this is state of the news live from berlin a high ranking venezuelan general denounces president nicolas maduro and effects to the opposition on twitter francisco younis of the air force declared allegiance to self appointed interim president want live in cities across the country in mass protests around the way to go live to caracas. also coming up. russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington's late in suspending a landmark nuclear arms control pact could this be the start of a new arms writes. i'm

rebecca rich's welcome to the program in venezuela a high ranking air force official in general has declared allegiance to opposition leader one quite oh general francisco younis released a video statement via twitter saying he recognized why go as interim head of state it's a major victory for quite a who's been working hard to persuade bennett's whan his armed forces to abandon support for president nicolas maduro let's hear what the general had to say. i'm addressing you today to say that i reject the illegitimate and dictatorial authority of mr nicolas maduro and except one quite go as the president in charge of the boulevard in republic of venezuela ninety percent of the armed forces oppose the dictator and support the venezuelan people. meanwhile that high profile backing comes. as thousands of protesters rallied for fresh demonstrations in the

capital. in caracas and elsewhere in venezuela these images show caracas crowded with protest is coming out to support one. i want to call fresh elections has gone an international backing for his claim to be acting president punch of material support comes from venice plan is military leaders and that's why general nona's is backing you seen as a major development rival demonstrations in favor of the juror who are also taking place. let's go straight to caracas where correspondent is standing by oscar events when an air force general has just declared his support for quiet oh is this the beginning of the end of president madeira or grab what many germans weren't here today at the protest of. a belief still they believe this is the beginning of a domino work for i know you are not will replace however so. there are american

morning on president bill generals who are not in their command and i didn't abandon our troops or any insurance and that he is a cheerleader listening. to our supporters or. trying today is we are not traitor we will remain loyal and it is becoming very apparent that this is the slogan that we need to all hold very troops together. and have some kind of support for motherhood isis normal well in general sorry to interrupt you there the general claims most of the military also support quite oh if that's true why haven't we heard from them. well there is a lot of pressure from the high ranking officers not to report of longer ago because a lot of them are being investigated for human rights violations corruption even

drug trafficking investigations are coming towards a lot of the high ranking officers. and kind of. fluky to motherhood on things like go down with. your advise protest in caracas what are you hearing from those taking pops. well i'm actually in one of the concentration for the opposition we just saw one where it's all passing by on the holder talk and we're expecting to hear from him fair is a lot of problems from the people here that this is the beginning of the end of a twenty year old revolution that concentrated place here in venice for there is a lot of hope that this is the only way that they will change here in phoenix where last day devaney's also in caracas thank you.

we're moving to russia where they've pulled out of cane you clear oms control treaty one day after the u.s. did the same russian president vladimir putin also announced moscow would begin developing new weapon systems and ordered his ministers not to initiate any new disarmament talks with washington he's more of what president putin had to say you can keep our american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we are also suspending our participation. but nationally. we will wait until our partners are mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic you know. was responding to us is decision to pull out of the cold war era i.n.f. treaty secretary of state said washington was suspending its compliance because moscow had been breaching the arms control agreement the us said it's weapons like these s s c cruise missiles with

a range of more than five hundred kilometers the charge russia has violated the treaty. over the latest let's bring in our moscow correspondent emily show and emily president putin is now following suit after the u.s. pull out of the treaty is this an escalation well rebecca from the russian side this is certainly more of a tit for tat reaction the mere putin today said the u.s. is pulling out so we're pulling out the u.s. is looking into building new weapons so we will do the same and this is very much the russian side kind of shifting the blame for this whole i.n.f. treaty basically falling apart to the u.s. they said today as well putin his defense minister and the foreign minister that actually the u.s. they repeated this accusation that the u.s. has actually been violating the i.n.f. treaty itself for years and they also said that it would be perhaps wise to conduct

inspections into whether the u.s. is complying with yet another nuclear arms treaty the new start treaty so what we're seeing here is very much the russian russian side shifting the blame to the u.s. what is of course warring though is that they are talking openly on the russian side about what new weapons they could develop worrying indeed and putin has reportedly instructed his ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with the u.s. what do you make of that. well yeah you mentioned before what else he said which was a very much a swipe at the u.s. side he said that they will wait we'll wait for our partners to be mature enough to talk to us on an equal footing so very much kind of biting biting comments they are from putin they're very much putting the ball back in the u.s. court and this fits in with the russian line all along which is that the u.s.

is basically not listening to russia russia has tried several times they say to show the missile in question that apparently violates the treaty to the u.s. the u.s. doesn't want to see it and in fact in recent days we've seen russian officials accusing the u.s. of already having made the decision to leave the i.n.f. treaty long ago. also said russia would begin developing new missiles briefly just let us know how you think that will go down with the russian public well on the one hand i think a show of strength especially when it's against the u.s. always goes down with the russian public well with the russian public but on the other hand things aren't looking good economically and. russians wouldn't be very interested in having a big arms race and expensive foreign policy move and bloody near putin seems to know that today he said that a costly arms race is certainly not something that russia is interested in all the world keeping a close eye on the. show and reporting from moscow many thanks. now to

some of the other stories making news around the world police in paris have clashed with so-called yellow vests protesters this is the twelve consecutive weekend of protesters taking to the streets on friday a court ruled that the police could continue to use rubber bullets against rioters despite a public outcry. monsoon rains have caused severe flooding in northeastern australia records have been broken in the city of townsville which has seen over a year's rainfall in a matter of days this trend has also been experienced experiencing record heat waves in the summer. well to the us now way of the good news governor governor ralph northam is facing calls to resign after rice's picture from his medical school yearbook racist northam is fast losing support from his fellow democrats and republicans around age two data we reported jared reid is here to tell us more

jared festival who is ralph northam ok well he's a fifty nine year old former doctor who served in the u.s. army he also held the position what's called lieutenant governor of virginia for four years and now he's finally the governor a position he was elected to two years ago but basically this very long distinguished career of public service has come crashing down in the last day because of a photo from nine hundred ninety four from he's university yearbook this is the photo in question ralph no them is aged about twenty five here on the right we can see two people one of them is in blackface and the other one is wearing the clothes the who'd of the klu klux klan and there are various other photos of ralph nor the around two or we can see those two people they were there in costume how can we push be sure that ralph northam is one of them because he has admitted that one of them is he hasn't said which one they are so we don't know who in those two people is rough in all of them but he has come out and apologized let's listen to his

apology that photo and the racist and offensive attitude it represents does not reflect that person i am today or the way that i have conducted myself as a soldier a doctor and a public servant i'm deeply sorry but i set responsibility for my past actions and i'm ready to do the hard work of regaining your trust. so that's virginia governor rough in all of them that we have to remember he is the governor of a state to years ago in charlottesville there were violent protests involving white supremacists they were protesting over the planned removal of a confederacy statue and so we've got this state grappling with its history of slavery and now its own governor has been seen in his past either wearing a clue klux klan costume or in blackface you heard him say he plans to regain the

voters trust which doesn't sound like a resignation statement because he does not plan to resign as one of his fellow lawmakers been sang about all of this will the republicans as we might expect have seized on this and also the democrats basically the entire democratic group from his state of virginia have told on him to resign we've got other people too like presidential hopefuls like. warren saying that he should resign and also to people like derrick johnson he is the president of the civil rights organization the end of a life he tweeted he a black face is always rice is to never no matter the potty we can't stand for such behavior and calling for his resignation ralph northam has strong ties to the black community because he spent many years trying to get this support when the influence of black support of black leaders. that seems to be crashing down now can he

keep on to his job and if so how long well it doesn't seem likely given he's lost the support of basically so many people in his party it seems inevitable that he will have to guard one thing that i've been seeing on twitter is people asking well should you pay such a consequence for something stupid you've done and you're possibly always seem to hear about this i guess if you're involved in something like dressing up in these kinds of costumes you would assume your political career is over but it you know it's not it's a tricky issue and it goes to show that no matter what you say and when you say it no matter how old it is it still can hurt a lot of people to finally when we've watching for the full hour on that thank you jared raid thanks for telling us. well some sports news now and i'm going to sleep of saka of his new coach started with high hopes but his first matched ended in disappointment thomas dole and his team suffered a three nil loss at home to a leipzig captain really or bomb scored twice for the bulls after their fourth loss

in a row on a stay at the very end of the table khatam have been named football champions of asia for the first time ever after they beat japan three one in the asia cup final fans back in the qatari capital doha celebrated long into the night the team won each of their seven games of the tournament scoring nineteen goals and conceding just once in a sparkling performance the triumph is a boost to football in the country which will host the next world cup in twenty twenty two. but don't forget you can always get day w. news on the go just download our app from google play off from the apple store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as a push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the date of the app to send us your photos and videos you're watching datable new news coming up after

a short break world stories of the week and reports i'm rebecca written thanks very much fortune. to. pay this enough. passport for the game music sounded like thirty years ago.