it was not a very good month but you. know i did my best religion as the why do. you think it. was one of those. you. know you know you. want to formalise to the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i want to do you invent his way the president is elected by washington venezuela lurches to ward scales president much euro accuses the u.s. of attempting to orchestrate a coup that's washington throws its full weight behind the country's self declared interim leader very. clear that it would not pay should there be anything but all

options are on the day also coming up riot police fire tear gas and water cannon on the angry crowds or crawls from the yellow base movement holds on to the straights weekend. in her first interview since being released we hear from an american journalist who after being called as a material witness ended up spending ten days in u.s. custody without charge most of the time i was in solitary ok i was locked up i couldn't come out everyone's thinking oh my god is this woman like that mass murderer is going on. with the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome to our top story venezuela's political crisis. deep

in this weekend's the struggle for power in the country intensifies on wednesday president now accused the u.s. of attempting to orchestrate a coup after washington decided to recognize venice will as opposition leader as interim president one guido swore himself in as leader earlier that day as the country was rocked by musts of government protests. i think me if it really did i swear to formally assume the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i know it's probably recognize national symbol president one or you know as the interim president of venezuela i wanted 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 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 and climb to the top of mt pico humbles at three in the morning i will if i have to go naked i'll go naked on foot by car by motorcycle and it must be very clear to the world and to this regime that nobody will take part in this fake dialogue. well why dose announcement through tens of thousands onto the streets of havana so willing to help at all it also triggered demonstrations in support of led to a row twenty people are reported to have been killed in the turmoil a further five hundred arrested caracas based journalist norris our guts report. is has been received in iraq as with both a joy and rejection from both parties and both sides have supporters we are standing right now in our studios in assembly and supporting one white dove 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 denise rhodes it's not the political parties it's not the national assembly it's the venezuelans who are coming out and fire. 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 that part is understand that's coloring buys that matter here the key thing is to save venice and that is about to marry doing where is terry in the fight. 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 dura have made significant progress

addition to the us canada most states in south america of recognized. as venice will as interim president a number of other countries including russia china and turkey have president nicolas maduro criticizing what they view as a coup attempt and with no end in sight to the turmoil in venice we lead the e.u. has issued an ultimatum that blocks key players germany spain france under united kingdom have warned that if elections are not called within eight days they will officially recognized as the country's leader nicolas maduro has spoken out today asking the e.u. to drop its demand for a new vote on saturday the un security council was convicted to discuss the situation in venezuela sparking fierce exchanges take a look. period urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the bene's well and people get a big one of you can tell me in 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 us regime change strategy either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with and has made the united states is not. the could it is in advance it's in the vanguard of the good it 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. speaking out the end there are donald trump's controversial chief of u.s.

policy in venezuela elliott abrams who also served in foreign policy department under 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 venezuela in two thousand and two against then leader is. and this will as 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 iraq as the it looks at whether events in the south american nation are following a tried and tested formula starting an uprising a revolution is simple enough. 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 would they helped show then they into a crisis we were you waiting 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 he wrote 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 stuff. 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. in the anarchy the chaos the confusion comes a special moment when law 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 an elected president paula. 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 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. columbia recognizes who 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 president theophanous lamma seemed by the president at 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 but is that your theory 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. right guys did have going through everything there well we all spoke to former u.s. congressman ron paul he's of the view 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 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 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 monsieur oh and others but where is it our job where do we get the moral authority to be the

decider. now on the eleventh consecutive weekend of yellow vest demonstrations have caused havoc in cities across france with fierce clashes breaking out between protesters and the police. several people were injured in southeast lushes including a leading figure within the yellow press movement who suffered a severe eye injury streaming video of the protests in paris when he was head.

of the city there's no. we will a country protest movement has been launched in paris reporting from the first a red scarf rally in what all out means charlotte do but. this protest movement calls themselves the feudal huge which translates the red scarfs they on the empty as you live in the empty yellow vests there is 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 best 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 against the violence there against its rights 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 vest movement but also just struction over more newman to frogs let's not forget back in december the off to triomphe one of the symbols of the republic was trashed it was vandalized by some of the super cool to listen to host 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 hate to get their voice out into the streets and to meet people who know. no they won't the respect of the republic the respect of democracy to return many people wouldn't say that they prove present back when you know through the french government they prove the values over the french republic which all we know in the

most to live with see a galaxy and fraternity say one of the things that they shared a thing is we're all so people see with assistance to you so a big turnout for this first protest by the red scarfs he in paris today demanding that they the silent majority also and the values of the republic of frogs are respected. ok the shorters of bricks happening though after we hear from the american army and t.v. presenter his arrest in the us sparked international outrage plenty more besides coming up. you know world of big partisan movies a lot 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. happen to be united in the effort to understand what happened here the p.m.c. that came here was not contracted to win the war the p.m.c. that came here was a contract to train a unit and to create a from scratch and then to go into combat and the g.p. limited the sick.

welcome back to the weekly following muss of opera or in the media and from international n.g.o.s as well an american a really into central has been released from custody in the united states after being detained without any charge. generalization seemed so ok bad. she was not happy. the fact certain data structures were those of stature instructions were not being accounted. for had staff had been removed against her will.

or in an exclusive interview marcy has shammy shared the story of her detention with afshin rattansi who was the party's program going on to provide a list on private plane. to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that be i take it into 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 no one has read you the rights no one has still yet read you the rights no one ever read me my rights 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 case 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

gathering to protest in the us sound around you're still free journalist again. it's not about me is about the ability. of the u.s. basically to did he in any one. 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 detained shackles not charged with a crime and. wow i definitely saw it firsthand commemorations are being held this sunday in russia's northern capital 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 at 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 martin spoke to some veterans who experience the horrors of the siege. well . 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 nia. do you mean you're here to look at that 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

suffering than 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 and ate it that's how we survived. the evacuation through this 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 well nazi germany besieged leningrad for eight hundred seventy two days the deadliest blockade in history are there in there about 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 road of life. it

is 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 wrestling 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 seeing indeed if america you know 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 because we have to stay strong. but instead of delving into the details on the stablish ng the real crux of the matter a number of media outlets and celebrities took a more blinkered approach as in the effort franco talks us through. this is

a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the maggot had 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 a mob of mag out 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. that. we think. we've got thank you. 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 do you think if they 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. was. i was. the first. point. to get your hands if you threw your hat my hat i don't. like. that. 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. all right to focus now on the conflict in ukraine more than five

years on from the initial turmoil and violence in kiev during the whole consist there right off not with all your sunday weekly news this is twenty four seven point interest. to you.

he's gone into a nihilistic fever. i think and he got us. out to travelling across america what makes america the charlatan. but essentially american hero this is it we've come a point around which hollywood has gone insane we always are on the right just. hold. on. we're starting with this is we're going to headed east into the swamp to go into the belly the beast and i think i want to leave now governor getting more ground. may be completely different and it is just. us veterans who come back from war often tell those same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got

this memo from a certain 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 them money those with. 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 an easy for. what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that. they've got a law. but the most of the most go full of the could and. as long ago as eighteen zero four sevastopol the naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. during the second world war

the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just so if the united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea plays at russia's doorstep. becomes a.