destructively an egyptian please control this project until. those who have petitions to go to school to snoop or come up to new york because those are the girls who are zionists who pushed through your shoes through she shouldn't feel you should book door for one whose deal would be. stepping up the pressure of the united states rules out the possibility of talks with venezuelans and battled socialist government and revoke the visas of some of president the duros officials. gucci becomes the latest fashion giant to face

claims of racism that releases a sweater that many say resembles a black race culture and we get reaction. what they feel if actually we can use that as a marketing strategy to apologize doesn't matter if they have people's feelings it doesn't matter if it's racist if there was a white t. shirt that a black person was a work i wouldn't say it was in ridiculing me for being white. and iran's foreign minister tells r t that he hopes trade with e.q. will soon resume but says washington is doing its best to enforce its sanctions against iran. there was a need for a special mechanism to get round us sanctions to neutralize the negative effects pervert this issue quite much more time expects and. either friday morning or ten here in moscow money column brian r t h kill the people in the south first off for you the venezuelan president. nicolas maduro is

continuing to resist america's calls to resign and has launched a petition demanding washington stops meddling in his country's affairs. so i will march in great numbers to washington we will even go to the white house to deliver more than ten million signatures asking for a spectacle in israel and demanding peace i just signed it it since hands off. should be respected nonetheless the united states is continuing to develop the pressure on that as well as crisis stricken government washington's now revoked the visas of numerous officials working for president the duros administration america's special envoy for venezuela's also repeated calls for the international community to deal with the leader of the opposition instead in washington here's rachel blevins. special envoy to venezuela elliott abrams is speaking out today and he's saying that he's actually calling for president maduro to we've been as we are all together and he's making a really strong statement on a day when

a number of countries all came together in europe way to talk about political solutions to the crisis and been a spoiler those countries were made up of both nations that support and nations that support opposition leader so it's really interesting saying abrams speaking out specifically and calling for maturer to leave the country now he didn't say exactly where he expects to go but he did make a very bold statement and here is his comment about material specifically instead of trying to accommodate the group through contact groups for dialogue we urge countries to recognize one going to always interim president and join us in time for dialogue with the girl has long. don't fall into a trap the girl has said many times before where there's a forty dialogue rather than a strong message to him it's time to go so this comes after the european union's

foreign policy chief called for nations to recognize venezuela's national assembly which also comes after the parliament voted to recognize one god though in order for the country to overcome the current crisis it is crucial to restore full democracy in all its the mentions including rule of low separation of powers and respect for the constitutional mandate of the country's institutions notably the democratically elected to national assembly now why joe is claiming that he has met with european officials and as we know the united states is very much on his side the united states has said that all options are on the table regarding their support for and they push for. for ousting madero we've also seen countries like russia and china that in fact meant arrow and said that he should stay present and so on top of that now the united states is claiming that they are not able to get

humanitarian aid into venice whale and venezuela has also made the claim that they found some cargo that included weapons and ammunition that were made in the usa so there's a lot of different statements going on here but at the end of the day we really have to ask the question about what the people in caracas i actually believe that are actually saying the u.s. special envoy for venezuela is also said the president but their own should leave the country to allow for a smooth transition to democracy political analyst andrew king told us washington's actions amount to a brazen coup attempt. what we're seeing from abrams is just shameless deplorable on behalf of us interventionism you with imperialism that i mean there's really no debate here it's immoral it's illegal and the u.s. government in the trumpet ministration is using including humanitarianism humanitarian intervention in spreading democracy. but you don't have to be

a left socialist to understand what you know what us in prior is doing here we saw how they spread democracy forty five years ago to chile to iraq to afghanistan to panama to grenada the list goes on the venezuelan people have the right to determine their own power. the they have the right to make their own mistakes. during his highly anticipated state of the union address donald trump outlined some of the threats he believes america is facing among them illegal immigration terrorism and socialism with income inequality continuing to grow in the u.s. leftwing ideas do seem to be making something of a rebound kind of opens been taking a closer look at those who watch donald trump state of the union address but have a hard time. sing one particular moment the topic of socialism america will never be a socialist country. not

mild words at all and it's not the first time the trump has raised the specter of socialism all nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings us to everyone. but the socialists they say that he was just afraid of their rising popularity i thought it was fabulous because it shows that we've gotten under his skin he has no vision for this country everything is about what he doesn't want everything is about the boogie man and they've got a point after all bernie sanders is one of the most popular politicians in the country but. it's not only republicans that are fearing the rise of socialism you've also got the establishment in the blue corner concerned as now at this point a majority of democrats say that socialism is the way forward for america where we can say one of the things this didn't show is that democratic socialism is the same

in the party be ready now. that disunity perhaps. i would say it's a shame that the party presented by the republicans trouble media going as far as printing guidelines on how to inoculate your children against the rising ideological danger in a socialist country vegetarians would be required to be part owners in the slaughter house so we decided to go out to the district here in new york that elected alexandria a kazuo cortez the rising star of democratic socialism and we decided to see how people here feel about the ideology that went pretty far in defining the twentieth century but why do you think people here voted for her by the voted for her because she was pretty. good as charismatic and i think they also voted for because of the change from the guy that was in it before who's very much liked imbedded a lot of people are afraid to show up so i mean anything to veer away from what

trump is doing i think people feel more confident about what's going on you know trump recently said the usa will never be a socialist country do you agree with him. i guess so yeah i think he's right. i don't see that happening in states being great now we know anything that comes out of his mouth is a complete observation of brazil or world so if he says america will never be so it was going through i feel very good nor going to miracle will become a socialist country are you afraid of socialism. will. to some extent year i don't think it will be appropriate for this country unless i don't know too much pot its size i don't know if i could be afraid of it no no we also got a chance to speak with journalist dan was there dan can you tell me is socialism no longer a dirty word in american politics well it's a dirty word still in certain quarters but it's more acceptable now in other quarters and it was a few years ago now as to bernie sanders and. alexandria ocasio cortez now do you

think it is possible that bernie sanders might run against trump there saying he's the most likely to be trump is it possible that we could get a trump versus sanders ticket in the upcoming election i think it's very possible i don't want part of that predictions but i think it's very possible yes and is that something the democratic party leadership is afraid of the thing they're at they're terrified of that i think that if that happens every democratic politician in the country would running for cover. as a member sanders is not a democrat just as trump is not really a republican so we'll have to have a non-democratic versus not republican and everyone in between just just hiding their head in the sand and try to forget gore was going on for a long time it seemed like the s. word was almost profanity and we see the establishment trying to stoke up the same old fears once again however it seems like in twenty nineteen socialism is back on the table for debate caleb mop and r.t. new york. democratic party in the u.s. state of virginia is be plunged into crisis of the claims of racism and sexual

harassment against a top three officials that as a result some outside the republicans could be poised to retake control of the state has the details. it wasn't so long ago that virginia was a republican party stronghold but these days the democrats are running the show. that's going be a good day for democrats but now all three of the men on stage are sinking in scandals in the middle is democratic governor ralph northam out of the blue a picture from his nine hundred eighty four med school yearbook surfaced featuring people in black face and k.k.k. robes first he apologized and confirmed that that was him in the photo and then he said well now he wasn't it is definitely not me i did participate in a dance. in san antonio in which i darken my face as part of a michael jackson fellow democrats were baying for nor thems resignation and to

right the wrong here's the alternative for the job justin fairfax who could become virginia's second black governor in its history except now he's being accused of sexual assault what began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault mr fairfax put his hand behind my neck and forcefully pushed my head towards his crotch fairfax's and as willing to apologize as northern is though he says the accusation is a cry for attention is all the political. debate if you wish it was but we are guilty until proven innocent right well not always how we deal with survivors who come forward right now is unacceptable we should listen to women. i think we should be focusing on what's right now happening with the governor and this is an epidemic the type of behavior is unacceptable. there's a there's you believe that. no.

fairfax's accuser first went to the washington post and twenty seventeen but the paper didn't run. it due to lack of evidence which didn't stop the post from going headline happy a year later when brett kavanaugh his accuser came forward all the packer see aside though if fairfax resigns there's always democratic attorney general mark herring to take his place surely he's never done anything offensive in one thousand eight when i was a nineteen year old time to graduated from college some friends suggested we had time to punt to dressed like rappers we dressed up and put in weeks on brown makeup but of course the democratic leadership takes a firm stance against such and moral behavior we must hold everyone from the highest offices to our own families kunal for racist words and beat high standards but if those three are ruled out the next guy in line for the top job in

virginia is a republican the democrats like to be the party with a moral high ground when people take notice but when it's in their people on the chopping block well that appears to be a different story the moral clarity is not really clear what it is saying to them it is is not clear as far as it being consistent but it's clear that it going to be inconsistent is clearly to going to pretty much say if you're a republican a conservative or anything like they were going to choose you much worse and which we are so desperate in which we do there are clearly hypocritical they're not clearly fair and i think there's very unfair people they happen to have different points of view than they do the governor of north them he's all records all cobol people being racism being anti racist bigot here use doing the exact same thing that he would condemn him so so by his own standards by their own sort they're going to be over within a it's their fault nobody else's because they set the standards by which they're

now being judged. with that scandal snowballing the republicans haven't quite escaped unscathed either the republican senate majority leader in virginia tommy norman has been accused of racism as well he was the managing editor of the virginia military institute one hundred sixty eight year book it included racial slurs about a student from thailand and contains an image of a man wearing blackface norman denied however that he was responsible saying that he was one of seven people who worked on that yearbook. more racism claims this time in high end italian fashion gucci has found itself in broiled in control over this polo neck sweater quite a few people were quick to point out that the eight hundred ninety dollars garment resembles a blackface costume. but a clavinet topped by gucci happy black history month you'll. want to hear from the brains behind this design and from the people who approved it for production this is raw you need a diverse workforce for a company of your stature it's really shocking gucci has since apologized to and

remove the polo necks wetter from its website it says the item will also be withdrawn from its stores the company issued a statement as well stressing its commitment to diversity gucci isn't the only big name italian brand to be called out recently with claims of racism in december prada with drew a line of monkey key chains after consumers complained that they resembled racist caricature of black people and we got the thoughts of political commentator andrew walker and body confidence advocate joanne morales. i think the fact that it was released during black history month in america shows that it's very intentional toward something i mean this isn't the first major brand to do something so silly so i think they didn't learn from prada what they feel is actually we can use that as a marketing strategy will apologize it doesn't matter if we have people speeding it doesn't matter if it's racist and i think that they they planned every step of the way completely well you would have the backlash if you didn't have the idea that

this looked like a black person which of course it did not just explodes those your viewers who haven't seen it it's effectively a black turtleneck that goes up just to around here and then has a an opening for your mouth it doesn't look like a black person i've ever see the my life i cannot see any connection firstly with black history month as we were just talking about a second but also ridiculing black people in any way you can say is not something that would offend someone because we're not the people that have been offended in history with something so similar it does look like blackface again from the minstrel show it's a huge resemblance and with prada getting it so wrong and causing such backlash why would you then bring our product that's so similar i mean firstly can i just point out that not being formally that black people are not black in the same way that white people like me are not fully white if that was a white t. shirt with a black person would to work i would say it was ridiculing me for being white i mean what is that racist look the problem here. is that we are in the international

jihad in a great sense of genuine problems of discrimination a dog about. just reopened if we had suffered to make ricin back in back in history back in history how how black people did we would also be offended we can't stand here and say that's not offensive when you're when you're not the one suffering from it is actually in fact black people that find it offensive and they have every right to feel offended they were the ones that suffered racism they were ones that went for the ok ok ok how many people are offended by this will use the. outrage or was it just a few members of what i call the racism industry people whose job it is to be affected by this so they can talk about it and let me go through most of the professional deeds race it's an industry that surprised us not real people let me ask you a question do you think if there was a black person in the production team in the management team in the marketing team they would have said yeah no that's fine go ahead of it especially after what happened with product did you see what happened with product do you agree and prod out and let me ask you another question why didn't it bring out in every other

color why black with red lips on the board i don't know what you are in i'm not right in pink why black or white why black or red what why better what are going to read and perhaps i'm not going in why do these garments always block because the most ubiquitous color the most popular calder's for garments a block or white why are people offended well actually in truth i think you've offered no evidence to suggest that most people are fed that i think very few people are offended but i think the racism industry of course they're going to say they're fed they in reality it's a turtleneck you pull over your face there happens to come in block goodness me you get to get elias turtleneck it's a black face. iran's got a plan to secure its trade with europe in the face of punishing american sanctions the foreign minister talks exclusively to r.t. after the break.

kind of financial survival job today was all about money laundering first to visit this cash industry different. oh good it's a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands it will pull these banks are complicit in their tough talk received a softer did mccoll and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. luxury automobile again for max you know what money laundering is highly illegal thank you so much kaiser of course. when you look and react truth of problems between worship the last kovi i left three t. it's clear that this treaty this is coming to an end. because of the lack of

interest of both sides in all things in washington and off was. all over again the u.s. secretary of state has called for tougher sanctions against iran claiming that terror on is continuing to develop its ballistic missile capabilities and washington already imposed a swindling set of financial penalties on tel aviv in november after a pullout of the landmark iran nuclear deal with u.s. officials becoming increasingly hostile toward to brown we spoke exclusively to its foreign minister javad zarif that he explained that his government plans to deal with the increasing pressure. in quote there was a need for a special mechanism to get round us sanctions or neutralize the negative effect on our european partners believe that they would be able to announce the creation of

such mechanism within a few months however this issue required much more time than expected perhaps the reason for the belated announcement was us pressure or perhaps the europeans themselves delayed the solution of this issue. it will be unfair on the little boy i hope it was the united states that withdrew from the nuclear agreement and the europeans failed to implement it the purpose of the agreement was the renewal of economic relations with iran and the return of relations to their natural state however all european countries left iran therefore before we start talking about other issues europeans should fulfill the commitments which have not been fulfilled so far. our position is absolutely clear we believe that the best way to uphold peace and security in syria and the rest of the read. it's restore the syrian government's control and sovereignty over the country's entire territory with regard to the withdrawal of american troops in syria their presence they is illegal and they should never have been in these areas

from the outset something about that they should only withdraw this would benefit the entire region in. reducing of the russian national convicted in the us on charges of acting as a foreign agent could soon be heading home to be reunited with a family and we've been speaking to hanoi about the latest developments in the case and some of the misconceptions surrounding it although this case was kind of presented as a red sparrow type of espionage case the u.s. government never had any evidence that maria was a spy was a member of the f.s.b. or this p.r. or any russian intelligence service she pled guilty to a very obscure u.s. statute for especially acting as a as an agent of a foreign official. but the agent was not was not a spying case at all it was simply her completing tasks at the behest of foreign official that had nothing to do with covert operations or with undermining america

even accepting the government's theory is true which we did for purposes of taking the plea to resolve the case she was a such a looking for better relations between two countries under took some activities in that regard and should have registered with the attorney general prior to doing that her policeman has done she's been telling the government what little she knows and we're hoping to have a sentencing set in the next month and hoping that she'll be home fairly soon after that i'm hopeful that she'll be home you know within within a month or six weeks. well it was last july that maria boots and i was arrested in washington and charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government she was allegedly trying to influence u.s. policy towards russia having spent months behind bars she reached a deal with the u.s. justice department pleading guilty to the claim moscow denies any connection with the tuna and claims that she was pressured into making the confession due to his family previously claiming that she was being kept in dreadful conditions while the driscoll again says she's now been moved elsewhere. for the last several weeks

she's been in the general population at alexander detention center that's certainly not a bargain that the average citizen would want to have but it's better than the isolation that she faced for about four months of her incarceration overall she's better than she was i mean i think she's for those that probably know her i think she's probably a bit thin. i think jail food is not great but i think mentally having some contact with people is much better for we during her time has been able to talk to her father and sometimes her mother and sister you know once a week or twice a week on occasion from the jail you know those are calls you have to pay for they're very expensive but she has friends and family that deposit money into her phone account and she's able to call home once in a while and update them on her status which is good internationally most people

having amnesty international and others view more than a week or two in solitary is something that's inappropriate ok that's the way look from moscow this hour your next update from in the news team here is in just over thirty minutes after larry king. joins me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. in a world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath 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. donald trump second state of the union address was conspicuously light when it came to foreign policy why is this was his aim to avoid disappointing his base while at the same time wishing not to spar with the deep state what are these mixed signals all about is an elaborate strategy or an indication of indecisive. the clock is ticking on another government shutdown lim a bipartisan congressional group shows signs of progress on averting one and members from both parties have as the white house to stay out of it is that possible with president that and more on this edition of all.

of the politicking on larry king donald trump delivers his state of the union to tongues on tuesday and talked at length about his signature campaign issue his long promised border wall unmentioned was another looming government shutdown over that wall a group of bipartisan lawmakers have indicated is showing progress on a deal that could avert another shutdown in mere days but members from both sides of the blue evolve signal to the white house to. stay out of their normal goshi asians is that possible for donald trump let's get to that and more with eleanor clift columnist for the daily beast political commentator and author she's an old dear friend she joins me from washington we surprising. c.n.n. poll shows seventy six percent of you are approval of the save the union address.

well first of all larry it's always good to talk with you i thought the president did a good job last night in all of this the ad tricks of the state of the union the memorable moments that people in both parties can appreciate or a young girl you know battling cancer world war two heroes people surviving auschwitz i mean it was a it was a great made for t.v. movie he even brought me to tears at one point but the substance of the state of the union he didn't give an inch on the war he still holding out the possibility of declaring a state of emergency over the so than border and he really stuck it to the democrats you know basically saying that any chance of bipartisan accords on any of the issues he raised including an hiv the initiative and big reducing drug prices that nothing can happen as long as there are these ridiculous partisan

investigations going on so if you separate the. kind of the warm fuzzy moments of the evening from the hard j. obs you've really got you know two different speeches and you really don't have a very different donald from going forward not that i really expected that do you see a breakthrough in negotiations over the shutdown and we won't have another shutdown apparently they'll come to some agreement well i think the republicans and the democrats can come to a. agreement they did already once before remember and the president decided at the last minute not to sign it because rush limbaugh and ann coulter you know called him a wimp and said he caved so they are likely to come up with something involving a smart wall which would include barriers in some places and then if the president doesn't want to accept that i think a governor.