rival approaches the streets of the venezuelan capital caracas following one of the most of the worst nationwide blackouts in years. act of provocation russia's foreign ministry has branded an incident with u.s. embassy staff member in russia tried to take a mortar shell through an airport in moscow. u.s. house of representatives passes a bill to counter the influence of so-called dark money from unknown during those in the election process it should be happening and it's a deeply complicated find the united states extensively you know it's legal legal.

life from moscow watching all to international law and daniel hawkins review arts and you very welcome on the program the sound. of the streets of the venezuelan capital caracas saw thronging with both pro and anti government protesters opposition demonstrators back self-proclaimed interim president door they're angry at the incumbent nicolas maduro over food and medicine shortages and also at a two day nationwide blackout the power supply has since returned to some parts of the country this is what the main international airport in caracas looked like when all flights were grounded or says the madeira government is to blame while the u.s. pointed the finger years of corruption and under-investment but as well as the french ministry called the outage an act of sabotage by washington. 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. it's

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 delivery of u.s. aid has arrived at the colombian venezuela border in defiance of an official band by caracas self the clear leader one way door has promised to get the supplies into the country but president with zero is refusing to allow the american aid to enter claiming it's a trojan horse and the pretext for intervention is though accepting help from the red cross and the united nations we spoke to will to cop from the red cross about the agency's work in venezuela. situationally in venezuela is a big demand of. security relation we are working on in the last more than two years there will be any

even in d.c. going plea and with the communities you're going to let you know what your job inspires and in the role in the world john you know mother by now for the lack of resources that we have the need to have more engine i'll be in the band then you go out and bars are all out and it's like aspirin draws we are there human beings regardless any kind of. there are you know we're all in. syria that people are suffering and we found our service globally by working with other actors that are. really saved. lives including the security. this comes as the u.s. special envoy to venezuela to. jested countries could be sanctioned for not

recognizing one door as interim leader elliott abrams also threatened new measures against the president we are losing sanctions and diplomatic action and 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 a stalemate president maduro is still in power and it seems washington has no backup plan to force him out as he goes down off explains 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 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 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 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. 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 who's 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 throughout the day all options or 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 was been unable to deliver on his promise to allow humanitarian aid in the military has not left side of president maduro can you support him and wedo is looking like a shrinking power expanding one so this coup seems to fortune that means the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up as the us talked about or no people do not want to see that kind of escalation its coalition is the way those

so the united states is really in a small box that shrinking. security alerts been triggered at one of moscow's main airports offer a mortar shell was discovered in the luggage of a u.s. embassy staff member that's according to the russian foreign ministry but you know caution of one has the details quite a bizarre incident took place this saturday at moscow should be made to the airport one u.s. embassy employee trying to take more turret shells through the airport in his luggage now it was reported that it contained no explosives to but it did have a detonator it was revealed to be in the legacy during a routine extreme check right at the entrance of the airport it was confiscated but the u.s. diplomat continued his journey to london and of course this incident triggered a major alert and even a bomb squad was called in now at the moment there is still no information

concerning the identity of the diplomat but the russian foreign ministry has already called this a provocation and also added that it hopes the u.s. embassy will explain the behavior off its employees. battle against corruption and the influence of so-called dark money in the you know in the u.s. election process is being ramped up by a bill about 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 that government works with the public interest the people's in chest not the special interests the republicans have accused the democrats over a power grab claiming the move won't solve the problem. 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 this shit walk the sois we are going to bring. this one to swap. three. 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 fund a campaign the permissions influence of dark money in our politics 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 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 to. know it's legal leo 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.

you know best movements once again taking to the streets of paris and its continuing stand against the french government seven arrests have been made. you. lose so much. for which he's used tear gas off the von it's reportedly fled among the crowds and you know best protests have been ongoing for seventeen consecutive weekends with demonstrators demanding changes to the living standards at this point in my old micron's attempts to quell the flames by scrapping the fuel tax hikes on launching a so-called national debate. russians across the country have been busy feasting on fried treats because of course it's. known over here the festivities marked the period before lent minutes with chase away the cold and darkness of the

long winter season our contemporary art village outside the town has taken a nontraditional approach when it comes to the choice of. a twenty metre high wooden replica of the french revolution fortress has gone up in flames organizers say just as the disappeared of the revolution will be totally consumed by fire. clashes erupt with break. it's a really interesting duel between two dystopian nightmares a brave new world in a few before they say you know you're in heaven there and that's like a brave new world where the soma is essentially you're clicking on discrediting yourself and then recruiting your soft through video games that would be more like

i think brave new world the soma. digital. and then the u.s. as more of the night before with a platoon of actual cellphone national galactic stranded by t.v. count. for. those environments standouts in the original now after two five years ago out because relations were more punitive but now the relation is very very close intertwined saw i think it's ok to have a new treaty and you negotiation. welcome back swati international a book promoting the conspiracy theory q unknown has hit the best seller list q one on his own both for its controversial allegations against the us deep state and its

support for president trump corso brings us more. 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 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 all 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 q. and a on conspiracy theory group called q anon he went on which essentially leaves 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 attacks sometimes don't go far enough to censor it like when platforms banned in four 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 interval act it deals the nazis you 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 sherry's 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 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. violent protests have erupted in the ukrainian capital as nationalists clashed with police at a demonstration over a corruption scandal. i think the ukrainian far right party national or had gathered today in the center of key of the morning president bush and co resigns over the scandal which saw money looted from the army's budget after the geishas emerged in the media fired his former business partner who was allegedly involved in the scandal at the same time he said big planes were politically motivated clashes began when demonstrators threw smoke bombs at police who responded with tear gas. whistleblower chelsea manning is once again in prison

a softer she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in a case against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange manning's lawyer says they will fight the sentence. this is an appealable order judge hilton did find her in contempt in open court well it was certainly a typical out for this kind of proceeding as everybody knows chelsea has tremendous courage our primary concern at this point is her how well she is confined shells reminding first came to prominence in twenty turnoff to handling classified military data to wiki leaks it cost the thirty five year jail sentence however off to serving seven of those years manning was released by then president barack obama 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 happened 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 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. mining leaked more than seven hundred thousand confidential documents and videos is some of what was revealed just warning you may find some of the following images the. human rights campaign of peter tatchell believes it's suspicious the hearing was

conducted out of the public eye what does the u.s. government and 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 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 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 what so fundamental principle of justice that should be open transparent and accountable. a six year old boy from southern russia is being hailed his experience with r.t.

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the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people. the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for whom our own are minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easy. countries gone into a nihilistic fever i think and hit the road and get out the travelling across america but especially american hero this is it we've come a point on which element is done so we always are on the current system but this whole culture is really parting. shots. we're starting last with. the beginning heading east into the swamp we're going into the

belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't get him oregon town and left me maybe. please if the mr. western countries are very reluctant to recognize the fact that is that is why i'm like formally and also to make that they were perhaps stronger and had taken to me and were siding against and so with glee in the early stages of the our sell their title race and began their mind the reconstruction process by the prolongation of sanctions i think it was in countries with winds as you do a show where the series reconstructed but in ways you know ways in which he started by a third power not russia iran not by the west and by the decency or by china that.

later on. it's the end of the week and this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on every one of us i'm bart chilton in washington d.c. and we're so pleased that you're on board with us today coming up the february jobs numbers are out for the u.s. and man oh man was there a surprise with less workers than anybody all the experts said there were a lot more not so much steve malzberg rashard standing by to lend us a hand and work through the interesting numbers plus the permian basin in the in texas on the gulf coast there it's really the hope of american oil but what are the plans for the area's future and why is the largest software wealth one on the planet shedding major oil interests bill hederman of acquirements center for energy policy university of pennsylvania helpless drill into the latest moves and later is

there a bubble forming in texas commodities trader raney joins us to talk about vulnerabilities in the. she's a tech crusader all of that directly ahead but first with some headlines let's go to. a power outage in the midst of a fight over power leads our global report today as benno voile is hit by a massive blackout major portions of the oil rich south american nation were hit by a power outage on thursday afternoon and then on friday many schools or work places were officially shut down the minister responsible for electrical utilities luis motta domingo's blames sabotage of electoral hydroelectric facilities at the guru dam by the political opposition for the ongoing outage self-proclaimed interim president one responded to the accusation inclined the outage occurs as a push to oust the elected president nicolas maduro seems to have stalled early of

this week there were reports that two hundred armed venezuelan soldiers were prepared to shoot their way across the colombian border to venezuela where the opposition and their u.s. supporters seem to be seeking to create a flashpoint. and we reported earlier in the week on the united states record trade deficit but there's new news today that shows the trump trade war is continuing to harm other players official chinese to to six released earlier today show a steep twenty one percent drop twenty one percent in chinese exports for the month of february that's the sharpest drop in two years mr trump's national economic adviser larry kudlow speaking of the chinese said quote we have hurt them at the same time mr kudlow scaled back the possibility for a summit between president trump and president g. jinping of china later this month who knows when that will happen and the endeavor talent agency has returned four hundred million dollars of capital to the sovereign wealth fund in saudi arabia in the wake of the murder of journalist and saudi

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