join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you then. russia's security council say's the united states is mobilizing troops for a military intervention in venice. as president warns that washington after the country's natural resources were. denied states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for about the world also coming up on the program britain is pressed by a u.n. port to how they've changed all cylons in the indian ocean to. a century of illegal occupation descended all of the region's native islanders shares his story with us

. the reality is that. the u.k. took it and now. two u.s. states buck a law that seeks to overturn the way people choose the president. 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 way in terms of these small on populated states. around the clock across the world this is your r t international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to our top story russia is warning that the u.s. is getting ready to intervene in venice we topple him bottled. president nicolas

maduro up to washington has only thrown its support behind the president. slapping sanctions on officials in government and inviting others to follow the lead the secretary of the russian security council sees that u.s. troop movements in colombia and in perth to rico are precursors to a military invasion. that's more. and since the pressure on the van as well and president nicolas maduro is mounting as the u.s. supported south nominated candidate one why don't vows to bring him down even as well a colombia border has arisen become quite a hot spot and ongoing standoff as the u.s. has decided to deliver humanitarian aid to the border between as well and colombia claiming that the country is suffering from a humanitarian crisis on the other hand venezuelan president has rejected these

claims saying that this delivery might be used as a pretext to enter the country and now russia's security council has shared duros concerns by saying that deploying troops and special ops forces to puerto rico and columbia washington is getting ready to intervene in vain as well and topple its leader this is what the secretary of russia's security council had to say on this matter. sarcasm and arrogance towards the missouri when people the u.s. is preparing a military invasion of an independent state. special forces to puerto rico landing u.s. forces in colombia. indicate the pentagon is strengthening its 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 as well aware the russian side and moscow agreed however these two meeting never took place and it was rescheduled using different reasons for several times so while russia's security council as well as one as well a warning of a possible. all u.s. military intervention washington as well as self nominated candidate one dog have never ruled out of that particular possibility moreover a guy dog recently said 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. the warnings from russia come shortly after president maduro called the u.s. for preparing to wage a war over venezuela's oil resources he blames washington for storing discontent in

his country 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 justify political escalation and the military intervention in venezuela. his words come as members of the so-called lima group gathered in colombia with opposition leader one to discuss the venice will in crisis the bloc of fourteen countries is sending an appeal to the international criminal court demanding it consider the humanitarian situation in venezuela with another what they called criminal violence against his own people the vast majority of the lima group. the u.s. vice president was also among the attendees killam up and has more on his role in the meeting. 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 the 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 the material regime it's good people of venezuela she cure freedom we will go with you. hugo 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 wanted 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. well as the lima group held discussions around two hundred

protesters down through to and signed to colombian ministry of foreign affairs. both the prospect of foreign intervention unbolted for colluding with washington to witness with the canadian foreign minister also had her speech at the meeting interrupted by the activists. and maddow. hands of fate is well i. think you'll find that i think you know if people are. well as political and civil tensions over venezuela robbed by our political analyst chris bambery shared with us his thoughts on the country's future where the americas are trying to do is put pressure on the military in venezuela to shift the dura so far that hasn't happened the weakness of the duras position is is that unlike his predecessor hugo chavez feast of the coup

twenty years ago which as you call a mass movement that was brutal insurrection in caracas which sieved to save him. no maduro 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 so the thousand of thousand one dollar question is is what attitude the venezuelan militant will take is he going to continue to support would do and if that's the case the potential for civil war personally i'm cynical about the americans intervening directly because i believe the stomach for it in the united states of america pushed the right course to libya and also the site of american troops in any white american country brings back memories of america's record on that continent. write another headline story this hour the u.k. has been warned that head must as a rapidly as possible give the cheek our silence in the indian ocean bottom rishis the un's highest court ruled on monday that britain's occupation has been illegal

the richest claims it was forced to give up the islands in the one nine hundred sixty s. in exchange for its independence. the united kingdom is standard in obligation to bring in the third ministration of the travel side of the bear level. both people thousands of islanders were also deported so britain could allow the us to build a military base on the biggest island that's diego garcia the british foreign office insists the un was just giving ellen visor a 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 militias once it. doesn't tell you more about the problems that question being gone through it's just mentioned in your issues taken back and 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 in discussion here is saying that 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. of the u.k. chigger support association is of the view it should not take a un ruling for the people's rights 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 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 there's 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 human rights and the respect that they deserve. living on the u.s. states have bucked a law that seeks to overturn the way people choose their president in the united states currently it comes down primarily to how many states are won by a candidate as opposed to a one person one vote basis calls for a change i've been growing since donald trump's victory in twenty sixth in the dell of breaks that although. 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 all are last i checked the legislature and we do under the united states constitution having 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 us it's not about how many people vote for each candidate like in most democracies it is about how many states each candidate wins. every four years the people of america elect a president well they don't not directly they are electing the electors and the electors vote for the president that happens in every us state the more people that

live in a state the more electors they have so you just have to choose the elected pledged the candidate you like best if a majority in your state votes for the electors supporting a different candidate that will mean your state supports him or her to become president so it's not a popular vote which determines the president to get into the white house candidates need the electors to support them with at least half is enough mass two hundred seventy people so the future president doesn't really need a popular majority in fact the candidate could even lose the popular vote but still win with enough electors in the bag. this is how gore lost to bush in year two thousand despite getting half a million more people's votes and more recently that's how hillary clinton lost to trump so no wonder she's been one of the most vocal advocates to tear down the electoral college do you think the electoral college should be 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. igor is should done a fully american political experts we discussed that with luck torn down for which election system actually calls on for advantage. one person one vote that's a nice sounding you know cry rallying cry but that's not how the founding fathers that set up 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 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 fair 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. and voters the same vote that counts wherever you live you shouldn't have your vote count fifty times more if you live in wyoming than if you live in california and that's the system that we've got now i don't even get i think that it's time to look at 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 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 one thing 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's a bad outcome. another big story of the day india claims it's killed hundreds of fighters from a customer group it blames for killing dozens of police officers earlier this month we've got the latest to the break.

to you so. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and. want to. have to go right to be close this is what the full screen the more people are. interested always in the logs.

twenty minutes past four in the afternoon here in moscow welcome back india claims it's hit a training camp belonging to a customer based terror group killing three hundred fighters the indian foreign secretary says the strike was a preemptive attack against the giant group it was responsible for a suicide bombing that killed at least. indian military police officers earlier this month pakistan say yes this week's incursion was a grave gresham by indiana violation of the line of control though in a mark on trust to india's claims the pakistani military tweeted that no infrastructure was hit and no casualties reported the strikes are the first across the border since a war between the two countries broke out in one thousand seven hundred one. the arabian foreign minister has all mix practically announced he's stepping down to run state run news agency confirm the reefs resignation but give no reason for

his this here are some of the key moments during his five year tenure surrounds top diplomats. i. can get one thousand and ten with those feces they can. put into perspective it's a president today's resolution can only be mined people. can just assume it's. i.

heard that the. russian woman who is currently detained in the us and charged with being an unregistered foreign agent is g. to appear in court in washington later this choose thing it's expected to decision will be passed on whether maria will serve time in the united states or be deported to russia new harvey spoke to her lawyer he's confident she will 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 at that point we'll set a date maybe in a few weeks or a month to hopefully have a sentence saying. you know fairly soon

a matter of weeks and then it outside and saying. if it's time served sentence she would be deported fairly soon thereafter. always wanted to return to russia that's been her goal from the beginning and so given 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 know fully informed on exactly what's going on you have a pretty good idea of where this is heading could there 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 her 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 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 what 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 you know as is has no similarities with anna chapman who it least was alleged to have been involved in passing of cash and drops and had secret communication devices and things like that staying stateside and it's a death row trial next hour documentary the ultimate penalty delves into the weightiest of issues next.

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