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parts of the west bank will benjamin netanyahu is newly formed government heed those warnings will discuss it's time to boost your news i.q. . more than 2 weeks after a botched beachfront invasion on the shores of venezuela to a u.s. mercenaries captured by a bit of will military forces have again publicly admitted they had the backing from the u.s. meantime on wednesday a special remote hearing a united nations security council was held over accusations that the u.s. was behind that failed coup attempt but while the u.s. continues to deny its support of operation it did have some choice words for russia or his rachel blevins is joining us now to discuss the latest on this so rachel how did this hearing even come about so russia was actually become true calling for

this hearing based on the letter that was submitted to the u.n. security council by have been this way a law which was calling for some sort of response to this attempted to talk on their government take a listen to a portion of that letter. i quote armed groups of mercenaries and terrorist organized trained financed in protected by the governments of the republic of colombia and the united states of america illegally entered the venezuelan territory now the us ambassador to the un argued that they never should have even considered the letter in the 1st place because the us does not recognize nicolas maduro as the president of venezuela here's what all she had to say the letter from the illegitimate madeira regime that prompted today's meeting. as such letters always are a long winded compilation of fantastical accusations and demonstratable phosphorescence unfortunately for the 2nd time in less than a month our russian colleagues have indulged their client regimes habit of blaming

others for it's appalling choices so in addition to 9 those allegations the u.s. is also arguing the blame should be on russia for taking this letter as credible in the 1st place wow ok so then how has russia responded or have they well the russian deputy minister to the u.n. argued that if this is a case where the u.s. had no involvement whatsoever in this operation then why was it led by 2 american citizens who just happened to be targeting the same president the trouble ministration has been trying to overthrow for more than a year now take us know what he said because authorities claim that they have nothing to do with this league lead to believe them but seem to explain that according to the contract to american citizens well any that they cost of legitimately hysteric resident and bring him to the u.s. for what purpose we are asked. now those operation was led by greenberger a veteran jordan grew drone who spent months looking for investors claiming his

goal was to overthrow the venezuelan government and then secure the oil fields which would lead to a lucrative return on investment he claimed he had contact in d.c. the backing of the state department and that he was working with opposition leader one goh i don't know who has had the full support of the trumpet ministration now the attempt was carried out on may 3rd just 3 days after former national security adviser john bolton took to twitter to say morning is coming to venezuela again and a few weeks after the state department offered a 15000000 dollar reward for information on the duro and now rachel what about iran they are sending supplies or sending tankers over to venezuela right now what's the latest on that so the iranian ambassador to venezuela confirmed that that fleet of 5 tankers carrying more than $45000000.00 worth of gasoline and supplies is still in route to venezuela despite ongoing complaints from the u.s. and he argued that these are 2 independent sovereign nations and that they should

be able to have trade and legal agreements with each other no matter the sanctions they're facing from the u.s. now venezuela's defense minister also revealed the country's military plans to be ready and waiting to escort iran's tankers as soon as they reach venezuela's exclusive economic zone and as we have been reporting venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world but due to the ongoing economic crisis that has been compounded by sanctions from the u.s. they are unable to refine their own crude oil so they have turned to other countries like iran for help and of course the u.s. has been very against us so now it remains to be seen if washington is going to try to move forward and stop that exchange parties rachel blood and thank you for that update thank you. and for analysis on this ongoing situation we will go to danny shah he's a professor of latin american and caribbean studies at the city university of new york and professor thanks for being with us. 1st can you clear up any confusion for us as to why the u.s. is having such

a problem with 2 countries iran and venezuela obviously who are both sanctioned by the u.s. now doing business with one another is there any precedent for how to deal with a situation like this. there's iran precedent or against any country that there is . but not a mirror or who. or is this where i read in the in the storm in every right to trade on usually beneficial terms so these are iranian these 5 iranians saying they don't just start fly the flag of iran that really fly the flag of humanity the entire global south the entire 3rd world who strives for a better way forward. now. professor what what do you make of venezuela's perspire thus far i mean having a military escort to move these vessels to shore doesn't that visually kind of amp up the tension. you know are. there were any country where there are

many who are very hard to. send things like you were. like the yard they were doing and pretend it was all busy or bomber or when certain woolgrowers don't consider where you are you think you have been incredibly cool and at a time we will learn more and more 5000008. 109 we're proud to announce here. out in the priority of trial was not really their overthrow or bureaucratic. and the u.n. hasn't really been too vocal on this entire venezuela issue they have not fully backed why doa in his camp but also they have a really full throated thing back in the door either and they're definitely not telling the u.s. to stand down on any action against venezuela including these botched you know off

the books attempts at a coup so what's the un's role here what's their position. your answers are pretty well earned this already 'd accepted your rule resorts. it never a are not denounced is mercenary when there are some 2 weeks ago it never denounced the 50000000 pouncey that the u.s. illegally criminally put on the head of nicolas mogul just alchemy and the other the elite the bill of aryan leadership they've done very little to fight against these sanctions the sanctions are incredibly cruel extensionally denying the venezuelan people yes i mean threatening to cut off what's our. facebook google things that we. the imperialist countries would take for granted it is all designed to demoralize and dishearten but as well in people if they continue to fight back by any means necessary in some areas and professor you're just a moment ago mentioned that $1000.00 obviously today we are are learning now that

latin america now has the fastest growing rate of covert cases do you expect the us to have any sympathy towards venezuela as they battle this worldwide pandemic. at the very height of this global un president and pandemic all they've done is tight restrictions their plan has always been nice these sanctions are not the end and the trump existed for a long time and a democratic president seizes as well and what they seek to do is completely drain venezuela of its economic potential create hardship create mass migration create hunger stoke the flames of any sectarianism and then c.n.n. and fox news the whole gamut of us mainstream channels and newspapers turns around points the finger my guru mother who does the only name no ever mention the crying out to people of mentioning any of the ball of ari leadership and they really don't

have an understanding of how widespread hugo chavez his influence in this bolivarian revolution has been for 2 decades and professor i have a little bit of time left and you just mentioned that venezuela has actually been in the crosshairs and the us before donald trump can you give us a bit of a brief breakdown on as to why. i think we all know why because it's got enormous natural resources the mines the oil the same reason it led america has been in a crisis of spanish colonialism portuguese colonialism and us neo colonialism with his junior partners now for 5 centuries so not much has changed we saw with the us did to the sundanese the revolution. 1979 we saw the u.s. invasion of grenada and i said 83 the invasion of panama 989 the united states continues to have this night 1824 month road this attitude that lead america is their backyard but the people that america are sick of this going to defend so we

sort of they're going to defend alba in the gains of the both of our in projects right professor danny shall we got to leave it right there but thank you so much for your very hot take on this. all right while the country is focused on the kobe 1000 pandemic it is a big day for the battleground state of michigan president trump is headed there right now as we speak and is expected to visit with some essential workers are live outside of the white house and there has been a heated back and forth between that state's governor and the president. there hasn't actually michigan has been at the front and center of not only the colbert 1000 trying to make when you also have in the state you have dams breaking you have flooding you have thousands of people having to be evacuated from their homes but for the trump administration it's more for them about how the battleground state is going to vote this coming november now we're going to give you a live look here trump actually just touched down moments ago and epsilon in

michigan where he is expected to for tour of the ford motor facility and that's where yesterday the president was actually asked whether he was going to be wearing a mask while he tours this plant which is in the process of actually manufacturing ventilators to which trump said quote it all depends now that's where michigan's attorney general she fired back saying that if trump did not were mask while he tours this facility he would not be allowed to come back to the state now because of the coronavirus pandemic michigan has considered implementing mail in ballots now this november to which president onil term followed up in tweets wednesday threatening to hold up federal funds if michigan decides to give mail in ballots the green light listen here. while i have very specific funding i just spoke with the go over that we didn't discuss that we would discuss before the topic at hand plus the dams break you so we didn't but we'll let you know if it's necessary you'll be finding out they'll be trying to go very soon if it's necessary. trump

referring there to the 2 dam breaks that lead to severe flooding in evacuations in the central part of the state so far more than 10000 people have been forced to leave their homes now trump says that he has sent fema in to help the area but again as far as sending federal funding. there is that threat of those mail in ballots now it's unclear that governor gretchen whitman me will join the president on his tour of the 4th facility today but thursday morning she did announce that the state is starting to lift its covert 1000 restrictions that have been in place for months this is protests have been going on at the state's capital to reopen the witmer announcing that the bat is now lifted on non-essential medical and dental procedures reopening retail and residents can actually gather in groups of 10 or less all which can start immediately listen here. to data has shown that all regions of michigan are ready for us to. step forward we're doing this incrementally on multiple occasions like a dial returning not a switch that we just won't. know what we're to say that the stay at home order in

michigan probably will be going forward and actually be extending it was actually expected to extend until next week but the tensions between whitmer and donald trump seem to be rising a little bit and it is still not know whether those 2 will actually meet today face to face while he tours the ford motor plant facility they did talk on the phone multiple times yesterday but again still unclear whether they will meet face to face now trump did when the battleground state of michigan back in 2016 against hillary clinton now many political analysts say manilla that the chances of trumpery winning the mitten state all depends on the economy and how it actually rebounds once the covert 19 pandemic starts to take a little bit of a fall reporting in front of the white house fair and fronsac party. and despite america slowly reopening another 2400000 people have applied for unemployment benefits last week since the start of the pandemic nearly 39000000 americans have lost their jobs although the number of new filings have dropped for

7 straight weeks economists warn that it isn't falling fast enough. and international voices are growing louder warning israel against an extinct parts of the west bank but will benjamin netanyahu newly formed government heed those warnings we're going to discuss and then over at sports we're going to hand brings us a wild 18 run game over at the k b l so to keep up with the latest news and anything you might have missed make sure you download our brand new free app portable t.v. i just 247 called me back into. the boonies. the bread.

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ties with the u.s. now some members of the e.u. are calling for punitive economic measures to be taken against israel if they move forward with an exceptions of the west bank leading that call is france along with belgium ireland luxembourg and a lot more so here and away and while they are still in the e.u. former u.k. m.p. george galloway as a georgian only hungary and austria seem to be pro israeli annexation of the west bank at this point the e.u. sets its foreign policy standards by consensus though so given that this is such a minority in favor of tacitly allowing israel to do this what will happen next. well the only thing that's ever been done by the european union by europe to punish israel for its egregious breach is of international law and human rights legislation is to force them to participate in the euro vision song contest which

is cruel and unusual but not exactly punishment we even allow them to participate in european football championships even though of course they are not in europe so this is small talk and not our sun nothing else the european union will do nothing to stand up against what israel appears to be about to do i was going to say the european public opinion is something else and this will widen the breach between european public opinion and united states government policy but i want to a row of beans either so israel knows that it has a wide open field and it will go ahead i'm sure and annex the jordan valley as it has annexed the golan heights and east jerusalem long before it and george the

austrian foreign minister alexander schellenberg says this is a rejection of prejudice against israel doesn't happen in grounds to make that sort of statement. well it is odd perhaps even amusing that hungary which is led by a man most jews in the world consider. a man who's constantly on the warpath against prominent jews like the hungary and george soros is nonetheless extremely close to israel and austria of course the birthplace of hitler of the mom star who systematically moderate $6000000.00 jews in the 2nd world war may be a little sensitive on this subject france is trying to steal a march amongst out of public opinion because now that britain has abandoned its many decades 100 years actually of being supposedly sympathetic to the arabs

because of our long and deep position in the arab world at the time of the iraq war you'll recall that france was the leading force against the invasion and occupation of iraq and now france is a position and make itself as the european country that stood up for palestine but not stood up very much they'll talk but they won't do anything at all and lastly george israel's government is on shaky ground some might say after these numerous general elections they've held between benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz if the 2 men will share power by splitting the number of months in the seat as prime minister is there any chance that they will have different implementation or plans for the west bank. well prime minister netanyahu is as you know at this point in time both on trial for corruption and sitting in the prime minister's

office in jerusalem and about to make a very very significant international move an egregious breach of international law complete defiance on all of the laws that govern territory occupied by force but i'm sorry to tell you that mr ganns would do exactly the same so if netanyahu is jailed as a result of this corruption trial gant takes his place but it's business as usual in the poor palestinians won't have anyone really to do anything about it for them you know which i still got another minute so i want to squeeze this question in there after mahmoud abbas's announcement yesterday what is going to change. well if he means a stymie said many many times before then it means that israel will have to take

over the administration and all the security of the entirety of the west bank which is the only place where president mahmoud abbas actually governs and governs only on the sufferance of mr netanyahu now that will be significant if it happens because it means when the use of the occupied territories rises up it will not be palestinian policemen and soldiers shooting at them it will have to be israeli soldiers and policemen and that just might set a fire ablaze another intifada there's also something else you should watch and that's the attitude of jordan the king of jordan has made it clear the annexation of the jordan valley is a red line for him and there will be absolute breach of faith and policy and all relations between jordan and israel if and when this. schools are good wow that'll be interesting to see how jordan plays a role in this so we'll leave it right there george galloway always appreciate your

take thank you. other news from around the world for a 4th straight night now riot police in paris have clashed with protesters over the death of an 18 year old motorcyclist overnight protesters could be seen throwing fireworks at police the unrest flared up last weekend after the 18 year old was killed in a collision his family says a police car was involved but police tonight that plane. and scary moments at a u.s. navy air base in corpus christi texas as the base went on lockdown after a gunman opened fire there shots rang out at about 6 15 am local time a security team rushed to the scene and quickly neutralized the situation officials say one navy sailor was shot but was wearing body armor the f.b.i. is currently investigating. and back here stateside actress lori laughlin and her husband have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in the nation's college college admissions scandal after maintaining their innocence for more than

a year both will plead guilty on friday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud as part of separate plea agreements with prosecutors in all 53 people were charged in what's now known as the varsity blues scandal. and regina hamm is over the sport h.q. regina a baseball game game with 18 runs is not something you really see anywhere no it's very unlikely it's very high scoring game kids not play by the way the league leading n.c. dynamos headed to the south korean capital of seoul to face off against tucson bears while the home team desperately needed a win top of the 1st day as designated hitter not some bum with the ground at a left field and he'll take the r.b.i. single put the visitors up one to nothing 8 on the season for him bottom of the 4th inning the bears responded this r.b.i. single by 3rd baseman her young min. to centerfield and that'll score short stop kim hey ho for the tight the time everything at one bear simply in the bottom of

the dinosaurs basin misses the ground or off the bat of jose won and his single will score right fielder par kuhn well home team up 2 to one bad light up top of the night including this high fly ball by notion you look to the left field warning track bears missed the catch in n.c. scores 2 visitors up 60 for the very happy about that do kept a roll in the top tonight for philadelphia phillies aaron all 3 with a deep solo homer to left center field the bench goes wild dido is now up 10 to 4 and it's a 2nd home run on the season for alter that i think very down to the last chance shortstop yoke ground up the 2nd 2 and the ballgames these 612 to 6 win in lead the league. the tokyo 20 alum picks are already post coaches summer of 2021 due to the corona virus pandemic and while athletes may be breathing a small side of relief the international olympic committee issued some words of

caution i.o.c. president thomas bach issued a warning that if conditions prevent the olympics from happening in 2021 that's the end of the line back in japanese prime minister shinzo ave said quote it's the last option the comments come after the organizing committee set to discuss contingency plans if no vaccination is available next summer i.o.c. members are following guidelines set in place by the world health organization to give both fans an athletes the safest possible experience it would be impossible to actually push the games to 2022 as that's when the winter olympics in beijing are going to be happening i.o.c. plans to actually bear the cost of $800000000.00 for its part of the tokyo summer games many hope they can go on as planned but bach says if they do the spirit will unite everyone in this time of struggle manila always good to see good news yeah exactly thank you for that regina and we will be back at 3 o'clock with a lot more news for you we're going to discuss new york city being. the epicenter of the coded outbreak should be reopened or lot of chatter on that all that and

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arena upon the coppa 19 crisis we'll talk with asia expert gordon chang on this edition of. the particular i'm larry king the coven 1000 crisis and u.s. china relations how are increased tensions between beijing and washington impacting the goal arena the world's response to the pen demick and donald trump's reelection bid will start there with asian expert gordon chang author of the coming collapse of china and the great u.s. china tech war he joins us from new jersey gordon the world health organization held saniel meeting this week and member states adopted a resolution to long.