as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. a journalist working for a. company on the colombia venezuela border as. crowds to get across the border. areas for a fifteenth successive weekend of government. censorship the head of the international federation of journalists decision to suspend several

pages without warning. and i walk into the weekly roundup of top stories here and. thanks for joining us this hour. a camel woman working for a media outlet linked to was injured during saturday's clashes on the colombia venezuela border the journalist was taken to hospital with leg injuries but has since been discharged this video was captured moments before the incident occurred . i. was a journalist who was filming this video just before the incident occurred she was standing near two armored vehicles as they sped through a crowded border crossing into colombia just before the venezuelan soldiers defected several other people were injured as well we should warn you that the

following video you're about to see of that collision is the stressing. i. i. i i. video agency managed to get hold of the footage said to show the aftermath of the ramming people could be seen climbing over barriers on the bridge while two armored vehicles are stationary in the background with the scenes of chaos and covering the chaos on the border has been a challenge for journalists former r.t. correspondent paul was there she described a separate incidents where a colleague was surrounded by one door supporters who prevented her from filming her report and this is a video of that encounter the reporter dressed in ridge was filming for

a spanish network part of the crowd objected to the way she was describing one as well as self declared leader one way door as well as the opposition a journalist until she was forced to leave the scene blocking the stoking chaos on the border and encouraging humanitarian aid trucks to breach a military cordon president nicolas maduro claims those convoys are a pretext for us now leaving the country meanwhile a standoff was also raging on venezuela's border with brazil throughout saturday.

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 one boy 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

apparent why the other bridge crossings in the area have seen violent clashes indeed now one humanitarian aide truck was reportedly even set on fire at one point protesters uprooted a tree trunk and used it actually as a battering ram like against venezuelan plucks at one another. both nicolas maduro and. have called for protests from their respective supporters there was an opposition protest in newark. iraq us where protesters surrounded an air force base. now julie 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 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 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 own signal. in the meantime 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 he also denounced to go door as an american puppet earlier we heard from brother alterman editor of news website opera monday you told us that the whole humanitarian aid campaign is aimed at undermining murderers control of venezuela's borders. is a soft weapon to provoke a cold war i mean what. if if i do have to offer that as well as board is a lot. question is not the issue is naught military aid is the control of that is clearly the white house thought downfall would be a fast track gratian but move forces. people off for him and this.

is going as we could see yesterday well thousands of people. have aleutian following the clashes venezuelan opposition leader one door urged the world to consider all options to liberate the people of venezuela he disputes the legitimacy of president woodrow claiming the last elections were rigged in january he declared himself interim president of venezuela a move that was swiftly recognized by washington missouri's been in power since twenty thirteen following the death of former leader hugo chavez says quote unquote or is attempting a coup with the head. of the united states iraq us accuses the white house of seeking a pretext for military action meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state has added fuel to the fire with this thinly veiled 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

that will continue to build up the global coalition to put force behind the voice of the venezuelan people or here is a quick look at how the crisis in venezuela has been unfolding over the past few weeks. i mean i swear to formalise soon the details of the national secrets are as president of venezuela i doubt it's probably recognize a 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 venezuela so the united kingdom believes that. is the right person to take from this white a forward. eagerly only looking only in moranis give me an honest how. venice run up.

to the dream how that's. venice when are. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on. was .

so many people around the world have accused the us of destabilizing venezuela a rally against us interference in south america was held in new york on saturday are now a hundred and fifty similar campaigns globally according to the no war on venezuela movement we heard from one activist who was at the 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 u.s. has ever what that has been for humanitarian purpose it will raise a firestorm within latin america that is absolutely clear destruction of the economy of venezuela this is a crime that that the u.s. is community there was causing the economic destabilization in venezuela it's

a seizing of venezuela's own funds and the i'm imposition of sanctions position 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 lead 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 and they want this this phony cover to get rid of the elected government and meanwhile the opposition leader one door will meet on monday with senior officials from the u.s. also a number of latin american countries as well we'll keep you updated on any developments .

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 the capital paris attracting six thousand people. this was the fifteenth consecutive weekend of civil unrest in france movement was launched last november in response to a fuel tax hike it quickly evolved into a nationwide movement against government policies which were seen as favoring the rich vest activists say they're now planning a decisive act on march eighth to raise the pressure on president michael french economist we spoke to though believes the government's unlikely to make any further concessions. 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 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 and preserves his line of the contemptuous technocratic . 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 giant blocked pages belonging to mafeking media that's after a c.n.n.

report suggests that it was trying to conceal its russian ties here's what phillip blair with had to say about the move. closing a facebook account by the i have jay mohr guys they have has more on the story now explains why exactly 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 deliberative 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 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 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. 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 the missions the poor the sauls into their work only slightly 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 their crime it appears was being too russian and this now seemingly is a crime enough to get your bad and to be on the internet was if more people wanted to see something than we should be allowed to see it when you do internet searches

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 say to the book as anger as hurt feeling of being picked on bullied. 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 outlets 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 of facebook or later

told my africa media it would be allowed back on to the site if the connections to your made clear we discussed the story with talk show host jimmy door who sees the hand of the us government at work. this is a bunch of an elected 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 a one 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 the people. of parts of the media went into a spin this week of another of putin's warning that moscow is ready to target perceived threats with its latest 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 accelerated russia's missile programs and openly says gives moscow the edge over america and when his state of the nation address on wednesday president putin announce that a new hypersonic cruise missile will undergo testing this year it can travel up to nine times faster than sound zero on its both ground and see targets in a thousand kilometer range could be deployed from both land or sea however the russian president stressed that the new missile is a deterrent not an offensive weapon because usually the word you. use the should call russia the biggest threat to the u.s. around with 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. 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 mass you know i have to tend to agree with the sentiments that putin has expressed because i saw no purpose that i think these 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 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 holland 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 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 that's all from the same myself for tonight those are the headlines on auntie's the weekly join us in about thirty minutes for the morning's global news updates.

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following welcome to cross talk for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle syria when a pullout well doesn't mean a pull out also venezuela how is that regime change going and the boche story known as brags that and much much more on this edition of crossed. cross talking some real news i'm joined by the one and only dimitri baba chair in moscow he is a political analyst with sputnik international and in athens we cross to. alex cruciform he is the director and writer for the duran dot com or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it all right alex let me go to you to you and athens here we we have this pull out down from two thousand to two hundred now it's four hundred what is the narrative here what is the reasoning behind it and why should

we believe. it's going to happen at all because the narrative has changed so many times since december go ahead in athens well we have moved from a from a withdrawal peter to an occupation and you know let's be clear this is becoming an occupation and of course they're using the pretext of you know protecting the kurds and staying in syria for those reasons but what it really is is the neo cons once again it's surging themselves it trust foreign policy and i won't even say inserting that they are leading trumps foreign policy once again you always have the specter of john bolton and my calm pale kind of sitting in the background as trump is announcing one of his major major campaign promises he campaigned on getting the u.s. out of all these military entanglements specifically syria in two thousand and thirteen trump said three four and i maybe even five tweets saying what is obama doing in syria if i was president i would get out he announced that he was going to

withdraw from the grid and peter the question is are we going to go in three months time to a thousand troops how long are we going to stay in syria is it going to be ten years twenty years is this going to be like afghanistan are we looking at a twenty year occupation of the country so no one really knows at which direction this is going but one thing's for sure the neo cons are running trumps.