breaking or middle of the room sick. is really. i. ben is while in chaos with president mecurio accusing the u.s. of stoking the violence it's also good to overhaul relations with washington also to come an american iranian journalist who was arrested and held in the west as a material witness is set to appear in court later today or speak to one of her close friends later on in the program and germany says it won't be swayed by the threat of u.s. sanctions over collaboration on a russian gas pipeline that is the european commission suddenly rolls out legal changes that will slow the construction of nord stream.

giving welcome you watching r.t. international where it's just come seven o'clock here in moscow now two people have reportedly been killed in protests in venezuela against president maturer there are also reports today that demonstrators set fire to a police station in the north of the country it comes after mature road gave a furious response to a statement from the u.s. vice president who branded him a dictator and also called for regime change. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one god of all the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira or your syrup or. to see the vice president of the united states broke the rules of the game he spouts while talking

in that video he was drooling his eyes were moving like this what did he smoke we don't know nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power i've made the decision and given a no just the chance through the republic to initiate a total absolute revision of our relations with the government of the united states of america the us government is openly taking sides in venezuela's internal affairs right here now the country is once again a hot spot as president by dros inauguration was branded illegitimate and woodrow himself branded a usurper opposition leader one white though says he's ready to take over as the country's leader he's declared himself to be the interim president and he refuses to recognize the inauguration of president by duro but one problem why do it with never actually elected president and the vice president of venezuela del c. rodriguez responded to pence on twitter accusing him of verbal incontinence and

said pence's interventionist and serious statement reveals the clear intention of the us government to undermine the country's public powers and encourage the extremist sectors of the right to a coup d'etat venezuelans defend sovereignty and peace appends also voiced support for protests that have been small in numbers but have been quite violent.

both supporters of the government and the opposition are planning marches for wednesday to commemorate the fall of a military government in one thousand fifty eight and now washington has thrown its full support between a figure who was never elected sounds a lot like meddling right we can blame the us for what's happening because us has created what's happening on the ground the chaos and the social upheaval has been largely caused by u.s. meddling u.s. has no has no right whatsoever to you know they are not the global president they are not the global police they are not they are not the government of the of the global us you know actions like you know like a sociopath and so sociopath would justify these kind of illegal actions you know saying that oh we have the right right to go in and save democracy or or or or institute do obviously when the us doesn't even institute democracy in its own

country basic logic tells us that these people are that they're hypocrites these u.s. government officials are outright hypocrites because their track record tells us otherwise in regard to what they really really think about democracy they just don't like the results that that were put there that they came out of those recent elections in venezuela. an american iranian journalist who's been held in detention in the u.s. for more than a week is set to be released. me was detained by authorities on a material witness arrest warrant but she's expected to be free to go when she has given testimony in a criminal case right. day however plight has sparked a lot of controversy sherman was arrested on jan read the thirteenth while she was visiting family in the state of missouri according to u.s. officials she is being held as a material witness in an unspecified criminal case she hasn't been charged with any crime because says she will be released after giving evidence something that is normal practice under u.s.

law we talked to a friend and former colleague of the journalist now i guess mobile leggy he was in contact with her family. as is being detained under a controversial law yes it is a law but the material witness law has been deemed unconstitutional by the york appeals court and it where the court has said it's been misused the a.c.l.u. and human rights watch of talks about how since nine eleven this law has basically been used to detain muslims indefinitely without trial in essence on a fishing expedition and i think that whilst we hope there is no indication that he is going to be released today but we hope she will because the courts have said the sorties the government has said that once she's finished being a witness she should be released but the broader issue still remains why was she arrested and detained without charge to begin with and why were her civil and religious rights violators had jobs stripped of her had

a mug shot taken without her her job on she was refused to allow him vegetarian viewed effectively denying have food in the initial days of detention no one has been able to speak apart from two telephone conversations with her family she does have legal counsel but we don't know what this this case that she's a material witness for is about we don't know why the children have been subpoenaed there's been two phone calls with the children in the first the children are very worried because as i said she explained those civil and religious rights violations and the second call she said that those had now been. asked and oldest son believes that is because of the media coverage and because of this outpouring of activism around the world in support of. the magazine and against her arrest. ok let's go live now to kind of more and more on the reaction and caliber has been wasn't a strong response from around the world to this. absolutely

there has been a very widespread level of outrage in response to the ongoing detention of marzio hashmi now we have heard from the iranian foreign ministry the iranian foreign minister himself raef has spoken out in support of me here are some of his comments . she's done nothing but judaism and the rest of mrs. is a very few get a front to freedom of expression a political abuse. of an innocent individual. i believe the united states should to be sued you meet you go to the debate. now in addition to the outrage in iran there has been widespread international response to her ongoing detention we've heard from the committee to protect journalists as well as the international federation of journalists reporters without borders many different

international organizations have spoken up about marzia hashmi is detention saying they want the u.s. leaders to clarify what this is about saying that it seems to be inappropriate different statements are being made by many different figures former congresswoman cynthia mckinney has spoken up in support of mars the hashmi on social media now in addition to the international outrage that we're seeing there actually been some protests that have taken place there been protests in nigeria pakistan kosh mir and other parts of the world and from what we understand outside the courtroom in washington d.c. today there are protesters speaking up in support of marzio hashmi and beyond that on friday there is a planned national day of action with protests taking place in cities across the country such as washington d.c. and new york so it's really created a firestorm the fact that this journalist who works for the iranian network press t.v. but has a u.s.

born citizen born in louisiana the fact that she has been held without charges and there's no indication exactly when she will be released she just being held as a material witness the actual reasons for detention are rather unclear the fact that this is taken place has just created an international firestorm ok thank you kind of kind of welcome there in the united states. i think i will news network c.n.n. meanwhile is expanding into new markets opening a portuguese language station in brazil but the same heading the operation is raising more than a few eyebrows. presumes

donald trump extreme views on a variety of things telling a congresswoman she was not pretty enough to really express. like. a military dictatorship. this isn't. some people might try to tell you that it's a banana you might even start to believe this is a banana. but it's not. this. is an apple.

but we have asked for a response to those appointments from c.n.n. we're still waiting for prices we get one we'll let you know what it is. now another u.s. media outlet buzz feed has again insisted a controversial article it published is true that's despite it being branded is not accurate by the office of special counsel robert mueller the story alleged donald trump ordered his former lawyers to lie to congress about dealings with moscow would have got stiffed as more. tough times if you work at buzz feed lots of criticism abuse the outlets getting these last few days and no it isn't for the post about seventeen adorable cats at work or for their quiz which tells you which muppet you are no one reason is buzz feed's sensational story about

trump ordering his lawyer to lie to congress about a proposed trump tower in moscow huge deal this i'm solid my sources are solid this reporting is accurate a bombshell new report from buzz feed news certainly explosive reporting and without question this is a big one it is breaking news perhaps meijer breaking news thing is if it sounds too good to be true it probably is what buzz feed wasn't counting on is robert mueller his team itself publicly dismissing buzz feed's story as nonsense but freeze description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony of teen boy this office regarding markku cohen's congressional testimony on accurate buzz feed's bad luck didn't then their next one of its journalists after watching a cut clip of an alleged conflict between

a bunch of teenagers and the native american man went on a tirade about how white the root cause of the evil. of the conversations over the past twenty four hours how deeply familiar this look is it's the luke white patriarchy of course but that familiarity that banality is part of what prompted visceral reaction this is a spectacular it's life in america once again the story fell apart after a full video of the confrontation became available showing that the kids did nothing wrong it wasn't the. harassing people yet they're now getting death threats and that tirade is still up so here have some more authentic buzz feed funny animal pictures none of it all that surprising when you take into account who founded buzz feed jonah peretti founder and c.e.o.

and apparently noted fraudster the big obstacle has revealed how mr peretti in two thousand and three stole the identity of a well known got an activist set up a website in his name and sent out hundreds of thousands of emails pretending to be someone he was not in an effort to sway public opinion on gun control in effect a massive fake news disinformation campaign he was sued for that and settled eventually. after a year and a half we finally reach a legal settlement peretti also apologized to gold blasts and took down jeff gold black dot com i received an undisclosed monetary settlement or take mr parentheses other little stunt detailed in the article this upset that some student had set up a dating website rejection hotline with a similar name to his own dating website rejection live on bread he set up

a website legibly for the express purpose of defaming someone ruining a person's reputation emails contained multiple lies about me and betrayed me as an arrogant jerk who was bragging about how i was stole the idea of the new york city rejection line reportedly and that website was also shut down as part of the settlement truly the apple didn't fall far from the tree begun by a man who seemingly specialized in fake news and disinfo mazen in mobilizing and defaming people buzz feed continues the family tradition and these when it started posting these sixteen adorable pops wouldn't pass the f. with that reports we have asked to comment on those allegations. still to come the russian president is meeting his to his counterpart in moscow right now to discuss

the future of syria we'll have a look at that in more detail just after the break. what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be.

that you'd like to be close to see what the full screen the more people get. interested falls in the waters of our. six. zero again i the turkish president is in moscow today for another round of bilateral talks with vladimir putin the meeting is expected to focus on the fate of syria after america's pullout and on further reconciliation sitting in the war torn country with more haze marouf an option. the meeting between the turkish president and his russian counterpart has started here in moscow scrambling where we are now with an almost three hour delay and this is their eighth meeting in the last year.

apart from a round twenty phone calls between the two leaders so they have a lot to discuss that is a sure both mr putin and mr ed the gun called each other my dear friends in their welcome speeches here in the crown lane had a lou they spent time talking about trade turnover between russia and turkey to resume economic ties syria is of course expected to dominate the talks today particularly the region in its north east of the euphrates river the area will become particularly vulnerable after u.s. troops leave say that's off to deal with sudden decision to withdraw american military personnel from syria and this is the area where the troops have been stationed and of course up to that the question would arise who easy going to control it right now syria's kurdish forces are in charge and they are

communicating with official damascus with the syrian army regarding this region but the problem is that turkey sees at least some of these forces as terrorists and mr adler gone has reader waited many times that he's not going to tolerate any terroristic activity along he's the country's border he's idea is to create kind of a safe zone a little to keep syria four hundred sixty kilometers long border with of course and in charge and probably without kurdish forces being involved the reason open conflict of interests here and the reason for fear that they could be military confrontation in this area mr evans has many times promised a military operation in this area if he's not happy with how things. on the ground russia is here trying to coordinate between all the parties involved mediate trying to help them avoid military confrontation in these here it's very important to

remind you that this meeting between putin and of the gun today comes following another very important meeting between russian and turkish defense ministers top diplomats and intelligence chiefs that happened in december also here in moscow and the two delegations set and discuss what should be done what the could do to boost security in syria and eventually to bring a long awaited peace to this war torn country which is in interests of syria russia and turkey and of course of syrian people who have been suffering from violence in their moblin for many many years already and of course the fruits of that meeting will be considered by both routine and they're going to do in their tops in kremlin today. the construction of the north stream to pipeline to deliver gas from russia to europe is raising global phase negotiations in brussels between

russia ukraine and the e.u. on the current gas route through ukraine have failed to produce an agreement but europe is now suddenly changing laws that complicate the construction of the new pipeline. remains fully committed to the static to form and demand. a coherent set of rules applied to offshore pipelines. on the shore by parts meanwhile the u.s. has its own fears over the construction of the pipeline with trump repeating it will probably into russia's hands and the u.s. ambassador to germany has sent out a warning to that sanctions may be applied to countries backing north street to. as you are aware the united states strongly opposes nord stream to the pipeline poses serious geopolitical consequences to our european allies and partners we continue

to stress that firms operating in the russian energy export pipeline sector are engaging in activities that carry significant sanctions risk however the german minister of energy does claim that economic threats won't be rail the project is beneficial for all those involved in the me so i'm trying to be sure for interest you see i work as a federal minister i'm standing here not pale not shaking i'm not afraid if someone sends a letter i can deal with it russia has been our reliable partner for fifty years the pipeline also has the support of the german public it seems that more than seventy percent saying it is right to push ahead with the project political analyst thomas fassbender notes that washington perhaps phasing growing friendship between russia and europe is a certain fear of growing importance of growing dependence a part of europe as a whole or even of germany on russian gas there is an underlying fear that

russia might interfere with the domestic politics and the pipeline is of course used as an instrument also to move against or to decrease the power and influence of those in europe who favor a stronger and a more normal relationship neighborly relationship with russia again. russia and the u.s. are in a ciccio strategic rivalry there is of course a certain fear in the us that europe and the u.s. and russia might move closer together. that's how the news is looking at this hour don't forget there you can auto keep yourself updated on our social media pages and in chat. just.

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