more than a dozen foreign ministers from latin america plus canada have said they won't recognize maduna as president if he's sworn in for a second term next week the lima group as it's known says elections in may were not credible and he's calling for power to be transferred to the national assembly until a free vote can be held. in his release but a sense from where you were there in republic of venezuela expresses great fool them and at the extravagant declaration of a group of countries of the american continent which are receiving instructions from the united states through video conference have agreed to encourage a coup to turn. money on a sentence has more on this from lima. the foreign ministers of the fourteen countries members of the group decided not to recognize. the next president to take over office again on january the tenth they said that the election didn't comply with international standards it was not transparent it didn't have any opponents and it didn't have any international observers now the lima group decided today that high ranking officials from the venezuelan

is stepping up pressure on maduna russia and china are firmly backing him beijing has reason to be concerned about the term or in venezuela our china correspondent adrian brown reports. they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president maduro as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela's upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china. analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power but for now china continues to voice support from the duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. china opposes for interference in the internal affair of finance wella especially wh

pretty much assume that they are going to be supporting the opposition leader now particularly after maduna said that there was no chance he was calling elections the next elections as far as he was concerned was going to be in twenty twenty five when his current term ends there is some international support for nicolas madieu though the african union voted to support him china turkey and russia all going against this push from the international community to see why door put in the interim president. and you sum up the question now he is not a self-proclaimed president external forces declared him as the president offering different types of support including financial technical political and moral venezuela has problems which should be solved but there is no doubt that the scenario aimed at preventing sighs from dialogue comes from abroad. but international pressure on him out of the door tightens increases so does so does his resistance to that pressure for him to step down and says he has no intention of doing so ok peter thanks very much for outlining what's going on in venezuela report

vowed to take action it is the latest in a series of measures by the trump administration to push maduna out u.s. national security adviser john bolton has not ruled out a military option as well now is the time to stand for democracy and prosperity in venezuela. i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president go idle any violence against these groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response it during my time this shows that their objective is to take our riches what is the objective of the government of the united states take the properties from venezuela the riches of venezuela finance but as money and life run by a spotted take away our country of course the salumi has more on this now from washington . oil is venezuela's largest source of revenue and the united states is venezuela's biggest customer forty one percent of their oil exports come to the united states and their biggest foreign asset is citgo the refinin