this is breaking news venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president receives the backing of the us as he calls for a military uprising the government says it's putting down a. russian national jailed in the us for working as an unregistered foreign agent has been fielding reporters' questions explained how she was briefly quizzed by the miller investigation and how she coped with solitary confinement. prestigious cambridge university which is an investigation into its profits from the slave trade during the colonial era.

global news from russia this is r.t. international finance column tuesday evening at ten here and moscow is just in the afternoon in venezuela that's where we've been watching developments over the past few hours the self-proclaimed interim leader there 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 their full support i'm monitoring the situation in venezuela very closely the united states stands with the people of venezuela and their freedom as this where america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored. today interim president who i'm going to do announce thoughts of a person that the years government foolish supports the venezuelan people who in their quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated almost immediately after white house call clashes broke out on a guarded bridge near the capital caracas gunshots were fired tear gas was deployed

as protesters threw rocks at the authorities. and. a. lot of. well let's get up to speed on where we are than our senior correspondent i guess they have been across developments over the past few hours hi again where are we at this stage well it's still chaotic on the streets of the venezuelan capital things the verse calm down just a little bit. we saw throughout the day serious violent very violent clashes. i dare say there will be casualties there we don't have any concrete figures yet we

had. the opposition backers of one why did the self-proclaimed president of venezuela. shooting at security forces we saw security forces. military members police driving vehicles into protesters things that things are very ugly and it seems both sides are culpable here you know no innocents but things have calmed down a little bit after the opposition tried to storm a military base they were beaten back we shouldn't machete wielding opposition demonstrators charge down the fence me. saw. army soldiers shooting in the air and things have sort of calmed down just a little bit now we're seeing thousands of people gather for protests for marches we've seen thousands of promo dural demonstrators showing their loyalty to the government showing their backing to the current government to venezuela but all of

this of course started earlier in the day after one where do called in the military to mutiny to desert and join his cause. today brave soldiers brave patriots brave people who are following our constitution and answering the call today the armed forces are standing behind the people and the constitution. again they say that he hoped for a bigger effect for more military units to defect to join his cause unfortunately for him we haven't heard of any other units any of the troops. joining his cause the minister of defense of venezuela has said that the army remains loyal to my daughter and that these defectors will be arrested.

stand firm in defiance of the constitutional order and peace of the republic assisted by the law reason and history always will never traitors. again it isn't over yet there may be further clashes there may be more escalation but. things are looking up calming down ok well it's being keenly watched from abroad who's been hitting twitter was the international community saying well an international reaction has been pouring in led by the united states which reacted literally within an hour of. those call for an uprising saying that they fully back him on the other hand we've had mexico for example staying out of it none of their business we've had turkey the president of turkey at the un coming out very strongly condemning foreign meddling intervention in venezuela saying that it's the venezuelan people that bus the side who leads

them the united states to his threatened venezuela threatened with. military action presumably john bolton has said that if that is really the thora he's used force to crack down on these demonstrators he reminded them that the united states still you know has all its options on the table so the military one as well is also ironically enough called for other countries to stop interfering in what's happening in venezuela. we need venezuela ruled by the people of venezuela not by xstrata forces. now that very strange coming from the united states government which is the first to recognize who and why do as the president of venezuela. sanctioned it is frozen billions upon billions of venezuelan government money to sanction state companies that has left the government and the able to pay

to pay people to provide assistance to provide medical care. and it is promised to keep ramping up that. russia until they get what they want which is from the do to leave and. become the official president of the venezuelan so you know mixed messages from the united states has created a strange kind of tension in latin america this tuesday on and for venezuela across the latin america and in those responding as one of those he's becoming down that something tells me this isn't going to be the end by long ok all right the number of thanks very much for that let's talk now to antiwar activist richard back welcome to the program a few things i'll pick up on this first of all how much support among the venezuelan people do you think whatever he has right. thank you well it's very hard to tell but i i think that we have to understand that one white go

is not only supported by the united states government he is a creature of the united states government he's a creation. only about twenty percent of the venezuelan people polled knew who he was before it was suddenly announced after he consulted with mike pence and january twenty third that he was now the president he's never run for president he hasn't been elected by anyone and i think there really he has his the reality of the fact is that because he's so little known because he's kind of sort of such an extreme right wing party and this is often downplayed by popular will is an extreme right wing party headed by leopoldo lopez who was released today from house arrest and it's not a popular party with the people it has a popular name but it's not popular among the masses of people and this is clearly an example of what used to be called yankee imperialism straight out that the

intervention there is being coordinated one hundred percent from washington d.c. military economic political diplomatic. if you heard what our correspondent said. about the u.s. national security advisor john boehner said that venezuela must be run by its own people and not by quote external forces now bearing in mind there's also a statement from the white house that says all options are on the table in venezuela who thinking of their own ways one set of external forces ok another set of external forces not. well bolton is a firm believer in that anachronistic doctrine the monroe doctrine and that is from his point of view. very clearly the united states has the right to intervene anywhere in the western hemisphere anywhere that it wants to and so you know when he's talking about foreign forces or outside forces he means of course

those who are supporting the government the popularly elected government of nicolas maduro. clearly has a position that united states has a right to intervene in venezuela or anywhere else and clearly you know the people i think the people of latin america reject that altogether ok i'm sure we'll hear from again as this develops for now though richard back in san francisco thanks very much for that. thanks to the russian national jailed in the united states for working as an unregistered foreign agent has been answering reporters' questions by phone. but 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 government it was the same sentence eighteen months i think it's absurd it was maria's first abrogating to view since her arrest

in july last year she was uncertain question via telephone from a detention facility in the us where she is now being held uncertain questioning was 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 anus 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 while 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 my boo tonight and the mahler eighteen 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 him to read 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 my. 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 never came back there were several questions about the challenges maria has been facing in a prison emotional intellectual physical psychological and that she had tried and

actually had managed to invest the time and attention facilities to educate her spending time to 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 it's 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. maria already served nine months out of her eighteen month sentence and there was a question about what she's going to do you watch 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 a teacher and. supporters of u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders who have launched an online campaign for him to be the democratic nominee in the twenty twenty election but he warned that otherwise they'll be forced to vote for donald trump and that is all he's kind of. 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 are you embarrassed a sauce 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 difference bertie 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 phenomena 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 believe it i have some trump voting friends who always said that 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 against the system in general and then you're more likely to want to vote for this which could lead to somebody like bernie can we do 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 thousand and sixteen election politics in the united states is taking an interesting turn seems that our 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 kaleb mopp and r t new york. twenty eight he was a record here for global military spending heading has not seen since the end of

the cold war according to the annual report by the stockholm international peace research institute the u.s. and china responsible for half of the one point eight trillion dollars spent last year on the big spenders left washington and beijing a followed by saudi arabia india and france those three states make up about ten percent of the cashews to develop armies make weapons and other military equipment russia sits outside the top five and even cut spending by three point five percent that's while the u.s. and china both increase their funding by about five percent the first time washington a boosted spending since two thousand and ten doctors from the institute that conducted the study showed his concerns. do it does not interest around the world you see it in your seat in asia pacific some parts of americas and even africa so in the way the us has this global military presence whereas china has us looking to improve its capabilities for weapons high quality weapons more weapons race

between china and the us given that the china is looking to assert itself as a regional and global militia and just the us close fear we're going to initiate period where we will be seeing major increases in some of the maybe the biggest what policy in the world very much concern for us the world is reaching a new record high. the u.s. is being accused of manipulating travel procedures in order to head the russia's participation in the united nations the claim comes from the russian foreign ministry off to washington refused to give a visa to a head of a russian delegation on disarmament the russian scientific expert was due to attend a briefing on the queues of chemical weapons in syria united nations says they're looking into the issue on trees but in a culture of ours the story and 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 meet the brooklyn ski 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 a do you have to brief the council on russia's account of as a suspected poison gas attack in syria now the ministry added that the u.s. authorities were obviously as seeking not to allow objective information about what happened in syria to be heard at the u.n. and as it turns out such situations are becoming quite common now the. opposite follows quite as similar as visa denial to the had. of the russian delegation of a u.n. desire moment commission in march at the ministry now believes that the u.s. side repeated the tries to prevent true information from spreading by preventing a prominent chemical expert from going to new york the u.s. government was clearly trying to prevent objective information on the incident from being told from the u.n.

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 febrile 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 so 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. 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 nor should to seek to hide from it ok but university isn't the only institution looking into its imperial past other prestigious universities in both britain and the us have done the same in recently is facing up to their past and the potential gains that they've made cambridge is 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 the money

should be put aside to support ethnic minority students over in the us harvard of was forced to remove master from its academic titles and georgetown voted in favor of reparations for the descendants of nearly three hundred slaves sold by the university in the one nine hundred century we'll put some perspective from our guests earlier on why the reparations are proving divisive. these decisions are very much long overdue and one would have thought that a country such as britain coming to terms with his colonial past would have made this these sorts of efforts much earlier but nevertheless i do applaud. cambridge glasgow for taking this initiative and i think other institutions like the british museum the british library all of the colonial arts or flocks that there are. in britain as a consequence of colonial plunder should now be in an act of reparation returned to their countries of origins 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 neither being enslaved. being involved in the slavery trade including the continent of course of africa itself but i think this idea of pay reparations is 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 that money to africans living in this country africans in africa we're talking about four hundred years of slavery we're talking about are people robbed of their religion their language their culture and their familial resources taken up dropped in another either

surrender treated what he was horrendous four hundred for four hundred years he saw what i said he saw a resident in history is impressive in modern times so if you're going to involve a soldier or a resident that allies are allowed to operate could nations like gonna of already sell their reparations schemes gambia the same way sierra leone all of those of had reparation an apology schemes the last twenty five thirty years so britain is really just catching up 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 a scale of slavery african slavery was bad that bracelet a very it's kind of stupid it's silly cambridge university the asli looking into their history and if they want to necessarily having gone and not being very polite

or making yourself look absolutely silly cambridge university should be congratulated for looking back at what they do but there's no need for the whole says sure there's no need for us to be paying money to some black people which black people would be would it be. a competition nurturing young artistic talents is wrapped up in southern russia and not the eighteen. delphic games including dance music. one of the four they talk of i could earn up to seven thousand dollars artists ranging from ten to twenty five years old gathered in the city of rostov on don from all across russia the organizers say that the games continue the traditions of ancient greece or promoting some of the nation's brightest talent. the face of american diplomacy secretary of state my pompei it is claimed that russians have been interfering in american politics since the one nine hundred seventy s. 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 ninety seven four right and 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 must say i was stunned at his reference to nine hundred seventy four and the one nine hundred eighty s. 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 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 their 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 ok different story now but in a similar vein norway's being also preparing for some russian meddling to surface

and apparently it has this time in the form of a friendly beluga whale that approached fishermen off the coast sporting a camera mount and on this bearing the name of russia's northern capital fishing for the facts next is really about trying. here's a situation a cute white sea mammal starts playing with a couple of fishing boats. or the. 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. 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. or rast the boats the tide harness round its body with the name of the 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 freak out 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 has

a new alleged russian spy it said 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 weapon is probably a better word the nuchal whale found wearing a harness to carry camera could be russian weapon. whales trained by russia's military may be harassing fishermen from nato ally no wait ok i'll tell you a secret the likes of the russian or u.s. navy's started training sea mammals 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 a lot in norway i just hope those who wrote this do stay away from some of the following displays of russian humor.

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