and its partners to be of essential public interest the threat of prosecution against the 3 journalists constitutes an unacceptable threat to press freedom and the protection of journalistic sources $37.00 media outlets in france i've also voiced support for their quali saying they were just doing their jobs the fear now is that these actions could constitute pressure on journalists particularly in a bid to reveal their sources something that would break the profession's code of ethics so it didn't ski r.t. paris. will take over in around 30 minutes time with more global updates but do stay with us now for a documentary called make the economy scream which is next on international and r t k.

the more i tried to understand venezuela the more i could see the signs of all solitary an ism emerging on my continent as well. however what venezuela's critics didn't dare do was compare human rights issues to those in other countries on the american continent. civil and political rights have been violated in venezuela. but they are violated every day in colombia and they're violated every day in mexico and they're violated every day in brazil. what i call human rights. what i call selective integration.

you schol enormous in the nation with regard to one country. and you keep trying with regard to many other countries where the situation is many times worse. in brazil the police kill 14 people a day on average. the colombian army killed 10000 civilians between 20022010. that doesn't include hundreds of political activists assassinated every year by power military groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities. even in the usa the police killed almost a 1000 people in 2018. the politicians in some of those countries have called the military intervention in

venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. but we have troops all over the world that places a very very far away venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and they're dying we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary. i'm always careful when we talk about south and central america and the cia there's a lot of stories. we are very hopeful that there could be a transition of venezuelans i was just down in mexico city and in bogota week before last talking about this very issue trying to help them understand the things they might do so that they can get a better outcome c.n.n. can now confirm the president trump asked a number of his top foreign policy advisers last summer about the possibility of invading venezuela cuba.

and now opposition needs you on one has declared himself the country's new president have you also the president of the united states for any military support in your struggle by as a way down on the market as he's going to and i wouldn't terms of taking decisions that even though this is a dictatorship the little people want to advance with whatever pressure is needed this is no time for dialogue this is time for. any negotiations with nicolas maduro. no. the strange thing about the coup and threat of invasion is that they didn't just

come from the usa. supporters of the right wing opposition asked for a foreign country to invade then as you. and i made the mistake of answering one of them. i told him it had happened in greece back in the days of nazi collaborators. i hadn't noticed that the person had hundreds of thousands of followers on twitter . dozens of them offered to teach me new expressions in english and spanish. using teaching methods from the t.v. series norco's. call. that. easy whole day.

key. was when i received an interesting message. i had just been given my next mission my dear twitter friends explained that if i was a real journalist and wanted to understand venezuela i had to go to the border with colombia. they were absolutely right. ringback ringback that night i boarded a bus with dozens of venezuelans leaving the country. just a nation the border crossing out in colombia. a place where the local mafia random to members of colombia's civil war paramilitary groups meet up regularly.

for breakdowns one flat tire found an attack with stones flying past my head resulted in a 19 hour journey. plenty of time to read international press articles on venezuela's immigrants and refugees . from reuters to the daily mirror dozens of stories repeating that the case here resembles syria and the people of myanmar. they compared an economic crisis to civil war and genocide.

in the news i mostly saw people leaving the country here i could see a few returning to venezuela even within a day. they import i mean they see. you many of the base. you will you know i mean i swear. at the colombian border i experienced one of the many side effects of economic collapse but i learned nothing new about what caused it. surprisingly i found more answers in a town just 40 kilometers east of san cristobal. hundreds of vehicles queued for hours at gas stations. this was another official shortage caused by private.

smugglers collaborating with local offices buying gas and other government subsidized commodities in colombia. taking advantage of that as well as price controls contraband goods have become a lucrative business in neighboring colombia where these products can sell for prices at least $10.00 times more it is estimated that almost 40 percent of them this will is food is illegally transported across the border. hiding food away in storage for political and economic purposes is bad enough. not being able to find gasoline when you have the biggest oil reserves is a real. especially when the government

provides gas almost feel free. to understand what was going on i have to return to caracas where the gasoline flows generously. as i couldn't reconcile production in my mind i decided to watch somebody who's been. following venezuela's energy policy professor carlos mendoza. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela.

we've. the obvious he's. been the last one he never seen it. you know again not a moment. and it breaks your way though but i thank you all. according to international media of venezuela failed even though it's been proved to have the world's biggest oil reserves. really true. elim facias. king. showing these follow up with relief and i know you know.

i mean also. these. last few on their part but only sorting out the. hood of that. thing. i suppose when you. get together saving. the lame this week on the local the way he said he willing to put on the ballot. but up those who don't. push will encourage their own. so you don't.

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a 1st class the chinese navy. lake says and see it forms part of a high altitude nature reserve. it's one of the famous chito room indonesia's principal waterway starts its journey. but if you go down the sundown all the way to the top to bottom i've got a septic tank up. it runs 300 kilometers from source to mouth and there are over $200.00 industrial facilities ranged along its bangers. i'm out on your muscle. to do 3 things. i might get out of them and to be with. the room here again scuba 4000 rice fields

and supplies drinking water to 25000000 people. that's a moot point yes of course so married by so many of us about us some have got off our economy. even without the orinoco reserves venezuela has a lot of oil. so how did it get into its current situation. many people told me that it suffers from a strange disease. and for a mill and there's a scene. they can see. because it's cold the dutch disease i thought i should go to hell and.

sadly we see that many of these countries and much worse economic performance much worse in a call to you much more poverty than before the end or well for the gas well for the mineral wealth so that's been cold i'm dutch must be called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the us not in the schools one of the main gas export to get old is gassy holding on the north part of holland around as a result of the gas being exported it was a lot of extra mom for the guilder for the currency that pushed up the value of the guild and the made him very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry that was became less competitive found

a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were well through in terms of gas industry evil suffering and might be causing on the point. venezuela has suffered from the dutch disease since the 930 s. when oil income was converted into holidays clothes and mentions for the elite. sea economy so. but you are not. when. we see it i think we'll get but if the moon.

is it. wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time a loyal revenue wasn't going to the elite well lots of foreign multi-nationals. let's look 1st at the old times and shove estoril still alive then chavez spoke a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money even sure that gets to helping the people of venezuela so he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system and if you can poverty. whatever bad things you can see a bunch of his death was true what happened off. his successes. is a different story now we do have a story that when the old price was too high the more money went to the elites the

poor people who are suffering the most and by the poor people you go dryads you rest and then they go to hit by the bush administration to any old rich country that the old price collapse. along with the oil price collapse came a financial in from the usa. podium over to stephen for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate the name pate of a says it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly we're looking at the oil assets that's the single about. important income stream to the government of venezuela it will make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela. and i reached the source of the absurdity in venezuela's economy.

then when i tried to exchange the dollars i had with me. as well as the official exchange rate for the. black market right. find the prevailing black market exchange rate from a facebook page. now things have changed they can find it on instagram. the administrator is. maybe an opponent of the regime in the usa some say well maybe.

one thing was certain by controlling that exchange rate anyone could citizens against the government. or make. a fake. saw. 2 opposing sides of trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. suffering is caused by. internal economic sabotage. that theory is based on reality. used as an excuse.

instead of. socialism is to blame. has affected a prosperous nation. venezuela. for all. this is not a failed socialist state. this is the socialist dilemma. i don't think so because actually during the period you know the vast majority

were in the private sector. they didn't come anywhere near say france which has $55.00. p. is. more socialist. even when chavez nationalized companies mainly the oil the private sector grew more rapidly than the public. greatest opponents knew it. when its economic growth rate was double that of the usa and poverty was down by 50 percent. international media attributed the growth to capitalism.

but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed on. 6. of the 2 main narratives putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. and maybe both dull. chavez's bolivarian revolution inherited all the structural problems that the economy had faced in the 20th century. the dutch disease the destroyed production high inflation and huge inequalities. but for the 1st time while revenues did

not flow into the hands of the few and foreign oil companies. that were distributed to the people. then under constant economic war huge mistakes were made mainly in monetary policy. when oil prices collapsed all those problems old and new came to the surface. the ball was still poor and the rich who was still rich decided to take revenge.

there was something more. christian. in the sixty's and seventy's. but that's not acceptable today.

george w. bush the president of the united states government of iraq and the future of your country. belongs to you. in the battle of iraq the united states and our allies have prevailed. what we can do and will do is support the aspirations of the libyan people came the soft side.

i might perhaps the vice president of the united states and on behalf of president donald trump and all the american people. let me express the unwavering support of the united states is you the people of venezuela raise your voices in a call for freedom.

it was only days ago we were told the u.s. was preparing to strike iran for nonspecific reasons to deter specific threats then the narrative simply disappeared into thin air just exactly what is the trumpet ministrations policy regarding a rent a restraint you know this. was

. an attack on journalism and i direct assault on the 1st amendment reaction is pouring in from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities file 17 new charges against. each carrying a maximum of 10 years in jail. and emotional theresa may call for the day and mounting she will step down as conservative party leader on june 7th. i do so with no ill will but with enormous ongoing jewelry and gratitude to attach the opportunity to serve the country i know. the philippines is threatening to dump.