another round of clashes takes place at the colombia border between opposition supporters and police no victims are reported as of yet. the lima group of countries has sent a request to the international criminal court to look at the manager and situation in venezuela that comes as the us finds president pledges an additional fifty six million dollars to support the opposition. iran's foreign minister mohammad. announces his resignation he made the statement on social media on monday the reason for the resignation remains unclear so far. and prepares for his second

meeting with north korean leader kim jong un we look at how the host nation vietnam is getting ready for the summit. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow and whether you're watching in new york or greenwich village we're glad to have you. all right we start with the latest pictures from the bridge on the venezuela colombia border clashes have erupted there between police and protesters after hundreds arrived to support a humanitarian aid convoy that failed to enter the. protesters also denounced to president nicolas maduro and you can see people hurling rocks towards the police officers there was also some gray smoke which

might have been tear gas as it has previously been used at the border in similar skirmishes down cohen reports. i'm at the t.n.t. just bridge crossing on the colombian side of the border with venezuela behind me you can see ten trucks carrying six hundred tons of what the u.s. government says is humanitarian aid to be delivered to venezuela and the venezuelan government is refusing it saying this is actually not humanitarian aid the red cross and other major international humanitarian organizations are refusing to participate in this saying also it is not humanitarian aid on the morning of the twenty third why don't himself appeared on the colombian side of the t. and deep this bridge crossing urging his supporters to ensure they got across we will very soon this unity bridge will work to bring all of the venezuelan people together the humanitarian aid is definitely on its way to venezuela in a non threatening and peaceful way to save lives at this moment in venezuela now

there are about three or four hundred protesters at the entrance to this area about a kilometer away who are pretty rowdy and seem ready to march across the bridge and accompany this humanitarian aide. hundreds of protesters outside the bridge crossing demanded the elected president of venezuela equal usma duro be overthrown and the humanitarian aid passed through its border well that's all right my little flip cam with one door down with one door nobody likes you and your get up while marching to let the humanitarian aid and the duros not letting it into the country this is the closest point we can get to on the t. and d. to bridge crossing directly behind me or the shipping containers and tanker that are separating venezuela and colombia a colombian police here under orders to not let anyone through until they receive the order from colombian president uganda a k to allow these ten trucks of so-called humanitarian aid to pass through at

which point they say protesters hundreds of protesters may occur. it has all the ingredients for a potential clash venezuelan authorities and protesters are on the other side if you listen carefully you can hear the music coming from the other side details remain calm the demonstrators rode the aid trucks to other bridge crossings where they clashed with the venezuelan national guard typical of what he does the deadly riots that plagued venezuela in twenty seventeen and twenty fourteen and led to hundreds of deaths munoz a presbyterian minister who works with the colombian government to give spiritual guidance to defecting venezuelan soldiers said the aid isn't about human rights we're promoting democracy instead he says it's meant to start a revolt against the venezuelan government that might end up i don't think this is really a pedagogue humanitarian aid in what we really want is for the population to rise

up and win the tiny bit of humanitarian aid interest in the whole way the political death of the super president of the as well nicolas maduro happens a number of western hemisphere countries are sending an appeal to the international criminal court asking it to consider the humanitarian situation in venezuela known as the lima group it consists of fourteen countries including peru argentina brazil chile colombia and mexico all of them except to mexico have recognized the opposition leader. as that venezuela's president or he's come up in as more. the lima group is asking for the international criminal court to make an assessment of the situation in venezuela as to whether or not international law was violated with the burning of the aid convoy whether or not venezuelan leaders are in violation of international law they are asking the international criminal court to make that assessment now this comes on the heels of a speech we just heard from mike pence the vice president of united states who

addressed the lima group of earlier and in his remarks he gave one hundred percent backing on behalf of donald trump and the u.s. government to juan guede oh the individual who calls himself the president of venezuela he calls himself the interim president after taking an oath and self are claiming himself to be the venezuelan president furthermore mike pence made an appeal to venezuela's military saying it would offer amnesty to forces that switch sides and began supporting wedo and furthermore my friends offered a kind of a financial incentive for countries throughout the region to join with washington's efforts to topple the venezuelan government this is some of what we heard from mike pence speaking to the lima group 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 oprah should of them to the regime it's good people of venezuela she cure freedom we will go

with you you go would go. to you. now the turmoil in venezuela recently asked later around the issue of u.s. aid the united states has attempted to send aid over the border from brazil and the border from colombia there have been clashes at the border and the venezuelans are concerned that paid could contain weapons as elliott abrams currently the u.s. special representative for venezuela has a history of in places like nicaragua using humanitarian aid as a cover to send weapons into the country and at this point of venezuela is not interested in taking this aid now opposition activists who oppose material and supporters of madeira have been clashing near the border we understand at this point four people are dead hundreds have been injured and when an aid truck did catch on fire in the aftermath of that we saw a kind of

a diplomatic war of words with different parties blaming each other for the incident let's take a listen. 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. 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 u.s. media and western media seem to be echoing and repeating that it was. responsible for this aid truck catching on fire they blame it squarely on maduro and say he let these trucks on fire his supporters went out and burned an aid convoy however video has surfaced seeming to show another another interpretation of that we've got video at this point that seems to indicate that it was opposition activists who burned the aid convoy they took you know flaming objects threw them at the convoy catching

it on fire let's look at some of this video that has surfaced that seems to tell a different story than what american media is saying. and it is not just the aide campaign that is putting pressure on the venezuelan leader 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 is not caption but with president madeira a favorite theme for rubio's recent messages many are interpret ing it as a warning to mature. because nothing says human rights like gloating over a human being getting sodomized to death with a bye and that marco rubio just posted photos of gadhafi being lynched in an open death threat to madeira libya is now

a slave state thanks to us you mark or you had the race to piece of who should immediately resign marco rubio's feet 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 but reaction it to the polls has it not been limited to twitter alone there is now a petition demanding of the senators resignation with accusations that rubio is promoting violence against a head of state we spoke to some experts to get their views on the situation. well i think it's all part of a strategy of tensioners the americans are building up what the americans are trying to do is put pressure on the military in venezuela to shift to the doura so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the duras position is is that unlike his predecessor hugo chavez face of the coupe twenty years ago which as you call a mass movement that was brutal insurrection in crackers which saved to save them.

no more do is grow on almost entirely on the army and the reason that kind of thus far we haven't seen this kind of mass movement coming to his aid you can't point to us intervention which is a did well in libya is a great no ok it's really the most prosperous country in africa now turn it into the least prosperous country they know they need their for this to work out the way they want they are sure trying to provoke violence on the border to justify intervention they need a certain amount of deaths too with actually what they're trying to do here with a regime change they don't care how many people die they don't care about the been split on. iran's foreign minister mohammad or desire reeves has unexpectedly announced he is stepping down zarif resignation has been confirmed by iran's state run news agency but no reason for

the move was disclosed artie's correspondent paul slayer has more. one hundred job that is over with announced his resignation on instagram he was very vague saying that he apologized for any kind of shortcomings during his tenure as foreign minister he hasn't as of yet given any reason as to why he was signed we know that this resignation needs to be accepted by president rouhani but certainly it will be a blow to the president because the foreign minister was a close ally particularly in his dealings with the west he became zarif the foreign minister back in august. two thousand and thirteen he is a career diplomat he's well known for being a good orator for being fluent in english and he has over the years held a significant number of diplomatic and cabinet posts including being iran's permanent representative to the united nations two years after he was appointed foreign minister in two thousand and fifteen he led the iranian the go shooting

team for the landmark nuclear deal and when he spoke to journalists in vienna he was clearly close and all. the. oh. he's not very large number of people right now. because the fact that the americans later with withdrew from the deal the fact that american president donald trump we imposed sanctions the fact that the economy in iran is struggling and a lot of that is being blamed both on him and on the president in recent months he has appeared visibly strained and he's normally collected composure has been noticed by observers to be a little bit visibly flustered and not so smooth a politician as we've come to expect him to be but as i say as of yet movies and given as his resignation we're waiting to hear we spoke to political science

professor coleman carvel who thinks czar is a casualty of the failure of negotiations with us. with foreign ministers are really resigning that this particular time what's going on well we've seen president trump pull out of the joint comprehensive plan of action back in may of last year and this was an agreement between iran and other western powers that they agreed not to develop nuclear weapons and to have some sort of understanding with the west with president trump pulling out of that agreement and threatening directly threatening iran foreign minister zarif was considered part of the moderate camp and president rouhani attempt to have some sort of understand it with the wealth at all or to develop

their economy in the next few weeks you will see a change in personnel and a change in tactics at different levels of the iranian economy but make no doubt this is cause by president trunk pulling out of this international agreement that many european powers and also agreed to with iran. kim jong un has arrived in hanoi for his upcoming summit with donald trump the north korean leader arrived by rail after a journey that took him across china the u.s. president will be arriving in vietnam as usual by air it will be the two leaders second summit after last summer's groundbreaking meeting in singapore. and a recent tweet donald trump promised economic prosperity to north korea if pyongyang abandons its nuclear program trump also maintained that he would not lift

sanctions unless pyongyang dean nucular rises commenting on the upcoming summit russia's foreign minister expressed cautious optimism saying he hopes for a breakthrough regarding denuclearization but sergey lavrov also warned that ultimatums would not work. but. 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 it discuss lifting sanctions. are trying to i was in vietnam for a closer look at the build up to the meeting. 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 almost 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 as famous look alikes 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 via 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 now how's that for a preemptive social media trick to great 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 prestigious for donald trump but will it work the mega 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 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 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 camp much 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. by the way on an interesting note the kim jong. il you mentioned in that report has since been deported from vietnam the impersonator said one noise did not have a sense of humor although trump's doppelganger has been allowed to stay for some reason it is not only officials who are busy preparing for the summit a bar in hanoi has rolled out a new cocktail featuring a mix of american and korean spirits and it is said to represent the fiery character of the two leaders you drink is called rock it man apparently

a play on one of the insults directed at cameron not so long ago meanwhile a barber's shop is offering haircuts and making those of. the services being provided free of charge as a way to promote peace gregory english of the korea policy institute told us what he expects from the meeting. the second meeting is. more than very forever ago and so i do expect something concrete to come out of this but the diplomatic sources who are close to that are going to go. leading up to the sec so much. have said that. there are differences are being narrow between the two sides so we may see some kind of concrete agreement coming out of it my hope is that the talks progress it would donald trump ministration that the most effective repurchased way for them to get to your position is to offer something in

return to north korea to have some sort of reciprocity. britain must rapidly give the colonized child goes islands back to the un's highest court has ruled. the united kingdom is standard an obligation to bring. it to administration of the it could be a local. both to build the international court of justice from the u.k. illegally splitting the islands from russia before granting the island its independence in the one nine hundred sixty s. thousands of charges citizens were also deported from the indian ocean territory so britain could lead the us build a huge military base on the biggest island to diego garcia the u.k. foreign office insists the un was just giving an advisory opinion not a judgment but the chair of the u.k. child support association tom. bill believes it should not take

a un ruling for the u.k. amrish to better respect of the rights of the charles 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. it's just fly in the face of it they don't have a charge on the i.c.j. and if they seem to be flying in the face of this core 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 that. 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 nourishes and u.k. government should already be treating the people from the silence with human rights and the respect that they deserve. the people of okinawa in a referendum have rejected moving a u.s. military base from one part of the japanese island to another it is one of thirty

two american sites on the island construction work at the planned new location for the base in question has actually already begun and aspired to the referendum result prime minister shinzo are being looks set to push ahead with the. we cannot avoid the necessity of moving food ten ma said to be the most dangerous place in the world we cannot put this off any longer. the base in question is in the city of geno one end surrounded by schools hospitals and shops under a deal with the us it is being moved to a less populated part of okinawa in the north called noko residents there are not happy and they say the old bay should simply be shut down and not replaced. if you're the 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 them. he will let me call me and has already begun the

japanese government is pushing through that construction by force and against the construction of a new base because the base is man 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 up to two thousand and thirteen around half of the incidents were on okinawa one of the most in new toys cases happened back in one thousand nine hundred five when three u.s. sailors allegedly kidnapped and raped a twelve year old girl we spoke to catherine and jane fisher a rights activist who says she was raped in two thousand and two near a u.s. base outside tokyo. 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 whole war 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 ready kate these crimes so it's now time for the voices to be heard about how they do not want any more rapes and crimes you know murders against their people we have had to seven over seventy eight 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 there'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. primary school children in the u.k.

will be taught about gay and transgender relations it is part of a plan by the government to overhaul sex education in the country artie's also see the church as 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 of the law. to have the. to the children of these policies those that gave was taken the good so that he for example religious schools i don't blame parents for saying they want to update kids out because this has become so divisive and so polarizing that they cannot see a way out without actually all the transition mechanisms well this a new curriculum is not set to roll out until september twenty twenty but with so many opinions and groups supporting this idea 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 are those are mailbags headlines in thirty one and a half minutes you want to watch international.

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