destroy the government. in five years americans pay for the wars with money. if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort. this. form of. it's unclear what charges the politician is faced. with when i consider you anything but all options are on the donald trump recognizes venezuela's opposition leader as the country's interim leader elected president nicolas maduro to break diplomatic relations with the u.s. in choosing washington over an attempt to.

government demonstrations. with opposition supporters. and microsoft includes a fake news. in the form of. sites for trustworthiness there are significant. it is becoming a busy day for you worldwide headlines here on our international welcome to the program we do start this hour with this breaking news just in scotland's former first minister alex salmond has been arrested and is expected to appear in court

later on today we can cross live to watch he's joining us now on the telephone. can you give us some background on mr himself. oh he is the former pastor minister of scotland of course he's also. his show on the channel but he appears to go on to see the south for questioning and that was. arrested him at the pages that will be. on it the day he will be in cool. on the charges that may be a thing him but they said the police said they can see the sixty four year old arrested and charged and will be sent to the perforate. proceedings and along with a contempt of court act that was going to castle about what we say about this. in

recent months on experiment has been in the news because he's going to take legal cases actually against the scottish government. just an investigation into alleged. so i'll a geisha and sexual misconduct that again against women dating from two thousand and see why don't. we want to pay the court in scotland. and examine throughout this entire. issue with the geisha and he's denied the accusations against him he said he's not guilty of any person i think he's accused the investigation of being sort of a basically a bank they could be motivated against him. and the scottish government

accepted that it's a pay if it's investigation goes biased against him i'm sorry it's it seems to be. the investigation into him. demonstrates. we've just lost the connection there with alex he's pretty boy there she is joining us so via telephone with this breaking news our live from the u.k. just to give you a quick reminder of the breaking news there is that scotland's first minister alex salmond has been arrested and is expected to appear in court later on thursday we'll update you on this breaking news throughout the day here on oxy international . in the meantime back into the regularly scheduled program here with antigovernment protesters on supporters of president my daughter have taken to the streets across venezuela and some of the rallies there were explosions clashes and gunfire. sixteen

people reportedly killed in the demonstrations the clashes intensified off the donald trump recognized opposition leader one guy dove was the country's interim president the current president nicolas maduro has branded this an attempted coup. thank. 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 and opposition leader of the national assembly has declared himself to be the interim president what about the people and opposition 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 attempts militarily by small groups of national guard or army individuals inside of the venezuelan government to try to assassinate president of the mode 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 trump has hinted at a march on caracas. with ok shouldn't be anything but all options are on the day. which is all options all options with 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 as well as ambassador to france told r.t. that the opposition is playing directly into washington's hands. this is a coup tom 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 in the meantime turkey's president or one has offered his support to president my daughter while russia and china have denounced any attempt to meddle in venezuela's internal

affairs meanwhile protests have been held outside. and there were celebrations when a number of latin american nations recognized as interim president european union has also backing the opposition led national assembly and calling 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 you. europe will be united in support of democratic forces in venezuela among the poem into resembling clued in that one would have a democratic mandate from that as well and. former u.s. diplomat jim trust things that trumps decision won't help to bring around peace to venezuela. 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 this new browser will have an in-built for assessing the reliability of media outlets however the app in question called news god has

certainly by and been criticized by journalists. takes a closer look at who may stand to actually benefit from the 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 are 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 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 outlets rated one out of five for credibility. we have in the very recently become the last the nice constant and are in discussions with them to have disagree just me 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 bus speeds there 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 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 platforms we're happy to be accountable everyone chooses their own way to proceed with caution. and terry walker a political commentator and new york observer called in this told us that there's a risk the new microsoft tools could be exploited. well i think we all have a battle to prevent fake gives i mean you look through the newspapers talking about bragg states 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 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 so 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 real law in europe and 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 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 that shari'a law goes against the right to life the right to fair trial the freedom of expression under other human rights we heard from political commentator david van sant mohammad shafi of 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 happened here in the u.k. and high for example example many muslim women are treated so deplorably by these courts we need to take action and not basically from my point of view means we have to shari'a courts they idea. 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 are 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 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 that through choice they're 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 surely are 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 been about equality david scott of well known record of targeting just muslims if you look at

his twitter feed if you look at his record in the last ten fifteen years he deliberately inflames it situation to against muslims according to the consul if europe according to the house of lords. councils are incompatible with 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 coming . so 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 where you have put islamophobia and discrimination against muslims then clearly the agenda of the far right has become mainstream in our societies this is our international thanks for joining us so far for the program many more stories still to come including an update on our breaking news we're back in just.

you know world of big. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it be an arms race. dramatic to follow only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down.

let's give you some updates now on our breaking news story scotland's forma first minister alex salmond has been charged and is expected to appear in court later on some details now of course we'll have to watch his party boy who is a now joining us on our mobile phone party thanks for jumping on so quickly what do we know so far and if you could just give us a bit of background on some of himself well i mix comedy but. i want to begin thinking why. didn't go to six am was arrested today also he went in for questioning himself when we got. there we arrested him when he

went in to talk to them i think we would be investigation allegations was misquoted which was where we started out of geishas thinking practically thousands he was born. in and the police scotland said that they can come from that a sixty four year old arrested the children. will expect with appear in court later on this all the news. that we have many more details i'm going to cast about what we report but of course i'll examine has been in the news recently that this investigation by the scottish government because he took the scottish government to cool saying that it was a botched investigation and that it was politically motivated he didn't die any sort of criminality or the charges against him he's said that this is

a fire this case against him the scottish government. he won his case against scottish government this month it was supposed to accept your best gauge going into a bad conduct by him was unfair and painted by a power bias. really highlighting a growing rift really between i mix our men form a protege who is the current minister. all right all teams pretty boy that i live on the phone from london updating our breaking news polly thank you for. the times fake news on propaganda have become common currency in discussions about journalism these days one. a program on french t.v. is now teaching children how to spot if photos are staged in which news outlets are telling the truth

a recent episode was about russia's president vladimir putin and this very channel our correspondent shouted duvets he takes a look. well this is billed as being in educational game a 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 we're in the. woods and both grew close enough presume. to do that with their lawsuit aldrin both of them on the phone to the. 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 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 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 events 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 episodes 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 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. well we took to the streets of paris to see what people that have to say about this new program. semitone the extra inch and i'm astonished that they teach our country that other countries are bad here we talk about manipulations by the 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. 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 family. this was not just about marzia shimming this is about the fact that any of us muslim unknown muslim can be imprisoned without

charge in the united states most here have shami 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 and in turn around and while she was in custody we talked to a friend and colleague of. his 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 had

job 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 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 to 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 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 is just about wrapping up the program for this hour here on r.t. internet. many stories still there.

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