the. headline stories germany and france reach a compromise on a joint russian german pipeline project challenge bipartisan. washington it comes despite the u.s. ramping up the pressure of. chinese telecoms giant while way up the west calling espionage accusations against them senseless with the united

states first in the firing line. governments should. march in great numbers to washington even go to the white house to deliver more than ten million signatures asking for respect for stepping up the pressure washington rules the possibility of talks with. socialist governments. or international news center in moscow is r.t. welcome to the program. germany and france have reached a compromise on the joint russian german gas pipeline project nord stream. commenting on the german chancellor. america lauded franco german cooperation.

after it was previously suggested paris was seeking to derail it. takes us through know how an amended e.u. order on gas got the enterprise back on track the directive is now a compromise between frogs between germany which means the project will be still going ahead though it looked like it was set to be derailed off to france announced on thursday that it was actually going to support an e.u. directive that could have complete east scuppered this entire pipeline this is a pipeline that would bring gas directly from russia roy the way through germany it even had gone to the point that suggested that there was a diplomatic tensions between the two countries over this project what had caused president mike going to pull out of the munich security conference where he was due to be holding a joint press conference with anglo merkel frogs had raised concerns about the project saying that it would mean that europe would be far too dependent on russia

when it comes to energy and it could also have a conflict of interest for other countries particularly eastern european countries such as poland and slovakia but anglo merkel said this in response it wouldn't. become dependent on russia because of this second gas pipeline and i'd say no not if we diversify the same time germany will expand its guest terminals for liquefied gas this means that under no circumstances do we want to become dependent solely on russia but russia was already a source of gas in the cold war and will remain one without us falling into one sided dependency. this isn't the first time that this multi-billion euro project has come under attack particularly from the united states with the united states saying at one point that german companies to continue with the construction of this pipe but could actually face sanctions as a result of doing that. and last year when president trump was

a native conference he made this declaration we're protecting germany we're protecting friends we're taking both of these countries and numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where there. is a feller's into the coffers of russia germany is totally controlled by russia because they were getting from sixty to seventy percent of their energy from russia and a new pipeline of the united states concern there about the money tree influence of germany paying russia for this energy when in fact the usa would like to be selling its. gas to europe and being one of the major supplies over energy to europe in the future not so with this project going ahead not only that but u.s. ambassadors to germany to denmark and to the e.u. are said to be pushing pressure on nations to actually oppose this project but so far that hasn't worked as we know there's been

a compromise and stream to project will be going ahead it seems like the pressure from the u.s. has resulted in one thing only and that's go. if you can cope program i mean discussing washington's pressure on germany over the nord stream project you can watch the interview in full on this channel across friday evening and morning or in our teeth dot com. mass recently sat that questions of european energy policy must be decided and europe not in the united states i mean i can agree with him war but can really in really stop washington imposing all handled this on whoever they choose. we have never be succeeding in this in the last series of cases we view americans where we complain that. all of american lives. for us it's lot acceptable all or nothing where we'll

come we really come to a point where we have to discuss for is frankly with the americans. chinese telecoms giant while way out its critics in the west flatly dismissing claims that it's a pawn being used for beijing spying purposes. recently who always been under constant attack by some countries and politicians were shocked or sometimes feel amused by those ungrounded and senseless allegations chinese telecom from slammed the united states after receiving another blow in the five g. race they feel shocked and amused of how the united states is lobbying here governments against the firms the united states envoy to the european union has threatened its western allies that if the huge chinese equipment in their infrastructure projects they will face consequences and they will be on the disadvantage side when dealing with the united states the chinese firm has been

receiving a lot of pressure from western regulators and law makers of it and its involvement in the next generation network with officials blindly accusing the company of spying someone from the politburo in beijing picks up the phone and says i want to listen in on the following conversation i want to run a certain car off the road that's on the five g. network and kill the person who's in it there's nothing that the company legally can do today in china to prevent the chinese government from making that request successfully just last month the united states government filed criminal charges against kuai accusing them of stealing trade secrets from timor bille scored in the u.s. on sanctions on iran but again no proof when they were actually asked directly of where is the proof the u.s. response was simply it's actually run party one state and it seems that the u.s. cannot choose in a better time to actually do this european countries are actually looking and

weighing in of new introductions of sanctions against companies and countries when it's coming to cyber espionage and gathering intellectual property theft but as all this is happening there's a government officials in germany which are saying that girls government right now is ruling out the ban of the. using chinese equipment supply for building its five g. network as germany is currently walking into the net and into building its five g. network europe is actually crossways second largest market has invested billions and billions into digital sector they've been working closely with major telecom companies are on the continent such as the way to telecom orange and bt and many others and as the u.s. is now trying to impose our blanket ban on chinese firms are when it comes to the five g. market europe is actually on the horns of

a dilemma. just an extra note on this story germany's federation of industry head is rallying against washington saying he fears the u.s. could resort to economic sanctions in a bid to persuade western governments to way he added that america wants its allies to fall in line with its foreign policy. the united states is continuing to dial up the pressure on venice well as crisis stricken government calling on the international community to deal with the leader of the opposition instead anough the embattled president however nicolas maduro isn't stepping back and resisting america's calls to resign accusing washington direct interference. opposes trained as agents of foreign governments of the united states introduce sources of unrest of internal chaos to dismember the state's. in venezuela they have driven us to the point that

libya was taken over syria was taken to the point of an armed opposition they have attempted that but we have not allowed them and venezuela is at peace. only us national security adviser john bolton is urging russia to join the chorus of calls to recognize the opposition leader one quite as interim president earlier the european union essentially signed on along with other american allies we discussed the u.s. backing of the opposition figure with host of artie's worlds apart. presumably the united states always knows what's best for people in other countries and you know what's astounding in this whole debacle for me is that is not only the every successive american administration falls for the same regime change operation irrespective of its ideological persuasions but also that it always does it in

exactly the same way by pushing a very stark and very misguided choice on the people it supposedly wants to benefit because. it is a very legitimate conversation of whether president has been good or bad in handling or mishandling the economy in his country there are many critics of his economic policies within the venezuela and outside the country but this very vocal and very unapologetic backing by the americans really frames the conversation from the substance of his economic policies into who has the right of appointing a leader in. the has a very very proud population they're very proud of their independence and this backing of why i adore i think donna's major disservice to gordo himself because he's now a c. is seen not as a legitimate grassroots figure out position figure but figurehead for them merican ministration they're always third and fourth and fifth options and you know just

today from my program i interviewed rafael remarries who is who used to be who. he is also sometimes referred to as the new sellers former oil czar because he ran the oil industry for many many years and he's extremely extremely critical of maduro he believes that betrayed the legacy of who could chavez and pretty much all the chairman's of his government but he is just as harshly critical of the door because he sees him as the representative of the american interest well let's see exactly what he. to say gains in the. country gains of these sanctions because. the illegal will we have to go to get that but insured would mother with them have any chance to go to the gauntlet but neither we'd wait though because.

bill is the. war from the us that man has very strong connections within the venezuelan military as well as among international partners such as russia and china and he's now trying to portray himself as the third option a consensus candidate he hopes to run for president if the elections are indeed called and you can watch this interview in full on worlds apart this coming sunday there are many many interesting moments and it's a very interesting look at the country outside the either or framing that the united states is trying to push on the venezuela. brazil's former president lula da silva who is currently serving a twelve year jail sentence has been given an extra thirteen years on corruption

charges the ruling his supporters big gathered i side the workers' party headquarters in sao paulo on thursday there's still has huge support across brazil and even tried to run for president from prison but was prevented by the electoral court who had to silver led brazil for eight years until the end of twenty ten he was jailed last april after being found guilty of using public funds to buy luxury properties the seventy three year old has denied all charges against him calling them politically motivated but i know all that money a journalist based in paulo told me that the authorities are taking such a harsh line. because of his popularity. police so persecution the question is to put the former president out of the game because he is the man who would be able to lead people against the table so neither against the right this

moment which has warmed election he's the most popular interceding in history during his time in power millions have been drawn from poll the economy was growing up dick contrary was respected in the golden found in its t. o. posing perilous mentioned money and leading latin america integration i'm sure that if the new law was president he was against donald trump integration against that as well or medians of brazilian citizens by the way he did fire accusations about the recession involving lula and all the workers particularly there's s. they're sick you should act case of. a big political ally against the former president president trump is claiming that socialism poses a major threat to the u.s. the story and more right after this.

when you look back true. problems between. it's clear about this treaty this is coming to an end. because of the interest of both sides. washington was. big in crypto as the currency continues to dominate global finance and put the us dollar into the graveyard yet. which of us is revolution screeching to a halt inflation and unemployment cause millions to leave venezuela world powers a lot over whether president maduro should stay but the real question is how should the country move on from its current crisis.

seventeen minutes into the program welcome back drinking his highly anticipated state of the union address this week 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. left wing ideas do seem to be on the rebound takes a look. now those who watch donald trump state of the union address would have a hard time missing 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 to everyone. but the socialists they say that he's just afraid of their rising popularity i thought it was fabulous because it shows that we've gotten under his skin and 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 democrats socialism is the say in the for her to be right now. and that is going to be perhaps but. i do accept any characterization that the party presented by the republicans trump media going as far as printing guidelines on how to inoculate your children against the rising ideological danger. so we decided to go out to the district here in new york that elected alexandria a cacio 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 vote of her because she was pretty good though she would have her because as charismatic you would think they also voted for because of the change from the guy that was in it before who's very much like embedded a lot of people are afraid to show up so i mean anything to veer away from what trump is doing i think to fill 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 the complete opposite he's the 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 do to some extent year i don't think it will be appropriate for this country allow don't know too much bought it so i don't know if i can 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 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 of sanders is not a democrat. justice trump is not really a republican so we'll have to have a democrat versus 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. libya's largest oil field has fallen to forces based in the east of the country loyal to the commander of the national army. are clashes with the rival un government in the capital tripoli five people were killed in the violence according to reports january forces launched an offensive in an attempt to secure areas rich in natural resources the freshly recount should l.-a sharara oil field suspended production in december when it was taken over by protesters. can produce well over a quarter of a million barrels per day in a halt in production comes at an estimated cost overrun thirty million dollars per

day for libya the north african countries a member of the oil cartel opec one has been struggling to boost production since twenty eleven when a western back uprising overthrew then leader mir market since the country has been divided between those two rival governments we mentioned the u.n. one sitting in tripoli in the northern coastline and the other located in the east or historian believes western interests being the driving force behind the long running crisis in the. this is the culmination turmoil introduced into north africa by the united states and nato bombing campaign in the spring of two thousand and eleven that more khadafi going to sway look nigeria lose. beate uhse not coincidental that all of these countries we're talking about are major oil producing countries it's well known that's the oil the energy interests exert quite

significant influence in washington and so we reduce the interests of energy interests in washington d.c. i'm afraid to say that other libya type quagmire in the off. the french yellow vests movement is the new face of european politics least that's the view of the italian deputy pm who say's the continent will move away from traditional right on the left leaning parties the comment comes after relations between paris and rome where dented by a meeting between luigi demaio and yellow festac tests i was struck by the fact that among the claim some yellow vest posters there were themes that now supports the right and the left and the public needs first that's why i wanted to meet yellow vest members i believe that the future of european politics is no longer with right to left leaning potus specialising that some of those right to left bondeson europe of calling themselves new when in fact the traditional.

well after demaio tweeted a photo of him alongside yellow vests leaders and protesters earlier this week recalled its envoy to italy for consultation from slashdot and other police top officials accusing them of baseless it and even calling it on precedented situation last seen at the end of world war two relations between the two countries have quickly deteriorated over a number of unlimited and strained exchanges while one of the injured yellow vests protesters to rule rodriguez issued a statement on police violence he claims demonstrators are still suffering at the hands of the authorities there for the protest movement will no longer be announcing the location and time of their rallies to avoid what is calling government brutality political commentator told me the yellow vests have much in common with at least five star movement. the french government to sustain situation

to complain about the interference of the male into the they are fair when you see where they have just done in there is really a there there but he can use it which is government reserves and even going toward the county and presumably another we not do that except to foreign intervention military intervention of aiding a state so it's a little bit like the do they need bia if you can get this entity telling government the government the british government like my cause though he did lee then i don't see where the deadly ends guard you know be friend with a movement which is a bit similar to the five star movement in italy in them young woman which is neither her nor left that we just as boot them in there for so wendy so very similar to the universe except now they're in bow of the in the midst of a far from being burberry on seaway that can be a lesion between the two i mean doesn't it in the sense given that you know on the fact that we are all you have billions in principle. life from moscow every hour of the day versus your r.t.

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the clock is ticking on another government shutdown but a bipartisan congressional group shows signs of progress on averting one and members from both parties have asked the white house to stay out of it is that possible with our president that and more on this edition. of the politicking on larry king donald trump delivers his state of the union to tongue or song 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 and near do. but members from both sides of the blue dollars 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 surprise the. c.n.n. poll shows seventy six percent of you are approval of the state of 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 at 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 unissued event 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 jay abs you've really got you know two different speeches and you really don't have a.