your. move for your. time venezuela's opposition leader calls for another day of anti-government protests heavy clashes reported on the outskirts of the country's capital caracas choose day while president says the government has quashed the coup attempt we've got the latest for you on this big developing story these days plus. the what some are calling a new cold war the u.k. government looks set to make the house of lords declare all business ties with russia and china saying it's just about making politics were transparent. the russian national jailed in the u.s. for working as an unregistered foreign agent has been fielding reporters' questions for the first time since her arrest explained how she was briefly quizzed by the

investigation how she coped with solitary confinement. good morning from russia this wednesday the first of may as it is my name is kevin in half an hour of those stories come up in more detail than here on starting this calling for a final phase venezuela's self declared interim president is calling for another day of anti-government protests this wednesday off for initiating a so-called military uprising in the country's capital yesterday the opposition leader has the full support of america once again with the u.s. secretary of state. even suggesting venezuelan president nicolas maduro was ready to flee the country but was stopped by russia. literally. getting prepared to get on this airplane and head out of the country before you start stop

really at the direction of the russians he was ready to leave this morning as we understand it and the russians indicated he should stay he said during his the plane ready to go to cuba. and the russians took him off the plane and forbade him to leave the country misapply imperio always be serious. but as well as foreign ministry brunning pump statement is fake news and russia responded saying washington has launched a disinflation campaign more on the scene there local correspondent norris out of got to cover the clashes near the capital caracas for us but a word of warning to start what you're about to see right at the start of her report is upsetting. was. i was i was. like.

when. people. today brave soldiers brave patriots brave people who are following our constitution and. today the armed forces are standing behind and the constitution. you know they're. the best. part of my world. who's already launched a probe into what he calls an illegal saying several people already being questioned in fact he singled out the ringleader of the uprising word mentioned before prominent opposition figure at leopold

a lopez seems he's no claim to solomon the spanish embassy in caracas more developments he's the founder of the volunteer group that's the part of the gw i don't leads he's seen as one of the key think is behind why those moved to claim the presidency lopez was sentenced to thirteen years in prison back in twenty fifteen for inciting public unrest but on tuesday he was reportedly freed from house arrest by his guards meantime the united states now has banned its airline companies from flying over venezuela because of political instability is being is part of a string of sanctions imposed on the latin american country recently a senior correspondent more against the of looks at what washington really means these days when it says it stands with the venezuelan people. what a day why do so brazen attempted coup the violence on both sides the people even why do hanging and especially strange was what the united states

had to say about it we need venezuela ruled by the people of venezuela not by extra forces do you think he may have missed the irony this the bolton who's done his damnedest to ensure regime change in venezuela whose country has championed regime change sanctioned venezuela frozen billions in state funds threatened it with invasion now he's saying no one should meddle that it's up to the days wayland's to decide course not what he meant is no one but america all options remain on the table and would be a big mistake for me dora and those supporting him to use force against innocent civilians mr bolton's deficient of innocent i think defers from the classic meaning look at these demonstrators with guns shooting at troops and police i suppose the

bullets of full of love to if you dare hold these innocents accountable says mr bolton we might invade between the lines as thomas called the status where with you america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored by and can do yes. the venezuelan armed forces must protect the constitution and the venezuelan people stand by the national assembly and illegitimate institutions against the use of haitian of democracy the united states stands with the people of venezuela what do you know they stand with the people never mind the sanctions and the misery for millions that they've caused i question is which people exactly the jews say you stand with a few hundred machete gun wielding fellows that try to stage a violent coup or the thousands upon thousands who concurrently marched in support of the venezuelan president maduro against this coup this is

clearly not a coup we recognize one goh i don't know as the legitimate interim president of venezuela and just as it's not a coup when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense it's not a coup for wind why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military your own father mr bolton one by do who was never elected doesn't control the military or ministries or anything he is the president but nicolas maduro the actual president supported by millions the military the ministries he's not the president see what i mean by strange it's almost like the bitter and banal things didn't go according to plan or gadgety of reporting we discuss the role of the united states in the venezuelan conflict in more detail with our guests. i

think other one american missions are probably quite nervous about the whole situation nervous as well with their own populations would see this as american even if it's under the you know. it's not the americans directly intervened in see the americans being behind this and the legacy of what america has done across latin america what this shows each. time service or cold call good revolution by why the united states and the west hasn't succeeded you know his popular move why zation has come and it seems to have gone he seems have let the dynamics slip a little i'm here is very important if you want to go for an overthrow of the existing president you know the momentum and he's lost momentum american are working on a very much on the front foot here they've got. bolton trump a lot of very hawkish neo conservatives out playing front and center and talking the talk of

a smooth transition of power now we hope that this does not result in the loss of lives but there were some footage earlier on social media showing some armored vehicles running running over the horrific pictures running over protesters in the streets now we don't know whether these are pretty mature and i don't foresee as we don't know which side those. those protesters are demonstrators around so we have to handle stuff very carefully but there is already bloodshed there's already violence in the streets and i think this is going to be a really really difficult time. and see american sentiments spread to washington to press the protest is this rather the venezuelan embassy in the capital blaming the u.s. for the ongoing crisis and missy stuff left the building last week complying with the u.s. imposed deadline now the activists outside say they're blocking the consulate to prevent potentially any new program i dozed off from getting in we heard from one of the protesters. but we are here twenty four seven living in here sleeping here working here from the day during the day in order to maintain our presence

here in the building and as a interim protective president intil be billy government to venezuela can find another protect your for this building or in tell the tragic history she stops trying to orchestrate this clue so what this is about the u.s. government this is about known to us imperialism saying no to us intervention in the affairs of other countries saying that the us has no right overthrow the government of another country we've seen it before and we are not going to tolerate it again. stories smalling it seems the u.k. is becoming increasingly picky about where foreign business is good business the government pushing for a change in the house of lords which would force peers to declare whether or not they've got dealings with russia or china it says it's part of a bid to make the political system more transparent polyploid to reports. what's

more dangerous than dirty money red money from russia there are fears it could be flooding britain's upper house of parliament the house of lords the sunday times newspaper has done some digging it's published a list of what it calls loss goes men the lords benefiting from russian rubles. just like these the lords half there's a clear their business interests in an official register but unlike their colleagues in the lower house they don't have to say how much those business interests have them although the government is said to be thinking about changing that security minister ben wallace has warned that parliamentary rules need to be changed for the sake of greater transparency countries that seek to undermine the west target vulnerabilities in the politics and media the u.k.

has a strong mainstream media that gives us better resilience the most but i'm certain that one of our we points is where we like transparency in our political system now a group of british politicians is pushing for a new law to counter foreign influence. britain needs a foreign agents registration act we need to know the individuals and companies that lobby or are politically on behalf of other countries and their proxies including those from international sanctions lists we need a publicly available list of p.r. agencies reputation management firms and others who do this work nice to include m.p.'s members of the house of lords some of whom have links to russian businesses the house of lords is an ancient and british institution appears in there are an elected they've been selected by their political parties sometimes they block controversial or unpopular bills drafted. and signed off on by the government and

m.p.'s many have had a loss serious careers and they tend to say what they think r.t. contacted the lords singled out by the sunday times for their response to allegations that the moscow's men. if you say someone is moscow you're really insinuating that they're almost a paid. paid. lobbyist for four for the russian government which is. a completely untrue and deeply offensive lord truscott was similarly unimpressed i do not intend and wasting my time doing interviews on stories i regard as total rubbish by the tarnished murdoch press which if it can't find a story makes it up the times in the sunday times never let facts get in the way of

trying somewhat desperately to push their respective circulations with a dose of hysterical russian phobia but it looks like the government is determined to root out the bad or should it be read seeds from the british political field. fourteen moscow time next reboot the russian national jailed in the us for working as an unregistered foreign agent when i'm seeing reporters' questions by phone for the first time since her arrest. in years. or so i didn't expect the sentence to be so harsh not having registered as a foreign agent i got the same eighteen months sometimes as a person who earlier sold some secret data to the chinese government i think that's absurd. yes but you see i was confined to my cell is very hard from a psychological viewpoint i made every minute count so i had

a sheet of paper to write down my schedule and tasks the only way not to go crazy in prison is to keep yourself busy all the time. i love it i mean i accepted the plea bargain because it came with a maximum sentence of five years otherwise it could been fifteen years i think any sensible person would have done the same. but i'm not irish out earlier at the problem as team talk to me for about five minutes in total as everyone knows i wasn't mentioned in his report which has no relationship to my case. and you know i don't know what will i do after i return to russia time will tell you i think i might walk in teaching which. robot his father was listening to the q. and a session to shed some of his thoughts with us about his daughter's case. and the loss for us for our family and i have no doubt for her colleagues and friends too it's hard to come to terms with this prison sentence which in our opinion is unjust

considering the conditions she's been kept in for the past nine months but she's already endured enough if it wasn't for the agreement with her lawyers and their debt for their services maria could probably have gone home by now she can't just leave the us without paying and it shouldn't be that way in the meanwhile the amount of the debt is constantly growing is the lawyers continue their work but i can't say for sure what sum of money will have to pay in the end as her lawyer said such a harsh punishment for the offense she's been accused of could only have been given to a russian national so our family in the russian state take the view that all this has to do with the anti russian sentiment that has arisen in the us recently she spend long periods in solitary confinement and i'm glad she is so resilient because judging by the conversations i've had with her plenty of inmates struggle to cope psychologically in solitary confinement some even bang their heads against the wall being kept in solitary confinement for months and she was kept for longer than that is very tough for that story and i cite how to do

a coalition to find out more these next few days what after the break here one of britain's oldest universities first to investigate if it benefited if it benefited from the slave trade way but centuries ago it's a big controversy we debated in fact coming up for you. i.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next about different clubs on one hand it is logical to signal from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to do. by the way ways of the fly here. morning cambridge university in the u.k. is launched an inquiry into how the eight hundred year old institution benefited from slavery during the colonial era it is only right that can bridge should look

into its own exposure to the profits of course the way but during the colonial period we cannot change the past but nor should who seek to hide from it. cambridge university isn't the only institution looking into its imperial past either other prestigious universities across the u.k. and in the us mint doing the same for years facing up to their history and the potential gains they made back then cambridge is may rival oxford for instance faced a long dispute over a controversial statue of a nineteenth century colonialist but claimed it would have faced severe financial cuts if that thing of been removed elsewhere the university of east london tried to set up a one hundred million pound fund for reparations for slavery send the money should be put aside to support ethnic minority students then in america harvard as remove the word master from its academic titles and george ten students voted in favor of reparations two for the descendants of nearly three hundred slaves sold by the university almost two centuries ago we heard some opposing views on how actions in

the very distant past should be tackled today though. 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 glasgow for taking this initiative and i think other institutions like the british museum the british library all of the colonial artifacts that there are . in britain as a consequence of colonial plunder should now be 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 there we were the first to abolish it i don't think there's any nation in the world that has neither been enslaved or been involved in the slavery trade including the continent. of course of africa itself but i think this idea of paying 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 the 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 island surrendered treated while he was horrendous four hundred for four hundred years these words were said in prisons he saw president in history is impressive in modern times so if you look at this will involve a precedent like arnold who operate could nations like gonna of already sell their

reparations schemes gambia the same way sierra leone all of those of had reparation and apology schemes for 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 see you to come up with a scale of slavery or african slavery was bad that bracelet a very it's kind of stupid it's silly cambridge university the asli looking into the 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 horse a shirt there's no need for us to be paying money to some black people which black people would be would it be please don't do me the dishonor of coming on here and

speaking from some morally elevated position that doesn't exist. the washington post is warning american journalist to work responsibly with information leaks are from the tories and using this kind of source itself artie's kaleb open nexus one explains why so-called weaponized gossip and those anonymous sources are freely in use these days. with the twenty twenty presidential election set to start dominating our headlines pretty soon the media is running crisis protocols in case wiki leaks gets back up to its old tricks so should sensitive or insider information be published what if it has an impact on the vote well the washington post has you covered ensure it don't publish weaponized gossip there if i remember this nie nailed down the number saw as the source of the hack and it's meant to be nation and be transparent with news consumers don't publish things before verifying them double check your sources that sounds like pretty standard journalism but apparently in the age of trump that is not common sense among the press corps

anonymous sources seem to be a big trend when it comes to inside scoops about the white house anonymous sources reportedly from the mother team an anonymous source telling n.b.c. sports the new york times citing anonymous sources the again these are all anonymous sources it's important to note that n.b.c. news has not confirmed this is a washington post report cites anonymous sources and some of this information has been almost the definition of weaponized gossip let's review some of the reporting about u.s. president donald trump that president trump called attorney general jeff sessions mentally retarded ape was a trump using the n. word and a much lighter note this even though some white trump demands two scoops of ice cream while everyone else at the table only gets one now some of this information actually turned out to be blatantly false so why was it ok to publish it without verifying it well apparently the source was someone inside the u.s. government not wiki leaks so fact check your independent sources but not anonymous

figures within the u.s. government. maybe there's another idea out there remember it's illegal to possess these stolen documents it's different for the media server that you learn about this you're learning from us it may be time to start thinking you know sort of the books about how we can prevent russia from meddling in our elections in that vein consider this admittedly radical idea. american journalists should take a pledge to not report on the contents of a hock and social media site should remove from the networks any news stories discussing hack material how the job of a journalist is to dig into facts ask bold questions and try to determine the truth them in a sea of falso it however for some in the american press the rule seems to be don't dig into facts that are inconvenient of course journalists should be careful and check their sources but that's not what the washington post is talking about or what many journalists confiding to the post are considering doing what they're doing is talking about the examining the motivations behind the source and then

considering maybe not even publishing factual information if the source and their motivation are considered not just shady but contravening american national security imperative in the washington post relies routinely on unnamed sources and specifically unnamed u.s. officials when it's all unnamed sources and their us officials we as the readers of the news consumers or as citizens are supposed to put our blind faith in us officialdom in the u.s. government in order to believe that those sources are correct and i think most of the public does not trust their government. funny for a go thirty seconds so you scenes from moscow's made course happy made the first if you're celebrating it big day for workers big day for people to go to stroll in the lovely spring sunshine these are the pictures but earlier on outside the kremlin. as mess about in a moscow. fourteen degrees here that's hot for russians attorney look at the

history of this day goes back to roman times when they celebrated the festival of flowers you know which way what have you doing today you have a great dane thanks to. you could you. political agenda here. if it costs more to get out than what you get when you get it out that's a loss it's a minus sign that's it you can't figure that out. of the political agenda. you're blinded by. my son doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister's with drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states

is drug abuse. the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs. with the number of people who are in prison for. sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. i . don't know about. a little bit that's a little of this a little. use this is

a phone call though. i. i'm after a time here welcome to a brand new season of going underground back on international workers day coming up on the show from hundreds of thousands killed by british backed bombs in yemen to tens of thousands dying due to british backed sanctions on venezuela we review the news that doesn't make me good natured mainstream media t.v. headlines with former mayor of london ken livingstone thirty three years since the chernobyl disaster a new book alleges the true death toll was covered up by the un the world health organization we speak to its author mit professor kate brown all this and more

coming up in today's going on the ground for us today is a big day for anyone in the world conscious of this global multinational here using celebrities to promote clean energy initiatives. today of course at the hague and all and decide on whether the company that promoted biologists jennifer hudson pixie lot and others is responsible for what i'm to see international calls horrifying human rights violations this is just one of the cases that has made the headlines of nigerian t.v. one of the widows of the nine the man killed spotted odds and governments in one thousand nine hundred five is accusing all times shell. complicity in the unlawful arrest attention and execution of her husband and eight others shells has produced no warlow gas from a gurney fields since nine hundred ninety three but admits there are going to land continues to serve as a transit route for pipelines transporting shell oil to other areas whatever

today's court decision about alleged shell collusion.