a little of the little. i use this is. the. it's midday moscow time headlining opposition leader. calls for another day of protests today and the clashes reported on the outskirts of the country's capital caracas choose day while president nicholas the government has launched the coup attempt to bring you the late. summer calling a new cold war the u.k. government looks at. the clear business ties with russia and china saying it's just about making politics more transparent. the russian national jailed in the u.s. for working as a registered foreign agent has been fielding reporters' questions for the first

time since her arrest explain just how she was briefly. and how she coped with. russia this is out international with me kevin stay with us we come for this half hour update of all the world news happening right now starting with this one focus on venezuela calling for a final phase venezuela's self declared interim president is calling for another day of anti-government protests this wednesday. a so-called military uprising in the country's capital the opposition leader has the full support apparently of america once again with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o even suggesting venezuelan president nicolas maduro was ready to flee the country but was stopped by russia. i literally had nicolas maduro getting prepared to go on this airplane and head out of the country

before a stop 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 you know during has a plane ready to go to cuba to flee and the russians took him off the plane and forbade him to leave the country mr pompei oh please be serious. but as well as for ministries also have running compos statement as fake news and russia's responded to saying washington's launched this information campaign on the spot their local correspondent norris out of got covered those clashes near the capital caracas for us now would i want to before we show you the report right at the start of it there are some really upsetting see. it was no. i. was.

like. all right. when the title. of the field's illegal people. are. those today brave soldiers brave patriots brave people who are following our constitution and i'm sure in the cool today the armed forces are standing behind the people and the constitution. or the. other. part because my world you know who's already launched a probe into what he calls an illegal coup attempt saying several people are already being questioned he's singled out the ringleader of the uprising we heard

mentioned before prominent opposition figure leopoldo lopez seems he's now claimed asylum in the spanish embassy in caracas he's the founder of the valar todd popular party it's led by go i don't know date he's seen as one of the key figures behind why those move to claim the presidency lopez was sentenced to thirteen years in prison back in twenty fifteen for inciting public unrest but choose day he was reportedly freed from house arrest by his guards meantime other developers to brief you on the united states has banned its airline companies now from flying over venezuela because of what's termed political instability it's part of a string of sanctions that imposed on that latin american country recently our senior correspondent word goes to have next looks at what washington really means 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 guy 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 whelan'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 call a 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 did you say you stand with the few hundred machete gun wielding fellows that tried 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 one 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 well we discussed the role of the united states in the venezuelan conflict in more detail with our guests. i think other one

american militias 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 euro but it's not the americans directly intervene did see the americans being behind this and the legacy of what america has done across latin america what this shows the. same sort of so-called called good revolution. where the united states and the ways hasn't succeeded in its you know what will be y. z. should it come and it seems to have gone. he seems of well dynamic and the dynamic here is very important if you want to call for an overview of these is the 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 on lot of very for 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. i don't foresee if 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 he merican sentiment spread to washington to protest as a surrender to the venezuelan embassy in the capital blaming the u.s. for the ongoing crisis embassy staff left the building last week they're complying with the u.s. imposed deadline but the activists outside no say they're blocking the consulate to prevent what they worry is a new program from coming 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 in till they believe government of venezuela can find another protector for this building or in till the trying to destruction 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 to overthrow the government of another country we've seen it before and we are not going to tolerate it again. this is the u.k. is becoming increasingly picky about what foreign business is good business the government's pushing for a change in the house of lords that will force peers to declare whether or not they go dealings with russia and china it says it's all to make a bid to make the political system will transpire a bully boy good report. 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 employees 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 this 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 needs 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 you me he british institution appears in there are an elected they've been selected by their political parties sometimes they blog controversial or unpopular bills drafted. and signed off on by the government and

m.p.'s many have had a last 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 on 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. the russian national jailed in the us for working as an unregistered foreign agents been answering reporters' questions wife over 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 personal. data to the chinese government i think that's absurd. but you were good 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 going crazy

in prison is to keep yourself busy all the time. i love that 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. people from robert mueller 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. rushing in that i didn't know what would i do after i return to russia time will tell you i think i might walk in teaching. you where botha's father was listening to the q. and i session and shared some of his thoughts of his daughter's case with us. no 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 she has

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 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 spent 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 a month and she was kept for longer than that is very tough with. you watching out international focus forward to right after the break one of the stories coming out

one of britain's oldest universities voted to investigate if it benefited from the slave trade way back said cerys ago. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development that only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we

need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. again so as mentioned before the break cambridge university in the u.k. has launched an inquiry into how the eight hundred year old institution benefited from slavery through 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 you seek to hide from it. or

coverage university is not the only institution looking into its imperial past other prestigious universities across the u.k. across the us have been looking into a similar thing for years to facing up to their history and the potential gains they made back then came which is main rival oxford for instance faced a long dispute over a controversial statue of a nineteenth century cologne lisp it claimed it would face severe financial cuts at that thing been removed the university of east london meantime tried to set up a one hundred million pound fund for reparations for slavery say the money should be put aside to support ethnic minority students then over in america talk in which harvard has removed the word master from its academic titles these days and justin students voted in favor of reparations for the descendants of nearly three hundred slaves sold by the university almost two centuries ago controversial then hugely will hugely controversial two we heard opposing views on how actions in the distant past should be tackled today. 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. go for taking this initiative and i think other institutions like the british museum the british library all of the colonial ata flocks that there are. in britain as a consequence of colonial plunder should now be an act of reparation return today 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

a nod to being enslaved or 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 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 either surrender treated what he was horrendous for hundred for four hundred years he saw western interest and he saw president in history is impressive in modern times so if you start looking at those who were involved so president lives are of nations like ghana of already sell their. peroration schemes gambia the same way sierra

leone all of those of had reparation an 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 for 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 their history and if they want to necessarily having on i'm 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 says sure 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 journalists to work to responsibly with information leaks self-interest of using that kind of source itself at his kellam open next today explaining why so-called weaponized gossip no less and those anonymous sources of freely use these days. with the twenty twenty presidential elections 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 not to mention 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 as 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 a 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 hack and social media site should remove from their networks any news stories disgusting hack material now the job of the journalist is to dig into facts ask bold questions and try to determine the truth that made a sea of false so 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 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. or that international taken around the world with this quick update because it's made the first these shots of what's been happening in this big celebration of a lot of people that's philippines member of their own southeast asia they just on the come in from around the world and various ways of people been celebrating today's big day for workers solidarity of course and simply to celebrate the spring talking of which red square these are the same as last

a lot of people thought he's think about a hundred thousand people out there today enjoying that lovely spring day big parade spring flowers coming up the shots of a glorious red square with a helicopter and there's the mayor of moscow been in meeting the crowds there big day off by holiday here in russia athens and. greece nice spring day over there too lovely in front of parliament there again people enjoying the day in stanley this all goes back to roman times at their celebration for springtime super weather for finally paris talk of the which they expected some trouble this seven thousand seven asked thousand police officers out front says zero tolerance approach is going to be tested today the word the kickoff along with the labor union this will be across it if it happens whatever you're doing wherever you are thank you for watching r.t. international part of a big party found. my

son was doing drugs my nephew's was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after 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 i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was on the stink there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for boring or minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. what

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