two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers will be. the only number you need remembering. for the one and only. days before withdrawing from. the arms control agreement the u.s. announces it will begin manufacturing a new type. as washington steps up its actions to force the venezuelan president. nicolas maduro claims donald trump ordered his assassination. to speak absolutely clear is my contacts with european union leaders is that they want to deal with this house voted for last night. and it's back to

the negotiating table british prime minister trades in may after parliament support to rework her stalled deal. it's nine o'clock am in moscow and you are watching international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. washington will begin its official withdrawal from the landmark i left before the end of this week for over thirty years the agreement signed by the leaders of the us and the u.s.s.r. guaranteed the elimination of an entire category of nuclear arms and now america has the development of a new nuclear warhead which moscow says is a cause for concern. as far as the announcement about the us 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 nuclear 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. and major your. work and. their research work. cannot be. treated so there's not one dominated country and we're all you can do could be an age 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 league as the us when it comes to military budgets in fact russian military spending has been fooling 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 we have more money than anybody else by far we'll build it up

so we have a tremendous amount of money to. like with the military said we are 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 when 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 like what's happening now on the island different treaty to go she the rule of major treaty to go shushi now between china and the united states and the exercise sometimes will do put your soul and soul in the same thing happens to turley

and from a national security. countries like two. hundred. troops against another country of food and agree with what you're doing. as the animosity between us and venezuela a socialist government close president nicolas maduro as a kid for wanting 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 . while washington claims nicolas maduro lacks legitimacy as president and is actively pushing for his overthrow and it's repeated late tonight plotting his assassination and if you know and they are in the studio and with the latest on the turmoil in france well the things that mr moore was saying lately on the one hand it has been typical nicolas maduro furious about 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 minister 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 i do know caracas was forced to act when washington said that it was pretty much handing over the floor choose belonging to the mid dura

government although they were in american banks to the opposition leader and so now . assets and accounts in venezuela have been frozen he's dot allowed to leave the country and he's now also being investigated for attempts to assist other countries in feeling invent as well as internal affairs now in response to that already caracas has been promised severe consequences by donald trump's national security adviser. all we know that the u.s. has no alone in terms of support for the opposition leader where other countries coming down and 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 new here in this case because some of the strongest players of the blog for now the u.k. still in there germany france and spain they have sent an alternate and for mr

miller they promise that they will recognize one as the legitimate leader of the country unless the cost of a door and now is an early election before the end of this week but this isn't enough for one why dole 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 to flee 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 doesn't mean it's 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 madore government as the. coldly 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 new wave of anti-government protests are currently being held across this while in response to calls from the opposition leader. janice norris our culture points from caracas. where here in altimeters square one of the most emblematic opposition supporters protests venue. place is a very crowded today after one waiter called for a new round of protest after he is east investigated by the. government supreme court and the public prosecutor due to activities against the government earlier today we so president nicolas maduro obesity and the troops the armed forces trying to gain their support and so has done one way or who has been speaking to the armed forces trying both of them to win. support of the armed

forces of one of the most important estimates of the venezuelan politics let's see what president nicolas maduro said to work russian media after one way to hold the armed forces to join the opposition forces. it's the first time this has happened indicates just how desperate the white house is they can't cope with when as you well know it's a delicate matter what am i doing i'm fulfilling my duty as a supreme commander under the constitution meanwhile the u.s. government has recognized as the interim president of venezuela and actually congratulated him also today one way to employ at the u.s. said that the opposition will not engage into any kind of dialogue with the venezuelan government. bring in political commentator john white. to discuss this further thanks for coming on to the program joe now how powerful and popular is the opposition in venice where at this point. well it's gained

power because of washington's intervention and sort of flexion on the lack of popularity or ability of the opposition to overthrow the boulevard in revolution or the last ten years the fact that they need washington's intervention at this stage because it has tried mantle in venezuela to do so and staged demonstrations as trying to sabotage the economy as trade to effect regime change the of violent means with the use of thugs and washington's been supporting those moves along that note washington is rooted a sense to say he does want to make a move on venezuela and an open and brazen attempt at regime change and how likely is it that they'll be successful in forcing madame out of power. what's going to come down to the fusion between the people and the military so far the military has remained strongly support of the legitimate government and the support the core support for the bull of it in revolution also remains strong in this speech to the

wonderful work done by hugo chavez the inspire of the bolivian revolution because this was not talked own dynamic this was a rookie wonderful fusion between the leadership and the people they understand what's going on here the understand what america is up to and they understand washington does not have the a best interests at heart and i'm speaking of the masses of the venezuelans you have benefited from the vote of the revolution in terms of that actually the reason hopes the reason t.d.o. it conditions and even though the sanctions of brought so much damage on the country did it create the dative clean up to the ball of it in revolution because they see in order to being a neo colony of washington as venezuela was for many many years and when the masses of the people in the body those were invisible their lives were deemed not important and they were essentially nonexistent hugo chavez brought them on to the political stage knowing gaged import tax in a way that they never have before and the venezuelan oil darkie can't stand and can't live with that it's never reconciled itself to that process in venezuela

jelly a mention that the armed forces and this is really kazan it to to what could happen next that they've got. to do is got the sort of support of the armed forces at the moment what are the chances that they will switch sides as it were. well that's a question for the armed forces we don't know what the converse conversations are taking place some will be what it about their own positions on survival given what this is leading to unless something is done to forestall it we're talking about civil conflict it could be another syria it could be latin america's syrian national exaggeration sort of military would be would be determined on that the level of ideology the level of support for the government the level of a clearance to the constitution and how that how the response to the people's will the people will determine the feat of venezuela going forward and i'm talking about the masses of the people who support the government and how much they're willing to

fight for that government if surely no festered that they are willing to fight for the government to send the only dead soon two thousand too many overturned the attempted coup against hugo chavez and so we'll see if they still have that spirit and that will in this trench in a team assembled to do the talking about the force of the people that john would call because people are you know people from the outside of a mention this would calling elections not be the best way. to end the dispute over the do is needed to missy and therefore that you know could ease this crisis. would that be an option do you think would that would that be a feasible option in your view. not not under these conditions not by diktats from washington and from european capitals this is a cool mentality at work and this is being the problem of the world has faces the demise of the soviet union this union polarity and us hegemony as she has wrought so much damage and chaos and destabilization especially in

a global soso not not via decked out from washington or from european capitals but in the general has offered to enter talks with the opposition and those that offer has been spent up to no sort as you opposition who have to come to the table because they're the ones who are actively and openly working in tandem with a hostile foreign power to oversaw the legitimate government if that's not treason i don't know what is in limited there thank you john why political commentator for airing your views on the program thanks very much. british labor party m.p. chris williamson told r.t. is going on found that he faces a u.s. military intervention in venezuela could have disastrous consequences. what we cannot tolerate in my opinion is external intervention of the states or any other western power for that matter we've seen where this ends in the past haven't we of both on the continents of latin america and elsewhere in the world this is the same old playbook and you know it always ends in a disaster and i'm not saying you know clearly there must've problems right now but

i tell you what they could get a hell of a lot worse and what we could end up with is a bloody civil war bloody civil war actually with u.s. ground troops involved in that they speak with forked tongue in 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 or supporting a path that will impoverish and potentially cost the lives of hundreds of thousands if not millions of venezuela's. former head of starbucks as analyses considering running for the us presidency next year how chills took a swipe at president trying to do so who was quick to backfire were living at the most fragile time not only the fact that this president is not qualified to be the president but the fact that both parties are consistently not doing what's necessary and be here for 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 are in the hope that starbucks is still paying me their rent in trump tower as the shelters announcement was slammed by the democrats as well who fear the independent candidate could split their vote. i want to see america when i don't care if you're democrat independent libertarian republican bring me your ideas his critics have called for a boycott of starbucks and urging people to get their coffee elsewhere. what they thought about howard schultz and chances of becoming the next american. he has a right to run like he wants to run i think that 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 and 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 his of getting reelected i think it will actually hurt trump. over the excessive for sure i don't know why people would say that just because he's running for president it's mission boycott 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 i think that seems a rather pointless idea. the list jennifer braden told us why she believes many democrats of so angry 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 change in a lot of the narrative so what we're seeing here is actually the hate for donald trump from the democratic party that spilling over on to howard schultz for the democrats they think that anybody that could take away from their shot to beat 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 would be voting for an independent any of that they could leave donald trump 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 ukraine's prime minister is heading

back to brussels to seek a breakthrough on brags that the late stage tells to stuff to this break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent from august last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and get cornrows to twenty thousand dollars. china's building

two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. i'll come back to the program it was a day of small victories but his prime minister is a man choose day as i'm pleased voted on amendments to the braggs and bill in parliament however it could all be short lived with the seemingly unwilling to take negotiations further peeta all the reports. german chancellor of the chancellor's office an hour earlier on wednesday that angle of merkel it had a phone call with the polish prime minister which both sides had said that they

would continue to work together to try and avoid a no deal breaks it but 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 breaks that he said that britain really need still needs to stop the blame game that's going on its own ranks and start thinking about its position in europe we heard from any piece like elmar brok from the center right body the center right grouping in the european parliament saying something hot to be done they can't believe in some cases that britain has said is trying to go in renegotiate this something that they've said time and time again cannot be renegotiated the european commission president john claude young

kid gave quite a long speech in which he spoke mostly in english and he said essentially now it does look like that no deal breaks it may be a policy on the subject of the irish backstop he 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 to twenty six other countries and vexed. at the last minute but this is not a game. is it disappeared by leftish it goes to the heart of what being a member of european union. bordeaux is you look sport and. by which were. 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 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 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 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 passed night house. set a clear direction on the way that the house could agree a deal and that's what i and that is about dealing is the rise of the gentleman says with the issue of the backstop as i said yesterday there are 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 our eyes mr speaker it would have

been really nice of the prime minister to acknowledge that she did we're program 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. is tara and commentator and eldar says he needs to kathy consider its banks. the negotiation inside parliament is one thing they're not taking in as a whole negotiating with your opinion is something that's now the european union have to think twice here because their government does not have to follow reason make amnesty still go and see if we don't agree we're going to leave without it we leave you without a devious with harm both sides but let's speak of the friend sure how about over one hundred eighty thousand people who are law i on the ease of lorries passing

through dover to cali through french food so giving the trouble the. president going through now i don't think he will sort of accept actually going out with a deal then you have the german car in dusty's and the pressure on anglo merkel are you my feeling is had the eleventh hour probably and even the fifty ninth minute the european union would actually clinch a deal. that's all i need to file back in around thirty minutes with all that may show you stay tuned for us which is up next. to.

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. a. lot for them after that it will fuck around with mr hate to jim and then lawyer but i hope that our friend in the court. leaves the money. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance the impact on all of us there is a lot to get to today i'm part children watch you know we're sure glad you're on board coming up this time we drill deeper on venezuela's to mull to as well and their oil reserves with our two producers supply it to have injured plus the partial u.s. government.