don't personally agree that the current do you think is a bit of an insult to women especially because of what he was about and what he thought about women in particular and the stammer and trying to do it and now i do agree that something needs to be done but again senate violence against. men and

women domestic violence is many when it happened both ways so maybe it's not the rap hasn't even again do you think it might be insulting to men directly. for young people in the u.k. taking a trip across the pond is becoming less of an attraction with many blaming donald trump for making the united states uncool reporting from london his body. that transatlantic road trip they used to be most students dream of nicks from all the road or feminist fugitives like bella and louis s. but according to the u.k.'s biggest youth travel operator the kids of today no longer consider the us 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

a shining 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 think so would you very sure 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 there's a no you prefer to go some are a bit more. culturally appropriate. would you want to go to america or just donald trump but you have no 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 but don't try to i don't like what he does but like i like to go but it's probably not to my lists for me just so we moneywise maybe i'd like to try but i think i think going for

a holiday those very different going over that's live all i see is migration and everything and so i really kind of choose to live i think that everything going on is quite intense and i think i want to but then again you know the whole thing is like parts and stuff so you know it's already great very that bastion of even here to say. you're not coming to the u.k. because of political situations so i don't feel that there really should have an income. some people choosing to hold this nation so still still travel. america is great i don't know about in denver colorado where we're from but i can tell you i don't like dogs i'm very much if you aren't from the us would you go to the us on holiday probably not really well i doubt. i'd 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 car on advertising if they. don't come to america. south africa's anti racism drive has had to hurdle after incendiary

remarks from an m.p. who said true freedom will only come when the white population is subservient to the black i don't want blacks to work for whites i want you to work for yourselves and white people will work for you that will be true freedom you must teach them how to carry babies on their back they must feel what our parents have been feeling we're not calling for white people to be killed but for white people to be our domestic workers julius malema is the leader of the economic freedom fighters a far left party which is currently the third largest political force in south africa over the years malema stirred a national debate with his views on race and class he's twice been convicted of hate speech and intel for sowing division within the organization the apartheid policy in south africa ended more than two decades ago but the country is still struggling with racism white people make up just nine percent of south africa's population but on more than seventy percent of private farmland efforts to reclaim

much of that land without compensation have already been launched by the government but both the problem and the efforts to solve it of course an animosity across the board. general ideology of julius malema wherein he he likes to try and create this sort of clash between races in south africa in order to gain political points he just want to replace white people in a position of hope which is constructed to do white people on top and uplifting and exploiting black people the government gives them opportunities through the black economic empowerment it gives them opportunities it incentivizes businesses to hire them in higher positions it is easier for them to enter into higher education into universities the system in south africa is not a white supremacist system it is not a white dominated system so definitely so why do i mean a good country thirty five thousand white families only eighty percent of the land

we don't own i speak to you as a black person in south africa i over nothing i am in fact i think a tenant white people everything the government is a black majority government this is a simple fact you cannot deny that majority of parliament members are black and this is the wide. thinking it is just what i meant is is black but we can't even make laws that says we must take the land even these politicians controlled by money who has money why it's when you ask the majority of white people they will agree that the old government and its systems were corrupt and unfair to everyone in south africa and they did benefit. people i'm fairly that is true why people are somehow denial lists of old crimes of the old government is incorrect ok that's it from the moscow news team for now i'll have your next weekly wrap after we've taken a trip with max and stacey hitting the road again across the united states.

it was mostly me or neighbor or those environments that's in the original now after the five years ago. because relations were more putin but now the relation is very very close intertwined saw i think it's ok to have a new treaty and you negotiation. with countries gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i'm thinking we've got to get them to showed the genius of america here this is it we found the point around which hollywood is going to say we're starting last with is going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bee i think i'm leaving now going to get a more gonzo business maybe completely different and it was.

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