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sometimes you don't really. want to out a lot mostly just. thrown up on the. art of a shuffle steming we're going to indulge in the world and we'll get a little off and then you know what. i want and or. shall i. fall for this i will of the. thing be a set of bust satellites as they did to get us aid in present the door broken borders that if fearing deliveries could also contain weapons. meanwhile say gas is fired at mass demonstrations in albania where thousands of rallied against government corruption however some western governments are condemning opposition that protests as undemocratic and we speak to a german pensioner being evicted from the flats he's lived in for almost
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a quarter of a century to make room for refugees. i cannot believe that i was seventy four year old pensioner i'll just move out and suffer all these troubles even the ones paying my rent while asylum seekers and getting it for free. flow their seven pm here in moscow you're watching r c international venezuelan protesters on the border with colombia have set a municipal bus alight in made growing tensions over u.s. aid deliveries. was was the troops have fired tear gas is throwing throwing opposition protesters who are reportedly trying to get u.s. aid shipments in president nicolas maduro has closed all the borders self-proclaimed
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leader one guy dos saturday deadline to let us aid into the country is a bank do or if it is they may contain weapons. with another episode on the border three members of venezuela's national guard have deserted their post made calls from the opposition for military members to join their ranks warning i. was was meanwhile the u.s. is keeping up pressure on venezuela's economy with sanctions against the country state oil company but venezuelan oil is still finding its way on to the u.s. market according to the international energy agency trade is nearly returned to the level water level before washington imposed those sanctions as you can see here
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there was a brief slump in which were in. the store itself within weeks u.s. sexts secretary adviser john bolton has announced the restrictions in late january . we're going to announce sanctions against troy is to venezuela associates. were paid a face it's known by its spanish acronym the state monopoly we have continued to expose the corruption of your own distro knees and today's action ensures they can no longer loot the venezuelan people. bolton made that announcement after washington recognized venezuela's opposition leader plan was interim president under the sanctions american firms can continue to purchase venezuelan oil that payment should be held in accounts not tied to the military government's let's get more on this now from camille was nice columnist and founder of the center of american strategic studies a very welcome thanks for your time tonight camille firstly is it
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a surprise that venezuelan oil has found its way back into the markets given the sanctions that were in place. well obviously they extended time until until april i think the market has reacted negatively to the the news. boil market has gone up almost eight to ten percent from the day of the sanctions i think right now maybe the money about this going from the oil is going to the front to ireland probably this oil will not flow into the united states i think. looking for a different challenge to there or as we're looking at the market in india. in china probably be russia can help in that because. obviously the united states turban to put more pressure on the vents are seen with
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a long fight going to take place in latin america do you think there's much room for venezuela to sort of get around the sanctions to sell its oil in alternatives to the us still. well obviously there's a still good backroads for violence or allow we have to see how it works out obviously. the chinese there are still have a large investment in vans whether they have an interest to keep the vans or other government intact the russian are to would they have an interest in providing the security and safety because they have an interest and venezuela and latin america here where the american they are trying are sure to cripple the regime in venezuela and they're trying to actually bring that regime in nicaragua obviously it's seen as a change of regime that american tried to myrtle to impose on not in that article and
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i think the backer of vines or other law and cooper nicaragua historically they will stick with their client and seem to be it's more then. it's probably the sovereignty of those three states but now the conflict cars are up in venezuela the pressure is more about burns well about i don't think those country will abandon easily vines about a law because till the said government this government has been elected by the people and should be left to the people to maintain the power they are. frequently being said over the last few weeks it's america's interest to side really pretty much ease the vast reserves of oil in venezuela would you go along with that. yes absolutely i think america has a high on bonds and it's one of that's a hard sell largest reserve in the world and i think they wanted the oil and they wanted to have
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a government loyal to them and they think that ever they. are they friends will lead to their site and that well and regime in cuba and in that regard was. rob mark rob your son and daughter from miami probably he's leading all these by the administration to have change in venezuela in cuba and i can i go are those are solvent state and it seemed united states trying to have it would seem to change this is really a violation of international international norm. for the stability of our global themes that the united states is determined specially this administration to destabilize the country the. current situation we heard it from secretary of state we heard it from the national security actually they working on it on the ground so
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by all was america look at their economic interests whether whether they were what it whether it is in iraq we hear that all the time they want the way they want to have the resources and they wanted the world to buy american products even expanse of other country. interest. this was not going to have to leave it there but good to have you on r.t. to not just come out last night an economist and founder of the center of american strategic studies thank you. now our c.n.n. correspondent dan cohen is in the thick of it on the colombian side of the border defend its lights let's get the latest from him he says standing by for us good evening to you dan just run through them exactly where you are and what the situation is there. well this is the t.n.t. just bridge crossing behind me you can see this is. where colombia and venezuela
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meet you can see the infamous shipping containers that we've seen in so many photos this is a far as well as anyone is allowed to go police are under strict orders to not allow anyone to pass into a colombian president iran do it gives the order for these ten trucks carrying six hundred tons of so-called humanitarian aid to cross the bridge and attempt to enter venezuela and venezuela's borders the police are saying that duquesne may allow protesters to cross with them as well some of these protesters have told us they're prepared for violence so this could escalate into a real clash the the aid is is prepared to be delivered if multiple crossings this is the last one where the deliveries will start at the other bridge crossings protesters have have been pelting the venezuelan national guard with
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rocks venezuelan president in caracas the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has called for his supporters to go to the streets to defend venezuelan sovereignty. the self declared interim president of venezuela made an appearance here just a few minutes ago and addressed the crowd now the major international humanitarian organizations that refuse to participate in this the red cross specifically told this quote not humanitarian aid mercy corps has also denounced this and said this so-called humanitarian aid violates the the principles of neutrality and do no harm . now if the venezuelan authorities are expressing concern that these so-called humanitarian aid. shipments could actually contain weapons and there are major questions about the involvement of the us state department envoy to venezuela
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elliott abrams who in the one nine hundred eighty s. ordered his humanitarian humanitarian aid officers to use their planes to deliver weapons to contras in nicaragua now bolivian president evo morales has also denounced this and said this is simply a trojan horse scenario to deliver weapons to two opposition in venezuela now in cuba three million people have reportedly signed a letter demanding hands off venezuela in solidarity with the government of nicolas maduro that the u.s. contained any weapons are simply absurd and end it and it contains purely humanitarian aid but the venezuelan government has said the country so right now we're we're starting to see protesters make their way a bit closer and many reporters hundreds of police are amassed in the area and it
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really has all of the ingredients for a clash ok thank you dan for that update there was dan cohen there for us on the colombian side of the border with venezuela thank you. venezuelan opposition then the government forces there through children ages one investigative journalist in caracas says not everything is as it seems that actually go to a supermarket and this is what he. i feel lost in the supermarket in the caesars there's a lot of cheeses and meats here fish heads bent head slowly believe fish heads ok we got congealed meat we got like so much meat over twenty dollars and that's the problem here the problem isn't scarce class it's 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
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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 caucus erica at open air food markets around the city where food is being distributed basically for free to the poor and working class community 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.
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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 elsewhere to gas has been fired and barbed wire put up in the capital of the small balkan country of albania which is also 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 because she died of reports. the it was. on fire the small book a nation has been engulfed in
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a massive anti government protests which literally left a stain on the face of the country's prime minister. those are top 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 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 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
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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 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
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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 of the opposition parties to abandon their mandates in parliament undermine the basic principles of
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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 is 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 what 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
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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 the washing out international about what more needs in the companies. you know world's big partners nude models 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 back and
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shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.
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again now a german pensioner has been told to move out of the house he's lived in for almost a quarter of a century to make room for migrants with. i cannot believe that i seventy four year old pensioner if you just move out and suffer all these troubles even the one paying my rent while asylum seekers are getting it for free it's wrong your class rother was given a nine month of fiction notice the authorities have promised though to find him a small a flat his previous one hundred fifty square metre apartment in a small town will now go to six refugees well the town with a population of four thousand is home to fifty five migrants says he used to work with refugees helping them to integrate. i was involved in refugee work myself for three years i attended meetings with asylum seekers at the cafe international to help them integrate into our society and i was actively involved
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and nobody told me back then that they needed my apartment. more than eleven thousand galavis protesters are once again marching through the streets of paris and other cities across france evening it is the fifteenth weekend in a row such demonstrations have been held today's event has seen an appeal to for calm after the violence witnessed over the past few months of five separate demonstrations were organized in paris alone six protests is reported to have been detained there yellow vest movement began last november as a stand against planned increases to fuel taxes however it has evolved into protests against government policies seen as favoring the rich online and saturday's marches to depict the peaceful action a support for the movement has dipped in recent weeks in the continued outbreaks of violence the director of the french economy observatory henry didn't yak believes even after all these weeks though the movement's still unlikely to have any
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influence on micron's policies. as you still need to rule france's resisting we always skeptical towards neoliberal invasions and from this perspective it contributed to macros failure as a representative of the turn in the fridge economy came into power to exercise definite policies to lower taxes for the rich in businesses to keep wages low to cut back social spending and so on it's obvious that he won't give up on the stances due to the yellow vests this week during discussions on unemployment benefits we see that macron aligns with his strategy he condemns social services partners he intrudes into their talks in a very disrespectful manner preserves his line of a contemptuous technocrat just approaching half past seven. needling here in moscow we're back again with headlines and more stories at the top of.
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