this is d.w. news live from for les and europe's parliament back in venice well the self declared interim president. it's piling extra pressure on president nicolas maduro across the country venezuelans have again is taking to the streets calling for him to step down. also coming up america's midwest is in the grip of a deadly deep freeze with temperatures colder than the antarctic our reporter is in chicago where daily life has ground to a halt but germany's parliament pays tribute to the victims of the nazi regime.

as part of an emotional ceremony holocaust survivor and historian saul friedlander says the germans must remain vigilant against a resurgence of some of his own. and a visit to the canadian town that has become a breeding ground for africa's boxing champion will be the next generation hoping to make it big. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the european parliament has thrown its support behind business well as self-proclaimed interim president. he is now revealed the country's public a little. well opposition has been meeting secretly with military officials now why

dole is trying to convince officers to abandon president nicolas maduro and allow humanitarian aid into the crisis ridden country meanwhile across venezuela people have been taking to the streets to call for my daughter's resignation. was. nicolas maduro seen around it by his troops it was a show of loyalty can shaky times for the embattled president. and it came after his challenger why do you proclaimed himself interim president last week said he had been holding secret talks with venezuela's on true says it's the support of the military that both men need in their fight for power. meanwhile protesters once again took to the streets of caracas calling from a juror to step down. nearly on ten touring is one of them she's the

wife of a prominent opposition leader who's been in jail for four years now she told the w.c. it was time for a new government. surplus. to receive. the really hurt. this is why we are protesting we wait to hear what everybody together parties i demonstrate as okaloosa calling on the military to open venezuela's doors to humanitarian aid that the country desperately needs doctors were protesting against the lack of medical equipment and medicines. we don't have it is true we don't have. the. human to work because the children's here are dying there's no food to give them to you there's no with the fishing for their work. they have to us a mess signed. washington has recognized why do those claims to lead venezuela on

wednesday president trump phoned him to make you support three talking about president maduro has won the americans that intervention may backfire. they don't want to hear i call upon your conscience a color pun 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 mcgrew has offered to negotiate with the opposition and then tend to regained support domestically took some not but the people on the street longs. said. i. i took their demand is clear and i'm sure i must go.

and it is a demand which is being heard around the world barbara vessel has the view from europe she's joining us from bucharest and barbara we know that as well it is certainly a topic there at the e.u. foreign minister summit today and tomorrow also in bucharest we have the european parliament recognizing quite oh the opposition leader as the head of government could we see further up pressure applied from the european side. it seems so because what the european parliament has now done even though it's front policy is not really in the remit off the parliament but it can take a stance and it did and that increases again sort of the pressure on the european governments who so far have been reluctant to engage further remember that last weekend the big four spain france germany and great britain so if we did take a very strong position and said we give them a dura another week's time. and we demand that he hold of free and fair and

supervised elections and then we will see what happens and if not if we won't do that we are ready to also recognise go i do as interim president and sort of further developments in the country. the whole you hasn't yet been behind that stance but of course what we've seen from the european parliament now sort of increases the pressure from ministers who are assembled here and we might we'll hear more about this tonight or in the day tomorrow especially considering that quite all himself i mean he is reaching out to the europeans he has called for more e.u. sanctions targeting the majority and the e.u. itself has warned that it will take further action if new elections are not called in the coming days so tell us i mean what poor might be stake how quickly could they be implemented and is there an appetite for this here in europe. some do

have an appetite to sort of increase sanctions and to turn the screw there are some sanctions in place against some people from the inner circle of dura but of course that is not really that helpful it's more like symbolic and some much more robust things sanctions would have to be put into place there seems to be not yet really appetite among all european countries to do that rule probably happen that the big the big countries in the e.u. will sort of increase pressure and talk to their neighbors and say now listen we do really need to sort of get involved there and we need to help because that is really what is now necessary and they have already started forming a context rupe with some left in american countries who are then supposed to sort of maybe mediate or sort of you. be used as into mediators people who can talk to. politicians inside venezuela order to sort of facility to smooth

transition barbara just briefly and there's also the issue of european journalists being detained within the country by matilda's regime tell us more. of course some very strong demands from the e.u. foreign policy chief greenie to let these people go to let them free it happened last night and it's two journalists from the spanish and use agency who were who were arrested when they were filming the protests against madeira before the m. some journalists from chile were arrested on the same mission and so it seems that the situation there gets increasingly tense and europe is more and more sort of pushed into the position to now make decisions and not just talk but also really sort of intervene in the sense that they do politically take a stance and support. barbara hazel joining us from bucharest thanks barbara.

now in other news as many as twelve p. twelve people skills may have died as a result of a deep freeze that is gripping the american midwest weather colder than and arctic a has grounded flights crippled infrastructure and brought life to a standstill for tens of millions of people the polar vortex is a mass of freezing air that normally spins around the north pole in winter but it has slips southwards to the u.s. . chicago the windy city no stranger to wicked winter weather but this week's lows haven't been this brutal in decades breathing can be painful even dangerous and that's not only the case in america's third largest city six u.s. states have recorded temperatures colder than antarctica weather stations across large parts of canada and the u.s. have register temperatures at minus thirty degrees celsius or more factor in the

wind chill and it's more than minus fifty the culprit for the cold chaos a massive subzero air called a polar vortex so named because it normally stays put around the north pole but this week it's humble people further south. this is the big boulders of ever see that i've got about three different layers on top and bottom right now so there's a can be temperate and they're going to find their energy think this is good her protection would hold for everyone needs to get the pier one church germans to newton's of the to get to illustrate the effects of extreme cold a chicago based reporter through a couple of boiled water in the air. the water froze almost instantly and fell back down as snow. temperatures this far below freezing can also have drastic effects on people the homeless are at particular risk cities across the midwest have opened warming centers including police stations and roving buses for anyone seeking

shelter from the cold the bone chilling weather has caused more than two thousand flight cancellations school and office closures transit delays and multi-car pileups on slippery roads even the u.s. postal service whose unofficial motto takes pride in their work has halted mail delivery in many places the polar vortex looks to be lingering through the rest of the week only then might it release millions of people from its icy embrace. has ventured out into the chilly streets of chicago and sent us this update. this is one of the most populous cities in the country and there's barely a soul on the street the ones we have run into have been warmly advising us to seek shelter as soon as possible it's so cold that exposed skin could frostbite immediately and your hair and even your eyeballs could freeze the chicago river which is a massive body of water right next to me is completely frozen over the coal has also worked at the city's train tracks forcing officials to light the tracks on

fire in order to keep public transit running polevoy to see it happen every year but even for the windy city this is extreme they're watching d.w. news still to come on the program it is the hardest hitting town in the african continent. in ghana has produced a number of world champion boxers with a new generation ready to follow in their footsteps will take you there. but first a quick check of some other stories making news around the world and rescue ship with forty seven stranded migrants on board has docked in the port of tanya in the italian island of sicily rome has refused to let the sea watch vessel enter an italian harbor for twelve days the standoff was resolved when nine countries agreed to take in those trapped on board. at least eight russian environmental activists has been detained in the city of in one hundred kilometers southeast of moscow was

where it's located the activists are protesting against moscow's garbage policy all of the russian capital's waste goes to landfills authorities are accusing the protesters of storing up mass riots. and in china tens of thousands have begun flooding out of the capital beijing as the lunar new year holiday approaches at its height the pre-holiday travel rush it's considered the world's biggest annual human migration in compassing tens of millions of people across china and in east asia this year's lunar new year holiday begins in february for. germany's parliament has held a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the nazi regime the event marks the seventy fourth anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp the nazis murdered an estimated six million jews as well as hundreds of thousands of sinti and roma disabled people and homosexuals over a million people were killed at auschwitz alone story and the holocaust survivor

saul friedlander spoke about the atrocities in his keynote address. saul friedlander spent his whole life trying to understand the inhumanity of the holocaust as a young jewish boy his parents hid him from the nazis in a french boarding school. steps i ran away from boarding school and found my parents in the hospital but how to send me back. going on inside them when they saw their little boy fighting tooth and nail to stay with them as i was removed from their room. it was the last time i ever saw them. and so will it still. in his speech to the german parliament commemorating the holocaust the historian pointed out that millions of germans already knew what was happening in the death camps as early as one thousand nine hundred two his parents

were killed in auschwitz at this time friedland himself survived and emigrated to israel in one nine hundred forty eight shortly after the state was founded. israel was a homeland for me and my generation of european jews. at least for those of us who survived. this there was a sense of belonging and despite my critique of the government i still believe to this day that it is an inherent moral imperative to defend the right of israel to exist its. ship if. one is tired president underline this moral imperative he said it is a part of modern germany's d.n.a. . fitted in because. you don't find the term

holocaust in the constitution put the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the germans reverberate in it unmistakably in the basic rights that protect individuals from a despotic state and in the legal foundation of a democracy that is capable. protecting itself and not allowing that democratic freedoms are misused to destroy a liberal democracy. the democratic misspoke. music composed by victor newman who was murdered in auschwitz in one thousand nine hundred four among the listeners young people from numerous countries when holocaust survivors no longer exist it will be up to the next generations to make sure the atrocities are not forgotten. and all this week we have been bringing you the stories of elderly holocaust survivors passing on the difficult lessons of history to today's younger

generations our next report takes us to israel where there is a program that brings together young german volunteers with holocaust survivors in the name of peace. they're separated by age and historia but together they're bridging the gap money and income on both born ninety eight years ago in berlin once a week she's visited by. the young german is doing a voluntary year in israel and it stank is a says everything i think it's very important to deal with history and after a previous exchange in israel i said that if i take a sabbatical after school i'd like to do voluntary work. if i really need the organization action be conciliation service for peace has been bringing together young germans and holocaust survivors for us the conversations are the most important part of the encounter. cowman witnessed the rise of the nazis in berlin in the one nine hundred thirty s. when she was

a teenager. is informed it didn't happen all at once but from month to month there were new things that jews were no longer allowed to do is the force of people would ask themselves are things were really that bad that they should leave and they decided to stay a bit longer and my family was one of those which stayed up until one thirty nine still believing that things could get that bad today wonder how could he be so stupid that the top was or was they were germans like everyone else on to the nazis took over shortly before the outbreak of war in one nine hundred thirty nine million in common fled to sweden with the help of the zionist used organization her family scattered to other countries in one thousand nine hundred forty nine she started a new life in israel it wasn't until the early sixty's that she travelled through germany again a trip she took with much trepidation. i was shaken and i thought this is a german house this is a german dog and everything that i saw seemed to be labeled by me.

despite her concerns she decided to start a dialogue with the germans it was a. highly controversial decision in israel at that time. and when later on my husband and i were back here and ready to talk to germans they have tacked us and said they wanted to make soap out of you and you talk to them how dare you but we did it and i still believe that it's the right thing to do you know. young volunteers like to benefit from her decision to this day it cuts off to them the thing that i am one of the last who are able to do this my niece for example won't be able to sit down with a woman who was born in one thousand nine hundred twenty one and talk to her about her history and her time five years this kind of work allows me to do what i need to do to act as a bridge to talk with young people about israel politics or whatever is required and that is important to me while i'm still here and can still talk about it.

so. both agree that this very personal exchange between the generations is the best way to understand what happened under the nazis and during the holocaust. all sports now and again i got an a in town of book of may be a long way from las vegas but it is fast becoming a focal point for boxing it has produced five champions in the sport including zuma nelson considered africa's greatest ever boxer and now our reporter caught up with a young man hoping to become the town's next success story. the morning routine of a champion phillips gets ready for his first run of the day. here in book almost grind out a living from the fishing treat but fenech says it's not much of

a life he has dreams and boxing could be his escape routes. so they don't get enough money. to take care of us. cory i say young boy you have to work to get. five and these streets have turned out some of the best fighters in africa. that people here live crowded together from a young age kids who learn to fight for what they want. that is sometimes referred to as unofficial university of boxing and a victory in the rink a fast track to fame and fortune people here saying feliks has all the right stuff to make a big ball but don't walk while felix is very good he does well in the boxing ring

. he often knocks out his opponents in round two. he doesn't waste time and energy at all we support him we are his fans and wherever he goes we follow him to give him the support he won't read it or not when you're sick that every night. feliks trains here of the bronx boxing gym a favorite destination full book says who hope to make it big. it's one of dozens of make chief gene scott are the most talented. children as young as six come here every day after school to practice. cook jocose says to come has all the right ingredients to produce champions because . it is a challenge it's a little easier more don't. put a plug things in this thing does this region to. sort out

their the challenge in a competition when it comes to wilson over. he says it's this intense competition that book there was too many books that's from a book called to succeed. you know course starts at the gym fifteen years ago and formed six hundred failed one defeats he says to give the kids here hope for a better future. over here most of the boys on the street from the street and if you want to take them all to mistreat to come visit. you will go to the gym rids to continue took another month. right up judah called you out i will bring them to the gym and you include the new to be done to get me to give the money to get some food or get something to support incentive to become more and difficult for you also to know how to keep. people out as well we have choose to do no cool just one day the

boys who make a big will come back to help the gym and the community. but all feliks con fink about right now is what's he going to achieve beyond book club. i want to be a writer and deny future. i want to be a great you're going to be going to jump you know. it's a goof i have both seen you called it quote i did for an hour it's a dream shoot chase for the streets he calls home. now we're heading to egypt where a professional swimmer has been racking up an impressive collection of medals at competitions around the world even though the athlete in question is just a few wait years away from her eightieth birthday. limbering up at the age of seventy six professional swimmer. is as committed to her

sport as ever she trains five times per week at a pool in cairo. i'm proof that age isn't an obstacle if you have the will to do it and if you have a positive outlook in life. hold up but won her first medal as a teenager but aged eighteen she stopped competing back then there were no championships in egypt for swimmers of both that age but she continued to train in the hope that one day she could represent her country internationally in twenty fourteen did just that and her hard work paid off as she won two medals to miss and then i waited sixty years for the opportunity to participate in a championship it was inside me for sixty years waiting to be released i participated in the championship with great determination i'm dr having trained very hard indeed that coach is delighted with the medal winning after each strife.

the heart of a twenty year old she has determination in freezing cold or in hot weather she still shows up every day to train there's no championship that she doesn't wish to participate in she has to perseverance determination and heart of a young person. even hopes to add to her medal collection at her next competition in germany. a quick reminder now the top stories we're following for you here on as well as keep up the pressure on president maduro to step down if parliament has thrown his support behind self-proclaimed interim president one of the. demonstrators also want the military to switch its of course. because you have you still to come. with nowhere to go well look at delhi's massive campaign to build more toilets and many. many people don't want that.

and. that has sprung up in a cemetery dozens of families lived in peace with the dead but two developers have other plans. all that more and. that is coming up in just a few moments time. i'm sara kelly in berlin because so much for your company have a great day. flaming.

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