no but the work of the hour and i don't miss our benefit because. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way. to the floor and you can talk to the feet all found as well kristie at an area called the ability to put the payment on the. thank you but i think it is this is the found that is a constant thank. you. stepping up the pressure of the united states rules out the possibility of talks with venezuela's and battled socialist government and revoke the visas of some the president the duros officials. she becomes the latest fashion giant to place claims

of racism releases a sweater that may say resembles a black face costume we get reaction but they feel it actually. doesn't matter if they have people's feelings it doesn't matter if it's racist if there was a white t. shirt with a black person i would say it was ridiculing me for being white. and iran's foreign minister tells r.t. that he hopes trade with you will soon resume but says washington's doing its best to enforce sanctions against iran there was a need for a special mechanism to get round us sanctions will neutralize the negative effect over this issue quite much more time than expected. at the r.t. news center in moscow this friday morning at eleven here in the russian capital this is your global news for this hour the venezuelan president nicolas maduro is

continuing to resist america's calls to resign and has launched a petition demanding washington stop meddling in his country's affairs. will march in great numbers to washington will even go to the white house to deliver more than ten million signatures asking for respect. and demanding peace i just signed it it says hands off. should be respected. nonetheless the united states is continuing to develop the pressure on venezuela's crisis stricken government washington's now revoked the visas of numerous officials working for president maduro his administration american special envoy for venezuela is also repeated calls for the international community to deal with the leader of the opposition instead instead of trying to accommodate the guru through come to groups for dialogue we urge countries to recognize one going to always interim president and join us the time for dialogue with mature over as long as don't fall into

a trap that has said many times before where there's a fully dialogue rather than a strong message to him it's time to go 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 of the united states has said that all options are on the table regarding their support for and they push for ousting madero we've also seen countries like russia and china have it in fact mentor oh and said that he should stay as the president and so on top of that now the united states is claiming that they are not able to get humanitarian aid into venice where you 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 are actually believe and

are actually seeing the u.s. special envoy for venezuela's also said that president maduro should lead the country to allow for a smooth transition to democracy political analyst andrew king told us that 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 us government in the trump administration 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 u.s. empire is doing here we saw how we thought 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 and among them were illegal immigration terrorism and socialism now with the coming of quality continuing to grow in the united states have been ideas do seem to be on the rebound kind of hope and been taking a closer look at those who watch down from state of the union address but have a hard time missing one particular moment the topic of socialism america will never be a socialist country illegally not mild words at all and it's not the first time a trump has raised the specter of socialism all nations of the world should resist socialism. and the misery that would bring 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 . for the right now. that disunity perhaps. i would. say should that 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 and why do you think people here voted for her i think a vote of her because she was pretty. girls made a good thing they also voted for because of the change from the guy that was in it before who's very much liked embedded a lot of people are afraid to show up so i mean anything to veer away from what trump is doing i think the fool 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 the states being great now we know anything that comes out of his mouth is

a complete obviously brazil 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 i don't know too much bought it so i don't know if i could be afraid of it though 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 watch for 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 trying to forget your what's 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 came up and r.t. new york. the us democratic party has been plunged into crisis after its top three officials in the state of virginia were accused of racism and sexual misconduct and adding to the control to see the party's leadership is now facing claims off the poker saying don't call. explained 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 to 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 no 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 it is a 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 type of behavior is unacceptable to. us and there's do you believe that. no. fairfax's accuser first went to the washington post and twenty seventeen but the. paper didn't run with 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 c 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 party 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 killing a bill 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 but at the same time it is is not clear as far as it being consistent but it's clear that it going to be

inconsistent is clearly going to pretty much say if you're a republican in the conservative or anything like they were going to choose you much worse in which we are so desperate in which we do they're clearly hypocritical when they're not clearly fair and i think dave's very unfair to people who 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 but you use doing the exact same thing that he would condemn him so so but his own standards by their own sort they're going to be over with in a it's their fault nobody else's because they set the standards by which they're now being judged without scandal snowballing the republicans haven't quite escaped unscathed either they have republican senate majority leader in virginia tommy moment has been accused of racism as well. he was the managing editor of the virginia military institute nine hundred sixty eight a year book it included racial slurs about a student from thailand and contains an image of

a man wearing blackface norman's denied however that he was responsible saying he was one of seven people who worked on that yearbook. for racism claims this time in high end italian fashion gucci's found itself in broad in controversy over this polo neck sweater and quite a few people were quick to point out that the eight hundred ninety dollars garment resembles a black face costume balaklava knit top 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. she has since apologized and removed the pola next word from its web site it says the item will also be withdrawn from its stores the company also issued a statement stressing its commitment to diversity or gucci isn't the only big name italian brand to be called out recently with claims of racism in december product with drew

a line of monkey key chains after consumers complained they resembled racist caricature of black people and we got the thoughts of political commentator andre walker and body confidence advocate to chew on morality. 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 thought actually we can use it as a marketing strategy will apologize it doesn't matter if we have people speeding's 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 received the backlash if you'd have had 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 doesn't 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 to work i would say it was ridiculing me for being white i mean why is that racist look the problem. is that we are in the international jihad in a great sense of genuine problems of discrimination a dog about rupert's like this just rope 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 your 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 world loosely . 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 letting our theories 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 prada did you see what happened with product do you agree with prod out and let me ask you another question why didn't it bring out in every other color why black with red lips and 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 post. why do these garments always block because the most ubiquitous color the most popular colors for garments a block or whites 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 are going to say they are 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 so 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. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter 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. when you look back truth hazel's between the last kovi i lived through to me it's clear that this treaty is coming to an end. because of the lack of interest. both sides. in washington and. the u.s.

secretary of state's called for tougher sanctions against iran on thursday claiming that teheran is continuing to develop its been a stake myself capabilities of washington's already imposed a swindling set of financial penalties on terror and that was in november after it pulled out of the landmark iran nuclear deal with the us officials becoming increasingly hostile towards the brown we've been speaking exclusively to its foreign minister javad zarif he explained how his government plans to deal with the increasing pressure. put on. there was a need for a special mechanism to get round us sanctions or neutralize the negative effect of 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. will be unfair on the little boy 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 region is 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 there is illegal and they should never have been in those areas from the outset that they should urgently withdraw this would benefit the entire region in. the russian national convicted in the u.s. on charges of acting as a foreign agent could soon be heading home to be reunited with her family we've been speaking to her lawyer about the latest developments in her 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 police 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 plea agreement is 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 and it was last july the marine boot and i was arrested in washington to charge 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 a moscow denies any connection with putin and claims that she was pressured into making the confession with his family previously claiming she was being kept in gentle 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 you know 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 should use for now we had to head with a former german nato ambassador next in sofia and co from ati.

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there collapses excused so called in may last year also as soon as last set for their classes kristi take away and i stay on your hands at a special projects funding he does a dance and also dream on i'm your best bet is the end of it for the city the fun now the mountains of noise only grow. welcome to sophia como sophie shevardnadze europe can find itself the epicenter of confrontation between major powers was a historic i.m.f. arms treaty on the verge of collapse and washington opposing the nordstrom to pipeline. in germany stands tall and defiant to its interests while i ask you if the former advisor to hamlet call and german ambassador to nato.

midrange missile control treaty collapsing europe may once again because of the cost. will europe's leaders do to salvage the remains of the arms control system the e.u. jumpstarted princess from the only one who could nothing stand in the way of a new arms race. the former advisor to how would call in german or ambassador to nato welcome to the show it's great to have you with with us mr bitterly so lots going on lately hero would likely suffer in the case of a missile standoff between russia and the us and the foreign policy chief said our economy or a nice says europe as a want to become the battlefield for confrontation between the two powers what can your opinions do to safely and after eighty or so.