surely we can risk some discomfort. looks like the beginning of the french revolution where there were no egos and essential movement these people that. went almost never went to demonstrations. they are middle class people from a working class background that's why. it is much pressure that we do not get that kind of a scenario in which nobody would wish to. claim the interim leader refuses to rule out military intervention as the crisis in the country intensifies putting more pressure on president nicholas government. activists in britain. over a form of child abuse designed to stop breasts developing in young girl we hear

about the dangers. in other states. this is why we are coming out to see. the french police are under scrutiny after over one hundred cases are opened into the riot. and we talked to one protester who was hit by what. i understand now that the government is deaf to us couldn't hear the demands of the appeals being made on the streets. it is friday february the first and just after eight am here. this hour's top stories welcome to. venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader has appeared on american television explaining how he intends to oust his country's president nicolas maduro and he did not rule out the possibility of using u.s.

military support. i just want you to tell me whether you would support a u.s. military intervention we are doing everything to be able to have as much pressure as published so that we do not get into that kind of a scenario in which nobody would wish to have the u.s. back venezuelan opposition leader brown's my daughter as a regime a dictatorship while the president himself mr moto accuses quite go of attempting to stage a coup with washington's help and that's the situation intensifies what's happening in iran as well it looks to some like a case so history repeating itself. they greevy think the whole world is too fullish to notice either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with and his mayhem when we stand with the syrian people or with their oppressors the former dura regime has oppressed its people for years repressive regime of bashar assad the tyranny of the now defunct mature regime the assad regime its

brutality and repression active threat to the entire region growing threat to regional peace and security it is time for men to her own to go it's time for assad to get out of the way the stories of syria venezuela and the protest movements there are from two separate books but can someone tell me why anyone who's in charge of america always reads off the same manual when their national interest rate or spots another regime change opportunity let's go through the steps that are a must venezuela versus syria some great examples for you. people in american politics have a special sense for legitimacy what if they have a device for that or something from our perspective he has lost legitimacy he has failed to deliver on the promises he's made in its role as the only legitimate

branch of government duly elected by the venezuelan people the national assembly invoked the country's constitution to declare nicolas maduro illegitimate and the office of the presidency therefore vacant you see the manual so great that even donald trump couldn't help picking it up after hillary yes the idea is not just to start backing the opposition you physically got to be there with them oh my god. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. now that's a classic what could be more classic it almost makes you imagine that as kids all american politicians are told when you grow up you'll never succeed unless you sanctions and filthy regime syria check venezuela

check will keep increasing sanctions to cut off the regime with the money it needs to survive we're going to announce sanctions against patro is to venezuela associate a name we're paid a vase as it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly. since the opposition in places like venezuela or syria are pretty much aware of the contents of the manual they know when it's the right time for them to start asking for weapons armed rebels defected soldiers there will always be those who will be happy to get new guns that are going to spend it's going on so that we make a request to the u.s. he says to support logistical terms of communication with weapons so we can realize ten as well and treat him well really we need is and money and. and until it's back to the states and the people in charge there when you're only one

step away from sending your old army in to get the job done don't forget to say that all options are on the table that agreement which is all options always all options are on the. you know what all of this was unintentional never planned we will stop to topple the regime after all three throughout government spokes we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force is that also in the manual when the following at washington's leave the european union is also hoping to turn up the heat on the venezuelan president maduro to the brussels lending its full support of the e.u.'s foreign policy chief has outlined possible measures that could be taken against my daughter's government printer all of our reports. better reka mockery has announced what's being called an international contact group all venezuela it will be made up

of european union members as well as latin american partners what she says is this is definitely not going to be any official attempt at mediation in the venezuelan crisis this is really talking shop getting people together getting discussions going while venezuela tries to sort out its problems using the mechanisms that already exist in the venezuelan constitution but while she was saying not she also said that there could well be further sanctions from e.u. member states against venezuela those would be sanctions that targeted the government we have sanctions targeted sanctions in place already that would be news unanimously recently and sure 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 a business will and people are illegal according to international law the e.u. parliament passed a resolution on venezuela in its says that they recognize one quite doe as the legitimate interim president of venezuela they reject any type of violent solution to the ongoing impasse in the country and they also support fully a proposal by the un secretary-general for a full and independent investigation into deaths in venezuela let's have a listen to what was said in brussels 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 germany the u.k. and france had already said that they were going to give nicolas maduro until monday to call fresh elections otherwise they would be throwing their full support behind one quite though it almost seems certain that that's going to happen right now particularly when you hear from nicolas maduro that he has no intention of

calling elections the next elections he sees in his country will be in twenty twenty five when his current is supposed to end 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 u.s. 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. so with all eyes on venezuela now duro is actually gaining international support from

the likes of turkey china and russia calling him the only legitimate leader and while white dos says he wants to solve the country's urgent problems the russian ambassador to caracas alleges the opposition is putting its political machines above all else when you see it's a good way to defeat the venezuelan opposition is indeed quite diverse but the political ambitions of the opposition play an essential role i can give you a specific example i happened to have several meetings with the representatives of the opposition and i asked them why they did not raise issues that really affected people i mean the food shortage shortage of medicine or safety because every public survey shows these topics up public opinion their replies were vague and the only way i can explain it is that the political ambitions of the opposition happen to be more important for them than these hot button issues important to the majority of venezuelan citizens. on thursday hundreds of people took to the streets of athens

and barcelona to declare their solidarity with the venezuelan government. staged a rally outside the european union as headquarters demonstrators in athens marched to the parliament and the u.s. embassy carrying venezuelan. a political analyst a use of edom told us 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 the army people. all the while the e.u. and the u.s. are aligning when it comes to latin america things are different over the middle east and in iran in particular france germany and the u.k. are working off ways to u.s. sanctions on trading with tehran announcing the launch of a special transaction channel on thursday. this is. we want to love european enterprises to have legal trade with iran but security with health care and food sectors of essential necessity 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 a 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 positive step and france germany and the united kingdom as a nation of. stablished that i welcome very much and that i believe will be essential for the full implementation of continued full implementation of the nuclear deal with iran the new payment system called the instrument in support of trade exchanges or in stacks is going to be a dollar mechanism it will be managed by the former director for germany's commerzbank or the u.k. will head up a supervisory board as of now instead is expected to focus mainly on food and medical exports to iran but it could expand in the future. last year you're opposed america's decision to withdraw from the twenty fifteen deal with iran under the agreement sanctions were lifted in exchange for terror on limiting its nuclear

program but independent journalist look we're very believes a few e.u. firms will dare to go against washington. it will be a trickle of companies daring do that it's much easier for chinese companies or russian companies to close the. bomb you. are scared in an incredible way the company so if you talk to them they are afraid by ricochet 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 example they will certainly pick up a few examples and 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. a controversial practice known as breast ironing is becoming war more widespread in the u.k. hundreds of children have reportedly been subjected to it the practice aims to

delay breast formation in pre-teen girls by painfully must skin with a whole stones until the tissue breaks and so to detract male attention away from the young ones and prevent rape united nations describes it as one of five underreported crimes globally related to gender based violence typically the perpetrators of this kind of abuse are the mothers. i took this to i warmed and then i started massaging and this tune was a little bit hot when i started massaging she said mommy he's hot. doctors say the practice has severe health implications breast are inning can increase the risk of cancer and lead to complications with breast feeding later in life the procedure can also lead to infections and result in physical and psychological stop scarring where the u.k. government has vowed to criminalize the practice there activists accuse it of being slow to respond we spoke to the co-founder of that came women and girls development

organization who told us more about the dangers. this is what is done in the secrecy of the home and it's difficult to actually please a hands on meat and a lot of girls are not warm dress most of them of what's lacking brezec as you know the skin has been strange because first of all they use those stones to suppress the group of the breasts and this is nature and where once the breast tries to force itself out what happens the body starts stretching a lot of scars and a lot of stretch marks on their breasts they are emotionally disturbed realize they even fly needs if you call to even open up to people even on press in front of their friends even all norms in front of the hospitals it because a lot of seas and mainly breast diseases most of this we may have difficulties to breast feed the children because of the fair technique with another lady tells me

you know even when i take my baby i want to breastfeed the baby when i try to bring the baby to what's my breast i am scared because it takes me back in time when i had that procedure done on me. 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 first protests come brain began in november of one hundred investigations have been opened into the use of this type of weapon the case was brought before the country's illegal advisory board by a leading rights organization and france's. second biggest union they want a blanket ban on the use of the weapon which fires golf ball sized rubber bullets and of course serious n.g.o.s yellow vest protest leaders have called a march this coming weekend in support of those who have been wounded by police. were deliberately chose the five two on the to 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 at the start of the march there will also be sit ins and 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 me today i didn't dare look at myself in the mirror for me my life is over it's destroyed. our sister channel r.t. france are spoken to one of the injured protests who are well protestors i should say who claims the government is not 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 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 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. another twist in the mullah propane to alleged russian collusion it's refusing to share evidence with the lawyers of a russian businessman who's been implicated accusing his lawyers are having leaked information in the past. picks up the story. the prospect of proof coming from the miller investigation on any collusion may never see the light of day that's long been normalised by pundits but now the shroud of secrecy around the renowned russia probe is darkening further election meddling evidence could be out of reach even for the defense the united states of america respectfully opposes the motion of

defendant concord management and consulting l.l.c. who are approval to disclose documents identified by the special counsel a sensitive for purpose of preparing for trial the defendant this time is a concord management consulting a firm managed by you've gagne proportion a russian multimillionaire nicknamed putin's chef for his catering commitments to the kremlin miller accuses him of being the chieftain of russian online trolls who allegedly played a role in swaying the twenty sixteen election in response his company hired a law firm in the u.s. as you would but apparently some of the private information the lawyers had previously received from miller emersion lying for all to see it was published on twitter by the account hacking redstone which has then been suspended but a screenshot of the tweet allegedly showed the law firm had been hacked so

apparently the attorneys had nothing to do with it it's not like they would voluntarily leak classified information why because of because the can that's why and some outlets sent this unique bandwagon crashing down the hill this company when hired a pittsburgh law firm and was and has managed to essentially draw this out and use especially the legal system of the united states i guess the mother investigation so in histories paraded over the myriad of court cases where defendants would hire lawyers to sue. well defend themselves against the accusations they pleaded not guilty to this one somehow stands out and what standard procedure in every single other case is using the legal system in this one but the other is totally cool with it now he has a perfectly good reason to deny the defense access to court materials which is any

prosecutor's dream come true miller says he will only show the case docs to prigogine himself but making someone who will never come to the us to face these supposed charges and arrest dream on that is a problem of concorde's own making so how the tide has turned now anyone salivating in anticipation of juicy collusion details might be better off waiting for russian hackers legal analyst lionel suspects there might not actually be any evidence that's really worth sharing. there is a concept of disclosing information which tends to be exculpatory meeting information which tends to work to your defense the prosecutor must always provide information evidence to let you know the defendant what your being charged and what you can do to interpose

a defense the only time a prosecutor wants to hide information from you is that if the information doesn't help the prosecutor if there's something that hurts the prosecutor i was a prosecutor we'd love to show you evidence of what we have against you we want you to know everything that we have so that you think wow they've got me now so why is he doing this because either eg he doesn't have any evidence b. there's something embarrassing he doesn't want you to see or see. all of the above . profiting from war crimes that's what a new report by human rights group amnesty international says certain tourist companies are doing by listing accommodation in disputed west bank settlements that this has prompted one israeli minister to call for the group to be banned from the country israel has been illegally building settlements on palestinian land for decades. of thousands of palestinians. and israeli settlers who moved

in these actions constitute war crimes the world's leading digital tourism companies promote settlements as a tourist destination be booking dot com expedia and trip advisor list hotels b. and b.'s attractions and tools in settlements in the report amnesty international slams online booking companies for offering hundreds of places to stay in settlements across the west bank without any indication making clear that this is where they are a co-founder of the international solidarity movement adam shapiro says it is not the first time israel has banned organizations like amnesty. i think the reaction by over the years rose if they were to ban misty as rational researchers would be you know sort of foolish although not only expected we've seen previously when the human rights watch researcher who is on the ground on worship here published a report similar about there being the activities in the occupied territories

israel moved immediately to have them removed from the country so far they have not been successful as the courts have intervened and there is a case going on but you know this is happened many times over the years where when initial organization or or any kind of monitor of what's going on in the occupied territories reports what's happening in israel moves to takes efforts to remove those people from being in the occupied territories and prevent others from coming to see israel has. thousands of people myself included from entering the occupied territories and prevented thousands of others from entering because they suspect that people are coming to witness to bear witness to the occupation. one of the companies listed as being the has previously come under fire for the same thing and is accused of failing to fulfill their promise to remove listings in israeli settlements back in november other companies named in the report have responded by

saying that the listings are simply labeled geographically with no political bias. the muslims in the u.k. have staged a demonstration outside a school in the city of birmingham over what they call the forcible promotion of rights among children and some parents have even taken their kids out of the school in protest to something that is illegal in britain a petition against the curriculum was also started and leaflets were handed out near the school and some of the parents insist issues of sexuality should not be taught in school. children have been told it's ok to be gay yet ninety eight percent of children have this. when my little girl is four she's in reception and she came home asking me if it's ok to be a boy instead of her girl and has dressed up in her brother's close she's four years old i respect all religions but why should six ralitsa be taught to primary school age children it's out of control the school's assistant head teacher who was

behind the project believes the educational program is a way of reducing the risk of radicalization as website states it helps children to adapt to life in modern britain and celebrates diversity in society. parents need to understand this education program is designed to stop bullying it's designed to encourage acceptance and understanding not necessarily you know that you personally believe in same sex relations but you have a live in the live attitude and if kids are going to get on the playground they need to accept difference and you know muslim people are different from others but that doesn't make prejudiced against them right and i find it very strange and exciting that muslim some muslim people who know the hate and pain but they have suffered because of their faith would not wish to challenge other forms of hate and prejudice the issue here is not so much about what he's been teaching i think if

you listen to what the school says if you listen to a parent so there's miscommunication there's in a some sense propaganda both sides if i may say so. inflame the situation that if he saw things to happen in school where education is teaching about how differences in this country are very very important and we should respect people we should accept people who are different it doesn't mean that you accept homosexuality but you accept that there are gay people in this country dows as they have every right to love every right to live in this country. you know live their lives for example as any other citizen in this country there are some other stories for this hour here around on r.t. international your friday news continues so we are back at the top of the hour hope you can join us then.

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all. hell and welcome to all to part of the russians have to clean up that act that has been the refrain from international sporting officials ever since the doping scandal him the russian olympic and paralympic team from three years on the russian anti doping agency has regained its compliance they dance with in the water system and the question is and those about the integrity of the country speaks boards still remain will they ever be sat down.