i. say to stop by venezuela's minute trees clashes erupt on its orders self-proclaimed interim president. calling for elected leader nicolas maduro to be toppled. almost six thousand yellow best protesters flood the streets of paris for the fifteenth successive weekend event government rallies pulsar to come on the weekly

much of censorship ahead of the international federation of journalists lambaste faced with this decision to suspend several pages without a warrant. so they welcome the latest developments and look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching a weekly here on r.t. international trucks with usaid gathering on venezuela's borders have sparked increasingly thiis clashes the checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to president nicolas maduro. was what. was.

was it was. or following those clashes there venezuela's self-proclaimed leader when quiet the world to consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he disputes the legitimacy of president dura claiming that the last elections were rigged quite i also announced to his plan to meet with the u.s. vice president on monday to discuss the situation for president nicolas maduro meanwhile has expressed his concerns about washington's real intentions in sending aid he maintains he's the rightful president of venezuela the post he's held since

twenty thirteen and accuses of violating the constitution he adds to that is attempting a coup aided and abetted by the us and is why this foreign minister also blasted the white house accusing secretary of state might pompei o a fabricating reasons to start a war against caracas meanwhile washington says it is preparing more sanctions. 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 have been showing their support for president maduro at a rally on saturday he called on venezuelans to take to the streets and defend the country's independence he also announced to. also denounce sorry as an american

puppet. i swear to formally soon the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela i added states probably recognize national symbol president one point 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 notice muro is not the legitimate leader. so the united kingdom believes that. is the right person to take from as wide a forward. eagerly. as giving me an honest how. venice china. venice.

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

oh. 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 near caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base . now julie and brazil have said that the so-called human. tarion 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 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 quite here it indeed does bridge but the other crossings there are clashes going on. and cohen reporting that more than three hundred people have reportedly been injured in clashes on venezuela's borders meanwhile on saturday several members of that is why his national guard deserted their posts at the border and tried to flee to colombia or about to show you the moment they did their vehicle into a security barrier i would have warned you might find the video disturbing.

it. was well meanwhile the red cross is warning say that people on the border with colombia thoughtfully advertising themselves as working for the aid group to try and get into venezuela expressed concern that this threatens the organizations image of impartiality. but a worldwide backlash against u.s. interference is growing through now one hundred fifty campaigns globally against white house meddling according to the no war on venezuela movement we heard from one and swore activists 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 for what it has been for humanitarian purposes it will raise our fire storm within latin america that is absolutely clear destruction of the economy of venezuela this is a crime that the the u.s. is clearly very there and saying that there is chaos and 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 him imposition of sanctions and the blocking of trade. the u.s. is orchestrating the opposition of course realizes that they have a big radio form and they are going to make all 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 money to get rid of the elected government but we will keep you updated throughout the day on why those planned talks on monday with senior u.s. officials and also on the rising tensions there on venezuela's border. i crank now yellow vest demonstrators have continued to vent their anger in france for a fifteen consecutive weekend the french interior ministry says more than forty six thousand people rallied across the country on saturday almost six thousand of them

in paris. i. am for it. this weekend saw five separate demonstrations across organized in the capital alone six protesters were reportedly detained their yellow vests movement began last november of a few tax hikes but has since evolved into a stand against unpopular government policies ahead of this weekend's action organizers appealed for peaceful protests but after support for the move in recent weeks and made continued outbreaks five six the other vests have announced over social media they are planning a decisive act which is three days of protests starting on march the eighth but the director of the french economic is

a victory does believe that the movement is unlikely to get any more concessions. yes hostages still need to france's resisting we're always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this perspective it contributed to macros failure as a representative of the turn in the fridge 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 a contemptuous technocrat. more than ten thousand people in moscow have rallied in memory of the murdered opposition politician boris nemtsov memorial events were also held and a number of other russian cities marches have been held annually since themselves

assassination near the kremlin in twenty fifteen five people were jailed over the killing although the person suspected of ordering it remains at large because she done of reports in the capital. thousands of people have turned up here in central moscow to commemorate the legacy of the late opposition figure porus themselves now this is an annual event and it is taking place in several cities of russia this one of course taking place in its capital moscow now people from all sides of the opposition spectrum here making their voices they're chanting anti-government slogans they're chanting what they believe as against the injustice of the political of the russian political system but of course also adding to this they are demanding progress in the investigation into the mud of a barista themselves know what happened in twenty fifteen and he was gunned down assassinated in central moscow right outside the kremlin walls so far five people

have been arrested charged with murder and sentenced to years in prison but those five people they do not include those persons who are for just one person who ordered the hit so basically those who must in mind of the attack are still roaming the streets are still there are still free they still haven't been punished and so people here and the family there are saying they're unhappy with the progress of the progress of the investigation they are saying that political reasons i'm pouring it out while the investigative committee is seizing so far progress in the case but there hasn't been anything concrete said yet. you watch and wait to hear and i say we're going to take a quick break we're back with more news that timothy's.

that's far right parties obsess about the danger is presents to the western lifestyle some islamic scholars are concerned about the opposite are no advantage on argues the dead muslims don't step up their game within the next twenty to forty years may vanish from europe are those fears really justified.

again i facebook suspension this week of several r.t. link to count has been described as an act of censorship by the international federation of journalists last week the social networking giant broke the pages belonging to math media after a c.n.n. report suggested that it had been trying to conceal its russian ties well here's what phillip ruth had 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.f.j. what has more on the story now and explains why i thought a sports 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 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 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 reporter calls 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 facebook 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 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 as 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 there now as 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 internet 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 supposed to fund the thing that most people are looking at but of course of no started talking about changing the algorithms there's a lot maverick media would like to see you to book is anger hurt feelings 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 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 but facebook later told

matic media that it would be allowed back on to the site if the connections to r.t. are made clear we discussed the story with talk show host jimmy door who sees the hand of the u.s. government at work. 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. that russia's

foreign minister has ruled negotiating a peace treaty with japan. terms that off the japanese premier told his parliament that was. and he said think as more. this is been one of the toughest statements by russia so far when it comes to the peace treaty and talks regarding sovereignty over the chorale islands now speaking to asian media on sunday say lavrov stressed the complications of the situation which he says requires practicality when it comes to diplomatic relations so this means ruling out negotiations if they only depend on japan's terms. has told his parliament that he will solve the peace treaty issue. frankly i have no idea where he got that notion from the russian president you or anyone else taking part in the russian japanese consultations has ever given our japanese colleagues calls to say that so lavrov has further stress

there that russia hasn't given japan any grounds to such statements but developing on this point lavrov said that on the sidelines of the asean summit in singapore president putin and his japanese counterparts spoke on the need to speed up work on the peace treaty which if anything 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 now let's remind ourselves where exactly we are in these talks because since the mid twentieth century russia and japan ended world war two hostilities without any formal peace treaty now the krell islands and russian sovereignty over them remains a key sticking points and lavrov has said that in order for these this treaty to be signed japan must recognize the results of the world war two in their entirety including russia sovereignty over the islands of the correll archipelago but despite the fact that moscow and tokyo want to bring agreements to a whole new level here there aren't many points of alignment because of tokyo's

close ties with washington in may donald trump plans to visit japan where issues concerning the peace treaty and russia are likely to be on the agenda but sergey lavrov says that this shows japan's lack of independence to a certain extent. he also highlighted the ministry union between the u.s. and japan being an important factor which russia and china can send them out and have discussed in japan and russia talked about this on numerous occasions when it comes to discussions regarding the peace treaty most gave us pointed out several times that it wants to boost our relations with take you but discussions regarding the peace treaty require much further work at this stage. the reporting there thanks be company this sunday afternoon we're back again with more news for you in about half an hour. you know world big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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