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here in the russian capital of very warm welcome to you from all of us here. in washington has imposed new sanctions against the venezuelan president nicolas maduro he claimed victory in a controversial referendum for a new constituent assembly. as a result of today's sanctions all assets of the doro subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him. but i do know it's a big imperial allegiance i didn't have before and it is of government that today you know ever imperial orders i'm free independent president with imperialist i'm against american imperialism. sanctions talking with autos

so as well as those of top venezuelan officials they also have 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 win this diplomatic war as correspondent dan 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 leading 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 like her. or her venezuelan oil imports is that still on the table but let me just say we will continue to monitor all of our specific items we 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 the relationship. madeira is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people not obviously such only to me that they literally destroyed on a deal without knowing what order they mean. to come into it probably did the government. is violating its own constitution. to live in a. pump oil into the equation and politics is brushed straight under the carpet his

facts of how black gold unites them. protect a discount american states being the third largest exporter of crude to the us and number six growing seven percent to around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day when it stopped then absolutely no the citgo petroleum corporation based in texas belongs to wait for it and its weight state oil 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 are not including crude speaks to that interdependence and the fact that us all producers and export are don't want to up 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 the opposition denouncing sunday's constituent assembly elections as illegitimate but also insists officials are lying about the tonneau. government says more than forty percent of the electorate took part in sunday's vote and stich want to somebody will be rewriting the call. situation and will have the power to dissolve the current. voting took place amid fears protests and deadly clashes up to sixteen people were killed just over the weekend carlos camacho reports from caracas. well as you can see the city has been a swale of the day after an equal us modo claim big story in the constituent assembly vote. barricades we had to sort of couple of those in order to get

here it's been a very violent form here in venice whale boat all day it's scenes that. brought the started on april first one hundred twenty one according to attorney general's office says two sounds like more trouble on the way as you can see these discoveries come out in caracas. we invited two experts on to want to discuss the situation in venezuela you can not just unilaterally as a president tell your people ok well i don't like the new guy 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 courts and i could also decide what goes on in congress that is not a democracy if you want to call this professor was not which i will 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 can not just unilaterally say well i don't like it i want to

right now you want a moderate i want is not what i'm thinking you know what i'm going to. make it but i christine if you could just give francisco a chance to respond to the points you've made then. i hope not 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 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 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 that 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 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 and the position come bring round to the dialogue actually people want. the white

house has seen a spate of departures lately and only after ten days in office anthony scaramucci 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 authority over the reshuffles on capitol hill are prompting speculation of chaos in trump's cabinet pick could be another reason though behind the shake ups as r.t.c. jaclyn 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 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 garcia says that may mean. 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 ciena phobic religious bigot i am not going to go. out in 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 not exactly a 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 donald trump understands the problem was readiness of our military and is committed to restoring that readiness should 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 asked our experts for their take on trump's decision to dismiss scott a mochi 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 converting about you know temporary decision to let somebody who probably would have been more comfortable the bot of being called 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 no we're talking about anthony the move c.n.n. is playing this do you think the hate each other missing the point altogether the

fact that kelly is a military man we've also go mcmaster national security advisor 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 and harvard 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 shore and spice people you would have thought were trusted the being that 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 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 that's called doing what's right actually it's a disaster it's a terrible thing 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 the 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 it's always how strong was going to roll it's classic white house the psych in emergency room i merge the room seems like a ass 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 most 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'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 globalists. joining us for your news international on this tuesday just a moment we go live. to today is the day that american diplomatic regrettably might be less welcome in russia a story after the break. in

case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around. washington. to meet. those needs to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done. by so joining us for your news today russian sanctions against the u.s. take effect today. join us live here on the program what some are calling a day for international diplomacy so what areas are going to be affected starting

today. well worry behind me is the riverside retreat or summer house used by the u.s. diplomatic mission here in moscow for leisure activities and get togethers and what not and in fact yesterday outside here there was an interesting development where the u.s. diplomatic staff claimed they were denied access to this house while the russian foreign ministry said the reason for that is because the trucks that the u.s. diplomatic mission try to send to access the house they did not request for permits fans which is something that's required to enter our conservation area such as this and just now the russian deputy foreign minister he issued a statement saying that nobody is trying to stop take us on. u.s. diplomatic track about five to six of them accessing their house which means there were no longer stopped from trying to gather their belongings and the reason why they're gathering their belongings is because this retreat house is one of the two diplomatic properties that is used by washington here in russia that moscow has

announced will be taken back as part of a response to the fresh round of sanctions that the u.s. congress has approved earlier last week to target russia take a listen to what the russian president putin had to say about the reasoning behind why such actions have to be taken. 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 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 then it won't be in the near future i decided it is time for us to show you leave anything. now the american congress announced to pass a new round of sanctions against russia over the alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election and as a response russia has announced that the twelve hundred u.s.

diplomats and technical stuff working in. country will have to be cut down to four hundred and fifty five by september the first and best amassed a number of russian diplomats currently working in the us and on top of that two diplomatic properties will be taken back including the summer house right behind me mari. thank you. hackers have been meddling in american electoral systems again but this time no one's pointing the finger of the usual suspect of russia that's because at the end of the day this was all part of a cyber security challenge participants even managed to get one of the voting machines to see. while the hackers had some fun they also demonstrated a serious point managing to crack over thirty electronic voting machines the majority are still in use across america and it only took ninety minutes for the

first vulnerabilities to emerge 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 they usually have new machines available urchins they're not being purchased because states don't want to spend the money hopefully with all of the controversy around this election. we will see. either in 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 the theory. the unproven theory that our election can be hacked. has slammed an article appearing on

a phony website meant to imitate its alger's zero news outlet the report allege that doha's ambassador to russia had accused saudi arabia of bribing journalists alphonsus handed i'll go 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 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 oh and he did mention this isn't the first time this weekend 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 party working in this regards but in this. qatar 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 his complaints to the un and all this bickering and fighting started 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 there are authorities there are already identified the initiators leaders and executers of this computer it's not 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 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 thiago r.t. earlier we heard from ali ahmed director of the institute for gulf of as he believes the saudis are using every possible way to attack qatar. in arabic they

say the war the war starts with awards and i think now we are seeing that escalation of water wars between the two sides but especially coming from the saudi and the amount of the size of the statements are extremely harsh an extremely worrying because they are using the very very sometimes even vulgar language to attack the qatari and its position so we are seeing more of that and using basically every outlet the possible on line twitter facebook you name it it's all all all there our thanks very much for joining us here and i'll see international more of your world headlines in about half an hour. they're not ones out to tell you some things are not done one might have snakes on the definitions enough a man any. one seeking i mean south. and.

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