he's in the national executive as president of venezuela. venezuela the president. president. washington throws its full weight behind the country self declared interim leader.

coming up a riot police fired tear gas and water. movement. in her first interview since being released we hear from an american. being called a material witness ended up spending ten days in u.s. custody. most of the time i was in solitary. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly in r t international a low unwelcome or top story venice willis political crisis deepened this week the struggle for power in the country into. suffice all no whedon state president

maduro accused the us of attempting to orchestrate a coup after washington decided to recognize venice will as opposition leader as interim president one grade zero swore himself in as leader earlier that day as the country was rocked by must've antigovernment protests. to leave the room and then up 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 for 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 compliment 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 i will if i have to go naked i'll go naked on foot by car by motorcycle then it must be very clear to the world and to this regime that nobody will take part in this fake dialogue well guido's announcement drew tens of thousands on to the streets of the venice wailing capital it also triggered demonstrations in support of material twenty people are reported to have been killed in the turmoil a further five hundred rested caracas based journalist norris our got file this report. this is being received in iraq as with both a joy and rejection from both parties and both sides of supporters we are standing right now in our studios in assembly as supporting one white doe and of course some of the national assembly congress men 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 we're in a situation never before experienced in venezuela so people are coming out because this is us the new surrounds 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 all the partisan this time and that's coloring buys that matter here the key thing is to save venice and that is what we are doing where starting the fight in. 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 while there has been another development in the last number of hours let's go

through it nicholas material has asked the e.u. to drop its the mom for a fresh election in venice the bloc earlier said it would officially recognize. the country's leader if another vote is not called the u.s. has also urged the united nations to recognize the self-proclaimed interim president but the u.n. security council failed to reach a consensus on an emergency session on saturday. here to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the venezuelan people 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 is it just this meeting which we've been forced to attend is yet another element of us regime change strategy either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with his mayhem the united states is not . the. it is in advance it's in the guard could it it is the order 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 yes speaking of the end there was dull trumps controversial chief of u.s. policy in venezuela elliott abrams also served in foreign policy departments on presidents reagan and bush he was twice convicted of deceiving congress over the arming of nicaraguan rebels and he's linked to a coup attempt in venice will in two thousand and two against then leader hugo chavez. well venezuela's president nicolas maduro is accusing the u.s. of meddling in his country's internal affairs it's not the first time washington has faced such accusations but i guess the of looks at weather events in the south

american nation are following a tried and tested for me. 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 govern. self 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 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. you're going.

in the and the chaos the confusion comes a special moment when lul 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 i'm elected president. 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 serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government now is the time for more direct action get all your friends on board. be a recognized as 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 in the lima group we recognize and express our full support for the presidency of venezuela 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 be lights out of them and take what you want. 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. rocco's do you have with the report all former u.s. congressman ron paul told us 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 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 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 monsieur oh and others but where is it our job where do we get the moral authority to be the decider. to europe where on the eleventh consecutive weekend of yellow vests demonstrations have cost in cities right across france with fierce clashes breaking out between protesters and police.

several people were injured in something clashes including a leading figure within the yellow face movement who suffered a severe eye injury he was streaming video of the protests in paris when he was hit . he said there's no. meanwhile a culture protest movement has been launched in parra charlotte toobin ski reports from the first red scar from. this protest movement of the female whose which translates the red scarfs they are the empty as you live in the empty yellow vests

for to some degree what they saying is they're unhappy with the violence that's been seen in june ring this movement of the should they jonesy yellow vests since november seventeenth i just wanted to get a sense of just how many people of turned out for this protest today this protest to say that they food democracy there are kates the violence there against these threats and they hate to describe themselves to show that they are the silent majority many people have said that they want their voices to be heard and they want a democracy to be respected there are happy with not just the violence it's a could in the yellow vests movement but also the destruction of monuments to folks as don't forget back in december the off the tree on one of the symbols of the republic was trashed it was vandalized by some of the so cool to. the heart of that yellow vest movement and some of the people here say they also yellow

vests to people that supported the movement at the beginning they want to see some change in france but there are unhappy with how it's progress and so they hit to get their voice out into the streets and to meet people who know that they want the respect of the republic the respect of democracy to return many people wouldn't say that they approve present not going you know through the french government they prove the values over the french republic which all we know in the motu of. liberty a galaxy and fraternity say. one of the things that they shall thing is we're also people see with assistance to you so a big turnout for this first protest by the red scarfs hey in paris today demanding that they the silent majority also the values of the republic of frogs are respected. the news continues in ninety seconds.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. in the united states we proactively require brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and marketing 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. hello again following must of upper or in the media and from international n.g.o.s and american really in t.v. presenter has been released from custody in the united states after being detained without charge.

generalization seems ok bad. she was not happy well the fact that certain data structures were those of stature instructions were not being accounted. for have staff had been removed against her will. in an exclusive entry marcell assure me shared the story of her detention with afshin rattansi host of our teens going underground. 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. there when is ready the right no one has 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 woman like a mass murderer or what is going on. during her ten days in detention people gathered to protest in the u.s. under a new round here's the free journalist again. it's not about me is about the ability . of the u.s. basically to detain. anyone. 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. to these actions in this country as so saying that i'm a true witness 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. commemorations are being held this sunday in russia's northern capital of sin petersburg today marks seventy five years since the end of the siege of leningrad which gripped the city for more than two years during the second world war president putin laid flowers out the memorial of the fallen soldier in his home city earlier a large parade was held over two thousand military personnel marched past the winter palace where the iconic hermitage museum is located on the city's central square r.t. spoke to some of the veterans who experienced the horrors of the siege. movie it was pure horror but we were such patriots we didn't think the siege would last long i remember the day it was announced with thought that maybe in three months we will

advance we believed in it until the very end the faith is what kept us alive i never thought about live in leningrad we can't believe in the end of the siege was near you do you mean your view of the book or that maybe there was no childhood for me during the siege it was a horror that we young boys only survived because we were able to bear more so. in the elderly i remember sometimes our relatives would die during the night the next morning would wake up next to a dead person that was our childhood i remember how during the most difficult periods we would find endearing barrels and they'd be a viscous residue at the bottom we boiled in ate it that's how we survived. the evacuation through the so-called road of life is one of the most memorable things from the sea i remember how the car driving behind us sank in the lake after being hit by a nazi bomb it was a horrible experience i have no positive memories from that time. and credible

testimony will nazi germany the siege of leningrad for eight hundred seventy two days one of the deadliest blockades in history more than a million people died mostly from starvation and cold the only route for supplies to reach the city was across a frozen lake called the roads of life. it's said there are at least two sides to every story and that's certainly true of a viral video showing a confrontation states 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 arrested and jeering at a native american disturbing viral video has sparked outrage toward covington catholic high school just stirring viral video shows the moment 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.

here i sit here because we have to stay strong. and instead of going into details on the stop pushing the real crux of the matter a number of media outlets and celebrities took a more blinkered approach to trying to report. this is a happy word says make america great again they now call it the mag this is a kook klux klan hoot they used to terrorize freed 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 a mob of mag out wearing high school students running in native american chanting in drumming so much and the story was twisted as we learned from videos that emerged later. the market made it you. look at it. 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 race this 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. with the president. through sports. figure hockey if you do your house my hat i don't. like.

yeah. so who knows how far that kind of bowling may get soon some in 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. plastic pollution in the world's oceans is something most of us i've heard about it but what about my group pollution in our own bodies it's fast becoming a pressing issue on let's discuss next in the world. there's someone else living inside of me controlling my body. the byproduct. the likes of.

because it will need him into a zombie it's crazy. you know we don't have to do anything it's not our shoes crazy and all that. piers. i happen to be an art you don't have to understand whatever. the p.m.c. to pay me. contracted to win the war the came here was a contract to train a unit and to create from scratch and then to go into combat and achieve the limited objective. 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 circular defenses officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government and 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 and surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for. joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics small business i'm show business i'll see you there. are.

a long 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 and metal caskets not it's to trade a lot of bloodstream sendmail. cause long lasting damage is reversing this micro pollution any easier than saving the oceans from the plastic bags well to discuss that i'm now joined by dr leon not a trace 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 one soft 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.