oh. venezuela moves to protect. by ordering the states or oil companies or european hate. to destabilize the country. it is very clear was going on seeking to arm terrorist groups in order to destabilize undermine our creates tension situation might trigger the us explosion. to justify military.

prime minister fights for political survival after his former attorney general saying she was pressured to corruption. distasteful. really a shooting range controversy for using the image of teenage. we hear reaction. which you are a part of which is encouraging the targeting of women if we live our lives everything that the one person found offensive. you may be tuning in from right around this globe this hour warm welcome to moscow into r.t. international my name's eden o'neill our top story. the president of christ.

stricken venice we ordered the european headquarters of the country's state oil company to relocate to moscow the concern is over securing national assets after key figures in europe sided with the u.s. and bucking self-proclaimed interim leader one quiet joe who they want to run the major oil exporter at a news briefing with the russian foreign minister the venezuelan vice president said her country does not trust u.s. dollars in europe. and the relocation of. the from europe i'll say that it's been a part of our plans in terms of deepening relations with russian companies like gross math and gas prom europe has not given us enough for sure and says that he will respect our assets look at the bank of england which is we holding venice while in gold there has been an armed robbery. and we want to ensure our relationship with russia venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world u.s.

sanctions have block seven billion dollars worth of the state owned companies and russia sees its share is venezuela's concerns over u.s. led attempts to destabilize the country you're starting as maria from national. friday's visit as well as vice president to moscow has become yet another one in a series of meetings between high ranking officials from russia and this like an american country here in the russian capital meetings to show solidarity and ensure support of course russia is among the country's top two men fully back in venezuela defending its sovereignty and protecting its future and made as foreign minister lavrov has said today cynical complain aimed at overthrow the illegitimate authorities of venezuela using open threats including one of a military intervention. knowing the approach of the current us administration i wouldn't be surprised if it takes action that violates any reasonable standards of

international law has specially when the u.s. special envoy in venezuela at the u.n. elliot abrams makes no secret that his functions don't include looking for a peaceful settlement he only creates tensions and situations that might trigger as the u.s. wants an explosion and bloodbath in venezuela to justify military interference needless to say a lot has been said about the possibility of military intervention of course that's as passionately after america's president trumps claiming that all the options are on the table meaning including military operation armed operation in venice is well worth it when i'm on your way to there's a concerted effort there is 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 in syria and other countries the person in charge of action against venice while it is non for their subversive activities and attacked in foreign states and i asked mr abrams it is very clear was going on u.s.

is seeking to arm terrorist groups and rebels in order to destabilize in undermine our peace. which it's no coincidence that we heard venezuela is not. the only goal cuba nicaragua roma arisan and if the u.s. doesn't like someone else tomorrow if they say the election results in any country don't meet democratic standards announcer in our t. question that as well as vice president of the biggest 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 another aspect to this story the un security council was convened on thursday to discuss the crisis in venezuela russia the us proposed their draft resolutions both were 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 orchestrated 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 google so one of today's vote is an excellent example of one of the veto rule is necessary for protection to 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 to posed a legitimate leader and imposed another one to a sovereign country the venezuelan representatives folk as well calling to stop interfering into the matters of his country the power to be this will has to do with having a swelling sovereignty and of an assault on people they behave like colonial east they are planning a plan this kind of peroration against it is what i write out the same kind of took it out of force at the same time they are just feeding out of money this is 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. i got the thoughts earlier from un human rights committee sector alfred desire as

well he by the way was the first u.n. repertoire to visit venice where less so his word this kind he thinks the u.s. is waging war on international. perforations have been already since years and the southern command has had the plans already prepared but the question is what will the. international prize in pristine be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a cruel a grand aggression. again. well the united states did so in two thousand and three when the coalition of the willing. bombarded iraq war with. 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 alfred design meanwhile a new poll suggests that the global approval rating of the u.s. leadership has fallen behind china russia's position has increased significantly to here's the figures washington's approval rating there you can see it thirty one percent in the gallup survey that's well done china is now left ahead on thirty four percent russia's rating has risen notably and it's not just one percentage

point behind us a leading member of the china u.k. innovation expert group told us he believes the u.s. intervention its policies are to blame for the fall in trust. you ass is already becoming one the more weak because you start to lose so many wars and political war or. trade war so basically people lose lose confidence towards us but is it expected china to actually be there weren't and to use some of their leadership with us so this way i see. the world to really want to see either actually. to posit to you what you know act two was going on for developments i think of quite a lump europe the balance will be easier china and russia who has some power of

all us you may be next. for lead her yeah so i've seen its use a. good opportunity is out and to be china russia we are probably human more human point grew up in. the pressures on calibers prime minister the federal elections are just months away but justin trudeau is facing growing calls to quit over a corruption scandal engulfing his government a former justice minister and attorney general say she was pushed not to prosecute one of the country's biggest engineering and construction firms which is accused of large scale bribery in an emotional testimony to the justice committee tony wilson rebelde said the pressure and her included veiled threats if she went ahead with prosecuting s.n.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 just some background on the firm the company is one of the world's largest engineering and construction firms and twenty fifteen it was charged with bribery and rolled over the payment of nearly one hundred million dollars in kickbacks to libyan officials the dealings allegedly involved family members a former leader moammar gadhafi they were meant to secure contracts in a lucrative irrigation project but mr true joe denies any inappropriate behavior insisting he was 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 on the theme employment the whistleblowing former justice

minister has resigned over the if for a prime minister trudeau's principle secretary has also left his position amid reports that more officials are ready to quit the administration political analyst alice on the road bruno explains why the case could cost trudeau is seen to. 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 a political crisis there will be a problem in the election and just into those leadership is definitely in question

the idea was that if since eleven face prosecution. it might have to move headquarters away from them 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 your knowledge it must have been very important for trudeau to have taken such really. measures and he thought he could he could pressure his justice minister. on indian fighter pilot to us captured by pakistan after his jet was shot down and has been hunted over to the indian high commission in pakistan he is expected across the border shortly in fact we put images of a convoy this is a few hours ago transporting the pilot stops near again the pakistan india and.

pakistan prime minister described as a peace gesture as tension between the two nuclear countries has been escalating romantically in recent weeks the pilot was captured on wednesday after an india pakistan earth. forces engaged each other at the border both countries then gave differing accounts of what happened the naming each other there's been weeks of escalating tension since a suicide attack killed more than forty indian police officers in the disputed territory of kashmir the bomber was from the pakistan based extremist group jayashri that the status of kashmir has driven a wedge between the two nations for decades.

critics are gunning for a british shooting range which is using a teenagers and target practice although the young woman in question is most definitely persona non-grata it's her next story and it's off to the break. most people think just 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 race in truth to stand

this is just the right questions and the right answers. question. seems wrong. but i. just don't. get to see. this day become active. and engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

ok let's start back in the u.k. where a shooting range there has been branded distasteful for allowing pictures of a bride shamima begum to be used as target practice the teenager earned notoriety i think it's safe to say after an interview in which she showed no remorse or regret about fleeing to join the terrorist group in syria one of her regret about fleeing to join the terrorist group in syria one of her images used that the range covered in bullet holes has been widely shared online reaction to that it's been mixed. 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 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 plain thinking with her poster her i says friends tossed real human hands of beheaded victims like a football and she wasn't raised remember that shamima bag almost born in britain but took her sister's passport and fled to syria to join dollies when she was fifteen she now say she'd like to return to the united kingdom but britain's moved to revoke her citizenship here's why the shooting range according to them chose to our image to their roster 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. is such a proprium we asked our guest. 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 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 a 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 precisely what you said that night if you have knowledge of the need to actually think about why do you allow me to finish what you allow me to finish what i'm talking about plane 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 lord biding 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 by its u.k. who after all is an innocent victim she can take a hike i don't care about. the release idea because she also says it's not true and b. so fed was there to reason that there. was a terrorist threat as american base 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 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 i would say of the usual bring her back to defend the grain or add 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 jim 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 called do just cause one or two people are offended by it if we lived our lives bonding everything that so that one person found offensive nothing would exist in the world and thank god i live in a country where we're never going to do that. let's head stateside where american news network c.n.n. is being accused of stacking the odds against veteran politician presidential hopeful bernie sanders as a televised q. and a where some of the audience were suspiciously clued up on politics.

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 elected as 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 option open play 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 law that a long running to see is within 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 attacking each other from opposing sides that really decides what's really true is that this might be showing a symptom of something that is just has to do it out of the cereal dialogue and 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 fewer is which it's sort of sad but i find that that to be par for the course the way that our media operates 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 honolulu across talks games is on the trump came a summit next on the lock all that detail arising from it's going to have to cease

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at the root for. my seven years doing dry. my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence in this for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as

you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. you know world of big partners a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

hello and welcome to cross talk more 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 asia division of the bureau of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department and who is now a visiting scholar at the institute for korean studies at george watch.