resistible. stocks feb second. this is d w news from berlin tonight in the battle for venezuela's future the self declared president saying we won't wait for president to go. she says that he's already working on a transitional government and that all parts of society should work together to help get it going but what about the military also coming up germany's parliament

pays tribute to the victims of the nazi. the holocaust survivor and historian saul friedland delivers a message to germans you must remain vigilant against the research of anti-semitism and america's midwest in the grip of a deadly deep freeze in some places. the surface of mars will bring you the latest from chicago the epicenter of the big earth. it's good to have you with us tonight minutes weightless self-proclaimed in the room president one is upping the political pressure on the man that he wants to replace why they're telling supporters that he. will not wait for president nicolas

maduro to go and that he's already working on a transitional government the why did presented the plan for rebuilding the country to supporters today in caracas that plan includes stabilizing the economy dealing with what he calls the humanitarian emergency improving public services and fighting poverty. promised that shortages of food and medicine would come to an end he also highlighted what he sees as the biggest differences between him and president maduro. there are two key elements for every project time and money. government does not have either but once the illegal seizes power over a new democratic government what have not just time but also have faith hope and the necessary money to try for this country for which that is important and we.

are going to take this story now to caracas our correspondent oscar schlink are standing by good afternoon to you. we just saw one making that speech saying that he has a plan for a transitional government my question to you does he have the support of the military if he's already talking about his own government. now that the military has still not placed. or on one way to go that high ranking officials are making a strong. point supporting and still not the uk so this could come to a very serious consequences if we don't know who their military is supporting at this moment what does this speech tell us then oscar about the opposition and its unity i mean is this a sign that the opposition does have a plan now. well for the longest time this was the criticism of many

people is that the opposition did not have a plan of what to do with the country after i was doing nothing wrong. the plan was always in a particular pain to ask why the robot. watts question was always prevalent and why the today said this is the answer to that question and because it is such an important question that defines the opposition everybody has had a voice in this plan for the nation that he presented today so that all hard numbers are to support it in the lab reading this plan and although it is. the base of the plan is based on the party that he represents this is that everybody has happened quick and we can see that that opposition right now is more united than ever and one way those interim presidents and has there been a response from president nicolas maduro to what was said today

not yet we haven't heard from nicholas no dose response to this plan of the nation the language of government also has a plan for the nation it's an island that was led by what charles before he passed away and it's the flag that's taken for all right ostrich like are on the story for us in caracas the capital of venezuela oscar thank you. well the european union has agreed to lead an international contact group with south american nations to help resolve than its weight loss political crisis the e.u. foreign policy chief frederica mcgrady says there is a for unity in the e.u. over seeking free and democratic elections in venezuela as soon as possible and now the group which will include germany britain france bolivia and ecuador will be disbanded after ninety days if no progress is made if need says that e.u.

foreign ministers may also consider imposing further sanctions on president nicolas maduro government so. we're joined now by our correspondent barbara vasovagal she is in bucharest this evening where is the u. foreign ministers are meeting good evening to you barbara what will this contact group that we're hearing about what's it seeking to achieve. this contact group is seeking to achieve community opening of communication channels to democratic forces within venezuela because the european union really doesn't have any sort of people on the ground it doesn't have a lot of traditional sort of connections and the latin american countries a few more are going to join the group will are supposed to help was that this is not about mediation between my duro and going to but this is about supporting the democratic process there and particularly sort of trying to help was humanitarian

aid because i'm a greenie also said they have problems was access into that is the way they are ready to help more they are ready to sort of do it more or less immediately but they need access so the contact group is supposed to help was that and sort of negotiate the entrance of trucks and so on planes in carcass and what is this contact group then mean for the ultimatum that the e.u. issued earlier this week saying basically that it will recognize one why do as president if no what actions are called and been it's where you look within the next week or so is that ultimatum now no longer in force. no it is absolutely in force but these are two different things the contact group is there because the e.u. diplomats say we are under no illusion that this process is in venezuela could be a long drawn out and it could be very complicated and we just need people on the ground to sort of to try to influence it but every european country is absolutely

free to join the ultimatum that had been issued by spain france the u.k. and germany last weekend to to force majeure rule into new elections free elections than a supervised that affair and if he doesn't do that as is to be expected they would at the beginning of next week about recognize my duro so that is a question for every individual european country and more are going to join. our barbara vigil on the story for us tonight in bucharest where those foreign ministers are meeting barbara thank you for that meeting of e.u. foreign ministers is addressing the iran nuclear deal as well now you'd have seen the launch of a new payments channel designed to bypass u.s. sanctions against iran instead it is backed by germany france and the u.k. and it will enable companies to do business with iran through

a third party president rump imposed sanctions after pulling out of the iran nuclear record last may. as he used foreign ministers met on thursday in the romanian capital bucharest the belgian foreign minister said that the e.u. wanted to keep supporting the nuclear deal but also to continue cooperating with washington. we are working with our american friends on the issue of ballistic missiles and on iran's regional influence we are also working to allow european businesses to continue to trade with iran this instrument is a good way to do that and it's up to individual businesses to choose if they use this vehicle or not. the special purpose vehicle is part of the e.u. efforts to safeguard the two thousand and fifteen international agreement aimed at curbing iran's nuclear ambitions. behind the for implementation of the deal in iran for the simple reasons that we see it is working thirteen reports now. that iran is fully compliant with its new commitment and we

believe this is a key element of policy to meet in the region. the u.s. state department said the united states doesn't expect the so-called special purpose vehicle to affect what it's called its maximum economic pressure campaign against tehran. or here in berlin the country's parliament today commemorated the victims of the nazi regime and it 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 city roma disabled and gay people with more than a million killed at auschwitz along the keynote address was given by historian and holocaust survivor sol friedland. sol 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 the 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. it. is 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. who. 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. it ship if. one is tired president underlined 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. the team is. music composed by victor all man who was murdered in auschwitz in one thousand nine hundred four among the listeners young people from numerous countries one holocaust survivors no longer exist it will be up to the next generations to make sure the atrocities are not forgotten. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world italy has fallen back into recession after its economy shrank again in the fourth quarter a twenty eighty 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 big spending electoral promises such as increasing

pensions and introducing a basic income for the poor and for job seekers italian authorities say that they have seized more than two tons of cocaine in the port of genoa police say the shipment came from colombia and has a street value of around five hundred million euros it's the largest cocaine hold in italy in twenty five years the united nations says a million land mines have now been cleared from the world's youngest nation south sudan local mine clearance experts and u.n. specialists worked together to destroy a one hundred kilogram air dropped bomb found in the capital juba just last week. but it has been a sad week for the religious minority on monday there secular leader. saeed ali begg died following a long illness in hanover germany that's where he lived in exile now the u.s edis

they were in the public eye back in two thousand and fourteen the so-called islamic state it took over northern iraq where most remember lived and committed what the u.n. labeled as genocide tens of thousands had to flee the terrorists many of them came here to germany which is now home to the biggest yazidi diaspora community in the world in letter a small town close to hanover the yazidi community mourned for three days their secular head will be buried in iraq this weekend. to his easy community saying. a bite attack scene saïd alley bag. from all across germany members of the religious minority traveled here to honor their secular leader for the last time. the eighty five year old was very popular says one of his sons. is.

my father was looked up to with great respect and loved by his edis everywhere he was a man who tried to solve social problems and it was his desire that you see things across the world you nice. for more than seventy years taxi in bag represented the use edis politically a religious community whose story is marked by fleiss and expulsion when the so-called islamic state advanced in iraq hundreds of men died and tens of thousands had to flee on top of the us countless women were abducted and abused it was all charged up from my father the worst time was after the third of august in twenty fourteen when islamic states attacked our territory the fact that you see the women were sold as sex slaves especially painter and that the international community looked away that took the most out of him. over and over again attacks in baghdad appealed to the international community to protect his people he

is edis will miss his voice the new december in the women's prayer area to their feet how are we are so unbelievably sad that our leader the king of the years e.d.'s has left us you can't put into words what we are going through i cannot express my feelings the city's muzzles out as mine with frequent business owners place. the northern german city of hanover was the last place where taxi and bag the leader of the his e d's lived one of his sons will step into his place it will. be hard to follow in his footsteps but someone has to give hope to this persecuted minority. now to the united states weather forecasters in america's midwest say the deep freeze that's gripped the region should begin to ease up later today at least eight people have died in temperatures lower than in the arctic or

some say even on more infrastructure has been crippled and life for tens of millions of people has been brought to a standstill. 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 and this is the goal of this event see that i've got about three different layers on top and bottom right now so that's prepared as they can be. and then when it comes their. focus is going to go

in her petition with hold. everything needs to get the gear and watch your experiments to mittens 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 warming centers including police stations and roving buses for anyone seeking shelter from the cold the bone chilling weather has called. 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

. or corresponded maya swager is in chicago where temperatures are described as life threatening she tells us how authorities there have been handling this extreme weather. 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. was elias waiter there on the cold beat for us tonight that's going to switch gears here now and talk about facebook after the rockiest year in its history facebook had been hoping that twenty nine thousand would mark a fresh start the social media giant already has a new explosion of scandal on its hands and car you're going to tell me about this but the u.s. news outlet tech crunch saying facebook has been paying users as young as thirteen years old for access to their private data ok so tell me one thing howard how do thirteen year olds how are they able to even pay for something to begin with and how do they have private data right yeah i think that's really why this story has caught on because it goes as young as thirteen years old i mean we heard about the scandal as well as of kids paying a lot of money for games they were realizing they're paying for but anyway this is been going on for a couple of years now using what's called the facebook research and this is a separate app not the main facebook it's been vacuuming up information from users

phones and what it does is it specifically targeting users from thirteen to thirty five the younger audience that facebook of course covets it people basically twenty dollars a month for nearly unlimited. it's an access and even the most sensitive data on their phones here's just some of what facebook had access to with this app we're talking about users' private messages within social media apps their internet browsing activity including web searches and even their encrypted phone activity photos and videos that were sent to other people and location information is this app was tracking your physical location throughout the day the app also asked friends to see users amazon purchase history i mean that's getting really personal some people facebook was advertising this as you can see to young people on their favorite platforms we're talking about snap chat and instagram you can this is just an example one of these ads here the goal was likely to get an edge on their competitors facebook is a ruthless company if they know what young people are doing they can say hey look

this snap chat feature for example seems to be very popular right now why don't we integrate that into our facebook platform very powerful tool for them a lot of people especially saying that this was like spying on other people's phones yeah i mean it's sounds like something that orson welles would have written a bell doesn't it facebook i understand says it did nothing wrong in that people and i'm reading here knew what they were signing up for is it true i mean this was voluntary so people had to download this there was a you know they knew they were getting paid for this however a lot of experts are saying look there's no possible way that people really knew what they were getting themselves into because of the extent of this app and here's what they're talking about this is just some language coming from an e-mail explaining what this app was all about you can see it actually only mentions the word facebook once the rest of it really looks like something more of a scientific study so that was not clear is the thirteen year old supposed to read that and how are they going to read that right i mean and look at the language as included this is in the fine print it's very very it doesn't say what kind of data

is being collected on say the extensive it the fact that this is even getting access to the very basic program on your phone it's really taking a lot of information there the app also violated the terms of. apple app store and in terms of the way that it was distributed one tech reporter called this the most defiance behavior he's ever seen from an app store developers so what is the potential fallout going to be then for facebook it's more about publicity of course for facebook this raises more privacy questions as a facebook needed more of those i think more importantly this could give some u.s. politicians a little bit more ammunition to perhaps for post some regulation on the industry itself and this is just one u.s. senator that was raising that on in a tweet and he says look this sort of behavior is not going to stop until we pass comprehensive legislation that enshrines every american's right to privacy with a privacy bill of rights referring to a bill that actually the senator introduced early last year if you want to talk bottom line in terms of dollars though there's book reporting record profits this

week to the tune of seven billion dollars and we know you said you know he said it violated the rules for the apple store right so i says apple taken action apple did take action they as soon as this report came out they pulled that app from the apple store they took it down and they said in fact that apple facebook won't be able to use that back door that was meant for employees only they won't be able use that again cornishman as always thank you. sports news now the january football transfer window was closed. for the rest of this season most teams around your purse strings tight but some have been big names and they've made moves over the last month including to germany's top flight. a low key arrival that summed up the january transfer window on thought oh he joined english side chelsea on loan at the london club can make the move permanent for thirty five million euros the type of

deal that has been common over the last month is very reluctant to spend in england and italy and just about everywhere that's partly down to the financial fair play problem many clubs conjure for to buy they can only invest in loans christian pulis sick is another player who's been loaned straight back to dortmund for the rest of the season this after the bundesliga club sold him to chelsea for sixty four million euros that price tag makes his move the most expensive of this transfer window and the biggest move into the bundesliga was amadou haidar as transfer to rb leipsic he cost the club nineteen million euros and treads a familiar path he's the fifteenth player to move from red bull salisbury to red bull owned leipzig youth has been a trend among bundesliga signings league leaders dortmund brought in twenty year old argentinian out of the to be as they look to stay ahead in the title race

stuttgart new center back is even younger and another teenager to arrive in the bundesliga is byron's out funso davies the canadian joins the reigning champions for ten million euros as their only major newcomer but overall it was a quiet transfer window for the bavarians who were unable to make a star signing this january. you're watching the w. news live from berlin coming up next quadriga i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news see you then.

more intrigue other international talk show for journalists to discuss the topic of the week for israel is tracing for further protests as its embattled president targets a young leader who many venezuelans hope will break the grip of a corrupt elite cool when the power struggle and at what price that's our topic ontogeny up to. next on d

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one day she really did become a world famous conductor brimming over with virtuosity and shit. among the other not. my stuff. starts feb eighteenth t.w. . hello and welcome to quadriga venezuela is bracing for further potentially deadly protests as is and the battle for president targets the young politician seen by many venezuelans as the only hope of breaking the grip of a corrupt elite that has plundered the country president nicolas maduro has

presided over a dramatic economic collapse declaring the president illegitimate one quite oh leader of the democratically.