and in this. i know. a lot of. the u.s. secretary of state suspends a keen uclear arms control treaty with russia what compiler cites noncompliance from moscow what claim that the kremlin denies. reactions from e.u.

leaders suggest growing opposition to jeopardizing the deal with warnings that could take the world back to a battlefield between nuclear superpower. the girls would do well not to test the resolve of the united states i guess vice president warns venezuela's leader nicolas maduro to quit not provoke washington as all options are on the table. french police are under scrutiny after over one hundred cases are open into the use of riot guns we speak to again i've asked protester who expects them to see sawing off to an alleged attack by offices. i understand now that the government is deaf to us it couldn't hear the demands of the appeals being made on the streets. so welcome to all things national life from moscow wherever you are tonight thanks

so much for joining us this hour. now russia says it reserves the right to respond to america's this issue and to suspend its obligations under the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty early on friday the us secretary of state explained 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. 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 us has long accused russia of violating the treaty without actually providing any credible evidence the us 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 lasting 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 us withdrawing from this treaty 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 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. other allies and partners to deny russia any mildred vantage from its a lawful conduct so the seems the fully play into the hands of the us as it develops its own new nuclear weapon and further expands its military capabilities. russia's foreign ministry says the decision follows an established pattern of washington breaking international agreements moscow insists it's not a question of russia's violation of the i.n.f. treaty an american strategy aimed at removing international and legal obligations it's all of us been gathering global reaction. well it does seem like this was

expected like this was the where world leaders were waiting for this decision to be made especially if we look at the statements made by stoltenberg the nato secretary general federica mockery in the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs shortly before the mike pompei o announcement that the u.s. would be pulling out of the i.m.f. it certainly seems like they felt it would be in coming so we must prepare for a world without the un they've treated i want to we definitely don't want to see our continent million back to being a battlefield or a place where. other superpowers confront themselves this belongs to a faraway history or straight away after the pompei o announcement stoltenberg tweeted out that russia must use the next six months to get their house in order in order to try and save the treaty the latvian foreign minister in a very similar vein saying russia needs to comply with the deal the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt also incredibly critical of russia in the immediate aftermath

sending out tweets the german chancellor angela merkel though said that she hopes that her country can play a role in dialogue with russia to try and solve this issue. it is clear to pass the trash has violated this treaty and that's why there is a need for dialogue with russia for our part the german foreign minister and i will do everything to pave the way for talks within the six month period apart from that need to will thoroughly sassed what the u.s. withdrawal would mean it is important to keep the window for dialogue open. the german foreign minister said that this decision by the united states to pull out of the i.m.f. would make europe less secure but did say that the world doesn't need debates it needs well it needs controls on these type of weapons the austrian foreign minister as well added her voice saying that she regretted the u.s.

decision but hopes for a dialogue and that the i.n.f. treaty can be saved in the future now we've also heard reaction from iran if you cast your mind back to last year the united states unilaterally pulled out of a nuclear deal with tehran what we've heard from the iranian foreign minister is this deal signed with the united states may not be worth the ink. peter cosmic professor of history and the director of the nuclear studies institute at the american university told us that washington's move is a serious threat to world peace. back in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. we had seventy thousand nuclear weapons one point five million here is she. the equivalent to us and now we're 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 it was 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 given all the tensions now internationally the bull needs 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 very very dangerous right now and every country all nine nuclear powers are modernizing their nuclear arsenals so we're in a very dangerous situation and for the united states to be doing this now is quite reckless. the standoff between the venezuelan government and its opposition leader is escalating after the u.s. officially recognized one door as interim president washington has now warned nicolas would do or to resign this is no time for dialogue this is time for

options are on the. littlest material would do well not to test the resolve of the united states. has appeared on us t.v. explaining how he intends to oust president nicolas maduro and he didn't 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 with the situation intensifying what's happening in venezuela appears to have similarities to events in the postes . explains they really think the whole world is too fullish to notice either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're an elite 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 meant 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 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 vacant 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 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 have been as well as been it's going on so much time that we make a request to the us he says to support us in logistical terms of communication with weapons so we can realize. 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 the agreement which is all options always all options are on the.

you know what all of this was unintentional never planned we will stop the game to topple the regime and to throw the governments folks we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force is that also in the manual the journalist experiment bostom is of congress if they think the us is meddling in venezuela's political system they think the us is meddling in venezuela there's a man who is. mossad zermatt if i don't think so me were the superpower in the world. i think if you're just supporting the people it's a pretty much the area deciding. to be happy and so i think that's good for us since we aren't that great and. you know i am. joined live by blumenthal himself for more on the responses he got on capitol hill

mike thanks for joining us on the program today spoke to quite a few congressmen and women there i see what was the most common reaction to your questions that you got. ignorance just complete ignorance and silence i mean congressional leadership leaders always complain that getting their party in line for a vote is like herding cats but what we saw here was more like the war lobby herding sheep and and getting the silence of the lambs i mean you saw a combination of complete ignorance about the issue and an unwillingness to speak up among so-called progressive who campaigned on a platform of peace one person i'd be thinking of there is alexandria ocasio cortez who basically has refused to say anything about this you know it's quite ironic given that bit of a role we've also recently had because you know obviously don't trump was previously expressed hesitant so dismay at previous us interventionism when you'd expect that from the progressive suv now see when you switch side i mean does that

surprise you also that you got from these congress pete congress men and women. i mean there's a fear among some speaking up about this but you know donald trump's a good example someone who you know doesn't come to the table with a foreign policy skillset doesn't seem to know a whole lot about the world and that's the way a lot of people are on capitol hill as one member of congress who said that venezuela shouldn't be embargoed lacy clay the democrat from missouri that the u.s. has played a terrible role in south america and central america when i asked why don't you speak up about it he said because this isn't my issue i don't know that much about it my issue is financial services and i would hear that across the board from people i spoke to on capitol hill yesterday just you know there was a briefing today and i didn't get to go to the briefing so i'm not going to say anything and that's why it's so easy for the war lobby and john bolton to basically steamroll congress and get its agenda done without any resistance so you think

that's the main reason why so many members of congress seem to back with such for us the role the u.s. is playing in south america here i mean do you think it's choosing to believe as a foreign national formation is actually a you know important to their constituents back in the united states. well yeah i mean the whole russian meddling in russia gate saga is not really that important to most members of congress nor is foreign policy ronald reagan said that himself he said americans don't vote on foreign policy so that's why for example we saw a recently every single member of congress vote in support of a crushing sanctions bill on nicaragua which is another member of john bolton's troika of tyranny it's ignorance they don't care they don't want to get in the way and in this case you have the us on the brink of some kind of war on a country of thirty million people a proxy war would create a syria or libya style situation in the western hemisphere that could leave hundreds of thousands of dead and produce millions more refugees and yet when i

would ask people in congress about this it was just a shrug of the shoulders along with the whole insanity of naming a low level figure from the national assembly like one why do as the president people in washington didn't seem to know that that had even taken place it's going to be a crucial few days isn't it for nicolas maduro for the people of venezuela more fulsome isn't i mean how do you think the situation is going to play out with those very very familiar veiled threat threats some would say from a vice president much pence not to test us resolve all options on the table i mean could this go the way of some sort of intervention some sort of use of force. would we need to be really concerned about that i you know speaking to sources in caracas they tell me there's a tense calm the opposition is not really on the streets it's at its weakest point internally and what everyone's worried about is an external intervention that creates a libya style situation most venezuelans are opposed to this and most venezuelans do not want war and today we've seen the opposition actually fragment with enrique

cup relay's who is a much more popular figure than one in the opposition express a total lack of confidence about what the u.s. is doing so we need to worry about intervention whether it's proxy warfare or direct intervention at this point and it's going to be a very tense period of time. journalist thanks for joining us that ought to give us your take on that story thanks for having me. france for just as a planning to come out in force again this weekend but this time it's not just about reform will tell you all about that just off of a short break stay tuned in all things and. looks like the beginning of the french revolution and whether one or three those an essential movement these people that you know. most of them

never went to demonstrations. they are middle class people from a working class background that's what they are. washington's force regime change strategy targeting venezuela continues unabated everything is going to plan first sanction the country in ways they punish the poor second back a so-called interim president can cut off those third deny the legitimate government of its export revenues because the use of force next. country's oil. just touch on this for momentarily i mean scotland does have a lot of oil and the whole thing is mightily confusing so the u.s. could consider invading britain right now during this breaks a tearful and take control scottish oil i mean i'm all for.

watching international france's bracing for fresh you know best marches on saturday but with a difference this time people won't just be calling for reforms that also pay tribute to those injured by what they say was excessive police force previous running. but don't tell most of us you know about what you were deliberately chose the five to 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 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. more than a hundred of us to geishas 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's already caused serious injuries at the yellow vest protests. also as the shuttle r.t. france has spoken to protest the jerome rodriguez he suffered a severe injury reportedly from a police rubber bullet during a rally last week he says the government just isn't listening to the people. i understand now that the government is deaf to us that it couldn't hear the demands

on 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 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. i mean while president maxwell has given an interview to french media ahead of the upcoming yellow vest protests on saturday he surprised many with his claim that he is also a ghetto vests just under certain conditions if the universe means being for higher paid work and a more efficient parliament than i am a yellow vest

a publisher and writer morville believes micron is out of touch with the lives of ordinary french people. he thinks he's like uli yellow vests his living like yellow vests maybe with a little a little bigger salary he doesn't see that he's living in a very very different world and you will see tomorrow all over the broken traces of these people who cannot feed their children and well not to fret risking losing another year during a demonstration during this demonstration straps because there are some traps speaking about working for a better salary if mr macro or another financial recent crash wants to increase its salary everyone understands uncrossed in france that it's big news more for him and less for the french and because i think it's just so only a bad joke and that mr mccloy is just underlying the yawning gap between him and the french. australia and china are vying for influence in the islands of

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it was in the one nine hundred fifty s. that our secretary of state john foster dulles proclaimed 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 now we are playing on the whole billiard.

the united states has always had a variety of tools to use in 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 that country's attorney talking about . and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country particularly in our own press and in the press of that leader's own country. americans love to think there were intervening in other countries to

overthrow evil people and if that's true you have to make the person look evil. and nineteen fifty one ottomans came to power in guatemala to being a looked at by the people. the use of us. years ago i wrote a book about how the united states overthrew the government of quantum allah in nineteen fifty four. the case of guatemala is a great example of american call for action during the period of the one nine hundred fifty s. when covert action was at a peak. the country lost its legitimate government. of people lost their lives.