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this is do w. news live from berlin the venezuelan president says he has survived a drone attack in the capital on harm. good close enough to do so for the. president but duros speaking during a military parade when blacks were heard to drew's blaming colombia's president for the alleged attack we'll have the latest from caracas also coming up. tens of thousands of people gather in israel to protest a new law which they say to marginalize is known to be
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a time one of israel's best integrated minorities the druze are protesting against government policy. and protesters faced off with counter protesters at the headquarters of the united states most powerful gun lobby our correspondent was right in the middle of it. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen. venezuela says president nicolas one doro has survived an assassination attempt carried out with explosives laden drones during a military parade and televised address just hours after the incident majority blamed the attack on colombia's president juan manuel santos as well as on venezuela's opposition and financial backers in florida over its part colombia is denying any involvement we now have this look at how the alleged attack unfolded.
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for a place. in full flow suddenly cut short this footage broadcast live on state television shows the moment when an apparent explosion rocked a military parade sending hundreds fleeing on foot. the government declared it in assassination attempt. on a monitor which i don't want to see on explosions were heard which we have established as coming from multiple drone idea. of the fact that one of the people there only to find out that they were not in it was an attempt on the life of the president of venezuela nicolas maduro to get what you want yes but to put everyone on the attack has failed or that it all. just hours later mudra gave a defiant speech speculating that the incident was
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a right wing conspiracy with ties abroad into the syrian i mean ten thousand or so i see not a movie there has been an attempt to assassinate me but i have no doubt that this all points to the extreme right in venezuela and in alliance with the right in colombia and that colombia's president juan manuel santos is behind this attempt i have no doubt. the socialist president has often accused the right wing opposition of plotting a coup but as the economy continues to weaken widespread protests have become one of the biggest threats to ma duros of ministration we're joined now by correspondent oscar schleicher who's in the event of a venezuelan capital caracas so oskar been hearing from venezuela as information minister he says explosive laden drones were used and want to he's calling an attack on president maduro as elias what evidence does the government have that drones were used. well the evidence that we haven't seen as of yet is the video
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that you all saw and the governments were the information minister said that some drone parts an explosive residue in a neighborhood near my apartment but we have had no we haven't had any visuals to back those claims as of now or there are eyewitnesses that reported seeing a flying object exploded near the stage where the president might who was speaking and we've seen pictures of some of the injured there are seven injured military officers from this explosion and we've seen pictures of those injured officers so that's the only evidence that we've seen as of yet welcome a duro himself has put the blame on to columbia along with backers in florida why would these parties want him dead when one of the things he mentioned is that they wanted to plot against him because of the new economic measures that have
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been going on here in venezuela we have a few days where it's changing our whole currency and there are new. measures to regulate gasoline. prices as well so he's blaming some of that are just this assassination plot against him all right well what my dura has also said is that a number of those as legibly and involved have now been arrested is there any information on who these individuals are. well not yet my role mention this briefly during his speech he said he didn't want to give any details until they finished the investigation or something the opposition this could turn into a witch hunt but besides that reaction we've heard little from the opposition especially the opposition leaders about this attack. all right so my door is saying
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this wasn't an attempted assassination but we have been hearing some other very different explanations of what happened we have some news agencies saying a firefighter is saying it was a gas tank explosion what have you been hearing or there are reports and visual evidence of an apartment in flames near the radio where my hoover was speaking and some agencies are reporting that that was the only explosion on site. this is the twenty year time of who has or at least twenty times man who has said there has been bonsa gets just right when it was how this was president there were over fifty of these accusations of. terror plots against their last this is the first time you've seen such a such an attack. fold out in front of our eyes and this television.
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address he was making so it is it would be quite elaborate. plan to take on if it wasn't true and there's a lot of people that are in disbelief of this being sure however in social media and some journalists are. have said that this comes from group of military officers and they are calling me an operations. and that was journalist on special anger speaking to us a short time ago from caracas. turning now to israel where tens of thousands of people have been protesting in tel aviv against a controversial new law the demonstration was organized by the country's druze minority they say the law marginalizes non jewish people in the country many directed their anger at israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. b.v. go home that's the cry from some of the tens of thousands of people who turned out
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to protest against israel's contentious nation state legislation a law which essentially defines israel first and foremost as a jewish state arabs make up a fifth of the population and the trees a much smaller minority say the new law also sidelines them but. we are here to send a clear message to the israeli government we will not settle down for nothing less than equal rights as israelis civis it's the nation state law to clear's israel the exclusive homeland of jewish people its single say keep or use the state language effectively prioritising it about arabic which has for decades been recognized as an official language to it spoken by the trees who make up just two percent of the population people ask us to consider the ourself we considered
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ourselves as israeli drones we probably did that is the name of the religious jewish state again not the jewel shall we us because our government and the organ in the members of the knesset to delete these will not do could lick this law to delete this law from the history of. the juries have risen to high office in the military and politics since the one nine hundred fifty s. now you more than sixty years on they are fighting to retain the recall the city and achieve it for other minorities in israel. and that is some of the other stories making headlines around the world. firefighters have kids to fight wildfires rather have kicked off in southern portugal over one of the hottest weekends on record for the idea of an uncivil hundreds of firefighters were sent to battle the blaze with the assistance of water bombing aircraft a europe wide heatwave has been especially severe in portugal and spain with
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temperatures exceeding forty five degrees celsius on saturday. mobile phone footage has captured the moment the deadly tornado made landfall in canada on friday powerful storm overturned cars at a modest serious damage to trailers and homes in manitoba province local media say a seventy seven year old man was found dead outside of what remains of his destroyed home. thousands of anti abortion protesters have demonstrated in buenos iris ahead of a landmark vote in congress that could utilize abortion in argentina the bill passed the lower house earlier this year will take place on wednesday and looks set to be very close. well in the united states protesters have demonstrated at the headquarters of the national rifle association against the group's role in blocking stricter gun control laws protesters called for tougher background checks
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for buyers of guns and a ban on assault weapons but supporters of the powerful gun lobby also came to voice their opposition against such restrictions. clear richardson reports from fairfax virginia. in a polarized national debate a rare display of the two sides talking to each other but both are holding their ground. you're put property over life which is a clone no it's not a good you know news i'm sure i can thank you for everything it was necessary to work i want to reserve for my home i don't know as we don't it's a heated discussion as protesters. and counter protesters clashed over the role of guns in the united states this is a stop on the march of our lives national road trip that's been aimed at raising awareness about gun violence and registering people to vote as you can see it's a smaller protest than some of the ones we've seen earlier this year but the location is important we're here right in front of the national rifle association
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which they blamed for buying off politicians. across a police barricade and are a supporters they it's people not guns that are the problem they don't want any restrictions on their ability to carry such weapons it's someone who doesn't follow the law because we let's face it the law comes out and decides to hurt me or anyone else in the group i want to have adequate protection to help those kind of people guns are the great equalizer it's you know if i'm up against two hundred fifty pound man i cannot physically defend myself without some form of you know self-defense weapon. but showing up wearing guns is horrifying for students who have seen their classmates gunned down before their eyes i'm not saying you know take away all their guns but i'm like you right there are disregarding like the laws that everyone who's like lost their lives in america to gun violence and like this is like disrespectful. walking all over was a student who died in the mass shooting at
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a high school in parkland florida earlier this year he was gunned down by an air fifteen by someone who was known to be a threat today's his eighteenth birthday we're not to forget about him because this shouldn't be happening i shouldn't have to hold this post or he should be here with us with elections just three months away there's no sign of compromise gun control advocates will have to make good on their promise to vote out politicians who support the n.r.a. . well in the bundesliga were last season surprised package as they finished runners up their ascendancy has many of their fans pumped for the season to come the royal blues will have their hands full with champions league and domestic soccer expectations are high so much so that fans are prepared to travel in numbers just to watch them train. this is how child has stopped the training camp every morning to the mount she has a fancy last season success hasn't reached
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a new hype fifteen hundred fans flocked to showcase training camp in austria one of those fans is paid to hen's a he traveled eight hundred kilometers just to watch his favorite team train the mentality of deference the mentality of the fans is something unique he would give everything for the club and you can see it here fifteen hundred fans came to the training camp we are mud i'd say. only three years ago the training camp attracted to me a two hundred pounds the dramatic increase has come as a surprise even to the chaos it's very surprising you think to make pre-season nobody would be then you come and there was one thousand five hundred people and this is a thing this is so. many fans are convinced that coach too many to discourse the real deal there's excitement in the air if shell could keep up the success they might have to look for another summer training camp next season one big enough to
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host so many having fans. a quick reminder now of our top story and as well as president nicolas maduro has survived what he calls an assassination attempt carried out with expose the illegal drugs he blamed the attack on colombia's president but colombia tonight any involvement. thanks for watching. the. people of the world for information. the pains to express. facebook and twitter up to date and in touch.

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