please please eat sleep feel. relief. please. please. please. only soon due to the last six years as president of venezuela. venezuela the president is elected. president maduro chooses the u.s. of plotting a coup in venezuela as washington throws its weight behind the country's self proclaimed it leader. harry reid very clearly go for it without considering anything but all options are on the table. french riot police are

firing tear gas on angry crowds as the yellow best movement holds a weekend of rallies. and a valuable painting is stolen from one of moscow's busiest museums. gallery during working hours. are broadcasting live direct from our studio this is our international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories. venezuela's political crisis deepened of this week on wednesday president maduro accused the u.s. of attempting to orchestrate a coup after washington decided to recognize venezuela's opposition leader as interim president one had sworn himself in as a leader earlier that day as the country was engulfed by anti-government contrast.

to me i swear to formalise soon the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i. know it's probably recognize national symbol president one is 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 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 mt pico humboldt's at three in the morning i will have to go naked i'll go make it on foot my car my motorcycle then it must be very clear to the world and to this regime and nobody will take part in this fake dialogue.

one go i don't know delivered his speech in front of tens of thousands of supporters in caracas and there were also demonstrations for a majority twenty people are reported to have been killed in the turmoil and a further five hundred were arrested for less noise i 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 our studios in assembly 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 one way we're in a situation never before experienced and these were so people are coming here because this is a really nice moment it's not the political party it's not the national assembly it's to do this will have six hundred thousand dollars and five hundred more. the

opposition will not return because we support our president for all the right reasons for our nation for our homes. they will not come back but oh the party this understand that scholarly buys that matter think is to save venice era and that is about to marry doing the right. 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 governments of charges. may say look we can progress the question of who is in charge in venezuela has divided world powers let's take a look the u.s. canada and most south american states have recognized. 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 coup attempt and to with no end in sight to the turmoil in venezuela another group of states has issued an ultimatum to madeira four of them in fact let's take a look at them germany spain france and the u.k. well they have warned that if elections are not called within eight days they will officially recognize it as a venezuela's leader has rejected that demand and his foreign minister has dismissed the deadline as childish on saturday tensions were on full display at an emergency u.n. security council meeting. beared urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the venezuelan people again because one of you can tell me in which article and which provision of the united nations charter you can find a legal basis for the self program 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 male united states is not because the. it is in advance it's in in them

and guide the could get to 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 those 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 read 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 president ronald reagan and also president george w. bush he was twice convince did 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 which is my god you have comments now on whether the u.s. is following a tried and tested formula in venezuela thought seeing an uprising a revolution is simple enough thirst 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 choke then they into a crisis we are 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 back to their constitution we are not going to tolerate the dictatorship he's trying to create is 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 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 lure 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 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 serp are 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 lima group we recognize and express our full support for the presidency of venezuela 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 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 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 gracious 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. former u.s. congressman ron paul told us 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 we could have a civil war and i would think even the people that might not like majority should like settling 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 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 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 vest rallies have broad chaos to french cities for an eleventh weekend fierce clashes broke out on saturday between protesters and police.

several people were injured in the clashes including a leading figure in the yellow vest movement and jerome rodriguez was hit in the face by a flash grenade and says that he may lose the sight and he has a right i was streaming video in paris from the incident happened oh. oh. oh. oh oh oh oh oh he said there's no. google. i've had my i've been stitched up because even as to whether i'm going to regain my sight i'll find out someone outside weeks old and i make streaming angry because

these are things that should not be happening today in front zones what they are 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 i have to recover and i will return to the protests as soon as i can because the battle will be long and tough but we have a call for a better france and for a more humane well to go meanwhile a counter protest movement has been launched in paris. reports from the first red scarf rally. this process moving because who says that if you don't who's which translates that the red scarf say all of these and she leaves you in the empty yellow vests to some degree what they say is they are unhappy with the file it's been seeing during this movement of the should they join the c.l.o. 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 they're against the violence they're against its rights and they. 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 a vote. it's a could in the yellow vests movement but also the just structure of monuments here in france it's not forget back in december the off tree on one of the some balloons of the republic was trashed it was vandalized by some of the so cool to suggs lessen the heart of that yellow vest movements 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 actions 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 back when you know through the french government they prove the values of the french republic which are we know in the moto of liberty a galaxy and fraternity and so. one of the things that they shall thing is we're also people see we're the citizens to you so a big turnout for this first protest by the red scarfs here in paris today demanding that they the silent majority also and that the values of the republic of frogs are respected. by more news after a break this is the weekly march international. i happen to be an art you don't have to understand what happened to you the p.m.c. that came here for small contractors to win the war the fields you know came here

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welcome back this is our chief international and a treasured landscape painting has been stolen from moscow's most prominent our gallery this according to culture of fisher's officials the artwork which is it worth almost two hundred thousand dollars was taken right in front of unsuspecting visitors or he's been in a culture over as more. the grand theft happened right behind the store on sunday between six and seven pm the famous painting by a russian artist heap queen was simply taken off the wall or at least that's how i witnesses described it and man allegedly dressed as a security guard walked in took the painting off the wall and without blink expression on his face walked. the way before anyone could realize it's the precious painting was gone the pieces of heap queen jeez i pad tree

a famous peek 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 decades at the moment the building of the gallery is blocked by police for 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. by following massive opera or 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 after being detained without charge.

innovation saying so ok bad. she was not happy. with after a certain doubt her instructions were there's a statue of instructions not being accounted. for have started had been removed against her will. you know an exclusive interview marzio shammy shared the story of her detention with afshin rattansi host of r.t. is going underground. i was flown private plane and she to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that be i take it into the f.b.i. heck 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 right no one is still here read you the rights no one ever read me my rights actually my rights were not read i was treated like a price 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 one like a mass murderer or what is going on. well during her ten days in detention people gathered to protest in the u.s. and iran here's the freedom journalist once again. it's not about me is about the ability. or the u.s. basically to detain anyone. i would say illegal a job they are going to say that it's legal so it's much bigger to me we want to demand a stop 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 shall cause not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it first hand. it is said there are at least two sides to every story much more complex for many stories as well and that is certainly true of a viral video showing a confrontation 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 harassing and jeering at a native american a starving viral video has sparked outrage toward covington catholic high school just stirring viral video shows a modern team see make america great again around singing native 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 i have to we have to stay strong. all right in the full video of the incident you can see provocation and racism coming from both sides but instead of going into the details a number of media outlets and celebrities put their own spin on the story as our tease and we appreciate your comments. this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the maggot 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 sugaring 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 out wearing high school students surrounding a native american chanting in drumming so much of the story was twisted as we learned from videos that emerged later. the market made it. look at what. we think. we've got that. 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 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 magers have gotten themselves in trouble. i was. the first. voice. to get your hands if you threw your hat trick my hat i don't. like.

that. 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. are greek nationalists have clashed with police in thessaloniki had a march against a deal with macedonia and a long running naming dispute protesters blocked roads and several people were arrested. crowds gathered in the city on sunday night voicing their anger over

a visit by midweek president this comes two days after athens ratified a deal to establish a new name for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia the country is now known as north macedonia but many greeks object to the new name saying it implies a historical claim to the greek province of macedonia. and that has it for me i'll be back with more of the weekly in let's say thirty three minutes you're watching our two international. when the make this manufacture consent instant of public wells. when the running close is protect themselves. when the final larry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time

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to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

six. hoops. didn't get it right when. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my farming community and upstate new york in the fifty's. my father was a member of the john birch society he was very opposed to the new deal of labor unions catholics jews and. he was actually not that unusual and my dad for those attitudes. because i was a good ass good in school.