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americans. i would argue that the south vietnamese were asking very in the 1960'sons and 1970's. those questions simply cannot be answered by americans. to me this very complex war was about a fundamental question. what does it mean to be vietnamese? no american could answer that question. perhaps because americans could not answer that question, perhaps that best helps us understand why americans withdrew from this conflict, not as victors, but as participants in the stalemate of war. abrams may have had the capacity to maintain a military stalemate. dot general abrams could not was build a loan. he south vietnamese political community, one that was built on voluntary participation from the masses. one that was capable of standing on its own. i don't think any american could do that. perhaps here is where vietnam can teach us all something. something we are not comfortable facing. him -- tolimits to american military power overseas. even the most powerful nation on her has limits. i would suggest accepting the out -- excepting that uncomfortable proposition does a make us any les

has also urged the un to recognize the south acclaimed interim president as the leader of the south american country but the un security council fails to result of the issue especially in new york so some fifth exchanges appear to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the venezuelan people get it because one of you can tell me which article and which provision of the united nations charter you can find a legal basis that itself procure mation it was just this meeting which we've been forced to attend is yet another element of us regime change strategy either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with material and his mayhem the united states is not being time did. the. it is in advance it's in the vanguard of the could it it is dictating the orders how indeed can any self respecting government possibly justifies supporting the poisonous regime of the nation destroying missed in the doura if anything goes represents a threat to peace it is the shameless and aggressive actions of the united states and their allies this discussion in the council is about t

looks at where the events in the south american country are following a tried and tested formula. starting an uprising a revolution is simple enough first comes the pressure sanctions built up gradually first it was a few officials and then they sanctioned the president and state companies and the government itself through deed and word they helped show when they are into a crisis we are evaluating all of our policy options as to what can we do to create a change of conditions were either liberal decides he doesn't have a future or we can return. the government processes back to their constitution we are not going to tolerate the dictatorship he's trying to create is venezuelan people deserve better than what the regime of nicolas maduro offers them now that the country and people are in economic misery and you vilified its leaders because hero like thirty five year old u.s. educated head of the national assembly which as it turns out the united states has been quietly assisting financially and helping for a while who would have thought if. by now you should have caused enough tro

country's interim president he was once they recognized by the united states and a number of south american countries venezuela's military in contrast continues to back president nicolas maduro. remember you can always get more on these and other stories in our website that state of you dot com now though for me brian thomas and the entire team thanks so much for being with us. the. letter we were. when we were. eighty percent of americans are from playing and i was really curious hardship listening. for. you.

argued by new york on media is ripe for regime change nato nations and defacto washington proxy south american nations alike want to overthrow the venezuelan government tourism in britain doesn't take the word of official international election monitors like the latin american council on electoral experts or former premiers of spain and ecuador she once president that i would order to go but during the late democratically elected revolutionary chavez who fought against imperialism and won unprecedented improvements in health care and education today though venezuela which has just been made president of the world's oil export an alliance opec faces economic warfare from washington joining me from new york as a foreign policy advisor to job as who nicknamed the girlfriend of venezuela eva golinger thanks so much in. coming on so come with you're a survivor well i think that that's the question these days that are being asked around the world as well as in venezuela as of now and he's digging in deeper are carrying on with all government affairs state affairs as usual you know he remains the pre

was inaugurated last week and event met with criticism by most south american countries the us and e.u. the venezuelan opposition has slammed him as a you so. early brazil's a new president both an auto accuse the government of violating the rules of a south american trade bloc brazil has also recently made efforts to court america with both countries cooperating against quote authoritarian regimes in the region brasilia also decided to create to ease of gun ownership restrictions and like the u.s. moved its embassy in israel to jerusalem more of a brazil's president has said that washington can operate a military base in his country and it seems donald trump really likes his brazilian counterpart they say he's the donald trump of south america and he's happy with that like. well i want to first fruits of these improved relations as the approval by brazil of a strategic partnership between two aircraft companies. and boeing is expected to celebrate growth on the global aerospace market brazilian journalist and things that both an auto is trying to pivot his country towards the u.s. the

hoping to set up an international contact group was south american nations in february. that would seeeek talks betweenn majuro i'i'm the opposition. political prisoners will soon to be released face the promise of the new president of the democratic republic of congo. this is day felix said she she can't he's been sworn in the country's first at a peaceful handover of power. accusations of fooled voting becacause they should d have been swept aside. taking the reins from josesh kabila opposition party gps is lead up felix just the caddy has been sworn in as the new president of the democratic republic of cong. i solemnly swear. and the nation. to observe the friend nicole [i[inaudible] loss. the handover of power raises the chapter one to years of uncertainty when can be that didn't step down even though his time had expired. the last month of kabila's eighteen year ruling or state of the shattered by virtue making allegations frank six session. runner up monson for unity continues to contest the result and accuses tshisekedi of a power sharing deal with the outgoing le

and the albus fell in love with mexican weaving techniques and traditional south american textiles back at black mounting college she passed on to her students what she'd learned. mexican artist and more munoz sites on the albums textiles and prints as a major influence on her work on the yucatan peninsula she founded tech a social project for my own women that marries tech and tradition. these seamstresses used to work in a textiles factory that closed down. they've now found new ways to use their skills. in some project localness beautiful sentiment this project is collaborative and participatory the basic game is to apply the do it yourself spirit to traditional crafting and the maker movement closing the gap between artists and all creativity and technology. the. business side on all the cases they're making here this panel and the electrical sombrero hat it all works with rechargeable batteries but the other godless. the solar panels are connected to each other using conductive steel thread forming an electrical circuit the women combine the conductive thread with henican the type

by much of the international community the european union the united states and venezuela as south american neighbors all boycott at the swearing in ceremony which was carried out by the supreme court rather than by congress which is controlled by the opposition. as takes the helm for another six years venezuela's battered economy is showing no signs of recovery meaning more misery for his citizens. cattle trucks that serve as public transport. supermarket shelves empty of all basic goods. this is what venezuela under president maduro has come to look like. when nicolas maduro took office off to hugo chavez died in two thousand and thirteen he inherited his predecessors socialist revolution meant to champion social justice and people power often is a whalen's. yet before long major oh so to tighten his own grip on power. he cracked down on dissenting voices prominent opposition leaders were arrested or put under house arrest. when the opposition gained control of venezuela's parliament mature a set of a new constituent assembly that could bypass parliament the move sparked mass protests. ma

well obviously it's been a long time now since many of the south american countries the largest south american countries have been pushing up the organization of american states they formed a group called the group when they leave the lima group to try to pressure president . before the elections were held during the elections and after the elections but none of this had worked and this group has been growing it's been receiving more support especially since countries like brazil have changed governments now there is no law they there has been a tendency to more conservative governments in the region particularly in south america and so they have now aligned themselves with the position of the united states and we have seen even more interesting now interestingly now in the last twenty four hours the e.u. which had basically refused to endorse one waythe all as the interim president giving the government of nicolas maduro eight days to change his mind to hold or to at least set up independently and transparent independently supervised elections or they too will endorse this interim go

while the european union has agreed to lead an international contact group with south american nations to help resolve venezuelans political crisis e.u. foreign policy and chief agree to margaret he says there is full unity in the block over seeking free and democratic elections in venezuela as soon as possible the group which will include the germany britain france bolivia and ecuador will be disbanded after ninety days if no progress is made that was more green he said e.u. foreign ministers males are consider imposing further sanctions on president majority government. should not only countries in america but also d w correspondent barbara vessel joins us from bucharest where e.u. foreign ministers are meeting. what will this contact group seek to achieve. this contract to a group is supposed to be a channel of communication for the european countries to sort of talk to democratic forces within venezuela because they have no direct access so they're trying to use some neighboring countries and countries in the region to sort of set up some some kind of cut channel of communication t

will recognize venezuela's opposition leader one good way to go as president if elections in the south american country are held within eight days kwaito declared himself an interim president earlier in the week he says he won't give up his fight for fresh elections he's announced large scale protests for next week and called on the army to switch its allegiance to him at the military continues to back incumbent president nicolas maduro duros describing credos rise as an attempted coup against his government. for more let's go live to caracas where de w.'s oscar shanker is standing by oscar what influence can european countries have on the power struggle there. both have a lot of influence and they influence up to this point because it was the european union and many of the european countries that along with over sixty countries rejected the elections of the twentieth of may and last year that elected model as president when the new term began on january tenth he was no longer president because they did not. see those as fair elections so that immediately puts the president of the national asse

between their relationships of these two countries and how that will change relations within other south americanin american countries. we have a humanitarian crisis and this is something we have to keep an eye on. we know he is fighting corruption, he was elected in 0ctober corruption, he was elected in october as though it is early days to predict what will happen, but thatis to predict what will happen, but that is the big cards he is laying out. any would argue he is compared to trump because he is seen as a divisive figure, yet he got his democratic, he was democratically elected, and he said over and over again, the brazilian people, democratically chose me, therefore i can crack on with my agenda. corruption, pension reform. there are concerns about his own core beliefs about things like homosexual people, women, all sorts of key issues. and the environment, which in this age of climate change and disasters happening around the planet is concerning because brazil has the amazon rainforest, which is the most important in the world to regulating the planet. it isa the planet. it is a worryin

interim president he was swiftly recognized as the new president by the united states and several south american countries and euro has accused the opposition of carrying out a coup and he says essentially all diplomatic ties with the us as a result. own one quite ill took the extraordinary step of swearing himself in and president here's how that took place take a look ma no. other meat i swear to formally assumed the powers of a national executive. was the president's affinis way. amazing images there let's take this story now to caracas our correspondent oscar shanker is on the story for us good evening to you. up the opposition leader we just saw one quite of his declared himself president i mean talk to me about what the situation is right now is he in power. well actually one way to go is the president of the national assembly our congress he and then out for years now the congress has put us on the road and use a server on how. the recent assuming a number we're going to smuggle in his new controller determined that. that stance so. far in the constitution they are proclaiming and so out

in the south american country are not held immediately by joe who declared himself interim president earlier in the week has said he won't give up his fight for fresh elections he's announced large scale protests for next week and called on the army to switch its allegiance and support him but the military continues to back incumbent president nicolas maduro adorer is describing the way doz rise as an attempted coup against his government. ok for more on the story let's bring in peter he's the scientific director at the eye barrow american institute in berlin peter thanks so much for joining us today and why has reappeared and in caracas surrounded by his supporters has his support been steadily growing i think so but we will have more information about this next week but what we can say is that he has been able to remain the opposition with his idea of commuters are you have those so open assemblies to make people pros that protest once again ok now my dear it does seem to still have the military leadership behind him is there any indication at all that he is ready to back down that

they will recognize venezuela's authorization leader juan wedo as president if elections in the south american country aren't held immediately. kwaito declared himself interim president earlier in the week he says he won't give up his fight for fresh elections he's announced large scale protests for next week and called on the army to switch its allegiance to him but the military continues to back incumbent president nicolas maduro duro is describing great o's rise as an attempted coup against his government. at least nine people have died after a dam collapse at an iron ore mine in the brazilian state of me national race in the country's southwest firefighters have saved more than two hundred workers but around the same number but around the same number are still missing the dams collapse least a massive and deadly flow of mud. it's a race against time for these rescuers. has devastated a vast area with hundreds of people still missing. their families fraught with. where are our parents the fathers the mothers that went to work earlier today nobody's telling us anything. where's my dad's. poc

i don't disagree with him that we need to do more to deal with the south americans coming across. we have a legal framework that works. we just need more resources. we saw these families showing up from south america in very large numbers. we didn't have that big a problem before and we didn't have the resources in place to deal with it. we still don't. drop the wall. focus on the immigration judges and things that will work and we could end this pretty quickly, this shutdown. >> thank you very much. thank you. >>> let's open up this conversation. i have with me now gloria berger and josh green. josh is also the author of "devil's bargain." gloria, let me start with you, is the president's big p.r. push, is that a sign that all of the pressure is getting him right now? >> oh, sure. i think this is a hail mary. they know that public opinion is against them and the president hates that, of course. the majority of people in this country don't support the wall. they also blame trump and republicans more for the shutdown. the shutdown is going to grow increasingly unpopular as the days

the country's interim president he was the recognized as such by the united states and several south american countries. some experts are describing it as a hostage politics playing out in china in a little over one month for western men have been targeted by china security services the latest arrest australian also a young man while visiting china now just days before a chinese court sentenced comedian robert lloyd sheldon back to death for a drug smuggling conviction and later late last year two other canadians former diplomat michael cole rig and businessman michael spall four were arrested on espionage charges and the timing of these detentions is being questioned all come off the china's arrest of top officials. she is wanted by the u.s. for violating sanctions in iran china denies its crackdown on foreigners is retaliation for monks arrest but beijing's actions have been met with fierce international condemnation. he's this the latest pawn in a global power game spy novelist and blogger young from june was a chinese diplomat before he became an australian citizen he flew from new york t

member states of what's called the lima group a platform of south and north american nations have been commenting on the venezuelan crisis eleven of the fourteen nation group have come out in support of the opposition leader here's what some of them had to say i want to express that colombia recognizes one goal i do as president of venezuela and supports this transition process towards democracy so the venezuelan people are liberated from dictatorship. but i can. send you had a. note i have recognized why and why go as venezuelan president. you with brazil together with all other countries comprising that lima group which are recognizing this fact we will give full political support to take this process to an end to this year so let me say on behalf of canada that we recognize and express our full support for the interim presidency of venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly for one guy though in compliance with the constitution of venezuela and we the members of the lima group are preparing a fuller written statement which we hope will come out very soon it's an imp

destroyer sealed near disputed islands in the south china sea. an american trade delegation is attempting to find a solution to the trade war being waged between washington and beijing the part. claimed by china but vietnam. a longstanding u.s. ally a spokeswoman for the u.s. . fleete says the move wasn't about making a political statement wherever china reacted with fury calling it a provocation stressing the action was in violation of international law last month the world's two largest economies agreed a ninety day truce in their trade war which so far as seen more losers than winners is that you are a cheater just through. well the next round of the us china trade battle begins and the both sides appear to be quite enthusiastic just have a long and very good cool would present she of china deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering old subjects and areas and points of dispute big progress being made. u.s. trade negotiators will optimistically and constructively communicate with the chinese delegation on the important ag

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that a massive south american economy as damaged as it is could actually fully collapse?i mean, this used to be the richest country in south america. and now what we're looking at is the beginnings of that. it really started to happen back in 2014. i was there on the ground. i saw the beginnings of this then. it's really only gotten worse. inflation at this point is starting to rival zimbabwe in its worst years in terms of 1 million percent inflation rates. when you look collectively, you can talk about the difference of opinion in terms of politics. but to have a country that has this much resources and that many people start to collapse and then the prospect of u.s. military intervention -- >> john bolton's paper -- >> yes, it's hard to imagine that that wasn't intentional, the little piece of paper that just happened to be in front of the map of venezuela, saying 5,000 troops. >> 5,000 troops. >> yes. all of this sort of collectively makes you very, very concerned. >> david, thank you very much. the author and journalist, with the eurasia group and the author of a grea

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himself the country's interim president and has been recognized by the united states and several south american nations venezuela's military has positioned itself behind socialist president nicolas maduro he has accused the opposition of carrying out a coup and says he's severing all diplomatic ties with the us. because the turkish president rich of tayyip out of one says he and row.

it states and several south american nations venezuela's military has positioned itself behind socialist president nicolas maduro he has accused the opposition of carrying out a coup and says he's severing all diplomatic ties with the us. pope francis touched down in panama.

they are being supplemented with south american beans.r, there were 30 million metric tons coming out of the country going into china. certainly we are not back to those volumes. what concerns me is even with we went back to normal, what has happened in china in terms of protein consumption patterns and sourcing, that concerns me. alix: joining me now is bloomberg's agricultural reporter mario parker, joining me in chicago. hey mario, that is what cargill said. what did bunge say? how did they quantify the hit from trade? mario: the trade war has done no favors for anyone in the agricultural supply chain. whether that is farmers or big businesses like bunge. they have had a particularly rough go. during the second quarter, it disappointed investors after it said it made a wrong way bet the trade war would be resolved quickly. it followed that up this week with a profit warning that china's entrance into the market distorted prices because it caused american and brazilian soybean prices to converge. alix: that is a good point, it is not on

the international community the european union the united states and its way those southern or south american neighbors i should say they all boycotted today's swearing in ceremony and has made euro takes the helm for another six years of its wireless economy remains in shambles the i.m.f. sees inflation at a whopping ten million percent this year meaning more misery for the people. cattle trucks that service public transport. supermarket shelves empty of all basic goods. this is what venezuela under president maduro has come to look like. when nicolas maduro took office after chavez died in two thousand and thirteen he inherited his predecessors socialist revolution meant to champion social justice and people power over in his whalen's. he had before long. to tighten his own grip on power. he cracked down on dissenting voices prominent opposition leaders were arrested or put on the house arrest. i when the opposition gained control of venezuela's parliament majeure i set up a new constituent assembly that could bypass parliament. the move sparked mass protests. many violently crushed by poli

economic and diplomatic power to push for democracy in a south american country president maduro was quick to respond saying that he was breaking relations with the united states speaking from the balcony of the presidential palace but to or said he would not be stepping down now so there are many more than half of the planet. we come from the streets from all of the society and we have been here in the presidency for twenty years and that's down to the votes of the people and in this presidential palace we have gotten here and we will stay here with the votes of the people which is the only way to elect the constitutional president of venezuela only the people can elect their leaders and only the people can remove them from power. this was the scene following the announcement by going door as anti-government protesters and security forces clashed in caracas. earlier thousands marked the sixty first anniversary of a coup which ousted military dictator marcos paris anti-government demonstrators fear maduro is turning his government into a similar or thor tarion regime. and i left in a

president maduro as a second term elections calling them illegitimate israel and canada and most south american states have followed the u.s. is recognition as venezuela's interim president meanwhile u.s. national security adviser john bolton has threatened action if there is violence or intimidation of the opposition leader it goes down of takes his through one credos rise from obscurity international recognition and a new grand social status dropped on one why door like a brick wall i mean just look at this from no name to total fame judging by this the life of the new poster boy for the venezuelan opposition leapt into another dimension overnight the point of no return was this. i'm mike pence the united states supports the courageous decision by one god or the united states probably recognize a national symbol president one is the constitutional interim president of venezuela he's the most evil now marred by the media and entrusted to not fail by the united states and countries making up with retinue and apparently the latter could be weighing hard on venezuela's newest a democratic symbol

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the united states and d several south american countries have already officially recognized him as presidentguaido has sworn to end what he calls the usurpation of power by the maduro government. for the latest on this we want to go to our correspondent oscar schlenker who joins me from caracas. opposition leader juan guaido, he has declared himself president. what more can you tell us about that? ososcar: juan guaiaido is a congressman in our parliliament that was elected in 2015. this last month he became president of the national assembly, parliament. parliament has been declared as the only democratically elected body by many countries. they are asking to be the next in command after calling maduro a usurper. they enacted a law calling maduro a usurper last year, but it was not until he was sworn in as a new term in president that would actually make him a usurper, because they were against the elections held in may, which had a lot of failures, and they called it a fraud. so right now we're seeing ourselves in a conundrum of who to call president here in venezuela. brent: oscar, is it p

international community is also split over the question of legitimacy of the us canada and most south american states have recognized daws venezuela's interim president a number of other countries including russia china and turkey have let their back into president nicolas maduro they've criticized what they view as an attempted coup and there's no end in sight to the mall in venezuela so another group of states has now issued an old. and made them to. use key players germany spain france the u.k. as well have stated that if elections are called within eight days they will officially recognize it as the country's leader and as well as foreign minister has ridiculed the demand dismissing it as almost childlike on saturday tensions over the crisis were on full display at an emergency un security council meeting. beared urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the venezuelan people one of you can tell me in which article and which provision of the united nations charter you can find the legal basis for this program nation and was it just this meeting which we've been forced to at