good told. them and they are charming to me. a little. more law for the little frogs mr it's a project for hope that are from. paris where there is opposition leader secures the support of the european parliament as he agitate for the overthrow of the troubled nation socialist president. families in rural france to long to know why over the last decade a large number of children were born without limbs but the government report due on the probable cause is invited to meet some of those affected.

i 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 finds itself and brought it in fresh controversy this time of paying users including teenagers for almost unfettered access to the data on the left. it's eight o'clock here in moscow you're watching altie international live from our studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. the european parliament is helping to turn up the heat on venezuela's elected leader nicolas maduro on thursday the bloc lent its full support to the crisis stricken countries opposition leader officially recognize him as the defacto head of state breaking that down his. arthur. the

european parliament house passed a resolution recognizing one goh i don't know as the legitimate interim president of the state of venezuela let's have a look at what's contained within that resolution it's gone through parliament in brussels on thursday well as well as recognizing him as the interim president they reject proposals or any attempts at violence to try and solve the issues ongoing in venezuela the e.u. parliament also supports the un secretary-general call for an independent and full investigation into deaths during the crisis in venezuela we have a little listen to what the e.u. parliament had to say that the european parliament is the first european institution to do this nude asked member states to do the same as quickly as possible in order to ensure that we have a strong unified european position where we heard their parliament calling for member states to come out and also recognize one quiet zero as the legitimate

interim president we heard from germany france the united kingdom who said just earlier this week they were going to give me eight days in order to call new elections otherwise they would be supporting and backing from a do it over his past he said no chance the next elections in his country will be twenty twenty five when his current term is supposed to come to an end there are those international players though that still support nicolas maduro he's been president of venezuela since twenty thirteen china as well as russia have so far ruled out backing out all one guy joe and his attempts to be named as the legitimate president of venezuela in the summer put in the classroom and now he is not a self-proclaimed president external forces declared him as the president from different types of support including financial and technical political and moral venezuela has problems which should be solved but there is no doubt. aimed at preventing

science from dialogue comes from abroad. back to the european union response and we've also heard from federico moscow really on thursday the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs basically the e.u. foreign minister she said that she's going to be liaising with neighboring countries and key actors as they try to bring about an end to this ongoing and developing crisis in venezuela on wednesday nicolas maduro made an impassioned address to the global community here to the world to disregard what he characterized as the united states distorted version of events and this way he also called on americans to prevent donald trump from starting a potentially devastating conflict in his troubled country. i mean part of since they cannot fake venezuela and murder having weapons of mass destruction to intervene against those we now make out lies on a daily basis and false news to justify aggression against our country let's not

allow another war like vietnam in latin america if the government of the united states intends to intervene against us they will have another vietnam worse than you can imagine. the warning comes after washington and its full support of self declared interim president. and with the split becoming day by day artist broadcaster looks at the competing narrative surrounding events in the south american nation. 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 and see and then to supply rebels with weapons and he's afraid that trump has ordered him killed no doubt 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 that trump congratulated him on becoming president they discuss what to do with the former dictator. 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 its 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 your 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 when they do it in venezuela suppression of democracy an attack on the free world.

is not the democratically elected president of. the tramples democracy human rights and rule of law the hook for a new start is linked with the democratic rude treatment institution in the country namely the nationalist sampling of its president hu 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. there are divisions in

venezuela have been on full display this thursday. both in support of and in opposition to president nicolas and the opposition and demanding new elections and the transfer of power the pro-government demonstrators say for want to see the constitution upheld political alice use of and told us the pressure from the international community is also adding to the volatility. it's very important to get the support of russia china turkey and many other countries as well for a modern. so his people understand that there is international support that they're not that these countries are not going to let the democratically elected president be removed by undemocratic means or a coup when you look at what's going on in venezuela were only one or two small events from it turning into a syria now i hear madeira mention vietnam but i think it's a lot closer to what happened in syria you look at the opposition sort of defected

soldiers from the c.n.n. report requesting arms from trump well i mean that sounds very similar to what happens in two thousand and eleven when obama started army people. families in france are seeking answers after a mysterious surge and children born with birth defects more than a thousand babies from french rural areas over the past twelve years have been born with missing limbs after an inconclusive probe some years back the government to release a second report on the probable causes news agency spoke to some of the families affected. i could tell by the gun ecologists look and 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 mothers brain themselves we think that it may come from us or that we did something wrong. we are asked to survey this department that is 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 integra culture.

agency regrets its inaction and tried to find an sleuthing that could explain the 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 field 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 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 app used to do the job has been banned by apple after it was shown to violate privacy policies despite that it's still available on a different operating platform android facebook has been suggesting since the twenty sixteenth easy to install the facebook research app and it's been paying them up to twenty u.s. dollars a month to do so members were asked to give almost unfettered access to their personal information including private messages on social media it was also able to collect e-mails data on web browsers and information about the location of uses the social media giant denies accusations that it was spying on the teenager's online habits. it wasn't spineless all of the people who 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 scenes all of them was signed parental consent forms. even asked uses to screen shot their hours and orders page parental consent was also set have been easily avoided in the entire process journalist derrick rose says a lot of people don't understand what access to such data actually means. but think it's 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 they're metadata and their digital footprint tells a lot about who they are as a person about where they go and it 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 a recent poll of the popularity of facebook among american teenagers has decreased by twenty percentage points since twenty fifth thing that president says the social networking behemoths is 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 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 anywhere they're planning to invest and make sure that

they have their hands on all the future social networks. case of taking up the presidential talks is causing hysteria in the u.s. media to reports that a lot to me a putin had a fifteen minute conversation with donald trump on the sidelines of the g twenty summit in argentina last year on these kind of the story western media is really going wild over allegations that it's possible that russian president vladimir putin and u.s. president donald trump may have had a meeting in argentina and this meeting may have taken place without a u.s. translator now this is according to the financial times and what they are alleging is that there was a meeting in which in addition to the two presidents you had malani a trump as well as lattimer putin's translator but no note taker or translator from the usa was present now the financial times is citing an anonymous source and u.s. media has just been going wild over it let's review donald trump says take the word

of an. agent over my america blood in your putin who he's treating as his shadow master national security advisor in this case he puts himself willingly in a position where he could maybe be publicly and privately manipulated by vladimir putin and he does it over and over again at this point there have been journalists that i've requested a response on this issue from the kremlin here. the response from moscow to the allegations in the financial times and the inquiries from western reporters about it and episodes involving president trump it's absolutely the media's historical approach usually has no real grounding in the white house has acknowledged that an informal conversation did take place between the two leaders they did not go into specifics now it's important to remember that the washington post reported that trump had allegedly concealed some of his the details of his meeting with putin in hamburg and twenty seventeen and they say they took his russian interpreters notes

in helsinki now the democrats also reportedly considered subpoenaing trump's translator in order to testify about what took place at those meetings now at this point it appears that an informal conversation between two prominent world leaders is the cause for a scandal in western media that's the atmosphere that things have taken as as apparently the fact that trump and putin may have spoken informally is the source of a scandal european power has is running out to a new payment system to bypass the u.s. sanctions it got over to tell us i'm live reaction coming up after the break. banks that are viable looks they say there's more to start simply putting all these are. there are you going to get them back.

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welcome back to the program france germany and the u.k. are prepping new ways to swerve the u.s. sanctions on trading with iran and they are being backed by the foreign policy chief who says it should be business as usual. the european union is fully behind the full implementation of. the simple reasons that we see it is working class thirteen reports now by the i can't even it's fully compliant with its healthy commitment and we believe this is a key element of our security in the region the new payment system called the instrument in support of trade exchanges or in stacks is going to be a non-dollar mechanism it will be based in paris and managed by the former director for germany's comments bank while the u.k. will head up a supervisory board as of now in stocks is expected to focus mainly on food and

medical exports to iran but it could expand in the future. last year europe opposed america's decision to withdraw from the twenty fifteen deal with iran the agreement implied that sanctions would be lifted in exchange for tehran limiting its nuclear program well let's cross live now to independent journalist. to discuss this further thanks for coming on to the program now the u.s. state department has publicly said that this new mechanism won't affect washington's pressure campaign on taranto but what about internally do you think america is going to be viewing this as a stab in the back. well probably and they will be very interested by the companies that will try to use in sticks because i don't believe that it will be or pack that will be completely dark for america embedded in the end will certainly know what companies make use of it to sell to iran so

it's very dangerous for companies europe mentions for example the medical equipment as one of the things that could be sold through this way but who produces them in europe philips siemens you think that siemens that has wonderful products by the way mammography equipment three d. imaging wonderful that they would sell to iran never because they sell to america many other things as well and what's more the sub contractors of siemens the people making for example the lenses they will never sell to iran either because they're afraid of losing siemens as a customer and siemens is afraid of losing the american market so it's by ricochet you have an incredible number of companies that will not do anything for the banking world it's out for the oil and gas sector it's out so even for the small companies that say i'm in brussels he is so belgian waffles famous the world over why couldn't a small producer of bunch of waffles sell to iran well you might think that would make it impossible for me later to sell to new york they've been successful stars

of people making cross all for new york out of europe so he might hesitate and by the way he can also go via another channel to iran via turkey turkey equal to or a turkish company that sells to another turkish company that sells to iran that's the case for many industrial components the subcontractors used this way and if you go to get out to istanbul you have many people oh i'm concluding deals the iranians and turks you know we know tells in places providing everything from cars to to small components and equipment places that are needed by by. i needed by iran so that's a way out and that is another issue i mean for the moment turkey has some window of six months i mean a bit less now. to continue dealing and buying oil from iran the americans let them do with china continue to do it because they were afraid of

seeing a price spike in oil prices on the world market but it's linked to fin is really you spoke of an insular few minutes ago there might be a regime change whatever you were you'd like it or not it might be a regime change and in any sort of very soon which would open again the gates of of oil. oil for the world market that would bring the price down the price of all done in donald trump could get back and put you can harness i'm going to stop their export of oil look i want to jump in because you know we haven't got loads of time left but you mentioned the problems you know that these countries will see if they do sell directly to iran how do you think this move is being viewed because they've been pretty quick in getting this in stacks up and running haven't they is it going to be viewed as politically or strictly economically. economically

viewed as the saying they're saying business as usual. business as usual but i don't think there will be a lot of business going through the system or it will be a trickle of companies daring to do that it's much easier for chinese companies or for russian companies to to close deals to to make deals with the rom the europeans are scared in an incredible way the companies if you talk to them they are afraid by ricochet of being in the eye of the storm with the americans trying to make an example because that's what washington is going to do for example they will certainly pick up a few examples and be harsh on them and mention it in press releases and in public campaign so that's very dangerous for european companies i don't know if anybody will dare go with the sticks ok luke we'll leave it there luke

a very independent journalist thank you very program and showing of you thank you thank you. advocates of press freedom are sounding the alarm in the u.k. of a proposed legislation which they say could endanger journalist the controversial new bill if passed would allow british authorities greater access to journalist data including private e-mails on international servers reporters without borders and several other groups have signed an open letter saying there's serious crimes can be investigated without eroding privacy rights critics have also raised concerns over plans to exchange data held in the u.k. with foreign governments the general secretary of the british unit of journalists has said the bill shows contempt for press freedom. this conservative government has repeatedly demonstrated its contempt for journalism and disregard for press freedoms i don't listen introducing new laws and bar is that undermine and compromised their ability of journalists to carry out their work with integrity and

in safety. meanwhile the u.k. home office is taking into consideration journalists and freedom concerns but stressed the importance of helping the authorities. this legislation where an international data access agreement is in place would give police and prosecutors quicker and easier access to vital electronic data held outside the u.k. we have listened to concerns and made sure that journalists will be informed in advance of an application being made to the court. by night award winning journalist martin j. martin thanks for coming on the program not jealous they say they're seeing this move as a breach of their freedom if you don't commit a crime then there's no breach why is this such a big issue. well because it's it's a massive infringement of civil liberties and i think journalists will be in the foreign line for that i mean you know if you look at the drop. there are safeguards much of the is down to the judge's discretion and there's

a whole chapter on safeguards which supposedly protect people from abuse but you know on the day and come this legislation really be on the specs to be carried out fairly you have to remember that this was this came about as antiterrorism lords drafted early in two thousand some so you know i think like a lot of teachers was on the surface they look like a very good thing it seems to be a complaint of intelligence agencies in the u.k. a little we have these ghastly attacks in the u.k. in the last couple that if they could have acted more quickly. during the technical states around the world or other people in the service the terrorists may well have been intercepted so on the face of it it seems to be doing some good but this critically government is going to be like or don't have too much regard for the freedom scrutiny is there are journalists in the go ahead if they tend to be really care about the wrong course or in her speech how quickly they have seen it against

. her will supply. you have more to it you even mentioned the security and access to data and it's a little bit confusing because the u.k. officials they're claiming that this will. health authorities access they to oversee consequently do this anyway under those terms and conditions that you just explained they can do it there is currently the investigator industry proven story of two thousand and sixteen which allows judges to access dates around the world but just purely on to help police investigate crimes but not actually as concrete evidence which would be held up in a court of law this this regulation goes that one state for them now they would be actually allowed to access email so there's a new look for incriminating evidence of any sort which i'm can be presented in a cool and can actually speed up the whole process so it's very much about speed is very much about allowing police to move much much more quickly but this is

a double edged legislation in my view and i think we talk about civil liberties and press it seems to be just one more nail in the coffin i'm afraid for the fourth estate in britain with this particular government doesn't seem to hold too much regard for john this invested jerm this people who are holding the state to accounts looking at corruption on crime on a very high level who rely on the deep throat's people who operate from the very high excellence in society to give information and with confidence they're going to be really worried about this legislation as indeed one this will do themselves because any judge could seek information around the world from servers and find people's contacts and that you know who's to say that these contacts could not be mentioned in a court of law with a completely different case and. defamation law called absolute privilege john this would be a lot of people's names on both of these so there are all kinds of implications to

this as if it's a double edged sword is.