i i. i i. i i. i i. i. i i. a deadline to let us aid shipments into venezuela impose by itself position later. today the country's president deliveries could contain. demonstrations in the balkan country of albania and to rally against government corruption although some western governments have condemned the protests as undemocratic and we speak to a german pensioner being a big hit from the flat he's lived in for a quarter of

a century to make room for migrants. but. i cannot believe that seventy four year old pensioner can suffer all these troubles even the one paying my rent. getting it free. welcome you watching r.t. international three pm here in moscow. the political standoff in venezuela is escalating the deadline to let us aid into the country imposed by the self-proclaimed interim leader expires on saturday deliveries have been amassing at the border with colombia but the trucks are being blocked by venice why this elected president nicolas maduro they may contain hidden weapons 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. the evidence 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 kwaito so it's easy to paint a picture of president nicolas maduro as an evil desk part 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 today is the deadline set by one way doe 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 has 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 but i don't know we would do everything possible once again this is obviously a very very controversial subject the making use of our sovereignty and within our jurisdiction we will do what's necessary and he 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 or concerns are that these trucks carrying u.s. 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 madeira head there are those who are calling for more balance the south african ambassador to the u.n. for instance is that that no deliveries should be made into the country without their president's permission and then there's russia he has concerns of a possible u.s. ulterior motive the speckle girls having used the delivery of the weapons to venezuela plan for the beginning of march of this year in several stages by the neighboring country using the cargo planes over international companies so it's all eyes on venezuela now to see what will come next whether we will see one kwaito 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 of currently loyal to president nicolas maduro either way what we have here is a highly combustible situation with venezuela teetering on the brink of civil war

and karen there will be live in president evo morales has also echoed concerns branding the u.s. aid a trojan horse while in cuba over three million people have reportedly signed a hands off and is waiting to sion urging washington not to intervene we've got reaction to the standoff from the historian kevin yeah well what's very clear is that what washington is trying to do and what the opposition led by the way though in venezuela is trying to do is to provoke the venezuelan government to violence into repression into extreme action trying to provoke it to do something which could be used as a justification for sure u.s. military action. against the economy. illegal under international law of course have cost them as well as six billion dollars so when you compare that. the amount of so-called humanitarian aid that's being pledged

from the us 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 to concerts were held on different sides of the venezuelan colombia border one against any foreign intervention in venezuela and the other supporting why those humanitarian relief plan is done cohen attended that one. 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. 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 sue. 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 wonderful frequency on the board to illustrate the universe 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 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 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 and the words of the red cross in niger handed terry in aid. so. you know dave also joined the mercy corps and who is who said this actually violates the principles of humanitarian aid in terms of parsing impartiality. cohen reporting their will to another fan as well i'm bored now the one with brazil where two people were reportedly killed in over a dozen were 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 is part of the standoff over a day but his rival ordered it to be reopened venezuela denies its soldiers opened fire on opposition protesters. i with the venezuelan opposition blaming the government for severe food shortages one of best bit of journalist in caracas to say that not everything is as it seems like spring in full went to a supermarket and this is what he found. i feel lost in the supermarket this jesus there's a lot of cheeses and meats here fish heads heads roly-poly pish heads here we got congealed me we got like so much me over twenty dollars 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. i learned this in camp. 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 have the 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 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 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. now take gas has been fired in barbed wire put up in the capital of the small balkan country of albania which is in the grip of intense and government protests people want to get rid of the current cabinets and corruption and links to organized crime opposition m.p.'s have resigned on mass to demanding you elections you go. deeper into the story.

the it was. 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 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 in 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 league 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 to do. demented evidence in there is allegations and but in this instance there are significant documented no 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 them and the 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 but albania as 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 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 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 from ignorance or whether they have some other agenda but there is 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 democracy and i still have three this hour on r.t. the taiwanese opposition leader has promised to sign a peace deal with china if he wins the next presidential election that's among the stories to come just after the break.

what politicians do do something. to put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to. get it right to cross the survival of israel more people. interested in the waters of our. last question.

hello again our german pensioner has been told he has to move out of the house he's been living in for almost a quarter of a century to make room for migrant arrivals with. i cannot believe that i seventy four year old pensioner if you smooth out and suffer all these troubles even though i'm paying my rent while asylum seekers are getting it for free it's wrong your class rotha was given a nine month notice the authorities have promised though to find him a smaller alternative flat so place one hundred fifty square metres in size in this state guard will now go to six migrants where the local community is

a population of almost four thousand and is home to fifty five migrants roth says used to work with refugees helping them to integrate. while of i was involved in refugee work myself three years i attended meetings with asylum seekers at the cafe international to help them integrate into our society because i was actively involved and nobody told me back then that they needed my apartment. now the breaks a deadline is just over a month away with the u.k. preparing for life that side the you and i takes an alternative look at some of the tactics employed by british politicians during the process is 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 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 clearly 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. son to 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 i travel says 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 brings the desperation was also spotted in japan last week britain's trade and foreign secretaries told only tokyo to hurry up and make a person breaks it trade deals he japan reportedly last canceled the troll 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 call 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 china do in response cancel gregg's it creates i'm

told to get over it every client now that's a real diplomatic power lies in the twenty first century it is weak something to threaten the world's largest nuclear power the world's largest population with just one poorly protected warship i'm sure everything will be fine after brags that there are these british politicians seem to know what they're doing. now almost two hundred people have rallied in haiti's capital of port au prince to mourn two people killed in last week's anti-government protests there following the first victims funeral carried the second man's coffin to the presidential palace police used tear gas and fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowd at least one protester was injured the rally follows violent anti-government demonstrations that have rocked the country recently with people demanding that the current president step down.

the oh my god. meanwhile the palestinian teenager has been shot by israel's military during ongoing protests the gaza border that forty people did protest is calling for the return of land occupied by israel. taiwan's president announced her reelection bid this week amid a boost in her 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 his party is able to regain the presidency in twenty twenty evangelos cips s. reports. for china this island is part of its own territory but 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. to be 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 for the long term vision for reunification of the motherland wasn't used. now taiwan's opposition kuomintang party is the german 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 pro. escalating tensions and the 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 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 the possibility of lasting peace and 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's popularity is slipping they had been dreaming that loss of popularity as an opportunity to course for stronger relations with china get to meet its about taiwan i think what they should recognize is that it's. time with its people have very a clear view are willing to the view that state if your economy about the fact that their economy gets tired start 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. just gone twenty five pos three here in moscow and i find the racism related headlines have been on the rise lately especially ones involving politicians. racist the nation system started a textbook definition of a racist comment. well not racists yet it's obviously offensive racism is everywhere they're telling us. white nationalist white supremacist western civilization how did that language become offensive. it's not just about the law. when it's. no different from the band you can submit it to

do it. was a big chiefs of us live in the bush to the bridge for some bloody old going to brings in these fine but sausage still in the front of these on these roads. we see companies softening in watching i think the national. news as usual and the headlines to even just. 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 shock all the drama that they're all going to go to because. they thought that. was a thank you thank you welcome to exactly the night this is a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. i bring you tonight more on the largest corruption scandal in american history and you will not hear about this on any of our fluffy headed mainstream media outlets however weirdly enough you will hear about it from our own government

accountability office that's right we have a division in our federal government called the office of inspector general that is supposedly tasked with preventing illegal inofficial activity each office includes inspector general employees charged with investigating for all of the ways to be used embezzlement and mismanagement of any kind now that quote is from wikipedia which also states that i'm a founding member of the mexican band los means most. he laughed a little too hard at that when i write i was awkward i wish i was in that band but their quote about the office of inspector general would be actually has that right so you would think that this office might have something to say about the twenty one trillion dollars of unaccounted for spending at the pentagon thank you.