i i. i i. i i. was the support of the european parliament for the overthrow of the troubled nation socialist president. foreign policy chief says the block is now weighing up sanctions against. germany france and the u.k. establish a mechanism to avoid u.s. sanctions on trading with iran using a new norm dollar trade channel. families in rural france demand to know why over

the last decade a large number of children there will be born without limbs the government report due on the probable cause is to meet some of those affected i want to know what she was born like that because. we think that. we did something wrong. and facebook finds itself in fresh controversy this time for paying users including teenagers for almost unfettered access to the dates on their phones. so welcome to our team to national life from moscow and daniel hawkins wherever you are tonight thanks for joining us this hour. and the european union is helping to turn up the heat on venezuelan president nicolas maduro following the lead of washington brussels now lending its full support to the opposition leader dog the

e.u.'s foreign policy chief has outlined possible measures that could be taken against the government it's all over as this report. federica mockery any 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 market he was announcing this she also said that we could expect further sanctions from each of you member states on venezuela those sanctions of course they would target the do it of government they have sanctions targeted sanctions in place already that would be news unanimously recently and should there are 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 have been as well 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 u.n. secretary general for a full and independent investigation into deaths in venezuela we can hear what the european parliament say right now i mean 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. 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 the 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 have all said that they're against this international push for. the new summer put on the glass for now he is not a self-proclaimed president external forces declared him as the president offering 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. already gosh italy doesn't recognize guido because we are totally against the fact that one state or a group of stakes can determine the internal policy of another state it is called the principle of noninterference and it is recognized by the united nations as the situation continues in venezuela the more pressure that is put on the more he says he's going absolutely nowhere and reports suggest that european partners are venezuelan state owned oil giant say are stopping purchases because of the threat of new sanctions we discuss the potential fallout with daniel mcadams from the ron paul institute and robert naiman policy director at just foreign policy. unfortunately 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 they are lining up behind washington's foreign policy maybe they've been promised some of the spoils john bolton the other day said openly 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 you know it. doesn't seem to care. the point three million. off and that's what he. we seen for the last four years. or. so unfortunately. so far. all see the mirror. die.

on thursday evening from as well as self declared interim president said on twitter that security forces were at his home when god all added that he holds nicolas maduro responsible for his family's well being your thirties have issued a statement calling the claim totally full so with tensions growing between the government and the opposition. looks now at the competing narrative surrounding events 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 trump gave an order to kill me he told the colombian governments become

the 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 nama 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. 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 arrest in those countries that's fine and dandy when 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 rule of law the hook for a new start is linked with the only democratic ludes intimate institution in the country namely the national assembly and its president who on go idle 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 as icing on top of those agreements that have not been recognized by the national assembly are illegal we will not recognize illegal agreements china has to understand that and russia has to understand that two realities two presidents two governments to venezuela's of course it's cattle to continue like this a house divided cattle it stand and then surely these two realities will merge let's just hope it will be through civil war. the

divisions in venezuela have been on full display this thursday as have been continuing both in support of and in opposition to president nicolas maduro the opposition to demanding new elections and a transfer of power pro-government demonstrators say they want to see the constitution are held. on thursday hundreds of people took to the streets of athens and barcelona to declare their solidarity with the venezuelan government and staged the rally outside the european union's headquarters demonstrators in athens marched to the parliament and the u.s. embassy venezuelan flags political analyst use of soulless international support will play a key role in venezuela. it's very important to get the support of russia china turkey and many other countries as well from woodrow 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 we're only one or two small events from it turning into a syria now i hear mention vietnam but i think it's a lot closer to what happened in syria you look at the opposition 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. from germany and the u.k. approaching new ways to avoid u.s. sanctions on trading with iran as they they announced the launch of a new transaction channel. this is. we want to love european enterprises to have legal trade with iran but security within healthcare in fruit sectors of essential necessity for the iranian people is that city for the iranian people this is a clear practical demonstration that we remain firmly committed to the historic

twenty fifty nuclear deal struck with iran to join comprehensive plan of action for as long as iran keeps implementing it fully. we believe that's keeping iran within this agreement and thus militarily discouraging uranium enrichment is a contribution to security for us and europe but we also believe that it enables us to talk to iran about difficult issues and we will continue to do so this is a positive step and france germany and the. shareholders stablished welcomed very much and i believe will be essential for the full implementation of continued full implementation of the nuclear deal with. the new payment system called the instrument in support of trade exchange use or inspect is going to be a non dollar mechanism it will be based in paris and managed by the former director for germany's commerce bank while the u.k. will head up a supervisory board as of now instead expected to focus mainly on food and medical

exports to iraq but it could expand in the future. last year europe opposed americas this isn't a withdrawal from the twenty fifteen deal with a rod agreement implied that sanctions would be lifted in exchange for to iran limiting its nuclear program but independent journalist lucre very believes few e.u. firms will dare to go against washington's pressure. it will be a trickle of companies daring to do that it's much easier for chinese companies or for russian companies to close people stoop to this with iran to get a us. you know an incredible way to come if you talk to the. daycare afraid by ricochet off of being in the eye off the storm with the americans trying to make an example because that's what washington is going to do for itself 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 system. felonies in france are seeking answers 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 government's now due to release a second report on the probable causes. news agency spoke to some of those families affected. i could tell by the gun ecologists number one 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 his mother's brain them sounds

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 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 our case without our children who are three and seven but the inquiry started three years. 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 entire group called.

agency regrets its inaction trying to find the answer you think it could explain because this is behind the emergence of conjoined it's almost from asia and. i thought that there was an issue because i knew very well how the french administration i know how to explain this it's hard not to panic the public i think there is this fear of discovering that the 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 was in as thirteen have reportedly been paid by

the social media platform for the dr on their mobile phones but they are used to do the job has been banned by apple after it was shown to have violated privacy policies but despite that it's still available on a different operating platform android facebook has been suggesting since twenty six they in fact for users to install the facebook research it's been paying them up to twenty u.s. dollars a month to do so members were asked to give their up almost unfettered access to their personal information including private messages on social media it was also able to collect other information the e-mails data on web browsing information about the location of users as well the social media giant denies accusations that it was spying on the teenager's online habits. it wasn't spinors all of the people who signed up 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 program were teens all of them with signed parental consent forms

facebook even asked users the screenshot their amazon orders page parental consent was also said to 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. 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 a recent poll the popularity of facebook among american teenagers has been hit by a twenty percentage point decrease since twenty fifteen there are grose again says the social network bandwidth 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 snap chat 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. the

french authorities are facing a major legal challenge over the controversial use of riot guns by police officers in recent months since the yellow vest protest campaign began in november over one hundred investigations have been opened into the use of the weapon the case was brought before the country's legal advisory board by leading right. organization and france's second biggest union they want a blanket ban on the use of the weapon which was golf ball sized rubber bullets and has caused serious injuries among demonstrators yellow vests protest leaders have called a march this coming weekend in support of those have been wounded by police. were deliberately chose the five two on the the route which is not much compared to what we did before but we're going to have some injured people all the injured will be there the start of the march 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't be knee today i do not dare look at myself in the

mirror for me my life is over is destroyed. the. law says the shuttle already france has spoken to one of those injured in the protests who claims the government isn't listening to its people. i understand now that the government is deaf to us that it couldn't hear the demands of the appeals being made on the streets but now i see i who lost an eye that they are completely blind even on the basis of the videotapes they were unable to accept responsibility for what is happening our efforts are peaceful that's my slogan i'm a humanist i want protesters to be protected and the greatest gift to me was when during act nine children came to kiss me to shake my hand they were happy to come to the protest with their parents so why call for an a k y cool for everything to be broken it is not in our interest we are reasonable people we will not destroy our own country. the u.n.

nuclear watchdog has hit back with regard to pressure it's under on how to conduct its nuclear inspections. if our credibility is thrown into question and in particular if attempts are made to micromanage or put pressure on the agency in nuclear verification that is counterproductive and extremely harmful. although it wasn't specific on where pressure had been applied the i.a.e.a. is currently playing a role in monitoring north korea's nuclear program and in supervising compliance with the iran nuclear deal agency's director general mentioned both missions in his remarks we discussed the issue with independent political analyst i was under bruno who says that's not just a coincidence. i think the head of the. me was definitely referring to the united states putting too much pressure and trying to take the file shall we say of the nuclear proliferation issue away from the united states

and back into the i.a.e.a. hands which is the international recognized body to monitor nuclear proliferation wants to handle the north korea situation actually the we're going to have some more pressure on that but mostly i think for the time being it was referring to iran in particular relations between iran and united states are absolutely freezing right now definitely the i.a.e.a. is concerned about that and about the constant pressure that particularly people like the security advisor bolton is putting on iran itself. both israel and the u.s. have repeatedly called on them to inspect alleged secret sites in iran in may last year president trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal by going to iran had been routinely violating a court and israel's prime minister had told the u.n.

that iran still has secret nuclear facilities. israel could pressure on the united states and then the united states puts pressure on the heat we saw at the u.n. general assembly prime minister netanyahu spoke threatening action against iran because of the. nuclear program continuously. we see the united states and israel and rejecting with claims that iran is complying not only with the spirit but the practice of the. agreement in fact all the european members of the so-called ether eat that is u.k. germany france and the other members that still support the j.c. have agreed that iran is complying so there are only two countries that are defying this compliance which are israel the united states. a long running ral between greece and the u.k.

is back in the headlines it concerns the rightful owner of ancient artifacts known as the elegant marbles the director of london's british museum where they are on display has infuriated athens by ruling out their long term return saying that taking the marbles from greece was a creative act artes and as those who cannot picks 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 give us some months and we can have.

millions of people come to enjoy the british museum every year let's find out what some of them here make of this longstanding and how local see it back and i think the thought of being here is probably for the greater good i had a sky a degree in art history and so i feel like they should go back. to malta and by when they've been on one knee in every museum in the world we wanted to know why and why we're so generous i would keep them here if they were british arty fox in greece i'm doing it would be for you 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 doing so and i'm also in favor of returning the elgin marbles i guess it's quite nice to have them kept a promise to go home for a period because the exhibitions day may i would like just to maybe some kind of sharing arrangement got fair enough but if i build

a house and someone in america to mix it 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. that seventy one myself for this hour join us again at six am most kids i have his latest global news updates. me me let me let you know where you are your. cause you don't know if he. doesn't want to know most of those people in yours and yours was notable just because you did not but would you. please them please their ways by the way i did my best religion as the wife. left me the same you see.

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