this is g.w. news live from bondage venezuela's powerful military banks president my daughter in his final force a violent street violence flared between opposition supporters and security forces the country's defense chief through the all these points behind the embattled president who was there coming on. growing up behind. the jews muslims around the time he doesn't understand that she's long tongue. the turkish children locked up with their mothers and only allowed hours of the week

a rights groups say many of the mothers have been imprisoned ecliptic over recent. bans are very very low for kind of the full fee for grapes germany is the national team aims to book a place in the final on the wild child. i'm headed on freaked out you could join me venezuela's socialist president nicolas maduro has won the backing of the military in his standoff with the opposition leader one kwaito who has proclaimed himself president the chief of the armed forces and defense minister accused quite often leading a coup and said the united states and other governments that have recognised him old waging an economic war against venezuela by those key ally russia is also standing behind him in his latest speech the president thanked mosco for its support. holding up all your russia gives its full support to the legitimate and

constitutional government that i preside is full support for peace and the integrity and sovereignty of venezuela. he told me president maturer you can count on the unwavering support of russia and now more than ever we will be working on bilateral projects to further develop venezuela feel beat up in our part of the sorrow you live in the soil. and the w.'s oscar shank is in caracas following the situation for us that osca bring us up to date with the latest there has venezuela seen major protests once again today so yes there are protests and even today this is also the culture that we have been longer approaches off. because it was the year with most protests the team they were the center of this region four were built on stilts and spread out throughout different probus is that

we are living in the well the opposition astrology dance routines are not always just in terms of the public to unify political protest in support of one without the largest ones we've seen in recent history were yesterday going to get so protests are likely to rise in the political concert continued yet since the way the process began on monday there have been three hundred twenty contained at least sixteen people dead in the concert persists we will unfortunately see a rise in this number. we understand meanwhile that my daughter has appeared in public as president i mean what to what extent does he still have supported the country. well i just recall a part let along visual to protect the presidential palace and nobody showed up they also had to change the location of this to a place that could fit less because his followers were leaving the concentration it is safe to state that disapproval ratings are not good even within that so just lets loose evident with approaches that we've seen in the slums that were

traditional governance when resources could mean the same benefits but with the economic presence in the high school in the world it is a into possible for a mother who got to keep up with this then if it's a child a student is white and there's a lot of points when the hooligans in a sea of the military for one has throwing its weight behind my daughter what does that mean wonderous operate within the highways of the military because there is a sort of coed systems and evidence of corruption like no other country i went in the fish will tell economic and political interests that i lost military analysts and most wanted to keep him in power and i want to. question is has been reduced i won't be part of that is going to snake through traitorous trick to getting that official announcement but a lot of it already interest is being put into the middle and lower ranking officials of the military however any of this case changes within the car or. of

days that we are seeing this early two hours for the us is huge leave the country we're seeing where we are in the middle of our diplomats and artemy that has not been resolved until we see what happens after the seventy two hours that come about being correspondent was in caracas thank you. and in the last couple of hours the u.s. secretary of state my compiler has also been delivering remarks regarding venezuela and covering the story from washington is our correspondent my actuator and my what did i have to say. this whole situation in venezuela is actually quite a bit of a triumph for the trump administration because they have taken a very hard line against a door overly from the moment they came into office and what we saw from pump air today was a real doubling down of what we heard president trump say right when this was all happening peo was supporting the new president he's warning against the use of

force on these mass demonstrations that we see happening he denounced what he called off their schooling for a tarion regimes around the world which have been backing with doro he also said that the u.s. is going to be pledging twenty million u.s. dollars in aid to venezuela and he also went a step further and called the draw an illegitimate president and called for him to step aside very similarly to what we heard president trump say my russia the united states against. intervening in venezuela presumably washington isn't looking at military intervention at this stage. we've heard trump come out yesterday in the evening and say that all options were on the table and while he was pointedly asked about the military options he said well the military options never ruled out and all options are on the table so while i don't think the u.s.

is going to be rushing into a military confrontation in latin america they certainly aren't above using the threat of it to push for their agenda of course one of my way to washington good to talk to you thanks my well i like the u.s. the european union has stopped short of recognizing one great zero as interim president when d.w. correspondent on of the site i caught up with german foreign minister short want to go he made it clear germany is supportive of quite zero. we're not neutral on the question of venezuela we are on the run quite aside because we have serious difficulties recognizing madieu rules reelection it's obvious that there were so many irregularities in the election process that we can only speak to a limited degree of a democratic election that's why we're calling for fresh elections for the national assembly to assume responsibility and for the force of constitutional law to be restored to venezuela that we've made that known together with our european

partners that's going to be our policy in the coming days and i expect this will be made very clear we are not neutral as regards this question that we support what quiet who is doing your districts and us first thoughts toward. the view there of the german foreign minister speaking to all of us on it let's take a look now at some the other stories making news around the world pope francis is in panama to celebrate wild youth day the catholic church's annual celebration has brought an estimated one hundred fifty thousand people from around the globe to panama and his first address the pontiff spoke out against corruption and public officials in the region to live simple honest and transparent lives. thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in towns across the dark right place fired tear gas to break up some of the rallies at least one person was killed and made a worsening economic crisis the protesters are demanding an end to president bush

is three decades of. well turkey is currently holding about seven hundred children in prison that's according to human rights groups often their mothers were convicted on what activists say are mostly political grounds one of these children is two year old mother as his mother is a jailed kurdish activist he wus a good a colonel travels to the city of gab said to meet the children living behind bars who only experience freedom at the weekend. saturdays the day the fathers pick up their children at the gates of the gives a prison that a little ones can spend a day or two in freedom. changes acrobat takes his two year old son mira's home every weekend the toddlers already gotten used to leaving his mother behind. the ad 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. we can just be glad to jail isn't that far away. and we can pick the children up now and there. is a third. act but 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 goose down and now sharing this bark in a cell with over a dozen other inmates. near us 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 will have to get through two years like this. i mean 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 new. governmental organizations i built to work with the affected families they said that for the state these children don't exist. in. the present 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 course looking song over there on the mercy of their cell mates tolerance. they might complain is crying that night. fifteen women sleep in one cell things like that tend to want to. believe he doesn't want mirrors to notice that he's worried they say their goodbyes at the gibson prison gates. i'll come on we're going to mama. you. but i'm the gate has his father has to hand him over to god once again.

germany is currently hosting the well championships in a sport that many in the english speaking world may not be familiar with and that is handball arenas have been packed with fans from around the world excitement is building here in germany ahead of the country's semifinal clash against norway on friday night. the main train station in the northern german city of kiel. fans turned out in droves to watch germany's last game here on a big screen they have little doubts about who's going to win the tournament. it's a good take guys are great they're playing brilliantly well can i say we're going to be world champions. the tournament's issues really popular in germany more people have been following the german team's games on t.v. the top matches in the football but in this league. that's what's important for us is that we don't just reach the normal handball funds we want to get all sports fans on board we want to have everyone in the country talking about the team he was

the last game against spain in cologne was completely sold out twenty thousand fans packed the arena to see germany now really secure victory and top their group. that was amazing really fantastic the atmosphere was electric so many people were screaming and shouting it was brilliant pop. on friday even the handball party would continue in kiel and across the country fans are hoping germany can win again and book their place in the final. japan have booked their place in the semifinal of the asia cup off to a narrow victory over vietnam right so though on the score the only goal of the game in the fifty seventh minute from the penalty spot it was the first on the penalty was awarded the asian cup through the video assistant referee japan will play iran in the first seventy final on monday iran cruised into the next round

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