president. has invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine. ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. venezuelan president nicolas maduro the close. off the washington recognize the. country's interim president. venezuela the president is elected. in the. street he wants to be a president. divided

between rival presidents we look at what appears to be america's tried. of the us media. working themselves into a frenzy of. make america great baseball caps. and iranian journalist who was released after spending ten days in u.s. custody speaks about the rest. of the time i was in solitary. i couldn't come they said that you were on suicide watch.

it is friday morning here in moscow very important stories to get to you today welcome to the program. venezuelan president nicolas maduro to has ordered his diplomats to leave the u.s. he's announced he was severing diplomatic ties with washington off of the trumpet ministration backed opposition leader one who i don't know who's declared himself interim president of the latin american country but otoh has also accused of being america's puppet. i want him to do even his way to the president is elected by washington and of course they take anyone from the street who wants to be a president 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 i've decided to diplomats you can conceal the stuff that from the united states includes our embassies and consulates in that country. is 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 nicholas manure of the elected president who was just recently re inaugurated that he 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 oh the time for debate is done the regime former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate his regime is morally bankrupt economically incompetent and it is profoundly corrupt. it is democratic to the

core. i repeat the regime former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate the 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 meantime the former president of ecuador rafael korea has thrown his support behind nicolas maduro in accuses the u.s. and several docking american countries of trying to bring about a coup in venezuela. what is happening in the world is unbelievable ignoring the constitution elections and procedures to declares 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 leader countries that were openly pushing for

a coup can you imagine what kind of president they've been preparing what if tomorrow the u.s. doesn't like another government democratic or otherwise they back a self declared crystal and they want the whole world to print crave him and they will get our station of american states to greet him with herm shakes up the pool 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 another country's affairs. now takes a good look at whether events in venezuela might indeed 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 back to their constitution we are not going to tolerate the dictatorship he's trying to create if 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 because 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 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 and. you're going. in the and the chaos the confusion comes a special moment when lul 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 get all your friends on board as many nations to recognize one go edo as president quickly as possible as no going back now alone bia columbia 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

a seemed by the president of the national assembly one guy 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 every pressure from the u.s. 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 has used to overthrow regimes that it considers hostile to u.s. 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 medley. interfering and changing governments 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. with like a should be anything but all options are on the job is that. we should 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 with the consequences of a whole other story or the process and venezuela has rapidly escalated over the past few days local journalist ignores our daughters in the midst of the on the rest in caracas. after relatively calm year venice well a scene is purse of violence again on the streets after four days of protest twenty seats people reportedly were killed during these acts of violence on the streets

and assign a position declared as president of venice well while nicolas maduro stays at the presidential palace after days just in violence continue and escalated during the day. i. asked her deposition rally the valance continue to escalate throughout the night and is probably to continues to lead in didn't it's coming days. the venezuela crisis has certainly split much of the world right leaning latin american governments are backing one quite oh and the e.u. has called for fresh elections though it hasn't formally recognized why dole as president support for my daughter meanwhile has been voiced by china and russia and

then latin america by bolivia cuba i'm mexico turkey's president of the one as well has come out with strong support of one daughter. sunday. you must respect the balance if you don't respect the ballot box this is not democracy is a totalitarian mindset as a person who believes in democracy and the announcement by president trump shocked me more when someone just because of the country is on the well you wait eight rounds is on the democratic the person who declared himself as president was elected as a member all of them was speaker of the parliament and head of the opposition but he was not elected president we just who had been hearing back in july fifteenth two thousand and sixteen where all military bought their all but it was our own people who went with their bare arms against the military they start.

if anyone tries to do here with that people will do whatever it takes to make sure that they will quote used to run the. meanwhile the decision of so you'd leaders to follow washington's lead in supporting one certainly strikes some as a case of double standards. i. i i. i opt to they would go election up make a last minute during my twenty eighty in europe supports the restoration of democracy i salute the courage of the hundreds of thousands of the islands from options for the freedom i . was sure 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 exception i found. the love for me this remarks raise certain questions that healthy telling people do they contribute to the wellbeing of the italian people which should be the preoccupation of the italian government and then believes in it or 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 frankly i. think it's called diplomacy mccaughan wants have a good image approach even though in france he's seen in a bad light in his popularity has fallen see the l.o.'s protest he wants to tighten their laws here against demonstrators i don't look like you know 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 democracy but they democracy he has here is a plutocracy the democracy of the rich 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 have said bearing in mind that as we have said as france has a serious problem with probably growth or is so i'm sure he would be violently criticised it fronts 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. donald trump supporters are being compared to kook klux klan members with

a number of media outlets and celebrities likening their make america great again caps to the white who of the infamous racist group ulip a trunk or reports. this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the maggot hat this is a kook look square 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 triggering 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 happy 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

a mob of mag wearing high school students surrounding a native american chanting and drumming in the nation's capital it is disturbing students mocking native american dad 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 a 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 charged 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. was. when the first. point. was to help your cause you're the i am the i am the i've just been asked to leave the store can i get your hand if you do your my hand i don't. like. people like you so who knows how far that kind of bullying may get soon some of 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. still lots of stories coming your way here on this friday program for example italy's interior minister takes a pretty good swipe at the e.u.'s foreign affairs chief it's about migration and other issues but back in just a mum. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he loans to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars.

china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only. those who are legally in the right location. who oh it will be able through of. us who knew all about her secret between did i do so in russia. i'm going to join us today for this program a recently released american iranian journalist is urging people to join her protest in washington d.c. later on friday after she was held for ten days in u.s.

custody. he spoke to watts he's afshin rattansi about her arrest. i was flown private plane. to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that be i take it into the f.b.i. i think take the f.b.i. headquarters. i was. my my picture was taken mug shan state took my d.n.a. no one has read you the roads no one is still here read you the right. no one ever read me my rights and she my rights were not read 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 most of the time i was in solitary case 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 close to me but here to show me who works for press t.v. was detained on january thirteenth while visiting family in missouri the court of justice confirmed that she had been question by the f.b.i. as a material witness but didn't specify what the case was iranian government as well as a press freedom organizations express their anger and frustration over her attention and before release people protested in washington d.c. and tehran divining the journalist being let go i say i shot 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 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 you hadn't been there your children might not lead to just like you disappeared. what i realize is how easy it is weren't them to make someone disappear. if he was not there any exhibit no one would have known. where i was mind boggling that you can be arrested it did change shackles not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it first hand. the meantime the f.b.i. has refrained from commenting on the incident. well my teo salvini

of course italy's interior minister deputy prime minister has taken a swipe at e.t.u. foreign affairs chief for the rico mccartney suggesting she has forgotten her italian roots the comment came off the e.u. made it clear it is considering shutting down the italy led sochi and rescue operation in the mediterranean sea with mockery no calling into question the italian leadership in the migrant rescue mission. the person who represents us in europe was put in that position by the taliban left in the quarter of the now off to be in the point it out to be in the tallinn meanwhile salvini could face trial over his refusal to let a group of migrants disembark from a rescue vessel that was last year but suddenly after a court and italy overruled a previous ruling by prosecutors to drop the charges a politician known for his hard stance on migration is suspected of abusing his power and holding people against their will or salvini reacted on 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 evolved to continue defending italy's borders from illegal migrants and we spoke with independent political analyst aleksandr who told us a lot of italians feel like well they've been abandoned by the e.u. . italy has been asking for help from europe and other countries to deal with the migrant problem for a long time but misery has not got much response and that france so if you took a pool right now of italians really might be the most popular politician because whatever sell vini 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. in public they may say something. more. and in private they may express different concerns. russian athletes are suing the author of a twenty sixteen report on alleged state sponsored doping that's after the swiss supreme court cleared their move using performance enhancing drugs my colleague andrew farmer discussed the story with r.t. alexia shifting. 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 inconsistences 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.

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than 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 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 to so operate which is which is weird but there was there's one person who went even further now we're talking about helen 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 this whole situation. they are involved in they cheated and wanted devoted 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 dollars fine to the international olympic committee based on the mclaren report based on the state sponsored system doping allegations.