pick it out of. the. journalist working for an anti affiliated company is injured on the colombia venezuela border colleagues say that she was hit by the venezuelan national guard deserved to be plowed their armored vehicle through crowds tried to get to colombia . almost six thousand yellow vests protesters flood the streets of paris for a fifteenth weekend of antigovernment. and also to

come in the weekly an act of censorship the head of the international federation of journalists facebook's decision to suspend several r.t. link pages without warning. good evening and welcome this is r.t. international. camerawoman working for me the outlet affiliated with r.t. was injured during saturday's clashes on the colombia venezuela border the journalist in question was taken to hospital but the since being discharged colleagues of nicole say an armored vehicle almost killed her and she sustained leg injuries they say the journalist was wounded when a group of venezuelan national guard members allegedly ram their vehicle through a crowd of protesters as they tried to enter colombia the servicemen had apparently switched sides incident left numerous protesters injured about to show you the video of the ramming but be warned you may find this disturbing.

i. i live video agency managed to get hold of a video said to show the aftermath of the alleged drowning which left the camerawoman injured people can be seen climbing over paris on the bridge two armored vehicles a stationary in the background amid the scenes of chaos and panic one woman is shown with a bloodied face. the workers are finding themselves increasingly at risk is tensions in venezuela rescue life in a separate incident the journalist is been heckled by opposition activists was forced to abandon her reports the crowd reportedly came became angry when she said

that the opposition were in the minority the incident was captured on camera. i. trucks with u.s. aid gathering on venezuela's border to spot increasingly fierce clashes at checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to president nicolas maduro.

following the clash is venezuela's self-proclaimed leader one guy dirge 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 by doe also announced his plan to meet with the u.s. vice president on monday to discuss the situation the president nicolas maduro meanwhile has expressed serious concern about washington's real intentions in sending aid he maintains that he is the rightful president of venezuela the post that he's held since twenty thirteen and he accuses quiet though of violating the constitution yeah that's why those attempting a coup aided and abetted by the united states and as well as foreign minister also blasted the white house accusing secretary of state mark pompei of fabricating

reasons to start a war against caracas in washington says that it's all 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. in the meantime thousands have been showing that support for president mentor and rally on saturday he called on venezuelans to take to the streets and defend the country's independence you also denounced as an american puppet of. the media 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 one it is clear that notice muro is not the legitimate leader of fairness

by law so the united kingdom believes that. is the right person to take from his way to forward. lease do you mean honestly how. it's been assigned. to the troops how that's. been assigned. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on i .

oh god oh yes yes. you know. oh i think yeah. that the five 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 is a battering ram against venezuelan police vehicle in another instance protesters from both sides right rocks at one another. both because that's my dual role and i want to why do have called for protests from their respective supporters and did 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 a few hundred meters ahead of me now 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. meanwhile the red cross is warning the people on the border with colombia or are falsely advertising themselves as working

for the aid group to try and get into venezuela and that express concern that this threatens the organizations image of impartiality video shows people with red cross emblems on the shirts blending in with the crowd and chanting slogans and humanitarian organization is demanding that activists stop wearing their insignia earlier we heard from brian oxman editor of the news website oprah monday he told us that the whole humanitarian aid campaign is aimed at undermining the duros control of venezuela's borders. is assault weapon to provoke a war i mean what seeing again is if i do have true off that as well as borders or naught if that's the question is not the issue is nort humanitarian aid is the control all that is available to clearly the white house hold down fall would be a fast track or gratian but move forces and part of the people off or we him and this in his support is going as we could see yesterday well thousands of people

market food. have aleutian. backlash against u.s. interference is growing there are now one hundred fifty companies globally against white house meddling that's according to the no war on venezuela movement we heard from one antiwar activist to the protests 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 fought 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 intervention is needed but who is causing the economic destabilization

in venezuela it's a seizing of venezuela's own funds and the m imposition of sanctions and the blocking of trade. 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 is only to get rid of elected government we will keep you updated throughout the day on why those plan talks on monday with senior u.s. officials and also on the rising tensions on venezuela's border. yele

of us demonstrators of continued to vent their anger in france for a fifteenth consecutive weekend to the french interior ministry says that more than forty six thousand people rallied across the country saturday almost six thousand of them were in paris. this weekend saw five separate demonstrations organized in the capital alone six protesters were reportedly detained the movement began in november of a fuel tax hikes but it says evolved into a stand against them popular government policies of the weekend's action organizers appealed for peaceful protests after support for the movement dipped in recent weeks amid continued outbreaks of violence three days of protests starting march

eighth the director of the french economic observatory believes that the move is unlikely to get any more concessions. lost as you still need to france's resisting we always skeptical towards neoliberal innovations and from this perspective it contributed to macros failure as a representative of the turn 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. parts of the media went into a spin this week of london and putin is warning that moscow he's ready to target perceived 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 vladimir putin has vastly excel rated russia's missile programs and he openly says gives moscow the edge over america in his state of the nation address on wednesday president putin announced that new hypersonic cruise missile will undergo testing this year they can travel is set up to nine times faster than sound on hits both ground and sea targets in a thousand kilometer range and comedy ploy from land or sea to the russian president stressed the new missile is a deterrent and not an offensive weapon. husan is the word you can. call russia the biggest threat to the u.s. but i can tell you that russia wants to have an equal and friendly relationship

with the united states and russia is not threatening anyone at all our actions in the security done solely as a response. of its offensive nature. and we discuss what this new missile might mean for global security with several experts i think is a reasonable mass a you know i have to tend to agree with the sentiments that putin has expressed because i saw no purpose that i think the initiation of acceleration of the animosity between the two countries came by us is canceling out of i and out 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 where 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 hong says 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 strikes which destroyed. russia's ability to respond by example talk to combine to control systems the submersible weapon systems would still be available to actually mounts are a target for a strike on the united states which means hopefully the other side would be deterred from using its weapons the alarms being sounded by media freedom groups have to facebook suspended some tea if elated pages of the story after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. as far right parties obsess about the danger is presents to the western lifestyle some islamic scholars are concerned about the opposite are no advantage argues the dead muslims don't step up their game within the next twenty to forty years. vanish from europe are those fears really justified.

welcome back facebook suspension this week of several r.t. linked accounts has been described as an act of censorship by the international federation of journalists last week the social networking jon block pages belonging to media after c.n.n. reports suggested it was trying to conceal its russian ties is what. to say 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. . i think frank has the ever more on 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 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 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 do it justified anything to the folks they blocked face about hasn't contacted us that our 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 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 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 saul's 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 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 least 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 find 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 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 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. first related media would be allowed back on to the scientific connections to r.t. were 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. it's one of donald trump's favorite terms but now fake news has even greater recognition it's got its own award ceremony and friends want to show they do risky as a roundup of the witness. they could need him folks the spread of this information we're all being told to be going for it well here in front they like to

go one step further let me introduce you to the book. it's a mock awards show which looks to celebrate some of the ones this examples of fake news which are actually broadcast as real stories here in france where the winner is taking home a statuette of water elf but a golden pinocchio first up let's take a look at the international category where a chilling tale of the russian media hunting tigers was broadcast of course do. but. chefs. but it was completely fake news turns out these images were actually taken of president putin when he was visiting a reserve which protects the endangered siberian tiger on the fake news stories from the north included this mysterious case of

a subversive flag which was hoisted during a yellow best protest measure. but this flag which the expert so expertly gave his opinion on is actually a local for i from the northern pick out the region now in the general category here in france there was plenty of competition just like this a lot of media reported that we started and identified that there had been russian meddling that the russian state orchestrated interference in the banal a scandal ah yes russian meddling again also croyde the mainstream media without doing much checking or even it seems actually reading the study by the lab

even the hit turret the misinterpretation of their work we never said this the fact that the government spokesperson of our study. then there all there was a super sneaky ways to get fake news across as we found out from one local french channel sports anything rome you'd be forgiven for thinking that the opus ition to antigovernment strikes was more than hoff but it seems that this party chart was artificially inflated and when all else fails you can always just to raise anything that you don't like take a look at this in the yellow vest protests amok or i'm supposed to in the midst of the yellow vest protests sec clip on no in fact this is what the so i reset seems two thousand and eighteen was a bubbly year for fake museum fronts with many outlets seeing their noses grow more than once show it's even ski see paris. ok i'll be back with more in half an hour

is about just enough to check it out so you know. he's gone into a nihilistic fever best man thank you gonna hit the road and get out there traveling across america to find what makes america take the show it's the genius to put aside the american hero this is it we've come a point much under the gun so we always are on the margins something. we're starting west with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly the beast i think i want to leave now don't. make this manufactured sentenced to the public well. when the ruling

classes reject.