two people have reportedly been killed in venezuela. the checkpoint near the border with brazil growing tensions over international deliveries. also coming up. saudi arabia. germany refused to lift. the u.s. actor was accused of faking a hate crime against himself just the small explained that he was assaulted by supporters had led to an outpouring of sympathy and support.

you're watching us tonight thanks for joining us on the program now the venezuelan government claims the u.s. is planning to force aid convoys into the country through the closed borders with brazil and colombia venezuela the foreign minister says he's contacted the u.n. secretary general to raise his concerns a standoff is now developing along with two borders where soldiers are preventing trucks from entering the country and across. new york thanks for joining us for just a few hours now of course from that opposition deadline for the trucks to be allowed in bring us up to date on what the international reaction has been as well. or certainly seeing an escalation of tensions when it comes to the situation in venezuela at this point we're hearing reports that one who is been declared by the

united states to be the president of venezuela despite the fact that he's never been elected is in colombia even though he was banned from leaving the country the venezuelan government has said that he cannot leave the country he is reportedly in colombia furthermore in response to a question from the russian news outlet ria novosti we saw the state department dismiss any claim that these humanitarian aid trucks were doing anything other than delivering humanitarian aid of this was nothing but humanitarian aid and this is what we heard from the state department of the united states. the peaceful transfer of missions to ponder the request of the departments of state in close coordination with us and with the approval of the government of korumburra and he claims that the shipments is something other than humanitarian aid simply proposed. now representing the russian foreign ministry marias a car of a spoke and gave kind of

a different interpretation of events arguing that the united states could be plotting to carry out military intervention here's what she had to say this stuff to groups of the delivery of the weapons to venezuela planned for the beginning of march of these here in several stages by the neighboring country using the cargo planes over international companies. now it's important to note that elliot abrams currently in the u.s. special representative for venezuela was involved in the in the activity of essentially sneaking weapons into nicaragua during the one nine hundred eighty s. under the pretext of humanitarian aid it's worth noting that historical occurrence however it's also important to note that at this point we've got to set a deadline just a few hours from now the twenty third being the deadline for the delivery of this humanitarian aid and we've had nicolas maduro closing the border with brazil amid a humanitarian row and the fight over humanitarian aid we got ordering that the

border be reopened we understand that things got rather tense that two people were a pair reportedly killed in clashes that took place near the border it's being reported that the military opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators it's also being reported that there are three people that were injured and are now in critical condition the local mayor is saying that twenty seven military service men were captured by the protesters now at this point we've heard from john bolton and he is blaming this on rast and this violence squarely on the shoulders of nicolas maduro the venezuelan president used today colombia reiterated the lima group to the venezuelan. humanitarian channels those who flew with the violence will be held accountable. now we're hearing from the russian u.n. mission the russian ambassador to the united nations is saying that there are a group of countries in the u.n.

that are prepared to take action in response to any u.s. provocation and in the aftermath of this deadline set by mr one way doe so folks are waiting to see what happens next a very very tense scene near the venezuelan border with brazil indeed a critical few coming up for for the venezuelan people to beat as well capable person in new york with the latest updates on the venezuela crisis. i mean while a team would do a concert on the colombia venezuela border dubbed venezuela live aid has put all the british billionaire auntie's down cone 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 in the last month 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 of 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's certainly the possibility of things it 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 extremists figures on this side putting lawrence was actually. found guilty of 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 will pass peacefully and. we go live now to historian kevin young for more on the story thanks for joining us kevin good to have you on the program today as we mentioned earlier the venezuelan foreign minister at least claims the u.s. is planning to force aid trucks into the country local formation all of that yet but the deadline is fast approaching do you think that's a possibility and do you think that could mean some sort of direct military confrontation. well that's certainly a real possibility now and you know i i'm still struggling to keep up with the day's events like i know you are and struggling to figure out what has happened today with these this spectacle of these dueling concerts on the border and what's very clear is that what washington is trying to do and what the opposition led by the way though in venezuela is trying to do is to provoke the venezuelan

government into violence into repression into extreme action trying to provoke it to do something which could be used as a justification for. a u.s. military action or short of that for the venezuelan military to finally flip imo doro and and now to military coup so what will happen i'm not sure but that the u.s. team is very clear that i don't know what they move the event such as today we saw that the so-called venezuela live aid calls up a sensibly to raise funds to help the venezuelan people bring him out of terrenate etc is that the real aim terry motive well. let's let's put the venezuelan eighty five concert in a little bit of context here so you have this british billionaire richard branson coming along saying that he's going to raise one hundred million dollars in

so-called humanitarian aid for the people and it's well you have the u.s. government saying that it's going to deliver twenty million dollars and the concert is a way of publicizing this this crisis that they say is solely caused by the government of the door oh it's you know it's incompetence it's corruption it's repression and so on so that's one hundred twenty million dollars doesn't sound like an insignificant amount of aid and there are real i mean there is real suffering in venezuela so you know people on the outside looking at venezuela and reading the western media. are you know very it is very understandable that they would react by saying why is it that we're letting in this city how can he not let this aid in to help his people how can this evil did to tauriel government denying its people this today. and medical. but ok one hundred twenty million dollars assuming that branson

is concert raises what it pledges to assuming pompei zero and and the us government deliver their twenty million dollars and eight hundred twenty are calculated to have cost of in this way i want to qana me since they went into place in summer of twenty seventy and that's not my figure that analysis that figure comes from an analysis by a right wing economist a critic of the job as a mother were all governments named francisco rodriguez companies willing khana missed in september of last year published an analysis about the impact of u.s. sanctions on the country and if you look closely at his data it shows that the sanctions against the economy. illegal under international law of course have cost them as well as six billion dollars so when you compare that him out to the amount of so-called humanitarian aid that's being pledged from the u.s. and from richard branson in this crass political spectacle it's very apparent that

not only is that money a drop of a drop in the bucket comparatively speaking but the motives behind it are nothing but cynical it's you know if the united states or or richard branson or the venezuelan opposition had any interest in helping the people of an israel in helping the cause of economic recovery in venezuela they would pressure for an end an immediate end to u.s. sanctions which are causing so much damage the sanctions are not only cost of the venezuelan economic crisis but they are a big contributor to it so in light of that context it's it's impossible to see this this spectacle at the border as anything but cynical and politicized and even mainstream i mean stream voices from the united nations and from the red cross have condemned this us a so-called human. as being. politicized and

hypocritical and cynical and you know food and medicine have always been used as political weapon route the history of human warfare in international relations and this is a continuation of this and i think that a lot of people around the world are seeing through this this hypocritical move on on the part of the united states indeed in just a few hours now until that opposition stated that line expires so. close on events there at the border and that concert as well historian kevin young thanks for your take today on those events on the venezuelan border thank you. britain's main arms manufacturer be a e systems has warned it may not be able to fulfill contracts with saudi arabia as usual german ban on selling arms to the gulf kingdom these contracts are worth a lot of money britain is the second biggest to saudi arabia after the united states over four billion dollars worth of weapons have been sold by the u.k.

to riyadh just since march twenty fifteen artie's police work oh picks up the story . 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 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.

aguilar markel did this firstly we're 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 on it or 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 biden to change its mind that fast gone speed 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 largest shareholder in b. 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 changing the germans minds we hope to goodness think 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 aid to the government in this advertising space that didn't mean that you face and reminding the hundreds of that believe it was positive from parliament every single day of the fourth of the u.k. defense industry. i mean while riyadh now is saying it's investigating the latest reports of civilian casualties you're in the conflict in yemen straight out to some walton thinks the u.k. should be coming to the defense of yemen civilians not british companies. i think

when it comes to jeremy hunt's common 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 they believe systems have and are used to say that she felt that big systems have the key to the garden gate and number town they really haven't heard unique level of your law 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 a systems are making you what you are the international be back with more headlines just after this very short break they too.

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on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. at the international 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 the statement came off a recent fun call between trump i just bought the recipe for leaders discussed security in the region there are currently around two thousand american troops in syria in december trump announced the withdrawal of u.s. forces in the country but they're put out now seems less than certain. it should be

formally announced some time probably next week that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate. but i want to wait for the official word no want to say it 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 a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence you know where one thing out will come back if we have to get international affairs commentator john steele and journalist mike reddy believe the international internal divisions in the u.s. are preventing a full withdraw. 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 is two hundred forty two hundred person force it's going to stay he's 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 their turf 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 goal posts all the time to finding new reasons for remaining i think it's just typical trampy it is sort of this my playground. at the pentagon didn't agree with him so he sees no three saves face by citing these two hundred but calling the peacekeeping. mission 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 committing their presence there and we were not going to bloody your expense or don't serve one term peace theory exactly but on a slightly less scale fairly his predecessor. headlines president trump is due to meet the chinese vice premier for trade talks according to the white

house though they will not be discussing plans to drop criminal charges against the chinese technology far away this comes after months of u.s. pressure on the company over spying allegations. i want five g. and even six g. technology in the united states as soon as possible is far more powerful milestone 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 presidential memorandum dating back to oct says it's imperative that the u.s. becomes the global leader in five g. technologies just a couple of months later the us started piling the pressure on hallways saying it posed a threat to national security the chinese tech giant rejects u.s. claims that its products used by beijing for spying in december ways chief financial officer was arrested in canada on washington's request the white house is also urging international allies to ban who are way from their five g. networks under pressure australia new zealand and japan have already brought in

restrictions against the firm a growing chorus of countries including france and the u.k. are challenging the u.s. on this point who always found meanwhile says he's actually grateful to washington for helping to make more people aware of its product. first of all i would like to thank them because they are great figures 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 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 our 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 see we're going to see an agreement. that allows for the south thanks for joining us for the team and myself join us again another thirty minutes for those latest global headlines update. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live. in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor of the death penalty there are some people because of what they do have given up the right to live among us some even proven innocent after years on death

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