the warmongering still feel like. a dictator dictator. president. getting his private but for the moment going off for the country's oil sector. white house communications director anthony. less than two weeks off to get. the latest in a series of. speculation. and huskers break into voting machines still in use across america this was during a cyber security challenge in las vegas.

very warm welcome to you from all of us here. on tuesday. washington has imposed new sanctions against venezuelan president nicolas maduro he claimed victory in a controversial referendum for a new constituent assembly as a result of today's sanctions all. subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him. i do know it's a big it's i do. it is of government today. i'm free independent president. period i'm against americans.

sanctions target motos assets as well as those of top venezuelan officials who also ban 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 r.t. correspondent kelly 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 escalating 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 from arco may be making some changes in terms of our export of like her as well as for curbing venezuelan oil imports is that still on the table but let me just say we will continue to monitor all of our specific timeline stations against oil i'm not going to comment on that what i will say is we will monitor all of our options it seemed we all knew about this relationship. is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people not having to meet on that they don't that it should be the sort of how to deal with that lawyer over there to him but he's not going to put them into it by the way to the government. by letting its own constitution. pump oil into the equation and politics is straight out of the company his facts of

how black gold unites them. protect american states being the third largest exporter of groups to the u.s. and number six growing seven percent to around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day. that absolutely no citgo patrol. and corporations based in texas belongs to wait for it and it's wait state doing company which means the country has access to these refineries total capacity of about seven hundred forty nine thousand barrels per day so far the sanctions that have been a 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're not including crude speaks to that interdependence and the fact that us all producers and export are don't want to up and the market and potentially that ten percent extraction of venice on 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 also insists officials are lying about the. government says more than forty percent of the electorate took part in sunday's vote constituent assembly will be. writing the constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current. voting took place amid fierce protests and deadly clashes up to sixteen people were killed over the weekend. from caracas. well as you can see. did they. claim big story in the assembly. in order to get here it's been a very violent for some here in venezuela. brought this

a started on april first. two sounds like more trouble on the way as you can see. we're invited to expose on or want to discuss the situation in 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 no which i surprised you want to go to the mark receive 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 thinking you know what i am going to. make it better if you could just get francisco a chance to respond to the point she 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 maduro was called for these constitution as 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 seeking 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 possibility of bringing 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 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 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. in the recall truth of the position come bring round to the dialogue that actually people want. the white house to

see in a spate of departures lately and after only ten days in office anthony scott mochi has now been sacked as his communications director is dismissal is widely regarded as an attempt by the u.s. president's new chief of staff john kelly to assert his or thought. over the reshuffles on capitol hill prompting speculation of chaos in trump's cabinet at the maybe perhaps another reason by the shake ups is r.t. correspondent jacqueline now 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 a 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

fantasy 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 though 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 have shown in me donald trump understands the problem was readiness on our military and is committed to restoring that readiness to have someone who's never done this who's actually created a 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 surrounding himself with those of very few he truly trusts jacqueline to go r.t. washington d.c. . my colleague neil harvey star expos for their take on trump's decision to dismiss scudamore tree as white house communications director the low to ridicule all mine

of this but should we be more serious about they switch talking about the people who are 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 potter and i think it's really important that we get promptly back to business and we have north korea exploding we've got you know lots of things going on here it's not as if our relations with us and russia are going that well at the moment i mean there are a lot of problems much bigger then you know converging about you know tribes temporary decision to let somebody who probably would have been more comfortable the bot of being. you know the soprano's in there as the communications director what we really need is a silver order. we're not even talking about that north korea russia china we're talking about potential theoretical world war but now we're talking about anthony the move c.n.n. is playing this do you think they hate each other missing the point altogether the

fact that kelly is a military man we also go mcmaster national security adviser why are we seeing. i'm sure you will be able to defend them but again fish out of water i would say while we see military people in all military positions what's the thinking from trump here do you want people who are good at taking these orders 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 he does have the kind of gravitas and the kind of familiarity with how washington should work he's a go to type of person i mean after all we've been at war rightly or wrongly since september two thousand and one and you know it's time to actually put the resources that are needed to identify the true enemies and win the war and build a peace instead of just endless fighting so you know i would rather see kelly and

then some distinguished professor of sociology out of a lot of princeton or vered because remember what the chief of staff that's what they see that he keeps people out of the way he is the he is the captain sharp elbowed to maintain order who gets to see the president who's in charge that sort of the donald trump has been under intense media pressure he's been warring with them effectively for six months is the precious starting to show because we're seeing him now let go some of the people who got him into power the likes of ryan's priebus showed spies people you would have thought were trusted they're being they're being ushered out now is that the pressure starting to show or is it something else if we think through the campaign period right when trump trump announced the immediate reaction of the mainstream press was he's it's a joke he's never going to fill out his financial forms they have been wrong about every significant aspect of dollar trump's campaign his general election campaign and of his presidency today they haven't gotten it right so again i don't really put

a great stock into what they're saying it's start from the morning and they just keep repeating this and it all it's tends to create its own path and pretty soon people say well you know there. there's chaos who says there's chaos you know during world war two george marshall one of our great generals fired people every week that was called leadership of this called do we what's right actually it's a disaster it's a terrible thing to 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 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 here i disagree with you i mean that the team that trump is already surrounded himself with includes a large number of people many of whom have made money by being inveterate risk takers is that annoyance working inside the trump orbit absolutely from what i can

tell it's it's mayhem in his business world and you know he has made a few bad choices i suspect to continue to be able to attract a large number of patriots to shove this off and say you know i'll give it a shot is this white house in chaos is this a traveling circus always this always how strong was going to roll it's classic white house the psych in 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 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 economic growth around the world well it's the opposite of business as usual 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. 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. it is an international russian counter sanctions against the u.s. take effect today emily soon now joins us live with more details on this starting today what kind of areas will be affected. well where we were i'm standing is the riverside retreat or summer hols if you will that is used by the u.s. diplomatic mission here in moscow for these activities get together and what not and just moments before i'm speaking to you well we saw a number of u.s. diplomatic trucks leaving the compound and that is because behind me is one of the two diplomatic properties washington the moscow has announced that it will be taking back as part of a response to the fresh round of sanctions that the u.s. congress has approved earlier this week to target russia take a listen to what the russian president vladimir putin had to say about the reasoning behind why such actions have to be taken. i. think

more than a thousand people both diplomatic and technical staff are currently working in russia seven hundred fifty five of them will have to stop their activities and that's painful i. we've been waiting for quite a long time so that maybe something would change for the better we had hoped that the situation would change but it looks like even if it does change that it won't be in the near future i decided it is time for us to show you we will not leave anything on the. school. know what putin was referring to there is of course the reasoning behind why russia is taking such actions as was in response to the first round of sanctions approved by the u.s. congress to target russia over alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election and the reason why the twelve hundred u.s.

diplomats and technical staff have to be cut down to four hundred fifty five well that's the mattia number of russian diplomats working in the u.s. after the former u.s. president barack obama has expelled thirty five russian diplomats last december over the same reason the alleged meddling in the presidential election but of course this is a developing story a lot of interest into it and as i've said we just saw a number of u.s. diplomatic tried. leaving the riverside to cheat right behind me so of course i'll bring you the latest details as soon as i get them all right thank you. well a computer hackers in las vegas are having a fun old time during a challenge to show infiltrating u.s. voting machines it's a war in the bring about full story up to the brim. with this manufactured. public will. when the really close

is protect themselves. in the final. six. welcome to american. morning.

twenty am here in moscow thanks for joining us having meddling in american electoral systems again but this time no one's pointing the finger at the usual suspect of russia that's because it was all part of a cyber security challenge participants even managed to get one of the voting machines to say. yes but while the hackers had fun they also demonstrated one very serious point and managing to crack of a thirty electronic voting machines is not nearly as hard as you would imagine the majority are still in news across america it only took ninety minutes for the first of our abilities to emerge experts say the death kong challenge shows that hacking electronic voting machines is easier than 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 for purchase they're not being purchased we just states don't want to spend the money hopefully with all of the controversy around this election so 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 i were you can at least write off the that theory but the unproven theory that our election can be hacked. has slammed an article appearing on a phony website meant to imitate al-jazeera the reporter allege the doha's ambassador to russia had accused saudi arabia of bribing russian journalists

mckayla frost santiago takes a look. 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 z. 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 as it was also

a planted fake article and qatari officials seem to have identified the possible perpetrator. it's our authorities there already identified the initiators leaders and executed as of this computer it's like 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 sad 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 thiago r.t. . 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 in the nation's additionally and do you do we do to all the. used to really good news in. this part of the shoot.

when you raise your voices in the singing revolution. we join the call rich. the u.s. vice president is on a trip through eastern europe to show support to washington's nato allies pence reaffirm commitment to article five of the nato treaty saying quote an attack on one of us is an attack on us all while the lithuanian president accused russia of weaponized energy. and you just can use it again small text is for a long time even before we opened and then jean if you need ten to fifteen what we did for gas forty percent more than germany or spain because russia always use energy projects as to the regions as to not suppression. and as to moment information earlier we talked to michael gast an international affairs commentator who thinks that the vice president and his trip is part of a u.s. strategy to try and 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 youth 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 scare 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 it watching our international thanks for joining us so far today will still plenty of headlines to come in about half an hour's time but for the meantime let's give you the financial

news that no mainstream outlet dares to touch. coming your way next. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in our economy is built around core. perforations washington washington media the media. voters elect. to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. economic development is all about numbers so we're really pleased to report this quarter we are monitoring six more. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o.

mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart is says he had. with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just how a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are. just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society from the whatever the government tried to do it was at best leave me. might be making things worse. by saying this is not how capitalism works this is our carpet lism goes hopelessly disastrously wrong.