they've given up the right to live among us some even proven innocent after years on death row and more exonerations as a committee before we as a society realized that this is not working and we actually do something about. the people have reportedly been killed in venezuela in a standoff at a checkpoint near the border with brazil amid growing tensions over international aid deliveries. concerns mounts in the u.k. that it won't be able to honor its arms contracts with saudi arabia as germany refuses to lift a ban on supplying certain component parts to the gulf kingdom. the us actor is accused of faking a hate crime against himself to see some let's claim that he was assaulted by donald trump supporters that led to an outpouring of sympathy support and anger at the president for supposedly raising tensions.

thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. and we'll start with our breaking news story reports are claiming at least two people have been killed and over a dozen injured in clashes between developers well a military and protestors near the country's 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 three of those injured are said to be in a critical condition the local mayor also confirmed twenty seven military service men were captured by protesters after the clashes broke out all this comes after confusion around the border crossing this president nicolas maduro closed the frontier with brazil amid a row of humanitarian aid but then the self-proclaimed president ordered it to be

reopened the opposition leader has spoken about today's bloodshed urging the military to choose sides. twelve people have been injured and one killed as result of this crime our thoughts are with them this will not go unpunished decide on which side you're on to all the military between today and tomorrow you will define 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 you got to look at their cabrera is professor of policy in government to george mason university and county joins me on the line now very good evening to you sadly we are talking about fatalities multiple injuries at this point. can you understand why things seem to have escalated. of course this gets them this humanitarian we know that there is an intention to all to bring a military forces into in

a swell and we all know that this is this is this story of humanitarian aid of course. the government and has not been able to provide to all the people. i mean what i mean tool i mean to support their needs however we know there is an effort there is a baccy of why though and the opposition has been a swell up by the united states military and the entrance to brazil and through colombia it is much more that humanitarian aid this is a military intervention and this is a confrontation between army the army of and it's well and the army of the united states and other countries colombia and brazil. are able to i mean that are building tools these are it's probably an q my turn made at the same time to enter the country twenty venezuela to make up the pressure until mother would all. die

nearly decides to. leave that's that's what it's that's what it's this is about and we all know that you mentioned aids humanitarian aid of using to let us aid into the country pretty seems quite happy to let aid from the e.u. camillus was a woman hero said about this. the venezuelan government accepts the offer of humanitarian technical assistance from the european union holding the united nations system to venezuela and that's welcomed the armenian story. so it doesn't want the u.s. aid at this point whether it's true or not but you know that he suspects that they're going to try and smuggle weaponry at this point why doesn't the u.s. just back off and say well ok then we're not trying for force this upon you. well it's very it's very clear what is happening now the united states that one way they

will back the opposition they had been working with the opposition of minnesota for for a considerable period of time there is an understanding that they don't want the mughal regime to continue but that's that's an intervention that's an intervention in the affairs of another country. a president that definitely has not been considered you know excellent for about me from many times point to ten points but we're talking about a different country that's bringing its military it's bringing together with you might turn a warrants and we know about the any marks of the we know the capacity of the united states government in latin america this is this is historic this is not the first time we are talking about the united nations the european union an international effort to help the country in a war consensual way without these pressure without the previews negotiations with

opposition during the past few years what has happened what has been the very tense relationship between the government of nicolas maduro the government the board charts and the united states the united states. at least with the opposition in venezuela and interests. in continuing what does amount to a doctrine in america for the americans and the involvement of the united states in the matters of that in america first with nefarious consequences of course we also have to leave in a swell is to decide what happens in their country and it's not about not being in supporting the aid of the united states is being supporting the government of nicolas maduro but this is the way that right now the international pressure the pressure of the united states and the pressure. i mean like the other hand of the mother of all the government me me things look like brother luke thanks for your

time. prayer is my guest professor of policy and government at george mason university. in the meantime an anti at madeira concert on the colombia venezuela border dubbed venezuela live aid has been organized by british billionaire parties downed cohen reports from the scene. you can see this concert taking place behind me it's thrown by the british billionaire richard branson who is using it to pressure nicolas maduro the bennetts whaling president to open the border to what the u.s. government says is humanitarian aid now the organizers say that they're expecting three hundred thousand people to be here but so far i estimate there's about five thousand venezuelan government has thrown its own its own concert on its side in the name under the banner of hands off venezuela the noun saying it says it is an intervention by the united states and its allies it also offered it also said it

would send its own humanitarian aid to colombia to the impoverished residents of google but colombian president has rejected this and refused to let that aid in while there's certainly the possibility of things it has to go lading as they have done under the brazilian venezuelan border for now there's no sign of any kind of violence but there are there is the presence of some extremist figures on this side putting lawrence was actually. found guilty of wanting terror attacks inside bend its way that this is the figure was actually taken money from the american government there and the national endowment for democracy so certainly all the ingredients are there for violence the break out but we're certainly hoping that everything will pass peacefully and. move on as well in security forces

clashed with an opposition convoy heading to the border with colombia on his way to stop all u.s. supplies the u.s. backed opposition leader one going to set a saturday deadline for the aid to be delivered exactly a month since people claim to be self the country's leader as the material is banned any u.s. aid saying that it could be used as a pretext for military intervention. venezuelan opposition's envoy to washington says that all eight venezuelan consular offices in the u.s. all no longer functional at the house while giving the speech prolific it was confronted by four activists. i want to say these people are fried they don't represent them 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 you saw in that video that was medea benjamin from the code pink antiwar movement she says 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 couldn't 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. meanwhile the russian foreign minister has commented on the current situation in the country my colleague under former discuss the fallout from the escalation without he's accused of. 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 and also everything is being done to sort of feed the narrative of urgency to kind us by kid of for example president one of the wide he is adding fuel to the flame saying that the deadline for humanitarian aid to enter the country is a 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 trees and start this issue ourselves and 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 and at the same

time washington is also encouraging protesters in venezuela they keeping them hopeful according to maria's the heart of the they have information that the united states could try and civilians in venezuela with party weapons have a list this buckle 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 turn up company and really this scenario of aid him and its area 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 eliot albums and he has experience in. doing exactly that thing for example in one thousand nine

hundred sixty narco in nicaragua he filled the 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 are cooling for peaceful protests in haiti they're 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. britains main arms manufacturer be a systems as well that it may not be able to fulfill contracts with saudi arabia due to a german ban on selling arms to the gulf kingdom and these contracts are worth a lot of money prince the second biggest arms seller to saudi arabia after the united states over four billion dollars worth of weapons have been sold by the u.k.

to riyadh since march of two thousand and fifteen. the u.k. is not impressed with germany's decision to stop selling weapons tests found in eurabia 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 need to commitments up until recently last november to be precise germany did sell weapons to saudi arabia but then this happened because georgie has been tortured beaten tortured killed and then dismembered because shogi was murdered in the saudi consulate it was lured to his death and that didn't help either.

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 the 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 refused the 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 in to change its mind at first glance. 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 eighty 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. 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 we hope to goodness with your the position of the german government is that we're not current conflict one illustration of just how close it would be eight years to the government in this advertising space that in a way means that you face and remind every single day of the force of the u.k. defense industry. just the smaller chance with staging a hate crime against himself has been cut from the last episode of the hit t.v. show and park police say he made false allegations of being assaulted by two men with one of them shouting this is my good country has been released on bail authorities in chicago charged with filing a false police report claiming his motive was through advances korea police say

they had to wrote a check for three and a half thousand dollars to two men to states the attack is also said to have fabricated a hate letter to himself as well its legal teams calling the situation an organized spectacle twenty correspondent kelly wallace has the latest. just the small lead story seems to be falling to pieces and 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 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 well we have

a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened and just the small it is a hate crime it's absurd. isn't a debate like really tired out. this is how you have to be five bills impossible 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. 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

and 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 trouble spoke up on twitter saying that millions of his supporters were needlessly slandered just what about my good and tens of millions of people you can sense it was your 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 in just respecting an elderly native american veteran it is disturbing students mocking a native american man some of them arresting 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. r.t. new york. donald trump has branded bernie sanders crazy to the seventy seven year old announced his bid for the twenty twenty presidential race trump also urged his supporters to make sure they dig deeper into their wallets than fans of sunday's crazy bernie is just into the race i wish him well what's crazy is that we have a president who is a racist a six just xenophobe and a fraud. socialist bernie sanders raised 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. trump has made a point of taking

a swipe at socialism but some of his policies resemble exactly what he's attacking . will never be a socialist country. action will help americans stretch from welfare to gainful employment this is becoming more and more like a soviet type of the khana me here common sense deciding who is going to be granted wave is the most hours 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.

protectionism government persian supplanting the voluntary transactions of markets and the allocation of wealth and opportunity is socialism for the well connected. us radio hosts alone commis young believes that trumps anti socialist stance amounts to political posturing. dollars somebody is a hypocrite i mean he is i mean he is a devout shabbos of the of the worst kind you see right now he's bringing in the war drums to go into predominately socialist country venezuela you know no doubt you sir they are mineral resources primarily the oil reserves they have more people and it's a good thing more people are starting 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 and he's speaking. to them throwing out these threats phrases. the u.s. has announced plans to maintain a peacekeeping group of two hundred troops on syrian soil beyond the planned withdrawal of pentagon troops from the country this spring statement came after a recent phone call between trump and his turkish counterpart rosette on the leaders discussed security in the region there are currently some two thousand american troops in syria in december trump announced the withdrawal of u.s. forces there but the pullout now seems somewhat less than certain. it should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate. but i want to wait for the official word and i want to say too early we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten

him badly now we've won time to give our brave warriors in syria. a warm welcome home you could in that vacuum see every star chance of ice to see a resurgent you know where we're going out we'll come back if we have to. let's bring in mike readies an antiwar activist and co-founder of b s news online for getting to mike so bring the brave soldiers home part from two hundred i don't know what they did wrong why would the u.s. keep those two hundred troops in syria. this all sounds very reminiscent of log on or i mean with touring troops or iraqi but not years ago what happened then was they just went through a rebranding exercise of these sort of them call them combat troops they're calling them stability is true grayson's the same thing is happening here you know what calling them peacekeeping troops keeps the. contingent of them in the country obviously majority of us know that this is a legal occupation or ability occupation of syria there is no u.n.

security council resolution committing their presence there and they were not going to bloody a legitimate syrian government so what trump is dearie is acting illegally but on a slightly less kael from his predecessor i guess. this is a little bit more sinister to this i think that by calling them peacekeeping troops he might be able to try might be able to encourage other silly european or nato nations to commit troops into the country that have been otherwise unbelieves to sort of obviously we know that there are french and there are you can troops in the country i think the way to special forces also had been there are lots of other nato countries that haven't been boots on the ground in syria by making this or a peacekeeping operation or sensibly and that might encourage others to actually do so so. i think it sums up what the syrian people believe is they don't really care they don't see any difference they don't see our system treated they don't see a difference treat isis and any of the terrorist groups in the country and

obviously we know that there's not just a reseller levy so we have them in it live as well. so i don't know. the syrian people probably won't make really new news of this at all because it doesn't mean anything there's nothing meaningful happening there's nothing meaningfully changed the u.s. is still there illegally and that's all that matters why changed opinion at this point no i mean why why make that claim is just classic donald trump he makes big claims and then he thinks better of than things actually maybe that wasn't a good thing to say yeah i think the state the pentagon and the village industrial complex of kind of had a little word and they said oh no and he you cannot do this. there's a lot to be made in syria and actually although that the crisis is almost over. this it's not completely over yet and who's to say whether the british would use their white helmets to try and instigate another false flag and provide another pretext for. christmas on attack or even a fully fledged intervention so it's not over and you know we can't say what is

going to found was but i think it's typical trumpy it is sort of this might play well. at the pentagon didn't agree with him so he sees no respect to the same. side in this two hundred there's a lot more u.s. troops. there in the form of climate mercenaries so yeah you know i don't think anything on the ground is going to transfer difficulty i think the us is still going to be allying itself with with terrorists against the syrian army against syrian people and until that then this this crisis will continue to speak to my granny my guest antiwar activist co-founder of p.b.s. news. time for a quick recap of our breaking news story this hour reports are claiming at least two people have been killed and more than a dozen others injured in clashes between the venezuelan military and protesters near the country's border with brazil three of those injured are said to be in a critical condition locals and also reportedly captured three military servicemen

after the clashes broke out a day since we get them up and straight to you. i stay with. i'll say all that i like to see you in half an hour. we will not be judged by what does that mean harry said he will be judged by what we give to watch children we must accept responsibility to fix our nations and make sure that we fix them for the sake of the future let's stop looking behind us and blaming the coup no rule is gone we have the means we must have a new generation of people who will fix our countries for the rest of the future and that's basically what it is the wheels off in nigeria.

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