this hour's headlines stories venice position party is accused of spending humanitarian aid money on lot of. drugs and prostitutes. and leads the race to be britain's next prime minister despite past remarks coming back to haunt him 2 more days of the remaining hopeful. by thursday. on solving a constitutional crisis sees the u.s. . envoy there despite concerns over his track record during the region's darkest days of civil war.

around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team myself you know me hello welcome our top story. members of the venezuelan opposition have been implicated in a corruption scandal and leaked documents appear to reveal a lot of fishes from one goal i doze movement have been embezzling phones for personal use on their aid phones the money was intended for soldiers who defected and fled to neighboring colombia. humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was stolen of take note washington not only are the opposition liars but they are thieves too who stole thousands of dollars from each other. yet thousands of dollars raised

from an aid concert on the colombian border were partly spent on hotels prostitutes and luxury goods by 2 members of quite a party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid with more and here's our senior correspondent for up goes the earth. sex drugs and rock'n'roll aren't something you'd associate with a humanitarian aid concert wrongly it seems colombian authorities themselves a shocked and barris that what they've uncovered and to think it all began so innocently we need to try to help those who are not getting medical help help those who are hungry and today hopefully on the back of this concert we can start maybe getting supplies into that to sway those people who are not suffering so much back then the freshly self-proclaimed president of venezuela called in the military to

defect join him and top of the corrupt regime. and we plotted the armed forces welcome to the right side of history welcome to the soldiers who are today following the constitution welcome hundreds of soldiers did defect some with families some of the small children they scared to colombia they were put in hotels and by mid march it was living in the streets we are desperate we do not want to stay in colombia we want to return to venezuela but not in the current living conditions we do not know. how could this happen out of the 7 hotels that the soldiers were staying in all but 2 were being paid for by the un and the colombian government to hotels is all why do those representatives had to pay for except they didn't according to the journalists who broke this story why and why do all of

this a month ago. we couldn't allow for any bad managing of money to overshadow what has been a big effort on the part of all venezuelans that's why as soon as we had the information about the ongoing investigation we decided to send it straight to every impartial of dorothy the people who did this bear in mind were appointed by why do personally and he only chose to speak with the story already public knowledge saying transparent investigation is needed also amazingly managing to somehow imply that the venezuelan government does involve culpable complicit and that guy duo doesn't cover up corruption which he kept covered up for at least a month obviously the actual venezuelan government has questions. it's a huge drop in corruption poor to divert money that we could use both sick children

instead of being spent on food medicine these being used to pay for the whole prostitutes expensive shopping trips and luxury hotels as do those allies why is his party which promises to cleanse venezuela of corruption and exercise the demons of the old regime why are these people blowing tens of thousands of dollars in aid money on prostitutes drugs and booze and live a concert that richard branson has led along with others in the us pros who attempt of february 22nd 23rd that's a complete failure plan why those forces inside of bennett and columbia have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury stays in $5.00 star hotels and therefore they're really showing what they're about it's about wanting to power for personal enrichment the corruption scandal is just one small part of what the u.s.

is engaging in in this enormous assault a genocidal assault against the people of venice well it's hundreds of millions it's chance of billions of dollars that the u.s. is stealing in the name of one way though stealing money from the venezuelan people . the shortlist to become britain's next prime minister will get a little shorter this whedon's they 5 will become 4 in the race to replace trees in may as conservative leader then in thursday's final ballot m.p.'s will have whittled the field on to just 2 candidates after that the grassroots members decide artie's poly boy who looks at who's still in the race. but contest is hotting up and the field has been whittled down one blonde bombshell remains the front runner and these are the politicians who's made it through to the next round at the

conservative party's game of knockout or should it be called the contest for who gets to lose to boris johnson in the race for downing street it was very scary no you're really going to get on the plane taishan south dakota how there was that we had an elite and the quest for a new leader has got the country poring over the contestants of dirty laundry. gordon brown as prime minister would be obsolete rages not just because you don't popping interfere in high tax in complicated of life but mainly because he's a scot and government by a scot is just not conceivable in the current constitutional context. my wife is japanese and i was telling the story. because. we review the period. steve you say that the man that you are backing jeremy i'm so sorry jeremy hunt of never said

that before in my life it's usually men who say that so i really really want to apologize i'm sorry can you guess which politician took which drug in their preponderate ix days michael gove's was a front runner but his campaign was marred after he was forced to admit he dabbled with cocaine in the 1990 s. it was a crime it was a mistake deeply regret it should you have gone to prison. while i was i was fortunate in that i didn't and then there's what he started as the rank outsider his warts and all media strategy hash tag laurie walks has been gathering momentum up until now the secretary of state for international development wasn't that well known outside of westminster or isn't guys. you have to have a quick fill in the very. well therefore i'm filming

today i'm a politician standing to be prime minister standing room meeting people oh i want to see her people. with all this dirt on you'd expect those competing for a chance to move in here in a couple of weeks time to engage in some good old fashioned political mudslinging but at this stage of the contest boris johnson is so far ahead that the other conservative candidates appeared to have come down with a case of the might miss perhaps looking into the future and vying for top positions in an all but inevitable boris johnson cabinet. ok let's now turn to another of our headlines stories months after sudan's president was or stood by the country's armed forces the african nation is now trying to find ways to resolve the resulting constitutional crisis. this president bashir is removal after decades in power has now led to

a struggle between the military government and groups pushing for a return to civilian rule as well as internal efforts to resolve the impasse there is also help lining up from our brought the u.s. is increasing its involvement weeks after a major crackdown by the sudanese military on protesters urging security forces to end attacks on civilians and to investigate the recent violence. or washington has appointed a new special envoy for sudan a veteran diplomat who on paper has a wealth of local knowledge and experience of the region the 65 year old donald booth has not only served previously as u.n. u.s. ambassador to liberia zombie ethiopia he was also the obama administration's envoy to sudan and south sudan now he's back in the role. but boots appointment is not being universally welcomed the u.s.

based darfur women action group has dots with the region having suffered years of conflict including genocide and ethnic cleansing. not only did both want to normalize relations with the murderous regime he actively neglected those being murdered booth's failed to put forth any statements regarding the atrocities committed we cannot trust him to speak up now internally displaced individuals who took to booth during his visits were quickly erast it without any prevailed by booth to grant them release all protection he's a point then will once again silence those who have been suffering in darfur for 70 knees so as donald booth gets done to work kill up and has been taking a look at his track record during neighboring south sudan's brutal civil war. as the situation in south sudan continues to spiral the united states has appointed

a new special envoy to save the day the department has appointed ambassador down on the eve of a special envoy on sudan his appointment demonstrates that the united states has a firm commitment to the sudanese people and efforts to advance a peaceful political solution now the white house says that it's his experience with south sudan that makes him qualified however it is long record with the country that is the source of all the outrage donald booth was the special envoy to both sudan and south sudan under the administration of barack obama from 2013 to 2017 under his watch the civil war and human rights abuses escalated. the.

grapes again grapes sexual mutilation abductions and sexual slavery as well as killings have become commonplace in south sudan there is no doubt that these crimes are persistent because impunity so entrenched that every kind of norm is broken now the role of donald booth in this mess hasn't exactly been good in 2011 the united nations imposed an arms embargo on sudan however the united states didn't start abiding by it until 20163 years after the war was already in full swing despite what seemed like strong international consensus favor going to bargo for several years the united states withheld support and an embargo was not put on the un security council agenda. seems like a pretty big. and of the u.s. and israeli aligned regime of south sudan he actually worked to get them

a waiver from the white house over their use of child soldiers and he seems a little bit partisan when it comes to internal strife in the country here's a statement he made about the ousting of the vice president we do not believe it would be wise from a shark to return to his previous position in juba so this is the man whose task it is to restore peace however if you look at his record he seems to have plenty of experience doing the opposite us never really carried out sincerely so sudanese didn't really care or couldn't really follow the policy from us because the us was against the very survival of the country in this state that was made by the united states and most a mistake made by the students go because you cannot ignore to suffer for it during that whole period of. us. for trying to go the country even though or the break up with south sudan in 2000 when u.s. government did nothing but keep punishing the sudanese people you keep going you're

absolutely sure you keep wrong policies that we've. had in the program the bruising over race the ownership in south africa nelson mandela's daughter is in the spotlight for some inflammatory. is trump winning can he be reelected based on his record there are many other questions as trump seeks to remain in the white house will the democrats run against trump as opposed to challenging his record in office how the democrats learned anything from the electorate since their pressuring defeat 2016.

seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just to become educated and engaged equals betrayal. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . 16 minutes past 2 pm here in moscow you're very welcome back the daughter of nelson mandela who's not a south africa's buster to denmark has caused outrage with controversial tweets about color on landownership. epper tide apologists your time is over

you will not rule again we do not fear you finally yet those statements have been condemned by the country's opposition a white south african group both are calling for is in z. mandela to be dismissed but the economic freedom fighters party say they fully support monday branding her critics racist she defended the comments saying that she's entitled to have her own opinion. well behind the argument is the controversial land reform bill in south africa the expropriation of lambs from white farmers that idea of that is to restore justice after apartheid according to the government white farmers are still supports the play a role in establishing a new economic reality well we spoke to sara gone policy fellow at the south african institute of race relations about the controversial tweets she is the

investor to a significant european country which has had very good relations with and that her behavior is entirely on diplomatic and it raises a very big concern for us in so their race has been used as a. political tool by various parties to either act as a stand in for not doing enough of the right thing or 2 and taken eyes and tried create a split between what subject the redistribution of lead isn't actually it took as legislation without compensation to resolve the problem the problem is largely an administrative one it's got a lot of catching up to do it i think this is why it has taken this particular starts of relying on the apartheid past instead of saying look it's a it's a 2 to achieve a decent effect for people we actually need to do it properly. a journalist

accused of high treason in ukraine was the scribe the charges served during a court plea hearing karylle is accused of using the news agency he ran as a cover for a hybrid information war against ukraine he's already spent more than a year in custody and told r.t. roughly video agency his case is politically motivated. and you pretty much the way you would feel i think my case is a national disgrace it's absolutely politically motivated it is at least silly to judge a gym at least for his job. mr bush in the ukraine bureau of russia's ria navas the news agency he was detained in kiev in may 28th on suspicion of supporting the breakaway republics in the east if convicted he could face 15 years in prison. see a lawyer sees the court failed to clarify the charges brought by the ukrainian

security forces because he said the court didn't understand them either the case has drawn concern from several global humanitarian journalists organizations ukrainian authorities are seeking the maximum jail sentence if they get a conviction for shinseki hopes the new government will look at his case from a more rational perspective. well yes there is with well if you just look at the motive was indeed political of course i think no one wanted to find the real truth and punish those who are guilty i've stressed to that no one cared for 4 years that we were allegedly destroying the cradle in the government and just less than one year before the election the authorities decided to tackle the situation and how do they do it they possess clear evidence that there was no intention of

a coup in our texts and i realize that those responsible for my case i do longer in power so i hope the new government will be wise. or as well as taking on foreign media ukraine is also shoring up its military muscle with a $250000000.00 aid package from the u.s. they aim to boost the country's defense abilities and help here maintain domestic security as it's been battling an insurgency in the east since 2014. the united states remains committed to helping ukraine to strengthen democratic civilian control of the military promote command and control reforms enhanced transparency and accountability in acquisition and budgeting and advance defense industry reforms. of the recently announced military aid is a part of a series of pentacle payments to ukraine since 2014 washington's funding has now

reached one and a half $1000000000.00. well sniper rifles and rocket propelled grenade launchers are among the lethal non-lethal items which ukraine will get from the pentagon the usas the move reaffirms their long standing defense relationship and comes after a reported spike in fighting along the front line in the eastern region in recent days the conflict is thought to have killed around $13.00 and people since it erupted over 5 years ago security analyst charles sure bridge thinks the hundreds of millions of us dollars has the potential to aggravate a cult. but what we've got here is again as was previously released on one occasion previously he's got a lethal weapon being provided as well and of course that was resisted. and his administration him fearing i think this would exacerbate the situation rather than

actually improve it and that these weapons defensive of course almost all defensive weapons can be used offensively but in terms of the politics of this i think it's quite. significant because of course you've got a new recently elected president and of course it was part of the election campaign that he would like to see a reduction of tensions with russia and ultimately of course an end to the catastrophic war that has taken place in the east of his country but on the other hand he's also made it clear in recent weeks that he's going to still stand very much with the west and allied to the u.s. and of course in a way those statements are now being rewarded perhaps with the continuation of this program. all right that is our lot for knowledge but just a reminder it's a packed to the rafters watching the hawks ahead in moments do join me again if you can in 30 for all the latest global news updates this thursday right here from marty.

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join me every thursday on the island so i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll show you the. greetings and salutations war is consider inevitable to those who profit from it for those who pay for it the cost is just too high and that cost seems on the minds of world leaders as tensions between iran and the united states intensified at least in the war of words last week the sabers were rattled toward iran after 2

more oil tankers were damaged off their shores and video released by the u.s. seemed to suggest some arabian involvement as usual all options are on the table though the rhetoric took a sharp turn on tuesday when a radian president hassan rouhani told state television are wrong will not wage war against a nation that is facing us are a group of politicians with little experience and response secretary of state might pompei it took umbrage with the very suggestion that his desire for war with iran was anything less than pure telling journalists in florida we are there to deter aggression president trump does not want war of course despite a leader who doesn't want war the us announced yesterday it was sending a 1000 additional troops to the middle east and president trump called the tanker attacks minor so which is it are we on the brink of world war 3 or not well acting defense secretary and former boeing executive patrick shanahan seems to think so as he announced this week that he authorized approximately those 1000 additional

troops for defensive purposes. to address arid able and ground based threats in the middle east then shanahan announced he was removing himself from consideration for the job he just used to send a 1000 young americans into a war even he can't justify not that this will slow the or roll since a former lobbyist for raytheon is most likely taking his plates so if this is all just a case of crossed wires ego has the lack of meaningful diplomacy amongst middle eastern countries and the interference by the u.s. u.k. and other western nations caused a complete breakdown of civility or is this a show for the american voter to get them to exact big budget increases to modernize our nuclear arsenal and line the pockets of the defense industry under the guise of national security well it looks like it's time to take a breath and our feet take our fingers off the nuclear button and start watching the hawks.