president nicolas maduro has won the backing of the military in his standoff with opposition leader juan guede oh who's proclaimed himself president and defense minister vladimir padrino llopis accused kwaito of leading a coup he also said the u.s. and other governments that have recognized him were waging an economic.

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 interna

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. right in the wake of washington's sanctioning of venezuelan state owned energy company vs a nicolas maduro has promised to take all necessary measures to protect its property in the us political analyst lucas kerner gave us his thoughts on the situation i think we have. a viewing us blockade of and 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 have a change make a change in the mother a government. or conservative back to a constitutional mandate. to appoint a parallel president that remains to be seen but for now the motive i mean the armed forces remain in power and it really unclear what standing need government have to look at it and government and they did nothing to be. any. change on the level of the stre

vice president expressing support for juan guede oh this white house statement comes after these words from mike pence let's take a listen. mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one god to the president of your national assembly to assert the bodies constitutional powers declare madeira or your syrup or nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power now in addition to withdrawing u.s. recognition from the statement from the white house also expressed support for. quote efforts to quote restore constitutional legitimacy now many observers are looking on this and saying that this is essentially a call for the overthrow of the elected government of venezuela by saying that kwan wedo is the interim president and withdrawing and no longer recognizing the legitimacy of nicolas maduro as the president of venezuela this seems to be an indication on the part of the u.s. government they would support the euro being overthrown so many observers are looking on and wondering what will happen next but this seems to be

predecessor hugo chavez it's also important to note that while a number of countries are recognizing juan guede oh this this individual who declared himself the interim president of venezuela and a number of countries are still recognizing and standing by him nicolas maduro the elected leader there are some countries that are giving kind of an ultimatum and saying that they want a new election within eight days even though that as well as constitution does not provide for that to take place now the russian ambassador to the u.n. addressed those giving this ultimatum this was his response. the strange way that you're proposing to prevent this crisis by putting forward an absurd eight day old to meet him you completely disregard the sovereignty of venezuela imposing this issue that you prefer i'm rejecting it's people's right to resolve their own problems by themselves what you're doing is not called prevention it's called incitement as caleb mentioned there germany france spain and the u.k. have put down a deadline for president maduro they want him to announce a new elections within eight days

now in response to trump's decision to confer this recognition of president on to juan guede oh there's actually been a cutting of diplomatic relations at this point nicolas maduro has cut diplomatic ties between venezuela and the united states from what we understand the venezuelan embassy in the united states and washington d.c. has closed now at this point donald trump has said that he is not ruling out the possibility of military action against venezuela this is donald trump when he was asked to clarify his comments and his position on venezuela this is an interaction between trump in the press a theory. with what i consider you anything but all through the day because that would be your theory which is that all options all of us all options. but there are a number of countries that at this point are supporting nicolas maduro and recognizing him as the legitimate president elected by the people of venezuela and inaugurated mexico is supporting the dural as is nicaragua as is china and russia on fact russian president vladimir putin has has said that the decision to to recognize and

president nicolas maduro has won the backing of the military in his standoff with opposition leader juan guede oh who's proclaimed himself president defense minister vladimir petrino llopis accused kwaito of leading a coup he also said the u.s. and other governments that have recognized him were waging an economic war against venezuela. pope francis is in panama to celebrate world youth day in the first address of the catholic church annual celebration the pontiff spoke out against corruption and urged public officials in the region to live simple honest and transparent lives. the democratic republic of congo's new president felix she's a kid he has used his inaugural speech to call for reconciliation he was sworn into office at the presidential palace he succeeds shows of could be less who was in power for eighteen years though the election was marred by allegations of fraud the transition of power has been largely peaceful. china's foreign ministry says it has detained a chinese australian writer on national security charges junking june who was living in new york was detained after flying t