b. . washington hits the government with a raft of new sanctions while also pledging humanitarian support to the country. trying. to stream. project with russia. for a global security. coming up. with the. children

. living in war zones with hundreds losing their lives and all of. us. live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international wherever you may be tuning in from this hour a warm welcome to the program i mean until now our top story washington is continuing to ramp up the pressure on the government on friday and hit the crisis stricken country states owned oil company on five. top officials with afresh. wave

of sanctions the united states sold to justify the move by repeating its claim that the embattled president is undermining democracy and continuing to violate human rights at the same time the u.s. is attempting to send a merge in c. aid to venezuela which is currently suffering the worst humanitarian crisis in the western hemisphere but nicolas maduro is refusing to allow the food and medical supplies to be brought into his country from colombia he sees it's a cynical ploy by the trump administration an attempt to justify a possible military intervention the venezuelan president has also hit out at the colombian government which he's accused of flagrant aggression. for our part our policy for colombia is peace and respect i cannot say the same about the government of the colombian president even due kate who has war plans against venezuela supported by the us empire i am not exaggerating donald trump and

even to kate in the white house announced war plans using colombia against venezuela well the country's opposition leader one growing till is continuing to enjoy washington's full support he blames material for the humanitarian catastrophe in venice we are on recently said he hasn't ruled out calling on the u.s. military to intervene in his own country against the president however kill him up and explains washington's meddling in south america has sometimes led to disastrous consequences. elliot abrams the trump administration's new special representative for venezuela has been assigned the task of restoring democracy in the country and he says he's up to it just look how well he did in el salvador from the day the president was elected in a free election to this day o'sullivan who has been a democracy that's a fabulous achievement yes the pro-u.s. candidate toward to a won the elections but how democratic was the situation there were human rights

abuses and death squads everywhere in fact one of the worst massacres in the history of latin america happened around that time for. now if one has got confronted about the gruesome details before congress yes or no do you think that massacre. was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch that is a ridiculous question and i guess our no no i literally miss i will make you happy yes i am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not a question but now the civil war between the us backed factions and the marxist

revolutionaries continued until nine hundred ninety two and slaughter by us backed forces also continue the death toll was as high as seventy thousand people but ronald reagan did not consider that to be a deal breaker the people bill salvador had another free election in march economic reforms are continuing and communist guerrillas are losing ground and none of this would have been possible without the economic assistance and military training and equipment that we provided so what have been the results is el salvador now a land of prosperity and freedom hardly in fact in twenty seventeen el salvador had the highest murder rate of any country in the world it is not currently at war those three years only decreased slightly in twenty eighteen now somebody might look at this and say well that was decades ago why bring it up now well the fact that abrams wants to repeat his democracy restoration project in venezuela is

certainly alarming and when asked about this before the us congress he didn't deem it necessary to give an answer would you support an armed faction within venezuela that engages in war crimes crimes against humanity or genocide if you believe they were serving u.s. interest as you did in guatemala el salvador and nicaragua i'm not going to respond to that question i'm sorry. well back on friday r.t. america correspondent dumb cohen confronted abramson after a conference in washington asking him a few questions he didn't appear too keen on string that's the correct. what do you say to people who are skeptical about you because of your history of using humanitarian aid. in central america. you have any comments about. there a lot of people who are very skeptical. that you can see. i'm

doing my job to which you can so i wish you would you what do you have to say about that. you lied to congress. over thirty heads of state gathered in munich for the annual security conference the three day talks will focus on elements of international foreign policy including the future of the european union transatlantic cooperation on middle eastern conflicts now this saturday has already seen the nord stream two project come up that's the gas pipeline running from russia to europe which is scheduled for completion later this year and happy to say europe correspondent peter all over it is in munich to bring us right up to speed peter indeed what are the main happenings there so far this saturday. well german chancellor angela merkel gave her address to the conference earlier today she received

probably the most energetic reception that we've heard so far for her speech and she did talk about the north stream to pipeline which she put her full support behind this is a pipeline that will transport russian natural gas from russia under the baltic sea to germany germany directly and in fact if there were any questions over whether the north stream pipeline could be at risk in the future when mrs merkel isn't in charge of germany we've also heard from. the woman who's widely tipped as a potential successor for the german chancellor to the german chancellor saying that she is also in full support of it in mrs merkel's address to the security conference she not only by. at the pipeline she said she had no intention of damaging germany's relationship with russia over the project and she took aim at critics of nord stream including president donald trump. the nominee few people know i've come to the point of economic cooperation has been a lot of discussion surrounding why it's trying to and i understand petro

poroshenko who is sitting here and saying we're trying to territory for russian gas would like to remain that way and i showed him over and over again that we will give him all our. time sheets and so it remains that way secondly a molecule of russian gas remains a molecule of russian gas regardless of whether it comes through ukraine or by way of and also to see us move to that is the question of how dependent we are on russian gas if it cannot be resolved by deciding which pipeline it's coming no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia if we received russian gas during the cold war not only in the d.d.r. where i live but also in west germany and i don't see why the times and situation today should be so much why us and we can no longer say that russia remains a partner. for the c.e.o. of german energy julian winter sure has also spoken out in favor of north stream too he said that if europe was to turn away from russian gas well russia could then in turn look to export to china and that's what was or wasn't to the benefit of

anybody. we shouldn't forget russia has alternatives if we are opinions do not bind russia to us the world's largest gas producer will turn to china that would not be good for russia and not good for europe on the china would benefit. while there was rapturous applause for german chancellor angela merkel it was a much tougher room for united states vice president mike pence he received a really quite tepid reception in the united states basically hates the north stream to pipeline project they hate the nord stream project in total the reason one of the reasons for this. may well be the fact that the united states wants to export its own liquid natural gas to europe that it is much more expensive than well piping gas directly from russia into into europe directly pen stows said he pulled back those european nations that aren't too keen on north stream. and the

united states commands all our european partners who have taken a strong stand against north stream to. and we commend others to do the same. well the north stream pipeline will start gas flowing it will start flowing with gus i beg your pardon this later this year it's expected when it's open fully functioning to transport fifty five billion cubic meters of russian gas every year underneath the baltic sea from russia straight into germany. live from munich this our europe correspondent peter oliver think you. know the number of children living in conflict zones has doubled since the end of the cold war that's according to a new report by save the children the charity sees one in five youngsters no live in areas affected by armed conflict.

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that was our. concern for the past lassiter for. us. all not very heavy army you feel you need. for. the higher to the heart. of the figures really are eye opening four hundred twenty million children or so live in conflict zones at least one thousand of them die as a result every year since twenty ten the number of recorded cases of rights violations against children has almost tripled through its cases of killing maiming abduction and sexual violence the increase comes despite many of the world's most powerful politicians campaigning for the protection of young people in war zones

forces continue their advance bearing down on the city of benghazi. home to nearly seven hundred thousand men women and children prevent images of amaze seeded children how many more children have to die the whole rhythmic humanitarian disaster that is killing tens and tens of thousands of defenseless children the deaths of children the destruction of hospitals all of that is a massacre which needs to be condemned. our reports say shows that right now almost one in five children on the planet are living in conflicts and that's more than at any time in the last two decades not heat up the consequences of living in these war zones catastrophic we have to make around three hundred babies are dying due to the consequences of war every single day well in twenty seventeen four hundred twenty million children what i think we're living in areas affected by conflict is

an increase of two million on the previous year so what this is is really disturbing trend where more and more children are being caught up in conflicts in the international systems and sure of accountability breaking down so that when people commit crimes against children they know they can get away with it so what we're calling on this for the government to stand up for children and war zones and ensure that when people perpetrate crimes against children held to account what we're really calling for today is for the u.k. government protection of civilians in conflict started first of all the u.k. government needs to ensure the curator of the heart of all of the defense diplomacy and aid and that they need to use i see some of the most powerful tables in the well of the u.n. nato to ensure that other countries policy. the report identifies afghanistan iraq syria and yemen as being amongst the most dangerous countries for children nobel prize nominee and peace activists kathy kelly told us the

international community simply needs to do more to safeguard young people living in war zones. this children certainly can't be held accountable for their governments whether it's military war economic war and i think that because of greed and pride and dishonesty countries all around the ground continue to wage war against the child they're going to the child should certainly be held countries could work together. much more effectively and so we have to take responsibility ourselves and then encourage other people to do the right way they must do everything think. this work and to start killing starving children. all right let's turn attention to france which is brace for a fourteenth consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests against the money will micron's government hundreds gathered in parlous these are live pictures right now

from the french couple a sizable amount of people believed to be blocking traffic near the seans elise our correspondent charlotte dubin skiis reporting from the thick of the capital charlotte how are things where you are. but i'd say that there are now thousands of people who have come out onto the streets act fourteen this is now almost three calendar months exactly since these protests began on november seventeenth it started as a spontaneous social movement against what was due to be a hike in the tax on fuel here in france it's turned out to be so much more now over the weeks we've been following this protest movement it has often descended into extreme violence that some people describing it as being the worst violence that france is seeing in fifty years since those nine hundred sixty eight why it's

the government is trying to do a lot of things to stem the anger here but everything is try to. doesn't seem to have no oldish a tool is currently a national debate a consultation going on across france for people to air their b.s. but many people in the chalet she owns just say they think it's a talking exercise away from the government to try and put it across its agenda and actually not do anything there's also. this could be the very last of the saturday protest smoking three months over come the months of this protest but that's not the case according to people i've been speaking to on the streets today just saying no three months only still going strong i you my hair korea love bruce i want to give you something see again how big this crowd is so let's get the camera up and have a look around you can just see how many people have yet again turned out in paris for this weekend of demonstrations there are we to know that the figures have been

diminishing we called the week this protest started with almost three hundred thousand people coming out of course once last weekend official figures suggest it was just over fifty thousand people who came out. you know a reduction in the numbers of the people who still are out to the streets are the people who perhaps all the angriest the people who are most unhappy with the current government and the one thing we here for know that we've heard it again today is that people won't president to resign will he it's very unlikely but for the moment act food scene is going very smoothly there's a strong security presence saif you can hear some of those sound grenades going off but that's just the protesters reveling essentially in the street for the moment act food scene is under way we understand although a protest again on sunday and from the generations of speaking this is not over.

yet three months in still going charlotta been sick a life in the parlous for us. russia and syria are trying to give safe passage to refugees stranded without a date and supplies in the jordanian border we could live reaction to the ballot after this break. the be. the be. the bomb. the be. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure more somehow want to preserve. the to the right to be prosperous like the forecaster in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters of our. first six. twenty one minutes into the program welcome back russia has reached an agreement with damascus to open humanitarian corridors on the southern syria jordan border

it will allow people. on refugee camp to leave the area russia's military warning that militants could still be active on the territory of the camp for more on this let's go live now to local journalist sarkis sergeant who is in this syrian capital sarkis what more do we know about the deal the corridor was being set up. good afternoon for from damascus. of course according to the deal that even media talk to baldur is. yesterday there was a convoy that delivered to the camp to the camp and the main the main deal now is to make to establish a military and corridor beginning from tuesday from tuesday morning just to

let pupil refugees thousands of refugees there in the bank. that the have the willing to go out to use discouraged or to move to the areas which safety areas say very as which they are under control of the syrian government of course people according to the statement of the agreement could get the needed. help control and all the other aid that they need. as soon as they arrive to the first point the beginning of this corridor which i think it will be. oh let's say a great step because now everybody knows. more stuff. talked about. severe of material.

ok bring this right up the date from damascus the capital of syria local journalist sarkis. protests have been taking place across india in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed over forty poller military police in the rest of province of kashmir on thursday now it happened after a pakistan based target was the indian government clayton's received support from the authorities in islamabad took responsibility for the attack. demonstrators have been filmed shortie the pakistan slogans and burning effigies of the country's prime minister the bombing has dramatically escalated tensions between india and pakistan which have been fighting for control of kashmir since india's partition in one nine hundred forty s. .

but i want to tell the terrorist organizations and those who patronize them that they have made a huge mistake they will have to pay a huge price for pakistan's government has from me denied india's claims not it was involved in the attack on us offer to help investigate the atrocity we spoke to both countries but what the bombing means for those bilateral relations. and pakistan is being extremely extremely provocative and this standard may have just gone one step too much so yes i mean people in india are extremely upset. i'm not somebody who was saying you know. the fact i think the anger in the country is extremely high so it's a constant fight and it's just a question of escalation you see an escalation then you see it in addition it goes

back and forth i don't think that anybody in india at a moment is in any any bend of mind to have a dialogue because you just blown up forty forty two people in the middle of you know of a town so don't come to the municipality community countries and dog about peace is to is to really make fools of everybody else in the world although you might recall that in similar incidents in the india has been quick to blame pakistan for the of the mess which we have in the recent over the in the far. region what again they have a mixture of a lot of harsh words between countries to start with on it appears that there may be a similar situation and then we will find a solution and focus on what we are certainly properties with india number one comes up with hard evidence of bold involvement of anybody is a new swiss citizen or it will go in the start of

a good which i think is unlikely and called gesture mom of the group which has been disposability the rare distance i vote on who has conducted this of. these a best in indian controlled kashmir so pakistan has apparently not a link because of the suicide attack and the second possibility i think which is that in the broader picture last fall back i got situation x. minutes and doesn't the bush years in between india and pakistan. busy all day today for right up to the minute developments over the weekend our twitter page as old as we'll keep you informed and entertained stay close to four more great programs straight ahead this twenty four seven martini trust.

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