the political crisis in venice where divides global opinion with the west backing the country's opposition leader and russia and china warning against foreign meddling. rival demonstrations are up to cross found this way in support of president maduro and the self declared leader. of. scotland's former finance minister alex thomson eyes any wrongdoing off to being charged with attempted rape.

microsoft introduces a fake news to tax and its latest browser in the form of an app that ranks sites for trustworthiness though that fears of bias. you're watching r.t. international welcome to the program. the split is a measuring between world powers so for how to tackle the crisis in venice weyler off to the opposition need one quiet though declared himself interim leader the president of venezuela nicolas maduro is refusing to leave the post caleb maupin reports on the global reaction in response to trump's decision to confer this recognition of president onto one grade zero there's actually been a cutting of diplomatic relations at this point nicolas maduro has cut u.s. 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 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 been during the elected president who was just recently re inaugurated that he is not legitimate 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 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 this illegitimate donald trump has said that he is not ruling out the possibility of military action against venezuela. without considering anything but all options are on the day that your theory which is all options all of us all options 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 recognize me 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. and always maintain the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries shuls and you can turn the intervention in venezuelan domestic hands to the public in venezuela has been somewhat divided 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 ensuring to the highest values of the cool inspired by the values of independence peace and common good proclaimed loyalty an absolute subordination to nicolas maduro the constitutional president of the bone 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. 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 there has been rapidly escalating over the past few days and less nor a psychopath 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 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 to 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 to what the actions of the opposition are going to be and what actions the government are going to take and of course we need to look out on the community in the international community because that will lead to or set the mood of the coming days in caracas the french president tomorrow micron has followed

washington's lead in supporting the venezuelan opposition leader. after the 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 were

a certain questions do they help people do they contribute to the well being of the telling people what should be the preoccupation of the italian government and don't believe 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. anti 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 otherwise protest he wants it ties in 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 the same time. the difference speaks of it and receive but they don't look or see as here is a plutocracy the democracy. and the pandan jan lest robert thomas

believes my constance on venice way 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 have said 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 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 bitterly criticized already by the spaniards who say there was no need to talk like that what would he say if the russians back that 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 . meanwhile techies president has expressed his support for the venezuelan

president speaking at a news conference in and press he expressed his shock at the u.s. recognition of when and why though as interim leader. so. you must respect those if you don't respect the ballot box this is not democracy it is a totalitarian mindset as a person who believes in democracy the announcement by president trump shocked me i called president and i said stand tall i believe material will overcome these difficult times if you continue to stand strong along with those who believe in him . to discuss this story fair that we can now bring him at least on the list. a very welcome to the program now as we just head president one accused countries of disregarding the democratic process in venice weta and showing a totalitarian mindset by supporting. so all there is reasonable accusations in

your opinion. your view my opinion but in turkey is a period these are very reasonable accusations because turkey sees itself as one of the parts of the camp that has been opposing the western intervention in in various countries all over the globe. so in this perspective the ballot box should be valued in a way that the state itself is valued and the perception is that. there are a dog or kill intervention of the united states and some other countries that follows the united states harms the democratic processes in these countries even though these prophecies have been criticized aspirated turkish president's remarks and the turkish official position these problems should be solved within the democracy of these countries without any foreign intervention and you just touched upon that briefly but i don't want statement puts him at odds with the us could this why didn't the rift between them. yes it is and there is an interesting

point here. directly address president trump indicating that his his counterpart president trump is the. just to go in the united states that the disputes between the turkish government and the american establishment continue but president trump president trump and president are gone have to reach some sort of a consensus but this situation turkey's outspoken support for the venezuelan president. and the process in as well can easily turn into another diplomatic stalemate or a crisis should president trump respond to present evidence remarks and back twenty sixteen eddo on himself with the targets of a failed coup could be one reason why he's showing solidarity with.

this is one of the reasons as the turkish government sort of vive their failed coup attempt and it continues to accuse western intervention in two thousand and sixteen two over to the a.t.p. government this is one of the reasons that the turkish state and the turkish president jumped on associates himself with those leaders who are on the west and pressure and this is who she comes with the with the end. that there could always be a change in fact if these are not stopped but in the meantime the turkish turkish official narrative since two thousand and sixteen has been. increasingly anti western and anti american which requires turkey to take action when this sort of actions are taken by western states especially in intervention in the political processes of of countries that the turkish president associate himself or the turkish state is

considered to be on similar track the situation actually goes back to the. so-called cool off president sisi in in egypt and the turkish state and the turkish public. initially associated the western support for president against protecting us the former president morsi as a plot against against egypt that could easily be repeated in turkey if the meaning of fact if the chain the fact is not stop a similar situation a similar scenario is spoken here that turkey sees the self one of the part of a camp that had that is tasked with opposing western intervention in in in countries but in the meantime as i said the turkish official state narrative has been increasingly anti western especially after turkey we consummated with with russia and form an alliance in syria and when it comes to countries like venezuela

in the outspoken intervention of the us government in the n.f.l. as well in process turkey sees this task with opposing the outspoken need to mobilize support in cases of intervention in any other country especially when israel or turkey and turkish allies in the take president was speaking just after his visit to moscow and his fears on venezuela are quite similar to those of president putin always saying a growing alignment between tech and russia on foreign policy no. as i said in the beginning of my speech today. the strategic alliance between turkey and the us government is no more functioning and there's only one a law and says that it's between president their dog and president trump on a very certain simple matter that is north eastern syria there has been no free consultation between turkey and the us or any other issues so the turkish alliance

with russia continues and continues to grow and the current rapprochement between between president airborne and president trump is not going to bring about a. consultation between the turkish and the us establishment there are many many other problems including ongoing support to kurdish groups in syria the us policy in iraq the us policy regarding the the the so-called partakers in the in the in the failed coupe of two thousand and sixteen and many other issues including the increasingly growing turkish anti western regard has been used to consolidate the turkish public for to support support president so i don't believe there's no any return from turkish russian relations any time soon and i don't believe that the current time limit us from. iran and washington regarding the potential

withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria can bring about a total we constantly ation between the turkish and us establishments so that we are. set to see more remarks coming from from the turkish president against the us and i expect that if this doric continues president trump will respond to the tiger dawns remarks on that as well ok appreciate your thoughts on the topic that middle east analyst jang soccer match thank you for coming on to thank you. scotland's former first minister alex salmond has been charged with attempted rape and sexual assault he's now being released on bail following his a parents of course in edinburgh. well 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 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. 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 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 coming your way after the break. we're going. you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president ensure. that you going to be the first to see what the. real people are. interested. 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 stopped 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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