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breaking news this is out of venezuela where ahmed national guard vehicles in the capital caracas appear to run over supporters of the opposition leader won these pictures about twenty minutes ago as vehicles drove into crowds of people who had gathered near the the air base in caracas that is where the opposition leader on why don't appear with soldiers calling on venezuelans to rise up against president nicolas maduro saying there was no turning back the government is called it an attempted coup and insists the military chiefs are still firmly behind president maduro a moment ago and it's all i know what is happening in the capital today as while others who want freedom should come here just for up to order join and encourage our soldiers join our people good morning be as. let's do this together.

the call is for everyone to come out into the streets at this moment to give back into what we have built over the years when we're here now in the streets not only with the international community and not only our citizens but now with the national armed forces who are backing the citizens of the future and progress. in america bureau in buenos aires now to bring us up to that daniel you've been watching the same pictures i'm sure that we have in the past hour the escalation has been quite something. yes it really has and i think an indication of how high the emotions are running at the moment but these are emotions that in running for some very high for some time and then nicolas maduro has been in power since two thousand and thirteen the wave of discontent of anger of his regime has been intense times food shortages a massive there's no medicine and inflation is out of control millions of people have left this in

a way is the culmination of that discontent of that anger in those pictures you see why though he still obviously feels that this is the moment to ask the venezuelan people the venezuelan military to stand behind him and make that final push to get rid of that nicolas maduro at the same time nicolas maduro has defied the odds many many times in the past i've been to venezuela on several occasions when i've thought this cannot go on he doesn't have the support of the venezuelan people there in neighboring countries who are against him yet one one way or the other he's managed to hold on as a state with the military commanders come out and express their loyalty he has the support of russia and china all the other countries are against him it does seem to be more intense than it has been for some time but very difficult at this stage to say was that this is the moment where the one why door and leopoldo lopez the opposition leaders have got it right so talk us through what actually did today because it started with

a video of him surrounded by military personnel basically saying to his people rise up now is the time. yet as i say he's been planning this for some time we knew it would happen but we didn't know when the venezuelan people the rest of the world woke up to this video filmed outside the car lot like a lot airbase in caracas some still have risen he was surrounded by military who had obviously moved to his side and he said this is the moment this is what we're going to start it's already been planned that there should be a big anti-government protests. tomorrow when he wanted to call people out he's been traveling in venezuela to gauge the mood among the people among the military. feels the mood is right for him to stand up to put this video out it was a three minute video. who is that one of the leaders of his party has been under house arrest i there in the been in prison under house arrest since two thousand

and he's accused of being the leader of a move to get rid of nicholas motherboard or he shouldn't be out of house arrest according to the authorities so we have to wait and see what happens to him whether they arrest him whether they now arrest. as well or instigating what the government is calling an uprising or a small coup a very very tense really now waiting to see who reaction how they were and how they react ok thank you for the reporting from buenos aires he talks about what could happen to one god oh well he's out on the street at the moment i don't have an exact location of where he is but he is in caracas the capital out amongst his supporters the media is there as well his envoy has been publicly to the united states i should say has been urging venezuelan people to stay in the street as he has called for this uprising this final push to overthrow president nicolas maduro so that is the best of their unfortunate we haven't got the front on shot of him

there but addressing the media and his supporters look at u.s. influence here and our white house correspondent of course is how has the white house been responding to. you know you're getting statements from various members of the trumpet ministration there's always been a question about the level of u.s. involvement with regard to what's happening in venezuela certainly the us president donald trump in january of two thousand and nineteen so just a few months ago recognized want to be interim leader and since then there have been active steps whether it be sanctions that have been put in place by the united states on businesses etc well now we're having reaction to the events on the ground and were questions about the involvement of the u.s. military this administration has always said it has not ruled out any sort of military intervention but for now the national security adviser john bolton simply saying that he's urging the venezuelan military to protect the constitution for its

part the u.s. military responding saying that their mission has not changed so we asked that question of one of the president's top advisers kellyanne conway whether or not there would be u.s. military to wrench an inventor she would not answer the question instead she would only say that the white house is monitoring the situation we support the people of venezuela we're sad that they have been starved by majority they've been denied food and medicine and basic humanitarian needs having been mad at the united states has gotten supplies there to them sometimes the those have been obstructed or burned but we stand with the people of venezuela and we stand with. the majority has to go. still there are reports here in the united states that there have been efforts even on the part of the controversy over the founder of blackwater security firm erik prince that he has been meeting with prominent trump supporters that he's also been meeting with wealthy venezuela exiles posing or putting together the idea

of a mercenary army or private security army if you will inside venezuela to try and topple president maduro the national security council spokesperson did not write or are really declining to comment on this story so we're really left sort of without her questions with regard to that what we are hearing from the secretary of state mike pompei o however in the statement is that the u.s. government is fully supportive of the venezuelan people in the quest for freedom democracy cannot be defeated so a lot of reaction coming out of the traffic ministration as they continue to monitor this very fast moving developments story thank you for the update kimberly how cuts at the white house washington. we've got other developing news to look at as well out of sudan and of course there in the sudanese professional association your research. which is one of the major forces behind the protest movement speaking to reporters in concert now we're going to have a little listen. to do with the.

executive powers however. we and the council. to really examine the positions in this pic to the. council of the executive council did legislative council this kind of proposal would be rid the within and the next three hours and we would expect to have subs. speedily. because we want to try to shift the pounds into civilian. powers into civilian government quickly we the what the military are doing is not serious despite the fact that the when the military council came they said they came by the will of the

people and they are keen to transfer power to the civilian government but we could see that the military is extend then their period and their powers and we see this as danger and that they are not going to leave the power thank you on our leave. to mr. good evening. i would like to start from my friend stopped. the essence of what we said. through the a what happened through the negotiations with the military council is that the the military council is not serious about transferring power to civilian and it is clear that they wanted to keep power and retain it for themselves this is unacceptable their evolution did

not take place in order to stop a unilateral military regime into another unilateral military regime therefore this would not be accepted and it is not acceptable of course we trust the. security forces and we have. it started and discussed the relationship between the. forces of the declaration of. change and freedom and change and the relationship with the army because on the sixth of april we have made a clear memorandum to the presented to the army asking them. that. we wanted a civilian power however the military council is sitting live in the

presidential palace. basically in digital by this revolution but we are talking about the civility of the authorities we are not talking about the proposition. given by the army he is basically asking us to give them our names so that they. can. give us the civilian power that you know they think that they can sit on top and delegate power to this if government that this is a hollow transition that we cannot accept by any means. we are. after a clear definition of walk. transference of power means and it is

clear what it means and what the transitional period can me and dish is something that doesn't need much different missions they can't just say that the forces of the declaration of freedom are in changes. of doing this and that we don't accept what they're saying the beginning of negotiations started with differing in the three. authorities the legitimacy of executive powers and the sovereign council then the negotiations. basically if we are down to the proportion of how many of each side would be but we are now saying we wanted to put an end to this and make a decisive decision as to. what goes on as far as our political situation in the

coming day is we firstly say that the december evolution has not ended yet millions of sudanese people brave sudanese people are on the streets and they sit in and this will continue of course it will be. demonstrate in. the most peaceful manner and we will still have in peaceful resistance until the transference of power to civilian authority or this revolution since started is. peaceful and many sides tried to veer it from its peaceful side and tried to distorted by it is violating security and they are provoke in. violence. this is something we are trying to.

catch and stopping by every means possible however well cross roads we have here huge opportunities for the sit down to look to move from a uni. lateral rulin and move into a country where everyone lives in peace and political stability and economic stability and people live under equality and justice the military. council have a chance to participate in this and live however they can lead us into the danger of. it the danger that we cannot actually. cope with. we can end up in a situation where we cannot come out of the predicament we are in show we wanted

the military council to learn the lesson from what happened in in the past by. boy actions that only led to the destruction of sudan so please ask them to stop to try. things that had been tried before which ended in failure what we wanted it's a. for the country to flourish and that will be through transfer fair empower into civilian authority. there a paternity is available for the media personnel but please those who ask you just say their name and the where they come from. and claim that you. think.

he's ok so what is happening regarding the. railways and the bridges and the. transport in and the traffic so they say that. they wanted to open this is say something different what is the reality of the situation. in the. it's. been this ability so i'll be there but. that i let alone. open in the.

past says it is that's. something. we have discussed negotiated then to open in the. roads. but. if you feel this there is no confidence from the council which it should be the opposite each. day should say that we not use press conference to spread the inaccurate information and what they did stop should have been joint press conference where we can talk about matters we agreed on however they. have a press conference. unilaterally and this has

created this confusion and therefore. that the. declaration of freedom and changes forces are. at fault is very strange and discard of dealing with matters this kind of. approach. is unacceptable and people. basically don't accept that anymore the way is had been agreed upon on the twenty sixth of april where greed on. lettin. railways start regardless of the proportion whether it is three percent or ten percent the. way explained that that many sometimes

people stay on the. rails of the railways and this caused a problem we said that. goods trains. were actually ready to. move on because this was very important but. what they say was not accurate because the. forces of the original freedom and change where delegated by the people. and they represent the people so negotiations should have been on the vital issues . the matters about st sun road general this is something that somebody else can deal with the. military council to deal with this

but these are not the main. negotiations that. is all that important. so. it was clear there's a role that the area where they sit in any state in place cannot be evacuated so. if there were really serious of course you would have followed them. and if you wanted to. let people go home and. stop the sit in and then we would have negotiated with them but any attempt to we can sit in and that protestation of protests. are unacceptable. what is one question it was about the negotiations.

what was it. really you said the vote martin asked for fiction a date for a meeting for negotiation this has not been done within three hours you will give our proposal. into father's what do we need to agree on this would be to the. military council and of course this has not been very far and yet it is clear that the military council through what they said yes. they wanted to cause confusion however the street is very cohesive today and people work together so. well what they are trying to do is drive

a wedge between the representatives of forces and the people on the street this is something not new and everyone is aware of it. so what they do is close. you can't say that i am not against the sitting in and you close the roads. so this is clearly in order to have control over certain area or certain. but. any questions. in. the sudan professional associations is of course one of the driving forces behind the protest movement in khartoum in sudan has been addressing the media there the overriding feeling from them is that the military are not serious about transferring power in fact one of the gentlemen saying it's clear that they in fact want to retain it more with mohamed a daughter who's of course been reporting from khartoum for us is there as well it

speaks to. a very large gap that still exists between the military and this representatives of the civilians bombing. and yes indeed the model with bolton not the golf course much smaller we're seeing. now we have to get to a store show where we're seeing the real. the most then that was your shills might have been howling and we all false here at the protest where you can get exactly what is happening on the negotiations and people here getting more i'm more of france is all for what is happening between them at military and the guys they have monday to to negotiate on their behalf the feeling is that. the military is trying to take over that evolution base which led to the removal of the

mouse and of course you the front office and now you know a lot sort of the military transitional council is meeting in the presidential palace operating from there and dictating to homs to people who many people here feel how bold the support and the goodwill of the public will schools the main form of contention being not one of these tional the hybrid transitional council that is expected to leave the country for a transitional period and it would include a government of technocrats. according to the proposals presented by. the president the theft of the protesters a prime minister who is civilian pulled out now since in that the military is small ceding any thing at the moment and they seem to have turned cocked before they were giving him to every dem on the coming from the protest leaders including given up

with in the military council people considered to be cool. still almost all bullshit but now they seem to often talked just quickly muhammad there was a lot of talk in the news conference about the revolution being peaceful the street being cohesive that protests would remain peaceful is that the feeling you get there obviously it's noisy way you out but is it remaining peaceful. what is largely a peaceful daoism been an incidental while as for the week i have been covering these the most such and some protest right here in this where however in the past twenty four hours most fail house changed from being a friendly one to the poultice does good thing i did say that most of the day they had taken the noise at protests very close to the gates of the military had to pull up as chanting anti transitional military council as slogans they are saying that

they ease a bit by the transitional military council to this pos them the starting with the told that coming from the military council vote they remove all those body kates on broke caves they'll put on multiple only the roads but also bridges on the brain a line which closed something not just closing off the inconvenience to the people of caught two but most people don't seem to mind thought the incumbent is because they fill the space absolutely no way they can go back to big of a model but she don't want anything like that and they say this is the only way the only hope out how to do it is in how to for us thank you and from sudan we move back to venezuela developments in the last ninety minutes where protesters loyal to the opposition leader have been out on the streets of caracas particularly near and have for space now these pictures a little bit

a warning on them they are quite distressing at some point you see the car or the. national guard vehicle on the left almost hunting down protesters there and then there was another shot which we have taken away where the truck actually ran straight into the group of protesters ran straight over them military vehicles outside the airbase in caracas now we've also got one who is out in the streets elsewhere. he has his thousands of supporters out there the ones that he is called onto the streets today. them to rise up calling it the final push to alice nicolas maduro the government for its part calling it an attempted coup and assisting that military chiefs was still firmly behind president maduro more live pictures there as well i mean we're getting so many different views in from the street and i can believe these are close to

a military base but we've seen motorcycle gangs we've seen police we have seen obviously the. national guard vehicles as well which were out on the streets now here at the streets outside the military base which have been brought under control that would seem you had protesters earlier on the streets pushing through fencing throwing tear gas back at the army which was firing tear gas at them and all the while this has been going on plenty of international reaction just heard from the secretary general of the united nations and turning to terrorists who has warned or should say maximum restraint in venezuela and his appeal to all stakeholders to avoid any violence and take some immediate steps to restore calm but you have these thousands of people on the streets they have been protesting for months now and now the. opposition leader has called for them to come out onto the streets to stay on the streets and to push to finally topple president nicolas maduro for now it

appears the army is still on the side of the president in fact we've had the defense minister all. venezuelan television explaining that the military is still behind. developing breaking news out of venezuela this hour on al-jazeera continuing protests which we will keep on top of. in fact let's take you back to some of those earlier pictures from venezuela as national guard vehicles drove into crowds of people who gathered at the. air base in caracas that is where opposition leader one quite a appeared earlier with soldiers calling on venezuelans to rise up against president nicolas maduro he has said there is now no turning back. to. the call is for everyone to come out into the streets at this moment to give

back into what we have built over the years when we are here now in the streets not only with the international community and not only our citizens but now with the national armed forces who are backing the citizens if you cheer and progress in the other developing news out of sudan where the military council has warned protesters not to take the law into their own hands army leaders say they negotiated with protest leaders in good faith but protest leaders say the military council has no desire to give up power to the civilians. here. the military council is not serious about transferring power to civilians it is clear they want to keep power and retain it for themselves this is unacceptable the revolution did not take place in order to stop a unilateral military regime and another unilateral military regime therefore this will not be accepted and is not acceptable. and a couple of other stories we're following japan's emperor akihito has formally

abdicated during the ceremony in tokyo he thanked the public and said he prays for peace the ritual which is. voles handing over the chrysanthemum throne as it's known to his son took place at the imperial palace crown prince not a veto will not become emperor this is the first abdication in japan in more than two hundred he has an algerian former prime minister's appearing in court as part of a corruption probe according to our jury and media reports. is being investigated over allegations of misusing public money he is one of the many senior officials including the finance minister and several billionaires facing judicial investigations earlier this month of course the longtime president of the disease but the figure stepped down under pressure from demonstrators and the military the latest news from around the world particularly out of venezuela coming up on al-jazeera in half an hour.