protesters have been out on the streets of the venezuelan capital caracas following one of the worst nationwide blackouts in years. an act of provocation that russia's foreign ministry has a brand that an incident in which sore u.s. embassy staff member in russia tried to take a mortar shell through an airport in moscow. the u.s. house of representatives passes a bill to counter the influence of so-called dark money from unknown donors in the election process. it should be happening in its deeply company to fly eight states . and its legal.

international live from moscow i'm daniel of you are today joining us on the program. on the streets of the venezuelan capital caracas have been thronging with both pro and anti government protesters opposition demonstrators back self-proclaimed interim president. they're angry at the incumbent nicolas maduro over food and medicine shortages and also a two day nationwide blackout the power supply has since returned to some parts of the country that's what the main international airport in caracas looked like when flights were grounded. as the government is the blame while the u.s. pointed the finger at years of corruption and their investment in as well as the french ministry called out is 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 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 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 this comes as the u.s. special envoy to venezuela suggested countries could be sanctioned for not recognizing quite as interim leader elliot abrams also threatened new measures against president maduro we're losing say 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 additional decision. on the

battle over the venezuelan presidency which has dragged on since january appears stuck in a stalemate president is that in power it seems washington has no backup plan to force him out as it 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 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 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. you go to war one in europe where you go you know to one global since then though america's plans ition didn't own the streets of caracas how. are venice china. venezuela then a big ruckus with aid the u.s. trade getting into venezuela and which 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 job all options are on the table all. actions 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 and expanding and so this coup seems to 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 see that kind of escalation it's coalition is way goes and so the united states is really in a small box that's shrinking. a security alerts been triggered at one of moscow's main airports offer a mortar shell was the sky but in the luggage of a u.s. embassy staff member according to the russian foreign ministry the question of a has the details. quite a bizarre incident took place this saturday at moscow should be made to the airport one u.s. embassy employee tried to take more turd shells through the airport in his luggage now it was reported that it contained no explosives but it did have

a detonator it was revealed to be in the leg a routine extreme check right at the entrance of the airport it was confiscated and of course this incident triggered a major alert and even a bomb squad was also added to that it hopes the u.s. embassy will explain the behavior off its employee. the battle against corruption a bill backed 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 or one. restores the people's faith that government works with the public interest the people's interest not the special interests the problem 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 it's one more

time for three years so why why we are going through. this one 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 the sinister force in american politics dark money special interest dark money fund a 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 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 that 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 about dark money and politics it should be happening and it's a deeply complicated flaw of the. you know it's legal legal 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 you know wrists have been my. i. know you. i don't want. used tear gas off the violence reportedly fled among the crowds and power more than twenty eight thousand protesters have taken to the streets across the country it's the lowest figure since the movement began its protests back in the venda a yellow vest protests demanding changes to living standards the sponsor model micron's attempts to quell the flames by scrapping the fuel tax hikes and launching a so-called national. bestseller list on amazon q and on is known both for its controversial allegations against the us deep state and its

support for president trump donald quarter can bring us more. 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 and 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 queuing on conspiracy folks are now showing a 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 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 well. people taking super hardcore levels of drugs and going into meetings with these things and making interval act it deals the nazis we 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 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 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 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. russians across the country have been busy feasting on fried treats because it's pancake week of course so must minutes as it's known locally the festivities mark the period before lent the week culminates with effigies but to chase away the cold and darkness of the long winter season contemporary but is outside the town of kaluga has taken a long traditional approach when it comes to the choice of effigy that twenty metre high wooden replica of the french revolution steel fortress has gone up in flames organizers say just as the best deal disappeared in the revolution will be totally consumed by fire. all those are the headlines for now join us again in just a few moments for more global news updates. western

countries are very reluctant to recognize the fact that that is why mike formally and also to make that they were. 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 you know ways in which he started by a third power not russia not by the west and by the g.c.c. . they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to

express entry. into going to be first this is what most. reasonable people are. interested in the longer. they should. progress. in the ukrainian capital as nationalists clashed with police at a demonstration over a corruption scandal. the supporters of the ukrainian fall right. before had gathered today in the center of kiev in the morning president poroshenko resigned over the scandal which saw all money looted from the budget after the allegations emerged in the media. his former business partner was allegedly involved in the scandal at the same time he said the claims were politically motivated the clashes began when demonstrators threw smoke bombs.

police who responded with tear gas. whistleblower chelsea manning is once again in prison 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'll fight the sentence. this is an appealable order judge children did find her in contempt hoping we're well it's certainly a typical for this kind of proceeding as everybody knows chelsea has tremendous courage our primary concern at this point is her well she is confined to chelsea manning first came to prominence in twenty turn after home being classified military data to wiki leaks it cost thirty five year jail sentence however after serving seven of those years manning was released by then president obama. 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 areas goings on happened so i am in general opposition of that kind of this kind of proceeding taking no problem explaining what happened and i've done it before confidential documents and videos is some of what was revealed just a warning to viewers though you may find some of the following images the stressing . human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes it's suspicious the hearing was conducted out of the public eye. what does the u.s.

government introduce or 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 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 that it should be open transparent and accountable. a six year old boy from southern russia is being hailed a hero he's helped rescue and real home more than one hundred stray animals he has

experience with us. but those are what. 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. make sure i just want to take care of animals i'm a come a special forces officer. as

the headlines this hour stay tuned at all to international documentaries coming up for you now join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news updates. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the hope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising to most of us all or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to go.

by the way what is it 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 he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers 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 a business it's just it doesn't get easier. i do

think the numbers mean something they've never us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old from rich eight foot six percent world market those thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three first second first second and. one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a real park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know for the myth the one and only boom box. during the great depression which are old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse

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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 part of social credit system china blocked twenty three million 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 seaborne they'll die in the casino and it's coming to america well it's already here because let's look at this for me. other side

this is not just the government of china imposing this upon the people the people themselves also want it they don't like people getting on a train for example without a reservation and first class and somebody is sitting in your seat and your reserves see and they refuse to get up well this you get a mark against you on the social credit system here in the united states we have deep.