vehicles were torched on the venezuelan border with colombia tried to break through . the president. more than eleven thousand protesters flooded the streets of france yet again fifteen. we speak to a german being evicted from the flat he's lived in the for almost a quarter of

a century to make room for refugees. i cannot believe that seventy four year old pensioner has moved out and suffer all these troubles even the one paying my rent. getting it for free. is joining us here on our to international life from moscow. so welcome to the program. a confrontation is building up on the border between venezuela and colombia protesters are trying to break through military barricades and aid trucks pass through several vehicles have been set on fire colombian officials are saying two hundred eighty five people have been injured just in the past twenty four hours although venezuelan media are quoting much lower figures president maduro has ordered soul just to blow. call checkpoints with colombia and brazil claims the

u.s. aid convoys are a means of smuggling an arms to the opposition and the pretext for a military intervention on saturday president maduro cut the political ties with colombia expelling diplomats. not political so you support we can continue supporting aggression from colombian territory so i've decided to cut all political and diplomatic ties with the fascist colombian government and this ambassador's must leave in twenty four hours. off spending to protect the lives and well being of colombian public servants and their return to colombia will be organized as soon as possible and like you're going to have the self-proclaimed leader of venezuela one go i adore her age the military to allow aid into the country by saturday the situation spiraled out of control on the border as that deadline expired and trucks were still unable to cross. was

the out. was ok was was . was well here at the d.n.d. this bridge crossing right on the colombian venezuelan border on the colombia side you can see venezuela behind me there was a lot of momentum here the smalling to get these so-called humanitarian aid trucks through. 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 the other bridge crossings in the area have seen violent clashes indeed now 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 there was an opposition protest in their 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 a disturbing development but it's all quiet here it indeed does bridge but the other crossings there are clashes going on. clashes have also erupted on venezuela's border with brazil which has been entirely closed since thursday this was the scene just a few hours ago at one border crossing as rioters confronted security forces there have been reports of gunfire and casualties but so far those claims have not been verified officially and israel and opposition are claiming that some aid deliveries

have made it over the border. the self declared leader of venezuela door is now in colombia he plans to meet the u.s. vice president mike pence on monday at a regional conference in bogo to speaking at a news conference alongside the colombian president he repeated his call for venezuelan soldiers to turn against them or duro promise them an amnesty if they do so earlier the u.s. national security advisor john bolton had a similar message. venezuela's military has a choice embrace democracy protect civilians and allow in humanitarian aid or face even more sanctions and isolation on saturday several members of venezuela's national guard deserted their posts on the border and try to flee to colombia we can show you the moment they try to ram their vehicle through security cordon into the country warning you may find the video distressing.

it. was. it was. to the. meanwhile thousands of people have been showing their support for president maduro speaking at a rally on saturday he called them as well as the take to the streets and defend the country's independence he denounced quote or as an american puppet. of a crisis in venezuela has caused global shockwave so according to the no war on venezuela movement there are now one hundred fifty campaigns worldwide against u.s. interference in the country we heard from an antiwar activist who was one such protest in new york this was a day for the people of the world the grassroots movement to make their voice heard

against another u.s. war a war that's for oil that's for in her realist domination and has nothing to do with humanitarian aid as there is no war that the u.s. has ever what it has been for humanitarian purpose it will raise a firestorm within latin america that is absolutely clear destruction of the economy of venezuela this is a crime that the the u.s. is community very there and saying that there is chaos and and the u.s. intervention is needed but who is causing the economic destabilization in venezuela it's a seizing of venezuela's own funds and the m imposition of sanctions and the blocking of trade that the u.s. is orchestrating the opposition of course realizes that they have a big mediocre form and they are going to make all kinds of claims but they are the

ones who are accepting shipments of arms that will be to many more deaths and they are the ones who are creating a crisis on the border demanding that these trucks get through this is the wealthiest people in venezuela who could well provide for other people if they so chose instead they want this money to get rid of the elected government. with the venezuelan opposition blaming the government for severe shortages of basic goods one investigative journalist in caracas says that everything is as it seems. went to a local market. the truth is. this is so. really it's better than. we can see.

here we have all the meets there's a lot of t.v. here today. you know what you're seeing here really. completely. well meanwhile the u.s. is keeping up pressure on venezuela's economy with sanctions against the country's state oil company venezuelan oil though is still finding its way onto the u.s. market according to the international energy agency trade has nearly returned to the level before washington imposed sanctions as you can see there was a brief slump which was restored within weeks u.s. security advisor john bolton had announced the restrictions back in late january. we're going to announce sanctions against petrol is to venezuela associate

a name we're paid a vase as it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly we have continued to expose the corruption of madeira and his cronies in today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people bolton had made that announcement off to washington recognized as well as opposition leader one why door as into room president under the sanctions american firms can continue to purchase venezuelan oil payments they should be made into accounts not tied to the moderate government economists that come out of was they explained why they will trade is still going strong. america i own the bones of our life and its oil that has the largest reserves in the world and i think they wanted the oil and they wanted to or a government loyal to them and they think that ever they give. over the friends

were allowed to there was right and well and regime in and in. 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. global always america look at their economic interests whether whether the bones were low what it whether it is in iraq we hear that all the time. more than eleven thousand yellow vests protesters are once again marching through the streets of paris as well as other cities across france the fifteenth weekend of unrest. thank you. live separate demonstrations were organized in paris alone six protesters are reported to have

been detained there the yellow vest movement began last the very spot by public anger over a fuel tax hike whether it's evolved into protests against government policies seen as favoring the rich online and elsewhere this for saturday's marches appealed for peaceful action as support for the movement has dipped in recent weeks amid continued outbreaks of violence the director of the french economic observatory on restudy believes even awful these weeks the movement's still unlikely to have any influence on micron's policies. as you still need to france's resisting we always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this perspective it contributed to macrumors failure as a representative for. 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. 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 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. klaus roth was given a nine month vixen notice the authorities have promised to find him a small of his previous one hundred fifty square metre apartment in a small town near stuttgart all go to six migrants the town with a population of around four thousand is home currently to fifty five migrants rauf says he used to work with refugees helping them to integrate into society.

i was involved in refugee work myself for three years i attended meetings with asylum seekers and the caffeine international to help them integrate into our society i was actively involved and nobody told me back then that they needed my apartment. is in the grip of nationwide protests over claims of government corruption opposition lawmakers have resigned on masterminding new elections artie's eagles down off has the details. the it. was. 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.

the 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 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. 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 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 of backing the elites to the lawmakers go it gives a 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 they're doing is provided for in the electoral college i am 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 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 albanian 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. may be deported to russia resign as next month that's according to her lawyer she was the tainted accused of being a russian agent by the u.s. department of justice last july robert risk old says he's hopeful that she'll be released in two to six weeks and join my colleague neil harvey 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 or matter of weeks and then at that 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'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 about challenges failure and to register is a foreign agent in another country they had mention of 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 you know as is 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. well those are the headlines for this hour join us again in thirty minutes time for the latest global news updates here on the international.

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whole and welcome to worlds apart as far right parties obsess about the danger islam presents to the western lifestyle some islamic scholars are increasingly concerned about the danger the western lifestyle presents to slam our guest today argues did if moderate muslims don't step up their game within the next twenty to forty years islam may be gone from europe and both camps relying on the inside

track supporters well to discuss that i'm now joined by our in the van dorn a former member of the dutch freedom party who converted to islam and now represents the party if unity and islamic party in the hague city council it's a wonder and it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and i'm glad to be here now you obviously had a very dramatic political and spiritual transition from what some would call and islamophobia fight each you on this law make one but before we talk about what drew you to islam let me ask what attracted you to the dutch freedom party yes well first of all. people are talking about islam and western europe in the united states and other parts of the world and they are misguided about this because they hear a lot of negative stories in the media from other politicians as. i blame myself that i was not really informed about this in the past. i'm happy to be

a muslim of course now since two thousand and thirteen. that was a long journey took me over a year but if you study islam sincerely with an open mind it will find that actually it's a very peaceful. religion that for what i read about your spiritual journey your interest in islam was particularly sparked by your relationship with gareth builders and he's film fitna which portrayed muslims as intolerant and bound on the world domination do you find it ironic i do you perhaps see it as. part of alice planned that you pass to faith would be inspired by bigotry yes well and bury it i sincerely believe that islam was i thought for a society that muslims are oppressing women promoting terrorism and i felt it my responsibility and the responsibility of our political party to warn people about islam so again this was a lack of knowledge and well now i know the truth by this know well in the period

well i really sincerely thought that islam was a threat for the for the for our freedom in europe i know that just a few months ago another high profile member of the does freedom party your own clever and they from pronouncing his last name correctly converted to islam do you think gary a wilderness will ever come about i can only say. it's not up to me who is guided to islam and not but of course the best thing is not to curse him and to fight him about to make for him and maybe he will convert to islam you never know another member of the freedom party pace with a your. most in the since october last year and i hope that many more will follow i know that both in christian and in islamic tradition there is an expression something along the lines that god are. rules in mysterious ways but i was.