ongoing crisis on the vanity of the madeira government this is why don't we spoke exclusively to r.t. his short extracts from that interview i mean. millions of in the soil and skip support a nicolas maduro how are you planning to win them over let them here is out all we want is to be heard and for our plan for the country's restoration to be heard a future we're building together i've told you that recently just a few days ago we had a meeting with ministers who worked on the chavez not under my door open on the chair of us today youth function members of the student movement were in attendance to let them hear as now let them hear is in the future but politics is notoriously full of good intentions what if you fail to make good on your promises to politics and life first and foremost it's about being attentive and then you can come good on those deeds actions on the delivery of humanitarian aid the protection of our us . the protection of our citizens the protection of newborn babies who should not have died in and so article a few days ago because the vanity of some people and there a

later on today modo in turn accuses quite go of attempting to stage a coup with washington's help r.t. his party boycott takes a closer look at the latest in case you missed it. in case you missed it venezuela is going through a sponsor of political turbulence but do not worry because the good samaritans in the west are going to sort it out yeah i know. it's all a bit of a job or in venezuela there are food shortages play sions out of control the president's mistah russia's out of control and the country doesn't want to miss wild title in over a decade and now there is a potential civil war in the horizon is pretty nightmarish leader nicolas maduro has been don't think he's celso on t.v. and posing with the army take it from me down saying. not a good sign after a position leader guy joe declared himself acting president and demanded new elections earlier this month madeira has it america's got to our eye so our minds analysis of bennett but this is one of those select few countries which gets almost no attention day to day in the wider world until suddenly for a brief news cycle everyone

shares his ideas on how to watch the news you can find links to that on r.t. social media pages but here's a quick peek at his latest. wealth but this date is the dispersal and uncontrollable crowd that you start some tomorrow and so all those who fight think you i think their mother bought them made this girl that put you out facts are all based on the last selected from a certain step up and that's why the most dangerous fake news in the sense of a lot east and a lot. weeks it was true fix it it's no you don't look you good dear he had our. ups and function of fake news did make us aware how are you going to beat. the truth. just some of our top stories for this hour here on this monday on our international go program at the top of the hour. countries gone into a nihilistic theme best time i think they got it hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlatans the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we've come a point around which element is done something we always are on the margins something.

r.t. should protect his interests and find out the reason behind this we've managed to stand up for our rightsmany times before and i hope this time won't be any different we should be able to manage this again you know the suspensions have also drawn sharp criticism from glenn greenwald a journalist best known for his revelations a bind us and u.k. surveillance programs he accuses facebook c.n.n. the marshall fund of selective censorship while my experimental from real news media to list he believes the social media behemoths has increasingly working in concert with the us government. well we know for a fact that this was done under government pressure but what's taken place is that a series of groups that appear to be private are taking the initial credit starting with c.n.n. the corporate media titan which conducted the investigation but it conducted this said at best a geisha at the urging. of a group that is actually funded by the u.s. government last year my colleague jeff sprague of the grey zone project reported that one of the directors of the alliance for securing democracy the neo c

pressure is building on nicolas maduro is more countries insist his claim to power is not legitimate he spoke with our sister channel r.t. spanish about the constitutional crisis gripping his country the full interview will be available on our website at r.t. dot com and also on our sister channels and social media pages here's a taste of what he said. i do not care how i'm going to go down in history and i'm not going to be a traitor a weak one like a man who turned his back on his historic commitments to his people. but. i pray to god that our country won't be invaded by the american. that's sort of the way to get money and that was i mean there will be no war in venezuela but no military intervention but this does not mean that we do not prepared to defend our land i'll just say korea. because you know i take advantage of every means of communication to ask the whole world to denounce and stop the madness of donald trump and this whale is never going to give in because. you want is donald trump's cassis barely not against venezuela the cast especially is the oil of venezuela the riches of venezuela it's gold gas iron

honeymoon in bangkok activists in leading sports personalities across the world are demanding his release r.t. if they like the he has the story it's not too often that you see sports personalities clubs fans and even high ranking officials unite for a cause but this has been just a case of hockey be a football player from bahrain currently behind bars in thailand chelsea legend didier drogba liverpool large and robbie fowler spurs legend gary lineker five time olympic champion swimmer in four entire sports federations all jumped in to urge football authorities to save hakim al arabia with first arrested in twenty twelve in bahrain when the country was going through a massive anti-government uprising violently quelled by the gulf states ruling family. he claims he was tortured in prison like thousands of others they spent three hours shooting me hard in my legs while saying it will break your bones will destroy your future you will never play football again with these legs in twenty fourteen he fled bahrain fearing for his life and in twenty seventeen he was granted political asylum in austra

as his ideas on how to watch the news you can find links to that on r.t. social media pages has a peek at some of his latest work well but that date is the dispersal in uncontrollable crowd that you start some tomorrow and so all those who fight think use i think their mother bought their babies grow up to look out facts are all based on the latest selected from a second step up and that's why the most dangerous fake news in the sense of law. east and i weeks to fix it's no easy oh look you go to the year yeah. and it will function of fake news day make us aware of how i think that id. be the truth. iranians are celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution rallies are being held in over a thousand cities and towns and people are paying tribute to the late found of the islamic republic the main event is in terra where there's a march through liberty square. on monday president hassan rouhani addressed the nation involving to expand the country's military might. just about it for me here on r.t. international for this. make this manufactured

as imperialist in his interviews with r.t. and other news outlets taking to visiting military bases across the country encouraging the troops to remain loyal and oversinging overseeing the armament of people's militias in the country on the other hand why doha's said over and over that he has not ruled out u.s. intervention and he's been trying over the past several weeks to encourage military officials to defect to his side but with very limited success actually as the majority are sticking by him a doro and one of the reasons for that is because many in the government don't think that the infant the invitation for an intervention on behalf of the u.s. is why doe's original idea. washington believes. its reaction stems from its pivot to doctrine of overthrowing regimes and democratic systems that don't like having their arms twisted the humanitarian aid is a big lie it's the wost possible diagnosis of the situation we've seen there is no humanitarian crisis the us is trying to frame the situation in a way that would allow it

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grenades one hit the guy's leg and he tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction and the grenade went off our sister channel r.t. france spoke with the father of the protester who lost his hand. on our susan we stayed in the hospital until late night to find out what's going to happen with him he's lost everything from the wrist down then we met the ophthalmologist to talk about his i he's only wasn't affected too much there's some superficial wounding but his hand is gone we'll file a complaint and then see what happens if he's not dead on a sunday and yesterday sebastian basically lost his hand in front of the national assembly he's crippled and he's a plumber he needs his hand to deal with basic daily stuff he's lost and because i don't know if you understand how symbolic it is but sebastian lost his hand in front of the national assembly the house of the people and the government hasn't said a word they are concerned about the fact that the house of mr feraud the president of the national assembly was burned but is just material resources while in front of the second residency of mr for iran the president o

information but help is at hand as us living in a philosopher shares his ideas on how to watch the news you can find links to that on r.t. social media pages here's a quick peek at his latest. the epidemic of malicious fake news i'm not going to give you a mistake or you are fakes do serve it is a fraud it is a lie it is all the same. well but that day despite a slip up if you stab somebody. and so on those who fight you i think their mother bought their babies grow up to look out the facts already selected from a safety standpoint and that's why i do the most dangerous in the sense of law east and lobby weeks it was on to fix there is no you don't look you good dear you have to go. and it will function of fake news do you make us aware of how i think that id. be the truth thanks for joining us for this on monday program and sharing some of his time with us arundhati international in moscow back in about twenty five minutes i hope you can join us then. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to present injury. or some want to be rich. that you'd like to

left homeless and often by the war in iraq decided he was going to do something about it his stories next on r.t. international. when lawmakers manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lives only the one percent. nor middle of the room six. million real new. this is this is a stick from the water bottle found in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. as the seeds do cookouts losing. their classes. on my end only stay in your homes that special projects funded. on the invest that is the end of it for the city but for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. did not love them or not but why did you have a good. stock a little. bad in shelf warning not good and this led. to. that anger that allowed. the long walk for just so. you don't liv

r.t. . more than three months after his detention in thailand bahrain remains hot on the heels of football orhockey team over alleged terror charges he could be facing extradition despite humanitarian warnings it's after a thai court announced his detention it would be extended without bail. he was met by police after touching down in bangkok for his honeymoon in november a footballer is currently a political refugee and a resident of australia however his detention has been criticised and spot campaigns calling for his release across sport and social media artie's. picks it up. it's not too often that you see sports personalities club's fans and even high ranking officials unite for a cause but this has been just a case of. a football player from bahrain currently behind bars in thailand all jumped in to urge football authorities to save hakim was first arrested in twenty twelve in bahrain when the country was going through a massive anti-government uprising violently quelled by the gulf states ruling family he claims he was tortured in prison like thousands of others they spent three hours

r.t. . italy's prime minister has fired back at senior european officials after he was accused of being a puppet of his euro skeptic governments during a tense exchange an e.u. parliament earlier delivered a somewhat scathing assessment of brussels saying it's no longer in touch with its citizens. the european project seems to have lost its momentum but we have seen the transfer of power is increasingly from the countries to the union my question for you mr conti is how much longer will you continue to be the puppet on salvini and in my own strings. europe faced with an economic crisis without precedent has

the stunning revelations has now gone public for the first time after his recent arrest speaking with the german broadcaster a r.t. have a listen. secret location in budapest it's here in this modest apartment building we're told wants to give his side of the story. on january sixteenth last he was arrested in the hunger area in capital in response to a portuguese arrest warrant on charges of attempted extortion and cyber crimes. he's under house arrest and wearing an ankle monitor while awaiting a decision on whether he is a whistleblower who legally obtained the documents which could exonerate him or whether he is a cyber criminal. which could lead to extradition. war what matters for me and for football leaks is the documents are authentic i don't care about the origin i'm a whistleblower so i have i have to expose and have to jordan. the real deal and among those documents are details of confidential plans for an elite super league or for president joining frontino helped top european clubs get around the financial fair play rules we've been all too admitted the contacting sports investment company under a fa

r.t. international. major protests around. way across from his way over to the opposition called its supporters to the streets followers of president nicolas maduro they're also rallying in a show of support direct to specialist goats reports from the venezuelan company. where from caracas from check out specifically one of the most of the magic points of concentration for the opposition supporters there were around thousands even i could i would there say a million people gathering here to listen to what one wedo had to say this is also and we need to point out that this is also a very important day for the bene's well and as we're celebrating as well they use they so today one way to set a very very strong words calling upon the armed forces to join the venezuelans to stand by the constitution and to please allow to their humanitarian aid to come into the country of course we have heard very strong words as well from nicolas maduro denying that there is a crisis in the country and saying that their humanitarian aid is just an excuse to interven

r.t. . from the united national antiwar coalition shared his thoughts on the issue i think the policies of israel or the policies of the united states in that area of the world us depends upon israel for many things. in that region there are laws that are they are trying to pass that make it actually illegal to criticize israel so israel has a big effect on what happens in the united states and as part of the general move to roll back civil liberties and the freedom of right of freedom of speech in united states they are trying to make it illegal to criticize israel at this time. the united states ambassador to germany has called for nato to be strengthened because as he puts it russia is on the doorstep peter all of the reports it's called and sudden recent threats of sanctions against europe haven't gone down well . washington's man in berlin and boss of the richard grinnell is being hung out advice left and right to chancellor angela merkel over which direction she should stay in her country in the latest polls of wisdom that she should spend more money on weapons and that germany should use i

ask him to give his view the president of the international federation of journalists sounds also hit out of facebook over its suspension of those r.t. length pages closing a facebook account or any internet link from the media without prior warning can be considered as an act of censorship opposed by the i have j r t senior correspondent lara gassy has been delving deeper into the story and explains why facebook's critics are crying foul. what happened was unprecedented a channel with four million subscribers billions of views blocked or for its content not for saying anything malicious or untrue or hateful but just because of its nationality russian i mean c.n.n. which was behind in the investigation that led to this said it best so great viral videos great design you know and the content was pretty critical of the u.s. government of us mainstream media a lot of legitimate arguments but as we started digging into it we did find that the company which set up these pages over the past six months was actually backed by or why are they doing this. a lot of legitimate argument why they voiced seeing legitimate arguments critical of us

r.t. new york. the u.s. democratic party is under fire over his handling of a slew of misconduct claims against top officials in the state of virginia but some on the stories off to this break. seem wrong. just don't. get to shape out. and in. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race. to stand losing you since you just leave the right questions and get the right answers. welcome back to the part about the international paralympic committee has announced it will reinstate russia's membership more than two years off the country was banned for widespread doping it says though that the lifting comes with conditions . only conditionally lifting the r.b.c. says substantial. by no later than fifteen march the i.p.c.c. will publish. criteria identifying the core how a level requirements are p.c. must continue to meet two month conditional statement of membership of the a.p.c. . discussed the recent announcement by

r.t. is video news agency of up lee media and says his editorially independent party sione so now he says facebook is demands are unprecedented. after ten days down all math pages including in the now a backup we had to put an unprecedented disclaimer in our about section no channel has ever been required to do that let's hope this policy will be rolled out and be required of all channels not just ones that say things some people don't like. facebook took the pages down only after it was contacted by u.s. news network c.n.n. but it was five days after that when the social platform finally contacted the pages produces facebook doesn't currently have a formal policy in place requiring state actor at last to disclose their funding but a spokesperson revealed that is seeking to exhibit potentially misleading behavior with more to be announced journalist and political commentator martin somers since the social networks should show more respect for their users facebook is drawing the attention is going to draw it commercially if it doesn't time for the respect of the people who use it and that'

r.t. the embattled venezuelan president says he remains defiant and will not fold to america's desire for regime change pressure is building on nicolas maduro as. more countries insist his claim to power is not legitimate the full interview will be available on our website at r.t. dot com and also on our sister channel and social media pages but here's a taste of what he said. i do not care i'm going to tell you now know we have struggled but i'm not going to be a traitor a weak one on but a commander who got us back on his story what it means to his people to get by that's what. i pray to god that our country won't be invaded by gay marriage best young men a sort of the way to get i mean there was nobody there will be no warrior this way a lot of i don't know military intervention on the air but this does not mean that we do not prepared to defend our land but they are just secretly. i take advantage of every means of communication to ask the whole world to denounce and stop the madness of you don't want trouble and this whale is never going to give it all. you want is donald trump's cassis belly not against venezuela the cast especially is the oil of venezuela the ric

r.t. crisis in venezuela as a new wave of u.s. sanctions by president says he fears assassination and his call for new elections for the opposition held national assembly it is no time for dialogue this is time for. all options are on the table how. it's. how it's. moscow suspends participation in a landmark nuclear treaty in a mirror a response to washington from drew all over alleged russian violations. twelve consecutive weekend if yellow best process in france sees clashes between demonstrators and police during a march denouncing police by. their welcome the latest developments in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days you're watching weekly here on r.t. international. the standoff in venezuela is escalating in a speech at a pro-government rally the country's president nicolas maduro announced. plans for new elections for the opposition controlled national assembly he and his rival the assembly's president. proclaimed himself that is why his leader last week both addressed crimes in the capital the youngest member in the national assembly do you agree with that i agree and i stand by that decision do y

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r.t. broke out over a week ago nobody has capital to demonstrate his demand that the government resign over alleged corruption and links to prime number of opposition employees burn the mandates and resigned amid the unrest tillerson right in your club told us reporters should not be punished for their work. i think that there are big issues here about freedom of speech and about everything that the i r t is being. inspected under a microscope to anything less that comes an r.t.s. or something well you know why they said that or because it's. propaganda it he she or he or she's a kremlin with a lot of organizations that court to support the rights of journalists freedoms of journalists stop them from being persecuted big to my harassed and yet it seems that if you work for russian media or any way with russian media then you're kind of except for that we are all journalists doing a job we use or the providers we're a microphone and we write papers or publications that enable us to publish so it really is. an exercise and taken away from this current russian phobic foreign policy drive. wher

their talks in a very disrespectful manner and preserves his line of the contemptuous technocratic . facebook suspension this week of several r.t. linked accounts has been described as an act of censorship by the international federation of journalists last week the social networking giant blocked pages belonging to mafeking media that's after a c.n.n. report suggests that it was trying to conceal its russian ties here's what phillip blair with had to say about the move. closing a facebook account by the i have jay mohr guys they have has more on the story now explains why exactly facebook's critics are crying foul. what happened was unprecedented a channel with four million subscribers billions of views blocked or for its content not for saying anything malicious or untrue or hateful but just because of its nationality russian i mean c.n.n. which was behind in the investigation that led to this said it best so great viral videos great design you know and the content was pretty critical of the u.s. government of us mainstream media but nothing that would be totally out of the ordinary necessarily a lot of legitimate arguments b

leader they criticized his administration's divisive policies and trump's campaign slogans. office to channel r.t. america was joined by a panel of experts to discuss the address and its implications and you can find it on our you tube channel he did attempt to reach across party lines more sort of that we've heard from any speech in the past where he really did reach out to democrats tried to find middle ground solutions on the issues he laid out the points where he's going to stay to the right but he also came back to the middle terms of the foreign policy area he talked about food which wars everything that he talked about even though it was to show a very strong united states. what he's pursuing in these other countries may actually have the effect of prolonging a war we're also looking at him and talking about this in iran these are very scary times he may have to get an invincible military but we're so over overly committed now that if we go that route go any one of those routes we could we could get bogged down in another vietnam in many locations throughout the world for sure what we have

r.t. the embattled venezuelan president says that he remains defiant and that he will not fold to america's desire for regime change pressure is building on nicolas maduro as more countries insist his claim to power is not legitimate and the full interview will be available on a website that's r.t. dot com also on our sister channels and social media pages for now that is a taste of what was said. what i do not care how i'm going to go down in history that i'm not going to be a traitor a weak one like a man who turned his back on his historic commitments to his people by that's where . i pray to god that our country won't be invaded by the american on. the way to get there was i mean there will be no war in venezuela but i know military intervention but this does not mean that we do not prepared to defend our land but i'll just say korea that. i take advantage of every means of communication to ask the whole world to denounce and stop the madness of donald trump and israel is never going to give it all. you want is donald trump's cassis belly not against venezuela the cast especially is the oil of venezuela the riches of venezuela it's gold gas diamonds other material riches you kn