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in the russian capital thanks for joining us. washington has imposed new sanctions against the venezuelan president nicolas maduro that's after he claimed victory in a controversial referendum. a dictator dictator. i do know it's a bay imperial ordinance i do not obey foreign orders of government neither today nor ever will obey imperial orders i am free independent president but also anti imperialist i'm against american imperialism. or the sanctions target my daughter's assets as well as those of top venezuelan officials also and u.s. firms and individuals from doing business with the venezuelan president however

there is one economic restriction the us seems rather unwilling to resort to when this diplomatic war as artie's caleb maupin now explains. despite the fact that madeira was democratically elected u.s. leaders call him a dictator we will work with our partners to hold accountable all those responsible for the school leaving violence and ongoing human rights violations as a result of today's sanctions all assets of subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him but one section of venezuela's economy which according to many reports and speculation is not being targeted by sanctions is oil ninety five percent of that as well as export revenue comes from oil resources they sell oil on the international markets and at this point the u.s. treasury does not intend to target the oil sector of venezuela's economy with sanctions when they were asked about venezuela's oil exports this was the response

from u.s. officials others may be making some changes in terms of our export of life. or curbing venezuelan oil imports is that still on the table but let me just say we will continue to monitor all of our specific conversations against oil i'm not going to comment on that what i will say is we will monitor all of our options so many people are watching the crisis in venezuela as the country moves ahead with its constituent assembly but many people are also watching officials in washington d.c. and wondering how their actions could have an impact on the ongoing situation in the country it would mop and art see new york but imposing sanctions on venezuela's oil industry would not be without cost for washington venezuela exports a large amount of crude oil to the u.s. amounting to nearly seven hundred forty one thousand barrels a day latin american country is the third largest exporter of crude oil to the u.s.

venezuela also bowled around fifteen percent of american light crude exports last year. we talked to. an expert on latin america who told us why he thinks the u.s. has held off on sanctioning crude oil. but so far the sanctions that there have been to mention have been against refined venezuelan oil products and against individuals in the venezuelan government they have not been for the importation of crude the fact that they are not including crude speaks to that interdependence and the fact that us all producers and export don't want to up the market and potentially that ten percent extraction of venezuelan oil could spike u.s. gasoline prices as well so i think that that is the concern meanwhile the protests in venezuela not going away the opposition denouncing sunday's constituent assembly elections as illegitimate also insists officials are lying about the turnout but

those government says more than forty percent of voters took part in sunday's vote the elected a constituent assembly will be rewriting the constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current parliament voting took place amid fierce protests and deadly clashes to sixteen people were killed over the weekend. reports from caracas . well as you can see this is been a swell did they. claim big story in the assembly both. of those in order to get here it's been a very violent form here in venice wailing oh the scenes that. brought the started on april first. one hundred twenty one according to attorney general's office does to sounds like more trouble on the way as you can see this discovery. we discussed this issue with francisco domingo's head of the latin american studies

research group at the u.k.'s middlesex university and christian lawyer and director of online magazine. you cannot just unilaterally as a president tell your people ok well i don't like that you've got the constitution i want to write a new one so that i can decide who stays in power i can decide who i appoint to the high court and i could also decide what goes on in congress that is not a democracy if you want to call this before others know which i he surprised we want to call this a mock received because it is not a democracy and you cannot interpret that in those articles of the constitution it is clear that when you go to a constitutional plebiscite or election you have to have the majority of the people calling for it you cannot just unilaterally say well i don't like it i want to right now you want a mother a that i want is not what i'm going to get i am going to. make it better if you could just give francisco a chance to respond to the points he made that. i hope interrupted again.

the basic position is it can be called. and there is no reason for for anybody not to call it and the reason why matilda was called for these constitution contagion simply is in order to empower the population and to get a mandate so that through that mandate they can actually begin never it is the position of the government has been strengthened regarding this the government is sinking in two thousand and fifteen when the national assembly elections took place the government got forty five point six million now they got a million so they increase by two and a half million votes seems to me that there is one section of this and that is totally that. there is another one is prepared to talk these a million votes at a facility the personally to bring about peace through the local smugglers of again and again and again why i just don't go to a general election submit your name samir do your your your your work in your in

your government a little bit will decide if you want to stay or be if you if you go but don't we why the constitution and say that that's going to be a way of solving the mass unemployment rate the inflation rate the economy going in shambles and also having people standing in lines asking for food that is completely ridiculous that a law will fix that only true leadership will fix that and that is not the way to do it i don't think anybody has ever said that the new country just simply is going to resolve all the problems it's not going to but their d.n.a. is that he will create a frame or both we asserted that is going to result. in the recall truth of the position come bring round to the dialogue that actually people want. the white house has seen a spate of departures lately and after only ten days in office and he's got a military has now been sacked as his communications director his dismissal is widely regarded as an attempt by the u.s. president's new chief of staff john kelly to assert his authority over the

reshuffles on capitol hill speculation of chaos in trump's cabinet yet there might be another reason behind the shake ups as artie's jacqueline explains. the never ending drama coming out of the white house has recently been bolstered by a number of shake ups in the west wing staff and each time another employee bites the dust the media cries that chaos and disaster are reigning in the white house the turmoil inside the white house is real and on full display the torrent of profanity obscenity and humiliation this is a recognition that six months into this presidency it is a fail of the failed presidency we've been seeing trump repeatedly attack members of his own staff often on social media causing headlines to erupt questioning the president's sanity these insane tweets some of donald trump's most insane tweets you know trump is completely insane a growing number of democrats are openly questioning president trump's mental

health and listening carefully to donald trump and i think he's a narcissistic maniac but man this though it may be is there a method to it narcissistic mania. it's no secret that democrats hate trump he ran on the republican ticket so frankly one can expect no less but the thing is the president's own party also fosters a fair amount of opposition to him what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for i worry about the president's understanding of some of these issues. he's a race baiting zina phobic religious bigot and i am not going to get it done a. lot of the future on the other hand continues to defend his administration and the choices he makes we do swore in general kelly he will do a spectacular job i have no doubt we have a fantastic leader chief of staff going to do a really great job there with the democrats against him and his own party of not

exactly solid support term seems to be trimming the fat leaving only those he can rely on thank you president elect for the confidence that you've shown in donald trump understands the. problem was readiness in our military and is committed to restoring that readiness should have someone who's never done this who's actually created real jobs donald trump is doing just that he speaks from the brain he speaks from the heart i mean all these trump insanity claims perhaps the president is simply used to running himself but those are very few he truly trusts jaclyn who go r.t. washington d.c. early on my colleague neil harvey explodes for the take on trump's decision to dismiss scott to move as are the white house communications director. i think it was absolutely the correct thing to do and those comments were just so far over the top that i think it left trump with you know no alternative but to do what he did do it was a brilliant decision after a stupid decision of putting him in there in the first place yeah it's actually

it's a disaster it's a terrible thing and i'll tell you why general flynn was fired jeff sessions is being attacked and now scary movie is out so if you are a person with considerable talent then do you really want to give up your job here much you sell the company a billion dollar company jeff sessions was center of alabama and he would have been senator forever so the kind of people now who are going to be applying for jobs in the trump white house are going to be mediocrities they don't really have any talent they don't have much going on so they are they want to be close to power so they'll think i'm not giving up nothing if i get fired a big deal but if you're really a hard core man or hard core woman who's who is killing the game of life and doing great you're going to say why bother with all of that when i might be fired in a week or two there's a lot of ridicule all mind of this but should we be more serious about this which talking about the people who have basically running the country here we've been distracted the last forty eight seventy two hours by you know the the arrival and

departure of mr potty mouth and i think it's really important that we get promptly back to business and we have a north korea exploding we've got a lot of problems much bigger than you know. about you know those terms temporary decision to let somebody who probably would have been more comfortable the bot of being called yes it is funny but but here here's the thing that which is even more interesting he would donald trump were all playing this parlor game did he do this did he appoint scared because he's a competent dad in say even is the president or is it a macchiavelli ingenious deliberately placed to cause a distraction c.n.n. of go. into styria those you know unknown secretive sources that appeared once again let's just hear something of what's been said including that the theory that it's government to show who's the boss let's have a listen to one source just said to me he said anthony was grandstanding and went

to the president you end up in the cheap seats in center field when you do that no star can shine brighter to use another metaphor then the president c.n.n. should go back to finding missing plane three seventy some were made off ostrow you know if you know that there are so far out of the mainstream out of doing serious journalism at this point the question is remember your two issues was it general kelly this is a full general reno who wanted everybody to know i'm in charge moche is going to tell people that you go through him. i'm the general or. mr trump could have told the general can him i've had enough of this guy or a combination thereof that's the part of the game meanwhile as i say as world war three broods c.n.n.

is playing this do you think they hate each other missing the point altogether military people not all military people are the same obviously but a military force star general marine four star general who has had the kind of resume that john kelly has had over four decades of service is precisely the kind of person who can step in and out of chaos create a semblance of order that's another theory that kelly was the man behind this removal the scout i mean she didn't that's the most plausible explanation at this point a man like kelly who is a military man knows lines of authority and knows that it makes little sense to take a top job like he's got if people can go around him especially troubling scaramucci was an annoyance but especially troubling troubling is the ongoing perplexing problem what of jared kushner what if of aka trump start going around kelly to you know her father and his father in law if you notice nobody's talking about gerry cushier and russians anymore nobody's talking about

a vote hacking nobody's talking about things before which completely couldn't the front pages and the subject matter of all the media now we're into this where you talk about the mainstream media is the perfect intro i think that they really go into overdrive now saying the white house is in. a little look at some of the coverage turmoil inside the white house is real and on full display a torrent of of profanity obscenity and humiliation this is a recognition that six months into this presidency it is a fellow a failed presidency like the world's in chaos in the white house is relatively steady shape with a lot left to accomplish for the benefit of most americans of those people who cherish freedom and i can. i'm a growth around the world now it's classic white house just like an emergency room i merge the room seems like chaos but that's what it deals with it deals with chaos and when in rome do as well you know the rest of the story trump is trying to

change the system and he's being backstabbed by republicans i have long said the greatest threat to donald trump is not the d.n.c. it's actually the r n c so what appears to be chaos is mainly a civil war going on with republicans who want to put america first versus republicans who want to be globalists. hackers have been testing their skills by trying to crack us voting machines at a conference in las vegas and even managed to program one of the voting machines to sing. voting machines one of the twenty seventeen defcon computer security conference it only took tacos ninety minutes to find an exploit vulnerabilities in many of the machines and one popular model though when vote was used throughout three u.s. presidential elections from two thousand and four to twenty twelve american

intelligence agencies have accused russian hackers of trying to infiltrate the u.s. electoral system but experts say the death challenge shows that hacking voting machines is easier than previously thought. this software just isn't up to modern standards it's not even as strongly protected as a p.c. it just took us a couple of hours on google to find passwords that let us unlock the administrative functions on this machine there's plenty of new machines available for purchase they're not being purchased to get states don't want to spend the money hopefully with all of the controversy around this election. we will see. either of the states or the federal government allocate money to upgrade it and buy new machines that are much more secure and where we can at least write off the that theory. the unproven theory that our election can be hacked and is out

international thanks for joining us so far the standoff between qatar and saudi arabia intensifies with the gulf states both accusing each other of fake news but back with more in just a moment. in case you're new to the game this is how it works economy is built around corporation corporations run washington the washington post media the media the. voters elect. to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . here's what people have been saying about redacted and.

the only show i go out of my way to. really packed a punch. is the john oliver of. the same. parents better than. i see heard of. jack tonight president of the world bank a. seriously he sent us an email. thanks for joining us so far. has an article as fake news claiming that the country's ambassador in moscow accused russian journalists of receiving bribes from saudi arabia the report was published on a website imitating al jazeera. takes a look at the latest twist in the ongoing misinformation war that is still being

intensified between the two gulf states. why not trust al-jazeera one of the most reliable news outlets in the world well only if it's a fake al-jazeera has article claiming saudi arabia bribed russian news agencies well upon closer inspection we can see that the letter is even the still turn of al-jazeera website is rather different from your regular zeke but you can hardly notice it so is the header of the websites which differs in size but if you press the logo it will direct you to the news outlets original site clever understandably the qatari embassy in moscow and al-jazeera general director of both released statements claiming this information is fake and according to the head of al-jazeera the purpose of this fake news was to create a conflict between russia and qatar when he did mention this isn't the first time this week and the foreign ministers of qatar and saudi arabia exchanged blows over the two holiest cities in islam mecca and medina. the kingdom of saudi arabia

considers any requests to internationalize the holy sites as an act of aggression and a declaration of war against the kingdom and the kingdom reserves the right to respond to any policy working in this regards but in this. business but in a cult there never politicized the issue. it was saudi arabia trying to politicize the hard pilgrimage a mythical crisis there's been no suggestion by any kathuria official about internationalizing the issue looks like another fake coming from the saudis but see what really happened the saudi arabia put in place certain travel conditions for qatari citizens making rather uncomfortable to visit the sacred sites in response qatar took its complaints to the un and all this bickering and fighting started the way back in may when a controversial article was published on a news agency website which led to a very negative reaction by the saudis and they are our allies but you are you to mention or you probably guessed it yes though he says it was also

a planted fake article and qatari officials seem to have identified the possible perpetrator. because your authorities are already identified the initiators leaders and executed of this computer. evidence we have available points to the u a e this is irrefutable evidence we did not expect this needless to say the emirates have of course refuted the claims it seems that in this conflict a lot of key reactions and issues are being decided by nothing but fake news media francis and giago r.t. . we heard from a lot met a director of the institute for gulf of he believes this latest so-called fake reporters an attempt at driving a wedge between qatar and russia it is an attempt to divide the to break relationship between the russians on the qataris but i think it was very clear that is this is fake just like the statements or the fake statements at the beach or to

the emir of qatar. were fake but they they were used deliberately to create this conflict in arabic they say the war starts with words and i think now we are seeing that escalation of war of words between the two sides but especially coming from the saudi and a moderately sized their statements are extremely harsh and extremely worrying because they are using the very very sometimes even vulgar language to attack the qatari position so we are we are seeing more of that and using basically every outlet possible on line twitter facebook you name it it's all all there. u.s. vice president mike pence has traveled to a stone where he reconfirmed washington's commitment to secure and protect the baltic states against russia. we stand with the people and nations of the stony and

do you and the we do to all the delegates we refused to recognize the baltic states this part of this should be you know. when you raise your voices in the singing revolution. we join the chorus. of in u.s. vice president is on a trip through eastern europe to show support to washington's nato allies appends reaffirm commitment to the nato treaty as article five saying that an attack on one of us is an attack on us all but i thought and president accused russia of using its energy resources as a weapon. and you don't care when you said i guess most extends for a long time even before we opened and then jean if you need ten to fifteen we dated for gas forty percent more than germany for spain because russia always use energy projects as to the regions as to no suppression and still

a lot of manipulation earlier we talked to about who got it in international affairs commentator things pence's trip is part of a u.s. strategy to provoke a russian reaction. both for mike pence is that russia is not being aggressive enough in fact it's not being aggressive at all so the strategy we're seeing now by the us administration in fact by the huge neo cons in the us administration is to get closer and closer to the russian bear as it were until it finally becomes aggressive and then turn to the world and say look we told you so that's the strategy it's not working very well but the us has a twin track approach if it doesn't do anything else it will it will scale other countries to spain the nato alliance is the means by which europe gets its orders from the united states of america but in general terms europe is fully aware that its economic benefit is in a proper close alliance with russia and not in the very expensive arms of its american partner which would like to cut europe off from russia who are approaching

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