yeah that. plans for a joint e.u. statement to recognize the new president of venezuela the rejection was confirmed. inside it to the ruling coalition also to. certainly is something that's on the.

stump trying. you're making mistakes that leave your hands covered in blood and you will leave the president stained with blood. again stresses sending troops to venezuela to support the opposition leader is still a lot of option and it's why this president nicolas maduro has warned of bloody consequences. french president among your faces a backlash after accusing outside actors of stoking national rest and also coming up this hour. after security officers remove a heavily pregnant black woman without a valid ticket from a subway train. this

is international. more than a dozen east states. now recognise one as interim president of venezuela but a source in italy's ruling coalition confirmed to r.t. the roma vetoed an e.u. wide statement recognizing the opposition leader as head of state has thanked brussels and appealed to italy. and behalf of. those who are hoping for a better loan a sincere think you for the recognition given by the european bloc where waiting for italy i'm certain it like the rest of europe they will take a step towards the recognition 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 and denmark and the netherlands among others have said that quite doe 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 the stance. italy does not recognize my door because we absolutely oppose the fact that a country or a group of third countries can determine the international policies of another country this is called the principle of noninterference and has been recognized by the united nations 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 me. quite zero 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 recognise the republic of catalonia and if you don't we are going to take measures because material was 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 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 maintains he isn't going anywhere. donald trump has again confirmed that the use of military force in venezuela is one of the options being considered if mr o. doesn't step down 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 have candid we believe variance have the capacity for dialogue understanding why would you want to repeat vietnam. the military option has been on the white house agenda for some time last week the u.s. national security advisers know pad caught the eye of reporters on it written five

thousand troops to colombia colombia of course shares a border with venezuela that is my guess the of takes a look at how why dover chile unknown outside venezuela just a month ago is now 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 is investing in the people that revitalized opposition leading the charge to topple the dictator there demanded the very heart of venezuela's fight for democracy. why do the media's darling it's in 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 their 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 the right to seek change. the question is how democracy is a nubile gone people power. 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 that military. intervention to get their guy on the throne he was schooled in the united states he was involved in the student uprising in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight against the chavez regime now that israel is doing well oiled prices were high there was lots of social provision so his claim today that he's doing out of concern for the poor people and it's only because of the current economic condition of the of the can see is total nonsense i think he's being pressured by the united states into doing things but i think he's disposable he's what the americans would call a patsy. and so i think in the media and you would see somebody else taking over

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 one town and now there is an agenda in the air mission to accomplish in pushing for it but media washington think tanks and activists know how the so often ends of 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 i just hope that that doesn't happen in venezuela. after twelve consecutive weekend of yele of us protests in france press the tamale micron is under attack from his political rivals marie le pen you had the national

rally party accuses him of peddling conspiracy theories rather than tackling the crisis at. i don't know from continues excrete when he explains to was that 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 yellow vests russia the united states everyone except him is 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'm retreated just like with the yellow vests the fascists fear left wing sphere in the russian sphere comprise ninety percent of the movements online. takes a look at the allegation 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 and government crackdown on them. and thousands 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 vest 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's if they were. able to feel safe on a. team received on t.v. i want. 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 emanuel 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 struggled to get a hold of the chaos in his country the russians were the perfect villains since the president had long hard distrust of the we have evidence of that it's coming from the show the evidence of some very well known recent ones like. malls russia today in sputnik were going to have influence them produce 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 media hate being 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. there's anger in sweden after security officers forcibly removed a heavily pregnant black woman without a valid ticket from a train and pinned to a bench instance raise questions about the treatment of minorities in a country that is often portrayed itself as being a beacon of tolerance. was. the official said that the woman in question was taken to hospital by ambulance. she insisted she had a travel card with her but failed to find it immediately by the time she pulled it

from a pocket the ticket controller has already issued the fine is 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 after that video went viral two security guards were suspended the police are investigating the incident social science professor adrian grow lopo told us that the problem of racism should be tackled politically should happen these two are wide through this upper class woman i don't think so. probably they will treat her in another way people with my mum buy crowns basically. for suits i'm in the black community here in sumatra very very badly of course they are much more aggressive against nonwhite people police guards are doing

a racial profile regarding security in sweden you can buy lead your rights very very easily because you don't have the two could i mean that must be really really thought only from waste it is swarth to have tensions in society in this way they are very much on people up. on the white skin the question of structural discrimination racism and sweden should be political mainly. because it's a political problem. it was just foreign minister says moscow is not looking for a new arms race with the united states after a key nuclear treaty was suspended more on that after the break.

it. is possible to the world for you. if you other. decide to move ahead. with. the thirty for example and. that's that is false it will saw it fall over not proving she would not be part of the change.

title thirties have extended the detention of a bahraini footballer and political refugee i came our a b. had been granted asylum in australia but was held as he arrived for honeymoon in bangkok activists and leading sports personalities across the world have been demanding his release on the selects you know he has the story. it's not too often that you see sports personalities club's fans and even high ranking officials unite for a cause but this has been just a case of. a football player from bahrain currently behind bars in thailand chelsea legend didier drogba liverpool legend robbie fowler spurs legend gary lineker five time olympic champion swimmer in four entire sports federations all jumped in to

urge football authorities to save hakim was first arrested in twenty twelve in bahrain when the country was going through a massive anti-government uprising violently quelled by the gulf states ruling family he claims he was tortured in prison like thousands of others they spent three hours shooting me hard in my linux will break your bones will destroy your future you will never play football again with these legs in twenty fourteen he fled bahrain fearing for his life and in twenty seventeen he was granted political asylum in australia where he continued his career until november last year when he went on a honeymoon trip to thailand and was detained right at the airport with authorities pointing to an interpol request to detain him as a fugitive of justice since then he has been locked up in a bangkok prison with bahrain seeking his extradition back home he is charged with vandalizing a police station and sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison that is despite the london based bahraini dissident group b i r d releasing the live television

footage of him playing a football game right at the time of the crimes he is being accused of this may seem as a credible alibi to anyone but here is the problem it may not be enough to vindicate him since he took a swipe not just at political elite of his home country but particularly at shaikh solomon being a. high ranking member of bahrain's royal family and a man who was one of the front runners for the presidency of fever in twenty sixteen the post which was eventually won by gianni in front back then right in the middle of the campaign either a b. . accuse the shaikh of being responsible for his arrest and torture sheikh selman was responsible for the football players for the national team how can it be that he didn't know anything about it i am an example of it and i have evidence the royal denies these allegations but here is the most twisted part of the sport despite losing the bid to rule fifa shakes our man currently holds the position of

senior vice president of the association yes the same body which is under massive global pressure to do something about our a.b.c. case and produced the following statement. to use of the kingdom of. this is the reste to ensure that mr lorry b. is allowed to return safely to australia at the earliest possible moment at this point tire thora g.'s may wish they had not detained al-arabiya given the massive global outcry and something they are not even sure what to do with the man having just extended his detention by another two months so as a mother a b past his fiftieth day in a bank robber jail he and the whole world are waiting to see who shall prevail in this battle sports or politics. r.t. reporting from moscow. eight people have died after a huge fire engulfed in a lead to apartment block in central moscow two children are reported to be among the victims far spread over almost

a thousand square metres around apartments which are home to new missile liberty's authorities have launched an investigation into the incident preliminary reports say an electrical failure sparked the blaze. the u.s. has accused russia of conducting tests which violate the i.m.f. treaty banning intermediate range nuclear missiles washington insists they new missile flew more than five hundred kilometers in tests russian officials point out that its maximum range is almost half that. don't quarter have more. so russia is our. 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 to 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 of the initiatives coming from us are still available but we're not going to chase our western partners 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 the people nor. are we 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 but the reason for that being donald

trump and the way he sees international law here's my colleague donald quarter on how the treaty of 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 who benefits most from the u.s. backing out of this treaty a lot of our 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 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. because to think of russia's federation council thinks the us is looking for any excuse to quit their on if deal. the united states is trying to create a world under its control the concept of exceptionalism has gone too far any attempt to attain unilateral supremacy in the arms fear can provoke a mere response from other countries and there's no doubt that russia china and other states will do this there's no other means of securing collective security than parity the americans deny this they believe they can maintain their national security by attaining supremacy over their opponents but it's an illusion balance

will be ensured and russia will not accept any other variants russia's made it stand point clear it's still at the negotiating table if the us has extra questions it has a right to ask them and russia in its turn has a right to answer them or not the americans need to reach enter into dialogue with russia and then things might improve but currently there is no sign of this and there's little chance of this happening as the u.s. needs to suspend the i.n.f. treaty is seeking a reason to exit it and attain supremacy in the arms fear alone. about with the base we have in half an hour see it or. a curve of conflict is shaping up between a. over budget and fears of

a looming recession who should be worried well to talk about this i'm joined by former interim prime minister and former head of the international monetary fund carlo could. easily. with a new. spy ring to transform europe but with. the ropes. heavyweights how will. deal with financial crises and corruption. driving force for change across the whole continent got a 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. thanks mr gadkari the international monetary fund what she

says it all is economic growth in twenty nine thousand is going to be slower than previously expected should it be worried about a collapse of the scale let's say greece. did the government has a dark out for growth all of one percent of g.d.p. the i.m.f. says a zero point six per cent of g.d.p. i think zero point six per growth of zero point six per cent of g.d.p. is much more realistic i think that the civi a growth rate of one per cent starting where we are would require a bit stronger than of growth in the second half of two thousand and nineteen almost no way in which there could be such a large acceleration even in achieving a growth rate those zero point six percent in two thousand and nineteen would require an acceleration with the specter what we have seen in the last in the third quarter of last year ok but they get to the point a stat that the countries heavily indebted your dad i mean at least at right now is

one point eight trillion here is how well known hunter managed to take it sounds vital that night is a big issue and it definitely is if any become saved. 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 per se revenues would have increased the and we would have achieved in two thousand and three in one thousand a balanced budget if growth now stalled and he actually that he's a session on things are going to be very difficult for he thought it was we need to be afraid eason increasing the public debt to g.d.p. ratio the public debt to g.d.p. ratio you stable more or less and be with a growth rate of zero point six would still be more or less stable but if we get

into a recession then the public debt to g.d.p. .