theme. ladies and gentlemen. what. i. did. for spring. thank you each. in stories that shaped the way karen arcee crisis in venezuela has a new wave of american sanctions by president with euro warns the west to pack off as its boys president turns up the pressure. house. moscow suspends participation in

a landmark nuclear treaty in a mere response to washington's with drool over alleged russian violations also to come. twelve consecutive weekend of p.l.o. best protest in france sees clashes between demonstrators and police during a march denouncing police by. watching r.t. international the brinkley. events over the last seven days must stop with venezuela too because the situation there is escalating in a speech at a program government rally the country's president nicolas maduro called on his supporters to back him and said early elections could be held in the opposition controlled national assembly meanwhile the rival his rival has asked for the

country's military to come over to his side. the youngest member of the three national assembly do you agree with that i agree and i stand by that decision do you want to elections do you want. let's have parliamentary elections now. soldiers the hour has come the moment has come to declare your support for the constitution humanitarian aid and for change for your family people are gathered here to protest against any class might do or enter the man free elections this guy was made by one white oh in other parts of the city there's also protests to subordinate class my dear us president and also to celebrate the twenty years of the revolutionary socialists and there were some very strong his words from the u.s. is no time for dialogue this is time for. all options are on the table. i. need to listen the girl who would do well not to

test the resolve of the united states. i wish him a long quiet retirement on a pretty beach far from venezuela and the sooner he takes advantage of that the center is likely to have a nice quiet retirement on a pretty beach rather than being in some other beach area like guantanamo. asked venice china. asks venezuela do you feel there already tense political climate in the country a military of high rank today a general also bad and one way to go as president. of korea will sort out your because maduro and recognize where you don't is the president in charge of the all of the real republican. congress in arms i ask you not to turn your back and look at people and. meanwhile economic sanctions imposed by the u.s.

and allies against majeure are starting to bite they do target the country's case source of revenue oil by freezing seven billion dollars in assets a move that is set to further increase the cost of basic goods like food and keep protesters on the streets it is estimated that the sanctions will cost venezuela eleven billion dollars in lost all exports this year washington said that it would lift the sanctions if control is transferred to quiet though where is the oil sanctions were being announced the u.s. national security adviser gave away a bit more than he wanted to reporters did spot written on his notepad the words five thousand troops to colombia colombia shares a border with venezuela the duros then accused washington of planning his assassination. there's no doubt that trump gave an order to kill me he told the colombian government the colombian mafia to kill me if something happens to me one day donald trump and the colombian president will be responsible. well three of

washington's most hawkish figures are leading america's attempts to undermine the kind of more pain seen seeking regime change i think night of nations mike pompei o drew a line in the sand now it's time for every other nation to pick a side no more delays no more games either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with his make them sound familiar either you're with us. either you love freedom and with nations with your bridge freedom or you are the enemy yes their ideas are not new but now they're linking arms in the global spotlight some call them the axis of evil or the troika of tyranny meet mike pompei oh elliott abrams and john bolton the three amigos of imperialism john bolton was a big supporter of the iraq war and he represented the united states in the united nations an organization he really didn't care for very much united states make the u.n. work work and that is exactly the way you should be because the. united

states is. now like bomb peo is the new kid on the block without very much experience as head of the cia he tried to get the authority to conduct drone strikes in afghanistan without the pentagon's oversight and he worked day and night to rip up the iran nuclear deal at the center of it is not interested in a campaign of economic pressure to starve the regime of the revenue it uses to fund destabilisation for these throughout the middle east and indeed around the world now back in the spotlight after years of obscurity meet convicted criminal elliott abrams he was tied to massacres in el salvador any help to funnel weapons to the contras in nicaragua he was convicted for his role in covering it all up and he received a presidential pardon now he's a special envoy for venezuela it seems that his record in latin america has really impressed certain people america's new dream team is now taking an. i'm at

venezuela why because they just care so much for those poor old pressed venezuelans they want them to have a chance at freedom and democracy right or is it something else will make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela be good for the people of venezuela good for the people of the united states we both have a lot at stake here yes honesty is always appreciated the u.s. is once again talking about basically another war for oil so that it introduces these moral complications and gives rise to some serious questions about the u.s. motivations here and it's very frustrating from an american point of view it's one thing for trump to announce oh i support this other guy and that's great but but but these sanctions are kind of an act of violence in themselves i think we have to

put this in the back of the pay viewing us blockade of and as well in the stranglehold it being put on the economy of the country which is having very real humanitarian consequences for the people there it is a question of you know washington and its allies in europe and elsewhere want their cake and i do want to have their cake and eat it i mean it's very they're double distorting or think here when we ask people in venezuela the u.s. and also britain what they thought about america's stance towards caracas. we need help from stable countries and the us is a stable country. i do not recognize one why do as the interim president and the government of the us must respect the position of us men as a whelan's who have elected president maduro where fair elections. he well yes and no but there is some sense to it personally i'd say they should enter the it is venezuela that should solve the problems of venezuela. it. seems to be

a typical us move to go for any nation that has been a model oil venezuela is a country that's been around for a long time and they should solve their own problems. sometimes need to go out and just help them any more snow all over again and something to survive how many of us could go out there and help you through the proper democracy to do it in a civil suit to go forward with any idea where is on the map i have no clue how to venezuela no president. for the current person as he is i wish i did the tree is back to calls for a new election in the country i just wondered if you sort of agree that that would be the best way forward for over this way the word is out to what they want isn't it not what they want. this weeks or america suspend the

key cold war deal to limit the amount of mid range nuclear missiles the i.n.f. treaty was signed over thirty years ago in response moscow with through the next day america had claimed that russia was in violation of the cream and where the treaty banned all lambaste ballistic increased missile and missiles and launchers with short intermediate ranges r.t. if you could on of looks now what is behind the dispute. it's not like the u.s. withdrawal from the iron of deal chord anyone by surprise washington's been looking for the exit for a long time russia has repeatedly tried to steer this titanic of a relationship away from its burke. for many years we have proposed disarmament talks with our initiatives have not found the support of our partners in fact they always find a pretext for dismantling the global security system but this week everything crashed and burned and went to kingdom come but time for talk was over. you know

you don't own our american partners said they were suspending their participation in the i.n.f. treaty and we will suspend ours also they announced they were conducting research and development and we will do the same i've asked our foreign and defense ministries to keep the doors open for dialogue but also not to initiate any talks on the issue why well one last time america's top diplomat threw a barrage of accusations at russia for violating the iron of deal without a shred of proof russia has violated russia's violation russia shamelessly violated the russians are in violation of the agreement now officially in the us has a problem with this message nato classified as s s c eight russia says that it in full compliance with the i.n.f. treaty but washington chuck russia's arguments out of the window the united states

and most of our nato allies did not attend this briefing as we all saw it for water was another at tam to a few ski the violation and give the appearance our transparency was like a bottomless cup as the allegations kept pouring culminating in america's withdrawal so now more schools done with being cooperative in all actually it says the u.s. is no saint. since twenty fourteen the u.s. has deployed. m k forty one missile launches which is suitable for american tomahawk missiles which is a direct violation of the treaty these missile launches are based in rumania and already to be constructed in poland russia's defense ministry says in the past two years the us expanded its key missile factory in tucson across the board it swelled in size and hired some two thousand new employees moreover the pentagon's defense budget for this year by asked last spring and drawn up even earlier had already

calculated the scenario currently being played out and this week donald trump revealed the chapters to come 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 russia though has an ace or two apart sleeve like the brand new miss as it unveiled last year including hypersonic weapons and even the u.s. admitted it has no counter form and defense minister sergei show who says there's more where that came from we suggest starting work on adapting russia's caliber missile launch systems from maritime to land based ones we also suggest beginning work on a new land based hypervelocity ballistic missile of a short to medium range yet at the same time moscow says it's never been driven by the offensive potential of its weapons it's all about parity essentially russia

points to the fact that america's somehow been defending against the iran and north korea threats by mussing missiles on russia's border and no one likes to be surrounded by the military of a state that openly calls you an adversary and still moscow leaves the door ajar despite everything the new arms race doesn't have to begin it says russia has promised not to deploy any missiles in europe first but if the us chooses to set this in motion well two can play that game. jourdan affair with the suspension of the i.n.f. treaty has provoked a reaction worldwide particularly from europe which is feeling it is being caught in the middle of this dispute between two nuclear superpowers we definitely don't want to see is our continent a billion back to being a battlefield or a place where. other superpowers confront themselves so we must prepare for

a world with out the un if there is a need for dialogue with russia for all part of 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 i don't think the united states really engage is diplomacy anymore and we really haven't or several decades said they this your union went out of business in one thousand ninety one and we thought it was our right to establish our dominion over the entire planet i don't think they really care what the russians have to say i think what they're really interested in is gaining military superiority over russia over china as well and that these treaties simply get in the way. ok let's turn to france now because a yellow vest marched announcing police violence there saw clashes as thousands of protesters across the country took to the streets for twelve consecutive weekend

yesterday the rallies were dedicated to those in due to previous demonstrations by police firing large rubber bullets however a french court has recently ruled that their use is lawful. i. think. police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds the country's interior minister has defended the use of special weapons against rioters however he also stressed that any of us would be punished according to official figures over two thousand people plus around a thousand police officers have been hurt at yellow vest events since november the seventeenth but our sister channel r.t. france spoke to some of the protesters. during

a true on november twenty fourth that came with friends to paris to peacefully participate in a demonstration express my concerns with the usual slogans michael resigned at sixty two thirty one of the riot police squadrons attacked the moving crowd and de gea lie and four type grenade hit my legs and exploded but one sank to the injured twenty five to thirty people injured and maimed mostly yellow vests the rods those who were wounded before the socket from the se weapons are suffering so united arts class it was obvious no difference. this is important because i became part of a new family the family of the wounded i'm not the only one wounded like this i became part of a large group who were injured there are many seventeen hundred people i am the twenty if a person whose i was injured so it was important to come today in order to at least to support the speaker's meanwhile present surprised many by claiming that he too

would on a yellow vest under certain conditions political analyst and does say that the president is out of touch. if where you live this means being for higher paid work and a more efficient parliament than i i'm a yellow vest i think. the people in his entourage just don't understand what's going on there so much disconnected with what the french are living on a daily basis that they have they don't know what type of answer to bring cannot come back he is over the french president he can only get back his image he's hated by more than half the population today and i think you dislike of people disapprove of some of his actions i'm talking about a trip sometimes people don't realize how tough the police are in france how they how violent they have been these past four weeks i have seen personally and this is

a man being shot in the face just fifty centimeters away from me for doing nothing letting it out. in other news today seven people have been killed including four children harter a bus overturned in the kaluga region in central russia twenty three children are among thirty two others who were taken to hospital or in a critical condition according to local authorities as a result of the accident passengers were left trapped inside the bus rescuers did manage to get all of those on board human error on the part of the driver is the suspected cause of the crash he's currently in custody the bus was carrying forty five passengers including a group of children heading to a music competition. are still to come free men have won an award ceremony in the middle east meant to celebrate gender equality prevails quite a reaction to we'll have a look at it just after the break. the

u.s. in order to guarantee. by the population will gauge and stop to tell terry doesn't and that's clearly on the march and the population is ready for it we know they were those had to say kobe they're getting ready for their get ready to be controlled. in a world of big booty lot and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each

other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back now as part of a drive to boost equality the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony last week to recognize government efforts to employ more women but for some something wasn't quite right because all three winners were actually men quite a reaction online. i'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you but you forgot to invite women wow really nailed the diversity there one of those do those wearing gray you've achieved an excellent balance of men with dark facial head and men with the right facial hair my congratulation is still only one gender in dubai

. well the u.s. prime minister says that iraqi women are playing a central role in shaping the country's future and the getting more women into positions of power is a priority despite that women's rights are still severely restricted in the country for example women do require the commission of a male guardian to get married and they can't get a job with that their husband's consent while divorce is rarely granted we spoke to political analyst catherine shank about the award ceremony i think that the u.a.e. were at least its leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present at least in a what you want women i mean to at least pretend pretend that you are promoting gender equality not even trying they're not even doing good p.r. for pointing that gender equality either also and the question what was the point of the exercise that's all it was new at times wessel ever try actually you know repairs done to have women represented what it's made them visible somehow but

nothing was actually done other than one particular woman was congratulated for her efforts she didn't even receive you know would you imagine or anything like that it's one thing to speak reform it's another to actually enact them and i think that still for even a little bit you it's much much better than the rest of the board for one reason is that it has opened up its border to a lot of foreigners and that therefore changes had to be done. you can catch up with the rest of the world i don't think it's new we know. well the us age gender balance council says that women in the u.a.e. hold important role within society from m. pace to firefighters and also want to preserve as it adds that women will continue to be a driving force in establishing the nation as a global role model for gender it's. a separation of church and state for something paramount to the founding the founding fathers of the us but that vision is now being tested because the proposed bible literacy classes for public schools are sparking controversy in parts of the country secular activists do warn it would

set a dangerous precedent but on trump has already endorsed the plan support which was rapidly criticized online numerous states introducing bible literacy classes giving students the option of studying the bible starting to make it turn back great. bible literature classes in public schools clearly violate the first amendment which seeks to ensure our government does not support a stoppage a national religion. i propose that we also have hindus i'm buddhist egyptian book of that and the courses they predate the bible are in the historical significant there are already optional bible literacy classes offered around the country every weekend it's called sunday school whatever happened to the separation of church and state. it was to allow bible classes have been introduced in several states already

the proposed courses are optional mainly on the historical importance of the text opponents to say that it violates the confucians the amendment by the ending government support to religion we've got the views don't lowden he's a former republican member of the missouri senate and kevin bolling he's from the secular student ally it's i think one of the bottom lines of you know it comes down to is who do we want teaching religion i don't want my government teaching religion i don't want our public institutions teaching religion i think that's a great place for or for the religious community i'm not afraid that kids are going to get bible instruction or qur'an instruction in high school and suddenly be. turned into terrible people that most of the founding fathers actually had pretty good statements supporting the separation of church and state we want our schools to teach we don't want them to preach people just want to be left alone if a school wants to have a bible class let them have a bible class i don't know why so many people are afraid of

a book if you really want to get into what the historical documents of the bible are i'm not sure that there were a lot of things a lot of christians would want for school to be teaching the bible discusses a lot about sex and slavery and genocide and rape i don't want my school teaching my children that the whole reason that this law is necessary is that the bible is singled out for banning from schools the qur'an is is working its way into a curriculum all across the country and there is very little controversy around that it's in but it's when the bibles brought in of a single out the bible to be banned and so that necessitated laws like the ones that are being looked at that say hey you are so missing the founding fathers wanted the bible as part of our cricket expected the bible they just assumed it it was a stand. across country for the first two hundred years that's can be rather difficult

for for elementary schools and high schools to do that i mean here in los angeles and so we probably have the talent pool where we can find someone who has that background that educational background to properly be able to and instruct that class and that's how the weeklies looking safe today here and i see them to get plenty of stories to you at our website you can find that article. i think he has a big achiles. election. they have elections people are suffering from many things they're. sick you are i think.

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