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a journalist working for an r.c. affiliated company is injured only colombia venezuela border is venezuela national guard to ply their armored vehicle through crowds to get to colombia. almost six thousand yellow vests protesters flood the streets of paris for a fifteenth successive weekend of and some government rallies also to come the weekly and censorship the head of the international federation of journalists lambaste facebook's decision to suspend several r.t. linked pages without a warning. follow the latest developments and look back at the last seven days to you watch and we can here on r.t. international now we start with breaking news this hour because a camerawoman working for media. less affiliated with r.t.

was wounded during saturday's clashes on the colombia venezuela border the journalist was taken to hospital but has since been discharged colleagues of nicole cram say a vehicle almost killed her and she sustained leg injuries they say the journalist was wounded when a group of venezuelan national guard members ram their armored vehicle through a crowd of protesters as they tried to enter colombia the servicemen had apparently switch sides the incident left numerous protesters injured we're back to show you the video of the ramming word of warning though you might find it disturbing. things. with. us. media workers are finding themselves increasingly at risk as tensions in

venezuela escalate in a separate incident a journalist is said to have been heckled by opposition activists miss forced to abandon her report the crowd reportedly became angry when she said that the opposition were in a minority the incident was captured on camera was. or trucks with u.s. aid gathering on venezuela's borders have sparked increasingly fierce clashes at checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to president nicolas maduro.

following those clashes venezuela self-proclaimed leader. of the world to consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he disputes the legitimacy of president during claiming the last elections were rigged why they also announced his plan to meet with the u.s. vice president on monday to discuss the situation while 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 the. twenty thirteen in the keys is why i don't know of violating the constitution he adds to that quite i was attempting a coup aided and abetted by the us and is while his foreign minister also blasted the white house accusing secretary of state. of 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 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 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 tonight is an american puppet.

i swear it's a form of cheap enough something anything as president of venezuela. that it's probably recognize a national symbol president one or you know president of venezuela the recognisance press are full support for the president. by the president of the national assembly . it is clear that it's not just about the leader. so you know if you believe that. is the right person. only looking out. for our lives could be meaningless how. venice trying. to turn. the finish line on.

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to have zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero five was. the. well here at the t. and 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 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 why do have cold for protests from their perspective supporters there was an opposition protests in your caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base. now to chile and brazil have said that the so-called humanitarian aid has actually entered. 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'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 meanwhile the red cross is warning that people on the border with colombia are falsely advertising themselves as working for the a group to try and get into venezuela and express concern that this threatens the organizations image of impartiality blatchley in this video you can see some people wearing red cross emblems on their shirts to blend in with the

crowd chanting slogans to the leading international aid organizations demanded that activists on the venezuela colombia border not use the insignia of the red cross so let's discuss the matter stands right now we don't know oldman he's the chief editor of the news website or put up monday and you're very welcome thanks for your time today ben ok just let's start with what's happening on the border there we've heard the venezuelan foreign minister tensions there have been deliberate by the u.s. which is seeking any pretext he says for war what's your take. have no doubt about that and there's a bunch of proved too cool for interpretation about the united states targets in deciduous shit it's a strategy to generate a reasonable speech to a task that is well the way you go and they are lies to you and other countries under the usa command desoto called the humanitarian a is negligible

just a soft weapon they think against than as well as self-determination if it is negligible one would just let it. sorry didn't listen to you show if the aid is negligible why not just let it through what's the big deal because it's a software happen to provoke a to war i mean what's in case what seeing game is if i do have decorum true often as well as borders or lot it's not that the question is not the issue is not humanitarian aid is the control of that as well aboard as if madieu has this control both white dog and his allies have it. do you think that the us is ramping up war talk with her the us secretary of state saying. thanks to me saying that action will be taken against those who don't support democracy she think she's

saying tensions are being here and that war is something they're often. i think united states has go too far clearly the white house thought my daughter's downfall would be a fast track over a should but move forces and part of the people off him and this and his support is going up as we could see yesterday well thousands of people over market food that believe they. have aleutian on the other hand forty five counters have recognized why go as provision the president but many old us have nor including very important nation as russia china turkey south africa and india right now are parentally the only alternative for those who want to overthrow. is a direct foreign intervention or lead this and democratic strategy and begin

real talking to normalize and economic relationship with venezuela do you think more chance of being toppled three pressure within his own country or do you think it could only happen through sort of external intervention. let's say i think that is is stronger now that dolly then could go off weeks ago of course that low pressure is death of the of the international wind and my guru i repeat it is stronger now than one or two weeks ago where you go. is losing support on the straight and the president is contrary more and more forward state i would be as we could see yesterday a million of people think of brad on contract as this trade listening to drew's space. position is not as is thrown right now that used to be

a couple of weeks ago when you go south to climate. president of the internet the president of provisional president of the country sure we're going to have to leave it there we've run out of time but really good to talk she has been one of the chief editor of the news website or put a monday thank you thank you. now yellow vests demonstrators have continued to vent their anger in france for the fifteenth consecutive weekend french interior ministry says that more than forty six thousand people actually rallied across the country on saturday almost six thousand of them in paris.

this weekend saw five separate demonstrations organized in the capital alone six protesters were reportedly detained there yet investment began last november of a fuel tax hike distance involved into a stand against unpopular government policies and of this weekend's action organized to pale the peaceful protests that south to support the movement did dick in recent weeks and the continued outbreaks of violence yellow vests have announced over social media to say they are planning a decisive act which is three days of protests started from march the eighth bust the director of the french economic observatory does believe the movement is unlikely to get any more concessions. lost as you still need to france's resisting will always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this perspective it contributed to macro's failure as a representative of the turn in the french economy came into power to exercise

definite policies to lower taxes for the rich in 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 technocratic still to come here on the way to the alarm is being sounded by media freedom groups after facebook suspended some affiliated pages we'll have the details just after the break. that's far right parties obsess about the danger is them presents to the western

lifestyle some islamic scholars are concerned about the opposite or no advantage on the dead muslim isto step up their game within the next twenty to forty years islam may vanish from europe are those fears really justified. to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be cross with a white woman for three of them or ten people. interested in the waters of our. last question.

again i face but suspension this week of several linked to cancer has been described as an act of censorship by the international federation of journalists last week the social networking giant did block pages belonging to methink media for c.n.n. reports suggested it was trying to conceal its russian ties well here's what felipe ruth 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.f.j. where it does the has more on the story now and explains why they spokes 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 run 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 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 talk 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 had

to 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 is 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 to be cost the side of the whims of faceless 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 the more people wanted to see something. the lou should be allowed to see it and of the when you do internet searches things 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 maverick media would like to say to facebook as anger 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 outlets 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 or facebook later told my media it would be allowed back on to the site of the connections to r.t.

or made clear we discussed the story with the 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. you know watching we can hear not say could have a company the same thing back again with more news he and the headlines in about thirty five.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic development only closely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just the lawyer who put him in your list book video a clue in the new bill is that on the split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this today over five

billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. by about a q.b. is the liar who will accept the idea of course this will be ocean without by listening to us there on the border the six the seven was there was about as it's covered the war we are going to be slipping i underline the snipping and go one step below i underline which means that we will be living in it be fine one is did situation and therefore is liable will find itself naive out of your wish as they claim north korea woke up because their claim.

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 slam 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 relying on the inside track supporters well to discuss that i'm now joined by arnold van 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 fight each you on 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 and 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 about islam in the past and know 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 it will find. actually it's a very peaceful and a fairy voice a 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 that as. part of alice plan that you pass to faith would be inspired by bigotry yes well that's very it i sincerely believe that islam was i thought for a 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 was like of the lurch and well no i know the truth by this now but in the period of 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 clever and they pronounce his last name correctly converted to islam do you think gary.