but you. know why did the wife. like you mean it. was a. move. from. the headlines this hour venezuela president nicolas maduro or just the closure of his country's embassy in the u.s. the washington recognized venezuela's opposition leader as interim president. i wanted to do you know venezuelan the president is elected by washington and of course they take anyone from the street who wants to be a president. with

the country in govt in violence and divide it between rival leaders we look at what it is to be america's tried and tested recipe for regime change also to come in the form of his advisor to the trump campaign and also a long term ally of the president is arrested by the f.b.i. on multiple charges on the american iranian journalist who was released after spending ten days in u.s. custody speaks to a lot about her. most of the time i was in solitary ok i was locked up i couldn't come out but they said that you were on suicide watch suicide watch. i mean i'm definitely not going to kill myself. hello there seven pm here in moscow you're watching international. news while i'm president is awarded his diplomats to leave the u.s. nicolas maduro announced he was severing diplomatic ties with washington after the

trumpet ministration backed opposition leader one why don't you stick head himself interim president of the country we do it i would cuse is him being america's puppet. i wanted to do you invent his way that 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 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 have decided to include diplomatic and consular staff and from the united states includes our embassies and consulates in that country. 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 nicholas manure of 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 oh the time for debate is done. the regime former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate the united states is ready to provide more than twenty million in humanitarian assistance to the people of venezuela. these funds are to help them cope with the severe food and medicine shortages and i or other impacts of the country's political and economic crisis 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. kind of more than that will find his way his ambassador to russia told us why he thinks this is a clear case of meddling. it's completely ridiculous to think that we can listen to or accept a person who proclaims himself president that would be as if would recognize hillary clinton as president just because trump won the election with fewer won't than her but nobody ever raised this issue as they have their own internal rules these rules are agreed internally so why should we allow the u.s. to dictate to us what to do in our country. now is not the first time that washington has been accused of interfering in other country's affairs takes a look now at whether events in venezuela are actually 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 then they are into a crisis we are waiting all of our policy options as to what can we do to create a change of conditions were either look girl that 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 starforce even the app political into the streets the more noise the better and you mustn't. let things calm down keep shouting keep agitating. in the anarchy the chaos the confusion comes a special moment when lure 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 or lumia 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 at 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 on his way to 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 has 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 medley. interfering in changing governments or will but just to be sure bully them let them know that if you don't get what you want you'll be lights out of them and take what you want. without considering anything but all options are on the job is that the degree to which is all options or worse all options are 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. venezuela crisis has split much of the world to right leaning latin american governments are backing one why though the e.u. has called for fresh elections it hasn't formally recognized wydow as president support for manure and meanwhile has been voiced by china and russia and then in

latin america by bolivia cuba and also mexico turkey is also backing. sun. you must respect the ballot box 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 more when someone just because he is on the. road is all the way. the person who declared himself as president was elected as a member of parliament was speaker of the parliament and had looked after the session but he was not elected president we witnessed who had their hearing back in july fifteenth two thousand and sixteen where are our military doctor or pollens but it was our own people who went with their bare arms against the sort the military this

start equipment if anyone tries to do here with that people will do whatever it takes to make sure that there will be quote used to run the government. in other news a long time political advisor of donald trump has been arrested and indicted on a number of charges is part of the miller investigation into alleged russian collusion although it isn't clear if the charges directly relate to that earlier i spoke to hugo shit done. you know what more then can you tell us about what's happened here well roger stone a longtime trump associate he was arrested this friday early morning in fact after a grand jury indicted him on several counts the one count of obstruction of an official proceeding five counts of foules statements and one count of witness tampering now these are the sort of the official charges roger stone is facing also the prosecution is apparently looking into the believe that rogers still was trying

to get access to the e-mails later released by the weekend leaks those e-mails of course containing a lot of then trump's political opponent hillary clinton as a matter of fact it is also the first time the prosecution has indicated that they are aware of other people also at the time close to donald trump who they say were working with roger stone to get their hands on those e-mails mr stone not the first person to be indicted to by the miller probe either well indeed his are one of the one of the names in the succession of people who were brought in for questioning and just arrested in this probe but the interesting thing here is the this is officially called while this is the the probe has the nickname as of a russian probe for example and roger stone's indictments in the list of indictments russia is not mentioned once i mean it does get

a brief mention in the introductory part of the official document but the indictments themselves or they contain no mention of russia whatsoever and i should say this is far from the first case other people many many other people brought into for questioning and the rest to do within the framework of this supposedly russia probe they're facing charges ranging from the obstruction of justice to lying under oath and so on and so forth but russia is nowhere near that all that said how do you anticipate then that. political opponents will react to this nice well of course that the democrats which are right now dominating the lower house of the of the parliament they of cause really really want to keep the impeachment thing on top of things they want to keep the impeachment rhetoric relevant so i'd say they're quite likely i'd say they're quite likely to use this arrest to the roger stone arrest as a talking point for them and also of course this is

a challenging time for donald trump because he's facing the longest government shutdown in history so the moment this government this shutdown is resolved and the government gets back to its work you could really hear more calls for impeachment directed right adam well shortly after the investigation into russian collusion was launched roger stone did appear on the r.t. show worlds apart this is what he said back then. i think it's important to know that the intelligence services here have yet to produce any evidence or proof whatsoever of russian meddling in the american elections what we have are allegations what we have our projections and assessments let me review for you the assessments of the central intelligence agency they said that there was no torture in american prisons during the iraq war that was

a lie they denied that there were renditions by foreign nationals by the us government during the iraq war that was a lie they claimed that the attack on our mission in benghazi was caused by a video that was shown one time in turkey that was allowed by and although the government now has my grocery list and perhaps my e-mail back and forth between my wife and members of my family let me tell you what they don't have any communications whatsoever with the russian state russian intelligence russian businessmen russian citizens this is an absurdity i have no contacts in russia i have not been in touch with anyone in russia in many years this is a canard a false foot a lie and it is outrageous. that was were just

on a speaking to us just under two years and not from supporters in the us a being compared to men this is the ku klux klan number of media outlets and celebrities to have likened the make america great again hats to the white hoods of the infamous racist group. 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 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 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 i 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 magazine have gotten themselves in trouble. was when the first. point. was help your cause your i was the i've just been asked to leave the store to get your honk if you threw your hat on my head 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. your snottiness national still to come for you this hour italy's interior minister has taken a swipe at the knees foreign affairs chief in iraq over migration well have a look at that in more detail just off the bright. 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 crimes happen each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point

six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit for shirt and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one just shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. work a little about the right location. who will be able through a. useful role in all the group. between did i do so in russia.

again i would seize interior minister and deputy prime minister has taken a swipe at the foreign affairs chief more grainy matter salving he said she'd forgotten her italian roots his words came as the e.u. considers shutting down the italian led search and rescue operation for migrants in the mediterranean. the person who represents us and europe was put in that position by the talent left in the quarter of the now off to be in the point it forgot how to be in italian. meanwhile salvia he could face trial over his refusal to let a group of migrants disembark from a vessel last year that after a court in italy did overrule a previous ruling by prosecutors to drop the charges the politician known for his hard stance on migration is suspected of abusing his power and holding people against their will or sell the needed react on twitter saying 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 wanted to continue to defending is lee's borders

from illegal migrants meanwhile a new opinion poll by the world economic forum shows that italy is among the most skeptical if european countries when it comes to migrants more than two thirds of italians question consider having migrants in the country to be mostly bad thing we heard from representatives of both right and left wing movements in islamabad policy towards migrants. but all of that is support of the new stuff because you know he is the founding. fathers this is is you as a muse that oh if. this is off this is the person that the family. is the foundation the models of all your so we have. the most of the people shortly i don't think the majority will want to. such a bad situation my grandson or. of on the.

left stranded in the sunni. acting italian government against the agreements there are some low bar. and the italian government lol sort. of this back and may be. able to walk the migration problems not the. the biggest problem we have instant them. in american iranian journalist is a people to join her protest in washington d.c. later on friday she's aiming to draw attention to a controversial law allowing people to be held indefinitely without charge which was recently released after ten days in u.s. federal custody earlier marsay a shimmy spoke to artie's afshin rattansi about what happened i was found private plane. to d.c.

and then met with a whole lot of that. to the f.b.i. take the f.b.i. headquarters. were. my my picture was taken mug shots they took my d.n.a. no one has read you the roads no one is still yet read you the ropes. no one ever read me my rights my rights were not read they said that you are 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 k. i was locked up i couldn't come out and i member once being returned coming back from one of the court hearings and all the prisoners were out and so i entered and the guard stopped me no and then all the prisoners had to get back through another door. oh. they couldn't be closed to me i was over here works for press

t.v. was taken into custody on january the thirteenth while visiting family in the state of missouri the court of justice did confirm she had been questioned by the f.b.i. as a material witness but didn't specify in which case you're running government as well as press freedom organizations voiced their anger over the incident before her release people protested in both washington d.c. in toronto manning the journalist be freed as i said family also issued a statement to you saying her treatment was unfair. this was never just about marzia his swimming 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 that flight instinct would. not get on that flight in which to which actual them to the f.b.i. i was with him and accompanied him the whole night. till he was not under arrest

but actually he current and my hears my other kids if you haven't been there your children will not lead to just like you disappear. what i realize is how easy. for them to make someone disappear. it's he was not. that into you no one would have known. where i was mind boggling that you can be arrested detained shackles not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it first hand that was me speaking to r.t. as afshin rattansi the f.b.i. has declined to comment on this story. that i have been some fireworks flying on the final day of the annual world economic forum in davos and words were said between the us being a george soros and also from the chinese representative parties and situation has

more now from the swiss ski resort millionaire from entrepreneur an influential investor george soros and the vice president of china's main securities regulator locked horns at the world economic forum here in switzerland this week george soros for one used his speech as an opportunity to attack china and its leader this week's xi jinping moves to the jurors. of those who believe in the concept of. soros said that china is not the only authoritarian regime in the world but according to him the wealthiest strongest and most technologically advanced he used his speech as an opportunity to try to convince washington to crack down on chinese technology saying that he thinks artificial intelligence and machinery are going to create a tallit arion country in china but lo and behold we saw

a chinese representative not mincing his words at all but he had a message of his own for the western world. you have to realize that democracy doesn't work very well you need political reforms in your countries the chinese representative clarified that he meant this with sincerity and while there certainly were a few chuckles in the room as he had those of that message to pass along to western countries there was certainly also one over moment where people seem to according to analysts have really understood that he did have a point and that china is not playing around and certainly a force to be reckoned with especially at a time when it seems the u.s. and e.u. have quite a handful of problem in their political systems on their hands as we speak. and that's how things are looking so far today here in r.t. don't forget that we've got a website for the story still you can find that at r.t. talk.

thank. you no world of big part of new things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past 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 for watching the hawks. will make its manufacture consent to step into the public wells. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts and be the one percent. doing the whole middle of the road signals. being real need is for. most people think to stand out in this business you need.