the. oil and they're willing to go to. washington for its intervention in his country. the reality is. people choose the president they want to throw out the electoral college and go for

a majority vote in. the electoral college. from the tyranny of the big states so i think it's unfair to those voters because. they. just turned one in the afternoon. international the globe. from. first the ready to go to war over oil that's how president nicolas maduro described u.s. involvement in the venezuelan crisis with the accuses washington the stirring discontent in his country. the united states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for oil they're trying to fabricate a crisis justify. little escalation and the military intervention in venezuela his

words came as members of the so-called lima group gathered in colombia with opposition leaders and u.s. officials to discuss the venezuelan crisis the book of fourteen predominately latin american countries is sending an appeal now to the international criminal court to money it consider the humanitarian situation in venezuela kellett maupin's got the latest well mike pence was speaking to the lima group in bogota colombia about the crisis in venezuela now when he addressed the group inc 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 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 old regime it's good people of venezuela she cure 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 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 and wedo 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 so all the developments a brief you on as the lima group those 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 washington to run as well the canadian foreign minister to also phone her speech at the meeting interrupted by the activist. hands of fate is why. people are. well fed and it was my duty as president he was

being discussed the venezuelan leader found himself at the center of a twit to storm u.s. senate's among the rubio tweeted images of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi as he was about to be brutally murdered tweets on 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 a night 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 is freed has become like a manic paranoid regime change demanding boss account would probably be investigated for suspicious activity by the twitter authorities if it was not a u.s. senator marco rubio who's been a vocal critic of president bush during his 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 that first delivery of humanitarian aid from washington called madeira government of murphy organization but outrage of the post has not been provided twitter there's also a petition now demanding the senator's resignation with accusations rubio was promoting violence against the head of state meantime while an says once again erupted on venezuela's border with colombia is the real hot spot it's the latest in a series of clashes between protesters and border police of humanitarian aid deliveries hundreds of protesters gathered on 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 to date the standoff between pro and anti-government protesters as resulted in nearly three hundred injuries and four deaths we got the opinion of political analyst chris bambery on where it's heading. 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 the doura

so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the duras 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 material is reliant almost entirely on the army and the reason that kind of thus far we haven't seen this kind of mass movement going to be easy. elsewhere this lunchtime britain has been warned that it must as rapidly as possible give the shadows islands in the indian ocean back to militias the un's highest court ruled monday that its occupation has been illegal if and the u.k. wrongfully split the islands from richest before granting them independence way back in the one nine hundred sixty s. . the united kingdom is standard an obligation to bring in the third ministration of the travel side of comparable. both people thousands of volunteers are also deported so britain could let build the us military base on the biggest

island dave garcia and the americans in now the u.k. foreign office insists the un was just giving an advisory opinion in this latest statement not a legally binding judgement we heard from a descendant of those are liberals. 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 al and prime minister on the issues that 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 it is send out 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 the u.k. show support association says it shouldn't take a un ruling anyway 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. 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 court 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 nourishes and the u.k. government should already be treating the people from the silence with their human rights and the respect that they deserve. two years states about a law that seeks to overturn the current way people choose their president in the us 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 since doldrums figure into the sixteen goes down of. 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 point

our electors if you're confused at this point you have every right to be in the u.s. 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 are elected 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 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 seventy votes with eleven states in on this already there are more than halfway there a recent poll shows that the majority of americans also want to see the shift to the popular vote but the republicans are saying that this initiative will leave the flyovers states voiceless it is an attack on the constitution that will forever

change our representative form of government it's your votes and your choices are no longer your own we are going to tie. your representation to work that the other forty nine states choose us societies split along many lines and now the fate of more than two centuries all the concept at the heart of how generations of americans have been choosing a leader is being added to the list i guess raise the question of whether such a law to be appropriate. one person one vote that's a nice sounding you know cry rallying cry but that's not how the founding fathers that said it that would was in the constitution in fact the electoral college was set up this way to protect the small states from the tyranny of the big states i mean this nonsense that someone won the popular vote so they really won the

election or it's not fair that's like saying in a soccer game we scored more goals but the other team a goalie stopped more shots so shouldn't that count for something no i think when our constitution was written there were thirteen states so this talk about the coasts in the middle the country doesn't really apply and it was really virginia which was a slaveholding state which is the one that basically insisted on the electoral college being the way it is well i'm glad that richard richard puts the codewords in it was virginia the slave state that wanted this suv so that makes it bad listen hillary clinton won by three million votes right the problem here richard is hillary clinton won california and new york by six million that means in the other forty eight states donald trump won by three million votes so donald trump won

forty eight states with the popular vote hillary won through and yet she got more votes that's they are yes so what's fair is to give human beings a vote for get the state to another we have a popular vote it doesn't matter who lives where whether you're live in new york or california or florida or texas if you combine those two states texas in particular donald trump won that by a fair bit to what matters if you're given humans voters 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 how do you get i think at a time to look at what is the data how is 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 radicalized change the whole constitution and tear it all up that's what the liberal that it was about cheney's run on that richard please. find i did 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 such a bad outcome in stores had we come but more controversy parents in the u.k. left outraged to government plans to sex and relationship classes in primary schools.

the liberals in america they consider themselves to be living in pedestals. masses and they're never wrong and they have the moral high ground and occasionally when their own policies are exposed is fraudulent. and they're don't want to deal with their unmasking they bring in a max or william kristol to beat people up there. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

again 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 state funding was allocated to reconstruct ukrainian street named after a very controversial historic figure stepan bandera we spoke to a member of the left party. the german government should be a much more sensible look at the vote sings i think it's the. taxpayers' money of germany three names that are. it good to have. now or streets named after us that are but there are those who are up to our . extreme right wing ukrainian nationalists so burned there was the leader of the

ukrainian insurgent army which collaborated with the nazis during world war two many believe he is responsible for the deaths of up to one hundred thousand polish people ukraine no insists it was a justified response to polish militias that killed thousands of ukrainians the argument goes on despite his brutal methods banned there is no glorified as a national hero in ukraine indeed with dozens of memorials in his honor in fact is birthday was marked this year as a national holiday in january now the christian democratic union back in germany journey's leading party rejects the country's got anything to do with street selection and rehung code again says berlin should be more careful with its funding . it is not all that a current. new crew. we have a lot of revival of. three small and. i think if you pay due to your roots or ruination of

a street. i think you should take her. name off the street with what others symbolize new in developing story to keep an eye on india claiming it's hit a training camp belonging to a kashmir based terror group killing three hundred fighters the indian foreign secretary says the airstrike was a preemptive attack against the joshi mohammad group it was responsible for that suicide bombing that killed forty indian military offices police offices earlier this month however pakistan says the incursion was a quote grave aggression by india and a violation of the line of control pakistani armed forces tweeted that no infrastructure was hit and no casualties reported the strikes would be the first across the defacto border since a war between the two countries in one thousand nine hundred seventy one. primary school children in the u.k. are to be talking post re lessons about gay and transgender relations despite

a petition signed by thousands demanding an opt out right to part of a plan by the government to generally have a whole sex education in the country and whether the decisions provoke fiery debate will the law provide the parents still have the right to opt 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 without any arbitration mechanism. the changes to the educational system affect all students including five year olds at primary school parents are not allowed at the moment to withdraw the children from the lessons that come into force in twenty twenty is what concerned about the educational program many parents insisted they who should decide what their children are taught us a situation reports next and what it all from the u.k. . an 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 seeing 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 prompting a debate in parliament these classes are not intended to roll out until september twenty twenty so there is 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 give the protests have swung to accompany the balkan country albania rosen's announced the current government over allegations of corruption and links to crime. it was instead is a demanding the government resign after evidence emerged of links to organized

crime a number of opposition m.p.'s burned their mandate and resigned amid the unrest are to cover the story for the weekend you may recall we asked a british journalist based in albania to comment however after the program was aired she found herself the focus of local media which cues her of promoting russian propaganda is what she told us at the weekend 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 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 tape 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 our list is accused of links to russian lobbyists she's also criticized for speaking

out against albania's bid to enter the e.u. of contributing to the media outlet czars and dot com tennis personal life in the spotlight too she's falsely accused of having a relationship with a bodyguard of all babies opposition leader she denies all these accusations saying that she's never worked for or been paid by a russian media or government organization. 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 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 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 journalist writes neil clark says reporters should not be punished for their work. i think that there

are big issues here about freedom of speech and about everything that is be. 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's 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 bit demised harassed and 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 russian. foreign policy drive before i leave you some breaking news coming in

linked in to our top story everything is going on or maybe happening in venezuela breaking news in we're here in washington is preparing a military intervention in venezuela and has already relocated special forces to puerto rico and colombia that's according to the secretary of the russian security council he went on to are that russia has agreed to washington. offer to conduct talks on but as well a bit further saying the u.s. has been postponing those talks will bring more details as it happens resumes the situation is ramping up in venezuela you know neils here throughout the afternoon don't forget all the breaking headlines as and when they happen straight to mobile devices from us this is arts international i'm kevin i would have a great choose day. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

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