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

your best activists and trade union workers to take up to the streets of paris after a parliament of dobson and title again law targeting protesters. and the us it news network accuses democratic congresswoman tulsi gabbert of being a russian agent after she enters the white house for that enters the race for the white house wrapped. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our g international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. in an exclusive interview to our t.v. and israel's president has vowed to resist washington's push for regime change pressure is building on nicolas maduro as more countries back opposition leader.

and you can watch the full interview at at r.t. dot com but here's a quick preview. let me put it that only that 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 committing acts and betrayed his nation only as a practice in christian rock i pray to god that darnation doesn't have to put armed resistance to u.s. troops. on the 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 this absurd steps traumas taking against venezuela silent to stop him threaten us with a military intervention in 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 because our material wealth and the twenty first century us is 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 that it will not only be honorable or while i think it is a diplomatic political and ethical mistake there were a peon governments in a bad light because they recognize something does not exist there is only one government in venezuela one that was elected through a direct vote so you set forth in the constitution. to you i would like to spend my retired me surrounded by grandchildren and more great grandchildren and when i turn

ninety i am venezuelan and i will spend my last days. john bolton that michael. despises you and this is the thing that their american apparently is what was superior they despise other nations lead an american venezuela they despise us their statements our xenophobia but. meanwhile nearly a dozen latin american countries and canada are ramping up pressure on maduro aiming to drive him from power the so-called lima group is throwing its support behind opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president on why don't you ever a protest did disrupt the group's latest meeting on monday. the group has called for this is pension of military cooperation with materials government and barred high level venezuelan officials from entering their

territories canada's foreign minister has urged the local military to get behind something. they're very. likely this statement is disgusting unlawful it's 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 dial up a thousand times dialup. on monday more than a dozen e.u. states recognized as the interim president at least until new elections are held however a source in italy's ruling coalition confirmed to r.t. that rome actually vetoed the e.u. wide statement recognizing the opposition leader as head of state to brussels but then appealed to italy. behalf of. those who are hoping for a better life a sincere think you for the recognition given by the european where waiting for.

the rest of europe they will take a step towards the recognition. well the international support garnered by a guy who was previously unknown in global politics can seemingly be attributed to the work of one man as are his 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 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 one way or the barge one where you do just

recently supposedly he's the other president of venezuela which i honestly think is a joke. it was a one way during the first time i heard about why go it was two years ago. so you. go i don't own this 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 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 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 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 the 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 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 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 juan why do without the awkward baggage as an easier sell. france has overwhelmingly passed a controversial anti home against law that cracks down on protesters in response

months of yellow vest rallies in the latest demonstration on tuesday yellow vests marked with striking trade union workers in paris may protest over the cost of living are too sharp devinsky was there for. what 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 t. now they hate to protest things such as they want a raise in the minimum salary of the retirement age to be sixty him front they generally against the reforms made by the president might cause 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 shootings move that it's no notice something's been proved to him by the government in response to the yellow first protest we've seen walking the country over the last few months now that anticancer is moving anti hooligan though is unpopular anybody who goes to approve testing

covers their face to just 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 whose 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 to protect you from that you gas and people here in the pressure. very unhappy with this new rule. i am against this law because where is the proof that these are real hooligans the government can choose as a whole again who is not the critical the slowest against the marches is to stop people rally and to scare people this happens all the time the government scares people and they don't come out to protest see. 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 best a real question or will they just pick up any available gas who trip four and when they get back to their feed boom the police are taking them down to the station with 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 with outright we saw scuffles breaking out between the police and the protest as we saw some of the protesters taking up some of the rocks in the street with which are taking place and throwing those sweets police at first what we saw in response was just the security forces trying to push back in a bit of cat and mouse game but later as the protesters as those all stroy heads of plastic all called out 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 tear gas which is now all around us and it's not just protesters here in france you 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 laura's 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 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 even ski r.t. paris. america's n.b.c. news has wasted no time labeling democrat tulsi gabbard as a russian pop and it came straight after announcement that she was running for president in two thousand and twenty articular pomp and mop and breaks it 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 antar 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 in r.t.e. published articles about her site celebrated gaubatz 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 she was mentioned on some of. your forums analysts new knowledge told n.b.c. news the chocks 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 fail to mention that in their exposé but

they do have one more source meet mr joshua 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 earning 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 towsley jabbered believes she is being singled out for her anti-war stance . asked commander in chief i will work and 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 i think that was part of the concepts that are there and she's someone i think the country me. now for something completely different a performance art piece and a gallery in washington d.c. has provoked an angry reaction from president trump's family it's called event of vacuuming and runs for two hours every evening at the flashpoint gallery and the piece features a model just up to look like avon to trump pushing a vacuum cleaner back and forth across a pink carpet nearby is a pile of breadcrumbs which visitors are invited to toss on to the carpet so the event could double it can vacuum them up the artist behind the work jennifer rebel explained we enjoy throwing the crumbs for a vodka to vacuum that is the icky truth at the center of the work it is funny it is pleasurable it makes us feel powerful and we want to do more.

and ivana trump herself took to twitter to criticize the piece and her brother donald trump jr branded it as sexist women can choose to knock each other down erbil each other up which is the latter. sad but not surprising to watch self professed feminists launching sexist attacks against ivanka trump in their crazed world sexism is o'keefe hurts their political enemies that he's ok he can go put on their stupid hats and she'll get back to actually fighting for women. all right so of course we have to debate this on some level we can now bring in. political performance artist and you know t.v. and radio host and news analyst welcome thanks for being with us here on our to

international. on the outside on some level i have to say it's ridiculous that we have to be debating this but. if we could start with you how would you interpret this piece and do you think it's in any way insulting towards of. i mean the interesting thing is is that the artist claimed that she wasn't trying to be political but i think myself and i think a lot of americans see this as very very political. you know the fact that she's vacuuming up bread crumbs that sort of says to me that you know perhaps is trying to clean up her father's mess. but at the same time you know there is that question is she really trying to do that you know a lot of us feels that she has not really pushed back on her father's horrific policies the deregulation the kidnapping of the micro children. you know pulling out of the paris climate agreement. so here is destroying the power of the federal

government to help help american citizens so here is a situation where you know to me the peace looks like. she's like this nine hundred fifty s. housewife with no voice no will she's doing this house for and to me it sort of speaks to her legacy i mean what really is her role as her father's daughter but at says somebody who is very powerful in the administration so for me i see it as a very political a political statement our jeanne attorney to you know there are artist intended it or not i see it right art is subjective after all right i mean that's one of the beauties about the medium so jennifer rebell the artist herself. she says the work is intentionally open to multiple often contradictory interpretations that are as critical of the interpreter as they are of the subject as as i just said is

subjective so do you think the trumps are taking this all wrong i mean i mean isn't there i mean when you're out there i mean she's part of the administration she is part of the trump organization she's lived in public life for entire life are they making too big a deal out of all this. well if this is what the left needs to do to feel powerful or to try and win in two thousand and twenty they're in worse trouble than i thought and i want to set one record straight clearly the only kidnapping that has taken place of migrant children is by the coyotes who are paid mass amounts of money by desperate people to bring children in some cases sex slaves. that end up as sex slaves or end up raped along the way out and an astronomical amount that's the only kidnapping that's happened and that's exactly why our president wants to build the wall and put a stop to that and i look forward to hearing him elaborate on that tonight as i

know he will for all people in the state of the union address but if somebody that i personally know is still shit out of power little kid then anyone who would extract i didn't i didn't interrupt you know it's not kidnapping by the american government though it's kidnapping by those who would advocate against a wall to keep the kidnappings from happening that's who is responsible for that but continuing with the topic. chilled so anybody that it will clear out is that excuse me i didn't interrupt you and i'd like the same i'd like the same respect if you're capable so so evolved as a very powerful successful woman and we should be celebrating powerful successful women and anyone who. needs to in some way in some way cut her down or insult or after all she's done i mean look this administration has established historically record low unemployment for women women are more powerful and more empowered than they've ever been under any other administration and so anyone i would say who want

to cut evocate down is doing it most likely because they're jealous and i can see why because it has an incredibly successful talented tejpal competent american woman so obviously the artist has sparked a debate of sorts bringing this to real quick. criticize or just simply i think is a good it is a good thing. so criticizing the piece of though i'm sorry. donald jr merely helping the artists are they just giving her poor bush that he isn't this good for the. i mean i mean they're entitled to their opinion and i think everybody needs a voice. but the one good thing i have to say is i think art stimulates conversation and it stimulates to it stimulates debate and you know i always feel like you know maybe the best ideas should win. so if they will what's interesting

is that she actually evolved to actually it got under her skin so she had to respond. but i do think art it should stimulate debate is what i find interesting is that the artists made this very ambiguous i mean you could go either way i actually have a protest consulting group called revolution is sexy it's kind of my old woman show i got my start with occupy wall street i dress in costumes with installation pieces i have signage. you know so every artist you know has their own strategy on how they like to perform their art. but what i usually do is when i go out the message is extremely clear so the spectator actually gets you know gets the message and gets what i'm trying to say i mean it's interesting it is using what you what you tried to do i mean i do think it's a good thing that we're stimulating a debate. but i do to respond to to respond to the other debate or i do think

the trumpet ministration really is kidnapping children and i think if it. has the fact that it has been silent on a sadder it matter what you think i think is really interesting but i think it's really disappointing i mean i find i you know i think a lot of americans we wish that you know because she is her father's daughter and she is this you know this celebrity and this icon of feminism we wish that she would of kind of push back on her father's policies but that's just my opinion. i think it has done a masterful job of complimenting her father's very pro woman administration again lending women opportunities they've never had in the history of the world not just the history of america but in the history of the world more women today are successful more women today are employed more women today owned companies under the

trumpet ministration because of the regulations that he's cut and because of the things that involved has done also to help her father to empower women i'm of august obviously one of the epitomes of our time of somebody who is tremendously successful in all rounds and that means with her family with her children with her husband with her job and and even culturally and managing to pull it all off and be a pretty calm happy person who's pretty unmoved by ridiculous slander against her on a daily basis you know and i really i think if this were any other ok. we could talk about this forever and ever and ever and i'd like to i'd like to give each of you about fifteen to twenty seconds to run in terms of are. is is political. in this day and age is this acceptable yeah i mean i think it's acceptable because first of all if anybody in the trumpet is ministration is

a public persona so i think once you once you have that sort of platform and you are a public persona and you actually are also a government official anything anything goes i mean you know anybody can. you know say whatever they want to about you and i think art is a really good way to know sort of to stimulate ideas so i think everybody is sort of fair game in this. yeah i'm less offended by this piece for example than i am kicked kathy griffin which i realize it wasn't really art but holding the head of our president or madonna saying she's thought a lot about blowing up the white house at least there's no violence in this one it just seems that the trumped arrangements and drum has gone overboard and certainly if they had done this with michelle obama i'd like to see the art communities and the left's reaction to them putting michelle obama for example with a vacuum cleaner in her hand vacuuming crumbs i don't think it would have gone over

quite as well with the regressive left but say lovey were used to the hypocrisy on that side of the aisle that's all we have time for. this if i have to say that. t.v. and radio host and news analyst coming up we wish you all the best and hope to have you back on the international. thank you thanks so much as you are right half an hour the u.s. president will be giving his annual state of the union speech in congress we can now cross over to our to america for their coverage of the event. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars and. more than ten white collar crimes happen each

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