this is news coming to you live from berlin but as we have a self declared interim president one is winning over the international community but can he get the country's powerful military to switch allegiance and pronounce their loyalty to nicolas maduro also on the program a chinese court sentences a problem his rights lawyer to four and a half years for subversion of state power human rights groups are calling it a gross injustice. and to another democrat jumps into america's twenty twenty

presidential election campaign the many see california senator harris says one of the heavyweights in what promises to be a crowded field of candidates. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us international endorsement of venezuela's self declared interim president is growing israel and australia are among the latest countries to recognize one. that's after its rival president nicolas maduro rejected a european ultimatum for fresh elections to be held within eight days both men are now engaged in a fierce contest for the backing of venezuela's military to shore up their claims of legitimacy. target practice under the eyes of president nicolas maduro it took place of foreign power. in two thousand and seventeen

a group of soldiers rose up against the government this time it was about showing loyalty. are you plotting a coup. or are you constitutionalists. traitors never always loyal. to their. murderous sees the hand of western governments behind opposition protests he says they're trying to overthrow him he knows the military is key to staying in power the opposition leader wanted wydow is trying to convince the military to join his side following a church service for victims of violent street clashes he made a direct appeal to. the venezuelan soldiers i'm talking to you this is the moment to be on the constitution side. don't be afraid no doubt about the. supporters are spreading out across the country going to army barracks to

spread the word quite oh has proposed an amnesty i thought it would be good to convince venezuelan soldiers to join the opposition. none of the soldiers wants to be seen switching sides on camera one says that the military is still firmly on the side of manure i want quite oh and his supporters hope that this will change in the coming days. and he gets let's get more now from jennifer communicate on sabah she's a venezuelan journalist with d.w. in jennifer how important is the military's role in resolving this crisis. well there are critical i mean this is the institution in mina's where that the sides honestly because they have the weapons who is in power and who's not at a critical moment like this of course the top leadership has sided with my girl but the thing is it is about the lower ranks if the lower ranks break from the military

then the military weakens and then they have to sort of in a divided situation they could mean the difference between men who were being strong and mother of being weak and so right now as the top brass is backing him the opposition is clearly going for those people in the barracks of people at the lower ranks to try to make the difference right there now talking about the opposition the self declared president why though who is not or as a rival at this point is calling for public protests this week on wednesday and saturday numerous people were killed in previous protest what can we expect this time. well you should expect a showing because the opposition and its supporters are fired up right now this this declaration this proclamation of his interim presidency has really breathed new life into the opposition now of course there's a fear and maybe bo fear of reprisals of violence but they know that the world is

watching so i think that we should expect people to come out but this is also going to be the test how many people actually come out can the opposition bring another showing quite like the one in the last week on the twenty third of january it remains to be seen but i would say that they will come out well several european governments including germany have said they will recognize quite as president if moderate doesn't call fresh elections by sunday any chance of moderate doing that. it's not likely and neither are knows that if he were to have an election it would also be heavily monitored because they haven't just asked for an election they've asked for a credible election and this is exactly the problem the last election that he held he can hold elections it's just that the last election was was basically being the sham it was it was not credible and so he would not want to invite all of that in and all of that international attention not to mention that if a credible election were to take place it is not likely that he would win he

doesn't seem to have a hole in the population that he used to so it would be it would be shocking to me if he did and if he did do that it's not likely that the election would actually be credible now for people who are just coming in on this crisis has been dealing with it for a while remind us again what led to me why did i would declaring himself interim president. so why though has declared himself in term president based on the constitution the venezuelan constitution allows for this because if a president is in the case of what they say was illegitimate or a great president is not president then it falls on the national assembly president to be the interim president until elections can be called now what led to this well basically twenty seventeen is the key here that is when they were decided to strip the national assembly off of its power and create an alternate legislature and so because the national assembly is controlled by the opposition it basically stripped

the opposition from any power so of course this was a move that he won but now this is the next step jennifer thank you so much jennifer a communal gonzalez there talking to us from both thank you. now a state court in brazil has blocked more than a billion euros in assets belonging to the mining company violate an order to pay for damages from friday's dam disaster at least fifty eight people are confirmed dead after a dam collapsed in the south east of the country another three hundred people remain missing it's still unclear what calls the dam to give way. five there's anger among the families affected by the dam disaster they say that the efforts to search for survivors and bodies are stollen i know i have no information about my husband no one has been able to tell me anything since friday no the police have blocked off parts of the disaster scene in southeastern

brazil the mining company that operates the dam feared another collapse could happen to see it in alarms were going off today many members of my family were already buried under the mud so to hide rescue workers had to interrupt their mission because another dam threatened to burst the all clear came hours later mining company of ali is calling the collapse a tragedy but environmental groups and victims have criticised bali for years saying it's failing to uphold safety standards. to stone jesus was not an accident but a crime they should have these things under control what financial compensation it won't bring back our loved ones by god in my. sorrow is rampant here in burma genius 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 a region around three years ago. let's catch up now on some of the other stories

making headlines around the world today greece has seen fresh clashes over the government's boat to normalize relations with neighboring macedonia violence broke out between protesters and police in the country's second city thessaloniki polls show many greeks disapprove of the deal to recognise north macedonia which shares its name with one of greece's own regions. firefighters in south africa have been battling blazes on the hillsides surrounding cape charles city center strong winds have been fanning the flames on the slopes of signal hill and lion's head authorities have not yet issued any evacuation orders. and at least twenty people have been killed in twin blasts outside a cathedral 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 is behind the attack the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility a court in china has sentenced

a prominent rights lawyer won't soon jiang to four and a half years in jail for subversion of state power one defended political activists and members of the fallen gong spiritual movement rights groups have denounced the sentence wang was detained in august twenty fifteen as part of a wider crackdown on lawyers. for more on the case i'm joined now by david obvious much. in beijing mathias first tell us more about wang and the crime that the court says he committed oh i think we've lost mathias and i hope we can get him back shortly for you. you are watching the news ok. for now they may

only make up a tiny percentage of the population in in china but muslims in china are coming under growing pressure as the government cracks down on the community for alleged reeducation camps in western shang jiang to stiffer controls on mosques beijing maintains its simply keeping a tight rein on extremism but islamophobia in china is finding more subtle outlets to as w's mathias building a reports. it's not unusual for iran to get offended when he logs into china's social networks the writer is keenly aware of the growing islamophobia wave spreading through the country including a so-called anti helen movement who supporters accuse muslims of dividing the country they're calling on airlines and universities to stop serving a lot of food dishes prepared according to muslim law china's internet censors have nothing against these kinds of messages what did you hear for sure the goal of this

movement is to clamp down on muslims. cortical sure what it meant to limit their rights as part of a minority. shuffle inflated. you know one of the members of the entitled movement we contacted were willing to speak on camera but one who cause them serve the association of pork eaters agreed to answer a few questions in an online chat he said islam in china is on the rise and that chinese majority culture is under threat but he wouldn't provide examples to back his claim. muslims make up less than two percent of china's population and iran whose real name is to a house in belongs to the queer minority a mandarin speaking group of muslims was mosques often built in typical chinese

style for centuries and iran's birthplace jinan eastern china has been the home of a substantial muslim community. the government strict rules controlling religious practice are apparent in the most cordial ahead of this congregation says he supports state policy so shatter my religion should serve society first and foremost a lot you know it should be managed in harmony with our social system so that's the right way. to come to. even though daily life in jena is muslim quarter looks like business as usual state back pressure on chinese muslims is mounting a new five year plan calls for stiffer control over mosques in a few provinces some of them have been closed and restaurants were forced to remove any signs in arad extract. the government points to the police state in the western

region of seems young as a perfect example of religious control but in reality that's where hundreds of thousands of ethnic muslim we go are being detained in reeducation camps according to human rights i. our camera team was stopped by guards when we approached one of them and we were headed for allegations. leveled at him that don't live on the ranch we come on. and ron is one of few chinese intellectuals who have openly criticized the state's prosecution of the week is this has led to police questioning him for two days he says he is afraid but refuses to remain silent who. wants to speak the truth and the communist party takes offense to deal with and they will certainly take their revenge at some point if shutting up will not protect your hotel yet one quarter leads here and around

fears the worst for chinese muslims may be yet to come. well let's cross over to beijing where understand our correspondent is boiling it can join as i say in no great material tell us first of all china is a muslim community as we saw in your report is dealing with growing restrictions and even frets in some case how is that community dealing with it well i think we have to see the two cases apart which happens in scene john where to look at minorities minorities that are. visibly different from from the mid majority hunt chinese people they are under a very big threat undertow to the tarion threat me one hundreds of thousands maybe millions have disappeared in riyadh you gate cation camps visiting a mosque is dangerous over there with muslim communities muslims that are

assimilated and that speak mandarin as their mother tongue and they are not under the same threats but there is a crackdown on religion going on and on religious activities and showing yourself religious is also. the party's pushing for its i think east ideology at the moment there are however concerns that some of the large scale new pressure that we've seen and seen jump might spread to these muslim communities as provinces that have of the muslim minority population are starting to cooperate or announcing corporations with scenes young so there is a sentiment of fear in these coming to us so there's an ethnic and a religious component to all this in your report you said you tried to gain access to those camps were weaker muslims are being held in the north allegedly as

a foreign journalist how are you treated when they stopped you. well there when they stopped me they were clearly surprised that i had made it to this point they held me for a few hours not really knowing what to do calling their superiors as they drove me then to a building that belonged to the justice department and made me to lead some footage . after that i was closely followed around i was not able to move in the city again freely whenever i left the hotel somebody came and. beside me told me he would take me they would take me to some place or i'm a few policeman funnelled behind so i was kinda restricted in doing any research there ok getting back to another story that you are following there in china for us is a court has sentenced a prominent rights lawyer one showing junk to four and

a half years in jail for subversion of power first of all tell us more about wall and the crime that the court says he committed. long as he is what people call a human rights lawyer a lawyer who takes up cases of human rights violations cases where. people are accused on rightly accused he has been defending. tongan followers the religious cult that has been suppressed here for the last twenty years and other people who got in conflict with the state. he was he was taken three and a half years ago into nobody knows where he later that it was said he was in custody and he was accused of subverting state power as far as we know the only

thing he did was doing his job as a lawyer. but it is a very serious charge and this verdict today was expected to come down one of these days. was detained as part of a crackdown on the lawyers in two thousand and fifteen why is what is china trying to achieve with these arrests. it's of course very hard because they don't say what they are really trying to do to achieve they always make up their stories about people being influenced from the from acting as foreign agents to subvert the chinese nation and the communist party but i think as. more and more lawyers have become more. confident about defending the law and taking the law for granted. the government felt at some point that they would. have to react to this and they

would have to. either give way and rule the country in a more law abiding fashion or they would have to send a signal to stop other lawyers from from being brave in taking up these kinds of cases and they decided for the latter. but yes thank you so much for all of that is materials bellinger there reporting from beijing. now turning to the u.s. democratic senator kyl a harris has formally launched her bid for the presidency she's one of the party's front runners and she is hoping her background as a. it will help her win the right to challenge trump in two thousand and twenty taking off her campaign as a democrat in oakland california harris presented herself as a leader who could unite america. long lines in downtown oakland

kaamelott harris drew a big crowd here for her campaign kick of rally among them many young women like in portugal eager to hear what the senator has to say. we really love how strong she is unlike criminal justice reform immigration she. just doesn't allow people to believe her like she asked the hard questions she keeps her composure she's really will spoken i am excited to see her or her pop for. the about what matters and ultimately be reinvigorated by or this really was supposed to be a show of political force and it certainly looked that way when kaamelott harris took to the stage the daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants promised to be a fighter for the people stating that it was time to restore what she views as a loss of american values president we are here because the american dream and

our american democracy are under attack and on the line like never before and we are here at this moment in time because we must answer. a fundamental question. who are we. who are we as americans let's answer that question. america we are better than this. the democratic party is looking for fresh faces and come along harris who's been a u.s. senator for only two years certainly. she grew up here in oakland a diverse industrial city known for its toughness high crime rates and political left wing activists now she is the first female black candidate having a viable shot at the presidency. right. dozens of democrats lining up to run in twenty twenty the crucial question will be whether the party

things come along harris has a chance of beating down old trump her supporters definitely think she does understand people. understand the needs of our country and she has morals which we don't have right now. with a year and a half until the democrats pick their presidential nominee kaamelott harris still has a long way to go but her oakland rally was beyond doubt a good start. folks francis has wrapped up his trip to panama where he presided over world youth day a gathering of catholics from around the globe francis ended the festivities with a speech to thousands of world youth day volunteers then set off for the airport accompanied by president and first lady. of family her been covering the first unfolded and has more from panama. more than half a million people gathered here in panama to join quote front in the last month and

many will follow them all the way to portugal where the next world youth day will be taking place in trainee twenty two years of the region also attended such as the president of colombia grocery can of course. and. then to fight corruption in a region that have been writing it. in recent years. going right after i think that you got it right and event like believe that the church was raking it in and try to. make money and maybe. affiliate harms their reporting from panama city well our religious affairs correspondent is with us here in the studio this morning hi martin so world youth day it's been a huge event on the continent pope francis is own calling to home continent there and in south america but how successful has the pontiff been in getting young

people into the church given all the scandals that it's faced there is absolutely no doubt that we have through countries in latin america africa even europe really reenergized church and particularly at the base so i think that this has been very effective i mean this we're you know in this sort of periodic mode-s. the woodstock of catholicism to put it in some ways and it really that's a drag lot of people and people come from every continent however obviously this does not address the fundamental questions about policy and about the things that actually are being demanded by the international community from the church so we have two different stories the church has regained a bit of its footing in the sort of general population the bigger questions about the institutional doings have not been addressed now the pope has been speaking out about the crisis in venezuela he says he's praying for an outcome that respects human rights is he going beyond that is he saying anything else no one and i do not expect him to to be quite honest i mean the issue that it's very visceral in

venezuela for anybody who has a bit of memory about latin american history is that the country that's not simply have a political problem the country sexually extremely polarized and you have actually a base for the chavez side that will still be there even if there is. at the change of government given the fact that the pontifical position the church in general has tried over the last couple of years to establish state political harmony at least political dialogue in these different countries i think that the vatican has a very clear idea that even beyond a mother or a government there will still be a need for conversations and i think that that's the way that they are bathing successfully or not we cannot really tell right now not in thank you so much religious affairs correspondent much in guy you're welcome. you're watching t.v. news coming to you from berlin we have more news coming up at the top of the hour and you can of course all the latest news information around the clock on our web

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