the. this hour's headlines story russia's security states the united states is mobilizing troops for a military intervention in. president that washington. and they're willing to go to war. also coming up on the program britain is.

in the indian ocean. of the cendant of the region's native islander shares his story. the reality is that. it took it. to the u.s. state a lot over turn the current way people choose the president. the electoral college was set up this way to protect small states from the tyranny of the big state think it's unfair to most voters because. the way in terms of these small populated states. just coming up to. welcome to our to international i mean in o'neil we begin the

program with breaking news russia's security council was warned that the u.s. is getting ready to intervene in venice weyler topple the embattled president nicolas maduro op to washington has only thrown its support behind self declared president. stopping sanctions on officials and government as well it's also words other western nations to block the removal of the democratically elected president from power secretary of the russian security council osaze that u.s. troop movements to colombia i'm purty rico are precursors to military invasion. are the facts indicate that the pentagon is strengthening its troops in the region to oust legally elected president. people understand this well hence the reaction their refusal to accept the goods from the grass the country and support the president well the security council also said that the humanitarian crisis which

washington claims is plaguing venice waylay is a consequence of american side sions and embargoes and is being used as a tool to involve itself in venice to women domestic a furze the warnings from russia come shortly after president maduro called out the us for preparing to wage a war over a venice will as vast oil resorts says now he believes washington is stirring discontent in his country denied states want to 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. his words come members of the so-called group gathered in colombia with opposition leader one why do one u.s. officials to discuss the venice wheeling crisis that's a block of fourteen predominantly latino american countries and it's sending an

appeal to the international criminal court demanding that it consider the humanitarian situation in venezuela breaking dawn the story for us and. 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 it's 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 debate 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 with mike pence in bogota condemning the

venezuelan government calling one wedo the legitimate leader while many forces around the world are recognizing the elected president of venezuela nicolas maduro as the legitimate leader so. 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. well from the group held discussions around two hundred protesters gathered outside the colombian ministry of foreign affairs they deny us both the prospect of foreign intervention to bogota for co-leading with washington to venezuela the canadian foreign minister also find her speech at the meeting interrupted by the activists. we're on how this plays out the hands of fate is why. there is why i. don't think you'll find that i don't think you know the people who. well while the fate of nicolas

maduro his presidency was being discussed the venezuelan leader himself phoned himself at the center of a twitter storm let's take a look at this u.s. senator marco rubio tweeted images of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi as he was about to be brutally murdered the tweet is not captions but many are interpret it as a warning to the venezuelan president. because nothing says human rights like gloating over a human being getting sodomized to death with by and marco rubio just posted photos of gadhafi being lynched in an open death threat to madeira libya is now a slave state thanks to us. had the reste piece of who should immediately resign marco rubio's feet has become like a manic paranoid regime change demanding boss account would probably be investigated for suspicious activity by the twitter authorities if he was not

a us senator. well marco rubio has been a vocal critic of president maduro since the crisis began and has openly called for an armed insurrection to depose him when the senator from florida traveled to the venezuelan colombian border with the first delivery of humanitarian aid from washington he called maturing as government a mafia organization well our trade out the post has not being confined to social media there is also a petition demanding the senator's resignation with accusations rubio is promoting violence against the head of state. meanwhile. violence again erupted on venezuela's border with colombia as we were speaking about it is the latest in a series of clashes between protesters and border police over humanitarian aid deliveries upon britt's of protesters gathered on the scene one ball of our bridge for a u.s.

aid convoy was blocked from entering venezuela as demonstrators threw rocks border police responded with tear gas today the standoff has resulted in nearly three hundred injuries and for days we've got the thoughts of political analyst chris bambery. well i think it's all part of a strategy of tensioners the americans are building up what the americans are trying to do is put pressure on the military in venezuela to shift. so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the do is position is is that unlike his predecessor hugo chavez face of the coup twenty years ago which of those who call a mass movement that was brutal insurrection crackers received to save them. no. grow on almost entirely on the army and the reason that kind of thus far we haven't seen this kind of mass movement come into easy. ok to the other side of the world britain has been warned that it must as rapidly as possible give the cheek us

islands in the indian ocean. the un's highest court ruled on monday that its occupation has been illegal it fell in the u.k. wrongfully split the islands from riches before granting them independence back in the one nine hundred sixty s. the united kingdom a standard an obligation to bring. it to the sheen of the terrible side of could be a local. thousands of islanders were also deported so britain could allow the u.s. to build a military base on the biggest island diego garcia. the u.k. foreign office insists the u.n. was just giving advisory opinion not a legally binding judgement we heard from a descendant of the islanders. the reality is that we lost. the u.k. took it and now nourishes wants it. doesn't tell you more about the problems that question being gone through it's just mentioned in your issues taken by the and

prime minister of marisha said this is a history moment former issues and it's people including the two go shoes so he's mention rishis it is people who will mention in discussion he is saying that you know they are going through his law book. i think it's discussions that were not granted their rights and still are not granted their rights to be known as british citizen. well the u.k. chigger support association says it should not 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 earth 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 cause i think they might find some difficulty in getting their 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 the human rights and the respect that they deserve. ok to the us where a big development is on full doing to us dates but a law that seeks to overturn the current where people choose their president now in the states currently it's not about how many voters side with the candidate it's all about the states that are won cause for a change have been growing since donald trump's victory in twenty six breaking it down or should i love. america a place that writes the data 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 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 or last i checked the legislature and we do under the united states constitution have an authority to determine whatever manner we would like to appoint our electors if you're confused at this point you have every right to be in the us it's not about how many people vote for each candidate like in most democracies it is about how many states each candidate wins. every four years the

people of america elect a president well they don't not directly they are electing the electors and the electors vote for the president that happens in every us state the more people that live in a state the more electors they have so you just have to choose the elected pledged the candidate you like best if a majority in your state vote for the electors supporting a different candidate that will mean your state supports him or her to become president so it's not a popular vote which determines the president to get into the white house candidates need the electors to support them with at least half is enough mass two hundred seventy people to 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 of all i said that in two thousand i think it needs to be eliminated i'd like to see us move beyond it yes ironically for this to happen just like with electing the president laws like in colorado and new mexico have to be passed in states comprising the minimum of the same two hundred and seventy votes with eleven states in on this already there are more than halfway there a recent poll shows that the majority of america. also want to see the shift to the popular vote but the republicans are saying that this initiative will leave the flyovers states voiceless it is an attack on the constitution that will forever change our representative form of government as your votes and your choices are no longer your own we are going to tie your representation to what the other forty

nine states choose us societies split along many lines and now the fate of a more than two centuries old the concept at the heart of how generations of americans have been choosing a leader is being added to the list. well our guests raise the question on whether such a change in election 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 does 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 they are 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 the same. 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 even get i think that it's time to learn what is that a holiday 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 no there you go think that's very radicalized change the whole constitution

and tear it all up that's what the liberal but it was about cheney's run on that richard please. i dreamed about changing the constitution you asked me whether i thought i was fair and the answer is no 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. you're with or to international on the way more on this hour's breaking news a warning that the u.s. is rapidly preparing for a military intervention in crisis stricken and this really. just shows seems wrong. why don't we all just don't. let me.

get to see. this day come after. and in games from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the liberals in america they consider themselves to be living in a pedestal. and they're never wrong and they have the moral high ground and occasionally their own policies are exposed as frauds. and they're don't want to deal with their unmasking they bring in or william kristol to beat people up there.

welcome back and we return with our breaking news russia's security council is warning about the us is getting ready to intervene in venezuela president nicolas maduro washington has consistently said it is keeping all options all new table when it comes to venice willing crisis the secretary of the russian security council says that u.s. troop movements to colombia and to puerto rico are the first steps towards an actual military in asian for more on this we're joined by ortiz medina cauchon of medina tension in venezuela clearly building what war on this do we know well is sim's that indeed that the pressure on the van as well and president nicolas maduro is mounting as the u.s.

supported a nominee to the candidate to. bring him down now the venezuela colombia border has recently become quite a hot spot and this ongoing standoff says the u.s. has decided to deliver humanitarian aid to the border between from those well in colombia claiming that the country is suffering. from a humanitarian crisis on the other hand venezuelan president nicolas maduro has numerous times re jacked it in this particular claim saying that the still every might be used as a pretext to enter the country and now russia's security council has sheer to madrid concerns saying that by deploying troops and special ops forces to puerto rico and colombia washington is getting ready to intervene in vain as well and topple its litter this is what the secretary of russia's security council had to

say on this matter. showing sarcasm and arrogance towards the missouri when people the u.s. is preparing a military invasion of an independent state transporting american special forces to puerto rico landing u.s. forces in colombia all the facts indicate the pentagon is strengthening its troops in the region to oust legally elected president. people understand this well hence their reaction their refusal to accept the goods from the aggressor country and support the president while many believe that harsh economic as well as the humanitarian situation within then as well are are of the consequences the result of the u.s. sanctions that were implemented against the country and in the first place this is why the country is suffering now russia's security council has also added that the u.s. has offered to discuss the ongoing crisis and been as well with the russian side and moscow agreed to this meeting however the meeting never took place as it was

rescheduled several times using different reasons. with the very latest on our breaking news this hour artie's medina conscious. india claims it's hit a training camp belonging to a customer base terror group killing three hundred fighters the indian foreign secretary says the earth strike was a preemptive attack against the jayashri mohammad group it was responsible for a suicide bombing that killed forty indian military police officers earlier this month pakistan says that this week's incursion was a quote grave aggression by india on a violation of the line of control the pakistani armed forces tweeted that no infrastructure was hit and no casualties reported the strikes are the first across the five two border since a war between the two countries broke out in one thousand seven hundred one. the uranian foreign minister has all expectedly announced he is stepping down

mohamed to verne's or reefs resignation has been confirmed by a run state run news agency but no reason has been given as yet some of the key moments during his five years in the post. ten to one thousand and ten those feces they have. put into perspective mr president two days resolution can only be mine do you know i mean people of the historic injustices.

is not very. right now. in the end. that. is our news for noah but what is god richard branson so interested in venezuela watching the hawks investigates its next. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. nor middle of the room sick.

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have to get out of. america i'm not going to. war. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be close it's like them before three of them or can't be good that i'm interested in the waters of our age. where should. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live well death row in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they

are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up their rights as live among us some even proven innocent after years on death row and how my. gracious is it going to take before we. realize this is not working and we actually do something about. ratings and sell you take us 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 and.