russia's security council saying the united states is mobilizing troops for a military intervention in. president maduro warns that washington. on the country's resources. wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for about a week also coming up on the program this hour britain's. in the indian ocean. after half a century of illegal occupation a descendant of the region's native islanders shares his story with us. the reality is down.

to us states. to overturn the current way people choose their 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 close voters because it skews the way in terms of these small populated states. twenty four seven news live from moscow this is your r t international your company . we begin the program with breaking news russia's security council is warning that the u.s. is preparing to intervene in venice we are. and our president nicolas maduro

washington post consistently said it is keeping all options on the table when it comes to the venezuelan crisis. the secretary of the russian security council so use that u.s. troop movements to colombia go of the first steps towards an actual military invasion which i. caution of a medina direct words from moscow what more can you tell us on this situation well it seems that the pressure on the even as well in president and nicolas maduro is a mounting as the u.s. supported south nominated candidate one vallance to bring him down now the even as well as a border has recently become quite a hot spot in this ongoing standoff as the u.s. has decided to deliver humanitarian aid to the border between even as well and columbian claiming that the country is suffering from

a humanitarian crisis on the other hand the president of the national well any collapse my door has rejected these claims for a number of times saying that this delivery mind to be used as a pretext to enter the country and now russia's security council has shared to these concerns by saying that deploying troops and special ops forces to puerto rico and collage. washington is getting ready to intervene in a van as well and topple its leader 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 transferring american special forces to puerto rico landing u.s. forces in colombia all the facts indicate that the pentagon is strengthening.

troops in the region to oust legally elected president. people understand this world reaction their refusal to accept the goods from the grass the country and support the president well the secretary also added that the u.s. has offered to hold a meeting on the situation and been as well aware the russian side and moscow agreed however these two meeting navarrete to clay's and it was rescheduled using different reasons for it several times so while russia's security council as well as been as well a warning of a possible u.s. military intervention washington as well as self nominated candidate one dog have never ruled out of that particular possibility moreover why doll recently sad that it is time to take action and the other day he also tweeted that it's time to make a decision and proposed to the international community to keep all options open you

know very much watch this space moment between the question of a thank you. well the warnings from russia come shortly after president maduro cold to the u.s. for preparing to wage a war over venezuela's oil resources he believes washington is stirring discontent in his country. the united states wants about as well as 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 . well his words come as members of the so colima group gathered in colombia with opposition they don't want and why do and u.s. officials to discuss the venice willing crisis the block of fourteen predominantly latino american countries say they will send out an appeal to the international criminal court demanding the i.c.c. consider the humanitarian situation in in this with a killer and can bring us more and all the. 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 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 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 oprah of them to the regime that'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 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. just staying with this aspect of the story in the pool longer owns the lima group pel discussions around two hundred protesters gathered outside the colombian ministry of foreign affairs they didn't know it's both the prospect of foreign intervention and buckets for colluding with washington to attack minutes where the canadian foreign minister also phoned her speech the meeting interrupted by the activists. and maddow. out of the finish line up hands on our faces while i. think your time tonight i think you know if people are. well while the fate self nicolas maduro his presidency was being discussed the venice will in leader find himself at the center of a twitter storm u.s. senator marco rubio tweeted images of the late the libyan leader moammar gadhafi

else he was about to be brutally murdered the tweet is not caption 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 bye 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 east peace 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 maduro since the crisis began he's openly call for an armed insurrection to depose him and when the senator from florida travel to the venice will in colombia border with the first delivery of humanitarian aid from

washington he called maduro's government a mafia organization like to reach out the post has not been confined to twitter there's also a petition demanding the senator's resignation with accusations rubio is promoting violence against a head of states. meanwhile the violence has once again erupted on venice was border with colombia it's the latest in a series of plushest between protesters and border police over humanitarian aid deliveries hundreds of protesters gathered on a seam on ball of our bridge after 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 four deaths and close to three hundred injuries we got the thoughts on this of political analysts crisp andriy. 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 to dump.

so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the do is position is that unlike the previous hugo chavez feast of the coup twenty years ago which of those who call a mass movement that was brutal insurrection crackers received to save them. no. rule 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. britain has been warned that it must there's a rapidly as possible give the cheek our silence in the indian ocean back to rishis the un's highest court ruled on monday about london's occupation as being illegal. it fund 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 in the third ministration of the terrible side of the bear level. both above. fisons of ireland race on the biggest island

diego garcia now in the u.k. foreign office insists the un was just giving an advisory opinion not a legally binding judgement we heard from a descendant of the islanders. a 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 been going through it's just mentioned in your issues taken back and prime minister has said this is a history moment former issues and it's 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 citizen. the u.k.

tradeoffs support association says it shouldn't take a u.n. ruling for the rights of people to be respected. it was a win for the marine government but it remains to be seen whether or not this will be a win for the czech austrian people themselves i think it be quite difficult for the u.k. it's just fly in the face of it they don't really have a charge on the i.c.j. and if they seem to be flying in the face of this core i think they might find some difficulty in getting that judge back on the panel that even if the u.k. does comply with the ruling. 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 measures and the u.k. government should already be treating the people from the silence with human rights and the respect that they deserve we're talking american elections on sex education right after this this is r.t. .

good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to be. too great to be cross it's like the. three of them all can't be good. interested always in the water using the. same wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just being educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

quarter of an hour into the program welcome back to us states have bucked the law that seeks to overturn the current way people choose their president in the united states currently it's not about how many voters side with the candidate it's about how many states are wall calls for a change have been growing since donald trump's victory in twenty sixty. six and all the. 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 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 votes for the electors supporting a different candidate that will mean your state supports him or her to become president so it's not a popular vote which determines the president to get into the white house candidates need the electors to support them with at least half is enough mass two hundred seventy people to the future president doesn't really need a popular majority in fact the candidate could even lose a popular vote but still win with enough electors in the bag. this is how gore lost to bush in year two thousand despite getting half a million more people's votes and more recently that's how hillary clinton lost to

trump so no wonder she's been one of the most vocal advocates to tear down the electoral college do you think the electoral college should be 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 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 is 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 fates ovi 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 but our guests raised the question whether such a change in election law would be have propre it stateside. 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 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 slave holding state which is the one that basically insisted on the electoral college being the way it is why 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 they are yes so what's fair is to give human beings a vote forget the state to another we have a popular vote it doesn't matter who lives where whether you're live in new york or

california or florida or texas if you combine those two states texas in particular donald trump won that by a fair bit 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 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 learn what 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 but it was 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 course it's not fair but it would but if it were in this different world yes candidates would campaign where there are a lot of people. and you know is that good or bad the fact is policies that have to be addressed by the white house and by congress tend to often address where a lot of people live so i'm not quite sure why that's a bad outcome. primary school children in the u.k. as young as five are to be taught compulsory lessons about trans gender relations the spine to petition sun by sun. up to right it's part of a plan by the government to overhaul sex in the country but this isn't has provoked fiery debate. well the law provides the parents do have the right to do. these policies those the good was taken good so that we put examples of 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 the change should mechanism. changes to the educational system will affect all students including the youngest your primary school parents are not allowed to withdraw their children from the lessons which come into force next year well that's why concerned about the educational program many parents insist it is they who should be deciding what their children are taught when it comes to sex education unless the see a church in the reports 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 grave concerns about the physical or psychological and spiritual implications of teaching children about certain sexual and relational concepts proposed in c. and believe that they have no place within a mandatory school curriculum well that was part of an online petition that has gathered over one hundred. thousand signatures thus prompting a debate in parliament these classes are not intended to roll out until september

twenty twentieth's so there's still lots of time for discussion however it seems clear with so many groups supporting these ideas but also lots of groups opposing these ideas nobody has been left indifferent so it's clear that the debate on this issue is going to continue. lots of the beta over this next story is well a controversial cartoon depicting tennis star serena williams having it temper tantrum which was branded racist in some quarters has been cleared all of the out by a straight news media watch so here is what true peoples are. i think oh it looks just like parts of the past but this is something more because

they're such a little in their own derogatory it's a very sort of stereotypical old school racist features that he's using are essentially racist tropes to depict serina williams. the council considers that the code to use this exaggeration and absurdity to make its point but accepts that publishers claim that it does not to be mrs williams as an ape rather showing her as spitting in the dummy and non-racist caricature familiar to most australian we get. the finding by those trained in press council that the race is good too does not breach media standards proves that the council has utterly no anti-racism standards a tool did they even look at it strongly impressed council is that serena williams called soon is not racist here as chair and members looks about what we don't need

confirmation from them the serene it williams cartoon was racist. all right time for another visit to the co's report with mark son stacey next and then to join me in thirty for all the stories making headlines this tuesday. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to signal from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective from time used to surprising people and i saw why not if you think. i'm going to talk about

football not for you or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of that slide here. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent told. it's time to ignore middle of the room signals. to leave room for the real news is. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then.

loser max keiser this is the kaiser report lots of stuff happening i'm going to find out myself what's happening momentarily let's ask stacy well max you know how we're always nearly at war and it's nonstop nearly at war while there was an interesting piece written by tucker carlson this week in the hyper partisan america of course where 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 i'm like horrible authoritarian and 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 venezuela apparently it's 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 hasn't comment is a high tolerance for mediocrity standards decline 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.