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. good morning tuesday the twenty sixth. and here in moscow with. just first the big focus again the smalling on venezuela what's happening on the border the crisis deepening as violence erupts once again on the south america's american country's border with a hot spot that is the latest in a series of clashes between protesters and border police over humanitarian aid deliveries to venezuela. hundreds of protesters gathered on the bridge after a u.s. humanitarian aid convoy was mentoring venezuela as protesters threw rocks border police responded with tear gas today the standoff between pro and anti-government

protesters has resulted in nearly three hundred injuries and full day. the question of humanitarian aid has proved to be a flashpoint of seriousness content in venezuela the self declared president want to go and does support his claim venezuelans are in desperate need of international support while on the other side of it president maduro denies there's a humanitarian crisis in the country in fact he's old of the military to block it from entering believing it to be a pretext for a military invasion and he's done cohen reports 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 humanitarian aid passed through its border well that's. 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 in into the country this is the closest point we can get to on the t.n.t. 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 iran do k. to allow these ten trucks of so-called humanitarian aid to pass through at which point they say protesters hundreds of protesters may accompany them 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 what does remain calm the demonstrators rode the aid trucks to other bridge crossings where they clashed with the venezuelan national guard typical of what he members the deadly riots that plagued venezuela in twenty seventeen and twenty fourteen and led

to hundreds of deaths. but syrian minister 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 in this is really a pedagogue minute period in what we really want is for the population to rise up and when the tiny bit of humanitarian aid in through is in the pedagogue go away the political death of the super president of venezuela nicolas maduro happens. meantime members of the so-called lima group of gather didn't colombia with the opposition. and u.s. officials to discuss the venezuelan crisis the group of fourteen predominantly latin american countries is sending an appeal to the international criminal court now to money and consider the humanitarian situation in venezuela kaleb open more i'm outside of it now opposition activists who oppose material and supporters of

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 a sickening. secret the ripple specialist in full fire go permissions believes 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 madeira who is responsible for this aid truck catching on fire they blame it squarely on maduro and say look 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 and 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. that you believe. me. and 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 thirty 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 its good people of venezuela she cured hugo would go. now the turmoil in venezuela recently ask a lady 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 with venezuelans are concerned that he could contain weapons as elliott abrams currently the u.s. special representative for venezuela has a history of the 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 because of mopin this not just the complainers

putting pressure of venezuela leading us into karoubi dos tweeted images of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi as he was about to be brutally murdered tweets and caption but many are interpreted as a warning to the venezuelan president. 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 god that being lynched in an open death threat to madeira libby is now a slave state thanks to us. you had the reste 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 outraged to the post has not been confiding to twitter there's also a petition now demanding the senator's resignation with accusations rubio is promoting violence against the head of state we got the opinion of political

analyst chris bambery and journalist uncover the. americas are trying to do is put pressure on the military in venezuela to shift to dump the doura so far that hasn't happened the weakness in the durance position as' is that unlike his predecessor hugo chavez face of the coupe twenty years ago which as you call a mass movement that was virtual 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 center venture which has ended well in libya as a great notable case really well the most prosperous country in africa now turn it into the least prosperous country that they know they need 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 the regime change they don't care how many people die they don't care about them and they are people. britain has been warned that it must as rap. as possible give the shadow silence in the indian ocean back to my rishis the un's highest court ruled on monday that its occupation has been illegal it firm the u.k. illegally split the islands from russia's before granting them independence in the one nine hundred sixty s. the united kingdom a standard an obligation to bring to in the third ministration of the travel side of comparable. to both people of the place on the biggest island diego garcia the u.k. foreign office insists the un was just giving an advisory opinion now and not a legally binding judgement we heard from a descendant of the island is. a reality is that we lost. the

u.k. took it and now militias once it. doesn't tell you more about the problems that been going through it's just mentioned in your issues taken by the. prime minister on the issue said this is a history moment former issues and it's people including the two cautions so he's mention rishis and it's people who mention it. here it is send out you know they are going through a lot but. i think it's discussions that were. not granted their rights and still are not granted their rights to be known as british citizens. the u.k. shagger supporters association says it shouldn't take a un ruling for the rights of people to be respected. it was a win for the marine government but it remains to be seen whether or not this will be a win for the czech austrian people themselves i think it be quite difficult for the u.k. it's 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 cause 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. 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 human rights and the respect that they deserve. to your states back to law that seeks to decide who wins the presidency based on how the majority of people vote such sentiments been growing since drums were twenty six the legal is done of it's got the latest on. america a place that writes dates backwards has a really weird voting system and uses around four times more water than europe to flush their number ones and twos and if you think i'm going to talk about flushing

here i totally will except not in the sense you were perhaps expecting the us voting system so far has been centered around the concept of an electoral college but there's a growing movement in america to send it down the drain and see what i did there the states of new mexico and colorado have backed a law that seeks to decide who wins the presidency based on how the majority of people vote making sure that people no matter where they happen to live have an equal vote we or last i checked the legislature and we do under the united states constitution have an authority to determine whatever manner we would like. to point our electors if you're confused at this point you have every right to be in the us it's not about how many people vote for each candidate like in most democracies it is about how many states each candidate wins. every four years the people of

america elect a president well they don't not directly they are electing the electors and the electors vote for the president that happens in every us state the more people that live in a state the more electors they have so you just have to choose the elected pledged the candidate you like best if a majority in your state votes for the electors supporting a different candidate that will mean your state supports him or her to become president so it's not a popular vote which determines the president to get into the white house candidates need the electors to support them with at least half is enough mass two hundred seventy people so the future president doesn't really need a popular majority in fact the candidate could even lose a popular vote but still win with enough electors in the bag. this is how gore lost to bush in year two thousand despite getting half a million more people's votes and more recently that's how hillary clinton lost to trump so no wonder she's been one of the most vocal advocates to tear down the

electoral college the electoral college i said that in two thousand i think it needs to be eliminated i'd like to see us move beyond it yes ironically for this to happen just like with electing the president laws like in colorado and new mexico have to be passed in states comprising the minimum of the same two hundred and seventy votes with eleven states in on this already there are more than halfway there a recent poll shows that the majority of americans also want to see the shift to the popular vote but the republicans are saying that this initiative will leave the flyovers states voiceless it is an attack on the constitution that will forever change our representative form of government it's your votes and your choices are no longer your own we are going to tie your representation. to work that the other forty nine states choose us societies split along many lines and now the fate of

more than two centuries all the concept at the heart of how genet well i guess raised the question whether or not such a law would be appropriate. one person one vote that's a nice sounding you know cry rallying cry but that's not how the founding fathers that said it that would was in the constitution in fact the electoral college was set up this way to protect the small states from the tyranny of the big states i mean this nonsense that someone won the popular vote so they really won the election or it's not fair that's like saying in a soccer game we scored more goals but the other team a goalie stopped more shots so shouldn't that count for something no i think when our constitution was written there were thirteen states so this talk about the coasts in the middle the country doesn't really apply and it was really virginia

which was a slaveholding state which is the one that basically insisted on the electoral college being the way it is well i'm glad that richard richard puts the codewords in it was virginia the slave state that wanted this suv so that makes it bad listen hillary clinton won by three million votes right the problem here richard is hillary clinton won california and new york by six million that means in the other forty eight states donald trump won by three million votes so donald trump won forty eight states with the popular vote hillary won through and yet she got more votes that's fair yes so what's fair is to give human beings a vote for get the state to another we have a popular vote it doesn't matter who lives where whether you're live in new york or california or florida or texas if you combine those two states texas in particular

donald trump won that by a fair bit to what matters if you're given humans voters the same vote that counts wherever you live you shouldn't have your vote count fifty times more if you live in wyoming. if you live in california and that's the system that we've got now i mean you know i think at a time as well or what is it. that insane each state has two senators no matter how big or small and that's why this would be unconstitutional if it ever came to fruition and would be struck down i'm saying i think it's unfair to most voters because it skews the weight in terms of these small unpopulated states that's all too i think that's fair no there is no it that's very radical life change the whole constitution tear it all up that's what the liberal but it's only about three days run on that richard please. read about changing the constitution you asked me

whether i thought i was fair and the answer is no of course it's not fair but it would have but if it were in this different world yes candidates would campaign where there are a lot of people. and you know is that good or bad the fact is policies that have to be people live so i'm not quite sure why that's up to a bad outcome. so next is what i want to british journalist based in the bowl can come travel by india has been accused of links with russia after she spoke to us. this tyler appeared on our program on saturday commenting on nobody as a boss antigovernment protest is what she told us back then we did every allegation of corruption you know they do documented evidence and there is allegations and but in this instance there are significant documented genetic instincts between the current government organized crime money laundering and the trafficking of drugs and i think it needs to be ascertained as to whether the two thousand and seventeen elections west street and or whether that was buying and breaking going on and i

think that is why people that was sort of the cherry on the cake you know white people who feel that they need to be some action taken. among other things alice tyler's accused of links to russian lobbyists and propaganda she's also criticized for speaking out against his bid to enter the e.u. and contributing to the media outlet czars and dot com taylor's personal life in the spotlight as well she's falsely accused of having a relationship with a bodyguard of obeyed his opposition leader no less denies all these accusations saying she's never worked or being paid for by the russian media or government. i am sorry to disappoint you all the time not connected to russia i am not an agent put here to disrupt the eva session my partner is not bush's bodyguard and honestly my life is really not that interesting what i am however is a journalist one who is not put off by the unprofessional behavior of

a bunch of hacks and i will continue to go about my life and my job regardless of what is sad or down i reserve the right to take legal action against anyone writing or reposed thing statements about me or my family that are not true anti government protests which are tell of the sky to the sea broke over a week ago and albania's capital tirana them straight as demand the government resign over alleged corruption alleged crime a number of opposition m.p.'s burned the mandates and resigned amid the rest journalist to write a mill clerk told us reporters should not be punished for their work. i think that there are big issues here about freedom of speech and about everything that is being. sort of expected under a microscope to any any guest that comes on r.t. and says something well you know why they said that or because it's. propaganda it or he or she is a kremlin stooge when a lot of organizations that are taught to support the rights of journalists the

freedoms of journalists to stop them from being persecuted bit demised harassed and yet it seems that if you work for russian media or any way with russian media then you're kind of except for that we are all journalists doing the job we used or provided as we're a microphone and we write papers or publications that enable us to publish so it really is. a little surprised and taken away from this current russia big foreign policy dr. rose from melissa mama jared zarif some expect the most to stop. after more than five years in office resignations been confirmed by a run state run news agency but no reasons being given for the move fall asleep is gone the voters as we know. well how much of it is over if 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 into tip to the united nations two years after he was appointed foreign minister in two thousand and fifteen he led the in raney in the goetia eighteen for the landmark nuclear deal and when he spoke to journalists in vienna he was clearly emotional. the. world. is not very large number right now.

the fact that the americans later with withdrew from the deal the fact that american president donald trump we impose sanctions the fact that the economy in iran is struggling at 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 no reason given as to his resignation we're waiting to hear. controversial cartoon attorney stars through the whims of a temper tantrum has been branded racist in some quarters but it's been clear the last post really is media watchdog this is what drew people's.

oh it looks close to the cartels. because they're going to land on their own derogatory it's a very sort of stereotypical old school racist features that he's using up essentially racist tropes to depict serina williams. the council considers that the code to use this exaggeration and absurdity to make its point but except the publishers claim that it does not to be mrs williams as an ape rather showing her as speaking the dummy and non-racist caricature familiar to most australians we get.

the finding by those trade and press council that the race is good too does not breach media standards proves that the council has utterly no anti-racism standards of tool do they even look at it strongly impressed. that serena williams called soon is not racist here it's chair and members looks about white we don't need confirmation from them the serenely williams kasumi was the racist. so you got your thoughts either way thanks for watching us this morning it's coming up to twenty seven it's past eight o'clock follow all the stories as they happen with our dog kong and kevin on for me and the rest of the team here this early tuesday morning at our watching and have a great day. country's

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