nothing. further debate town division right across europe over the fate of children of islamic state fighters says the baby of a nice little bride dies in a syrian refugee camp after the woman's the u.k. citizenship was revoked. which is to be darned and dark because all of government didn't do anything to bring that child back to the u.k. on sunday john we did the wrong he put the safety of this country first and foremost. human rights watch accuses iraqi and kurdish authorities of routinely routinely torturing youngsters suspected of having links to islamic states. but

israel is national assembly ground sought position leader one quite dirty or thirty to declare a state of emergency as an extensive blackout in the country continues. as president trump sends the biggest budget request in history to congress asking for over four trillion dollars to fund initiatives like countering russia's suppose that malign influence. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me making erin our top story parents of a french woman who was killed after joining islamic state in syria are pealing to president mccrone to allow her three children into founts they are currently living in a refugee camp in syria policy brings us more. well look at a case that involves

a young woman. who's seventy five years ago promised for syria with her husband baby sit old 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 falls there malnutrition is right it is not enough food is not enough medicine and she's mother who lives in the north of france has appealed to the french prisoners a promise to allow put three grandchildren she joins her here in the. records or so that she was doing in the whole camp on day five 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 there are currently some two and

a half thousand children who are being coulsdon syrian refugee camps and around one hundred of them are our french our 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 this is the recent case this time of the new slum mixtape wide of british nationality. but we old son recently died in a syrian refugee camp and this came as the bush hopes to teach state that he was rufo king but british citizenship that announcement was both criticized and subconscious of this government it's against international law to make someone stateless and to leave out the whole noble young woman and 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 to 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 is no it's time to help by the home office i think it's shocking how the home secretary has treated this situation some have begun is our back to the day she r.h. and she left at the age of fifteen from the u.k. to join islamic state in syria when she was found you know everything she can do the last month she said that the 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 over the last

stronghold for the jihad this week in the year as it's all province we are hearing from senior officials are the syrian defense forces that hundreds are islamic state fighters have surrendered but at the same time hundreds more obvious few seem to surrender and so the fighting continues however as islamic state loses control of its lost territories in syria it appears a sizable number of ice the wives are not requesting that decision to join the group. and that was little sympathy from our guests for the woman who had essentially kick started this debate see me back i'm. with frank peace walking away with pitiful sentences she would have walked away with a pitiful sentence in comparison we also absolutely know might be her was that she didn't do anything that would have been let's say the act of terrorism puts her at

risk as well to kweisi 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 four years. you know so you have to sing 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 would move from the parents who put them in their supply. 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 such a jump in circulation i applaud them for his bravery if you look at the front if

you look at belgium you look at germany and how many islam is terrorist attacks have actually been committed by people who have returned from syria then i wouldn't be good about six feet in suicide i let said when not going to join them in that but parity we're going to values of humanity the rule of law and justice and we're going to we're going to allow it and we're going to put on trial and up. very happy to see years in prison for a very long time for crimes we've got to make sure that there's safety and protection for those children will be 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 the group say's iraq and kurdish authorities routine

methods the report features a number of first hand accounts. sort of sort of too short. to muse shout at me and so you'll call law. by. the three if you're. going to get your are. going in the spring. in order to totally bridgegate outrage of the obama. well of already of them at the border. a lot missed our job our education started just an hour but just. enough that let's set it up a lot and not leave. our side of the water which rather much myself but. a lot of our viewers are. very large and there was still a better way that i don't know how to. do with the better of the. report describes the kind of torture to which the detainees are allegedly subjected among the methods said to be used by kurdistan regional authorities are beatings with plastic

pipes and electric cables as well as the use of electric shocks and stress positions. according to human rights watch at the end of last year iraqi and kurdish authorities were holding some fifteen hundred children over their ledged affiliation with ice though 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 reports. iraqi authorities or no votes or abuse from the. kurdish there have charged hundreds of minors acts of terrorism because of their alleged presumed belonging to a climax thinks these prosecutions very often rely on very you know dots for my positions because if they are based on confessions that were tortured out of the kids. those children are number one considered us

combatants who are tried 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 imprisoned him and told. we recommended the government the iraqi government and purchase orders to immediately free all those guess who have not committed the crime as for those who are should be tried but they should be tried according 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 recommendation that we have addressed to the kurdish and the iraqi government and we are to expect to get

answers. we are awaiting comment on the allegations from the iraqi government the countries that counter terrorism laws do provide for the detention and trial of anyone involved with i still that applies even if they have not committed violent crimes and only play support roles for example working as cooks or in hospitals. and as well as the national assembly has approved a state of emergency declared by opposition leader and self declared president one quiet oh it comes as the country suffers through an ongoing blackout and humanitarian crisis president say is the ongoing power cuts in venezuela are a result of cyber attacks by the united states and i think that his government is working to thaw the issue meanwhile there is the catastrophe needs to be addressed immediately advocating for carrying out the state of emergency approved by the national assembly local journalists nor is the argos has the details i mean this

competence and how and what will imply for the benefit well let's hear what he has to say. this catastrophe needs to be addressed immediately no we cannot turn our heads elsewhere no we cannot abandon our people and you who are in the streets you have the right to protest you have the right to demand you have the right to go out to the streets and demand our rights it's not true that there is normality in the streets in venezuela there is none according to what he did reach the. state of alarm is declared as some adelie of the state of emergency throughout the national territory due to the public climate he generated by this is change in direction of the electricity supply that has effect that the vast majority of the venezuelans since thursday march seventh twenty nineteen the valley berry and national armed forces are order to arrange the necessary mobilizations to provide due protection to build their facilities and deal fishtails of course so that they can fulfill

their task of restoring the national. 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 for the men on top of their to have the assembly declare a national emergency this is really designed to create more chaos and more fear and more division within the venezuelan people lived plan of the opposition is to find any way that it can to bring things to a headache and the military remains pretty much consistently on the side of. and so this is another attempt to push the military to defect and to deep in the crisis a blackout in the country has now lasted for five days and the venezuelan government has told workers to stay home in the meantime the united states is ramping up pressure on president nicolas maduro u.s. national security adviser john bolton say as the momentum is 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 date but i do think the momentum is on the side of the kaleido street file and 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 solution now is intervention and washington looks ready to oblige what would make you use the u.s. military in venezuela it's an option we continue to say and we always will for the day all options are on the table all options are on the table all options has a soft spot for foreign interventions and they've picked the right guy for it as he's a no mood for talking it should be very clear to the world and to this regime that

nobody will take part in this fake dialogue you want to compliment you go 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 the us should stop interfering in other countries affairs you know we don't want war we want peace and it's not just the venezuelans who disapprove just as america's interventions in iraq syria and libya all lacked international approval so the un leadership has already made it clear it wants no further escalation are you worried about the risk of internal military confrontation or even foreign i hope that the sink the. ordinance.

but 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 u.s. secretary of state might pompei always blaming venezuela's allies for the situation he said that by supporting my dear oh russia was ignoring the will of the venezuelan people he also blamed russian media for shifting attention from the country's humanitarian crisis. russia has also use its they sponsored just information organs like russia today and sputnik to divert attention from the humanitarian disaster of the material regime they most of the means to media in the united states has fallen in line with this we're seeing a propaganda campaign it was interesting that the new york times had to backtrack this story about the might be related industry 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 still to come u.s. president trump has presented a regular large budget proposal to congress including hundreds of millions to counter alleged russian influence of the details for you after this short break. when lawmakers manufacture consent to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous

merry go round. the one percent. nor middle of the room. there was not trade or labor in those environments standouts in the original now after the five years ago those were get out because relations were more purely economy but now the religion is very very close intertwined saw i think it's ok to have a new treaty and you negotiation. welcome

back president trump passed in congress a record four point seven five trillion dollar budget request for next year that includes plans of military boosts as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to counter alleged russian influence on the scale of more pain has more. 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 there 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 and 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 in 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 two domestic programs however are many look at it and they see it quite a bit of spending on foreign issues in particular singling out russia always looking for more ways to get us involved in wars and to also back this idea of strategic dominance so that there's this long running thing that's been going on of trying to and i think it's getting stepped up again kind of feed it

a little after the collapse of the soviet union but during the soviet union and now back with dealing with russia there's the senate to to what we need to get is a strategic done on that of the russians and whether or not they mean to wipe out russia as a rival or whether they envision being able to present the russians with a threat that the u.s. could do that without destroying russia's ability to retaliate would cause russia to cave in and various important issues. open question it won't be accepted as it's presented white house no chance not with that with democrats in the have. to reason may says she has secured legally binding changes to the irish border backstopping have breaks that dale has author meeting with the european commission president john claude young installs but now to stress that the deal is final and

to support. having an insurance policy to guarantee that there will never be a hard border in northern ireland is absolutely right the deal that m.p.'s voted on in january was not strong enough in making that clear and legally binding changes we needed to set that right today we have agreed to them i have just informed the course of. the evening. meant that you couldn't endorsers this joint subject to a prior post if you vote in those comments. there will be no further interpretations of the interpretations. if the meeting boots falls. let us speak crystal clear about the choice. of words it looked looked up at the. opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn has reacted by calling the negotiations

a failure and the house of commons to widgets made deal but we need statements can come just before another crucial vote on the bugs that do a job for tuesday if it gets rejected again the m.p.'s will hold a vote on whether to divorce from the e.u. without a deal and if that also fails parliament will decide whether to support brags that in fact every study fellow at the london school of economics gave as his perspective. the reason may if she's to pass or if you must either persuade the heartbreaks it here is that there is nothing better for them or convince a sufficient number of labor m.p.'s to vote with her because the alternative is no deal if the vote is lost untrue things she's promised over your second vote performing very well when this thing not having any deal on the expectation is that the house of parliament would oppose anything that smacks of no deal for that reason i think no deal remains highly unlikely to. have passed. in other words no

deal is stopped the next stage will be to go to the idea of having the extension of the whole negotiating process with things known as article fifty and at that point it's not just the u.k. unilaterally saying we want to extend the negotiating period because it has to be agreed by the other side so we'll be in to a fresh round of negotiations come thursday if parliament votes in favor of an extension then really is into unknown territory nobody can really tell you what's going to happen at that point. well those are the headlines for you this hour we're back at the top of the hour with the latest see that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know world of big partisan movie logs 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 back 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. see u.k. wants and sovereignty so with that sound and see comes coronated chicken you know what the good comes the man you know you get you know to bricks it now you're going to get the chlorinated to.

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film begins in hawaii in the middle of the pacific ocean in spite of the island's remote location it is also a form and it didn't go to the epidemic of the twenty first century plastic. the. plastic pollution is littering beaches and endangering certain species of animals no matter how remote or out of reach. in this new bar a tree in the north of the occupied ago scientists study marine animals not plastic at least in theory. no idea what

that is. that it's certainly plastic. jessica apparel man is a biologist accustomed to finding plastic in fish stomachs she has started a very unique collection. of casually often plastic bags. and this was off of the stomach when i found it had no idea what it wasn't all that it just. or did you react when i'm. this. i was shocked i started documenting it measuring it taking photos showing whoever else was around in the lab and we were kind of. we were just shocked to think that these fish are are really ingesting this i mean. to her disbelief the scientist has found plastic in an unlikely specimen known as the long fish.

the young researcher was not expecting such a surprising discovery when she began her work on this.