is here. to be reached. towns in northeastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of illegally dumping rubbish across the border our correspondent do investigations. being described as being just feel scale and you can see why. israel islam's u.s. sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction and i must form of war for. even more restrictions on the country so. you can't let its officials come under fire after a b.b.c. documentary claims that they took part in a doping scandal involving a little pick champion.

good afternoon to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. residents of towns in northeastern france are creating a stink by trash talking the belgian neighbors are accusing them of some serious cross border flight if it were to show the dubin ski visited 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 what 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. 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 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 i was looking through the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place and i don't know it was from on turnip. and that if there is an invoice to it is it.

there you know it says. so there but when the company was contacted it didn't need 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 dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in the local fisherman's association is also concerned. on 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 and people are doing this and regularly in the mayor's office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means no and if you know 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. sons now although there are no figures yet available for $29000.00 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground for other 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 charlotte do you can ski for. us

president on trump further sanctions on venezuela's all center remark caracas has branded american restrictions a weapon of mass destruction accusing washington of waging a mask form of warfare has been here since the us formally recognize venezuela's opposition leader one glendower as the country's interim president and the fish really cold shouldered the legitimate government of nicholas dura washington stance on a supposed transfer of power is looking increasingly hollow as r.t. style of woman 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 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 it is we're no

we're watching as well a very closely we don't like it we don't like it now that 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 in access almost really meant using the blockade of food medicine and weapons to politically coworkers were private entire countries and their own needs to sustain and develop themselves are actually. are completely criminal these unilateral curse or criminal actions are equivalent in scope and effect 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. very interesting because i hear that there are 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 into 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 elected by the venezuelan people but by american officials duras group 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 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. i. 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 of the legitimate president of venezuela but over $100.00 countries have not recognized one wedo 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 barrus months to anyone that has occupied this chamber and this is a disgrace and on the part of the member states of europe a so many of them have recognized and i like to 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 pm to the venezuelan government is the official government of venezuela whenever. the u.s. . joke that 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

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 madeira out. of. the british sporting communities being rocked by fresh allegations in an ongoing doping control the b.b.c. documentaries claim the u.k. athletics officials are implicated in a scandal involving the country's for time a limb champion and top insurance for mo farah. has details. 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 costs are moved to the court to what to do when at all costs

the main sticking point is the role of former coach alberto salazar who was banned in october 29000 from a new 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 intravenous injections which itself sparked questions from u.s. anti-doping authorities it has not been a secret that i had had injections of the substance prior to the long 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 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 over working and travelling to must be better than usual occurrence that this very specific medicine was required source to great difficulty given against the initial advice of the don't know he said he records of it and there were dishonest question answers 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 used in 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 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 agencies 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 an integrity matters in sports u.k. and to doping agency support of the u.s. anti doping agency with their investigation into the nike oregon project we believe us and to do in agencies investigation was extensive in robust but just a month ago the u.k. openly refused to hand over more 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 are sociologist and sports lecturer ellis cashmore and swimming coach 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 wider 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 wife a 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 sure at 1st more far set i don't take a look at and t. and suddenly it seems he has he taken it and the u.k. asleep because the station chief medical officer says it was legal and nothing was documented it's for me all 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 for 4 years but the same like an elephant in the u.k. is a small city. remarks about fidel castro see us democratic front been

a bernie sanders around it done by his rivals in the last t.v. debate before super tuesday will bring it up story and others after the break. join me every 1st week on the alex salmond short and i'll be speaking to the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there.

welcome back the 2020 democrats hopefuls in the race for the white house of clashed again in another t.v. debate the last before super tuesday which is seen as decisive for the party's presidential nomination the front runner bernie sanders faced more attacks from his rivals for remarks that he made earlier defending the literacy programs of fidel

castro's cuba the self-styled socialist words were initially made in a c.b.s. interview his opponents were quick to pounce. we're very opposed to be authoritarian nature of cuba but you know hugo 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 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. during the debates and this is quick to point out his views on cable were the same as barack obama's. 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 wants. at my colleague daniel hawkins to the potential impact of some remarks on the race with a panel of guests. bernie sanders saying this thing at a time when the democratic party's already split its 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 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 and so imperialist 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 error 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 steps or ship or narrowing 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 has 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 in communism and we just have to listen to richard previous comments boy 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 they're not anti-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. the been violent scenes between riot police and hundreds of locals only greek islands of lesbos and kill people there are a furious of the authorities plan to build new migrant tension centers of disease

tear gas to disperse the crowd which is rubbish bins and trying to blockade the local port. god. 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 what to say 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 islet if that means attack is a belongs to the islanders this country was based on democracy and you know they have done is create inhumanity while for the refugees and for the residents of the island. earlier this is foreign minister announced a new policy aimed at protecting refugees stressing the country was also on the

front line of the migrant crisis. greece continues to deal with the largest flows of migrants and refugees since the 2nd world war we are among before e.u. member states with the highest number of asylum applications despite the disproportionate burden we have saved thousands of lives in the sea migrants are living in makeshift camps which are overcrowded for example the more you camp on less boss was only designed to accommodate around $3000.00 refugees but now the number is almost 7 times higher. 700000 refugees arrived in greece. number still living in camps this year the country estimates some 100000 to saddam seekers will reach the shul's let's go on the status of the good it says that the situation to get with us without more support from the e.u. . regarding the present situation as it is that women are going to have classes between. the local people and the migrants the islanders do not want to

be expelled from world. staying so far and just protest that if things can get pretty worse in this some of the silence of the competition is a dreadful so it's only logical of a. crime will increase to you doesn't. it. on the front seem. like there's a program in greece european union and i'm just this is just one guy. will be in big big trouble. i. in other global stories for you a 3rd day of violent antigovernment protests in the indian capital has taken the death toll there to at least 20 according to local health officials in mass was

triggered by a so-called citizenship amendment act it's been criticized for discriminating against muslims in the country controversial moves adopted last december indian police have been using small drones to identify the rioters. students fall battles with police in the colombian capital budgets are on monday to protest this from the pedagogical forget sorrow and get it the creation an alleged abuse of his mobile and to disturbance cause protesters barricaded themselves within the gates of the campus so tear gas canisters with each other. on the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the right place unit these throughout its history is face numerous accusations of brutality.

and in the news of his own local festival exploding sledgehammers has been the center point of celebrations in the small mexican town of san juan that of a good suspense a time a touch a mixture of so far and cool right to the end the sledgehammers which they then smashed against rail tracks exploded in substance into huge clouds of smoke one of those in attendance injured the leg in the blast and was seen being stretched away by medics. ok about it today thanks for staying with me for updates and often. all the alternative all critics. because i say the stage show that this was called real choices the binary choice and only choice is if you say you're a variable and both binary thing is not

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