it will. be new and i. still. have to take it out on. them though might. i. be clashes along venezuela's borders. usa by the country's military. claimed interim president. calls for elected leader nicolas maduro to be toppled. almost six thousand yellow vest protesters flooded the streets of paris on saturday for a fifteenth weekend in a row of antigovernment on rest. and censorship the head of the international

federation of journalists facebook's decision to suspend several speed linked accounts. president vladimir putin says russia is ready to respond to threats with this new hypersonic missile system while stressing that it's only for defensive purposes a statement. to try to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons but a confrontational step but a confrontational speech to russia is not for me anyway actions in the. nature of. the top stories of the week on today's main headlines welcome to the weekly. venezuela's. self-proclaimed leader. is world powers to help bring down the

country's democratically elected president nicolas maduro in a tweet he said the international community should consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he also plans to meet the u.s. vice president mike pence on monday to discuss the situation and it all comes off the unrest at the country's borders with colombia and brazil where the trucks carrying us aid have amassed. quite oh has ordered the aid to be allowed into venezuela has branded the

president's democratic election and inauguration illegitimate but otoh accuses of attempting to stage a coup aided and abetted by the united states meanwhile washington volunteers preparing more sanctions for venezuela a move sure to push more people onto the streets. 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 nicolas maduro speaking at a rally on saturday he called on venezuelans to take to the streets and defend the country's independence and he denounced mr quite go as an american.

i swear to formally soon the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i had it's probably recognized national symbol president one or you know as the interim president of venezuela we recognize and express our full support for the president venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly one it is clear that notice muro is not the legitimate leader. so you're not going to believe that. is the right person to take from as wide a forward. eagerly. even more violence could mean honestly how. venice. how that's. been a strain on. we

seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on. yeah yeah. yeah i heard.

that. from my life yeah. 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. 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 as a battering ram against venezuelan police vehicle in 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 said that the so-called humanity. 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 us 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 quite hear 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 tried to flee to colombia or part to show you the moment they tried to ram their vehicle through a security barrier and warning you may find this video disturbing. it. was the old. it was

was. was. was another controversy is happening at the venezuela colombia border the humanitarian aid group the red cross has warned that people are falsely advertising themselves as working for the organization and are attempting to cross into venezuela expressed concern that these 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 fifty campaigns worldwide against u.s. interference in the country we heard from an antiwar activist who was at the 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 war that the u.s. has ever won and has been for humanitarian purposes it will raise a firestorm within latin america that is absolutely clear destruction of the economy of venezuela this is a crime that the u.s. is community there and saying that there is chaos 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 an imposition of sanctions on the blocking of train that the u.s. is orchestrating the opposition of course realizes that they have. a big form and they are going to make little 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. as mentioned earlier the leader of the opposition want to go is planning to meet with u.s. national security adviser john bolton on monday that has tensions intensify along venezuela's borders with both brazil and colombia we will keep you updated throughout the day here on r.t. international. of. the watch of the weekly here on r.t. france has been rocked by a fifteenth can second if we can't of protests as yellow fest demonstrators vent their anger over government policies the french interior ministry says that more than forty six thousand people rallied all across france on saturday and almost six

thousand of them right in the center of paris. this weekend saw five separate demonstrations organized in paris alone six protesters are reported to have been detained but the yellow bus movement began last november of a fuel types types and it's evolved since then it's a protests against unpopular government policies before the march on this saturday online announcements appealed for peaceful action a support for the movement has dipped in recent weeks amid continued outbreaks of violence. and yellow vests have announced over social media that they're planning what they describe as a decisive act three days of protest starting march the eighth and we spoke to the

director of the french economic observatory he says the movement has unlikely to get any more concessions. as you still need to france's resisting we 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 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 macro aligns with his strategy he condemns social services part is he intrudes into the talks in a very disrespectful manner preserves his line of the contemptuous technocrats it was yes. to all of censorship that's how the president of the international federation of journalists described facebook suspension of several affiliated

accounts it's off to the media freedom representative from the european security organization over. c e said he's closely following the situation as well last week the social networking giant locked four pages belonging to my fake media which produces online news and which a c.n.n. reporter recently suggested was attempting to conceal its ties to russia here's what affiliate bluth 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.f.j. . lottie's when it goes the delves deeper into the story now and explains why facebook's critics are 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 a 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. reporter of course ran a colleague's video 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 they were justified anything to the folks they blocked facebook hasn't contacted i thought 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 space the 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 my think media i know many of them to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only to be cost the side the winds the thesis senses 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 aims and he's in now 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 there 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 if more people. wanted to see something that we should be allowed to see it and of the when you do internet searches and things come up when you put a question in he's supposed to fund the thing that most people are looking at but of course if no started talking about changing the algorithms there's a lot media would like to say to the book is anger is hurt feeling of

being picked on bullied but is also understanding and a simple human plea look 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. when a facebook like a reply to market media saying that the pages will be allowed back into the site if they make clear that they are affiliated with artsy or discuss the page down with

talk show host jimmy door. 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 on 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. now the winners of the best fake news awards have received the gongs in france in a few moments we'll have the ceremonies highlights.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race. scary dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i thought it could be who will accept the idea. but it was there was about as it's covered. we are going to be slipping i don't mind the snipping and go one. line which means that we will be living. with find it's neither jewish. nor do i woke up because they're.

good to have you with us today all this week later parts of the media went into a spin this week of a lot of warning that moscow was ready to target perceived threats with its latest hypersonic missiles. threaten 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 rated russia's missile programs openly says gives moscow the edge over

america when the during his annual state of the nation address on wednesday president putin announced thought. zircon a new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed to both land and sea will undergo further testing later this year. as more beautiful 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 example product to work on which is ongoing you will certainly be completed on schedule namely i would like to talk about the comm hypersonic missile we're 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 mess is set 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 box 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 are obscuring the fundamental thing about the new weapon russia hopes it will rust away and fall apart and not a single shot will be fired huge and the word huge when you lonely girl decision called russia the biggest threat to the us but i can tell you that russia wants to have an equal and friendly relationship with the united states russia is not

threatening anyone or actions in the security done 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. and i ward's ceremony has been held in france to celebrate some of the best pieces of journalism of the past year well the best fake news stories that is the teaser do whiskey has the rather dubious roundup. fake news folks the spread of this information we're all being told to be on our guard for it well here in france they like to go one step further let me introduce you to the book. it's a mock awards show which looks to celebrate some of the ones this examples of fake

news which are actually broadcast as real stories here in france where the winner is taking home a statuette of water elf but a golden pinocchio first up let's take a look at the international category where a chilling tale of the russian media hunting tigers was broadcast of course do. but. chefs. but it was completely fake news turns out these images were actually taken of president putin when he was visiting a reserve which protects the endangered siberian tiger on the fake news stories given the north included this mysterious case of the severity of flag which was hoisted during a yellow best protest measure. on the mall.

but this flag which the expert so expertly gave his opinion on is actually a local for i from the northern pick out the region now in the general category here in france there was plenty of competition just like this a lot of media reported that we started and identified that there had been russian meddling that the russian state orchestrated interference in the banal a scandal ah yes russian meddling again also croyde the mainstream media without doing much checking or even it seems actually reading the study by the lab even the hit turret the misinterpretation of their work we never said this the fact that the government spokes person immediately exploded. this for political ends created this sort of hype that was never the object of our study then there are all those super sneaky ways to get fake news across as we found out from one local

french channel sports anything rome you'd be forgiven for thinking that the opposition to anti government strikes was more than hoff but it seems that this party chart was artificially inflated and when all else fails you can always just to raise anything that you don't like take a look at this in the yellow best protests amok or i'm supposed to in the midst of the yellow vest protests sec clip on no in fact this is what the saw on reset seems two thousand and eighteen was a bubbly year for fake fronts with many outlets seeing their noses grow more than one show it's even ski see paris it's been a busy week for you while the headlines are an international your weekly returns to the top of the. country's gone into

a nihilistic. thank you got to hit the road and get out but. what makes america take the show. here this is a point around which hollywood is going to say we're starting last with is going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bee i think that leaves the other getting more gonzo maybe completely different and then there's just. that inbred feel klosters guide to fracking an excellent book you were a philosopher and then you got into this fracking business have what we do what we call field philosophy which means we take our ideas about ethics and justice bring it to the real world where it's actually happening so i was interested the energy. shews fracking was going on in denton and i just wanted to get involved because i saw it as a basically a justice issue right and denton is

a remarkable fracking story because it's the birthplace of fracking laura left as well as being the first town to ban fracking and then something very interesting happened what happened right the texas legislature overturned our ban they passed a ban on fracking and. we all voted on that passed by almost sixty percent the texas legislature which is kind of a petro state decided now want to let you do that you know it's interesting is that you started your denton anti fracking campaign kind of on the heels of josh fox you know he did gas land in that film where there igniting you know better to come out of the politics and i thought that people's consciousness would be raised somewhat about the dangers of fracking resit that didn't seem to reach dent and it didn't reach that industry i would say but a lot of people and didn't watch that movie and it in it was in our home and that's what's going on it was able to connect it with a broader sort of global energy transformation some people thought this is like

water drilling or what's going on nobody would inform us that was a bit.