those with their lives 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 or uneasiness for. this hour's headlines story days before withdrawing from a landmark arms control agreement that the u.s. it's going to start producing eight new thermo nuclear warheads. so ahead on the program sanctions on assassination the venezuelan president claims trump saw him killed as the crisis hit country supreme court launches

a criminal investigation into the u.s. opposition leader we're live in caracas in minutes also ahead. to speak honestly clear is my contacts with the european union leaders is that they want to deal with this house voted for last night. table for british prime minister to resign after parliament supports a bid to rework her stall regs. twenty four seven news and views from the russian capital this is r.t. international thanks for choosing us for your update this hour i mean in the me our top story washington will begin its official withdrawal from the mark on the n f treaty before the end of this week for over thirty years the agreement signed by the leaders of the u.s. on the u.s.s.r. guaranteed the elimination of an entire category of nuclear arms america has

earmarked the development of a new nuclear warhead which. calls for concern. as far as the announcement about the u.s. beginning to manufacture a new low yield nuclear warhead i remind you that the topic was already included in last year's review of washington's policy in the nucular sphere even then we expressed our serious concern about the fact that the production of such warheads lower the threshold for a nuclear conflict and as such increases the risk of nuclear conflict. it is the pentagon's newest toy the w seventy six dash two when it is essentially meaning new less baggage less radiation less fallout and most importantly less responsibility i think you strive through. major. work

and. their research work. cannot be. treated. as not one dominated country and we're all because of other countries naturally this new nuclear arms race is not america's fault but every what outsiders namely the usual suspects since twenty ten we have seen the return of great power competition to varying degrees russia and china have made clear that they seek to substantially revise the post cold war international order and norms of behavior we could of course beat a dead horse and again point out that russia is not even in the same the as the us when it comes to military budgets in fact russian military spending has been for the ng for years while america's has ballooned symbolic as well within days the

us should begin withdrawing from the in to mediate range nuclear forces treaty blaming russia's development of a cruise missile but really gets on the old nerves here is. the commander in chief of the united states is unpredictability and seemingly his habit of threatening everyone is we have more money than anybody else by far we'll build it up so we have a tremendous amount of money to play with the military said we're going to develop the weapons funding to modernize our nuclear arsenal so important but we're spending a tremendous amount of money on our nuclear arsenal nobody will have close we're now two minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock on the brink or now officially into a new cold war a nuclear arms race world powers it each other's throats and no light at the end of the tunnel countries will continue to make threats against other countries

just look what's happening no. treaty to go she the rule of major treaty to go shushi now between china and the united states and the exercise some time to stress will do put your soul and soul listening to too early and from a national security. country should like to. know the truth as you consider the contributor and agree with what you're going. to another big story of the day as the city between the u.s. and venice will a socialist government grows president nicolas maduro has accused donald trump of ordering his assassination no doubt that trump gave an order to kill me he told the colombian government the colombian mafia to kill me if something happens to me one day donald trump and the colombian president will be responsible. well while

washington claims nicolas maduro lacks legitimacy as president on days actively pushing for his overthrow it's repeatedly denied plotting his assassination. trying to join me in the studio earlier with the latest on the turmoil in venezuela the things that mr moore was saying lately on the one hand to it as been typical nick. fury of everything america's doing on the other hand mr wood door is saying that he's absolutely ready to talk to donald trump anywhere in the u.s. and minnesota and any kind of format and he's sure that these kind of negotiations will be a great success although he says that donald trump's advisors in america would never allow this kind of meeting to happen so he mediately takes a step back well just to remind you and this is how he addressed what donald trump

was doing and donald trump himself just a little earlier this week. when it comes to mr gore you do know caracas was forced to act when washington said that it was pretty much handing over the floor choose belonging to the majority government although they were in american banks to the opposition leader and so now one guy dove's assets and accounts in venezuela have been frozen he's not allowed to leave the country and he's now also being investigated for attempts to assist other countries and to feeling invent as well as internal affairs now in response to that already caracas has been promised severe consequences by donald

trump. national security advisor john ball we know that the u.s. has no alone in terms of support for the opposition leader where other countries coming down in this in this divide really if we look at the opposition support surely america has been the champion we've got to think the here in this case because some of the strongest players of the blog for now the u.k. still in their germany france and spain they have sent an alternate and for mr moore they promise that they will recognize one as the legitimate leader of the country unless they crossed the door and now has an early election before the end of this week but this isn't enough for one in an interview with the charm and magazine built he says that he once more helped by the way that interview was titled built means the hope of venezuela. germany and europe for

supporting the activists who have we hope the e.u. is serious about the ultimatum is against and reach a conclusion on the situation we can almost be one hundred percent certain that the ultimatum will bite the dust and fall flat because mr meridor is saying the next elections in his country won't happen before twenty twenty five and that is the official and of his term asked president by the way russia also had something to say about that ultimatum by some european union countries as with. any initiatives to mediation must be unbiased they should come from different players who have an influence both on the government and the opposition plus we have to understand the purpose. preparing the ground for a compromise between the sides must be the only purpose if the goal is to push through what's already been decided there's no need for such mediation russia has

been backing the man. government as the old mean legitimate government of venezuela which was in fact elected however moscow has said many times that it's ready to become a mediator in the crisis well just now we heard from the russian ambassador in venezuela that so far no such requests have been received by moscow from the opposition or the government so the russian side will be waiting for that to happen before it starts any kind of action the british labor party m.p. chris williamson told our tease going underground that he fears a u.s. military intervention in venezuela could have disastrous consequences but we cannot tolerate in my opinion is external intervention of the states or any other western power for that matter we've seen where they sense in the past haven't we both on the confidence of latin america and elsewhere in the world this is the same old playbook and you know it always ends in

a disaster and in most saying you know clearly there must've problems right now but i tell you all they could get a hell of a lot worse and what we could end up with is a bloody civil war a bloody civil war actually with u.s. ground troops involved in that they speak with full don't give my opinion those who are claiming to you know be concerned about the plight of poor venezuelans because what they are doing they are they are taking supporting a path that will impoverish and potentially cause the law itself hundreds of thousands if not millions of venezuelans. it has also been reported in recent days that the bank of england has refused to allow the majority of government access to the gold reserves that it is holding for venezuela economist and co-founder of democracy at work richard wolffe to list the move is highly problematic. for the venezuelans who put the money into the care of the british bank to determine what is done with it it is not for the bank of england to

pick who it's going to give money to that comes from another society they can't continue apparently to be the neutral place where you can safely put your money as many many countries do they seem to be under the thumb of the united states and who is telling them what to do in this venezuela all the initiative is taken by the united states and that is a signal to every other country that has or may have difficulties with the united states that they better get their money out of england out of london because that's not a safe place as it once was. get to another story we're keeping a close eye on this hour the former head of starbucks has announced he's considering running for the u.s. presidency next year howard schultz took a swipe at president trump in doing so he was quick to fire back we're living at a most fragile time not only the fact that dispersant is not qualified to be the

president but the fact that both parties are consistently not doing what's necessary on behalf of the american people. howard schultz doesn't have the guts to run for president watched him on sixty minutes last night and i agree with him that he's not the smartest person besides america already has that arnie hope that starbucks is still paying me their runs in trump tower. the president's view on the announcement by mr schultz was slammed by democrats as well who fear the independent candidate could actually split their voters i want to see america when i don't care if you're democrat independent libertarian republican bring me your ideas his critics call for a boycott of starbucks on urging people to get their coffee some or else we asked people in new york what they thought about howard schultz is chances of becoming the next american leader. he has

a right. he wants to run i think he could do just as bit of a job as the president now i feel like you need some sort of experience with like a public office i think he definitely would have a lot of people who would be interested in seeing what he has to say. spectacularly if he's trying to bring down trump but you divide the ticket that he could easily lead. with a minority of the vote if you ran as an independent it would really hurt. it would help substances of getting reelected i think it will actually hurt trump. over the excessive for sure i don't know why people would say that i mean just because he's running for president this nation boycotted him i don't believe in boycotts of anything i think people should have their opinions and be able to do what they want to in a free country seems a rather pointless idea well legal analyst jennifer bridgend told us why she

believes many democrats are so ungrateful about schulz's announcement. now if you look historically at u.s. presidential elections and most of these campaigns historically third party candidates independents libertarians other parties they generally are not successful they end up splitting away from the opposing base and so we have seen that historically however twenty twenty is looking to shape up to be a different year frankly and almost ironically because of what donald trump has done in the white house which is change the way things are going changing a lot of the narrative so what we're seeing here is actually the hate for donald trump from the democratic party that's spilling over on to howard schultz for the democrats they think that anybody that could take away from their shot to be donald trump in two thousand and twenty anybody that might take away from that anybody that might run as an independent and take away votes from the democrats because they have been voting for an independent any of that they could leave down the shop in power the democrats are going to hate they're going to come after them they're

going to be angry they're going to be afraid. so that's why we're seeing some of the animosity now coming out against howard schultz because of because that he's mentioned wanting to run as an independent jennifer braden the u.k.'s prime minister is heading back to brussels to seek a brick through all my breaks for the latest details on where after this. country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think i'm gonna hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlotte is the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we've come to a point in time which element is gone so we always are on the verge of something. called culture saying forty. zero. we're

starting last with is to begin to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't anymore i'm gonna go no we may be completely different but end of this. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back to the program it was a day of small victories for british prime minister trees in may on tuesday as m.p.'s voted on amendments to the breaks it deal in parliament however it could all

be short. with the e.u. seemingly on willing to take negotiations further updates more on those developments from westminster let's go live to our europe correspondent peter all over peter what is the view then on the continent a large to all that is. well i'll start with the positives for four to reason may anyway they aren't many of them the german chancellor of the chancellor's office announced earlier on wednesday that angle of merkel it had a phone call with the polish prime minister and which both sides had said that they would continue to work together to try and avoid a no deal breaks it that's about it when it comes to support for theresa may the european parliament is currently in session in brussels i can tell you a lot of people very unhappy with what was voted through in the british parliament on tuesday evening this amendment that would allow to resume a to go back to brussels to seek an alternative to the so-called irish backstop we

heard from michel barnier the chief negotiator on break that he said that britain really needs to stop the blame game that's going on in its own ranks and start thinking about its position in europe we heard from any piece like l m r block from the center right body and the right grouping in the european parliament say something hot to be done they can't believe in some cases that britain has said is trying to go and renegotiate this something that they've said time and time again it cannot be renegotiated the european commission president john claude young gave quite a long speech in which he spoke mostly in english and he said essentially now it does look like that and no deal breaks it may be a policy switched into french she want everybody else to say we have put plans in place should this happen said they would continue to work to stop it but we should now be concerned that it may be on the cards on the subject of the irish back still

sends out a warning of sorts to those in the united kingdom who would suggest that the european union would look to sideline island for the sake of getting a deal at any cost. sometimes from time to time i have to push. some hope. the countries will abandon the next and so ireland at the last minute but this is not a game and neither is it a simple buy left issue it goes to the heart of what being a member of european union meets ireland's border is you explode and our unions by a wide. went on to say that the backstop was necessary it was a safety net that he hoped would never be used but a safety net has to work and in fact a lot more on the irish part of this story simon cove me the irish deputy prime minister and the foreign minister came out as well

a wednesday and said there are no alternatives to the backstop these are british red lines that have been protected in the backstop the only way to have break this and keep those british red lines is the backstop well in attempts to try and sort this out on the british side just around half an hour to forty minutes ago jeremy corbin and some of his senior team the opposition leader in the united kingdom was seen going into teresa mayes office the prime minister's office in the house of commons not number ten downing street for talks but based on their exchanges early on wednesday it's unlikely that those talks are going to result in some silver bullet solution. could you set out today what leads alternative arrangements might be nasty house set a clear direction on the way that the house could agree a deal and that's where i am and that is about dealing is the rise of the gentleman says with the issue with the backstop as i said yesterday there were

a number of proposals for how that could be done none of that was very clear to me i'm going to vote anybody and i would have been nice mr speaker it would have been really nice of the prime minister to acknowledge that she did we're programmed please to try and support no deal and was defeated on that it's been absolutely clear with my contacts with the european union leaders is that they want a deal what this house voted for last night. that's where we are right now certainly does seem the patience is running out a little bit in the european parliament i'll be back later on with more reaction from there we're also expecting to hear from european council president donald to skip a little later on and of course maybe we get a solution that comes out of that meeting between mrs may in a stick. just when we thought we'd reach pick breaks if not quite according to peter all of our europe correspondent peter moore. well historian commentator adel doorway sees the e.u. needs to occur fully considering its next move as well actually the negotiation. is

one thing they're not taking it as a whole negotiating with your opinion is something now the european union have to think twice here because. government does not have to follow to resume a chemist they still go and see if we don't agree we're going to leave without it we leave you without a devious with sides but let's speak of the french above over one hundred eighty thousand people who are law i. ease of lorries passing through to cali through french so giving the. president micro going through now i don't think he would sort of accept actually going out with the idea that you have the german car in bus to these and the pressure on. my feeling is the eleventh hour probably even the fifty nine minutes

your opinion would actually clinch a deal. a russian senator has been arrested during a parliamentary close session in front of his peers over his alleged involvement in two murders from almost a decade ago here's our tease for not. stay morning it came to he's working downtown most early at russia's federation council senate the upper termer of the country's parliament everything was just as usual until he was arrested reportedly in the middle of a life session at the council with eye witnesses saying he was taken out of the hole by federal agents reports also are that the country's general prosecutor and the head of russia's investigative committee were also both personally at the scene just hours before that mr colleagues in the senate had reported missing quickly voted to strip him of his legal immunity and sanction he's a rast thirty two year old politician and

a very young man who has already spent almost half of his life in politics represents russia's north caucasus republic of which a case in the senate and he's right now charged with at least two murders committed in two thousand and ten the killing of at a chair which a case of public youth movements deputy chairman short and the killing of then the republican presidents advisor brutally beaten before dying from a bullet russia's investigative committee says that mr sugar was also charged with other crimes reportedly among them creating a criminal network these are very serious charges guilty midst of the senate to may face a life imprisonment reportedly right now he denies all the accusations the investigation is now obviously continuing and in the most recent development the sentence father was also detained in his office in st petersburg he is one of top managers at

russia's gas giant gas prom to be more precise one of its branches responsible for providing with gaz russia northern regions including st petersburg and he's now reportedly charged with embezzlement all thirty billion rubles which is more than four hundred million dollars a very interesting case investigation is now on to go in and the searches related to that at least seven russian cities will follow it for you and keep you updated. dr is in a danger zone coming up our documentary trauma it's a tough watch it's timely it's next. to. the. united states has always had a. nudes and it's

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