headlines in r.t.e. plans for a joint e.u. statement recognized. the new president of venezuela the rejection was confirmed by a source inside one of its least ruling party i mean what. if something that's on the stock stop trying hold it right that you are making the stakes that leave your

hands covered in blood you believe the president stained with blood. will trump again stress is that sending troops to venezuela to support the opposition leader is still alive option and that's why this president nicolas maduro warns of bloody consequences also on the way french president faces a backlash after accusing outside of stirring up national unrest and. anger in sweden after security officers remove a heavily pregnant black woman with actor valid ticket from a subway train. their welcome just gone five pm here in moscow you're watching international thirteen european nations have now recognized one. he declared himself president of

venezuela he weeks ago finland portugal and the czech republic are the latest to join the chorus of approval however a source in italy's ruling coalition has confirmed to r.t. that rowing refused to back any statement recognizing the opposition leader as interim president peter oliver as more bold 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 and denmark and 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 so 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 this stance. gosh it's really not recognize corey do because we absolutely opposed the fact that a country or a group of third countries determined 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 e.u. 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 if i told 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 a u. members continue to throw their support behind one quite oh whether the crisis could result in civil war depends on 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 ain't he isn't going anywhere peter all of a while earlier we spoke with the political commentator john white and he says

italy is right to assert itself on foreign policy matters but says another nearly a quarter of the year is upset because many of its opponents of real against every politicization of the e.u. and especially his rule. who are of washington and its foreign policy. italy has quite rightly and on and on a basis of principle accepted this independence and iterate over us and independent foreign policy regardless of what you. do soor or push the e.u. on the basis that it is merely a colony of the us in these foreign forces mountains were actually wrote. now donald trump me maher has again confirmed that the use of military force in venezuela is one of the options being considered as washington banks the country self-proclaimed leader. what would make you use the u.s.

military in venezuela it's an option stop stop trump hold it right you're making mistakes that 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. with a military options be. been on the white house his agenda for some time now last week in fact the u.s. national security advisers know to catch the eye of reporters if you look closely here on it is written five thousand troops to colombia and colombia shares a border with venezuela. are known outside of venezuela a month ago is now 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 leaving his country to democracy why do is investing in the people that revitalized our position leading the charge to topple the dictator there the man at 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 steeple fair and balanced journalism change the twitter background to this picture of who i'm going to do 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 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 series likely to have a nice quiet retirement not 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 for it all of the media washington think tanks and activist know how the so often ends as 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. now after twelve consecutive weekend of yellow vests protests in france president among your macron is under attack from his political rivals penned the latest she

heads the national rally party in accuses him of peddling conspiracy theories rather than tackling the crisis head on. i don't know from continues excrete when he explains to was it a yellow vest or manipulated 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 i retreated just like with the yellow vests the fascists fear left wing sphere and the russian sphere comprise ninety percent of the movements online. now the allegation of the french president is dodging responsibility. once upon a time there was a spontaneous social movement in france as the people revolted against an unpopular

president in government crackdown when the. 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 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 yellow vests 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 it's a true look since december the leading internet movements are no longer 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 there was. the local level. to teen reseal and even marcus she was 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 michael 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 it meant resentment at the fact that the village own are stealing the headlines when he wants to have the headline now as 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 that it's coming from the plane show the evidence of the some very well known regime looks like. malls 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 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 the french leader helping he would one small be beloved across the hills and dales but this story is not yet over the book is not yet closed the president remains a man the people oppose. in sweden after security offices there forcibly removed a heavily pregnant black woman without a valid train ticket and pinned her to a bench the incident has raised questions about the treatment of minorities in a country that is often portrayed itself as a beacon of tolerance. it was it. was. well officials do say that the woman was later taken by ambulance to hospital the alleged victim insisted she had her travel card with her but failed to find it

immediately and by the time she did pull it out from her pocket the ticket controller had already issued a fine here's how she recalls the incident. 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 did go viral two security guards were suspended the police are now investigating what happened social science professor adrian groklaw po told us though that the problem of racism should be tackled politically. happen these two are a wide. upper class woman i don't think so. probably they will treat her in another way people with mike brown by clowns personally. frustrates them and the black community here in sumatra too very very badly of course they are much

more aggressive against non white people police guards are doing racial profile. regarding security in sweden you can buy lead your rights very very easily because you don't have the to get done and doctor must be really really thought in different ways it is swarth to have tensions in society in this way there are very much on people that are nonwhite skin the question of structural discrimination racism and students should be. playing close to home because this is a political problem now russia's foreign minister does say that moscow is not looking for a new arms race with the u.s. after a key nuclear treaty is suspended we'll have a look at that in more detail as of the story still on the way just after the break .

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over not proving she would not be part of the change. again now the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has reiterated that russia is not looking for a new arms race with the united states the statement has come amid iran between the two countries and suspending a key nuclear treaty. don't quarter have more. so russia is absolutely not a fan 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 and two 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 us of course we will react to the threats created by the us suspension of the i.n.f. treaty all of the initiatives coming from us are still available but we're not going to chase a western puffiness to remind them of this mr lavrov 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 limits of

offensive strategic arms and that's a pity. the i have treaty is one of those landmark international agreements that will now only 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 treaty suspension has been received and i should say some of the takes are quite surprising 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 to benefits most from the u.s. backing out of this treaty a lot of air putin's russia has actually wanted to dissolve the. 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 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 but withdrawing from the treaty actually opened a whole range of possibilities for the us 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 russian thing which has been paddled primarily by the democratic party to. face in the fact. you know quality that they helped orchestrate gave rise to a figure like truck. so yeah i mean they're going to twist anything to make it to the advantage of

a lot of men 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. and eighty three hundred women have come forward to accuse a prominent brazilian hate faith healer sorry of sexual abuse and human trafficking the seventy six year old known as john of god has to tainting months ago on rape charges he allegedly used women who came to him for treatment to sex slaves he denies the claims. one of the most famous spiritual healers in the world rarely talks to anyone on camera john of god agreed to sit down with me under mangel tree on the grounds of the casa. a group of his patients gathered to watch.

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 he started abusing me i was sixteen he take my fences 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. the wave of testimonies began after one activist sabrina call came forward with her

allegations against john of god last year she came that he was heavily involved in international child trafficking receiving large sums of money and also gifts as payment. but it was only added that women were used as sex slaves they were usually black low income and live close to john of god it's illegal properties in return for food they were impregnated and the baby sold off to you katie australia and us the girls were aged between fourteen and eighteen while on saturday it was reported the sabrina that committed suicide citing threats from john of god's followers but also her long struggle with cancer another whistleblower was among the first to publicly speak out 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 she shared with r.t. some disturbing details of what she alleged he saw happening there.

he 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 was unless you could go to the local police station and report as. 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 are a number of the town people. and after after they broke on the news. there were signs i mean i would see people with little girls standing outside the door he had a special right outside and praise he had a special post. where he were do what coup was called private so 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 wipe. the plaza off the mouth of little girl. and now i realize it was jack and i. shoot but her mind was so. taken up by the view of the car that she thought it was ectoplasmic are you thinking. you're watching out international is just coming up to hop os five here mosque i will be back in the headlines at the top of the hour.

welcome to. a curve of conflict is shaping up between a delay in brussels over budget and fears of a looming recession who should be wary it's well to talk about this i'm joined by former interim prime minister and former head of the international monetary fund carlo could. easily europe's the vanguard of the refugee crisis has seen radical political change spurred value waves of migrants with a new populist government aspiring to transform europe but with power is skeptical can easily put the e.u.'s the ropes with new ideas against the big heavyweights

how will rome's new leaders deal with financial crises and corruption and could easily be a driving force for change across the whole continent gotta look at that aid to this former interim prime minister and former head of the international monetary fund welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. thank you mr gadkari they international monetary fund which she is to run says it'll is economic growth in two thousand and nineteen is going to be slower than previously expected should it be worried about a collapse of the scale at say greece but their government has a dargah for growth all of one percent of g.d.p. the i.m.f. says zero point six per cent all over the g.d.p. i think zero point six per growth was six percent the g.d.p. is much more. i think that the cheer growth rate overall birth. starting where we are would require

a very strong acceleration of growth in the circle of the. or ninety almost no way in which there could be such a large acceleration even in achieving a growth rate though zero point six percent in two thousand and nineteen would require an acceleration with the spec to what we have seen in the last in the third quarter of last year ok but they had to point a stat to the countries heavily indebted your dad eased by me at least at right now is one point eight trillion euros how will the country manage to take itself i don't that know it is a big issue and it definitely is if any become save big issue if there is no growth . i mean the problem was easier to solve in the last few years when growth was about two on one hundred percent if if starting in two thousand and sixteen we had kept the public spending call and stuff in real terms so we don't any cuts with a growth rate of one one and how person.