headlines venezuela opposition leaders and self-proclaimed president who claimed that a person is being killed in a standoff at a checkpoint near the brazilian border amid growing tension over international aid deliveries also to come concerns the u.k. that it won't be able to honor exams contracts saudi arabia has germany refused to lift the ban on supplying certain component parts to the gulf kingdom and the us actor is accused of faking a hate crime against himself to see some of that small it's claimed that he was assaulted by donald trump supporters had led to an outpouring of sympathy support and also anger at the president for supposedly raising tensions.

are you watching out international just on seven pm here in moscow we start this hour breaking news because. confirmed reports are coming in that one person has been killed and fifteen more injured in clashes between the venezuelan military and protesters near the border with brazil demonstrators had been demanding the border be opened to allow aid through at the same time extra security forces have been dispatched to the area the military reportedly opened fire on the demonstrators where three is said to be in a critical condition it does come after confusion over the border closure broke out as president nicolas maduro had closed the frontier with brazil over humanitarian aid but the but then the self-proclaimed president ordered for it to be reopened.

twelve people have been injured and one killed decide on which side you're on to all the military between today and tomorrow you will to find the way in which you want to be remembered we already know you're on the side of the people you've made that very clear tomorrow you'll be able to prove that. meanwhile the british billionaire businessman richard branson is organized a concert in colombia is being dubbed venezuela live aid in this meant to persuade the country's military to defy duro and let aid into the country but also aims to raise one hundred million dollars for humanitarian aid to the state there would be a counter concert this weekend on venezuela's side of the border his concert will take place two days later than branson is but is aimed to counter the efforts to defy the door let's get some reaction towards this now with lukas for the he's a political analyst he joins us now good evening she lucas the reports are coming in that there have been quite severe clashes on the borders there with humanitarian

aid stockpiled and obviously big arguments about whether it should be allowed in or not i suppose this was inevitable do you think given the tensions that have been building. i think we have to see this as an attempt by united states annapolis should to correct these kinds of situations a provocation and certainly we don't know all the details of what happened on the border with brazil at definitely we need to wait for a response from the pentagon government about whether. details of what happened and whether there will be investigations prosecutions of those officials that allegedly were involved but nonetheless we should recognize that over seventy men as well that are national humanitarian groups just came out yesterday denouncing what is being called a humanitarian aid effort on the grounds that it is a little side and it's an attempt by the united states to use humanitarian aid as a means of toppling the democratically elected by the government might as well as the united nations and other humanitarian bodies such as the international red

cross and have criticized as politicization of aid by the united states government . what's the saving on can caracas where you are at the moment people buying into this the argument that this humanitarian aid can be used to perhaps supply the opposition with weapons in venezuela. i think i'm among those on a good mother that's a great concern to me given the others a consciousness of the history of the united states in providing humanitarian aid but we shouldn't forget that elliott mr elliott abrams the current special on what about as well on the one nine hundred eighty s. was in the state department was actually using plain earmark for humanitarian purposes the shuttle arm to the neck but i want i'm military and i think well for supporting just wasn't as followers and what that might there's definitely a lot of skepticism towards united effort also given that the u.s. is currently imposing an oil embargo on going to what is on the my the country over a lot of billion dollars this year and last are earning earnings from oil exports

and you know in contracts that humanitarian aid is twenty billion dollars or one hundred million dollars and not long this in the soil and are going to run as well as thirty million dollars a day which you know obviously is going to drag that humanitarian conflict is how people say it in caracas i keep coming back to this because when you read about it side of venezuela you look at the international media and the problems in venezuela have all been the fault of the dog but the people perhaps sense the crippling sanctions being placed on venezuela by americans are also partly to blame. i think it is incredibly divided the limits of motos doesn't joy you know. what from thirty percent of population are more united perhaps up till forty even fifty house a population that opposes international intervention in the country of course the opposition is mobilizing it supporters who want to bring in the aid and of course the issue is there's a lot of skepticism towards the opposition as well because the opposition is not as well and has a very high disapproval rate almost pius the government according to that analysis

polls are oppositional and pollster and there's a real there's a real concern are. trying to figure out whether all the opposition is going to be able to really bring in a distributed a given that you know it is so for so many years has promised to oust the government and you know it's a new government yet it has been unable to make good on those promises and where you know saturday were a month in since mid july though i for himself and as president our president as well yet he is no closer to sitting in morocco to allies and instead kind of resorting to these sort of media spectacles of internet is the new birth on the border and threats of military intervention and question sanctions to put him in power as opposed to you know sort mobilization any kind of real domestic for a change forces within that as well with regard to the humanitarian aid in the situation that we have a majority says look a welcome i from the from the you from the u.s.

is i'm much sent to that can solve a problem. well beyond that because i want to remember that my little david asked for and received aid the u.n. and other international by the in november of last year and was receiving aid a new shipment of medicine from russia and now the e.u. i think the issue is not the aid but it was the giver and given the united states has you know it's all top of the government for the last two decades supporting a violent rule in two thousand and two remember you know what mr elliott abrams reportedly giving the green light to go ahead for the opposition to out as you like to present what shall i say concern about what are the intentions the united states what is the agenda. as we speak right now because we know richard branson the british billionaire has his come to that he's arranged sort of a live aid style consider isn't it encouraging the venezuela minute trying to turn against me do or i just think it will have much impact yeah i mean we just all the

the new york times reported yesterday that. who is a former intelligence chief or child as a reporter they defected however he had broken with the government in twenty seven so this is hardly a new development that the reality on the ground is that no major that is one military official actually commanding troops had the fact is a lot of the side of mr why don't you know this is you know this reveals a certain desperation on the part of why though in washington that one month and they're still not able to actually you know greater permission the military coup that they've been calling for. ok look it's going to have to leave it there but really good to get your thoughts on this obviously because cona pissing on a statue by sting caracas thank you. well meanwhile the venezuelan opposition's envoy to washington said that all eight venezuelan control offices in the us are no longer functional giving the speech it was confronted by and.

i want to say these people are fried they don't represent the millions 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 meanwhile the woman in that video media benjamin from the code pink code pink anti-war movement says 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 props in their playbook when is why the self-proclaimed leader has promised to get the aid into the country by saturday that is despite elected president nicolas maduro banning it isn't mentioned that aid convoys could be used to smuggle weapons to the opposition where the russian foreign ministry spokesperson did echo that sentiment i discussed this with r.t. hugo she done. the spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry maria harbor has said that the situation in venezuela is already critical she has pointed out that america is already amassing weapons on the border with the country also everything is being done to sort of feed the narrative of urgency to kind of spy kids.

for example president want to be why do i he is adding fuel to the flames saying that the deadline for humanitarian aid to enter the country is saturday so this is the deadline that he has said so everything feeding into this narrative and donald trump from washington he's basically trying to talk the country's military into treason mr says the u.s. is deliberately making the situation worse by making out there we are beyond the point of no return the u.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 and at the same time washington is also encouraging protesters in venezuela they are keeping them hopeful according to maria's the heart of the they have information about well the united states could try and civilians in venezuela with party weapons have

a list speckle grows of the delivery of the weapons to venezuela plan 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 torn up company and really this scenario of aid him in a tarion aid convoys turning out to be really just trojan horses filled with munitions and arms and this scenario is not really ungrounded because the man the united states appointed to be their special envoy in venezuela now is elliott abrams and he has experience in doing exactly that thing for example in one thousand nine hundred sixty in nicaragua he filled aid convoys with weapons and that's how he smuggled arms into another country now marie is a horrible also pointed out well russia views as hypocrisy on behalf of the united states and their foreign policy because for example she pointed out that while the

united states according peaceful protests in haiti there is saying that the opposition in haiti shouldn't be going beyond peacefully protesting and calling for a political solution in the country the situation in venezuela somehow proves different. in other news tonight britain's main arms manufacturer be a systems has warned it may not be able to fill contracts with saudi arabia due to a german ban on selling arms. to the gulf kingdom these contracts are worth a lot of money to britain is the second biggest arms seller to saudi arabia after the us over four billion dollars worth of weapons in fact being sold by the u.k. to riyadh since march of twenty fifteen. as more. the u.k. is not impressed with germany's decision to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia i'm very concerned 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 shorty 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. sorry akka markel did this firstly were outraged by this case i agree with all those who say that arms experts which are already limited must not take place in a current circumstances monitor in germany early 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 arms. 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 looks 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 be a appeared 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 law 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 and bring about peace in yemen but so far talk of bombing peace into yemen isn't changing the germans minds the heightened awareness week you'll miss 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 is being aided to the government in this advertising space that in a way means that you face and reminding the hundreds and i better leave the last day to one from column that every single day of the fourth of the u.k. defense industry. are you watching our table back again just after the break. seemed wrong wrong wrong just don't call. me. yet to say proud disdain comes to educate and engage from an equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground . most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. questions.

hello again small it charged with staging a crime against himself has been cut from the last episode of the hit t.v. show police say he did make false allegations of being assaulted by two men with one of them shouting this is maggot country the actor has been released on bail. charged with filing a false police report claiming his movie was to advance his motives to advance his career police say who wrote a check for three and a half thousand dollars to two men to stage the attack he's also said to have fabricated the hate letter to you himself so it's legal to call though the situation an organized spectacle. is more 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 board 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 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 lonnie is disorderly conduct for making a false police report why would anyone especially an african-american use the symbolism over. 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. this is how you have to be five thousand cars. of on and i feel this way right now with yeah the president and the vice president like cancer like wish i could be married let's just be clear heartbroken and furious reading about the attack on just the smallest i want trump and. or ticks to burn in hell 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 good and tens of millions of people you insults it was you were 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 just respecting an elderly native american veteran it is disturbing students mocking a native american man some of them harassing and jeering at a native american disturbing viral video however it was revealed afterward that there was actually quite a bit more to this story than the short snapshot showed and at this point we've got the boy suing the washington post saying that his reputation has been completely destroyed meanwhile the washington post is saying that they are prepared to give a vigorous defense we are reviewing a copy of the lawsuit and we plan to mount a vigorous defense may have introduced the term but it seems that fake news has never been more real kaleb oppen r.t. new york. media analyst lionel things though that stories like this one do reveal a disturbing 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 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. i am create a situation even though you've done nothing if 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 of the statement about homophobia even though the grow a very human of the case is based upon falsity fiction synthetic truth what

a country. now the us president has praised five gene even nonexistent sixty wireless technology in a tweet and called for it to be developed in america it does come after months of white house pressure on chinese communications from huawei over alleged spying capabilities i want five june even six g. technology in the united states as soon as possible it's far more powerful more stone 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 well a presidential memorandum dating back to october did say it is imperative that the u.s. becomes the global leader in five g. technologies just a couple of months later to the us started to pile pressure on highway 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 the 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 under pressure astray new zealand and japan have already brought in restrictions against the firm but a growing chorus of countries including france and the u.k. are challenging the u.s. on this very point why is found meanwhile says he's actually grateful to washington for helping to make more people aware of its products. first of all i would like to thank them because they are great figures five gene was not known by common people but now these great figures are all talking about five and we're becoming more influential in getting more contracts 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 the u.s. has in fact fallen behind many parts of the rest of the world technologically and

the attack on the way has just been evidence of a kind of a panic and i think 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 you're watching i say thanks me company tonight we're back again at the top of the. i. i. i. i. i.

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