two people have reportedly been killed in venezuela in a standoff checkpoint near the border with brazil amid growing tensions over international aid deliveries. contracts with saudi arabia. supplying components to the. us actor was accused of. crimes against himself. he was assaulted by supporters. led to an outpouring of sympathy and support.

thanks for joining us in the program. the venezuelan government claims the u.s. is planning to force aid convoys into the country through the closed borders with brazil and colombia a standoff is now developing the soldiers are preventing aid trucks from entering when its weight and foreign minister spoke to the media after meeting with the u.n. secretary general. what. the soviets are general is watching the situation closely and remains in constant communication with him for the twenty third of february in a few hours local time in venezuela the deadline for when humanitarian aid must be delivered to the country clashes at the border now we're hearing that wedo himself is in colombia despite the fact that he was banned from actually leaving the country we've heard from the u.s. state department the concern that this is anything other than basic humanitarian aid 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 colombia and he claims that the shipment is something other than humanitarian aid simply proposed to us russian foreign ministry has spoken up and said that the usa intends to deliver weapons and escalate the crisis with some kind of intervention in venezuela this stuff two groups of the delivery of the weapons to venezuela is planned for the beginning of march of these here in several stages by the neighboring country using the cargo planes over international companies elliott abrams who is the u.s. special representative for venezuela was involved in the smuggling of weapons into another country nicaragua during the one nine hundred eighty s. under the pretext of humanitarian aid he does have a record of claiming that humanitarian aid is being delivered in fact weapons are being smuggled in to important to note that the deadline is set for the twenty third in just a few hours and we're seeing reports that there has been a great deal of unrest near venezuela's border with brazil that border has been

closed down now we're hearing dueto calling for it to be reopened we understand that there was a demonstration and for what's being reported we're seeing that the report is that the military opened fire into the crowd two people are reported to have been killed three more in critical states in the hospital it's also being reported that a local mayor is indicating that among the crowd were members of the military now it's also important to note to this point we're hearing john bolton blame all the violence and all the conditions in the country squarely on the shoulders of the president maduro. yesterday columbia reiterated the lima group's call to the village. does not look humanitarian channels those who follow orders of violence will be held accountable the russian ambassador to the united nations has spoken up and said that if the united states were doing gauging any provocations or try to pursue any actions in relation to this date set on the twenty third that there would be a group of countries in the u.n.

that would be prepared to take action at the security council so people are waiting to see what happens next a very tense scene near the venezuelan and brazilian border of venezuela's self-proclaimed leader one going door is now in colombia way he's been meeting with officials he says the venezuelan military helped him get that despite the armed forces proclaiming their loyalty to the government meanwhile and. it's been held in the colombia venezuela border venezuela live eight auntie's down kevin has this report 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 whale and president to open the border too with the u.s. government says is humanitarian aid now the organizers say that they're expecting three hundred thousand people to feed 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 when 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 kuta but colombian president yvonne duke 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 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 putting laurent saleh was actually. found guilty of plotting terror attacks inside venezuela and this is the figure was actually taken money from the american government there and the national endowment for democracy but

we're certainly hoping that everything has passed peacefully and. there's still room kevin young believes the u.s. has no real intention to help the venezuelan people. what's very clear is that what washington is trying to do and what the opposition led by white go 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 the stations against the economy. illegal under international law of course have cost venezuela 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 venezuela 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 while as violent opposition blames the government for severe food shortages one investigative journalist in caracas says that everything is quiet as it's being portrayed it's maximum involve visit to the supermarket this is what he found. i feel lost in the supermarket in coming here and. this is jesus there's a lot of cheeses and meats here fish heads bent head slowly pollie fish heads ok we've got like congealed meat we've got like so much meat there's

a lot of meat here this is the fruit section and we've got a lot of mangoes oh that will go that will match with my toilet paper that are. on my shampoo and conditioner took me like a while to do that because there are so many varieties. and you went through all my video was a response to us media which is embedded with that that it's way that opposition and with the usa i d right now on the colombian border and and doing this humanitarian intervention propaganda show where they're actually claiming that there is no there are no basic goods in venezuela at all and i was showing that in a fairly upscale neighborhood in caracas the supermarket looks just like the supermarkets in my hometown of washington d.c. i can also tell you that i was out today in some of the poorer areas of caracas and i actually encountered the vice president of venezuela del cielo rodriguez and the

mayor of caracas erica faria at open air food markets around the city where food is being distributed basically for free to the poor and working class communities the problem here is with speculation there are high prices on food and random situation that has to do with actually the kind of capitalist class here that supports the opposition the u.s. sanctions are actually allowing them to hoard goods and to make maximum profit and those so that's the irony here is that many of the supporters of the opposition and the big business forces behind the opposition are actually cashing in on the economic crisis. britain's arms manufacturer be systems has worn it may not be able to fulfill contracts with saudi arabia because of germany's ban on selling arms to the gulf kingdom these contracts are

worth a large amount of money britain is 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 twenty fifth. polly boyko 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 because georgie has been tortured beaten tortured killed and then dismembered because shogi was murdered in the saudi consulate it was lewd to his death and this didn't help either.

sam aguilar markel did this firstly were outraged by this case i agree with all those who say that arms expertise which are already limited must not take place in a current circumstances one is there 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 on. 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 parts 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 end 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 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 being a appear to have the key to the golden door to number ten certainly i never knew number ten to come up with any decision we should be incommoded to be but that was ten years ago although some things never change philip may the husband of u.k. prime minister to resign works for a company that's the largest shareholder in be

a systems we try and provide our people our government our allies with the very best weapons the very best sticks they can have to encourage peace sound familiar. 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. the position of the german government is that we're not currently delivering weapons to saudi arabia and future decisions on this will depend on developments in the yemen conflict one illustration of just how close it. be the answer to the government in this land retyping pasting in me thank you face and reminding their funds aimed at them when you feel the power to do and from parliament everything all day of the fourth nothing u.k.

defense industry. i mean while riyadh now says it's investigating the latest reports of civilian casualties during the conflict in yemen the arms trade action with sam walton thinks the u.k. should be coming to the defense of your money civilians not british arms companies i think when it comes to jeremy hunt. 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. power of the world amount of access to government clare short when she was a government minister under blair used to say that she felt that 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 systems are making it what you are the international we're going to a brief break now do join us again in just a few moments for the latest global news update. numbers. matter us one trillion dollars. more than ten point. five percent. to the. percent world market.

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a crime against himself just the smile that he starred in earlier claimed he'd been assaulted by two men with one of them shouting this is mother country authorities in chicago charged with filing a false police report claiming his motive was to career police say the actor wrote a check for three thousand dollars to two men to stage that attack is also said to fabricate a hype letter to himself after the story first broke celebrities were quick to condemn the supposed crime some people refusing to change their minds even after for. the whole thing was apparently staged. by 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 and it really tired. this is how you have to be five bills impossible to not feel this way right now 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 want trump and michael lunatics 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. 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 legal and media analyst law l. think stories like this reveal a disturbing trend. this is the most amazing case as you can tell by my excitement and therefore best since aside from being one of the most hilarious

cases of idiocy and sadness it's a wonderful kind of us of 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 worthy of done something or not if you do something in your lie we overlook it if you don't do anything they all lie and create a situation even though you've done nothing we don't have the facts. we make them up like the mainstream media knows 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 making the statement about homophobia even though the growth of a man of the case is based upon falsity fiction synthetic truth what a country. or in other headlines little trump has branded bernie sanders crazy

after seventy seven year old outs his bid for the twenty twenty two presidential race trump also urged his supporters to make sure they dig deeper into their wallets and funs of saunders crazy bernie has just entered the race i wish him well what's crazy is that we have a president who is a racist a sexist 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 to. trump has made a point of taking a swipe at socialism some of his policies that resemble exactly what he's attacking

. america will never be a socialist country. action will help americans tradition from welfare to gainful employment this is becoming more and more like a soviet side of the condo me here common sense deciding who is going to be granted waivers the most songs in the administration figuring out how they going to sprinkle around. this will be a big week for infrastructure after so stupidly spending seven trillion in the middle east it is now time to start investing in our country. protectionist government persian supplanting the role in theri transactions of

markets and the allocation of wealth and opportunity is socialism for the well connected. and the us radio solomonic commish own believes trumps the socialist stance the political posturing. dollars somebody is a hypocrite i mean he is i mean he is a devout shabbos capitals of the of the worst kind you see right now he's bringing in the war drums to go into could only socialist country venezuela you know no doubt you sort of there 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 to get to know how to deceive people you know saw socialism as the devil itself you know so he's speaking to constituents to continue to be dumbed down and he's speaking to them and throwing out these test phrases. united states has announced plans to maintain

a peacekeeping group of two hundred troops on syrian soil that has been the planned withdrawal of pentagon troops from the country this spring the statement came off for friesen phone call between president trumpeters turkish counterpart recipe leaders this cussed security in the region are currently some two thousand american troops in syria in december trumpet out 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 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 isis see

a resurgent you know they're running out we'll come back if we have to give the international affairs commentator job than steel and journalist mike ruddy think the international 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 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 there and the national security advisor john bolton has said the reason why the troops could remain would be to do with your so-called threat from iran or the changing the goalposts all the time and finding new reasons for remaining i think it's just typical trampy it is sort of this month played well turns out the pentagon didn't agree with him so he's

he's led to the same speech by citing these two hundred but calling the peacekeeping troops he 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 mean their presence there and they were not going to blighty illegitimate syrian government service and one company steering exactly illegally but on a slightly less scale and fairly his predecessor there's the headlines this hour join us again at five am moscow time for the latest global these updates will see that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of

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a concert on the other side of the border in support for a self-proclaimed president. and here's what mr waters had to say the important thing about this is that even if you listen to this shtick it has nothing to do with humanitarian aid actually it has to do with richard branson and i'm not surprised by this having bullets the u.s. saying we have decided to take over and is waiting for whatever our reasons may be that it has nothing to do with the need since the venezuelan people it has nothing to do with democracy it has nothing to do with freedom and it has nothing to do with eight. so is sarah warren's evil and speaking of music used to sing about lawyers guns and money in then as well is it really about oil and money well it

appears to be just. that it's about oil and all we have to do is look at what trumps national security advisor had to say these were his words he said quote it will make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela so this obviously has a lot to do with the oil of venezuela people forget that venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. in just.