i snuck out of the united states. into russia. with. men they know is bad wolf. a massive sweep through an apartment block in central paris after an explosion believed to be caused by gas. risk you say there are no serious injuries. to key leaks of what it says is a press strategy agreed by acquittal in the u.k. to be used in the event wiki leaks founder julian assange extradited to the united states fueling rumors that the whistleblower is about to be expelled from his embassy refuge in. more than forty yellow vest activists

were arrested in france during the twenty first consecutive weekend of civil unrest . supporters and opponents of the venezuelan president are preparing for a new wave of protests today while the opposition leader announces a new plan to topple nicolas maduro. thanks for joining us this is altie international where we start with some breaking news from central paris a powerful explosion inside an apartment block causing a large fire near the rosa parks where a way station and authorities say that there are no serious injuries but at least twenty seven apartments have been destroyed. is now under control the spokesman for the father gates says that the blast may have been caused by gas can to. in this

world on the balcony a few minutes we'll be bringing you a live report from close to the scene. with the league says that it has obtained a press strategy agreed on by ecuador and the u.k. in the event wiki leaks founder julian assange is extradited to the u.s. the whistleblower was granted asylum in ecuador as embassy in london in twenty twelve rumors are circulating he's about to be expelled and potentially handed over by britain to america according to wiki leaks ecuador will claim a songe broke the terms of his asylum with u.k. giving assurances that it won't let the u.s. sentence him to death that's precisely the fate that assad's fear is in store for him if extradited to the u.s. still furious about wiki leaks having release classified material could also foreign minister meanwhile took to twitter to dismiss rumors that the country would hand over the whistleblower son just supporters say he's doing crucial work must be protected but it was obvious it's not possible to mistreat someone this way just

because he revealed news that by their beach and powerful people as a publisher he has revealed all kinds of human rights violations war crimes are misinformation needs to get out united states says that they're defending democracy around the world and they're not just building democracy at all the united states is is. trying to silence people of all 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 and much has changed in ecuador since the silence was granted asylum almost seven years ago including relations with washington and you're trying to has the story. thank you for the gracious welcome you have shown to be my wife sharon on our very first visit to ecuador we are going to. treat you guys. and what

a beautiful video want to be uniform 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. ecuador friendship while visiting president lenin moran oh in quito price your election our nations did experience ten difficult years where our people always folk loose but our government 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 joy in a songe what a slap in washington's face that was a move that oh i see with given diplomatic asylum to do in the sun soft exhausting all means who want to guarantee that he's not extradited to third countries which could put his life in danger who life of misters sons is a true is a life sentence which is being dead while alive under lenin maranoa who was are

radically praised by outgoing leader chorale at the election the tide has clearly changed mr korea even ended up calling his successor a traitor absolute. to the united states. who are related 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 van 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 would lead 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 how cute. as

a real us imperialism hating tough guy rafael corral was known as a staunch ally of it as well as nicolas maduro while for ecuador's current president to 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 attash to leave the country and 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 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. the novacek survivor charlie rowley has met with the russian ambassador to the u.k. more than a year after the script our boys in case and almost ten months after the tragedy in amesbury which left a woman dead and her partner gravely affected all of those most involved are still

being kept in the dark in the case of segun scribal and his daughter they are literally hidden from the public in the second case charlie rowley himself and his family say that they have no knowledge of what happened and how the investigation is going and they are ready to look for answers and isha sesay reports. feeling so many of his questions well that's set by the u.k. government charlie rarely has reached out to mess with the russian ambassador to the u.k. he's lost his partner and is suffering from the terry orating health and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner once a day in nearly a scrape lost it by what was said even though they shouldn't be charged meanwhile though the russian ambassador has been trying to fill in some blanks. literally eighty percent of what i told him was quite a revelation to charlie and his brother is perfectly understandable in their ordinary people reading british newspapers because they know what they're offered

by the press so it's good to have an alternative point of view and understand russia's line of reasoning charlie rose lee and his brother had virtually no info on the questions we directed at the british authorities over the script case they don't understand why we're not allowed to make this group piles i told them that there was no mobile service connection with this group tells three hours prior to the poisoning we had no chance to examine this nerve agent it was all news to charlie and his brother most of the information they had they had read in the newspapers and i got the impression that both the family of dawn sturgis and that of charlie rowley have not been adequately informed as to what happened to the pain amesbury and what happened in sol's ri before they never received any official reports for many months now mr rowley and dawn's family received very little information about the course of the investigation so little that don't some center latitude the russian president saying that he felt let down by the u.k. government and you're the family of the late don't stir just once first and

foremost to see the investigations conclusions russia wants the same thing it's been a year now and we still haven't seen any official results what led charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from the british authorities. another point mr barry raised is that he felt his reputation was affected by u.k. press describing him as homeless when he was simply a british citizen charley and his brother very nice people the first thing they told me was that the british press misrepresented them. this is not the case charlie wants me to get this message across to russian woody and says the russian ambassador meanwhile says there's so much left unanswered but i wish we have plenty of questions regarding the cremation of miss sturgis because it destroyed all proof make it impossible to examine the results of those investigations that have been carried out by the british authorities everything the u.k.

authorities have done leads rechecking including how these people were treated now moscow was accused of and has repeatedly denied all involvement to do with last year they've offered to cooperate with british authorities many times but that's something that's constantly tonights by london and the u.k. government has still made little to no evidence public charlie rowley on the other hand says that he doesn't blame russia he just wants to die would he tell. all the twenty thousand here to vista been rallying in cities across france for a twenty first consecutive weekend run police were out in force using crowd control weapons paris at least forty three people were arrested this is the country's constitutional council and no government plans to ban certain individuals from protesting saying that the measure would grant police excessive power but other parts of a crackdown on the rioters were approved to charlotte dubiously explains. 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 the canceled the last word on this plans to give the power to authority would give official. excessive latitude the provisions leave therefore it is too much leeway in assessing of the reasons that may justify the bad so called anti breakers' law was passed here in france as part of measures to try and control the weekly protests that have rocked the country protests that often disintegrate into writing and see as clashes with the place so much so that some cities have banned them. was. was good. because.

the. streets destroyed buildings set alight causing motorcycles torched the damage has cost of two hundred million euros to the french economy with businesses 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 essential 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 club visit the capital crime of if you look at it. if you. happen to believe that god was was. but while some protesters may see this decision by the constitutional council as a when it's not all music to their ears the council upheld other controversial elements of the breakers' law meaning that more severe penalties for organizers of northwest demonstrations and for those who cover their faces during violent protests well police now have the right to search individuals and vehicles near demonstrations in a bid to prevent objects being brought in that could be used as weapons charlot even ski r.t. paris. ok let's return to our breaking news story coming from central paris where

a fire has swept through an apartment block destroying dozens of homes following a powerful explosion there are reportedly no serious injuries the blaze is said to be under control well let's go live now to alexander artie's alexander's dinar is near the scene of that fire alexanders if you can hear me ok i just want to want more information if you manage to find out and perhaps maybe you've seen some things yourself. well yes indeed i am right now in the north of paris just in this residential area it's center buildings near no rosa parks train station what i can sell from now is that the apartment already has there are backing out but we can see that the whole area is blocked out and there's still a lots of firemen working on site probably just cleaning out the results of the fire we know it was a very very powerful. explosion there i can see from here

a lots of black. smoke which teams and completely the ceilings and the walls of the building. i don't have right now information about the injuries or what actually caused the fire and the explosion but we will keep you updated on that yeah information just to confirm reports of no serious injuries at this point many thanks alexander's tenaces on the line for us from paris. thanks keeping it international more news coming your way after this short break.

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as well as opposition leader is vowing new tactical actions and his latest bid to oust president nicolas maduro. first move calling for more nationwide protests today is something we've seen before however he's not going into much detail about what his new actions will involve these local journalists now these are the gold 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 just striking venezuelans since march the seventh this was a called me by one way to earlier this week he called toobin as always to protest every time a basic service fails in the country also earlier this week he created and two years or surpassing committees he plans to tour the country and plans to gain more

support from the bonus while and still his costs are also a u.s. made a new set of sanctions against us one of these years around one hundred and fifty one. 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 state oil company paid a vase and today. we're taking action against a vital source for the madeira regimes well 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 u.s. and another mendelian in the business is a bonus well up the government of the bolivarian republic categorically rejects the latest u.s. attack on the venezuelan oil industry and its economic sovereignty venezuela

believes it's unacceptable cynical and criminal of going to trump administration to take measures that violate international law as well as economic and commercial principles. journalist paul thompson says that the latest sanctions won't actually make much difference. these latest round of sanctions sure what it would not have a great impact here in venezuela venezuela currently exports some of queen twenty thousand to fifty thousand barrels of oil a day to cuba a much more pressing measure from the white house would have been to apply 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 business whalers books even more across the political divide here in venezuela hope that military action is merely rhetoric and is 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 and covert is definitely prominent so would i think have to be taken as a very real threat by all of those who are looking at the venezuela situation. israelis are gearing up to elect the next prime minister and as polling day looms one predominantly arab parties begging people not to vote for those who they say have blood on their hands something some of the contenders have actually been boasting about in campaign videos. luckily for you i was like oh that's mary. government that are sort of her usual and i'm not new but you know some of galileo plame forgot. they slowly. yes you know. one of the runners in the race to be pm is former chief of the

israeli defense forces benny gantz who released the series of short videos under the slogan only the strong when in them 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 four team bombing campaign it comes at a time of heightened tension between israel and palestine last week gaza marked the first anniversary of the so-called march of return protests since the demonstrations began in march two thousand and eighteen one hundred ninety five people have been killed and almost twenty nine thousand injured he still maintains that casualties rise because of the actions of a mass or in self-defense. professor

of political science at birzeit university in the west bank says the shift to the right in israeli politics is being facilitated by geo political factors. the whole israeli public is more towards the right and the right wing's are flourishing and the other reason which is equally important we are talking about around between 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 it is with elections or not with actions but with

elections it would appear more to gain the support of the right wing votes so they have to show that they are tough on even the current government this is part of sometimes the hypocrisy of the international community quite clearly and we are talking specially about europe they said it quite clearly oh our interest as europeans with the americans is far more important to us than the human rights in palestine so it's quite a quite you know a huge message to the army to the israeli public that you can do whatever you like with the person who can violate however you want and no one is going to hold you accountable for that. well the powers have called on the warning signs in libya to cease hostilities and deescalate the german ambassador to the united nations gave a statement after an emergency meeting of the security council. the members of the security council expressed deep concern that the military to fit the call to ellyn

a forces to halt all military movements meanwhile a commander from eastern libya is not close to tripoli and this would of his forces to take the capital the u.n. back to government based in tripoli carried out several airstrikes targeting have to us positions while one hundred forty five of these troops have been captured down cohen has more. our forces moved north coming as close as forty kilometers to tripoli by taking the village of so after some fighting earlier on have to ordered his forces to not open fire on civilians tripoli is controlled by the un backed government of prime minister five years also raj the un chief antonio gutierrez says he is leaving libya with quote heavy heart and deep concern i still hope to be possible for it love the call from him and that all tripoli.

and united nations remain. available to facilitate any political solution able to uni fi the libyan institutions 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 that's allied to huffed are. former u.s. diplomat jim judge just believes that the current chaos in libya is an inevitable result of the 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 nicolas sarkozy and of course hillary clinton barack obama they were the ones that

led this this mare e campaign for democracy and democracy for the libyan people and once it got them but years of chaos years of killing years of civil war this is simply the latest round in it whether we will see some early resolution to this where one government or the other vanquishes its rival stands to be seen but until then i don't see anything good happening in this country unfortunately. on the reminder of a breaking news story from central paris where a powerful explosion is that an apartment block causing a large fire near the rosa parks well way station authorities say they have been no serious injuries but at least twenty seven apartments were destroyed the place is now under control according to the father gave the blast may be caused by gas containers stored on a balcony. not so from a for they saving thanks for staying with l.t. international my colleague sean thomas will be his opinion right up to date and

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