week's top stories here from our international the u.k. is left in limbo as the original brags a day passes. for a third time to force a deeply unpopular divorce deal through parliament. the hoax is. claims complete vision with russia in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election. and in today's news the exit polls in ukraine suggest president poroshenko is heading for a runoff battle having come in second to a t.v. comedian. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international with us as we recap the week's top stories friday was supposed to go down in history as the

day that britain finally divorced from the european union but all that has been turned on its head after treece amaze withdrawal agreement suffered a third defeat. looks back over the u.k.'s stuttering. finally the date is here march twenty ninth one thousand nine hundred stories 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 in 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 with a 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 nine hundred eleven pm a declaration made no once not twice but prime minister in this house has said on one hundred times that we will be leaving the european union on the twenty ninth of march what do you think the days going to be replaced leaving the european union but we're not. personally i suppose in the past twenty ninth for the mess that we've made of bricks march twenty ninth well it's a perfectly good day would personally like to come up with a new day. that's got the whole idea of your friday night yeah i'm tripos with to leave the european union whether agree with it or not most 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 breck's it is now a saga so lengthy and convoluted it's hard to keep track of all the plot twists with a deadline of the final chapter now postponed due to chaos how this all plays out is only yet to. he figured out reporting from london and if they see a church with artsy. meanwhile to mark the day that should have been a museum in southwest england decided to bring out a banksy classic for public display controversial work by the celebrated british street artist all that monkeying around. 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 come anyway to celebrate britain leaving the e.u. instead they rallied to vent their anger over the country's faltering departure police arrested five people at those demonstrations i grew up i thought i.

i i can you of ok today when i brought it over i mean this madness that's the route to us about this it's not no do it's even going to do you two year terms of troops 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 sought better spent elsewhere beyond the european union you know where we can engage in free trade arrangements without having speaking finds would cost too serious a european commission want our 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. it's a bad deal we should leave without a deal on w t o terms are numbered. well she's very vulnerable she's already said she's going to go. nearly everyone is expecting a totally did she prediction in the near future and she said she would go more or

less agreed to be if a deal with real authority she can rejoice in the cauldron and control what happens in the house of commons. could told her own cabinet members of hoops just go their own way and vote it's a please. see that she really is a lame duck prime minister however. you know she's there and she could remain there until december but that depends where the cat after another stinging defeat theresa may hopes to bring her deal to parliament for a fourth attempt that vote might happen within the next twenty four hours and it will likely dictate not only the future of bragg's it but the prime ministers as well. breaks it. right two years of investigation in one key revelation donald trump did not collude with russia in the two thousand and sixteen election the four page summary of special counsel robert miller's report says that no further indictments will be

made that has led the president to claim total exoneration despite that though the report summary does contain information and maintained that the kremlin carried out cyber activities aimed at influencing the election but according to the u.s. secretary of state that is not the full extent of moscow's meddling in american affairs on wednesday that russia has interfered in every u.s. presidential vote since two thousand and four with commentary here's our gusta. 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 conclusion there was in the past do you believe russia interfered with the twenty six thousand u.s. general election yes they did in the two thousand and twelve and the two thousand

and eight thank you and the tea literally or that is a bold claim especially given the evidence he mentioned he didn't mention any evidence begs the question of course why washington waited a simple explanation the presidents before trump would get this compromised agents russian agent and country to miss the pompei oh i have evidence it's so all the an election for barack obama how else could you explain the bomber's little microphone slip where he was caught red handed reporting to putin. 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 look the man in the eye. was able to have. a russian stooge come on get real as red as a cherry and that's just the last few presidents this meddling goes back day. cade's 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 the two countries in the american 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 iran 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 one hundred years abraham lincoln surprise was a russian agent in 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 you don't hear much about that and for good reason as then 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. donald trump a broken fifty years of us foreign policy on monday by formally recognizing the

occupied golan heights as sovereign israeli territory and 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. this president ladies and gentlemen this is. surely those stories. you proclamation comes at a time when the golan is more important than ever for security when he ron is trying to establish bases in syria to strike at israel. the strategic territory which belongs to syria and also borders and jordan and lebanon was seized by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and then formally annexed in one thousand nine hundred one the move 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 largest cities government described the move as a blatant attack on the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity and also drew the ire of u.n. security council members even washington's closest allies have emphatically rejected the decision 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 recognize

israeli suffering take over the golan heights is in contravention of security council resolution four nine seven. we are concerned that this unilateral decision not only complicates the prospect of finding a comprehensive settlement in the middle east but leads to instability in the region and trumpet administration apparently wants to show some generosity towards israel as the golan heights either it will always be either heard of sovereign territory this plague many others it has taken before showed their willingness of the united states to honor reality on the ground. we ask israelis. and investigative journalist my grabbing for their views on them or. there's a couple of dangerous one that that just really dangerous precedent that anyone any country can take another land by force but it's also i can trump look very all solution is to use only zones you really this is israel in one or two other

countries in the u.s. of course all the large movement countries have rejected this this move as has the e.u. for instance as most of the people of golan the thousands of people probably druze of the syrian druze have had no say on this matter to you so they're now still living on occupied territory which is now been recognized by the most imperialist power on the planet we are only been in control of the golan heights for fifty to use. its heaven on earth unlike the rest of syria which became where is though this is some kind of a good thing for the bitterns and everybody else josel it was also no tokenized is the easily copied so what was our the jewish people. all of these for more than flee thousand years so what do we need this mission of the world. ukraine is counting the votes after polls closed on sunday in the

first round of its presidential election with a quarter of the ballots tallied. zelinsky a t.v. comedian with no political experience has pushed president bush in going to second place earlier my colleague collin bray discussed the returns with the host of artes political talk show worlds apart. that's a pretty intriguing picture bret many would say that that was kind of expected and that the fact that the incumbent president according to exit polls a number of exit polls i have to say managed to get around seventeen eighteen percent of the vote many people would say that that's quite a victory for the top russia because only a few weeks ago an interest you grow it quite a bit to around. sixteen seventeen seventeen percent which is not very impressive but still it was enough to get into according to exit polls to get into the runoff which. the stage for

a pretty interesting second round robin is going to say 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 had 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 and that happened to many of his predecessors as well so that's pretty normal for ukraine 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. maybe in consultations with the. former prime minister who 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 this polling well with the older electorate so that would be quite a combination of mr poroshenko the photon as what about the process itself how was polling day gone well there have been some reports of irregularities nothing really criminal even though there have been i think nine thousand criminal cases opened but nothing that would call the whole boat into question i have to say that outside the regulated 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 some would. see beyond that because for example saturday was supposed to be a day of silence with all containing 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 has maintained there is a lenski who as you mentioned is most famous for his part in the t.v. series now the channel that where she actually has a contract with decided to run those series for the whole day so it was from the morning till the three meaning he's face on the screens on these suppose it's. for the twentieth consecutive weekend the yellow vest protesters in france have rallied against the government recent measures to ban protests in specific areas of the capital like the. other major cities as well have apparently had little effect officials claim around thirty thousand protesters turned down nationwide while organizers put the figure out was used to disperse some rallies dozens of arrests were made and prayers violence also broke out in the southern city of.

some of the protesters why despite dialogue some concessions they are still furious with the government. you. think we have to express our discontent especially about the purchasing power of retired people which is unacceptable. i was going to administer obviously haven't got any help with our salaries this patrol crisis or on democracy or climate change policy but i'm not close to that that this did at their best and we want a decrease in the value added tax in the cities like food so people could have a higher purchasing power so both distributions and equal justice.

we are here every saturday we will be here until the end. the light aircraft has crashed near frankfurt in central germany killing all three people on board including the co-owners of one of russia's biggest airlines s. seven and. who was one of russia's wealthiest businesswoman was traveling with her father on board the single engine six seater aircraft which came down around twenty two kilometers south of frankfurt the plane had earlier taken off to the can in the south of france said not yet known how the flight got into it head on by a police vehicle responding to the air crash. protesters have clashed with police on one of the main roads of venezuela's capital as the country has once again been plunged into darkness. if. activists were seen burning tires and directing barricades people's discontent

with the blackout is being aggravated by a water shortage some people were seen as been suffering power outages which has led to their restricted supply of drinking water the opposition blames president maduro for his inability to control the situation by the material government says the power cuts are the result of criminal sabotage by their opponents. maduro has announced a thirty day plan but israel has been in the news all week the pushback was swift from washington after russian military planes touched down in the country with around one hundred troops according to moscow their presence in the country is allowed under an agreement struck almost eighteen years ago with caracas but that did not satisfy u.s. president trump and other u.s. officials they say russia should leave venezuela or face consequences. that you know. see we'll see we'll see all options are out. just so you understand all options are on. the people who's using the

russians to support his dust roots attempt to keep the venezuelan people from hearing room president so he and his cronies can keep plundering venezuela it is time for venezuelan institutions to stanford or sovereignty russia in cuba hands off and as well supporters of venezuelan president nicolas maduro and opposition leader held rival rallies on saturday in the capital caracas that is amid the south american country experiencing a series of nationwide blackouts which have hit water transportation and telecommunications services a spokesman for the red cross says the power outages are a primary cause for concern and to aggravate the humanitarian situation in the country. intuition is what you call it in the if it was an easy way to be and the last few days when he just boiled i mean and he said it forward because we needed the money. and for the international coalition red cross and the

main focus of our aid would be to head and wearing off because and being so the virus problem unfortunately it was managing that we go in with the problem early breezy and for instance are a lot of other credibility these means there's a million other surgeries ignore the i.v.'s for the infant you got example in order to by the way there are almost one policeman that are being well there. with deciding to fall a size or a cross on the head because they're quite a where the bullies i mean it's it's sick when we know how to deal with that and then also people that one hundred years of going into the red cross or another mullins not because at the beginning still around the guy but he's in his way or this or that. and that does it for me my the weekly in thirty five and a half and it was.

join me every. time i'm sure and i'll be speaking to the. sport i'm sure. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic development only really. will be very. time to sit down and talk. i think is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in this county and you'll be to state his. mark was the

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the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been. implemented. within a decade my country was ruined. it lost a quarter of its manufacturing. a million people emigrated and public debt kept rising.

in twenty fifteen a government claiming to be a left wing promise to force it into. however its agreed measures that tie the country up until twenty sixty and started mass privatisation. voters on the lift became depressed because it had succeeded with what the right hadn't. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost their is on different. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela.

this type of. thing i love to see forty kids we see there but up able to see steve it is up and up and would send them off the b.c. . of those women as well again not going to one of those. when a european country went through a crisis why were its politicians worried about toilet paper in latin america. i flew to caracas to find out.