the. united states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for oil as well the president calls washington for his intervention in this country he comes after the u.s. vice president meets with the president. in colombia. the headline says choose day britons told. the indian ocean to marine. descendants of native island. story with us. the reality is that we look. back a lot that seeks to overturn the current way people choose the country's president

they want to throw out the electoral college and go for a majority vote instead. the 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 those voters because it skews the way in terms of these small on populated states. in here in the hot seat this morning about international just turned eleven am moscow time first and ready to go to war over oil that's how president nicolas maduro as described u.s. involvement in the venezuelan crisis will do accuses washington of stirring discontent in his country. the united states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for oil they are trying to fabricate a crisis to justify political escalation and in military intervention in venezuela

meantime members of the so-called lima group of gathered in colombia with opposition leader. 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 in venezuela right now calum opens got more. 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 work mike pence who offered amnesty to any folks in the military. 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 depreciation and oprah should of them to the regime it's good people of venezuela. should 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 quite a standoff and rather tense situation i would like tense 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 in solidly behind the forces that want to remove president nicolas maduro. more and for you as an immigrant held discussions around two hundred protesters gathered outside the colombian ministry of foreign affairs they denounce the prospect of foreign intervention and bogota for colluding with venezuela to attack to attack venezuela and it's not just calls for humanitarian aid to be let into the country which is putting pressure on president bashir your sense of marco rubio's tweeted admission but many are interpreted it as a warning to the venezuelan president because nothing says human rights like gloating over a human being getting sodomized to death with a buy and that 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 range 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 us senator. marco rubio has been a vocal critic of president since the crisis began and is openly called for an armed insurrection to depose him when the senator from florida traveled to the venezuela colombia border with the first delivery of humanitarian aid from washington he called missouri's government a mafia organization but outrage at the post has not been confined to twitter there's also a petition demanding the senator's resignation too with accusations rubio is promoting violence against the head of state as for president maduro as words they come as the crisis in venezuela continues to deepen violence once again erupted on the south american countries border with colombia 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. aid convoy was blocked from entering venezuela as protesters threw rocks border police responded with tear gas to date the standoff between the pro and anti-government protesters as a result of the nearly three hundred injuries and four deaths we've got the pending a political analyst chris bambery. well i think it's all part of a strategy of tensioners americans of building up what the americans are trying to do is to pressure on the military in venezuela to shift to madeira so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the jurors position is is that unlike his predecessor hugo chavez feast of the coupe twenty years ago which as you call a mass movement that was virtual insurrection in crackers received to save them. no rule is 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. britain's been warned that it must as rapidly as possible give the shed or silence in the indian ocean back to rishis the un's highest court ruled on monday that its occupation has been illegal it found the u.k. wrongfully split the islands from rishis before granting them independence back in the one nine hundred sixty s. the united. i'm a standard in obligation to bring you in the third ministration of the travel side of comparable. as possible thousands of volunteers are also deported to the britain could let the us build a military base on the biggest island diego garcia now the u.k. foreign office insists the un was just giving an advisory opinion not a legally binding judgement 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 taking back the

aisle and prime minister of marisha said this is a historic moment former issues and its people including the two cautions so he's mention rishis it is people who will mention it as a caution 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. show support association says it shouldn't take a un ruling for the rights of people to be respected. it was a win for the meridian 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 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. 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 us states of back to law that seeks to overturn the current way people choose the 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 were in calls for a change been growing some strums victorian twenty sixteen as 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 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 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 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 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 it's 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 society's split along many lines and now the fatally more than two centuries old the concept of how generations of americans have been

choosing a leader is being added to the list. i guess raise the question whether or not the social 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 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 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 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 she got more votes that's they are so what's fair is to give him an 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 one 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 than 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 learn 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 way in terms of these small unpopulated states that's why i think that's fair now there you see i think that's very radical life 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. 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 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 more controversial subjects come up off the break just ninety seconds away if the parents of the left used to government plans for sex and relationship classes in primary schools good idea or not should the be more of it you decide will bring you the story when we come back. when else just seems wrong. just don't call. me. to say proud just being absent. and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. with politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. get to the right to be close it's like the korean people. interested in the why. should.

i game the german government's been slammed by the left party for allegedly turning a blind eye to right wing nationalism in ukraine itself it was revealed that state funding was allocated to reconstruct ukrainian street named after the controversial the story 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 names to treat is it good to have. or streets named after us that are but there are. extreme right wing ukrainian nationalists here this is why it's so controversial in his day band there it was the leader of the ukrainian insurgent army which collaborated with the nazis during world war two many believe he's responsible for the deaths of up to one hundred thousand polish

people well ukraine though insists it was a justified response to polish militias that killed thousands of ukrainians despite his brutal methods banned there is no glorified as a national hero in ukraine with dozens of memorials and his own if at his birthday it was marked as a national holiday in january this year well now back in germany the christian democratic union germany's leading party rejects the country's got anything to do with the street selection under hunk again says burley and should be more careful though with its funding it is not all that a current government in ukraine. we have a lot of a little. step up. i think if you pay me seventy two who follow your rules or really wish not a street. i think you should take her. name off the street well that's

what other similar as. from a school children in the u.k. are to be talking poll three lessons about gay and transgender relations despite a petition signed by thousands demanding an oct right it's part of a plan by the government to overhaul sex education in the country the decisions provoked a fiery debate. well the law provides the parents still have the right to opt their children out of these classes those the grade was taken to 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 without any arbitration mechanism that changes into the educational system will affect all students including five year olds of primary schools parents are not allowed to withdraw their children from the lessons at the moment or come into force in twenty twenty there's wide concern about the educational program many parents insist it's they who should decide what the children are taught as

a necessity reports from london. 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 none 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 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 in difference so it's clear that the debate on this issue is going to continue. to go on the protests have swung the capital of the balkan country obey any of those demands the current government over allegations of corruption and links to crime.

was demonstrators are demanding the government resign after evidence of most of links to organized crime a number of opposition m.p.'s burned their mandates and resigned amid the now are to cover the story on saturday and asked to produce journalist there based in albania to comment but after the program was aired she found herself a focus of local media which accused her of promoting russian propaganda is what she told us like at the weekend. we did every allegation of corruption you know there are documented evidence and there is allegations and but in this instance there are significant documented 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 trade breaking 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 alistair is accused of links to russian lobbyist she's also criticized speaking out against albania's bid to enter the e.u. and for contributing to the media it czars and dot com now taylor's personal life in the spotlight as well she's falsely accused of having a relationship with a bodyguard of our brain his opposition leader apparently for all that denies all the accusations saying she's never worked or been 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 here to disrupt the eva session my partner is not bashes 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 reposed thing statements about me or my family that are not true john as a writer or 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 goes on are not to be. expected under a microscope so any any guest that comes and says something well you know why they said that for oh it's because it's. propaganda if you cheat on your she's a kremlin stooge we've got a lot of organizations that support to support the rights of journalists the freedoms of journalists to stop them from being persecuted big demised harassed and yet it seems that if you work for russian media or in any way with russian media then you're kind of except for that we are all journalists doing their job we use forms provide us with a microphone and we write papers or publications that enable us to publish so it

really is. some connection so i just taken away from this current russian phone big foreign policy dr. fine was there from neil clark journalist that's it for now it's twenty six minutes past live in the morning for all the stories as they happen or so i thought a dot com all with are up i'm kevin o. in the great day. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope about different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and

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we can all middle of the room sick. leave. the other a max kaiser this is the kaiser report lots of stuff happening i'm going to find out myself what's happening momentarily let's ask stacey well max you know how we're always nearly out war and it's nonstop nearly at war well there was an interesting piece written by tucker carlson this week in the hyper partisan america of course when red team is not allowed to talk to blue team and blue teams i want to talk to red team because they're each side is totally fascist and like horrible

authoritarian with stuff like that but you know we're outside of that bubble of their insanity so we're going to look at this headline about. you know tucker carlson of fox news was looking at this like. you know this ramp up to war against venice well apparently it like we're ready to invade right so he was asking an american conservative why are these professional war paddler still around pundits like max boot and bill kristol got everything after nine eleven wrong but are still considered experts one thing that every late stage ruling class has been common is a high tolerance for mediocrity standards declined the edges fray but nobody in charge seems to notice they're happy in their sinecures and getting richer in a culture like this there's no penalty for being wrong the talentless prosper rising in exorbitant towards positions of greater power and breaking things along the way it happened to the ottomans max boot is living proof that it is happening

to america the rise of mediocrity and the rise of experts that aren't experts but failures you know. i think of the philadelphia flyers in the one nine hundred seventy s. they had a guy on their team then schultes who was the enforcer and when bobby clarke was threatened they said and this guy to intimidate and beat up anyone on the opposing team who try to interfere with bobby clarke so the liberals in america they consider themselves to be living in pedestals high above the masses and they're never wrong and they have the moral high ground and occasionally when their policies are.