the head of an infamous u.s. a security company once known as a blackwater says the long lasting conflict in afghanistan could still be won but only if washington allows 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. top of. the list of about one. and u.s. taunts of venezuela's president maduro claiming he is too afraid to order the

arrest of opposition leader one because he wouldn't be obeying. our broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start now in the united states the founder of a well known private security company blackwater now known as academy says that the war in afghanistan may not actually be lost for the united states that is after president trump expressed his willingness to withdraw from the country after nearly eighteen years of war but i guess you have to. 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 that 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 of death and there's no end in sight over they've started talking round after round of negotiations between the taliban the u.s. leading nowhere last year was the deadliest for civilians since the war began according to the un but there is hope if you can call it that i do want to end the war by giving the afghan 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 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 mercenaries of the democracy out mercenaries of death or fall from wrong though these guys mercenary groups like blackwater never went away in fact they expanded turned into a company rebranded and i don't remember the birth or.

the. they were dead bodies everywhere and this is the argument in which. among the dead bodies lying on the street that's. the middle of the seven years old. just for a second the us hasn't had a stellar track record in afghanistan on the ground remember this scandal 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 thought a better place or help bring about an end to this endless war. great nation do not fight endless wars. thank you anti terror expert and a legal analyst jennifer britton academy 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 this as a money making opportunity and money making and the moment that it was announced that the u.s. would be withdrawing from a skip 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 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 that'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 your torture and abuse of youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state in iraq the group says iraqi and kurdish authorities routinely forces suspects some as young as fourteen to confess using the harsh methods the report features a number of first hand accounts from people claiming to have been subjected to torture. yeah you sort of said it to show. me a shot i mean and they say you know quite low. in the three it is. going to. run in the. north the age of the. little at the border. yeah don't miss the odd job. so i just had.

enough that decided that a lot and. decided. to much much better. than ours was africa. and there was still a better way to hide and have to. have a better one. report describes the kind of torture the detainees are allegedly subjected to among the methods said to be used by the kurdistan regional authorities are beatings with plastic pipes and electric cables as well as of use of electric shocks and stress positions. according to human rights watch at the end of last year iraqi and kurdish authorities were holding some fifteen hundred children over their alleged affiliation with eisel and 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 of these from the. kurdish there have charged

hundreds of minors acts of terrorism because of their alleged often rely on larry you know dot 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 recruited by armed groups should be considered first and foremost i think those who need rehabilitation and reintegration into society rather than prisoners and told. we recommended the government the iraqi government and purchase orders to immediately free all those kids who have not committed

a 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 who is a component 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 are waiting for comment on the allegations from the iraqi government meanwhile the country's counter-terrorism laws provide for the detention and 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 two islamic state fighters have been stripped two of their citizenship and they are currently being held in a syrian detention center it comes after the death of the three week old son of ice

or bride groom whose citizenship was revoked by the british home secretary the decision for which job it was both criticized and praised. the tragic death of should mean a baby it 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 helm 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 in 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 now a former british citizen of bangladeshi origin she left the u.k. in two thousand and fifteen to join i saw at the age of fifteen the groom was pregnant in a syrian refugee camp early 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 homelands are now 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 darting to this young woman

but it's this young woman who has put her and her. tragically now dead children into this situation she took herself into this area it could all fall all full of situation tragically it's an awful situation of their own making let's have some humanity this is a british citizen the baby who dying and died because our government didn't do anything to bring that child back to the u.k. of course children should not just 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 of and seen beheaded hates discarded in dustbins she doesn't regret her choices aren't subject just we 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 somebody's status this is

our problem she was born in our country she was radicalized in our country and surely it's right and proper that she comes back to the u.k. she is held to account she's put on trial we go right piece walking away with pitiful said his ease she would have walked away with a pitiful sentence in comparison we also are absolutely no my only her word that she didn't do anything that would have been let's say the act of terrorism. risk of radicalizing 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 before you. you know so you have to sing. the. level of indoctrination is pretty 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 prior support in their support of the which we would then be. inhumane because you've raped a child away from its mother so we couldn't it was there was no other option i think such a jump he did exactly what he should have done i applaud them for his bravery feelings 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 are going to put on trial and i'll be very happy to see prison for a very long time for crimes we've got to make sure that there's safety and protection for those children with me and that they held to account and then there's going to be a global conversation maybe through the international criminal court to actually hold these fighters responsible for the crimes that they committed. sometimes you

just need some good news and here's some for you might think that at the age of eighty three it would be time just to put your feet up and have a rest but that's not the case for one sprightly pensioner in southern russia she travels hundreds of kilometers each week because of her work. i. ordered her to choose i have to warm 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. damn that. i remember being a child and waiting for the postman it was war time and everyone was waiting for

lettuce from the front line who would run to him to get the mail years later i noticed there were no more postman saw one to the post office and told them to take me on. sit down 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 cod to always comes by to deliver magazines and find the time to talk to my father to cheer him up. to the world. or the us questions of loyalty or the loyalty rather of venezuela's military at a female super hero fails to win the day those stories and much more of short break this is our trash.

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brought them back this is our team international now the united states is ramping up pressure on the venezuelan president nicolas maduro u.s. national security advisor john bolton says that momentum is it now on the side of opposition leader. they have not sought to arrest and the national assembly in the opposition and i think one reason for that is that madeira fears if he gave that order it would not be a daid but i do think the momentum is on the side of the kaleido. opposition leader and the self declared interim president won by doses that he will call a state of national emergency over the ongoing power outage in venezuela he also

recently asked for outside intervention to solve the political crisis in his country. reports. street filings tough talk from the us 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 us military in venezuela it's an option we continue to say and we always will for the day all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table 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 compliment you go i am committed to international dialogue today tomorrow and always you 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 these calling for him fatal war because it is a war against all the people of venezuela 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 in. 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 military intervention there will be bloodshed o.b. destruction i'm really cause chaos for the country move government. going or going to the. wrong group. much worse. wrong.

reason cases have fired public debate over inequality and discrimination the united states and found out if you're looking for a clear examples you might be in for a surprise. 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 fled 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 men 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 caught allegedly hoaxing a hate crime the host of good morning america robin roberts 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 it's not ok. let's stop.

talking to her and i said i just want them to find the black gay woman and he's a black gay man he's saying that there is a hate crime so if i'm too high on then my l.g. 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 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. 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. and then it and it.

but the fiction of the female experienced 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. folks over sex appeal re larger role play care to mold in the studios first female lead film inspiring many heroes stick strong debut for a female lead superhero film. i was hoping for something higher. cost and move the most tina super villain of all

these boredom the shiny and progressive. presents 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 attack industry and what users face on the other side. to international. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go

from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not serious. i'm going to talk about football not feet or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of the fly here. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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