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to get to colombia. also to kill me my six thousand p.l.o. best protesters flood the streets of paris for a fifth think successive weekend of anti-government rallies. and an act of censorship the head of the international federation of journalists lambaste facebook's decision to suspend several r.t. link pages without. well over the latest developments a look back at the stories of the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international will start this hour with breaking news to you because a camera woman working for a media outlet 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 or colleagues of the cold say a vehicle almost killed her and she sustained leg injuries they say the journalist was wounded when she when a group of venezuelan national guard members rammed their armored vehicle through a crowd of protesters as they tried to enter colombia servicemen had apparently switch sides the incident left numerous protesters injured we're about to show you the video of the ramming but be warned you might find the pictures disturbing. to show. us. the us was media workers are finding themselves increasingly at risk is tensions in venezuela escalate in a separate incident

a journalist to settle been heckled by opposition activists ms 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. with. or trucks with usaid gathering on venezuela's borders have sparked increasingly fierce clashes at checkpoints between opposition supporters and also those loyal to president maduro.

was. following those clashes venezuela's self-proclaimed leader. of the world to consider all options to liberate the people often is why it is speech the legitimacy of president daughter claiming that the last elections were rigged white also announced his plan to meet with the u.s. vice president on monday to discuss the situation well president nicolas maduro meanwhile did express his own concerns about washington's real intentions in sending aid just maintain he is the rightful president of venezuela the post he has held since twenty thirteen and accuses quite of violating the constitution he adds

to that is attempting to aided and abetted by the us that is why his foreign minister has also blasted the white house accusing secretary of state. of fabricating reasons to start a war against caracas meanwhile washington says it's 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 that civil president maduro at a rally on saturday he called on venezuelans to take to the streets and the country's independence but he also denies why they as an american puppet i didn't think if it had been out of. the meeting

i swear it's a form of cheating the national said anything as president of venezuela. added states probably recognize national symbol president one point you know as the term president of venezuela we recognize and express our full support for the president of venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly one quite though it is clear that the just is not the legitimate leader will set us by law so we're not going to believe that the plan is the right person is why the forward. looking out of. our lives could mean on this how. when a front. runner turns out it's. been a strain on. we

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have you know. oh oh i have god. that i have 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 in 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 have rocks to one another. both the loss of a dual and the one why do have cold for protests from their respective supporters there was an opposition protests in your caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base. now chile and brazil have 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 the. 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 that venezuela's president nicolas maduro has ordered the he's cut all ties with colombia so a total diplomatic rupture which is is certainly a disturbing development but it's all quiet here it indeed does bridge but the other crossings there are clashes going on. cohen reporting there well meanwhile the red cross is warning that people on the border with colombia are falsely advertising themselves as working for the aid group to try and get into venezuela expressed concern that this threatens the organizations image of impartiality this video to show people with red cross emblems on their shirts blending in with a crowd and chanting slogans and humanitarian organizations demanding that

activists stop wearing their insignia early we heard from him and he's the editor of the new site or he told us that the whole humanitarian aid campaign is aimed at undermining the tourist control of venezuela's borders. is a soft weapon to provoke a cold war i mean what seeing the game is if you do have true often as well as borders or lot it's not the question is not the issue is naught who military aid is the control of venezuela called clearly the white house thought mcginness downfall will be a fast track over ation but move forces. people off for him and his support is going as we could see yesterday well thousands of people market food. lucian well a backlash against us in disappearance is growing there are now one hundred fifty

campaigns globally against white house meddling according to the no war on venezuela movement we heard from one antiwar activist 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 us has ever won that has been for humanitarian purpose it will raise our fire. storm within latin america that is absolutely clear destruction of the economy of venezuela this is a crime that that the u.s. is committing there there and saying that there is chaos said and a 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 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 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 this phony cover to get rid of the elected government and of course we'll keep you updated on acquire those planned talks on monday with senior u.s. officials and also those rising tensions on that is why this borders. i . now yellow vests demonstrators have continued to

vent their anger in france for a fifth think 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. that i. i. i. this weekend saw a five separate demonstrations organized in the capital alone six protests been reportedly detained there the invest movement began last november over fuel tax hikes but has since evolved into a stand against an popular government policies had of this weekend's action organizers did a pale the peaceful protest that is after support for the movement did it in recent weeks and they continued outbreaks of violence yellow vests have announced over

social media today that they are planning a decisive act which is three days of paid tax starting from march the eighth but the director of the french economic traders believe the movement is unlikely to get more concessions. as you still need to france's resisting will always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this perspective it contributed to macros failure as a representative of 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 only 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 talked. in a very disrespectful manner preserves his line of the contemptuous technocratic yes

. around six thousand paper in moscow on sunday in memory of the murdered opposition politician boris and self marches like this have been held annually since themselves assassination in the kremlin in twenty fifteen five people were jailed over the killing although the person suspected of ordering it does remain at large because it donna reports now from the capitol. thousands of people have turned up here in central moscow to commemorate the legacy of the late opposition figure boris nemtsov 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 are here making their voices heard they are 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 murder of

a barista 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 just one person who ordered the hit so basically those who masterminded 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 they're saying they're unhappy with the progress with the progress of the investigation they are saying that political reasons are hampering it while the investigative committee is seizing so far progress in the case but there hasn't been anything concrete said yet still to come on the way to the alarm is being sounded by media freedom groups after facebook suspended some

r.t. affiliated pages we'll have a look at that and more to tell just after the break. 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 on the 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.

i thought it could be this that i will accept the idea of course this will be assured without by listening as they're going the borders of sixty seven with your was about as its cover done we are going to be slipping i underline the slipping and go one step the elegy and i underline the only thing which means that we will be living living in it before one is did situation therefore to slide will find itself neither jewish as they claim nor get woken up because their claim. again facebook suspension this week of several kinds has been described as an act of censorship by the international federation of journalists last week the social networking giant blocks pages belonging to mathew media c.n.n. reports suggested it was trying to conceal its russian ties well here's what felipe

truth 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. were aghast if his mourn the story now 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 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 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 i thought 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 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 to be cost the side the winds the thesis 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 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 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 of mass media would like to say to facebook 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 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 where facebook later told my media he would be allowed back on to the site if the connections to r.t. are made clear we discussed the story further with a talk show host jimmy to. 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. as the media went into a spin this week overnight in the morning that moscow is ready to target perceived threats with its 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 openly says gives moscow the edge over america in his state of the nation address

on wednesday president the. misawa new hypersonic cruise missile will undergo testing later this year you can travel up to nine times faster than the speed of sound so on his both grand in c. targets to win a thousand comb to range and can be deployed from land or sea however the russian president did stress that a new missile is a terror and not an offensive weapon. huge in other words. they call russia the biggest threat to the us around 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 are done solely as a response and so they're of a defensive nature but i need to look at what we discuss what this new missile might mean for global security with experts. i think it's a reasonable massy you know i have to tend to agree with the sentiments that putin has expressed because i saw no purpose that i think the.

acceleration of the animosity between the two countries came by us is canceling out of i n f e out of the treaty and that opened up the door for this so i think it's reasonable for defensive purposes to do this i think we're a lot safer then the people in washington and the people who build our weapons claim we are because even if it's not for the fact of aggression and starting a war i think people when they make profits building weapons there are likely to promote problems actually in hans's the state stability of deterrent systems and the reason i say that is because deterrence currently relies upon missile systems or aircraft or different systems which are inherently detectable if america was to launch for example missile strikes which destroyed. russia's ability to respond by

for example talk to combine to control systems that the submersible weapon systems would still be available to actually mounts are a target for strike on the united states which means hopefully the other side would be deterred from using its weapons and that's how the weekly is looking safe today we're back with more news in the headlines an awful.

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