anymore that it may be completely different. venezuela accuses the u.s. backed opposition of sabotaging the country's power supply as washington threatens more sanctions against the mechanic is back behind bars after refusing to testify to the u.s. grand jury in the case against we can. the u.s. house of representatives passes a bill to counter the influence of the so-called dark money from unknown donors in the election protests. and here in the russian capital not uncommon bright welcome to news from our team this saturday morning the venezuelan foreign ministry is accusing the united states of orchestrating and while in venezuela people calmly handled the consequence is electrical sabotage the entourage of donald trump was celebrating and joining 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 not unprecedented nationwide blackouts 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 saying here is the international self declared interim president says the media are governments to blame while the us pointed the finger at years of corruption and under-investment venezuela's defense ministry that was 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 american empire and those who supported them here no one can be so naive to believe this is a random event it is an attack on our homeland. it cannot be normal that fifty

percent of the hospitals do not have electric generators and the other fifty operate 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 one as interim president and abrams also threatened new measures against president maduro we're losing sanctions and diplomatic actions to pressure the moorer regime are 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 you know

the battle over the venezuelan presidency which is dragged on since january appears stuck in stalemate president maduro still in power and it seems washington has no backup plan to force him out as he goes down off now explained. the u.s. is back to square one on venezuela and an ambiguous confession by vice president rewind 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 ola 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 the 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 do became the poster boy of the social upheaval has his presidential ambition was quickly backed by america's allies brazil has just issued a new. one in your way though you know. 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 u.s. trade 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 border what everything the u.s. brings to the border piles up there why do is a post a president with no real power in the. one trick he himself is shuttling to and from venezuela with little effect washington seems to have resisted the temptation to go for the favorite tactic of sending a few thousand soldiers to a scorched the undesirable leader out of office at least for now and when confronted with the what's next question resorts to the same boilerplate platitude over and over again all options are on the table 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 to allow humanitarian aid in the military has not left side of president

maduro they continue to support him and great though is looking like a shrinking power and expanding one so this crusade to fortune that means the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up as the u.s. talks about toward militarism colombia saying no brazil saying no european governments are saying no people do not want to see that kind of escalation its coalition is way those and so the united states is really in a small box they're shrinking. a washington says it will not use force to deliver humanitarian aid to venezuela said another batch of usaid has arrived at the colombian venezuela border in defiance of an official ban self declared leader one quite over promise to get the supplies into the country but president maduro is refusing to allow the usa to get him calling it a trojan horse and a pretext for intervention he is though accepting help from the red cross and the

u.n. we asked well to cut from the red cross about the agency's work in venezuela. situation . all this war is. in the security relation we are working on in the last more than two years together with any event in india is he going to be and will be communities in going to let you know what your growth environment and the role got in the world john you heard by now or the lack of resources that we. need to have more engine about the in the bank than usual and bars are all and it is like aspirin we are birds they're human beings regardless any kind of i.g.f. if you live. there you know where all that is necessary to play in syria

that people are suffering and we respond our service economy by working with other actors in our. region i don't really. eat all of our lives including the security. council 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 in a case against the wiki leaks co-founder julian a sound mannings lawyer says they'll appeal for her swift release. and healable order judge children did find her in contempt in open court well it's certainly a typical outran for this kind of proceeding as everybody knows chelsea has tremendous courage our primary concern at this plane is her how well she is in find 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 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 proceedings taking place i believe in the grand jury process i don't believe in the seeking the secrecy of this i have no problem explaining what happened and i've done it before why we should go through this in a secret closed hearing with only the prosecutor no lawyer of this all stems back to when manning leaked more than seven hundred thousand confidential documents and videos because she had profound questions about u.s. foreign policy is some of course she revealed at the time.

but her and human rights campaign appear to touch will says it's suspicious that the hearings being conducted in secrecy. what does the u.s. government and reduces 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 justice 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. measures to fight corruption of the influence of so-called dark money on the h r one is designed to do that to restore ethics and accountability to fight back against the interests of big money in our politics h.r. one. we story that people state their government works for the public interest the people's interest not this special interests of the bill was criticized by the republicans who accuse the democrats of a power grab claiming the legislation will not solve the problem caleb maupin 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 dream. that one more time for three years to walk the swat team up we are going. to swap out. the. 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 from the campaign the permission to influence of dark money in our politics the stork money there's no disclosure about who's been growing the center for the executive branch is drowning in big money corruption so for dealing and 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 this is that instilling the confidence of the american people in the political process in what happens in government it is the people's interests that are being served not the darkness interest of that special interest money 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. dark money in

politics it should be happening and it's a deeply complicated flaw of the united states to. know it's legal legal smart 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 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 russian boy from southern russia has become something of a local hero because he's rescued more than one hundred homeless animals and many of them find a new home. has been telling us about his volunteer experience. i love those. i love animals it's my goal to take them and give them shelter and find them good homes. but 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 some of them a special forces officer. i swear vanier now among our stories after the break we're going to take a trip around the world to show you some of the international women's day rallies live from moscow this is r.t. international.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic. only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit. in.

again welcome back c.n.n. is facing questions over diversity within its top brass itself to several groups representing the black community in the us pointed to the absence of minorities in the company's executive board or their diversity has been something of a running theme of the american broke asta. what people in europe in america ought to be proud of what they should be celebrating all the remarkable achievements of diversity diversity in the workplace diversity inclusion respect integrity diversity and inclusion it is core to our culture that diversity and inclusion is the path forward to ensuring that your bottom line is great despite featuring several black news anchors and correspondents c.n.n. seems to lack such representation in the top ranks that includes executive produces vice presidents and other senior positions as well the national association of black journalists which first raised this issue has 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 jeff zucker the channel explained why declined that meeting though pointing at a dispute with the associations vice president 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 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 are 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 on international women's day on friday with some of the largest rallies in germany france spain turkey and argentina. i was. i. i. i was. i.

in turkey though the women's day demonstration escalated into a standoff with police turkish authorities dispersed a crowd of several thousand miles as you counted istanbul's taksim square. about promoting the conspiracy theory chua known as had the top seventy five best sellers on the amazon q and on is best known for its eccentric allegations against the so-called us deep state and its support for president trump is all he's done in court chemicals in the water making the earth flat but now there's q. and a conspiracy theory claiming democrats are murdering children in 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 read

it 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 to q. and a conspiracy theory group called q and you went on which essentially is the entirety of the democratic party are conspiring and running and 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 patrol brownlee's 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 in censorship and 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 don't go far enough to censor it like when platforms

banned info wars conspiracy theorist alex jones you tube facebook and apple all announcing they are a 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 intergalactic deals the nazis get the deep literature they believed they were being possessed by the entity's they were psychically connected to each other and would work like robots here's what he really believes. the elves are biological androids the grace this ng theories on television clearly doesn't work by promoting conspiracy theories well that's a difference now the silly tend to see connections among things that other people

don't see bands on social media only strengthen the conspiracy theorists because they say if it wasn't such a you know a terrible thing that we 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 be it makes them feel even more self 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. because that's the way it looks for moscow this hour thanks for your next update from me in the moscow news team is in just over half an hour productive tonight. there was none to trade with five years ago. because relations were more putin economic but now the relation is very very close intertwined so i think it's ok to

have a new treaty and you negotiation. welcome to maximize their financial survival guide. looking forward to a year that's with them. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. watch kaiser report. this is a stick from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is sponsor of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're the bad ones they're the litter box they're throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste because. but he has long promised to reuse the plastic. that's. a special projects funded.

on the i'm your best bet is the end. but for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. you know world of big. 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 troops the time is now for washing closer watch of the hawks.

for the comedy show we're americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents good to have you with us so bernie sanders kicked off his presidential campaign in brooklyn this past weekend with some fans here. with a segment is not about bernie sanders because the presidential election isn't for over a year and a half from now and to me talking about it now feels like talking about how exactly you're going to clean the like a dog off your carpet that you're pretty positive will occur and nineteen months from now. you know it might be useful to discuss but there are more important things right now and i prefer to talk about ideas because ideas matter and many of bernie's ideas are scary to the ruling elite right granted it's a bit funny to give us free to go and do you ever ah do you are let me write how do you want because. then follow me to the completely unaccountable black

box voting machines with no use for example making it the worst voting system in the western world oh. wait you were right. what that. go point is these ideas are not what your corporate rulers want to hear and that's why it's important for the mainstream media to act like they are toxic ideas terrible ideas so imus n.b.c. covered bernie sanders speech this week and had on a little panel to discuss it here is the first person rick tyler's response problem with his story and about bernie sanders in general bernie sanders father was jewish he was a. polish refugee he escaped from naziism and you would. think that the lesson that bernie sanders would have learned about immigrants to the united states were now that the son of a jewish refugee is running for president is that

a prosperous capitalist society works for people yeah. what there's should have learned from his father's escape from the nazis is that unfettered capitalism rocks. really i would think the takeaway would have been nazis. yes. they called it a prosperous capitalist society is it prosperous to the sixty one percent yes sixty one percent of americans who can't afford a thousand dollar emergency if their car breaks down there is screwed if their toddler said fire to the living room they're right which is happening more because their duty is what.