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over one hundred cases. right. expects to lose his i. know that the government is deaf to us. being made on the streets. and rights group amnesty international accuses tourist companies accommodation in disputed west bank settlements and profiting from the war cry. out the welcome just five pm here in moscow and we start this hour with breaking because washington is suspending a cold war era control treaty with russia from february the second. the u.s. draw from the i.n.f. treaty completely in one hundred eighty days time if russia doesn't comply with the

. we provided russian ample window of time to mend its ways for russia to honor its commitment. to morrow that time runs out russia has refused to take any steps to return real and verifiable compliance over these sixty days. the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the n f treaty effective february second we will provide russia and the other treaty parties with formal notice that the united states is withdrawing from the early after really effective in six months pursuant to article fifteen of the tree russia does say that it has not violated the treaty and invited american experts to verify moscow's compliance according to the kremlin spokes person the us had been preparing to withdraw from the treaty for a long time as didn't try to hold talks on the issue russia says that this move can put the whole system of arms control in danger.

if we could after the us leaves the i.n.f. treaty the whole system of arms control and the stability of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty movie under threat. well the i.n.f. treaty was signed back in one thousand nine hundred seven by the united states in the u.s.s.r. it came into force a year later it says that both countries destroyed missiles within the five hundred to five and a half thousand kilometer range and under the agreement the countries aren't allowed to produce or test any such missiles in the future europe repeatedly called on by parties comply saying it's benefited a lot from the agreement. european countries and european union as such are not members are not parties to the and europe has been probably the one that is venerated the most out of the this treaty for hours as the european union would be extremely important to see is full compliance with the treaty and

so the preservation of the treaty. ok let's go live now to strategic and political analyst. who joins us this afternoon thanks for coming on paolo given what we've just heard it was expected wasn't it but are we on the brink of another arms race. here in moscow you can hear it or try one more time given what you we've heard from mike pompei or do you think we're now on the brink of another arms race. we apologize we've lost paolo there we'll try and get him back in the next couple of minutes if we can. another news venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader one quiet has appeared on u.s.

television explaining how he intends to as president nicolas maduro and he did not rule out using pentagon 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. well the u.s. backed opposition leader brown's muros regime a dictatorship president maduro keys is quiet with attempting to stage a coup with washington's help the situation intensifies what is happening in venezuela does appear to have similarities to events in the past as it explains. they greedy 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 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 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 in its 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 my god. 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 the 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 would be happy to get new guns that are going to spend its way down so much of that we make a request to the us he says to support us in logistical terms of communication with weapons so we can realize venezuelan freedom what we need is. and. until the science 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 is that your agreement which is all options always all options are on the. you know what all of this was unintentional never planned we were stopped good job or as you advocate for our government strokes we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force is that also in the manual in a prank there will syria might not be any example because the us is hinting at involvement in venezuela almost eight years since it turned threats into action military action in libya critics war now a repeat of that scenario must be avoided. if you only main aim is the building you knew more than. we must avoid the mistake agree via. the

host of artes worlds apart program works on a boy came to join me earlier to discuss the parallels between the libyan conflict in the current situation in venezuela. one of the things that many people draw attention to was. easily extractable large reserves very easy to capitalize on baghdad if you remember the countries that pushed the most for that military intervention were the countries that benefited the most from the levy in all sectors was france and the united kingdom this time around to you see the trumpet ministration officials being pretty often about. all reserves and their eagerness to lay their hands on them so. there's more than just one parallel there but the one thing that absolutely amazes me is that there is absolutely lack of consideration for the consequences neither now nor back then and one would think that the obama administration people in these two who consider levy as one of their mistakes president obama was actually pretty honest in saying that. he's mean

regrets was never thinking about day one in libya while we are not hearing anything from the obama administration officials in fact babies seem to be very eager to join the trump administration when it comes to regime change if you give enough to be speaking to the daughter of the security chief for the deposed libyan leader moammar gadhafi. she's a very interesting personality she was essentially raised by the gadhafi family. who were friends with many of his children and obviously she did not benefit from the events in two thousand and eleven and let's listen to what she has to say that's happened in. other country only maybe in syria or. before. the age of that's under control. syria now it's you see what's happening in syria but i think. the. bombing from. start to being. that they want to

save some people civilian people and that's not true. the libyan intervention didn't and then they faced a problem there's a huge migration way from libya is still a problem now in europe i've seen many black american countries. but isn't there a possibility that they could suffer too because if things turn out. well and i really like this question that you're posing because i think many people are absolutely ignoring it i mean more margaret after what he was a life was very open and warning the european officials not to jump on this nato intervention bandwagon space specifically because of the risks of opening the floodgates to you from the african continent into europe and he's warning was absolutely ignore that and i think many of the latin american and north american countries are absolutely oblivious to the risks of migration that could

represent if it falls apart we are talking about many millions of people. the continent is pretty unstable already. or did i ask members of congress if they do you think the u.s. is meddling in venezuela's political system you think the u.s. is meddling in venice. i don't think so we were the super for and. i think it's we're just supporting it's pretty much the deciding. to be peace and so i think that's good it's we are in this and. you know. ok well let's return to our breaking news this hour because washington is suspending a key arms control treaty with russia from february the second. added that the u.s.

would withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty completely in one hundred eighty days time if russia doesn't comply with the deal. the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the i and have treaties effective february second. we will provide russia and the other treaty parties with formal notice that the united states is withdrawing from the earlier truly effective in six months pursuant to article fifteen of the tree will russia says that it has not violated the treaty involved and invited american experts to verify moscow's compliance according to the kremlin spokes person the us had been preparing to withdraw from the treaty for a long time and did not attempt to hold talks on the issue or russia or added that washington's move threatens the entire global arms control system. after the us leaves the i.n.f. treaty the whole system of arms control and the stability of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty will be under threat they i.n.f.

treaty was signed back in one thousand nine hundred seven by the united states and the u.s.s.r. and it came into force a year later it stipulates that both countries must destroy all land based ballistic increased metals in the five hundred to five and a half thousand kilometer range production or testing of any such missiles is also banned europe has repeatedly pointed to the benefits of maintaining the deal with let's try and speak now with a phony he said political analyst we didn't have much luck last time paolo hope you can hear me now given what we've just heard from my pompei way over the last few minutes are we on the brink of another arms race do you think. well this is quite possible of the there is no solution within the next six months which means a new treaty. between the parties of course this will push for our trace who we have to be. going back to understand why this is happening because actually it is since two thousand and five that russia pointed out that the eurasian

strategic. outlook was different since the treaty was signed therefore requested the review oh always. we joined withdrawal to the united states to go into a new treaty the diski. proposal came into the deaf ears the us the you do have a feeling till two thousand and fourteen when obama started. the stating that russia was violating the idea of africa remained and then he arrived to the point of today's so. this is something which is quite a brother for the you know the states are almost silent. it is causing problems because of evidently such a decision is not train forcing the us scientists nor the european nato side.

at all i mean the readiness of both would be indeed put into question who is such a global level of there are of questions that are open holds who are is china. and the far east allied countries to the us will they be able to cope with the situation that this is this is going to disrupt of diplomatic move. and we shall again just not so it is russia just don't have your policies or the issue of europe there because europe has expressed concern but we had my pompei i say you know he's he's praised the support of european allies but they're actually saying that we want to stay in this i.n.f. treaty we believe it's the way forward flooring from this treaty could actually have serious consequences for europe. it is certainly this is what he was saying i mean the nato rangers are simply partners to handle a situation without the framework of the air you have to be seen i mean this is the

sense that it is much weaker than before so to a certain extent it is a problem for europe is a problem for the u.s. although the they are goals is that strong made was correct but the diplomatic solution has been to coordinate type of solution like we have been accustomed we deserve mused russian now the hope is that fresh talks will start. a new possible agreement may come out otherwise we enter into the arms race scenario that you would describe it ok paolo that we're going to have to leave it there great to hear your thoughts they want to have as part of a phony strategic and political analyst thank you. that france is bracing for a fresh best marches on saturday but with a difference because this time people won't just be calling for reforms that also pay tribute to those injured by excessive police force at previous rallies. what you were deliberately chose

a far too on the to route which is not much compared to what we did of course but we're going to have some injured people all the injured will be there the start of the march will also be sit ins and 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. more than one hundred best occasions have been opened against french police over their controversial use of riot guns in recent months leading rights organizations in the country want a complete ban on the use of the weapon which fires golf ball sized rubber bullets and has already caused serious injuries yellow vests protests.

but our sister channel r.t. france has spoken to protests to jerome rodriguez he did suffer a severe eye injury to a reportedly from a police rubber bullets during a rally last week he says the government isn't listening to the paper. 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 lost annoyed that they are completely blind even on the basis of the videotapes they run able 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 icky why call for everything to be broken it is not in our interest we are reasonable people we will not destroy our own country. that profiting from war crimes that's what a new report by amnesty international says tourism companies are doing by listing accommodation in disputed west bank settlements the reporters prompted one israeli minister though to call for the human rights group to be banned from the country israel has been illegally building settlements on palestinian land for decades but it will still be hundreds of thousands of palestinians from their land and israeli settlers who moved in these actions constitute war crimes the world's leading digital tourism companies all promote settlements as tourist destination be booking

dot com expedia and trip advisor list hotels b. and b.'s attractions and tours in several months. amnesty international criticized online booking companies for offering hundreds of place to stay in sacraments across the west bank and for failing to to state that they are in disputed territories adam shapiro is the co-founder of the international solidarity movement and he says it wouldn't be the first time that israel has banned groups like amnesty. i think the reaction by over the years rose if they were to mysterious national 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 and 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. or one of the companies listed has previously come under fire for the same issue and is accused of failing to fail a promise in november to remove listings of disputed settlements meanwhile are the companies named in the report of responded by insisting that they do in fact state clearly where the accommodation is located and that the information they provide is

a political watching r.t. we're going to take a quick break back then with more. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to

stand those business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. question. but again now in the wake of the venezuelan crisis facebook and twitter are launching another round of crackdowns on what they call foreign influence and also misinformation campaigns deleting thousands of accounts so well let's get more on this now if marty's within a question of and he joins us from the newsroom medina good evening we're hearing here a crackdown from the social media giants of the sort of highlighted exactly what they don't like while facebook and twitter have an announced

a major cleanup targeting accounts and groups they suspect were engaged in so-called enough sound to take behavior and attempts at influencing public opinion in different countries now the social media platforms as the pages groups and accounts they have removed mostly originated from russia iran and venezuela here's how facebook described a crackdown on the malicious iranian accounts. to do multiple you just group some accounts. facebook and instagram this is due to a direct run in some cases. state media content state in media is now apparently to suspend an account now the accounts of the accounts focused on issues like israel palestine conflict the situation in syria also in yemen they were also carrying proper palestinian views so reported on the saudi operation in yemen

altogether a phase bokeh has banned over two hundred pages over three hundred and fifty accounts and three groups on facebook and other social media platform twitter has also targeted accounts originating not only from russia and iran but also from venezuela and twitter has revealed that since september last year it has uncovered over four hundred suspicious accounts believed to be a link to russia and the report says that those who are mostly affiliated with the russian internet research agency now what's interesting is that twitter quote cannot render definitive attribution to the agency for these accounts although they claim that the most appear to originate in russia and much of the behavior mimics the activity of prior accounts tied to that particular group so know how hard evidence was presented but still the punishment has been meted out regardless

moreover a twitter says that it has also removed almost two thousand accounts located in venezuela. ok thanks for the info there that was within a quarter of the force. before we go astray and china of vying for influence in the audience of oceana but not quite in the way you might think. oh. oh. oh oh. oh oh oh. oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh. oh oh together with the

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