top stories this hour venezuelan president nicolas maduro orders the closure of his embassy in america off of washington recognizes an opposition leader in american countries an interim president. venezuela the president is elected by the schools they take anyone from the street who wants to be a president. for us media and a number of celebrities working themselves into

a frenzy of a dog bred make america great again. klux klan codes. the ongoing rift over migration. takes a swipe at the e.u.'s foreign affairs chief suggesting she's forgotten her italian roots. it is friday minus seventeen degrees celsius here in moscow a lot of important stories to get to you today welcome to the. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has ordered the closure of venezuela's embassy in the united states off the total trump recognized opposition leader one quite go as a latin american countries interim leader but otoh has accused of being washington's puppet. i wanted to do you know that his way that the president is

elected by the schools they take anyone from the street who wants to be a president nicolas maduro has cut 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 i've decided to include diplomatic and consular staff of united states includes our embassy and consulates in that country you. know as 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 is not legitimate now he's gotten support from brazil argentina and sheila 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 the regime former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate. his regime is morally bankrupt. it's economically incompetent it is profoundly corrupt. it is democratic to the core. i repeat the regime former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate in public in venezuela has been somewhat divided with two people claiming to be the president of venezuela the situation could escalate very rapidly that would not only have implications in venezuela but could have very global implications as well. former president of ecuador rafael corral has thrown his support behind nicolas my daughter. the u.s.

and several not an american countries are trying to bring about a coup in venezuela. what is happening in the world is. ignoring the constitution elections and procedures. to chris himself interim president something that does not exist in the constitution some man appears cold and eleven latin american countries and the us ricky hailing him as the country's openly pushing for. can you imagine what kind of precedent they've been preparing for what if tomorrow the u.s. doesn't like or not the government democratic or otherwise they back a self declared crystal and they want the whole world to print preview something look at our station of american states to greet him with herm shrieks of the people what is happening is unbelievable and we have to take

a stand against it. it's not the first time washington's been accused of meddling in other countries a. weather events in venezuela might be following a tried and tested recipe. starting an uprising a revolution is simple enough first comes the pressure sanctions built up gradually first it was a few officials and then they sanctioned the president and state companies and the government itself through deed and word they helped show when they are into a crisis we are evaluating all of our policy options as to what can we do to create a change of conditions were either liberal decides he doesn't have a future or we can return. the government processes to their constitution we are not going to tolerate the dictatorship he's trying to create the maduro dictatorship a dictator dictator the venezuelan people deserve better than what the regime of

nicolas maduro offers them now that the country and people are in economic misery and you vilified its leaders pick a hero like thirty five year old u.s. educated head of the national assembly which as it turns out to the united states has been quietly assisting financially and helping for a while who would have thought. by now you should have caused enough trouble problems on top of everything out stuff force even the app a little into the streets the more noise the better and you mustn't let things calm down keep shouting keep agitating. i. thank. god.

you're going. in the and keep the chaos. the confusion comes a special moment when lord breaks down when loyalties crumble when brother turns on brother in the street partly thanks to you that moment do something crazy like denounce the government proclaim a new i'm elected president obama. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one god or the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira or your syrup or and call for the establishment of a transitional government now is the time for more direct action to get all your friends on board as many nations to recognize one go ido as president quickly as

possible as no going back now alone b.-a colombia recognizes one quite as president of venezuela and will assist in the transition to democracy to liberate the venezuelan people from the dictator rather brazil has just issued a note recognizing one why do as venezuela's president. will support this realization in a democracy alongside other countries in the immigrant we recognize and express our full support for the presidency of venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly one quite though it is clear that nicolas maduro is not the legitimate leader of venezuela so the united kingdom believes that plan is the right person to take venezuela forward there's heavy pressure from the us certainly all of the allies i mean countries like under us that are allied with the united states are going to be expected to parrot this line if you go back to one nine

hundred seventy three in the attempt to overthrow salvador allende it was exactly the same playbook we're watching a replay these are the kinds of tactics that the american government is used to overthrow regimes that it considers hostile to us business interests certainly smaller countries will feel the pressure especially within latin america from the united states to play the game you see if your country just so happens to be in the americas you're in washington's hemisphere which it seems justifies medal. interfering and changing governments at will but just to be sure bully them let them know that if you don't get what you want you'll beat the lights out of them and take what you want. of it without considering anything but all options are on the table is that the very which is all options all options and there you go sparking uprisings one

o one now this me will take some practice tweak here or there but it works tried and tested time and time again but the consequences are a whole other story. the venezuela crisis has split much of the world support for president my daughter has been voiced by china russia and turkey and then latin america by bolivia cuba and mexico all right leaning governments in the region though backing one why don't you also has the support of kind of an in europe france germany in the u.k. the e.u. itself is calling for new elections there hasn't formally recognized as president. and with turkey's president to go on among those expressing their support for my daughter we spoke to anchor as former minister for affairs he thinks the people of venezuela can end this political crisis and. you must respect. if you don't respect the books this is not democracy it is

a totalitarian mindset as a person who believes in democracy the announcement by president trump shocked me more with someone just. because of the. way he. is. he first who declared himself as president was elected as a member of parliament. was the parliament and head of the opposition but he was not elected president we. who had been here in turkey back in july two thousand and sixteen we are all military that was all but it was our own people who went with their bare arms their heads their raids against the military yet they start. if anyone tries to to tear that people will do whatever it takes to make sure that they will both continues to grow and

that doesn't. mean while the decision of certain e.u. leaders to follow washington's lead in supporting one quite zero strikes some as a case of double standards. i. have to there we go election nicolas maduro may twenty europe supports the restoration of democracy i salute the courage of the hundreds of thousands of the marching for the freedom. 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 hooliganism and violence without exceptions i mean to say.

this remarks re certain questions to the healthy town people do they contribute to the one telling people should be the preoccupation of the terran government. and you don't believe zero do they change anything in the french political situation i don't believe so either so i think these are useless remarks and i won't say more about them as of course the on friendly. it's called diplomacy mcconnell once have a good image approach even though in france he's seen in a bad light in his popularity has fallen since the l.o.'s protest he wants to tighten the loss 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 why mccraw 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 of the rich independent journalist robert honest believes micron's a stance on venezuela 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 to class i don't think they would think it was a very clever thing to have said bearing in mind as we said as fronts as a serious problem will probably grow there is so i'm sure we violently criticised it for us 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 the crisis in venezuela has rapidly escalated over just the past few days the local journalist has in the midst of the unrest in caracas. after

a relatively calm year venice well a seeing his person violence again on the streets after four days of protest when you see it's people reportedly were killed during these acts of violence on the streets and a sign of decision declared as president of venezuela while nicolas maduro stays at the presidential palace after days of religious and violence continue and escalated during the day. i. thank. god. i. asked her deposition rally the values continue to escalate throughout the night and is probably to continue to lead in duty and then it's coming days. supporters are now being compared to

klux klan members with a number of media outlets and celebrities likening the make america great again to the white to hood so the infamous racist group is our correspondent patrik. this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the maggot hat this is a kook looks klan hoot they used to terrorize fried african americans and those different shapes eras purposes however. this make america great again hat is just as maddening and frustrating in sugaring for me to look at as a k.k.k. hood many people have called donald trump of filthy racist in the past what's up with this new wave of how the hate now even though something that's now compared to the k.k.k. fashion has been worn by african-americans or the l.g.b. t.q. community well just remember that white teenagers versus native american vets

situation the viral video sweeping the internet of a mob of maggie wearing high school students surrounding a native american chanting and drumming in the nation's capital it is disturbing students mocking a native american man some of them harassing and jeering at a native american elder so much and the story was twisted as we learned from videos that emerged later as you can see the teen dubbed as the shameless bully was just standing still and smiling at the man with the drum who had come up to him but that's not important because the student was wearing a mag a hat people who judge me based off one expression and they've gone from there to titling me and labeling me as a racist person do you think if you weren't wearing that hat this might not have happened or it might have been different that's possible oh the had does mean so much and again don't forget that from now on in the minds of so many people people

whose voices matter the red mark a hat is the new white hood without white boys being able to empathize with other people humanity will continue to destroy itself. and so it's probably only natural that americans wearing maggots have gotten themselves in trouble. when the first. point. help your cause your. i. have just been asked to leave the store trying to get your hands if you do your how my hand i don't. like. you so who knows how far that kind of bullying may get soon some in the media have

tried very hard to make you associate mr trump with the k.k.k. now with this hat situation it must have become a much easier job it's already a busy friday for news here on our international still to come on your program please interior minister takes a swipe at the e.u.'s foreign affairs chief and i dove over migration of bush at some light on that in a moment. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you than. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top

of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest read in truth to stand the news business you just need to ask the right questions to ban the right answer. questions. about the right publication by. oh you'll be able through a. useful role in an old out. between two thousand and. nine twenty am here in moscow an american iranian journalist who was recently released after having been held for over a week in u.s. custody has spoken to watch t.v.'s afshin rattansi. private plane.

to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that taken to the f.b.i. i think take the f.b.i. headquarters. was. my picture was taken monk shan state took my d.n.a. no one has read you the rights no one has still yet read you the rights. no one ever read me my rights actually my rights were not read they said that you were on suicide watch as it's 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 most of the time i was in solitary k. i was locked up i couldn't come out i mean but once being returned coming back from one of the court hearings and all the prisoners were out and so i entered and in

the guard stop you know and then all the prisoners had to get back through another door. oh. they couldn't be closed to me marcell house shammy who works for press t.v. was detained on january thirteenth while visiting family in the u.s. state of missouri she was questioned by the f.b.i. as a material witness and unspecified case the iranian government as well as press freedom organizations expressed their anger over her arrest before burmese people protested in washington and in tehran demanding the journalist be let go i might say i have shown his family released a statement saying the arrest was unfair. this was never just about marzia his shimmy this is about the fact that any of us muslim and non muslim can be imprisoned without charge in the united states my son who was with me trying to get on a flight instinct would and he did not get on that flight in denver which which i had

told him to the f.b.i. i was with him and accompanied him the whole night. till he was not under arrest but actually he com to my hears my other kids if he hadn't been there your children might not lead to just like you disappeared. what i realize is how easy it is for them to make someone disappear. if she was not. any exhibit no one would have known. where i was mind boggling that you can be arrested it did change shall cause not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it first hand. but. it leaves interior minister and deputy prime minister has taken a swipe at e.t.u. foreign affairs chief for the recovery suggesting she has forgotten her italian roots the comment came after the e.u. made it clear it's considering shutting down the italy led search and rescue

operation in the mediterranean sea known as the mocha rini calling into question the italian leadership in the migrant rescue mission the person who represents us in europe and was put in that position by the taliban left in a quarter of the now off to be in the point it out to be in the tally in the meanwhile salvini could face trial over his refusal to let a group of migrants disembark from a rescue vessel last year that's after a court in italy then overruled a previous ruling by prosecutors to drop the charges the politician known for his pretty hard stance on migration is suspected of abusing his power and holding people against their will salvini reacted by taking to twitter saying that he could face up to fifteen years behind bars he also said the decision had left him speechless adding though that he feared nothing he vowed to continue defending italy's borders from illegal migrants independent political journalist bruno told us that a lot of italians feel they've been abandoned by the e.u.

. italy's been asking for help from europe and other countries to deal with the migrant problem for a long time but that means he has not got much response and that front so if you took a pool right now of italians. might be the most popular politician because whatever salvini is doing has worked in the numbers. of illegal migrants coming on to italian shores has decreased sharply since he came into power he has the support of a lot of retired people and he probably has the support of a lot of the time people who aren't publicly supporting him. right in public they may say something. more. and in private they may express a different concern. greece has delayed a vote on changing macedonia's name after protests outside the parliament in athens

. ga. riot police used tear gas to disperse the crowds ten days ago macedonia's parliament backed a constitutional reversal to change the country's name but the move meets the greek parliament approval protesters reportedly led by the communist party said that this deal is part of a western approach to divide the balkans. and we are back at the top of the hour with more of your friday well the headlines. you know world big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to be deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart or we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting out.

each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. will make this manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the right wing clusters and protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time making the whole middle of the room sick. going around anymore you don't need proof. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one

trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes have been each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs 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 is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only. mean i mean i did yesterday you know you. see it's going on. doesn't want to know most of us will be in yes and yes it was notable just made a little not but really you know. we thought ways the ways of the why did.

the winds. are. the same yes this is. one of those. cities will get. new it's a new year. and the instant media darling and certainly a fresh face the newly minted congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez is rattling some democratic establishment cage's she calls herself a democratic socialist and she has some big clients is the democratic party and america ready to take a o.c. . right.

here in kiev in recent days that might don independence square has turned into a full scale war zone. clancy's in ukraine's capital kiev. absolutely no. right to go work. hard caricature anybody who would then. do. now on the brink of a civil war at least seventy dead so far and the death toll rising it you know will give you a new music.