the case defense secretary says he will counter russia and china militarily pace brax it if he delivers a pounce appears the british army's global presence. with efforts to rebuild the war torn iraq a city of mosul and the way the situation on the grounds remains grim locals told us the city is a ghost town. there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are

just being on paper like the living dead we have a cemetery over there but here it's a cemetery for the living. in this way as president nicolas maduro initiate such a large scale military trails in preparation for a possible u.s. military intervention. that's just ten six pm hit in the russian capital this is off he international. the top story the british defense secretary has been addressing national security head of britain's withdrawal from the european union among the things he advocates says the deployment of more british navy ships save the seas has a london correspondent. well this was a speech raghavan williamson on veiled his future plans and ambitions for the

british military he said that the president is a historic moment and an opportunity for the u.k. and he listed all the new gadgets and the state of the art toys and equipment that he has on order he spoke about the british military needing to increase its mass and lethality which led to questions about how he's planning on funding increasing this mass and lethality take a lesson we've seen is the government has always been willing and ready to respond to the case. because we realize for pros and be important soldiers funding aside this speech sounded somewhat detached from reality in other aspects as well governor williamson spoke about bragg's it being a great moment in the u.k.'s history which is sound somewhat optimistic given the chaotic situation that the brig's it process is in right now and he also spoke of

britain being ready to intervene to protect the international rules based order which seemed to completely gloss over the interventions that britain has taken part in that haven't quite gone to plan for example iraq afghanistan libya to name but a few. the stop the war coalition chris nineham believes the u.k. is aligning its missions with americans. what williamston is doing is positioning our future foreign policy. very much a close and tight alliance with washington's and if you read the you know trends foreign policy. trumps cabinets foreign policy documents what they're really doing is they're trying to. assuage the u.s. military concern to trying to deal with china in particular which they see as

their main competitor it's not a good thing if britain's government kind of goes along with that train these kind of aggressive postures can only increase tension around the world they can only be seen as provocative and confrontational against great powers many of whom are armed powerfully than we are so this is a this is a this is a very old foreign policy posture and it's hopefully not one that will in fact be pursue. as if to rebuild the war torn iraq a city of mosul continue to exist 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 after its liberation. 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 and 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. 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 strike in mosul looks like it doesn't that 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 going to zero by war can't even imagine how difficult it is not a 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.

loaded 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 they have gotten a shot holes are everywhere there are still corpses everywhere and if anyone brings humanitarian aid to the local officials to steal it they are 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 while in mosul doesn't seem to have the cash or 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 their reconstruction efforts are just in on paper holes everywhere streets filled with rubble and rubbish and misery here i swear to god there are no clean officials here

no way jinn's refugee council's media coordinator in iraq tom pierre costa is quite skeptical about the soon restoration of mysel mosul is not normal yes and it won't it will not be the case for years the reconstruction is not being scaled up people cleared the houses and rebuilt with their bare hands and they are exposed to unexploded bombs we've seen many victims recently so clearly the situation is not back to normal yet there is a nerve agent need to rebuild and i'm going to tell you why for the simple reason. that the camps were not designed as permanent structures the life expectancy of a tent is supposed to not exceed six months and in camps in some camps they haven't been replaced or more than two years now so people are are exposed to winter conditions and floods we have big floods in their. and even recently there has been

many of the. so it is clearly urgent to rebuild the people from mosul have been enduring like this under islamic state for three years and there are trustees but they are not suffering from the large cause of their support and this is clearly an insult to. venezuela's embattled president nicolas maduro has launched a huge military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. invasion mado row insists washington is leading a coup against him by backing venezuela's opposition leader. proclaimed himself interim president in january the venezuelan military sticking with majority finale despite some fifty countries officially recognizing though their own has warned washington against crossing the line. all four of us if we are

a peaceful country but with 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 integrity and independence. well to discuss this further we can now cross live to john laughlin's professor of political science at francis catholic university of the von day welcome to the program now is the recognition of the opposition leader as interim president even legal. it's definitely not legal and the illegality can be easily ascertained by anybody who takes the trouble to read the venezuelan constitution when the european parliament because it's the european parliament that has recognized not the european union as such italy vetoed that israel as you probably know but when the european parliament decided to recognize why doris lee which originally direct quote is quoted article two three three two hundred thirty three of the venezuelan

constitution the article in question deals with what happens when the president cannot fulfill his function but we all know we can see that president maduro clearly does fulfill his presidential functions so article two three three does not give any legitimacy or any legality at all to one why do other things because in the case that the president can't fulfill his functions it's the vice president who takes over it's not the speaker of the national or the head of the national assembly so there's absolutely no legal basis the tool for this recognition by the european parliament and i find it deeply disturbing that an organization like the european parliament which says all the time that it stands for a rules based international system uses that phrase to attack russia or all the time should use the language of legality to in fact attack the

legality of venezuela because whatever you think about the politics of that country there is absolutely no doubt whatever that president maduro is the legal president and why do is not he's never been a candidate in an election except of course to the national assembly which in any case has been dissolved and maduro is quite obviously rightly or wrongly the legal president so this notion of recognition is absurd and yes illegal so why have then around fifteen nations across the world now recognized as interim president. well it's crazy because recognition and you know the establishment of diplomatic relations between states is not a matter of one state giving a benediction or a blessing to whoever happens to be in power in the other state when countries establish diplomatic relations they do so with a government which factually governs that territory those are the rules for

recognition there's a famous treaty called the montevideo convention which lays all this down if there is in fact a government that controls the territory then of course you can establish diplomatic relations with that state and the fact that there's a government in place enables you to do that in a meaningful way but this so-called recognition of is just make believe why do is not the president of venezuela he's not legally the president of venezuela and he doesn't command any of the instruments of state the national assembly was dissolved in twenty seventeen so it's pure make believe all it is in fact is. an operation of communications it's public it's a public relations stunt it has no relationship to reality at all you know we might as well say that marion le pen is the president of france because she has

proclaimed herself such on the plaster low concord all this is not serious and it just makes fools of those countries that are following the american lead in this i think ridiculous and very dangerous adventure and you just touched upon this area as well but what do you make of italy's detail of the declaration. well i think it's an interesting proof of the fact that the italian government which we've all known of course is a sort of anti system government and it has an important left wing component which has natural political sympathies with the venezuelan regime it shows that for once and perhaps actually for the first time this new government has dared to go against the consensus in the european union on an important issue because so far on other issues including of course on the sanctions against russia italy and the other apparently dissident countries in the european have fallen into line but on this

issue italy hasn't and i think that's a good sign i think it shows the disarray is perhaps you know finding its feet at last and is unable to if feels itself able to break what would otherwise be. a stifling consensus because i repeat you know diplomatic recognition is not about choosing who is the president of another country that's crazy you know we don't get to choose who's the president of venezuela any more than venezuela gets to choose who is the president of our countries and so i'm you know i'm personally very pleased that really took this step but it does of course show the reality which is that european the european union countries are very divided on this and on other matters and why do you think the media are blaming madore for blocking aid from a bridge on the border with colombia when we're hearing that the bridge was never a pin in the first place. well this is part of the public relations exercise and by the way i was

a little surprised that you yourself in your run up to this interview described madeira as him but an embattled president i think this is the language of regime change the idea that somehow it's maduro's do you remember the beginning of the syrian civil war we were always being told that the syrian army was forces loyal to us sad this is the vocabulary of the regime change operatives they try to personalize everything what you have in venezuela is a legal government an established government that actually controls the territory whether he's in battled or not i don't know they're often political crises all over the place but i think it's wrong to if i may say so to use that kind of vocabulary he is the president of venezuela he is running a country and this. proclamation by guy doe of himself as president is nothing but a stunt it's a stunt designed to give bogus legitimacy and i very much underline the word bogus

two attempts by the americans supported by their european allies to intervene by force in venezuela we know from john bolton's. notepad that they are thinking at least of sending troops perhaps colombian troops or some kind of troops through into venezuela from colombia and we also know that humanitarian convoys can be the pretext for sending in stuff other than humanitarian aid and above all it's a publisher to stunt is designed to show to pretend that the president is impact old he's not in battle he is in power but we appreciate your thoughts head on the program plentiful fans professor john locke and thank you for coming on to r.t. . south africa sees a significant rise in attacks on farm as we have from some of the victims right after this short break.

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when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to. the u.k. authorities that being accused of a heavy handed response after a woman was arrested in front of her children locked up to seven hours for calling a female transgender activist by her former mal name kate scotto says she has not. returned to her two months after police detained her and has reportedly been charged with a campaign of targeted harassment and asked to see a chicken house the story. this is a case that's circulating in the u.k.

press this monday concerning a thirty eight year old woman and hartford tour north of london kate scotto who is being investigated following a potentially controversial twitter exchange now according to this woman she was arrested by three police officers and locked up according to her for an entire seven hours following a report filed by a transgender activist claiming that she was dead naming this activist which means using the name that the person was either born with or was using before transitioning so essentially in this case for calling this activist a man this is what she had to say i was arrested in my home by three officers with my autistic ten year old daughter and breastfed twenty month old son present i was then detained for seven hours in the cell with no senate terry products which i said i needed before being interviewed then later released under investigation i

was arrested for harassment and malicious communications because a cold someone out and ms gender them on twitter well this woman was accused of a campaign of targeted harassment and from what we know court papers say that she had made defamatory posts in a quote talk sick debate over gender now the activist who filed this report stephanie hayden has this to say would beg for it fails to mention is that the subject of deen junction is alleged to have disclosed private financial and medical information about me on social media channels including one set up for the sole purpose of harassing me for being transgender well the police in this case have said quote we take all cases old reports of malicious communication seriously and now this case is under investigation so we'll be watching it to see how exactly it unravels. in south africa. violence attacks and fun is all on the rise

increasing by fifteen percent over two years according to new information official figures indicates more than seventy percent of those made it on farms where weiss we spoke with some famous objected to a tax. i think clearly you speak for all we're going to listens to you time so i wouldn't just give you you know look i'm do i give you the fuel and. this is what's the life you know when i sleep slumped up in the door and other scraps. despommier around my neck and how to come to my age. i. got. in this star marine maybe it is nine moles. on my. as i went down the great big on the head with this with the stick. and i was a straight up obviously of the short between your first and if you will continue in my income to the right is for you. to be older doesn't mean you're

a leader to those you know so the whole time they held a shotgun to far edge the one that it's going to meet up and you can't say you're bench josh notch i'm stacia. include old. you know this case bones ok let me. recently published reports that electric drill splode torches amply each have been used as assault weapons against farm is the issue of the white control of farming has long stated control to say efforts to redistribute sound to black farmers have been alleged by the government which is stress though that it doesn't intend to begin the mass seizure of whites and farms the recent spike in attacks has put the issue family in the spotlight but violence against farm mona's has been happening for decades while most of the victims a white some say the attacks are less to do with racism and more to do with why does social problems i'm sending over north and south africa it's. the nature of

the attacks 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 a sign. is 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 as friends that being said. you you do get into it into issues of what of what motivates these crimes and an argument could be made that in certain instances. with reckless rictus racial rhetoric they may be a contributing factor once again these awards expresses possibilities commercial farmers. that tend to be disproportionately watch although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know and see you solutions to what's become trapped in that racial prison and we are aware of instances where we're. black people being

attacked and also i think it must be pointed out that that part of the whole form for matecumbe form of phenomenon is 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 was the case. we followed in the priest. starting next month same rainier attends to coverage of the twenty nine thousand. from pre-match predictions to game post mortons his name and his name by which has a toll. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted

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time action or tense are we going underground on the fortieth anniversary of the iranian revolution two enough 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 for thousands 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 the socialist u.k. government all this of all coming up in today's going underground but first it was in one hundred 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 the story the cia has released documents that show its role in the nineteen 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 nato nations tend to destabilize countries that nationalize 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 saddam hussein with weapons to attack iran with saddam's massacres against his own people who were terminal and procure one hundred thousand people used. in fact the reagan administration.