this is g w news why. is it taking to the streets telling president nicolas maduro he has to go waving flags and calling for free elections protesters arresting up the pressure on the president we ask how people here in germany feel about the push for change in venezuela also coming up not budging on britain's parliament votes just said prime minister theresa may back to brussels for more negotiations but the european union is insisting talks cannot be restarted and it may look like

a winter wonderland but the life threatening freeze gripping the american midwest is colder then and arctic up it has literally frogs and daily life for tens of millions of people. i'm good to have you with us tonight venezuela's political standoff is deepening and it's moving back onto the streets people across the country left their homes and workplaces to take part in a two hour protest against president nicolas maduro they're called on the armed forces to allow humanitarian aid into the country and to abandon the president of the walkout was called by opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president one. the county ca away our right to

protest the spanish wayland's in the capital caracas chant there referring to the government of president nicolas maduro. in tory is one of the protesters she's the wife of a prominent opposition leader who has been in jail for four years she told g.w. it was time for a new government come. to brazil. and her collection this is why we are protesting we wait if you're working everybody together parties. and tory and many of these protesters are supporting one quite old who proclaimed himself interim president last week the country's chief prosecutor has opened an investigation into his challenge for power. not underestimating the threat of jail and i don't want it to be understood like that very responsibly i say there is nothing new coming from

a regime that doesn't answer to the venezuelan people's needs their only response is repression and persecution venezuelan authorities are accusing him of helping foreign countries such as the u.s. to interfere in internal matters washington recognizes quite owes claim to venezuela on wednesday president donald trump phoned him to reach a rate his support. for his past president mature wrote try to convince americans that intervention would backfire on the. i call upon your conscience akala palm your solidarity be aware of the truth we must not allow a second vietnam to happen this time in latin america if the u.s. intervenes it will be worse for them than vietnam. according to a russian news agency much europe has offered to negotiate with the opposition in an attempt to regain support domestically. but talks are not what these protesters want. that.

was. tantamount to screen my two room must. when one proclaimed himself in its way lives interim president he was quickly recognized by the united states and a string of latin american countries this was followed by a coordinated move by several western countries including germany but not all germans support their government's policy of calling for a leadership change in venezuela. if you people gathering the scent of palin out of solidarity with when it's oil or they say left wing splinter groups organized the demonstrations they support the venezuelan head of state nicholas might do or and reject his opponent. i think though it is

a good to know so i don't think what's happening right now in venice willows good is a self-proclaimed member of the opposition allowing himself to be supported. by europe and the us. i think it's illegal a classic attempt at a coup. some german politicians also support that position especially those from the opposition left party it's against the ultimatum issued by the e.u. demanding that my door announce new elections within eight days to review the spoken or they are dividing europe they are setting in a day ultimatum and if the conditions are not fulfilled they will join the side of the wall build a trump and fascist balts on our own brazil seriously this cannot be a sensible stance kind of the answer either for a good. guy or to myrtle but the government stands by its position germany's foreign minister says maduro has no right to be in office that he has trampled on

democracy and human rights. lawyer and the hope for a new beginning is linked to the country's only democratically legitimate institutions the national assembly and its president. where you go that's where we have assured him of our political support together with the e.u. and that's how it will stay stood so it's organization. the business friendly f.t.p. party has a similar view i think that germany and the european union have been very clear here i think the policy is right. is more legitimate clearly then and. therefore to keep up the pressure on the two will to move and move more than he has moved so far i think is the right strategy but demonstrators in berlin hope that venezuelans will not have to endure any more violence at least that's one they do share with the chairman covenant. well tonight britain and the european union

appear to be heading to get again for a break sit blockade u.k. lawmakers last night voted to send the prime minister back to brussels to reopen talks on the terms of britain's withdrawal from the european union 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 which is staying in the european union but since the british decision last night e.u. leaders have been making it clear that the deal and the backstop cannot be changed . in a surprise move to find a clearance 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 oh of course there is limited appetite for such a change in the negotiating it will not be i thought. i

thought in contrast to a fortnight ago this house has made it clear what it needs to approve a withdrawal agreed may's chances of achieving that appear slim the e.u. says the backstop the plan to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland isn't up for renegotiation. e.u. leader john warned that the vote in the british parliament to demand changes had increased the risk of a no deal breaks it. to review all equipment remains the best and only view policy . through opinion in sight so you know. we said so in december recent so after the first mover new from vote in the commons in general. the debate you know as of comments yesterday do not change tips so we've. given it was it because we think he was bricks 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. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the united states and china have begun a new round of trade talks in washington it's the latest effort to resolve a trade dispute that has disrupted business around the globe the u.s. accuses china of industrial espionage and of unfairly using state subsidies to the high profile zimbabwean activists and pastor evan maher earache has been freed from prison a day after the supreme court granted him bail he was arrested earlier this month on charges of subverting the government and of inciting violence after voicing his support on social media for a national strike two people have been killed in a grenade attack on a mosque in the southern philippines the explosion in zamboanga city comes just

days after a cathedral bombing a nearby hotel island left twenty one dead it also follows last week's referendum which overwhelmingly approved the creation of a muslim autonomous area in the region. 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 chart. below where here in germany a court has found two students guilty of stealing discarded food from supermarket rubbish containers dumpster diving as it's known is a. against the war in germany but the women said that all that they were doing was taking perfectly the war but this. to give to the needy they've been sentenced to two years on probation plus several hours of community service.

fancy and cattle happy their trial us bringing the issue to light they are convinced that stealing from supermarket dumpsters isn't a crime but the courts ruling it was sobering. we were hoping to be clear that. the pair were caught raiding the rubbish bins of a local supermarket they say they were saving food from going to waste. the dumpsters were full mostly with milk products like cheese and yogurt there was also bottled juice and some vegetables. german supermarkets dispose of tons of unused foodstuffs angering many in germany so called dumpster diving has become a movement here but it's illegal most germans country understand why every since surveys showed that more than eighty percent of germans want less food to be thrown away from lunch most sort of sometimes the expiry date is still good but it started

out anyway because new products are already there. and we do this because it's taking food from dumps to regard to stealing but morally it's the right thing to do supermarkets insist that they are obliged to protect consumers against the consumption of projected food attorney cardigan hat has been following that case he thinks one solution is to change the law as france has done. the legal situation in france was changed so that individual few troops are obligated to you through stuff and to continue to use the food stuffs and not throw them away so individual troops would for example be required to fully few chair and clear circles that. that's what fancy and cattle are calling for along with their supporters he gathered outside court that started an online petition to raise awareness. and something has to change more than eight hundred thousand

people have signed our petition. even if they didn't get the core training they wanted they did manage to achieve something substantial people in germany are now talking about the issue. for america's midwest is in the grip of a life threatening deep freeze known as the polar vortex that's lake michigan there in chicago weather colder than a arctic a has grounded flights disrupted travel and brought wife to a standstill for tens of millions of people the polar vortex is a mass of freezing year that normally spins around the north pole in winter but it has slipped south words into the united states. it's one of the coldest blasts of arctic air in recent memory. tens of millions of people across the midwest and eastern states are shivering through freezing winds and record low temperatures.

some parts of the states are thought to be colder than the arctic circle right now it's definitely not the best time to be outside. wind chills in the negative double digits are dangerous. in the extreme cold can cost frostbite in a matter of minutes and slippery roads continue to cause accidents. hundreds of flights have been canceled schools are closed and workers have been told to stay home. americans will have to endure similar temperatures over the next few days because the cold air mass shows no sign of moving on just gets. now you've seen in there how bitterly cold it is in the midwest but we want to illustrate how cold it really is and to take a look at this this is journalist adam roberts in chicago he's the midwest correspondent for the economist watch what he does here this is what happens when you throw a cup of freshly boiled water up in the air look at that it immediately freezes and

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