hydroelectric plants to try to then start a massive cleanup operation in the meantime questions are being asked about exactly how this has happened less than four years after the last catastrophe. close to in the same state's administered lies the same company of valley involved in that operation as well they have expressed their concern they have said they're very sorry but environmentally saying that is simply not enough they should have learned lessons from that previous disaster in which nineteen people were killed three hundred seventy five families lost their homes many of those people have still not being really housed nobody was ever prosecuted for that disaster and we're now looking at another similar situation the extent the true extent of the catastrophe is still not known but as i say the rescue operation in full swing at least sixty eight people have been killed by floods and landslides in indonesia will six others remain missing dozens of communities were inundated as rivers overflowed and burst their banks aerial footage of go wild in south sulawesi province showed the extent

of the floods that triggered by torrential rain since tuesday more than six thousand people have been evacuated taliban sources say they've reached a draft agreement with u.s. special envoys. to end the war in afghanistan the two sides have been holding talks in qatar where the taliban has an office and the timeline for a cease fire is expected to be announced soon under the agreement foreign troops will withdraw from afghanistan in eighteen months the taliban also wants a role in an interim government after the ceasefire comes into effect in return the draft includes assurances that afghanistan will not be used as a base by al qaida and separatists will not be allowed to use afghan soil to launch attacks against pakistan. is now heading to the afghan capital kabul to brief president ashraf ghani on what came out of the six days of talks. it's game over.

in doha now hashem obviously this is a war that's been going on quite twenty years but not far off it there have been negotiations officially or unofficially now for a while now do you see this as a breakthrough. it will have to depend on what happens in the coming days because the draft agreement will have to go through for example the institutions of the taliban we're talking about the leader. and then the council of the taliban do they all of a forgive me i'm going to have to stop here right there because the venezuelan foreign minister is speaking now at the u.n. security council let's listen in because we have a text and i will not reflect your need for that i want to share some thoughts with . mike we can even thank mr mike on it because. in the face of the failure at the. organization of

american states and less on the twenty fourth of january they didn't have enough weight to impose a resolution will they. convene a meeting of the security council in fact we present i do or thought of peeling did this body not only to debate not only the case of venezuela but rather the. blatant and gross intervention and mechanisms of interference by the united states in our country. and we want to see that. this. opportunity in this case the united states is not behind the coup d'etat it is it is in advance it's in the vanguard of that could it it is not dictating the orders not only to the venezuelan opposition but also to the satellite

governments in the region. and it seems in europe and the other parts of the world as proof. we have tweets here from social media we have appealed calls to the security forces to the ball of our national army to take position against the legitimate authorities against the constitutional government of president moderate by by secretary of state bombero and by vice president pence it was on the twenty second where president pens basically in a tweet you gave a green light for a coup d'etat in venezuela and and as under sector general. said. interim president self-proclaimed in this present know there was no ceremony it was self. self program mission by

a member of parliament in a at a public rally at a peaceful public rally. one of many that there have been over the past years so i just i ask you if we look at the constitution of the boulevard of public events will. read article one hundred thirty three word for word provision by provision and sentence by sentence where is the legality. this is an internal. constitution but what about if we look at the. international law the charter. where where is this based on are we simply setting aside internet international relations based on international law and replacing them with international relations based on force and instrumental izing international organizations to achieve your goal goals if so if one of you can tell me in which article and which provision of the united nations charter. you can find the legal

basis for the self-proclaimed nation of an individual who wasn't elected by anyone as president of the boulevard republican as well and then we can open a discussion on the legal aspects but i don't think that will happen. also. we need to ask ourselves the. secretary of state. sector rex tillerson before he was dismissed and then president trump selves himself here in this in the general assembly in the first day of the segment at the podium of the sacred podium a multi literalism. not only and now and sanctions which are coercive unilateral measures which are not based on international law but he actually. he had the nerve. to. announce

a number of measures against venezuela in flagrant violation of the united nations charter sacred document of multilateralism. how is it possible that. a president that threatened the use of force when he wasn't mike boettcher did it was mike pence it was marco rubio it was donald trump. who threaten the use of military force directly against a rebel of our inner public of his will how is that he wasn't even challenge your question by the. entities of multilateralism and instead that you said in the place of the accused in the republic of venezuela because its government has fully complied with its constitution and up held and respected international law i was a possible i moved speak for

a long time nine hundred eleven in mexico invasion nine hundred twelve us marines invade nicaragua with my neighbor here and they occupy the country that continued almost till nine thousand nine hundred thirty three. nine hundred fourteen mexico nine hundred fifteen haiti nineteen sixteen dominican republic one nine hundred eighteen panama one nine hundred twenty four hundred one nine hundred twenty five panama nine hundred twenty six nicaragua nine hundred twenty seven nicaragua one nine hundred thirty dominican republic nine hundred thirty three nicaragua thirty four nicaragua forty one panama. then this the school of the americas course was. then q. with one hundred fifty two one thousand and fifty four overthrow of the how cold war are to bins and what amala then nicaragua nine hundred sixty.

one. nine hundred sixty authorization of efforts to overthrow castro then the bay of pigs in one thousand nine hundred sixty one so we can go with no one with this. lot in in brazil in one thousand six hundred four nine hundred sixty five of the president of the security council how many died in the dominican republic. as a result of an invasion and endorsed by the united states to overthrow a government that ideologically didn't convene them the government. of one bush the great dominican the man rode a train. it should be the united states that should be subject to a permanent. analysis. examination due to its disregard of international law its constant invasions its being behind. overthrows

including the overthrow salvador land in one nine hundred seventy three then guatemala and even in two thousand and two and going venezuela president george bush authorized. they denied it but they've knowledged the dictator so so two thousand and two is a direct precedent to what's happening they were behind the coup d'etat they weren't as much in the vanguard or in advance as this time they recognize carmona the dictator for seventy two hours it lasted then there was. an analysis by united states experts that demonstrated with unclassified documents that there was involvement of the united states in two thousand and four in haiti and. steve two thousand and nine in one during this. was an even suspected that the united states was behind it and till hillary clinton i mean in a book in her book recognizes that she gave the order to overthrow the president of

honduras because she wanted to. call to the people to a constituent assembly. meanwhile other presidents in central america were elected without without being even being candidates. or they were the organizations like the organization of american states or you that claimed that there was fraud but. that is not recognized by the government of the united states or the government of trump. makes you know little decisions like moving the embassy to jerusalem etc and that are recognized by everyone i just wanted to show you this graph. this is. from from twitter i'm not even mentioning other social media the official spokespersons of the united states. see how ingenue in january that trend is increasing twenty three and twenty four you see on the twenty third

there were there were expecting a coup d'etat military coup which didn't happen because because the armed forces in venezuela defend the constitution they could not even through extortion or financing or incitement conventions our our military to overthrow our president because then they won't be able to do it they won't be able to do it they was it was in vain once again it was it was it was it was or it was it was an erroneous move once again it's just amazing when president trump. is. this is a recognition of a state when when president trump tweeted that he recognized as a member of parliament as a dictator of anywhere that immediate columbia chile argentina what amounts that everyone followed suit so they were waiting for the order and as soon as they were

was given they started recognizing. it's obvious it's too shameless you can see can see the traces everywhere this could it and this cannot be accepted it cannot be accepted by the united states and in fact it should be condemned and i hope that the security council will convene a meeting to evaluate who was behind this coup d'etat and to punish those who are behind it. and you would need a lot of intelligence being is the evidence the evidence is abundant and the social media and the statements and communiques just today. this is the wall street journal. even the wall street journal as last year the new york times did as well in september. that demonstrated that they were meeting these. supposed venezuelan general officers who were going

to overthrow moderate meetings with officials from the united states and washington and it wasn't it was a new york times it wasn't the cuban intelligence or venezuelan intelligence that reported this it was you know times today it's the wall street journal. it's. so that was seated press which is also you know states today very clearly. issued a report that this member of parliament. traveled to the united states and other countries in the region and for secret meetings it was a very it was an it was a clear strategy but but not a very well executed one it was it was. of course we understand that the satellite governments. in the region based on business interests. follow this but not the really truly dignified governments including in the

caribbean who have not ceded to the pressure of the united states and who have not allowed themselves to be extortionate. have not ceded to extortion have. have. they have stood firm it's understated it's easy to understand that satellite governments in latin america that they could do given in this way but in europe. this is simply become lackeys to follow this to follow the united states but not just the united states the government of donald trump to follow to be in step europe giving it eight days a days where where do you get that you have the power to to give to stablish a deadline or an ultimatum to a sovereign people when you. where do you get this i mean it's almost it's almost childlike. you know who elected pederast.

where there. because why the president micro instead of dedicating his efforts to the constant protests of the yellowjackets of the french workers why busy dedicate his time to attacking venezuela. this is seen as someone with the yellow yellow vest comes near the elysee palace immediately the security forces. arrest so what we're simply asking is for respect for the united nations charter respect for the sovereignty of people yesterday last year sorry candidate and we felt on mr vargas you know him very well energy falchion was the president of the. presidential campaign of energy company less in twenty twelve cup the list last to come and then chavis it's incredible the kind of pressure that was put on and.

on him to withdraw his candidacy. and he didn't do it with he didn't withdraw his candidacy he came to the united nations and he told sector general that it was necessary to have the united nations send observers to the elections that did not take place why why did with their no united nations observation and he was in contact with me i myself send an invitation to say that he can get any to observe to be an observer in the elections they rejected it outright why because already the plan was underway it was the plan. for could it was underway three months before the elections under sectors celebrant was the first to say these elections will be will be fraudulent elections and then president of colombia chile and then from europe they stated immediately that they

will not recognize the results of the elections several months before the elections when have you ever seen anything like that. show me demonstrate that there was fraud that there was with one one one fraudulent vote we heard that it was there when they were valid boxes were rigged you know in venezuela we have a electronic voting system it's not manual. there's simply a seed to pick it to prove that you voted mets it just to to then be able to. check against the actual vote the united states wants to build a wall with mexico but it's building in ideological wall. many of the statement many of the points made by sector of sleeping bear are in line with the language of the cold war mccarthy of nixon they're bringing the cold war back there

and they're bringing. they're bringing the doctrine of eighteen twenty three. both of our set in one thousand twenty nine at the united states which. appeared destine by fate to put it to imposed misery on latin on latin america that he predicted that in fact that is what the united states has done. do you know. since the. beginning of these unilateral and core set of measures that are in breach of international law in venezuela. and twenty seven thirteen until december of last year twenty thousand you know what the cost has been twenty three billion dollars this is due to the blockade and to the to the persecution and to to undermining our resources with the bullet would the venezuelan economy be in this state if it had these resources they twenty billion

dollars twenty million dollars were offered through the oas but then they where they were taken away the ambassador of belgium. and one point two billion dollars are but are frozen in belgium. we can't. we can't conduct any a banking transactions anything that they did that goes through new york or london cannot take place the money is returned this is. being done against the venezuelan people. they represent to russia was quite clear and honest but the other side. you know there's no such thing is. there's no blockade they said. it's been eight hundred one thousand rounds of sanctions but there's no blockade. we really need to think of this that there is a true ideological. wall being put up against venezuela we support

the dialogue as was was proposed earlier by the dominican republic and didn't come from. from scratch i was appointed in august as foreign minister in two days last year two days later i met in the house of may get about a guess and then two days. later with daniel medina and i tried to get in touch with the opposition that tried to i tried to bring together the opposition to and president my daughter and what happened we reached an agreement where there is a document there's a document that is in some are. the presidency of the dominican republic where there was a preliminary agreement and when we were supposed to go and sign the agreement the . president. made a deal a prison deal and former former prime minister zapatero were made to look like fools. they were made to look like fools and their supporters of it as well they

didn't sign that agreement and strangely enough rex tillerson was in looked at the time and it's said from reliable sources that. he received a call from. the head of the venezuelan delegation who has taken refuge abroad i received a call telling him not to sign and to complicate the situation even further this is the truth this is what actually happened furthermore let me just say that without any bases of facts it was stated here there are a lot of lies that have been here stated here. but if you can ask the international monetary fund on the information that has failed has provided and. and whether these figures are anywhere close to the number inflation numbers that you heard here ask the director of the international monetary fund be a bit more rigorous in your investigation going in discussing in discussing this in this authoritative international body which is essential for the future of

humankind but also. these three million migrants yes there is a problem of migration it's new. minister from colombia it has to do a lot with with the blockade and with the financial and. financial restrictions on venezuela we don't deny that. and we are we are. you know we are trying to restore the situation through economic. growth plans produced economic growth etc. but governments uproot chile ecuador and tina how many times. have we told them you can send in israel's back and you know what has happened when the president of ecuador anymore and. called on the creation of brigades to to pursue persecute the

venezuelan migrants in ecuador and so are our embassy was full of immigrants and we helped them to leave leave their country because there was a persecution against them in ecuador it's very painful and you know what happened today. wednesday. there were three. planes including the presidential plane and two to get over three hundred. immigrants to bring them to bring them back and today three other aircraft were there because today we have. the embassy full of people with all the difficulties we have in sending money and your also. we weren't given authorization to overflights so that aircraft could land and bring people back to their homes what are we talking about here. what are we seeing here it's a war against venezuela where. awaiting visit by mr edward steyn should take place

this week we're waiting. for a visit by former president and friend michelle bachelet. as for violence. here that. the dictatorship is killing is repressing well study the history of venezuela over the past few years the insurrection on marching by the opposition with deaths. facilitated could it turn two thousand and two use using using sharpshooters look at how many people died in those days in truly peaceful demonstrations who killed them and. if the venezuelan justice the judiciary and the prosecutor investigating this and they have the sovereign authority they don't need the intervention of any independent body and we will tell you the truth on every death because. you you know. who who sponsored the coup. on the twenty third of january are fostering.

bloodshed you tried do to promote bloodshed on the twenty third at that didn't happen. it didn't happen. there were groups of twelve or thirteen people there to try to loot to try to plunder private property but we prevented this we prevented another tragedy like the one that happened on the eleventh of april another tragedy like that happened in twenty fourteen or twenty sixteen when the when the extremist of the venezuelan opposition. took to the streets to try to overthrow to try to use force against at the time was president chavez and then president. we support the initiatives of dialogue just as we supported the dominican to the initiative of dominican republic we support mexico your great curry come all those who have sought to to bring venezuelans together and reach an agreement. to find our own way out without any imposed solution without anyone

establishing. ultimatums the decisions that will be taken will be taken by the venezuelans themselves of the opposition the government sitting together the twenty second of january the the president of the council when the national cause the constituent assembly met with mr why you know they tried to establish dialogue going to find a compromise and way to did everything quite the opposite of course and said he was under pressure there were tweets from trump from from. what he one did you want to trigger a civil war in venice well you won't do it. sometimes north of us presidents call for war when they are facing problems domestic problems well you see president trump. is already. really regrets saying that. things will improve the recall would

happen with the with saddam hussein or with the with. the. in spite of all insurances they were killed. but the united states the united states is withdrawing forces from syria well they're going to try to. start a new war now latin american venezuela we're not going to give them that satisfaction. peace and stability and understanding will prevail in venezuela in spite of all the efforts of the countries present here who are trying to trigger. inside a war i also want to tell you. that this. deadline that europe tries tried to trying to give us we recall. back in eighteen eighteen the first time he had argument with the united states if you recall the united states did not support the the.

fight for freedom of our countries. they had become independent by their own. strength by winning the war the revolutionary war against the british empire but when the colonies of south america confronted the spanish empire they declared that they were neutral interesting and then afterwards not only did they declare that they were neutral but they actually helped but clandestinely helped the royalists in. in. invent his way lead they they they they they they help they they. went against the president lever at the time they send they send ships with ammunition. ships that were did that were detained. and the time. the ball of our said that it's the same thing whether we fight only against spain or it

gets the whole world but fortunately we have excellent friends but who whoever finds venezuela will have will have to deal with the entire people of venezuela the president the armed forces will have to everyone will will defend the country to defend our integrity territorial integrity and independence. i was going to read the statement that i brought here but i really. just want to close i want to conclude by reading. an article from our constitution because it was there was an attempt to give a kind of constitutional. constitutional . varnish to this whole operation that was designed in the laboratories of why the united states but i want to read article one thirty three of the constitution. it would be only. what are the absolute

failings of the president is death to. dismiss permanent physical or mental disability certified by a medical board designated by the supreme tribunal of justice with the approval of the national assembly the abandonment of his position duly declared by the national assembly and recalled by popular vote. and there's a referendum. if the at the mid mid term the middle of the term and there's a vote if the people are unhappy and. now when they when there is serious failings . this would be. when an elected president becomes permanently unavailable to reserve interest of prior to his in arguing a new election by universal suffrage and directed biology shall be held within thirty consecutive days pending election in an argue ration of the new president the president of the national assembly shall take charge of the presidency there

but there was no election. there are five branches all legitimate and if there's a discrepancy in the national. well the national assembly doesn't agree then it should address the supreme court etc but what does this i mean for claiming a member of parliament simply. proclaiming him self president and to be to be recognized by other governments. i mean these are serious governments that respect the charter of the united nations recognizing him you're recognizing the position of force against legality this is very dangerous and we need to put a stop to that here today. i think that is i think it's enough with what i have told you to the what i've sketched out for you and it's one to tell you that the people of venezuela are listening and i think it's been demonstrated the people of venezuela is not alone as has been demonstrated in this debate as in other

organizations including the nonaligned movement that we chair then israel is not alone and you know why venezuela is not alone because than it venezuela putting its constitution and the charter of the united nations we will continue following the path of our democracy. we will not allow anyone to impose on us any decision order. and i think the under secretary general this individual says has proclaimed himself self proclaimed self where in our constitution is that allowed show me show me where this is authorized and we can do debate it the name of the president is president must do it all on behalf in the name of the president doing behalf of.