or. feet. per. police national sixty seconds president of venezuela. or 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 degree. murder without considering getting a thing but all options are on the. french

a riot police fired tear gas on an angry crowd says the l of s. movement holds an eleventh weekend of rallies. and a valuable painting is stolen from one of moscow's busiest museums. gallery during the working hours. of broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. right now venezuela's political crisis deep in 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. had swung himself in as leader earlier that day as the country was engulfed by anti-government rest. i think people really need to 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 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 st joseph 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 to see if your ego i am committed to international dialogue today tomorrow and do it 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 i'll go make it on foot my car my motorcycle then it must be very clear to the world and to this regime nobody will take part in this fake dialogue. or write one

white zero delivered his speech in front of tens of thousands of supporters in caracas and there were also demonstrations from a doro twenty people are reported to have been killed in the turmoil and a further five hundred were arrested journalist norris are got reports now from the venezuelan capital. has been received incorrect 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 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 white we're in a situation never before experienced in venezuela so people are coming home because this is a very nice romance it's not the political parties it's not the national assembly have but it's still going to slowly square one now i. and fighting to get what you

want. 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 with the partisan distended coloring buys that matter the key thing is to save venice and that is about to marry do tell you 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. has made significant progress the question of who is in charge in venezuela has divided world powers the us canada and most south american states have recognized. as venezuela's interim president number of other countries including russia china and turkey are standing by president nicolas maduro criticizing what they view as a coup attempt and with no end in sight to the turmoil in venezuela another group

of states has issued an ultimatum to my door oh germany spain france and the u.k. have warned that if elections are not called within eighteen days they will officially recognize it as a venezuela's leader majority has rejected the demand and his foreign minister has dismissed the deadline as childish on saturday tensions were on full display at an emergency un security council meeting. we're here to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the venezuelan people get it because one of you can tell me which article and which provision of the united nations charter you can find a legal basis for the self proclaimed 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 material and his mayhem the united states is not. the could it it is in advance it's in the god that 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 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 at the end of their was donald trump a controversial new special envoy for venezuela. elliott abrams served in foreign policy roles under presidents ronald reagan and of george w. bush he 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 who charges but i look now at whether the us is following

a tried and tested formula in venezuela 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 word they helped choke then they into a crisis we are. are 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 back 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. by now you should have caused enough trouble problems on top of everything out stuff for us even the apple little into the streets the more noise the better and you mustn't let things calm down keep shouting keep agitating god. 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 party 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 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 in 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 it. without considering anything but all options are on the day that. loses 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 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 us 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 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 a broad chaos to french cities for an eleventh weekend fierce clashes broke out on saturday between protesters and police.

well several people were injured in the clashes including a leading figure in the yellow vest movement to drum rodriguez was hit in the. faced by a flash ball grenade and so that he may lose sight of his right eye he was streaming a video in paris when the incident happened. oh. oh. oh oh oh oh oh he said there's no. i've had my eye because even as to whether i'm going to regain my sight i'll find out someone at some weeks old and i make stream me angry because these are things i should not be happening today in front zones what they're 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 coalition progress affronts and for a more humane. all right meanwhile a counter protest movement has been launched in paris but it showed rescue reports now from the first red scarf. this process moving because who says that if we don't who's which translates that the red scarfs they all the empty is surely surely empty yellow vests to some degree what they saying is they are unhappy with the violence that's been seeing it 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're here 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 vest movement but also the just struction over more new material. progs let's not forget back in december the uk triomphe one of the symbols of the republic was trashed it was vandalized by some of the super cool to a spinoff 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 wanted to see some change in france but they were unhappy with how it's progress and so they hit to get their research 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 their true president not going through the french government they

prove the values of the french republic which all we know in the motu of liberty a galaxy and fraternity so one of the things that they're shouting is we're also people see with assistance 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 heard that the values of the republic of frogs are respected. treasured landscape painting has been stolen from moscow's most prominent our gallery cording to culture officials the artwork which was worth almost two hundred thousand dollars was taken right in front of unsuspecting visitors are transmitted unconscionable as 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 taken 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's the precious painting was gone to pieces that heap queen i pad treat 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. following a massive uproar 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. emotion seems ok bad. shamus not happy. the fact that certain bateau instructions when there's a statute of instructions not being accounted. for have staff had been removed against her will. in an exclusive interview marcy yeah may share the story of her detention with afshin rattansi host of arties going underground. 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. 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 what mike a mass murderer or what is going on. during her ten days in detention people gathered to protest in the u.s. and iran here's the free journalist once again. it's not about me is about the ability. for 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 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 shackles not charged with the crime and. wow i definitely saw it firsthand. or it is said that there are at least two sides to every story 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 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 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 this is piers. we just get stronger. and in the full video of that 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 artie's we have to try to go comments. this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the magazine at 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 have 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 in the story was twisted as we learned from videos that emerged later. that make a mockery. look at what. we think. we've

got that. right. as you can see the teen dubbed as a shameless bully was just standing still and smiling at the man with the drum who 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. point and again you're hot if you threw your hat at my head i don't. like. that. so who knows how far that kind of bullying 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. great nationalists have clashed with police and fesa loan again at a march against a deal with macedonia to end a long running in naming dispute protesters blocked roads and several people were arrested.

i. will crowds gathered in the city on sunday night voicing their anger over a visit by the greek president 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 bugged many greeks objected to the new name saying it implies a historical claim to the greek province of macedonia. and that does it for me i'll be back with more of the weekly in thirty five minutes stay with us our two international. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected

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to remember one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only. cut. off. hello and welcome to the pardes most of us have heard the ballad a plastic bullet. the oceans but something similar is happening to our bodies as well chemical staal and in plastic bottles metal cans that it's detergents blotto

bloodstreams and may cause long lasting damage is reversing this microbe pollution any easier than saving the oceans from the plastic bags to discuss that i'm now joined by dr lee i'm not 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 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 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 fish will science and regulations seem to be out of sync with believe the reality of the food pyramid and. it's a bias for carbohydrates would be one such example is the kind of advise that you are advocating still a bit of

a dissident science or is it already and the stablished view well we have international bodies that have documented the public health threat posed by under christmas shopping chemicals first it was the end of current society back in two thousand and nine through its scientific statement that's an international body of seventeen thousand science scientists that have documented the disease burden that is likely to occur then the world health organization in the united nations environment program published this report in two thousand and twelve and it was welcomed by the united nations body on chemicals management and then most recently the american academy of pediatrics documented the urgent threat of these chemicals in foods so this is not a fringe element this is a mainstream scientific phenomenon now i mentioned before the pyramid before it reaches skewed in favor of carbohydrates and there is an increasing number of american scientists who believe that. kind of advise have been a major contribution to dead.