it is taking. responsibility for their security for anywhere else. a dictator dictator. washington sanctions venezuelan president nicolas getting his private for the moment though totally avoiding going off of the country's oil sector. white house communications director. has been fired less than two weeks off to getting the job is just the latest in a series of reshuffles and. speculation payoffs and his cabinet. and how to break into the voting machines mostly still in use across america during a cyber security challenge in las vegas.

but you say worldwide news headlines live here on our international a very warm welcome to you today washington has imposed new sanctions against a venezuelan president nicolas maduro that's off the he claimed victory in a referendum for a new constituent assembly. 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 other than him but i do know it's a bay imperial orders i do not obey foreign orders of government neither today nor ever will i obey imperial orders i am free independent president but also imperialist i'm against american imperialism. target my those assets as

well as those of top venezuelan officials they 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 correspondent caleb maupin explains. despite the fact that the bureau was democratically elected us 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 for maybe making some changes in terms of our export of like her. 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 times we say sins against oil i'm not going to comment on that what i will say is we will monitor all of our options it seems we all knew about this relationship. is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people not obvious to me that they don't that it should be destroyed on the outer theater that lawyer over there made him out of peta that but i'm encouraged by the way that the government. is violating its own constitution. as played out live in the head but pump oil into the equation and politics is brushed straight

under the carpet his facts of how black gold unites them. to protect a discount american states being the third largest exporter of crude to the u.s. and numbers are growing up seven percent to around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day but when it stopped that absolutely not the citgo patrol. corporation based in texas to wait for its venezuela's 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 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 the opposition denouncing sunday's constituent assembly elections as illegitimate but also insists officials are lying about the turnout by those government says more than forty percent of the electorate took part in sunday's vote in situ and assembly will be tossed right in the constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current parliament the voting took place amid fierce protests on deadly clashes to sixteen people were killed just over the weekend. filed this report from caracas. well as you can see this is been a swell of did they. claim big torii in their cause to do 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 both the scenes that brought brought to start 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 this is. where invited two experts on to watty to discuss 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's know which i he surprised we want to go to the 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

write a new month a mother a that i want is not what i'm going to get i am going to. make it better if you could just give francisco a chance to respond to the points he made that. i hope interrupted again. the basic position is it can be called. and there is no reason for for anybody not to call it and the reason why matilda was called for these constitution 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 just the position of the government has been strengthened regarding this the government is sinking in two thousand and fifteen when the national assembly elections took place the government got forty five point six million now they got a million so they increase by two and a half million votes seems to me that there is one section of this and that is totally that. there is another one is prepared to talk these a million votes at

a facility the possibility of bringing about peace which is 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 to 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 actually people want. the white

house has seen a spate of departures lately and only after ten days in office anthony has got to move he has now been sacked as his communications director is dismissed or is widely regarded as an attempt by the u.s. president's new chief of staff john kelly to assert his or thorough however the reshuffles on capitol hill are prompting speculation of chaos in trump's cabinet if there might be one other reason behind the shake ups. 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 the failed presidency we've been seeing trump repeatedly attack members

of his own staff often on social media causing headlines to erupt questioning the president's sanity these insane tweets some of donald trump's most insane tweets you know trump is completely insane a growing number of democrats are openly questioning president trump's mental health and listening carefully to donald trump and i think he's a narcissistic maniac but man this though it may be is there a method to it narcissistic mania. it's no secret that democrats hate trump he ran on the republican ticket so frankly one can expect no less but the thing is the president's own party also fosters a fair amount of opposition to him what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for i worry about the president's understanding of some of these issues. it's a race baiting scene a phobic religious bigot and i am not going to declare you don't. know is not a 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 so what 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 have shown in trouble understands the problem was readiness of 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 used to running himself but those are very few he truly trusts. r.t. washington d.c. my colleague neil harvey asked our experts for the take on decision to dismiss scott and as the white house communications director. the low to ridicule all mind

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 silvertone 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 the 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 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 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 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 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 choice 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 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 and i play most oriental coming your way here on the international today including russian. america. story after the break.

to tell you that. they. tell you. joining us today for your news. take effect today. explains what. behind me is the summer house that the u.s. diplomatic staff must vacate by today as part of russia's counter sanctions against washington as you can see here the property has been locked and sealed as of today

and that this comes just one day after the u.s. support their claim that they were denied access to the summer house and according to sources from the russian foreign ministry they say that's because the trucks sent by the u.s. embassy did not request for permits in a fancy which is something that's required to enter a conservation area such as this and the russian deputy foreign minister today he said that nobody is trying to stop them from collecting their personal belongings here in this group for side retreat and that before this property was sealed unlocked we did see about five or six u.s. diplomatic trucks large sized trucks leaving the area leaving the property to collect their personal belongings and that's because this summer house is one of the two diplomatic properties that moscow has announced will be taking back from washington as part of a reaction towards the fresh round of sanctions that the u.s. congress has approved to target russia earlier last week take a listen to what the russian president had to say about why such actions must be taken. thousand people both diplomats who 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 and it won't be in the near future quarter i decided it is time for us to show you we will not leave anything on the u.s. congress approved the sanctions to target russia over alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election and in response to that well russia has announced the twelve hundred u.s. diplomats and technical stuff working in the country have to be cut down to four hundred and fifty five that's to mash number of russian diplomats currently working in the u.s. and on top of that to diplomatic properties will be taken back including the riverside retreat and summer house right behind. but if asked here in moscow hackers have been meddling in american electoral systems again but this time no

one's pointing the finger at the usual suspects of russia that's because it was all part of a cyber security challenge which is a ponzi even managed to get one of the voting machines to sing. a while back as had some fun they also demonstrated one very serious point ultimately managing to crack into over thirty electronic voting machines and the majority are still in use across america it only took ninety minutes for the first of vulnerabilities to emerge 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 for purchase they're not

being purchased because states don't want to spend the money hopefully with all of the controversy around this selection 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 where we can at least write off the that theory. 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 journalists. to santiago now looks 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 as. qatar never politicized the issue. it was saudi arabia. trying to politicize the pilgrimage a mythical crisis there's been no suggestion by any cattery 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 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 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. director of the institute for gulf affairs he believes the saudis are using every way possible to a tight qatar. bennetta because they say the war the war starts with words and i think now we are seeing that escalation of the 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 they're 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 well it's been a pleasure having you with us today for the program here on our international still plenty of news headlines coming your way with my colleague kate partridge in about half an hour's time with before kate will be watching the whole. the not one sound. nothing is often done one minute in a time the definitions of a man and me. seeking i mean south. and. taking the city. into town to give them and then yesterday. we think i'm. moving i think the way.

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like twenty first century. greetings and. it's located just under forty miles from the nation's capital the historic african-american community of carver road in haymarket virginia sits at the center of a fight you may never ever hear about in the mainstream news media because it involves the internet sales giant amazon and the newly crowned richest man in the world. you see amazon through one of its kind of lackey corporations is trying to muscle power lines through the store community to power and amazon data center

expansion in the area now one would think that any story involving amazon the stork minority community fighting fighting for their neighborhoods that includes properties acquired under eight hundred sixty six law that allowed freed slaves to own land would make for great to your average journalist but sadly apart from a few local papers an alternative news sites the story has been largely ignored but why would this be well journalist adam johnson of fairness and accuracy in reporting of spawning a very interesting pattern of coverage concerning. mr bay's those amazon and tech reporting in general by a least three of the biggest newspapers in the united states the new york times the wall street journal and the washington post johnson writes a review of one hundred ninety articles from the new york times wall street journal and baseless own washington post over the past year paints a picture of almost uniformly uncritical at times boost coverage in fact.