A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and moscow thanks for joining us this hour residents in northeastern france are creating a stink by trash talking their belgian neighbors has them of cross border fly tipping r. T. Charlotte devinsky visited the region. This may look like part of a landfill site but its not 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 what you can see mountains and the 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 a regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. 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 what more could be hidden it didnt take long before locals track down where the waste was coming from what if we did the arms looking who the trench piles and piles of it all had signs of being from the same place we searched and found out it was from on turn up. Some of it if there is an invoice is it and. Im very near it says center or so of s. When the company was contacted it denied 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 a dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in redone the local for. 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 like this its an acceptable and people are doing this and regulate the Mayors Office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means no need of yourself 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 didnt 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 tons now although there are no figures yet available for 29000 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground 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. Ski r. T. In mosul. U. S. President donald trump has threatened further sanctions on Venezuelas Oil sector caracas has branded american restrictions a weapon of mass destruction accusing washington of waging a master form of warfare its now been a year since the u. S. Formally recognized venezuelas Opposition Leader one as the countrys interim president showing the door to the legitimate government of Nicolas Maduro but washington stands that theres been a job. When transfer of power is looking increasingly hollow as our explains. When it comes to venezuela the trumpet ministration lives in a kind of alternate universe for example 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 worker who was well people 15 years ago and very wealthy 20 years ago very very well 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 it as well a 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 cowork were private entire countries and their own means to sustain and develop themselves are actually there are completely criminal these unilateral kurtzer criminal actions are equivalent in scope and effectiveness to weapons of mass destruction 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. You see. Ok. Very interesting because i hear that there are a number you see this 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 the. As whalen 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 duras group and tear it 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 illegitimate 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 at venezuelas airport the venezuelan people had a pretty different opinion. Back home the one great 0 is not popular polls show that roughly 10 percent of them as whalen support 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 of the legitimate president of venezuela but over 100. 00 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 do you not agree that the recognition of glial is an absolute am barris months to anyone that has occupied this chamber oh this is disgrace and on the part of the Member States of europe a so many of them have recognized and i like to washington had very high hopes for one guede 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 pm to the din as well and government is the official government of venezuela whenever the u. S. Says. Most people in venezuela know. Its a joke. You cant just declare that somebody is the elected president when he isnt the elected. The the us is making this. 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 kwaito is the government it isnt have any other option and he hasnt been able to push. A new b. B. C. Documentary claims that u. K. Athletics officials are implicated in a doping controversy and valving britains 4 time olympic champion and top and durrance runner farah. Has marked. 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 plan around a documentary by the b. B. C. Has cost further doubt on whether more success was cleanly won the dont for salazar costs or move to court to 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 21000 from any sports activities he was the head of the controversial nike oregon project until the u. S. Antidoping agency suspected he may have banned the doping rules one of those substances he used was al carney team 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 intervene as 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 law on the marathon in 2014 but the new documentary opens a fresh can of worms namely about their relationship between salazar and u. K. Athletics meet barry fudge head of Long Distance running at you get the. Dicks still working at the organization in 2014 he reportedly flew to switzerland to obtain the l. Carnitine in a form which could not have been acquired in the u. K. He did not document this trip even though he had 2 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 due to over working and travelling to most of you better than usual occurrence that this very specific medicine was required a source of great difficulty given against the initial advice of the doctor being the who keeps any records of it and therefore decides to keep quiet about it but the even more bizarre case of forgetfulness occurred with more himself when usada 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 didnt it all comes back to 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 and Integrity Matters in sports u. K. And to doping Agency Support of 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 old 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 sociologist and former sports lecturer Alice Cashmore and something coach Marco Hendricks for their thoughts on the scandal. Are sought out just by 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 then sometime later say oh i forgot it happened it keeps a now this is all through pleated 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 of they are its illegal or is it theres no 2 ways about it and if there has been a violation of a lot of 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. At 1st more far set i dont take. It t. And suddenly it seems he has he taken it and the u. K. Asleep because the station chief medical officer says it was legal and nothing was documented its for me or a big lie sometimes i wonder if there is slits 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 4 for us but the same like mel in the u. K. Is a small scene. Still to come remarks about fidel castro seeing Us Democratic front runner Bernie Sanders rounded on by his rivals and the last t. V. Debate before super tuesday details on that after the break. People who have money in pension account people who have money in savings are actually digging into their pockets because their savings rate their pension accounts are now yielding close to 0 or negative theyre taking money out of their pockets thanks to the central bankers and theyre giving it to a billionaire so he can buy jeopardy so he can sell trinkets to more billionaires this is louis the 16th i believe living off the labor of the peasant. Seemed wrong. Just dont. Let me. Get to shape out. Active. And engaged with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart if we choose to look for common ground. Welcome back the Us Democratic 2020 hopefuls have clashed again and a mother t. V. Debates the last before South Carolina and super tuesday but just seen as decisive for the partys president ial nomination front runner Bernie Sanders face more attacks from his rivals for his remarks defending Literacy Programs and Fidel Castros cuba he stressed that he opposed authoritarianism all over the world the selfstyled socialist words were initially made and they see b s interview and his opponents were quick to pounce. Were very opposed to believe or thorough peer in the chair of cuba but you know you know 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 of looking on in horror as trump cozied up to dictators we need a president who will be extremely clear in standing against regimes that violate human rights abroad we cant risk nominating someone who doesnt recognize this fidel castro left a dark legacy of forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people but sure bernie lets talk about his Literacy Program during the Debate Centers also noted that his views on cuba where the same as barack obama. Said the president dancing. And said look youve made great progress in educating. Young people every child in cuba its a basic education thats thats a huge improvement from where it once. Earlier my colleague Daniel Hawkins discussed the potential impact of sanders remarks on the race with a panel of guest. Bernie sana saying this thing at a time when the Democratic Partys already split its the vibe that 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 a one word in defense of venezuelan sovereignty they want to make sure theres no critique and so imperialist 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 oneself in the foot before a 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 stats or ship or narrow 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. Said 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 anticommunism 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 theyre 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 has broken out between riot police and hundreds of residents on the greek islands of last bus and share with people there are furious of a death already explained to build new Migrant Detention Centers their officers resorted to tear gas to disperse the crowd which is fire to trash pens and try to blockade the local port. This is the most. And this is democracy is that if this is democracy then i dont know what to say i dont know its a shame shame 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 ireland 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 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 last post was originally designed to accommodate around 3000 refugees but the number is now almost 7 times higher last year alone 74000 refugees arrived in greece with more than half that number still living in camps and this year at the country estimates some 100000 Asylum Seekers will reach its soil political analyst petrus our group says that the situation could get worse with out more in you support. Regarding the present situation as it is i want to but were going to have classes between. A lot of people and the migrants the islanders do not want soon to be expelled from world and im sort of staying so far and just protesting if things can get pretty worse in the same manner as some of the silence of the common condition is a dreadful so its only logical of a good crime will increase if you doesnt. And were on the front same. Deal with programs like yours and program in greece as a European Union program and not just as a program of just one country well be in big big trouble. Thats a wrap up of the days headlines for now but if all those stories havent quite thirst for news head on over to our website r. T. Dot com. C. N. N. Finance thats also important the smartphone. You can then see. The nature and the stats oh there he is in this all. Star trust and they just decided to some extent and some french and hope for the rest of the line and the ball. Just almost. Like. A lot of history. And theres no one she knew not. All of them ok if there. Was not an imaginary. 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The working class we ask a former labor cabinet minister whatever happened to raising the scarlet standard hi all of them are coming up today is going underground 1st extradition proceedings are underway today in london as the usa tries to get its hands on the most famous publisher and journalist in the world julian a son faces 175 years in jail in the q. C. For the usa james lewis is citing former cia spy jeffrey sterling to secure the australian wiki leaks found his Removal Division yeah jeffrey sterling now joins me via skype from st louis in missouri jeffrey thanks so much for coming on the show so you know all about the tactics of the u. S. Deep state racism persecution at the cia what do you make of your name being quoted in court and i find it incredible that their name dropping the courts of their position and saying i guess the referring back to the sentencing for me shows how reasonable it can be one thing to mention was that in my prosecution persecution over yes you know there was absolutely no evidence yeah they had they obviously said it was circumstantial evidence so the u. S. Authorities say but james lewis has his q. C. 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