the question i guess is why. america at this. ministration announces new sanctions against venezuela targeting the state oil company and freezing billions in assets. power struggle continues venezuela's president urges his troops loyal the country's leader reveals he's working with sympathetic elements in the military to revolt.

both countries call for the others that leadership to get better or get out. of the united arab emirates holds an awards ceremony for those supporting gender equality but all of the recipients. are broadcasting a lot of. international. certainly glad to have you with us. all right the trumpet ministration has announced a new sanctions against venezuela this time targeting the state oil company the restrictions will block seven billion dollars of the company's assets. as. the usa has already put a large amount of sanctions against the bowl of our own republican venezuela however we got an announcement today from john bolton and steve minutia and

representing the u.s. treasury that is taking sanctions to yet a higher level let's take note of what was said we're going to announce sanctions against patro is to venezuela associate the name were paid a vase as it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly we have continued to expose the corruption of madeira and his cronies and today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people total seven billion dollars in assets clocked today plus over eleven billion dollars in lost export proceeds over the next year we will continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support interim president quite oh the national assembly and the venezuelans people efforts to restore their democracy now as you just heard the new sanctions are targeting the state run oil company that has been vital to venezuela's economy that state run oil company is being targeted seven billion

dollars worth of assets are being frozen and u.s. firms will be prevented from doing business at any point in the future with the state run oil company of venezuela now they said that if one is allowed to take in leadership that at that point out these sanctions will and the path to relief of these sanctions is through the handing control of the state run oil company over to one grade over the individual the opposition figure who was declared to be president of venezuela by tom and number of other countries followed suit when the usa withdrew recognition from nicolas maduro now and wedo has issued a statement saying that he does feel that the state run oil company should be operated differently and called for a change of management john bolton is saying that if any action is take. against want wedo the person that the united states and other countries are recognizing as venezuela's president not recognizing nicolas maduro the elected leader who was

just inaugurated they said if any action is taken against hand there will be further penalties against venezuela before introducing the sanctions against venezuela's state owned energy company p d v a u.s. national security adviser john bolton said both countries would have both benefit economically from u.s. oil companies entering venezuela's market but make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela be good for the people of venezuela be good for the people of the united states we both have a lot at stake here. the oil industry is one of the most important parts of venezuela's economy the country possesses the world's largest reserves and it ranks seventh among the world's exporters but israel is also a key player in u.s. oil imports being washington's fourth biggest source of crude.

joined by jeffrey albert tucker editorial director of the american institute for economic research thanks for being with us here on r t international. it's a pleasure thank you so john bolton claims both venezuela and the u.s. will benefit from american investment in the venezuelan oil industry do you agree with that assessment. probably but you know this is a problem to us foreign policy you know and one has all about freedom and human rights and i'm for that. with and against maduro i don't like what he's done to his country and i think the people do not support him but now you have this announcement where the u.s. is once again talking about basically another war for oil so that it introduces these moral complications and gives rise to some serious questions about the u.s. motivations here and it's very frustrating from an american point of view it's one

thing for trump to announce oh i support this other guy and that's great but but but these sanctions are kind of an act of violence in themselves and i and if it's true to us foreign policy in the past it's very likely to back there i don't think this is a productive way to go about. changing the regime so the u.s. has announced sanctions against state owned oil firm p.d.s.a. what effect could that have on the country's economy which is already struggling i mean the situation there in caracas is about as low as you can get. it's can always get worse as we know from places like weimar which is probably a genuine relevant comparison the problem is that now i'm a dural can point to the us and say all the problems you're experiencing as a result or as a result of these sanctions and and and yanking in positions once again in latin america profoundly affect our politics and and give us

a it's not really it's like handing the dura a propaganda tool that he can use to continue his rule and i think it's actually counter productive if the u.s. really wanted regime change it's one thing to make an announcement a press release is fine but these kind of intensification of sanctions and for. reason of assets and believe in everybody it's never worked in the past i have no reason to think it's going to work this time either is it possible one of the main motivations for u.s. support to is economic i mean could this be about gaining control over the resources down in that country. well i think you asked the question i mean it seems rather obvious i mean the u.s. has a long history of these kinds of interventions for its. for the material gain. ruling class companies and. look i think free trade would be very good for the venezuelan people and i think that involves also. commerce commercial relations

with american oil companies and all of that is good but to force it much less be involved in this kind of imposition of sanctions on behalf of the u.s. oil companies and openly stated like this it is not good for the companies and it's not good for venice way and i don't think it's good for anybody and it's like once again we are already got through a war for oil and little interest in the question what with that achieved we don't want to bring that same motivation and inspiration and tactics and strategies to latin america too so it's almost like the us. ruling class never learns from the past just keep should be eating the same mistakes over and over again i mean today i went when i when i read these statements and i just i can't believe that they're making such statements like this and i have to assume that it does reflect in

a mode of some motivation on the part of the u.s. government and it's connected interests absolutely there's one thing that's interesting here to me at least is that opposition leader is receiving a lot of support from abroad not just the u.s. but from the states as well but this kind of is contradictory to the you know free will of the people of venezuela to choose their own government why is foreign pressure so strong here. gro i think it's because of the perception that venezuela used to be a wealthy very wealthy state and people used. to be a free country and material has absolutely destroyed the economy and people are looking for an alternative but that alternatives not going to emerge if the opposition is seen to be a tool of us imperialism i mean that seems like by saying that that should be really obvious and it's incredible that it's not obvious to the trump menace administration as for the elections you know there's some perception that maduro

did not win fairly you know but here again this is the problem on one hand the u.s. talks about freedoms and human rights and democracy that's good that's wonderful and everybody can get behind that on the other hand we have these now very public statements that this is really about control of them as well as oil. resources and reserves that is is not a good message to be sending at this very critical moment and i'm speaking really on behalf of the venezuelan people who generally do deserve freedom democracy and human rights very interesting to hear your thoughts jeffrey albert tucker i know you have a martini waiting for you please and have a sip from me because i have to wait for a little bit while before i can dip into one editorial director of the american institute for economic research. all right now as venezuela's political infighting continues both the government and the opposition are appealing to the armed forces for support john one excuse me reclaimed himself the interim leader on

wednesday says that he has been holding talks with military officials to push for the overthrow of the president nicolas maduro meanwhile paid a visit to troops overseeing drills and calling on them to stay away. if we don't put the soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on our side are you. soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on the side of the constitution are you crowed period. we have made our position very clear about the dictates or your nature of this regime and so we want to take power never traces. install a transitional government and call it free elections. that's how it has to be. several european countries have meanwhile sided with washington saying they would recognize opposition leader want to go as president if venezuela

fails to hold a new election but as well and journalist morris i've got to explain. after a week marred by protest violence and a very tense political situation the international community has given venezuela and ultimatum we expect the holding of free transparent and credible elections and if such a step is not announced within eight days we are ready to recognize one guy do as interim president we will recognize him as constitutional interim president if new elections are not announced within eight days. in his billion if elections are not announced within eight days we stand ready to recognize one why don't as the interim president of venezuela but what depend as well and think about this decision is it for another country to decide the destiny of the other let's see what venezuelans up to say about this situation but if they are we're not going to be able to get out of this crisis overnight we need help from stable countries and

the us is a stable country you're not i do not recognize why i do always the interim president and the government of the us must respect the position of us and as a whelan's who have elected president my guru where a fair election would see well yes and no but there is sometimes to eat personally i say that yeah should intervene and walk nicolas maduro protects venezuelan social guaranteed pensions it is venezuela solve the problems of and is laid out and we will get a text at home meanwhile then us well and start trying to resume their daily routines as they wait to see how the political environment will develop in the coming days. the french president is taking italy's coalition government head on after dismissing rome's criticism of his handling of the anti-government yellow vest protest emanuel maron even suggested italy should find itself different leaders. the italian people are friends and deserve leaders worthy of their history

so good luck to them enjoy their education enjoy the ride as far as i'm concerned i speak to president conti the feud between the two e.u. allies was triggered a year ago when italy started to push back against micron's immigration policies italy was hit hard by the migrant influx and refused to back tougher rules on settling refugees but the tensions have gone a step further with both paris and rome accusing each other of mismanaging crises italy's interior minister matteo salvini has even urged the french public to oust president from power. i hope the french can free themselves from a terrible president and the opportunity will come or may the twenty sixth when finally the french people will be able to take back control of their future destiny and pride which are poorly represented by carries it like macro and get on the

market on the micro and said we are relevant we are relevant at the next european council. we will tell you that you have to start the colonizing those states you are exploiting. says that salvini and i are not up to it let the italian people decide about. now we've heard from a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament who told us the very public bust up could be coming down to the upcoming european parliament elections. although i would say that the micro is a bit more polite it's not up to him to give such comments about the who it would be bill of another country suit should shoes as their leaders you just don't do that of course and i would say what the italian leaders are saying here are much worse than what my crew is saying but both are wrong in doing in acting like this but is perfectly dead as a prison my crew and the italian political leaders are doing this is just as

a preparation for the elections upcoming elections in may for the european parliament so basically wealthy these people are going to do is is to get people behind them to vote for them and use dad as a sort of lever i said look how the temperature was in the election remount we want even more impulse on a national level our policy this is politics on a very very low level. well as a part of a drive it to empower women the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony on sunday to recognize the government departments doing the most to address gender imbalance s. but for many one thing just didn't sit quite right all three recipients of the awards which were presented by the u.a.e. as vice president and the ruler of dubai were men that led to an outpouring of ridicule on social media. i'm sorry to have to be the one to tell

you that you forgot to invite women wow you really nailed the diversity there one of those gray you've achieved an excellent balance of men with facial and men would like to congratulate. one gender in dubai. where the u.a.e. prime minister has stressed in a statement on line of it women are playing a central role in shaping the country's future he also says that getting more women into positions of power is a priority for the government now despite that the vote the women's rights are still severely being restricted in the country for instance women require the permission of a male guardian to get married they also cannot get a job without their husband's consent and a divorce is rarely granted now we spoke to a political analyst catherine sharp damn about the award ceremony she told us that it is easy to pay lip service to equality but concrete steps need to be taken. i

think that the u.a.e. with least its leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present at least in a would you want women i mean to at least pretend pretend that you are promoting gender equality is not even trying they're not even doing good p.r. promoting their gender equality either also and the question what was the point of the exercise at all it was new at times why so ever try actually you know repairs done to have women represented that what he's made them visible somehow but nothing was actually done other than one particular woman was to dated for her efforts she didn't even receive you know would you imagine or anything like that it's one thing to speak reformist another to actually enact them and i think that still for even a little bit you it's much much better than the rest of the board for one reason is that it has. a lot of talk about foreigners about their full changes had to be done . she can catch up with the rest of the world i don't think it's new we know. more

news of short break to watch march international stay with us. what politicians do loosen up a little. bit put themselves on the laws. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich. but you'd like to be first that's what it looks like the three of them all can't be good but i'm interested always in the waters of the gulf. so small seemed wrong when old roles just don't call. me old yet to say proud this day to come to educate and in detroit because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the. and welcome back this is our t.v. international now on sunday events were held across the globe for international holocaust remembrance day this marks seventy four years since soviet troops liberated auschwitz the nazi death camp in poland former prisoners of the camp of visited the site where a holocaust museum is now situated to share their memories expressing the importance for people today to remember the atrocities that were carried out. during the nazi purge in the second world war seventeen million people were killed

six million of them were juice more than half of europe's a jewish population was murdered in systemic attacks many were starved to death killed in gas chambers and burned in front of says in concentration camps despite the evidence from that time a recent poll suggests that one in twenty adults in the u.k. believe the holocaust never actually happened some other noticeable findings over half of those surveyed did not know the number of victims while eight percent think the scale of the atrocity has been exaggerated renowned nazi hunter frame zuroff says those statistics are alarming holocaust denial is simply a new form of anti-semitism the holocaust is the most documented tragedy in human history there are millions i repeat millions of documents that prove the crimes of the holocaust there's no basis for this denial it's totally absurd so why do people

do it it's in the basically a new form of anti-semitism the leaders of the world the leading political leaders in every country have to. make clear that this is a fact that this happened and this has very important consequences for their country as well and then there's the question of the educational systems in other words this is subject that has to be taught in the school curriculum at the proper age and to be done effectively and with the best technological and other educational aids the basic idea behind holocaust education is that the tragedy that we call the holocaust has lessons for humanity. about the dangers of hatred the dangers of anti-semitism racism fascism and obviously we think that it's important that people study the holocaust to learn from that tragedy and to try that managed

to prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy. major roads in madrid to have been brought to a standstill as taxi drivers in spain rally against right hailing services like over. i. police had to use up force to clear drivers and taxis are blocking the capitol central streets with the strike now into its eighth day anger has grown over a popular ride hailing services do not face the same regulations as regular taxis in many countries have drivers have promised to keep setting up blockades and rallying unless the authorities introduced new laws to control all travel company if it wasn't you know. where that does it for me i'll be back with more news at the top the hour that's in about twenty six and a half minutes stay with us the search international.

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