u.s. house of. russia during the presidential election also demand that the white house produce all data communications between. washington keeps pushing for a change. as venezuela's u.s. back to proclaim president safely returns. a new poll finds that over half of french people the children of french jihad is returning home as the relatives of some kids held in syria appealed to the u.n. to get back.

it's eight o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live with me welcome to the program. and we start with the u.s. first senior democrats are demanding access to all communications between donald trump and putin regardless of form and classification after reports that the u.s. president the details of his talks with his russian counterpart which at times were conducted without the presence of an interpreter the following request was sent to the white house. the committee's requests the by march the fifteenth twenty nineteen the department produce all documents communications regardless of form and classification the refer or relate to any communications between president and president putin including in person meetings and telephone calls for the time frame china of the twentieth twenty seventeen to present similar tenuously us democrats want to expand the investigation into alleged trump russia condition the findings of the current prime into the issue have yet to be made public pin takes

a closer look. there's an old saying among cops and prosecutors if you throw enough at a wall eventually something will stick and this old saying usually expressed with less polite terminology seems to now be the montra of the democrats in congress jerry nadler has been selected to lead the charge impeachment is a long way down the road we don't we don't have the facts yet but we are going to initiate. a proper investigation investigations into abuses of power into corruption of just into corruption and into. destruction just look to remember the bob muller investigation that highly expensive two year long probe into allegations that donald trump had colluded with russia not too long ago democrats had many people convinced that it would be a huge game changer. well

the final report is imminent and some are worried that it won't contain a bombshell or smoking gun revelation but some democrats seem to have the same overall goal because we're going to go in there really. eighty one people have received a letter from the house judiciary committee they plan on following up on every last lead from the testimony of trump's former warrior michael. cohen at this point they are planning to investigate the relations between the white house and trump's family the firing of james komi foreign trade deals and much much more and it won't just be the judiciary committee that is looking into donald trump you have to do is follow the transcripts if there were names that were mentioned records that were mentioned during the hearing we're going to take a look at all of that the u.s. constitution lays out procedures for trying and removing a president who is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors the idea is to put

a check and balance on the executive branch so that it is not above the law however it seems that as of late investigations in impeachment have turned into just another play in the never ending political football game. r.t. new york the white house has already reacted to the new democrats effort calling it a disgraceful and a piece of investigation into tired fall solid patients former u.s. republican congressman michael patrick flanagan thinks that the democrats needed a fresh inquiry andy because the special counsel has filed. the democrats knowing that it's not going to be much of a report are now trying to build their own campaign and continue the to video from all or in their own clumsy imperfect way and their goal is to take this president down and make sure that he is in no way possibly real active next year and so they will do their best to keep this alive if more was keeping his or it is his summer

his investigation somehow alive they would be doing this because the need for this investigation would be would be vitiated by a bible or doing his but now motors done and he's apparently not going to report much of anything this says the democrats furious so they're going to build an investigation that they control that they run that they can control the outcome of and what surprised price it will have the outcome that they wanted to have and no one will believe it. to venezuela now as self-proclaimed interim president is back home after touring latin america in defiance of a travel ban imposed by the venezuelan supreme court washington took to twitter to cheer his return at the same time taking a swipe at the elected power in caracas. venezuela has welcomed back who are. good to see even his own security forces standing on the right side of history the world must unite push to end the brutal murder regime and peacefully restore

democracy. the world is watching as venezuela confronts imperial aggression and moves forward with dignity we will continue to hold high the flag of our free people who raise their voices against imperial interference. will return to the streets determined to mobilize in search of freedom. was welcomed home by thousands of cheering flag waving supporters here to then to mobilize for yet another protest against venezuelan president nicolas maduro on tuesday quite as return coincided with carnival festivities and crackers where not everyone shared his polish nude but always like those why do lives in his own world and powell universe meanwhile we're enjoying life thanks to the caribbean carnival twenty nineteen in caracas. we enjoy the carnival this is what we want now. and we want people to have gone be

happy and contented. meanwhile venezuela's problems become problems for the region the u.s. is threatening to tighten the screws on economic sanctions against cuba over how far as primadonnas stance america's national security adviser said the new restrictions would target cuba's military john bolton also tweeted that the region's nations should come out and condemn caracas more takes a look at why washington thinks it can police the world. the united states is exceptional literally bound by different rules to you and me of the nations states groups you see they have the right to decide who rules where like in venezuela they decide who is a dictator and who isn't they decide which dictators rule and which don't

now and state supports any number of dictators who violate human rights including the leaders of egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. do you not see that the united states support for other brutal dictators around the world undermines the the credibility of the argument you make no i don't think it does make it separate and i think look in this administration we're not afraid to use the phrase monroe doctrine. it's an odd chaotic nineteenth century policy that basically says no nation in the americas may be colonized by europeans out of bounds for europeans and everyone not from the americas a little later teddy roosevelt twisted this policy turned it inside out instead of protecting american nations the us now toppled governments it didn't like there now they've twisted it again now they think they can do this everywhere all over the world and he's a wella and

a bill that legitimizes us meddling that terry quire threat assessment a strategy to counter russian influence in venezuela. in effect they're trying to justify meddling in venezuela pogany because it's too friendly with russia and saying no not that then is asked for it not even america's champ there but you don't see broad support for i believe that there is respectful participation of russia in regards to watching the fate of our country but the same goes for other countries that are paying attention here america knows better in syria half the world away it's the same story in syria the united states where used to plumb us in work with our partners to expel every last iranian brute and work through the un a process to bring peace and stability to the long suffering syrian people for the life of me i don't remember syrians are asking the united states to get rid of

iranians but america knows better africa too many chinese there thinks washington up to no good and now is the time to boot them out china uses bribes opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands goes without saying it wasn't the africans who asked for this in fact according to the latest gallup poll most africans approve of chinese investment plans leadership in africa but the united states knows better you know why because it's special exceptional better than you or me officially our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order this is a unique exceptional country. imagine mr monreal would turn in his grave

if he could see what his but nine policy protecting the weak from european. colonizers what that has been turned into a license to kill to meddle to topple governments and politically burn continents oh you've got to be special all right the small dr will be generated especially during the reagan administration and it is now. very presenting all the ills of the empire or marriage to. america so the represents for example in southern cone of south america the disappearances of thousands tens of thousands of assault americans imposing to boston style dictatorship boldness threatening he's so good either you are going to either you're going to behave sweet dough you to behave or it will be another it

will be retarded to do so the data should be. we are going to actually throw out a way to mobilize our mercenaries. relatives of children of french j. hardy's have appealed to the un for the children to be allowed back to france they're currently being held in camps in syrian kurdistan one of the lawyers who helped to lodge the complaint says the children would be able to adapt to a normal life in france. when the french people every day for three years in a row are being held in this children are now i'm bombs they want to prove their repatriation made in fact they're being deceived the eighty four children have already returned to france they have depth they're being socialized they're ok according to the save the children charity there are now more than two and a half thousand children in camps in northern syria from around thirty countries where it does the lawyer we just heard from things around one hundred of them are

french france is currently dealing with the return of these children on a case by case basis the. french people seem to be against the children's return a new poll found that sixty seven percent of respondents didn't want them in france patrick jarden the father of one of the victims of a paris concert attack thinks the children of jihad is have to pay the consequences of their parents' actions. parents are bearing responsibility for the future of their children they've left france voluntarily nobody forced them out they've decided to fight against france they've crossed themselves from no forty their children should account for the consequences for me these children coming out of the question i don't consider them

french nationals also channel france spoke to paris residents to see what they thought about the children's fate is also interviewed children always need protecting. it is dangerous to take these children back they can make life more dangerous here it is often is a process. that will have an impact on our lives before they should not be left there. china has announced it's looking at to increase its military spending by seven point five percent compared with the previous year over one hundred seventy seven billion dollars for more on this let's cross live. in beijing a for us. firstly can you explain where the announcement was made and how does china's military spending compare to that of other countries.

well you know just china today actually i'm on the signing in front of the great hall here where the thirteenth a national congress was held this is pretty much where the it's the highest organ of the chinese state war elites and powerful politicians come here and they came here today to actually hear the draft of the budget and the economic vision of lot of next year and the one that happened last year also said here today that there was an increase in the military budget and the outline the reasons why that happened they said quote the reason that was because it was quote maintaining a reasonable and appropriate growth in a national defense budget is needed to safeguard national security and its line with the trance transformation of chinese military with chinese characteristics this is pretty much what the chinese officials were saying about the spending and why it was that it's there to do so but it's very interesting the americans now the united states government is kind of accusing of this military spending of the chinese defense of how it actually poses threats the rest of the world. we face

growing threat from revisionist powers as different as china and beijing will use its military clout to expand its footprint beijing is employing a whole of government approach using military tools as well as propaganda to advance its influence in the united states trying to modernize and expanding authority considerable nuclear forces. well it's interesting what there is the talking about and what they're saying about the budget will of the chinese military didn't spend as much as the united states the united states government actually last year they spent six hundred and eighty billion dollars in the national defense and now the president the united states is actually pushing even for more for almost up to seven hundred fifty billion dollars for the defense and this is what the chinese officials actually have. say about it . china's defense spending accounted for one point three

percent of its gross domestic product in two thousand and eighteen well during the same period some major developed countries spent more than two percent g.d.p. on the fence. well as we just heard earlier it was the chinese military that the chinese government spend one point three percent on this national g.d.p. on defense worth some of the western allies have been spending as much as two percent of their g.d.p. in their military defense and all this two percent thing i think we're quite familiar with that when trump was elected and even recently he was actually pressuring is that. c. meet that goal pretty much spend two percent of their g.d.p. on it. our allies are not paying their fair share. you have to pay the minimum required two percent of g.d.p. increased defense spending the countries we are defending must pay must pay what

they owe. and as we're just hearing you know he's pressuring and pushing and pushing for that super side but let's have a closer look at the military presence of the united states and china across the globe the united states currently has iraq the all profs in the eight hundred military bases all over the world were china only has one that is an africa and inch of booty now the united states has been saying that they're keeping that to maintain peace around the world but china is pretty much saying the same thing that their military base is for a piece. of a plane from beijing thanks very much for the everything on the thank you. full that pension security analyst michael maloof told us the u.s. is seeking conflict including with china to justify its own military spending. the united states. has a budget that's about five and a half times larger than china it needs conflicts all the time in order to justify

that kind of spending china as it improves on its economy and grows stronger and bigger and and seeks to branch out they need a military that can. project power so i envision that conflicts will continue china sees that inevitably it will have. it will have run ins with the united states. in areas in different areas of the world and it wants to improve on its military i think certainly the united states is watching china's economic and military rise it regards it as one of the along with russia as the other main adversary they regard china as the emerging power that to be concerned about a women's weightlifting record has been broken by a male intent on highlighting what he calls the absurdity of certain claims about

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thank. you. thank you. welcome back to the program a male british claims to have broken the women's weightlifting record while identifying as female he is trying to highlight what he calls the absurdity of claims that there's no biological strength difference between men and women is a viral tweet over a million views and comes amid a backlash against the growing number of athletes identifying as female in women's events in his post he outlined that he was identifying as a woman we spoke to him. so i think the video went viral because it touched on a timely issue and it was somewhat amusing and comical people did find it funny out

of the thousands of comments i would say less than twenty of them have been negative according to their own logic they have no proof that i myself did not identify as a woman was doing that video so by their own logic i could easily accuse them of being transferred or being bigoted by claiming that i in fact was not a woman seabees viral tweet got over a million views and comes amid a backlash against the growing number of athletes identifying as female in women's events british and lympics women sharon davis tweeted that women sports must be protected from people born as men however the world's first transgender champion cyclist rachel mccain and hit back insisting trans women athletes have no unfair advantage elin pick rules state men can participate as women without having a and to go home and therapy to bring down testosterone levels z.b. told us why even more restrictions may not be enough to ensure fair competition

focusing. testosterone is not the only difference that gives men physical advantage over women especially in strength and speed there are other factors as well if someone's gone through puberty as a male you are likely to be considerably taller especially at the extreme ends you're going to have a different bone structure you're going to have bigger hands bigger your entire muscular skeletal system will still remain that of a man so if i were to take some hormone blockers and suppress my testosterone levels for twelve months i still would be i'd still have considerable physical advantages over someone who's been woman for their entire life so it's not just as simple as the testosterone levels i have no nothing against i don't think anybody in this debate has anything against any individuals or groups it's merely about. maintaining fairness and not distorting reality in

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