this is deja vu news live from venezuela's power struggle self declared interim president why those calls on the country's military to back and but can he convince commanders to renounce their loyalty to nicolas maduro. also coming up another democrat chunks of america's twenty twenty presidential election campaign many see california senator connelly harris as one of the heavyweights of what promises to

be a crowded field of can't. beat the o.p.'s meanwhile already has a woman president and a gender balanced cabinet but are these changes trickling down to all levels of society our reporter talks to women in the countryside who say they're sex is still grounds for discrimination. and in sports defending put to sleep at champions firing the next day hot on the heels of the league leaders dortmund after a rocky start to the season byron show they're back on track to construct start your search team to get the tight race for the time. i'm serious i was going to have 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 one why though his rival president nicolas

maduro has rejected an ultimatum from europe to hold fresh elections within eight days both men are now locked in a fierce contest for the support of venezuela's military. target practice under the eyes of president nicolas maduro it took place at fort paramount where in two thousand and seventeen a group of soldiers rose up against the government this time it was about showing loyalty. are you planning 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 you know as the military is key to staying in power the opposition leader was trying to convince the military to join his side following

a church service for victims of violent street clashes he made a direct appeal. supporters are spreading out across the country going to army barracks to spread the word. has proposed an amnesty 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 madeira and i want his supporters hope that this will change in the coming days. let's bring in jennifer come you know conciseness she's a venezuelan journalist with us here at t w hi jennifer good to see you tell us more here about the power of the military is this really the deciding factor between which of these two leaders has power. at this point yes because the village there is the only institution that at this critical juncture when these kind of

situations take hold that can make the difference make or break the there is at the moment and that is regime and that is because they have the weapons and they have the repressive power that mother oh has basically used to intimidate the population to to be subservient to the regime and through until not come out and be mobilized but right now they are vacuum of the world it is not certain that it will stay this way because it is only the top leadership and we don't know what the lower ranks think or how unified they are what about the situation on the ground jennifer why though is now calling for more public protests this week the previous ones did turn violent what do you think we can expect this time we can expect a big showing because the opposition is energized by this move they were wanting this day they really needed this this lifeline exemption they that why though has sent before why the made is that there is no last week it was almost dead the

opposition had basically this banded previously and so now they have an incentive and they have a motive and they have most importantly hold and so we can expect a big showing and is it big enough much like last week we're not certain because of course there is the fear of repression and repression has happened so people have to contend with that but we can definitely say that that they're energized what about the voices that we're hearing internationally israel and australia joining european governments pushing for mother to hold a new election right away do you think she's going to do so. i don't think he will i mean he knows that having an election would bring a lot of international attention to his system of government and he does not want that he does not want all of this all of this attention because he already had an election he believes that he had an election last year that he won that was free and fair and that's is the thing they don't just want an election they want to credible election and that is something that he that he knows he cannot deliver

because if he had a true credible and free and fair contest he might lose and this is a risk that he is not willing to take jennifer as this political crisis continues how has it affected venezuelans in a country where the economy had already collapsed essentially. yeah well that is exactly the problem that venezuela has are suffering so much and three million of them according to the u.n. have fled in the past two years past two to three years and so this for the people who are remaining there they need this they need a change they need to break the deadlock because right now it is a very hopeless situation economically mother who has tried to institute certain changes to the economy but they have done nothing so the situation on the ground is very very very dire and people are living in the spare right jennifer camino gonzales for us thank you so much for sharing your insights thank you a state court in brazil has blocked more than

a billion euros in assets belonging to the mining company vale in 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 is still unclear what caused the dam to give way. was there's anger among the families affected by the dam disaster was they say that the efforts to search for survivors and bodies are still and i don't 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 follett that operates the dam feared another collapse could happen you see it in alarms were going off today many members of my family are already buried under the mud so to hard. rescue workers had to interrupt their mission because another dam threat to burst the all clear came hours later mining

company of ali is calling the collapse the tragedy but environmental groups and victims have criticized bali for years saying it's failing to uphold safety standards. this is not an accident but a crime they should have these things under control what financial compensation won't bring back our loved ones to my. sorrow is rampant here in burma jean you know the hopes of finding more survivors are dwindling but it's too late to stop the environmental catastrophe just as with a similar incident in a region around three years ago. now some other stories making news around the world emergency workers have been assisting residents in the cuban capital after a rare and powerful tornado struck overnight at least three people were killed and scores were injured the twister destroyed numerous homes and vehicles and disrupted electrical power in several districts. 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 council of nicaea polls show many greeks disapprove of the deal to recognize north macedonia which shares its name with one of greece's own regions. a un expert on executions has arrived in turkey as part of an international inquiry into the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi agnes cullum art and a team of legal and forensic experts will spend a week investigating the murder which took place nearly four months ago in the saudi consulate in istanbul. and firefighters in south africa have been battling blazes on the hillside surrounding the cape town city center strong winds have been fanning the flames on the slopes of signal hill and lyons had authorities have not yet issued any evacuation orders. u.s. president donald trump has lifted sanctions on a number of companies linked to a russian all of our old like there are pasta that includes the j.s.c.

power company and aluminum giant to resell now oleg deripaska is an ally of russian president vladimir putin he's also being investigated in the u.s. as part of robert miller's probe into alleged collusion between moscow and president trump's campaign in two thousand and sixteen the u.s. treasury department said the decision to remove sanctions was made because there are no longer controls the companies critics including some republican lawmakers don't agree with that assessment. we have stephen bentley with us from debut business to talk more about this story stephen talk to us about the sanctions why were they there in the first place and what does it mean now that they're gone to some of these sanctions go back to april two thousand and eighteen and that's when the trump administration targeted a group of russians seven oligarchs a number of businesses i believe twelve. for malign activity russians russia's malign activity which they describe as the election interference two thousand and sixteen its actions in eastern ukraine and in the crimea among others and the goal

was to really obviously punish them and make them successful on an international level obviously when you pull back the reach of the use of american dollars for exam for these businesses then you make them on viable and that was a threat against resolve was that by removing its access to the international markets it was going to basically send a clear message and what happened though was that there was a great lobbying efforts both on the behalf of result self but also from european allies of the u.s. who said this is going to be too disruptive obviously rizal has its own interest for its survival for others they said this is going to be too disruptive of markets and would be a step too far and so weeks after the announcement of the sanctions there was another announcement that hey this may be too much we're going to look at a deal so why is there then criticism because it sounds like a compromise was reached you know there is criticism because for two reasons one is that it really it gives sanctions relief on a lot of people didn't believe that there needed to be any sanctions relief they didn't buy this explanation that it would be so disruptive to world markets that it would really outweigh the message sent by the sanctions themselves they believe

that a strong message was sent the second is that once details of the deal itself came out the deal by which. is sort of put into the limelight a bit it looked like he was getting sort of something special out of it in the sense that he actually gets through the structure of deal he gets hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief through it by passing on some of the shares if you look at it he doesn't have a majority stake in the controlling company but him his family his allies actually do. half a majority not voting but they get a lot of money out of this so a lot of criticism for all of these reasons given i do want to ask you about another story spanish taxi drivers blocking one of madrid's major roads of the weekend to protest the right helen service over take a look here the drivers are demanding a further restrictions on the service they say it unfairly undercuts their business the spanish government has already agreed to clamp down on. capping licenses for new bird drivers but the taxi drivers here say the new regulations don't go far

enough and that they will continue their protest until their demands are met stephen we've seen plenty of protests here in europe against over by taxi drivers what do these taxi drivers actually want right in a word what they want to madrid is what barcelona just got and what they got in barcelona was a rule that basically says any ride sharing order must be made an hour in advance now can you imagine the sort of defeats the purpose of the away from right exactly and so that pretty much ensures they can't do business as normal as any business in a city in madrid with these taxi drivers like in many other cities have felt incredibly. disrupted by what was going on and their livelihoods a stake this is a fair rule for them and that's what they want. to pay one hundred fifty thousand euros for a taxi license so you can see how their livelihoods might fill under threat for over this goes into their efforts to work with european cities and accept some of the regulations and they've been able to actually get into more european cities than they did initially by sort of understanding some of what they want with their

rules not coming into a brazenly like that in the american market but spain might be another matter altogether it's proving to be very difficult for them it will be interesting to see what happens and other road blocks for over then i think your business thank you so much. to u.s. politics now and democratic senator cum ally harris has formally launched her bid for the presidency she is one of the party's frontrunners and she is hoping that her background as a prosecutor will help her win the right to challenge donald trump in twenty twenty harrison kicked off her campaign in oakland california and she presented herself as a leader who could unite america. long lines in downtown oakland come along her drew a big crowd here for her companion 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 his 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 on the president's trum 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's looking for fresh faces and come along harris who's been a u.s. senator for only two years certainly fits that bill she grew up here in oakland a diverse industrial city known for its toughness high crime rates and political left wing activists but now she is the first female black candidate having a buyable shot at the presidency i don't think yet but where 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 she understand the me of the country 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 her is still has a long way to go but her oakland rally was beyond doubt a good start. ethiopia meanwhile already has a president who is a woman house of the government's cabinet members are also women and so is the head of the supreme court but in the countryside where most people live gender equality looks very different boys still get preferential treatment over girls when it comes to education for example so what do these political changes at the highest level mean for ordinary women is funny for charm reports from i just about. this campus could be anywhere in the rural but this is if you are and something here is strikingly different. in this eclipse hubris i'm lucky to be here at the university because most girls in ethiopia do not have access to university like this.

not. being any b.s. well that's because most girls don't even make it to secondary school hard to believe given the fact that if the opium made headlines when they was named the country's first female president and there are more women in politics in the countryside where most ethiopians live their men are still confined to traditional roles the opportunities for women are limited it's all about boundaries set in families influenced by culture and tradition here in developed it's still men who dominate the life of women i see girls coming home from elementary school and asking them about their goals is a doctor. that each or engineer the almost all children go to primary school these days only thirty percent of girls make it beyond eighth grade the notion that girls do not belong in school persists in the rural villages

and if a family can afford to send a child to school boys usually take precedence. from others believe that although women get an education they will not succeed. most girls drop out of school when they are fifteen like their high she wants to become a doctor but her parents don't have the money to support her she says. you know if you think the status quo should change. and men should come into the kitchen more often than. her reality working in this household for three hundred b. out of about ten dollars a month that she sends to her family in a village nearby she hopes to find someone who will sponsor her education her employer feels more lucky she can afford to high service as a maid over ethiopian coffee she tells us that her husband encouraged her to work

as a nurse instead of staying at home and raising their child. because he didn't just lose me personally i have a good life but growing up i have seen many women facing obstacles. i have witnessed women raped in school have seen women get kicked out by their husband because they wanted to go to school. and i have seen men lying about having kids and taking girls home marrying them. back in the capital back to a different world women here are successfully asserting themselves in society and raising their voices one of them is how we are a young reporter and host of a show called women in focus. your good afternoon today's women in focus will take a look at during your one of securing movements an hour on. today's focus is a movement that fight for gender equality how it tells us the problem in ethiopia

is not just with men though most times we talk about issues of women we're talking about that you should stay suffer from men but women also we put ourselves down we do not not exactly put ourselves down but we do not realize our put in charge sometimes we go along with the status quo so the things that we do to change that status quo the mindset we have towards our own selves that's very crucial if the o.p.'s capital is single rapid change on that a prime minister ahmed but there's still a long way to go before noticeable progress is made on improving the lives of ordinary women. right to some soccer news now and in the bundesliga byron munich have been playing catch up to first place darkman all season but they've once again moved within six points of the league leaders thanks to an emphatic win at stuttgart. by

a mere nick piled on the pressure from the start things they've come on separate blocks but the ball eventually landed in front of tiago and he threaded the needle for the banking champs taking the lead out to just six minutes thanks to their midfield strategist and the bavarians then continued to impose their will on stuttgart. in fact things were going so well that biron lost their concentration and suddenly it was one zero thanks to. john the the tiago losing his battle with the greek poet who loves to star against new to his career five one just league goals coming against them. firing picked up the second time with just as much pressure as the first half to fifty five minutes the ball bounced around until it found says you know betty whose efforts me to believe that to win i'm goal i'm still got it's pristine and get the

bend in the seventy first minute lay on the right stuff howard in a corner to make it three one his third goal since the winter break defies most expensive transfer ever us on cup but failing to keep him contained. and shortly before the end robert levin dubs he sealed the deal. on the final score but continued to keep pace with dortmund in the title race. this will do are for have been on a high in recent weeks four wins in their last four games including a win against dortmund but on sunday fourth place lights have proved to be too tough a test for the newly promoted side. but poorly cleared much the corner in the second minute so you supposed soon break through that disoriented dusseldorf the fence a vital one new lead in the spot for your. blood siege kept up beyond saw your son

about abraham a cannot say calmly striding forward and not for his first ever been to see a good goal just seven minutes later posting once again at the center of things slugging home a pass from a combo platter to put lights of three mill in a little over a quarter of an hour marcel sub it's a rip job in a quiet second half forcing a solid saved up by my pounced on rounding out the scoring for the lead to get four nil in the sixty eighth minute. thousand in life so he could soak up a critical when he could not one step closer to a top four finish. let's take a look at the bundesliga stand exact her nineteen matches a dortmund stay steady at the top with a six point cushion over byron with mention cloud and third in the bottom half minds have moved up past bremen and are in striking distance of qualifying for next season's european tournaments hannover and norm berg are holding firm down at the

very bottom the asian cup football tournament is in that stretch run with two semifinal match ups in two days later it will be a four time champs japan taking on iran tomorrow the host of the tournament the united arab emirates qatar iran by the way is the favorite to win it all it would be iran's first asian cup in forty three years. a massive snow falls in the alps have created perfect conditions for just about any type of winter sport and even one sport we normally associate with the summer these are images from the snow bike festival in switzerland a four day event that is the only race sanctioned by cycling's governing body to take place on snow covered around a hundred thirty kilometers of snow covered trails and about four thousand meters climbing.

heard a reminder now of our top story here on d w venezuela's self declared interim president one why though has appealed to the country's military to back him as he challenges the leadership of nicolas moto he's also called on all venezuelans to hold fresh protests against moguls this week. coming up the start of a new asian news shows did abuse founder g. will be bringing you these stories china kills another human rights lawyer as part of a sweeping crackdown we'll find out why rights groups are calling the case to block the reach of the rule of law. and a growing islamophobia in china will have

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