inching up on one side of the chart and then as an outlier is the united states it's way over here it's all crashing down from the drugs from the having junk food having a junk culture having a junk politics and fake news it's all fake and fake doesn't sustain life and you see it in the numbers it's clear. another turbulent week for venezuela both russian and u.s. resolutions to resolve the country's crisis fail at the un security council on washington's economic pressure problems caracas to transfer the european h.q. a base for main oil to most good. from seas a sixteenth weekend of yellow vests movement on rests with police resorting to take gas sound of water cannon against protests. and the u.s.

and north korean leaders hold their second summits but fail to reach a deal on denuclearize asian cues in each other of unreasonable demands. a very warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest on a roundup of the stories that shaped the week the first the u.s. has formed a coalition to hand over power in venezuela from current leader nicholas mature to self-proclaimed president. that's according to u.s. security advisor john bolton he says the plan is for a peaceful transition of power. so i'd like to see as broad a coalition as we can put together to replace me to replace the whole corrupt regime work in this administration we're not afraid to use the phrase monroe doctrine spin the objective of american presidents going back to ronald reagan to

have a completely democratic hemisphere the monroe doctrine was unveiled by a president james monroe in the nineteenth century its purpose was to stop any european interference in the affairs of nations in the americas a declaration that any such action will be seen as unfriendly towards the us but many interprets the doctrine as an assertion of us a germany of the entire western hemisphere sort of a pay career cabrera associate professor george mason university says such nineteenth century principles have no place in the modern world they are about the fundamental. foundations of democracy without concern to negotiation by the international community marco doctrine was in a period where there were some international. in europe was agreeing with america for the americans leaving the united states dealing with the issues of the western hemisphere today we're talking about

a multi parlor world and i don't really know why would i mean what would that mean if america can be only for americans when you're talking about a world that's more globalized when other countries also have interest in the americas economic interests very important economic interests the border between venezuela and colombia witnessed further violence this week as tensions over american aid deliveries intensified that as well and 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 maduro 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 orchestrated double standards show over venezuela washington and london have both again robbed an entire nation of billions of dollars in the same time are 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. today's 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 us resolutions dinan past 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 us 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 representative spoke as well calling to stop interfering into the matters of his country the power to be this will has to do with having a swell and sober at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east they are planning a clandestine operation against it it's what i write out the same kind of took it up to force about the same time they are just feeling out of money this is something outrageous indeed so the diplomatic community in the crossroads again the u.n. as steve 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 interests around the of the spanish capital madrid in support of president mature demonstrations way of times often as whalebone as an denounce what they see as an attempt by the u.s. to intervene in another country's internal affairs for desires to visit venezuela as a un with. seventeen believes washington is trying to escalate the situation. quite

clear to me that the united states is waging war on international law now that trump does that does not surprise me question is what will the. international crises 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 say's washington has its sights firmly set on venezuela's oil reserves the largest in the world u.s. sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state owned assets in a proactive move venezuela ordered the state oil companies european h.q. to relocate to moscow vice president tells you

a dream has told us more about the decision. it always in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's assets and therefore violating the legitimate interests of our country they violate all existant 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 than israel's legal protection we're talking about the theft of venezuela 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 p.d. vs a office from europe to moscow this is connected with the expansion of the corp of a russian company in the field of energy 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 the un has also counseled the visas the forty nine influential venezuelans

aligned with president maduro if there is anyone who steals from the venezuelan people undermines democracy is not welcome francisco domingo as head of latin american studies at london's middlesex university believes the u.s. is doing everything in its power to achieve its goal in venezuela people in venezuela deeply the million. dollars the pressure from the united states almost exclusively on the military. is again and again through those. through may you name it got those words what is it going on be only scenes far they go almost nothing. raises the specter of. which can be organized irregular forces.

see. exactly the league it is organized so this is just concerned therefore that confirms not only the way the law is but the united states going to school something much more dramatic. politics things that we can straighten out a vest marches were held in cities across france on saturday clashes erupted some of the demonstrations with police deploying take out and water cannon. forty thousand was the two have taken part in marches nationwide four thousand of

them in paris on friday president mccrone again appealed to college and people to refrain from the kind of violence seen in previous weeks police made a number of us so on saturday all the other vests began as a grassroots rally of a feel times says it has broadened into a wider and get the president of the economy. because they should at least meet one of our demands to show they are listening to us that we are not doing this for nothing but 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 at the lower back on essential crowder's the grandest the citizens initiative referendum those are the two essential demands as long as they don't give us that we will stop. you

to thank god such as this that people in difficult spittle who have a hard time surviving under arrest i think. to call mass which a message against police violence have many different messages. on tuesday india carried out and asked what it says was a terror camp in pakistan increasing phase of a military confrontation between the two nuclear neighbors.

south asian politics and security expert on the land mr believes that maybe a foreign power behind the conflict what we are seeing at the moment is that low intensity conflict on the ground on this 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 so he's personally coming from the united states saudi arabia and united i mean it's kind of forced pakistan to take the course you said that it took neither of these parties want to. go down the path to peace in pakistan the army has destroyed so

there is a military establishment which is there for war on india because the nationalist. party which is craving for some kind of contractors make profits from which you give it to someone that marvelous in the forthcoming election. a bit by algeria is ailing president for a fifth term in office sparked student protests in the country on sunday police used tear can use water cannons to disperse the demonstrations and lizzie's a beautifully curry was eighty two years old has been in power for twenty years and has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke and twenty thirteen a similar rally took place in the heart of the french capital paris with people calling for their own gerry and leader to abandon his plans to stand in the election after after the first protests broke out more than a week ago beautifully issued a statement promising that in case he gets reelected in april he will not serve a full term and early elections will be called. oh.

no on thursday donald trump and 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 a lifting of u.s. sanctions against pyongyang with trump and kim unable to agree on the terms despite little headway washington and pyongyang 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 is to reduce tension and advance denuclearization in the korean peninsula however the drills have not in fact been cancelled but rather replaced by another set of exercises are to scale of more pain take stop. because the second trial came through means. the talks in hanoi between trump and cam 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 their 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 child 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 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 president did not get in many things was a little bit that he was proposing the north koreans walk away thinking you know they've got they want and gradually they will see they are sanctions regime begin to erode then they've won and frankly that would be unfortunate i was smart to expose a north korean delegation to the god of arkansas mark 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

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 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 win a 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 artsy new york president told us the trumpet

ministrations hawkish stunts elsewhere and that the roading north korea's trust in the 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 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. i could have i'm very off script donald trump given a two hour speech at the conservative political action conference but it seems that has been little change to the topics on the table with the russia propes still dominate. america is winning again. america is respected again. to say something like russia please if you can get us hillary clinton's e-mail.

so everybody's having a good time i'm glad that we're all having fun and that c.n.n. and others. russia to go. all collusion with russia collusion delusion. that nasty business transaction with robert. i said. he wanted the job as f.b.i. director i mean the things that. it was in america first in many cases it was america last we are reversing decades of blunders and betrayals you know i'm totally off script right now. and this is how i got elected by being off script. russia's hand was apparently

also found here with putin accused of being the man behind the speech. how many pieces parts of president putin has to do us was president trying trying to accomplish today he was also saying things that really look like lattimer putin scripted his speech these people some of them millionaires billionaires the best the brightest squad made up giving you the best and they actually said that nobody came in with a hawk nobody no white coat came in and sedated them and say would you lads when you were at least wait let the russian thing go home now i'm not trying to tell people what to do but one could argue that there are some things the president drop a said that might be garrulous a piquant controversial your might want to go there this is trump

arrangement but there is a trump hyphen putin in russia during syndrome this is a preoccupation a pavlovian obeys and it's this weird kind of a connection it's an obsession an obsessive compulsive. reaction that they can not let go. while the u.s. media continues to hunt for a link between the president putin now trunks disgraced former lawyer michael cohen failed to provide any evidence of collusion with russia what he testified before congress on wednesday members of the house accused him of being a liar cohen had previously pleaded guilty by lying to congress about trump's supposed connections to mosco but this time he pulled no punches when talking about his former boss. today i am here to tell the truth about. he is

a racist. 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 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 even if the fight his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with. cohen was a tram confidant for more than a decade after his moment in the spotlight to begin

a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax and bank forward as well as lying to congress we discussed his testimony with former us republican republican congressman michael patrick flanagan. as we call it in the united states when election season comes near 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 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. by choosing not international they sound with backing things five minutes with the latest c.n.n. . join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. when i see images and hear things what they're doing. i see people who are afraid

not see these young men as some women in the white supremacist groups and i see those i see really scared. scared they lose it. all they have the whole or that is the color of their skin that's all they have going for themselves to their white skin. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

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the country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i can thank and we've got to hit the road and get out of the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlottes and the genius of america here this is it we found the point around which hollywood has got inside we're starting last with is going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bee i think i'm gonna leave now don't forget a more gonzo book that may be completely different than the mr. mars journey from california hollywood where they meet the thing where king dreamer made heading into the swamp where it all started insane all this love and you know long way that there is a sort of polarization going on bridging bleaching breach so mad over sean hannity amazon d.c. versus fox is that. causing polarization or is that just on the news and actually out in the real world as on when you get down here and you get in touch with the

history then you start to realize that the william faulkner quote is really true would you when he said that the past isn't dead it isn't even past and what we're experiencing right now is just a continuation of a protracted struggle that really culminated with the civil war when six hundred fifty thousand americans and were killed and millions more were maimed we're still living out the civil war that's what you see with this kind of polarized dynamic that m.s.n. b.c. and fox news exploit and that's what you see with the democratic party really representing the a cell accord or when the republican party representing the sunbelt an increasingly you know the hollowed out economically hollowed out rust belt and trump is just capitalizing on that as his opponents are hillary clinton called a lot of america basically a basket of deplorable but even after she lost the election she said that she won the winner she won in the region where they're winning and the areas that voted for

trump are the losers and i always think about her basket of deplorable comment because the fact is donald trump energized openly a part of the republican base that has always been there that is deplorable and this is you know the deplorable who shot up a synagogue and pittsburgh the other day the deplorable mailed out package bombs these are people who are energized and excited by the energy that trump on locked because he basically stands at the bully pulpit as the president legitimizes their resentment the republican party you know they've always done this but their dog whistles trump does it openly and you know it was a successful strategy when hillary clinton was talking about was something that when she talks about winners and losers trump said that from another alternately oppose that angle but he said the same thing that he's going to make america great again he's speaking to the people whose jobs were basically handed over to mexico and china.