number you need to remember one one you know the mid one and only boom but. it's exactly midday here in moscow headlining right now russian and u.s. resolutions on venezuela are rejected at the u.n. security council as the political crisis in that latin american country continues. with this mine we have reached the culmination of the a miracle workers traded double standards show over venezuela by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield and his cronies. elsewhere around the world united nations has failed to make this she has a budget for yemen despite holding

a high level pledging event for countries involved in the conflict there. and canada's prime minister fighting for his political life after his former attorney general says she was pressured to quash a high level corruption case. life in the arts new center kevin we do this thanks for joining us this march the first as it is now this friday so venezuela in the headlines again and no end in sight for the political crisis there is both russian and u.s. draft resolutions have 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 the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now they're going to use them with us finally we have reached the culmination of the american orchestrated double standards show

over venezuela washington and london have both again robbed an entire nation of billions of dollars in the same time are 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 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 why the veto rule is necessary for protecting the peace and people's right to determine their future both the russian and the u.s. resolutions dinan past 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 to pull is the legitimate leader and imposed another one to

a sovereign country the venezuelan representative spoke as well calling to stop interfering into the matters of his country the power to be this will has to do with having this one on sovereignty and then when it's one people they behave like colonial east they are planning a clandestine operation against it it's what i've laid out the same kind of took it up on their force and at the same time they are just stealing our money if you see something outrageous indeed 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 in new york treated each other's r.t. meantime hundreds of activists voted in the spanish capital madrid in support of it as well and president nicolas maduro demonstrators chanted slogans and waved hands off and as well of those they condemned what they see as an attempt by the united states to intervene in the country's internal affairs we discussed the division of the international community of venezuela and diversity to journalist andre vulture

. well the international community is divided between those who are supporting the. yet another coup will be called regime change. those who are actually respecting the. independence going through. going through the demographics. going through some scares of going to sort of. governments are afraid actually to follow the same part too so if well you support russia and china obviously you will risk a good through your regime but also going through she will be cheering now on this very important china and russia are standing shoulder to shoulder the prime minister will also reduce her have the international community look while divided between the progressive nations and between the nations which will just either used to fall in washington's dictate or earlier two or three to two actually contradict

one of the worst general. elections just months away canada's prime minister's facing course to step down as a political scandals threaten 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 the scandal surrounds a canadian company which is one of the world's largest engineering construction firms in twenty fifteen it was charged with bribery and fraud over the payment of 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 justin trudeau denied any inappropriate behavior insisting he was simply 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 jody wilson robel resigned over the affair citing the veiled threats allegedly leveled out about the canadian prime minister's office trudeau's principal secretary also called it quits to admit reports that more officials are ready to leave the administration political analyst xander bruno explains why the case could indeed cost the prime minister his seat. 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. mature 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 still of a target some of four billion dollars to fulfill and she is a plan on top of this many of the donor countries crucially ones linked to this almost four year old conflict in yemen either by fighting there or selling arms to . more than the last twenty four million yemenis in need of a of some sort i don't know if they haven't received salaries because they are

sleeping hungry at night i flex children at all i thought was telling me they go to sleep hungry every other day because they can't afford to have a meet up with a they've been displaced much different times they've lost their house so it is no safe place in yemen and does not yet 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 where they are united for you but at the same time they also the most active directory order invited into the sales of weapons orders jumping from one

side if you want to see how many civilians so we're alerted calling for and then the focus young going up a list of the old school feeding was one of the yemenis to keep them alive destroying the consulate the other why the ages desperately needed they themselves not being the need for that face to the war through the fighting to the blockade of yemen the use of weapons this fighting is having a direct impact on women children and civilians who have obsoleted almost a dysfunctional. so will he way emptyhanded with some of north korea donald trump opposed to trying to save face making a surprise comment on syria. it seems the summit turned out not so optimistic as it was expected president said that the united states wanted more commitment from north korea an interview we gave after the summit he pointed out that he was talking about 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 in lifting sanctions without a concrete plan however north korea said there was a realistic proposal on the table in a rare press conference late friday night here in hanoi north korea's foreign minister said that chairman kim offered a written commitment to no longer to its long range missiles and to allow inspections in nuclear facilities at north korea. which we proposed was not the removal of all sanctions but the partial removal this proposal was the biggest 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 but trump walked away and it didn't go that well back home he's facing criticism for the failure of the summit second summit between president and. ended up a way that's right it's over after two days of meetings with president trump left vietnam early this morning after walking away from a potential deal with north korea anyway no real deal so it seems like from decided

to make his way back home to washington a little less pessimistic he stopped in alaska and made an 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 one hundred percent so that's good and a powerful speech he said that he the coalition forces have completely could. isis from syria but it contradicts l b s the if one of the us is allies sees the situation on the ground in december though president announced it will be a full draw of u.s. forces by spring however late in february washington said that it would maintain a peacekeeping group of four hundred soldiers which would be in syria full long term plan in the beginning of last month the president trumps that he would make a formal announcement to the american people declaring the complete control of isis territory in syria but he has not made that announcement yet you know it is state

senator and presidential hopeful tells he believes kim jong un skepticism comes from the u.s. has failed foreign policy. and saw what happened in libya he saw how we promised libya's dictator gadhafi that if he gave up his nuclear weapons program that we would not overthrow him well he gave up those weapon he gave up that program and we blew him away this policy of the united states of regime change is what causes dictators like him to hold on even stronger to their nuclear weapons. believe the time wasn't coincidental. trump has got 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. what university in the us is launching a probe for a graffiti attack on the campus called for one of its law professors to resign it came after faculty dean ronald sullivan decided to join the legal team representing disgraced hollywood film producer harvey weinstein and he says he's got more this friday. down with the dean how fed doesn't it catch 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 has 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 popular 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 mahlum in say or malum prohibitum these are words that. i would rather have a client he's innocent 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 percent of and resignation 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 there is additional communities upholds institutional commitment to their well being if a waltz 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 yes everybody has a right to legal defense but not really everybody in america this is the precedent that's been 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 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 i think it just goes to show the downfall in the trajectory of top american law schools there's very little competition because of this atmosphere in the united states on university campuses where so many. students need to not be traumatized can be around things that they don't agree with socially or politically i mean at the very essence of what you're going to school to become which as an attorney is debate is competition is arguing for your points is being around places where they're going

to be challenges and so if you're going to a school to become that you have to be able to not only speak your mind but to understand why you're becoming an attorney much more ahead including this italy's until going to circus a bank rolling is electro peroration is with the russian money in a deepening divide between roma brussels just one of the stories that. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest greed in truth to stand out of the news business you just need dance the right questions and demand the right answer. question.

seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to see how it just didn't come out to. engage me because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. again collaborating with russia seems to be an accusation is never far from the headlines at the moment again this time the spotlight is on italy's interior minister mattel's salvini a senior official claims he's being bankrolled by moscow. yes it's very clear and i

denounce him now salvini is receiving money he's going to receive huge amounts of money from russia from russian banks for the next electoral campaign turn of mind the values of the e.u. that statement raise concerns in italy politicians there demanded to know where selvi these funding came from the minister of cell tonight is taking any money from russia. about the legal funding has a right nor will arrive in the league there is no money in luxembourg or the kamaleswar in switzerland lunches there are no rubles for yen or barrels of oil i spoke to the northern league's foreign relations secretary just a bit earlier who warned against making unsubstantiated allegations. this gentleman said that. thinking you would be suing. for defamation saw probably he would be our campaign because he left me

after that the court would say that we are right because. the proof we never had that we would never have money from anyone because we don't need we are serving is so popular that we don't need money to go or not this is. their way of dickon painting of the left. they have no argument they don't know what to say didn't know what you proposed for the next european election and so the only way is to create the some scanned. party that they're going to root for the next election. shooting range in the u.k. has been branded distasteful for allowing pictures of eisel brides mima begun to be used as target practice teenager notoriety after an interview in which she showed no remorse or regret about fleeing to syria one of her images used at the range covered in bullet holes has been why the shared online and reaction to it has been mixed in

a society where hate and violence against muslims particularly muslim women is most prevalent on the right it's deeply concerned that people requested an image of a real person as a shooting target it's clearly wrong to use photos of people as targets in a shooting game they should stop why you're so worried about a traitor they're just blaming with her poster her isis friends tast real human hands of beheaded victims like a football and she wasn't faced remember that she may have bigger was born in britain but fled to syria four years ago to join i saw when she was just fifteen she now says she'd like to return back to the u.k. but britain's move to revoke a citizenship is how the shooting range explains why they chose to add she is face . 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 should mean big i'm being interviewed and the lack of remorse and

empathy she shows we chose to go ahead and run the targets we are so i guess what kind of message they thought this sends a people. the issue is how it's going to actually impact 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 in the second what is more what is more offensive to muslim women the fact that should be pagans picture was i think shooting bags almost nobody is going to go to all the fact that somebody is appearing on international television to say that should mean 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 what you allow me to finish what i'm talking about playing that is being made is that a racist environment this is a racist environment which you are a part of which is encouraging the targeting of muslim women she is a terrorist and their 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. other areas idea if she also says it's not true and be

so fed was there to result and that there. is a terrorist threat as american based in a way that would be taken away but for a white person that would not be an option. their citizenship would be taken away he said on out of bounds of the law recognize that there's a structural outfly or racism that exists through everything that you are actually racism is that what you would define i think should be i would say of the you all bring her about defending 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 as the victim i think you start sad and pathetic 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. complete change a story to come next the desire for a soft toilet paper is a devastating effect on ancient canadian forests says environmental groups a damning report sheds some light on the consequences of the activity of leading to shoe burns the united states uses more toilet paper than any other country for accounting an average american uses three roles a week the report says a failure to create more sustainable products makes consumers complicit than in flushing forest down the toilet and it reveals that almost sixty percent of all canadian paper export goes to the united states campaigners say that the excessive use of tissue products severely damage is not only nation earning the global climate but also the lives of indigenous peoples as well by taking away the environment they live in we spoke direct miller he's a forest programs director and one of the groups behind the report. statistic that american consumption is impacting the the boreal forest that that's something that's of concern and so i think it underscores also the need for the canadian

government the step up and do more to protect more of its forests we are calling on companies like procter and gamble on big brands like sharman to do better to use more recycled fiber apparently sharman has zero recycled fiber in it and then to the response about the about the worse trees that are used in the paper on a global scale what we need to be doing is protecting as many for us as we can keeping forests standing not you know logging for seizing the materials once and them putting them on land cells or flushing them down the toilet. most noise of the main will be used as a shaping of some fathers from the lunchtime international always full of more stories of course on our main site so much more than the time to bring a year but check it out today my name is kevin i havea friday prime's out of a good one.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle much was expected from the noise summit there may have been goodwill on both sides but in the end neither the united states nor north korea could agree on the path forward the two sides failed to reach a common understanding of what their desired endgame for denuclearization actually is. crosstalk in the noise summit i'm joined by my guest john merrill in washington he is the former chief of the north east.