tv News RT February 23, 2019 3:00am-3:31am EST
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even. welcome to the program. the political. deadline to let us into the country imposed by self-proclaimed. expires on saturday delivery massing at the border with colombia but the trucks are being blocked by venezuela's elected president nicolas maduro who fears they may contain hidden weapons. the venezuelan foreign minister says external forces are trying to push his country towards. them. in brief the country's at
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peace and his comb but there are those directly from the united states who want to force a situation such as do one of the venezuelan border with colombia and generate violence in venezuela violating venezuelan sovereignty would anyone this the u.s. insists its aid mission is peaceful with the state department branding claims is being used as some kind of cover as preposterous the 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 delivery should be made without president maduro is concerned and russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman marie has a lot of claims that washington has an alternative agenda that sadly has little to do with humanitarian aid. speckle got all of the things the delivery of the weapons to venezuela planned for the beginning of march and the sneer and several stages by going to bring country using the cargo planes over international companies now we got a reaction to this our so-called aid a stand off from historian kevin young. what's very clear is that what washington
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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 a cost that is well 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
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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 i mean while billionaire richard branson organized a benefit concert for the people of venezuela that was held across the border in colombia correspondent ben cohen who was the. 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 geo politically hot spots in the world right now behind me on my right you can see the t.n.t. to. 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. and then soon. to be with one who was all skiing
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for the world to help and i decided to pick up the phone and speak with him. and see what we could do to help wonderful frequency on the board to illustrate. through music the importance of letting letting relief into the country that 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 through 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 there at eight billion dollars that u.s. sanctions have cost venezuela the red cross and many other major international humanitarian
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organizations have refused to participate in this saying it is in the words of the red cross niger handed tarion aid and so. you know the dave also joined the mercy corps and who is who said this actually violates the principles of humanitarian aid in terms of partially impartiality. and to another one as well and border the one with brazil where two people were reportedly killed and over a dozen injured in clashes between the venezuelan military and protesters the incident comes amid confusion over the status of the border president maduro had closed the frontier was part of the standoff over a what his rival ordered it to be reopened but as well it denies its soldiers. opposition protesters. with the venezuelan opposition blaming the government for severe food shortages one investigative journalist in caracas says not everything is as. this is what he found.
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last in the supermarket this jesus there's a lot of cheeses and meats here fish heads fish heads roly-poly fish heads ok we've got congealed we've got like so much me over twenty dollars and that's the problem here the problem is a scarcity the problem is inflation and speculation brought on by the capitalist class the fruit section. because there are so many varieties. my video was a response to u.s. media which is embedded with that that it's 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
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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 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 and the big business forces behind the opposition are actually cashing in on the
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economic crisis. has been fired on the bob why a put up in the capital of the small bowl can a country of albania which is in the grip of intense antigovernment protests people want to get rid of the current cabinet alleging corruption on links to organized crime opposition m.p.'s have resigned on mass demanding you elections you could have done for points. the it was. 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. the us out of. the country's opposition decided to destroy their parliamentary
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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 that has been exposed by a judicial wire tapes published by the international media. organized crime operating openly with the current government alleged leave 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
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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. but 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 and cocaine smuggling racketeering a serve 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
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parties to abandon their mandates in parliament undermine the basic principles of democracy yeah politic 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 its own europe that albania's mafia have turned into a dirty money cash cow doesn't seem to mind backing the elites to the lawmakers go against the democratic choice of all band citizens and undermine the progress the country has made on the european union path yes the e.u. 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 al during germany's mike in crisis back in twenty fifteen has been told he must move out of his state
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provided apartment to make room for migrants mr roth has lived in his flat twenty kilometers from store to guard for twenty four years. with. i cannot believe that i was seventy four year old if you don't move out and suffer all these drugs and so even though i'm paying my rent well asylum seekers are getting a free view it's wrong. he's been given nine months to move out. current flat mr roth has been promised smaller accommodation his old flat will go to six migrants being relocated to the local community the municipality. has a population of almost four thousand in his home right now to fifty five migrants and mr roth says he used to work with refugees helping them to integrate into the community. refugee work. three years and attended meetings with asylum seekers and the international to help them
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into our society that he was actively involved and nobody. needed him. so the deadline is just over a month away and with the u.k. preparing for a life outside of the e.u. . takes a look at a new diplomatic tack a british politicians have been trying out in recent months it is of course the latest episode of in case you missed. in case you missed it british diplomacy is going through a golden age the world can only look on and tremble with. britain is innovating changing the very definition of relations with other countries it's cold and see diplomacy in recent months and weeks it's been like watching an aston martin craft in slow motion and then. pressure again. and then river and crash again and then again so fast sign of a new i won't plot approach to international relations was when boris johnson was
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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 hunt did you know that johnson is a slang term for a man's. hunt rhymes with coincidence i think this centuries old fancy rhetoric is still in place although the empire isn't as they say in london it's all mouth and prime minister to resign may's brags that tactic of going over to brussels and making the same desperate demands i need to get the same angry rejection from the e.u. doesn't quite work but it brags that desperation was also spotted in japan last week britain's trade and foreign secretaries told me tokyo to hurry up and make a person brings it trade deals he japan reportedly last counseled the trolls accusing britain of being high handed and. put the matter to browse
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to no one is defense secretary gavin williams said and explosions have gotten very diplomacy without the guns a colonial mindset without the whole of the gab picked a fight with russia from day one telling it to shut up and go away part of that and see diplomacy i was talking about and now you. candy with his new aircraft carrier he threatened china with lethal force forgetting that the nineteenth century was in the nineteenth century so what did china here in response cancel gregg's it trade talks i'm told britain to get over is empire so that's a real diplomatic power lies in the fine to century it's week something to threaten the world's largest nuclear power world's largest population with just one poorly protected war set i'm sure everything will be fine often brags that these british politicians seem to know what they're doing. now lots more still to
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themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want. to going to be the person that's what look for you know more people. interested always in the water using. almost two hundred people have rallied in haiti's capital of port au prince to mourn two people killed in last week's antigovernment protests in the morning. which they placed near the national palace after the second victim was buried at
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the local cemetery. rubber bullets were used by the police to disperse the crowd at least one protester was injured but the rally was fueled by mass demonstrations that hit the country more than two weeks ago with people demanding that the president step down. has been shot by israel's military during ongoing protests. forty people wounded protesters are still calling for the return of. taiwan's president reelection bid this week amid a popularity following hope rejection of a peace deal with china and the taiwanese opposition has promised to sign a peace treaty with beijing if indeed his party is able to regain the presidency in twenty twenty
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a correspondent. for china. china is a threat if you believe the. governments china's threats to forcefully retake the island not just. aging a belligerent rhetoric is 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.n. members have never recognized that as an independent country and beijing in has always stuck to its one china policy. taking responsibility for the nation and future generations both sides should pool our wishes and resolve the
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political rivalry and bring about sustainable peace across the taiwan straits your long term a vision for reunification of the motherland juncture is our duty now taiwan's opposition kuomintang 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 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 bid president. 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 worldwide chinese state media says she's playing a dangerous game the editor in chief of the global times a chinese state run news
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outlet called the taiwanese leader's 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 midterm elections which forced china in when to step down as the party chair so maybe washington support is not going to be enough meanwhile in. men 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 they're friendly overture by that party it's there it's not surprising at all that's always been the way particularly in more recent decades president popularity is slipping they have been to me that loss of popularity as an opportunity to course for stronger relations with china because indeed it's about taiwan i think what they should recognize is that. time
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with its people have very clear view are willing to state if they're confident about the fact that their economy gives 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. headlines have been on the rise lately especially ones involving politicians. a racist a nation how will a system stack the textbook definition of a racist comment or a sense. well not racist yet it's all obviously offensive racism is everywhere they're telling us. white nationalist white supremacist western civilization how did that language
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become offensive. it's not just about the law. when it. can be no different from the bam you can exhibit it to it's money but. there's a big achievement of us having the balls to the bridge for some bloody old going on the brains of these fibers sauciest in the front of the stroke. and your programmer at the top of the hour thanks for joining us. i'm. bill does that mean. i'm just not up
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. as night follows day all paper money becomes worthless and that's the history of the last three hundred years and gold has survived and now bitcoin is synthetic gold or new gold or gold to point out except that it is has properties that exceed those of gold will see that now starting to gobble up as this enormous black hole of the currency space all free up money will be converted into a big point the dollar the yes the shackle drachmas. they're all going to go to
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it's the end of the weekend this is boombox broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm part children washington d.c. and we could not be more pleased that you've chosen to join us we've got a great show for you coming up this timeslot is going on in venezuela as the ante has been off by high profile supporters on both sides we'll get to that in just a few second. with our seats there amongst the oath and then cohen is standing by plus the trump ministrations a viral protection agency has walked away from the negotiating table with the state of california over fuel efficiency standards a fierce fight appears to be in the future lauren fix the car coach will join us to explain and later you know it's one of our favorite subjects we talk christos with a c.e.o. was an investor in various crypto and block chain assets coleen sold in the c.e.o.
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of c.m.d. c m t digital holding will be with us from chicago land lots to get to today so we pop started and jump right in let's go. and we start with the ongoing controversy in south america in venezuela where the dueling debate is now taking the form of music musical ball things and what has been dubbed as a battle of the bands and here to help us out is our correspondent sara monto sara welcome thank you bart so the music playing into this is just such a weird thing we're talking about it earlier very different perspectives from pretty high profile people people lot of us if i've heard from tell us what's going on well our president mother with government is actually organizing a concert hands often as well and pink floyd's roger waters is calling out virgin c.e.o. richard branson who is also doing a concert on the other side of the border and support for a self-proclaimed president. and here's what mr waters had to say. about issues.
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