this is it news live from berlin the showdown over venezuela moves to the united nations. the united states calls a security council meeting to urge all nations to back venezuela's self declared interim president the european union says it too could now recognize one kwaito as president if elections are not held in the coming days also coming up. at least nine people have died and hundreds are missing after a dam collapsed in southwest brazil rescue workers are mourning the death toll

could rise sharply after a torrent of mud devastated roads farmland and homes. and the national holiday divides the nation while millions celebrated australia day protesters across the country decried what they call invasion day. unexposed welcome to the program the european union'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 wedo in the last few minutes venezuela has rejected that call. the u.n. security council has been meeting in an emergency session to discuss the crisis

u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe called on the world to support venezuelan protesters but russia's u.n. ambassador says the world should stay out of the crisis moscow and beijing have been among the duros chief backers. washington has already recognized as venezuela's interim leader u.s. secretary of state mike pump a address the security council and called on nations to choose a side in venezuela's crisis now it's time for every other nation to pick a side no more delays no more games either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with his mayhem today we call on all members of the security council to support venezuela's democratic transition and interim president one of those role in it thank you. correspondent all over solid attended the session of the security council in new york from where he joins me now all over mike from peo is calling on countries there to back wedo which members of the council will

recognize that call and which will not. well there were several countries here that were not happy even discussing the issue of the situation of venezuela here at the security council the most prominent one was russia among them were also all china also south africa for instance but the most aggressive position that we've heard here came by russia russia really try to narrow this down to an american problem here that only the united states are following in are trying to push for that they are treating latin america sort of like their backyard where they could do whatever they want to do and they're just following their own geopolitical interests they are. being interested for the oil of the country interesting lee you have to take into consideration that russia was a close ally of the majority meant recent years they have spent billions of dollars

in infrastructure in military projects and received oil in turn and that was very much inflected this reflected this close partnership here at the united nations security council russia backing venice soileau here when it comes to a possible regime change within the next months they all are if you just bear with us for a moment we have tape of the venezuelan foreign minister who also addressed the security council let's play a little bit of what he had to say. and we want to say that. at this opportunity in this case the united states is not behind the. eight is it is in advance it's in the vanguard of that could it it is dictating the orders not only to the venezuelan opposition but also to the satellite governments in the region. so all over

a familiar narrative to many in latin america the venezuelan representative accusing the united states of organizing a coup d'état to any other council members at least publicly share that view. well some do and the old will argument is always that those are internal problems that the sovereignty of then is has to be respected that's what we've heard by the russian ambassador tour instance and fly the southern african ambassador as well so basically we have a narrative here off this standpoint versus the other narrative of the western countries there are trying to stress that there is a humanitarian tragedy that millions of people had to flee the country and so there's very much a standoff you're at the security council of the united nations. ok thank you so much that's all over solid reporting for us in new york.

to brazil now where around three hundred people are missing after a dam collapsed at an iron ore mine in the state of new national race that's in the country's southwest nine people are confirmed dead so far resilience national mining agency has ordered operations at the complex to be suspended firefighters have saved more than two hundred workers and say the hopes of finding more survivors 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 worry. on the off 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. 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 product. is a 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 region's 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 with.

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 the longest government shutdown in american history is over for now at least thirty five. president donald trump has passed a short term funding bill to temporarily reopen government but his funding request for a five point seven billion dollar border wall with mexico the issue that started the whole debt log is not part of the deal and he still wants a wall. i this was the announcement of 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 this shutdown could continue. australia celebrated its national holiday today the date commemorates the arrival in seven hundred eighty eight of the first fleet of british ships to the continent which the british claimed as their own but many australians refused to take part in the festivities instead tens of thousands took to the streets of melbourne and sydney to protest the holiday many indigenous australians do the arrival of british colonists as an invasion of their lands researchers have chronicled over two hundred fifty massacres committed by anglo australians against the aboriginal population. a reporter. has been following these protests and

the hash tag invasion day has been trending on twitter what's behind it well the house that is fairly new but the protests on this day actually have a long history one of the first protests was in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight on the hundred fiftieth anniversary of this landing and the word invasion day has been used as an alternative among protesters since at least the ninety's and the reason they call it that is because january twenty sixth like we heard was was a day of shame for a lot of indigenous people in australia it was a day when the british came and and basically pretended that the land was on claim that there was nobody living there despite the fact that there was a civil civilisation are existing on the continent and yet marks for a lot of indigenous people the beginning of a long decline and a lot of people use this day to recognise that so the demonstrating demonstrators are expressing their point of view but is there anything they would actually like to see changed or different yet another hash tag that is really popular today is

change the date a lot of australians are uncomfortable with the fact that there even is a national holiday but most that i've seen on twitter today have been talking about why not just come up with a new date that doesn't commemorate a day of shame or a day of colonisation but maybe something that all australians could get. behind so we found some tweets that kind of show what people are talking about one of them says i still don't get why australia can't be on a australia day can't be on a day where everyone can celebrate the entire history of australia not just the last two hundred thirty years another twitter user says it's obvious why first nations considerate invasion day but i don't understand why ingle australians consider the twenty sixth of january an appropriate day for us trillion day they were transported like dogs whipped and submission and subjected to forced labor what's to celebrate what he's pointing out there of course is that australia was

established as a penal colony so most of the british colonists a came over were prisoners so it's also questionable why this is a day of national celebration some people have proposed alternative january first one thousand one was a day that australia became a country but of course that's new year's eve or new year's day so that would be a little bit. yeah i suppose it would be a bit of a conflict has the government reacted to these questions or proposals in any way yeah well prime minister scott morrison has reacted strongly saying that he called it indulgent self loathing and today he even made a statement saying we shouldn't crowd walk away from history for him this would be a denial of the history of modern australia as he calls it which is colonialist but some green party members have actually moved two balls today in local city councils and for some people the victory has already been won because this day has become a day of of remembrance of the history of indigenous people in australia ok thank

you so much that was to see if talking about the controversy surrounding what some people are calling invasion in australia. tennis now and japan's now me osaka has won the australian open a second czech republic's petra 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 put pressure on thinks about but the czech claw her way back into the match to win the second set. her game up in the third set she kept her focus to seal the match seven six five seven six four osaka becomes the new world number one and the first asian to hold the number one ranking. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you the united states has called a meeting of the u.n. security council to urge the international community to back men as well as

a self declared interim president wedo european union now says it could join the us in recognizing kwaito if elections are not held in the coming days. you're watching news from berlin more coming at the top of the hour thanks for watching. once upon a time there was a young girl with a burning ambition. to become a doctor. i was very curious child and very excited and you know good music and i would go to concerts with my parents. or being on stage with musicians and being part of that magic was a difficult.