the former first minister of scotland denies any criminality that after he was arrested and charged by police say alex salmond appeared in court in edinburgh. issuing political crisis in venezuela prompts a wave of international reaction with some backing the country's opposition leader as interim president while others voiced concern over foreign meddling and the potential of a civil war. premature and government demonstrations are up to prosper in this way low with opposition supporters and police clashing plus also to come microsoft includes a fake news detector in its latest browser in the form of an app that ranks sides

to their trustworthiness draftees by. even you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone seven pm here in moscow our top story this hour scotland's former first minister alex salmond has been charged with attempted rape and sexual assault he's now been released on bail as he left sheriff court county court in edinburgh he did issue a short statement so let's get some more details now. he's in the u.k. covering the story for us good evening polly what did he have to say. look alex salmond attended court in edinburgh with his lawyer where there was by all accounts a rather short hearing it was also a closed hearing so there was no public no journalists there either but afterwards the court published the. charges that alex salmond is facing there are fourteen of

them altogether there are two charges of attempted rape two charges of indecent assault nine charges of sexual assault and one charge of breaching the peace now when he emerged from court alex summoned was quiet he didn't talk to any of the press there but when he was going in he gave a short statement to the cameras take a listen to what alex salmond had to say. yesterday with my column. a to be a police station in central scotland. i was a leash on condition though you came to the court today to face the charges against me i never said. criminality whatsoever i refute absolutely these are allegations of criminality and i will decide myself to the utmost in court. i don't see. the court system of scotland.

so there he is strenuously denying the allegations and he also mentioned that the case is now live and according to scottish law there are rather strict reporting restrictions when a legal case is ongoing so people can say things that might influence the proceedings and the headline this story rather is getting a lot of headlines nevertheless because alex salmond is a huge political figure here in the u.k. he's the former first minister of scotland he was the figurehead of the scottish independence campaign he also hosts a show here on r t and alex salmond recently won a civil court case against his own former scottish government after it mr handled allegations of sexual misconduct against alex salmond for. back when he was still

first minister. the allegations came to light last year but they related back to two thousand and see and just like he said that throughout that legal process ever since these allegations came up alex salmond has always there when he denied all of the allegations and any accusations of criminality against him ok thank you polly for the update there that was in the. eye with the political crisis in venezuela fast reaching boiling point a split is a merging in the international community some support the opposition leader who's declared himself the president while others have voiced concern over a potential civil war the us president for example is supporting the opposition and not ruling out either possible military action while venezuela's elected president nicolas maduro has slammed what is going on as an attempt to. the citizens of

venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of the illegitimate regime today i have officially recognized the president of the venezuelan national assembly. as the interim president of venezuela i have decided to break diplomatic and political ties with the imperialist government of the united states i will sign a diplomatic moves giving all diplomatic conceal a person out of the united states in venezuela seventy two hours to leave the country. without considering anything but all options are on the day that your theory which is all options all of us all options are. ok with us discuss this further than i would. in the studio he's following this story and they have been further developments to have that oh yeah absolutely the situation in venezuela has really heated up in the past two weeks just moments ago about

a couple hours ago the venezuelan military said it declares its full support of president nicolas maduro and that they would defend the country's sovereignty and constitution. not from the military educated disciplined didn't train to the highest values are the core inspired by the values of independence peace and common good proclaim loyalty and absolute subordination to nicolas maduro the constitutional president of the bolivarian republic of venezuela my commander in chief you can count on are supporting your daily effort to achieve stability and strengthen our beloved homeland. and the international community has taken notice of these developments especially after. declared himself president on wednesday now most of the members who confirmed this claim were members of the washington based organization of american states brazil argentina and chile to name a. few countries but there were europeans as well now spain says it also does not

recognize madeira as government and even the spanish prime minister said that he he's organizing a phone call with the opposition soon as for the french president emanuel macron he's one of those most ardent foreign supporters. after the illegal election of nicolas maduro in may twenty team europe support of the restoration of democracy i salute the courage of the hundreds of thousands something new zealots who are marching for their freedom but after that statement on some did to keep the poll christie didn't he didn't they because he wasn't happy when people were backing yes protesters in his country right exactly ironically enough just two days ago his own government denounced statements from the italian interior minister where he expressed the hope that the french people do away with macron now the french government told italy to sweep its own doorstep before criticizing others but they clearly haven't followed their advice in regard to their own advice in regard to

the venezuela situation. with regard to international reaction is i mean it's divided isn't it is pretty clear that that is the case yeah absolutely there have been a lot of international reactions that have actually called for stability and caution in venezuela one of which is was from russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who said at a press conference that he's alarmed at possible talks in the u.s. of possible military intervention especially amidst repeated u.s. confirmations of why doe's claim to presidency. is that. we can see another intrusions into a sovereign country's politics as you know they have been several attempts to oust nicolas maduro the fact that the u.s. and a number of other countries particularly in the region immediately recognized the self-proclaimed president means they had a hand in the creation of competing leaderships this could lead to chaos and

a serious destabilization in the internal political situation. now china also took a firm stance against foreign intervention and that makes a lot of sense because venezuela and china are actually very close partners when it comes to energy production and gold mining in venezuela so let's take a listen to what the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson had to say about this whole situation well china always maintains the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries opposing external intervention in venezuelan domestic affairs so there's definitely a wide array of interests at play here and it's almost certain that international reactions are going to play a major role in how the situation develops sure ok thank you don that was artie's don't quarter there. well demonstrations are still rocking caracas with protesters taking to the streets in support for the opposition we spoke to the chair of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation council. who believes it is clear

what needs to be done. positioning in this very difficult and sensitive and fragile situation may cause further less stress and. very dangerous developments i believe that the model we each know is being used implemented in israel is quite simple first to send signal signals to the civil society in a certain country that they believe were in the worst conditions than any other country secondly to blame the government of this country for the existing problems and certainly to encourage the civil society of this country to go ahead and to start fighting the ruling thought this instead of seeking political compromises this is what is has been done in many other situations like in libya in iraq in syria and now it does happen even again in israel society of does

experience obvious problems but the position of the international community in this case should be should consist only in encouraging the political dialogue between the ruling authorities and the still society in this country. ok let's show you some more of those demonstrations then because caracas has been swamped with both anti-government protests and rallies in support of the president mature oh lately at some of the demonstrations there have been explosions gunfire and clashes. i am. i i. think the. casters 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 won any election and there is 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 militarily by small groups of national guard or army individuals inside of the venezuelan government to try to assassinate president of the auto 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 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 we're going to take a quick break now but we'll be back with more you. 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 egypt he thinks that he's doing your for the best interests of egyptians but it's definitely not the case.

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we're happy to be accountable everyone chooses their own way to proceed with caution well because who committed to writing for the new york observer will guess is that the microsoft who could be exploited. well i think we all have a bottle to prevent fake news i mean you look through the newspapers talking about brags it's in the past couple of weeks and it's actually crazy some of 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 if the systems to understand where they're happy with them what may be what may be acceptable from one person's point of view is all exceptional from another and i think there's an issue that we need to address. by the term fake news and propaganda have become more prevalent in discussions about journalism and one

program on french t.v. is teaching children how to spot of photos a staged and which news outlets are telling the truth with a recent episode was about russia's vladimir putin and also this very channel show had been ski reports 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 scented 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. going to put involved. who knows enough pretty soon the door to the with their lawsuit will do in them order from. 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 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 programme 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 corn 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 approved. i'm 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 it's real man approaching if you look at the different oh episodes of this little game of course it's fun for the kids and they don't realize that they are being manipulated it is very strange to see that the press which is a good look at what issues in most instances in the west or there is go that 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 but we took to the streets of paris to see what people had to say about this

television program. semitone the extra inch and i'm astonished that they teach in our country that other countries are here we talk about manipulations by the media on the internet we would be better explain in two thousand 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 is in the prospects as well i don't think it is good to tell kids 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 brings you up to date this. news is looking so far today here in r.t. we're back again at the top of the.

in a world of big part of the new law 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. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now watching closely watching the hawks. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already is several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and

destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort or an easy for us. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there. and instead media darling and certainly a fresh face the newly minted congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez is rattling some democratic establishment cage's she calls herself a democratic socialist and she has some big flying. it's

a democratic party and america ready for a job seeker. who works. in the right location. group who both be able through oh oh youth who are old can mean old ugly degrees are considered to be green do not use the rest of.

the dragon was designed to sail around the world the wrong way so she actually first best when she's healed over about forty five degrees sailing up when she's seventy two feet long such minute and she's a pretty big ass also but also a great ass off our connecting flight if lot of people when i was going on the first one thinks they should because the atlantic in twenty four team if they are you criticizing the atlantic with fourteen women and now the chapel's woodcock in terms of oh man you got to contribute others here out having all the ladies on board is pretty awesome and a lot of people say come be damned but when proving them wrong step today i'm not a feminist which is the reason that we're having an all girl team and it's really because i'm wanting to understand more. about female health plastic accounts for

ninety percent of all trash that finds its way into the ocean in the majority of coastal an island states there is no organized sorting of waste in some areas so much plastic is dumb to watch into the water that the sea is like a toxic plastic soup initially plastic waste this picked up by the stomachs of marine inhabitants and then at the end of the food chain is delivered to our plates before i met the old female crew of sea dragon i never sailed and did know how to change the world but i did know that if you want to make a change you must start with yourself and as a beginning i decided to make this film. thing so everything in travel. tell you all that right. and bridges highways that date if it didn't. have it yet everything. for me it really began about eight years ago i had the opportunity to take a boat around the world we set up but the best couple of years on the sea dragon.

wanted to look at these islands of pasta that we were hearing about and quickly realized that actually what we were looking at the micro plastics these tiny pieces . and knowing about that them bad. and that then opened up this whole question about toxics and that's really where expedition that came from all right lot of where do you get everyone i'm channeling i'm your skipper for this late it's going to be an awesome week i have been living on board c dragon for the past three and a half years now and she's a great home yeah we're. where we're going to get to go on this phone cameras already here. hi guys i'm john mission coordinator for this leg of expedition caribbean. i was on the first x.

expedition across the atlantic in two thousand and fourteen with emily. i have never sailed before and mary morris unless i'm a motorway and i'm from wales in the u.k. and i'm the poet i'm from germany. and i've studied geology and my background is in biology and also pharmaceutical sciences i'm studying green enough for st lucie i'm an all chased scientist and i'm also about promoting women in science i've been really a strong supporter about women in stem careers. then the last thing is i'm a breast cancer survivor you guys don't get seasick i believe that's not a problem but if it is we're talking about weird appeal right so the best place to be is inside the calming us that's what we call this the stage here that you'll be sitting on it runs up and down your is inside of that clinton not trying to hang over the side of the boat to get into the water just you can decide to act.