the. united states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for about oil . continue to rise in venezuela has another round of clashes erupt the border with colombia between opposition supporters and the. britons told her about the shadow silence in the indian ocean to marie after half a century of illegal occupation a descendant of. his story with us. the reality is that. once the. state's back a law that seeks to overturn the current way people choose the country's president they want to throw out the electoral college and go for majority vote instead.

electoral college was set up this way to protect the small states from the tyranny of the big states so i think it's unfair to most voters because it skews the way in terms of these small on populated states. over a good morning just ten ten am this choose to hear morse code when i was kevin zero in here with this thirty minute update for you thanks for watching ready to go to war over oil that's how president nicolas maduro described u.s. involvement in the venezuelan crisis medea accuses washington of stirring discontent in his country. the united states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for about oil they are trying to fabricate a crisis to justify political escalation and a military intervention in venezuela made to members of the so-called lima group of

gathered in colombia with opposition leaders 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 demanding it consider the humanitarian situation right now venezuela kellam opens the latest. 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 his 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 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 oprah should of them to the regime its good people of venezuela. shoot your freedom. we will go with you. you go would go. to you now at this point the turmoil in venezuela has escalated in response to debates 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 and lit on fire and there's been a diplomatic war of words with different forces blaming different forces for the lighting on fire of that aid truck we denounce the refusal to let human. 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. secretary pump specialist in full fire go permissions believe he fools the world with a truck burnt in colombia by his own agents now forces that are backing one kwaito have blamed mcgirr and materiel supporters for the lighting of the aid truck on fire they say that it is them who is responsible however video has surfaced that seems to indicate pretty clearly that the aid truck was actually lit on fire by anti maduro activists who dissembled near the border.

illegally. you know. quite a standoff and rather tense situation with mike pence in bogota condemning the venezuelan government calling one way joe 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 in the meantime it's not just the a campaign 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 tweets not corruption but many are interpreting it as a warning to the venezuelan president. but

outrage at the post has not been confined to twitter there's also a petition demanding the senate his resignation that he's ations rubio is promoting violence against the state we go to pin you to political analyst chris bambery and also journalist. 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 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. present here as words come as the crisis in venezuela then continues to

deepen as we're hearing violence was again erupted in the south american countries border with colombia it's the latest in a series of clashes between protesters and border police over those humanitarian aid deliveries to venezuela hundreds of protesters gathered on the simon bolivar bridge of u.s. aid convoy was blocked from entering venezuela as protesters threw rocks the border police responded with tear gas the date the standoff between pro and anti-government protesters resulted in nearly three hundred injuries and four deaths. but 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 double the dura so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the jurors 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 vocal insurrection in crackers which saved to save them.

no more do is rely 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. it is the war that must as rapidly as possible give the shock of silence in the indian ocean back to riches the un's highest court ruled on monday that its occupation has been illegal it found the u.k. wrongfully split the islands from before granting them independence back 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. both people thousands of islanders were also deported at the time so the britain could let the us build a military base on the biggest island diego garcia u.k. foreign office now insists the un was just giving an advisory opinion not a legally binding judgement we heard from a descendant of the army. 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 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 trickle. 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. while the u.k. sugar support 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 seem 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 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 ministers and the u.k. government should already be treating the people from the silence with their human rights and the respect that they deserve. to your states about the law that seeks to overturn the current way people choose their president in the united states at the moment it's not about how many vote for a candidate it's a bird how many states they would cause for a change have been growing coarsens trumps fruit tree back into the sixty's it goes down off explodes. 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 all are 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

democracy 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 to 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 do you think the electoral college should be bold 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 or new mexico have to be passed in states comprising the minimum of the same two hundred seventy votes with eleven states in 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. your votes and your choices are no longer your own we are going to tie. your representation to work the other forty

nine states choose us society's split along many lines and now the fate of more than two centuries all the concept at the heart of how generations of americans have been choosing a leader is being added to the list. your guests raised the question whether or not such a law would actually be appropriate or not. one person one vote that's a nice sounding you know cry rallying cry but that's not how the founding fathers etc 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 soon 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 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 texas if you combine those two states texas in particular donald trump won that by a fair bit too what matters is your 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 the. if you live in california and that's the system that we've got now i don't mean that i think that it's time to look at what is that 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 now there you see i think that's very radicalized change the whole constitution and tear it all up

that's what the liberal but it's only about cheney's run on that richard please. 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 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 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. well controversy coming up off the break parents in the u.k. left outraged the government plans for a sex and relationship classes in primary schools good idea or not you decide we'll report on it ninety seconds away. liberals in america they consider themselves to be living in pedestals. the

masses and they're never wrong and they have the moral high ground and occasionally when their policies are exposed as fraudulent. and there i don't want to deal with their unmasking they bring in a max but for william kristol to beat people up there. seem wrong. but. just don't hold. me. to shape out. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

again this is new in the german government's been slammed by the left party for allegedly turning a blind eye to right wing nationalism in ukraine it's after it was revealed state funding was allocated to reconstruct ukrainian ukrainian street named after the controversial historic figure stepan bandera we spoke to a member of the left party the german government should be much more sensible look at these old sayings i think it's a scandal that taxpayers' money germany street needs. treat it it's not good to have. streets named after the. extreme right wing ukrainian nationalists it is day

by and there was the leader of ukrainian insurgent army which collaborated with the nazi regime during world war two many believe he's responsible for the deaths of one hundred thousand polish people mainly women and children despite his brutal methods but there is no glorified those a national hero in ukraine with dozens of memorials in his honor his birthday was marked as a national holiday in january this year the christian democratic union germany's leading party rejects the country has anything to do with street selection and drunk again says berlin should be more careful with its funding. but it is not all that a current. new crew. we have a lot of revival of step. three. i think if you pay seventy two of your roots for ruination of a street. a single shot taken her. name off the street well that's

what other similar as. from a school children in the u.k. are to be told compulsory lessons about gay and transgender relations despite a petition signed by thousands demanding an op to write it's part of a plan by the government to overhaul sex education in the country but the decisions provoked fiery debate while the law provides the parents still have the right to force their children out of these classes those the grade 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 with actually arbitration mechanism there's one concern about the educational program many parents insist it's they who should decide whether or not their children are taught it as a situation in the reports from the. and the issue of great sensitivity 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 classes are not intended to roll out until september twenty twentieth's so there's still 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 indifferent so it's clear that the debate on this issue is going to continue. while it's not a controversial call to turn a story through williams having a temper tantrum that was branded racist in some quarters has been cleared by media watchdog is what drew people's.

how similar it looks to some cartels from the past that we're showing more because they're detrimental in their own derogatory it's a very sort of stereotypical old school racist features that he's using are essentially racist tropes to depict serina williams. the council considers that the code to use this exaggeration and absurdity to make its point but accepts the publisher's claim that it does not to be mrs williams as a knight rather showing her as speaking the dummy and non-racist caricature familiar to most australian we get. the finding by those trained in press council that the race is good too does not breach media standards proves that the council has utterly no anti-racism standards

a tool did they even look at it strongly impressed council is really good that serena williams called soon is not racist here it's shit and members looks about white we don't need confirmation from them the serene it williams costume was in racist. and the whole no temper tantrums here on this channel but you will find all the latest news at r.t. or call. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round the sun with one percent. of the time

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abdulla still don't know what's waiting for them. this is what. you said i do not feel. that was how i can't figure out what i'm going up the man on the phone. war. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. it's going to be this is what the. real people are. interested in the why. should. join me every thursday on the alex simon

show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. ratings and sell you take is looking up the state of the world today there is without a shadow of a doubt the need for true palantir be charity on a massive scale her estimates put the number of those without food in the small blue planet at about eleven point three percent or just over eight hundred million people most experts worth their salt will tell you that the driving force of world

hunger is poverty and with approximately one point three billion people currently living in extreme poverty almost half the world's population living on just two dollars and fifty cents a day is the problem it's not going anywhere anytime soon and it's only going to get worse especially when u.s. aid the federal aid and assistance arm of the united states government one of the richest and most charitable and powerful nations on the planet starts talking guns and special forces training rather than food and infrastructure. yes a new article in exxon covered that the u.s. global development lab based inside of usaid is exploring the idea of rapid expeditionary development teams or red teams the red team members would be specifically recruited and trained to deliver novel techniques practices and tools optimized to secure communities vulnerable to violent extremist radicalization and

exploitation secure communities you say. oh but it doesn't end there the reporter went on to describe how red team development officers would be deployed as two person pains in place with nontraditional usa partners executing a mix of pensive in the pensive and stability operations in extremis conditions. non-traditional usaid partners well in case you haven't guessed a nontraditional partner translates to the u.s. marine corps forces special operations command u.s. army special forces the state department bureau of international narcotics and law enforcement affairs the f.b.i. and the because nothing my friends nothing says humanitarian aid like guns agents and special forces soldiers don't believe me just ask libya iraq and now venezuela.