other. than the. police arrest for antiwar activists in the venezuelan embassy in washington after the month long sit in protest against u.s. support for the opposition leader. of the u.s. pressure on iran senator bernie sanders accuses donald trumps national security advisor of trying to lead america into a new war. on the philippines recalls its ambassador from canada in a dispute over vast amounts of trash shipped to the southeast asian country several years ago. very good evening to you this is r.t.

international. us police have arrested 4 activists staging a sit in at the venezuelan embassy they were protesting against the expulsion of president maduro diplomats last month and u.s. interference in the country and he's rachel blevins has a story. 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 on 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 show chew over the 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 for this woman for a ministry is the police actions illegal appointed on buses or to the u.s. so the embassy has been liberated did benjamin from the peace group code pink

claims that the arrests are a violation of international law. we got an urgent call from the people inside in 1900 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 and government i was just at the u.n. yesterday with the ambassador to the u.n. who was calling on the u.s. to sign a pretty tempting power green manch 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 that building and that 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 the activists gains the attention of some prominent figures on wednesday human rights figurehead jesse jackson arrived at the embassy to give food to the protesters again master report suggested or authorities were preventing supplies from reaching the embassy and he spoke to reverend jackson and asked him what he thinks about washington's role in venezuela. and there's a lot of the movement direct about international law and human rights and said determination with a nation must be better and people must protest that because big brother well they can while in the same congress will not accept opinions from the same why those learned. in the congress also were not. true people at the embassy it was in fact revenue loans the people of venezuela both leaders should be in the

commonplace does mr drum want to meet with him in the rear. after all bill is and i am as you know we must all arguably invent with. all of them billions with us for days away from someone who's 3 weeks away will ever write a reason and i am mr you know america we are a great nation was one to the bahamas fear to them they spend this so i'll sit in that the room was in their freedom as the good neighbor problem is not with the hostile over the regime wall added to all just jackson's charitable act sparked fury from the quite the appointed ambassador to the u.s. he said that the act of a should stop supporting human rights violators and supports instead the people of venezuela and explain to us why he decided to help the protest. because america could oh and that was not right but

even reconciling this in this case no one wins. and is kind and does a room of reconciled sides. real credible can bring the us cannot do it alone and replacing one government for another regime change then the answer would be a democracy. u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders has accused national security advisor john bolton of trying to push the country into war with iran 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 busy so you know i worry about provocations on the part of the united states in the past few days the u.s. has taken steps to counter what it calls a credible threat from iran the state department has ordered all emergency staff to

leave iraq so also sent b. 50 bombers and carriers to the region media reports suggest that there are intelligence images of missiles on iranian boats in the persian gulf spoke fears they might be used against u.s. troops although the images yet have been published and despite the lack of clear evidence for a heightened threat from tehran or still continue to make loud noises about what. threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare or ran around major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record here's world's largest financial year of international terrorism behind every problem is array 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 we're in a 2010 interview in which he admits that he would lie in the name of u.s. national security which he skated more pain asks americans what they think about

the 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 right yes that's false. so the one year period that we've talked about from the point where north korea makes to 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 that 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 e. jackal to carry this effort to for it and to topple the elected government of iran and while we can see the history in 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 that the trump of ministration has already briefed everyone on that growing grain in threats although perhaps not the u.s. senate's which looks like it's being kept in the dock over plans. i would urge the state department to come down here and explain to us what's going on i've come to the fore in the law. and to demand answers by this administration about

iran 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 assets we do not need another iraq weapons of mass destruction moment that tender box of the middle east is no place to operate on impulse or whim. that the appearance this is ministration as created by lack of a clearly articulated strategy for the american people to know and that is the president this behavior is not acceptable. chinese take john twal way has warned that the u.s. trade will harm americans leaving them lagging behind 5 g.

technology china's foreign minister also condemned the move u.s. department of commerce placed weiwei on a trade blacklist the decision came after donald trump declared a national emergency to protect america's computer networks for he described as foreign adversaries. 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 wall weighs equipment threatening to limit intelligence sharing with those failing to comply although britain one of america's key allies in europe is refusing to pound the chinese company out of hand saying it still hasn't made a decision a similar response came earlier remarks from germany on the economy expert professor benjamin challen says that while away might actually benefit from america's position. ali actually has an unblemished record of over 30 years in 170 countries punishing one corporation with those solid evidence branes

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 europe 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 if some arguably could be the biggest winner with all this free advertising. the dispute about the building of a new church in a russian city into a standoff that's been going on for days following clashes between opposing sides

and the number of arrests even putin's got involved. has the details. 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 saying 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 some several 100 people gathered around a temporary fence marking the sport where the church isa pace to be build chanting we want a square and apparently at some point it went wild according to the region's governor the protesters managed to throw this fence they were arguing with the police and. 3 g. on the ground. refusing to leave the area and there were clashes between these people

and those who support the construction of the church 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 with 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 this 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 the poll and minority must all be majority but the interests of this minority should be taken into account as well the investors ensure there will be another forest nearby and that there will be more rather than less trees and shortly after vladimir putin's comments on the situation in you considering what we've heard from local authorities that they support the idea of local referendum. a feud between the philippines and canada or a waste disposal is a skillet it with the ring calling it some of their own consuls this is after canada refused to take turns of garbage it shipped to the philippines several years ago. that the recall shows that we are. very serious in asking them to get back their otherwise.

severe relationships with their. dispute began in 2013 when a private canadian company sent more than 100 containers of trash to the philippines it was later discovered they had been falsely labeled as containing recyclable plastic in fact they contained household waste into the 16 the philippines court ordered the company to take the shipment back but that hasn't happened and last month the filipino president threatened drastic action against canada 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 trash richard tait darian foreign affairs analyst in manila is that just into to has failed to fulfill a promise he made 2 years ago to take the shipments back. well for a very long time to the insides being unfortunately a recipient of top secret waste including nuclear waste all of them the united states in software western allies so this issue has been lingering for quite long time it canadian one of those however i've seen a summer of 0.4 for the philippines where if you are president you going to target guess with no plans or just introduce us here in the last 2 years ago for the audience saw me he promised that they were going to take back the trash all the garbage. was left here lingering it's a 1030 and you to your scheme does not happen i mean you can even go over to say that this was a private deal between the can. and it filippi to conquer the forest get it 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 cookin president too long term holidays philippines and canada. the russian embassy in washington says the u.s. intelligence may stay used as a provocation and so after russian games design it was detained on suspicion of trying to export u.s. find to manuals like teaching can faces up to 10 years behind bars for allegedly smuggling arms documents i'm plotting it's the u.s. government at least on you hawkins picks up 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 that absent here back in 2016 although he was none the wiser and after 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 a leg work 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 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 was contacted titian co to catch you out and gather

evidence on his nefarious activities it seems that a software designer and playing 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 anarky ship. so lanka is struggling to cope

with a wave of civil and religious unrest since the easter sunday bombings that left $250.00 dead and an incident captured on camera has made matters worse this unverified footage shows a man dressed in army uniform apparently turning away as dozens of people prepared to launch an attack on a muslim owned building the government says that it is investigating the matter in recent days there have been a new wave of anti muslim riots resulting in one faith tallaght mosques have been attacked qur'an set on fire or muslim shops have been firebombed $78.00 suspects have been arrested while the sri lankan government's under pressure for failing to restore law and order since last month's massacre.

a lot of thinking any 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 it was a prayer with all the victims of such cruel violence. in south asia analyst ireland though mr a says that the rapid spread of propaganda rumors online is a key factor in the ongoing unrest. the fact of the matter is that they muslims on the ground are very wrong and it's simply cannot control that emotion of let it be

the christians are called with of muslims as well and we are also talking about a history of violence in the country you expected that with modernity to build a lot of this into this interconnectedness under sinfulness 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. the u.s. and germany a lot in the dispute over the north stream to gas pipeline berlin says they won't be cowed by washington strengths. of america is acting in this case like germany is

its colony thus this is something i don't want to happen and we need to prevent this it costs. currently hosting an energy conference with the use approach to russian gas and the agenda its role of reports 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 buy blown is not just drones boards and gas but president cruise sanctions cerise grinnell isn't the only us 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 deny just it's quite ridiculous because we all know that american brought us the best christmas man in the vault 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 they're going to have to replace that with something and they saying here that they have to replace it with gas. and then about nord stream i hope you'll continue to source your news stream from us here at r.t. international it's coming your way in around 30. the c on his attorney. for one. of the. you know. what would have.