the. tensions continue to rise in venezuela as another round of clashes erupt on the border with colombia between opposition supporters and. britain told. in the indian ocean to half a century of illegal occupation by descendants of. its story. the reality is that. it took it in. to your state spark a law that seeks to overturn the current way people change the country's president they want to throw out the electoral college and go for majority vote instead. the

electoral college was set up this way to protect the small states from the tyranny of the big states i think it's unfair to most voters because it skews the way in terms of these small populated states. have a good morning to choose to the twenty sixth of february life. in here in moscow with the news this half hour just turned nine in the morning here now first ready to go to war over oil but president nicolas maduro this morning describing u.s. involvement in the venezuelan crisis with your accuses washington of stirring discontent in his country. the united states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for a barrel of oil they are trying to fabricate a crisis to justify political escalation and the military intervention in venezuela

president maduro as words come as the crisis in venezuela continues to deepen violence once again erupted on a south american countries border with colombia it's 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. aid convoy was blocked from entering venezuela as protesters threw rocks border police responded with tear gas to date the standoff between pro and anti-government protesters has resulted in nearly three hundred injuries and four day. so the question of humanitarian aid has proved to be a flashpoint of serious discontent in venezuela a self declared president one president would do it denies that there's a human a humanitarian crisis in the country he's ordered the military to block it from entering believing it to be a pretext indeed for a military invasion artie's down cohen's got the latest this tuesday. now there are

about three or four hundred protesters at the entrance to this area about a kilometer away who are pretty rowdy and. hundreds of protesters outside the bridge crossing demanded the elected president of venezuela he called us from a duro be overthrown and humanitarian aid passed through its border that was right oh my lord my little foot down 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 him 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 are 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 while t.n. 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 if you know 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 who are 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 man made in what we really want is for the population to rise up and when the tiny bit of humanitarian aid interest in this pedagogue go away the political death of the units who are president of the as well nicolas maduro happens meanwhile members of the so-called lima group of gathered in colombia with . position you do one quote u.s.

officials to discuss the venezuelan crisis a group of fourteen predominantly lots of american countries is sending an appeal to the international criminal court to money and consider the humanitarian situation in venezuela kind of more about aspect of it this morning. 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. sick with the ripple specialist in full fire go permissions believe he fools the world with a truck burnt in colombia by his own agents now us 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 envoy 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. they need. to do. everything. 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 there are 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 it's good people of venezuela she cure freedom we will go with you you go but go. by on. now the turmoil in venezuela recently escalated 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 tain weapons as elliott abrams currently the u.s. special representative for venezuela has a history of the places like 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 it's not just the eight campaign is putting pressure on the venezuelan leader us senator marco rubio's tweeted images of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi as he was about to be brutally murdered the tweets not corruption but many are interpreting it as a warning to the venezuelan president because nothing says human rights like gloating over a human being getting sodomized to death with by and 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'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 us senator. but outrage of the post is not being confined to twitter there's also

a petition demanding the senator's resignation with accusations that ruby is promoting violence against the head of state who got the opinion of political analyst chris bambery and also the journalist on cover alec. 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 to dump the doura so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the duals 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 little well in libya is a great notable case really when the most prosperous country in africa now turn it into the least prosperous country they know they need for this to work out the way

they want they are just trying to provoke violence on the border to justify intervention they need a certain amount of deaths too with actually they're trying to do here with a regime change they don't care how many people died they don't care about the been split on. britain's been more that it must as rapidly as possible give the shah go silence in the indian ocean back to marie the un's highest court split the islands from richest before granting them independence back in the one nine hundred sixty s. . the united kingdom is standard an obligation to bring in the administration of the travel side of cabello go. both people thousands of islanders were also deported so britain could let the us build a military base on the biggest island diego garcia the u.k. foreign office we had from

a descendant of the islanders. the reality is that we lost. the u.k. took it and now militias once it. doesn't tell you more about the problems that question's been going through it's just mentioned in your issues taken by the. prime minister on the issues that this is a history moment former issues and it's people including the trickle. so he's mention rishis it is people who mention it. here is saying that you know they are going through as well 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. or you can show support associations say it shouldn't take a u.n. ruling for the rights of people to be respected it was a win for the irish government but it remains to be seen whether or not this will be a win for the people themselves 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 core 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 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. followed nexus one of a story about a british journalist based in the balkan country of obeying the who's accused of links with russia after she spoke to us r.t. their names alice taylor she appeared on our program the weekend commenting on albania's mass anti-government protests back on saturday this is what she told us. we do every allegation of corruption you know there are documented evidence and there is allegations and but in this instance there are significant documented in evidence links 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 were free and fair or whether there was buying and vote rigging going on and i think that is why people that were sort of the cherry on the cake you know white people feel that they need to be said action taken among other things are as tailors accused of links to russian lobbyist some propaganda she's also criticized for speaking out against albania's bid to enter the e.u. of contributing to the media czars and dot com tell us personal life in the spotlight as well she's falsely accused of having a relationship with the bodyguard of a baby's opposition leader now alice denies all these accusations saying she's never worked for or be paid by russian media or the government. i am sorry to disappoint you all the time not connected to russia i am not an agent put head 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 said or done i reserve the right to take legal action against anyone writing or reposed in statements about me or my family that are not true the antigovernment protests are discussed with r.t. broke out over a week ago nobody has capital to demonstrate his demand that the government resign over alleged corruption and links to prime number of opposition employees burn the mandates and resigned amid the unrest tillerson right in your club 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 the i r t is being. inspected under a microscope to anything less that comes an r.t.s. or something well you know why they said that or because it's. propaganda it he she

or he or she's a kremlin with a lot of organizations that court to support the rights of journalists freedoms of journalists stop them from being persecuted big to my 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 a job we use or the providers we're a microphone and we write papers or publications that enable us to publish so it really is. an exercise and taken away from this current russian phobic foreign policy drive. where is the u.k. left out rage that government plans for sex and relationship classes in primary schools moral but when we come back.

what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or something want to. get it right to be close it's like the korean people are. interested always in the why. should.

i get rid of all this is out international it's not exactly eighteen minutes past nine in the morning moscow time next to us states of back to law that seeks to overturn the cultural way people choose their president in the united states at the moment it's not about how many vote for a candidate it's about how many states they win more calls for a change been growing since trump's victory in twenty sixteen he goes down off explains. 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 it did there the states of new mexico and the colorado have backed a law that seeks to decide who wins the presidency based on how the majority of people vote making sure the 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 appoint 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 vote 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 the 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 do you think the electoral college should be able 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 america. 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 is your votes and your choices are no longer your own we are going to tie. your representation to what the other forty nine states choose us societies split along many lines and now the fate of

a more than two centuries old the concept at the heart of how generations of americans have been choosing a leader is being added to the list. so guess what was the question whether or not such in the 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 slave holding 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 one screw and yet she got more votes that's fair so what's fair is to give human beings a vote forget 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 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 if the same vote that counts wherever you live. you shouldn't have your vote count fifty times more if you live in wyoming than if you live in california and that's the system that we've got now i don't mean to i think that it's time to work 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 way in terms of these small unpopulated states that's why i think that's fair now here's where i think that's very radicalized change the whole constitution and tear it all up that's what the liberal but one thing about cheney's run on that richard plays. i read about changing the constitution you asked me whether i thought it was fair and the

answer is no course it's not fair but it would but if it weren't it's a 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 addressed by the white house and by congress tend to often address where a lot of people live so i'm not quite sure why that's a bad outcome. it will controversy next primary school children in the u.k. to be taught compulsory lessons about gay and transgender relations despite a petition signed by thousands to all right it's part of a plan by the government to move a whole sex education in the country but the decisions provoked fiery debate. for these policies are those the good was taken in consideration for example religious schools 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 to me to actually often change the mechanism well as one concerned about

the educational program many parents insisted since they who should decide what the children are taught as honest as it can reports next to the. an issue of great sensitivity and also a very divisive issue as these plans by education officials to revamp the sex and relationship education classes across england have made the blood boil of so many people here this comes as an attempt for the first time in as many as twenty years to update the sexual education system however lots of questions have been asked about the role of parents in all this while officials say they will still be able to withdraw their children from any sex related classes until they reach the age of consent and then will be able to make those choices for themselves many disgruntled parents have been saying numb such classes should be mandatory in the first place and that this should be left this type of education should be left

to the parents we have great 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 well that was part of an online petition that has gathered over one hundred thousand signatures thus prompting a debate in parliament these come lots of time for discussion however it seems clear with so many groups supporting these ideas but also lots of groups opposing these ideas nobody has been left in difference so it's clear that the debate on this issue is going to continue you know will continue to follow it to and you can follow stories as they happen if you download a free also of course check out dot com as of monday twenty four seventh's for all the latest it's snowing twenty seven coming to nine twenty eight in the morning moscow time i'm kevin i would read the rest of the great choose dan thanks for

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