rome vito's plans for a joint statement to recognize one and wedo was the new president of venezuela the rejection was confirmed to our team stores inside italy's ruling coalition meanwhile we have something that's on the beach an option of stop stop trying to hold it right you are making mistakes that leave your hands covered in blood and you will leave the president's stained with blood. again stresses that sending

troops to venezuela to support the opposition leader is still alive option but as well as president nicolas maduro warns of deadly consequences. the pentagon claims that i still will resurface in the middle east if the u.s. leaves marking a contrast with the president trying to assure and says that the terror group has been absolutely obliterated. and anger in sweden after security officers remove a heavily pregnant black woman without a valid ticket from a subway train. a very warm welcome you're watching our c international with me. now more than a dozen the e.u. states have recognized him to impress. isn't the venezuela however

a source in its lease ruling coalition confirms to r.t. that rome vetoed an e.u. wide statement recognizing the opposition leader as head of state has thanked brussels and appealed to italy. behalf of. those who are hoping for a better life a sincere think you for the recognition given by the european bloc where waiting for easily. like the rest of europe they will take a step towards a 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 why door because we absolutely opposed the fact that a country or a group of countries can determine the international policies of another country this is called a 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 mr quite oh is head. 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 maduna i 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 maturer 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 you are 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 turned it down we believe areas 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 adviser is no time to call the eye of reporters on it was written five thousand troops to colombia colombia south of border with venezuela right out

you have looked at how why don't you virtually unknown outside venezuela 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 and leaving his country to democracy why do is investing in the people that revitalized opposition 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 it's in every 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 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. there's 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 other's internal affairs and you'd be

wrong no washington is hinting at military intervention to get their guy on the throne he was schooled in the united states he was involved in the student uprising as in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight against the chavez regime now but israel is doing well oiled prices were high there was lots of social provision so his claim today he's doing it 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 on a pretty beach rather than being in some other beach area like a one time. now there is an agenda in the air mission to accomplish in. 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 the got their way albeit at a huge cost let's just hope that that doesn't happen in venezuela as more ads just mentioned us interventions in south america have often led to tragic consequences but in all cases washington has claimed to be supporting democracy. the united states has a social responsibility to support and nurture democracy and freedom to establish.

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a group of program i dove american states has changed its mind at the last moment and russian media from crunch talks on that as well or the lima group which includes the likes of brazil and colombia is meeting in canada to decide the next steps off to canada's prime minister back to quiet the canadian foreign ministry a mild sputnik andrea navas day but gave no reason for refusing accreditation but as while a base t.v. network tell us it was also denied access without explanation its correspondent daughter who was meant to attend the talks in ottawa says those moves are part of a strategy to prevent non-mainstream voices from being heard it's not a surprise not for. at least. it is not a zipper that closer for its own has been created to dismantle these demonic

narratives it's a show whether what must media it's a show in so it is not a surprise that they are not they don't like us and they've been trying to balance every single voice in that it's against this and against the. and i mean david this is only exposing the contradictions of this group that they've been clinging for freedom of speech of speech that mark received but they are for currently with discounts or are far away from respected members every single aspect that they're claiming for. after twelve consecutive weekend of yellow vests protests in france president emanuel mcraney is under attack from his political rivals marine le pen who had a national run a party accuses him of peddling conspiracy theories rather than tackling the crisis head on on live from continues excrete when he explains two was to d.l. a vaster manipulative 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 drew is a media product a product of social networks we source on facebook my 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 in the russian sphere comprise ninety percent of the movements online tried to both get takes a look at the allegation that the french president is dogging response ability. 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 if they were. never. sleep 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 terrorism 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 of very low that he feels it mends resentment at the fact that they. 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 stemming from the show give evidence of some very well known recent looks like. morals russia today in sputnik were going to of influence then 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 hoping he would want small being 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. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman mohit memory is the horror of the claims from across part of a broader campaign against the russian media which a muscle. mass of well planned and carbonated campaign against russian media the goal of our western partners is to make russian media toxic not to find real facts because the facts now looking for don't exist if they did there would have been presented long. meanwhile opinion polls continue to show a low level of support for the french president the latest survey gives him an approval rating of twenty seven percent. which is just eight points higher than nicolas maduro and that as whale of a president who mcconnell says has lost the right so only to his country and investigative journalist dave lindorff believes but the french and us guzman saw guilty of hypocrisy in that as well the united states is promoting one.

you know when we do in minutes well as the real president and the u.s. is backing my pro so there seems to be a. bit of tripod proceed here i would say you know the u.s. has been working very hard for years to foment unrest in venezuela and sure they've been you know pulling strings behind the scenes with trying to lure military to switch sides but you know promising them all kinds of goodies and weapons and so on you know that they supported a coup against chavez earlier now they seem to be promoting a coup by the military again it's really going to be a question of whether the military sticks behind maturer in which case the slow sort of go away over time or whether the military starts to really flip. well the pentagon has won that islamic states could make a comeback in syria without

a story and will still succumb to this break. it's balls to go to the well. if you. decide to move ahead. with. the. ball and they. will. not prove. them but she. joined me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. us in order to guarantee. by the population gauge and

stop to tell terry doesn't and that's clearly on the march and the population is ready for it you know they were all sad to say ok they're getting ready for their get ready to be controlled. welcome back the pentagon has issued a stark warning that i still will resurface very quickly if the u.s. withdraws its troops it is very likely the dices will have the opportunity to set conditions for future research and and territorial control absences team counter-terrorism pressure i says could likely resurgent syria within six to twelve months and regain limited territory in the middle euphrates river valley well these

recent words from the pentagon are quite the opposite of what we've heard from. u.s. president donald trump who says that ice still has indeed been defeated naca the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon we have just absolutely decimated isis just absolutely obliterated isis in iraq we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly now we've won it's time to come back now it was this reported defeat of isis that was given as the reason that donald trump was going to withdraw u.s. forces from syria now that was a controversial decision and james mattis apparently resigned in response to it now at this point we're two months later and we're hearing from from trump that apparently there is talk that the usa could return to syria in the blink of an eye if need be that you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of isis see a resurgent you know their room doing no good come back if we have to we have very

fast airplanes we have very good cargo planes we can come back very quickly now the report also seems to indicate that's the report from the pentagon that isis could indeed resurgent in iraq and that's why the u.s. forces have not been removed from that country however in iraq people are not quite happy about the u.s. military presence there lawmakers in iraq are actually planning to put forward a bill to stop the foreign adviser presence in the country so at this point there clearly seems to be some disagreement about the nature of isis and its ability to to resurge or to come back and there seems to be some some tension possibly between the president and folks in the pentagon about what exactly to do about isis and how powerful isis might be. here to help us make sense of it all is defense analyst ivan a lens thank you for joining us on the program so we have trump saying isolate defeated because the pentagon who seem to be saying the open as it says should we believe.

well i think you know the president wants to get out and i think he's probably overstating the fact that the isis is vanquished permanently however the pentagon also it has its own motives they would like to stay they tend to like to stay in the country in conflicts. you know ad nauseum you know until the cows come home as we see in afghanistan so i think you know this war will never be won i think isis may really do your resurgent no matter if the u.s. is there or not i think that's not the issue i think the u.s. can withdraw like the president says but i think we have to say well russia iran the syrian government and maybe even turkey on a good day have have incentives to beat back the militants because after all syria does want to regain. the syrian government wants to regain

all of its territory do you think we can read into the fact that the pentagon has chosen to go public with this warning of an eye so resurgence in syria do you think this might be an inkling that we might expect some kind of launch scale military action for instance. well i think it's more that they don't know they don't want to follow the president's order to get out and i think they're trying to justify and build up pressure in the media to keep the troops there and of course the president let slip the fact that the u.s. presence in iraq is not really to fight isis it's to keep tabs on iran and also maybe even pressure iran because he has actually is pollitt policy is contradictory withdrawing from syria helps iran but at the same time he's trying to put maximum pressure on iran but he did slip i think and tell everybody that one of

the reasons that the u.s. wants to keep troops in iraq is to corner and keep tabs on it and put pressure on iran and say we do you think we're new to u.s. military campaign in syria how much of a setback would this be for the country that is the already ravaged by war well i don't really think it helps i mean the more outside powers that are meddling in syria the worse it is for the syrian people but you know isis is bad as well so you know i guess you have to pick your you pick your poison but you know i always thought that the united states was was making a mistake by helping the opposition in syria because even if we didn't help the militants those weapons always flow to the most most ruthless people and certainly syrian government has no human rights paradise but isis is even worse and i think that the united states should really rely on. russia syrian government and help by

iran and russia to get rid of these or at least contain the isis this threat united states really does need to do that. i've been a lens defense analyst thank you for your time. and your. well as anger in sweden after security officers forcibly removed a heavily pregnant black woman without a valid ticket from a train 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. officials say the woman was taken to hospital by ambulance the alleged victim insisted she had her travel card with her but failed to find it immediately and by the time she

pulled it out of her pocket the ticket control had already issued a fine 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 social science professor adrian global a poet olders that the problem of racism should be tackled politically. so happened these two a while sue this. woman i don't think so. probably they will treat her in another way people with my mom by clones basically. after suits i'm in the black community here in spain are treated very very badly of course they are much more aggressive against nonwhite people police guards are doing racial profile.

regarding security so even you can buy lead your rights very very easily because you don't have the ticket i mean doctor 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 racism and sweden should be political first of all because it is a political problem it an obvious down our stories by following us on social media where the back at the top of the hour with the latest stephen.

hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the u.s. 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 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 bobbitt 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've 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 sensually denying donald trump as president of the united states to have a foreign policy 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 he's being denied it in very forcefully including his own party well what if this is very symptomatic of what the loyalties and disloyalty is both in the u.s. congress and the u.s. intelligence community and the pentagon and this is a place of things to come when that.