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do you top. this is a deja vu news live from berlin venezuela's embattled leader nicolas maduro rejects an ultimatum from the european union he's refusing to hold fresh elections and that means europe could join the u.s. and surrounding countries and recognizing the duros rival quote why go as far as the. families of missing mine workers despair in brazil as they wait for news after
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friday's deadly dam burst a court has blocked assets belonging to the demo operators to pay for damages. and the holocaust memorial day we need a jewish woman who risked everything to spy on the nazis and plant a sleeping as the suicide by sleeping pill is arrested. we get piqued and keep one thousand each from death to tell him to go to till. the next peiser welcome to the program protests and rallies are taking place across the venezuelan capital caracas today as calls for fresh elections intensify meanwhile the country's top military envoy to the united states has announced he's turning his back on president nicolas maduro government and now accepts opposition . leader wedo as venezuela's interim president the e.u.
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said on saturday it will do the same unless madeira calls elections within eight days today kwaito has offered amnesty to the military if they back him. and joining us from caracas is oscar's flanker who's been closely following developments there tell tell me oscar a key military official has broken ranks with the door how is that playing out so far well yes this envoy to washington from the man as well the embassy is the military and boy colonel see it rob broke relations with the mother would a government and its supporting the interim presidency of one way go as he said this was criticized by the government saying it was an act of cowardness and treason to the country which is a lot to say today when a lot of the military and armed forces are receiving from the opposition the new
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analyst the law that was inactive by parliament and now a lot of the military officials are burning. the law and when they get them when they when they receive that but a lot of people are saying that this is the command to do so but there are talks behind closed doors with military officials to join and support them. could you tell us a bit about why in the duros suspended his demand that that u.s. diplomats leave the country change his mind why. well the us said they would not recognize nicholas meyer who were on their record mass seen one way go as the president of venezuela and in doing so they rejected my hero's seventy two hour also made him to leave only non-essential. embassy personnel and left the country for security measures and it was difficult for
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a minute or to forcefully remove the rest of the personnel so in a way it's. backtracking from that ultimatum the. president said it was going to be set up as offices of interest kind of like what they had in cuba for many years between the u.s. ok oscar schrenker in caracas thank you very much for that. now despite all the turmoil in venezuela some of the country's catholics travel to nearby to celebrate world youth day pope francis awful offered them spiritual support and called on caracas to find a peaceful solution to its political crisis but venezuelans also found solidarity and practical help from their fellow pilgrims. a few people hold their flag with as much pride as the venezuelans do you their country is facing turbulent times and these pilgrims came to panama to pray with
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the pope for venezuela but getting here wasn't easy one of the. i thought i wasn't going to be able to come to panama a dollar is a lot of money for us. but today it can cost two thousand so run us tomorrow whatever the market dictates. for many it took several months to see if enough money for the trip others had to borowitz are relying on donations. oscar has been living in panama for almost eight years he tried to return to venezuela a few years ago but the situation was unbearable now you from my side the country he's helping his compatriots with a group called camels in panama. city he's collecting food and toiletries for the pilgrims who come from venezuela. i'm worried about in israel and many are very thin because it's almost impossible to survive here some people each
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just one meal a day so our group that means made it in some panama have gathered to share a meal with them with the help of the whole community to give them a boost and some personal items they can take back home. but venezuelans are not the only ones speccing a hard time at home the catholic world youth day which was taking place in central america for the. brought together disadvantaged young people from all over the region most nicaraguans here are too afraid to talk on camera the fear they contained up g.l.d. for criticizing the government holding their flag upside down is their way of signaling a so a way. for those the most. to pick it up we all live in fear of being incarcerated and ending up in jail for waving
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a flag or simply being against the government. which is our constitutional right for elections just thinking differently to our leaders can get you jailed young people are being killed murdered. franklin had to flee nicaragua after the government staged a violent crackdown against student protests he left his young daughter and his family back home. i don't want to add to that i was a student but we protested there were injured a bit of everything and from one moment to another we had to flee the country because we had no work or options. there are only two options for students in nicaragua they either end up in jail or killed. him if i can't live without my family without my mom i love your mother i miss her and my girl i have
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a daughter i love her. in the short term it's unlikely things will change for either venezuelans or nicaraguans but world youth day has given them the chance to feel safe and forget about their problems for a little while at least. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. greece has seen fresh clashes over the government's vote to normalize relations with neighboring macedonia. violence broke out between protesters and police in the country's second city as. polls show many greeks disapprove of the deal to recognize north macedonia which shares its name with one of greece's own regions. at least twenty people have been killed outside their cathedral in twin blasts in the philippines the attack took place on the southern island of holo which has seen a decades long islamist insurgency authorities suspect a local group called abu sayyaf is behind the attack but the so-called islamic
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state has also claimed responsibility. thousands of zimbabweans have turned out for the funeral of the country's most celebrated musician. all over into widely known as to who was laid to rest in his hometown after his death from diabetes last week to gulu songs were popular across generations has been declared a national hero. a state court in brazil has blocked more than a billion euros in assets belonging to the mining company valley in order to pay for damages from friday's dam disaster at least forty people are confirmed dead after a dam collapsed in the south east of the country another three hundred people remain missing rescue workers feared another dead nearby could also collapse but have since lifted their warning it is not yet clear what caused the dam to give way. five there's anger among the families affected by the dam disaster they say that
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the efforts to search for survivors and bodies are stalling i know i have no information about my husband no one has been able to tell me anything since friday no a police have blocked off parts of the disaster scene the mining company failed that operates the down feared another collapse could happen soon in alarms were going off today many members of my family were already buried under the mud so the hard rescue workers had to interrupt their mission because of the threat of another collapse the all clear came hours later mining company vale this calling the collapse a tragedy but environmental groups and victims have criticised vale for years saying it is failing to uphold safety standards. this is not an accident but a crime in which or what is the they should have these things under control if it was financial compensation it won't bring back our loved ones by god in my. sorrow
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is rampant here in providing you the hopes of finding more survivors are dwindling . and it's too late to stop the environmental catastrophe just as with a similar incident in the region around three years ago. today marks holocaust memorial day on this day in one nine hundred forty five soviet troops liberated thousands of prisoners from the auschwitz concentration camps former prisoners of auschwitz have placed flowers at an execution wall in the former net nazi death camp where more than a million people were killed we spoke with one remarkable woman who managed to escape being sent to the concentration camps and then made it her mission to fight against the nasties as a spy. moch cohen is ninety eight years old. but still full of energy. tonight she'll be holding another talk as only as her husband major accompanies her she says that in remembering the holocaust one thing is often overlooked. influence
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another. to know. that. at the jewish museum in frankfurt she presents her biography and tells what seems like an unbelievable story she a jewish french woman spied on the nazis. in february one thousand nine hundred forty five paris was already liberated but fighting continued at the secret line on the front with her perfect german skills cohen was a lucky find for military intelligence she may have been just one and a half meters tall but she wasn't easily intimidated using a german alias she crossed the border and pretended to be looking for her fiance near the front the twenty five year old was often fearful but she kept her poise if arrested she planned to commit suicide with sleeping pills. as we did
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take it. each vet. school took. keeping. her mission was life threatening but she was inspired by her maiden name. or hope good luck she procured important information about positions on the front courageous actions like these were often insufficiently recognized says museum director miriam vance all. very many were murdered but there was also resistance and jews as part of the allied forces defeated the germans that's both inspiring and important. despite losing loved ones cohen found the courage to carry out her mission. her sister was deported and murdered in auschwitz. see a resistance fighter was taken prisoner and shot dead. despite her agony mot
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completed her ask you know this mission. we. need to. model cohen wants to tell her story to as many people as possible so this part of history is not forgotten. to tennis now and the world number one novak djokovic beat world number two rafael nadal to win a record seventh australian open title it took the serbian just over two hours to complete his three set victory djokovic got off to a flying start winning thirteen of the first fourteen points the dow had cruised on his way into the final but struggled in this one especially with djokovic has served in the end joke which won six three six two six three this is third straight grand slam title and the fifteenth of his career. coming up after the break it's
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the bundesliga with nick mckenna kline. buyer nick locked horns with a strict guard on match day nineteen at needing a win to keep pace with the league leaders dortmund in the title race will see how they did plus much more on the bundesliga. you're watching you do a bit of deja vu news from berlin we'll have more news at the top of the hour and for updated information around the clock you can head to our web site it's t w dot com or you can follow us on twitter thanks for watching. if you ever have to cover up a murder best way is to make an accident. raring to. never read a book like this. mr jermyn the streets. celebrating one hundred years of touch and join our photo competition show us oh smoove mint
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