RT News - January 21, 2020 (12:00 MSK)

Despite former chemical watchdog inspector calling a report on Syria's 2018 Douma incident contradictory, the West continues to defend it at the UN Security Council. The divide between the ridiculously rich and the rest of us is at appalling levels, a new reports finds, as the world's richest and most powerful gather for the 50th World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps. As the US Secretary of State meets Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, American companies get an extension to trade with Venezuelan oil companies bypassing sanctions that are applied to others. Washington had imposed the restrictions to put pressure on the current government in Caracas, but it seems its business as usual for US oil majors.