i. i. i. i i. spy to gas protesters throw stones and light fires in a bid to break onto a bridge near the border with colombia demonstrators. to let us say through he fears it could also contain weapons. of mass demonstrations in albania where thousands have rallied against government corruption there however some western governments are condemning opposition led protests as undemocratic and we speak to a german pensioner the big two from the flat he's lived in for almost a quarter of a century to make room for refugee camps.

i cannot believe that i seventy four year old pensioner can suffer all these troubles even the one paying my rent while asylum seekers are getting it for free. hello there are six pm here in moscow you with our international. president nicolas maduro is calling on people to go to the streets and defend the country's independence as tensions flare near the border with colombia troops there have fired tear gas at stone throwing opposition protesters who are reportedly trying to get us eight shipments. door o'hare's closed all the borders but the self-proclaimed leader why don't his set a saturday deadline to let us aid into the country deliveries have been amassing at

the border but the trucks are blocked by the door oh you fears they could contain 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 venezuela 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 south proclaims 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 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 that i mean you 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 would 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 the concerns are that these trucks carrying u.s. aid could contain hidden weapons which does sound overly paranoid but it wouldn't be the first time such a thing had happened the u.s. insists that it is mission is peaceful calling such claims preposterous now while it seems it's the world versus mature oh here there are those who are calling for more balance the south african ambassador to the u.n. for instance is that no to live. should be made into the country without the president's permission and as russia heats majoris concerns of a possible u.s. ulterior motive the speckle girls having used the delivery of the weapons to venezuela is planned for the beginning of march of these here 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 day 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 it currently loyal to president nicolas maduro by the way what we have here is a highly combustible situation with venezuela teetering on the brink of civil war. and that it's got thoughts now patrick henson who joins us he's from the twentieth century wired dot com nice website and good evening to you patrick we were hearing a report saying the country could be on the brink of civil war do you think it's that severe. there is i don't i don't know i don't know it doesn't look like it from the from the reports that we've seen from other alternative media outlets within the country in terms of what we see in the western mainstream press is food shortages shortages of essential goods sanitary items and then you go and you look at alternative coverage which is coming out of venezuela and you don't see the good shortages like this you don't see food shortages there's not a mazy aid people on the street and of it doesn't look like there's sort of

a proxy paramilitary opposition force that's in place that would be able to cause any serious problems at the moment with the venezuelan police forces and also the military but that of course could change over time if that those clandestine operations that a lot of people are alluding to with regards to the u.s. and shipping weapons in under the guise of a over time this this could develop into. something there could be cells be developed in to destabilize a situation and once it is destabilized what we're seeing on the border these flashpoints this week those are very sort of worrying incidents that could escalate into a situation where you have more of these flashpoints and then it becomes sort of you know they have a sort of moral imperative the opposition that they're broadcasting. listening to the venezuelan foreign minister he thinks that the flashpoints on the border could

be used as a pretext in suggesting for the u.s. to launch some sort of military intervention we could go along with that. it's possible it's possible but the united states is going to have a really big problem intervening militarily in its own hemisphere i mean. that's a that's a big big. problem you know in terms of crossing the rubicon in geopolitically that's huge you know if you look at the united states is even in their most or diversity for its phases of interventionism an aggression in the one nine hundred eighty s. with regards to all salvador nicaragua etc they did they did relied on proxy forces they relied on u.s. backed guerrilla privatized armies with u.s. people advising them but not full on military intervention so so you know it could go so far as the mining of nicaragua harbor ronald reagan you know maybe something more remote like this but i i don't see direct intervention i do see however the

united states using its allies in brazil and colombia to a lesser degree but brazil seems to be. a lot more sort of in washington's political camp let's say. just getting on to the comments if the u.s. state might pump a himself or supports the opposition is not just in venezuela cuba and they all say from a legal point of view where does he stand on that i mean is it against international high fuckin support for opposition. it's completely against international law this sort of proxy intervention is destabilizing of countries but the united states is over overwritten international law and i think syria was. a good example of this where they just completely you know flooded the country with illegal weapons and armed funded even sort of built parallel government structures the united states and the united kingdom through various n.g.o.s like us a d n a whole plethora of soft and smart power tools that they have at their

disposal which they will have already actually deployed in venezuela. and in colombia and in some of these other countries but i don't see they're coming off a huge loss of a proxy war in syria you have to remember the united states it's a crushing defeat in syria it's like their vietnam only they didn't use us boys to fight that war the they hired bought jihadi he's armed and funded them to do that but it's still a loss nonetheless so that model is tenuous i don't i don't see the united states has a lot of problems past brinksmanship and past economic warfare the actual intervention with the level of political awareness that you have right now globally to what it's been doing over the last few decades it's going to be a very difficult trick to pull off for washington although they might go for it. i don't see it right now but it's possible ok all right patchett we'll leave it

there could still be patrick hangs in the twenty first century wired dot com thank you. now if you present even more alice has echoed doris concerns branding the usaid a trojan horse while in cuba more than three million people have reportedly signed hands off in this way the petition urging washington not to intervene meanwhile two concerts were held on different sides of the venezuelan colombian border one against any foreign intervention in venezuela supporting quite a humanitarian relief plan supporters of the latter declaring it was in the spirit of the legend during one thousand nine hundred five live eight concert which raise money for the victims of famine in ethiopia and cohen is that. don't be fooled by this festive atmosphere all around me where we see music going on this is actually one of the most geopolitically hot spots in the world right now behind me on my

right you can see the bridge crossing between colombia and venezuela i'm on the colombian side where this concert is happening it was organized by richard branson the british billionaire let's take a look at what he had to say. i then saw. an interview with one who was asking 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 free calling on the border 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 x. years 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 for free used to participate in this saying it is in the words of the red cross not trying to tarry in aid. so. you knew that they've also joined the mercy corps and said this actually violates the principles of humanitarian aid in terms of partially impartiality. venezuela's border with brazil two people have reportedly being killed to more than a dozen injured in clashes between the venezuelan military and protests is that the incident comes amid confusion over the status of the border presently closed the front is part of the standoff over aid but his rival ordered it to be reopened.

with the venezuelan opposition blaming the government for severe food shortages one investigative journalist in caracas says not everything is as the scenes went to a simple market and this is what he found. i feel lost in the supermarket this is jesus there's a lot of cheeses and meats here fish heads fish heads roly-poly fish heads ok we've got congealed me we've 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. took me like a while to do that because there are so many varieties gary you went through. 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 am 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 the drink is and the mayor of caracas erica at open air food markets around the city where food is being distributed basically for free and 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

economic crisis. the mounting gas has been fun to put up in the capital of the small boat can country of albania and when she's in the grip of intense anti-government protests to 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 used on off as more on this. 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.

start us out of. the country's opposition decided to destroy their parliamentary mandates you know kick the system out of order so what is going on well the allegation the authorities face is no joke a lot of people are certain the government is working hand in hand with the drug lords the 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 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. 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 was 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 of the opposition parties to abandon their mandate 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 lawmaker is going to give the democratic to 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 that 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 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. still to come a german pension is a big hit to make way for refugees and tensions between taiwan and china grow we'll have a look at those stories just after the break. 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 well see that now starting to gobble up as this enormous black hole in the

currency space all free up money will be converted into a big point the dollar a year the shackle drachmas. they're all going to go to big oil. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time. 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 back and 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. again now with jim in pension has been told to move back to the high seas lived in

full most a quarter of a century to make ring for my kids. with. i cannot believe that i was seventy four year old pensioner move 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 are off there was given a nine month eviction notice the authorities though have promised to find him a smaller flat in the meantime his previous hundred fifty square metre apartment in a small town guard will now go to six migrants the town with a population of four thousand is home to fifty five my god it's already brought says he used to work with refugees helping them to integrate. i was involved in refugee work will sell what you've got three years i attended meetings with asylum seekers up at the cafe international to help them integrate into our society i was actively involved and nobody told me back then that they needed my apartment. taiwan's president announced that she is seeking

reelection this week it does follow a sudden spike in her popularity to after she rejected a peace deal with china in contrast the taiwanese opposition party leader has promised to sign a treaty with beijing if his party is able to regain the presidency in twenty twenty with more his of angelo success. 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 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 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 on from going up and 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 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 straight 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 china when 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 process of escalating tensions and a public support for the local government seems to be slipping the ruling party. suffered a significant loss last november in the mid-term elections which forced chang ing when to step down as the party chair so maybe washington support is not going to be enough meanwhile in men when china people are optimistic the ship that day. historically taiwan a mainland china have the same routes to the west it might look like rocky relationship but given all the possible and cultural ties pressured be peaceful ways to bring men in china i'm taiwan together. supposes so you go china is a very strong country now and taiwan is small by itself without any help from

outside taiwan wouldn't last long china has the power to protect its income come 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 it's all right that party is there it's not surprising at all that's always been the way or particularly in more recent decades president's popularity is slipping they had been really you see that loss of popularity as an opportunity to course for strong relations with china if indeed it's 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 back to its state if their economy about the fact that their economy is tied sharp 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. is just coming up to six thirty pm here in moscow you watching i say good to have you company back with more stories and the latest from venezuela at the top of the. i'm sorry i said. so there was a building also up. in the him a mission but. something . mr need to. own.

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