you. know what. it is crunch time. u.s. aid shipments into venezuela imposed by its opposition leader. today the country's president. could contain. mass demonstrations in the balkan country albania. government corruption and protest. democratic. who is being a victim from the he's lived in for a quarter century to make room. i cannot

believe that. even the one paying my rent. free. morning stories live from moscow from all of us here at the international headquarters welcome to. the political standoff in venezuela is escalating a deadline to let us aid into the country imposed by self-proclaimed interim leader . expires on saturday deliveries have been amassing at the border with colombia but the trucks are being blocked by venezuela's president nicolas maduro who fears they contain hidden weapons of his where the foreign minister says external forces are trying to push his country towards. in brief the country's at peace

and his comb but there are those doing it from the united states who want to force a situation such as you know one of the venezuelan nor the with colombia and generate violence in venezuela violating venezuelan sovereignty would anyone assume that the u.s. insists its aid mission is peaceful with the state department branding claims as being used as some kind of cover as preposterous but others have stressed that it is up to venezuela whether or not to accept the aid the south african ambassador to the u.n. says no deliveries should be made without president to do it was concerned and russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman maria however claims washington has an alternative agenda that has little to do with. the rules of the delivery of the weapons to venezuela's plan for the beginning of march at least here in several stages vising neighboring country using the cargo planes over international companies we got a reaction to the aid standoff from historian kevin young. what's

very clear is that what washington is trying to do and what the opposition led by the way bill 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 sanctions 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 meanwhile billionaire richard branson has organized a benefit concert for the people of venezuela don cohen reports from the saying. don't be forward by this be festive atmosphere all around me where we see a music going on this is actually one of the most geopolitically hot spots in the world right now behind me on my right you can see that as a bridge crossing between colombia and venezuela i'm on the colombian side where this concert is happening it was organized by richard branson the british billionaire let's take a look at what he had to say. i then saw. an interview with one greedo who was also

going for the well to help i decided to. pick up the phone and speak with him. and see what we could do to help the wonderful frequency on the board to illustrate . through music the importance of letting letting relief into the country and the venezuelan government is holding its own concert on the other side of the border and that is why the president nicolas maduro has said that he will actually use accept in humanitarian aid to do the european union through the united nations now that humanitarian aid that the u.s. has in a warehouse just off to my right is said to be worth twenty million dollars now that sounds like a lot of money to you would be but that's a drop in the bucket when you look at the beef thirty eight billion dollars that u.s. sanctions have cost venezuela the red cross and many other major international humanitarian organizations have refused to participate in this saying it is the words of the red

cross of niger handed terry in aid. so. you know the dave also joined the mercy corps and who is who said this actually violates the principles of humanitarian aid and serves the parse impartiality. with brazil where two people have reportedly been killed and over a dozen injured in clashes between the venezuelan military and protesters. confusion over the status of the border president. with brazil over the. president. said government soldiers opened fire. and while the venezuelan opposition blames the government food shortages investigative journalist in caracas everything is. and

this is what he. says she's. here. that's the problem here. is inflation and speculation. my video was a response to u.s. media which is embedded with that that is way that opposition and with the usa idea 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 credit because and i actually encountered the vice president of venezuela del cielo rodriguez and the mayor of caracas erica 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 foods 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 in the big business forces behind the opposition are actually cashing in on the

economic crisis. has been fired and bob why a put up in the capital of the small bowl can the country of albania which is in the grip of intense and see government protests and people want to get rid of the current cabinet alleging corruption and links to organized crime opposition m.p.'s have resigned on mass demanding new elections correspondent donna has details. albania is on fire the small book a nation has been engulfed in a massive anti government protests which literally left a stain on the face of the country's prime minister. start us out of. the country's opposition decided to destroy their parliamentary

mandates you know kick the system out of order so what is going on well the allegation the authorities face is no joke a lot of people are certain the government is working hand in hand with the drug lords parliament that is not the product of the vote of the people but is a product has been exposed by a judicial wire tapes published by the international media. organized crime cooperating openly with the current government alleged leaked phone calls of one of the country's most notorious cartels revealed dozens of albanian m.p.'s were happy to use the games influence and well persuasion skills to buy votes in the general election which the ruling party won by a landslide wiretaps also led to the official investigation into albania as former interior minister he stands accused of passive corruption drug trafficking and of

being an active gang member and here comes the twist the prosecutors can't really do anything but prowl around him since albania's prime minister has refused to revoke his diplomatic immunity shielding him from the law there fishel position was to deny everything and it could be a case of just a few bad apples but the opposition says it is not the sheer scale really of the drug operations in colombia of europe is mind blowing this tiny nation has become one of the biggest transit hubs for heroin cannabis. cocaine smuggling racketeering a service police force in the pocket of crime lords politicians enabling the drug trade instead of fighting it this is what albanian protesters say drives them to the street yet so far they've mostly been told to shut up and know their place for the democratic party the socialist movement for integration and other opposition

parties to abandon them and it's in parliament undermine the basic principles of democracy yeah follett's a protest is apparently a violation of democracy in the us rulebook the same us by the way that suffers from a severe drug problem of the so on europe that albania's mafia have turned into a dirty money cash cow doesn't seem to mind backing the elites to the lawmaker is going against the democratic choice of all band citizens and undermine the progress the country has made on the european union path yes these new seems eager to overlook the opposition's cry for help and set the nato nation and europe to draw down on the course of integrating into the union. a seventy four year old german social worker who's helped out during germany's migrant crisis back in twenty fifteen has been told he must move out of his state provided apartment to make room for migrants

a cloud roth has lived in his flat twenty kilometers from store to guard for twenty four years. with. i cannot believe that a seventy four year old if you don't move out and suffer all these drugs and even the one paying my rent well asylum seekers getting a free fuel it's wrong. he's been given nine months to move out of his flat and mr roth has been promised a smaller accommodation now his old flat will go to six migrants currently being relocated to the local community or the municipality for example of how to tell think it's has a population of almost. four thousand at his home right now to fifty five migrants mr roth says he used to work with refugees helping them to integrate into the community. i was involved in birth e.g. we're going to. three years i attended meetings with asylum seekers. international to help. and nobody else will meet.

the deadline is just over a month away and with the u.k. preparing for life outside of the e.u. . takes a look at a new diplomatic talk british politicians have been trying out in recent months here is the latest episode of in case you missed. in case you missed it this is diplomacy is going through a golden age the world can only look on in tremble with the. bright side is innovating changing the very definition of relations with other countries it's called anti diplomacy in recent months and weeks it's been like watching an aston martin crash in slow motion and then. again. and then river and crash again and then again so fast sign of the new i won't plot approach to international relations was when boris johnson

was put in charge of the foreign office for two years and amazingly he resigned but soon he was sacked then he was replaced as foreign secretary by a man named jeremy. johnson is a flying time for a man's. right as a coincidence i think this centuries old fancy rhetoric is still in place although the empire isn't as they say among its own mouth and. prime minister to resign may's brags that tactic of going over to brussels making the same desperate to manzoni to get the same angry rejection from the. doesn't quite work but it brags that desperation was also spotted in japan last week presidents trade and foreign secretaries told him he had to hurry up and make a person brings it trade deal he japan reportedly last canceled the told accusing britain of being on my hand. and. put the matter to browse to no

one is defense secretary gavin williams said and explosions have gotten very diplomacy without the guns of polonium mindset without holding the gun very gabs picked a fight with russia from day one telling it to shell something go away part of that and see diplomacy i was talking about and now you can see with his new ad craft carrier he threaten china with lethal force forgetting that the nineteenth century was in the nineteenth century so what did china do in response cancel gregg's it trade talks i'm told britain to get over is empire and sell that's a real diplomatic power lies in the twentieth century it is weak something to threaten the world's largest nuclear power world's largest population with just one poorly protected warship i'm sure everything will be fine often brags that these british politicians seem to know what they're doing. now and still to come here on

the program. today the opposition leader has promised to sign a peace deal with china if indeed he wins the next presidential election more about just. i thought it would be just that i will accept the idea of course this will be ocean without by listening i was there when the board of the sixty seven was there was about as its covered does we are going to be slipping i underline the snipping and go one step the elysees i underline reality which means that we will be living living in it before one is did situation for his life it will find itself neither jewish as they claim nor to be a local because their claim. manufacture

can be sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room see. the real news. stories here on outs he almost two hundred people have been rallying in haiti's capital port au prince to mourn two people killed in last week's anti-government protests the mourners were carrying a cost which they like a place near the national palace after the second victim was buried at a local cemetery. and rubber bullets were used by the police to disperse the crowds

are going to stand at least one protester was injured at the rally itself was fueled by mass demonstrations that hit the country more than two weeks ago with people demanding the president resign. yeah i mean while a palestinian has been shot by israel's military during ongoing protests of the gaza border forty other people were wounded the protesters are still calling for the return of land occupied by israel. taiwan's president announced a reelection bid this week amid a boost in a popularity following her rejection of a peace deal with china and contrast the taiwanese opposition party leader has promised to sign a peace treaty with beijing if his party is able to regain the presidency in twenty twenty if angela sips us reports. for china on this island as part of its own

territory for taiwan china is a threat if you believe the western media narrative this free democratic land need to defend itself from the imperialist the. government's china's threats to forcefully retake the island not just engaging in belligerent rhetoric it's trying to cut taiwan off further from the business community making the redraw their maps that taiwan is part of china it has long refused to rule out the use of force to achieve that goal taiwan has looked to the west ever since it split from mainland china in the wake of the civil war in one nine hundred forty nine but the vast majority of the u. when members have never recognized that as an independent country and beijing has always stuck to its one china policy on. taking responsibility for the nation and future generations both sides should wish to resolve the political rivalry and bring about sustainable peace across the taiwan straits she long time

a vision for reunification of the motherland. now taiwan's opposition party is the chairman to finally resolve the dispute but it will have to wait until the presidential elections. in two thousand and twenty assuming talks between the two sides a successful a future cumin tang government would be within its rights to sign a cross street peace treaty to formally end the chinese civil war but taiwan's current leader has a more aggressive stance after announcing her reelection but president when made it clear that she still views china as a menace. to china's ambitions and aggression not just targeting taiwan but also other countries in the region or even loaned why chinese state media says she's playing a dangerous game the editor in chief of the global times a chinese state run news outlet called the taiwanese leaders reelection bid a quote crazy progress of escalating tensions and

a public support for the local government seems to be slipping the ruling party suffered a significant loss last november in the mid-term elections which forced chang ing when to step down as the party chair so maybe washington support is not going to be enough meanwhile in men when china people are optimistic with the next elections just around the corner this is a hole that these elections might bring a possibility of lasting peace in their strength and lee overture right that party is there it's not surprising at all that's always been the way particularly in more recent decades presidents name and popularity slipping they had been dreaming that loss of popularity as an opportunity to course for stronger relations with china because for me it's about taiwan i think what they should recognize is that it's. time with its people have very clear view our ability to view back to its state if

your economy about the fact that their economy gets tight charge so any sort of fear mongering around what it's trying to choose is not going to have much effect at all on how timely its people themselves feel about the situation. racism related headlines have been on the rise lately especially ones involving politicians. a racist had nation how way systems that are the textbook definition of a racist comment. or not racist yes it's obviously offensive racism is everywhere they're telling us. white nationalist white supremacist western civilization how did that language

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