continue to use all of our diplomatic economic tools to support. the. company with crippling sanctions washington intends to topple. president.

leading to speculation over washington's next move that's. coming up on the program human rights watch releases a report documenting dozens of cases of terrorists torturing civilians. and. residents of the six. miners. the power to change the course of. around the clock across the world this is our to international from the team and myself you know neal hello welcome our top story. the united states it is

imposing tough new sanctions on venice wheel a state owned oil company the move is theirs and to choke off revenues their president nicolas maduro is government thereby strengthening the hand of the opposition leader one. who will continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support interim president quite oh the national assembly and the venezuelan people efforts to restore their democracy but we have continued to expose the corruption of madeira and his cronies in today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people god. god is giving me how. venice. asked venice one of. the economic measures against mature o. target the country's key source of revenue immediately freezing seven billion

dollars in assets american firms also won't be able to do business with caracas all existing u.s. money there will enter blocked icons and it is estimated that figure that the sanctions will cost venezuela eleven billion dollars in lost oil revenues this year alone well during the announcement about the sanctions the u.s. national security adviser notepad was facing reporters exposing a written message that read five thousand troops to colombia some suggested that had was unlucky slip well that was then it was intentional washington responded saying that all options are still on the table killam up and looks now at the team taking aim at then a swill. i think a 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 is make them sound familiar either you're with us. if 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 united states makes the u.n. work work and that is exactly where you 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 an interesting campaign of economic pressure to starve the regime of the revenue it uses to fund

destabilisation 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. it 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 us is once again talking about

basically another war for oil so that it introduces these moral complications and gives rise to some serious questions about the u.s. motivations here and it's very frustrating from an american point of view it's one thing for trump to announce oh i support this other guy and that's great but but but these sanctions are kind of an act of violence in themselves i think we have to put this in the back of the continuing u.s. blockade of an as well in the stranglehold it being put on the economy of the country which is having very real humanitarian consequences for the people there it is a question of you know washington and it allies in europe and elsewhere want their cake and they want to have their cake and eat it i mean it's very they're double distorting or think here we asked people in venezuela the u.s. and in britain what they thought about the new punishing measures on the country.

we need help from stable countries and the us is a stable country. 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 play he well yes and no but there is some sense to it personally i'd say they should into the it is venezuela that should solve the problems of venezuela. 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 them any more if no one ever gave him something to survive in the many of us to go out there and help. for democracy to do most of us what's good for the any

idea where is on the map i have no clue how to venezuela no president. or the current president as he is. i wish i did is no the tree is back to school street new election in the country i just wanted to be 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. by turning attention to the middle east now where a chilling report by human rights watch says hyatt to reroll shelmon armed group with links to al qaeda has detained and tortured civilians in syria the organization has also released the testimonies of several victims we're going to look at some just a warning some of them are upsetting. they

used to pull me out of the cell beat 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 police me absolutely down for hours beat me and interrogate me it became tougher physically and emotionally. for human rights watch claim they did tensions the rest were triggered by protests against the higher tour i'll show militant group as igor shot down off their looks and. 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 co 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 and 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 the hard way this month. a us . in 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 a. detained residents of. because they were either documenting abuses or were testing. six of those that we have documented have apparently been tortured including 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 are 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 a government forces in danger the tentative ceasefire brokered by russia and turkey it's an undeniable fact that 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 road map to deal with the threats but it's clear we cannot let it remain a terrorist hop but. so will the mainstream media have been portraying it as syria's a final safe haven of 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. today tuesday marks a milestone on the road to britain's exit from the european union m.p.'s are due to a photo a little later on amendments to the plan put forward by prime minister to resume many years probably boyko on what the next step could be. went to reason may fail to push withdrawal deal through the house of commons she promised to come back with a plan b. and that plan b. turned 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 the 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 of us 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 a vote 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 needs. to steal drugs from the british people another possible face lift 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 brags it is wary could leave northern ireland. stuck with trading rules indefinitely this would be the most favorable outcome for to raise that may although dublin has already said the backstops non-negotiable arland. has the

same position as the european union now i think when we say the backstop as part of withdrawal agreed ok is part of a balanced package that isn't going to change and then there is blow three and 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 brags 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 way for those who can depending on which changes are adopted this evening is set to be judgement night for to raise a maze so-called plan b. it will either keep bobbing in the water or anti brags that m.p.'s will sink it like a stone where that leaves the brags that ship is anybody's guess the government's

opposed to delaying the ukase to everything if politicians vote to do just that constitutionally the u.k. would be entering charted water. policy boyko president trump lends his way to controversial plans for bible classes in u.s. schools we break that story down on debate it for this.

what politicians to do something that. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to. let you go right to the press this is what the three of them all can't be good. interested always in the lives of. a low again separation of church and state was something parliament to the founding fathers of the us but that the vision is now being tested proposed bible literacy classes for public schools are sparking controversy across the country secular

activists warned that it would set a dangerous precedence but president trump indorse the plan support which was rapidly criticized online. numerous 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 clearly violate the first amendment which seeks to ensure our government does not support will stop additional national religion. i propose that we also have hindus a buddhist egyptian book of the debt and the courses they predate the bible aren't they 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 or bill is to allow bible classes have been introduced in several states that proposed 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 yes fierce debates all know this as you might expect including here in our team we got the views of john leyden who is a former republican member of the missouri senate firstly we hear from kevin boiling 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 if a 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 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. in west virginia the freedom from religion foundation was recently was stopped a similar thing like this because the first graders were being taught that adam and eve slid down the back of the dinosaurs like a water slide if they were teaching scripture memorization and they wanted kids to you know be you know sort of doctrine aided by that kind of hammering maybe i could see people being more offended by that but just to expose people to these tax i guess i just don't understand the danger. moving all night china has lashed out at

us charges against tech giant weiwei on its chief financial officer. saying they are categorically unfair and a moral. 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. chinese enterprises objectively and fairly while way is accused of misleading the u.s. government on a bank about its relationships with subsidiaries in order to conduct and this is the crux of the matter business with iran it's also alleged that chinese company conspired to steal intellectual property the indictment does not accuse beijing itself of any criminal activity while his chief financial officer is free on bail in vancouver in canada she was arrested there in december the request of the us parking i trade from china washington has now made an official request for her

extradition the company on the chinese government deny any wrong doing. well i'm happy to say we're joined live on the program by. independent china special group welcome how likely is it in your opinion that while we will be able to allay concerns in the west that they could act as a vehicle for chinese influence or espionage even. well this is an uphill battle as evelyn seems to be mounting and all question all depends on the. substance of the evidence and the veracity of all this evidence and the ability of it to be going through the legal process in the united states. first of all the companies not only in china but in the united states and other countries have been fine you know pass or while it is all u.s. laws including the world's biggest bangs so there's nothing unusual or is unusual

in this case because in wall the deputy chairman of the board of the founder of one of the most telling watchable power pole for companies in china and the when go on all five g. technology now people in the know. all this would work would understand that time she really is the commanding heights of the twenty fourth century it is going to define home people in directly. and also how business is going to but more so even more so how the military could gain advantage over competitors so i think actually so essentially under you you're seeing this dispute really as a manifestation i suppose have the growing struggle for global had germany between china and the u.s. because there is a huge trade war an issue being played out between the two superpowers isn't there

. well this is the backdrop but i think that the united states has made it quite clear that these. allegations against walkway and the filing of this charges have got nothing to do with the. train accusations in a way that was simply because as i was saying that. foreign banks and international companies were blind you know possible while eating u.s. law so it really depends on the substance of this nation's and to what extent they could be defended in the courts now. again it's one thing to these charges against the company but it's quite another bomb charges against the individual even though the shoes the sheep are helpful. but of course again they're all charges against. them may when we see the c.e.o. so again i get the events of the evidence not the third aspect of it is that this

lady is now detained in canada and all the extradition to take place it really depends on kind of those laws and whether the charges against there are comparable offenses in canada ok i think that is a very complicated legal story but at the back of it all the backdrop is that all those technological rye rate between of you not yet we have just thirty seconds on a group who comes off work at current trade war escalates further. i think that. the deadline all. first of march i think that we're likely pro-grade that there will be some kind of a deal otherwise. when all the you know have gone that all and of course both countries something the impact on their economies and the united states of course trump there is a kind of

a. a lot of things coming up against him so i think that there is some pressure or some kind of a deal that he'll resolve this basic robbery or i need to come. in out of the you know we have to there it we're just running right out of time under the long independent china specialist we thank you as always for coming on the program. and i told her no more great programs right ahead here on r.t. international. the country has gone into a nihilistic theme best want to thank god it hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the genius of the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point around which element is done something we always are on the margins something. called the culture is moving forty hours on.

we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get him oregon town on the new maybe completely different industry. with little make this manufacture come sentenced to public wells. when the roman clauses protect themselves. with the financial merry go round be the one percent of. the time we can all middle of the room sick. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

confrontation let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic development only closely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

i started out as a very conservative republican and like my army community and upstate new york in the fifty's. my father was a member of the john birch society he was very opposed to the new deal labor unions catholics jews and. he was actually.