first should the ban. i i i. wouldn't. be you. know. i. think you protest take place in venezuela with both pro-government and opposition rallies held across the country. thousands protest in the haitian capital against economic hardship pulling on the

president to step down there's been no reaction from washington unlike with similar unrest in venezuela just across the caribbean sea. and 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. good evening thanks for joining us this is. major protests are underway across fun as well or after the opposition called its supporters to the streets a loser president nicolas maduro also rallying in a show of support for his space journalist got reports from the venezuelan camp. where from caracas from check out specifically one of the most of the magic points of concentration for the opposition supporters still rare around thousands even i

guess i would dare say a million people gathering here to listen to what why. and wedo had to say this is also and we need to point out that this is also a very important day for the bennetts well and as we're celebrating as well they use day so today one way to set up very very strong words calling upon the armed forces to join the venezuelans to stand by the constitution and to please allowed a humanitarian aid to come into the country of course we've heard very strong words as well from nicolas maduro denying that there is a crisis in the country and saying that the humanitarian aid is just an excuse to intervene into the country's affairs also the government supporters and because maduro hired a march today on the other side of the so on and they were celebrating as well the jews they and they were also supporting the armed forces of one of the independent estimates in most important political estimates from the country. from

foreign minister sergei lavrov a phone conversation with u.s. secretary of state on tuesday russia's top diplomat warned washington against any attempt to interfere in venezuela's internal affairs especially using military force to speak not to think assad is professor of history a lot of americans that he's very good evening t.v. go. well the chances that washington will pay heed to what mr lavrov has said. unfortunately i think that washington will continue on its current course of action this is become an ideological issue for them when you have amassed marco rubio you have my home pay all you have mr john bolton and now elliott abrams directing foreign policy in washington sensually taking over the function of the state department we are essentially an embarked on a course of regime change the us has embarked on this course previously since which

of us was elected in one nine hundred ninety eight the us assad regime change across three different governments bush obama and now trump and unfortunately i don't think that the pump aoe. minister will listen to a lover of his comments and will continue to see an escalation of conflict in the context of venezuela versus the us now the us is planning to submit a un security council draft resolution about holding new presidential elections in venezuela something that's described as a pretext the military intervention is just what lavrov said because the u.s. draft resolution on venezuela is aimed at concealing a planned provocation as humanitarian aid and would destabilize the country it might even provide a pretext for military intervention the un security council will never accept this kind of resolution what do you think of. pretext for military intervention. well

we've seen how humanitarian aid has been militarized we've seen how humanitarian crisis has been used as a pretext for further intervention in the past and it's a very selective use because we see haiti having a crisis of legitimacy where tremendous human rights violations and we see no concern we see no concern over all good us which is the spelling literally tens of thousands of immigrants who cannot live in their own country and we see no concern about on doing us so again we're left to wonder why the pretext of a humanitarian crisis in the context of venezuela not that there's not real problems in venezuela there are real economic problems in venezuela but one must be cautious of how humanitarian aid is utilize or better said manipulated and i don't think that this security council as we've seen in previous discussions in the security council when all of latin america was included that there would be any support for a foreign intervention much less for imposing further sanctions on venezuela russia

is also pushing resonation to support the current president nicolas maduro i do think that will make any headway at the un i don't think so it will make any headway i think that the key issue here is that is there any support from other little but rather sovereignty for venezuela self-determination for venezuela so that venezuelans themselves can decide the outcome of their own internal affairs without foreign meddling from any part but rather has been a swell of themselves deciding their own course of action and their own future. at a previous u.n. security council session there were there wasn't a consensus on venezuela in fact the u.n. security council rarely finds consensus on anything and a thing to think anything's changed. i don't think anything has changed we saw it that that session you're referring to when in fact other countries of latin america were invited to participate when you had got the call them when you had the countries of central america and including some in south america we saw a very different take everyone was opposed to foreign intervention in venezuela

they oppose further sanctions against venezuela so i don't think you are going to see any resolution regarding these matters coming out of the u.n. security council and again appreciate it tom i guess maybe i'll take a solace professor of history and latin american studies thank you. thank you well it has been making headlines for weeks now ever since opposition leader declared himself to be interim president meanwhile just across the caribbean sea thousands as we heard a moment ago have protested in the haitian capital because economic hardship and embezzlement demonstrate as a demanding the president of the island nation step down has been violence looting and clashes with police over the last five days resulting in four deaths. was. the process in haiti received

a very different kind of reaction from washington than the ones in venezuela is in for explains the protests are 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's starving. 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 tenth ballot sheet was never counted four days. for 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 troops 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. on a true. venice and the drum government is not going to side with any should be able because they need 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 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 movie uses a departure and yet not a word from mike pence not a word from pompei of the secretary of state not a word from donald trump so this double standard this hypocrisy is typical we can see us foreign policy eighteen and men as well up neighbors on the map but it looks like they're nowhere near each other in the minds of those gurus of real democracy . serious demanding action from the u.n. security council after accusing the u.s. led coalition of killing sixteen civilians and injuring scores more in

a bombing attack on the border with iraq these are the pictures of the aftermath of the incident filmed by. roughly see smoke there on the horizon apparently that is the result of the airstrike in question damascus is demanding investigations. one living fabric twenty nineteen the u.s. led coalition committed a new crime against innocent syrian civilians is will playing targeted a civilian camp in the village of who's in the countryside of the governorates of as zot 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 on the last i saw occupied enclave in eastern syria in dairies or province the u.s. led coalition is supporting

a terms by the rebel syrian democratic forces to seize the area and reports that despite the fact hundreds of civilians have fled the territory many are still trapped inside. the quote is you can lucian killed a lot of fun unless they killed a lot of fatherless a lot of children. but progress is slow and methodical as the enemy is fully entrenched and i saw fighters continue to conduct counter attacks we're aware of opensource reports of alleged civilian casualties we take all allegations of civilian casualties seriously or you can bust into syria and bahrain paid for things in this case the perpetrators will never be held to account. going to government life in chief in leader arab countries. can. be count good for example if it were an atrocity like this every time we get rid of the court which we've seen open

records we don't know anything about they know everything about it you don't want to admit that in the course with the media very indulgent they never follow up the perpetrators are never held to account but there were enormous now that have troops in mosul and rocca need never get mentioned in the west media i put them back with a double standard. united states ambassador to germany has called for nato to be strengthened because as he puts it russia is on the doorstep the desire to speak to all of the reports is common some recent threats of sanctions against europe haven't gone down well. washington's man in berlin and boss of the richard grinnell is being hung 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 grenelle 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 on diplomatic advice. and german companies doing business in iraq should wind down operations immediately never tell a host country what to do. we're not a banana republic. i'm accept one side tightening. 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 trans policies it's the politics of provocation we've lost some of the respect we had for the u.s. due to its foreign policy it's you know it does evolve the people themselves get along well but the politicians 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 peter all of our. u.s. congresswoman has found herself embroiled in controversy after she took to twitter

to complain about the influence of the pro israel lobby in the u.s. one quarter has a story. 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. 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 semitic insult from republicans to fellow democrats all maher 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 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 and 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 but the lobby series was bound before it was even released amid claims of anti semitism it was recently leaked online though so our experts have discussed it on the own contact show you can see the full version of that on a website just for now there is 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 they recognize that this ultimately is not about whether this university divest from caterpillar motorola or all boeing it's really about public opinion opinion poll after opinion poll shows that you know in 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. donald trump has once again provoked the wrath of the run up to slamming the country's islamic revolution as a failure and in a tweet that he made in english and farsi the president ramped up 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 failure the long suffering iranian people deserve

a much brighter future rounds marking forty years since this revolution which saw the overthrow of the u.s. backed sharma pahlavi ever since relations between the two countries have been a say fraught last november the trumpet ministration imposed the harshest sanctions to date on tehran they targeted the country's energy shipping and financial sectors so we asked the reins what they made of the u.s. president's latest quip. i do not agree with trump's words about the forty year corruption and suppression this is not about the rome corruption can be found everywhere he posted in farsi so that everyone can 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 was trying to interfere 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 are friendly he is bay reading our 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. since our race issues are never far from the headlines these days certainly that's the case in university in the us after a student published a column in the campus newspaper suggesting keeping a record of racist sexist behavior by white males the 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 i'll recall a message where he likened a woman's body to particularly large animal i'll kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence i can plant things led by i'm watching you white boy and this time i am taking this screen shot what kind of a hate has yale become this is not progressive it's juvenile and malicious

pernicious yale paper prints racist guide on how to destroy a white boy lives like cavanagh this article proves two things first it is the left and 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 well as you can see the article spot controversy online with some accusing the author of hate speech. davis marks is the author of evil is banal and she's a senior at jonathan edwards college she studies philosophy and writes a regular column for yale daily news debates over political correctness at university their frequent. here in art say we debated this

call for surveillance of young white males. i think that the hate of white people right now is being so normalized on on educational campuses and where 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 it's intimidating 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 on the bonnet and the mainstream media has has this this label on white man 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 as this this is the whole i

guess clay coming to everyone's minds thinking that white people are bad white people she blames 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 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 or less doesn't 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're innocent and of course most of us are ok you are watching out to international very pleased that you are is the ground up event with more and often are.

seems wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any old belief 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. when you're talking about socialism cortez out of new york that congresswoman saying oh say oh say that you know socialism is back 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 access to give people access to capital because fifty percent of the stocks in america are owned by one percent of the population up that's an incredibly lopsided concentration of the greatest growth engine in the world by a very small community. our . church was attacked. when not in the loop in the show though anymore and saw it in the medicaid you're labeled listing but. but the

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