governments including right wing leaders in neighboring brazil and colombia with media outlets they're following suit. the u.s. news media covered the push to remove president nicolas maduro without saying what that attempt if successful would amount to which is a coup instead the focus has been on the legitimacy of last year's election which is a relevant point and it focused on the dire economic situation but it mostly stayed away from the role that successive american administrations through economic sanctions have played in handicapping the venezuelan economy as a rocky's iranians libyans and others will tell you this is not the first time that the u.s. has taken a disproportionate interest in the governance of a country loaded with oil washington has a playbook for this kind of thing and so apparently to the u.s. news media our starting point this week is caracas. to swearing in ceremonies two weeks apart in qatar both of which left much to be desired january tenth nicolas maduro sworn in for a second term as president after an election last year that the un the e.u. and the u.s. all said failed to meet

be completely right the u.s. media is your training my video was a response to us media which is embedded with that that it's way that opposition and with the usa i'm doing it right now on the colombian border and and doing this humanitarian intervention propaganda show where they're actually claiming that there is no there are no basic goods in venezuela at all and i was showing that in a fairly upscale neighborhood in caracas the supermarket looks just like the supermarkets in my hometown of washington d.c. i can also tell you that i was out in some of the poorer areas of caracas and i actually encountered the vice president of venezuela del cielo rodriguez and the mayor of caracas erica at open air food markets around the city where food is being distributed basically for free to the poor and working class communities the problem here it's with speculation and there are high prices on foods and random situation that has to do with actually the kind of capitalist class here that supports the opposition and u.s. sanct

governments including right wing leaders in neighboring brazil and colombia with media outlets they're following suit the u.s. news media covered the push to remove president nicolas maduro without saying what that attempt if successful would amount to which is a coup instead the focus has been on the legitimacy of last year's election which is a roll of. point and it focused on the dire economic situation but it mostly stayed away from the role that successive american administrations through economic sanctions have played in handicapping the venezuelan economy as a rockies iranians libyans and others will tell you this is not the first time that the us has taken a disproportionate interest in the governance of a country loaded with oil washington has a playbook for this kind of thing and so apparently to the u.s. news media our starting point this week is caracas. to swearing in ceremonies two weeks apart in qatar both of which left much to be desired january tenth nicolas maduro sworn in for a second term as president after an election last year that the u.n. and the u.s. all said fail to meet accepted st

round of trade negotiations with china and that he would extend talks through the weekend that as u.s. media reports that china has agreed to buy up to one point two trillion dollars worth of goods from the united states trump says he expects to meet china's leaders next month and that the two presidents would rush out the biggest parts of the deal in person thereby extending negotiations beyond the initial deadline of march first for more on this last cross over to new york and our correspondent jose luis they are standing by at least the negotiations are apparently moving forward how relieved are people on wall street to see that sort of progress. they are really very agrees about it says still i mean early to uncork the champagne and i'm just quoting here to secretary of commerce will rolls on friday it might be early for some of the trade hawks inside the administration but said it done a deal is more likely to happen than not since her progress has been made he justified by pointing that the current will be extended to days as you notice also that there seems to be a compromise to reduc

syrian state media says u.s. led airstrikes have targeted the syrian army near the border with iraq u.s. warplanes reportedly attacked a syrian artillery position in the area of eastern syria sources say two soldiers were injured guns destroyed. that apartment building has collapsed in the syrian city of aleppo killing eleven people including four children the five story block was damaged during years of war one child was pulled out alive by rescue teams many other buildings around the city are also on the brink of falling apart demand for our official limbs remains high in syria despite the law and fighting in the eight year war hundreds of thousands lost arms legs or both especially during the bombardment of opposition held areas many of the maimed are children. has more from gaziantep uncertainty near the border with syria. that had said that. when i think about what happened she says i cry this is. like millions of other syrian children she struggles with the painful memories of how she lost her leg and her b

chamber of commerce from the private sector u.s. media report that washington once beijing the problems it will not devalue the yuan currency as part of a so far elusive trade deal. for more on this let's cross over to. street in our correspondent for c luis down to jose luis president trump claims that the talks are going well at the same time he says the march first deadline is not set in stone what are investors making of this news. investors agreed to regain confidence on tuesday after president trump said that china is trying to move fast to avoid higher tirades and that march first deadline as you say it's not a magical dead date that said sites is still have to find some real agreement on some of the most sensitive topics such as forced acknowledge a transfer intellectual property protection and subsidies but for now any sign that implies that negotiations are still move in seem to give markets some hope that trauma commiseration will not raise tariffs on two hundred billion worth of chinese imports mahasen least there are reports

governments including right wing leaders in neighboring brazil and colombia with media outlets they're following suit the u.s. news media covered the push to remove president nicolas maduro without saying what that attempt if successful would amount to which is a coup instead the focus has been on the legitimacy of last year's election which is a. point and it focused on the dire economic situation but it mostly stayed away from the role that successive american administrations through economic sanctions have played in handicapping the venezuelan economy as a rockies iranians libyans and others will tell you this is not the first time that the us has taken a disproportionate interest in the governance of a country loaded with oil washington has a playbook for this kind of thing and so apparently to the u.s. news media our starting point this week is caracas. to swearing in ceremonies two weeks apart in qatar both of which left much to be desired january tenth nicolas maduro sworn in for a second term as president after an election last year that the un the e.u. and the us all said fail to meet accepted stand

reporting from hanoi well let's check on some other stories making headlines around the world today u.s. media have published explosive testimony from donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen cohen will deliver the remarks when he faces a public grilling by washington lawmakers on wednesday in the statement cohen says his former boss is quote a racist a con man and a cheat. that british prime minister theresa may has promised lawmakers of both on delaying the country's departure from the european union that's if they reject her breaks a deal in a vote on march twelfth m.p.'s will also get to vote on a new deal exit from the union may announce this on tuesday. in nigeria muhammadu buhari has won a second term as president the electoral commission declared the result early on wednesday saying bihari won by a comfortable margin the opposition says the election was read and that it plans to challenge the results in court. now to yemen and the weapons used to wage war their four year conflict has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis the german government has repeatedly denied any knowled

u.s. media reporting that the r. and b. singer r. kelly has been indicted on multiple counts of sexual abuse nearly two decades the fifty two year old real name is robert so fast a killer. skewed. his face accusations of child pornography sex with minors operating a sex cult and sexual battery he denies the accusations. united states says it plans to send to keep a small peacekeeping force of around two hundred troops in northern syria with another two hundred military base in time for the u.s. is working with nato allies to assemble a force of up to one and a half thousand troops in the region the last pocket of territory in syria held by islamic state group militants near the village. in the east of the country in the past few weeks thousands of civilians including family members have been evacuated to refugee camps in the north. defeated many of their wives and children have no homes to return to. by as territory one stretched across a third of both syria and iraq now they hold this little village in eastern syria. this footage pr

u.s. government of us mainstream media but nothing that would be totally out of the ordinary necessarily 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 they voiced seeing legitimate arguments critical of us foreign policy a totally journalistic thing to do criticize and discuss stuff right this is censorship selective biased unfair prejudiced and blatant regardless of what you think of run you call it russia or anything else this trio c.n.n. u.s. funded german marshall fund and facebook working together to selectively censor is highly disturbing but this is the inevitable outcome of breaking facebook to censor here is a taste of the u.s. media acting just like state media a buzz feed reporter calls ran a colleague's videos for russia backed in the now and to us readers because they criticize us foreign policy for example the venezuela coup attempt censorship is the most commonly used word in reactions to this ban and there have been many remarkable also is that face

having native american ancestry able to skate from that controversy with the latest headlines in the u.s. media of warren claiming to be native american as her race in one thousand eighty six was just ration card in the problem with that isn't just that warren's ancestry with native americans is very distant but the fact that this opens her to attack from donald trump in fact it was trump himself who go to war and taking a d.n.a. test last year and the concern among would be democratic primary voters is that trump mayhew's this weakness of warren in the same way that he used hillary clinton's e-mail scandal against her in twenty sixteen and polling has suggested that the number one concern of democratic voters is to unseat trump in two thousand and twenty and they're concerned that warren may be unable to do so because of the scandal weren't also faces a very crowded field of democratic contenders on average this year one new entrant into that race per week that includes three other senators who are popular with the democratic base as well as former vice president joe biden who despite not havi

his his specialty and so this is something that has been repeatedly pointed out by not just the u.s. media but the media from all around the world and it appears donald trump is continuing to bristle at that suggestion presumably because he's been in his hotel for many hours in advance of this face to face meeting with kim jong un watching some of the coverage there's no question that this is also something that many of his advisors are concerned about that as he has this meeting with kim jong un that he may not understand the subtleties the nuances and that he may give away more the fear being that he is being played by the north korean leader who simply buying time to continue to expand his nuclear program well the president has a decidedly different set of tools namely denuclearization and who is the president with the committee who is going to be taking part in these very important tools. he. yes what we know that for now at the moment as they dine that he is accompanied by the u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe who has. had his own thorny relationship with the north korean negotiat

the chinese are saying the deadline of march 1st on the tariff is a u.s. media talking point. they don't see that as sort of a hard and fast deadline. liz: hey, we're reporting what came out during the g20 conference. reporter: exactly. the next sentence is lighthizer saying this is what it is. i think the chinese are floating this idea saying hey, we could put it off , we will give you something in return. we have to see. the chinese plan has always been to try and wait this out, see if this becomes so uncomfortable for the president that he sort of gets a deal that the chinese won't have to give anything up. i think at this point, the president is really set in making these changes and making it matter, it seems. liz: we only work off of what we hear and what we see, and we saw at that dinner in buenos aries, the fox business crew and i were right there, they said deadline's march 1st. so until we hear the word extension, i'm going with march 1st. thanks, edward, very much. edward lawrence. >>> all right. the nostradamus of economics says the recession part deux is coming th

we've spoken to syrian president's political and media advisor who claims the u.s. is not in syria to fight terrorism. let's check in the west plan to establish its control over syria and divide our country most likely to gain to relevant experience in afghanistan iraq and libya and didn't predicts back that syria could withstand it or that allies such as russia and iran and as well i would support it but we and our allies undermine us project while the russian presence is stipulated by the need to fight terrorists the aim of the west is to defend them even though they say it isn't you know how many times russia has called on you want us to coordinate their efforts to question the has to be answered as if both you asked him to remain in syria to fight the terrorist what are the obstacles preventing them joining forces and our experience within the country has shown that when we tried to free time for the u.s. forces opened fire so the terrorists karim and there are still plenty thanks to choosing r.t. international this hour we're back in thirty minutes with the lat

be completely right u.s. media is portraying i mean while the u.s. is keeping up pressure on venezuela's economy with sanctions against the country state old company but as well an oil is still finding its way onto the u.s. market according to the international energy agency traders nearly return to the level before washington imposed sanctions as you can see there was a brief slump which was restored within weeks u.s. security advisor john bolton had announced the restrictions electronic. we're going to announce sanctions against patrol is to venezuela associate the name pate of base as it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly we have continued to expose the corruption of manure and his cronies in today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people. bolton made that announcement after washington recognized venezuela's opposition leader one who idolize interim president under the sanctions american firms can continue to purchase venezuelan oil but payment should be made into account not tied to the