so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. but as one of president nicolas maduro urges the world to stop donald trump's goal of regime change in an exclusive interview given to r.t. . i take advantage of every means of communication to ask the whole world to denounce and stop the madness of donald trump in venezuela is never going to give you.

police fired tear gas at crowds demonstrators joined striking trade union workers on the streets of paris. and america's n.b.c. news brands the democrat. a russian agent just as soon as she enters the race for the white house with the network making some rather bizarre claims. good evening thanks for joining me this hour this is our international. in an exclusive interview given to r.t. the embattled venezuelan president says that he remains defiant and will not fall to america's desire for regime change pressure is building on nicolas maduro as more countries insist this claim to power is illegitimate and he can watch the full

interview at twenty one thirty g.m.t. on our website that's r.t. dot com just for now though here's a taste of what he had to say. i do not care how i'm going to go down in history 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. but. i pray to god that our country won't be invaded by the american. that there will be no war in venezuela no military intervention but this does not mean that we do not prepared to defend our land that which is sacred. 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 in. what is donald trump's cassis bellina against venezuela the cast especially is the oil of venezuela the riches of venezuela it's gold gas iron 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 get 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 are ramping up the pressure on material i mean to drive him from power the so-called lima groups throwing its support behind opposition leader self-proclaimed interim president however protests did

disrupt the group's latest meeting on monday. lima group has called for the suspension of military cooperation with the duros government and barred high level venezuelan officials from entering the territories canada's foreign ministers urged the local military to get behind something with euro labeled a sick joke 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 taney 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 while russian and venezuelan media have been banned from attending a crunch meeting of the lima group on the crisis the canadian foreign ministry emailed to russian agencies sputnik and ran over city telling them their

accreditation had been refused but gave no reason why venezuela based t.v. network telesur was also denied access without explanation its correspondent alina due out today it was meant to attend those talks or not to work says it's 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 to. around the world but is far away from that respect and it is every single aspect that they're claiming for this is only exposing the contradictions of these groups. on monday more than a dozen e.u. states recognized as being the interim president at least until you elections have been held but a source in italy is ruling coalition confirmed to r.t. that roman actually vetoed the new wide statement recognizing the opposition leader

as head of state i don't think brussels with an appeal to italy. 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. of the international support gone and by who was previously unknown in global politics can seemingly be attributed to the work of just one man and a potential explains 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. why you go off no it's probably not about the language it's just that a little while ago very few people knew who. was even in mina's well.

i had never heard that name before the first time i heard about him was in social media when he declared himself president where you heard about one where you do just recently supposedly he's the other president of venezuela which honestly think is a joke. whichever way during the first time i heard about why go it was two years ago . on this short while ago when this political situation started a little bit. for those abroad who loathes nicolas maduro there's an easier last name to say 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 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 ongoing who is now president and all of the members of popular will and members of all the parties the big ones and the little ones he's taken charge of uniting the opposition. as they're always in contact and always see eye to eye well 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 stick with him so he's funny

so i mean basically. gives ideas decisions are being made by one and the rest of the somebody 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 dog we can leaks 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 ball 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 is overwhelmingly passed a controversial anti hooligans law that cracks down on protesters in response the months of yellow verse rallies and that is demonstration on tuesday yellow vests march through with striking trade union workers in paris in a protest over the cost of living on the show other dubious he was there for us. why it seems like there's been a big turnout for this nationwide and to professional strike called by francis law or just seems you know they hate to protest things such as they want a raise in the minimum salary of what the retirement age to be sixty here in france they generally against the reforms made by president marcos government but they've also noted new things in the list and not is the fact that they are against this new anti cashiers know this is anti huge in this move that it's known as something

that's been proved to him by the government in response to the yellow vest protests that we've seen walking the country over the last few months now that anti heiresses move the anti hooligan though is unpopular because anybody who goes to a protest in covers their face to face up to a year in prison and a fine of fifteen thousand euros that's because the authorities say that they want to crack down on those people who've coups destruction and violence at least yellow vests protests over the last few months and as a result of that they want to be able to identify them but others say if you can use your protests in this tear gas all around you won't have something to cover your face actually from that actually gas and people here in the protests very unhappy with this new law will see the cookies with of this law against the rioters craze question is i find it to be appalling i guess it's a complicated issue will they detain the real rioters that's the real question or

will they just pick up any yellow vests who trip for and when they get back to their feed boom the police are taking them down to the stations would you 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 triton we saw scuffles breaking out between the police and the protest as we saw some of the protesters i did going up salute. the rocks in the street with roots are taking place and throwing those two 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 got here to plaster the concord we saw the police then responding with tear gas i can see the tear gas now coming down behind us landing close to us one of the protests is i just gave us this canister this is sort of a canister that the tear gas is kept in as you have to be pushed back as

a result of the tear gas which is now all around us and it's not just protesters here in france who seem to be unhappy about this this even being criticism from the human rights commissioner for 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 christopher 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 where that 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 commissioner for 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 has wasted no time labeling democrats will see it as a russian puppet came straight after her announcement that she was running for president in twenty twenty one to get a mortgage breakdown 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 vile 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 kabobs announcement defended her positions in russia and i sat and attacked those who suggested she is a pawn from 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. he was mentioned on some obscure forums analyst's new knowledge told n.b.c. news the chance to release it to go beyond in anonymous message boards including the right wing troll campaign a hot 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 won't for. the 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 vishal 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. to believe that she's been singled out for stance. 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 that 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 stablished right of concepts that are there and to some what i think the country needs thanks staying without a more news coming your way after this break. the u.s. in order to guarantee. by the population will engage 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 those had to say ok they're getting ready for their get ready to be controlled. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to

hit the stories that midstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the first day of afghan peace talks has ended in moscow as the size their attempt to find a solution to the eighteen year war or if an option has been at the negotiations for is and brings us the details. these days event into afghan dollar peace

conference here in mosco 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 bioluminescent 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 all 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 that territory off the sun they have come here to moscow after intensive six day talks with the american side and i had a chance to talk about the chief minister of this meeting with the had of the taliban

movement political branch mr stein exult let's take a listen and we had some progress in the trial in future also we hope that we'll have more progress and by proceeding the acceptable your vision the word does not mean that it's a privilege condition some of the talks 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 me standing side by the deadline when we can see the foreign troops leaving afghanistan will it happen within days or months or years he has told me that the 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 of the taliban movement has always will. lamed the government in kabul for violence for aggression against afghanistan and for foreign troops on the

ground let's take a listen at the offer of government to a tree in the meeting they were not supposed to come because we're. going to run very libertarian. movement of the one and also the other one communities were important for government because. according to us to a legal government we do not advise 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 came 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 this may only happen after a little lost is foreign 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. india has issued a rare official complaint to the u.s. embassy protesting washington's detention of indian students who applied to a fake american college. our concern over to dignity and the wellbeing of detained students and the need for immediate costs are access for indian officials to detainees was reached radiant we underlined that students who may have been duped into enrolling in the university should be treated differently from those recruiters who have duped them we have urged us to share food details and regular updates of the students with the government to these them from detention at the earliest and not to resort to deportation against their well. the department of homeland security set at the university of farmington i suppose it higher education

facility in the state of michigan in a sting to catch a legal migrants even creating a college website and a system of fake recruits is the new delhi warns the students would you should be released not deported to india against their will the u.s. says hundreds have been detained in the sting operation insists that they are not genuine students i can do this story more depth now is a chance our director of government relations at the hindu american foundation. j. the the sting that these students are being caught up in. what do you think of the chances that some of the students were innocent they didn't know what they were getting themselves into that's the claim from india. i believe that chances are very high and it seems that the vast majority of these students from what we understand are most probably just defrauded and should be treated with treated with due process and ensured that they are not are not treated like

hardened criminals this is simply a case of entrapment that we are witnessing here we have to realize just personally that was my first thought i heard the details of this case that even if some of the students knew this was a fake university is there an element it could be entrapment. the legal situation surrounding that is it's illegal to set up a fake college to try and catch illegal migrants. well we are still learning facts this this story was released by the media after the initial arrests that been made and we're still learning what is happening we are going to be encouraging our members of congress on the particular on the oversight committees to do a thorough investigation of the of the sting operation as it's been called to inch to understand whether these means justify the end that was that was achieved these

hundreds of students have been arrested it seems like a fake university has been uncovered that was created by the u.s. government using u.s. taxpayer dollars so i believe the u.s. the american people are going to want to know if this was a good use of their taxpayer dollars how much do you know about how the detainees being treated are they for example getting consular access. from what we understand yes they have been given full consular access it seems that the embassy of india has been extremely vigilant to ensure that they that every student has been reached from what we've been told and we we know that there have been lawyers who have been contacted who are attempting to provide legal assistance but more than that we don't know yet what do you know the chances are the u.s. will actually listen to the request from the indian government. well have to wait

and see i think this is going to be a bit of a test on the bilateral relationship as it stands and it will surely become a sticking point for both leaders of both nations if it's not resolved quickly as you mentioned this it's highly debated. issued the creation of this fake university would the students of every even attempt to go to the o.c.a. hadn't been set up what do you think is the correct way to fight illegal immigration. well we believe and we have advocated for a equitable. equitable immigration system that ensures that those who arrive here illegally attempt to go through a legal process should be afforded the opportunities of staying here taining a green card so that they can seek further employment or can open up

a business and can contribute to the american economy it seems that there is a backlog of h. one b. the soldiers who get caught up in a green card line that's you know two three decades long now and it simply is it simply is unattainable now and these types of scams luring students to come here only showcases that immigration system is broken and unfortunately we are not seeing the impetus of the us government to try and fix it now we hope that there is a congressional resolution through through legislation soon particularly on h. one b. visa holders and green card and the green card backlog j. appreciate you coming on r.t. international my guest is jake and so are director of government relations at the hindu american foundation thank you. and i've said before i said again though thanks to you guys that in lots of places you could be the seeding i know thanks to

cheating in two out international updates on our top stories at least headlines coming your way in half an hour. it's the beginning of the weekend this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world the business of finance and the impact upon all of us i'm barred children washington and could not feed more please your on board thank you for joining us coming up today we delve deeper into the crisis in venezuela and how the move from south america can shoot shock waves the global over especially in the oil market we'll be joined by bill hemmer made a senior fellow at the university of pennsylvania's climate center for energy policy and a former official at the u.s. government's total energy regulatory commission and later steve malzberg and tell

us the hills and joined us to discuss the aaa earnings that amazon alphabet and ali's palm all of that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. escalating and very protest in both hemispheres leads our global report today is the yellow best demonstrations continue for a twelfth week in france and copycat action spread to greece germany and argentina on saturday more than ten thousand stalwarts of the protest against high living cost in austerity marched in paris marches with at least a few thousand participants took place in a handful of other cities in the first cycle of protests since president mccrone began a purported national conversation on economics there was a notable shift of emphasis this past week and towards the repressive response from police and authorities mr mccrone is now.