the mountains of waste only grow higher. venezuela accuses the u.s. backed opposition of sabotaging the country's power supply as washington threatens more sanctions against the door. 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 process. it should be happening and it's a deeply common thing fly the united states. now it's legal legal after refusing to testify u.s. grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. i welcome to your world news update from r.t. international and moscow on call embrace one of the afternoon here this saturday in the russian capital first for you this hour the venezuelan foreign ministry is accusing the united states of orchestrating and celebrating an ongoing power outage

in the country that said to be the worst in decades 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 this is the simon bolivar international airport in caracas where all flights have been suspended opposition leader and self declared interim president. says the madeira government is to blame or the u.s. pointed the finger at years of corruption and under-investment venezuela's defense ministries 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 support them no one can be so naive to believe this is a random event it is an attack on our homes. cannot be normal but fifty percent of the hospitals do not have illiterate generators and the other fifty. during an emergency the cover. it is inefficient and corrupt and we know that the end of

darkness comes when the usurpers leave power in venezuela washington says he will not use force to deliver humanitarian aid to venezuela another batch of u.s. aid has arrived at the colombian venezuelan border in defiance of an official ban self declared leader why don't we promise to get those supplies into the country but president maduro is refusing to allow that u.s. aid in calling it a trojan horse and a pretext for intervention he is there except to help from the red cross and the united nations we asked what to cut from the red cross about the agency's work in venezuela. the situation in venezuela is a big demand of this war and you have you in the security relation we are working on in the last more than two years there with any if it indeed is in going to lead and with the communities in going to let you know what your global environment and the role got in the world which only monitored by now

or the lack of resources that we. need to have more engine about the independent util and bars are all and it is like aspirin laws we are birds they're human beings regardless any kind of and yet if you look. there are you know where all of that is there's a play in syria that people are suffering and we raise our overall service globally by working with other actors in our. region i don't really. eat all of our lives including the security meanwhile the u.s. special envoy to venezuela says countries could be sanctioned for refusing to recognize one as interim president elliott abrams also threatened new measures against president maduro. we are using sanctions and diplomatic actions

to pressure the moorer 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 but there i was still in power and it seems that washington has no back up plan to force him out. of explained the u.s. is back to square one 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 serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government that was the moment washington put itself into regime change 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 obed 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 why do as venezuela's president one way door when. one go to war when they do so in your way though you know that when global since then

though america's plans started to go into a frantic nosedive my duro wasn't going anywhere in still has the army on his side and his supporters showed the opposition didn't own the streets of caracas are you . serious. never a traitor. reasonable and. that's how it has to be. 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 hooves still boss in venezuela washington seems to have resisted the temptation to go for the favorite tactic of sending a few thousand so. to a score to 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 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 to allow humanitarian aid in the military has not left the side of president maduro can you support him and is looking like a shrinking power and expanding and so this crew seems to appeal to a fortune that means the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up as the u.s. talks about militarism colombia saying no brazil saying no european governments are saying no people do not want to die it is really in

a small box that's shrinking. measures to fight corruption and the influence of so-called dark money in the u.s. election process of our one is designed to do that to restore ethics and accountability to fight back against the interests of big money in our politics or one. we stores that people state their government works with the public interest the people in chest not this special interests not 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 sois we are going. to

swap. three. whole showed 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 permission is influence of dark money in our politics money there's no disclosure about who's been growing the surf or 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 this is about 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 dark special 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 of. dark money in politics it should be happening and it's a deeply complicated flaw of the united states. and its legal leo 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. turning out in their thousands women around the world march for their rights on international women's day on friday with some of the largest rallies in germany

from spain turkey and argentina. you were. i. i. i i. i i i. i i. in turkey however the women's day demonstration escalated into a standoff with police turkish authorities dispersed a crowd of several files and who gathered in defiance of a government ban on protest rallies in istanbul's taksim square. about promoting the conspiracy theory cuba known has had the top seventy five

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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 to troll brownlee's this is all insane and incoherent with how little americans trust the media these days the call outs are working more like promo 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 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 plod forms band info wars 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 would get the deep literature they believed they were being possessed by entities they were psychically connected to each other and would work like robots here's what pilate believes. the elves are biological androids the great this in 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 bands on social media only strengthen the conspiracy theorists because they say if it wasn't such a terrible thing that we've discovered they wouldn't be hiding it they 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 to you know to promote the truth i have to do it and the more motivated to find some way to promote whatever pet theory or conspiracy theory they have still thought they had this saturday us whistleblower chelsea manning's back behind and as a diversity dilemma at c.n.n. as i see reports after the break. question countries are very reluctant to recognize the fact that is that is why mike formally and also to admit that they were perhaps wrong in. condemning him or siding against him so with glee in the early stages of the war so. undermined the reconstruction process by the prolongation of sanctions i think it was in countries

with winds as the jewish where this is serious we can start to you know ways in which he started by a third power not russia not by the west and by the g.c.c. . to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be close and. want. to be close that's what the three of them or the people. on the interstate always in the waters of. saturday's 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 founder julian assange manning's lawyer says they'll appeal for her swift release. this is an appealable order judge hilton did find her in contempt of court who is certainly a typical for this kind of proceeding as everybody knows chelsea has tremendous courage higher primary concern at this point is her how well she is confined and chelsea manning first came to fame in two thousand and 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. every 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 and if arius goings on happened so i am in general

opposition of that kind of of this kind of proceeding taking place i believe in a grand jury process i don't believe in the sick 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. this all stems back to when manning leaked 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 but a warning that you might find some of the following video disturbing. on. the.

veteran human rights campaign a peter tatchell says it's suspicious that the hearing was being conducted in secrecy. what does the u.s. government introduce a 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 tradition principle but 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 defend during the songs himself has been subject to secret grand jury hearings since two thousand and ten he's never been a. allowed to know the charges against him all 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. c.n.n. is facing questions over diversity within its top brass its after several groups representing the black community in the us pointed at the absence of minorities in the company's executive board diversity has been a running theme on the american broadcaster. 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 that kind of representation in its top ranks that includes executive producers vice presidents and other senior positions as well the national association of black journalists who first raised the issue has blasted c.n.n. for failing to meet its delegation to discuss this diversity gap members of the

group had requested a sit down with c.n.n. president jeffords of the channels explained why declined that meeting 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 decision making positions this is where the decisions are made not only about coverage but who will cover it how it will be covered by 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. something to put a smile on your face now a six year old boy from southern russia has become something of a local hero he's rescued more than one hundred. homeless animals and help many of them to find a new home financial problems been telling us about his volunteer experience. of those. i love animals it's my go 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 foreign food but we still rescue them in the summer to. make sure i just want to take care of animals on the from a special forces officer. i want to tell you that's how it looks from moscow this out you know nails had to update you again after all sorts of a report. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to signal from fields where

everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one alter if you think . i'm going to talk about football not be or else you can think i was going to the. by the way what is that that's like here. my seven years doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse started going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. then the war on drugs. with the number of

people who are in prison for. certain sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. during the grid to prison which are old enough to remember that it was most my family were working. 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 turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engine. near 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. narrows. we'll switch is dedicated to increasing power for just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

i am backscatter this is. tries a report. they say hey max in the second half you continue talking about cash and cash flow societies and the possible totalitarian aspects of that because you're in a system controlled by the banks and you cannot exit it without cash i think that's an interesting way to look at it now i want to look at a headline out of china and then compare the story from china to our own you know corporate controlled world so china bans twenty three million people from buying travel tickets as part of social credit system china blocked twenty three million

quote discs credited travelers from buying plane or train tickets last year as part of the country's controversial social credit system aimed at improving the behavior of citizens according to the national public credit information center's twenty eighteen report seventeen point five million people were banned from buying flights five point five million barred from purchasing high speed train tickets because of social credit offenses three poor released last week said quote once discredited limited everywhere so this is the realisation of what i've been predicting for a number of years the casino good lag so in china if you are not complying with an ever encroaching an oppressive state intrusion into your life you get discredited and the only way to keep yourself from being put in

deeper layers of the gulag is to. play on the video games essentially to swear your allegiance or play video games or earn big you know virtual gold this type of thing so you'll end up with millions of people now where to their monitors in this casino gulag model and it's highly profitable and the people who are stuck in the casino good leg are are never going to get out really they'll be born in they'll die in the casino.