world so up to now gasoline cost next to nothing but not any longer less a country lurchers ever closer to economic collapse it socialist government is desperately looking for sources of revenue. venezuela s gasoline is the cheapest in the world but that also lures people across the border to fill their tanks so last month president nicolas maduro said he d raise prices and give some venezuelans a fuel discount card instead he blamed foreigners for the move. it to norfolk timothy you know this new system aims to cut the hands off colombians good jews who steal our gasoline and steal billions of dollars of gasoline along the venezuela. maduro claims venezuela loses eighteen billion dollars a year to gasoline smuggling but analysts say the real problem is political favoritism and corruption venezuela s once proud all industry is only
today i mean mark court has refused to drop or case against two reuters journalists arrested in december the two had been investigating a massacre of up to a dozen range of men last year they ve been charged with violating the state s secrets act. seven million more soldiers have been sentenced to jail for their part in the killings. france and saudi arabia are reported to have signed business deals worth some eighteen billion dollars the reform of saudi crown prince mohammed bin zalman as ended his first trip to france by meeting president ma crawl across says france agrees with saudi arabia that arabian expansion in the region should be curbed. well polls of no now open but there s little suspense over who will win today s snap elections in azerbaijan the nation s strongman president ilham aliyev is expected to cruise to victory opposition parties of accuse authorities of preparing to raise the vote and boycott of the polling john is an oil rich state on
into russia s alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons says it will send inspectors to syria to investigate the site of a suspected poison gas attack opposition activists say that gas was used to kill dozens of people near damascus over the weekend they blamed the syrian government which has denied any involvement. france and saudi arabia are reportedly ready or have reportedly signed a business deals worth eighteen billion dollars the reformist a saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon has ended his first trip to france by meeting president in mind. that cohen says that france agrees with saudi arabia that iranian expansion in the region should be curbed. german chancellor angela merkel has gathered her cabinet for a two day retreat to hammer out the details of her government s program on the
a lifetime project but for the local residents it s a disaster. you could tell most of you did the size of the project and all the parts we have east of bernie. greenhouse generate from gases and also in brazil we have a big hydro electric with a shell and then the government decided to build some dams around the country and here it was already in back to the area by when they build the trunk the. road we have a lot of bass to lose its report to any k. local patient even if it s a big huge construction there for that there was too much as mall then all their power plants are the same the same power. a consortium called north to energy is building the down the total cost is estimated at eighteen billion
north to energy is building the down the total cost is estimated at eighteen billion dollars the federal government will pay half of that. the first of eighteen turbines started up in may two thousand and sixteen all the turbines are expected to be up and running in two years. once the bellemont a dam is completed he will be the fourth largest hydroelectric complex in the world with a total capacity of more than eleven gigawatts. we ve built of them here and we will give you part of the flow of the sheen who are evil crews an artificial reason. that was built in this area and an artificial channel off twenty kilometers that connects the main coos of the xingu reaver so these are the official reserve and these are roy to the main power generation plant that is located here.