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from the tyranny of the big states i think it's fair to vote. the way in terms of these. the world this is. your company. our top story. russia is warning that the u.s. is preparing to intervene and topple the president. up to washington has only thrown its support behind self declared president. slapping sanctions on officials and government and inviting others to follow their lead well the secretary of the russian security council. that u.s.

troop movements to colombia to puerto rico are precursors to a military invasion but coach never spoke to me earlier. 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 recently 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 nicolas maduro 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 transferring american special forces to puerto rico landing u.s. forces in colombia all the facts indicate that 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 aggressor country and support the president while 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 it several times so while russia's security council as well as been as well are warning of a possible u.s. military intervention washington as well as self nominated candidate one dot have never ruled out as that particular possibility moreover go i 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 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 or sentence a plea 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 to justify political escalation and a military intervention in venezuela. meanwhile the so-called lima group

gathered in colombia and with opposition leader want to discuss the crisis the bloc of fourteen countries is sending an appeal to the international criminal court demanding it consider the humanitarian situation in venice we are with another and what they call me a duros criminal violence against his own people the vast majority of the lima group buck why do the u.s. vice president was also among the attendees to play each additional funding for those who side with washington 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 of pressure of them to the regime that's good people of venezuela. she cure freedom. we will go with you. you go get go. do you.

message for the self-proclaimed interim president why do it without the u.s. has one hundred person behind him he also called on the fence will and military to accept an offer of amnesty or face being held accountable for the weekend's border violence well as the lima group held discussions run two hundred protesters gathered outside the colombian ministry of foreign affairs they didn't notice both the prospect of foreign intervention. looting with fairness we allowed to attack our with washington excuse me to attack a lot of reaction the canadian foreign minister she had her speech at the meeting interrupted by activists to take a look. if we are. in this place hands of fate is why i. think you'll find that i don't think people are. political and civil tensions over a fence will

a round ball political analysts shared with us his thoughts on the country's future . so we're 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 duals position is is that unlike his predecessor hugo chavez feast of the coup twenty years ago which of those who call a mass movement that was brutal insurrection in caracas which seemed 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 those in one dollar question is is what the venezuelan militant will take is he going to continue its support for or 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 the right course to libya and also the sight of american troops in any white american country brings back

memories of america's record on that continent. ok a little updates on brags that no treason may has a nonstarter british m.p.'s will get a say on whether to rule out a no deal breaker than crush it struck a clean break from the e.u. in a month's time or to delay britain's departure now that fota will be triggered if the commons rejects as a holes before the prime minister's breaks are planned next month the u.k. prime minister says they sparked emotional backlash among them peter. i've lost count of the number of times the prime minister has come to this house to explain a further kind of voted to end on the certainty of by blocking the deal the government. and the prime minister can surely not be unaware of the fear out there in the country about what no deal means my sole focus

throughout all of this has been on getting a deal that enables us to leave the european union on the twenty nine. of march with a deal this is a shameful moment nothing has changed in the fact that some of us who used to sit over there are now sitting over here it is the prime minister's obstinacy that is blocking a resolution and it is the right honorable gentleman who has kept no deal on the table by refusing to agree. i will not sit one more day and listen to her crow about employment going up where where i live employment is for living and get used bro you can only be described as grotesquely reckless yet it has a common fare well let's go live to westminster on artie's polyploid to polly trees it may seem she's between a rock and a hard place once more. the world of politics is

a fickle fickle place take a listen to all the times to reason may insisted that it was her way or the highway the choice before us is clear this deal all leave with no deal all the or no bricks it we can choose to leave with no deal we could risk no bricks it at all or we can choose to unite and support the best deal that can be negotiated this deal for as long as we fail to agree a deal the risk of an accidental no deal increases the deal we've negotiated is a deal that almost a referendum on as a result of the referendum and it's the best deal if it indeed is the only deal available. well that was the gist of her message up until as late as last night when she gave a press conference in sharm el sheikh but today following a cabinet meeting where paris where is appears she ended up with her back against

the wall to reason may has an ounce that she will be holding a second meaningful vote which she hopes to. put forward her withdrawal deal which she's hoping to change enough after a failed spectacularly to get through parliament the first time she promised to renegotiate it she hasn't quite renegotiated it just yet but she will be holding a vote on that by choose day the twelfth of march at the latest then if she loses that vote the government she says will hold another parliamentary vote on whether or not the house supports a no deal departure from the e.u. and if we end up in a situation where both to reason may's deal and a no deal scenario have been rejected by politicians in parliament then on the fourteenth of march the government will start the parliamentary process that will

approve what to reason may refer to as a short and necessary delay to britain's departure from the e.u. a delay of around about two months to resume a said and some politicians started saying immediately that this delay such a short delay would simply prolong the kind of chaos that we're seeing now and put off the prospect of a cliff edge no deal bragg's it by simply just a couple of months to resume a's argument is that we can't possibly the u.k. can't be members of the e.u. by the end of june when there will be parliamentary elections that just isn't an option the u.k. shouldn't be take. politician those if it wants to leave the e.u. so this really quite a significant political climbdown series in may was under intense pressure from some of her own cabinet ministers who were threatening to resign if two reason they

didn't accept this option of a delay to bragg's it and jeremy call been the leader of the opposition labor party he's come out with his own brags that announcement and that's that the labor party won't support to reason maze of boat plan as jeremy corbin calls it so if he does manage to squeeze that deal through parliament which i have to say isn't looking that likely right now well then labor the labor party says it wants a public vote to see whether or not the public will accept the terms of to use a maize deal even if the politicians do accept them so for all those thinking that this brags it ride would be the way off to the twenty ninth of march well now it could be suspended up in the air until the end of may or if labor gets its way there could be another public vote to potentially cancel the entire thing just

another day in the land of drags it yet all going on in westminster do not stray too far from the corridors of power poly we need to keep updated thank you very much for your trees polly boys. india claims it's killed hundreds of fighters from a customer group it blames for killing dozens of police officers earlier this month the latest in the. liberals in america they consider themselves to be living in pedestals high above the masses and they're never wrong and they have the moral high ground and occasionally when their own policies are exposes fraudulent then they are don't want to deal with their economy asking they bring in a max but or william kristol to beat people up there.

seemed wrong. just don't hold. me. to shape out to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. a look in a series of facebook news pages linked to r.t. or bach online after the firm producing them agreed to the social media giants

a new demands facebook block the popular pages for ten days the four sites including in the know were restored after details about the project's owners were made clear of their produce by the german registered company must media which is largely owned by r.t.s. video news agency ripley muffet media insists its editorial independent of r.t. c.e.o. and he sees facebook's the monks are unprecedented after ten days down all math pages including in the now a back up we have to put an unprecedented disclaimer in our about section no channel has ever been required to do that let's hope this policy will be rolled out and be required of all channels not just ones that say things some people don't like. or facebook took the pages down only after it was contacted by a u.s. news network c n n but it was five days after that when the social platform finally contacted the pages producers facebook doesn't currently have

a formal policy in place requiring state let's to disclose their funding but a spokesperson revealed that it is seeking to exhibit spent ten surely misleading behavior with more to be knights well let's bring in a bill that new build safe to see activists and technology expert to the program bill good to have your company again should we expect the the new facebook rules as i suppose i should call them to be a pleasurable to all state funded projects from now on or will specific countries like russia get special treatment you think. well i think this goes way beyond just seeing just state sponsored organizations a massive ecosystem has built up around the social media platforms you have everything from social media marketing agencies to social gaming providers to developers all of which want a level of clarity certainty and consistency in the way that they're treated by

these kind of platforms and we can have all but three rules made up on the spot following a c.n.n. report or whatever and i'm not here to actually defend or to be against what has happened see what we're calling for is for greater consistency we need a set of rules and a clear rule book that is transparent and so that everybody knows where they stand we've already had so many different scandals one after another with facebook so we're looking at some form of regulation anyway in order to counter some of the problems around privacy there's also the fake news and a whole lot of other issues that this regulation does need going to need to address but above all for those that work in. ecosystem the level of clarity certainty and transparency that they want hopefully will be provided them in some way through the regulation that we expect at any time you know notwithstanding the pressure or

otherwise that facebook are under what do you think of their handling of this essentially suspend first contact later it looks like what's the term reactionary censorship does it not. i don't think there's a great deal to commend the way that facebook of reacted here it does look like a bit of a kneejerk reaction and it does look as if the making some rules at least on the fly which i think is why a broader sort of regulatory framework that would provide the certainty the clarity the consistency that the whole ecosystem requires would be in everybody's interest i just want to put the point to. the differences between countries and what kind of regulations are actually being put done on them some american t.v. networks they're clearly backed by certain political parties corporations as well

why aren't they being told to come clean by facebook. but i think this goes back to the point i made about consistency if we're going to have a rule book that is far from transparent that is made up on the fly then i think we're going to have these inconsistence these and the likes of atiyah going to be up in arms about what they perceive as unfair treatment this is yet again another. incredibly strong argument for the sort of regulation that many of calling for in any case and i think if we have a clear rule book if we have a set of regulations and a framework so that you know. what the process is for appealing these kind of decisions what the rules the possibly the infractions might be there at least everyone knows where they stand bill just finally are facebook's new

measures are they so lead to target misleading information there is a point being put out there that it will also help the u.s. government for instance decide which dissenting voices to go after to target. when we need to see what the what sort of regulation comes out we may find that predominant in any form of regulation is a reference to the first amendment the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press but we may find that there will be certain delegations within the regulations when the drawn up in order to counter or fake news and a number of the other issues that i think have been raised already one of the provisions in the here may be for them to prescribe certain countries and certain organizations and it would be down to the regulators at the time to decide how that would be done and how they might want to justify that i don't see this being

something that can be done at random and in a sort of knee jerk manner that is currently being done at the moment because i don't think anyone knows where they stand in this this sort of treatment could eventually be applied to any number of different people yeah a lot of implications being put down here bill thanks very much for your time this hour bill new previously activists on technology expert life on the program. two 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 many states are won by candidate as opposed to a one person one vote basis calls for a change have been growing since donald trump's victory in twenty six dollars has more. america a place that writes dates backwards has a really weird voting system and uses around four times more water than europe to flush their number ones and twos and if you think i'm going to talk about flushing here i totally will except not in the sense you were perhaps expecting the us

voting system so far has been centered around the concept of an electoral college but there's a growing movement in america to send it down the drain and see what i did there the states of new mexico and colorado have backed a law that seeks to decide who wins the presidency based on how the majority of people vote making sure that people no matter where they happen to live. have an equal vote we all are last i checked the legislature and we do under the united states constitution have an authority to determine whatever manner we would like to appoint our electors if you're confused at this point you have every right to be in the us it's not about how many people vote for each candidate like in most democracies it is about how many states each candidate wins. every four years the people of america elect

a president well they don't not directly they are electing the electors and the electors vote for the president that happens in every us state the more people that live in a state the more electors they have so you just have to choose the elected pledged the candidate you like best if a majority in your state votes for the electors supporting a different candidate that will mean your state supports him or her to become president so it's not a popular vote which determines the president to get into the white house candidates need the electors to support them with at least half is enough mass two hundred seventy people 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 bold i said that in two thousand i think it needs to be eliminated i'd like to see us move beyond it yes ironically for this to happen just like with electing the president laws like in colorado or new mexico have to be passed in states comprising the minimum of the same two hundred seventy votes with eleven states in this already there are more than halfway there a recent poll shows that the majority of americans also want to see the shift to the popular vote but the republicans are saying that this initiative will leave the flyovers states voiceless it is an attack on the constitution that will forever change our representative form of government it's your votes and your choices are no longer your own we are going to tie. your representation. to what the other forty nine states choose us society's 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. india claims its hit a training camp belonging to a kashmir based her group killing three hundred fighters the indian foreign secretary says the earth strike targeted the john muhammad group which was responsible for deaths of at least forty police officers earlier this month the strikes are the first across the border since a war between the two countries broke out in one thousand nine hundred eighty one pakistan sees this week's incursion was quote grave aggression by indiana violation of the line of control in a marked contrast to india's claims the pakistani military tweeted that no infrastructure was hit no casualties reported the pakistani foreign minister says the country will respond. india to. all.

groups box. reform. and leave the producer. all right that is our lot for a question in our next program but what's got richard branson so interested in venice we are watching the hawks investigates and it's coming right up. when lawmakers manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the roman clusters project themselves. in the final merry go round lifts only one percent. of the time we can all middle of the room six. rooms in the real news

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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 this is a problem that'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.