i'm going to talk about football now or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of. the venezuelan vice president talks about the crisis that's been gripping the country for more than a month sharing her thoughts on u.s. support for the opposition leader declared interim president. they explored violence two countries but their plan won't work eventually we have decided to protect our country. also coming up at r.t. international chinese language and cultural centers are threatened with both closure and teachers being forced to vote just to respond asians across the united states to get reaction from students to these events. do you feel threatened by

existing this china institute where they give language classes and such now that's something i could imagine china doing i think the entire world. and siberia becomes a winter sport student athletes from around the world go for gold at university eight twenty nine hundred. eighty international just eight pm in the russian capital thanks for joining us on the program. now the venezuelan vice president told r.t. that 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 the election. has been talking in-depth to auntie's 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 do not submit to their wishes instructions and interests specifically venezuela east threaten every day there is a right wing extremist movement that previously tried being part of venezuelan politics but they don't have the law 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 love of the people and so they have become this

violent extremist group. well the united states has moved to sanctions six one as well in security forces personnel for preventing convoys authorize the us aid into the country last week on top of measures against the oil industry as well as other attempts by washington to force them to list where they were from office self-proclaimed interim leader one door is promising that he will get us aid into the troubled nation but president maduro suspects that aid is not what it seems but the man appointed to lead the united states venezuela efforts is that abrams back in the ninety's he defended smuggling weapons to nicaragua new restrictions as was pressed 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 losing. really anywhere he

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 so are you concerned that you're losing momentum and then set and related to that if 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 duro and and suggesting that he might meet the fate of gadhafi 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 of the head of latin american studies at britain's middlesex university says the u.s. is putting out all the stops to get its way. people in minnesota particularly the minute she see if you can buy. the christians from the united states almost exclusively all. three years and again and again through those who are shown. through maybe you name. the scenes and so far almost nothing and. so this is just concerned that confirms not only the way to. going to school

something much more dramatic. china's language and cultural centers could face closure in the united states after a senate report alleges the being used by beijing to influence the minds of the public documents also claims the confucius institute transparency and suggests chinese teachers should register 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 are 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 there 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 with a good language classes and such. 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 insulting propaganda here i have no right i think the entire world 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 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 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. siberia will be a hot spot of world class winter sports action for the next couple of weeks. a few hours ago russian president vladimir putin kicked things off at the official opening ceremony sports correspondent alexei was there. the twenty nine winter universidad is officially open now we witness the 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 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 the 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 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. a little bit colder than. one of the athletes who have come here to the winter you need to grassley as designed. special attention for show we caught up with. 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 sport in a very certain way she is allowed to wear it job during her performances something that the 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. 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 and 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 so this board 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 long curling and all other 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 to certain extent 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 in ski as have nothing to worry about obviously we'll be keeping you up to date in the next ten days and how the university here in the heart of. the tension between india and pakistan shows no sign of abating at least eight people have been killed as the fighting along the border continues. troops as it villages alongside that line of control. in kashmir all six of the dead are reportedly civilians the standoff between india and pakistan has escalated dramatically since a terror attack on an indian police called what killed at least forty offices last

month on. a south asian politics and security experts on melinda misra told us he believes there are internal and also external factors that are preventing a swift peaceful resolution 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. there's a lot of history at the high end that i'm back has to do with the phrase he's personally coming from the united states saudi arabia and united i mean it's kind of forced pakistan to stick with what you said that if they do in fact the pakistani military establishment is not entirely happy that this how could neither of these parties want to go down the opposite piece on in pakistan the army has the state so there is a military establishment is there a walk on india we have a nationalist in divide his own party who choose craving for some kind of confrontation at foxconn which would give it to claxon under my list in the forthcoming election. thousands of students across europe stage a walkout to highlight the dangers of climate change we'll have more of that story just after this short break.

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merry go round. the one percent. we can all middle of the room. welcome back to our to international of 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 spot of a growing youth movement which has seen similar action in several other countries as well. but you know it's you're not satisfied with this policy is being implemented today and we're marginalizing to show we disagree with what is going on and to ask for a radical any need to change 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 so activists behind the recent youth vote climate protests published this open letter ahead of a global day of action on march the fifteenth they demand that decision makers around the globe take responsibility and warn that their movement cannot be stopped now though the youth strike for climate change movement is not centrally organized sixteen year old griffith has become the poster child of the swedish teenager was one of the first youth activists who publicly raise awareness of climate issues should live or die a speed shock the world economic forum in davos addressed the un over climate change conference in poland and even spoke to the e.u. in brussels in fact according to time magazine grettir is now among the top twenty five most influential teens of twenty eighteen. 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 continue doing this and we will not let them do that anymore 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 are now 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 idea that they have to take part in this protest i know who is behind. this movement bo's the sun did him in 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 so is it orchestrated or people simply wanting to have

their fears heard at the thoughts of social and environmental justice campaigners george bata and journalist john gold. this is clearly being encouraged and i would suggest even being promoted by left wing snowflake teachers the place for children during school time and during term time is in the classroom if they want to get involved in politics that's great but this is clearly being orchestrated and 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 and the idea that sort of fighting again and fighting for our collective survival which really is now on the line because we've delayed action for so long the idea that spending snowflakes i just think is missing the point entirely 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 it's

a bit like saying people should go to work so why have a strike if they undertake and strikes i was coming and it is it's precisely because kids do need to be going to for who need their own word man interviewer can get undersized leads or kids who withdraw their labor you're talking about children it's called a school strike and the girl 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'd always win while it's. light and you understand she understood your data and for a start we had nothing to do with making this happen at all at all but 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. equally the only thing that children can withdraw in a way that is disruptive and this is the analogy of sharing with you is there

a time that is there exactly and they are children to understand much better than most of us it seems that their future is at stake i want. and see both sides of the argument kids need to have both sides say they need to maintain the dialectic so they can make their own decisions this is case on facebook that on networks and they have done it for themselves i know people might find it difficult to understand that children have that level of agency absolutely they don't about stuff in school. you know when please let me finish please let me finish it's important to realize that children are perfectly capable of seeing the giant gulf between the action that is being taken on climate change which is no way near what all the authorities on this say is required and what is actually happening. and fences against illegal immigration denmark has almost finished a barrier on its border with germany but copenhagen's got a different type of migrants in mind as our european correspondent speaks all of

a discovery. president trump isn't the only one calling for border walls to be built built that they are built that way ah. seventy kilometers straight to. the scene same thing it's only like. this one is close to finishing it technically it's really if that's. so who is this wall designed to keep out not rapists not murderers not drug smugglers not even those bad old days that trump was so concerned about this fence is designed to keep out wild boar. it's to stop the spread of african swine flu from germany into denmark thing is though it hasn't been one documented case over the virus in germany to date the danes decision his op said the mayor of wanted to have

a border town who says this whole thing goes against you i feel this is the border . we do not consider this proportionate 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. this issue. that this there have been outbreaks of african swine fever in belgium and in eastern 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 so there's twice as many aids as the roll call in denmark and the annual exports of

big meat from the country said to be worth as much as fifty billion euros not so mention thirty thousand jobs and make the industry just one case you know while for one cation a domestic peak is enough to close the exports so that's what we are fearing when we don't know that your parent in china and south korea they close will totally export from the country if they don't get to countries written by africans why feel the same thinking in czech republic same has happened in both human angry over and for that matter in forty states and he she speaks that there you can see more and then much 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 as the headlines for this hour from team of myself and. this thing too that all the international back in thirty minutes with the latest global news updates. the folks who print the money when they want more money they just print more money they don't rely on workers to go and produce stuff that they have to go sell and then make a profit on the stuff they sell you don't see that the car industry anymore is become financially you don't see that the property market anymore spent financial eyes you don't see the manufacturing in the us has been exported to china and financial lives commodified securitized and american as a worker is completely redundant the same as they are around the world so the wages are converging and they converge at the wages in china so china wages are roughly i think four or five thousand dollars a year this is where the american wages are headed.

my seven years doing drugs my nephews 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 the 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. when the war on drugs was a mistake there are with numbers of people who are in prison for. sins for our own or minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. yes

. well you're exactly right this is the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. for brit with us it's an exciting time folks it's time we are being lied into war yet again which might sound bad but it's much better than being lied into a bad threesome all right so there we go in a moment i'll go through the top four times americans were lied into wars but let's first talk about this past weekend violence broke out on the venezuelan border with colombia in a staged photo op courtesy of our american president well american government how do you know it was a staged photo op because richard branson was at the front of it all right good to

know one sign you're not looking at a real grassroots uprising when a billionaire with a snobby accent is leading it he's he's got eighty billion dollars and he's delivering a sack of mangoes to feed a million venis well it's i don't think. furthermore furthermore sen marco rubio and coup leaders claimed the venezuelan national guard burned a u.s. aid trucks on the bridge in colombia but all available evidence points in the opposite direction but that's not the end of the face diarrhea spread by c.n.n. and as n.b.c. and fox there's also things like the venezuelan people have nothing they don't even have to explain it is they don't know life without toothpaste is alive. well here is journalist max blumenthal this past week and caracas venezuela and you

can see behind me is toothpaste which c.n.n. has said it's just not exist in venezuela and what is on the. or basic goods things that aren't available or accessible in venezuela things like nutritional biscuits toothpaste toothbrushes just basic commodities that aren't available oh thank you all not. take this as a sacrifice oh boy no one had gone to ventura park here shitload of all of the down to strip on one side for the overseer of incisors. now.