and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country because. we have a responsibility for the home. and we need to make rules for the rest. because without us there would be chaos. venezuela's president takes a. lot of aggression promoting a distorted picture of the situation in his country washington meanwhile say the nation's opposition's fight for freedom has only just begun. coming up on the program in rural france the mountain why over the last decade a large number of children were born there with. what the government report on the probable causes we went to meet some of those affected. and want to know why she

was born like that because mothers lean them sound we think that it may come from us or that we did something wrong. on facebook faces backlash for harvesting data from mobile phones after it's claimed it paid thousands of people including. access to their personal info. live from moscow to the world this is r t international my names you know neal good to have your company in our top story with venezuela in the midst of spiraling political upheaval the country's president addressed his citizens nicolas maduro sais they should not trust the distorted version of events in his country that the united states is trying to promote he also sent a message to americans imploring them not to allow donald trump to start

a vietnam war like conflict in venice with. him about it since the venezuela having weapons of mass destruction to intervene against those who now make up lies on a daily basis and false news to justify aggression against our country. allow another war like vietnam in latin america if the government of the united states intends to intervene in. they will have another view worse than you can imagine a warning comes after washington announced its full support of self declared interim president one and with the split becoming deeper day by day artie's maracas the looks at the competing narratives surrounding events in friends with. 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 why do he's trying to prevent mutiny in the army even as we hear calls and 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 become be mafia to kill me if something happens to me one day donald trump i'm a colombian president will be responsible there is also a parallel reality born in no small part thanks to the united states 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 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 soldiers of venezuela today i give you an order don't shoot the venezuelan people don't shoot those who are in a clear and constitutional way have been defending your family your people go to work. your way of life today 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 of. the tramples democracy human rights and the rule of law the hook for a new start is linked with the democratic moods intimate institution in the country namely the national assembly in its president who on 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 won't be through civil war. because the if there well with the international community's gaze on caracas many western capitals have followed in washington's footsteps and thrown their weight behind the oppositions indeed in the past few hours the european parliament passed a resolution recognizing one why dole is venezuela's interim leader beside me here on screen as you can see peter all of our europe correspondent to speak more on that high paid what exactly does this resolution have to say for itself. well it sailed through in brussels the exact wording of the resolution points out that it recognizes of the european parliament recognizes one as the legitimate interim

president of the state of venezuela it rejects any proposals or attempts at violence to try and solve the situation and supports the un secretary general is call for an independent and full investigation into deaths that have taken place in venezuela here's what the e.u. parliament had to say as they passed a resolution. that the european parliament is the first european institution to do this nude ask member states to do the same as quickly as possible in order to ensure that we have a strong unified european position all there are those that still support nicolas maduro who's been president of venezuela since twenty thirteen china as well as russia among those now they've opposed international recognition for glide though saying that they've opposed those that recognize him as the interim president you someone put on the glass and now he is not

a self-proclaimed president external forces declared him as the president from different types of support including financial technical political and moral venezuela has problems which should be solved but there is no doubt that the scenario aimed at preventing sides from dialogue comes from abroad. well back with the european union in federica mockery need the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs has been told that she's going to be going to cooperate with neighboring countries as well as key actors in the area so i think we can expect more and more coming from the european union on the unfolding venezuelan situation in the coming days and weeks thanks for talking us through that our europe correspondent in berlin this hour peter all over. well a lot in america expert kevin young ses there is a real threat of civil war right now in venice or. 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 a minority government would turn around and support a far right leader like one white though i think the threats of us and our 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 in that something that the drop in ministration is actually perhaps trying to provoke. something the program on the

families and fronts are seeking answers after a mysterious surge in children born with birth defects over the past twelve years more than a thousand babies from french rural areas were born without limbs after an inconclusive probe some years back the government's now due to release a second report on the probable causes artie's replete news agency well it traveled unfallen some of the families affected take a look. right now i could tell by the gun ecologists look and i could see him looking and checking i could tell that something was wrong. i want to know where she was born like that because the mothers blame themselves we

think that it may come from us or that we did something wrong that. we are asked to serve they 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 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 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 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 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 as young as thirteen have reportedly been paid by the social media platform for the data on their mobile phones but the up use to do the job has

been bombed by apple after it was shown to have violated privacy policies despite that it's still available on a different operating platform. well facebook has been suggesting its users install the facebook research up since twenty sixteen it's been available it's been paying them up to about twenty dollars per month for the privilege where members were asked to give the up almost fettered access to their personal information including private messages on social media was also left to collect e-mails data on that web browsers and information about the location of where the users actually were well the social media giant denies accusations that it was spying on the teenager's online habits. it wasn't spine as all of the people who have signed up to participate went through cleone boarding process is asking for that the mission 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 of facebook even asked users to screenshot their orders page on amazon parental consent was also said to have been easily avoided in the entire process journalist derek say's a lot of people don't actually 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 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 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. well according to a recent poll the popularity of facebook among american teenagers has decreased by twenty percent since twenty fifteen derek cruz again sees this social networking behemoths as going to great lengths to retain its market share. 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 fed 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 in all the future social networks. right to europe now or a long running ride between greece and the u.k. is back in the headlines it's over the rightful owner of ancient artifacts known as the elegant marbles the director of the british museum where they're on display has infuriated athens by ruling out their long term return saying that taking the marbles from greece was a creative act artie's honest 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 keep in view one hundred fifty years because it was so

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 longstanding view and how local see it 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. the model should be retired and put back where they belong in every museum in the world until why why we're so generous i would keep them here if they were british arctic fox in greece i'm going to 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 can do to be theft since i'm greek so 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 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 like. president salva a peruvian suburb voicing their outrage after a local gym was turned into a shelter for the homeless migrants more luxe after this break. what. a line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. to going to

press this is what before. can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of. the millennium goals 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 the big claim price is being held back from crossing over twenty five thirty thousand dollars for a coin is because of the rise of say if she is successful and humans have a agency that's a net negative for big coin in the short term but will say because there's a lot of people that don't want her seizing power in any meaningful way. twenty minutes into the program welcome back on up market district in the french

capital has become the unlikely 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 charlotte the story. as frost shot is through a cold snap authorities in paris have taken the decision to help shelter a migrant sat 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 on the poor 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 why we put 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 close the school to quick migrants there. we need to the people who were using the gym before and the kids who take. it seriously 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're going migrant the issue is you've got all the kids which are using it every day and i was in the way 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 and happy with my current moving in. the people who live here don't complain unlike those who live in the sixteenth district people who don't protest and just accept that. 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 their misery i don't see why who put

migrants in areas like for delay chavez we shouldn't put them in the sixty's district powers 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 open arms so. paris ok let's go check on some more world news this hour thousands of people have been marching through the ecuadorian capital gains mass privatization measures and austerity and once by the government. trade unions on indigenous organizations have also been backing the protesters blocking main roads confronting police large scale layoffs on the rise in oil

prices have also fueled the discontent ecuador's largest and most profitable telecoms company is reportedly among those bringing private. groups. to the middle east where he's pro. tests are also gripping tel aviv in israel demonstrations are being staged there against the fatal shooting of an ethiopian last week a man who was also an israeli citizen had a history of mental illness and reportedly rushed up the authorities holding a knife the police officer who shot him was put on leave last week and is now said to be fearing for his life he said the decision to shoot was all related to the victim's race or hurt. by germany is renowned for its high quality workmanship and precise time keeping but when it comes to getting its leading politicians off the ground well there seems to be something of a blind spot. in

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national guards of them in the. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after 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 the circular defense's office that says we're going to attack and destroy the governments and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their 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 or an easy

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utility and truck of the year awards and they have made their selections this is going to be all that directly had but first we had some headlines let's go to. the latest round of u.s. china trade talks loser global report today as the chinese vice premier and u.s. trade representative meet in washington racing to beat a march first deadline to restructure trade relations the talk take place in an auspicious in a spacious context the u.s. just department recently filed formal charges against the jailed chief financial officer of chinese tech giant wall way while china is pushing back firmly on the u.s. effort to impose a new government in venezuela yesterday u.s. intelligence officials detailed the greatest u.s. threats saying russia and china with a particular emphasis on vulnerabilities related to cyber security or keep potential problems china comes to the table with an apparent concession on a major u.s. complaint in the form of a new law that will propose.