he founded the fascist movement and bloody it done in the fascist movement formally founded in 1919 he too was anticlerical so the first calling for confiscation of church property in separation of church and state. if we can go to the previous image please. here he has got some sense of mussolini with the fierce character. the pope did not like to travel and did not appear at public rallies or anything like that. usually a pope is globetrotting and giving mass rallies. this is not anything that this pope did. in fact from 1871 italy conquered from remember italy only came about in 1878 and completed in 1871 italian troops stormed the walls of the city and the pope is defeated in the people's states are no more. the pope would preach to the vatican. from 1870 and so mussolini made peace with the church in 1929, 59 years no pope ever left the vatican, the tiny little groups of buildings in the vatican. the okay, so to understand the impact that this relationship had, the steel that was made between the pope and mussolini you have to understand that long period of time where the position

he founded the fascist movement and bloody it done in the fascist movement formally founded in 1919 he too was anticlerical so the first calling for confiscation of church property in separation of church and state. if we can go to the previous image please. here he has got some sense of mussolini with the fierce character. the pope did not like to travel and did not appear at public rallies or anything like that. usually a pope is globetrotting and giving mass rallies. this is not anything that this pope did. in fact from 1871 italy conquered from remember italy only came about in 1878 and completed in 1871 italian troops stormed the walls of the city and the pope is defeated in the people's states are no more. the pope would preach to the vatican. from 1870 and so mussolini made peace with the church in 1929, 59 years no pope ever left the vatican, the tiny little groups of buildings in the vatican. the okay, so to understand the impact that this relationship had, the steel that was made between the pope and mussolini you have to understand that long period of time where the position

she says it's full of fascist. everyone is fascist in kiev and ukraine. i spent quite a lot of time in kiev but haven't actually met any there. >> you were in mariupol which is a port in the east of ukraine right up against the russian border. what is the conclusion you draw from those kind of meetings you from those kind of meetings you had thereÑ close to the city 6nn hall? >> reporter: i think division of society all across the ukraine deep lly polarized. leaders are sending out mixedkf messages. the interior minister posted on his facebook page they had taken over the government building. turns out they hadn't. it was in the hand as of pro-russian protestors. that happens all the time. it shows how little control kiev has over the situation. it's similar to the propaganda war on the russian side moscow is fighting here. >> quickly, can can i ask you, what evidence is there of what president putin said would be a very serious crime? >> reporter: none that we have found so far. i have been looking for evidence of prosecution of russian speakers here fo

it's thought the attackers were part of the so called neo fascist right sector was also the week stopped a standoff between the tories in kiev and it definately shows no sign of letting up. we look at what's driving people on both sides of the back. hard behind the walls a un official slams of britain's boy club sexist culture as prisoners of the uk's immigration detention center denounce violence against women and a lack of medical care. then he got cheap. we report from one crematorium in sweden using all means at its disposal to keep locals want. call. the man in moscow or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news that deadly shooting erupted at a checkpoint manned by ntt and activists in east ukraine conflicting reports suggest three people were killed reportedly members of the neo fascist right sector grew to the extremists the club died in a counterattack journalist graham phillips has more from slipping out. the tears in the early hours of the money it costs more for cars pulled up to this checkpoint some six km this undertaking study and seventy two the ope

. >> fascist is being used to designate all things noxious and bad in the kremlin line of argument. >> reporter: this political analysts say as the kremlin tries to reinforce the notion of patriotism through a campaign across state media tapping into a vein of national pride which swelled during the sochi olympics and kept its momentum through last month's annexation of crimea by russia. this channel was dropped after it was asked if the city of leningrad should have been dropped by the nazis. >> it was a huge campaign

every time they hear -- this lady was saying full of fascist, everyone is fascist in kiev and western ukraine. i spent quite a lot of time in kiev and haven't met fascists there. we've gone to police headquarters to figure out what happened here. they can't talk to us. i've got the number of the press secretary. i'll call her to find out what she's got to say. well there you go. police here tell us they know nothing about this alleged antiterrorist operation to liberate the mayor's office here in mariupol. >> reporting from eastern ukraine there. >>> president barack obama is in south korea for the latest leg of his asia tour. his visit overshadowed by the recent ferry disaster but also coincides with new concerns the north may be conducting a fourth nuclear test. satellite images show increased activity near the nuclear site. president barack obama has spoken of the nuclear threat posed by north korea. let's go to lucy williams who joins us from seoul now. lucy? >> reporter: that's right. fear is growing here again about north korea's nuclear program as president barack obama touches

in some part and those who are not fascists suggest they cannot lead ukraine as a national entity as one country forward, on with putin's help, as they say, it is possible. >> from your reading of the situation, it seems that vladimir putin continues to push further west. that's his goal, to move into eastern ukraine and sort of go as far as he possibly can. do you foresee the same thing that happened in crimea happening here? how much does that help vladimir putin at home where this poll is quite popular? >> i've maintained that unless he really has to go into eastern ukraine with his own tank, not this sort of fake, non-russian forces that have no insignia but with russian flags and all, he wouldn't do it because that really was create a much more dangerous scenario, even for russia. but i think his goal, and he has really achieved it, i have to give credit to the man, he destabilized ukraine as much as he could. i think he has really very important bargaining chip for tomorrow's meeting, which is ukrainian government -- the kiev government, as they say, the fascist government, can

kiev are not fascist at all.y seem to be having difficulty convincing the passerby that the russian television is lying to him. >> interior minister said the situation would be solved by negotiation or force in the next 48 hours. quite a change town. >> it is. now he has been overseeing the antiterrorist operations where they did arrest several dozen people from the region of the administration that -- administration building their. much less willing with the belief for separatists to render that way. they still say that negotiation seems hetion, but it is losing patience. what ukrainian officials have told us is that they are scared to start arresting people or do anything that could lead to violence. of course, any outbreak of violence, whoever is blamed or gets hurt could be interpreted by the russians as a provocation or an excuse to intervene. that is what the authorities really fear. in thek you for that. meantime, four-way talks on the ukraine are due to be held next week to try to find a diplomatic way ou

the headline is that most ukrainians are neither loyal russians or loyal fascists.ost of the discussion is polarized and that is serving putin well. it is bolstering has ideal . a the one hand, you have ukraine that is a boil vessel to russia or a ukraine that is fascist. the communistta, mouthpiece of years ago. an expression there about fascism. antifascist fighters take the initiative. the argument there is that these freedom fighters have taken up the cause to fight against the group that is in charge in kiev. it says that russia is being portrayed -- the cowboy in the black hat. staggering propaganda from the west. >> also, you saw another opinion piece arguing that russia is in a weak position. >> this is another striking argument. this is in the moscow times. annexation of crimea can only damage the russian economy. sanctions can only damage the economy. they are weak militarily as well. a new cold war will be suicidal for russia. the writer says that while the world looked at russia as a land of gulags and then in the 1990's, that there might be hope and rea

they are calling the government in kiev fascist. lot of people in moscow are very upset because they say that is not the case. ukraine has not had a chance to install its own government and try to get control of their own country before moscow basically swooped in and caused all this havoc. so people here are very upset. i had a chance to see a lot of this footage that's on russian tv and it looks like something out of world war ii. a lot of tanks, guns, we must protect our comrades. you are facing a lot of threats from kiev, from the fascists there. so they are correct in saying it is propaganda. now, the big question is if this really is going to be launched, a full scale operation, like the acting interim president said, pro demonstrators, pro moscow have until 5:00 time tomorrow otherwise will face assault. if that happens, it's really going to be a tense situation because then moscow has the opportunity to do what they say is protect their own interest and it could, quite frankly, lead to war. >> that's the last thing we want t

checkpoint a report suggesting the attackers were from the neo fascist right movement. but now we've had enough we are against the illegitimate fascist government it's unimaginable sending troops against its own people as human shields will not lead them. in ukraine's ongoing standoff between the self-proclaimed leadership. protesters in the east. what's motivating those on both sides of the barricades. and in the week's top stories from the national an agreement to calm the tensions in ukraine is put in place by diplomats from moscow washington and brussels on kiev just a few moments we'll take you through the key points. out of. russia's responses to the ukrainian crisis during a t.v. . q. and a with the russian people. and access denied the un's investigator of violence against women is furious said being stopped from visiting the notorious british immigration center where one inmate died and claims of abuse are rife. welcome to the weekly here on r.t. international. with the top headlines of the week and the top headlines of the day first let's try to bring in. more

ukraine kills up to three unarmed protesters it's thought that the attackers were part of the neo fascist right sector group also on the week's top stories. as a standoff between kiev and the defiant east shows no signs of letting up we look at what's driving people on both sides of the barricade. horror behind the walls a u.n. official slams britain's boys' club sexist culture as prisoners of the u.k. immigration detention center denounce violence against women and a lack of medical care. heat on the chief we report from one crematorium in sweden that's using all the means at its disposal to keep the locals one. ten pm in moscow or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news a deadly shootout erupted at a checkpoint manned by antique you have activists in east ukraine conflict in reports suggest up to three people killed reportedly by members of the neo fascist right sector group two of the extremist thought to have died in a counterattack journalist graham phillips is at the checkpoint in slavyansk. so what happened here is in the early hours of the morning a convoy

was the historic agreement between the italian government in this case between mussolini and the fascist regime and the vatican which established the city as a sovereign city and did away with the separation of church and state in italy and made the roman catholic church gave it the privileged position as there are -- religion of the land. this was a big occasion the tenth anniversary. all of the bishops were summoned and mussolini's own representatives with a bear. the king's son would either. the world would be watching. it was a speech that the pope saw as his last opportunity to get out a dramatic message. the killy rots a. i don't know how to work this. one button which doesn't seem to do anything. i'm just going to show you a couple of images to illustrate. that is what we are trying to do but i don't want to keep you there. this shows -- you get an idea of the last 10 days of his his life when he looked like it if you go to the next image here you see both as a younger man. at the time they both came to power in 1922 which is the beginning of my story. benito mussolinmussolin i is

and foment unrest as a precursor to an invasion to protect russians from the so called ruins told fascists in kiev. turkey of media ridicule russia last week's bloody checkpoint shutouts misled be honest the ears and shut the uneasy peace the trees are russian media will fuss that the scene showing off christine freshly printed business cards all the leader of the far right wing militant group rights act to conveniently found at the scene along with crisp hundred dollar bills and according to janice nate a weapon or a special song in a foreign meddling. another classic tool in the kremlin's propaganda tool box. unlucky circumstances around that the incident which left several prayer were some ants instead a dispute it's typical that the publication of the kremlin was quick to agree with the pro russia reporting by accusing rights act to and claiming that gm was complicit. bringing the key of government as fascist dictated to by rod sector has become most ghost and a description of the new government in ukraine despite the fact that there are no rights or two members in government and the p

kills up to three army and he protesters it's thought the attackers were part of the so-called neo fascist right sector movement also the week's top story. as the standoff between dorothy's in kiev and the defiant he shows no sign of letting up we look at what's driving people on both sides of the barricades. are behind the walls the u.n. official slams britain's boy club sexist culture as prisoners of the u.k. migration detention center denounce violence against women and a lack of medical care. and heat on the cheap we report from one crematorium in sweden using all means at its disposal to keep locals warm. one of them in moscow or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news a deadly shooting erupted at a checkpoint manned by anti kiev activists in east ukraine conflicting reports suggest three people were killed reportedly members of a neo fascist right sector group to the extremist thought to have died in a counterattack journalist graham phillips has more from slavyansk. so what happened here is in the early hours of the morning a convoy of four cars pulled up to

neo-fascist right sector movement also the top stories of the week. standoff between the authorities in kiev in the defiant east shows no sign of abating we'll look at what's driving people on both sides of the barricade. behind the walls a un official slams britain's boys' club and sexist culture as prisoners of a u.k. immigration detention center the now it's violence against women there and a lack of medical care. and heat on the cheaper report from one prima tory i'm in sweden that's using all means at its disposal to keep the locals warm. nine pm in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news a deadly shootout erupted at a checkpoint manned by anti kiev activists in eastern ukraine conflicting reports suggesting up to three people killed reportedly by members of the neo fascist right sector movement two of the extremists thought to have died in a counter attack journalist graham phillips has more from the checkpoint in slovyansk so what happened here is in the early hours of the morning a convoy of four

checkpoint report suggesting that the attackers were from the neo-fascist rights movement among the other stories that shaped the week. in ukraine's ongoing standoff between the self-proclaimed leadership in kiev. protesters in the east. has a look at exactly what's motivating those on both sides of the barricades. access denied the u.n. to investigate her own violence against women is furious are being stopped from visiting a notorious british immigration center that's where one inmate died and the claims of abuse are rife. unconventional energy we report from stockholm but there cremation of the dead is being used to warm up the homes of the living. it's all to international life from moscow. thank you for joining us today there's been a deadly shootout at a checkpoint in east ukraine conflicting reports suggesting from between one and three activists are dead they were gunned down by attackers suspected of links to the neo-fascist right sector movement there were also reports of casualties among the extremists when self-defense groups responded to the raid journalist graham phillips is

it was imagined as a kind of fascist state. with the performance of secure it is an established fact that the old ringleaders served in enough to go in or on battalions or in the go lieschen division of the s.s. during world war two as well as an auxiliary police unit that collaborated with some were also trained in german military and intelligence schools. we have plenty of documents that prove that. you actively cooperated with the. the german military intelligence during the war you. see what they apologists claim the conflicts stem from poland centuries long expansion into ukraine they see indigenous people have the right to fight against in slavery and since you koreans were the indigenous population of the linea and eastern. it is simply pointless in their opinion to question the methods employed by the ukrainian insurgent army. to serious september one nine hundred thirty nine poland had territorial disputes with buy outs of six neighboring countries only a handful of ukrainian nationalist groups such as the organization

truce announced in the city earlier during easter activists claimed attackers were members of the neo-fascist right sector group or his posts the reports. the situation is stable and quiets there were almost no newspapers in the town which means that most people here actually don't really know what's happening there also at least two tanks like this one that have been taken by these activists the posters like this on dotted around the town knew the law was kill and ukrainians obviously everyone here extremely angry with what they say is an illegal government in kiev the new mayor of the town has called on the russian president to protect the population because all those things might seem peaceful they certainly is and a comment on anxiety and tension. there is a curfew in place in the town from midnight until six o'clock every morning no one is there now and on the streets tomorrow or tuesday the three residents who would will be buried and until then the mood is extremely tense. on t.v. seventh eastern ukraine. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says ukraine violated the peace accord ag

killed in slovyansk local authorities say they have found a badge linking the assailants to the neo-fascist right sector group journalist graham phillips is on scene. so what happened here is in the early hours of the morning a convoy of four cars pulled up to this checkpoint some six kilometers outside the city of slavyansk and immediately opened fire on this checkpoint which was manned by and to keep activists on all matters of the three were given our side i don't know how many of the. same to kiev might die and they brought the two into to power number two when you me i'm proud to think we don't have the right to speak out to ask our people in the right to can't speak out regular actually leukemia growth because that's to push through our budget people's blood is on their hands national youth here at one of them which on easter day last year new drugs they shouldn't have acquired or it was an agreement that's true and this is a holy day they came here to kill our boys. and yes you want to kill he says for being russian. what they did was relay a message into the city and members returne

monitoring shootings in east ukraine involving fighters from the right sector group and the ultra fascist organization has been gaining momentum since the country's upheaval began and it's a tory asli violence and it's actually it's we demand immediate resignation of the minister of internal affairs our set of arc of i will hang the interior minister like a dog. going to. go. oh oh. yeah. oh let me know in the right sector it was at the forefront of the violence which led to the coup in kiev moscow has repeatedly raised the alarm over the thriving extremist ideology in ukraine now russia has also called an emergency meeting of the un security council were it has urged king of not to use force in the country sells east. has more on this side of the story well this was the tenth security council meeting regarding ukraine and the us and its western allies continue to use harsh words when i dressings russia the u.s. and many european ambassadors have accused russia of meddling in eastern ukraine specifically saying that moscow has assisted ordinated with protesters in eastern ukraine who sees

government supporters demanded that she leave. >> translator: we're defending the revolution from a fascist who sells out the country. >> reporter: her fight is not over. she will use a constitutional appeal to try to get her seat back. inside the national assembly, government legislatures prevented independent congressmen from discussing her return to parliament. instead, people were dancing. ♪ >> reporter: while outside in the center of car rack cuss, protesters clashed for hours. and there's no sign that they will stop. >>> anger on the streets, anger by the skies in peru. i believe there's flooding there? >> yes, there has been an awful lot of let weather for quite a while now. we can see how much rain there has been just over the past 12 hours. this ads to what is already on the ground. and these areas of cloud are certainly giving us ferocious thunder storms at the moment. the rivers burst their banks. inundated many of the homes here. thousands of people have been evacuated, and it looks like things there are going to get worse if anything, because we are certainly going to see more

group which was at the forefront of fair breeze bloody coup in kiev its members are frank about their fascist ideology right sector leaders are known for making controversial statements including calls to join forces with chechen terrorists to launch attacks on russia not only that it threatened to blow up pipelines used to transit gas to europe. mark element a historian and oxford university says the new authorities in kiev are using the right sector radicals to maintain control over the fractious region. announced or setting up a national guard precisely no to incorporate the paramilitary fighters of the right sector into something that would look more like a state organization and people than the failure of the local police in the south and east of ukraine to. authority the new regime in kiev they really do need committed activists the new regime in kiev his rather short of trained and competent personnel and at the same time it has an incentive to move the radical right wing militias out of kiev sending them somewhere where if they're successful the new government can claim the credit if

so we defend our model and from the fascist army that's going to kill us this is also what happened in the original capital all part of the people say here that they fear the reaper to the scenario of police they're cleared in a very violent way all governmental visiting stake in earlier by similar groups hold protesters detaining so at least seventy than i only have a stick to defend myself becoming own with machine guns annoyed had yesterday for example was a chair like this it is a very large city known as ukraine industrial capital around one million people live here while the the region is home to the tenth of the country's population and today these building the wrong group resent it is of almost all major cities and towns all based regions basically mine workers and employees of the region's numerous factories and enterprises and each region pi's its. floor in this eleven story building we are for social justice the creation of a republic mean. drastic changes in the way are territories organized we are for equality of languages we are against the oppression of the majority by t

but now we've had enough we are against the illegitimate fascist government it's unimaginable sending troops against its own people as human shields will not lead them there and all of the nets in ukraine's ongoing standoff between the self-proclaimed leadership and the. protesters in the east are national has a look at what's motivating those on both sides of the barricades. and in the week's top stories from international an agreement to calm the tensions in ukraine .

we are told fascist terror reigns in kiev and you all know if you go and is a kiev, calm reigns there. we are all told the jews are threatened in there. they do not feel threatened in ukraine. never was a statement so far from reality. through internet can see this quite early. madam president, ukraine is cornered. it has been put on notice right here on sunday not to react. wouldnnot conceive it which was aggression condemned by the general assembly. and again, that this would happen in the east of the country, we complement the restraint shown seeking to -- madamo the president, we urge russia to commit to de-escalate the situation and condemn alongside the rest of this council the attempts at destabilization in eastern ukraine. urge russia to stop locking itself in a vicious viral which can only lead to tragedy. it must withdraw its troops from the border and stop its destabilizing act to these, and must stop yelling civil war. no one here is taken in. thet with the scenario of firefighter setting fires. it is not credible and the meeting will be held tomorrow to bring together rus

they'retc., doing the same thing today by identifying the ukrainian government as fascists and nazis , of course blackening the image of their opponents is standard operating procedure. they're saying that this is betweenly a battle them, the good guys, the answer fascists inhe nazi kiev. in the crimean referendum, there were signs saying, basically asing this conflict out russia versus the nazis. effort part of his involves distracting people posit attention from the issue distracting people's attention from the issue at hand. one of the ways that russian propaganda has been doing this, especially insofar as united states has been involved, has been to accuse us of illegally invading iraq, of attempting to co-opt all sorts of people around the world who question the legality and the prudence of .ur invasion of iraq in any event, there are other kinds of games like that, but suffice it to say that this is one of the major elements. accuser adversaries of doing exactly what they do, namely covert action. they are accusing us of it, they're accusing kiev of covert it is in the east whe

john mackey once described the affordable care act as fascist and socialist. both snyder and mckay have retracted comments because of customer backlash. others are unapologetic. the makers of honey made graham crackers faced openly hostile criticism after putting a male couple on the front of its ads. they doubled down and did another ad and turned it into the word love. so if you're sitting in the corner office making business decisions, how you react when social values and politics mix may depend as much on what you sell as what you think. >> joining me to discuss the departure of branden ike, law professor of nyu law school, and jonathan rousch, senior fel felw at the brookings instituters and professor waledman no one would doubt that the board of directors is legally within its rights to do what it did. was it a good idea? >> first, thank you for having me on. second, just to clarify i'm a new york law school, not nyu, just a shout out to my colleagues. >> sorry. >> what the board did to its ceo was a standard business decision. the board decided that for

by our fascist outlets heroic kids are now outfitting riding clothes for the fascists in germany and elsewhere in europe they're part of a violent racist movement goes out to the bad people. do you case chief rabbi lives away from the new store there's a mosque near by the locals a concern that rightwing supporters will visit the shop and inflame tensions within this community so they're calling for the store to be. righteous a reason not to hire schnabel are no no. no no especially in a profound. i mean we are in the early twenty first century is unacceptable not had it was like that our streets of london really were good to me. but we are not happy with. the owner of the shop has reportedly said that he is simply selling leisure web it popular amongst eastern europeans many of whom live in this area while the local m.p. has said that it may be unwelcome but the shop isn't illegal but the protesters gathered here have made it clear that they want the shop shut down probably boyko artsy london. london is the only place where i'm to not see sentiments in the streets please clash with

know people here in the east suspect that the west of ukraine has become decadent and evil with fascisticendencies, but it's also down to the police, and i think that really has been a key factor. here we see varying from complexity to complicity. so certainly in terms of law enforcement the authorities in kiev do certainly have quite a difficult job on their hands. >> all right. thanks so much, jackie rowland there. >>> rescue teams in south korea are still looking for people missing from a capsized ferry. >> reporter: the early stages of this disaster were filled with terror for the passengers. but also with some hope, the rescue operation was underway swiftly. as they came ashore, the government's response center said 368 had been saved 107 still missing. >> i held a handrail and moved towards the right of the ferry to try to get to the helicopter. rubbish bins were floating around me. and the water came up to my neck. >> reporter: and then a terrible revision. officials had miscalculated fewer than 80 children were found safe. >> announcer: the announcer told us we should stay still,

they have been saying all along, and that's why they've been accusing the government of being a fascist government because of the presence of that right sector during the three month's protest in maydan. and in close collaboration with the government in kiev. >> hoda, does this threaten the geneva agreement - that is, that activists, pro-russian activists, should be leaving the buildings? >> well, there's no sign that they are willing even to leave the buildings. i think the pro-russian activists were surprised at the outcome of that conference. but immediately some of them said it doesn't represent us, we are not at the talks, no one from us was there, others said that russia cannot decide for them what to do, and the bottom line is they are not leaving unless there are guarantees. there's no sign of them willing to do that. if that shoot-out happened, they would consider it - the geneva agreement dead before being implemented. >> live for us there from don esques, hoda abdel-hamid -- donetsk, hoda abdel-hamid. thank you very much. >> the deposit in south sudan -- government in south s

truce announced in the city during easter activists claimed the attackers were members of the neo fascistright sector group or his policy reports . we know in the town of eastern ukraine where on sunday morning five people were killed when members of the right sector attacked a checkpoint exactly like this one as a result of just about every road in the town that now has a blog post like this with tires guarded by armed men. the situation is stable and quiet they were almost no newspapers in the town which means that most people here actually don't really know what's happening there also at least two tanks like this one that have been taken by these activists as one told me today the tanks tomorrow don bus. posters like this on dotted around the town knew there was kill ukrainians obviously everyone here extremely angry with what they say is an illegal government in kiev the new mayor of the town has called on the russian president to protect the population because although things might seem peaceful there certainly is an undercurrent of anxiety and tension. there is a curfew in place in

. >> we are defending the revolution from a fascist traitor who sells out the country. >> she was shuttled away on a motorcycle, but her fight is not over. she'll use a constitutional appeal to try to get her seat back. inside the national assembly government legislators prevent congressman from discussing the return to parliament. instead, people were dancing. while outside in the center of caracas protesters clashed for hours. after two months of protests, there's no sign that they will stop. >> hundreds of families have been left homeless in peru after the waliaga river burst its banks. it has seen days of rain fall and there's been flooding. people were forced to use can use to navigate the streets. >> there's more ahead this half hour, including... >> i'm bernard smith in afghanistan on the campaign trail with dr abdullah abdullah, a front runner in the election. >> and how marijuana is becoming big business, and it's all legal. [ male announcer ] it's here -- xfinity watchathon week, your chance to watch full seasons of tv's hottest shows for free with xfinity on demand. there's roma

and saying that this is ultimately a battle between them, the good guys, the anti-na fascists in nazi kiev. the men in crimea were assigned, saying basically -- laying this conflict out as russia versus the nazis. a large part of this effort involves distracting peoples attention from the issue at hand. distraction is a huge element of propaganda and one of the ways that russian propaganda has been doing that, especially as the united states has been involved, is to accuse us of illegally invading iraq, of attempting to co-opt all sorts of people around the world who have questioned the legality and the prudence of our invasion of iraq . in any event, there are other kinds of things like that that suffice it to say, this is one of the major elements. their adversaries of doing exactly what they do, namely covert action. they are accusing us of it. they are accusing kiev of covert action in the east, when it is precisely their own provocateurs who have been involved in infiltrating the country and engaging in these types of riling up demonstrations, and so on and so forth, stage protes

the venezuela precedent describes the opposition as fascists. the opposition says nicolas maduro is a dictator. the south american group of nations will act as mediators. there's little optimism. >> the government cannot say we'll only talk about the economy and insecurity. there's no reason for the opposition to sit at the negotiating table if they can't talk about politics and the political prisoners. >> on thursday, at the very least, the two sides will meet. with the students and opposition radicals boycotting the talks and the president insisting there's nothing to negotiate, a resolution to the venezuelan political crisis is some ways off. >> a candle lit vigil has been held for the victims of a school stabbing in pennsylvania. 20 students and a security guard were stabbed or slashed at franklin high school in murrysville on wednesday. four are in intensive care with life-threatening injuries. a 16-year-old pupil has been charged. >> a plane that can stay in the air indefinitely has been unveiled in switzerland. it's fuelled by solar power

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it comes from a fascist society. it is a shame that it is the gay community, at least the gay establishment that is learning how to goosestep at this point. >> yes, the gays are goosestepping. we all remember when hitler circulated that petition asking for poland to resign after it prevented him from marrying evan braun. folks, a man has just lost his job for trying to ban same-sex marriage. meanwhile, there are only 29 states left where i can still fire someone for being gay. i mean i had to take all my gay employees on a business trip to alabama just to can them. and the next thing you know, the next thing you know, i will be forced into the closet for my beliefs. every where i go people assume i'm okay with gay marriage but i will know in my heart that that is not who i am. and no one can ever make me believe it gets better, because frankly, things are pretty great for me right now. here to persecute me further is blogger, founder of the dish and a man who is a gay, so he's obviously in favouring of firing brendan

how are you going to ask the country to accept you if you call half the country fascists? >> reporter: the protest began in two western states in early february. initially the protesters demanded increased security after female student was allegedly raped. the country's crime rate is among the worst in the world. the demonstrations soon spread to other parts of the country. the protesters were joined by hard-line opposition supporters, backed by the middle class. they contend the government for rampant inflation and shortages of basic goods such as milk and sugar. they demanded that maduro resign. they said, he's wrecking the country by sticking to the legacy of the late president hugo chavez. chavez sought to redesign the country under the banner socialism of the 21st century. as part of his policy to redistribute wealth, chavez nationalized several industries. he won strong support among the poor. not everyone opposes the policies of president maduro. people have rallied en masse to show their support. the government accuses the opposition of trying to stage a coup. it s

said it is ian said the fascists they call them. you is it is als very volatile and dangerous situation. the rice came out president's national security advisor said it was utterly the president was disgusted by them and it hints uglier moments and that is the fear in that part of the world where there is so much that.ence with gwen: vladimir putin was talking about new russia which is to be those parts of ukraine which are on the russian part that he n thinks should never have been independent. vested interest has he in we evertion and why did believe had an investment in the deal in geneva? >> good question. some compared it to 2001 when toppled the h taliban and had to decide whether to go further in terms the argument is putin had the same thing. you pocket the win in crimea and or do you keep pushing and pushing and see how far it goes. does feel like he is winning. his popularity is 80%. feeling an economic pinch but that doesn't seem to be bothering them as a matter of he has thed he feels west at an advantage. gwen: thank yo