headline stories. that countries power supply washington friends. governments. the u.s. representatives passes a bill to. darken the from donors in the election process. it should be happening and it's a deeply complicated. its legal legal. and former u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is. refusing to testify. against wiki leaks.

twenty four seven news from russia's capital city this is our international my names you know mail and welcome our top story the venezuelan foreign ministry is accusing the united states of orchestrating and celebrating an ongoing power outage in the country said to be the worst in decades electricity stations are shut shower of thursday evening bringing public transport to a standstill the power supply is gradually being restored in some parts of the capital this is the cmon bowl of our international airport in caracas where all flights have been suspended opposition leader the interim president one. government is to blame well the u.s. pointed the finger at two years of corruption and investment. venezuela's defense

ministry has called the outage an act of sabotage i mean i guess. it will be after all we have seen after the statements from the spokesperson of the north american empire and those who support 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 are better able to 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 but other aspect of this story washington say said well not to use force to deliver humanitarian aid to venice we are although another part of usaid has arrived at the colombian venice we border in defiance of an official. said the current leader why don't has promised to get the supplies into the country but presently do it always refusing to allow us eight calling it a trojan horse and

a pretext for intervention is the accepting help from the red cross the u.n. we asked walter scott a from the red cross about the agency's work in venezuela. situation is a big demand all. the security. we want to give you the last more than two years any if anybody is he going to be and will be communities you're going to leave you know what you've. been there all going to do the war. by now or the lack of resources that we. need to have more engine of the in the. last we are better human beings regardless any. and you

know. there are you know we're all. so. aware. of our. lives. meanwhile the u.s. special envoy to in this way less safe countries could be sanctioned for refusing to recognize one as interim president elliott abrams also threatened use measures against president maduro we're using sanctions and diplomatic action and to pressure the moorer regime hopeful that other countries will use these and other tools at their disposal to glory sanctions 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. of the battle over the venezuelan presidency which has dragged on since january really appears stuck in stalemate president maduro is still in power as washington has no backup plan to force them or it. off talks us through. the us is back to square one on venezuela and an ambiguous confession by vice president pence how much dunkerque 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 server 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 starts 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 one in europe where you go you know to 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. venezuela. asked venezuela 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 soldiers to a scored 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 they continue to support him and wedo is looking like a shrinking power expanding one so this coup seems to appeal them fortune that 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 are saying no people do not want to see that kind of escalation it's coalition is the way those and so the united states is really in a small box that's shrinking. the story raising lots of discussion today measures to fight corruption on the influence of so-called dark money in the u.s. election process have been passed by the house of representatives with

a bill by by the democrats 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 stories that people state that government works for the public interest the people in chest not the special interests well up bill was criticized by the republicans who accuse the democrats of a power grab claiming the legislation will not solve the problem picking up the story this hour kill them up and. 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 to dream is to walk the sois 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 pernicious 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 doing 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 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. 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 have 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. thousands of women around the world march for their rights on international women's day on friday with some of the largest rallies taking place in germany france spain turkey and argentina.

i i i. i i was. you. know he. was the. us. so just a few moments ago we saw pictures all turkey among. the women as they demonstration there however escalated into a standoff with police turkish authorities dispersed the crowd of several thousands were gathered in the find so much government on protest rallies in this holy ghost taksin square on. a book promoting the conspiracy

theory queue. at the top seventy five bestsellers almost on cue and on is best known for its six centric allegations against the so-called us deep state its support for president trump pierce artie's double quarter. you've seen the trails in the sky heard about how reptiles and chemicals in the water are making the earth 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 rippled thank you very much for spreading truth in the end justice will be served and freedom will prevail truth shall set us free a 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 q. and a on conspiracy theory group called q anon he 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 q. and on conspiracy folks are no showing of the 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 attacks 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 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 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 is what the elite 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 bans 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 they would be suppressing us so a it given that belief that there is something being covered up and beat 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 the more motivated to find some way to promote whatever pet theory or conspiracy theory they have us whistleblower chelsea manning back behind bars a diversity dilemma c.n.n. we have more on all that's up to this. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spear in dramatic development if only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful

very critical of time time to sit down and talk. in a world of big partisan 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 truth the time is now. we're watching closely watching the hawks.

former u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning being jailed for refusing to testify in front of a grand jury in the case against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange. lawyer sais they'll appeal listens. this is an appealable order judge children did find her in contempt of court it was certainly a typical out 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. first came to fame in twenty ten after handing over classified sensitive military data to wiki leaks she was home to thirty five years in prison for spend seven of them there before being commuted by then president obama the whistleblower was aware she could be taken back into custody 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 i am in general opposition of that kind of of this kind of proceeding taking place believe in a grand jury process i don't believe in 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. well manning more than seven hundred thousand confidential documents and videos alluding to u.s. foreign policy here's some of what she revealed the warning you may find some of the following images disturbing. god. was.

war veteran human rights computer peter tatchell say's it's suspicious that the hearing was conducted in secrecy. what does the u.s. government and to do 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 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. c.n.n. is facing questions over diversity within its top brass after several groups representing the black community in the us pointed out the absence of minorities in the company's executive board while diversity has been a running theme of the american broadcaster. what people in europe in america or 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 and it is core to our culture that diversity and inclusion is that path forward to ensuring that your bottom line is great well despite

featuring several block news anchors and correspondents and seems to such representation in the mana judgment ranks executive producer vice presidents and other senior positions well the national association of black journalists was first raised the 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 it declined a meeting pointing to a disputes with the associations of vice president when 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 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. ok it's about a favorite story of the day now a six year old boy from southern russia has become a local hero he's rescued more than one hundred homeless adults and helped many of them find a new home the problem has been telling us about his volunteer experience.

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