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White House says Obama will sign legislation to sanction government officials in Venezuelan in response to government abuses. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE
The United States announces sanctions against four Nicaraguan officials who support President Daniel Ortega, including the president's daughter, accusing the regime of undermining democracy and abusing human rights. SOUNDBITE
The EU's diplomacy chief Josep Borrell says the bloc imposed sanctions on 10 Myanmar junta officials and two conglomerates linked to the military over the coup and bloody crackdown on protesters. SOUNDBITE
Brussels, Mar 22 (EFE), (Camera: ARCHIVE EFE).- The European Union on Monday agreed to impose fresh sanctions on four senior Chinese officials over human rights violations and abuses related to the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.These are the first EU sanctions on Chinese officials since the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.They were imposed in the wake of the “large-scale arbitrary detentions of, in particular, Uyghurs in Xinjiang in China,” among other motives, the EU said.The list of officials includes Mingguo Chen, the Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.ARCHIVE FOOTAGE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).