rival crowds rally in venezuela for and against government after the opposition leader declares himself president and gets the support of washington. french t.v. show tries to teach children how to use while also pointing the finger at certain country's leaders and news agencies. they think. it is. often i and i'm astonished that. other countries are. an american journalist who was arrested and held in the u.s. as a material witness is set to appear in court today we'll hear the latest from one of her close friends.

thanks for joining us this is r.t. internet. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has severed diplomatic ties with the united states accusing it of trying to stage a coup in his country that's after donald trump officially recognized 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. complying with my role in the oath for people to respect and make of this respect and to penzance realty in the public i've decided to break diplomatic and political ties with imperialist government of the united states. speaking just minutes after the

declared himself acting leader of venezuela rival crowds have been gathering in caracas in support of the opposition leader and also for president maduro of the opposition rally clashes broke out with police at least four people reportedly dead there is now a heavy security presence in the capital vehicles have taken to the streets artie's killing 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. 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 legitimacy 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 wedo who has himself not been elected. the terms fake news and propaganda they've become all too common when it comes to discussions about journalism but now one french t.v. channel is teaching children how to spot to photographs have been staged and we news outlets are telling the truth on the show the dubious he has details. well

this is. it's 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 it all signs very tame and very innocent but is it now in reality in its latest program escaping 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 a young boy 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 we're in the. woods and both grew close enough. to do that with their low civil drew 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 propaganda 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 or the of france. we took to the streets of paris to see what people verd to say. some of the links you inch and i'm astonished that they teach in our country that other countries are here we talk about manipulations by the media on the internet we would be better explain 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. is false i don't think 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 this in the prospects as well i don't think it is good to tell case other countries are bad it is up to cater to shape their own opinion step up to the yes i did the politicizing should have children of thought we should not influence children or we should give them basic education but not the ten feelings them about other countries they don't know because in the present journalist legree they believe 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 the head of state like virginia porter is a head of state of a large country you must be respected the same for donald trump the same for every head of state the same form assume i call because i wouldn't seems you're my whole

made up like a drag queen or on french t.v. or anywhere else that would disappear pretty quickly it is very strange to see that the press which is in good hoots with the politicians in most instances in the west of there is go got far i mean this will not remain unpunished i think there will be a big debate in the ethics committee of the journalist association trots i'm sure. ok let's return to our top story this hour the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has cut diplomatic ties with the united states but after donald trump officially recognized the opposition leader one guy door as being venezuela's interim president let's bring in gloria reaver who's from the coalition for a good evening nicholas with your rope he's fighting now hard for his position he says america is trying to stage a coup in venezuela would you agree with him. absolutely it's been preceded

this could turn by the united states by several years of economic sanctions and by several a chance militarily by small groups of national guard or army individuals inside of the venice one government to try to assassinate president. is a war going on and we blame the united states completely the trump administration you have. the secretary of state the vice president calling for an overthrow of mother what about those people watching all say well we've seen how terrible the situation is in in the country and we hear that the duros a dictator and he wasn't you know legitimately really acted the best thing is if he goes well this is the united states speaking the u.s. if they don't they're not happy with an election then they intervene and decide to

overthrow or find other means to destabilize the country it was elected twice there were other opposition parties that were allowed to run some chose not to and there are. contending forces in the country it's a polarized situation but it's thanks largely to the united states and to venice well in corporations that have carried out years of hoarding of economic destabilisation but now we see the hand of the united states openly calling for a coup president trump illegally declaring recognition for one was why though who is not the president it was in two thousand and seventeen that according to the constitution a new constituent assembly was elected and the national assembly the right wing national assembly refused to cooperate with the constituent assembly and therefore

it was declared because it also ceded illegally elected members of the assembly it was unseated by the supreme court which is a legitimate body as well in two thousand and seven if you are concerned by the recognition of quando as the new leader of the country epicene you be concerned by his report at the white house says it's looking for ways to transfer the oil assets in venezuela to and to the opposition but national assembly why would the u.s. get so involved transferring national assets to an unelected person but why go so far into this mess well it's pretty obvious that with current companies like exxon mobil and others from the united states with british that they had a great hold for decades of venice well as oil and that was changed with hugo chavez as president and he crossed model where instead of the money all the profits

being taken out of in a swell of its use instead in that country. to build now more than two and a half million homes with the goal of five million homes for the people of health care universal health care for the venezuelan dozens of universities and high schools built that are benefiting the people because of oil revenues now in the united states if the us is now recognizing a fake leader of white coal then the us courts will try to then expropriate the orlan reserves of citgo the properties of citgo which is owned by been a swell of in the united states and by the way last year in two thousand and eighteen more than six billion dollars was withheld which are profits that are due to the venice well in government so this is part of the reason why there is an economic crisis in venice well but the hand of the u.s. it's hidden by the united states media. i think can the defines itself as

a big can of democracy they come out and supported the opposition leader brazil colombia peru they've done the same i noticed mexico has another continuing to recognize materially but why do you think these are the countries back to the u.s. in this position. there is a major struggle going on in latin america and ever since the obama administration in two thousand and nine with the coup against one who does it keep in mind that that is not separate from with taking place in then a swell of. that there are a number of governments that have been promoted by the u.s. . to unseat the government of dealer rousseff and brazil lula the most popular politician in brazil is and is in prison now this is a attempt by the u.s. to refer to reverse all of the progressive governments in latin america now we see

john bolton the national security advisor a very dangerous man has declared this the troika of tyranny as cuba venezuela niigata well these are dangerous times we're living and this is why not me an answer coalition other groups like code pink and others are calling for emergency protests across the united states from los angeles to san francisco to washington d.c. today actually at six thirty pm eastern time there will be a protest supporting the venezuelan government of nicholas model at the embassy in tomorrow at the white house gloria really appreciate your time great to speak to you on this gloria reeve is my guest from the and soko dishes thank you. onto the news now on the global news network c.n.n. is expanding into new markets opening a portuguese language station in brazil but the team is heading that operation was raised

a few eyebrows. thank you. three sils 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 been in mind even start to believe this is opinion. but it's not. isn't. a few hours ago we did ask for a response from c.n.n. to those appointments we've 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 being branded as curate 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 details is my guess the

. 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 michael cohen congressional testimony on notes 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 evil one theme 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 prompts that 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 adamant 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 gun activist set up a website in his name and sent out hundreds of thousands of e-mails 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 miss the other little stunt detailed in the article this upset some student who 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 more to pull lies about me and to trade 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 at these when it started posting these sixteen adorable pops. we have asked to comment on the allegations we await their response even after buzz feed's bombshell story was de bunked some news outlets defended the overall message the washington post published an editorial saying that even if there was nothing illegal donald trump still betrayed his voters says the latest story in a narrative that has been prevalent in the media for some time. trump is already acting like a russian donald trump is actively or was actively colluding with russia we don't know present trouble is a russian agent but we know that to some people the f.b.i. sure was acting like one of the moves theme is useful idiot in the history of russia contact between trumps inner circle and russians.

ok please bring in legal and media analyst lionel now lionel we heard just a very small soup song of the anti trump and pro trump russia collusion allegations that have been we've been swimming in them for two years now if there is evidence of him being a russian agent or colluding with russia why we're not hearing any proof from the investigation yet. that is the million dollar question let me go a step further let's assume there is evidence somewhere somewhere something that this president the forty fourth president of these united states is in fact aiding abetting counseling procuring are hiring is involved as an accomplice to espionage and the like and if there is evidence of such and robert muller knows it could be argument be made that mr muller

is actually aiding and abetting espionage by not doing something about it sooner if you know there was a crazed serial killer out killing people slaughtering the innocent and you know this and you have the evidence to stop this more rotting murderer and you don't through the doctrine of misprision could not the argument be made that you two are liable for not stopping this and also you mentioned if bob muller and his office actually came forward to stop this fanciful ridiculous hallucinogenic story from buzz feed if he said wait a minute your wrong then therefore his not coming forward and correcting the aforementioned this this rogue's gallery of of little a subform that you mention this this is the focus is he then by not saying anything

intimating that there is evidence and i go back again is able to be know something then why aren't you stopping this i mean it doesn't make any sense we have been going on now since the president was running for office and either you should indict. or get off the party or you're some version of that rather. street version of that very popular phrase. am i making clear my points did this make sense to you it does absolutely clear as crystal wallowing in my own demand you hear no no no and it also makes me think let's just play devil's advocate we want to cynics out there might think hey you know we've got an investigator it's probably getting paid pretty well you might be trying to drag this out for an item alternatively he might be overly cautious and thinking he needs to get this you know completely locked down without a high profile case but shouldn't be a time limit does he have an indefinite mandate to investigate. you know

imagine a surgeon who begins surgery and takes an inordinate amount of tire him affecting the sterile field going into days three people are saying no you elected to commence to begin this surgery therefore you you elected to pursue this investigation now take it from me somebody who is conversant with federal investigations think of the way that the f.b.i. used to go after it does the mafia the five families of new york the sopranos or don corleone believe me they would have their evidence it would have done their investigation talk to the f.b.i. then empanel a grand jury and were then twenty seconds you would have your indictment because the information had already been called and gleaned coley before you would never

see a federal prosecutor throw away to a grand jury and say ok friends let's start with this guy any any ideas they will say what eddie you want to look maybe into him you don't have any evidence not really any any takers that's what this is this is the very fact if you wait over a week if you wait when you've been granted impaneled a grand jury if you wait after a couple of hours there's no evidence and in no other walk of life in criminal prosecution do you basically go this long with nothing that is the indication that there was no evidence you don't use this process to find things out you use this process to indict people based upon evidence you've already found out we we have the process. as we say in the south bass ackwards it's called

police in reverse there's so much to talk about and i would love to continue fortunately we're out of time if you ever do come over to moscow diana we'll have to continue the conversation in person although you're probably accused of collusion if you do so catch twenty three anyway i'll wrap it up for a wrap it up for now lionel as clothes it's a pleasure to speak to you speak to or go. on to other news an american or a new journalist who was arrested in the u.s. last week is set to be released marzia was detained by authorities on a material witness arrest warrant but she's expected to be free to go while she's given testimony in a criminal case today but her plight are sparked controversy a semi was arrested january thirtieth while she was 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 that she will be released after giving evidence is something

that's normal practice within u.s. law we spoke to a friend and former colleague of the journalist who was in contact with the family . as is being detained under a controversial law yes it is a law that the material witness law has been deemed unconstitutional by york appeals court and where the court has said it's being 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 ms muslims indefinitely without trial in essence on the 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 dorothy is 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 had.