thank you oh. thank you. god thank you i was and. whether or not the long awaited miller probe into trump's rush occlusion will deliver a smoking gun u.s. democrats look set to launch their own investigation intent it seems on still achieving one thing for you peach somebody you have to persuade the american public for to happen the truth is a long way down the road. yet the u.s. prolonged sanctions on venezuelan officials on considers new measures against countries that support president maturer after south eclair leader one point zero and were times to correct. under british born aid worker who was once was

a western media darling is deprived of his u.k. citizenship over alleged links to al qaeda among brands the accusations unfair and waste of. the u.k. primary school reportedly caved into pressure on suspends its lessons on homosexuality after hundreds of angry parents keep their children at home in protest. to. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with mina care and now our top story in the u.s. the senior us democrats are demanding all access to all communications between donald trump and latham a period said that's amid claims the u.s. president can seal details of what he spoke about with his russian counterparts the following request has been 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 referral relate to any communications between president trump and president putin u.s. democrats are doubling down on efforts to catch trump on alleged collusion with russia that could be because there's talk the current miller probe into the issue will prove to be a disappointment in that respect as kelly morgan explains. 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 navl or 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 to you impeach somebody you have to persuade the american public that it ought to to happen 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. i 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 investing. ations and impeachment have turned into just another play in the never ending political football game he looked up and artie in new york donald trump has branded the new efforts to impeach him harassment of innocent people he also pointed out that there's no evidence of collusion ties with russia former u.s. republican congressman michael patrick flanagan believes the democrats control inquiry will backfire. 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 of

them all are 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 reluctant 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 above all are doing is but now more is done and he's apparently not going to report much of anything that 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 an surprise a price that will have the outcome that they wanted to have and no one will believe that. u.s. president donald trump has extended sanctions against the venezuelan government for alleged human rights abuses and according to washington special envoy for caracas new message measures are now being considered targeting countries that support

president material we haven't done it yet secondary sanctions. it's clear. it would depend on the conduct of those. entities earlier the u.s. threaten to tighten the economic screws on cuba over its primitive starnes the u.s. national security adviser said the new restrictions would target cuba's military john bolton also tweet it's the region's nations should condemn caracas russia's foreign ministry described bolton statement as crazy and inappropriate marg as you have takes a closer look at washington's role in south america. the united states is exceptional literally bouncing 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. you don't 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. 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 a zoo l.-a 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 say no not that that is who 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 and there a 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 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 is 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 the continent oh you've got to be special all right. discuss this further now with our guests collin as cavell political science professor mystic of l. thank you for joining us on the program as we just heard earlier u.s. special envoy elliott abrams said secondary sanctions are being considered against countries that cooperate with the venezuelan government if this happens who could become move who could be targeted. nikki the united states impose sanctions on all the governors of the middle as well on its top officials

and targeted a ministration of president maduro and then as well with sanctions closing down their bank accounts etc now they're threatening other countries who deal with ben's lead well so in that if you do not support our sanctions we're going to impose sanctions on you so with the trump an illustration as do his forcing us. and other countries to june are you going to see more this aggressive. who told the role of the elected government of venezuela or are you going to goals and support this government that the united states does not lie so it is international. the venezuelan conflict on a very dangerous basis because countries now are being forced to jews are they

going to go with an aggressive appear looser action or are they going to support democracy and the rights of the people there as well. considering it's been one every month since one kwaito dickhead declared himself president and the country that mature it was still in power of course so let's have take a listen to what the state department spokesperson had to say about what's happened since then let's remind ourselves. fifty four countries have now recognized. as interim president so we're going to continue pushing. we're going to continue pushing since you just mentioned the number again robert fifty four that's a that's only about a quarter of the u.s. of countries in the world that right if you go the number of countries but we've got a major supports in the western hemisphere and i would just point that out as well as europe. and. if we look at the mocker seas we're doing pretty well as

well ok all right. i was robert palladino that saying that their us was doing pretty well in getting recognition for. do you think washington ready does view this as a big success so far. or should just the world proclaim it the us to its supporters in the united states but those just indicated three quarters of the world's countries are siding with the elected government of the democratic government of the whaler and that includes the largest countries in the world china and russia so despite what donald trump serves internally to keep in power domestically the world is watching very closely this imperial aggression in june venezuela as far as an individual claiming to be president one wideout i mean that's like if i just said i'm so proud of brunei

who's going to recognize that no one recognizes why those except any type of an peerless force and that's exactly what's going on this is a violation of all rules of international law and it should be condemned it was actually in that very same press conference that elliott abrams with all twenty u.s. sanctions had ordinary people in venezuela and he said the problem is that a court said entirely by corruption and nothing to do with u.s. sanctions if he writes about that. nicky if you sanction. if you sanction it's us you know if you can pole sanctions throughout the country to create the current crisis in venezuela who is going to be hurt it's going to be the arab league citizen as well and that's what the administration is because as far as they're concerned they will if there's more pain on the minutes. then they

will rise up and overthrow their life the government the. political science professor colin thank you so much for joining us on the program we appreciate your thoughts. now british born man in syria has criticized the government's decision to strip him of his citizenship because the move unfair and racist to care sharif describes himself as an aid worker but admits to previously engaging in armed combat in the country and to see a check in has the details the story of a british born syria based aid worker fighting for justice has been making headlines in the u.k. this week to kira sharif has spent years in syria as a prominent aid worker described as one of the most high profile for nationals in he's now speaking out against what he's dubbed a racist and unfair system of citizenship stripping laws i mean i came out here to

help the innocent people there were being massacred by the bashar regime i'm an aid worker. the stories come to light following the lifting of the man's anonymity in a case that saw the u.k. government stripped him of his british citizenship back in twenty seventeen he was informed of the decision with this letter. it is assessed that you are a british pakistani jewel national whose travel to syria and is aligned to an al qaeda aligned group your return to the u.k. would present a risk to the national security over the united kingdom my decision has been taken in part reliance on information which in my opinion should not be made public in the interest of national security deemed a national security risk in twenty seventeen the man had been a media darling just a few years prior.

as well as dispatches by his live updates from syria blog post left his political preferences no secret the reason why i came to syria is to help the syrian people who are being massacred by the bashar he rebels why did it do it the problem is is that the broad of of of the syrian regime is a force women and children and civilians that are facing the rest these individuals who take it we cannot take their work that there that over there is aid workers because we know that these aid groups are operating in opposition held territory have only been operating with a kill connivance and that a messy of some of the most grievous and most violent terrorist groups that was ever nor so these aid workers so-called cannot exco keep themselves from the activities of these groups because in and working in these opposition held areas controlled by these groups they are giving sanction to these opposition groups and sanction to their activities sharif's lawyer has been seeking evidence from the

home office to find out why exactly his client was deemed a threat meanwhile the home office has had this follow up on the specifics of the case. we do not come until individual cases but any decisions to deprive individuals of the citizenship of based on available evidence i'm not taken lightly the issue of british citizenship being revoked has been in the spotlight figures more than one hundred people were stripped of their nationality in twenty seventeen compared to just fourteen the year before as sharif's appeal continues he maintains his innocence but the home office seems to have already made up its mind and start to trickle out reporting for r.t. on monday still to come a british primary school suspends its lessons following pressure from outraged parents would explain what caused that anger just after the break stay with us.

seems wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out just to. educate. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to. have to go right to be cross it's like the full story of the boy can't be good. i'm

interested always in the why. question. welcome back now a primary school in britain second city birmingham has reportedly caved into pressure and temporarily pulled the plug on itself home in protest on his polly boycott gives the details. well the cause of this route is a educational diversity program called no outside isn't it a means to teach kids about the different types of families that they might encounter and talking to them about things like the idea of having two moms or two dads and reading books to kids as young as four about the concept of same

sex families a program was devised by the deputy head of the school at the center of this route his name's andrew marr fattened actually he's been nominated for the world's best teacher award take a look at him talking about the program mostly lulu hooked another stick on both of them mostly nearly got some tissues on them but. is about teaching to you are different you can still be friends with anybody there's a huge going to. school they have to find ways to teach children to talk to counter them. but the majority of the parents at the school are on happy with andrew marr fats teaching methods it's a predominantly muslim school and parents fundamentally disagree with the idea of teaching kids about homosexuality in l g b t issues some of our viewers might know

that islam in islam homosexuality is forbidden so up until now the school had really held and said that they would continue this what year outlets as saying that the school has sent a letter to parents saying that the lessons are going to be stopped take a lesson up to the end of this term we will not be delivering any outsiders lessons in our long term your curriculum plan as this often has already been blocked for religious education because you simply will continue as normal and welcoming. will be there through this comes after protests last friday some six hundred. said that they hadn't taken their kids to school that's eighty percent of the school's attendance of the school's pupils the school wouldn't confirm that number but these protests have been taking place for a while now ever since this route started and some of them have been pretty sizeable take a look. at

that. i'm prior to the protests taking place there had been a big school petition that some four hundred predominantly muslim parents had signed calling on the school to stop these lessons so this is clearly an issue that's really riled up the parents in this school in the community i reported on the storing from birmingham a couple of weeks ago and this is what the parents had to say to me it's not for the reappeared for the reception kids. to homosexuals you should learn about your to old age not right now because you get your parents did teach you kids you know need to stick with boys and boys who doesn't a good thing this was a two hour live with a like it's because if you have to obviously clearly say you can't discriminate against religion and whatnot and that's what they're doing it's ninety nine percent

muslim it's not about the the jewish community the other communities are christian communities they're all have issues around the way things have been going now i've been in touch with some of those parents from the school and so far what i've heard is that this diversity program hasn't exactly been stopped it's more that it's been paused for this task and some of the headlines would suggest that it says sort of a big final ending to it that doesn't seem to be the case we've requested clarification from the school and we all still waiting for it but if the moment it looks that if the school sticks with this program and returns to it next or next year well it may well face the same protests all over again. a person inmate in northwest france has been detained after stabbing two guards severely injuring them at the time of the incident he was being visited by his wife

who was killed by guards in the shootout that followed the interior minister described the starving as an act of terrorism their attacker is currently serving a thirty year sentence in a high security facility for kidnapping armed robbery and extremist activity he reportedly sheltered god is great in arabic before lashing out at the guards in the prisons family visiting unit his wife is believed to have smuggled a ceramic knife into the prison let's cross live to philip ingram former british military intelligence officer now to discuss this further welcome to the program sir according to latest reports the wife of a radicalized prisoner managed to smuggle in a knife which was then used to stab two guards in the face and throat does it look like there may have been a major security lapse here well i think it shows a lot soon the procedures that there are in. prisons it's particularly difficult to

try and. be in visitor as they're coming in and subject to the levels of searching that is needed to make sure that they aren't bringing any form contraband. drugs or anything else and it's a challenge not just for the french but for president ford is across europe. france has suffered multiple attacks at the hands of islamic extremists since twenty fifteen and is still on high alert over fears of islamic state harvests returning from syria how could this latest incident affects that situation. well i just don't think the really links box it ties in with the pressure that's coming from president trump to try and take back the some hundred prisoners that are being held by various organizations in particular in the kurdish part of iraq and northern syria and he's trying to encourage european countries to to come back into the countries and deal with them through their legal systems but you know that the president trying trying to bully european leaders each nation has got their own

laws as to what they can do and what they can't do with the individuals and i think every national leader across europe has said they will deal with individuals that ups are be highlighted on a case by case basis and some of them as we've seen with trina begum in the u.k. have hired her you cases and ships stripped and that's something that's happened in other european nations the dutch of them up to some of the fighters associate with them the germans are looking at that and though the french are looking at that as well as we heard the stabbing happened in a family visiting units do you think it's surprising that someone described as a radical islamist with a previous murder conviction was allowed those privileges well actually the french courts whenever people are put into prison they're treated as human beings that's the difference between prisons in europe and prisons in isis held territory they are human beings have got human rights and most human rights are respected as per the law of the country and freedoms can be earned and taken away those freedoms are

there i think there has to be some questions as to how she managed to get a night in a new service a ceramic nice it's clear that that's been chosen to get through any metal detectors and things that there are so this has been planned well thought he did in france though have repeatedly raised concerns of all for terrorists why is this happening do you think. it's nothing new. the same thing's going to prisons the u.k. and prisons elsewhere if we go back in history the same thing happened in the prisons that know. where we have the explosive they were segregated into our irish republican terrorists. loyalist terrorists may turn that into a turning it's very difficult for prison authorities to stop people associate saying and teaching each other what they're doing especially whenever you've got them all packed into one of my security security area and i'm the sort of small ideas and there is the danger that they become sort of universities for terror or

universities for crime that's not something that prison authorities are dealing with as a challenge across the board whether it's crime to or whatever home about his military intelligence officer philip ingram thank you for sharing your thoughts with us well those are the headlines for you this hour with back in thirty minutes with the latest on his benefits are. traditionally in the foreign policy with the assistance of the legacy media defining immediate threat for a foreign military intervention or coup their aim is been to manufacture public support today it's different with virtually no public debate venezuela is the target of a forced regime change the problem is force regime change as a deplorable record.