france retains troops bases and political influence over its former colonies the policy. was. that there was there must be good for the good in me. if i piss your. carpet or to shut up false and also most of them have all the doubt it about your motive to preserve applause security is it plus our good fellowship that our blog article caught up and updated falls it is all down to the affected if all they don't see don't notice it visual. but france's absolute dominance did not last in the sixties the discovery of huge oil reserves in the gulf of guinea attracted a new play at. the united states. over the edge of that idea while also. sort of caught it off it got it all of those dark or

political give exhausted all the every drop it ever already does or the starters you don't have been deployed up at all. the united states made military as well as economic investments on the african continent africa became a battleground in the cold war. to count the soviet interests the americans secretly supported andrea. and until. after the collapse of the soviet union the united states was the only superpower in the wilds. in one thousand nine hundred ninety two under the auspices of the united nations it launched a so-called humanitarian intervention in the city to corn of africa. the us sent twenty eight thousand soldiers to somalia to help put an end to a civil war. thank you. that's.

the operation ended in disaster two years later after american soldiers were captured and killed images of their meat of bodies broadcast around the while. for the u.s. it was a humiliating loss and they decided to withdraw. after somalia a new threats in may she naff ruka. one thousand nine hundred ninety eight attacks against two u.s. embassies raised the alarm in washington. massive car bombs in kenya and tanzania caused the death of over two hundred people and left thousands injured it's. a group called all kind it claimed responsibility for.

its leader the little known osama bin laden became public enemy number one in the united states and the hunt to track him down he was one was the attack on the world trade center reconfigured the geopolitics of the world the united states launched a war in afghanistan a war that would soon spread far beyond it was a post nine eleven the threat of terrorism is very real to the american public and from a policy standpoint we are looking for specifically at the threat wherever it may in may show up. a few months after september eleventh the u.s. military returned to the horn of africa with plans to stay. there stablished their first military base in djibouti. cambria money

a former french foreign legion. talent directed counterterrorism efforts in africa for the u.s. department of defense. the say help played a key role in looking at the movement of weapons the movement of potential foreign fighters organized crime during that time period you also had an influx of cocaine flowing in through the saddle so all of this was was of primary interest and it in a continued to grow. print piece to series of maps in two thousand and two bulking both this whole part of africa as a terrorist chordal corridor of terrorism and of course the official narrative from the pentagon and the white gum is that these terrorists that come from afghanistan they've been driven out by american forces united they went that time was they've

crossed through bin laden country i.e. sudan they're linking up with terrorists in north africa they've come through this sort of belts this but on a shaky area. jeremy keenan a british professor and author has spent fourteen years studying this. he argues that the military engagement of the united states in the region with about more than just security. there had been in america probably something much more important at the time the nine eleven that was the publication of the thing that snowden generally has the cheney report cheney report i think was the first executive order that president bush gave when he came into power which was to look at the crisis of the energy sector in the states in one thousand nine hundred seven imports of energy oil that's part of the fifty percent level that is psychologically sort of crisis level. in

a report focused on future american spies or oil and of course focused on africa has becoming the most important supplier of good quality oil that the turtle struck system. even more important to the gulf certainly africa but comes of critical importance to you at the political classes in washington. in our strategic interests is a side to the north algeria and libya the largest oil reserves in africa and to the south those of the gulf of guinea. the vast untapped petroleum deposits in the sari itself where another temptation. in two thousand and three a dramatic kidnapping pave the way for the rival of the us military. in canton to two. men.

wanted found. this was the first acts against foreigners in the sahara. a huge manhunt was launched for five months to kidnap a evaded capture in the end after a ransom was paid by the german government the tourists were released. four days later the report is based announce area received a fax a veteran of the algerian army patta a paratrooper claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. the so-called terrorists background was leaked by algerian intelligence officials such unsubstantiated evidence was all the bush administration needed to label a power osama bin laden's man in the sahara. certainly we have. you. the extension if you like of right into

this of africa. and that is what just summarized for america launching a new front in the war on terror in africa there was a big manhunt for the leader the the head kidnapper of the result in order to to nab him because he was running around with approximately five million euros and may be a potential threat in the future so there was some thinking. on the department of defense side we came up with a program called p.s.i.i. the paths to hell initiative and in the pan so how initiative basically was to work with countries in the salah like mali like. chad mauretania in order to give them some of the basic stuff communication equipment where they can talk to each other across the border. just simple stuff to where they can help us find. help are off and power i was eventually captured with the help of the united states

. the u.s. armed forces now had a foothold in the south and they are. why don't we take this little thing called p.s.i.i. and make it a little bit more robust where we start taking countries from within the region sally and region and became a trance a hell counterterrorism program and try to get them all to work on something that we all care about which is counterterrorism so will do training and equipping and all in this training and equipping then we come together bring those countries to do a live exercise. as we bring all these countries together we do this live exercise we flex our muscles in the region because send a message to the bad guys saying don't mess around ever. but he's working together

in concert to make sure that you guys are around so everybody in the pentagon said well this was a success story on you know how can we make this even better. deterring and defeating transnational threats preventing future conflicts supporting humanitarian disaster relief efforts and protecting u.s. security interests. that's the mission of u.s. africa command. they decided that maybe they needed a separate command headquarters that would focus exclusively on africa's and so the bush administration under donald rumsfeld was running the pentagon at the time decided to do that set up a separate command just for africa. the united states sees the only country to have divided the world into separate military sectors to monitor and patrol these are north com. south com you calm centcom and

now africa. under the stated goals of fighting terrorism and providing humanitarian assistance afrikan implanted itself on the continent conducting military exercises with a growing number of african countries. but was this only reason for africa repast create. new thought that the oil is that is not there are america sort of course you know or set up by variables up from utah is a notorious list there for so who should ought to. security don't those also go to i don't they are us to praise all the screwed up by donald dumps of all. she. had friends. established itself as

a counterweight to french and american interests on the continent in the first decade of the twenty first century china had overtaken the rest of the world to become africa's not just trading on. this us side is also called snowball who don't vote to tip is so sexy don't doubt it all about that you get a false a top under the need to do so was a bit dumb or designed for it he fulfilled his exhaust for a democracy. you have a really close system also to either defend you don't want the un to show us all your is or use up think up new over don't bother to so also just by the it was a pretty good day to overdo it to duck zone for them or deserves it all those it trivializes on you that it is all busted otherwise menu oprah do new video we don't do it in the home but i do see all. the don't go off into full trail discomfit

if all said it is of c don't do it so then you don't want it because it's got good deals of days like say i took it myself when yes. in this two thousand and ten us state department cable made by wiki leaks the u.s. assistant secretary of state const china a very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no more. ultimately the aim of the united states and africa is to design the mechanisms where access to resources that are strategic that are absolutely essential to several key industries in the united states as well as access to petroleum are secured that it also provides a counterweight to china china is also in somewhat of a race to acquire as many minerals and. petroleum and other natural resources that

it means for its industries the united states though it may more longer be a major manufacturing power its military industries are heavily dependent on minerals that can be only source then africa. the establishment of africa calm was key for the consolidation of u.s. interests in africa but when the pentagon wanted to set up its headquarters on the continent things did not go as planned is america shipshape i don't believe you're going to see. us you can see as you see after week well money and the problem sic the. imposition communicative morduch a few zilly that. this opposition forces us to set up the command of africa thousands of miles away in stuttgart germany.

african resistance to africa calm was spearheaded by a figure who had emerged as a major economic and political force on the continent and had been a thorn in the side of the west for decades from the beginning of his political career as a leader moammar gadhafi was opposed to a foreign military presence in africa one of the first things he did it after coming to power in one thousand sixteen i was to expel the british and u.s. military bases and libya itself. and the good off a high that you know considerable political support across the continent for his position nelson mandela's view was almost identical to give us a sense that there would be no african forces commanded by foreign military officials and there would be no foreign militaries occupying any part of africa are operating with that offer. gadhafi had been

playing a complex game with the west for a long time president ronald reagan had labeled him the mad dog of the middle east and had tried to assassinate him in one thousand nine hundred eighty six by bombing his pockets. the libyan leader is independence and influence flowed from the vast petroleum reserves the launch is seen africa which he had nationalized when he took power. well starting in the one nine hundred ninety s. moammar gadhafi became a kind of luminary a leading voice certainly one of the loudest voices for a maximum version of african integration he was seen across as being the successor of kwame in terms of his vision of african unity and it wasn't just a matter of my sounding more it's good offie was eager to not only accelerate the process of african integration but of bankrolling the process.

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members to object to formally recognizing quantified though as van as well as interim president earlier a number of countries including britain spain and germany voiced their individual backing of why though they're calling for a free and fair elections. we consider that today the president of the national assembly mr glyde oh was legitimacy is perfectly knowledged has the ability to call for presidential elections this is the issue well you countries had set a sunday deadline for president nicolas maduro to call a new presidential election but so far he has refused and going to we don't accept ultimatums from anyone it's like if i told the european union i'll give you seven days to recognize the republic of catalonia and if you don't we're going to take measures no international politics can't be based on ultimatums that was the arrow of empires and colonies to some other news now and a bomb blast outside a busy shopping center in the somali capital mogadishu has killed at least eleven

people and injured dozens and gunmen have shot and killed the head of a port operations company in the semi autonomous somali region of puntland al shabaab has claimed responsibility for that attack turkey's president has accused the u.s. of inaction over the murder of saudi journalist four months ago. and also said saudi arabia's crown prince and its former foreign minister have told lies about the killing our troops are being sent in to help deal with catastrophic flooding in northeast australia thousands of homes are submerged in queensland's evacuation centers are open in the city of townsville dam levels have stabilized but the potential of. things can change last night was rough but if you want to get not.

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the money from libyan oil allowed gadhafi to underwrite ambitious projects. three hundred million dollars for the first pan-african satellite calm. thirty billion dollars in the largest irrigation system in the world that draws on the fast a fresh water under the sun to turn tens of thousands of hectares of libyan desert into farmland. khadafi wanted to demonstrate that africa could

develop without depending on the western banking system or the international monetary fund libya to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in each case was capitalizing a number of new african economic institutions of the african development bank of the african monetary fund africa would then develop its own solutions and develop its own lending programs to address its own problems so africa was in good duffy's view. with gadhafi as a leadership increasingly becoming something of a block. rather than a series of disparate individual nations that could be dealt with one on one and set against each other. when gadhafi was elected chairman of the african union in two thousand and nine u.s. officials square concerned in an embassy cables revealed by wiki leaks they noted

that libya will seek to use our chairmanship to aggrandise him and promote his united states of africa proposal. u.s. multinationals were also unhappy with the libyan leader especially his decision to cancel it one billion dollars deal with the bechtel corporation the largest engineering company in the us with powerful connections in washington. the fact that an operator with bechtel's connections and deep pockets was ultimately unable to secure its contract serves as a caution airy tale for the many u.s. and western companies seeking to enter libya's booming market and for other u.s. companies considering major investment projects here. gadhafi also antagonize france after being courted by president nicolas sarkozy the libyan leader canceled major arms deals. and

reacted to. the sound and he said. that if you're on the short. cut of. the cost even shipping list of some more acquire if you don't bow to the. best good luck you know you two will poke opensource bad boys the economy. in march two thousand and eleven as the arab spring spread through north africa france and the united states decided to use. the united nations security council gave its approval of protecting human rights provided the justification. for syrian. so. you couldn't get if you can put up a p.s.u. into being as we have troops in neighboring. allowing the opposition to

drive them out. we hit it off these air defenses this was afrikaans for its war and its commander in chief was the first african-american president in the words of the obama administration the u.s. position in the war against libya was that of leading from behind what is really interesting is of course the fact that the war was opened and directed first by africa. and then the mission was taken over by nato. in other words people running the show me told are themselves being run by the maybe states which was formally in command of made whole not only that in one of his speeches obama after the bombing campaign had ceased and was praising the efforts of allies in libya revealed that even a number of french bombing missions were inside piloted by american it's.

the intervention of libya is also a way of sending a message. other african nation states that should pursue a course of such radical defiance radical independence such a nationalist immense him period us course that there could be ultimate consequences that are no longer hypothetical and. gadhafi is gone so a major obstacle in the way of american military penetration of us if it has in fact. came risotto he died in.

the fall of gadhafi produce a shockwave that would be found to fabiani be. unfortunately there was not a very good handle on the forty thousand plus weapons that could off he had and so quickly we find out that. over thirty five thousand of those weapons just atomized they just disappeared and so we discovered that some of those weapons made it made it into northern mali to southern algeria and southern libya there and you share there everywhere. some of those weapons fell into the hands of the libyan rebels others including anti time craft missiles family into the hands of tariq fight his who fought alongside gadhafi because he had supported their demands for autonomy in the south.

yet there is really and your daughter is. dead it is a widow a mother difficult to victory try to cause you to tell certain community who just want to know about this also quite. by the. charter is a very. few no more citizens of the zone green zone than all the war will agree on the board agree although i'm also told it is all they are pretty obvious now. who hope to tell the pride our jaws are great at their feet for grit at a few feet of water or pod i enjoyed the story but i saw tish's there were more that i saw what i could use because as well know the jail with all the men who they said they consider to be decently press a dog or is usually. the heavily armed tirades formed a new fighting force and mentally and launch an offensive against the government in bamako in january two thousand and twelve that long held dream of creating

a wad an independent tarik homeland that would stretch across the sahara finally seemed within reach. but the two our eggs were not the only fighters in the desert small on groups which had a major decade earlier were now where armed forces to be reckoned with acme. and on sardine say they were fighting a holy war and what we could sing among the local population. islamists a war about the whole of the police to keep the law is offer up a pretty reasonable dollar multimillion dollar think it is. the law of the military but our schools don't go around you have a group of us showing up at the real of our. dung there's a lot of good. but

the islam preached by these armed groups was nothing like the islam practice in this region for centuries the. good. ones you know will be. deleted in the back of. it but. if you're going to spend it if you're going to. do something. thank. you source original song it's all said one of the original tool edition of the sharia buku it is also a militant of syria kit want to sort it really calm but it certainly isn't as if you're to be the somebody. you didn't do the.

result. was the one putting aside their ideological differences the two are exam the armed groups forged an alliance of convenience. criminon arche them point of view you really could put a mobile. jihadist that. says it'll ruin the us on a new cause of our size that i don't go to them but it will take these guys a little report like that i know. it has a different morning and i don't know the circumstances of it in females all that some or all. united the rebel forces launched an offensive against mali and soldiers in several garrison towns in the north. these mannion troops had completed years of training by africa home but the training didn't pay off. for a bit but is it as you need to sort of build it richard is on their book give it to

their father must feel for some but they're called to made notes of the vocal is unity. for me so sore dysart ok it's a song means so but of dakota did it. worse was yet to come when one thousand million soldiers were captured in summarily executed in a rebel attack on the offices in bamako mutinies against the government they say it was incapable of controlling the situation. the coup was led by one of africa's top pupils captain amadou sana book who was trained as an infantry and intelligence officer at the u.s. bases in virginia georgia texas and arizona.

this was a guy the americans had trained and invested time and money and then he made things ten times worse in mali. and then more setbacks for africa com a game. other rebel forces invaded the major cities of northern mining they met little resistance in just two weeks the country was split in two. despite years of training and millions spent the west's greatest fear became a reality a so-called islamic state was established in northern mali. lives organised a pseudo judge eastham. up was you know with only live elu normally a god or conduit to. the tories on the day of the phone booth has also.

rushed to resign up to last year all. you novels you'll get rid of it. your ass are going to have you most if you fairly couldn't pass currently on the big up the cyclone but gone gee i dissed i've also there you sure don't go on if there's air on a pond of bamako. the sun quite. novel see the salt then if for the new issue physical assault then they're gone but they'll just idealists call the invalid community thall. as the rebels move south france came to the rescue in forty eight hours and government

deployed four thousand troops to mali the americans remained in the background providing military intelligence and logistical support. to depose of the metric rocket objective it's also been off rolls into general so integral to souls . potential of all the focus also called on me can was of your of or will some. were left leicester billeted on the board. the rebel advance was tops and in just two weeks the french regain the north the french army claimed to have killed hundreds of so-called terrorists the rest seemed to evaporate into the desert the former colonial power was now the savior of the country. but was operation survival all that it seemed to be. a. little sick

with well that's your normal person knew so exactly mostly by simply skirl him and drawing. the leg. don't demolish ought to sell going to leave a problem if the. corner or what remains of it today the town is key to understanding what really happened during operation sarah vaughan it was a site of a decisive battle with the fighters of armed sardine who were surrounded here by friendships. a memorial in honor of the first french soldier killed during the clash was erected overlooking the only road in and out of town. but what has not been memorialized is the fact that on this same road a convoy of vehicles carrying hundreds of rebel fighters and their leader iyad

a gali managed to escape from right under the nose of the french. on the ground many witnesses of the conflict have questions. that's. not cos you did it. and nothing else it will extend its. existence totally since it was a permit on the stock. market it has helped law and don't disturb it is a bad idea the opioids like this jaunty soto's years say plug up the sound of a new or lawn the man you didn't i will show. you a crucial load going to develop nor a difference see like a million i have ya know disposal really isn't that cept the dog is. in the most from pretty clear for the incident i will see don't get

a present for dogs kurt let him or show me. in this shadow war what interests might the french have been going easy on the forces they were supposed to be fighting little said the father hardly recover yet i'm certain not only is a serial you normally get up or. by market. forces . are accept their produce seal or dick that there are false. fiamma are a vast. exploit limine the hell it. left million of us do you know you my leader works eighty on vocally commune the coup is going to double shuffle says apostasy tonight. he'll menthol should to dilute your denomination is money exploded you're on your own it went through the life force you live alone to do gotta deal amass surely was was do it on your arm. next

brought bible no more. don't deliver dowdle exploit us your map won't be she daughter there were accessible since. far from the desert sands of the sahara the future of the region is being determined and france is not the only one with interests here. representatives of oil companies venture capitalists and african officials in charge of energy gathered in london the financial capital of europe and the world who she is the one . who. despite the chaos wars and revolutions the interests of europeans and americans remains high in what may be the largest un topped oil reserves on the continent the eldorado of the science the tao dany basin which extends to mauritania to algeria across north mali. is

a distance source resource but in the vast vast area probably bigger than the whole of texas or. pocket two thirds of europe for instance so you can imagine very few wells in this post is not enough to test the realities it would take a long time to put the space into for testing. despite a recent decline in the importers gas and african oil to the united states the interests of major u.s. energy companies in africa has not decreased the needs of asia and europe will not stop growing nearly two trillion dollars of investments in african oil and gas are expected in the next two decades. mostly to school. next year when it was hospital yeah i know. there are no good all sit on the ground by some. between the the fico. who field

is and the present book don't disappear it was a sunni policeman to us who tunes. in may two thousand and fourteen president obama announced that he would allocate an additional five billion dollars to the find to gain skillful terrorism. but as we move to a train and advise mission in afghanistan or reduce presence there allows us to more of the fact of the address emerging threats in the middle east and north africa. earlier this year i asked my national security team to develop a plan for a network of partnerships from south asia to the so help. this strategy has been very persuasive an increasing number of african governments have signed on to the africa com program like in the share where the u.s. military brought together african forces composed of one thousand soldiers from seventeen countries for military exercises.

and international exercises this year we could really have it in different areas of of africa as a tremendous opportunity for oswald to work together and work from one another. during two thousand and thirteen alone africa has organized ten exercises on the fin clock model fifty five other operations and four hundred safety seminars with forty nine african states. the united states has also established drone bases in djibouti share kenya ethiopia somalia south sudan booking a fossil and this is shell's. in september two thousand and fourteen the united states announced that they were sending four thousand troops to liberia as support during the bola crisis and to coordinate other unspecified military activities.

not to be outdone france also announced plans to increase its military presence in the cya with a redeployment of three thousand troops. the increasing militarization of africa is a new profit center covered by the military industrial complex with millions of dollars of contracts for arms manufacturers and private contractors. emersion of will see nearly a fifth investor billeted on the field. so that your corp so they do need a vigilante force and a book called the rules of the world the most original bertil of richard a lot of fodder in it. server due. for there's a lever it's off for old. the united nations has established

a peacekeeping force of twelve thousand troops to help stabilize mali among them the chinese military as well as african troops trained by afrikaner the arsenal of the species keepers include surveillance drones and apache attack helicopters. more than one hundred thirty years after the berlin conference a new division of the african continent is underway as new powers seek to ensure oil supplies strategic minerals arab oil land and even the water under the desert sands so did god really do over all the problem so. look at the regalia. before nyssa said. just a few somersaults just because for. the

so-called war against terror in this the high is more than it seen in the battles waged part of a not just struggle for influence and control in a world of shrinking resources and this battle the fight for the bounty is the real and lists war. the weather. and now the weather is further north maybe downpours azing out of

south palo towards janeiro for example in the shallows join up with the very wet weather they have wrought across the amazon basin some intend shall be a possibility through the remainder of monday for the south fought and twenty four twenty five. for the next day all to. ten degrees warmer than that so plenty of heat around the north but a few showers into bolivia pushing up across peru ecuador. colombia maybe wanted to showers that into venezuela want to see showers to into the caribbean but nothing much to speak of is generally looking pretty good all the way to lots of tropical sunshine blue skies gold just sunshine coming for temps getting up to around twenty nine degrees but the city might just catch while to light showers that will be few and far between. and the same is true really wrought across central america a lot of fine weather across the region not quantified across north america we got the return of some wintry weather coming back across the northern plains and the

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begin with a significant diplomatic shift in favor of the man who is trying to force venezuela's president nicolas maduro from power european countries including britain france and spain say they now recognize. leader well they join the u.s. canada and several latin american states. today february fourth it is eight days since been along with other european partners urged regime to call free democratic and transparent elections this day has come a new steps have been taken in any such direction by mid-year is regime therefore the government of spain and now says it officially recognizes the president of the venezuelan assembly mr quite as acting president of venezuela but. we consider that today the president of the national assembly mr kaleido was legitimacy is perfect acknowledged has the ability to call for presidential elections this is the issue here. but nicolas maduro still house powerful friends abroad russia has slammed

what it describes as european interference adding that venezuelans should be left alone to solve the crisis themselves now my doura himself echoed those sentiments with this warning to the u.s. presidents. but i will not stop stop donald trump you're making mistakes that are going to stay in your hands with blood and you're going to leave the presidency stained with blood to stop bolivarian have the capacity of dialogue and understanding let's respect each other or is it that you're going to repeat a vietnam in latin america that's what i would say and repeat to him we're covering this global story with three correspondents we have rory chalons in moscow gabriel is on though is an ottawa that's where canada is hosting a meeting of latin american countries but we begin with these barker in london to tell us how close the e.u. is they have to having a unified position. well we wait to see exactly where we

stand in terms of there being a unified e.u. position of course there's been a tremendous amount of momentum over the course of the morning you've seen big e.u. heavyweights like france the united kingdom and spain all furring their support behind being the interim president of the e.u. did set a critical time limit to saying that by twelve g.m.t. of roughly about an hour ago that it too would recognize as a unified bloc as the interim president of venezuela if it had not received any objection from any of its twenty eight member states but waiting really to see next what the e.u. has to say all about that but it's looking increasingly like italy could derail any kind of joint e.u. statement it's a coalition government it's populous coalition government has expressed doubts over whether or not it should support serve the move the deputy prime minister luigi did my own has refused to give permission to the prime minister to be able to sign

a joint e.u. statement it's led to an unprecedented intervention by the president of italy who normally has a ceremonial role who's asked the coalition government to put aside its differences are recognized as the president of venezuela so it isn't as straightforward as war might think despite maybe the countries many of them as i mentioned heavyweights in the e.u. making clear what they think about the future of venezuela and who should be in charge our i need barker with an update from london thank you rory chalons let's bring him and he's joining us from moscow and the kremlin has come out strongly as expected rory against the european countries who are now siding with. yes the kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov criticized the europeans saying that what they are doing is trying to legitimize the paying of power.

revealing statements i think from to be true pascoe if you said that it's the people of venezuela who from our viewpoint should go through this crisis independently it's only the people of venezuela who are the solution to what is an internal issue and they think this basically highlights the difference between perspectives in russia and in the west where is what the russians believe is the. sovereignty is paramount so you cannot go sticking your nose into other countries there's no matter how bad the humanitarian situation is there it's the responsibility of that population with the power structures that exist to sort it out and effectively what russia believes the west is doing is naked geopolitics dressed up as democratic and humanitarian values yet how deep are the ties between

russia and venezuela and maduro specifically why is russia so keen to see maduro stay in power. well yes exactly i mean behind all this talk of sovereignty except for russia has valuable assets and interests inside venezuela that it wants to see protected there are geo political benefits in the alliance between russia and venezuela but perhaps what it boils down most to is money because for the since two thousand or so on the relationship between russia and venezuela was good first with hugo chavez and then we're with dura russia lent venezuela billions and billions of dollars and sold it's billions and billions of dollars worth of arms as well lots of that

money has gone sour it's basically disappeared russia's investments haven't actually been particularly good ones in many regards and from the high point of say two thousand and eight and now actually the relationship is dwindling some water in recent years russia has tried to turn off the cash taps if full is then there is a good chance that russia will not be able to get back some of the money that is plowed into venezuela over the last past couple of decades all right a roaring challenge from moscow thank you. while all this is happening the fourteen nation lima group was set up and twenty seventeen to work towards a peaceful resolution two years of crisis in venezuela so eleven if its member is recognized as interim president they're meeting right now in canada's capital auto up is where we're all these on though is joining us from to tell us what's expected from the lima group meeting today. yeah there's

a lot expected this is not just one of those meetings of foreign ministers where they come in they may take a picture and that's about it this is just the opposite they have a very long list of agenda items are going to be dealing with today primarily behind closed doors the foreign ministry building behind me they're going to be speaking to international partners are going to be discussing assistance economic assistance and recovery for venezuela a country that scene really ten million percent inflation according to the i.m.f. they're also in the afternoon behind closed doors going to be discussing the humanitarian and refugee situation in venezuela as well we expect the most of the fourteen member nations to be represented here by the foreign ministers the meeting has not begun yet they should be starting in the next hour or so but they have a lot to deal with but the key thing is the vast majority if not all of these fourteen countries that make up the lima group and they are countries in the western hemisphere ranging from canada to brazil to colombia to argentina to chile

they all are here with one objective and that's to support and to figure out a way out of this crisis one that involves. relinquishing power in venezuela how they're going to do that is the big question and that's why they're meeting here for this urgent meeting in ottawa on the issue of humanitarian assistance that you were mentioning himself has said that he was organizing for humanitarian aid into the country but any more information on when that aid might arrive and how it might arrive. not really the short answer is that this is very complicated we hope to try to get some answers from that from this meeting why do is said that he wants to get humanitarian aid into the country the u.s. has said they plan to give humanitarian aid the question is how do you get it in and when they're talking about trying to get it in from neighboring countries of

brazil through the northern border of brazil or through the border with colombia in . however that's complicated because the military now in venezuela is controlled by nicolas maduro and if the military blocks the entryway into venezuela it's a it's unclear how they will actually get that aid in that's question number one the second question is when would this aid start to come we've heard that it could be trying to get it in within a week or so but that's unofficial unclear of how long it'll take to get this aid to brazil to colombia and then how to get it into a swell and when that could happen so there's certainly a lot of uncertainty lot of talk about getting this aid in divinest well a lot of uncertainty about how and when all right sanjay we'll leave it there for now thank you with an update from ottawa. now why door was almost unknown in venezuela just two weeks ago our latin america. looks at how he's become the

driving force for change among his supporters. it's late at night at the basketball court when one guy dog summons his neighbors to share with them his vision for than israela. we were born on this earth to be happy we'll do everything possible to achieve a political way out about crisis and show that we are powerful united you are powerful will never let them take away our ability to dream. he's only thirty five years old but for those who dream of seeing president nicole last mughal go why the war is the yes we can. do many in fact are comparing his looks and his style with barack obama. a remarkable turn of events considering that most venezuelans had barely heard of why the until the opposition controlled national assembly put claimed him then israel is interim president i heard of him

two weeks ago when i put on the t.v. . and what is your opinion of him anyone is better.