you know and i. still. can't make it out of. the lane. i. don't like the. clashes along venezuela's border trucks carrying u.s. aid a stop by the country's military. claimed interim president. calls for the elected leader nicolas maduro to be toppled. almost six thousand yellow vests protesters flooded the streets of paris on saturday for a fifteenth weekend in a row with government unrest. and censorship the head of the international

federation of journalists facebook's decision to suspend several. accounts. of president vladimir putin says russia was ready to respond to threats with its new hypersonic missile system while stressing it's only for defensive purposes. only prompted a reaction. by targeting western capitals with his own view what a confrontational step but a confrontational speech is not for me anyway actions in the. sense nature. one pm in moscow and welcome to the sunday program here on r.t. international we're highlighting the top stories over the weekend today. the turmoil in venezuela has suffered. ratcheted up

a notch off the trucks carrying us massed 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.

following the clashes of venezuela's self-proclaimed leader of. the world to consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he disputes the legitimacy of president nicolas maduro claiming the last elections were rigged almost also and also is planning to meet with the u.s. vice president on monday to discuss the situation president has cried foul regarding mr attempts to use a power in venezuela. legitimacy as president obama's way left a post he's actually been holding now since twenty thirteen and he accuses violating the constitution president maduro accuses white go of attempting to stage a coup aided and abetted by the united states the venezuelan foreign minister has also asked at the u.s. today accusing the secretary of state. of fabricating reasons to start a war against caracas meanwhile washington warns it is preparing yet. more

sanctions against iran as well or a move sure to push even more people out onto the streets. venezuela's military has a choice embrace democracy protect civilians and allow 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 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 puppet. i swear to formally assume the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i added states probably recognize

a 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 it is clear that not just muro is not the legitimate leader. so you're not going to believe that. is the right person to take that is why the forward. leads could be meaningless however. 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'm

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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 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 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 quiet here at the bridge but the other crossings there are clashes going on. meantime more than three hundred people have reportedly been injured in the clashes and as well as borders with both colombia and brazil meanwhile on saturday several members of venezuela's national god deserted their posts at the border and tried to flee to colombia part of show you the moment they tried to ram their vehicle through a security barrier and warning you may find this disturbing. it. was the oath. 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 attempting to cross into venezuela it expressed concern that these actions might risk the impartiality of the organizations work. 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 one 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 in 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 there in 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 imposition of sanctions on the blocking of train 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 the 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. problems as mentioned earlier the leader of the opposition of one quite zero was planning to meet with the us national security advisor john bolton on monday as tensions intensify along venezuela's borders with both brazil and colombia we will keep you updated throughout the day on all developments. france has been rocked by a fifteenth consecutive weekend of protests as yellow vest demonstrators vent their anger over government policies the french interior ministry says more than forty six thousand people rallied all across france on saturday and nearly six thousand of them in the heart of paris.

this weekend saw five separate demonstrations organized in paris alone we understand 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 in the protests against unpopular government policies before the march this saturday online announcements of pealed for peaceful action a support for the movement has dipped in recent weeks amid. continued outbreaks of violence the yellow vests have a balance 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 conservatory he says the movement is unlikely to

get any further concessions yes lost as you still need to show france's resisting will always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this perspective he contributed to macros failure as a representative for 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 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 thinking that just on a quarter past the hour here of moscow the weekly continues and in the mix of your upcoming stories the alarm is being sounded by media freedom groups of the facebook suspended some affiliated pages will lift the lid on that in about.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. let it be an arms race. only. very. few sit down. as far right he's upset us about the danger to the western lifestyle some islamic scholars are concerned about the opposite. the dead muslims step up their game within the next twenty to forty years may vanish from europe are those fears really

justified. thanks for joining us here on this sunday an act of censorship that's how the president of the international federation of journalists described facebook's suspension of several. accounts that's off to the media media freedom representative from the european security organization the o c e so he's closely following the situation as well last week the social networking giant blocked four pages belonging to media which produces online news. report recently suggested was attempting to conceal its ties to russia here's what philippe had to say about the

. 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 t s but i because they have delved deeper into the story now and explains why facebook's critics 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 that 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 all suse that facebook talked to everyone they wanted but haven't said a would reason do would justify do anything to the folks the blocked facebook hasn't contacted us at 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 its 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 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 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. 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 is. piers 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 than we should be allowed to see it and 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 face book 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 spoken reply to market media saying the pages will be allowed back on the side if they make clear that they are affiliated with our team we discuss the page 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. so if the media went into a spin this week of a lot of warning that moscow was ready to talk and perceived threats with this latest hypersonic missile. 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 lattimer putin has vastly excel rated at russia's missile programs and who openly says gives moscow the edge over america during his annual state of the nation address on

wednesday president putin announced that zircon new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed from both land and sea will undergo final testing later this year. as 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 are deadly are you sure. you another room damsel 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 comm hypersonic missile good i'm going to do and that's a big enough trigger to get everything from the tabloids to serious outlets hitting 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. the 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 in other words you can you lonely google 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 the united states russia is not threatening anyone all our actions in the security three

a gallon 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. are just some of the top stories highlighted there in the weekly here on r.t. international the sunday program now continuing in about twenty five minutes thank you for sharing some of your sunday with us here at ati and so much. what politicians do. you put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the press this is like before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always

in the waters in the house. they said. you know world of big partisan movies a 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. 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. before you came here where you were before you came here when as you live well death row in many us 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 their rights as live among us somebody even proven innocent after years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working. and we actually do something about. the country's gone into a nihilistic fever the best one can thank and we've got to hit the road and get out the child in america what makes america take the showed the genius of america here this is it we point around which hollywood is going to say we're starting last with is going to head east into the swamp to go into the belly of the bee i think i will leave now it doesn't get any more gonzo. maybe play the different end of this . bad unbreakable shield klosters guide to

fracking an excellent book you were a philosopher and then you got into this tracking business how did that happen what we do what we call field philosophy which means we take ideas about ethics and justice say bring it to the real world what's actually happened so i was interested in energy issues fracking was going on and and i just wanted to get involved because i saw it as a basically a justice issue right and denton is a remarkable all fracking story because it's the birthplace of fracking more or less as well as being the first town to ban fracking and then something very interesting happened what happened right at the texas legislature overturned or they passed a ban on fracking. we all voted on that passed by almost sixty percent of the texas legislature which is kind of a petro state decided now we're going 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 or there igniting to come out of the faucet and i thought that people's consciousness would be raised on what about the dangers of fracking right that that didn't seem to reach tenth and it didn't reach that industry i would say but a lot of people in didn't watch that movie and it it was. an aha moment 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 big part of the problem that we would say hey by the way we're going to put a gas well in your backyard and so it took the kind of that movie to help us connect the dots and realize what happened speaking of water it's an extraordinarily water intensive industry and they've got really two industries longer because the cattle industry in texas that's very water intensive fractures that's no water intensive business on these two battling it out politically yeah that's a big part of it it's it's pitting water interests against each other.