it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely for watching the hawks. donald trump and a lot of important discuss the crisis and venezuela just hours after u.s. congresswoman and slap down by the secretary of state for suggesting washington's actions there have only been making matters worse. being in the use of sanctions to eventually into leaving america first this way it's not only ignored it's discussed. a u.s. school is considering whether to paint over a mural dedicated to founding father george washington after the artwork was deemed at risk of traumatizing native american and african american students. this part work which is a tribute to this person or to the legacy of this person is the. court

has told oh yes you're watching good. morning psych meds pager this is we this. exchange of fire israel hits targets in gaza after claiming it intercepted dozens of rockets from across the border. they're watching our two international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program donald trump and vladimir putin have spoken by phone on a number of global issues including venezuela a lot of american countries some violence this week amid what some are describing as a failed coup attempt all trump said he had a productive discussion about the crisis with his russian counterpart. 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 with a humanitarian basis and i thought it was a very positive conversation i had with president putin on venezuela. next week the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and his u.s. counterpart mike pump meet in finland where they're expected to discuss venezuela as the crisis continues in the south american country some in washington have been looking closer to home about where some of the blame lies. reports. 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 and 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 and for her troubles both 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 of desperately needed billions but all of that has exacerbated the crisis in venezuela that apparently is

ignorant but recognizing why do as president to spite the fact that no one voted for him or listens to him at 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 in 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 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 at the most 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 attempts 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 won't give up calling of course for more protests try to topple the

venezuelan non government and they'll continue to grace the front covers of more men's fashion magazines who knows apps that's just what they need a little more photo shop a sign from venezuela trump and putin also discussed in the call the possibility of a nuclear arms treaty between russia the u.s. and china r.c. america rick sanchez discussed that prospect which journalist 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 and mikhail 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 wedding 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 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 community. which figures like my palm pail 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. a high school in san francisco named after u.s. president george washington may remove a mural commemorating the life of the founding father after a work group looking into allegations that the work of art is offensive to minorities deemed that it traumatized the students and community members the thirteen panel mural entitled the life of george washington dates back to one nine hundred thirty six the working group objects to the fact that it portrays native

americans and african-americans as victims and slaves now removing monuments deemed inappropriate by certain groups has become a bit of a trend on u.s. campuses two months ago students at the university of mississippi voted to remove a statue of a confederate soldier and last year 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 trent . that only must we remove any reference we must provide tranquilizers and narcotics to our 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 some 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 like they have cured one would 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 to continue let 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 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 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 cologne. tear 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 war one the holocaust vietnam war we don't like any of this when this this triggers 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 a battleground 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. and israeli air raid has reportedly left one palestinian dead and several others injured israeli defense forces allegedly hit multiple hamas and islamic jihad targets across gaza in a tit for tat rocket assault life down to gaza and local journalists human. you know what do we know so far. there is a barrier of rockets that was launched from the gaza strip towards the central and south israeli towns this morning on saturday. much full of

houses where directly. hit and struck by the rockets but there were no injuries except for one woman who was an israeli woman that was that had serious injuries on the palestinian side we have different kinds of we have to fifteen injuries different kinds of injuries motorist two critical and one palestinian killed as you mentioned. forces have launched a lot. airstrikes in the in the sky of the gaza strip the ten the there is a lot of tension in the situation between israel and gaza now the palestinian factions and israel have been threatening each other we don't know if this is collation is going to close up coming war until now we have a lot of rockets that are being fired from the gaza strip and that are being retaliated by air strikes from the israeli side all this escalation happens after

the four palestinians that have been killed yesterday in the friday protests to look them were directly targeted by israeli snipers and two others where. we're killed as they were struck by a rocket by the israeli forces while other fifty other palestinians where wounded in the protests yesterday this also happened after two officers to israeli officers on the border where shot by a by a palestinian sniper fire so until now we don't know if the situation is going to keep on escalating but what i can tell you is that the egyptian. this time has failed to restrain tourists train and to bring back calmness between israel and gaza. palestinian factions say that israel has to comply and

implement the understanding's that have happened in early april and they have taken what they requested which was called protest on the million man march on the thirtieth of march last before last month but they have not implemented any of the understanding's that have happened between both sides also the islamic jihad threatens and intimidates. israel by. to showing places in. cologne. airport and the port of israel and saying that these are in the renge of their targets so we can say that there are a lot of messages threatening and intimidating messages between both parts and you has also declared that the egyptian media for maintaining calmness this time are not have not succeeded and that israel is going to retaliate

rispoli in a very forceful way to hamas and the palestinian factions if they continue to fire these rockets on the israeli towns. journalists thank you for bringing us the latest. 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 the remarks were made by kevin cornered leader of the social democratic party as a youth wing he's vowed to shift the party's policies further to the left since joining the s.p.d. s.t.p. as youth chief has also been a vocal critic of surging rents and big property developers however his latest comments have led many embroil and halls of power to distance themselves from him as peter oliver reports. socialism the idea that a society is only as strong as its weakest member would do those that 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 own or without a form of collectivization is unthinkable to overcome capsule ism well those comments have landed the s.p. their money in hot water with some critics in his own party well going as far as to question his mental state what's a nonsense what was you smoking whatever it was it can 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 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 berlin wall the left wants to return to democratic socialism. the s.p.d. 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 and kinetic may well be looking to do the same thing peter all over r.t. berlin coming up our correspondent goes for a spend with new york's first ever muslim patrol that's after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race on the spear in dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down

and talk. you know world of big partisan lot 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 smart 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 truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back a new community watch scheme in new york is promising to help keep local muslims safe in the city to find out more artist and was invited on patrol. 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 were told and services we're here to help bridge the community together by the same time we're offering counseling therapy as well as reading the homeless and many of us. 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 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 but 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. archie new york. just behind me you can see live pictures from the french capitol where yellow vests protesters have gathered for the twenty fifth consecutive week of their demonstrations once again voicing their anger against president micron's economic policies their only comes a week after the french president addressed the nation in his speech monday on a valid to cut taxes in order to ease economic pressure on people last week's protest clashes with police after thousands took to the streets across the country . thailand has called its new king marking the beginning of a grand three day ceremony the last time such an event occurred in the country it was almost seventy years ago while the king's reign officially began back in two thousand and sixteen he still had to complete a number of rituals which allowed him to symbolically transform into a living god and permit him to proclaim himself as the royal petri of buddhism the

king ascended to the throne at a time of large political uncertainty in the country he was also recently making headlines when he married his bodyguard. donald trump has accused social media platforms of censoring right wing thinkers that's after facebook banned a prominent conservative anti-establishment figures from its platform the social media giant decided its policy against dangerous individuals and organizations the ban also applies to facebook on instagram the people on the list include alex jones and his enforce page along with former breitbart news editor while you novelists political activist laura limor and u two were just of what's in their content allegedly violates facebook's new regulations that facebook has stressed it's 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 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 not to call 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 banned me facebook's action has sparked a censorship debate with some saying the company should ban more people while others warm 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 jack benny and 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 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 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 pushing themselves on one side of the playschool debate it is absolutely it could tell in a free speech because they're saying these individuals are dangerous well and many people like myself see them as perfectly reasonable axis 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 excusing the regulation that other media companies face . that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had

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