discuss the crisis in venezuela which one american congresswoman has accused washington of aggravating in remarks branded and disgusting by the u.s. secretary of state. and then surely into the america first of this way it's not only ignored it's disgusting. activists in the u.s. call for a series of historic. george washington to be painted over all doing what they could traumatize minorities in. this part which is a tribute to this part of the legacy of this person is a. quarter of all oh my god you are the ones who don't know

what the words stager this is a big deal. and in new york the first. troll begins operating something has provoked mixed reactions among locals. it's midday here in moscow and you're watching all to international live from last year with me in india 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 violence this week amid what some are describing as a failed coup attempt trump says he and vladimir putin had a productive discussion about the crisis. not looking at all together. 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 with a humanitarian basis. i thought it was a very positive conversation i had with president putin on venezuela. that 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 pumpin meet in finland where they're expected to discuss and this way that as the crisis in caracas simmers on some in washington as high up as in congress appointed to think that america accusing it of increasing the heat ati's won't gustier for. the schism over venezuela isn't just international it's domestic too in the us 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 the 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 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 in 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 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 no one voted for him or listens to him of 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 go 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 arrested we're now living

under a dictatorship and then terry nation rejects it. 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 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 we 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 military them firing back as well.

they say they will give up cooling of course for more protests try to cope with the venezuelan government and they'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 food social science the venison and cry says donald trump and fly into manhattan ten and i phone conversation also discuss the possibility of a new treaty between russia the u.s. and china on team america has to fix on china's discuss that prospect with jenna's chris hedges reports 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.

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 where we 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 communication which figures like my pump ale and john bolton have no interest in doing as we're seeing in venezuela i think they're probably incapable of speaking to and anyone but themselves. a high school in san francisco named after u.s. president george washington may remove a mural commemorating the life of the founding father but after a working group looking into allegations that the work of art is offensive to

minorities deemed that it traumatizes students and community members the thirteen panel entitled the life of george washington dates back to nine hundred thirty six the working group objected to the fact that it portrays 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 students at the university of mississippi voted to remove a statue of a confederate soldier and in twenty eighteen protests broke out at the university of north carolina resulting in the knocking down of another confederate statue r.t. spoke to attorney and author reese everson and media analyst lionel about the trend . that only must we remove any reference we must provide tranquilizers and narcotics to our children lest they perhaps see 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 salo 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 my god they have cured one 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 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 room 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 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 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 plate a minute i don't want to read this book we don't like the story of. 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 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 where a rising political figure has drawn attention after urging top firms like b.m.w. to be brought under collective ownership there are marks were made by kevin who's the leader of the social democratic party youth wing he's vowed to shift the

party's policies further to the left says joining the s.t.p. is youth chief that has also been a vocal critic and of surging rents and property developers however its latest comments on collectivized station have led many in berlin towards power to distance themselves from him as peter all of us reports. socialism the idea that a society is only as strong as its weakest member 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. do. you should belong to a few people who have the soul rise to the profits the distribution of profits must be democratically controlled that excludes a capitalist owner without a form of collectivize ation it is unthinkable to overcome capsule ism while those comments have landed the s.p.

their money in hot water with some critics in his own party or going as far as to question his mental state or to nonsense what was you smoking whatever it was it can to be legal the social democrats that kevin represents is traditionally the party of the working class but they have had a horrid time of late and are currently polling for good 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 heirs pretty leadership must clearly distance itself from such fantasies as you may well imagine people on social media i've heard plenty to say about mystic units ideas of collectivism b.m.w.

is a great company no despite a 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 keene it may well be looking to do the same thing peter all over r.t. berlin coming up our correspondent goes first spend it with new york's first ever the child of after this break.

you know world of big. law and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. 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 development the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down

and talk. down the first of a muslim the child has begun operating in new york something that's provoked mixed reactions among locals. joined 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. 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 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 gives you sure 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 that's reading you 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 be 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 not right now and right that wouldn't really care

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 us well it looks like this is a 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 india in years has also hit on an appeal to the people in the. lives when speeds of two hundred kilometers an hour in the border along with heavy rainfall which is trees and power lines more than a million locals were evacuated from the east. and over four thousand emergency

shelters have been set up to cope with the displaced people. now facebook has banned prominent conservative anti establishment figures from its platform citing policy dangerous individuals and organizations the band also applies to facebook and instagram the people on the list include alex jones and his info wars page along with former breitbart a news editor. political activist. a new cheaper poll what's their content allegedly violates facebook. new regulations facebook has also always stressed that it bans 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 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 i wrote an article about how i was leavin in the 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 ban me. because action has sparked 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 platforms you on ics to. censorship is entering a new more hysterical face soon there will be no right wing activists or commentators laughed how about jack benny 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 and many people ate it by cause facebook they're reacting to the 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 a as 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 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 in a political debates they have huge following across a variety of platforms facebook is clearly pushing itself as a political act why is expecting the regulation that other media companies face

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in. max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know over the years we've covered three stories kind of our signature stories health care america central banks and fracking you know we've been talking about fracking a lot and you know we're going to talk about it again right now stacey yes because you know in the u.k. the fracking czar has quit and she claims that basically she's not able to move forward with fracking because of activists and the u.k. tabloid the daily mail who are very famous for being in bed with the nazis during

world war two remember they were promoting the brown shirts and how great the brown shirts were well last week and they said dominic lawson says how the kremlin must be howling with laughter now green zealots has sabotaged our fracking bonanza so basically he blames kaiser report max kaiser in particular and that you had said that claim that factors are the moral equivalent of paedophiles because fracking is giving british children cancer and then in order to support his claim that this is just propaganda and that you know we are just pushing lies to stop the u.k. from producing natural gas using fracking methods well he cites nato he says according to. the former secretary general of nato russia as part of their sophisticated information and disinform ation operations in gaze actively with environmental organizations working against shale gas in order to maintain european dependence on imported russian gas so apparently you and i want europe to remain

dependent on russian national gas and that's why we talk about the facts that will go over soon i'm humbled to think of the british lives saved by keeping the trackers at bay in the u.k. for a. anomic reasons it's economically viable. number two it's environmentally and viable and unsustainable and number three 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 diffract then then then you make in profits it's cash flow negative it's also environmentally negative you destroy the environment incredibly compared to what you could ever possibly legitimize.