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because of what they did they have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven years on death row and how many more is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. the journalists working for a. company injured on the colombia venezuela border as army defectors plow their vehicle through crowds to get. almost six thousand to get over protesters flood the streets of paris for a fifteenth successive weekend of anti-government rallies. also coming up an act of censorship the head of the international federation of journalists
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facebook's decision to suspend several pages without any warning. joining us on a weekly roundup of the top stories here on r.t. international and welcome to today's program. a camera woman working for an affiliated media outlet was injured during saturday's clashes on the colombia border the journalist was taken to hospital with leg injuries she's since been discharged this video was captured moments before the incident occurred. i. was filming this video just before the incident happened she was standing near two armored vehicles as they sped through
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a crowded border crossing into colombia just before the venezuelan soldiers defected several other people were injured we should warn you the following video of the collision is the stressing. i. i. i. video agency managed to get hold of footage said to show the aftermath of the ramming people can be seen climbing over the barriers on the bridge while armored vehicles are stationary in the background with the scenes of chaos and panic one woman is shown with a bloody face i covering the chaos on the border has been a challenge for journalists for more r.t. correspondent bill was there she described a separate incident
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a colleague was around by quantum door supporters who prevented her from filming her report this is a video of the encounter a reporter dressed in red you can see in the video was filming for a spanish network apparently the crowd objected to the way she was the scribing venezuela's leader one boy door and the opposition called a journalist until she left the scene. over his way that has blamed colombia for stoking chaos on the border and encouraging humanitarian aid trucks to breach a military court and president nicolas maduro claims those convoys are a pretext for a u.s. intervention caracas has broken off for a sions with go to colombian diplomats are now leaving the country in while a standoff was also. raising online as well as border with brazil throughout south that i.
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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 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 para why 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 likens to 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 protest in near caracas where protesters surrounded an air force base. in brazil have said that this so-called humanitarian aid
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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 the he's cut all ties with colombia so a total diplomatic rupture which is certainly a disturbing development. meanwhile the red cross is warning that people on the
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border with colombia are falsely advertising themselves as working for a group to try to get into venezuela expressed concern that this threatens the organization's image of impartiality video shows people with red cross emblems on their shirts blending in with the crowd and chanting slogans the humanitarian organization has demanded that activists stop wearing their insignia. 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 is announced as an american puppet earlier we heard from one editor of news website opera monday you told us that the whole humanitarian aid campaign is saying but undermining the duras control of venezuela's borders. is a soft weapon to provoke a cold war i mean what. is if i do have to off then as well
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as board is a lot. question is not the issue is naught to military aid is the control of venezuela clearly the white house thought downfall would be a fast track but move forces. people off for him and this. is going as we could see yesterday well thousands of people. have aleutian consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he disputes the legitimacy of president claiming the last elections were rigged in january he declared himself interim president of venezuela a move that was swiftly recognized by washington's hugo chavez duro says one word or is attempting a coup with the help of the united states caracas also accuses the white house of seeking a pretext for military action you know. well the u.s.
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secretary of state has added fuel to the fire with his latest threat. they have a 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 out the global coalition to put the force behind the voice of the venezuelan people here's just a quick look back at how that crisis in venezuela has moved over the space of just a few weeks. i mean i swear to formalise the teachings of the national executive vice president of venezuela i know it's probably recognize national symbol president one or you know as the interim president of venezuela we recognize and express our full support for the president. assumed by the president of the national assembly. it is clear that
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many people across the world have accused the u.s. of destabilizing venezuela and 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 heard from an activist who was at that 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. war a war that's for oil that's for internal is domination and has nothing to do with humanitarian aid as there is no war that the us has ever what it has been for humanitarian purpose it will raise
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a firestorm within latin america that is absolutely clear destruction of the economy of venezuela this is a crime that the us is community very 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 m imposition of sanctions and the blocking of trade that the us 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
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chose instead they want this only to get rid of the elected government. i mean while opposition leader door will meet on monday with senior officials from the u.s. and also a number of latin american countries to keep you updated on any developments there . more than forty six thousand people took to the streets of cities across france on saturday for the latest yellow vests rallies the largest march was in paris attracting six thousand people. this was the fifteenth consecutive weekend of civil unrest in france the yellow vest movement was launched last november in response to
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a fuel tax hike quickly evolved into a nationwide movement against government policy seen as favoring the rich yellow vest activists say they're now planning a besides have act on march the eighth to raise the pressure on president macron a french economist we spoke to though believes the government is unlikely to make any further 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 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 on the stances due to the yellow vests this week during discussions on unemployment benefits we see that macron aligns with his strategy he condemned social services partners he intrudes into their talks in
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a very disrespectful manner preserves his line of the contemptuous technocratic villain is being sounded by media freedom groups after facebook suspended some are affiliated pages more on that after this short break. i'm max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is on a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get informed as. my thought of who is the liar who will accept the idea of you should buy this new knows they're going to go to the little six to seven with your was about is it's got to go we are
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going to be slipping i underlined the snipping and go one step below the line which means that we will be living in it do you find one this did situation before it is light or will find itself neither do you wish i was big nor do i woke up because their claim. to the weekly facebook suspension this week of several counts as been described as an act of censorship by the international federation of journalists last week the social networking giant blocked pages but media c.n.n. reports suggest that it was trying to conceal its russian ties is what phillip to
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say about the move. 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. oregon has 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 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
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by or why they voiced seeing legitimate arguments critical of us foreign policy a totally journalistic 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 motional 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 a boss 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
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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 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 facebook 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 but 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
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feel for the food my think 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 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 their crime it appears was being too russian and this now seemingly is
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a crime enough to get your bad and the rich are question whether facebook should have that be something that they should be allowed to see it of the when you do internet searches the things that come up when you put a question in you're supposed to fund 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 see you. the book is anger is hurt feeling of being picked on 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
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a slippery slope. and it could lead to disaster in the end facebook later told my media would be allowed back on to the sites if the connections to all made 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 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 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
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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 over a lot of putin is warning 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 us bases intermediate range missiles in europe despite his friendly relationship with president trump vladimir putin has vastly accelerated 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 a new hypersonic cruise missile will undergo testing this year can travel up to nine times faster than sound zick on hits both ground and sea targets in
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a thousand kilometer range could be deployed from land or sea or over the russian president stressed that the new missile is a deterrent not an offensive weapon but usually the word you would use a should call russia the biggest threat to the us room 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 solely as a response and so there of a defensive nature. we discussed what this new missile might mean for global security with a number of 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. you know of acceleration of the animosity between the two countries came by us is canceling out of i n f it out of the treaty and out open up the door for this so i think it's reasonable
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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 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 or targets restriking the united states which means hopefully the other side would be deterred from using its weapons
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there's a badlands full. so what we've got to do is identify. spearing dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. but the numbers. matter you. with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich with six percent. market growth thirty percent some with one hundred five hundred three first circuit first second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars
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drifting is it speak like figure skating team cars which should travel sideways as a specific article and at no less than one hundred kilometers per hour to try this old rivals and polish at the same time a pair of cars must follow the circuits mirroring each other's waists in spades it nicely speeds and plays to get that. shifting was born in japan but as a sport it's become incredibly popular in russia the reason is simple it's wet cheap grit will drive cars are made when does a long time plentiful ice makes drifting easy safe and some. cheaper than during the summer. rigidly trained as a nurse field thought of began his drifting career on the streets now he's the only russian pilot who also drives
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a car like this in the summer too but his equally has been see if you're going to finish in your business also if. you can reach in you the ball easily both of us was going to sort of the let me look what i should saw a bug. in the bush it's all pilots use the winter to prepare their cars for the summer meaning winter competitions are a chance to practice and this time the whole family has come along there was one gulp i state it was you steve it wasn't even if you were out so if so was more. in there on the ballot. yeah definitely five zero people five years with him but he had a way with his i've done that he asks the chimes to consider the more the more stuff more. just was a me ask what true why did not your playboy boss need you.
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