this is. from berlin tonight business wayland's take to the streets to demand that president nicolas maduro give up power waving flags and calling for free elections protesters are ratcheting up the pressure on the president we'll take you live to caracas with the latest also coming up not budging on britain's parliament last night voted to send prime minister theresa may back to brussels for more negotiations but the european union insists that talks cannot be reopened and tough

talks the u.s. and china begin trade because she ations in washington in an attempt to end the trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies and it may look like a winter wonderland but the life threatening freeze gripping the american midwest is colder than even arctica it has literally frozen daily life for tens of millions of people. it's good to have you with us tonight venezuela's political standoff is deepening and moving on to the streets in the last few hours people across the country have been leaving their homes and workplaces to join protests against president nicolas maduro. that you see right here in the capital caracas. was called by opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president while. quite a it comes

a day after venezuela supreme court froze mr y. those assets and banned him from leaving the country. while reporters spoke to an opposition activists in caracas and she explained what the people on the streets are demand. for. the drugs. like we protest we wait for one everybody to get it right. all right let's take the story down to oscar schleicher he's our correspondent in the venezuelan capital caracas good evening to you so we see those protests are happening right where you are is this a a clear symbol that more pressure is building for madeira to step down what we've seen we've seen this before in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and seven seems lockouts today went peacefully they gathered many support and today

went back to their places where we're back home after the long road system was what we see in this organized protest strategy during the two thousand and seventeen protests and are effective in showing that the opposition protests can be peaceful now on saturday the solution was on bad stuff instruction and the government's response was to organize a mass march and swell classes with armed forces are expected from those protests that will happen in the evening and then from communities that is the food and medicine shortages so also today and beyond that neither forward present we are seeing that there are definite pressure points in society that are asking mother to step down. well we understand that the self-proclaimed interim president won he is joining the street protests why isn't the government why aren't authorities detaining him in a resting him to prevent him from being in public well that is

a question that we've asked ourselves in the past week because in other instances and with other political leaders of the opposition have been put in jail when the pressure rises for the government but one way though how does something under this new even though it's that the u.s. has threatened the venezuelan government. by the word out that they won't do proportionate actions if any harm comes to you one way to go we've already seen that yet they're not only reason we have the sanctions against them there is not and that will definitely her motives governments pocketbook when it comes to seeking out finances and support from his government you know you mentioned the united states there's also a russian component here we've got russian media reports that president mature row is now offering to talk to the opposition in the country what do you make of that.

well the opposition has said that they will not fall under any or false. tables we seem. to break open and mary publicized attempts to talk talks between the government and the opposition mediated by the vatican and spain and that they are because the government has failed to hold up to their end of the bargain which is to change the. electoral council in venezuela and hold free and fair elections and to allow humanitarian aid in the country and that's what people are protesting today to let humanitarian aid in the country. all right a very fluid situation again this evening in venezuela our correspondent oscar schleicher on the story for us in caracas oscar thank you well here in europe tonight britain and the european union appear to be headed for a breck's it blockade british lawmakers last night voted to send prime minister to

resign may back to brussels to reopen talks on the terms of the u.k.'s withdrawal from the e.u. at issue is that so-called irish backstop the plan to avoid a hard border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland but since the british decision e.u. leaders have been making it clear that the deal and the backstop cannot be changed . in a surprise move to find the koreans already made with e.u. british lawmakers gave the prime minister a mandate to return to the negotiating table parliamentarians nearly passed a government backed amendment to renegotiate the controversial irish backstop the us can buy as may some time but the challenges remain clear the point there isn't it appetite for such a change in the even negotiating it will not be i thought. i was in contrast to a fortnight ago this house has made it clear what it needs to approve the

withdrawal of. chances of achieving that appear slim the e.u. says the backstop plan to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland isn't up for renegotiation the german foreign minister said berlin was willing to continue talks with britain but its position was clear. it is highly unlikely that that agreement will be renegotiated let alone the backstop be put into question what we want to prevent everything that leads to a border between northern ireland the backstop is already a compromise e.u. leader john told you one that the vote in the british parliament to demand changes had increased the risk of a no deal breaks it. that we've remains the best. policy. to opinion and said so and we said so in this. missive so after the first. vote in the coming in general. the. you know the comments yesterday do

not change that we've told. him it was. we think he was bricks and negotiator michelle bundy also defending the existing deal to recently is poised to travel to brussels on what could be mission impossible she may come back with nothing new to offer parliament which means brics it goes back to square one again. you know the bridge that saga continues a spring in our correspondent terry holt she's standing by for us tonight in brussels good evening to you terry while we do know we've heard this story so many times the european union tonight not budging on the irish backstop and i mean you have to wonder why is it refusing to at least try to trying to find an alternative solution or remember brant at the back stop as part of the overall withdrawal agreement and this is something that was agreed upon by the twenty seven and by the

u.k. back in november and for the use perspective to open a one piece of the agreement would have to open everything and that could put up for negotiation again issues like gibraltar which almost derailed it back in november you'd have to talk again about french fishing quotas you know all kinds of issues that they were very relieved to have sort of nailed into this single agreement and when it comes to ireland's prison position it of course does not want a hard border and it doesn't even want the backstop everybody is looking for a trade agreement by march twenty ninth the problem is it's looking less and less likely that you're going to have one so for the e.u. it's not just negotiating about the backstop it's the entire was dollar green and they say it's a package take it or leave it yeah and we know that if the u.k. crashes out of the european union with no deal then there will automatically be a hard irish border shut in the european union be negotiating to avoid dant.

nobody wants a hard border that's for sure at least on the e.u. side it would make life much more difficult for people both on the northern ireland and the irish side so that definitely is worst case scenario but the e.u. again would say that it's the u.k.'s position to make to agree on this i mean the e.u. twenty seven has this withdrawal agreement and simply isn't willing to to to reopen all those issues i talked about i don't think that they feel pressure on their side . they need to this still and they're going to keep it very briefly in the e.u. because shooter mr byrne you're he says despite all of this he's confident that he's going to be able to find some sort of agreement with the prime minister to resign what in the world could that agreement look like. well mr bernie also said many times over and over again in these remarks to parliament that there's no renegotiating the deal that exists so it's very difficult to understand that he would be talking about some kind of new deal if you ask me and i'm i'm not our most

experienced watcher but i think he means plan a what true summit would have had as planned i don't think the e.u. is planning to renegotiate a new deal whatsoever what they have said is that they'll give the u.k. more time to come to terms with itself all right correspondent your results of the story for us tonight in brussels terry thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the german police have arrested three suspected islamic extremists on suspicion of planning a bomb attack federal prosecutors say the men iraqi refugees were detained near the danish border and that they had not yet chosen a target schools in the thai capital bangkok have closed as authorities struggle to contain choking air pollution the city has been shrouded in a toxic heaves for weeks efforts to seed rain clouds and to regulate truck traffic have failed to clear the air officials are urging residents to curb the use of

incense and fireworks when they celebrate next week's lunar new year lawyers defending the mexican drug lord known as el chapo have a rest of their case at his trial in the u.s. after calling just one witness you know walking goods munns brief defense followed a prosecution case lasting almost three months now the leader of the senate low a cartel is accused of trafficking massive amounts of cocaine heroin and other drugs into the u.s. america's midwest is in the grip of a life threatening deep freeze known as the polar vortex weather colder than and arctic has grounded flights disrupted travel and it's brought wife to a standstill a standstill for tens of millions temperatures with a wind chill lower than minus fifty degrees celsius have been measured the polar vortex is a massive freezing air that normally spins around the north pole but has slipped southward into the united states americans will have to endure low temperatures

over the next few days because the cold air mass shows no signs of moving on at least not just yet. are let's cross over live now to chicago where journalist jim warren is joining is now and jim it's good to have you on the show and so i'm going to ask you this i know it is a banal question but how's the weather. you know it's ironic because the hardy souls in the midwest america tend to make light of the way other americans react to snow and cold and when i call many of them to clean areas like washing d.c. to capital weather when it's because they tend to be unable to even deal with the threat of snow well it's very ironic and fitting this morning as you're showing some photos right now. of the midwest in particular chicago the third largest city at this morning hours first e-mailing journalists and berlin trying to find some suggestions for hiring for the new media startup which is rating on the credibility

of news services that we're doing call news guard and then i went to the daily mail website in london and song exactly the same headline that suggests which you just said is true namely colder than an arctic that well in fact yes parts to siberia parts of mars parts of the south pole it's colder than and it's quite serious i mean my kids are home today all the schools are closed all the government offices are closed homeless shelters are bursting at the seams one of the laborers big competitors left is actually offering three rides to chicagoans if they need to go to a so-called warming shelter and that underscores the seriousness a lot more than the fact that i got up this morning and went to a major area drugstore and then a major office supply store i was the first customer and they had and in several hours since opening folks are staying at home many of the major train systems

somewhat to my surprise have been unable to deal with the coach and have flown halted service so it's very difficult for most people to get around even if they have to do it but briefly before we before we run out of time i mean this is this is a deadly winter so i don't recall it a storm of the deep freeze but people have already died because of the cold have a theory. the ion in this area and since the start of the winter early last month i'm an estimated twelve or thirteen folks and you know just to get a sense this comes after fairly heavy snows you know if you just look on a little note in a residential neighborhood and things are quiet almost all those cars that you see they print have not moved all day folks are just staying inside. the local newscasts which generally do get very good audience in the morning more than the major state cable network news networks like imus and this n.b.c. fox and c.n.n. and double and triple their normal ratings this morning because people simply want

to know for sure what is going on this morning and it was just jam packed whether or least one morning there was a story that distract people. from donald trump and what's going on in washington and here for a change all right if you're more an executive editor of news garvin we appreciate you letting us know how the good folks in the chicago with the midwest are dealing with this deep freeze thank you i wasn't well staying in the united states chinese and american trade officials are meeting for crunch trade talks in washington today this is the latest effort to resolve a trade dispute that's disrupting businesses across the globe u.s. president donald trump says that he'll impose further tariffs on chinese goods if no deal is reached by march but centrally further damaging an already slumping chinese economy and then of course there's the thorny issue of that chinese telecommunications giant who way. will they won't they that's the question in

washington as the world's two biggest economies sit down to work out their differences and settle their open trade conflict since u.s. president donald trump took office beijing and washington if they can turn slapping each other with ever higher punitive tariffs. the u.s. government argues that china is taking advantage of existing trade regulations using a combination of state subsidies and industrial espionage to legitimately gain a leg up on the competition case in point huawei. the u.s. recently accused the chinese tech giant of violation international sanctions against iran and stealing trade secrets something the chinese government vehemently denies. you know it's been some time since the us started to use its state power to smear and suppress certain chinese enterprises in an attempt to throttle their legitimate operations their intentions are strongly political and

manipulative we suddenly urge the us to stop ill founded suppression of qual way and other chinese enterprises you know we've got. experts are skeptical that both sides will find common ground this week china is unlikely to give up its cavalier approach to foreign intellectual property any time soon. and after trump's recent loss in the u.s. government shutdown he's likely to push for sweeping reform made of steel but time is ticking if no deal is reached trump has threatened to impose another two hundred sixty seven billion dollars of tariffs on chinese goods starting in march. are known to uganda where there is growing criticism of these social media tax introduced last july the latest figures suggest that the number of internet subscribers in the east african country that number has dropped by more than three million since the tax was introduced there are also concerns that the tax is being used to control access to social media are let's get the background story of this

joining me here the big table is alex force widing with let's start alex with the background to this tax how did it how do we get here yes so the ugandan parliament introduced it back in the summer in july really at the behest of the president president most of aig now it follows a number of criticisms that he has made about social media and open letter was sent out to residents in uganda telling him about this tax and in that letter he wrote social media chatting is a luxury by those who are enjoying themselves all those you ought to listen. so it gives a pretty good idea of exactly what he thinks about it plus it will also give his government more money well how does this touch work i mean how do they get the money well basically focuses on what's called over the top services t.t. and those can be anything from receiving a phone call over the internet to social media companies like facebook whatsapp instagram and each person who uses it has to pay two hundred ugandan shillings

a day that's round about five cents in terms of your raise and they also have to pay a one percent tax on the payment transaction itself now that doesn't sound like a huge amount of money but for many people they don't very much and the african technology consulting company called policy has done carried out their own research and they said that around forty percent of people that they spoke to were paying about six percent of that monthly pay just on this tax alone which just gives you an idea of how much it's costing you can do so it's expensive it was big the reaction well there was a lot of protest at the time that has died down to what it appears to on the surface but actually people are still very angry and i've been in touch with some ugandans on social media today cut to me mary messages she said the social media tax makes it difficult to communicate with loved ones people are only online when they finally managed to pay the tax which is periodic now others are getting around

that tax by using a virtual private network or v.p.n. and andrew wrote to me in my opinion this tax is nothing but a political move to try to gag or at least punish the most critical segment the educated middle class i will protest this tax for as long as i am able to now according to the government's communications commission of the number of users has dropped by three million that was between september and october so it will be even fewer uses now like your good work to create this idea of internet haves and have nots all right force what is always argue with appreciated. for here in germany police say three men have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing almost two dozen children and producing large amounts of child pornography of the children between the ages of four and thirteen the main suspect is an unemployed man who lives at

a camping site in western germany where the children were groomed before being abused. it was at this camping ground in western germany with the main suspect allegedly abused his own foster daughter and numerous other children them in. a relatively short period of time through interrogation and deduction we were able to determine that many children had been abused additionally we found evidence of child pornography much of which was self-made. prosecutors say they're aware of at least twenty three victims the child pornography itself is said to have been widely distributed but to where remains unclear you. know found a large amount of child pornography in digital form and it was discovered on the digital storage devices of all of the it was marketed as it should it's alleged that concerns had been raised about the main suspect in recent years but despite

that government agencies allowed him to foster the young girl. does clinically often have a girl with. at some point he decided he wanted to bring her up and he applied to the authorities respond to later he told me he had been awarded custody for not thought after that he had visits from members of his family and helpers. police are now investigating possible negligence by the local child welfare services. well events are being held around the world today following international holocaust remembrance day last sunday but there are warnings that today's young people know less and less about the nazi era genocide of jews and other groups one of the people working to change that is ninety four year old esther bashir rando she was sent to the auschwitz nazi death camp as a teenager and she survived thanks to her music. this is this

song safe my lai hot here the sleeve of that. ninety four year old aesthetician ronna is singing a popular german war time song bellamy this. is a happy children but it brings back memories of her time in auschwitz back then s. to have to play bellamy on the accordion tradition for the concentration camp orchestra she was a talented musician but she had never held an accordion before. concentrated on the job at hand and told myself you can do this i knew if i didn't get accepted into the girls orchestra and i would have to do hard manual labor that would have been the end of me and. i was only eighteen years old when she was deported to auschwitz she had already been

separated from her parents who were later murdered by the nazis. as part of the girl's orchestra esther played songs as the prisoners marched out to do their work . later she also had to play when the trains arrived bringing thousands of people to the cast chambers. this is the slips of us. that's the worth thing that has ever happened to me because i felt so hopeless i couldn't help these people i knew they were going to their best now. behind us did the s.s. soldiers with their rifles and if we hadn't played then they would have shut us. up. more than a million jews were murdered in auschwitz as the bishop wrong to escape death but most of her peers didn't she feels it's her duty to tell young people what the nazis did she goes to schools reads from her memoirs and gives concerts she's

backed up by a hip hop band called microphone matter here. concept was to bring members a lawyer to compose rap music using personal letters and journals from form a concentration camp prisoners was written. by him they hope to connect with today's young people here in a high school getting a warm response. in sharing a stage for ten years now but the recent draw is a frightening radicalism. my dream is that all nazis would just disappear and i always say i will sing until there are no more nazis left. even though she knows that may not be a realistic goal. and i will not give up. good

for her the conflict zone is coming up next the topic will be. followed by the day off and head for the deep freeze paralyzing the us midwest.

center of the conflict zone confronting the powerful close to two years of division and deadlock britain is now bracing towards its fed line isn't much to leave for european union in a conflict so special because some of the key arguments live shaped district six

debates who was telling the truth and who was in. conflict so for. the first. stop to pick up the music so long gets enough to cut. curbs with the guns boring and stephanie stop. the party and chats with musicians from around the world. groups starts february second on t.w. . hey listen. that's one video game music sounded like thirty years ago. today's tracks take the experience to another level punk

a sense to him talk composer nobuo uematsu. featured many well known his music is bound to keep you close tabs. your. video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. after two years of division and deadlock britain is now racing towards its deadline in march to leave for european union in a conflict so special this week we look back at some of the key arguments for that shaped this often angry debate who was telling the truth and who wasn't.