well the way. you do when you're in the monkey room musical is. another turbulent week for venezuela and 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 main oil firm to moscow. france the sixteenth weekend of yellow vest movement unrest with police resorting to tear gas and water cannons 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 on reasonable to me. this is the weekly bringing you the last week's biggest headlines from all of us here at r t h q in moscow welcome to the program. the border between venezuela and colombia witness further violence this week as tensions over american aid deliveries intensified and as well and president nicolas maduro has blocked the shipments from entering claiming they could be carrying weapons 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 woodrow and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people

the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now they're going to 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 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. 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 u.n. 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 sovereignty and of an assault on people they behave like colonial east they are planning a clandestine operation against it sort of right out the same kind of talking about what he thought and therefore at the same time they are just feeling out of money you see something outrageous indeed so the diplomatic community in the crossroads again the u.n. as save 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 often as well banners and denounce what they see as an attempt by the u.s.

to intervene and another country's internal affairs of her desires visited men as well as u.n. repertory 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 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. maduro says washington has its sights firmly set on men as well as oil reserves world's largest u.s. sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state on assets but in a proactive move venezuela ordered the state oil companies european h.q.

to relocate to moscow vice president delsea rodriguez told us more about the decision. it always 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 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 when these wells legal protection we're talking about the theft of the israel 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 vs a office from europe to moscow this is connected with the expansion of the corporation for russian company in the field of energy and the feel 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 venezuelan 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 million syrian lions the soldiers drawn the pressure from the united states in particular almost as closely on the military literally as could three years again and again through those who are shown. through blackmail you name it got those words where's it going on beyond the singing's us all far they go almost nothing listen to me low these raises the specter of. nothing which can be organized irregular forces and trained and

organized by the united states and mr abrams is exactly the best and totally get it organized so this is jane concerned therefore that confirms not only won't always be fitted by the united states going to score something much more dramatic. for the sixteenth weekend straight yellow bus marchers were held in cities across france on saturday clashes erupted at some of the demonstrations with police deploying tear gas and water cannon.

forty thousand were said to have taken part in marches nationwide four thousand of them in paris on friday present again appeal for calm urging people to refrain from the kind of violence seen in previous weeks police made a number of arrests on saturday all the best began as a grassroots rally over fuel taxes it's since broadened into wider anger at the president's handling of the economy. the closer 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 all traces are increasing in the supermarkets to ten percent on products it's the opposite of what we want. we want them to give the purchasing power back to the people of the lower fat on the central crowder's the grandest the citizens initiative referendum those are the two essential demands as long as they don't give us that we believe stop. you.

getting. the sense of this that people in difficult unless you have a hard time surviving and salaries i think are constant and the mass of the masses against police violence i have many different messages am. on thursday donald trump a north korean leader kim jong un. along with their retinues 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 denuclearization and lifting of u.s. sanctions against pyongyang with trump and kim unable to agree on the terms despite little headway washington and canyoning say 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 denuclearization on the korean peninsula however the drills have not in fact been cancelled but rather replaced by another set of exercises are to scale up and takes 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 they were 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 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 defend ourselves 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 in nobody wants to play with you would think that with 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 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 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 comic 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 invoicing 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 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 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 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 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 the 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 of 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 arms neighbors.

south asian politics and security expert on the land a miserable lives there may be a foreign power behind the conflict. 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 has ecclesiastes there's

a lot of history of behind that that has to do with the prez 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 path to peace and in pakistan the army has the state so that is a military establishment which is their whole walk on india we haven't lost the least in divided his own party which is craving for some kind of confrontation at foxconn which would give it to claxon under my list in the forthcoming election. a shooting range in the u.k. uses pictures of a teen eisel bride for target practice sparking a public debate on that after this short break.

countries gone into a nihilistic feed that's funny thank god it hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatan is the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we've come a point and i'm a challenge done so we always are on the courageous stand on this whole gun culture is really important. we're starting last with this is going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beach and i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more of downtown and then we may be completely different but in the midst of. what i see images and hear things with their dory. i see people who are afraid not see these young men and some women in these white supremacist groups and i see those are really scared. scared they lewsey. that all they have to hold on that is

the color of their skin that's all they have going for themselves to their white skin. welcome back a shooting range in the u.k. has been branded distasteful for allowing pictures of eisel bride shamima become to be used as a target the teenager earned notoriety after an interview in which she showed no remorse or regret about fleeing to join the terror group in syria one of her images used at the range covered in bold holes has been widely shared online to mixed reaction. in a society where hate and violence against muslims particularly muslim women is most prevalent on the rois it's deeply concerning that people requested an image of a real person as a shooting target it's clearly wrong to use photos of people as targets in a shooting they should stop why you're so worried about a traitor they're just plain thinking with her poster her i says friends tossed

real human hands of beheaded victims like a football and she wasn't fazed remember that so me i'm a big i was born in britain but took her sister's passport and fled to syria to join eisel when she was just fifteen she now says she'd like to return to the u.k. to care for her newborn baby but britain's move to revoke her citizenship here's why the shooting range said it was using beacons image. the targets provide some fantastic reactions and conversations and allow people to have some lighthearted fun and bring out the inner child in us all the targets we provide do not necessarily always reflect our personal opinions after watching footage of should mean big i'm being interviewed and the lack of remorse and empathy she shows we chose to go ahead and run the target so is it appropriate to use an image in this way we put the issue up for debate. the issue is how it's going to actually impact on muslims in this country and muslim women in particular and the fact that we need

to recognize that she whether we like it or not because she is a muslim woman she is going to inevitably represent something that the people who are going to range people are saying this is something that is going to be targeting muslim women in the second what is more what is more offensive to muslim women the fact that should be pagans picture was at the shooting range almost nobody is going to go to all the fact that somebody is appearing on international television to say that should mean the begum is a vet present state of muslim women in britain that is not what i said that is a caricature. of what i've precisely what you said not if you have knowledge of the need to actually think about why do you allow me to finish what you allow me to finish and i'm talking about plane that is being made is that a racist environment this is a racist environment which you are a part of which is encouraging the targeting of muslim women she is a terrorist and their lord biding citizens and frankly you should take that back

you should apologize to muslim women in this country for suggesting that she is like them this is a process of desensitization of children from a very early age and this is problematic because it is saying that it's ok to shoot and kill women in the job because that's exactly what is being suggested in this to call it harmless fun i think it's important that we recover the child advocates on the t.v. channels that we should take military action to get the child by its u.k. who after all is an innocent victim she can take a hike i don't care about. the release idea if she also says it's not true and b. so fed was there to reason that there. is a terrorist group he'll be placed in a way that would be taken away but for a white person that would not be an option. their citizenship would be taken away he said only one of the law to recognize that there's a structural racism that exists through everything that you are actually saying the

sense of what you would define i think should mean why would i am to you all bring her back to defend. and try her and that's the issue there is an environment of hate that exists i think what we have to think first of all who are the real victims here should be jim he's a terrorist she supported a brutal terrorist regime the disgraceful idea in the media that we should be seeing her is the victim i think is sad and pathetic it would not be the role of the british state to tell british people what they can and can't do just cause one or two people are offended by it if we lived our lives bonding everything that that one person found offensive nothing would exist in the world of god i live in a country where we're never going to do that. 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 and he had already pled guilty of previously lying to congress about terms

suppose and connections to moscow but cohen pulled no punches when talking about his ex boss. today i am here to tell the truth about. he is a racist. is a con man. and he's a cheat mr trump knew i directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it and i have never asked for nor would i accept card 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 search 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 he did campbell to fight his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with.

cohen was a 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 long as well 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 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 to the state of new york to spar they 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 that was the weekly here on our to international bank you for tuning in wherever you may be. joining me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. my son was 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 he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivable long since for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier.

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hidden from them but in the. new place and we have been. you know. doing a lot of. violence on. the filipino subdivision of isis calls itself the abu sayyaf group and is based

around mindanao us alone and the sulu islands. its goal is to establish an independent muslim caliphate in the philippines. it's moot that they use large numbers of children in combat as human shields suicide bombers and as donors to treat wounded adult fighters. after almost twenty four hours at sea on route to visit the marines just us still don't know what's waiting for them transferred from one naval ship to another and the voyage continues.