i. knew breaking right now venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president receives the backing of the united states as he calls for a military uprising while the government says it's putting down a coup attempt. also this hour the russian national jailed in the us for working as an unregistered foreign agent has been fielding reporters' questions this afternoon explained how she was briefly quizzed by the investigation and how she coped with solitary confinement. and the prestigious university of cambridge in the u.k. launches an investigation into its profits from the slave trade during the colonial era.

global news live from russia this is our international brain it's tuesday evening at nine here in the russian capital is just turn to in the afternoon in venezuela that's the big story we're tracking over the past few hours where the venezuelan self-proclaimed interim president has called for a military uprising in the country describing it as the final phase and now top officials in the united states say he has full support. as. america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored by. today interim president who on good deal announced odds of a person young littered the years government foolish supports the venezuelan people in their quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated almost immediately after white i was called clashes broke out on a garden bridge near the capital caracas gunshots were fired and tear gas deployed as protesters threw rocks at the authorities.

ok watching over developments over the past few hours our senior correspondent more against the effort is with me how do things stand right now than. it's chaotic on the streets of the venezuelan capital there are clashes ongoing now we're hearing that thousands and thousands of. government protesters. gathered for a counter demonstration but again clashes between the military the police and.

protesters. they're continuing and they're violent extremely violent we saw trucks set on fire buses burning we saw protesters throwing molotov cocktails and and this footage is as of yet unverified pictures showing protesters armed with weapons this is aside from the desert as from the soldiers the joy and i do. in the day after he called for an uprising he called on the military to desert and to join him to help depose of president. today brave soldiers brave patriots brave people who are following our constitution. today the armed forces are standing behind the people and the constitution. since he made the call clashes have been ongoing influence but it's. very violent

we don't have any concrete information yet on casualties and those injured but we have seen harrowing scenes trucks driving of protesters protesters shooting at police shooting at the military trying to storm a military base that that was beaten back but if you do hope for a big uprising i think you'll be disappointed by the end of the day because we haven't heard any more reports of soldiers deserted and joining his cause standing against the government the. minister of defense of venezuela has said that the military remains loyal and that those soldiers that have deserted will be arrested for the days that. stand firm in defiance of the constitutional order and peace of the republic

assisted by the law reason and history always never traitors. the day however isn't done yet and they could be further escalations down of. undoubtedly being keenly watched from abroad what's the international reaction been so far and well it's been predictable the united states within an hour of. those call. coming out in support coming out in support of what is happening with the clashes in the venezuelan capital but again that they did the exact same thing back in january when proclaimed himself president in the united states almost immediately recognized him as the one and true president of venezuela other countries in the european union certain countries there have supported one guy i don't know all of them yet in all fifty countries recognize one guy do is the legitimate president but other countries turkey for example the turkish president do on has come out very strongly against what is happening in venezuela has called

it for an attempt to change the leadership in venezuela saying that meddling in politics of sovereign independent nations is unacceptable and that the venezuelan people should decide what happens to their country who needs it the russian embassy has also issued a comment saying much the same effect urging calm and saying that it's venezuelans that should pick what happens choose what happens to their country ok we'll let you get back across the newsfeeds and astronauts in latin america for another more of thanks very much for the last we couldn't now talk to a community activist and founder of your world news on the show. as far as we've seen and over the past few hours how much support among the venezuelan people do you think i don't really has right now. and that's very much i don't think that i mean if we track you know the last several weeks and months since why i don't know and here's westerner. then you know working on. it if they were space

to try to you know instigate in and completed. it could retire in venezuela we've seen that the vast majority of it in us wayland's. by all accounts by independent media as well as independent outlets underground but it's well or. you know that the majority that you are the people the masses are behind them a door open it ministrations your governments and what no parts of of what would you know resemble you know basically a new colony for the united states and what you think quite over things he's now got the military on his side so he has that know much about it over the past few hours what would you think changed in recent days though to given that confidence i don't i don't think much has changed i think he's delusional but i also think that he received this strong indication that he received his talking points and all of his different you know little devious machinations from the west particularly from

washington the united states government itself and so i think that he's received you know the talking points to go out publicly and say military we have the backing of the military without there being any any kind of one shred of evidence that the military is backing way though in the shape or fashion those are talking points that he's received then and he looks you looks delusional and out bassy he looks like a puppet you know which is what he has. president governments calling this a small coup is that a fair assessment of the situation. yeah i think it is i think it's a it's a small core temp but it has to be taken seriously because any time the orchestra or any any time the the the the the almost originator of of could it cause is back in you which is the united states government you have to you have to have to be taken very very seriously so even though it's a it's

a small coup d'etat at this moment because it's why don't we end his you know his nefarious band of. you know miscreants and venezuela who are taking orders from washington and dot the orders are coming from washington as we know washington and i think government has successfully completed literally dozens and dozens of illegal interventions including ties throughout its history that have cost untold countless deaths of civilians in the long run and you'll pinning a lot of this squarely on the united states but other countries have weighed in as well in support of why don't but if he resorts to using violent military means to oust nicolas maduro one of the nations step in. and i think the use of the key term when you describe it as it should be the leaders of fifty different countries because just because these leaders come out they don't speak on behalf of all the people in those countries any more than donald trump's explore the masses

of people in united states in any shape form or fashion so those those those leaders those cowardly leaders from those doohickey western you know western countries that are are backing why don't i don't think that you know i think that's just what it is as they have fifty different leaders cowardly leaders that are following the orders of washington washington as even secondarily threaten many nations that if you don't support the same since i been a swiller we will sanction you and i think so i don't think it's. for the mass of people on the on the ground but those that the leaders yeah and i think so. why don't doesn't resort to violence i think there would be a global outcry i think a lot of there's a lot of leaders from from many different nations dozens of nations and as well as people on the ground in those nations will speak out very very clearly that this is wrong and they want to immediate stop of this i don't think that most people want

to see bloodshed. in venezuela or any place else especially. you know under these kinds of fear of circumstances ok we'll keep watching it for now though in washington d.c. sullivan commission from your news dot org thanks for your time. thank you. author of a headline news that the russian national jailed in the united states for working as an unregistered foreign agent has been answering reporters' questions by phone. i did not expect to the sentence to be this harsh for not registering as a foreign agent i got the same sentence as the person who sold secret information to the chinese governments it was the same sentence eighteen months i think it's absurd it was nearly as far east aberrate interview since her arrest in july last year she was uncertain the question via telephone from

a detention facility in the us where she is now being held answering the question is the 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 off the she had pleaded guilty in december and she explained today that it was a commonsense choice between two evils since i accepted the deal. 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 but there was also a question about the connection between me. and the mole or team this is a group of special investigators investigating russia's alleged meddling in the us

elections of two thousand and sixteen of the name of the team was mentioned by the federal judge who sentenced to eighteen months in jail and the question was how was the ria connected to their investigation and hears her on. people from the miller's team talked 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 took five minutes total the closer folders and never called back and then we came back there were several questions about the challenges maria has been facing in a reason emotional intellectual physical psychological and marine that she had tried and actually had managed to invest the time and attention facilities to educate her spending time had the libraries reading and learning but she said

that the main goal was to keep her safe and to save her mind what i made every minute count so i had this little sheet of paper with my schedule so i put my socks on it this is the only way not to go crazy is to get busy i exercise for an hour and a half pull ups and whatever you could do in a small so reading of course. marie you're already served nine months out of her. eighteen months sentence and there was a question about what she's going to do you. when she's finally freed and she said she hopes that once she is released she will be immediately deported to russia and she's right now thinking about it career.

britain's ancient and venerable cambridge university has launched a two year inquiry into how the eight hundred ten year old institution benefited from slavery during the colonial era. it is only right that cambridge should look into its own exposure to the prophets of curse the way but during the colonial period we cannot change the past but lawsuit seeks to hide from it all came with university isn't the only institution looking to wrestle with its imperial past other prestigious universities in both britain and the united states have done the same in recent years facing up to their past in the potential gains that they've made cambridge rival oxford faced a long dispute over a controversial statue of a nineteenth century colonialist but claimed it would have faced severe financial cuts had it removed the monument university of east london try to set up a one hundred million pound fund for reparations over slavery saying that the money should be put aside to support ethnic minority students over in the u.s. harvard was forced to remove a master from its academic title and georgetown voted in favor of reparations for

the descendants of nearly three hundred slaves sold by the university in the nineteenth century let's talk now to radio talk show host and columnist john gaunt and also need jasper who's a social activist and a former equalities advisor to the mayor of london gentlemen welcome back to r.t. first of all simply put i know it's an awful trotted out question but should today's generations who are more enlightened have to pay for the guilt of ancestors who died hundreds of years ago. well there are some institutions like oxford like cambridge like glasgow that were institutions during slavery or institutions now and for which you can trace on broken record of profiteering from slavery as clouds of all university have done i made the right decision that it's now time to make reparations these decisions are very much longer overdue and one would have thought that a country such as britain coming to terms with its colonial past would have made this these sorts of efforts much earlier but nevertheless i do applaud.

cambridge. goal for taking this initiative. and i think other institutions like the british museum the british library all of the colonial there are. in britain as a consequence of colonial plunder should now be in an act silva reparation returned today countries of origins one can think about the bend in bronze is one can think about. the church of england having as a missionary training center a former colonial plantation in barbados one can think of lloyd's of london who amassed vast profits as a consequence of ensuring the slave trade a company that still is today as is unilever many will not know its slave trading past but was a slave trading company and now is one of the biggest detergent soap and personal

hygiene companies in the world so i do think there's a case to answer and i'm glad that cambridge is taking the time to look back and assess what it can do to. try to repair a fractured history that is plays the out in the present journey does filled on something like this for millions of people time isn't a healer as lee said the l gotten gains of the past are still being profited from today at a time that there's still a lot of inequality. look no one can argue that slavery was a good thing it was an horrendous thing. course we should learn and teach our kids and educate ourselves indeed about the horrors of slavery let's just remind ourselves though there we were the first to abolish it i don't think there's any nation in the world that has a nod to being enslaved or being involved in the slavery trade including the continent of course of africa itself so you know i do think it's important they

look back cambridge and they look at where their money came from but i think this idea of paying reparation. it's ludicrous please spare me the horse a shirt this wasn't me or my generation or did it did this we do need education people need to be aware of it but who would you give the money to why should we start with the money now for example i think it's glasgow have set up a sort of slavery course or something rather looking into the research of it i think of cambridge wanted to do that that would be sensible but the idea that we're going to start giving the money back who would we give it to africans living in this country africans in africa i thought for example david lammy did not want us to act in that way when it came to comic relief and of course his ridiculous comments led to a massive downfall when he talked about white privilege let's get over this shall we let's actually get to a point where we can all live together to prosper together and also at the same

point surely now start talking to beppo grillo and people like. in italy demanding that we want reparations as english and british people for when the romans invaded it's frankly she's huge paid if lee if this money is to be used for good for helping underprivileged students presumably underprivileged cubans come from all sorts of backgrounds so to pin this on slavery in the original sense is just a way of trying to kill two birds with one stone here isn't it. a no really i mean white privilege it david lammy is right white privilege is a very real thing and if you look at the. the amount of money that was amassed by the united kingdom during the period of slavery and colonialism in one can talk about historical examples we're talking about four hundred years of slavery we're talking about people robbed of their religion their language their culture and their familial resources taken up dropped in another either surrender treated while

he was horrendous whore hundred for four hundred years he's one western interest and he's already. and it's very impressive lead in modern times so if you put me in the swing vote is so precedent in military life foreigners who operate could nations like gonna of already sell their reparations schemes gambia the same way sierra leone all of those have had reparation an apology schemes for the last twenty five thirty years so britain is really just catching up they've acknowledged and even their top form of slavery was not the chappell form of slavery that was introduced by the europeans let's get that right it was slavery and what do you with us lavery that was tied for a period of seven years and you could work yourself out if we. honestly we're talking upset well don't let me if you had your people list stuff you their way is the only alternative he has laid out to slavery and introduce and then slave of

people for over four hundred g.s. then you freed them apparently. which meant that they were then locked into absolute poverty for another hundred years because although you freak them you didn't compensate them like you did to slave owners who at the time received twenty million the equivalent of three point two billion pounds in today's money the slaves would compensate it but as slave owners were so i think there's lots of ways creative ways wedded us helping caribbean countries with climate change whether it's offering additional investment in african nations where that's necessary where does us looking educational and professional development and european nations with large african and caribbean. communities all of that can provide a great creative mosaic of ways for a country to respond and kind of to say this i think that the failure of britain to

come to terms with its large notional silenced is as a result. has brought about how they both precipitous access then. crises the countries have been looking let john honestly some of those places please lay all britain to come to terms with its colonial past that gave rise to the xenophobia that led to the brics it decision ok so he said see let's let me see one side of the. law when you're in tricky they called me if you could just as i also heard. a lot of prayer early cheree sue me. it's it's it's historical responsibilities that's why britain. ignorance racism colonialism dealt with don't know if you chance. well the least final point is so ludicrous it doesn't even deserve a response absolute abject nonsense from mr jasper but just what i expected

as i said i did a radio and i read i would. and i'm a strategic consultant. excuse me lady. am i allowed to speak polish that misbehavior just a lot of my style spring is that my god i've heard on israel and the simple flying saucer this i can this is why i provided you why yes i just. started to say at the beginning that no one can justify slavery we you are correct we turned it into an industrial scale i understand what slavery was and it was horrendous what i'm saying is we're now yes lot but yeah make sure we educate make sure nothing like that can ever happen again but for you to come up with the scale of slavery african slavery was bad the british library is kind of stupid it's silly cambridge university the asli looking into their history and if they want to

yes really having gone and not being very well making yourself look absolutely silly just grow up amend it and let me have a y. way look at my say you've had your say i just think that it's cambridge university . you wrote a. story of on forever asylum the law is that he's very assad trying to he's very tough i'm all white privilege anyway let me go back to up to let me go back i want are actually asked quite simple it's quite simple really that run through race is who would you pay them to you don't have an alto you know you just want a question to find out so you're correct i would tell you in some way i can sell your day should pay for your boss me the question i will tell you who they should pay to they should pay to their career you answer it because you know no job although you know last minute question a big. question you've shown yourself i don't know what your government join you asked me a question were i not sure i've done to learn your law you have to have gentlemen

just a moment ago i could ask a quick question on the both of you have to have a proper to me your on your some papers you are going to. interjected here i don't know obviously. i did you leave how can i ask you do you know think that whatever the noble idea of trying to atone for the past however horrible it is or however long ago it was that this also smacks a little bit of what if we pay these reparations and we never talk of it again in cambridge university records clean. well i'm not bothered about the motivation i thought i was starting to grow so this is the book burning starts in this weekly. i burn your book any data week john i'll tell you that for free a lot to much on but i started when i least of routine i just respond when we see the response late in the book to really going to his question i didn't burn the response to the stack completely rewrite history you say the book you should read later i think nineteen i think i could go on and i could just let me answer the

question. i don't know about is it came out of my him allowing me this space to speak you'll have a moment a second joe very quickly we've only got a few seconds left and i want to round up with something from joe. i don't need lessons on the nature of strong arm fascism from a height on who's entire it is he has been responsible for perpetrating some of the greatest genocidal crimes in history so please don't do me the dishonor of coming on here and speaking from some morally elevated position that doesn't exist you committed the greatest crime in history it requires reparation truth and reconciliation and the sooner the briton pays off those who have been so affected and reconciles itself to its history then the sooner britain will be better and so on this fairly quickly as we have a very much a time i'm afraid but you mentioned earlier on in terms of slavery the mistakes of

the past it was now time to move on but you can't deny that when it comes to inequality poverty and opportunity in the u.k. things don't really feel like they've moved on much of the way so anything that goes towards addressing that balance surely it's a good thing. i did not talk about moving on that you put in those words in my mouth what i actually said was it's now time to obviously be educated for our children to be educated about the horrors of slavery and the way to do that is in a balanced way not in the way that lee is trying to put it forward cambridge university should be congratulated for looking back at what they do but there's no need for the horse a shirt there is no need for us to be paying money to some black people which black people would be would it be also genocide how many white people were involved in rwanda. we can have to leave it there but other things to move on to go on thanks for your time this evening. finally supporters of u.s.

presidential hopeful bernie sanders has launched an online campaign for him to be the democratic nominee in the twenty twenty alexion they want otherwise over for donald trump his arteries kind of open. 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 pup a logical lawyer really embarrassed has lost 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 hear the different. sold out to the devil so here's a shocker for you donald trump is genuinely concerned about bernie sanders especially is nominated 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 no i can't believe it i have some trump voting friends who always said that if trump wasn't running their 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 guessed.