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i would see it appear on several different conservative pages. for broadcasting live. this is our. attentions have been high in the un security council with both russia and the us bringing forward draft resolutions on the venezuela crisis however both proposals failed to pass. the with us mind we reached the combination of the american workers treated double standards show over. we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections. and to a government that reflects the will and aspirations of the venezuelan people who wouldn't go also one year the year today's vote is an excellent example of why the veto rule is necessary for protecting the peace and people's right to determine

their future today it was made very clear that irresponsible use of the veto actually makes the council a threat some peace and security. opposed to the united states will pursue all avenues to increase humanitarian assistance to venezuelans both inside and outside their country washington and london have both again robbed an entire nation of billions of dollars in the same time pushing them to accept a pittance due to regime change as they say you first of all create great humanitarian problems then you call upon the whole world to solve them now is the time to strengthen our commitment to the venezuelan people we call on members of the security council to join in this commitment. and i'd like to express satisfaction that a clear majority of the council did so today thank you. both the russian and the u.s. resolutions didn't pass the voting in the un security council the russian one got less votes in favor that against four in favor and seven against the us draft was

vetoed by russia and china the russian ambassador said that if the u.s. resolution had passed it would be the first case in history that the united nations security council deposed a legitimate leader and imposed another one to a sovereign country the venezuelan representatives spoke as well calling to stop interfering in the matters of his country the power to this will has to do with having this one on slaughtering at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east they are planning a clandestine operation against it it's what i write out the same kind of took it up to force at the same time they are just feeding out of money this is something outrageous indeed so i want your. full time for you to know that there are institutions in this what i work in besides the presidency and we have the supremes court and the supreme court is dealing with this mother and they are going to announce their this is shown in due time i cannot speak for them i believe you would see a very considerable reaction around the world if they detain or otherwise harm.

interim president why don't i hope that's enough of a restraint on their conduct so the diplomatic community in the crossroads again the u.n. as steve members who spoke after the voting called it to all of their colleagues to put their differences aside to resolve the venezuelan crisis reporting a new york treated each other as r.t. . let's discuss this now with investigative journalist andrea. who is with us now thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so we've seen both of the russian and the american resolution fail in the u.n. security council is the international community now helpless to resolve this crisis or what is the path forward. well the international community of course is divided between those who are supporting the well look at yet another coup or are what they

call regime change and are between him and those who are actually respecting the serenity and independence of the gone through been as well or a company who reaches a democratic state the rich. more elections and more afraid of them than any counter in the western hemisphere or only western gone through for that matter their country which is actually free press much more free than places like the united kingdom befits. laws that prevent job journalists from criticizing the. government officials and business leaders so their yes community international community is divided and it is probably good that it is divided because now there will be a confrontational played years between between the west which is pushing its neo colonialist agenda and the congress that are supporting the independence most of

the most the parts of the world where healthy debate is indeed a part of a healthy democratic process if you look at the two sides though a majority was in favor of the u.s. resolution but that couldn't actually overcome the vetoes of russia and china why do you think. the un seems to be pushing more towards the washington side. there is some scares of gondor sort of ready money all governments are afraid actually to follow the same park so if well you support of russia and china obviously you are risking that you know your regime well so-called regime will be changed now it is very important that china and russia are standing shoulder to shoulder with the friendly grin as well about there are also other very important gone through slick south africa where our rich are are you know who also of working together with the men as well and in college i'm a government there are going to sleep good nature and that's what actually all the

nation after sixty five or nine hundred sixty five schools. ally of the united states understandably why it is abstaining this time and. it's gone through for almost three hundred million inhabitants of it's very important force so we do have our international community or quite divided between the progressive nations and between the nations which are more than just either used to affording washington speak that or they are two or three too large to actually hold the addict or none of the rest in general are real this is what's really brief i just wanted to get your opinion about a controversial figure here u.s. special envoy for venezuela elliott abrams he said that countries recognizing the white out government are supporting the people of venezuela but u.s. sanctions do not seem to be helping the man on the street is there some sort of a contradiction in the u.s. policy there. of course actually the. prices that you were talking about was

created in brazil i'm following going through a lot of looking good since the beginning global diverted revolution and i saw how the crisis was mounted fractionate it was the same as in schiller in one nine hundred seventy three when there was the basically the elites elites automatic low sleep working produce knighted states governments they're creating shortages deficits of the on the press the on the right wing press which is sexually believe it or not still a majority of the mass media in venezuela so they are creating uncertainty the creating bad mood but they're also creating shortages and humanitarian catastrophe in but it's a little so all the united states is working together with the elites for many years already to bring the situation to what it is and don't forget that the cool of the soft coup in brazil that came before what we are witnessing could win as

will was the colonel for all would sure because we know that his ill will being now in the hands of the extreme right wing loon ited states would never dare to do goodness the ring to it now in interesting to hear your thoughts on that i will check investigative journalist and someone who is on the ground in who knows that the situation there we help as this plays out you'll come back to us and help us understand it further going to help it's there i think. by switching gears now there were high hopes in her no i but both donald trump and kim jong on have come away empty handed from their much anticipated second summit the talks ended earlier than expected with the u.s. president blaming north korea's demands over lifting sanctions for the failure to cut a deal that came as a surprise to many after the optimism shown up by both leaders before the talks.

put the first summit was a great success and i think this one hopefully will be equal or greater than the first or you could have heard that the paper that. you will fill. in this. might be the best and. always have to be prepared to walk i could have signed an agreement today and then you people would have said oh what a terrible deal what a terrible thing to do you know you have to be prepared to walk we actually had

papers ready to be side but it just wasn't appropriate i want to do it right i'd much rather do it right and do it fast. the north korean foreign ministry has since issued a statement claiming they did not ask for all sanctions to be lifted just most of them and they also said washington had missed a rare chance and reiterating that their position on denuclearization will not change our reporter in hanoi sums up the second day of the summer heat through going to which of the talks were cut short because no agreement was made the two were actually supposed to have lunch and have a signing ceremony which never happened bill the reason behind that was because the leader of north korea actually wanted the sanctions on pyongyang lifted. well. we proposed was not the removal of all sanctions but their partial removal this proposal was the biggest equalization measure we can take at the present stage in

relation to the current level of confidence between the d.p. r. k. and the united states our principles remain invariable and our proposal will never be changed even though the united states proposed for the negotiations in the future basically they wanted these sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that they were willing to do new go largely portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for the donald trump said that he could not give up entirely the sanctions that cannot give just whatever the leader wanted so what he said is that it was in a good time to actually sign a deal and sometimes that's what great leaders do they just walk away for something to happen later on to potentially get actually get a bit of a better deal and what's interesting also here to point out is that he also mentioned that it's been a productive time between the two but i guess you also repeatedly repeatedly saying that the whole deal was made because of the u.n.

sanctions that he didn't agree with now they didn't decide on what's going to happen on the korean peninsula whether they're going to dismantle all the or the nuclear facilities but what he did promise was no missiles will be flying over the korean peninsula in the time being now if there's going to be a third summit that not clearly see if it's going to happen but there was kind of open when that when it was mentioned another interesting factor to point out is that the two leaders of the regional leaders of korea and japan would be very very interesting the un their reactions on how what they have to see the outcome of this deal because if anyone has to lose it's pretty much them to jenny town who is managing editor of a north korea focused web journal thinks both parties are expected to achieve more . this sentiment going into this i mean it made it seem that they were much closer to a deal then what came out of this summit and it seems that we're still pretty far away from having common ground on the issue of sanctions and which is the north koreans

that we would want the north koreans to dismantle as a first step the u.s. has not had a great track record of i mean hearing two miles an hour according to especially in under this administration by even predating this administration and there is mutual skepticism it's not just you know a lot of americans don't believe the north koreans are serious then of course the north koreans have an experience that the u.s. also not adhering to agreements although the second meeting between donald trump and kim jong un ended without any agreement on do nuclearization it seems there was some good news elsewhere according to the u.s. president one hundred percent of the territory that was held by islamic state in syria has finally been liberated. we just took over you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over one hundred percent caliphate that means the area the land we just have one hundred percent so that's good trump made the statement on

his way home from the summit during a refueling stop in alaska there are currently two thousand american troops in syria in december trump announced there would be a full withdrawal of u.s. forces by spring however later in february washington said it would maintain a peacekeeping group of two hundred soldiers in the country former pentagon analyst michael maloof believes the timing of the announcement wasn't coincidental. trump is going to try to show success. he and that i think was one of the considerations in the discussions in in vietnam over over north korean missiles the reality is is that trump is looking to make a deal and to show international success and to so that he can have something to come back to and to offset the turmoil the inter the political turmoil he's facing back home but if we've taken over isis in syria then the

question remains what about the troops u.s. troops who are there in syria what will happen with them those are questions that remain unanswered are they transparency group claims it has uncovered systemic bias by facebook targeting conservatives more on that after a short break this is our treasure. the world can't afford to return to the unrestrained nuclear competition of the cold war was the plea made by the un secretary general earlier this week with the us pulling out of the treaty and russia rolling out new nuclear weaponry should we be more worried about the weapons themselves or the people who have the codes.

what we really need is someone from. america. because. series they lost. so they could not enter the view the cost of the put it. back this is our national transparency group project a very touch has exposed what it claims is a series of tools used by facebook to target politically conservative pages under

strict their content without warning they include classifying posts as hate speech limiting the live streams and suppressing the reach of posts in a process known as here is the whistleblower behind the claims. i.e. handled copyright and trademark claims and in the course of doing my duties i noticed other things that were going on in accounts and that is why i came forward i would see it appear on several different conservative pages. what exactly did the former facebook employee find or to you know neil more on that from our correspondent nick you're what has been revealed here well this whistleblower is alleging to have uncovered four she described as methods of suppression being used by facebook tolls that would de boost the traffic of accounts considered to be a conservative leaning meaning that their followers would receive notifications whenever these pages these accounts dates their profiles in some cases content was

allegedly removed without even letting the users know now this insider who formerly worked in the intellectual property department of facebook has stumbled across these goings on and she said when she noticed some unusual goings on with some accounts first i was wondering whether this is something that. i had a couple working theories i was like maybe this is an independent versus mainstream thing maybe independent thinkers on the left are experiencing the same kind of d. boosting but i didn't see that i looked at. the young turks page i love that column capper next page none of them had received the same boost but you know she's not the only one that's coming out with similar allegations there's another facebook employee who is exposed how such tools are being applied to certain accounts that facebook deems to be offensive or contain hate speech conservative side of things. which is point there's

a lot of stuff being said on the left that is not involved in these posts it's essentially what you see it's all one sided exactly and facebook is tagging certain posts the it doesn't particularly like with terms such as offensive in haste these terms of being used broadly things that are actually hate speech but that might. offend somebody. you know anything that is perceived as hateful even though no court would define it as hate speech now if these allegations are proven to be accurate it would be another blow for their facebook name especially seeing how it contradicts what the c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told congress when he said he didn't want his company acting on the political ideology of content we have reached out to facebook for a comment on these alleged boosting tools they haven't got back to us so far he also said they're going to didn't they after the twenty sixth election so it's conflicting kind of comments from mark. his point would be though how do we know

these claims are actually credible when they're going out into the press it is a whistle blower or how do we know she's telling the truth what we do know that she definitely did work for facebook because although facebook didn't get back to us they did respond to another media outlet who they told. she must have been a disgruntled former employee so we know she definitely worked for them and they say that she was fired when they found out she was working with project veritas what she brought out is has been verified that this is happening on the conservative side of things but what we know well it wouldn't be surprising because it's not the first time a social media giant has been ousted by project veritas as well last year we had the allegations with twitter when project veritas released undercover first to twitter employees staff appearing to admit to silencing conservatives they were saying how they used the algorithms to bury particular tweet he said i just

interviewed others of them were exactly so users weren't seeing what these a particular people were posting because they were being buried by these algorithms twitter at the time denied any complicity in the actions of it stuff but the most worrying thing here is that it exposes this impression that. these social media giants like facebook and twitter that so many of us use pretty much on a daily basis could have political leaning or not has twenty reus implication be twenty years ago he would have been that important because it didn't have so much import in the lives of young people there are millions of people becoming voters sixteen eighteen year olds they put a lot into social media so this is why it's becoming a huge issue we're not going to hear the end of this for some time indeed the power of social media. and he hopes in britain postpone leaving the e.u. have had a hurdle across the english channel the french president is vowing to block britain

from delaying its departure unless there is a clear objective based on a new choice bags a date is just a few weeks away on march twenty ninth. you know it'll do the deal in these three g. the withdrawal agreement cannot be renegotiated if the british need more time who will be able to examine an extension request if that is justified by new choices from the british but we cannot in any case accept an extension without a clear perspective from the pursued objective as our negotiator michel barnier said we don't need time above all when the decisions the time has come for the british to make choices and to offer us what we owe each other as partners friends and allies namely a clear vision a joint project for the future. all right for britain to extend the withdrawal process known as article fifty e.u. members must unanimously agree to it and the french president is not the only one whose patience is wearing thin spanish prime minister echoed emanuel micron's

saying that prolonged uncertainty by postponing deadlines is neither responsible nor desirable alternative the german chancellor was more conciliatory though saying the e.u. won't say no if britain needed more time despite having more than two years to get a plan in place for britain's future relationship with the e.u. parliament has failed to agree on a plan prime minister trees a may is struggling to get her deal passed and peace having lost a series of votes if it fails again on march the twelfth she will give m.p.'s of the chance to decide on whether to crash out of the e.u. with a no deal or seek to delay the leaving date brussels based journalist lucrative a told us what he thinks micron wants from brit automatically even if they were to reduce work as runyan as it looks well based on a new choice he says you know europeans for one audion agreement on this and they are right in the way we should ban is that you know we don't need time to be

decisions so the brits should decide they have the suited for two years they have a deal it is a bit wishy washy the remain as in britain don't like it the prick cities don't like it so mrs may tries to sell it so far paul the mountain west and stuff already for some time and she can't and she comes back to brussels to renegotiate but the europeans say no thank you you have a real reason for renegotiating or for asking three more months no reason so march twenty ninth should be the right date and if they leave without a deal they don't need to pay the forty five billion euro that europe asks them to pay so it put not be such a bad deal to go you're watching our two international. after

the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the boat the boat different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else you think i was going to do. by the way what isn't that sliding here. warren buffett you know these doing the stock buybacks which is you know used to be illegal so recently that's completely fraudulent and yes no governance or oversight whatsoever you know he's a more than one of the biggest of the biggest shareholder of wells fargo for example during that period when they were engaged in serial criminality when they

were engaged in absolute fraud and he's a party to that so here's a guy who given unlimited credit at zero percent and is exempt from the rule of law still can't seem to make money for his shareholders which is you know. just. off for isis fighters and boarding a philippine naval ship. to

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i'm. doing a lot of. the filipino subdivision of isis calls itself the abu sayyaf group and is based around us alone on the sulu islands. its goal is to establish an independent muslim caliphate in the philippines. it's move that they use large numbers of children in combat as human shields.