the venezuelan opposition leader. president visits military forces loyal to the government. israel. hundred targets in gaza killing at least four people in response to cross fire. at a school in the united states is considering whether. founding father george washington work. the risk of trouble black native americans to.

this part which tribute to this part of the. oh oh by the other. side. this is a big. morning from moscow. today welcome to the program. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro and the opposition leader who have called on their supporters to take to the streets in the country's armed forces to rise up against the government is expected to make a speech outside a military base at the same time the venezuelan president has called on the armed forces to be ready for us minute. intervention this comes after

a failed coup attempt against him this week meanwhile donald trump and vladimir putin have spoken by phone on a number of global issues including venezuela the us president 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 sergey lavrov fund the u.s. secretary of state will meet in finland where they're expected to discuss it as well. there was across this continues in a south american country some in washington have been looking closer to home about where some of the blame lies or against the more. 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 lean 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 that 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 of the military nor ministries nor any state agencies recognizing him as president isn't ignorant also black is white the earth is flat. igs can fly and it's not a coup for one why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military if you throw out all sense and relinquish all ties with reality then yes this wasn't a coup well why do did was call and soldiers to mutiny take up arms and violently

seize power from people who actually have power on why do those behalf totally not a coup. the only coup in venezuela would be for i was 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 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. it was signed from venezuela trying foods and also discussed the possibility of a nuclear arms treaty between russia the us and china. host rick sanchez discussed the prospect with journalist chris has your. 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 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. 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. ation which figures like my palm pale and john bolton have no interest in doing as we're seen in venezuela i think they're probably incapable of speaking to anyone but themselves. the israeli

military claims to have destroyed a key space in gaza that's in response to cross border rocket fire the latest strikes reportedly killed over or killed four palestinians including a pregnant woman some of those blasts were caught on camera. israeli warships hit warplanes hit one hundred twenty targets and destroyed an underground tunnel the turkish news agency i don't follow says its office came under fire in gaza this comes after more than two hundred rockets were fired into israel killing one person with more details here's a local journalist. there is a buried of rockets that was launched from the gaza strip towards the central and south israel towns on saturday multiple of houses where directory hit and struck by the rockets on the palestinian side that we have the different kinds of injuries moderate to critical the ease rayleigh of forces have launched

a lot of air strikes in the in the sky of the gaza strip there is a lot of tension in the situation between israel and gaza now the palestinian factions and israel have been threat to be with each other all this escalation happens after the four palestinians that have been killed in the friday protests to look them were directly targeted by israeli snipers and two others were killed as they were struck by a rocket by the israeli forces while other fifty other palestinians where wounded in the protests this also happened after two officers two israeli officers on the border where shot by a palestinian sniper fire so until now we don't know if this situation is going to keep on escalating but addiction. this time has failed to restrain and to bring back calmness between israel and gaza. a high school

in san francisco named after u.s. president george washington may remove a mural commemorating the life of the founding father saw for local activist group dream that it truly has his students. and community members of the thirteen panel mural titled the life of george washington dates back to nine hundred thirty six the activist group which includes students and school representative says the mural portrays that native americans and black people as victims and slaves and removing monuments now deemed inappropriate by certain groups as they become increasingly common on u.s. campuses just two months ago in fact students at the university of mississippi voted to remove a statue of a confederate soldier last year protests broke out at the university of north carolina that resulted in the knocking down of another confederate statue r.t. spoke to attorney and author reese everson and media analyst lionel about this increasing trend. 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 you have cured was a good help more 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 come on let's turn this ugly history on its head and 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 wait 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 taught treated native americans which is true we don't like world war two war one the holocaust vietnam war we don't like any of this when this this triggers are us we would like to rip the pages from the textbook that's actually not what was said at all they simply said this artwork this artwork which is a tribute to this person to the legacy of this person is offensive and because we find this artwork to be offensive we would like it to not be visible please never let these students go to a museum please never let them go 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 are coming up

short of corresponding goes for a spring with new york's first of them was the patrol that's just after this short break. what holds us institutionally to. put themselves on the law is. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to be rich. have to be right to be cross that's what it looks like the three of them or it can't be good that. i'm interested always in the waters of the color. they should. show small seemed wrong all right old roles just don't call. me old

yet to say proud disdain become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the. welcome back to the program a left wing politician in germany has called for major corporations including b.m.w. to be brought under collective ownership the remarks are made by kevin kuhn a leader of the social democratic party's youth wing he's vowed to shift the party's policies further to the left since joining the s.p.d. has youth chief it's also been

a vocal critic of surging rents and big property developers where his latest comments have led many in berlin's halls of power to distance themselves from him and speak to 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 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 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. well arthur nonsense what was you smoking whatever it

was it cannot be legal the social democrats that kevin kuna 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 of had plenty to say about mystic units ideas or collectivism. b.m.w. is a great company no despite the liberal market economy but because of it the dreams of the socialists on the working theory who wants to own property only by force the

repression unit 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. so 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 bill in. yellow vest rallies have taken place across france for a twenty fifth consecutive weekend with street fires and clashes seen in several cities activists are keeping up the pressure on president micron despite this policy proposals last week the latest rallies there in paris or the lowest turnout

so far some activists though say that was out of the police response at recent demonstrations as follows brutal clashes on may day when twenty four thousand people took to the streets. thailand as crowd its new king marking the beginning of a grand three day ceremony the last such the last time such an event occurred in the country it was almost seven decades ago now while the king's reign officially began back in two of the sixteen is still had to complete a number of buddhist and brahman rituals these allow him to symbolically transform into a living god and before they were him to proclaim himself as the world patron of buddhism the king ascended to the throne at a time of large political uncertainty in the country. a new community watch scheme in new york is promising to help keep local muslims safe in the city to find out more to caleb maupin was and why that out 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 give us 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 others. visit 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 with it 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 when 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 r.t. new york. for this join us again in thirty minutes time for all the latest global

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rights is hard work for many societies but also because of the hypocrisy and politics associated with the issue to divide between preaching and practice will be out of reach of to discuss that i'm now joined by peggy hicks a director at big action. drs office thank you it's good to talk to thank you very much for your time to be here now you gave a number of interviews and we talked with some alarm about the advent of the post human rights era and before we talk about these new phase let me ask you about be human rights era around us today right well i think i have to clarify i don't i am not an alarmist about where we're heading on human rights i think what's happened over the course of the seventy year history of the universal declaration is that there's been a global understanding of certain basic rights fundamental rights that all people have and that we've been working together over that period to try to implement them and i think globally we've made enormous progress and i always say that i'm very

glad to be a woman today rather than a woman in my mother's generation or my grandmothers and i think my daughter will will live in a world that's that's probably better off for women's rights than than my generation was so it's that type of progress that we see during the human rights era and yet this was also during the period. wars were launched on false pretexts we sold legalized torture research secret prisons the. dehumanization of abu ghraib i mean all those abuses that were supposedly committed by human rights respecting actuaries abroad rather than at home i wonder if let's be clear i mean there the basic premise of universal human rights is that human rights abuses occur every place and anybody who tries to say there are countries that are rights respecting and others that are not isn't isn't really taking taking account of that reality i'm from the united states myself and in the united states there are also.