take it out. of the way. the united states is all options remain on the table when it comes to venice we have a. crisis hit country with more sanctions for not allowing u.s. aid convoys to enter. washington threatens to close chinese language and cultural centers across the u.s. as well as force teachers to register as foreign agents also ahead on the program this hour. tens of thousands of students skipped school in france and germany to demonstrates

climate change. just two pm here in moscow this saturday march the second this is r.t. international. welcome our top story the u.s. special envoy for venice will say 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 a military intervention there. 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 especially when the u.s. special envoy in venezuela at the u.n. . makes no secret that his functions including for the civil 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 he actually believes that we're attempting to to do that and i think it's you know we're not it to you 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 well abrams announced new u.s. sanctions on six individuals from venice we list security forces for not allowing u.s. aid convoys into the country last week back in the eighty's he defended smuggling weapons to nicaraguan rebels disguised as a when he was assistant secretary of state after announcing the new restrictions

abrams was pressed by a journalist about washington's current approach to caracas. i'm wondering are you guys meaning the administration at all concerned that and of 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 those 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 that madeira might meet the same fate as good

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 with doro 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 raising days should it's an amazing meeting he doesn't isn't it he stated what it was that he gets to trying to

get a these are the assistant red lines why don't you think and then wait a minute in the united. it is good to go to school and be a little bit caucasians and then do push on the. bush to try to remain true mean closed form one of the called you really going to need to call on us also failed miserably and now one way though is i was no country and many of the people here is a. bus of the socially and not because they would have been not to live in this sort of completely. the us is also cancel their visas our forty nine venice will and representatives aligned with president material stating that anyone who quote steals from the venezuelan people or undermines democracy is not welcome in the united states the head of latin american studies at london's middlesex university says the u.s. is pulling out all the stops to achieve its goal in venezuela. people even as

deeply the minute she says you cannot see soldiers the pressures from the united states almost exclusively on the middle. three years again and again through those who are shown. through maybe you name it good most were well. known scenes and so far almost nothing. so this is just concerned that confirms not only the way to. go into school something much more dramatic. china's language and cultural centers could face closure in the u.s. after a senate report alleged they were being used by beijing to influence the minds of the public the document also claims their confucius institutes like transparency and suggest chinese teachers should register as foreign agents give them up and has

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 there 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 stuck the n y 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 give language classes and such you know maybe a little bit. you know china's a little you know that's something i could imagine china doing do you feel like it's in co-creating propaganda here i have no right i think the entire world is terrible right now better for it also but the fact that the confucian institute is links 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 languages and 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 surprise have a world view that is 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 companies military commercial everything the question is do they need the confucius institute to continue that mission probably don't my expectation going forward is that the u.s. will continue book pressure to close these institutes. now this week saw tens of thousands of students skip school in front. germany and belgium to to

demonstrate over climate change and to call on governments to tackle the issue it's part of a growing youth movement which has seen similar action in several other countries. i was. not satisfied with the policy is being implemented today and very lovely lies and to show we disagree with what is going on and to ask for a radical change. because the doing anything what people say the youth is the future so i think it's up to us to do something. oh no it's interesting about this group i've been doing this for. i know what i'm doing you come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway i don't

respond to that and no messing from miss feinstein there well activists behind the recent youth led climate protests published an open letter ahead of a global day of action on march the fifteenth. decision makers who run the globe take responsibility and warn their movement cannot be stopped although the youth strike for climate movement is not centrally organized house find inspiration in fifteen year old. berg the swedish teenager was one of the first youth to activists to publicly raise awareness of climate issues she delivered a speech at the world economic forum and. the climate change conference in poland spoke to the e.u. in brussels in fact according to time magazine is among the top twenty five most influential teens of twenty to. be also. i king because we have done our homework

and they have not. and yes we are angry we are angry because the older generations continue to sealing our future right now and they are continue doing this and we will not let them do that anymore despite the youth march is being set up locally that's not stop some senior politician suspecting a sinister influence from elsewhere in germany 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 but as the son did in one straight 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 ministrations are more than spontaneous actions of solidarity with our climate.

lots of claims are they fucked or are they fiction are take up the thoughts of social and environmental justice come peter george barda list john galt. 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 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 year 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 and strikes i was coming and it is it's precisely because kids to new to be going to for who need their early word man in every working age undersize leave because to withdraw their labor you are talking about children children should be going to school less weight agitators lose 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 it was he is not labor for money because she is a child she can always win why it is so much you know polite and you understand this is a serious issue but nothing like the action that is now absolutely necessary and can 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 mr trump's a 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. school views they can no problem whatsoever but in a week they should be doing double math biology not out on the streets you are absolutely failing to engage with the seriousness of this crisis and therefore with that reason only i wouldn't have taken such an exceptional. equally the only thing that children can withdraw in a way that is disruptive and this is the analogy it was showing is there. 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 migrant crisis several countries in europe have been building walls and fences against illegal immigration denmark has almost finished one on its border with germany but this

one's got a different type of migrant in mind as our europe correspondent peter oliver discover it. president trump isn't the only one calling for border walls to be built or built that he built that. along a seventy two of the structure jim in. the same thing but unlike trump's wall this one is close to finishing only technically it's really a fence. so who is this wall designed to keep out not racists not murderers not drug smugglers not even faze but on braise that trump was so concerned about this fence is designed to keep 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 documented case over the borne 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. visible borders. we do not consider this proportionate this is rather counterproductive the danes erecting the fence say they understand the frustration of their chynna 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 caves

as their own people in denmark and the un. 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 been fearing when we don't that and in china and south korea they close. socially export from a country if they know it's their country it's written by african swine fever the same happened in czech republic same as happened in the ability of an angry owner and for that matter the 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 gemini just coming up to ninety minutes into the program where back after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in this period dramatic development the only. loses i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and

talk. you know world's big partners. and conspiracy it's time. 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. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. hello and we start back with another big story of the week tensions between india and pakistan shows no sign of abating overnight three civilians were killed in cross border shelling pakistan says indian troops targeted villagers along the line

of control in disputed kashmir the standoff between new delhi and islamabad has escalated dramatically since a terror attack on an indian police convoy last month killed at least forty officers now the latest violence comes a day after an indian fighter pilot who was captured by pakistan you know his jet was shot don was returned to his home country the transfer which took. placed out the only legal border between the two countries was televised live pakistan's prime minister described the move. from about also released a video recording made of the pilot while he was in custody. i was trying to look for the target when i was shot down by the pakistani air force as soon as i objected my parachute opened and i came down i had a pistol with me if i tried to run and people chased me their emotions were running high and then two pakistani army officials came in 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 first aid. well those in the midst of what's happening kashmir locals have been sharing their fears over the intensified conflict saying that when the shelling comes it's mainly civilians that suffer i'm here to tell you . he doesn't. like the dividend it's only. yes i don't. know. one month of. egyptian authorities have arrested six people in connection with a deadly train crash in cairo earlier this week which claimed twenty two lives egypt's transport minister has resigned over the incident that's said to have been triggered by a brawl between two train drivers one who had allegedly left the brakes off i

witnesses describe the horror that unfolded their own them. now it is possible that they could get it that we saw smoke come from inside the station and the computer was screaming we hurried to the station the fire was spreading out it was horrible. let me come in but i think it odd there are so dead bodies with the many dead bodies also a victim flesh on the floor the train was carrying the many people there i set up i removed nearly twenty dead bodies and carried them to the ambulance were completely burned. up to be out. they tried to put out everything in front of me but the first i used

water then i realized that if you were water on wounds they heard more we started using fire extinguishers to dance and work and we took the blankets which we had in archaeopteryx and we started covering people with them during the incident i ran and saw people burning in front of my eyes sick and i don't know why i was running back and forth on the bell is the most horrible thing i've ever seen in my life like i'm a people dying right in front of you and you can do nothing about it thank god i did my best and saved some of mine thank god the shampoo don't pack up. at least seventeen palestinian protesters have reportedly been injured as clashes continue on the israel gals border demonstrations have taken place every friday for almost a year as part of the so named great march of return. ok

. according to israel nearly a thousand people took part in the patient demonstrations protesters threw stones and burned tires the israeli defense forces say they use tear gas to defend themselves from among the injured were journalists part of. our sunday afternoon news roundup looks for now i'll be back with more in just a wear thirty but do stay close enough for more great star t. programs right ahead. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live. in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years

waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us some even proven innocent after years on death row and how many more exonerations is the kind of take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. i do think the numbers mean something they've matter us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime happens each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent of the world market rose thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the

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