feel. if it all could be soldiers of venezuela waiting for you to be on our side all you would. never treat. yourself declared leader of venezuela admits to talks with the country's military to overthrow president nicolas maduro as the president's urges troops to stay loyal plus. the.

antiviolence movement has launched in strongly against the yellow vest protests in the country. under a new report suggests that one in twelve people in the u.k. do not believe the hole the caused ever happened. a very good morning you're watching r.t. international with mina great to have you with us this morning and our top story the armed forces on the other focus of political turmoil in venezuela one gray don't know who swore himself in as leader during anti-government unrest says he's in talks with the military to turn them against the venezuelan president nicolas maduro at the same time the president has visited troops and urged them to stay loyal. if we don't get the soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on our side. as. soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be

on the side of the constitution are you serious. we have made our position very clear about the tory or nature of this regime and so we want to take power never traces. install a transitional government course free elections. that's how it has to be. one kwaito the self declared leader has contested president maduro as a second term elections calling them illegitimate israel and canada and most south american states have followed the u.s. is recognition as venezuela's interim president meanwhile u.s. national security adviser john bolton has threatened action if there is violence or intimidation of the opposition leader it goes down of takes his through one credos rise from obscurity international recognition and

a new grand social status dropped on one why door like a brick wall i mean just look at this from no name to total fame judging by this the life of the new poster boy for the venezuelan opposition leapt into another dimension overnight the point of no return was this. i'm mike pence the united states supports the courageous decision by one god or the united states probably recognize a national symbol president one is the constitutional interim president of venezuela he's the most evil now marred by the media and entrusted to not fail by the united states and countries making up with retinue and apparently the latter could be weighing hard on venezuela's newest a democratic symbol where you do said that there was nothing he could do that he couldn't handle the pressure from the

americans. if we had only if i was at the meeting where we said he was being pressured by everyone now this is the claim made by people but when journalists confronted what you do with a yes or no question he struggled to answer well to be fair he did it twice in fact but each time differently can you confirm whether the meeting took place and what did you talk about all venezuelans know this person and i would repeat my question have a match was do is data could be you are not i've already answered i haven't of course not so what if we spoke with officials of course we did circumstantial evidence also hits that the room of why do it being overwhelmed by washington's a mission could be true look at the person appointed by the white house to oversee the transformation of venezuela a lift this building thirty years ago this where you know my work here so it's very nice to be back this is america's main battle tank in the regime change course part

of the reagan administration he funneled the long way around federal weapons through iran soon he was right wing anti government extremists both thing illegal under u.s. law he tried to pressure congress into giving the weapons to the regime of reassessment in guatemala who was later charged. the genocide and crimes against humanity is just a couple of confirmed achievements by earlier albums from when he held the position and i'm not kidding the position of assistant secretary of state for humanitarian affairs but perhaps most importantly our brahms allegedly was the architect of the two thousand and two coup in venezuela back then it failed in days so perhaps now albums is being given a chance to redeem himself after all it's all for a good cause democracy never needs to be imposed it is tyranny it has to be

imposed you heard the man so you better sake up mr wide or the us is about to spread its regime of democracy to venezuela this time around and you are going to carry it on your shoulders we spoke to venezuela's foreign minister about the ongoing crisis in the country. we're circle if you go a bit near the opposition leader is under huge pressure from his bosses the new york times calls marco rubio the ousted in chief the main person driving the coup the pressure coming from this extreme right senator has forced the opposition leader to make strange anti constitutional decisions which could harm the sovereignty of venezuela but they cannot harm the legal institutions of government . the u.s. government is not only behind the coup it is leading it from the front we are working to neutralize the attacks that are coming from washington and from the governments under its control in latin america and europe or if the opposition

agrees to sit down at the negotiating table with us we are ready to talk at any moment but we have never refused to negotiate is the opposition that keeps changing its mind and agreeing to talk and then getting up and leaving and i would like them to negotiate to get permission from their bosses in washington so we can all work together to find a solution which would be in line with the constitution of venezuela this is a great opportunity to unite and build our country's future on the basis of our constitutional. long running economic crisis in venezuela has led millions to flee the country people there are struggling with hyper inflation along with food and medicine shortages one of the cause is there was a dramatic fall in oil prices the main source of revenue for caracas but the situation has been heightened by u.s. sanctions on the financial blockade when he talks to the un's first independent expert to visit as well in twenty one years he concluded that the country's humanize hereon crisis could be used as

a pretext for regime change in order to discredit selected governments failures in the field of human rights are maximized so as to make violent overthrow more palatable human rights are being weaponized against rivals where the whole narrative is so realistic it's actually obscene to invoke democracy to destroy democracy is obscene to invoke human rights to destroy human rights i mean america is not for made venezuelans home version of the lect if they elected massively chavez again and again and they elected a little in two thousand and thirteen fourteen two thousand eight hundred it is reported that the united states is currently training for and lawyers in how to draft a legislation to impose further sanctions on the bill of varian republic of venezuela in an effort to is fix the venezuelan state institutions who is costing who is aggravating the problem this sanctions have aggravated the problem the economic war

have aggravated the problem when other little. needed anti in leiria medicine for an outbreak in november two thousand and seventeen wanted to buy it in colombia colombia refuse to sell there are hundreds hundreds of cases in which the financial transactions that every state needs to survive have been blocked because citibank or wells fargo have close the accounts off of it as well and it disquieting media campaign seeks to force observers into a preconceived view that there is a humanitarian crisis in the bolivarian republic of venezuela humanitarian crisis can be misused as a pretext for military intervention it reminds me a lot of the run up to the two thousand and three invasion of iraq we have seen here it coordinated effort to denounce them and. mother little

to invoke human rights to say we need regime change because of the venezuelan people. and they're going to counter the increasingly violent yellow vests protests has been launched in front of the eleven confessed consecutive weeks of street demonstrations challenged by the ski has the details of the red scarf script. fronts and protest the two go oh me no i'm like two lovers strewing around paris in fact the french seem to love processing so much it's almost a national sport but it's a sport that has a very nasty streak the yellow vest protest group are probably the best known they've been out in force since november seventeenth so that's now eleven weekends they say the government's not doing enough despite the concessions and a national debate is taking place in the yellow vests are determined to stick it out they've already planned acts twelve before we even got to the twelfth weekend

but their protests have often descended into violence that's been described as the worst in more than half a century. i will not concede anything to those who want destruction and disorder. but in true french fashion there is now an anti protest protest meet the red skull that is so unhappy about the violence and the destruction that's

taken place during the yellow dress protest that they've now formed their group and they're out in force. to groom religiousness originally why all the demonstrations today it's because. many people have had enough of the pointless violence in this country that are demonstrating i believe good to defend the principle of nonviolence and to defend democracy it's very simple feel. to emphasize the importance of liberty and democracy is refreezing a movement in france that's attempting to restrict our freedom. i have chosen to come here to defend democracy and freedom but peacefully without violence well if you thought this was just the red protesters against the yellow protestors think again there is also now. yes that's right the blue vests are also anti

yellow vests they're anti violence so what you've got at the moment is the yellow vest protesters in the middle and on each side they're all the vests and you've got the red scarves remind you of something yes that's right it's almost like the treacle or the french flag and it seems that just like the french moto libertarian gallatin for eternity it's living on in the french spirit so the french regardless of what size they're on still have this opportunity with each other albeit in their ability to protest or to protest a protest of a protest or something like that. shows even ski r.t. paris. there are sunday events were held across the globe to mark international holocaust remembrance day this comes seventy four years since soviet troops liberated auschwitz the nazi death camp that was occupied in poland former

prisoners of the can visit visited the site where holocaust museum is now situated they shared their memories they expressing the importance for people today to remember the atrocities that were carried out. during the nazi purge of the second world war seventy million people were killed six million of them would use more than half of europe's jewish population was murdered in systematic a time. many was starved to death killed in gas chambers and burned in furnaces in concentration camps or despite the evidence from the time a recent poll suggests that one in twelve people in the u.k. deny the holocaust ever happened over half of those surveyed did not know the number of victims that while eight percent think the scale of the atrocity has been exaggerated airframes or are from the simon wiesenthal center thinks those statistics are alarming. holocaust denial is simply a new form of anti-semitism the how of course is the most documented tragedy in

human history there are millions i repeat millions of documents that prove the crimes of the holocaust there's no basis for this denial it's totally absurd so why do people do it it's in basically a new form of anti-semitism the leaders of the world the leading political leaders in every country have to make clear that this is a fact that this happened and this has very important consequences for their country as well and then there's the question of the educational systems in other words this is subject that has to be taught in the school curriculum at the proper age and to be done effectively and with the best technological and other educational aids the basic idea behind holocaust education is that the tragedy that we call the holocaust has lessons for humanity. about the dangers of hatred the

dangers of anti-semitism racism fascism and obviously we think that it's important that people study the holocaust to learn from that tragedy and to try in that manner to prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy. because far thousands of years tear gas and stun grenades and clashes with demonstrators in the city if the stela nikki the protesters had rallied against a deal with macedonia to end a decades long naming to speed. france gathered in a city on sunday night voicing their anger at the greek president over the unpopular because this comes two days after athens ratified a deal to a stop. bush a new name for the film and you kosloff republic of macedonia the country is now

known as the republic of no monster donia but many greeks object to the new name saying it implies a historic claim to the greek province of macedonia. for decades greece's fourth basically over neighbor macedonia's name because athens border region is also called macedonia one of the country's official names safeway on short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia stop the laying claim to the rich history of that name after all military genius alexander the great still study to walk out to be's round the world was born in macedonia without things blocking its neighbors nato and the e.u. membership over the issue they finally agreed it made the republic of north macedonia macedonia as parliament amended its constitution to ratify the name change. social media giant facebook is accused of allowing children to run up huge bills we have details on that after the show play.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race is often scary dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is why. three of the four people. interested

falls in the why. should. welcome back now candidates are lining up for presidential elections in ukraine with the votes roughly two months away twenty people have already registered for a leadership bid donna holkins takes is through some of the frontrunners. for the last fifteen years every presidential race in ukraine has given the country a new political shocks of the system and it looks like this year will be an exception now if you've ever followed ukraine's domestic politics you'll know there's rarely a dull moment. this

year's election will see it almost right chord a number of candidates twenty to be precise and this number could still rise the list of nominees has both familiar faces and dark horses with some colorful contenders also thrown in here's just some of those candidates the political heavyweights yulia timoshenko. her career has seen it all from becoming the country's first female prime minister to spending three years behind bars for embezzlement she was a candidate in two thousand and ten and again in twenty fourteen so could it be third time lucky she's popular with the female voters and also claims to have some big names backing her and the system which i'm going to have

a little. while to run a country the brazilian novelist has since the noida any involvement in ukrainian politics maybe something got lost in translation and this man has already played the ukrainian president in a hit t.v. show can he turn fiction into reality meet star comedian and producer of the minute zelinsky also a popular actor in russia by the way. now he's had a great start even managing to steal the limelight from the current. it's new year address when announcing his own bid yet you do for incidental green the late desirable metabolism is no when. there is a hitch though zelinsky is bred to be the anti elite contender was rocked by scandal when he was found to have business ties to russia and any connection to moscow is

a major no go to anyone who wants to win this race. the most recent addition to the list is another headline grabber and ideas of suffering go once betrayed as ukraine's joan of arc. now she is also no stranger to controversy after being jailed in russia for involvement in the murder of two russian journalists she returned to her homeland as a hero even becoming a member of parliament only to get arrested once again by her own countryman the charges quite a catalogue plotting a terrorist attack planning to kill members of parliament and the president even plotting a coup. was. really so far it seems she'll be running her campaign from a detention center and the race may even have its very own rock star status laugh the took the so-called front man of the my down revolution. we were.

we. now the singer has long speculated on the possibility of a bid but there are reports that he may also join incumbent president poroshenko campaign which brings us to the final but tensional candidate the current president is expected to run but he was struggled to lead the pack with an approval rating of about seventeen percent he may be praying for divine intervention and with his own newly independent church well who knows what could happen for now though his new campaign slogan might just help those numbers out of me. more than a year after the modern protests rode a wave of hope for democracy prosperity and transparency. for. those dreams still seem distant fraught with economic challenges human rights issues and lingering corruption whoever takes that.

presidential oath this spring certainly won't be a cushy job that many would envy. described as friendly fraught facebook has been accused of not setting up barriers which reportedly allow children to run up huge bills newly revealed court documents show parental approval is not always required when making online purchases and the social media giant is apparently unwilling to address the issue. oh.

six thousand five hundred forty five dollars they're disputing all of it i believe the user looks under each is well you know this user a thirteen year old. looks a bit younger. i would respond. oh that's why who agreed to just double check. important because the i'm not sure it was made by someone in your household or by someone who is known to you we cannot. terms purchase the amount of stuff that people are sharing it's growing out of the sex that until right. well those are your monday morning headlines about hope you're having a great start to the week wherever you are we'll be back in just over thirty minutes with the latest to see if that.

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running plus a summer project themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. of the time doing the whole middle of the room signals. 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 they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating 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 their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way

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