oh. international tensions. were. interim president. while the government currently. also had a. u.s. army veteran. rested in california for plotting attacks against christians against us officials believe he was seeking revenge for the new zealand shooting. the russian student who attempted to join islamic state. she's released from prison after serving.

more. in norway encounter a curious way. from a major russian. twenty four seven news from russia's capital city welcome to r.t. international my name's union o'neil we start with breaking news on the program self-proclaimed interim leader a call for a military operation describing it as a final face some live pictures quite sketchy at the moment but just giving you a sense the people out on the streets this morning around nine am local time now the response from the government well they're quite direct. saying they are putting

down a small attempt by army traitors who are working with right wing opponents quite zero who declared himself leader in january after disputed elections was flying by soldiers on a highway near the. base in caracas also there was another prominent opposition figure leopoldo lopez who's been under heiser rest since twenty fourteen witness being seeing tear gas was fired glyde o. was gathering we're just waiting for confirmation. in a three minute video posted online why do claimed that he's now getting military support. by the invisible today brave soldiers brave patriots brave people who are following our constitution i'm sure in the coup today the armed forces are standing behind the people and the constitution. and this goes beyond venice well as borders according to the main protagonists the the government

in caracas is accusing neighboring colombia of plotting the op rising after its leader call for the venice will an armed forces to bach but the defense minister says the army will not betray men during. one and quite been courting support from the united states a number of european nations since first making his move and that was in january time now the elections where the year before that and invoking the venice will and constitution he claim presenter all but stalled of election to cling to power since then immaterial governments face pressure not least from washington which accuse of meddling and if. a military intervention political analyst chris bambery thinks quite ok do whatever he wants because of his support from washington and from your . whole issue very as well is the loyalty of the army because the army is central to the maintenance of the existing would do rule regime there or why in the army

there is a strength it's also weakness the interesting thing is the silence from. paris to london bowl in madrid all over all this i mean just just imagine if. the cattle and president appeared in front of a bunch of armed soldiers i don't know if he was launching a military opera seemed to break away from spain there would be complete his styria in brussels and whether prosy here is utterly amazing this man is basically say he wants that institute a civil war to overthrow the existing government he's back to the recognized as the president by the by the west the united states there we inquired about this. ok we'll be keeping a close eye on venezuela right throughout the day but moving on for now a u.s. army veteran being arrested and charged in california over an alleged terror plot the justice department says the twenty six year old was planning a large scale neil bomb attack on a nationalist rally in los angeles amongst other things well mark stephen domingo

had served in afghanistan he recently conferred to islam and was allegedly plotting attacks on christians jews the police a justice department statement says domingo was seeking revenge for the shootings in two mosques in new zealand last month. in online posts and in conversations with an f.b.i. source domingo expressed support for violent jihad a desire to seek retribution for attacks against muslims and their willingness become a martyr according to the affidavit following an attack on a mosque in new zealand on march thirteenth domingo posted there must be retribution. domingo is also alleged heard said he would swear allegiance to a if the group were in the united states it comes amid growing international fears about planned isel terror attacks happy to say joining us live in the program as

mohammed shafique muhammad is chief executive of the ramadan foundation in the u.k. welcome to you domingo served in the u.s. army in afghanistan that much we know mom at heart how might the experience have affected it. i think quite massively there's a lot of stress disorder psychological problems mental health that many officers who were involved in the army in the occupation in afghanistan and iraq would of the scenes that they would have seen the bloodshed in killeen and all of that included would have had a profound effect on people and i think there is a real concern now that the president of united states talked about. you know mission been accomplished to i still and the reality is somewhat different we know that the ideology exists and we know that the threat exists not just here in the u.k. or europe but across the world and i think it was a deep mistake for president to take that decision when we clearly know full well

as we saw yesterday from big daddy that they are alive and well they pose a threat to our country and our security around the world yet in your view we will just expound on what you're seeing there a moment ago but in your view what high rare is it still someone to turn from fighting the enemy. at least the u.s. government's words to being the enemy. i think it's ever increasing problem. the first one is around. muslims they you know want to get closer to god to somehow they are able to be brainwashed into thinking they're using violence is an acceptable method but there's an ever increasing threat of far right extremism within militaries in germany for example here in the u.k. a number of soldiers will be on trial later on this year for membership of far right organization so it's it's an ever increasing problem because the authorities

in the militaries around the world haven't been able to invest in mental health support posttraumatic stress disorder no support for those soldiers they are left to their own devices and in many cases there are people who are left homeless living on the streets and their psychological is not being supported you touched on that there by donald trump essentially said i saw in syria is defeated he became his month for a for a little while as well but both military chiefs in the u.s. are on the run europe say there is an increased risk of beisel terror attacks and you talk but one of the leaders who is right here. why i think the military experts are the experts the generals and the people who are involved in the field will know this counterterrorism experts are very clear that you know just because i see that has been defeated militarily doesn't have any territory does that mean that the threat has gone away the reality is somewhat different they are looking to other methods traditional terrorist atrocities as we

saw in syria lanka. is the method that they will adopt what's driving those an excuse me. a deep seated hatred for western societies. western values of democracy human rights and freedom and i think there is something really disgusting about everything. they stand for us we defeated them on the ground in syria and in iraq but their ideology of violence the justification the distortion of his time the teachings lives on and that is something that we've got to confront not just within the muslim community but within what is society mohammed thanks for your time this army chief executive the ramadan foundation in the united kingdom to. supporters of the u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders launched an online campaign for him to be the democratic nominee in the twenty twenty election they warn that otherwise they're going to vote for donald trump your party's came up. on the surface donald trump

and bernie sanders seem like chalk and cheese polar opposites oh no trump has got to be defeated donald trump is a puzzle logical lawyer are you embarrassed of the costs every single day by crazy bernie he's crazy is a bed bug but you know he does it with crazy bernie i tell you i got to hear the different dirty sold out to the devil so here's a shocker for you donald trump is genuinely concerned about bernie sanders especially his nomination by the democrats in two thousand and twenty the democratic national committee sometimes referred to as the d.n.c. is again working its magic in its quest to destroy crazy bernie saunders for the more traditional but not very bright sleepy joe biden here we go again but this time please show a little more anger and indignation when you get trump has good reason to be concerned back in two thousand and sixteen twelve percent of bernie sanders

supporters turned against hillary clinton and they ended up voting for donald trump donald trump wouldn't be sitting in the oval office without them and new polls show that history could repeat itself twenty six percent of bernie sanders supporters would not vote for elizabeth warren in the final election despite the fact that she has similar policies to her democratic rival and this growing overlap between trump and burn. he supporters seems to be a growing phenomena i'm seventy eight and have been waiting for bernie all my life if it's not burning my vote goes to trump out of pure spite now i can believe that i have some trump voting friends who always said if trump wasn't running they'd vote for bonus and as easily they have a lot of voter overlap even another democratic candidate in the race brought it up it just kind of turns you guess the system in general and then you're more likely to want to vote. which could lead to somebody like you could lead to something like we've been finding out of people here in new york have noticed this trend i'm sure

a lot of people are fed up with our current dysfunctional government people are fed up with their traditional politics over the last twenty thirty years just think because he's an outsider and he's against the system and he was like the year he was treated very badly during the two two thousand and sixteen election politics in the united states is taking an interesting turn seems that now a days voters are less concerned about what you stand for and what you represent as a candidate but rather about how loudly you speak out against an establishment with many detractors a little up and r.t. new york. a russian university student who attempted to join a slum extent in syria has spoken to r.t. shedding light on what motivated her actions on the consequences she's been released on parole after serving just over two years of her sentence and warned anyone seeking to follow in her footsteps. because. i want to show myself not as i was probably a region it showed but as i really am that my story was

a peculiar lesson not given all about isis but about just simple relationships with my family with people this is my deeply personal story the story of my family i want to tell and show people myself and not be afraid of me i just think that what happened to me was also related to my low self esteem uncertainty in myself and it turns out that women. well done to their husbands and goal that they hold on to them so much that they may not even understand the ideology they do not understand why to go there there has been see so no discussion and is very important to believe in yourself you really mean something if he says you have to go so what who cares what she says and i felt a lot at that moment about what was happening and why it was happening actually very difficult thoughts they go round and round and round sometimes it takes you to the point of depression because you can't get out of this you don't want to think about it you want to turn away and run but it is still there and then the stand

that i can't leave this story behind me it will always be part of me. the face of american diplomacy secretary of state mike pump aoe has claimed that russians have been interfering in american politics since the nineteen seven days and will continue to pose a threat for decades to come. the russians interfered it happened in the run up to election in two thousand and sixteen that we have that we have the mission now to make sure this doesn't happen in two thousand and twenty there were threats or elections ninety seven four right and they interfered our elections in the eighty's and we should expect in two thousand and fifteen twenty fifty the russians will be added still i must say i was stunned at his reference to nine hundred seventy four in the nineteen eighties what is he talking about i mean we're talking about the era of the gus hall the communist party when he ran for president with zero support and this was the time of the of the old soviet union what relevance does that have

today the idea of putting more sanctions round by round is simply this that russia is our eternal enemy they are our enemy under the soviet time there are enemy and now they will be our enemy in the future this is kind of a manichean binary mindset that is simply has no place in a rational political discourse but do. but in a similar vein norway is also preparing for some russian meddling to surface on the partly quite literally it house this time in the form of a friendly blue go away oh beautiful creature that approach fishermen off the coast sporting a camera munt on the harness bearing the name of russia's northern capital fishing for the fox here so we have to try and go. here's a situation a cute white sea mammal starts playing with a couple of fishing boats. little. creature clearly wants to grab people's attention and even tries to pull straps and

ropes. the crew treats the little whale with some yummy snacks but realizes it's probably peeved by the tight harness around its body. because it takes a while and some real effort to take the straps off the unfortunate friend the white chap swims away enjoy the harness clip is branded equipment st petersburg which turns out to be a real russian firm making extreme sports equipment now how about this story. a group of norwegian fishing vessels have survived an attack. alas the boat the tide harness round its body with the name of the lot of putin's hometown on it made locals think the whale was a russian navy weapon norway is now on high alert amid fears russia could have

trained entire teams of sea creatures for spying and combat missions some of you might roll your eyes and think what a weird paranoid freakout well i'll tell you what pretty much all the media out there reported the encounter of norway's northern coast and in some cases my impression of the catchy coverage wasn't too much of an exaggeration whale found off noways coast believed to be spying for russia. there's a new alleged russian spy it's a below go in kernel beluga off of course if it says st petersburg on that thing the cute creature must be a russian spy or not to underestimate what britain is probably a better word than luke a whale found wearing a harness to carry camera could be russian weapon whales trained by russia's military maybe harassing fishermen from nature are in no way ok i'll tell you

a secret the likes of the russian or u.s. navy's started training seem for things like the mining rescue operations spotting underwater threats decades ago just google it but it never really put their neighbors in panic mode this time though beluga whale with russian harness raises alarm in norway i just hope those who wrote those do stay away from some of the following displays of russian humor. we are back with more news for th q. in a minute if they were. now

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twenty minutes past four pm here in moscow welcome back the sri lankan government has banned all types of face covering in public a security measure it's in response to the easter sunday terror attack which took the lives of over two hundred fifty people the move has i'm good the country sizable muslim community who say it's targeting women wearing islamic fields here on r t we discussed whether it's a prudent move or risks further inflaming religious hostility in the region. let's get real you know over two hundred fifty people have been massacred in sri lanka and the i fully support the sri lankan president for this temporary security

measure i imagine a scenario where the security forces people who are covered up and then could say that would you know who they where their identities are not clear to us so that kind of allows for the muslims to move freely across the society if those women had their faces shaded by a head covering then clearly a c.c.t.v. image would show nothing so there is a logic to this if you follow me you know it's just it's just be explicitly enabling security services ted dent of i and of the jewels in the act of or planning to carry out massacres in this instance of hundreds of christian people christian people so i think it's reasonable why not support it as the head of human rights watch has only argued it is a needless restriction what you do was is sort of creates a sense of helplessness among the muslims they might feel that one by one

our rights have been taken away fundamental rights it's been supported by the largest muslim group in sure like it so where's the argument most of them supported sure like and supported i supported who wouldn't support it but then we also talking about the individual rights the rights of women to follow their specific religious obligations and where does it stop who is going to be. compromised by the very act of trying to make sure that security services can check the visibility of those people who could potentially be able to carry out a terrorist incident that's a reason for doing this there could be the islamic hard line conservative argument but having said that the state has the response. realty of looking after the interests of the masses on the basis of that it can take these marriages but this should not become a long term because if it does that creates

a division between children multireligious religious fabric so these are some degree of islamophobia across the international system this was an attack by radical muslims or christians it slaughtered them in their hundreds and you're talking about islamophobia c'mon this is nothing to do with islam phobia this was christian a phobia not all muslims are terrorists i absolutely agree with this one but on this occasion all the terrorists were muslims you deal with it. all right let's return to our breaking news this hour and developments in venice willo where the self declared interim leader of the country one winds will call for a military operation to president maduro he's published a video flanked by soldiers army base near the capital a number of hours ago the government itself sees it's putting down a small well with snow on the program latin american politics professor michael

germ from britain's northumbria university good to have you with us one. is calling quite clearly for a military our prizing why does he think he's now got the military i'm not one of the big questions how many people are supporting him on his side what has changed in recent days do you think. i'm not i'm not sure that anything particular has changed i think there is an increasing desperation on the part of the the opposition and the united states to get a change of government one of the reasons for this i think will be oil finds in which is the neighboring countries of venezuela there's a big territorial dispute and has been for over a hundred years between venezuela and kiana. these finds a couldn't be coming forward there's a there's about five million recoverable bottles of oil there but it's in territory

disputed by venezuela i think the declaration is to get their hands on the oil and to get a government in which will give up its claim to the u.s. a keeble region which is it which is called under for the maritime territory off shore i think that the the scene of the sonar for this so-called revolution is this luck card lottery so no field saw the we're looking at the earth force here and i. i think the earth force is it comes from a different social class if you look at most countries in the world these people are from or from the wealthier but john they're more educated it is much more technical job that they do. let's say the infantry on the ground so i think if there is going to be any kind of coup then that would be worth it would start and there have been previous examples in venezuela of the force carrying out

attempted coups go back to the one nine hundred sixty s. there was what that one couple years ago were a television actor who is also a soldier flew over some hundred aids so i just think it's i think that's that's where you can expect a revolution to come from how much support he has are not sure well what about it i decide the borders michel because we knew before around fifty countries or so but why do i put it to you. could he still rely on their support if what he is calling for this military operating and we see blood and we see death on the streets that he has called for do you think that they would still on a quickly. absolutely . i mean they're all of it for their own reasons violence to seem to bother them

when people on the side are committing the violence we've seen what happened in libya the culture is in ruins when it was it was perfectly good before they bombed it to pieces syria all all these all these these these constant been destroyed and they're quite happy to sit back and watch it so there is no moral high ground anymore and i think that starts the key to wallace everybody's dealing with saudi arabia who allegedly just slaughtered and chopped opens a little piece is one of the journalists so any thought of model high ground is long gone we've seen spain come out this morning and say it's a peaceful transition but planes got its own reasons it sees itself. the interlock of top between us in america europe because of its traditional colonial connections michael thanks for your time this hour michael durham latin american politics professor at northumbria university. busy news or as i said on all those stories

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