in the america. donald trump posts a meeting in washington with the president of brazil and pledges to dial up the pressure on venezuela's government. the german court rules berlin must be held accountable for drone attacks conducted by the us from and on the base on its territory. of kazakhstan resigns in a shock announcement after nearly thirty years in power. or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team

international john thomas. all right president to donald trump welcome to his brazilian counterpart hire both n.r.o. to the white house on tuesday r t america. has details trump and maddow did focus a lot of their meeting on venezuela talking about the importance of them working together in order to bring down a president equal ass mother on power now it's important to note that brazil was one of the first country after the u.s. to your knowledge. claim president as the only legitimate leader of men and well actually now when a term for what's the matter we're talking about focusing on their meeting on venezuela she didn't mention it to you but this is what she had to say that we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for madeira. who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet and finally set their people free trump also said

that the u.s. has yet to impose the toughest sanctions on venezuela but he again reiterated that all options remain on the table and earlier before the meeting at trump when asked about possible military intervention this is what he said every options on the table with respect to venezuela they said that they don't want to give away the strategy but again has repeated that the use of military force continues to be on the table meanwhile the russian deputy foreign minister has warned both the u.s. and brazil against any attempts to use force in venezuela so he spoke to r.t. . we strongly urge the u.s. side during the talks today. any temptation to resort to military power it includes a warning against soldiers the hard core message military intervention which cannot be excluded given that type of behavior we see on the u.s.

side in recent years but it also includes what i would describe as low intensity conflict any treason into the sovereign territory of the new sailor from abroad a elements that could be described this sort of military as you know stage up for occasions or otherwise involved and interfering into the affairs of the state. while a ball scenario was meeting trump in washington the brazilian media had a very different story to focus on after reports emerged of the president both scenarios alleged ties to violent gangs and as long the allegations. apparently he's facing a pretty big scandal back in brazil scandal related to his family and their ties to right wing militia groups that have engaged in both murder and extortion now we saw that earlier this month the arrest of two former police officers who've been sharjah with the killing of councilwoman marielle franco she was assassinated

they're charged with the killing now these individuals actually live on the same street that molson our lives in in rio where his rio home is located and when the house was raided they discovered one hundred seventeen automatic rifles in the home as well as computers containing a whole lot large amount of intelligence and surveillance of left wing activists left wing journalist as well as left wing political leaders now right wing militias and the terrorist activities they've engaged in have long been a scourge on brazil let's review some of what the country has faced.

now in addition to that there was a scandal in january. when five members of a right wing gang were arrested and it turned out that the mother and wife of the leader of that gang was employed by the president's son flavio in addition to that the president and his son were seen posing at a birthday party with members of the gang and flavio awarded a medal of honor

a brazilian medal of honor on to one of the gang's leaders now in two thousand and eleven a judge was brutally murdered and prior to the murder which many suspected was the work of these kind of right wing militia operations many says noted that both flavio the son of valsin r. and valsin r.-o. made statements basically saying that this judge had humiliated police officers and could have anime and and it was it was quite harsh ever for an evil outcomes in the hunt for security agents now a photograph has surfaced of bolsa naro posing for a picture with one of these suspects arrested for the murder of mariel franco the councilwoman now it's also been revealed that their homes are rather close to each other they are essentially neighbors however when confronted about it both in our own denied having any ties to this individual who is now being charged for the murder of an elected official the media has always criticised me they wanted to say

it was a clear connection but i never saw the gentleman in my gated community i believe is going to have much time to you know you can gauge in social life with them it's important to know that this is actually both scenarios first international trip since he was elected president of brazil he is meeting today with u.s. president donald trump however earlier he met with the u.s. central intelligence agency the cia had a closed doors meeting with paulson r.-o. and in addition to that he spoke to the u.s. chamber of commerce and when he spoke to the u.s. chamber of commerce also naro remarked nowadays you have a president who is a friend of the united states and admires this beautiful country speaking glow. only donald trump so people have their eyes on the white house where the two leaders the leader of brazil and leader of the united states are having their historic meeting after those talks with donald trump once again once again spoke out against the material government will try that again he once again

spoke out against the government here cues that destroying israel is coming it's happening there is a disgrace this was one of the wealthiest countries in the world and all of a sudden it's just it's grief stricken poverty stricken no food no water no air conditioning no anything no power for a long time last week no power and that's going to break down again because it's being held together by threats we spoke to two journalists who spent a month shooting a documentary in caracas last year they claim the reports of extreme poverty are being exaggerated. but at best it's not. you know it may be some of those little needles on c.n.n. you said you get access. to the no. forty eight it. was dangerous but that's the bad when it. actually when

i arrived in caracas before before actually as it sort of take a few steps back before i went to venice whether there are a lot of people i know in the journalist community is there well actually you know and maybe you should take a possible going to venezuela you know the crime rates around us the economic and social situation is appalling not to mention the political situation and actually when i arrived i mean life was still bustling in caracas something people were still going to jobs people were still continuing with lives people going to find it hard to believe that the u.n. say three point four million venezuelans have fled to the country three point four million people don't leave the country if everything's ok or at least manageable. well this is interesting i wonder where these figures come because according to the government. people cheating last year seven percent of. you know school. during that particular mission it went five to seven percent. so also

a hundred and twenty thousand. actually settled last year in minnesota. hyperinflation it concentrates on those things but. things like sheep like electricity bills bills other things give us a rounded picture of this because you spent a month in venezuela more recently than the probably most of our audience did and let's face it you work in the news business you know that pictures of suffering sells more than than anything else but even in troubled countries life has a spectrum so alan give us a fuller picture then life in venezuela tough as it is how is it really. as you said it is tough i mean it is hard i would say yes i mean this is our moment columnist but i would say definitely the government has made mistakes but i would also say that u.s. sanctions and he definitely sort of feel you know the effect of u.s. sanctions in the sense of lack of u.s. dollars the lack of being able to use your u.s.

financial instruments and i mean i would say that people here do. you know you have a society function. in german court has ruled that the government bears legal responsibility for us drone strikes launched from german territory and the case was brought forward by a group of yemenis who accused berlin of complacently of complicity in drone strikes launched from a base in southwest germany artie's don't know hawkins reports now from berlin. so in a case that's taken a few years to come through the courts and indeed it's a landmark decision in german courts with the administrative court ruling that the german government does bear at least partial responsibility for ensuring that the use of its air base in southern germany in the city of ramstein by the united states air force complies with international law this case states will move back to twenty twelve to an incident when the three yemenis lost relatives in a u.s.

drone strike in yemen five sell been lost his brother in law bin ali jobber who was a new mom alongside his brother walid he was a local police officer in a u.s. drone strike which was later described by the yemeni government as a mistake and gave a sermon he addressed the killings conduct of al qaeda and challenge them to present a religious authority that is willing to debate with him so he can demonstrate to the people that this behavior of al-qaeda is wrong he was taken out by the american strike unfortunately he was not killed by al qaeda he was killed by an american missile mention the yemeni government later admitted that this was a case of collateral damage they met with the relatives even allegedly offering compensation to them on behalf of the united states which never publicly admitted that this case was a mistake this obviously wasn't enough for the bin job or family they took the case to court they sued the german government to make sure they bore their brunt of responsibility for the deaths of their relatives now at the time in twenty fifteen

of course in cologne dismissed the case they said the german government had fulfilled its obligations and had every right to balance foreign and defense policy interests indeed at the time representatives from the german defense ministry said they didn't even know effectively what was going on at the base whether it was being used to facilitate drone strikes in yemen the yemeni plaintiffs though viewed things very differently they said the german government did bear responsibility that it became apparent. and to us that the germans through. on german soil were involved in these strikes and what had happened to my family and it is possible that my family would not have been a target of such strikes and i drenched an airbase not provided such information when i was five years on this court amongst the house rule that the air base and this german government did play in fact a central role in facilitating the relay of flight data facilitating u.s. drone strikes in yemen and the judges in the court has now ordered the government

to conduct an investigation to look into whether any sorts of international war laws norms or clients were broken here and also question the government's narrative but that striking twenty twelve didn't reach any international laws and look into the plaintiff's complaints now the german government of course was one country that stopped arms shipments to saudi arabia in the wake of the given conflict saudi arabia of course being a key u.s. ally yet it has continued to allow the use of its base to facilitate in some way or rather the use of drone strikes in yemen and this is coming from its fair share of criticism from human rights advocates i think it is definitely constant contradiction that the german government is seeing there the arms sales to the saudis for the were in yemen have to be stopped in at the same time. do not intervene to stop the drone strikes on yemen via ramstein air base now this

certainly has created a legal precedent the german government has said it will study the ruling and even though the court ruling didn't go far enough least in the view of the yemeni relatives here they were advocating for a complete ban on the facilitation of drone strikes from this space they do view this as an important first step really into studying the legality framework the legal implications of the use of german soil and german air bases for potentially u.s. drone strikes in the country of yemen. the president of kazakhstan has stepped down in a shock move that story and more when we come back. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected

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broadcasting again from moscow and this is r.t. glad to have you with us the first and only president of kazakhstan a time that knows that a bio of has resigned after almost three decades in power and has more if notion to tell us more about the unexpected announcement. another assault on those above has announced his resignation after twenty nine years in power while serving his feet term as the country's president he had been in fact the first and only president of kazakstan since its independence from the soviet union in nineteen ninety so this is something really big for eighteen million people for sure and that's all from a survivor has announced his resignation in a special televised address to the nation earlier on tuesday simply saying i have made the decision to end my duties as president so no one can say for sure what

this seventy eighty year old prominent politician key political figure for his country and around the world actually in the region definitely was driven by but it's done you know they're going to startle some pirouette presume to my status is the first president and leader of this nation i will remain the chairman of the security council which is vested with serious powers to determine the country's domestic and foreign policy i will continue as the chairman of the democratic people's board and as a member of the constitutional council as such i remain with you as a citizen of this country as a person who loves my people and my country. according to the country's constitution speaker of the country's senate of the upper chamber of the country's palm and will act as the interim president until a new president is elected and as far as we know this man is coming from the same party is not sold on as a by of an expert say that most likely he will continue the policy by leaving the

post of president of cause i stand it is a special day for eighteen million population of cars i starve chorus but i'm pretty sure that he will continue to play an important role in the country's political life and kazakhstan will continue plain porton for as a regional player after the collapse of communism because he's trying to set up the first time close down became sovereign state for the first. time in one nine hundred ninety and that period there were large twenty five years ago that's a generation ago and we can now look forward to a greater participation the younger educated generation a greater participation in politics and the way that because it's time goes so therefore the new president will be confronted with that but of course at the back if you like at the back of the room will be. giving advice and so on and he will be saying we don't want any shocks we don't want it erupted changes let's have gradual change but let's control change. russian bitcoin entrepreneur alexander

vinick is still waiting for his case to be considered by a greek court when it was arrested in greece in two thousand and seventeen after the us accused him of laundering four billion dollars through a bit coin trading platform since then russia france and the u.s. have all demanded his extradition which is what our guardian of as more this is alexander vinick two years ago free and healthy a pioneer in tech father and a husband. this is vinick now literally a shadow of his former self for twenty months he has withered in greek jails without charge than your born yes i mean pale. my soul harassed but i don't have many leverage some insight from kindness i can shout at them a kind of curse of them and greek everything that doesn't kill us makes us stronger

in talking about myself and all of their. you know it's hard to believe but you're looking at the thirty nine year old man wrinkled aged drained by his predicament the entire family has suffered. then and we did our lives will never be the same the moment he was taken everything changed things will never be as they were now we live differently only through hope that our family will be together again that our family will see its father its mother the children will be happy i hope. and hope is all there is for her sasha may not have long left the day agreed court decided to extradite her husband to the u.s. she reportedly collapsed and was diagnosed with brain cancer triple tumors she's being treated in germany chances are very very slim but she struggles

on hoping to see her husband her kids one more time they all struggle on. how many days are you on the hunger strike. paging eight hundred eighty today. and and still no answer. to. my foot. on the verge of death alexandra vinick was hospitalized according to the greek constitution he should have been released off the eighteen months his lawyer says barring a court decision to prolong his arrest there was no court decision only accusations vinick scrivens says his lawyer was being too successful in two thousand and seventeen alexandra village consulted one of the biggest bitcoin trading platforms in the world cooled bt she lose days with

a wild west in crypto current he pioneered in the field before regulation arrived to give it seems like it was various business men began using the exchange sidestepping taxation in all countries as was that legal or illegal at the well you can look at money and it was legal at the time of his arrest as there was no government regulation of crypto currency as it was absolutely legal and it continues to be so identical exchanges exist in huge numbers and no arrests are made over them. but it may be more simple he was russian and he consulted a huge financial business that the u.s. did not control just what justice is there to speak of when according to greek law international law he should have been released but what we all understand is that this is a political case for now been equal continue to serve

a sentence he was never given and he will continue to watch his family being torn apart levels and here being treated once he's there. or starving the children are just there waiting and they don't know what will happen which of us will come back me over their father it's hardest for them and our little children. two boys aged five and seven facsimile orphans who may never see their mother or their father yet they will struggle on vinick doesn't give up there is no hate in him no battle only faith and hope. are never. all right artie has your question comment from greek authorities on the

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