i. was. to state suspends a key nuclear arms control treaty with russia it's not in compliance for the claim that the kremlin denied. this reactions from e.u. leaders suggest growing opposition to jeopardizing the deal with warnings it could take the world back to a bottle feel between you. know the news venezuela interim

leader refuses to rule out u.s. military intervention in his country as he tries to oust president nicolas maduro. for the use of riot guns we've spoken to a yell of us protest expects to leave his wife and alleged attack by. the government or was he couldn't hear the demands of the appeals being made on the streets. good evening thanks for joining us. and. russia says that it reserves the right to respond to america's this isn't to suspend its obligations under the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty on friday the u.s. secretary of state announced the move saying that washington would pull out of the

deal completely this summer if moscow doesn't change its behavior. the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the and have treaty effective february second. we will provide russia and the other treaty parties with formal notice that the united states is withdrawing from the i.m.f. treaty effective in six months pursuant to article fifteen of the tree. in any credible evidence the us is accusing russia of testing it 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 so 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 claims 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 us withdrawing from this treaty could trigger a new arms race a moscow has long accused the us of making all to mesdames russian president vladimir putin said the u.s. was searching for any possible reason to withdraw from the treaty. 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 a response option some will work with nato allies and partners to deny russia any mildred vantage from its lawful conduct so the seems the fully play into the hands

of the u.s. as it develops its own new nuclear weapon and further expands its military capabilities. the head of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation council says the u.s. decision proves washington's quote intent to finish off a no that crucial pillar of arms control constantine course itself out it might bump zero simply made public a decision taken a long time ago and that moscow could do nothing to change it peter all of has been gathering international reaction. well before we get to the reaction of what's been said following what might pompei zero announced 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 against altenburg 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 do i want to we definitely

don't want to see our continent to be in a battlefield or a place where. other superpowers confront themselves or there's violence to the fire only 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 from e.u. 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 start 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. overruns foreign minister has also tweeted on the u.s. decision to suspend the deal javert serif said any agreement with washington quote is not worth the ink. let's bring in peter nick who is the director of the nuclear studies institute at american university and he's also co-author with all of a stone of the untold history of the united states good evening to you peter it's been suggested that this isn't so much about russia's compliance or noncompliance

but that is actually as much about the u.s. being worried about china developing its nuclear arsenal what's your opinion well there seems to be some truth to that about ninety to ninety five percent of china's missiles don't comply with this and china is not a party to this treaty so but the united states is not threatened by china's missiles you know this only applies to ground large missiles the united states has seen launch missiles air more missiles that can certainly counter anything that china can do it washington has said that russia's responsible for a new arms race if that's what happens after the u.s. leaves the treaty. is that a cause for concern do you think. a new arms race a definite cause for concern really began in two thousand and two when the united says pulled out of the a.b.m. treaty. then trump's first discussion with putin after trump was elected.

and says we have to talk about extending the new start treaty from didn't know what the new start treaty was he put down the phone he asked his advisors gets back on the phone and says no it's a bad treaty we don't want to extend it that expires in twenty twenty one so if we get rid of the a.b.m. treaty we pull out of the i.n.f. treaty and we also don't extend the new start treaty we're back where we were in the one nine hundred eighty s. with a new nuclear arms race as very dangerous especially given all the tensions now internationally the boonies how much scientists executives just kept their hands a doomsday clock at two minutes before midnight we've got hotspots around the world crises conflicts that are ours are modernizing their nuclear arsenals the u.s. has the biggest program one point seven trillion dollar program we think over thirty years to make those nuclear weapons more usable by the end march first date

of the nation addressed he announced that russia now has five new nuclear weapons all capable of circumventing american missile defense so we're in a very dangerous situation and for the united states to be doing this now is quite reckless that's a listen to among pompeo said about this he said that every effort been made by the u.s. to translate this deal let's have a listen. we've had conversations at 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. is that true and if so how we ended up in the situation where it looks like the deals in danger of collapsing. there's some truth to that united states who are making issue of this since two thousand and fourteen just nice has not been presenting real

evidence to support it but there's a general agreement that the claims have some validity and the russians have not been willing to go along with the what the u.s. wants which is destroying those systems that the united states says doesn't comply russia counter buys shoes in the united states of violating the treaty in three different ways so we've gone back and forth all we need is more discussions we need to figure out how to bring russia back into compliance if russia is not complying with us and it's in everybody's interest as nato has said explicitly in the past this is a crucial element in international security and in arms control with the last thing we need right now is to get rid of this what we need is more arms control agreements where we need to be thinking about as the nonproliferation treaty demands the nuclear powers are supposed to be getting rid of their nuclear arsenals back in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. we had seventy thousand nuclear weapons and now we're the potential is we can go

back to that from seems indifferent to that risk the europeans understand it this was a nuclear treaty that eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons and wasn't as good as what we hoped to get out of reykjavik but he still a major step forward and now we're threatened with going back to that very very dangerous confrontational situation that we dealt with back in one nine hundred eighty seven. when you put only any blame on just poor relations between the u.s. and russia at the moment does it need healthy relations and a strong bond of trust between them in order to have a deal like this. while even when we have here is when we didn't trust each other this deal persevered we need to improve relations between the united states and russia and. their relationship to turn rated to the worst point they've been probably since one thousand nine hundred sixty two or certainly since the early one nine hundred eighty s.

and so even the space beyond this deal beyond this this sex treaty which is so crucial there are so many areas in which we need to improve relations. and in the united states the discourse is very disconcerting it's russia bashing putin bashing demonization of russia everything is anti russia criticism or russia i mean there this is a time when we need more dialogue not less dialogue because we do have the basis for common ground in dealing with the issues that confront us a nuclear proliferation and the nuclear threat and the standoff as well as that the nato expansion. is crucial to us russian relations now we need to be talking about this. falling out of this treaty at this point is the exact opposite of what the united states should be doing us it is freezing the deal for now but says it will be over in six months without what they say needs to be russian

compliance do you take them seriously or not do you think they still generally want to keep this daylight. it depends on who you're talking about the people who are driving this primarily john ball ball and in my history the one who is first agreed upon bolton has been talking about pulling out of this treaty so years now and threaten you know more and morning about russian noncompliance but ball doesn't trust any international treaties that he brought to maurice and it's also a nuclear hawk and doesn't trust treaties so he's got an element within the trumpet ministration regime to have the upper hand now i want to get rid of all these international treaties that are caesar and constraint upon us sovereignty it's a very very dangerous mindset and as i warned my russian colleagues throughout the last campaign if you support donald trump watch out for what you're going to get

presence is going to be even more dangerous than the hawkish hillary clinton i think so my russian colleagues now understand how dangerous destructive ministration really can date peter many thanks for coming on r.t. international good to speak to get your views my guest peter professor of history and director of the nuclear studies institute at american university thank you peter. so different as well in our the self-proclaimed interim leader one glider has appeared on u.s. television explaining how he intends to oust the incumbent 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 we saw the bronze majeure as regime

a dictatorship as the madeira though of attempting to stay there appears to have similarities to events from the past easily paternal explains. 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 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 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 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. 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 sanction some 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 of day says it's noontide 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 that we make a request to the us he says to support us in logistical terms of communication with weapons so we can realize ten as well and freedom what we need is and oneness and until and until the cough 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 oh wasteful options or other. you know what all of this was unintentional. never planned we will stop looking to topple regimes and over throughout governments folks we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force is that also in the manual. syria might not be the

only example the u.s. is hinting at their involvement in venezuela almost eight years after it turned into a military action in libya critics want to repeat of that scenario must be avoided . we must avoid. venezuela has the world's biggest oil reserves and it's no coincidence the same countries behind the libyan catastrophe stand to gain again this time that's according to a host of artie's worlds apart program works on a boy who spoke to my colleague andrew farmer one of the things that many people draw attention to was 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 of the united kingdom this time around to you see the trumpet ministration officials being pretty often about. all reserves and

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 at these top 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 they have reason 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 of the deposed libyan leader moammar gadhafi what did she say she's a very interesting personality she was essentially raised by the gadhafi family. who are friends with many of his children and obviously she didn't have benefited from the events in two thousand and eleven and let's listen to what she has to say

what's happened in libya. other country only maybe in syria or. wasn't an easier before the. egypt and the egypt it's under control. syria now it's you see what's happening in syria but i think. having bombing from. start to bombing. they want to save some people civilian people and that's not true the libyan intervention didn't and then they faced a problem that is 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 may 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 graffy one he

was alive was very open 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. genest max blumenthal asked members of congress if they think the u.s. is meddling in venezuela's political system you think the u.s. is meddling in venezuela there are three men who are. here most arabs are mad and if i don't think so me were the superpower in the world i will say what i think if you're just supporting them it's a pretty much they are deciding yeah me to be. and so i think it's good it's we are

at that freedom. you know i and. france is bracing for fresh yellow vests marches on saturday but with a difference this time people won't just be recalled calling for reform they'll also be paying tribute to those injured by excessive police force at previous rallies. were deliberately chose to follow through on the to root 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 will also be 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 french police over their controversial use of right 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 it has already caused serious injuries at yellow vests protests. or sister chan r.t. france spoke to protest to jerome rodriguez who suffered a severe i sharif reportedly from a police rubber bullet during

a rally last week he says that the government isn't listening to the people. but i understand now that the government is deaf to us that we couldn't hear the demands of the appeals being made on the streets but now i see why you lost annoyed 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 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. britain and the european union are in the midst of a bitter divorce with brussels politicians and them and they will not allow

a last minute brags that renegotiation by prime minister to resign may nevertheless among the hostility politicians from the u.k. and germany have found common cause even exchanging some remarkably warm letters. explains. well it may seem to like such a form before stepping into unchartered waters we're seeing an exchange of quite emotional letters between britain and germany we saw a group from britain including people such as former england footballer gary lineker and m.p.'s from both labor and the conservative party addressed sadness to their german coley exam about the imminent departure and saying they would like to stay friends forever we still want to be friends we love you. some of us even like your cooking given the challenges we face we need to hold mark well this came as a follow up and was published in a german newspaper to

a letter that came from germany to britain just a couple of weeks ago saying to britain don't go we'll miss you please come back. british black humor and go into the pub after work hours to drink a nail we 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 we would miss the british people friends across the channel well exactly what shape this future friendship is going to be taking remains to be seen with the press it's now expected to still take place on march twenty ninth with time ticking away for politicians to figure out exactly what it is going to look like. in iraq to put i think staying without international dates at the top of them.

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