only grow higher. in a tit for tat response russia says it is suspending participation in the case nuclear treaty after the u.s. made the same announcement on friday. oh.

all sorts of protesters clashed with police in paris today's demonstrators gathered for a twelfth weekend in a row and activists in britain are raising the alarm over a form of child abuse designed to stop breast developing in young girls we speak to victims of the brutal. battle a was trying to. look at need. for the well can you watching r.t. international this saturday evening just go on seven o'clock here in moscow. peyton has announced that moscow is suspending its participation in the case nuclear treaty the president called it a mirror response after the same move from washington on friday america are also pledged to quit the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty altogether in six

months unless moscow changes its behavior commenting on the prospect of dialogue with the u.s. putin added that washington is showing little enthusiasm. for many years we have proposed disarmament talks but our initiatives have not found the support of our partners in fact they always find a pretext for dismantling the global security system that's why i've asked our foreign and defense ministries to keep their doors open for dialogue but also not to initiate any talks on the issue. well today washington officially suspends its participation in the i.n.f. treaty and it's just one episode throughout many years of dead ends talks with the united states about disarmament and now russia has decided the time for empty talks has come to a close russian president vladimir putin has said that the u.s. is refusal to heed previous russian calls for disarmament is leading to an in danger moment of international security and so

a mere response would mean not just the holding off of participation on russia's and in the i.m.f. treaty but also a taking up of research with regard to staying on par with the united states however he also said that this does not mean russia's going to embroil itself in a costly and drawn out arms race with the west now russian foreign minister sergei lavrov also said that the us has been violating this treaty since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine specifically with its use of unmanned military drones and he also took a couple jabs at the united states m.k. forty one vertical missile launch system used by the u.s. navy now this is been in service since one thousand nine hundred eighty six and it has a ninety nine percent success rate since twenty four to the u.s. is deployed in europe in q four two one missile launches which is suitable for american tomahawk missiles which is

a direct violation of the treaty these missile launches. and already to be constructed in poland russia's the friends of the treaty two years ago before the public unsubstantiated accusations against russian suppose that violation of the on the treaty washington had already not only made the decision but to do then started preparing to manufacture a medium and shorter range missiles banned by the treating and the statement read specifically about a us military industrial corporation called raytheon bloke. hated in tucson arizona it says programs were launched back in june twenty seventh teen for the expansion and production of missiles banned by the i.n.f. treaty and that's led a lot of people in the russian government to suggest more than just political mirror reactions to what the united states is doing russia's defense minister said that some changes need to be made to the russian three m. fifty four caliber cruise missiles right now they can only be launched from the sea

but some plans are in the works to change that. with the justin war conduct and russia's caliber missile launch systems from maritime to land based ones we also suggest beginning to work on a new land base to boost to commit short to medium range now of course these are only suspensions of participation in the i.n.f. treaty but with diplomatic solutions looking less and less likely it's very likely that we'll be seeing serious developments in the story in the coming days that was don't cause reports in the will former british intelligence officer or any national details as to the suspension of the treaty by both sides does present a significant risk to european security. i've been schoolgirl in the one nine hundred eighty s. i remember the sort of the doom laden fear that we were taught at that time about the escalation the cold war and the potential of nuclear strikes and the idea that the i.n.f. treaty was put in place to stop very little warning time for any potential nuclear

strike which is what it actually means rather than intercontinental ballistic missiles was actually a really good step forward the fact that the u.s. wants to rip up this treaty place intermediate range nuclear missiles which would give very little warning for an attack in europe again one is very bad for the you security because it puts you right in the target of any countries that might be threatened and it also reflects to a certain extent i think how president trump who has largely been boxed in by what some people call the deep state or the intelligence security complex in america he's been hedged around and around with national security advisors who are cold war head bangers like john bolton. well america has been threatening for some time to draw from the i.n.f. treaty alleging as we have heard that russia is in violation of it moscow denies this and actually invited the u.s. to clean up the pressure. the trumpet ministration he said to go down and it is

straightforward if you start with a big and blunt accuse ation locally or forces really without remorse any intelligence clear and coherent facts of the presumed violation no need to bother with those for all you know they can be totally utterly nonexistent because if you repeat an allegation enough times there's a good chance it will become a given russia has violated russia's violation russia shamelessly violates it the russians are in violation of the agreement the russians have been violating they have documented is being violated by the russians let the charge sink in for a while and it's time to switch to threats here comes the pinnacle of the scheme and ultimatum if russia does not return to for a verifiable compliance with the treaty within the six month period by verifiably destroying its violating missiles there launchers associated equipment the treaty

will terminate other side of the story easy just stay deaf to any counter-argument and build on the empty accusations white house officials have named to the weapon they believe violates the treaty russia in turn invited to the u.s. to come and examine it personally but since the u.s. ignores russia's attempts at corp those offers are apparently worthless for washington's allies as well and the response russia has long violated the treaty of today is no longer contributes to global and regional security totally agree with the u.s. decision u.k. in allies are clear that russia alone is responsible for the demise of the i.n.f. treaty yeah power. more school's eagerness to provide open access to something as sensitive as a key new russian made cruise missile is not very fire ball enough for nato we

have to be. an alarming development and we see that we are stepping back. behind. the cold war era at the end of europe on the other hand to seize the iron of deal as one of the few documents preventing it from being blinded to right into the middle of a new arms race between the us and russia yet while the e.u. has been very consistent pleading for the treaty to stay now it is torn between obligations to its transatlantic big brother and well instinct of self-preservation so we must prepare for a world without the un if. 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 if 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 nato will ferrell is sas what the u.s. withdrawal would mean it is important to keep the window for dialogue open and in fact washington doesn't mind admitting whose interests it's putting first make no mistake about president transmissions at present transmissions that is to make sure that any agreement that we entered into has america's best interest we will move forward with developing our own military response options and will work with nato and other allies and partners to deny russia any military advantage from its unlawful conduct but trump doesn't want to see the concept of the end of the deal destroyed completely he says he wants a better. i hope that we're able to get everybody had a very big and beautiful room through a new treaty that would be much better yet he's maimed to so many deals the u.s.

has sworn to stay committed to one might wonder why anyone would be unaware enough to trust the states again while we now have six who changed course because what we have seen not only with the i.n.f. treaty but also with other treaty obligations is that this u.s. government is unwilling to fulfill its obligations and the international community can no longer just stand by and watch well in the latest development china has reacted negatively to trump's proposal for a new nuclear treaty beijing says that it would not. multilateral is a sion of the treaty involves a series of political military and legal issues that are complicated in many countries a quite concerned the top priority is to safeguard and implement the existing treaty world rather than drafting a new one to replace the old one the americans are more concerned about trying to than russia so therefore at the back of their mind they need meszaros which will go

further than the five hundred to five thousand five hundred kilometers that they are allowed in the iran they want to charge will be good further than that because through main target will be china so therefore if you like the americans are developing weapons which they hope will reach china from europe and so on so therefore the owner of treaty from american point of view is out of date they want a new one you can trump talks about a new treaty he's talking really about russia and china. ok let's go to france now because police there have fighting gas and water cannon. was. was was

ok well those are some of the pictures taken this afternoon these are live pictures now from paris again more than twenty demonstrators have reported anything to attain today and police officers have been injured in clashes this time around though participants there aren't just calling for social reform the rallies are dedicated we're told for those injured by police in previous marches authorities do say that over two thousand people have been injured since november seventeenth this comes after president macron launched the so-called national dialogue in a bid to find common. around with the protesters to the surprise of many though he's also expressed solidarity with the movement. for yellow versed means being for higher paid work and a more efficient parliament than i am a yellow vest for the publisher and writer american mom feel to tell us that micron appears to be out of touch with the french people. he thinks he's likely yellow vests his living 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 all the broken traces of these people who cannot through their children and we are not afraid risking losing our you know during a demonstration during this demonstration straps because there are some traps speaking about working for a better salary if mr mccraw or another financial recent crash wants to increase. his salary everyone understands uncrossed entranced that it's big news more for him and less for the french because i think it's just so on li a bad joke and that mr mccloy is just underlining the yawning gap between him and the french more than one hundred best again humans have been opened against french police over their controversial piece of right guns on yellow vest protesters in recent months leading rights organizations in the country want a complete ban on the use of the weapon which has five rubber bullets the size of

golf balls that are he did manage to speak with a witness of the alleged use of excessive force. in demonstrations lay says and they're going to show you that the people in the center center yes first of the police and they don't do it until this is it he didn't do it. and this was started and it's not that the tool that they use it on the s. and this is it in fact you see some towns in the provinces where they are the most fish know a lot. of the elvis i think this is a this which is where they were the skulls from you watching out international back with more knees after the break. join me every thursday on the alec 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.

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again ivan is why there is currently being pressured by washington again because the white house warns that president nicolas maduro shouldn't test his patients and should make way for the u.s. backed opposition leader. this is no time for dialogue this is time for the all options are on the table i. saw the new congress material would do well to test the resolve of the united states. was in this crisis in which. any other officials of the transit ministration are seeing it anything their plan is for in its defense will mean possible aggression from the us all options on the table these this is blackmail and the government has the people to represent and defend maluco didn't just become

president for his own sake he became president because he was elected this. president move by the united states to have an open call an admittance that the us is playing the principal role in trying to overthrow the mughal government and the ball bearing revolution what with international threats mounting venezuela self-proclaimed interim leader is a table to choose the right side of history mass anti-government protests are planned for later on saturday but they were the internal keys is quite out of attempting to stage a coup with washington's help and his supporters are also expected to take to the streets later today when his party boy goes alternative take on the situation in venezuela and her latest episode of in case you missed it. in case you missed it venezuela is going through a spot of political turbulence but do not worry because the good samaritans in the west are going to sort it out yeah i know.

it's all a bit of a bird in venezuela there are food shortages glaciers out of control the president's mistah show is out of control and the country doesn't want to miss wild title in over a decade and now there is a potential civil war must arise and it's pretty nightmarish leader nicolas maduro has been don't think he's sound so on t.v. and praising with the army take it from me down saying. not a good sign after a position leader guy joe declared himself acting president and demanded new elections earlier this month madeira called it a coup but in other more chrissy there is only one vote that counts and god has it america's that's where i swear my eyes analysis of venezuela's domestic politics and i don't remember exactly what's actually going on over there but this is one of those select few countries which gets almost no attention day to day in the wider world until suddenly for a brief news cycle everyone has an opinion on the u.s.

and its european buddies are among voters are formed an opinion and they're now in the mood for a sprinkle of political interference not the bad kind like sending tweets and making new t. facebook groups the good guys for any military action imposing sanctions fermenting civil service reasons a good western samaritans cared deeply about the venezuelan in a way in which they don't care about the yemenis now even going by we are going to have less cut some slack than south american crews or like presidential libraries every self respecting us we used to have at least one name but the likes of britain and france taking a break from failing to sort out their own political turmoil to tell them is way less to slow takes to. why then eight days that isn't true my dear it's got some powerful russia china to name but if you but if anyone thinks that being caught in

the middle of this is going to put the lives of ordinary venezuelans history's got a different method for you guys may come to wish they'd so it is this one out among themselves. now a form of child abuse known as breast styling is said to be on the rise in the u.k. reports suggest dozens if not hundreds of british girls are being shipped subjected to it most of the victims are of african descent with the practice common place in parts of the continent the practice aims to do breasts from asian preteen girls by painfully massaging skin with hot wooden sticks and also stones and ruptures the idea behind the procedure is to discourage male attention and prevent rape warns that it is one of the most underreported gender based crimes in the world we spoke to two women who were victims in their childhood and they do say typically it is the parents who commit the abuse where i was. younger my mom say

me to my. bris was just evil to see it is to beak. she. put it in. the. i was crying she slapped me. all's well maybe i was trying to do it so there i should. not look at me just saw you know be off you are you know it's just. nice but we also spoke to the co-founder of the children's rights group and she believes the problem is bigger and being reported it thousands of girls have been victims all they've been affected by breast and this is because most of them migrate to the u.k. we already have the problem of breast ironing doctors so the practice does have severe

health implications breast dining can increase the risk of cancer and can also lead to complications with breast feeding later in life procedure can also cause infections and result in physical and psychological damage the u.k. government has vowed to criminalize the practice although it has been accused of being slow to respond or wanting young well again told us about the appalling consequences of breast on. most of them have got sagging press because you know the scheme has been strange because first of all they use those stones and youth and falls and the pieces to suppress the growth of the breast and this is make sure and where once the breast tries to foster self out what happens and this affects their whole life long conditions in the sense that they are emotionally disturbed they even finally did he call to even open up to people even on press in front of their friends even all norms in front of the has been. and that is how the news is

looking so fast a day here in r.t. don't forget that we are keeping across that's a story in paris and across france today b.f.s. protests there are occurring for the twelfth weekend and around the have been clashes with police you can see from these live pictures we're back again with the headlines on more stories at the top of why. all. these balls to go to the wall for your. money if you're there gun crews decide to move ahead. with. begin to gather you very for example and they. would be for level they kind of integration that's does fall civil so it does ball

a lot proving she would not be part of the change. when lawmakers manufacture consent instinctive public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round lifts and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. i mean really need to. do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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 and we became an overseas empire by taking islands in various parts of the world and then after the second world war we began to

a global empire narrow we are playing on the whole billiard. table. 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. u.s. president. years ago i wrote a book about how the united states overthrew the government of quote a moloch 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 that a paper life's. little

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