american public. as in washington. in caracas the. venezuelan president returns home from his latin american tour without upset or incident. as a new poll finds that france is against the children of returning home as the relatives of some kids held in syria appealed to the un for help getting them back. and. paraded around major spanish cities on the side of a bus as part of an. enormous by conservatives. it's one o'clock here in moscow. r.t. international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. we start with the u.s. senior us democrats are demanding access to all communications between presidents donald trump and putin that's amid allegations that the u.s. leader concealed some of what he spoke about with his russian counterpart the following a request was sent to the white house. the committee's request by march the fifteenth twenty nineteen the department produced documents communications regardless of form and classification to refer or relate to any communications between president trump and president putin democrats and that is to put trump on to even more intense scrutiny because being alleged connection with russia might be because there's talk that the current one a probe into the issue will prove to be a disappointment as came to open explains. there's an old saying among cops and prosecutors if you throw enough at a wall eventually something will stick and this old saying usually expressed with less polite terminology seems to now be the montra of the democrats in congress jerry nadler has been selected to lead the charge impeachment is a long way down the road we don't we don't have the facts yet but we're going to initiate. a proper investigation so you have ph somebody you have to persuade the american public or to to happen to remember the bob muller investigation that highly expensive two year long probe into allegations that donald trump had colluded with russia not too long ago democrats had many people convinced that it would be a huge game changer. well the final report is imminent and some are worried that it won't contain a bombshell or smoking gun revelation but some democrats seem to have the same overall goal because we're going to go in there really. i eighty one people have received a letter from the house judiciary committee they plan on following up on every last lead from the testimony of trump's former warrior michael cohen at this point they are planning to investigate the relations between the white house and trump's family the firing of james komi foreign trade deals and much my. more and it won't just be the judiciary committee that is looking into donald trump you have to do is follow the transcripts if there were names that were mentioned records that were mentioned during the hearing we're going to take a look at all of that the u.s. constitution lays out procedures for trying and removing a president who is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors the idea is to put a check and balance on the executive branch so that it is not above the law however it seems that as of late investigations and impeachment have turned into just another play in the never ending political football game. r.t. new york the white house has reacted with scorn to news of a new private saying the democrats were opening up a disgraceful and to be said investigation into thai and false allegations former u.s. republican congressman michael popkin on the consensus and democrat controlled inquiry will backfire. the democrats knowing that it's not going to be much of a report are now trying to build their own campaign and continue the activity of them all or in their own clumsy imperfect way and their goal is to take this president down and make sure that he is in no way possibly real active next year and so they will do their best to keep this alive if more was keeping his or it is his his investigation somehow alive they would be doing this because the need for this investigation would be would be vitiated by a bible or doing his but now more is done and he's apparently not going to report much of anything this is the democrats furious so they're going to build an investigation that they control that they run that they can control the outcome of and what surprised price it will have the outcome that they wanted to have and no one will believe it. and it's why his opposition leader is safely back home rallying support after washington warned there would be trouble if he's harmed one had been toying latin america in violation of a travel ban imposed by pakis his return has prompted a very different reactions on twitter from achieving u.s. state department and a defiant anice way and president of the missouri has welcomed back who are. good to see venezuelan security forces standing on the right side of history the world must unite push to end the brutal murder regime and peacefully restored in free people who raise their voices against imperial interference all of venezuela will return to the streets determined to mobilize in search of freedom. the ambassadors of france germany the netherlands and spain created by day at the airport along with a crowd of journalists while flag waving supporters met him for a rally in the capital quite urge them to mobilize for yet another protest against the venezuelan president nicolas specter on tuesday. mean. while venezuela's problems become problems for the region the u.s. has threatened to tighten the screws on economic sanctions against cuba on his prior stance america's national security adviser said the new restrictions would target cuba's military john bolton also tweeted that the region's nation should come out and condemn caracas but takes a look at why washington thinks it can police the world. the united states is exceptional literally balland by different rules to you and me of the nation's states groups you see they have the right to decide who rules where like in venezuela they decide who is a dictator and who isn't they decide which dictators rule and which don't do it supports any number of dictators who are only human rights including the leaders of egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. you don't see that the united states support for other brutal dictators around the world undermines the credibility of your argument america no i don't think it does make it separate and i think work in this administration we're not afraid to use the phrase monroe doctrine. it's an archaic nineteenth century policy that basically says new nation in the americas may be colonized by europeans out of bounds for europeans and everyone not from the americas a little later teddy roosevelt twisted this policy turn that inside out instead of protecting american nations the u.s. now told pulled governments it didn't like they're now they've twisted it again now they think they can do this everywhere all over the world and he's a well er and a bill that legitimizes us meddling there terry quire threat assessment a strategy to counter russian influence in venezuela. in effect they're trying to justify meddling in venezuela pagi because it's too friendly with russia and saying no not that then is asked for it not even america's champ there but you don't see broad support for i believe that there is respectful participation of russia in regards to watching the fate of our country but the same goes for other countries that are paying attention here and merica knows better in syria half the world away it's the same story in syria the united states where used to plumb us in work with our partners to expel every last iranian brute and work through the un a process to bring peace and stability to the long suffering syrian people for the life of me i don't remember syrians asking the united states to get rid of iranians but america knows better africa too many chinese there thinks washington up to no good now is the time to boot them out china uses bribes opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands goes without saying it wasn't the africans who asked for this in fact according to the latest gallup poll most africans approve of chinese investment plans leadership in africa but the united states knows better you know why because it's special exceptional better than you or me officially our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order this is a unique exceptional country. imagine mr monreal would turn in his grave if he could see what is but nine policy protecting the weak from european. colonizes what that has been turned into a license to kill to meddle to topple governments and politically but continents oh you've got to be special all right we have all sorts of recent cases libya syria iraq where u.s. intervention has essentially obliterated any possibility of democracy but this is true throughout the decades that the united states has meddled in the affairs of latin america overthrowing one democratically elected government after another whether in one thousand nine hundred eighty four with arbenz or the interventions that it carried out in the one nine hundred eighty s. supporting brutal military regimes in countries like el salvador although venezuela is in the vise the moment cuba nicaragua are also mentioned by figures like bolton in the same breath this is clearly a concerted effort to bring latin american countries once again under the iron control. but of the children of french jay hardy's have appealed to the un for the children to be allowed back to france the currently being held in camps in syrian kurdistan one of the lawyers who helped to lodge the complaint says the children would be able to adapt to a normal life in france. when the french people every day for three years in a row are being held at these children are time bombs they want to prove the repaired little fact there been to see the eighty four children who already are turned around they have adapted to their being social license with their ok according to the save the children charity there are now more than two and a half thousand children in camps and other syria from around thirty countries where it does the lawyer we just heard from thinks around one hundred of them are french france is currently dealing with the return of these children on a case by case basis these are currently dealing with the return of these children on a case by case basis the majority of french people seem to be against the children's return a new poll found that sixty seven percent of respondents didn't want them in france we spoke to patrick jordan the father of one of the victims of a paris concert hall attack carried out by i saw he things the children of jihad is have to pay the consequences of their parents' actions. parents are bearing responsibility for the future of their children they've left france voluntarily nobody forced them out they've decided to fight against france they've crossed themselves out of frauds and unfortunately their children should account for the consequences for me these children coming back is out of the question i don't believe considered the french national our sister channel r.t. france spoke to paris residence to see what they thought about the children's fate . it of all children should be protected and their own circumstances of their dollars it creates a real threat this children back they have to be hollerin decatur's it's risky to these often these are children since when the children danger over need is good environment they will flourish. adult up adult head now wearing lipstick and long eyelashes has been spotted in madrid and barcelona on the side of a bus the future mobile is part of a campaign by ultra conservative catholics who are and happy about finals on gender violence which they claim discriminate against men the bus will toss several other spanish cities in the run up to international women's day on march their the campaign is being run under the hash tag stop famine artes which is now how the organizers refer to certain types of family it spokesman told us why. the gender laws are really very. very very bad laws because louis discriminate men from women in the penalty of the pan are called discriminate also or in the presence of innocence it's breakin and simple of equality that is in our constitution what we are asking is for or that is what's always we are asking for but in fact they're not asking for a quality but they are asking for supremacism in a giant way. the campaign is seeking to get a two thousand and four law on gender violence repealed under its special courts and station centers were created to protect women at risk some on twitter have scoffed at the campaign and have come up with their own alternative bust slogans accusing the campaign of being very behind the times the catholic group behind the campaign made headlines in twenty seventeen not with a bus but a converted camper van the time around they were targeting the transgender community their message was that children are too young to be gender fluid the authorities thought the campaign went too far and seized its vehicles body confidence and because john b. moralists thinks the new hitler fails to get its point across. i personally think it's quite hard to take a group or an organization seriously when they're you someone that has inflicted so much pain or many people from his quest to just read the picture understand what the organization's trying to depict and i don't think he's the right person to use the base of this campaign specially what they're trying to do that i don't need that the current do you think is a bit of an insult to women especially because of what he was about and what he thought about women in particular and us are trying to do and i do agree that something needs to be done but again violence is. men and women domestic violence is many when it happened both ways so maybe it's not the right present again do you think it might be slightly insulting to men directly china is giving its army a super boost with a massive cash injection we'll look at what difference it will make after this. life expectancy in america is plummeting if you look at the chart it shocking you look at almost every other country it's got a branching out on one side of the chart and that has an alkali or is the united states it's way over here it is all crashing down from the drugs to having junk food having junk culture having a junk politics and fake news it's all fake and fake doesn't sustain life and you see it in the numbers it's clear. seems wrong. just don't hold. anything to get to shape out these days. and in. trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the program china has announced it's looking to increase its military spending by a seven point five percent compared to the previous year to over one hundred seventy seven billion dollars evangelists from beijing. i'm understanding in front of the great hall here where the thirteenth a national congress was held it's the highest organ of the chinese elites and powerful politicians come here and they came here today to actually hear the draft of the budget and the economic vision of the next year and that he also said here today that there was an increase in the military budget and the outline the reasons why that happened maintaining reasonable and appropriate groups the national defense budget is needed to safeguard national security and is in line with the transformation program of china's military the u.s. has been going to great lengths to show to the world how china's military might pose a danger we face growing threat from china and beijing will use its military clout to expand its footprint using military tools as well as propaganda to modernize and expanding its already considerable nuclear forces but when you compare the two countries and how much they've been pouring into arms it's quite of gap between china and the united states the u.s. last year and vest that about six hundred eighty billion dollars in their national defense were china has been nothing close to that and it's that's not even enough this year president trump has been pressuring congress to increase that to over seven hundred billion dollars. you china's defense spending accounted for one point three percent of its gross domestic product in two thousand and eighteen well during the same period some major developed countries spent. more than two percent of their g.d.p. on defense or that two percent pretty much rings a bell it's been and trump smelled pretty much the whole time he's got elected he's been saying that the his allies is nato allies are actually not spending enough on defense hoping that they will do up to two percent you have to pay the minimum required two percent of g.d.p. must pay. what the united states has more than eight hundred military bases all around the world where china has all the one that's in africa in djibouti while the us has been seeing that they have these bases to maintain peace among the world the chinese simply just say that the just wanted to be there to protect their national interests. and pentagon security analyst michael maloof told us the u.s. is seeking conflict including with china to justify its military spending. the united states. has a budget that's about five and a half times larger than china it needs conflicts all the time in order to justify that kind of spending china as it improves on its economy and grows stronger and bigger and and seeks to branch out they need a military that can. project power so i envision that conflicts will continue china sees that inevitably it will have. it will have run ins with the united states. in areas in different areas of the world and it wants to improve on its military i think certainly the united states is watching china's economic and military rise it regards it as one of the along with russia as the other main adversary they regard china as the emerging power that to be concerned about. a male british drop it claims to have broken the women's and weight lifting backward by identifying as well here trying to highlight what he calls the absurdity of claims that there's no biological strength difference between men and women see these viral tweets got over a million views and comes amid a backlash against a growing number of athletes identifying as female in women's defense in his post he outlined that he was identifying as a woman we spoke to him. the video went viral because he touched on a timely issue according to their own logic they have no proof that i myself did not identify as a woman was doing that video so by their own logic i could easily accuse them of being transferred or being bigoted by claiming that i in fact was not a woman at the time that video was recorded in a trance. can and when the female world championship causing outrage comes amid a backlash against the growing number of competitors identifying as female in women's events particularly pics from a sharon davis tweeted that women sports must be protected from people born as men unfair advantage. and limbic will state men can participate as women without having surgery as long as they undergo hormone therapy to bring down testosterone levels so you told us why even more restrictions may not be enough to ensure fair competition for women. testosterone is not the only difference that gives men physical advantage over women especially in strength and speed there are other factors as well if someone has gone through puberty as a male you've likely to be considerably taller especially at the extreme ends you're going to have a different bone structure you're going to have bigger hands bigger your entire muscular skeletal system will still remain that of a man so if i were to take some hormone blockers and suppress my testosterone levels for a twelve months i still would be i'd still have considerable physical advantages over someone who's been woman for their entire life so it's not just as simple as the testosterone levels i have no nothing against i don't think anybody in this debate has anything against any individuals or groups it's merely about maintaining fairness and not distorting reality in a way that could actually be very harmful and perhaps even you know could actually ruin women's sport if it's led to go to its for conclusion really. the russian foreign minister is in saudi arabia when he has just met with the chief negotiator of the syrian opposition to discuss reconciliation said the lavrov expressed hope that the opposition would help to facilitate the return of refugees . we appreciate your commitment to finding solutions and we expect that you and other representatives of the syrian opposition to contribute to creating a constitutional committee and of course you expect that the response of the elements of the opposition support the provision of the system as a series for the international community just north of you in the seam of humanitarian aid would also in terms of what is unlike educational and medical services and enabling refugees and displaced people to return to their homes. with them on the meeting eco support for that. the russian foreign minister has just met with the members of the syrian opposition belonging to the so-called political wing of the syrian opposition movement meaning that basically they're not exactly members of any militant group or on the ground like you know going to shine for example i should say it was a surprise meeting really wasn't announced and wasn't anywhere in the program in fact we journalists had already boarded the plane expecting to depart shortly when we were told while this thing is happening with so according to the russian foreign minister quoting two circle of relief was productive meeting and they talked about the issue of terrorism a 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