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the country's self proclaimed leader. what would make you use the u.s. military in venezuela it's an option stop stop trump hold it right then you are making mistakes that will leave your hands covered in blood and you will leave the presidency stained with blood stop would you personally negotiate with nicolas maduro to convince him to exit while he is requested a meeting and i've counted down we believe variance have the capacity for dialogue understanding why would you want to repeat vietnam or firing back at donald trump the venezuelan vice president said that the country is ready to repel a military attack whenever it comes she emphasized that the matter of the nation's independence is non-negotiable and that comes as eight european union countries said they would recognize quiet words venezuela's leader if presidential elections were not called by sunday let's cross live now to our european correspondent peter all of our joining us here on the program peter that ultimatum has now expired your

expectations for what comes next. while donald trump a said all options remain on the table the european member states haven't gone that far but did say that they would be throwing their support behind one quite so if new elections weren't called by midnight on sunday well that deadline has passed and it was never really going to be be met it was rejected out of hand really by nicolas maduro he said that asking him to do that was the same as threatening spain unless they recognized an independent catalonia we don't accept ultimatums from anyone it's like you fight all the european union i give you seven days to recognize the republic of cancer lonia and if you don't we are going to take measures or president maduro also warned about a possible civil war in venezuela should the united states and the e.u.

member states continue their backing of quite zero. whether the crisis could result in civil war depends on the the greve insanity and aggressiveness of the northern imperialists and its western allies on sunday austria became the eighth european nation to say that they would support quite don't they join germany france the u.k. spain portugal the netherlands and belgium i just had a very good phone call with the president one way he has our full support to restore democracy in venezuela venezuelans have suffered too long from the mismanagement and disregard of the rule by the mature regime we are ready to recognize one by doing this interim president we will recognize him as constitutional interim president says well if by tonight president maduro does not commit the term denies in presidential elections then france will consider one way

dark as the legitimate told them has them in his place as more and more nations put their support behind one quite though this could really set an international precedent he was basically only known two weeks ago he declared himself president and now a lot of major nations in the world are saying he should be our peter thank you. we talked to the only u.n. rapper to visit have been as well in twenty one years alfred the zionist says the united nations should look into the threat of military intervention. what concerns me here is not just that the united states is breaking international law it does regularly systematically there's a tradition of. latin american states we have. too many right wing. in latin america that have been financed and have been organized by the cia if there is an attack. from colombia and brazil

coordinated with the logistical or other support from washington that there will be double war and tens of thousands of vets and that of course it's a matter for the united nations it's a matter for and tony harris is a matter for michelle by surely to address now and to call for yet another emergency meeting of the security council because that united states is threatening with the use of force model has repeatedly accused washington of plotting a coup to overthrow him directly instructing why don't. i guess dia looks at how the opposition leader who was virtually unknown outside of venezuela two weeks ago is now widely being touted as the country's legitimate president. every so often you may have noticed the media much of it lose their minds they become obsessed

crazed fixated on something to the point of madness and it's happening again the freedom fighter leading his country to democracy why do is investing in the people that revitalized the opposition and leading the charge to topple the dictator there demand of the very hard to venezuela's fight for democracy. one why do the media's darling it's an every anchor's prompter on every pundit's lips on every tabloid hacks script and they've foregone the whole impartiality thing reuters latin american wing a staple fair and balanced journalism change the twitter background to this picture of one guy due to secret who they're pushing the economist world famous if not entirely balanced or even the pretense of balance there why do isn't the front

page portrayed as a champion hero if you squint you might mistake him for the statue of liberty and they want you their readers to know it's ok to interfere in venezuela's affairs because it's for a good cause it was democracy is a right to seek change. the question is how democracy is a nubile gone people power or the democracy usually means installing the guy that's friendliest with the west but just a coincidence perhaps oddly enough considering how angry america became and the mere suspicion that russia interfered in its internal affairs elections you would think that they wouldn't want to interfere in others' internal affairs and you'd be wrong no washington is hinting at military intervention to get their guy on the throne it's clear at this point that what is happening in venezuela has

already been decided i wish him a long quiet retirement on a pretty beach far from venezuela and the surgery takes advantage 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 there is an agenda in the air. mission to accomplish in pushing for it but media washington think tanks and activists know how this often ends as the long and bloody history of america's interventions in latin america they pushed for change they got their way albeit at a huge cost let's just hope that that doesn't happen in venezuela. after twelve consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests in france president emanuel maccarone is under attack now from his political rivals marine le pen who

heads the national rally party accuses him of peddling conspiracy theories rather than tackling the crisis i don't. i don't know from continues excrete when he explains to was that a yellow vaster manipulator from abroad yes of course it's conspiracy theory and it's rather disturbing to see something like this from the president of the republic this is above all about his wish to never doubt himself it's always others the l a vast russia the united states everyone except him truly is a media product a product of social networks we source on facebook more friends i have the more capability to spread information i have the more imbrie tweeted just like with the yellow vests the fascists fear left wing sphere and the russian sphere comprise ninety percent of the movements online r.t.s. charleville miscue takes a good look now at the allegation that the french president is perhaps dodging responsibility. once upon a time there was

a spontaneous social movement in france as the people revolted against an unpopular president in government to crack down with. and thousands were injured but the people kept protesting and just their cries rang out loud respect for the president diminished he declared he would probably across the land and listen to all the words get by no it wasn't enough and the people stayed on the streets ok the president said one day if i can't beat you i'll join you if you give over means being for higher paid work and the more efficient parliament than i am a yellow vest it didn't quite go to plan so the president touched a new idea and decided to blame outside influence he pointed his finger to the east and said it's those pesky russians and their leader who are the problem not me people overinvested online are the two extremes those are then the people who buy

counts who troll this is russia today sputnik cetera look since december the leading internet movements are no. on the b.f.m. it's russia today but the people weren't boy they had watched the news from this outside influence and found it to be fair. the powers that be continue to point their finger to the east telling their children to be wary of the stories that they weaved and that if they were. never. seen we see on t.v. i want to see one of the interesting things that my course said about r.t. and i think also sputnik he claimed that these were the media that are being followed on social networks if they go on to r.t. as emmanuel says they are then that proves that they like what they find the idea that this should somehow be

a cause for worry or you know proof that they are somehow fifth columnists just shows how dangerously or thora tarion the french regime is becoming he's scared he is a pure creation of the media and we can see now that the bubble has burst and that his opinion ratings are very low that he feels immense resentment at the fact that. stealing the headlines when he wants to have the headline now is the president struggle to get ahold of the chaos in his country the russians were the perfect villains since the president had long harbored distrust of the we have evidence of that's coming from the things we shall give evidence of some very recent ones like. malls russia today and sputnik were all of influence that produced things that were contrary to the truth about myself and my campaign so the president said his people had been misled by the czar of the east that the protests

were not real and his subjects were rather naive and the news outlets across the land this brand new tale. he would once will be beloved across the hills but this story is not yet to move the book is not yet closed the president remains that the people oppose. outcry in sweden after security officers forcibly removed a heavily pregnant woman without a valid ticket from a subway train and the incident has raised questions about the treatment of minorities in a country that has often been seen as a beacon of tolerance. oh. the incident occurred days after an investigative t.v. program on racial profiling in the country was aired and it swedes with foreign

backgrounds alleged to have been treated in disparaging ways by police officials say the woman in the subway incident was later taken by ambulance to hospital here's how she recalls what happened. they took me by the arm very hard the first me out they put me on the bench with my stomach down one of them put their knee on my back and i lost my breath i was afraid that my baby was going to die in my belly after the video went viral two security guards were suspended the police are investigating the incident and we spoke with social science professor. who told us the problem of racism should be tackled politically. sure how it happened these two are why. i don't think so. we'll treat in another way people.

on the black community here in sumatra to very very well be of course much more aggressive against nonwhite people police. doing a racial profile. regarding security in sweden you can buy lead your rights very very easily because you don't have the ticket i mean that must be really really thought in different ways it is swarth to have tensions in society in this way they are very much on people of. non white skin the question of structural discrimination and racism in sweden should be political mainly first of all because this is a political problem it's already fast becoming a busy day for your worldwide headlines here for this monday on r.t. international your program returns in just a moment. he's

. going to if you. decide to move ahead. with. a very focused and they. will. be part of the change.

and if you join us today for the monday program over six hundred women have come forward to accuse prominent of brazilian faith john of god of sexual abuse and schumann trafficking the seventy seven year old who was detained two months ago i want to rape charges allegedly used to women who came to him for treatment as sex slaves but he has denied old allegations against him.

my father is a monster he took me to his room took my clothes off and i found a very strange then i asked him what are you doing and he said i'm going to perform a spiritual work on you that's when all hell broke loose in my life a friend of mine introduced me to john of god three months after i joined his started abusing me i was sixteen she would take my panties off and do it that's how i got pregnant i asked for his help and he gave me some medicine i thought it was a form of treatment but it was meant to kill my baby. one of the most famous spiritual healers in the world rarely talk to anyone on camera john of god agreed to sit down with me under an england tree on the grounds of the car so. a group of his patients gathered to watch.

the wave of testimonies began after one activist sabrina britton court came forward with allegations against john of god earlier last week she claimed that he was heavily involved in international child trafficking receiving a large sums of money and gems as payment. women were used as sex slaves they were usually black low income to live close to john of god's illegal properties in return for food they were impregnated and the babies sold off to you katie australia and us the girls were aged between fourteen and eighteen. on saturday it was reported that. in court had committed suicide citing threats from the followers of john of god but also a long struggle with cancer now another whistleblower amy bianca was among the first to publicly speak out and she's an american who was working as a tour guide in brazil and used to advertise john of god spiritual center as

a tourist attraction and she said without some disturbing tales of what she allegedly saw happening that. she hurts them in so many ways and i i actually just was crying i told everybody i could tell you have to understand it was a very remote part of brazil so wasn't let you could go to the local police station and report this. i told the workers and they were horrified because many of them had been fooled also but it's it's become way way bigger than just sexual abuse it's. she schumann. and then i got death threats and i was told that a white woman in brazil can disappear and nobody will ever find her that i should go i should leave i shouldn't talk any more to anybody about this. this was from

people who worked directly for joe out. the workers who were there they knew what was happening and i'm relatively sure that a number of the town people. and after after it broke on the news. there were signs i mean i would see people with little girls standing outside so we had a special right outside and tracy had a special post. where she were to do what coup was called private she is ok i talked to one of the workers and she told me that. she started to cry it was worker and she said oh my god i wiped. the plaza off the mouths of little girls and now i realize it was jack and. she but her mind was so. taken up by the you of the cars that she thought it was ectoplasmic are you

thinking. it is all the international we are running down your top monday stories right now a gift for president vladimir putin. describing america's decision to suspend a key nuclear treaty with russia agreement between the two countries signed in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven in the old land based ballistic on cruise missiles on launchers with short to intermediate ranges adult court has now examines how the treaty suspension has been received. trump's decision to pull out of the i.n.f. treaty has come under fire from some of his fellow americans u.s. withdrawal may not be such a good idea they say and it's actually a gift to russia who benefits most from the u.s. backing out of this treaty and lot of air putin's russia has actually wanted to dissolve that treaty for some time so really playing the fence gift to vladimir putin this is going to be a gift to vladimir putin and russia why because it will allow russia to produce new

ballistic missiles legally moscow has long been warning of increased armament between the two nuclear powers and after failing to reach any kind of understanding with washington vladimir putin said the time for empty talks is over. for many years we have proposed disarmament talks which are initiatives have not found the support of our partners in fact they always find a pretext for dismantling the global security system moscow says it's purely defensive after all it's not russia building missile systems along the u.s. border but america is convinced russia started it with its own violations of the i.n.f. treaty to this day russia remains in material breach of its treaty obligations russia's violation russia has jeopardized the united states' security interests russia's shamelessly violates the russians are in violation of the agreement there's no mistaking that the russians have chosen to not comply with the treaty of

washington's official beef is with this particular system but see russia says that it's in full compliance with the demands of the treaty moscow was even ready for reciprocal inspections of nuclear facilities but washington acted as if nothing happened. we vote for the president to transparency that goes far beyond our obligations according to this treaty to convince the american that we don't reach the agreement. crushed by the americans and we got another ultimatum but withdrawing from the. treaty actually opened a whole range of possibilities for the u.s. to perfect their own missiles for example this bad boy it's much smaller than your average nuke but also much better for conventional usage production already started back in september and the donald has promised there's more where that came from 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 of course russia has many powerful weapons of its own conventional and nuclear but just having the ability to defend yourself isn't usually a cause for alarm so who benefits from leaving a treaty that was supposed to stop the world from nuclear annihilation this whole crazy russia gate thing which has been peddled primarily by the democratic party to avoid facing the fact that the deep social inequality that they helped orchestrate gave rise to a figure like trump. so yeah i mean they're going to twist anything to make it to the advantage of a lot of money and that's what they do i don't understand how this is to the advantage of russia any more than it is to the united states they'll be no limits on u.s. and russian nuclear forces and that will inevitably trigger an arms race to the

detriment of russia and to the detriment of us and the detriment of humanity the only group that benefits from it in the united states are the weapons manufacturers that stand to make a lot of money. on the program for this hour here on our international there are plenty of your monday headlines still to come of the top of the hour thank you for joining us. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to do like to be pros this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should.

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a low and welcome to crossfire all things are considered trumps foreign policy is this a good or bad thing also forced regime change in venezuela continues apace. prost talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor all of which he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri babied she's a political analyst we spoke make international our job in cross talk 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 the president has been given prerogatives privileges and without much oversight now we see the complete reverse we're in sensually denying donald trump as president of the united states to have a foreign policy now on this program we've just discussed the pros and cons of his foreign policy but now he doesn't even look like he's going.