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thousands more troops to the border with mexico donald trump saying that he is stopping inundation of illegal immigrants critics call it a political stopped our correspondent tries to find out the truth by going on patrol with a border czar and pope francis begins a historic trip to the united arab emirates it is the first ever capital visit to the abbreviated peninsula the pontiff says that he hopes to write a new page of history affiliations between christians and muslims plus the records tell bowl on super bowl sunday the new england patriots defeat the los angeles rams to win the american football's biggest prize for the sixth time will take you to the action. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the crisis in venezuela has deepened to.

overnight president nicolas maduro warning donald trump that he risks quote sustaining or saving his hands rather in blood if he sends troops into the country and could face a repeat of vietnam speaking with spanish television but total also rejected an e.u. deadline to call it snap presidential election but in just the last hour france says that it believes self declared interim president one also has the authority to call for a new poll more on that in just a moment but first this report. the mounting international pressure on israel as embattled president remains defiant. in a t.v. interview nicolas maduro rejected an ultimatum by european countries to cool elections by international politics can't be based on ultimatum that was the era of empires and colonies. his response clears the way for e.u.

nations including germany and france to recognize his rival. as interim president. over the weekend many thousands across venezuela followed glyde those call to protest. the police backed off from one anti-government rally a possible sign of solidarity from security forces. venezuela is wracked by economic crisis medicines electricity and even food are in short supply. the u.s. has pledged to support by sending humanitarian aid president donald trump even left open the possibility of providing military backing in your scenario which is all options all is all options are on the. but madeira retains powerful

allies russia china and his country's military. with the crisis escalating he appeared on state t.v. visiting an army base an apparent attempt to project strength let's get more now we're joined by our brussels correspondent barbara visa with the view from europe and barbara i'd like to just begin with this news just coming in recently that we've heard from the french foreign minister saying that the opposition leader can legitimately call new elections europe is really turning up the pressure isn't it. yes but also it does have to act now because it did the said multum ultimatum to president maduro just a week ago and said ok we give you eight days if you sort of call free fair and internationally supervised elections within that time we'll sit and wait he didn't do it t. as we saw he is stays defiant and now the europeans have to sort of come true and

sort of act according to their words so france is going into the diplomatic lead here and we have to watch that the language is fairly careful because what the europeans are doing here they discussed this extensively last three during that meeting in the remaining capital bucharest what the europeans are doing here is a supporting grind do as needs as the person who can now bring about democratic evolution and development who can now bring about free fair and of course internationally supervised elections because they emphasize of course it's the people often as well who have to sort of figure out and decide upon their own future they don't want to force the rejean change from the outside they don't want to get drawn into that and i see the people on the ground the people in the country they have to make up their minds and then to figure it out and i mean elections those are just one possible path but i mean ultimately other than that what are the

next moves on going to spell it because they're having to deal also with the hints of possible military action by the united states. there's going to be a first meeting in montevideo uruguay next thursday on a ministerial level so on the highest possible level between they're letting american partners in the so-called contact group of that's a number of the neighboring countries and they're going to meet and try to defuse some of the tension what could be done which diplomatic channels are still existing in to sort of the ruling circles in venezuela is there anybody who can talk to the military what support can glide to be given from the outside without really sort of being too heavy handed i mean all those other questions they don't want to force of the conflict and of course particularly did don't want to be drawn into a proxy conflict between the united states only on one side and russia and china of

course on the other side that is sort of not their aim and they're still sort of like walking on eggshells trying very carefully so to defuse some of the tension that is no building up in the country barbara just briefly i mean we've heard about the dire conditions on the ground for many a spell and citizens talk with us about humanitarian aid getting to the country and what the plans are there. the e.u. has emphasized the first thing it wanted to do was bring in humanitarian aid into the country and now the united states have offered and of course madeira has sort of rejected that they hope that by sort of having a more not neutral role but playing a much more careful game that they might be actually be able to get aid into the country medicines and for us that for instance they need flood permits for that and so far we don't know whether they could even lend in venezuela barbara's barbara visa joining us there from brussels with the european view as the bloc ups the

pressure on nicholas schmidle of venezuela thanks barbara. well now we head to the united states where the pentagon says that it is spending additional troops or sending them rather to the border with mexico the move comes two days after president donald trump doubled down on his call for a wall to boost border security opponents described the mission as a political stunt designed to create the illusion of a crisis in our correspondent alexander phenomena travel to arizona to speak with people living up the border and the ones already guarding it. patrolling the u.s. mexican border here in arizona it stretches for more than six hundred kilometers agent down in the hernandez takes us to a remote part of a protected by an anti vehicle beriah he says what's happening at the border is a crisis like he's never seen before there are still a lot of people that are trying to cross the border illegally that do not want to

be caught but now we have added element and dynamic of having family units from central america there giving themselves up the border patrol which brings in humanitarian crisis images recently captured by a mobile through billions you need show families crawling under a small fence into the u.s. even though the total number of our preventions along the border has dropped over the last two decades the age and say their job is no more difficult than ever we're in the city of nogales agent hernandez shows us the existing border fence here only recently has concertino wire been installed on top of its. we know that there is certainly a possibility that people can still come over or drop of a come over and recognize that but it's definitely a tool that works effectively and in this particular area has completely changed the landscape for more security less illegal crossings that sounds like an argument for presidents drum's border wall but it wasn't worth shutting down the government

over the border patrol agents told us they don't talk politics they're here to do their job regardless of what's going on in washington however they seemed happy and relieved that a deal has been reached at least temporarily we opened the government neither the shutdown nor trams plans for a border wall have been popular in downtown dallas we need each other says the city's mayor democrat to regard the economy as on both sides of the border heavily depend on mutual trade. maybe president needs to sometimes given a little bit and say you know what ok let's find this find a common ground is find something that we can do together but stick to border security and economic development and by national relations with mexico after thirty five days of shutdown the federal workers in our resolve will be finally getting their paychecks but the row over the border wall is still far from over.

let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world bahraini footballer hakim of araby is facing two more months in prison after a thai court denied him bell a former national team player and australian resident is fighting extradition to his native country for allegedly vandalizing a police station al-arabiya fears torture and even death if he is returned to bahrain. and also the door former mayor not chip kelly has easily won the country's presidential election the end to corruption campaigner secured a majority after the first round of voting picking up more votes than his three rivals combined. victory and the two party system that has governed el salvador for three decades. and more than eleven hundred people in queensland australia are fleeing their homes after record breaking flooding the city of townsville has been particularly hard hit with more than a meter of rain falling in just a week the flooding has forced authorities to open the gates of

a nearby down after it swelled swelled above capacity. as pope francis has arrived in august dopy it is the first time that a pope has ever visited the muslim majority kingdom of the united arab emirates he was greeted by abu dhabi's crown prince join his two day visit he is due to meet leading muslim clerics and hold an open air mass now 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 who says the pontiff wants to foster tolerance and promote a moderate brand of islam. it's definitely

a signal that he wants to build bridges he wants to say look it's lomis 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. their relationship. there which 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 the pope will lead a catholic service on the islamic and arabian peninsula is a sensation in itself. so let's get more on this visit we are joined by martin gak religious affairs adolescence this is the first happel visit city of arabian peninsula martin really that is right takes so long yes it's so i mean this is

a pope of many firsts speak will have repeated over and over over and last few years and this is actually the first strip to the area this is an area that was essentially out of the vatican sort of immediate purview because the population of got the legs is actually quite low but it has become actually hotspot a great political importance because much of the power is projected from there are big and because in the journal region got the legs have come christians in general have come under enormous pressure from different conflicts and different governments etc so this has become actually a very important place or a very important focal point for the vatican for at least know about ten years or so i mean he says that he wants a new chapter in fact in christian muslim relations in the region how does he plan on achieving that but i think that to some degree he has been fostering this vatican specially through sir several of its internal institutions has been fostering closer relations with server several muslim organizations sort of around

the region but particularly sort of an interim really just a look at the very same time what is true it said the vatican has had a very powerful and very effective diplomatic machine that has deployed in several conflicts around the world in you know we are seeing of course on the top of the table so to say on our screens we're seeing actually that the page and pageant but you know behind closed doors what we're going to really hear it's months progress is sort of all the conversations and all diet of you know the negotiating let's talk. but one of those conversations that might potentially happen because i mean he has condemned the united arab emirates involvement for example in the conflict in yemen now he's in abu dhabi are we likely to see more pressure put on by the pope well i mean he actually made himself very clear even yesterday at noon during the angeles as he was preparing himself to leave. to the middle east i mean to the united arab emirates he said that basically this was a complete humanitarian catastrophe and without mentioning you know the country by name i mean he clearly said that he was there essentially in

a mission to try to bring beats the thing about this about this in the way that this prophecy has operated international conflicts and has done it by the way very efficiently as they did in cuban american relations us in the syrian front when they actually negotiated essentially the u.s. stopped from from advancing into the country something that we only find out many months later so we have the people in the grown negotiating and then the results are really the first things we see so i don't really expect to hear a great pronouncements over the next two days but i do think that this kind of operations tend to have an effect on global politics a couple of months thereafter and that's when you know that's something top fascinating stuff martin walking us through it as the pope as we mentioned as he is visiting that area of the worlds we appreciate thank you. you're watching news still to come on the program the new england patriots take down the los angeles rams to not shop aig record equalling sixth super bowl ring we'll take you through

the rough and tumble of the game. but first today is world cancer day dedicated to the fight against one of the world's biggest killers in twenty teams the disease claimed an estimated nine point six million lives was wide prevention screening and early detection are the focus of this year's campaign doctors say that millions of cases could have been treated more effectively had they been detected sooner despite advances in medicine nearly half of those diagnosed die of the disease. between thirty and fifty percent of cases could have been prevented entirely well colon cancer is particularly difficult to diagnose because there are many forms of the disease but now so-called bio bags across europe are trying to find new treatments with the help of big data. living human tissue can be crucial in cancer research and this is how it's stored in liquid nitrogen at very low temperatures but it's only

a small part of the biological samples been studied at this bio bank in the austrian city of cuts. we have here more than sixty thousand samples of color encounter which is a hutu number but we have almost everything that you can imagine starting from here . small pieces of a muscle or skin we have everything. surgery patients donate infected tissue cells for research the samples are processed into thin slices and registered in a database placed on slides the samples are scanned by an automatic device. the more the better as this information teaches algorithms to accurately diagnose different types of colon cancer. these slides some more relevant dri such as now that they can be digitized with a high resolution scan nose as we go to see him this makes them crucial and

draining the algorithms can recognize morphological changes. based. dimensionally procedures. and researchers also have access to millions more samples and patient data from other european bio banks thanks to a joint research infrastructure. the hope is that this will help find personalized treatments for each individual patient. and new england patriots have been crowned american football's n.f.l. champions after winning the super bowl in atlanta and joining us now with all the action is next now sports so how did it go down. it went down like a lukewarm cup of tea i would maybe say not something you'd hear the average n.f.l. fan describe a football match like but it was one for the purists rather than the casual fans of which there are many old around the world watching the super bowl of course but it was the lowest scoring final ever thirteen to three was the final score the

patriots win once again that's six title now in just nineteen years and before the game it was built as this game of contrasts a defensive patriots team against a high offense young l.a. rams team with the coaches bill belichick sixty six the oldest of a in a super bowl final and the oldest to win it and his opposite number thirty three just half is age and show him right of the l.a. rams but it fell a bit flat really of defensive masterclass you could say and on the playing field it was very much a case of you know getting those fine margins we had tom brady the stock or the back of the patriots who we can see here winning his sixth ring because he just came the defense of the iran and the young quarterback of the other and just couldn't step up to the case and jared goff that was just one single touchdown in the game sunday michel who we can see here celebrating near the end of the game getting that touchdown but you know the patriots they're not known for being the

most spectacular team to watch it's all hard work you know and able to get the result of the end thirty to three like i said the lowest scoring super bowl so it is important that you know these are the day they are big winners and i mean tom brady we have to you know hats off to him. we describe him as the greatest of all time yeah i mean in american sports there's often this this idea of the goat the graces of all time and he's often been touted as that and he surely has the biggest claim now because even before this he was described by many as the greatest quarterback of all time and now he's got a six super bowl win which makes him the the most for any individual player he was previously tied on five and he's forty one years old and he looks set to go on and i mean it's quite incredible he's older than his opposition coach by eight years and he's the oldest quarterback to play at those place a plane and the oldest to win it and just like his coach bill belichick who like i

said at sixty six is still going strong and this patriots team has this low stock count lots of role players who do their job and you have to credit bill belichick as well because he took a gamble years and years ago on tom brady when no one really expected him to be the superstar quarterback that he became so every individual player in this team knows that job tom brady is the only real notable star along with a handful of other players and off to so many is this still going strong but i mean some of those players they're close to retirement we have to say i mean what does that mean for the team now going forward because they have been the big winners in the past years to move we see that going forward if there's a bit of a shake up here well i mean this was meant to be the sort of big changing of the guard the super bowl many expected the l.a. rams to win this young high powered scene and again the old patriots prevailed tom brady like i said says he wants to continue in his words when i suck i'll retire

well he doesn't suck he's just watching the super bowl again and the owner of the team in the patriots owner bob kraft he said we're not letting you guys retire because there's a couple like you say stars who are very much on the cost their mccourty twins and rob gronkowski who old room and to be retiring but the owners saying not just yet guys we can still win. this thing a few more times so it will be interesting to see we expect a few of these players to announce their is on the scene but tom brady looks set to continue i think the coach bill belichick might retire and that could really be a change for the n.f.l. a seismic change all across the league where the young coaches and the younger teams will be ushered in ok fascinating stuff thank you so much max now they appreciate it. now in german soccer bundesliga strugglers out spur pulled off a big win at home against mines on sunday taking three points in some rather inhospitable weather conditions despite the snow the hosts were in hot form and overwhelms their opposition in large part thanks to a stellar performance from their star striker alford third. yes lehmann made his

debut as assistant coach for alex book the bavarians are hoping the former germany keeper will foster a winning mentality the team certainly began with plenty of confidence and in the eighth minute handball by daniel brzezinski gave them the chance to score from a penalty alfred finn bogus and kept up his one hundred percent record from the spot. and lightning struck twice for alex book in the thirty fourth minute another handball in the box gave them another penalty the referee had to check with the video assistant this time but the decision stood and fin bogus and converted again of course his ninth goal of the season had a head at half time after the break the hosts continued to dominate the game and with less than an hour ago on a counter-attack ended with finn bogus and scoring his third goal it was the

icelandic strike as for the trick. that was more than enough to end alex berg's ten game winless streak the yen's lehmann effect is already in full swing. a lunar new year is just around the corner tomorrow people across asia and all over the world will be celebrating according to the zodiac calendar the year of the dog is making way for the year of you guessed it the pig in south korea there is a museum dedicated to all things that have to do with pigs it's already seeing a spike in the number of visitors have a look. big popularity may be on the rise this year but these potbelly polk is a no strangers to the limelight. they're the star attraction at the itchy on pig museum in south korea. and they're popular with kids and adults alike. my family

came here to visit the pig museum and we hope to have good luck in the new year. as well as patching and feeding there's also an odd gallery displaying thousands of works in the country and the world in the would be considered to be a symbol of wealth and look the year of the pig is coming so people will pay much more attention to pigs the number of visitors this month is about thirty percent higher than the same period last year and is expected to exceed one hundred twenty thousand this year. and this is one that come to say. i did that i never thought pigs could be so small and quick so cute. please pull sign performance proof pretty popular and in this year of the pig is sure to be many more chances to celebrate them.

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