the week's top stories from. left in limbo as the original date passes fails for the third time to force a deeply unpopular divorce. hoax is dead claims complete vindication after it revealed the highly anticipated report found no evidence of collusion with russia in the twenty sixteen presidential election. and in today's news polling stations in ukraine are closing right now with the early exit polls expected very soon as the country chooses its next president.

the last day of march it sunday on our names as well as today's headline stories we'll also bring you up to speed on the biggest stories as covered here over the past seven days we're going to wind back to friday first which was supposed to go down in history as the day the britain divorced from the european union but all that's been turned on its head and to reason with agreement has suffered a defeat. takes a look at what might now be in store. finally the date is here march twenty ninth twenty maintain this story for britain marking its departure from the european union. or wait a second. a day like any other except with less clarity about what happens next then the very day the twenty sixteen referendum shocked the world the u.k. has voted to leave the european union. article fifty

was triggered on march twenty ninth two years ago the article fifty process is now underway and in accordance with the wishes of the british people the united kingdom is leaving the european union so many promises made and shattered since then it's within our grasp to leave for the deal on the twenty ninth of march on the twenty ninth of march on the twenty ninth of march with a deal with a deal on the twenty ninth of march we will be leaving the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen as eleven pm a declaration made no once not twice but prime minister in this house has said on one hundred eight times that we will be leaving the european union on the twenty ninth of march what do you think the days going to be remembered by now how we didn't leave here. they were supposed to leave in the european union but were not. personally i suppose the french and you know i think it's a small it is a day i don't think we should blame twenty ninth for the mess that we've made of

bricks march twenty ninth well it's a perfectly good day it would personally like to come up with a new day. has got the whole idea of your friday night yeah entry voted to leave the european union whether agree with it or not months with our crossfire choice march twenty ninth was meant to be the grand departure of the u.k. from the e.u. with hopes of a brand new future ahead instead brags it is now a saga so lengthy and convolute. did it's hard to keep track of all the plot twists with the deadline of the final chapter now postponed due to chaos how this all plays out is only yet to be figured out reporting from london and if they see a church with r.t. meanwhile to mug the day that should have been one museum in southwest england decided to bring out a banksy classic for public display the controversial work by the celebrated british street artist well that monkeying around that comment you might think i don't know you decide. well here are some of the thousands who turned out for the

so-called march to leave demonstration outside parliament on friday afternoon many had planned to go there anyway to celebrate britain leaving the e.u. but instead they were rallying to vent their anger over the country's faltering departure police arrested five people at the demonstrations i was through i was odd was. i. i can you revoke it today when i brought it over i mean this madness that's the route to us about this is not no do it is even going to do for you to go to a true prison that's what we voted for and we knew exactly what we were voting for in two thousand and sixty so i think our child has spent elsewhere beyond the european union you know where we can engage in free trade arrangements without having to be confined to a cost to syria european commission one hundred thirty nine billion pounds they

would do everything to keep us in this is not a deal worth it it's a very bad. start by the e.u. prepared to do we should leave without a deal on w t o terms international relations experts professor alan scott says teresa mayes days as leader numbered. well she's very vulnerable she's already said she's going to go. nearly everyone is expecting it to be deeded she protection in the near future and she said she would go motors to be judy if a deal with possible which was and she's still a rod but she's lost all real authority she can rejoice in the common and she can't control what happens in the house of commons she can't control her own cabinet members which just go their own way and vote it's a please so she really is a lame duck prime minister however. you know she's there i thought you could remain

there until december but that depends where the cabinet get together decide to tell her to go all together another stinging defeat theresa may she down hopes to bring her deal to parliament for a fourth attempts that vote is expected early next week. breaks it count down. two years of investigation and one key revelation donald trump did not collude with russia in the twenty sixteen election four page summary of special counsel robert miller's report says that no further indictments will be made that's led the president to claim total exoneration despite that the report does maintain that the kremlin carried out cyber activities aimed at influencing that election but according to the u.s. secretary of state that's not the full extent of moscow's meddling in american affairs my pump claimed on wednesday that russia has interfered in every u.s. presidential vote since two thousand and four has been i guess the if. for two

years they dug and dug investigated and questioned as sad as it may be trump is not a russian agent who so they think but officially russia gave collusion was a hook for the style if you only knew just how much could lose and that was in the past do you believe russia interfered with the twenty sixteen us general election yes they did in the two thousand and twelve and the two thousand and eight thank you for that a bold claim especially given the evidence he mentioned he didn't mention any evidence begs the question of course why washington waited for more than a decade to say sue but there could be a simple explanation as to agents russian agent and contrary to miss the pompei oh

i have evidence it's so obvious if you think about it let's go back russia meddled and one year election for barack obama how else could you explain the bombers little microphone slip where he was cool. red handed reporting to putin. that for that it was george bush who russia put into the white house twice in two thousand and two thousand and four look at them together putin and bush all that touching and feeling hugs and shakes romantic almost and don't get me started about the eyes and looked the man in the eye i. was able to. get a sense of his soul and you want to tell me that bush wasn't

a russian stooge come on get real as red as a cherry and that's just the last few presidents this meddling goes back decades reagan who presided over the collapse of the u.s.s.r. was also compromised this is all just part of the plan i mean what kind of sick man a traitor makes a whole beat of collecting and translating russian jew and then posting about it the story was an american in a russian arguing about their two countries and the americans said look in my country i can walk into the oval office i can pound the president's desk and say mr president i don't like the way you're running our country and a russian said i can do this i can go into the crim and to the general secretary's office own his disk and say mr general secretary i don't like the way president reagan is running used but i russian meddling is obvious it is going on for more

than a hundred years abraham lincoln surprise was a russian agent why do you think russia sent two fleets of warships to new york and san francisco in a show of support for. him and the unionists during the american civil war the coming of the russian fleets was decisive in helping lincoln get through the last and most serious threat of anglo-french intervention and lying about say that comrie lincoln rest in peace lenin's blessings be upon him there you have it concrete proof of president after president being russian agents you got it right mr pompei oh about the whole russia meddling. from broke with fifty years of us foreign policy on monday by formally recognizing the occupied golan heights as sovereign israeli territory the controversial announcement was made

during a meeting with israel's prime minister who lauded the decision. by presidential proclamation recognizing israel's sovereign right over the golan heights. as closer to ladies and gentlemen this is. truly a ghost story. your proclamation comes at a time of the golan is more important than ever for security when iran is trying to establish to syria and also borders jordan and lebanon was seized by israel in one hundred sixty seven and then formally an extent one thousand nine hundred one in a move that was never accepted by the international community.

the signing triggered a wave of protests across syria on tuesday including in aleppo and damascus the country's two and largest cities. it also drew the ire of for un security council members even washington's closest allies of phatic he rejected the move saying it sets a dangerous precedent. this decision is of critical critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel the decision by the united states to make it once israeli substantive over the golan heights is in contravention of security council resolution four nine seven. we are concerned that this uni lateral decision not only complicates the prospect of finding a comprehensive settlement in the middle east but leads to instability in the region and the trumpet in the street apparently wants to show some generosity

towards israel we would suggest the americans not to lay their hands on what is not theirs the golan heights either it will always be either sovereign territory this plague many others it has taken before all showed the willingness of the united states to honor reality on the ground we asked israeli scholar mordechai kadar and investigative journalist my granny for their views on the move. there's a couple of dangerous one that that just said really dangerous precedent to anyone any country can take another land by force but it's also i can trump look very isolationist he's on his own here really this is israel in one or two other countries in the u.s. of course all the nonaligned movement countries have rejected this this move as has the e.u. for instance as well as the people of golan thousands of people probably druze i think syrian troops have had no say on this matter at all so they're now still

living are occupied territory which is now been recognized by the most imperialist power on the planet we are always been in control of the golan heights for fifty two years. where is though this is some kind of a good thing for the capital or libya for more than flee thousand years so what do we need this mission of the world you know with r.t. international coming up in just a minute or so i will have some live analysis of the ukrainian presidential election.

what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close this is like the three of them or ten people. interested always in the waters and.

welcome back to the weekly voting ended a few minutes ago in ukraine's presidential election and according to the preliminary exit polls comedian overload me as a lansky has won the most support setting the stage for a second round run off with the incumbent president petro poroshenko let's get up to speed on what's been happening on polling day in ukraine. to say ok so it's the comedian versus the incumbent that's a pretty interesting picture bret many would say that that was kind of expected and the fact that the incumbent president according to exit polls a number of access. i have to say i managed to get around seventeen eighteen percent of the vote many people would say that that's quite a victory for patrol poroshenko because only a few weeks ago he was facing approval ratings in single digits he managed to grow it quite a bit to around sixteen seventeen seventeen percent which is not very impressive but still was enough to get into according to exit polls to get into the runoff

reach. the stage for a pretty interesting second round. so that it's a success to be this far short of the fifty percent mark to avoid a runoff but that's you know that's what the ukrainian politics is like it's like a pendulum i mean we have we have many many examples in history one of president would secure a major victory like the five years ago he won the elections in the first round five years ago with i think fifty three percent of the vote and now he is struggling to get into the second term that happened to many of his predecessors as well so that's pretty normal for ukraine and what's his second round going to look like because it's not like he's up against an established politician here this is somebody who didn't even have any policies well we don't even know whether he is against one politician or several of them because there have been some speculations that the lansky may be in consultations with the third. former prime minister who's tried for the third time to get into presidency

a third time wasn't doesn't seem like lucky for her but if she joins forces with. it's going to be a very very interesting combination because. he has a lot of support among younger voters many of them deciding in the east of the country she's polling well with the older electorate so that will be quite a combination of mr poroshenko the photon is what about the process itself how was polling day gone while there have been some reports of irregularities in the whole thing. really criminal even though there have been i think nineteen criminal cases opened but nothing that would call the whole boat into question i have to say that outside the regulator regularities there has been quite a few of novelties in the during this election process the candidates really pushed the electoral law to the limit and i would say beyond that because for example

saturday was supposed to be a day of silence with all complaining supposed to be suspended but it began with the incumbent president taking part in the widely televised prayer praying for the wisdom of the ukrainian people believe it or not he is main contender is the lenski who as you mentioned is most famous for his part in the t.v. series now the channel that where he actually has a contract with decided to run the series for the whole day so it was from the morning till the three evening he's face on the screens on these supposed silence they so. close to the spirit of the law then ok so looks like things are putting out as predicted it's still indicative polls at this stage but thanks for the people across it and when we get more information we'll get more reaction in the coming hours thanks very much. next for you then for twenty years consecutive weekend yellow vest protesters in from against the government recent measures to

ban protests in specific areas of the french capital of the iconic films of these a on in other major cities have apparently had little effect officials claim that around thirty thousand protesters turned out nationwide while organizers put the figure at more than one hundred thousand there were clashes with police and tear gas was used to disperse some of the rallies dozens of arrests were made in paris violence also broke out in the southeastern city of avenue. now we've been asking protesters why despite dialogue and some concessions they're still furious with the government. we have to express our discontent especially about the purchasing power of retired people which is unacceptable.

to mr obviously haven't got any help with our cell research this patrol crisis or on democracy or climate change policy but it's. close in cities like food so people could have higher purchasing power so both distribution's an equal justice. we are here every saturday we will be here until the end. of venezuela frequently tops our bullets entering the wake of the russian military planes touchdown that with around one hundred troops on board according to moscow their presence in the country is allowed under an agreement struck almost eighteen years ago with caracas but that didn't satisfy washington president trump and other u.s. officials say russia should leave venezuela or face the consequences. russia has to

get out. or see we'll see we'll see all options are open. just so you understand all options are off. sears lost the people who is using the russians to supporters desperate to term to keep them in a zone people from hearing into room president maduro calls for hands off in his way while he invites security forces from cuba and russia so he and his cronies can keep plundering venezuela it is time for venezuelan institutions to stand for their sovereignty russia and cuba hands off and as well supporters of venezuela president nicolas maduro and opposition leader i don't know how rival rallies on saturday in the capital caracas and some at the south american country experiencing a series of nationwide blackouts which have also hit water transportation and telecommunications services a spokesman for the red cross says the power outages are a primary cause of concern and aggravate the humanitarian situation in the country . but interestingly. in the few votes in the.

last few days. forward because we. are for the international federation of red cross and i mean for some of our. working also to go simply. for us to only to imagine that we could and we could probably really crazy for instance also a little bit easier these means that you know the associated for instance just you example in office where there are almost one creation there are over clean water. we decided to force us to go on it because we were quite comfortable it's. where we live the moment because it is really nice. and he is where we are working that's the way to live for now we're back in just over half an hour to update you

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the more i tried to understand venezuela the more i could see the signs of all solitary unism emerging on my continent as well. however what venezuela's critics didn't didn't do was compare human rights issues to those in other countries on the american continent. civil and political rights have been violated in venezuela. but they are violated every day in colombia and they are violated every day in mexico and they are viable human rights are. what i call selective integration. you shoulder enormous in the nation with regard to one country. and you keep quiet with regard to many other countries where the situation

is many times worse. in brazil the police kill fourteen people a day on average. the colombian army killed ten thousand civilians between two thousand and two and two thousand and ten. that doesn't include hundreds of political activists assassinated every year by groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities were. were even in the us ain the police killed almost a thousand people in two thousand and eighteen. politicians in some of those countries have called the military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. the that we have

troops all over the world the places at the very end there die we have many options for venezuela including a possible central american the cia there's a lot of stories. we are very hopeful that there could be a transition of venezuelans i was just down in mexico city and in bogota week before last talking about this very issue trying to help them understand the things they might do so that they can get a better outcome for c.n.n. can now confirm the president trump asked a number of his top foreign policy advisers last summer about the possibility of invading venezuela.