oh. i i. i. i i. i i. i i i. find this way to us presidents nicolas maduro says he's ready to talk to the opposition needs to end the country's political crisis but it's quite quiet there were a few says to negotiate i took i . with venezuela torn between rival me to some measure of calling it a coup by washington we look at america's track record of regime change. as for my let's call it buys into the trunk campaign is released on bail after

being charged in the upright. and the us senate passes a funding bill to end the government shutdown after a deal with president trump but the morale of the funding for his border war remains unsolved to. watching r.t. international welcome to the park around. the venezuelan president says he's ready for talks with the opposition leader why though he has declared himself interim president but the opposition is refusing to negotiate song that more people will take to the streets. after the first to be ready for any dialogue should be the president and he's ready for agreements which will take us forward i am personally ready for the dialogue. i want the position of going to soil to get out of the trap

in which it was clear that. it must be very clear for the world and this regime nobody will take part in this fake dialogue. why they all spoke in this plus i where we are right now just hours ago he rejected any and treaties of dialogue is a dozen one dany elections and he just wants moderate to back a he said that much right now is insistent on dialogue the dialogue effort began yesterday on thursday and is being promoted by you know why and may go a couple hours after why the read that the dialogue initiative. a speech in which he said he's ready to dialogue in all conditions model seems more than willing for dialogue both ways though on the rest of the opposition are wary they think it's just that they're acting in order to gain time there are contras for and against both presidents with russia and china at the forefront of the group for mother

while the u.s. argentina brazil and colombia are for fry they brought free flow in the violence that has engulfed venezuela over the last three days it's been three days of protests mostly in the slums surrounding caracas which you saw before which used to be for chavez but now they come out every night protesting friday it looks in this part of her aka caracas very tranquil but we don't know how much this piece is going to last and it just cements corrupts incompetence that's how the u.s. is calling majoris regime as the standoff continues to escalate in the finest wailin capital we spoke to for me u.s. congressman ron paul he feels it's ironic that washington times is fighting for democracy in venezuela but implementing off our tarion at that. i think it's going to end up in violence and you could have

a civil war some countries are lining up with him but we've been antagonizing and threatening them and decide that we're going to install a president for them and i would think even the people that might not like madeira should like i said ling the dispute is internal issue 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 is stalling a president having a coup and threaten them with military violence because because they're not democratic and i would hardly say that our position is very democratic. all we have to do if somebody wonders what could happen is a odd look at. u.s. foreign policy the past ten years or so more recently you know what's happening 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 have a us you know it's always that little tease but it just violates completely and totally the position that i hold and the ron paul institute holds in the head is nonviolent so 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. with violent protests still hitting venezuela it's not the first time washington has been accused of interfering in other countries a fast causing instability more augusta after looks at whether fans in venezuela following a trite untasted for. starting an uprising

a revolution is simple enough thirst 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 would they helped show when they are into a crisis we are evaluating all of our policy options as to what can we do to create a change of conditions were either liberal decides he doesn't have a future or we can return. the government processes to their constitution we are not going to tolerate the dictatorship he's trying to create if then as well and 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 political into the streets the more noise the better and you mustn't let things calm down keep shouting keep agitating one. zero. zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero. ah in the air and 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 and elected president. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one gado the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira or your syrup or and call for the establishment of a transitional government now is the time for more direct action to get all your friends on board as many nations to recognize one go ido as president quickly as possible as no going back now alone b.-a colombia recognizes one quite as president of venezuela and will assist in the transition to democracy to liberate the venezuelan people from the dictator rather brazil has just issued

a note recognizing one why do as venezuela's president. will support this realization in a democracy alongside other countries and 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 venezuela forward there's every pressure from the u.s. and 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 at the 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. which is all options or worse all options are and there you go sparking our prize ngs one o one this may all take some practice tweak here or there but works tried and tested time and time again the consequences are a whole other story washington is ramping up the economic pressure on majorities governments the us treasury has pushed to ensure that self became leader one guy

though gets control over the country's resources. diplomatic and economic relations between the united states and venezuela must be consistent with the united states' recognition of one quite the united states will use its economic and diplomatic tools to ensure that commercial transactions by the venezuelan government including those involving state owned enterprises and international reserves are consistent with this recognition. the statements from the treasury did not specify whether the measures could target venice where there's oil sales venezuela is the fourth largest oil exporter to the u.s. and so far washington has stopped short of imposing an embargo. we can now live to or oil market analyst joining us from texas good to have you on the program so as we just heard the u.s. is now looking at ways of giving control over venezuela's economic resources how

are they going to do this. well what they really want to do is see missouri step aside and if the u.s. government imposes economic sanctions with respect to u.s. companies buying venezuelan oil what we're going to see is a reshuffling of where that oil is sold in the world and u.s. gulf coast refiners are going to be out on the market looking for replacement. when if the u.s. does start targeting venezuelan oil exports what ample impact from that could this have on the global energy market on the u.s. itself. well what i first would expect is that oil prices would rise in anticipation of the sanctions because in the short term u.s. refineries are going to be looking for replacement barrels but in the longer term i suspect that the venezuelan oil would make its way to asia clearly venezuela owes

chinese and russian companies a significant amount of money that they're paying back in oil and those volumes was simply increased to pay back those oil those loans excuse me a bit faster so at the same time that venezuelan oil is making its way to asia the u.s. will be looking as i say additional quantities out of the arabian gulf where there's saudi arabia kuwait or iraq that have now been displaced by bad venezuelan oil so i see no russia and china have invested heavily in venice where this oil sector and they both recognize the madore government so could this put them on a collision course with the u.s. . well certainly looks like it could happen because as you mentioned previously you have the russian and the chinese government supporting the door oh wow the u.s. and other governments in south america are supporting the opposition leader. so

if the u.s. starts shutting off funds to the venezuelan government and how could this affect the already critical situation in the country well i certainly think it will make things more difficult if you shut down the u.s. dollar trade between venezuela and elsewhere around the world what i would say the conditions in venice well are already quite dire we've seen a significant amount of the population go to other countries in south america and i think that's one reason that you do see other countries such as colombia argentina brazil looking to support the opposition leader because the see they see this as a real a major refugee crisis from the population leaving ben as well as other locations it's been this way and then suffer even great hardship to to the c.e.o.'s meshes and could they stopped attending again squat and why the. well i think

that. the life on the streets in venezuela is really causing anger against majority and they're blaming him for the deterioration in the living conditions as well as accusing him and other people in the government of corruption so right now would be the existing government is who the civilian population is getting angry at and you can see that because as you mentioned it's the slum that now appear to be turning against the duro amount was a bastion of support for both chavez and the door oh in the past do you think in the u.s. where scientists could be had to swell. well i think you know the u.s. proprietors will be seeking alternative supplies from out there point baby maybe paying more money for crude oil as a result of her belly or the market price of oil around the world goes up in light

of these sanctions about of course is going to impact on the consumer as well as refiners good to have your expertise on the matter oil market town list and power thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. a long time players can advise some of donald trump past been released on bail after being indicted on several charges were just insta tension came as part of the ongoing investigation into alleged russian collusion artie's keller more penn has the details. 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 trump campaign in the twenty sixteen election and russia however the word russia does not show up at any point in the indictment we have heard from roger stone now that he has been released and 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 jersey was 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 and i will defeat them in order i believe this is a politically motivated investigation i have trouble by the political motivations of the prosecutor 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 and we have donald trump speaking up on twitter about the nature of the arrest and how it was carried out. greatest witch hunt in the history of our country new solution border coyote's drug dealers and human traffickers are treated better than who let it be that 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 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 this arrest shows desperation on mueller's park i mean sending out two dozen f.b.i. men to arrest him. dequeue a show of force and and the indictment there's nothing in the indictment about collusion about russia about any of the things that mueller was a sworn supposed to be investigating it simply is you know charges of lying to congress that arise as a consequence of the mueller investigation so mueller is his investigation is leading to crimes that he is then prosecuting but he's not getting to the bottom of any kind of collusion for the simple reason that i don't think collusion exists. the u.s. senate has passed

a bill to les the government shutdown which has been in place for a record sixty five days this comes off to president trump announced a deal with the democrats to temporarily and the standoff. i am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government in a short while i will sign a bill to open our government for three weeks until february fifteenth this is the longest shutdown in history now on day thirty five president trump you heard him planning on tentatively reopening the government for this longest shutdown impacted eight hundred thousand federal workers he has thanked them for their devotion in the face of hardship president trump also mentioned that he will work hard to have those people affected by it to be repaid soon for the all the money that they've lost so back pay he's looking to do that for these federal workers now he also went on to say that border security is

a big issue this was one of his biggest campaign promises he is still promising hoping that this is the democrats will come to an agreement with him on that wall he also said while should not be controversial so he is planning on still working with the democrats who haven't yet budged to get that wall now if a deal is not reached by february fifteenth the deadline that he signed he said he would have to use emergency powers if we don't get a fair deal from congress the government will either shut down alone so borders fifteenth again or i will use the powers afforded to me under the laws to address. this emergency now what that means is that he could declare a national emergency on february fifteenth we'll have to wait and see what he says as far as the state of the union which is scheduled for next tuesday january twenty ninth he was looking for places to hold that state of the union as far as when that

will be if that will still take place on tuesday we do not know but this could be one of the many reasons that he signed that executive bill for now. more news after a short break. you know world big part of newton's law 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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 watching the hawks.

all make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class doesn't protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room. welcome back to r.t. an american iranian journalist is edging people to join a protest in washington d.c. she's aiming to draw attention to a controversial law allowing people to be held indefinitely without charge masia hashimi was recently released after ten days in u.s.

federal custody she spoke to our ts afshin rattansi about what happens i was flown private plane. to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that into the f.b.i. the f.b.i. headquarters. was. my my picture was taken mug shots they took my d.n.a. with no one has read you the rights no one is still yet read you the rights. no whatever my rights my rights were not rent they said that you were on suicide watch suicide watch. i mean i'm definitely not going to kill myself. oh you were concerned because i'm thinking well you know maybe they have something up their sleeves here maziar 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 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. the f.b.i. has so far not commented on the case you can watch the full interview with marty hashemi in going underground later on saturday they were not international. trump supporters in the u.s. a being compared to members of the ku klux klan a number of media outlets and celebrities have likened that make america great again hats to the white hoods of the infamous racist group. reports. this is a hat word says make america great again the now call of america at this is a cook looks quite a hoot they used to terrorize fried african americans and those different shapes

uro's purposes however this make america great again 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 maggie wearing high school students surrounding a native american chanting and drumming in the nation's capital it is disturbing students mocking a native american man some of them harassing and jeering at a native american elder so much and the story was twisted as we learned from videos that emerged later as you can see the teen dubbed as

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 maggots have gotten themselves in trouble.

when the president. supports. your cause. i've just been asked to leave the store trying to get your hands if you through your hat trick my hat i don't. like. that. so who knows how far that kind of bowling 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. for more updates you can visit our website on t. dot com well top stories at the top of the hour.

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the united states we proactively work wired brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame or curtains in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children. hello and welcome to crossfire we're all things considered.