the. united states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for oil venezuelan president nicolas maduro kohls washington for its intervention in his country comes after the us vice president met with president. britain's told back to share in the indian ocean after half a century of illegal occupation a descendant of native islanders shares his story with us. the reality is that we. educate and now commercials wants to. plus two u.s. states back a law that seeks to overturn the current way people choose a country's president they want to throw out the electoral college and go for

a majority vote in. 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 weight in terms of these small one populated states. around the world. kevin zero in with you just a mid day moscow time very good afternoon then first ready to go to war over oil that so president nicolas maduro has describe u.s. involvement in the venezuela 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 the military intervention in venezuela is words came as members of the so-called lima group gathered in colombia with a. position leader one guy i don't know and u.s.

officials to discuss the venezuelan crisis the book of fourteen predominately lot to the american countries is sending an appeal to the international criminal court demanding it consider the humanitarian situation in venezuela kellett mopin report says tuesday while 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 kwaito 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 fifty six million dollars to support our partners in the region as you come to the aid of the venezuelan people fleeing from the deprivation and oppression of them to the regime that's good people of venezuela she sure freedom. we will go with you you go but go. 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 the durlan opposition activists and they've been clashing with each other at these borders near the checkpoints at least four people have been killed and there have been hundreds injured in the clashes 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 in solidly behind the forces that want to remove president nicolas maduro. so was the little group held discussions around two hundred protesters gathered outside the club the ministry of foreign affairs they denounced the prospect of foreign intervention and. colluding with washington doing. the canadian foreign minister now this is new and also phoned her speech at the meeting interrupted by and to go out to those. well the fate of nicolas maduro his presidency was being discussed the venezuelan leader of fun yourself at the center of a twitter is still u.s. senator marco rubio tweeted images of the late libyan leader woman gadhafi as he

was about to be brutally murdered the tweet is not 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 by and 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 range piece of who should immediately resign marco rubio's feet has become like a manic paranoid regime change demanding bought account would probably be investigated for suspicious activity by the twitter authorities if he was not a u.s. senator some background here mark aruba's been a vocal critic of president duras since the crisis began as openly called for an armed insurrection to depose him and when the senator from florida traveled to the venezuela colombia border with the first delivery of humanitarian aid from washington he called materials government a mafia organization but outraged posters not being confined to twitter there's

also a petition demanding the senator's resignation with his ations reversed promoting violence against the head of state. meantime violence is again erupted on the venezuelan border with colombia it's the latest in a series of clashes between protesters and border police over those humanitarian aid deliveries hundreds of protesters gathered at the simon bolivar bridge after a u.s. aid convoy was blocked from entering venezuela as protesters threw rocks border police responded with tear gas today the standoff between pro and anti-government protesters as resulted in nearly three hundred injuries and four deaths got the opinion of political analyst chris bambery of where it's going to go. 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 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 face of the coupe twenty years ago which as you call a mass movement that was brutal insurrection in crackers received to save them. no material 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. elsewhere the day britain's been warned it must as rapidly as possible give the shakos islands in the indian ocean back to my riches the un's highest court ruled 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 him in the third ministration of the travel side of comparable. both people thousands of volunteers are also deported so the britain could let the u.s. build a military base on the biggest island diego garcia now the u.k. foreign office and sister the u.n.

was just giving a quote advisory opinion not a legally binding judgment we heard from a descendant of the on 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 historic moment former issues and it's people including the trickle shoes so he's mention rishis it is people who will 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 citizen . you can support association says it shouldn't take a un ruling any way 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 that. we don't really have an impression of how significant this will be for the people i think. the question of sovereignty has no bearing on the on the right of return and the imperative that both 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 laws of six 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 about many states they were in calls for a change of growing since donald trump's victory in twenty six the goes down of

explains more. 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 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 it's 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 i guess raise the question whether or not such a load be appropriate even. one person one vote that's a nice sounding you know cry rallying cry but that's not how the founding fathers that said 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 there that's like saying in a soccer game we scored more goals but the other team has a goalie stop 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 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 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 why i think that's fair now there you see i think that's very radicalized change the whole constitution tear it all up that's what the liberals and 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 have but if it were and it's a different world yes and it 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. with a sixty moscow time right ahead when we come back more controversy parents in the u.k. are left outraged the government plans for sex and relationship classes in primary schools.

and. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some have wanted. to do like to be close as like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm

interested always in the waters of our. first sit. i gave primary school children the u.k. are to be told compulsory lessons of again trans gender relations despite a petition that was signed by thousands demanding an opt out right it's part of a plan by the government to a whole sex education in the country generally but the decision has provoked fiery debate. will the law provide the parents still have the right to do all these policies those the good was taken good so that we can for example religious schools i don't blame parents for saying they want to up their kids out

because this has become so divisive and so polarizing that they cannot see a way out without any of attrition mechanism the changes to the educational system will affect all students including five year olds of primary school parents are not allowed to withdraw the children from the lessons at the moment are going to come into force in twenty twenty was wide concern about the educational program many parents insisted that the who should decide whether or not their children taught it as a list of reports next from the u.k. . and the issue of great sensitivity are 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 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. wanting a debate in parliament these classes are not intended to roll out until september twenty twenty 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 are causing

these ideas nobody has been left in difference so it's clear that the debate on this issue is going to continue. to government protests have swung the capital of the balkan country albania thousands denounced the current government over allegations of corruption and links to crime. the. demonstrators are demanding the government resign after evidence emerged of links to organized crime a number of opposition m.p.'s were under mandates and resigned amid the unrest now are to cover the story i'm sorry for you and asked a british journalist there who's based in albania to comment however we can tell you after the program has said she found herself the focus of local media when she accused her of promoting russian propaganda is which told us back at the weekend

with every allegation of corruption you know there are documented evidence and there is allegations and but in this instance there are significant documented genetic dense 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 are that sort of the cherry on the cake you know why people feel that they need to be some action taken. among other things alice taylor is accused of links to russian lobbyists she's also criticized speaking out against albania's bid to enter the e.u. and for contributing to the media and dot com tell us personal lives in the spotlight too it saves she's falsely accused of having a relationship with the bodyguard of a baby as opposition leader now alice denies all those allegations saying she's never worked for a ball being paid by russian media or russian government. i am sorry to disappoint

you all the time not connected to russia i am not an agent put had 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 dan i reserve the right to take legal action against anyone writing reposed thing statements about me or my family that are not true journalists writing real clout told us reporters should not be punished for their work. i think that there are big issues here about freedom of speech and about this 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 fought to support the rights of journalists the freedoms of journalists to stop them from being persecuted be to my harassed yet it seems that if you work for russian media or are in any way with russian media then you're kind of except for that we are all journalists doing their job we use forms that provide us with 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 phobic foreign policy dr next new and long running story but not date for maria buton of the russian citizen detained in the u.s. and charged with being an unregistered foreign agent is due to appear in court today the hearing in washington is due to convene a decision on whether or not she will serve time in the united states all be deported back here to russia artie's neil harvey spoke to maria's lawyer robert

driscoll who's confident she'll be released shortly. the hang up is really going to be the timing of the sentencing hearing we have a status conference for the judge on tuesday and will inform the judge kind of where we're at in terms of cooperation i will make a presentation as will the government prosecutors and hopefully that point will set a date maybe in a few weeks or a month to hopefully have a sentencing. you know fairly soon or matter of weeks and then at that sentencing. if it's time served sentence should be deported fairly soon thereafter always wanted to return to russia that's been her goal from the beginning and so given that that's her position you know i'm working with the government officials to make that happen as quickly as possible so as the sentence is done do you feel as though you you'll fully informed on exactly what's going on you have a pretty good idea of where this is heading could that be surprises that any of the cases that the u.s. authorities might hold for example there's always

a risk i mean obviously under cooperation agreement she has to agree to you know she's agreed to cooperate with the government and if the government has more things for her to cooperate with or more questions they have they could conceivably keep her a bit longer for people who maybe aren't familiar with this case they want click on their knees and they hear this story. you know something about challenges failure and to register is a foreign agent in another country they had mention of on a chapman people will immediately the thought thinking so she is spying yeah i mean i think that's very important is that the government is not even alleging she's a spy the government did not charge her with espionage the government in charge her with having classified information what this case is about where the government charged her with was acting as an agent of a foreign official in particular and the torsion who she had known through the gun rights movement was a mentor to her so it's very different then a typical case as is has no similarities with anna chapman who at least was alleged

to have been involved. and passing of cash and drops and secret communication devices and things like that you follow that story along with all the others a lot of go to up all those how those will go straight to mobile devices when they happen here for no moscow day twenty seven this tuesday is kevin owens and a great tuesday. country has gone into a nihilistic fever best trying to think and they've got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the genius of the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point around which alan would have done something we always are on the current system. called the culture is really important because.

we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the b. i think i want to leave now doesn't get me more gondo them it may be completely different but minister. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront ation let it be an arms race move this on all fronts very dramatic developments only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. with little make this manufacture come sentenced to the public will. when the ruling closes protect themselves. the famous

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