here. we reached. the northeastern france accuse their belgian neighbors of illegally dumping trash across the border our correspondent charles devinsky investigates being described as being on the scale and you can see why. also this hour in venezuela slim's us think sions as a weapon of mass destruction and a massed form of warfare at present donald trump threatening to impose further restrictions on the country's oil sector. and u.k. athletics officials come under fire after a b.b.c. documentary claims they took part in a doping scandal involving olympic champion mo farah.

welcome to the program and happy wednesday to you all this is r t international bring you your live news update. residents in northeastern friends are creating a stink by trash talking their belgian neighbors they can use them across the border fly tipping are to charlotte devinsky visit the region. this may look like part of a landfill site but it's not 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 mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby red 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

a regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. they're throwing everything away. 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 tonnes 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 locals track down where the waste was coming from what if we did the arms 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 turn up. some of it if there is an invoice is it and it i'm very clear it says and to have been so of s o o n 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 redone the local. association is also concerned. in the water source or close to this pollution so there can be a problem because it could affect our pond this is the 21st century there are designated places to put waste like this on 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 new and if your so 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 didn't 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 are calling on the to step in to solve a problem that some believe europe's open borders are helping to facilitate. ski for r.t. . u.s. president donald trump has threatened further sanctions on bet as well as oil

sector are crackers has been an american restrictions a weapon of mass destruction accusing washington of waging a master form of warfare it's now been a year since the u.s. formally recognized venezuela's opposition leader as the country's interim president showing the door to the legitimate government of nicolas maduro but washington stands that there's been a job. transfer of power is looking increasingly hollow as artist explains. when it comes to venezuela the trumpet ministration lives in a kind of alternate universe for example 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 wealthy 15 years ago and very wealthy 20 years ago very very wealthy 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 were 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 is an embassy 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 in. to venezuela with those visas because the embassy doesn't represent the actual venezuelan government this pretend embassy is just a big facade representing a president not a lect it by the venezuelan people that buy american officials duras grip and tear it will be smashed and broken. here this evening so 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 illegitimate 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 them as whalen 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 do 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 do you not agree

that the recognition of glial is an absolute am barris months to anyone that has occupied this chamber i was a disgrace and and a part of the member states of europe a so many of them have recognized and i'd like to washington had very high hopes for one guede 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 u.s. is totally broken international law by taking over the embassy in the name of the pm to them as well and government is the official government of venezuela whenever the u.s. says. most people in venezuela knows. it's a joke. you can't just declare that somebody is the elected president when he isn't the electorate. the the us is making this. 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 kwaito is the government edition of any other option and really hasn't been able to push dura out. a new b.b.c. documentary claims that u.k. athletics officials are implicated in a doping controversy and dumping britain's 4 time olympic champion and top and durrance runner up mo farah alexia chefs he has mark. 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 plan around a documentary by the b.b.c. has cost further doubt on whether more farah success was cleanly won the don't for back to salazar costs or move 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 doping 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 intervene as 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 the long distance running at you get led to. still working at the organization in 2014 he reportedly flew to switzerland to obtain the l. carnitine in a form which could not have been acquired in the u.k. he did not document this trip even though he had 2 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 due to over working and travelling to most of you 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 who keeps any records of it and therefore decides to keep quiet about it but the even 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 didn't it all comes back to me but at the time i don'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 in integrity matters in sports u.k. and to doping agency supported the u.s. anti 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 if they all 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 our connotate is ok if administered in the right dosage errors 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. at 1st

more far set i don't take. on it t. and suddenly it seems he has he taken it and the u.k. asleep because a station chief medical officer says it was legal and nothing was documented it's for me or a big lie sometimes i wonder if. it's or a doctor saying that people are stupid imagine the same thing happened in the russian this time would be blocked again for the next or another 4 for us but the same like knowledge in the u.k. is a small city. still ahead remarks about fidel castro thing us democratic front runner bernie sanders a ramadan by his rivals and the last t.v. debate before super tuesday details on that after this break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the press this is what before 3 in the morning people. interested in the why. they're just taking over all the alternative. taking and as i say the stage so that this is what's called real choices binary choice and the only choice is if you

say her. best binary thing is not a chance for the states to swell to provide a new architecture revive the cold ted and start negotiations with. israel that they don't invited to negotiate their invites to see what's being put on the table . welcome back u.s. democratic 2020 hopefuls have clashed again and then another t.v. debates last before south carolina and super tuesday but just seen as decisive for the party's presidential nomination front runner bernie sanders face more attacks from his rivals for his remarks defending literacy programs and fidel castro's cuba a self-styled socialist words were initially made an extreme yes interview and his opponents were quick to pounce. were very opposed to be authoritarian nature of

cuba but you know it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program is not a bad think 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 dark legacy of forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people but sure bernie let's talk about his literacy program there in the debate sanders noted that his views on cuba where the same as barack obama. said this president castro. and said look you've made great progress in educating. young people every child in cuba it's a basic education that's that's a huge improvement from where it once earlier my colleague daniel hawkins discussed

the potential impact of sanders remarks 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 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 men 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. of the us 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 the guy who 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 bernie 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 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 stature 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. said 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 it's a communism and we just have to listen to richard previous comments boy to hear some of the anti-communism but the truth is that the youth of this country in the multinational working class who supported bernie in nevada 46 percent of the votes that he won in nevada they're not socialists 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 last bus and here are people there are furious over their thirty's plan to build new migrant detention centers officers resorted to tear gas to disperse the crowd which had set fire to trash bins 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 and acceptable for what the way the government has acted towards us and they would be treating us like we're enemy it's our land is on it's like is it belongs to the islanders this country was based democracy and the only they have done is create inhumanity for all for the refugees and for the residents of the island earlier greece is foreign minister announced a new policy aimed at protecting refugees stressing also that the country was on the frontline of the migrant 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 originally designed to accommodate around 3000 refugees but now the number is almost 7 times higher last year at 74000 refugees arrived in greece with more than half that number still living in camps and this year the country estimates some 100000 asylum seekers will reach its soil political analyst petrus our group says of the situation could get worse without more in you support. regarding the present situation as it is i want to we're going to have classes between. the low people and the migrants the islanders do not want to be expelled from world island so they're staying so far and protesting if things can get pretty words in this

some of this island. become condition is a dreadful so it's only logical of a crime will increase if you doesn't. and we're on the phone same thing i. do with programs like yours in program in greece european union program and not just this a program of just one country will be in big big trouble. that's our roundup of the day's top news for now and that's all for me as well but my colleague neil hobbit will be taking over at about 30 minutes but that while the news broke down. in the troubled 19 seventies

a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks on the catholic population tens of thousands are forced to flee their homes come up with strike and put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast i think more than 100 innocent civilians with. the if you can see news and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the currents which the pollution was involved in some of those places they kill as would lead to be named. until then i'm getting i think it went to the very very top i think it is frosts the water where politicians you thought it was going on and give the go ahead.

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oh and welcome to the arty interview one peter lavelle donald trump's deal of the century has been put forward what does it say about the middle east geopolitics in event metaphysics i may gain joined by allister croaky is a former british and diplomat founder and director of conflicts forum alister welcome back to moscow every hour we meet we can. about the middle east you know when donald trump and his administration put forward their deal of the century for what we thought was going to be the the israeli palestinian conflict to be resolved actually is something much much more comprehensive and i've read dozens and dozens of articles about it they all pretty much say the same thing but your article

recent article israel in the middle east a civilizational and metaphysical war of this is so think very different in looking at the deal this century what your thesis in this article is simply the fact to recognize that israel or zionism is more like any normal nationalism it's not like nationalism of russian nationalism or other nationalism precisely because it was given this was dictated by god and it was an empire of a civilizational a metaphysical empire. came to the roman empire it came to the room and then and even the secular leaders of it like being gorean who was very secular all saw this not just as a nationalist project but the redemption of the human race is what he described i mean not the jewish people but the human race as a whole and it's in and it tells the jews exactly what

will be them that it will other states will submit to them they will provide their wealth honey milk will be coming to them and they will rule over this and in a sense this is what we're talking about it is the judeo christian civilizational project for the middle east always always was that and now it is be actualized and the american ambassador friedman was very clear in the soft of the meetings and the east room at the y. . house he said listen you know this is the bible being actualized i mean living in the old testament oh yes i know it only the old testament the jewish bible the old testament and so this is what is coming and really the deal of the century was the sort of laying the foundations 1st of all for.