the bold. claim. the be. played. this is d w news live from berlin and venezuela's rival leaders for what could become a long political standoff both sides held mass rallies across the country president nicolas maduro proposing early parliamentary elections and self declared interim president one white dope calling for protests to continue until mid to low goes. also coming up making the laundry in the spec a stand and testing the boundaries in a deeply conservative country g.w.

met with the enterprising woman behind a trailblazing company. and in the book just let you go frank for a telecommuters door close to a draw in a spectacular game. thanks for joining us i'm marion evans dean. tens of thousands of venezuelans have attended rival rallies in a political stand off with no resolution in sight parliamentary leader and self declared interim president one of wide so called us supporters to stay in the streets until sitting president nicolas maduro steps down but majority still enjoys strong support from his base which celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their coming to power i wonder why those message to supporters is that change is around the corner he and his backers are demanding fresh presidential elections i some who

came out to support the opposition leader say even basic survival has become a struggle i went on want to see more and more to him it's very difficult and getting worse all the time but since november the situation's been out of control i can't get hold of my blood pressure medication anywhere and it used to be the cheapest on the market but now we can't get hold of even the most basic painkillers . glider has garnered international backing for his claim to be acting president in israel a sitting president my daughter has a key source of support in venezuela's military leaders but in a surprise move the high ranking commander in the air force threw his support behind go i dove via twitter on saturday. i'm addressing you today to let you know that i reject the illegitimate and dictatorial authority of mr nicolas maduro

ninety percent of the armed forces oppose the dictator and support the venezuelan people in this way. but manure as baucus also held rallies marking twenty years since the rise to power of late leader chavez madhura addressed the rally and suggested holding congressional elections earlier than planned but he remained defiant you know that in a sign of anything going on the opposition are tricking people in venezuela saying they're in government and that the entire country and the armed forces obey them true. every trickery and more trickery moving not during. the crisis has split not only venezuela itself but with washington and the european parliament backing who i do and russia and china supporting my daughter the spirit goes fabio on the south american nation. well for more on this story i'm joined in the studio by eduardo mendez from d.w. latin america lardo good to see you so president has now offered to hold congressional elections earlier than planned is this going to satisfy his critics

absolutely not his critics to me he's a mule a thing the more chrissy what they're asking for as i knew he liked to his presidency and this is going to take the last piece of democratic institutions as a parliament and so i think it's. kind of faking it's running out of time because he has pressure from the e.u. and the us to go so strong a strong opponent here and the us trying to speak with one was enough to make them it's running out today. where we have to see if you have speaks with one voice the pressure is really strong and this was what he offers yesterday is absolutely not so the first steps for thirds of anyone all right so the e.u. has indicated its support for the opposition leader also much of the west has and yet it's important to mention it majority does have his own international backers russia and china but also has a lot of support from the military. and yes yesterday we heard the venezuelan air

force general declaring support for a quiet dose so what's going to happen is a majority about to lose this key support for the military is playing a poker game he still has a strong hand on the military top and i just say what we have seen right now is a high command but he has no troops just one hand on the troops yes one hundred trigger people dying. in the last few weeks. and so the military is still on the mother aside we have to see how long this continues well it seems like there are quite a lot of people at the pro duro rallies so i suppose he does still even have backing from people within venezuela but you know why do people continue to support the duro in light of this horrible economic crisis food shortages as we've been saying medicine shortages why does majoris still have that support well what we've seen in the images in the military participating in so i think when you are to wave

a flag and you of there you have to be there that's what we've seen just a very tricky. and the supporting this is what he received from the legacy of what chavez he did a lot for the poor mother is a perception for all of us well and also for the chinese does the supporters of which i was. here read now is off of control and people who are suffering in the normal you know rich country we're just one of the poorest in the region so toward a what do you think is going to happen next i mean where is this crisis going to be resolved is it going to decide in the streets of caracas or is it going to come through some result of international pressure are we going to see troops maybe being sent from the u.s. . it's sort of a swollen spring what we're seeing now with people you saw on the streets they're going really out and responding to the cause of one way though. there is the threat

of troops or covering the way we don't talk obviously for a civil war i think we have two key is as we heard before also in the report is the military how will the behave and we will receive a. humanitarian aid to the border we have to see how this military attacks and that would be the key issue of the military is one this is a speck to our right and water mendis from d.w. left america's desk thank you so much for your insights. all right let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news around the world tens of thousands of people rallied across serbia for the ninth week in a row to protest against president oleksandr who church there demanding free elections and an end to his stranglehold on the media who has rejected opposition claims but suggested that he could call an early election in the united states democrat governor ralph northam has refused to resign from office nor them says he was not one of the people who appeared in

a racist photo in his nine hundred eighty four medical school yearbook well that statement contradicts what moore them said friday when he apologized for appearing in the photo. and yet more footage has emerged of last week's deadly dam collapse in brazil the death toll from the disaster at a mining operation has now risen to one hundred twenty one people to two hundred twenty six others are listed as missing authorities fear that toxic levels of iron oxide may have polluted water supplies. russia has pulled out of a key cold war era nuclear arms control treaty one day after the united states did russian president vladimir putin also announced moscow would begin developing a new weapons systems he's 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 am now. because

people you know 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 a mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic you know russia's tit for tat response shifts the blame for the end of the i.n.f. treaty to the u.s. and even though vladimir 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 that 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 we're for. the most brutal i think it's really bad when countries only think of themselves and don't think about the whole world the two superpowers should sit

down and agree on something. in the go but he's moscow says it will now work on a range of new high tech weapons sparking concern in moscow and in many european countries about the possibility of a new arms race to his best and a remote central asian country is starting to open up after years of oppression and authoritarian rule. you're a shadow went to the capital tashkent to meet a woman who started a business that's challenging old taboos. there's a revolution happening in this small workshop in news pakistan a fashion revolution in this former communist country where islam is the dominant religion these women are producing longer a day. and this is the leader of the revolution. for a year now she's been creating new designs for women's underwear in the capital touched can't. it's a daring venture. there's more things in the idea even the production of lingerie

in a spec a stand is publicly criticized that way going so far as to advertise our products it's breaking a lot of to be in our culture well there's nothing bad about this issue i'm just selling my collection in the. come all the only ever used to work for a textile company one day she realized no one makes lingerie in central asia as most populous nation so she founded her own mini brand urban style. and that's when the challenges began the equipment dematerialize needed to make a laundry can't be found in his biggest. believe they had to order everything from abroad. is genius work but many here find immoral. in the beginning male customers avoided us like they were hesitant to enter the store but that slowly changing now they come in and no longer embarrassed when they see and touch. all the ever has more than fifty different styles in her range but it's

a tough business the market is filled with much cheaper products from other countries especially china that many customers prefer traditional materials like cotton but never says she enjoys experimenting with different materials. people often don't understand me all my goals and my energy but i just get on with it. was pakistan has long been under authoritarian rule however in the last two years did. in opening up to the outside world come alive you have the hopes that her work will help her country to become even more open and more tolerant. and suffer now infamous legal leaders versa dortmund and drop points away from home to frankfurt and that means their long when illustrate in frankfurt continues. it's a long time since dortmund won in frankfurt the only player still around from that

last victory there five and a half years ago is maka royce. frankfurt smelled blood and started the game on the front foot that it coasted tested dortmund keeper roman bookie early on. but the visitors worked their way into the match and broke the deadlock through royce. the captain's thirteenth goal of the season out much to rafael guerrero's assist. and royce almost doubled his tally but couldn't find the net with either of two chances over the course of three minutes. those misses almost proved to be costly straight to white and say rage bundled his way into the box but the croatian forward was also foiled by booking the less said about philip cost of his follow up effort the better grade which went close again when he said it at the bar but when dortmund failed to clear the ball they were punished to costa cross for luke a yellow which to make it one all in the thirty six minutes. the serbian

forwards magnificent form continues frankfurt's top score and now has fourteen goals in this campaign. the second half was low on chances the closest thing the game got to a winning goal was a free kick from dortmund pack a well kept their one the final score. goal was from if you're just not up on the to me it felt like easily the toughest game of the season. trying to. i have an unbelievable amount of power going forward from what a woman she should follow in the form of once again dormant files so when in frankfurt's and drop two points in the title rice. all right let's take a quick look now at the results so far from the bundesliga games this weekend there's the dortmund score labor crews and beat by in munich three one elsewhere bowls for beat hatta in berlin one two nil away to shock a often himon disallowed or share the points and so did nuremberg and braman in the

friday game are united six one three nil at hanover while today minds travelled socks and stuttgart. you're up to date now on t w news stay tuned for shift that's coming up next after a short break and marion and steve are all of us in for lent thanks for watching. once upon a time there was a young girl with a burning ambition. to become a conductor. i was very curious child and very excited and in love with music i knew.