stand. just the right questions to the right answer. question. this morning russia in the u.s. resolutions on venezuela rejected at the u.n. security council as the political crisis in the country continues. with us finally we have reached the combination of the miracle workers treated double standards. by voting against this resolution some members of the council continue to shield rural and his cronies also the news for this morning a harvard law professor faces a backlash after joining the legal team of disgraced hollywood film producer harvey weinstein. and canada's prime minister fights for his political life after his

former attorney general says she was pressured to quash a high level corruption case. good morning a.t.m. for the first of march live from moscow. thanks for turning to us today hope you stay with us here for this world news update where venezuela is in the headlines first again no end in sight still for the political crisis there was both russian and u.s. draft resolutions of failed to pass at the u.n. . by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield maduro and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people they're going to use them with us finally we have reached the culmination of the american workers created double standards show over venezuela we look forward to

genuinely free and fair elections. and to a government that reflects the will and aspirations of the venezuelan people. today's vote is an excellent example of one of the veto rule is necessary for protecting the peace and people's right to determine their future millions of venezuelans have fled their country in search of food medicine and opportunity the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now washington and london have both again robbed an entire nation of billions of dollars in the same time or pushing them to accept a pittance due to regime change as they say you first of all create great humanitarian problems and then you call upon the whole world to solve them both the russian and the us 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 us 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 representative spoke as well calling to stop interfering in the matters of his country the power to this will has to do with having a swell on slaughtering at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east they are planning a clandestine operation against it sort of right out of the same kind of took it up on their force at the same time they are just feeding out of money you see something outrageous indeed so the diplomatic community in the crossroads again the u.n. as thieves members who spoke after the voting called it to all of their colleagues to put their differences aside to resolve the venezuelan crisis reporting in new york treated each other as r.t. meantime hundreds about vista volatility spanish company madrid in support of venezuelan president nicolas maduro. i. am. i. was.

they also condemned what they see as an attempt by the united states to intervene in the country's internal affairs demonstrators chanted slogans and waved hands off letters while a ban is discussed in vision in the international community of as well investigative journalist and. broader international community of course is divided between those who are supporting the. yet another coup or what they call regime change and . be among those who are actually respecting the serenity and independence of the gone through gold but as well a country which is a democratic state a country some scared countries already or many or governments are afraid actually to follow the same part so if well you support russia and china obviously you are risking that or your regime also going crazy will be changed now on this very important china and russia are standing shoulder to shoulder to climb the wind as

well also we do have the international community or quite divided between the progressive nations and between the nations which are will just either use dual following washington's dictate or they are too afraid to to actually contradict. the west in general. howard university in the us is launching a probe or for a coffee tea attack on the campus called one of us law professors to resign it came after faculty dain ronald sullivan decided to join the legal team representing disgraced hollywood film but he said harvey weinstein seth is got more this morning . down with the dean doesn't care these are just some of the angry slogans held by protesters on campus at harvard university why the meeting me if meant it to me to me to me to be to me to be pulled.

only this time the accused has not been inappropriate towards women the rights lie with disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein who's assembled his legal dream team he can afford the best and that includes a top harvard law school professor ronald sullivan he's tried to explain the simple right to a fair trial but the students are having none of it it's particularly important for this category of unpopular defendant to receive the same process as everyone else perhaps even more important to the degree we deny unpopular defendants basic due process rights we cease to be the country we imagine ourselves to be he's got a point everyone accused of a crime is entitled to the best legal defense they can get even weinstein who isn't even the most notorious to of sullivan's catalogue of controversial clients but some students have to have taken the cue from what would you rather have a client who committed a crime in say or prohibitum these are the words that.

i would rather have a client has anything that beam that is of outrage you have failed the black women in this community not only as one of the few black faculty deans on campus but also as a community leader someone who were inspected and looked to for guidance and even a petition online calling for a full of and threatening nation with the escalation on campus of its administration and starting climate review of the house after which it promises appropriate action as dean of the college one of my highest priorities is to ensure that the support students receive for their is additional communities upholds our institutional commitment to their well being if awards plaudits and legal winds are anything to go by sullivan's track record is formidable but when you're signed up by an unpopular defendant like weinstein even the best legal reputation can bite the dust in the unforgiving court of public opinion. well as cusses bit further he

spoke to international law expert jennifer braden she thinks that rhetoric revolving around this case might set a dangerous president of. i think it just goes to show the downfall in the trajectory of top american law schools yes everybody has a right to legal defense but not really everybody in america this is the precedent that's being set only some people have a right to a legal defense only some people have the right to an attorney only some people have the right to representation and that's the precedent that we're seeing be set by these activist organizations is that if you don't agree with me if you don't do something that i like yes harvey weinstein's crimes are regis granted but it's setting a precedent to say that if we don't like if we don't approve of what you've done then you're not worthy of the bill of rights and of the united states. to walk away empty handed from a summit with north korea last couple of days donald trump appears to be trying to save face but a diversionary tactic going on with surprise comment on syria let's go live to

produce events of the cips is what difference twenty four hours makes in the focus of attention of wanting to what is the u.s. president to say than. so it seems that the summit turned out empty handed as you said for the american president president from the united states wanted more commitment from north korea in an interview that he gave after the summit he pointed out that he was walking but he wanted the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula while kim jong un was talking about only several places he also said that he didn't want to make concessions and lifting sanctions without any concrete denuclearization plan however north korea said there was a realistic proposal on the table. but in a rare person conference late friday night and how annoyed though on north korean foreign minister said that the chairman turman kim offered a written commitment to no longer testing the long range missiles and not to allow

any and to allow expand inspections in the korean north korean posole liddy's. trumbo walked away and it didn't really seem it didn't go that well because back home he faced a lot of critics. isn't for the failure of the summit but anyway no real deal was made to actually have this site to actually make his trip i little bit more optimistic when he was returning back to washington he stopped to alaska to make a great announcement. we just took over you know 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 of the land we just have a hundred percent so that's good. it's quite a power of what he said but the coalition forces believe that it's kind of contradicts of how they see the situation on the ground in december trump announced that there

will be a full withdrawal of the u.s. forces by spring however later in february washington said that he would maintain a peacekeeping group made out of four hundred soldiers which will be a long term plan pretty much preserving the peace but in the beginning of last month in february president trump also said that he would make an announcement in a formal announcement to the american people declaring the complete control of isis territory and syria but he hasn't made that announcement any and yet. all right. please produce it down there in hanoi still thanks for that the pentagon policy analyst michael maloof believes the time of the announcement wasn't told coincidental. trump is going trying to show success. he and that i think was one of the considerations in the discussions in in vietnam war 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. with elections just months away canada's prime minister is facing calls to step down as a political scandals threatening to topple his government justin trudeau has been accused of leading a campaign of pressure against his former attorney general to prevent the prosecution of one of the country's biggest companies and cut a deal instead i experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in an inappropriate effort to secure a deferred prosecution agreement with s. and c. level and the prime minister asked me to help out to find

a solution here for s n c well the scandal you just heard sounds come to coalesce and see lovelorn which is also one of the world's largest engineering construction firms in twenty fifteen it was charged with bribery and fraud over the poem to nearly one hundred million dollars in kickbacks to libyan officials the dealings allegedly involved family members of former leader moammar gadhafi they were meant to secure contracts in a lucrative irrigation project but i got today just into those denied any inappropriate behavior insisting he was just trying to save jobs. i and my staff always acted appropriately and professionally we of course had discussions about the potential loss of nine thousand jobs in communities across the country including the possible impact on pensions former attorney general julie wilson raybold resigned over the affair citing the veiled threats allegedly leveled at her by the canadian prime minister's office to those principles secretaries also quit

to amid reports that more officials are ready to leave the administration political analyst alexandra bruno explains why the case could indeed cost the prime minister he see. it shows that the politics and interests do mix in canada as well as other places and this is the problem it's the image that the prime minister has built around himself or some people call it the brand of a feminist alter a liberal ultra legal transparent leader who is completely tripping over his own ideals in ten months there will be an election in canada so no matter where this goes constitutional crisis a political crisis there will be a problem in the election and just into those leadership is definitely in question now the idea was that if since eleven and we face prosecution.

it might have to move headquarters away from canada so and also. since eleven is in writing where trudeau is directly involved the more writings you win the more chances you have a woman in an election it must be very important for trudeau to have taken such really. amateur measures and he thought he could he could pressure his justice minister. in a bid to ease the humanitarian crisis in yemen the un has raised more than two and a half billion dollars at a high level pledging event in geneva but that's well short of the target set of four billion dollars needed to fulfill this year's aid plan on top of that seems many of the donor countries are ones linked to an almost four year old conflict in yemen either by fighting there or in selling arms.

for the most twenty four million yemenis in need of a of some sort i don't know if they have received salaries because they are sleeping hungry at night i've met children attending an old high five was telling me they go to sleep hungry every other day because they can't afford to have the need of the day they've been displaced much of the times they've lost their houses there is no safe place in yemen and does not yemeni who hasn't been one way or another witness this war be it on the land the sea and air strikes artillery tank fire that is happening every day.

they are just don't go in as they have been traditionally the ones most generous in funding which are united but at the same time they are also the most active directory order and i think it's true to say that weapons orders i don't think that if you want to see how many civilians so we're alerted to calling for an end to the hypocrisy and then up a list of the old school feeding was one hand the yemenis to keep them alive destroying the consulate the other why the ages desperately needed they themselves obviating the need for the state to the war to the fighting to the blockade of yemen the use of weapons despite in this having a direct impact on women shouldn't civilians who have obsolete in those day and disconsolately. the shooting range of the u.k.

has been branded distasteful for allowing pictures of ice still brides to be used as target practice teenager and notoriety after interview which she showed no remorse or regret about fleeing to syria one of her images used of this range we're talking about now covered in bullet holes has been widely shared online donald trump margaret thatcher even hitler also featuring the shooting range but is the use of the teenager's image that's making people feel real uneasy in a society where hate and violence against muslims particularly muslim women is most prevalent on the rise it's deeply concerning that people requested an image of a real person as a shooting target especially in the presence of young children it's clearly wrong to use photos of people as targets in a shooting they should stop the more i look at these the more i am ashamed to be british the old colonial isn't brutality still alive i see be sure this will not be happening if she had been white just another excuse to vilify muslims why you're so

worried about a traitor there just blaming with her poster her eyes his friend starts to real human hands of beheaded victims like a football and she wasn't raised remember that to a beggar was born in britain but fled to syria four years ago to join i saw when she was fifteen she now says she'd like to return to the u.k. but britain's move to revoke a citizenship is how the shooting range explains why they chose to add begum to their target the targets provide some fantastic reactions and conversations and allow people to have some lighthearted fun and bring out the inner child in us all the targets we provide do not necessarily always reflect our personal opinions after watching footage of big i'm being interviewed and the lack of remorse and empathy she shows we chose to go ahead and run the targets. well there we are guests whether it's unethical to use a real person's image in this way or a reaction against the widely vilified individual. the issue is how it's going to actually impacts on muslims in this country and muslim women in particular and the

fact that we need to recognize that she whether we like it or not because she is a muslim woman she is going to inevitably represent something that the people who are going to range people are saying this is something that is going to be targeting muslim women how to hold that second what is more what is more offensive to muslim women the fact that should be pagans picture was at the shooting range almost nobody is going to go to all the fact that somebody is appearing on international television to say that should me begum is a vet present state of muslim women in britain that is not what i said that is a caricature of precisely what i've actually precisely what you said that night if you have knowledge i have a need to actually think about why do you allow me to finish why don't you allow me to finish what i'm talking about plane that is being made is that a racist environment there's a racist environment which you are a part of which is encouraging the targeting of muslim women she is

a terrorist and they're law abiding citizens and frankly you should take that back you should apologize to muslim women in this country for suggesting that she is like them this is a process of desensitization of children from a very early age and this is problematic because it is saying that it's ok to shoot and kill women in her job because that's exactly what is being suggested in this to call it harmless fun i think it's important that we recover the child advocates on the t.v. channels that we should take military action to get the child bites u.k. who after all is an innocent victim she can take a hike i don't care about this i don't know if they thought that she might be either release idea if she also says it's not true and b. so fed was there to result in. they are all going to fall and percy is a terrorist so there is a pretty place in a way that would be taken away but for a white person that would not be an option that their citizenship would be taken away he said on out of bounds of the law to recognize that there's

a structural outside or racism that exists through everything that you are actually saying is a sense of what you would define i think should be i would say of the you all bring her about defending bring her out and try her and that's the issue there is an environment of hate that exists i think what we have to think first of all who are the real victims here should be he's a terrorist she has supported a brutal terrorist regime the disgraceful idea in the media that we should be seeing her is the fix said i think it's sad and pathetic that it would not be the role of the british state to tell british people what they can and can't do just cause one or two people are offended by it if we lived our lives bunning everything that that one person found offensive nothing would exist in the world i thank god i live in a country where we're never going to do that well if you have your breakfast no this doesn't put you off snow our next story or desire for a soft toilet paper isn't a devastating effect on ancient canadian forests is the story according to environmental groups damning new report sheds some light on the consequences of the

activity of leading tissue brands it seems the united states uses more toilet paper than any other country an average american uses three roles a week the report says a failure to create more sustainable products makes consumers complicit in flushing forest down the toilet as has been described and it reveals that almost sixty percent of all canadian paper export goes to the u.s. we spoke with far as programs director and one of the groups behind the report. in canada we've seen a lot of different press stories the concern about therefore stand by us and we are calling on companies like procter and gamble on big brands like sherman to do better to use more recycled fiber apparently sharman has zero recycled fiber in it and and the response about the about the worst trees that are used in the paper and so given that we found that that is primary forests are being used for things like

as high as thirty percent of the inputs into a whole trees we're trying to get the word out there that the companies you better . come pay they say that the excessive use of tissue productivity damages not only nature and the global climate but lives of indigenous people as well but taking away the environment they live in so some other again believes that people have to be smart about the products they use. what we need to be doing is protecting as many for us as we can keep in forests and being not you know logging for seizing the materials once i'm in the muslim cells or washing them down the toilet and so we just have to get better and better looking at how we we can reduce or it's global in canada which is you know where this report is focused on i mean i think you know there's all sorts of products that really you know are coming from forests and we really need to be smart about any any forest products. in the face of the migrant crisis many countries across europe a building walls and fences against illegal immigration denmark is almost finished

building one on its border with germany but this one's going to different it is our europe correspondent peter all of us been funny man. president trump isn't the only one calling for border walls to be built built that they built that way. along a seventy two of the structure in. this city same thing but don't like this one is close to finishing only technically it's really a fence. so who is this wall designed to keep out not racists not murderers not drug smugglers not even those bought on braze that trump was so concerned about this fence is designed to keep out while the bull. it's to stop the spread of african swine fever from germany into denmark thing is

though that hasn't been one documented case over the horn virus in germany to date the danes decision has upset the mayor of one german border town who says this whole thing goes against the. visible border. we do not consider this proportions this is rather counterproductive the danes erecting the fence say they understand the frustration of their german neighbors but insist that it's necessary . especially with. this issue. that this issue that there have been outbreaks of african swine fever in belgium and in east and europe the virus spreads very quickly there is no cure there is no vaccine and it kills just about every animal that it infects in

fact the only real good news is that it's not known to be any threat to humans there's twice as many pages as there are people in denmark and the. annual exports of pig meat from the country said to be worth as much as four billion euros not to mention thirteen thousand jobs directly linked to the industry just one case while for one case in a domestic peak there's enough to close the export so that's what we have been fearing when we don't know that you aren't in china and south korea they close the totally export from a country if they are it's the countries written by africans why i feel the same happened in czech republic same as happened in human angry over and for that matter baltic states and we suspect that in similar it will denmark a border barrier a multi-billion euro export industry and a potentially fatal pandemic it's not a good time to be a wild boar in denmark however they are very adept jumpers swimmers and even tunnel

is so they sport a wall may prove to be is fruitless is the critics of donald trump's think his whale peter all of a germany. c n n is coming across his mouth for accusations that rigged a hostile audience against american politician bernie sanders. try to solve the stupid american university how can a voter like me feel confident in your ability to represent the party especially given that your response to sexual harassment allegations during your campaign is that you were quote a little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case to be

a leftist president. good evening there's a lot of misinformation regarding your plans for universal health care would you please provide a brief overview of your plan and how it differs from that of other candidates. if you become president will you support efforts to offer high quality optional publicly funded preschool for all americans. i'm a student at the george washington university which tells impressive seventy three thousand sticker costs as president tell you where to leave this issue.

this is a law a long running to caesar than the u.s. political system untruths are used to try to undermine opposing parties and no notion of opposing parties is just fundamentally destroying every country people just attacking each other for opposing sides that really decides what's really true is that this might be showing a symptom of something. it just has to do it out of the serial dialogue and progress through competition or progress through conflicts so i think that c.n.n. has their systemic issues just because again they have to have yours which is sort of sad but i find that that to be par for the course the way that our media operates and it's hard to find media that is doesn't have an agenda i would not be surprised if c.n.n. wanted to have a certain kind of public experience of this political figure. in the morning first among.