when the remain close to some project themselves. with the flaming. lips be the one person. who ignore middle of the room sick. room. and as well as president slams the u.s. for promoting a fake version of events in the country and aggression while washington says the opposition there has only just begun the fight for freedom. families in rural france to monsanto why the last decade a large number of children have been born without limbs the government reported due on probable cause as we went to meet some of those affected and want to know where she was born like that because mothers wean themselves we think that it may come

from us or that we did something wrong. and facebook faces a backlash for harvesting data from mobile phones and it was revealed thousands of members aged thirteen to thirty five were paid for access to personal information. a warm welcome and a very good morning to you watching r.t. international with me and carry. with venezuela in the midst of political upheaval the country's president has sent a warning to his people nicolas maduro says they shouldn't trust the fake version of events in the country that the united states is trying to promote he even went further threatening the u.s. with a second vietnam like war. werman brought up since they cannot fake venezuela and madeira having one. of mass destruction to intervene against us they now make up

lies on a daily basis and false news to justify aggression against our country to be bad 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 warning comes after washington announced its full support of subsequent interim president one quatre with the spit becoming deeper by the day mark gasnier of looks at the choices for finance where. venezuela is a country of two realities so stark so profound the differences in opinion in one reality president maduro is trying to put down a rebellion stop an upstart usurper one why do he's trying to prevent mutiny in the army even as we hear calls on c.n.n. to supply rebels with weapons and he's afraid trump has ordered him killed.

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 there is also a parallel reality born in no small part thanks to the united states first chavez now maduro have long been a thorn in washington side in this reality why do is the real president he is america's candid it trump congratulated him on becoming president they discuss what to do with the former dictate them a duo they discuss business politics he has america's blessing and its protection i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president going to any violence

against these groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response sure now with the guarantee of safety of invulnerability mistake why do wasted no time before beginning to issue orders so. today i give you an order don't shoot the venezuelan people don't shoot those who are in a clear and constitutional way been defending your family your people go work your way of life today soldiers of venezuela i give you an order don't repress peaceful demonstrations like before. the media scenes we see this all over the world palestinians protesting in the occupied territories the yellow vests in france catherine separatists in spain protesters in the u.s. but when police bully beat and the rest in those countries that's fine and dandy

when they do it in venezuela at suppression of. democracy an attack on the free world is the rule is not the democratically elected president of. the tramples democracy human rights and rule of law for new start is linked with the new democratic rule treatment institution in the country namely the national sampling and its president who are the guide dog that's why together with the e.u. we have offered all political support. for the us why do is the cake sweetened pliable but weight is icing on top those agreements that have not been recognized by the national assembly are illegal we will not recognize illegal agreements china has to understand that and russia has to understand that two realities two presidents two governments to venezuela's of course it's cattle to continue like this a house divided cattle stand then surely these two realities

will merge let's just hope it will be through civil war with unrest building the country has been hit by a wave of anti government rallies president tran describes them as a fight for freedom while the u.s. secretary of state urged the venezuelan military to take the side of the opposition . with both sides now vying for the support of the military gentleness nora sangatte reports from caracas. where currently in all to me are square one of their most implemented t. continues for a position protesters the place is a very crowded after one wedo call for a new round of protest in east investigated by the us government supreme court and the public prosecutor due to activities against the government earlier and we so president nicolas maduro of the city and the troops the armed forces trying to gain their support. i.

think is the first time this has happened it indicates just how desperate the white house is they can't go with venezuela it's a delicate matter what am i doing i'm fulfilling my duties as supreme commander under the constitution and so has done one way or who has been speaking to the armed forces trying both of them to win the board of the armed forces of one of the most important estimates of the venice well in politics you know it's all there is a venezuela i'm talking to you this is the moment to be on the side of the constitution it's 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 as the interim president of venezuela and actually congratulated him also one way del boy at the u.s. said that the opposition will not engage into any kind all the dialogue with the band as well and government. foreign ministers thought that to discuss the

venezuelan crisis late on thursday after rejected the possibility of an early election night in america experts kevin young says there's a real threat of a civil war in the south american country this is certainly an attempted coup in progress the government is in and viewable situation it's. faces declining domestic support and rising discontent from all sectors of society but it's not by any means clear that people who are upset with the man who are a government would turn around and support a far right leader like one why do i think the threats of us in a military intervention are designed in large part to convince the venezuelan military to switch sides and turn against maduro but as for what they're going to do. you know it's anyone's guess at this point i think that regardless of what happens if if there was to be

a military coup or. a large segment of the military siding with with the right wing opposition there would still be very heavy resistance including perhaps armed resistance so there really is a real serious threat of civil war here and that's something that the tribe in ministration is actually perhaps trying to provoke. from ethan france are looking for a mysterious in the number of children born with birth defects more than one thousand have been born with missing limbs in french rural areas over the past twelve years the government's now preparing to release a report on the probable cause it's. news agency spoke. to some of the families affected. right now i could tell by the gun ecologists look i could see him looking and checking but i could tell that something was wrong.

i want to know what she was born like that because his mother's brain themselves we think that it may come from us or that we did something wrong that. we are asked to survey this department that is to say to collect all the data from hospitals maternity clinics and pediatric services and we continued signaling to the authorities who didn't want to listen to our calls. they promise to keep us informed which meant a lot to us because we hadn't been told anything about a case about how children are three and seven but inquiry started three years ago and we never had back in them. we are surrounded by agriculture fields

so we naturally wonder about the use of pesticides why doesn't it happen to people who live in the city there must be an integral culture. agency regrets its interaction and tried to find the answer you think it could explain because causes behind the emergence of congenital malformation. i thought that that was an issue because i knew very well how the french administration herc's i know how to explain this it's hard not to panic the public i think there is this fear of discovering that that causes couldn't danger a number of economic interests. i just wish we had some answers my daughter has never really asked me i have always told her that she was born this way and that it was nature it can happen that some children are born like that and now i'm thinking that if one day she asked me again

i want to know how to answer. thousands of facebook members some as young as thirteen have been paid by the social media platform for the data on their mobile phones but the app used to do the job has been banned by apple after it was shown it violated its previously policies despite that is still available on android. excuse me facebook has been asking its users to install the facebook research app since twenty sixteen and his name paying them up to twenty dollars a month for the privilege all members were asked to give the app access to information including private messages on social media it could also collect emails web browsers data as well as their location and social media giant denies accusations that it was spying on the teenagers online bit it wasn't spinors all of the people who have signed up to participate went through on boarding process is asking for the less than five percent of the people who chose to participate in

this market research program routines all of them was signed parental consent forms facebook even asked users to screenshot that amazon orders page and some say that parental consent was easily avoided in the whole process journalist eric bros things people don't understand what access to such data actually means. i think most people probably would find it unethical because generally kids are not going to understand what they're signing up for most people don't know what they sign up for whenever they sign the terms of service and even if facebook is saying i'm to give you twenty books or whatever they're handing out i don't think most people really understand how their method data and their digital footprint tells a lot about who they are as a person about where they go and just about their entire life and i'm not sure everybody really understands that when you sign up for facebook or any of these social media companies or any web site really when you click i agree without reading the terms of service and particularly with apps on smartphones most people

don't understand what they're giving companies permission to do and especially when it relates to the children according to an opinion poll the popularity of facebook among teenagers has decreased by twenty percent since one since twenty fifteen there it goes again says that's trying to regain that market. it is obvious that facebook is losing support in favor among the younger generations the younger millennial is and generations e is some people call them where most of them are using things like instagram which facebook also owns and things like snapchat and other platforms facebook is kind of seen like the older thing for the fat the parents and the grandparents i think what facebook is trying to do is to buy up other platforms like they bought instagram they bought what's up there the company that runs facebook mark zuckerberg and his team i don't think whether or not facebook the social network disappears i don't think they're going to go anywhere they're planning to invest and make sure that they have their hands on all the future social networks. a long running round

between greece and the u.k. is back in the headlines over who owns the ancient artifacts known as the polish long marbles the director of the british museum with that on display has infuriated athens by ruling out their return saying that taking the marbles from queens was a creative act artie's that necessary check and takes up the story the british museum is back in the headlines this time its director has stirred up trouble by seeing removing the world famous twenty five hundred year old parthenon marbles from greece to be taken to britain in the nineteenth century could be seen as a creative act thanks to a new context you could of course be saddened by the fact that the original environment has disappeared when you move a cultural heritage to a museum you move it outside however this shifting is also a creative act technically u.k. law prevents the return of such pieces but the problem is greece considers the

classical marble sculptures stolen and wants them back seriously what was so creative in the destruction of the temple and the looting in the pillaging of a nation's keys to its ancient history greece's culture minister described the museum directors approach as narrow and cynical a mindset that downgrades cultural heritage to an exchange sale out but in fact it's not just greed. that's pressuring the museum other artifacts perceived just snatched during the times of the british empire are being demanded back to so far to no avail the museum is only ready to loan saying the pieces are better off being displayed as part of a wider collection. you have to take it keep in view one hundred years just give us some months and we can have.

millions of people come to enjoy the british museum every year let's find out what some of them here make of this long standing feud and how local see him back in greece i think it's being here is probably for the greater good i just got a degree in art history so i feel like they should go back. and put. one in every museum in the world. why general i would keep them here it's a we're british our two fox in greece i think it would be viewed differently if i was greek i would want the return of no i consider this i consider what else can do to be since i'm greek i'm also in favor of returning the elgin marbles i guess it's quite nice to have. to go home for a period because the exhibitions. i would want to print might be some kind of

sharing arrangement. if i build a house and someone in america likes it you cannot take it with him and say i will take good care of it i will keep it in america come see it whenever you like. still to come including our president doesn't like what he has about a wrong from us intelligence agency. and a polish paris suburb rallies against migrants being put up in a local school gym. after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you the.

country has gone into a nihilistic fever i think i got to hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america the charlotte. american hero this is it we've come a point from which alan would have done so we always are on the bridge to sell this whole gang culture thing forty. oh. we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave no governor any more ground on the earth we may be completely different but end of the.

welcome back and up market district in the french capital has become the unlikely focus of the country's mind when policies residents that are and raged off to a gym use spies schools in the area was converted into a shelter for migrants over the winter. as france shut is through a cold snap authorities in paris have taken the decision to help shell to migrants out on the streets one hundred and fifty were bussed to this gym in one of the city's swankiest neighborhoods but they'll spend the winter. it's a far cry from life. but the area known for its launch unhoused camps and drug problems. has been described by some as the gates of hell with temperatures plummeting this decision has been hailed by many as humane but others are furious the idea of helping people who are are in the cold and of

course i agree do it but we have many other places where we can do it so i don't see why we put all the migrants here there's a camp already on board for axelrod there is another near the woods they're everywhere they're even going to close the school to good migrants there. take care of the people who are using the gym before and the kids who are taking lessons. it seems the news that this facility was to be requisitioned by the city of paris came with hardly any warning nor any consultation and thousands have now signed a petition against the decision which has triggered protests outside the gym we never say we can migrant here the issue is you've got all the kids which are using it every day and those in the know where to go and we weren't made aware of that on friday for a monday closure very big public schools but private school using it on

a daily basis we could have found some. kids it's always the kids which. are mistakes. sports associations and parents say that no alternative has been offered for the students and the athletes who rely on the gym and the staff whose jobs are potentially at risk they currently appealing this decision but some have suggested that this isn't just about a sporting facility it's much more about a rich neighborhood unhappy with migrants moving in. because of people who live here none complain a lot. those who live in the six in districts of people here don't protest and just accept it. what could be more important than taking care of the people who don't have a roof over their heads it is more important than children not being able to do sport for a few months they just don't want to see the music i don't see why who put migrants

in there is like. we shouldn't put them in this instance district person city council says this is all part of a plan for the departments in the region to make one thousand two hundred emergency rooms available what is clear though is that the migrant influx into this one portion part of paris isn't being met with wall open. so. paris. president trump has taken aim at america's intelligence services it comes after a senate hearing in which the heads of the national intelligence agency and the cia both said that iran is not currently developing a nuclear arsenal we do not believe iran is currently undertaking activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device they are testing rockets last week and more and are coming very

close to the edge their economies now crashing which is the only thing holding them back be careful of iran perhaps intelligence should go back to school trump pass consistently claims that to iran is building nuclear weapons as well as missiles capable of carrying them and may two thousand in a scene the president pulls the u.s. out of the iran nuclear agreement which paper and it's the worst deal ever negotiated it was signed in twenty fifteen by barack obama after more than a decade of negotiations with iran wasn't the only thing the president and his intelligence agencies disagreed on he thinks there's still a strong chance north korea will give up its nuclear ambitions. when intelligence directed down safe unlikely pyongyang will surrender its stockpile they also part ways on the islamic state the president says the terrorists have been almost completely destroyed but cote's was adamant they were still a threat to the us former cia analyst and whistleblower john kerry are things trump

is being strongly influenced by his in a circle the contradiction on iran between what the president's position is and what the intelligence says i think is very fundamental in that you have john bolton as the national security advisor john bolton is probably the single most anti iran . intelligence figure in america at least whispering into the president's ear every day that the iranians are terrible and so. went into this presidency with the same position them he also turns to a young senator a republican leader tom cotton from the state of arkansas tom triton also is still riding at least wrongly and iran and don't forget that benjamin netanyahu the prime minister of israel is very influential in this white house they he and trump speak regularly and trump takes his advice. well there were doubts he would love to hear

your thoughts on all stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and join us again at the top of the hour for the latest. was. a was. not a problem but it was. about . the millennium i think are trying to restore the rights of individuals rights of humans in the face of this dystopian nightmare and that's probably why they claim prices being

held back from crossing over twenty five thirty thousand dollars per call it is because of the rise if they see if she is successful and him and have a agency that's a net negative or a big point in the short term but i will say because there's a lot of people that don't want her seizing power in any meaningful way. u.s. veterans who come back from war often until the same stories. were going on for the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the well being of their own soldiers and they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from a certain french officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money those. lives if we were willing to go. into harm's way and willing to risk being killed

for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort easiness or . welcome to the alex i'm sure and another at the sword on the parliamentary party technics of bricks it this week to do so may finally won the commons vote but only by deserting her or negotiated backstopped policy we ask where the pieces finally broken out in the parliament to conservative party or whether we are merely and allow before another cataclysmic storm award winning journalist peter oborne tells

alex why he still fears for the case he should and the future of the party he understands so well the underlying francis we are very very close to reaching that moment is misses by losing control not just of the house of commons but of the conservative party too but first your tweet to measure just i'm sure even those and we hear from jill who says i haven't missed a show of thanks to the record and c.d.'s like love the show keep them coming thanks joe for kind if you are world says absolutely love your show we don't get a chance to hear from others about their views on key political and cultural matters it gives us laws to chats about on thursday economics thank you so much it's greatly appreciated and educational now also says enjoy today show on copenhagen pretty interesting but one we quibble about the cultural mayor is part with the last he's quick nelson what do you know i promise you she most definitely deceived a question of course talking about the lovely life was a wonder. guest on our show last week neal says the u.n.

city in copenhagen is an interesting idea yes it is and i'm glad you enjoyed watching the show about it neal and finally lens they said come on scotland we're a small country with huge not to resources we have more than dead white cast off our independence thank you lindsey but in the commons last tuesday the high sorted first to avoid leaving it without a deal and then forty four to deal which was not even on the european table this is how the two main protagonists try to explain to the country what exactly has transpired last night the house did vote to reject no deal but it also voted to do what the european union has consistently passed this house to do since it rejected the withdrawal agreement which was to say what it was that the u.k. wanted to see changed last night a majority in this house voted to could maintain the commitment to no harcourt or to northern ireland an island to leave the european union.