The us says tough new sanctions will choke off financing for venezuelas president washington has frozen venezuelan government assets blocking all the u. S. Companies and individuals from doing business with president Nicolas Maduro his administration and its supporters u. S. National security adviser john bolton has warned the sanctions will be imposed on anyone who supports qatar. President trump has taken a very strong move here imposing these sweeping sanctions putting a full block of full freeze on all assets of all parts of the government of venezuela in the u. S. And also imposing sanctions are setting the. Situation to impose sanctions on any person or business that goes significant business with the government of venezuela so this goes well beyond anything weve done before and it really is a very strong move by the pros that i suppose has more now from. Another executive order by donald trump imposing more sanctions in venezuela and this generates lots of uncertainty in a count
When hong kong opposition that is later claudia most has land failed to answer questions about the suspended extradition bill that protesters want and tie and withdraw. Can we let him have basically you can. Go to the paris or the who is actually running the show in hong kong and that is a shame because the prince who is asking. People to come to me to do work that what she things right the so examination all this it all according to baby sit down and she would not read the. Journalistic suggestion that she may not be in charge now thats actually could be taken as insulting the suggestion for a new. Leader. Now operations are slowly resuming at Hong Kong International airport after protests shut down the travel hop on monday passengers have been queuing to check in less than 24 hours after demonstrations flooded the main terminal the protests forced the cancellation of more than 100. 00 flights. And other news hundreds of protesters have defied security not valid and did administered k
We had french pilots killed on the his side in the east we had there were french officials or of alledged officials there were arrested in tunisia coming out of western libya at a day after supporting the there were talks about french consultants in his. Command headquarters in the very end plus the ones so all the there are reports about the airstrike was done by an f. 16 passed by the this is and this is after the declaration of the enemy that they have they got f. 16 we know who gave them the f. 16 probably then what are these so the there are american weapons involved we saw the javelins the anti tank guided missiles. There as well after the color that he captured of that he and saw there are key members of the u. N. Security council whose weapons and consultants and military officials are involved in this some of them from the European Union and some of them from our powers that are there so i let me jump in here though is that happening when libya is under an arms embargo is it f
The future of World Heritage sites is being discussed in azerbaijan at the annual meeting of the uns cultural and Scientific Agency and a 3rd of the 166. 00 sites are considered to be under threat and they include sunderbans mangrove forests in bangladesh its facing several dangers both natural and manmade as victoria gayton be explains. A complex network of waterways mudflats and islands makes this into bands unique one of the Worlds Largest mangrove forests forms a natural wall protecting both bangladesh and neighboring india as well as nearly 4000000 people that live near the coast. The defects of Climate Change and industrialization a becoming increasingly visible like millions of fish men and women salim how it relies on the scene demands for his livelihood but fears that could end soon much of bangladesh is less than 5 metres above sea level and Global Warming is causing sea levels to rise further the mangroves face various threats such as pollution and changing levels of salinit
The center now of an International Diplomatic storm spain has revealed that the United States had been monitoring the ships journey past that intelligence to gibraltar government this actually rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of European Union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria. That refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to European Union sanctions against syria the grace one is believed to have loaded with iranian oil off the coast of the gulf the ship made it this far as gibraltar a british overseas territory at the entrance of the mediterranean its final destination is claimed to be the bally ass refinery in syria but under cover of darkness a contingent of 30 Royal Marines under the direction of the role Gibraltar Police boarded the ship using a wildcat