i think. it was you know. you. give the go ahead. venezuela slams u.s. sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction and a master form of warfare president donald trump threatening to impose further restrictions on the country's oil sector. also this hour towns in northeastern france accuse their belgian neighbors of illegally dumping waste across the border our correspondent charlotte devinsky investigates. being described as being one of the scales and you can see why. and britain's 4 time olympic champion mo farah comes under fire after a b.b.c. documentary claims he lied to doping officials about taking a controversial supplement.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the u.s. president donald trump has threatened further sanctions against venezuela targeting the country's oil sector caracas accuses washington of using sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction and a master form of warfare it's now been a year since the u.s. formally recognized but as well as opposition leader one why go as the country's interim president showing the door to the legitimate government of nicolas maduro the u.n. meanwhile has raised the alarm over devastating food shortages in the country artie's killed more often looks at america's role in but as well as continuing political upheaval. when it comes to venezuela the trumpet administration lives in a kind of alternate universe for exam. when the country faces

a food crisis donald trump says there can be only one cause venezuela's president nicolas maduro people are starving here's a case worker who was well people 15 years ago and very wealthy 20 years ago very very well when you look today they don't have water they're on a basic food they have no medicine it's incredible what's happened is good as well you know we're watching it as well a very closely we don't like it we don't like it not at all he fails to mention that u.s. sanctions have been wreaking havoc on venezuela for years or that opposition groups have actually been caught torching food warehouses in the narrative of the u.s. government these things simply don't exist. using the blockade of food medicine and weapons to politically coerce or depriving entire country some of their own means to sustain and develop themselves are actually there are completely criminal these unilateral curse or criminal actions are equivalent in scope and effectiveness to weapons of mass destruction but it gets better the venezuelan embassy in washington

d.c. has been reopened after diplomatic relations are cut off you'll recall how the actual venezuelan officials were ordered to leave the country so with no diplomatic relations what exactly is this new so-called embassy. somebody who is in there. how well are they able to provide consular services. you see. ok i see. here that there. you see this pretend the embassy has a pretend ambassador working out of it it cannot grant visas or do any of the normal functions that a normal embassy does for one simple reason no one would be allowed into venezuela with those visas because the embassy doesn't represent the actual venezuelan government this for 10 embassy is just a big facade representing a president not elected by the venezuelan. people that i am american officials

duras grip and tyranny will be smashed and broken. here this evening it's a very brave man. who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all venezuelans joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela who on. the eve of the u.s. government insists this is the true leader of the venezuelan people but when he arrived at venezuela's airport the venezuelan people had a pretty different opinion. back home the one great 0 is not popular polls show that roughly 10 percent of venezuelans support him however vice president mike pence likes to brag about the

fact that over 60 countries have recognized him as president this president has led now a coalition of more than 60 countries around the world that have recognize one why go as the legitimate president of venezuela but over 100 countries have not recognized one way to go and still seem as the legitimate president furthermore in the countries where dueto is recognized it's far from unanimous you not agree that the recognition of glide is an absolute embarrassment to anyone that has occupied this chamber i was a disgrace on and up out of the member states of europe washington had very high hopes for one grade 0 hoping that he would go ahead and topple the dural but it didn't happen so it seems that now washington has adopted a strategy of pretending that it did and hoping that others will play along the us is totally broken international law by taking over the embassy in the name of the. government is. the official government of venezuela whenever the u.s.

says white osa joke most people in venezuela know that it's a joke. you can't just declare that somebody is the elected president when he isn't the elected. so the us is making this this farce of a person into the government and then saying that the embassy doesn't belong to venezuela we now have a coalition of the willing who are saying that quite 0 is the government it doesn't have any other option i mean he hasn't been able to push that mud duro out there obviously under tremendous pressure because of the sanctions that washington washington's implying making it hard for them to sell their oil and you know i mean it it's a country that really lives on oil and says and oil sales so you know they're distressed the president's in an election year and his base is you know very right wing and conservative and you know some of them come out of that old cold war

mentality so you know he's trying to make america look tough and i could see him trying to win votes by doing that. they say good times is make good neighbors spot that proverb seems not to apply to friends whose northeastern border is suffering from illegally dumped waste apparently originating from belgium child reports. this may look like part of a landfill site but it snot all of this waste has been dumped here illegally we're just a few miles from the border with belgium and luxembourg and the french town of all core mu 9 is one of many struggling to cope with the war you can see mountains and to mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby it's a similar story trash both household and commercial has been dumped under the cover

of darkness city. at 1st we thought it was regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. there for when everything away should . yes but here we see it's far more serious we estimate around 200 tons of waste it's enormous as far as the pollution we don't know what's inside it could be tons of who knows what type of products chemicals. we don't know we see cleaning products plastics but more could be hidden it didn't take long before calls track down where the waste was coming from what if we did look into the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place we searched and found out it was from on terms. and that if here's an invoice is it and. i'm very clear it says. so of their. when the

company was contacted it denied any knowledge of illegal waste dumping but the local resident jessica told me that since that statement the fly tipping has continued it's been described as a dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in the local. association is also concerned. in the water source or close to this pollution so there could be a problem because it could affect our pond this is the 21st century there are designated places to put waste like this it's an acceptable people are doing this and regulate the mayor's office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means no need of yourself on a financial level for us this is impossible to solve we have a small community of $1000.00 people it would cost the equivalent of the whole

annual budget to get rid of this. a criminal investigation into this problem with cross border dumping has we know you print and customs agents have stepped up their patrols now in 2017 they reported 7 metric tons of waste like this was illegally trafficked into france in 2018 that shot up to 130000000 metric tons now although there are no figures yet available for 29000 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground of the people's waste they want more regulation and a calling on the e.u. to step in to solve a problem that some believe europe's open borders are helping to facilitate. ski for r.t. . britain's 4 time olympic champion and top

and durrance runner mara is facing fresh media scrutiny or claims he repeatedly lied to us doping officials about his alleged use of a controversial supplement alexy airshaft he has more. this summer the whole of great britain will be glued to their screens rooting for the nation's prize athlete 4 time olympic champion run out more or will they and you panorama documentary by the b.b.c. has cost further doubt on whether more farah success was cleanly won the don't fall back to salazar who could serve more to. choose what to do to win at all costs the main sticking point is the role of former coach alberto salazar who was banned in october 29000 from any sports activities he was the head of the controversial nike oregon project until the u.s. anti-doping agency suspected he may have banned the dopping rules one of those substances he used was l. carnitine designed to speed up muscle and heart recovery for athletes it's

considered legal indows this which do not exceed 50 millimeters over 6 hours salazar however reportedly invented a new method of administering l. carnitine through intravenous injections which itself sparked questions from u.s. anti-doping authorities it has not been a secret that more have had injections of the substance prior to the law on the marathon in 2014 but the new documentary opens a fresh can of worms namely about the relationship between salazar and u.k. athletics meet barry fudge head of long distance running at you get led takes still working at the organization in 2014 he reportedly flew to switzerland to obtain the el carnitine in a form which could not have been acquired in the u.k. he did not document this trip even though he had to he's calling u.k. athletics dr rob chakravarty reportedly administered the injections to more and yet he didn't report it either even though it is against the rules to prevent he later said he simply forgot to do that over working and travelling to most of germany

better than usual occurrence that this very specific medicine was required a source of great difficulty given against the initial advice of the doctor being the word he said he recalls of it and there were supposed to be quite a better but the eve. more bizarre case of forgetfulness occurred with more himself when usada investigators came to question him 1st he staunchly denied that he was. left the interrogation but then came back and changed his account having spoken to barry fudge i have never taken ill carnitine injections at all i just wanted to come clean sorry guys and i did take it at the time and i thought i did it all comes back for me but at the time i didn't remember more farrah's lawyer says the athlete just didn't get the question now having seen the documentary the u.k. anti-doping agency's c.e.o. nicole sapp said said she the agency was ready to cooperate and even called usada is investigation robust we thank the panorama team for their efforts the program is

another example of the importance of investigative journalism regards and integrity matters in sports u.k. antidoping agency support of the u.s. and to duping agency with their investigation into the nike oregon project we believe us and today been agencies investigation was extensive and robust but just a month ago the u.k. openly refused to hand over more fire us all to doping probes to usada for retesting now there's no word whether this these new revelations would lead to the much sought retesting of ferrous probes because who knows what kind of further controversies surrounding the pride of britain sport such a move would uncover after this latest panorama bombshell we asked us tell just and former sports lecturer alice cashmore and swimming coach marco hendricks for their thoughts on the scandal. i'm sorry i just don't buy the fact that some will or some people could be so forgetful if someone injects

a substance into you you don't forget you can just walk away and say no they didn't do it and then sometime later say oh i forgot it happened it keeps a now this is all through pete over the last 24 hours we did nothing that wasn't compliant with water protocols you know if this al connotate is ok if administered in the right dosage yes but they're also saying it may not be within the spirit of sport what does that mean you know this to me is it is so of they are it's illegal or is it there's no 2 ways about it and if there has been a violation of a lot of code then i'm afraid u.k. athletics has to be brought to justice so i sing that's all a little bit funny what happened now and this time in the u.k. a city has to say sion at 1st. set.

on a t. and suddenly he sings it has he taken it and the u.k. asleep it doesn't say shit chief medical officer says it was legal and nothing was documented it's for me all a big lie sometimes i wonder if. slits or doctor are saying that people are stupid imagine the same thing happened in the russian this time would be a block to be in for the next or another for 4 years but the same like knowledge in the u.k. is a small city. still the common market about castro hard to us democratic front runner bernie sanders and the last t.v. debate before super tuesday after an hour after sharp rock.

that's also very important the small. cost of goods you can influence. in the nature and that he stands for legacy in the. structures to greatness decided to show the extract and some functions for them for the rest of the life in the long. shots seem wrong. but old quotes just don't hold. any gold that is yet to shape out these days it comes to education and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

i. welcome back the u.s. democratic 2020 hopefuls have clashed again and another t.v. debate the last before south carolina and super tuesday which is seen as decisive for the party's presidential nomination front runner bernie sanders face more attacks from his rivals for his earlier remarks defending literature literacy programs in fidel castro's cuba he again stressed that he opposed authoritarianism all over the world noting also that his views on cuba were the same as barack obama as the self-styled socialist words were initially made in a c.b.s. interview and his opponents were quick to pounce. were very opposed to believe or authoritarian that you're of cuba but you know when you go it's unfair to simply

say everything is but you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program it's not a bad thing after 4 years of looking on in horror as trump cozied up to dictators we need a president who will be extremely clear in standing against regimes that violate human rights abroad we can't risk nominating someone who doesn't recognize this fidel castro left a dog legacy of forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people because you will bernie let's talk about his literacy program earlier my colleague daniel hawkins discussed the potential impact of senders remarks on the race with a panel of guests. bunnie sana saying this thing at a time when the democratic party's already split it's the vibe that it's going through perhaps a bit of a p.r. it means here across this i mean this is a really bad decision isn't it the sanders to me shows his integrity here look he's

been saying this for years that there's videotapes of him saying these things about cuba and fidel castro in the soviet union i mean how can he backtrack on those things honestly you know he's just you know reaffirming ideas that he has had for many years the concern is not him saying good things about the literacy program it's i said it thing that mussolini got the trains to run on time that was not what it is that people associated with what mussolini did it happened to be the case but he was a murderous dictator as was castro spineless democratic stablish man shows their true colors it's like a litmus test every time you can say one positive word about cuba or a one word in defense of venezuelan sovereignty they want to make sure there's no critique peerless critique of the u.s. foreign policy establishment so this is a very sophisticated form of censorship to try to narrow the perimeter is as we

have more and more debates within the democratic party coming out of that anyone can all get literacy is a bad thing literacy programs that's probably we could all agree on that but isn't this an era of judgment on bunny sourness paul given there are lots of countries with good literacy programs with social programs and robust human rights records i mean this is surely shooting oneself in the foot before a important electoral race we have a democratic nominee who is tipping is hat to castro the murderer for having a literacy program so it's not just a question of steps or ship or narron things it's making 100 percent sure we have a nominee who is electable and the concern is one to the public realizes what bernie sanders. in the past he's an unreconstructed socialist and the united states that generally not a calling card the unofficial religion of the united states is in its eye communism and we just have to listen to richard previous comments but to hear some of the

communism but the truth is that the youth of this country in the multi-national working class who supported bernie in nevada 46 percent of the votes that he won in nevada are not in socialist they understand who the true enemy is the enemy is not venezuela or cuba or china it's the 1000000000 is right here in the pentagon in the white house the former. mayor of new york city michael bloomberg and on wall street i will quote george w. bush who said we judge other countries by the worst of their actions we judge our own country by the best of our intentions and i think that's true you can look at a country like cuba and yes you can learn about literacy programs that work health care programs that work and we should be able to do that in a rational way again especially when you look at the fact that people like president trump and president obama before him and numerous presidents before them partnered with murderous regimes like saudi arabia which now is being funded by the

u.s. in its war against yemen which is threatening to kill millions of people and yet that is something that isn't being discussed. violence broke out between riot police and hundreds of residents on the greek islands of month post and here with people there are furious over the authorities plans to build new migrant detention centers officers resorted to tear gas to disperse the crowd which had set fire to trash pens and tried to blockade the local port. this is democracy and for this is democracy is that if this is democracy then i don't know what to say i don't know it's a shame shame on the government shame on everyone it's disgusting it's betrayed him and acceptable for what the way the government has acted towards us and they would

be treating us like we're enemy it's ireland is on it's attack is it belongs to the islanders this country was based on democracy and the only they have done is create inhumanity of all for the refugees and for the residents of the island earlier greece's foreign minister announced a new policy aimed at protecting refugees stressing also about the country was on the frontline of the my current crisis greece continues to deal with the largest flows of migrants and refugees since the 2nd world war we are among the 4 e.u. member states with the highest number of asylum applications despite the disproportionate burden we have saved thousands of lives in the sea newcomers are living in makeshift camps which are overcrowded for example the morea camp on last post was a little originally designed to accommodate around $3000.00 refugees but now the number is almost 7 times higher last year 74000 refugees arrived in greece with

more than half that number still living in camps this year the country estimates some 100000 asylum seekers will reach its soil political analyst petra regrow says that the situation could get worse without much more support. regarding the present situation as it is i want to we're going to have classes between. the little people and the migrants the islanders do not want to be expelled from wear on. staying so far and just protest that. things can get pretty worse in this time of the silence of the competition is a dreadful so it's only logical the crime will increase if he doesn't. and we're on the phone same thing i. do with programs like yours in program in greece european union program and i just

it's a program of just one country will be in big big trouble that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. they're just taking over all the alternative all. that taking and as i say the state so the . cold real choice binary choice and only choice is it he said. and best binary thing is not a chance for the arab states to sort of provide a new architecture of by the cold ted and start negotiations with. israel they

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