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U.S.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on allies to 'pick a side' on Venezuela, and described its President Nicolas Maduro as part of an 'illegitimate mafia state' responsible for the country's economic collapse

Pompeo was addressing the 15-member U.N.Security Council on Saturday, which met at his request after Washington and a string of countries in the region recognized Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido as head of state

Pompeo urging the U.Ncouncil to back Guaido and called for free and fair elections as soon as possible, adding that Maduro must step down

'Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side.No more delays, no more games

Either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Maduro and his mayhem,' Pompeo told the council

With mounting protests over Venezuela's crisis in which more than two million have fled shortages of basic food and medicine, Pompeo asked all nations to 'support Venezuela's democratic transition and interim President Guaidoa's role in it,' he said

Russia tried to stop the meeting but it was voted down with nine of the 15 members agreeing to go forward

Moscow opposes the U.S.efforts and has accused Washington of backing a coup attempt, placing Venezuela at the heart of a growing geopolitical duel

'Venezuela does not represent a threat to peace and security,' Russia's U.N.Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council

'If anything does represent a threat to peace, it is the shameless and aggressive action of the United States and their allies aimed at the ouster of the legitimately elected President of Venezuela,' he said

Russia, China, South Africa and Equatorial Guinea blocked a U.S.push for a U.N.Security Council statement expressing full support for Venezuela's National Assembly as the country's 'only democratically elected institution

' Ahead of the public meeting, the United States circulated its draft Security Council statement, which said: 'As conditions in the Republic of Venezuela continue to deteriorate, the Security Council expresses its full support for the National Assembly as Venezuela's only democratically elected institution

' The same four countries also voted against holding the Security Council meeting

Nine countries voted in favor of the meeting, while Ivory Coast and Indonesia abstained

Pompeo denounced Russia and China, saying that they were motivated not by principle but raw financial interest

'China and Russia are propping up a failed regime in the hopes of recovering billions of dollars in ill-considered investments and assistance made over the years,' he said

France and Spain give Maduro eight days to call elections  France and Spain have said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has just eight days to announce 'transparent and democratic elections' or they will recognise rival Juan Guaido as the legitimate leader

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted Saturday in French and Spanish that 'the Venezuelan people should be able to freely decide their future

' He said France is working with European partners to encourage a 'political process' that would solve Venezuela's leadership crisis

Macron tweeted Saturday in French and Spanish that 'the Venezuelan people should be able to freely decide their future' and called for elections Spain's prime minister made an almost identical announcement earlier today

Pedro Sanchez said that unless Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro called for new elections within eight days Spain will recognize Guaido as the legitimate president of the South American country

'Spain is giving the government of Nicolas Maduro eight days to convoke free, transparent and democratic elections, and if that does not occur, Spain will recognize Juan Guaido as the president charged with carrying out said elections,' Sanchez said

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers a speech at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, saying that unless Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro called for new elections within eight days Spain will recognize Guaido as the legitimate president He added that as leader of Venezuela's National Assembly, Guaido is 'the person who should lead the transition to free elections

' The other 27 members of the European Union should back Spain's position, the Prime Minister said

The German government have also previously called for elections.Government spokesman Steffen Seibert tweeted: 'The Venezuelan people are courageously committed to a free future for the country

'This requires a political process that leads to free and credible elections.The democratically elected National Assembly has a special role to play here

' Guaido quickly welcomed the support from the European powerhouses.'There continues to be progress in the European Union for the recognition and full support of our legitimate and constitutional struggle,' he tweeted

But other members of the 28-nation bloc such as Austria, Greece and Portugal are more reluctant

Greece's ruling left-wing party Syriza has publicly backed Maduro, with party secretary Panos Skourletis voicing 'full support and solidarity' to what to he called 'the legal president

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U.S. needs "significant sign" that North Korea is willing to give up nuclear weapons: Bolton - Duration: 0:41.

the United States has reiterated that it's time for North Korea to make

concrete progress towards denuclearization yes national security

adviser John Bolton in an interview with The Washington Times said the US needs

to regime to show a quote significant sign of a strategic decision to give up

nuclear weapons he added once that happens u.s. President Trump can begin

to remove sanctions the north has been asking the u.s. to remove sanctions as

one of the corresponding measures from Washington asked if Kim jong-un can be

trusted Bolton said the negotiations are between Kim and Trump and the North

Korean leader is prepared to negotiate

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Behind the scenes at new US Champion Nakamura's backstage photo shoot: WWE Exclusive, Jan. 27, 2019 - Duration: 1:03.

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China's Zotye Naming US Dealers Next Week, We Wonder If They'll Bring Their Clones Too - Duration: 2:08.

America's trade war with China isn't stopping Zotye from preparing to sell its vehicles in the United States as the company will reveal its first dealerships at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) show on January 30th

Zotye's announcement was short on details, but the company noted these dealerships are expected to become the first to sell Chinese models in the United States under the Chinese automaker's brand name

While we expect additional information will be released next week, the company has previously said its first US-spec model will be an SUV that is slated to go on sale in 2020

Zotye hasn't said much beyond that, but has previously stated "engineering, development and homologation work [is] currently underway

" Despite being tight-lipped on specifics, Zotye USA's Facebook page is full of images showing the T700 crossover which is essentially a Chinese clone of the first-generation Range Rover Evoque

However, HAAH Automotive Holdings – which is handling US distribution rights – has previously said Zotye is "developing numerous new models" and "one of these new models will be the first product launched in the USA [during the] fourth quarter of 2020

" Zotye isn't widely known outside of China, but it often gets called out for its less than creative styling

Besides the T700, Zotye's SR9 has been criticized as a Porsche Macan knock-off.The company's T600 also resembles the first-generation Volkswagen Tiguan, while the Traum Meet3 echoes the Mercedes GLC

It will be interesting to see if the company's first US model will follow a similar philosophy, but the automakers are pretty protective of the US market

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US NEWS | Opinion The Real Wall Isnt at the Border The New York Times - Duration: 1:04.

US NEWS | Opinion The Real Wall Isnt at the Border The New York Times

Its everywhere, and were fighting against the wrong one.

By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Ms. Abrahamian is the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen.

President Trump wants dollar 5.7 billion to build a wall at the southern border of the United States. Nancy Pelosi thinks a wall is immoral. The fight over these slats or barriers or bricks shut down the government for more than a month and may do so again if Mr. Trump isnt satisfied with the way negotiations unfold over the next three weeks.

But lets be clear: This is a disagreement about symbolism, not policy. Liberals object less to aggressive border security than to the walls xenophobic imagery, while the administration openly revels in its political incorrectness. And when this particular episode is over, well still have been fighting about the wrong thing. Its true that immigrants will keep trying to cross into the United States and that global migration will almost certainly increase in the coming years as climate change makes parts of the planet uninhabitable. But technology and globalization are complicating the idea of what a border is and where it stands.

Not long from now, it wont make sense to think of the border as a line, a wall or even any kind of imposing vertical structure. Tearing down, or refusing to fund, border walls wont get anyone very far in the broader pursuit of global justice. The borders of the future wont be as easy to spot, build or demolish as the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing. Thats because they arent just going up around countries — theyre going up around us. And theyre taking away our freedom.

In The Jungle, a play about a refugee camp in Calais, France, a Kurdish smuggler named Ali explains that his profession is not responsible for the large numbers of migrants making the dangerous journeys to Europe by sea. Once, I was the only way a man could ever dream of arriving on your shore, . But today, migrants can plan out the journeys using their phones. It is not about this border. Its the border in here, Ali says, pointing to his head — and that is gone, now.

President Trump is obsessed with his border wall because technology has freed us from the walls in our heads.

For people with means and passports, its easy to plot exotic itineraries in a flash and book flights with just a glance at a screen. Social feeds are an endless stream of old faces in new places: a carefree colleague feeding elephants in Thailand; a smug college classmate on a babymoon in Tahiti; that awful ex hanging off a cliff in Switzerland; a friends parents enjoying retirement in New Zealand.

Likewise, a young person in Sana, Yemen, or Guatemala City might see a sister in Toronto, a neighbor in Phoenix, an aunt in London or a teacher in Berlin, and think that he, too, could start anew. Foreign places are real. Another country is possible.

If you zoom out enough in Google Earth, youll see the lines between nations begin to disappear. Eventually, youll be left staring at a unified blue planet. You might even experience a hint of what astronauts have called the overview effect: the sense that we are all on Spaceship Earth, together. From space I saw Earth — indescribably beautiful with the scars of national boundaries gone, Muhammed Faris, a Syrian astronaut, after his 1987 mission to space. In 2012, Mr. Faris fled war torn Syria for Turkey.

Ones freedom of movement used to be largely determined by ones citizenship, national origin and finances. Thats still the case — but increasingly, people are being categorized not just by the color of their passports or their ability to pay for tickets but also by where theyve been and what theyve said in the past.

This is what is happening on that front already:

A 2017 executive order barred people from seven countries, including five with Muslim majorities, from entering the country. An older rule put in place during the Obama administration compelled anyone whod even just visited seven blacklisted nations to obtain additional clearance before traveling to the United States. Even as the Trump administrations policy has met with legal challenges, it means that the barrier to entering the United States, for many, begins with their data and passport stamps, and is thousands of miles away from this country.

The Trump administration would also like to make it harder for immigrants whove received public assistance to obtain citizenship or permanent residence by redefining what it means to be a public charge. If the administration succeeds, it will have moved the border into immigrants living rooms, schools  and hospital beds.

The walls of the future go beyond one administrations policies, though. They are growing up all around us, being built by global technology companies that allow for constant surveillance, data harvesting and the alarming collection of biometric information. In 2017, the United States announced it would be in their permanent file, ostensibly to prevent Twitter happy terrorists from slipping in. For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have asked travelers about their social media, too.

The these practices can chill and deter the free speech and association of immigrants to the United States, as well as the U.S. persons who communicate with them. In other words, its no longer enough to have been born in the right place, at the right time, to the right parents. The trail of bread crumbs you leave could limit your movements.

Its possible to get a glimpse of where a digital border might lead from China. Look at its continuing experiment with , where a slip of the tongue or an unpaid debt could one day jeopardize someones ability to board a train or apply for a job. When your keystrokes and text messages become embedded in your legal identity, you create a wall around yourself without meaning to.

The Berkeley political theorist Wendy Brown diagnoses the tendency to throw up walls as a classic symptom of a nation states looming impotence in the face of globalization — the flashy sports car of what she calls a waning sovereignty. In a , Professor Brown told me that walls fulfill a desire for greater sovereign control in times when the concept of bounded territory itself is in crisis. They are signifiers of a loss of a national we and national control — all the things weve seen erupt in a huge way.

Walls are a response to deep existential anxiety, and even if the walls come down, or fail to be built in brick and stone, the world will guarantee us little in the way of freedom, fairness or equality. It makes more sense to think of modern borders as overlapping and concentric circles that change size, shape and texture depending on who — or what — is trying to pass through.

Its far too easy to imagine a situation where our freedom of movement still depends entirely on what has happened to us in the past and what kind of information were willing to give up in return. Consider the expedited screening process of the Global Entry Program for traveling to the United States. Its a shortcut — reserved for people who can get it — that doesnt do away with borders. It just makes them easier to cross, and therefore less visible.

That serves the modern nation state very well. Because in the end, what are borders supposed to protect us from? The answer used to be other states, empires or sovereigns. But today, relatively few land borders exist to physically fend off a neighboring power, and countries even cooperate to police the borders they share. Modern borders exist to control something else: the movement of people. They control us.

Those are the walls we should be fighting over.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen and an editor at The Nation.

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Venezuela's top military representative to the US slammed as 'traitor' after abandoning Maduro - Duration: 7:07.

Venezuela's top military representative to the US has been slammed as a traitor in his homeland after he declared that he now recognises opposition leader Juan Guaido as the president, abandoning Nicolas Maduro's government

Colonel Jose Luis Silva's defection is significant as Maduro, who has accused Guaido of a coup, retains the support of the country's security forces

The latest development comes as European powers signaled they were ready to follow the United States in recognizing National Assembly President Guaido as Venezuela's rightful leader

Guaidó declared himself 'acting president' on Wednesday, gaining the backing of several countries with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launching a fiery speech at the United Nations on Saturday, slamming Venezuela's dictatorial regime under Maduro as an 'illegitimate mafia state'

Col Silva's intervention is a blow to Maduro, with the armed forces seen as crucial in the current struggle

Venezuela's defence ministry said Col Silva was guilty of treason, and tweeted photos of him with the word 'traitor' plastered over them

Guaido recently asked the army  to 'put themselves on the side of the Venezuelan people'

In a video filmed at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, Col Silva said: 'The armed forces have a fundamental role in the restoration of the democracy in our country

Please, brothers, do not attack our people.' He also urged his 'brothers in the armed forces of the nation to recognise President Juan Guaido as the only legitimate president'

'We welcome him and everyone who with honesty want to follow the constitution and the will of the Venezuelan people,' he said on social media after attending a small assembly in Caracas to discuss the opposition's next moves

Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for US National Security Council, encouraged others to follow Silva's lead 'to protect constitutional order, not to sustain dictators and repress its own people

' Venezuela's top commanders have pledged loyalty to Maduro's government in the days since Guaido declared himself interim leader on grounds that Maduro's re-election last year was fraudulent - an allegation supported by the US, the European Union and many Latin American nations

But support for Maduro's rule is weaker among the military's rank and file, whose households are suffering from widespread food shortages and hyperinflation like their civilian counterparts

Last week, a small National Guard unit stole a stockpile of weapons in what it said was an attempt to oust Maduro

The uprising was quelled and 25 guardsmen arrested.The standoff has plunged troubled Venezuela into a new chapter of political turmoil that rights groups say has already left more than two dozen dead as thousands take to the street demanding Maduro step down

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the U.N.Security Council during a meeting on Saturday to 'pick a side' on Venezuela and urged countries to financially disconnect from Maduro's government

'We're here to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of Venezuelan people as they try to free themselves from former President Maduro's illegitimate mafia state,' Pompeo said in his address

Venezuela also defused a potential showdown with the United States, suspending a demand that US diplomats leave the country

Maduro had given U.S.diplomats three days to leave the country, but the Trump administration said it wouldn't obey, arguing that Maduro is no longer Venezuela's legitimate president

That set the stage for a showdown at the hilltop U.S.Embassy compound Saturday night, when the deadline was to expire

But as the sun set on Venezuela's capital, the Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying Maduro's government was suspending the expulsion to provide a 30-day window for negotiating with U

S.officials about setting up a 'U.S.interests office' in Venezuela and a similar Venezuelan office in the United States

The State Department did not confirm the Venezuelan government's account, reiterating only that its priority remains the safety of its personnel and that it has no plans to close the embassy

Earlier on Saturday, Pompeo told the U.N.Security Council: 'Let me be 100 percent clear - President Trump and I fully expect that our diplomats will continue to receive protections provided under the Vienna Convention

Do not test the United States on our resolve to protect our people.'