headline story. country with more sanctions for. washington threatens to close chinese language on. foreign agents.

twenty four seven news. international my names you know neal hello and welcome to the program our top story the u.s. special envoy for venice we 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 flowing a military intervention there. these threats 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 on venezuela at the un elliot abrams makes no secret that his first

that might trigger as the us wants an explosion and bloodbath in venezuela to justify military interference i have known far mr lover of 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 could not reach that conclusion well abrams announced new u.s. sanctions on six individuals from venezuela security forces for not allowing u.s. aid convoys into the country last week now back in the eighty's he defended smuggling weapons to nicaraguan rebels the skies as aid when he was assistant secretary of state after announcing the new restrictions abrams was pressed by a journalist about washington's current approach to venezuela. i'm wondering are

you guys in the meeting 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 has 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 off he do that does that help your posts 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 then is it and it's a what it was that it's it's to trying to get a these advances in britain ones why don't you think and then later the man in the

united. it is good to go to school and be defeated on that caucasians and then don't push on that point consider the call to really go to needing ticklers also failed miserably and now on way though it's i was no the country and many of the people here is on the. bus or the socially or not because they would have no clue in this one and completely. ignore aspect to this story be us just cancel the visa forty nine venezuelan representative or undermines democracy is not welcome in the united states the head of latin american studies britain's middlesex university states the u.s. is pulling out all the stops to achieve its goal in venezuela. blew believe in a swirl of deeply the million. dollars from the pressure from the united states almost exclusively on the military literally. three years again and again

through those who are shown. through may you name it got those words what is it going on beyond the scenes us all foreign legal almost nothing and mr grant's exactly. so this is too concerned there for that confirms not only won't always fit it. is going to score something much more dramatic. to another headline story today china's language and cultural centers could face closure in the united states after a senate report alleged they are being used in 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 killer but it has been going through the story. 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 give language classes and such known maybe a little bit. you know china is 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 it will just terrible right now better for it also but 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 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 to 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. this week saw tens of thousands of students skip school in france germany and belgium to demonstrate over climate change and to calling governments to tackle the issue it's part of a growing youth movement with similar actions taking place in several other countries

too. it was. i was. saying. we're not satisfied with the policies being implemented today and we're mobilizing to show we disagree lismore is going on and to ask for a radical change that we don't hear because the i don't want doing anything what people say the use is the future so i think it's up to us to do something. oh you know what's interesting about this group i've been doing this for years 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 well activists behind the recent youth climate protest

published an open letter ahead of a global day of action due to take place on march the fifteenth they demand decision makers are running the globe take responsibility and more not their movement cannot be stopped although the youth strikes for climate movement is not centrally organized burke the swedish teenager was one of the first youth activists to publicly raise awareness of climate issues she delivered a speech at the world economic forum in davos addressed the u.n. climate change conference in poland and spoke to the e.u. in brussels in fact according to time magazine grettir is among the top twenty five most influential teens twenty. we 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 well despite the youth marches being set up locally that's not stopped some senior politicians 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 bose 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 their client yet those are the accusations so are they fact or are they fiction r.t.d. got the thoughts of social and environmental justice computer george barda on journalist john gone speaking for us. 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 yeah 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 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 end of the sperm dispensable nature of your defense which is you think is 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 under taken strikes the last couple hundred years it's

precisely because kids do need to be going to for who need their own word man interview will accumulate on her side because to withdraw their labor you're talking about children children should be going to school less weight agitators loads hmong should not be encouraging them to skip it that conceived it sort 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 well you know polite and you understands 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 political 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 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 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 migrant crisis several countries in europe has finished more than its border with germany but this particular one's got a different type of migrant in mind as our europe correspondent peter oliver discovered. president trump isn't the only one calling for border walls to be built built that they built that. along a seventy kilometers stretch of gym in order to see the same thing but it's 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 foes but all the braze that trump was so concerned about this fence is designed to keith out while the bowl. 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 form 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 proportions 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 with the with. this issue 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 that's twice as many as the wrong people in denmark and the annual exports of pig meat from the country said to be worth as much as four billion euros not so mention thirteen thousand jobs directly linked to the industry. just one case you know while for one case in

a domestic peak there's enough to close the export so that's what we have been fearing when we don't know that your parent in china and south korea they close that will totally export from the country if they don't get their countries written by african swine fever to the same happened in czech republic same as happened in belgium an angry owner and for that matter forty states and we suspect that that can signal at will then what a border barrier a multibillion 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. ok we're back with much more news this afternoon in ninety seconds time .

join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. country has gone into a nihilistic fever i think and you got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the show is the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we've come to a point from which alan is gone so we always are on the margins something. called the culture thing for you. oh. we're starting

last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more of them it may be completely different but in the. tensions between india and pakistan are showing no signs of abating over ninety three civilians were killed in cross border shelling pakistan indian troops targeted villagers along the line of control in the speeded kashmir the standoff between new delhi in islamabad has escalated dramatically since a terror attack on an indian police convoy last month feel at least. forty officers well the latest violence comes a day after an indian fighter pilot who was captured by pakistan. was shot return

to his home country the transfer which took place at the only legal border between the two countries it was televised pakistan's prime minister described the move. also released the video recording made of the pilot well. i was trying to look for the target when i was shot down by the pakistani air force when my parachute opened and i came down i had a pistol with me i tried to run and people changed their emotions were running high then two pakistani army officials came to save me. save me from the people and did not let any harm come to me but they took me to the unit where i was given a. fighter pilot local shared their fears over the intensified conflict saying that when the shelling comes it's mainly civilians suffer i'm here to tell you the only. thing. he doesn't get me.

yes i did was. one month. 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 instant that's said to have been triggered by a brawl between two train drivers who had allegedly left the brakes off i witnesses describe the horror that unfolded right around the. i. look at it that we saw smoke come from inside the station and the computer was screaming that we hurried to the station that the fire was spreading out it was

horrible. luck i mean but i think it odd the dead bodies but many dead bodies also a victim flesh on the floor the train was carrying the many people there so i started out i removed nearly twenty dead bodies from the and carried them to the ambulance were completely burned. the it up to be. a try to put out everything in front of the first i used water then i realized that if you were water on the hurt more we started using fire extinguishers to 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 isaac 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 you can do nothing about it thank god i did my

best and saved some of mine thank god the chairman of. the canadian government has started extradition proceedings against the chief financial officer of technology firm while way mang one jew faces conspiracy charges in the us. today department of justice canada officials issued an authority to proceed formally commencing an extradition process in the case of mismanaging one joe the decision follows a thorough a diligent review of the evident. so in this case the next step in the case is as follows the british columbia supreme court has scheduled an appearance state for march sixth twenty nineteen at ten am to confirm that an authority to proceed has been issued and to schedule the date for the extradition hearing. one jew was

arrested in canada in december now at the request of u.s. authorities washington accuses the business world is also the daughter of wild ways founder of trying to bypass america's sanctions on tehran the chinese telecom giant has been embroiled in high profile little bottles in the u.s. courts accused of industrial espionage. while way has rejected the claims being made against that c.f.o. while color of his actions have also drawn a fierce rebuke from beijing chinese authorities maintain that the arrest of months to political persecution. no matey anyone with normal judgment can see that canada has made a serious mistake on this issue from the very beginning we reached the canadian side to immediately release mainline show and protect ten adjustment rights we will see strong the edge the u.s. to immediately cracks the mistake withdraw the arrest warrant against mainline show and not make a formal extradition request to canada. economist jeffrey alberto believes the u.s.

wants to use manning as a pawn in negotiations with beijing. i mean this is just obviously an act of political violence of course if you've got a political enemy out of there out there somewhere that anybody can drum up any kind of charges against you i'm sorry that canada is going along with this but it's seems like it's unlatched lasted ditch effort of american imperialism and really quite appalling i think it's it's deeply embarrassing for america so to use human beings as kind of fodder and a trade war is appalling and let me be clear about this when i say trade war i don't mean just sides fighting this is an aggressive and pointless american attack on china on a previously mutually beneficial relationship completely a reflection of a new ideology in washington and that's been stalked by fears about the next stage

of geo political reality there is no international law judge in this through there's nothing that binds china and it's no us law binds china it's relationships with iran just ridiculous it's really an and forcible except by this kind of egregious acts of political violence. now it is no secret that hungary's prime minister is not exactly buddies with brussels well it appears viktor orban latest drive isn't going to lessen the strains or is accused of deliberately distorting facts about the blocs migration poll. c n a publicist and company.

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic developments only. i don't see how. you sit down and talk.