this is deja vu news of live from berlin venezuela's self declared president ramps up demands for fresh elections. kwaito vows to keep fighting until the country gets a new transitional government and international support for him is growing the u.n. security council is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis also coming up. u.s. president donald trump blinks he's backed down on his demand that congress fund the construction of a wall along the mexican border is retrieve the longest government shutdown in u.s.

history for now. and it's a nordic head to head at the handball world cup norway wins the semifinal game against germany and now takes on hosts denmark. on exposure thanks so much for joining me francis spain and germany say they will recognize venezuela's authorization leader juan wedo as president if elections in the south american country aren't held immediately. kwaito declared himself interim president earlier in the week he says he won't give up his fight for fresh elections he's announced large scale protests for next week and called on the army to switch its allegiance to him but the military continues to back incumbent

president nicolas maduro duro is describing great o's rise as an attempted coup against his government. at least nine people have died after a dam collapse at an iron ore mine in the brazilian state of me national race in the country's southwest firefighters have saved more than two hundred workers but around the same number but around the same number are still missing the dams collapse least a massive and deadly flow of mud. it's a race against time for these rescuers. has devastated a vast area with hundreds of people still missing. their families fraught with. where are our parents the fathers the mothers

that went to work earlier today nobody's telling us anything. where's my dad's. pocket and nobody is telling us anything about our sons our husbands the drama unfolded when owned by brazil's largest mining company collapsed. on friday sending a torrent of mud across a vast area and the head of the mining company offered no explanation for the tragedy which comes three years after a similar to mine in the same state which killed at least seventeen people that was partly owned by. the main victims are employees of. the employee restaurant was. it's an enormous tragedy that took us totally by surprise i'm completely torn apart by what happened. to the regions governor said there was little hope of finding people. brazil's

president. said he would visit the affected area in order to evaluate the situation . greenpeace at the dam collapse was a sad consequence of the lessons learned by the brazilian government and the mining companies and a lack of regulation fd and he returned. the country's president has ramped up calls for new elections because we've managed to rejoin our correspondent on the ground. standing by oscar do you see a pressure coming from europe at this time calling for immediate elections as having any effect on the power struggle where you are. now that i'm liane hansen from a fact we've seen that the main. country that has been pushing for recognizing where the us president is the us it's very important to the movement of the national

assembly for the european union and these countries to also recognize him and. to recognize him as an interim president his next move is to call for elections in the next thirty days so either way you look in union and these countries are asking for new elections one way or another chaos or as we speak there is as you know a un security council meeting under way on the venezuela crisis the american secretary of state michael taylor is due to speak how big a role has the united states played in backing the interim president. they had accused role not only in backing him up diplomatically but home so economically very hard about to redirect all the what over finance to be managed by one vital and also they have pledged for twenty million

dollars in humanitarian aid to aid in food shortage and medicine shortage prices that we're living here in the next one at the moment. and of course nicolas maduro isn't giving up on the other side and his allies especially russia have been taking steps to prop up his regime for years can you tell us about what role will moscow play. or closer price russian would support him a little they have large economic and political interests in venezuela a few months ago moscow delivered two russian bombers to caracas when tensions run high between mother little and washington but it seems like of a have backed down of that family are over to be mediators for dialogue between mother and the opposition suggesting they will not backing up militarily however we also received information that russian military contractors were sent to a hooter for his security in case of any attempt to arrest him but neither defense

minister have commented on this report ok that was the w.'s oscar slang terror in caracas thank you for that oscar. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. members of the cue community gathered outside of panama city church for a kiss in protest of pope francis's visit to the country holding protest signs and chanting love is love but protesters called for equal rights. pope francis is in panama city for the roman catholic church as world youth day celebration. a german government commission has mapped out a road to end the country's reliance on brown coal after a marathon meeting the panel agreed to phase out should be completed by the end of two thousand and thirty eight the recommendation is part of germany's bid to transition to a climate friendly power grid but critics warn that the move could cost thousands

of jobs in mining regions. and roger stone the former advisor to u.s. president donald trump who was arrested and charged on friday says he will not testify against the president stone faces charges stemming from the mother investigation into possible collusion between russia and trump's presidential campaign stone calls the charges politically motivated. the longest government shutdown in american history is over for now thirty five days into the standoff with lawmakers president donald trump has passed a short term funding bill to temporarily reopen the government but his funding request for a five point seven billion dollar border wall with mexico the issue that started the deadlock is not part of the deal and he still wants a wall. this was the announcement federal employees across the country have been waiting for and not just them thank you very much my fellow

americans i am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government. trump agreed to temporarily reopen the government until mid february even without having received the funding for his key request a wall on the border to mexico. his retreat came after intensifying delays at some of the nation's biggest airports and another missed pay day for hundreds of thousands of federal workers the american people do not like it when you throw a wrench into the into the lives of government workers over an unrelated political dispute working people throughout america empathize with the federal workers and were aghast at what the president was doing to them since the beginning of the

shutdown the president's approval rating has hit an all time low he was increasingly accused of being out of touch with the ordinary people. but despite all criticism trump has not given up on the border wall just yet republican and democrat lawmakers will now negotiate in order to find a mutually agreeable solution for border security and trump already made clear should he not be satisfied with the outcome the shutdown could continue. i spoke to our correspondent in washington earlier and i asked her why trump was backing down now. well it was an interesting confluence of events one of which was the chaos in specifically the northeast of the country that occurred during the day on friday early in the morning several major airports had to basically shut down for a little while because of staffing issues due to the due to the shutdown there were

people who simply weren't showing up to work and the airports couldn't function and that was one factor and the other factor was just the blame being placed upon the republicans and specifically trump for all these very negative effects that we solve rippling throughout the country because it wasn't just the government workers who were going without paychecks it was the small businesses in their towns are suddenly weren't getting any money because people can buy things and the poll numbers for the president were just in an avalanche downward it was really clear that people were not supportive of what was going on so after. feel both sides of congress sort of smacked each other's versions of opening the government down they were able to meet behind the scenes and then present basically what was exactly the same plan that we saw on the table in december before all of this started. as you know the twitter president at times i want to bring in a tweet from a conservative commentator ann coulter who tweeted good news for george herbert

walker bush as of today he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as president of the united states isn't that a big ouch for trump and his party faithful. well it is interesting to see the cracks that are now suddenly starting to appear in the republican party trump's face is still very much a fan of the president but ann coulter was one of the biggest cheerleaders of the president from early early on in the campaign season back in two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen and it was actually another one of her tweets that was sort of the impetus her and several other similar conservative commentators it was the impetus for the president to not sign the package that was put in front of him back in december because it did not include this five point seven billion

dollars for border wall with mexico and that missing key piece was something that the president has said he now needs and is possibly going to shut the government down again in three weeks because of this but we are basically back to exactly the same place where we were at the beginning december something that started again because of one of em coulter's tweets ok my waiter in washington thanks so much for that. the ferry to over for germany at the handball world championships millions of people here had been gripped by handball fever as co-host germany ratchet up their victories but their run came to an end when they were knocked out by norway in friday's semifinal. germany got off to the better start to take an early three one lead. but no way were on face and forth their way back.

in an evenly balanced match in the chain side numerous times. i. it was a tough sissoko battle that wasn't always fair towards the end of the first half for players with bench for two minute penalties noice scored from a last second penalty throw to take a fourteen twelve lead into the break in the second half no control. led by their style class and us i guess and the scandinavians built up a full go lead at signs captains against china kept german hopes alive with seven goals. but it wasn't enough to close the gap norway held outs and ended germany's dream run winning thirty one twenty five. go away will now pay denmark in sunday's final. and you're watching news from berlin and there will be more news the top of the

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