music is bound to keep your. video music starts february twenty fifth on w. d w news live from europe's parliament back. declared interim president it's partly extra pressure on president nicolas maduro across the country venezuelans have taken to the streets calling for him to step down. america's midwest in the

grip of a deadly deal with temperatures colder than be arctic our reporters in chicago daily life as. germany's parliament pays tribute to the victims of the nazi regime . as part of an emotional ceremony holocaust survivor and historian. says the germans must remain vigilant. and a visit to the town that has become a breeding ground for africa's boxing champion will meet the next generation hoping to make a fish. i'm sorry welcome to the european parliament has thrown his support behind venezuela's self-proclaimed. interim president. now he is now reveals that the political

opposition has been meeting in secret military with military officials and the country wide zero 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 surrounded by his troops to position the old loyalty can she keep tines 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 unsure 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 it was time for a new government. to. receive. her correction this is why we are protesting we wait. for everybody to get the parties. demonstrators 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 that is we don't want. you to move you to work because the children is here are dying there's no. truth to give you see there's no way the

patients are there but. they have the us a mess signed washington has recognized why do those claims to lead venezuela on wednesday president trump phoned him to know you support the three thirty and about president maduro has warned the americans that intervention may backfire but they don't want to hear i call upon your conscience akala 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 material has offered to negotiate with the opposition in an attempt to regain support domestically but took some not but the people on the street qualms. like this it was. the. their demand is

clear and i'm sure i must go. and earlier we spoke with barbara vessel in bucharest where the new foreign ministers are meeting we asked her whether they will agree with the european parliament and follow the united states in recognizing self declared president one as head of state. it seems so because what the european parliament has now done even though it 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 said if we did take a very strong position and said we give them a juror in the weeks time. and we demand that he hold

a 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 and specially 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 for might peace take 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 maduro 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 become trees 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 contect rupe with some latin american countries who are then supposed to sort of maybe mediate or sort of you. be used as into mediators the people who can talk to. politicians inside venezuela order to sort of facility to smooth

transition barbara just briefly there's also the issue of european journalists being detained within the country by materials for team 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 news agency who were who were arrested when they were filming the protests against madeira before the end 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 go politically take a stance and support. barbara faisal joining us from bucharest thanks barbara.

let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world italy has fallen back into recession after its economy shrank again in the fourth quarter of twenty eighteen zero point two percent contraction will put pressure on the populace government of the euro zone's fourth largest economy the coalition took power in july on the back of bins big spending electoral promises such as increasing pensions and introducing a basic income for the poor and for job seekers. a rescue ship with forty seven stranded migrants on board has docked in the italian port of tanya italy's government had refused to let the sea watch vessel and church and italian harbor for twelve days the standoff was resolved when nine countries agreed to take in those trapped on board. of these russian environmental activists have been detained in the city of goma noma one hundred kilometers southeast of moscow 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 stirring up mass riots . and malaysia has a new king sultan of dolla has ascended to the throne of the southeast asian country nearly a month after his predecessor surprised to cation sultan a bell is also a prominent figure in sports federations including the council of fifa world soccer's governing body. 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 is considered the world's biggest annual human migration encompassing tens of millions of people across china and east asia this year's lunar new year holiday begins and that's the worry for. well as many as twelve people have died as a result of a deep freeze that's gripping the american midwest weather colder than the arctic.

has grounded flights crippled infrastructure and brought life to a standstill for tens of millions of people the polar vortex for using air that normally spins around the north pole in winter but has slipped southwards into the united states. 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 registered 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 cold this of see that i've

got about three different layers on top and bottom right now so as prepared as they can be. and. this is good heard. everyone needs to get here and watch your experiments to newton's to get to illustrate the effects of extreme cold 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 all weather 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 . and you to be a correspondent joins us now from chicago in the u.s. state of illinois where temperatures are being described as life threatening you know my you're outside right now what are things like and is it safe to be outside . yet forgive me for sort of bouncing up and down in front of the camera but they've told us that in order to stay outside for any sort of extended period we sort of need to keep moving this is one of the most populous cities in america and it's the beginning of the workday and i will say we're standing next to a big thoroughfare right now and it's practically empty it's almost a ghost town around here they're very much advising people to stay out of the cold as much as possible a lot of people who we talked to on the street yesterday said that they're just planning on not going to work working from home those that do have to go to work are trying to you know huddle inside as much as possible there are still some

professions are just they really have no choice taxi drivers have to be out and about construction workers if their site can decide to continue working today bus drivers still a lot of people who have to do their job today and this whole polar vortex is affecting about ninety million people across the u.s. ok so a lot of people impacted my how long is this expected to last well that's the interesting thing we saw yesterday and today these super subzero temperatures but already tomorrow it's going to hop up to a ball me about negative six celsius which is going to feel practically tropical after it being you know a bit nippy today and then already on the weekend it's going to shoot back up to be well above zero which is about a forty point degree swing in the course of about three days wow ok so a lot of changes just briefly why our authorities handling it. well like we

heard there are warming centers being set up authorities are also coronating with clergy across the city trying to identify who might be at risk who needs help setting up emergency shelters possibly in churches and synagogues and mosques a lot of the major installations schools universities museums across the city have been shut down today so high priority to keep people safe out there miles we'll let you go and hop back into hopefully some place which is heated braving the cold for us on the streets of chicago. when i'm germany's parliament has held a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the nazi regime the event marked 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 roma disabled people and homosexuals over

a million people were killed at auschwitz alone historian and a holocaust survivor south friedland spoke of 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 whose parents hid him from the nazis in a french boarding school. if. i ran away from boarding school and found my parents in the hospital but how to send me back was going on inside them when they saw the little boy fighting tooth and nail to stay with them as i was removed from their room. because the last time i ever saw them was. 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 friedlander 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. is this there was a sense of belonging and despite my critique of the government i still believe to this day vet it is an inherent moral imperative to defend the right of israel to exist is my. ship the. president both underline this moral imperative he said it is a part of modern germany's d.n.a.

. i feel it in because. you don't find the term holocaust in the constitution but 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 has defied the democratic misspoke to. 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.

well now we are heading to some sports news and the super bowl of american football is set for this sunday with the los angeles rams and the new england patriots set to play one of the biggest spectacles in sports it is also time for the national football league to talk about the possibility of international expansion and that this time every year fans in europe they wait to hear about a possible n.f.l. team possibly relocating to london for example that the league stages three games a year at wembley stadium and next season there will be four in london but as for abel london based team in the n.f.l. don't hold your breath they have shown passion. they have. shown the same type of knowledge and interest in our game that we we experience right here in the united states i think the issue for still is can we do this competitively for the team that is based in london but also for the other thirty one clubs. that

involve scheduling involves a lot of other matters that you don't want to compromise and too we can get comfortable with that i don't think will be necessarily n.f.l. ready of london. well now there has been a breakthrough in the search for footballer. the arjun time player whose plane went missing just as he was to start playing in the english premier league investigators have found two seat cushions that they believed to be from the plane and they said that they will begin searching underwater off the coast of the french mainland there players and fans of cardiff city who had just signed him paid tribute to sala at their game against arsenal the welsh club record transfer fee to the french side not just days before he went missing. sports news now and they can they in town welcome many to be a long way from las vegas but it is fast becoming a focal point for boxing it has produced five of the world champions in the sport

including a woman nelson with who is considered to be africa's greatest ever boxer now our reporter caught up with the young man who is hoping to become the town's next success story. the more news routine of a champion. gets ready for his first tour no for a day. here in book most grind out a living from the fishing treat but fairly excess it's not much of a life he has dreams and boxing could be his escape routes. for the main. gates enough money. to take care of us. as a young boy. and these streets have turned out some of the best fighters in africa. people here

live crowded together from a young age kids learn to fight for what they want. the town is sometimes referred to as gun. unofficial university of boxing and a victory in the rink a fast track to fame and fortune people here say feliks has also writes stuff to make a big book 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 as fans and wherever he goes we follow him to give him the support he means very. well yes in that overnight. feliks trains here at the bronx boxing gym a favorite destination for a book says who hope to make it big. it's one of dozens of makes chief gene scott

are the most towns will. she jen as young as six come here every day after school to practice. coach jocose says he has all the right ingredients to produce champions because. he's a child and there's a lot of things here more don't. put a plug things in because india has these regions talking about books and so that's also you know the challenge in a competition and i want to come so we'll see what was he says it's this intense competition that propels in many books us from who come to succeed. starts at the gym fifteen years ago and forms that seem fail why feats he says to give to keep here hope for a better future. while here most of the boys on the school from the street and if

you want you to get out on the street to come visit a sure you will go to the gym rigs to continue. took another. yes or no judith. to gene you include the new pin to. give the money to get some food or get something to support incentive to become more and difficult for you. to keep other people. choose to be slow cool just one day the boys who make a big will come back to help the jam and the community. but all feliks conflict right now is once he can achieve beyond. i want to be jumping ship i want to be a great you're going to be going to jump you don't. want to goof i'm told is called good fun now it's

a dream sure chase for the streets he calls home. well now we are heading to egypt where a professional swimmer has been racking up an impressive collection of medals at competitions around the world even though the athletes in question is nearly eighty . 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. and. 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 and after having trained very hard in that. coach is delighted with the medal winning after that 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 training there is 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 after next competition in germany. a quick reminder now the top stories that we have been following for you here the pressure has been piling on for venezuela's president nicolas maduro as

demonstrators again took to the streets calling for him to step down and the european parliament has declared its of course there to interim president. to watch in berlin don't forget you can get all of the latest news and information around the place to death you dot com coming up next it's. w. news asia my colleagues were joining you in just a few minutes i'm sorry kelly in berlin thank you so much for watching have a great day going to. the from. the from. the bottom of.

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