metropolis of crime. starts january twenty ninth on g.w. . this is news coming to you live from berlin but this while a self declared interim president is winning over the international community but can he get the country's powerful military to switch allegiance and renounce their loyalty to nicolas maduro also on the program from so-called reeducation camps and activists muslims make up just two percent of the chinese population but

increasingly they face persecution our correspondent looks at the rise of islamophobia in china. and defending bonus league champions by in munich stay hot on the heels of league leaders dortmund after a rocky start to the season high and showed they're back in full again stood guard and near certain to make it a tight race for the title. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us international endorsement of venezuela's self declared interim president is growing israel and australia are among the latest countries to recognize wide though that's after his rival 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 shore up their competing claims of legitimacy. target practice under the eyes of president nicolas maduro it took place at fort. twenty seventeen a group of soldiers rose up against the government this time it was about showing loyalty. don't want to. argue 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 opposition leader one guy though 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. venezuelan soldiers i'm talking to you

this is the moment to be on the constitution side. don't be afraid no doubt about that all. those supporters are spreading out across the country going to army barracks to spread the word. has proposed an amnesty i thought in a bid 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 his supporters hope that this will change in the coming days. and we gets let's get more now from jennifer communal gonzaga she's a venezuelan journalist with d.w. in bonn jennifer how important is the military's role in resolving this crisis. well there are critical i mean this is the institution in manners 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 rule 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 strong and mother of being weak and so right now as the top brass is backing him they 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 wife 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 reached new life into the opposition and 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 now 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 a liberal doing that. it's not likely and neither are knows that if you 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 words of take place it is not likely that he would win he doesn't seem to have a whole lot of occupation 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 venezuela has been dealing with it for a while remind us again what led to right why do we 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 which is illegitimate or a great president is not present 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 camino gonzalez there talking to us from both. now as we go to some other stories making news around the world today rescuers in southeastern brazil are searching for more than painting mining waste collapsed in september inspectors found the dam to be safe. u.s. president don't trump has lifted sanctions on a number of companies linked to russian oligarch oleic pasta the sanctions were imposed last year to punish russia for interfering in america's twenty six thousand

election the administration decided to lift the sanctions after a very positive reduced his stake in the j.s.c. power company and aluminum giant roofs off. hundreds of taxi drivers are blocking key roads in madrid as part of their open ended strike against online drive hailing services such as. the spanish government has already agreed to clamp down on hooper but taxi drivers are demanding further restrictions on the services which they say unfairly undercut their business. at a court in china has sentenced a prominent rights lawyer one son jiang to four and a half years in jail for subversion of state power long defended political activists and members of the fallen gong spiritual movement rights groups have been elst the sentence for rights lawyers are not the only ones facing a crackdown by chinese authorities muslims and ethnic and china are also coming

under growing pressure from alleged reeducation camps in western chain jiang to stiffer controls on mosques beijing says it's simply trying to rein in extremism but islamophobia in china is finding more subtle outlets to as d.w. as moti is filing 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 allowed 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's going to limit their rights as part of

a minority. shuffle inflated. none 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 is clear. 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 mosque or to the head of this congregation says he supports state policy so we shout when the religion should serve society first and foremost a lot it should be managed in harmony with our social system. that's the right way in that country. 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 an erratic script. the government points to the police state in the western region of sin john 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 the human rights i. our camera team was stopped by guards when we approached one of them and we were held for our usual as. well which it was here 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 persecution 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. young man culture that's here and around fears the worst for chinese muslims may be yet to come. it's soccer news now in the bonus league abut munich have been playing catch up to

first place dortmund all season but they've once again moved within six points of the league leaders thanks to an emphatic when it stood. by him munich piled on the pressure from the start things they come on separate blocks but the bali bench where they landed in front of to go and he threaded the needle. chance taking the lead in just six minutes thanks to their midfield strategist and the bavarians then continued to impose their will on steel guards. in fact things were going so well that byron lost their concentration and suddenly it was one thanks to him and i think also i go losing his battle with the greeks loves to score against two of his career five one just league goals coming against now. kicked off the second time with just as much pressure as the first half to

fifty five minutes the ball bounced around and telling pound sage cannot be his effort we took the lead to an own goal from your thoughts christiane good. bend in the seventy first minute lay on the ritz got howard in a corner to make it three one his third goal since the winter break still got the most expensive transfer ever cup box failing to keep him contained. and shortly before the end robert leaven dumps he sealed the deal. on the final score that high and continued to keep pace with dortmund in the title race. so let's take a look at the bonus least bandings after nineteen matches dortmund holds the top slot with a six point cushion over by and with mention in third in the bottom half mines have moved up past braman and are in striking distance of qualifying for next season's european tournaments had over and nor back are holding firm down at the very bottom

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