believe. it. should be on our side. never treats. the power struggle continues as venezuela's president this. country's self-proclaimed leader reveals he's working with sympathetic elements in the military to incite revolt. headlines e.u.

allies in france in an escalating standoff both countries called leaderships to get better get out. one in twenty british adults don't believe the holocaust ever happened that's according to a. holocaust memorial day. welcome to our international live from moscow today actually joining us on the program i was venezuela's political crisis continues both the governments on the opposition are appealing to the armed forces for their support one dog who proclaimed himself interim leader on wednesday says he's been holding talks with military officials to push for the overthrow of the president nicolas maduro himself paid a visit to troops overseeing drills and calling on 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 produce 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 free elections louisiana lawyer. that's how it has to be. the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has threatened action if the opposition leader faces any violence or intimidation want to go does a multi at least to force a new vote as he and his supporters refuse to recognize the legitimacy of venezuela's twenty eighteen presidential election he goes out of takes us now through quiet daws rise from obscurity. international recognition and

a new grand social status to 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. mike pence the united states supports the courageous decision by one god or you know it's probably recognize the national symbol president one is the constitutional interim president of venezuela he's the most evil now marred by the media and intrusted to not fail by the united states and countries making up its retinue and apparently the latter could be weighing 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 where dawn said he was being pressured by everyone now this is the claim made by people but when journalists confronted y. 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 could be your 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 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 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 brahms 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 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. a severe years long economic crisis in venezuela has led millions to flee the country people are struggling with hyperinflation 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 a swing u.s. sanctions and a financial blockade a recent independent report for the u.n. says the crisis in venezuela is being up and fired by the media this in turn is being used as a cynical pretext for regime change if you talk to the report's 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. motherhood or and to involve 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 other little needed anti in leiria medicine for an outbreak in november two thousand and seventeen wanted to buy it in colombia colombia refused to serve 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 the oil companies are laughing you know that is an enormous interest on the part of u.s. business to get in there. when 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 childish 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. in other news the french president is taking it and he's coalition government head on off to dismissing rome's criticism of his handling of the anti-government yellow vest protests when all mccrone even suggest that it's only should find itself different leaders. the italian people are friends and deserve leaders worthy of their history so good luck to them enjoy the education enjoy the ride as far as i'm concerned i speak to president conti and the feud between the

two allies was triggered a year ago when italy started to push back against micron's immigration policies it was hit hard by the moderate influx and refused to back tougher rules on settling refugees tensions though have gone a step further now with both paris and rome accusing each other of mismanaging crises is that his interior minister has even heard the french public to oust the president from power. i hope the french can free themselves from a terrible president and the opportunity will come or may the twenty sixth when finally the french people will be able to take back control of their future destiny and pride which are poorly represented by character like macro when the market on the macro said we are relevant we are relevant at the next european council. we will tell you that you have to start the colonizing those states you are exploiting mccrum says that so vini and i are not up to it let the italian people decide about

that we heard from a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament who told us the very public bust up could be down to the upcoming european parliament elections. although i would say that the mardi gras is a bit more blige it's not up to him to give such commands about oh who beat all of another country should shoot shoes as their leaders you just don't do there of course and i would say what the italian leaders are saying here are much worse than what marco missing but both are wrong in doing in acting like this but is the perfect believe that prison my crew and the italian political leaders are doing this is just as a preparation for the elections upcoming elections in may for the european parliament so basically what the these people want to do is is to get people behind them to vote for them and use dad as a sort of lever and say look how the temperature was in the election meanwhile we

will do even more impulse on a national level our policy this is politics on a very very little level. as part of the drive to empower women the authorities in the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony on sunday to recognize the government departments doing the most to address gender imbalance has for many though one thing didn't sit quite right all three recipients of the awards which were presented by the u.s. vice president on the rule of the by one man and that led to a wave of criticism and ridicule on social media. i'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you but you forgot to invite women wow really nailed the diversity there one of those do those wearing gray you've achieved an excellent balance of men with dark facial hair and men with light facial hair my congratulations is there only one gender in dubai. all in

a response published by the divine media office on twitter the u. e's prime minister stressed that immorality women are playing a critical role in shaping the country's future he also stressed the importance of countering gender inequality but despite outperforming other gulf states women's rights are still quite limited in the u.a.e. women require the permission of a male guardian to get married they can also not get a job without their husband's consent and divorce is rarely granted. or can now cross live to political analyst catherine shutdown for more on this catherine thanks for coming on the program today. gender equality awards was supposed to boost the role of women celebrate porton soon then society etc all went to men what do you make of it all. well i think it's really a comical and it really goes to show i don't think the u.a.e. is actually a genuine desire to promote gender equality i think what they're trying to do is basically you know trying to promote themselves as against forward doing great

reforms but nothing on the ground actually changes and i mean even if we're to think that you know for reforms to actually take hold it has to trickle down you know from the top and back down then i think that the u.a.e. with least its leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present a case that it would you want women i mean to at least pretend pretend that you from which in gender equality is not even trying they're not even doing good p.r. all pointing that gender equality also another question what was the point of the exercise it's all other than that the again giving the walls to their friends and trying to them soft on the on the shoulder and to say what a great job they've done i don't see women anywhere i mean they're not even i'm not sure that we're invited is actually commented so it's really comical and i think there's a great irony there that actually the reforms are not all doing when it comes to you know the manifestations of those reform they're not they're not working at all

because the nonexistent i mean in france what the that the ministry said they said despite all the awards going to males two of them actually went four for ministries as opposed to individuals i don't know how how that change anything do you think that's a relevant explanation no i don't think so because again i mean they could have chosen to sound a woman for example to represent that particular ministry and actually you know again make a show good faith that they didn't try it was new at times western ever try actually you know repress done to have women represented that made them visible somehow but nothing was actually done other than one and then one particular woman i think the wife of a minister that was congratulated for her efforts she didn't even receive an award or a medal or anything like that even a certificate. so again i think not so much for gender equality i think again there is a dismissal of women when it comes to the typical contra part of the world where you know male guardianship is very much alive and kicking and i think there's

something profoundly wrong you know with the premise that women need to be somehow you know put you know permanently held as mine or that they're not capable of choosing whom they want to marry or whether they want to work out where they wish to work whether they can travel this is something that you know has shaped society and needs to prompt you to change if they actually want to move forward and be able to move within the international community because this is too much of a disparity there for anyone to be comfortable with. i'm not a middle east expert but there is a point of view that the u.a.e. is more advanced in terms of women's rights etc than some neighboring countries notably saudi arabia to name one example can we say that this award just even existing to to sort of acknowledge the role of women is a positive step forward as more needs to be done. yes i knew but then again you're

comparing the u.a.e. to saudi arabia which is the business when it comes through women's rights where women actually are treated as commodities so that we go yes but at the same time you know when women are still treated as children and they don't have the rights you know the most basic questions of choosing who they want to marry and i don't think there's real progress i mean because exactly just tell them well done when all they do is actually promote the idea of gentle equality but they don't do anything that manifest on the ground in terms of change for women it's one thing to speak reform it's another traction in them and i think that so far even though the you it smash much better than the rest of the board for one reason is that it has opened up its borders to a lot of foreigners and that therefore changes had to be done and the hatchets you can catch up with the rest of the world i don't think it's near enough because the deep sea to what i would say the you know the deep society within the u.a.e. is not changing at all women are very much you know victims and they have no choice

in the matter that there's very little recourse for women to actually voice that issues that we've been a platform from which you speak from it's a very difficult situation and that being said yes it is better than anywhere else but then again you have you know it's played but i don't think that's a comparison that you want to make all right catherine shot from political analyst thanks for your take today on my story here not international. only get a vest demonstrations in france are facing a counter movement now of so-called red scarves we look at the growing number of people found out why weeks of violence in the country just after this short break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old rich eight point six

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welcome back to our to international on sunday events were held across the globe to mark international holocaust remembrance day it marks seventy four years since soviet troops liberated auschwitz the nazi death camp in poland former prisoners of the camp visited the sites where a holocaust museum is now situated they shared their memories express. the importance for people today to remember the atrocities that were carried out. and during the nazi purge shit in the second world war seventy 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 or burned in furnaces in concentration camps and despite that evidence from the time a recent poll suggests that one in twenty adults in the u.k. believes the holocaust never happened or some other notable findings over half of

those surveyed did not know the number of victims and eight percent think the scale of the atrocity has been exaggerated and we're now nancy hunter efraim zuroff says those the dislikes are cause for concern. how of course 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 seems someone france have had enough of the unrest even launched their own movement to counter the increasingly violent yellow vest protests aunty charlotte even ski tells us more. fronts and protest the two go oh me no i'm like to love a 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 have often descended into violence that's been described as the wooster in more than half a century. talking seed anything today's one destruction song.

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 roads cars are 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're facing a movement in france that's attempting to restrict our freedoms 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 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 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 galatea in 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. shows even ski r.t. paris paris isn't the only city model protest major roads in madrid have also been brought to a standstill as taxi drivers run against. his locker. i . police had to use force to clear drivers and taxis blocking the capitol central streets strike is now into its eighth day growth of a popular writing services that do not face the same regulations as regular taxis in many countries cab drivers have promised to keep setting up brocades and running unless the authorities introduce new laws to control companies. and those are the headlines for this hour that. i myself want to get about thirty five minutes for the latest global news updates see that.

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