luma. the venezuelan vice president u.s. support for the opposition leader. president. explored violence to countries but their plan won't work in venezuela we have decided to protect our country. u.s. backed fighters launched an assault on supposedly the last stronghold in syria donald trump having already declared one hundred percent of the group's territory had been reclaimed. and siberia becomes a winter sport student athletes from around the world go for gold. twenty nine t.

. also this hour chinese language and cultural centers are threatened with both closure and teachers being forced to register as foreign agents across the united states to get reaction from students. do you feel threatened by existing this china institute where they get language classes and such you know that's something i can imagine china doing i think the entire world. was watching international live from moscow with. a venezuelan the vice president has told me that american political pressure is doing more harm than good to the country's citizens and accuse the washington based opposition leader of trying to steal the election. he seriously 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 in 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 threatened every day of the us has moved to sanctions six venezuelan security forces personnel for preventing convoys of authorized the us aid into the country last week on top of measures against the oil industry and other attempts by washington to force nicholas when they were from office venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and u.s.

sanctions have blocked seven billion dollars worth of the state owned companies assets to protect itself and as well ordered the state oil companies european its cue to move to moscow vice president of you've told us the u.s. is going against international laws. it all they don't they will in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's assets and therefore violating the legitimate interests of our country they violated all existing international investment rules asked for europe where venezuela's accounts were frozen we have already begun to take specific legal steps we hired lawyers to protect our interests primarily with regard to our gold which is now illegally withheld by the bank of england we also began to take measures for been as well as legal protection we're talking about the theft of the israel and asset interests as for the transfer of the v.s.e. office from europe to moscow this is connected with the expansion of the cooperation of for russian company in the field of energy and the feel of oil and

gas together with the european office of say other branches of the company will also move to moscow. self-proclaimed interim leader one dollar is promising that he will get u.s. aid into the troubled nation president will duros suspects washington is what it seems the man appointed to lead the united states venezuela efforts that abrams back in the ninety's he defended smuggling weapons to nicaragua rebels the sky is the same while he was assistant secretary of state for announcing the new restrictions abrams 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 it was losing some momentum and in giving given the majority of those seem to be going 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 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 if there is one member of congress in particular has a senator who has you know suggested 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 we're going to get the line about any senator i used to do comparisons between with duro and and suggesting that he might meet the fate of it off the do that does that help your. 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 as the u.s. is putting out a list stops to get its own way. people in venezuela particularly the military signal i n c soldiers drawn the pressure from the united states in particular almost exclusively on the military literally for the last true three years again and again through those who are shown. that maybe you name it got those words what is it going on behind the scenes and so far they go almost nothing and mr abrams is exactly the person. so this is jane concerned therefore that confirms not only when the. u.s. backed forces in syria have launched an assault on what they call the last i still held area of iraq you border the syrian democratic forces spokesman claims the

operation will be swift. s.d.f. spin advancing on two fronts into dire shall territory since yesterday evening heavy clashes are taking place at the moment three s.t.'s fighters are wounded so far no information on isis casualties yet we expected to be over soon or the village of bugaboos has been a hot spot for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks they say hundreds of civilians withdrew from the area just the day before the attack most were children women some of whom had given birth while married to myself fighters artie's arabic channel has been to document life right now in bugaboos. but i let me just say that. some of these.

other. yeah. and. you. know damon to had the same domain day he died he thought of the. day he died for being away due to gender that it dies my mother died they did here while i forgive you know on the let me have. them you know be no just them. with me now a journalist three seller accuse the author of inside syria and iran and gen that today sir thanks for joining us because having a program today donald trump has claimed it's retaken one hundred percent of

arsenal held ground u.s. forces u.s. backed forces well just a quick reminder of what he had to say just a couple of months back let's take a quick listen. we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over one hundred percent caliphate that means the area the land we just have one hundred percent so that's good that was what trump had to say and two are still campaign just the while ago i mean what more do we know about this latest village these latest military operations could there be more held territory that we don't know about. well to the best of my knowledge the fighting in by goes is the last of the area's actually under formal control by dash or isis it's a small village along the iraqi syrian border there's been some pretty fierce fighting as your correspondent indicated between the s.d.f.

backed by the us military and the isis forces but even if they're defeated there and by booze the danger is that the terrorist attacks of individual or small sleeper cells continue to operate in syria and iraq and so as usual president trump is playing fast and loose with the truth and least tends to exaggerate things and i was interesting to me that he said we have taken back control i think there's a strong view in washington that the u.s. is now controlling parts of syria not something that either the s.d.f. or the syrian people are interested in having long term best for sure. speaking of controlling syria of course has a stronghold as captured is liberated from isis what you think is more likely a full withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria as announced by don't trump pull it back in december of course all of that plan to keep a small contingent that to stop isis remounting to keep that u.s.

presence in the country well stay tuned each day there could be a new development that's the thing about the trip with mr ation the latest is apparently he has come under pressure from john bolton and other neoconservatives in the white house to keep some four hundred troops u.s. troops in syria. for some undetermined time there is a big debate and a struggle going on in the white house exactly how to proceed i think it depends in part on what happens with negotiations between the s.d.f. and the assad government if the kurds. their kurdish group. s.d.f. the military alliance can reach a negotiated settlement with assad that will force the u.s. troops out and force the turkish troops out who are also occupying part of syria if the that those negotiations don't get anywhere them it's likely that those u.s.

troops are going to stay at least for the short term right john mysteries. inside syria thanks for joining us today good to get your take. my pleasure. siberia will be a hot spot of world class winter sports action for the next couple of weeks. on a saturday evening russian president vladimir putin kicked things off at the official opening ceremony on the sports correspondent alexina chef he was that. 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 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 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 athletes 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 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. after after a few days here that were adjusted and definitely enjoying it was amazing to hear them screaming the whole game no matter what it was it was just something i've never experienced is something i'm going to cherish forever it's really surreal to be here in this really amazing time she is. a little bit colder than. one of the athletes so let's come here to the window you know to see out in crossly as deserves special attention for show we caught up with. she easy unique athlete she is the biggest skates believe it or not the united arab emirates probably the.

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 while now obviously applied to everyone else she spoke to us about her experiences here then you got to add in 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 pretty support 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 long curling and all other major winter sports. one interesting thing though

slogan one of the slogans on the winter university out here is one hundred percent real wind and that's something that has been lacking to 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 and how the universe here in the heart of siberia goes. the tensions between india and pakistan show no sign of abating at least eight people have been killed as fighting along the border continues to stone says indian troops targeted villages 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.

south asian politics and security experts i'm on the misra told us he would eves there are internal and external factors preventing a swift peaceful solution what we are seeing at the moment is the low intensity conflict on the ground on the sea 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 that has to do with the press he's personally coming from the united states saudi arabia and united i mean it's kind of forced pakistan to take the point you said that if they do in fact the pakistani military establishment is not entirely obvious that this how could neither of these parties want to. go down the art of peace and in pakistan the army has destroyed so there is a military establishment which is there for a while and india we have a nationalist. party who choose craving for some kind of contractors pakistan which would give it to class one hundred milers in the forthcoming election. china's languages and cultural centers could face closure in the united states after a senate report allege they're being used by beijing to influence the minds of the public the documents also claims the confucius into suits lack transparency and

suggest that chinese teachers should register as foreign agents caleb maupin has the story. u.s. leaders have been very upset over alleged foreign influence and meddling of late and they've discovered a new source of terror. 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 you know maybe a little bit. you know china is a little you know not something i could imagine china doing do you feel like it's in co-creating propaganda here i have no i think the entire world is terrible right now with other foreign also but the fact that the confusion institute is linked to chinese language classes in american schools that's right because of this institute a lot of young children might actually learn to speak the mandarin language and we all know there's nothing more dangerous to world peace than cultural understanding this type of activity teaching languages and culture is not going to move the

needle for china in any way. glee in terms of how people see china the claim from the us senate report is propaganda propaganda chinese surprise right have a world view that is different than americans f.b.i. director testified to the senate that these are also acting as intelligence collection agencies so chinese intelligence has been embedded all over the united states for decades there are so many chinese and united states working to bury critical positions in security and technology areas to companies military commercial everything the question is do they need the confucius institute to continue that mission probably don't my expectation going forward is that the us will continue to put pressure to close these institutions. in the face of the modern crisis several countries in europe over in building walls and fences against illegal immigration that marcus almost finished the barrier on its border with

germany but copenhagen scored a different type of migrants in mind as our europe correspondent speaks of a discovery. president trump isn't the only one calling for border walls to be built built that they built that. along a seventy kilometers stretch of the border they're saying the same thing but don't 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 drones is designed to keep out wild 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 of the pig borne 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 chin the neighbors but insist that it's necessary. especially with the with. 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 wrong in full in denmark and the manual exports of big meat from the country said

to be worth as much as the euros not so mention it sounds and jobs and the industry just one case in a while for one cation in a domestic peak is enough to close the export so that's why we have three well we don't know if your parent in china and south korea they close will totally export from the country if they don't get their countries written by african swine fever to the same having to pick same as happened in procurement angry over and for that matter in forty states and we suspect that in similar haven't done 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 is the headlines for this hour from the team and myself thanks for

staying tonight international so you can in thirty minutes for the latest news headlines. the folks who praed the money when they want more money they just print more money they don't rely on the 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 in a car this or any mars become financial eyes they don't see that the property market any more spend financial eyes you don't see the manufacturing in the u.s. has been exported to china and financial eyes commodified securitized and american as a worker is completely redundant the same as they are around the world so that wages are converging and they converge at the wages in china so china wages are roughly i think for five thousand dollars a year this is where the american wages are headed. what

i see every jew and hear things with their doors. are see people who are afraid must see these young with it's own women in these ways purposes. of course you really scare people. and give the movie. all they have the whole or that is the color of their skin that's all they have board for the job to do white skin.

i'm not sure it has they were going underground twenty four hours after the u.k. government officially designated his political party fighting isis in the middle east as a terror organization coming up with a show like his fans high commissioner to london speaks to going on the ground about china russia. and not turning the kashmir crisis enjoyed a nuclear catastrophe and u.k. labor leader german corbin 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 party that made theresa may british prime minister the murder of patrick lupin in his home in north belfast on sunday the twelfth of february nine hundred eighty nine was an appalling crime he was shot fourteen times

as he sat down for dinner with his wife and three children we speak to the widow and son of a 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 in court in madrid and today's demonstrations in france where thousands have been injured when 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. for my party wants me to run for president they support my candidacy and i'm greatly to win the election and it is possible to restore brazil's economy to make sure that we see economic growth again create new jobs and help the poor become less pool they know that i can achieve those things if they

don't want to 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. i determined no matter what to keep him in prison so the whole scenario has a clear run lumia world 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.