right. right but. the israeli prime minister abbas to carry on a campaign of airstrikes targeting hamas positions in gaza as a major flare up of cross border violence continues for a second day. in the stories that shape the week venezuelan president nicolas maduro claims he put down an attempted coup by opposition leader one who along with his u.s. backers and a nice plotting a military overthrow our guests debate the issue. doesn't get him in power brick of

nice five days national committee six million people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observe you know how many people voted for one boy . and the u.s. attorney general is grilled in the senate over his handling of the molar report but refuses to subject himself to further questions which democrats now calling william barr a coward and mulling contempt charges. welcome to the weekly here on our to international where we bring you the latest headline news and the top stories from the past week. first we have news just as a plane has made an emergency landing at moscow's sheremetyevo airport after reporting a fire the superjet one hundred had taken off from the same airport a short time before and was heading from armand's it turned back after

a fire alarm went off on board reports suggest there had been some injuries although that's not been officially confirmed at this point right now the emergency services are trying to put out the fire as well as help the injured bring you more on that as we get it. now to moscow where russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and his venezuelan counterpart are discussing the political crisis in the south american country in light of another failed attempt to unseat its president let's go ahead listen it since we have agreed to further develop our ties we discussed measures that should be so you can go to implementing the greenest reached by president putin in a presidential dural last december was during the then his own president's visit to russia. also we think it is important to implement the agreements reached by the high level commission. in moscow on the april fourth and fifth

and simultaneously we had the venezuelan business forum so we have a roadmap for further actions. that is specific will continue moving in this direction is guided by the president and will continue with our contacts thank you . when you. draw. it out on your own for one thing to mr lover all. i would say that woman bent towards her meeting with today was a meeting with between the nation is one of us since the very start i'll come until it was or to go traverse and president have been building relations on the value point of these relations to our countries our relations have been developing all the time and even in difficult times. these relations.

are were informed about the recent events in venice. the violence undertaken by the opposition to organize a coup but a coup has completely failed it fizzled out because the coup was based on the information that was wrong this information was fed by to the opposition by the us. this information most polls and completely groundless. and it could not lead to anything other than a complete and utter failure. of the. so president maduro insists that dialogue is the only way out of it.

in contrast to those who. wrote these u.s. stance we believe they say that all options are on the table whereas we believe that the only way to maintain peace in venezuela. through diplomatic means not violence violence means that even this oil and people know that we wanted siloed and russia has been helping us on that in the international arena to create a group of countries within the us and with the help of this group protect the rights and freedoms. and the u.n. charter and. this is to be done to help not just about any country that is threatened by sanctions or violence from outside. and you know that.

the u.s. said today's we're talking about venezuela but then there's we're going to be talking about nicaragua and other countries of the region other latin american countries and they have. old. norms old instruments. and they. remembered. the. road up train. which is. a credit old dock train started from eighteen twenty three dating from eighteen to twenty three and today's twenty nineteen little bit of that and latin america and the caribbean countries do not accept such approaches. and so on which. we talked about the results all the meeting of the high commission and we talked about the

development of our technical cooperation which is very important for venezuela we have a lot of russian armaments weapons and technologies we cooperate in terms of technology culture and the gym for education and we have agendas in each of these areas we are proud of the work we're doing and we are grateful to president putin and the russian government for your solidarity and for your contribution to the development of our country thank you mr lavrov. for that question to. mr arias president maduro announced. the so-called great change not just on could you elaborate on this plan.

yes our president where nicolas maduro once again you know there were no soldiers didn't need. to. have dialogue with the people of venezuela this is the only viable instrument. to have relations to have talks with the opposition and to have relations with the us and this can only be done through dialogue. and only through dialogue can we develop our relations with russia. with the different communities. and different minorities in our country. and. if we are all sunni developing our implementing our plan the cold homeland.

and of course. there have been some errors and our president is still human and. good but the pressure we face from the u.s. is something many countries also face and do we have to search for new approaches for new ways to move forward and this can only be down through dialogue and we. communicate with all areas. of our country with the old the people and it's only the people that can decide where the country will move where the country will move forward the first one cinderella's russia today and. also. just. recently mr lavrov said recently there's been a telephone conversation between mr trump and mr putin and then. they talked about

the need to find a political solution to the venezuelan crisis what's. assessments all of this other any initiatives which we do have many initiatives so when this situation venezuela began to collate we said from the start that all problems should be resolved through dialogue between the people of venezuela themselves and the international community should stimulate them to do just that instead of inciting different parties against each other and urging the opposition to reject dialogue we heard the various initiatives including the initiative put forward but by you require mexico and the caribbean states kerry comment and this is what i just said that the government and the opposition should go so come to the negotiating table express their grievances and look for

a consensus that would allow them to rebuild national unity president maduro as you know agreed to such a proposal mr why do all publicly and officially he rejected it and it was very obvious that he's not independent he says it was told what to do by his u.s. handler still. the montevideo mechanism is still. in its attached and the offer is still on the table and we will do our best to help implement them which we also have believed my group set up a rather long time ago but this group was formed exactly for peace stand there clearly anti-government platform and then we have the international contact group where you have number of latin american countries representatives of the e.u. by the way tomorrow or the day after it's. the content group will need some hosts

the costa rican capital for those who will wait and see what this group will say after this meeting initially the continent group said it was for dialogue but they had a prearranged goal they said so they develop between the government and the opposition should result in meeting the demands of the opposition to call for an early election and this is not a dialogue this was something else. and well let's wait and see if the position of the international content of groups evolves after the meeting tomorrow and the day after. we believe that support for such and i will lucian is possible to stand the positions may become more realistic recent events demonstrated that it is confrontation and it tends to start a coups and then from abroad threaten to use force. taking advantage of humanitarian problems all such attempts can result in extremely

grave consequences so i hope the international context group you know we are still in contact with the group they reach out to us and of the issues share our cars position with them and we hope that this group will listen. to our recommendations which i believe are shared by many other countries as well. if you could reach most of the end of question from c.n.n. . michael. us state secretary said that president trump is looking at all of the possible options including military options which are how worried are you about a possible military intervention from the u.s. into than a soil or. sleaze this is not the first time that members of the u.s. administration say that all options are on the to. see even mention the military

option specifically which i really hope. that this doesn't reflect the intentions of president trump setlist in his telephone conversation with president putin he did not see anything like that. and the conversation was. about helping the people of venezuela to overcome this crisis our position is well known the u.s. position is also well known as you. saw it in doesn't involve constructive dialogue between the government and the opposition but at least we are ready to help them. further in dealing with the u.s. with the e.u. with the let an american countries i really hope that analysts. to show my hope there are still analysts in washington i hope they will consider the consequences of. this in the reckless actions the us me take because using

force against venezuela or in any other nation like any other latin american countries in the region would mean a humiliation for an entire the latin american i hope washington understands that. and the final question russia twenty four just missed a lot of rolf and they're full of the results of your cold what mr stumptail just said that and the positions of moscow and washington are incompatible regarding this weather but can you talk about the agenda for tomorrow's meeting. with the state of the u.s. state secretary. is it possible that the u.s. would stick to the international law and not to their own rules. is going to get us well that's something that we've touched a few times today already feels the meeting. when yemeni turn learned tomorrow

is usually where the two d. session of the arctic council will take place. so we'll meet with my computer will talk about then as well about not just venezuela such as we have many other things we need to talk about. there are quite a few things that we need to address international matters security related global security regional security so we have a lot of items we need to cover them is measures these matters cooperation between russia and the united states would mean a lot as long as we proceed based on a common approach is it's because i'm not sure how much the united states is ready to be guided by international law and this is what it's so special about the united states for decades but it's it's he has been projecting power claiming that

there are a force for good they protect human rights they dance the interests of the nations they launch wars against and i can give you lots of examples yugoslavia rock libya . there should be so it's hard for me. scuzzy it's because he's got school footage which is go to where you should say something. for my us counterparts i am not sure if we are ready to be guided by international law. the us political culture in this applies to both the republican and democratic administrations. whenever they face that problem that the us may want to resolve first or they come up with their solution then they force all the parties involved to agree to their solution but sometimes.

this unilateral approach. doesn't work. and today. we have a number of conflicts like that so when this approach doesn't work we have to come up with a collective solution so we disagree on a number of regional conflicts including syria guns have ghana standards the schools and the situation on the korean peninsula but in all these three areas we have professional consultations going on for years as initiated by the us so this still gives us hope that eventually common sense will prevail thank you. so. so we've just been listening in to a press conference between the foreign ministers of russia and venezuela we heard from the venezuelan foreign minister talking about the long history of close ties

between the two countries he also said that the two men did discuss the recent events and venezuela which he referred to as a failed coup based on false information fed to the opposition by the u.s. that was his words he also said that president maduro believes that dialogue is the only way out of this situation and said that while the u.s. has said many times that all options are on the table the current government wants to use only diplomatic means in order to resolve the crisis saying that dialogue with the opposition and the people of venezuela is extremely important those sentiments were of course code by lavrov who said that all problems should be resolved by dialogue and material has agreed in the past to come to the table with the opposition and that russia is open to facilitating that he also said that he hopes that a military option for the u.s. is not something that trump once and if nothing else he did not mention that to president putin and a recent phone call between the two of them saying that international powers should encourage dialogue and not incite hostility is. now of course this week venezuela

was rocked by violent protests in which more than one hundred people were injured president nicolas maduro said an attempted coup by opposition leader was put down on tuesday gordo who claims to be venezuela's legitimate president announced the final phase of any materials rule and called on people to rise up against the government. this was today brave soldiers and brave treating so a lot of people following our constitution and string equal you today the only force is standing behind the people and the constitution on.

doing so we're going to recover and rebuild and his way the way that's what venezuela needs today is that's us not. by defeating this terrible coup attempt with triumph with truth with loyalty with. the country's crisis will be discussed by russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and us secretary of state my pump in finland next week on the sidelines of the arctic council summit washington i'm going to deny plotting a military overthrow with u.s. national security adviser john bolton insisting it's an internal matter for the venezuela people. we need venezuela ruled by the people of venezuela not by

external forces this is the bolton who has done his damnedest to ensure regime change in venezuela whose country has championed regime change sanctioned venezuela frozen billions in state funds threatened it with invasion now he's saying no one should meddle that it's up to the days whelan's to decide course not what he meant is no one but america all options remain on the table we said it would be a big mistake for me doro and those supporting him to use force against innocent civilians mr bolton's deficient of innocent i think defers from the classic meaning look at these demonstrators with guns shooting at troops and police i suppose the bullets of full of love to if you bear hold these innocents countable says mr bolton we might invade between the lines.

with you america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored. today interim president announced the start of a pressure on libya time the us government fully supports the venezuelan people in their quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated. what do you know they stand with the people never mind the sanctions and the misery for millions that they've caused a question these people exactly the jews say you stand with a few hundred machete gun wielding fellows that try to stage a violent coup or the thousands upon thousands who concurrently marched in support of the venezuelan president but against this coup this is clearly not a coup we recognize one go i do know as the legitimate interim president of

venezuela and just as it's not a coup when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense it's not a coup for wind why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military your own father mr bolton one by due who was never elected doesn't control the military or ministries or anything he is the president but nicolas maduro the actual president supported by millions the military the ministries he's not the president see what i mean by strange it's almost like the bitter and banal things didn't go according to plan while the u.s. objects of the term coup the dictionary defines it as a sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government are guesstimated whether that's what's being attempted and venezuela. the u.s. supports coup d'etat is all the time this is another example that one has no power

under the constitution of venezuela the fact the us recognize him recognizes him is of no import the u.s. recognizes him because he has already agreed to privatizing venezuela's oil in the interest of u.s. companies that's why the us recognizes him and that does not make him legitimate the opinion of united states is no the only opinion for all other fifty countries recognize why go as a legitimate president ninety percent of venezuelans do support also while you go there are legitimate president this is an unfolding coup that the u.s. wants to push forward and we have to remember by the way the us supported the coup in two thousand and two against hugo chavez and we're reluctant to call it a coup back then the fact that the us wants to use semantics to cover up what it's doing doesn't change the fact that this is a coup when people say you know

a seizure of power illegal seizure of power the basic definition of a coup that key element there is not illegal because while you go has a legitimate power recognized by the international community overwhelmingly the international community and by the even this violent people who goes out in masses of people are on the streets supporting the door of that's undeniable there are people there that support him i have friends there contacts that support him you never hear their side words or use never what you never hear from them in the press and so you get one side of the story and that is tantamount to misrepresenting destroy their reason science or do not justify the line in common the basic commie and the three million plus in this one it's gaping venezuela for other current. you know star when this actually started this started way before that six million

people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observed do you know how many people voted for one boy. we were turned down to a story we're monitoring this hour as we've just learned that more than ten passengers have reportedly been injured after a fire on board a passenger plane forced it to make an emergency landing in moscow sukhoi superjet had taken off from sheer amount of airport in the russian capital and was due to head to more months however it turned back to after a fire alert on board went off picture show fire engulfing the aircraft on the ground and a huge plume of black smoke rising into the air emergency services are battling to bring the situation under control here you can see pictures from the airport in moscow those are large large plumes of black smoke coming off of the plane and you can see that the flames are still coming out of the plane obviously as we mentioned

already emergency services which you can see in these live pictures are on their way to the plane in order to try and get the situation under control. or bring you any further information we get as it comes to us. and other news israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip have now killed twelve people that's according to the palestinian media reports that israel claims there are other three of its civilians have died following a massive broad of rockets fired from palestinian territory the sudden spike in violence between the two neighboring states has now seen two days of missiles being exchanged a flare has more details. this is the second day that we've witnessed this search in fighting between israel and gaza the israeli air force continues to bombard gaza from the skies these radio me saying that it's hit some two hundred twenty targets the longing a mosque and islamic jihad militant. oops on the palestinian side there's

a thirty seven year old pregnant palestinian woman who was killed with her child the israeli army with the allegations that they would killed by an israeli missile instead saying that they were killed by a rocket launcher on the palestinian side now the south of israel is in a state of high alert people have been ordered to remain where they bomb shells has and at the same time all schools remain closed a number of buildings in gaza have been damaged and destroyed including the news agency which was hit by an israeli missile there's a lot of the fire coming off from the palestinian side we're hearing from hamas that they ready to fight until the last moment they say that they have extended the range of they rockets they also say that they haven't even started the real war against israel the israeli army has said that it is preparing for several days like this and as a braces for further escalation it is seen during tank reinforcements to the border the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered the i.d.f. to continue with to quote massive attacks. this morning i instructed the

i.d.f. to continue its intensity against terror targets in the gaza strip and to experiment its presence surrounding the gaza strip with force its artillery and troops we are operating and we will continue to do so to restore peace and security to residents in the south of the country. we return to our breaking news this hour more than ten passengers have reportedly been injured after a fire onboard a passenger plane forced to make an emergency landing in moscow the sukhoi superjet had taken off from sheer amount of airport in the russian capital and was due to head to murder month return back to our free fire alert onboard went off pictures that you can see here now show the aircraft engulfed in fire in flames there are large large plumes of black smoke coming off of from the airway in moscow now of course your mother airport is a major international hub here in moscow emergency services are of course babbling

to bring the situation under.