today the solution is intervention of. rival protests gripped venice where the u.s. resorts to sanctions. president we report on washington's approach to the latin american country. more families are evacuated from the pocket of us law make stay for assistance in syria including the wives of finder's who refuse to believe that caliphate is doomed.

plane with one hundred fifty seven people on board crushes minutes after taking off from. their work. welcome to the weekly roundup of the big news stories of the past seven days on up to the moment developments as well my name's in and. sanctions threats accusations of protest the political crisis in venice deepens the capital caracas has been gripped by both pro and anti-government demonstrations opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president one addressed his supporters calling on foreign powers to bring down the mature government. thank you jay the solution is intervention thank excuse

me crashed the coup attempt. they tried to fabricate this whole show claiming the military would join them but there is only one answer yes to loyalty and no one to be tree. is a clown a puppet and 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 may but why don't monday after returning an international tour to heat up the already tense climate menace was up in two or three days in a row in a massive blackout the biggest wind of penicillin history at the moment the whole capital this powerless one of the better that i'm protesting because i want a different government there is no electricity no water no 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 go door to chose and proclaimed himself it is a coup and a violation of our democracy and freedom. while one calls for outside help washington is attempting to cripple caracas financially in a bid to ice nicolas maduro the u.s. state department even went so far as to borate journalists who did not agree with the official american stance 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 as interim president of venezuela you get this for your complaining because. of that you don't

think he made a complaint pointing out just trying to correct well it's almost like a complaint seems pretty weak he's the easy interim president well and we don't want to consider him to be the interim president 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 news coverage of calling them the legitimate leader the president is going to interpret more functions to look we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current dictator the pressure was stepped up further on the venice willing government this week let's go through it firstly u.s. vice president mike pence a nonce that seventy seven officials linked to nicolas maduro would have their us because it is revoked then washington special envoy to venezuela elliott abrams

hinted at sanctioning third parties for their support of the van aswegen leader and the u.s. national security adviser john bolton said there would be new restrictions targeting venice with an ally cuba the whole region should stand against caracas you're smart because they have. the united states is exceptional literally that 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 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 pagi because it's too friendly with russia and say 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 country. imagine mr monreal would turn in his grave if he could see what is but nine policy protecting the weak from european. colonizes what that has been turned into

a license to kill to meddle to topple governments and politically burn continents oh you've got to be special all right we have all sorts of recent cases libya syria iraq where u.s. intervention has essentially open literally any possibility of democracy but this is true throughout the decades that the united states has meddled in the affairs of what america overthrowing one democratically elected government after another whether in one nine hundred fifty four with arden's or the interventions that it 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 on 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. more civilians have been a factor weighted from terror group islamic states last pocket of resistance in syria the village of buy goods near the iraqi border it comes as hundreds of i saw a fighter surrendered to us by forces which are preparing assault amongst the women and children who have escaped by the head of the show down there are relatives on some of the eyes or wives are clearly refusing to believe the calibrating as. well the village of bikers has been a focal point of the syrian democratic forces for several weeks now and despite donald trump repeated the clearing victory over isael the top u.s. general says the fights far from over here so you trying to with more know what we

know. 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 eisel 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 pullout would have definitely scored mr trump some

valuable political points but nothing seems to be certain here especially with this goose thorn in the side. you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence in our rooms and i'll 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. ethiopian airlines plane carrying one hundred forty nine passengers and eight crude bone for the kenyan capital was crushed shortly after takeoff the company say there were no survivors thirty five different nationalities were on board the pilots had reportedly been given permission to land the plane again after he said he was experiencing difficulties on the quarter as more. the latest thing that ethiopian airlines is reporting is that the c.e.o.

has arrived on the crash site and he confirms personally that there are no survivors the majority being from kenya canada and the e.u. now this was one of ethiopian airlines regularly scheduled flights in the ethiopian secretary of transportation did a press conference earlier today and told us all what the government knew at that point about what was going on the use of didn't just. eat to eat when the flights to cool off from international airport. in six minutes a little. bit lost in terms of civilians although the plane crashed only six minutes after takeoff it took emergency services two whole hours to get to the site now this is especially shocking because reports were saying that it only crashed about fifty kilometers south of the takeoff zone at the airport one witness even told the b.b.c. that the result of this delay was because the fire was so strong that people were

unable to approach the plane on the crash site the office of the ethiopian prime minister already reacted to this on twitter they said that they give their condolences to the families of those who lost their lives on this plane. the big question is of course the causes what happened to it do we have any kind of going to be investigation of course but but early stages of why this happened yet well that's another surprising detail hours later and we still have no details available as to what caused this crash in the first place it's one of the newest model so that's another aspect we have to bring in here it's actually called the boeing seven thirty seven max and it's a new addition to the theo being fleet only from back in july of last year and a lot of people are drawing parallels to the plane crash that occurred last year in indonesia with lion air's model of the same plane the boeing boeing. seven thirty seven max and just to give you a couple details about that it was

a very similar situation the plane crashed in indonesia only several minutes after taking off and over one hundred eighty passengers were killed now boeing also reacted to that and to this situation back then last year boeing issued a warning year later about this model of aircraft saying that the seven thirty seven max might have a tendency to do a nosedive against the will of the pilot of the plane and during airplanes actually also responded on twitter to this specific crash saying that the company is aware of the accident and they're closely monitoring the situation for. two more women who are married to islamic state fighters have been stripped of their britches shoes and ship they are currently being held in a syrian detention center now it comes after the death of the three week old son of eyes on bride shamima bigombe whose citizenship was also revoked by the british home secretary of the session for which was both criticized and praised the tragic

death of show me a baby is a stain on the conscious of this government it's against international law to make someone stateless and to leave out the whole noble young woman and insert child in a refugee camp where we know infant mortality to be high is morally reprehensible the home secretary failed the british child and he has a lot to answer for we failed as a country to safeguard the child this was an entirely avoidable death of a british citizen there was no attempt to help by the home office i think it's shocking how the home secretary has treated this situation it's absolutely tragic that a baby has died and of course i understand this is a really terrible problem but on the other hand the job of the home secretaries to protect all the people in the united kingdom if you have had advice and what was the right thing to do and i totally support his decision. is a former british citizen of bangladeshi origin she fled the u.k.

in twenty fifteen to join the age of fifteen begging was fallen pregnant a syrian refugee camp last month the scene she wanted to return home to her baby adding however she never regretted joining. according to the save the children charles see there are no more than two and a half thousand children in camps in northern syria from iran thirty countries their countries of origin are engaged in debate about whether or not they should accept them back a new poll that sixty seven percent of respondents didn't want such children to be returned to france let's talk with the u.k. we're joined live on the program by neil wallis neil is a media commentator speaking from london and mohamed schiff eek chief executive of the ramadan foundation also in britain good to have you gentlemen on the program. the opposition has slammed the home secretary as we're hearing blaming him for the

death. if you can start with your newborn baby should not suffer because of the decisions of their parents surely. of course not and what has happened here is an absolute tragedy the fact that this child has died of course it all for the death of any child is all for but you know we have to be realistic about this that. you know that this baby. does not forget is the third child who was dying of this young woman but it's this young woman who has put . tragically now dead children into this situation she took herself into this area and you know we talk about. it but just this morning the sunday times for instance reveals there is another five women british

base women who voluntarily went to join our isis when it was the credit to do when it was the cause celeb ok the muslim world. and they have many children as well you know why we should remove should remember by human have been chosen ahead of these were. all full of situation tragically it's an awful situation of their own making ok mohammad the home secretary has to look out for the safety of the entire nation by keeping beggar mart and not just one individual and others of course many say that he did that. well this is not about that one individual we've had a number of i think over four hundred people come back and it's never been an issue certainly on this occasion. you know it's becoming. a story i mean the first point

is very simple let's have some humanity this is the richest citizen the baby who dying and died because our government didn't do anything to bring that child back to the u.k. and i can't disagree with everything neal said about i can't disagree with you neal about everything you said about the choices they made the fact that she joined a barbaric and evil organization just responsible for the killing not just of alan henin and david. james for all the thousands upon thousands of muslims who were brutally murdered by that regime so why in any sense would you want to join i def cult i accept all of that but in the end we live according to our obligations under international law and we cannot make somebody stateless this is our problem if she was born in our country she was radicalized in our country and surely it's right and proper that she comes back to the u.k.

she's held to account she's put on trial and i hope she goes to prison for a very long time as well as being given the support for the radicalization under mental health support because you know look at the politics of it for a second just one small thing you it has take the politics out of it and talk about the fact that this is a girl. a nineteen year old whose last three children die in itself is quite traumatic what's the point of what i think that she's entailed what should happen to the children neal. what should happen to the children is when it is possible any child that is a british citizen i completely agree should be brought back to this country and i frankly i think they should be forcibly removed from the parents who put them in this a pool in jeopardy you know these parents are abusive parents they're the ones you've taken their children the five. who are mentioned today for instance went out when the whole story of isis really was it is very hard and i'm sure my friend here

would agree with me they are deeply and disk race for people who put their children in jeopardy i absolutely believe that any british citizen should be rescued. whether it is possible but let's just be realistic here we have tori talking about one hundred full of women who are amongst many thousands from many countries in these camps in the middle of syria flying over the top ok as american jets english jets russian jets syrian jets it is still a war zone and it's too glib to suggest what we can just walk in and take this little girl out and that will be fine are there are many many children in this subject who deserve to be rescued just as much as anybody else mohammad shamim is father has asked society to forgive his daughter let's listen together to what was

said. i'm sorry for me was doing i request to the british people please forgive her she was under age at that time she couldn't understand that much i suppose someone influenced her to do that mean that she minds. done wrong without realizing it so her father's put to go at her age saying that she was young she was fifteen though the essence of responsibility has to be brought in here she wasn't a young child she was obviously making her own decisions shouldn't teenagers be judged by such decisions if it leads to two extraordinary circumstances like this. i've got a daughter who's currently fifteen and i can't even imagine to think that she would have the capacity to make that decision but as neal said she made her decision she left this country to join our enemy because that's who they were they were a enemy not just of me saying those are pretty citizen of our state they were

enemies of islam are muslims the vast majority of muslims are found their crimes of horror and so if you become a traitor to your home country the united kingdom then they have to be consequences of that and i absolutely accept that she has to be held to account for her crimes while there was a fifty you know why there is she's nineteen i think the whole way she did her interviews in the past few weeks hasn't helped her cause there was no you military there was nor condemnation for the life that she supported under british people or forgiving people let's be honest most british people are forgiving when they watched the interviews they made their oil because you know i am i'm just a mile away here in this studio and soul food in greater manchester from where alan henning lived in henne in the british aid worker who the taxi driver who went to syria to help the people. paid a heavy price for that so we know the consequences of isis are their crimes but in

the end it's about this girl being held to account and i think there's two things that we need to do and are probably very brief one is that we've got to make sure that there's safety and protection for those children and women and that they're held to account and then there's going to be a global conversation may. with the international criminal court to actually hold these fighters responsible for the crimes that they committed if if shamima comes by how much the danger do you think she would actually be to society after being in the glare of the media for so much time i'm sure she'd be given the radicalization training and might end up being being held. as an example of what can happen because there's so many people we want people to be tried under british law isn't isn't that really the essence of what is happening here it's not just her and trial it's british british law on trial. well. i

absolutely reject your suggestion it's pretty to lauren trial i think it's ludicrous what i think is though that. of course if she can report on trial she should be put on trial but this is a woman who just weeks ago was just before the manchester bombing of the area underground a concert in which you know all those children died and she was justifying it and you know so you have to see the. level of indoctrination is pretty deep do i think she's not. a lightly to be an immediate danger well probably not but what i don't know if you look beyond our shores if you look at the front if you look at belgium you look at germany and how many islam is terrorist attacks have actually been committed by people who have returned from syria then i wouldn't

be glib about it. does that set set a precedence if this person is allowed to come back does it not just say to other terrorist terrorist wives that yes ok we've done terrible things but you know what we're going to be allowed back into our country a more comfortable country than we're in right now oh. well i think i often don't agree with president trump and his administration the united states the the u.s. state my pompei been very clear that these fighters that are now in the custody of syrian opposition fighters and kurdish groups are a real threat and danger to our safety and security don't think just because i stomach state is finished doesn't have any territory that it doesn't remain a threat that ideology still lives on there violence still lives on and their ability to hurt and still lives on and that's why it's so important let's apply emotion to aside let's part discussed in. the context in which the break among

others were commenting on the issues in regards to my interest. feelings to his side and let said we're not going to join them. we're going to maintain our values of humanity the rule of law and justice and we're going to we're going to allow it back in put on trial and i'll be very happy to see prison for a very long time for crimes you get the last twenty seconds if you like. the tremendous amounts of. mohammed. let's forget let's not forget tragically a young child who's died. but i'm afraid that that stone to her mother frankly. let's hope however we can get those young british children out of there and to safety but it is not an easy physical task i think we have to be grown up and realize in luke. and she's getting out of the

moment. very dangerous place ok thank you both for for a spirited debate good to hear both use there neil wallace media commentator mohamed shafi chief executive of the ramadan fine dish and thanks for talking to us . it's an often we say her husband off more than he can chew but he may just have meant as much in florida. continues his stateside road trip. country's gone into nihilistic. thank god it. makes america showed. you this is a point on which hollywood is going to say we're starting last with is.