address just how much it costs how much we have to go into the red become green. that. i get that i. want to. be 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 has been no reaction from washington unlike with similar breasts in venezuela just across the caribbean sea. demands action from the u.n. security council after accusing the u.s. led coalition of killing sixteen civilians in a bombing at the border with iraq. bassett her and lynn says germany should use as leverage to keep the kremlin in line. most germans are skeptical about relations with washington. the world has become more policy it's the politics of provocation we've lost some of the respect. due to its form.

coming to you live from moscow this is our national welcome to the program. there have been major protests across one as well own tuesday after the opposition called its supporters onto the streets meanwhile supporters of president nicolas maduro organized a countering demonstration caracas based journalist in a resort got to reports from the capital 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 dare say a million people gathering here to listen to what one had to say 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 their 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 their humanitarian aid is just an excuse to intervene into the country's affairs also the government supporters and hide a march 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 testaments and most important political estimates from the country were the last several days both the u.s. and russia proposed a draft u.n. security council resolutions down but even as well in crisis after words moscow and washington discussed the situation and a phone call or he's correspondent callup mop and has more. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov recently had a phone call with mike pompei oh the u.s. secretary of state now in the phone call from what we understand russia's top diplomat warned washington against any attempts to intervene in venezuela's

internal affairs including military intervention which would violate international law now folks will recall that last week at the united nations there was actually a resolution put forward by the united states and certainly last spoke up saying that that resolution was essentially a pretext for u.s. military interventionism because the u.s. draft resolution on venezuela is aimed at conceding a planned provocation as humanitarian aid would destabilize the country it might even provide a pretext for military intervention the u.n. security council will never accept this kind of resolution now after that we saw russia put forward its own resolution calling to express concern over the threats of use of force and violations of the territorial integrity of venezuela so it seems pretty clear that russia and the united states do not see eye to eye when it comes to the situation facing the bowler varian republic in south america we asked

professor of latin american studies. whether u.s. policymakers are likely to take moscow's position and to account. 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 a sensually taking over the function of the state department we are essentially an embarked on a course of regime change the u.s. has embarked on his 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. minister will listen to love or office comments and will continue to see an

escalation of conflict in the context of venezuela versus the us. but as well has been making headlines for weeks ever since opposition leader why don't declared himself and trying presidents in while just across the caribbean sea thousands have protested it's in the haitian capital against economic hardship and embezzlement anti-government demonstrators are demanding that the president of the island nation step down it has been violence and looting and clashes with police over the last five days which have also seen forecasts. love of god not only don't know. that. the protests in haiti though have received a very different kind of reaction from washington than the one sent even as well

and you have to train her explains. protests are turning deadly. crowd wants to president to get the hell out of his office. at eight o'clock they load his government for corruption for all kinds of cheating at the election. i do. but enough that i'm one of the nation's not just poor starving. rich people in the country. going through. everything and the mess to put in place that you. can use to be like a bit of polling trivia 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 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 there president trump and i own troops and old and entrepreneur ones is results and therefore i hope to put everything in place to make sure we deliver from peoples but could such words of warmth ever end up

turning into something like this how. asks. donna true. venice and the trump government is not going to side with the haitian people because they believe that haitian government or it's a 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 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 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. there is the mounting action from the u.n. security council after accusing the u.s. led coalition of killing thick stained civilians and injuring scores more and

bombing attack on the border with a rock these are the pics. of the aftermath of the incident filmed by our video agency ruptly you can see smoke on the horizon apparently the results of the air strike the massacre demanded an investigation. bridge twenty nineteen the u.s. led coalition committed a new crime against innocent syrian civilians is we're playing targeted a civilian camp in the village of who's in the countryside of the governorates of. 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. and the attack was launched on the last ice alok your plight enclave an eastern syria and there is or province u.s.

led coalition is supporting attempts by the rebels there and democratic forces to seize the area there were reports that despite the fact hundred of civilians have fled the territory many are still trapped inside. the quite a few the coalition killed a lot of families they killed a lot of fatherless a lot of children. but progress is slow and methodical as the enemy is fully entrenched and are 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 former u.k. ambassador to say ran bahrain peter ford thinks in this case the perpetrators will never be held to account. western governments like to cheat in leading arab countries. cannot step. down with the

example incident trust is like this every time we get rid of the court which in all we've seen in open source report we don't know anything about the course they know everything about it you don't want it in the court with the media very indulge your and they never follow up the perpetrators on never held to account but there were enormous now that have troops in mosul and rocca but these never get mentioned in the with the media i put the damn thing with a double standard. and u.s. congresswoman as an hot water over a tweet targeting israeli ambulance and us politics that sent other stories right after the break.

country's gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think. the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the show is the genius of the place the special american hero this is it we've come to a point from which element is gone so we always are on the bridge of something. called culture is really important. we're starting west with is going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the b. i think i want to leave now doesn't do any more ground zero than this may be completely different and it is just. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

i'll come back a u.s. congresswoman has found her cell phone broiled and controversy after she took to twitter to complain about the influence of the prahus rally lobby and the u.s. down carter takes up the 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 and a lot of lottery is 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 it 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 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 assume it's a 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 it eats 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 . yes 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 quarter

r.t. that danielle israeli american middle east analyst thinks a lot just israeli elephants as not there were issues. of libertarians and republicans and democrats and people who are really skeptical of american you know status will or polls a foreign aid and do have these debates without having to give in to saying oh well it's the jewish money it's this jewish organization we have that we have to have this problem until someone speaks in these terms you know we can have the truth of the we can disagree with israel we can disagree with it but the fact you know you can go and say oh the goldman sachs lobby or the jewish money this kind of thing you know that's like going back to the nineteen thirties the u.s. ambassador to germany has called for nato to be strengthened because it said russia is on the doorstep but as peter all of our reports has comments and recenter threats of sanctions against you or have not gone down well. washington's man in

berlin and bust 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 and boss of 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 of diplomatic advice. to. 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. 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 a moment the relationship is difficult right now because the world has become more tense due to trump's 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 but. the people themselves get along well but the politicians sometimes fail turf like 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. donald trump has once again provoked their wrath of her run after slamming the country to lucian as a failure and that tweet in english and saying the president around up his criticism of tehran even 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. in response to trump iran's foreign minister zarif far back saying that the hash tag forty years of failure could only refer to failed american foreign policy towards iran he also suggested that president trump should rethink u.s. conduct in the international arena iran is marking forty years since its revolution which saw the overthrow of the u.s.

back. ever since relations between the two countries have been poor less than the trumpet ministration impose the harshest saying sions to date sound to iran targeting the country's shipping and financial sectors we asked what they think of the us president elitist quip. i do not agree with trump's words about the forty year corruption and suppression this is not about the room corruption can be found everywhere he pushed it 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 trying to interfere from outside the other some of. those was very seriously his remarks like t.v. this is different things. was his intention was to really help the people in she show how friendly he is by writing in their mother tongue then he should withdraw

sanctions those are medication which happened a strain on our people that would show goodwill. hundreds have taking to the streets of barcelona in support for cattle on an independence bit it comes as spain's supreme court opened their high profile trial of twelve catalan leaders accused for bally and sedition the group was arrested in connection with catalonians failed independence referendum back in twenty seventeen which resulted in hundreds of people injured madrid to impose direct rule over the semi autonomy as region the former president of cattle. exile in belgium has labelled the proceedings political show trial early on tuesday secessionist called on catalans to briefly stop more adamant day and protest if found guilty those on trial could face up to twenty five years in prison.

but dating apps tender and grinned are under fire for apparently doing little to protect children from paedophiles using their platforms it follows an investigation by the british newspaper the sunday times and uncovered a warring number of assaults on minors biceps. predators they had been matched with online since twenty fifteen more than thirty cases of child rape have been reported to british police sixty other instances self or sexual assault on minor us are also under investigation they include grooming kidnapping and violent sexual assault victims were able to get them much making apps age checks which are currently set at eighteen and over tenders as it's made significant efforts towards and forcing age restrictions we utilize the network of industry leading also majored in manual

moderation and review tools systems and processes and spend millions of dollars annually to prevent and remove minors and other inappropriate behavior from our app we don't want minors to. know we discussed this issue with social media lawyer your coin and stephen moore is the english democrats northwest. in fact it is the states that we have got to blame here think the state have left the internet exposed the state has left it for social media companies to go and regulate themselves and police themselves clearly don't has and or parents have for responsibility to make sure that their child complying with the education issues all that they're properly monitored count levy used to because people around them it's the nature children curious they will play about they will know you know of the learn a lot quicker than we do you know in days and they will be able to get on so you

got to be put the emphasis on the parents and make sure the parents monitor them. i see the parents and the children his victims here have been abundant for such a long time been being left to fend for themselves think it is about time that the government intervene and create some laws and regulations that fall social media companies who are much responsibly know completely wrong because what you're doing you completely isolated in the child from the reality that's what you got to do educate them learn them and they will get past age restriction procedures they do they do get past them it's not just social media the internet obviously has a jewish issue and you have certain things in place we don't see five seasons to stop trying to put on a nice little hole and say the world's perfect out there and protect informing no

macomb cellmate the pros and cons of using these programs a make sure they are educated and we have the online society which is unregulated and people are live very very computers they think that the rules of the use really apply to offline. if you don't apply to or like the shots of responsibility therefore all the lying and the internet companies should do the same sort of responsibility to both young people the state cannot complete control over the individual individual has struck them all night after has been freedoms and have to look after their own responsibility they are responsible for their own actions and you can say well complete what you're talking about is a complete police state where you can't do anything without the control of the state and that. individual. has responsibility you're

watching our international well we'll be back with more news right at the top of the hour. when folks are talking about socialism like cortez out of new york that congresswoman saying oh see they all 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 now that's an incredibly lucky sided concentration of the greatest growth engine in the world by a very small community. seemed

wrong when the old rules just don't hold. any new world yet to stamp out these days comes to an answer. and indeed equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance to the impact point all of us i am bored children in washington and we are so good you've chosen to spend some time was a thanks for being with us it's going to be a great show coming up today that you you see.