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believe that. these troubles even the one paying my rent. is getting it for free. top stories for the live from moscow welcome to our program here. 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 massing at the border with colombia however 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 violence. 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. or less one even more about this r.t. and here are now joining us live in the studio on this saturday some pretty strong words there from the venezuelan foreign minister a lot of analysts are already forecasting an escalation in the border standoff over the indeed the that is where the colombia border has really become a flashpoint in the ongoing power struggle in venezuela what we have here is a situation whereby hundreds of tons of u.s. aid has piled up at the border leading to increasing pressure and condemnation not just from the u.s. but dozens of nations who have sided with the self-proclaimed leader one so it's easy to paint a picture of president nicolas maduro as an evil desperate you know denying his country this vital aid given we're led to believe that his nation are on the brink of starvation however on the flip side material is insisting that there is no crisis this is all a u.s. orchestrated show as you said today is the deadline step by one credo to let that

aid into the country although it's not entirely clear what will come next it's looking very likely that it. will not be letting that aid into the country wedo house vowed to rally his supporters on mass to go and physically bring that aid into the country but on the other hand there's also the looming possibility that these hostilities could lead to armed conflict donald trump has previously said that all options are on the table including a military one and one kwaito has shared those sentiments. that i mean 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. nikki recently the european union offered to send to venezuela which the elected president nicolas maduro said was most welcome but why of the deliveries from the united states not so welcome all

concerned saw that these trucks carrying us aid could contain hidden weapons which does sound overly paranoid but it would be the first time such a thing had happened the u.s. insists that is mission is peaceful calling such claims preposterous now what is seems it's the world versus majeure out here there are those who are calling for more balance the south african press to the u.n. for instance is that no deliveries should be made into the country without their president's permission and then there's russia heat concerns of a possible u.s. ulterior motive. 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 we saw it on venezuela now to see what will come next whether we will see one going to rally his supporters to defy the president and bring this aid into the country really does rely heavily on whether they can sway the military which are currently loyal to president nicolas

maduro by the way what we have here is a highly combustible situation with venezuela venezuela a teacher and on the brink of civil war parties erin thank you. we've got reaction to the ongoing standoff from historian kevin yo. what's very clear is that what washington is trying to do and what the opposition led by white 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 for us military action the same sions 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 organized a benefit concert for the people of venezuela that was held across the border in colombia correspondent dan cohen was that. don't be fooled by this 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.

just 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. an interview with one who was all skiing for the 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 the 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 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 handed tarion aid and so. you know the navy also joined the mercy corps and who is who said this actually violates the principles of humanitarian aid in terms of partial impartiality. and through another venezuelan border the one with brazil where two people were reportedly killed and over a dozen injured in clashes between the venezuelan military. and protest as the incident comes amid confusion over the status of the border president my daughter had closed the front terrace part of the standoff over aid but his rival in all that it to be reopened venezuela denies its soldiers opened fire on any opposition

protesters. now with the venezuelan opposition blaming the government for severe food shortages one investigative journalist and caracas says not only is it seems like blumenthal went straight to a supermarket in the capital and this is what he found. i feel lost in the supermarket and this is jesus there's a lot of cheeses and meats here fish heads bent heads roly-poly fish heads ok we've got congealed meat 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 is the fruit section and i learned this and can't. find it on my shampoo and conditioner took me like a while to do that 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 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 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 and 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 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 a country of albania which is in the grip of intense 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 a correspondent could have done investigations. the of. the it was 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. the us 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 that 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 gang's 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 is 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 to do. i meant it evidence in 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 vote rigging going on and i think that is why people that were sort of the cherry on the cake you know white people feel that 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 of backing the elites to the lawmakers go against the democratic two 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 the drug den on the course of integrating into the union. what they're doing is provided for in the electoral college i'm a constitution of this country therefore what they are doing is completely one hundred percent democratic yes it's causing a political crisis but this political crisis is only happening because there are

serious allegations of election rigging. 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 a shock to 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. opposition m.p.'s resigning is democratic it's the pinnacle of to a crissy so to come in the mix of yourself that i stories here on r.t. international the taiwanese opposition leader has promised to sign a peace deal with china if he wins the next presidential election and more on that just a moment. as

night follows day all paper money becomes worthless. last three hundred years and gold survived. that of gold or new gold or gold to point out except that it has properties that exceed those of gold we'll see that now starting to gobble up as this enormous black hole in the currency space all for your money will be converted into a big one the dollar a year. drop. they're all going to go to big. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic. move. i don't see how. very. you sit. in.

joining us for your stories a seventy four year old german social worker who helped all during germany's migrant crisis and twenty fifteen has been told he must move state provided apartment to make room for migrants. lived in his flat twenty kilometers from god for twenty four years. with. i cannot believe that i seventy four year old pensioner must move out and suffer all these troubles even the one paying my rent while asylum seekers are getting it for free it's wrong he's been given nine months to move out of his flat mr roth has been promised smaller accommodation now his old

flat will go to six migrants being relocated to that of all the local community the municipality of next to nothing and has a population of almost four thousand and is right now home to fifty five migrants mr roth says he used to work with refugees helping them to integrate into the community. although i was involved in refugee work myself three years and attended meetings with asylum seekers and the caffeine international to help them integrate into our society when i was actively involved and nobody told me then that they needed my apartment. it is all to international thanks for joining us so far of course the deadline is just over a month away and with the u.k. preparing for life outside of the e.u. pauline boyko takes a new look at the latest diplomatic type of british politicians have been trying in recent months here's the latest episode of in case you missed it. 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 craft in slow motion and then. pressure again. and then river and crash again and then again so fast sign of the new cloud 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 hunt did you know that johnson is a flying time 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 its

own mouth and prime minister to resign may's brags that tactic of going over to brussels and making the same desperate dumond's 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 where since trade and foreign secretaries told me tokyo to hurry up and make a person writes that trade deal he japan reportedly last canceled the tolls accusing britain of being high handed and. put the matter to browse to no one is defense secretary gavin williams said an experiment of gun rights of privacy without the guns a colonial mindset without the quality 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. preston.

was in the mine. so what did china hear in response cancel that phrase. every. day in the. largest population. i'm sure everything will be fine often. these. doing. it is international almost two hundred people have rallied in haiti's capital to more people killed in last week's antigovernment protests following the first victims funeral. of the national palace as police used. to dispose of the crowds we understand at least one protester was injured at the rally photos government demonstrations that have rocked the country recently with

people demanding that the current president step down. has been shot by israel's military during ongoing protests at the gaza border. we understand protesters are calling for the. president announced a reelection bid this week. 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 his party is able to regain the presidency in twenty twenty a correspondent. reports. for china. taiwan . china is a threat if you believe the western media narrative of this free democratic land

need 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. the 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 and. 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 leader's reelection bid a quote crazy progress of escalating tensions and a public support for the local government see. 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 but these elections might bring a possibility of lasting peace in their friend lee overture by that party it's there it's not surprising at all that's always been the way or particularly in more recent decades presidents franklin popularity is slipping they had been really you see that popularity as an opportunity to course for stronger relations with china because we need it so it's about taiwan i think what they should recognize is that it's. time with its people have very clear view ability view about the state if their economy about the fact that their economy gets tight start so any

sort of fear mongering around what started 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. the program for this hour thank you for sharing your time with us all new this saturday here at aussie international my colleague here in half an hour's time with more of your weekend of programming. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to try to be for us this is like the before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the house. or sitting.

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