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after trucks carrying u.s. aid amassed on the country's borders with colombia and brazil that's severe clashes at checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to president nicolas maduro. the self-proclaimed interim leader of the country one guy doe duros main opponent as all of the aid to be allowed into venezuela is proud of the president's democratic election and inauguration as illegitimate president by dodo accuses quite go of attempting to stage a coup aided and abetted by the us meanwhile washington warns is preparing more

sanctions for venezuela. venezuela's military has a choice embrace democracy protect civilians and now in humanitarian aid or face even more sanctions in isolation. the u.s. will take action against those who oppose the peaceful restoration of democracy in venezuela now is the time to act in support of the needs of the desperate venezuelan people meanwhile thousands of people have been showing their support for president my daughter oh speaking at a rally on saturday he called on venezuelans to take to the streets and defend the country's independence and he didn't quite go as an american politician because. i swear it's only assume the duty of the national executive president of venezuela . i. want or you know is the interim president of venezuela we recognize and express our full support for the president

of venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly. it is clear that not just murder of his not the legitimate leader from a spoiler so we're not talking to police that plan is the right person to forward. you. are going to. remain on. the front. runner trail. box the final cylon. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on mine .

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well here at the deep this bridge crossing right on the colombian venezuelan border i'm on the columbia 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. 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 and another instance protesters from both sides were throwing rocks at one another. both nicolas maduro and one by doe have called for protests from their respective supporters there was

an opposition protest in your caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base . now julie and brazil have it said that the so-called humanitarian aid. it 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 he has 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 on saturday several members of venezuela's national guard deserted their posts on the border and try to flee to colombia are about to show you the moment they tried to ram their vehicle through a security cordon into colombia and warning you may find this video disturbing. and another controversy is happening at the venezuela colombia border the

humanitarian aid group the red cross has warned the people of falsely advertising themselves as workers for the organization and attempting to cross into venezuela expressed concern that these actions might risk the impartiality of the organization's work. now the crisis in venezuela has caused global shock waves according to the no war on venezuela movement there are now one hundred and fifty campaigns worldwide against u.s. interference in the country and we heard from an antiwar activist who was at a 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 imperialist domination and has nothing to do with humanitarian aid as there is no more that the us has ever fought and has been for humanitarian focus 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 us is community there and saying that there is chaos and the us intervention is needed but who is causing the economic destabilization in venezuela it's a seizing of venezuela's own funds and the an imposition of sanctions on 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 is only to get rid of.

well as i mentioned earlier the leader of the opposition one quite over is planning to meet with u.s. national security advisor john bolton on monday that as tensions intensify along then as well as borders with brazil and colombia we will keep you updated throughout the day on what develops. it is our international front has been rocked by. the fifteenth consecutive weekend of protests as yellow vest demonstrators vent their anger over government policies the french interior ministry says that more than forty six thousand people rallied across france on saturday almost six thousand of them right in the center of powers . thank you. thank you.

separate demonstrations walgren ised in paris alone of six protesters are reported to have been detained in the yellow first movement began last november over fuel tax hikes and it's evolved since then into protests against unpopular government policies before the march this saturday online announcements appealed for peaceful action a support for the movement has shifted in recent weeks amid continued outbreaks of violence. the yellow vests over social media that they're planning what they describe as a decisive act three days of protest starting march the eighth we spoke to the director of the french economic observatory who says it's unlikely the movement will manage to influence policies much more. yes aussies you still need to france's resisting will always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this

perspective he contributed to macros failure as a representative of the talent in 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 partners he intrudes into their talks in a very disrespectful manner preserves his line of a contemptuous technocrat. an act of censorship that's how the president of the international federation of journalists described facebook's suspension of several affiliated accounts that's after the media freedom representative from the european security organization the s c so he's closely following the situation as well last week the social networking giant blocked four pages belonging to my fake media which produces online news in which a c.n.n.

report recently suggested it was attempting to conceal its ties to russia here's what philip luth had to say about the move closing a facebook account or any internet link from the media without prior warning can be considered as an act of censorship opposed by the i have j r t's what i've got they have delved deeper into the story now and explains why facebook's critics a crying foul. what happened was unprecedented a channel with four million subscribers billions of views blocked or for its content not for saying anything malicious or untrue or hateful but just because of its nationality russian i mean c.n.n. which was behind in the investigation that led to this said it best so great viral videos great design you know and the content was pretty critical of the u.s. government of us mainstream media but nothing that would be totally out of the

ordinary necessarily a lot of legitimate arguments but as we started digging into it we did find that the company which set up these pages over the past six months was actually backed by or why are they doing that's why they voiced seeing legitimate arguments critical of us foreign policy totally journalist the thing to do criticize and discuss stuff right this is censorship selective biased unfair prejudiced and blatant regardless of what you think of ron you call it russia or anything else this trio c.n.n. u.s. funded german marshall fund and facebook working together to selectively censor is highly disturbing but this is the inevitable outcome of breaking facebook to censor here is a taste of the u.s. media acting just like state media a buzz feed reporter calls ran a colleague's videos for russia backed in the now and to us readers because they

criticize us foreign policy for example the venezuela coup attempt censorship is the most commonly used word in reactions to this ban and there have been many remarkable also is that facebook talked to everyone they wanted but haven't said a word reason do or justify the anything to the folks they blocked facebook hasn't contacted us that all the pages were just unpublished. and it had an automated button we could appeal to which we did of course we have not heard a word from facebook and it's been over three days now the suspected reason is that it didn't reveal it's russian funding which no one doesn't face book and never have we did not violate any rules there is no rule that you have to post anything about your funding or personal funding on facebook no one does it not any of the u.s. sponsored outlets not any of the qatari sponsored outlets no country not china not

turkey not russia not the us has to put these labels on their facebook pages there is no requirement by facebook that people disclose their funding the b.b.c. doesn't do it the c.b.c. is facebook page doesn't do it al-jazeera facebook page doesn't do it it's just not standard industry practice to disclose your funding on facebook you can't help but feel for the food media i know many of them to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only because the side of the whims of ceaseless censors personally i'm surprisingly calm because i've spent in the now was a project that i created from scratch it's in the now because my name's and he's in our way like this is my baby. i spent the last four and a half five years of my life growing this channel. the last year trying to build the team young professionals that really want to make good important contacts. so

it's pretty big for me in terms of the broader picture it's huge oh it's huge all right the crime it appears was being too russian and this now seemingly is a crime enough to get your bad and the result questioned whether facebook should have the power to decide what people see and hear i mean the theory beyond the incident was is more people. wanted to see something that they should be allowed to see it and the of the when you do internet searches the things that come up when you put a question in you supposed to find the thing that most people are looking at but of course they've no started talking about changing the algorithms there's a lot maffet media would like to say to facebook as anger as hurt feeling of being picked on bullied. is also understanding and a simple human p facebook if you're listening what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in

a pressure from various forces to suppress this or that content based on political reasoning but do not succumb to censorship do not succumb to complying with various government funded out that's regardless of what government they're funded by to censor let your users decide what's good and what's bad do not get in the in the business of dictating. what constitutes good speech and bad speech it's a slippery slope. and it could lead to disaster in the end for facebook later applied to market media saying that the pages will be allowed back onto the site if they make clear that they are affiliated with artsy talk show host jimmy door believes facebook really has no legitimate reason to block news pages. this is a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in silicon valley deciding who gets freedom of speech based on completely random rules that are public and they make up on the fly

that that's what so this is an actual censorship happening so if you're going to take away someone's rights you have to have a transparent process to do that you can't just do it willy nilly with a bunch of only elected bureaucrats in the middle of the night in silicon valley deciding who gets to have freedom of speech or not and that's what's happening right here and by the way it's happening in conjunction with the government which makes it doubly horrible but it's not really being reported correctly in the united states because corporate media is in bed with the same people. thought the media went into a bit of a spin this week of a lot of it putin's warning that moscow was ready to talk at perceived threats with this latest hypersonic missile it's apparently ignored the fact that the russian president also stressed that the new weapon is meant solely for defensive purposes . threatened to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target the united states with its new generation of

hypersonic missiles if the us bases intermediate range missiles in europe despite his friendly relationship with president trump vladimir putin has vastly excel aerated russia's missile programs and he openly says gives moscow the edge over america during his annual state of the nation address on wednesday president putin announced that the new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed from both land and sea will undergo full testing later this year which of course more than he could have done off his details. another day another excuse to panic for the mainstream media for them for the second year in a row the flavor of lattimer putin's state of the nation address is faster. deadly are you sure. you another advantage of the product is work on which you don't go in and you certainly be completed on schedule namely i would like to talk about the comm hypersonic missile good i'm going to get you and that's

a big enough trigger to get everything from the tabloids to serious outlets it ing repeat the concerns are not entirely unreasonable though the zircon message is said to become a force to reckon with it's a silent assassin covering three kilometers in one second means zircon travels nine times faster than the speed of sound the target literally won't hear it coming there's no hiding from it either it can hit both the ground and see targets within a range of a thousand kilometers it can be launched from either submarines or from military ships it is out of the books ready to use with the launch pads already in service yet the intimidating tech specs and to a bigger extent even the click bait headlines. obscuring the fundamental thing about the new weapon russia hopes it will rust away and fall apart and not a single shot will be fine it usually is

a word you can you. call russia the biggest threat to the us around with but i can tell you that russia wants to have an equal and friendly relationship with the united states russia is not threatening anyone at all our actions in the security solely as a response and so they are of a defense nature but i need to moscow says it won't throw the first punch it only ever once the missiles to be used as blanks during military drills but it's better safe than sorry we discussed what this new weapon technology might mean for global security with a number of experts i think it's a reasonable massy you know i have to tend to agree with the sentiments that putin has expressed because i saw no purpose that i think the nation of ours were celebrations of the animosity between the two countries came by us is cancer not of i and half out of the treaty and that opened up the door for this so i think it's

reasonable for defensive purposes to do this i think we're a lot safer then the people in washington and the people who build our weapons claim we are because even if it's not for the fact of aggression and starting a war i think people when they make profits building weapons there are likely to promote problems actually in hans's the state stability of deterrent systems and the reason i say that is because deterrence currently relies upon. missile systems or aircraft or different systems which are inherently detectable if america wants to launch for example missile strikes which destroyed russia's ability to respond by for example talk to combine to control systems the submersible. weapon systems would still be available to actually mounting retaliatory strike on the united states which means that hopefully the other side would be deterred from using its

weapons. diplomats in brussels are being told to watch what they say when out in public recently you report warns there are hundreds of russian and chinese secret agents snooping the city's cafes and restaurants so we dispatched artie's. to go find them. for my next assignment i'm going undercover to see if we can expose a nest of spies in brussels it's a city best known for its food and being at the heart of european politics. but now the two tangled up in new scandal the european capital brussels is apparently full of spies hundreds of russian and chinese agents are installed there even security services have reportedly suggested that diplomats should avoid a populous state cares and a cafe near the european commission's q. it mentions no

names but it doesn't take a super spook to realize this is the only steak house nearby where the food is apparently being served up with the sight of said information. in the area so. this is. this is you know you see she loves. this and i don't think it's true. you. know i would love to get calls like james bond. sure he knows more quotes. i was never questioned by the security service but i can imagine they did check something they probably do believe. that you. know more after the interview i'm not going to speak to mr such is the concern

about spies stalking the streets of brussels that the e.u. is diplomatic and foreign wing the e.p.a.'s has warned member states embassies that hundred so. so if they know. where all they. been told that this city is full of spice have you seen any yet. and i'm respond favorably hold to. the rich and give to the poor to do such in brussels with europe have you seen any yes we do have people that you don't know about that are the most important spies they know the most so not russian not chinese. made it . to the right direction. i have been told to eat. oh yeah i am definitely missed by one that this is the

best i could do with some. comment to lisa from the m.s.c. . group. russians. blush. well after much searching here in the heart of brussels it seems that they've been taking me on a bit of a wild goose chase and know we're actually spice. back in the restroom feeling that tells me that if they were filling up the seats they probably were going to be here and you see. it's very difficult to spy. countries where to sit so you can just arrive here and say here is the commission i want to see a forehead over a belgium state security service once described brussels as being like

a kindergarten for spies he said they usually pretend to be a diploma. shakara journalists so with a trail getting colder and colder it looks like i'm the closest thing to a russian spy now what was that restaurant. r.t. brussels. some of the weekly for this hour here on r t international just eight thirty in the morning here on sunday in moscow many more of your weekly stories the highlights of the past week and about half an hour. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject.

so when you want to be president. or some want to be. to the right to be press this is like the full three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. city. you know world of big partisan movies lot 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 bath 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. thing.