to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort and easiness for peace. of. venezuela sevenths renovations with the united states accusing it's a staging a case as steady and rest breaks out in caracas with sixteen people reportedly

killed. a french t.v. show tries to teach children how to spell fake news and which national leaders to trust we asked parisians what they think. it is the politicizing should have children i think you should be open and i'm astonished that they teach our countries that other countries. and american iranian chen this does released without charge after being questioned by the f.b.i. and a case that sparks international outrage. from moscow this is all t. international welcome to the program. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has seventh's diplomatic ties with the u.s. accusing it of trying to stage a coup in his country that's off the donald trump officially recognize the

opposition leader though as venice 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 and could be undone in future you know they're complying with my role in the oath i took them 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. meanwhile rival muchas have been held in caracas in support of the south to. quiet though for president maduro according to local reports at least sixteen people have died in the end rest in the past twenty four hours there's a heavy security presence in the capital but the latest videos showing some violent clashes between place and has

a. final. that's a little bit of. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has accused the u.s. of trying to stage a coup in this country that was off to trump statement recognizing climate i need to open reports well 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 united states supports the courageous decision i want. the president of your national assembly to assert that bodies constitutional powers declare madeira or 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 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 opposition needs. his age the venezuelan minute tree to support him against mentor a button a statement the defense minister pledged his support for the government. the soldiers of the whole land 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 their opinion has thrown it supports behind venezuela's opposition led national assembly and called for new elections they are foreign policy chief and european council presidents both gave statements 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 news and like murder of the parliamentary assembly including one goh i don't have a democratic mandate from the new zealand citizens antiwar activists gloria says the u.s. has long been trying to get rid of the government in venezuela it's been preceded this turn by the united states by several years of economic sanctions

and by several of terms militarily by small groups of national guard or army individuals inside of the venezuelan government to try to assassinate president my vote oh my god 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 under venice well and corporations that have carried out years of hoarding of economic destabilization but now we see the hand of the united states openly calling for a coup. ten 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 spot if photos

a staged which news outlets are telling the truth. dubinsky has to 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 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 presume. to do that 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. 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 had to say about the program semitone like syringe 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 twenty 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 this in the prospects are so 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 turn flynn's them about other countries they don't know because 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 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 a head of state like that only reporter is

a head of state of a large country he must be respected the sense of donald trump the same for every other state the same form a supermarket all because i wouldn't see him as your mark or made up like so drag queen over on french t.v. or anywhere else that would disappear pretty quick it is very strange to see that the press which isn't good with the politicians in most instances in the west or their skull 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. the global news network c.n.n. is expanding into new markets opening a portuguese language station in brazil but as the team heading the operation is raising more than a few eyebrows. thanks

thanks thanks. thanks. donald trump extreme views on a variety of things telling a congresswoman she was not pretty enough to really express. that light. military

dictatorship. this is and. some people might try to tell you that it's been in the mind even start to believe this is opinion. but it's not. isn't. quite a few hours ago now we asked for a 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 that's despite it being branded as not accurate by the office of special counsel robert miller 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 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 the evil. of the conversations over the past twenty four hours how deeply familiar this look is it's the newco white patriarchy of course but their 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. then harassing people yet they're now getting death

threats and that tirade is still up so here have some more authentic buzz feed funny 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 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. 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 we've asked buzz feed to comment on the allegations and we're waiting for their response. and american arraign engine lest he was arrested in the u.s. last week has been released without charge that's according to a press release from her family must be or has she may west attained on january the thirteenth while visiting family in the state of missouri she was questioned by the f.b.i. as a material witness in an unspecified case while she was in custody we talked to a friend and colleague. 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 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 here is 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 the civil and religious rights violations and the second call she said that those had now been regrets 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. a rainy and foreign minister javid sari condemned the treatment of the genest and called immediate relief she's a famous shouldn't listen she's done nothing but journalism and the rest of mrs hosiery 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 the debate the international federation of janice has signed a note of protest over. the case in a tweet it demanded u.s. authorities clarify the situation and were held across iran in support of here has shown me. a british think tank which has received millions of pounds and government funding has wiped content from its website after some embarrassing revelations donald quarter explains. exposed for spreading

propaganda meddling in foreign affairs well you can wipe the slate clean the u.k. based think tank integrity initiative may have done exactly that saying they're just investigating data leaks initial findings indicate that the theft was part of a campaign to undermine the work of the integrity initiative in researching publicizing and countering the threat to european democracies from this information and other forms of hybrid warfare we are keen to trace both the source of the hack and the use to which our data some genuine some falsified has been put the leaks started in november after a group of activists dispersed some of the company's private files across the internet they were field the organization may have been spreading exactly what they claim to oppose propaganda using associates from around europe they allegedly carried out secret anti russia campaigns and smeared opponents of their narrative

there's even been speculation the integrity initiatives parent organization institute for statecraft had filed repeated complaints to off com about r t making it more likely for the channel to face punitive action and all that on the british government's payroll no less.

integrity initiative is conducting its own investigation. and into the breach as justification for wiping its website clean even if there is 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 for hacktivists fiend 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 but wonders 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 would be no problem journalists have been named in the documents which been released one house to house the question therefore is because of their involvement that they are not. covering this real scandal.

the take president was in moscow on wednesday for another round of talks with that samir putin they discussed the fate of syria after the u.s. pullout unfed the re conciliation in the war torn country where if international reports 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 it's northern region east of the youth rate is that we were this is the area where the u.s. troops have been stationed once the out and that is after don't trust sudden decision to withdraw american army from syria these areas will become very vulnerable and the fate of this region in series north will be unclear the question will definitely rise who is going to control it right now if serious kurdish forces are in charge and they are cooperating with official damascus and syrian army

regarding this region and putin has said today the press corps. friends that most welcomes 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 is to fight terrorists including isis and y p g n y p g is exactly one of the kurdish forces are in syria's north that is right now in charge of the base region so it's clear that both russia and turkey agree to fight terrorists and to bring stability and peace back to syria at the same time still disagreeing on who eased to be called a terrorist speaking more about that mr ed the gun has said that the crucial thing following us we draw from syria is to avoid a vacuum of legal power. it is critical not to allow

a sort of vacuum of power to replace american troops which was our only aim is to go after terrorists and to clear syria i saw in the white b.g.p. the 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 u.s. army is in syria illegally i mean it goes 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 u.n. security council that we discussed how the decision of the u.s. 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 there

after it's to bring peace to syria and to stabilize the sea to. there through so-called astronaut form and. iran so it's clear that the countries ah go we need to work together on that but still it's clear that the rug disagreements between the parties involved. him add today to the latest world news so have you had lines and half an hour. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

i'm after time here we're going on the ground in the wake of devastating british back bombing of the capital cities of yemen and syria coming up on the show as global elites gather in switzerland for the be a systems lucky the most important of davos today we question claims by n.g.o.s the new liberal policies of the two nearly half the world's population living in the stream poverty and we speak to a journalist on the ground in yemen's capital sanaa where an air force trained and sold weapons to buy drazen maize government kill civilians again in the world's worst humanitarian crisis from the news israel gives a wrong job or fear that some tribal tensions detonate in derry.