every day the idea was that. the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be blamed for all the company has promised to reuse the plastic. on. the mountains of moist only grow. the international paralympic committee says it will reinstate russia twenty nine months after. allegations of state sponsored doping.

even go to the white house. asking for. stepping up the pressure and the united states rules out the possibility of talks with venezuela's socialist government and revoke the visas of some of president maduro officials. because the latest fashion giant under pressure over racism claims. that many black face we get reaction to that. what they actually did as a marketing strategy will apologize doesn't matter if we hurt people's feelings it doesn't matter if it's racist if there was a. black person i would be ridiculing but you. know watching all to international line from

a studio with me. welcome to the program. the international paralympic committee has announced it will reinstate russia's membership more than two years after the country was banned for widespread doping it says though the lifting comes with certain conditions. only conditionally. by no later than fifteen march the i.p.c.c. will publish. criteria identifying the core level requirements that their p.c. must continue to meet two months it's conditional statement of membership of the a.p.c. . my colleagues discussed the recent announcement by an international paralympic committee and the length and itself. well i suspect that there's more there yet to say terms of what conditions must be maintained and fulfilled for the full time reinstatement the current reinstatement is conditional they promise to publish it

by march fifteenth as we've just heard the most important thing voiced in germany today by the i.p.c. was that in twenty twenty in tokyo and in twenty twenty two in beijing during the next two lympics the russian paralympians will be able to go out and represent the country a russian flag and twenty sixteen they missed it completely in rio in twenty. they went as athletes representing russia are essentially not under the country's flag right now it looks like they have a chance to finally compete under the country's flag which is the most important to so many athletes who you know suffer the consequences of the doping scandal and there's of course a recognition of the work that's been done even though there are those conditions there's a recognition that progress has been made in those two years along two years take us back to how all this began it began obviously with the so-called mclaren report published by the world anti-doping agency twenty fifteen the allegations of state sponsored doping system in russia obviously

a lot of federations were banned the russian paralympic committee was among those federations i do remember distinctly that press conference where the previous head of the i.p.c. philip craven was rolled into a wheelchair on the podium and said that the entire russian paralympic team will not be going to the real games and twenty sixteen a lot of back then because in the in the case of the paralympic team. there was no proof of systematic doping system there i mean these people have suffered enough already and there was a lot of outcry about not letting them go to those games in any case now we have this conditional restatement which is the first major reinstatement of the russian sports body after the russian anti-doping agency was reinstated early last year twenty nine months is a long time for any athlete to be out of international competition paralympians of already missed two big lympics although that we could face going to tokyo next summer what toll has this taken on them well we remember interviewing several of

those paralympians when the whole scandal happened they were obviously in tears nothing can rectify the fact that they missed out on the twenty sixteen games in entirely and we're talking about champions like deacon a swimmer or. wrestler they've won so many medals and yet they missed out on the chance to go to rio nevertheless and twenty two when they went to be on chang as athletes representing russia not russia per say they want twenty eight medals which was the second highest result in the entire games now all that is gone they will be able to compete under the russian flag but most importantly today's move represents a major step for clean sport as many have already noted and the russian paralympic committee has done a lot over these years sixty nine conditions they fulfilled as far as i know that's a lot to to have that conditional reinstatement now if you go to the website of the russian paralympic committee you can see a tab which says report doping that's not something that hadn't existed before the

scandal so let's just hope that moving forward everything will be clean the athletes will be able to represent their country finally and we can only be happy for them. the president is continuing to resist america's calls to resign and has launched a petition demanding washington stop meddling in his country's affairs. but i did not and 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 respectful. and demanding peace i just signed it it says. we should be respected nonetheless the united states is continuing to dilute the pressure on venice when its crisis stricken government washington revoked the visas of numerous officials working for president to his administration american special envoy for an asylum has also repeated calls for the international community to deal with the leader of

the opposition instead. instead of trying to accommodate the group through country groups or dialogue we urge countries to recognize one why do always interim president and join us the time for dialogue with the group as long as don't fall into a trap 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 we've also seen countries like russia and china have it backed up 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 also suggested that president maduro go into exile to allow for a smoother transition to democracy political analyst sandra 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 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. yes i can hear state came say crisis in venezuela has links to iran and. the terrible back to hezbollah group considered a terrorist organization by washington. people recognize that as well as active cells the iranians are impacting the people of venezuela and throughout south america we have an obligation to take down that risk for america and all across the globe. to political analyst chris bambery thanks chris for coming on to the program should we start with the evidence what the evidence is the u.s. have. venezuela and how could the group influence the crisis in south america.

well the evidence of that presumably very easy to get because it has more were to come to venezuela they would have to fly from beirut to damascus or have to take ship from beirut or not of course and of course that area is under constant surveillance by the americans and others they would immediately notice this the idea of his ball which is it's not a government it's not a state would be sending large numbers of trained fighters to venezuela is preposterous i mean if they knew it they would have been hit this ravine headline you. if you had any evidence of this and the idea i think i'll run a run it's very cautious yes it's intervened in syria but that's because the two governments have always been very close to our allies and because of really a connection with iran has got a history of intervention outside borders particular despite how it's painted and again any flight from tehran which arrived in caracas soldiers

or deliver a nuclear missile is going without the americans if they have the evidence should be pumping that out right and center so i take all this for the men spencer pinch of salt. and if we look at what else from paris said that he said that the us wants crackers to cease its reliance on cuba and russia for security one way would venezuela hopes and wishes for washington right now. they wouldn't and obvious answer is that they're going to continue with the people who befriended them are supposed to i suppose what they're trying to see is the various versions all while in the six the security for the americans who are trying to carry out this coup d'etat to overthrow maturer saw i mean you know why would anyone in venezuela who defends the sovereignty of the country wish to risk pay any attention to the idea they should drop the security help and the medical help and all the rest are getting from our eyes and threw themselves into the united states given as it has

been awarded previously its record in watson america and elsewhere well there is a possibility there was an actress that material his resistance could stop do you think they're paving the way for negotiation. i think with your husband it could he would be prepared to negotiate but not with a gun held to his head i think calling for mass mobilization as in say venezuela is in watch for the answer because what has happened with the regime is that its grassroots support has withered somewhat on the vine it's very aligned to the army which of course you know that just drawing on the army alone is not enough it has to rebuild grassroots support because remember when those are attempted coup against hugo chavez he was arrested taken off to prison it was a popular mass mobilization in caracas by the poor which defeated that coup and secured the release of chavez and that's what we know we need to rebuild that

popular movement in opposition to american attempts to undermine the sovereignty of venezuela. if we look at one interview that talked about he talked about materials dictatorship the influence of bad foreign actors and the need for america to step in but we have seen this scenario before haven't libya or syria what are your thoughts on that. well i mean every war in modern times it's been queens there is a humanitarian reasons to go to war you know in britain in one nine hundred fourteen we were told we're going to war to see with a little poor little belgium that wasn't the case you know adult fare or intervened in the czechoslovakia to protect cities in germany it was nothing about carving out an empire for the third reich in central and eastern europe that was mentioned at the time and of course we had the humanitarian reasons that we were going into afghanistan to liberate women we're going to overthrow the evil dictators saddam

a scenic cetera and this is been the hype for every war which governments have tried to sell the to the people i think inside the united states of america the moot question is how much support is there among ordinary americans for any potential military intervention in venezuela and my mind suspicion but actually talking to americans is is that that is not majority support the majority of americans are very cynical about this stuff because of past experience and also remember trunk was elected on a pledge to cut back on these foreign adventures to go into a new adventure and a lot of america a huge escalation so again inside the united states what we need to see is a mobilize asian against any american intervention into venezuela direct intervention ok we'll leave it there chris bambery a political analyst thanks very much or giving a program thanks. there's been

a fresh development in the script poisoning case reports allow alleging that between security services have identified five suspects in the attack on the former russian double agent and his daughter and watch of last year and this is here in our has the details. according to several reports circulating in the u.k. press this morning u.k. authorities are now looking at five possible suspects in the poisoning saga we are waiting for more details on that to be revealed that is yet to come we have contacted scotland yard who have told us that they don't really have any news to share and that they are continuing to pursue several lines of inquiry now at the same time we're seeing u.k. based opensource investigative team belling cat announcing that they have according to them conclusively identified the third suspect in this poisoning case if you remember previously they said that according to them the names of the first two

suspects are. in their identity those two men. g.r.u. officers now they're saying that this third suspect is a forty five year old sergei fit daughter of who according to belling cat is a senior g.r.u. officer of the link that are saying that all of these three men have their covers created at the same in the same year back in twenty ten and according to them this is a third suspect is linked to a case in twenty fifteen and bowl garia where a businessman fell sick and was taken to hospital on with the son and his executive and the story very never led to nor the chalk and the substance use on him was not really identified but barely cat is now linking vose together and we have heard from the kremlin spokesperson say that it's not really clear where this connection

comes from and what this revelation is based off of. the u.s. democratic party is under fire over its handling of a slew of misconduct claims against top officials in the state of virginia and we'll take you through that story after this break. you know world's big partners 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. when

you look back truth. between. the last kovi i left you to me it's clear. this is coming to an end. because of the like interest of both sides. in washington. welcome back to the drive on 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 controversy the party's leadership is now facing claims of hypocrisy double quarter explains. 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. blackface 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 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 a political. debate if you wish it was a plea of 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 to. us and there's a belief that. fairfax is 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 parker 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 hundred nineteen year old time to graduated from college some friend suggested we have time to party dressed like rappers we dressed up and put on we. some brown might cop but of course the democratic leadership takes a firm stance against such immoral behavior we must hold everyone from the highest offices to our own families but countable 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 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 soo debts pretty much 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 will be raised to be answer 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. with that scandal snowballing the republicans haven't quite escaped. the republican senate during which time it won't has been accused of

racism he was the managing editor of the votes and when a chance to. look into includes racial slurs about a student from thailand and contains an image of a man wearing blackface moment has denied however that he was responsible saying he was one of several people who weren't on the move there. and more racism claims this time in a high end italian fashion gucci has found itself in broader controversy over this parlor next wetter quite a few people were quick to point out that the eight hundred ninety dollars garment resembles a person wearing blackface. balaklava knit top by gucci happy black history month your. i 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 good cheere since apologized and

removed the problem next wetter from its website saying the item will be withdrawn from its stores to the company also issued a statement stressing is commitment to diversity. gucci isn't the only big name italian brand to be called recently with claims of racism in december prada with drew a line of monkey chains after consumers complained they resembled racist caricatures of black people we got the thoughts of the political commentator andrei walker and body confidence advocate general s. 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 i hope for your mouth it doesn't look like a black person i've ever see that my life i cannot see any connection firstly with black history month as we were just talking about a second but also ridicule of black people in the only way you can say it's 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 out so similar firstly can i just point out that not before there that blacks. people are not black in the same way that white people like me are not fully white if that was a white t. shirt that a black person would to work i would say it was ridiculing me for being white i mean why is that racist look the problem here. is that we are in the international

he told me that race is a genuine problems with discrimination a talk about rubbish like this just reopened if we had suffered from a resentment 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 are 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 the ones that went for the ok ok ok how many people are offended by this will loose 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 and letting our theories of the professional deeds race it's an industry that suppress the virus 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 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 and white why black or red what why better we're going to read and post what i know are in primary and why do these garments always block because the most ubiquitous color the most popular colors for garments a block or white while people offended will actually in truth i think you've offered no evidence to suggest that most people are fair that i think very few people are offended but i think the racism industry of course they're going to say they're afraid they'd 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. news for this hour back around thirty minutes with more but first here's what sheila hawks.

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this week oct watchers as the united states and their favorite self-proclaimed venezuelan president. continue their efforts to take down the country's current sitting elected president nicolas maduro yes things are beginning to smell a lot like covert regime change allen dulles style as venezuelan officials are now accusing the united states of delivering a cache of weapons and communication devices in the oil rich country to help from and the right wing uprising against the very socialist government the daily mail reports that quote an investigation led by the venezuelan national guard on monday seized high powered weaponry at an airport in the northern city of boleh and that government of fish kills claim a cargo plane that arrived sunday from miami delivered one thousand rifles one hundred eighteen magazines and ninety wireless radios also included in the mix were the works.