the dictator dictator. for the moment though avoiding going after the country's oil sector. medications direct. is just the latest in a series of reshuffle. speculation of his cabinet. and. voting machine most of them across america but this was during a cybersecurity.

here watching international a very warm welcome to. washington has imposed new sanctions against a venezuelan president nicolas maduro that's after he claimed victory in a controversial referendum for a new constituent. as a result of today's sanctions all assets of the door 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 big imperial audience i do know to be a foreigner what is of government today nor ever will i obey imperial orders i am free independent president but also imperialist i'm against american imperialism.

sanctions target my daughter's assets as well as those of top venezuelan officials they also banned u.s. firms and individuals from doing business with the venezuelan president however there's one economic restriction the us seems rather unwilling to resort to when this diplomatic war correspondent caleb maupin 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 marco's maybe making some changes in terms of our export of like her whale oil 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 timely 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 about the only to me that they don't they determine to sort out how to feel about loyalty out of their name. but i'm encouraged by the way did the government. is by letting its own constitution. live in the head. pump oil into the equation and politics is straight out of the company his facts of

how black gold unites them. protect the american states being the third largest exporter of crude to the u.s. and number six growing seven percent to around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day when it stopped then absolutely no citgo patrol. incorporations based in texas belongs to wait for it and his wait state owned oil company which means the country has access to these refineries the 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 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 but also insists officials lying about the turnout are those government says more than forty percent of the electorate took part in sunday's constituent assembly will be tasked with. and will have the power to dissolve the current parliament voting took place amid fierce protests deadly clashes up to sixteen people were killed just over the weekend. reports from caracas. well as you can see. they. claim big tory in the. in order to get here.

first. more trouble on the way as you can see. we invited two experts on. the situation in venezuela. you cannot just unilaterally as a president tell your people ok well i don't like the new guy 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 professor is no which i surprise 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 i am going to. make it a christian 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 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 now has been a strengthened regarding these the government is sinking in two thousand and fifteen when the national assembly elections took place the government got four 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 as it is for silly the possibility of bringing about peace through the smugglers' of again and again and again why i just don't go to a general election submit your name submit 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 it 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 member 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 actually people want. the white

house has seen a spate of departures lately and only after ten days in office anthony's got a mochi has 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 prompting speculation of chaos in trump's cabinet might also be one other reason behind the shake ups as artie's 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 feel 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

sanity these insane tweets of 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 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 is 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 on our military and as 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 used to running himself but those are very few he truly trusts jacqueline to go r.t. washington d.c. my colleague experts of the take on trump's decision to dismiss scudamore tree as the 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 party 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 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

some distinguished professor of sociology out of the out 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 spree this shore inspires 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 journal actually 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 and that was called leadership that's called doing 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 the talent they don't have much going on so they are they want to be close to power so they'll think oh 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 cyc 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 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 this is an international thanks for joining us so far for this program american diplomatic stuff. here in moscow started packing their bags today we'll explain why with a lot of reporting just. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington washington controls the media the media folks voters elected a businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before.

but the whole existence to something that. i put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to try to be for us this is what the before three in the morning can people that i'm interested always in the waters of our. first sit. international russian. against the u.s. take effect today. joins us live here on the most everything with more details on this. particular will be affected starting today.

behind me is the riverside retreat or summer house that the u.s. diplomatic side have to vacate by today as part of russia's counter sanctions against washington as a you can as you can see behind me the property has been locked and sealed off as of half an hour ago and that this comes just a day after the u.s. diplomatic staff claims that they were denied access to the summer house just yesterday and according to sources from the russian foreign ministry they say that's because the trucks sent by the u.s. diplomatic staff well they did not request permits in advance which is something that's required to enter a conservation area such as this now the russian deputy foreign minister also said today that nobody is trying to stop the u.s. diplomatic staff from collecting their personal belongings in the summer house and over the past two hours or so we did see a number of large u.s. diplomatic trucks about five or six of them leaving the property so they were not denied access to the house and take

a listen to what the russian president had to say about the reasoning behind why such actions have to be taken. and people both diplomats you can 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 that it won't be in the near future i decided it is time for us to show you that we will not leave anything on. now the u.s. congress approved. to target russia over a. presidential election and as a reaction to that russia has announced that the twelve hundred u.s. diplomats. working. never match the number of russian diplomats crimean war games in the u.s.

and on top of that. washington will have to be taken back including. thank you. toral systems once again 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 to get one of the voting machines to say. they also demonstrated one very serious point. electronic voting machines the majority all still in use across america. ninety minutes for the first of our abilities to emerge and experts say the death challenge shows that hacking electronic voting systems 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 should plenty of new machines available for purchase 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. of the unproven theory that our election can be hacked. has slammed an article appearing on a phony website meant to imitate its al-jazeera news outlet the report allege that doha's ambassador to russia had accused saudi arabia of bribing john list's

auntie's mikhail process underdog going to 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 oh and 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 counter 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 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. it's all authorities there already identified the initiators leaders and executed as 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 thiago r.t. earlier we heard from a lot mad director of the institute for gulf affairs he believes the saudis are using every way possible to attack. in arabic they say the word the water starts with warts and i think now we have seen that escalation of water of words between

the two sides but especially coming from the saudi and the amount of the size of the statements that extremely harsh and 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 possible on line twitter facebook you name it it's all all there joining us i thought i hear one r.t. international plenty of news coming your way in about half an hour's time but between now and then boom bust.

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you or else. it is generational millennialism mexico actually a lot freer there can afford houses we were just in mexico city it's like america in the fifty's or sixty's and america is becoming like the soviet union in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's so as to ships in the night you got a soviet union mexico these countries are china are now going toward freedom going toward an enlightened twenty first century and america's going back to the retroactive you know going back to reactionary neo con warmongering soliah like nonsense. time simone dollars ario filling in for lindsay france this is broadcasting around

the world from washington d.c. coming up a constitutional crisis the us lots of venezuela's president would think after sunday's chaotic election and shiny or than gold with the dollar dipping gold doesn't go too but a different mineral could end up dominating the market plus freezing assets the e.u. is looking at ways to keep residents from cashing out during an economic crisis that more coming up on boom bust it all starts right now. the trump administration is slapping saying since directly on venezuela's president a follow through after promising swift action against nicolas maduro for carrying out an election sunday the u.s. considered to be a sham in a rather unusual movie.