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a not that rock sized to trust waving us though that all face of bias. is just ten three am head in the russian capital this is often and some national. as split as imagine between world powers say the how to tackle the crisis in venezuela after the opposition needs. to cut himself interim needs or the president of venezuela nicolas maduro is refusing to leave the post. reports on the global reaction. was an opposition figure he's part of the national assembly and in front of a crowd of his supporters 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 is not lived. now he's gotten support from

brazil argentina and chile and all of them basically following the lead of u.s. president donald trump trump declared that wand wedo 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 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 in response to trump's decision to confer this recognition of president onto one great oh there's actually been a cutting of diplomatic relations at this point nicolas maduro has cut us

diplomatic ties between venezuela and the united states from what we understand the venezuelan embassy in the united states in washington d.c. has closed and at this point the usa is bringing back some of its diplomats from venezuela donald trump has said that he is not ruling out the possibility of military action against venezuela very quickly on earth without considering anything but all options are on the day that your theory which is all options all weathers all options but at this point there are a number of countries that do recognize nicolas maduro as the venezuelan president cuba 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. nose maintains the

principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries to no intervention in venezuela and domestic 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 monroe. the military educated disciplined and trained to the highest values of the cool inspired by the values of independence peace and common good loyalty an absolute subordination to nicolas maduro the constitutional president of the bolivarian republic of venezuela my commander in chief you can count on supporting your daily efforts to achieve stability and strengthen our beloved. 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 the crisis in venezuela has been rapidly escalating over the past few days that could tennis norris i go to spain in the midst of the unrest in caracas. we started to see new protests new sports protests here incorrectness 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 or 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 in a force we need to look out on the community and the international community because that will lead to or set the mood of the coming days in caracas.

the french president a man who micron has followed washington's lead in 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 zealots 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 people do they contribute to the wellbeing of the telling people what should be the preoccupation of the italian government. do they change anything 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 approach even though in france he's seen in a bad light in his popularity has fallen the other was protest he wants to tighten the most here against demonstrators. sort of a double standard he supports. 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 received but they don't look or see as here

is a plutocracy the democracy. independent journalist roberts harness believes macron stalls on venice where that 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 the political class i don't think it would think it was a very clever thing to upset bearing in mind as we have said as france has a serious problem with probably a good result i'm sure he would be violently criticised to france and see people 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 on it was

a 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 has now been released on bail following his appearance and courts and the broader. boyko house 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 courts 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 source of car bomb doesn't. attend the a police station in central. no i was a leash on condition though you came to the court to be to freeze the charges against me i never said. criminality whatsoever oh i refute absolutely these are allegations of criminality and i'll decide myself to the utmost in court. are the group. 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 the 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 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.

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in the waters. i don't know president c.c.t. 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 you know other differing political points of view and that he needs to crack down on people for having stopped thinks that he's doing it for the best interests of egypt she thinks that he's doing your for the best interests of egyptians but it's definitely not the case. welcome back to. russian athletes assuming the author have

a twenty sixteen report on the match state sponsored taping that's off to the swiss supreme court's cleared them of using performance enhancing drugs my colleague andre fama discussed the story with lexi arusha. 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 mph . 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 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. is a little noise with the most news. things produce. has contributed

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as an aside to this we have the world anti doping agency day and just recently decided not to further suspend the russian anti-doping agency over a long saga about access to the three 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 too to operate which is which is weird 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 whether assad is worthy of reinstatement russia must pay for these who city shinn there. involved in the cheated and why did you 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 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 i understand miss helen has not yet filed an official lawsuit and we'll see whether she does we spoke exclusively with the former president of the russian rowing federation any i mean both his leading the

group of athletes and the lawsuit. well most of the summer is based on our expenses during preparations for the olympics it is all backed up by official accounting documents but i don't think we're asking for too much it's not so much about money it's more a compensation if mr mclaren were to publicly apologize that would be fine too. yes. it hurts me personally that those athletes who spent four years working hard preparing for the olympic games were treated unfairly that's why i want to defend them and obtain justice. this court process will not be quick we gave our 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 documents this process could take over a year. and american iranian journalist who was arrested in the u.s. last week has spoken exclusively to r.t.

after being released without charge marzia hashimi who works for press t.v. was detained on january the thirteenth while visiting family in the state of missouri she was questioned by the f.b.i. as a material witness in an unspecified case they rein in government as well as press freedom organizations expressed their outrage over her arrest marzia hashemi described her ordeal to r.t. is afshin rattansi some of the information that's sealed but i don't think that this should be sealed but you never know i was told anyway so i was flown private plane. to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that into the f.b.i. the f.b.i. headquarters. were. my my picture was taken mug shots they took my d.n.a. with the winners review the roads no one is still you know review the roads. no one

ever read me my rights my rights were not read i was on suicide watch there which i can tell you i mean i'm thinking wow what's going on here there was actually a prisoner who was getting out that day and we were sitting together in this one room about to be transferred by shackles to the court and she and i found out i knew that someone had been sitting outside of myself all of the sudden and i was like i don't know what that was about and she says oh no they said that you were on suicide watch suicide watch. i mean i'm definitely not going to kill myself. i tell you what it concerns me and she because i'm thinking well you know maybe they have something up their sleeves here. and you can watch the full interview with my fair hashimi in going underground on saturday have a moth international don't forget for more details on any of our stories to

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