the. moves to protect its assets why ordering the state oil companies european h.q. to move to moscow that's amid concerns shared by russia over u.s. led attempts to destabilize the country. it is very clear was going on you last is seeking to arm terrorist groups around also in order to destabilize undermine or create tension some situations that might trigger as the u.s. wants an explosion and spends way to justify military interference. coming up this

hour in indian pilot captured by pakistan has been handed over to india and what the pakistani prime minister called a gesture of peace after the escalating tension over recent weeks. and a split in germany's ruling coalition over whether to restart arms sales just saudi arabia. thanks for joining us live on our to international i'm daniel walk ins rev you are today welcome to the program. now the president of crisis stricken venezuela has ordered the european headquarters of the country's state oil company to relocate to moscow the concern is over securing national assets that's off the key figures in europe sided with the united states and backing a self-proclaimed interim leader one door 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 doesn't trust the u.s. allies in europe. the relocation of. you from europe i'll say there'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 venezuelan gold there has been an armed robbery. and we want to ensure our relationship with russia. but as has the largest oil reserves in the world u.s. sanctions have blocked seven billion dollars worth of the state owned companies assets russia says it shares venezuela's concerns over u.s. led attempts to destabilize the country is ortiz with more details. 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 countries totally and fully back in venezuela defending its sovereignty and protecting its future and made just as foreign minister lavrov has said today cynical complain aimed at overthrowing the ditch in the forty's 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 he 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 the 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 dispassionately 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 thorough we're now on your way to there is a concerted effort there is seeking to justify an international intervention in venezuela had by do you hear us and their regime change doctrine this is nothing new we've seen these tactics and if you were an other country the person in charge of action against venice while i was not in for there is to the burst of activity as an attack to a foreign state 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 goals cuba nicaragua rome horizon 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 and answering oh it's a question that as well as vice 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. well the u.n. security council was convened on thursday to discuss the crisis in venezuela russia and the united states both proposed their own draft resolutions both of them 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 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. 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 both the russian and the us 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 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 into the matters of his country the power to 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 planned this kind of peroration against it it's what i write down at the same kind of took it up on their force 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. former un human rights committee secretary alfred design was the first u.n. reports to visit on his way into things the u.s. is watching war on international law. 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 in pristine be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a flagrant aggression against them as well the united states did so in two thousand and three when the coalition of the willing. bombarded. iraq war which. kofi annan on repeated occasions declared to have been an illegal war so the united states if. specially with 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 and meanwhile a new poll suggests that the global approval rating of the u.s. leadership has fallen behind that of china or russia the position has increased significantly as well and washington's approval rating has dropped to thirty one percent in the gallup survey china's now ahead on thirty four percent russia's rating has risen notably it is now just one percentage point behind the united states a leading member of the china u.k. innovation expert group told us he believes u.s. interventionist politics are to blame for the fall in trust. well you asked already becoming one the more weak because you start to lose so many wars and political war or. trade war so basically people lose started to lose confidence towards us but is it expected china to actually meet as

a weren't and to use some of their leadership with us so in this way i seem committed. the world to really want to see either actually. to green party of what you know pact to was going on board given of months i think of quite a lump europe banus will be easier china and russia who has some power of us you may be next. for lead her yeah so i see it's very easy. good opportunities out and to be channeled to russia where play even more you can point to a rule. how an indian fighter pilot who was captured by pakistan after his jet was shot down has been handed over to his home country a few minutes ago the pilot officially crossed the border to be returned to india

he would like to start a prime minister described the move as a peace gesture as the tension between the two nuclear countries has escalated in recent weeks reporting from like a star in his local journalist. without partners decided to end it all india records has that largely let me put it up and earth where the world nor their partner started believe in shorting the regular enemy gathered by the other militant god you know. underdog are both going to call the rest of the better off their balls the result was a lot more body else you don't call this a little bit earlier. but indian so i am sure this thing in the pilot. whole farmer served in the us decided to hand over the conundrum of these signatures and invited told informed that of associates of not so believe was a favor i wish to issue on the nation that we are fully prepared and in

a high maintenance do they didn't do the spawn any from a geisha pakistan could you envision all out war between india and pakistan i hope not. that would be mutual suicide and i think we should mean well this incident all the suicide bombing happened on fourteen february maybe more than forty four indian police men want to kill the status of kashmir has driven a wedge between india and pakistan for decades.

there's been a split scene germany's governing coalition with the two main parties at all odds over whether to prolong the freeze of arms sales to saudi arabia they were initially halted in response to the brutal killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi for which several saudi officials were blamed for the freeze was initially introduced as a temporary measure ensued to be evaluated again in just a few days the social democratic party has expressed its concern over saudi arabia's involvement in the war in yemen where there are numerous reports of civilian casualties the conservatives though argue that by halting saudi arms sales germany risks losing the trust of its international partners. if germany pretty in a european or supra national project then partner should find common rules

otherwise such projects could take place without germany in diffuse. britain and france have already germany to exempt big defense projects from the moratorium or risk damaging its commercial credibility that's partially because top british defense firm systems could suffer as the result of the german sale suspension saudi arabia has been involved in yemen for around three years now the country has become one of the largest arms importers in the world most of the weapons of saudi arabia purchases come from britain and the united states german arms sales to the country had been steadily growing until they were frozen late last year all the while the saudi led campaign in yemen has led it to being branded the worst humanitarian crisis since the second world war saudi officials insist they investigate all reports of civilian casualties.

we heard from martin who's an m.p. in hamburg state parliament he suspects elements of the coalition are inflating reasons just to secure weapons exports. drew this is the international cooperation colonel at the consular tips they want to go around the restraint to if german exports regulations in this novel because we have some kind of restrictive regulations which do not forbid arms sales or weapon exports but if it's regulations which limit and now the argument that international cooperation should be saved through no more limiting the next falls or arms sales through. is just some kind of a or

a trick of course there will be consequences for example of weapons or it's which are literally true. or not to be conducted easy like before with the restrictions from germany but i think it will out the corporations and between the. police and work an industry because the common interests as well so it will affect a little bit but not that much. now the pressures on cannabis prime minister 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 says he was pushed not to prosecute one of the country's biggest engineering and construction firms which is accused of large scale bribery and emotional testimony to the justice committee jody wilson raybold said the pressure on her included veiled threats if she went ahead with prosecuting s. and c.

level of. 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 the libyan officials the dealings allegedly involved family members of former leader moammar gadhafi it was meant to secure contracts and lucrative irrigation project with the 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 of the whistleblowing former justice minister resigned over that affair romanists the trudeau's principle secretary has also left his position and reports that more officials are now ready to quit the administration political analyst alessandro bruno explains why the case could cost true to his 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 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 haven't 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. tens of thousands of students skip school this friday in france on the german city of hamburg to demonstrate of a climate change and to call out governments to tackle the issue a part of a growing youth movement which is seen similar action in several countries. with the. oh well you know that you know i

was with. a. set up locally with no central organizing body that's not stopped some senior politicians suspecting a sinister influence from elsewhere. because this hybrid warfare online is hard to the tact because you suddenly have movements that you wouldn't have thought would happen in germany children are now protesting over climate protection it's an important concern but you can't imagine that all german children after years and without any outside influence come up with idea that they have to take part in this protest i know who is behind this movement those the sun did in one street and the truants i have also been told that from state security i can guarantee that i do not see ghosts alone and that clemens of ministry are more than spontaneous actions

of solidarity with their client or discuss this live we're joined now by john galt talk radio host and columnist and george barda who is a social and environmental justice campaigner gentlemen thanks for joining us great to have you both on the program today i want to go to you first part suspect that as we've mentioned there may be some sort of groups behind these demonstrations that are organizing this but it really that far fetched to believe that these youngsters are just concerned about the environment it's a great that is concerned about ecology and it's a topic of the day. very good that you don't people want to get involved in politics nothing wrong with that at all however maybe they should be doing it when they should be shouldn't be doing it when they should be doing double doing double math as one columnist said a couple weeks ago when it was happening in this country this is clearly being encouraged and i would suggest even being promoted by left wing snowflake teachers the place for children during school time enjoying term time is in the classroom if they want to get involved in politics that's great but this is clearly being

orchestrated. george is this a reasonable. protest that was just an excuse to skip school get it they often have a march around the city. i don't know where to start with this i mean first i'd like to part of a group called extinction rebellion that is trying to stimulate mass so with this it didn't about the giant collective survival size go between what our governments are signed up to which is a world war two scale mobilization across the world which is what the i.p.c.c. said we need and what they're actually doing which is nowhere near that thousands of school children that carry this incredible concern about what's being done to the world that they need to grow up in that they follow the example of this incredibly inspiring young woman actually just follows the pattern of most civil this civil disobedience movements in the past small numbers of people that do act take courageous action involving personal sacrifice and others are inspired by that

and get involved and by the way there was a belgian politician i think that go into a lot of trouble for suggesting that the secret service had told her that actually there was some group behind this and the secret service and quite unusual move came out and said we have not given any advice to that effect whatsoever so clearly i think this is just a way of trying to muddy the waters around the messenger rather than focus on the message from these children which is that politicians must do what is required to have any chance of assuring a decent future and the idea that sort of fighting again fighting for our collective survival which really is now on the line because we've delayed action for so long the idea that it's them being snowflakes i just think is missing the point entirely and it's also worth noting that virtually every other time that people take you there are plans for us you know that is voters have been getting that but you know you look at women's rights workers' rights civil rights virtually all religions we celebrate as victories the movements that try to bring those about with tovey will be made great with your call and i think you find it less

disruptive way of doing just. coming to the very end and you can speak as and you won't but but in less you disrupt the status quo the last thirty years has shown that we don't get anything like the change that we need to because very powerful interests have huge profits to lose if the change we need to see happens. ok i think you're just a perfect example of what i was saying you were clearly agitation you are clearly helping these children to skate lessons if these children want to demonstrate they can use the weekend they don't do it during school time people like you are actually very disruptive and i mean you go up on the soapbox and no one is disagreeing with the fact that this is a serious issue no one is disagreeing with children being involved in politics what is wrong is the air of sperms a small uncivil nature of your defense which is you think it's perfectly ok for kids to skip lessons these are children they should be at school getting educated

for which we all pay our taxes for so we don't really need some sort of abject pro little provocateurs like you again only soapbox and encouraging children to skip school you're in the wrong my friend completely in the wrong. i mean it's a bit like saying people should go to work so why of a strike why have they undertake and strikes the last couple and it is it's precisely because kids do not really going to for who need to go to work and moan and have a working wage undersize leave their kids to withdraw their labor you're talking about children children should be going to school left wing agitators like college one of those hmong should not be encouraging them to skip it. i think i was one of the he analogy i drew. it's a very it's a it's called a school strike and the girl that conceived it sort as her way of interacting the same kind of withholding of her labor which in this case obviously is not labor for

money because she's a child she worries when wired as much but i know polite and understands she understood educating for a start we had nothing to do with making this happen at all at all this is for many of us out of me all like you are aging in my view and we have yet to be heard really is i want to i will absolutely i'd absolutely do and i'm utterly terrified as to the prospects of my child's future and for a very very good reason that most of the mainstream climate science now is saying the same that we are in any way to be crucial moment in history where are there we turn things around at global scale and to quote the recent i.p.c.c. report we need rapid far reaching unprecedented changes to every aspect of society under way before twenty twenty and nothing like that is happening so you can say oh well everybody knows this is a serious issue they don't everybody acknowledges in a lip service way that this is a serious issue but nothing like the action that is now absolutely necessary and can't be delayed nothing other than that gets us to where we need to be so i am

hugely inspired by these people i have nothing to i have nothing to do with it but i think the very fact that we're having this conversation and these conversations are happening across the world is evidence of the fact that like every other time that people have in a peaceful principled way disrupted the status quo it works and that's why we're talking about it if we just go march on a saturday i've not seen a saturday for climate change the last fifteen is in the library and i got home and yes you know saying lots of numbers do you not think the children's education is important do you not think this disrupts the whole school not only for the people who protested but for the other children as well these are children you should not be encouraging them they should be told to. get back to their classrooms and this sort of childish nonsense and especially the way that you can of frame the whole discussion is rather childlike as well it's obviously much more complicated children need to understand the facts if they want to have political views they can no problem whatsoever but in

a weekday they should be doing double math or biology not out on the streets promoting or striking as you call it their children they are children and you're just encouraged they are children that body of the world doesn't mean we don't go out on a date on zero just just in reference to a couple of weeks ago these protests also took place in the u.k. got a call in from caroline lucas the m.p. for bright and she said. the you you shouldn't be here you should be in class was very clear about that but she also said students should only be allowed to miss lessons in exceptional circumstances the collapse of civilizations is a vital exceptional circumstance the business minister was conservative church said if it was forty years ago she may be well out there with the students as well i mean is that what you write to write off because your muscles opinions are all the rage hold on a minute now don't it caroline lucas a lot of the jews are marketing and lives in brighton she would say that wouldn't she as for the conservative account really common but there were many many many

m.p.'s including cabinet ministers and shadow ministers who said these kids should be in school and that is where they should be you can protest on a saturday or sunday there is protest last week at the weekend it's completely ridiculous to compare this to the withdrawal of labor or strikes in the workplace it's nonsense don't encourage them they should be at school end of. ok i mean for a start it seems that you are absolutely failing to engage with the seriousness of this crisis and therefore with the reason only holden has taken such an exceptional process. equally that the only thing that children can withdraw in a way that is disruptive and this is the analogy with shearing it would be. is there a tendency is there exactly and they are children that understand much better than most of us it seems that their future is at stake and that's not children concluding that for themselves that children simply reading what is in the news in terms of what is now demanded of us as

a world in terms of transforming from this current fossil fuel system to one that is not going to destroy the future and quite simply that the mass of this are very stark if we started taking action in one thousand nine hundred five to reduce our emissions those emissions reductions would have been one sixth of what is now required we now as i say to quote the i.p.c.c. report need a world war two scale mobilization across the world and especially in rich countries like the u.k. that yes have more renewable energy than they did before but it's still importing vast amounts of emissions and it essentially stalled on the project we are running out of time i was told by others like me just briefly just for your for your summary of this of this just very briefly. children are children they should be in school this man needs to get off the soapbox he's going to end up with a nosebleed if you keep ranting in the way is i'm sorry it is an important subject and it is being dealt with and people can protest of the week when we are out of time so i think i'll go or sit.