i'm show business i'll see. what it says is a press strategy agreed by a door in the u.k. to be used in the event founder julian assange extradited to the u.s. further fueling rumors the whistleblower is about to be expelled from his embassy in london. police in paris used tear gas and arrest more than forty people protesters gather for the twenty first consecutive weekend of anti-government yellow vests crowds. supporters and opponents of the venezuelan president are preparing for a new wave of protests on saturday while the opposition leader announces a new plan to topple nicolas maduro. i'm not playing the drums. that israel prepares for election some vying to be put

on the spot controversy with a tough. spot controversy with the anti palestinian. welcome this is r.t. international. we start with breaking news this hour from central paris because a powerful explosion has hits an apartment block so far no casualties have been reported fifty firefighters though the blaze as we speak it's unclear how many people exactly were inside the video has been circulating online it allegedly shows the moment of the blast we are at this stage unable to verify its preliminary report suggests that the fire was started by a gas leak. on that story as they come. with the league says that it's obtained a press strategy agreed on by ecuador and the united kingdom in the event leaks

founder julian assange should be extradited to the united states but was a blow was granted asylum in ecuador as embassy in london in twenty twelve. but rumors are circulating that he's about to be expelled potentially handed over by britain to america according to wiki leaks ecuador will claim a song broke the terms of his asylum with the u.k. giving assurances it won't let the u.s. sentence him to death that's precisely the fate of songe fears is in store if he's extradited would the u.s. still fierce about wiki leaks having release classified material acquittals foreign minister meanwhile took to twitter to dismiss rumors his country would and over the whistleblower the sunday supporters say that he's doing crucial work and must be protected. but it was not possible to mistreat someone this way just because he revealed their big and powerful. as the publisher he has revealed all kinds of human rights violations war crimes this information needs to get out

united states says that they're defending democracy around the world and they're not just building democracy in. the united states is is. trying to silence people for the good of. revealing what's happening in julian or signage it's just the person who made it possible for those people to be heard. so much has changed in ecuador since the silence was granted asylum over seven years ago including relations with washington it has the story. thank you for gracious welcome you have shown to my wife very first. we are. you know. what a beautiful video what a beautiful welcome maybe that's the reason the u.s. vice president was pacified enough not to call out names when he brought up the dark times in the u.s.

check with your friendship while visiting president. in quito prior to your election our nations did experience. ten difficult years were up people always folk loose but governments drifted apart though that was clearly a jab at someone who proudly stood up against america's whip cracking hand while in charge of the small south american nation just think of how rafa korea sheltered julian a songe what a slap in washington's face that was imo though with given diplomatic asylum to do in the sun softly exhausting all means want to guarantee that he's not extradited to the third country which could put his life in danger to life of misters sons as driscoll a life sentence which is being dead live under lenin maranoa who was praised by outgoing leader chorale at the election the tide has clearly changed mr carette even ended up calling his successor

a traitor absolutely. to the united states is doing. what they did let's look at what he could have meant by that. the first signal joyous could soon be shown the door at the embassy in london was when the american media reported president moran oh had once met donald trump's former campaign boss paul man afford it was claimed mr moran no was trying to negotiate concessions from the u.s. like debt relief and exchange for kicking the whistleblower out back then that led to nothing but today it's clear he's not a fan of assad yet us bases to get out too many times mr sanchez violates the cream and we keep leaks and gauges an espionage and hacking. as a real us imperialism hating tough guy rafael corral was known as a staunch ally of men as well as nicholas maduro while for ecuador's current

president someone else quite well known as the true leader in caracas. i have spoken with president hu on going i've invited him to ecuador to receive the affection and support of a people he loved more crecy. mr chorale was on a mission to rid his country of uncle sam's folks step by step he first refused to extend the lease of an ecuadorian air base to the americans beyond two thousand and nine and then told all u.s. military attaches to leave the country in two thousand and fourteen only a few years later sam is coming back the governments of ecuador and the united states decided to resume bilateral military cooperation training and assistance to contribute to ecuador ability to combat shared threats. wonder corrals moves were annoying those in charge in d.c. to say the least so starting from two thousand and fourteen millions of us aid cash

stopped flowing ketones way under mr moran help the box of freedom are slowly starting to find their way back today i'm pleased to announce that the united states who support that effort to root out corruption merely want to have million dollars to support your efforts. to end corruption and strengthen civil society in ecuador. it seems it didn't take long since the right man came in. human rights campaign to be detention believes that the sun she's being used as a bargaining chip in relations between ecuador and the united states i would suggest it's highly likely that the u.s. government has been putting pressure on the government of ecuador and we know that president morano in ecuador himself is under huge pressure his popularity has slumped to about seventeen percent the new york times reported that president

moreno had offered to handover a songe to the us and exchange for debt relief so i think there is. something much deeper going on here and it would be a great great shame if ecuador bowed to american pressure and gave up the important principle that a citizen of its country a political refugee had been granted asylum should be handed over to a foreign power to face draconian charges cooked up by a secret grand jury the content of which is not known to anyone that would be a very very grave step to take. more than twenty thousand yellow vests thank vista been rallying in cities across france for twenty first consecutive weekend riot police routes all must using crowd control weaponry in paris at least forty three people were arrested head of this the country's constitutional council a no holds government plans to ban certain individuals from protesting saying the

measure would grant police excessive powers to the parents of a crackdown on the rioters were approved by the charlotte dubin ski experience. a big slap in the face for the french government as the country's constitutional council has ruled that named yellow vest protesters can't be banned from taking part in the continued demonstrations they canceled the last word on this said plans to give the power to authority would give officials excessive last sixty eight the provisions leave therefore it is too much leeway in assessing of the reasons did me justify the ban so-called anti breakers law was passed here in france as part of measures detroit in control that week the protests that have rocked the country protests that often disintegrate into writing and fierce clashes with the police so much so that some cities have banned them. i.

i. streets destroyed buildings set alight causing motorcycles torched the damage has cost of two hundred million euros so the french economy with business is tearing their hair out even french banks waded into the debate calling for an end for more than four months hundreds of local branches through central links and local life has been targeted vandalized pillaged and bank offices physically threatened it is time for everyone to condemn acts committed against the bank we must quickly put a stop to this unbridled and unjustified violence and it's not just the destruction of towns and cities that has made the headlines since november seventeenth thousands of people have been injured some suffering life changing injuries.

the cab driver you would think if you. take. this up. but while some protesters may see this decision by the constitutional council as a when it's not all music to there is the council about held other controversial elements of the break as new meaning more severe penalties for organizers of north royce demonstrations and for those who cover their faces during violent protests well police now have the right to search individuals and vehicles in the demonstrations in a bid to prevent objects being brought in that could be used as weapons.

r.t. paris. the l a. this movement began last november driven by rising fuel prices and the decline in living standards the loss of police that the aims of the protest is all too vague to succeed. lynch mobs fall into these rare oh. yes. free flow do you view we. need to know who you. are we should never forget there. will be. more open. people. perceive. them as well as opposition leader is vowing new tactical actions in islam to spread

to oust president nicolas maduro those first move calling for more nationwide protests today is something we've seen before and whether he has not gone into much detail about what these new actions will entail is local journalist notice of the court from the capital caracas. we are here again where one of the most implemented took up positions sounds of protest today protesters are fighting against the blackouts that has been is striking venezuelans since march the seventh this was a called me by one way to earlier this week he called to venice once to protest every time a basic service fails in the country also earlier this week he created and c.r.c. orser patient communities he plans to tour the country and plans to gain more support from the venezuelan still he said costs also the u.s. made a new set of sanctions against venice one of these years i around one hundred and

fifty one mature officials are sanction let's hear what. mike pence has to say about the venezuelan situation at this moment the united states of america sanction venezuela stayed on oil companies paid a visit and today. we're taking action against a vital source for the material regimes wealth it is important to remark that also mature a call for marches to support his government today also nikolaus madeira said that this is another intervention and from the us and other mental ing in the business is a bonus while up the government of the bolivarian republic categorically rejects the latest us attack on the venezuelan oil industry and its economic sovereignty venezuela believes it's unacceptable cynical and criminal of donald trump's administration to take measures that violate international law as well as economic

and commercial principles journalist paul dobson says that the latest sanctions he thinks won't actually make much difference. the latest round of sanctions sure what it will not have a great impact here in venezuela venezuela currently exports somewhere between twenty thousand and fifty thousand barrels of oil a day to cuba a much more pressing measure from the white house would have been to go by the same measure to for example when it's well an oil exports to china which are increasing every day and have a serious impact on venezuela books more across the political divide here in venezuela military action is merely rhetoric and it's not seriously being considered by the white house however when you look at the history of the u.s. pressure in latin america and other areas of the world we can see that military action very overt but it definitely. so would i think have to be taken into a very real threat by all of those who are looking at the venezuela situation.

as a spring in a recap of our breaking news coming from central paris where a powerful explosion the sit in apartment block so far no casualties have been reported fifty firefighters are now battling the blaze it's unclear how many people may be inside the video has been circulating online which allegedly shows the moment of the blast at this point unable to verify it live in a report suggests that the fire was started by a gas leak will bring you any new details on the story as they come it. or not international more news coming your way after this short break. bernie made a better army and said if you don't buy into my ponzi scheme on going to shoot my

god if you even though the body scan was well known to be a ponzi schemer yes you see it investigated bernie madoff police twice before they found the boss of them and they it was a well known ponzi scheme invested by well known people imagine bernie had an army now apply that to the u.s. dollar the u.s. dollar is a ponzi scheme why do people want the u.s. dollar because if they don't the u.s. military is set and they're obliterated whether it's iraq or libya or some other place like this around and so that's what's going to set a new york times rightly so the u.s. dollar is worthless it's backed by law. in the world of political much making the european union has long put values before wealth as its most desirable and tribute. to the time it takes for the e.u. to make a policy decision china can set up a whole new industry values that's attractive to potential partners.

israelis are gearing up to elect their next prime minister and his polling day looms one predominantly arab party is begging people not to vote for those they say have blood on the hands something some contenders actually been boasting about in campaign videos. luckily for you i was like oh that's mary. government bailed out of her usual and i'm not going to buy us i'm a gamble a whole thing for god now medic i. learned in new york they say leave. your kids who. on of the runners in the race to be

pm is former chief of the israeli defense forces benny gantz who released a series of short videos under the slogan only the strong when in the end he boasts about killing more than thirteen hundred terrorists including a hamas military chief and talks of how he returned parts of gaza to the stone age in the twenty fourteen bombing campaign comes at a time of heightened tension between israel and palestine last week gaza marked the first anniversary of the march of return protests since those demos began in march twenty eighth one hundred ninety five people have died twenty nine thousand or most injured israel maintains that casualties arise because of the actions of a mass or in self-defense.

professor university in the west bank saad near misses the shift to the right in israeli politics is facilitated by geo political factors. the whole israeli public is more towards the right and the right wing. and the other reason which is equally important we are talking about around seven hundred thousand two hundred thousand settlers in the west bank and those they have a huge influence on the israeli parties and on the israeli society itself so the tendency towards the right tendency for more violence against the palestinians is a quite natural thing no what is with elections or not with actions but with elections it would appear more to gain the support of. votes so they have to

show that they are tough on even the government this is part of sometimes the hypocrisy of the international community quite. specially about europe they said it quite clearly our own interests as europeans with america it's far more important to us than the human rights in palestine so it's quite you know a huge message to meet with israeli public that you can do whatever you like with late however you want and no one is going to hold you accountable for that. well powers of called on warning signs in libya to cease us thirty's and deescalate the german ambassador to the un gave a statement following an emergency meeting of the security council. members of the security council expressed deep concern that the military activity called on any forces to halt all military movements. meanwhile

a commander from eastern libya. close to tripoli and disordered his forces to take the capital he went back to government based in tripoli carried out several last strikes targeting have positions while one hundred forty five of these troops were captured don cohen has more. our forces moved north coming as close as forty kilometers to tripoli by taking the village of sukkot after some fighting earlier on how to are ordered his forces to not open fire on civilians tripoli is controlled by the un backed government of prime minister fayyad is also raj the u.n. chief antonio gutierrez says he is leaving libya with quote a heavy heart and deep concern i still hope you keep all simple. love the whole throat in and out all tripoli. and the united nations the main. available to facilitate any political solution able to uni

fight the libyan institution to briefly explain the situation in libya the country has been torn apart by warring factions since late libyan leader moammar gadhafi was ousted by nato backed militia men in two thousand and eleven since then two rival governments have emerged one backed by the united nations and based in the western city of tripoli and another in the eastern city of tobruk as allied to huffed are. for me it's different jim says that the current gas and libya is an inevitable result of western intervention eight years ago. this is what happens when you have violent regime change from the outside in the country and happened in libya in two thousand and eleven this is this is squarely on the doorstep of david cameron the nicolas sarkozy and of course hillary clinton barack obama they are the ones that lead this is mary campaign for democracy and democracy for the libyan

people and once they've got them for years and years the feeling years the civil war is to simply the latest round in it whether we will see some early resolution to this where one government or the other thing which is its rival stands to be seen by turn children i don't see anything good happening in this country unfortunately. and finally a recap of our breaking news from central paris where a powerful explosions hit an apartment block so far no casualties reported fifty five five is the tackling the blaze it's unclear how many people could be inside the video circulated to online allegedly showing the moments of the blast that's yet to be verified and then when i reports just the fire from a gas leak we'll keep you up to date on the story. so keeping updates coming your way at the top of the hour.

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people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defenses officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy for us. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will continue to see this mixture of physical crime and internet crime and the two will melt to a point where they're almost indistinguishable if you can't really distinguish them at all.

live action or towns are we going underground when the ends of the day the u.s. military illegally bomb syria in response to an allegedly faked chemical attack in qana coming up on the show the e.u. may be in trouble over brics even nato may be in defacto civil war after its seventieth birthday party but it was sure in china. widely already lose the information war we get the take of the chairman of russia's commission on information and media bill this is all coming up in today's going underground but first straight to this week's seventieth birthday party for nato in washington it was where dole trump secretary of state cheerleading for a legal regime change in venezuela made clear that nato was founded for peace back in one nine hundred forty nine everyone agreed with the central notion the net it would be a force for peace some thought the idea of nato was to a. yes the video feed actually cuts out that but then i'll give lee the

effectiveness of nato technology has never been the alliance's for say when normal transmission resumed compare went on to proudly named jack named as longest ongoing war in afghanistan well this week we got an insight into what some u.k. nato soldiers from the parachute regiment are doing in kabul practicing the mudir of u.k. labor party leader jeremy cool been. the u.k. ministry of defense is investigating but who now all the targets of nato and today across the world new challenges are confronting us russian and grants aggression mass migration vulnerabilities inherent to new technologies along with older persistent once they've created a geo political environment is increasingly unstable and even more competitive yes competition refugees from nato was and russia challenges but on that competition

mike pence vice president of the country that spends more on killing machines than china russia saudi arabia india france japan and the u.k. combined told nato that for peace you must prepare for war president trump has taken decisive action to make the strongest military in the history of the world stronger still we've been active the largest investment in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan we released a national security strategy advancing peace through strength now and that strength can be used against members of the nato alliance itself turkey must choose those who want to remain a critical partner the most successful military alliance in the history of the world or doesn't want to risk the security of a partnership by making reckless decisions that undermine our allies. after claiming turkey threatened ages existence he also proclaimed china as another threat so are we seeing the last days of nato joining me now from moscow and actually pushed off he is the russian federation's information and media commission chairman senator welcome back to going underground the us mike pence the vice

president threatening to kick turkey out of nato of russia supplies as four hundred russia selling the defense system to destabilize nato by saying that mr bennett's sarette are empty threats and the reason is that. no member of nato including the united states will seriously consider the possibility of excluding turkey from nato turkey is a key member of the alliance it is a very important critical strategic position in the middle east even if we can imagine that the united states. could consider to raise this issue european members will certainly disagree with that so i think that when mr pence was doing this threat he wanted just to conveyed.