i use this is. a long time event as well as opposition leader calls for another day of anti-government protests heavy clashes reported on the outskirts of the country's capital caracas on tuesday while president nicolas maduro says the government has quashed. to wiki leaks founder this is imminent for you facing up to twelve months in prison for skipping bail back in two thousand and twelve imminently about courts in london. and. some are calling a new cold war the u.k. government looks. to clear all business ties with russia saying it's only about making politics more transparent.

to new russia this wednesday may the first one in half an hour those stories coming from much more detail for you here on r.t. first calling for a final phase venezuela's self declared interim president why doe's calling for another day of anti-government protests this wednesday after an issue 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 mike pompei or even suggesting venezuelan president nicolas maduro was ready to flee the country but was stopped by russia. i literally had mixed material i getting prepared to get on this airplane and head out of the country before stuff stopped 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 says you know durham 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 misapplying peo please be serious. as well as foreign ministry also hit back branding pompeo statement fake news and russia responded saying washington's laws to disinform nation campaign locally they're reporting for us nora sort of got covering those clashes near the capital caracas but a word of warning first what you're about to see right of the very start of the report is up setting. was. god. was. like. the people i thought that any one could play go up to the

top of the military people to wake up people. i. mean. by and this was today brave soldiers brave patriots brave people who are following all constitutional and i'm sure in the cool today the armed forces are standing behind the people and the constitution the. people of missouri you know they're selling out i. think the current economic world yet who's already launched a probe into what he calls an illegal coup attempt saying several. people already being questioned he singled out ringleader of the uprising word mentioned before prominent opposition figure leopoldo lopez seems he's no claim to silence in the spanish embassy in caracas for now he is the founder of the popular their party

that leads in d.c. as one of the key figures behind why those move to play in the presidency lopez was sentenced to thirteen years in prison back in twenty fifteen for inciting public rest but as of tuesday he was reportedly freed from house arrest by his guards meantime other developments in this the united states has banned its airline companies from flying over venezuela because of what's being termed political instability is part of string of sanctions that imposed on the latin american country recently next our senior correspondent looks at what washington really means when it says it's standing 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 it's a 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 a 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 is not the president see what i mean by strange it's almost like the bitter and banal things didn't go according to plan we discussed the role of the united states in the venezuelan conflict in more detail with our guest. 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 intervened in see the americans being behind this and the legacy of what america has done across latin america what this shows you for. him as a whole were good revolution. while the united states and the ways hasn't succeeded you know why zeeshan is gone and it seems to have gone. you seem to dynamic. here is very important if you want to call for an overthrow of the existing presidents 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. 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 to american sentiment spread to washington to protest as a surrounding the venezuelan embassy in the capital blaming the u.s. for the ongoing crisis embassy staff per se had left the building last week complying with the u.s. imposed deadline but the activists outside are saying they're blocking the consulate to prevent new potential from entering we heard from one of the protesters direct. 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 as a interim protective president intil they believe government of venezuela can find another protector 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 state 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. news alert within the wiki leaks co-founder julian sun is expected to be sentenced for skipping bail back in two thousand and twelve so coming to a head again this comes three weeks after of course you sensationally drugs are that good or an embassy the british are the cameras with the capture the british company you may recall exclusive pictures been around the world he's been holed up there for seven years let's go live to kate partridge in london. it's all going to have you about twenty minutes that. should give it sentencing very short a dramatic few weeks of just been turn of years for julian assange and behind you

face is facing more twists and turns very shortly in court what can we expect you think. hi there kevin yes indeed it has been a dramatic few weeks as you can see we're outside so that crown court where we are awaiting sentence is on julian assange for breaching the bail act here in the u.k. as you said on april the eleventh he was arrested at the ecuadorian embassy by the metropolitan police and taken to a hearing at westminster magistrates court where the judge there michel snoeck computer science and not a system said that his his crimes merits the maximum sentence of twelve months and that's what we're waiting to hear now at so that whether or not he's going to get that maximum sense. since well what we what we managed to glean from what's been happening over the last few years how do we actually get here why still in a sound going through all of these processes when it goes all the way back to twenty ten when the swedish authorities accused you in a sound of sexual offenses for the next couple of years he tried every legal avenue

to try to get out of that extradition to avoid extradition to sweden and in twenty twelve he was granted as you said asylum at the ecuadorian embassy where he was suspended the best part of the next seven years but on a probably eleventh that asylum status was revoked julie the stange was arrested and then he went off and was remanded in custody in belmont but also on april the eleventh he was arrested on behalf of the u.s. who are accusing julian assange of conspiring with a former military analyst chelsea manning for downloading and disseminating classified information and tomorrow joining us large probably five video link will go through the second legal process in a couple of days whereby he will have to answer to those u.s. accusations well as you can probably hear the protesters are now sort of calm behind a sound voicing their opposition and this has been a test case not just for julian assad as a person but also for journalistic freedom the people here his supporters believe that press freedom is on trial because of the stories that we have that the

atrocities the war trust us in iraq and afghanistan that bring into question the people's right to know and therefore this is a test case not just for julian assange but also for journalism as a whole yes a crucial couple of days coming up business and we'll know more aspersion in the hour about what what can happen imminently behind you there kate partridge in london thanks for being across. breaks things. stories in the u.k. as well actually focusing on london again it seems the u.k. has become increasingly picky about what foreign business is good business the government's pushing for a change in the house of lords which will force players to the clear whether or not they have dealings with russia or china it says as part of a bid to make the political system more transparent the reports on that one. 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 moscow's men the lords benefiting from russian rubles. just like employees the lords half there's a clear their business interests and 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 in 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 act politically on behalf of other countries and their proxies including those in international sanctions lists we need a publicly available list of p.r. agencies reputation management firms and others who do this work it 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 uniquely british institution appears in that are an elected base 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 loss tryst careers and they turned 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 and 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 without international right here right after the break one of britain's oldest universities vows to investigate if it benefited from the slave trade centuries ago. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can sink i was going to go.

by the way ways of that slide here. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. cambridge university in the u.k. has launched an inquiry into how the eight hundred year old institution has benefited from slavery ger in the colonial era. it is only right that can bridge should look into its own exposure to the profits of chorus the way but during the colonial period we cannot change the past but nor should seek to hide from it

cambridge university is not the only institution looking into its imperial past at the prestigious universities across the u.k. and us in the same few years facing up to the history of the potential gains the made back then for instance cambridge is main 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 that been removed the money went elsewhere the university of east london try to set up a one hundred million pound fund for reparations for slavery saying the money should be put aside to support ethnic minority students in america harvard has removed the word master from its academic titles and also but history will judge to university as well students voting there in favor of reparations for the descendants of many three hundred slaves sold by that university on those two centuries ago so controversial extremely controversial now a big controversy them even more so now we had 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 glasgow 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 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 island surrender treated what 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 can this will involve a precedent as a lifeline of nations like ghana of already sell their. peroration 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 to see you to come up with a scale of slavery or african slavery was bear that bracelet 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 a 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 horses 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 act responsibly with information leaks of the tories are using that kind of source itself is caleb maupin explains why so-called weaponized gossip and anonymous sources are freely used 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 the psni down number saw is 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 and another 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 an 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 evening gmo 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 how material how the job of a journalist is to dig into facts ask bold questions and try to determine the truth that made us see if also 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 polls 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. so far fall if you know i'm a the first big shoes of people celebrating around the world one of the show you paris the police word that could be a kickoff to the yellow vest and people are generally doing that made the first thing if it does kickoff will be across it you check it out for me kevin have a great day.

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