no. it is what it was because did it because it didn't seem quite a cultural thing i called the grammys. a dictator dictator i do not support a imperial orders. washington sanctions venezuela's president nicolas maduro targeting his private assets but avoids going off to the country's oil sector. white house communications director and these kind of mochi has been fired for less than two weeks into the job it's the latest in a series of reshuffling team trunk sparking speculation of payoffs in the cabinets . of the french government is too open to do you want to go in a sentence near the port target of car they offer a quote rules that like prince must be provided with sanitation.

and the welcome to aussie international life from moscow i'm quite rich thank you for joining us. washington has impose new sanctions against venezuela's president nicolas maduro the 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. but i do know it's a bay imperial order it's i do not obey foreign orders of government neither today nor ever will i be a imperial order i'm a free independent president but also the imperialist i'm against. american

imperialism. the sanctions target media has assets as well as those of top for his weight and officials they also ban u.s. firms armed individuals from doing business with president maduro however those one economic restrictions the u.s. seems unwilling to resort to in this diplomatic war explains despite the fact that the bureau was democratically elected u.s. leaders call him a dictator a dictator dictator we will work with our partners to hold accountable all those responsible for the school leaving violence and ongoing human rights violations but one section of venezuela's economy which according to many reports and speculation is not being targeted by sanctions is oil ninety five percent of that as well as export revenue comes from oil resources they sell oil on the international markets and at this point u.s. treasury does not intend to target the oil sector of venezuela's economy with sanctions when they were asked about venezuela's oil exports this was the response

from u.s. officials others 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 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 seems we all knew about this toxic relationship. is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people not i because he's just doing this for me for the poster feel that they know that it should be destroyed on the part of the of the not lawyer out of their name but. that but i'm encouraged by the way did the government. is by letting its own constitution. has played out over the head but pump oil into the equation and politics is brushed straight under the carpet. his facts of how black gold unites them. for tech

a discount american states being the third largest exporter of crude to the us and numbers are growing up seven percent to around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day but will it stop them absolutely not the citgo petroleum corporation based in texas belongs to wait for it 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'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. well meanwhile the process in venezuela are not going away with the opposition denouncing sunday's constituent assembly elections as illegitimate he also insists officials are lying about the turnout whereas government says more than forty percent of the electorate took part in sunday's vote constituent assembly will be tossed writing the constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current parliament the voting took place and made to feel as protests that leak is up to sixteen people were killed over the weekend called ask on much air reports from caracas. well as you can see the city has been a. claim big story in the course of doing assembly both. of those in order to get here it's been a very violent for more here in venezuela though the scenes that. brought this is

started on april first one hundred twenty one according to attorney general's office does do sounds like more trouble on the way as you can see these discoveries come out. well we invited two experts on to r.t. 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 professors know which i surprised you want to go to the mark 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 clever side 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 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 maduro was called for these constitution constituent assembly is in order to empower the population and to get a mandate so that through that mandate they can actually begin there which is the position of the government has been a strength and regarding this the government is seeking in two thousand and fifteen when the national assembly elections took place the government got 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 voters in the facility the personally to bring 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 sumit your your your your work in your in your government a little bit will decide if you want to stay or if you go but on the 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 they da's 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 has seen a space of departures lately and after only ten days in office and

a scary movie has now been sacked as its communications director his dismissal is widely regarded as an attempt by the u.s. president's new chief of staff john kelly to assess. well reshuffles on capitol hill are prompting speculation that tail seem trumps common as yet the might be another reason behind the shake ups as jack 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 the system 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 swaraj general kelly he will do

a spectacular job i have no doubt we have a fantastic leader chief of staff going to do a really great job 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 have shown in me donald trump understands the problem with readiness on our military and is committed to restoring that readiness to have someone who's never done this who's actually created 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. well earlier my colleague neil harvey i asked our experts for their take on trump's decision to dismiss. the law the ridicule all mine of this but should we be more serious about this we're 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 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 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 drum was going to roll it's classic white house the psych 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 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 globalists. france will open two migrant

centers near the port town of kalak after a court ruled that the government must provide humane conditions for migrants trying to reach the u.k. the designated locations for the new migrant centers are by year and twelve all both about an hour's drive from cully where the infamous jungle count was located for more on this let's cross live now to our correspondent charlotte. well hello there shallal should we brace ourselves for a second jungle. well that's what the french government says that it wants to avoid and that's why it's decided to open these two new camps to how is the migrants form kalai as you mentioned they're about an hour away from the port town itself now this comes after a court ruling on monday in france by france's highest administrative court which had said that the government had to provide access to free to clean water and to

sanitation to the migrants who were living in cali and that's because the french government be interior minister had refused previously to do that saying that they were trying to avoid a repeat of the new tourist cowley jungle situation now the court actually said yes to that by not providing clean water and sanitation facilities to the migrants in cali it was actually exposing them and i quote to do grading treatment now as i mentioned there the french government said it wanted to avoid the mistakes of the past in the past that it's talking about there is that notorious camp that cali jungle camp which was actually cleared just under a year ago this is where thousands upon thousands of migrants were living in some of the most of the touristy terrible squalid conditions without access to much from without access to much clean water as many of them were trying to make the trip from france to the u.k. now when that camp is close. last year there were huge violent scenes as the

bulldozers rolled in with migrants hurling rocks and police responding in tear gas as that camp was closed but of course it was closed but since then more migrants have a ride back in cali now the estimate is that these three hundred fifty to four hundred migrants in cali and that court ruling came after charities were actually complaining that by not allowing the migrants to have access to clean water and sanitation it was causing big problems including skin conditions allowing. to fester because they couldn't clean their clothes and also causing psychological conditions and there was actually a report that came out about a week ago from the organization human rights watch that report was titled living like hell with gives you an insight as to what the organization felt about the lives and the way that migrants were being treated and in that report it said that migrants in cali were being routinely used pepper spray on and excessive

violence by the authorities in the poor town and highlighting some really difficult conditions now the two new centers that are being opened by the french government will house around three hundred migrants but as i mentioned there are estimates of three hundred fifty to four hundred migrants still in cali so not quite enough space for all of those migrants to find shelter or again they'll be living in very cramped conditions. yes we'll have to see shelter do bensky thank you very much indeed thank you. russian can't assign actions against the us kicked in today that story and more after this quick break. it is generational millennialism next hour actually a lot freer they're going to four houses we were just in mexico city it's like america the fifty's or sixty's in america. it's becoming like the soviet union

thank you fifty's and sixty's those two ships passing 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 america's going back to retroactive you know going back to reactionary neo con warmongering soliah like dogs. with more make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime larry go round listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

welcome back russian pounds of sanctions against the us take effect today and only so explains what impact. behind me is the summerhouse that the u.s. diplomatic mission must vacate by today as part of russia's counter sanctions against washington as you can see right here the property has been locked and sealed as of today and this comes just one day after the u.s. diplomatic staff claim that they were denied access to this summer house right here 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 hundred 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 he'll 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 to 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 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 quarter i decided it is time for us to show you we will not leave anything on answer to you that the us 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 us and on top of that to diplomatic properties will be taken back including the riverside retreat and summer house right behind me. hackers have been meddling in american electoral systems again but this time no one's pointing the finger at russia that's because it was part of a cyber security challenge participants even managed to get one of the voting machines to sing. but while the hackers had fun but also demonstrated a serious point managing to crack over thirty electronic voting machines and the majority still in use across the u.s. it only took ninety minutes for the first vulnerabilities to emerge and experts say the defcon challenge shows that hooking electronic voting machines is easier than

previously thought. 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 on lock the administrative functions on this machine there's plenty of new machines available for purchase they're not being purchased because states don't want to spend the hopefully with all of the controversy around this election. 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 where we can at least write off the the theory. of the unproven theory that our election can be hacked. you know watching on c.n.n. international i'll be back with more news in half an hour but before that it's the kinds of reforms.

the economic development is all about numbers are really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six point two. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about that that i see mike do make over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart is says. with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just a free market works. people went from pretty simple fire. national 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 devalued society. the protests of the government try to do both nicely. might be making things worse . by saying this is not how capitalism works this is. hopelessly dishonestly rome. i am asked as are this is the kaiser a four era fabulous freedom of press in las vegas. there's a concept we have talked about it it's called moral hazard let the central bankers

and their minions of the big banks get away with little crimes here and there thinking that well the economy is going to benefit the long run just let us live. well trickle down moral hazard is corrupting every facet of our lives in america. yes max we're continuing with this theme of freedom is not meant for much freedom happening in america not only do we have those of wealth and income gap in the declining life expectancy and all that sort of stuff but we have this gross problem of civil asset forfeiture this is a story that is not getting much attention because the american media is obsessed with him but in the real world that affects the average voter we have the shocking story over the past week and that is just in o.j. a new asset forfeiture policy police can seize property from people

charged with crime even in states where it's been banned that was a tweet from c.b.s. here's another tweet from the washington post and they say jeff sessions once police to take more cash from american citizens now remember the republicans had campaigned on a policy of saying we're going to end this sort of grotesque policy because you know the police and america and this is just the federal police and federal officials they take more cash from americans than burglars do right is sanctioned by the government jeff sessions is given the green light for this type of highway robbery all across america and this is why different groups that have become quite visible recently are important think about black lives matter for example or occupy wall street these are groups that were considered fringe groups or against.