my. fellow idea. of the. i. breaks off diplomatic relations with colombia that's after protesters set a bus on fire and threw stones on the border with india in an escalating dispute over u.s. aid and its troops have responded with. more

than eleven thousand yellow vests protesters are flooded the streets of france again as they continue to rally against government policies which they claim only favor the rich. german pensioner being evicted from the flat that he's lived in for almost a quarter of a century almost a quarter of a century this is to make room for refugees. even the one paying my rent. getting it for free. thanks for joining us this is. venezuela has severed diplomatic ties with colombia and has already responded saying that it will pull its diplomats out of venezuela as soon as possible after president maduro shut down most of the

border to prevent usa deliveries from entering colombia of helping venezuelan opposition activists stormfront to checkpoints. not pull them out so you stop we can't continue supporting aggression from colombian territory so i've decided to cut all political and diplomatic ties with the fascist colombian government and its ambassadors must leave in twenty four hours. reporters in the area are saying seven people have been injured during clashes on the venezuela colombia border where usaid deliveries are trying to cross and as well in soldiers have been using tear gas to push the people back and a group of writers set a bus on fire. was. it was present in the duros also close the border with brazil plainly the saturday deadline to let us aid into the country has expired and as well and rioters have been hurling rocks at border guards.

was. going to. die thanks. to our was. very you know i don't play well here at the deep this 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 now made an appearance this morning he climbed up on one of the trucks addressed the crowd then 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 the human wave across this bridge surrounded by protesters and himself had called for a humanitarian avalanche but is 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 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 why do 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 newark. caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base. now julie and

brazil have said that this 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 the other crossings there are clashes

going on. meanwhile thousands of people have been showing their support for president dura earlier in the day he called on people to head to the streets and defend their country's independence during that rally madeira once again invited the guy though to take part in a presidential election previous such requests have been ignored. also on saturday were and why don't address the venezuelan people and parts of his speech sounded familiar. we're looking for the people of venezuela to side with the constitution today venezuela needs us all to be united and to defend our people. and political scientist william mallinson sees the situation as a us propaganda campaign to base wango has the broad support while there is a minority of very vocal groups and subgroups many of whom are supported financially and in other ways by washington so you see i as his ball is really

a 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 and we need to remember also that this whole problem has been caused directly by the united states sanctions and embargos which is one of the main factors in causing the problem because for the us the us couldn't give the flick of a diluted highly about the world finals remeasure p.q. it does care about its business interests and it cares about keeping the names as well as much as possible away from russia and china and that's what it's about. and it calls from the venezuelan opposition for the country's military to join their ranks three members of venezuela's national guard have deserted their posts and tried to flee to colombia were about to show you the moment that they heard to try

to ram their vehicle through a security cordon into colombia i must warn you you may find this video upsetting. but. was. was . meanwhile the u.s. is keeping up pressure on venezuela's economy with sanctions against the country's state oil company the venezuelan oil is still finding its way to the u.s. market according to the international energy agency trade has nearly returned to the level before washington imposed those sanctions and you can see here there was a brief slump which was restored within weeks u.s. security advisor john bolton had announced the restrictions in late january. we're going to announce sanctions against patrol is to venezuela associate

a name we're paid a vase as it's known by its 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 loot the assets of the venezuelan people. john bolton that made the announcement of the washington recognize venezuela's opposition leader as the interim president under the sanctions american firms can can continue to purchase venezuelan oil but payments should be made into accounts not tied to the madeira government economist and founder of the center of american strategic studies was named outline why sanctions haven't hurt all deliveries to the u.s. all that much. america has i own guns about and it's one of 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 vines well if they keep

friends well not to their site and that well and regime in and in nicaragua those are sovereign state and it seemed that the united states trying to have. change this is the really a violation of international international norm and this is a. stability out of our globe but always america look at their economic interests whether whether than bones are low what it whether it is in iraq severe food shortages what investigative journalist in caracas is that when everything is as it seems like blumenthal went to a local market this is what he found. say there was. this is so. so. it's better than.

i like. rice. here we have all the meats there's a lot of protein here today and you know what you're seeing here really good stuff my. you be completely right the u.s. media is portraying. more than eleven thousand hell of us protests is once again been marching through the streets of paris and other french cities it's the fifteenth weekend in a row that system stations have been held for the last few months. five separate demonstrations were organized in paris alone six protesters were reported to have been detained that the all of us movement it began last november

as a stand against planned increases to fuel taxes but it's evolved into protests against government policies favoring the rich online announcements for saturday's marches appealed for peaceful action and support for the movement dipped in recent weeks with continued outbreaks of violence the director of the french economic observatory only instead in yet police even after all these weeks the movement still unlikely to have influence on my friends policies. you still need to france's resisting will always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this perspective it contributed to macros failure as a representative of the the french economy came into power to exercise definite policies to lower taxes for the rich and 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 pon this he intrudes into their talks in a very disrespectful manner preserves his line of the contemptuous technocrats was still to come this hour a german pensioner is evicted to make way for refugees that story after the break. with manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling closest to protect themselves. with the famous

merry go round. the will. ignore middle of the room sick. 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 been quite a synthetic old 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 for your money will be converted into a big point the dollar the yet the shackle the drachmas. they're all going to go in to big oil.

back albania is in the grip of nationwide protests over claims of government corruption opposition lawmakers have resigned on mass there demanding new elections you can start off reports. the it. was. the it was. is on the 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 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 leaked 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. 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 when the laundry 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 are that sort of the cherry on the cake you know why 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 a 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 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 if you think that the e.u. and 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 that you three opposition m.p.'s resigning is democratic it's the pinnacle of democracy. and german pensioner has been told to move out of the house that he's lived in for almost

a quarter of a century to make room for migrants. would 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 authorities a promise to find him a small flat his previous one hundred fifty square metre apartment in a small town is that god that will go to six migrants the town with a population of four thousand is home to fifty five migrants for authors who used to work with refugees helping them to integrate. or i was involved in refugee work myself for three years i attended meetings with asylum seekers evolved and nobody told me back then that they needed my apartment. may be deported to russia as early as next month according to her lawyer she was detained and accused of being a russian agent by the united states department of justice this was back in july of address school says that he's hopeful she'll be released in two to six weeks and he

joined me earlier to discuss the case. the hang up is really going to be the timing of the sentencing hearing we have a status conference for the judge on tuesday and will inform the judge kind of where we're at in terms of cooperation i will make a presentation as will 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 should be deported fairly soon thereafter always wanted to return to russia that's been her goal from the beginning and so given that that's her position you know i'm working with the government officials to make that happen as quickly as possible so as the sentence is done do you feel as though you you'll fully informed on exactly what's going on you have a pretty good idea of where this is heading could that 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 you know 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 about challenges failure to register is a foreign agent in another country they had mentioned it on a chapman people will immediately the thought thinking so she is spying 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 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. many thanks staying with us here on r.t. international stick around the latest updates on our top stories and headlines coming at the top of the hour.

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