another turbulent week for venezuela both russian and u.s. resolutions to resolve the country's crisis fail at the u.n. security council or washington's economic pressure prompts caracas to transfer the european h.q. of its meaning the oil from moscow. france easy sixteenth weekend of yellow vest movement on the rest with police resorting to tear gas and water cannon against protesters. also this hour the u.s. and north korean leaders hold their second summit but fail to reach

a deal on denuclearization accusing each other of unreasonable demands. this is the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the stories that shaped the past seven days welcome to the program. the border between venezuela and colombia witnessed further violence this week as tensions over american aid deliveries intensified and as well president nicolas maduro has blocked the shipments from entering claiming they could be carrying weapons and international efforts to end the crisis have stalled with the u.n. security council rejecting draft resolutions from both russia and the u.s. . by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield the duro and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now the can use them with us finally we have

reached the culmination of the american workers treated double standards show over venezuela washington and london have both and again robs 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 we greet 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. you have to do is vote is an excellent example of one of the veto rule is necessary for protecting the peace and people's right to determine their future both the russian and the u.s. resolutions didn't pass the voting in the un security council the russian 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 u.s. resolution had passed it would be the first case in history that the united nations security council deposed a legitimate leader and imposed another one to

a sovereign country the venezuelan representatives spoke as well calling to stop interfering in the matters of his country the power to this will has to do with having a swell on slaughtering at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east they are planning a clandestine operation against it sort of right out of the same kind of took it about what he thought in their force at the same time they are just feeding out of money you see something outrageous indeed so the diplomatic community in the crossroads again the u.n. as thieves 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 madrid in support of president maduro demonstrators waved hands off them as well banners and denounce what they see as an attempt by the u.s. to intervene and another country's internal affairs offer desires to visit

venezuela as a u.n. report or in two thousand and seventeen believes washington 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 cries in for steve 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. maduro says washington has its science firmly stand on that as well as oil reserves the world's largest u.s. sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state own assets in a proactive movement as well ordered the state oil companies european h.q. to relocate to moscow vice president has told us more about the decision. it

over there in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's asses and therefore violating the legitimate interests of our country they violated all existing international investment groups aswell you were aware of them as well as 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 these oil and 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.d.'s a office from europe to moscow this is connected with the expansion of the cooperation of the russian company in the field of energy and the field of oil and gas together with the european office of. other branches of the company will move to moscow the u.s.

has also cancelled the visas of forty nine influential venezuelans aligned with president maduro it says anyone who steals from the bad as well in people or undermines democracy is not welcome francisco domingo's head of latin american studies at london's middlesex university believes the u.s. is doing everything in its power to achieve its goal and that as well. people in venezuela particularly the military you see if you go out and see soldiers drawn the pressure from the united states in particular almost exclusively on the minute she literally. three years again and again through was coerced shown. through blackmail you name it got those words what is it going on behind the scenes and so far they go almost nothing. raises the specter of all. which can be you organize the regular forces and train and organize but the united

states and mr abrams is exactly the league it is organized so this is just concerned therefore that confirms not only the way it's always defeated by the united states going to school something much more dramatic. for the sixteenth weekend straight yellow bus marches were held in cities across france on saturday clashes erupted at some of the demonstrations with place deploying tear gas and water cannon. forty thousand people were said to have taken part in marches nationwide four

thousand of them in paris alone on friday president mccall again appealed for calm urging people to refrain from the kind of violence seen in previous weeks police made a number of arrests on saturday while they all of us began as a grassroots rally over fuel taxes it's in brought them into wider anger at the presence handily. the economy. they should at least meet one of our demands to show they are listening to us and we are not doing this for nothing fuel prices are rising and they were supposed to be frozen prices are increasing in the supermarkets to ten percent on products it's the opposite of what we want. we want them to give purchasing power back to people lower fat on essential crowd is the grandest the citizens in this shit referendum those are the two essential demands as long as they don't give us that. you.

may. see this that people in difficult people who have a hard time surviving on gas salaries i think. are. just a mass of gas police violence have many different messages. on thursday donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un along with the news and thousands of journalists descended on vietnam's capital for their bilateral summit the much hyped talks failed to produce any deal on north korea's did nuclearization and the lifting of u.s. sanctions against pyongyang with trump and kim unable to agree on the terms despite will head way washington n.p.r. news say the dialogue will continue and as an apparent goodwill gesture the u.s. and south korea are suspending their annual joint military exercises the pentagon says it's to reduce tension and advance nuclearization on the korean peninsula

however the drills have not in fact been cancelled but rather replaced by another set of exercises are to take stock of the second trump kim summit. the talks in hanoi between trump and kim were complete failure a blow out 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 because what we proposed wasn't 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 the law of 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 jumped 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 never strike american soil you are a warning that everybody knows about and nobody wants to play with you would think that with the utter trainwreck 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 it's good that the trend isn't good not getting many things 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 i was smart

to expose the 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 tossing 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. and waging a regime change war in north korea so well 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 all 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 caleb mop and r.t. new york political experts told us the trump administration's hawkish stance elsewhere and separating north korea's trust and white house promises. 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 u.s. 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 try to show success he and that i think was one of the considerations in the discussions in in vietnam over

over north korean 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 on. or isis and 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. on tuesday india carried out an air strike on what it says was a terror camp in pakistan increasing fears of a military confrontation between the two nuclear armed neighbors.

south asian politics and security expert on the land a miserable lives there maybe a foreign power behind the conflict. and what we are seeing at the moment is the low intensity conflict on the ground on the she's going to go on so what you need to remember here is that although the pakistani prime minister region the indian kupchak pilot. that is a moment of peace treaty hindsight i'm back has to do with the phrase he's personally coming from the united states saudi arabia united i mean it's kind of

forced pakistan to take the quote use of that if you do neither of these parties want to. go down the piece on in pakistan the army has the state so that is a mentor to the establishment to be choose their whole walk on india we haven't lost one list in divide his own party who choose craving for some kind of content just make box from which you give it to claxon undivided is in the forthcoming election. coming up unicef has revealed new child victims of the war and yemen details after this short break.

we came here where did you work before you came here when you live well death row and in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor that there are some people because of what they do have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about.

welcome back unicef has revealed that five children were killed an attack on the yemeni city of data on thursday the children's fund adds that eight children are being injured or killed every day amid the war and world's most worst humanitarian disaster in the country. at a high level of vent in geneva the u.n. has raised more than two and a half billion dollars in aid for yemen but the organization says they needed more than four billion some of the donor countries are also linked to the almost four year conflict in the country either involved in the fighting or supplying arms.

middle east advisor for the norwegian refugee council karl schembri has joined calls for donor countries to stop selling arms to saudi arabia. but up about twenty four million yemenis in need of age of some sort either because they haven't received salaries because they are sleeping hungry at night i've let children attending at all of their high fuck was telling me they go to sleep hungry every other day because they can't afford to have a meal every day they've been displaced my thought was dying to save lost their

houses there is no safe place in yemen and there is no yemeni who hasn't in one way or another witness this war be it on land and sea and air strikes artillery tank fire it's happening every day across yemen the united states saudi arabia the united arab emirates further down the road the united kingdom they are the top dollar state have been traditionally the was most generous in funding and where it's our united for yemen but at the same time they are also the most active directory or indicted to meet with the sales of weapons or dropping off bomb site if you want to yemeni civilians so we're aware calling for an end so the. the book received ended up a list of the old school feeding was one how do you manage to keep them alive destroying their cancer with the other why the aid is desperately needed they themselves are creating the need for that states through the war through the fighting through the blockade of of yemen these weapons this fighting this having a direct impact on women children civilians who have absolutely lost

a in this conflict. dollar 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 or cohen pulled no punches either when talking about his ex boss. today i am here to tell the truth about. he is a racist. he is a con man. and he is a cheat mr trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations so well to campaigns and lied about it and i have never asked for nor would i accept it from president trump ladies and gentlemen how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness 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 campbell to fight his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with. cohen was a term confidant 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 for 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 and liar and anyone who's willing to speak in that absolute in that strongest terms in 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 could 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 pulled 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. veteran us politician bernie sanders is having another stab at the presidency and twenty twenty and is already in electioneering mode he recently feel the questions from guests on c.n.n. who though billed as members of the general public turned out to be heavily into

politics with some pointed questions. how can a voter like me. feel confident in your ability to represent the party especially given that your response is sexual harassment allegations during your campaign is that you were quote a little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case to be elected as president. good evening. there's

a lot of misinformation regarding your plans for universal health care would you please provide a brief overview of your plan and how it differs from that of other candidates. if you become president. will you support efforts to offer high quality optional publicly funded preschool for all americans . i'm a student at the george washington university. which tells impressive seventy three thousand sticker costs as president how will you work to alleviate this issue. this is a lot a long running to caesar than the u.s.

political system true. they're used to try to undermine the opposing parties and the notion of opposing parties this is just fundamentally destroying every country people just attacking each other from opposing sides that really decides what's really true is that this might be showing a symptom of something that is just has to do it and the serial dialogue and and progress through competition or progress through conflicts i think that c.n.n. has their systemic issues just because again they have to have yours which is sort of sad but i find that that to be par for the course the way that our media operates is hard to find media that is doesn't have an agenda i would not be surprised if c.n.n. wanted to have a certain kind of public experience of this political figure thanks for tuning in this hour don't forget you can always find us on all of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook are up to the minute reports.

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