it's to look at is it. just touched another chance to just meet the mashed on. the street to present your complete introduced to. those who have produced a great listener to snoop or come up with new yorkers are those the girls are with you for this approach to your wish you shouldn't feel you should book door for the one who's your dues the. major protests take place in venezuela with both pro-government and opposition rallies held across the country. thousands protest in the haitian capital against economic hardship calling on the president to step down but there's been no reaction as yet from washington unlike

with similar unrest in venezuela just across the caribbean sea. for syria demands action from the u.n. security council after accusing the u.s. led coalition of killing sixteen civilians in a bombing attack on the border with iraq. and the u.s. ambassador in berlin says that germany should use its leverage to keep the kremlin in line there's a new poll finds most germans are skeptical about relations with washington. the world has become more tense due to trans policies it's the partakes of provocation we've lost some of the respect we had to the us due to its foreign policy it's. good evening i welcome this is r.t. international. major protests around. way across from his way over to the

opposition called its supporters to the streets followers of president nicolas maduro they're also rallying in a show of support direct to specialist goats reports from the venezuelan company. where from caracas from check out specifically one of the most of the magic points of concentration for the opposition supporters there were around thousands even i could i would there say a million people gathering here to listen to what one wedo had to say this is also and we need to point out that this is also a very important day for the bene's well and as we're celebrating as well they use they so today one way to set a very very strong words calling upon the armed forces to join the venezuelans to stand by the constitution and to please allow to their humanitarian aid to come into the country of course we have heard very strong words as well from nicolas maduro denying that there is a crisis in the country and saying that their humanitarian aid is just an excuse to

intervene into the country's affair also the government supporters and the cosmodrome high as a march today on the other side of the soane and they were celebrating as well that youth day and they were also supporting the armed forces of one of the in the pendant estimates and most important political estimates from the country. for this well it's been making headlines for weeks ever since opposition leader one guy does declared himself as interim president meanwhile just across the caribbean sea thousands of protesters in the haitian capital against economic hardship and embezzlement and to government demonstrators are demanding the president of the other nation step down there's been violence looting and clashes with police over the last five days which has resulted in four deaths. was.

the protests in haiti that have received a very different kind of reaction from washington compared to the ones in venezuela counties that are trying to explain. protests are turning deadly. crowd once the president to get the hell out of his office. the next day. they load his government for corruption for all kinds of cheating at the election. but the nation is not just poor it starving. rich people in the 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 maureen's in power wasn't exactly a model of democracy the turnout was only a fifth every. the tenth ballot sheet was never counted for different reasons in 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 there president trump and i own two printers and old

and entrepreneur ones is results and therefore i hope we'll 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. donna true. venice interim government is not going to side with the haitian people because they believe that 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 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 movie uses a departure and yet not a word from mike pence not a word from pump a oh 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.

syria is demanding action from the u.n. security council after accusing the u.s. led coalition of killing sixteen civilians and injuring schools more than a bombing attack on the border with iraq these are pictures of the af. the math of the incident it was filmed by a video agency ruptly you can see smoke on the horizon apparently that was the result of the air strike in question damascus has demanded an investigation. on living for every twenty nineteen the u.s. led coalition committed a new crime against innocent syrian civilians is warplane targeted a civilian camp in the village of alba who's in the countryside of the governorates of there is or sixteen civilians including seven children were killed and seventy civilians most of them women and children were injured syria again calls on the un security council to stand up against these crimes and attacks and to shoulder its responsibilities in the maintenance of international peace and security.

the attack was launched only last i saw occupied enclave in eastern syria in dairies or province the u.s. led coalition is supporting the terms by the rebel syrian democratic forces to seize that area there are reports despite the fact hundreds of civilians have fled the territory that many are still trapped inside. the quite as you see about the candlish and killed a lot of families they killed a lot of fatherless a lot of children who don't follow the progress is slow and methodical as the enemy is fully entrenched and i still fighters continue to conduct counter attacks we're aware of opensource reports of alleged civilian casualties we take all allegations of civilian casualties seriously. because we now to peter ford who's a former u.k. ambassador to syria and bahrain very good evening to you peter suddenly we're talking about civilian deaths again do you think the u.s.

coalition it is really doing everything it can to prevent them they do seem to keep happening. in our kids. who. are going to war where will you get a guerrilla group or radicals who for example hi. sharon in. the slide. in the. amount or the command and control them and that for the fact. that more often than that even with syrian government or. by a good action. and what we can we all stand. for both. of you and in the course going after. terrorists groups it's called an atrocity like the west. when the west carry out

show. bomb. proof well we. will do our best. yet another double standard just picking up on that reference of double standards if there were some say iceland terrorists cornered somewhere in europe it's impossible to imagine a western government going in there killing them and saying well the innocent civilians died in the process they were collateral damage but that's the approach that they apply to countries in the middle east do you think western governments assign a lower value to the lives of civilians in that part of the world. with good government life than to cheat in arab countries. against their. own good example if it were an atrocity like this every time we get. to the court which we've seen open report. anything

about you know everything about it you don't want to admit you know the media. they never follow up. never held to account. for the rush hour traffic. security council. bombing. and if you listen to the conversations some times in the un security council they try themselves as the last moral bastion the gatekeepers protecting the world protecting the world innocent will they respond to this call for action from syria. so maybe not. not lying. that if.

oh i see. in the u.s. controlled area there are right in that area which is nominally on the fringe but with syrian government my. theory and government then i was completely white now we are military both. the great danger now. among the civilians. who were taking refuge there will be many men who have been fighting to shape god's. will go to ground this is a big challenge now is wrong. the government of iraq and. the idea of the civilians in this problem will seems like a damned whatever they do dangerous from attacks from from the from outside countries and also the danger then from the terrorists place to them the u.s.

all they really helping they claim that their attacks are as precise as they can be do you believe them. look i don't want to condemn it too much because what the coalition has been good because they move russians in the senate and being doing it because we. are without all the things we give you but you can be honest about that and the way you are making moves if you move. you do what you can. there are a lot of times you knew there were enormous. as you do in mosul and iraq but never get mentioned in the west media is that what both weeks and then i think was a double standard. peter appreciate you coming on to talk about this is

a shame again talking about civilian deaths thanks for your time peter form i guess for you can buster to syria. onto the news now u.s. senators found herself and broad to control the sea after she took to twitter to complain about the influence of the pro israel lobby in the united states northeastern quarter takes a closer look. in american politics multi-million dollar lobbies reign supreme and there's almost always a good reason to criticize them big pharma is a usual target i don't think americans have the same big warm fuzzy feeling for big pharma pharma form has a lot of lobbies a lot a lot of years so a lot of power sometimes it's the gun lobby the national rifle association the n.r.a. the n.r.a. they do have great power i agree with that they have great power over you people. they love. and of course plenty of others but there's one rule everyone apparently needs to follow don't criticize israel democratic senator ilhan all maher learned

the hard way with a five letter tweet it's all about the benjamins baby benjamins as in hundred dollar bills it's pretty clear she was referencing the israel lobby but almost everyone took it as a secret anti sematic insult from republicans to fellow democrats all more wasn't danger of joining the black book of anti semites and so i submitted troops have no place in the halls of congress it is dangerous for democratic leadership to stay silent all these recalls language nancy pelosi please speak we can't be silent on a mom remove anti semitism from the house foreign affairs committee remove flieger until still a t. to jews and israel and then i will vote on house resolution seventy two to condemn israel and anti semitic hate infiltrating u.s. politics college campuses and halls of congress democratic leaders have condemned to hell more for use of anti semitic troops and prejudicial accusations about israel's supporters a couple of jewish democratic congressmen even wrote

a letter to the party's leadership asking them to join in on the outreach and benjamin's were no doubt involved there one of the letter signers received over one hundred thirty thousand dollars from the israel lobby in twenty eighteen in total apac spent three and a half million lobbying politicians last year and in the end omar had. to apologize but she's not alone in washington pro israel democrats are having none of it some are forming a faction within the party for those with seemingly undying loyalty to israel twenty twenty is only a year away and parties are already preparing for the electoral battle there are sure to be plenty of topics to debate but like every other presidential election it's likely that the criticism of israel will be out of the question donald corridor r.t. . previously the al-jazeera news channel filmed a documentary investigating the pro israel lobby from the inside however the series

was banned before its release amid claims of anti semitism it was recently leaked online so our experts discussed it in our own tom tank show the full version of which you can see on our website just for now though here's a preview. they are there interview and i can't remember who it is. an israeli lobby official who talks about how she has a direct line to college that college presidents always pick up the phone and none of these divestment movements on college campuses have worked in terms of getting universities to divest but where they have work which right which is what frightens israel is they have created an awareness of what israel is doing and quite dramatically changed the public perception of israel and that's exactly right and they recognize that this ultimately is not about whether this university divest from caterpillar motorola or all boeing it's really about public

opinion and opinion poll after opinion poll shows that you know pretty much every demographic. group or constituency in this country support for israel is plummeting except among older white christian america who know the words the pro israel base looks more and more like the base of the republican party or dollar will trump and so as the demographics and politics of this country change israel goes from being a consensus issue to becoming a conservative issue and that's why we see so much effort to try to bring. israel back to progressive communities. the u.s. ambassador to germany has called for nato to be strengthened because as he puts it russia is on the doorstep isn't he speak to all of the reports now he's come and

some recent threats of sanctions against europe haven't gone down well. washington's man in berlin i'm busted a richard goodell is being handing out advice left and right to chancellor angela merkel over which direction. she should stay in 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 his 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 to the grinnell 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. in 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. on

except 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 . 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 a moment the relationship is difficult right now because the world has become more tense due to transpire lisey's it's the partakes of provocation we've lost some of the respect we had put us due to its foreign policy. the people themselves to get along while the debilitation sometimes fail turf like this they're having problems

of american president i think washington's hardline approach to it. doesn't seem to be going down too well with the german people peter all of our berlin. hundreds have taken to the streets of barcelona in support for catalona is independence bid comes to spain supreme court opened the high profile trial of twelve cattle are leaders accused of rebellion and sedition the group was arrested in connection with katerina's failed independence referendum of twenty seventeen that resulted in hundreds of people injured and driven to impose direct rule over the semi autonomous region the former presidents of catalonia colors purged a man who sought exile in belgium is labelled the proceedings a political show trial earlier on tuesday session is scrawled on catalogues to briefly stop work at midday in protest found guilty those on trial could face up to twenty five years behind bars.

civilians cannot return to ranks second city of mosul because of the appalling amount of explosives left among seven million tons of debris that's according to a warning from the united nations mine action service more than one hundred thousand homes. remained destroyed or damaged with fears explosives are still inside after a massive three year u.s. led coalition bombing campaign to defeat eisel that ended in twenty seventy the problems made worse by what's known as three d. contamination that's when mines are hidden underground as well as among the debris the head of the u.n. mine action service warns it's all having a heavy physical and psychological effect. my inaction is about suffering it's about people waking up at night with nightmares it's about kids who have their future jeopardized by disability disability has been in mental health or physical disability it's about a country that can't get back on its feet cannot have all the tools they need to revive the economy is because they ran a contaminated. pellet hammer from the un mine action services that are still much

work to be done before most of can be inhabited once again. basically to find the contamination all over the year especially the west and. it's include it in private health critical infrastructure until now we've been focusing on critical infrastructure mainly and that complete that over fourteen hundred. not the flood problem in the longer we're clearing critical infrastructure and holsters buildings with several stories where each store needs to clear separately this in combination with the seven point six million tons of debris that is of the make that in the rack is not longer improvised explosive devices in combination with ammunition that has been fired but it's both a function of currently conducting a survey of the liberated areas between. the number last year which you had to close to seventeen dollars an explosive passage of different pipes and that's a good indication bar the war. donald

trump has once again provoked the wrath of the run after slamming the country's islamic revolution as a failure and in a tweet made in english and farsi the president took his criticism of tehran further. forty years of corruption forty years of repression forty years of terror the regime in iran has produced only forty years of feeling the long suffering iranian people deserve a much brighter future. around sparking forty years since its revolution which saw the overthrow of the us back to sharm pallavi ever since relations between the countries have been fraught last november the trump of ministration imposed the harsh sanctions to date on tehran when targeting the country's energy shipping and financial sectors with us the rain is what they made of the us president's latest quip. i do not agree with trump's words about the forty year corruption and suppression this is not about a corruption can be found everywhere he posted in farsi so that everyone could

understand and he wanted to show that he doesn't agree with those who are running our country but i personally do not like it i was trying to fear from outside you know that's. all really don't take those words very seriously his remarks are like t.v. adverts he says different things every day. if his intention was to really help the people interest you are friendly he is bay reading your mother tongue then he should read there are sanctions like those or medication which happened a strain on our people that would show good well. this is why race issues are never far from the headlines these days certainly that's true at yale university in the us after a student published a column in the campus newspaper in which she suggested 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 saccharine 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 recall a message where he likened a woman's body to a particularly large animal oh a kid myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence i cam with things led by i watching you white boy and this time 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 is the left in the democratic party and its members that are racist and second if you go to yale you leave more stupid than when you entered she just put into words what a lot of women are doing and have already done this is just trying times up out in multiple sentences and guys should be warned that whatever they type and post is being screenshot it she's probably doing them

a service. as you can see the article spot controversy on line with some accusing the author of hate speech i says davis marks the author of evil is banal is a senior at jonathan edwards college she studies philosophy and writes a regular column for yale daily news debates of a political correctness yale university are frequent. only here on r.t. we debated 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 the point where if someone did this the opposite way 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 worry 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 i'm in jobs even at restaurants. i'm currently college student right now and i see this is this whole i guess clay coming to everyone's minds thinking that white people are bad white people should be going for their ancestors problems you know that shouldn't be happening and i'm not sure whether this marks an occasion of desperation for leftism or opportunities a sense of blooming opportunity or maybe both but 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 call.