to get to shape out disdain to become educated and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the power struggle. president urges his troops to stay loyal to country self-proclaimed leader of reveals he's working with sympathetic elements in the military. also ahead this hour one in twenty british don't

believe the holocaust. according to a poll marking holocaust memorial day also ahead on the program. the. movement is launched in france against the protests in the country. just gone four pm here in moscow on this monday january twenty eighth wherever you are chiming in from right around the world a warm welcome to our to international i mean and o'neill our top story. political infighting continues both the government and the opposition are appealing to the armed forces for support one who proclaimed himself interim leader on whether he's been holding talks with military officials to push for the overthrow of the

president nicolas maduro meanwhile has paid a visit to troops overseas calling on them to stay loyal. the side of the constitution are you serious. we have made our position very clear about the dictatorial nature of this regime and so we want to take power never traits. install a transitional government and free elections. that's how it has to be. well the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has threatened action if the opposition leader faces any violence or intimidation one is aimed ultimately is to force a new vote he and his supporters refuse to recognize the legitimacy of venezuela's

twenty eighteen presidential election should the enough to know through why don't rise from op security 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 marred by the media and untrusted to not fail by the united states and countries making up its retinue and apparently the latter

could be waiting a 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 only if i was at the meeting why dawn 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 will repeat my question have imagines do as 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 a 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 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 with jen. aside 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 so you better say 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 just add some background to all this the severe years long economic crisis in venezuela has led millions to leave a country people there are struggling with hyper inflation power cuts and shortages of food and medicine one of the causes was a dramatic fall in oil prices but the situation has been exacerbated by swinging u.s. financial blockades an independent report for the u.n. says the crisis in venice will is being exaggerated in the media and then weaponized as a pretext for regime change we got the chance to speak 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 a coordinated effort to denounce them and. mother a little and to invoke human rights to say we need regime change because of the venezuelan people but who is causing whose aggravating the problem these sanctions have aggravated the problem the economic war have aggravated the problem when. needed anti in leiria medicine for an outbreak in november two thousand and seventeen wanted to buy it in colombia colombia refused to sub in the report that i presented to the human rights council last september. all of this is documented i mean they are in the 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 in as well or. 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 they or oil companies are laughing you know that is an enormous interest on the part of u.s. business to get end 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 will the government what do you think is going to happen there are seven eight nine million committed child these stats one of

they gonna 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. now on sunday events were held across the globe to mark international holocaust remembrance day it marks seventy four years since salvina troops liberated i switch the nazi death camp in poland former prisoners of

the camp visited the site where a holocaust museum is situated to share their memories expressing the importance for people of today to remember the atrocities that were carried out. well during the nazi purge in the second world war seventeen million people were killed six million of them jews more than half of europe's jewish population was murdered in systematic attacks many starved to death killed in gas chambers burnt in furnace is in concentration camps well despite the evidence from the time a recent poll suggests that one in twenty adults in the united kingdom believe the holocaust never happened some other notable findings over half of those surveyed did don't know the number of victims while eight percent think the scale of the atrocity house being exaggerated and nazi hunter frame zuroff those statistics are

alarming. 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. after eleven consecutive weekends of street demonstrations it appears some in france have had enough of the young rest they've even launched their own movements to counter the increasingly violent yellow press protests are to charlotte can 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 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 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 and 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 protests 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 roads cars are demonstrating i believe to defend the principle of nonviolence and to defend democracy it's very simple feels. 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 protest is think again there is also now seem 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 protest is in the middle and on each side there are 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 of liberte galatea in eternity it's living on in the french spirit so the french were godless of what's always their own still have this paternity with each other albeit in their ability to protest or to protest a protest over a protest or something like that. shows even ski r.t.

paris with some clearly losing patience with the yellow vests particular brand of protest the movement itself has also faced a strong clump done from authorities at times leading to serious injury. drome rodriquez a leading member of the movement was hit in the face by a flash ball projectile from authorities and says he may lose the sight in his right. eye i. think. i. think this. is you i've had my eye ball stitched up because of the impact as to whether i'm going to regain my sight i will find out some one or two weeks i make streaming angry because these are things that 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 we have a goal for a better france and for a more humane well it's. still to come presidential candidates in ukraine are ready to pull out the stops for the upcoming election but get more nuts and plenty besides after this.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. i happen to be a nigerian effort to understand what happened here the p.m.c. that came here for small contractors who were in the war the fields he took came here last contract to train a unit and to create from scratch and then to go into combat and the g.p. limiters object. welcome back to the program greek authorities have used tear gas on stun grenades and clashes with demonstrators in the city of thessalonica the protesters had rallied against the deal with muscle tony to end

a decades long naming the spirit. of god. you know these are pictures of crowds gathering in greece is second largest city on sunday night voicing their anger at the weak 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 now known as the republic of north africa but many greeks object to the new name saying it implies his star a claim to the quick problems of my city. 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 r o m short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia stopped it laying claim to the rich history of that

name after all military genius alexander the great still studied in 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 greeted me the republic of north macedonia macedonia's parliament amended its constitution to ratify the name change. you know our candidates are gearing up for a presidential elections in ukraine with the vote roughly two months away no twenty people have already registered for a leadership bid that hawkins takes us 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. with. this

year's election will see it 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 heavyweights yulia timoshenko. was. 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 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 yet you do for incidental carrying the late desirable metabolism is no when. 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 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. 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 on a day shift robbery on sunday the security camera appears to show a thief not a mobster piece by russian artist are keep wingy in broad daylight while the gallery was open brazen stuff take a look at what occurred now works by the nineteenth century art has rarely appear on the market or in private collections in two thousand and eight a picture of his went for three million dollars at auction it is unclear if it's a coincidence but the artwork was stolen on the artist's birthday there is a happy ending though the picture was recovered earlier today monday after the

suspect was tracked on and question it's. all right updates quite literally by the minutes on our twitter page always good for a school more great programs though ahead in moments here on our to international i'll see you in thirty. country's gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think. the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlatans the genius is the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point around which element is done something we always are on the margins something. called gun culture is really important for america ah.

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unusual and my dad for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good boy scout of my time i was really proud of. in one thousand sixty-six as the u.s. military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as an induction. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger officer commanding a unit of forty minutes. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure bombing mission.