join me every. time i'm sure i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm sure. i'll see you. headline stories this hour at the venice president talks to art see about the crisis gripping the country for more than a month sharing her thoughts on the u.s. support for the opposition leader on self declared interim president. also ahead on the program chinese language and cultural centers are threatened with both closure on teachers being forced to register as foreign agents or cross the united states we get reaction from the students. do you feel threatened by existing this china institute where they get language classes and such now that's something i could

imagine china doing i think the entire world. becomes a winter sports. student. go for gold at university a twenty nine. live from moscow to the world this is r t international wherever you are tuning in from right across the globe hello and welcome to our top story. the venezuelan vice president told r.t. american political pressure is doing more harm than good to the country citizens on accuse the washington opposition leader of trying to steal the election they'll see rodriguez who has been talking in depth. which network. right away already

historically we know that the us uses think financial help in order to overthrow the governments of other countries but then israel is about to take financial help they don't want to help it canonically financially to help with provision with medicines to help commercially and on a twenty third of february the whole world saw that they brought instruments of violence to venezuela and not aid our repeat there is nothing new in this they export violence to countries but their plan won't work in that as well and we have decided to protect our country president donald trump has put a face to the united states imperialist policy it's a policy of cheating and threatening those who do not submit to their wishes instructions and interests specifically venezuela is threatened every day there is a right wing extremist movement that previously tried being part of venezuelan politics but they don't have the love or support of the venezuelan people because they did not manage to earn it the correct way which is why given the info they did

not succeed they did not win the lot of the people and so they've become this violent and extremist group. that thought well we know the us has now moved to sanctions six venice wheelin security forces personnel for preventing convoys and so on the authorize us aid into the country is on top of measures against the oil industry and other attempts by washington to force nicolas maduro from office self-proclaimed interim leader one goh idol is promising that he will get u.s. aid into the troubled nation but president maduro suspects the it is not what it seems now the mom appointed to lead the united states venice we learned efforts elliott abrams back in the one nine hundred eighty s. he defended smuggling weapons to nicaraguan rebels the sky as aid when he was assistant secretary of state after announcing the new restrictions abrams was pressed by washington's current approach to caracas. and wondering are you. in the

administration at all concerned that the initial. for lack of a better word excitement over when the recognition is 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 suggested the might need to saying fate as good off the libya and 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 saying forget it. forget it forget the line about any senator to do comparisons between with duro and and suggesting that he might meet the fate of the do that does that help your cause 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 we are getting reaction to these developments including from the head of latin american studies at britain's middlesex university who is of the view that the us is pulling out all the stops to get its way. people in venice one of the early the minute she see if you can buy

and see so strong that pressure from the united states almost exclusively all of them in. again and again through who's shown. me you name. the scenes and so far almost nothing. so this is just concerned that confirms not only the way to. moving on to china is language and cultural centers could face closure in the us after a senate report alleged they were being used by the beijing to influence the minds of the public the document also claims that confucius institutes like transparency suggest chinese teachers should register as foreign agents gillum up and has been

following developments. u.s. leaders have been very upset over alleged foreign influence and meddling of late and they've discovered a new source of terror. 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 described 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 avast. mine is 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 propaganda here i have no right i think the entire world just are great for it also but the fact that the confusion 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 in a 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 were going to be very 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 tens of thousands of students skipped school in france germany and belgium 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 to. the. you know it's you who are not satisfied with the policies being implemented today and very marginalized and to show we disagree with what is going on and to ask for a radical and you need to change was i was here. that. we are here because the adults aren't doing anything what people say the youth is the future so i think it's up to us to do something. well activists behind the recent youth led climate protests published an open letter ahead of a global day of action scheduled for march the fifteenth now they are demanding decision makers around the world take responsibility and warn the third movement cannot be stopped although the youth strikes for climate movement is not

centrally organized fifteen year old grandmother thornburg has become the poster child of the swedish teenager was one of the first youth activists to publicly raise awareness of climate issues she didn't deliver a speech at the world economic forum in davos addressed the un a climate conference in poland spoke to the e.u. in brussels as well time magazine said that grettir is among in fact the top twenty five most influential teens twenty. we are striking because we have done our homework and they have not. was. and yes we are angry we are angry because the older generations are continue to ceiling our future right now and they are continue doing this and we will not let them do that anymore well despite the youth marches happening set up locally some senior politicians suspect

a sinister influence from elsewhere being the reason for such crowds. 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 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 ministrations are more than spontaneous actions of solidarity with their client yes a plenty of accusations arthur are they fact or are they fiction r.t. the thoughts of social and environmental justice come peter george barda firstly journalist john galt speaking. 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 end of the sperm dispensable nature of your deferred . 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 under taken strikes the last couple hundred years it's precisely because kids do need to be going to for who need their only word man and everyone can get one side because to withdraw their labor you are talking about children children should be going to school less weight agitators. hmong should not

be encouraging them to skip it that conceived it sort as her way of acting the same kind of withholding of her labor which in this case obviously 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 streets 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 of the sharing is there it 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 many countries across europe have been building walls and fences against illegal immigration denmark has almost finished one on its border with germany but copenhagen's go to 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 all built that he built that. 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 those bought on braze that trump was so concerned about this fence is designed to keep out while the bowl. it's to stop the spread of african swine fever from germany into denmark thing is though that hasn't been one documented case over the pink born 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 gym and 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 thousand jobs directly linked to the industry just one case in a while for one case in a domestic peak there's enough to close the export so that's why we have very well we don't know that and in china and south korea they close the totally export from

a country if they know it's a country it's written by african swine fever to the same czech republic same has happened in the ability of an angry owner and for that matter the states and we suspect that that's the signal that 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 a major winter sports tournament is getting underway in siberia where there are live and medically after this break.

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twenty minutes past four pm welcome back siberia will be a hot spot of world class winter sports action for the next couple of weeks some three thousand student athletes from fifty countries are in cross in central russia for the winter university twenty nineteen which opens this very subtle day the opening ceremony i believe as well is just about getting underway so no better time to cross to our sports correspondent. and actually an action packed ten days ahead . indeed we are expecting the really interesting ten days up until the twelfth of march. those are the days of

the windsor university out here. for the third time on this soil back in the soviet days it was held in moscow then in twenty thirteen it was held in the city and now the winter games the wind has come here to the heart of siberia the city of. new sports complex behind me is the venue over the opening ceremony which is about to begin we are expecting a speech an address by the russian president vladimir putin who is in attendance here and i've seen many many athletes in fact all three thousand athletes from fifty countries have jammed back this year they will be taking part in the athletes parade shortly we'll be watching that here in this now we spoke to some of these athletes some of them made quite a trip to get here it's across they shared their experiences on coming to siberia with us. if you feel very welcome. after after

a few days here that were adjusted and definitely enjoying the experience it was amazing playing football these chance they're very dedicated very passionate fans and it was amazing to hear them screaming the whole game no matter what it was it was just something i've never experienced as something i'm going to cherish forever it's really surreal to be here in this really amazing because obviously it's a different landscape to be used to in england and obviously the temperature is. a little bit colder but. now the atmosphere here is really friendly me and my cameramen we took a stroll to the village last night met some of the athletes a very very excited you know they've come from different parts of the world i would say probably the asian countries have a larger representation of very big delegations from china japan kazakhstan but also huge delegations from sweden norway you know the countries originally a traditionally strong in winter sports seventy six sets of medals for grabs in the

next ten days in eleven differ. one thing quite peculiar though one of the slogans of the winter out here is one hundred percent real that's something which has been unfortunate be lacking here because the temperatures have been higher than zero right now it's about three but we've seen the slopes where the majority of the competitions will be taking place in the next ten days and there's enough snow and . snowboarders have nothing to worry about in that respect so for the next ten days will be said to be keeping you up to date with this really interesting competition here in the heart of siberia. yeah great stuff you can see the excitement there on the faces of the locals as you're speaking out. good luck to all involved and twenty nine. all right let's turn to part where the french couple of course other cities in the country are seeing yellow vest and t. government marches for the sixteenth straight weekend these are live pictures right

now from par it's another sizable turnout as we can see we knew that on friday president chronic. to avoid some of the violence in the previous weeks run seventy five thousand people are expected to take part this weekend i have to say it does look a little bit more than that from the pictures i've seen throughout the hour just to recap what began as a grassroots fuel prices has long since. the president's handling of the problem one other note in this they're going on a route. before all the groups are saying for them to do that we want to go in other streets that the authorities to want to know about it so we will wait and see whether something happens in x. number of hours this comes to parse but for now in the afternoon light all so far so good it see. now it's no

secret greece prime minister is not exactly best friends with brussels but it does appear that door bones latest n.t.e.u. drive is proving a step too far he's accused of deliberately distorting the facts about the blocks migration policy in a public campaign. thank

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