them. minus the. heart would you marry me t d a w. u. b c's d w news live from berlin the showdown over venezuela moves to the united nations the us schools a security council meeting to urge all nations to back venezuela's self declared interim president european union said it too could now recognize on the way to go out president if elections are not held in the coming days to see coming up

hundreds of feared dead in brazil southwest offering down collapses covering the area in a torrent of not roads found land homes have been devastated. i'm headed home for a glad you could join me the european union is throwing its weight behind the head of venezuela's national assembly or quantock wedo a bloc says it will recognize him as president unless venezuela calls for fresh elections in the coming days while the venezuelan government has rejected the course saying it will not be dictated to by foreign nations the u.n. security council has been meeting in emotions he session to discuss the crisis u.s. secretary of state's mike pompei or called on the wall to support his weight in protest at russia's u.n. ambassador says the wild should stay out of the crisis moscow and beijing have been . among president nicolas maduro schieffer back it. will be crossing over to new

york in a moment to speak with all correspondent but first let's say some of what was said at the u.n. security council today 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 major and his may i'm going to know if we want to take the opportunity to say that in this case the u.s. is not behind the coup d'etat. it is in the vanguard of the coup d'etat. it is dictating the orders sort of the nice be urge all parties to refrain from the use of force we called for the organization of free and fair elections with international observers with all candidates allowed to go run for office and until then there is only one credible and legitimate institution and this is the national

assembly the u.s. really new but it's the venezuela does not represent a threat to peace and security if anything represents a threat to peace it is the actions of the united states and its allies aimed at the ouster of the legitimately elected president of venezuela. and you have any correspondent on assad has attended the session of the security council in new york from where he joins me now all of the u.s. secretary of state might pompei are calling on countries that back kwaito which members of the council will recognize that cooler which will not. there were several nations here that were not even in favor discussing the issue of the topic of venice here in an emergency meeting at the security council and among them are countries like china south africa but first and foremost a russia really who had a very aggressive stance and position here. and it all came down to a showdown really between russia and the countries i've mentioned and the united

states and its western partners in the end the strategy of russia here was to like narrow that down as if it was just an american u.s. american problem which is just according to the russian view of following its geopolitical interests in latin america that the united states wants to extend its impact there in the region and it's just after the venezuelan oil interesting lee if you take a closer look into the relations between venezuela and russia you will see that russia invested billions of dollars in recent years into venezuela supported them a dura gene with the weapons they just very recently delivered two aircraft to venezuela and israel in turn delivered oil to russia so what we saw here today was two very close allies and russia standing by its ally much duro often the soil

meanwhile on germany you need to the security council and yet we hearing a rather strong tone from germany on this ancient tell us more about that. will germany is new to the security council is back with the non-temporal with a temporary seat for two years. and wants its voice to be heard and we saw that very clearly today germany is spec'ing who you know you've just mentioned there's all tomato in germany wants to push for free elections and support you do in its way there but germany also raised its voice today several times and it came to a bizarre situation to an exchange of views to almost a battle between the russian ambassador and the german investor here and a bizarre situation was when the russian ambassador said or compared the situation in venezuela to the to the to the situation and the protests in france of the yellow vests when twenty thousand people took to the streets and the german

ambassador then you know reply to that saying you can't compare since there are no three million refugees and since there are no undernourished people in france so we had very polarized positions here and germany obviously tried to defend the values of freedom and democracy here at this issue but the security council of the united nations did have a new correspondent on a sonnet a new york thank you. to brazil now where three hundred people lost ill missing off a down collapse at an ion all my in the state of nash. in the country southwest what officials say the thirty four people are now confirmed dead brazil's national mining agency has ordered operations at the complex to be suspended. 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. where are our parents the fathers the mothers that went to work earlier today nobody's telling us anything. where's my dad i didn't pack up 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 collapse at a 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. 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 dumb collapse was a sad consequence of the lessons learned by the brazilian government and the mining companies and highlighted a lack of regulation fd. public television nasheed i set the scene of the down breach i mean we've been looking at some very dramatic images hundreds of people still missing how optimistic.

they're really active that try to get as far as they can in order to rescue people but honestly speaking they're not really optimistic that the death toll is rising this morning they reported eleven people found dead now it rose to thirty four as the report already mentioned and so it will rise during the you know be more than one hundred or two hundred at least this is also because of the difficult circumstances the alarm system of the mining company all apparently didn't work so the miners many of them very at lunchtime eating at the administration building they didn't have any time to to to sleep or to get away from the area so they were surprised by this much flood and so this is really a dramatic facts that show that's supposed to be on apparently most of the disappeared people would be found dead and rescue teams expect abbas to be found under the model so it's really

a dramatic situation and not much hope and dramatic situation and absent tragedy what i thought he's there saying about possible reasons for that breach. last year a german audit company did give their approval for this mine and all the security measures taken but apparently it was not enough there had or be already happened another tragedy three years ago just one hundred fifty kilometers away from where we are now at this tragedy so it was almost a similar event and it was dramatic as well with the lower death toll so. bali this company is apparently not prepared for. a flood and a catastrophe like this there were rain falls which i have caused we can weaken the dam and there were apparently maybe too much. mud inside of this by saying

and so we can still speculate about the reasons but this seems to be a some issues which should be responsible for such a tragedy and minister ice. from german public television thank you. now some of the other stories making news around the world at least a few people have been injured in an explosion in kenya's capital nairobi police say they're searching for a suspect who they believe left the explosives in a piece of luggage near a cinema the blast comes just days after a gun attack that killed more than twenty people. purchases in northern ireland have built a mock border want to highlight the risks posed by a no deal breaks it demonstrators said they wanted to remind people of the kind of confrontations that used to take place both britain and ireland are against a hard border that many fear it's likely if there is no brakes it deal. here opinion union and united states say they're concerned by the suspension of

nigeria's top the judge water on again the e.u. says the timing of the decision just three weeks ahead of nigeria's president to elections raises questions the country's main opposition party has temporarily halted campaigning in protest over the move. mean mars l g b c community has held its first ever pride vote parade in the country's main city young gone activists said they hope the demonstration along with the young gone river would help promote greater awareness and equal rights protests to say many gay people still face discrimination in. australia celebrated its national holiday today the date commemorates the arrival in seventeen 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 festivities instead tens of thousands took to the streets of melbourne and sydney to protest the holiday many indigenous australians view the arrival of british qana

less as an invasion of their of their lands rather their research has have chronicled over two hundred fifty rescues committed by and australians against the aboriginal poppy. and we say in australia for tennis news japan's nomi osaka has won the australian open or soccer beach the czech republic's petra fit over to secure her second grand slam title in just four months will be defending u.s. champion took the first set after mastering her opponent's serve that put pressure on fits of about the czech called her way back into the match to win the second set was second steps i gave up in the third session chapter three to see the much seven six five seven six four. and back in her native japan osaka as ardent fans celebrated her championship victory. as

a result of the when she becomes the new world number one and asia's first ever player to rise to the top of the vault franking. now the saturday when does the games have concluded let's take a look at all those results play men and frankfurt battled to a draw league leaders dortmund demolished hand over. her cough and high want to get as five walk might sit defeated nuremberg leverkusen had no problem with forsberg on friday had a belly and shall share the spoils on sunday by munich bottle shot guard and to sort of face like a sick. when a festival has kicked off in switzerland adding a touch of color to the skies over the swiss outs hot ebeling fans have gathered in the resort town of chateau de niro lake geneva for the annual spectacle organizers say pilots from fifteen different countries are taking part this year they're also celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the first successful around the world hot

air balloon flight which took off from the swiss mountain town. you're watching news from berlin twenty will coming up at the top of the hour for the latest you can always have to our website d w dot com i'm going home free in berlin thanks for your company and see very see. what's coming up for the book loosely plenty to talk about you're. going to sleep every weekend here.