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thanks for joining us you're watching the weekly here. a camera woman working for a media outlet linked to r.t. was injured during saturday's clashes on the colombia venezuela border the journalist was taken to hospital with leg injuries but the since being discharged now this video was captured moments before the incident took place. i. a journalist was filming the video just before the incident occurred she was standing near to armored vehicles as they sped through a crowded border crossing between venezuela and colombia just before the soldiers

defected to colombia several other people were injured in this warn you the video coming up now by collision is this. i i i i i our ruptly video agency managed to get hold of footage said to show the aftermath of the running of the scene climbing over barriers on the bridge to you armored vehicles a stationary in the final round amid the scenes of chaos and panic on womanish own the bloodied face i. covering the chaos on the border has been a challenge for journalists for monte correspondent and your parent bill was their answer a colleague being surrounded by one point zero supporters who prevented her from

filming her report this is a video of the thing counter the reporter dressed in red is filming for a spanish network apparently the crowd objected to the way she was describing venezuela's self declared leader why don't the opposition have told the journalist and to see the scene i bet as well as blamed colombia for stoking chaos on the border an encouraging humanitarian aid trucks to breach of military cordon caracas broke off relations and colombian diplomats have been forced to leave and the swale in while other clashes erupted at the border with brazil on friday.

you're at the 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 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 guy i don't know have called for protests from their respective supporters there was an opposition. tested near caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base. now chile and brazil have said that this so-called humanitarian aid has actually entered venezuela to 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 the 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. in the town the red cross is warning that people on the border with colombia falsely advertising themselves as working for the aid group to try and get themselves into venezuela expressed concern that

this threatens their organizations image of impartiality and video shows people with red cross emblems on the shirts blending in with the crowd and chanting slogans and humanitarian organizations demanded that activists stop wearing that insignia. meanwhile thousands of been showing their support for president maduro at a rally on saturday he called on by his wayland's to take to the streets and defense of the country's independence you also denounced as being an american puppet early we heard from bruno alterman editor of the news website opera monday who told us that the whole humanitarian aid is assault weapon to provoke a cold war i mean what seeing. is if you do have to off then as well as borders or lot it's not the question is not the issue is nort humanitarian aid is the control of venezuela called clearly the white house thought it was

downfall will be a fast track gratian but move forces. people off or we him and this. is going on as we could see yesterday well thousands of people market food. lucian. following the clashes venezuela's self-proclaimed leader want to urge 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 also announced his plan to meet with the u.s. vice president on monday to discuss the situation first of madeira meanwhile expressed serious concern about washington's real intentions in sending aid. and he maintains that he's the rightful presidents of venezuela post these held since twenty thirteen and he accuses though in turn of violating the country's constitution material as that why don't is attempting a coup aided and abetted he says by the united states and as well as foreign

minister also blasted the white house accusing sect of state might pompei or of fabricating reasons to start a war against caracas duly elected interim president mr gore though the american people have been most generous providing a couple hundred tons of food medicine hygiene kits for the venezuelan people and then will continue to build up a global coalition to put force behind the voice of the venezuelan people. well the crisis in venezuela flared up after opposition leader won gado reclined himself interim president here's how it happened. i mean i swear to formalise soon the teachings 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 quite though it is clear that notice muro is not the

legitimate leader calls on us by law so we're not going to believe that plan is the right person. only looking only. at least giving me an honest how. when a front. runner turns out it's. been a strain on. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on. many

people around the world have accused the us of the stabilizing venezuela rally against us interference in south america was held in new york on saturday there are now one hundred fifty similar campaigns globally according to the no war on venezuela movement we have from an activist who was at the gathering 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. nothing to do with humanitarian aid as there is no war that the us has ever fought that has been for humanitarian purpose it will raise a fire storm within latin america that is absolutely clear destruction of the economy of venezuela this is a crime that the us is committing their there and saying that there is chaos and

and the us 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 be aiding the 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 family cover to get rid of the elected government meanwhile the opposition leader is slated to hold talks on monday with senior officials from the u.s.

on a number of latin american countries will be keeping a close watch on any developments. yellow vests demonstrators have continued to vent their anger in france for fifteenth consecutive weekend french interior ministry says more than forty six thousand people rallied across the country on saturday almost six thousand of them in paris. i. think this weekend so five separate demonstrations organized in the capital alone six protesters were reportedly detained the all of us movement began in november it was originally about fuel tax hikes but it's evolved into

a stand against unpopular government policies ahead of this weekend organizers had appealed for peaceful protest after support from the movement had recently and they continued outbreaks of violence the other vest of announced on social media they're planning a decisive x. namely three days of protesting starting march eighth the director of the french economic observatory believes that the movement's unlikely to get any more concessions. lost his 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 on the fringe 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 preserves his line of

a contemptuous technocrat in alarm being sounded by media freedom groups have to facebook suspended some arty affiliated pages details 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. here in dramatic development only. i don't see it. 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 our no advantage argues the muslims don't step up their game within the next twenty to forty years may vanish

from europe are those fears really justified. welcome back facebook's suspension this week of several r t ling to count as being described as an act of censorship by the international federation of journalists last week suggested it was trying to conceal its ties to russia is what phillipa 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 jay. more now 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 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 but 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 rana colics 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 even said a word reason they were justified anything to the folks they blocked things 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 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 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 facebook page doesn't do it it's just not standard industry practice to disclose their 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 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. the 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 there 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 if more people wanted to see something the list should be allowed to

see it of the when you do internet searches things that come up when. 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 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 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 facebook told moffitt media it would be allowed back on to the site if connections to r.t. made clear we discussed the story with talk show host jimmy door who seized the hand of the us government to 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 need 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 us 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 putin announced the new hypersonic cruise missile will undergo testing the year they say was in kilometer range and it said it can be deployed from london the russian president did stress the new missile is a deterrent not an offensive weapon. because usually as a word you can you. 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 all our actions in the security solely as a response and so they're a bit defensive in nature but i need to discuss what this new missile might mean for global security with several experts. i think is a reasonable massy you know i'd have to tend to agree with the sentiments that putin has expressed because i saw no purpose i think the initiation of acceleration of the animosity between the two countries came by us is canceling out of i and a 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 deterrence currently relies upon missile systems or across delivery systems which are inherently detectable if america wants to launch for example missile strikes which destroyed russia's ability to respond by for example talked in commander 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. not wrap things up for this hour thanks thing with our colleague don hawkins when you're right up to date and often are. i think the number. they've matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more

than ten white collar crime families. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich eight point six percent world market most thirty percent some with four hundred five hundred three first second first second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business you know for the mid one and only whom. i thought of who is the liar who will accept the idea of course this would be ocean would that by listening us to the board of the six the seven was or was it about as it's gotta be done or we are going to be slipping my eye on the line of snipping and go once they feel it i underline b.l.t. which means that we will be living in it define one is did situation before is that

either with a find it's that neither the jewish as they claim nor do i woke up because their clear. country has gone into a nihilistic. thank you and we've got to hit the road and get out the child in america to find what makes america take the charlottes and the genius of america here this is

a point around which hollywood is going to say we're starting last with is going to head east into the swamp to go into the belly of the bee i think i'm gonna leave now doesn't get any more gonzo he may be completely different in this chair. that i'm brittle still to last for is god to fracking an excellent book you were in philosophy and then you got into this fracking business how did that happen what we do what we call field philosophy which means we take ideas about ethics and justice say bring it to the real world where it's actually happening so i was interested in energy issues fracking was going on and. i just wanted to get involved because i saw it as a basically a justice issue right and denton is a remarkable all fracking story because it's the birthplace of fracking more or less as well as being the first town to ban fracking and then something very

interesting happened what happened right at the texas legislature overturned or they passed a ban on fracking. we all voted on the passed by almost sixty percent of the texas legislature which is kind of a petro state decided now we're going to let you do that you know it's interesting is that you started your denton anti fracking campaign kind of on the heels of josh fox you know you get gas land consciousness would be raised somewhat about the dangers of fracking right that that didn't seem to reach ten.