you know and i. kept thinking about what you. have no place. for going to do the things that need to be done to make sure that the venezuela's people's voice that democracy reigns and that there's a brighter future of the people of venezuela right washington says it will take any action necessary to ensure a transition to democracy in venezuela as fatal violence between pro and anti-government protesters shows no sign of a painting. the people of okinawa in a referendum have rejected moving a u.s. military base from one part of the japanese island to another but locals are concerned the relocation will go ahead anyway. the japanese government is pushing

through that construction by force there are many people protesting in every day. and u.s. president donald trump out north korean leader kim jong un meeting in vietnam this week so we look at how annoyed is preparing for the. rounding up your top stories for this hour here on this as tensions in venezuela intensify the u.s. says it will come to the aid of those wanting to do it oh by any means necessary secretary of state. claimed interim president and opposition veto on quite understand that the venezuelan people have made its days numbered continue to build out the global coalition to put to put force behind the voice which said every options on the table we're going to do the things that need to be done the recent turmoil in venezuela. has been heightened by the debate over whether to allow u.s.

aid into the country trucks of supplies have amassed on the country's border with colombia and brazil this is that clashes at checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to democratically elected president nicolas maduro at least four people have died with hundreds injured. as the violence intensifies on the u.s. ramps up its rhetoric there are concerns that

a direct intervention in venezuela is now on the cards giving us a broader perspective as our tease here. while aids is usually the case to alleviating suffering this weekend's events may be doing the exact opposite her. determination to get washington state across the border in the face of president has refused or was it turns out the catalyst to push the delicate situation in venezuela into bloody clashes tons of usaid had piled up at the venezuelan border in what madeira had called a u.s. orchestrated show designed to induce international condemnation from the dozens of nations siding with opposition leader. concerns that the aid deliveries could contain weapons were not completely unfounded given previous u.s. and deserters bolivian president. evo morales can could call in the cargo

a trojan horse to provoke war so just how pointers thought things on folding when he issued an ultimatum is unclear carious position to put people in especially when the military remains loyal to. with the outlook for mature looking increasingly bleak attention has now turned to those who continue to support him but venezuelan military are being urged to abandon their loyalties then choose the side of washington. venezuela's military has a choice embrace democracy protect civilians and allow in humanitarian aid all face more sanctions an isolation round of applause from the new commander in chief or anyone choosing to be on the right side of history because causing unnecessary pain and suffering is nowhere near as nor the ating as the sight of u.s.

trucks going up in flames it seems we denounce my refusal to let humanitarian assistance reach venezuela what kind of a sick tyrant stops food from getting to hungry people the images of burning trucks filled with aid are sickening their misgivings and finger pointing over who might be to blame for the burning trucks was quickly picked up on by venezuela's foreign minister who issued a stark reminder of his u.s. counterparts past as head of the cia secretary powell a specialist in false flag operations believes he fools the world with a truck burned in colombia by his own agents with tensions in venezuela wrangling for months quite as deadline was an opportunity to vent the result was all out chaos and confusion even forcing the red cross to call on unknown members of the crowd to stop wearing their insignia. we've learned that there are some people not

affiliated with the red cross colombia and red cross venezuela wearing red cross emblems in colombia venezuela and brazil venezuela border we urge them to stop doing this they might mean well but they risk jeopardizing our neutrality impartiality and independence as the situation intensified on the border president maduro called on his the porters to a mass on the streets of caracas where he vowed to defend but as wayland and to alleviate him on the border while cutting all political and diplomatic ties with its neighbor to halt the border chaos. can't continue supporting aggression from colombian territory so i've decided to cut political and diplomatic ties with the fascist colombian government and its ambassadors must leave in twenty four hours what next peace talks a truth. is calling on his vast international support system to up the ante all options are on the table a military conflict is increasingly becoming

a real possibility for his way is a country hanging by a thread a third so perilously delicate it could snap at any moment and when it does the outcome will be war no matter whether those u.s. trucks contained aid weapons or whatever else there's a missile doubt that this special delivery from america has been instrumental tipping point for a country in crisis we spoke to but you know altman the chief editor of news website monday he says washington has underestimated my daughter and local support . and feet in that is a state has go too far clearly did it do it white tulle fault downfall would be a fast track operation but move forces. people off him and his support is going up as we could see thousands of people that believe. have aleutian right now are parentally the only alternative for those who want to

although. is a direct foreign intervention or leave this antidemocratic strategy and begin real talking to normalize and economic relationship with. us president donald trump a north korean leader kim jong un meeting in vietnam this week commenting on the upcoming summit russia's foreign minister expressed hope there would be a breakthrough regarding denuclearization however sort of a love for off also warned that ultimatums don't work. so not sure. that us ultimately will lead. us demands that north korea completely eliminate everything related to nuclear weapons and only then we're going to discuss lifting sanctions almost. second last summer they met in singapore in a speech last night trump said that he had good relations with. those that he would

not lift sanctions if pyongyang does not be nuclearized in the upcoming summit intended to talk a wide range of security issues. are now reports from the host city of. perhaps it's still a bit too early to see a trump kim get together in washington or pyongyang so once again the organizers opted for somewhere neutral. just by looking at the flag of communist it's immediately clear why chairman kim would certainly a special connection to this country but the leaders got installed with the vietnamese authorities before they even arrived or rather they're almost famous.

anyway with the hot i wrote spinning spruced up for the big event the real kim has already hit the road he chose to get. rain and his people looked thrilled to see him no wonder kim has given himself a nice long head start crossing all of china takes time when the leaders met for the first time just saying this. was enough to make the summit a real bombshell but no written or signed agreement. came out of it how's that for a preemptive social media trick to break the stalemate chairman kim realizes perhaps better than anyone else that without nuclear weapons his country could fast become one of the greatest economic power was anywhere in the world because of its location and people and him it has more potential for rapid growth than any other

nation making the second summit work is a matter of procedure for donald trump but will it work the maggie man might have to give something up too could that mean less pentagon involvement in south korea mr kim knows how to play on family guy trumps emotions too it's just been revealed he once said this to america's top diplomat mike compare i'm a father and a housebound and i have children this week it's time for donald trump and kim john to do a bit more than just pose for the cameras or send each other romantic letters i've received two letters from chairman can plug personal correspondence magnificent very strong letter form incredible letters it's time to agree on and cement something real which makes the vietnam chapter of the kim trump relationship even more unpredictable than when they first met even further we spoke to eric and the

founder of lawyers for the deal of militarization and peace in korea he says vietnam is a remarkable choice of venue for the summit. well i think it's really interesting that they're meeting in vietnam a country that we killed millions of people and had a horrific war after the korean war and a country in which we have formal diplomatic relations now a lot of trade and that the u.s. president is comfortable going there for a summit vietnam i think was something very perhaps symbolic to the koreans it would provide a certain level to kim jong un to travel there to fuel more comfortable there it's an odd choice if we're not going to make a deal because i mean it took hundreds of meetings to have a deal in the end the vietnam war and people bet they met they met again in paris over and over and over again until the paris accords finally ended that war but you

know so it is an example of a long. durance race that we're facing that vietnam represents or is it really the idea that you can have economic success and be able to make peace with people who've been at least for so long it's a very powerful symbol. a former senior correspondent at the u.s. t.v. network c.b.s. letters that the majority of the american media is biased lara logan says she's now being hounded for expressing that fear. i know they're going to come after me again and i'm not the only one if there are any journalists who are not being the same drum and giving the same talking points then we pay the price in an interview on a podcast or she said the main problem with the us media is that it leans far too heavily to the left. been part of this for all my life i'm forty seven now and i've

been a journalist since i was seventeen and and the media everywhere is mostly liberal not just in the us but in this country eighty. five percent of journalists are registered democrats so that's just a fact most journalists are left or liberal or democrat oh whatever word you want to give it how do you know you're being lied to how do you know you're being manipulated how do you know there's something not right with the coverage when they simplify it all and there's no grade is no gray sole one way lara logan chief foreign affairs correspondent at the c.b.s. news channel for sixteen years she also hosted the popular program sixty minutes a curry sheffield from accuracy and media agrees with lara logan they're very reflective on reality i'm glad someone working very mainstream organization has finally willing to be open and honest so i think that many conservatives such as

myself we've been really looking for honest truth tellers like laura logan to just bring some reality into the conversation a lot of conservatives huge and a study that showed that the vast majority of republicans believe that the mainstream media do not understand people like we see over and over to me to journalists having to retract their stories or to correct their stories so if the mainstream media really wants to improve our country they need to be more balanced in the reporting among the outlets so let's have a liberal bias for the new york times the huffington post and c.b.s. kerry sheffield again says the media has long been leaning left. around seventy five seventy seven percent of americans believe that the mainstream media creates some form of news and a big part of what they said was fake news was what they were stanley chil report about lara logan pointed out that the problem of the balance is so skewed to the left my take is that if you have

a bias then you should be willing to accept it and don't pretend that you don't have a bias. the people of okinawa in a referendum have rejected moving the us military base from one part of the japanese island to another it's one of thirty two american sites on the island a construction worker the plan and a new location for the base in question has already begun and despite the referendum result prime minister shinzo ave looks well pretty well set to push ahead with the move. we cannot avoid the necessity of moving food said to be the most dangerous basin the world we cannot put this off any longer the basic question is situated in the city of again no one and surrounded by schools shops and hospitals under a deal with america it's being moved to a less populated part of okinawa in the north cold had no co residents there are not happy they say the old base should simply be shut down and not replaced. you

know i have heard that this referendum has no legal basis but there are many people protesting in hanover every day i hope this referendum will be a show of support to them. even when reclamation has already begun the japanese government is pushing through the construction by force of i'm against the construction of a new base because the base is man for war that's why i'm against it. and accidents and crimes between two thousand and four and twenty thoughts in around half of the incidents were on okinawa and one of the most notorious cases happened back in one thousand nine hundred five point three u.s. sailors kidnapped and raped a twelve year old girl when we spoke with catherine jane fisher a rights activist who says she was raped in two thousand and two near a u.s. base near tokyo she thinks relocating the okinawa base won't help to solve anything . most of the american bases are situated on ok no island seventy percent of the bases are on okinawa and the island is so small so you can imagine we have

a lot of united states military servicemen there when they drink too much hole or if they commit crimes they can easily escape justice as in my case you know the man who raped me i had to look for him myself in ten years because the japanese government and the american military would not help so the more bases that are going to be in you know what we need to work out ways that they can vary kate these times so it's now time for the voices to be heard about how they do not want any more rapes and crimes you know murder against gay people we have had to seven over seventy years seven decades of these crimes happening and what is being done to stop that you know we just had another woman who was murdered you know over a year ago so it doesn't matter where they're going to put the base there is always going to be some kind of crime. that they will need to tackle and how what are they

going to do when someone else is the boy when someone else is killed. to come here on your monday program on t.v. with syria in the process of rebuilding itself after years of war an awful lot of work is actually going on at the judiciary level we'll give you news on the. you know world a big part of the new law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

i thought it could be is that i who will accept the idea of course this will be ocean without by this mean i was there when the border that was over sixty seven was your was it about as it's gotta be done we are going to be slipping my eye on the line is slipping and go one step at the elysees i underline which means that we will be living living in it before one is did situation before it is light or with find itself neither jewish as they claim nor do i look up to god as their claim. him on the program welcome to it a new u.n. one some four thousand were killed the report says increased terror activity as well as afghan and u.s. military operations to blame for the spike in civilian fatalities meanwhile a fifth round of peace talks between the taliban and the us is being held in cuts

out on monday and what it does d.f. now reports. after almost two decades of war war you know how hard it is to kick the habit same thing here fifth round of talks between the taliban and the us lots of hope and lots of pessimism that maybe peace but the peace will not hold for long if the taliban bypasses local commanders and fighters ideas and views it would be much better that the taliban include some important and effective local taliban commanders in the negotiating team there's history to these talks in the doha meet she couldn't hush hush all the united states and the taliban they had gold and they bartered and apparently agreed on a u.s. troop withdrawal and then it all collapsed when the united states demanded that the afghan government which the taliban despises also participate there's

a discussion but this discussion needs to be shared back a discussion that does not involve the region we will not trust if we don't get all the pieces right one piece alone doesn't suffice russia which has a huge stake in ending this war also tried to help in early february the then head of the taliban's political faction came here to moscow to take part in another round table but all of them you know hold it after the foreign forces leave our country the afghans won't have any reason to fight each other because we are a united fraternal people it was big eleven countries participated in these talks even the afghan opposition came taliban was there the u.s. remained aloof and surprisingly with observer status watching in paranoid suspicion russia is again trying to model the u.s. backed peace process and the political situation in afghanistan so here we are

round five. new talks the taliban's new political head freshly released from the packets of cease fire and the u.s. troop withdrawal and again washington will try to get the afghan government involved just as problematic is see the taliban is fractured it has its own factions and centrists and extremists and they all want something different the peace or religious law for the crazies death to america and if they don't get what they want talks and negotiations be damned if we're not respected by our leadership and political leaders of the taliban maybe the four it will continue under a different name or by joining islamic state two types of taliban members can rebellion against the leadership for its decision to reach

a peace agreement with the us or the afghan government number one is people that are fighting for ideology hardcore ideologically motivated taliban second is people that are fighting for economic incentives and people for whom fighting for talibanization is business these two types of people taliban world will find alternatives in the tentative for them is groups like isis and if taliban are going to start fighting in isis takes over then we enter a new phase of militancy which the situation will be much worse than what we see right now. with syria in the process of rebuilding itself after years of war a lot of work is also going on at the judiciary level the parliament has passed amendments to syrian civil law restricting polygamy banning child marriage and

expanding women's rights. he was could not refuse to live with the second one under the same roof if a husband takes a second wife without her permission she can now divorce him and receive financial compensation for the minimum age for women to marry has been raised to eighteen. my name is hollow g. than i am about to. live.

the new legislation is a good thing i like that a woman can keep her job after marriage and that it's easier for her to have more. syrian women suffer do not enter the as of whom they dissolve the lights to be expanded so far this rule does not entitle the aspirations of women's associations he still believes it's a positive move. so many more of your money headlines still to come here on our international thanks for joining us i follow your program returns at the top of the hour. the be. one else chose seemed wrong one old old just don't hold. the old belief yet to shape out just a chance to educate and in detroit because the trail you choose to look for common

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle syria when a pullout well doesn't mean a pullout 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 dmitri baba chair in moscow he is a political analyst with sputnik international and in athens we cross to alex christopher oh he is the director and writer for the duran dot com or a german cross girls in effect that means he can jump in and.