the head of a well known u.s. security company once known as blackwater says the long lasting conflict in afghanistan could still be won but only if washington allows him to handle the conflict. human rights watch accuses iraqi and kurdish authorities of routinely torturing youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state. at the border. of. the border and. after the mainstream media spends weeks accusing venezuela's president of ordering the destruction of a humanitarian aid convoy video emerges suggesting that the trucks were set ablaze by the opposition.

were broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm glad to have you with us now we start in the united states the founder of a well known private security company blackwater now known as academy says the war in afghanistan may not actually be lost for the u.s. that's after president trump expressed his willingness to withdraw from the country after nearly eighteen years of war but takes a closer look. of ghana style the so-called graveyard of empires a politician's nightmare not least for trump spite the president's boasts about ending this war about leaving afghanistan no it isn't happening as we make progress in these negotiations we will be able to reduce troops presence the

political conditions where we are in the reconciliation right now don't merit that almost two decades of war death and there's no end in sight over the start of talking round after round of negotiations between the taliban the u.s. leading nowhere and according to the u.n. but there is hope if you can call it that i do want to end the war by giving the african forces the means to survive and to be much more offense if you provide mentors and you provide air support and logistic support to those units they can actually get out and get after the enemy erik prince the founder of the notorious private military firm blackwater he's got a plan which he's been pitching widely to replace fifty thousand nato troops with some of his guys and

a few thousand special forces and make millions of bucks along the way no doubt but hey peace has a price. one that afghans don't seem to want to pay so how do you justify that you'll get a contract and go and do the war in afghanistan given that you're making money out of this business please do us a favor and have a bold line between that of from wrong though these guys mercenary groups like blackwater never went away in fact they expanded turned into a company rebranded and now they want back into the big boys war but i never heard that. they were dead bodies everywhere and this is the argument in which. among the dead bodies lying on the street that's in which the middle seven years old.

just for a second the us hasn't had dandle about american troops posing with dead bodies merrily firing the civilians and getting away with it time and time again scandal after scandal and these military forces we're talking about strict regulated controlled now imagine replacing them with men who are happy to kill for money mercenaries what do you think is that going to make of ghana stand

a better place or help bring about an end to this endless war. great news shooting do not fight endless wars. terror expert and legal analyst jennifer britain says that account of me is just one of many private contractors eager to enter afghanistan after the u.s. withdrawal. blackwater has been stating that their presence there is going to maintain stability to a stabilizing force just be a third party and the presence of two opposing afghan forces i think he's seen it this as a money making opportunity and money making and the moment that it was announced that the u.s. would be withdrawing from ask it afghanistan you're talking about every single major private security firm that wants to be in there wants to take over that gap wants to get whatever u.s. funding is going to be residual for private companies to come in and fill in that gap it's probably likely that the u.s.

will say if you want this troops to happen if you want our military our defense department to leave we're going to have to leave a residual force in here whether that's a private contractor or somebody else and you'll have to be ok with that the taliban has not agreed to any u.s. presence any private contractors and private military force i'm sure something that would be seen as not good or not stabilizing was the most important issue is it's up to our government that's up to our leadership to ensure that any private contractors are adhering to very strict u.s. protocol and there is a bad actor when there is a criminal act that comes out we make sure that that is publicizing that the perpetrators are penalized and are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the laws within international law and with the laws of the country in which they are in. human rights watch has released a damning report exposing torture and abuse of youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state in iraq the group says iraqi and kurdish authorities routinely force suspects some as young as fourteen to confess to using harsh methods the

report the truth the number of first hand accounts from people claiming to have been subjected to the torture. what to me a shot i mean when you say you know. the three of you all. are going to. run in a spin in the. north the age of the. little at the border. you know what must i do job what i just saw i just had but just. enough time to set it up a lot and leave. much much better. than out of our first african. and you know what i'm doing still better when i had an affair. and there was a better one. when the report describes the kind of torture the detainees are

allegedly subjected to among the methods said to be used by kurdistan regional authorities are beatings with plastic pipes and electric cables as well as the use of electric shocks and stress positions. according to human rights watch at the end of last year a rock and kurdish authorities were holding some fifteen hundred children over their alleged affiliation with eisel at least one hundred eighty five foreign children have been convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to prison terms we heard from one of the people behind the report. iraqi authorities or no vote or abuse from the. kurdish there have charged hundreds of minors acts of terrorism because of their alleged presumed belonging to a islamic states these prosecutions very often rely on very you know dots for my positions because if they are based on confessions that were tortured out of the

kids. those children are number one considered us combatants who are trying just as adult combatants and that is not fair that should be the international law is very clear and considers that children who are armed groups should be considered first and foremost i think those who need rehabilitation and reintegration into society rather than imprisonment and torture . and we recommended the government the iraqi government and purchase orders to immediately free all those guess who have not committed the crime as for those who are suspected of having committed crimes and other violent action well sure they should be tried but they should be tried accordingly to international rules and compelled to minors in all cases we recommend strongly that there is no practice of torture anymore and that investigations are open jewel

hauled all the perpetrators accountable these are the recondition that we have addressed to the kurdish and the iraqi government and we are to expect to get answers. we. we have reached out and we are currently waiting for comment on the allegations from the iraqi government meanwhile the country's counter-terrorism laws provide for the detention and a trial of anyone involved with eisel that applies even if they have not committed violent crimes and only played support roles for example working as cooks or in hospitals. to more british women who are married to islamic state fighters have been stripped of their citizenship they are currently being held in a syrian detention center this comes after the death of the three week old son of eisel bride shamima big boom whose citizenship was revoked by the british home secretary a decision for which job it was both criticized and praised. the tragic death of so mean 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 an innocent child in a refugee camp where we know infant mortality to be high is morally reprehensible the home secretary failed to british child and he has a lot to answer for 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 right thing to do and i totally support his decision 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. is that now a former british citizen of bangladeshi origin she left the u.k. in two thousand and fifteen to join eisel at the age of fifteen

a groom was pregnant in a syrian refugee camp last month when she said she wanted to return home to have her baby adding she never regretted joining i saw according to the save the children charity there are now more than two and a half thousand children in camps in northern syria from around thirty different countries their countries of origin are engaged in debate about whether or not they should accept them back a recent survey in france suggests that sixty seven percent of respondents didn't want such children back in the country we got the views of our guests on that as well. but it's not forget is the third child who was dark to this young woman but it's this young woman who has put her. tragically now dead children into this situation she took herself into this area and all fall all full situation tragically preaches citizen the baby who die and

and died because our government didn't do anything to bring that child back to the u.k. of course children should not to suffer the consequences of their parents she made a conscious choice she may have been fifteen at the time she has been out there now for five years she had no conscience and has seen beheaded hates discarded in dustbins she doesn't regret her choices aren't subject of it did the right thing he put the safety of this country first and foremost we live according to our obligations under international law and we cannot make some mistake in this this is our will problem she was born in our country she was radicalized in our country and surely it's right and proper this she calls back to the u.k. she's held to account she's put on trial we go right peace walking away with pitiful sentences she would have walked away with a pitiful sentence in comparison we also are absolutely no why only her word that

she didn't do anything that would have been let's say the act of terrorism. risk of ground others in this country 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 just in four years . you know so you have to think the. level of indoctrination is really deep any child that is. a british citizen should be brought back to this country and frankly i think they should be forcibly removed from the priory sue put them in their support of the which we would then be you. because you've richo away from its mother so we couldn't it was there was no other option i think such did exactly

what he should have done i applaud them for his bravery feedings to his side i let said we're not going to join them in the 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 we're going to put on trial and i'll be very happy to see a prison for a very long time for crimes we've got to make sure that there's safety and protection for those children are with the national criminal court to actually hold these fighters responsible for the crimes that they commit. after the mainstream media spends weeks accusing venezuela's president of ordering the destruction of a humanitarian aid convoy video emerges suggesting that the trucks were set ablaze by the opposition this video apparently shows an opposition protesters throwing a molotov cocktail adventures well in national guards however the burning rag separated and hit an aide a truck if we look at the bridge on the colombian border from above you can also see that the national guard was far from the actual convoy but u.s.

politicians led an attack on nicolas maduro even before the incident was fully explained. c.n.n. seems so incendiary devices from police in the manesar one side of the border ignite the trucks the networks journalists aren't sure if the trucks are burned on purpose each of the drugs burned by manure a good twenty advance of food and medicine this is a crime and if international law means anything he must be a high price for this in the burning of trucks carrying badly needed food and medicine this is being made during response to peaceful efforts to help venezuelans right c.n.n. has cues to u.s. politicians of spreading misinformation. this is a classic example of home misinformation spreads from an unconfirmed to the twitter fits of top influence to the most media you have to be joking with the street that will see in them the outlet where you work that led the way in spreading this lie

over the world c.n.n. claimed it so with it so nice something that no the happens the question we should ask why. two weeks after after we've you know the propaganda broadly looked at it and you know all of the key u.s. leaders and i've been you know harping on continually to justify u.s. intervention and it's probably i wouldn't report you know on the ground that they all this information was all that they're looking to get there or do know you know i think you know point of fact all of it by the report of the. plane all that there were throwing at the national. media should have put that together you know challenge claims clear evidence that the united states waging a media war propaganda campaign by you know lately you know a legal attempt to out like the government of u.s. national security adviser john bolton has stated that momentum is on the side of

opposition leader. bolton says that president maduro is too afraid to have arrested while the opposition leader himself is calling for outside intervention in venezuela artie's quarter reports of. street filings tough talk from the u.s. and now nationwide blackouts what a perfect time for the self-proclaimed president of venezuela to invite a foreign power to meddle in his own country. the solution is intervention and washington looks ready to oblige what would make you use the u.s. military in venezuela it's an option we continue to say and we always will all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on. all options are on the table because they always are it's no secret the u.s. has a soft spot for foreign interventions and they've picked the right guy for it as he's a no mood for talking you want to go i am committed to international dialogue today

tomorrow and always it must be very clear to the world and to this regime that nobody will take part in this fake dialogue of course shooting first and asking questions later doesn't leave much room for dialogue fake or not and of course much of the population doesn't want war at all and interference from other countries cannot happen over the heads of the venezuelan people we chose nicolas maduro not. that long ago i do he's calling for a fatal war because it is a war against all the people of when he said well it is venezuela that should solve the problems of venezuela the us should stop interfering in other countries affairs you know we don't want war we want peace and it's not just the venezuelans who disapprove just as america's interventions in iraq syria and libya all lacked international approval so the un leadership has already made it clear it wants no further escalation are you worried about the risk of internal military confrontation or even foreign i hope that will sink the times of foreign

intervention in latin america go gone there's a reason waving a big stick at sovereign countries is frowned upon the democracy promised often turns into a drawn out military occupation not to mention the bloodshed needed to even get there the majority of even the opposition themselves oppose a military intervention so his position in support of this is definitely a minority one and any sort of intervention into the country of military intervention as we've seen in other countries like libya syria afghanistan and iraq . will not be like the films of military intervention they would be without shadowy destruction i'm really. caused chaos for the country in which government's going all going to constantly be released on statements you don't believe we. normally i would really be wrong. you do get much worse

but it's even more. when it's really. so you might think of it at eighty three it would be time for you to put your feet up and have a bit of a rest but that's not the case for one sprightly pensioner in the southern russia she travels hundreds of kilometers each week because of her work. or due to the fact that each time i have to walk twenty four kilometers one way to the village and same distance back i get tired not exhausted but it's hard work. but i've worked as a quote. uncle

i remember being a child and waiting for the postman it was war time and everyone was waiting for let's us from the front line we would run to him to get the mail years later i noticed there were no more postman so i went to the post office and told them to take me on. doubtful she's always very kind energetic and responsible despite having a difficult life my father was depressed after my mother passed away six months ago but cutout always comes by to deliver magazines and find the time to talk to my father to cheer him up. or the. debate flares over gender inequality or parts for doing similar jobs the discovery came after attempts to address a wage gap among employees artie's and picks up the story. according to google's

own internal calculations some of its male workers are actually paid less than women they are rushing in to resolve this and paying out nine point seven million dollars now this doesn't mean that the wage gap in the wider society is a myth but it seems that google had the opposite problem things aren't always as straightforward as someone believes the twenty thousand analysis flood one particularly large job code for adjustments within this job code men of reflect for adjustments because they received a less discretionary funds than women but here's a weird twist some won't personalities are actually willing to brush aside google's findings looking at bay versus gender alone no matter how much you tried to eliminate other variables can never tell the whole story the lawyers incensed and always show the real challenges that women people of color and l g b t q plus people experience in the workplace every day whenever you try to look at this case even in one of the. the perfect in the serene liberal bastion such as

google even there it turns out to be a very complicated issue turns out that matter were being paid less resulted in some people saying well that's not a problem but if pay equity is the goal it should be a problem this mechanism of rejecting everything that doesn't fit your social justice narrative has a flipside everything that does fit your worldview must be true in all circumstances take the case of just a small let the black gay actor after he was it's had to explain why she didn't question anything in her interview with him and the attackers are never well how will you be able to heal that's not ok. let's. talk to her and i said i just want to find the black gay woman and he's a black gay man he's saying that there's a hate crime so we've come to haunt then my own to bt community is going to say you

don't believe a brother if the issue is someone who many suspect to be lying to be fabricating the issue is it not therefore incumbent upon the in the journalist to pursue that and not fear that i might be dare i say perceived as almost be trained in some type of. of a connection i mean just think about that think about how somebody would say by inference i can only interview those people. whose stories comport not only with my worldview but with how i want my audience to view me that just eliminates the notion of journalism all together there is a time when the assigned task of journalists was to get to the truth but now it seems that some people expect them to be pushing

a politically correct agenda even if the facts don't exactly line up and even if viewers don't actually know what the truth is at least everyone is impressed with how well they are. archie new york and here's a little bit of an interesting twist for you marvel comics is facing a backlash after the premiere of its first female lead superhero movie controversy was sparked among the public over the film's alleged sexism. little i'm not going to fight your war. effort and then it and it. but the fiction of the female experience is yeah that's just what it's like what it means to be a woman in film. it means it's really hard i do not need

a forty year old white dude to tell me what didn't work for him about a wrinkle in time it wasn't made for his. trunk so first sex appeal characters and brie larson all played captain marvel in the studio's first premier led film inspiring many heroes some strong debut for a female lead superhero film. i was hoping for something higher food fast and move the most tina's super villain of all is boredom the shiny and progressive. represents how captain marvel made its way into the world and what it is actually about.

so you think about privacy isn't is a gender issue i do actually i do does this mean we need legislation well i think that there is certainly a role in washington for us to address what women face both in the tech industry and what users face on the other side. right that does it for me this i'll be back in about thirty minutes or so with another look at the news or watch march international stay with us. the country has gone into a nihilistic fever best trying to think and hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte sands the genius

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