today the solution is. rivalled protests gripped. resorts to. the report on washington's approach to the latin american country. families are evacuated from the pocket of resistance in syria including the wives of. refuse to believe.

ethiopian airlines plane with one hundred fifty seven people on board minutes after taking off from. there were no survivors. to their weekly roundup of the big news stories of the past seven days on up to the moment developments as well my names you know neil. sanctions threats accusations protests political crisis in venice we deepens the capital caracas has been gripped by both. the government demonstrations opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president one addressed his supporters calling on foreign powers to bring down the government. i they say the solution is intervention be with thank

you moon we crushed 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 to be true why do is a clown. and a criminal after a very tense wake up official supporters are back on the streets to protest against the government of nikko last month during the cold was made by one why don't monday after returning an international tour heat up the already tense climate menace was up in two or three days in a row in a massive blackout the biggest want of penicillin history at the moment the whole capital is powerless one of the but 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 door and proclaimed himself it is a coup and a violation of our democracy and freedom. while one wide ok side help washington is attempting to cripple caracas financially in a bid to oust nicolas maduro the u.s. state department even went so far as to break journalists who didn't agree with the official american stance on venice which. we have noticed in news coverage that some outlets are incorrectly referring to. 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 and millions of americans and more than fifty countries recognize as interim

president of venezuela he did this for your complaining because. you don't think he. complaining pointing out just trying to correct well that's all it's like to complain since we he's he's the easy 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 their fifty countries is not even close that. it's the time to act in support of democracy and that news coverage of the legitimate leader the president is going to encourage more phone trees to work we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current dictator who. pressure was stepped up further on the venezuelan government this week let's go through water occurred u.s. vice president mike pence announced that seventy seven officials linked to nicolas

maduro would help their u.s. visas revoked then washington special envoy to venezuela elliott abrams hinted at sanctioning third parties for their support of the venice we to dot the u.s. national security advisor john bolton said there would be new restrictions targeting venice with an ally cuba being the whole region should stand against caracas because the. the united states is exceptional literally that how and 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 are only human rights including the leaders of egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e.

you don't 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 he's a wella 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 and merica 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 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 maule neuro would turn in his grave

if he could see what his 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 but 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 united states has nettled didn't fare so well in america overthrowing one democratically elected government after another supporting brutal military regimes this is clearly a concerted effort to bring latin american countries once again under the iron. or i'm moving on no more civilian top in a vacuum and in from terror group islamic states alas the pocket of resistance in

syria the village of beit goes near the iraqi border it comes as hundreds of fighters surrendered to u.s. forces which are preparing an assault now among the women and children who have escaped ahead of the show dine there are relatives of jobless some of the eyes a wife's also clearly refusing to believe that coffin is doomed. well the village all of by guus has been a focal point of the syrian democratic forces for several weeks the spite donald trump repeatedly declaring victory over isel america's top general say the fights far from over there so have a tranquil. 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 the good news before the guns go off but thousands 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. well out would have definitely scored mr trump some valuable political points but nothing seems to be certain here especially with this but google's thorn in the side you could in that vacuum see

a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence in our rooms and out we'll come back if we have to anyway whatever happens next depends on what ignites and this small but vital strip of land known as booze well as general votel testified in congress recently and he said. yes this is the end of the territorial state which is very important but it is 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 farms sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know some future date from the 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 national forces you see advisers diplomats and an aid organization so there is likely to be

a lot more americans there there is 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 isis is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are misleading. ethiopian airlines plane carrying one hundred forty nine passengers and eight crew but one for the kenyan capital was crushed shortly after takeoff the earl and company say yes there are 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 from a quarter told me more or. 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 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 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 be in 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 lyon errors 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 event 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 boeing 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. too more news this sunday over six thousand activists gathered in central moscow demanding the protection of internet freedoms but it's after lawmakers gave their initial approval to a bill granting the authorities greater control over what sites are accessible artie's medina is there. we came to report on this rally here and central moscow people are gathered to defense of the freedom of the internet and russia but ironically r.t. wasn't allowed to look at this meeting as the organizers of this event told us that we belong to the media that they do not support so this is the only way i can report on what's happening back there by standing here i can only tell you that you see constant people in many mostly young people we saw here i came with that flocks

as they were holding different slogans old condemning the rest of the bill that was proposed by russian officials now the event organized by a group of activists was earlier approved by moscow city hall more of the week that was coming up including why young british tourists are shunning the u.s. stay with us. join me every. time i'm sure and i'll be speaking to the world of politics or. i'm sure. i'll see you of. course in countries 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 this is serious we can start to you know ways in which. our russian by the west and by the g.c.c. . hello again a dolt. wearing lipstick on long eyelashes has been spotted in madrid barcelona on the side of a bus this. is part of

a campaign by ultra conservative catholics who are on the happy about spanish laws on gender violence which they claim the scrimmage made against men the bus tour and several other responder cities in the run up to international women's day on friday the campaign was organized under the stop. which is how the organizers refer to certain types of feminists its spokesman explained why. the gender laws are really very. very very bad laws because the discriminate men from women in the penalty also the pinnacle discriminate also or in the presence of innocence it's breakin and simple of equality that is in our constitution what we're asking is for already don't this what's always reply ministers are asking for but in fact are not they're not asking for a lot of it but they are asking for supremacism in a giant way so they campaign is seeking the repeal of

a two thousand and four law and gender violence under which special courts and rehabilitation centers were created to protect women at risk or people on twitter have bitten back coming up with a few of their own alternative bust slogans accusing the campaign of being very behind the times body confidence advocate john b. moralities thinks the hitler bus fails to get its point across. personally i think it's quite hard to take a group or an organization seriously when they use someone that has inflicted so much pain or many people so it's quite hard to just read the picture understand what they're going to say she's trying to pick. the right person to use the this campaign's what they're trying to do i don't personally agree with that because i do think it's a bit of an insult to specially because of what he was about and what he thought about women in particular i understand trying to do and i do agree that something

needs to be done but again violence is. men and women domestic violence. both ways so maybe it's not the right present 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 so for their traction with many blaming donald trump for making the united states on cool decided to find out. that transatlantic road trip they used to be most students dream holiday things like route sixty six or recreating the journeys of the beatniks from only the road or feminist fugitives like always but according to the u.k.'s biggest youth travel operator the kids of today no longer consider 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 z. is a shining america because their perch off by none other than the president himself would you shine would you shun a trip to the u.s. because of trouble yeah i can understand why people boycott america makes them would you go out on a day or would it be kind of top of your list of where you want to go. not the top of my list why no. i don't know she's never really appealed to me and especially with all the posters going on as well it's not like i don't know you prefer to go somewhere a bit more. culturally appropriate. would you want to go to america or just donald trump but you're. also so you know all the i'll go america which you. do you go to trip you had the opportunity to go to america you still go yeah yeah like i wouldn't care about don trying to i i don't like what he does but like i'd

like to go but it's probably not to my lists but he just said we moneywise maybe i'd like to try but i think i think going for a holiday that is very different going to that live all i see is migration and everything and so i don't think i would choose to live that i think that's been going on is quite a time and i think i want to but then again you know with the whole thing like price and stuff so yeah it's already great them every day that i've had basti and if even here to say it was people not coming to the u.k. because of the political situation so i don't think that's a really should have an impact on people choosing the whole day the sioux nation so it's still still travel. america is great i don't know about in denver colorado where we're where we're from but i can tell you i don't like don't try very much if you aren't from the u.s. would you go to the u.s. on holiday probably not really well you know. 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 on advertising if you like you know that you. don't come to america. as the syrian war weinstein what happens now it's a wind multifaceted question and it's one of the worlds apart tacos next to this is our two international. of the earth it was. led .

there was no trade or worse than those environments standouts in the original nafta five years ago. because relations were more punitive but now the relation is very very close. so i think it's ok to have a new treaty and you negotiation. yes this is all a good. hello

and welcome to worlds apart as the syrian war winds down so does the moral grandstanding around its conduct having spent the last eight years denouncing serious treatment of the rabble and their families many western powers are now

eager to leave their own citizens in syria including the most vulnerable how come human rights are so absent in the discussions about the fate of isis fighters and especially their children will to discuss that i'm now joined by samuel ramani a doctoral candidate in international relations at the universe oxford mr money is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you very much for inviting me now if there is one phrase capturing due western portrayal of the syrian war that would be assad's killing his own people that was the main promise for his suppose that illegitimacy he's disregard for his own people for the civilians where is this concern for one's own people or for once own citizens now when hundreds of western born women and their children are fleeing areas like. syria i think this is a very interesting question because the movement of foreign fighters in the

movement of people who in western countries to isis is a relatively unprecedented phenomenon because isis was the largest or territorial control of any terrorist organization has ever been so they are now under the situation where the western countries are effectively making laws on the fly but basically as an ad hoc manner they are saying that these evil have lost their right to legitimacy and loss or right this is because they participated in treasonous i have a day they support a group that's blatantly obvious. it is violent against individuals and some of them are the wiser spouses of people who are involved for example in the two thousand and fifteen paris bombing or in the two thousand and seven mentions serving the bombing so they're viewed as criminals as a choice between whether it is more safe to leave them there and let the disperse to turkey to iraq where they can say radicalized and they get status shamus or bring them back have been face trial be released in short order and then restart their activities and western style now if specialized in russian foreign policy

long enough to know that the russians never missed a chance to point out western double standards but i think it goes beyond that it's a legal issue why should these people the isis fighters and their families be dumped in somebody else's territory is developed there's been some outliers truly for example the wife of one of the probably end is for the city in paris bombing who is said they would rather one stay in syria they return to the west because the french have launched air strikes against their family but the majority if given the opportunity would definitely want to come back to their home country even if they know they're going to face trial in that they know they can almost certainly face a substantial prison sentence and russia has definitely invited its own people back to their accomplices and of course of instances where they've got like the one where they got a six year prison sentence for example and they had to face justice for children they've resettled them through their extended families in their own caucus us and try to train the least a more to operate a more modern moderate respect.