this is deja vu news night from target a high ranking venezuelan general denounces president nicolas maduro and effects to the opposition on twitter francisca younis of the air force declared allegiance to self-appointed interim president won. in cities across the country mass protests are on the way to go live to caracas also coming up. russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington's lead in suspending a landmark nuclear arms control pact could this be the start of

a new arms race. i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program in venezuela a high ranking air force general has declared allegiance to opposition leader. general francisco yana has released a video statement via twitter saying he recognized as interim head of state it's a major victory for quite a who has been working hard to persuade them this way as armed forces to abandon president nicolas maduro let's hear a bit of 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 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 are rallying for fresh demonstrations in the capital caracas and elsewhere in the country these images show streets in caracas crowded with protesters coming out to support one why don't they want to row to call fresh elections has gone an international backing for his claim to be acting president much of madeira support comes from venezuela's military leaders and that's why general younis is backing is seen as a major development rival demonstrations in favor of manure also taking place. and joining me now from caracas is phil gumps another political analyst for the international crisis group so a venezuelan f one general has just declared his support for. it is the beginning of the end for president maduro. it's hard to say you've won one general doesn't

like regime change of course this particular general very senior directors to to change it planning for the air force but not somebody into. any actual truth or hardware so it remains to be seen whether that will be the trigger for defections. and how likely is maturer to react to this. well i you know today it's going to be dominated by radical demonstrations on the streets of opposition as you were saying if you want to put such huge numbers of people of the streets right now i think that's going to dominate the view so the rest are a perfect reflection that everybody's up here a great deal for about which. and even the jury's alstad how would you support his take it. that's a different question there are many armed civilians not just the armed forces because here we have many armed civilians who are loyal to the regime and who may

be deployed being deployed on many occasions in the car to attack demonstrations to take a very populated if there's an actual change of government many of them of those who are going to grab some of the by exist. and that these protests have been violent in the past and what is the feeling there are people worried that it's going to get out of control today. generally speaking in my experience whether it's huge numbers of people on the streets the violence is relatively limited. the attacks that i'm talking about for example by civilians on demonstrators tend to happen when there are smaller numbers i think the past in two thousand and seventeen for example but we did see huge demonstrations that did that to be because the opposition was attempting to march on the west and the value of caracas which is where the presidential palaces in the national guard who leads could could live with us but at the moment. the prospect only possible because the

rallies could turn into a box on the palace to. publicly of all. this crisis is happening as venezuela or is is this political crisis is happening as there's also a crippled economy and massive food shortages what is the situation like there for people in venezuela. well over three million people who fled the country for the purpose of the population because of hunger because they are corrupt. it's not just progress to measure the collapse of the two per person who are rich or. poor poor or brown sure. everything is for the party not for people who are three people didn't get the work of perth you could make it out to survive those people are fifty three. so gunson a political analyst for the international crisis group in caracas thank you russia

has pulled out of a key nuclear arms 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 has ordered his ministers not to initiate any new disarmament talks with washington here's more of what president putin had to say american people you know our american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we're 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 and you know. putin was responding to the u.s. decision to pull out of the cold war era i.n.f. treaty secretary of state might compel said washington was suspending its compliance because moscow and been breaching the arms control agreement the us says its weapons like the s s c a cruise missiles with a range of more than five hundred kilometers that show russia has violated the

treaty. over the latest let's bring 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.m.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 are 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 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 moves and by the mere putin seems to know that today he said that a costly arms race is certainly not something that russia is interested in while the world keeping a close eye on this escalation emily 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 vest protesters this is the twelve consecutive we can the protesters have taken to the streets on friday of course with the police could continue to use rubber bullets against rioters despite a public outcry. monsoon rains have caused severe flooding in northeastern australia records has been broken in the city of townsville which is saying over a year's rainfall in a matter of just days the study has also been experiencing record heat waves heat waves. well in the united states virginia governor ralph northam is facing calls to resign after a racist picture from his medical school yearbook surfaced so far he's resisted across party pressure to go. to young medical students posing for the yearbook photo one is in black face the other as a kook klux klansmen one of them is

a young ralph northam now the governor of virginia and a member of the democrat party. although he wouldn't say which caused him he was in he swiftly apologized for. that photo and the racist and offensive attitudes that represent 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 i cannot change the decisions i made nor can i under the harm my behavior calls then and today but i accept responsibility for my past actions and i'm ready to do the hard work of regaining your trust politicians of all stripes are outraged and many a pressing for his resignation including democratic presidential hopeful julian castro who said that northam spectator as

a student was racist and unconscionable. despite the pressure northam is so far resisting calls to go. it's a crucial weekend in the bundesliga title race with challenges by and munich and dortmund both facing tough away battles league latest dortmund went in front in frankfurt but failed to get a second goal and ended up with a one all draw fortunately for dortmund behind munich slip up was even worse i took the lead in leave it to some but were overwhelmed in the second half later cousens lucas ilario scored his side's third goal goal in a memorable home game victory against the champions. it's the most watched annual annual sports event in the world and is happening tomorrow in the u.s. city of atlanta georgia i'm talking about the super bowl the l.a. rams take home the new england patriots in america's football american football's

showcase game the patriots stop quarterback tom brady is going for a sixth n.f.l. championship title but a lot of fans are getting tired of seeing his team in the game seemingly year after year. tom brady and the new england patriots are gunning for their sixth super bowl but it seems not all of the u.s. is behind them in georgia the memory is still painfully fresh of the atlanta falcons super bowl defeat two years ago at the hands of brady and co we have a copy that i sat on like. i think how they're like yes doesn't like me. i hate it man i'm so sick of the pictures but mainly because they beat us two years ago so good i was firing it over in l.a. most rams fans are content to focus on their own team's chances. the rams the rams are going to win they're bringing bring super bowl championships. but others can't

help but return to a familiar theme or i'm looking for. tom brady to be upset and looking for disappointment in his face. to get reactions shot where you know he's defeated meanwhile one of brady's former teammates had a message for america's pig sick pigskin fans hater. but i think people do get kind of sick of them and you know what the point of being one of the people who plays the patriots we love a six super bowl for brady will deepen new england's love affair with its adopted son but for everyone else in the u.s. this weekend there seems to be only one month for the rams. ok usually in church giving sermons at the weekends but right now in poland priests are on paste participating in the annual john paul the second skiing competition clergymen from around the country traveled to weasel out to take in the take hartman torment of many of them to me eight hundred meter race we're in their cassocks event which

is the been going for more than twenty years is named after the polish i was an avid skier itself. you're watching news more coming at the top of the. thanks for joining me. now eighty percent of americans at some point will experience hardship that. closely. police. still. trying to get.