for minor minor offenders. it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by. this is just it doesn't get easier. venezuelan vice president talks to r.t. about the crisis that has been gripping the country for more than a month sharing her thoughts on u.s. support for the opposition leader and self declared interim president. to countries but their plan won't work and we have decided to protect our country. u.s. fighters launched an assault on what is said to be the last stronghold and. having already declared one hundred percent of the group's territory retaking. siberia becomes a winter sports student athletes from around the world go for gold at the two

thousand and nineteen. chinese language and cultural centers are threatened with both closure and teachers being forced to register as foreign agents across the united states we get reaction from students. do you feel threatened by existing this china institute with a good language classes and such not something i could imagine trying to do i think the entire world. of broadcasting live here right for our studios most of this is hard to international and. the venezuelan vice president has told r.t. that american political pressure is doing more harm than good to the country's citizens and accused of the washington backed opposition leader of trying to steal the election rodriguez has been talking to archie spanish language network.

he certainly we know the u.s. uses fake financial help in order to overthrow the governments of other countries than 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 put in not submit to their wishes instructions and interests specifically venezuela east threatened every day of the us has moved to sanctions to us aid into the country last week that is on top of measures against the oil industry and other attempts by washington to force nicolas maduro from office venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world u.s.

sanctions have blocked seven billion dollars worth of the state owned companies assets to protect itself venezuela ordered the state oil companies european headquarters to move to moscow vice president rodriguez told us the us is going against international law. 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 violates all existant international investment groups aswell 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 venezuela's legal protection we're talking about the theft of things well in assets which was organized by the united states and venezuela has the right to protect its legitimate interests as for the transfer of

the d.v.s. a office from europe to moscow this is connected with the expansion of the corporation also a russian company in the ground and the feel of oil and gas together with the european office of p d b s a other branches of the company will also move to moscow . self-proclaimed interim leader who is promising that he will get u.s. aid into the troubled nation president suspects washington aid is not exactly what it seems here's the reason the man appointed to lead the united states of venezuelan efforts is elliott abrams back in the one nine hundred eighty s. he defended smuggling weapons to nicaragua rebels disguised as aid when he was assistant secretary of state after announcing that the new restrictions abrams was pressed about washington's current approach to caracas. or you could leave the administration at all concerned that the initial. for lack of a better word excitement over when the recognition is losing some

momentum and in giving given the majority of the seem to be going anywhere he certainly not taking the national security adviser's advice to those on the beach outside of 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 set a senator who has suggested that madeira might meet the saying fate as good off the libya and just that help or hurt you or your cause or your efforts to build momentum. i'm not actually going to get into that commenting on what particular senators are saying forget it. forget it forget the line about any senator 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. 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 the head of latin american studies had britain's middlesex university says the u.s. is pulling out all the stops to get its way. people in venice were particularly the military signal i n c so strong that pressure from the united states in particular almost exclusively on the minute she literally for the last three years again and again through those who are shown. through that made 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 the way to always be fitted by the united states going to school something much more dramatic. u.s. backed forces in syria have launched an assault on what they call the last i saw held area near the iraqi border artie's arabic channel got a glimpse of life in the village of bug who was. but i let me just seven or seven and i saw that there is. some of these even a. little one.

or the other. and. the daemon of the had this and a million day diet short of the leg any day diet should be anyway due to gender that it dies my mother died they did yeah well that's the kind you know are enough and then we have to be near. the village of babus has been a hot spot for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks they say hundreds of civilians withdrew from the area a day before the attack most were children and women some of whom gave birth while married to i saw fighters a syrian democratic forces spokesperson claims the operation will be swift.

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 wounded so far no information on isis casualties yet we expected to be over soon. the author of inside syria reece elric spoke to us earlier he thinks the u.s. overestimates his role in defeating islamic state especially after donald trump had already declared it mission complete just days ago. 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 a hundred percent that as usual president trump is playing fast and loose with the truth and he's censor 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 the u.s. didn't hasn't defeated completely anyone the problem is it's even if it is defeated as a force controlling actual territory it has its origins as a terrorist group training suicide bombers having small cell actions the danger is that they go back to what they were originally doing and care of these kinds of terrorist attacks which are very difficult to stop i think trumps instincts are to pull troops out of syria and afghanistan in order to ratchet up u.s. aggression in places like iran and venezuela you can't continue to occupy other countries indefinitely when the people of those countries don't want you there and that certainly the situation in both syria and in afghanistan stay tuned each day there could be a new development that's the thing about the trip administration. siberia will

play host to some world class winter sports action for the next couple of weeks thousands of athletes will be competing for medals in this year's one of the to seattle. i don't saturday evening russian president vladimir putin kicked things off at the official opening its ceremony r.t. sports correspondent alexy oshinsky 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 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 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 career 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 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 whisper. to some of these athletes for the experiences here in siberia before you feel very welcome. after a few days here that we're just definitely enjoying the experience it was amazing playing for all these fans are 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 something i cherish forever it's really surreal to be here in this really amazing because obviously it's a different landscape to be used to in england and obviously the temperature is. a little bit colder that's. one of the. to the winter you need. special attention for sure 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 sport in a very certain way she is allowed to wear it job 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 participate 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. and all of

the major winter sports. one interesting thing 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 start an extent because the weather has been pretty warm plus three plus 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. and more people have been killed on saturday as clashes between india and pakistan show no sign of coming into a hold on that story after a short break stay with us this is our two international.

countries gone into a nihilistic fever i think i'm gonna hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlottes of the g.'s the quintessential american hero this is it we've come to a point and challenge done so we always are on the bridge of something. called culture party. oh. 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 gondo than that we may be completely different but that is. what i see and hear things with your door. i see people who are afraid not see these young women in these ways purposes and i see that as the really scared to.

lose it. all they have the whole war that is the color of the. desire to international comparison to other french cities have witnessed yellow vest anti-government marches for the sixteenth straight weekend police have deployed tear gas to disperse the protesters. lists. saturday saw another sizable turnout official estimates say around forty thousand

people took part in marches across the country including four thousand in paris on friday president knock on again appealed for calm until foid some of the violence seen in previous weeks police used water cannons against of the protesters and made some arrests what once began as a grassroots rally over fuel prices are long since broadened into wider anger at the president and link of the economy. the so they can muster they should at least meet one of our demands to show they are listening to us that we are not doing this for nothing that fuel prices are rising and they were supposed to be frozen up or yeah all the prices are increasing in the supermarkets to ensure ten percent on products it's the opposite of what we want. well let's hope that he wants them to give the purchasing power back to the people of the lower sat on such a crowd it was on the ground as the citizens initiative referendum those are the so essential demands this long as they don't give us that we must stop.

threats such as this that people in difficult times people who have a hot time someone in the past salaries i think constant and. asked for a massacre as police violence perhaps many different message accessed. by eyes. 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 and 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 expert on the lendu it believes that there are internal and external factors preventing a quick 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 all do all the pakistani promising that i'm not has to do with the phrase he's

fiercely 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 peace and in pakistan the army has destroyed it so that is a military establishment which is their whole lot on india we have a not specialist in divide his own party which is craving for some kind of consciousness box from which would give it to claxon under my list in the forthcoming election. there is mounting public pressure on israel's and battled prime minister hundreds have gathered in tel aviv calling for him to resign and follows thursday's announcement by the attorney general that he plans to indict benyamin netanyahu over claims of bribery breach of trust and fraud a rival crowd in support of the prime minister is also reportedly gathered in the

city netanyahu denies all charges against him calling it a political witch hunt it is also sensitive timing as he is trying to win a fifth term in office in elections due in early april. china's language and cultural centers could face closure in the u.s. after a senate report alleged of that they're being used by beijing lack of transparency and suggests chinese teachers should register as foreign agents or to use came up and comments. 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 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 with a good language classes and such no 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 right i think the entire world is terrible

right now to the other four and also beyond 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 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 america. 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 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 and probably they don't my expectation going forward is that

the u.s. will continue put pressure to close these institutes that there's a from him one is the top the hour this is our trench. was. a thing with thought it was during. the. night. in a world of big parts of the movie. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to

be deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle earth for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. i think globalization lost its moral compass or maybe we have to put more values into the system my personal opinion is we have to strengthen by two national multilateral institutions now we're living in the dock the dock ruled it's like a lose lose screen having always you know all action and come to action so we need to put value spec to the system and we need stronger leadership and better leadership.

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that is in my first tweet max i have from luke roman it appears something big happened in one thousand seven hundred one that drove a big diverges in productivity and compensation and therefore wealth inequality anyone know of any big currency system changes that happened in one nine hundred seventy one if us wants to win trade war gotta fix the us dollar system and luke rowan provides a link to this chart from the washington post the economic policy institute and it shows that when companies put the brakes on worker pay growth and productivity an hourly compensation since one nine hundred forty eight you see the yellow line is productivity and that has increased by two hundred forty six percent since one nine hundred forty eight and yet compensation split off their. own to seventy one when the breaking point happened and there's now a ninety percent divergence between the two what happened. i think we all know that

in august of one nine hundred seventy one richard nixon took the united states off the gold standard because it didn't want to pay the united kingdom three hundred million u.s. dollars worth of gold which is them backed by thirty five dollars thirty five dollars per ounce of gold that the united kingdom wanted for their trade deficit it's also important to note that we've been talking about warren buffett in its annual letter and all his.