was i. the top stories on our team venezuela's president nicolas maduro initiate large scale military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. military intervention. will say this with efforts to rebuild the war torn iraq a city of mosul and the way the situation on the ground remain scrim locals told us the city is a ghost town there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are just

like the living dead we have a cemetery over there. it's a cemetery. and south africa sees a significant spike in attacks on white farm and we have from some of the victims. from the russian capital this is international. top story venezuela's president nicolas maduro has launched what he calls the most important military drills in the country's history in preparation for a possible u.s. invasion mentor i would say if washington is leading a coup against him by its aggressive backing a fed us way less opposition leader why don't proclaim to him self interim president in january the venezuelan ministry is sticking. with me despite some

fifty countries now officially recognizing quite a majority has warned washington against intervening in his country. but wolf. we are a peaceful country could do not mess with us do not threaten us donald trump get out of bed as well and stop the threats and get out we must prepare to defend our sovereign territory integrity and independence. majority has also blocked us fades to the country saying it's not needed medical professionals protested about their station near a bridge the club in one of the race blocks to eight why dave has been edging the military to disobey madore through and its food and medicine shortages and hyperinflation more than ten million people have the advantage. with humanitarian aid at the center of the standoff between quiete and madore the president of the international federation of the red cross thinks they should never be politicized.

it's really easy lee challenging fortunately he. and i did top priorities for us as organization and. we are trying to. ration together with a witness right on red cross. at the moment this is the big challenge of the day you money that he has made. that which shouldn't be. the international community can do more giving to do you money. money. to support the most vulnerable communities here in minutes right now or elsewhere. the peaceful dialogue can prevail we hope that. the option no one beyond the next

day and they will find a way to sort out from these difficulties because he can only be. a humanitarian challenges in that case. the political crisis in venezuela is also having an effect in the us states of florida is now being politicized for the twenty twenty white house run for the presidency is it to try and co explains how the crisis is poised to shape which way florida is going to voters next to. 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 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 the nice well and lead to the nice well

and people determine their future we don't want other countries to choose our leaders so we have to stop trying to choose the years well if we are 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 here we are in the middle of a crisis while this is developing to have it turned into well the democrats benefit while the republicans benefit yeah it seems like a. every single issue that the country is involved in right now no matter how miniscule an unimportant something this huge and important has turned into well democrat republican given game and it is disturbing it only makes you wonder what the very same protesters would say if someone explained them the real way their vote counts. as if it's to rebuild the war torn iraq the city of mosul continue since this twenty seventeen liberation the situation on the ground remains

scrim expense claim that despite the flow of funds to rebuild the city much of the money is being pocketed by local authorities their thirty's deny the allegations their locals continue to complain about widespread corruption we talked to some of those who have returned to mosul after its liberation r.t.s. america staff has 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 they breathe air strike craters two years and now things changed west mosul is still a wreck city of the dead are 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 appearing 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 unexploded 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 because i have. holes are everywhere there are still corpses everywhere and if anyone brings humanitarian aid to the local officials to steal it's corrupt. corruption has its tentacles everywhere millions of dollars intended for reconstruction apparently. stolen the u.s.

led coalition which spent billions in mosul doesn't seem to have the cash will to rebuild it the only thing that's being we built the locals the bank accounts of crooked officials there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are just on paper potholes everywhere streets filled with rubble and rubbish it's misery here i swear to god there are new clean officials here because the fight against iso minute tents in iraq intensified some foreign children ended up trapped in the embattled country now they're attending home a group of russian children who spent time in a prison with them at this have been fought back to moscow this video from the russian emergencies ministry shows them arriving at the moscow airport there are twenty seven children in total aged between four and their teen the exact details of how they ended up in iraq are unclear but it's believed that many of them were

bought that by their radicalized parents all of them being resettled in the homes of relatives. in south africa violent attacks on farmers are on the rise increasing by fifteen percent over two re is according to new information official figures indicate this type a seventy percent of those made it on farms were white we spoke with some of the farmers who have been subjected to attack. he's going to use the old me him to make a difference to you i'm still with them just to be in a little do i give me feel them to go to bed this is still life in a hoodie isotopes lined up in the door and i was trapped by a guy who spawn around my neck and how to come to my aid. i. got. to. start and remain with it is now in most. of my.

as i went down the garden being gone the hit with the stick. and as i stood up obviously of a shock when you first because you will continue in my income to the front. of i'm ready for your big doesn't mean you're going to go to those you know see the whole time they held a shotgun to my far edge the one that is one of the ija i can't say you mention toss much when stocks. in football. baseball folks at any. they recently published reports by the africa forum reset sensa also reveals that electric drills blowtorches and elite have been used as assault weapons against farm is the issue of the whites majority in the farming community has long been staring contrive a say efforts to race redistributes lands to black farmers have been alleged by the government which has stress though that it doesn't intend to begin the mass seizure

of whiting farms the recent spike in attacks has put the issue on the raids all that violence against farm owners has been happening for decades whilst most of the victims are white some say the attacks are less to do with racism and more to do with why does social problems concerning over north and south africa have the nature of their tax is disproportionate we're not among those claiming there is a wide genocide or a crime against humanity but it is a serious crisis and there are signs that it is only going to get wars we are on record as as dismissing the the what the white genocide narrative if it does not exist is fence that being said. you do get into it into issues of what of what motivates these crimes and an argument could be made that in certain instances. the reckless ritter's racial rhetoric may be a contributing factor once again these are was expressed as possibilities

commercial farmers. tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know and it's easy solutions you know to become trapped in that racial prison we are aware of instances where we're. black people being attacked and also i think it is it must be pointed out that that part of the whole form or matecumbe form of phenomenon is the vulnerability of workers they pretend to be interviewed by and they've been instances where. blacks. he believes that love to protect. to protect what what people under attack and vice versa is the case. we follow the priest. fairly fast movement shows no sign of relenting pressure on the french government with a fair teeth weekends of violent protests across the country one activist in paris had most of his hands blown off by

a crowd control grenades artie's ruptly video agency recorded the aftermath a warning now you may find some of the images disturbing. was never. was. 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. assistant channel latif spoke with the father of the protester who lost his hand. we stayed in the hospital into 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 some superficial wounding but his hand is gone we'll file a complaint and then see what happens he does on a sunday 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 hand 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 has lost his hand. as our guest just said in brittany there was an attack on the home of the head of the national assembly though it's not been established whether this had any links to the l.f.s. protests parasol several cars set on fire then

a vest rallies began last november as a protest against fuel hike and quickly morphed into a broader anti-government revolt authorities estimates that more than fifty thousand people rallied nationwide on saturday at least four thousand of them in paris. starting next month one of the biggest names in football returns to r.t. if latham is full of chase a mean year wasn't enough for you the legendary coach is back cross special coverage of the twenty nine thousand new way for champions league from pre-match predictions to gain post-mortems his new bi weekly show how that all make sure you go on the touchline with a marine you. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone one of the. what i was going to do next the baltic from clubs in one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprisingly most of us old

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welcome back to the program u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson has been promoting british hard power in a speech on the prospects of national security advisor to this withdrawal from the european union among the things he advocates is the deployment of more british navy ships overseas we cross live now to our london correspondent for the u.k. polly can you bring us up to speed what else did the defense secretary say at this stage. well gavin williamson is the man who famously said that russia needs to go away and shut up so the rhetoric this time around wasn't as severe but this was an important speech where he outlined his plans and his ambition for the u.k. for the british military whereas for many years we've heard from defense secretaries talking about needing to balance budgets this one was more about the new gadgets and the state of the art toys that gavin williamson has on order for

the military and how all that is going to meet the strategic threats that the u.k. currently faces not just from i still say the islamic state extremists but also in the same breath a resurgent russia that's not just threatening to bring its neighbors into its orbit but is also deploying unconventional cyber warfare against the west crucially he said that britain needs to be ready to use its hard power against threats that come from russia and from china and at that point he and the sounds that the u.k. would deploy to the u.k. would be deploying an aircraft carrier the queen elizabeth to the pacific in order to deter the chinese in fact he spoke several times about needing to increase the mass and the lethality of the u.k. military which led to questions about the cost of such expansion take

a lesson you've just issued another short released of heartache capabilities that are probably very difficult to coast in the early stages of their development. what we've seen is that the government has always been willing and ready to respond to the case of difference because we realize the priority and the importance of it or person listen to context last week the parliament's public accounts committee which sort of scrutinizes the spending of all the government departments found that the ministry of defense has a funding black hole of some seven billion pounds at least and the department is struggling to accurately cost what this report called it on a for an affordable ten year equipment plan and i've got to say the speech did sound a tad detached from sort of current realities that the u.k. is facing apart from that question of how he's going to fund all of these new

capabilities for example gavin williamson said that brags it has brought us to a great moment in our history which sounded somewhat optimistic given the arctic chaos the u.k. is currently in with these negotiations and the fact that we've got just over a month until we leave the e.u. and he also spoke of britain being ready to intervene in order to protect the international rule based order which seemed to completely gloss over all the interventions where britain did intervene and which turned out to be utter disasters with sort of afghanistan libya and iraq just a few examples. reporting live from london thanks for the update. the boss of online retail giant amazon is protesting the invasion of his privacy of two u.s. tabloid the national enquirer illegibly tried to blackmail him by threatening to

leak nude photographs lawyers for the tabloids parents company rejects jeff bezos his claims it's all comes at a time when amazon is reportedly helping to develop state level surveillance systems artie's don't quarter takes a look. 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 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 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 challenge 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 there's a real irony in this if you've been caught sort of how he stood on his own petard as we say. a and 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 and 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. without kids ations of fake news being bandied about have a mole by politicians engine with it's becoming increasingly hard to decide what is more tisn't reliable information but how has it hands as livin in philosophy. as he died his ideas on how to watch the news you can find links to that so naughty social media pages but here's a sneak peek at the latest episode. well but that day despite his lead i'm going to write a book out that you stab somebody with more on the internet and so on those who fight and use i think their mother bought their babies i'm going to hold up the. fact i'm the last selected for

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