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welcome to the program. explosions and clashes in the venezuelan capital caracas where protests are going against president. sixteen people reportedly killed in the demonstrations clashes intensified after

donald trump all of a sudden recognized the opposition leader one of the country's interim president president nicolas maduro has branded this and i tempted. the protestors in venezuela have decided to take things a little bit further center just blasting the president with violence and rioting they decided to declare themselves to be the government. when opposition leader of the national assembly has declared himself to be the interim president. before own mind to go it and with respect to my code works 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. is 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. people to respect and make of this respect you know dependence. in the public i've decided to break diplomatic political ties with. the united states given what about the people wedo has not won 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 coup attempt by the united states by several years of economic sanctions and by several of terms militarily small groups of national guard or army individuals inside of the venezuelan government to try to assassinate president mahmoud 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 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. without considering 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. r.t. new york venezuela's ambassador to france told r.t. that the opposition is playing straight into washington's. this is a cougar town that is actively supported by the white house and our president nicolas maduro is still our president and he was legally legitimately elected for a six year term and he says 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 dictatorship that has long been supported by the united states this is exactly what the united states wants to achieve to divide latin america. meantime turkey is the president of the white house stepped in and called my daughter offering him help with the protests you know while the european union has expressed its support for the opposition led national assembly and 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 democratic forces in venezuela i like mature of the parliamentary assembly including the one we have a democratic mandate from venezuela and citizens. former u.s.

diplomat jim trust things that trump decision will not help to bring any 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.

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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 the news 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 probably 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 of 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 own way to proceed with caution. andrea walker a political commentator and new york observer columnist told us there's a risk the new microsoft tool could be exploited. well i think we all have a battle to prevent fake gives i mean you look through the newspapers talking about brags it's in the past couple of weeks and it's obscene crazy so with the things they've come out with so i think we all have a duty to try and prevent that fake news from getting out but look you know there is also an issue with it being used against minority outlets i think it's important for every customer to read the terms and conditions of any of these systems to

understand where they're happy with what may be said what may be acceptable from one person's point of view is all except will from another and i think this is an issue that we need to address. the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe has condemned the use of shari'a law in europe it questions whether the traditional muslim code is in step with the basic human rights certain chaddy our rules are clearly incompatible with the european convention on human rights we've been a second or third class citizens great task to be proven by at least for 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 vance and mohammed chuff week from the ramadan foundation. i welcome the fact that essentially this council has has passed has passed this 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 shined 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 the 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 then that 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 rampant 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 really homines the media that i 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 every more i mean to have in the art of the laws then you actually don't see what i've already learned or samaria community since you're probably religious. it's what you don't do which you don't have equality exist within the sharia law equality exist within the so one summary on the insulated in time i can say i'm 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 say 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 as are to international quarter past the hour here in moscow donald trump reluctantly agrees to postpone his state of the union address until the ongoing u.s. government shutdown is over we'll dive into that story next.

what politicians do sometimes. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want.

to do like to be crooks it's like the korean people. i'm interested in the why. should. i go to join us today an american 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. 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 it was detained on january thirteenth while

visiting family in the state of missouri. she was questioned by the f.b.i. as a material witness in an specified case before the iranian journalist was released protests against her detention were held both in washington d.c. and in tehran while she was in custody we talked to a friend and colleague of. mine as is being detained under a controversial law yes it is a law but the material witness law has been deemed unconstitutional by york appeals court and it went 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 have a job stripped of her had a mug shot taken without her her job on she was refused her lolling vegetarian

field effectively denying have food in the initial days of detention no one has been able to speak to 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 two phone calls with the children in the fast 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 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 yes. donald trump 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 and security concerns and

the u.s. president has now accepted her decision despite initially meeting it with anger. but the state of the union speech has been cancelled she follows you 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 churches and the super left democrats the radical democrats what's going on in that party is shocking. and congress locked in a standoff over the democrats refusal to approve funding for the border wall with mexico around eight hundred thousand federal workers continue to be left without pay and that includes. 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. to the funds to purchase necessary whitman's phone operations. the shutdown has eliminated any ability to a great fund 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 salaries. 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

microsoft to other formats to address the nation including perhaps his favorite one social networks. first of all he has every right to submit it in writing and 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 lose and for good. lawyers all of tom's a form a campaign chief say not enough evidence has been provided to show that poll manifold lied about his links to russia and a false case is part of robert muller's investigation into possible conclusion with russia on meddling in the american presidential elections of course we're going all the way back to twenty sixteen it's believed the investigation is in its final stages of the media continues to speculate on whether donald trump is a russian agent the washington post published an editorial saying even if there was nothing illegal donald trump still betrayed his voters it's just the latest installment of a narrative that's been trying to gain traction for fox who in the. 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 any real evidence of trouble being a russian agent robot mode would have eagerly disclosed it an awfully 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 and now 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 soon or 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 and your program is bought in half an hour. lead. when gold make this manufacture come sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the financial

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to combat it takes a long time to get rid of. six guys or financial survival guide. when customers go buy your supplies. in elf well reducing lower. that's undercutting not what's good for markets it's not good for the global economy. welcome to the excitement show from copenhagen and the daily sparkman they make the big decisions in the politics of the kingdom of denmark service tell us this is the

most contented society on earth and this program we try and get to grips with the secret of the daily show of happiness it's a fascinating time in danish politics p. alice levy is copenhagen's former maid of coach and leisure and former mayor of church and yes she says culture and leisure is a vital part of the city's long term planning i she is convinced it's a big reason why the city ranks as one of the happiest places in the world. obviously work with alex i will show thank you so much though you spoke. of culture of leisure of human copenhagen how important is a cultural aspect to the vibrancy of a great city like this well i think the cultural life in copenhagen is one of the reasons why we have been ranked as one of the best cities in the world of course you need daycare centers you need great infrastructure and all that but it's the cultural life is the lesser life it's all the fun things that are important to

a city the size of copenhagen at least maybe the cities for the world cup and they're going to skyline a much of the the traditional architecture of the time. difficult thing to do well it was actually one of my first political decisions when i became mayor of cultural lesher back in two thousand and eight and a former lord mayor she didn't want to keep the skyline she wanted to make it possible if the right project came that we could just put up a big building right in the center of the city but a majority of parties decided that no way we want to keep the skyline we want to keep what is fairly important and very special to copenhagen but we also wanted to make sure that of course we can build high buildings and spectacular new building industry around a city but the old city has to remain the old city structure the pier for a visitor to the city like myself those wonderful as well the first issue you

noticed distinctively copenhagen but of course with the number of people coming now wanting to come to copenhagen to study as a result the city success of must be quite a tension between not being able to build in the comedy to the growing number of people well but i think that most people they prefer copenhagen like this because we're building new fantastic areas in copenhagen with new very modern buildings i think a lot of people they were actually not like to live in the old city because you have all the past you have all the restaurants you have all the people in the old city so the people coming to copenhagen to live here they actually want to stay just. a kilometer or two away from the from the center but we'll be able to go there and enjoy the life there so it's a real building i don't know really many many many apartments right now for for new copenhagen the people conducted this interview over the christmas period.