we're waiting for you to be on our side. never trace the. power struggle continues as well as president urges his troops to stay loyal the country's self-proclaimed leader reveals he's working with sympathetic elements in the military to incite revolt. and other headlines e.u.

allies italy and france don't need time to iron escalating standoff both countries call for each other's leaderships to get better or get out. and the united arab emirates holds an awards ceremony for those supporting gender equality but all the recipients all men. are welcome to r.t. international live from moscow and i know who you are today thanks for joining us on the program. i was venezuela's political infighting continues both the government and the opposition are appealing to the armed forces for 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 meanwhile paid a visit to troops overseeing drills and calling on them to stay loyal. the soldiers

of venezuela we're 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 non-chord free elections louisiana lawyer. that's how it has to be. the u.s. national security adviser john bolton has threatened action if the opposition leader faces any violence or intimidation one god always aim ultimately is to force a new vote as he and his supporters refused to recognize the legitimacy of venezuela's twenty eighteen presidential election you caused a lot of takes us now through god knows 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 or 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 weighing 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. we are only 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 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 would repeat my question have a match was do with 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 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 sunni was 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. 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 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 the man 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 a severe years long economic crisis in venezuela has led millions to flee the country people 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. sanctions and a financial blockade recent independent report for the u.n. says the crisis in venezuela is being amplified by the media and this in turn is being used as a cynical pretext for change we talked 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 and. mother little

to invoke human rights to say we need regime change because of the venezuelan people but who is costing who is 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 they all oil companies are laughing you know that is an unknown was an 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 childish that's one of their 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

they do reach some sort of a compromise it is not for me i mean america is not for me to venezuelans whom they should elect if they elected massively chavez again and again and they elected. in two thousand and thirteen fourteen two thousand eight hundred 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. a french president is taking is that he's coalition government head on after dismissing rome's criticism of his. government yellow vest protests and all micron even suggest that it's only should find itself the front leaders the italian people are friends and deserve leaders worthy of their history so good luck to them enjoy their education enjoy the ride as far as i'm concerned i speak to president conti.

the feud between the two allies was triggered a year ago when it's really started to push back against micron's immigration policies it was hit hard by the migrant influx and refused to back tougher rules on settling refugees the tensions have gone a step further though with both paris and rome accusing each other of mismanaging crises italy's interior minister moto sylvie has even urged the french public to oust president micron from power. bin the 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 get when the market on the chair 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 salvini and i are not up to it let the italian people

decide about that and we heard from my 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 mardi gras is a bit more blige it's not up to him to give such commands about the who it be book of another country should shoot shoes as their leaders just don't do that of course and i would say what the a dozen leaders are saying there are much worse number of macro missing but both are wrong in doing in acting like this but is 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 me pretty european parliament so basically one of the these people want to do is is to get people behind them to vote for them and used as a short lever and say look how the temperature was in the election mean now we want

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

prime minister has responded to the outcry by stressing that m r r t women are playing a central role in shaping the country's future he also says that getting more women into positions of power is a priority for the government. despite the u.a.e. outperforming some other gulf states and gender equality indexes women's rights are still severely restricted in the country women require the permission of a male guardian to get married for instance they can also not get a job without their husbands consent and divorce is rarely granted we spoke to political analyst catherine schachter about the ward ceremony she told us it's easy to pay lip service to equality but concrete steps need to be taken i think that the you we were at least leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present at least in a what 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 for one thing that gender equality you go also another question what was the point of the exercise that's all it was new at times why so ever tried to be you

know repairs done to how women represented what you've made them visible somehow but nothing was actually done other than one particular woman was brought to dated for her efforts she didn't even receive you know would you imagine anything like that it's one thing to speak reform it's another to actually not and i think that still for even a little bit you it's much much better than the rest of the board for one reason is that it has opened up its border about foreigners about their full changes had to be done and. you can catch up with the rest of the world i don't think it's new we know. he'll invest demonstrations in france are facing a counter-movement of so-called red scarves look at a growing number of people fed up with the weeks of violence in the country just after this short break. politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

president and you. want to be. too great for us this is what. three of the more you get. interesting. in the wild and how. they should may. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. u.s. 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 the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars

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welcome back to our teams that are shown on sunday events were held across the globe to mark international holocaust remembrance day marks seventy four years since soviet troops the. that auschwitz the nazi death camp in poland former prisoners of the camp visited the site where a holocaust museum is now based they shared their memories expressing the importance for people today to remember the atrocities that were carried out. 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 or burned in furnaces in concentration camps and despite the evidence from that time a recent poll suggests that one in twenty adults in the u.k. believe the holocaust never actually took place some other notable findings over half of those people surveyed did not know the number of victims while eight

percent think the scale of the atrocity has been exaggerated renowned nazi hunter frames it off says those that have thinks are a cause for concern. how of course denial is simply a new form of anti-semitism the how of course 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 a 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 movements to counter the increasingly violent yellow vest protests artie's shot will see a small. fronts and protest the two go oh 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 worst in more than half a century. dogs eat anything they want to start its own.

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. 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 very simple feel. to emphasize the importance of liberty in

democracy 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 a red protest against the yellow protesters think again there is also now a seam 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 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 libertarian gallatin for eternity it's living on in the french spirit so the french regardless of what size they're 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. charlotte even ski party paris or some clearly losing patience with the yellow vests particular brand of protest the movement itself is also face the strong clout down from all forty's at times leading to serious injury. as a leading member of the movement was hit in the face by a flash ball projectile he says he may lose the sight in his right eye. i've had my eye balls stitched up because of the impact as to whether i'm going to regain my sight finance one or two weeks streaming angry because these are things that should not be happening in front what the 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 fronts and for a more humane world. major roads in madrid have been brought to a standstill as taxi drivers in spain rally against writing services such as. i. police have to use force to clear drivers and taxis blocking the capitol central streets with the strike now into its eighth day and has grown over popular right hailing services that do not face the same regulations as regular taxis in many countries have drivers have promised to keep setting up blockades and running unless the authorities introduce new laws to control the terms of companies. and that's it for this hour join us again in thirty minutes eleven pm moscow time the latest global news update.

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time after time they were 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 trump supporter theresa may all neighbors jeremy corbyn openly hostile to neo con intervention we speak to a foreign policy adviser of revolution. as nato nation media for regime change and the longest shutdown in u.s. history while the e.u. and u.k. faces a wall in island trumps threatened with all the dangers of the security of the usa so says florida's first iranian american state legislator well the breaks it wall in ireland that will kill british soldiers according to the provisional ira former director of intelligence karen called away all this and 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 eleven american council on electoral experts or former premiers of spain and ecuador she once president the global dora to go with doris of the late democratically elected revolutionary good job as who fought against imperialism in one unprecedented improvements in health care and education today though venezuela which has just been made president of the world's oil exporting alliance opec faces economic warfare from washington joining me from new york as a foreign policy advisor to java's who nicknamed the girlfriend of venezuela eva golinger thanks so much eva for coming on so can when you're a survive 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 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 here 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 i think as well as nicolas maduro remains the actual president of venezuela who has the keys to the palace you see when you were advising his previous as a job as you knew the job as it survived an actual military u.s. backed coup d'etat is madore making what may be seen by even his supporters to be making another mistake now offering. you're a go.