i. won't be able to honor its arms contracts for saudi arabia as germany refused to lift the ban on. u.s. action was accused of faking a hate crime against unself just a small it's claimed that he was assaulted by donald trump supporters had led to an outpouring of sympathy and support the president slammed tensions venezuela's opposition leader to the fire ban on u.s. aid being stockpiled at the border he's promising to get it into the country by saturday that clashes are already breaking out over attempted deliberate.

though the welcome just gone three pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now britain is concerned by german ban on selling arms to saudi arabia u.k. knife is that its main arms manufacturer be a systems may no longer be able to fulfill contracts with the saudis is it relies on components made in germany these contracts are worth a lot of money britain is the second biggest seller to saudi arabia after the us over four billion dollars worth of weapons have been sold by the way to riyadh since march of twenty fifteen. picks up the story. the u.k. is not impressed with germany's decision to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia. about the impact of the german government's decision on the british and european.

defense industry and the consequences for europe's ability to fulfill its commitments up until recently last november to be precise germany did sell weapons to saudi arabia but then this happened because shortly has been tortured beaten tortured killed and then dismembered was murdered in the saudi consulate it was looted to his death and then us didn't help either. south africa markel did this fault firstly were outreach bring this case i agree with all those who say that arms experts which are already limited must not take place in a current circumstances on its own germany really provides about two percent of the

total arms purchased by saudi arabia that's a drop in the ocean but crucially germany also makes components that are essential to other countries' arms exports for example british. it has a contract to provide riyadh with forty eight new fighter jets but germany's refusal to make cars that are destined for saudi arabia is affecting be a ability to deliver those planes to riyadh on time the issue of german licenses is a political issue and as such requires it to be resolved at a political level to that and we're working closely with the u.k. government. that could explain why the u.k. government has been trying to get by and to change its mind at fast glance be a like your normal footsie one hundred multinational but you don't become the

largest defense contractor in europe without a few friends in high places at one point this is how the former foreign secretary describe their relationship the chairman of being a appear to have the key to the golden door to number ten certainly i never knew number ten to come up with any decision we should be incommoded to be but that was ten years ago although some things never change philip may the husband of u.k. prime minister to resign works for a company that's the largest shareholder in be a systems we try and provide our people our government our allies with the very best weapons the very best sticks they can have to encourage peace sound familiar that strategic relationship that the u.k. has with saudi arabia is what allows us to have a huge influence in bringing about peace in yemen but so far talk of bombing peace into yemen isn't changing the germans minds the height of the border this week your

the position of the german government is that we're not currently delivering weapons to saudi arabia and future decisions on this will depend on developments in the yemen conflict one illustration of just how close it would be aid to the government in this advertising space that in the west means that you face and reminding the hundreds of that leave your last day from parliament every single day of the fourth of the u.k. defense industry. i was a pretty boy go there now when it comes to the ongoing saudi war on yemen riyadh has said now that it is investigating the latest reports of civilian casualties there so let's get some reaction to all of this some water killings this is nine straight activists and some very welcome thanks for coming on britain says it is it won't be able to honor his arms contracts with the sides because of germany's actions can you understand britain's phasing concerns a top. so you talked other could you put the last bit of

course here course or britain says it's afraid it won't be able to honor contracts and the saudis arms contracts because of germany's arians can you relate or understand their concerns here because they are legally obliged are they there if they have signed contracts well they're also legally obliged to uphold humanitarian norms and actually the reason why be a system is sure promised dropped eight percent yesterday is because this is likely to impact on future contracts future contracts which they probably shouldn't be signing because really you shouldn't be selling weapons to people that are using them for war crimes which saudi arabia onto in the war in yemen what do you make of jeremy hunt's comments the kayser foreign second claim that britain's for taking relationship with the saudis can actually help bring about peace in the region well it's been more than four years now and britain hasn't helped to bring about peace

all britain has done is repeatedly saudi arabia and saudi arabia have used britain's weapons to earth bomb yemen and destroy the infrastructure there causing what the un's called the worst month major humanitarian crisis going on in the world at the moment i think when it comes to germany hunt's comments that are completely inappropriate he's meant to be a statesman and he's not meant to be using his position to lobby for british arms trade interest. just on that point how close is this relationship them between be a and the government i mean we looked at our report and polly boyko there and she made some links so you bert's i mean from your perspective how strong is that connection. i mean really the systems have. power of the old amount of access to go clare short she was a government minister under bush used to say that she felt that view systems are the key to the guardian good number town they really have an earth unique level of

your lobbying and access to ministers and that frankly undermines our democracy in the u.k. what we see time and time again germany hans comments are just the latest example is the british government lobbying for the interests of systems not the interests of beer of the british people and not certainly not the interests of people in yemen who are suffering because of weapons being a systems are making with regard to germany stance on this you surprise that they've been so tough and they haven't sort of folded considering the pressure that's been put on them. well i think you know we can applaud germany germany for their stance germany should never have been arming saudi forces in the first place but it's done the right thing in the end by ending these this journey home to reason my colleagues want to do the right thing for the people of yemen then they must follow germany's lead. ok sam we've got to leave it there we've run out of time but very good to talk to that was sam walton's an anti arms trade activist

thanking thank you. now us active charged with staging a hate crime against himself has been released on bail just a small leg had had claimed he was assaulted by two men with one of them shouting this is mager country mag or in the acronym for donald trump slogan make america great again when authorities in chicago have charged with filing a false police report claiming his motive was to advance his own career police say the actor wrote a check for three and a half thousand dollars to two men to stage the attack he's also said to fabricated a hate letter to himself so let's legal teams calling the situation an organized spectacle artie's correspondent khaled moppin has more on the story. just the small lead story seems to be falling to pieces had claimed he was the victim of a hate crime two men had grabbed him poured bleach on him put a noose around his neck called him anti gay and anti black slurs and told him this

is maggot country mag being short for make america great again doll trumps slogan two men were later arrested by the police and then released and now small what is the one in handcuffs he is charged with loneliness disorderly conduct for making a false police report why would anyone especially an african-american man use the symbolism of a noose to make false accusations in the immediate aftermath of the incident there was an outpouring of love and sympathy for a small way we have a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened in just the small it is a hate crime it's absurd. isn't it mike really fired out that this is how you have to be fired ailes and possible to not feel this way right now with yeah the president and the vice president mike pence who like wishes i couldn't be merry if let's just be clear heartbroken and furious reading about the attack on just the small it's our wont trump and. sticks to burning homophobia existed

before trump but there's no question that since he's injected his hatred into the american bloodstream we are less decent less human and less loving no intolerance no d.t. saying that even though the incident may have been staged it still started a conversation and that it's important i've been vocal about the situation and my love for just c. and his entire family i will continue to hope for the best for everyone involved as things continue to unfold. what's miller did was wrong but the big problem isn't the point two percent which are hoaxes is the hate crimes which have risen to twenty percent since trump took office trump spoke up on twitter saying that millions of his supporters were needlessly slandered just the small minutes what's about my guy and tens of millions of people you insults it was all racist and dangerous comments people are drawing parallels with a similar case we had

a group of catholic high school boys who were shown in a video purportedly insulting and disrespecting an elderly native american veteran it is disturbing students mocking native american man some of them harassing and jeering at a native american disturbing viral video however media revealed that there was actually quite a bit more to the story than this short snapshot and at this point the boy is suing the washington post saying that his reputation has been destroyed however the washington post says it's prepared to give a vigorous defense we are reviewing a copy of the last huge and we plan to mount a vigorous defense may have introduced the term but it seems that fake news has never been more real caleb r.t. new york but even the media analyst lionel thinks that stories like this one to reveal a concerning trend. this is the most amazing case as you can tell by my excitement and effervescence aside from being one of the most hilarious cases of

idiocy and sadness it's a wonderful kind of assess a story line on the mainstream media how they don't let the facts get in the way of a story our mainstream media will create something whether you have done something or not if you do something in your lie we overlook it if you don't do anything well why ain't create a situation even though you've done nothing we don't have the facts. we make them up like the mainstream media news do as well it's about our narrative the facts and the truth have nothing to do with it get with it what you want take somebody who is an obvious defend it turn him into a hero make it the stay but about homophobia even though the growth of a human of the case is based upon falsity fiction synthetics truth what a country. now the us president donald trump has praised five gene even nonexistent

sixty wireless technology in a tweet and called for it to be developed in the u.s. it does come after months of u.s. pressure on chinese communications firm while way over alleged spying capabilities . i want five june even sixty technology in the united states as soon as possible it's far more powerful firestone and smarter than the current standard i want the united states to win through competition not by block you know it's currently more advanced technologies than a presidential memorandum from october twenty eighth stated it is imperative that the u.s. becomes the global leader in five g. technologies in just a couple of months later the us started piling the pressure on while away saying it posed a threat to national security the chinese tech giant rejects u.s. claims that its products are used by beijing for spying in december while ways

chief financial officer was arrested in canada on washington's request the white house is also urging international allies to ban while away from their five g. networks well under pressure new zealand and japan have already brought in restrictions against the firm but a growing chorus of countries too including france and the u.k. are actually challenging the u.s. on this point zero eight pound meanwhile says he's actually grateful to the u.s. for helping to make more people aware of its products. first of all i would like to thank them because they are great figures the five g. was not known by common people but now these great figures are all talking about five g. and we're becoming more influential in getting more contract leads up to now the u.s. is just panicked about the technological advancements of china i mean what's really been happening over the last ten years is a u.s. has in fact fallen behind many parts of the rest of the world technologically and

the attack on huawei is just evidence of a kind of a panic there figure it's interesting that this comes at the same time as a little bit of reduced pressure on the u.s. trying to trade talks it's very possible we're going to we're going to see an agreement. i mean while donald trump is a brand if the democrats say shoeless bernie sanders crazy after the seventy seven year old announced his bid for the twenty twenty presidential race from puerto his own supporters to dig deeper into their wallets than fans of sanders. crazy bernie has just entered the race i wish him well what's crazy is that we have a president who is a racist a sick sister xenophobe and a fraud socialist bernie sanders raced six million in twenty four hours now i'm calling on you to crush that number he's scared and he should be help us send

trump a message in a language he's sure to understand make a ten dollar donation to our campaign today or trump has made a point of taking a swipe at socialism or though some do you say some of his policies do look a lot like what he's attacking. america will never be a socialist country. action will help americans stretch from welfare to gainful employment this is becoming more and more like it so be it tied to the condo me here common sense deciding who is going to be granted wave is the most songs in the administration figuring out how they going to sprinkle around.

this will be a big week for infrastructure i have to say stupidly spending seven trillion in the middle east it is now time to start investing in our country. protectionist government persian supplanting the voluntary transactions of markets and the allocation of wealth and opportunity is socialism for the well connected. while the us radio hosts on one commish say that trumps anti social stance amounts to political posturing. dollars somebody is a hypocrite i mean he is i mean he is a devout chapel those couple of the worst kind you see right now he's bringing in the war drums to go into predominately socialist country venezuela and so you know no doubt you sort of they are mineral resources primarily the oil reserves they have more people and it's a good thing more people start to become more educated for

a long time the word socialism that the term was was tantamount to to say people you know saw socialism as the devil itself you know so he's speaking to constituents that he believes are dumbed down that he's holding our dumbed down there are no these hope and continue to be dumbed down. he's speaking to them. now these threats phrases. scuffles in venezuela is no position convoy has tried to collect the u.s. aid whiting at the border i would have a look at that just after the break. thanks guys are. closed it is it is essential plugs for diet good news good cover might.

seem wrong. just don't all. get to shape out. and in. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. i have the honors to still get interview ultrabook here is a former e.u. diploma and founder and director of complex for this time we will discuss the americans you know.

welcome back now tensions are high in venezuela at the moment over the standoff regarding u.s. aid stockpiled on the border with colombia venezuela self-proclaimed leader. promises to get it into the country by saturday in the us despite elected president nicolas maduro banning it is that aid convoys could be used to smuggle weapons to the opposition the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman has been echoing that sentiment let's get more on that now with you if you don't if he joins us in the studio. just from freedom what else the russian foreign ministry said or basically the spokesman for the russian foreign ministry maria however has called this situation a critical and she's saying that it is basically because the united states already amassing weapons on the border of venezuela and really they're doing everything she says to create this sense of urgency and really it can be seen how for example president want to be why you don't know how he's adding fuel to the flames saying

that the deadline for the to and to the country is saturday so really everything is playing into this narrative all at the same time donald trump from washington is trying to talk about israel and military into treason effectively. mistresses assure ourselves that the u.s. is deliberately making the situation worse by making out there we are beyond the point of no return the u.s. president's direct appeal to the venezuelan army to ignore the orders of diligent head of state is the height of cynicism. imagine addressing the u.s. army with an appeal for example not to be the commander in chief well at the same time washington is encouraging encouraging the protesters so they are keeping them hopeful and according to maria however there is a potential that there are plans in washington to arm the civilian population of venezuela with party weapons have

a listen. the stucco grows of the delivery of the weapons to venezuela planned for the beginning of march of this year in several stages by the neighboring country using the cargo planes over international companies unfortunately this is not surprising to see ukrainian traces in this story specifically they're going to use the state owned and tone of company. and this scenario of you know aid convoys turning out to be just trojan horses really filled with munitions and arms this scenario is not ungrounded i should say because the man in the united states appointed to be the special envoy to venezuela earlier albums and he already has experience with doing just exactly about smuggling weapons into a third country disguised as aid as humanitarian aid this is what happened with nicaragua in one thousand nine hundred eighty six is a horrible also pointed out the russia views as christiane the u.s. approach to these this sort of unrest in other countries like for example she said

that while the united states calls for a political solution in haiti also with that there are also massive anti-government protests there the united states asks for the all the opposition to not go beyond protests while in burns' whaler the situation seems to be somewhat different. ok thank you hugo for the latest on that there was a itoshi down a for us thank you. three mile venezuela security forces to clash with an opposition convoy heading to the border with colombia on its way to collect stop us supplies locals help the opposition buses to par. he's issued what he calls his first presidential decree to authorizing humanitarian aid deliveries to venezuela and to get it into the country with the help of caravans of citizens the opposition leaders says nothing will stop him from completing his mission. we do not rule out anything consulate in humanitarian aid into the country. but

opposition leaders say that they plan to bring aid into venezuela from colombia and brazil and that prompted lucas moura to consider a closure of one of the country's borders it's already stopped traffic with brazil and three schilens in the northern caribbean and early in february caracas barricaded a never opened border bridge with colombia duros banned the us aid he did announce though that all aid from the e.u. is welcome. the venezuelan government accepts the offer of humanitarian technical skills and he's from the european union to the united nations system to venezuela. while the venezuelan opposition's envoy to washington d.c. said that all eight friends while in control of offices in the u.s. are no longer functional when giving the speech colors for kyo was confronted by antiwar activists. i want to say these people are a fraud they don't represent the men as well in people they are representing the

u.s. orchestrated who this is a very dangerous situation they want to create a crisis at the border that would be a justification for u.s. intervention when the woman in that video is medea benjamin she's from the code pink movement and she says to you that the opposition is knowingly stoking tensions at the border i think it's a dangerous game that the opposition is playing they really are trying to create a confrontation if it was about humanitarian aid they could use the u.n. agencies and certainly there are lots of other ways to get humanitarian aid into venezuela they are doing this purposely on the borders because they want to see a confrontation they want the. government to respond with violence so they can show the whole world and use that as a pretext to start the next phase of this which would be a military one so i think it really is the opposition that is playing this very

dangerous game and using the aid as a prop in their playbook. for this hour don't forget there you can also keep yourself updated on our social media pages and you can. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football nazi or else you can think i was going to go.

by the way ways of the slide here. in the us need to pull by as though they keep the slime give or smear the focus on domestic abuse that he took one of the. p.c. into just almost nothing because most would move it in. for the using the most. young. boy. in the scene who don't let. the little. one on one with legal expert alan dershowitz he's calling donald trump's emergency

declaration on mistake we'll find out why on this edition. of politicking on larry king. alan dershowitz is no stranger to controversy lately he's taken much flak from his colleagues in the legal profession for nearly everyone who doesn't call themselves a conservative for his opinions on the russian probe adverse latest book the case against him teaching trump but he's now calling donald trump's decision to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall along the u.s. southern border a mistake let's find out why yes for fresh addition was joins us from his. alan is a constitutional scholar harvard law professor emeritus for we get to the emergency declaration on multiple news outlets are now reporting that robert malone will

likely wrap book was investigation as early as next week what do you expect. well i expect it will be a very very critical report put together a circumstantial case i don't think will be any smoking guns though you never know and i hope because i think this would be the only fair way that it be presented to the attorney general the attorney general then give it over to trump's legal team give them a week or ten days to file a reply and then release both the report and the reply at the same time so that the american public can read them both and judge for themselves which is more credible and which is more persuasive now can mullin cannot indict himself can he can he can indict from well you can i mean technically the grand the grand jury technically indicts but grand juries will indict a ham sandwich they're just you know twenty five chairs that are moved around.