in saved by day as you're walking out of the abyss it's just it doesn't get easier . presidents putin and the trump discuss the unrest in venezuela and a potential nuclear deal for north korea in an hour long phone call. a u.s. congresswoman says washington is partly to blame for the turmoil in venezuela the secretary of state comments ignorant and disgusting. the french interior minister is accused of lying after claiming it made a protesters attack to staff at a paris hospital. and facebook is accused of censorship after banning some prominent right wing commentators for alleged hate speech.

on broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the leaders of russia and of the u.s. have spoken by phone trying to find common ground on some key global issues including venezuela donald trump said the conversation with one of my putin was positive. and a very good talk with president putin probably over an hour and we talked about many things venezuela was one of the topics we're talking about a nuclear agreement where we make less and they make less and china is frankly also we discussed the possibility of a three way deal or sort of a two way deal. and i've already spoken to them they very much would like to be a part of that deal so a long talk from the first but when you think of it and realize that it is the two leaders of two of the world's superpowers discussing the most pressing issues on

the agenda well it doesn't sound like that long anymore so what did they talk about we do know that the talk was highly heavily dominated by the situation in venezuela and certainly a lot for the two leaders to discuss as personally it's not just two leaders but two geo political rivals in this sense because russia of course is supporting nicolas maduro the incumbent president saying that he is the legitimate ruler who was elected and washington supporting one why dole and trying to oust nicolas maduro so obviously vladimir putin and donald trump try to look for common ground and we do know that they have agreed at least on one thing and that is if any transition of power was to take place in venezuela it should be very very peaceful soul no arms no interventions nothing of the sort it seems that putin and donald trump do see eye to eye on that also they discussed the situation in north korea and that is particularly interesting of putting put in context because vladimir

putin did me to north korea's supreme leader kim jong on just last week and we also know that. did somewhat to vent his frustration with the way washington chooses to do diplomacy with his country and vladimir putin apparently made something of a promise to pass those concerns to the american side of course no way of telling whether or not that was done during that phone conversation also the situation in ukraine got into the spotlight during the talk and world vitamin porton did make an emphasis of the minsk agreement should be implemented that there should be more focus on how these agreements are. being implemented and it is of course something known as the minsk peace process and which is an internationally recognized and agreed on road map to restoring peace in ukraine to ending this bloody civil war

that is basically tearing the country apart also the situation around the release of the report could not be overlooked that the two leaders briefly discussed this but the key word as briefly as apparently they chose not to focus on that to have a leap now both washington and moscow have said that they are finding this phone conversation to be a very productive one and indeed it is a very interesting introduction to the upcoming meeting of the country's two top diplomats circular of and america's might can pay or said to talk to each other as soon as of the next week in finland and saw maybe something else will come out of today's phone conversation after those talks. meanwhile the u.s. role in venezuela is coming under scrutiny in washington democratic congresswoman maher has partially blamed american policies for the devastation in the country and her words didn't go down too well with top officials. a lot of the policies that we

have put in place has helped lead the devastation in venezuela particular bullying in the use of sanctions to eventually into and. make change really does not help the people of countries like venezuela for a member of congress who frankly one who sits on an important national security committee to make a statement blaming america first in this way it's not only ignorant it's disgusting congresswoman doesn't know what she's talking about. in january the u.s. imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil firm according to washington the sanctions will freeze seven billion dollars in company as sets and lead to losses of more than eleven billion dollars over the coming year but president trump claims he is trying to help the venezuelan people. the brutal repression of the venezuelan people must stand that most people are starving they have no food they have no

water and this was once one of the wealthiest countries in the world so we wish them well we'll be there to help and we are there to help venezuelan president nicolas maduro claims the opposition attempted to orchestrate a coup this week but military forces remained loyal to the president while hundreds of thousands of people marched in a show of support for people died in clashes between anti-government protesters and the police we discussed the ongoing crisis with a political analyst of what it will. turn out that with sanctions who who is software and write a country that's that's that's interested in intervening in another country for the sake of montagne they geopolitical interests or the natural resources are controlling the natural resources and exercise and pressure through sanctions put people on the extreme stress however. at the same time omar of not mentioning of

the harm that himself and his group of corrupt military officials has done to benefit i here we have two groups i've been supported by who are big powers that are really explaining the whole thing but not i mean no side can be at the center either you pretty. american intervention or you criticize or youth aboard the other the the other side the. so you know maher is you know is showing that there is had the vision also within the united states regarding the approach of the united states itself so the united states with its approach is also dividing of the country. the french interior minister has been accused of lying after claiming that. for the

prayers hospital during a may day rally or control debate. violence or may the first has been well documented in one of the most shocking stories that emerged from that violence was these allegations particularly by france's interior minister that actually some of the reuters and those protesters were trying to attack a hospital trying to attack the stalls and trying to enter into that hospital this particular hospital was actually a surgical intensive care unit and there was descriptions of the patients inside seeing that they were in quite carry situation many of them were intimidated so ventilated and that the staff had to rickly to fight off that attack of those protesters entering into the site this is what in syria minister. about that event. the patriot hospital was attacked its medical staff were attacked and the police officers sent to protect them was hurt unshakable faith in our security

services they are the pride of the republic well that's his version of events but in a twist going on here social media has been flooded with videos showing exactly what happened on the ground in that hospital and actually what we've seen from those videos and social media some of which were actually taken by members of staff inside the hospital don't show what the interior minister said happened in fact what they show is that the c.r.s. the security forces with charging at protesters those protesters were fleeing from the security services and as such they were seeking refuge inside the hospital not just for that charge but also because of the tear gas that had been deployed in the area so a very different version of events as such opposition politicians here in france have described christopher cast in it as being a liar and some of them have even called for his resignation if it was

a deliberate lie in turn and soley to deliver and turn issues social movement then the interior minister should be fired with are doing. christophe. you did shamelessly and manipulated the press to spread these lies you know who's you know given the facts he has no choice but to resign well in other developments coming out of that may day protests in france it's also a message that there's video showing the police officers actually picking up paving stones from the road and throwing that towards protesters now we know that this is a weapon of arsenal that the protesters have used for many months during the yellow vest protests and indeed on the may day but this is the first time in paris we've seen evidence of the police using what essentially is an sanctioned weapon against the protesters it begs the question whether the police are the ones here inciting

the violence and instead of trying to control the situation they're actually poor ring oil on the fire. meanwhile hospital staff has spoken to the media describing the moment when mayday protesters rushed into the facility. still in the most number of them startled us at first but very quickly they started to listen some try to calm them down it's a hospital calmed down they understood that we couldn't lead the man and now when it comes to finding someone to blame we don't know there's nothing to say i think when you take part in a protest things always get a little bit out of hand and that's the weight is. on the there were several of us we didn't see any black blocks we saw some yellow vests who were in a panic going in all directions there were about ten of them they went up the stairs and at the door they asked for something for their ice which they said were stinging we saw no signs of forced entry doors or anything some call extrude go to

treat their ice. opposition lawmakers in the u.k. are calling for an official inquiry into the leak of classified information from a government meeting prime minister theresa may fired the defense secretary gavin williamson after the incident but he denies any wrongdoing parties point boycott has before. this was a man of course who had huge political ambitions it was said that he wanted to work his way to the very top to succeed to reason may but his fall from grace appears to have been even faster than a sort of fast track to success to reason may sacked him as defense secretary earlier this week she accused him of leaking highly sensitive information i put to you delete information from the investigation which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for do you not to rise disclosure i can no longer have full confidence in you as secretary of state for the fence and

a minister in my cabinet and ask you to leave her majesty's government gavin williamson is calling for a criminal investigation into the leak in order to establish his innocence he's sworn on his kids' lives that he wasn't behind the leak there are now rumors in westminster that williamson could be out for revenge that he's got enough dirt on the prime minister to bring her down she has been working at the top level of cabinet the highest echelons of power for a few years now he was eventually brought into cabinet as defense secretary way he was rather outspoken and. frankly russia should go away it should churchill. and surrounding areas i don't think let's say we want to thank you. for the

very wrong business that he. indeed we take a carrot and stick to the rage. personally i don't like the stick. but it is amazing. what's come be achieved with a sharpened to her wrist you can see that gavin williamson wasn't without his quirks he was famous in parliament for keeping a pet tarantula named cronus on his desk and he has been posting rather a lot on social media in fact he's quite prolific he posted since his sacking a photograph on instagram with his two pet dogs saying that it's been a really tough week but it's all ok when you get to come home to your pets he says he's going to have a lot more time for them now he's now been replaced by the u.k.'s first ever female

defense secretary penny mordant she's a royal navy reservist and fun fact she once worked as a magician's assistant now looking at the dire local election results today i'm with greg's it still dragging on and with williamson refusing to shut up and go away perhaps to reason may is hoping that some of penny mordant magic will rub off on her. facebook is banned or some controversial right wing figures for allegedly posting extremist content the ban also applies to instagram which is owned by facebook the people on the list include alex jones and his in four wars and page along with former breitbart news editor mueller. and political activist laura loom or. explaining the decision facebook says it has always banned individuals or organizations that promote violence and hate regardless of ideology

but youtube or paul joseph wants and who has also been banned by the social media giant claims that the move is purely political. i was given no reason whatsoever for being bound by facebook or instagram this is punishment this is a political perch this has nothing to do with hate violating terms of service yesterday i wrote an article about how i was leavin in digital gulag on holocaust remembrance day and today even though i am a zionist and have dedicated my life to competent jew hatred these nazis in silicon valley banned me. by facebook's action has sparked a censorship debate with some saying the move has a worrying implications for free speech. every conservative should be concerned about alex jones prison planet and others getting an arbitrary ban from facebook platforms you an extent censorship is entering a new more hysterical face soon there will be no right wing activists or

commentators left how about jack benny dollar trump from twitter for violating the company's rules against hate and violence so much damage already done so many demented and delusional followers have been radicalized and many people ate it by cause facebook. and harrison kinney chair of british think tank the battle group thinks facebook has a clear political bias. they're reacting to the election results like it at the brits like the election of donald trump and it would appear that they feel there's a company that they want to put themselves on the side of the debate they need to be regulated as such as a as a political actor in the debate rather than a platform for a free debate which i think it's now very clear they are not facebook is very clearly putting themselves on one side of the political debate it is absolutely it could tell them to free speech because they're saying these individuals are

dangerous well and many people like myself see them as perfectly reasonable act is in a political debates they have huge following across a variety of platforms facebook is clearly pushing itself as a political act and why is it in the regulation that other media companies face. the u.s. is seeking to ban all nuclear fuel production in iran and the country was permitted to continue low enriched uranium production under a two thousand and fifteen agreement but now the state department says that should stop and countries including russia the trade nuclear fuel with iran should be sanctioned. iran must stop proliferation sense of activities including uranium enrichment and we will not accept actions the support the continuation of such enrichment we will also no longer permit the storage for iran of heavy water it is produced in excess of current limits. the iran nuclear deal

which was abandoned by the us the last year imposed strict limits on your radium in richmond and it required iran to export all heavy water produced above a certain limit however it allowed iran to continue redesigning and expanding the bush era nuclear power plant with the help of russia since quitting the iran deal the us has imposed multiple sanctions on tehran they affect key parts of the economy including energy shipping and finance the u.s. accuses iran of violating the two thousand and fifteen deal and secretly developing nuclear weapons tehran denies both of those allegations president trump has also repeatedly accused iran of supporting terrorists and to destabilizing the entire middle east. everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare honor ran to spread death destruction and see high and every problem is a wreck and the world's leading state sponsor of terrorists iran's leaders so yes. death. and destruction. all right russia's foreign ministry has condemned

washington's plan to sanction countries that cooperate with iran and are still party to the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal it describes such threats as on lawful and an acceptable for more on this we can cross live to independent political analyst alessandro bruno as always thank you for being with us here on our team international thank you so the u.s. says it will now start imposing sanctions on iran in exports of enriched uranium that had had actually been permitted under the nuclear deal how could this affect the situation in the country and with other countries who were part of. go shooting mistry. well the cancellation of the permissions comes shortly after united states has banned various countries from importing iranian oil including china. so there are now the question here is not even

whether or not it's nuclear energy that's the problem the united states is pushing putting as much pressure as possible on the iranian government. to the point of fracturing it deeply because the sanctions hurt especially the shall we call them the more liberal. side of iranian politics represented by president rouhani whereas the. puts him at odds with the so-called hardliners such as the supreme leader khamenei who have always been skeptical about the iran deal warning that the americans would eventually cancel it and in fact. that's what the americans have done so it proves the hardliners are correct and it weakens the liberals and the reformers. i think that the point

perhaps in the minds of the advisors to trump probably mr pompei oh and mr bolton in particular fresh from defeat in venezuela then the who. are pushing trump to adopt these tough measures which are going to put strains on internal dynamics within iran and of course with. iran's allies or partners which include of russia china and the european union i mean the european union now it looks completely useless. weak absolutely nothing to do do that it can do to counter trumps. decision well you mentioned russia and china we just mentioned earlier that russia has condemned the move saying it would be unlawful to sanction countries that continue to abide by the nuclear deal how

much of a global dispute could this cause especially if the european countries are affected you just mentioned the european union being. effected less but they are affected by this as well. well. russia can justly say that this is against international law because there is an agreement and after all the european union russia and china are still involved in this agreement so. but the united states is creating i think they really want to go to the council's barely in other words they want the excuse to be able to buy one or two of the various facilities nuclear research facilities in iran they're looking for a fight. particularly as i think the election season is coming up and these kind of international interventions always seem to rally or unite

the country in the united states so also that this is. the nuclear deal in iran that that's part of the wider issue in the middle east. that trump has used to antagonize america's so-called enemies from the golan heights declaration in notrump the recognize the golan heights as part of israel then jerusalem rumors that he might recognize the west bank i think this is where the this nuclear this decision and iran's nuclear energy research fits in it's a general it's an a an effort to to to start a fight and of course one of the things that could happen this gives more impetus to the hardliners in iran particularly the revolutionary guard which have been placed. which has been deemed a terrorist organization right to take action in the distrait of hormuz to block

tankers they were there looking for an excuse to spark some kind of military action . all right alzheimer brunelle haina pena political analyst interesting era thoughts and i guess i recorded talking to you more as the situation on falls. thank you frank. an alleged longtime collaborator of wiki leaks founder julian assange will remain in preach trial detention and ecuador a court in the country has dismissed an appeal by all of beenie who was arrested in quito last month on the same day assad was taken into custody in the u.k. binny is a software developer and privacy activist he has reportedly worked with wiki leaks in the past he was arrested by ecuadorian authorities on charges of trying to hack a computer systems in the country however his lawyers claim the case is politically motivated. now and not ever investigations of you have been demonstrated what seems

to be the supposed. when he did it. where i mean what's the information that they were going to show to the world that the decision made here was a political one. there were aspects of the hearing that i did not like for example the difference in time allocated we were granted just fifty minutes to talk with the prosecutors spoke for almost one hour and fifteen minutes well critically some of our arguments were dismissed by the judges. the u.s. is expected to get to new its support for the saudi military intervention in yemen and the senate has failed to overturn president veto of a resolution on ending washington's involvement in the war. saudi arabia is eight despotic dictatorship. that works over time to prevent any movement in that country toward democracy this is also about squaring

us policy with national security interests and getting the blood off of our hands and we ought not give unflinching unwavering unquestioning. devotion to a regime that treats its own people that way. well congress passed the resolution opposing involvement last month however it was blocked by donald trump who dubbed did a dangerous attempt to weaken his constitutional authority saudi arabia launched its bombing campaign in yemen back in two thousand and fifteen to support the government against the shia rebels the campaign has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians and left much of young men in ruins.

he says it is a business and if he has to do with a murderous regime he will continue to do so. here is no compunction. morally or with any regard to human rights in their relationship he sees it strictly. going to fuel u.s. industry and the u.s. military and bar he has no human rights concerns. for palestinians have been killed in the latest cross border standoff between gaza and israel two militants were killed in israeli airstrikes on hamas targets this according to the i.d.f. and the two palestinian protesters died during friday's clashes at the border fence which also left fifty protesters injured protesters were demanding to end the air land and sea blockade imposed by israel and egypt back in two thousand and seven

after gaza came under the control of hamas. the tropical cyclone in india has left at least seven people dead more than a million have been evacuated from the eastern state of with. speeds of two hundred kilometers per hour have been recorded along with heavy rainfall which has brought down trees and power lines more than four thousand emergency shelters have been set up to cope with the displaced people bangladesh is now bracing for the cyclons impact as it moves east. over something completely different the bahamas is renowned for its beautiful beaches sparkling seas and creasing lee it seems it's swimming swine pigs that love to paddle have become an attraction all of their own. did they excrete off of a shipwreck where they brought here hundreds of years ago by pirates explorers they are truly one of nature's most amusing accidents.

here's how this all seems cute but animal rights activists have raised the alarm they claim local businesses are mistreating the pigs and exploiting them for profit for example by throwing them into the water for the amusement of tourists came around half from the bahamas humane society says it all comes down to ignorance i think the stupidity. is your only ignorance that we see the same for. lace all over the will we have seen many many video clips of tourists trying to feed them. what we've seen is of people trying to ride on their backs throwing sand cheese.