i. was. going to. say. bill is well on president nicolas maduro urges the world to stop donald trump's goal of regime change in an exclusive interview with our team. i use every media outlet to urge the internal world to denounce the absolute steps don't trump is thinking against men as well venezuela has not surrendered and never will.

yellow vest activists and trade union workers take to the streets of paris after parliamentary dobson anti hooligan law targeting protesters. u.s. news network accuses democratic congresswoman tulsi gabbard of being a russian agent after she enters the race for the white house. where broadcasting lodge a reference to do is in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right in an exclusive interview with r t venezuela's president has a valid to resist washington's push for regime change pressure is building on nicolas maduro as more countries back opposition. why don't you watch the full

interview at r.t. dot com here's a quick preview let me put on weight i do not care about my legacy there is one thing i know for sure i will not be remembered as a traitor that it is a weak men who are a nation of peace historical commitments and betrayed his nation only as a practice in christian rock i pray to god that our nation doesn't have to put armed resistance to u.s. troops in a sort of way there will be no war or military intervention he then is well out of it it doesn't mean that we shouldn't get ready to fight for our land using every media outlet to urge the entire world heads of state heads of government or world leaders social movements and the international community to denounce the stop sort steps traumas taking against venezuela silent to stop him threaten us with a military intervention venezuela has not surrendered and never will what's donald trump sconces belly against venezuela from us what is it do we have w m d's are we

a threat to us national security you know what the cost is bally's here then is a well an oil and as well as resources go and natural gas diamonds or water our material wealth and the twenty first century and he's not the time for cannon fire and military threats you know the twenty first century should be a century of dialogue civilized behavior politics the respect for god version peace peaceful coexistence and finding peaceful diplomatic solutions to international conflicts dielike is the most important thing for venezuela it is our motto not only be honorable or while i think it is a diplomatic political and ethical mistake this government's in a bad light because they recognize something that does not exist there is only one government in venezuela one that was elected through a direct vote you set forth in the constitution. to you i would like to spend my retired me surrounded by grandchildren. grandchildren and when i turn ninety i am

venezuelan and i will spend my last days in my home with. john bolton that my compound miter despises this is the thing that their american apparel used was superior they despise other nations lead an american venezuela they despise us their statements are xenophobia but. meanwhile nearly a dozen latin american countries and kennedy are ramping up pressure on the door oeming to drive him from power the so-called lima group is throwing its support behind opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president why don't our over a protest did disrupt of the group's latest meeting on monday. though the most group has called for the suspension of military cooperation with materials government and barred high level venezuelan officials from entering their territory and those foreign minister. the local military to get behind somebody who

drove. through. this statement is disgusting and lawful it is difficult to know whether to laugh or vomit or both when i read it i wanted to be see can last similar tediously one request is crazy or then the other on behalf of all the people of venezuela we see yes to dialogue a thousand times dialogue meanwhile russia and venezuelan media has been banned from attending a crunch meeting of the lima group on the crisis canadian foreign ministry emailed russian agency sputnik and at ria novosti telling them their accreditation had been refused but gave no reason venezuela based t.v. network tell us or was also denied access without explanation. it's our correspondent duarte who was meant to attend the talks in ottawa and she says it's to prevent 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 valen every single voice that it's against. against the wind its way up and they're claiming. around the world but is far away from respect and that is every single aspect of their claim for this is only exposing the contradictions of these groups all right on monday more than a dozen e.u. states are recognized as the interim president at least until new elections are held however a source in italy's a ruling coalition confirmed party room rome actually vetoed the e.u. wide statement recognizing the opposition leader as head of state thanked brussels but then appealed to italy. well nobody would as well and on behalf of. those who are hoping for a better life this is see a thing queue 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. and the international support garnered by who was previously unknown in global politics can seemingly be attributed to the work of one man as r.t.c. only patrik are now comments. they've made him the new interim president but haven't learned how to say his name. you know present one go you know one guido ok mr pompei oh my i have issues with spanish so you know. what you know if you know it's probably not about the language it's just that a little while ago very few people knew who. was even in men as well and i had never heard that name before the first time i had about him was in social media when he declared himself president one way or the barge one where you do just recently supposedly he's the other president of venezuela which honestly think is

a joke. here where you don't the first time i heard about why go it was two years ago. though so you. go i don't the short while ago and when this political situation started a little bit for those abroad who loathes nicolas maduro there's an easier last name to say low because if you've never heard of low poll the low because some very important people will definitely have. venezuela should allow lippold a lot of 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 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 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 stick 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 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 and 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 one why do without the awkward baggage as an easier sell. france has overwhelmingly passed a controversial anti hooligans law that cracks down on protesters in response to

months of yellow vest rallies in the latest demonstration on tuesday yellow vest marched with striking trade union workers in paris and a protest over the cost of living up to a child benefit was there. were it seems like there's been a big turnout for this nationwide and to professional strike called by france is a large as you see she now they hate to protest things such as they want a raise in the minimum salary of the retirement age to be sixty here in france they generally against the reforms made by president macklin's government but they've also noted i need things in the list and not is the fact that they are against this new anti cashiers know this is anti huge international that it's no nurse 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 anticancer is moving anti hooligan though is unpopular because anybody who goes to approve testing 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 the schools destruction and violence at the 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 protest in this tear gas all around you won't have something to cover your face to protect you from that actually gas and people here in the protest. very unhappy with this new law. i'm against this law because where is the proof that these are real hooligans the government can choose who is a hooligan and who is not good at this law is against the marches is to stop people rallying to scare people this happens all the time the government scares people and they don't come out to protest. the kids or to this war against the rioters crazy question i find it a bit appalling i guess it's a complicated issue will 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 but you're 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 we saw scuffles breaking out between the police and the protest as we saw some of the protesters i did going up so most of the rocks in the street with robots are taking place and throwing those to which 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 ahead to plaster the concord we saw the police then responding with tear gas i didn't see tear gas now coming down behind us landing close to us one of the protesters 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 that your gas which is now all around us and it's not just protesters here in france who seem to be unhappy about this or this 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 nine thousand eight 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 well 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 erode 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. there are growing signs of a rift in the u.s. is stablished meant to over the military pull out from syria that story much more after a short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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come back to international now the u.s. senate has passed a bill opposing president trump's decision to withdraw all troops from syria the non-binding vote was held after the top u.s. military commander said the president did not consult him on the pullout just of voto was speaking in a testimony to congress. general were you aware of the president's intention to order the withdrawal of our troops from syria before that was publicly announced i was not aware of the of the specific and then the announcement certainly we are aware that he it's expressed a. desire in a tent in the past to depart the part iraq so we weren't syria weren't consulted before that decision was announced we were not good i was not consulted we have one good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly now we've won it's time to come back well try made that surprise announcement on the syria withdrawal

back in december and the president is expected to defend his strategy in his state of the nation speech in a few hours from now political analyst lou rockwell think senators will oppose any efforts to halt military operations in the middle east it's unfortunate because it shows that the vast majority of the u.s. senate is in favor of the warfare state is in favor of in favor of permanent warfare in the middle east and it's alarming and then we have this general complaining that the president didn't consult him the president doesn't have to consult the general he could actually just on his own pull the u.s. troops out of syria out of afghanistan out of iraq after after you know everywhere but of course he's now said he's going to keep troops in syria to keep an eye on the iranians because they threaten israel i think that's just course nonsense that the believe that he said that at the apac meeting in washington. the democratic congresswoman has been accused of being a russian puppet by a major u.s.

news network n.b.c. made that claim after told she gathered launched her bid for the presidency artie's came up and comments. so n.b.c. has gone out of its way to inform us americans that we should disapprove of congresswoman tulsi gabbert answer 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 news and r.t. published articles about her site celebrated go bones announcement defended her positions in russia and i sent in a time just to choose a pool and for most 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 the chatter relates to go beyond in anonymous message boards including those known to right wing troll campaigns 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. 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 they show you weren't planted 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. on her behalf believes that she is being singled out for her anti-war stance ask commander in chief i will work to end the new cold war nuclear arms

race and slide into nuclear war that is why the neo con nearly 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 and you know but yeah they're using the 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 i think abolition of concepts that are there in she's someone i think the country needs. the first day of afghan peace talks has ended in moscow as the sides attempt to find a solution to the eighteen year war or he's made for national has been at the negotiations and brings us details. tuesday's event into outgun dollar peace conference he and most could 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 the 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 of ganesan 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 this meeting with the had of the taliban movement

political branch mr sun exult let's take a listen we had some progress in that time and 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 the surface 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 blame. the government in kabul for violence for aggression against afghanistan and for foreign troops on the ground

let's take a listen but the first government has a tree in this meeting they were not supposed to come because we're. going to run by libertarian. movement of the one and also the other one communities who are voting for a government because. according to the north and they go dormant to be demoted although many see today's peace conference here in moscow as well as are the efforts to bring the long awaited peace to afghanistan as a positive tendency not everybody shares this optimism i have been able to speak to the member of the afghan column and head of women rights human rights and civil side to commission there and she has told me that a varsity majority off she believes of the afghan society is not ready to go back to the rule of the taliban because this is a very conservative and at the end of the day why the can traverse force this is what she has told me i think we have to listen to what the people of afghanistan

lost because at the end of the day they will do the country that people love that the people of afghanistan don't want to go by the taliban should understand that and should hear that message we're talking about the power sharing we're not talking about who is ruling we have to go to the people of afghanistan and ask them what they want about the future of 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 also 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 that this may only happen after the. last 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. that does it for me more news of the

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