from russia. join me every day on the alex i'm i'm sure. i'm show business. moves to protect it's by ordering states all oil companies european hates to move to moscow. also ahead on the program this hour account of his prime minister fights for political survival after his former attorney general say she was pressured to quash a corruption case. distasteful or deserving british range sparks controversy for using the image of teenage on his old bride. as a target we hear reaction. which you are. which is

encouraging. women she. said. live from our international news center here in moscow this is our team good to have your company i mean o'neill our top story the president of crisis stricken ordered the european headquarters of the country's state oil company to relocate to moscow the concern is over securing national assets softer key figures in europe sided with the u.s. and backing self-proclaimed interim leader one who they want to run the major oil exporter and a news briefing with the russian foreign minister the venice will and vice president said her country does not trust us and europe. with.

the relocation of p.d. b.s.t. from europe i'll say that's been a part of our plans in terms of deepening relations with russian companies like gross math and gas problem europe has not given us enough or assurances that he will respect our assets look at the bank of england which is we holding venezuelan gold there has been an armed robbery. and we want to ensure our relationship with russia. pride these days they don't and as well as vice president has become yet another one in a series of meetings between high ranking officials from russia and this lechmere country here in the russian capital meetings to show solidarity and ensure support of venezuela has world's largest oil reserves and this is a very huge company of chorus but it is right now and to have these sanctions from their west had to be more precise seven billion dollar is currently in assets blocked by the u.s. sanctions the foreign minister lavrov has said today that cynical could pain aims

at overthrowing the kids in the folder to use the chinese well the using rights of one of the intervention needless to say a lot has been said about the possibility all military intervention of course that's especially america's president trump is claiming that all the options are on the table meaning in eluding military operation a thorough when i'm on your what if there is a concerted effort they're seeking to justify an international intervention in venezuela being headed by due west and their regime change doctrine this is nothing new we've seen these tactics since you were and now the country the person in charge of action against venice while eyes non for their first evacuating is an attack from foreign states and i asked mr abrams it is very clear was going on to seeking to arm terrorist groups and rebels in order to. destabilized in undermine

our. answer in oh it's a question that is well this advice president has added also that she believes venezuela will not become second syria because the people of venezuela and the country's army are as united as never before in fighting for their future and peace. of the un security council was convened on thursday to discuss the crisis in venezuela russia and the us proposed their draft resolutions both rejected by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield 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 workers treated double standards show over venezuela 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 we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections. and to a government that reflects the will and aspirations of the venezuelan people. you have to do is 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 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 representative spoke as well calling to stop interfering into the matters of his country. has to do with having this one i'm

still going to live in this when i'm people they behave like colonial east they are planted in atlanta just kind of peroration against it it's sort of right out of the same kind of. force at the same time they are just feeling 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. . well former u.n. human rights committee secretary alfred the zionist spoke to me earlier he was also the first u.n. repertoire by the way to visit venice well he is of the belief the u.s. is waging war on international perforations have been already since year in the southern command has had the plans already prepared but the question is what will the.

international price and prestige be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a flagrant aggression against. the united states did so in two thousand and three when the coalition of the willing. bombarded iraq the war which. kofi annan on repeated occasions declared to have been an illegal war so the united states if. specially with a precedent like trump is capable of doing there is a danger of violence and it should be the function of the united nations to prevent that on the other hand i listened last night to the bait in the security council on venezuela which i consider to be so realistic i mean it is quite clear to me that

the united states is waging war on international law now that trump does that does not surprise me. this all comes as a new poll suggests that the global approval rating of the u.s. leadership has fallen behind china or russia's position has also increased significantly while u.s. leadership approval ratings fell down to thirty one percent russian chinese positions while they rose to almost equal those of the united states a leading member of the u.k. innovation expert group told us he believes u.s. intervention us policies really are to blame for the fall interest. you asked already becoming more the more weak because you start to lose so many wars and political war or. treating war so basically people lose lose

confidence towards us but as expected china to actually be there's a world and to use some of that with us so this way i seemed. to really want to see either actually. to bring positive what you can act to is are going to developments i think of. europe. will be easier china and russia who has some power of us you may be next. for lead her yeah so i've seen. good opportunities out there and to be china russia we are probably human more you can point the room to. another story generating a lot of discussions to lay the pressure is on canada's prime minister a federal elections are just months away but he is facing growing calls to quit

over a corruption scandal engulfing his government a former justice minister and attorney general say she was not pushed to prosecute one of the country's. biggest engineering construction firms which is accused of large scale of bribery in an emotional testimony to the justice committee jody wilson rebuild the pressure on her included veiled threats if she went ahead with prosecuting s. and c. level in 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 company in question is one of the world's largest engineering and 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 the lucrative irrigation project justin trudeau denies 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 when the whistleblowing former justice minister resigned over the affair prime minister trudeau was principal secretary also left his position amid reports that more are ready to quit the administration we spoke to political analyst alessandra bruno who explained why either case could cost trudeau his own job. 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 alter a 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 the political crisis there will be a problem in the election and just in two of those leadership is definitely in question now the idea was that it. would face prosecution. it might have to move headquarters away from canada so also. since eleven is in a writing where trudeau is directly involved the more writings you win the more

chances you have been in election it must be very important for trudeau to have taken such really. measures and he thought he could he could pressure his justice minister. a shooting range in the u.k. has been branded distasteful for allowing pictures of bride shamima beginning to be used as target practice the teenager earned notoriety after an interview in which she showed her more so regrets about fleeing to join the terrorist group in syria one of her images used up the range covered in bullet hole tiles being widely shared online reactions being mixed. in a society where hate and violence against muslims particularly muslim women is most prevalent on the right it's deeply concerned people requested an image of a real person as a show. target it's clearly wrong to use photos of people as targets in

a shooting they should stop why you're so worried about a traitor they're just playing a game with her poster her i says friends tossed three real human hands of beheaded victims like a football and she wasn't faced remember that shamima bag and was born in britain but took her sister's passport and fled to syria to join when she was fifteen she now say she'd like to return to the united kingdom but britain's move to revoke her citizenship here's why a shooting range according to that chose to beggars image to their roster. the targets provide some fantastic reactions and conversations and allow people to have some lighthearted fun and bring out the in a child in us all the targets we provide do not necessarily always reflect our personal opinions after watching footage of being interviewed and the lack of remorse and empathy she shows we choose to go ahead and run the target while we are still number of guests if such an act is appropriate or not. 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 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 mean begum is a vet present state of muslim women in britain that is not what i said that is a caricature. whatever it is precisely what you said that night is your knowledge i don't need to actually think about why do you allow me to finish what you allow me to finish and you're 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 i don't. advocates on the t.v. channels that we should take military action to get the child but it's the u.k. who after all is an innocent victim she could take a hike i don't care about. the fact that she might be out there ready to idea if she also says it's not true and be so unfair because they want to result of. this all i want because he's a terrorist so there is going to be placed 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 other than the law to recognize that there's a structural racism that exists through everything that you are actually saying is a sense of what you would define i think should be like a good way of the you all bring her back to defend the grain 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 all the real victims here should be jim he's a terrorist she has supported a brutal terrorist regime the disgraced full idea in the media that we should be seeing her as the vic 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 called do just cause one or two people are offended by it if we lived our lives bombing everything that some one person found offensive nothing would exist in the world of god i live in a country where we're never going to do that. an indian fighter pilot who was captured by pakistan after his jets was shot done is in the process of being handed over to

india this convoy transporting the pilot was seen at the pakistan indian border the pakistani prime minister described the move as a peace gesture as tensions between the two nuclear countries has escalated in recent weeks let's go live now to journalist javid riley who is near the pakistani indian border for us jabbered what's going on there bring us the latest. well the russians are under it at any time in dubai they're just going to be handed over. to the parties like no i did there are some sort of missile beautiful abilities which are being sued because obviously there's a visibility well didn't he leave us forced to be one of the over between three or four pure bots and by their own it was deliberate and i think there are some to go . on but it is the job because of which there's a do it but giving you

a bigger picture of what is it up to the ball to solve that but i think there are more signs of. not only because of the father bob you saw this morning over indian pilots but also i think because of the intervention from the from my family so i'm going to end in the u.s. i think get out no signs of the u.s. mission on focus on what was the first good in last twenty four hours has. passed the law of the whites but the next step there is a lot of need not more than one take off he an incursion into part or the rest of the polling all that happened the last two days but after. pakistan what needed. the students. there had to get their arch they all shot down. by a fighter jets and since then the situation was very tense and but the sun has come up with their piece just just let me get one that pakistan wants. there's

additional submission of this all of which get all seven. world solution with him and get his conflict in this middle east region which have been at the heart of the troubles between two countries yet thanks we just talked with here the connection the connection there with journalist jabba the rana speaking to us on the india pakistan border in they pakistani city of lahore iran twenty kilometers away from the border thanks very much for knowledge of that. now in the me too that scene vandalism at one of america's most prestigious universities outs next story after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the

world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you that. 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 ends. what we really need is someone from the outside. we had some very good. because. series they lost. souls they say could not interleave your cause of the palestinians.

welcome back one of the world's most famous universities harvard in the u.s. is launching a probe after a graffiti it's not going compass call for one of its law professors to resign after a faculty dean rolled sullivan decided to join the legal team representing this great hollywood film but you sir everyone sitting. down with the dean how if it doesn't catch these are just some of the angry slogans held by protesters on campus at harvard university why the me too may have meant it to me to me to me to be to me to be true. only this time the accused has no it's been inappropriate. awards women the right side 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 thirty seven 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 i'm 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 needs are the ones that. i would rather have a client he's innocent that being that 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 resignation with the escalation on campus of its administration and starting a 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 one seen 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't 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. while staying states news network

c n n is being accused of stocking the yields against veteran politician and presidential hopeful bernie sanders of the televised. where some of the audience were suspiciously very well clued up on politics. how could a voter like me. feel confident in your ability to represent the party especially given that your response is 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 elected as president.

that evening. there is 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 how will you work to alleviate this issue.

this is a lot a long running to caesar than the u.s. political system true. they're used to try to undermine opposing parties and the notion of opposing parties this is just fundamentally destroying every country people just attack each other from opposing sides that really decides what's really true is that this might be showing a symptom of something that it just has to do it out of the serial dialogue and add 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 your is which is sort of sad but i find that that to be par for the course the way that our media operates is 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 all right time for another trip to the watching the hawks going next then to join me for all the latest headlines this friday in thirty. greetings and style you take shims. the search for precious metals as dominated mankind's history since the first diamond piece of gold or copper was scooped out of the earth and brought into the glittery red light of the sun here in the united states the mining of these precious metals has played a massive role in our short history and rapid rise to become a world power but now the minds of the bill to us may be coming back to haunt us the associated press reporting that every day across the united states of america many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic lead another toxic metals

knows from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the u.s. and into the flow into the surrounding streams and palms without even being treated yes my friends i said millions of gallons over fifty million gallons of contaminated waste water to be exact that flows daily from some forty three different mining sites across the country that a.p. was able to look at twenty million of that fifty million completely runs completely untreated into our ponds rivers and groundwater systems while the rest of it is captured or treated in a costly effort that will need to carry on indefinitely for perhaps thousands of years often with little hope for reimbursement thousands of years this my friends is what's called blowback blowback as we know is the unintended adverse results of a political action or situation in this particular situation was caused by letting hundreds maybe thousands of private mining companies dig pillage and rape the land

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