well for the little while for a crime that mr it took for a gym and we were hoping that our friend in the car. join me every thursday on the alex i will ensure that i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics or business i'm sure both of those i'll see you there. then as well as president slams the u.s. for promoting a fake version of events in their country and aggression while washington says the opposition there has only just begun the fight for freedom. families in rural france demand to know why over the last decade a large number of children have been born without limbs but the government report due on the probable causes we went to meet some of those affected. i want to know where she was born like that because mothers blame 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 it was revealed thousands of members aged thirteen to thirty five paid for access to personal information. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me and carry on. with that as well in the midst of political upheaval the country's president has sent a warning to his people and they closed the door as they as they shouldn't trust the fake version of events in the country that the united states is trying to promote and he even went further threatening the u.s. with a second vietnam like war. one appointment out of since they cannot fake venezuela and madeira having weapons of mass destruction to intervene against those they now

make up lies on a daily basis and false news to justify aggression against our country it's not allow another war like vietnam in latin america if the governments 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 his full support of self declared interim president one way to with the splits becoming deeper day by day my gas if looks at the choices for ten as well or. 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 these trying to prevent mutiny in the army even as we hear calls and see and then to supply rebels with weapons and he's afraid trump has ordered him killed no doubt

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 more duro have long been a thorn in washington side in this reality why do is the real president he is america's candid that trump congratulated him on becoming president they discuss what to do with the former dictator and the duo they discuss business politics he has america's blessing and its protection i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan sick. purity forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president going to show 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 the soldiers of venezuela i give you an order don't repress peaceful demonstrations like before such media scenes we see this all over the world palestinians protesting in the occupied territories the yellow vests in france catalan separatists in spain protesters in the u.s. but when police bully beat and arrest in those countries that's fine and dandy but

they do it in venezuela as suppression of democracy an attack on the free world is the democratically elected president of. the tramples democracy human rights and rule of law for a new start with the new democratic moods intimate institution in the country namely the nationalist sounding in 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 sweet and blood but wait as icing on top of 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 to realities to. presidents to 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's been hit by a wave of anti-government rallies president trump described them as a fight for freedom while the u.s. secretary of state the venezuelan military to take the side of the opposition. where as both sides are now vying for the support of the military journalist nouri song called reports from caracas we're currently in out of your square one of their most employee magic venues for a position protesters place is a very crowded after one way to call for a new round of protest in east investigated by the. government supreme court and the public prosecutor due to activities against the government earlier we saw president nicolas maduro of the city and the troops the armed forces trying to gain their support. i.

guess 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 a one way dove who has been speaking to the armed forces trying both of them to win their support of the armed forces of one of the most important estimates of their 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 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 as the interim president of venezuela and actually congratulated him also one way to employ at the us said that the opposition will not engage into any kind of what dialogue with the venezuelan government. if

foreign ministers are set to discuss the venezuelan crisis late on thursday after madeira rejected the possibility of an early election latin america expert kevin young says there is a real threat of a civil war in the south american country. this is certainly an attempted coup in progress the manoora government is is not in an enviable 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 manure of government will turn around and support a far right leader like one 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. counties in france are looking for answers after a mysterious in the number of children born with birth defects more than one thousand have been born with missing limbs in french rebel areas over the past twelve years after an inconclusive probe a few years ago the government is now due to release a second report on the probable cause that he's about the news agency spoke to some of the families affected.

prayed and i could tell by the gun ecologists look i could see him looking and checking the net but i could tell that something was wrong. i want to know what she was more like that because his mother's brain themselves we think that it may come from us or that we did something wrong. we are asked to serve they this department has to say to collect all the data from hospitals maternity clinics and services and we continued signaling to the authorities who didn't want to listen to our calls. they promised 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 the inquiry started three years

ago and we never heard back from 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 inaction and tried to find the answer you think it could explain because causes behind the emergence of congenital malformation. i thought that there was an issue because i knew very well how the french administration her ex 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 the comic 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 their 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 privity policies but despite that it's still available. facebook has been asking its users to install the facebook research up since twenty sixteen and has been paying them up to twenty dollars a month for the privilege when 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 the social media giant denies accusations that it was spying on the teenagers online is it wasn't spinors all of the people

who have signed up to participate went through on boarding proves is asking for the less than five percent of the people who chose to participate in this market research program routines all of them with 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 says people don't understand what access to such data actually means but 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 giving twenty bucks or whatever they're handing out i don't think most people really understand how their metadata and their digital footprint tells a lot about who they are as a person about where they go to 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 two thousand and fifteen terry burrows again says they are trying to reclaim their market. it is obvious that facebook is losing support in favor among the younger generations the younger millennial is in 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 fit 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 any where they're planning to invest and make sure that they have their hands in all the future social networks. a long running route between greece and the u.k. is back in the headlines over who owns the ancient artifacts known as the parthenon marbles the director of the british museum where the on display has infuriated athens by ruling out their return saying that taking the marbles from greece was a creative act as an assistant check and it takes up the story. the british museum is back in the headlines this time its director has stirred up trouble by saying 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 the 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 with say creative in the destruction of the temple and the looting in the pillaging of the nation's keys to its ancient history greece is 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 greece 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 fifty. years 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 there let's find out what some of them here make of this longstanding and how local see it back in brief i think it's being here is probably for the greater good. i had a sky a degree in art history so i feel like they should go back. to the mall and bought one in every museum in the world. why it is so generous i would keep them here if they were british arty fox in greece i'm think it would be few differently if i was greek i would want the return of no i consider this the

way i consider what else to be since i'm greeks and i'm also in favor of returning the elgin marbles i guess it's quite nice to have them kept a promise to go home for a period because the exhibition the story made i would like to say maybe some kind of sharing arrangement. but 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 the. plans most always coming your way off this very short break. what politicians do something anything. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. to somehow want to

be that's. what you're going to be for us that's what the four three of them all can be good that i'm interested always in the water using our. first sip. i think one of them am a reason why i know we're working as a compliant nationals is that because little side of the day is go to a different organization compared to the previous issue or so i was sure still both balls up fifteen. to all previous q so it was the day it was saw that it's one of the best national incident as an uncivil.

welcome back and that market district in the french capital has become the unlikely focus of the country's migrant policies residents that are enraged off to a gym used by schools in the area was converted into a shelter for migrants over the winter saw dubinsky reports. as france shut is through a cold snap authorities in paris have taken the decision to help shelter migrants out on the streets one hundred and fifty were bussed to this gym in one of the city's swankiest neighborhoods where they'll spend the winter months it's a far cry from life and the delicious pale but the area known for its large unhoused migrant 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 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 you who i work with all the migrants here there is a camp already on board for axelrod there is another near the woods they're everywhere they're even going to homes a school to 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 and here the issue is you've got all the kids which are using it every day and i was in the. work made aware of that on friday for a monday closure very big public schools but to private 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. with the people who live here and don't complain and legs all who live in the six in the district 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 sports for

a few months they just don't want to see the misery i don't see why who would migrants in areas like for delicious we shouldn't put them in this exist 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. paris. germany is renowned for its high quality workmanship and precise timekeeping but when it comes to getting its leading politicians off the ground there seems to be something of a blind spot. but. i

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back at the top of the hour with the latest to see that. god. was. not. was. 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 price is 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 humans 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 wellbeing of their own soldiers either 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 with 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 and easiness for. our. own welcome to well to part of the russians have to clean up their act that has been the refrain from international sporting officials ever since the doping scandal hit the russian olympic and paralympic team three years on the russian anti doping agency has regained its compliance status within the water system but the question is and innuendos about the integrity of the country's big sports still

remain will they ever be sat down to discuss that i'm now joined by the newly appointed director general. mr ganesan good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now let me start with a for a few personal questions because you are a professional manager you have held a number of executive positions but from what i've been able to gather big sports are not your area of expertise do you see that as a shortcoming or as an advantage in this new position. totally agree with you. came. not from the area. professional director or working as an independent director but i think first of all my experience more than earlier one when we were built. we have to organize and lead independent national and to depend as n.c.

. my previous experience before so there was i worked as independent director doing the ten years is there any difference in how you would approach running a state affiliated enterprise as opposed to these agency which serves crucial russian interests but is supposed to be fully independent from the state. has to some a little bit strange because when we discuss above the company which is with the government financing which from the government that some of the pressure especially in russia but now with really independent because we. and lead all of our professional experience here. we work because on the international law. court. a few weeks ago you got yourself into a bit of argument with russian officials about the missing of

a deadline when water was supposed to gain access to electronic data databases of the doping probes you even felt compelled to appeal to president putin directly why did you need to do that because the focus of all international sports to come in is here focused on the russia now you often. say the onus is on russia to prove that it's transparent that it's willing to cooperate with wada. do you think russia is doing enough in that regard we're going to put on the requirements of world is extremely important for russia because. realising of all requirements especially requirements of second stage of decision executive committee of. important because for.