the in venezuela is not a threat to venezuela ns.ans. the regime of maduro is the biggest crisis in the western hemisphere and threatens venezuelans. we have the end of there. but thank you very much for coming on hardtalk thank you very much for having me. hello once again, thanks very much indeed forjoining me. it's time we updated you on the weather prospects for the whole of the british isles and this will take us right through the next few days, on into the weekend. hmm, tuesday, a bit of a mixed bag to say the least. wet in the south, snow further north but once the snow cleared it ended up being a really glorious afternoon and a spectacular one across the isle of lewis. if you thought that's a bit ancient history, that's the band of weather that brought us the rain on tuesday, here's the next great event looming with intent in the western side of the british isles. ahead of it it's quite important to tell you with these clear skies the temperatures will have dipped away. once we start bringing the weather elements together, we

in my opinion, in venezuela, we have continuous coup d'etats.ection on april 22nd. historically, presidential elections are always at the end of every year and are called six months before. so, when i say that we need to persuade our soldiers to be institutional, um, i do not regret that. and to be in the united states and called imperialist, that is something that, to be honest with you, i do not want to sound rude, i do not care, because the country has been intervened with cubans, the chinese and russians are also playing very hard in our country, taking our oil. the problem in venezuelan needs to be solved by venezuelans, but at the same time, we need help from the international community, especially to recover the economy and solve our humanitarian crisis. we will end with this point. there you have been sitting in washington for the last three months doing the best to play an external political role, raising the profile of the opposition campaign against maduroyou disappointed with the international community. as you say, russia, china, th

and that venezuela is rural that venezuela is poor that venezuela is illiterate. isn't seeing and looking at the evolution of the other but is not benefiting from it. as venezuela's elite got richer and its poor but getting left behind the forces for democracy once again dad to take on a dictator. you begin to see rumblings in the military you begin to see younger officers protest in much the same way they had protested before there's also an active social movement being led by dissidents in the communist party in our own democratic even the social democrats and others they're actually cooperating to undermine it is a menace. as humanise it is the effectively have thrown through another coup which then brings us to moccasin venezuela in one nine hundred fifty eight. democracy it fall into dictatorship a decade earlier right now to survive unity was a must. there is an attempt to form a pact so eydie comes to the table with its union impossible its who framework co-pay comes to the table the christian democrat right so what you have around the table is essentially

i venezuela.. in is paralysed. the organisation of american states. i venezuela. in the united nations, they are deciding if it isa united nations, they are deciding if it is a social or humanitarian problem in venezuela. the countries who are members of the group of lima would like to have measures and a show good wit —— of goodwill. we wa nt to show good wit —— of goodwill. we want to respect human rights and give the population the population to receive fruit and medicine, not related to their ideological position in me venezuelan society. you want to put pressure on the government ‘s to bring that about. we find different ways to put the venezuelans in attention about what we're doing. we don't put pressure actually to be governments, each country it is different. do want sanctions? we did have sanctions. in terms of the local regional grouping. of which venezuela was a part. we set until you return to democracy part. we set until you return to democrac ou're part. we set until you return to d

of which venezuela was a part.to democracy you're no longer a member of the group. you are suspended. that is a kind of sanction. there are other sanctions, ones the european union has taken. taking the assets of the political leaders. different kind of sanctions. that is what we are moving around. here is argentina now, you have taken over, in the last month or so, the chairmanship of the g20 and you say that you want to focus on three things in your presidency, which is infrastructure, social inclusion, and food security. just give us an idea of how you are going to go about achieving this in setting up a dialogue amongst the g20. the g20 is a dialogue between all the country members who will decide what we can do to improve this. infrastructure is not only coming from the decision of argentina, it is we have been discussing in g20, during the german presidency too. we will highlight the possibilities of making a fund to finance the infrastructure needs in different countries which are members. not only the membe

and you cryptocurrency on the bitcoin blog catcher struck venezuela new has its own digital callings to drum up funds is that a strike of genius store an act of desperation or coming off we meet the peruvians protecting the rain forest by putting up a fight against new palm oil town taishan so. do you turn at general motors looks like you're all american what are you make you could be say in south korea after all. this is your business update on how to have free but in thanks for joining me now desperate times call for desperate measures in venezuela as severe economic crisis has prompted the government to come up with an unusual strategy launching a new oil backed crypto currency called the petro a major doubts that will actually work as well as actual opposition on legal grounds. if you can dispute just how badly venezuela needs a plan hyperinflation shortages and soaring debt have brought the country to its knees and its citizens to the streets. when venezuelan president nicolas maduro announced plans to launch a new crypto currency some viewed it as an imaginative way out of the

and cash strapped venezuela wants its own votes. currency to drum up funds the petro a stroke of genius or an act of desperation. i've been physical and let's do business a trade war is in the air and the e.u. is preparing for it authorities are getting ready to slap high tariffs on american products like whiskey orange juice and motorcycles if donald trump carries out his threats he'd imported steel with punitive measures u.s. secretary of commerce wilbur ross to suggest the likelihood of putting a twenty four percent tariff on all still imports or introducing a quota china has already promised to patel yet i put in quotas on u.s. soil and other agricultural products. and there are reports the e.u. is ready to implement taps and target american products within days well coming up and says this is to tackle a global glut in still an alum india over supply things to beijing's ambitions to keep economic growth high china producing way more than it needs putting steel makers in the u.s. and e.u. out of business with dumping prices and

ambos funcionarios dejaron ahora hermano de gobierno de perÚ la decisiÓn de excluir o no venezuela de reniega reconocer viciado proceso polÍtico que conducirÁ unas elecciones presidenciales o prÓximos meses. >> nosotros no estamos reconociendo el proceso polÍtico, y la deriva autoritaria que ha tenido a venezuela. no reconocemos la existencia de la asamblea constituyente, estamos en contra de la recensiÓn de todo tipo de libertades que existen en venezuela. >> no queremos daÑar a uno de los pueblo comedia que por tomar. >> maÑana el mayor representante de la diplomacia estadounidense se reunirÁ con el presidente mauricio macri. en la residencia de este paÍs y seguirÁn buscando apoyo para cancelar a venezuela. >> el aguacate mexicano se corona, el rey del sÚper tazÓn ya que durante este evento deportivo se consumirÁ 40,000 t del llamado oro verde, y formarÁ parte de la joya publicitaria. los aguacate idosinvirtieron millones de dÓlares para promocionar el producto ya que es el 80 pocito todas sus exportaciones. >> gabriel villaseÑor es pro productor de aguacate, fue uno de los encargad

and cash strapped venezuela launches a virtual currency the petro a stroke of genius or an act of pure desperation. i've been fizzling let's do business and trade war is in the air and the e.u. is preparing for it authorities are getting ready to slap high tariffs on american products like whiskey orange juice and motorcycles if don't trump carries out his threats to hit imported steel with punitive measures u.s. secretary of commerce wilbur ross says suggested the likelihood of putting a twenty four percent tax on all still imports or introducing a quota china has already promised to retaliate by putting quotas on u.s. soil and other agricultural products and there are reports the e.u. is ready to implement tariffs on targeted american products within days i asked our process correspondent muscle fund what the you has in its arsenal well first of all the u. commission confirmed to d.w. news that they did they have appeared to retaliate in some kind of way ever since the g seven last year i don't really know if you remember that when trump announced that he might be in the game for som

he knows venezuela, it's 10 miles away, likes the country now.t as a business opportunity and he says in the end, the place has gone contraband and that's good for him. carol: up next, steve cohen finds new investors in the second act. julia: why manhattan's wealthiest are having trouble selling some of new york's nicest homes. carol: this is bloomberg businessweek. ♪ ♪ julia: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek," i'm julia charlie. carol: i'm carol massar. you can also find us online at is as week.com. julia: steve: was banned from managing other people's money. carol: but that's over now and we talked to kathy burton about new investors. >> they are operating out of the same space they are always operating from, which is building in stamford, connecticut, close to long island sound. i have seen jeff koons pieces in there. jasper johns. i've been there over the years. i been there a bunch of times. this huge trading floor, that's really cold. keep everyone awake. so that's all the same, but the people are different. carol: steve cohen, we ta

and as venezuela battles hyperinflation and cash shortages for the government launches a digital currency backed by oil proponents say the petro could lift the country out of an economic crisis critics say in some parts. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. the united nations says the syrian government is targeting civilians in the rebel held enclave of eastern guta and that it must stall the syrian observatory for human rights says the government air raids on eastern. close to the syrian capital damascus killed at least a hundred people on monday around four hundred seventy were injured a suburb has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years this as syrian media reports that militias loyal to the syrian government will soon be entering the northern region of a freend to help kurdish militias there repel turkish troops. an entire town in mourning this is become a familiar sight in a free in recent weeks with residents regularly attending mass funerals for kurdish fighters killed in clashes with turkish troops. it's against this backdrop that syrian state t.v. repo

luxury apartments while preaching foreign policy sounds like a conflict of interest and cash strapped venezuela launches of virtual currency the patio a stroke of genius or an act of pure desperation. time for business news i'm funny for charlie in berlin walk home or thirties in the e.u. i'm getting ready to slap high tariffs on american products like whiskey orange juice and motorcycles if donald trump carries out his friends to its important steal the punitive measures u.s. secretary of commerce wilbur ross has suggested a likelihood of putting a twenty four percent tariff on all steel imports or introducing a quota. emotions are running hot in the steel sector it could be the next flashpoint for trade between the e.u. and the us washington is considering imposing tariffs on foreign made metals imported into the country the u.s. made it clear it won't take that kind of move lying down. we stand ready to react swiftly and appropriately in case our exporters are affected by restrictive trade measures from the united states that could hit iconic brands like harley davidson its motorcycles are r

venezuela is falling apart. trinidad is wrote of a stable.ries about the interesting trade that happens when the two coasts. there's a coast guard station, but no boats. it's a free-for-all. the things that are most needed there are things like diapers. julia: a bar of gold. >> diapers are basically gold there, which is horrifying and a sad when you think about that. we wanted to explore what that look like on the ground. that was an extremely dangerous assignment and why it's absolutely worth a read. it feels like a frontline. julia: one of the things i love is that we take fresh angles on well-known storylines like and venezuela. here is dan for error with that story. dan: the point is that venezuela is in chaos and venezuelans have always had a lot of commerce, the nature has changed a great deal. the thing to think about is that venezuela's fishermen no longer fish because they don't have customers. they don't have industry back on. the have a bunch of people that are unemployed that have boats and a need to feed their families. fishermen

it was oriol upon which modern day venezuela was a stoppage. for over a century this lucrative resorts has divided the people both less than those with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes gossiping for breath new video emerges of the suspected use of chlorine gas on rebel held areas in syria's province plus. we simply cannot allow to stand idly by to see the total destruction of democracy in venezuela the u.s. secretary of state calls for argentina's support against nicolas maduro as he tries to rally regional leaders against the venezuelan president and. dozens of greeks protest over the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic. and the countdown is on we're now just minutes away from the new england patriots taking

can do you know actually against his rule in venezuela. and this certainly is as far as things like sanctions go venezuela is one of the most of the biggest all producing countries in the region used to sell a lot of its all to the united states but the truth is the venezuelan economy and the political situation is in such a mess and i was last there in december inflation is over a thousand percent the i.m.f. recently said it's likely to be up to thirteen thousand percent this year that's an inconceivable figure is impossible to get our head around that but it simply means that prices are going up almost by the hour people can get hold of cash even if they have money in their bank accounts. system every day for most business wayland's is simply a struggle to find enough medicines enough to eat thousands of leaving the country every day either to buy food across the borders or to go live elsewhere and saw the political economic situation changes really i think the people in the region the countries in the region are not keen to impose too m

venezuela asÍ, quiero una venezuela de antes.ue nos encontramos. lÁgrimas de a alegrÍa corren por las mejillas pero sabe que sÓlo le durarÁ unos dÍas. son familias que sufren golpeadas por el hambre. es quizÁs la regiÓn mÁs impactada por el alimento. aquÍ las muertes por desnutriciÓn se cuentan por decenas . una amenaza terrible. patricia: horrible esa historia. cambiando de paÍs. la fiscalía de guatemala imputÓ a 12 funcionarios del gobierno por delitos de fraude y malversaciÓn. entre los procesados se encuentra el propio exmandatario, juan alberto fuentes. todos han sido vinculados a una trama de corrupciÓn en el transporte pÚblico. enrique: el salvador rechazo las acusaciones del presidente trump. en el gobierno del presidente sÁnchez, se enviÓ una comunicaciÓn a washington destacando el detalle. salvador castellanos tiene el reporte. salvador: el salvador estÁ nuevamente en boca del presidente de los estados unidos. luego de cancelarles el tps y calificar a este paÍs como " un oso de porquerÍa " trump pÚblico en su cuenta de

if you can dispute just how badly venezuela needs a plan hyperinflation shortages and soaring debt have brought the country to its knees and its citizens to the streets. when venezuelan president nicolas maduro announced plans to launch a new crypto currency some viewed it as an imaginative way out of the crisis and as a workaround for western sanctions that effectively keep venezuela from raising cash from bonds but if this is going to allow for advancements in international financing for the economic and social development of the country the new crypto currency will be backed by reserves of israel and while king old oil gas and diamonds get from the father and his way of analysis the creation of its crypto currency how big a fan i'm going to feel the effect could have on. the idea is to link venezuela's oil reserves to the value of a petro with one hundred million petro tokens worth around six billion dollars being issued initially but not everyone is convinced venezuela's opposition controlled parliament considers the petrol a ruse to borrow money using the oil as collateral circumve

over in venezuela that have been. that have been celebrations to mark the anniversary of a failed minute ship rising by phone the president hugo chavez. has been evading the celebrations which are taking place a day off the whole confound the date for a selection. has the latest for us from what is. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson here in argentina rest part of a regional tour really to show latin america the united states is interested and cares about the region that it wants to invest here before he left the united states he did warn that it was not in the region's long term interests to have big chinese or russian investment here that the long term future lay with the united states that's not always a view that has been shared here in latin america in the past few years we had many left of center governments which did not see eye to eye with previous u.s. administrations there have been elections it's been a peach moment in brazil which means that there are more governments certainly in line with the u.s. ide

still ahead on al-jazeera as venezuela's president moves to tighten his grip on power the un's refugee agency warns of a surge in the number of people escaping the economic crisis plus access denied the u.s. president's son in law is reportedly excluded from top secret security briefings. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. and i will go day of active weather coming up a significant frontal systems develop digs in circulation rather tougher your stream well that's the cold front from it's a little run through thunderstorms quite possibly heavy downpours quite possibly once it's all gone through it quietens dad again as i get to says states doesn't quite in shanghai hong kong last a moment twenty five the rain is down to reform just inland from sichuan a good chunk has just been sitting in the sunshine in the twenty's for seems like weeks all and be honest south of this we've had almost three weeks without any rain in singapore but the showers are all fairly close in fact there was one briefly about two three days ago and it looks like a whole lot slowly moving

nadie bloquea a venezuela.lano y que no depende de estados unidos. enrique: en lima, el secretario rex tillerson agradeciÓ el esfuerzo peruano por animar al rÉgimen de maduro a regresar a su constituciÓn y permitir que el pueblo de venezuela escoja sus lÍderes. rex tillerson conversÓ con el presidente kuczynski. patricia: el ex presentador de televisiÓn y cantante evangÉlico fabricio alvarado muÑoz, enfrentarÁ aa carlos alvarado quezada, un escritor de ficciÓn en la segunda vuelta presidencial. la elecciÓn del 1 de abril pondrÁ fin a una dÉcada de sistemas bipartidistas. enrique: los ecuatorianos a mansiÓn con la noticia de que el ex mandatario rafael correa no podrÁ volver a aspirar a la la presidencia. correa y la base que mantiene en ecuador, apoyaron campaÑa para votar a favor del no. patricia: unos 100 vehÍculos estuvieron involucrados en varios cho ♪ ♪ ♪ >> para terminar en missouri, la nieve en la autopista congelada aprovecharon que 100 vehÍculos se vieron involucrados en varios choques. >> en este luga

food and medicine are scarce hunger and misery are now common in venezuela. move the petro help solve its problems. while you would have thought of it all depends on the trust in the issuer we can see the example set by the body body in theory is backed by the whole venezuelan economy but no one has faith in the body because nobody believes what the government says. that. that may be true but maduro at least claims that venezuela raised seven hundred thirty five million dollars on the petro his first day of pre-sale where in fact the president is so enthusiastic about it that he's already announced another crypto currency that petro gold is slated for launch next week it'll be based not on the country's oil reserves but its gold. or. every morning her into a cut thomas sets off on a job that requires speed and efficiency the two things that india's overstretched roads do not provide her window works as a delivery man near delhi for e-commerce logistics firm shadowfax he has to deliberate dozens of packages a day on time to customers in hellish traffic. anothe

we simply cannot allow you to stand idly by to see the total destruction of the democracy in venezuela the u.s. secretary of state calls to argentina's supports he tries to rally regional leaders against the venezuelan president. thousands of greeks protest over the use of the name macedonia by a neighboring country. and his sport dramatic ending gives the philadelphia eagles their first super bowl crown. at least nine people have been injured in a suspected chlorine gas attack in syria's northwest and in the province activists video shows people being treated in the town of sonic had reported a foul smell following a raid by syrian government decorah after it follows another suspected karim gas attack by president assad's forces on duma in rebel held eastern ghouta that was the third reported current attack there in fifteen days. and at least eleven people have been killed in russian and syrian government astronauts and ad lib southern countryside this was the scene at a hospital in the city of. it was hit during a raid babies undergoing treatment were rushed out of the building. well

this is the kind of scene you can expect if you're hoping to access cash in venezuela soaring prices have led to shortages in paper money and long lines at a.t.m.'s. but the country's hyper inflation has produced some surprise winners in the business world small tech companies offering shoppers mobile payments one of them is very cold its founder says venezuela's economic crisis has sped up what was a ready a burgeoning trend. we saw in twenty ten and twenty eleven that electronic payments were going to be a trend globally. what's happened is that it's accelerated in some countries for various reasons so perhaps our economy will become cashless before that of denmark which put more effort into a minute in the market. last year the company saw a thirty fold increase in customers those availing of the service say it's made shopping easier. and make that point that. i think that for me personally it's very practical to pay with people because it enables transactions on the way that the only thing missing is more information about how to manage the art and it's technology a lot of that i

oil major predicts of peak in the demand for crude will let you know when why and what's next and venezuela claims of cryptocurrency success with the world's first state backed virtual coins but critics say it won't the complicated means of exchange. i've been fizzling let's do business the latvian defense ministry says corruption allegations leveled at the country's central bank governor a part of a decision from ation campaign from abroad the ministry says claims. so bribes in return for keeping a bank in business were intended to erode trust in the eurozone states and influence elections in october if a has rocked a small bolt of nation which blames close neighbor and former political muster russia. bill maher's. it says he's a victim of a smear campaign he's accusing private latvian banks of trying to get revenge for tougher financial regulations by accusing him of demanding bribes of one hundred thousand euros a month. i have become a target have an obvious and well coordinated campaign of some latvian commercial banks to discredit the latvian state. but one day after him ship which wa

so democratic institutions in venezuela can be rebuilt.eing done mainly lima, which is doing a huge, important work. they've been working on the building of the main elements so that the international community can reach a common denominator to send a message of what we need to do in venezuela. then, i would say that it is a moment -- the most needed action is humanitarian aid. we are having the need to be support fromve the the international community so that the venezuelan population and can bested provided with their needs. wave: could this refugee worsen crime in columbia -- in colombia? amb. reyes: there is that risk. somehow, it is happening that there's an increasing crime. these are families, people who arrived with the most basic needs. these people are looking for food. they are looking for medicine. they are looking for clothes. they are looking for places to sleep. that is a risk. we are already seeing some areas of colombia affected. there are some middle sized cities in colombia being affected. we have people in bogota who ha

is going to be very telling you for the government of venezuela to raise their money and know that the oil industry. a collapse in oil production has fallen more than a third over the last few years so i think that is going to be very challenging for the government to raise that capital explain to us a little bit more what exactly this link is between petrol and oil and why you feel it's not going to work well the government has said that is going to link that with the value of the. oil in their budget of oil by the you have to know that many things first of all the government is the one that is controlling the market in venezuela so they can decide at what level that petro currency will trade because of the they would put the value of the oil and also they will start to decide who's going to mind the course the overall it's very centralized which is against the idea of their currencies i think there is an american investors or european investor who will struggle to get a more in this project and are they exposed to sanctions risk the u.s. government house already say that. but on top

we simply cannot allow and stand idly by to see the total destruction of the democracy in venezuela the u.s. secretary of state calls for argentina's support against nicolas maduro as he tries to rally regional leaders against the venezuelan president and. thousands of greeks protest over the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic. sixteen bodies are recovered off the coast of morocco the latest in a number of deadly attacks across in the mediterranean. at least nine people have been injured in a suspected chlorine gas attack in syria's northwestern italy province activists video shows people being treated in the town of socket they report. a foul smell following a raid by syrian government aircraft it follows another suspected fourteen attack by president assad's forces on duma in rebel held eastern ghouta that was the third reported chlorine attack there in fifteen days and at least eleven people have been killed in russian and syrian government airstrikes in lives southern countryside the strikes targeted a hospital in the village of moderate a new man

the situation the regime has created in venezuela. no mistake, the gang of thugs pose a problem for florida in the entire world especially for us here in florida. 's home for a vibrant venezuelan population. many of our friends and neighbors have family there. there is no free speech. people like leopold lopez imprisoned or put under house arrest for fighting for democracy. there's limited access to food and medicine. the people deserve better. [applause] [applause] they deserve freedom, they deserve democracy. to do our part, i propose to ban state investments going to benefit the regime. [applause] [applause] last year the entire cabinet supported this effort and i want to thank them. now fighting for legislation that takes a step further by blocking state agencies from doing the same. i ask you to join me in this fight and pass the important legislation. one introduce you to sebastian and marianne from miami. [applause] they desperately want to see change in venezuela. in 2011 sebastian escape the crisis by moving to miami where he