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called for survivor story and sold. to the program the european parliament has voted to recognize venezuela self-proclaimed interim president and called on member states to do. holzer leads the country's national assembly also built the political opposition has been holding secret meetings with military officials is trying to convince officers to withdraw their support the president would dora and to allow humanitarian aid into the crisis stricken country meanwhile people across venezuela have returned to the streets calling for the president's resignation.

nicolas maduro surrounded by his troops to position it was loyalty in 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. and meanwhile protesters once again took to the streets of caracas calling from a duration step down. million ten touring is one of them she's the wife of a prominent opposition leader who's been in jail for four years as she told the w.c. it was time for a new government. interests to bring her. this is why we are protesting we can't work

everybody to get the part of. 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 it is true we don't know how. you. can get to work because the shoulders here are dying there's no food to give them she there's no with patients or their. they have the u.s. on their side washington has recognized why do those claims to lead venezuela on wednesday president trump phoned him to reaffirm his support of the three thirty and about president maduro has won the americans that intervention may backfire they don't want to 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 the tulips i know but the people on the street want. oh. my god he said. it was. their demand is clear my dear i must die. from d.w.i. correspondent barbara visalia joins us from bucharest where e.u. foreign ministers are meeting a welcome barbara can we expect them to follow the united states and others and. why that was president. that is at least in one part what european foreign ministers want to do the german representative heikal mosque just arrived here in

bucharest there was the wrong kind of snow in his local airport so he got off to a late start however he said that he hopes that now all the rest of the european union is going to get behind a clear conclusion that the big four issued last weekend and that said that they would give them a duro just one week that would be like up to this weekend and maybe a few days to say that he would organize new elections that they would be fair and free and internationally supervised and then they would sort of wait for the for the result of those redactions if he does not do that they are ready to immediately recognize one guy too so that is the stance that taking and mrs here are hoping that the whole you now gets off the fence and sort of gets behind the statement of the e.u. already has sanctions against the regime and countries of want of action if no new

elections are called as you say so what form might be state. there are some sanctions against like the inner circle some people around madura and they are not released very stringent and so was a guard to the sanctions regime of course the european union can do more but do we had to talk a little earlier to the chairman off the foreign policy committee of the european parliament david make alister let's hear what he has to say on that point for us mr guy is the president of venezuela and we do hope the european union will find a united position on this the developments in venezuela show but we need to support the citizens who have been suffering under this terrible regime for far too long the european union will be ready to to support the fight of the venezuelan people to restore democracy to respect human rights to respect media freedom

to respect the democratic rights of government and opposition to respect pluralism and we know how economically the people in venezuela have suffered and are still suffering and we are ready to support i'm very sure. david mcallister that meant mentioned i media freedom in that list the news also been forcing concerns about the detention of foreign journalists. of course the european foreign ministers and put in particular the e.u. foreign policy chief rick i'm a greenie very strongly demand the release of three spanish journalists from the spanish news agency who had been arrested last night while doing their job while filming opposition demonstrations in venezuela and of course the consume is now that the as the situation gets more and more tense in the country and nobody really

knows what will happen next that all foreign journalists there they had been talking earlier about two french journalists who had been arrested also. it becomes more and more difficult for them to do the job and they are actually might be in direct danger to be sort of taken off the streets by the regime so that is another issue that of course is quite burning here but there is now a really strong push to sort of get go forward in this regard and sort of so their weight behind the international recognition of current guy to bob of a slim progress thank you. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a rescue ship carrying forty seven migrants is docked in the italian popes of khatami italy's government and people spent the last twelve days refusing to allow the sea watch vessel to come aboard had to come to a show at the standoff was resolved but nine countries agreed to accept the

passengers. its wings folded back into recession after succumbing to shock in the again in the fourth quarter of twenty eighteen the zero point two percent contraction will put pressure on the popular state government of the your observes the fourth largest economy coalition took power in july on the back of thinks spending electrophoresis such as increasing pensions and introducing a basic income for the poor and for job seekers. at least eight russian environmental activists have been detained in the city of colombia one hundred kilometers southeast of moscow they were protesting the fact that all of the russian capital's waste goes to landfill authorities accuse the demonstrators of stirring up past lives. germany's parlance has held a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the nazi regime and to mark 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 and gay people with more than a million killed that auschwitz alone the keynote address was given by historian and holocaust survivor soul feel and. solve 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 was 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 was. this village 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 thousand nine hundred eight shortly after the state was founded. israel was a homeland for me a mind generation of european jews. at least for those of us who survived. it is 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 is. ship. type president underline this moral imperative he

said it is a part of modern germany's d.n.a. . and phenotypic if. 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. of protecting itself and not allowing that democratic freedoms are misused to destroy a liberal democracy i had misspoken. 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.

all this week we've been bringing your stories of elderly holocaust survivors passing on the lessons of history to today's younger generations and next report looks at a program in israel that brings young german volunteers together with holocaust survivors in the name of peace. they're separated by age and historia but together they're bridging the gap marianne and come on both born ninety eight years ago in berlin once a week she's visited by. the young german is doing a volunteer year in israel and it's thank you so 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 years the conversations are the most important part of the and counter. cowman witnessed the rise of the nazis in berlin

in the one nine hundred thirty s. when she was a teenager. it didn't happen all at once but from month to month there were new things that jews were no longer allowed to do that for 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 nine hundred thirty nine still believing that things can 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 marianna cowman fled to sweden with the help of the zionist used organization her family scattered to other countries in one 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 dodge line by. line just bite her concerns she decided to start a dialogue with the germans it was. highly controversial decision at that time. and 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 attacked 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. benefit from her decision to this day it cuts all sort of 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. through a mish. 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. well the forecast is that america's midwest say the deep freeze gripping the region should ease later today at least eight people have died in temperatures in the arctic infrastructure's been crippled and life has been brought to a standstill for tens of millions of people. 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 think because i've ever seen it i've got about three different layers on top and bottom right now so as prepared as they can be. and if and when their leadership think this is good her protection would go for everyone needs to get prepared watch your experiments to newton's and the to get to illustrate the effects of extreme cold a chicago based reporter threw

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 up 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 release millions of people from its icy embrace. this show ended up because one of my schrader. in chicago in the u.s. state of illinois where temperatures have been described as a life threatening. situation nama

hi there well it's you know it's a big if the outside in this way for a little while for give me if i look like i'm sort of dancing in front of the camera but they've actually advised people who have to be outside for any period of time to keep moving you know to keep generating your body heat because it's really dangerous if you're standing still for too long this is temperature at which even your your eyeballs can freeze over if it's too cold if you're outside for too long i can feel my tears sort of freezing in my eyes right now the situation is it's sort of a ghost town this is one of the most populous cities in the u.s. it's the beginning of the workday here and this we're next to one of the biggest streets in town and it's pretty clear as usually traffic jams people running around and there's almost no one on the streets mostly due to the cold so how have authority has hogged the these extremes. well as we've heard they've been setting up warming centers

a lot of the city's major institutions governments have been shut down for the past day through possibly also tomorrow a lot of schools the major universities have also closed down there were some dramatic pictures that came out yesterday of authorities having to light the train tracks of the public transit system on fire because it was so cold that the metal was working and they needed to keep people moving so there's been a variety of response is even just reaching out to clergy in the area trying to coordinate and reach out to the most vulnerable people who might be sleeping on the streets in these extreme weather people who can't get to warm places especially because there's also been about twenty five thousand reported people affected by power outages in the region so briefly you know how the levees continue at these conditions expected to continue well that's the interesting thing because yesterday and today it's been heard and arctic temperatures here but even starting tomorrow it's supposed to pop up to

a balmy negative six celsius and then already on the weekend it's going to shoot right up to being above freezing again which is a swing of about forty degrees of temperature and about three days i was much for chicago keep moving. to the democratic republic of congo not without an outbreak of ebola it's still brushing east and regions but a newborn baby has provided a surprising bright spot the healthy go was born to a woman infected with the disease it's the first case why bother to have survived. it's a miracle that she's alive and kicking her mother twenty eight year old josephine e-coli was infected with the ebola virus during the last outbreak and the democratic republic of congo and fell ill while pregnant. doctors that the w.h.o. ebola treatment center still can't believe it. i knew that they were following

women who appear to be survivors who are still carrying a healthy pregnancy this was something that we're. close to and heard of in the last epidemic and so that was really something exciting to see a woman gives birth to a child. after it appears that she survived. according to the world health organization pregnant women infected with ebola and babies born with the virus have always died that is up until now they say sylvana is the first baby to be born a bowl of free to a mother who was previously infected. i had a good birth and i thank god for it me and the baby are both healthy i'm very grateful for the work that the team is doing. the doctors in beneath

conducted a variety of tests and were surprised at the results. of we took a blood sample from the newborn and from the mother and we also took an amniotic fluid sample because we feared the virus had spread to the baby. but the lab test result came back negative. that's why we think that this result is surprising and intriguing from a scientific point of view. josephine e-coli and her newborn sylvana will soon go home to start their new life together. baby doing well let's move on to football the january transfer window closes in a few hours the last chance for european clubs to sign new players for the rest of the season five of us from it is here to tell us about the biggest move welcome.

so let's you know what. i did last if i start with the. league which deals catching you are right well there's a few and they all involve going to weigh three and they all involve youngsters will start off with shellac of course and that will be eighteen year old rugby tongue though now we're seeing him here in shock he's a winger and he's already an international for wales and he impressed. in their reserve team unders he's known for being super quick in fact he's one of the quickest and even quicker than the road sign i also used to pep one of the old up their boss was also not impressed that's according to rumor the other signing is alfonso davies he's a nineteen year old forward he already actually sign for biron in the summer but he officially joins now and he made his debut almost at the end of byron's match against stoke guards just last weekend joins from. white caps and

sides and the final signing is a twenty year old amadou haidara for leipzig nineteen million euros is what they paid he signed actually from their sister club the f.c. red bull salisbury and he's a central midfielder from there so that's the bundesliga what about around the rest of europe one of the signings go to the big ones that people have been talking about are gone. he now has signed for chelsea on loan from you ventus but actually he's been playing for a few months for ac milan and he made his debut actually for chelsea in the premier league just last night they lost to bournemouth for neilson not great for them and there's also the option that he can be. right. by chelsea so you're just seeing a bear form around madrid player as well and he's now joining at chelsea where he actually worked with their current salary and we're just seeing another of the big

signings in europe i don't want to spanish player he was playing at chelsea had an absolutely dreadful season there and he's back in madrid where he's well used to crying and but he's actually playing enough around him and used to be there for their rivals at night to go madrid. still a few hours to go you expecting any major stories before the transfer window closes we're keeping our eye on to arsenal youngster a meal smith row he's looks likely to sign for leipzig he's an eighteen year old winger and shinji kagawa who is dortmund legend from japan and. dormans apparently have agreed with one over for the player but if they've actually left it up to him to decide whether he wants to go there but there's also talk that he could go to turkey and play for us well we'll know in a few hours before the thank you so much.

i just i'm sorry much of our top story at base our the pressure not increasing for venezuela's president says my daughter times demonstrators i had to take to the streets again calling for him to step down from the field problems i'm still trying to get support for my self declared interim the president from the white house. this is d.w. fly from southern don't forget you can get all the latest news made from asia around the clock on our web site that's dwi dot com coming up next focused on new york. of the for. the from. the from.

the the. cut. to. the the. half. a china be positive in many parts of russia it's a terrible stigma but an orphanage in chelyabinsk takes a different approach. here h.i.b. positive youngsters grow up with kids who don't have the fibrous. what's the daily routine like for the stand and how do the children themselves fare.

next on d w. crimes against humanity. civilians become what most of. their recorded images travel around the globe via social media. what is the damned fiction and what is fact. digital investigators combing through the flood of images and they combine sources trying to reconstruct what happened and to substantiate claims of crimes. thanks to this video recording from an ecology who shot the young man is on trial now. forensics between bits and

bytes. of the. taping again. the evidence. is of the chance a biggest justice is about to try. truth detectives starts a venue where we just keep on t.w. . oh in a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and we begin in the italian capital rome where people are quite simply furious why well because the city is dry.