a journalist working for an ati affiliated companies injured on the colombia venezuela border where violent clashes over the weekend soften its way the national guard that serves as plow their vehicle through crowds in an attempt to get to colombia. almost six thousand yellow vests protesters a flooded the streets of paris for a fifteenth successive weekend of anti-government rallies. and also to come on the weekly an act of censorship the head of the international federation of journalists

of lambasted facebook's decision to suspend several pages without warning. good evening great to have your company this hour this is our team's. camerawoman working for a media outlet affiliated with r.t. was injured during saturday's clashes on the colombia venezuela border the journalist in question was taken to hospital with leg injuries but has since been discharged and what you can see coming up here is the video the journalist filmed in the immediate run up to the moment when she was injured it depicts venezuelan police officers there on one side of the border demonstrators here on the other the camera woman apparently then loses her balance with the rest of the footage in a state of confusion saturday also saw dramatic scenes as a group of venezuela national guard members round there. through

a crowd of protesters as they tried to enter columbia leaving. the parody switched sides are about to show you the video of the running may find the scenes disturbing . i will ripley video where you see managed to get hold of forces to show the aftermath of the ramming people can be seen climbing over fire is ridgwell through all the vehicles are stationary in the background the scenes of chaos and panic one woman is showing with a bloody face. media workers a finding themselves have been heckled by opposition activists and was forced to abandon her report the crowd reportedly became angry when she said the opposition were in the minority incident was captured on camera but.

i. i i trucks with usas gathering on venezuela's borders to spot increasingly fierce clashes at checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to president nicolas maduro.

following the clashes venezuela's self-proclaimed leader wants the world to consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he disputes the legitimacy of president maduro claiming the last elections were rigged i don't also announced there i mean well as expressed serious concern about washington's real intentions in sending aid he maintains it's the rightful president of venezuela post. twenty thirty and he accuses by door violating the country's constitution as why those attempting a coup aided and abetted by the us as well as foreign minister also blasted the white house accusing secretary of state might pompei or 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 filed in for the showing that support for material at the rally on saturday he called on venezuelans to take to the streets to defend the country's independence he also denounced by doe as an american puppet i didn't think if. i swear it's a form of cheating now since it is up to the next president of venezuela i added states probably recognize a national symbol of president one point you know as the interim president of venezuela we recognize and express our full support for the president of venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly. it is clear that the just matter of his not the legitimate leader will set us by law so you're not going to believe

that the plan is the right person that is why the forward. looking out. for our lives could be meaningless how in the. final sun. we seek a peaceful transition of power. when all options are on. was

the guy. who have. to have you know i have zero zero zero i five thank god god. the have all 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 from rocks at one another. both nicolas maduro and one white though 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 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 that venezuela's president nicolas maduro has ordered he's cut all ties with colombia so a total diplomatic rupture which is is certainly a disturbing development but it's all quite hear it indeed does bridge but the other crossings there are clashes going on. meanwhile the cross is warning people

on the border with colombia or falsely advertising themselves as working for the a group to try and get into venezuela expressed concern that this threatens the organizations image of impartiality. video shows people with red cross emblems you can see them here on the shirts blending in with the crowd and chanting slogans the humanitarian organizations demanded that activists stop wearing and sitting at the earlier we heard from brando altman editor of the news website of promoting and told us that the holter monitor in a campaign is aimed at undermining maduro's control of venezuela's borders. is assault weapon to provoke a cold war i mean what seeing again is if i do have true off then as well as borders or lot it's not the question is not the issue is nort humanitarian aid is dick control of venezuela called clearly did it do it white house halt downfall

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 meanwhile opposition leader one who i don't know is slated to hold talks on monday with senior officials from the u.s. and a number of latin american countries will keep a close eye on any developments. he all of us demonstrators have continued to vent their anger in france for a fifteenth consecutive weekend the french interior ministry says more than forty six thousand people rallied across the country on saturday almost six thousand of them were in paris. that.

i. can this weekend so five separate demonstrations organizing just the capitol alone six protesters were reportedly detained the ill of us movement began in november of a fuel tax hikes but since then it's evolved into a stand against popular government policies had of this weekend's action on the rise as an appeal for peaceful protests after the support for the move into dipped in recent weeks and the continued outbreaks of violence eleventh's have announced over social media they're planning a decisive ninety three days of protest starting march a director of the french economic observer to believe that the move is unlikely to get any 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 for the new taxes for the rich and businesses to keep wages low to cut back social spending and so on 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 technocrats. keeping with more news coming your way after the break. join me every first week on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm sure. i'll see you then. back geysers financial survival guide. housing bob all. don't get carried away that's cause a report. that's far right

parties obsess about the danger is down presents to the western lifestyle some islamic scholars are concerned about the opposite of our 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.e. linked to count has been described as an act of censorship by the international federation of journalists last week the social networking giant blocked pages belonging to mass media after a c.n.n. report suggested it was trying to conceal ties to russia as what felipe alou ruth

had 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 guess the it has more on the story 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 necessary 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 of course ran a colleague's videos 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 the would justify the anything to the folks they blocked face about hasn't contacted us that all the pages were just unpublished and it had an automated button we couldn't appeal to which we did of course we have not heard a word from fate. book and it's been over three days now the suspected reason is that it didn't reveal its russian funding islet any rules there is no rule that you have to post anything about your funding or parcel finding on facebook no one does it not any of the u.s. sponsored outlets not any of the qatari sponsored outlets no country not chinese book 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 they work to make quality stuff

funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only because the side the winds the faceless 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 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 their 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 that we should be allowed to see it and of the when you do internet searches the things that come up when you

put a question in you're supposed to find the thing that most people are looking at but of course of no started talking about changing the algorithms there's a lot of mass media would like to say to the book as anger as hurt feeling of being. bullied but is also understanding and a simple human p. facebook if you're listening what i would say to you is i understand that you're under immense 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 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 facebook later told

moffitt media it would be allowed back on to the site if the connections to r.t. i'm a clear we discuss the story with talk show host jimmy door who sees the hundred the us government at work this is a bunch of an elected bureaucrats in silicon valley and on 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 only elected 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. parts of the media went into a spin this week of a dream of putin's warning moscow is 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 he openly says gives moscow the edge over america in his state of the nation address on wednesday president putin announced the new hypersonic cruise missile would undergo testing they see if they can travel it said nine times faster than sound it's both ground and seen tell gets an a thousand kilometer range and can be deployed from london to see the russian president stressed the new missile is a deterrent he says not an offensive weapon but usually is a word you can use. the 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 russia is not threatening anyone at all our actions in the security done solely as a response i might mean for global security with several experts i think it's a reasonable massy you know i'd 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 half 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 i did. talents currently relies upon missile systems or aircraft in 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 come out of control systems that the submersible weapon systems would still be available to actually. strike on the united states which means that hopefully the other side would be deterred from using its weapons it's not a thanks for staying with us updates at the top of them. in

twenty four to you know bloody revolution here to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know here i mean you know liz put me in the new bill is that i believe it or the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty forty and. those who took. it in this state over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these another call that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.

i thought it would be is that i will accept the idea of course this would be or should would. but as soon as they're done the border goes up six to seven with those about as it's covered up or we are going to be slipping i don't live slipping and go once there's the elegy high on the line which means that we will be living in it be fun one was did situation before his life it will find itself now you go to jail wish i was the limp north you're welcome i think i was there to clear. the air.

hole and 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 slump our guest today argues dead 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 are relying on the inside track supporters well to discuss that i'm now joined by our in the front door and a former member of the dutch freedom party who converted to islam and now represents the party if unity and islamic party in the hake 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 and this lum ikhwan 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. it's in 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 so i blame myself that i was not really informed about islam in the past and 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 that actually it's a very peaceful and a ferry 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 trade muslims as intolerant and bound on the world domination do you find it ironic i do you perhaps see it as. part of alice planned that you pass to

faith would be inspired by bigotry yes well and bury 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 now i know the truth by this now but in the period 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 a wilderness will ever come about i can only say. it's not up to me who is guided to islam and not but of course the best thing is not to curse him and to fight him about to make for him and maybe he will convert to islam you never know another

member of the freedom party. if a your for the most in the since october last year. i hope that many more will follow i know that both in christian and islamic tradition there is an expression something along the lines that god are. rules in mysterious ways but i wonder you there is perhaps also certain psychological predisposition that may make these people to switch camps or abruptly it was really. not for me and those for your we both. are educated people we are not like. people that just jump into conclusions so within twenty four hours or for both of us it was a journey i cannot speak for your.