concerned with the developments of venezuela or anywhere else for that matter including the secretary of state the secretary of defense the national security advisor john bolton as well as possibly the president himself they would be having a discussion about how to further the u.s. government support for honda i go for looking for way of trying to persuade nicolas maduro to leave and then perhaps deal with the fact there there have been mixed messages about what the u.s. is prepared to do to support. in the days going forward this is a bit of what john bolton the national security adviser had to say earlier on wednesday the fact is key figures like the defense minister the chief judge of the supreme court the head of the presidential guard have been at it as people dealing with the opposition and some day the documents that they were prepared to sign with the opposition will become public so if you're nicolas maduro can you look at your

defense minister any more and trust him i don't think so i think the door is now surrounded by scorpions. and it's only a matter of time here. now it is worth pointing out that patrick shanahan who is the acting defense secretary testified earlier on wednesday that while the trumpet ministration does a reserve all options in dealing with a crisis particularly in venezuela he did stress to the people before him human he was testifying that it is a particularly important to try to exercise whatever diplomatic pressure can be brought to bear by the u.s. and its allies as they try to up push forward what they hope would be a peaceful transfer of power but of course as we have heard from lucien neumann things seem to be almost where they were before tuesday's developments but got underway real say in washington thank you. still ahead so on the program.

piano may day protests turned violent in france with thousands rallied against president emmanuel mccall. had a church in pemba opens its doors to us thousand people displaced by the heavy rain still lashing northern meson beach office i can kind of. how we got quite a rash of showers across much of europe at the moment the wettest weather will be just around hungry pushing across seemed to remain the easing up into ukraine lie the showers come back across the black sea down across a good part even into creases well that's all nothing a little further east was spinning away if further north will be a few showers at the west and russia moscow fourteen celsius is not much warmer the

only other side if you're past fifteen or sixteen there for london and paris and again some shabby right here a scene from right down towards seattle's best sunshine that can be madrid twenty four twenty five degrees over the next couple of days just notice things freshening up towards the northwest for friday thirteen celsius in london both parts of france looking a little cool and rusty so the other fresh side fresh enough with some rain that is pushing its way into austria down towards the northern parts of the balkans once again but down into the southeast of europe basis out of the med is generally looking dry as you make our way through the weekend that's the case to last more than positive africa a little more clout there for cars to temperatures fall back to around thirty three degrees celsius for thursday the catholic enough to produce some rain across northern parts of morocco adèle geria over the next couple of days.

free education for all was the promise the reality provoked a generation. to drugs enough blood to want to get on the job how a protest over education fees. morphed into a national revotes on the job and i did these documents got. everything must for. a witness documentary on al-jazeera. welcome back our drawings at the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. attorney general has defended his decision to clear president donald trump all the

obstruction of justice william ball has been testifying before senators over the special counsel's report into russian interference in the last presidential election. anti-government protesters in venezuela have clashed with security forces this may day rallies held in caracas it comes a day after president nicolas maduro said he'd stopped an attempted coup by the opposition. and the u.s. secretary of state says the united states is prepared to take military action in venezuela if need it might compare has also urged moscow to stop supporting president nicolas maduro. may day protests in the french capital have descended into violent soft a police force with dozens of on a case at least thirty eight protest us were injured and three hundred eighty arrests it hundreds of thousands of people been rallying across the country most of them peacefully that a change to has more from paris the clouds of tear gas and burning barricades

marked the progress of the may day marches it filled the streets of the french capital as predicted fighting between demonstrators and riot police surged along its whole leg practicing their policy of zero tolerance charge after charge was made with shield and baton against crowds throwing rocks and stones oh george you want to view menu first that's your own for today with another day of oppression as usual we have been surrounded you can't go to sway you can't write that way getting gassed is the only option people just start losing. what that some twenty three people have lost their eyes five have lost a hand to join our demonstration so far for their see agree must continue but micron made his speech he didn't show sympathy to the wounded what this government who shows no compassion for its people the days gone on the clashes with the police and the the riot forces stationed along the length of march i've got much more

serious a mess c.d.s. was torched sending billows of smoke into a block of flats full of families only the prompt arrival of fire fighters managed to stop the spread of the flames the french interior ministry said they had monitored messages on social media calling on demonstrators to turn paris into the capital of rioting that is a form based on the information we have one thousand two thousand what he called activists potentially reinforced by individuals coming from abroad could try to spread low lessness and violence. the police had snatch squads in the side streets to catch members of the so-called black. a lot of extremists were infiltrating the march and it. was tens of thousands of protesters joined the march here and tens of thousands more across the country president emanuel macro had hoped he'd got the measure of the yellow vests protest this so-called great debates across france and

some recent concessions on areas such as the minimum wage but there was no sign of wavering by the protesters on the streets of the capital david chaytor al jazeera paris. and russian police and government arrested more than one hundred people it may day protests there on to government activists members of human rights groups where among those detained most of the arrests happened in st petersburg with several hundred people called for fair elections president vladimir putin's approval rating has fallen to around sixty percent recently on the back of a tax hike and increases in the retirement age. the british prime minister to resign may has sacked her defense secretary blaming him for a leak about the chinese telecom giant while way gavin williamson was fired after details of a national security council meeting with leaks to the press the late revealed the u.k.'s plan to grow huawei a role in building britain's five g. network unless of the prime minister said an investigation found compelling

evidence that williamson was responsible he denies he was involved in the leak chai angela has more now on how to reason may has handled the situation. in a pretty blunt letter she said she had lost confidence in his ability to serve however mr williamson has responded saying he strenuously denies any involvement and you might ask why a chinese telecoms company could be such a sensitive subject so just to give you some background while we dominate the market when it comes to providing infrastructure for these new five g. networks which most countries are hoping to roll out by twenty twenty but the u.s. has been warning that the company could be building back doors into its infrastructure that could allow the chinese state to spy on those host countries and they have been pressuring countries to exclude what way australia has done so but other countries aren't really listening the u.k. has asked its own intelligence organization to see each key to do its own

investigations into world way which they have and they have found no fundamental flaws no evidence of back doors they say the security isn't perfect but that has nothing to do with deliberate back doors being built so they're happy for the u.k. to go ahead and the prime minister has taken that information on board and will be granting way some of those contracts wiki leaks founder julian assange has been said as to nearly twelve months in jail in the u.k. for skipping bail there were protests outside the courtroom in london where the forty seven year old appeared songe was given asylum in the ecuadorian embassy for most seventy years before he was evicted last month will face a separate hearing on thursday to determine whether he should be extradited to the united states. to join tornadoes swept through southern remain overturning a bus and injuring several people local media say the storm which began with lightning and hail narrowly missed a village but still managed to rip the roofs of ten buildings meteorologists say

the tornado was the result of a cold front moving from bulgaria in the south and colliding with warm it reached a speed of ninety kilometers an hour. aid workers in mozambique say remote areas and small islands off the coast are still waiting for supplies almost a week after kenneth struck thousands of people remain stranded and more flooding is expected it is the second storm in six weeks to lash the southern african nation killing at least forty one people are reports from the city of pemba. this church in the coastal town of came by has opened its doors to almost one thousand displaced men women and children. the dogs we received information in our area that we should have back your way to a safer place that night i grabbed my family and came here is the first time two cycles of hit mozambique in one season. heavy rain and flooding is expected to

continue for the rest of the week those on the coastline have moved inland and on to higher ground sister rosa martin to silver has seen a sharp rise in the number of people turning up at a school with nowhere else to go. online battle over there is the river and there it was water all around so this was the area where people sought refuge those whose houses were getting flooded have been coming here yesterday received two hundred fifteen people in the united nations on tuesday confirm that nearly thirty five thousand homes in mozambique have been destroyed leaving hundreds of thousands of people without shelter food and drinking water and at risk of diseases like malaria and cholera more are expected in the coming days which will worsen from being done much towards and the hand of humanitarian access more challenging in water for us people have lost everything they are the is the death toll will rise

some homes that used to be in this area are washed the way. as the rain intensified it caused my slides and that landfill site over there collapsed on top of some of the houses locals say some people are still missing. steve lost his home in the flooding he and his neighbors are assessing damage course the village. the low i'm alone and asking for help to build a new house i have two children and a wife i don't have anybody to assist you and. some people have chosen to stay in their homes but for some of those that do they risk being cut off for much needed aid and with more tarantula rain and flooding on the way aid agencies say they're facing a critical situation they are in desperate need of more funds al-jazeera mozambique . the united nations has declared the leader of a park a stone based on group a global terrorist masood azhar has the joshua mohammed group which claimed

responsibility for a february suicide attack in indian administered kashmir that killed at least forty indian troops the decision means as our will face the travel ban of his finances that assets will be frozen the designation comes off to china which had blocked as a listing as a global terrorist four times dropped its objections. chairperson of the un sanctions committee the common interest to them up here has informed us that muscle that stands designated as individual who has been promoting terrorism globally this is parise significant outcome because we have been at it for several years. at least fifteen security personnel have been killed in central india after their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device police say the attack was carried out by maoist rebels in god only districts if one has another incident where maoists it has really set fire to nearly thirty

vehicles tuesday night and then pick and world champion athlete caster semenya has lost her appeal against new rules that will force her to take medication in order to compete has high levels of the male hormone testosterone and will now have to take special drugs to reduce it if she wants to defend her titles all sports correspondent. this was a verdict as much to do with human rights as a fanatic's caster semenya was appealing against a rule that would force her to take medication to reduce her testosterone level and still be allowed to compete in women's competition she lost her appeal against the rule of the court of arbitration for sport in liaison such discriminations is a necessary result of all kinds of caution is means of achieving the ideal believes of objective of preserving the integrity of female athletics in sounds like you

dance international competitions that is from four hundred metres to one my. athletics while governing body the. maintains it is striving for fairness it said it was plays that the regulations were found to be unnecessary raise the ball and proportionate means of achieving the legitimate time of preserving the integrity of fame that takes the idea has been criticized for its handling of the issue which included the suggestion that women with rice testosterone should switch to compete against men so many responded to the verdict immediately on social media sighing sometimes it's better to react with no reaction but later she released a statement accusing the i w f of having always targeted by a specific way for a decade has tried to slow me down but this is actually made me stronger she's yet to indicate if she's prepared to consider medication in order to remain a champion i hundred metres she's a multiple olympic and world champion but can't now defend a title at this year's world championships in doha unless she takes the chemical

route she can switch to long distance and did win gold in a five thousand meters at the south african athletics championships last week but the treatment has been questioned by the united nations human rights group by the south african government who called it a gross violation of human rights. while sport tries to adjust to gender issues someone use words when collecting an award last year. the line the need for compassion and respect along with science and competition just rather go you know i grew up in a dusty place. i really appreciate you know the support the love you know also for appreciate dino for being who we are so we can be the best that we can be lee wellings zero london japan's mnemonic is about to follow his father's example by devoting himself to pace emperor not a hater who has formally taken over from his father. it on tuesday the country

welcomed its one hundred twenty six them at a simple ceremony in tokyo during which she was given japan's sacred imperial sword and jewels. a pair of coal miners in poland have come up with a specially designed bench that purifies to the benches use a sunset to measure possibles in the air at a traffic light system to warn people about high pollution the seats computer file eight hundred sixty cubic meters of our world health organization says thirty three of the european union's most polluted places all in poland. undermined are the top stories all al-jazeera the u.s. attorney general has defended his handling of the report after complaints he misrepresented the findings to protect president trump william boles been testifying before the senate judiciary committee it was revelations that special

counsel robert miller expressed concern about how his report on russia was betrayed . and i call bob i'm. sure but you know what's the issue here are you sick and i asked him if he was suggesting that the march twenty fourth letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the pressure reporting had been inaccurate and that the press was reading too much into it and i asked him you know specifically what his concern was and he said that his concern focused on his explanation of why he did not reach a conclusion on obstruction protesters in venezuela have clashed with security forces of the opposition leader called for the largest march in the country's history police fired tear gas at several hundred demonstrators who were trying to block a highway near why where attempted to start a military uprising on tuesday pro-government protesters also gathered outside the

presidential palace in caracas in support of president nicolas maduro. meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state says the united states is prepared to take military action in venezuela if need it. has also urged russia to stop supporting president during what was supposed to be made a process in the french capital have descended into violence off the police force with dozens of ana kists at least thirty eight protesters were injured and three hundred eighty arrested hundreds of thousands of people have been rallying across the country most of them peacefully. the olympic and world champion athlete caster semenya has lost her appeal against new rules that will force her to take medication in order to compete in the sport world's highest court as will the same man yet other female run us must take special drugs to reduce their high levels the male hormone testosterone if they want to persist participate in sussan events. and those latest headlines here on al-jazeera there's more news for you in about

twenty five minutes time to stay with us though the stream is coming next thanks for watching. ok and you in the stream protests continue venezuela president nicolas maduro and the us spot opposition leader. called in their respective supporters to move allies in the streets today we discuss the ongoing political instability in the country.

on wednesday continued to encourage venezuelans to take to the streets and the armed forces to join his operation freedom. hoping to tip the balance after an unsuccessful attempt to spark a military uprising the day before president the jurors declared that those involved in the alleged attempt would not go on punished in a video posted to twitter on tuesday in the presence of several dozen soldiers said that the final phase of his campaign to remove president the office had begun government officials asserted that the army had remained loyal calling troops alongside traitress security forces clashed with demonstrators in caracas with the reuters news agency reporting that a national guard armored car struck protesters and threw stones at the vehicle but your responded to the situation in

a tweet calling for maximum popular mobilization to assure the victory of peace joining us now to help break down the latest news in caracas lukas kerner is a political analyst and the editor of the new side venezuela analysis and. is a correspondent for al-jazeera english and on the set in washington d.c. . is a human rights attorney hello everybody it's good to have you here. daniel you've been standing up all day and all day yesterday reporting for algiers zero final phase of push where are we now what really happened. well why go all out on a tour of venezuela talking to the military talking to people to try to gauge the feeling whether there was an appetite for what he called this final phase in the push to get rid of president nicolas maduro and the obvious he decided very early on tuesday morning that it was

a video that he posted out before the storm had come up outside the locker looking backwards this was the moment he gambled it was a huge gamble asking the military to leave put aside their loyalty to nicolas maduro and join him some did but not enough it seems and it looks at this stage a day later that is gamblers i'm just looking for at some of the protests that he's all over social right now i don't know with he's posting or his team are posting but i'm just looking at these pictures people on the streets or he's taking pictures of people in the streets is saying that people are still protesting. but you have a hotline to what is going on in terms of your family your relatives who are there and you got a message from your mom a mom's a very reliable and your mom told you what my mom woke me up at six thirty in the morning saying whatever you read on the news i'm ok i'm alive and i'm ok right now

that pregnant a little bit in nearly as all of the knew about and then are bracing i feel like sometimes the media. takes like it was a military uprising but the reality is that why though is the president interim of venezuela so he is the commander in chief of the national army so it's not an uprising of the army it's. it's a constitutional favor they're doing as a final responsibility at the doing to the constitution and the people of venezuela look this is eyebrows are very high right now are not to show he's got the same take as you look as now head. little small problem that while those sides are very rare the constitution it's one and so on but there was no back to power and we got a lot of work a lot that are made keep with may twenty fifth in which we were six point one million both thirty percent of the total that are at about around the same portion of rock obama like we were in two thousand and eight you know moreover if you even

if what he was the interim president he would have a global actors than thirty days which he did not do leading to elliott abrams who the u.s. envoy to and it was a very humiliating press conference where he said i believe that you know one milo is the president interim president and from that hasn't begun yet but it's really the legal running it's very unclear and you know the opposition continue with kind of problem patient in an effort to justify u.s. military and intervention which they have repeatedly called for violation of course has been a name on many things military intervention by america is the last thing on my list let's start with a legal background it's not cloudy the constitution say said very clearly that when there is a vacuum the president of congress becomes interim president and he will as mother will pushed an election very early the elections in minnesota legally are held in december and he pushed the election of twenty seventeen december to may because he knew he was losing power popularity so that election has been declared

fraudulent by the congress by many countries around the world over fifty countries around the world people in venezuela didn't even want to vote they were very divided whether to weave or so we now because it is outside of the legal parameters where elections should happen so it was a farden action so this is problematic. because there will be some parties in venezuela and i'm talking about people who will be very supportive of presently juror there will be some parties who will be incredibly supportive of a one quite joe and there is this issue i want to show you some of the life i know is happening right now as we. go to caracas and people on the streets they are not happy because you have a president who said i am president and you have the current president as well i'm just looking here also about what happens when you have people in the streets like you see them right now because the internet goes away connectivity goes away can

you explain what you don't have right now when people are protesting. brady i think it's important to remember that in. the party wanted it made but it got made on the left of the novelist i mean only one although two million votes you had to look at and i understand your position where we are moving on that because we could spend twenty five minutes over here now the position of why don't i the position of majority so when people are on the streets like this right now what do you lose as a residence in any area where people are protesting internet for instance is not there all right. no in fact venezuela has one of the coverage from the vote and you. actually have them a lot more people do have active social media and likewise most of them. private how with media is the role of illusion. for example global vision more neutral but the opposition. i would. call social media.

there is not you know a blackout that is being vented burble international media is overwhelmingly by you know in support of the. program but as well as it was an article by fair report and there are you know in the u.s. mainstream media who are openly against the u.s. well look it's let me share this with you i'm sorry then you can pick up this is the we said on twitter she talks about the reason for blocking access blocking assets to the internet is that social media is the only way that most people venezuela can access information you block the internet then they don't get information local t.v. channels and most radio stations are fiercely watched by the regime to keep them from reporting what is going on that is a different perspective than the one that lucas shared with us and you say what's absolutely sense twenty and since two thousand and one with the closing of at us that there are c.t.v. there are all those news network in venezuela that lead to

a whole you know two decades of closing t.v. networks radio stations there is not one radio or t.v. station in the country that is not managed by the government so with which is why all of the information that people feel is via social media via twitter facebook instagram what's app is how we communicate because every time you turn on the t.v. is like there's two parallel venezuela we see as we see all chavez is this courses we see everything is ok great in the meantime you open the window you don't even have to open the window you can hear it you see the people are in the street and it's not being reported. which is why we have international media reporting and the b.b.c. c.n.n. has been kicked out then and in espanol has been kicked out in twenty fifteen i believe out of the roaster so even if you have cable then it's on people cannot allow they are not allowed to watch international t.v. daniel i want to play this to you because you can hear the two sides here more than

two sides but you can hear lucas and they are not on the same page and it almost seems like everyone in venezuela. is divided where they have the high mature or are they behind quite oh this is escobar he is a journalist have a listen to how he explains what is going on right now don and then you can pick up off the back of a one of the themes that we need to think about is that one way to go is the legitimate president of venezuela and he's been back they've been a strong people to go for demonstrations to go for broke is a legitimate way to claim power against mcdougal's regime either wary is this this is the end either form a tourist regime over the movement civil society of been a swell or to gain freedom to work country. but it's another point of view i mean that they were good at an increasingly polarized society we hear increasingly polarized points of view and you can have arguments about whether one side or the

other is respect in the constitution or not but what we've seen are more demonstrations i mean i was there in venezuela in two thousand and fourteen there were demonstrations on the street by both sides pro and anti-government something like eighty or ninety people were killed again on both sides of the members of the security forces were also killed it was a very tense situation and it died down so what seems to happen is these every now and then these demonstrations flare up but it really does seem to be this representative of what is a polarized society getting even more polarized in my state as the situation intensifies and as we have the international situation now with russia china turkey supporting the dawdle united states brazil and colombia and others supporting bum white all so again i don't really know whoever you listen to you have to be very very careful you identify almost immediately who is on what side and trying to pick your way through that and establish some kind of a balanced view of what was going on is the challenge we all face let me share with

you the verified twitter account of nicolas maduro i'm using the translation from twitter into english for you i thank the venezuelan people for that college and conscience in the face of this attempt to commit a tar they have shown that i mobilize people as a guarantee of tranquility for the homeland when it's when it is touching of peace and independence lucas how has the president hasn't let you know how this situation do you think. i want to correct one thing very quickly it was quoted. out of dozens of a not without actually played a key role in the two thousand. was sponsored by elliott abrams at the time but in terms of the question. of the very difficult the mother. chooses to arrest someone who clearly has violated the law is attempting a coup against them or is openly calling on the armed forces to insurrection and calling for international invasion repeatedly. and able to arrest and bring him to

justice because if he does that we cross is what the drug ministrations delineated as a red line and what you know it will perhaps invade the country or bomb the country . with a very dangerous situation where the united states is also going to recognize the lopez who was just yesterday from his condition of how. he was so critically role in the two of them. conducting the justice minister at the time so these are characters with a long history of. attempting to oust about as one government here is t.j. sixty three fabiola t.j. says the whole point of the protests is to put pressure on president nicolas maduro to resign from office how is that working out from your perspective to me so it's a very interesting word of wording because for him to resign that means that he is president and he isn't legally what he were asking is for him to leave for him to

stop sir playing the position we have a precedent is why the interim president is going to call for elections but it's a process that needs to start with the stop of the seas of a separation then creating a government of transition and finally calling for free elections and johnny was really fascinating watching how president joe is conducting himself he's i was just looking at his twitter feed you have a tweet anything for al as well as quite i was too. every few minutes and i don't rally the people how do you a contrast to leaders about how they are handling this situation majority feels like he's very confident right what he thinks he's won i mean that's the impression he's put forward he gave his press conference surrounded by the military high command late last night and so he's basically sitting back waiting for white door to make the next move he doesn't have to speak just yet i'm sure he will have some today i just find it interesting listening to the bible or even the use of the word

. or uprising you know so even the language that people on both sides hues will indicate a will to meijer the weak side of the of the debate there which of the debate there on so again we face that bill the dilemma the polarization of the administrators started in the in the debate in that when the language chose to describe what's going on and then man say one thing. let's say nicholas another word out on national t.v. has had some for audience slip and said that why there was interim president so he himself has accepted the way though is interim president why is the rest of the country now that they have a listen to nicolas maduro this was his response to a day of protests so this was just a few hours ago have a listen have a look. not enough with the truth is assault as a shield we face so many attacks and so many lies and thanks to the truth we have emerged victorious in every situation and we will continue to emerge victorious in

any difficulty that we will face from now on in the upcoming months and years i have no doubt about it but i do not think anyone norville talented to say he is the editor of global voices and she's been watching and her journals have been following very keenly what is happening in venezuela laura reminds us it's important to remember that venezuela's crisis is affecting the continent it's not just the u.s. it's also venezuela's neighboring countries mainly colombia receiving waves of people suffering from hunger troll that diseases that can affect the health status of the region daniel can you pick up on that expanded a little bit more yeah i mean this is a story we've covered in so in some depth i mean not just colombia colombia has borne the brunt of many of the migrants brazil tens of thousands of people have been to some of the most remote towns in bolivia for instance and found in a swathe of migrants that here we went to cyrus there are large presence as well very well integrated into the society and i think that is a reason why countries in latin america very keyed in end of this crisis as soon as

possible for the sake of venezuela of course but mostly because they fear something like four million venezuelans an estimate have left the country already if things get much worse that this of course into a full civil war then people are very very frightened about what will happen if there were tens of thousands millions more flooding across the borders of the social structures are simply not good enough to cope in some of these countries resort just over the border in brazil in all the brazil but the initial wave of immigrants came over migrants came over they were very well accepted they integrated diety local people were helping them a great deal two or three years later not moving to turn because there were so many venezuelans coming over and they were seen as a drain on resources and there was a violent mean. probably about the micro it is it is a big worry around the rest of the region it's really important to talk about the military in this current situation in venezuela right now the moco goldney mentions this in

a tweet to us military divisions in venezuela not healthy for those early signs of the fall of his regime but maybe that was tuesday perhaps not on wednesday lucas was the military doing. in the end we have yet to see any ranking military official in fact and support the opposition certainly to our soon to be fractured intelligence apparatus which is directly many more right wing elements within the military it seems solidly behind i think it's also a migration i want to comment quickly that one of the key driving factors behind migration in that region is u.s. sanctions which according to a recent economist. jeffrey sachs is. already killed forty thousand people been. driven up as an economist is going to cause one of the economy to contract by thirty seven percent in twenty nineteen destroying over over a third of the of the economy considering that over half of the destroyed in the last five years with banks is. not as well so it's important as it is exacerbating

this crisis and causing the migration which is using right wing are using to justify its brother answered immigrant policy. well i want to mention about the sanctions the sanctions have been very specific specially to people in high rankings of the governments who are infiltrated and because half the king to say america to north america the two nephews of presidents let's call him a little are currently in prison in new york because they smuggled one ton of cocaine to haiti in an official airplane and they were intercepted by by american officials and it's officers as well that have deflected the government and are requesting asylum and refuge in there. so to talk about sanctions being the reason behind immigration immigration started years ago it's been two decades of mismanagement of corruption and. the sanctions are just like

a cherry on top but the money has never really. arrived to the people it's been you know removal of these a block of two you know specific power movers not really on his own people. daniel go ahead i'm going to die they also have to be said that even before all the charges came to power there were massive in division in venezuelan society there was massive insecurity of massive inequality in the distribution of wealth and why some people were very very wealthy and i went to i was lucky enough to have been this way in the early one nine hundred ninety s. before charges came to power and there was massive inequality and regular is going into the great deal of anger that is one of the reasons why you were a child is it come to our own was popularly supported and the legacy of that i think you still remember that it has to be said by any sense or measure the venezuelan economy at the moment is an absolute disaster that inflation is out of control nothing short. of almost everything and nicholas who are obviously must

take great deal of the blame for that but people still do remember how things were just with a gift like nicholas with daughter what many could do it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to support one way ball and the people who surround him because they remember what life was like before which obviously now let me remind you that the pictures that you are watching our wearing khaki right now they're coming for us live to al-jazeera and who you are seeing on the streets and supporters of one. i know. daniel you were talking about sanctions also gabrielle hatband assistant professor university at alba he was trying to think how do we get out of the situation he also mentioned sanctions have a less. so i think it's absolutely crucial for the international community to call for negotiations to call for a complete cessation of these illegal and incredibly damaging sanctions within venezuela to call her complete and to u.s. threats of war. on moral grounds and also on effective grounds these are just an

obstacle to the actual path of peace and they really failed to achieve any of their stated objectives so far and they've really hardened the lines within venezuela so moving towards a more peaceful solution i think is absolutely critical and i think that's where the energy of the international community including people reporting in venezuela should be this look at let's look at some of the reporting from venezuela from some of the u. s. newspapers let's look at the new york times compare secularist states for the united states accuses cuba a russia of propping up venezuelan roula and then we go across to a reaches russia denies us claim it told what i saw as a mature way not to flee who to me believes what do you understand is really happening we've got an international players for you because you know look why do you support the obviously yes and not just of why bill for the sake of why though i'm trying to get my country back on track. the fact is that at six thirty am why

though makes an announcement he's backed by some military. players and at seven thirty am russian airplane arrives from most who took us a bombardier can remember the play the license plate and that has been reported by venezuelan reporter and upon the reporter. for that isn't but he was also he's in madrid right now because he was persecuted politically and you know that happens an hour later from a school. and then two hours later that same airplane goes to. the dominican republic ok gets a point so who to believe i'm not sure i'm not in the circles of intelligence say ok but see what i mean is watching you right now she's watching our conversation here on the stream i.v. says and this is really pointed at you fabiola go i do is not the president he is

helping a foreign government invade us sanctions of killed an estimated forty thousand venezuelans and i'm the us and in the us the media is propaganda so it's the same issue can we hear the black venezuelans point of view we only have three people in this conversation but many more people out there so they are pushed back about being the president let me just share this with you this is from dr barr to the op daniel i'm going to go back to you were just wrapping up got thirty seconds left here eventually the people found us way to will suffer from chaos and street fighting people's health license welfare must be the first line both sides don't pay attention to this matter daniel closing thought yeah i mean the only right thinking person has to agree with. this way that it's the focus of a much bigger battle which involves the us and russia and several other players and the venezuelan people at the heart of this big divide between white all supporters and bhutto supporters never to believe the ones that suffer. a look. around

them delgado thank you so much sharing with us how divided people in venezuela are we will continue with their said al jazeera dot com for the latest news there and with the stream at a.j. strain thanks for watching thank you guests see you next time. when your fiancee lives behind bars. the engagement also becomes a life sentence. as your world hears

from three palestinian women whose lives have been dictated by their relationships with men in prison. wedding on hold on al-jazeera. al-jazeera for me is different because there's a maturity about its views god. really genuinely opposes child on the pads so the risk of a story. goes over. the not going anywhere al-jazeera is setting out to face the reality on the ground the other reality of the drought the only becomes the next to the people and that's what we do i think that's what we do well. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage for part of this can you get through your thick

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portrayed by already east short summary of the four hundred forty eight page document in march it found no collusion between russia and trump during the twenty sixteen presidential election but did not reach a conclusion on whether the president had obstructed justice. and i called bob i'm so but you know what's the issue here are you suggesting i asked him if he was suggesting that the march twenty fourth letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate and that the press was reading too much into it and i asked him you know specifically what his concern was and he said that his concern focused on his explanation of why he did not reach a conclusion on obstruction. bar faced tough questions from several senators including the democratic presidential candidate kamala harris and fisher has more from capitol hill one of the key points that she pushed ahead was did you examine

the underlying evidence when robert mueller sent you a report and said i am not going to meet a decision on obstruction of justice and what he said was he read the report and then he decided from that that there was no obstruction of justice kamelot harvest was very clear did you look at the underlying evidence did you consider everything before you made that decision and it's clear from robert from billboards answer that he did not and that is going to be one of the key moments he says is he through his pain on the ground that is going to be one of the key moments that we hear. repeated in the coming days just as in venezuela have clashed with security forces after opposition leader who called for the largest march in the country's history police fired tear gas at several hundred demonstrators who were trying to block a highway near where attempt to start a military uprising on tuesday elsewhere in the capital protests remained peaceful thousands gathered to support again urged the army to help and asked president

nicolas maduro and the. rows already been defeated we want our liberty and our electricity and water supplies i want to say that we are on the right path we are being listened to they want to join the country together with a forward the regime cannot move forward imagine someone saying he's the president even though he isn't this regime hasn't got control of the country anymore they'll try to stop me and persecute me and they'll think that they'll stop us but we know who the winner is pro-government demonstrations have also been rallying in the capital thousands gathered outside the presidential palace in caracas in support of nicolas maduro on tuesday maduro claim to have defeated a coup attempt by the opposition he warned quote those actions will not go unpunished i'm saying to launch a criminal investigation. may day protests in the french capital have descended into violence after police fought with dozens of anarchists at least thirty eight protesters were injured and three hundred eighty arrested hundreds of thousands of

people have been rallying across the country most of them peacefully russian police and guardsmen arrested more than one hundred people it may day protests there anti-government activists and members of human rights groups were among those detained most of the arrests happened inside petersburg where several hundred people called for fair elections president vladimir putin's approval rating has fallen to around sixty percent recently on the back of a tax hike and increases in the retirement age. the olympic and world champion athlete caster semenya has lost her appeal against new rules that will force her to take medication in order to compete in sport world's highest court has ruled that so many are and other female runners must take special drugs if they have high levels of the male hormone testosterone and want to participate in certain events so many and her lawyers are considering an appeal. there's headlines coming up the student leaders in south africa risking their lives in the fight for free education

witness is up next to stay with us and others are if you can buy for now. it's going to be about a decent. period of their birman duration of. the first year there was fifty of us in our trust and sixteen yes there were like

twenty. we had to see people that we knew very closely our friends not coming back to school. to. work. it was a very odd figure and a very high figure well we're going to accept the increase or we're going to fight and we were clear that we're going to fight. to space we don't have a language we don't think that the way the most destruction feeble students. think that you know there's no way students can never win anything. the fear message that

we have for the diversity is that we can't continue like this. i must know up there . no no no. it's enough what do you want didn't on that big i want. you know do know. this is something you cheat you but i don't look at the freedom charter and the police in my face but i thought this was a modest see the brief that you see to see that you go on at this university just lying to me see what you started started on yeah. because we have beaten as black people excused it from the education system for such a long time if we are interested about the sting called transformation then we have to ensure that this justice. this is like a food security project whatever from district g. string and goes to the field bank and gets given to the students that

a beneficiary of the food bank program. the. many academics find themselves throughout the year being approached by students for money to buy food you have put the students who have to sit in the same class as students who in their first year when they pass matric the parents buy them a c. there's been so b.m.w. so they can drive to university the inequality is far more benefits at a place like but university and other form you know english speaking war you know the top white universities and these things contribute to the kind of consciousness and the politics that have evolved in the feast must for movement. you sit in these

institutions and you think you in cambridge there was purposeful these institutions were made primarily for white middle class men. these institutions were in fact a primary part of holding and developing a party south africa and colonial africa. was the. not only a students oppressed by the violence of the system in that they financially excluded but so well costs right and to an even worse extent because workers have even less agency than students to write in some ways the university needs us to exist as opposed to workers who can be more easily replaced.

and not employed by overheads but knew where and contracted companies in two thousand and one when this outsourcing started the employers who were employed by beds they now became ex vets and and what they lost was to have this the least in the long i had medicaid eight. was one hundred forty four and the robot however i'm a man was ideally it's part of the same struggle you want a more just society you want a dignified society and you want to dig commodified university. where others are but i don't like to forget that in the life of go back into

communities and to make sure that the uplifting and. i think if you're doing that you have failed as a student was. the. history is a nightmare from which we're still trying to wait. oh if you want people to have a shot it changing the social economic reality that. they've inherited then you have to prioritize higher education. post nine hundred ninety four we get a message it cation which means that these universities get opened up to black people and to poor people and to woman in ways that was he started to not possible as you have this happening you have the state withdrawing subsidy. there was an argument made in the ninety's particularly by people in positions of power

at the time that we needed to think more critically about priorities and it was felt that higher education wasn't one of those priorities like. the big universe the ones with. the ones with the elite used to go and preach the fees by double digits the logical thing to do because as the subsidies gay you want to retain quality you. the poor universities couldn't do it so they did increase fees but by the amount. this is a special moment for me as i symbolically as. the vice chancellor stripped of that university.