this hour's headlines stories the russian security council say the u.s. is mobilizing troops for a military action in venezuela president maduro claim washington is after the country's natural resource. the united states wants venezuela's oil and they're willing to go to war for about oil. in the commons the british prime minister is saying get a vote. bring to. the party if they reject a reason made for next month's. level.

two u.s. states a law that seeks to overturn the way people have been choosing their president faces. or international news center here in moscow this is r.t. your company i'm you know neal our top story russia is warning that the u.s. is getting ready to intervene in venice will topple him bottle president nicolas maduro to washington has only thrown its support behind the third president one why don't slapping sanctions on officials and government inviting others to follow the lead the secretary of the russian security council says that u.s. troop movements to colombia. are precursors to a military invasion medina brings us 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 vouch to bring him down even as well a colombia border has recently become quite a hot spot and the 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 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 showing sarcasm and arrogance towards the missouri when people the u.s. is preparing a military invasion of an independent state american special forces to puerto rico landing u.s. forces in colombia all the facts indicate the pentagon is strengthening strips in the region to oust legally elected president. people understand the swirl reaction their refusal to accept the goods from the aggressive 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 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 a warning for a possible u.s.

. military intervention washington as well as a self nominated candidate one dot 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 to maintain a culture while the warnings from russia come shortly after prison drew called out the u.s. for preparing to wage a war over venezuela's vast oil resources he blames washington for stirring 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. there is another aspect to this story the so-called lima group gathered in colombia with opposition leader one why don't you

discuss the crisis the bloc of fourteen countries is sending an appeal to the international criminal court demanding it consider the humanitarian situation in venezuela with an eye on what they call mature rose criminal violence against his own people it should be pointed out the vast majority of the lima group back to the u.s. vice president was also among the attendees to pledge 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 zero pression of them to the regime it's good to people of venezuela. shoot your freedom. we will go with you. you're going to go. how do you. also have a message for the self-proclaimed interim president the u.s.

is one hundred percent behind him he also called on the venezuelan 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 around two hundred protests outside the colombian ministry of foreign affairs they both the prospect of foreign intervention. with washington to attack venezuela they canadian foreign minister also had her speech out the meeting interrupted by the activists. and madoff if we are. seeing this play out hands on faith is why. this is why i think i. think you'll find that other thing of the beholder. well as political civil tensions or offend us with our political analyst chris bambery shared with his thoughts on the country's future. what the americas are trying to do is put

pressure on the military in venezuela to shift to 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 coup twenty years ago or chavez who call a mass movement that was virtual 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 thousand one dollar question is is what attitude the venezuelan militant will take is it going to continue its support for the 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. trees

and they told m.p.'s if he'll get a say on whether to rule out a no deal breaker then rush out of the u.n. a month's time or to delay britain's departure the votes will be triggered if the comments rejects the prime minister's breaks that plan next to her offer was met with yet more skepticism from m.p. . but i've lost count of the number of times the prime minister has come to this house to explain a further delay voted to end on certain g.i. backing the deal the government probably ok here you know 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 ninth of march with a deal this is a shameful moment yeah 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 our lives employment is falling and get is bro you can only be described as grotesquely reckless yeah the world of politics is a fickle cycle 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 at all 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 with 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's 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 is it is she ended up with her back against the wall to reason may has an ounce she will be holding a second meaningful vote i 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 delays 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 taking part in those if it wants to leave the e.u. to resume a 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 series of maze of boats planned as jeremy corbin calls it so fruitless thinking that this brags it ride would be a vel either way off to the twenty ninth of march well now it could be suspended up in the yeah right intil the end of may or slavery gets its way there could be another public vote to potentially council the entire thing just another day in the land of bragg's it ok tell you for the shortest of brakes this is our to trust.

anyone else seemed wrong why don't we just don't call. me. yet to see how it just did come out to. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. with politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich. too great to be cross it's like the four three of the four people. interested always in the water.

fourteen minutes past seven pm here in moscow welcome back india claims it's hit a training camp belonging to a kashmir based terror group killing three hundred fighters the indian foreign secretary ses the strike targeted the jayashri mohammad group which was responsible for the deaths of at least forty police officers earlier this month now the strikes are the first across the death to a border since a war between the two countries broke out in one hundred seventy one pakistan sees this week's incursion will support a grave aggression by india on a violation of the line of control in a marked contrast to india's claims the pakistani military tweeted that no

infrastructure was hits and no casualties reported the pakistani foreign minister says the country will respond. to. all. groups. and leave the producer. alive not to dr professor undine up the school of international affairs in new delhi welcome why do india and pakistan have such widely different accounts of what happened in choose these or strike. you need a partner son is going to be nigh that india succeeded militarily because that could be a huge blow to their prestige especially of the military establishment and so in fact to be knighted that we succeeded in two thousand and sixteen as well when prime minister narendra modi ordered a land based surgical strike or special operations mission inside sen kerry

on board cases that enforced to be and the army in two thousand and sixteen we made a point that terrorism will not go unanswered and that it has to be at a cost of sponsoring terrorism so i think for the pakistanis they will be in denial and that's why you want to see these contrasting at home because even if you remember when the u.s. navy seals did the operation to kill osama bin laden you know what about the air force denied that you know they had any hand or color and that they were not complicit or did they were unaware and so on and so this is an order problem with the fog sonny stitt about it as being first of all they have a culture of jihad which they sponsor for strategic reasons against afghanistan against iran against india its all its neighboring countries and secondly they want plausibility and i am to say that listen there are no terror camps at all in our country so india hit terror camps both in two thousand and sixteen what we call

surgical strikes one and now with the air force in surgical strikes to incite bugs senator kerry so far this week some old you know convincing their public that everything is all right and that there are no let me the tower and says those they're helping out here and says that india has a general election in late spring is there any kind of substance that the tension is being exploited somewhat but the numbers there we're talking to three hundred deaths from new delhi that's what they're saying exploded in some way for votes. i don't think so you name you know because you know if india is a democracy you know general elections and state elections and almost every three or four months there's some election coming up but this is i think a larger strategic threat that we are responding to be instant you know on good ground based intelligence actionable intelligence that we have about these terror infrastructure and some of these groups like lashkar e taiba jaish e mohammad these are linked to al qaida and in some cases even to isis types of you

know salafi stir extremism and they have been causing this thread do you know moderate secular country like india for a long time so i think not into more of these responding to it it will be a point since if it helps him for the elections but i don't think that's so much of a problem because you know every few months we have something on the calendar as it among us all comin up and our credit has actually escalate especially given that pakistan they're standing firm their language is direct they're threatening a surprise response i believe as well. well no i don't think they can do any conventional action against india because we have superior thanks to countries like russia which have closed pretty good partners we have s. two hundred we the israeli through reason we have the but arc aid and these are very powerful. different systems that we have and that we will soon get the f. four hundred from russia despite the american pressure so that will be a game changer you know so they cannot do any evil acts in india was there and they cannot you know push their land army across the border because we are quite

vigilant what they can do ease use these so far proxies are jihadi it's to slip them across the border and cause mayhem in kashmir which india controls are in other parts of india like the moment by terrorists or tax on soft targets and we have to be really vigilant with internal security in india after doing this dating the raid across the border we came on the run scared not a single of audio craft was done by the pakistani missile defense systems are the radar and they could not do anything over so now they will you see then they will want to push. that they can hit back but i think he means they have eased these jihadist groups and that is the biggest one for us and still how do we really alert pakistan with severe have no direct links with jihadi groups when they dr charlie professor and dean of school of international affairs thank you for your time this hour. series of face book news pages linked to our to your bottom line enough to the firm producing them agreed to the social media giants new

demands facebook blocked the popular pages for ten days the four sites including in the now were restored after details about the project's owners were made clear they were produced by the german registered company mafeking media which is largely owned by our t.v. news agency ripley media insists its editorial independent of r t c o n e sonali say facebook's them are on president. after ten days down all math pages including in the now a back up we had 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 the book took the pages done only after it was contacted by u.s. news network c.n.n. but it was five days after the looks when the social platform finally contacted the pages producers facebook currently does not how of a formal policy in place requiring state lets to disclose their funding but a spokesperson revealed that it is seeking to exhibit potentially misleading

behavior that's a quote with more to be annoyance privacy activist technology expert boom you told me earlier he is of the belief facebook's problem goes far beyond any perceived issues with r.t. . well i think this goes way beyond just see it 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 arbitrary rules made up on the spot following a c.n.n. report or whatever. to us states the 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 no calls for a change have been growing since donald trump's victory in twenty sixteen breaking it all down igor citizen 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 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 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 are 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 u.s. 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 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 the u.s. society's split along many lines and now the fate of eight 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 or i had time for another visit to the kaiser report with mark's stacy gang and then do join in thirty for all the stories making headlines this choose the.

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signals. from the real news crew to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've mastered us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich eight weeks six percent whole market will. you should come with one hundred five hundred three for sure to perfect this one rose to twenty thousand. china's building two point one billion

dollars. but don't let the numbers will be. the only number you need to remember one one. born from the one and only boom. 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 it only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

earlier i'm max kaiser 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 this nonstop nearly out war well there was an interesting piece written by tucker carlson this week in the hyper partisan america of course when 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 venice well apparently it like we're ready to invade right so he was asking an american conservative why are these professional war pedlers 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 has been common 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 talentless prosper rising in exorbitant towards positions of greater power and breaking things along the way it happened to the ottomans max boot is living proof that it is happening to america the rise of mediocrity and the rise of experts that aren't experts but failures you know. i think of the philadelphia flyers in the nineteenth seventies they had a guy on their team then schultes who was the enforcer and when bobby clarke was threatened and to intimidate and beat up anyone on the opposing team to try to interfere with bobby.