was. it. was. the political crisis in venezuela divides global opinion with the west backing the country's opposition leader and russia and china warning against foreign meddling. rival demonstrations erupts across fairness waylay in support tough president maduro and the self declared leader employed though. scotland's former fest minister alex salmond surmised any wrongdoing off to being charged with attempted rape. microsoft introduces a fake news detector in its latest browser in the form with an app that ranks sites to trust waiting us so that all bits of fire.

live from the russian capital this is international. a split to submerging between world powers so how to talk with a crisis in venice weyler off to the opposition leader declared himself into relieved the president of venezuela nicolas maduro is refusing to leave the post but we can now cross live to caleb moore pin caleb good to see you wearing some very different global viewpoints on who is now in charge in venezuela can you bring us up to date. indeed now when it comes to venezuela and whether or not you support the elected president nicolas maduro or the interim president declared by himself. who declared himself this at this point whether or

not you support one of those leaders or support the other seems to be a big point of division in international politics we've got brazil argentina and chile winding up behind the united states trump has recently declared that the usa recognizes wand wedo as the interim president of venezuela and we've heard some rather fiery words from mike pompei oh the u.s. secretary of state this is mike pompei oh. the time for debate is done the regime of former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate his regime is morally bankrupt economically incompetent it is profoundly corrupt. it is democratic to the core. i repeat the regime of former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate. now in response to trump's decision to

confer this recognition of president on to juan guede oh there's actually been a cutting of diplomatic relations at this point nicolas maduro has cut diplomatic ties between venezuela and the united states from what we understand the venezuelan embassy in the united states and washington d.c. has closed now at this point donald trump has said that he is not ruling out the possibility of military action against venezuela this is donald trump when he was asked to clarify his comments and his position on venezuela this is an interaction between trump in the press a theory. with what i consider you anything but all through the day because that would be your theory which is that all options all of us all options. but there are a number of countries that at this point are supporting nicolas maduro and recognizing him as the legitimate president elected by the people of venezuela and inaugurated mexico is supporting the dural as is nicaragua as is china and

russia on fact russian president vladimir putin has has said that the decision to to recognize and to support madeira is the decision that russia has made and that the destructive external influence is kind of violating international law the usa is essentially meddling in venezuela's affairs china has also been rather outspoken in its support of the government of venezuela this is chinese officials commenting . when china always maintains the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries don't know intervention in venezuela and domestic. now there are divisions within venezuela we've seen different protests taking place today some protesters supporting wedo others supporting the dural however when there is division in the country about who is the legitimate head of state the role of the military can be rather important so we have this statement on behalf of the venezuelan military pretty clearly stating where they stand on the issue. of.

the military educated disciplined ensuring to the highest values of the cool and inspired by the values of independence peace and common good proclaimed loyalty an absolute subordination to nicolas maduro the constitutional president of the bull a very and republic of venezuela my commander in chief you can count on supporting your daily effort to achieve stability and strengthen our beloved homeland. so we're seeing some pretty big divisions in venezuela but there are also big divisions and polarization in the international community and many fear that if some kind of civil war or confrontation were to break out in venezuela it would have pretty big international implications as well. thanks for bringing us up to speed a correspondent in new york caleb maupin thank. european parliament member. says washington needs to stick to international law and steaming spent. we've

been here in saying he's considering the possibility of military intervention for some time already that's why we must be dead and against military intervention which will be illegal money from the us can go against the un and in the national law and start the destructive intervention we have already seen what happened in iraq over a million people died in a sovereign country was destroyed that's why we should be helping for the determination of the venezuelan people to virgin. it's crucial to warn the us that they can act above the law and it's not for them to decide who will make the rules you know this or that contrary to the crisis in venezuela has been rapidly escalating over the past few days local journalist nora sagal has been in the midst of the unrest in caracas. we started to see new protests new sports protests here in correctness from monday when a group of military to go headquarters and took some arms after that they were

detained and so on populations started to back in them and supported them that led to a situation of violence. in two very unexpected levels in caracas that tension was rising and rising and rising until yesterday where the demonstration in favor of one why don't to cause some violent turnout after the rally after four days of protest twenty states people reportedly were killed. we are very out to look for more protest going on this week and in the coming days

so we will need to pay a lot of attention of what the actions of the opposition are going to be and what actions the government are going to take and a force we need to look out on the community and in the international community because that will lead to or set the mood of the coming days in caracas. the french president a man who mark wrong has followed washington state and supporting the venezuelan opposition leader. after the illegal election of nicolas maduro in my twenty europe supports the restoration of democracy i salute the courage of the hundreds of thousand something new zealand's 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 i condemn any acts of hooliganism and violence without exceptions. for me this remarks or a certain question is do they help the telling people do they contribute to the well being of the telling people what should be the preoccupation of the italian government and. 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. please call diplomacy because once have a good image of growth even though in france he's seen in his best light in his popularity has fallen says the protests he wants to tighten the most here against

demonstrators. sort of a double standard he supports such movements but we are not being taken into consideration i don't know why the wrong of others to make such comments if he's not listening to last at the same time. the film speaks of it in the uk receive but they don't look or see as here is a plutocracy the democracy. and abandon chen lester up its highness believes macro installs on venice whale is problematic. 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 at the political class i don't think they would think it was a very clever thing to accept bearing in mind that 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 brutally criticised already

by the spaniards who say there was no need to talk like that what would he say if the russians back. 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 fest minister alex salmond has been charged with attempted rape and sexual assault he's now been released on bail following his a parents of course in asm via artie's party boy 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. the attorney the police station in central scotland where i was a leash was on condition i 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 r.t. . 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 more news here on r.t. after the break. what you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express interest. some want to. let you go right to be this is what the for. the people. interested always in the law.

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. because of that report now this report had some inconsistency is in it but secondly the twenty eight athletes which were later. you know reinstated all the doping allegations although they were named on 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 doping allegations

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to be in the middle. of the opinion leadership in your with the she'll be with us but. it. did you did that and it's. now as an aside to this we have the world anti-doping agency day and just recently it decided not to further suspend the russian anti-doping agency over a long saga about access to the sky 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 we have but there was there's 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 result is worthy of reinstatement russia must be for those who city shinn they. involved in the cheated and why did you always resources to this night and 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 dollar firing to the international olympic committee based on the mclaren report based on the state sponsored system doping allegations she wants

more money for water 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 will see whether she does we spoke exclusively with the former president of the russian rowing federation any i mean both he was leading the group of athletes in the lawsuit. so most of the summer is based on our expenses during preparations for the olympics it is all backed up by official accounting documents i don't think we were asking for too much it's not so much about money it is more a compensation if mr mclaren were to publicly apologize that would be fine to. me. it hurts me personally that those athletes who spent two years working hard preparing for the olympic games were treated unfairly that's why i want to defend them just. this process will not be quick we gave the lawsuit documents to

mclaren and he now has thirty days to assess the situation and respond then we along with canadian lawyers will examine all of the documents this process could take over a year. and up to date with the latest world news so bring you more top stories in around thirty minutes time. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. of the with one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but

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in the right location. will be able through. us will roll out of the river between i do say and russia. welcome to the alex salmond show from copenhagen and the delicious parliament they make the big decisions of faith in the politics of the kingdom of denmark but surveys tell us that this is the most contented society on earth and this program we try and get to grips with the secret of the daily show of happiness it's

a fascinating time in danish politics p. alice levy is copenhagen former maid of culture and leisure and former mayor of chilton and yes she says culture and leisure is a vital part of the city's long term planning i she is convinced it's a big reason why the city ranks as i have the happiest places in the world. obviously work with the example show thank you so much. as move of cultural closure of human copenhagen how important is the cultural aspect to the vibrancy of a great city like this well i think the cultural life in copenhagen is one of the reasons why we have been ranked as one of the best cities in the world of course you need daycare centers you need great infrastructure and all that but it's the cultural life is the lesser life it's all the fun things that are important to a city the size of copenhagen at least maybe the sort of the world cup in the skyline

a much of the the traditional architecture of the time. difficult thing to do well it was actually one of my first political decisions when i became mayor of cultural lesher back in two thousand and eight and a former lord mayor she didn't want to keep the skyline she wanted to make it possible if the right project came that we could just put up a big building right in the center of the city but a majority of parties decided that no way we want to keep the skyline we want to keep what disparity important and very special to copenhagen but we also wanted to make sure that of course we can build high buildings and spectacular new buildings in the surroundings of the city but the old city has to remain the old city structure the pier for a visitor to the city like myself those wonderful is where the first issue you noticed distinctively about copenhagen but of course with the number of people coming and wanting to come to copenhagen to still be as

a result the city success of must be quite a tension between not being able to build in the comedy to the growing number of people well but i think that most people they prefer copenhagen like this because we're building new fantastic areas in copenhagen with new very modern buildings i think a lot of people they would actually not like to live in the old city because you have all the past you have all the restaurants you have all the people in the old city so the people coming to copenhagen to live here they actually want to stay just. a kilometer or two away from the from the center but still be able to go there and enjoy the life there so we're building i don't know really many many many apartments right now for for new copenhagen so the people will conduct a listen to you over the christmas period this magical we're going to get. mad before i if i was here perhaps or not. as we say and scott was.