i'm a lucky. break get out of here. number one. we're going to do the things that need to be done to make sure that the ballots where the people's voice that democracy reigns and that there's a brighter future of the people of that as well as washington says it will take any action necessary to ensure what it says should be a transition to democracy in venezuela that is fatal violence between pro and anti-government protesters shows no sign of abating also to come this hour the people in a referendum have rejected moving a u.s. military base from one part of the japanese are into another the 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 the u.s. president donald trump meets with the north korean leader kim jong un in vietnam this week we look at how hanoi is preparing for this up. and i welcome you watching r.t. international where it's just going to pm here in moscow our top story this hour as tensions in venezuela intensify the u.s. says it will come to the aid of those wanting to. by any means necessary secretary of state mark palm posed words come self-proclaimed interim president and opposition leader prepares to meet u.s. officials in colombia on monday. it was a wonder stand that the venezuelan people have made it's days numbered continue to build up 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. well the recent turmoil in venezuela has been heightened by the debate over whether to allow aid into the country trucks of supplies have amassed on the country's border with colombia and brazil and this hands led to clashes of checkpoints between opposition supporters and those loyal to democratically elected president nicolas maduro at least four people have died with hundreds injured. if. i.

were recent photographs of an aide truck that had been set alight led to a wave of accusations against forces loyal to me do it oh later though pictures of the opposition members attempt to save the aid from the fire have been used to even more blackened the image of the police however it appeared on latin american t.v. that it might be not prying the door of forces that really burn the truck video shows that the opposition molotov cocktail which has been produced by it as well it's a truck. was illegal was. was. what is the violence does intensify on the u.s.

ramps up its anti mature over rhetoric there are concerns that a direct intervention in venezuela is now on the cards. as more. while aid is usually the case to alleviating suffering this weekend's events may be doing the exact opposite the determination to get washington's aid 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 us aid had piled up at the venezuela border in what madeira had called a u.s. orchestrated show designed to induce international condemnation from the dozens of nations siding with the opposition leader. concerns that the aid deliveries could contain weapons were not completely unfounded given previous u.s. and deserters the bolivian president. evo morales concurred calling the cargo a trojan horse to provoke war so just how quaint those thought things unfolding

when he issued an ultimatum is unclear rallying his supporters on mass to bring the u.s. trucks across the border is undoubtedly a for carious position to put people in especially when the military remains loyal to the president naturally it resulted in this. with the outlook for me looking increasingly bleak attention has now turned to those who continue to support him the 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 irene humanitarian aid also receive more sanctions and 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 normally 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 sickening 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 pump 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 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 at 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 ways and to alleviate him on the border while cutting all political and diplomatic ties with its neighbor to halt the border chaos. can continue supporting aggression from colombian territory so i've decided to cut political and diplomatic ties with the fascist colombian government that is must leave in twenty four hours what next peace talks a truce. i don't know 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 as well 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 it weapons or whatever else there's a little doubt that this special delivery from america has been an instrumental tipping point for a country in crisis. and he and reporting there we spoke to him and he's the chief editor of the news website or put on monday and he says that washington has underestimated madore and support for him. i feel you know exist they have go too far clearly they do the white house thought downfall would be a fast track operation but move forces part of the people off for him and his support is going up as we could see thousands of people market for the.

have aleutian right now up around police the all only alternative for those who want to over. is direct foreign intervention or leave this and democratic strategy and begin real talking to normalize and economic relationship with venezuela. now the us president donald trump a north korean leader kim jong un commenting in vietnam this week commenting on the upcoming summit over russia's foreign minister expressed there would be a breakthrough regarding denuclearize ation but mr lavrov also warned that ultimatums would not work. we're not sure. that us ultimatums will lead. us demands that north korea completely eliminate everything related to nuclear weapons and only then would it discuss lifting sanctions but it will be trump and kim second summit last summer they met in singapore in

a speech last night said he had good relations with. that he would not lift sanctions to pyongyang doesn't the need arise the upcoming summit is intended to tackle a wide range of security issues. reports from the host city and. perhaps it's still a bit too early to see a 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 feel at home here. as we know the americans have their own special connection to this country but the leaders got in trouble 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 to. your brain 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 this. summit a real bombshell but no written or signed agreements 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 husband and i have children and i don't want my children to care with a nuclear weapon on their back their whole life 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 kim what personal cars 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. by the kim jong un look alike that it is reported mentioned there has been deported from vietnam impersonator says annoy has no sense of humor while he was removed from the country head of the summit trump's doppelganger has been allowed to stay. and we spoke to said roach kin find a lawyer for timothy arise ation i'm pacing caray he says that there 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 il 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 met and they met and 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. she's coming up to a core pass through him or scott we're back with more news just after the break.

with lawmakers manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round of lives only the one percent. to ignore middle of the room sick. leave. syria when a pullout well doesn't mean a pullout also venezuela how is that regime change going and the boche story no news breaks it and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

welcome back to r.t. now the people of iraq in our in a referendum have rejected moving a u.s. military base from one part of the japanese island to another it's one of thirty two american sites on the island construction work though the planned new location for the base in question has actually already begun and despite the referendum result prime minister shinzo abyei looks set to push ahead with the move we cannot avoid the necessity of moving through to him are said to be the most dangerous base in the world we cannot put this off any longer while the base in question is

surrounded by schools hospitals and also shops under a deal with the us it's being moved to a less populated part of uk an hour in the north cord and alco residents there are not happy though they say the old debate should simply be shut down and not replace . your i've 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. those the reclamation has already begun the japanese government is pushing through that construction by force those oil i'm against the construction of a new base because the base is manned for war so that's why i'm against. well u.s. service personnel stationed in japan were reportedly involved in almost ten thousand accidents and crimes between two thousand and four and twenty thirteen around half of the incidents were on orcon hour and one of the most notorious cases that happened back in one thousand nine hundred five when three usa sailors

kidnapped and raped a twelve year old girl we spoke to catherine jane fisher a rights activist who says she was raped in two thousand and two knew a u.s. base near tokyo she thinks relocating this one particular base won't help solve anything. most of the american bases are situated on 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 of a 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 okinawa we need to work out ways that they can rally kate these crimes so it's now time for the voices to be heard about how they do not want any

more rates in crimes murder it's 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 or so it doesn't matter where they're going to put the base it's always going to be some kind of crime that they will need to tackle and how are they going to do when someone else is murdered when someone else is killed. now a new u.n. report says that twenty eighteen was the deadliest year in a decade for civilians in afghanistan some four thousand people were killed the report says increased terrorist activity as well as afghan and u.s. military operations are to blame for the spike in civilian fatalities meanwhile a fifth round of peace talks between the taliban and the u.s. is being held in cattle on monday artist. as more. after almost

two decades of war war stops being special it becomes normal like a habit and you know how hard it is to kick a habit same thing here see if 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 to 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 one 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 taliban's new political head freshly released from a pakistani jail is going to attend the same topics really potential cease fire in the u.s. true. withdrawal and again washington will try to get the afghan government involved just as problematic to 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. if we're not respected by our leadership and political leaders of the taliban maybe the fighting will continue under a different name or by joining islamic state we want afghanistan is also in the

grip of a humanitarian crisis and we heard from anthony neal of the norwegian making g cancel he was in kabul. and what we're seeing on the ground is a is a backward trend where all parties a little bit are increasingly neglecting civilian lives in pursuit of military objectives we'd like to emphasize that firstly it's the responsibility of those engaged in the conflict to protect civilians under international law all actors in any conflict after taking concrete steps to prevent mitigate against civilian harm now is n.r.c. we work in communities to help them plan for and to help them better respond in case an emergency happens so in case there is training in their beliefs they are prepared that they can they can we all be can employ their own safety mechanisms we want to emphasize to all parties of the conflict that protection of civilians has to stop with that well what we're definitely seeing on the ground is an increased

number of people fleeing their homes over the last three years almost two million people have been forced from their homes as a result of the conflict in fact this five thousand people just in the last two months of being forced from their homes we're not yet seeing these people leaving the country we're. being a much m. people being displaced internally and that brings you upside as i things looking safe asa day here not say we're back again at the top of the. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising us all or nothing if you think.

i'm going to talk about football not the or else you think i was going to go. by the way ways of that slide here. but politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be cross it's like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the house. question. what do you do before you came here where did you work before you came here when you live well death row in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the

victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up their rights as live among us somebody even proven innocent off two years on death row and how many more exonerations as a commentator. before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. it. time after time say we're going underground is a battle u.k. pm drazen may returns from bricks and talks in egypt coming up on the show is britain at risk of an imminent terror attack we speak to the president of syria's talk media adviser dr patricia bonn about teresa mayes decision to resettle white

helmets in the u.k. and as britain confirms there will be no postgraduate trade deal with turkey or japan we speak to a foreign trade minister who did successfully sign a deal in time for the twenty ninth of march goal is more coming up in today's going underground but first forget last night's also because as britain being that thing better than any hollywood star acting in a way that will damage post directed trade deals acting like it owns land to rent to the usa for torture and mass killing diego garcia lives seven degrees south of the equator in the middle of the indian ocean with all of the surrounding ocean species the local m.-w. are has plenty of opportunities for sailors to enjoy the footprint of freedom well today the world court gives its view on an aspect of what amounts to a very british footprint of freedom performance there's a deep in boston in the farm office about the lions and ocracy this is a way in which the aunties we never told it was just action taken to remove the

secrecy surrounding wilson jones or the secrecy surrounding both. and. of course the ultimate secrecy and the way that it has been used for extraordinary rendition the leader of the british labor party is talking about the disputed us military base coming under scrutiny today by the world court as to whether it belongs to richard is not the u.k. level in the usa britain you see had a plan for the change or silence it was a plan that hinged on shameless exploitation over a five year period one nine hundred sixty to one thousand nine hundred sixty every single man woman and child was forcibly removed in secret from that islands and none persons been allowed to return for the last fifty years she cautions have lived in poverty but why the purpose of the sonic station was to facilitate a lease to leasing of the largest playland in the chicos archipelago vehicle garcia

to the united states to allow the construction of an enormous military base the base that means to be. we know north and turn for the next in the chicos archipelago own dick spill in the people of the u.k. government received a cash discount of eleven million pounds on plot us nuclear missiles yes the ethnic cleansing of an entire people is one of the prizes britain paid to base nuclear weapons in scotland it would be for u.k. pm david cameron did launch an inquiry into alleged torture permitted by a blairite labor foreign secretary now president of the international rescue committee has covered on this channel nearly a decade ago the u.k.'s intelligence service was given the green light by a former gov moment government minister to interrogate terror suspects in countries known for using torture tactics now that comes from information released by security sources involving david miliband who was britain's foreign secretary into a few months ago critics say his actions amount to sanctioning torture that's

something miliband denies miliband on the anti jeremy corbyn side of things on foreign policy may not have been complicit in torture but today the u.k. seeker. a trade deal with india which participates in today's world court hearing it is after all indian company tata that owns jaguar land rover which claimed that bracks it was behind its decision to sack four and a half thousand workers india it seems though is not on britain's side the marshes has been and continues to be the sovereign nation for the cheek most people like india didn't support britain stance on syria and the voting with russia and china are indicating as strikes against president assad were illegal something on next guest agrees with all the u.k. media appears more interested in alleged isis brides in syria well joining me now from moscow is president bashar al assad's top media adviser dr petain a shabaan with a thanks for coming on the program going will trump says he wants the troops back but i understand that there is evidence that u.s. soldiers have continued to fire at syrian soldiers they are not that. is in theory

that claim.