police arrest for antiwar activists in the venezuelan embassy in washington d.c. following the month long sit in protest against u.s. support for the opposition leader. as u.s. pressure on iran senator bernie sanders accuses the national security adviser of trying to lead america into a war with iran just as happened with the right. also the philippines recalls its ambassador from canada the water failed to meet the deadline take by tons of label trash shipped to the southeast asian country years ago.

very good evening to you watching r.t. international. police have arrested 4 protesters who've been staging a sit in at the venezuelan embassy in washington in protest against america's policies on venezuela follows warnings from the authorities who said they were trespassing america correspondent rachel blevins has more from washington. please enter the building around 930 this morning but it wasn't until about 1115 that we saw those 4 activists being taken away in police transport vehicles now those 4 are from a group of activists who have been occupying the embassy for more than 3 weeks now and they say that their goal is to hold the building for the government of venice one president nicolas maduro despite the fact that the united states has recognized opposition leader one as the country's interim president now on monday we saw that police posted a notice on the door of the building and they said that any of the activists who

were still inside would be arrested and charged with trespassing that's when the majority of the activists did leave but those 4 remained and it wasn't until today that they were officially or brush it now so far they have been charged with interfering with the 1st cashier's order and it's not clear if they are going to be facing any other charges now i showed chew over a lawyer for the activist and she said that this raises a lot of concerns under international law because she argued that it goes directly against the vienna convention which states that the united states can not enter the venezuelan embassy without approval from be allowed to venezuela and government and so as of right now we don't know exactly what the condition inside that building is we do know that we have seen a very heavy police presence here which has included secret service the d.c. metro police and federal agents who have gone inside the building and conducted searches but we're still not sure exactly what the future is for this embassy. was

on this well and foreign ministry has branded the police actions illegal well the appointed ambassador to the u.s. so the embassy has finally been liberated benjamin from the peace group code pink claims the arrests are a violation of international law. we got an urgent call from the people inside at 916 this morning that the police had broken down the door and that they were going to be arrested we denounce this is a violation of the vienna convention speakers the group has been there with the permission then as well in government i was just at the u.n. yesterday with the embassador to the u.n. who was calling on the u.s. to sign a predicting power green minch with venezuela so that both the embassy in washington d.c. and the u.s. embassy in caracas would be protected the venezuelan government has said it is not given permission for the opposition representatives to enter the building and

there is still time to negotiate a solution that would be of mutual agreement to both these governments but it will be a tremendous step towards greater conflict with the u.s. if indeed the representatives are allowed to go into that embassy now. well there have been attracting much public attention recently including from some prominent figures on wednesday human rights activist jesse jackson arrived at the embassy to hanover food to the protesters the reports suggested or thought were preventing supplies from reaching the embassy really we spoke to reverend jackson and i asked him what he thinks about the rest of the activist. brothers in the national norm of them. rather than the national law and human rights and some terminations will know so much from bono and people must protest because the brother of the holding while in the same congress will not accept opinions from for

a while and learn from. them as they were and revenue of the people or bills whether or. not. commonplace dismas to meet with him in. bill's world and i am as you know we get. in venezuela there's other review all of them booms with 4 days away from some other 3 weeks away we are right every reason and i am mr you know america we are a great nation was one to the bahamas fear to do. this so i'll sit in that number was in the freedom as the good neighbor probably not with a hostile or with a regime wall added to. jackson's charitable act spock's fury from the quite appointed ambassador to the us he said the activation stop supporting human

rights violated this and support the venezuelan people instead he said jackson explained to us why he decided to help the protest. of the method or that because america could oh and that was not right. and reconciling the sides in this case no one wins if he's as kind and disagree with reconcile sides grimmest be a credible convening the us cannot do it alone and replacing one government for another regime change is not an answer for democracy. us 2020 presidential hopeful bernie sanders is a keys national security advisor john bolton trying to push the country into war with iran in a way reminiscent of another u.s. campaign. the author of the efforts right now to get us into a war in iraq is the guy who was the architect for getting us into the war in iraq

and that is john bolton so you know i worry about provocations on the part of the united states. washington's taking numerous measures in recent days to counter what it calls a credible threat from iran u.s. soldiers all non-emergency staff out of its embassy in iraq so susan b. $52.00 bombers actually carries through the region media reports suggest that there are intelligence images of missiles on iranian boats in the persian gulf sparking fears they might be used against american troops although the images have been published despite the lack of clear evidence for a heightened threat from tehran and washington is continuing to make loud noises about it threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare and iran or rand major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record here's world's largest finance era of international terrorism behind every problem is iran and we've been

trying to do is to get iran to be him like a normal nation. that's what john bolton and his approach to foreign policy when a 2010 interview where he admits that he'd lie in the name of u.s. national security. americans what they think about it. john bolton has a very important job keeping americans safe after all that is the job of the national security adviser and it's very important for americans to trust someone in that position john bolton wasn't always the national security adviser here's something he said before he got the job if i had to say something i knew was false to protect american national security i would do it so considering that john bolton has a pretty important position in terms of influencing the president on international matters you think it might be a concern if he says things consistently that turn out to be false we decided to ask new yorkers. iran continues to seek nuclear weapons and intimidate peaceful

people is that true not. true i guess that's false. so the one year period that we've talked about from the point where north korea makes the strategic decision to denuclearize is something that north and south koreans have already agreed to is that true or false false this sounds like something that's not true doesn't seem to fit right. i'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities well i mean just the other quotes pretty much speak for themselves that john bolton doesn't seem to have a golden record however that doesn't seem to put him in any danger of losing his job at least for now. you would lie in order to preserve the truth if i had to say something i knew was false to protect american national security i would do it fulton is the point man thank you very little even

. jacko to carry this effort to for it and to topple the elected government of iran and while we can see the history and record of john bolton as being in favor of the wars from iraq to going as well it to iran and he's always in favor of imperial wars abroad so from a political perspective we have to see this as a reflection of the system itself the united states they want the oil in iran and whenever a bully wants to take something out of your position then they will allege provocations to justify that violence that they're getting ready to perpetuate. it seems the top administration has already briefed everyone on month growing threat

although not apparently the u.s. senate which is being kept in the dark over plans. i would urge the state department to come down here and explain to us what's going on. by the city ministry and the bother wrong about its policy we need to understand what we're doing the hearings that are done in secret do not for inform the american people. of what's going on i demand to know why we have deployed. the american military and we do not need another iraq weapons of mass destruction the tender box of the middle east is no place operate on impulse or whim. that the appearance of ministration is created by lack of a clearly articulated strategy for the american people to know and that is the

president this. is not acceptable. chinese telecom giant wall way has warned us so authorities the latest move won't make america quote more secure or stronger washington could end up having to pay more for lower quality 5 g. quit meant china's foreign ministry for its part slammed washington's latest move as disgraceful and unjust and this is after the u.s. department of commerce place while we're on a trade blacklist this is in came hard on the heels of donald trump declaring a national emergency to protect america's computer networks what he described as foreign of the series. foreign adversaries are increasingly creating an explosive vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services which store and communicate vast amounts of sensitive information. over the past few months washington's been trying to persuade allies to shun while ways equipment threaten to limit intelligence sharing with those failing to comply or though

britain one of america's key allies in europe is refusing to ban the chinese company out of hand saying it still hasn't made a decision a similar response came earlier remarks from germany so on our economy expert professor benjamin charles says that while away might actually benefit from america's stance. ali actually has an unblemished record of over 30 years in 170 countries punishing one corporation with those solid sprains waves of fear to other corporations the us my luck behind with no using the equipment available in the world americans are forced to buy spens of technology and even in few more infuriating knowledges and in fact in the longer. americans my choose to go to china to hatch their technologies in china you know the to sell to china how we should do what. has been doing in the past 30 years. of

products speaks for itself and in fact it's arguably could be the biggest winner with all this free advertising. dispute about the building of a new church in a russian city this collated into a standoff that's been going on for days when clashes between the opposing sides and a number of arrests. got involved for national state. this has been going on for some time already after the authorities in russia's city or vacated in the east of moscow decided to build a new church st catharines cathedral on the city's main central square to market involves 300th anniversary some people get really upset same this will need to destroy one of the city's few green areas and on monday for the 1st time this discontent took to the streets following a call on social media as some several 100 people gathered around

a temporary fence marking the sport where the church is supposed to be build chanting we want to see where and apparently at some point 8 when wild according to the region's governor the protesters managed to throw this fence they were arguing with the police instead. on the ground. refusing to leave the area and there were clashes between these people and those who support the construction of the troops the government decided to have an emergency meeting inviting both sides but as a result decision was made to go on with the construction and this is why on tuesday the protests continued with 26 people arrested at the end of the day with 3 taking to the hospital including one with a broken rib according to local police reports it went on on wednesday as well. another 21 protester is detained by local police and earlier on thursday russia's president vladimir putin was asked to comment on this situation during

a media forum that is currently happening in russia's southern city of sochi and was met putin has said that when he 1st learned about this situation indicated in what he was rather surprised because there is only one and very easy way to resolve this issue to know the opinion of the majority of the people living in the area and to go on with their decision and this should be done through local referendum. everyone has the right to express opinion if this is the opinion of local inhabitants the opinion has certainly to be taken into account there is a simple method to conduct a poll and minority must all be majority but the interests of this minority should be taken into account as well the investors in sure there will be another poorest nearby and that there will be more rather than less trees and shortly after vladimir putin's comments on the situation in you consider what we've heard from local authorities that they support the idea of local referendum.

the feud between the philippines and canada over waste disposal has escalated with manila recalling its there and councils this is after canada refused to take back the tons of garbage that it shipped to the philippines back in 2030. that the recall shows that we are. very serious in asking them to get back their garbage otherwise. severe relations with them the dispute began in 2013 when a private canadian company shipped more than 100 containers of trash to the philippines it was later discovered they've been falsely labeled as containing recyclable plastic in fact they contain household waste and 2 of the 16 a philippines court ordered the company to take back the rubbish but it continues to languish on a landfill last month the philippines president adopted a stronger stance by pushing

a deadline for canada to take back the trash and even threaten the war. will declare war against canada we can take them down i'll return the trash just wait and see i will advise canada that your garbage is on the way prepare grounds reception eat it if you want to it is now theoretically possible to get it back but there's still a number of questions around who will pay for it where the financial responsibility is where the consequences are the move comes months after chinese authorities refused to accept recyclable waste from the us forcing it along with other western countries to rethink what they do with their rubbish richard darian foreign affairs analyst in manila says that just in today failed to fulfill a promise he made 2 years ago to take the rubbish back. well for a very long time to fill the king size being unfortunately a recipient of top secret waste including nuclear waste of time the united states in software western allies so this case has been lingering for quite long time it

canadian one of those however a summer of 0.4 for the philippines partner president you're going to tear that because with no plans or just introduced us here in the uk 2 years ago for the odyssey and saw meet you promised that they were going to take back the trust of the garbage top see the car was left here lingering it's a 1030 and you to your scheme does not have been any comedian going to say that this was a private deal between the can convert me and phillip be the conqueror part of course again he is also good say that you know it's not only the county gets all these also whoever it was able to accept these back in 2013 the philippines are clearly this is the greatest diplomatic crisis cool kid young president to long term holidays philippines and canada. the russian embassy in washington says the u.s. intelligence may have states they provocation this is after russian games design it was detained on suspicion of trying to export u.s.

fighter jet manuals like teaching to faces up to 10 years behind bars for allegedly smuggling arms documents and plotting against the u.s. government daniel hoare contends the story. conspiracy to smuggle classified documents an undercover sting operation at a trail leading to russia. for a classic james bond movie but for a leg to shouldn't go it's playing out in real life not on the silver screen with no hint of glamour the russian citizen is set to go on trial in august in the united states the charges are serious conspiring against the us smuggling and violating almost export control laws and you know despite decades of stereotypes about russians is the titian co isn't a secret agent or a spy many would label him a computer nerd a guy whose passion and job was developing airplane flight simulators like this one .

according to the manuals he wanted to obtain were to improve his knowledge of the jets and build them into a flight simulation game the problem is that despite the clear availability of such materials online only those with government licenses can export such manuals and because of u.s. sanctions on moscow sending them to russia is a big no no honestly it's a very strange situation i don't know why the united states would allow these minerals to be sold in the 1st place if they were if they could be used against the united states so there's a contradiction there if you can purchase them in the united states foreigners come to the united states purchase them and read them and we really did assume that statute has a huge loophole which would suggest that. someone at some level of

prosecution has done so titian co was charged in absentia here back in 2016 although he was none the wiser and off the traveling to ourselves. festival in neighboring georgia earlier this year he was swiftly detained and extradited at the u.s. government's request eagle dynamics the software company legwork for many years have distanced themselves from the whole story eagle dynamics confirms that it was not involved in any way in the actions of its employee who acted in a purely private context and his own personal interests the company develops all of its d.c.s. aircraft gain modules exclusively on the basis of publicly available information and has never used nor tried to taint any classified information at least the computer whiz isn't entirely alone the russian embassy in the u.s. has been following the case accusing u.s. intelligence services of carrying out a provocation the russian embassy in the u.s.

is keeping a close eye on the situation surrounding the arrest of a russian national teaching crew who was extradited from georgia 5 charges have been brought against him including smuggling violating the arms export control act and conspiracy against the interests of the united states there are indications that this is a provocation staged by u.s. intelligence agencies the claim isn't entirely without foundation after homeland security took an interest in titian co an undercover agent posing as a buyer of air play money alls contacted titian co to catch him out and gather evidence on his nefarious activities it seems that a software designer and play in the simulation enthusiastic warranted an undercover sting operation so while tisha go faces 10 years or more of prison both simulators and fighter jet miles are available online across the world just be careful where you post them and who you talk to online. if e-bay is allowing military

documents to be sold they really should have a full notice of the statute that it violates so that there's no doubt that somebody who's buying him. fully understands the consequence is the american was knowingly selling something to somebody who was a russian i mean that's really something that's you know not be. loyal to your country if frankly anybody should go to jail if they could be the american inaki should. sue lanka continues to recover from the devastating attacks that left $250.00 people dead on easter sunday religious tensions continue to rise now the recently released so far unverified video as only spots more controversy the footage shows a man dressed in army uniform apparently turning away as dozens of people prepared to launch an attack on a muslim own building the government says it's investigating recent days of seeing a new wave of anti muslim riots resulting in one plate ality mosques have been

attacked qur'an set on fire while muslim shops have been petrol bombed $78.00 suspects have been arrested and that video comes as the sri lankan government faces increasing criticism for failing to restore calm following last month's string of deadly bombings. the at. least so if that was indeed anything we heard a loud bang and we fainted that's all i remember. i wish to express my heartfelt solidarity with the christian communities affected

one that was oppressed and with all the symptoms of such cruel functions. south asia politics and security expert from lancaster university i learned the misread believes that technology is increasingly being misused in order to introduce instability. the fact of the matter is that they most sense on the ground are very wrong and it's simply cannot control the relation of let it be the christians are called with for muslims as well and we're also talking about the history of violence in the country you expected that with modernity to build a lot of this into this interconnectedness hundreds infamous and highway people would have moved away from these primordial identities but that hasn't happened unfortunately what we're saying is that in the hands of bigots in the hands of

radicals in the hands of conservatives the idleness on highways used to properly a specific kind of narrative a specific kind of propaganda and unfortunately we don't have control over that unlike what we have hard in the past where the police can come knocking on the door people would know as to exactly what is going on. tensions between the u.s. and germany are on the rise over the north stream 2 gas pipeline insists that it won't be cowed by washington's threats but you think of it america is acting in this case like germany is its colony this is something i don't want to happen and we need to prevent this it costs billions currently hosting an energy conference with the use approach to russian gas high on the agenda peter oliver has more from the event. been hearing here at this gas conference in berlin is that europe germany is where in particular needs a reliable source of energy that comes not from coal not from nuclear that the idea

in germany is to get away from well with nuclear by 2022 in coal by the end of 2030 s. by the end of the 2030 s. gas they say is the only way forward however what we are seeing is big opposition to that particularly coming from the united states senator ted cruz of texas has put forward a bill which could see extra sanctions put in place on those companies that are currently building the nord stream 2 pipeline in the baltic sea and it's not just from them that we've heard this criticism also the ambassador for germany for that from the united states here in germany richard grinnell issued a warning that's well pulls no punches sanctions are coming if you continue to be involved with north stream to from american point of view the bio blown is not just drones boards and gas but president cruise sanctions while grinnell isn't the only u.s. ambassador that's been having an outspoken say on this the u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sunderland also suggested the europe should

even suggest he directly said that europe's should source its energy from democratic sources not democratic ones pointing a finger directly at russia while he was saying that now i spoke to 2 close ernst who's a member of the bundestag heavily involved in the committee that looks into north stream to from here in germany and he said statements like this were absolute rubbish does was become is what angers me most here is that german companies and other european companies that want to build this pipeline being threatened i'm told they won't be able to do business in the u.s. if they take part these are extra territorial sanctions that go beyond the u.s. they go against international law and in my opinion are completely unacceptable away from the men and women involved in the gas industry itself there's also opposition political figures here we spoke to. one of them who said well this isn't about geopolitics this isn't about securing the e.u.'s energy this is all about

business when it comes to the us i consider this comment from denier just it's quite ridiculous because we all know that. the best christmas man in the balt and like always learning from the west once we have learned from the americans that you always source from the cheapest source and always source from the most reliable source and liquid natural gas is neither cheap nor reliable and that is why it's of course in determine interest to source mainly from russia what we're hearing from here at the gas conference in berlin is that no matter what pressures put on by the united states this is a deal that is going to get done it's a project that's going to get finished it may well end up upsetting some people along the way but billions of already been invested in it it is required for germany to meet its energy needs as it looks to move away from fossil fuels like coal and also move away from nuclear power going to.