it was not a very good month but you. know i did my best to you guys the i. love. you for the music this is. one of those. these you. know it's a movie. i swear it's a full movie soon the g.t.s. international executive as president of venezuela i want to do you but his way to the president is elected by the russians of venezuela in chaos president maduro accuses the u.s. that tempted could after donald trump recognizes the country's self declared interim leader. without pay should bring anything but all options

are on the. stories today riot police fire tear gas and water cannon on. the yellow vests movement holds on eleven straight weekend. and in her first interview since being released we hear from an american army internal is to after being called as a material witness ended up spending ten days in custody in the u.s. without charge. most of the time i was in solitary. i couldn't come out thinking i know my god is one like a mass murderer what is the link. with the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly on our to international

a little welcome. political chaos in venezuela has exacerbated turmoil in the country and divided the world this week president maduro accuses the u.s. of an attempted coup after washington recognized the country's opposition leader as interim president one grade zero swore himself in as the trouble nation's leader made massive protests. i threw me for bringing that up but i swear to formally soon the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i know it's probably recognize national symbol president one well 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 if your government there go 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 and nobody will take part in this fake dialogue. well kwaito was spent through follows in to the streets of venezuela in both pro and anti government protests violence this week has left twenty people dead at least five hundred were arrested during the rallies as well caracas based journalist norris our got reports. it has been received in iraq as with both joy and rejection from both parties and both sides of supporters we are standing right now in our studios in assembly and supporting one white doe 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 enough one way that we're in a situation never before experienced in venezuela so people are coming out because this is us denise rounds 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 legitimate president is madieu rove who was elected by the people the other one is using the ping power and names himself president like federal corona did in the past and that's not allowed. it but now during the silly this situation we're living in escape the arctic and every day is getting worse with huge hyperinflation lead one point don't come and see if you can resolve the situation he is the one who needs to stay in this country. 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 doura have made scientific in progress while the army has stayed loyal to my turo the venezuelan military attack in washington has pledged his allegiance to. the us has also urged the united nations to recognize the self proclaimed interim president as the leader of the scythe american country but the un security council failed to resolve the issue. here to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the venezuelan people get to be one of you can tell me which article and which provision of the united nations charter you can find the legal basis for this program nation and was 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 and his male united states is not. the could it it is in

advance it's in the god it is dictating the order how indeed can any self respecting government possibly justifies supporting the poisonous regime of the nation destroying missed in the dura if anything does represent 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. just speaking there at the end at the u.n. can sell donald trump's controversial chief of u.s. policy in venezuela elliott abrams served in foreign policy presidents reagan and bush twice convicted of the saving congress over the arming of nicaraguan rebels and he's linked to a coup attempt in venezuela in two thousand and two against then leader will shove is. well venezuela's president nicolas maduro is accusing the u.s.

of meddling in his country's internal affairs and it's not the first time washington has faced such accusations rock as the ever looks at whether events in the south american country are following a tried and tested 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 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 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. by now you should have caused enough trouble problems on top of everything out still 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. 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. 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. recognizes wedo 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 lima group we recognize and express our full support for the president of venezuela a 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. which is all options always all options are 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. well former u.s. congressman ron paul sees 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 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 and 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 and i'm sure there's some harm done by mature and others but where is it our job where do we get the moral authority to be the decider. ok attention of europe with a yellow dress movement has brought chaos to cities all across france for eleventh weekend in a row protesters defied calls from president to negotiate and were met by riot police using crowd control measures.

protesters actually set just in the distance a sight a show that says covered in scaffolding a nice one of the reasons they're trying to push through you can see that they've been moving these barricades here these here be moving these awakes these also were . and going at the moment here at the brass the trying to move it to create what seemed to be barricades again and then setting those all on fire as you can see those separate yet just coming now 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 chaos we've just seen some people injured including one of our colleagues in russia looks like he's received an injury as a result of why it's so humid out protect jobs being thrown up from the protesters from the crowds of places you can see they are getting their flashbulbs out now this is to launch to tear gas we have been told that the least opposition to using these flash will all be wearing body can see the material can be up to it yes it was calm we were expecting it to be a calm protest on the eleventh weekend but yet again we're seeing move islands from the side of the protesters and the police then responding. charlotte dubinsky well the protests in paris last until late evening with fierce clashes continuing to escalate between the protesters and police several people were injured in some of

these clashes one protester identified as a leading figure within the us movement suffered a injury he was streaming video of the protests at the time and captured the moment he was hit. oh. oh. oh. oh obviously there's no the french president has launched this so-called national debate to find a way out it's all of the crisis but protesters on the streets of paris say be no longer trust the money. about you know we're here to keep mobilizing against the government to maintain the pressure so they don't think that the movement is dead 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 because we don't nothing has changed we still have our demands so we are here again we don't intend to stop . commemorations are being held this sunday in northern capitalists in petersburg there taking place to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of lifting the siege of the city during the second world war president putin laid flowers at the memorial of the fallen soldier before a musket parade was held in the city over two thousand military personnel marched past the winter palace where the iconic hermitage museum is located on the city's central square the siege of leningrad by nutsy forces lasted eight hundred seventy two days alone one of the deadliest in history it's estimated that more than a million people died mostly from starvation in the cold.

war news this hour right after this. in the united states we proactively require 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. i happened to be interviewed in the effort to understand what happened to the p.m.c. that came here for small contractors who were in the war came here last contract to

train a unit and to create from scratch and then go into combat and the cheapie movement will stick. ok we start with a headline story following musts of all the war in the media from international n.g.o.s and american and iranian t.v. presenter who has been released from custody in the united states after being detained without charge.

you know she seemed so ok bad. she was not happy well so the fact that certain data instructions were there's a statute of instructions not being accounted. for have staff had been removed against her will. in an exclusive interview show me told us the story of her detention she spoke to option returns a host of artie's going on about. 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

mug shan state 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 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 micah mass murder or what is going on the international organizations for press freedom to express their concern about it mr shimmies case unclaimed out the arrest violates democratic norms. during her ten days in detention people gathered to protest in the u.s. and around here as morsi has shown me. it's not about me is about the ability. for the us basically to did he in any one. i would say illegally dealt they are going to say that it's legal so

it's much bigger than me we want to demand a start to these actions in this country as so saying that i'm a true witness and it is mind boggling that you can be arrested it did change shall cause not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it firsthand. twenty seven people are now dead and scores injured after two bombs exploded of a catholic cathedral on jolo island in the southern philippines the first bomb went off inside the cathedral the other at the entrance to the compound early on sunday authorities say the casualties include both troops and civilians so far no group has claimed the attack muslim militants are active in the area around the cathedral

has been targeted before. well it said there are at least two sides to every story and that's certainly true of a viral video showing a confrontation stateside between a student wearing a make america great again cap and a native american veteran. it is disturbing students mocking native american dad some of them have arresting and jeering at a native american disturbing viral video has sparked outrage toward covington catholic high school just stirring viral video shows a model seems to make america great again around saying you need a miracle now if you're in washington a troubling incident at the foot of the lincoln memorial i heard him say you know down. here i sit here. we just get stronger. but instead of going into details on the style the shing the real crux of all of the matter the number of media outlets son celebrity you saw

taken a more blinkered approach to trying to reports this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the mag that this is a kook looks klan hoot they used 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 a 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 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. 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 hat people judge me based off one expression and they've gone from there to titling me and labeling me as a racist person 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. the first. point and again you're hot if you do your house my hand i don't. like. yeah. 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 plus the pollution in the world's oceans is something most of us have heard about but how about micro pollution in our own vaulting so it's fast becoming a pressing issue on let's discuss next in worlds apart. but . they put themselves on the line they did accept or reject. so when you want to be president. some want. to be this is what the. three of the big. interest is in the.

fight there's someone else living inside of me controlling my body. the byproduct. the likes of your. because it would only need him into a zombie is crazy. you know we don't have to do anything it's not our fault the sins crazy and all that. here's a magic. word of. u.s. 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 search for answers officer says we're going to attack and

destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them 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 or uneasiness for. long. term. a longer welcome to worlds apart most of us have heard the ballad the plastic pollution of the oceans but something similar is happening to our bodies as well

the chemicals found in plastic bottles metal cans maddox detergents blotto bloodstreams and may cause a long lasting damage is reversing this micro pollution any easier than saving the oceans from the plastic bags to discuss that i'm now joined by dr. sunday director of the division elf 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 our current destructors are synthetic chemicals

that disrupt those signals and thereby contribute to disease and disability across the life spam there is 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 off so 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 the fischel science and regulations seem to be out of sync with believe the reality of the food pyramid and its bias for carbohydrate.