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a government report probable cause as we. know which was born like that because mothers. think that it may come from us or that we did something wrong. or it's revealed members age from thirteen to thirty five paid for access to personal information. twenty four hour news live from the russian capital this is r t international always a pleasure to have your company i'm immune and o'neill our top story with venezuela in the midst of political upheaval the country's president has addressed its citizens. say so they should not trust the quote fake version of events in the

country the united states is trying to promote sent a message to americans imploring them not to allow donald trump to start a new vietnam war. i mean since the kind of venezuela. workmen's of mass destruction i mean you have to intervene against those i now make up their minds on a daily basis and fox news to justify aggression against. 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 self declared interim president one quite ill with the split becoming deeper but day by day rock as the of can i look into the choices that crack us well that it holds currently. venezuela is a country of two realities so stock 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 on c.n.n. to supply rebels with weapons and he's afraid that trump has ordered him killed no doubt but trump gave an order to kill me he told the colombian governments 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 my duro 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 the 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 when defending your family your people go to work. your way of life today the soldiers of venezuela i give you an order don't repress peaceful demonstrations like before such familiar 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 at suppression of democracy an attack on the free world. is not the democratically elected president. to trample democracy human rights and the rule of law for a new start. 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 bleier bowl but wait 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 well in the past half an hour the european parliament has adopted a resolution recognizing venezuela's opposition leader one of the country's interim president we asked latin america expert kevin young what the implications of the increasing international pressure on the material government could be. this is certainly an attempted coup in progress the manoora government is is not in an enviable situation it's 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 them and who are a government would 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. families and friends are seeking answers after a mysterious surge in the number of children born with birth defects more than

a thousand babies were born without limbs in french rural areas over the past twelve years after inconclusive probe a few years ago the government to release a second report on the probable causes artie's ripley news agency spoke to some of the families affected. i could tell by the gun ecologists look i could see him looking and checking back i could tell that something was wrong. 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 that.

we are asked to survey this department just to say to collect all the data from hospitals maternity clinics and paid at chick 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 had back on 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 try to find the answer you think could explain the cold 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 and 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 young thirteen have been paid by the social media platform for their data on their mobile phones but the op used to do the job has been banned by apple after it was shown to have violated privacy policies despite all that it's still available on

a different operating platform droid or facebook has been suggesting its users install the facebook research up since twenty six you know it's been paying them up to twenty dollars a month for the privilege while members were asked to give the op access to information including private messages on social media it could also collect e-mails data web browsers as well as the location of users well the social media giant denies accusations that it was spying on the teenagers online albums it wasn't spinors all of the people who signed up to participate went through cleone boarding process is asking for the less than five percent of the people who chose to participate in this market research brogue routines all of them was signed parental consent forms facebook even asked users to screenshot their orders page printed consent was also said been easily avoided in the entire process direct

proof 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 metadata 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 american teenagers house decreased by twenty percent since twenty fifteen derrick

rose again say they're trying to regain their market share. 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 any where they're planning to invest and make sure that they have their hands in all the future social networks. a long running rod between greece and the u.k. is back in the headlines it's over who owns the ancient artifacts known as the parthenon marbles the director of the british museum where they are on this play has infuriated athens by ruling out their return saying that taking the marbles

from greece was a creative act artes and to see a church in 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 was so creative in the destruction of the temple and the looting and the pillaging of the 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 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 keeping him one hundred fifty years yes it was 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 decided to bring in our history so i feel like they should go back. the model should be retired and put back where they belong one in every museum in the wild there until why why why so generous i would keep them here if say were british are to fox in greece i think it would be for you differently if i was greek i would want the return of no i consider this that i consider what else can do to be theft since i'm greek i'm also in favor of returning the elgin marbles i guess it is quite nice to have them kept a promise to go home for a period because the exhibition stadium may frown i would like to say but maybe some kind of sharing arrangement got him apart if i build a house and someone in america mike says he 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're light see more of thursday's news rights up to this day with more to international.

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the previous issue or so. oh sure so those who will pull fifteen. to all previous q so. it's one of the best national guards of them in the world. we return with our top story once more venezuela the european parliament has just adopted a resolution recognizing opposition leader one grind oh as the legitimate interim president in caracas the u.s. has also thrown its support behind why no artie's peter over is standing by in berlin to offer davis hi there peter talk us through developments this did seem to be in the pipeline though didn't it. yes once this was on the agenda for the

european parliament it seemed very likely that they were always going to pass this resolution what this resolution says is that one glide zero is recognized as the legitimate interim president of venezuela in the resolution they go back to the elections on the twentieth of may last year saying that they did not comply with international standards that then goes on to say that on january the tenth that nicolas maduro served power by signing him self by by setting myself in there and then on the twenty third of january that mystic was sworn in as the legitimate interim leader now what they saw also what was also called on from the floor of the european parliament was that leaders of the nation states of the european union followed suit and also recognized mr kwaito as the. legitimate interim president what we heard from germany the united kingdom and france on the twenty sixth of

january was that they were going to give mr macdermot zero eight days in order to call fresh elections otherwise they would. recognize mr go out oh now what we heard from nicolas maduro is defiance he said there's no way he's calling elections he said the next elections in his country would be in twenty twenty five so where does this take us from here well apart from that call from the european parliament to the heads of nation states to also. do though this also calls for federica mockery any of the european high representative for foreign affairs the equivalent of the foreign minister to well to cooperate with countries nearby and also with the allies to try and bring about fresh elections in the country of venezuela so that's where we stand at the moment the very latest parliament passing a resolution to recognize opposition leader one as the g eight summit interim president of the state of venezuela the update speier europe correspondent in

berlin peter all over at this hour thank you. now an op market district in the french capital has become the on likely focus of the country's immigration policy residents there are enraged after a gym used by schools in the area was converted into a shelter for migrants over the winter charlotta report as france shut is through a cold snap authorities in paris have taken the decision to help shelter a migrant sat on the streets one hundred fifty were busted this gym in one of the city's swankiest neighborhoods but they'll spend the winter months it's a far cry from life in the qubit poor delicious peril 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's a camp already on board for axel right there is another near the woods they're everywhere they're even going to hose a school to migrants there. we need to take care of the people who were using the gym before and the kids who were 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 with new migrants and 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 were only work made aware of that on friday for

a monday closure very big public schools but some private schools are 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. the people who live here none complain and legs also in the sex industry people he had done protest and just accepted. 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 music. i don't see why who put migrants in areas like. we shouldn't put them in the sixty's district paris the city council says this is all part of a plan for the departments in the region to make one thousand two hundred emergency bailable what is clear though is that the migrant influx into this one portion part of paris isn't being met with open. so let's. see paris. check and other world news now thousands marched through the ecuadorian capital after privatized haitian austerity measures were announced by the government. trade unions and indigenous organizations by the protesters demanding authorities

verse the initiatives large scale layoffs on a rise in oil prices have also fueled discontent ecuador's largest and most profitable telecoms company is reportedly on the private pension. phase is also out in the israeli city of tel aviv were they rallied against police brutality and racism demonstrators are demanding an investigation into the fatal shooting by police of an ethiopian is really woman last week. who had a history of mental illness had reportedly rushed at officers wielding a knife before being shot. not germany's were known for its high quality workmanship and precise time keeping but when it comes to getting its leading politicians off the ground there seems to be something of a blind spot. in

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that too is part of the united states new low yield brand of nucular missiles. and is a modification of the existing trident warhead delivering a blast that would be approximately a third of the force of the bomb dropped on hiroshima. how lovely the national nuclear security administration told defense news that they are on track to complete the w six dash two initial operation capability warhead quantity and deliver the units to the navy by the end of the fiscal year of two thousand and nineteen now naturally this move is not without controversy with many nonproliferation advocates arguing that the smaller yield makes them far more tempting to use on the battlefield by u.s. presidents generals and others who feel the need to plunge the world into nuclear war on a whim but advocates like the trump administration argue that argue for these new weapons actually actually that they actually bring peace the u.s. government's two thousand and eighteen nucular posture review states that low yield

nukes help ensure that potential adversaries perceive no possible advantage in limited nuclear execute latest escalation making nuclear employment deployment less likely and if you believe that having many smaller nucular weapons makes the world a safer place well then i've got a bridge in brooklyn i'd like to sell you or for that matter some wonderful new jobs at a factory in amarillo texas that may or may not make you culpable in bringing about the end of the world. now and start watching the hawks. like you that i got.