this is a deja vue news live from berlin pope francis begins and historic trip to the united arab emirates it's the first ever visit by a pope to the arabian peninsula the pontiff hopes to improve christian muslim relations officials of both face freedom and here. also coming up donald trump warns that sending the military into venezuela is an option for him his comments come as the standoff there continues and there is no end in sight to the deepening political crisis on saturday venezuela's rival leaders held separate rallies also

coming up. in the art mash up at the royal academy a controversial exhibition mixes an american video artist and the renaissance master michelangelo will find out if that works. on next peiser welcome to the program. pope francis has arrived in abu dabi it's the first time a pope has ever visited the muslim majority kingdom of the united arab emirates during his two day visit he is due to meet leading muslim clerics and hold an open air mass the historic papal trip is aimed at turning a page in christian muslim relations in the region. for many of the one point five million catholics in the united arab emirates it's the stuff of dreams the idea of

the pope visiting the arabian peninsula the birthplace of islam was unthinkable a few years ago pope francis was invited by abu dhabi's rulers local parish priest to try and hold santa says the pontiff wants to foster tolerance and promote a moderate brand of islam. it's definitely is sick he wants to build bridges he wants to say look it's lamas changing it can change and it also wants to change . the emirates have declared twenty nineteen is the year of tolerance and there's a lot of symbolism in the invitation. i'm sure. it's that asian should have been through the ages not on of the. day which though should be but this is the sort of visit pope francis will be in the amerge for three days he's expected to address a series of issues including the lack of legal rights for foreign workers but the

fact that pope will lead a catholic service on the islamic and arabian peninsula is a sensation in itself. here in the studio to shed a little light on this is martin religious affairs correspondent ok the pope is going there he's got some pastoral duties obviously as the head of the catholic church any political objectives yeah most clearly in they actually had been openly stated so the two main aims of history is to strengthen the position of the christian community in the middle east particularly in the area of the gulf which are in many of these caves in very very precarious situations and they you know under constant pressure for the better part of the last twenty years with serious reductions in the population and the second one is to actually most likely to have a behind this intervention on the question of yemen which is really kind of the hot topic and it's one that the pope has made himself very clear about. concerning his interest in actually trying to cement a kind of. you know it's not very clear what exactly the mic and its mood be but as

a matter of fact it's something that the vatican has been doing in different conflict targets around the world so use some kind of moral suasion to try to change their minds and no i think that pretty much real politics in full diplomatic sort of the blowing and i mean there are some very powerful diplomatic operators working within the vatican and that word sort of very visible are the results of their work was very visible in the cuban american relations and the said was reconstituting the body and was central to that process and just helping the u.s. from invading syria which in which about it was also involved it is quite clearly the case that here though i think it's also going to be deploying its. it's diplomatic or in order to be able to try to achieve some sort of conversation and i suppose for it to be successful it's better to be private and public is certainly by and large i mean the vatican has been to operate away from the spotlight i mean we usually find out that something has happened many months afterwards and that of course also talks to sort of the efficiency or the fact of mess of this kind of

approach and just a quick final question about the sort of the business of the church i guess we can expect the pope to be putting some pressure or formulating some questions to his hosts so that it's easier to build churches in the usa i mean yes we did that you a supposed to saudi arabia and other places in the region christians are actually allowed to pray i mean us are jews allowed to pray and allowed to worship openly the question is really the pope talking also to saudi arabia and to other powers in the region in which the life of christians disconcerting more difficult so i think in a way he's talking even in the united arab emirates but he's really projecting the message the entire arab world ok thank you very much heat of the use martin back at the laugh. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in poland a new center left party called spring has been launched its members want to

challenge the country's governing right wing party ahead of upcoming domestic and european elections the leader of the new party is robert yet draw he made headlines in two thousand and eleven by becoming the first openly gay m.p. in conservative poland. and queensland australia is bracing for yet more rain is record breaking flooding is set to continue once in a century rains have devastated the city of townsville and forced authorities to open the floodgates of a nearby dam australia recorded its hottest ever month this january as climate change brings more extreme weather across the country. and the people of el salvador are electing a new president four candidates are promising to stamp out corruption and gang violence polls put san salvador mayor to caylee in the lead but he'll need more than fifty percent of the vote to avoid a runoff. venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he will not

comply with an international ultimatum to call presidential elections in the coming hours eight european countries including germany france and britain earlier said they would officially recognize self declared interim president. if the duro failed to act. in its entirety is hashed underspent to. us. in the whole of this feel a little piece of joy to go i do as president and i can participate in this is the most seem to have been playing a german report for you which is natural since for torture bella let's talk to our caracas correspondent this is an interview i conducted with him earlier in the day oscar schleicher i asked him about what kind of reaction we can expect from european states since they have set a deadline on sunday for president maduro to agree to hold fresh presidential elections and he has now said he's rejecting that deadline well we can extract you can bet on the rest of his european countries that said that eight days ago won't

follow suit and recognize the legitimate claim why don't have to the president forty two friends were of the institution now of the european parliament already recognized that. you could not figure out you know mr something but the consensus was not to do it did not when the kids were young lection fairly last night and he thought it would give them that leader if you go along with our forces and with the support of the military there's not much you will be able to do outside russia cuba and maybe china on an international one that was the w.'s oscars flanker speaking to us earlier from caracas. no iran is celebrating forty years of what it calls the islamic revolution when the shah of iran was toppled and replaced by an islamic government as part of the celebrations the islamic republic has been showing off its arsenal of ballistic missiles tehran has been developing rockets with increasingly long ranges and has now even come up with one that could reach as far

as the territory of iran's arch rival in the middle east israel. it was a display put on by the your thirty's to showcase iranian made military hardware including drones and medium to long range ballistic missiles. some reports say public interest in the arms show has been muted but one visitor himself a war veteran seemed fired up. before that so often the enemy knows as the supremes leader said the era of hit and run is over if they hit us they will be hit back they have already seen this. that enemy is iran's arch foe in the region israel iranian state television showed footage of missile tests somewhere in the desert fueling fears iran now has the capability to strike the jewish state from its own soil israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu sent out

a defiant signal to its enemy usually a message i have a clear message to the tyrants in tehran we know what you are doing and we know where you are doing it for we will continue to act against iran with all tools at our disposal in order to ensure israel's security and future. but with iran in the grip of an economic crisis as the reimpose u.s. sanctions on the country begin to bite ordinary iranians may have more pressing issues on their minds than a show of military prowess. life death rebirth that's the title of a controversial new exhibition at the royal academy of arts in london it features works by us video artist bill of viola and renaissance master michelangelo two artists separated by four and a half centuries our reporter went there to find out if video kills the renaissance star. and how it's mash up at the royal academy of dramatic video will be

a let me in trying heavyweight champion of the art world michelangelo. partly it's not a face off. when the artist but rather an exploration of common themes. life death and rebirth we all often makes large scale meditative works he's aim is to awaken the soul will be a longtime collaborator and life partner a pair of is excited that the project has finally reached fruition. this is really thrilling i mean it's just i get goosebumps also seeing. the show kind of gradually being born and. you know these rooms have nothing in them until you turn them on it's kind of overwhelming and it can bring you to t. is. this is certainly true of viola's notes triptych featuring the artist's only

dying mother and the bloody joy of. the work comes face to face with michelangelo's famous today tonto marple really a close encounter between bill viola and the michelangelo drawings in the royal collection planted the seeds of this unusual show. it always struck me that there were very close parallels between the content and the spiritual content of michelangelo's drawings and the themes that run throughout bill's work and bill's tremendously responsive to these works in a moment i conceived the idea of the juxtaposition of his works with make landfall astroids. exiting the show one or other feel is most visceral works towers above you it could be heaven. or it could be hell which is pretty much what the critics thought too.

according to reports in britain in bed. the gators have found the wreckage of the plane which crashed with football player. and pilot david it's an on board a privately funded search for the plane began earlier on sunday focusing on the area where the aircraft last made radio contact north of the island of guernsey sela was on his way to join up with his new club cardiff city when the plane went missing. cutters victoria's asian cup football team returned home to a rapturous welcome greeted by hundreds of thousands of fans the team drove on a specially decorated open top bus to meet the huge numbers of people who had waited patiently for them to arrive the long crawl into doha kick started another night of wild celebrations in the qatari capital since friday's three one victory over japan the partying has barely stopped it was cutter's first ever asian cup

triumph. and coming up after the break we'll have all the action from sunday's mundus league games including plenty of goals from match against. berg had gone ten games without a win before this weekend we'll find out if they turn their fortunes around and world cup winner is in the studio to discuss all the weekend's big issues. don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the app to send photos and videos of news events in your part of the world you're up to date on d w news up next world stories of the week in it reports on nick spicer in berlin and the entire team thanks for watching.

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