please note please the ways of the why do. you think you're. going to know. these. new notes i know you're. from. venezuelan president nicolas maduro to the closure of his embassy in the united states the washington recognizes and position leader of the latin american countries interim president. i want to venezuela the president is elected. and of course they take anyone from the streets he wants to be a president. with venezuela and gulf and violence and divide it between two rival presidents we look

at what appears to be america's tried and tested recipe for regime change. in the us media and a number of celebrities different booking themselves into a frenzy over the spread make america great again baseball caps likening them to klux klan hoods. and iranian journalist who was released off to spending ten days in u.s. custody speaks to. most of the time i was in solitary. they said that you were on suicide watch. i watch. i mean i'm definitely not going to kill myself. just moments after midday on friday here in moscow this is off the international lot of really important stories to get to you today so welcome to the program. the

venezuelan president nicolas that my daughter has ordered his diplomats to leave the united states yet he was severing diplomatic ties with washington after the trumpet ministration back to opposition leader one why don't he was declared himself as interim president of the latin american country but also a coup was quite go of being america's puppet. i wanted to do even as we did the president is elected by the us they take anyone from st joseph 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 diplomats who can conceal the stuff from the united states includes our embassies and consulates in that country you. know 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 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 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 defeatist on 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 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 in venezuela but could have very global implications as well. former president of ecuador rafael korea has thrown his support behind nicolas my daughter in accuses the u.s. and several knocking american countries of trying to put bring about a coup in venezuela. what is happening in the world is. ignoring the constitution elections and procedures. to christmas into a 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 president they've been preparing

for what if tomorrow the u.s. doesn't write another cup of democratic or otherwise take back a self declared crystal and they want the whole world to prevent something look at our station of american states to greet him with herm shakes up to prove. what is happening is unbelievable and we have to take a stand against it. it's not the first time regrettably that washington has been accused of meddling in other countries or fads but i have now looks at whether events in venezuela might actually 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 choke then they 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 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 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 and i was. like. oh. 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 an elected president paula. 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 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 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 is 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 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. without considering anything but all options are on the table. which is all options all options and there you go sparking uprisings one o one now this may all 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 crisis in venezuela has rapidly escalated over the past few days local journalists nourse our daughters in the midst of the odd red state in caracas. after a relatively calm year venice well a senior person 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 a sign at the station declared as president of venezuela while nicolas maduro stays

at the presidential palace after days really just in violence continue and escalated during the day. i. asked her deposition rally the violence continued to escalate throughout the night and is probably to continue to lead in didn't it's coming days. the venezuela crisis has split much of the world right leaning latin american governments are backing. and the u. e.u. has called for fresh elections though it hasn't formally recognized as president support for my daughter i mean meanwhile has actually been voiced by china and russia and then locked in america by pulling for your cuba and mexico turkey as

president of the one as well that's come out with strong support for my daughter. 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 when someone just because he is on the. way he. is on the left. the person who declared himself as president was elected as a member of quality and was speaker of the parliament and head of the opposition but he was not elected president we witnessed who had been here in turkey back in july fifteenth two thousand and sixteen where our own military bought their own problems but it was our own people who went with their bare arms against the death of the military and they start equipment if anyone tries to interfere with that people

will do whatever it takes to make sure that they will continues to run the government meanwhile the decision of certain e.u. leaders to follow washington's lead in supporting one guy doe strikes some as a case of double standards. i hope to they will election not make a locksmith during my twenty feet you look supports the restoration of democracy i salute the courage of the hundreds of thousands of lives that i love the macho for the grief. i. 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.

thank. the typical club for meet this one talks raise certain questions about good healthy telling people how they contribute to the well being of the italian people which should be the field position of the italian government and then believes in it do they change anything in the french political situation i don't believe so either so i think this is on his that's from august and i want to say more about them as of course theone frankly i. think it's called diplomacy mccaughan once have a good image approach even though in france he's seen in a bad light and his popularity has fallen seize the l.o.'s protest he wants to tighten the loss 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 rebels it is the most upset state i went to 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 in the political 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 with probably a good result i'm sure we would be 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 our. supporters are being compared to kook klux klan members the number of media outlets and celebrities likening their make america great again caps to the white hoods of the infamous racist group

and the up 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 looks klan hoot they use to terrorize fried african americans and those different shapes eras purposes however. this make america great again hat is just as maddening and frustrating and 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 of a mob of mag out wearing high school students surrounding

a native american chanting in 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 a shameless bully was just standing still and smiling at the man with the drum who come up to him but that's not important because the student was wearing a mag i 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 magazine have gotten themselves in trouble. when the first. point. help your cause your. i've just been asked to leave the store trying to get your hands if you through your hat my hand i don't. like. people 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 when it most or still to come here on the program we return in just a moment. so small seems wrong but old rules just don't all. get to shape out these days become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on

top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. right now twenty past here in moscow 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. federal custody early mars a i mean spoke to watch afshin rattansi about what happened i was flown private

plane. to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that. to the f.b.i. they take the f.b.i. headquarters. was. my my picture was taken mug shan state took my d.n.a. no one has read you the rights no one is still yet read you the rights. no one ever read me my rights and she my rights were not read they said that you on suicide watch suicide watch. i mean i'm definitely not going to kill myself. if i tell you where 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 closed to me by as he has shown me who works for press t.v. was taken into custody on january thirteenth while visiting family in missouri the court of justice confirmed the ship in question by the f.b.i. as a material witness but didn't specify what the case was iranian government as well as press freedom organizations express their anger and frustration over the incident before police people protested in washington and tehran demanding the journalist be let go to sherry's family released a statement saying our treatment was unfair. this was not just about marzia his simmie 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 haven't been there your children will not lead to just let you disappear. well realizes how easy. for them to make someone here is she was not there any exhibit no one would have known. where i was my mom thinks you can be arrested it did change shall cause not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it first hand the f.b.i. for the meantime has refrained from commenting on this incident. but salvini italy's interior minister and deputy prime minister has taken a swipe at e.t.u. foreign affairs chief frederica marini 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 with marini 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 quarter of the now off to being the pointed 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 last year that's after a court in italy over ruled 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 now salvini reacted via 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 and we spoke with independent political analyst alessandra bruno who told us a lot of

a tally and feel like they have 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 misery has not got much response and that front so if you took a pool right now. italians. might be the most popular politician because whatever selvin he's 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 people and he probably has the support of a lot of the time people who aren't publicly supporting him. in the public they may say something. more. and in private they may express a different concern while just some of the big stories for this friday here on

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salmond shill and i'll be speaking to guest of the wall. the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to prevent the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just no lawyer here i mean your list put video through the neighbor lose out on you split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took coach has invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. the

setup of the past couple of years some feedback and pits and that these islands of plastic but the reality is the may still be a ship and. have it in this fine layer of micro plastics. very. the biggest thing and it shocks me is that we've never had an empty troll. like the contents of the something of an albatross. people obviously come in they just throw them into the water as disposal it may not be harmful for that little fish that eats one fragment a classic but once it makes its way up to us in the food chain it's getting to levels that are harmful.

hello and welcome to crossfire were all things considered i'm peter lavelle instead 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 plans it's a democratic party and america is ready for a. cross talking alexandra ocasio cortez i'm joined by my guest steve in new york he is a conservative political commentator also in new york we have jason nichols he is a progressive commentator and democratic strategist and in los angeles we cross to

goodman he is a columnist and journalist published in the huffington post salon the hill and other publications right john cross talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it jason let me go to you first because she comes from your wheel house so i'll get let you take a strike out at first she calls herself a democratic socialist i mentioned that in the introduction she claims the world as we know it will end in twelve years and before she was became officially a congresswoman she said that she would be a navi rated and she would start signing bills are you very confident that her understanding of democratic socialism is something america needs or wants go ahead jason so again i think she misunderstands democratic socialism versus social democracy those are two very different things i think when she talks about trying to go towards the scandinavian model like norway and sweden and other countries have done that's actually social democracy that's not there.