foreign minister thank you for the show will be back a hundred nineteen years since the founding of one of the largest socialist movements in western europe the british labor party. us vice president. proclaimed president in colombia where he arrived to announce washington's plans to resolve the crisis comes after a weekend of violence triggered by america's attempts to deliver aid which is being rejected by. the un's high schools has demanded the u.k. control of the silence as rapidly as possible and return the territory to militias

. a second meeting with north korean leader kim jong un we look at how the host nation of vietnam is getting ready for the summer. giving a welcome you're watching international. the us vice president. where he's met with the regional group bloc to discuss ways out of the venezuela crisis as tensions ramp up on its borders more on this let's go live to new york for more . take us through what exactly has been said in. well mike pence who is the vice president of the united states brought greetings to the gathering on behalf of donald trump and the united states and said that the

united states is one hundred percent behind one blade o' the interim a self-proclaimed president of venezuela recognized by the united states not elected by the people of venezuela furthermore he said that new sanctions against venezuela were in the works for individuals in the venezuelan government already been named by the u.s. treasury except for sanctions he said more sanctions could be on the way a further more offered amnesty to any folks in the military venezuela who would switch sides and come over to grade zero side and he then offered additional funding to countries in the region that would go along with washington in its efforts to remove this is some of what we heard from mike pence the vice president of united states when he was speaking in bogota colombia. today also it's my privilege to announce that the united states will provide an additional fifty six million dollars to support our partners in the region as you come to the aid of the

venezuelan people fleeing from the deprivation and oppression of them to the regime it's good people of venezuela she sure freedom we will go with you you go but go by own country you. now at this point the turmoil in venezuela has escalated in response to debate about whether or not to accept aid from the united states the united states is trying to bring in aid on the borders from colombia into venezuela as well as the border of brazil now from what we understand there are supporters of mr owen opposition activists and they've been clashing with each other at these borders near the checkpoints at least four people have been killed there have been hundreds injured in the clashes and at one point an aid truck was

actually torched and lit on fire and there's been a diplomatic war of words with different forces blaming different forces for the lighting on fire of that aid truck let's take a listen to some of what's been said. we denounce my refusal to let humanitarian assistance reach venezuela what kind of a sick tyrant stilts food from getting to hungry people the images of burning trucks filled with sickening. sekret the ripple specialist in full flight go permissions believe he fools the world with a truck burnt in colombia by his own agents now forces that are backing one grade zero have blamed mcgirr oh and their zero supporters for the lighting of the aid truck on fire they say that it it is them who is responsible however video has surfaced that seems to indicate pretty clearly that the video video seems to indicate pretty clearly that the aid truck was actually lit on fire by anti madeira

activists who dissembled near the border the opposition forces those forces sympathetic to grade zero and opposing the venezuelan government seem to have been responsible for the lighting of the truck on fire let's reveal. well you know. now the crisis seems to be continuing at this point there are different narratives at this point with the anti maduro forces blaming me for the fire the problem of the forces saying that it is in fact opposition activists who lit the aid trucks on fire a war of words a different different pretty clear view quite a standoff and rather tense situation with mike pence in bogota condemning the venezuelan government calling joe the legitimate leader while many forces around

the world are recognizing the elected president of venezuela nicholas and the der as the legitimate leader so a clear difference of opinion in the international community with the united states coming down squarely and solidly behind the forces that want to remove president nicolas maduro. splits both things out on the outside on his way to kill him more with the story to thank you. also the weekend to benefit concerts and this weather was held in colombia near the border it was organized by the billionaire richard branson initially billed as a huge event an article by the washington post when first published two hundred thousand people attended an updated version of the article gave no attendance figures but said simply because it was quote massive and then a third version removed all reference to the concert some people have analyzed. blogs suggesting no more than twenty thousand people with. thank you alec is journalists human rights and labor rights lawyer and he joins me on the line now

and i started on the. washington post it was pointed out to me actually that when we were talking about. donald trump's in or gratian the washington post we're absolutely meticulous about numbers of people in attendance which makes it a little strange that the numbers seem to been so off on this occasion do we put this down just about the office or something slightly more sinister. well you know i don't know for sure but my guess is that the numbers were not very impressive been so. they're starting to now downplay. yeah it's quite a big difference what two hundred thousand initially estimates from satellite imagery which would they can really work out mathematically ten percent of that. do you think that is the media managing to be balanced on then as low sort of an as well we know where us foreign policy is on this are the media independent from that . i've never seen frankly worse media coverage of any event

maybe second only to what happened in the summer and only for a later time the coverage is terrible you know you often hear like on national public radio they'll say oh the dictator nicolas maduro or the authoritarian president nicolas maduro. is if it's a fact and it's not a nicolas maduro was democratically elected last may i was an observer at that election he got over six million votes which was sixty seven percent of the votes cast used legitimate president and yet we hear him being call a dictator call or his government call regime. this is terrible news coverage it simply feeds into the attempt of the u.s. to effectuate a coup and venezuela which is exactly what's happening there you know as far as you

know mentioning the concert in branson wants to really help people maybe you know have a concert for yemen or frankly while he was in colombia he could have a concert for the why people also right across from the venezuelan who are in colombia who are also starving. to death this is an incontrovertibly. but this is just so what do. concern based on the u.s. does target for regime change. i'm just wondering you know this is being portrayed it's a story we've seen a narrative we've seen many times before we're going to come in we're going to liberate the oppressed people from an evil dictator life will get better a few people of this country and you can insert in there iraq you could insert libya if it's not worked out terribly well in the path you think that this this style of justifying regime change is going to work this time. no you know how well

you know what you said the latin american. novelists who are no darby are no answers dorian once said that every time the us saves in. a country they turn a country into either an insane asylum or break your heart which is absolutely true . you can't point to us intervention which is ended and well in libby is a great noble case where the most prosperous country in africa now turn it into the least prosperous country with slaves being sold in the market so i would say well to those. little say salvation and democracy is being offered from the united states because no good will come from. something else that i find pretty contradictory and slightly dangerous so you've got u.s. politicians talking about trying to improve their lives maybe save lives in venezuela you've got someone like so many want to be president marco rubio has been

tweeting criticism in between he slips in an image of one i get after the lately being leader as he was about to be brutally murdered he's aware that deaths could be the result of us actions he understands that this could happen and yet it sort of casually throws it out there why don't the politicians realize they could be killing people through their actions. oh they know they will they know they need debts for this to work out the way they want they are actually not trying to provoke violence on the border to justify intervention they need a certain amount of deaths to were factually they're trying to do here with a regime change they don't care how many people die they don't care about the people you know the u.s. sanctions against venezuela tossed out of harmony over twenty billion dollars last year or meanwhile they're bringing in this token amount. which you know comes

nowhere close to making up for work the same thousands of cars the venezuelan people you know the red cross itself is one hundred out this is not inhumane and it's here for this is a political act to change a government and the u.s. doesn't care how many people suffer for us. and i speak to appreciate your fourth row is my guest journalist human and labor rights lawyer thank you. for the touch was. britain must rapidly give the color nice to check us islands back to malicious the un's high scores will. the united. nations to bring in the administration of the terrible side could be local. support to the international court of justice found the u.k. illegally split the islands from malicious before granting the island its

independence in the one nine hundred sixty s. thousands of citizens were also deported from the indian ocean territory so that britain could let the u.s. build a huge military base on the biggest island diego garcia u.k. foreign office insists that the u.n. was just giving an advisory opinion not a judgment the chair of the support association. believes it shouldn't take a u.n. ruling for the u.k. merced to better respect the rights of the czech of speedball that's the one case for it being an advisory opinion and i would assume the government will make a full statement tomorrow on how they intend to respond to the opinion i think it be quite difficult for the u.k. to just fly in the face of it they don't really have a charge on the i.c.j. and if they're seen to be flying in the face of this court i think that might find some difficulty in getting that judge back on the panel that even if the u.k. does comply with the ruling there's we don't really have an impression of how significant this will be for the people i think. the question of sovereignty has no

bearing on the on the right of return and the imperative that both in russia and the u.k. government should already be treating the people from the silence with their human rights and the respect that they deserve. the people of in our in the referendum have rejected moving a u.s. military base one part of the japanese island to another one of thirty two american sites on the island in search of work at the planned new location for the base has actually already begun and despite the results of the referendum prime minister shinzo rb looks set to push ahead with the move we cannot avoid the necessity of moving him are said to be the most dangerous but least in the world we cannot put this off any longer. the basic questions in this city of guinea one surrounded by schools hospitals and shops under a deal with the us it's being moved to a less populated part of okinawa in the north called a narco residence there aren't happy they say the old bay should simply be shut down not replaced. your i've heard that this referendum has no legal basis but

there are many people protesting in every day i hope this referendum will be a show of support to them. on the line reclamation has already begun the japanese government is pushing through that construction by force so i'm against the construction of a new base because the base is manned for war that's why i'm against the. u.s. service personnel stationed in japan were reportedly involved in almost ten thousand crimes and accidents in the decade leading up to twenty to around half the incidents were or knock you know are one of the most tourists notorious cases happened in one thousand nine hundred five when u.s. 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 near a u.s. base near tokyo. 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 vary kate these crimes so it's now time for the voices to be heard about how they do not want any more rapes in crimes you know murders 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 there is 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. us a north korean leaders donald trump in conjunction are meeting in vietnam this week commenting on the upcoming summit russia's foreign minister expressed cautious optimism saying he hopes for a breakthrough regarding denuclearization warm though that ultimatums wouldn't work . some with natural we are certain that u.s. ultimatums will lead nowhere once the u.s. demands that north korea completely eliminate everything related to nuclear weapons and only then would discuss lifting sanctions or. it'll be trumping came second summit last summer they met in singapore in a recent tweet donald trump promised economic prosperity to north korea if young young abandons its nuclear program and others kim will make a wise decision from poso insisted that he would not lift sanctions if congo doesn't denuclearize auntie's into trying to reports from vietnam. 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 vietnam 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 the same as lookalikes did. 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 vietnam by a train 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 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 womb 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 to 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 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 camp trump relationship even more unpredictable than when they first met. the kings or new look

a line killer mentioned in his report a sense being deported from vietnam impersonator said that hanoi didn't have a sense of humor of the term stoppel gang as being allowed to remain in the country . it's not just officials who are busy preparing for the summit a bar in hanoi is rolled down the new cocktail mixes up american and korean spirits and he said to represent fahri characters of the two leaders the drink is called rock it man i'm sure you get that play on one of insults directed it came not too long ago also barber's shop is offering hack not sure how many people want to hack to mimic trump in conjunction but the service is available and it is free of charge it's said to be a way to promote peace on a serious note we spoke with ericsson roped in the founder of lawyers for demilitarization and pacing career he told us the choice of host country for the talks is telling. why 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 your 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 bet 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. the leader of the opposition in the united kingdom jeremy corbyn is set to announce his party will back a second referendum on bragg's if labor's own proposed deal is rejected later in the week and this news comes after top e.u. officials suggested delaying brigs it or in the britain's pm may not be able to keep her pledge to get a deal by the end of march. well this is all coming out of labor's weekly parliamentary meeting and the news is that jeremy corbin the leader of the opposition labor party has said that his party will support a second referendum in the way they're going to do it is through the parliamentary process that is taking place they will be putting forward all supporting an amendment that will be in favor of a public vote and the way that jeremy corbin has put it is that one way or another

we will do everything in our power to prevent no deal and impose a damaging tory brags it based on two reason may's overwhelmingly rejected deal some already see this as a response to the string of defections from the parliamentary labor party that took place last week and jeremy corbyn up until now had been seen as very undecided on bragg's that people didn't really know where he stood on it and now we've got a clearly outlined position from an opposition leader here in the u.k. who had been seen as really a labor euro skeptic but here he is saying that they will support a second referendum and at the moment the u.k. leader is on her way back from egypt where she's been taking part in an e. summit it was a pretty jam packed schedule over there there were plenty of meetings and speeches by big sort of headline politicians one of them featured the european commission

president john claude you can't take a look at what happened while he was on stage. it was using. my words. and outside of the official agenda of the politicians got to mingle we got to see them in a bit more of an informal atmosphere one video posted by the italian leader and featured to resume a. a trying to play pool but the inability of to reason made to play pool is the least of her problems right now anyway as she goes the questions about brags it follow and this egyptian summit was no exception to reason they gave a press conference after all had meetings and in classic to resume a style she managed not to say anything new a tall she one of those things was that she hasn't quite yet managed to secure any

legally binding changes to her e.u. withdrawal agreement with brussels but when asked if she would delay bragg's it she said no that's not really an option any delay is a delay it doesn't address the issue it doesn't resolve the issue it's within our grasp to leave with a deal on the twenty ninth of march that's where all of my energies are going to be focused she is sticking to her guns saying it's either my deal or no deal but many of even the ministers now in her own cabinet saying openly that they want to see a delay to britain's departure from the e.u. if there is no deal if the e.u. council president donald tusk is also reluctantly in favor of. discuss a lot of issues. the legal and procedural context of a potential extension.

bridgette or excursion i believe the situation in the. russian a solution so there you have it london and brussels once again worlds apart and even well the dutch prime minister mark rutte went a bit further and he said that the u.k. could be sleepwalking into a chaotic new deal scenario of course the euro skeptics saying this. well don't worry about it this is all part of the negotiating tactic from brussels the hard talk the plasters say they won't reopen the deal that's just something. a former senior correspondent at the u.s. t.v. network c.b.s. has claimed the vast majority of american media is biased lara logan now says she's been hounded for expressing such a view. 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 beating the same drum and giving the same talking points then we pay the price in a podcast interview she claimed that the main problem with the us media was to have a lead to the left leading to sacrifices in objectivity and the lack of representation for other views. 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 mark just in the u.s. 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 or 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 gray is no gray it's all one way logan's

interview was mocked by some who took to twitter to claim that she can't be trusted because of her involvement in a dubious report on big goals the back in two thousand and thirteen others alleged opinions motivated by a failure to be hired by any of the outlets logan left her position last year as chief foreign affairs correspondent c.b.s. held that position for sixteen years she also did the popular sixty minutes show floored twenty thirteen being gazi report gary sheffield for accuracy in media agrees with logan. they're very reflective of reality i'm glad that she is someone working for a mainstream organization whose family well and 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 be bring some reality into the conversation a lot of conservatives huge and a study that showed that the vast majority of republicans believe that they should be and do not understand people like three c. over and over again should journalists having to retract their stories or to

correct their stories so if if the mainstream media really wants to improve our country they need to be more balanced in the reporting or among ellison lead to have a liberal bias on the new york times huffington post and c.b.s. gary sheffield the game believes the media has long been left leaning. around seventy five seventy seven percent of americans believe that the mainstream media creates some form of fake news and a big part of what they said was fake news was what they were failing to 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 biased then you should be willing to accept it and don't pretend that you don't have a bias. friends has joined britain in a bid towards germany to lift a ban on arms exports and supplies to saudi arabia the ban was imposed last november of the killing of the journalist to market shoji and is set to expire on

march ninth. it's useless to produce weapons.