so if you want to know most of us that yours was not a joke. but would you. please the believe that was the idea when this village was the life. well. you know it's a movie. from. 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 are up to cross spend this way to support of president maduro

and the self declared leader though. scotland's form of fairness to minister alex salmond so nice any wrongdoing after being charged with attempted rape. microsoft introduces a fake news detector and its latest browser in the form of an app that ranks sites to trustworthiness that all fears of bias. is just ten five am head in the russian capital we're watching altie and some national. a split is a measuring between world powers say the how to tackle the crisis in venice florida after the opposition needs. to cut himself interim leader the president of venezuela nicolas maduro is refusing. the paste them open reports on the can

eyeball reaction 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 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 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 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 o the time for debate is done 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 is illegitimate donald trump has said that he is not ruling out the possibility of military action against venezuela very very without considering anything but all options are on the day but is that your theory which is all options always 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 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. always maintains the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries opposing external intervention in venezuelan domestic plans 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. and. the military educated disciplined and trained 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 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. 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. former president of ecuador rafael correa has thrown his support behind nicolas madore hickey is the u.s. in several south american countries of trying to bring about a coup in venice where the. what is happening in the world is unbelievably annoying the constitution laws elections and procedures one guy though declares himself interim president something that does not exist in the constitution some

man appears called quieter and eleven latin american countries and the u.s. already hailing him as leader countries that were openly pushing for a coup can you imagine what kind of president make been preparing. what if tomorrow the u.s. doesn't like another government democratic rival ways they back a self declared president and they want the whole world to proclaim him and the organization of american states to greet him with handshakes in the pool. what is happening is unbelievable we have to take a stand against. the crisis in venezuela has been rapidly escalating over the past few days local journalists nori psycho 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 detain and so on population started to back in them and supported them that led to

a situation of violence to come into 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 some violent turn out 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 on the international community because that will lead to or set the mood of the coming days in caracas the french president has followed washington's need and supporting the venezuelan opposition needs. after the illegal election of nicolas maduro in my twenty team europe supports the restoration of democracy i salute the courage of the hundreds of thousand something new zealots call 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 and. 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 of growth even though in france he's seen in a bad light in his popularity has fallen since the elder west protests he wants to tighten the most here against demonstrators. sort of

a double standard he supports such movements which we are not being taken into consideration i don't know why the wrong and others to make such comments if he's not listening to last the same time. speaks of it and look receive but they don't look or see as here is a plutocracy the democracy. independent journalist robert harness 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 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 upset bearing in mind as we have both 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 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. ludicrous their statements are. scotland's form of fest minister alex salmond has been charged with attempted rape and sexual assault has now been released on bail following his the parents of course in edinburgh 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 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 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. 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. 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. a french t.v. show is teaching children how to spot a photo to staged and which news outlets are telling the truth a recent episode was about russia's president vladimir putin and this very channel china dubinsky takes a 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 escape 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 there were in the. words in of cords and both 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 like me putin in different guises form 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 form 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 marc 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 altie 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 we heard from their general secretary of the european federation of journalists ricardo gutierrez he believes facts are being increasingly sidelined in modern reporting. 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 so. 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 she heads. did to request comment from various press agencies and human rights organizations

amnesty international responded with an in toss meant of the television shows principles and content that writer and publish a veil believes the show is not in chain with the 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 always knew in history and especially a trench history. but it doesn't represent french people at all earner for i must i must confess for i am a father my son who 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 an odd horror it's. cerebral today and you are liberalism wants a war against multiple russia like all the fascists although imperialist they

indoctrinate children and dirty tricks they took to the streets of paris to see what people had to say about the program semitone the excellent and i'm astonished that they teach my country that other countries are bad here we talk about manipulations by the media on the internet we would be better explain twenty 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 this is false 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 this in the prospects of so i don't think it is good to tell case other countries are bad it is up to kids to shape their own opinion. yes it is if politicize ation of children we should not influence children we should give them basic education but not the ten feelings them about other countries they don't know because. microsoft has introduced a new browser extension which tells you whether

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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 old way to proceed with caution. russian athletes the so in the author of a twenty sixteen report on alleged state sponsored day being that after the swiss supremes courts cleared them of using performance enhancing drugs my colleague andrew farmer discussed the story with artie's alexia. 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 probably do with your. family lives close you think boy has contributed. to your. it is to get used to. try. to warn you absolute joy. to be in the middle. of

the opinion leadership in your with me she really would be much words. if 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 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 be for those who city shinn they. involved in the cheated and wanted 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 speed 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. who is leading the group of athletes in 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 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 to pass a lot of those athletes who spent four years working hard preparing for the olympic games were treated unfairly that's why i want to defend them just as.

this court process will not be quick we gave a 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 the 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 or 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 the arabian government as well as press freedom organizations expressed their outrage over her arrest. describe her idea ordeal to artie's afshin rattansi some of the information is sealed but i don't think that this should be sealed you never know i was told anyway so i was flown crying.