was. it. was going to. rival crowds rally in venezuela for and against the embattled government after the opposition needed to cause him to team president gets the support of washington. a french t.v. show tries to teach children how to spot fake news which national leaders to trust we asked parisians what they think. it is the police association of children. should be open and i'm astonished that they teach marketers or all the confidence of. an american iranian journalist who is arrested and held in the u.s. as a material witness is set to appear in court today we have the latest from one of her close friends.

watching r.t. international welcome to the program. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has seventh's diplomatic ties with the u.s. accuses us of trying to stage a coup in his country softer donald trump officially recognized the opposition leader though as fairness wireless 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 i took it for people to respect and make of this respect the independence . of the public i've decided to break diplomatic and political ties with the imperialist government the united states trumpet speaking just minutes after one

declared himself acting need to offend weibo crowds have been gathering in caracas in support something opposition into and also for president monterrey the opposition money just broke out with police and at least four people were reportedly killed there is now a heavy security presence in the capital with augment their calls on the streets caleb maupin has the latest. while 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. 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 your super 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 trump administration 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. to his age the venezuelan military to support him mccants mento ray but in a statement the defense minister passed his support for the government. the soldiers of the hole wound do not accept the president imposed in the shadow of obscure interests or illegally self proclaimed the armed forces defend our

constitution and are the guarantor of national sovereignty. the white house stance on president maduro already seems to be filtering down to social media and the latest developments instagram which is owned by facebook has removed the blue verified techonomy dora's account and left it in place for his arrival though and the e.u. was also throwing its support behind the opposition leader the president of the european council donald tusk gave a statement on twitter i hope that all of you will unite in support of democratic forces in the knesset i like madeira the parliamentary assembly including one grader who are democratic mandate from israel and citizens. we can now cross live to our political analyst max blumenthal max good to have you on the program now nicolas maduro says america is trying to stage a coup in venezuela is he right. absolutely and it's

a very peculiar kind of coup we're witnessing a really unusual move by washington which satisfies the longstanding demands of venezuela's put just opposition ever since the opposition attempted a coup in two thousand and two against the elected president chavez and failed massively after having washington basically sign off on this coup what they've attempted to do is to establish a parallel government and get washington and whatever other governments the e.u. the right wing governments in latin america to recognize this. in two thousand and seventeen the opposition through the national assembly introduced a transition law where they essentially laid out their agenda if there was a coup and that agenda included basically privatizing public industries mass layoffs of public workers and you know expropriation by foreign corporations of

everything that had benefited the venezuelan people since the ball of aryan revolution a constituent assembly was declared the national assembly was dissolved and now you have a scenario a geo political scenario with donald trump and his alliance with the i your ball scenario and other right wing forces in latin america where the u.s. has decided to act and recognized the president of the dissolved national assembly who probably couldn't get elected to dog catcher on the national level in venezuela as a legitimate president they fulfilled the opposition's demands and it appears to be at this point not succeeding beyond a symbolic level well i've just had the defense minister saying the on the stands behind madore but recently twenty seven national guardsmen which have rested for trying to launch an uprising against mentor i say do you think the military will stay loyal to the government. absolutely i see no indication that the military will heed the calls of mike pence we saw actually marco rubio the senator

from florida who is basically the voice of the right wing miami lobby tweet a photo of people he said were venezuelan soldiers and call on them to revolt those soldiers happened to be in peru so that's the best they can do we have to remember historically that. castro observed the guatemalan coup in one nine hundred fifty three against the elected president jacobo arbenz and how the u.s. worked through the military to implement that coup and he put in measures in place in cuba to prevent that from happening fidel castro was a teacher to hugo chavez who comes out of the military and has the respect of the military and they've learned these lessons so the military is absolutely loyal to the elected government of venezuela and if this standoff isn't myself to think there's a risk of a civil war breaking out it'll. well if we look at the last few years in the way the opposition has behaved there has been

a clear attempt to use violence to spark violence and also to kind of elicit condemnations from the. established human rights community with an idea with the notion that they're the only ones who are being you know harmed in the streets or suffering human rights abuses the opposition you mostly uses homemade arms it does have some rifles but they haven't been armed the way the opposition in syria was there is also a people's militia that supportive of the government that has not been activated and that would be a scenario that i think would provoke mass bloodshed i don't know if the opposition is willing to go there this seems like a last ditch very desperate attempt on their part to spark an internal up evil what should be concerning is the prospect of a military invasion possibly from colombia or covert action from colombia brazil with the u.s. standing behind kind of pulling the strings we appreciate your thoughts that political analyst max pimental thank you. thanks for having me.

the thames fake news and propaganda have become all too common when it comes to discussions about tennis and that now one french t.v. channel is teaching children how to spot a face a staged and which news outlets a telling the truth. dubinsky has the details. 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. wording of chords in both grew close enough pretty soon the door to the with their lows who voted 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 or the of france. we took to the streets of paris to see what people had to say about the program. semitone the extra inch and i'm astonished that they teach not countries that other countries are here we talk about manipulations by the nigerian internet we would be better explain to our kids not to trust what is on the internet or to trust any verified information the same should be done to adults as well but 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 for 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 that yes it is a politicize ation of children we should not influence children we should give them basic education but not ten flynn's them about other countries they don't know because independent journalists lucre of a belief the french t.v.

channel is deliberately manipulating the opinions of youngsters in this instance it's real money pillage and if you look at the different oh 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 that only reporter is a head of state of a large country you must be respected the sense of 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 draws i'm sure. more news after the break.

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back to. the global news network c.n.n. is expanding into new markets opening a push against language station in brazil but it's the team heading the operation is raising more than a few eyebrows. presumes

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this isn't. some people might try to tell you that it's a banana you might even start to believe this is opinion. but it's not. this. is an apple. well quite a few hours ago now we asked for a response from c.n.n. to these appointments although we've yet to receive a reply meanwhile another us media outlet buzz feed has again insisted a controversial article it published is true that's despite it being branded as not accurate spy the office of special counsel robert muller the story alleged donald trump ordered his former lawyer to lie to congress about dealings with moscow more i've got staff 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

michael cohen congressional testimony on milt 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 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 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 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 reached a legal settlement peretti also apologized to gold blacks and took down jeff gold black dot com i received an undisclosed monetary settlement or take mr parities

other little stunt detailed in the article this upset some student who 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 more to pull lies about me and betrayed me as an arrogant jerk who was bragging about how i was told the new york city rejection line reportedly 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 this information in mobilizing and defaming people buzz feed continues the family tradition of these when it started posting these sixteen adorable pops. they've asked to

comment on the allegations and are waiting for their response. and american iranian chen lest who has arrested in the u.s. last week has been released without charge that's according to a press release from her family must their shame me was detained on january the thirteenth while visiting her family in the state of missouri she was questioned by the f.b.i. as a material witness in an unspecified case. they rein in foreign minister zarif condemns the treatment of the journalist and called for her immediate release she is a famous journalist she's done nothing but journalism and the rest of mrs house. is a very clear affront to freedom of expression a political abuse of an innocent individual. i believe united states should really to eat you've got to give it the international federation of

journalists also expressed a note of protest over the case in a tweet to a man did u.s. authorities clarify the situation. across iran in support of mosiah has shown me. you know up to date with the latest global news more top stories coming your way in thirty minutes time. when lol make this manufactured incentives to public wealth. when the right wing closest to protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. i mean real news is

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