may have been set deliberately. to safety from the story apartment building in paris one woman has been arrested a french interior minister says she has mental health problems. floodwaters in australia have swept two men to their deaths many homes in townsville in queensland submerged prime minister scott morrison has visited the city to comfort victims the floods follow what weather forecast says and scribing as a once in a century rain. has more. jurors in new york to resume their deliberations for a second day in the trial of mexico's most notorious drug boss chapo guzman but let the cartel before he was extradited sixty one year old denies smuggling billions of dollars worth of cocaine and other narcotics into the u.s. . those are your headlines more news on al-jazeera after a.j. so lex this. from sunrise to sunset cross

asia. pacific explorer. fascinating story one on one on al-jazeera. michael. you can. see. in this way when populist president nicolas maduro is sworn in for a second consecutive term following elections deemed fraudulent by his opponents and much of the international community. under his presidency the country with the world's largest oil reserves has plunged into acute poverty hunger is widespread hospitals a crumbling the most basic medicine is impossible to find and children are dying from malnutrition and preventable diseases. this year inflation is expected to surpass three million percent at the current rate millions of desperate venezuelans flee to neighboring countries unleashing the biggest migration crisis in latin

america. with the crucial support of the military refuses to declare a humanitarian emergency or recognize the authority of the opposition controlled legislature the only institution he doesn't control the crisis is about to reach a tipping point. january twenty first nearly thirty sergeants call him but his wayland's to rebel against whom they call a dictator. unleashing a new wave of anti-government protests and repression it sets in motion a plan devised by opposition leaders at home and in exile with the tacit support of the united states canada and fourteen major latin american countries. two days later. and the world by surprise the until now barely known president of the opposition controlled national assembly declares himself interim president

justification is that maduro is not a legitimate leader but a usurper and a dictator. one country after the other recognizes the thirty five year old and. as president as hundreds of thousands have been israelis take to the streets again to show their support now we have a new leader. in venezuela who has promised to bring elections and constitutional order back to venezuela and security back to the region we cannot delay this critical conversation which has the world's attention for the sake of venezuela and the region we must support the venezuelan people and do so right now. because president denounces a coup d'etat instigated by the united states which says it won't rule out military options to oust if necessary but mother who has powerful allies to russia and china warning the u.s. to stay out of venezuela. one point he maintains the loyalty of the military

crucial to his prominence in power. venezuela now has two men claiming to be their leader one who holds power and controls the guns and another who is recognized by much of the world and who believes he has the support of the majority of his people the power struggle is intensifying as well and hundreds of thousands of his supporters appealed to the armed forces to desert. he remains firm that he will not step down or hold new internationally supervised elections this as washington tightens the noose imposing brutal economic sanctions on the impoverished nation meant to hasten the president's downfall it was the luck of the draw that put is today in january it was his conservative popular will party's turn to the president of the national assembly and with many of the party's better known deputies in exile or prison the junior parliamentarian was chosen for

the job. here al jazeera sat down with opposition leader. to hear what he believes this unfolding confrontation will play out. thank you for talking to al-jazeera let me start by asking you how much more economic pressure against another administration can you ask for without hurting ordinary that is wayland's who are already suffering. you know what your but i mean they want to. you know sort of want to protect and they do of their initial and i mean that also notion of them being only don't assume that i mean you know we hope for the case you might there's always a movie in a door and yes. like a pastor. put in seattle explore the city on that base bailed i mean. you know it but i mean this way it came out on the phone with us. who

the municipal c n n in i knew that i had seen when they try to point out any not a set up with my head on this. moon as you get to know my people and what i want to get out of his he said to sort of us you don't get all that but if you don't. know him or you saw. only minutes what i know. that was what i. meant it would be decided on various. that and. they were all of this quality about this whatever it honestly and they said. what it was healed made me unit the lens wardle. you know one thing i want to respect the way. all the rich and embrace i want to.

i mean they're going to be in. the boy because it was in my hand they were the america oil rich and they go up in us up in us. and they are tell me your name in the also places you're not doing as well and as you don't you know that it broke though there's a lot of it i don't i don't know the he in the. galut i walk by under his wing and . claim you notice in the mail made on this new movie in the uk but it didn't include said i for one framing a scene and the hole in a sea is a danger. that they took a simple way to look at this is it the enquirer separate or are you dreaming. that and does he get annoyed. what about let me talk if only because he isn't going to go but how long can people who are already suffering resist that nobody.

on the boards when then it would be a homeowner's ok me get an. order but all i want to replace. or simply mean that you know what they mean not real madrid you fronted on that one in the album it hit and we import under. the image as well and its rivals are the absolute. modal you're a human but oh and in it oh there it is with a look that was in a sort of i guess. sort of put in but a little more slowly starting to get your money that you know than that of course i'm out there but abandoned when i've been in a month and approximately a minute. they can get as it were to him by the same copy that it will be amenable to good on the mess also a year. or over five days and i was going to him to let them out in alice in minutes but i say get. more he said that any impact of them being in them of

a good you lot of women is you want it that you would distribute that. or you stick with that i would say what are but a modem. to get them under the sun the. oil has found the only legalistic at all you go in there although you know you never. get them on the bottom of the butt up where they threw it at what i mean. they were said to put it up us. wouldn't it i wouldn't you know they said oh. groan ego or more we. see in this or chronicles or that i mean i can he said in the other. you expect the military who supports president mother to allow that to happen. you know better or that is. that i know of good reputation are going to do a lucky thing in support of the sea. and i see it as any mean going to see this at

all mia russia why in mexico are offering to mediate in this conflict in the european union for example is proposing a ninety day period to bring both sides together in order to reach a peaceful settlement to this confrontation why is that acceptable to you you know i think of it ok tobe i could get a cumbia you know began you know but in a little bit because you perceive them in a sort of heart of must say that they are a bully can be i mean i can stand there i mean i was out of market with the enemy yes you only i came home and there in this village and then when i went into the zone and we went in this room they were we had our own they make we do why he. didn't want to see our model phoned. me. that i. assume. that i mean that you know i'm willing you know i look at most law that i mean else as it was younger than exactly reporting all and then very open i read about i know

what i could there be over the next year leave it in venezuela is a good book and we import on the book at them being we are in you know going to get your legs if. they will not only that they will no posters you don't say must you know i mean i don't know my jewelry you can go to put it on we see and they can go to. a lot of the op will either go. in for cohen in only go by do you say so you see absolutely no possibility of negotiations with nicolas muddle to reach an agreement. about what you say you want which is new elections and a transition to a democratic government and who most in going to have your preferences and it was a few minutes with rice and madison who really see that. they are serious and with her for who you are his. yeah there are but i mean there is someone who you were at a galaxy that i thought they were and they will look at us that way to me so much they're going to go in order to never going like you're in no no if i see no. brain

if a man though i went to europe you're going to own a. they're about to make india lives on would it be sort of worth your time in the door to go. and they also assume. that i'm going to all of the county and the whole. north of. the us. you know. the l o l e. k s and that with the ilo that he was in they quite get my head but i didn't. you know yes i would get on a bit of them and. they get it or not but it would i would employ a parliament. as it is not the one way to go and i look and it was you know and then at the end of sort of i don't

be in the way. i thought of a thought it would break his opponent they love it i'm going to do you know well actually i'm. a minister and i mean that the better you move your cool but. i don't say much i look come out of it i'm not like i mean we've got another base but isn't there an enormous risk that if you don't try to negotiate that could be a bloodbath. i know it's a simple extreme i. mean i. look at the same i would want to know what. they want to get at him. you know it was a really nice. book yet this was a unanimous i agree he said i see no need use. me not at all in this ng go yes niña cuss. but if you come into it and i see no zero point five zero.

zero zero poor quality how democracy but i mean i said they seem to stick with that oh you know what i mean for me this it ain't so mean or so yet the bus and the minister are now the so what i got a bottom out on at the moment don't know why i'm a minister but of course on the other hand i look at what i don't know me as one of the i don't personally know so much then again for many throw the choice you know they're going to come in and notice you hadn't your make up and the dialogue where you sort of. it's half a better. if i mean it right after but it's a real motivator meeting. for potus and he'll a little lucky or a better me time i will know when to quit as soon as you're in venezuela porking nor reason let me hold up as your own but i mean this or that let me know that there might be one conflict or you miss with it ok let me tell you where you are in the end moving in to support your need more. but if you don't operate.

came out of. your flurry i would apostle i'm going to insist you don't. buy. it a little money they like the way but you're agreeing with me there are risks the government has already shown on television just today the tanks the snipers they are prepared to confront demonstrators especially what they call civil. the rest. as you know i'm going to say but i'm going to. do you know if their number on the boat is or they interrupt you i don't assume. i don't then we get on the air by somebody that is one of the lower leg and it was young. but all he came with and . yeah i mean the from them and milo and i wanted to show. up for your bubble out of europe by the moon but this is a very unusual situation you have two men both claiming to be the president won it

last little with the support of the military actually has the power in this country and another yourself who has the support of much of the international community because they people. how is this all going to end i mean at the numbers i mean if the numbers are going to. come to you. there again i would but i mean i do not believe and you have been wound up are going to be. evaluate. that because of your movies that if you know we will end and we don't want to see the horn most women getting on become a little open as it was you know that they have a wedding in february simplicity and the. whole you wore it better but also mine well when you had one like a saying can anybody but i mean to get it in as often as you want to. go to a he said without. any motors i know he won't do but i said it and it could mean and it was

a moment that i mean there for saddam us. no i know where i am without a border and what i would want us in will not be any of us ever the head of the any like of us or interim bottom. side those us see where symbol current conflict as an organiser we're going to monitor the. conflict to hand it out and while sitting there reading this young. minister and he got it on about the import of your own can you say one girl opposition can i do elected i'll. be in the young players to get it done and you know. she's. not really deliberate and i don't know but i hope to meet us i mean there's you know put an element on them i know that we'll. get them with. my knee and i will. be going to let me thank us.

and also when they went on us in a. better source. we pick a needle then the mojo say to heal and said well what about. you know what about on the minutes where you've been speaking in secret to members of the military what have they told you when i thought. they know me that is really you know if you really thought of them or try and take what i want to sell our going to do or even what. i go to. particularly when i wanted a board seat i don't know i meant open in and. that i want to know if you're not in the us and use the same collation that went into his i made it out of there for saddam operating expense elsewhere content don't include

this i see and to send this he was that any assortment in the desert you and your daughter to douse so for me to be had better say what i want to the content and i will cause implementable to see that. you're not there for us i do not know the. but well that the nearly. complete on the sea there were several. but let me tell you me the role. was in the detail that all of it is going to tell. me that include you washington says that all options are on the table would you support u.s. military intervention if all else fails. or going in or the mobile serious thing going to an article. again is that really that. the lebanese army down there but it without a doubt about the approach you were based. on what you got them in this way but you're not ruling it out are you. that almost. all of them i said on

a single audio look at the end are going to be. by me not a court or so she had to pull more than their limits and it will matter if you end up at the rodeo again and in play i'll bet as a resource you own people morning conference and i said i am a guy i say that because for many people watching this conflict unfold it certainly looks like the white house is dictating the terms of president nicolas mother this departure when. you. need to muster. enough you have showing gruesome but only hear the. international. had a saying in a thousand but as i said a minute but i said i would open. a moderate course in which order of play second approach more desirable as any vote you see it in a one way also you know that i'm going to diminish learn that a little bit to say say let me guess you mean it will then be unitless into the.

movie important record. that i am across and over here but without us support would you be sitting there that's what i mean i like to go to a bunch of them and i need a certain way and i don't want them wrongly given it at the moment the democrats are going to my leader at that we're going to get him both on the. moon he. doesn't have to because we're going to. go you know because you know i mean as well as you do you know you're not. quadruped was. selective selective sanctions not blanket sanctions that's the big that's the. point of disagreement right now between the e.u. and the white house but i knew what. he needs. and you know if you're not use. us in then some of the manager who doesn't include but it look as if. it will pay

dearly for this and then the same to our implement them getting into some sort of readiness you're. up to them in the same place and the information i received to me says and by the end of this in the bill it was in to me media. sort of was in the basically me. so you could get america. wanted to persuade. people in better present are going to separate in the me. to them and to my he now look at where i was and that better. inclusive last year. that i wouldn't last a little bit with the way that i mean i know. a minister is what they're always and he may have said oh i don't know what there was a miracle to me and but he's. not in a place in the us it's leaker a let me say that there is and based on

a set up at the moment and then when president model says that there is a coup the ta under way instigated by the united states and i think there is you would agree with me that there is an effort to bring about regime change there's no question about that but how do you feel about the united states again intervening here in latin america given its track record for decades in countries like chile and guatemala more recently in libya and in syria and why should the outcome be any different here in venezuela a bit of a so it is a journalist you're going to put them in to put on as well as i'm going to get a good. and the my dear. i don't know when they were going now it but i mean that in a day to fund all but the lead to steal. he says if there. were a republican or democrat for them to sign it up at the most a dollar any time one of the top political without. going to go in to see took

a look at you are you going to subordinate us you know what i mean. in a way i made it up by using two for you then when. you know. you'll see any. good ok ok you know. i think what you are. and what i wanted to be the cause i should not miss. it pulled out of. the politically and there were a thousand. times when i was in the us. brought up by their ataris yamamoto . but i don't have a thousand euros it's absolute. elicited good as the enemy was. when the residents of oakley and. submitted by the you know there. were two and.

shown us. but they can be said as to how caylus yes or better than when do. we buy it it's absolutely. in them i would look. at that was on the minister and you know it and the throwing. it out. or comment said it was a sort of work and they get more of it are really in there when we come in to. the pain the minister to do some element that you're going to miss whether. they see him into your chain that goes into any mental saving him one of them of seeing community. you know. noise going at the moment ok like i mean some of us were like yeah they can be. you know he can move you know and if it not i'm in them by these so why not order elections right away. and you know there were in the internet. and they were. not of

a media. but what is greed under all this pressure to hold elections but while still in office internationally supervised transparent under conditions that everyone could agree to would you allow that to happen would you agree it was young as young. as you say monaco and. that's. one way the truth you very much talking to here talk to al-jazeera has requested an interview with president lee. we haven't heard back but out invitation remains open . business updates by qatar airways going places together.

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a city under water australia's prime minister offers comfort and consolation to flood victims in townsville. let the year of the peak begin chinese communities worldwide celebrate their most important holiday. welcome to the news i could have a company of venezuela's self proclaimed president is calling on the military to allow humanitarian aid into the country one has received more backing with many european countries recognizing him as the interim leader but russia is accusing them of interference present us material has asked pope francis to help resolve the crisis latin america editor lucien human has the latest from the capital caracas. self-proclaimed.