still well. when the ruling classes reject. the crime. rate in the middle of the room. as well as opposition leaders secures the support of the european parliament says he agitated for the overthrow of the troubled nation socialist president these foreign policy chief also says the block is now weighing up fresh sanctions against caracas. germany france and the k. establish a mechanism to swerve u.s. sanctions on trading with iran using a new non-dollar trade channel. plus families in rural france demand to know

why over the last decade a large number of children there were born without limbs but the government report due only probable causes we went to meet some of those affected. i want to know where she was born like that because mothers dream themselves we think that it may come from us or that we did something wrong. and facebook finds itself embroiled in fresh controversy this time of paying users including teenagers for almost unfettered access to the data on their phones. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching all the international live from last year with me. welcome to the program. the european union is helping to turn up the heat on venezuelan president nicolas maduro following the lead of why. on

thursday brussels lent its full support to the crisis stricken country's opposition leader one quite oh recognize him as the head of state the east foreign policy chief and outlined a series of punitive steps that might be taken against the embattled government in caracas peeta all of the reports federica mockery the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs has announced that the european union is setting up what they call an international contact group on venezuela this isn't going to be any kind of official mediation in the crisis there but it is essentially going to be a talking shop including the united states as well as latin american partners who are going to come together to try and continue the dialogue and make sure that venezuela can sort out the problems it faces through the mechanisms of the venezuelan constitution however at the same time as federica mockery he was announcing also you said that we could expect further sanctions from you member states in venezuela those sanctions of course they would target the government we

have sanctions targeted sanctions in place already that would be new unanimously recently and. elements of sanctions might be considered by the ministers in the coming days if we would not see positive developments any sanction that's not. that's not. implemented by the security council is illegal so all the sanctions that the u.s. simplemente against the business will and people are illegal according to international law the european parliament also passed a resolution on venezuela on thursday in it they recognize one guy doe as the legitimate interim president of venezuela they also reject any violent means to try and solve the impasse and they support fully a proposal put forward by the un secretary general for a full and independent investigation into deaths in venezuela you can hear what the

european parliament say right now but i mean 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. the united kingdom germany and france had given nicolas maduro until monday to say he was going to organize fresh elections otherwise they would throw their support behind one door well it does seem almost certain that that's going to happen now particularly when we hear from nicolas maduro that he has no intention of stepping aside no intention of calling elections in fact he says the next elections in his country they'll be in twenty twenty five when his current term is set to come to an end there is some international support for nicolas maduro though the african union china turkey and russia of all said that they're against this international push for. a new summit of the clash and now he is not a self-proclaimed president external forces declared him as the president often

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. as the situation continues in venezuela the more pressure that is put on nicolas maduro the more he says he's going absolutely nowhere. mcadams from the volatile institute told us he believes the capable of acting independently of the us. unfortunate the e.u. shows that it's incapable of taking an independent foreign policy they've made a bunch of noises about continuing to do business with iran despite the fact that the us unilaterally illegally pulled out of the p five plus one deal and once again there are lining up behind washington's foreign policy maybe they've been promised some of the spoils john bolton the other day said openly in explicitly u.s.

companies should go into venezuela and take the oil maybe they'll give a few table scraps to the europeans as well so that's what it would say that this is the largest oil reserves in the world so you can imagine how many hands in the us in the e.u. are rubbing themselves together with glee and dissipating the windfall profits several hours ago venezuela's self declared interim president said on twitter that place where at his home. that he held nicholas wanted to responsible for his family's well being the authorities have issued a statement calling the claim totally false tensions growing between the government and the opposition right castillo said the competing narratives signing in france in the country. 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 the colombian 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 first chavez now maduro have long been a thorn in washington side in this reality why do is the real president he is america's candid it trump congratulated him on becoming president they discuss what to do with the former dictate them 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 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 the rest 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 for a new start. treatment institution in the country namely the national sounded when it's president want to go idle that's why together with the e.u. we have also and support. for the us why do is the cake sweet and blood but wait is 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 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. the divisions in venezuela have been on full display this thursday protests have been contending both in support of and in opposition to president nicolas maduro the opposition are demanding new elections and a transfer of power the pope government demonstrators say they want to see the constitution upheld political analyst use of i am told us that 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 from so his people. you're saying 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 the 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. france germany and the u.k. of. the u.s. sanctions on trying with iran the launch of a transaction channel which is in fact the foreign policy chief. european union is fully behind the full implementation of the deal with iran for the simple reasons that we see it is working class thirteen reports nobody i want to run is fully compliant with it's not a 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 combat bank while the u.k. will head up a supervisory board as of now in states is expected to focus mainly on food and medical exports to iran but it could expand in the future. last year a proposed america's decision to withdraw from the twenty fifteen deal with iran the agreement implied that science has would be lifted in exchange for to limiting its nuclear program but independent genesis nuclear have a believes huey firms were dead to go against washington's pressure. it will be a trickle of companies daring do that it's much easier for chinese companies or for russian companies to to close students to take the street to the wrong to get a pizza are scared of it in an incredible way to have to talk to them they are afraid of. being in the off the storm with the americans trying to

make an example because that's what washington is going to do for example it 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 them. on is in france are seeking on thursday after a mysterious surge in 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 governments lied to you to release it. a second report on the probable causes autism repping news agency spoke to some with families affected. right now and i could tell by the gun ecologists look i could see him looking and

checking that bag i could tell that something was wrong. i want to know what he 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 survey this department that is 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 our case with about our children or 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 inaction and tried to find untruth that could explain the causes behind the emergence of congenital malformation. i thought that there 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. discovering that because it is the 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 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 her. 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 have violated privacy policies despite that it's still available on a different operating platform on trade facebook has been suggesting since twenty sixteen for users 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 the op 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 local location of uses these social media giant denies accusations that it was spying on

the teenager's online habits. it wasn't spinors all of the people who saw and opt to participate went through cleone boarding process is asking for 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. but facebook even also uses to screen shot that amazon orders page print will consent was also said to have been easily avoided in the entire process genest predecessor 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 giving twenty bucks 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 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 the popularity of facebook among american teenagers has been hit by a twenty percentage point decrease since twenty fifteen very prosaic and says the social networking and behave with is going to great lengths to retain its market share. it's 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 fact 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. the french authorities are facing a major legal challenge over the controversial use of riot guns by police officers in recent months says the yellow vests protest campaign began in effect over one hundred investigations have been opened into the use of the weapon the case was brought before the country's legal advisor body meeting and rights organization infanta second biggest union they want to blanket ban on the use of the weapon which fires gold full size rubber bullets and is cause serious injuries among demonstrators galavis protest leaders have called a march this coming weekend in support of those who've been wounded by police. were deliberately chose a far too on the to route which is not much compared to what we did before it was

going to have some injured people all the injured will be the start of the march who will also be in speeches. the next day when i woke up from the operation i looked to myself in the mirror and said to myself it's not me it can be me today i don't dare look at myself in the mirror for me my life is destroyed. all sister channel all to france has spoken to one of engine to protesters who claims that government isn't listening to its people should be job i understand now that the government is deaf to us to eat. couldn't hear the demands and the appeal was being made on the streets but now i see you lost annoyed that they are completely blind even on the basis of the videotapes they were unable to accept responsibility for what is happening all reference of peaceful that's my slogan i'm a humanist i want protesters to be protected and the greatest gift to me was when during and knowing children came to kiss me to shake my hand they were happy to

come to the protest with their parents so why cool found the key one cool for everything to be broken it is not in our interest we are reasonable people we will not destroy our own country. a case of digging up the past presidential talks is causing hysteria in the us media after reports that plot to may appear to have a fifteen minute conversation with donald trump on the sidelines of the g twenty summit in argentina last year came to more than half 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 i take the word of an. agent over my own o'hare america who he's treating as his shadow master national security advisor in this case he puts himself it willingly in a position where he can be 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 is 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 hysterical 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 and this is the first time that western media has gotten hysterical in response to alleged details about meetings between trump and putin in the washington post reporting that when trump met with putin in hamburg in twenty seventeen that key aspects of that meeting were hidden we've also seen the allegation that trump confiscated the notes of is russian translator in helsinki and there was even reportedly talk among democrats about subpoenaing that russian translator to testify about what exactly went on in that meeting so at this point we're reaching a situation or an atmosphere in the western world where simply a conversation taking place between a western leader and the russian president is considered to be scandalous this is the atmosphere. european diplomats have expressed concern over israel's decision to expel international observers from the occupied west bank city of hebron we do in the other countries of the mission deeply regret the israeli

statements we believe that the mission is important and should continue. on monday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he would not renew the mandate of the temporary international presence in hebron accusing it of bias meaning the organizations current deal with israel will expire this day the temporary international presence in her promise established in the one nine hundred ninety s. to try and mediate the israeli palestinian conflict it includes italy norway sweden switzerland and turkey working alongside local authorities the organizations aim was to monitor tensions in the city while maintaining some normality and giving a sense of security for the residents but with the group's mandate now being blocked palestinian authorities have denounced and position. during these twenty two years the work of. israeli settlers and the israeli occupying army. committed forty thousand. elections against the palestinian people the question

that we brought to the five countries now that israel have the right. to take action after meeting very much from outside i don't think they do earlier we spoke with john doug arthur former un special rapporteur on human rights in the palestinian territory he's one that has been is heading for disaster if the international observers leave. the situation in iran is very volatile simply particularly in million of them coming from the united states. as difficult as possible for. i know the situation very well and i think it will be disaster you've. withdrawn from here i'm very much for the future of. growth i think it's important to st when has it been to chile. living in the settlements.

why would. the united states european states seem to be unwilling to confront israel. a long running around between greece and the u.k. is back in the headlines it concerns the rightful owner of ancient artifacts and marvels that director of london's 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 out is an associate picks up the story the british museum is back in the headlines this time its director has stirred up trouble by seeing removing the world famous twenty five hundred year old parthenon marbles from greece to be taken to britain in the nineteenth century could be seen as a creative octet 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 creator. 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 will say creative in the destruction of the temple and the looting in the pillaging of a 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 yes 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 use and how local see him back in greece 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. and put. one in every museum in the world. why it is so generous i would keep them here it's a were british arctic fox in greece i'm going to get would be a few different names 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. i have kept a promise to go home for a period because the exhibitions. i would like to see may be some kind of sharing arrangement. if i build a house and someone that america cannot take it with him and say i will take good care of it i will keep it in america whenever you like. advocates of press freedom assigning the alarm in the u.k. of a proposed legislation which they say could endanger journalists but in question if passed would allow british authorities greater access to jenna's data including private e-mails on international servers reporters without borders and several other groups have signed an open letter saying that the 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 union of journalists

said the bill shows contempt for press freedom this conservative government has repeatedly demonstrated its contempt for journalism and disregard for press freedoms introducing new laws and powers that undermine and compromise over journalists to carry out their work with integrity and safety meanwhile the u.k. home office has said is taking the concerns of journalists into account 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. based journalist martin j. tells us he's concerned by the implications of the bill it's. just one of the caucus goers on the story from this particular government.