and somehow i want to. let you go on the beat for us this is like the full story in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water that. they should. all move the teachings of the national executive vice president of venezuela. venezuela the president is elected. president maduro accuses the u.s. of plotting a coup in venezuela as washington throws its weight behind the country's self-proclaimed leader. great. service where would i pay should i get anything but all options are on the table. french riot police fired tear gas on angry crowds as the yellow vests

the movement holds an eleventh weekend of rallies. and a valuable painting is stolen from one of moscow's busiest museums the. gallery during working hours. broadcasting live coverage from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international our venezuela's political crisis deep into this week on wednesday president maduro accused of the u.s. of attempting to orchestrate a coup after washington decided to recognize venezuela's opposition leader as interim president. had sworn himself in as that leader earlier that day as the country was engulfed by anti-government on the rest. i swear it's a full moon e.c.g. . he's international executive as president of venezuela

i think that 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 you know i am committed to international dialogue today tomorrow and always i'm committed and personally ready you know 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 and i'll go make it on foot by car by motorcycle and it must be very clear to the world and to this regime and nobody will take part in this fake dialogue. why don't deliver his speech in front of tens of thousands of supporters in caracas and there

were also demonstrations for my duros twenty people are reported to have been killed in the turmoil and a further five hundred were arrested just noice are got reports from the venezuelan capital. 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 a citizen assembly 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 rounds it's not the political parties it's not the national assembly it's the vinous well who score 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 nation for our homes for our children they will not come back over the partisan this and that's coloring buys that matter here is the key thing is to save venice and that is what we are doing 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 do have made significant progress so the question of who is in charge in venezuela has divided the world powers the us canada and most of south american states have recognized one as venezuela's interim president a number of other countries including russia china and turkey are standing by president nicolas maduro criticizing what they view as a attempt and then with no end in sight to the turmoil in venezuela another group of states four of them in fact have issued an ultimatum to majority germany spain

france and of the u.k. have all warned that if elections are not called within a days they will officially recognize the venezuelan leader maduro has rejected. the demand and his foreign minister has dismissed the deadline as childish on saturday tensions that were on full display at an emergency un security council meeting. here to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the venezuelan people one of you can tell me in which article and which provision of the united nations charter you can find a legal basis but. it was just this meeting which we've been forced to attend is yet another element of us regime change strategy if 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. it 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 does represent a threat to peace 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 end there was donald trump's controversial new special envoy for venezuela elliott abrams he served in foreign policy roles under presidents ronald reagan and george w. bush was twice convicted of deceiving congress over the arming of nicaraguan rebels and he was linked to a coup attempt in venezuela in two thousand and two against the late leader hugo chavez but i have comments now whether the u.s.

is following a tried and tested formula in venezuela. starting an uprising 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 to 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. was. going. in the and the chaos the confusion comes

a special moment when lul breaks down when loyalty. 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 or 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 and the immigrant we recognize and express our full support for the president 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 from his way to 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 it . without considering anything but all options are on the day that you're very 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. former u.s. congressman ron paul told us of foreign interference in venezuela is likely to make matters worse for the country's people i think it's going to end up in violence and you could have a civil war and i would think even the people that might not like madeira should like i said allowing the dispute is internal issue they should settle it and i think it's 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 buses stalling a president having a coup and threaten them with military violence because because they're not democratic and not 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 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 have a us 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. yellow vests rallies have a broadcast of french cities for an eleventh weekend fierce clashes broke out on saturday between protesters and police. i. i. i. i. i.

i i i i. i. well several people were injured in the clashes including a leading figure in the yellow vest movement jerome rodriguez was hit in the face by a flash ball grenade at and says he may lose the sight in is that right i was streaming video in paris when the incident how. i. know. i i think there's no. fuel to shoot i've had my i've been stitched up because the impact as to whether i'm going to regain my sight i will find out some one or two weeks i make streaming angry because these are things that should not be happening today in front zones what

they doing is totally unacceptable the president is unhappy about what is happening in venezuela or in other countries and yet he's willing to mistreat his own people so i have to recover and i will work turn to the protests as soon as i can because the battle will be long and tough but we have a cold case of progress affronts and for a more humane world. meanwhile a counter protest movement has been launched in paris charlie dubinsky reports from the first red scarf rally. this process moving because who says that if we don't who's which translates that the red skull say all of these is surely surely anti yellow vests that is so. decree what they saying is they're unhappy with the violence that's been seen during this movement of the chalet 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 they're against the thought islands they're against

the 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 occurred in the yellow vests movement but also the destruction of monuments to folks that's not forget back in december the off to turn on one of the some moves of the republic was trashed it was vandalized by some of the so cool to the suggs as the host of that yellow vest movement and some of the people here say they also yellow vests the 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 to 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 proved present not going you know through the french government they

proved the values over the french republic which all we know in the motu of liberty a galaxy and fraternity so. one of the things that the shiny thing is we're also people to 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 and the values of the republic of frogs are respected mourners after a short break watching the week we are two international. i happen to be a nigerian effort to understand what happened here the p.m.c. that came here was not a contract of who won the award the pm seat of 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 stick. in a world of big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the baths 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.

welcome back to the weekly on r t international now a treasured landscape painting has been stolen from moscow's most prominent art gallery according to culture officials the our work which is worth almost two hundred thousand dollars was taken right in front of unsuspecting visitors. has more. the grand theft happened right behind the store on sunday between six and seven pm the famous painting by a russian artist that he was simply taking off the wall or at least that's how i witnesses described it a man allegedly dressed as a security guard walked in took the painting off the wall and with a blank expression on his face walked away before anyone could realize it the precious painting was gone to pieces that heap queen i pad tree a famous peak in crimea the painting is insured for two hundred thousand dollars but if auction the price could be several million dollars building up the gallery

on sunday it was packed with people as quite a vast exhibition of his works is on display for the first time here at this gallery and over at decade at the moment the building of the gallery is blocked by police who are questioning average one who works there and also checking c.c.t.v. cameras the police are investigating what appears to be an ambitious heist fit for a movie script. russian city of st petersburg has marked seventy five years since the siege of leningrad was lifted january the twenty seventh nine hundred forty four was a defining moment in the history of the city and a turning point in world war two and as you can see fireworks lit up the sky over the snow covered river and of the peter and paul fortress as the northern capital celebrated the event. earlier a large parade was held soldiers marched past the winter palace home of the hermitage museum on the city's central square art you spoke to some veterans who experienced the horrors of the siege. 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 or that maybe in three months we will advance we believed in it until the very end the faith is what kept us alive that i never thought about leaving leningrad to believe in the end of the siege was nehemiah. do you mean your book other than to me it was no childhood for me during the siege it was a horror they were young boys only survived because we were able to buy more suffering in the elderly i remember sometimes our relatives would die during the night the next morning we wake up next to a dead person well that was our childhood i remember how during the most difficult periods we would find empty having barrels and there be a viscous residue at the bottom we boiled in a.t.s. that's how we survived the records. or gave evacuation through the cycling road of life is one of the most memorable things from the sea i remember how the car

driving behind us sank in the late after being hit by a nazi bomb it was a horrible experience i have no positive memories from that time in. nazi germany besieged leningrad for eight hundred seventy two days or 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 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 a native american man some of them have arrested and jeering at a native american disturbing viral video has sparked outrage toward covington catholic high school just stir being viral video shows the moment seems to make

america great again around saying you need an american out there in washington a troubling incident at the foot of the lincoln memorial i heard him say you know down. here i sit here. we have to stay strong. but instead of going into details and establishing the real crux of the matter a number of media outlets and celebrities took a more blinkered approach as. to try to go comments this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the mag 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 in 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 wearing high school students surrounding a native american chanting in drumming so much story was twisted as we learned from videos that emerged later. not. made to. look at what. we think. we've got. 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 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 and 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 first. point and again you're hot if you figure how my hand i don't. like. like you people like you so who knows how far that kind of bullying 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. an explosion has partially destroyed an apartment building in the hague injuring at least nine people the blast is believed to have been caused by a leaking gas pipe dutch emergency workers have rescued several people from the rubble and one more is believed to be trapped firefighters have warned that the explosion may have caused structural damage to nearby buildings as well.

as from a more weakly in let's say about thirty four and a half minutes or watching each international. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go to the press this is like them before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the house last. question. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're 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 the circulated 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 on those without 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 uneasiness for. joining me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. i mean i did yes well you know you're. going to.

those whom you know most of us will be in your years and years it was not a. good month but you know. we have the ways the ways of the way i did my best college life of the white. left he sent me yet. these you. know you're.

following the 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 well the chemicals found in plastic bottles metal cans medics detergents blotto bloodstreams and may 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 lee or not it's a 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 credit history after our 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. and 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 draw 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.