it's. they are trying to. prove. my love for. mr hate for jim and then. for. donald trump again says he doesn't rule out sending troops to venezuela to support opposition leader one why door to washington imposed new sanctions on the president to warn the u.s. to back off and stop seeking regime change. in a son. asks venezuela.

stories that shape the week moscow suspends participation in the landmark nuclear treaty in a mere response to washington's withdrawal over alleged russian violations. twelve consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests in france sees clashes between demonstrators and police. denouncing police violence. and i welcome to the weekly here and our team. today thanks for joining us this hour. and donald trump has announced that he doesn't rule out the use of military force in venezuela to support self-proclaimed leader. what would make you use the

u.s. military in venezuela what they know well i think you're a shaved head but certainly it's something that's only an option earlier this week in a speech at a pro-government rally the country's president nicolas maduro called on his supporters to back him emphasize that the crisis could eventually result in civil war saying it depends on the level of madness and aggression from the northern empire were also announced early elections could be held in the opposition controlled national assembly meanwhile his rival one word or has asked him for the country's military to come over to his side. but will it bend everything depends on the level of madness and aggression of the northern people are already arming in the case of local regional conflicts people know what to do how to defend themselves people article two paragraph four of the united nations charter. prohibits not only the use of force but the threat of the use of course i

am concerned that if there is an attack. from colombia and brazil coordinated and with the more just to go all the support from from washington that there will be a civil war and then some fault and so it's a united states only in first in venezuela for oil in venezuela gold on both sides and. there's a lot of money to be made the idea is to 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 and it's well oppose absolutely no threat to the united states and therefore it has to be the congress not be the executive branch that makes any decision about the u.s. use of military force right now there are two initiatives in congress to reiterate

this that the president does not have the authority to do any kind of military intervention in venezuela people want to see it an easing of the economic crisis but that doesn't mean they would accept foreign intervention a lot of people in venezuela even those that dislike the present government are nationalist believe in sovereignty and also have a somewhat of an understanding of the history of u.s. intervention in latin america which has not been pretty. and meanwhile the economic sanctions imposed by the u.s. and its allies against muro are starting to bite it target the country's key source of revenue oil by freezing seven billion dollars in assets a move said to further increase the cost of basic goods like food and keep protesters on the streets it's estimated that the sanctions will cost on his way to eleven billion dollars in lost oil profits this year washington said that it would lift the sanctions if control is transferred to go idle. of three of washington's

most hawkish figures are leading america's attempts to undermine would do a artie's kaleb or can look to the team seeking regime change. i think a night of nations mike 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 his made him 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 the united states makes 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 starve the regime of the revenue it uses to fund stabilization of 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 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 good for the people of the united states we both have a lot at stake here yes honesty is always appreciated well you have for a prime reason to take you are looking for alternative supplies because the sanctions that don't permit them to transact business with a p.b.s. say the state on the oil company. clearly are impacting u.s. companies from transacting business with venezuela and we're already seeing the european union looking at taking similar type steps so with dura was going to be faced with trying to sell additional quantities of oil to russia where china or

even india and keep in mind that nearly half of the venezuelan crude oil production today is going to repay loans russian in chinese company. this week saw the u.s. officially move to suspend a key cold war deal to limit the number of mid range nuclear missiles washington says russia is in violation of the decades old agreement moscow maintains the accusations are groundless and said it will withdraw from the treaty the next day in a tit for tat response the treaty you buy and all land based ballistic and nuclear cruise missiles with launchers and short to intermediate range is. one of what's 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 the 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 the time for talk was over you can skip or 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 louis since twenty fourteen the u.s. has deployed. 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 most cool says it's never been driven by the offensive potential of its weapons it's all about. essentially russia points to the fact that america's somehow been defending against the iran and north korea threats by marching missiles on russia's borders and no one likes to be surrounded by the military of a state that openly calls you an adversary and still 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. three men have won awards at a ceremony in the middle east meant to celebrate gender equality look at the reaction after the short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic probably the only and. i don't see how it will be very critical. to sit down and talk. so. i think he has a bigger chance to. they have people are suffering from many things. ciccu i think.

it's a. stable country so i think he has a big chance to. be happy. and. police. demonstrations were held across the country for twelve weekend in a row they were dedicated to those previous rallies by police firing rubber bullets french court recently ruled.

police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds the country's interior minister as the. pending the use of special weapons against rioters however he also stressed that any abuse would be punished according to official figures over two thousand protesters plus about a thousand police officers have been hurt vest events since the seventeenth our sister channel r.t. frog spoke to some of the demonstrators. would you like to do it all for one couple of during it through on november twenty fourth that came with friends to paris to peacefully participate in a demonstration express my concern with the usual slogans michael resign at sixty two thirty one of the riot police cauldrons attacked the moving crowed and the g ally in a full time grenade hit my legs and exploded one sank injured twenty five to thirty people injured and maimed and mostly yellow vests those who were wounded

before the sockets from the same weapons are suffering so united artists was it was obvious no difference but you know 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 i a person whose i was injured so it was important to come today in order to at least to support the speakers i mean while president's micron's surprised many by claiming he too would die ghetto vest under certain conditions and i think a lot less than a call america which told us 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 year of this i think. the people in his entourage just don't understand what's going on there so much destroyed never did what the french are living on a daily basis they don't know what type of answer to bring cannot come back he is

over as the french president he can only give back his image he's hated by more than half the population today i'm not saying he's dislike of people disapprove of some of his actions i'm talking about hatred 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 a man being shot in the face just fifty centimeters away from me for doing nothing nothing at all. i was part of a drive to boost the quality of the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony last week to recognise government efforts to employ more women for some though the one thing wasn't quite right all three recipients of the awards presented by the rule of the by the u.s. vice president were men and it's 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 who was wearing grey you've achieved an excellent balance of men with dark facial hair and men with my facial hair i congratulate you here only one gender in dubai. of the u.a.e. as prime minister says that m.r. r.t. 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 women's rights are still severely restricted in the country for example women require the permission of a male guardian to get married and they can't get a job without their husbands consent while divorce is really granted we spoke to political analyst catherine schachter about the award ceremony i think that the leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present at least in it 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 can do equality another question what was the point of the exercise that's all it was new at times why so ever tried to be you know repairs done to women represented that what you've made them visible somehow but nothing was actually done other than one particular woman was more regulated for her efforts she didn't even receive you know would you imagine anything like that it's one thing to speak reform with another to actually enact them and i think that still even though you did you read much much better than the rest of the board for one reason is that it has. a lot of talk about foreigners and that therefore changes had to be done and they had to come and catch up with the rest of the world i don't think it's new we know. the governor of the us state of virginia has been under intense pressure to resign since friday control the controversy ripped it off the ralph northam was accused of appearing in a racially charged photo the pictures from the ninety four year book of eastern virginia medical school where he was a student said to feature north another person one wearing black face the other in

a coup klux klan course on saturday the governor gave a press conference in which he denied being in the photo and said he would remain in office northam admitted though there had been an unrelated upper soda in his youth but he does now regret. it is definitely not me i can tell by looking at it i have had friends also look at it in tell me it's not me that same year i did participate in a dance in san antonio in which i darken my face as part of a michael jackson costume i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that. or all for them was elected governor in nov twenty seventh seen receiving fifty four percent of the vote during the campaign he accused his republican opponent of being a racist and a fear monger to trade his rival as being linked to white nationalist demonstrators

in charlottesville the new york times had even referred to nor them as the great democratic hope of virginia politics and now seems to have lost nearly all support from his own party with top democrats school only him to step down the field is racist and contrary to fundamental american values i join my colleagues in virginia calling on the governor know them to do the right thing so that the people on the commonwealth of virginia can heal and move forward a legal commentator horace cooper believes virginia's governor has only a slim chance of political survival. it's very likely that the pressure on him by other democrats are going to become so overwhelming that he is forced out they expect that he is going to here's the thing if he doesn't do it it is still possible that the chamber itself assembly might actually pass

a resolution asking for him to step down eventually and especially so with his acknowledgment saying the photos are but that he had in fact been gauged in mockery of. other point is still likely to be something that he's not going to be avoid able to avoid the consequences for. a long running role between greece and the u.k. is back in the headlines over who owns the ancient artifacts known as the parthian marbles the director of the british museum where they are on display has infuriated athens by ruling out their return saying that taking the models from greece was a creative act. the british museum is back in the headlines this time its director has stirred up trouble by seeing removing the world famous twenty five hundred year old parthenon marbles from greece to be taken to britain in the nineteenth century could be seen as a creative octet thanks to

a new context you could of course be saddened by the fact that the original environment has disappeared when you move a cultural heritage to a museum you move it outside however the shifting is also a creative act technically u.k. law prevents the return of such pieces but the problem is greece considers the classical marble sculptures stolen and wants them back seriously what was so creative in the destruction of the temple and the looting in the pillaging of a nation's keys to its ancient history greece is culture minister described the museum directors approach as narrow and cynical a mindset that downgrades cultural heritage to an exchange sale out. but in fact it's not just greece that's pressuring the museum other artifacts perceived just snatched during the times of the british empire are being demanded back to so far to no avail the museum is only ready to loan saying the pieces are better off being displayed as part of a wider collection. you

have to take it keeping you one hundred eighty two years yes it was so months and we can have. millions of people come to enjoy the british museum every year let's find out what some of them here make of this longstanding and how local see him back in greece i think it's being here is probably for the greater good i just got a degree in art history so i feel like they should go back. and put. in every museum in the world. why it is so generous i would keep them here it's they were british fox in greece i think it would be viewed differently if i

was greek i would want the return of no i consider this i consider what else can do to be theft since i'm greeks and i'm also in favor of returning the elgin marbles i guess it's quite nice to have. to go home for a period because the exhibitions. i would want to print might be some kind of sharing arrangement. if i build a house and someone in america the mix it cannot take it with him and say i will take good care of it and i will keep it in america come see it whenever your light . source come up to two thirty am here in moscow those are the headlines from the team on my side. join us again in thirty five minutes for the latest global news updates. his balls to go to the wall for you the front line if you're there gun crews decide

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hello and welcome to worlds apart eight years after the lynching of more market are free in libya and his family remains in the crosshairs of regional grievances while his second eldest son safe all islam has been freed and is now considering a presidential bid his youngest son hannibal is health behind bars in lebannon and what looks more like score setting than an exercise in justice why is the fate of good after junior still moving politics in the region well to discuss that i'm now joined by remodel dabur a course advocating for the release of hannibal good athlete remus good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you thank you for your time you are a daughter all fire major general use of all dab really who for many years served as more market office personal security chair given what's been happening in libya over the last eight years i think you are lucky to be alive and well why did you

decide to get yourself involved in such a controversial and i would assume risky case what me interesting in. the feet case here minutes at home went through a show and. also. the relationship between. our family. it's made me. feel i have the responsibility to to to fight about this issue and to hope to get out to release him from a liberal and. also i feel sorry for his mother. she has lost she's lost she lost three sons already dying by during the war in libya. by two and also she has two sons still in prison prison one is in libya. and one. jail

and. need to to it to do something for two to make him and also to make him really is and also because my mother she's been he's have a good relationship and that's what's make me interesting too to do something i have to get out of this well you speak very warmly i bowed to go after family i know that you count. moammar gadhafi sons as your personal of friends how close were you to. you know them since. since i was kids. we were kids playing together and then all the family. also very close because of my father of course case his one of the member of the revolution of september nine hundred sixty nine. also he was working and has many position and.