you know world of big partisan movies lot face and conspiracy it's time to wake up 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 on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. it's levy tows plans for a joint e.u. statement to recognize one choir is the new president of venezuela the rejection was confirmed to r.t. by a source inside one of italy's ruling party meanwhile. certainly it's something that's only an option to stop stop trying to hold it right you are making mistakes that

leave your hands covered in blood you will leave the president's stained with blood . donald trump again stresses that sending troops to venezuela to support the opposition leader is still alive option and his way this president nicolas maduro warns though of bloody consequences plus also this hour the french president the new map on this face of backlash africa using outside actors of stirring up national unrest. there's anger in sweden after security officers remove a heavily pregnant black woman without a valid ticket from a subway train. good afternoon welcome just gone four pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now twelve european nations have now recognized declared himself

president of venezuela two weeks ago finland and portugal are the latest to join the chorus of approval however a source and one of its lead ruling parties has confirmed to r.t. that italy refused to back in the statement recognizing the opposition leader is interim president peter oliver as more. whole host of e.u. member states of put their backing behind one quite doe as the interim president of venezuela the likes of germany spain the united kingdom france denmark the netherlands among others have said that quite though is their man. to take venezuela into a fresh set of elections now one country that you're not going to hear from is italy r.t. is heard from sources within the five star movement part of the ruling coalition in that country saying they have no intention of following the rest of their partners and supporting one quite zero in fact what we're hearing is that they are the reason italy is the reason that there is no unified e.u.

statement on why they vetoed that just last week we heard from their deputy foreign minister who explained why they're taking the stance. italy does not recognize quite do because we absolutely opposed the fact that a country or a group of third countries determine the international policies of another country this is called the principle of noninterference and has been recognized by the united blue shoes. the reason that these announcements of come about it follows on from a ultimatum that was given by either nations to president nicolas maduro saying he had to call fresh elections in the country by midnight on sunday or e.u. member states would start supporting mr joe. was never going to give in to this ultimatum what we have heard from him though is calls for fresh elections in the national assembly which is dominated by the opposition which mr

quite oh is headed up said it was the same is threatening spain with action should they not recognize catalonia is an independent state 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 catalonia and if you don't we are going to take measures nicolas maduro is also warned that civil war remains a possibility in venezuela as long as the united states and e.u. members continue. to throw their support behind one goal i don't know whether the crisis could result in civil war depends on the the greve insanity and aggressiveness of the northern imperialists and its western allies as international pressure increases on nicolas maduro to stand down as president he meant tain't he isn't going anywhere. i can ask him thoughts now of political analyst

at a sound very polite he's based in rome and he's with us now to sound very good afternoon do you think there's much significance attached to this sudden hello there do you think there's much significant significance to this that the e.u. wasn't able to push their joint statement on this individual countries that are now having to come forward and state their stance. well you know when an image is important and italy hasn't followed the problem for the child and government is that for the first hour i'm indigent it has been shown quite clearly in the last minutes from the statements of mr salvini who is the other leader of the major party of this coalition and by president mr mother over. the the practice of green and going along with the u.s. presidency and the russian president to see because they both agreed or major things well it's the first test of that sort of practice i couldn't call it

a policy so it is significant but as you see when there is no unanimity and this was happened also in the u.n. unfortunately well major countries go along on a different path. so this is now a choice of the time in government or about how they would really manage this sort of third way because they don't preclude nice but douro this is the interesting thing they are saying but at the same time they don't want to support what you do which is a sort of middle ground which is interesting we shall see if if other actors will buy into that it's why do you think any twelve countries so far of sort of stated this in five you think from the start of the day when most people would wouldn't you does it suggest there is a division in europe over this oh yes as many of the divisions you know it's it's

a complex thing to to keep you together many of our countries are simply not big enough and not interested enough in that sort of of a crisis that is the stock fucked. major countries as you see follow it i mean to say that this is something about oil is frankly contradictory because texas is the main importer of oil with the you know china of the nice wheel and always also they are interested in having a security of supply and even the last threats assessments on venezuela indicate everything but you know sort of coup de our military intervention that's on the record with this sleaze situation here it's saying it's stance of venezuela is that we shouldn't be interfering in the politics of another country and yet you know you hear the accusations against russia and political interference except for it seems a lot more blatant doesn't it in venezuela and yet everybody is quite happy to go

along with it. you know but this is typical when you have you know a coalition government who has a strong interest you know in going along despite internal tensions they were very interested in making this coalition so they made good and now unfortunately governing is a complex thing it's. easy as you know doing an electoral campaign and so yes on the one hand they say we don't recognize maturer which you know was quite interesting and all the other say they say no but we don't want to interfere so you know it's typical you know of the problem or problem of any government you know you're if you compare this to the mess of breck's it frankly this is well let's there's no direct evidence but i mean another thing that stands out to me is that there's been no objection to what trump said earlier just you know a matter of hours ago that u.s.

military intervention is still an option why wouldn't he come out object to that statement. because many in the u. think that one thing is a declaration in view other thing is to see the troops moving in it's. e.u. countries have the same problems in different fora and it's much more serious you know when you get sanctions. and you know tariffs on your trade so they prefer to work up quietly without too much declaring euro of course it's seems to be a bit unfeasible to send troops you know you can send them but for watch in reality this is a statement that even supports de facto. the arguments of mr monroe and i don't think it is very productive and probably not marry feasible despite you know the great amount of means that the us has in general and could have in that

area ok look alexander we're going to have to leave it there but it's a really nice until you know it's political analyst at a standard policy thank you thank you very much. and i mean while donald trump has confirmed as you were saying that the use of military force in venezuela is one of the options being considered as washington backs the country self-proclaimed leader . what would make him 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 we believe areas have the capacity for dialogue understanding why would you want to repeat vietnam.

for some time last week the u.s. national security advisers notepad did catch the eye of reporters because on it if you look closely was written five thousand troops to colombia and colombia shares a border with venezuela were against the evidence now of how quiet we are known outside of venezuela few months ago is now talented 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 leaving his country to democracy why do is investing in the people that revitalized our position leading the charge to topple the dictator there demanded the very heart of venezuela's fight for democracy. why do the media's darling every anchor's prompter on every pundit slips on every tabloid hacks script and they've

forgotten the whole impartiality thing reuters latin american wing a staple fair and balanced journalism change the twitter background to this picture of who i'm going 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 the right to seek change. the question is how democracy is a noble goal people power or the democracy usually means installing the guy that's friendliest with where. 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 series likely to have a nice quiet retirement on a pretty beach rather than being in some other beach area like i want out of now there is an agenda in the air mission to accomplish in pushing through it all of the media washington think tanks and activists know how the saw for their lives

is a long and bloody history of america's interventions in latin america they pushed for change they got their way albeit at a huge cost i just hope that that doesn't happen in venezuela. in other news after twelve consecutive weekend of yellow vests protests in france the president there my new macron is under attack from his political rivals marine le pen who heads the national rally party accuses him of peddling conspiracy theories rather than tackling the crisis at all. 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 where charlotte pinsky takes a look now at the allegation that the french president is dodging responsibility. once upon a time there was a spontaneous social movement in france as the people robel to it against an unpopular president and government crackdown when the was and thousands were injured but the people kept protesting and as their cries rang out loud respect for the president diminished he declared he would travel 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 they 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 it's a true look since december the leading internet movements are no longer be a firm. 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 there was. never.

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 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 it mends resentment at the fact that. stealing the headlines when he wants to have the headline now is the president struggled to get a hold 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 facts coming from the show give evidence of some very recent mostly. mauls russia today and sputnik were all the news 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 tsar 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 the french leader paid. he would once more be beloved across the hills and dales but this story is not yet over the book is not yet closed the president remains that men the people oppose. this anger in sweden after security officers there forcibly removed the heavily pregnant black woman without a valid ticket from a train and pinned her to

a bench the incident has now raised questions about the treatment of minorities in a country that has often been betrayed as a beacon of tolerance. was. the . official say the woman in the incident there was taken by ambulance to hospital victim insisted that she had her travel card with her but she failed to find it immediately and by the time she pulled it from her pocket the ticket controller had already issued a fine well here's how she recalled 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. well after the video went viral two security guards who were

involved were suspended the police are investigating the incident social science professor. told us though the problem of racism should be tackled politically. sure how it happened these two are while. i don't think so. broadly that we'll treat. people from backgrounds. in the black community. but everybody of course there are much more aggressive nonwhite people. in the race. profile. regarding security to sweden. your rights very very recently because you don't have the two. must be really really. only from waste swarth to have seen society in this way are very much on people of. the white skin the question of structural

discrimination races than should be. mainly. because it's a political problem. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has reiterated that russia is not looking for a new arms race with the united states his statement comes amid a riot between the two countries and suspending a nuclear treaty. as more. so russia is absolutely not a fad of starting a new arms race in the twenty first century after all saying goodbye to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty isn't just an immensely serious political statement being made by the donald trump administration america's already announced that it will be developing new weapons then too that the russian foreign minister is saying that in any case moscow's ready to catch up however he's saying that this won't require new budget paragraphs and moscow's military spending.

we're not looking for an arms race with the u.s. of course we will react to the threats created by the us suspension of the i.n.f. treaty all the initiatives coming from us are still available but we're not going to chase our western partners to remind them of this mr labora also called out europe he says that if the european states are keen to preserve some form of international arms control they should stop following orders from washington and this is what he meant by that the people of norway. we're living in a new era an era which is characterized by u.s. efforts to break the entire system of arms control including the limiting of offensive strategic arms and that's a pity. the i have treaty is one of those landmark international agreements that will now all the remain in the history books with the reason for that being donald trump and the way he sees international law here's my colleague donald quarter on

how the trading suspension has been received and i should say some of the takes are quite surprising 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 is actually a gift to russia who benefits most from the u.s. backing out of this treaty a lot of important 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 in russia why because it will allow russia to produce new ballistic missiles legally 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 a violation of the agreement there's no mistaking that the russians have chosen to not comply with this treaty 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 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 were. 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 gay thing which has been peddled primarily by the democratic party to avoid facing the fact that 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. 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 one quarter neighbor trying to reporting their so that brings you up to date with events today here not a while back again the coffee and the headlines in third time and.

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