this is deja vu news live from berlin what now for venezuela after the close missouri wins a second term as president but euro's calling it an historic victory but the opposition says the vote was a farce many countries are not recognizing the outcome we'll go live to caracas also coming up on the show. suppressing dissent at home turkey's president has been banned from holding rallies for upcoming elections in a number of you countries so he's taking his pitch to x. factor to bosnia. and defending world ice hockey champions sweden

took on switzerland in the final two but this was a fall off and upset for with the swedes keep their perfect record intact. plus they don't consider themselves to be men or women but they say they're not transgender either we talked to a group of people in sort of mexico sometimes referred to as the third gen. brian thomas thanks so much for being with us nicolas maduro has won venezuela's presidential election he beat his nearest rival and refile calm by a wide margin now he's calling his victory a triumph over imperialism but the opposition boycott of the polling said it was not free and fair a number of countries including argentina panama and the united states say they

will not recognize the outcome. for nicolas maduro and his supporters a celebration with few surprises it's a second six year term for the venezuelan president who won over two thirds of the vote. in the we won again. we have triumphed again. where we are the force of victory and friend in the face of all the challenges. but it's a hollow victory the country's electoral authorities say only forty six percent of voters turned out at the polls opposition parties say the real figure is closer to thirty percent they boycotted the election claiming it was rigged. one challenger who ran a little more than a prayer says the vote was marred by irregularities. we don't recognize this electoral process as valid as having taken place.

for us there were no elections or were the new elections in venezuela need to take place. modules opponents say the empty polling stations were kept open for hours past the prescribed closing time in a desperate bid to draw in voters. voting was very low one it didn't used to be like this and they're hoping more people will eventually come out but the truth is it's been very very weak we put the fuel on there were only a few voters it was not like this in other years when there was a lot of people today i've been walking through town and the voting centers are mc . it doesn't feel like you know what there haven't been many people because there was a campaign asking people not to vote they told people not to turn nights but some

people from the other side have voted and we should be says have gladly come by democrats and i guess my doodle has been handed a second term as venezuela suffers under crippling inflation and food shortages his victory has been rejected by the u.s. which says it may impose new oil sanctions against the struggling state. did abuse ophelia harms already is following developments for us in the venezuelan capital caracas good morning ophelia you know after this is expected result what now for venezuela with most of its economy in complete tatters. well we will probably not see many new different road mr moderate in present specific changes he would have to change the economic model in the country and we don't think this is going to happen like we heard we write seymour's international

sanctions the u.s. has threatened to cut all imports from venezuela which would affect the people even further people are already suffering in the country from all these sanctions imposed. to this country and this would also mean that more multinational companies will probably leave the country as we just saw this week kellogg's leaving and this will mean less jobs more poverty and probably more venezuelans being the country and increasing this humanitarian crisis that the government has not been willing to recognize you know what the turnout was exceptionally loads looking like an historic low the opposition is things thirty percent somewhere between thirty and forty six percent voter turnout well forty six percent turnout seems a lot for many people who are looking at the polls today i was

traveling around the city and they seem empty as never before people said they had never seen something like that and we did actually see more longer lines supermarkets or bus stations and this is because people nowadays are more worried about getting food because of this food shortages they sometimes don't get to see a kilo of of. sugar in two weeks so they have to stand in line for hours and they decided to do that instead of going to vote ok no materials main challenger henry for calling he's of course rejecting this vote he's called it rigged what's the opposition going to do can we expect demonstrations. well he asked for new elections in october the opposition was really easy vida during this election time and actually the people i guess calling were the ones

boycotting the election in the first place they were actually not supporting him at all because they were blaming him of being a supporter of the government because he's well known as a friend of the of the former president chavez now as the devitt as he is now rejecting this result we might see united opposition the vice president of governmental party called for a dialogue this morning we are not sure if this is going to work because the four last attempts did fail ok no doors as the economic plight is not his fault he says it's the result of an imperialist plot led by the united states to venezuelans by that unfortunately a lot of them do it must be said that this country holds a really strong propaganda body. state run media is really.

is always sending out this message and people do believe that it is not the mismanagement of this government and yeah well they you know can i make. the economic. well what they've been doing for so long they they think that it isn't the government's fault and well what we've seen is that the venezuelan government did rely on its already service for too long and they imposed social programs that conflict with the current all price and longer did abuse ophelia harms really bring us up to date on that election result in caracas the caracas thanks very much. now for some of those stories making the news at this hour the u.s. department of justice will investigate whether the f.b.i.

spied on president trump's twenty sixteen election campaign in a tweet trump said he demands to know whether any such requests for spying were made by the obama administration. about listening official says president mahmoud abbas has been hospitalized with a fever abbas was admitted following in your operate on tuesday his recent health difficulties have revived anxiety in the region about upon possibly better succession battle for leadership of the palestinian authority. the democratic republic of congo is preparing to launch a. vaccination program today in a bid to stop the ladies outbreak of the disease health workers have shipped four thousand doses of the vaccine to areas along the congo river with registered cases of the potentially deadly virus last week. when one person has been severely injured by molten rock in hawaii as lava continues to flow from the killer whale volcano began erupting more than two weeks ago and has burned dozens of homes and

forced thousands of people to flee the why national guard has warned of mandatory evacuations of more roads become impassable due to the labile. well turkey is holding an election next month and to shore up support present such a tired burdwan has taken his campaign campaign abroad he dressed thousands of expatriate turks in bosnia's capital sarajevo on sunday though at that rally everyone called on european turks quote to show their strength to the whole world. thousands of turks from all over europe arrived in sarajevo ahead of president brigitte no one's really some twenty thousand all up. as bosnia's muslim member of the presidency but cute is it which no one. unfazed by intelligence claims of an assassination plot against him but security was tight.

news of this has reached me through the national intelligence service such threats will not lead us astray from our path. would it be right for so many people across europe to come here and not be able to see the leader they wanted to meet and greet . no it would not be they cannot stop us from walking our path we're on the same path like the path we were on during the coup attempt on july fifteenth. some three million expatriate turks are allowed to vote nearly half of them in germany the bosnian capital is the only campaign stop president everyone will be making in europe austria germany and the netherlands announced they would not allow him to hold election rallies erda one supporters called the ban undemocratic. there are twenty eight thousand people who came here the ban on air no one in the

e.u. is not good for europe this is not democracy in a democracy you can do whatever you want there's no democracy in europe it's a modern dictatorship. the election on june twenty fourth will usher in the beginning of a new system of governance which will concentrate more powers in the president's hands and abolish the office of prime minister but support for everyone in bosnia is not unanimous the croatian member of the bosnian presidency has warned it could hurt the country's aspirations to join the e.u. . this is still to come on the show we talk to a group of people in southern mexico sometimes known as a third gender. first heart and a trade war between the u.s. and china seems to be off the cards for the moment the threat of an imminent trade war that is between the united states and china appears to be. dissipating indeed

and talks held over the weekend the two countries agreed not to impose further tariffs on each other while they continue to work on a trade deal the main issue under discussion is how to narrow china's three hundred thirty five billion dollar trade surplus with the united states trade representatives on both sides say the discussing the possibility of china importing more u.s. agricultural products as well as energies still the u.s. has gone through the necessary legislative process and can now impose tariffs on chinese goods at any time. irish low cost airline ryan as released its full year results for twenty seventeen spurred by an increase increase in passengers net profits sold to one point four five billion euros up ten percent compared to the year before run as seems to have weathered it difficult months the cancellation of thousands of flights due to rostering problems and pilot strikes apparently failed to have a big impact on the company's bottom line two thousand and seventeen was

a turbulent year for the airline industry alitalia started bankruptcy proceedings and air berlin disappeared from the sky as fuel prices climbed and it was full throttle among the remaining airlines to score passengers from the failed carriers germany's lufthansa group came out on top in terms of passenger numbers selling one hundred sixteen million tickets in two thousand and seventeen ireland's low cost ryanair remain the most popular budget carrier with over one hundred nine million passengers beating out i agee the company behind british airways iberia and air lingus and it was followed by air france k l m and ryanair is bitter rival easyjet . whether ryanair can keep the momentum going this year is another matter c.e.o. michael o'leary finally agreed to recognize unions and pay pilots more in return

passengers are footing the bill now the ultimate no frills airline has made checking times shorter and even cabin baggage comes at a cost. of portage one is above joins us now in the studio. looks a bit closer ryan as number you just heard the report number two behind. in europe right about how that. year but one thing always sticks out that the part that pilots this stuff don't seem to be happy that no they're not and we have heard in the last twenty four hours that the average pilots union has more demands from ryan air they want systems for different systems for face allocations so that's basically where the pilots as opposed to living and also in terms of promotion the way people are promoted within the company they want more transparency so with basal locations basically ryan air has a mandatory people have to move the pilots have to move to where they are flying

from and what exactly it tells them where to live exactly and that's sort of a problem because people don't always want to move and some people want to move but they don't know who gets to move so they want to think well more transparency about that and how that works obviously and of course moving affects families so it's a big deal ryanair doesn't respond by may twenty fourth that there might be a strike in island. as you said there might be another strike one of the other challenges facing ryanair arayan is facing this year with the strikes like we said are a huge challenge they had that last year and that might be on them going over issue for an air the other issue they are facing of course possibly rising oil costs ryanair has hedged ninety percent of its fuel. as for twenty eighteen meaning that they don't have to worry too much for this year but if costs for fuel do rise that means ryanair will be spending more on that so that's something that might be an

issue and they did say that also in the air full year results release and then at some stage brags it will combine as you know michael o'leary has been a consistent critic for for several years actually. why is that one how will it impact ryanair who of course he has been a critic because he knows that rania might actually lose out as a result they may have to pay fees when landing in the u.k. they don't have to do that because of course the u.k. is part of the e.u. and that means they don't need to pay any fees for that but that will change as of march next year with gregg's it unless of course some sort of agreement takes that into consideration the other problem is with the ownership of ryan air there's a wriggle regulation within the e.u. that stipulates that more than fifty percent the majority of e.u. based airlines should be own by e.u. nationals with ryan air when you factor out u.k. nationals that goes down to forty percent so that's sort of going to be an issue

because that's going to be against irregular asians of course what happens when that happens we cannot say at this point it hasn't happened yet so it would break that we might find out you might say and we will for you very much supernatural bellaver thank you now one feature nearly all star. every day incentives office workers foosball tables fresh fruit free drinks even massages but this has become such a whole mox of trendy internet companies stuff are supposed to feel good but now more and more traditional companies have discovered the power of the in-house gym and free snacks to keep their stuff the one such legacy company is fished up famous for inventing the wall plug. time for our morning workouts economist sarah how is using fishers in has gym.

for me it's still something special to have the gym and all the classes they'd be expensive in a regular gym and here we can do them after work at the company. well sarah polley exercises chef harold one five prepares lunch on the menu today salmon under spire guests the top chef comes in once a month you have some helpful hints and tricks for the kitchen stuff. so it will just be moving north in the aisles creates a positive atmosphere good food also keeps the staff healthy they arrive content and leave content with a. star studded cuisine for six euros the stuff lovers at half past eleven they're already lining up for the meal of the month. c.e.o. klaus fisher subsidizes the meals that's what make him must get the middle bottle to money we don't do this to manipulate the staff to make them more productive.

no it's about their well being and it's to say thank you for all the positive achievements at the company you have people to people like. sarah palin gets her portion served by the chef himself whenever she speaks about her workplace at home their reactions are the same. often country may this is jealous of the good food and that a three star chef like most of all five cooks here owns. fishes still generate eighty percent of its revenue with wall plugs one thousand two hundred employees work at the headquarters despite its remote location close fisher says he's no problems finding good stuff. when people arrive at company they feel that the stuff are really high. also spreads that this is a great place to work. economists is an example of us every day to drive to this rural location instead of nearby. the distance is the same but the feel good

factor is higher than. businesses. from gender neutral toilets to legal recognition transgender rights activists have been making significant gains in a number of countries and now they're pointing to the mexican state of law as an example of how society can learn from the past to promote diversity. the regus went to wall haka to find out more. it's friday in. the pack and. getting ready to go for a drink with a friend. both people born with male bodies but here. at home they often take on traditional female roles but they're not viewed as women either new share often confused as transgender but their identity is unique to the region and cities for the summer in other communities musha said to be less

accepted and more discriminated against and it's said that this region is the new shed paradise when it really isn't there's a lot of discrimination and violence it's still necessary to work hard to change the way people treat us. it was yesterday for. the iron inseparable part of the zappa tech culture life here revolves around family social events and keeping the men company despite their long history mexican law doesn't yet recognize them. in society generally accepts them the new chef say there's still much progress to be made. from a very early age we identify with our feminine side we dress up as women at ten twelve thirteen years of age but we can no longer access secondary school dressed as women so we leave school and devote ourselves to informal trades such as embroideries stylists six workers and cooks. there's a kind of

a glass ceiling over our heads with society won't allow us to advance at all. every year the arrived from all over the region to celebrate their identity in the festival of candles they wear traditional dress and dance to compete for the title of festival queen. what hackers are is an example for the rest of mexico with acceptance and tolerance of gender diversity it may still be a lot of work to do but for the people here the existence of a third. it's a way of life. we have some sports now and byron york season ended in dramatic and disappointing fashion on saturday the german football giants were defeated by eintracht frankfurt in the german cup final the underdogs came out on top in

a fast pace all action game some fans are still sold reading. the morning after the game of their careers frankfurt's cup winners were cheered as they started their trip back home the scale of their chief meant in overcoming by in munich was not lost on the. two it's only because it's a big deal for all of us it's my first cup win as a coach and frankfurt's first for thirty years so that's nice above all for our amazing fans who have waited thirty years for this the. tens of thousands of fans waited at frank first town hall to greet their heroes on their journey into the city supporters showed their appreciation it was a fitting celebration for the team surprise victory and a perfect farewell to coach nico kobayashi. in munich by and fans were also saying good bye to their coach your point is returns to his well earned retirement his final season up by and was a qualified success over the club won the bundesliga one title is simply not enough

for the more ambitious members of the squad. just to sprint promise next year will go out all guns blazing and then will stand up here with more than one trophy was it might not be enough to buy on but for frankfurt it's plenty the celebrations here will go on all summer. her ice hockey you know and after winning all their matches leading up to the final of the world championships sweden but the icing on the cake by winning it all they defeated switzerland in a nail biting final in copenhagen retaining their title. the first goal went to be in the dogs need to try to break the deadlock late in the first period. did not last long just two minutes later sweden equalised seventy could be used to fight home to level the schools i was. in the second period of

a swiss skin for upper hand once again to my maya finished off a counterattack to make it to one. put together in switzerland couldn't hold on to their advantage sweden powered on the pressure and eventually made it count. yet to put them level it to wall and that is how it stage for the rest of the game and over time. in the decisive penalty shootout philip forsberg scored for sweden but needed ita missed switzerland giving sweden the victory disappointment of a swiss who have still never won the world championship what with sweden celebrate their eleventh title. in tennis rafael nadal overcame german number one and defending champion alexander is very rare of to win the italian open for a record eighth time a doll seen here in yellow took the first set without breaking a sweat winning a six games to one very have responded in the second set and turned the tables on

the spaniard this time it was six games to one in his favor but the doll bounced back won the deciding third set six games to three win means he recall a muslim world number one ranking i. stitcher modern of our top stories this hour nicolas maduro has won venezuela's presidential election he beat his nearest rival henry volcom by a wide margin he called his victory a triumph over imperialism but the opposition boycotted the polls that it was not for a number of countries including argentina panama the united states say they are not recognizing the outcome. this is the interview news live for. len i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. playing. the blame.

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