u.s. backed forces islamic states last stronghold in syria people are fleeing the area including the wives of i still find some of who remain loyal to the so-called caliphate. venezuela's self-proclaimed leader says he will ask the national assembly to declare a state of emergency this comes after one voice or called for a u.s. intervention. today the solution is intervention. in ukraine. and the ethiopian airlines plane with one hundred fifty seven people on

board crushes just minutes after taking off from. there are no survivors. the weekly here not international and then a walk ins row view are tonight thanks so much for joining us on the program. u.s. backed fighters in syria have resumed their assault against the last area held by islamic state terrorists fighting is now raging in the town of by jews near the iraqi border the final showdown with us all was delayed to allow families to flee the area a spokesperson for the syrian democratic forces says the military are close to my wife going out the remains of the kind of. troops began an offensive at six pm local time planes targeted the terrorists weapons depos there is fierce fighting on the outskirts of the camp forces now ready. to finish what is left of eisel off the

village of bugaboos has been a focal point of the syrian democratic forces for several weeks now despite donald trump repeatedly clearing 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 we've seen crowds of escaping civilians and even jihad is who did choose to surrender the current say they want to make sure all innocent people make it out of the goos 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 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 a good study says 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 isis see a resurgent you know they're going out we'll come back if we have to anyway whatever happens next depends on what ignites and this small but vocal. little strip of land known as booze well as a general votel testified in congress 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 at some future date trying to later clarify that this is the territorial state and that's why he's reversed his opinion on u.s. troops remaining in syria you know there's a there's one hundred ways to count troops and that may not include a lot of the regular soldiers perhaps special 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 escape the fighting in bug juice have been put into a refugee camp there though they off a sneak threat some in short is used to food and medicine. looks. like talk i didn't have to john i says i let's see them

a lot about the killing slaughtering and torture and that some are abandoned and have left islamic state but at the spirit of the regime it had the right approach. conditions i'm definitely dying to count the problem is nobody was expecting these kinds of numbers so it has been overwhelming and it hasn't stopped. the political divide in venezuela is deepening with the rival crowds filling the streets of caracas throughout the weekend opposition leader quote all addressed his

supporters calling on foreign powers to bring down the government thanks to the solution is intervention thank you thank. germany they tried to fabricate this whole show claiming the military would join them but there is only one answer yes to war and no one to be treated that medicine is a clown. 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 be one way dawn monday after returning an international tour does heat up the already tense climate menace was up in two or three days in a row in a massive blackout the biggest ones of penicillin history at the moment the whole capital is powerless one of the better than i'm pretty the government should step

down if you look at all that i am here to defend the democratic choice of our people when you voted for nicolas maduro as our president under the constitution he is the only president unlike one why dole who chose and proclaimed himself it is a coup and a violation of our democracy and freedom. who declared himself interim leader in january says he will ask the country's national assembly to declare a state of emergency this comes on the fourth day of a nationwide blackout a caracas calls the out as an act of sabotage why the u.s. but the opposition says the madeira government is to blame some though had very different ideas about what caused it u.s. senator marco rubio a storage advocate of removing would do a row tweeted that the cause of the power outage was a transformer explosion at a german it turns out though there is no such thing in venezuela. today another transformer explosion at the german dam in believe a state caused 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 am one of the journalists who publish the information. well washington insists that nicolas maduro is no longer the leader of venezuela the u.s. state department went so far as to break through fail to accept that view we have noticed in news coverage that some outlets are incorrectly referring to one guy joe 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. you don't think he's not is 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 inter age more functional but we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current dictator oppression was stepped up further on the venezuelan government this week u.s. vice president mike pence out of that seventy seven officials linked to nicolas maduro would have the u.s. visa revoked washington special envoy to venezuela and if abrams hinted at

sanctioning parties their support of the venezuelan leader and the u.s. national security advisor john bolton said there would be new restrictions targeting venezuelan i like cuba the whole region should stand against caracas with more here's more guys they're for. 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 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 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 last 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 he and colonizes what that has been turned into a license to kill to meddle to topple governments and politically but the. 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. lines passenger plane has crashed killing all those on board more on that tragedy just in a few minutes time. question

countries are very reluctant to recognize the fact that is that is one like formally and also to admit that they were perhaps wrong. and so with glee in the early stages of the war so. undermined the reconstruction process by the prolongation of sanctions i think it was in countries with wind as intuition where this is serious we can start to you know ways in which he started by a third power not russia iran not by the west and. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic developments only. i don't see a. very critical time to sit down and talk

. welcome back to the program and ethiopian airlines plane has crashed killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board it was heading from addis ababa to no robey the victims include thirty five foreign nationals. from organizations linked to the u.n. . discussed the tragedy with my colleague 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 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 are 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 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 lion airs model of the same plane the boeing to the 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 passenger van 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. thousands of members of the french capital's own derian community have rallied against the president of algeria as reelection bid it's the second weekend in a row of such demonstrations other french cities sore similar protests including marsay and bordeaux urine president abilities buttafuoco has been in power for twenty years he's rarely been seen in public though since he suffered a stroke back in twenty thirteen so those protests came as beautiful as plane left

. for young people in the u.k. taking a trip across the port on call but he decided to find out more. 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 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 early day 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 if she's never really appealed to me and especially with all the posters 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're not going to personally so you're not pull the 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 have me and but i think i think going for a holiday that is very different going over there to live a life that seems migration and everything and suddenly going to choose to live i think the best thing 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 i really should have a new card. people choosing where you are america's great i don't know about in denver colorado where we're from but i can tell you i don't like don't try 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 i know what's going on where there's no chaos whatsoever and it's still very very calm on advertising if. you don't come to america but. i would dolled up wearing lipstick and long eyelashes has been spotted in madrid and barcelona on the side of a bus the few room mobility is part of a campaign by ultra conservative catholics who are unhappy about spanish laws on gender violence which they claim discriminates against men on the bus toward

several other spanish cities in the run up to international women's day on friday the campaign was organized under the hashtag stop firmly nazis which is how the organizers refer to certain types of feminist spokesman explained why. the gender laws are really very. very very bad laws because lee discriminate men from women in the penalty of the pinnacle discriminate also or in the procession of innocence it's very keen and simple of equality that is in our constitution what we are asking is for already that is what should always be prime minister are asking for but in fact they are not asking for quality but they are asking for sugar in the absence of a not a giant way the campaign is seeking the repeal of a two thousand and four law on gender violence on the which special courts and rehabilitation centers were created specifically to protect women at risk and

people on twitter have hit back they've come up with a few of their own alternative bust slogans accusing the campaign of being very behind the times body confidence advocate joanne morales thinks the hitler bus fails to get its point across. azmi think. quite hard to take a group or an organization seriously when they use that has inflicted so much pain or many people so it's quite hard to just read the picture understand what the organization's trying to depict and i don't think he's the right person to use the basic these campaigns but what they're trying to do i don't need that we're going to use is a bit of an insult to women especially because of what he was about and what he thought about women and us are trying to do and i do agree that something needs to be done but again violence against. men and women domestic violence is many when it happened both ways so maybe it's not the rap hasn't again do you think it might be insulting to men directly those of that lines this hour from the team and myself

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