like the meaning of the something from an album. people obviously come in they just throw them into the water disposal it may not be harmful for that little fish that eats one fragment a profit but once it makes its way up to us in the food chain it's getting to levels that are harmful. i swear to formalise soon that you choose international executive vice president of venezuela i want to do the venezuelan the president is elected by washington. and as well in chaos president maduro accuses the us of an attempted to donald trump recognizes the country's south declared interim leader. very very. deliberate would like a sugar daddy thing but all options are on the day. riot police fired tear gas and water cannon on angry crowds across from us as the goal of best movement holds an

eleventh weekend of rallies. and in have the first interview since being released we have from an american iranian journalist who spent ten days in u.s. custody without charge. most of the time i was in solitary cave i was locked up i couldn't come out everyone's thinking oh my god this is one like a man what is the link on. a very warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international continue all the latest and a roundup of the stories that shaped the week but first political crisis in venezuela has exasperated turmoil in the country and divided the world's this week president maduro cuse is the us of an attempted coup after the u.s. recognized the country's often. initially as interim president when kwaito swore

himself in as the troubled nation fleta i made lots of protests i thought me for bringing that up but i swear to formally soon the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i mean that it's probably recognized national symbol president one why you know as the interim president of venezuela i want him today in venezuela the president is elected by washington and of course they take anyone from the streets who wants to be a president and we're talking to our colleagues in europe and elsewhere to to demonstrate widespread political support for the good of the interim president see your government you know i am committed to international dialogue today tomorrow and always i'm committed and personally ready if i have to go and meet this guy climb to the top of mount pico humboldt's at three in the morning and i will if i have to go naked i'll go naked on foot by car by motorcycle it must be very clear

to the world and to this regime that nobody will take part in this fake dialogue. quite as announcement drew thousands to the streets of venezuela in both pro and anti government protests violence this week has left twenty eight people dead at least five hundred two were arrested during the rallies caracas based journalist nora song called reports. it's been received incorrect as with both joy and rejection from both parties and both sides of supporters we are standing right now in our cities in assembly as supporting one white dove and of course some of the national assembly congressmen but of course we want to hear the voices of the people who support and the people who reject the is calling for elections and this war in one way we're in a situation never before experienced in venezuela so people are coming out because this is us denise rhodes it's not the political parties it's not the national

assembly it's the venezuelans who are coming out and fighting for what we want. the opposition will not return because we support our president for all the right reasons for our mission for our homes for our children they will not come back over the partisan this time and that's coloring buys that matter here the key think is to save venice and that is what we are doing we're restarting the fight here this is a government of social justice our country has many major oil resources natural wealth and there are many interests that want to get their hands on it given these obstacles the governments of chavez and nama do have made significant progress. washington has also watched the u.n. through recognized the south acclaimed interim president as the leader of the south american country but the u.n. security council failed to resolve the issue of the session in new york so some fifty exchanges. here to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of

the venezuelan people because one of you can tell me which article and which provision of the united nations charter you can find a legal basis but it's self proclaimed nation is it just this meeting which we've been forced to attend is yet another element of the us regime change strategy either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with material and his many of the united states is not behind the could it it is in advance it's in the vanguard of the could it day it is dictating the orders how indeed can any self respecting government possibly justifies supporting the poisonous regime of the nation destroying missed in the doura if anything goes represents a threat to peace it is the shameless and aggressive actions of the united states and their allies this discussion in the council is about the right of the venezuelan people to direct their own internal affairs and choose the future of

their own country democratically speaking at the un security the un council there was times controversial chief u.s. policy on venezuela and it abrams he served in foreign policy under reagan and bush and he was twice convicted of deceiving congress over the arming of nicaraguan rebels andy's links to a coup attempts in venezuela in two thousand and two against then leader hugo chavez. venezuela's president nicolas maduro accuses the us of meddling in his country's internal affairs and it's not the first time place washington has faced such accusations marc ousia looks at whether events in the south american country are following a trying to untested formula. 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 when they said well or 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 because 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 god. oh. you're going. in the and the chaos the confusion comes a special moment when lul breaks down when oil. 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 god or the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira 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. recognizes is the president of venezuela and we assist on transition to democracy to liberate the venezuelan people from the dictator but i think 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 president theophanous lamma seemed by the president of the national assembly one it is clear that nicolas maduro is not the legitimate leader

of venezuela so the united kingdom believes that. is the right person to take venezuela forward you see if your country just so happens to be in the americas you're in washington's hemisphere which it seems justifies meddling interfering and changing governments at will but just to be sure bully them let them know that if you don't get what you want you'll beat the lights out of them and take what you want a very short period without considering anything but all options are on the day that you're very which is all options are always all options and there you go sparking uprisings one o one now this may all take some practice tweak here or there but it works tried and tested time and time again but the consequences are a whole other story. for me us congressman long pulls as

a certain irony and 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 and i would think even the people that might not like manure or shouldn't like settling the dispute is 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 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 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 if you will they 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. the best movement has brought chaos to cities all across france for an eleventh weekend in a right to protest as defiance calls from president mcclung to negotiate and will that by riot police with crowns control matches. purchase is actually set fire just in the distance a sorry a short that sarah covered in scaffolding and that is one of the reasons they're trying to push through you can see that they've been moving these barricades here

these here removing these away as this also work and going at the moment here at the basti trying to move it to create will seem to be barricades again and then setting those all on fire as you can see very separate yet just coming down from all angles over the crowds here water cannons have now been brought in to try and deal with this situation you can see more security forces there just behind us that the firm smashed. the bus that's all going down really is coming into quite curious we've just seen some people injured including one of our colleagues in roughly looks like he's received an injury as a result of who i assume with the projectiles being thrown out from the protesters from the crowds the police as you can see they are getting their flash pulls out now this is to launch to tear gas and we have been termed that police officers who are using these flash polls will all be wearing

a party can see the material can be reviewed up to it's yes it was cold we were expecting it to be a come protest on the eleventh weekend but yet again we're seeing move islands from the start the protest is on the police then responding she that you. the protests in paris lasted until late evening with fierce clashes continuing to escalate between the protesters and police several people were injured in saturday's clashes one protester identified as a popular figure within the movement suffered an eye injury he was streaming live video of the protests at the time and kept at the moment he was hit. zero. zero zero. zero zero. zero zero. zero zero zero the french president has launched a so-called national debate to find a way out of the crisis but protesters on the streets of paris say they no longer

trust emanuel across. but you know what we're here to keep mobilizing against the government to maintain the pressure so they don't think that the movement is de i don't believe in the national debate i think is part of the european elections campaign is just smoke we need to participate to show that we're willing to engage in dialogue we're here to show mr mccraw that we understand his game and we know he is a liar he can play any tricks he wants but we will still be here as we know nothing has changed we still have our demands so we are here again we don't intend to stop . the arrest of an american iranian t.v. presenter in the u.s. sparks international outrage we have a firsthand account after this short break. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. in the united states we've proactively required brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants 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. welcome

back following massive uproar in the media and from international n.g.o.s and american iranian t.v. presenter has been released from custody in the united states often being detained without charge. generalization scenes of ok bad. she was not happy. with after certain doubt her

instructions were there's a statute of instructions not being accountable and also her have staff had been with out against her will. one thing has shown me shared the story of her detention without shame or tons a host of aunties going underground an exclusive interview. was found private plane . to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that taken to the f.b.i. i think take the f.b.i. headquarters. i was. my my picture was taken monk chance they took my d.n.a. with the owners read you the rights no one is still yet read you the rights no one ever read me my rights and she my rights were not read i was treated like

a cry in the middle of prisoners when most of the time i was in solitary k. i was locked up i couldn't come out everyone's thinking at oh my god is this what mike a mass murderer or what is going on. international organizations for press freedom expressed their concerns about his semi's case and claim that they arrested violate democratic norms during her ten days in detention people gathered to protest in the u.s. and in iran his mother has sent me again. it's not about me is about the ability. or the u.s. basically to. anyone. i would say illegal a joke they are going to say that it's legal so it's much bigger than me we want to demand. to these actions in this country as so saying that i'm

a true witness it is mind boggling that you can be arrested that did change shall cause not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it firsthand. it's thirty or at least two sides to every story and that's certainly true when it comes to a viral video of a standoff between a student wearing a make america great again cap and a native american veteran takes up the story this is a hat word says make america great again they now call it the maggot hat this is a kook look square hoot they used to terrorize fried african americans and those different shapes euros 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 wearing high school students surrounding a native american chanting in drumming in the nation's capital it is disturbing students mocking 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. the market made it. look at what. we think.

we've got. right. as you can see the teen dubbed as the 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 maggot hat people 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 magers have gotten themselves in trouble.

with. help your cause. i've just been asked to leave the store trying to get your honk if you through your house right hand i don't. like you people like you so who knows how far that kind of bullying may get soon some of the media have tried very hard to make you associate mr crump with the k.k.k. now with this hat situation it must have become a much easier job. we're going to take you live to russia's northern capital some petersburg now where a massive military parade is in full swing live pictures for you from this parade

is being held to commemorate the seventy fifth anniversary of the lifting of the siege of leningrad as the city was formally known during the second world war over two thousand military personnel are marching past the iconic hermitage museum on the city's central square the siege of leningrad by nazi forces lasted eight hundred and seventy two days and was one of the deadliest in history it's estimated that more than a million people died mostly from starvation and cold. wonderful live pictures for you that we're going to be back at the top of the hour with the latest news join us then if you can. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. have to try to cross the saliva before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. west sydney. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten like colored prime stamping each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth you longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per circuit first second and bitcoin roast of twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one business shows you can't

afford to miss the one and only boom bust. in twenty four to you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just go ahead i mean your list put video at three in the new bill is that i mean you split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of 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 country. we

settled for the best couple of years from the dragon to peace islands off there but the reality is there may still be a ship and. have it in this fine layer of micro plastics one two three. the biggest thing that shocked me is that we've never had an empty. like the contents of the something of an albatross. people obviously come in they just throw them into the water as disposal it may not be harmful for that little fish that eats one fragment a classic but once it makes its way up to us in the food chain it's getting to levels that are harmful.

hello and welcome to worlds apart most of us have heard about the plastic pollution of the oceans but something similar is happening to our bodies as wild chemicals found in plastic bottles metal cans maddux detergents blotto bloodstreams and may cause a long lasting damage is reversing this microbe pollution any easier than saving the oceans from the plastic bags to discuss that i'm now joined by dr lynn nottage for sunday director of the division of environmental pediatrics at new york university's school of medicine dr just and it's good to have you on the show thank you very much for talking to us thank you for having me. now you're best known for your studies on. how they can make us we consume in our daily lives

a fact our bodies for example by disrupting our hormonal systems in these particular filled how much do we know how much do we not know and do we know what we don't know hormones are our signaling molecules that time and again serve so many functions in our bodies and their current destructors are synthetic chemicals that disrupt those signals and thereby contribute to disease and disability across the lifespan there's what we know and what we don't know but what little we know suggests that over a thousand chemicals can disrupt the hormones in our bodies now originally back in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's we thought that these were once offs we know about an episode of the pharmaceutical death will still best roll which was used in pregnant women that was later found to induce cancers in young girls and we thought that that was a rare event and we thought these events occurred at high levels of exposure but now we know about

a broader suite of these chemicals that can do such damage even at lower levels of exposure the reason i'm asking this question is because in the united states in particular there are several very prominent examples in public health when that fishel science and regulations seem to be out of sync with believe the reality of the food pyramid and its buys for carbohydrates would be one such example is the kind of advise that you are advocating still a bit of a dissident science or is it already and the stablished if you will well we have international bodies that have documented the public health threat posed by undercurrent of chemicals first it was the end of current society back in two thousand and nine through its scientific statement that's an international body of seventeen thousand science scientists that have documented the disease burden that is likely to occur then the world health organization.