you know this new face of the opposition one guy though talking about reconciliation and a democratic transition this same opposition has a history of undemocratic actions and again i mean one of the biggest changes over the past year or so has been regional move towards the right venezuela no longer has the support in latin america that it just had a few years ago and so that puts an enormous pressure on you know the long term stability of nicholas and arrows presidency arguably a good time drew a joke of the news said the going to ease of the mess here we are told in a good asian media that the reason the it go to me is a mess is because of more duros economic policies. u.s. economic war sanctions that impact on. poor recall that we describe there's no question that that's a combination of factors one is of course the sanctions that have been imposed by the united states not just on members of the government but also wider sanctions

that have had a much broader impact on you know access to certain consumer products medicines basic really food coming into the country as well as just crippling the capacity of venice well to engage in normal financial transactions internationally but at the same time the mismanagement has been extreme on the part of the us government he's had people in place remanded ching you know the economy of the financial ministries . national bank who clearly did not do a good job the inflation is extraordinary i mean it's you can't even really count the number of zeros that are now on the inflation that's gone up annually in venezuela the currency is devalued to the point where it's basically worthless if you don't have access to foreign currency like dollars or euros then you really can't get by every day in venezuela so you know and then on top of that there is widespread corruption so it's a combination of factors but certainly the sanctions are. posed by the u.s.

have had a crippling impact on venezuelans every day life you know the i.m.f. very quick to say that the signal is going to oppose. who is this right we go position one why do about by drone been to raise me and the e.u. what will position the line bulls to data analysis says is national assembly. the top minister has a seventy one percent disapproval rating well i would just point out first of all that the i.m.f. doesn't have a relationship with venezuela currently and it was during the chavez in ministration that chavez actually severed ties with the i.m.f. so i'm sure they would be happy to you know recognize a new face of venice one leadership that would work with them so that they can get back involved in venezuela and begin exploiting and profiting again off of you know venezuela's rich resources so that's not surprising whatsoever but i would say you know the face of wang why though has been surprising for many in the country and

obviously throughout the world because he's relatively unknown he does however come from a right wing party he's closely aligned with the lopez who is a very reactionary far right figure of the opposition who led violent uprisings against chavez first he was deeply involved in the coup in two thousand and two in a violent way and then subsequently against nicolas maduro and so those essentially you know been mentored by the apollo lopez that said i mean i do think he offers a new face of the opposition one that is not sort of tarnished with that past. violence of undemocratic actions yeah let's get on to that if we would the european union saying shouldn't we go brick sit here we britain of the would have to have sanctions on whether israel or the brics that you would have military intervention surely we're not back to the bad old days with. obama but the sanctions over it as well but over the bomb libya reagan's death squads of l's. to those who withdrew

the world burns in guatemala we don't seriously but with a supposedly normally individuals president like drobe to. us they do about the invasion of them as well rock i think it's. you know it's ridiculous to say that trump is a noninterventionist president he's been as interventionist as all the rest and in the end it's a state policy of the united states foreign policy is not you know partial to one party or the other it's a bipartisan policy a state policy of you know us dominance around the world and i do think you know we can say that that was all in the past but it never was in the past the coup against chavez took place in two thousand and two under george w. bush the cia was deeply involved the bush administration was the first to applaud it and recognize it had been encouraging and in funding it all along and then we had a ongoing processes of intervention in venezuela and those later years then during obama we had a coup in honduras that was clearly are backed by the united states and in fact it

was the secretary of state hillary clinton that in the end played the key role in ensuring that president manuel zelaya who was deposed in that coup could not go back to his own country you know and so i mean i think that this is just a policy of the united states and now it's just coming to you know to an end in the case of venice well because they've been trying to get back into venezuela for a long time venezuela does have the largest oil reserves on the planet while that may not be the key reason at this time it certainly is a geo political country that is located at the port of south america you know russia has been increasing ties with venezuela iran china the u.s. has been warning about that and been preoccupied with that increasing influence in what they would consider you know there are a zone of influence and so clearly they have many many reasons to want to ensure the united states retains control over venice was resources and over venice. well

as territory so i do believe that this situation is going to be prolonged it's not ending now you know not just going to say ok that's a leave theirs if it goes well beyond that and now on top of that there are very powerful members around his government and of his party around him who have you know very deep economic investments some of that is over the result of corruption but they're not just going to give it up there's a fear that you know they would all go to prison either be killed or go to prison or if you're just out of power and that's a very realistic concern just to be the usa historically obviously used to terrorise the cessation of latin american leaders things different even when you were working with was in this is that russia china. arguably the majority of the world is more with the door this time or even when job was defeated the u.s.

back to a job well certainly that concerning exists and remember venezuela is literally surrounded by u.s. military bases and presence in colombia where there are several u.s. military bases that occupy colombia bases a large. presence of u.s. special troops and special operations forces the same goes for brazil which is on venezuela's southeastern border you know and in that amazonian territory i mean all of that. you know the u.s. has military presence all throughout the caribbean also nato you know countries that operate in that in that theater of operations as they like to call it so i do believe the venice is in the center of a geopolitical battlefield and yes while maduro presently does have the support of other powerful nations that chavez didn't necessarily have at that time in two thousand and two like russia or china at the same time it does. necessarily mean

that that will carry through in the long term and remembered at the two thousand and two point in the coup against chavez he there were only two countries that actually came out in support of that coup was the united states and spain this time around it's quite different i mean i do think the the tides have turned and they're not in midair as favor but again i think we must proceed cautiously because the venezuelan armed forces are prepared to defend their country this would not be an easy in and out and as of right now i mean a majority of venezuelans may not necessarily support but their own but they don't support the opposition either they want peace in their country they want stability they want economic wellbeing and so they're looking for that as their path forward not for a further crisis chaos and destabilization which would be the result of some kind of foreign intervention in the country if we go into thank you of the break a nation in crisis with even u.s. space agency nasa unable to fire walk gets we are one of the new young democratic

intake representing the space coast in florida about the longest shutdown in u.s. government history plus blood on the border the provisional ira is former director of intelligence tells us a breakthrough to halt border makes the deaths of british soldiers in the average of all this is all coming over but they were going to grow. what holds it to you so. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want. you to go right. this is like the three of them or people. interested always in the white house.

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out this day to come pick up to it and in gains from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. welcome back we'll get to the brics it will an island in a moment but the world has been watching another wall doubt threatening the stability of the united states the longest government shutdown in history has been the result of donald trump trying to keep an election pledge to build a steel wall against mexico his own economic advisers now say there will be no economic growth in the first quarter opposition to trump is coming from

a new generation of us democrat legislature is elected in the past eleven weeks notably xandra oks of cortez the youngest of a congressperson joining me now is another first the first iranian american legislator in florida and rescue money joins me now from tallahassee in a state which a year ago saw the worst school shooting since sandy hook in two thousand and twelve and thanks for coming on the show before you even get to the government shutdown are you in fear of your own safety after the reaction to your opposition to assault weapons that you so much for having me and i do my best to be unafraid when it comes to pushing for policies that will keep people safe and secure and my stance on the assault weapons ban is nothing new you know their reactions were vitriolic and absolutely grounded in a massage and a sick approach to good policy but i just remind myself every day that backlash has grounded our hope becoming a reality so we can't stop on this progress you've obviously been tweeting about recent massacres i mean to put in perspective forty thousand

a year at the point of a gun in the usa what exactly have you just said that is prompted this response well i'll tell you two house district forty seven the area that i represent is home to pulse nightclub where we lost forty nine people in one night at the hands of an assault weapon ban and what i what i posted online that led to. reaction was the act of signing a ballot amendment petition that would help give voters the opportunity to ban assault weapons in the state of florida just for signing a petition but over easy for your president the enemy is not assault weapon availability it's immigrants crossing the southern border has the shutdown of the government surprise even though you absolutely i mean it's been going on for over thirty days and each day our federal workers and contract workers are struggling to make ends meet it's costing us billions while hurting the middle class and sam that we bring the government back to work and do our part to find

a solution to keep everyone safe and secure and the fact that there's such a deep unpopularity towards the president's decision right now to shut down the government is all serve flexion of how we don't you know while he's even directly affecting your constituents who work for the government yes and actually here in florida we're home two hundred thousand federal workers we also have our space coast so when it comes to nasa we've been able to launch even commercial rockets from of our county which is impacting our economy it's impacting lamely heard of every day for eons and so each one of us are demanding of the government reopened and that our our president find a solution alongside members of congress where everyone wins of course the president says it's about national security and protecting safety for americans i mean if someone flies from london to miami what's happening about national security is regarding border checks during the war and at this point even our workers who are at the airport certainty of state employees are struggling. and these are the

folks that are here to keep us safe at our airports that are ports and at the end of day a five billion dollar while his political rhetoric it will do nothing to keep americans safe obviously the president disagrees with that but it has a gun of the tension all around the world of international media this government shutdown. i think he may find a distraction from prison the news in the news or even major nation media at all for this wall of the shot that at the moment it's about his attempt to overthrow the venezuelan government law and that's an issue that impacts americans across the country and we actually had a rally supporting the people best way of life here in tallahassee over the week as well and at the other day you can't parse pas foreign policy but is unfortunate that our presidents ad doesn't understand the value of opening back our government so we can hear these are national situations together he is he is the king of

distraction but it does seem to be working arguably even the normally media there seem relatively silent about his recognition of a. opposition leader is the head of state there i mean whether it's been a swale or whether it's government shutdown or the russian pro it's obvious that our president has no i grasp on the issues around him which i think is another root cause of the frustration that americans have you know we need a commander in chief who can get us through every hump that happens and right now with thirty plus days a government shutdown workers not getting paid billions of dollars being wasted it's so hard for us to event continue to be an international player but why you criticize the president of us have supported trump when he said on the campaign that the iraq war was a mistake and did you support as a democrat a bomber's be anglo american war in libya it's trump that always he was against

foreign intervention i'm a pacifist in my day to day and so i do my best advocate for diplomatic approach yes when it comes to working with our ashton partners at the same time even the recent decision of pulling troops out of syria may can be problematic so you support a foreign intervention in syria by the u.s. government i want to go that far but. i do support ensuring that we can still be a player when it comes to supporting peace policy and i think the president is all over the place when it comes are national difficult to diplomacy we don't know what his next decision is it's quite unpredictable arguably around the world the democrats are known for war around. the earth. yeah absolutely and i think too that when it comes to foreign lation is in general the united states has has a difficult history and we have a lot of work to do you know much of course has been made though of your being the first iranian american legislator britain and the european union support the obama

iran deal what do you make of his decision donald trump's decision to rip up the deal it's frustrating you know i was an original supporter of the iran deal as well seeing as a means to keep iran away from having nuclear weapons and moving towards peace had the same time we know that the human rights violations in iran have continued i mean i've been a lifetime advocate for a human rights in iran specifically after two thousand and nine elections and is it is as if a goal for you though because the stand you was smeared with lies in the run up to your election to the florida legislature you know i think as a first running american elected official in florida that there's always challenges and i want to say to it such a fascinating economy for me because i have first ration is with my american government here but i have course in an incredibly upset by decisions by the islamic republic of iran and so i do my part to strike. the balance of sharing my

culture with others but also being of antic when it comes to the center for human rights no matter who the perpetrators are and ask about me thank you now to an area of the world and for alleged u.k. human rights abuses northern ireland media around the world is focused on what brooke said in the irish backstopped mean for resumption of war between irish republicans in the british state especially to. a car bomb went off in derry joining me from south of the borders kieran conway barrister and former director of intelligence for the provisional ira karin welcome back to going underground what do you make of the relative u.k. media silence about the car bomb in derry purportedly from the new ira if it was a bomb in an english city again we would have got more publicity. considerably more publicity i don't think the british media. nor sirrah that unregistered party in the south and the north claimed the attack was to coincide with the seventeen yuri of solar head what was

a solar head big ambushes not told much in the u.k. a school zone of so how much was not authorized operation the plan was to steal jet acknowledge which was being guarded by two members of the royal ocean sabri the story from man. who carried out the ambush when they were told to drop their weapons and. left to the right close to fire at them and accordingly the ira shot them dead if i could go on the war but that's the war of independence for southern island well so who is this new ira this is a combination of the realize in republican action against drugs primarily at its source and jerry although it is spreading there are a number of successor iras that come and go provision it's gotten so big the british with twenty five years were experienced technical know how modern weaponry and so on it simply copied on your t.v.

show of the ever ad comparing breaks to climate change talks about violence warning that there will be a return to violence of could be if there was a hard bordeaux what would even think so i think if there is a hard border and calls i'm supposed. to guess is always up in the polls they're being attacked by the successor iras. as a result of the because it's really the p.s.n. or the british army to start to guard them they in time would become targets for the ira resulting in a british british a police car. possibly already kushal he says well yes. so things could very very well take off from the u.k. prime minister drazen may was questioned about what exactly the three thousand soldiers that were being prepared for bricks it in case of a new deal for she said for a variety of things any what would be the effect of putting more soldiers in the

north. of the effect of putting soldiers north of her on the streets that become targets for the success that are it's well the dairy ball may not directly be about bricks or even maybe about the war of independence the ira's do pose some kind of threat that in my view a relatively minor threat it's. very recent news i think that most of the damage that doing is to their own volunteers are happily approach right at the not as professional as we were. getting arrested to get in some of those long times and present with no prospect of relief so heavily infiltrated you say because the suspect was released. of the dairy does that particular suspect or also. do you know that they've been very very many cases some of which been the system for where it was clear the. cards or the you know sonali good intelligence and applied to make the arrests for intelligence from m i five here in

london or well some locally from the detective you know. so from the north. to the north and what do you think of the tone of the debate sitting as you are in in the south pretty patel the disgraced former international development secretary said island should be pressed with a new deal. and the factors he said irish food supplies should be threatened as regarding negotiations drugs that is causing all sorts of death police strains in british politics particularly with the conservative part of it also with. very unpleasant for us i think it's pretty disgraceful and as for how can a full republicans have to be while these negotiations are going on as the threats of a return to violence are raised by labor tory and learn bodies in the door will i think the successor ira's are doing what they can you know i think that's what's

going on with as much as they seem to be capable off and certainly they have no capability of setting bombs off in london again look at sutter's a bomb often in the u.k. it's not the typical to cut you know smuggling materials and. i don't know about checks currently like on the ferries for instance folks. would have thought it would be easy enough to to to to to smuggle explosives to set off a bomb but no one should be in any doubt that a hard border with checkpoints will no doubt lead to the deaths of british soldiers that was so it seems to me because if those customs posts they were going to be a talk success or a race on time record of the armed guards and those armed guards be that the p.s. and the british army were themselves come under come under armed to talk. you know somewhere along the line that would be photos. thank you and that's it for the

show will be back on wednesday as you defense ministers meeting remain huge dog about a european economy as many nations afford overthrowing the venezuelan government still they keep in touch by social media we'll see on wednesday three hundred seventy is the day the culmination of the english revolution the beheading of john the first in the white. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one for him to let it be an arms race on off and spearing dramatic development only personally 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.

you know world of big partisan mock ups and conspiracies 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 back 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. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. kind of financial survival john today was all about money laundering first to visit this castle just a different. oh good this is

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sleep sleep. sleep. sleep sleep. if they don't work the soldiers of venezuela don't we're waiting for you to be on our side all you want i. never traits that. as the venezuelan president just troops to stay loyal the south declared leader of the country one way doe admits to talks with the military to overthrow the president but you're right. and you rip.