the crisis in venezuela which one american. has accused washington of baiting. the u.s. secretary of state. into. this way it's not only. activists in the u.s. called for a series of historic. george washington to be painted over arguing that they could traumatize minorities. this hard work which is a tribute to this. whole oh god yes if you want to go. look. this

is a big deal. and in new york the first. something provoked mixed reactions among locals. watching all t. international live from last year with me. welcome to the program leaders of the russia have spoken by phone in their bid to find common ground on a number of pressing global issues among them venezuela the latin american countries violence this week amid well some of describing it as a failed coup attempt. 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. there could be some follow up on the back of those positive vibes next week when the russian foreign minister and his u.s. counterpart meet in finland they are expected to discuss. as the crisis in caracas simmers on some in washington is higher in congress pointing the finger at america accusing it of increasing the hate artie's emerged last year before. 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 congresspersons democrats. 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 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 and for her troubles with the vice president and the secretary of state called a basically an idiot for a member of congress who frankly one who sits on an important national security committee to make a statement blaming america first of this way it's not only ignorant it's disgusting congresswoman those you 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 guar you do as president despite the fact that. and 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 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 end 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 felt last night that could 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. the science the venezuelan crisis donald trump and thought to me and conversation also discussed the possibility of a new can treaty between russia us and china on see america has to make some change discuss that prospect with janice. 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 and mcconnell gorbachev that we our country chose to just no longer order 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 politic prize winning 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 is exactly right this is this inability on on the part of the world's two largest nuclear powers to speak and negotiate. rationally is very very dangerous but there's this 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 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 so 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 what we know it already has to you know love lot of money putin or a lot of russia or anything else but what's kept the world from committing acts of massive self-annihilation has been forms of communication which figures like my palm pale and 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. in san francisco named after u.s. president george washington made to me the middle commemorating the life of the founding father. working looking into allegations that the work involved is offensive to minorities deemed that it traumatized students and community. the

thirteen a panel needle entitled the life of george washington dates back to nine hundred fifty six the working group objected to the fact that it betrays native americans and african-americans as victims and slaves removing monuments now deemed inappropriate by certain groups has become a bit of a trend on u.s. campuses of late two months ago is students at the university of mississippi voted to remove a statue of the confederate soldier and intention eighteen protest at the university of north carolina resulting in the knocking down of a new. another confederate statue spoke to attorney and author reece of a sense a need to enlist lionel about the trend. that only must we remove any reference we must provide tranquilizers and narcotics to our children lest they perhaps we 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 scole oh my god you have 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 think down and shut up i choose to think and up and speak out and i want the children in america but we're not talking about george washington high school who continue their children in george washington high school to continue to stand up and speak out and let their voices be heard in these rogue chew signaling social justice warriors these people who were sold said incident in philly that

this paving has been there at george washington high school of get ready george washington now must be removed because the east children urged come on let's turn this ugly history on its head and he used this as a launching pad so that people who have been hurt by this country gruesome history can finally begin 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 or write childe. 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 tear that out we don't like this about the way they treated native americans which is true is terrible we don't like world war two war one the holocaust vietnam war we don't like any of this what this this triggers are 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 to 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. germany now way rising a political figure has drawn attention after top firms like b.m.w. to be brought under collective ownership the remarks are made by kevin coonan it who's the leader of the social democratic party's youth wing. to shift party's policies to the left since joining the s.t.p.

as youth chief and it has also been a vocal critic out for surging rents and big property developers however his latest comments on collectivize ation have led many into it in terms of power to distance themselves from him as peter all the reports. socialism the idea that a society is only as strong as its weakest member would do those that belong in our past stop present or our future well if you listen to the leader of the youth wing . 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 collectivize ation 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 or it's a nonsense what was you smoking whatever it was it part of the legal the social democrats that kevin kuna represents is traditionally the party of the working class but they have had a porritt 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 between its critics fired up thirty years after the fall of the burden wall the left wants to return to democratic socialism the airspeed 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 of 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 units ideas 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 in kunar it may well be looking to do the same thing peter all over r.t. berlin and we have new york first ever muslim patrol has began operating staring mixed reactions of our locals after the 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 an profit it's cash flow negative it's also environmentally negative you destroy the environment incredibly. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow only closely i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back to the program the first of a list in patrol has begun operating in new york something that's provoked mixed reactions among locals caleb maupin joined a patrol on its beat. we know there has been an increased rate of hate crimes and we're just here to help provide any protection we can any safety we can. you know 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. to. come 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 sharia law and 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 then they should be free to do whatever they want. something that. we have muslim community are told in 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 of us. services as well we are the years and the eyes 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 you need to help go around back and forth through the blocks to see what we can help with you all don't carry guns do you know of course right now. that wouldn't really care you know what terms . 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 yes well it looks like this is the thing now 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. are to new york. one of the biggest to hit. reports of people in india it came to light wind speeds of two hundred kilometers an hour. with heavy. downed trees and power lines more than a million locals were evacuated from. and over four thousand emergency shelters

have been set up. facebook has banned prominent conservative anti establishment figures from its platform citing policy against individuals and organizations the ban also applies to facebook and instagram the people on the list include alex jones and his page along with form of bright. political activist and you tube paul watson their content allegedly violates. regulations. facebook is stressed as always by individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate regardless of ideology but some of those banned by the social media giant tame the moves 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 the 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 ban me facebook's action has sparked a censorship debate with some saying they 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 ics to. censorship is entering a new more hysterical phase soon there will be no right wing activists or commentators left how about jack benny donald trump from twitter for violating the company's rules against hate and violence so much damage done so many demented and delusional followers have been radicalized and many played it by cause phase back

they're reacting to the election results like the brits if they 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 now very clear they are not facebook at 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 axes 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 expecting the regulation that other media companies face the truth i'll be back around thirty minutes time with more world updates so do stay with us.

my son in this doing drugs my nephews 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 we started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. that the war on drugs was on the scale there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence in this for whom minor 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 the business it's just it doesn't get easier. 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 made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. time after time see we're going underground just hours after world press freedom

day punctuated a week that's all advocates of free speech all around the world damn what they saw as britain's persecution of wiki leaks founder julian assange coming up in the show we speak to wiki leaks is joseph our lymphoma. about how when his u.k. court proceedings. will go down in british legal and constitutional history from wiki leaks one time part of the guardian one of the world's greatest cartoonist steve bell on a life of attacking power plus a week of electoral victories and mainstream vilification by jeremy corbyn does the prime minister agree with her secretary of state that it's the policies of this government that is meant in one of the richest countries on this earth food banks and now handing out fourteen million meals a year to people some of whom are in work who simply haven't got enough to eat all the more coming up in today's going underground the first straight to this week's alleged attacks by british authorities on wiki leaks we spoke to wiki leaks chief

christian reference and straight after julian assange u.k. jail was considered for extradition to the usa the empire is now striking back and it's not on the basis of of law it's on the basis of events and politics and i'm afraid that the u.k. government is taking part in that i don't have a lot of belief in the the authorities here or the branches of government but we will fight on and we believe that the general public is starting to see how serious this is and they will pressure their politicians the pressure of government to actually take part and take a stand take a stand for julian assange and we should especially remember that we are heading into tomorrow with joining me now as we can exam bastard joseph carroll and former ecuadorian consul in london fidel nowheres who worked at the london embassy for six of the seven years that julian assange was under detention there welcome to both of you for dale and joseph before we get to julian assange appealing to the former

defense secretary disgraced defense secretary gavin williamson for information and i think what the point very is. we have our. in a prison for having publish classified information and there seems to be no cold war or realisation that why is that not the same for for chris evans the editor of the telegraph if he's been publishing classified documents there's a dis connect your response then to this week's activities julius and chanted borlase a maximum sentence by u.k. judge deborah taylor and of course there was this extradition request we can tell me explain what happened there from the time that you're doing was informed of the extradition which was the day that he was arrested the u.s. has sixty five days to give a full charge sheet so that is what has been pencilled in for the twelfth of june we saw on wednesday when he was sentenced for a for a bail issue he was given

a maximum sentence. double what the soap or so-called speedboat killer was given who was only given six months to do was given fifty weeks it should be noted it's punitive you know jordan has been persecuted throughout his time in the embassy by the government it's a very politically motivated situation but why do you think the average tailor ignored all your. editor's clemency pleas all the mitigation a little history deborah taylor felt that none of that mitigation was worth even looking at where as we said outside the court after her judgment we would actually call on everyone to read the submissions that we we submitted in court they're not long and to make up your own mind she she went so far as to completely discount the united nations saying that the ruling that the united nation.