people because of what they do they have given up the right to live among us some even proven innocent after years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. two people have reportedly been killed in venezuela in a standoff at a checkpoint near the border with brazil to meet growing tensions over a different. concerns mount 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 components to the gulf kingdom. also u.s. actor is accused of faking a hate crime against himself just claim that he was assaulted by donald trump supporters that led to an outpouring of sympathy support and anger at the president

. great to have you with me that i had a great time here with me then i'm very moscow this is r.t. . the un has venezuela military and protesters near the border with brazil demonstrators have been demanding the border be opened to allow through aid at the same time extra security forces have been dispatched to the area said to be in a critical condition a local mayor also confirmed twenty seven military servicemen were captured by protesters after the clashes broke out. and this comes after confusion around the border crossing as president to duro who closed the frontier with brazil amid a row of humanitarian aid but then the self-proclaimed president won quite zero order that reopened 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. eleven as well as security forces clashed with an opposition convoy headed to the border with colombia on this way to stop pound u.s. supplies u.s. bank opposition leader why does set a saturday deadline for the aid to be delivered exactly a month since he proclaimed himself the country's leader president maduro has banned u.s. aid and claims it would be used to smuggle in weapons but he said all the aid from the e.u. that's welcome. the venezuelan government accepts the author of humanitarian technically since he's from the european union the united nations system to venezuela. point of the u.s.

aid is the stuff being given to the government it's given to their hand picked on. it's totally appropriate. but in those sorts of propaganda and it's just to incite violence so that they have a pretext to. door to support a third party troops certainly the result of the united states government but also a lot of opposition want they want violence on the border a pretext to overthrow the democratic a concert on the colombia venezuela border dubbed venezuela live aid has been organized by a british billionaire auntie's done cohen reports from the scene. if you 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 better president to open the

border to the u.s. government says it is humanitarian aid that the organizers say that they're expecting three hundred thousand people to being 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 denouncing 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 kook but colombian president has rejected this and refused to let that aid in while there is certainly the possibility of things that has to go leading as they have done on 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

of putting lawrence was actually. found guilty of watching terror attacks inside venezuela and this is the figure was actually taken money from the american government there at the national endowment for democracy but we're certainly hoping that everything is peacefully in. the venezuelan oppositions and void to washington says that venezuelan consular offices in the u.s. and no longer functional while giving the speech color was confronted by antiwar activists. i want to say these people are fraud they don't represent them as well in people they are representing the u.s. orchestrated crew this is a very dangerous situation and they want to create a crisis at the border that would be a justification for u.s. intervention and the woman you saw in the video that was madame 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 un 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 ministry commented on the current situation in the country my colleague under former discuss moscow's

reaction with r.t.c. just on. 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 md also everything is being done to sort of feed the narrative of urgency to kind of spy kid. for example president want to be why don't i 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 treason mr suspicious and that the u.s. is deliberately making the situation worse by making out there we are beyond the point of no return the us presidents 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 a higher of the they have information about the united states could try and arms civilians in venezuela with party weapons have a list this battle grows of these the delivery of the weapons to venezuela is planned for the beginning of march of this year in several stages by the neighboring country using the cargo planes of 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 in that 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 there

a special envoy in venezuela now is our brooms and he has experience in doing exactly that thing for example in one thousand nine hundred six 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 are calling 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. britain's main arms manufacturer be a systems as well and 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 lots of money britain is the second biggest arms seller to the saudis after the us over

four billion dollars worth of weaponry that was sold by the u.k. to riyadh since march of two thousand and fifteen or explains. 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 need to 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.

south africa markel did this firstly were outraged by this case i agree with all those who say that arms exports which are already limited must not take place in a current circumstances on its own 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 in to change its mind that fast glance 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 being a appear to have the key to the golden door to numbering 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 to weapons the very best sticks they can have to encourage peace sound familiar that strategic relationship that the u.k.

has with saudi arabia yemen but so far talk of bombing peace into yemen isn't changing the germans minds the height of the border this 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 the place to be a new to the government in this advertising place that in west means that you face and reminding the hundreds and i better leave your last day to and from parliament every single day of the fourth of the u.k. defense industry. now says it's investigating the latest reports of civilian casualties during the conflict in yemen straight activists some walton thinks the u.k. should be coming to the defense of your many civilians not british arms companies. i think when it comes to germany hunt's column 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 interests i mean really the belief systems have. power of the old amount of access to government clerk short when she was a government minister under blair used to say that she felt that systems have the key to the guardian good number town do you really have an urge unique level of your lot being an 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 systems are making. just this minute charged with staging a hate crime against himself has been cut off from the last episodes of hit t.v.

show empire police say he made false allegations of being assaulted by two men 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 to advance his career police say the actor wrote a check for three and a half thousand dollars to two men to stage the attack is also certificated a hate letter to himself and that's legal teams call the situation an organized spectacle articles from a kill him open as the latest. just a small lead story seems to be falling to pieces small letterhead claimed he was the victim of a hate crime to marry had grabbed him poured bleach on him put a noose around his neck called him anti gay and anti black slurs and told them this is mega country mag being short for make america great again. two men were later arrested by. the police and then released and now small what is the one in handcuffs he is charged with for loneliness disorderly conduct for making

a false police report why would anyone is specially 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 has happened in just the small it is a hate crime it's absurd. isn't it mike really tired. this is how you have to be five bills and possible to not feel this way right now with yeah 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 i won't trump and mike a lunatic 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 volved 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 the small minutes what about my good and tens of millions of people your 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 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 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 replaying 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 legal and media analyst lionel thinks the stories such as this 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 we don't have the facts. we make them up like the mainstream media news do as well it's about a 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 group of amun of the case is based upon falsity fiction synthetic truth what a country. the us 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 now the statement came

after a recent phone call between trump and it's to his counterpart the one that he did for 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 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 it too early we have one good study says 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 a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence you know you're winning out we'll come back if we have to international affairs come to jonathan steele and journalist my craggy think that internal divisions in the u.s. are preventing a full withdrawal. trungpa said that they've defeated by us and they have done

militarily in the sense that they have almost no territory left and what the two hundred forty two hundred person forces can stay is going to do for the next few weeks is not entirely clear sort of deep state the pentagon the state department even parts of the cia would like to continue there and the national security advisor john bolton has said the reason why the troops could remain would be to do with their so-called threat from iran or the changing the goalposts all the time. finding new reasons for remaining i think it's typical trying to be a decided this month played well. at the pentagon didn't agree with him so he sees no need to resave his face by citing these two hundred but calling the peacekeeping troops keeps the. contingent of them in the country and obviously that was on t.v. was no this is a legal occupation or ability occupation of syria it's there is no u.n.

security council resolution could be in their presence and they were not going to bloody illegitimate syrian government syrups one trump is doing exactly illegally but on a slightly less scale and fairly his predecessor. president on his journey to meet the chinese vice premier for trade talks but according to the white house they will not be discussing plans to drop criminal charges against the chinese technology weiwei now this comes after months of u.s. pressure on the company of a spying allegations. i want five g. and even six g. 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 a presidential memorandum dating back to october says that it is imperative that the u.s. becomes the global leader in five g. technologies just a couple of months later the u.s. started to pile pressure on while away saying it posed

a threat to national security the chinese tech giant rejects u.s. claims its products are used by beijing for spying december were always 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 gene networks under pressure australia new zealand and japan have already brought in restrictions against the firm but a growing chorus of countries that includes france and the u.k. a challenging the u.s. on this point and who always founder says he's actually grateful to washington for helping to make more people aware of the company's products first of all i would like to thank them because they are great figures five g. was not known by car many people but now these great figures are all talking about five g. and we're becoming more influential in getting more contracts. 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 logically and the attack on our way is just evidence of a kind of a panic think it's interesting that this comes at the same time as a little bit of reduced pressure on the u.s. trade talks it's very possible we're going to we're going to see an agreement. about that base in just over half an hour here. that's far right parties obsess about the danger is them presents to the western

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end of america's you know poll moment. allister's wonderful having you back in moscow still again. the last two times we talked we talked about the shifting sands of the middle east now in light of what donald trump or i think is america first is policy towards world is taking on some flesh we depending on what variant you want to john bolton one or the mike pompei oh maybe the elliott abrams but there's i have a sense that the the unocal moment it's actually over it's the u.s. trying to comprehend that and and that doesn't mean i know what's going to follow it maybe you can tell. me i think in the sense we're. it's gone at the moment is not so much the headroom in the is still lingering on. what is completely gone is any sense of vision of the future any sense of vision that would motivate the world

to want to be american to follow an american. path the idea of the order in which we diversity in book modernist human. if you like a sunni population within and an order in the if you like a coercion to be thelma i think the vision is gone but still the power of course lingers on after the vision has gone and i think might compare this speech in cairo precisely showed it was completely disconnected from reality disconnected from the region i think most people in the region didn't know what he was talking about because they don't understand rapture politics of america evangelical movement and it was really more about the civil war that is taking place in america or not as new civil war perhaps but actually

a resurgence of the ocilla war where now the deplorable zz of the confederates and you have if you like the new leaves in new york and the other countries saying to the to them you know we have a moral position and you as they told the confederates about the straights don't have a more moral position. if you like blue virtue against red bush both believe they're right both believe they have every truth on their side and this is i think what pompei was speaking to the coming come.