this is deja news live from berlin jailed for alleged subversion china sentenced as a prominent human rights lawyer to prison rights activists have condemned the decision to keep long behind bars. apprentice warns of a bloodbath in venezuela as the self declared interim president won quite bill calls for more street protests against president clinton room. and did he already has a woman president and their gender balance cabinet but are those changes trickling down to all levels of society rural women who say their gender is still grounds for

discrimination. i'm carl kasell and welcome to the program judges in china have sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to four and a half years in prison when john was convicted of subverting state power. he served as the defense lawyer for members of the band the following gong spiritual movement as well as villagers in land rights cases the news has been speaking with mr wang's wife the events of. happier times the full of this family was torn apart before the chinese human rights lawyer. was detained for months his wife the ones who didn't even know whether he was alive. some friends came to visit lee and her son today knowing she was facing the tough blow.

the court has just sentenced one change on to four in the half years in prison. so . i was the only one who into the case being over. but now it's come to an end i feel very sad. it's an unfair and unjust ruling before. and it's not the one i wanted. five years. lito d.w. that she only discovered the court's ruling from the internet authorities had denied any visits by the family throughout the trial her son has not seen his father since the arrest and twenty fifteen one disappeared after what was widely seen as a government crackdown on human rights lawyers wang has now been found guilty of subversion of state power the ones who says she doesn't accept the court's ruling

on her. one trend jang is not to blame for anything and. i was his and they treated him harshly because he stood her and did not make any compromises have a little book and post here. is keeping her head shaved as a protest against her husband's treatment she says she will continue to fight for one's rights until the day comes when the family was reunited. for more word john joined by china analyst will wright goldberg from the think tank the america tour institute that's here in berlin. beijing trying to send some sort of signal with this prison sentence right i mean i think there are two different messages that are being sent and the first one is if you work on certain issues and you defend certain kinds of people will come after you but perhaps more importantly

one issue that's been the case with a lot of the lawyers that has gone after is they were able to actually galvanized forces across different social strata so another another message that's being sent here as if you're the kind of person who will inspire cross social. movements we will also not tolerate because if there's one thing the party doesn't like is society organizes outside of the official framework you mentioned some of the issues that that was when john was working on in china civil rights religious tolerance how were those issues playing out right now in china what's the status with that well the major issues with religions at the moment has recently come out or has announced plans for another plan to synthesise previously come out with a somewhat of a similar plan for christianity and the stat of one of the big issues in china right now really is the status of muslims especially in the north western region of

st john where the chinese government has set up. in term camps called so-called reeducation camps for people it considers to radicals so this really is a massive issue in china right now. is there any sign of resistance amongst ordinary people so to speak i mean we see what happens with prominent activists or lawyers what about ordinary people i mean there's there's always there's never been trying to has never been an entirely harmonious society there's always been a lot of potential for conflict which is why you lawyers defending people and such rights cases are desperately needed. and i do think there is only speaking there is quite a bit of unrest right now especially as china's economy is doing badly at the moment so that really exacerbates tension this is a four and a half year prison sentence in your opinion what are the chances could he possibly be released early will he be in jail for the next four and half years i would

assume that the time served i think he's already been sitting in jail for three years or so so that the time served would be weighed against that sentence but we'll have to wait and see if that's the case marca berger china analyst thank you very much. pope francis has though come out about venezuela's political crisis saying he's terrified of a bloodbath the pope called for a quote just and peaceful solution and said he would not take sides he was speaking to reporters as he returned to rome from a catholic youth gathering in panama this. support all venezuelan people who are suffering if i were to say duties to those countries or other countries i put myself in a role that i don't annoy you it'd be a pastoral imprudence and would do damage to get them to agree isn't enough if it requires a just and peaceful solution i'm terrified of a bloodbath. meanwhile one guy bill has called for fresh protests against president

nicolas maduro the venezuelan opposition also wants new elections several european countries have warned that they will switch their support to mr why go if no vote is halt has also been trying to persuade army generals to abandon their support for the president by offering them amnesty. in 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. letter you have to have come on 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 to live with military personnel an offer of amnesty from opposition leader and self the cliff president one. at numerous barricades the left was immediately burned or torn up meanwhile why don't we tend to the 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 why don't call for fresh protests both at home and abroad to take place later this week. but i don't know if we want to support the european union's initiative and their ultimatum. but that's an ultimatum that president has already categorically rejected. earlier we spoke to d.w. correspondent in caracas we asked him to explain why president nicolas maduro enjoyed such strong support in venice with his military and my past attempts a dialogue with the opposition at fail to produce results one of the strongest or

in the military is already lost first how humans economic and political interest in minutes well and they also share the responsibility of human rights violations and torture there are being investigated for example and other international your position has certainly are all once you go stations but they are not true anymore all starts with my google scholar. since my roots of office in two thousand and thirteen there are people around us well haven't seen there have been at least three of them about the routes between opposition and government and there is only almost there is the model there and they want to deliver their end of the bargain the main one being elections with a new electoral council that has been accused of the problem were fraudulent not only you know very slow but also international so in the past that resulted in some people are tired you want to go to elections when you have the troll council and that is something one would not have still. has to happen in the coming in. now to

some the other stories making news around the world american and taliban officials have reportedly agreed on a framework for an afghanistan peace deal u.s. envoy says the taliban have committed to preventing the country from being used as a base for terror groups america is considering withdrawing all of its troops in return for a cease fire and direct talks between the taliban and the afghan governments. in the u.s. most of the eight hundred thousand workers who were laid off during the record federal government shutdown are returning to work and they will receive back pay on friday president trump and congress agreed to reopen the government after thirty five days but the agreement is temporary and does not include funding for the president's border paul has. an international inquiry into the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has begun a un expert on executions has arrived in turkey along with a team of legal and forensic experts they're expected to spend a week investigating the murder which took place almost four months ago in the

saudi consulate in istanbul. people in cuba are now assessing the damage caused by a rare and powerful tornado that struck the capital of van overnight at least three people were killed and scores more were injured homes and vehicles were destroyed and power supplies disrupted as well. the german government has assured drivers that it has no plans to introduce an overall maximum speed limit on motorways a poll had shown that just over half of germans favored such a limit after a government proposal suggesting that was. now in ethiopia after decades of authoritarian rule the government is introducing a program of democratic reforms those reforms could have implications for women and the young which is near the bottom of the un's ranking on gender equality in sub-saharan africa fen official reports on the changing role of women in ethiopian society. this campus could be anywhere in the rural but this is the here and

something here is strikingly different. and this is better so i'm lucky to be here at the university because most girls in ethiopia do not have access to university like this just my luck now you need to look at them 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 ethiopia 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 the men are still confined to traditional roles the opportunities for women are limited it's all about voluntary in family 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 a doctor. said teacher 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 preserved 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. about it because. 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 sas. you know 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 if you 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 to day's women in

focus will take a look at your new one of securing movements and our own. 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 the issues do suffer from men but women also we put ourselves down we do not not exactly put ourselves down but we do not realize or put into how 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 the prime minister ahmed but there's still a long way to go before noticeable progress is made on improving the lives of ordinary women. denmark started building a fence today along its border with germany copenhagen hopes the seventy kilometer

metal construction will halt the spread of the african swine fever which is transmitted by wild boars it's attracted lots of controversy for environmental and political reasons. is fully las. there is public joins me now in studio doing some muckraking on the story. why is them are so concerned about african swine fever well first and foremost denmark exports around four billion euros of pork products every year and almost half of those poor products are non european union countries and those production or that export would be immediately halted if this swine fever actually spread into denmark what happens to the pig if they get it well it leads to their death so it's a very serious illness that denmark is really keen not to have in their country am

i even actually germany doesn't have it at the moment but they want to sort of prevent it from spreading there but they've also introduced a number of rendered checks for wild boar and also fines have been hiked for an improperly cleaned or disinfected animal transport vehicle so denmark is coming down hard on this what are environmental groups saying about this fence i mean will this fence really be effective in terms of stopping the disease was incredibly controversial in fact the w w f was warned that the barrier is going to disturb other animals including wolves and authors and they said that wild boars are actually more than capable of that crossing the barrier because there are actually holes in this seventy kilometer long fence between germany and denmark and in fact i learned something pretty incredible which is that wild boars are very good swimmers as we're seeing in these images here from the border region i think it surprised many people in fact actually listen to people who have record of it's quite funny because they seem pretty shocked and an environmentalist of appeal to the european union and. stop it from being built and in

a report over the summer the european food safety authority concluded there's actually no evidence that large fences have been effective for the containment of this disease german lawmakers just across the border in the state of mind in fact the minister there of the. and in agriculture he said that he. makes sense or that there's even a necessity for the fence so there's been a lot of criticism against the danish government let's get political now there have been some questions about possible other boat behind this fence i mean does this mean that mark is closing the border for example well critics have actually said that the danish government is trying to appeal to a sort of more right wing voter and within denmark and in particular is trying to snap up the voters of the danish people's party which is quite a far right party there and the danish people's party actually when it was announced that this was going to be built this this this border fence they said

that we should out a couple of metres of the fence not just keep the german wild boar away but also illegal immigrants asylum seekers and adventures and that was actually from a spokesman on european affairs for that party there's also. a border fence not so extensive as the one between denmark and germany but there is one also being built between france and belgium so this is for pigs also for pigs to keep this illness. their country two or contained at least interesting to. think of a much. now it's tough being an immigrant getting into getting used to a new country learning a new language and finding a job but here in berlin life's been made a little bit easier by the fourth annual jobs fair for immigrants thousands of them attended the event along with representatives of hundreds of companies seeking new recruits christina went along to see how it all worked out. he's originally from syria but years done has been living in germany for

a year now he's still going to school but he's already looking towards the future he's trying to make contact with prospective future employers he's come to a job fair for refugees and there are plenty of contacts here around two hundred companies and institutions are looking for candidates and offering information on career opportunities yes then already knows what he wants to become a pharmacist. in my home country there are people who can't afford medication. and the food they get i want to help them by becoming a pharmacist and take of that while there are representatives from the health industry at the job fair like this contracting firm from a berlin hospital germany is desperately looking for caregivers that's why young migrants who have a good chance of gaining residency are in demand here. except my sort of indians i think it's a win win situation meaning we have the chance to find new and motivated apprentices

at the same time these people have an opportunity to gain a foothold in the german job market. it's mark was to first job opportunities for refugees in germany change over time and depend on how long they remain in the country one of the biggest hurdles for recent arrivals is not being able to speak the language. the language is difficult so is finding work. it's often looking for work is difficult. would you have to know german well. yes dunn is working hard on his german some day he wants to study but perhaps before that do an apprenticeship going to the job fair is important to him and then come here in four months and here you can get all kinds of information before you have a job. and the people here are really nice. it's an experience that both helps and motivates visitors on the long road to finding

a job. football now and dortmund they're in the driver's seat after the blueness leaders nineteenth round of matches over moody from the forces here. there's a there's still some way to go in the season right but as far as it looks now is this basically a two or three horse race it's looking at why and when you know it all it's the usual suspects out there at the top dortmund and by and surprise as you say currently with a six point lead six point cushion at the top of the table they're from by but by and you know that they're not going to give it up that easily they're not going to give dalton an easy ride they've now gone to seven wins in a row in the bundesliga with a win over stuttgart this weekend that absolutely hammered them four one the score there you know they saw used to winning they've got that mentality and you've got to think that they're going to keep pushing on this. because coming form on the right at the right time as well to give them a kind of boost at the start of the room after the winter break he's been pushed

for playing more talking all the scoring goals and that's exactly what by unaids so it's all the all the signs of a brilliant run and it could be fun but byron of course they're not used to being in second place maybe an unfamiliar role how do you rate their chances of them climbing to number one yeah absolutely i mean by and of won the league the last six years in a row but pretty much every season they have been ahead of the game by this stage they've been top of the table already and it's been the other teams chasing them so it's going to depend on how they kind of psychologically deal with these different kind of challenge you know i think a lot will depend on that psychology but also in keeping players fit on you know the champions league as well they've got that coming up that's going to be a different kind of challenge for them physically as well so the big problem they have is that dortmund just don't like their dropping points they've only lost one game all season it mild come down to the match between the two sides in april. be what decides the title race not just byron of course there was another game on

sunday to talk about that's right we had leipzig against us off on sunday as well i thought the sort of had a good chance in this when they won their four games going into this but as it was they didn't turn up at all and it was light secure to the points and we can take a look at the highlights from that game right now. dusseldorf open the match by honoring world cup winning former keeper tony turk who would have turned one hundred but the players attention was focused squarely on route from nick's visiting leipzig were in the hunt for a champions league place poorly cleared much of a corner in the second minute so used to pull simply through that disoriented dusseldorf fence by the old one new lead in the scrap i kept up beyond which center back abraham a cannot say calmly striding forward and matching his first ever been to see a good ball just thirty minutes later pacing was again at the center of things sliding home a pass from cano the pope might see three mill in a little over a quarter of an hour marcel submits a ripped open a quiet second half forcing

a solid c. of the lima pounced on rounding out the scoring for the to get four nil in the sixty eighth minute. thousand in light so you could soak up a critical when you think that one step closer to a top four finish. leipzig in fourth place can they make it to the champions league you know in spite of that brilliant performance that we just saw from them they're not actually my favorites to make it to that fourth spot and get champions a qualification and they just haven't been consistent enough in attack a season i think a lot comes down to the culture the coaching situation is very strange this year they've got rough running in the only for the one season as coach so if you're a play you know even if you play well the next coach might come in and throw you on the scrapheap might not want a player like you in that position so i think it's a it's a weird kind of challenge for the players that live second is seems to be affecting them to their squad fewer goals than all of the other teams in the top six i. think frank you have a very good attacking lineup this season i think they have

a great chance of leap frogging leipzig they're currently in fifth place so they only need to go one place and then they're in the champions league spots so i think is going to be a real struggle for life to keep hold of that spot they've got a moment an exciting year in the boot is legal like it are at all over moody from the boards thanks love. this sunday the new england patriots face the los angeles rams in the super bowl but if you like your sporting events with a bit more bite then the puppy bowl is the greatest show on earth take a look at these puppies the game this weekend sees team of rough and team fluff facing off with both teams hoping to get their paws on the marquee trophy event aims to find homes for the dogs all of whom are up for adoption from shelters organizers actually say that they have a one hundred percent adoption record in the previous fourteen events. is the top three and a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you right now china has sentenced

a prominent human rights lawyer of long friend john to prison for subverting state power rights groups have condemned the move. and pope francis has said that he fears a bloodbath in venezuela if no solution to the country's crisis is found meanwhile the self declared interim president. has called for more street protests against president hugo boss. you're watching the news live from berlin don't forget all the latest news and information it's on our website that's t w dot com or you can almost on twitter at d w news stay tuned the day is next.

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