i. love. rival crowds rally in venice weyler for and against the embattled government after the opposition made it to class and self acting president and gets the support of washington. a french t.v. show tries to teach children how to spot fake news and wish national leaders to trust parisians what they think. to the police association of children i think you should be open and i'm astonished that they teach nothing was. an american iranian journalist is released without charge after being questioned by the f.b.i. in a case that sparked international outrage. this

just ten three am head in the russian capital this is all international. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has seven step or matic ties with the u.s. accusing it of trying to stage a coup in his country that's often don't trump officially recognize the opposition leader. as fine as well as 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 go away go as the interim president of venezuela. is complying with my role in the oath thanked him for all due respect and make up is just going to penzance. in the public i've decided to break diplomatic and political ties with you. the united states is going

to trump with speaking just minutes off to. himself acting need to. rival crowds have been gathering and crack and support the opposition until safe the president went to the opposition manny broke out with plenty and at least four people were reportedly killed there is now a heavy security presence in the capital vehicles on the streets. in house the latest. 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 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. 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. who has himself not been elected. kwaito has the venezuelan minute tree to support him against mento ray but in a statement the defense minister pledged his support for the government. the soldiers of the whole blend 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 mentor already seems to be filtering down to social media and the latest development instagram which is owned by facebook house removed the blue verified to con majoris accounts and left it in place for his rival. and that he was also throwing it supports behind the venezuelan opposition the e.u. strongly calls for the start of an immediate political process leading to free and credible elections in conformity with the constitutional order the e.u. fully supports the national assembly as the democratically elected institution whose powers need to be restored and respected i hope that all of europe will unite in support of democratic forces in the music i like moderate the parliamentary assembly including one going to have a democratic mandate from the new zealand citizens antiwar activists gloria larry

says the u.s. has long been trying to get rid of the government in venezuela it's been preceded this a turn by the united states by several years of economic sanctions and by several of charmes militarily by small groups of national guard or army of individuals inside of the venezuelan government if you try to assassinate the president of little margaret 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 in staying largely to the united states and to venice well and corporations that have carried out years of hording of economic destabilization but now we see the hand of the united states openly calling for a coup. the thames fake news and propaganda have

become all too common when it comes to discussions about journalism but it's now one french t.v. channel is teaching children how to sports if photos are staged and which news outlets are telling the truth r.t. charlotte 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 a 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 there were no. words in other words and both grew close enough pretty soon the door to the with their low suv aldrin above them on the front of the primroses 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 a 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 our country that other countries are bad here we talk about manipulations by the major on the internet we would be better explaining to our kids not to trust what is on the internet or trust only verified information about the same should be done to adults as well but i don't believe the world is why it is no 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 going to decide as it is in the prospects as well i don't think it is good to tell case other countries who are bad it is up to kids to shape their own opinion that yes it is the politicize ation of children so we should not influence children or we should give them basic education but not to turn feelings them about other countries where they don't know the goodness. independent journalist lucre of a 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 emotes be respected the same for donald trump the same for every head is that the same for monsieur my cool 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 pretty quickly it is very strange to see that the press which isn't good hoots with the politicians in most instances in the west on their scope 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. lonnie's off the bike.

i don't know president sisi personally to tell you if he's a sociopath who enjoys brutality i can't tell you that he's probably not that he probably thinks that he's doing the right thing but this is a necessary evil that he needs to eliminate you know other differing political points of view and that he needs to crack down on people for having salt thinks that he's doing it for the best interests of egypt he thinks that he's doing your for the best interests of egyptians but it's definitely not the case. the value of big oil is that it is a store of value it is hard money and it is predominately useful for the poorest among the poor or you are the greater the need you have for sound money.

welcome back to. the global news network c.n.n. is expanding into new markets opening a portuguese language station in brazil but the team heading the operation is raising more than a few eyebrows. thanks .

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 been in your mind even start to believe this is opinion. but it's not.

isn't. well quite a few hours ago now we asked for response from c.n.n. to these appointments although if yet to receive a reply. meanwhile and now the us media outlet buzz feed has again insisted a controversial article it published is true despite it being branded as not accurate its 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 more reports. tough times if you work at buzz feed lots of criticism abuse in 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 both 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 prompts the 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 the big obstacle 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 this information 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. little stunt detailed in the article this upset some student who 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. leave us both need to comment on the allegations and are waiting for their response. an american iranian

journalist who was arrested in the u.s. last week has been released without charge that's according to a press release from her family has she me was arrested on january the thirteenth while she was visiting family in the state of 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 and the court says she'll be released after giving evidence something that's normal practice and the u.s. law we've talked 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 but the material witness law has been deemed unconstitutional by the york appeals court and that 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 ms muslims indefinitely without trial in essence on

a fishing expedition. and why were her civil and religious rights violators her job stripped of her had a mug shot taken without her job and she was refused her lalan vegetarian field effectively denying her food in the initial days of her detention no one has been able to speak to apart from two 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 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 misers oldest son believes that is because of the media coverage and because of this outpouring of activism around the world in support of mass as. they rein in foreign

minister javid sari condemned the treatment of the journalist and called for immediate release she is a famous shouldn't listen she's done nothing but journalism and the rest of machismo she really is very very clear affront to freedom of expression a political abuse of an innocent individual and. i believe united states should release the immediately videotape to depict the international federation of chen less also expressed a no to the. protest over the case in a tweet it demanded u.s. authorities clarify the situation and rallies were held across around in support of mussy hashemi. the british funded integrity initiative which it was claims and leaked files last chair had been conducting anti russian campaigns in europe has removed all of its website content pending an

investigation into the data theft tom of course 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 first was part of a complaint to undermine the work of the integrity initiative in researching publicising and countering the threat to european democracies from this information and other forms of hybrid warfare we are keen to trees 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 revealed 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 have 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 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 problem journalists have been named in the documents which been released on the house to house the question therefore is it because of their involvement that they are not. covering this real scum blood.

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us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from a certain branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the governments and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others without lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for uneasiness for. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the first that's

what the forty three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. last question. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covers all of the business of finance and the impact on all of us i'm partial to washington we're sure glad you're on for coming up today we talk commodities and agriculture i may squeeze a boil in there if we have time and how they tied into trade andrew heck independent commodity analyst joins us to discuss is standing by in las vegas plus

we take a look at some of the biggest stocks and how they are fairing in the midst of a slowing market adam asked c.e.o. of adam mesh trading group will be with us to break it all down plus the world economic forum in davos switzerland has had some major speeches from national leaders we'll tell you about that and later perception professor of economics americans richard wolf is back to talk about world economic health all that directly ahead but first to some headlines let's go. bad news for great britain on the edge of brecht's that leads our global report today as the united kingdom's main business savvy group warns of waiting optimism and sony corp it sandton their bank both announced plans to move jobs out of the u.k. the confederation of british industry or c.b.i. reports that in their latest survey of three hundred twenty six manufacturing firms that manufacturing expectations fell in q four.