At least 26 people dead after a powerful psycho in smashes into bangladesh and india is east coast chinas top advisory body to parliament is meeting ahead of what will be the largest political gathering this year the economy and hong kong are top of the agenda and then appetite for business our vendors at malaysias ramadan bazaars are finding new opportunities despite coronavirus long time restrictions. A new standoff is brewing between the United States iran and venezuela over a shipment of millions of dollars of fuel 5 Iranian Oil Tankers are just days away from arriving in venezuela to help ease petrol shortages but as well as on Oil Refining Industry has collapsed because of underinvestment alexy obrien has our report. In the venezuelan capital caracas the queue at the petrol station can last for days. This is the richest country in the world and we should not be like this because there is wealth there is oil there is everything the shortages have plagued venezuela for years ever s
Economy and hong kong a top of the agenda and an appetite for business our vendors at malaysias ramadan bazaars are finding new opportunities despite coronavirus long time restrictions. I am. A new standoff is brewing between the United States iran and venezuela over a shipment of millions of dollars of fuel 5 Iranian Oil Tankers are just days away from arriving in venezuela to help ease petrol shortages that his way his own Oil Refining Industry has collapsed because of sanctions as well as mismanagement alexey obrien reports. In the venezuelan capital caracas the queue at the petrol station can last for days. This is the richest country in the world and we should not be like this because there is wealth there is oil there is everything the shortages have plagued venezuela for years ever since its 1300000 barrel a day refining network collapsed which critics blame on underinvestment and mismanagement by the state oil company now president Nicolas Maduro has turned to iran for help for
Inside of iraq against the will of the people in government and parliament there that is what makes this all asymmetrical and i think you can draw different conclusions about as the media likes to do who won and who lost go ahead alex and well. Heres what i think the fundamental difference is that the iranians deployed the. Range of their assets together that that Foreign Policy that diplomats they bring to get their political leaders they be able to bring in their intelligence operatives manage me people also their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they dont let themselves be done 38. 00 from and that objective is not clearly defined easy is to try to get the United States and the middle east out of iraq specifically areas where they can threaten iran the. Knowledge states by contrast what we see there is a dysfunctional government which doesnt have any kind of clear long 6 long established plan so you have different people pushing fo
Different reasons taran was being strategic and political while trump was relying upon sanctions and the 3rd and and the demand that the United States be remain inside of iraq against the will of the people in government and parliament there that is what makes this all asymmetrical and i think you can draw different conclusions about as the media likes to do who won and who lost go ahead alex and well what is what i mean i think the fundamental difference is that the range to the strategic range of their asses to get that Foreign Policy that diplomats they bring to get their political aint is they be able to bring in their intelligence operatives manage to me people also their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they dont let themselves be done from. And then objective is not clearly defined easy is to try to get the United States out of the middle east out of iraq specifically out of areas where they can threaten new iraq iran the Unite
Have people look wanting to escalate as you put it which means essentially having a war you see the u. S. Government forced into frantic diplomacy through the Swiss Embassy in tehran which it now turns out it was the United States which initiated it was lee u. S. And having started the escalation became panicked and saw the way out to deescalate in other words they dont have a clear objectives and theyre not working towards those objectives instead you get the impression of a very powerful country stretching around throwing bombs in some directions killing people in other directions threatening people with sanctions but it isnt coherent and. You wouldnt get that impression from Mainstream Media go ahead glenn go ahead last just going to say this theme of. Escalation dominance has been the very central strategic objective by the United States or. In the simplicity that america would be able to increase escalate when it wants and then bring it down so for example if the us drops bombs in