and the south. pacific. force. donald trump posts a meeting in washington with the president of brazil and pledges to dial up the pressure on venezuela's government has expressed its alarm over those. must be held accountable for drone attacks conducted by u.s. army base on its territory. and the leader of kazakhstan resigns in a shock announcement after nearly thirty years of.

testing live direct from our studios in moscow this is arch international and john thomas. president donald trump welcomed his brazilian counterpart. to the white house on tuesday r.t. america. has. 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 what are some other on power now it's important to note that brazil was one of the first countries and after the u.s. with knowledge. claim president as the only legitimate leader of venice well now when trump and what's the matter we're talking about focusing on their meeting on venezuela he did mention cuba and this is what he had to say 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. venezuelan foreign ministry has responded to the threats coming from washington describing them as dangerous meanwhile the russian deputy foreign minister warned the u.s. against any attempts to use force in venezuela but he calls spoke to r.t. . we strongly urge the u.s.

side during the talks today any temptation to resort to military power it includes our old warning against so to say hardcore massive 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 penetration into the sovereign territory of the new sale of from abroad. elements that could be described as part of military as to you know stage up for occasions or otherwise involved and interfering into the affairs of the state. while both scenario was that meeting trump in washington the brazilian media had a very different story to focus on after reports emerged of president both alleged ties to violent gangs are to scale them up as more. 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 valsin 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 onto 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 also an r. and b. also naro made statements basically saying that this judge had humiliated police officers and could have enemies and and it was it was quite harsh every 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 council woman 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 want to do simplistically a connection but i've never thought of a gentleman in my gated community i don't read is going to have much time to you know you can gauge and social life with them it's important to note 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 at 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 of 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 balsa now donald trump once again slammed the madeira oh the government he used it of destroying venezuela's economy. is 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 to journalists who spent a month shooting a documentary in caracas last year claimed the reports of extreme poverty are being exaggerated or they spoke to my colleague calling brain. but i guess just that and you know it may be that you'll feel some of those medals on c.n.n. you. get access to the us. thinking letting you know things.

before to think that you're. just bad just look bad i'm going to concede actually when i arrived in caracas before before actually as it sort of take a few steps back before i went to venice where there are a lot of people i know in the journalist community is there well actually you know and maybe you should take a pause are 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 i mean people were still going to jobs people were still continuing with lives people going to find it hard to believe at the u.n. say three point four million but as wayland have fled to the country three point four million people don't leave a 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 that shooting last year seven percent of. you know school.

during that particular mission it went five to seven percent. so also a hundred twenty thousand. actually settle last year in minnesota. hyperinflation it concentrates on those things but. things like sheep like a electricity bills water bills other things it was 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 give us a fuller picture then life in venice. 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 the 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 eat. you know the society functions. a german court has ruled that the government bears legal responsibility for u.s. drone strikes launched from german territory the case was brought forward by a group of yemenis who accused berlin of complicity in drone strikes launched from a base in southwest germany artes and you hawkins reports now from berlin. certainly 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 gave the sermon he addressed the killings conducted by 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 been a job

a 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 a. and to us that the germans. 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 drenched an airbase not provided such information. five years on this court and 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 have now ordered the government to conduct an investigation to look into whether any sorts of international law laws norms or standards were broken here and also question the government's narrative but that striking twenty twelve didn't breach any international laws 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 with 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 nieman have to be stopped in at the same time. do not intervene

to stop the drone strikes and even 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. first and only president of kazakhstan. has resigned after almost three decades in power and he's married to national told us more about the unexpected announcement. done as above has announced his resignation after twenty nine years in power

a while serving his feet term as the country's president he had been in fact the first and the only president of kazakstan since independence from the soviet union in nineteen ninety so this is something really big for eighteen million people for sure enough that i'm 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 eight 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 doing the start of. 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. the upper chamber of the countries of 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 that by of an expert say that most likely he will continue the policy on the survivor leaving the post of president of kazakhstan 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 carry. stan will continue plain point and fall as a regional player after the collapse of communism because it's time to set up for the first time closed down because of sovereign state for the first time in nine hundred ninety and that period is over that's 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 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 in rapid changes let's have gradual change but let's control change. us jury has ruled of that a weed killer produced by of a chemical giant a month santo was a major factor in causing the cancer of a man in california he is the second person to successfully sue the firm on the same allegations the latest a lawsuit was brought by edwin hard a man who used the roundup weed killer for more than twenty five years he was diagnosed with a cancer that affects the immune system in two thousand and sixteen months santo which is based in the u.s. and are owned by the german chemical giant bear denies that the product causes cancer the roundup weed killer contains a chemical called life a say to it was discovered by

a man santos scientists back in one thousand nine hundred eighty and has become one of the most widely used herbicides in the united states and in two thousand and fifteen international agency for research on cancer classified it as probably carcinogenic to humans. we can now bring in kong cavill who's an associate professor of political science at bluefield state college in west virginia thanks for being with us as always. so as we just heard a federal jury in san francisco found month santo's roundup herbicide was a substantial factor in causing the cancer of a california man could this open the door to many more cases against the company. you could give the thomas a depends on the jury's second phases that should determine how much or whether monsanto actually knew that round which containing the purpose was the gospel's they knew about

if they knew about it when the jury will make an award to mr hardman and it may be like the jury award that was given last year to mr de wine johnson for over two hundred ninety million dollars so we'll just have to see what the jury but if they do. an act of substantial award to the heart of man and his wife mary then yes this will be a big blow for mom. and particularly for that company the german company bear which acquired monsanto last year sometime around july now bear is not in have be in the company and monsanto makes millions of dollars so in montana this is the around the all around the world now a patent for round of expired nineteen us given in two thousand so the

problem is not just with monsanto because many agricultural chemical companies are now selling the eiffel state products around the world well currently there are over seven there open cases in the e.u. has against monsanto well you bring up a good point if monsanto actually knew what there was a previous case in which the same of verdict came about so they had to know something of a case of hardman's lawyers what they will be presenting arguments accusing month tanto of illegally influencing government regulators and cancer research those are some pretty serious. there's a serious and it's kin to the allegations that were put forward in the one nine hundred sixty s. by the scientists read to carson in her book silent spring which expose

our chemical companies worst so indeed tea and sect aside all around the world there was killing not just. but human beings as well now the case about round with the scientific component of life falsely is that it's doing the same thing there's an excellent book in total white warsh by a journalist best to get a journalist here to give a would you exposes the whole structure of monsanto and how they've marketed roundup around the world and despite not doing the tests they're really needed to find out the consequences of rwanda well it's put into those are all right interesting to hear thoughts i wish that we could talk about it even more unfortunately it was live t.v. so we have to move on but thanks for being with us here on our to international

thank you. right now a senior adviser to the canadian prime minister has resigned in an ongoing corruption scandal michael wernick is the fourth senior official to step down over alleged interference in a bribery case involves s. and c. . one of one world's. one of the world's excuse me largest engineering and construction firms two thousand and fifteen the company was charged with bribery and fraud in libya it allegedly paid ninety eight million dollars in bribes to gadhafi era officials to secure lucrative contracts including world's biggest irrigation project the company claims that all of the people implicated in the case have since left the firm prime minister justin trudeau has been accused of pressuring the attorney general to drop the investigation but he denies any wrongdoing. i and my staff always acted appropriately and

professionally since the allegations surfaced justin trudeau his approval rating has fallen from forty one percent in january to thirty three percent and that has cast doubts over his chances of winning a new term as the elections in october. we can now cross it to an independent political analyst thanks for being with us here in arts international as always. so as we mentioned michael moore nick is the fourth senior official in canada to step down since the scandal broke how serious is this for the pm. well i mean we've had big pieces falling since a month ago i don't think it's as big as the former just and justice minister sorry. jody. raybold. but. it's still indicate an indication of what's happening within the canadian government they've they're trying

a lot of. shall we say cosmetic. approaches to to make to improve the look of the government today they unveiled the budget so the and it purports to be a very pro middle class trying to get middle class voters of course to keep the support for the party but some of the policies seem a little bit. farfetched and perhaps don't go far enough in solving real problems for people so. the problem is however that the other two parties in opposition the conservatives on the right and the n.d.p. for the to the left and the liberals don't have much support either and in fact most canadians may still be more fearful of the conservatives who have the bigger chances of making

a dent. than that of the dog government i i think at best we can expect. to deliver us perhaps to have to form a coalition with the n.d.p. you don't have my support you bring up a point the conservatives saying that they might have the upper hand here conservative lawmakers are actually calling this a constitutional crisis for canada. would you agree with that statement. perhaps you could make the case that it's a constitutional crisis i don't think it go it's that clear what i think it is is more. it's a really just and to those crisis alone he has created this aura around himself and in the image of a captain justice and you know protecting everybody's rights and he promoted in fact. the minister of justice who resigned wilson rebel was is

a native canadian and she is the highest ranking needed canadian ever in canadian government so and a woman so he promoted this idea of a feminist minorities protector protector of minorities rights and then he has her resign like not only does he she resign she he demoted her for doing her job so he's damaged his own reputation that i think is the problem and perhaps it is an even bigger problem than a constitutional crisis. he's damaged his own image and i have whether deliberate was win or not i do have questions still whether or not he will be the one running for the liberals. at the end of this year well. talk you make a good point about truth in crisis right now and whether or not he'll run or if

it'll damage his chances of being reelected but the investigation into the s. and c. scandal is still ongoing do you think that it could lead to prosecution in the future. of other officials and is this just the beginning here. well the case of which they speak the libyan bribing bribery case that was unveiled. during the actually during this so-called arab spring in two in march of two thousand and eleven some of these stories emerged. and and some of the people involved the major people involved have already paid their dues to justice so this would be the the this is a secondary trial so it's not the bigger issue and i think since you are and should survive at the same time i always question when people act surprised that these companies are construction companies have to bribe officials in countries like

libya i'm not sure anyone would get any business if you didn't do it that way that's another of course nobody can disclose that publicly but it's i lived in libya and worked for the un there i know i knew how business was done as in sea level and is hardly the company the only company to have done so so. but now it's gone into the public eye and i think somebody will be forced to pay a price a legal price so far we've had for resignations three or four cabinet shuffles over the last one was today and involving the same branch of the cabinet secretary at the treasury secretary at which is like the ministry of the economy essentially very important ministry. and or office and who knows how many more resignations we're going to have because some of the key players involved including general but the prime minister's former secretary he is out of

a job right now right he is still a key player. so he makes note it's always on crazy when you put money in politics together especially when you get into these. large huge sums of money independent political analyst alice hunter bruno very interesting to hear your thoughts as always it's a pleasure talking to you thanks. you're watching art international be back with headlines and let's say twenty nine and a half minutes stay with us. there's bilateral survival. when customers go by.