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that's more oil in venezuela has certainly ratcheted up a notch off the trucks carrying u.s. aid amassed on the country's borders with colombia and brazil that spoke severe clashes at checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to president nicolas maduro.

following the clashes of venezuela's self proclaimed leader of one of. the world to consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he disputes the legitimacy of president my daughter claiming the last elections were rigged and also announced his plan to meet with the us vice president on monday to further discuss the situation president maduro has cried foul regarding mr white those attempts to use power in venezuela he maintains his legitimacy as president of venezuela a post he has been in since twenty thirteen and here accuses quite go of violating the constitution and the accusers quite though of attempting to stage a coup aided and abetted by the us the venezuelan foreign minister has also lambasted the us today accusing secretary of state might pompei o of fabricating reasons to start a war against caracas meanwhile washington warns is preparing for more sanctions

against venezuela that's a move short of push many more people out onto the streets. venezuela's military has a choice embrace democracy protect civilians and 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 ma daughter 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 goh i go as an american puppet. i swear to formally assume the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i added states probably recognize national symbol president one point

zero 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 quite though it is clear that a smoother open is not the legitimate leader of a smile so you're not going to believe that the plan is the right person to take that is why the forward. eagerly only looking out even more violence could be meaningless how in the. us when a front. runner turns out it's. been a strain on. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on. i .

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and. 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 that dress 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 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 chile and brazil have it said that the 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 now 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 at the other crossings there are clashes going on. more than three hundred people have reportedly been injured in the clashes that event 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 flee to colombia we're about to show you the moment they tried to use their vehicle to ram through a security barrier and warning you may find this video disturbing.

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 attempting to cross in to find his way that expressed concern that these actions might risk the impartiality of the organization's work and with the venezuelan opposition blaming the government for severe food shortages one investigative journalist in caracas says not all is as it seems and that's blumenthal went to one market this is what he found. say there was no toothpaste or toothbrushes and that is where. here we mean this is so. women's protective it's been made so it's really it's better than when i have it. we can see.

rice. cereal to me there's a lot of routine here today you know what you're seeing here really could still. be completely right the u.s. media is your training my video was a response to us media which is embedded with that that it's way that opposition and with the usa i'm doing it right now on the colombian border and and doing this humanitarian intervention propaganda show where they're actually claiming that there is no there are no basic goods in venezuela at all and i was showing that in a fairly upscale neighborhood in caracas the supermarket looks just like the supermarkets in my hometown of washington d.c. i can also tell you that i was out in some of the poorer areas of caracas and i

actually encountered the vice president of venezuela del cielo rodriguez and the mayor of caracas erica at open air food markets around the city where food is being distributed basically for free to the poor and working class communities the problem here it's with speculation and there are high prices on foods and random situation that has to do with actually the kind of capitalist class here that supports the opposition and u.s. sanctions are actually allowing them to hoard goods and to make maximum profit and those so. so that's the irony here is that many of the supporters of the opposition and the big business forces behind the opposition are actually cashing in on the economic crisis. as mentioned earlier the leader of the opposition is planning to meet with the u.s. national security advisor john bolton on monday as tensions intensify had long been

as well as borders with both brazil and colombia we will keep you posted throughout the day on developments. france has been rocked by a fifteen consecutive weekend of protests as yellow demonstrators vent their anger over government policies the french interior ministry says more than forty six thousand people rallied across france on saturday almost six thousand of them in the center of paris. thank you. this weekend seoul five separate demonstrations organized in paris alone a six protesters are reported to have been detained the universe movement began

last november over a 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 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 is arbitrary he says the movement is unlikely to get any further concessions. yes hostas you still need to france's resisting will always skeptical towards neo liberal innovations and from this perspective it contributed to macros failing as a representative of the in 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

macron 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 at the weekly continues in just a moment here on r.t. international including the mix of your story as the alarm is being sounded by some media freedom groups on the facebook suspended some affiliated pages will give you the scoop on that in just a. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to present . to the press this is before.

people. interested in the water. that's far right parties obsess about the danger is them presents to the western lifestyle some islamic scholars are concerned about the opposite. the dead muslims don't step up their game within the next twenty to forty is islam they vanish from europe are those fee is really justified.

it is good to have you with us today and to all of censorship that's how the president of the international federation of journalists described a facebook suspension of several. accounts that's off to the media freedom representative from the european security organization the c e closely following the situation as well last week the social networking giant blocked four pages belonging to 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 felipe alou thought to say about the. closing of 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 i want to use but i've got deeper into the story 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 they voicing 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 report of course ran a colleague's beauteous 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 talk to everyone they wanted but haven't said a word reason do it justified anything to the folks they blocked facebook hasn't contacted us that all the pages were just unpublished and. 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 that 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 they work 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 many of these 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 internet was if more people wanted to see something. the list should be allowed to see it and you of the when you do internet searches the 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 facebook as anger as hurt feeling of being picked on bullied but 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 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 facebook later replied to my media saying that the pages will be allowed back on the site if they make

clear that they are affiliated with artsy 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 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 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 that i mean

a putin's warning that moscow was ready to target perceived threats with this latest hypersonic missile. 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 u.s. bases intermediate range missiles in europe despite his friendly relationship with president trump lattimer putin has vastly excel rated russia's missile programs he openly says gives moscow the edge over america during his annual state of the nation address on wednesday president putin announced that zokol a new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed from both land and sea will undergo final testing later this year so you could have done all those 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 foster.

deadly are you sure you knew you another. work which you don't get when you recently. 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 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 as the word you can you lonely decision 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. russia is not for me anyway all our actions and assume that you would usually have done soley as a response and leader of a defense of 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. thanks for sharing some of your sunday with us here at all t. international your weekly returns in about twenty five. came

here where you were before you came here when you live. in many u.s. states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years

waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent of two years on death row and how many more tolerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that. they could have to go to a barely spoke will recall but the most of the most go floor could and. as long ago as eighteen zero four sevastopol as naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. during the second world war the heroic defense of

sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just so if the united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea plays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the face or a nato base which in general. but almost

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