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yellow. and u.s. control. to the world this is your r.t. international company in. munich security conference with proceedings dominated by talks on relations between russia and europe the russian foreign minister how stressed in no uncertain terms. to be. but 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 too long ago namely 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 multiplayer ety of the world whether the e.u. will be allowed to do this is a whole other matter. what war nation in particular is they express their independence when it comes to energy and the project that they're working on germany under merkel the german chancellor speaking here at the munich security conference she gave her full backing to the north stream to gas pipeline which will play russian natural gas from russia underneath the baltic sea and straight into germany if there are any questions about the future of the nord 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 to chancellor merkel in germany is top job and it. she's already said that she's fully behind the north stream to a 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 the moment few people know i've come to the point of economic cooperation has been a lot of discussion surrounding why it's turned into and i understand petro poroshenko who is sitting here and saying where transit territory for russian gas would like to remain that and i showed him over and over again that we 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 or by way of at all to see us that is the question of how dependent we are on russian gas it cannot be resolved by deciding which pipeline it's coming no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia bought it. we received russian gas during the cold

war not only immediately our where i lived but also in west germany and i don't see why the times and situation today should be so much and we can no longer say that russia remains a part. of 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 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 u.s. vice president mike pence basically the u.s. hates north stream two 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 the united states commands all our european partners who've taken a strong stand against north stream two. and we commend others to do the same or whatever the u.s. vice president thinks the north stream too will be operational later this year when it's fully working its expected the transport fifty five billion cubic meters of natural gas from russia to germany every single year. to another headline stories washington is continuing to ramp up the pressure on the venezuelan government on friday at the crisis stricken country state owned oil company and five of nicholas 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 undermining democracy and continuing to violate human rights at the same time the u.s. is starting to send emergency aid to venezuela ascensions like fun. medicine of

already been delivered to the colombian border but nicholas material is refusing to allow the supplies to cross into the country he sings it's a cynical ploy by the trump administration and the attempt to justify a possible military intervention the venezuelan president also hit out at the colombian government which he accuses a flagrant aggression. of deny. 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. a president maduro is also opening a diplomatic channel by inviting the united states special envoy for venezuela for talks but this killer blow up and explains his record in south america isn't very

promising. elliott abrams the trumpet ministrations 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 to war 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 it 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 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 is 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 on friday r.t. america correspondent done cohen confronted abrams after

a conference in washington asking him a few questions he didn't seem overly keen on answering here is the video from don's twitter. what do you say to people who are skeptical about you because of your history of using humanitarian aid to send weapons through the contras in central america you have any comments about but there are a lot of people who are very skeptical. because i'm i'm i'm doing my job you are to what would you want so i would would you what do you have to say about that. you lied to congress you were convicted of crimes. on rates of yellow vest protesters are out again in part this for a fourteenth consecutive weekend of action against president mike rawlings government demonstrators are thought to be blocking traffic near the scholem's elisei just coming up. have

a lot haven't yet in the afternoon and earlier i spoke to charlotte to this be our french correspondent she brings us right up to date. but we've got thousands of people are joining the streets of paris you've come out full mocked us food scene seems to be a little bit chaotic where we are now to the cameraman to look down in the distance you can see smoke that it's not clear if that is here gas or whether that's from smoke or unaids the protest is have thrown back she you know i it's tear gas my cameraman's already got a whiff of alex i myself will need to move back from that this isn't the first tear gas we've seen in this protest we had a taste of it about a half a kilometer ago nuts when it looked like the protest is were intending to move all forty's the agree to all the designated path as they did so the police tried to stop them from moving down this one street and as they try stopping the protesters

resul the protesters are throwing items towards peace will really get have to move a little bit further because i guess it is now. come. me across this and it's really not very nice very difficult to talk stories or when the gas hits you put it just comes out like cleans and it's one of the methods that they used to trying to spurs the protesters these protests now have been going on for three months they have been incredibly violent at times we have seen the police also using huge amounts of force against these protesters who are because somebody had been moved injured not clear what that person's injuries are receiving medical attention now as a result of that and that is just one of the thousands of injuries to see not just from the protest is right but also the police themselves have been seriously injured in these protests now in terms of some of the most serious injuries we've

seen people use o.e. as people lose 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 across france four different acts of violence in these yellow vast protests now some of those have already gone to trial and there's been lots of convictions the prime minister to king earlier this week saying that around eighteen hundred people but already been sentenced and a further fourteen hundred people are still waiting for that coup cases to take place this week they've been a couple of high profile court cases including that of the bookseller who were believe on january fifth was seeing that sacking as members of the gendarme and of course have to who is one of the so-called leaders of the yellow dress movement we've been talking to people in the crowds today to ask them will they make of the convictions against the best protesters this is what they told us this most secure

between punishment something quickly because of the nature and. one task that's what the social movements you are liberal. i think the government is trying to stop people. choosing to really. push. for support and it's not normal for things like this just to happen. well the government has also made many concessions to the other best protest as it is so i did to put a moratorium on the high price of the fuel tax that was due to come into place in january there's been a raise in the minimum wage here and people are being told that over time the bonuses won't be taxed or 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 it's been up to including trying to pass a law way it would essentially make it illegal to come to a protest and cover your face with people who do that once that gets onto the

statute books here liable to face up to a year in jail so for the moment these yellow vests protests are continuing this is act food scene we already know that there's going to be a demonstration to morrow on sunday and that's to mark the three month calendar since these protests started while they may not be as many people out in the streets as they would during act one the way back on november seventeenth for the hard core supporters of this year they joined this protest movement is nowhere near from finishing. this return to our top story this hour and germany throwing its backing behind the nord stream two gas pipeline project the spite increase pressure coming from the u.s. at the munich security conference let's go live and direct right now to munich where alexander. a member of germany's parliament from the left party joins us live alexander welcome to the program u.s.

vice president mike pence has been rallying against the nord stream to project. what has your reaction been to washington's moves to stop the pipeline from going ahead. and. really aware situations that almost. with exception of the green party for building and for using the tool with exception of the green party even. was defending again this is yet going by a speech in support of cooperating with russia especially over nord stream do you think she will stand firm and see the project through.

yes i think. she she wants all the time behind. politics or must. or must more or less. politics she is not a but i think she is not a. question. the overall situation alexander russia's foreign minister has called europe's confrontation with russia quote pointless he added that russia is interested in a strong and independent e.u. how do you think europe will respond to that. it's a moment. governments not to really willing to believe this. is there one behind the united states given a lot of pressure on your government. to keep together to keep

nato. away so question do you want to make a split into. to be sure. and this affects. most of the. governments. because of this behavior. you mention in nature so surrogate love roff russia's foreign minister also criticized the nato centric model chosen by europe where do you stand do you believe europe should distance itself somewhat from the military alliance. against. what you see in germany to nations germany is divided it's some sort in part. by nato and as a part is against nato but. in germany is for nato

a big exception of the party so it's a hard fight against this much oh it is john parliament alexander we appreciate your time this hour alexander annoy german m.p. from the left party live on the program at the munich security conference. russia has reached an agreement with the mosque to open to humanitarian corridors on the southern syria jordan border it will allow people that the sprawling. refugee camp to leave the area russia's military warned that militants could still be active on the territory of the earlier i get more on the story from a syria. yesterday there was a convoy that delivered to the camp the main deal now east to make to establish a. beginning tuesday to let pupils refugees

to use discouraged or to move to the areas of the control of the syrian government of course those people in the. into the statement of the agreement could get needed to be an aid as soon as they arrive to the first point the beginning of. the problem is that we are talking about the camp that is fully under control of the militias which are which are backed by us all do all you are giving all needed military aid to those fighters they can't or they can't arrive any aid to. see them in a tarion crisis this crisis is not regarded only short of food drinking water many reports they are talking about sexual exploitation they are talking about

human traffic this is not the first corridor that. syrian government stablish ing in syria there were succeeded and they gave good results and should be part of. this plan but the main problem of course now is us role in this case because this is fully controlled of militias that are backed by us. long time donald trump advisor roger stone has been implicated in the russia collusion probe into u.s. election meddling the moeller investigation says there is evidence not from a separate probe in two russian intelligence officers that still communicated with wiki leaks over hacked e-mails from the democratic party. previously

acknowledged having brief exchanges with russian for two point zero and wiki leaks which is referred to in marriage briefing as organization while still insists that communications were knock us twitter direct messages which have been already this. the indictment alleges that beginning in the proximately the summer of twenty sixteen the defendant claimed publicly and privately to have been in communication with the head of organization one about future releases of information damaging to the us presidential campaign of hillary clinton. roger stone was a quote informal consultant for donald trump's election campaign but he was charged with lying to congress obstructing justice and witness tampering he has continually denied is guilt by his outspoken comments over the case saw a judge on friday issue

a partial gagging order so as not to jeopardize any future trial well happy to say that under walker political commentator new york observer columnist joins us live on the program now it could have you what might it mean for trying this presidency if stone is found to have had significant communications with wiki leaks do you think andrea. well i think first of all what's important to bear in mind is that roger stone makes no denial that he got in touch with wiki leaks he contends the what he intended to do was try and speak to julian assange to understand what documents were going to be released by wiki leaks i'm glad always remember the system allegation here the center of this is where the donald trump colluded directly with the russian government to try to undermine democracy in america time and time again to reach really no evidence of that now look you know i'm a western i don't support the activities of the russian intelligence services who i think i'm proud to paul the balts it is not true to say that it's double trouble or

any of his colleagues who have had any real evidence. that they were in any way involved in anything i just have to say this you know what the democrats in america cannot accept is what the left in britain cannot accept the reason told me election and the reason that the british voted for preg say is not because of love to be uprooted it's because hillary clinton is terrible and says president your of the european union those are the reasons why people voted the way they did under an idea that vladimir putin said no matter how corrupt and dangerous he thinks he is the idea that he can make the election change in. erica there is no obvious and really intriguing aspect to this the judge issued a partial gagging order and stone and his lawyers everyone's got the right to try and clear the name of. well i mean he's allowed to do that in court i think the more interesting thing is the fact that stone himself believes that he should be

tried by a different judge now that sounds like a really boring technical thing but allow me just quickly explain why that is the judge that's been allocated is the judge starts has done everything in the investigation and still wants to be tried by somebody else because he says the fact that he communicate with wiki leaks is not relevant to the russia collusion investigation and i think that that is significant simply because you know the more we watch this the more this goes on the more this feels like anybody who has ever communicated with any russian and this ever met donald trump is somehow part of this conspiracy you know look you know this of retrofits the fact is as we go on through the weeks and months our years of this investigation it becomes increasingly clear that actually doubled did not collude with the russian intelligence services and the reason people voted donald trump was because hillary was a terrible cabinet a double trump promised to make america great again some of this you have to read twice just briefly get your thoughts in the documents wiki leaks is referred to as

organization wall even though the facts stated could really only realistically relate to wiki leaks why does mueller use such a nondescript title do you think. well i think that he's under a degree of pressure himself isn't safe because you know he's kind of being forced to prove something that doesn't exist and i think you know you saw the great example with donald trump jr who went to meet with a russian lawyer who wants to talk about adoption and somehow this was born in him trying to collude with the russian intelligence services the facts all fundamentally laid out and i know viewers in russia won't like this but the fact is . mola has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the russian intelligence services attempted to interfere in the american election what he has failed to do is prove it had any impact whatsoever what he's definitely failed to prove is that donald trump was involved in that very much that would be an act of treason or behalf of the american president and also the idea that the the current american

president is a russian intelligence agent or a de facto russian intelligence agent is absolutely ludicrous and let's always remind ourselves when we all talk about criminality when we are talking about people behaving in a bad way you know protest the brother of drum protest at hillary's campaign manager who had meetings at the crazy the embassy to try to get donald trump fact and it is also hillary clinton said who sets a player own e-mail. stuff states head of the state department thirty three thousand e-mails what prosecutors would say and after the subpoena was a showed she had the system professionally scrubbed these are lies these are cheeks these are bullies and frankly they are the ones that are on the buy me american election by trying to unseat an american president who was duly elected with a ludicrous claim that somehow he's a foreign agent no i don't buy it at the political commentator and new york observer columnist thank you. or about going underground in

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