he was five president mike pence meets furnace where the self-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 attempt to deliver aid something that's been rejected by. referendum seize the people of iraq in our reject plans to relocate a u.s. military base from one part of the japanese island to another local will happen anyway. the japanese government is pushing through the construction by force there are many people protesting in every day. and the un's highest court has demanded the u.k.

and its control of the child got silence as rapidly as possible to return the territory to malicious. an assault from prepares for a second meeting with north korean leader kim jong un we'll look at how the host nation vietnam is getting ready for the summer. for joining us this hour midnight here in moscow this is r.t. and. start with breaking news just in iran's foreign minister zarif as announced his resignation he made the statement on his instagram account this information was also confirmed by bahraini and mass media sorry for apologize quote for all shortcomings thank the iranian nation and officials he has served as the rounds foreign minister since two thousand and thirty three fled the iranian delegation in negotiations over iran's nuclear program the reason for his resignation remains unclear. america's

vice president mike pence is in colombia where he's met with the regional lima group bloc to discuss ways out of the venezuela crisis that's just as tensions are ramping up on the country's borders more pain explains. well mike pence was speaking to the lima group in bogota colombia about the crisis in venezuela now when he addressed the grouping he gave his full support on behalf of the united states to juan guede o. who proclaimed himself to be the interim president 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 mike pence who offered amnesty to any folks in the military venezuela who would switch sides and come over to the side and he then offered additional funding to countries in the region that would go along with washington in its efforts to remove the duros 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 the material regime the good people of venezuela she just freedom we will go with you you go would go. 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 of colombia into venezuela as well as the border of brazil now from what we understand there are supporters of madeira and 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 aide truck was actually torched 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 we denounce my refusal to let humanitarian assistance reach venezuela what kind of a sick tolerance dope's food from getting to hungry people the images of burning trucks filled with sickening. sekret the ripple specialist in full fire go permissions believe he fools the world with a truck burnt in colombia by his own agents now the forces that are backing one grade zero have blamed mcgirr oh and they're zero supporters for the lighting of the aid truck on fire they say that it it is them who is responsible however there dio has surfaced that seems to indicate pretty clearly that the aid truck was actually lit on fire by anti material activists who dissembled near the border. and that. can lead. to anything i do.

not. mean that you didn't get quite a standoff and rather tense situation with mike pence in bogota condemning the venezuelan government calling wanted wedo the legitimate leader while many forces around the world are recognizing the elected president of venezuela nicolas maduro . 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 and it's not just the aid campaign that's putting pressure on the venezuelan leader and u.s. senator marco rubio has tweeted images of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi as he was about to be brutally murdered the tweet isn't captioned but with president madeira a favorite theme for rubio's recent messages many interpret this as a warning to madeira because nothing says human rights like gloating over

a human being getting sodomized to death with by a night marco rubio just posted photos of gadhafi being lynched in an open death threat to madeira libya's now a slave state thanks to us you mark or you had the reste piece of who should immediately resign marco rubio is freed has become like a manic paranoid regime change demanding boss account would probably be investigated for suspicious activity by the twitter authorities if he was not a u.s. senator a reaction to the posters not being limited to just twitter now a petition demands the censors resignation with accusations rubio is promoting violence against the head of state political analyst chris bambery believes the tweets part of a larger u.s. propaganda plan. well i think it's all part of a strategy of tension as the americans are building up what the americans are trying to do is put pressure on the military in venezuela to shift the doura

so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the duras position is is that unlike his predecessor hugo chavez feast of the coupe twenty years ago which as you call a mass movement that was insurrection in caracas received to save him. no material is almost entirely on the army and the reason that kind of thus far we haven't seen this kind of mass movement come into his eat so the thousand of those in one dollar question is is what attitude of the venezuelan militant will take is he going to continue to support and do and if that's the case the potential for civil war personally i'm cynical about the americans intervening directly because i believe the stomach for it in the united states of america pushed the right course to libya and also the sight of american troops in any white american country brings back memories of america's record on that continent also at the weekend a benefit concert for venezuela was held in colombia near the border organized by

the billionaire richard branson it was initially billed as a huge event an article by the washington post when first published said that two hundred thousand people attended an updated version of the article gave no attendance figures simply the concert was massive then a third version removed all reference to the concert some people have analyzed satellite imagery of the event with one bloc suggesting no more than twenty thousand people attended we discussed this with legal and media analyst lionel. is not an innocent mistake especially when there is no mention as to why something is scrubbed we don't normally there's a mistake if we said we misspoke we misnamed the president of whatever normally when there is an air rat home or some type of a mistake that is noted they make weapons to it. my bad not at all this was part and parcel of the story you know by the way historically crowd sizes

has always been a subject of shall we say fanatically one thousand nine hundred ninety five in this country when louis farrakhan had his million man march that term million one from an actual number to an expression to something like zillion so historically crowd sizes and the number this is true and dare i say what does not be sir fake new. if this indeed was not true because when you itemize and specifically cite the number of people in attendance that is part and parcel of the actual story so one could reasonably submit this is fake news. the people of okinawa in a referendum have rejected moving a us military base from one part of the japanese island to another it's one of thirty two american sites on the island construction work at the plans new location for the base is actually already begun and despite the referendum result prime

minister shinzo are looks set to push ahead with the move we cannot avoid the necessity of moving futenma said to be the most dangerous but east in the world we cannot put this off any longer. the basic question is in the city of good no one it's surrounded by schools hospitals and shops under a deal with the us is being moved to a less populated part of okinawa in the north called her narco residence they're all happy they say the old 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. let me call me has already begun the japanese government is pushing through that construction by force i'm against the construction of a new base because the base is manned for war that's why i'm against. u.s. service personnel stationed in japan were reportedly involved in almost ten

thousand crimes and accidents in the decade leading up to twenty thirteen around half the incidents were all mark you know one of the most notorious cases was in one thousand nine hundred five when three u.s. sailors kidnapped right a twelve year old girl we spoke to katherine jane fisher a rights activists who says that she herself was raped in two thousand and two near a u.s. base near tokyo. most of the american bases are situated on you know i and seventy percent of the bases on okinawa and their 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 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 rates in crimes you know murder it's against gay people we have had 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 ago 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 chapel and how are they going to do when someone else is murdered when someone else is killed. britain must rapidly give the colonised chuggers islands back to marie the un's high scores as root. the united. nations to bring in ministration of the terrible side could be local. support to build the

international court of justice found the u.k. illegally split the islands from richest 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 britain could let the u.s. build a huge military base on the biggest island diego garcia the u.k. foreign office insists the u.n. was just giving an advisory opinion not a judgment the chair of the u.k. chugger support association laszlo gu shouldn't take the u.n. ruling for the u.k. maliciously but to respect the rights of the childless people. as 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 they 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 measures and the u.k. government should already be treating the people from the silence with their human rights and the respect that they deserve. u.s. and north korean leaders stunnel trump can join in our 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 but also warned ultimatums would work. some with natural we are certain that u.s. ultimatums will lead nowhere what the u.s. demands that north korea completely eliminate everything related to nuclear weapons . and there he then we're going to discuss lifting sanctions almost with your brain you will be trumping came second summit last summer of course they met in singapore in a recent tweet from the economic prosperity to north korea if pyongyang abandons its

nuclear program another that came will make a wise decision trumps also insisted that he would not lift sanctions if he doesn't denuclearize what he said about trying to hustle. 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 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 to 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 grow. still me chairman kim realizes perhaps better than anyone else that without nuclear weapons his country could fast become one of the greatest economic powers 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 mega 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 carry the nuclear weapon on their back their whole life this week it's time for donald trump and cam 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 mike first cars magnificent very strong letter form incredible that 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 married again sir when they came in the lookalike elimination didn't reporters since being deported from vietnam in person he said and i didn't have a sense of humor in all the trump stuff we're going to house being allowed to stay it's not only officials busy preparing for the summit a bar in hanoi is rolled out and you can tell it mixes up the american in korean spirits and he said to represent the fiery characters of the two leaders to drink could probably guess this wrote. a play on one of donald trump insults directed it can not long ago may well at a barber shop there are free haircuts on offer that mimic the hairstyles of trump and kim jong. said motive as being a way to promote peace on a more serious note though we have spoken with iraq and founder of lawyers for

demilitarization of peace in korea you told us the choice of the host country for the talks without telling. you 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 un 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 and 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. because get back to our breaking news story from this hour iran's foreign minister mohammed has just announced his resignation let's go live to our correspondent paula slip paula just how big a surprise is this. it's if he is a surprise and at this stage we have no indication as to why he has actually been signed all we can tell you is that he announced his the. nation on instagram he offered a somewhat vague apology he said he apologized for his shortcomings during his tenure as foreign minister now he became foreign minister of iran back in august

two thousand and thirteen and it was two years later at that hit that his stolid nuclear deal was signed now he was very much part and parcel a close ally of president rouhani in pushing for the deal to work and the fact that subsequent to that the deal failed america pulled out president trump as we imposed sanctions and the reigning is plummeting has heart blamed on him and he's had to shoulder some of the responsibility we are waiting to hear from the iranian president that he accepts this resignation although that seems to be just part of the protocol and we don't really expect him not to but certainly for the iranian president rouhani himself this is going to be a blow because the foreign minister was one of his closest allies in terms of his dealings with the waste. the news only just came through in the last hour many thanks our correspondent robin top of the story will get that i'm sure in the hours to come. for schoolchildren in the

u.k. to be taught about gay and transgender relations as part of a plan by the government to overhaul sex education in the country and see a church has more. what the department of education has been suggesting is including new compulsory classes on sex add for schools across england which would include things such as relationship education for primary school kids which would mean children as young as four years old and a sex and relationship classes for secondary school pupils as well as mental and physical health classes for all the children attending schools in england and this has been causing quite a stir not only is this the first attempt to put in place new regulation as long as twenty years but this is also been a very divisive issue so far in the sense that there's been lots of debate about

the role parents play in this with some saying that while the government promises that the parents will be able to withdraw their children from any classes related to sex until those children reach the age of consent and then make those decisions themselves many parents have been saying that is just not good enough they're describing till they don't want any such topics to be part of a mandatory curriculum and have been saying that it's up to the parents to educate their children on such issues we have grave concerns about the physical or psychological and spiritual implications of teaching children about certain sexual and relational concepts proposed in c. and believe that they have no place within a mandatory school curriculum that's part of an online petition that was signed by over one hundred thousand people which in itself prompted a debate in parliament earlier today here in westminster where we're debating. really the extent of this problem with questions about age appropriateness with

questions about the school all of this will be taking as well as how it would all end up working in the end the law provides parents still have the right to the children out of these clauses those the go it was taken in consideration for example would useful i don't blame parents for saying they want to up their kids out because this is become so divisive and so polarizing that they cannot see a way out without any arbitration mechanism well the certain new curriculum is not set to roll out until september twenty twenty but with so many opinions and groups supporting the stadia and just as many people being against having these kinds of guidelines in schools across england it's quite clear that this is going to continue to be a very divisive issue here. a new report from the united nations says that twenty eight team was the deadliest year in a decade for civilians in afghanistan some four thousand 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 deaths meanwhile the fifth round of peace talks between the taliban and the u.s. is being held in qatar on monday parties as the of explains. 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 the habit same thing here fifth round of talks between the taliban and the us lots of hope and lots of pessimism there may be 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 is history to these talks when 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 brothers but all of them you know holding on to 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 the began it's done so here we are round five new talks the taliban's new political head freshly released from the pakistani jail is going to attend same topics really but she's for a u.s. troop 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 four it will continue under a different name or by joining islamic state taliban spokesperson told us the key issues to be resolved at the talks. the those commanders that you've talked to a part of on the edge of doing our political team talks with the americans regarding peace and other issues concerning our political team the representatives of every sector of the taliban and trust you know leadership and he was a baby the leader of the taliban. is agreed to live with rules america from afghanistan and guarantees afghanistan will be used against countries technical to work out how and when the americans leave.

the important issue is the occupation of afghanistan by the americans and other countries not of soldiers in the country with the us leaving they will leave because they only came here to support america these countries have also grown target of the core of your. well this thing with this is all things a national days coming your way and home from that. area. the country's gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think i'm gonna hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the genius this is the quintessential american hero this is and we found the point to much on what is going inside we always are on the margins someone called gun culture is

very important and we are about. where starting last with is we're going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now governor any more than this may be completely different by the end of this journey of. syria when a pullout well doesn't mean a pullout also venezuela how's that regime change going and the boche story no news breaks it and much much more on this edition of crossfire.