they put themselves on the lawn they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i want to be honest. that's why you beatrice this is what the four three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. it. treats. the venezuelan president urges troops to stay loyal. leader of the country. talks with the military. also ahead on the program one in twenty british don't believe the holocaust ever happened to

a poor marking holocaust memorial day also a. violence movement is launched in france against the yellow vests protests in the country. twenty four seven news live from the russian capital this is your r.t. international good to have your company. our top story the armed forces are now the focus of ongoing political turmoil in venezuela the one who swore him self in us leader during anti government unrest saying he's in talks with the military to turn them against the venice president nicolas maduro at the same time mr material has visited troops urged them to stay loyal. if we don't put the soldiers of venezuela

we're waiting for you to be on our side are you. soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on the side of the constitution are you crowed in the period. we have made our position very clear about the dictates or your nature of this regime and so we want to take power never traces. install a transitional government and court free elections louise goil. that is how it has to be. you know the scenes inside venice will air well u.s. national security advisor john bolton has threatened action if there is violence or intimidation of the opposition leader one why do the self declared leader has contested president maduro second term elections calling them illegitimate igor said an offer can take us through why dose rise from obscurity not.

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 all united states probably recognize a national symbol president one is the constitutional interim president of venezuela he's the most evil now mog by the media and intrusted to not fail by the united states and countries making up its retinue and apparently the latter could be waiting hard on venezuela's newest democratic symbol where a dose said that there was nothing he could do that he couldn't handle the pressure

from the americans. if we 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 why you deal with a yes or no question he's 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 i will repeat my question have imagines do as data can 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 week from our 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 to nicaragua as right wing anti government extremists both think 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 with 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 that has to be

imposed you heard them out so you better sake up mr y. door 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. as far back as twenty seventeen president trump was laying the options for venice well including a military one but our chief architect of his policy there marco rubio the night that the u.s. is now intervening in venezuela washington was however the first to recognize why dole as leader of the oil rich south american country and urge other nations to follow their example as well as foreign minister thinks the united states is leading a could be a circle if you go believe it or 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 us government is not only behind the coup it is leading it from the front foot and we are working to neutralize the attacks that are coming from washington and from the government 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 what we have never refused to negotiate is the opposition that keeps changing its mind and agreeing to talk and then getting up and leaving 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 constitution whether. let's not a little bit of background to this a long running economic crisis in venezuela has led millions to flee the country

people are striking with hyperinflation food medicine shortages as well one of the causes was a dramatic fall in oil prices but the situation has been heightened by u.s. sanctions and a financial blockade an independent report for the un to say is the crisis in venezuela is being exaggerated in the media and then weaponized as a pretext for regime change we in fact spoke to its author. what we're seeing here and 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 on. model and to involve human rights to say we need regime change because of the venezuelan people but 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 in the report that i presented to the human rights council last september. all of this is documented i mean they 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 venezuela. two thousand and three oil rich country iraq gets devastated and it's the major oil companies that are reaping the profit two thousand and eleven. libya another oil rich country gets devastated and the oil companies are laughing you know that is an enormous interest on the part of u.s. business to get in there. what we want to avoid is shedding

of blood and i told the opposition people who might personally met in caracas at the time look if you talk with the government what do you think is going to happen there are seven eight nine million committed chalis that's one of the going to do do you think they're just going to roll over do you think they're going to disappear no they are venezuelans they have rights and they are going to demand their rights so you cannot simply ignore their existence so you have to make sure that you reach some sort of a compromise it is not for me i'm an american it's not for me to tell the venezuelans whom they should elect if they elected massively shabbas again and again and they elected. in two thousand and thirteen fourteen two thousand and eighteen that is exclusively exclusively for the venezuelans to decide in free elections and free elections means you're not going to boycott them you're going to

participate. on sunday events were held right across the globe to mark international holocaust remembrance day it marks seventy four years since salvia troops liberated by switch the nazi death camp in poland former prisoners at the camp visited the sons were holocaust museum is situated to share their memories expressing the importance for people today to remember the atrocities. during the nazi purge in the second world war seventeen million people were killed six million of them were jews more than half of europe's jewish population was murdered in systematic attacks many were starved to death killed in gas chambers and burned in furnaces in concentration camps well despite the evidence from the time a recent poll suggests that woman twenty adults in the u.k. believe the holocaust never happened some other notable findings here over half of

those surveyed did not know the number of victims eight percent think the scale of the atrocity how's being exaggerated well the frame is are all from the simon vies intel center thinks that those statistics are the norm. because denial is simply a new form of anti-semitism the holocaust 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 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 that managed to prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy. let's turn attention now to france where after eleven consecutive weekends of street demonstrations it appears some in the country have how to nuff of the rest they've even punch their own limits to counter the increasingly violent e.l.o. fest protests are to tell us more. fronts and protest the two go oh me

no i'm like two lovers strewing around paris in fact the french seem to love protesting 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 of 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 vests 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.

demonstrating i believe to defend the principle of nonviolence and to defend democracy it's very simple feel. to emphasize the importance of liberty and democracy as we are facing 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 right protest against the yellow protesters think again there is also now a team 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 liberte gallatin for eternity it's living on in the french spirit so the french were godless of what's always there 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. show let's even ski r.t. paris yeah with some clearly losing patience with the yellow vests particular brand of protests the movement itself is also faced a strong clamped on from authorities at times leading to serious injury jerome rodriguez is a leading member of the men was hit in the face by a flash ball projectile and say's he may lose this sight in his right eye. i. know. who i was i think there's no. fuel i've had my i've been stitched up because. as to whether i'm going to regain

my sight i'll find out some one or two weeks i make streaming angry because these are things i should not be happening today in front what they're doing is totally unacceptable and i have to recover and i will return to the protest as soon as i can because the battlefield long and tough when you have a goal for a better france and for a more humane. i want to keep the focus on europe a little bit longer and go to greece where we're seeing similar scenes because authorities have used tear gas and stun grenades and clashes with demonstrators in the city of thessalonica the protesters had rallied against the deal with macedonia to end a decades long naming the speech. was . you're seeing scenes from sunday night crowds gathering there voicing their anger at the greek president over the unpopular accord last week parliament

enough and ratified a deal to establish a new name for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia the country is no known as the republic of north macedonia but many greeks object to the new name saying it implies. and has started a 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 name safeway on em short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia to stop the laying claim to the rich history of that name after a little treat jenius alexander the great still study to walk out of these around the world was born in macedonia with athens blocking its neighbors nato and the e.u. membership over the issue they finally agreed to name the republic of north macedonia macedonia as parliament amended is constitution to ratify the name change. love

intriguing stories coming up after the break including a brazen robbery rocked visitors to the top moscow art gallery a look at some of the early relation ukraine's presidential election that's all ahead. in a world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy 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 bath 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. 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 war the fields you know came here last contract to train a unit and to create from scratch and then to. go into combat and the g.p. limited effect. on the afternoon twenty one minutes past three pm here in moscow welcome back candidates are gearing up for a presidential elections in ukraine now with the vote just over two months away twenty people have already registered for a leadership. can take us through some of the early front runners. for the last fifteen years every presidential race in ukraine has given the country

a new political shock to 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 an almost wreck or 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 heavyweight 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 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 president's new year address when announcing his own bid you do for incidental carrying the late desirable materazzi. there is a hitch though zilinskas bid to be the anti elite contender was rocked by scandal when he was found to have business ties to russia and any connection to my. it 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. well really. really so far it seems she'll be running her campaign from a detention center the current president is expected to run but he might struggle 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 glutes. those dreams still seem distant fraught with economic challenges human rights issues and lingering corruption whoever takes that presidential oath this spring it certainly won't be a cushy job that many would envy. visitors to one of moscow's top galleries were left stunned by a day ship's robbery on sunday security camera appears to show a thief narbonne masterpiece by russian artist are he in broad daylight while the gallery was open. take a look at this pure brazen effort this works by the nineteenth century artist

who only appear in the market or in private collections in two thousand and eight a picture of his one for three million dollars at auction it's unclear if it's a coincidence but the artwork was stolen on the artist's earthy there is a happy ending here though the on damage picture was recovered earlier today after the suspect was tracked down and question. canada's prime minister justin trudeau could be in for a grilling on monday as parliament resumes he's expected to face criticism for socking the country's ambassador to china jon mccallum the decision follows the diplomats controversial comments about an extradition case you probably remember involving a senior executive from the chinese telecoms giant while we. well this all comes after canadian prime minister justin trudeau decided to fire somebody and china

last tuesday the canadian diplomat made controversy when he publicly argued that the u.s. extradition request see a film in one shoe actually has a lot of flaws i think she has quite good arguments on her side one political involvement comments from donald trump in her case there's the issue of iran's sanctions which are involved in her case and canada does not sign on to these sanctions well with holdouts the canadian boxer then came out saying in a statement again that he misspoke and that he apologized for creating confusion aware canada is staying on the case but this is a little bit too late and all this drama in the name of the man. who is currently on bail in canada and the u.s. the united states government is pressuring its neighbor to the north to extradite her now the united states government house and so when's the to request an extradition for in the united states and the chinese side also is hoping that the

canadian traditional system would not turn a blind eye we have seen the statement made by the canadian ambassador to china jon mccallum i believe that everyone with normal judgment can see the nature of the incident we hold in canada can have a clear understanding of the problem and that is there is more and more tension building between these two countries and allies and business partners the relationships between them is hitting a low right thoughts are a lot for peter guests though have got regime change in venezuela on their minds the latest in our debate show cross talk starts in moments. us. 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 a certain 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 and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for. best guys or survival guide books they say they're going to start with at least. those there are you going to get back. oh heck no this is a repatriation team look at the rest of seventy years. bill of a separate kaiser or. mean i

mean i didn't you know your. own genius one of. those in one room you know most of a bus will be in yours and you know it was notable just made a lot of money but really you know. please don't please the ways but i did my best religion as the white. people. need me yes this is. one of those little. the school get. you know some of you know recruits. from. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get a little the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that.