i know. now that clashes along venezuela supporters trucks carrying u.s. aid are stopped by the country's military as the self-proclaimed interim president why they called the elected leader nicolas maduro to be toppled. from my six thousand yellow vest protesters flood the streets of paris for a fifteenth successive weekend of anti government demonstrations also to come on the weekend back to censorship the head of the international federation of journalists lambaste facebook's decision to suspend several characters and

president vladimir putin says that russia is ready to respond to threats with its new hypersonic missile system while stressing that it's only for defensive purposes a statement though certainly prompted a reaction from the rich by targeting western capitals with his own view was quite a confrontational step but a confrontational speech to russia was not for me anyway. as a response and show since nature. hello there welcome the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to watch the weekly here on r.t. international now the turmoil in venezuela has increased after trucks carrying u.s. aid amassed on the country's borders with colombia and brazil sparked severe clashes the checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to president

nicolas maduro. or following those clashes venezuela's self-proclaimed leader. of the world to

consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he disputes the legitimacy of president dura claiming the last elections were rigged also announced his plans to be to meet with the u.s. vice president on monday to discuss the situation all the president nicolas maduro meanwhile has expressed serious concern about washington's real intentions in sending aid he maintains he is the rightful president of venezuela a post he's been in since twenty thirteen and accuses quide though of violating the constitution he also says to that guy those attempting to stage a coup aided and abetted by the us venezuelan foreign minister also lambasted the u.s. today you keep using secretary of state. fabricating reasons to start a war against caracas meanwhile washington says it's preparing more sanctions against than his white venezuela's military has a choice embrace democracy protect civilians and zero 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 and called on venezuelans to take to the streets to defend the country's independence and he denounced 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 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. it is clear that just door open is not the legitimate leader. so you're

not going to believe that. is the right person to take that is why the forward. looking out of. our lives could be meaningless how. in a fun. time it turns out it's. been a strain on. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on. yeah

. yeah who. have. died five was yes. 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 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 near caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base

. now julie and brazil have said that this so-called humanitarian aid has. we 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 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 quite here it indeed does bridge but the other crossings there are clashes going on. down cohen reporting there more than three hundred people have reportedly been injured in the clashes that venezuela's 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 man that it did try to ram their vehicle through a security barrier a word of warning they might find the video disturbing. the to. do it. well another controversy is also happening at the venezuela colombia border the

humanitarian aid group the red cross has warned that people are 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 organizations work. and the crisis in venezuela has caused global shock waves according to the no warm 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 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 internal is domination and has nothing to do with humanitarian aid as there is no war that the us has ever what it has been for humanitarian purpose 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 very 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 him imposition of sanctions and 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 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 only to get rid of the elected government. as earlier mentioned the leader of the opposition one quiet day was planning to meet with senior u.s. officials on monday that as tensions intensify along that as well as borders with brazil and colombia and of course we'll keep you updated on any further developments. i. i. i. now elsewhere france has been rocked by a fifteen 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 in paris. i i.

i. i i. this weekend saw five separate demonstrations organized in paris alone six protesters reported being detained there yes 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 and once mr depew for peaceful action support for the movement has dipped in recent weeks and made it to try and break violence. of the other vests have announced over social media to that they are planning what they describe as a decisive back to three days of protest starting on march the eighth we spoke to the director of the french economic observatory he says the movement though is unlikely to get any more concessions. yes last days you still need to shula france's resisting will always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from

this perspective he contributed to macros failure as a representative for the town and 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 punished he intrudes into their talks in a very disrespectful manner preserves his line of the contemptuous technocratic still to come on the weekly the alarm is being sounded by media freedom groups after facebook suspended some affiliated pages will have the details just off the bridge.

when all may just manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lift as only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million really need. by about a could be is that i will accept the idea of course this would be ocean without by this the united states on the border that is over sixty seven it was there was about as it's got to go we are going to be slipping i i don't live slipping and go one still feel it i am. the line reality is that we will be living living could be

fun. if you wish and therefore it is like you will find yourself neither jewish i was the north you're welcome i think i was very clear. the weekend i russia's foreign minister has ruled negotiating a peace treaty with japan on tokyo's terms but after the japanese prime minister told his parliament that actually was a lot. of story for us and joins us now just tell us about russia's reaction now this is being one of the toughest statements by russia so far when it comes to the peace treaty talks regarding sovereignty over the chorale islands speaking to asian media on sunday sake a level of stress the complications of the situation which he says requires practicality when it comes to diplomatic relations so this means walling outs negotiations if they're only on japan's tense let's take

a listen to what sergey lavrov had to say on the matter. she has told his parliament that he will solve the peace treaty on his own terms frankly i have no idea where he got that notion from neither the russian president or anyone else taking part in the russian japanese consultations has ever given our javanese colleagues cause to say that. so lavrov fair this trusting that russia has and given japan any grounds for such statements but developing on this point lavrov said that on the sidelines of the r.c.m. summit in singapore president putin and his japanese counterparts spoke on the need to speed up talks regarding the peace treaty which if anything chose that negotiations are taking place not on japan's terms alone but on the terms of the document itself based on the nine hundred fifty six joint declaration but let's remind ourselves now that where we are in these talks because since the mid twentieth century russia and japan ended world war two hostilities without

a formal peace treaty so the chorale islands and russia's sovereignty over them remains a key sticking point here and lavrov has said that in order for this peace treaty to actually be signed japan most recognized the results of the world war two in its entirety including russia sovereignty over all the islands of the corral archipelago but despite the fact that moscow and tokyo want to bring agreements to a whole new level here that many points of alignment though because tokyo has been consulting with washington and in may donald trump plans to visit japan where concerns regarding the peace treaty and russia is likely to be on the agenda there but sergey lavrov such says that this shows japan's lack of independence almost to a certain extent because he has highlighted the military union between japan and the u.s. being an important factor this creates risks for both russia and china topics which have actually been on the agenda numerous occasions when it comes to discussions around this agreement but moscow has pointed out several times that it sees

prospects with boosting relations between tokyo itself but this treaty and discussions around it will require a lot more for the talks ok and we should see their report. so not just censorship that's how the president of the international federation of journalists described facebook's suspension of several arts. accounts last week the social networking giant did block four pages belonging to math inc media which produces online news and which is c.n.n. report recently suggested it was attempting to conceal its ties to russia well here's what phillip roof 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 idea of jail lottie's more aghast to delve 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 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 a buzz feed report 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 face about 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 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. 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 and of the when you do internet searches things come up when you put

a question in you're 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 maverick media would like to say to face book there's anger 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 men's 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 outlets 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 facebook did later

reply to matthew media saying that the pages will be allowed back on to the site if they do make clear that they are affiliated with r.t. we discussed the ban further with talk show host jimmy talk. 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. i posit the media

had to go into a spin this week. warning that moscow is ready to target sea threats with its 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 aerated russia's missile programs who he openly says gives moscow the edge over america or during his annual state of the nation address on wednesday president presented in. a new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed from both land and sea will undergo testing later the here was more his done. 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 vonzell products 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 as we're 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 click bait headlines are. during 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 a word when you lonely it was a 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 at all our actions in the security syria done solely as a response and so they are of a defense 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. you'd be more snow weekly are not just coming up to half past three in the afternoon here in moscow we're back again with the headlines and more stories and a half. truth is

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