i know. your. brother debate and division right across europe over the fate of children obvious state fighters as the baby of a bride dies in a syrian refugee camp after the woman's u.k. citizenship was revoked. the baby. died because our government didn't do anything to bring that child back to the u.k. . we did the right thing he put the safety of this country first and foremost. human rights watch accuses a rocky and kurdish authorities of routinely torturing youngsters. having links to islamic state. and the head of an infamous us security company once blackwater

says the long lost in conflict in afghanistan could still be one of. the rains. are welcome to our national life from moscow. thanks for joining us this hour. the parents of a french woman who was killed after joining islamic state in syria appealing to president her three children to france are currently living in a refugee camp in syria. just the latest. well this is a case that involves a young woman she manning cento who's seventy five years ago promised for syria with her husband they still told him that rock her and they supported islamic state until she and her husband were both recently killed in allied airstrikes not her

three children are still in a refugee camp along the syria iraqi border called out for now the situation in the camp is dire indeed some sixty five thousand people are currently hols their malnutrition is right is not enough food is not enough medicine and cheese mother who lives in the north of france has appealed to the french president a promise to allow her three grandchildren she joins her here in this heat records are some of the issues doing in the whole camp on defiance the conditions are terrible there is no room been treated worse than animals these children didn't ask to be born or be taken there they're the victim of the choices made by their parents now they are currently some two and a half thousand children who are being coulsdon syrian refugee camps and around one hundred of them are a french are region and french nationality this is an issue that is hugely divisive

here in france around sixty seven percent of the population says that these children should not be given permission to people back to this country but there are other cases that are also making headlines there is the recent case this time of the new slum mixtape wives of british nationality not chummy much bigger was found at the beginning of last month when she was pregnant but hope we old son recently died in a syrian refugee camp and this came as we put his hopes to the state that he was rufo king hope british citizenship that announcement was both criticized and supported the tragic death of show me a baby a jar 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 fatal 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. than the day she our region she left at the age of fifteen from the u.k. she joined islamic state in syria when she was found in that refugee camp there the last month she said that her wish was to come back to the u.k. and head coach there but at the same time she also said she did not feel great in joining islamic state now all of this comes as fighting intensifies around the last stronghold for the jihad this week in the year as it's all problems we are hearing

from senior officials of the syrian defense forces that hundreds are islamic state fighters have surrendered but at the same time hundreds more obvious fusing to surrender and so the fighting continues however as islamic state loses control of its last throw of trees in syria it appears a sizable number of us old wives are not regretting their decision to join the group. oh. those middle somebody from what some of our guests for the woman who dissent from the kick start of this entire debate show me a big. go right piece walk in hawaii. 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 the risk of the product rising 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 really easy for 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 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 so there was no other option i think subject jumping to exactly what should be 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 it feelings 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 in going to put on trial and i'll be very happy to see a prison for a very long time for a 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. human rights watch has released a damning report exposing torture and abuse of youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state in iraq groups as a rock in kurdish authorities routinely for suspects some as young as fourteen to confess using harsh methods report features

a number of first hand accounts. sort of that are too short. to me shut any and so you know. in order to tell the big age of the. little of the world. you know what mr our job what i just started just. enough that i visited a lot of. my family. a lot of our viewers at home. and in our home and they were still better when i don't have. a brother and. now the report describes the kind of torture which the detainees are allegedly subjected to among the methods said to be used by kurdistan regional authorities beatings with plastic pipe sun

electric cables as well as the use of electric shocks and stress positions are called in to human rights watch at the end of last year iraqi and kurdish authorities were holding some fifteen hundred children over their legislation with i saw at least one hundred eighty five foreign children have been convicted on terror charges and sentenced to prison terms we heard from one of those people behind the report. iraqi charged hundreds of minors of acts of terrorism because of their alleged presumed belonging to a slimy extent this is prosecutions very often as 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 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 as victims 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 a crime as for those who are suspected of having committed crimes and other violent oppression 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're awaiting comment on the allegations from the iraqi government the country's counter terror laws do provide for the detention and trial of anyone

involved with beisel that applies even if they have not committed violent crimes and only played support roles for example working as cooks or in hospitals. and the founder of infamous private security company blackwater now known as a cademy says that the war in afghanistan may not actually be lost for the united states and so after president trump expressed his willingness to withdraw from the country after nearly eighteen years of war is a senior correspondent more against the 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 search ships 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 last year was the deadliest for civilians since the war began 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 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 is the argument honest with you people in

society among the dead bodies lying on the street that's which of course is the middle of seventy years old. just for a second the us hasn't had a stellar. rock record in afghanistan on the ground remember the scandal about american troops posing with dead bodies literally firing the civilians and getting away with it. we get 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 governance a better place or help bring about an end to this endless war. great nation do not fight endless wars. the terror experts on legal analysts jennifer breeden believes economy 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 or stabilizing force just be a third party and the presence of two opposing afghan forces i think he's seen at 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 it's up to our government that's up to our leadership to ensure that any private contractors are at here and a 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. well you could court times out a sentence for female genital mutilation for the first time over operation that

went wrong more details after this short break. when almost seemed wrong. just. yet to shape our. outlook. and engagement because the trail. went on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. to the right to be cross that's like the frank story of the morning can't be good.

i'm interested in the waters and how. much the program a british mother has been sentenced to jail for performing female genital mutilation on her three year old daughter is the first of a conviction caught for the practice after the botched operation left a child requiring emergency surgery.

our female genital mutilation is still carried out in a number of religious and traditional cultures usually to control the girls' sexuality and as a precondition for marriage the practice is very painful it will set a significant harm to the victim is performed mostly on young girls and has been illegal in the u.k. now for decades often done without the victims consent so she sometimes forcefully restrained during the procedure the practice town called a whole range of problems infections infertility it also presents an increased risk of complications from childbirth including death for the children whose mothers have gone the procedure and we spoke to the executive director of forward u.k. the foundation for women's health research development she says that the practice causes lifelong problems for victims. the reality is that every g.m.

is a human rights violation and g.m. courses and g.m. also affects the health and well being of women and girls a number of people are going through a lot of emotional trauma but are not able to when we speak to some of the women that we work with women will tell you that the flashbacks when they see knives or the see blades or these are the things that are part of issues that have actually been suppressed in your mind for a very long time there is also the element of those who do have psycho sexual problems as a result of going through the mill to meet our mutilation we do know that the worst cases of post traumatic stress disorder and it's something that we are for we're increasingly seeing we through our work with community women a lot of the supports we see in women after training they request to have additional support particularly on emotional wellbeing. russian

newspaper has released two videos purporting to show the abuse of inmates by gods of the prison in the city of daraa slower. the two videos are quite shaky because they are from a camera that appears to have been attached to one of the prison staff members but the quality is good enough to make them very disturbing to say the least this is what torture looks like in one video we can see an almost naked man obviously and mate and they're all signs that he was just sitting here the beaten up although that's being shown he is forced to smoke a cigarette which as journalists explained must have just been used by a gay inmate and some sort of unwritten prison laws of russia suggest that doing so would make the rest of his jail life misery on the second video we can

see moments of how the man is actually getting beaten up at some point his head was slammed off the door and when he just can't take it no more he screams out a mole's in pain it is unclear what angered the security guards and what led to this situation so the newspaper has just made the two videos public although the russian federal prison authorities says that they discovered them in the middle of last month i'm not so anti you know not even the ones on the. right in the snow wasn't enough to see a sentence of death but he told you that it doesn't suit one. since. last year the leak of a similar video from the very same call and he led to a massive public outcry it was a big scandal which led to dozens of criminal cases being started and even more

people were sacked from the call any. as the headlines for this hour you're watching all the international thanks for staying tuned for myself join us again in thirty minutes time for the latest updates. 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. thank or up

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merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real needs. welcome to. 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. i'm seeing the talks. between mexico and the united states but with terror still pending in trump building a buddha wall how will the new mexican government stay the country through. a central american powerhouse managed to stand its ground its northern neighbor would have to bow down to the entire system to pressure from washington. ambassador to syria 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 diplomat in the talks over the us mexico canada deal been you 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 was good enough for president clinton president bush president obama does it really not work anymore. that's

what president trump was say in that that that the treaty was the the worst treaty every didn't work anymore. i would say with time there are things that happen you have new sectors for example digital trade there was not it not digital trade or labor standards in environmental standards in the original now after twenty five years ago those were kept out because relations were more purely economic but now the relation is very very close intertwined so i think it's ok to have a new treaty and universes sit down trump one to into the talks where they complain promise to put america first do you feel that mexico now has to sacrifice some of its interests.