some want. to go right to be close but she was before three of the more people. interested in the waters and that. there should be. you continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support introversion wider how. the us cuts venezuela's financial lifeline slapping crippling sanctions on the country's state oil company in a bid said to boost the country's self declared interim leader and oust president material. human rights watch says rebel groups affiliated with al qaida

have been torturing civilians in syria. we have documented the living conditions in which. residents of the. we have documented apparently being tortured including minors. knowing the lines between a state and religion a defenders of america's first amendment on secular activists that all have a plan for bible classes in u.s. schools. we want our schools to teach we don't want them to preach people just want to be left alone if a school wants have a bible class let them have a bible class i don't know why so many people are afraid of a book. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me making our own great to have you with us this hour now our top story the united states has announced sweeping sanctions against venezuela

targeting the state owned oil company the move aims to boost opposition leader one who declared himself on his way as interim president last week and ousted nicolas maduro. we will continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support introversion quieter the national assembly and the venezuelan people efforts to restore their democracy but we have continued to expose the corruption of manure and his cronies in today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people. i mean how. venice. venice one of the economic measures against madeira target the country's case thoughts of revenue immediately freezing seven billion dollars in assets american firms won't be able to do business with caracas all the money will go to block the

accounts and sanctions will also post venezuela eleven billion dollars in lost oil exports this year during the announcements the us national security advisers notepad was facing reporters exposing congress in message that read five thousand troops to colombia some suggested that it's may be on the left can slip others that it was intentional washington responded saying that all options are on the table because of more pain looks at the team taking aim at venezuela. i think night of nations mike pompei oh drew a line in the sand now it's time for every other nation to pick a side no more delays no more games either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with it has made them sound familiar either you're with us. either you love freedom and with nations with your bridge freedom or you are the enemy yes their ideas are not new but now they're linking arms in the global spotlight some

call them the axis of evil or the troika of tyranny meet mike pompei oh elliott abrams and john bolton the three amigos of imperialism john bolton was a big supporter of the iraq war and he represented the united states in the united nations an organization he really didn't care for very much the united states makes the u.n. work work and that is exactly the way it should be because the. united states is. now mike pompei o is the new kid on the block without very much experience as head of the cia he tried to get the authority to conduct drone strikes in afghanistan without the pentagon's oversight and he worked day and night to rip up the iran nuclear deal at the center of it is not interested in a campaign of economic pressure to starve the regime of the revenue it uses to fund stabilization of these throughout the middle east and indeed around the world now

back in the spotlight after years of obscurity meet convicted criminal elliott abrams he was tied to massacres in el salvador any help to funnel weapons to the contras in nicaragua he was convicted for his role in covering it all up and he received a presidential pardon now he's a special envoy for venezuela it seems that his record in latin america has really impressed certain people america's new dream team is now taking aim at venezuela why because they just care so much for those poor oh pressed venezuelans they want them to have a chance at freedom and democracy right or is it something else. will 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 yes honesty is always appreciated linson credibility of the perception that the u.s. is just and gave an act of imperialism and perhaps

a little of oil and this is what i think is really well if if the venice venice was going to get rid of material and replace him and have new democratic elections that should be an internal matter for venezuela we know that sanctions don't work the people who pay the price for sanctions are the local population we saw that in cuba we've seen that in iran we've seen it in every case where sanctions have been applied they do not achieve the end goal what they do is increase the suffering for the venezuelan population wealth people in venezuela the us found worse in what they thought about the new sanctions. we need help from stable countries and the us is a stable country you know i do not recognize one why do as the interim president and the government of the us must respect the position of us and as a whelan's who have elected president maduro where fair elections. he in well yes and no but there is some sense to it personally i'd say they shoot into the dog no

it is venezuela it should solve the problems of venezuela. it. seems to be a typical us move to go for any nation that has been a model oil venezuela is a country that's been around for a long time and they should solve their own problems. sometimes need to go out and just help the many nice know all of us gave them something to survive in to many of us to go out there and help these. proposed democracy to do some research before any idea where is on the map i have no clue how to venezuela no president. for the current president as these. i wish i do is no these three is back to the whole story new election in the country i just want to do a few sort of agree that that would be the best way forward for over this way that's what it is up to what they want isn't it not what i want.

a chilling reports by human rights watch says hi it's terry al sol an armed group with links to al qaeda has detained and tortured civilians in syria the organization has also released the testimonies of several victims a warning you might find some of them upsetting. they used to pull me out of the cell. me and then return me no one asked me a single question no one asked me what my name was. these torture moments i remember them in detail every day people died in front of my eyes the maximum you can do is move your shoulders a bit and scream for help but on several occasions they stuffed things in my mouth

so i couldn't scream. they beat me they would place me absolutely down for hours beat me and interrogate me in the game tougher physically and emotionally. the new york based rights organization claims detentions and arrests were triggered by protests against the militant group a ghost of reports. when syria's most ruthless battle hardened terrorist elements fled the advances of the country's military taking refuge in a province the u.s. and cole went overboard overboard about our side and russia would turn the lives of ordinary citizens there into a living hell to get to a handful of al-qaeda fighters when russia and the assad regime say they want to counterterrorism they actually mean they want to bomb schools hospitals and

homes there are more babies in italy than there are terrorists think of the children well now it turns out terrorists remain terrorists wherever they go and the children and adults of good liberal like are learning this the hard way this month. a un designated terrorist alliance subjugated the other rebel factions and seized power across the province any attempt of dissent big crush in its cradle the new human rights watch report details just some cases we have documented eleven cases in which. residents of. because they were either documenting abuses or were just. six of the older we have documented have apparently been tortured you can minors human rights watch isn't the first organization to produce such a report either as well as arbitrary detention and brutal beatings thieving looting

and corruption rampant clashes and infighting are also adding to the anguish of civilians violence repeatedly spills beyond the borders of the province to just last week at least four hundred militants attacked the government forces in danger the tentative ceasefire brokered by russia and turkey it's an undeniable fact that it liberal means a terrorist haven while we are still committed to the ceasefire deal the recent takeover by. goes beyond. the scope of the agreement the russian and turkish militaries are working on a roadmap to deal with the threats but it's clear we cannot let it remain a terrorist hot button so will the mainstream media have been portraying syria's final safe haven the last major rebel held hotspot the last rebel holdout the last major stronghold of active opposition to the rule of president bashar al assad all those praying to survive to see another day there are unlikely to agree.

as part of a drive to empower women in the united arab emirates award ceremony was held on sunday to recognize the government departments doing the most to address gender imbalance but for many one thing just didn't sit quite right over three recipients of the awards which represented by the u.s. vice president and the ruler of dubai where 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 dark facial and men with my facial hair i congratulate is here only one gender and by the way is prime minister stressed in a statement that women their players 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 despite that women's rights are still severely 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 husbands consent and divorce is rarely granted we spoke to political analyst catherine shutdown about the award ceremony and she told us that it's easy to pay lip service to equality but concrete steps need to be taken. i think that the you we were at least leadership should have actually. made good and actually present at least in a would you want women i mean to at least pretend pretend that you promoting gender equality love even trying they're not even doing good p.r. or promoting their gender equality you go also another question what was the point of the exercise at all it was new or town where so ever traction the repairs done to women represented what is made them visible somehow but nothing was actually

done other than one particular woman was congratulated for her effort she didn't even receive an award or a medal or anything like that it's one thing to speak reform it's 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 opened up its border to a lot of foreigners and that therefore changes had to be done. you can catch up with the rest of the world i don't think it's new we know what the organization behind the initiative say's women in the u.a.e. hold important roles in society that from m.p.'s to firefighters and entrepreneurs that they will continue to be a driving force alongside their male counterparts to further establish the nation as a global role model for gender balance. today marks a milestone on the road to britain's exit from the european union m.p.'s are due to vote on amendments to the plan put forward by a prime minister to resign may explain what the next step might be. went to reason

may fail to push e.u. withdrawal deal through the house of commons she promised to come back with a plan b. and that plan b. turns out to be insisting on plan a so my focus continues to be on what is needed to secure the support of this house in favor of the brics it deal with the e.u. since then brags that ship has run aground tonight's vote should be engines up again and determine which way. but politicians aren't voting on may's withdrawal deal they're voting on changes to the deal that have been put forward by m.p.'s once voted on specifically all depends on what this man decides to do. the job of the parliamentary speaker is meant to be neutral but the government has accused john bercow of displaying a pro remain bias the rest. is no longer this procedural

dance if you like is really about putting pressure on the government to say ok it's time for plan b. his job is to pick which of the amendments proposed by politicians are very tight on there are well over a dozen but they fall into three broad categories one is for politicians to vote to prevent a so-called no deal bragg's it by forcing to reason may to perspire in it if a deal fails to get through parliament again i think that is written recently a real danger that. the house of commons which is a true grameen majority me steve. to steal drugs from the british people another possible facelift to may's deal is a brags that. per leave politicians in the p.m.'s own party could demand she go back to brussels over scrapping the controversial irish backstop the part of the

deal that drags it is wary could leave northern ireland's. stuck with e.u. trading rules indefinitely this would be the most favorable outcome for to raise that may although dublin has already said the backstops non-negotiable ireland. has the same position as the european union now i think when we say the backstop as part of withdrawal agreed ok it's part of a balanced package that isn't going to change and then there's below three potentially terminal one one that could wrestle the brags that process out of the government's hands all together politicians could force the government to pursue a softer bragg's it or even hold a second referendum the prime minister is trying to buy himself one last chance to save this deal if she doesn't take on board the fundamental changes required then she must make for those who can depending on which changes are adopted this evening is said to be judgement night for to reason may's so-called plan b.

it will either keep bobbing in the water or ante bragg's etampes will sink it like a stone where that leaves the brags that ship is anybody's guess the government's opposed to delaying the u.k.'s. if politicians vote to do just that constitutionally the u.k. would be entering on a charted water. most still to come including how our president is way too controversial plans for bible classes in us schools have the details for you after the break. we see a. good jump from china's into town terrorism. from far time to face you know facebook should rename itself as face crime because they are assisting in a baby this torture downturn is

a. the question i guess is why why now why use to tout charles i'm wearing it's ugly head of america at this time as. you know world of big partisan movies a 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad 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.

welcome back well the green light for bible literacy classes in u.s. public public publics code says banks control the sea across the country while secular activists warn is a dangerous tendency president donald trump has already endorsed the plan something that was quickly criticized online mira states introducing bible literacy classes giving students the option of studying the bible starting to make it turn back great. bible literate classes in public schools really violate the first amendment which seeks to ensure all government does not support well as stop a national religion. i propose that we also have hindus a buddhist egyptian book of the debt and the courses they predate the bible or in the historical significant there are already optional bible literacy classes

offered around the country every weekend it's called sunday school whatever happened to the separation of church and state bills to allow bible classes have been introduced in several states they propose courses are optional and focused mainly on the historical importance of the text opponents say it violates the constitution's first amendment by lending government support to religion. so we got the views of john loud and full of former republican member of the missouri senate and kevin bolling from the secular student alliance. i think of one of the bottom lines and you know it comes down to is who do we want teaching religion i don't want my government teaching religion i don't want our public institutions teaching religion i think that's a great place for or for the religious community i'm not afraid that kids are going to get bible instruction or qur'an instruction in high school and suddenly be. turned into terrible people that most of the founding fathers actually had pretty good statements supporting the separation of church and state we want our schools

to teach we don't want them to preach people just want to be left alone after school wants to have a bible class let them have a bible class i don't know why so many people are afraid of a book if you really want to get into what the historical documents of the bible are i'm not sure that there were a lot of things a lot of christians would want to for the school to be teaching the bible discusses a lot about sex and slavery and genocide and rape i don't want my school teaching my children that the whole reason that this law is necessary is that the bible is singled out for banning from schools the qur'an is is working its way into a curriculum all across the country and there's very little controversy around that it's in but it's when the bibles broad and of a single out the bible to be banned and so that necessitated laws like the ones that are being looked at that say hey you are so missing the founding fathers

wanted the bible as part of our cricket expected the bible they just assumed it it was a standard across country for the first two hundred years that's can be rather difficult for for elementary schools and high schools to do that here in los angeles and so we probably have the talent pool where we can find someone who has that background that educational background to properly be able to and instruct that class my guess is just because it's more of a rural area you may not have that opportunity and. and worse for a junior the freedom from religion foundation was recently was start a similar thing like this because the first graders were being taught that adam and eve slowed down the bricks the dinosaurs like a water slide if they were teaching scripture memorization they wanted kids to. be you know sort of indoctrinated by that kind of hammer and maybe i could see people being more offended by that but just to expose people to these turks.

and understand the danger china has lashed out at the us government charges against tech giant huawei and this chief financial officer joe saying it's unfair and immoral. there are strong political motivations and political manipulations behind these actions we strongly urge the us to stop the unreasonable suppression of chinese companies including and treat chinese enterprises objectively and fairly what way is accused of misleading the u.s. government and the global bank about its relationships with subsidiaries in order to conduct business with iran it's also alleged that chinese company conspired to steal intellectual property the indictment does not accuse the chinese government of criminal activity while ways chief financial officer among one joe is free on bail in vancouver canada she was arrested there in december last year at the

request of the us sparking outrage from china the united states has now made an official request for her extradition the company and the chinese government deny any wrongdoing. the charges come just ahead of crucial u.s. china trade talks political analyst colin cavell thinks the whole round was a protectionist measure on the part of the united states. this red shirt is the tensions between the u.s. and china and its current talks and trade changes that are going on by the u.s. you utilizing this. diplomacy to beat china down and try to access the u.s. telecom market it's trying to go back to its all of peerless ways of saying that yes you may produce a product that is cheaper than the one we make you may produce

a better product but we're going to use market access and that is the way countries. do it when they want to protect their own domestic production. we have had a great start to your day where i think you are plenty more news stories coming up at the top of the hour with my colleague you know me i'm. when lawmakers manufacture consensus instinctive public will. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round lifts and be the one percent told.

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this is 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 and some breaking news we are free today we are glad you're on board and coming up saudi arabia has been given the on a blacklist by the e.u. plus the middle eastern kingdom is looking abroad to meet its infrastructure goals conservative t.v. and radio commentator steve malzberg is standing by to discuss and rumi morello itself out wire ventures will join us to talk fin tech and artificial intelligence

plus there is new news on venezuela miguel tinker of solace the author of venezuela what everyone needs to know joins us to talk about the crisis unfolding and the new news and later now that the government is back open that doesn't mean that our institutions haven't been taking a big hit including the internal revenue service and taxpayers molly barrows contributor at american lawyers will join us all that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. scarlet letter on saudi arabia leads our global report today as the european union prepares to officially list the kingdom among twenty three nations cited by the e.u. for official inaction on financial crimes especially with regard to terrorism the listing will impose new reviews on saudi related transactions moving through e.u. banks saudi arabia and a number of other countries will be added to the e.u.'s list.