good. this is news live from berlin rallies have been taking place across venezuela both for and against the country's embattled president nicolas maduro. opponents are calling on him to resign and call fresh elections and a high ranking venezuelan general denounces material and defects to the opposition we'll go live to caracas also coming up. russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington's lead in suspending of landmark nuclear arms control passed from the experts warn of

a new arms race for the. next vice or welcome to the program. tens of thousands of protesters are taking part in rival rallies across venezuela both for and against president nicolas maduro the self declared interim president. joint supporters in the capital caracas he told protesters that change in venezuela is very close and his supporters are calling for fresh presidential elections to be held in the country elsewhere the duros backers held rallies marking twenty years since the rise to power of the lake leader hugo chavez addressed the rally and suggested holding congressional elections earlier than planned. earlier today a high ranking air force general declared allegiance to opposition leader it's

a major victory for glide zero who has been working hard to persuade venezuela's armed forces to a breath abandon president nicolas maduro let's hear a bit of what he had to say. i'm addressing you today to say that i reject the illegitimate and dictatorial authority of mr nicolas maduro and except. as the president in charge of the boulevard in republic of been a swale and. ninety percent of the armed forces opposed the dictator and support the venezuelan people let's go straight down to the venezuelan capital caracas where correspondent oscar shrinker is standing by for us and oscar can you tell us a bit more about this general statement could this be the beginning of the end for president maduro. well that's what many opposition thanks so he can't this will be the domino effect on the armed forces he cares if there are serious allegations that is general in the aviation division sense including that ninety percent of the

military is against the dictatorship of nicolas maduro as he said now that commander in chief of the aviation department has said that this general has absolutely no leadership within. or has any leadership in the aviation department but it is obvious that he is one of the leading generals can plan if occasion with the aviation so it definitely puts a question mark on the that loyalty that that might who are out of government the government is saying that they have from the military in fact today's slogan for them is no no more traitors and all to loyalty so we're seeing some of that in the demonstrations in favor of my will today but woodrow seemed to give up a little ground and proposing to hold congressional not presidential elections earlier than planned is that enough to satisfy his critics absolutely no not his

critics are in the congress and holding congressional elections there is an attack a frontal attack against that. power that is the only one that's being recognized as democratic internationally so in fact this put it in bold and. it has a congressman here in venezuela against michael don't not favor don at all you are out today with the protesters what were you hearing from them. well i was with the opposition protesters today and a lot of them were very hopeful that this is the beginning of the end of what they say is a battle of twenty years of protest against this revolution and many of them came from a bunch of these small and have turned their backs on motherhood oh they are saying a lot of them were saying that they cannot find any medicines that food is very expensive that they cannot find

a lot of the things that they could find before and that's why they were protesting today in order to ask the government to allow this humanitarian aid to enter the country ok. in caracas thanks for that and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in the united states democrat governor ralph northam has again refused to resign from office nor some says he was not the person who appeared in a racist photo in his one nine hundred eighty four medical school yearbook northam is facing massive pressure to resign from politicians across the board saluting top democratic presidential candidate. the central african republic has reached a peace deal with fourteen armed groups after several days of talks the first ever direct dialogue between the parties was aimed at ending years of conflict that has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. russia has

pulled out of a key nuclear arms control treaty one day after the u.s. did the same russian russian president vladimir putin also announced moscow would begin developing new weapons systems and ordered his ministers not to initiate any new disarmament talks with washington. russia's response came quickly president vladimir putin said he was simply doing what the americans did the day before halting its involvement in the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i and if you can keep it you know our american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we are also suspending our participation but. we will wait until our partners have mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic and you know. the u.s. decision ended months of speculation the president on the trump hinted at a pullout in october last year secretary of state mark pump a zero finally announced the move on friday. if russia does not return to full

verifiable compliance with the treaty within the six month period by verifiably destroying its i have violated missiles their launchers and associated equipment the treaty will terminate this is the weapon that the u.s. is talking about the russian built s s c eight a missile system washington and many experts believe has a range of more than five hundred kilometers which would mean it's in violation of the i.n.f. treaty the kremlin insists it is not violated the agreement and claims that u.s. and people listed missile interceptors being deployed in eastern europe could be violating the terms of the treaty. russia's tit for tat response shift the blame for the end of the i.n.f. treaty to the u.s. and even though flooding there putin says russia is ready to talk it's clear that the threat of a new arms race is real and some here in moscow are certainly concerned about that prospect. it worries me a lot i'm scared to could be

a second cold war like the one in the soviet union. that flight time is only something like ten to fifteen minutes then we wiped out and they're wiped out and what for yeah the most the the i think it's really bad when countries only think of themselves and don't think about the whole world to superpowers should sit down and agree on something this is in the go but it's moscow says it will now work on a range of new high tech weapons sparking concern in russia and in many european countries about the possibility of a new arms race for more on this we're joined now from moscow by defense analyst pavel felgenhauer mr felgenhauer now the treaty appears to be officially dead in moscow is saying it will work on a range of new types of what weapons what can we expect. oh russia has been actually mean bit building new weapons for some time at least and since the war with georgia no eight when russia began

a massive free armament program so right now it's not so much new weapons they have been developed in are being developed it's a big campaign began in the booth and began last march to promote these letters and for the west to change its policy stores right chad because russia is so strong and so powerful in times old those very very deadly weapons so the kremlin strategic aid is to get the west of washington namely here to change its policy how so. well the russian act to do has meaning for a long time that they are the west should recognize russia as an equal i mean not so much here in the west of the united states recognize russia as an equal and europe should recognize russian military dominance and act accordingly to

that and so russia has not being changing that policy much at all and it believes and puts in that i please the leagues and you know maintenance like maybe wrongly that russia has a rig achieve military superiority that it is ready one of the arms race and that the west should recognize that and take russian well but russia wants and give russia what russia believes is due a dominance of least in the eastern parts of the continent but we were just listening to president putin pst speak and he said he would wait until quoting him as partners had maturity and i have to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue what's the point of adopting what sounds like a really just disrespectful tone in addressing washington. well back to you mr adams from the your understanding in the kremlin you know belief in that has been promoted by the russian generals russia through this program through classes where

at least ten years of rearmament has achieved military superiority and that's a fact and the west should recognize that fact and made political concessions stop the sanctions recognized granny nice person you're crazy and remove forces from the baltics from oh and then there's a long list of what russia wants ok defense analyst pavel felgenhauer in moscow thank you for those insights. it is a crucial weekend in the bundesliga title race with challengers byron and dortmund both facing tough away battles league leaders dortmund went in front in frankfurt but failed to get a second goal and ended up with a one all draw fortunately for dortmund by a munich slip up was even worse they took the lead in liver condition but were overwhelmed in the second half later cusins lucas

a lhari zero scored his side's third goal in a memorable home victory against the champions let's take a look at all of the results so far from the bundesliga games this weekend there are the dortmund and byron's course elsewhere will spur the berlin one to know a way to shall come off and hyman dusseldorf share the points and so did durham burke and braman in the friday game rb leipzig one three nail it had over while on sunday mind struggled to oxford and stuttgart face freiburg. from football in europe to football in the u.s. one of the most watched annual sports events in the world is kicking off to morrow and atlanta georgia americans will know of course i'm talking about the super bowl the l.a. rams are taking on the new england patriots the patriots star quarterback tom brady is going for a sixth and 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 it out i sat on me like. i think they were like yes just like me. i think oh man i'm so sick of the patriots but mainly because they beat us two years ago said quote i would never get 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 their very being super bowl championship. but others can't help but return to a familiar theme i'm looking for. tom brady to be upset and looking for disappointment in the face. to get reaction 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. and i think people do get kind of sick of them and you know what people in new england people who play with pagers we love a sick super bowl for brady will deacon 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. they're usually giving sermons on the weekend but right now in poland priests are. pieced taking part in the annual john paul the second ski race clergymen from around the country traveled to what we swapped to participate many of them took on the eight hundred meters slalom in their classics as the bible has a small was the gate and narrow was the path the point here was not salvation twenty years it has been to honor the first ever polish pope an avid skier and so.

you're watching news don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site it's t w dot com the next vice or thanks for joining. how about taking a few friends who could even take a chance on love. don't expect happy endings. the church. nixon critic continues. to. really know their stuff.