And britains 4 time olympic champion comes under fire after the b. B. C. Documentary claims he lied to doping officials about taking a controversial supplement. Good morning and welcome to the program this is our International Coming to you live from the russian capital bring you a live news update this hour. U. S. President donald trump has threatened further sanctions against venezuela targeting the countrys oil sector caracas accuses washington of using sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction and a mass form of warfare its been a year now since the u. S. Formally recognized venezuelas opposition leader. As the countrys interim president showing the door to the legitimate government of nicholas and the u. N. Meanwhile has raised the alarm over devastating Food Shortages in the country are often looks at americas role in venezuelas continuing political upheaval. When it comes to venezuela the trumpet ministration lives in a kind of alternate universe. Sample when the country faces a food crisis donald trump says there can be only one cause venezuelas president Nicolas Maduro people are starving heres a case where a country was wealthy 15 years ago and very wealthy 20 years ago very very wealthy the wealthiest in all of latin south america the wealthiest and by far not even a contest and when you look today they dont have water they dont have basic food they have no medicine its incredible whats happened it is well know were watching very closely we dont like it we dont like it not at all he fails to mention that u. S. Sanctions have been wreaking havoc on venezuela for years or that opposition groups have actually been caught torching food warehouses in the narrative of the u. S. Government these things simply dont exist. Using the blockade of food medicine and weapons to politically coerce where private entire country sent their own means to sustain and develop themselves are actually completely criminal these unilateral curse or criminal actions are equivalent and scope and effectiveness to weapons of mass destruction that is why we didnt announce it and how were suffering in venezuela but it gets better the Venezuelan Embassy in washington d. C. Has been reopened after diplomatic relations are cut off youll recall how the actual venezuelan officials were ordered to leave the country. So with no diplomatic relations what exactly is this new socalled embassy. Somebody who is in there. How well are they able to provide consular services. Ok i. Hear that. You see the. Pretend the embassy has a pretend ambassador working out of it it cannot grant visas or do any of the normal functions that a normal embassy does for one simple reason no one would be allowed into venezuela with those visas because the embassy doesnt represent the actual venezuelan government this pretend embassy is just a big facade representing a president not elected by the venezuelan people but by american Officials Group and tyranny will be smashed and broken here this evening so a very brave man. Who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all venezuelans joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela who on. The eve of the u. S. Government insists this is the true leader of the venezuelan people but when he arrived airport the venezuelan people had a pretty different opinion. Back home one grade 0 is not popular polls show that roughly 10 percent of them as wayland for him however Vice President mike pence likes to brag about the fact that over 60 countries have recognized him as president this president has led now a coalition of more than 60 countries around the world that have recognize one why go as the legitimate president of venezuela but over 100 countries have not recognized one way to go and still seem as the legitimate president furthermore in the countries where dueto is recognized its far from unanimous you not agree that the recognition of glial is an absolute am barris months to anyone that has occupied this chamber i was a disgrace on and up out of the Member States of europe washington had very high hopes for one grade 0 hoping that he would go ahead and topple the dural but it didnt happen so it seems that now washington has adopted a strategy of pretending that it did and hoping that others will play along the us is totally broken International Law by taking over the embassy in the name of the embassy in israel and government is the official government of venezuela whenever the us says joke most people in venezuela know that its a joke. You cant just declare that somebody. He is the elected president when he isnt the elected. So the u. S. Is making this farce a person into the government and then saying that the embassy doesnt belong to venezuela we now have a coalition of the willing who are saying that quite 0 is the government it doesnt have any other option and he hasnt been able to push it in the doura out there obviously under tremendous pressure because of the sanctions that washington washingtons implying making it hard for them to sell their oil and you know i mean it its a country that really lives on oil and oil sales so you know theyre distressed president s in an Election Year and his base is you know very right wing and conservative and you know some of them come out of that old cold war mentality. You know hes trying to make america look tough and i could see him trying to win votes by doing that. For Us Democratic 2020 hopefuls have clashed again and i nother t. V. Debate the last before South Carolina and super tuesday which is seen as a decisive one for the partys president ial nomination on our Bernie Sanders face more attacks from his rivals for his earlier remarks defining Literacy Programs and Fidel Castros cuba again stressed that he opposed authoritarianism all over the world noting also about his views on cuba where the same as barack obama is now they self styled socialist words were initially made in a c. B. S. Interview and his opponents were quick to pounce. Were very opposed to believe or authoritarian they tour of cuba but you know you could its unfair to simply say everything is but you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a Massive Literacy Program its not a bad think after 4 years if. Hes drawn koos it up to 8 is we as a brother didnt who will be extremely clear in standing in. Regime use that my only human rights a brode we cant risk lumination someone who doesnt recognize this fidel castro left a dog legacy of forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people but it sure bernie lets talk about his Literacy Program the campaign teen Bernie Sanders rival Mike Bloomberg trying to capitalize on the divisive comments posted a series of satirical tweets with the hash tag bernie on dust pots matching the vermont senator lavishing praise on a number of tyrants and perceived strong men however it later deleted the tweets after facing criticism earlier my colleague Daniel Hawkins got reaction from some of our guests. Bunnie sana saying this thing at a time when the Democratic Partys already split its divided its going through perhaps a bit of a p. R. It means here across this i mean this is a really bad decision isnt it sanders to me shows his integrity here look hes been saying this for years that theres videotapes of him saying these things about cuba and fidel castro in the soviet union i mean how can he backtrack on those things honestly you know hes just you know reaffirming ideas that he has had for many years the concern is not him saying good things about the Literacy Program its i said it thing that mussolini got the trains to run on time that was not what it is that People Associated with what mussolini did it happened to be the case but he was a murderous dictator as was castro spineless democratic stablish men shows their true colors its like a litmus test every time you can say one positive word about cuba or the one word in defense of venezuelan sovereignty they want to make sure theres no critique and peerless critique of the u. S. Foreign policy establishment so this is a very sophisticated form of censorship to try to narrow the perimeter is as we have more and more debates within the Democratic Party coming out of that anyone can all get literacy is a bad thing Literacy Programs thats probably we could all agree on that but isnt this an era of judgment on bunny sourness paul given there are lots of countries with good Literacy Programs with social programs and robust human rights records i mean this is surely shooting from the foot before important electoral race we have a democratic nominee who is tipping is hat to castro the murderer for having a Literacy Program so its not just a question of stature ship or narrowing things its making 100 percent sure we have a nominee who is electable and the concern is one to the public realizes what Bernie Sanders. In the past hes an unreconstructed socialist and the United States that generally not a calling card the unofficial religion of the United States is in its eye communism and we just have to listen to richards previous comments but to hear some of the communism but the truth is that the youth of this country in the multinational working class who supported bernie in nevada 46 percent of the votes that he won in nevada they are not in socialists they understand who the true enemy is the enemy is not venezuela or cuba or china its the 1000000000 is right here in the pentagon in the white house the former. Mayor of new york city Michael Bloomberg and on wall street i will quote george w. Bush who said we judge other countries by the worst of their actions we judge our own country by the best of our intentions and i think thats true you can look at a country like cuba and yes you can learn about Literacy Programs that Work Health Care programs that work and we should be able to do that in a rational way again especially when you look at the fact that people like President Trump and president obama before him and numerous president s before them partnered with murderous regimes like saudi arabia which now is being funded by the u. S. In its war against yemen which is threatening to kill millions of people and yet that is something that isnt being discussed. Violence broke out between riot police and hundreds of residents on the greek islands of lets both here with people there are furious over the authorities plans to build a new Migrant Center their officers resorted to tear gas to disperse the crowd which had set fire to trash friends and tried to block the local port. This. Is democracy and this is democracy is that if this is democracy then i dont know what to say i dont know its a shine shine aim on the government shame on everyone its disgusting its betrayed and acceptable for what the way the government has acted towards us and they would be treating us like were enemy its island is on its attack is it belongs to the islanders this country was based in democracy and the only they have done is create inhumanity for all for the refugees and for the residents of the island earlier greeces foreign minister announced a new policy aimed at protecting refugees stressing also that the country it was on the frontline of the migrant crisis greece continues to deal with the largest flows of migrants and refugees since the 2nd world war we are among the 4 e. U. Member states with the highest number of asylum applications despite the disproportionate burden we have saved thousands of lives in the sea newcomers are living in makeshift camps which are overcrowded for example the morea camp on lesbos was originally designed to accommodate around 3000 refugees but now the number is almost 7 times higher last year 74000 refugees arrived in greece with more than a half that number still living in camps this year the country estimates some 100000 Asylum Seekers will reach its soil political analyst petrus our group says that the situation could get worse without more in you support. Regarding the present situation as it is i want to go were going to have classes between. The local people and the migrants the islanders do not want to be expelled from where on an island so theyre staying so far and just protest that things can get pretty worse in this some of the silence of the competition is a dreadful so its only logical the crime will increase if he doesnt. And were on the phone same thing i. Do with programs like yours in program in Greece European Union program and i just its a program of just one country will be in big big trouble. They say good fences make Good Neighbors but that proverb seems not to apply to france whose North Eastern border is suffering from illegally dumped waste apparently originating from belgium. Reports. This may look like part of a landfill site but it snot all of this waste has been dumped here illegally were just a few miles from the border with belgium and luxembourg and the french town of all core mu 9 is one of many struggling to cope with the war you can see mountains and to mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby its a similar story trash both household and commercial has been dumped under the cover of darkness city. At 1st we thought it was regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines shitty theyre throwing everything away. Yes but here we see its far more serious we estimate around 200 tons of waste its enormous as far as the pollution we dont know whats inside it could be tons of who knows what type of products. Chemicals. We dont know we see cleaning products plastics but more could be hidden it didnt take long before calls track down where the waste was coming from what if we did i was looking through the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place we searched and found out it was from on turn up. And that if so heres an invoice is it and. Then you know it says. So there. When the company was contacted it didnt need any knowledge of illegal waste dumping but the local resident jessica told me that since that statement the fly tipping has continued its been described as dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in the local Fishermans Association is also concerned. On the water source or close to this pollution so there could be a problem because it could affect our pond this is the 21st century there are designated places to put waste like this its an acceptable people are doing this and regulate the Mayors Office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means you know and if you know so on a financial level for us this is impossible to solve we have a Small Community of 1000. 00 people it would cost the equivalent of the whole annual budget to get rid of this. A criminal investigation into this problem with cross border dumping has we know you print and customs agents have stepped up their patrols now in 2017 they reported 7 metric tons of waste like this was illegally trafficked into france in 2018 that shot up to 130000000 metric. Sons now although there are no figures yet available for 29000. 00 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground for of the peoples waste they want more regulation and a calling on the e. U. To step in to solve a problem that some believe europes open borders are helping to facilitate charlotte do you can ski for r. T. In mosul. Britains 4 time olympic champion and top and durrance runner mara and 1st facing a fresh media scrutiny over claims he reportedly lied to us doping officials about his alleged use of a controversial supplement. Has more. This summer the whole of Great Britain will be glued to their screens rooting for the nations prize athlete 4 time olympic champion run out more or will they and you panorama documentary by the b. B. C. Has cost further doubt on whether more farah success was cleanly won the dont fall back to salazar who coached certain moves to. Choose what to do to win at all costs the main Sticking Point is the role of former coach Alberto Salazar who was banned in october 29000 from a new sports activities he was the head of the controversial nike oregon project until the u. S. Antidoping agency suspected he may have banned the dopping rules one of those substances he used was l. Carney teen designed to speed up muscle and heart recovery for athletes its considered legal indows this which do not exceed 50 millimeters over 6 hours salazar however reportedly invented a new method of administering l. Carnitine through intravenous injections which itself sparked questions from u. S. Antidoping authorities it has not been a secret that more have had injections of the substance prior to the longer marathon in 2014 but the new documentary opens a fresh can of worms namely about the relationship between salazar and u. K. Athletics meet barry fudge head of Long Distance running at you get led takes still working at the organization in 2014 he reportedly flew to switzerland to obtain the el carnitine in a form which could not have been acquired in the u. K. He did not document this trip even though he had to hes calling u. K. Athletics dr rob chakravarty reportedly administered the injections to more and yet he didnt report it either even though it is against the rules to prevent he later said he simply forgot to do that over working and travelling to most of them even than usual occurrence that this very specific medicine was required a source of great difficulty given against the initial advice of the dogs in the city because of it and there were just last question answers but the eve. More bizarre case of forgetfulness occurred with more himself when you saw the investigators came to question him 1st he staunchly denied that he was. Left the interrogation but then came back and changed his account having spoken to barry fudge i have never taken ill carnitine injections at all i just wanted to come clean sorry guys and i did take it at the time and i thought i did it all comes back for me but at the time i dont remember more farrahs lawyer says the athlete just didnt get the question now having seen the documentary the u. K. Antidoping agencys c. E. O. Nicole sapp said said she the agency was ready to cooperate and even called usada is investigation robust we thank the Panorama Team for their efforts the program is another example of the importance of Investigative Journalism regards in Integrity Matters in sports u. K. Antidoping agency supported the u. S. Anti duping agency with their investigation into the nike oregon project we believe us and to do in agencies investigation was extensive and robust but just a month ago the u. K. Openly refused to hand over more all to doping probes to usada for retesting now theres no word whether this these new revelations would lead to the much sought retesting of ferrous probes because who knows what kind of further controversies surrounding the pride of britain sport such a move would uncover after this latest panorama bombshell we are 30 ologist and former sports lecturer Alice Cashmore and Swimming CoachMarco Hendricks for their thoughts on the scandal. Im sorry i just dont buy the fact that some will or some people could be so forgetful if someone injects a substance into you you dont forget you can just walk away and say no they didnt do it and there sometime later say oh i forgot it happened it keeps a now this is all through pete over the last 24 hours we did nothing that wasnt compliant with water protocols you know if this is our connotate is ok if administered in the right dosage yes but theyre also saying it may not be within the spirit of sport what does that mean you know this to me is it is so a very legal or is it theres no 2 ways about it and if there has been a violation of a wider code then im afraid u. K. Athletics has to be brought to justice so i sing thats all a little bit funny what happened now and this time. You are sitting. At 1st more fire are set. To. Come in t. And suddenly he sings he has he taken it and the u. K. Asleep because a station chief medical officer says it was legal and nothing was documented its for me or a big lie sometimes i wonder if. Its or a doctor saying that people are stupid imagine the same thing happened in the russian this time would be blocked again for the next or another for 4 years but the same like knowledge in the u. K. Is a small city. Thousands of rail passengers and canada have faced delays amid protests over a new pipeline in the provinces of ontario and back opponents to the project say it violates the rights of indigenous communities by going over their land. Activists again occupy the train tracks on monday police broke up a similar protests that have lasted 2 weeks making several of the rest of us was after the rail company one injunction to clear the encampment mohawk nation member russell del bosque says using force to break up the protests is pointless. Hes actually its a government strictness to really promote war. Support actions across the country in support of the what should i dont think you can use force because you take one blockade down and 3 more appear across the country theres widespread support for the which so it is not hereditary chiefs of clams so they cant really resolve this point for spoken to cost to candidates economy right now by trying to force the pipeline through their church or all their support actions will continue until the Government Works with the company to get the pipeline out of there meanwhile representatives of economic sectors are calling on the government to take action with industry suffering losses the Canadian Federation of agriculture says its losing around 63000000 dollars a week earlier comebacks premier said the 2nd most populated province is losing 76000000. 00 a day due to the train blockades protests against the pipeline started earlier this month it will cross lands belonging to Indigenous People in British Columbia their elected Council Agreed to the project but hereditary leaders oppose it Russell Diablo again says canada should reconsider its view on the rights of Indigenous People. The white suits are asking for recognition of their indigenous title and rights and its the government of canadas Government Policies some land claims policies that are the problem unless the government changes or replaces those policies it doesnt seem like they can really talk to the which soon hereditary chiefs about recognizing their indigenous title and rights canada is a signatory to human rights conventions and theyre violating the human rights of Indigenous Peoples so they need to look at changing their policies or this is going to be a prolong situation where continue to have the countrys economy affected until they start recognizing it didnt a stright street exist a creation of canada and they have an address that 152 years. Thats a breakdown of todays top headlines for now but if youre looking for more you can always had to our website our team dot com thanks for tuning in this hour. Nuclear become a battleground in the u. S. 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