the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. will protest script venezuela while the u.s. resorts to sanctions and threats in a bid to oust president maduro we report approach to the latin american country. movement. again with marches across the country for the seventeenth consecutive weekend. and islamic state fighters surrender to u.s. backed forces in the syrian village of terrorists arrived last stronghold near the iraqi. moscow money. that means we're taking

a look at the biggest stories covered here over the past seven days also bringing you up to date on the weekends developments as well without him i will start with venezuela where sanctions threats and accusations and protests the political crisis that deepens the capital caracas has been gripped by both pro and anti-government demonstrations opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president addressed his supporters calling on foreign powers to bring down the government. to say the solution is intervention theory . they tried to fabricate this whole show claiming the military would join them but there is only one answer yes to loyalty and no one to be trailed. is a clone a puppet and a criminal after a very tense week opposition supporters are back on the streets to protest against

the government of nikko last month europe they called was made by one why don't monday after returning an international tour to heat up the already tense climate menace was up and you are three days in a row in a massive blackout the biggest ones of penicillin history at the moment the whole capital is powerless one of the but i'm protesting because i want a different government there is no electricity no water no food the government should step down you know i am here to defend the democratic choice of all people when we voted for nicolas maduro as our president under the constitution he is the only president unlike one door you chose and proclaimed himself it is a coup and a violation of our democracy and freedom. and well why don't call for outside help washington's trying to cripple caracas financially in a bid to oust nicolas maduro the u.s. state department even went so far as to parade journalists who didn't agree with the united states if you want venezuela we have noticed in news coverage that some

outlets are incorrectly referring to one white go as the opposition leader or the self-proclaimed president. neither is corrects relying on venezuela's constitution one guy joe became interim president of venezuela on january twenty third millions of americans and more than fifty countries recognize as interim president of venezuela and get this straight you're complaining because. you don't think he made a complaint pointing out just trying to correct well that's all it's like the complaints and since the week he's the is the interim president well and we don't want to consider him to be the interim president as you say fifty other countries who recognize him as the interim president but they're all more than a hundred members of the nation so they're fifty countries is not even close

that. it's the time to act in support of democracy and that news coverage of the legitimate leader the president is going to encourage more functions to work we don't want to feed into the rhetoric of the current dictator oppression was steps further on the venezuelan government throughout the week u.s. vice president mike pence announced that seventy seven officials linked to nicolas maduro would have the u.s. visas revoked washington special envoy to venezuela elliott abrams hinted to the sanctioning third parties for their support of the venezuelan leader the u.s. national security adviser john bolton said that would be new restrictions targeting venezuelan ally cuba i think the whole region should stand against caracas. takes a look at why washington thinks it can dictate who site people should be on. the united states is exceptional literally balland by different rules to

you and me of the nations states groups you see they have the right to decide who rules where like in venezuela they decide who is a dictator and who isn't they decide which dictators rule and which don't now and state supports any number of dictators who violate human rights including the leaders of egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. do you not see that the united states support for other brutal dictators around the world undermines the the credibility of the argument you make no i don't think it does make it separate and i think look in this administration we're not afraid to use the phrase monroe doctrine. it's an odd chaotic nineteenth century policy that basically says no nation in the americas may be colonized by europeans out of bounds for europeans and everyone not from the americas a little later teddy roosevelt twisted this policy turned it inside out

instead of protecting american nations the us now toppled governments it didn't like there now they've twisted it again now they think they can do this everywhere all over the world and a zoo l.-a and a bill that legitimizes us meddling that terry quire threat assessment a strategy to counter russian influence in venezuela. in effect they're trying to justify meddling in venezuela partly because it's too friendly with russia and say no not that venezuela asked for it not even america's champ there but you don't see broad support for i believe that there is respectful participation of russia in regards to watching the fate of our country but the same goes for other countries that are paying attention here america knows better in syria half the world away

it's the same story in syria the united states we're used to promise in work with our partners to expel every last iranian people for the life of me i don't remember syrians are asking the united states to get rid of iranians but america knows better africa too many chinese there thinks washington up to no good now is the time to boot them strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands goes without saying it wasn't the africans who asked for this in fact according to the latest gallup poll most africans approve of chinese investment plans leadership in africa but the united states knows better you know why because it's special exceptional better than you or me officially our mission is to reassert

our sovereignty reform the liberal international order this is a unique exceptional country. imagine mr monreal would turn in his grave if he could see what is but nine policy protecting the weak from european colonisers what that has been turned into a license to kill to meddle to topple governments and politically bird. on the continent oh you've got to be special all right we have all sorts of recent cases libya syria iraq where u.s. intervention has essentially obliterated any possibility of democracy but this is true throughout the decades that the united states has meddled in the affairs of latin america overthrowing one democratically elected government after another

whether in one thousand nine hundred fifty four with arbenz or the interventions that he carried out in the one nine hundred eighty s. supporting brutal military regimes in countries like el salvador although venezuela is in the vise the moment cuba nicaragua are also mentioned by figures like bolton in the same breath this is clearly a concerted effort to bring latin american countries once again under the iron control. movement took to the streets of paris again on saturday and its continuing stand against the french government.

beyond the capitol more than twenty eight thousand protesters rallied nationwide the universe protests have been ongoing for seventeen consecutive weekends demonstrators demanding improvements to living standards of despite president tends to calm public opinion by counseling proposed fuel tax hikes and launching national debates on the issues at hand such as the road to two in the french cities of the old and new where hundreds of demonstrators have gathered there are reports of a number of injuries that protesters sustained in standoff with police. because of islamic state fighters have surrendered to u.s. backed forces in the syrian village of by koos a lot of the goose has been out focal point for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks now and it's been cold the last remaining on clay for feisal forces and syria and not without good reason the world has seen crackdown suffer scaping

civilians and even jihadists who chose to surrender and addition to the terrorists there also their wives and children to. god. praising the islamic state with the different slogans they also showed the soles of their shoes as an insult evan now they still believe this is not the end of the caliphate just a short while ago though donald trump announced that. his army and allies crushed islam mixtape completely we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over ever since then however there has been a wave of different opinions from those who are actually responsible for what's happening on the ground for instance they had of us central command while he is

sure that islamic state hasn't surrendered and the threat is still real he says the terrorists after some tactical thinking have chosen to lay low and waits for the right time to come back. reduction of the physical caliphate is a monumental military accomplishment but the fight against isis and violent extremism is far from over and at least for now president trumps announcements that u.s. soldiers were pulling out seems more and more in doubt but nothing seems to be certain in this ongoing conflict especially with the unpredictable situation and douglas you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of isis see a resurgence you know where we're going out we'll come back if we have to well as general votel testified in congress recently and he said that. yes this is the end of the territorial state which is very important but it's not by any means the end devices there are

a lot of fighters that have gone to ground and that have formed we believe a farm's sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know edge at some future date trying to later clarify that this is a territorial state and that's why he's reversed his opinion on u.s. troops remaining in syria you know there's a there's a hundred ways to count troops and that may not include a lot of the regular soldiers perhaps national forces you see advisers diplomats and an aid organization so there's likely to be a lot more americans there there's going to still be a lot of isis trouble and we're seeing bomb attacks being carried out in iraq on a weekly basis and there have been isis attacks in northern syria as well so isis is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are misleading. the village of the goose has been a hot spot for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks last week the u.s.

backed troops launched an assault on what they called the last i still held area in the country that's after donald trump already declared it a mission complete however as islamic state continues to make its last defiant stand those who fled its remaining stronghold face new threats and illness. i didn't leave to john i said i love seeking jihad for god because we are all muslims and we have verses about jihad and. about the killing slaughtering and torture. all repentant and have left islamic state but as disturbed of it had the right approach.

the conditions are definitely dire into account the problem is nobody was expecting these kinds of numbers so it has been overwhelming and it hasn't stopped. the. relatives of the children of french jihad or use of appeal to the u.n. for the youngsters to be allowed back to front they're currently being held in camps in syrian kurdistan one of the lawyers who helped launch the plea says the children will be able to adapt to a normal life in front. putting these people in the french people every day for three years in a row i've been told that these children are time bombs they want to prove their repatriation but in fact they're being deceived eighty four children have already

returned to france they have adapted their being socialized the are ok they were safe from the worst life and what are we going to do are we going to leave those children just because they were born into families which left for fighting but these children hadn't asked to be born there they hadn't asked to be taken there their innocent victims. not according to the save the children charity there are now more than two and a half thousand children in camps in northern syria from around thirty countries summary doe's the lawyer we heard from thinks around one hundred of them a french now france is currently dealing with them on a case by case basis but the majority of french people seem to be against the children's return a new poll found just over two thirds sixty seven percent of respondents did not want them back in france we spoke to the father of one of the victims of the battle plan concert massacre in paris that was masterminded by i so he thinks that the children of jihadi should suffer the consequences of their parents' actions.

parents are bearing responsibility for the future of their children they've left france voluntarily nobody forced them out they've decided to fight against bronze they've crossed themselves out of frauds and unfortunately their children should account for the consequences for me these children coming back is out of the question i don't consider them french nationals there have been lots of attempts and directed radicalization very sophisticated ones in attempts to get the country and will help all small so the government is well aware that the see them as being the children of jihadi fathers whom they might be mauled and it's not popular and there's also the understanding in france that many of the terrorist acts that have been committed in france were by people were actually watched. by the police in any end of the day the police could not determine at what time they would. take action and so these people were well known and still they managed to go out and kill

french people that doesn't make you popular to bring potential more of the. more of the week's coverage ahead including a setback for anti racism in south africa and why young british tourists are shunning the united states or when the weekly returns in just a couple of minutes. what

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president i'm sure. somehow i want to. let you go right to be close to survival before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the why. sit. back to the weekly from the international south africa's anti racism drive as a hurdle after in century remarks from an m.p. who said true freedom will only come when the white population and some savvy into the black. i don't want blacks to work for whites i want you to work for yourselves

and white people will work for you that will be true freedom you must teach them how to carry babies on their back they must feel what our parents have been feeling we're not calling for white people to be killed but for. white people to be our domestic workers julius malema is the leader of the economic freedom fighters a far left party which is currently the third largest political force in south africa over the years national debate with his views on race and class he's twice been convicted of hate speech and inciting violence against white people and he was expelled from the governing party in two thousand and twelve for sowing division within the organization the apartheid policy in south africa ended more than two decades ago but the country is still struggling with racism white people make up just nine percent of south africa's population but only more than seventy percent of private farmland efforts to reclaim much about without compensation have already been launched by the government but the problem and efforts to solve it according

animosity across the board. the general ideology of julius malema in he he likes to try and create this sort of clash between races in south africa in order to gain political points he just want to replace white people in a position of oppression we don't wonder you want to obliterate you want to and completely this system which is constructed to do white people on top and putting them exploiting black people the government gives them opportunities through the black economic empowerment it gives them opportunities it incentivizes businesses to hire them in higher positions it is easier for them to enter into higher education into universities the system in south africa is not a white supremacist system it is not a white dominated system so definitely so why do you mean a good country thirty five thousand white families own eighty percent of the land

we don't all want to speak to you as a black person in south africa i over nothing i am in fact i think a tenant white people always think everything the government is a black majority government. this is a simple fact you cannot deny that majority of parliament members are black and this is the white. thinking it is just what i meant is is black but we can't even make laws that says you must take the learnt even these politicians controlled by money who has money why it's when you ask the majority of white people they will agree that the old government and its systems were corrupt and unfair to everyone in south africa and they did benefit. people unfairly that is true white people are somehow denial of all the crimes of the old government is incorrect. thanks for young people in the u.k. taking a trip across the pond is becoming less of an attraction many of them blaming

donald trump for making the united states uncool reporting from london his party boy. the transatlantic road trip they used to be most students dream holiday things like route sixty six or recreating the journeys of the beatniks from only the road or feminist fugitives like bella and louis s. but according to the u.k.'s biggest youth travel operator the kids of today no longer consider the us a cool destination backpacking trips and holidays over to america are down twenty three percent from the start of the year and the travel operators are blaming it on something called the trump slump they say that socially conscious millennial is an generation's ias a shining america because their perch off by none other than the president himself would you shun would you shun a trip to the u.s. because of trouble yeah i can understand why people boycott and make so would you

very sure merica on holiday would it be kind of top of your list of where you want to go not the top of a line on him i don't know she's never really appealed to me and especially with all the poses going on as well. as i know you prefer to go some are a bit more. culturally appropriate. would you want to go to america or just donald trump but you're not going to personally so you're not bothered no i'll go america which you. do you go to trip you have the opportunity to go to america you still go you know like i wouldn't care but don't try to i don't like what he does but like i like to go but it's probably not to my lists for me just so we moneywise maybe i'd like to have me and but i think i think that for a hood it is very different going over there to live a life that seems migration and everything and so i really kind of choose to live i think that everything going on is quite intense and i think i would have but then again you know the whole thing is like parts and stuff so you know it's already

great i mean really that bastion of even here to say. you're not coming to. because of political situations thing that really should have an impact on people choosing a whole day this nation so it's still still travel. america's great i don't know about in denver colorado or where we're from but i can tell you i don't like don't try very much if you aren't from the u.s. would you go to the u.s. on holiday probably not really well i don't know. i probably just want to stay here where where i know what's going on where there's no chaos whatsoever and it's still very very calm on advertising. like you know you. don't come to america. holy book or that's the weekly for now next with over two million people behind bars the united states has the world's biggest prison system and it's in the spotlight shortly on r.t. international.

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a new treaty and you negotiation. is this is a stick for the open water bottle found in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litterbugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. as it sits to cook out soon as it's. called in may look at suitable sets for their classic classic sikorsky on my end are you staying in your own flat session projects funding me does it have on. on i knew that that is the end of it for the team but fun now the mountains of waste only grow while. i was in los angeles and it was march of one thousand nine hundred. i go over and i

look out the window and there they are. i was arrested that day our father and i wanted her to bargain. i understand she area is not somebody and i could prove. she got me but just to save are all a scam not as that's not my daughter so she wouldn't do this. and as a result they were under. i could not plead guilty to everything that they accuse me of. not guilty. mccoy i was convicted for conspiracy and i received twenty four year sentence there's a way in which you have to see the conspiracy law as a very important tool of law enforcement if the crime is selling drugs and some man in miami sells twenty kilos of cocaine to an undercover agent

you want to ask who is the seller working where does the money go if the money goes back to a drug lord in colombia. who's going to keep the proceeds he's in the conspiracy even though he actually wasn't there when this sale took place he's a conspirator and so part of the goal of the conspiracy law is to make sure that the most senior level all of those in the criminal organization are justly punished the problem is when you flip it around and the lowest level people in the criminal organization get punished just like here the. and that's the big problem in the way in which the conspiracy laws are being applied. i know end up in federal prison in dublin california i realized that i would need to spend

a lot of time in the law library. i needed to film from a arise my sound my case and everything that had gone wrong if you furthered the conspiracy in one step you're guilty for everything in the conspiracy no matter when you entered the conspiracy it could have been over the last day. because i had collected some money on i technically was guilty.