donald trump and vladimir putin discuss the crisis in venezuela which one american has accused washington of. branded disgusting by the u.s. secretary of state. into. this way it's not only ignored it's discussed. activists in the u.s. a series of historic murals commemorating george washington to be painted over arguing that they could traumatize minorities. this part of work which is a tribute to this legacy of this is a. go to zero zero zero. zero zero

more important study from bad seed your this is what we did here. and facebook is accused of censorship. prominent right wing commentators for alleged hate speech. it's ten o'clock here in moscow and you're watching altie international law i promised you with me and welcome to the program. the leaders of russia and the u.s. have spoken by phone in a bid to find common ground on a number of pressing global issues among them venezuela the latin american countries so violence this week amid what some are describing as a failed coup attempt donald trump says he and near putin had a productive discussion about the crisis. he is. not looking at all to get involved

in venezuela other than he'd like to see something positive happen for venezuela and i feel the same way so we want to help out on humanitarian basis and i thought it was a very positive conversation i had with president putin on venezuela. it could be some follow up on the back of those positive vibes next week when the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and his u.s. counterpart mike pompei and meet in finland where they're expected to discuss and as well as the crisis in caracas simmers on some in washington as high as in congress are pointing the finger at america accusing it of increasing the need. to reform. the schism over venezuela isn't just international it's domestic too in the u.s. from the regime change activists who are guarding the venezuelan embassy to congress persons democrat. committed an unforgivable sin she

spoke speakable 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 there are some things you just don't do like blame america for anything for her troubles with the vice president and the secretary of state called basically an idiot for a member of congress who frankly one who sits important national security committee to make a statement blaming america first of this way it's not only ignorant it's disgusting congresswoman doesn't know she's talking about in simpler terms obama is ignorant for saying that u.s. meddling threats sanctions that have deprived venezuelans of desperately needed

billions but all of that has exacerbated the crisis in venezuela that apparently is ignorant but recognizing go i do as president despite the fact that. when voted for him or listens to him the military nor ministries nor any state agencies recognizing him as president isn't ignorant also black is white the earth is flat pigs can fly and it's not a coup for one why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military if you throw out all sense and relinquish all ties with reality then yes this wasn't a coup well why do did was call and soldiers to mutiny take up arms and violently seize power from people who actually have power on why do those behalf totally not

a coup. the only coup in venezuela would be for i was the rest of them we're now living under a dictatorship in the military nation. and while why do prepares his next not a coup trump be standing by to assist with these known coups the brutal repression of the venezuelan people must stand and it must and soon 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 why do not a coup didn't go to plan aside from a few dozen soldiers that appeared with him at the start no other military members he did his call to rebel his attempt to storm a military base fell flat neither did it go peacefully with his supporters firing wildly at police and the military then firing back as well.

they say they won't give up calling of course for more protests try to topple the venezuelan non government and i'll continue to grace the front covers of more men's fashion magazines who knows perhaps that's just what they need a little more photoshop. he signed the venezuelan crisis donald trump and thought it meant continue in that phone conversation also discuss the possibility and then you can honest treaty between russia and china america has to make some change discuss the prospect with genest chris had. ports from the white house today that president trump has reached out to president putin on the subject of nuclear arms agreement between the united states russia and china of course we really don't know what they discussed but that is what the president's staff is putting out if it's

true and we take them at their word which we should it would be kind of strange considering that the u.s. and russia already had a nuclear treaty in place negotiated by ronald reagan to me kyle gorbachev that we our country chose to just no longer author just a few months ago that decision was made so it's curious right speaking of mr gorbachev he has just penned that editorial in the wall street journal where he's urging both sides to stop the madness of nuclear deterrence he writes that the idea that more weapons make us more safe is just. matt. joining us now is when an author chris hedges to talk about this article by mikhail gorbachev it's called the madness of nuclear deterrence do you get his point on this gorbachev is exactly right this is this inability on the part of the world's two largest nuclear powers

to speak and negotiate or rationally is very very dangerous but there's is there's this thinking out there that's been going on for a long time he talks about margaret thatcher being a disciple of this most of us grew up with the cuban missile crisis we've always been told as long as we have big nukes and the bigger our nukes the bigger their nukes that's fine because then no one will use them so it's the fact that our weapons are large that keeps us from ever having to engage in a war that's kind of the thinking guys like you and i grew up with and that's what some of those leaders you just mentioned also kind of believed in is that true. well no of course i mean it was it was reducing the nuclear stockpiles and and monitoring those stockpiles that made the world a safer place getting reengaged which we've now done in a nuclear weapons race and remember the russians have now put up any ballistic

systems that they say cannot be detected because of course we've moved under nato missiles up to russia's border this is extremely dangerous say you have various flashpoints syria being one where this conflict could go wrong really quickly and so you want communication you want discussion you know you have you don't have detente one would know it already has to you know love lot of our putin or love russia or anything else but what's kept the world from committing acts of massive self-annihilation has been forms of communique. sure which figures like my pompei on john bolton have no interest in doing as we're seeing in venezuela i think they're probably incapable of speaking to anyone but themselves. high school in san francisco named after u.s. president george washington may remove a mural commemorating the life of the founding father as after working group

looking into allegations that the work of art is offensive to minorities deemed that it traumatizes students and community members. the panel of thirteen panel mural entitled the life of george washington dates back to nine hundred thirty six the working group objected to the fact that it is native americans and african-americans as victims and sleighs this is not the first instance of compass monuments coming under fire two months ago students at the university of mississippi voted to remove the such of a confederate soldier from the center of the compass and in twenty eighteen protests broke out at the university of north carolina resulting in the knocking down of the silent confederate statue altie spoke to attorney and author reese everson and media analyst lionel to get their views on this trend. that only must we remove any reverence we must provide tranquilizers and narcotics toward children lest they perhaps see think or come across anything that is discomforting

historical has become hysterical it's not about hysterics that's not the issue at all the issue is that our history in this country has been one that's so so damaging so will gruesome so painful and here's the issue the issue is that even two hundred four hundred years later people are still hurt oh i can't go to school oh oh i was cured was a good help more and more psych meds teenager this is ridiculous what we should be doing is teaching these kids do us a favor sit down and shut up what we're doing in this country is unacceptable and i choose not to sit down and shut up i choose to stand up and speak out and i want the children in america we're not actually talking about george washington high school who continue their children in george washington high school who continue to

stand up and speak out and let their voices be heard in these rogue shoe signaling social justice warriors these people who are still. said incident in freely that this paving has been there at george washington high school get ready george washington now must be removed because the east children come off let's turn this ugly history on its head and you as a launching pad so that people who have been hurt by this country gruesome history can finally began to have an equal footing what happens when you then say now let's open up the history book we took the sign down now all right children you happy good ok now let's talk about this wait a minute i don't want to read this book we don't like the story of columbus terror that out we don't like this about the way they treated native americans which is true we don't like world war two war one the holocaust vietnam war we don't like

any of this when this this triggers us we would like to rip the pages from the textbook that's actually not what was said at all they simply said this artwork this artwork which is a tribute to this person to the legacy of this person is offensive and because we find this artwork to be offensive we would like it to not be visible please never let these students go to a museum please never let them go do the louve never let them go to washington never let them go to battle grounds never let them see anything the point is we are having little snowflakes decide what they want to see and what they don't want to see and that's fine but life doesn't reflect those sensibilities. to germany now a rising of political ficca has drawn attention after a top firms like b.m.w. to be brought under collective ownership their mosques are made by kevin couldn't

it who's the leader of the social democratic party's youth wing could it to shift party's policies to. the left is joining the s.d.p. as youth chief can and has also been a vocal critic of surging vents and big property developers however his latest comments on collectivize sation have had many in berlin's halls of power to distance themselves from him as peter all of the reports socialism the idea that a society is only as strong as its weakest member but does it belong in our past our present or our future well if you listen to the leader of the youth wing of angle or merkel's coalition partners here in germany it's very much the latter particularly when it comes to the german automobile industry there is nothing wrong with the b.m.w. brand the only question is why b.m.w. should belong to a few people who have the sole rise to the profits the distribution of profits must be democratically controlled that excludes a capitalist owner without

a form of collectivization is unthinkable to overcome capsule ism well those comments have landed the s.b. their money in hot water with some critics in his own party or going as far as to question his mental state while arts are nonsense what was you smoking whatever it was it cannot be legal the social democrats that kevin community represents is traditionally the party of the working class but they have had a horrid time of late and are currently polling third nationally behind the chancellor's union bloc and the greens germany of course has plenty of history when it comes to the left of the political spectrum but ideas of a return to east germany or the g.d.r. certainly got cooling its critics fired up thirty years after the fall of the burden wall the left wants to return to democratic socialism the air's pretty leadership must clearly distance itself from such fantasies as you may well imagine

people on social media i've had plenty to say about mystic units ideas or collectivism. b.m.w. is a great company no despite the liberal market economy but because of that the dreams of the socialists on the working theory who wants to own property only by force and repression. is a living example of someone who has never worked in his life and lives outside reality it's hard to believe taxpayers are funding such people. can have his socialist dreams but what is scary is that the press and parties are listening to him despite his lack of actual knowledge and experience. days may not sit too well with everybody but if you look across the atlantic senator bernie sanders in the united states was able to draw an army of young supporters to his cause saying pretty much similar things and clean it may well be looking to do the same thing

peter all over our table is coming up new york's first evelyn patrol is poised to go into action stirring mixed reactions among locals that's out of this break. it has nothing to do with the propaganda that the daily mail is pushing but when you have a population that might be susceptible to propaganda they can easily be manipulated into thinking that fracking is something other than what it is it's not

economically viable it costs more to frack then then then you make a profit it's cashflow negative it's also environmentally negative you destroy the environment incredibly. nice someone 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 so we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs.

there are countless numbers 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 wave and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. welcome back to the program facebook has banned prominent conservative and to stop us from ficus from its platform citing policy against dangerous individuals and organizations the ban also applies to facebook and instagram the people on the list include alex jones on his info wars page along with a former breitbart news editor milo young political actor activist borroloola and new cheaper paul joseph watson their content allegedly violating facebook's new

regulations. face workers stress is always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate regardless of ideology but some of those banned by the social media giant claim the moves are purely political. i was given no reason whatsoever for being banned by facebook or instagram this is punishment this is a political purge this has nothing to do with hate violating terms of service yesterday ever wrote an article about how i was leavin in a digital gulag on holocaust remembrance day and today even though i am a zionist and have dedicated my life to competent jew hatred this now sees in silicon valley than me facebook's action has a spark a censorship debate with some saying the company should ban more people while others warn of repercussions on free speech every conservative should be concerned about alex jones prison planet and others getting an obituary banned from

facebook's platforms you on the next. censorship is entering a new more hysterical face soon there will be no right wing activists or commentators left how about jag bernie donald 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 in many people ate it by cause facebook they're reacting to. election results like 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 it is a political actor in the debate rather than a platform for three debate which i think it's not very clear they are not based look at very clearly pushing 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 many people like myself see them as perfectly reasonable act is it a political debate stay have huge following across a variety of platforms facebook is clearly pushing itself as a political actor and boys excrete in the regulation that other media companies face. topical clone finally one of the biggest to hit india in years as all the head by linda reportedly leaving nine people dead in india it came twelve lives when speeds of a two hundred kilometers an hour hold for a quarter along with heavy rainfall which has brought down trees and power lines more than a million locals were evacuated from the eastern indian state of addition and over four thousand americans shelters have been set up to cope with a fifth place. now the first ever muslim patrol is set to start operating in new york a prospect that's provoked mixed reactions among locals are to delve deeper into

the story. we know that there has been a. increase rated hate crimes and we're just here to help provide any protection we can any safety we can. through. no they're not cops and they're not a private army either they say that they're just a community watch keeping an eye on the neighborhood and helping law enforcement but here's the catch they're muslims the muslim patrol was started by an immigrant from yemen and it's got roughly thirty regular members in brooklyn they have met with the police to be sure about what they can and cannot do as they operate from patrol cars keeping an eye on the neighborhood. it's something that.

some in brooklyn think the muslim patrols are a good thing after all hate crimes and attacks on muslims have certainly escalated however other voices are saying this could be a gateway for a sharia law in extremism here's what some local residents told us they think muslim patrol is i think it will be much safer are you concerned about muslims wearing uniforms and patrolling in cars like police almost fierce. as long as there's no one in harm or anything that they should be free to do whatever they want. to. we have muslim community are told and services we're here to help bridge the community together by the same time we're offering counseling therapy as well as

feeding the homeless and many other services as well we are the. years and the ice for the community so we make sure we take in reports of whatever might be happening from the community local issues that even from then why be to help go around back and forth to the blocks to see what we can help with you all don't carry guns do you know of course not right no and right that wouldn't really tell you know what terms nothing and if you see like an incident happening how do you intervene so we use the lights we use the siren we speak to the radio try to prevent it from there but before all of that we call the nine one one we call the authorities we let them know that we get them on the way so you only function in coordination with the actual police well it looks like this is a thing now acetic jews and asian americans have already set up similar organizations but they haven't raised the same number of eyebrows by far so could something like this be coming to your residential neighborhood it's probably only a matter of time caleb mop and r.t.

new york. the news for now i'll be back in about thirty minutes time with more world updates so don't go away. and. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home

field 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 think i was going to do. by the way ways of the slide here. this is a period of sort of the whole world to see whether it's first bloody. good you might be yelled well the minute you did it was my go to the well below. the losing is it's a field. goal of a good enough that all you want to go to the been here long enough that it's a. bad feeling you'll know ball. enough well it was pretty but growing closer to

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broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and how it affects you this is boom bust i'm daniel boyd in washington d.c. we're glad you're on board coming up to date the latest u.s. job in g.d.p. numbers are showing surprising strength steve malzberg will be here to dive into the details and hoover is facing a class action lawsuit from australian cab drivers who say the right ride to healing service put them out of business by breaking the law alex mccaleb it will be here to discuss the latest of several global pushback efforts against the dominance of rider hailing start ups and rick rule see the old spot us holdings will be here to discuss the latest moves in global oil markets all of that directly ahead but first let's have some headlines. a major move by soft bank leads our

global report again today. as a soft bank group considers an initial public offering for the one hundred billion dollars soft bank vision fund the wall street journal reports the plans for an i.p.o. are the result of soft bank's efforts to keep pace with the deal making done by soft bank founder and c.e.o. masayoshi solomon the journal reports mr sun found enough investment vehicles to utilize the vision fund vision funds one hundred billion in capital in two years rather than the previously planned four years mr sun has also been on an acquisition spree capturing and attractive assets in sectors including banking online food delivery and biotech but also quickly depleting the funds available capital at the same time the journal points out that upcoming i.p.o.'s for we work and over in which soft bank has major stakes will bring in significant amounts of new capital. this morning the bureau of labor statistics announced the job numbers for april and the results were better than expected.