join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you there. but as well a president nicolas maduro urges the world to stop donald trump's goal of regime change in an exclusive interview given to our to. take advantage of every means of communication the whole world to denounce and stop the madness of donald trump even this whale is never going to give it up and.

police fired tear gas a crowd says yellow vests demonstrators joined striking trade union workers on the streets of paris. and america's n.b.c. news brands a democrat a russian agent as soon as she enters the race for the white house with the network making some bizarre claim. good evening to you this is r.t. international. in an exclusive interview given to r.t. the embattled venezuelan president says that he remains defiant and that he will not fold to america's desire for regime change pressure is building on nicolas

maduro as more countries insist his claim to power is not legitimate and the full interview will be available on a website that's r.t. dot com also on our sister channels and social media pages for now that is a taste of what was said. what i do not care how i'm going to go down in history that i'm not going to be a traitor a weak one like a man who turned his back on his historic commitments to his people by that's where . i pray to god that our country won't be invaded by the american on. the way to get there was i mean there will be no war in venezuela but i know military intervention but this does not mean that we do not prepared to defend our land but i'll just say korea that. i take advantage of every means of communication to ask the whole world to denounce and stop the madness of donald trump and israel is never going to give it all. you want is donald trump's cassis belly not against venezuela the cast especially is the oil of venezuela the riches of venezuela it's

gold gas diamonds other material riches you know in the twenty first century is not the time for cannon shots and military warnings no the twenty first century should be one of dialogue civilization politics respect for diversity peace and coexistence a search for diplomatic solutions to global conflicts for venezuela dialogue is most important it is our banner could all go in or out of the cup that i think it is a mistake of diplomatic political and moral character that exposes european states not at their best they've recognized something that doesn't exist in venezuela there is only one government the government elected by the people in a constitutional way that took an oath to this constitution and will fully execute its g t's and or thirty meanwhile nearly a dozen latin american countries and canada around picking up the pressure on the

door aiming to drive in from power the so-called lima group is throwing its support behind opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president wango i don't however protest did this rep the group's latest meeting on monday. the lima group has called for the suspension of military cooperation with materials government barred high level venezuelan officials from entering their territories and of this foreign ministers urged the local military to get behind something the doura labeled a sick joke even if. this statement is disgusting and laughable it's difficult to know whether to laugh or vomit or both when i read it i wanted to be sick and laugh similar cheney asli one request is crazier than the other on behalf of all the people of venezuela we say yes to dialogue a thousand times dialogue. in mall russian and venezuela media have been banned from attending a crunch meeting of the lima group on the crisis the canadian foreign ministry

emailed russian agencies sputnik and re another three telling them their accreditation had been refused but gave no reason why and where the base t.v. network telesur was also denied access without explanation as correspondent alina it was meant to return those talks or not to us says that it is to prevent non-mainstream voices from being heard it's not a surprise not for me at least it's not a surprise that they don't like us and they've been trying to balance every single voice that it's against this a narrative against the wind its way up and they're clinging afraid i must be around the world but is star away from respect and there is every single aspect that they're claiming for this is only exposing the contradictions of the group. monday more than a dozen the states recognize one quite those being the interim president at least until you elections are held but a source in italy's ruling coalition confirmed to r.t.

that roman actually vetoed the e.u. wide statement recognizing the opposition leader as head of state why don't thank brussels but then appealed to italy. nobody. on 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 i'm certain that like the rest of europe they will take a step towards the recognition. international support gone and by god who was previously unknown in global politics can seemingly be attributed to the work of just well man you trying to reports they've made him the new interim president but haven't learned how to say his name. in a present one go you know one guido ok mr pompei oh my i have issues with spanish so you know. what you don't know it's probably not about the

language it's just that a little while ago very few people knew who. was even an ms well. i had never heard that name before the first time i heard about him was in social media when he declared himself president when. i heard about one great do just recently supposedly he's the other president of venezuela which i honestly think is a joke. whichever way during the first time i heard about why go was two years ago . i don't own this short while ago when this political situation started a little for those abroad who loathes nicolas maduro there's an easier last name to say lope is if you've never heard of low poll the low because some very important people will definitely have. venezuela should allow lippold alone a political prisoner and husband of toting out of prison immediately this man's political ambitions have arranged for

a mayor of caracas to the president's office his wife has made friends with world leaders as if she was part of let's say the g. twenty herself so why do we keep on hearing we've recognized why and why go as the new president instead of we've recognized hold a low because first of all he's now under house arrest after being in all kinds of trouble with law enforcement but even his wife says that doesn't stop him from pulling the strings at home he works with all of the opposition everyone he speaks with her on going don't know who is not president and all of the members of popular will and members of all the parties the big ones and the little ones he's taking charge of uniting the opposition why dose says they're always in contact and always see eye to eye while even the american media is hinting mr why don't you could just be a pawn in someone else's hand according to the opposition party though he makes his own decisions your polo has been imprisoned for almost five years now so

communication with him it's very difficult we have to speak with him so he's funny so i mean basically. gives ideas that decisions are being made by one and the rest of the. perhaps for those who are trying to overthrow a government because of how authoritarian and corrupt it is admitting the whole show is being run by someone who could be a full on state department puppet is kind of dodgy we can leagues has spilled the beans on exchanges between us diplomats with step by step descriptions of how leopoldo lopez should rise to power by the way speaking of scandals lopez's wife was all over the news when a mountain of local cash worth sixty thousand bucks was found in her car. this money is to pay for my grandma who is hundred years old and has been hospitalized three days she has no insurance in a country where it takes a suitcase full of all of our bills to buy

a coffee no one out there protesting in the street has that kind of money so maybe someone like why and why deal with the awkward baggage is an easier sell. france has overwhelmingly passed a controversial anti hooligans law that cracks down on protesters in response to months of yellow rallies in the latest demonstration yellow vests are currently marching with striking trade union workers in paris over living costs auntie's correspondence other dubious is their first. well as those who were on strike and taking part in the march today for motel to feel. down. we saw scuffles breaking out between the police and the protesters we saw some of the protesters digging up some of the the rocks in the street where the roads are taking place and throwing those who with the police at first what we saw in response was just the security forces trying to push back in a bit of a cat and mouse game but later as the protesters as those on strike go it's

a blast in the concord we saw the police then responding with tear gas trying to push the protesters away from this junction just to my right you may be able to see the security forces who are still there at the moment a water cannon ready to use that's the second one we've seen in the city today it seems that thousands of people took part in this protest it was called by the c g t which is the biggest union in france and it was supported by some of the yellow vest protest this who can be seen in the crowds wearing the yellow vests today of course they've been out in protest now for the last three months in france against the problems of the cost of living here amongst other things now the c.d.t. supporting them in that protest but also supporting them in a new endeavor and that is to be against the hooligans the so-called anti cassar law in france is that law looking to give the ability to the pre-fight rather than

just judges to ban people from coming along to protests and also potentially from giving people fines of up to fifteen thousand euros or up to a year in prison and or rather up to a year in prison if they hide their faces when they come to protests many people saying that a rude civil liberties here in france and people we've been speaking to a few reus about it. gives it this largesse the rioters craze questions i find it a bit appalling i guess it's a complicated issue. well they detain the real writers that's the real question or will they just pick up any yellow gas who trip for and when they get back to their feed boom the police are taking them down to the station office people but we don't hear it's absolute hypocrisy to keep records of people well this is close to fascism everyone is being tracked now everything is controlled people's lives i believe the law is a good one as we have the right to protest but we don't have the right to violate

we need to do something we need to control them we need to create an environment for peaceful protest the law is quite tough i assume it doesn't need to be so strict but the same time it's important to avoid a total crackdown we need to limit the number of disturbances we have the right to protest but without writing well many people have told us that today in this strike you can't just stop people from covering their faces if they come to protest there are many reasons why they might do that including that tear gas that we constantly see him being used by the police people using scarves just to cover their faces to try and avoid some of the worst impacts of that tear gas and it's not just protesters here in france you seem to be unhappy about this nor even being criticism from the human rights commission of the council of europe who suggested the idea of making it illegal to cover your face in a protest could be degrading civil liberties but the government particularly the interior minister chris of a customer has defended this law saying it's necessary this law is not intended to

prevent demonstrations on the contrary its aims to protect them more than twelve hundred police officers and emergency workers and nearly nineteen hundred yellow vests have been injured since the start of the movement to do nothing is a free pass for some to wreak destruction at each protest i can see tear gas now coming down behind us landing close to us one of the projects is i just gave us this canister this is sort. a canister that the tear gas is kept in as you have to be pushed back as a result of that your gas which is now all around us without law has now been passed by french m.p.'s in the national assembly much to the horror of many people in france you feel that it will road civil liberties also criticism that law could erode civil liberties coming from the human rights commission of the council of

europe for the moment people remain out on the streets and there remain unhappy with many of the policies of the government of president mark on so that you can ski r.t. paris. america's n.b.c. news is wasted no time labeling democrat as a russian puppet came straight after her announcement that she was running for president in twenty twenty more can break down the evidence provided by the network . so n.b.c. has gone out of its way to inform us americans that we should disapprove of congresswoman tulsi gabbert after twenty twenty presidential campaign why because it is backed by a vial kremlin conspiracy so what's the proof well they've got their evidence in order among other things one of their claims is brace yourself but apparently sputnik knew it was an r.t. published articles about her site celebrated government's announcement defended her

positions in russia and i saw that and at times those who suggested she is a pawn for moscow now r.t.m. sputnik have written about all sorts of different candidates but that's beside the point the fact that candidate who favors a non interventionist foreign policy was mentioned by news outlets from russia is considered to be a huge smoking gun but it gets worse she was mentioned on some obscure forums analyst's new knowledge told n.b.c. news they spoke to chatter related to cabbage in anonymous message boards including newsnight right wing troll campaigns. aha new knowledge you remember them don't you that's the cyber security firm that was caught running a false flag campaign in alabama election they were running operations to make it look as if russian bots were supporting a candidate they did not like now and b.c. failed to mention that in their exposé but they do have one more source meet mr josh russell he lives in indiana and on his free time he uses the internet to hunt down russian trolls i'm just

a regular person. and i don't have any relationship with any type of woe. betide company through social media companies but n.b.c. says that we should believe him and this isn't the first time mainstream media has played this card remember when they were widely alleging that black lives matter was a russian asset at least one of the ads that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black live matter ad they are still going after jill stein the green party presidential candidate you were going there with us cable which is part of what is raising questions among investigators and don't forget that bernie sanders is also a pawn they used automated social media box and what appeared to be paid operatives in russia and other countries specifically to target burning supporters so the message is pretty simple someone questioning the status quo thinking outside the box opposing the u.s. foreign policy well if that's the case don't listen to them it's just

a voice from russia to confuse you and get you to not believe in our great american leaders don't think obey. r.t. new york. believes that she's being single bound. as commander in chief i will work to end a new cold war nuclear arms race and slide into nuclear war that is why the neo con the only warmongers will do anything to stop me i think most people are tired of the russian side and most people don't buy into it anyhow but yeah they're using their label to put on her in order to potentially derail her campaign they're afraid of her because she is independent she speaks her mind she has very exceptional popular support from her in her own state and she goes against a lot of the abolition of concepts that are there and she's someone i think the

country needs on the road to the white house and in twenty twenty twenty election has begun not just to tell us again about but for other candidates to among the usual run as a mind is there is one surprising face that of the billionaire how it shows form a c.e.o. starbucks and although he hasn't officially entered the race just yet he's already causing quite a stir in the media. i . had a successful wealthy billionaire businessman as president you're kind of the same thing right i don't think i want another businessman he's another billionaire one of us should go to starbucks until he announces he's not running. i've also been criticized for being a billionaire i'm so from the heat i thought that was the american dream.

you know you're an interesting democratic outlier an interesting voice i like some of the stuff out there and i think you try to do great. i'm a. great resume super smart a lot of experience dedicated public servant good guys. thanks for joining me this evening here in our teens and national more news coming your way after this short break.

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welcome back the first day of afghan peace talks ended in moscow as the sides attempt to find a solution to the eighteen here war on tease me if an option has been in the negotiations and brings us the to us. these days event into afghan dollar peace conference he in most good has brought different influential of gani forces and politicians together with the aim of discussing ways to bring the long awaited peace to afghanistan and we can call it a historic one experts say that today of getting closer to end of the war and the violence and territory than any time before of course no doubt that the key participants of today's event and actually everything that is going on in afghanistan a round of ghana's son is the movement of taliban bend in russia as

a terrorist organization that is now according to various sources controlling more land on the ground than the official government which means this is a force that no one can ignore and everybody should consider their major condition for peace in afghanistan has always been and remains a complete withdrawal of all foreign troops from the territory off the sun they have come here to moscow after intensive six to eight talks with the american side and i had a chance to talk about the chief this meeting with the had of the taliban movement political branch mr stein exult let's take a listen and we heard some progress in the time and future also we hope that we'll have more progress and by preserving the acceptable your vision of the word does not mean that it's a privilege condition some of the books will be pretty good sides from our side and from there sir and indeed we've heard american president trump all during the american troops to leave afghanistan while speaking about the deadline of us mr

standing side by the deadline when we can see the foreign troops leaving afghanistan will it happen within days or months or years and he has told me that they only hate that it will not take too much time perhaps months interesting that the official kabul is not attending today's peace conference here in moscow mr stein exactly has explained that this is because it is not a legal force the taliban movement has always been. named the government in kabul for violence for aggression against afghanistan and for foreign troops on the ground let's take a listen but the offer of government has to be in this meeting they were not supposed to come because the. regime. movement or for the bombing or so the other one communities were important for government because. according to a legal government to do more to the former president of afghanistan hamid karzai

is also among those participating in today's peace conference and i had a chance to talk to him as well and i asked him whether it is a big problem actually that the official kabul is not participating and he has told me that again they hope that one day they will all gather together and i guess the only happen after. last soldier leaves afghanistan so it's a lot about hopes at this point but as experts say the key the breakthrough moment about these talks is that it is happening. and assassination guide targeting members of the alternative for germany party has surfaced on a platform to follow after extremists appears to include step by step instructions including apparent plots an escape routes website post comes less than a month after an attack on a regional leader. chair in the german bundestag has responded to the threat

calling it a far left act of terrorism against the party and urged the portal that published it to be shut down our europe correspondent peter oliver looks into the threat. the anti immigration alternative for germany party has come in for its fair share of criticism in the past. the a.f.d. is a racist and nationalist and military state party said can you not just lonely and unhappy conservatives they are not suppressed economically liberals but a clear way into right wing extremism and go on that indeed there are members of parliament that i cannot describe other than as racist who give birth to more reassured that they've even found themselves put under surveillance by the german security services now the party has become a target of a radical left online group seeming to have the intention to do real harm in the lead up to the european and local elections it appears to be a step by step guide to killing politicians from where and which weapons to buy to

which shoes to wear for the kill choose target at will the more well known the better working groups women with non migrant background are preferable white german women are ideal body guards will pay less attention to women who are pretty made up and well dressed. the recalls to take out specific names politicians it also encourages would be it has to familiarize themselves with the surroundings their potential targets frequent whether it's a sick prank or real intent it's hard to tell however the tone in which it's presented coupled with a recent series attack by must assailants on the day local party leader in bremen gives us a more sinister edge leaving some an alternative for germany to wonder if they are a target peter all of a r.t. . the head of u.s.

central command says donald trump did not consult him before ordering the troop pullout from syria just for tells revelation comes just a day after the pentagon warned eisel will very quickly resurface if the pullout takes place it is very likely that isis will have the opportunity to set conditions for a future resurgence and territorial control we have just absolutely decimated isis absolutely obliterated isis we have won against isis absent sustained counter terrorism pressure isis could likely resurgent syria within six to twelve months currently the us has around two thousand troops in syria they provide tactical support for kurdish forces in the north of the country washington's involvement started back in twenty fourteen as it launched its terrorism operations and the country became a war zone around eight years ago right now syria's recaptured large areas of its territory controlled by its government forces and backed by russia and iran but while president trump claims isis been defeated in the country terrorist cell

pockets remain in the east close to a couple of u.s. bases jumps planned to pull out u.s. soldiers was met with criticism not only within washington but also from his own administration to the visors contradicting each other on the speed of any proposed withdrawal but the president says american troops could return whenever necessary. you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence you know where we're going out we'll come back if we have to we have a very fast airplanes we have very good cargo planes we can come back very quickly when donald trump announced his decision to withdrawal from syria a couple of months ago. there were a huge amount a huge number of off the record briefings by the pentagon by security intelligence agencies we see that the intelligence chiefs are suggesting that u.s. troops should stay in. in syria because of the threat from isis. self of course has said that in relation to iraq and in relation to syria that the

reason why the u.s. troops isn't to do with isis anyway it's to do with. protecting the interests of israel by keeping iran at bay and stopping the expansion of iranian influence the pentagon also its own motives they would like to stay they tend to like to stay in the cut in conflicts. you know. you know until the cows come home as we see in afghanistan 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 it and build up pressure in the media to keep the troops there ok i'll be back with updates for you on top stories in half an hour see them. i think it's gone into a nihilistic the best i think he got hit them.