venezuela in chaos with president maduro accusing the united states of stoking the fire is also found to overhaul relations with washington. and american reigning journalist who was arrested and held in the u.s. as a material witness is set to appear in court today we hear the latest from one of her close friends. germany says that it won't be swayed by the threat of u.s. sanctions over collaboration on a russia russian gas pipeline that is the european commission suddenly rolls out legal changes that will slow construction of north stream.

international. two people have reportedly been killed him protests in venezuela against president maduro also reports that demonstrate to set fire to a police station in the country's north this comes after madeira gave a furious response to a statement from the us vice president who branded him a dictator and called for regime change. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one guy doing the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira or your serp or. a seat in the vice president of the united states . the rules of the game she spats while talking in that video he was drooling his

eyes were moving like this well did he smoke you don't know nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power i've made a decision and given the notice the chance through the republic to initiate a total absolute vision 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 duros inauguration was branded illegitimate and would throw 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 so you rodriguez responded to pence on twitter accusing him of verbal incontinence and

said pence is interventionist and serious statement reveals the clear intention of the u.s. 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.

now washington has thrown it 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 says created what's happening on the ground the chaos and the social upheaval has been largely caused by us meddling us as no one has no right whatsoever they are not 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 if you know actions like you know acts 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 work that they are 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. the global news network c.n.n. is expanding into new markets opening a portuguese language station in brazil but the team heading up the operation is raising more than a few eyebrows. thanks thanks thanks. thanks.

priscilla's donald trump extreme views on a variety of things telling a congresswoman she was not pretty enough to really express. like for a military dictatorship. this is an apple. some people might try to tell you that it's a banana one even start to believe since this is a banana. but it's not. is an apple. well in the day we did ask for a response from c.n.n. to these appointments although we have yet to receive

a reply. in the meantime another us media outlet namely buzz feed on this occasion has again insisted a controversial article it published is true that despite it being branded as not accurate by the office of special counsel robert miller the story alleged that donald trump ordered his former lawyer to lie to congress about dealings with moscow on the explain. 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 major 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 isn't 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. then 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 that big article 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 other little stunt detailed in the article this upset that some student had set up a dating website rejection hard line 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 my lightning and defaming people buzz feed continues the family tradition of these when it started posting these sixteen adorable pops we've asked buffy to comment on the allegations. the terms fake news propaganda have become all too common when it comes to discussions about journalism but now one french t.v. channel is teaching children how to spot if otoh is are staged and which news outlets are telling the truth just to live to our correspondent shot a dude as he joins on the line live from paris good to see you what more can you

tell us about the story. well this is a children's educational show that's what it's a peg does it goes out on france for which is one of the stations here in france and it's called escape news now the idea behind this program is to test children on a topical knowledge about what's happening in the world today and also to put them through their paces to see if they can spot things such as fake news and to see if they can assess news articles to see what might potentially be wrong with those articles now this show has looked at things such as social media sic twitter or facebook but in a recent episode it was concerned with one thing only and that was russia's president putin and ourselves r.t. now in one part of this recent program they had a young boy of a ukrainian origin discussing what he thought of russia's president to bring the.

wording of. his door to the with their nose who voted in them on the phone. with us yet. so rubber stamping the idea there that president putin is an authoritarian leader he is a somebody that suppresses the opposition somebody who doesn't allow the freedom of the press in russia and somebody who likes to completely cruise control his image now some of the ways that they showed that that's how president putin is was by showing a number of photos of him in poses such as. being on the back of a horse with her being topless also showing him out hunting and also showing him in military equipment now the program then goes on to talk about r.t. describing it as being an organ of propaganda it's evidence for that is the fact that r.t. is funded by the russian state well there is no mistaking about that but this is

little bit rich considering that france for itself the channel that this program is broadcast on is also funded by the french state so you threw out for espresso freedom that service on the programme made some comparisons between press freedoms or lack of them as they may have put it comparing russia to france what do they have to say about it. well that's right it talks about saying it's difficult sometimes to be a journalist in russia well let me tell you it's difficult sometimes to be a journalist here in france to altie is no stranger to being told that it can't go to events because of the channel that we work for this is been fairly routine since president has been in office for the last eighteen months almost two years now but even before that during the presidential campaign altie journalists who were actually accredited for events turned up and they were told they simply could not

go in the only reason because you work for r.t. and president might call on others in the french state have made no bones about what they think about our channel. on the markets years ago thanks of. the request from. you riggins the liberty of the press. i'm walking and have things to do. bishop to the east of russia today and sputnik do not act like organs of the press nor journalists rather they act like organs of influence of propaganda and of deceitful propaganda no more no less. there are two media outlets which i deny from entering the elysee palace it's russia today and sputnik that's because i don't consider them to be media but propaganda arms funded by a foreign nation. well r.t.

has actually contacted the program escape news on france four and asked them for comment as to what scene is being biased program in regards to r.t. in regards to its view in standpoint on russia r.t. has also called on freedom of the press organizations for these on this program and also on human rights activist groups for their views on whether or not a program like this which is clearly rubber stamping the views of the french government in france is actually politicizing young children by doing so. you know the french press the micro-mini pretty clear he doesn't like r.t. and he's entitled to do so just like a lot of the french people have made it clear they don't like each to their own many thanks to do even ski reporting. so we took to the streets of paris see what people there had to say about this program. semitone the extra inch and i'm

astonished that they teach our country that other countries apart here we talk about manipulations by the media on the internet we would be better explain in twenty kids not to trust what is on the internet or to trust only verified information the same should be done to adults as well if you so talk about country struck by your own country not other countries i think you said the often i. used to talk. good about other countries. on your own country definitely it was in the prospects as well i don't think it is good to tell kids other countries are bad it is up to kids to shape their own opinion yes it is a politicize ation of children we should not influence children we should give them basic education but not to influence them about other countries they don't know. an american iranian journalist who's been held in detention in the united states for more than a week is said to be released marzieh has shame it was detained by authorities on

as a material witness on an arrest warrant to be a material witness i should say but she is expected to be free to go what she's given testimony in a criminal case today however her plight has sparked a lot of controversy the shimmy was arrested january thirteenth while she was visiting family in missouri according to u.s. officials she is being held as material witness in an unspecified criminal case she hasn't been charged with any crime the court says that she will be released after she's given evidence something that is standard practice in the u.s. law we spoke to a friend and former colleague of the journalist who is 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 new york appeals call 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 her lolling vegetarian field effectively denying have food in the initial days of detention no one has been able to speak to apart from to telephone conversations with her family she does have the 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 chief phone calls with the children in the fast the children are very worried because as i said she explained most civil and religious rights violations

in the second call she said that those had now been. asked and man is his oldest son believes that is because of the media coverage and because of this outpouring of activism around the world in support of. and against her arrest. shimmies arrests criticism from various rights groups rock around the globe auntie's killer more but explains. there has been a very widespread level of outrage in response to the ongoing detention of marzia hashmi now we have heard from the iranian foreign ministry the iranian foreign minister himself a reef has spoken out in support of marzia hashmi she is a famous true she's done nothing but journalism and the rest of mrs hosiery is a very beautiful ones to freedom of expression a political abuse. of an innocent individual. i believe the united

states should be sued if 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 marzieh hashmi his detention saying they want the u.s. leaders to clarify what this is about saying that it seems to be inappropriate now in addition to the international outrage that we're seeing there actually been some protests that have taken place there have been protests in nigeria pakistan kosh mir and beyond that on friday there is a planned a national day of action with protests taking place in cities across the country such as washington d.c. and new york's. construction of the stream to pipeline to deliver gas from russia to europe is raising global fear is negotiations in brussels between

russia ukraine and the e.u. on the current gas route through ukraine the failed to produce an agreement but is now suddenly changing laws that complicate construction of the new pipeline the commission remains fully committed to the static to farm and demand. to have a coherent set of e.u. and energy rules applied to offshore pipelines. in the case. on the short of five points. meanwhile the u.s. has its own fears over the construction of the pipeline with donald trump repeating that it will play into russia's hands the u.s. ambassador to germany sent out a warning that sanctions may be applied to countries backing north stream two. 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 the german minister for energy though claims that economic threats will not be rail a project that is mutually beneficial for those involved in the so i'm trying to be sure for engineer you see i work as a federal minister i'm standing here not pale and not shaking i'm not afraid of 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 more than seventy percent say that its right to push ahead political analyst thomas fassbender notes the washington fear is a growing friendship between russia and europe is a certain fear of growing importance of growing dependence a piece 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 in the influence of those in europe who favor a stronger and a more normal relationship neighborly relationship with russia again. russia and the us 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. the british funded integrity initiative which it was claimed in the last year had been conducting anti russia campaigns in europe has removed all of its website content pending an investigation into the data theft donald core to investigate. exposed for spreading propaganda meddling in foreign affairs well you can wipe the slate clean the u.k. based think tank integrity initiative may have done exactly that saying they're

just investigating data leaks initial findings indicate that the theft was part of a campaign to undermine the work of the integrity initiative in researching publicizing and countering the threat to european democracies from this information and other forms of hybrid warfare we are keen to trace both the source of the hack and the use to which our data some genuine some falsified has been put the leaks started in november after a group of activists dispersed some of the company's private files across the internet they were field the organization may have been spreading exactly what they claim to oppose propaganda using associates from around europe they allegedly carried out secret anti russia campaigns and smeared opponents of their narrative there's even been speculation the integrity initiatives parent organization institute for statecraft had filed repeated complaints to off com about r t making

it more likely for the channel to face punitive action and all that on the british government's payroll no less. integrity initiative is conducting its own investigation. and into the breach as justification for wiping its website clean even if there's no foul play in that a couple of things don't really add up for example it's not clear why the think

tanks twitter account also turned completely private or hacktivists fiendish to get their hands on a couple twitter posts on top of that the mainstream media's coverage on the whole scandal has been mostly deafening silence and those targeted by the integrity initiatives misinformation have a feeling it's not by accident well more than just whether or not all these clusters of journalists who are apparently associated with the integrity initiative has anything to do with it because there are a number of people who have been named to the problem journalists have been named in the documents which been released one house to house the question therefore is is because of their involvement that they are not. covering this real scandal. because it was rather today thanks for joining us this evening here on anti international i'll be back with the latest in half an hour.

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