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to eleven thousand protesters flooded the streets of france again as they continue to. play for the rich. being a victim from the he's lived in for almost a quarter of a century in order to make a refugee. speak with i cannot believe. these troubles even the one. getting it for free. attentions of. the usa deliveries from colombia which venezuelan president nicolas maduro contain weapons.

that is when the protesters on the border set a bus on fire the troops fired tear gas at stone throwing opposition protesters as the middle road closed the borders proclaimed leader one guy those saturday deadline people have been showing their support for president madeira earlier in the day he called on people to head to the streets and defend the country's independence and during that rally madeira once again invited to take part in a presidential election previous such requests have been ignored he also announced that for reasons of integrity the country is cutting off ties with colombia. down on the frontier we are defending the borders of our homeland is a territorial integrity and the rights of the free. also on saturday wango i don't

address the venezuelan people and parts of his speech sounded slightly familiar. when i call for the people of venezuela to side with the constitution today venezuela needs us all to be united and to defend our people. made calls from the venezuelan opposition for the country's military to join their ranks three members of venezuela's national guard deserted their posts and tried to flee to colombia or about to show you the moment the desert is trying to run their vehicle through a security cordon on the way into colombia must warn you may find this video upsetting. you know. i. i. i. in a recent interview the u.s.

state secretary mike pompei you said that opposition groups might rely on washington's backing and not just in venezuela if you moving. against these regimes that are not democratic many nicaraguan people cuban people are saying are you going to help us next yes present terms of illustration has done so and what continue to do so not just in venezuela but certainly in the cargo and covert. i can speak now to william alanson he's a professor at marconi university and a former british diplomats you can even see william we've been watching. with interpretation i would say and fascination in a mixture of emotions what's happening in veliz well it's a very sad scenes there and clearly a power struggle and who do you think has the popularity here is it madeira with the majority of supporters is it the opposition leader go i don't know or is this a fair split. it is not as it is undoubtedly my daughter who has the broad support

but there is a minority of very vocal groups and sub groups many of whom are supported financially and in other ways by washington so the cia as has always been the case in south america by the way to many many years. and so we're seeing a very big p.r. operation public relations operation. internationally but in fact if you were actually in venezuela i'm not going now and i've done a small amount of research things are nothing like as bad as they are being portrayed. in fact there's a fair amount of food around the supermarket shelves are fairly full. and we need to remember also that this whole problem has been caused directly by the united states sanctions and embargos which of those is one of the main factors in causing the problem because for the us the us couldn't give the flick of a diluted eyelid about the welfare of the remeasure and people it does care about

its business interests and it cares about keeping the names and well as much as possible away from russia and china and that's what it's about i could go on and on but fire away with your next question it will small strong group of opponents but then there are minority definitely we're talking about a group of opponents do include the likes of colombia of brazil but some of the neighboring countries seem to be siding with the venezuelan opposition why because within those countries the americans are very active and they have their own groups of people who of course will support us foreign policy for various reasons and therefore joined in in the whole farce the anti virus as well if that's the reason eeriest that we have a dare i say severing ties with colombia is a. big move on that. at the moment i don't know whether the diplomatic. actions have been carried out he said it perhaps as as as a stretch to all and he may depending on what happens over the next day or two put

that in to make reality but at the moment i think that even in colombia the situation is not entirely clear so i'm not sure that he will actually end up doing that he may if he has to do to protect his country and to just to close the borders completely and more legally against colombia if the u.s. persists in trying to use colombia and its proxy which does seem to be the case at the moment is tried with brazil but it's not quite as bad but we will colombia and there's a danger of colombia become your proxy not everyone agrees with us foreign policy by the way but there are certain groups that do. look at the scenes are saying from from the venezuela colombia border there are anti there are protesters there throwing stones has got the military on his side but we did see i think at the reports today three national guard members seem to they bolted for the border yes

do you think there is much danger there that opinion could turn against maduro or is that an isolated incident in your opinion. no there was be a small group of people who are against mud all of this is natural in any in any democracy where there's a socialist when we're otherwise it's because they really love the point is is how it stream that they're likely to become in their actions now the fact it three questionable questionable characters have decided to do to do this probably by pre-arrangement with that we international media is in any case suspicious i don't think we're going to see. a sudden difference alteration in the stance of the armed forces who are completely behind behind muddle along by the way with the police what do you think about that the talk of vanity fair in a because people watching at home go that's fantastic humanitarian aid feed the starving the dura is very concerned that there's going to be guns hidden in there is that just you know nonsensical talk or is it a real danger there is currently no forensic evidence that there are guns in there

however leopards don't change their spots and if you look at the u.s. did with nicaragua it would do exactly the same thing bringing guns in under the guise of humanitarian aid etc so there is always that possibility and it's important to note that in fact what i have to say i'm not inspected. and there's no evidence as such yet either way but there is a danger and there still that's another reason to to keep it out unless it's opened on the other side of the border and displayed to the world frankly until every case is over and that's the point and it's very odd that i would not be you know in one of the lose big big containers have been opened actually quite strange i find so they could be certain please hidden yes but we don't know and i can't see that definitely because i haven't a clue frankly nor has anybody except those who might have put the guns in there but then they wouldn't be telling us what's going to appoint william appreciate it

i fascinating to speak to him and some i guess professor at marconi university a former british diplomat of less. for the venezuelan opposition blaming the government for severe food shortages one investigative journalist in caracas says not everything is quite so clear cut my spleen fall went to a local market this is what he found. this is so. so it's really it's better than. i. can see. i. hear really i would still. be completely.

well meanwhile the u.s. is keeping up pressure on venezuela's economy with sanctions against the country state oil company the venezuelan oil is still finding its way into the u.s. market according to the international energy agency traders nearly returned to the level before washington imposed those sanctions as you can see there was a brief slump which was restored within weeks your security advisor john bolton had announced the restrictions in late january. we're going to announce sanctions against the troll is to venezuela associate a name we're paid a vase as it's known by a spanish acronym the state will monopoly we have continued to expose the corruption of moore and his cronies in today's action ensures they can no longer allude fiasco of the venezuelan people john bolton made that announcement after washington recognized venezuela's opposition leader one interim president under these sanctions american firms can continue to purchase venezuelan oil but pavement

should be made into accounts that are not tied to the madeira government economist and founder of the center of american strategic studies that was they outlined why the sanctions haven't old deliveries to the u.s. much america. and its oil that has the largest reserves in the world and i think they wanted the oil and they wanted to. government loyal to them and they think that if they keep. the friends were left with their was right and the regime in and in iraq those are sovereign state and it seemed that the united states trying to. change this is the really a violation of international international norm and this is a. stability a global always america look at their economic interests whether whether the burns well or what whether it is in iraq we hear that all the time.

more than eleven thousand hell of a spro test is a once again marching through the streets of paris and other french cities it's the fifteenth weekend in a row such demo south taken place today's event seen an appeal for calm after the violence witnessed over the last few months. i. thank you i. five separate demonstrations were organized in paris alone six protesters are reported to have been detained that yellow vest movement began in november as a stand against planned increases to fuel taxes but it's evolved into protests and appealed for peaceful action and support for the live in tin basin breaks and it continued outbreaks of pilots director of the french economic observatory on the day said in yet believes that even after all of these weeks the movement's still unlikely to have any influence on

a manual micron's policy. that's lost as you still need to france's resisting we're always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this perspective it contributed to macro's failure as a representative of the the french 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 the contemptuous technocrats so to come this hour a german pension is evicted to make way for refugees that story and more after the break.

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a year shackle drachmas. they're all going to go to big oil. has been five. put up in the capital of the small balkan country of albania which is in the grip of intense antigovernment protests people that want to get rid of the current cabinet alleging corruption and links to organize. 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.

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 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 old bailey 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 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 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. i think in the e.u. in the us i don't know whether it's ignorance or whether they have some other agenda but there is 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. opposition m.p.'s resigning is democratic it's the pinnacle of to look to see. ok let's get back to our top story this hour the ten situation on the colombia venezuela border scare live to r.t. america correspondent dan cohen for more on this story. dan what is the latest where you are placed. well here at the bridge crossing right on the colombian venezuelan border i'm on the colombia side you can see venezuela behind me there was a lot of momentum here the small inning to get these so-called humanitarian aid trucks through but for now it seems to have largely fizzled out here. made an

appearance this morning he climbed up on one of the trucks addressed the crowd and he made a statement standing alongside his allies and the president of chile and the president of paraguay and western correspondents were saying that it would be leading what they called a human wave across this bridge surrounded by protesters and himself had called for a humanitarian avalanche but. nowhere to be found at least here in route and what i've been told is that why don't he's actually left. now the other bridge crossings in the area have seen violent clashes indeed no one humanitarian aid truck was reportedly even set on fire at one point protesters uprooted a tree trunk and used it actually is a battering ram against venezuelan police vehicle in another instance protesters

from both sides were throwing rocks at one another. both nicolas maduro and. have called for protests from their respective supporters. attended a rally in caracas where he actually said that this what he called this attempted coup has actually been defeated there was also an opposition protest in near caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base. now julie and brazil have said that the so-called humanitarian aid has actually entered venezuela at some of the crossing points but that's certainly not the case here is the humanitarian you know these these trucks are still sitting on the colombian side of the border just a few hundred meters ahead of me and the bolivian president evo morales has denounced this and said it's a trojan horse that the u.s. he accused the u.s. of attempting to smuggle weapons under the cover of humanitarian aid and

considering the involvement of the state department special envoy to venezuela elliott abrams who did just exactly that back in the one nine hundred eighty s. under the reagan administration it seems to be a legitimate concern now the latest is that venezuela's president nicolas maduro has ordered the he's cut all ties with colombia so a total diplomatic rupture which is certainly a disturbing development but it's all quiet here at tea and. bridge but at the other crossings there are clashes going on and i thank them a thank owen reporting from the colombia venezuela border force. reboot and may be deported to russia is that he thinks months according to his lawyer as he's hopeful that she will be released in two to six weeks and he joined me earlier to discuss the case we have a status conference for the judge on tuesday and will inform the job the government

prosecutors and hopefully that point will set a date maybe in a few weeks or a month to hopefully have a sentencing. you know fairly soon a matter of weeks and then it at sentencing. if it's time served sentence she would be deported from the beginning and so given that's her position working with the government officials to make that happen as quickly as possible so as the sentence is done do you feel is that you'll fully informed on exactly what's going on you have a pretty good idea of where this is heading could there be surprises that any of the cases that the u.s. authorities might hold for example there's always a risk i mean obviously under cooperation agreement she has to agree to if she's agreed to cooperate with the government and if the government has more things for her to cooperate with her more questions they have they could conceivably keep her a bit longer for people who maybe aren't familiar with this case they want click on their knees and they hear this story. you know something

a spy yeah i mean i think that's very important is that the government is not even alleging she's a spy the government did not charge her with espionage the government in charge her with having classified information what this case is about where the government charged her with was acting as an agent of a foreign official in particular and the torsion who she had known through the gun rights movement was a mentor to her so it's very different then a typical case you know as is has no similarities with anna chapman who at least was alleged to have been involved in passing of cash and drops and had secret communication devices and things like that. german pension has been told to move out of the house that he's lived in for almost a quarter of a century in order to make room for migrants. but. 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 while asylum seekers are getting it for free it's wrong. that was

castro third who was given a nine month eviction notice the authorities have promised to find him a smaller flat his previous one hundred fifty square metre apartment which is in a small town this that that's going to go to six migrants the town with a population of four thousand is home to fifty five migrants roth says he actually used to work with the refugees helping them to integrate. i was involved in refugee work myself for three years i attended meetings with asylum seekers at the café international to help them integrate into our society i was actively involved and nobody told me back then that they needed my apartment of a place for the top of the hour. guys are this is the kaiser report oh my god a lot happening on wall street

financial terra's jamie dimon the rears its ugly head is coming out of the dumpster to make some proclamations stacey and he has the horrible headline on barron's which is usually the death knell of your project j.p. morgan just killed the big queen dream. and of course we all know j.p. morgan coin is here j.p. morgan last week unveiled a prototype for additional coins system using block chain a first among major banks in the fast changing cryptocurrency world this is them called j p m coin and which for now is only at the prototype stage what permit institutional clients to make instantaneous payments with other bank clients the market has been quiet you know waiting for a big bank to come into the market to see what they can do to this markets of the big currencies out there like the u.s. dollar and like she hottest jamie diamond you know we're all waiting to see what it

would come out with and the j.p. morgan coin is so underwhelming and so on interesting and such a shoddy piece of technology that bitcoin immediately rallied because people are saying well that's the best that the money world can come up with then obviously a big coin is a better choice and now it's you know it's pushing higher so you know it's hard to hard to imagine a less charismatic leader of the fi out world he makes some omar khadafi look look appealing by comparison if we can get wayne gacy and pull him out of his grave and make him the representative the world to be more interesting than this kind of walking for peace or jamie dimon well i think your instinct at the very first when this was announced you called the coin which is like mr robots when the evil corporation that ruled the world and was basically overthrown governments and instituting coups and told the u.s. government what to do and they were battling with the chinese.