this is a doubly newsline from venezuela's powerful military presence madore in his battle for survival a street violence breaks out between opposition forces security forces the country's defense minister throws the army white behind the door also on the program defense in fairness where the cordova shot of the pope's visit to a nearby town i'm always expected to champion human rights of world youth day. takes over as president of the democratic republic of congo after

a controversial election he calls for reconciliation and promises to free old political prisoners. and growing up behind boxer. want him to think it's muslims abandon him if he doesn't understand that she's long time. his children imprisoned with them not us and only a lot after the weekend rights groups say many of us have been jailed for political reasons. welcome to the program. it looks as though venezuela's president nicolas maduro has won the backing of the military in his standoff with the opposition leader who has proclaimed himself president the defense minister accused. of leading a coup and said the united states and other governments the which other governments which have recognized quite oh well carrying arms and economic war against fun this

way the government's key ally russia has also said it stands by the door. who was it was a bold move opposition leader one quite himself in his venezuela's interim president thousands cheered him on he hopes these words can topple president nicolas maduro government was the aim is ending this usurpation and this treasonous government and holding free elections if this happens then let god and the nation reward us. why doe's declaration comes as hundreds of thousands rallied across then as well in support of his opposition. they call president maduro's government illegitimate blaming him for the country's economic collapse. but has protests continued violence took hold. several demonstrators have been reported killed amid

clashes with police. authorities clamp down on protesters others a heaping pressure on the dollar and supporting the competence have opposition including president trump who staunchly supported one as venezuela's interim president has tweeted announcement said venezuelans have spoken out against madeira and his regime and demanded freedom and the rule of law but russia has thrown its weight behind the door over saying that he is the legitimate president and it want the u.s. not to stage an external intervention. you can just salute who are especially concerned about the signals which are now being received from some countries about possible interference we call on those countries to forget such thoughts it's a good age because that's up to the. president maduro meanwhile hit back at the u.s. by vowing to cut all ties with washington and told all u.s.

diplomatic staff to leave the country within seventy two hours a demand to the white house rejects the opposition says it has the claim to defend the country from the madeira government and one quite though has said that he intends to act as an interim president only until new and fair elections can be held i. reporter jennifer communicant says from venezuela and has been following the story for us welcome i'm how much does the army's backing for president but door to change things. well it's not too surprising that they say this that it's a vacuum i mean historically the army has been the backbone of this government since chavis and the leadership of the upper leadership is very much tied to it so it would it would have been a very shocking development if they had come up against mother would oh but this does not rule out the possibility that that anybody in the lower ranks of the army

would would go with the opposition the opposition made this move as a call for all elements of the army to back it down it could be their upper leadership or the lower in their ship but this this is a guess not very shocking right now what's happening and so we have a one declaring himself to be interim president does he enjoy popular support across the country. well we can say the finish of leave that he has the support of the opposition and its voters and its supporters in venice where has his in the last year is not had a lot of public opinion polling it's doesn't have a lot of independent media so it's hard to say oh who would support the opposition that would in turn support why though but what we can say is that some of that in the polling has shown that i roughly twenty to thirty percent of venezuela support my rule so in this sort of my jordi. big segment probably supports the opposition in turn why though but it's hard to say because we don't have

a lot of polling data but first sure we can sorry now is that the opposition and their supporters are firmly behind him so russia has come out with strong support for president the daughter who just outlined moscow strategic interests for moscow venezuela has turned into the voice against the u.s. in the region and venezuela really needs russia at this time because it is the one of the major world powers that is behind it and but also russia has heavy investments in venezuela's crumbling oil. industry and so they have the oil industry that they're heavily invested in they also sell have sold weapons and as recently as december a bomber that they delivered as well so they they have weapons they have they have the oil industry and again politically they get a lot of support from venezuela against the united states it is them it is most interesting and most important for russia that venice and i remain

a counterweight to the united states in the region very clear thank you very much for joining us and jennifer communities obviously well thank you you thank. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump says he's postponing his state of the union address until after the partial government shutdown is over that follows a standoff with house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi said the house would not provide the traditional space for the speech until after the shutdown. european union breaks it negotiated michel barnier he has warned that efforts by british lawmakers to have block a no deal drugs it will not work and he said the only way to prevent the u.k. from crashing out of the a huge or without a deal will be for lawmakers to agree on and solution. malaysia has a new king the sultan abdullah of perhaps was elected following the surprise

abdication of his predecessor soul to mohamed the fifth the first came to abdicate in the country's history malaysia has a unique monarchy where the role rotates between his reddit you do list every five minute people yes with them. now the democratic republic of congo has a new president to cater for a sport into office a short time ago in front of thousands of supporters as he used his inaugural speech to call for reconciliation promised to police all political prisoners present cicada succeeds joseph kabila who was in power for eighteen years of the election was marred by allegations of fraud it is the first peaceful transition of power in congo since the country gained independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty. let's get more on this from journalist live your acland who joins us on the line from kinshasa a welcome to the w the president followed up his call for reconciliation with action in announcing this release of political prisoners. yes

indeed if you can sense you can release all political prisoners. he's he's an entirely different position because computers coalition have the outgoing president of the vast majority in parliament so he he needs to show that he's the opposition and he's going to follow through with the with what people want but at the same time he's going to have to cooperate with with president could be the. party of a majority in parliament so he's already called president bitter an important political court now and he's slightly in between these two trying to teachers on his own to cook is and also. at the same time having to cooperate with the outgoing president so tell us more about felix just a keda who has come to this new president. he he's the son of a charismatic. one of the founders of the party of the u.k.'s party cars my

cyclical leader could have died two years ago and he was deemed circle killers and his body they were the government wouldn't that wouldn't his supporters and his family bring his body back from belgium to the bodies to languishing in a book in belgium because they thought bringing him back could spark some kind of our pricing that popular. criticsm circus lives a lot of his life in belgium he went in exile when you went to with his mother and the things. and people there's been a lot of speculation he has a clever people various journalists has said that the climate really clever marketing and communications from university in brussels the same speculation that it fictional. fictitious. and people worry that he doesn't have a huge amount of monetary firms having to have. any kind of senior position before . in his employment or even now in politics or he's. i guess people are

not quite sure what to expect them. to think he's opponent mohsen for unicycling was cheated out of the action and accuses the new president of making a deal with former president joseph kabila is he likely to accept the new man in charge. is nothing for you like in terms of the new man in charge. for use is basically according to the results you want with a landslide victory he won sixty percent of the vote. and then. there are allegations that the person he was given to educate you could computers or your visa to control them for you. i i'm sure you have already managed to mobilize the crowd. in favor in favor of his cause and. i'm expecting i'm expecting you know i don't know i don't think are you going to get you will really start to feel. good talking to you thank you so much for joining us in the

via atlanta in kinshasa. thanks very much. our turkey is currently holding about seven hundred children in prison according to human rights groups after their mothers were convicted on what activists say are mostly political grounds one of these children is two year old mira us his mother is a kurdish activist who was jailed in the city of dempsey on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda morass and lives with his mom in a single cell alongside twelve other women they don't use that going to turn looks at the children living behind bars who only experience freedom the weekend. saturday is the day the father's pick up their children at the gates of the gibson prison until one's can spend a day or two in freedom. is act about takes his two year old son mira's home every weekend the total is already gotten used to leaving his mother behind. the ad for the kurds mir as his mother has been active for an opposition party with

links to the kurds that was enough to get her a four year sentence. 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 changed the laws. as a result of the new anti terrorism laws mirrors and his mother good and now sharing this bank in a cell with over a dozen other inmates. has only

a small concrete prison yard to play in. so the first place mira's 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. on them 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 you. currently over seven hundred small children are thought to be living with their mothers in turkish prisons the figure comes from the few non-governmental organizations able to work with the affected families they say 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 are. sick 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 this cell with. the poles and looking song over there at the mercy of their cell mates tolerance. they might complain if they're as cries at night. fifteen women sleep in one cell things like that tend to haunt you. he doesn't want mirrors to notice that he's worried they say their goodbyes at the gibson prison gates. i don't come on we're going to mama. you. but hind the gator mirrors his father has to hand him over to god once again.

the events in venezuela cordova shadow the pope's visit to nearby panama which is one of the countries that has recognized the heavens when a self proclaimed interim leader pope francis is in panama to celebrate world youth day in front of an expectant audience of about two hundred thousand ill gilliver a message of compassion and human rights and speak in defense of mike comes. by anything for a glimpse of the first latin american pope. on the boulevards of panama's capital s. and c. only excitement was palpable. which i almost feel it's of a nation it's my first time seeing the pope so close it's such a great experience i feel blessed. a few different 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 as hacienda but i can see it them way being . pope francis is here in panama to preside over world youth day the catholic church is yearly celebration that's brought an estimated one hundred fifty 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 the car young people from those two countries have come here to panama to hear some words of encouragement from francis have for many here though his presence transcends politics. well via motions or

indescribable. it's a brief moment of joy and fulfillment of having our pope that he is latin american and thinks and talks like us i feel he is very close and parts of my life latin american. pope francis will officially open world youth day later on thursday. i was something completely different it's played in subzero temperatures on a pitch made of snow if you're not the cold weather type that this version of an existing sport it's not for you but if you know a challenge and you might try your hand russians snow rugby. it's ten degrees celsius below zero yet there's no lack of enthusiasm for the snow main russians have warmed up to the cold this possible version of the sport they love as you can see snow rugby is played in winter conditions where snowfall is

plentiful like canada afghanistan and here in russia a snow covered pitch is a necessity some call it rugby fever watching russia compete in the twenty eleven rugby world cup and took the chill down version. which engine i mean it's a very dynamic again. the rules are simple. they are simplified compared to normal rugby if there's a regular anyone can participate in snow rugby. everything is easy so the first class and very spectacular this tournaments in its eighth year features male and female teams the organizer whose dedicated job is to look after snow and beach rugby in russia says it could be the world's biggest and believes there's still room to grow there tomorrow who are more guys this is a human version of rugby which is just developed in recent memory is your sport are

not poor it is only the beginning. with not one of us rewarded. in september russia face hosts japan in the opening match of the twenty nineteen rugby world cup in tokyo and then russians can keep on practicing in this no. going to stay in the snow but this time to people with loads of money alphas who still short of a few bob himself to stay with coverage from davos i wish you were right that i wish you all. of us exactly in the swiss alps where there's lots of snow as a vevo director general of the world trade organization says no deal breaks it was . have an impact on global trade but the extent of that impact was still hostile to the british parliament is going to trying to hash out a deal to exit the us of a that made the comments thursday at the world economic forum in davos trade is

a big topic that. meetings focused on global investment and development. meanwhile senior executives across europe are getting impatient with briggs it to put it mildly boss tom enders has had just about enough he addressed his employees in a video message today and he didn't hold anything back if the pending begs it is unregulated the aircraft manufacturer will withdrawal from great britain as it is on the brink of collapse but listen for yourself bricks it is frightening to destroy a century of development based on education research and human capital if there's no deal breaker we have both will have to make potentially very harmful decisions for u.k. decisions about workers eleven thousand five hundred work directly for air bus in britain they build the aircraft's wings here if you count all the affected

suppliers britain counts one hundred thousand valuable industrial jobs in the aviation sector that are in danger from brakes it. please don't listen to the brakes it is madness which asserts that because we have huge plans here we will not move and we will always be here they are all so there are plenty of countries over there who would love to build the wings for as aircraft. airbus is actually a success story the cross border cooperation between germany france spain and great britain has produced a globally successful aircraft manufacturer. briggs it will throw a monkey wrench into the system and great britain once the spearhead of aviation is on its way to insignificance according to the airbus c.e.o. anderson as the blame lies with the politicians. it is a disgrace that morgan t. two years after the result of the twenty sixteen referendum businesses are still

unable to plan properly for the future and we along with many of our peers have repeatedly called for clarity but we still have no idea what is really going on here thomas and there's the buses c.e.o. ever so slightly displeased with the british government it seems it has moved probably representative of many c.e.o.'s across europe let's go back over to davos where my colleagues are now the milan is standing by jenelle. that's right now of this notion of a fractious europe of course is creating problems for the organizations that work across europe but also for europe like for instance the european investment bank now its shareholders are of course the e.u. member states and they do stand to lose one in case breaks it ends up pushing

through now earlier i spoke to the president of the european investment bank there in ohio and this is what he had to say well i think the european union urgently needs to get its act together because we are seeing a phase of unknown threats to multilateralism and that is what pretty much of our freedom prosperity peace in europe rests therefore i'm happy that the questions of multilateralism and cohesion are in the focus of this stuff as conference this year is very encouraging. yes and those divides still exist however do you see your work changing then as a result of perhaps a change gear up shall we say well i am very unhappy with bracks it and also the way it develops now but on the other hand the decision of the british people have brought the other twenty seven countries of europe closer together than ever so everybody's waking up know we should wake up to this we should also wake up to the threats of much of the too much liberalism and we should wake up to the challenges

that we economically have because we are not only at risk of going into an economic downturn a cyclical movement we run the risk of not doing enough in order to preserve our future by investing too little into innovation research technology and even education now you've spoken about the threats to multilateralism the you've spoken about the importance of cooperation in the face of challenges now of course climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing us here how do you see the future of climate financing considering all the start so multilateralism. here in davos climate change has three each the level of tension that has never been here before so from that point of view i'm encouraged on the other hand i feel a little bit unhappy about the developments with our most important transatlantic partner because if the u.s. administration continues a path towards climate change denial then the entire world is in trouble so i hope that we will get good solutions for the leadership of the world bank and that we

will have continued and increased efforts to really fight against the terrible effects of climate change thank you very much mr hoyer thank you great pleasure. president of the european investment bank speaking to my colleagues and in. actual use you win in forty five minutes round about fast fashion edition of the business with harvey i get as directly from davos. more business news. search engine being has been blocked in china u.s. technology is service on the wrong side of the country's so-called great file of all the online johns like facebook twitter and google also insensible china has tightened its control of the internet in recent years shutting down thousands of websites and deleting millions of posts to contain vulgar content authorities also crack down on the use of virtual private networks or. either uses ip address system

website is also. that's. off the top stores the street violence breaks out between opposition and supporters opposition supporters and security forces it looks as if venezuela's powerful military is standing behind socialist president in his battle for survival the defense minister accused the opposition leader who proclaims himself president stage of staging a coup. phalanx she said katie has been great as president of the democratic republic of congo an awful lot of first election he called for reconsideration promised free political has. more news coming.

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