suspend. control treaty with russia. and the. interim leader refuses to rule out u.s.

military intervention in his country as he tries to oust. under scrutiny after more than one hundred cases are opened into the use of riot guns we talked to yellow vest protester who expects to lose his eye after an alleged attack by offices. that the government is. being made on the streets. thanks for joining us this evening. the u.s. secretary of state has accused russia of noncompliance with the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty threatened to pull out of the deal this summer if moscow doesn't change its behavior. 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 un after the effective in six months pursuant to article fifteen of the tree. well the u.s. has long accused russia of violating the treaty without actually providing any credible evidence the u.s. is accusing russia of testing and deploying an intermediate range missile meanwhile russia has actually exhibited the missile and given detailed explanations of its characteristics moscow is strongly denied washington's accusations saying its land based missile only complies with the ins requirements and u.s. officials didn't even bother to attend the last thing of the missile on december which they were invited to this treaty the i.n.f. treaty is crucial for the balance of powers it was signed back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by the united states and the u.s.s.r. and it stipulates that both countries destroyed missiles within the five hundred to

five thousand five hundred kilometer range under the agreement now neither the u.s. nor or russia are allowed to produce or test any such missiles in the future russia is saying that the u.s. withdrawing from the street he could trigger a new arms race a moscow has long accused the u.s. of making all to mesdames russian president vladimir putin said the u.s. was searching for any possible reason to withdraw from the treaty first the american side says it wants to leave the treaty then they start looking for reasons why the main reason given is that we are violating something but at the same time no evidence of this is presented and it is doing and now president donald trump goes further and openly suggesting creating its own so-called military response we move forward with developing our own military response options some will work with nato. and our other allies and partners to deny russia any mildred vantage from

it's a lawful conduct so this seems the four we play into the hands of the u.s. as it develops its own new nuclear weapon and further expands its military capabilities well before we get to the reaction of what's been said following what might pompei o announced just now it's worthwhile looking at what was being said by world the secretary general of nato and the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs just before the announcement was made both again stoltenberg and federico marketing any basically putting out a message they're saying this announcement is coming let's get ready for it so we must prepare for the world with out the on the truth i want we definitely don't want to see our continent to be a little guilty or a place where. other superpowers confront themselves there's violence to the fire away history in the immediate aftermath of my compost saying that there would be six months and then the u.s.

would pull out of the treaty stoltenberg tweeted that russia must use the six months to get back on track with the i.n.f. treaty also tweets coming out from the latvian minister for foreign affairs saying russia has to comply with the treaty and get that treaty if the treaty is to survive which i think is ultimately certainly seems to be the unifying message for you foreign ministers anyway that they want to see this treaty salvaged but there is hardly the resoundingly support for this u.s. decision that you may have thought was implied by what mike pompei o was saying if we look at what the german foreign minister heiko must have to say he said that this decision the end of this treaty leaves europe with less security also that we don't need debate what we need arms controls we also heard from the austrian foreign minister cutting nestle who said that she regretted the decision by the united states but hope that through dialogue the i.n.f.

treaty could swell survive and live on for another day. iran's foreign ministers also tweeted on the u.s. decision to suspend the said that any agreement with washington quote is not worth the ink. and speak out to david swanson who's us author and antiwar activist very good to have you on david an unsavory subject unfortunately a worrying one for a lot of people and we're trying to make sense of this u.s. officials it's kind of been hinted the decision might be as much about having the military capability to think to be able to keep pace with china as much as anything else what's your take on this well yes indeed this is about china as much as about russia and it's about profits for weapons makers more than anything i think it's some point we have to drop the debate as to who is violating the treaty and who violated it first and look at the incredible amount of

good it did when this treaty was created and both sides were destroying missiles and verifying cation prophecies and communication processes were loosening up though the hatred and the paranoia on both sides what happens when the u.s. withdraws from the anti-ballistic missile treaty and when the u.s. puts missiles in eastern europe and. the vicious cycle of distrust and antagonism mission that results from tearing up these treaties and i think the rest of the world needs to to disown this idea that a us president can tear up a treaty this is not how the u.s. government and it's supposed to work the congress is supposed to be able to ratify or to withdraw from treaties and the congress is supposed to be able to cut off funding for any weapons that would violate a treaty and the u.s. congress has the the ability and the responsibility to do those both of those right now my post said that the united states made every effort possible to save this

feel it's just have a listen to what was said. we've had conversations of every level at the senior levels at technical levels conversations about the nature of the systems. there's no mistaking that the russians have chosen to not comply with this treaty and. now i know you said you need to we need to move away from this conversation of who's to blame but just going to put a final lid on it do you really believe that both sides are genuinely making efforts to save this tale or they both quite happy to move on. are both sides happy to abandon the treaty really not the u.s. government. in so far as it consists of donald trump and his immediate. is happy and just about nobody else the doomsday clock is two minutes from midnight in terms of the risk of nuclear apocalypse and this is cited by the group that sets

up that clock as one of the reasons this threat to pull out of this treaty this is russia doesn't want it the people of europe don't want it the people of the united states and the world don't want it we need to be expanded building on these treaties mikhail gorbachev to credit wanted to go much farther than this treaty when and we're going to have to do that if we're going to survive yes he said gorbachev if i recall correctly he wanted to get rid of nuclear weaponry altogether this is a real step back question at this point as i understand you're involved in some way with a petition to try and save the sign of treaty you got a fair bit of support so far do you think anyone will listen. yeah if you go to roots action dot org you can find a petition backed by quite a number of big organizations and tens of thousands of people have used it to send their demand to the u.s.

congress to say step in and do not allow this i mean you have bills in the u.s. congress right now to block funding to ever withdraw any troops from south korea and another one for syria this is an insane use of what's called the power of the purse but congress has that power and it can use that power to say ok we will not find any weapons that violate this treaty and what's more we will not withdraw from this treaty a treaty on like you know the agreement on nukes with iran is a treaty it requires the congress not just the president david good to speak to appreciate a time i guess david swanson or for an antiwar activist thank you. thank you. because to venezuela now where the self-proclaimed interim leader has appeared on u.s. television explaining how he intends to oust the president nicolas maduro and he did not rule out using pentagon support i just want you to tell me whether u.s.

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 who we saw that has branded materials regime a dictatorship for the madeira accuses quite though in turn of attempting to stage a coup with the help of washington and as the situation intensifies what's happening in venezuela appears to have similarities to events from the past to trying to explain this 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 go it's time for assad to get out of the way. the stories of syria venezuela and the protest move trust rader 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 role 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 v. can 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 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 done as well and 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 that you're doing which is all options always all options are on the. you know while

all of this was unintentional never planned we will start to topple the regime after a thorough government strokes we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force is that also in the manual. and syria might not be the only example the us is hinting and involvement in venezuela but was that years after it turned threats into action military action in libya critics want to repeat of that scenario must be avoided. if you'd only to do a all name aim is the ball do you lose. we must avoid the mistake of revia. venezuela has the world's biggest oil reserves and it's no coincidence that the same countries behind the libyan catastrophe stand to gain this time again that's according to those the vanities worlds apart oxana boy who spoke to my colleague andrew farmer. 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 it nor lack of consideration for the consequences neither now nor back then and one would think that the obama administration people with these two consider leave 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 they they seem to be very eager to join the trump administration when it comes to regime change in

a given of it speaking of the daughter of the security chief of the deposed to be leader moammar gadhafi what did she say 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 just 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 ugly venezuela will be the united way as well and i really like this question that you're posing because i think many people are absolutely ignoring it i mean warmer gadhafi what he was alive 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 i believe it is 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 jervis mike split with members of congress if

they think the u.s. is meddling in venezuela's political system. i think the u.s. is meddling in venezuela. both sides are mad at it i don't think sony were the superpower in the world right now where such look i think if they're just supporting the people and supporting what they are deciding there needs to be peace that happens and so i think it's good for us it's we are the best. that you know i am. ok with talking yellow vests protest on u.k.e. relations and more after the break.

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france is bracing for fresh yellow vest marches on saturday but with a difference this fine people won't be just calling for reform they will also pay tribute to those injured by excessive police force that previous rallies. were deliberately chose a five two on 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 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 is destroyed. more than one hundred investigations have been opened against the french police over controversial use of riot guns in recent months leading rights organizations in france want a complete ban on the use of the weapon which fires golf ball sized rubber bullets

it has already caused serious injuries at the yellow vests protests. last is the channel to france to spoken to protest to jerome rodriguez who suffered a severe eye injury reportedly from a police for a bullet at a rally last week he says the government isn't listening to the people. of egypt 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 an eye 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 interests we are reasonable people we will not destroy our own country. britain and the european union are in the midst of a bitter divorce with brussels pilot. adamant that they will not allow a last minute briggs's renegotiation by prime minister to resign may nevertheless among the hostility politicians from the u.k. and germany have still found some common cause apparently exchanged some incredibly

warm divorce letters let's bring in r.t. course from the syria jerk you know who's got more on this story nice to not often you hear about friendly divorce letters tell us more. well neal you know it. may have seemed like such a far off prospect for such a long time but it's actually literally just around the corner it's happening next month and in what seems like potentially final throes of a faction before stepping into unchartered waters germany and britain have exchanged a rather emotional set of letters sent to each other in these final moments of being in the same union we saw a british group and clued in a former england footballer gary lineker and a handful of both labor and conservative m.p.'s expressed sadness at the imminent departure and really promise eternal friendship to their colleagues in germany.

who still want to be friends we love you. some of us even like your cooking given the challenges we face we need to stand together to champion the values of tolerance and openness that you see well this was published in the german newspaper and response to a letter that was originally printed by german supporters of britain staying in the european union saying don't go away we miss you please come back. british black humor and go into the pub after work hours to drink a nail would nice to you with milk and driving on the left hand side of the road nude missing the christmas but more than anything else would miss the british people friends across the channel. well the clock are quickly taking a way towards the march twenty ninth deadline if now means to just be seen exactly

what shape this friendship will be taking moving forward as politicians are really running out of time to figure that out yeah i think the key words there we would miss suggesting that perhaps briggs it isn't a done deal yet but more remain propaganda it would suggest many thanks nice to check in with the story. that brings you out of today do join me in half an hour for more news. i think it's gone into a nihilistic theme. i think and. get out to traveling across america to find what makes america the charlatans the genius is this the

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