headlines here venezuela's president nicolas maduro and large scale military drills and preparations for a possible u.s. military intervention. with efforts to rebuild the war torn iraqi city of mosul under way the situation on the ground remains locals the city is like

a ghost town there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are just like the living dead we have a symmetry over there but here it's a cemetery for the living. c.e.o. complains about the invasion of his privacy over a new picture of blackmail allegations that his own company is helping to build a new surveillance state. in his mid morning on monday here in moscow the r.t.e. news team hard at work rounding up this story. and as well as president nicolas launched what he called the country's most important largest military drills to repel a possible u.s. invasion but the auto insists washington is leading a coup. against and and as well in military continues to support president maduro

while fifty countries around the world but why go on with auto shows he is preparing to defend the country against washington. for all four of us if we are a peaceful country that would do not mess with us do not threaten us donald trump get out of venezuela stop the threats and get out we must prepare to defend our sovereign territory and integrity and independence. well there is also blocked us humanitarian aid to the country saying it's not needed dozens of doctors protest about to search and near a bridge at the colombian border one of the blocked routes for the aid. food and medicine shortages and hyper inflation more than two million people have fled venezuela. with humanitarian aid at the center of a standoff now between. the president of the international federation of the red cross things that humanitarian aid should never be politicized.

intuition he is really easy lee challenging fortunately he. has. idea to top priorities. and on these of course we are we are trying to. cross. i do moment this is the big challenge that the human. being not. dividing the political debate that we should shouldn't be. international community can do more in not giving to the you money. you money. to support the most vulnerable communities here in venice right now or elsewhere. the peaceful dialogue can prevail we hope that the option no one beyond

the next day and they would find a way to sort out from these difficulties because here again on the. case the political process in venezuela is also having an effect in the u.s. state of florida is now being politicized for the twenty twenty white house run for the presidency. explains how the crisis is poised to shape which way florida votes . next year. here's a quiz for you it's up to these guys with venezuelan flags to decide which of the following who the next leader in as well is going to be what's going to be done with their country's oil reserves what that as well as constitution is going to be like or how american politics are going to shape out surprise surprise d.d. may well be correct here's why. this crowd gathered in florida novenas well they've been encouraged by the donald trump administration's full on

support of the opposition and now some in the democratic camp are truly worried worried for what the crisis will do to the people wrong it's all about the vote tallies republicans are very smart about working the margins they know that a state like florida is usually decided by one percent over last so all they need are enough of the venezuelans enough of the colombians enough of the proto reconsider indeed florida's a famous swing state plus it's got the highest concentration of venezuelans in america oh my forget all those republican geo political appetites and guess what donald trump and his team aren't the only ones to be blamed by the dems here some capitol hill democrats have really screwed over their fellow party members by saying things like the united states needs to stay out of nice well and let the genie swell and people determine their future we don't want other countries to

choose their leaders so we have to stop trying to choose theirs well if we're actually living in a world that spinning round the never ending donkey elephant tussle this kind of comment is a big mistake for any democrat the resentment has already been reported on certainly about the next election and i mean it seems that goes up for them and i mean is it a new chip card to play and it is a stir. to think that here we are in the middle of a crisis while this is developing to have it turned into well the democrats benefit will the republicans benefit yeah it seems like every single issue country is involved right now no matter how miniscule an unimportant something this huge added porton has turned into a democrat republican game it only makes you wonder what the very same protestors would say if someone explained them the real way their vote counts. as

efforts to rebuild the war torn iraq east city of mosul continue since it's twenty seventeen liberation the situation on the ground remains grim experts claim that despite the flow of funds to rebuild the city much of the money is being pocketed by local authorities the authorities deny the allegations the locals continue to complain about widespread corruption we talked to some of those who have returned to mosul author's liberation. but it does dear picks up the story. coming home should always be a joy safety security but it isn't always so not when you're coming back to mosul there are no basic services in the city no jobs it's terrible we return to our homes a year and a half after the liberation if there is no life here there are no decent streets we suffer from power and water shortage it feels so pathetic you know we are here battling all the hardships we now regret that we ever came back. it was one of the

biggest deadliest battles in the world in decades in the name of freedom they turned west mosul into this. a city of millions reduced to ash and rubble in an act they called liberation i was there two years ago i saw tasted and smelled the city being freed that's an iraqi helicopter this is what the aftermath of a classic airstrike in mosul look like it doesn't matter way you do it all looks virtually the same crumbled buildings bre airstrike craters two years and now things changed west mosul is still a wreck city of the dead going to zero by one can even imagine how difficult it is

one hospital no schools no teachers we are like the living dead we have a cemetery over there but here it's a cemetery for the living. their spirit children orphans a clearing rubble in the absence of builders and construction crews they are what you call rescue crews the first to stumble on and dive from booby traps and it's. bloated u.s. coalition bombs they are the first to reach the corpses under the rubble now estimated to be in the tens of thousands bodies left rotting for two years and the have all of those not holes are everywhere there are still corpses everywhere and if anyone brings humanitarian aid into the local officials to steal it they're all corrupt. corruption has its tentacles everywhere millions of dollars intended for reconstruction apparently siphoned off stolen the

u.s. led coalition which spent millions bombing mosul doesn't seem to have the cash or will to rebuild it the only thing that's being rebuilt say locals the bank accounts of crooked officials there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are just in on paper holes everywhere streets filled with rubble and rubbish it's misery here i swear to god there are new clean officials here what's worse than this concoction of misery corruption desperation hopelessness in this vile mixture terror isis breed and thrive all they'll try to come back they'll try to get at those poor kids clearing the rubble they'll reach the neglected locals will try to turn misery into hate hoop listeners into

aggression and if they succeed banish the thought the black flag could yet again rise over move. as the fight against militants in iraq intensified some foreign children ended up trapped in the embattled city. a group of russian children who spent time in a baghdad prison with their mothers have been brought back to this video here from the russian emergencies ministry showing them arriving at a moscow airport there are twenty seven children in total aged between four and thirteen the exact details of how they ended up in iraq are unclear but it's believed that many of them were brought there by their radicalized parents. all of them are now being resettled in the homes of relatives. in south africa. increasing by fifteen percent over two years that's according to new information official figures indicate that over seventy percent of those murdered

white we spoke with some of the most who have been subjected to a time. i think when you see. a difference so much. this is. an obvious scratch. my age. i. mean. it is not. as i went down the garden. with the stick. and. first. this is. the whole time.

well a recently published report by the research center also reveals that electric drills . elite shovel been used as various assault weapons against farmers now the issue of the white majority in the farming community has long been stirring controversy in efforts to redistribute land to black farmers have been launched by the government which has stressed though that it doesn't intend to begin the mass seizure of white owned farms the recent spike in attacks has put the issue on the radar violence against farm owners has actually been happening for decades and while most of the victims are white some say the attacks are less to do with racism and more to do with wider social problems concerning law and order in south africa . you're on record as as dismissing the watch the white genocide narrative if it

does not exist just finds that being said. you you do get into it into issues of what what motivates these crimes and an argument could be made that in certain instances. the rictus rictus racial rhetoric may be a contributing factor once again these awards expresses possibilities commercial foremans. tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know and you solutions you know to not to become trapped in that racial prison we are aware of instances where we. reject people being attacked and also i think it is it must be pointed out that the part of the whole form for matecumbe for mood for phenomenon is the vulnerability of workers to pretend to be interviewed like and they've been instances where. black people abuse that loves to protect. to protect what i watch people under attack and vice versa as the case. we

followed increased. yellow vest movement shows no sign of relenting pressure on the french government with a thirteenth weekend of violent protests all across the country one activist in paris had most of his hand blown off by a crowd control grenade oxys ironically video recorded the aftermath of warning you may find some of these images disturbing. was. was was. was to sue me is the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg and he tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction and the grenade went off. our sister channel r.t.

france spoke with the father of the protester who lost his head. we stayed in the hospital and to late night to find out what's going to happen with him he's lost everything from the wrist down then we met the ophthalmologist to talk about his. he's only wasn't affected too much there's some superficial wounding but his hand is gone we'll file a complaint and then see what happens he does on a sunday and yesterday sebastian basically lost his hand in front of the national assembly he's crippled and he's a plumber he needs his hand to deal with basic daily stuff he's lost it because i don't know if you understand how symbolic it is but sebastian lost his head in front of the national assembly the house of the people and the government hasn't said a word they are concerned about the fact that the house of mr for iran the president of the national assembly was burned but is just material resources while in front of the second residency of mr for iran the president of the national assembly

a person who has lost his hand he says well as our guest just said in britain knew there was an attack on the home of the head of the national assembly it was not going to stop there whether this had any link to the yellow vest protest a periscope saw several cars set on fire of course the yellow vests rallies began last november as a protest against fuel hikes but they quickly morphed into a broader anti government revolt authorities estimate that more than fifty thousand people rallied nationwide on saturday with at least four thousand of them right there in the center of times. with accusations of fake news being bandied about have a more by politicians and journalists it's becoming increasingly hard to discern what is and what isn't reliable information but help is at hand as slovenian a philosopher. as his ideas on how to watch the news you can find links about on artie's social media pages for now though here's a quick peek at the latest episode. what bothers people today is this

dispersal and uncontrollable cough better do you start some do more on the internet and so on so that's my first bug that those who fight thinking use i think their mother brother made this uncontrollable the reality what we have the abstract is that facts are all based on the last selected from a certain sense bond and that's why the most dangerous fake news in the sense of law is a lot in weeks it lies on true facts. because it's much more dangerous much more if you want to beat the fear of fake news if anybody at the shop yet not for. their backseat use both to get through i think what what would you stay if there is no. look you go to the year you have open you go.

and it will function of fake news day make us aware of how i think that id. be the truth and this is also international with the monday program the nuclear treaty syria venezuela we speak exclusively to the russian ambassador to america across a wide range of issues are more on that after the. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in his own spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful betty ok to kill time time to sit down and talk.

in a world of big partisan newton's law 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 troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. twenty am here in moscow the boss of online retail giant amazon is protesting the

invasion of his privacy after us tabloid the national enquirer allegedly tried to blackmail him by threatening to leak nude photographs and lawyers for the tabloids parent company reject jeff bezos his claims it all comes at a time when amazon is reportedly helping to develop state level surveillance systems as don't. it's blackmail for amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos who has threatened to have his nudes made public by the national enquirer but he chose to own up to it and publish the threat leaving his sympathizers to believe the whole thing was political somehow someone was trying to hit job government entity might have gotten hold of his text messages people who speculated that trump kind of aspect or to do this this was at least partially politically motivated how could government organizations steal someone's private information you ask well perhaps with the technology jeff bezos helped the cia create back in two thousand and thirteen amazon signed

a six hundred million dollar contract with the cia to create a secret cloud server under amazon web services it was intended to pull classified data of seventeen intelligence agencies into one location and one web service has become an especially invasive surveillance technology the amazon recognition videotape young is powered by learning based models providing video analysis of an object in scene detection face attention activity detection and safe content face recognition post and tracking amazon recognition was launched back in twenty seventeen claiming to recognize tens of millions of faces base so says the tech can't be used to criminally violate people's privacy however this strides towards a surveillance state has sparked serious protest amazon cannot simply escape responsibility by saying this cannot be used illegally it's you and i don't

know i don't think you could believe that we are under surveillance we can't even sally that surveillance civil rights groups even found that amazon wanted to use doorbell cameras as a surveillance tool for police and immigration officials the american civil liberties union slammed to the whole system as all for a tarion. amazon is building the tools for authoritarian surveillance that advocates activists community leaders politicians and experts have repeatedly warned against even amazon's shareholders are now calling for an end to law enforcement's use of recognition perhaps spays also was just trying to make an easy buck but the writing is on the wall and many think that amazon c.e.o. is finally getting a taste of his own medicine we discussed jeff bezos his latest problems with that as a dave lindorff there's a real irony in this that he's been caught sort of host on his own petard as we say

being. a in his organization have a very tight link with the n.s.a. the national security agency and has been helping them with their surveillance techniques so they're intimately connected with the whole surveillance state that the u.s. has been developing when you see something like this happening to one of the world's most powerful men it should say to you wow if they can do that to him they certainly could be doing that to me and i wouldn't even know about it. russia's ambassador to the united states sat down with r.t. to speak about the stumbling blocks existing between the two countries as well as areas where their interests do allow for close cooperation. and if treaty is needed and with the security of european countries and the russian federation i know if is not due to the security of the united states for me it's clear if united states decides to deploy. in europe it will be

a crisis of security for european countries. we highly appreciated all efforts were made by united states in these regard and we already took operate together to find a solution how to from one side to dismantle nuclear program of the north korea and at the same time to eastend and to ease sanctions against the government of north korea. it's not position of the russian federation but it does position of other western the european countries who can see that this project is to a useful. there is nothing policy in the site of this. project just about wrapping up the program for this hour here on r.t. international now ten twenty five am here in moscow we are back at the top of the hour with many more of your monday won't.

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time after time so we're going underground on the fortieth anniversary of the iranian revolution two and a half decades after britain overthrew its democratically elected leader coming up remembering the revolution but what now for the nation the from persepolis to the palestinians has been synonymous with human civilization but pounds of years and coeditor with nobel laureate joe stiglitz and the un's jose antonio ocampo seventy griffin jones on what advice she's been giving u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell for socialist u.k.

government all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first it was in ninety fifty three that the nation celebrating revolution today had its government toppled by london washington and an oil company now part of b.p. why would winston churchill want to overthrow the iranian government do you think bizarrely c.n.n. one of the t.v. networks today being for the overthrow of the leader of another oil rich country venezuela understands a story the cia has released documents that show its role in the nine hundred fifty three that is the coup that toppled iran's democratically elected prime minister mohammad mosaddegh had moved to nationalize oil production and iran yes major nations tend to destabilize countries that nationalized or bring back industries and civic society under democratic control but the winston churchill was successful in installing a brutal dictator along with death squads in iran and they do nations world would be defeated by the iranian revolution of nine hundred seventy nine not that the u.s. and u.k. didn't stop trying margaret thatcher's pal ronald reagan began to supply us with

saddam hussein. with weapons to attack iran with saddam's massacres against his own people they were terrible and procure one hundred thousand people. us didn't object in fact the reagan administration blocked efforts in congress even to protest against it furthermore the support for saddam increased and continued in fact saddam was given an extraordinary privilege remarkable and he was allowed he got away with attacking a u.s. naval vessel and killing thirty seven soldiers if the u.s. didn't even seem to mind having its own soldiers killed by the leader which future pentagon boss donald rumsfeld delivered w n d to iraq but iran wasn't defeated in the iran iraq war by the time rumsfeld was helping tony blair destroy iraq iran is role in the region was significantly strengthened with allies in the international nonaligned movement it was read.