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even the. international. the political standoff in venezuela is escalating a deadline to let us into the country. today. amassing at the border with colombia but the trucks are being blocked by venezuela's elected president nicolas maduro who fears they may be containing weapons. trying to push his country.

in brief the country is at peace and is calm but there are those directly from the united states who want to force a situation such as the one of the venezuelan border with colombia and generate violence in venezuela violating venezuelan sovereignty. our let's learn a bit more about this arctic air and are joining us here on this saturday in the studio good to see you very strong words just there from the venezuelan foreign minister it certainly seems the border standoff well over this aid is getting worse absolutely the venezuela colombia border has really become a flashpoint in this ongoing power struggle between nicholas mature and quiet don't hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid is now sitting outside of the venezuelan border leading to increasing pressure and increasing condemnation on nicolas maduro with the world looking at it saying well why isn't he letting this aid into his country if this people are starving which is what they've been led to believe well the u.s. and dozens of other nations who have sided with opposition leader

a leading us to believe that. excuse me so it's easy to paint a picture of nicholas mature as this evil desperate to use letting his people start of but on the flip side we've got nicolas maduro saying well if there isn't a crisis in venezuela and he's called this whole thing a u.s. orchestrated show now today as you said is the deadline that so great are set to let this aid into the country although it's not one hundred percent clear what will happen if it does not let the aid in he has vowed to get his supporters to rally them up to mass to go and get this aid physically however that there is still another option on the table and that's the option of a military intervention earlier we've heard president trump of the u.s. not taking the military intervention possibility off the table and greater himself has also said the same although a little more hesitantly i should say. you know we would do everything

possible once again this is obviously a very very controversial subject making use of our sovereignty and within our jurisdiction we will do what's necessary it's interesting to me in recent days the elected venezuelan president nicolas maduro has said to the e.u. any and all from the european union is most welcome why is it not most welcome from america will the concerns are that these aid trucks may be may contain he didn't weapons it sounds a little bit paranoid a little bit preposterous but it wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened on the promise of the u.s. the u.s. is insisting it's aid mission is peaceful calling the claims of madeira post-arrest while it would seem that well it's the world versus mature and not everyone is taking kwaito side though we have the south african ambassador to the u.n. saying that no aid delivery should be allowed into venezuela without said the permission of madeira and there's also those that support concerns of an ulterior

motive including russia. the speckle group living in the delivery of the weapons to venezuela is planned for the beginning of march of this year in several stages via the neighboring country using the cargo planes over international companies so what we're expecting to see now is whether it will be able to garner enough support to go to get that aid to remember that the military in venezuela is still siding with nicolas maduro the elected leader and if this does happen if it does if grade zero is able to mote mobilize people then we could have a very worrisome situation on the hands and doing all right. thank you. well i did get her reaction to the ongoing 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 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 meanwhile a billionaire richard branson organized a benefit concert for the people of venezuela that was held across the border in colombia a correspondent don cohen was that. don't be forward by this be festive atmosphere all around me where we see a music going on and this is actually one of the most geopolitically hot spots in the world right now behind me on my right you can see the t.n.t. does 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. then soon. to be with one 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 wonderful frequency on the board to illustrate.

through music the importance of letting letting relief into the country for the better as well and 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 exist he is accepting 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 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 in the words of the red cross niger had a tarion aid. so. you know they've also joined the mercy corps and

who is who said this actually violates the principles of humanitarian aid in terms of partially impartiality. with brazil two people were reportedly killed and over a dozen injured in clashes between the venezuelan military and protesters. confusion over the status of the border president. denies that soldiers opened fire. with the venezuelan opposition blaming the government for severe food shortages one investigative journalist and. blumenthal went to a supermarket and this is what he. lost in the supermarket this cheese is. here. it's.

like so much me twenty dollars that's the problem here the problem is. inflation and speculation. 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 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 food random situation that has to do with actually the kind of capitalist class here that supports the opposition and 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. has been fired on by why i put op in the capital of the small balkan country of albania which is in the grip of intense

anti-government protests 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 let's find out exactly what this is all about here's our correspondent you could have gone off. the air. i. 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 our start up out of. the country's opposition decided to destroy their parliamentary mandates no 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 operating 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 gangs 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 we do every allegation of corruption you know they were documented evidence and there is allegations and but in this instance there are significant documented in evidence links between the current government organized crime money laundering and the trafficking of drugs. and i think it needs to be ascertained as to whether the two thousand and seventeen elections were free and fair or whether there was buying and breaking going on and i think that is why people that sort of the cherry on the cake you know white people feel they need to be said action taken 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 and cocaine smuggling racketeering a server 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 their mandates in parliament undermine the basic principles of democracy yeah a political 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 too as a full 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 what they're doing is provided for in the electoral college i'm a constitution in this country therefore what they are doing is completely one hundred percent democratic yes it's causing a political crisis for. this political crisis is only happening because there are serious allegations of election. i think that the e.u. and the us i don't know whether it's ignorance or whether they have some other agenda but they raise i mean i mean people are shocked at the way that they're behaving and they've systematically failed to address any of the protests in albania over the last year the protesters are angry about this civil society is angry about this me as a journalist i'm angry about this because the fact two to three opposition m.p.'s

resigning is democratic it's the pinnacle of to what krissy. are still to come here on your started a program on r t the taiwanese opposition leader has promised to sign a peace deal with china if indeed he wins the next presidential election but is in the mix of your saturday stories we're back in a moment. you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for

the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured to send to the public. when the ruling class is protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. real news is really. good of you to join us today here on c a seventy four year old german soldier social worker who helped algerian germany's migrant crisis back in two thousand and

fifteen has been told he must move out of his state provided apartment to make room for migrants mr roth has lived in his flat twenty kilometers from stuttgart for twenty four years. i cannot believe that i seventy four year old pensioner must move out and suffer all these troubles even though i'm paying my rent well asylum seekers getting it for free it's wrong. he's been given nine months to move out of his current flat and mr roth has been promised smaller accommodation now his old flat will go to six migrants being relocated to the local community in fact the municipality of nectar out of tel thing and has a population of almost four thousand that is right now home to fifty five migrants mr off says he used to work with refugees helping them to integrate into society. i was involved in refugee work myself for three years and attended meetings with

asylum seekers and the caffeine international to help them integrate into our society i was actively involved and nobody told me back then that they needed my apartment. so 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 tack a british politicians have been trying out in recent months in case you missed it here it is the latest episode of that and into question. 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 he diplomacy in recent months and weeks it's been like watching an aston martin practice in slow motion and then. pressure again. and then river and crash again and then again so fast sign of

the new i won't claude approach to international relations was when boris johnson was put in charge of the foreign office for two years and amazingly he resigned but so 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. hunt rhymes with the incident i think this centuries old fancy rhetoric is still in place although the empire isn't as they stand on its own mouth and i would rather prime minister to resign may's gregg's that tactic of going over to brussels making the same desperate demands i need to get the same angry rejection from the e.u. doesn't quite work but it brings the desperation was also spotted in japan last week britain's trade and foreign secretaries told probably 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 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. he. threatened. that the nineteenth century was in the mind. so what did china hear in response can some brains that create. every. week something to threaten the world's largest. largest population with just one. voice that i'm sure everything will be fine often brags that these british

politicians know what they're doing. it is often international almost two hundred people have rallied in haiti's capital to mourn two people killed in last week's antigovernment protests the mourners were. placed at the national palace the second victim was buried at a local cemetery here. were used by the police to disperse the crowd at least one protester was injured and the rally was fuelled by mass demonstrations going on for the past couple of weeks people saying the president has got to step. has been shot by israel's military during ongoing protests of the goals of border about forty people we understand were also wounded protesters are calling for the return of occupied by israel. taiwan's president announced

a reelection bid this week amid a boost in the popularity following her rejection of a peace deal with china in contrast the taiwanese opposition party leader has promised to sign a peace treaty with beijing if indeed his party is able to regain the presidency in twenty twenty. reports for china this island is part of its territory for taiwan china is a. threat if you believe the western media narrative that this free democratic land needs to defend itself from the imperialist the bishan of changing things governments 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 year when 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 wisdom resolve the political rivalry and bring about sustainable peace across the taiwan straits with a long term vision for reunification of the motherland wasn't used. 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 are 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 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 land 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 by that party it's there it's not surprising at all that's always been the way particularly in

more recent decades trends of this franklin's popularity slipping they had been really you see that loss of popularity as an opportunity to push for stronger relations with china if indeed it's about taiwan i think what they should recognise is that it's. time with its people have very clear view are willing to take the you back to that state if their economy about the fact that their economy is touched 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 it's people themselves feel about the situation. that's a program for an hour an hour to international their you know a saturday news program just return to the top of the alamar here well what headlines live on it's a hope to see you. join

me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you than. i thought it would be just that i will accept the idea of course this would be ocean without by listening us they're going to go to the six to seven with your was it about is it's got to go or we are going to be slipping i underline is slipping and go one step i underline reality which means that we will be living being in it be fun one this did situation there are four years later with find itself naive out

of your wish i was the north you're welcome i think i was very clear. not after times are we going underground is africa's biggest oil producing nation nigeria attempts a presidential election for the second time in a fortnight coming up on the show we investigate arguably u.k. e.u. breaches of international law from the middle east to lobby america with one of the world's greatest human rights lawyers jeffrey robinson p.c. hans did jeremy cooled engine a blind eye to his own m.p.'s now revealed as those who would jump into bed with next story just voted for welfare cuts that have led to one hundred twenty thousand deaths plus be quiet now and for the rest of the session you used to practices a barrister you didn't make those tools of the roofing noises in the courts or if

you did they want to you know go practice that u.k. parliamentary chaos as elected officials abandon the policies that got them into power both the civil coming up in today's going on the ground the first even before the broadcast of wednesday's episode we were inundated with tweets of a clip featuring journalist but this would be the end allegations that the white helmets. have been involved in the trustees including human trafficking and organ harvesting in syria in fact the allegations had originally streamed on the united nations t.v. channel as part of a un discussion on the british backed white helmets organization in syria the clip being commented on was actually part of a whole going underground episode that included challenges against unverified claims and invitations to the u.k. government the white helmets and others that did not stop elliot higgins of the belling categorisation infamous for exposing alleged chemical attacks in souls re tweeting i wish i could say i was surprised russia today would rule because this disgusting insane propaganda about the white helmets but it's actually just very own brand for them another staff member of belling cat nick waters tweeted of the

twitter organization against going underground complaining that the clip.