it. traces. the power struggle continues a president urges his troops to stay loyal to country self feels he's working with sympathetic elements in the military to inside. also coming up on the program. in twenty british don't believe the holocaust ever happened according to

a poll marking holocaust memorial day also ahead. the. movement is launched in france against the yellow. country. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to the top story as venezuela's political infighting continues both the government position or appealing to the armed forces for support one who proclaimed himself interim leader on wed and stay safe he has been holding talks with military officials to push for the overthrow of the president. nicolas maduro himself paid

a visit to troops overseeing drills on calling on them to stay loyal. the soldiers of venezuela we are waiting for you to be on our side are you who among us. 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 dictatorial nature of this regime and so we want to take power never traces. install a transitional government or three elections. that's how it has to be. so that's the situation internally on the outside the u.s. national security adviser john bolton has threatened action if the opposition leader faces any violence or intimidation one why do those same ultimately is to force a new vote as he and his supporters refuse to recognize the legitimacy of venice

will is twenty eighteen presidential election. takes us know through why dole is 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 of 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 been trusted 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 door 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 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 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 core parts 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 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 albums allegedly was the architect of the two thousand and two coup in venezuela back then it failed in days so perhaps now adams

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 igor is shut down for just some background to this a severe years long economic crisis in venezuela has led millions to flee the country people there are struggling with hyperinflation power cuts shortages of food with medicine one of the causes was a dramatic fall in or oil prices but the situation has been exacerbated by switching u.s. sanctions on a financial blockade in fact a recent independent report for the u.n. says the crisis in venice will is being amplified by the media and this in turn is being used as

a cynical 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. model 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 little 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 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 topple the government what do you think is going to

happen there are seven eight nine million committed chalis that's 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. on sunday events were held across the globe to mark international holocaust memory day it marks seventy four years since salvia

troops liberated off switch the nazi death camp in poland former prisoners of the camp visited the sites where the holocaust museum is not situated to share their memories expressing the importance for people today to remember the atrocities not where current. dreamy 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 sun burned in furnaces in concentration camps well despite the evidence from the time a recent poll suggests that one in twenty outlets in the u.k. believe the holocaust never happened some other noticeable findings over half of those surveyed did not know the number of victims eight percent meanwhile think that the scale of the atrocity house being exaggerated were known and nazi hunter

frames are off says that 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. let's turn attention to europe where after eleven consecutive weekends of street stray sions it appears some in france have had enough of the on rest they've even launched their own is meant to counter the increasingly violent yellow vest protests are to charlotte tells 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 and 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 there 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. for criminal business 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 a simple field. to emphasize the importance of liberty in democracy we're facing

a movement in france that's attentive to 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 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 best 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 fraternity 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 of

a protest or something like that. so let's even ski paris well with some clearly losing patience with the yellow particular brand of protest the movement itself is also faced a strong dine from authorities at times leading to serious injury. is a leading member of the movement was hit in the face by a flush bowl project. lose the sight of his right eye. oh. oh. oh. oh oh oh there's no. 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 weeks. we are 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 where you have a goal for a better fronts and for a more humane. story to tell you about now russian fighter jet has intercepted a u.s. spy plane close to russia's border the u.s. military reconnaissance plane was to take this over the neutral waters of the baltic sea it was approaching its territory the russian su twenty seven moved in and was able to capture the video you're seeing in the american plane then changed its trajectory and departed from the area. still to come on the program presidential candidates in ukraine are ready to pull out the stops for the upcoming election we focus on plenty more of the science in the second still.

wrong. just don't. let me. get to say pal it is they become educated and engaged equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you know world of big partisan movies 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. 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks.

back with our international let's begin the program again in greece where authorities have used tear gas and stun grenades in clashes with demonstrators in the city of thessalonica the protesters had rallied against the deal with macedonia to end a decades long naming dispute. well here are images of crowds gathering increases second largest city on sunday night 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 us the republic of north macedonia but many greeks object to the new name saying it implies an historic claim to the greek province of macedonia for decades greece's fourth basically over neighbor macedonia is now because africans border region is also called macedonia one of the country's official name safeway on short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia 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 without blocking its neighbors nato and the e.u. membership over the issue is finally greeted me the republic of north macedonia macedonia has parliament amended these constitution to ratify the name change. ok to russia a story that's got

a lot of people talking today visitors to one of moscow's top a gallery were left stunned by in addition robbery over the weekend security camera appears to show a thief knob a muster piece by russian artist or keep in broad daylight while the gallery was open brazen stuff take a look at how it all happened works by the nineteenth century artists rarely appear on the market or in private collections in two thousand and eight a picture of his one for three million dollars at auction now it is unclear if it's a coincidence but the artwork was stolen on the artist's birthday there is a happy ending be on the. homage picture was actually recovered earlier on monday after the suspect was tracked down and question its. candidates are gearing up for presidential elections in ukraine with the votes what just over two months away now twenty people have already registered for a leadership a double hawkins has been taking a look through some of the frontrunners. 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 heavyweights yulia timoshenko. and.

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 but 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 yet you do for incidental green well a desirable metabolism. program 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. is with us 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. more clearly. 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 you all the action unfolds in ukraine on the thirty first of march ok about is our lot for an op it's quite literally by the minute on our twitter page as always and always good for a school as well in the meantime more great programs start in moments here at r.t.

international and i'll see you in just over thirty minutes. breaking a promise trump wants regime change in venezuela old habits die hard also the trials in tribulations of roger stone will rush again ever. see. me let me let you go where you know you're. going to. those who want to know most the best will be in your years and years it was not a. good night but you. leave the ways the ways the way i did by

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time after time say we're going on the ground as a nato member the usa continues its efforts to overthrow the government of the nation with the largest known reserves of oil venezuela coming up in the show whose right from supporter theresa may all neighbors jeremy corbyn openly hostile to neo con intervention we speak to a foreign policy adviser of revolutionary icon to go chavez's name to the nation media news for regime change and the longest shutdown in u.s. history while the e.u. and u.k. faces a wall in ireland trumps britain with all the dangers of the security of the usa so says florida's first to rein in american state legislators well the bricks it wall

in ireland that will kill british soldiers according to the provisional ira its former director of intelligence karen called away all the more coming up in today's going on the ground but first while the u.k. and usa face crises of a was an island in mexico and france's capital is a wash with tear gas every week venezuela it is argued by new york on media is ripe for regime change nato nations and defacto washington proxy south american nations alike want to overthrow the venezuelan government tourism in britain doesn't take the word of official international election monitors like the latin american council on electoral experts or former premiers of spain and ecuador she wants president to get our dora to go but during the late democratically elected revolutionary chavez who fought against imperialism and won unprecedented improvements in health care and education today though venezuela which has just been made president of the world's oil export an alliance opec faces economic warfare from washington joining me from new york as a foreign policy advisor to job as who nicknamed her the girlfriend of venezuela

eva golinger thanks so much eva for you. going to come with. well i think that that's the question these days that are being asked around the world as well as in venezuela as of now and he's digging in deeper are carrying on with all government affairs state affairs as usual you know he remains the president of venezuela he remains in control of the government he remains in control of the state institutions and financial institutions and economy of venezuela and most importantly their oil industry so no matter who the international community or sector of it particularly western nations powerful like the u.s. choose to name as their president of venezuela nicolas maduro remains the actual president of venezuela who has the keys to the palace you see when you were voicing his previous as a job as you know.