days before withdrawing from a landmark arms control agreement with the us they announce it will be given manufacturing a new type of thermo nuclear warhead. venezuela's opposition leader calls for nationwide protests against the government of nicolas maduro and urges the army to help him force the embattled president from power. to speak with my contacts with the european union is that they want to deal with this house.

and it's back to the negotiating table for britain's prime minister as parliament supports a bid to rework her stalled deal. or broadcasting live. or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our. treaty before the end of this week the agreement which was signed by the leaders of the u.s. and soviet union in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven band of the manufacture of an entire category of nuclear arms both washington and its nato allies have said that moscow is squarely to blame for the collapse of the deal. russia has developed the ploy to new intermediate range missiles to for some years now all nato allies. agree that it is important for. russia come backs into compliance in

a transparent but a five way if russia doesn't come back into compliance then we have to be prepared for a world without the i.m.f. treated. with more russian myside violating the treaty already moscow for its part denies violating the pact earlier on wednesday the russian foreign minister accused the u.s. of increasing the risk of nuclear conflict by developing a new type of thermo nuclear warhead. system 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 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 of what we

wish mr it is the pentagon's newest toy the w seventy six dash two when it is essentially i mean you less baggage less radiation less fallout and most importantly less responsibility i think you started through a new. major or. global. their research which. cannot be. treated so does not want dominated country and world could do could be an engine 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 intermediate 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 iraq 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

there are two minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock on the brink or now officially into a new cold war a nuclear arms race will power as 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 at what's happening no. different treaty to go she the rule of major treaty to go shushi now between china and the united states and the exercise sometimes. put your phone sort of listening and salute early on from a national security. country's like through. their troops you could see another country if they didn't agree with. a new wave of anti-government protests are currently being held across venezuela in response to calls from the

opposition leader one journalist most are got reports now from caracas where currently in elsevier square one of the most implemented venues for a position protesters. place is a very crowded today after one way they'll call for a new round of protest after he isa investigated by the. government supreme court and the public prosecutor due to activities against the government earlier today we saw president nicolas maduro of these city and the troops the armed forces trying to gain their support. everybody but it's the first time this has happened in the. it's just how desperate the white house is they can't cope with when it's a delicate matter what am i doing i'm fulfilling my duty as a supreme commander under the constitution and so has done

a one way to know who has been speaking to the armed forces trying both of them to win. the war and of the armed forces of one of the most important estimates of their venice well i'm politics you know it's all about the soldiers of venezuela i'm talking to you this is the moment to be on the side of the constitution is not a time for fear or time to step back it's not the time to disrespect the venezuelan people meanwhile the u.s. government has recognized one wedo as the interim president of venezuela and actually congratulated him also today when wedo envoy at the us said that the opposition will not engage into any kind of dialogue with the venezuelan government. speaking in caracas madrone called on people not to trust washington's version of events in venezuela and warned of the us of a second vietnam war. since they cannot fake venezuela and having weapons of mass destruction to intervene against us they know make up lies on

a daily basis and false news to justify aggression against our country. let's not allow another war like vietnam in latin america if the government of the united states intends to intervene against us they will have another vietnam worse than you can imagine. the venezuelan president has also accused donald trump of ordering his assassination remarking that if something happens to him washington and the colombian government are the ones to blame or to join the union o'neill in the studio earlier with the latest on the turmoil in venezuela. the things that mr moore was saying lately on the one hand it as 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 and 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. i mean how. when it comes to mr why do 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. 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 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 advisor john bolton we know that the u.s. isn't alone in terms of support for the opposition leader where other countries coming down in this in this say divide really if we look at the opposition support surely america has been the champion we've got to think the. you hear in this case because some of the strongest players of the blog are now the u.k. still in their germany france and spain they have sent an alternate for mr bieber with a 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 you magazine built he says that he once more helped by the way that interview was typed roots and built meets the hope of venezuela. we thank germany and europe for supporting the activists who had to flee we hope the e.u. is serious about the ultimatum is against me 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 places

you have an influence both on the government and the opposition's plus we have to understand the purpose. of preparing the ground for a compromise between the sides must be the only purpose the goal is to push through what's already been decided there's no need for such mediation russia has been backing the mad dura government as the old the 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 and 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. meanwhile the self declared presidents on voy to us to the u.s. is preparing to meet with officials in washington to discuss their next moves

against government he has made a point of saying that deals struck between the current administration and russia and china will be deemed illegal by the national assembly if the opposition takes power political commentator john white gave us his thoughts on the threat. well that's that's a violation of their legitimate governments normal trade relations with other sovereign governments it's not just about washington want to his country back venezuela being returned to his rightful police and out of the neo cons in washington as a wholly owned subsidiary this is a who pushes back against russia's influence in the region the americans are clearly what he the boat is going to tell across the way the region but other countries start to see russia is more of a safe bet in terms of got inch enough sovereignty going to get in thousand stability and being a safe peter hands because it has to international look it's a despicable announcement because these are contracts that need to be upheld in

a need to be respected they were sent by the country a legitimate government and for this opposition these are these coup plotters to say that they will resend those contracts or if he managed to succeed in that objective book overthrow when we do look there now is that the spectacle that just speech to whom elaine distain amik is and what this is all about you know our british labor party m.p. chris williamson told r.t. he's going underground that he fears the 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 are 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 be 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 a bloody civil war actually with u.s. ground troops involved in that they 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 merely. venezuela's. former head of starbucks has announced he is considering running for the u.s. presidency next year howard schultz took a swipe at president trump in doing so who was quick to fire back we're living at a 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 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 are in the hope that

starbucks is still paying me their runs in trump tower mr schultz as announcement was slammed by the democrats as well who fear the independent candidate could split their voters. i want to see america when i don't care if you're democrat independent libertarian republican bring me your ideas are his critics have now called for a boycott of starbucks and are urging people to get their coffee elsewhere we asked people in new york what they thought about howard schultz his chances of becoming the next american leader. he has a right to run he wants to run i think that he could do just as bit of a job as a 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 donald trump weighed in 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 his 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. legal analyst jennifer britton told us why she believes many democrats are so angry about schulz's announcement. now if you look historically at u.s. presidential elections in 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 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. he was a day of small victories for british prime minister theresa may on tuesday as m.p.'s voted on amendments to the brig's a deal in parliament however it could all be short lived with the e.u.

seemingly unwilling to take negotiations further as peter overby reports. plenty of reaction from europe to that vote in the house of commons on tuesday night i'll start with those messages that were all message that was supportive may the reason i say message is there is only one the german chancellor's office here in berlin putting out a statement saying that angela merkel held a phone call with the polish prime minister in which both said they were committed to trying to find a deal to avoid that dreaded no deal break that however in the european parliament we heard from michelle bonnie a the e.u. chief negotiator on break he said well the blame game that's going on inside british politics needs to stop and focus really needs to be found on finding a solution to to the break that problems to the break that impasse we also heard from any piece like brockie said that the infighting has to stop. as well adding the same message junk or younger the european commission president said that there

would be no renegotiations of the withdrawal agreement he said that it's they were committed to supporting island and that was also backed up by other e.u. leaders as well sometimes from time to time i have to push. some hope to twenty six other countries really burns 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 dupion union meets bordeaux. and union square i want my message to me the you position is clear and consistent that we draw agreement is not open for renegotiation yesterday we found out what the u.k. doesn't want but we still don't know what the key does warm. me the irish deputy

prime minister the irish foreign minister has also been speaking on wednesday saying that there's no all turn. the to the backstop as it's written in the withdrawal agreement right now he also said there would be no reopening of negotiations so jeremy corbin and his team have seen me with a reason make and her team this meeting took place on wednesday in the prime minister's office in the houses of parliament not at number ten downing street nor visit to the the official residence for jeremy call but in his opposition they were supposed to be trying to have talks about how they could take the country forward together but before they went into those talks this is how they were talking to one another in parliament she set out today what leads alternative arrangements might be nasty house such a clear direction on the way that the house could agree a deal and that's what i and that is about dealing with the rise of the gentleman says with the issue with 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

are going to 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 i mean absolutely clear is my contacts with the european union leaders is that they want to deal with this house voted for last night no sign of a break in the impasse as of yet but one piece of news coming through to us on wednesday evening from the european side is that even if it goes to the no deal breaker that the thirty nine billion pound breaks that divorce bill as it's being called will still be owed that won't be written off at all so even if there is a no deal breaks it there's still going to have to be money paid to brussels. and america's professor of international history at the london school of economics alan scared told us he doesn't believe the bloc will be willing to return to the negotiating table. does look as if she's running into a brick wall everybody said the mall etc when he started in the willing to open up

there we strolled agree with the not going to release casey eight dollars from particular center disappear particularly stuff and i think problems are absolutely adamant no one haves a proper alternative plan notes of the. government wanting except leaving it out he did last night to try to extend up to fifty but that failed the house of commons might succeed the second time. the twenty seven member states and the european parliament would have to agree to that and they said they wouldn't extend all to fifty just for the sake of biggest stations they would have to see a proper plan. with divisions growing over bragg's it and euro skeptic parties gaining momentum across the european union some pro e.u. politicians have been renewing calls for unity not everyone is sold on the idea of .

be free to choose multiple identities be proud of all of them i'm from. belgium i'm european that is no contradiction at all there is no. i am a european but no you are. claiming the e.u. has the right of being european people european but may still be against you. it is clear that people that identify themselves as cats are not respected a person proud to be european must speak up so this enormous injustice catalonian i want independence for my country of catalonia in prison because of my views.

i'm a translator a woman an amateur photographer a ph d. candidate. i refused to be labeled by nationality. can i do banking with multiple identities. there were russian senator has been arrested during a parliamentary closed session in front of his peers over his alleged involvement in two murders from almost a decade ago but his lawyer is rejecting these accusations claiming the case is highly politicized reports on wednesday morning that came to his work in downtown moscow at russia's federation council asenath the upper chamber of the country's parliament as. everything was just as usual until he was arrested reportedly in the middle of a life session of the council with eye witnesses saying he was taken out of the hole by federal agents reports also 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 caucuses a 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 is 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 was also charged with other crimes reportedly among them creating a criminal network these are very serious charges guilty of midst of the senator

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 the top managers at russia's gas giant gazprom 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 him basil and 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 we'll follow it for you and keep you updated. by the dozen from i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour you are watching our team international stay with us.

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