even proven. true but how many more is it going to take before we as a society realize this is not working and we actually do something about. the venezuelan vice president talks to our crisis is the spring gripping the country for more than a. support for the opposition leader and self declared interim president. the export violence to countries but their plan won't work and then we have to protect our country. also ahead on the program chinese language and cultural centers are threatened with both 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 since their. winter sports student athletes from around the world go for gold. twenty. a run the clock across the world this is r t international from the team you know neal hello and welcome to our top story. the venice women vice president has told r.t. that american political pressure is doing more harm than good to the country's citizens and accuse the washington by the opposition leader of trying to steal the election delsea rodriguez has been talking in depth to our language network.

he certainly we know the us uses fake financial help in order to overthrow the governments of other countries venezuela is about fake financial help they don't want to help economically financially to help with provision with medicines to help commercially and in the twenty third of february the whole world saw that they brought instruments of violence to venezuela and 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 its a policy of cheating and threatening those who do not submit to their wishes instructions and interests specifically venezuela east threatened every 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. the vice president of venezuela in the r t building earlier well the u.s. has moved to sanctions six venis women security forces personnel for preventing convoys of on or theorize u.s. aid into the country last week bumps 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 do is promising that he will get u.s. aid into the troubled nation but president maduro suspects the aid is not what it seems possibly because of this the man appointed to lead the united states penicillin effort says elliott abrams back in the one nine hundred eighty s. he defended smuggling weapons to nicaraguan rebels this was a day when he was assistant secretary of state after announcing the new restrictions abrams was pressed by washington's current approach to caracas. i'm

wondering. at a for lack of a better word excitement over when the recognition is losing some momentum and national security advisers 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 related to that. there is one member of congress in particular has a senator who has suggested the might need to saying fate is 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 know it's to do comparisons between with duro and and suggesting that he might meet the fate of the do that does that help your cause for i 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 well expanding on the way questions like that are answered the head of latin american studies at britain's middlesex university says the u.s. is pulling out all the stops to get its way. people in little swirl of the blue the million. dollars drum that crashes from the united states in particular almost exclusively on the military literally. three years again and again through

those who are shown. through that may you name it got those words what is it going on beyond the scenes and so far they go almost nothing and mr grant's exactly. right so this is jim concerned therefore that confirms not only won't always be defeated by the united states going to school something much more dramatic. of a story teller interest than a china is a language and cultural centers could face closure in the united states after a third report allege they're 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 get them up and brings us 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. 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 no 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 idea i think the entire world titles hysterical right now with another four and also 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 people. gly 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 we're going to be very critical positions in security and technology areas to companies military commercial everything the question is do they need to confucius institutes to continue that mission probably don't my expectation going forward is that the u.s. will continue book pressure to close these institutes broke last winter sports auction for the next couple of weeks.

well a few hours ago russian president vladimir putin kicked things off the official opening ceremony speaking to me right before that was our sports correspondent alexy got a chef. 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 every unit of this soil now 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 twenty 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 huge 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 the huge delegation from china big also delegation from kazakhstan from japan and also huge 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 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 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 will be used to in england and obviously the time she is. a little bit colder. one of the athletes who have come here to the winter you need to see out in crassly as desirous. special attention for show we caught up with. she is a unique athlete she is a figure skater 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 the federation had to change the rules and they did it for one athlete when now obviously applied to everyone else she talked 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 hitch up this is my first international tournament and winter university as well

if there are any conscious in russia i will try to purchase a plane in them there are a lot of major ice skating events hosted in russia the 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 the slogan one of the slogans on the window unit is one hundred percent real wind and that's something that has been lacking to a certain extent here because the weather has been pretty 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 on how the university here in the heart of siberia goes. this week tens of thousands of students skip school and from germany belgium to

demonstrate over climate change and to call all governments to tackle the issue is part of a growing youth movement which has seen similar action in several other countries. was. we are not satisfied with the policies being implemented today and we're mobilizing to show we disagree was what is going on and to ask for a radical and you need to change was. 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 on march the fifth they demand quote decision makers are on the globe take responsibility and warn the third movement cannot be stopped

although the youth strikes for climate movement is not centrally organized fifteen year old he or she has gravitas one bird has become the poster child of the swedish teenager was one of the first to you thought of us to publicly raise awareness of climate issues now she delivered a speech at the world economic forum in davos addressed the un of the climate change conference in poland spoke to the e.u. in brussels all that leading to this time magazine naming grabbed one of the top twenty five most influential teens of twenty acting we are striking because we have done our homework and they have known it was and yes we are angry we are angry because the older generations continue to sealing our future right now and they are continued to doing this and we will not let them

do that anymore well despite the youth marches having been set up locally some senior politicians suspect a sinister influence from elsewhere being the reason for such crowds. 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 stray sions and the truants i have also been told that from state security i can guarantee actions of solidarity with their client so is it all august rated or people simply wanting to have their figures heard our team got the thoughts of social and environmental justice come peter george barda journalist john galt first. this is clearly being encouraged and i would suggest he even being promoted by left wing snowflake teachers 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 sponsor will 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 today knew to be going to for who need their own word man and have a working wage undersize leave because who will less wait agitators like college

one of those 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 it was he's 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 mr trump's 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 day 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 estie it could equally

that the only thing that children can withdraw in a way that is disruptive and this is the analogy with sharing is their attendant is that exactly and they are children that understand much better than most of us it seems that their future is at stake. there is continued violence in kashmir we'll get some expert insight on this but. the. country's gone into a nihilistic fever restaurant i think and hit the road and get out the traveling across america in the find what makes america take the charlatans the geniuses this is the quintessential american hero this is it we've come to a point around which alan what is going inside we always are on the margins someone

called the culture is moving forty characters ah. 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 gonzo in a minute we may be completely different but the end of the journey. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one foundation let it be an arms race on all fronts very dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. twenty one minutes into the program hello again tension between india and pakistan

shows no sign of abating at least eight people have been killed as fighting along the border continues pakistan says indian troops targeted villagers along the line of control in kashmir six of the dead are reportedly civilians the standoff between india and pakistan has escalated dramatically since a terror attack on an indian police convoy killed at least forty officers last month.

let's bring inside politics and security expert on melinda ms ruff from britain's long caster university good to have you with us the pakistani people don't you know hope the return of the captured indian pilot on friday would be taken as a as a peace gesture that doesn't seem to be happening how far might this escalate. well the fact is that was marks done on india where dutch tingle their militaries so they were which included big slowdown and we didn't top and was lucky and what we are seeing at the moment is the low intensity conflict on the ground and this is going to go on so what you need to remember here is that although the pakistani prime minister region the indian captured pilot ecclesiastes there's a lot of history is down to the point you said that it took in fact the pakistani

military establishment is not entirely happy that this happened and the public wanted to have some kind of. them with india in detail not the pirate which didn't happen and in fact india didn't even sign a piece of paper saying that they're sorry or didn't even say thank you this or this is something that obvious on how to do who is has gone down very well in the pakistani military establishment or among the civilian population in the interim period for a situation that was sergeant up of both countries how have clearly warned of the dangers of all our war so so why are there no real moves to sit down sort this side peacefully. to tell you the truth neither of these parties want to go down the path of peace because the joker's yukos is that many armies have many stage some armies and in pakistan the army has the state so there is a military establishment which is there for

a while and india we haven't lost the least in the years and party which is craving for some kind of confrontation with boxes from who to give it to claxon under majlis in the forthcoming election and that is that even while we have these two sides wanting to go down the war on unfortunately peace agreements a victim of the time being on come be restored then after all you've said there is there a chance that hostilities can can can come down can cool dud. well it can't go on dumped or why did things go to normal in media where there is a kind of twenty year long until i indian insurgency going go on and it could also come down if the pakistani side listened to the indian that they are providing ogden's to many of these groups on this and on to these these two uses of address they can go very far so these house to be established in the indian army instead cost me a number one on pakistan most all know who these terrorists are going to. enter

into some kind of settlement in the absence of that both are going to watch it while they are water to the work you have just seen of the loss of civilian lives and both sides and a lot on the line on probably is going to go on for quite a long period of time thanks for joining us this saturday saif asian politics and security expert live on the program i'm linda miserable thank you. other friend cities are witnessing yellow vest anti government marches for the sixteenth straight weekend so far this saturday it is another sizable turn over the next round seven thousand people are expected to take part in the marches over the weekend on friday prism a crawl again appealing for calm to avoid some of the violence seen in previous weeks what began as a grassroots rally of the economy. as you can watch the life feed on the

on our website by the way r t dot com but next here on our warts an old oak out some of the most distressed neighborhoods in america fifty years on after the end of segregation block lives truths is coming right up. my son miss doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just went doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for.

a long sentence in this for minor 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. you know world of big part of the 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 on the bad 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. congo. the maternity term the slums go in and you may never get out so those are

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