to make the chilean economy scream so wants to make the economy of venezuela. russia's foreign ministry accuses the united states of treating latin america as its colony comments come in response to washington's claims of military interference in venezuela. the u.n. security council meets over the escalation on the gaza border where israeli tanks have gathered i.d.f. jets have also attacked palestinian territory in retaliation for alleged rocket fire. comes as the u.s. officially recognizes israeli sovereignty over the golan heights a disputed area on the border with syria washington's move was immediately condemned by the u.n. and the arab league. between donald trump and russia

by the moon first to go should media hysteria isn't dying down now blaming truong for making them suspicious in the first place. good evening and welcome this is r.t. international. russia's foreign ministry has accused the u.s. of treating latin america like a colony the comments come in response to washington's claims of russian military interference in venezuela on the quarter explained. this weekend gave way to a big hype over russian military planes appearing in caracas they were carrying cargo and around one hundred military personnel from the russian federation now we've seen russian the russian foreign ministry's explanation for their presence there now and they're suggesting that there was nothing illegal or clandestine about it saying that it was all within the bounds of international law and the

military technical agreement they've had with the venezuelan government since two thousand and one now the move to send what moscow calls military advisors to venezuela sparked serious criticism from washington who is now pushing for regime change in the country now mike pompei on monday said that this move seriously increased tensions in the region while national security advisor john bolton said he would not tolerate any meddling from hostile military powers with the western hemisphere's shared goals of democracy prompting a prompt response from moscow united states will not tolerate whole style foreign military power as meddling with the western hemisphere is shared goals of democracy security and the rule of law the venezuelan military must stand with the people of venezuela top u.s. representatives who failed to change the lawful regime in caracas partly thanks to russia's steadfast position and the maintenance of the international law claimed

they won't tolerate interference from hostile foreign powers in the western hemisphere. this clearly demonstrates washington's approach to venezuela and all latin american governments who have practically denied suffering now moscow also attacked the us as foreign policy towards latin america saying that these their policies today are actually. in stark resemblance to their colonial policies from two hundred years ago they also suggested that washington continues to view latin america as basically the countries the u.s. is back door now moscow also rejected criticism from the washington. based organization of american states who said that russia actually broke venezuela's constitution by sending these troops and that they should have asked to the self-proclaimed president of venezuela one who i don't know the leader of the opposition and the national assembly the us has once again decided to bring order to latin america starting with venezuela we regret that the organization of

american states has aided washington in straightening its colonial habits as if aren't aware that any other country in the region getting turning fall under u.s. pressure so meant a lot of talk about possible military interventions on the u.s.'s side throughout this crisis this arrival of russian troops on these planes is definitely a game changer going forward. the un security council has met over the escalation between israel and palestine idea of tanks of lined up along the gaza border after fighter jets attacked palestinian territory in response to alleged rocket fire tensions are rising amid washington's recognition of israeli sovereignty over syria's golan heights it's an issue that was raised by the security council meeting yesterday president trump signed a proclamation recognizing the golan heights as israeli territory a decision of critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel. that when you show up to produce no new intellectual steps such as the recognition

of israel's sovereignty over the golan heights do not change the status of these territories which is determined by the resolutions of the security council and those who are complicit in these crimes must not be spared sensor accountability including as concerns the annexation of jerusalem and the syrian golan the exchange of fire comes as donald trump officially recognize this israeli sovereignty over the golan heights an area that the u.n. regards as being occupied syrian territory earlier artie's it is done after the issue with my colleague david tudor. well the international community has been somewhat pushed under the bus by this whole decision is the most vocal and this have been of course the arab countries the whole of arab league made public a joint statement condemning the decision really standing out a condemnation by saudi arabia for instance you know washington's bestie in the

gulf so it kind of tells the scale of the fallout this this trumps decision has had to also has condemned the move russia voiced its concerns in regards to the stability of the middle east because moscow believes that such a decision by trump really undermines that so also will syria of course it's there it's their territories that's how the international community that's how the u.n. sees the golan heights as a syrian territory the u.s. policy on golan is reflected in the relevant resolutions of the security council and that policy has not changed year opinion in line with international law does not recognize israel's sovereignty over to territories occupied by israel since june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven including the golan heights and does not consider them to be part of israel's territory i suppose we need to understand what exactly is at stake in the current absolutely absolutely the golan heights is

a strip of land on the border between syria and israel back in the eighty's in the course of a war it was occupied by israel and that is how it is classified internationally that's how u.n. puts it it is a syrian territory or by israel. no joe that a lot of the story. we who live in the occupied golan heights we dismiss the u.s. president's foolish recognition of the territory as israeli we want to tell him our

fathers and grandfathers build their blood on this land and you don't have a right to do that yesterday it was jerusalem today the golan heights and tomorrow it might be another syrian territory. trump loves israel and wants to give her something he should give what's his to give not what belongs to someone else he has fifty one states he can give israel one or two of them but the golan heights and not his property they are not his to give away now not the entirety of the golan heights is de facto under the control of israel there's a small portion of it that is still under damascus is control and i was lucky enough to visit that back last year back in twenty eight scene and really was something of a turnaround moment i think for that part of the golan heights because when i went there it was me a weeks after the syrian army and the russian jets liberated from the control of i

saw there were certain pockets of islamic state there like dane for instance we heard the opposing views obviously to chance to session from the international community what about israel though surely this is the best outcome that they could have hoped for indeed for israel it is the best outcome but i go out on a limb and say i can name one person who's particularly happened that things are shaping out as the and that is the prime minister benjamin netanyahu because he's facing elections in a couple of weeks and in the run up to these elections he's been embroiled in a massive nasty corruption scandal now that he's thrown effectively these thrown a bone to all those in israel sharing the nationalist ten. he not only has jerusalem recognized by the united states as the capital of israel but also he now has the golan heights. palestinian political analyst nor odor joins me on the line now good evening to you nor what will u.s.

recognition of the golan heights mean for the region as a whole would you say. well i think for the region and for the rest of the world this recognition signals that the united states wants to reshape the international order it wants to change the rules of the international system and that is extremely dangerous the acquisition of territory by force the annexation of territories illegal under international law defies the united nations charter has basically recognized israel's illegal annexation of two separate occupied territories first jerusalem and now the golan heights and he alone stands with that recognition it may be all that benjamin netanyahu wants but certainly for the rest of the world this is a cause for concern because it threatens to plunge the entire world into chaos if there if these rules aren't respected by a major power in the world by

a security council member then why should any state follow those rules and those laws that's what's at stake here it's not just the fact that syrian territory is being i am next and given away by someone who has absolutely no legitimate authority to do so. the united states has a very very long track record of taking a stance against other countries including sanctions when it doesn't believe that they're acting in the correct manner but it doesn't seem to be subject to any actions from anyone else the u.n. doesn't agree with the u.s. stones will do anything will anybody do anything. well i think that's up to the rest of the international community particularly the members of the security council the trumpet ministration has a team of experts and bureaucrats who really have nothing but distain for international law and the u.n. and they're on a mission if i may say so to undermine this system and to to install

a whole new ballgame for or for international politics if member states don't confront this agenda and don't. take action to make sure that the u.s. understands there are costs to these actions then it will continue to take a one step after another to undermine international law to undermine the rules that all and all other states abide by and to basically let loose. actions that with grave consequences across the world this is not just about the middle east there are conflicts and territorial disputes and occupations in other areas of the world and this is of major major concern now i must claiming that a cease fire and as the mother was brokered by egypt what's your interpretation of that. well i think the ceasefire which is very tenuous right

now is holding barely i think there is a lot of interest in making sure that the residents of the gaza strip are spared further destruction they've endured twelve years of siege and three separate is really devastating wars so there's a lot of energy being put back there is a specially egypt to avert further escalation but the situation to me remains quite unstable netanyahu might have an interest for political expediency because of the elections to show that he's boss to carry out more raids and more bombardment but he needs i think for his own political gain calculate those actions very carefully so that it doesn't escalate into a full on war but i think he is at the moment mostly rejoicing about this step

and the declaration on the golan heights and as we heard from the u.s. ambassador to israel who also happens to be a settler he thinks that donald trump also understands why israel needs to hold on to the west bank so i think the next logical step will god forbid but given this trend of action from the trump administration it wouldn't be surprising to see them mulling the recognition of settlements in the west bank or the annexation of those settlements to israel which would be an absolute devastating blow to anything resembling a peaceful formula for the conflict in the region and from i just wondered what you make of the claim that israeli fighter jets attack probably still in territory because in their opinion it was retaliation to rocket fire do you believe those claims. well i don't think we can start counting every time there's an escalation

you cannot count from the last rocket you cannot start. framing the context from the last incident the context of this escalation of the situation is a fifty year old occupation fifty two year old israeli occupation of palestinian territory and twelve years of illegal inhumane siege imposed on the gaza strip that has driven two million palestinians there to absolute devastation poverty like unprecedented levels of poverty levels of misery that are unheard of an unseemly in most parts of the region and absolutely no horizon for improvement israel controls everything in the gaza strip including what kind of foods are allowed in what kind of medicine is allowed in who can access a medical treatment outside of the gaza strip even if it's

a life or death situation that that is the proper context there is an ongoing relentless aggression against the gaza strip and its residents and it hasn't seized and it's not limited to bombardment the fact that a rocket was fired and it has not been claimed by any palestinian party does not mean that the escalation started there but it is it did provide a good excuse for israel to launch an a very violent attack against the gaza strip and the population there that is trapped and has no shelters and nowhere to go to seek safety. i was speaking to a palestinian political analyst nordo day thanks for your. onto the news now us republicans and democrats have been trading blows over whether to release the full version of the report which found no collusion between donald trump and russia the republican house senate has blocked a motion backed by democrats to have every single word published in the meantime

trump himself has been hinting that they could be payback for those who spread allegations of collusion with russia those allegations of course exposed as being false by that two year probe there are a lot of people out there that have done some very very evil things very clear things i would say treasonous things against our country those people. will certainly be looked at and i've been looking at them for a long time and i'm saying why haven't they been looked at they lied to congress many of them you know who they are we can never ever let this happen to another president again. only a summary of robert miller's report into collusion has been published so far democrats and parts of the media are now demanding to see the whole thing in the hope of perhaps finding the president guilty caleb maupin explains. for two and a half years u.s. media has given lots of airtime to the infamous russia gate allegations an online media no less than t.v. one study showed over five hundred thirty thousand articles on trump russia

collusion allegations or the moeller probe have gone online since the probe was launched in two thousand and seventeen but now according to the report from special counsel robert muller it was all for nothing no collusion took place so why did the us media run so long with something that turned out to be a total red herring well some voices blame trump for it they say that it's his fault the media went with the story for so long why did donald trump and why did his administration and why did everybody close to him lie about contacts they had with russia throughout the course of the campaign why did he say that he believes putin over the intelligence community why did he talk about leaving nato things that put our national security at jeopardy why doesn't he release his tax returns some say that it's just a cover up that william barr the u.s. attorney general is protecting donald trump attorney general barr who addition for

his role with an open memorandum suggesting that it was almost impossible for any president to commit obstruction of justice and seize the head of the executive branch made a decision about that evidence in under forty eight hours given ms the bars public record of bias against the special counsel's inquiry he's not a new true observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report now some voices are saying that two years twenty five million dollars and three thousand subpoenas just aren't enough they say that if you keep looking you can find collusion because it's there because we say so trust in his prosecutorial judgment but that doesn't mean of course that there isn't compelling and incriminating evidence that should be shared with the american people this president has a way. trying to get into people's heads and indoctrinate them he's been saying no collusion no collusion no collusion he does this all the time this is not the end of anything now you might think that the media was to blame after all they kept

this story in the headlines for so long examining every unproven rumor however certain voices are saying that they did nothing wrong and should be praised for their work i think we've done the media the press has done one of the great reporting jobs in the history especially of covering a presidency by the most news organizations some media outlets did so well they were honored with a pulitzer prize for. relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically further the nation's understanding of russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election and its connections to the trump campaign the president elect's transition team and his eventual administration from once told the media that apologizing can be a great thing when you're simply wrong whether or not they'll hear it is advice remains to be seen nobody wants to hear this but news that special prosecutor robert miller is headed home without issuing new challenges is

a death blow for the reputation of the american news media nothing trump is accused of from now on by the press would be believed by huge chunks of the population standard ploy is deny everything keep going to tell you right all along never admit that you either lived or made a mistake. base your your judgment on beliefs and opinions rather than on facts the mainstream media has a long history particularly over the past couple of decades of not admitting guilt we see the disintegration of the media just seeing the disintegration of professional politics in the united states at this stage and in many countries around the world. the biggest backward step since the internet began and one of the e.u.'s darkest hours that's how critics including whistleblower node in and worldwide web found us a tim berners lee describing

a new european law on internet copyright rules forced tech firms to moderate content before it's published critics have been warning the only only the biggest companies like facebook could actually pay for such huge moderation operations forcing they say all but the largest tech firms out of business tech giants will also have to pay for media content some are warning that they're simply stop posting media content altogether but each e.u. member still has to approve this legislation nonetheless more than five million people have signed a petition against the move a must protest have been also been a huge backlash online. the terms of super and censorship of the grander scale biggest backward step since the internet began this is one of the darkest hours in the history a few years time we'll never forget the law beast and the m.p.'s that submitted to them save your internet i'm in complete disbelief are you telling me that five million signatures on the protest didn't even make an impact so what happens now

i'm livid. however they use copyright wrapper to insist that everything is fine. the adopted text contains numerous provisions that will guarantee the internet remains a space for free expression we listened to the concerns raised the meme the just the snippet are now more protected than ever before. privacy activist and technology expert build new told us that the lord is simply too unpopular for member states to pass it. there is so much content that goes on to the internet that you cannot do this manually you're going to have to automate the sort of checking of content before it is posted and right now that is not only fairly ineffective but also you need a very large operation and that it's going to exclude many of the smaller players obviously the different countries have a choice to some extent or go how liberal or draconian they are in the not only the implementation but the enforcement and i suspect it's going to be very very

difficult to take a particularly draconian approach especially if millions and millions of people actually defy the law i don't think we're going to be able to see a full in force moment and there are many countries in europe that actually oppose its involvement and may actually be very liberal in the extreme in the way that they bring this forward. french president of iran is hosting his chinese counterpart in paris is the last leg of xi jinping three nation european tour has seen him stopping off in italy a monaco a monday france and china signed fifteen multi billion euro deals beijing will buy three hundred airbus planes for some thirty billion euros china also lift its embargo on french poultry exports imposed following an outbreak of bird flu in france dina cochon of reports from the french capital. china's president has been touring europe this past week his official visit to france has just ended and it

seems it's went better than many expected both sides signed contracts worth billions of euros including a thirty billion euro air bus deal alone and right after the negotiations the french president i'm annoyed mccraw and called for a strong europe china partnership. cooperation is more beneficial than confrontation and we have more to gain from being open and closed the partnership between the e.u. and china must serve as an example of how to achieve tongil results another focus is the need to strengthen dog you know it's a shared vision of fuchsia a lot sort of the words of the french president to contradict rather noticeably what he said before when he called on his the european allies to stick to a more conciliatory to approach towards china he even called it a systemic rival and war into over china's growing influence and europe and we had a very important discussion about china and i welcome this european awakening since

the beginning of my monday a call for genuine awareness of the defense of european sovereignty don't the time of european i even see has ended. we've put ourselves in a situation where chinese investment has taken of a strategic assets and infrastructure i think that was a mistake china's president arrived to france from and city has another rather successful visit as agreed to become the first g seven nation to sign up to china's road and belt initiative which is a global infrastructure project it's a nice participation in that particular project provoked a lot of controversy among its western allies in the specially its partner on the other side of the atlantic the u.s. so while european countries who are rather skeptical before the visit now it seems they've turned their opinions and around towards china. thanks thing without see all but with updates for you at the top of the hour hope to see them.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. all.

alone and welcome to world a part of the an event full of wrapping up of the moeller investigation may have cleared the american president of treason and collusion allegations but certainly not of his critics determination to get rid of him as an american system still capable of anything by settling the ideological scores i'll discuss that i'm now joined by its hog i d's is a bestselling author and management consultant says it's a great pleasure talking to you know person thank you very much for your time i'm happy to be here now as i was watching the coverage of the. a report what struck me is that some people on the american left seem to be. just as traumatized by trying

not being fallen to be an american every agent as they were traumatized by him being elected did it come as a shocker to you that he after all he's not a puppet. i don't think that people really believe that he was at a simple. look at the cover each. listen politics is doing. the dirty business so throw dirt at him but. russian spy president of the united states it is so far fetched that they don't think that they're real population because. i think that the middle of. the board. is a very good sign of the strength of the american system because in spite of all the pressures for him to make. the routine as much as possible he gave a real honest report i thought it was also

a very interesting window into the american psyche. because i mean to as russians the idea that we could somehow not just influence but put in an american president into the white house it was absolutely unimaginable is the united states really still emotionally volatile as it as a thumb comes across on the cable channels i don't know whether this is a special for america in any quote unquote free country as. emotionally volatile look at the israeli army and. i think what we had experience is something else. i think that united states. is on the declining part of the lifecycle curve. all systems are born grow a church. and. i think unite.