or is it. the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. have to go meet this guy climb to the top of mount pico humbles three in the morning i will. make it nobody will take part in this fight venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he's ready to talk to the leader of the opposition to try and resolve the country's political crisis but one quite go has rejected the offer. from a political advisor to the campaign. released on bail after

a number of charges are brought against him by the throat. and do not mention russia. must. be the silver spoon in my mouth of the son of a politician you could have a go at me but that's not the case. rejects claims he's our president all the rich only. yellow press protests so we are. as one of them i think he's more president for the british he obviously doesn't come from you know lower income brackets can't understand the everyday problems of. saturday morning eight zero one here in moscow the r.t.t. . running up this hour's top stories while. but secretary of state says that he

will urge the u.n. security council to recognize venezuela's self declared interim president the opposition leader one quite go and as well as elected president nicolas maduro says he is ready for talks the opposition has rejected his offer instead of people to hit the streets you want to compliment you go i am committed to international dialogue today tomorrow and. i'm committed and personally rent if i have to go and meet this guy climb to the top of mount pico humboldt's at three in the morning i will have to go naked i'll go naked on foot by car by motorcycle it must be very clear for the world and this regime nobody will take part in this fake dialogue fry the broad brief lull in their violence that has been us well over the last three days. their opposition says their happiness minus twenty eight killed the government demonstrations their government says they want to stop at the most

regimes but the cost model is not the step in down instead as proposed in dialogue which the opposition regains it's been three days of protest mostly in the slums surrounding caracas which used to be for model which used to be for chavez but now they've come out every night protesting around five hundred were arrested during large anti-government rallies in venezuela at one of the protests on wednesday opposition leader symbolically swore himself in as interim president venezuelan president nicolas maduro to cut diplomatic ties with the trump administration after it and recognize quite go as the country's legitimate leader and right leaning latin american governments have also backed him while the e.u. has called for fresh elections support for my daughter however has been voiced by china and russia and in latin america by bolivia cuba and mexico. and washington is ramping. up the economic pressure on government the u.s.

treasury has pledged to ensure that a quiet go gets control of the country's resources diplomatic and economic relations between the united states and venezuela must be consistent with the united states' recognition of one 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 and consistent with this recognition the statement from the treasury did not specify whether the measures would target venezuela's oil sales of venezuela is the fourth largest oil exporter to the united states and so far washington has stopped short of imposing an embargo but all prices have already risen and analysts are predicting larger impacts with a knock on effect in america and the u.s. government imposes an economic sanctions with respect to u.s. companies that as well and oil well 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 replacements from mad damp point baby maybe paying more money for crude oil and as a result of las the market price of oil around the world goes up in light of these sanctions that of course is going to impact on the consumer as well as refiners nicolas maduro accuses the united states of meddling in his country's internal affairs and former u.s. congressman ron paul says there's a certain irony in washington's claim to be fighting for democracy in venezuela. i think it's going to end up in violence and we 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 i was settling the dispute its internal issue they should settle it and i think it is 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 and threaten them with military violence because because they're not democratic enough i would hardly say that our position is very democratic. all we have to do some of the wonders what could happen is they ought to 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 i'm sure there's some harm done to her oh and others but where is it our job where do we get the moral authority to be the decider and say you are worse than the southern side that's why we're going to do it. roger stone a long time political advisor of donald trump has been released on bail after being indicted on several charges introduced by a special counsel robert muller a stone's detention came as part of the ongoing investigation into alleged russian collusion during the twenty sixteen american presidential elections the charges include obstruction making false statements and witness tampering though there was no mention whatsoever of collusion with russia which is exactly what the probe is looking into. reports. 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 we have heard from roger stone now that he has been released on 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 teacher he was and i would be more than willing to surrender voluntarily and. they terrorize my wife my dogs and i wound not guilty to these charges and i will defeat them and her and i believe this

is a politically motivated investigation and 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 now this comes after a 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 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 pollution border coyote's drug dealers and human traffickers are treated better than who alerted c.n.n.

to be there to arrest shows desperation on mueller's part i mean sending out two dozen f.b.i. men to arrest him. dickless 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 but he's not getting to the bottom of any kind of collusion for the simple reason that i don't think collusion excess. fronts is bracing for an eleventh weekend of yellow vest protests that's coming after recent remarks by president ron in which he portrayed himself as a man of the people protesters have long branded him only as a president of the rich shall and takes a good lawyer. it seems the yellow vest protests have really taken their toll on president on just two years ago he was comparing himself to a goat now he's selling

a rags to riches story. you know. if i had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth or the son of a politician you could have a go at me but that's not the case the so-called president of the rich wants people to know that he wasn't born rich and he's just like you and me albeit with a personal fortune purported to be almost thirty million euros but as muckle star seems to be news diving he did what politicians do best damage control mainly in the form of a nationwide let's get all feelings off our chest exercise otherwise known as the national debate. i'm not going to talk too much as my goal is to listen to you in a free and fair manner if there are questions i will answer them but what i want is for you to express yourself in the most thorough richt manner to go on the tour he snubbed the filthy rich at the world economic forum in davos because there's a chance that that might not look so good they're also going to though that this

damage control is working with several recent polls showing the president's popularity has been creeping back up so we thought we'd ask people here in paris what do they think is money just another guy from the block. he studied in elite schools as a risk to threats to he was made there the french elite is created in this way you can understand the everyday problems of french people living on the minimum wage but it's not really important what he says now his future actions will define his presidency i can see he's a president of the rich throughout his career on his network with people who were born with silver spoons in their mouths i think he's more president for the bridge he's a pockets of the big banks he obviously doesn't come from you know. lower income brackets you know like some of us do i think he probably tries. i think he's more a president of the rich judging by the looks he has introduced. well aside from

internal discontent powers also faces external pressure up with the italian prime minister accusing france and germany of running the e.u. in their own interests and disregarding the views of other 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. conte was speaking a few days off to france and germany signed a friendship treaty under the pact the two countries agreed to deepen their economic alignment with common regulations france gave its support to germany's bid to have a permanent seat on the un security council earlier italy's interior minister might tell yourself a new call for an alternative alliance between italy and central europe. europe is used to the franco german access but we're seeking a new balance a new energy and in this sense poland in italy will be the protagonists of this new european spring is known for his tough stance on immigration he has repeatedly

accused france and germany of stoking the crisis earlier this week he described emanuel macron as a terrible president and blamed france for destabilizing africa political analyst and told us why he gave us his views basically on this dispute. i think what we're seeing now is that there are really two opposite views of the european union on one side you'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 units 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 so the longest government shutdown in u.s. history has been tempo really lifted will give you details on that in less than a minute. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partisan movies. 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 on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. saturday programming welcome to us president donald trump has signed a bill temporarily lifting the longest shutdown of the country's history for the

past thirty five days wrangling with democrats in an unsuccessful bid to secure funding for a border war with mexico 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. i will make sure that all employees receive their back pay very quickly or as soon as possible for a month a democrat house speaker nancy pelosi has been seen as the main opponent to trump's plans for a border wall here's a quick recap of the to ing and fro ing. the longest shutdown the longest government shutdown in u.s. history followed workers and contractors lined up for

a free meal air traffic controllers pilots and flight attendants are warning travelers they cannot guarantee their safety this is economic pain inflicted on american citizens by the american government. who has been told you should have no doubt about it we get it passed very easily and that we would get it nancy i have it passed in two seconds and we need border security did she find the answer we need border security situation which you would accept even a dollar of wall fund for the president in order to feel. like to. talk about that so i'm not blind like. nancy pelosi or nancy as i call that the president doesn't know what he's talking about he thinks it's ok not to pay people who do work surprise surprise she doesn't

want to hear the truth dr jordan from the radical left. sadly given the security concerns and the less government reopens i suggest we work together to determine another suitable date after government has reopened for this address for for you to consider delivering your state of the union address in writing. the shutdown i'm sorry to inform you that your trip to brussels egypt and afghanistan has been postponed obviously if you'd like to make your journey by flying commercial.

unpresidential in. shock you think you know what changed our constitution is a disgrace. he passed here in moscow a mining has burst in southeast brazil killing seven people according to officials around us down one hundred and fifty more missing the collapse released a huge volume of mining waste flooding rural areas and nearby towns have been evacuated and survivors have been a lifted to safety the iron ore mine is owned by the brazilian. also operate and of a dam in the state which ruptured in twenty fifteen contaminating rivers killing at least nineteen people. around twenty

thousand nigerian girls and women are being held in mali as sex slaves that's according to the head of nigeria's anti trafficking agency they're reportedly being held deep inside forests with little chance of escape other girls and women range in age from sixteen to thirty many had been tricked into thinking they were heading for jobs and hospitality in malaysia others were kidnapped on their way to or from school the director general of the anti trafficking agency says they are being held in terrible slave like conditions and we spoke to godwin moore who is also from the agency about its findings. indeed the number of treated this way to let me to get to risk it is goes we need to work really closely with the my level to reduce especially do i do look under the rigorous rejoins that i've devoted to authorities and been reported to them to do authorities do directly issue to mrs st these

structural. risks the un has previously highlighted the problem of human trafficking in nigeria and called for international funding in areas where human traffickers operate the most. again says that apart from rescue efforts it is essential to work with women to teach them how to spot the traffickers traps. work you. know this. is shown to be done to change to do is to. well so want to ensure that when they go back there we're not just bringing them back we're going to. have the precedes repetition program and they are just some of the top stories for this hour here on our international though your saturday programming returning at the top of the hour hope to see you then. i happen to be a nigerian effort to understand what happened here the p.m.c.

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that are harmful. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already is several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy mess for us. and i was you know which schools out there but the issue of chicago is really one

that can speak with you what you. it was that acute. it posole cause. as up in islam his story when you know it's not a new day. for you when you go to use some of those artful but it gets on this list and it's going to go. slow to this which is when you know how do we play you know the destroying important that is no. one did it step on the. slow play. the hero status of step on bond was short lived in two thousand and ten victoriano covert each was elected president this time the international community had no doubts about the legitimacy of the elections. in january two thousand and eleven victoriana covert repealed the hero title of bond era. almost four years into his presidency though another revolution shook ukraine unfortunately this one was anything but peaceful.

night. mr yanukovych which i'm an american i'm an outsider to the situation and it's very complicated but i would like as a as a filmmaker just to jump into the action and go to those moments in november two thousand and thirteen you're president of the ukraine you've been president for three years at this point the country is in bad economic shape very bad you have a trade agreement with russia and now you are seeking to make a better agreement with the e.u. with the european union and you are negotiating can you bring me to that moment and what you're thinking just sitting at the bill which institutionally peter with with him in the local area near. him would be pleased to treat that in

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a storm we had to with so i mean i bought it but if you want to use it which national interests it will become a little grainy erase you. so there's no risk of you doing the economy. so little and you can only afford when you can get machine or in gear bullish two are committed no sense you tell him about it i'm not going to separate them which i'm almost just going to. take him of them. because if they use i say mr raymond what i mean the national kitty to do is just take it to go where. it got them when that tradition that we're dealing door. opened up on and you would open. pretty aboard by economy but us who are those that see but year your little park and inserts a new bit of fruit almost are you. really at them blow.