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morning. washington has imposed new. president. as a result of today's sanctions all assets from a doro subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him on it other than. i do know it's a bay imperial ordinance i do know to be a foreigner what is of government neither today nor ever will i obey imperial orders i am free independent president but also anti imperialist i'm against american imperialism. the sanctions target my daughter those assets as well as

those of top venezuelan officials they also ban u.s. firms and individuals from doing business with a better venezuelan president however there's one economic restriction the us certainly seems unwilling to resort to in this diplomatic war as correspondent and explains. despite the fact that madeira was democratically elected u.s. leaders call him a dictator a dictator dictator we will work with our partners to hold accountable all those responsible for the school leaving violence and ongoing human rights violations 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 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. 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 three quarters of a million barrels a day the latin american country is the third largest exporter of crude oil to the

united states. we talked to make an expert on nothing america who told us why he thinks the u.s. has held ball on sanctioning venezuela's 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 are don't want to up in the market and potentially that ten percent extraction of venezuelan oil could spike us gasoline prices as well so i think that that is the concern meanwhile the protests in venezuela are not going away but the opposition denouncing sunday's constituent assembly elections as illegitimate and also insists officials on lying about the tunnel but the government says more than forty percent of the electorate took part

in sunday's vote constituent assembly will be tossed with a constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current pot of a voting took place amid protests and deadly clashes up to sixteen people were killed over the weekend. reports from caracas. well as you can see the city has been a swell of did they. claim victory in their cause to to an assembly vote. barricades we had to sort of couple of those in order to get here it's been a very violent four months 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 invited two experts on to wanted to discuss the situation and venezuela. you cannot just unilaterally as

a president tell your people ok well i don't like that you've got the current 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 surprised if you 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 out i am going to. make it better if you could just give francisco a chance to respond to the point 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

constituent assembly 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 out in the 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 sumit your your your your work in your in your government a little bit will decide if you want to stay or if you go but don't we why the constitution and say that there'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 you do it i don't think anybody has ever said that the new country just simply is going to resolve all the problems is not going to but their d.n.a. is that he will create a frame of we asserted that is going to result. the record of truth of the position come bring round to the dialogue that actually people want. the white house to see in a spate of departures recently and after only ten days in office and he's got to much he has now been sacked as his communications director 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 prompting speculation of chaos in trump's cabinet if there might still be another reason behind the shake ups as 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 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. is 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. that no not in the future on the other hand continues to defend his administration and the choices he makes we do swaraj 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 the what 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 have shown in trouble

understands the. problem was ready to shut our military and as committed to restoring that readiness you have someone who's never done this who's actually created real jobs donald trump is doing just that and he speaks from the brain he speaks from the heart i mean all these trump insanity claims perhaps the president is simply surrounding himself with those very few he truly trusts jacqueline to go r.t. washington d.c. my colleague. experts for that take on tom's decision to dismiss scott a military as white house communications director. well 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 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 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 to 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 a 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 north korea exploding we've got a lot of problems much bigger than you know. about you know temporary

decision to let somebody who probably would have been more comfortable the bot of being caught 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 staff in say even is the president or is it a macchiavelli ingenious deliberately placed to cause a distraction c.n.n. have gone. styria. 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 a missing plane three seventy some were made off australia if you know that there are so far out of the mainstream out of doing serious journalism at this point the question is remember there's 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 no no no no no no 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 of scott 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 one of jared kirshner 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 ended subject matter of all the media now we're into this where you

talk about the mainstream media as 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 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 the second emergency room i merges 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've long said the greatest threat to donald trump is not the d.n.c. it's actually the r. and 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 globalist. packer's have been meddling in american electoral systems again but this time no one's pointing the finger of the usual suspect russia that's because it was all part of a cyber security challenge and suppose he even managed to get one of the voting machines to sing. while the hackers had fun they also demonstrated a serious point managing to crack over thirty electronic voting machines the majority are still in use across america it only took ninety minutes for the first of vulnerabilities to a much and experts say the defcon challenge shows that hacking electronic voting machines is much 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 plenty of new machines available urchins they're now being purchased for just a start want to spend the money hopefully with all of the controversy around this election so we will see. either the states or the federal government allocate money to upgrade it and buy new machines that are much more secure were you can at least write off the theory. of the unproven theory that our election can be hacked this is about international thanks for joining us so far on the program still many stories coming your way including that of the squabble between qatar and saudi arabia intensifying about the number.

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with us today for the program. has slammed an article as fake news claiming that the country's ambassador in moscow accused russian journalists overseeing bribes from saudi arabia and the report was published on a website meant to imitate al-jazeera. santiago takes a look at the latest twist in the ongoing squabble 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. count there never politicized

the issue. it was saudi arabia trying to politicize the 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 attack all the 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. director of the institute for gulf affairs he believes the saudis are using every way possible to attack qatar in arabic they say the words 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 the amount of the size of 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 through estonia where he reconfirmed washington's commitment to secure the baltic states against the alleged russian threat. we stand with the people and nations of the stony and now do you and we do we do to all the delegates we refused to recognize the baltic states this part of this should be you . when you raise your voices in the singing revolution. we join the chorus from. the u.s. vice president is on a trip through eastern europe to show support to washington's nato allies and reaffirm commitment to the nato treaty as an article by saying that an attack on one of us is an attack on us all while the lithuanian president accused russia of using its energy resources as a weapon. and you jews can use it against 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 influence as to not suppression and still a lot of manipulation. to marco gossage and international affairs common things pence's trip as part of a u.s. strategy to actually provoke a russian reaction. both full 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 u.s. 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 an appropriate close alliance with russia and not in the very expensive alms of its american power which would like to cut europe off from russia well there's plenty of worldwide news for you today on this true story here on oxy international we are back in half an hour with the rest of the top world headlines . the economic development is all about numbers we're really pleased to report this

quarter we've earned one hundred six points. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think that there are c.e.o. mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart associate. with all due respect i have to say i don't think. that's right. it is not just a a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are the just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society did phone the whatever the government tried to do it wasn't nestle maybe. it might be making things worse. by saying this is not how capitalism works this is our

capitalism goes hopelessly disastrously wrong. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. i mean you get to shape out of this thing becomes the etiquette and it gains from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. you can see the border from here by the. steel fence on this side. like i said this is this is. and this is. i have every right to be here have a right to call collect my food be

a part of my family on both sides of the border. play started an organization called the arizona border recall we or a stand alone entity. that is doing. what these to be done in the five years it's getting worse while it's is escalating because it's. really good are great when somebody calls you know they believe that their ranch is there and they don't believe. that that is taking responsibility for their security which we would for anywhere else.