you. know why did the white. people. you mean it. was no. i. mean you know it's a movie in your. home a political advisor to the trump campaign has been released after being arrested by the f.b.i. i wrote just to tell you the multiple challenges as part of the ongoing approach. that is where the president nicolas maduro orders the closure of his country's embassy in the u.s. this is up to washington recognize venezuela's opposition leader as the interim president. all of them to do you invent his way to the president is elected by

washington and of course they take anyone from the streets who wants to be a president. with venezuela violence and divided between rival leaders we take a look at what appears to be america's tried and tested recipe for regime change. also an american iranian journalist who was released after spending ten days in u.s. custody speaks to altie about her. most of the time i was in solitary. i couldn't come out they said that you were on suicide watch suicide watch. i mean i'm definitely not going to kill myself. good evening and welcome this is all to international. a long time political adviser of the. trump has been released by police after his arrest and indictment

on a number of charges or just stone's detention came as part of the miller investigation into alleged russian collusion or though it is not clear if the charges directly relate to that. let's go live to new york now and speak to our correspondent there . are plenty of developments bring is the latest. well roger stone a long time republican strategist going all the way back to the nixon era apparently in the early hours of the morning he was arrested we now have a twenty four page indictment from the f.b.i. and from the federal courts he's essentially being charged with making false statements on multiple occasions witness tampering as well as obstruction now what's interesting is that this arrest is pretty clearly coming down as part of the bob muller investigation into alleged collusion between the term campaign in the twenty sixteen election and russia however the word russia does not show up at any

point in the indictment there is multiple allegations that perhaps roger stone was speaking with wiki leaks perhaps he was instructed by the trump campaign to speak with wiki leaks about when hillary clinton's e-mails would be released that seems to be what the documents are alleging but the word russia does not show up at any point in the document however it's interesting to note that at this point we're we're hearing that he was released on bail now the terms of the bail have not been made public however at this point it is it is being widely alleged and reported that it was over two hundred fifty thousand dollars bail that cannot yet be confirmed however we have heard from roger stone now that he has been released speaking about his arrest this is roger stone. this morning at the crack of dawn twenty nine f.b.i. agents arrived at my home with seventy vehicles with their lights flashing when

they could simply have contacted my church because and i would be more than willing to surrender voluntarily and. they terrorize my wife my dogs and i would really not guilty to these charges i will defeat them in where i believe this is a politically motivated. just to give a shit i had trouble the political motivations of russia. and now we have a response from the white house as well sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary has pointed out that the arrest and the indictment have nothing to do with the president these are all indictments against roger stone and we have donald trump speaking up on twitter about the nature of the arrest and how it was carried out this is donald trump responding to the arrest of roger stone on social media. greatest witch hunt in the history of our country new solution. drug

dealers and human traffickers are treated better than who would. be there now this comes after a wave of similar sentiments expressed on social media with many trump supporters and others outraged about the fact that it appears that the f.b.i. may have tipped off c.n.n. about their planned arrest so they could be on the scene to record roger stone being taken away in handcuffs people see this is actually collusion between the f.b.i. and the media done for the purpose of trying to publicly humiliate roger stone a republican strategist so at this point this we have yet another arrest coming out of the bob muller special counsel investigation and this comes at a time that the u.s. federal government remains shut down there are reports that a deal is going to be made soon but at this point the federal government remains shut down it has been the longest federal government shutdown in the history of the united states with democrats saying they will not fund border wall and trump saying

he is adamant that he wants funding for that border wall so there are big divisions in the united states the special counsel investigation continues there is outrage on one side and joyful celebration on the other side as it appears that roger stone a prominent individual in donald trump's presidential campaign and a prominent republican party strategist has been arrested it is now facing charges thanks to a corresponding killer more pin live with the latest from new york thank you. the venezuelan president said he is ready for dialogue with the opposition but is refusing to stand down early in the duro ordered his diplomats to leave the united states the president announced that he was severing diplomatic ties with washington after the trump of ministration backed opposition leader one interim president but there accuses him of being america's puppet. i wanted to do in venezuela the president is elected by washington and of course they take anyone from the street who wants to be

a president i have decided to call all our diplomatic and consular staff from the united states enclose our embassy and consulates in that country. illegitimate corrupt incompetent that's the response back from the u.s. to durham as the standoff continues to escalate in the venezuelan capital the time for debate is. the regime former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate his regime is morally bankrupt. economically incompetent but it is profoundly corrupt. it is democratic to the or the united states is ready to provide more than twenty million in humanitarian assistance to the people of venezuela. expect now two former u.s. congressman and former us presidential candidate ron paul great to have you on as always ron it's a situation that seems to be really splitting opinion now the countries are lining up on either side of this debate but importantly because nicolas maduro still has

it seems the backing of the army how difficult will it be to oust him. i think it will be very difficult i don't think he's going to walk away and i think it's going to end up in violence and could have a civil war some countries are lining up with him but we've been antagonizing and threatening him and decide that we're going to install a president for them and i would think even the people that might not like manure or shouldn't like settling the dispute it's internal as they should settle it and i think it's rather ironic for our government to say that they want to take care of venezuela because they're not democratic and we have to take care of it by you know authoritarian approach of us installing a president having a coup threaten them with military violence because because they're not democratic enough i would hardly say that our position is very democratic yet they are in

these quite thick isn't isn't that using them democratic methods to impose a leader in the country they say isn't democratic what do you think it let's be fair it's not just the u.s. there are several of the western countries lining up to side with the opposition leader one goh i don't should they not be considering the impact of what they all saying as you said this could lead to violence in the country people might die just because of this political rhetoric shouldn't they be bearing this in mind. they should but they have to look at the other side of the equation the other side of the equation is you know the lima group most of them probably are getting money from us and they weaken threat and then to put on sanctions so i think it's the pressure this put on them and they come along and i don't think they sit there and think oh yeah no this is going to have civil strife and we're going to lose some of our people because they probably have no intention of sending troops in there i think it'll be a civil strife and it will be cia and special forces and and other countries doing

the same thing but i think they dream that they can you know support the united states without loss of life and that this is it will be settled that way but i think they're fooling themselves because all we have to do some of the wonders what could happen is out of a look at. u.s. foreign policy the past ten years or so more recently you know and what's happened in syria what has happened earlier on with iraq and afghanistan in libya i mean every time we go in and say well you need help you need to be american eyes you need to know our good values and and we want you to learn what democracy is all about and we'll give you a little money too if you obey us you know it's always that little tease but it just violates completely and totally the position i hold and the ron paul institute holds in the head is that nonviolence and not getting involved nonintervention ism it's not our business i'm sure there's some harm done by monsieur o.

and others but where is it our job where do we get the moral authority to be the decider and say you are is worse than the southern side and that's why we're going to do it sometimes i wonder whether it's not a coincidence that russia looks like they're going to mine some gold there it's not a coincidence that venezuela of mine to be big important because they have a little bit of oil there too so those are the motivations you never hear about and the. they get a lot of people to go along yes we are the united states a great nation and we've had good values and therefore we have the moral authority and responsibility to take care of bad bad dictators i think it leads only to trouble and that's why we work on trying to prevent unnecessary interventions germany said that it will recognize it's going to join the club on his side as president if the judgment election is held what was the problem with with the most

recent election why some people saying it wasn't for him. and then as the white. people said the resistance and his group been even didn't even attend they sort of boycott it but then that's that's an internal problem but it doesn't mean that the if there were some infractions that doesn't mean that all of a sudden we know what is best and what we're doing is we're finding the truth and we pick wydow and then we're going to put him and he's the president so yes there are problems down there probably on both sides and that so often is the case when there's a breakdown like this because. economically speaking i've been strongly critical of you know the economic policy of venezuela saying that it would lead to political problems and that's why i am so much opposed to government control of the economy because usually leads to impoverishment and certainly i've always argued the case

you end up with inflation and they certainly have all these things and it's food for fodder for the people who want to rebel and claim power so it didn't just happen this past week it's been going on for a while and it's not like we've never paid any attention to him because we have been been involved behind the scenes for a while now in almost all of the countries in south america and you talked about the u.s. sending the special forces and if the big western complaint is that there wasn't a free election why don't they send the special forces in and hold an election and allow me to both run it why don't they do it that way instead of sending in the special forces and seizing power and then handing it over. because it's none of our business and we don't have the authority and we can't force it and there are laws if you pay any attention to international and it's not even in our constitution because special forces going in and doing this is an act of war were invading and saying we're taken over and the congress hasn't had

a say on this so and the other thing is is the practical thing it doesn't work it makes things worse for us to get in there's nothing like foreign occupation that unifies the people because even some who have been against well you know say well yeah we want to settle this dispute we don't need the americans that come in what do they know that we don't know so. it's something that is unwise very dangerous it will be costly it's against our rules and if they pretend that it's a we have to go in because we want to spread american values those are my values a matter of fact they define what i believe are american values and that is that we should be invading other countries and running off coups and hypocrisy of it all when you when you look at. you know us criticizing others who have been involved

but when we do it it's right and proper and almost wholly u.s. national security advisor john bolton used the phrase trick of tyranny i guess that's the new axis of evil to describe venezuela cuba and nick is not going to be the new tactic to say hey there's a country looks a bit unstable it's got lots of oil let's call it poisonous go in and assist it. it's all noise because it doesn't offer any solution and it just it just perpetuate the problem endorsers the idea that we should be involved in making these decisions and we should threaten people i've claimed our problem is they won't accept my suggestion that we've been on interventionist what they say is if we tell people what to do. and they do it we give a lot of money we give foreign aid and all these kind of things wonderful things but if they don't they're going to get sanctions poor oh man they're going to be threat you and it will lead to violence and we want to overthrow governments it

just i just don't buy this thing that the policy that we're following is a good example of american values the u.s. has requested a u.n. security council meeting on venice well it's one thing for all these countries to you know just say it to journalists that we support the opposition leader but to actually go into the u.n. sit down and make this official is documented it's on paper another thing could they genuinely put something together in the u.n. to try and overthrow an elected leader. they can they can try but i'm not too optimistic i never had a whole lot of confidence in the u.n. i used to think it was that we didn't get a fair shake we cause we didn't have all the votes but we have all the money so we can pressure people into supporting things just like we can get nato to support. doing things because we have the money and we run the show so if the u.n. as it exists now is offering a place for discussion and moving toward

a peaceful solution you know i'm not going to oppose that but i don't have that much confidence in the united nations to me that's world government and it's just who controls the government it's just like domestically who controls the government who's controlling the government is the way you are so i don't think that's the solution but i have nothing opposed to you know two sides sitting down and using that as a forum and i hope some good comes of it. you can please correct me if i'm wrong i always understood the diplomats or people in embassies in a country with there at the invitation of the host nation venezuela decided it didn't want to host u.s. diplomats any more it said that they need to leave the u.s. diplomats refused to go what did you make of i understand they are now actually going to go but they said that they were going to stay where they were like some kind of political squatters what do you make of the. well they were trying to force the declaration made by bolton and these other ones they are. not to

government anymore it's his hand-picked while he's the government so therefore he doesn't have the authority and that would you know emphasize and make the point that he is no longer in charge i think the fact that the embassy that personnel is leaving i think it's very very good because under these circumstances we're supposed to follow you know the person that looks like the best person to represent that government and those are side issues i think i think the big issue is is how the conflict in venezuela is resolved and. i can't avoid always going back to the economic crises that contribute so much so that the people there i'm sure are pretty darn unhappy with with the crisis going on and so if you do it superficially if you do it at the u.n. or you force people to do something and they argue about who are we going to take

directives from and whether or not we're going to close the embassy. that represents the debate going on but it doesn't offer a solution i think if some country said we don't recognize donald trump as the leader of the united states we believe that it's hillary clinton think maybe the u.s. would think twice about these kind of actions. well you know where you would be happy . she's been trying to say that he's not legitimate and i think it's terrible that people do and he gets punished more than it should because of that but i think the i think if somebody if a foreign country did that and say we're not going to listen to you because you're not a legitimate president united states i think it would unify the people the united states you know i haven't brought all factions together because it was seen as an attack from outside and so i think that is what would happen because they would highly resent it but they never turn around and say well if we don't like it why

should we expect other nations to like what we tell the army and the government that we're going to accept and if we don't like what they have we're going to change it for that that's the part so many people never ask yeah it's a good question maybe they should appreciate your time role always a pleasure to speak to former u.s. presidential candidate and congressman ron paul. greece the now really ratify the deal which will see a name change for the neighboring country of macedonia to north macedonia. people who want to be delayed after protests across the country move my hundred thirty people were detained when violence erupted greece has a region also called macedonia being in dispute with the former yugoslav republic over its name fearing territorial disputes however the greek prime minister said the issue being revived. with this agreement greece takes practice most

important thing what belongs to it its history its symbols its tradition and the legacy of ancient greek macedonia. it was part of a stand against macedonia's name it had vetoed the country's membership of nato and the e.u. last year amid much praise from european leaders an agreement was finally reached over the name between the two countries ten days ago macedonia's parliament backed a constitutional revision and now it has the greek parliament approval. last year macedonian voters were asked whether they support you and nato membership however the referendum result of ninety four percent in favor was declared null and void as voter turnout was less than fifty percent following calls to boycott the poll. and american iranian journalists urging people to join her protest in washington d.c.

on friday she's aiming to draw attention to a controversial law allowing people to be held indefinitely without charge she was recently released after ten days in u.s. federal custody earlier marzia how she misspoke to artes as she returned the about what happened i was crying that. d.c. and then met with the all out of that. into the. word. make picture was taken mug shots that took my d.n.a. the winners read you the roads no one is still yet read you the roots. 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 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 close to me or mafia who works for press t.v. was taken into custody on january thirteenth while visiting family in the state of missouri the court of justice confirmed that she had been questioned by the f.b.i. as a material witness but didn't specify what the case was the iranian government as well as press freedom organizations voiced their anger over the incident prado release people protested in washington and tehran demanding that the journalist be freed marvie his family issued a stain or saying her treatment was unfair. this was never just about marzia his sumi this is about the fact that any of us muslim and non muslim can be imprisoned

without charge in the united states my stand was with me trying to get on a flight instinct would just and. he did not get on that flight in denver which to 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 current and my hears my other kids if he hadn't been there your children were not led to just like you disappeared. he realizes how easy. for them to make someone disappear. it's he was now. in exhibit no one would have known. where i was mind boggling arrests it. shall cause not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it first hand that was modesty how should we speak to our returns if the f.b.i.

has declined to comment on the incident. around twenty thousand nine. hundred forty into prostitution according to a new report by nigeria's anti trafficking agency they're reportedly being held deep inside forests with almost no chance of escape the girls and women range in age from sixteen to thirty many have been tricked into thinking that they were heading for jobs in hospitality in malaysia others were kidnapped on their way to or from school the director general of the agency says that they are held in terrible slave like conditions. we went deep inside the bush we had a good. and then deep civil dismount big job indeed in the number of two it it doesn't we do absolutely to be conservative because it's quite politely what normally happens is that when a girl is trafficked manly. makes out to. be about one point

it may go to two million men. in france which is a look at r n c one of the finnish been about the arms didn't. get to rescue these guys we need to or very closely with them alone authorities especially at a local and vigorous eras regions that have different authorities then identified with the angels there are so many jews to. whom who are actually more liberal does madame's. look at that would be against a bill or blood and there it is deliberately issued in its history the instructions for the arrest and rescue. of the un's previously highlighted the problem of human trafficking in nigeria a call for international funding in areas where human traffickers operate the most and that wraps up this news out and join me for the latest in half an hour.

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as long ago is eighteen zero for sevastopol naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. during the second world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just see if the united states.