without pay should be anything but all options are on the table. diplomatic relations with the united states washington for an attempted coup in venezuela off with donald trump recognized the country's leader. interim president. of the council of europe. describing it as a. basic human rights issue. it's not experience. it's a broad spectrum of european opinion. includes

a fake. in the form of sides of a trustworthiness. of significant. minus seventeen degrees celsius here in moscow running up your top stories for. the u.s. president is not ruling out possible military action over the political crisis in venezuela donald trump has recognized opposition leader. was the country's interim president meantime president nicolas maduro has branded this an attempted coup a sixteen people reportedly killed in protests against the country's leader.

the protesters in venezuela have decided to take things a little bit further siddur just blasting the president with violence and rioting they've decided to declare themselves to be the government. when oppositionist and leader of the national assembly has declared himself to be the interim president and your. own mind to god and with respect to michael weeks in the national assembly i swear to form the power of the national executive and the role of president of the. donald trump was quick to recognize him as the interim leader 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. as the interim president of venezuela with words like that it didn't take long for me to take an axe to diplomatic ties with washington to be. complying with my role in the oath i took for people to respect and make of this respect dependence. in the public i've decided to break diplomatic and political ties with imperial government the united states what about the people wedo is not one any election and there's clearly not a consensus among the people on any of these issues now at this point it's starting to look like a civil war is a real possibility it's been preceded this attempt by the united states by several years of economic sanctions and by several chimes militarily by small groups of national guard or army individuals inside of the venezuelan government to

try to assassinate president it was elected twice there were other opposition parties that were allowed to run some chose not to and there are contending courses in the country it's a polarized situation and the hemisphere seems pretty divided when it comes to venezuela this point brazil peru she lay and canada are lining up behind trump in recognizing wedo symbolic ceremony however mexico europe way nicaragua and bolivia are still recognizing as the president now marco rubio the cuban american senator brought up in the exile communities of miami is also beating his chest for the overthrow of bola varian socialism and trump has hinted at a march on caracas. would occasionally anything but all options are on the day. which is all options always all options and yes the usa is singing a song of democracy when it comes to venezuela but it's starting to look like

they're marching the country toward civil war and r.t. new york. venezuela's ambassador to france told r.t. that the opposition is playing into washington's. this is a cougar town that is actively supported by the white house and our president nicolas maduro and he is still our president who was legally legitimately elected for a six year term he said this is precisely. this is a coup that is directed not only against president during but also against the democratic institutions of venezuela there are parts of the opposition that do not want dialogue who want to establish a dictatorship in venezuela by any means a dictatorship that has long been supported by the united states this is exactly what the united states wants to achieve to divide latin america. are not just the united states so the european union has also thrown our support behind venezuela's opposition national assembly called for fresh elections. 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 democracy forces in the music and like manure of the parliamentary assembly including one going to have a democratic mandate for the new zealand citizens a former u.s. diplomat jim cross things that trumps decision won't help to bring peace to venezuela i think it's quite likely the tribes decision will make venezuela's problems much worse look even if this goes very smoothly that there's some kind of regime change or even a coup that replaces the mother or a government that's not going to bring social peace we've got a country in a crisis with people lined up on one side including not only president dural and

the court but on the other side the national assembly if the military splits of the police we could have very serious violence in this country that is not a good thing it's in many ways reminiscent of the situation in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen terms of the united states getting involved in this how would we like it if other countries had recognized hillary clinton as the legitimate president two thousand and sixteen because she had more votes or recognize nancy pelosi is the real leader of america because it's more democratic somehow. microsoft has announced its new browser will have an in-built for assessing the reliability of media outlets however the open question cold news god has already ruffled some feathers among journalists a correspondent takes a closer look at who may stand to benefit from this new feature. proceed with caution just a regular sign of a blind corner an overhead crane area wild animals crossing and news

you should be careful with while reading. proceed with caution this website general it fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and to count ability there you have it we've already told you about news guard an online tool masterminded by folks like the former head of the cia that flags good news websites as green and those it sees as dodgy ones as read it's been up to you if you want to install the plug in or not unless you're a user of the microsoft edge web browser from now on the features built into the app at least you can switch it off after launch in the u.s. news current will expand to serve the billions of people globally who get news online so perhaps a little contract with microsoft could be one of the first steps of that expansion readers of any of that red colored carousel caution please by the way this is what

we've heard from one of you case most read outlands rated one out of five for credibility. we have in the very recently become aware of just a nice constant and are in discussions with them to have disagree just lean raney's custody case and resolve to see if it's possible with these guys most or all the criteria fine grain like you're good to go oh buzz feed's they're in the green zone too because perhaps it never spins out anything unconfirmed or unreliable even the teen green bench in the u.k. has realized something sprog badly wrong here but once i remind you who's behind news guard things will start to make sense i mean do you really expect the brainchild of a board of advisors that's comprised of all kinds of former american security and foreign affairs officials to flag weiqi leaks anything but read anyway nothing to

worry about since the golden or sorry green standards of journalism are sacred for these people i'm not against propaganda every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and i don't necessarily think it's that awful i'm speaking of standards and accountability one of news guards investors has chosen not to do anything about its contract with saudi arabia they don't have a problem taking care of saudi officials p.r. even after the shameless murder of journalist jamal khashoggi anyway microsoft ok with these people being in charge of which color goes where as long as the tech giants get to avoid more awkward questions like why aren't you dealing with all that fake news. they can blame us and we're happy to be blamed on like the platform's we're happy to be accountable everyone chooses their old way to proceed with caution. has capitulated after

a confrontation with the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives over the state of the union address nancy pelosi insisted on postponing the speech until the government shutdown comes to an end due to security concerns and the us president has now accepted her decision despite initially meeting it with anger at the center the union speech has been cancelled by nancy pelosi because she doesn't want to hear the truth she doesn't want the american public to hear what's going on. and she's afraid of the truth and the super left democrats the radical democrats what's going on in that party is shocking. and congress are locked in a standoff over the democrats' refusal to approve funding for a wall on the mexican border around eight hundred thousand federal workers continue to be left without pay they include coast guard traffic controllers and homeland security personnel.

being able to pay confidential human sources risks losing the information they provide for ever is not a switch that we can turn on and on. who don't have funds to purchase necessary wouldn't fall prey since. the shutdown has eliminated any ability to operate beyond the f.b.i. now f.b.i. agents that are currently on board. have opportunities to go into the private

sector and double or triple their current salary. now when it comes to the state of the union address we spoke to dave lindorff founder of the news website this concrete happening he thinks the president might resort to other formats to address the nation including his favored one social networks first of all he has every right to submit it in writing it would be printed in the congressional record where it would be fully available and also seen it reported in the news but the other thing is that the president has the ability to cause the. networks to give a top to an interest to the american public any time he wants to do it the democrats' position is that they don't like the whole concept of the budget being held hostage as a way of legislating it's actually not the way it's supposed to be done basically the president going on strike there are different ways that it is impacting it's

not the whole government shutdown obviously the f.b.i. agents are working but the support people aren't they don't have any money to pay the informant so they're losing informants and some of them when they lose them they loose and for good lawyers of thomas a former campaign chief say not enough evidence has been provided to show the poll manifold lied about his links to russia and manifolds case as a part of robert muller's investigation into possible collusion with russia meddling in the american presidential elections we're going of course will do a fact delta twenty six d. it is believed that melissa investigation is in its final stages while the media continues to speculate on whether trump is a russian agent the washington post published an editorial saying even if there was nothing illegal donald trump still betrayed his photos it's just the latest installment of a narrative that's been trying to gain traction for far too long. trump is already acting like

a russian donald trump is actively or was actively colluding with russia we don't know present trump is a russian agent but we know that to some people the f.b.i. sure was acting like one of the moves themis useful e.-v. it in the history of russia contacts between trump's inner circle and russians media analyst line of things that if the was any real evidence of trump being a russian agent robot mode i would have eagerly disclosed that a long time ago. let's assume there is evidence somewhere somewhere something that this president the forty fifth president of these united states is in fact aiding abetting counseling procuring or hiring is involved as an out comp less to espionage and the like and if there is evidence of such and robert muller knows it could the argument be made that mr moller

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 just stop this moron being 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 if you 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 pot. the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe has condemned the use of sharia law in europe the question is whether the traditional muslim code is in step with basic human. right it's so chatty our rules are clearly incompatible with the

european convention on human rights we've been our second or third class citizens rape has to be proven by at least four male muslim witnesses violence mistreatment discrimination against women abandoning islam is punished by death i think it's fully unacceptable when human rights are concerned there should be no room for cultural or religious exception the resolution adopted at the session states the sharia law goes against the right to life the right to fair trial the freedom of expression and other human rights we heard from political commentator david van son mohammad shafi from the ramadan foundation. i welcome the fact that essentially this council has has passed has passed this our resolution it's not extreme right or passing this it's a broad spectrum of european opinion stating that essentially sharia law is

incompatible to meto large degree with the laws that we have what absolutely clear that we are covered by one more that is the united kingdom law that has been insured by parliament why that's in westminster or in some of the devolve assemblies in wales scotland or northern ireland we are driven by that we're equal before the our eyes of the law but actually in terms of inheritance in terms of marriage in terms of other aspects if muslims want to use their faith to you know determine what the result is in terms of their personal lives and that's through choice that not should be available to them if we remove shari'a councils because we only should have one jurisdiction in the united kingdom that's british law which is sovereign which is made by the people of the united kingdom implemented by our courts then there's no problem at all why can't you just accept that if you're in britain you must be subject to british laws made by british judges and british people who are these people in the council europe who are those elected who are

there is the house of lords and so we thought if you are right or they don't you think i'm for sure hungry people and with a lot of these on your in countries where you where you have put islamophobia and discrimination against muslims then clearly the agenda of the sort of the explorers who mainstream in our societies and that's the issue yeah that's the whole house floor of the house late home and the media that ike's did gender which dave david vance has has become mainstream which is the agenda of the far right that's all i'm arguing and if you are so kermit herman about every more i mean to have in the art of the laws then you actually don't see who would have all of the community since you're probably religious. it's what you don't do which you don't do equality exist within the sharia law equality exist within the so one summary on the insult in time i can see down with you and show you where there is equality i welcome anybody to come into our country who accept or laws on obey as those laws on in this case

we see that sharia according to the consul if europe according to the house of lords according to city can. councils are incompatible with basic the basic rights of people that's what they have said not my words their words twenty past the hour here in moscow plenty more still to come on the program including a french t.v. channel is trying to instruct children as to which news outlets are telling the truth the whole concept quickly getting ugly that story just a moment. 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 that this is

a necessary evil that he needs to eliminate. other differing political points of view and that he needs to crack down on people for having thinks that he's doing it for the best interests of each thinks that he's doing your for the best interests of egyptians but it's definitely not the case. but. they put themselves on the line they did except to reject. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to be close this is what. people are. interested always in the water.

with us today for this program but fake news and propaganda basically become common currency in discussions these days about listen and one program on french t.v. is teaching children how to photos are staged in which news outlets telling the truth in a recent episode was about russia's president and this very. is our correspondent. well this is billed as being in educational game show for children around the ages of eleven to fifteen the idea is they go on the show and they participate in things like quizzes about topics of the day and they're also asked to hunt for clues and then to try and piece those clues together to find the result of a question and it's broadcast on france for that's a channel here in the country and it's called escape news now its most recent program centered on russia particularly the russian president vladimir putin and

ourselves here at r.t. offering what appeared to be a fairly one sided opinion of the two topics now close to the start of the program a young boy who says he's of ukrainian heritage is asked to describe who he thinks vladimir putin is and what he's like this is what he said so when the. words in the report involve 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 putin is regularly described as being all thora tarion somebody who likes to oppress the opposition parties in russia somebody who likes to control the press in his country somebody who likes to control his own image well what evidence is given of that well there are a lot of pictures of me of putin in different guises from writing with

a naked torso horseback to fishing to appearing in military vehicles the evidence of course to show that vladimir putin is somebody who likes to control his image and there is only one image that's being broadcast then the program goes on to target us here at r.t. suggesting that the channel is nothing more than propaganda the evidence of that. well r.t. it says is funded by the russian state no secret there but pretty rich form a program that's being broadcast on a channel in france that's also being funded by the french state well it's pretty difficult to be a journalist here in france so let's talk about that since president matt korn has been elected r.t. journalists have been regularly denied access to events and even during the presidential elections before he was elected r.t.

journalists should have been accredited for offense we're told when they are right that they simply couldn't go in now arts he has gone to the program escape news we've asked them for comment on their program and whether they feel that it was one sided that it was biased in its views and altie has also gone to press freedom groups and human rights groups to ask them what they think of this program and to question whether a program like this is actually putting across a one sided view of the french state and essentially is brainwashing france's next generation in this instance real man approach and if you look at the different results of this little game of course it's fun for the kids and they don't realise that they're being manipulated it is very strange to see the press which is a good look at all two shits in most instances in the west or there is go 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. so we took to the streets of paris to see what people there had to say about this new program. semitone lexer inch and i'm astonished that they teach our country that other countries are here we talk about manipulations by the media on the internet we would be better explaining to our kids not to trust what is on the internet or to trust 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 isn't the prospects as well i don't think it is good to tell case other countries are bad it is up to kids to shape their own opinion yes it is a politicize ation of children we should not influence children we should give them basic education but not to influence them about other countries they don't know.

that barrack an iranian journalist who was held in custody for more than a week by the f.b.i. has been released without charge that's according to a press release from her family this was never just about marzia his simming this is about the fact that any of us muslim and non muslim can be imprisoned without charge in the united states. i mean i was detained 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 and while she was in custody we talked to a friend and colleague. as he 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 had jobs stripped of her had a mug shot taken without her her job on she was refused her lolling vegetarian field effectively denying her feed in the initial days of detention no one has been able to speak apart from two telephone conversations with her family she does have the gall council we don't know what this this case that she's a material witness for is about we don't know why the children have been subpoenaed there's been chief phone calls with the children in the 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 to now be rich rast and mises oldest son believes that is because of the media coverage and because of this

outpouring of activism around the world in support of mass is before the iranian journalist was released protests against such attention were held both in washington and in tehran iranian foreign minister jobs are you also condemned the treatment of the john list and called for her immediate release. she's a famous shouldn't listen she's done nothing but journalism. the address of mrs howe should be a is a very few to from it to freedom of expression is a political abuse. of an innocent individual and. i believe the united states should be so easy to be viewed as a debate and that's the program for now at this hour here on the international thank you for spending a time with us here in moscow we are back soon with more of your headlines.

greetings and sally you taishan the world economic forum in davos is upon us talk watchers and this year the world's money to lead and thought leaders and business banking and global politics were shaking in their louis baton when winning tips who were they shaking was it was it the threat of another a bowl outbreak in africa climate change melting the arctic a possible world war three between the u.s. russia iran israel syria saudi arabia and any other nations currently at odds with each other well no no none of these things got them shaken in their wind wingtips no my friends what had the white gold albino sturgeon caviar turning sour in davos this year was the democratic brushwood representative out of new york alexander ocasio cortez's proposal of a seventy percent tax rate.