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i want to know their story the regrets turner fundamentally marbling from former. exotic pet of the good. this is deja news blind from birth and a power struggle in venezuela as the opposition he did declares himself president hundreds of thousands take to the streets to demand president nicolas maduro and leave office the head of the office should want wydow says he's the country's only legitimate leader a move back by the united states. will those events overshadow the pope's visit to
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me above panama he's expected to champion children drives at world youth day a clarion call that progress and it's in caracas. also in the program growing up behind bars in the military wants him to think as mothers of the times he doesn't respond to choose long top of the turkish children imprisoned with their mothers are only allowed out on the weekends rights groups say that many of the mothers of jailed for political reasons. a warm welcome to you i'm honored that shima. then azula is an uncharted political territory off to the country's opposition leader kwan wydow declared himself interim president why they all made the move as thousands took to the streets of caracas to protest against president nicolas maduro the declaration was strictly
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recognized by the u.s. and other countries why the said it was time to end what he calls my dearest dictatorship. he hopes these words can topple then as well as government opposition leader one ply two swore himself in as interim president as thousands cheered him on. was came as ending this usurpation and this treasonous government and holding free elections if this happens then let god and let the nation reward us and if not then let them demand otherwise. quite those declaration comes as hundreds of thousands rallied across venezuela to support the opposition they call president maduro as government illegitimate and blame him for their country's economic collapse.
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but as their protests continued deadly violence spread. several demonstrators have been reported killed amid clashes with police. while authorities clamp down on protesters in a spoilers oppositionist getting fresh support elsewhere president trump joined a growing list of leaders who say they recognize one quite oh as venezuela's interim president trying tweeted the announcement and wrote business where the nz have spoken out against madeira and his regime and demanded freedom and the rule of law. my president maduro has hit back by vowing to cut all ties with washington he told all u.s. diplomatic staff to leave the country within seventy two hours but demand the white house rejects. out of venezuela they go enough interventionism there is dignity here and here there are people to defend this land
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. but the opposition says they have the claim to defending the country from the majority government. one quite zero says he intends to act as interim president only until new and fair elections can be held. a short while ago reality just because it's fun and especially in caracas about what he's been seeing on the streets that last night was all protest about in the body of the popular we just had never before aggressively protested against charges or are now doing so and being violently pressed there has been at least one dead last night and that adds to the fifteen that applied in the past two days since these protests started back in other parts of the country we've seen civilians taking to the streets burning which i was told she was and centuries old by the united socialist party so we are seeing escalation of falsely in the region and in
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misrata. that was due to. in caracas a member states of what's called the leave a group a platform of salt and north american nations have been commenting on the venezuelan crisis eleven of the fourteen nation group have come out in support of the opposition leader here's what some of them had to say i want to express that colombia recognizes one who i don't know as president of venezuela and supports this transition process towards democracy so the venezuelan people are liberated from dictatorship. but i could blow in as well i know said you had a. movie or i have recognized why and why do as venezuelan president. you will do the brazil together with all other countries come pricing that. which are recognizing this fact we will give full political support to take this process to an end to this you see let me say on behalf of canada that we
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recognize and express our full support for the interim presidency of venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly one quite though in compliance with the constitution of venezuela and we the members of the lima group are preparing a fuller written statement which we hope will come out very soon it's an important day for venezuela and i'm grateful for the solitary of the lima group in speaking out on this. the three of the states in the lima group that's mexico guyana and st lucia have not supported the german declaration in favor of the as venezuelan president also russia has come out in strong support of nicolas maduro and has warned the us against intervening militarily in venezuela meanwhile the events in venezuela could overshadow the pope's visit to nearby panama one of the countries which has recognized the new interim leader the pontiff isn't panama to celebrate
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world youth day with some two hundred thousand young worshippers expected to attend he is going to deliver a message of compassion and human rights to the faithful in latin america and also speak in defense of migrants. anything for a glimpse of the first latin american pope. on the boulevards of panama capital as the excitement was palpable. which i will see a lot of emotion it's my first time seeing the pope's a place it's such a great experience i feel blessed. what if you think of it i feel great happiness it's really great that everyone is on the streets and people from abroad are here all the cultural share a common space so it's really good food ask us again i would like to see it that way being. pope francis is here in panama to preside over world youth day the catholic church's yearly celebration that's brought an estimated one hundred fifty
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thousand participants from around the world. but the focus will likely be on the entire region francis has previously spoken of the plight of central american migrants and human rights have been a major theme of his papacy meanwhile the political crisis in venezuela is escalating with instability possibly driving even more people to leave that country in the coming days according to de w.'s latin american correspondent francis will also talk about the migration crisis from venezuela and the political crisis in nicaragua young people from those two countries have come here to panama to hear some words of encouragement from francis. for many here though his presence transcends politics. well v.m. nations are indescribable it's a brief moment but of joy of fulfillment of having a pope that he has lost an american and thinks and talks like us i feel he is very
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close and parts of my life lots of american power as i told francis will officially open world youth day later on thursday. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world china's foreign ministry says it has detained a chinese australian writer on national security challenges young hong was living in new york was detained after flying to china last week rights groups say security charges are often leveled against critics of the ruling communist. supporters of the for. governor of jakarta are celebrating his early release from a prison term for blasphemy christian. who is also known as a hawk. first governor in fifty years his blasphemy conviction in two thousand and seventeen fanfare of growing religious intolerance.
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in european union. is warns that efforts by british lawmakers to block british prime minister to resume from delivering a no deal will not work he said a majority must back another solution to prevent the u.k. from crashing out of the. two to the human rights groups believe some seven hundred children on prison off their mothers were convicted on what activists see a mostly political grounds one such child is two years old. his mother is a kurdish activist jailed in the city of on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda meraz lives with her and retreads other women in a single cell. looks at the children living behind bars who get a taste of life on the outside. saturday's the day the fathers pick up their children at the gates of the gibs a prison that
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a little ones can spend a day or two in freedom. as acrobat takes his two year old son mira's home every weekend the total is already gotten used to leaving his mother behind. the up for a kurds his mother has been active for an opposition party with links to the kurds that was enough to get her a four year sentence. if. we can just be glad to jail isn't that far away. and we can pick the children up now and there. is. a bar has joined up with other fathers whose wives are doing time for political offenses. in my wife's case it was because of social media comments and for that she was sentenced. on terrorist propaganda charges or lawyer told us that normally statements like that shouldn't be liable to prosecution. but they've
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changed the laws. as a result of the new anti terrorism laws mirrors and his mother girl is down and now sharing this bunk in a cell with over a dozen other inmates. has only a small concrete prison yard to play in. so the first place near as wants to go to is a playground and play like a normal child for a few hours mere hours will have to get through two years like this. i'm in and i don't want him to think his mother's abandoning him he doesn't understand that she's locked up we can only hope that he doesn't end up traumatized . currently over seven hundred small children are thought to be living with their mothers in turkish prisons the figure comes from the few known. governmental organizations i built to work with the affected
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families they said that for the state these children don't exist. in. the present yes and no are not at all qualified to respond to the needs of small children. and the government can't even tell us which prisons have children in them and how many. the weekend is over now mira's has to return to his mother in prison the separation is always hard for jen. he's worried what will be in store for his son in there this time and who will his wife and child have to share their cell with. the poles not in song they're on the mercy of their cell mates tolerance. they might complain if cries at night. fifteen women sleep in one cell things like that tend to haunt you. he
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doesn't want mirrors to notice that he's worried they say their goodbyes at the gibson prison gates. either come on we're going to mama. you. behind the gate or his father has to hand him over to god once again. to tennis and. resteal straight open final her first grand slam final since the day she was stabbed during a break in at a home by bookless over two years ago the czech eighth seed beat american daniel collins in straight sets amid extreme keat in melbourne which forced the courtroom to be close. japan's u.s. open champion iommi osaka in saturday's final meanwhile enough on the other side has not sinned just sunk his men's final off the hammering greece is stephanos city
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