the. islamic states lost foothold in syria as u.s. backed forces resumed the showdown with the jihadi as more people flee from the enclave including the wives of fossil fighters who refuse to believe the caliphate is finished. and israel a self-proclaimed interim president says he will ask the country's national assembly to declare a state of emergency this comes off the door refused to us intervention. today the solution is an ethiopian airlines plane with one hundred fifty seven people on board crashes just minutes after taking off from addis ababa there are no survivors.

and i welcome to the weekly here on our team to national live from moscow i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are thanks for joining us this hour. u.s. backed fighters have resumed their assault against lost on klav in syria the village of by guus near the iraqi border these are the latest pictures from the embattled city where heavy fighting is now raging the final showdown with arsenal was the latest displaced families have been fleeing the area a spokesperson for the s.d.f. says the military are close to wiping out the last contingent. six pm local time planes targeted the terrorists' weapons depos there is fierce fighting on the outskirts of the camp our forces are now ready to finish what is left of ice off. the village of by guus has been a focal point of the syrian democratic forces for several weeks despite donald trump repeatedly clarin victory over eisel america's top general says the fight is

far from over with more his. 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. 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 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 pullout would have definitely scored mr trump some valuable political points but nothing seems to you could in that vacuum see

a resurgence of isis see a resurgent you know they're going out will 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 tongues recently and 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 farms we believe that farms sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know some future date from the later clarified that this was a 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 regular soldiers perhaps national forces you see advisers

diplomats and an aid organization so there's 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 isis is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are misleading. many of those who escaped the fighting in buggers have been put into a refugee camp there they are facing new threats i mean to shortages of food and medicine. and looks. like talk i didn't have to john i says i love seeking jihad

for god because we are all muslims and we have verses about jihad. what about the killings listening in torture and access. are repentant and have left islamic state but disturbed of the regime it had the right approach. the conditions are definitely dire going to count the problem is nobody was expecting these kinds of numbers so it has been overwhelming and it hasn't stopped . just. sanctions threats accusations on protests the political crisis in venezuela deepens the couple's old caracas has been gripped by both pro and anti-government

demonstrations with opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president door addressing supporters call on foreign powers to bring their own government thank you solution is intervention. i. i. i. 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. and a criminal after a very tense week opposition supporters are back on the streets to protest against a government of nicolas maduro they called was made by 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 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 you know what i am here to defend the democratic choice of our people when we voted for nicolas maduro as our president under the constitution he is the only president unlike one why don't you chose and proclaimed himself it is a coup and a violation of our democracy and freedom. of one road or says he will ask the country's national assembly to declare a state of emergency this comes amid a fourth day of nationwide blackouts one of the worst in decades caracas called the outage an act of sabotage by the u.s. but the opposition says the material in senator marco rubio a staunch advocate of removing madeira tweeted but the cause of the power outage was a transformer explosion at a german whether there is no such thing in venezuela and it seems he got himself into a bit of a model. today another transformer explosion at the german

dam in believe a state coast another massive blackout. senator marco rubio an important transformer exploded in believer and that in parts again collapse the venezuelan electric system however it was not in a dam much less german my name is again man down i'm one of the journalists who publish the information washington is starting up it's a cripple caracas financially in a bid to oust nicolas maduro of the us state department even went so far as the break journalists who didn't agree with the official american stance on when israel . we have noticed in news coverage that some outlets are incorrectly referring to one guy joe as the opposition leader or the self-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 to get this straight you're complaining because it's reported 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 nation so they're fifty countries is not even close that. it's the time to act in support of democracy and news coverage of the legitimate leader the president is going to interpret more functions to look we don't want to feed into rhetoric of the current dictator the pressure was stepped

up further on the venezuelan government this week u.s. vice president mike pence announce that seventy seven officials linked to nicolas maduro would have their u.s. wheezes revoked washington's special envoy to venezuela. sanctioning third parties for best support of the venezuelan leader and u.s. national security advisor john bolton said there would be new restrictions targeting venezuelan ally cuba the whole region should stand against his off with more. the united states is exceptional literally thou 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. 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 no 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 say no not that then is 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 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 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 burn the 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 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 our vans 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 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. and the ethiopian airlines passenger plane crashed on sunday killing all those onboard on that tragedy just after the short break. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. when the final.

news is. there was no trade or labor in those environments standouts in the original nafta thirty five years ago those were kicked out because relations were more putin but now the religion is very very close intertwined saw i think it's ok to have a new treaty and you negotiation. welcome back to the program an ethiopian airlines plane carrying one hundred forty nine passengers and eight crew bound for the kenyan capital has crashed shortly after takeoff thirty five different nationalities well on board the pilot had

reportedly been given permission to land the plane again after he said he was experiencing difficulties all cause i was in a studio with you don't know neal. 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 and 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 cole is 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 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 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. over six thousand activists gather in central moscow demanding the protection of internet freedoms that's off the norm is gave the initial approval to a bill granting the authorities greater control over what site sort of symbol is going to cost you never was there. we came to report on this rally here and the central moscow party wasn't allowed to this meeting as 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 clouds of people and many mostly young people we saw here i came word that flags as they were holding different slogans all kind damning the rest the bill that was proposed by russian officials now the event organized by a group of activists was earlier approved by moscow city hall. thousands of members of the french capital's algerian community have rallied against the president of algeria's reelection bid is the second weekend in a row such demonstrations other french cities source similar protests including mass a bordeaux algerian president abilities has been in power for twenty years but he's rarely been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in twenty thirteen sunday's protests came as root if you can claim left geneva while he was receiving hospital treatment. south africa's anti-racism drive has hit a 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 and 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 my labor has third national debates with his views on race and class he's twice been convicted of hate speech and inciting violence against white people he was expelled from the governing a.n.c. party in two thousand and twelve for serving division within the organization now the apartheid policy in south africa ended more than two decades ago but the country is still struggling with division what people make up nine percent of south africa's population but only more than seventy percent of private farmland efforts

to reclaim much of that land without compensation have already been launched by the government both the problem and efforts to solve it are causing animosity across the board. general ideology of julius malema in 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 oppression we don't wonder that one to obliterate one to completely this system which is close terms 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 you 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 owed nothing i am in fact i think a tenant white people over everything the government is a black majority government this is a simple fact you cannot deny that majority of parliament members are 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 unfairly that is true why people are somehow denial lists of all the crimes of the old government is incorrect. as for the sour from the team and myself thanks for the naughty international do join us again in thirty minutes for the latest updates.

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