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quarter religious tolerance be heated. and bringing home the bacon amusing museum in south korea braces for a boost as millions of people in asia prepared to usher in the year of the pig. plus in sports records tumbling on super bowl sunday the new england patriots defeat the los angeles rams to draw in american football's biggest prize the six time please take you through the action. owner of all welcome to you i'm on the thought she was good to have your company europe is stepping up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro in the last several e.u. countries including germany the u.k. and france have recognized. opposition leader. as the interim leader of the country

acted in concert ignored a deadline to court a snap election. other nations to stay out of the crisis he warned u.s. president donald trump he would have blood on his hands if he invaded the country. under mounting international pressure. embattled president remains defiant. in a t.v. interview nicolas maduro rejected an ultimatum by european countries to cool elections. international politics. that was the era of empires and. his response clears the way for e.u. nations including germany and france to recognize his rival one quite go as interim president. over the weekend many thousands across venezuela

followed quite 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 the area which is all options . but maduro 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. as

i mentioned germany is one of several european countries recognize the opposition leader and venezuela german chancellor angela merkel announced the move while on a visit to japan discussed on this new presidential elections were not called by yesterday. that is why kwan go i go is the person we expect to initiate an election process as soon as possible. from the idea of. and germany along with several other european countries recognizes him as the legitimate interim president to oversee this task the president. does it so that was german chancellor angela merkel joining me now from brussels is our correspondent there barbara visit so barbara germany is the latest european country to recognize one why though as interim president what is the e.u. hoping to achieve with this move. they're trying to increase the pressure on

president maduro of course to sort of give way when he has shown himself as we have seen again he has shown himself defined and speaks of foreign interventions and he would resist the pressure but europe after watching the disastrous situation in venezuela for weeks and months now decided it had to get off the fence and so now the acknowledgements for one why do the opposition leader are rolling in the latest to come in by twitter who by the way the netherlands the foreign minister of the netherlands so for their countries fools probably join the queue what they want to achieve of course is to sort of foster a peaceful and democratic transition they don't want sort of violent regime change they don't want of course external intervention but they want to help from the inside that the opposition could probably gain

a stronger foothold and their aim is as everybody from president mike wrong to until america's richest hope heard iterate they won free fair and internationally supervised elections the dhamma as we've heard that nicolas mudd doodle has rejected any notion of a fresh election and says he will not succumb to outside pressure how much influence does the e.u. will have in venezuela and what is the use interest in the country. it doesn't have any any direct interest in the country in the way that drugs are for instance through through rosneft the the russian oil company was very strongly in gage invented so in the united states which regard that area as sort of their backyard politically have europe is trying to sort of be a third party that might help to sort of bring science together there will be during the next thursday evening and this week there will be a foreign ministers meeting in montevideo in oregon to talk to some an american

neighbors often and so and try to get them to intervene as through diplomatic channels to get talks going try to sort of course to peaceful speace will steps forward the worse they they want to avoid is being to be drawn into this proxy conflict between the united states on one side and russia and also china on the other side so they're sort of trying to sort of show we are a party we want peaceful change in venezuela with the good guys in this ride barbarism in brussels thank you very much for sharing the european perspective on this crisis in venezuela. turning now to mogadishu where at least nine people are dead after a large explosion in the somalian capital the blast hit a busy market in a shopping mall and police say it was a car bomb and that more than fifty people were injured the militant group has

claimed responsibility. let me draw in. a moment he is based in mogadishu but you this law the last attack is taking place at a shopping center what look at you tell us about it. as you may have heard a pickle built up to explosive is have been good to needed a new show more the biggest tomorrow in the capital the mall is negative to now the instability when it's blooper to be passed only the target a huge crowd a crowd of people were at the facility when the blast the winter of casualties were smaller than expected and listed done both john were to be were comparable there another turn were all the. obviousness of burma or prepare to the million

now but she actually bob has claimed responsibility for this attack the group has been ousted from the capital and most urban areas in south and central somalia but this still seem to be many attacks is the group giving more support of course our were poor supply with no from the capital but they are still active in mogadishu have been shadowy huntress and sometimes kurian are suicide bombings in the capital or target in jealous and government institution is so they are military of power clearly but they have a still in the capital killing one at the moment is stop. burst out of be able to be extortion money with a call at techs if not they will kill anybody who refuses to visit flex so they are still active in any any around the types of convenable they want to make or are assassins are nor if one

a single. persons made me could buy ins when it importance but she my mother in of mogadishu thank you very much for that update. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the was in el salvador for me at night you bikini has easily won the country's presidential election the anticorruption campaign a secured a majority to the first round of voting picking up move votes then history rivals combine the kid is a victory ends of the two party system that has governed as salvador for three decades. marini football a hockey game and id is facing two more months in prison after a court in thailand denied him being the former national team and a street investment is fighting extradition to his native country for allegedly vandalizing a police station and that i'd be fears torture and even death if he's returns to

beheading. pope francis is arrived in the united arab emirates it's only the first time a pope has ever visited the muslim majority kingdom gaunts unforced back to school to francis to the crown prince of abu dhabi's palace military aircraft flew over trailing ghetto and white smoke the colors of the holy sea flag during his two day visit the pope is due to meet a leading muslim clerics and hold an open air mass the historic paper trip is aimed at turning the page in christian muslim relations in the region. joining me now is . religious affairs analyst of welcome martin now this is a historic trip as you mentioned the first ever trip by the pope to the arabian peninsula why now well it's a time at which the christian communities are under great pressure and mean in the middle of several different conflicts which both the u.s.

and saudi arabia in particular are part of and of course the yemen the war in yemen in which on which the pope has been actually expressly very interested in sort of has been trying its. help along either sort of obese process or minimally a dialogue so i mean there are several issues at hand one of them an important one is actually into really just conversations and i. want to start a new chapter in relations between the christians and muslims what does he mean by that and how does he plan to achieve it well in general i mean i think that we have seen over the last i would say twenty years or so an increase discussion on the idea of essentially a war off a war of civilizations and this has been x. and tweeted by the emergence of different types of nationalism and different types of. you know need to be somewhere around europe and the u.s. at the very same time we have seen parallel to the emergence of more radicalized

for that have taken a more central role in political processes i think that the pope this vatican in particular and many people around him seem to understand along with other european leaders and western leaders that there is a serious need for bridge building and i think that these are very concrete steps that this bob as he has been trying to take in that direction at the same time this pope is quite quite outspoken you mentioned yemen he has to decide the u.a.e. in the pasta what's really in yemen i expect any such statements doing dismiss it i don't think we're going to hear statements i mean of course i could be wrong about this but i think that the journal style of this pope is not to actually take an open confrontation and in a new way sort of his hosts on the spot nonetheless he was very clear about his position concerning yemen even you know as us recently as yesterday noon before he got on the plane. and the way this vatican has operated in several other fronts

including cuba in the u.s. and syria is to basically the blow you they pull him out ik operation on the ground and it's very very likely that the people that are traveling with the pope and that the people are on the ground are ready undertaking this conversation so we. only know whether this was effective in any way in terms of trying to mediate unmodulated the conflict in yemen and the position of the u.a.e. as weeks and months continue to continue to lapse mustn't go thank you very much for that my pleasure. to the u.s. where the pentagon says it's sending additional troops to the border with mexico a plan is described the mission as a political stunt designed to create the illusion of a crisis our correspondent on the phenomena travel to arizona to speak to people living at the border and the ones who are already guarding it. patrolling the u.s. mexican border here in arizona it stretches for more than six hundred kilometers agent down into hernandez takes us to

a remote part of it protected by an anti vehicle barea 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 they're given themselves of the border patrol which brings in humanitarian crisis images recently captured by a mobile through billions you need so 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 agents say their job is no more difficult than ever we are in the city of nogales agent hernandez shows us the existing border fence here only recently has concertina wire been installed on top of it. we know that there is certainly a possibility that people can still come over or drugs or 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 president drums border wall but was it 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 nogales we need each other says the city's mayor democrat to regard the economies on both sides of the border heavily depend on mutual trait. maybe the 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 shut down the federal worker thing are we don't know will be finally getting their paychecks but the roll over the border wall is still far from over. german chancellor angela merkel is in the japanese capital tokyo meeting with japanese prime minister shinzo in a joint press conference she emphasized a push to intensify trade ties and research collaboration with a country the two nations already have close trade ties around four hundred and fifty german companies are active there for his part aviv warned against rising protectionism saying germany and japan there was a number three and number four economies respectively had an increasingly important role in protecting multilateralism meccas visit comes just three days after

a sport as trolling trade pact between the e.u. and japan came into force. earlier clemons cool weather director of trade policy at the german chamber of industry and commerce in brussels told us about the significance of chance americans visit to japan. from a business perspective important. both economies want to cooperate closer we. trade while you're move over forty billion euros between germany and japan and we have a new trade deal that is set to reduce the trade barriers for both exports and imports and improve investment so this is a very much needed signal especially for the german economy that is heavily dependent on open markets internationally free trade on openness for investment. so that was chemical with the director of trade policy at the german chamber of industry and com last today it is was cancer day dedicated to the fight

against one of the was biggest killer in two thousand and eighteen nearly ten million people died of the disease why vention screening and early detection are the focus of this is campaign doctors say 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 to forty fifty percent of cases could have been prevented entirely. joining me now is like a bunny from the science desk welcomes people down to the putting a lot of hoping to new technical development such as artificial intelligence but how much of an impact is artificial intelligence going to have do you think. well allow me to start with a cliche it remains to be seen on official intelligence is

a very young i mean to be going for a couple of decades but it's a very young field in itself it's a young fielding cancer there have been some studies for instance in the united kingdom there was a study that came out into some of the recording revolver so repeated evolution of cancer it's an artificial intelligence that tries to look at patterns of how cancers evolve and how they may develop in certain genetic setting so in particular people so to say if you look at five hundred or thousand or more people when you see how a particular cancer evolves you might get a better better idea of how cancer could evolve and then you could see what this person has a particular genetic disposition to this particular cancer this is the risk the level of risk this is how it might develop if we've already diagnosed it separate but it's still very young and it's in its days really and so a lot of the focus needs to be on things like improving our own health our attention to health and treatment giving medical professionals the the tools they need to help people detect and treat cancer and early detection many people said

that is a key factor one of the most promising new methods in that area. well i think you know i'm going to scale is right back early detection is you need to be aware of what can happen so like if you for instance look at prostate cancer in men is one of those areas it does not talk to our lot a lot of people will say go get checked when you're in your fifty's or whatever actually you should be start looking when you're in your forty's that's number one you can monitor for instance your peer say baseline and have it up to see how fast developing it may not show it increasing your risk but if it does you'll see that a lot earlier than certain health or foreign teas are actually recommending at the moment so as i say the recommendation is around fifty in the states for instance united states but you should start checking at a lot earlier maybe a decade earlier and catch cancer my prostate cancer which let's not forget is still quite common and is very common is treatable but common among men and not widely talked about also improve your health and as if the german health ministry

yet spinal recently said gas is going to be defeated in the next ten twenty years is this optimism justified. well look. the federal health minister says it is not very helpful to be quite honest with you it doesn't help people who are facing cancer today we've been sent making these sort of pronouncements for decades so it's interesting aspirational to say but it's not really helping people today we need to look at factors like smoking which the world health organization says is still one of the biggest causes of cancer even you know you can but it's still there you know look at something like lung cancer it's one of the biggest killers and you don't have to smoke i just improve your health get out there do some physical activity that sort of stuff that will help you today not in ten twenty years as if. science desk thank you very much. to sport on the big game many are talking about of course the super bowl the new

england patriots have been crowned american football as n.f.l. champions this after they beat the ne rams and atlanta the rams lost peasantry in what was a low scoring super bowl but for the fans it was thank you to celebrate. i'm going to drive by fans of the new england patriots have every reason to celebrate that seemed like a victory on historic super bowl night quarterback tom brady was the man of the hour winning his sixth title a record for a player for many it cemented his status as the greatest of all time. what it means to me the patriots are the best tom brady is a god he's the best ever and if you ever want to dispute that just look the other way don't talk to me. brady won his first super bowl seventeen years ago despite becoming the oldest quarterback to play in and win a super bowl he has no intention of retiring just yet to me has

a satsu for every time the patriots have won a ring and he's fast running out of room he have to get enough time all out the carnarvon out there get some more warmer numerals on the cup rather might have as they went so many super bowls i don't mourn are all rolled up i don't know but i have to roll their eyes their whole armband i don't know the super bowl sunday is the sporting event of the year in the united states over one hundred million americans watched the game on t.v. and even without a ticket these fans came all the way to atlanta to cheer on the sides. could me i will travel anywhere for my team anywhere for my team if it means that we're going to win the super bowl and i get to be a part of it for the little part this is why i'm here the l.a. rams were the underdogs and couldn't get there much lauded all fans going in the last quarter the defense buckles i. heard it was

satellite over the wire like old. for the l.a. rams but ecstasy for the patriots for the players i'm funs it's going to be a long march of celebration. talking of celebrations the lunar new year is just around the corner tomorrow tuesday 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 the pig in south korea there's a museum dedicated to all things to do with pigs and it's already seeing a spike in the number of visits has. he may be on the rise this year but these pups polk is a no strangers to the limelight. they're the star attraction at the a pig museum in south korea. and they're popular with kids and adults alike. ok my

family came here to visit the pig museum and we hope to have good luck in the new year. as well as petting and feeding is also an art gallery this playing fountains of works in the country and the world in the world are considered to be a symbol of wealth and look at 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 what the country said. i did i never thought pigs could be so small and quick let's hope cute. peaceful sign performance prove pretty popular and in this year of the pig there's sure to be many more chances to celebrate them. they're watching the news up next. on the program includes a report about

a woman who's fighting against genital mutilation in guinea and don't forget you can always get all your news and headlines on our website dot com i'm on the thought for me and the news team here thank you very much for company. absolutely.

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