pope francis was a bloodbath in venezuela as self declared interim president topped one calls for fresh street protests against president but during a pressure on the dura is increasing as israel and australia join other countries in recognizing its rival also on the program that democratic suffer from pain for the twenty twenty us presidential election california senator campbell house is considered everyone promises to be a crowded field of confidence. and take steps to protect itself from inflation

of wild pigs it's building a fence along its border with germany to prevent the spread of swine fever which critics say the group is also a political. i'm phil go welcome to the program the pope passed spoken out about venezuela's political crisis saying that he's terrified of a bloodbath that pope francis called for a just and peaceful solution and said he would not take sides he was speaking to reporters as he returned to bro from a catholic youth gathering in pattaya. this is my support all venezuelan people who are suffering if i were to say do these to those countries or other countries i put myself in a role that i don't know it'd be a pastoral imprudence and would do damage to get them to agree isn't enough it

requires a just and peaceful solution i'm terrified of a bloodbath. meanwhile has called for fresh protests against the president's daughter the venezuelan opposition also wants new elections several european countries have said they will switch their support to if no vote is called it's a quite as also been trying to persuade army generals to abandon their support for president but offer an amnesty. and a carefully staged show of solidarity even as well as president nicolas maduro joined soldiers for morning drills he also took part in military maneuvers intended to display government strength and its preparedness. let me want to have a moment here i'm calling on all members of our armed forces to show maximum unity and discipline to be ready to repel the imperialists who attempt. regular citizens delivered military personnel an offer of amnesty from opposition leader and self

declared president one. at numerous barricades the letter was immediately burned or torn up meanwhile guardia were tendered a church service to remember the dozens of people who have lost their lives in recent days he says he's ready to negotiate but only if certain conditions are met . and so this illegitimate government a transitional government and the promise of reelections that's simply what the people of venezuela demanding. later called for fresh protests both at home and abroad to take place later this week. but yet you know this we want to support the european union's initiative and their ultimatum. but that's an ultimatum that president murder has already categorically rejected. well straight to the venezuelan capital caracas and where we find the d.w. correspondent oscar schleck and welcome oscar you just heard that they all

important military has declared its backing for president madore oh so what might prompt them to switch well i was a strong supporter in the military because i reckon officers have a huge economic and political interest in misrata and they also share the responsibility of human rights violations and torture there are being investigated for example in the hague and other international or then still are enacted by the us one parliament was to order middle and lower ranking officers but there are many factors that have to play out the military it's a necessity as well who are more intelligence during protests and demonstrations there are one hundred twenty mg at the political conflict cysts. so one go ugh why doha's call for more public protests this week the previous ones have turned violent and what can we expect this time well there has been rather protests all throughout last week especially in the slums and poor areas there are

protesting not only against moderately that's the cause. for months so our major demonstration resorts of violence because of violent repression from on forces this adds to the long list of human rights violations that are being investigated and there are already pressure on the un stephen rights commissioner to come and this event is laid out in the coming weeks so what else clinton presidency announced is unstable for the lacking a military support and some argue that my goodness presidency is just a salute as well from the rejection of the students and general public the international pressure that supporting one. let's talk about the general public because this political crisis is happening as venezuelan struggled with a crippled economy and food shortages so how do they feel about this presidential standoff. well the opposition has certainly are open to negotiations but they are not want to sit through anymore all starts with my

goodness government says members of the office in two thousand and thirteen their employment as well and have seen there have been at least three think about routes between opposition and government and the recently almost there was the first moment of the government fails to deliver their end of the bargain the main one being elections with a new electoral council that has been accused of being rather fraudulent not only here going to slow but also international so in the past charts have resulted in by immigrants are people are tired of that you want to go to elections with a new electoral council and that is something one right there has said has to happen in the coming in this of you you've talked about the people of that i wonder are we talking about the opposition being tired of failing to fulfill his promises and what is the popular support like for either side in this crisis. we some popular support are we're serious we haue the opposition filled the streets

our mother will still have some support of chavis does of. the people that are supporting the government we went on the tremor of both protests last week and we saw that a lot of people that were supporting the were actually government workers people involved with collectives that support members who don't and they actually have to change their speech when other requests are not good because people started leaving those protests. and the general public when we see hear from here is that he has been losing approval points from even southeast us we have seen chinese just come to the opposition sign so there are a lot of protests last year that were involving also charged us and people that supported the government for not receiving during this phone shortage for medicine or how the health. system is working here at the moment so we've seen

a lot of protests not only from opposition but also check ministers and his approval ratings have been dropped on consistently since the past three years i was crushed lanka in caracas thank you. the court in brazil has frozen more than a billion euros in assets belonging to the mining company in order to pay for damage caused by friday's down disaster at least fifty eight people are confirmed dead after the dam collapsed in the country's southeast another three hundred missing it's still not known why the dam gave way. five arab there's anger among the families affected by the dam disaster they say that the efforts to search for survivors and bodies are still there i don't know i have no information about my husband no one has been able to tell me anything since friday no police have blocked off parts of the disaster scene in southeastern brazil the mining company that operates the dam feared another collapse could happen you see it in

alarms were going off today many members of my family were already buried under the mud so. 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 financial compensation it won't bring back our loved ones to my. sorrow is rampant here in burma genial 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. oh wells in the united states democratic side of the harris fold we launched her bid for the presidency

a frontrunner in her party she hopes her background as a prosecutor will help her win the nomination to challenge donald trump in twenty twenty seven to harrisburg on her campaign in oakland california presenting himself as a leader who could unite the country. long lines. in downtown oakland come along harrah's drew a big crowd here for her companion kick of rally among them many young women like aisle 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 how this rally 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 strom 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 i the democratic party looking for fresh faces and common law harris who's been a u.s. senator for only two years certainly fits that bill she grew up here in auckland 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 buyable shot at the presidency by. 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 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 come along her is still has a long way to go but her oakland rally was beyond doubt a good start. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world in the united states most of the eight hundred thousand federal workers who've been. certified to shut down are returning to work i may well see on friday president trump and

congress agreed to reopen the government temporarily but without funding for his border war. is being reported as american taliban officials have agreed a framework for a peace deal for afghanistan u.s. envoy says the taliban have committed to prevent the country's are being used as a base for terror groups america is considering withdrawing all of its troops. and direct talks between the taliban afghan government. germany's government is a short drive as it has no plans to introduce a maximum speed limit on motorways a poll showed that fifty two percent of germans favored such a limit after a government proposal suggesting one was late. or denmark started building a fence today along its border with germany copenhagen hopes a seventy kilometers matter of construction of both hope the spread of swine fever

which is transmitted by wild boar it's attracted lots of controversy for environmental and political reasons. d.w. report to publish this could tell us more welcome why instead so concerned about african swine fever well first and foremost denmark exports four billion euros worth of pork each year on if this wind fever did reach denmark it would immediately hold old non european exports which michael almost half of the four billion euros so obviously they're very concerned about that and i've denmark is also the only e.u. country where pigs number of people so if they have a very large number of pigs they're in a big industry and the border is seventy kilometers long as we're seeing in the map there am and it's one and a half meters high and it runs along the border it's about it goes as well in the ground about fifty centimeters and six-pack to be finished later this year in the autumn at a cost of four point one billion euro now apart from this the danish government.

are going to be making a lot of checks and controls and on on wild boar and also animals that are crossing into denmark going to be looking at whether at the transport vehicles animal transport vehicles have been property teams or disinfectant so. really stop and stop the spread of disease what are environmental according to environmental ists they said that the barrier will only actually disturb in particular other animals wolves otters most notably also there's been there are a lot of like. also war wild boars which will be crossing from germany into denmark and it's really not something that they should be focusing on. they've also appealed to the european union last summer the european food safety authority concluded that there's actually no evidence large fence can be effective for the containment of these animals and there's another issue here we're seeing these images i learned to actually that wild boars are incredibly good swimmers and along the seventy kilometer border there are actually quite significant holes because of

course you've got waterways and then there's going to be entry points as well for vehicles. for animals as well so the environmentalists are saying that it's pretty futile even across the border in germany and the state environment and agriculture minister of culture which is the state which borders on to denmark has said that he dives about the sense in the cess of the offense so it's coming from all angles to criticism and the president also seems to include the the idea that there is a political motive well this is in fact you know the danish german border has historically been fluid so that's been the first level of criticism that all of a sudden there is this border which hasn't really been there ever. you said it's a political issue. there critics have said that there's a link to danish government trying to appeal to right when voters voters of the danish people's party not the danish people's party did not mince words when they heard about this this fence being built in fact they said that they should out

a couple of meters of the fence not just keep german wild boar away but also illegal immigrants asylum seekers and adventurers now that was one of their members in fact a spokesman on european affairs european union affairs so it's definitely become a bigger issue than just an environmental issue. for this thank you. news still to come german football champions park munich are not giving up their title without a fight or so you all goals as they demolish two guards at the weekend. ahead of that judges in china have sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to four and a half years in prison. was convicted of subverting state power it acted as defense lawyers as defense lawyer for members of the band spiritual fellow gong movement as well as villagers in disputed land rights trials where his trial was conducted

behind closed doors and his family have rejected the prison sentence. happier times before this family was torn apart before long too and john went missing his son his little longer without a father than with one. for months his wife lee went through did not even know he was alive authorities kept shrouded in secrecy once they admitted he'd been detained lee was denied any access here she is last december trying to attend a court date police watching her every move. for her. usually what i mean continues and my husband disappeared three and a half years ago i am his wife i want to see his trial we're going to go to that you promise. that doesn't matter to the security men they block least path. for you to. your dad thought you have enjoyed here so you're not i'm not over there

are you know where i was rather than go. to the door. but this is her defiant response shaving her head in public. lea has staged a laundry list of protests to draw attention to her husband's case. last spring she attempted a one hundred kilometer march from beijing to tianjin marking a thousand days since she had seen or heard from one her son said the people who took away his dad must be monsters. i think that childhood should be carefree he should enjoy a happy childhood that's your words i believe that you refer you to reach out but he can't his father is a human rights lawyer so he's destined to have a different life. thank you. but least says she supports every choice her husband has made the what part we remain a family united show. all right let's

start in terrace world of the water novak djokovic just celebrating the record seventh australian open title by saying that he's on the hunt for many more grand slam titles a drug rich a simple hug the world number two rafa nadal with few problems and a straight set final win on sunday so playing his fifteenth overall grand slam victory so that puts him to behind the dow for korea titles and five behind roger federer who leads the all time list with twenty. i'm blessed to be able to win his dream. yes i know there are two guys ahead of me now and you know history of the most lambs one but. you know i still have time and i was watching last. so let's zero in football don't wonder in the driver's seat after the bundesliga nineteenth round of matches all of a movie from d.w.

sport is here welcome welcome so despite there being a long way to go in the season it is looking like a two or three horse race very much so blow me down with a feather is that when i'm buying at the top of the table fell the usual suspects don't mean does he say out in front of the moment i got a nice six point cushion there at the top of the table but as we know i'm not going to just give up their title so easily they've now won seven games in a row off that i got at the weekend they looked very much like i've rediscovered this wagon let's take a look at the highlights from that game right now. by your munich piled on the pressure from the start things we've come on tempered but the bali bench really landed in front of tiago and he read it that needed i think chaps taking the lead out 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 byron lost their concentration and suddenly it was one next to him. i losing his battle with the greek word let's just get used to his career by just league goals coming against them. playing picked up a second time with just as much pressure as the first fifty five minutes the ball bounced around until it found sara's you know pretty please geoffrey took the lead to win goal i thank you christiane thank you i bend in the seventy first minute lay on the red skull howard in a corner to make it three one his third goal since their winter break their hearts most expensive transfer ever ozone capa. failing to keep him contained. shortly before the games robert leaven drops to seal. the final score.

and continue to keep pace with dortmund in the title race. of course by a used to being number two how do you write their chances of catching dortmund they are actually right they used to being in dorman's position actually this stage of the season six titles in a row they've won in the bundesliga at most of that and they've been way out in front from an early stage of the season so this is very much an unusual position for them the signs are good you know they lost a bit swagger as i said before they lost a bit of their fear factor with the other one is a good teams in the first half of the season they seem to have got back now so that bodes very well for them and the emergence of gretzky in recent games as well i think is going to be very important you know he had a bit of a slow start to life but by an author he transferred there last summer was being played in strange positions wasn't perhaps affecting games as we saw from his games and shout the last season but now he's playing a more attacking role and the goals are coming three goals in the last two games

for him now and by a need to keep him in that kind of form if they do then they've got every chance of . using any dortmund slip ups to retake their normal position at the top of the table and there were there was another game on sunday that's right we had leipsic in dusseldorf now i thought this would be quite a close one you know just a lot of weight on them close to the bottom of the table but they've been in good form lately they've won their last four games before this one i thought they'd give a really good game as it was they just didn't really show up in leipzig going control from from the very beginning so let's take a look at the goals from that one as well. a poorly cleared my own or in the second minute so used to break through that disoriented dusseldorf since i played all one new lead in this crowd. i kept up beyond which center but you are humor cannot calmly striving for. were it not for his first ever been disfigured goal just seven minutes later person was again at the center of things sliding home a pass from comrade the pope might see three mil in a little over

a quarter of an hour marcel submits a rip job in a quiet second half forcing a solid save that lima pounced on rounding out the scoring for lights again borneo in the sixty eighth minute. carlsen in leipsic is soak up a critical way of proving that one step closer to a top four finish. what you think forthcoming make it to the champions league the ship you know in spite of that admittedly brilliant performance that we just saw the highlights from i don't actually think that the favorites to make it to the champions league next season now i think the coaching situation they've got there this year is just very strange is affecting the players you know where he's there for this season but only this season as the coach and someone else comes in if you're a player you know even if you play well for this coach maybe the next one comes in and doesn't like your once a different player in your position and then you're on the scrap heap suddenly so i think that is affecting the players they've scored fewer goals than any other team in the top six i think it's like frank they've got a great attacking line there i think they've got

a better chance of taking over than fifth at the moment just dumping leipzig off of four place and not be up for a woody did a beautiful thank you. it's time to remind you of our top story of best hope francis said he fears a bloodbath in fairness while if no solution to the country's crisis is found in while. the country is a self declared entered president as a call for more street protests against president and the house majority. coming up next d.w. news africa one of the stories that coverage is germany's president from france the schottenheimer visiting ethiopia to talk ethiopia's recently implements richard reforms to come back sets discrimination and women that are now trying to break with traditional gender roles christine wonderful about story and a roundup of the day's that news from continent and next. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more on the latest of world of news does get you can always get

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