the u.s. backed opposition of sabotaging the country's power supply washington threatens more sanctions against the government. the u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is back behind bars after refusing to testify to u.s. grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. and the u.s. house of representatives passes a bill to counter the influence of so-called dark money from. the international world news first for you this saturday morning the ongoing power outage in the country. while in venezuela people calmly

handled the consequence is electrical sabotage the entourage of donald trump was celebrating and enjoying with guilty perversion the suffering of the venezuelan people a few weeks ago the mature regime blamed for causing a large electric group blackouts we have now received the first video of what caused an ice unprecedented nationwide blackout in venezuela where there is poses bring nothing but darkness. electricity stations across venezuela shut down during the thursday evening rush hour bringing public transport to a standstill the power supply is gradually being restored in some parts of the capital what you're seeing here is the son of bolivar international airport in caracas where all flights have been suspended opposition leader and suffolk lead interim president says the madeira government's to blame on venezuela's defense ministry has called the outage an act of sabotage by the united states. after all we have seen after the statements from the spokesperson of the north. and

those who declares that you know no one can be so in a minute to believe this is a it is an attack we are homeless that. cannot be normal but fifty percent of the hospitals do not have the little generators and the other fifty. during an emergency the government is inefficient and corrupt and we know that the end of darkness comes when the usurpers leave power in venezuela meanwhile the u.s. special envoy to venezuela says countries could be sanctioned for refusing to recognize what has interim president elliot abrams also threatened new measures against president. we are losing sanctions and diplomatic action and to pressure the madeira regime hopeful that other countries will use these and other tools at their disposal to. you know it's always it's out there it's always a possibility we have not done it yet. and i wouldn't want to speculate as to whether the real or what would lead us to make that additional decision the battle

over the venezuelan presidency which has dragged on since january appears stuck in stalemate president maduro is still in power and it seems washington has no backup plan to force him out on on venezuela and an ambiguous confession by vice president pence how much longer do you have a timeline but there's no timeline now rewind of just a little over a month ago and here's mike pence the same mike pence announcing venezuela was on washington's laundry list in spanish. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one god or the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira or your syrup or and call for the establishment of a transitional government that was the moment washington put itself into regime change gear since then the us heavily invested itself in the crisis so how did it

come to this a thinly veiled admission of failure after all it looked so bright at the start in me a week's washington projected a no name mob cheerleader into the international frame one why dole became the poster boy of the social upheaval has his presidential ambition was quickly backed by america's allies brazil has just issued a note recognizing one we're going to go as venezuela's president one way door when . one goes one way do so in europe where you go you know one global since then though america's plans started to go into a frantic nosedive my duro wasn't going anywhere hadn't still has the army on his side and his supporters showed the opposition didn't own the streets of caracas then a big ruckus with aid the us tried getting into venezuela and which material didn't

allow concerned washington was using its old trick to smuggle guns to arm the mob which clearly showed just who's still boss in venezuela the scandal and the brawling on the board eventually did absolutely nothing to move america's regime change train forward everything the u.s. brings to the border piles up there why do is a post a president with no real power in the country he himself is shuttling to and from venezuela with little effect washington seems to have resist. the temptation to go for the favorite tactic of sending a few thousand soldiers to a school or to the undesirable leader out of washington resorts to the same boilerplate platitude over and over again all options are on the day all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table which all things considered sounds more like no options are on the table and actually

things didn't go much further than ola in the first place where there has been unable to deliver on his promise president maduro can you support him and wedo is looking like a shrinking power and expanding one so this crusade to appeal to unfortunate means the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up as the us talks about toward militarism colombia saying no brazil saying no european governments on the way those and so the united states is really in a small box they're shrinking and washington says it won't use force to deliver humanitarian aid to venezuela saying that though another batch of u.s. aid has arrived at the colombian venezuelan border in defiance of an official ban after clear leader why don't has promised to get supplies into the country the president is refusing to allow u.s. aid in calling it a trojan horse of a pretext for intervention he is though accepting help from the red cross and the u.n.

we also want to cut from the red cross about the agency's work in venezuela. situation it was really i was a big demand of. you in the security legion we are working on in the last more than two years together with any even if he's going to leak and we do the communities you're going to let you know what you wrote inquirers in the role in the war john you and your by now or the lack of resources that we. need to have more engine about the in the end than usual and bars are all and it is like aspirin draws we are birds they're human beings regardless any kind. and yet. we are there you know where all that is necessary to be played so you know people are suffering and we raise our service economy by working with other actors in

our. vision i don't really. eat all of our lives including the security. and war of the headline news former u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning has been jailed for refusing to testify in front of a grand jury and a case against the wiki leaks co-founder to going to sound manning's lawyer says they'll appeal for her swift release. this is an appealable order judge children did find her in contempt in open court well it's certainly a typical outram for this kind of proceeding as everybody knows chelsea has tremendous courage our primary concern at this plane is her how well she is confined chelsea manning first came to fame in twenty ten after handing over classified sensitive military data to wiki leaks she was sentenced to thirty five years in prison and spent seven of them there before being commuted by then

president obama the whistleblower was aware that she could be taken back into custody. i have a history of having to deal with secrecy and a lot of these secret proceedings they tend to favor the government they tend to allow things you know if arius goings on to happen so i am in general opposition of that kind of of this kind of proceeding taking place i believe in the grand jury process i don't believe in the the secrecy of this i have no problem explaining great closed hearing with only the prosecutor no lawyer. to remind you manning leaks more than seven hundred thousand confidential documents and videos because you have profound questions about u.s. foreign policy here's some of what she revealed. on. democrats.

and such are a human rights campaigner peter tatchell says it's suspicious that the hearing was being conducted in secrecy. what does the u.s. government and use of system have to hide why can't they conduct these hearings and these charges in open court in this case it's all being done in secret which flies against the fundamental democratic traditional principle that just the should be open and transparent and i think chelsea manning is quite right to shine a spotlight on the secrecy of the grand jury system and the way in which is weighted towards the prosecution and against defendants during assigned himself has been subject to secret grand jury hearings since two thousand and ten and he's never been allowed to know the charges against him or the evidence he's not being given any kind of information whatsoever and again this is completely contrary to

the basic fundamental principle of justice that it should be open transparent and accountable. the u.s. house of representatives has passed a democrat back to bill proposing measures to fight corruption and the influence of so-called dark money on the election process the bill is criticized by the republicans who accuse the democrats of a power grab claiming the legislation will not solve the problem and the more pain takes up the story. wherever you go in america you can see a widespread feeling that much of the government can be bought off that's why trump got so much applause with this slogan we are going to drink. more our time to drink this swaps was we are going to bring dream this one to swap about three of us who are. whole show that a pretty solid majority of americans want new laws to restrict the amount of money that can be contributed to political candidates that's why the democrats have

decided to sound the alarm about a new sinister force in american politics dark money special interest dark money fund a campaign the permissions influence of dark money in our politics money there's no disclosure about who's bankrolling the center for the executive branch is drowning in big money corruption so for dealing in lawlessness dark soft money coming into the election process so what exactly is dark money well it's money contributed by non-profits social welfare organizations labor unions and trade associations all of which are not required to disclose who their donors are so essentially it's dark money because it's off the books nancy pelosi has voiced her concerns are one. we stores the people's faith that government works with the public interest the people's interest not the special interests but here's the thing in the congressional midterm elections the democrats actually received more dark money

than the republicans did the group majority forward closely tied to democratic senator chuck schumer spent forty six million dollars in ten different senate races and even money out of politics socialist because you cortez has actually been facing some recent harsh questions about dark money that she received we decided to talk to new yorkers and see how they feel about dark money and politics it should be happening and it's a deeply complicated flaw of the united states. you know it's legal lou small pretty much good i think transparency is best when it comes to money the dark art of dark money is not divided along party lines but there are plenty of questionable contributions in american politics that are right out in the open from big oil companies banks and defense contractors it seems that yes dark money sounds scary but it may not be the biggest problem in american politics the problem may be the influence of money itself the democrats are making great use of dark money at the

problem is in america the money seems to find a way other ways to influence politics so they know trying to expose dark money is not really going to change anything they've had their own major problems for the democrats really want to have a change in the conversation and clearly that's what they're pushing here this entire bill is nothing but a flagrant attempt to hang on to their thin grasp on power. a six year old boy from southern russia has become a local hero he's rescued mobile one hundred homeless animals and many of them find new financial problems has been telling us about his volunteer experience. the. i love animals it's my goal to take them and give them shelter and find them good homes.

and. i simply cannot let them live on the streets in freezing cold weather during the winter it's very cold and hard for them to find food but we still rescue them in the summer to. which i just want to take care of animals i'm a come a special forces officer. excellent work vanny are now among our stories after the break we'll take a trip around the world to show you some of the international women's day rallies from friday live from moscow this is r.t. .

country's gone into a nihilistic fever. i think we've got to. get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlotte. this is a point. system. culture . we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more. it may be completely different. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then.

these three this saturday c.n.n. is facing questions of a diversity within its top brass itself to several groups of diversity has been running the american brokaw stuff. what people in europe in america ought to be proud of what they should be celebrating all the remarkable achievements diversity diversity in the workplace diversity inclusion respect featuring several black news anchors and correspondents c.n.n. seems to lack such representation and its top ranks that includes executive producers vice presidents and other senior positions as well the national association of black journalists which first raised the issue with blasted c.n.n. for failing to meet its delegation. to discuss the diversity gap members of the

group had requested a sit down with c.n.n. president and jeff zucker the channel explain why declined the meeting pointing at the dispute with the associations vice president now we spoke to a member of the national association of black journalists about why the whole issue has become so problematic. we have been monitoring c.n.n. for several years along with the other broadcast and cable networks here and we've noticed that there were no people of color no african-americans in the top decision rank making positions this is where the decisions are made not only about coverage but who will cover it how it will be covered what resources they're able to use to do that quite often this is the decision level where a lot of stories are either elevated or just pushed to the side and quite often we haven't learned through experience that stories about people of color or concerns of the african-american community in the united states don't often get the attention that they deserve this is a major concern to african-american journalists and should be to them since they

serve the entire community in the united states not just one particular group. thousands of women around the world marched for their rights and equality on international women's day on friday with some of the largest rallies in germany from spain turkey and argentina. thank you. thank. you all. i was.

in turkey however the women's day demonstration escalated into a standoff with police took his authorities disposed a crowd of several thousand matias who gathered in this temples taksim square. promoting the conspiracy theory to annoy him at the top seventy five percent of cinemas and cuban on is best known for its eccentric allegations against the so-called us deep states and its support for president trump on the court it takes up a story. you've seen the trails in the sky heard about how reptiles and chemicals in the water are making the earth flat but now there's q. and a conspiracy theory claiming democrats are murdering children and the deep state is creating diseases and this one is getting rave reviews on amazon great read it exposes things that are going on that the mainstream will not report thank you very much for spreading truth in the end justice will be served and freedom for will prevail truth shall set us free theory once lurking in the darkest corners

of reddit and four chan is now under the spotlight and thanks to who the mainstream talking heads who decided to trash on it probably played a part q. and a on conspiracy theory group called q i know you went on which essentially believes the entirety of the democratic party. are conspiring and running an underground pedophile sex trafficking ring it with already has watched this kind of thing there's no surprise these queuing on conspiracy folks are now showing up at trump rallies this is all insane and incoherent with how little americans trust the media these days the call outs are working more like promos q and on rose to amazon's number one bestseller and censorship in politics it's even pushed aside classics like the dystopian novel fahrenheit four fifty one. coincidence i think not. if you're looking to expose the masses to some controversial content mainstream attack sometimes this conspiracy theorist alex jones you tube facebook

and apple all announcing their own moving his content from their platforms they only actually took action after weeks of media pressure after jones' popularity shot through the roof you tube users viewed his talk on joe rogan's podcast about ten million times it was a perfect platform for all the android elves and drug crazed aliens they've got like astronaut level people taking super hardcore levels of drugs and going into meetings with these things and making interval act deals the nazis you get the deep literature they believed they were being possessed by entities they were psychically connected to each other and work your biological androids the great dissing theories on television clearly doesn't work but promoting conspiracy theories well that's a different story some people actually have some type of paranoid delusions or they have paranoid personality so they tend to see connections among things that other

people don't see bans on social media only strengthen the conspiracy theorists because they say if that wasn't such a you know a terrible thing that we've discovered they wouldn't be hiding it would be suppressing us so a it given that belief that there is something being covered up and b it makes them feel even more so. right just saying that i am one of the few people left you know to promote the truth i have to do it and they're more motivated to find some way to promote whatever pet theory or conspiracy theory they have. ok that's the way it looks i fall this saturday i'll have your next update off we've taken a trip to china to meet the young tastes training to become elite kung fu fight. it was not it now did you say. those were get out because relations were more punitive but now the religion is very very close intertwined so i think it's ok to

have a new treaty and you negotiation. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shape by the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no on. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for speaks

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