the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. those who took part in this to do over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. headline stories the nord stream two gas pipeline takes center stage this munich security conference with germany standing firm over its economic support of the project this spike facing increased pressure from washington. giveth and taketh washington hits the venezuelan government with

a raft of new sanctions pledging humanitarian support to this country. it's the fourteenth weekend of yellow this protest in france says hundreds of demonstrators. against president love. in the capital right on today. also coming up in the program moscow on damascus agreed to open humanitarian corridors for refugees and and u.s. control. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome. it's day two of the munich security conference with proceedings there are dominated by talks on

relations between russia and europe the russian foreign minister has stressed in no uncertain terms that there does not have to be most of the. so i see it will be contrary to abundant speculation russia is interested in a strong independent and open european union president putin spoke about that not so long ago in november last year when he stressed that the aspiration for independence self-sufficiency and sovereignty in the field of defense and security is something perfectly natural and that we see it as a positive thing from the viewpoint of the strengthening of the multiple of the world within the e.u. will be allowed to do this is a whole other matter. for europe correspondent peter all over is in munich to bring us up to speed the issue of europe's independence but political economic that's a partly something that's been discussed extensively today take us through those highlights. what war nation in particular is they express

their independence when it comes to energy the projects that they're working on germany. the german chancellor speaking here at the munich security conference she give her full backing to the north stream to gas pipeline which will russian natural gas from russia underneath the baltic sea and straight into germany if there are any questions about the future of the north stream to in the or the total north stream project well. mrs merkel is fully behind it also the woman who is widely touted as a potential successor for chancellor merkel in germany is top job and. she's already said that she's fully behind the north stream to project as well during her speech here at the munich security conference angola merkel said that she wasn't prepared to damage germany's relationship with russia over this north stream to gas pipeline. then i meant few people now i've come to a point economic cooperation don't ever get has been a lot of discussion surrounding why it's turned into and i understand petro

poroshenko who is sitting here and saying territory for russian gas would like to remain that way and i showed him over and over again that he will give him all our support negotiate 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 but by way of and also see us most of that is the question of how dependent we are on russian gas it cannot be resolved by deciding which pipeline it's coming and if no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia if we received russian gas during the cold war it's not only immediately our where i live but also in west germany that i don't see why the times and situation today should be so much why we can no longer say that russia remains a partner i think. well the c.e.o. of german energy giant winter shell is also throwing his support behind the north stream to pipeline he said that if germany or europe were to turn away from russian gas than russia may look to china as

a potential export market and in his opinion that wasn't beneficial to anybody concerned one person though who's been speaking today in munich who isn't a fan of the nord stream project is the us vice president mike pence basically the u.s. hates north stream to one of the reasons for this is that they want to export american liquefied natural gas to europe that however is much more expensive than piping it under the sea directly from russia mike pence said he supported those nations in europe that are against 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. however the vice president feels about it north stream too is set to stop pumping gas from russia to do. later this year when it's fully open and operational it's set to transport fifty five billion cubic meters of national cubic meters of

natural gas to germany every single year. so some interesting developments there thanks for bringing us right up to date on that our europe correspondent in munich . from. washington is continuing to ramp up the pressure on the venezuelan government on friday it hit the crisis stricken country state owned oil company and also at five of nicholas materials top officials with a fresh wave of sanctions the united states sought to justify the move by repeating its claim that the embattled president is under mining democracy and continuing to violate human rights but at the same time the u.s. is starting to send emergency aid to venice whether to block the opposition essentials like food medicine and already being delivered to the colombian border but nicholas material is refusing to allow the supplies to cross into his country he sees it's a cynical ploy by the trump administration an attempt really to justify

a possible military intervention the venezuelan president also headed to the colombian government which he accuses of the cryptogram. but. 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 im pire i am not exaggerating donald trump and even do kate in the white house announced war plans using colombia against venezuela. another aspect on this story president maduro is also opening a diplomatic channel by inviting the united states special envoy for venezuela for talks but a scale of modern explains elliott abrams record in sight america isn't very promising. 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 salvador has been a democracy that's a fabulous achievement yes the pro-u.s. candidate duarte 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 are no 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 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 figures 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 also on friday r.t. america correspondent done cohen confronted abrams and after a conference in washington asking him a few questions he didn't seem overly keen on mentoring you're seeing video from

don's twitter. what do you say words of people who are skeptical about you because of your history of using humanitarian aid to send weapons to the contras in central america. you have any comments about but there are a lot of people who are very skeptical. because of longford i'm i'm i'm doing my job you are to which you can walk and so i would say it would you what do you have to say about that. you lied to congress or convicted of crimes . yes i'm worrying if not startling numbers next the number of children living in conflict zones has doubled since the end of the cold war not translating the thought means a new report by the chardy save the children that one in five youngsters around the globe live in areas affected by armed conflict.

and their credit card the fact. that i won i won my lot of. don't want to get. rowdy in america. my dad nicad is add the nuts and the how do you. think that's what the reason that i'm only am i to get. one you don't have done badly. but i keep them on a chatty. yanni. and in the midst of. a lot of them i did use the. onion i took it as a play and a nuclear bomb. that

was our. boss. does. not give the enemy. some four hundred twenty million children live in conflict zones at least a thousand die as a result every year since twenty ten the number of recorded cases of rights violations against children has almost tripled that includes cases of killing maiming abduction and sexual violence be increased comes this spike many of the world's most powerful figures 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 riddick humanitarian disaster that is killing tens and tens of thousands of defenseless children to date the death of children the destruction of hospitals all that is a massacre which needs to be can and. our report today shows that right now almost one in five children on the planet are living in conflict 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 while in twenty seventeen four hundred twenty million children of what i think we're living in areas affected by conflict that is an increase of two million on the previous year so what this is is part of

a really. global trend where more and more children are being caught up in conflict the international system to ensure 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 do you perpetrate crimes against children held to account what we're really calling for today is for the u.k. government protection of civilians and conflict started for us for the u.k. government needs to ensure that children of the heart of all of the fronts diplomacy and ate and that they need to use their seat at some of the most powerful tables in the u.s. nato to ensure that other countries follow i see. the most dangerous countries for children the report identifies of iraq syria and yemen as being the as well the bell piece nominee peace activist cathy kelly told us the international community needs to do so much more to safeguard young people and stop the wars.

they're going to spend whether it's military or economic we're trying to convey that i think that because. countries are going. to war against the chinese the brain sort of the child soon after that many. countries could. not they didn't. know such a hurry effectively and so we have to understand this and really don't say you know and then encourage other people to do the right. to do everything. this. children i think you don't want to tempers are flaring between india and pakistan after dozens of indian police are killed in the streets of kashmir we'll have a lot of that for you.

put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. to going to be close this is what i'm up for. can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of. the the wife. crisis part it's under way. it's a wife trillions of dollars gone in a heartbeat looking like korea right here on planet. crazy.

ok to a potentially very significant story now russia has reached an agreement with them to open to humanitarian corridors on the southern syria jordan border it will allow people trapped up the sprawling. refugee camp to leave the area russia's military has warned however that militants could still be active on the territory of the year i got more on the story from a syria based journalist. yesterday there was a convoy that delivered to the rebound camp the main deal now is to make to establish

a corridor beginning from tuesday for to let pupil refugees to use discouraged or to move to the areas which they are under control of the syrian government of course those people according to the statement of the agreement could get the needed aid. help control and all the other room entirely and aides that they need. soon as they arrive to the first point the beginning of this corridor of the problem is that we are talking about a camp that is fully under control of. missions which of which are backed by us and although all the insisting of us to to stay in the towns to keep. armed groups in this camp and giving all needed military aid to those fighters they

can't leave or they can't arrive any aid to the. camp which suffers of severe humanitarian crisis. now it's not this crisis not regard of the only short of food or drinking water many reports they are talking about sexual exploitation they are talking about human traffic. or let's bear in mind that this is not the first called the that. of russia and the syrian government starvation in syria there were succeeded and they gave good results. should be part of. but the main problem of course now will ease your stroll. disc case because

these camp is fully controlled of munitions that that they are backed by the us. to a developing story no protests have been taking place across india in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed over forty part of military police in the rest of the province of kashmir on thursday no doubt softer pakistan based terror group which the indian government claims received support from the authorities in a slum a bad temper sponsibility for the attack. i. demonstrators being filmed shouting pakistan slogans and burning effigies of the country's prime minister the bombing has dramatically escalate the tensions between india and pakistan both have been fighting for control of kashmir since india's partition in one thousand and forty seven.

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 firmly denied india's claims that it was involved in the attack on has offered to help investigate the atrocity now we got some reaction to this i listen both countries in fact speaking to them about the bombings and the impact on bilateral relations. at pakistan is being extremely extremely provocative and this standard may have just gone one step too much so yes i mean people in indiana extremely a chance 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 isn't an issue because 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 to be equal in the middle of you know of a town so don't come to the municipality come on munich conference and talk about peace is to is to really make fools of everybody else in the world although you might recall that in similar incidents the media has been quick to blame pakistan for the of the mess which have you have been dismissive of the from the far. region what again they have a mixture of a lot of harsh words between groups countries to start with on it appears that there may be a similar situation and then we will find a solution as well to solve what we are certainly talking it with number one who has got comes up with the hard evidence of all involvement of any by person who swears he does of course not in the started out good which i think is unlikely and

called gesture mom of the group which has been in this possibility of the very the suicide bomber who has conducted this like a he is that he's a blast 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 and go situation xmas and doesn't the bush years in between india and pakistan. all right live now to paris where hundreds of yellow vests protest right again in the french capital for a fourteenth consecutive weekend of action against president months rowland's government demonstrators are thought to be blocking traffic near the shoulders at least of these pictures of them walking. towards the arc de triomphe at the moment and have been for many hours let's cross live to paris and the correspond to charlotte dubin ski charlotte more than three months in now you've been there

throughout how does today's event compare what's happening. but we've got thousands of people out john the streets of paris you come out full act routine seems to be a little bit chaotic where we are now it's not the cameraman to look down in the distance you can see that it's not that nice here gas or whether that's from smoke unaids the protest is have thrown back she no i it's tear gas my cameraman's already did with it alex and myself will need to move back from that at this isn't the first to gas we've seen in these we just we had a taste of it in about a half a kilometer or go nuts when it looked like the protesters were intending to move hold of these deeds retold to designate it cost us the deed said the police tried to stop them from moving down this one street and as that they tried stopping the protests we saw protests to set throwing items towards these we really have to move

a little bit further because i guess it is now. coming across this that it's really not very nice you think it's. so sad when the gas exuberant just comes out like the use of is one of the best and certainly used to trying to suppress the protesters this guy just now been going on for three months they have been incredibly you. well i didn't times we've seen the police also using a huge amount of force against these protesters who are because somebody's head being moved injured not clear what the person's injuries are put receiving medical attention now as a result of that and that is just one of the thousands of injuries have seen not just from the protesters but also the police themselves have been seriously injured in these protests now chances of the more serious injuries we've seen people use o.e. people knees parts of the hands injuries to feet in arms as

a result of the the rubber bullets and in addition to that we've seen thousands of people being arrested here in paris and cross fronts to different acts of violence in these yellow vest protests now some of those have already gone to trial on the most convictions the prime minister to king early this week sings around eighteen hundred people but already being sentenced in the for the food to use indicate we're still waiting for that coup cases to take place this week there's been a couple of high profile court cases including knox the bookseller believe on january fifth to see that attacking a some members of the gendarme and of qusayr has to do is one of the so-called leaders of the yellow vests movement within talk to people in the crowds today to ask them what they make of the convictions against the best protesters this is what they told us. it's weird punishments are being handed out too quickly because of

the nature and one task that's of the social movements. i think the government is trying to stop people mobilizing is choosing to reply. to this discipline it's not horrible things like this just bad say. ok well the government has also think many concessions to the other best for. test as it is so i did sit puts a moratorium on the high price of the fuel tax that was due to come into place john you need me to raise the minimum wage here and people are being told that over time the bonuses will be taxed will have social contributions in addition to that this is national dialogue that's taking place at the moment but the government is also and good people with some of the things that speeding up to including trying to pass a little way to century make it to be cool to come to a protest and cover your face with people who do that once that gets into the

statute books here libel to face up to a week in jail so for the moment the center of this protest continuing this is up fourteen we already know that there's going to be a huge demonstration to morrow on sunday and that's to mark this three month calendar since these protests still it is and while they may not be as many people out in the streets as they were doing act one the way back on november seventeenth for the hardcore supporters of this evasions this protest movement is no way near from finishing. tear gas sure spreading fast because. life in part thank you. for a lot from a more great program start in moments this is our two international. this

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