i. mean. by the country's military. calls for the president. to be ousted. almost six thousand protesters flooded the streets of paris on saturday for a fifteen weekend in a row. and. the head of the

international federation of journalists facebook's decision to suspend. the russian president vladimir putin ready to respond to threats with this new hypersonic missile system. it's. going to western capitals with his own. confrontational step but a confrontational speech. welcome to the weekly here on oxy international the sunday program where we're running down the top highlights of the week to. venezuela's self-proclaimed. polish to help bring. down the country's democratically elected president nicolas

maduro in a tweet he said the international community should quote 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 trucks carrying u.s. aid have amassed. mr

white though has ordered the aid to be allowed into venezuela he's branded the president's democratic election and you know gratian as illegitimate and most of my daughter will accuse his quiet though of attempting to stage a coup aided and abetted by the united states meanwhile washington warns us preparing more sanctions for venezuela a move sure to push even more people out 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 but as well as to take to the streets and defend the country's independence and he denounced mr pickett as an american puppet. i swear to formalise soon the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i added states probably recognize national symbol president one for you know as the interim president of venezuela we recognize and express our full support for the presidency of venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly one it is clear that just matter of his not the legitimate leader. so you're not going to believe that the plan is the right person and is quite a forward. looking only even more violence could be meaningless how. venice trying.

to turn. the finish line on. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on. yeah

yeah. yeah i heard. from my wife yeah. uh. uh 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 in 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 humanitarian aid. is 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's cut all ties with colombia so a total diplomatic rupture which is certainly a disturbing development but it's all quiet here at the bridge but the other crossings there are clashes going on. more than three hundred people have reportedly been injured in the clashes that have been as well as borders with colombia and brazil meanwhile on saturday several members of venezuela's national

guard deserted their posts at the border and tried to fling to colombia about to show you the moment they tried to ram their vehicle through a security barrier of warning you may find the video to stop it. it. was the old. it was was. was. was now the controversy is happening at the venezuela colombia border but the humanitarian aid group the red cross has warned that people are falsely advertising themselves as workers for the organization and are attempting to cross into venezuela expressed concern that these actions might risk the impartiality of the organization's work. while the crisis in venezuela has caused global shock waves according to the no war in venezuela movement there are now one hundred and fifty

campaigns worldwide against american interference and we heard from an antiwar activist who was at a protest in new york. this was a day where 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 him her realist domination and has nothing to do with humanitarian aid as there is no war that the u.s. has ever won that 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 controlling their 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 all kinds of claims but they are the ones who are accepting shipments of arms that will lead 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 elected government as mentioned earlier the leader of the opposition one white doe is planning to meet with the u.s. national security advisor john bolton on monday that as tensions intensify along venezuela's borders with brazil and colombia we'll keep you posted throughout the day on all developments.

it is ossie international france has been rocked by a fifteenth consecutive weekend of protests as yellow first demonstrators vent their anger over government policies the french interior ministry says more than forty six thousand people rallied all across france on saturday almost six thousand of them right in the heart of powers. that. this weekend saw five separate demonstrations organized in paris alone a six protesters are reported to have been detained the yellow first movement began last november over a fuel types hike sun 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. yellow vests have and i'll start of a 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 he says the movement is unlikely to get any more concessions. yes lost 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 town and the fringe 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 macro 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. and act of censorship that's how the president of the international federation of journalists describes facebook's suspension of several affiliated accounts that's after the media freedom representative from the european security organization the o.s.c. e so he's closely following the situation as well just last week the social networking giant blocked four pages belonging to math inc media which produces online news and which a c.n.n. report recently suggested was attempting to conceal its ties to russia here's what a philip lowe huth 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. artie's what i have 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 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 motional 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 calls rana colics 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 they were justified 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 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 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 if more people. wanted to see something the list should be allowed to see it when you do internet searches things that 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 of mass media would like to say to the book is anger is hurt feeling of being picked on bullied is also understanding and a simple human plea facebook if you're listening what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in 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 what 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 magic media saying that the pages will be allowed back on the site if they make clear that there are three limited with r.t. and we discuss the page band 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 aren't 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 unelected 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. it's all of the media went into a spin this week of like a man who turns warning that moscow was ready to talk at perceived threats with this latest hypersonic missiles. 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 openly says gives moscow the edge over america during his annual state of the nation address on wednesday president putin announced that zircon a new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed from both land and the sea will undergo further testing later this year

a correspondent eager to stand off has details used 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 room dancing product does work on which you don't go in you know certainly be completed on schedule namely i would like to talk about the hypersonic missile good i'm going to do 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 books ready to use with the launch pads already in service yet the intimidating tech specs and to a bigger extent even the clip. 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 it was a decision they called russia the biggest threat to the us are over there 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 done solely as a response and so they are of a defensive nature but i need to look at it moscow says it won't throw the first punch it only ever wants the missiles to be used as blanks during military drills

but it's better safe than sorry. we discussed what this new weaponry might mean for global security with a number of experts i think it's a reasonable massy you know i'd have to tend to agree with the sentiments that putin has expressed because i saw no purpose that i think the. you know of acceleration of the animosity between the two countries came by us is cancer not of i and now three 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 hong says 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 and if america was 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 mounts are targets restriking the united states which means hopefully the other side would be deterred from using its weapons i don't weekly returns at the top of the hour. but the number. they matter to us is over one trillion dollars. more than ten or more in the. eighty five percent of global will to be.

if we pursue. world market. thirty percent some with one hundred five hundred prefer chicken per second and this one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need remember one one business you know ford in the one and only boom but. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution two to clear the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer i mean your list put me in the new bill is that i'm still in the middle of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took the boat had invested over five billion dollars to assist

ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. poland 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 slump 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 are relying on the inside track supporters well to discuss that i'm now joined by our new bond 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 good afternoon good to be here now you obviously had a very dramatic political and spiritual transition from what some would call and islamophobia and 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 in 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 and so did i blame

myself that i was not really informed to both islam in the past and 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 you will find. actually it's a very peaceful and 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 know past two faith would be inspired by bigotry yes well in that period i sincerely believe that islam was i thought for 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.

like of the election and well no i know the truth by this no but 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 club or and they pronounce 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 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 expert.