i am. this is news coming to you live from berlin western countries deal a blow to venezuela's embattled president nicolas maduro after he rejected their deadline to call new elections several european countries recognized his opponent as the leader of the country but what do insists he'll never bow to pressure from outside also coming up pope francis makes a historic trip to the united arab emirates the pontiff says he hopes to write a new page in the history of relations between christians and muslims which is

called for religious how many machines it. and millions of pilgrims of india gather for the world's largest religious gathering hindus believe taking a dip in these waters cleanses them off their sins and rivers salvation. blasts the united states sends a thousand more troops to its border with mexico donald trump says he's stopping the invasion of illegal immigrants critics call it a political stunt our correspondent goes on patrol with a border guard to find out more. and the record stumbled on the super bowl sunday the new england patriots defeat the los angeles rams to win american football's biggest prize for the sixth time we take you to the action.

kind of a warm welcome to. several major european countries have recognized venezuela's opposition leader. as interim president they acted in concert after president nicolas maduro ignored an e.u. deadline to quote a snap election in a t.v. interview on sunday modeler told other nations to stay out of the crisis why the himself declared himself into the leader last month he also has the backing of the united states today germany joined a group of countries including france and the u.k. to declare their support for why though under mechelle the chancellor of germany an ounce of balance position while visiting japan this gets done this new presidential elections were not called by yesterday. that is why kwan guy joe is the person we

expected to initiate an election process as soon as possible read an order from their view of iraq into three and by put and germany along with several other european countries recognizes him as the legitimate interim president to oversee this task to the president all story joining me now from brussels is our correspondent barbara visit so barbara germy is joint strong spain and the u.k. to recognize one why do as interim president what is that e.u. hoping to achieve with this move. european countries. have acknowledged that they need to come off the fence in this crisis they've been watching this for weeks and months they've seen the development and they now think that the moment has come to sort of support democratic. evolution and development in the country and that is really what they want to do if you look at the different statements from european leaders from sins from the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez who's really

emphasizes that it's up to the venezuelans to decide about their own future they should be modest or of their own fate he says and all the e.u. wants to do and european countries want to do is to support the democratic developments in the country to get the country to have fair and free and internationally supervised elections only only the u.k. is sort of stepping out of line a bit and tones from london so a bit more robust and there is talk about duro needs to go and so but all other countries avoid that because they are quite clear they don't want to sort of force regime change they want to support it development within the country that they hope can lead to peaceful resolution of the conflict in venezuela with president nicolas maduro was of course brushed off any notion of a french presidential election how much influence does europe have in venezuela and

what are europe's interests in the country. they don't have of course that much regional. interests there and they don't have that much influence of course and that makes them sort of maybe they ideal diplomatic third party who can sort of hope who can sort of help to. really support the development in the country support to go i do and his movement they will have the foreign ministers meeting that is on a very high level this thursday in europe line montevideo and they will talk to let the american countries neighboring countries and try to get together and open channels of communication see whether they will not be able for instance to have a humanitarian aid brought into the country madeira so far has rejected that could the europeans probably help was that could medicines be flown in very practical things for the moment how can elections be organized for instance how can of

service be let into the country and so on so forth so they're trying to sort of really get the process going and supported from the outside and what they do not want quite clearly of course is to be drawn into this proxy conflict between the united states and russia and china on the other side that is not their goal right bob a visit in brussels thank you very much. announced his support for why though during a visit to the japanese capital tokyo where she met japanese prime minister shinzo abi in a joint news conference chancellor merkel emphasized the push to intensify trade ties and research collaboration with japan about four hundred fifty german companies are already active there for his spot abby warned against rising protectionism saying germany and japan the world's number three and one before economies respectively had an increasingly important role in protecting

multilateralism. visit comes just three days after a wide ranging create back between the e.u. and japan came into effect. the pope has made history by becoming the first pontiff to visit the arabian peninsula francis began his visit in abu dhabi meeting leaders ahead of an interfaith address his hosts pulled out all the stops to make his unprecedented visit an occasion to remember. convoy around the popemobile that was the pageantry the greeted pope francis in the united arab emirates a muslim majority country for centuries the head of the catholic church was not welcome here but now he's greeted by the crown prince and is receiving military honors. francis's visit comes as abu dhabi strives to be seen as a beacon of religious tolerance there are seventy six churches across the emirates with nine hundred thousand practicing catholics here. i believe it was

a decent price he says counting in this country. the entire one behind expedient and it is no i've been feeling excited to see but tolerance has its limits on the arabian peninsula the country is an absolute monarchy and activists say freedom of expression assembly in the press are restricted the crown prince is involved the u.a.e. and yemen's civil war conflict has already cost more than ten thousand lives. and the image of. this is a red line. you can also criticize be using boluses all. but those issues are not expected to come up when france's meets with high ranking islamic officials on tuesday he'll appear in the country's biggest stadium before more than one hundred thousand people. but he now is martin got his religious affairs analyst of welcome him down 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 i mean in the middle of several different conflicts which both the u.a.e. and saudi arabia in particular are part off and that of course the yemen the war in yemen and which on which the pope has been actually expressly very interested in sort of has been trying essentially to help along either sort of a peace 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 guess the pope wants 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 of 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 us at the very same time we have so entirely to the emergence of more radicalized for himself that have taken a more central role in political processes i think that the pope this about to get 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 prophecy has been trying to take in that direction at the same time this pope is quite quite outspoken you mentioned yemen he has criticized the u.a.e. in the past a voice really in yemen i expected any such statements during this visit you don't think we're going to hear statements i mean of course i could be wrong about this but i thing. that the journal style of this pope is not to actually take an open confrontation and in a new way sort of boot he's 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 budget 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'll only know whether this was effective in any way in terms of trying to mediate unmodulated the conflict in yemen in 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. they've not been up to date but some of the stories making news around the world in el salvador former mayor anigh bikini has easily won the country's presidential election the anticorruption campaign a secured a majority off to the first round of voting picking up low votes then history

rivals combined mccain is a victory ends the two party system that had governed as salvador for three decades . a light aircraft has crashed into a house in southern california killing the pilot and four people inside witnesses said the train engine cessna fire broke up in mid-flight and crashed into a house southeast of los angeles. a footballer from bob dean hakim is facing two more months in prison after a court in thailand denied him bail the former national team player and australian visitant is fighting extradition to his native country for allegedly vandalizing a police station and i believe fears torture and even death if you send back to behati. indian uses legislature is debating a bill that seeks to broadly regulate the country's music industry thoughts of the been would ban what is course negative influences from foreign culture d.j.

abuse william naugle coffee has more on this developing story welcome william what is this bill about first of all it's a very broad bill put forward by commission x is the commission inside indonesia's parliament to deal with education and culture it deals with a lot of things that the music industry the most the parts that have caught the most i or threatens artists with fines or imprisonment for committing blasphemy or insulting religion or what they say importing negative influences but what does that actually mean people aren't so sure here we have one indonesian twitter user saying this is limiting especially to independent and local musicians we see a photo here on this tweet that's been. widely among indonesia's social media users it's trying to raise awareness of just how in big u.s. this bill is opponents say it's vague no one really know what it means for example one of the most contentious articles reads musician they're prohibited from making pornographic content provoking conflict between groups tarnishing religion bringing

negative influences from foreign cultures or degrading dignity there's also parts that people aren't really liking very much it seems that this bill might implement competency tests and certifications for musicians which brings into question well if you're a trained musician at home how would you even get the certification become an official government sanctioned musician absolutely so i take it all this is very controversial in indonesia indonesia has a flourishing music scene pop metal punk all this is you know rattling the establishment is par for the course in these music genres will be interesting to see what the president. has to say because he himself is a well known fan of western punk bands heavy metal bands such as metallica we have here we found a video from just seventeen denmark's prime minister giving president we don't know a gift which is a set of metallica albums and there's plenty more of these photos online showing just how much the indonesian president really loved metallica and other western heavy metal groups so a group of musicians calling themselves the national coalition have come together

and using twitter and instagram especially to get gather momentum for this so-called permissions bill against the so-called permissions bill with this hash tag refuse the bill we see that in another instagram post here we really get a sense it's called refuse the bill one music manager band manager says i am more than two hundred sixty musicians musicians and other music industry players this would be the national coalition and they're calling themselves from indonesia greed to reject the permission bill due to many problematic articles and potentially curbed freedom of expression freedom of speech and freedom of music there are only three words they use the. ash that refuse the bill it's a lot of momentum going this is what happens next the name well even as early as late as today the bill is been getting debated in the parliament this commission ex has invited this national coalition or figures from him to discuss the bill to debate it they have course want the bill completely thrown out and an added twist

one of the members of this commission accepts pushing the bill forward is a musician himself who also holds a position in parliament she says actually this bill would protect musicians protect artists especially when their work is used and not given the royalties for that work and he want to see those parts of the bill go forward even though he himself is with this national coalition against the more vague or more ambiguous more controversial parts of the bill if you have to see where this goes a billion thank you very much. you're watching the news coming up ahead the new england patriots take down the los angeles rams to notch a record equalling six to super bowl we'll take you through the rough and tumble of the games. but first another story from the u.s. where the pentagon says it's sending additional troops to the border with mexico opposed to strive to move was a political stunt designed to create the illusion of a crisis. alexander fernand travel to arizona just speak to people living near the

border and those who patrol it. patrolling the us mexican border here in arizona it stretches for more than six hundred kilometers age and the 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 a woman and dynamic of having family units from central america they're giving themselves at the border patrol which brings in a humanitarian crisis images recently captured by a mobile sort of 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 agency their job is no more difficult than ever we're in

the city of nogales agent hernando 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 drive because i'll 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 drums border war 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 are to regard the economies on both sides of the border

heavily depend on mutual in trade. maybe you president he says 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 next. op to thirty five days of shut down the federal workers in our way then i will be finally getting their paychecks but the roll but the border wall is still far from over. turning out just for to and the super bowl and the new england patriots have been crowned american football or champions after beating the ne rams in atlanta the rams lost thirteen three in the lowest scoring super bowl ever that for the fans of a came to reasons to celebrate. i'm going to get five sons of the

new england patriots have every reason to celebrate that seems 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 tattoo for every time the patriots have won a ring and he's fast running out of room he had to get them. all out the tonight i'm going out to get some more former numerals on the cup worth the money as they went so many super bowls i don't want to already know but i don't know if i have to go there and there are

a whole armband i don't know. 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 their side. could me i will travel anywhere for my team or 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's a little part this is why i'm here the l.a. rams with the underdogs and couldn't get them much lauded all fans going in the last quarter the defense buckles by virtue of their hurt it was sad i like the way that i like all. think for the l.a. rams but ecstasy for the patriots for the players and fans it's going to be a long night of celebration. today is was considered a dedicated to the fight against one of the ones biggest killer as nearly ten

million people died of the disease was by last year prevention screening and early detection are the focus of this year's campaign doctors say millions of cases good to have been treated more effectively and they have been due to have been detected sooner despite advances in medicine and any hope of those diagnosed die of the disease between thirty to fifty percent of cases have been prevented in time. generally now it's like colleague. science just welcomes people down is a putting a lot of hope into 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 and he's been going for a couple of decades but is he 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 a visual 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 that you look at five hundred or thousand or more people 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 cetera 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 that 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 laws 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 p.s.a. baseline and have all of the see how that's developing it may not show a increase in your risk but if it does you'll see that a lot earlier than certain health or fire teams 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 like 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 you're going to jail and health ministry yes finally recently said cancer is going to be defeated in the next ten twenty years is this optimism justified. well look.

the federal health minister says this is not very helpful to be quite honest with you it doesn't help people who are facing cancer today we've been set 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. millions of pilgrims in india have gathered to believe that on the most important day of the hindu. the once the largest religious gathering the pilgrims plunge into the cord waters where the ganges young men are diverse meet the confluence in the

northeast india is considered the site hindus believe taking a dip in the river cleanses them off their sins and bring salvation. they rise at dawn on so-called new moon day the holiest date of the combes male a festival the destination sun god the place where three sacred rivers converge. holy men smear themselves with ash and lead the people to a cold bath. devout hindus believe that bathing in the holy waters on no moon day can free them from the cycle of life and death and it provides a visual spectacle my dear mother bathing on new moon day was a thing of beauty. did a very beautiful very nice balts and also in that why did you come here. so young today it's very beautiful. and the mythology says that gods and demons fought

a war over a sacred picture or here containing the nectar of immortality the festival last for forty eight days during which it will host upwards of one hundred million people. up next more news from asia i'm on with that she must thank you for your company.

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the first i'm not proud of it will not succeed in dividing us about not succeeding taking the people off the streets because we're tired of just to try to show. taking a stand global news that matters. mines. once upon a time there was a young girl with a burning ambition. to become a conductor. evison very curious child and very excited and in love with music and i would go to concerts with my parents and always. here and for being on stage with the musicians and being part of that magic it was difficult for the first girl because she was told because conductors but this girl had other ideas and one day she really did become

a world famous conductor on monday the. law must. start to generate heat on t.w. . this is due to the news asia coming off in the program after a speech. undock aung san suu kyi given right spot says they have a knowledge on this so working in a climate of fear. plus. the risks of living on the mekong river we'll see how it goes and goes by he can sign by i think his trust in riverside communities. and the south koreans are in a rush to see the start of the action of this museum to look at why feast of the.