the trump administration announces new sanctions against venezuela targeting the state oil company and freezing billions in assets. would be. among. the trees. the power struggle continues as venezuela's president urges his troops to stay a loyal the country self-proclaimed leader reveals that he is working with

sympathetic elements in the military to incite a revolt. you neighbors italy and france do not see eye to eye on the escalating standoff as both countries call for the other's leadership to get better or get out. and the united arab emirates holds an awards ceremony for those supporting gender equality but all of the recipients are men. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our t. international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. now 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 artie's coal mop and asthma. the usa has already put

a large amount of sanctions against the bowl of air and republic of venezuela however we've 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 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 and the total seven billion dollars in assets clocked today plus over eleven billion dollars in lost exports 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 juan guede 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 take. i guess

one way to know the person that the united states other countries are recognizing as venezuela's president not recognizing the coolest duros the elected leader was just inaugurated so that any action is taken against him that there will be further penalties against venezuela. and responding to washington sanctioning a venezuelan state owned energy company p.d.s.a. nicolas maduro has promised to take all necessary measures to protect venezuela's property in the us political analyst lucas kerner who lives in caracas says other nations have no right to meddle in venezuela's internal affairs i think we have to put this in the context of the viewing us blockade of and as well on the stranglehold that they put 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 or a government decision or say conserve respect is a constitutional mandate and with this to appoint

a parallel president that remains to be seen but for now in my little government the armed forces remain in power and it really isn't clear what standing these governments have to alter on the vent on government and the did nothing to be at this time any real change on the level of the streets here in iraq and. when iran is venezuela's a political infighting continues both the government and the opposition are appealing to the armed forces for support long ago i don't know who proclaimed himself interim leader on wednesday says that he is been holding talks with military officials to push for the overthrow of the president nicolas maduro meanwhile paid a visit to troops overseeing a drills and calling on them to stay loyal. if we don't put the soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on our side who among us. soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on the side of the constitution are you serious. we have made our position very clear about the

dictatorial nature of this regime and so we want to take power never traces. install a transitional government and free elections louisiana lawyer. that's how it has to be. why why does the aim ultimately is to force a new vote as he and his supporters refuse to recognize the legitimacy of venezuela's two thousand eight hundred presidential election ortiz he got a ton of comments now about a white house arrives from obscurity. international recognition and a new grand social status dropped on one white 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 the united states probably recognize an actual symbol president one is the constitutional interim president of venezuela he's the most evil now marred by the media and entrusted to not fail by the united states and countries making up its retinue and apparently the latter could be weighing hard on venezuela's newest a democratic symbol where a dose said that there was nothing he could do that he couldn't handle the pressure from the american. if we had only if i was of the media where we said he was being pressured by everyone now this is the claim made by people but when journalists confronted why you deal 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 whether the meeting took place and what

did you talk about all venezuelans know this person or i will repeat my question have imagines do as data can be 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 a mission 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 if the arena is 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 thing 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 genocide 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 adams 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 them out so you better say cover mr y. door 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 an opposition

leader who as president of venezuela fails to hold in the election and its way one journalist notice i got explained after a week marred by a protest of violence and a very tense political situation the international community has given as well 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 union if elections are not announced within eight days we stand ready to recognize one why don't you 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 there but if they authentic we're

not going to be able to get out of this crisis overnight we need help from stable countries and the us is the stable country. i do not recognize why i do always the interim president and the government of the us must result i get the position of us it is a whelan's who have elected president where fair election would see well yes and no times to eat personally i see into being a walk in nicolas maduro protects venezuelan social guarantees pensions it is venezuela solve the problems of and is laid out and we will protect 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. french president is taking italy's coalition government head on after dismissing rome's criticism of his handling of the anti-government protests and many more across and 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 it 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 on may twenty sixth when finally the french people will be able to take back control of their future destiny and cried which are poorly represented by carries a light macro. macro that 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 so i am not up to it let the italian people decide about. we heard from a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament who told us that 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 beetle 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 good as a prison microphone and italian political leaders are doing this is just as a preparation for the elections of going elections in may for the european

parliament so basically wealthy these people are going to do it is to get people behind them to vote for them and use dad as a sort of lever and say look how the temperature was in the election meanwhile we want even more impulse 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 department doing the most to address gender imbalance us but for many one thing just didn't set quite right off recipients of the awards which were presented by the u.a.e. vice president and the ruler of dubai were men and that led to an outpouring of ridicule on social media. i'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this but you forgot to invite women wow you really nailed the diversity there one of

those great you've achieved an excellent balance of men with facial and men with. my congratulation. one gender in dubai. well the u.a.e. is a prime minister has stressed in a statement online that the women are playing a central role in the shaping of the country's future. to giving more women into positions of power a priority for the government despite that women's rights are still severely restricted in the country let's take a look at 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 well divorce rarely granted we spoke to political analyst catherine shocked about the awards 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. leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present at least in a way i mean to at least pretend pretend that you which in gender equality is not

even trying they're not even doing good p.r. no one thing that. i know question what was the point of the exercise that's all it was new at times actually you know. what made them visible somehow but nothing was actually done other than one particular woman was dated. she didn't even receive you know would you imagine anything like that it's one thing to speak before with another to actually not and i think that still even though you could you it's much much better than the rest of the board for one reason is that it has. about foreigners and that therefore changes had to be done and. you can catch up with the rest of the world i don't think it's new we know. to actually drivers in the spanish capital are organizing against completing the ride healing services like more of that and other news coming up after a short break this is international.

i. see a. good jump. to tell terrorism. from thought crime to face crime you know facebook should rename itself as face crime because they are assisting in a baiting this move toward totalitarianism and the question i guess is why why now why as i'm rearing its ugly head of america at this time.

i welcome back this is our two international on sunday events were held across the globe for international holocaust remembrance day and mark seventy four years since soviet troops liberated auschwitz the nazi death camp in poland a former prisoners of the camp 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 she. news and more than half of europe's jewish population

was murdered in systemic attacks many were starved to death killed in gas chambers and burned in furnace is in concentration camps now 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 do not know the number of the actual victims while eight percent think the scale of the atrocity has been exaggerated or announced nazi hunter efraim zuroff says the 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 there's no basis for this denial it's totally absurd so why

do people do it it's in 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. and after eleven consecutive weekends of street demonstrations in some in france have had enough of the unrest there even launching their own movement to counter the increasingly violent yellow vest protests and to show the penske as more. fronts and protest the two go oh no i'm like to love a 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 that's 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. talking seed anything they want to structure the song. but in true french fashion there is now an anti 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. for criminal business originally why all the demonstrations today it's because. many people have had enough of the pointless violence in this country that are demonstrating i believe to defend the principle of nonviolence and to defend democracy it's a simple feel. for size of liberty in democracy we're facing a movement in france that's attempting. i have chosen to come here to defend democracy and freedom but peacefully without violence well if you thought this was just a red protest against the yellow protesters think again there is also now a team yes that's right the best so also anti yellow vests they're anti violence so what you've got at the moment is the yellow vest protesters in the

middle and on each side they're all the best and you've got the red scarves 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 galatea return it it's living on in the french spirit so the french regardless of what size they're on still have this opportunity with each other albeit in their ability to protest or to protest a protest of a protest or something like that. charlotte even ski r.t. paris. well with some clearly losing patience with the yellow vests particular brand of protest the movement itself has also faced a strong clampdown from authorities at times leading to serious injury rodriguez a leading member of the movement was hit in the face with a flash ball projectile and says he may lose the sight in his right eye.

was. basically. i've had my eye post it stopped because. as to whether i'm going to regain my sight i will find out some limits. i make streaming angry because these are things that should not be happening today in front what they're doing is totally unacceptable and i have to recall if i were to turn to the protests as soon as i can because the battlefield long and tough when you have a goal for aggressive fronts and for more humane it's all you will get. a major roads hailing it services like over. was. trying to use force to clear drivers in taxis blocking the capital central streets with the strike now into its day anger has grown over

a popular ride telling services that 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 introduce new laws to control alternative company it was. and it does for me i will be back in let's say thirty four minutes with a full look at your news that you are watching our church. nihilistic he. thinking. the traveling across america in the find what makes america take them the charlatans the genius is this the quintessential american hero this is it we found the point around which allen with his gun son we always are on the margins someone called gun culture saying party tonight. we're starting last with this is we're going to headed

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