u.s. backed forces bombard islamic states last stronghold in syria people are fleeing at the area including the wives of ice and fighters. claimed a leader says he will ask the national assembly to declare a state of emergency it comes after a call for u.s. intervention. today the solution is intervention. in ukraine. and an ethiopian airlines plane with one hundred fifty seven people on board crashes minutes after taking off from. there are no survivors.

direct from our studios moscow this is r t international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us write us back fighters in syria have resumed their assault against a view last area held by islamic state terrorists fighting is now raging and near the iraqi border of the final showdown with eisele was delayed to allow families to flee the area a spokesperson for the kurdish led syrian democratic forces says the battle is almost over. the troops began an offensive at six pm local time at planes targeted the terrorists' weapons depos there is fierce fighting on the outskirts of the camp our forces and i'm ready to finish what is left of eisel off the village of has it been a focal point of the syrian democratic forces for several weeks spine donald trump

repeatedly declaring victory over eisel america's top general says otherwise. comments. 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 trump sprout 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 losing 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's not by any means the end devices there are a lot of fighters that have gone to ground and have farms we believe that farms sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know edge 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 a 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 i says is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are misleading. many of those who escaped to the fighting in bugaboos have been put into a refugee camp there they are facing new threats with shortages of food and medicine . and let's. talk yeah i didn't want to john isis i love seeking jihad

for god because we are all muslims and we have verses about jihad and the more about the killing still serving in. actually some are repentant and have left islamic state but as disturbed of the regime it had the right approach. the conditions are definitely dire into account 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 a rival crowds filling the streets of caracas throughout the weekend opposition

leader addressed his supporters calling on foreign powers to bring down of the material government. to say the solution is intervention. 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 it. is a clone. and a criminal after a very tense week up assistance supporters are back on the streets to protest against the government of nikko last night during the cold was made by one white go on monday after rejoining an international tour heat up the already tense climate menace was up and you were 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 i'm protesting because i want

a different government there is no electricity no water new food the government should step down. 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 don't you chose and proclaimed himself it is a coup and a violation of our democracy and freedom. one word over who declared himself interim leader in january says he will ask the country's national assembly to declare a state of emergency you comes on the fourth day of a nationwide blackout caracas calls that outage an act of sabotage by the u.s. but the opposition says the madeira government is to blame so i have very different ideas about what caused it u.s. senator marco rubio a staunch advocate of removing the duro tweeted that the cause of the power outage was a transformer explosion at a german dam but as it turns out a very is no such thing in venezuela. today another

transformer explosion at the german dam in believe a state coast and now the 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 washington insists that nicolas maduro is no longer the leader of that as well the u.s. state department went so far as to berate journalists who fail to accept that view . we have noticed in news coverage that some outlets are incorrectly referring to one quite go as the opposition leader or the south proclaims 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 one as interim president of venezuela and get this for your complaining because it means that what sort of you don't think he made a complaint pointing out just trying to correct all that's all it's like a complaint from the simply weak he is he's the easy interim president well and we don't want to consider him to be the interim president and 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 all of them the legitimate leader the president is going to encourage more functional but we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current dictator the trump

administration introduced new measures against venezuela this week blacklisting officials and threatening sanctions against countries that support nicolas maduro or his but i have comments now on those sanctions and how they fit into washington's broader policy objectives. 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 united states supports and enough. or 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 nerika

is maybe colonized by europeans out of bounds for europeans and everyone not from the americas a little later teddy roosevelt twisted this policy turn that 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 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 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 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 latin america overthrowing one democratically elected government after another whether in one nine hundred fifty four with arden's 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. and heathfield paean airlines plane has crashed killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board it was heading from. to nairobi i think comes include thirty five foreign nationals and in one thousand staff from organizations linked to the united nations artie's done

a quarter earlier discussed the tragedy with my colleague you 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 be in fleet only from back in july of last year and with lion airs model of the same plane the bonita yeah the boeing seven thirty seven max and just to give you 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 cry. saying that the company is aware of the accident and they're closely monitoring the situation. thousands of members of the french capital's algerian community have rallied against the president of algeria as a reelection bid it is the second weekend in a row of such demonstrations other french cities saw similar protests including. the algerian president. who to have been in power for twenty years but he was really. public since he suffered a stroke in two thousand and thirteen sunday's protests came as beautifully because playing left to geneva where he was receiving hospital. 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 ninety eight states uncool boyko decided to find out more.

that transatlantic road trip be used to be most students dream holiday things like route sixty six or recreating the journeys of the beatniks from the road or feminist fugitives like we 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 two called the trump slump they say that socially conscious millennial is an generation's the is a shining america because their perch off by none other than the president himself would you shun would you shun the trip to the u.s. because trump yeah i can understand why people think so would you there's your record all the day would it be kind of top of your list of where you want to go not

the top of my way why not. i don't know she's never really appealed to me in this. all the post is going on and so it's not like i don't know yeah i'd prefer to go somewhere a bit more. culturally appropriate. would you want to go to america or just donald trump but you know. so you know all the i'll go america which you. do you go to church you have the opportunity to go to america you still go yeah yeah like i wouldn't care but. i mean i i don't like what he does but like i like to go but it's probably not to my let's just say we moneywise maybe i'd like that. but i think i think that for what it is very different going to be that's live all i see is migration and everything so i don't think i would choose to live that i think that's been going on it's quite a time and i think i want to but then again you know the whole thing is like price and stuff so you know it's already great i mean really that's how basti and if you've been here to say it was. coming to the u.k.

because of political situations that really should have an impact on people choosing a whole day this nation so you still still travel. i don't know about in denver colorado where we're from but i can tell you i don't like don't much if you want from the u.s. would you go to the u.s. on holiday probably not really well you know. 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 calm on advertising if. you don't come to america. dolled up hitler wearing lipstick and long eyelashes has been spotted in madrid and barcelona on the side of a bus it is part of a campaign by conservative catholics who are unhappy about spanish laws on gender violence which they claim discriminate against men the bus tour and several other

spanish cities in the run up to international women's day on friday. campaign was organized under the hash tag stop femininity 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 they discriminate men from women in the penalty of the pinnacle to discriminate also in the presentation of innocence it's breakin principle of equality that this in our constitution what we're asking is for already that this what supposedly prime minister are asking for but in fact they're not they're not asking for a quality but they are asking for sugar in the system in a giant way. the campaign is seeking the repeal of a two thousand and four law on gender violence under which special courts and rehabilitation centers were created to protect women at risk people on twitter have

been back coming up with a few of their own alternative bus slogans accusing the campaign of being behind the times body confidence advocate and join the morales thinks the hitler bus has failed to get its point across. i personally think it's quite hard to take a group or an organization seriously when they use a. trainer many people so it's quite hard to just read the speech and understand what the organizations trying to. present the basic this campaign's what they're trying to do i don't need that the current do you think is a bit of an insult specially because of what he was about and what he thought about women you know and just aren't trying to do and now 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 right hasn't again do you think it might be insulting to men directly. there has been a major security incident at

a hospital in bronxville new york police received reports of an active shooter but they have now searched the building and are saying no gunman has been found as of yet hospital is still under lockdown with heavily armed police presence patrolling the area. that does it for me and the weekly i will be back in about thirty five minutes with a full and fresh look at your news you want international stay with us. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next. about different types on one hand. it is logical to search the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising and i saw one also if you think.

i'm going to talk about football not the moral thing to think i was going to go. by the way ways of that slide here. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shade by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo down to engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for

. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. this is a stick for the water bottle found in the stomach of a fish the brand is spawns of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're the bad the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. it's difficult capsules excuse. that same school sets full salt in their classes chris takes a course to stay in your own hands at

a special projects funded me. on the i'm your best bet is the end of a footy team but fun now the mountains of waste only grow. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something want to be rich and have to go right to be cross with a white woman for three of them or can't be good at it i'm interested always in the waters about how. fresh it all. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us a little bit one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight

point six percent employed market rose thirty percent some with one hundred to five hundred three per second per second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overall. the only number you need to remember one one business showed you know board the mid one and only boom box. below. and welcome across town where all things are considered peter lavelle who would have thought a somali born muslim woman elected to congress would ignite a long overdue national conversation also wants to make the military industrial

complex again. ross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest dmitri bobbitt he's a political analyst we spoke nick international and in athens we cross to alex krista for oh he is the director and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go first to athens alex. congresswoman omar her greatest sin was not saying anything remotely anti-semitic not even actually anti israel her sin was is to reveal the very cozy relationship congress has with apac and with israel and she got plummeted from for it on all cross the aisle both sides and the media continues to misrepresent what she actually said and then we point out here it's probably the old.