by wall street and you know your network is collapsing in your money's being destroyed and all the relationships are hardly dysfunctional and you're living in a frickin prison and you have no right to assemble no rights of free speech but you're feeling good about it because this is extraordinarily. subversive to. the state. venezuela's president. says he's ready to talk to the opposition needs to end the country's crisis but refuses to negotiate. with venezuela torn between rival need calling it a coup by washington we look at some america's track record of regime change in.

the form of pfizer to the trump campaign is released on bail after being charged in the mine upright. and the us congress passes a bill and the government shutdown the deal that has trumped the all of the funding for his border will remain. from the russian capital we are watching off. the venezuelan president says he's ready for talks with the opposition need to why though who has to cut himself interim president but as the opposition is refusing to negotiate following that more people will take to the streets. the first to be ready for any dialogue should be the president and he. is ready for agreements which will take us forward

i am personally ready for the dialogue. i want in a position of an assault to get out of the trap and i wish it was clear that. it must be very clear for the world and this regime nobody will take part in this flaked on. why they spoke this plus i where we are right now just hours ago he rejected any entreaties of dialogue to say though someone they need elections and he just wants moderate to back a he said that much right now is insisting on dialogue the dialogue for it 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. speech in which he said he is ready to dialogue in all conditions seems more than willing for dialogue both way though and the rest of the opposition are wary they think it's just that back 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 why they all fry they brought freefall 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 used to be a form 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. illegitimates corrupt incompetent that's how the u.s. is calling majoris regime as the standoff continues to escalate in the venezuelan capital we spoke to former u.s. congressman ron paul he feels it's ironic that washington times is fighting for democracy in venezuela it's implementing authoritarian methods.

i think it's going to end up in violence and you could have a civil war some countries 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 madeira should like i said allowing 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 buses stalling a president having a coup 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 hold in the head is 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 this other side that's why we're going to do it. it's an impact test l. hitting venezuela it's not the sense time washington has been accused of interfering in other countries a fast and closing instability like a stance next

a weather event and plan a following to try to pass. 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 back to their constitution we are not going to tolerate the dictatorship he's trying to create if venezuelan people deserve better than what the regime of nicolas maduro offers them now that the country and people are in economic misery and you vilified its leaders pick

a hero like thirty five year old u.s. educated head of the national assembly which as it turns out the united states has been quietly assisting financially and helping for a while who would have thought with 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. oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh you're going. in the and the chaos the confusion comes

a special moment when luke. 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 obama. 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 your server 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 as 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 recession 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 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 from 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 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 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 very notion that all options always fall options and there you go sparking uprisings one o one 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 washington is ramping up the economic pressure on the tourist

government the us treasury has pledged to ensure that self-proclaimed leader why there has 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 statement from the treasury did not specify whether the measures could target venezuela's oil sales venezuela is the fourth largest oil exporter to the u.s. and say far washington has stopped short of imposing an. energy analyst and told us any action against venezuelan oil could have a knock on effect on the u.s. . the u.s. government imposes economic sanctions with respect to u.s.

company used by 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 refineries are going to be out on the market looking for replacements standpoint baby maybe paying more money for crude oil as a result of the melia the market price of oil around the world goes up in light of the sanctions that of course is going to impact on the consumer as well as refiners. a long time pesca advisor of donald trump has been released on bail after being indicted on several charges rosa stone's detention came as part of the ongoing investigation into alleged russian collusion artie's caleb maupin 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 city 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 see then to 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 to rest 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 this was 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 investigations 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 lift the government shutdown which has been in place for

a record thirty five days this comes out to president transcend now to 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 who's 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 wall 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 deals from congress the government will either shut down. again. or are 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 a 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. the italian prime minister has accused fronts i'm chimney of running the in the in interests disregarding the views of the member states. they're only thinking of the national interests certainly our allies cannot believe that we will sit silently of the table to underwrite decisions taken by others giuseppi contest i was speaking a few days off to france and germany signed a friendship treaty under the pacts the two countries agreed to deepen the economic alignment with common regulations and france gave support to germany's bed to have a permanent seat on the un security council italy's and terry minister. called for an alternative alliance between italy and central europe but. europe is used to

the franco german access but we're seeking a new balance a new energy and in this sense poland and italy will be the protagonists of this new european spring salvini is known for his tough stance on immigration and he has repeatedly accused france and germany of stoking the crisis earlier this week he described a minor maicon as a terrible president blamed france for destabilizing africa political analyst nick america which gave us his views on the disputes. i think what we're seeing now is that there are really two opposite views of the european union on one side we've got france and germany who are and that i think closing their eyes on what really is going on within the european union and pretending that nothing bad is going on and on the other side we've got to tell you which are at the forefront of the other countries of other countries at least of the european union saying well there's a big divide and they don't understand what's going on they don't understand what the french and germans are doing they don't understand why

a lot of the main problems which are facing europeans today massive immigration unemployment problems concerning the schooling universities are not being dealt with so i don't think the european union is going to be able to solve this and unfortunately this is a this is a big blow for the european dream but it shows that if we want to solve these major problems that i think a lot of the countries will want to solve themselves outside of the european union . term supporters in the u.s. the big compared to members of the ku klux klan a number of media outlets some telepathy of lichens that make america great again hats to the white tits of the infamous racist creep in a picture and a report. this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the maggot hat this is a kook looks clan a 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 hat 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 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 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 the 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 magers have gotten themselves in trouble.

with those. sports. cars help your cause. i've just been asked to leave the store trying to get your honk if you threw your hat my hat i don't. like you people like you 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. an american iranian journalist as aging people to join a protest in washington d.c. she's aiming to draw attention to a controversial law at all and people to be held indefinitely without charge masia hashimi was recently released after ten days in u.s. federal custody she spoke to r.t.

is afshin rattansi about what happens i was some private plane. to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that into the f.b.i. and the take the f.b.i. headquarters. was. my picture was taken monk shan state took my d.n.a. there when is ready the rights no one is still yet ready the rights. no one ever read me my rights my rights were not read they said that you 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 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 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 must say i who works the press t.v. was taken into custody on january the thirteenth while visiting family in the state of missouri the court of justice confirmed she'd been questioned by the f.b.i. if a material witness but still specify what the case was they rein in government as well as press freedom organizations voice the anger of the incident before her release people protested in washington d.c. and tear on demanding the genest be freed macias family issued a statement saying her treatment was unfair. the this was not just about marzia his simming 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 a flight instinct would and he did not get on that route which to which i told him

to the f.b.i. i was with him and accompanied him the whole night. though he was not under arrest but fortunately he com to my hears my other kids if you haven't been there your children will not lead to just like you disappeared. what i realize is how easy it is for them to make someone disappear. it's he was not. in exhibit no one would have known. where it was mind boggling that you can be arrested it did change shall cause not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it first hand that was maziar hashimi speaking to artist afshin rattansi the f.b.i. has declined to comment on the incident. around twenty thousand

nigerian girls and women could be traffics tamale and forced into prostitution that's according to a new reports by nigeria's anti trafficking agency they're reportedly being held step inside forests with almost no chance of escape. the galson women range in age from sixteen to thirty many had been tricked into thinking they were heading for jobs in hospitality in malaysia at us were kidnapped on their way to or from school the director general of the agency says they held in terrible slave like conditions we spoke to got one more cup he was from the agency which issued the reports about this finding. went deep inside the bush with because we. did see below dismount big job indeed the number of twenty thousand we decided to be conservative because it's quite a lovely whatever money happens is that when a girl is trafficked. makes out to. be about one point

it may go to two million. francs which is the. one of the finnish. did. to get to rescue these guys we need to operate closely with it is especially. under there as. they have different authorities then identified with the angels they also meant jews to. whom. madame's a move to get it would be against a bill report them to the authorities go directly issue to missis read the instructions for the rest and risk. the un has previously highlighted the problem of human trafficking in nigeria it calls for international funding and areas where human traffickers operate the most when more care again says that apart from rescue efforts it's essential to work with women to teach them how to spot the traffickers

traps. we do. like to see if they've. got their own issues not really this is not. so much work you. know this. really does they don't i'm not out to change. course positive behavior. just my group was a. holistic approach apart from the issue of risk and those guys were already well. i'm not. sure that. scorch. a mining town his best in southeast brazil killing at least seven people according to

officials hundred of fifty more missing the collapse released a huge volume of mining waste flooding borel areas nearby towns have been evacuated and survivors of being airlifted to safety that i know mine is owned by the brazilian metals giant whale the family so operates another dam in the states which ruptured in twenty fifteen contaminating rivers and killing nineteen people. going up to date with the latest global news programs here on r.t. continue in just a few moments. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the water. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something or want.