no break. through. further division in the u.k. over the case of a young old bride whose three week old baby died in the syrian refugee. and shipped. the baby who. died because of the government didn't do anything to bring that child back to the u.k. . we did the wrong the safety of this country first and. also coming up on the program this human rights watch accuses a rocky kurdish authorities of routinely torturing youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state. the head of an infamous us security company known as

block water is safe to long lasting conflict in afghanistan could still be won but only if washington allows him to take over the reins. from moscow to the world this is r t international at just one pm here in the russian capital my name's union o'neill our top story. two more british women who are married to islamic state fighters have been stripped of their citizenship they're currently being held in a syrian detention center it follows the death of the three week old bride. who said the same ship was revoked by the british home secretary. for which he was both criticized also praised. the tragic death of should mean a baby is

a stain on the conscience 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 shamima begum who's a bungler desh origin left the u.k. in twenty fifteen to join isel up the age of fifteen she was pregnant in

a syrian refugee camp early last year when she said she wanted to return home to have her baby are being achieved never regretted joining us. and she is not the only one while the syrian city of bug remains the last stronghold of isel in the country some of the militant wives refused to believe the caliphate is due and there was little sympathy for the women from the guests we spoke to. franc piece walking away with pitiful sentences she would have walked away with a pitiful sentence in comparison we also are absolutely no might be her word that she didn't do anything that would have been let's say the act of terrorism but now also puts a smile to kweisi face 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 munchers the bombing of the area on the ground 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 easy any child abuse a british citizen should be brought to this country and frankly i think they should be forcibly removed from the prior to put them in their supposed to be which we would then be. inhumane if you break the child away from its mother so we couldn't it was there was no other option i think the judge exactly what he should have done i applaud them for his bravery if you look at the front if you look at belgium you look at germany and how many islamist terrorist attacks have actually been committed by people who have returned from syria then i wouldn't be glib

about six feedings to a side i let said when not going to join them but parity 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 and put on trial and i'll be very happy to see a prison for a very long time for the crimes we've got to make sure that there's safety and protection for those children and women 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. well according to the sea of the children charity there are no more than two and a half thousand children in camps in northern syria from around thirty countries their home loans are now engaged in debates about whether or not they should accept them back a recent survey in france suggests that sixty seven percent of respondents didn't want the children of islamists back in the country we got the views of our guests

on the. let us not forget is the third child who was dying 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 do syria 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 pretty citizen the baby who die and died because of a 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 but if she made a conscious choice she may have been fifteen at the time she has been in hell for five years she had no conscience of and beheaded hates discarded dustbins she doesn't regret her choices aren't sandy job he 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 will problem she was born in our country she was radicalized in our country i'm sure it's right and proper that she comes back to the u.k. she's held to account she's put on trial. human rights watch has released a damning report exposing torture and the abuse of youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state in iraq the group sees iraqi and kurdish authorities routinely for suspects some as young as fourteen to confess using harsh methods the report features a number of first accounts from people claiming to have been subjected to torture. yeah. show. me a shot at me and they say you know kolo. three.

hundred. seventy. north of. the border. yeah don't miss the odd job what i just. had but just. enough that method that a lot of and. to much. of our viewers at. home and there was still a better one than half. the battle. well the reports describes the kind of torture the detainees are allegedly subjected to among the methods said to be used by kurdistan regional forty's are beatings with plastic pipes under electric cables as well as the use of electric shocks on stress positions but 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 to at least one hundred eighty five foreign children helping 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 resume belonging to other islamic states these prosecutions very often rely on. you know my physicians because they are based on confessions that were tortured out of the to the kids. those children are number one consider us combatants who are trying just as adult combatants and it 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 prison and told. we recommended the government the iraqi government and kurds should know who it is to immediately free all those kids who have not committed the crime of those who are suspected of having committed crimes and other violent actions well sure they should be tried but they should be tried accordingly to international rules and to minors in all cases we recommend strongly that there is no practice of closure 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 against yours all right we are awaiting comments on the allegations from the iraqi government we do know that the country's counter-terrorism laws

provide for the detention and trial of anyone involved with ice a lot applies even if they have not committed violent crimes and only played support roles in the case of working as kooks or in hospitals for example. the founder of infamous private security company black water no known as academy sais that the war in afghanistan may not actually be lost for the united states president trump expressed his willingness to withdraw from the country after almost eighteen years of war taking a closer look for us this hour rough guess the f. . 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 ships 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 the start of 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 for 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 into 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 death 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 now they want back into the big boys war but i never heard that.

they were dead bodies everywhere and this is the argument going to be with you. among the dead bodies lying on the street that some of the middle of the seven years old. just for a second the us hasn't had a stellar. rock 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 stand a better place or help bring about an end to this endless war. great nation do not fight endless wars. or until the terror expert and legal analyst jennifer braden says 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 those 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 contractors 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 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. the worse the power cuts in decades odds and yet more attention to the political crisis in venice will it more not to this. same wrong. will just don't all. get to shape out just being educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. to do like to be close it's like them before three of them or can't be good. interested always in the logs in. question. welcome back to the program the united states is ramping up pressure on venice whalen president nicolas maduro u.s. national security advisor john bolton sees that momentum is now on the side of opposition leader won quite zero. they have not sought to rest and

the national assembly in the opposition and i think one reason for that is that maduro fears if he gave that order it would not be abated but i do think the momentum is on the side of the kaleido president maduro saying is the ongoing power cuts in venezuela are a result of cyber attacks in bali the united states adding that his government is working to solve the issue it comes as the opposition leader and self declared interim president mr one so yes he will call the state of national emergency over the power cuts he's also asked for outside intervention to end the political crisis in the country although quarter as more. 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 in two thousand 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 for the

day of 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 and you must be very clear to the world and to this regime that nobody will take part in this fake dialogue you want to complement you don't i am committed to international dialogue today tomorrow and two ways 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 your fear is 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 in phaedo war because it is a war against all the people of venezuela it is venezuela. it should solve the problems of venezuela and the us should stop interfering in other countries if they are sick

enough that we don't want war and 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 the will sink the. foreign intervention in both the medic of long ago 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 to 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 quite chaos for the country another interesting aspect for the past few weeks many media outlets have directly accused and this will as president of ordering the destruction of humanitarian aid convoy but it's been noticed that those responsible may in fact have been opposition protesters the new york times discovered the error after footage of the incident but this video is almost identical to one we are at the end of february both show how a burning rock separated from a molotov cocktail and hit an aid truck contradicting much of the mainstream media's description of events u.s. politicians lead 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 were burned on purpose each of the drugs burned boman dura garrett twenty dance of food or medicine this is a grime 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 been the duras response to peaceful efforts to help venezuelans. a reporter for c.n.n. say is the mistake was due to an unconfirmed report the spite that the channel claimed its team had witnessed how police started the fire. this is a classic example of how misinformation spreads from an unconfirmed rumor to the twitter feeds off the top influences to the mass 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 all over the world c.n.n. claimed it so with it so nice something that never happened the question we should add why is it. two weeks after after we've you know the propaganda in which you

know all of the key u.s. leader then you know harping on nearly to justify u.s. intervention and it's probably i wouldn't report on the ground that they all of that information was you know all that there but we got there we know you know i think you know point of fact all of it widely reported. that there were growing at the national. border leadership put that together you know challenge claims clear evidence that the united states waging a media war propaganda campaign that you know lately you know illegal attempt to out like the government. well the republican senator we heard about there also reacted to reports that an explosion had cut off electricity to some areas of the country marco rubio a long time critic of president maduro so the transformer exploded german

but quite embarrassingly for the senator herman is the name of the journalist who reported the incident actually happened at a subway station in the east of the country. you may think that the ripe old age of eighty three it would be a good time to put your feet up and have a rest but that's not the case for one sprightly pensioner in southern russia she walks more than one hundred kilometers each week because of her work. for the. churches 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 to quit so. 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 would run to him to get the mail years later i noticed there were no more post men so 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 had to always comes by to deliver magazines and find the time to talk to my father to cheer him up. to. keep going can't you are an inspiration ok discussing next whether

a trade agreement between the u.s. and mexico and canada will survive the deal the art of no deal of course we know what that means it's sophie and co and it starts in the woods. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the hope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw why not if you think. i'm going to

talk about football not the or else you think i was going to the. by the way ways of that slide here. who would have thought a somali born muslim woman elected to congress would ignite a long overdue national conversation also trump wants to make the military industrial complex great again. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the

hawks. hello welcome to sophie uncombed sophie shevardnadze and the new trade agreement between the united states canada and mexico is under fire as mexico pledges not to ratify it with trump still tariffs in place. will the agreement make it or will they are it of no deal prevail ask the add in mexico's undersecretary for dorothy america and the country's chief negotiator in the u.s. m.c.a. talks. to trade between mexico and the united states but

with terror still pending in trump building a buddha wall how will the new mexican government state the country through. the central american powerhouse managed to stand its ground visit its northern neighbor would have to bow down to the entire system to pressure from washington. i'm bassinet or just sad that mexico's undersecretary for north america and the country's chief negotiator in the us and ca talks welcome to the show it is really great to have you with us lots to discuss and mr savage you are mexico's diplomat in the talks over the us mexico canada deal the new knocked up the process of negotiation was started by the trumpet ministration do you think that was the right move a good thing to do not good enough for president clinton president bush president obama.