those who have produced a great listener to snoop to come up to new york are those the girls who. are in this who produce to whom she shouldn't be you should go door for the one who's doing. it all trump says he doesn't rule out sending troops to venezuela to support opposition leader one boy door after washington impose new sanctions on president maduro who warned the us to back off and stop seeking regime change. in the front. after venice remark.

in the stories that shape the week moscow suspends participation in a new clear landmark 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 during a march denouncing police violence. there welcome to r.t. international the weekly roundup of this week's top stories on daniel. 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's in it wasn't here say that but certainly it's

something that's on the it's an option the statement was condemned by venezuela's ministry of foreign affairs hold again who claim that the opposition is controlled by the united states president maduro says venezuelans are now preparing to defend the country in case of attack. 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 are told through 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 or made it and with the more just to go or other support from from washington that there will be a civil war and then some following sorbet 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 the looting campaign similar to all the destruction all iraq in two thousand and three on the destruction of libya in two thousand and eleven is basically only money and it's well it flows 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 the 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 sovereign team and also have a somewhat of an understanding of the history of u.s. intervention in latin america which has not been pretty. earlier this week in a speech at a pro-government rally when doing out study elections could be held for the opposition controlled national assembly. the u.n. or somebody new national assembly do you agree with that i agreed to and i stand by that decision do you want elections you want the early elections parliamentary elections or 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 an equal last might do or end to the man free elections this call was made by one white oh in other parts of the city there's also protests to subordinate class majeure us president and also to celebrate the twenty years of the revolutionary socialists and there were some very strongest

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 florida 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 funny. how asks venice do you feel that already tense political climate in the country a military high ranked today a general also bad and one white no us president. does of the dictator. tauriel authority of nicolas maduro and recognize one greedo is the president in charge of

the ball there in republic of venezuela comrades in arms i ask you not to turn your back on the people of color. and meanwhile economic sanctions imposed by the united states and its allies against the mature are starting to bite it hard at the country's key source of revenue oil by freezing seven billion dollars in assets a move set to further increase the cost of basic goods like food and keep protesters on the streets it's estimated that the sanctions will cost venezuela eleven billion dollars in lost oil exports just this year washington said that it would lift the sanctions if control is transferred to go door. three of washington's most hawkish figures are leading america's attempts to undermine would do aunties kind of more than looks at the team seeking regime change at the united 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 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 the united states makes the u.n. work work and that is exactly the way it should be because the. united states is legendary 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 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 o. 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 well you have for a prime reason to take you are looking for alternative supplies because the sanctions. don't permit them to transact business with a peavey b.s.a. the state owned oil company. clearly are impacting u.s. companies from transacting business with venezuela and we're already seeing the european union looking at taking a similar type steps so with dura was going to be faced with trying to sell additional quantities of oil to russia word china or even india and keep in mind that nearly half of the venezuelan crude oil production today is going to repay loans from russian and chinese company. this week so the u.s. officially moved to suspend a key told war deal to limit the number of mid range nuclear missiles washington

says russia is in violation of the decades old agreement moscow went tames the accusations agronomists and said it would withdraw from the treaty the next day in a tit for tat response treaty as it stands banned all land based ballistic on cruise missiles and launchers with short to intermediate ranges auntie's eagles donald looks at 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 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 the time for talk was over you can skip

or you know you don't mean 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's shamelessly violated the russians are in violation of the agreement now officially in the u.s. has a problem with this message nato classified as a 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. in europe 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 of the same time moscow 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 border region 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. and there about a moment of the i.n.f. treaty has provoked reaction across the world particularly from europe which feels it's being caught in the middle of a 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 without the un if there is

a need for dialogue with russia for all 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 thoroughly assess 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 year union went out of business in one thousand nine hundred 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 dating military superiority over russia over china as well and that these treaties simply get in the way. i went from being further clashes between gallo vest demonstrators and police on saturday protesters were held across the country for a twelfth weekend in a row they were dedicated to those injured at previous rallies by police firing

rubber bullets this comes off a french court recently ruled their use lawful. he's 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 abuse would be honest according to official figures over two thousand protesters last about a thousand police officers have been hurt at yellow vest events since the number seventeen our sister channel r.t. france spoke to some of the demonstrators. like to do the during act two on november twenty fourth they came with friends to paris to peacefully participate in a demonstration express my concern with the usual slogans michael resigned at sixty

two thirty one of the riot police cauldrons attacked the moving crowd and the g a lie if for type grenade hit my legs and exploded whitehaven sank the injured twenty five to thirty people injured a name and mostly old vests in the garage those who were wounded before the sockets from the say weapons that are suffering so united artists was it was obvious no difference much 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 whose i was injured so it was important to come today in order to at least to support the speakers. i mean while president macron surprised many by claiming he too would don a yellow vest on a certain conditions but i think a lot less than it called america which told us the president appears to be 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 leaving on a daily basis that they have 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. was part of a drive to boost the quality the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony last

week to recognize government efforts to employ more women for some though one thing wasn't quite writes all three recipients of the awards for censored by the rule of the by the u.s. vice president were male and it's quite a bit of reaction and control we see on social media. 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 was wearing gray you've achieved an excellent balance of men with dark facial hair and men with bright facial hair my congratulations is still only one gender in dubai. the u.a.e. prime minister says the term morality 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 they women's rights are still severely restricted in the country women require the permission of a male guardian to get married and they can't get a job without their husband's consent divorce is also rarely granted we spoke to

political analyst catherine schachter about the award ceremony. i think that the u.a.e. with leadership should have actually be you know made good and actually present at least in a what 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. all for one thing that going to. another question what was the point of the exercise that's all it was new at time western ever tried to do you know repairs done to women represented what to make them visible somehow but nothing was actually done other than one particular woman with no right to dated her efforts she didn't even receive you know would you imagine anything like that it's one thing to speak before with another to actually not and i think that still even to give you a much much better than the rest of the board for one reason is that it has opened up a lot of talk about foreigners about their for changes to be done. to come and catch

up with the rest of the world i don't think it's new we know. the governor of the u.s. state of virginia has been under the intense pressure to resign since friday the controversy erupted off the ralph northam was accused of appearing in a racially charged photo and the picture you can see there is from the ninety four year book of eastern virginia medical school where he was a student said to feature northam and another person one wearing black face on the other in a coup klux klan on saturday the governor gave a press conference in which he denied being in the photo and said he would remain in office and northam admitted though there had been an unrelated episode in his youth that he does not regret. it is definitely not me i can tell by looking at it i have had friends also look at it and tell me it's not me that same year i did for to dissipate and i dance. in san antonio in which i darken my face is part of me michael jackson. i look back now and regret that i did not understand the

harmful legacy of an action like this. ralph northam was elected governor in november twenty seventh team receiving fifty four percent of the vote during the campaign he accused his republican opponent of being a racist and a fear monger and betrayed his rival as being linked to white nationalist demonstrators in charlottesville the new york times had even referred to northernmost the great democratic hope of virginia politics but he now seems to have lost nearly all support from his own party with top democrats calling on him to step down. the food 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 solver well meaning that he's 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 simply made actually pass a resolution asking for him to step down eventually and especially with his acknowledgement saying the photos are here but that he had in fact didn't gauged in mockery of blacks 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 route between greece and the u.k. is back in the headlines over who owns the ancient artifacts known as the path i mean marbles the director of the british museum where they're on display has infuriated athens by ruling out their return saying that taking the marbles from

greece was a creative act or to use an as this takes up the story. the british museum is back in the headlines this time its director has stirred up trouble by saying 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 act 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 with say creative in the destruction of the temple and the looting and the pillaging of the 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 keep in view one hundred fifty 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 use and how local see it back in green i think it's being here is probably for the greater good i had a sky

a degree in art history so i feel like they should go back. at the mall and employed by twenty one each and every museum in the wall until why why it is so generous i would keep them here if they were british arty fox in greece i think it would be few differently if i was greek i would want the return of no i consider this the way 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 is quite nice to have them kept a copy to go home for a period because the exhibition the story made i would like to say maybe some kind of sharing arrangement got him up but if i build the house and someone in america who likes it he cannot take it with him and say i will take good care of it i will keep it in america come see it whenever you like he has the headlines for the software the team and myself thanks for staying tuned here on all to join us again

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a very focused and they. will be for a level. that's that is false it will so it does not prove that i would not be part of the change. alone and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the us intel community in the political establishment challenge trumps foreign policy is this a good or bad thing also forced regime change in venezuela continues apace. cross

talking some real news i'm joy. by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor all of which he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst we spoke make international our german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you let me just kind of introduce this program here looking at the front page some of the headlines from antiwar dot com trump insists on afghanistan withdrawal senate votes to stay in syria afghanistan pentagon continues to resist syria pull out kurdish lobby struggles to slow u.s. pullout from syria victor we have had the imperial presidency for decades now and it's a product of the cold. but you know through time.