mary. jane mead behold. donald trump announces he doesn't rule out sending troops to venezuela to support opposition leader. that after washington impose new sanctions on president maduro he warned the u.s. to back off and stop seeking regime change.

in the stories that shaped the way that moscow suspends participation in the landmark nuclear treaty in a mirror responds to washington's withdrawal over alleged russian violations also to come. to twelve consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests in france in clashes between demonstrators and police during a march denouncing police violence. follow the latest developments in a look back what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. donald trump to stress again that he does not rule out the use of military force in venezuela to support self-proclaimed leader. the former secretary

of the u.n. human rights committee for design says that such threats made by washington are in violation of international law. through paragraph four of the united nations charter prohibits not only the use of force but the correct of the use of force i am concerned that if there is an attack. from. brazil or made it and with the majestical or other support from from washington that there will be a civil war and tension falling for a bit the united states is only interested in venezuela's oil in venezuela bold on the outside. there's a lot of money to be made the idea is a looting campaign similar to all the destruction of iraq in two thousand and

three on the destruction of libya in two thousand and eleven is basically only money. well earlier this week in a speech at a pro-government rally the country's president nicolas maduro called on his supporters to back him and said earlier and said early elections could also be held in the opposition controlled national assembly meanwhile his rival has asked for the country's military to come over to his side being 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 make shoes 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 support me call as mature as 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 i . need to listen the girl 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. at venice china. asks venezuela do you feel there already tense political climate in the country a military high rank today a general patton one way to go as president. of a dictatorial authority or because and recognize where you don't is the president

in charge of the varian republic of venezuela i mean comrades in arms i ask you not to turn your back on the people of. the. meanwhile economic sanctions imposed by the u.s. and allies against me you are starting to bite they do target the country's key source of revenue oil by free freezing seven billion dollars in assets a move set to further increase the cost of basic goods like food and also keep protesters out on the streets it's estimated that the sanctions will cost venezuela eleven billion dollars in lost oil exports this year alone washington said that it would lift the sanctions if control is transferred to. what is the old sanctions were being announced the u.s. national security advisor to give away a bit more than perhaps he wanted reporters did spot written on his notepad hear the words five thousand troops to colombia colombia shares

a border with venezuela do it 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 and order and he's kind of open looks now at the tame seeking regime change i think united nations like pompei oh 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 material and his may sound familiar either you're with us. if 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 it should be because the. united states is. now mike pompei o 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 visit to starve the regime of the revenue it uses to fund it was six of these throughout the middle east and 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 aim at venezuela why because they just care so much for those poor oh 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 be 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 campaign uing us blockade of and as well in the tribal border but on the economy of the country which is having very real humanitarian consequences for the people there it is a question no you know washington and it. and elsewhere want their cake and they want to have their cake and eat it up i mean it's very they're a double disporting we think. this week also saw america suspend a key cold war deal to limit the amount of mid-range nuclear missiles and claimed it was because russia was in violation of the decades old agreement moscow says though the accusations are groundless i'm a true from the treaty the next day in a tit for tat for spawn's where the treaty banned all land based ballistic and

cruise missiles and launches with short intermediate range is r.t. as you have done 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 i'm going to keep you posted on 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 are 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. in europe is 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 or in 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 the two can play that game. you have a you go jourdan of there will be suspension of the treaty has provoked reaction worldwide particularly from europe to which he was it is being caught in the middle of this dispute between tng nuclear superpowers we definitely don't want to see is our continent 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 rob 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 farley's 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 in 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 to minyan 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 dating military superiority over russia over china as well and that these treaties simply get in the way. in other news today seven people have been killed including four children when a bus overturned in the kaluga region in central russia twenty three children are among the thirty two others who were taken to hospital mumbai are in a critical condition that's according to local authorities but as a result of this accident passengers were left trapped inside the bus rescuers did manage to get to all of them human error on the part of the driver is the suspect of course of the crash he's currently in custody the bus was carrying forty five

passengers including a group of children who were heading to a music competition. watching the weekly were back again in team. i think syphilis has a bigger chance to. election. they have election people now that are suffering from many things. secure and i think. they can hope to make it to become sick. and stable country so i think he has a big chance i think the people the ninety per cent of the people they gonna be happy to say for someone. he.

joined me every first week on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics for those of us i'm sure i'll see you there. welcome back home in france a yellow vest marched announcing police violence will clash of protesters across the country took to the streets for twelve consecutive weekend the rallies were dedicated to the previous demonstrations by police firing large rubber bullets however french court has recently ruled that their use is lawful.

i. i i i. i. i i. i. i. i can choose to gas and water cannons to disperse the crags the country's interior minister has defended the use of special weapons against brightest however he also stressed that any peace will be punished according to official figures over two thousand protesters plus around a thousand police officers have been hurt festive and since november the seventeenth our sister channel r.t. front spoke to some of the demonstrate. jock to do during a true on november twenty fourth i came with friends to paris to peacefully participate in a demonstration express my concerns with the usual slogans mostly resign at sixty

two thirty one of the riot police cauldrons attacked the moving crowd and the g a light if for type grenade hit my legs and exploded. it injured twenty five to thirty people injured and maimed mostly old vests in the garage those who were wounded before the sockets from the se weapons are suffering so united artists was it was obvious no difference made up 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'm the twentieth a person who's i was injured so it was important to come today in order to at least to support the speaker's. wrong that surprised many this week by claiming that he would don a yellow vest under certain conditions political analyst or nicole america which does say the president is out of touch. if the universe 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 they're so much disconnected with what the french are living on a daily basis that they don't know what type of answer to bring cannot come back he is over the french president he could only give back his image he's hated by more than half the population today i mustn't use 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 two weeks i have seen personally and this is being shot in the face just fifty centimeters away from me for doing nothing letting it out. i was part of a drive to boost equality the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony last week to recognize government efforts to and probably more women but for some one

thing wasn't quite right because all three recipients of these awards presented by the rule of two by the vice president were actually men and it did quite a reaction online. i'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you that you forgot to invite women wow you really nailed the diversity there one of those there was wearing gray you've achieved an excellent balance of men with dark facial hair and men with the right facial hair my congratulations is here for only one gender in dubai well you prime minister does say that women are playing a central role in shaping the country's future and that getting more women into positions of power is a priority despite that though women's rights are still severely restricted in the country for example women do require the permission of a male guardian to get married and they can't get a job with that their husbands consent while divorce is rarely granted we spoke to political analyst catherine shoutin about the award ceremony. i think that they

knew we were at least the leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present at least in a would you want women i mean to at least pretend pretend that you from which in gender equality is not even trying they're not even doing good p.r. for one thing they're going to equality you go also another question what was the point of the exercise that's all it was new at times wessel ever try actually you know reprise down to how women represented what is made them visible somehow but nothing was actually done other than one particular woman was pretty dated for her efforts she didn't even receive you know would you imagine or anything like that it's one thing to speak before with another to actually not 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 talk about foreigners and that therefore changes had to be done. you cannot catch up with the rest of the world i don't think it's new we know. the

separation of church and state was something paramount to the founding fathers of the us but that vision is now being tested because bible literacy classes for public schools are now being proposed and it is sparking plenty of controversy to secular activists do warn that it would set a dangerous precedent donald trump's already endorsed the plan 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 literally classes in public schools really violate the first amendment which seeks to ensure our government does not support a stop. religion. i propose that we also have hindu buddhist egyptian book of the debt 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 well bill was to allow bible classes have been introduced in several states and the proposed courses are optional and focused mainly on the historical importance of the text opponents say. the constitution's first amendment by lending government support to religion. but you get the views that don't lowden he's a former republican member of the missouri senate and also kevin bolling he's from the secular student alliance i think of one of the bottom lines and 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 after 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 to 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 curriculum all across the country and there is very little caught. diversity 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 standard across country for the first two hundred years that's can be rather difficult for for elementary schools and high schools to do that 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 that we can use looking so far today good to have a company with back again with the headlines and more stories at the top of the. mean i mean i guess when you know your son. as he looks on us he.

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