when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the frame and merry go round of lives only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. room i mean real news is real world. this is our t. breaking news the international paralympic committee says it will conditionally reinstate russia twenty nine months after the country was banned over allegations of state sponsored doping the details in just a minute. also this hour stepping up the pressure the united states rules out the

possibility of talks with venezuela's same battled socialist government and revoke the visas of some of president bush duros officials. gucci becomes the latest fashion giant to face claims of racism after releases a sweater that many say resemble a black face costume we get reaction. but they thought actually we can use that as a marketing strategy will apologize it doesn't matter if we have people's feelings it doesn't matter if it's racist if there was a white t. shirt with a black person was a work i wouldn't say it was a ridiculing me for being white pound iran's foreign minister tells r.t. that he hopes trade with the e.q. will soon resume but says washington's doing its best to enforce its sanctions against tehran there was a need for a special mechanism to get around us sanctions can neutralize the negative effects for this issue require much more time than expected.

i there is just after midday here in moscow this friday february eighth i'm calling brian r.t. h.q. first off the breaking news that we brought you the bottom of the screen twenty minutes ago and that is that the international paralympic committee has announced that it will reinstate russia's membership more than two years after the country was banned over widespread doping it says though that there are strict criteria that must be complied with going forward. only conditionally. substantial by no later than fifteen march the i.p.c.c. will publish. criteria identifying the core high level requirements that the r.p.c. must continue to meet to maintain its conditional statement of membership of the a.p.c. ok let's bring in our three sports correspondent alexy irish. good news in the fifteenth of march is the date for the day there is

a list as long as your arm isn't there that's got to be complied with well we are waiting to see what that list would be but the fact itself that a conditional reinstatement for the russian paralympic committee that's a big move since twenty sixteen the committee has been in the wilderness the athletes could not participate basically now moving forward the most important thing for them right now is that they can represent their country they can go on the russian flags to obviously talk to your olympics and twenty twenty two in china the winter olympics after obviously several years of not being able to do that the conditions which will be voiced by march fifteenth will probably all be all about the fight against doping but have to say that over these years the russian paralympic committee has done so much to alleviate all those problems now and now if you even go to the website of the russian paralympic committee you can find a little tab there which says report a case of doping in the paralympic team so everyone going there can do that it's

never existed before so all the all the scandal which happened back in twenty fifteen with the subsequent ban of the russian paralympic team that has led to a lot of changes and maybe that is the result which we see today because although it sounds like a tentative lifting of this ban it is also very much a recognition that a lot has been done in those two years just just take us back to twenty sixteen how this all came about this long suspension that penalized so many paralympians well obviously we do remember the bombshell of a scandal involving the allegations of state sponsored doping system in. russia the so-called mclaren report published by wada that led to not only the main team the main olympic team suspension but also the paralympic team suspension both of them were suspended from twenty sixteen rio games then into twenty eighteen and beyond sharing they could only go as athletes representing russia or something like that nevertheless the russian paralympic team went to one twenty eight medals which was the second result in the entire games but they couldn't do it as russians now they will be able to do that but then again it all stems from the allegations of the

systematic doping use in the country and this is basically the first major reinstatement of a federation of a body in russia after a result of the russian anti-doping agency was conditionally reinstated by the world anti-doping agency just recently something we reported on extensively so maybe more things to come in that respect of course for any athlete confidence is a big thing so this is undoubtedly going to be a big boost to leave to major competitions and twenty nine months is a long time in any athlete career isn't it but it's all means that the training underway now for next summer in tokyo isn't in vain definitely what if you go back and you know we interviewed some of these paralympics paralympians back then. something that which cannot be in any way you word is the fact that they missed the olympics in twenty sixteen there were several big time champions and paralympic team going back to two thousand and eight in beijing they missed out on twenty sixteen and were forced to basically finish their careers it was their last chance

this is something which cannot be rectified but for the younger athletes moving forward they now have the opportunity to represent russia and obviously again if we talk about the repercussions for clean sport this is major because now under so much scrutiny and we have to remind that this is a conditional reinstatement it's not a full time reinstatement obviously the federation will be under serious scrutiny everyone will be checked maybe two or three times moreover it's already been stipulate. that if there will be any additional daubing checks the russian paralympic committee has has to pay for those checks for international experts to come in but all in all this is a major step for these athletes something they've been crying out loud for the last couple of years and we can only be happy for them yeah well no more of mid march but let's not take the shine off today ok we'll let you get some more reaction be back with you a little bit later on in the afternoon for now there. are other headline news now the venezuelan president nicolas maduro is continuing to resist

america's calls to resign and 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 respectful and demanding peace i just signed it it's serious. we need should be respected. well nonetheless the united states is continuing to dial up the pressure on venezuela's crisis stricken government washington's now revoked the visas of numerous officials working for president maduro to administration america's special envoy for venezuela's also repeated calls for the international community to deal with the leader of the opposition instead instead of trying to accommodate the guru through country groups for dialogue we urge countries to recognize one going to always interim president and join us in time for dialogue with mature over as long as don't fall into a trap that the guru 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 the united states has said that all options are on the table regarding their support for and they push for ousting the we've also seen countries like russia and china evidence back to mentor 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 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 the president the door oh should leave the country to allow for a smooth transition to democracy political analyst andrew king told us the washington actions amount to a brazen coup attempt. what we're seeing from abrams is just shameless deplorable on behalf of us interventionism you earth imperialism that i mean there's really no debate here it's immoral it's illegal and the u.s. 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 among them were illegal immigration terrorism and socialism and with income inequality continuing to grow in the us left ideas do seem to be on the rebound kind of morgan's been taking a look at those who watched out of 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 in the party be ready now. that is unity perhaps. i would say sation that party presented by the republicans truck 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 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 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 in bed a lot of people are afraid to show up so i mean anything to veer away from what trump is doing i think to 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 states. doing great now we know anything that comes out of his mouth is a complete obviously bizarre 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 that would 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 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 of sanders this 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 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 iran's going to plan to secure its trade with europe in the face of punishing american sanctions the foreign minister talks exclusively to r.t. among all stories when we come back.

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peek 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 controversy the party's leadership is now facing claims of hypocrisy donald coulter 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 just in 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 to. them 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 part to dress like rappers we dressed up and put in weeks on brown might cop 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 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 in which we are so desperate in which we do they're clearly hypocritical they're not clearly fair and i think there's very unfair to people who they happen to have different points of view than they do the governor of north them he's on record talk oh no

ball people being racism being anti-racist be here 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 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 in one nine hundred sixty eight year book 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 that he was one of seven people who worked on that yearbook. for racism claims this time in high end italian fashion gucci has found itself in broiling control the scene with 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 his 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 and removed the polo neck sweater from its website it says the item will also be withdrawn from its stores of the company also issued a statement 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 we called the thoughts of political commentator andrew walker body confidence advocate. 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 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 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 seen in 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 black face 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 out so similar i mean firstly can i just point out i'm 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 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 rupert's like this just rope if we had suffered to make ricin back in back in the 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 if 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 boost the outrage or was it just a few members of what i call the racism industry people whose job it is to be offended by this so they could talk about it let me ask you this 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 i'm proud out and let me ask you another question why didn't it bring out in every other color why black with red lips or snowboard i don't know what you are in i'm not right and pink why black or white why black or red why why before we're going to read and post what i know or in primary and why these garments always block because the most ubiquitous color the most popular colors for garments a block of 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 a black face. us secretary of state called for tougher sanctions against iran on thursday claiming that iran is continuing to develop its ballistic missile capabilities and washington already imposed a swindling set of financial penalties on terror and in november after a pull out of a landmark iran nuclear deal with u.s. officials becoming increasingly hostile toward iran we spoke exclusively to its foreign minister zarif he explained how his government plans to deal with the increasing pressure. 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. really unfair on

a 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. and ok that's how it looks from r.t. in moscow this hour your next update from a the team is after your latest crosstalk .

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hello and welcome to cross for all things considered i'm peter lavelle donald trump's second state of the union address was conspicuously light when it came to foreign policy why is this what is his aim to avoid disappointing his base while at the same time wishing not to spar with the deep state but are these mixed signals all about is an elaborate strategy or an indication of indecisive. cross talking u.s. foreign policy i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the director of the answer coalition is well as host of loud and clear a daily new show on radio also in washington we have john city leaders he is

a political strategist and trilogy advisors and in auburn we cross alou rockwell he is a political analyst at lou rockwell dot com all right john cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate brian let me go to you first this kind of throw my introduction again trump wasn't really have be. on the foreign policy though i had to give him kudo's i thought it was a very conciliatory. address considering it came from donald trump but let's stay with foreign policy he didn't talk much about it is it because he didn't want to disappoint his base and he didn't want to spar with the deep state which he's had a lot of problems with even individuals very close to him in his own administration and i'm talking specifically one instance like. taking troops out of syria and afghanistan what was your take go ahead brian. well the foreign policy part of the speech came after i think an hour and ten minutes it was a long speech was like an hour and twenty three hour and twenty four minutes.