new sanctions against venezuela targeting the state oil company. treats. continues as venezuela's president. country's self-proclaimed leader reveals he is working with sympathetic elements in

the military to incite revolt. neighbors italy and france do not see eye to eye in an escalating standoff as both countries call for the other's leadership to get better or get out. also the united arab emirates holds an award for those supporting gender equality but all of the recipients. are broadcast live to. international thomas certainly glad to have you with us and the trump administration has announced a new sanctions against venezuela this time targeting the state oil company restrictions will block seven billion dollars of the company's assets and has. the usa has already put a large amount of sanctions against the bowl of air and republican venezuela

however we got an announcement from john bolton and steve minutia in 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 we're paid a vase as it's known by its spend shakra new in 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 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 trial 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 taken again. juan guede oh 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 him there will be further penalties against venezuela. right in the wake of washington's sanctioning of venezuelan state owned energy company vs a nicolas maduro has promised to take all necessary measures to protect its property in the us political analyst lucas kerner gave us his thoughts on the situation i think we have. a viewing us blockade of and as well in the stranglehold but on the economy of the country which is having very real humanitarian consequences for the people there whether that will have a change make a change in the mother a government. or conservative back to a constitutional mandate. to appoint a parallel president that remains to be seen but for now the motive i mean the armed forces remain in power and it really unclear what standing need government

have to look at it and government and they did nothing to be. any. change on the level of the street here in caracas. as venezuela's political infighting continues both the government and the opposition are appealing to the armed forces for support one who proclaimed himself interim leader on wednesday says 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 loyal. if they don't put the soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on our side. soldiers of venezuela waiting for you to be on the side of the constitution are you serious. we have made our position very clear about the dictates or your nature of this regime and so we want to take power now the traits that.

install a transitional government and free elections well. that's how it has to be. one. minute lee is to force a new vote as he and his supporters refuse to recognize the legitimacy of venezuela's two thousand and eighteen presidential election you go to have take us now through does rise from obscurity international recognition and a new grand social status dropped in one why door like a brick wall i mean just look at this from no name to total fame judging by this the life of the new poster boy for the venezuelan opposition leapt into another dimension overnight the point of no return was this. i'm mike pence the united states supports the courageous decision by one god or united states probably recognize

a national symbol president one is the constitutional interim president of venezuela he's the most evil now marred by the media and untrusted to not fail by the united states and countries making up its retinue and apparently the latter could be waiting a hard on venezuela's newest a democratic symbol where you do said that there was nothing he could do that he couldn't handle the pressure from the americans. we are only i was at the meeting where we said he was being pressured by everyone now this is the claim made by people but when journalists confronted what you do with a yes or no question he struggled to answer well to be fair he did it twice in fact but each time differently can you confirm that the meeting took place and what did you talk about venezuela no this person or you i'll repeat my question to you have you met was do is that ok you are not i've already answered i haven't of course not

so what if we spoke with officials of course we did circumstantial evidence also hits that the room of why do a being overwhelmed by washington's ambition could be true look at the person appointed by the white house to oversee the transformation of venezuela a lift this building thirty years ago this week from our work here so it's very nice to be back this is america's main battle tank in the regime change course part of the reagan administration he funneled the long way around federal weapons through iran soon he was right wing anti government extremists both think illegal under u.s. law he tried to pressure congress into giving the weapons to the regime of reassessment in guatemala who was later charged with jen. aside and crimes against humanity is just a couple of confirmed achievements by earlier albums from when he held the position

and i'm not kidding the position of assistant secretary of state for humanitarian affairs but perhaps most importantly our brahms allegedly was the architect of the two thousand and two coup in venezuela back then it failed in days so perhaps now albums is being given a chance to redeem himself after all it's all for a good cause democracy never needs to be imposed it is tyranny that has to be imposed you heard the man so you better sake up mr wide or the us is about to spread its regime of democracy to venezuela this time around and you are going to carry it on your shoulders. several european countries have meanwhile sided with washington saying they would recognize opposition leader as president if a venezuela fails to hold a new election but israel and journalist noice out of god explains. after a week marred by protest violence and a very tense political situation the international community has given as well an

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 to just move in his opinion if elections are not announced within eight days we stand ready to recognize one why do 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 as well that's up to say about this situation but if there 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. 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 where fair election would see well yes and no but the response times to eat personally i'd say be yeah shoot into being a walk up only nicolas maduro protects venezuelan social guaranteed pensions it is venezuela solve the problem is organised and we will take to our homeland i mean well 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 at on after dismissing rome's criticism of his handling of the anti-government yellow vest protests and i know micron 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. to 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 hard hit by the immigrant 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 and even urged the french public to oust president mccrone 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 a light macro. 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. we heard from a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament who told us the public spat could be due to the upcoming european parliament elections. although i would say that mark rule is a bit more polite it's not up to him to give such comments about a who it beat out of another country suit should shoes as their leaders just don't do that of course and i would say what the italian leaders are saying here are much worse than what marco missing but both are wrong in doing in acting like this but is the perfect leader that prison micro and 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 used as

a sort of lever and say look how the temperature was in the election meanwhile we want even more of bulls on a national level our policy this is politics so on a very very low level. as part of a drive to empower women the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony on sunday to recognize the government departments doing the most to address gender and balances now and for many one thing just didn't sit quite right all through recipients of the awards which were presented by the u.a.e. vice president and 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 but you forgot to invite one while really nailed the diversity there one of those there was wearing grey you've achieved an excellent balance of men with dark facial hair and men with like facial hair i congratulate it here only one gender in dubai. well the

u.a.e. is a prime minister has stressed in a statement online that in morality women are playing a central role in shaping the country's the future he also says that getting more women into positions of power is a. priority for his government despite that though women's rights are still severely restricted in the country let's take a look for instance women require the permission of a male guardian to get married they also cannot get a job without their husbands consent and divorce is rarely granted we spoke to political analyst come from shock trauma 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. you know. and i. won't. pretend. they're not even doing.

what was the point of the exercise that's all it was new at. that she didn't even. know anything it's one thing to speak. and not. even do that much better than the rest of the. foreigners and if. you don't. you can catch up with the rest of the other thing you see we know. taxi drivers in the spanish capital are organizing against competing rider hailing services like goober more than that and the news after a short break you're watching international stay with us.

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world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. walking back this is r t international sunday events were held across the globe for international holocaust remembrance day it marks seventy four years since soviet troops liberated auschwitz the nazi death camp in poland and former prisoners of the camp visited the site where the holocaust museum is now situated to share their memories of expressing the importance for people to do day 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 jews more than half of europe's jewish population was murdered in systematic attacks and many were

starved to death killed in gas chambers and. burned and furnishes 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 knows are simple findings over half of those surveyed did not know the actual number of victims while eight percent think the scale of the atrocity has been exaggerated for now nazi hunter efraim zuroff says those statistics are alarming. holocaust denial is simply a new form of anti-semitism the how of course is the most documented tragedy in human history there are millions i repeat millions of documents that prove the crimes of the holocaust is no basis for this denial it's totally absurd so why do people do it it's 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. after eleven consecutive weekends of street demonstrations it seems some

in france have had enough of the. on raster they have even launched their own movements to counter the increasingly violent yellow vests protests are too strong to penske as. fronts and protest the two go oh no i'm like two lovers strewing around paris in fact the french seem to love processing so much it's almost a national sport but it's a sport that has a very nasty streak the yellow vest protest group probably the best known they've been out in force since november seventeenth so that's now eleven weekends they say the government's not doing enough despite the concessions and a national debate is taking place in the yellow vests are determined to stick it out they've already planned acts twelve before we even got to the twelfth weekend but their protests have often descended into violence that's been described as the wooster in more than half a century. top

seed anything today's one destruction it's all. but in true french fashion there is now an empty protest protest meet the red skull that is so unhappy about the violence and the destruction that's taken place during the yellow vests protest that they've now formed their group and they're out in force.

fulcrum of the business originally why are there demonstrations today it's because many people have had enough of the pointless violence in this country that are demonstrating i believe good to defend the principle of nonviolence and to defend democracy it's very simple feels. to emphasize the importance of liberty and democracy as we are facing a movement in france that's attempting to restrict our freedom. i have chosen to come here to defend democracy and freedom but peacefully without violence well if you thought this was just the right protest against the yellow protesters think again there is also now a team yes that's right the blue vests are also anti yellow vests they're anti violence so what you've got at the moment is the yellow vest protest is in the middle and on each side they're all the best and you've got the red scarfs remind

you of something yes that's right it's almost like the treacle or the french flag and it seems that just like the french moto liberte gallatin for eternity it's living on in the french spirit so the french regardless of what's always there on still have this opportunity with each other albeit in their ability to protest or to protest a protest over a protest or something like that. charlotte even ski party paris are with some clearly losing patience with the yellow vest particular brand of protest the movement itself has been faced with a strong clampdown from authorities at times leading into serious injury drama rodriguez a leading member of the movement was hit in the face by a flash ball projectile and says he may lose the sight in his right eye.

oh i see this. is you i've had my i posted stop because. as to whether i'm going to regain my sight i will find out some want to weeks stream we are angry because these are things that should not be happening today in front what they doing is totally unacceptable and i have to recover and i will return to the protests as soon as i can because the battlefield long and tough when you have a goal for a better france and for a more humane. major roads in madrid have been brought to a standstill as taxi drivers in spain rally against rider hailing services like. i. well police had to use force to trick the drivers in taxis blocking the capitol central streets with the strike now into

a safe day anger has grown over the popular ride hailing services they do not face the same regulations as regular taxis in many countries cab drivers have promised to keep setting up blockades and rallying unless the authorities introduce new laws to control alternative company. that does it for me i'll be back with more news and let's say thirty four minutes. with this manufacturer to censor public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the five. percent. we can all middle the roots to.

the real new room full. united states has always had a tools to use in its tax on other countries. economic sanctions are just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries a talking about. and there must be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country because. we have a responsibility for the hague. and we need to make rules for the rest. because without us there would be chaos.

you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there are already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the serger defenses office says we're going to attack and

destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort or easiness for. hello and welcome the cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle breaking a promise trump wants regime change in venezuela old habits die hard also the trials in tribulations of roger stone will russia gate ever end.

talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark slowly he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor levitch he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for politics and we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with sputnik international are gentlemen cross-talk rules and a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it obviously we're going to start out with that is where you are and bitter i want to be very specific with you what was your reaction when the person goes by the name of elliot abrams was pointed. leader of american foreign policy and the washington consensus apparently to deal with venezuela so early and they're able to definitely if he has the right. to do this and this is somebody who. you

know. as with many other new.