headline stories this hour of. the u.s. position but the country's power supply washington threatens more sanctions against the governments also coming up. passes a bill the country the influence of money from donors in the election process. it should be happening and it's a deeply common thing in the united states. it's legal. former u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is back behind bars after refusing to testify. against wiki leaks.

live from moscow to the world this is your r.t. international your company i'm you know neal our top story the foreign ministry is accusing the united states of stripping and celebrating an ongoing power outage in the country said to be worse than decades electricity stations across. thursday evening bringing public transport to a standstill the power supply is gradually being restored in some parts of the capital now this is the. international airport in caracas where all flights have been suspended opposition leader and self declared interim president one. government is to blame while the u.s. point the finger. of corruption. venezuela's defense ministry has called the

garbage an act of sabotage by this. week 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 barely 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 meanwhile another batch of usaid has arrived at the colombian venessa border in defiance of an official their self declared leader at one why don't promise to get the supplies into venezuela but president maduro is refusing to ally that aid to enter calling it a trojan horse on a pretext for intervention is the accepting help from the red cross the united

nations we asked water caught say from the red cross or by the agencies work in the country. situation it was. a big demand all. the security. we are working on in the last more than two years there will be any if it is he going to be and will be communities in going to let you know what your vote. and their role going to be 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. if you look. there are you know where all of. but there's only so you to be.

aware or we're not. going to give you all the actors of our. lives. another big aspect to this story the u.s. special envoy to venice will said countries could be sanction for refusing to recognize one why do as interim president elliott abrams also threaten 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 well the

battle over the venezuelan presidency which has dragged on since january really does appear stuck in a stalemate at present material he's still in power and it seems washington has no backup plan to force him i'd said the last thing going through the ins and outs of this story here is his report 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 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 a lot. 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 cheer leader 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. 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.

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 are 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 in an expanding one so this cruise seems to have failed on fortune that means the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up as the u.s. talks about as way 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 for a way goes and so the united states is really in a small box that's shrinking. now another big story that we're closely following today measures to fight corruption on the influence of so-called dark money in the u.s. election process have been passed by b i said representatives with a bill of back 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 and one. restores the people's faith that government works with the public interest the people in chest not the special interests no the bill was criticised by the republicans who accuse the democrats of a power grab claiming the legislation will not solve the problem. dealt with a little bit deeper into 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. it's one more time to dream just walk the sois you up we are going through. this one if you swap. polls 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 is 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 about instilling the confidence of the american people in the political process in what happens in government that 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 about dark money and politics it should be happening and it's a deeply complicated flaw of the united states to. know it's legal lou 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. ok so we must go to parties because the french capital is once again facing another weekend of yellow faced protest demonstrators have been finding their anger at the policies of the french government really since last. november and this time they've been joined by pink vests in the wake of international women's day one of the major

issues firing up the crowds or reforms to on employment benefits protests have been ongoing as i say seventeen consecutive weekends now with demonstrators demanding changes to living standards that's the spy the money attempts to calm public opinion by come sling proposed fuel tax hikes on launching national debates. just talking all of those vests well that's really a reaction to the week that was because thousands of women around the world have been marching for the rights of international women's day that was on friday with some of the largest rallies in germany france spain argentina. i own. i i i i. i was.

i i. was the. us. we just saw a little snippet of turkey didn't we just a moment ago well in that country when the state demonstrations they escalated into a stumble with police turkish authorities dispersed the crowd several thousands were gathered in the finds of the government all in protest rallies here in istanbul since. a book promoting a conspiracy theory q unknown a set the top seventy five best sellers on amazon now q and on is best known for its six controversial allegations against the so-called us deep state its support for president trump here's our tease don't require. 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 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 for who'll 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 to q. and a 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 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 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 levy. 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 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 that wasn't such a terrible thing that we've discovered they wouldn't be hiding it they wouldn't 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

go 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 it in minutes past three pm here in moscow we are back in moments but war world news this saturday stay with us.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race this all sounds very dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and. 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 wiki leaks co-founder julian assange moldings lawyers say they will fight the sentence this is an appealable order judge children did find her in

contempt hoping for oh it's certainly a typical out for this kind of proceeding as everybody knows chelsea has tremendous courage higher primary concern at this point is her house well she is confined to chelsea mumming first came to public notice in twenty ten hunting over classified sensitive military data to wiki leaks she was hundred thirty five years in prison for spending 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 they are notorious goings on to happen so i am 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 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 mainly in fact most of them eluding to us foreign policy is here is some of what she did reveal a warning you may find some of the following images disturbing. yes some very famous as you brought to light to buy manning veteran human rights

computer peter tatchell he is of the view that it's suspicious the hearing itself was conducted in secrecy. what does the u.s. government and reduces them 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 digital 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 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 bands after several groups representing the black community in the u.s. pointed out the ups and of minorities in the company's executive board and diversity well it's been a running thing 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 well despite featuring several block news anchors and correspondents c.n.n. seems like such represented in the ranks you know that includes executive producers vice presidents other senior positions well that's led to the national association

of black journalists which first raised the issue and they're blasting c.n.n. really for failing to meet its delegation to the scuffs the diversity gap members of the group rep requested a sit down with this person jeff zucker that's the president of c.n.n. he's come back firing really the channel explaining why it declined the meeting pointing to a dispute with the president's associations vice president now we spoke to a member of the national association of black journalists about why this 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 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 served. the entire community of the united states not just one particular group. little six year old boy from southern russia has become a hero of sorts i think it's safe to say he's rescued more than one hundred homeless and helped many of them by the new home. has been telling us this volunteer experience. of those. i love animals it's my goal to take them and give them shelter and farm

them good home. 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. just want to take care of animals on the from a special forces officer. you can just imagine feeding time their accounts are you ok just approaching half past three this sunday afternoon here in moscow hope you're having a great weekend wherever you are joining in from do feel free to. join us for the

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you're going to clean the like a dog off your carpet that you're pretty positive will occur nineteen months from now thank you thank you though 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 a speech go and do you on medicare for all i am doing you are let me why. do you why because. then follow me to the completely unaccountable black box voting machine with no way for example make it the worst voting system in the western world oh. thanks.