party is accused of spending humanitarian aid money on lavish hotels drugs and prostitutes. also coming up in the program this hour boris johnson leaves the race to be britain's next prime minister the spine remarks coming back to 2 more days of ballots will see the remaining hopefuls whittled down to 2 by thursday. solving a constitutional crisis sees the u.s. unexperienced envoy there but there are deep concerns over his track record during the region's darkest days off civil war.

from moscow to the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story. members of the venice will an opposition have been implicated in a corruption scandal leaked documents appear to reveal a lot of fish oils from one movement have been embezzling aid funds for personal use 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. or are you speaking

about their thousands of dollars raised from an aid concert on the colombian border where apparently spent on hotels prostitutes a look surely goods by 2 members of wine tools party b. were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid sex drugs and rock'n'roll aren't something you'd associate with the humanitarian aid concert wrongly that 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 them 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 all the corrupt regime. 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 were 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 who and 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. when 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 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. this huge drop in corruption to divert the money that we could use both children instead of being spent including medicine these being used to pay for alcohol

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 the live $8.00 concert that richard branson. there is in the us pros can but use the february 22nd 23rd as a complete failure plan michael's 4th inside of bennett's trial and. have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury in a $5.00 star hotel and therefore they're really showing what they're about it's about wanting to take 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 to resume a conservative leader then in thursday's final ballot m.p.'s will knock out all busy but the final 2 candidates after not the grassroots members decide ortiz polly boyd who looks at who's still in the race. but contest is hot enough and the field has been whittled down one on the bombshell remain. the front runner and these are the politicians who's made it through to the next round of 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 serious only or anything to get on the plane taishan so i don't know how there is no you can only the quest for a new leader has got the country pouring over the contestants of dirty laundry. gordon brown as prime minister would be obsolete rageous not just because you don't popping into fear in high tax and 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 most trying to. review the pairing with. steve brian 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's who i really really want to apologize i'm sorry can you guess which politician took which drug in their preponderate ics 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 19000000 tees it was a crime it was a mistake i deeply regret it. should you have gone to prison. well i was i was fortunate in that i didn't and then there's the glorious 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. are you happy to have a quick fill in the very. well for

filming for the i'm a politician i'm standing to be prime minister standing room meeting people ok. i want to see what people are up with all this all for a 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 lightness perhaps looking into the future and vying for top positions in an all but inevitable boris johnson cabinet. president was always stood by the country's armed forces the african nation is now trying to find ways to resolve the resulting constitutional crisis president bashir is removal after decades in power 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's also help lining up from abroad the u.s. is increasing its involvement 2 weeks after a major crackdown by the sudanese military protestors washington is urging the security forces to and attacks on civilians and to investigate the recent violence . well 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 so far so good but the 65 year old donald booth will let's just point out he's also served as u.s. ambassador to liberia zambian ethiopia and was obama administration's envoy to sudan insights about he's back in the rule well boots appointment is not being universally welcomed the u.s. based door for women action group has dots with the region having suffered as we

know years of conflict genocide and ethnic cleansing to. not only did booth 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 birth during his visits were quickly erast it without any prevailed by booth to grant them release all protection he's a boyband will once again silence those who have been suffering in darfur for 70. dole booth gets dull in to work or to scale up up and it's going to take a look at his track record. 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 booth as 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 a 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. to the.

rapes the angry sexual mutilation abductions and sexual slavery as well as killings that 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 fan of the us and israeli aligned regime of south sudan he actually worked to get them away 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 could 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 to peace you cannot ignore the suffering of people for during your whole period of. fear try to go to the country even though or the break up you sell so bad in 2000 when u.s. government did nothing but keep punishing people keep going here for sheer keep trying policies that we. had in the program the bruising row over

race and whammed ownership and so if africa nelson mandela's daughter is in the spotlight for some inflammatory tweets. 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. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is what the. 3 of them would be that. interested in the. first. 60 minutes into the program welcome back don't hear of nelson mandela who's no south africa is to denmark has caused outrage with controversial tweets about color on land ownership do you ever tried apologists your time is over you will not rule again we do not hear you finally get out statements being condemned by the

country's opposition and a south african trade union group both are calling for is in z. to be dismissed from or dorio rule but the economic freedom fighters fully support mandela running her critics racist she defended the comments saying that she's entitled to have her own opinion well behind me argument is the controversial reform bill in south africa the expropriation of lums from white farmers the idea of the arts is to restore justice after apartheid according to the government white farmers are also needed to help mentor black farmers we spoke to a government policy fellow at the south african institute of race relations about the controversial tweets. she is the best 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 picked concern for us in south africa 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 to and taken as. a tried creates a split between what subject the redistribution of lead isn't actually it took as a just leisure 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 stock of relying on the. past instead of saying look it's a it's a 2 to achieve a decent afic for people we actually need to do it properly. ok sort of a story we're closely following today a journalist accused of high treason in ukraine has described the charges as upsurge during

a court plea hearing. is accused of using the news agency you run as a cover for a hybrid information war against ukraine he's already spent more than a year in custody untold artie's ruptly video agency his case is being driven by politics. and you pretty much the way you do your i think my case is a national disgrace it's absolutely politically motivated it is at least silly to judge a journalist for his job. the ukrainian bureau of russia's ria novosti news agency he was the taint in kiev in may of last year on suspicion of supporting the breakaway republics in the east if convicted he could face 15 years in prison for lawyer sees the court failed to close. 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 sentence if they get a conviction for shinseki himself hopes the new government will look at his case from a more rational perspective. and what use this with philip really do just as 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 moving to our texts and i realize that those responsible for my case i do belong 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. the aim to boost the country's defense at politics and health care maintain domestic security as we've been saying has 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 and has transparency and accountability in acquisition and budgeting and advance defense industry reforms. the recently announced military aid is part of a series of pentagon payments to ukraine since $24.00 washington's funding has now reached one and a half $1000000000.00 sniper rifles and rocket propelled grenade launchers are among the little a nonlethal items which ukraine will receive from the pentagon the u.s.

sees the move reaffirms their longstanding defense relationship and comes after a reported spike in fighting along the front line in the eastern region in recent days the conflict is believed to have killed around 13000 people so it's interrupted over 5 years ago security analyst charles shu bridge thinks the latest aid injection has the potential to aggravate the conflict. but what we've got here is again as was previously released on one occasion previously we've got lethal weaponry being provided as well and of course that was resisted by obama 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 of course an end to the very 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. now in turn are still investigators charge for suspects with murder over the dining of malaysia earline flight m.h. 17 back in 2014. 3 of them are russian one is ukrainian prosecutors say all where in eastern ukraine on july the 17th the day the passenger plane was shot down 5 years ago the dutch led investigation team have reported that they themselves the accused didn't fire the missile but their actions led to it while

a hell of a high ranking positions the tragedy over eastern ukraine in 2014 claimed the lives of all 298 people on board the joint team of international investigators blame pro russian forces for the dunning. most strongly in the it's the probe states that the plane was shot down by a russian made book launch or moscow says the investigation has failed to obtain all the evidence from kiev on it is ignoring proof supplied by russia claiming that the investigation is biased and they prove. also barred russia from participating in the investigation but involve the ukrainian government malaysia which is also a member of the joint investigative team say has been blocked from examining the plane's flight recorders but even before the investigation reached any results or she was blamed by kiev and the western media. all right

that isn't as much as we could cram in this r.t. bullets and do delve into plenty more news on views on r.t. dot com keep close. the. paradise with some around turned into

a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with that it's because the people have less political power. thanks guys or financial survival guide substation just like all going to start simply add to that all the sort of. the sure it's still there you don't get it back

. oh heck no what's this a repatriation scheme forget the rest of 70 years. phillip a separate kaiser or. this is going bust broadcasting around the globe and covering the world of business and finance the impact of on us all on daniel pearl in washington here's a look at what's on deck on today's show while the u.s. and china continue to trade blows one nations growing tade trade tensions with the u.s. are mostly gone under the radar former u.s.

representative alan grayson is standing by to break down the u.s. is trade ties with india and tell us whether the world's 2 largest democracies are heading for a bigger clash and other trade trouble news as china can tear chinese to bear the burden on the trade fight there have been they have been looking for new sources of capital archie's angst mahela bitches on hand to sort out the investment horizon for the people's republic and later what's behind the bullish bit coin run this week rocky miller a bit see on joins us today to get her take on the spike jonze of social media begin with this how did stepping into the crypto space we have a good show today so let's go and dive right in. bankruptcy filing for brazil's largest company heads our global report today as the scandal plagued old brick construction firm seeks protection from sao paulo court the name older bread has become associated with high level scandals across the americas most consequentially within brazil was at the center of the infamous car wash scandal which was cited in

the impeachment of president dilma rousseff and became a vehicle for the disqualification of popular former brazilian president lula dissimilar from the last presidential election digital messages recently published by. the intercept show that the judge in the little car wash case assistant prosecutors while publicly insisting that he was impartial and involved that judge sergio morrow was named a so-called super justice minister by president gerald so narrow to petition the court for protection from creditors while it attempts to restructure $13000000000.00 in debt the court responded by giving the company management 60 days to deliver a plan. and indian authorities are moving to negotiate with foreign tech and credit card companies over the terms of regulations that require the firms to store their transaction data locally last year the reserve bank of india or r.b.i. imposed rules that require some firms to store their transaction data only in india

to make sure it is available when needed for review and investigation pushback from the u.s. side on those regulations include recent comments on the law from u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o who insisted on the free flow of information ahead of an official visit to india later this month on monday the indian commerce minister y'all and r.b.i. officials met with representatives of tech and credit card companies including the c.e.o. of master card. the ministry later released a statement that said indian officials quote assured the industry representatives that the reserve bank of india will look into this. and often overshadowed by the us china trade war is the brewing trade to between india and the united states similarly many may not realize just how integra india is to the global economy while most of us are aware that products are assembled in china and then distributed globally most obvious is the role that india has in terms of business integration in the world where china is widely recognised as an outsourcing destination for manufacturing as workers in the rust belt of the united states can

attest to india has shaped itself as a hub for service job.