two point one billion dollars a year. but don't let the numbers will be. the only number you need to remember one one. one and only. the state says all options are still on the table when it comes to venezuela they've also slapped the crisis hit country with more sanctions for not allowing u.s. aid convoys to enter. me and washington threatens to close chinese language and cultural centers across the u.s. all force teachers to register as foreign agents. will tell you about tens of thousands of students who have skipped school in france and germany to demonstrate over plummet.

internationally the weekend hi my name is kevin owen just turned ten am saturday morning moscow time welcome to you first the u.s. special envoy for venezuela says all options are still on the table when it comes to the crisis stricken country the remark by elliot abrams came in response to a warning from russia's foreign minister who believes washington is planning 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 on venezuela at the un elliott abrams makes no secret that his functions don't include looking for a digital 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. foreign minister lavrov for. fifteen years. known him for quite

a while i don't. think you actually believe that we're attempting to to do that and i think as you know you're not attempt to do that we continue to say and we always will that all options are on the table because they always are but i think anyone who actually looks at american policy in venezuela would not reach that conclusion was announced these new u.s. sanctions on six individuals from venezuelan security forces for not allowing u.s. aid convoys into the country last week with bearing in mind back to the one nine hundred eighty s. this man defended smuggling weapons to nicaraguan rebels disguised as a when he was assistant secretary of state well after the announcing the new restrictions no evidence was pressed by a journalist about the u.s. approach to venezuela currently. i'm wondering are you guys meaning the administration at all concerned that and the initial. for lack of a better word excitement over when the recognition is it was losing some

momentum and in giving given the majority of the seem to be going anywhere he certainly not taking the national security adviser's advice to those on the beach outside of it as well i wish him a long quiet retirement on a pretty beach far from venezuela and the sooner he takes advantage of that the center is likely to have a nice quiet retirement on a pretty beach rather than being in some other beach area like guantanamo so are you concerned that you're losing momentum and then such and relieve that. there is one member of congress in particular set a senator who has you know suggested the might meet the same fate as got off the libya and i just that help or hurt you or your cause or your efforts to build momentum. i'm not actually going to get into that commenting on what particular

senators are then forget it. forget it forget the line about any senator to do comparisons between would duro and and suggesting that he might meet the fate of that offered to that does that help your cause or i'm i'm not going to get into that other than to say that i think that. dictatorships come to an end some last for a very long time. others a much shorter time this one in venezuela will also come to an end we hope that it comes to an end quickly and peacefully he suffered a setback and said but not only by the united states and they should it's an amazing meeting we know when is it and it's stated what it was that it's it's to trying to get a these are the assistant brit ones why don't you think and then wait a minute in the united. in the national security council quite feel that caucasians and then do push on that point consider the. push to try to bring through me close

form where the call to military needing to call on us also failed miserably and now on way though it's also a country and many of the people here as an. ambassador socially are not because they would have no clue in a sort of completely i think. the us is also canceled visa forty nine venezuela representatives aligned with president maduro it says that quote people that steal from the venezuelan people and undermine democracy are not welcome in the united states the head of latin american studies at london's middlesex university francisco de mint gets told the u.s. is putting all is putting out all the stops rather to achieve its goal of venezuela the people in venezuela particularly the million. dollars that pressure from the united states in particular almost exclusively on the military literally. three

years again and again through those who are shown. through black maybe you name it got those words what is it going on behind the scenes and so far they go almost nothing and mr abrams exactly. right so this is jim concerned therefore that confirms not only won't always hit it but the united states is going to school something much more dramatic. china's language and cultural centers could face closure in the u.s. after a senate report alleging the being used by beijing to influence the minds of the public the document also claims that confucius institutes like transparency and suggest chinese teachers should register as foreign agents caleb opens got more. u.s. leaders have been very upset over alleged foreign influence and meddling of late and they've discovered a new source of terror behold the vast chai cum conspiracy the confucian institute

. a new report issued by the u.s. congress says that the dance workshops and traditional cooking classes here are no laughing matter in fact they're part of a communist plot to get inside of your brain through confucius institutes the chinese government is attempting to change the impression in the united states and around the world that china is an economic and security threat so let's go over their alleged crimes shall we the centers classes apparently describe china as a compassionate and friendly country the centers are funded by gifts from the chinese mainland and apparently there is not total transparency when it comes to the cultural centers operations so we decided to stop by the offices of the confucian institute where classes are being held here in lower manhattan and see if the people realize that they're being sucked in by a vast chinese conspiracy against our american way of life so do you feel like

a foreign agent. a foreign agent do you feel threatened by existing this china institute where they get language classes and such known maybe a little bit. you know china's a little you know not something i could imagine china doing do you feel like it's in co-creating propaganda here i have no idea i think the entire world that will just terrible right now the mother of four and also beyond the fact that the confusion institute is linked to chinese language classes in american schools that's right because of this institute a lot of young children might actually learn to speak the mandarin language and we all know there's nothing more dangerous to world peace than cultural understanding this type of activity teaching one. which is in culture is not going to move the needle for china in any way politically in terms of how people see china the claim from the us senate report is propaganda propaganda chinese surprise right have

a world view that's different than americans f.b.i. director testified to the senate that these are also acting as intelligence collection agencies so chinese intelligence has been embedded all over the united states for decades there are so many chinese and united states working to bury critical positions in security and technology areas to companies military commercial everything the question is do they need the confucius institute to continue that mission probably they don't my expectation going forward is that the u.s. will continue put pressure to close these institutes so they also next this week tens of thousands a student to skip school in france germany and belgium to demonstrate of a climate change and to call on governments to tackle the issue the part of a growing youth movement which has seen similar action in several other countries to. it. was. here.

you know it's you who are not satisfied with this policy has been implemented today it is very lovely lays into shall we disagree was what is going on and to ask for a radical and you need to change that if we are here because the adults aren't doing anything like people say the use is the future so i think it's up to us to do something that activists behind the recent youth led climate protest publish an open letter of the head of a global day of action on the fifteenth of march they demand decision makers around the globe take responsibility and warn that their movement they say cannot be stopped although the use of strikes for climate movement as it's called is not centrally organized it has found inspiration in this lady fifteen year old called grettir thirteen berg the swedish teenager was one of the first few thought to vista probably raise awareness of climate issues she's been pretty busy of late she delivered a speech at the world economic forum in davos he's addressed the un or the climate change conference in poland and spoken to the e.u.

in brussels in fact time magazine has made gret in the top twenty five most influential teens at twenty eighty. three are striking because we have done our homework and they have not. and yes we are angry we are angry because the older generations are continue to sealing our future right now and they are continue doing this and we will not let them do that anymore despite the use march is being set up locally that's not stop some senior politician suspecting a more sinister influence from elsewhere. in germany and children and all 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 the idea that they have to take part in this protest i know who is behind this movement both the son 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 or ministrations are more than spontaneous actions of solidarity with their client . so all to a trail or not while our two spoke to journalist john bolton social environmental justice campaigner george barber's what they thought. this is clearly being encouraged and i would suggest he 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 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 if these children want to demonstrate they can use the weekend they don't do it during school time no one's disagreeing with children being involved in

politics what is wrong is the ear of the sperm to sponsible 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 a bit like saying people should go to work so why of a strike why have they undertake an strikes of last couple hundred years it's precisely because kids do need to be going to for who need their own word man and have a working wage undersize leaves it has to withdraw their labor you're talking about children children should be going to school less weight agitators. hmong should not be encouraging them to skip it that conceived it soar as her way of interacting the same kind of withholding of her labor which in this case of us is not labor for money because she's a child she's so. much like and you understand 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 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 are protesting 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 children need to understand the facts if they want to have. views they can no problem whatsoever but in a week they should be doing double math or biology not out on the street you are absolutely failing to engage with the seriousness of this crisis and therefore with that reason alone i wouldn't have taken such an exceptional. equally that the only thing that children can withdraw in a way that is disruptive and this is the analogy with shearing is there is that exactly and they are children that understand much better than most of us it seems that their future is at stake. in the face of the margaret crisis many countries

across europe have been building walls and fences against illegal immigration and denmark has almost finished one now on its border with germany but this one's got a different type of migrants of my desire europe correspondent peter oliver found out. president trump isn't the only one calling for border walls to be built or built that they are built that way ah. along a seventy kilometers stretch of jim and danish border they see the same thing but only like this one is close to finishing only technically it's really a fence. so who is this wall designed to keep out not rapists not murderers not drug smugglers not even close but i don't braise that trump was so concerned about this fence is designed to keith out while the bull. it's to stop the spread of african swine fever from germany into denmark thing is

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

and it kills just about every animal that it infects in fact the only real good news is that it's not known to be any threat to humans there's twice as many shades as their own people in denmark and the us. you will exports of pig meat from the country said to be worth as much as four billion euros not so mention the thousand jobs directly linked to the industry. just one case in a while for one case in a domestic piece there's enough to close the export so that's what we have fearing when we don't that the parent in china and south korea they close the totally export from a country if they know it's a country stricken by a little swine fever the same thing in cleveland czech republic same has happened in both human angry over and for that matter baltic states and we suspect that that would signal at will then with a border barrier a multi-billion euro export industry and a potentially fatal pandemic it's not

a good time to be a wild boar in denmark however they are very adept jumpers swimmers and even tunnel is so they sport a wall may prove to be is fruitless is the critics of donald trump's think his whale peter all of a germany well talking of dividing lines keeping a close eye on this weekend was happening when india and pakistan skirmishes along the disputed region of kashmir continue as those two nuclear powers tussle for control we'll talk about it when we come back. you know world big part of. 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door. 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only relief i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

this is about international for a good morning for me kevin o. in his morning next forces of repelled a deadly taliban assault on a military base in the country's south that attack comes amidst peace negotiations between the united states and the taliban. he's got more from kabul. attacked camp bastion at three am local time and then ministry of defense declared that all the assailants have been killed after a sixteen hour fight and as a result twenty three any forces have been killed and twenty including eight suicide bombers of the taliban also. been killed some sources are saying that the you know one of the suicide assailants managed to get into the camp and blow up his explosive inside a dining room that resulted the majority of the casualty antiwar activist a writer david swanson thinks obstacles to an agreement are coming from all the

warm side. this is been going on and getting worse for years and years and there's no better solution than the occupation it's foreign occupations that generate this kind of violence sent talk of ending it over the coming five years withdrawing u.s. troops that's not a withdrawal at all that's an extension of a war beyond that most wars in human history have lasted from beginning to end i continue to think that both sides believe that it helps in the bargain in the negotiating in that defeating people in the negotiation room to be escalating the war that it looks better to the weapons companies and the militarists back home to escalate a war prior to invade it so of course the united states and its allies have been escalating the war as well to the escalation it's not just one. tension between india and pakistan the shows no sign of abating overnight three

civilians have been killed in cross border shelling there pakistan says indian troops targeted villages along the line of control in kashmir the standoff between new delhi and is now a bird's escalated dramatically of late since that terror attack on an indian police convoy last month killed at least forty officers the latest violence comes a day after an indian fighter pilot who was captured by pakistan of his jet. was returned to his home country that transfer on the border between the two countries was all televised live huge audience for it pakistan's prime minister described the movie peace gesture. also released a video recording made while he was in custody. with your quit when i was trying to look for the target when i was shot down by the pakistani air force was soon as i objected my parachute opened and i came down i had a pistol with me if i tried to run and people changed their emotions were running high then two pakistani army officials came to save me standing army captain save me from the people and did not let any harm come to me but they took me to their

unit where i was given a first grade school. kashmir local shared their fears over the intensified conflict now saying that when the shelling comes it's mostly civilians that suffer . i'm here to tell you the only limiting. the assuming. he doesn't get you yet it's going to start really like this and even then it's only just that you don't understand him yes i thought it was lovely and. you know. i might imagine if i was. new in the story about this really comedian with an unusual proposal on how to resolve saudi israeli tension that the major across the region first one that we're all brothers about. how could it not be this is you but i have no. doubt if you are sound. here.

and b s o. m b asked if. i look at that i think you know hey cry. for just a little. but those light hearted remarks opened the door to the serious issue behind a comedy number told us about her wish to create a political party bridging the arab israeli divide. more busy with the eurovision and then we're busy with the middle east i speak arabic fluently from i really like the age i was raised in a bilingual school where i didn't learn arabic very connected to the middle eastern identity to my arabic and i'm also aware how much israel is disconnected in terms of mentality and language and culture and politics from the arab world with my comedy i hope to be some kind of a media woman we are here living with palestinians and we need to solve this

israeli palestinian conflict and israel needs to end the illegal occupation and palestinians we can be busy with the eurovision and pretend to clean europe but we are from the middle east most of us look middle eastern and we need to start realizing that we're not part of europe we are in the middle east. from across the israeli navy admiral along called into question this country's approach to arab israeli relations is a little of what he told sophie shevardnadze by the way. idea of two state solution is accepted by israelis but we have to be very very conscious that. we shouldn't get. beasts and we should not get more violence and more terror it seems that my government the israeli administration do not have any interest in creating any kind of peace process or any kind of negotiations that we lead to

a better future for israelis and for the palestinians we do not seize their narrative they do not see our narrative and what we really need is someone from outside in the past we had the americans we lost because. they lost the palestinians so as they say cannot intermediate between us and the palestinians so somebody from outside should come and telling us look from outside is exactly what i see. in free so far here in moscow i'm kevin i mean have a great weekend. globalization

lost its moral compass and maybe we have to put more values into the system my personal opinion is we have to strengthen by two national multilateral institutions now we're living in a dog eat dog world it's like i'm. having always you know action and come to action and so we need to put values spec to the system and we need stronger leadership and better leadership. congo. the maternity town the slums go in and you may never get out so those are the most of. my teenage gang rules here. one of. my neighborhood. but. maybe will be. told.

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up. there no. longer the accident is the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents thank you for being there with us it's an exciting time folks we are. being lied into war yet again which might sound bad but it's much better than being lied into a bad threesome. that go in a moment i'll go through the top four times americans were lied into wars but let's first talk about this past weekend violence broke out on the venezuelan border with colombia in a staged photo op courtesy of our american president well american government how

do you know it was a staged photo up because richard branson was at the front of it all right you know one sign you're not looking at a real grassroots uprising when a billionaire with a snobby accent is leading it he's he's got eighty billion dollars and he's delivering a sack of mangoes to feed a million venis well it's i don't think. furthermore furthermore senator marco rubio and coup leaders claimed the venezuelan national guard burned a u.s. aid trucks on the bridge in colombia but all available evidence points in the opposite direction but that's not the end of the face diarrhea spread by c.n.n. and as n.b.c. and fox there's also things like the venezuelan people have nothing they don't even have to have guys they don't know life without toothpaste is alive.

well here is journalist mags.