the political crisis in venezuela prompts a wave of international reaction some backing the country's opposition leaders interim president others though voiced concern over foreign meddling and the potential for a civil war. government demonstrations of erupted across the country with opposition supporters and police clashing. into the new scotland former first minister alex salmond has denied any wrongdoing after he was charged with attempted rape and sexual assault. microsoft includes a fake news detector in its latest browser in the form of an amp that ranks sites

for trust with an off ears. good evening thanks for joining us this is our three international. a split between world powers over how to tackle the crisis in venezuela after the opposition leader one declared himself interim leader the president of venezuela nicolas maduro is refusing to leave the position president of venezuela nicolas maduro is refusing to leave the position let's get an update now from our correspondent in new york. we've heard different global viewpoints on who is in charge now in venezuela what's the latest. well one is an opposition figure he's part of the national assembly and in front of a crowd of his supporters. as he recently took an oath and declared himself to be

the interim president of venezuela saying that nicolas maduro the elected president who was just recently re inaugurated that he's not legitimate now he's gotten support from brazil argentina and sheila and all of them are basically following the lead of u.s. president donald trump trump declared that one way to was indeed the interim president of venezuela even though no election took place in order to get him that title now more recently in the aftermath of trump's recognition of wedo we heard some rather fiery words from u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh this is pomp ale the time for debate is done. the regime of former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate his regime is morally bankrupt. second ominously incompetent it is profoundly corrupt. it is democratic to the core. i repeat the regime of former president

nicolas maduro is illegitimate. now the statements from u.s. leaders often will invoke the economic situation in venezuela blame the government for that situation however many critics of u.s. foreign policy have looked around and said that this this position of the united states of recognizing grade zero as the leader has only further cemented divisions and caused further polarization in venezuela a country that's already suffering under u.s. sanctions now at this point trump has actually not ruled out the use of military force against venezuela this is donald trump's comment when asked what he intended to do with regards to the venezuelan country and very quickly without considering anything but all options are on the day because that would be your theory which is all options or what is all options. now at this point there are a number of countries that do recognize nicolas maduro as the venezuelan president

hugo bolivia and mexico have all recognized and continued to recognized as the elected leader furthermore russia has also been very clear that it recognizes and maintains relations with the leadership of venezuela and with nicolas maduro and china has also been very outspoken in backing nicolas maduro this is what we've heard from chinese leaders when china always maintains the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries to no intervention in venezuela and domestic. now the public in venezuela has been somewhat divided we've seen protests taking place across the country we've seen a huge number of people coming out to support the government we've also seen opposition protests that have been largely people denouncing the government there have been clashes in the street but one force in venezuela that's rather pivotal in situations like this is the military and the venezuelan military is very adamant

that it stands behind when they're all this is the leader of the venezuelan military making a statement on the current situation in the country. to. the military educated disciplined and trained to the highest values of the cool inspired by the values of independence peace in common good proclaimed loyalty an absolute subordination to nicolas maduro the constitutional president of the bone a very in republic of venezuela i feel my commander in chief you can count on supporting your daily efforts to achieve stability and strengthen our beloved. now with two people claiming to be the president of venezuela the situation could escalate very rapidly many are observing the situation and are very afraid but if you look at how the international community has lined up deeper divisions in venezuela and you know possible escalation perhaps to the point of civil war that would not only have implications in venezuela but could have very global

implications as well. many thanks to our correspondent in new york caleb moore put with the latest. let's bring in the diversion who's the co-founder of the antiwar organization code pink could speak to a worrying situation. especially as we're hearing about some deaths recently things are escalating now in venezuela we've got russia and china standing by the elected president duro quite a few western powers saying he's no longer in that position where do you think this is leading. it's leading to a civil war it's a very dangerous situation we have the outside interference we have right wing internally in venezuela charging people up there's a lot of people that have weapons and then it's well it's it's indeed very scary and i find it very worrisome not only do we have been like you know. supporting the illegitimate presidency of one we don't know but we also have

a lot of silence from the democrats as well and we have to push them to speak out to say that this is a attempted coup and the u.s. elected officials outside the white house will not support. what some of their so spoke to said was quite remarkable was the situation where we have u.s. diplomats who been ordered out of the country by the president they're refusing to leave i just wonder what you make about does it have any effect upon the situation . well yes because they were given seventy four hour seventy two hours we've already had this is the second day so this is really setting things up for a direct confrontation with the united states if they refuse to leave and the men there are government wants to press it and force them to leave that definitely sets up a confrontation we also have been in touch with the people in the venezuelan embassy here in the united states in washington d.c. and they are extremely scared they don't know if they're going to get their doors

busted in. during the night some time in the. forest on a plane to leave so yes the diplomatic situation is very tense the us does have a history of influencing politics in south america is this more of the same as history repeating itself. we thought that perhaps we had learned something over these years not only affects terrible effects of coups in latin america but also the effects of u.s. intervention in the middle east and in latin america we have the two thousand and nine who in honduras the u.s. ended up supporting and the violence there is so grave that now people can't lift their in their streaming towards the united states to try to come in here so unfortunately the u.s. has not learned its lesson over these years and continues to try to select who are the leaders of other countries instead of allowing the people themselves to make that choice for us. how can i put this is not very delicate about this issue

to be picking a fight in fact i would say we because says any country that supports muro is author of terry and one of the u.s. allies turkey is supporting. could that create a rift do you think between the u.s. and. absolutely can create a rift not only with thirty but with a number of other countries and especially with mexico mexico is right on our border we have a very delicate situation with mexico now with regards to the migrants from central america who are trying to here and to create that kind of a dichotomy to say that anybody that supports my general is basically an enemy of the united states creates a very difficult situation right here on our border appreciate your time i guess the benjamin co-founder of the antiwar organization code pink thanks. thank you. know the french president among my chrome has followed washington's lead in. the

venezuelan opposition leader. but. after the illegal election of nicolas maduro he made twenty europe's support of the restoration of democracy i salute the courage of the hundreds of thousands of new sailors call marching for their freedom. short of machine 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 who can ism and violence without exceptions them into sort of. for me this remarks raise certain questions as to how to tell people do they

contribute to the one telling people who 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 his this remarks and i won't say more about them as of course the on friendly. it's called diplomacy the crown wants have a good image approach even though in france he's seen in a bad light in his popularity has fallen the other way as 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 when the chron bothers to make such comments if he's not listening to us at the same time. speaks of a democracy but they democracy he has here is a plutocracy the democracy there in which. independent journalist and political

analyst robert harness believes the yellow vest movement won't be quick to praise micron's words it 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 i don't think it will go down very well the political class i don't think they would think it was a very clever thing to upset bearing in mind as we have both said as france has a serious problem with public order itself i'm sure he will be violently criticised it for us i see people will 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 in the yellow jackets and said they recognized 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 been released on bail following his appearance at court in edinburgh artie's police has the 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 hearing 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 colleague.

attorney a police station in central scotland. i was a leash on condition i came to the court today to face the charges against me i never sent for any criminality whatsoever but 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 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 r.t. . 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 for use in propaganda have become more prevalent in discussions about

journalism and one program on french t.v. is teaching children how to spot a photo as a staged and which news outlets are telling the truth a recent episode was about russia's president vladimir putin this very channel 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 two are the. words in the report involves grew close enough pretty soon the door to the with their low suv aldrin above 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 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 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 who'd have been accredited for offense were 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 these are more secretary of the european federation of journalists ricardo gutierrez has noticed 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. but as you heard a little earlier r.t. did request comment from various press agencies and human rights organizations amnesty international responded with an indorsement of the television shows principals content writer and publisher emerick nonverbal believes that the show is not in tune with local attitudes. especially when it's about so children and mr international should investigate on this case maybe it's the typical case of warping and we all always knew in history and especially

a trench history. but it doesn't represent a french people at all and a far i must i must confess from i'm. a father my son his his fighters all and he was a learning. russian songs for instance and and for the better and it's a it's good news but what the government is making and you know it's it's a horror it's a. cerebral today and you are liberalism wants a war against multiple russia like all the fascists although imperialist they indoctrinate children and dirty tricks. and we took to the streets of paris to find out what the people there had to say. semitone leaks you 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 to our kids not to trust what is on the internet or to trust any verified information the same

should be done to adults as well but i don't believe 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 this isn't 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 turn flynn's them about other countries they don't know because. microsoft says that its latest browser will have a feature to assess the reliability of media outlets but the system in question called news guard has been criticized by some journalists philippa trying to takes a closer look at who may stand to benefit proceed with caution just a regular side of a blind corner and overhead crane area wild animals crossing and news

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a twenty six team report on alleged state sponsored doping after the swiss supremes court cleared the of using performance enhancing drugs my colleague andrew farmer discussed the story without. 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. 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 daubing allegations although they 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 mclaren has thirty days to respond to this lawsuit just to remind i mentioned the twenty eight athletes who were cleared of these doping allegations despite being named on the report back in the days we spoke to them that was last year and they had this to say about the about this event. musial noise with the most news marvel at the things presently wish to appear to be change you can believe is going to be a very slow one. almost. but the news niosh to your.

list of do it just reason you should sit a. lot. of that is to get used to just. born in the rich to be trite. but to most things in the one you want your absolute joy in the most of your thoughts are you close. to being a bit of the bush if the news of the opinion leadership in europe where they seem to be would be rushing towards. it don't you. think if you did that the. history of. if you. as an aside to this we have the world anti doping agency de way and just recently

it decided not to further suspend rosado the russian anti-doping agency i brought along saugor about access to the boat 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 and that it should be allowed back into the 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 sports so operate which is which is we have but there was this one person who went even further now we're talking about hello and she is the minister of children and equality in norway now you may ask yourself what. children inequality 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 result is worthy of reinstatement russia must be for those who city involved in the cheated and why did to move. 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 ok i'll be back with updates for you in half an hour.