terms and conditions. documentary on instagram. this is it news live from berlin the showdown over venezuela moves to the united nations. the u.s. calls a security council meeting to urge all nations to back venezuela's self declared interim president a string of european nations now say they too will recognize as president if elections are not held within eight days also coming up. u.s. president donald trump blinks these back down on his demand that congress fund the construction of a wall along the mexican border for now anyway is retreat the longest government

shutdown in u.s. history. and it's a nordic head to head at the handball world cup norway wins its semifinal game against germany and now takes on hosts denmark. on nick spicer welcome to the program the e.u.'s foreign policy chief federica says venezuela's leader nicolas maduro needs to announce new elections soon she indicated the bloc will otherwise recognize the self-proclaimed interim president. the u.n. security council has been meeting in an emergency session to discuss the crisis u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe called on the world to support venezuelan protesters but russia's u.n. ambassador says the world ought to stay out of the crisis moscow and beijing have being among the duros chief backers. as that session of the security council

began i spoke to correspondent oscar schlanger in the venezuelan capital caracas i asked him if the pressure coming from european countries was having an effect on the power struggle in venezuela. both have a lot of influence and they influence up to this point because it was the european union and many of the european countries that along with over sixty countries rejected the elections of the twentieth of may and last year that elected president when the new term began on january tenth he was no longer president because they did not. see those as fair elections so that immediately puts the president of the national assembly which is one way though as president interim of venezuela so they are actually playing a very big role in how this comes about but other foreign countries are supporting

the durham turkey china and especially russia how important is that well it's no surprise russia will support him. a few months ago moscow delivered to russian bombers to caracas when tensions ran high between motherwell and washington there is a lot of economic and political interest in venezuela for the russians but it seems like they have backed down a bit saying they are open to being mediators for dialogue between mother in law and the opposition suggesting they want not to back him up militarily however we also received information that russian military contractors were sent to aid my huna for his security in case any attempt to arrest either defense minister has commented on that report. and what signs do you see as close as you are to this unfolding story that. goto is winning or losing this contest. well it's been very impressive how his support has grown over the past few weeks

this is a congressman that we knew very little about he wasn't in the media all that much and came president of the national assembly because it was this party strove for that presidency and his fellow leader congressman who was up for the position is sheltered and she was embassy of waiting the government's persecution even the party's founder label or not this is an house arrest so you can imagine the risk of holding that position however when i go has done an impressive job of talking to the masses and masses even calmly and constantly holding these open air assemblies that have gathered huge crowds that we've seen some of the largest in the past twenty years so for many people here it's a fresh face in politics that people wanted to see and that has managed to unite the opposition a task many thought wasn't possible towards the end of last year. oscar shanker in caracas thank you to brazil now where around three hundred people are missing after

a dam collapse at an iron ore mine in the state of minister race that's in that country southwest nine people are confirmed dead so far brazil's national mining agency has ordered operations at the complex to be suspended firefighters have saved more than two hundred workers that say the hopes of finding more are slim. it's a race against time for these rescuers. has devastated a vast area with hundreds of people still missing. their families fraught with. on the off part where are our parents the fathers the mothers that went to work earlier today nobody's telling us anything. where's my dad at the back and nobody is telling us anything about our sons our husbands the drama unfolded when a dam owned by brazil's largest mining company collapsed at an iron ore mine on

friday sending a torrent of muddy sludge 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 was partly owned by. the main victims are employees of. the employee restaurant was buried in mud. 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 highlighted a lack of regulation fd. around the world. spanish rescuers have found the dead body of a two year old boy who had fallen into a deep narrow well on the thirteenth of january miners have been drilling day and night to reach. the tragedy has gripped spain with the country closely following every turn of the complex rescue operation. roger stone the former advisor to donald trump who was arrested and charged on friday says he will not testify against the president stone faces charges stemming from the moller 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 anyway 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 trump 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. agreed to temporarily reopen the government until mid february even without having received the funding for his key request a will 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 again asked what the president was doing to them since the beginning of the shutdown the president's approval rating has hit an all time low and he was increasingly accused of being out of touch with the ordinary people. but despite all criticism trump is not giving up on the border will just get republican and democrats 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 this shutdown could continue.

i spoke to our correspondent in washington earlier and i asked her why trump was backing down no but 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 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. 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. they called trump 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 base 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 it began december something started again because of one of and coulter's tweets ok my waiter in washington thanks so much for that. time for tennis now and japan's now me osaka has won the australian open osaka beat

czech republic's petra kita to secure her second grand slam title in just four months the defending u.s. champion took the first set after mastering her opponent's serve that put the pressure on pizza but the czech clawed her way back into the match to win the second set osaka stepped her game up in the third set she kept her focus to seal the match seven six five seven six four sack becomes the new world number one and the first asian to hold the number one ranking. and the fairy tale is over for germany at the handball world championships millions of people here have been gripped by handball fever as co-hosts germany ratcheted up their victories but the 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 i would no way were on face and forth away by. any evenly balanced match in the

chain side numerous times. i it was a tough battle that wasn't always fair towards the end of the first time four players were 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 it's all controlled. by the under sigerson the scandinavians built up a full goal lead at times kept in these against time i can't german hopes of life with seven goals. but it wasn't enough to close the gap norway held out and ended germany's dream run winning thirty one twenty five. away will now pay denmark in sunday's final. you're watching news from berlin war coming at the top of the hour so forget you can get all the latest news

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