another turbulent week for venezuela both russian and american resolutions to resolve the country's crisis fail at the u.n. security council or washington's economic pressure. to transfer the european h.q. of its main oil firm to moscow. but. france use a sixteenth weekend straight of yellow vest on rest with police resorting to tear gas and water camping. also this hour u.s.

president donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un hold their second summit but failed to reach a deal on denuclearization accusing each other of making unreasonable demands. this is the weekly bringing you the stories that shapes the past seven days welcome to the program. this week saw fresh clashes on the border between venezuela and columbia as tensions over american aid deliveries intensified and israel and president nicolas maduro says the shipments could be carrying weapons and is banned them from entering the country and international efforts to end the crisis have stalled with the u.n. security council rejecting both russian and u.s. draft resolutions. by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield woodrow and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the

venezuelan people the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now going to use them with the vinyl we have reached the culmination of the american workers treated double standards show over venezuela washington and london have both again robbed an entire nation of billions of dollars in the same time or pushing them to accept a pittance due to regime change as they say you first of all create great humanitarian problems and then you call upon the whole world to solve them we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections and to a government that reflects the will and aspirations of the venezuelan people google so you have today's vote is an excellent example of why the veto rule is necessary for protecting the peace and people's right to determine their future both the russian and the us resolutions didn't pass the voting in the un security council russia one got less votes in favor that against four in favor and seven against the us draft was vetoed by russia and china the russian ambassador said that if the us

resolution had passed it would be the first case in history that the united nations security council to pull is the legitimate leader and imposed another one to a sovereign country the venezuelan representatives spoke as well calling to stop interfering into the matters of his country the power to this will has to do with having this one on slaughtering at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east they are planning a clandestine operation against a sort of right out of the same kind of took it about what he thought and their force at the same time they are just stealing our money you see something outrageous indeed so the diplomatic community in the crossroads again the u.n. as the members who spoke after the voting called it to all of their colleagues to put their differences aside to resolve the venezuelan crisis reporting in new york treated each other as r.t. . meanwhile hundreds of activists have rallied in the spanish capital of madrid in support of venezuelan president nicolas maduro demonstrators waved banners waving

hands off venezuela and denounce what they see as an attempt by the united states to intervene and another country's internal affairs for desires who visited venezuela as a u.n. repertory in two thousand and seventeen says the u.s. is likely to escalate the situation. quite clear to me that the united states is waging war on international law now does that does not surprise me question is what will the. international prize in pristine be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a flagrant aggression against his will there is a danger of violence it should be the function of the united nations to prevent that. nicolas maduro says washington has its sights set on venezuela's oil reserves the largest in the world u.s.

sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state on assets to protect itself and as well ordered the state oil company european h.q. to move to moscow vice president has told us more about the decision. it all with in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's asses and therefore violating the legitimate interests of our country violates all existing international investment rules aswell you are 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 when these wells legal protection we're talking about the theft of these well and assets which was organized by the united. states and then israel has the right to protect its legitimate interests as for the transfer of the p.d. vs a office from europe to moscow this is connected with the expansion of the

corporation of a russian company in the field of energy and the field 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. the u.s. has also cancelled the visas of forty nine venezuelan representatives aligned with president maduro it says that anyone who steals from the better as well and people or undermines democracy is not welcome in the united states francisco domingo's head of the latin american studies at london's middlesex university says the u.s. is playing up all the stops to achieve its goal and that as well people in venezuela particularly the million. dollars drum the pressure from the united states in particular almost exclusively on the milledge literally. true three years again and again through those who are shown. through may you name you got those words were going on be only scenes i saw the farther you go

almost nothing the middle of the race is just better or something. which can be organized irregular forces. and mr abrams is exactly the vote you get is organized so losers do concerned therefore that confirms not only won't always but the most is going to score something much more dramatic. for the sixteenth straight week and paris and other french cities witnessed yellow bus anti-government marchers on saturday clutches erupted at some of the demonstrations with police supplying tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters.

according to official estimates are around forty thousand people took part in marches nationwide four thousand of them in paris alone on friday president emanuel mccrone again appealed for calm urging people to refrain from engaging in the kind of violence seen in previous weeks police made a number of arrests on saturday what began as a grassroots rally over fuel prices has since brought him into a wider anger at the president's handling of the economy. like i said they should at least meet one of our demands to show they are listening to us that we are not doing this for nothing fuel prices are rising and they were supposed to be frozen prices are increasing in the supermarket to ten percent on products it's the opposite of what we want.

we want them to give purchasing power back to the people lower fat on essential products the grandest the citizens initiative referendum those are the two essential demands as long as they don't give us that we won't stop. this that people in difficult times people who have a hard time surviving and. i finished and i haven't. a message against police violence i have many different messages. this thursday u.s. president donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un along with their retinues and thousands of journalists descended on vietnam's capital for the two leaders second summit the much hyped meeting failed to produce any deal on north korea's nuclear station and the lifting of u.s.

sanctions against pyongyang with trump and kim unable to agree on the terms despite little headway being made at the summit washington and pyongyang say the dialogue will continue as an apparent goodwill gesture the u.s. and south korea have decided to suspend their annual joint military exercises a pentagon statement says it's being done in an effort to reduce tension and advance denuclearization on the korean peninsula though the drills have in fact not been canceled completely but rather replaced by another set of exercises are to. take stock of the second term kim summit. the talks in hanoi between trump and cam were complete failure a blowout a bomb trump says the talks failed because of what he says were unreasonable demands they wanted the sanctions lifted. in their entirety and we couldn't do that but that is not how north korea remembers the meeting with what we proposed was the

removal of all sanctions but they were partial removal we proposed to the united states to leave articles of sanctions that impede the symbol of economy and our people so with conflicting information about what actually took place at the meeting between the two leaders we've now got the u.s. state department issuing an explanation of the explanation after the talks flopped in hanoi trying to jump on a plane to alaska it was certainly not singing the song of peace as he praised the troops america does not see conflict but if we are forced to defenders we will fight and we will win in an overwhelming fashion you are a powerful warning to the world to know. strike american soil you are a warning that everybody knows about it nobody wants to play with you would think that was the utter train wreck that was the talks with pyongyang that donald trump would be cruising for a bruising when he got back to the united states however that doesn't seem to be

the case the epic failure seems to have been met with pretty broad approval both democrats and republicans seemed rather chipper about it to get to president did not get him anything was a little bit that he was proposing the north koreans walk away thinking you know they've got they've won and gradually they will see they were sanctions regime begin to erode then they've won and frankly that would be unfortunate it was smart to expose a north korean delegation to the god of our economic prosperity that could be possible it's a good thing that he walked away rather than agreeing to something that was badly flawed democratic presidential candidate toasting gabbert seem to stand alone in voicing disappointment kim jong un has clearly stated that he is holding on to these nuclear weapons as his only deterrent against the united states coming in and waging a regime change war in north korea so while you know i'm deeply concerned about the fact that this summit yesterday ended without an agreement it's not surprising

because of this policy this regime change war policy might pompei o laid out the washington consensus with rather sharp terminology america has a responsibility to protect itself by pushing back against those evil nations and those evil leaders who intend to do real harm to the world yes much like george w. bush with his rhetoric about evil doers donald trump is not setting himself up to winning nobel peace prize any time soon but most of the political establishment that normally hates donald trump seems to think that that's a ok mop and artsy new york the experts we spoke to believe the trump administration's hawkish stance elsewhere and up eroding north korea's trust and whatever promises america is willing to make. it was not no deal versus bad deal it was a missed opportunity and the real question remains whether what was it that caused president or chairman kim for that matter to stand up and walk away hour and

a half early i think there's a crisis in confidence between north korea in the us you know kim knows what's going on in the world and he looks around and he sees unfortunately and depressingly the united states simply doesn't keep its word around the world trump is going to trying to show success he and that i think was one of the considerations in the discussions in in vietnam over over north korea missiles the reality is is a trump is looking to make a deal and to show international success and to so that he can have something to come back to and to offset the turmoil the inter political turmoil he's facing back home but if we've taken over isis in syria then the question remains what about the troops u.s. troops who are there in syria what will happen with them those are questions that

remain unanswered pakistani officials say that an indian cross border anti terror airstrike struck an uninhabited area more on the flared up tensions between those two neighbors after this short break. i. i. i think globalization lost its moral compass and maybe we have to put more values into the system my personal opinion is we have to strengthen by two national institutions now we're living in the dark cruel it's like i'm lucy we scream having always you know all action and come to action and so we need to put it back to the

system and we need stronger leadership and better leadership. what i see and hear things what they're doing. i see people who are afraid not see these young women i mean the white supremacist group and i see the. movie. and all they have no longer is the color of their skin that's all they have going for themselves their white skin. welcome back to the program india carried out an airstrike on what they say was a terror camp in pakistan increasing fears of a military confrontation between the two neighbor states.

south asian politics and security expert on the land of misery sees a foreign hand in the conflict. what we are seeing at the moment is that office on low intensity conflict on the ground on this is going to go on 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 found out how 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 it took neither one of these parties want to. go down the peace in pakistan the army has the state so that is a military establishment we choose their whole while on india we have a nationalist in dubai kids and our party which is craving for some kind of confrontation that box from which you give it to clocks one hundred mile is in the forthcoming election. terms former lawyer michael cohen failed to provide any evidence of collusion with russia when he testified before congress on wednesday members of congress accused him of being a liar while cohen pulled no punches either when talking about his ex. today i am here to tell the truth about him he is a racist. he is

a con man. and he is a cheat mr trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it and i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump ladies and gentlemen how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness and his presence here is a travesty and you have a history of lying over and over and over again he said we were in charge of the truth i don't believe that michael coleman is capable of telling the truth he lied to congress through false statements and written statements he lied to congress through his testimony it was able to fight his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with. beating it to. cohen was a trump confident for more than a decade after his moment in the spotlight he will begin

a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax and bank fraud as well as lying to congress we discussed his testimony with former us republican congressman michael patrick flanagan. as we call it in the united states when election season comes here we call it the silly season and in the silly season silly things happen this is a little early. something that you'd see in the silly season cohen is willing to use the word racist and criminal liar and anyone who's willing to speak in that absolute in that strongest terms of washington will always have an audience on one side or the other there was just an angry man who wanted to be chief of staff who didn't get to be chief of staff who was furious he couldn't make a ton of money off the trump name after trump was elected president has decided after all that he needs to get even in a vicious new york stupid sort of way and so he's going to come to congress and lie some more he's been disbarred for lying that the state of new york despite of the polled his law license because he's a liar

a man who took their promise who took that oath and then took another oath in front of congress and has lied constantly can't be trusted ever to tell the truth even if he is telling the truth it will require cooperation substantiation and some backup and none of that was provided to. sporting goods retailer to kathlyn has dropped plans to sell its sports version of the job in france the company says it had hoped to build on the success it previously had in morocco so let's even ski explains why the garment sparked controversy even before it hit the shelves. it's incredible how such a small piece of material can cause such a commotion but here in france that's exactly what's happened to the plans by the retailer to catch on to stop a sports station off a hit job i'm listening. as well as it was boring of twitter outrage several politicians have called for

a boycott to cancel a. sport emancipates it does not submit my choice as a woman and a citizen would be to no longer trust a brand that breaks meet our values the french health minister has also we did in the debate yes. it's legal but it's a vision of women that i do not share i think it does not feed well with the values of our country. fox is a secular country with a hit job as well as the christian cross have been banished from state classrooms and also from government offices no religious symbols outlawed and in fact they were common sight on the streets of france but many argue that face and body covering garments such as those worn by loosely women are seen as being a method to subjugate them but others including castle say such items make it easier for muslim women to take part in activities such as sports.

women should be able to wear what to the night from beating the sunni's clothes and each has to d.q. miss bascom it shocked me and that they have to cancel the sales it's not an act of securities and it's not a mags i would go so far to say islam sold big but it's more and you saw meek. people should dress according to their own tastes i don't think there's much controversy about this issue. if women choose to merit a masters practiced so if she wants to wear it you know it's her choice but the backlash has been so big that even to castle staff say they have been threatening. our customer service team has received over five hundred calls and e-mails since this morning our teams in our stores have been in solid unfriend and sometimes physically before the product even caught out of the starting blocks the force of the opposition soared to capital back down it will no longer sell

a sports teacher up here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticized for pandering to collective hysteria that reveals the level of islamophobia here in france. ski altie paris writer and online activist armani are qatar and patricia shalom from france's national right party say the sports retailer bowed to governmental. and public pressure. we choose to cover up because it places our body on our terms independent of the milky way it's necessary for us to have the different options available for different types of one it and that's the whole point is that especially in industries like fashion i think that the french government is acting in a way any different than the iranian government for example i don't think that forcing women to not cover up to take off a garment of clothing i think that is no different than police in iran for example

forcing women to put the head on still controlling the way women dress and it is wrong actually did have some fully supported that decision to put the heat on the sport he had on the french market in this it was only after there was a huge public outcry. that state crawled back so you know basically has no scruples can become known as a capitalist company they only want to make profits and they were forced they were forced to take the heat over their shells here in france because of the huge pressure from the public. that's a wrap up of the past week's headline news for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and much more.

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the skin that's all they have going for themselves to their white skin. long. dark. hello and welcome to worlds apart adam smith the for father of modern economics the one sad that resentment is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence the latest wave of resentment that produced brax it don't all trump is open

discounted as populism or russia's plotting but isn't it and inevitably authentically western response to the injustices and abuses of globalization while to discuss that i'm now joined by frank you're going to retire founder and chairman of harasses the global visions committee mr richter's good to talk to you thank you very much for a time. for having me now i know that you worked for a number of european multinationals in china you saw globalization up close and personal and you usually speak very favorably about it but i wonder if that's not their vantage point bias if you happen to observe with let's say from the american midwest wouldn't your views be a little bit different i mean it's only experiencing a crisis of globalization the deep seated resentment. spoiling over ruled white create portion of the rule is proceeding to itself a school work station loses this recession and especially if some to fight by the

movement in france but also by the rise of donald trump and i guess most of those who voted for the trump globalization those one of the things that we usually hear about globalization is that it lifted millions of people out of poverty and that is undeniable nobody argues with that but if you happen to be had over a multinational company it would have also benefited your bank account in very very generous ways whereas if you are a blue collar worker who saw his factory closed and a shopping mall opened in its place what did bad methods of globalization be. just as a parent well globalization is here to stay there's no doubt about it but i think we have to redefine globalization and maybe catalyze the benefits of globalization you put it right. the anglo-saxon model of capitalism and the globalization eastern crisis even so we have seen an economy crowe's over the last few would take it's

not everybody is spending fitting from globalization we see the shrinking of the middle class in america and in europe in even saw on the surf ace does a lot of economic success the middle class is shrinking and less people who can really benefit from globalization well let's talk about why that happened as ation clearly has benefited export oriented economies like china or germany much more and much more evenly than import oriented economies including the united states is it really surprising that that the push back against globalization or the current form of globalization with that region eight in america wasn't of balun to occur there you know we see the specter of globalization and the discontent of globalization is especially new as you put it right again america is mostly importing goods from true many for example cars and from china fast moving consumer goods and of course america is very strong in the tech sector but it lost its manufacturing sector i

guess america will never be in the position.