for a war surely we can risk some discomfort. with . diplomatic relations with the united states. recognize the country's. president. shari'a law. incompatible with basic human rights.

it's not a. european opinion. and microsoft includes. in the form of an. international welcome to your program. explosions and clashes in the venezuelan capital caracas where protests are. president. sixteen people were killed in the demonstrations. opposition leader.

i don't as the country's interim president president nicolas my daughter has branded this an attempted coup. the protesters in venezuela have decided to take things a little bit further siddur just blasting the president with violence and rioting they 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 go and with respect to my code works in the national assembly i swear to form the power of the national executive in 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 i've decided to break diplomatic and political time period this government of the united states. diplomatic leverage giving all diplomatic. the united states. seventy two i was going to leave the country 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 coup attempt by the states by several years of economic sanctions and by several in terms of militarily by 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 whole rise 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. for the day

that. we should all options 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 me that the opposition is playing directly 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 president of the one who has offered his support to my daughter while russia and china have denounced any attempt to meddle in venezuela's internal affairs meanwhile the european union is backing of the opposition led national assembly and calling for a fresh election. 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 and like madeira the parliamentary assembly including the one would have a democratic mandate from there as well and citizens. are former u.s. diplomat jim just trusting that trumps decision will not help to bring peace to venezuela. i think it's quite likely the trumps 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 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 present but they're all in the court but on the other side the national assembly if the military splits . so 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 app in question called news god has been

criticized by some journalists. who are now takes a closer look at who may actually 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 is 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. at their launch in the us 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 the last a nice constant and are in discussions with them to have disagree just lean raney's classification resolved as soon as 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 unlike the platforms were 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 this new microsoft microsoft tool might actually be exploited. well i think we all have a bottle 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 not see crazy some of the things they've come out with so i think we all have a duty to try and prevent that fate from getting out there 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 exceptional 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 show ria law in europe it questions whether the traditional muslim code is in step with 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 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 a cultural or religious exception the resolution adopted at the session states that sharia law goes against the right to life of the right to fair trial freedom of expression and other human rights well we heard from political commentator david

vance a muhammad shafi from the ramadan foundation. we need to do something about it it's not good enough for the u.k. to just acknowledge these criticisms of what happens here in the u.k. and why for example example many muslim women are treated so deplorably by these courts we need to take action not basically from my point of view means we have to shari'a courts they idea that this sort of things that we see from the council of europe we see it from the far right groups across europe we see it from the likes of tommy robin said we see it from ukip we see it from david violence somehow that they are champions champions of muslim women of the right of muslims to practice their faith they just go one agenda which is to demonize the whole community country what we what we've just heard from mohammed 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 that we have we are governed by one more that is the united kingdom 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 there is no place in any regard for sharia courts in the u.k. as mohammad just said we've got the british law we should all all of us all faiths or no faiths be equal on the british law just a correction there are no sharia courts in this country there are shari'a councils which are somewhat different i think that's a really important distinction to be had david and i don't know the people on the far right will always people on the far much more support this narrative. about equality david scott of well known record of targeting just muslims if you look at

his twitter feed if you. look at his records in the last ten fifteen years he deliberately inflames is situation two against muslims according to the consul if europe according to the house of lords shari'a. councils are incompatible with our basic the basic rights of people that's what they have said not my words their words so was everybody out of step but muhammad who are these people in the council europe who are those elected i'm sorry if you come from portland and if you come from home gree and you come from eastern european countries where you are what you have put islamophobia i discrimination against muslims then clearly the agenda of the far right has become mainstream in our societies their program continues in less than one minute.

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 you know other differing political points of view and that he needs to crack down on people for having sought 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 is that it is a store of value it is hard money and it is predominantly useful for the poorest among the poor or you are the greater the need you have for sound money.

thank you joining us here and of the fake news on propaganda has become common currency in discussions about journalism these days one program on french t.v. is now teaching children how to spot if photos all staged and which news outlets are telling the truth. a recent episode was about russia's president vladimir putin and this very channel is our correspondent charlotte duvets. 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 the 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 soon the. closing of pretty soon the door to the with their low suv aldrin above them on the phone to the primroses 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 blood made putin in different guises from writing with the 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. 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 from 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 coren 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 arrived 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 it good to shoots 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 drops i'm sure. so we took to the streets of paris to see what people have to say about this new program. semitone the extra 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 only 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 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. and 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 family. this was not just about marzia shimming this is about the fact that any of us muslim a known muslim can be imprisoned without charge in the united states. he 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 before the iranian journalist was released protests against her attention were held both in washington d.c. and turn around while she was in custody we talked to

a friend and colleague of. mass 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 the court has said it's been misused the a.c.l.u. and human rights watch have talked 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 job stripped of her had a mug shot taken without her her job on she was refused to allow them vegetarian field effectively denying her food 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 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 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. totally. has capitulated after a confrontation with the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives over the state of the union address date nancy pelosi insisted on postponing the speech until the government shutdown comes to an end to security concerns and the u.s. president has now accepted her decision despite initially meeting it with anger. at the state of the union speech has been canceled. 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. super left democrats the radical democrats what's going on in that party is shocking. congress and locked in a standoff over the democrats' refusal to approve funding for the wall along the mexican border around eight hundred thousand federal workers continue to be left without pay they include coast traffic controllers and homeland security personnel .

being able to play confidential human sources risks losing the information they provide. is not a switch that we can turn. to the funds to purchase necessary grayson's. the shutdown has eliminated any ability to raise funding 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. 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 this favorite one perhaps 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 close 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 listen for good that's the program thanks for joining us here and we are back soon with.

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this is full blast broadcasting around the world and cover the world of business of finance and the impact for all of us. i'm bart chilton washington we're sure glad you're on for coming up to the day we talk commodities in agriculture i may squeeze of oil in there if we have time and how they tied into trade andrew heck independent commodity analyst joins us to discuss he's 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 s. 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 precepts professor of economics americas richard wolfe is back to talk about world economic health all that

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