but. the. venezuelan opposition rallies supporters on the streets of caracas president its military forces remain loyal to the government. u.s. school is considering whether to paint over a mural dedicated to founding father george washington the artwork was deemed at risk of traumatizing native american african-american students. artwork which is a tribute to this part of the legacy of the curtain is. going

to. go out. wards. this is a big deal with. cigars it after intercepting dozens of rockets from across the border. for joining us here in moscow this is art. as the political and economic crisis in venezuela rages on both the president nicolas maduro and opposition leader of called on their supporters to take to the streets. in the country's armed forces to rise up against the government and he's expected to make a speech to his supporters just outside a military base the same time the venezuelan president has called on the armed forces to be ready in case of a u.s. military intervention comes after a failed coup attempt against him this week. putin has spoken on the phone on

a number of global issues including venezuela the us president said that he'd 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 out on humanitarian basis and i thought it was a very positive conversation i had with president putin on venezuela. thanks we the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov the u.s. secretary of state. meet in finland where they are 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 as the of explains. 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 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 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 despite the fact that no one 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 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 in them 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 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 attempts 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 we'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 photoshop. well aside from venezuela trumpets and also discuss the possibility of a ukip treaty between russia the u.s. and china on the americas fix on she has discussed the prospects with 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 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 an 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 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 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 antiballistic 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. nation which figures like my pompei on john bolton have no interest in doing as we've seen 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 that's after a local activist group that it traumatizes students and community members the thirteen panel mural entitled the life of george washington dates back to nine hundred thirty six the activist group which includes students and school representatives says that the mural portrays native americans black people as victims and slaves and removing monuments now deemed inappropriate by certain groups has become increasingly common on u.s. campuses for example two months ago students at university of mississippi they 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 resurface and media analyst lionel about the strength . 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 some little group 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 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 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 you think 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 cologne. 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 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 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 is really a raid is a three palestinians dead and several of those injured among those killed was a pregnant woman and her one year old daughter according to the gaza health

ministry israeli defense forces it seventy targets and destroyed an underground tunnel or over the turkish news agency under the claims it's office came under fire in the gaza strip comes after more than two hundred rockets were fired at israel in which two people were said to be injured more details his local journalist. there is a buried 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 a direct lead hit and struck by the rockets on the palestinian side we have different kinds of injuries motoring to critical to ease rail forces have launched a lot of air strikes in the in the sky of the gaza strip there is a lot of tension between israel and gaza now the palestinian factions and. israel have been threatening each other all this escalation happens after the four palestinians that have been killed yesterday in the friday protests till of 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 were wounded in the protests yesterday this also happened after two officers to israeli officers on the border where shot by a palestinian sniper fire so until now we don't know if the situation is going to keep on escalating but. this time has failed to restrain and to bring back calmness between israel and gaza. still to come our correspondent goes for a spin with new york first of a muslim patrol after the break. because

there's but it survival does stacey just want to start simply reading all this are . you sure there are you going to get it back. next year. oh heck no good says a repatriation team we get the rest in seven years. phyllis every year for president ford. what politicians do. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. too great to be close it's like the. three of them all can't be good. interested in the walk. back.

on the back side 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 on the remarks made by kevin kilbane that leader of the social democratic party's youth wing has found to shift the party's policies further to the left is joining the s.p.d. is youth chief has also been a vocal critic of surging rents and big property developers but his latest comments have led many in berlin halls of power to distance themselves from him 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 of 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 loner without a form of collectivize ation 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 or it's a 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 me 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 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 you know despite the liberal market economy but because of it 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. coots 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 unit's ideas may not sit too well with everybody but if you look across the atlantic senator bernie sanders in the united states who is 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. yellow vests movements trying to keep up the pressure on the french president despite among your micron's policy proposals last week seeking to ease the long running civil unrest it was the twenty fifth week of rallies and saw a lower turnout than previously this comes a week after the french president addressed the nation in that speech macron vowed to cut taxes in order to ease the economic pressure on the people i speak to protest or clashes with police the thousands took to the streets right across the country. thailand describe this new king marking the beginning of

a grand three day ceremony the last time such an event occurred in the country was almost seventy years ago or the king's reign officially began back in two thousand and sixteen he still had to complete a number of buddhist and brahman rituals now he's allowed to symbolically transform into a living god and they permit him to proclaim himself as the royal patron of buddhism king ascended to the throne of the time of large political uncertainty in the country. and finally this hour a new community what scheme in new york is promising to help local muslims safe in the city to find out more on these killer more was invited on patrol. we know that 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 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 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 to do. so you. know. 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 there be as well as feeding the homeless and many others so. visit 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 through 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 so 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 they look mop and artsy new york. thanks for staying with auntie international the saving about with updates for you at the top of the. you know world a big part of. 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 troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. what is it going to coin is magic internet money the new type of digital currency the centralized digital scarcity chancellor bring a second bailout for bank that's called the genesis block for reason is simple disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial destiny it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's a game changer in the human history and this is columbus discovering a new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance

in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing on to the max and stacey. my seven years 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. we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. and that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivably long sentences for being minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by day as you're

walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. time action or time say we're going underground just hours after world press freedom day punctuated a week that saw advocates of free speech all around the world down what they saw as britain's persecution of wiki leaks founder julian assange coming up on the show we speak to wiki leaks is joseph our own former london ecuador consul fidel divest about how wednesday and thursday as you can court proceedings of julian assange will go down in british legal and constitutional history and from wiki leaks one time part of the guardian one of the world's greatest cartoonist steve bell on the life of attacking power plus a week of electoral victories in mainstream media that have occasioned 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 editor in 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 four of of law it's on the basis of their 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 they're starting to see how serious this is and they will pressure their politicians the pressure of their

government to actually take part and take a stand take a stand for julian assange and we should. remember that we are heading into tomorrow which is the world press freedom day. take a lot of turns on that day joining me now as we kill exam bastard joseph harrell 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 fidel injures of the void when we get to julian assange. appealing to the former defense secretary disgraced defense secretary gavin williamson for information and i think what the point there is is that we have our editor in a prison for having published classified information and there seems to be no call or 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 more

or less the maximum sentence by u.k. judge deborah taylor and and of course there was this extradition request where we can tell me what explain what happened there from the time the training 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 is being penciled in for the twelfth of june we saw on wednesday when he was sentenced for 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 get 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 deborah taylor ignored all your. edits is clemency pleas all the mitigation a little history deborah taylor felt that none of that mitigation was worth even

looking at whereas we said outside the court after her judgment we would actually call on everyone to read the.