it's not going to help any venezuelans out of venezuela or in venezuela will we invite the trump security contract to silk or usa what's left of it on to the show it has to be said that you've been calling for some kind of alba summit after coronavirus the cuban government has sent doctors we've seen pictures of them in europe helping people in nato countries do you think that the fact that iranian ships have been able to come to venezuela has broken us hegemony in your hemisphere is a very important moment in world history as it is you know a press in trump. stated that the more road dog training which dates from 823 is right in force at the moment and that they own this part of the world and that. they will not at mit they were not authorize other countries to invest in latin america like china russia or to or to have any kind of business with a latin america. especially not with venezuela with cuba but they have not been able to because they don't have the power to do so if there is a people that has their own model the own proses and that are independent and have dignity we will be ab

cuba treats venezuela as a colony, shipping food, medicine, diesel, and gasoline from venezuela to cuba, even as the venezuelan people suffer short ands of all of them. -- shortages of all of them. cuban security personnel surround maduro. they are embedded in the military. china helps the regime move cyber operations. now we are seeing a rekindling of the relationship of the world's worst state sponsor of terrorism, the islamic republic of iran. maduro's recent hijacking of the electoral and major democratic political parties foreshadow how the regime plans to take control of the national assembly through fraudulent elections in december. on sunday, 27 democratic political parties in venezuela joined in unity to say they refuse to participate in that farce. i'm sure democracies around the world will also refuse to recognize such a fraud. we look forward to the day when free and fair elections are held. a new democratically elected government is in place. u.s. sanction can then be lifted. we look forward to restoring once close venezuela-u.s. relations to help the refugees return to the

government is taking to counter the influence is in venezuela. with that, i know the ranking member has strong feelings on this and they would yield the floor to him. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you for working with me on this hearing. i appreciate it. mr. abrams, yo you come before a committee at an urgent moment fofor venezuela, one with implications for the united states and our entire hemisphere. we face a critical moment entering government as the maduro regime seeks to a dictatorship with a helping hand. the crisis directly affects u.s. national security interest in the geopolitical competitors russia and china and iran seek to undermine american influence. moreover, the people of venezuela continued suffering grave human rights abuses, humanitarian catastrophe the code catastrophe and mass displacement across the hemisphere. as venezuelans strive to -- struggle i should say to strive to restore the democracy, legislative elections are scheduled this year. not surprisingly, the regime has great every aspect of the electoral process,

hodges: inside, venezuela, sir. we've reached nine million people if we include sort of the otality of our programs within venezuela. that does include vaccination campaigns. day-to-day ctly health support we reached around 600,000 people. to do inue to seek ways exactly what you're saying, sir. t's an area where we know more needs to be done. we call on the international community. senator menendez: what about the pan america health agreement that guaido and maduro people have? mr. hodges: yes, sir. we are supportive of this and working, as you are aware, we work with the state department and others over the course of the last several to overcome several obstacles to make sure the u.s. axpayer funds that were provided to pajo would be used in the manner -- senator menendez: i'd like you with our office to get the totality what you're doing in this regard. mr. hodges: absolutely. senator menendez: the $600 million that's been provided in to the venezuela crisis, how much is supporting prevent and respond to gender-b

venezuela, it all comes together in venezuela.pping back, and we look at what the impact has been, 5.2 million migrants, human suffering, the drastic increase in narco trafficking coming out killinguela which is lives, killing people here in the united states, whether it is miami, pittsburgh, in central america and throughout the hemisphere. at the heart of the threat is the lives we are losing unnecessarily, and the undermining of democracy. and that was a choice maduro made to take a once-thriving state into the current dictatorship it is. covid has allowed him to lock down even further on the power, and we see farc distance, and the oann having territorial expansion in the state. all those threat factors are heading in a negative direction, which is a significant reason why we have opt -- why we have upped the engagement with our partners and launched the narcotics counter operation. threatsou mentioned the emanating out of venezuela, trafficking, illicit gold-mining that criminal groups are heavily involved, money laundering,

out of venezuela. most of the propaganda and stuff happening during the unrest at the end of 2019 by the russians came out of nicaragua and cuba. that's whether operating out of when they can't be in there. they have a network, strong presence in chile and argentina whether producing all kinds of internet content of things we have are very little aware of and things to give them platforms when we look at venezuela only in venezuela and not as broader networks. thank you. >> there was a question we didn't get a a chance to whichs asked about russia in the q&a but i guess we will leave that for the next conversation. i want to end by thanking all of you for joining us today. admiral faller as always fantastic to see you. thank you very much for your time and your service. assistant secretary, great to have you. thank you all for joining us today. wish we could all be together in the same room but at least being together in the virtual room is a step in the right direction. and also reminder today's conve

and the head of state of venezuela.s proved much more durable than you thought he would because he has the staunch support of russia with money and materiel, with iran who gave him his petrol products, with china and with turkey who leverage some of his financial dealings. these countries are still backing him. to quote mr lavrov recently, "we have firmly expressed our support for venezuela's sovereignty, our solidarity with the venezuelan leadership and nation against illegal pressures imposed by the us and their allies." as long as that is the case, maduro has the cards. you'll forgive my smile, stephen, but to hear the russians talk about our sovereignty will make any venezuelan laugh, quite frankly. because they have their own military on the ground, we have them photographed buying food and bottles of vodka in our own supermarkets in caracas that our own people cannot afford. they are making a fortune there by basically ensuring our murder, so to hear a russian talk about our sovereignty, they should start by pulli

venezuela to middle east terrorism you know there to convince the world that they have to invade venezuela either because we have a so-called humanitarian crisis which does not exist or because we support and we finance and whatever international terrorism that's that's all foolish that it's not true and we have we have proved it to the world i lived in my greeter island for a bitch sama bin laden or anyone else would be quite a quite a sight there i think of course venezuela also help the poor of london from where i'm speaking to you help the vulnerable the care workers with fuel but today relations are very different why did you summon boris johnson's top diplomat duncan hill what did he talk to you and why did you want to summon him to speak to him we read in the news about the creation of venezuelan reconstruction unit in the foreign office of the united kingdom we were quite surprised we didn't believe it at the beginning but when we saw the documents of the of the cannery what we saw that they had the actual documents from the foreign office we conveyed the charge of the affairs dunc

. >> for me, venezuela is one of those issues.his week i'm in and around miami talking to venezuelans and venezuelan-americans about everything going on in venezuela. i'm also learning to hit a 90 mile per hour fastball. >>> when i told my producers i wanted to do an episode about venezuelan, they said great we're going to miami. i said isn't it jaust cubans? they said, no, it's a hub for all latin americans. >>> what do you like about miami? >> >> a lot of dominicans, colombian. >> what is your racial ethnic background? >> i'm mixed white, i guess. bunch of different whites. >> a bunch of different whites. >> the biggest population of venezuelans and venezuelan americans in the united states is right outside miami in the suburb of doral yep, that doral. between 2000 and 2017, the venezuelan born population grew 320%. >> the reason? >> violent clashes in venezuelan. >> the political crisis in their country. look, i read articles, i watched news clips, gone to the democracy now binder and i haven't been able to figure out how it go

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while nearly all of venezuela's institutions have been destroyed the national assembly of venezuela despite regime intimidation and a unconstitutional arrest of several members continues to work to restore a bowling democratic and representative government. these efforts have been led by the president of the national assembly and interim president of venezuela , one guaido who embodies the hopes of all venezuelans against the illegitimate mother regime. i support the bravery of interim president guaido and the members of thenational assembly as well as journalists , medical professionals, students and others fighting for change . earlier this year the united states posed a pathway to resolving venezuela's political crisis. a peaceful political democratic and constitutional translation of venezuela isin the interest of all venezuelans , its neighbors and the united states reedit confirmed i will work tirelessly with my team to ensure the transition is successful. i look forward to raising the american flag above about embassy in caracas and pledged to work diligently in our venezuelan and in

ambassador to venezuela.s we heard in tuesday's hearing on venezuela, the situation in venezuela requires our urgent attention. despite the international community's unwavering support of juan guaido, the regime intends to hold another fraudulent election. a massive humanitarian crisis, armed groups including colombian guerrillas, paramilitaries, drug traffickers, operate across venezuelan territory with impunity. and the governments of cuba, russia, china, and iran have gone through lengths to prop up the maduro regime and undermine american influence. against this incredibly complex landscape, i look forward to hearing from today's nominee about what steps the united states needs to take to better achieve our shared bipartisan policy objectives i'm pleased. to see that the administration has a new bomb -- nominee for the bahamas. the u.s. must recommit to our bilateral partnership with the bahamas. from deepening the ties between our people, to strengthening our work on maritime and narcotics issues, to bui

bottom line, venezuela has been destroyed. we could go the way of venezuela. we are determined to make sure that doesn't happen here. >> the confiscation of businesses, they were trying to fund their socialism by just going after the wealthy and as a result there is no wealthy, the ruling regime. >> hugo chavez had a television show, hello, mister president. you see on his own show he's walking down the street in venezuela talking to an 8, the guy goes from jews, expropriate it and at that very moment they go in and force the owners to take it. who owns that business? he is an opponent of our regime. expropriate it. this is socialism carried to its logical end point but i don't think it is different from what the left has in mind here. when a guy like bill diblasio sees looters smashing glasses and running out with a bunch of shoes it is hard to condemn them too much because i think he sees a younger version of himself, they want to do in a systematic way, looters are doing in and and systematic way so looters running out, what bill diblasio would do was have

venezuela are under u.s. sanctions reports. the u.s. is calling it the largest seizure of fuel from iran its incepted for tank is carrying more than a 1000000 barrels of oil to venezuela after winning a federal court order last month where for tankers they're going to use them and they're there. they're not supposed to be doing that or ones are supposed to be doing that and so we did we see the tankers and we're moving them and moved to euston but iran says the liberian flag ships have nothing to do with them it accuses the us of lies and psychological warfare 0.09 with a lot of know right now there's nothing planned because we haven't had a request from our venezuelan friends as they are reactivating their own refineries u.s. officials are experts in fabricating lies and carrying out shows in the media the details of the capture. when the seizure or do is produce more than a month ago all of the ships turned off the tracking devices seemingly not wanting to be found but what's certain is that trump is runnin

>> for venezuela to fall back on, a devastating report last month on human rights abuses in venezuela, horrific to read. >> of all people to come out to write a report addressing human rights abuses in venezuela than michelle -- other countries do not pay heed and read her reports, i don't know how else i can say it is important that we continue to uncover the maduro regime. if she cannot, and it was really surprisingly that came out with this report, we can welcome this all day long in latin america but we all feel the same. what we have to do is continue calling out and i will continue to call out venezuela within the security council. we have to take the like-minded countries that are recognizing the guido regime and lift him up and stressed to him the importance of free and fair elections and support this and also make certain we don't get latin american countries under the heavy burden on top of covid-19 taking in all the refugees coming in from venezuela. this is a disaster, you have iran, russia, china, cuba, so many countries lifting them up. that is a good little circle of fr

states threatened the around that they would block by some way tankers that are already arriving to venezuela so we took some special measures it's a legal operation it's a commercial operation nothing international law can stop it from happening so in any case the venice ruling on forced scored to the the uranian tankers from the moment that they were close in international waters to our territory to our waters and they are already arriving into the center of the country in the refinery of and of course venezuela helped iran back in 2010 but the ambassador donald trump's u.n. ambassador kelly craft says maximum pressure may be applied to russia to china and indeed actually iran is proliferating chemical weapons with has a bulla from lebanon in venezuela and that the united states needs to.

the bottom line is venezuela has been destroyed . we could go the way of venezuela and i think abby and i are determined to put our hands to the wheelto make sure that doesn't happen here . >> another thing in venezuela was the confiscation of businesses, they were trying to fund their socialism by just going after the wealthy and as a result there's no wealthy. of course, except for the ruling regime. >> hugo chavez had a presidential television show and he's walking down the street in that as well and he talking to an aide and the guy goes it some jew and he goes, appropriated and literally at that moment they go in and they forced the owners to get out and he goes who owns that they say he's an opponent of our resume. expropriated. so this is socialism carried to its logical endpoint. i don't think it's that different from what the left has in mind here. when a guy like de blasio sees these shooters and the looters, it's hard to condemn them too much because they want to do in a systematic way what the looters are doing in an unsy

operations against iran and of course against venezuela. all right thank you very much mike hanna live for us there in washington and just one other perhaps related note to that story that we now know that the u.n. security council has rejected a resolution to extend the iran's. was part of a u.s. push to try and push that through the u.n. security council it was widely expected that it would fail despite the fact that the draft had been watered down by the united states there was opposition to that so we'll bring you more news on that but of course the concern is that could lead to more tensions between the u.s. and iran particularly if the u.s. tries to trigger the return of all u.s. sanctions over that's not clear yet but for now the u.n. security council has rejected that resolution to extend the iran arms embargo well in all the stories of following palestinians have protested against the u.s. brokered agreement between israel and the united arab emirates hundreds gathered in occupied east jerusalem at the last after friday prayers pal

so the bottom line of his venezuela husband destroyed we could go the way venezuela. i think debbie and i are determined to put our hands to the wheels to make sure that doesn't happen here. >> part of it too was the compensation of businesses. they were trying to fund their socialism by just going after the wealthy. and as a result, there's not wealthy. benjamin: there is a television show out about presidente. hello mr. president braided you literally see him walking on the streets of venezuela. and he said the rules that . by jew pretty said okay, appropriated. literally at the very moment, the going in for sanders to get out and they take on any system of that business in the state while he's a bonnet of our regime. so this is socialism carried to its logical endpoint. but i don't think it is that different from what the that has my here . i think when guy like bill de blasio cc losers smashing glasses and running out with a bunch of shoes, it's really hard for him to condemn them too much white because i think he sees a younger version of himself in the second be

but venezuela wasn't really its only latin american adventure back in the 1980 s. he played an interpol part in trying to overthrow the governments of el salvador and nicaragua i'm quite amala for ronald reagan's administration.

let's go straight to venezuela's capital caracas to speak to the world's most known oil rich nations foreign minister jorge who joins me now via skype thank you so much for being on the program once again obviously britain and the united states threatening china at the moment over hong kong but the murdoch wall street journal reporting that the u.s. government is threatening tankers from iran sailing to venezuela with sanctions what illegal threats have have you received arguably illegal for importing one and a half 1000000 barrels of gasoline from iran and other supplies during coronavirus we already use the threats and the sanctions and maximum pressure from the usa because they won't allow a country a people to have their own democracy their own modern their own system and specially with too much oil and too much natural resources which they need in the united states and their capitalist system so iran is also sanctioned because they want to have their own independent model and we have helped iran before we have a very close relationship we have sorely there with each other and th

foreign policy chief meantime comparing the situation by their roosts to venezuela . we do not recognize him as the legitimate president nor do we recognize nicolas maduro from this point of view and look as shanker in exactly the same situation we do not recognize that they have been legitimately chosen however whether we like it or not they control the government and we have to continue dealing with them despite not recognizing their democratic which is missing this one a cynical to hear from you know people you know because we know what the position of the european union it is or what it cost a regime. that is hong kong. or there also is in the past in ukraine. lately in serbia so all listen to all this have to listen to not just a picture of seoul but if the whole bag of salt and on the stand. below is one of maybe 2 last europe which is not taking. it from the west from nato from the us dollar from the european a b. and the union and the country is functioning of much better than most of the. globe which it would fall of the. european union or of the west. josee

it says it's the biggest ever such seizure both iran and venezuela are under u.s. sanctions well alan fisher is live for us at the white house now and any more information then allan about how and why this cargo was seized. well it would seem that the americans were aware of a convoy that was traveling to venezuela carrying what the allege was really an oil they managed to peel off 4 of those vessels from this convoy 4 private ships 3 with iranian state vessels they went to a court here in washington d.c. on the 2nd of july and asked for the seizure order which was granted they allege that the person who had arranged this deal was connected to the republican guard was in breach of international sanctions and of course you'll remember that the republican guard has been designated by the trumpet ministration as a terrorist organization and they managed to get there was 4 ships they're heading currently on their way to texas they will be met there by officials at the plan is that they will seize the oil on board there's 1160000 barrels of oil this fits in with the tru

jazeera you from doha also coming up the united states says it seized ships carrying uranium oil to venezuela further screens in a country facing acute fuel shortages. thousands of. the president and joint protesters calls grove an even bigger demonstrations of the weekend. and us researches race to find a coronavirus vaccine we ask if safety could be a casualty. the us has failed to persuade the un security council to extend an arms embargo on iran it means terror on will soon be able to trade weapons without un approval the bid was the latest attempt from the u.s. to clamp down on iranian arms sales accusing terror of sponsoring state terrorism well the arms embargo is set to end on october 18th 5 years after the signing of iran's nuclear deal with world powers but the u.s. wants it extended indefinitely that's been opposed by russia china and other members of the security council washington insists it won't let the embargo end sectors take mike pump a 0 says the u.s. may now trigger a so-called smell bad. was that restores all u.n. sanctions on iran well we'll have the reaction from us and

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and of course in latin america in venezuela many people believe that hugo chavez who died of he died of cancer in the end but 3 very strange cancers very unusual cancers 2 of which were cured by the cuban doctors that were working with him the 3rd when they were unsuccessful now i'm not saying that the hasn't been poisoning here but if there has you can't just presume the straightforward explanation is the. if the doctors in that hospital do say that the valley's been poisoned it's pretty clear they're now it has been established that the blame is going to put on the russian government or they're going to have to do something pretty special to make it clear that it wasn't there but also if there isn't evidence of poisoning will hasn't is not also going to lead to the russian government being blamed because in the valleys own count his own wife they've already said we believe that they delayed his transfer to give enough time for any toxins to sort of dissolve from his system so the blame is still going to be that they're damned either way on the russian state well as you know as your

a laughable figure there no doubt some key differences between the 2 countries after all venezuela has been suffering from hyper inflation widespread crime and a tanking economy all intensified by u.s. sanctions that's not the case in valorous though let's hope it stays that way foreign support for the but a russian opposition has come from numerous quarters including a prominent french intellectual and i don't really levees were known as being no stranger to revolt. the united nations was set up. for me it's the war that comes a is too late. almost all default defense of operations targeted defense for parishioners to protect the civilian population at the request of the interim governing council i had the impression france could have envisaged that and it would have submitted it as part of a political plan that you will discover in the next few days. how can we put rice who failed to act with regard to syria well by trying to imagine and perhaps to provoke a configuration such as that which has prevailed in libya. mind . you not so many europeans you want the best of europeans. today

and it is iranian fuel then it was purchased by businessmen and they were taking it to venezuela on their own so what the americans did was that they stole and this is theft it's it's and this is i think one of the extraordinary things about the united states today especially under trump that it's becoming more crude in the way in which it conducts itself it's behaving like an ordinary thief. pretenses and this so-called internet you know so-called international law and international order that's all cast aside and i think that's a sign of weakness and on behalf of the united states but but in any case this is. this would be fuel that's been purchased by private individuals from the iranians because if the iranians wanted to send their own fuel they would use their own ship says they did a couple of months ago the iranian sent 5 ships full of fuel to venezuela with the iranian flag iranian surance iranian ships and there was no problem and the americans did not do anything about it because they knew there would be consequences that's a very interesting twist and that timing is very

doha also coming up washington says it's confiscated for shipments of iranian fuel on their way to venezuela that tehran says it knows nothing about them. holding bella roofs accountable the e.u. is preparing sanctions against officials responsible for a violent crackdown on election protestors. and expressing deep remorse japan pledges never to repeat the tragedy of conflict as it marks 75 years since the 2nd world war. iran will be able to start buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.s. failed to get a 13 year ban extended just one of the nation backed it in a vote at the u.n. security council iran says the u.s. has quote never been so isolated but the white house is threatening to find other ways to bring back sanctions from new york is kristen salumi. it was a quick an unceremonious and to the united states' efforts to extend the iranian arms embargo that is part of the war being if that follows you want to favor who was against 11 f. abstentions the draft resolution has not been a duck that every failed to obtain that required number and a statement u.s. secretary of s

tried to change the government in venezuela by choosing someone who had very little support inside the parliament there it's become the president it's not work many allies of the u.s. agreed initially in london has kept the gold from venezuela but that project is over and that it's not necessarily what's happening in belarus obvious that these comparisons are being made more aware of what happened in ukraine in 2014 as your reporter pointed out and i think of course relatives. it's border in ukraine as well so it's a true asia where i don't think there's any doubt u.s. would like to pride away from the russian orbit bring it into the neo liberal west perhaps someday bring it into medo. there's a lot of differences because in ukraine in 2014 we sort of u.s. senator john mccain the late senator john mccain go down into them i don and actually address the protesters and we sort of victoria nuland that then system secretary of state your asian and european affairs go into the square and hand out cakes she made 3 trips to him at that time and there's of course the lead conversation she had