further debate and division right across europe over the fate of children of islamic states. as the baby of bride dies in a syrian refugee camp after the woman's u.k. citizenship was revoked. which is citizen the baby who died. because our government didn't do anything to bring that child back to the u.k. . we did the wrong thing he put the safety of this country first and foremost. human rights watch accuses a rocky and kurdish authorities of routinely torturing youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state. the biggest budget request in history to

congress asking for over four trillion dollars next year to fund the mission countering russia's supposed one line influence. from moscow was here at the international with me daniel hawkins review arts and i thank you for joining us on the program. the parents of a french woman who was killed after joining islamic state in syria appealing to president her three children to france currently living in a refugee camp in syria brings us more. on the case that involved a young woman she manning who's seventy five years ago france with her husband they were told in iraq and they supported islamic state until she and her husband were both recently killed in allied airstrikes not her three children us still. in

a refugee camp along the syrian iraqi border called out for now the situation in the camp is dire indeed some sixty five thousand people are currently falls there malnutrition is right it is not enough food is not enough it is seven and she's a mother who lives in the north of france has appealed to the french president upon to allow her three grandchildren she joins her here in the. records or so that she was doing in the whole camp five the conditions are terrible there is no room there 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 there are currently some two and a half thousand children who are being coulsdon syrian refugee camps and around a hundred of them are of french all 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 a recent case this time of the new slum mixtape wide of british nationality not chummy much bigger was found at the beginning of last month when she was pregnant but we old son recently died in a syrian refugee camp and this came as the push to show the security state that he was rufo king but british citizenship that announcement was both put aside its own supporters 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 insert child in a refugee camp where we know infant mortality to be high is morally reprehensible the home secretary fatal to the 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 our battle that 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 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 province we are hearing from senior officials of the syrian defense forces that hundreds are islamic state

feiss have surrendered but at the same time hundreds more obvious fusing to surrender and so the fighting continues well as islamic state loses control of its last territories in syria and it appears a sizable number of us old wives are not regretting that decision to showing a terrorist group. it was a little sympathy from some of our guests for the woman who had essentially kicks thought of this debate former u.k. citizens should be a beagle. go blank piece in hawaii with pitiful sentences she would have walked away with a pitiful sentence in comparison we also are absolutely you know might be her was 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 month to bomb me of the area on the ground a concert in which you know all those children died and she was just before you. you know so you have to think the. level of indoctrination if any child abuse a british citizen should be brought to this country and frankly i think they should be forcibly it would move from the power to put them in their support. which we would then be. inhumane because she was raped a child away from its mother so we couldn't it was so there was no other option i think the judge circulations down i applaud them for his bravery if you look at it from 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. feet in suicide i let said we're not going to join them but parity we're going to win tarried our values of humanity the rule of law and justice and we're going to we're going to allow it back and we're going to put on trial and i'll be very happy to see 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 respond. but 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 rocky and kurdish authorities routinely for suspects some as young as fourteen to confess using harsh methods report features a number of first hand accounts. of too short. to me

a shot i mean and so you know. at the. age of. the boy. you know what mr our job what i just started. and that's that method a lot of. my family. a lot of our viewers at. home and they were still better when i then have. the report describes the kind of torture to which the detainees are allegedly subjected among the methods said to be used by the kurdistan regional authorities or beatings with plastic pipe so the electric cables as well as the use of electric shocks and stress positions. according to human rights watch at the end of last

year rocky and kurdish authorities were holding some fifteen hundred children over their alleged affiliation with islamic state 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 and of course or of these from the. kurdish have charged hundreds of minors acts of terrorism because of their resume belonging to other. i'm extending these prosecutions very often rely on very you know doc for my physicians because 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 are waiting on

a comment from the on the allegations from the iraqi government the country's counter terror laws do provide for the detention and trial of anyone involved with islamic state that applies even if they have not committed violent crimes and only played support roles for example working in shifts or in hospitals. but as well as the national assembly has granted opposition leader and self declared president door the all thorough due to declare a state of emergency in the country this comes as the country suffers through an ongoing blackout and humanitarian crisis president maduro says the ongoing power cuts in the country are a result of cyberattacks by the united states adding that his government's working to solve the issue meanwhile one word or says the catastrophe needs to be addressed immediately advocating for carrying out the state of emergency approved by the national assembly or to correspondent has the details. according to what he greets the. state of alarm musical there are some of the state of emergency the well being

national you literally got me into the public climate he generated by it is going either direction of the electricity supply that has effect that the vast majority of the venezuelans since thursday march seventh twenty nineteen the bali barrie and national armed forces are order to arrange the necessary mobilizations to provide protection to build their facilities and the officials of course so that they can fulfill their task of restoring the national electricity system in the meantime the united states is ramping up pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro u.s. national security advisor john bolton says that the momentum is now on the side of opposition leader want to go down. they have not sought to arrest quite go 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 a big but i do think the momentum is on the side of the kaleido. live not some of

their bones are in code pink co-founder and the war activist thanks for coming on today good to have you on the program that news obviously coming in just in the last hour or so the national assembly granting has granted the authority for that state of emergency to be declared. what for a fact do you think that will have you know both internally in one as well and indeed in terms of the united states' reaction. i think it's largely symbolic on the part of the national assembly but of course this is a lot of psychological pressure on the venezuelan people to be dealing with the humanitarian crisis and now the crisis with the electrical grid and on top of that to have the assembly declare a national emergency this is really designed to create more chaos and more here and more division within the venezuelan people president nicolas maduro of course isn't likely to approve of this i mean do you think this could lead to

a deepening of the constitutional crisis to make things really come to a head no. their plan of the opposition is to find any way that it can to bring things to a head i think they expected that with the humanitarian convoy that was supposed to be coming into venezuela that would be the key to a crisis they wouldn't see the government there didn't happen the military remains pretty much consistently on the side of euro and so this is another attempt to push the military to defect and to deep in the crisis of the u.s. national security adviser john bolton said it's a good time for quite a word or two to power now in fact he's been quite outspoken about about what nicolas maduro should do do you think that's likely to happen do you think there is any chance of the military changing sides as a result of the legislation passed. it's certainly doesn't look good it looks like

the opposition actually lost momentum in the last week and now they're trying to regain their momentum but i think what's so sad is that this is all. back to the venezuelan people already suffering and now it seems like the opposition is looking to play ways to make this even more acute in their effort to take power and unfortunately i think that the u.s. government so anxious to see regime change there perhaps calling for a national emergency will be a reason why go to call in for a foreign intervention i just want to look more globally at this the u.s. state mark bumppo as actually claimed russia is trying to reinforce. even using media outlets for that i just want to take a quick listen to what he had to say just listen to his words. russia has also use its they'd sponsor dissin from asian organs like russia today and sputnik to divert

attention from the humanitarian disaster of the material regime i mean this is coming from one of the stray shin that has said that all options are on the table when it comes to venezuela including military options. i mean russia is an ally of venezuela but i don't think anybody can argue with that but who do you think is exerting the most pressure here on a sovereign state obviously the united states and i would say most of the mainstream media in the united states has fallen in line with this. in forcing a propaganda campaign it was interesting that the new york times had to backtrack the story about the maduro administration being the ones to fire to the humanitarian tracts when it was obviously through the video footage of people from the opposition throwing molotov cocktail but in general i would say the u.s. media has gone along with a very one sided story about what's happening in venezuela almost never talking to people who support the administration certainly

a matter of perspective is that of course madeira still recognize that as the legitimate incumbent president by a majority of the world's countries i think there's about fifty or so that recognize dollar as the new president given that how do you think the international position is likely to change when one is whaling given these latest developments. i don't think it will really change i think the countries have decided which side they are on and i'm just hoping that there will be more efforts were serious efforts to push for negotiations ethnic races gets worse and stead of picking sides we really need to say there needs to be a resolution to this crisis not through regime change or outside intervention but through mediation all right good stuff thanks for that mr benjamin code pink co-founder and antiwar activist thanks for your time here today on r.t. international thank you. president trump has sent congress

a record four point seven five trillion dollar budget request for next year that includes planned military boosts as one of hundreds of millions of dollars to counter alleged russian interference artie's claim of more pain has the details. well quite interesting we've got a budget request or proposal from the white house that talks of line activity by russia and then from their talks of requesting six hundred sixty one million dollars to spend to counter russian activity that both in europe and in central asia now the budget also talks about countering the activities of china refers to strategic rivalries between the united states and russia and china now it's interesting to note that at the white house briefing we did hear some talk of big budget difficulties and some of the hardships facing the country let's review some of what was said this great progress is threatened by or unsustainable national debt which is nearly doubled under the previous administration in now stands at

more than twenty two trillion dollars washington has a spending problem and in danger is the future prosperity of our nation and for generations to come this budget will balance in fifteen years in addition federal resources and front line defenders are overwhelmed at the southern border in the fiscal year two thousand and twenty budget provides sizable funding of an eight point six billion dollars for full completion of the wall and other border security resources as you heard the white house referred to spending problems but their report certainly involves quite a bit of spending in the proposal that they're putting forward in addition to the countering of the strategic rivalry with russia and china they talked about five hundred million dollars that would be transferred between foreign assistance accounts in regards to what they call supporting the transition in venezuela or trying to oust venezuela's president nicolas maduro furthermore the document and

the budget proposal refers to countering regimes such as north korea and iran it refers to them as rogue regimes and it makes reference to terrorism now this budget proposal has been widely criticized. yes there are many criticizing it for the focus on building trump a beloved wall on the us mexico border that he campaigned around so much and not giving a priority to domestic programs however are many look at it and they see quite a bit of spending on foreign issues in particular singling out russia. boeing is now facing growing scrutiny over the safety of its planes that comes after a boeing seven three seven max eight operated by ethiopian airlines crashed on sunday with no survivors has prompted air carriers in several countries including ethiopia moral code indonesia south africa and china to ground their aircraft of that model that china whose airlines operate one of the world's largest fleet of max eight says the aircraft will not be allowed to fly until all security concerns have been

resolved in line with the management principle of zero tolerance for safety hazards and strict control of safety risks the civil aviation administration issued a notice requesting domestic transportation airlines to suspend the commercial operation of the boeing seven three seven eight aircraft the civil aviation authority will contact the u.s. federal aviation administration and boeing company to notify the shipping airlines to resume the commercial operation of the boeing seven three seven eight aircraft after confirming the relevant measures to effectively ensure flight safety or the plane carrying one hundred forty nine passengers and eight crew bound for kenya's capital crashed in ethiopia shortly after takeoff people of over thirty different nationalities were on board including at least twenty one united nations staff members a pilot had reportedly been given permission to land after reporting he was experiencing difficulties the plane's black boxes have now been recovered from the site this is

the second time in five months a boeing aircraft has crashed with a line air flight going down off the coast of indonesia last october killing all one hundred eighty nine on board. or discuss the situation let's cross live to independent aviation expert lawyer elam argue more thanks for joining us so good to have you on the program today just look at the consequences here for boeing the company's shares have gone down by ten percent on early trading on monday just how damaging do you think this could be for the. i mean there's such an occurrence is a quiet. something which would in the usually not happen because it's a new aircraft because the debris has been two thousand and seventeen it's quite successful from the question of the pressure of two times. the fuel this would use the fuel consumption by ten to fifteen percent of the demand for this is quite high

there are five more than five thousand dollars already three hundred fifty are already delivered in an operation and of course this is these two courageous spoof of course and the big big. backslash to to go in there with the development of the new york put it is we didn't know but definitely in my view the fleet must be wrong and completely worldwide that some countries have already taken this decision the authorities order to ground the fleet in sun states china and others in russia by the way there was just one of these days as he delivered the just recently is operated by a group was the lowest and which is a member of the seven lions so they operate under the two lovers the dearest and cheetah and they would be wise the advice not to take this into operation before this. these things clarified investigation is in

a very early stage obviously but the black boxes have just been found but there's this perils being drawn already with that law and our flight last october which crashed into the sea is there any indication of a problem with the design of the aircraft with its safety systems. it seems to it seems sort of course in obviously the computer is designed in a way that it pushes the nose of the apparatus down because obviously there are force information given by it except it's a sense of. lifting the nose to twenty degrees which is impossible for it so the the computer system pushes the nose bed downwards bed the reality it pushes the nose downwards from the usual flight collisions so what the pilots who is at a situation is quite understandably they try to lift the nose at him so there was at least in the line a case that there was a kind of fight between the computer and the pilots which and the day before the

pilots as we all know twenty times it was the nose lifted up by the pilots unsuccessfully as you know so the thing that the the decision prime is usually have to take at such a situation is to situ of the computer and take over the claim but the problem with this is it's quite you very new to this aircraft and obviously the pilots of the. company had the honor to properly train for the situation because nobody expected the situation so what they did did not was to switch off the computer system and try to the see of the plane on their own this is quite a hard decision because it's such as should situation it which happens all of a sudden planets of course all of sudden must be there with the right situation and who's it they are not because they did we like completely on the computer system which is dangerous it cases where the system fails i want to touch upon that because the mac site is quite a new model it's only been flying for two years boeing and as you mentioned as well

as it's more reliable it's more efficient it requires less maintenance could it be though perhaps a new a plane doesn't necessarily mean a safer playing. a definite in this effect is proven by these two occurrences although we do not know exactly what the or the reason for the second second. is but it reflects very much the pattern of the first question. i mean we are on the dream girl for the kind of decision saving fuel is necessary because the. amount of operation is increasing so we need to save on the other hand of course it's on the account of safety then it's sooty and acceptable and just speaking of safety i mean who cares primary responsibility in these sorts of cases responsible for for maintenance to be exact craft or do individual airlines have responsibility here or perhaps even the be individuals

flying the aircraft what's the general gist of the situations or maybe speeding of course the enemy is responsible for the operation because it operates the plane but on the other hand without any experiences at such a say and do the situation where the computer system is how can the and anticipate the situation what boeing it had to do is if they had recognized the risk at all or at doubt it because two or even less this risk to see the needed these two experiences cases but anyway what obviously will it has faded to do is to train the time it sufficiently in such a case to switch of the computer to take over the plane it has been trained by the bin twenty hours as to my knowledge twenty to twenty days do three should be at least a day at this time because twenty isn't just knowing about the same but it really

experiences in real life in the in the simulator was ok thanks for independent aviation expert annoy the amount of extra time that i hear not international. there's been a steep rise in my for the defenses in thirty four british counties since two thousand and ten in london there's been an eleven percent increase supermarket those taking the solution into its own hands by stopping the sale of single lives and associates will investigate. knife crime has become a major source of concern in the u.k. even described as an epidemic these days since the beginning of the year forty one stabbings have been reported fetal with both adults and teens among the victims and attackers a huge debate on how to tackle the problem has been pushed to the forefront the u.k. home secretary has been holding emergency meetings with chief police officers last week to find a way forward as the surge in knife attacks gets dubbed

a national emergency meanwhile this british supermarket joint seems to be adding its two cents to address the problem they have announced they won't be selling single night anymore by the end of april when no single knives are the most common knife products to be stolen and that is why we have chosen to remove these items from our stores this is an issue that means a lot to our customers and to our colleagues and we are committed to playing our small part in helping to make our communities safer for all the office has welcomes the move we'll find out if locals think it can actually make any difference it's a very good idea because they're not going to spend fifty pounds to buy ten and i think the problem is that it's fine because the character of this you stop selling to under eighteen that doesn't work take a stop so they know. you're in there people who are older he might need a knife perhaps it is a good idea to know for the solve the problem are not for selling one michael selling a packet in ice that they can make a difference whether you say they're going to for more money so. a lot of these

guys get knives from their home safely so they go buy those they they can readily access and that's stress in their homes we also caught up with a former metropolitan police officer for a professional take on the knife crime situation but i think it's. very likely the problem as a whole. will be going to do with here is a very very stringent legislature so that the punishments and the deterrents for. kerry noisily circumstances are extremely horny. this sort of thing is a step in the right direction but it's a very small step and it's a very long journey we've got to go on so we've got to look for government and we've got to look to our legislators to give us the tools to deal with this but least always need to be very very powerful ones because we can't continue down this road for a very. political or cultural things like in places nation to address that you've got to go.