venezuela we're waiting for you to be on our side. never a trace of. the power struggle continues as venezuela's 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. also to saue you

allies italy and france the meats are to eye on an escalating standoff as 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 are male. thanks for joining us on our to international i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are tonight you're very welcome with 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 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 proven theory unless. we have made our position very clear about the dictatorial nature of this regime and so we want to take power never truly to. install a transitional government and call it free elections. 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 one gordo's a multiple years to force a new vote as he and his supporters refused to recognize the legitimacy of venezuela's twenty eighteen presidential election it was that of takes us now three dollars rise from obscurity. international recognition and

a new grand social status dropped on one y. 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 waiting a hard on venezuela's newest 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 the 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 that the meeting took place and what did you talk about in this way you know this person or you i will repeat my question how do you match was do is that ok 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 core parts

of the reagan administration he funneled the long way around federal weapons through iran sunni wars 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 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 card mr wide or the u.s.

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 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 also been exacerbated by a swinging us sanctions and a financial blockade of recent independent report for the un says the crisis in venezuela is being out of fired by the media and that this in turn is being used as a cynical pretext for regime change we spoke to the report's author. what were certain and three invasion of iraq we have seen here it 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 and tie 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 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 that time look if you talk with 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 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. the french president is taking it's a loose coalition government head on after dismissing rome's criticism of his handling of the anti government yellow vest protests and all micron even suggest that italy should find itself different 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 you allies was triggered a year ago when interleave began to push back against micron's immigration policies

is that he was hit hard by the margaret influx and refused to back tougher rules on settling refugees tensions though have gone a step further now both paris and rome accusing each other of mismanaging crises italy's interior minister has even urged the french public to oust president from power. bin the more 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 carries a light macro get when the market on the chair micron 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 a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament who told us the very public bust up could be down to the upcoming european parliamentary elections. although i would

say that mardi gras is a bit more blige it's not up to him to give such comments about the who it beatle of another country should shoot shoes as their leaders just don't do there of course and i would say what the a dull your leaders are saying here are much worse than what marco missing but both are wrong in doing in acting like this but is perfect believe that prison micro and the italian political leaders are doing this is just as a preparation for the elections upcoming elections in me for the european parliament so basically one of 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 want even more of bulls on a national level our policy this is politics on a very very little level. now as part of

a drive to empower women in the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony on sunday to recognize the government departments doing the most to address gender imbalance is for money one thing just 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 work mail that led to an outpouring of ridicule on social media. i'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you but you forgot to invite one 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 congratulation is here for only one gender in dubai . the prime minister has stressed in a statement online that amorality 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 and despite that women's rights are still severely

restricted in the country we would require the permission of a male guardian to get married for instance they can also not get a job without their husband's consent divorce really granted we spoke to political analyst catherine schachter about the award ceremony she told us that it's easy to pay lip service to equality but concrete steps need to be taken i think that the you we were leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present at least in a what you want with me and i mean to at least pretend pretend that you are promoting gender equality not even trying they're not even doing good p.r. no point saying that in the equality you go also and the question what was the point of the exercise that's all it was new at times why so ever try actually you know repressed and how women represented what is made them visible somehow nothing was actually done other than one particular woman was congratulated 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 borders to a lot of foreigners and that therefore 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. that the universe demonstrations in france are facing a counter-movement of so-called red scarfs we look at a growing number of people fed up with the 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 white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be called for rich eight point six percent market saw

a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one to one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom but. one almost so small seems wrong but all in all just don't call. me old yet to stamp out some disdain comes to educate and in gains from it because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

when all may just manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the right wing pluses and protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. going the whole middle of the room signals. dealing playing real news. welcome back to aussie international on sunday events were held across the globe to . mark international holocaust remembrance day marks seventy four years since soviet troops liberated auschwitz the nancy death camp in poland former prisoners of the camp visited the site where the holocaust museum is and are situated they shared their memories expressing the importance for people to date to remember the

atrocities that were carried out. during the nazi purge in the second mauled 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 despite the evidence from that time a recent poll suggests that one in twenty adults in the u.k. believe the holocaust never actually happened or some other notable information there are over half of those surveyed didn't know the exact number of victims swat a further eight percent think the scale of the atrocity has been exaggerated we're now on the nazi hunter efraim zuroff says those that is that zorra cause for concern. cause 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 in 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. in other news after eleven consecutive weekends of street demonstrations it seems someone france have had enough of the unrest even launch their own movements to counter the increasingly violent yellow vest demonstrations auntie's charlotte you can 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 that's 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. talks to do anything they want to structure a song. but in true french fashion there is now an empty 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 creamery business 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 who 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're facing a moment in france that's attempting to restrict our freedom. i have chosen to come here to defend democracy and freedom but peaceful it without violence well if you thought this was just the right protestors against the yellow protesters think again there is also now

a team yes that's right the bru 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 blue 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 regardless of what's always their own still have this opportunity with each other albeit in their ability to protest or to protest a protest it's particularly of protest the movement itself is also faced a strong clampdown from authorities at times leading to serious injury to roman riggers a leading member of the movement was hit in the face by a flash projectile he says he may lose the sight in his right eye. was.

that he said that there's no. global if you will i've had my eye been stitched up because of the impact as to whether i'm going to regain my sight or so find out some one or two weeks will make streaming angry because these are things i should not be happening today in front of his own. what the doing is totally unacceptable they have to recover and they will return to the protests as soon as they can because the battlefield where you have a goal for a better fronts and for a more humane world it's. a major roads in madrid have been brought to a standstill as taxi drivers in spain rally against the ride hailing services such as. i. police out to use force to clear drivers and taxis blocking the capital's central streets with the strike now entering its eight day anger has grown over

a popular ride 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 rallying unless he's introduced new laws to control companies it was. just coming up to half past eleven pm here in moscow that's it from the tea myself for this hour join us again in about thirty minutes for the latest global news update. 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 circulated 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 them money on those with dives 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 for uneasiness or. to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream 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. countries gone into

a nihilistic fever that's why i think and they've got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte is the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we found a point around which element is done something we always are on the current system . called culture is really important because. we're starting last with is to begin to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gondo than the it may be completely different but the end of this year. i have to be argued in an effort to understand what happened here the p.m.c. to pay. media was not contracted to win the war the fields he took came here was a contract to train a unit and to create a from scratch and then to go into combat and the g.p.

limited objective. i mean i didn't measure your. own c.d.'s on us he. doesn't want to know most of us the billion euros a year was notable during. the month but really you. left the senate seats and. this was the. middle of. the school just minutes from now you know everyone calls. from. politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something want to. have to go right to beatrice that's what the four three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the hottest. first city hall.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle breaking a promise trump wants regime change in venezuela old habits die hard also the trials in tribulations of roger stone will russia gate ever and. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark slobo the he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor levitch he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dmitri bobbitt she

is a political analyst with sputnik international are gentlemen crossed in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it obviously we're going to start out with when the person goes by the name of eliot.