well. in many u.s. 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 of that there are some people because of what they do have given up their rights is this some even proven. true but how many more years is it going to take before we as a society realize this is not working and we actually do something about. the vice president talks to the crisis that's being gripping the country for more than a sharing her thoughts on u.s. support for the opposition leader and self declared interim president. exploring violence two countries but their plan won't work in. chinese language and cultural

centers are threatened with closure on teachers being forced to register as foreign agents across the united states we get reaction from the students. do you feel threatened by existing this china institute where they give language classes and such. that's something i could imagine china doing i think the entire world. right now. stepping away from politics for a moment siberia becomes our winter sports student athletes from rights across the globe. twenty. eight am in minneapolis ten pm in shanghai and five in the evening right here in moscow this saturday march the second welcome to our international our top story this hour the venezuelan vice president told r.t. american political pressure is doing more harm than good to the country's citizens

and accused the washington backed opposition leader of trying to steal. rodriguez has been talking in-depth to r.t. spanish language network. he certainly we know the u.s. uses fake financial help in order to overthrow the governments of other countries then israel is about fake financial help they don't want to help economically financially to help with provision with medicines to help commercially and on the twenty third of february the whole world saw that they brought instruments of violence to venezuela and not eight hour repeat there is nothing new in this they export violence to countries but their plan won't work in venezuela 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 did not submit to their wishes instructions and interests specifically venezuela east threatened by day there is

a right wing extremist movement that previously tried being part of venezuelan politics but they don't have the lobby or support of the venezuelan people because they did not manage to earn in the correct way which is by gaining votes they did not succeed they did not win the lot of the people and so they have become this violent and extremist group del c. rodriguez to r t the spanish there well the u.s. has moved to sanctions six bennis wieland security forces personnel for preventing convoys of or theorised usaid into the country dots on top of measures against the oil industry and other attempts by washington to force nicolas maduro from office self-proclaimed interim leader one why dole is promising that he will get u.s. aid into the troubled nation but president maduro suspects the gate is not what it seems linked to the thoughts the appointed to lead the united states fairness within efforts is elliott abrams back in the one nine hundred eighty s.

he defended smuggling weapons to nicaraguan rebels the sky's the us aid when he was assistant secretary of state after announcing the new restrictions abrams was press the bite washington's current approach to caracas. 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 losing some momentum. in giving given the majority of the seem to be going anywhere he's certainly not taking the national security adviser's advice to those on the beach outside of venezuela 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 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 saying forget it. forget it forget the line about any senator i used to do comparisons between with duro and and suggesting that he might meet the fate of that off 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 well ahead of latin american studies have

britain's middlesex university sais the u.s. is pulling out all the stops to get its way. people even as deeply the minute she sees you cannot see so it's true the pressure from the united states almost exclusively on the middle. crude three years again and again through those shown. through maybe you name it goes. behind the scenes and so far almost nothing. so this is just concerned that confirms the only way to. go into something much more dramatic. china's language and cultural centers could face closure in the us after a center for a port allege they're being used by beijing to influence the minds of the public

the document also claims that confucius institutes transparency and suggest chinese teachers should register as foreign agents give them open delving deeper. 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 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 are 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 now maybe a little bit. you know china is 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 bemoaned 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 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 in bed it all over the united states for decades there are so many chinese and united states we're going to be very 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. this week tens of

thousands of students skip school in france germany and belgium to demonstrate over to. i'm a change and to call and governments to tackle these issues it's part of a growing youth movement which has seen similar action in several other countries. it's you know satisfied with the policies being implemented today and we're mobilizing to show we disagree what is going on and to ask for a radical and you need to was. was here. that. we are here because the adults aren't doing anything our people say the youth is the future so i think it's up to us to do something. yeah activists behind the recent youth led climate protests published an open letter ahead of a global day of action scheduled for march the fifteenth they did decision makers

are running the globe take responsibility and war another movement cannot be stopped although the youth strikes for climate movement is not centrally organized fifteen year old. has become the poster child of the swedish teenager was one of the first youth activists to publicly raise awareness of climate issues now she delivered a speech at the world economic forum in davos addressed the u.n. of a climate change conference in poland and also 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 known this was 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 on this by the youth marches have been being set up locally some senior politicians suspect a sinister influence from elsewhere being the reason for such crimes. in germany children and i'm 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 bo's 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 plenty of allegations are thurso are they fact or fiction arteaga for thoughts of social and environmental justice campaigner george barda but first we heard from journalist john galt. 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 air of sperm to sponsible nature of your defense which is you think it's perfectly ok for kids to skate 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 the 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 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 no polite 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. school views they can no problem whatsoever but in a way they should be doing double math or biology not out on the street you are

absolutely failing to gauge with the seriousness of this crisis and therefore with the reason only i wouldn't have taken such an exceptional protest if it could equally that 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 building fences against illegal immigration denmark has almost finished one on its border with germany but it'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 he built that. along a seventy two of the structure in order to see 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 rapists not murderers not drug smugglers not even phased by i don't 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 that hasn't been one documented case over the 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 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 as the wrong people in denmark and. you will exports of big meat from the countryside to be worth as much as. heroes not to mention thirteen thousand jobs. industry just one case in a 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 that the parent in china and south korea they close the totally export from a country if they don't get the countries 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 germany now i can confirm peter going to the woods safely more news after this.

you know world big partisan. 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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. 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 to follow the only really i'm going to lose is i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. we start in siberia which will be a hot spot of world class winter sports auction for the next number of weeks three thought isn't student athletes from fifty countries are in crust skin central russia for the winter university twenty nineteen which is just getting underway r t sports correspondent alexia it is there. the twenty nine winter universidad is officially open now we witnessed a colorful opening ceremony in this beautiful brand new complex behind me more than three thousand athletes jammed packing this complex they have come from fifty

countries across the world for the third ever university out on this soil no one was held back in soviet days in the russian capital moscow another one was held not so long ago in the beautiful city of thirteen now for the first time russia holds the winter. here in the heart of siberia the city of najaf now in the case of these athletes we're talking about students who are also athletes they haven't made professional careers as an athlete yet but they are definitely the future of sports for many countries that's why the representation here is pretty cute we actually went with my cameraman to a local you village that's where the athletes live and train and we've seen very friendly delegations from different countries i would say probably the asian countries have a bigger representation a huge delegation from china big also delegation from kazakhstan from japan and also delegations from countries like norway sweden and even canada some trip from across the world to come here to cross and i was going to hot of siberia we spoke

to some of these athletes for the experiences here in siberia before you feel very welcome and you know after after a few days here that were adjusted and definitely enjoying the experience it was amazing playing in front of all these fans 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 will be used to in england and obviously the temperature is the difference a little bit colder than. one of the athletes who have come here to the winter you need to stay out in costly as designed. special attention for show we caught up with. she. is a big believe it or not the united arab emirates probably the only major figure skater right now in the country but she has managed to reduce it i support in

a very certain way she is allowed to wear the job during her performances something the highest you the federation had to change the rules and they did it for one athlete when now obviously applied to everyone else she talks. about her experiences here then you go out on her aspirations so. it's the first time my female athlete from the united arab emirates has competed in this discipline and the first time wearing a hit jump this is my first international tournament and winter university as well if there are any conscious in russia i will try to participate in them there are a lot of major ice skating events hosted in russia this sport is very developed in this country i hope i will come here again and train even in the summer for the next ten days will be witnessing seventy six medals up for grabs here. in the eleven different types of sports that is obviously snowboarding skiing by a. major winter sports. one interesting thing though slogan one of the

slogans on the winter is one hundred percent real wind and that's something that has been lacking. because the weather has been really warm last three or four degrees centigrade every day we've seen the slopes where the majority of the competitions will be taking place and there is enough snow so snowboarders and skiers have nothing to worry about obviously we'll be keeping you up to date in the next ten days and how the universe. other french cities are witnessing yellow vest antigovernment marches for the sixteenth straight weekend so far this it's another sizable turnout in the capitol right. simplifies before so are expected to part in those marches in chorus on friday president mccraw make an appeal for calm to avoid some of the violence seen in previous weeks what's the big. rally over fuel prices has long

since broadened into wider rangar not the president's handling the. next pakistan's high commissioner to the united kingdom said stand with option to talk to kashmir conflict going underground is next. you know we're number one movie capital in united states we all slow number one and her way to do. i mean before. us was for most. evil you selling crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot in order to exclude. like a lot in a month's almost like

a month of sundays so this is the bible it is at the rules for. joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. my son is doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one. in the united states is drug abuse sort of going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs. there are

countless numbers of people who are in prison for. for whom our own are minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. i'm after a time say we're going underground twenty four hours up to the u.k. government officially designated his political party fighting isis in the middle east as a terror organization coming up on the show. high commissioner loved and speaks to going underground about china russia brecht's it and turning the kashmir crisis into a nuclear catastrophe and u.k.

labor leader jeremy corbyn tells m.p.'s to apologize before suspending them for perceived anti semitism but nothing from him a pm he was on wednesday's judgment on a murder by those allied to the posse that made theresa may british prime minister the murder of patrick pretty good in his home in north belfast on sunday the twelfth of february nine hundred eighty nine was an appalling crime he was short fourteen times as he sat down for dinner with his wife and three children we speak to the widow and son of murdered human rights watch out for new can killed with collusion between m i five and terrorists all the civil coming up in today's going underground but first while the e.u. looks away from democratically elected politicians and. did and did today's demonstrations in france where thousands of been injured while not an american nation accuse your human rights abuses will be equally lord no not venezuela but the largest country in latin america brazil here is the now jailed presidential candidate speaking on r.t.

to former ecuadorian president rafael correa before he was banned from running for president again. your freezer can be bad for my party wants me to run for president they support my candidacy and i'm ready to do it and when you actually have it is possible to restore brazil's economy to make sure we see economic growth again create new jobs and help the poor become less poor pay they know that i can achieve those things if they don't want it to happen but who are they because this is what lunas lawyer queens counsellor an internationally renowned human rights barrister geoffrey robertson q.c. said on monday's show there is a mentality in the judges. why determent matter what to keep him in prison. has a clear run would have beaten both so naro not according to the brazilian embassy in london they told going underground unfortunately the words of mr jeffrey robinson do not correspond to the truth in brazil the judiciary is fully

independent and due process of law is faithfully observed the specific case of former president lula has already been analyzed by different judges in different levels of jurisdiction mr robinson suggestion the president lula's conviction to be politically motivated is completely absurd and a touch from reality the full statement is on our you tube channel website certainly brazil looms over the u.k.'s post rex it landscape with perceived threats to deal with bolton or a government on beef tariffs could be used for leverage against the irish but britain is not only fighting a defacto self-imposed trade war with the e.u. it continues to fight and something reported by the state mandated b.b.c. back in twenty zero one so the military and humanitarian effort could both ready the war aims clear the allies were already in contact with afghans who might eventually be placed to take over power simple or at least it sounded simple to nato nation journalists before fifteen thousand british service personnel were killed or wounded as for afghan do.