in suing political crisis in venezuela prompts a wave of international reaction with some backing the country's opposition leader is interim president while others voiced concern over foreign meddling and the potential for civil war. and anti government demonstrations of erupted across from this well or with opposition supporters and police clashing. in the new scotland former first minister alex salmond denies any wrongdoing after he was charged with attempted rape and sexual assault. microsoft includes a fake news detector in its latest browser that's in the form of an app right sites

for trust with the wrong here's a bias. you're watching international news thanks for joining us. now with the political crisis in venezuela fast reaching boiling point after the opposition leader declared himself an interim president a split is emerging in the international community for him if putin is declared a destructive external influence breaks all the norms of international law but the u.s. president has fully backed the opposition and isn't ruling out possible military action. without considering anything but all options are on the day. which is all options all options. i've decided to break diplomatic complicit.

thais the imperialist government of the united states i will sign a diplomatic note giving all diplomatic and consular personnel of the united states in venezuela seventy two hours to leave the country all eyes are on the venezuelan crisis here in davos means prime minister petro sanchez is holding talks on the issue with his lots of american counterparts on the sidelines of the world economic forum the spanish government said it does not consider madieu road to be a legitimate president a phone call with the venezuelan opposition has been on the books the irony is that just days ago his own government didn't own statements made by the interior minister of italy who expressed hope that the french people could free themselves from michael turning to reaction from lots in america shortly after batiste way was opposition leader who are declared himself the interim president on wednesday i have a full of washington's usual allies came onboard brazil argentina and chile to maybe a few however mexico cuba and bolivia refused to follow suit other countries

expressed criticism to external interference their support of the opposition china among them a crucial partner to oil rich business way less in gold mining and energy production well china always maintains the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries opposing external intervention in venezuelan domestic affairs as russian foreign minister sergei lavrov expressed omar at us talk of a possible military option just as. 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 this can lead to chaos and a serious destabilization in the internal political situation. the venezuelan military have said they will support to make a less of

a dual role and defend the country's sovereignty and constitution. not somebody more to weak the military educated disciplined in sharing to the highest values are the core inspired by the values of independence peace and common good proclaimed loyalty an absolute subordination to nicolas maduro the constitutional president of the bolivarian republic of venezuela my commander in chief you can count on all supporting your daily effort to achieve stability and strengthen our beloved homeland. there's plenty of different interests at play when it comes to this crisis and international reaction may play a major role in the way this crisis unfolds reporting from davos in switzerland and is this it churkin up for artsy. european parliament member of the coup so says the washington should remember it contacts against the un and international law. we've been here entranced saying he's considering the possibility of military

intervention for some time already that's why we must be standing against military intervention which will be illegal the u.s. can go against the un and international law and start that destructive intervention we have already seen what happened in iraq over a million people died and a sovereign country was destroyed that's why we should be helping for the determination of the venezuelan people to divert the intervention it is crucial to war in the us that they can act above the law and it's not for them to decide who will make the rules in this order kountry. caracas is being swamped with both anti-government protests and rallies in support of president le dura and some of the demonstrations there have been explosions gunfire and clashes. i.

mean while the french president to start his backing behind the venezuelan opposition. after the illegal election of nicolas maduro in may twenty team europe supported the restoration of democracy i salute the courage of the hundreds of thousands of new sailors corps marching for their freedom. you know i mean i side with the millions of frenchmen who are complaining about a president who is harming the french people since i condemn any acts of hooliganism and violence without exceptions i mean this.

for me this remarks are a certain questions to the healthy telling people do they contribute to the ones who are telling people should be the preoccupation of the italian government and john believes or do they change anything in the french political situation i don't believe so either so i think these are useless remarks and i want to say more about them as of course the on friendly. it's called diplomacy mccaughan once have a good image approach even though in france he's seen in a bad light in his popularity has fallen since the l.o.'s protest he wants to tighten the laws here against demonstrators it's sort of a double standard he supports such movements abroad but we are not being taken into consideration i don't know why mccraw bothers to make such comments if he's not listening to us at the same time. that macro speaks in

a democracy but they democracy he has here is a plutocracy the democracy of the rich. in the pen journalist and political analyst robert harness police the vest movement won't be quick to praise my trans words is the most absurd statement when for the last ten weeks we've had people rioting all over the place in france it's a very strange thing to say it i don't think it will go down very well at the political class i don't think they would think it was a very clever thing to upset bearing in mind as we have said as france has a serious problem with public order itself i'm sure he would be violently criticised it for us i see people would be very angry and he's been bitterly criticized already by the spaniards who say there was no need to talk like that what would he say if the russians back there that they use the yellow jackets and said they recognised one of them as the president of france i mean it's ludicrous you just can't believe that these people are unable to look in the mirror and see

how ludicrous their statements are. scotland's former first minister alex salmond has been charged with attempted rape and sexual assault he's now being released on bail following a court appearance in edinburgh party's police as details. look alex salmond attended court in edinburgh with his lawyer where there was by all accounts a rather short hearing it was also closed herrig so there was no public that 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 salmond 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 list of 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. for any criminality whatsoever but i refute absolutely these are allegations of criminality and i will decide myself to the utmost in court. the court system of scotland so that 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 on arts. he and alex salmond recently won a civil court case against his own former scottish government after it mishandled allegations of sexual misconduct against alex salmond from back when he was still first minister if the allegations came to light last year but they related back to two thousand and thirteen and just like he said there throughout that legal process ever since these allegations came up alex salmond has always very many denied all of the allegations and any accusations of criminality against him.

the terms freak news and propaganda have become more prevalent in discussions about journalism and one program on french t.v. is teaching children how to spot a photo of the stage which news outlets are telling the truth a recent episode was about russia's president vladimir putin this very channel do risky takes a closer 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 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 when the. door to the with their low suv aldrin 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 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 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 r.t. 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 the general secretary of the european federation of journalists ricardo good here is notice changing trends in journalism. now i believe that in the recent years more and more journalists are basing their reporting on opinions i think it's really important for journalists sometimes we should deliver opinions of course but it's really important to base our reporting on facts.

and maybe that's a worrying trend in european and not only european journalism saw. i would call any professional journalists to. you know to be really cautious. when reporting on international policy. sensitive issues. the first mission of a journalist of course is to base the story on facts. well as you heard earlier r.t. did request comment from various press agencies and human rights organizations amnesty international responded with an indorsement of the television shows principles and content that writer and publisher america mom wiil believes that the show is not in tune with local attitudes. especially when it's about children and mr international should investigate on this case maybe it's the typical case of war part we all will

always knew in in history and especially trench history. but it doesn't represent to french people at all and far i must i must confess from i'm. a father my son his is five years old and he was are learning this year russian songs for instance. and for the better and it's it's good news but what the government is making and you know it's a it's a horror it's a. cerebral today and you are liberalism wants a war against multiple or russia like all the fascists although imperialist they indoctrinate children and dirty tricks and we took the seats of paris to see what people that had to say. semitone leaks you 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 explain in two thousand kids not to trust what is on the internet or to trust any verified information the same should be done to adults as well as 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 past lexus 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. microsoft as this latest browser will have a feature to assess the reliability of media outlets but the system in question called news god has been criticised by some journalist in the trunk it takes a closer look at who might stand to benefit. for a seed 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 urge web browser from now on the features built into the app at least you can switch it off. after launch in the us news government 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 only very recently become aware of the new scott stocks happen and are in discussions with them to have to disagree just near a nice classification resolved as soon as possible with these guys most or all the criteria is fine grain like you're good to go oh buzz feed's they're in the green zone too because perhaps it never spews 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's 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 platform's we're happy to be accountable everyone chooses their own way to proceed with

caution it's a commentator writes for the new york observer under a walk of his that microsoft could be exploited. well i think we all have a battle to prevent fate gives i mean you look through the newspapers talking about drags it in the past couple of weeks and it's absolute crazy so with 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 or the exceptional from another and i think this is an issue that we need to address. russian athletes are suing the author of a twenty six team report on the state sponsor of doping in a four and a half million dollar defamation lawsuit and sent to the swiss supreme court cleared the athletes of doping they've been banned from the twenty eight team games

and stripped of earlier medals over doping claims earlier my colleague andrew farmer discussed this with artie's alexia schiff ski. so many of us remember the so-called mclaren report orchestrated and investigated by mr mclaren from canada the lead investigator of the world anti-doping agency essentially that report put rush into wilderness accused russia of state sponsored doping system and a lot of athletes were barred from twenty sixteen games in rio and twenty nine in p.h.p. on chan because of that report now this report had some inconsistences in it but equally the twenty eight athletes which were later. you know reinstated all the doping allegations although there were named in that report they were cleared of those doping allegations among all these athletes on the report there were five members of the russian rowing team which were barred from the twenty sixteen games in rio now the federation of rowing of russia officially filed

a lawsuit against richard mcclaren they actually brought the documents to his door . and posted a video online that is something that the canadian legislation entails the people to do the lawsuit itself was filed back in july but now they had to bring it in in person which they did so now we expect the lawsuit to proceed in the next thirty days richard mcclary has thirty days to respond to this lawsuit just to remind i mentioned the twenty eight athletes who were cleared of these dopping allegations despite being named on the report back in the days we spoke to that was last year and they had this to say about the about this event. or musical noise with the most news michael things probably was to appear in each game to be all you have lives close if it is contributed.

to your. list of do it just reason. of that is to choose. a good. boy which to be trite. but to most things in the one you want your absolute joy. to be in the middle for shiftings of the opinion leadership in your work the facility with the machine which starts. it don't. think you get that right it's rare. even. now as an aside to this we have the world anti-doping agency de way and just

recently it decided not to further suspend restart of the russian anti-doping agency iver a long. about access to the free moscow that decision didn't go down too well with everybody they did it yes and the usual suspects have been criticizing that decision indeed some members of the media were saying that russia should be banned again that it should be allowed back into sport and you know it begs for a question like you guys want clean sport in russia but at the same time you don't want the agency which is supposed to clean up the sport to to operate which is which is weird but there was this one person who went even further now we're talking about linda hello and she is the minister of children and equality in norway now you may ask yourself what the children and equality have to do with doping she also happens to be the vice president of the world anti-doping agency and the only person on the board of water to vote against a restart is reinstated back in september and this week as well now she said that russia needs to compensate all the expenses that water has suffered over the months

investigating russia's laborde stories and trying to see where the restart is worthy of reinstatement russia must be for those who city she in the involved in the cheated and why did the only reason to this night in day instead of trying to protect clean athletes that is despite russia has been paying around a million dollars annually to the waters budget that is despite russia's spate fifteen million dollars fine to the international olympic committee based on the mclaren report based on the state sponsored system doping allegations she wants more money for despite all that she's not saying a concrete figure but the norwegian press is speculating that could be tens of millions of dollars but as far as we understand miss helen has not yet filed an official lawsuit and we'll see whether she does. not regret it today thanks staying with our to bring you the latest in half an hour.

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