oh. breaking news the. self-proclaimed interim president. receives the. calls for a military. government it's. coming up on the program the russian national jailed in the u.s. for working. foreign agent has been fielding reporters' questions. explain how she was the mother investigation. with solitary confinement. a u.s. army veteran turned alleged sympathizer is arrested in california. against christians

jews officials believe he was seeking revenge for the new zealand. grab your churning in from right around the world this hour a warm welcome to moscow and to our national my names you. we begin with breaking news. claimed interim leader a call for a military all pricing describing it as the final face clashes have been unfolding in the capital caracas where protesters threw rocks on the authorities the ploy to tear gas.

our senior correspondent iraq as the of us with us now to discuss developments for us hello a few hours all night from the call by quite oh for a military operation how do things stand well it is tense in the venezuelan capital we know that there are clashes ongoing between protesters the back who are why do the self-proclaimed president of venezuela and forces police the military as well as demonstrators loyal to the current president maduro and this is this is been going on for some hours no no concrete information on casualties number of people injured but as you heard there and as you see there have been shots fired the violence as well protesters the been trying to storm a military base that is to the current president maduro.

hours ago when one why do the self-proclaimed president of venezuela. appear in a video with military forces behind him with a number of troops who he said had switched to his side and you call this the final phase of the revolution to depose model. today brave soldiers brave patriots brave people who are following our constitution . today the armed forces are standing behind their people and the constitution. by all accounts. proclamations may be a little overambitious it is after all a very small group of soldiers and the venezuelan government has already acknowledged that yes a small group of soldiers had committed as they said treason and backing why do they're now saying that they will arrest these people and that this coup will be

will be stopped and coup is what it is being called. by the media by almost every major publication. it is unclear exactly how many soldiers join go i do but again as i say by all accounts not that many otherwise the clashes we saw would probably have been much more serious and the military base outside of which do recorded this video. you know that probably be serious clashes there but as i say not a lot of concrete information yet the soldiers that appeared with the say that the they joined him out of solidarity and that they'll stand by him and the venezuelan people as they try to depose but yet the material government has been saying it's responding to a small that's been their message how is that response been manifesting well so far

. there have been as i said the clashes the military has been deployed the military that's loyal to president maduro. shots fired i believe they were warning shots as we haven't seen any major injuries but as i say too early to call we should probably wait for more concrete information to come out nevertheless the venezuelan government has said this is an isolated incident a small group of soldiers and they're handling it. stand firm in defiance of the constitutional order and peace of the republic assisted by the law resume and history always never traitor. situation in the capital though as i say still tense both sides maduro and one go do calling on those that back them the public to come out and protest to

show their solidarity and support with whatever leader they prefer but again as i said this is being for a while since january when my daughter was inaugurated for a second. back then one why do proclaimed himself president and he was quickly recognized by the united states a number of european countries a number of that an american countries and since then we've been at a stalemate because because it doesn't have enough support locally from the military from the public to overthrew just just like that so as i say this stalemate back and forth with two leaders vying for one chair it's going to be interesting how the international community as it were reacts this because we saw in months gone by over fifty countries saying baby bok the opera in the back one why don't know when the actual violence starts to hit and we start to

see blood on the streets. you know what happens then today still what could amount to a civil war what's been said so far in the in the hours well look at it look at it from the perspective when it started the united states and a number of countries friendly with the united states with very very quick to proclaim. do is the legitimate leader to recognize and to recognize his ambassadors to freeze. the venezuelan government accounts budget accounts state company bank accounts and since then the situation the country's gotten worse in united states has been blaming the venezuelan government for this rather than their actions freezing billions and billions of venezuelan money but. in general the fifty countries you mention that recognize who and why do that's

been stable so no more countries recognize and why don't the countries that backed them a do though they've been staunchly backing him such as turkey china russia. many other countries so again there's this split not only inside venezuela but internationally regarding venezuela as well the united states early on and they went out in limb here and they said we are considering a military option so it isn't it isn't off the table a military option to intervene in venezuela and so we you know we obvious where where they're bet is but other countries such as russia china urged to come. the international community to stay out of it to let the venezuelan people decide what happens rather than everybody you know who has a horse in this race to meddle and interfere nevertheless this standoff is

ongoing we're seeing escalations like this every few weeks. no end in sight for us the very latest situation in venice will our two senior correspondent up goes the of. the russian national do you hold in the us for working us registered foreign agent has been altering reporters' questions. i did not except to the sentence to be this harsh for not registering as a foreign agent i got the same sentence as the person who's sold secret information to the chinese government's it was the same sentence eighteen months i think it's absurd it was maria's first aberrate interview since her arrest in july last year she was uncertain question via telephone from a detention facility in the us where she's now being held uncertain questioning is

handed to her in advance by different news outlets including r t the first one was the most over this one why at all maria pleaded guilty instead of insisting on her being innocent and as you remember last friday she was sentenced to eighteen months in jail for failing to register as a foreign agent often she had pleaded guilty in december and she explained today that it was a commonsense choice between two evils since i accepted the deal or well the maximum sentence would have been five years otherwise it could have been as much as fifteen so i think any sensible person would have done the same thing. there was also a question about the connection between money. and the mole or this is a group of special investigators investigating russia's alleged meddling in the

u.s. elections of two thousand and sixteen of the name of the team. as mentioned by the federal judge who sentenced to eighteen months in jail and the question was how was the ria connected to the investigation and here is her. people from the team talk to me for five minutes total and as everyone knows i was not mentioned in this report in any way there is no relation between my case and this report the whole questioning to five minutes total the closer folders and never called back and never came back there were several questions about the challenges maria has been facing in a reason emotional intellectual physical psychological and marie's that she had tried and actually had managed to invest the time and attention facilities to educate her spending time at the libraries reading and learning but she said

that the main goal was to keep her safe and to save her mind i made every minute counts so i had this little sheet of paper with my schedule so i put my socks on this is the only way not to go crazy is to keep busy i exercise for an hour and a half pull ups and whatever you could do in a small cell reading of course. we already served nine out of her eighteen month sentence and there was a question about what she's going to do once she's back to russia and first she said she hopes that she will be meeting transferred back home to her mother learn to russia and she also mentioned that she's thinking about teaching career here in russia but of course in nine months. it's gone with more

news a u.s. army veteran has been arrested and charged in color. for new over on the alleged terror plot the justice department say's the twenty six year old was planning a large scale nail bomb attack on a nationalist rally in los angeles mark stephen domingo served in afghanistan he recently converted to islam and was allegedly also plotting attacks on christians jews on the police a justice department statements it is 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 to have said he would swear allegiance to weisel if the group were in the united states it all comes amid growing

international figures about planned islamic state terror attacks mohamad chatah the chief executive of the ramadan foundation in the u.k. believes the suspects army deployment in afghanistan might be partially to blame. those a lot of stress disorder is 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 because the authorities in the militaries around the world haven't been able to invest in mental health support post-traumatic 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 by supporters of left wing u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders say we'll swing right towards donald trump

unless their man secures the democratic nomination we look at whether opposites attract after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow the only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. what the pope says he has to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want to be.

actually going to be close it's like them before three of them or ten people get. interested always in the waters of our. city. where by supporters of us presidential hopeful bernie sanders have launched an online campaign for him to be the democratic nominee in the twenty twenty election they warmed up otherwise they'll vote for donald trump here start to scale up and. on the surface donald trump and bernie sanders seem like chalk and cheese polar opposites although trump has got to be defeated donald trump is a puff a logical lawyer really embarrassing thoughts every single day crazy bernie he's

crazy is a bed bug but you know he doesn't quit crazy bernie i tell you i got to hand it to for thirty sold out to the devil so here's a shock 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 burning supporters seems to be a growing phenomenon i'm seventy eight and have been waiting for bernie oh 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 that if trump wasn't running they'd vote for bonus sound 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 bernie 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. with our current dysfunctional government people are fed up with their traditional politics over the last twenty thirty years just because he's

an outsider to use against the system and he was like a year he was treated very badly during the 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 up against an establishment with many detractors a little up and r.t. new york. u.s. is being accused of manipulating travel procedures in order to hinder russia's participation in the united nations comes from the russian foreign ministry after washington refused to give a visa to the head of a russian delegation on disarmament. picks up the story the reason behind such a harsh statement coming from russia's foreign ministry is the fact that they had a fresh as defense ministry research institute me was denied a u.s. visa now he was supposed to travel to new york and there at ten and

a un security council session he was do you to brief the council on russia's account of as a suspected poison gas attack in syria now the ministry added that the us authorities were obviously as seeking not to allow objective information about what happened in syria to be heard at the un and as it turns out such situations are becoming quite common now the. opposite follows quite a similar visa denial to the had of the russian delegation of a un desire moment commission in march at the ministry now believes that the us side repeated the tries to prevent true information from spreading by preventing a prominent chemical expert from going to new york the us government was clearly try. to prevent objective information on the incident from being told from the un tribune groundlessly putting the blame for it on the syrian authorities washington doesn't want the international community to understand that last year's american

aggression against syria was carried out under a fabric a pretext the attack on the city of duma which is located very close to the capital damascus took place in april twenty eighth seen and a right after that u.k. u.s. and france launched more than one hundred missiles against what they say were syrian chemical weapons facilities and now last month inspectors from the organization for the prosecution of chemical weapons said that a toxic chemical that was used in the attack was a likely chlorine syria rejects all of these findings and the russian military also said that it has found no trace of chemical weapons use when they inspected parts of the city and at the same time the u.s. has been blaming repeatedly the syrian government for being behind the attack now r.t. has requested an official comment from the u.s. state department on this developing story but we haven't heard any response as of

yet. the face of american diplomacy secretary of state mike pompeo has claimed that russians have been interfering in american politics since the nineteen seventies and will continue to pose a threat for decades to come. the russians interfered it happened in the run up to the election in two thousand and sixteen that we have the we have the mission now to make sure this doesn't happen in two thousand and twenty there were threats or elections that he said before. they interfered or elections in the eighty's and we should expect in two thousand and fifteen twenty fifty the russians will be added still i was stunned his reference to nine hundred seventy four in the night hundred eighty s. what is he talking about i mean we're talking about the era. of gus hall the communist party when he ran for president was 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 were our enemy under the soviet time they're our enemy and now they will be our enemy in the future this is kind of a manic keon binary mindset that is simply has no place in a rational political discourse or right a different story but in a similar vein norway is also preparing for some russian meddling to surface an appointee quite literally at house this time in the form of a friendly baluga way eleven approached fishermen off the coast sporting a camera munt on a harness bearing the name of russia's northern capita fishing for the facts and the bitter end. here's a situation a cute white sea mammal starts playing with a couple of fishing boats. through the cliff. a 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 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. a rast the boat the tide harness round its body with the name of a lot of our 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. does a new alleged russian spy it's a below go in colonel below golf 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 may be 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 demining 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. the american prison system itself in the dark next to a documentary incarcerating us is right ahead.

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