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it is now just after nine am on friday february the first here in moscow for me recently in time in the entire crew here welcome to your program. venezuela's self proclaimed interim leader. has appeared on american t.v. explaining how we intends to alst 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're doing everything to be able to put 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. backed event is whether the opposition leader brown some of those regime a dictatorship president my daughter or himself in attempting to stage a coup with washington's help now as the situation intensifies what's happening in venezuela looks to some like a case of history repeating itself. and they really think the whole world is too

fullish to notice either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with his mayhem when we stand with the syrian people or with their oppressors the former madeira 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 so 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 and it's rule as the only legitimate branch of government duly elected by the venezuelan people the national assembly invokes 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 right.

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. czech will keep increasing sanctions to cut off the regime from the money it needs to survive we're going to announce sanctions against patro is to venezuela associate the name we're paid of day says 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 would be happy to get new guns that are going to spend is going

on so much time that we make a request to the u.s. he says to support us in logistical terms of communication with weapons so we can realize venezuelan freedom what we need is and want to and until and until the cough decides 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 your agreement which is all options always all options are on the. you know what all of this was an intentional never planned we will stop to topple the regime after all three throughout governments we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force is that also in the manual. well following a washington's lead the european union is also turning up the heat on venezuelan president nicolas maduro with brussels now ending its full support why don't you

use foreign policy chief as outlined possible measures that could be taken against my daughter's government our correspondent peter 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 a 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 that 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 the sanctions targeted sanctions in place really 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 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 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 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 and fortune of 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 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 an 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 u.s. in the e.u. are rubbing themselves together with glee and dissipating the windfall profits and with all. lies on venezuelan oil where though is also getting international support turkey china and russia are calling him the only legitimate leader and while why both says he wants to solve the country's problems the russian ambassador to caracas alleges the opposition is putting its political above everything else but the news was good 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 affect the 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. hundreds of people took to the streets of athens on barcelona to declare their solidarity with the venezuelan government. staged a rally outside the european union headquarters all demonstrators in athens marched to the parliament and the u.s. embassy carrying venezuelan flights political analyst and 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 and while the e.u. and the u.s. are aligning when it comes to latin america things are different over the middle east and iran in particular france germany and the u.k. are working out ways to dodge the u.s. sanctions on trading with tehran having announced the launch of a special transaction channel on thursday. this is just happened. to many in the united kingdom as a nation of builders stablished. very much and i believe will be essential for the full implementation of continued full implementation of the nuclear deal with. a new payment system called the instrument in support of trade exchanges or

instead is going to be a dollar mechanism it will be based in paris managed by the former director for germany's commerzbank or the u.k. will head up a supervisory board iran is among the biggest oil importers to the e.u. but for now europe things that inspects will for now focus on food and medical exports to iran. last year europe opposed america's decision to withdraw from the twenty fifteen deal with iran under the agreement sanctions were lifted in exchange for tehran limiting its nuclear program independent journalists a little bit of a thinks they'll be a few takers when rather there will be few takers when it comes to europe's new transaction system. it will be a trickle of companies daring do that it's much easier for chinese companies or for russian companies to to close deals through to make deals with iran the europeans are asking aired 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 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. them. a controversial practice known as breast ironing is becoming more widespread in the u.k. and dozens of british children have reportedly been subjected to it the practice aims to delay breast formation in pre-teen girls by painfully massaging skin with hot stones until the tissue ruptures it's said to detract male attention away from the young ones and prevent rape united nations describes it as one of five underreported crimes of globally related to gender based violence typically the

perpetrators of this kind of abuse are the mothers and we spoke to the co-founder of a children's rights group who also says the problem is bigger than is being reported . thousand of girls have being victims all they've been affected. by the press i mean and this is because most of them migrate to the u.k. we've already the program. doctors say the practice has severe health implications breast ironing 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 under psychological scarring where the u.k. government has vowed to criminalize the practice though activists accuse it of being slow to respond geraldine yet again told us about the consequences breast ironing can have. most of them have guts the acting president nor the scheme has been strange because first of all they use those stones and. and the pieces to

suppress the group of the brits and this is nature and where once the press tries to force itself out what happens and this affects their whole life long conditions in the sense that they are emotionally disturbed the lies they even if you call to even open up to people even on press in front of the afraid even or moans in front of the has been. 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 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 body by a leading rights organization and france's second biggest union they want a blanket ban on the use of the weapon which are fires golf ball size rubber

bullets and has caused serious injuries among some of the protesters and yellow vest protest leaders have called a march this coming weekend in support of those who have been wounded by the police . were deliberately chose a far too on the to route which is not much compared to what we did before but we're going to have some people that will be there at the start of the march who also sit in speeches or. the next day when i woke up from the operation i looked at 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. francis spoken to one of the injured protesters 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 why you 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 case me to shake my hand they were happy to come to the protest with their parents so why call for an a case why call for everything to be broken it is not in our interests we are reasonable people we will not destroy our own country well still to come here on the program a us lawyers acting for a russian businessman implicated in the probe have been denied access to evidence and the swell of a look at that and your other stories in a much. you

know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to. right for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

program here on yet another twist in the probe into alleged russian collusion it's refusing to share evidence with the us lawyers of one russian businessman who has been implicated. you could have done of picks up the story the prospect of proof coming from the murder 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.

for 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 gainey 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 this way in 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 king redstone we. has been suspended but a screenshot of the tweet allegedly show that 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 well because of because the can that's why and some outlets sent this unique bandwagon crushing 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 world defend themselves against the accusations the pleaded not guilty to this one somehow stands out and what standard procedure in every single other case is using the legal system and this one but miller 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 dogs to

progression himself but making someone who will never come to the u.s. 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 says prosecutors are normally very eager to show. there is a concept of disclosing information which tends to be exculpatory meaning information which tends to work to your defense the prosecutor must always provide information evidence. to let you know the defendant what you're being charged with and what you can do to interpose a defects 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 a he doesn't have any evidence b. there's something embarrassing me 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 so to tourists companies are doing by listing accommodations in disputed west bank settlements this has prompted one is ready minister to call for amnesty international to be banned from the country israel has been illegally building settlements on the stick around for decades but if. it's 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 the international slide on line booking companies offering hundreds of places to stay in settlements across the west bank and for failing to state that they are in their spewed territories co-founder of the international solidarity movement adam shapiro says it wouldn't be the first time israel's banned organizations like amnesty international. i think the reaction by the israelis if they were to ban amnesty international researchers would be sort of foolish although not only expected we've seen previously when the human rights watch researcher who is on the ground omar sheikh here published a report similar about there being the activities in the occupied territories

israel moved immediately to have him 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 in the occupied territories and prevent others from coming to see israel has banned thousands of people myself included from 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 b m b has previously come under fire for the same thing and is accused of failing to fulfill a promise to remove listings in disputed settlements back in november one of the company's name in the report have responded by insisting that they do in fact state

clearly where their accommodation is located and that the information they provide is a political power that's just some of your top stories for this hour from all around the world to your program returns and about twenty five. as you are the stand have seen and hear from us and. our job or move along with a small. amount of goods that are on our trusty for the hour rather than a profit out of the four for the benefit of apple. i'm going to let combat of my next question then you cut their teeth and nail on what i don't think is a channel for truffle not get it in the living. below the world then

now mind behind the show the downside of it does the family owned lot of the. members of the hey how nice a little. thing to get this whole food place choice i knew you didn't pay i think the time in syria says. it's of a. model for them after the whole front on the missing it's a gym and then oil but i hope that our freedom in your car. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

it was in the one nine hundred fifty s. then our secretary of state john fogg. mr dulles proclaimed that our policy is global. we started as a continental empire by clearing out the native peoples and other foreign forces then we became an overseas empire by taking islands in various parts of the world and then after the second world war we began a global empire there oh we are playing on the whole billiard.

the united states has always had a variety of tools to use and its attacks on other countries. economic sanctions are are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries a talking about and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country particularly in our own caress and in the press of that leader's own country. americans love to think that we're intervening in other

countries to overthrow evil people and if that's true you have to may.