i am. going to. rally in venezuela for and against the government after the opposition leader declares himself president gets the support of washington. french t.v. show trying to teach children how to spot fake news. country's leaders and news agencies we've asked people what they think. it is the police. and i'm astonished that they teach other concepts. also an american journalist who was arrested and held in the u.s.

as a material witness is set to appear in court we hear the latest from one of her close friends. breaking news from venezuela president maduro has diplomatic ties with the united states and accused of trying to stage a coup in his country this follows donald trump officially recognizing the opposition leader. as venezuela's interim president. the citizens of venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of the illegitimate regime today i've officially recognized the president of the venezuelan national assembly one grade zero is the interim president of venezuela. speaking just minutes after one gado declared himself acting leader of venezuela and while rival crowds have been gathering in caracas in support of the opposition leader and also for president

during the opposition rally clashes broke out with police at least four people were reportedly killed on the scale of more pain as the late. one at this point we've got a statement from the white house u.s. president donald trump is conferring official recognition as interim president on to juan wedo the leader of the national assembly and an opposition figure in venezuela now this comes on the heels of much anticipation and many people predicting that trump would take this move we had a recent video statement from mike pence who is the vice president of united states he gave this video statement in support of venezuelan oppositionists and against the elected president of venezuela. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one god to the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers

declare madeira or your supreme nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power in addition to trump recognizing as the interim an interim president of venezuela he also called and basically made a statement supporting moves by juan wedo to quote restore constitutional the jetta mysie to the venezuelan government now many observers have have basically looked on this as a call from the united states for the venezuelan president and the venezuelan leadership to be overthrown and this would be in defiance of a supreme court ruling in venezuela now interestingly peru canada and brazil have both followed suit and then followed the moves of the united states and recognized wedo as the interim president of venezuela at this point we have heard from from the white house there was actually you know a comment from president trump that nothing was planned regarding venezuela but all options were on the table this follows suit of a long number of statements condemning the venezuelan government by the trumpet

ministration as well as from the previous administration of barack obama however this does significantly escalate the confrontation between the usa and venezuela's leadership as at this point the united states is no longer recognizing nicolas maduro who was elected and inaugurated as venezuela's president they are conferring recognition onto the leader of the national assembly. who has himself not been elected. i can speak announce to richard beckett from the antiwar and soko edition good to have you on richard to we've laid out the background recognizing. interim leader how do you think this is likely to affect was clearly a very volatile situation. well i would say first of all that not just recognizing the truck is actually a point. at the new so-called new president of course he's not a new president and the u.s. making such a quiet doesn't make him the new president but it does we see in ways that are

quite unusual the openly sure you stick attitude the united states government try to let americans know that very want a better history. we talked about why don't not being the elected i need to read venezuela the situation's been kind of set up that we feel these news reports claiming that the duro is effectively a dictator that he's oppressing his own people sort of morally setting this up to justify him being replaced but the us politicians have the right to be saying we don't like the presence of another country we want another guy in charge. well it's really not i mean. they think that they are. arrogant to themselves the right to do such things and clearly that you know that and penn just today made a similar statement that it staged for this today but i think that all over latin

america and people in the united states and all recognize that this is just another example of. yankee intervention in latin america which is the people but america has a terrible price for decades and centuries you talked about the other countries in latin america who do you think they will side with here the thing they will support go i don't will they back madeira. well there's a better. u.s. government starting really with an administration to the story. and then to promote the most right wing governments that have existed in some time and those likeable so narrow government in brazil and the government colombia which both have like water. venezuela. they are really i think

also a threat to kind of. the ability of their intervention from other countries as well as from the united states is something very real and with the answer coalition that i'm part of they're going to be taking actions across the country coming day in solidarity with the people and it's where are you with intervention if this is some people say to soften the political game is a very dangerous one reports of some people dying already in the latest protest is there a much bigger danger this could develop into a civil war will it. i don't think that can be discounted. very possible. the child. ministrations with all the problems they face like a killer the their neighbors in the north and all of that. billion to the million ballots where grows out of poverty. and i don't think they are going to accept

the addition of us chose a new president ministration and that they were very likely that would be followed very likely by what. transpired it would have a side of the argument anybody want cheney's daughter they think that madonna was a vicious dictator or not what's clear is he has a very difficult situation on a sound as a breakdown of law and order food shortages hyperinflation can president maduro regain control of the situation do you think. well i think that that is what is to be called for and i think that they're taking all the steps that they can to try to come out of the economic crisis of the shortages and so forth. because i think that. it's going to this is going to be. terrible for venezuela and that's the way that the. resolution will be achieved shortage it

would be to return to the old stream equality then layer rich. and then the great majority are living in poverty i think that would be good that was a solution for that right to achieve its victory richard i appreciate the time i guess that's a jacket from the anti war and the coalition thank you. the terms fake news and propaganda become very common when it comes to discussing journalism these days but now one french t.v. channel is teaching children how to spot a photo is a stage and wish news outlets are telling the truth the dubin ski has more. well this is billed as being an educational program for children aged around eleven to fifteen and the idea is that when they go on this program they participate in things like topical quizzes about things that are happening in the news at the time also they go on hunts for clues and then try and piece together the information so

all signs very tame and very innocent but is it now in reality in its latest program escapin news has focused on one thing in particular and that is russia and most importantly on the president of russia president putin and also on our channel r.t. now it seems to be a fairly one sided view of those two subject matters when it comes to russia just to give you an example close to the start of the program young broidery is brought in on a video and he is of ukrainian heritage and he's asked to describe who he thinks president putin is and what president putin is actually like this is what he says so when the. words in other words involve grew close enough pretty soon the door to the with their lawsuit will do in both of them on the phone. well throughout the

program president putin is described many times as being all thora tarion he's described as being somebody that suppresses any opposition in russia somebody who controls the media and somebody who controls his image what evidence is presented for that well there are lots of lovely images of president putin riding horseback with the naked torso out fishing and also being in military vehicles such as a helicopter showing they say that this is how he controls his image and fine tunes what he wants people to see about him then the program moves on to our t.v. and it targets the channel by suggesting it's proper. ganda and the evidence again that it provides for that is saying that r.t. is financed by the russian state well there's no secret about that but it's pretty rich given that escape news is broadcast on france four which is a channel funded by the french state well it says that their press freedom in

russia is difficult well let me tell you i'm a journalist in france and it is very difficult here to be a journalist particularly if you're a journalist who works for r.t. now since president machen was elected almost two years ago r.t. have been pretty much banned from being accredited to almost every major event that involves the french government but even before president was elected during that campaign time r.t.e. journalists who were accredited for events were actually told when they turned up to events no you can't come in your r t so the question now remains and what party is done is we've actually reached out to the programme makers of escape news to say to them to ask them why they felt that they needed to put side across a one sided biased point of view when it came to r.t. and president putin and russia in generally and also r.t. has reached out to press groups to ask them what they think of this as well as

humanitarian groups because the question really is now is this program being used as a tool of propaganda against the russian state against russian media and if that's the case are they not politicizing children and potentially brainwashing the next generation of the of france. we took to the streets of paris to see what people there had to say. summit on the extra inch and i'm astonished that they teach our country that other countries are bad here we talk about manipulations by the media on the internet we would be better explaining to our kids not to trust what is on the internet or to trust only verified information the same should be done to adults as well but i don't believe the world is black or white it is more difficult than this it is important to build awareness and to develop critical thinking not to tell them what's good or bad it's point them to decide is in the prospects as well i don't think it is good to tell case 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 turn flynn's them about other countries they don't know. independent journalist lucre very believes the french t.v. channel is deliberately manipulating the opinions of youngsters. in this instance it's real money and if you look at the different episodes of this little game of course it's fun for the kids and they don't realize that they're being manipulated they don't and a head of state like suddenly important is a head of state of a large country he must be respected the sense of donald trump the same for every head of state the same formless you might call because i wouldn't seems you're my whole made up like a drag queen on french t.v. or anywhere else that would disappear braddock week it is very strange to see that the press which isn't good hoots with the politicians in most instances in the west

there is go that far i mean this will not remain unpunished i think there will be a big debate in the ethics committee of the journalist association draws i'm sure. u.s. 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 a few eyebrows. three

sils donald. trying extreme views on a variety of things telling a congresswoman she was not pretty enough to really express. like a military dictatorship. this is an apple. 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. or do you know it's an apple but we don't know what c.n.n.

thinks we did ask for a response we have yet to get a reply. in the meantime another us media outlet buzz feed is again insisted a controversial article it published is true despite it being branded as not accurate by the office of special counsel robert mueller the story alleged donald trump ordered his former lawyer to lie to congress about dealings with moscow. to get reports. 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. 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 big article has revealed how mr peretti in two thousand and three stole the identity of a well known gun 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 my lightning and defaming people buzz feed continues the family tradition of these when it started posting these sixteen adorable pops. well we have asked buzz feed to comment on the allegations we await a response. an american iranian journalist who's been held in detention in the u.s. for more than a week is set to be released tomorrow see a harsh meat was detained by authorities on a material witness arrest warrant but she is expected to be free to go once she's given testimony in a criminal case today however her plight has sparked controversy and she was

arrested on january thirteenth while visiting family in the state of missouri according to u.s. officials she's being held as a material witness in an unspecified criminal case she hasn't been charged with any crime the court says she will be released after giving evidence something that is normal practice under u.s. law we spoke to a friend and former colleague of the journalist who's in contact with her family. magic 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. and why were her civil and religious rights violators have a job stripped of her had a mug shot taken without her her job and she was refused to allow in vegetarian food 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 those civil and religious rights violations and the second call she said that those had now been regret asked and manage his oldest son believes that is because of the media coverage and because of this

outpouring of activism around the world in support of mass. and against her arrest . the british funded integrity initiative which was claimed in league files last year had been conducting russia campaigns in europe house removed all of its website content pending an investigation into data theft donald coulter investigates. 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 complaint 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 fields 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 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 thing 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 does 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 the big problem journalists have been named in the documents which been released one house to house the question therefore is it because of their involvement that they are not. covering this real scandal. the president was in moscow when stayed for another round of talks with vladimir putin they discussed the fate of syria after the us pull out further reconciliation in the war torn country where if a not small. syria and the situation in this country dominated the talks the two leaders confirmed speaking at the press conference that followed the talks more precisely its northern region east of the it's right to say we were this is the area where the u.s. troops have been stationed once the out and that is off the don't trust sudden decision to withdraw american army from syria this area will become very vulnerable

and the fate of this region in series north will be unclear the question will definitely rice who is going to control it right now if serious kurdish forces are in charge and they copywriting with official damascus and syrian army regarded in this region and blood might putin has said today the press conference that most welcome news and supports these contacts but the problem is that turkey sees most of these forces as terrorists and mr ed the gun has read to rated today one more time that turkey is going to protect its safety and its mission as a state to fight terrorists and including isis and y p g a n y p g is exactly one of the kurdish forces in syria's north that is right now in charge of a strange and so it's clear that the both russia and turkey agree to fight

terrorists and to bring stability and peace back to syria at the same time still disagreed on who eased to be called a terrorist speaking more about that as mr ed the gun has said that the crucial thing following u.s. withdrawal from syria is to avoid a vacuum of legal power. it is critical not to allow a sort of power to replace american troops it was our only aim is to counter terrorists and to clear syria from eyesore and the white b.g. and terrorist organizations that are trying to undermine our relations with russia . speak in a ball to u.s. troops in syria vladimir putin has said that he wants to read to rate this one more time and stress that the u.s. army is in syria illegally i'm going to go through every muscle regime that with the american military remains on syrian territory illegally there is no ground for their presence sanctioned by international law there is neither illegal invitation

from the syrian government nor a decision from the un security council that we just asked how the decision of the us to withdraw troops from syria will affect the situation in the country if such plans all implemented this will be a positive step. both that of the gun and putin today read to rate it also the afterwards to bring peace to the rain to stabilize the situation there through so called asked to enough form and we've done so that it is clear that the countries are go into work together on that but still it's clear that the rug disagreements between with the parties involved. ok watching our team to national sure made half an hour for the latest.