protest in the haitian capital against economic hardship calling on the president to step down there has been no reaction from washington to similar in venezuela

just across the caribbean sea. the u.s. ambassador says germany should use its leverage to keep the kremlin in line and that as a new poll finds most germans are skeptical about relations with washington. the world has become more tense due to the traumas policies is the politics of provocation we've lost some of the respect we had for the u.s. due to its foreign policy. in the united states accusations of hate speech are thrown of the author of a column and yale university's newspaper and what she calls on students to look out for sexist behavior among white males. tuesday february the twelfth just off the ten o'clock in the morning here in moscow this is all to international a very warm welcome. but his weight has been making headlines for weeks ever since

opposition leader one quite go declared himself interim president now some fifty countries recognize him and support his bid to oust the venezuelan president nicolas maduro meanwhile just across the caribbean sea thousands of protesters in the haitian capital against economic hardship and embezzlement and see government demonstrators are demanding but the president of the caribbean island nation stepped down. looting clashes with police have been seen over the last five days of protests which i've also seen. i. was barry was really letting go. of. the protests in haiti however have received a very different kind of reaction from washington than the ones in venezuela.

believe that trying to explain. protest start turning deadly. crowd once the president to get the hell out of his office. they loathe his government for corruption for all kinds of cheating at the election . but the nation is not just poor it starving. rich people one country running. everything. the massive population. continues to be like a bit of polling from the poorest country in the caribbean the last presidential election had to be rerun after claims of fraud. but the follow up which put

president more ease and power wasn't exactly a model of democracy the turnout was only a fifth every tenth ballot sheet was never counted for different reasons and some cases that would be more than enough to set off what i call the legitimacy radar alarm and washington not this time trump sent his people to congratulate the new leader his diplomat said they were proud of haiti the haitian people deserve to have democratically elected leaders today's inauguration of a democratically elected president and allows haiti to return to democratic and constitutional rule so what do you do with that kind of rapprochement show that you're a big fan of the man in charge their president trump an iowan to put an old and entrepreneur ones is results and therefore i hope to put everything in place to make sure we deliver for our peoples but could such words of warmth ever end up turning into something like this how. venice.

not true. venison the drum government is not going to side with the haitian people because they need the haitian government for its project of overthrowing the venezuelan government so back to news from haiti several days of protests put the capital on the brink of chaos a furious haitians are on the edge a group of you when powers including america came up with the communique i.e. condemnation of the escalating violence they want the president to speed up reforms well the only thing that came out of the state department in four days was this travel security alert haiti security alert the security situation remains very unstable if you hear gunfire or protest groups seek shelter inside your house immediately and stay away from the windows and no one's yet picking a substitute for the elected leader but of course this relative silence isn't

simply about someone saying nice things about donald trump this is the nature of what we can say american power in the world today it is filled with hypocrisy in haiti it is the vast majority of the population which is turning out to demand a job no mo uses a departure and yet not a word from mike pence not a word from pump aoe the secretary of state not a word from donald trump so this double standard this hypocrisy is typical we can say u.s. foreign policy and venezuela neighbors on the map but it looks like they're nowhere near each other in the minds of those gurus of real democracy. the opposition and the government in venezuela are currently wrangling over us a president nicolas maduro has blocked all deliveries branding the convoy's a pretext for a u.s.

invasion and as washington sanctions venezuela's oil its key source of revenue hyperinflation and demonstrations are only likely to worsen and so with diet food shortages in the country the media continues to portray my daughter was a tyrant inflicting suffering on his people. on the minutes while inside trucks and troops are blocking traffic in and out of the country blokes aboard a bridge way he said to arrive ordering troops to block the bridge by. the border has blocked a bridge where the bridge we just saw a connects colombia and venezuela it was built in twenty sixteen but has never actually seen any traffic because it was not actually officially opened to a dispute between the two neighboring countries but we talked to max blumenthal the editorial the investigative journalism project grey zone who is currently in the venezuelan capital problem is speculation and hyper inflation which makes it hard for some people at certain lower classes to buy food and that hyperinflation is

being compounded by unprecedented u.s. sanctions that the reason that the u.s. and western media is focusing as of the trump administration on the humanitarian aid is to frame create an interventionist frame to create a pretext where the maduro government first of all seems cruel and stingy and will not allow aid in which will actually have no effect on people's food insecurity and second of all to allow this intervention to take place. washington's efforts in the south american country are led by elliott abrams he was recently appointed u.s. special envoy to venezuela he previously held the position of assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs it's alleged he was involved in a coup attempt in venezuela back in two thousand and two he's also been accused of shipping weapons directly to nick around here when the rebels under the guise of humanitarian aid and that was back in the one nine hundred eighty s.

assistant secretary of state elliott abrams has defended his role in authorizing the shipment of weapons on a humanitarian aid flight to nicaraguan rebels saying the operation was strictly by the book we have to consider that trumps are who is in charge of his venezuelan policy right now is elliott abrams who pioneered the strategy of using humanitarian aid as a disguise for delivering weapons to us proxy forces first during the. wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian violations the venezuelan see this aid delivery especially in the in the light of abrams history of using aid as a cover for delivering arms to proxy forces as a violation of venezuelan sovereignty as an actual us invasion of venezuela and so in many ways this is seen as a trojan horse for u.s. invasion well the u.s.

meantime remains staunch in its support of the self declared leader. and with washington piling the pressure on the president nicolas maduro a failure of the lights during one of his recent speeches certainly proved an easy target. cutting. edge. to work right now rebuilding. is there a little light show. in our intelligence agencies if they just turn off

the light it is our just say. ok yes ok. the u.s. ambassador to germany has cold for nato to be strengthened because as he puts it ruptures on the doorstep it's better all of our now reports his comments and recent threats of sanctions against europe have not gone down too well. washington's man in berlin ambassador richard grinnell is being handing out advice left and right to chancellor angela merkel over which direction she should stay or her country in the latest polls of wisdom that she should spend more money on weapons and that germany should use its energy connections with russia to put pressure on moscow the germans have the leverage with russia imagine if chancellor merkel stood up and said because of the russian behavior because of the malign activity and the increased offense we cannot give you more influence by buying your energy nolde stream to its

top of the u.s. hit list when it comes to joint german russian projects that the u.s. isn't keen on with washington saying it doesn't want to become too dependent on moscow and busted a goodell also expressed disappointment with germany's military spending saying that commitments made to nato needed to be all that the u.s. is simply reminding its great german allies that now is not the time to undercut or weaken nato with the russians at the doorstep it should be clear to everyone that nato needs strengthening this isn't the first time though that the us ambassador has handed out some quite of diplomatic advice. and german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately

never tell a host country what to do. we're not a banana republic. a mix of one side tightening turn. the german people have taken a dim view of u.s. policy in these areas the latest polling shows eighty five percent of germans view the transatlantic relationship in a negative or even a very negative light with the majority saying they want to germany to give the u.s. a wider berth if we look at where german saw potential threats coming from less than two percent said russia right wing populism and protectionism was named as the biggest concern for germans i asked people in berlin why this view on u.s.

german relations she listened to mend the relationship is difficult right now because the world has become more tense due to the traumas policies is the politics of provocation by the older generation has tremendous respect and gratitude toward the u.s. but some of it has been lost lately due to the us foreign policy. the people themselves to get along well sometimes fail to flag this they're having problems as an american president i think washington's hardline approach to it. doesn't seem to be going down too well with the german people. it seems race issues are never far from the headlines these days and that's also true at yale university in america after a student published a column in the campus newspaper in it she suggests keeping a record of racist and sexist behavior by white males for possible use later on.

everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a staggering smile that conceals his great ambitions one day i'll turn on the television and i'll see him sitting down for his senate confirmation hearing a recall a message that he accidentally left open on a computer when here forgot to log out of i message where he likened a woman's body to a particularly large animal all kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence i can't with things slip by i'm watching the white boy and they say i'm i am taking the screen shot. what kind of a hate has you'll become this is not progressive it's juvenile and malicious pernicious you know paper prints racist guide on how to destroy a white boy lives like cavanagh this article proves two things first it's the left and the democrat party and its members that are racist and second if you go to you you if more stupid than when you entered as you can see the article spot

controversy online with some accusing the author of hate speech i says davis marks the author of this piece in titled evil is banal is a senior jonathan edwards college who studies philosophy and writes a regular column for yale daily news or debates over political correctness and yale university certainly frequent earlier here in our to international law guests debate at the call for surveillance of young white males i think that the hate of white people right now has been so normalized on on educational campuses and the anywhere in the media and it's become so much to the point where if someone did this the opposite way if it was white vice versa if a white wrote this about some other people then he would get the insane amount of backlash and it would be much worse than if this person this woman wrote this about white men and i have to say that it isn't the surveillance that is scary it's the fact that a gentleman dating they're creating

a system that intimidates white men and pushes them down and makes them look over their shoulders and makes them breaks and that is the tactic of a totalitarian state and they seem to not be able to wait until they can inflict one upon us in the mainstream media has has this this label on white men and even white people in general on college campuses on in jobs even at restaurants i'm currently college student right now and i see this as this this is the whole i guess clay coming to everyone's minds thinking that white people are bad white people actually blamed for their ancestors problems you know that shouldn't be happening and i'm not. sure whether this marks on occasion of desperation for leftism or opportunities a sense of blooming opportunity or maybe both if you're not really on the left unless you're a victim and in order to be a victim you have to have an oppressor and they appeared to have settled all the different causes all the different angles of leftism appear to have settled on white males for racism sexism bigotry and homophobia and that is the great evil of

america and we are going to be made to pay for that one way or another even if we are innocent and of course most of us are many stories still coming our way here on the truth their program on international in the makes of them more than fifty beds invade a rowboat russian town prompting a state of emergency to be cold but that's in the mix of your stories in just about a minute. when folks are talking about socialism like cortez out of new york that congresswoman saying oh say oh say that you know socialism is bag and we need higher taxes we need redistribution of wealth that's actually not the solution to some of the shortcomings of capitalism the solution is tax us to give people access to capital because fifty percent of the stocks in america are owned by one percent

of the population now that's an incredibly lopsided concentration of the greatest growth engine in the world by a very small community. and almost seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any new world yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. ten twenty am here in moscow french police are investigating anti semitic graffiti that appeared on the window of a jewish bagel shop in paris however some were quick to point the finger at the

yellow vest protesters charlottenburg now investigations outrage after yet another and his semantic attack in paris the latest was in the fourth decent of the city the german word for jews juden was sprayed across this bagel shop near the old jewish quarter the anti semitic graffiti was discovered at the weekend many have likened it to the anti semitic inscriptions that were targeting jewish businesses in germany in the one nine hundred thirty s. and some have already decided who the culprit is today in the streets of paris the word jews was printed on the window of a beggar restaurant this act thirteen by the yellow vests has precedence attacks against institutions and thai semitic acts how far will it go act thirteen youden in paris act twelve insults in front of a synagogue in strasbourg act nine the anti semite ricin in the yellow vest

everywhere the same thing is happening and it's a tragedy it's not the first time that the yellow vests have been accused of anti semitism during the six week of protests known as act six a series of anti semitic incidents were reported including a group of protesters singing a song popularized by an anti semitic comedian another group was accused of insulting an auschwitz survivor on the metro so what have the yellow vests themselves got to say about it. the yellow vests are not racists they are peaceful they believe in the republic they are peaceful tolerant and want to live better in their country it's possible that among the yellow vests there are some. crazies and racists that's no different than the rest of french society the goal of the government is to tarnish the first they try to identify yellow vests with hooligan didn't work we took to the streets of the capital to find out who locals

think are responsible when it's mostly based. on us lee i don't know if there is any connection to the l. of the us is easy to just blame everything on them there is just a lot of anti-semitism in friends and in other countries. i don't know i just think is the yellow versatile it's not something they want to be connected to i think this is just racism. it's shocking for me and for a lot of people is the need to have talking about it all the time but i don't understand how it could happen. we're living in a moment i never thought we would in france however the restaurant owners have dismissed the link saying the incident probably occurred several hours before the yellow best protest this does though come at a time when anti semitism in france has been reassuring its head last november the french prime minister said anti semitic acts in france have increased by sixty nine

percent in the first nine months of two thousand and eighteen while the government has promised to crack down on this anti semitic attacks it's clear that some have decided to wrongly jump on the bandwagon and blame the yellow vests at least when it comes to this latest incident do you can ski r.t. paris we spoke with a brussels based journalist who says the yellow vests have simply become easy scapegoats but it was painted in yellow so what so it might be a provocation it might but let's not even go into that enormous affair all the. president or chairman of the oh i simply must run out of national assembly the parliament is so fair. secondary precedence it's been burnt i mean somebody set fire to it immediately your reaction was it's just a yellow face it's nothing to do with and to semitism nobody knows if it is yellow vests that did it there are some people why are not too clever to say stupid things

that are probably some anti semite something but the movement in the self is nothing to do with these extreme opinions and stupid opinions i think the government i'm sure mccall it's fighting the senate is very much afraid of them so anything that goes wrong it's to yellow fests. the taliban has rejected an offer from the afghan government to have an official office in the country saying they want their cut out of office to be officially recognised argument about having an official political office is clear we want our office in doha to be recognised by the international community and the united nations with this proposal gunny is trying to change the topic and tom the only going peace efforts will recognizing the taliban's office in qatar was part of an agreement struck during peace talks held in moscow from which the afghan president danny was absent he since said he's willing to recognize a taliban office but only if it's based in afghanistan the deputy director of the

center of a conflict and peace studies a heck of a tool or a zombie says made his offer only because he's feeling sidelined. a lot of people argue that you know in the peace process president arnie's is the obstacle americans and taliban are meeting in doha such statements. are made to prove that. look the government is not a problem and we are willing to talk to the afghan taliban and you and holds them and offer them an office the end of the day president danny's gone mint is it's quite under pressure for not going for not for not willing to cooperate in the peace process while the taliban continue to refuse to meet him so i think these moves come after all these to address these concerns and so there he's trying to become part of the peace initiative and become in play a role not been sidelined. now it's through northern russia where

a state of emergency has been declared off to an invasion of hungry polar bears and the animals have been wandering into a local talent or rummaging around for food and you can see one who managed to gain inside an apartment block sniffing around for something to eat residents are understandably concerned they might become the bear's next meal they are taking precautions though however tried and tested methods for scaring them away like using sirens and horns and dogs don't seem to be working anymore apparently the polar bears have just learned to ignore the sirens and the other dogs or to keep people safe authorities are setting up the trolls putting up a special barriers around schools but right now no it's no injuries no deaths no nothing nothing bad yet to be reported. more of your headlines still to come in about twenty five minutes time we return at the top of the hour.

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greetings and sally. we love we love our democracy here in the united states watchers we love it so much that we will often spread our brand of democracy around the world either by a handshake or shake down but despite our great chest thumping over how golly gee great our democracy is when it comes that actually practicing it. take the recent two thousand and eighteen midterms according to recent data compiled by the center for responsive politics the two thousand and eighteen election was the most expensive midterm ever by a layer large margin with total spending surpassing five point seven billion dollars yet despite that massive amount of money spent by candidates parties committees pacs and outside groups only an estimated one hundred thirteen million people actually voted. but but tyrrell one hundred thirty million people that's

a huge number all these political pundits and journalists told me it was a banner year for us democracy well friends yet not really really especially when you look at the amount of voting age citizens who didn't vote in the two thousand and eighteen midterms which clocks in at roughly one hundred and thirty nine hundred forty million people that's more than fifty two percent of the electorate that's a terrible amount of nonvoters for a country that long since democracy like we do now there are many reasons for these bad numbers the terrible candidates not enough political parties terrible candidates gerrymandering terrible candidates the list goes on and on and on but for the good people of sandusky ohio they decided to knock one of the main ones off the list economic inability to get out in vote not enough time during the day how did they do this.