however what venezuela's critics didn't 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're 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. of integration. you show enormous in the nation with regard to one country. to keep. with regard to many other countries where the situation is many times worse. in brazil the police killed 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 powell ability groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities. even in the usa the police killed almost a 1000 people in 2018. politicians in some of those countries have called for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. but we have troops 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 for 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 thank you. 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 and saw it on the market as he's going up as it would in 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. 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. each 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 me to operate only. for breakdowns one flat tire and 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 row him people of my own. 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. started. they see. those humanity even.

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 artificial 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 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 had to return to caracas where the gasoline flows generously.

as i couldn't reconcile the oil production in my mind i decided to walk somebody who's been. following venezuela's energy policy professor carlos mendoza. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. we begin. with. the everything he's done that's. been there as well you never see me or nah. you know again not a moment. and i. wanted to thank you all. according

to international media of venezuela. even though it's been proved to have the world's biggest oil reserves. really true. elim fasi is. being. shown these. relief and i know you know. he's. on there but. you have that.

thing. because it will. give us a. little. dealing with this. local be well into his head and willing to put on the ballot. but up and if you don't. push will include you know. me so you don't. join me everything on the alex salmond. of the world of politics sport i'm show business. i'll see if.

there was an imaginary ghost then an enemy out there called russia during the russia gate hoax meanwhile huawei and other 5 technologies coming out of china and other technology of china time is actually leapfrogging ahead of the us economically and now here's the the way the currency war so now that period of focusing on russia it would be is just a waste of time which had been focusing on the actual rival americas very dominant in the us now with the kind of. good food descriptions the sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose the pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than what's necessarily good for the pet turns out picked food may not be a sofa the people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis

they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making it a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. even without the all right no co 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. in formula. there's a scene. here and. they can see

people. because it's cold the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and. sadly we see that many obese 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 sneddon's was one of the main gas exports he had all this gas he holding up. around as a result of the gas being exported it was a lot of extra mom for the guild or for the currency that pushed up the value of

the guild and the made him very strong currency but as a result of that there rest of the industry that it was became less competitive found a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were well through in terms of gas our industry will suffer am i to 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. all. these orphans who will. be always on.

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 an oil revenue wasn't going to the elite well lots of foreign multi-nationals. let's look 1st at the old times and shove assholes to life 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 about the old price was too high but more money went to the needs of 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 at any old rich country that the old price collapse. along with the oil price collapse came a financial in from the usa. 40 modus even for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate the name we're paid if they says it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly we're looking at the oil assets that's the single most import. an 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. had 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. going to look puzzled. maybe an opponent of the

regime in the usa some say well maybe. one thing was certain by controlling the exchange rate anyone could citizens against the government. saw. 2 opposing sides of fame trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. suffering is caused by. internal economic sabotage.

used as an excuse. socialism is to blame for. prosperous nation. venezuela. for all. this is not

a failed socialist state. this is the socialist. socialism i don't think so because actually during the period you know we. were in the private sector. they didn't come anywhere near say france which has 50. years. more socialist. even when nationalized companies mainly of. the private sector grew more rapidly. 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. 66. of the 2 made 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 oil revenues did not flow into the hands of the few and foreign oil companies. that were distributed to the people. then under a 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. in the sixty's and seventy's.

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.

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.

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a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters i'm sure you know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery meaning messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court. be . shocked shocked as far as society we feel. we don't know she'll share this truth. the end of this trial unfortunately you. will still love no chill just.

swedish prosecutors dropped a 2010 rape case against you in a song so after admitting they lacked evidence to charge that we found. in a major policy overhaul the us schools is outraged by declaring that it no longer views israeli settlements in the occupied west bank it's illegal. to sink international law with the law of the jungle. and in no way an anti muslim demonstration erupts into a street brawl after a copy of the koran is set on fire. well those are the headlines for now and that's it from me andrew farmer will be here next hour to take you through the latest.