the trumpet ministration announces new sanctions against venezuela targeting the state oil company and freezing billions in assets. the power struggle continues as venezuela's president. of the country's self-proclaimed leader reveals he's working with sympathetic elements in the military to incite revolt. neighbors italy and france.

in an escalating standoff as both countries call for the other's leadership to get better or get out. of the united arab emirates holds an awards ceremony for those supporting gender equality but. are broadcasting from our studios moscow this is our team international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now the trumpet ministration has announced new sanctions against venezuela this time targeting the state oil company the restrictions will block seven billion dollars of the company's assets are to scale up and has more. 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 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 and the 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 a 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 responding to washington's sanctioning of a venezuelan state owned energy company p.t. vs a nicolas maduro has promised to take all necessary measures to protect venezuela's property in the united states' interest you need money to sign up no. room now can. look to me. how. venice. did not true how. venice. i think we have. the. u.s. blockade of an 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 change make a change in the mother or a government. or conservative back to a constitutional mandate and. to appoint

a parallel president that remains to be seen but for now the moto government the armed forces remain in power i and it really didn't matter what standing need government to call on without a government and they did nothing to be at this time any real change on the level of the street here in caracas. despite the new sanctions that the u.s. continues to invest money in the country that is according to the u.s. secretary of state my pump who announced twenty million in humanitarian assistance for venezuela according to statistics the u.s. sent nearly seven point two million dollars to venezuela last year it entered to the country via various non-governmental organizations in two thousand and seventeen donald trump said that such investments should benefit the united states . believes nations take money and then they vote against the security council with a good against us potentially the assembly to take hundreds of millions of dollars

and even billions of dollars and then they vote against this when watching this vote lead a vote against us will save a lot so venezuela has been among several countries pushing back against the influence of u.s. and geos include bolivia pakistan and ecuador another example is cambodia which has been subject to criticism over its decision to expel a u.s. funded so-called pro-democracy group. all right the national democratic institute is a taxpayer funded organization according to reports it was training the opposition party in cambodia and financed the opposition press however the n.g.o.s says it is nonpartizan in two thousand and seventeen the cambodian government kicked the ngo out of the country accusing washington of interference a spokesperson for the cambodian people's party. says such n.g.o.s are not welcome . and you define sale as. this activity

to either. my even asking the politico and. said gee why didn't the principal also give it to the prince of war independent. and you'll be. the government of the mystique of. the likelihood of the people if and you will just. see it gives the guy the snow up there right and you'll all right 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 want 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 in the 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. on several european countries have meanwhile sided with washington saying they would recognize opposition leader as president if venezuela fails to hold a new election venezuelan journalist and norris i've got to explain. after a week marred by protest 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 billion 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 venezuelans 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 one by doorways the interim president and the government of the us must respect the position of us then as

a whelan's who have elected president where fair elections. he well yes and no by the recent times to eat personally i say that yeah should in to be able to. do ro protects venezuelan social guarantees pensions it is venezuela should solve the problems of venezuela 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. by the u.s. justice department has filed a slew of criminal charges against a chinese telecom giant while way the chief financial officer has to affiliates the two affiliates the charges include bank fraud and trade secret eft and the indictment claims weiwei misled the u.s. government and a global bank about its relation. ships with subsidiaries in order to conduct business with iran the second case accuses the company of stealing trade secrets

from an american rival team mobile they allegedly stole robotic technology called tapi which mimics human fingerprints and was used by t. mobile to test smartphones security indictment does not accuse the chinese government of criminal activity though. there's no conduct alleged in the indictment about the chinese government i will say though that it is public record under chinese cyber security law chinese companies like wall way. are required to provide essentially access upon demand with little to no process to challenge that and so that's why it creates the national security implications that we're concerned about the prosperity that drives our economic security is inherently linked to our national security and the immense influence that the chinese government holds over chinese corporations like wall way represents a threat to both. while always a c.f.o.

main one shoe was arrested in december last year by canadian authorities at the request of the u.s. her arrest has sparked outrage among chinese officials she is still awaiting a final decision on extradition to the u.s. and beijing has demanded her release both while way and the chinese government deny the allegations. more on this we can all cross live it to call it that cowbell a author of exporting made in america democracy so glad to have you with us as always. if we get right down to it what will be the consequences of this indictment for the u.s. china relationship especially in the context of ongoing trade negotiations. mr damas this read to it is the tensions between the u.s. and china and its current talks and trade. that are going on by

the u.s. you seen this big diplomacy beat china down and try to deny. the u.s. telecom market it's trying to go back to its old imperialist way of saying that yes you may produce a product that is jupiter than the one we may you may produce a better product but we're going to. market access and that is the way countries. do it when they want to protect their own domestic production so what it represents is a sign of weakness on the u.s. economy so i thought it was pretty rare that chris ram self was out there but in his statement f.b.i. director chris rea emphasized that the indictment does not allege criminal conduct by the chinese government an important distinction there but before that he said

the influence the chinese government possesses over chinese companies represents threats to u.s. national security is that a contradiction or is there something deeper that i'm missing here. definitely contradiction mr thomas the allegation is that the chinese government does interfere and control while away it does have influence over its direction that is what the us is charging however anybody who knows anything about the us telecom industry especially what's been going on in the last two years where the us government has been denying lots of people access to different types of play and facebook etc the u.s. intelligence agencies. are very much in control and influence the u.s. telecom industry so it's a case of the. calling the kettle black briefly because

i wish you and i could talk about this all our unfortunately we do have time constraints but if you think these charges it could be mostly about putting political pressure on china. well we trade talks are to resume this week and by making these charges against mangling joe it is the us trying to have a stick out there. and hopefully this will be china into submission when it comes to washington this week but it is highly unlikely it is the drop in ministration who thinks that they can utilize u.s. economic leverage to deny a competitor produces a better phone and cheaper phone from access by claiming. it is

damaging us now on security and other words and saying. that certain parties in the united states right now are utilizing the charge against russia that they interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election none of which is true but it doesn't matter you are the source of all i wanted to talk to about this you can help us put it all into perspective call and ask of l. author of exporting made in america democracy i'm glad we have the opportunity to talk to you on the subject. all right the french president is taking italy's coalition government had on after dismissing rome's criticism of his handling of the anti-government yellow vest protests and the new macron 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 the education enjoy the right as far as i'm concerned i speak to president conti. of the feud between the

two 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. has even urged the french public to oust president micron 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 like macros 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 so i am not up to it let the italian people decide about.

right 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 leader you 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 believe that 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 used as a sort of lever and say look how the temperature was in the election remount we

want even more of bulls on a national level our policy this is politics so on a very very low level. all right as part of a drive to empower women the united arab emirates held an awards ceremony on sunday to recognize the government departments are doing the most to address gender and balances but for many one thing just didn't said quite right on 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 but you forgot to invite women while really nailed the diversity there one of those who is wearing grey you've achieved an excellent balance of men with dark facial hair and men with my facial hair my congratulations is here only one gender in dubai.

well the. the prime minister has stressed in a statement online that the women are playing a central role in shaping the country's future he also says that getting more women into positions of power well that's a priority for the government despite though 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 more get married they also cannot get a job without their husbands consent and divorce is rarely granted we spoke to political analyst catherine shocked 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. leadership should have actually you know made good and actually present at least in a what you want women i mean to at least pretend pretend that you from which in gender equality is not even trying they're not even doing good p.r. all for one thing that gender equality either also another question what was the

point of the exercise that's all it was new at southwest's lever to actually you know repairs done to women represented what it's made them visible somehow but nothing was actually done other than one particular woman was congratulated for her efforts 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 for even a little bit you it's much much better than the rest of the board for one reason is that it has opened up its border so 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 . u.s. president donald trump has embraced of the proposal of lawmakers in six states to allow optional bible literacy classes in public schools. teach introducing bible literacy classes giving students the option of studying the bible starting to make it turn back great. bills to allow the bible classes have been introduced in

several state legislatures the proposed courses would be elective only and focus mainly on the historical importance of the text opponents of the idea claim it violates the constitution's first amendment by lending government support to religion they also say trump's advocacy of the proposal races the line between church and state earlier we held a debate on the issue with secular student alliance director kevin boiling and former missouri state senator john. here we're talking about what local school districts local locally elected school board members wants to do if they want to have a class this language is permissive they may create a class that studies a bible they may create a class that studies the qur'an if they want i think if they are voluntary and it's part of a curriculum and we're actually looking at sort of the critique and historical documentation of the bible or any other religious document that probably would be then permissible under the constitution well i guess i would ask kevin in the

a.c.l.u. what are they afraid of you know i was raised in a a non christian sect and i remember a boy scout outings and there'd be a christian prayer or i'd have a sleep over at a friend's house and go to his chawl i might be a little irritated but it didn't ruin my day and it certainly didn't ruin my life the bible discusses a lot about sex and slavery and genocide and rape i'm not just i don't want my school teaching my children that so my guess is john doesn't want his school teaching his children that either the whole bible for all kids you know abraham lincoln studied out of the bible as part of his primary education so the idea that their founding fathers never meant to have christian education actually part of it is just just missing missing the ball up until the one nine hundred fifty s. pretty much every school in the country had some kind of viable. john wrote of the

founding fathers i think most of the founding fathers actually had pretty good statements supporting the separation of church and state i think one of the bottom lines it comes down to is who do we want teaching religion i don't want my government teaching religion religion i don't want our public institutions teaching religion i think that's a great place for or for the religious community and so and whatever paradigm of religion you practice and want to believe in that's what your religion should teach and so i think it's taking it out of the classroom and putting in the churches so let's keep religion the bible the qur'an in those institutions or religion that can should properly share those paradigms with the children and raise children with those beliefs that can group with that particular religion it's not a place within our public society. after eleven consecutive weekends of street demonstrations it seems some in france have had enough of the unrest and they have even launched their own movements to counter the increasingly violent yellow vests

protest artie's thousands more fronts and protested to go oh my 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 streak the yellow vest protest group probably best know 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 and 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 worst in more than half a century. talks

to do anything today to want to strengthen the soul. but in true french fashion there is now an empty protest protest meet the red skull they so unhappy about the violence and the destruction that's taken place during the yellow that's protests 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 scarves are demonstrating i believe good to defend the principle of nonviolence and to defend democracy it's very simple feel. 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 peaceful it without violence well if you thought this was just the right protestors against the yellow protesters think again there is also now a team yes that's right the blue vests are also anti yellow vests and 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 trickle. the french flag and

it seems that just like the french more to liberate a galatea fraternity it's living on in the french spirit so the french regardless of what's always their own 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 show it's even ski r.t. paris and some clearly losing patience with the yellow vests a particular brand of protest movement itself has also faced a strong clampdown from authorities at times leading to serious injury jerome 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. no. i do. think there's no. global critic if you will please you i've had my i've been

stitched up because you think as to whether i'm going to regain my sight i'll find out some limits in weeks i make stream we are angry because these are things i should not be happening today in front so what they're doing is totally unacceptable and i have to recover and i will return to the protest as soon as i can because the battlefield long and tough is where you have a goal for a better france and for a more humane well it's all you will be able to buy that doesn't for me i will be back with the headlines and let's say thirty minutes and thirty seconds there was. still something seemed wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to shape out just to get educated and gain from it because the

trail. went something find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on all of us i'm part killed in washington and i can't tell you what a jam packed show of important stuff is the breaking news we are free today we are glad you're on board and coming up saudi arabia has been given the on blacklist by the e.u. .