this is g.w. news from berlin tonight europe tries to move venezuela's nicolas maduro out of power and out of the way today several leading european countries including germany france and the u.k. recognized. as the interim leader of the country but nicolas maduro insisting he is going nowhere and that he'll never beltre pressure from outside also coming up the pope delivers a message of religious tolerance to the united arab emirates francis makes an historic interfaith address in the first visit by

a pontiff to the arabian peninsula. plus from the united states since thousands more troops to its border with mexico president says he's stopping and invasion of illegal immigrants critics say it's all the political stuff our correspondent goes on patrol with a border guard to find out the truth. it's good to have you with us venezuela's opposition leader one. major european countries for endorsing him as the country's legitimate president representatives of his fledgling administration will now travel to washington d.c. on february fourteenth for a donor drive to drum up aid for venezuela's ailing economy but the embattled president nicolas maduro he is rejecting moves by the international community to

support his bitter rival. venezuela's power struggle deepened on monday off to several european nations officially recognized opposition leader of one quite go as the country's acting president spain was the first to announce the support germany france the u.k. and several other countries quickly followed suit this gets done with new presidential elections were not called by yesterday. that is why quando i do know is the person we expect to initiate an election process as soon as possible that we will be ignorant on the idea of art in the theater and by put and germany along with several other european countries recognizes him as the legitimate interim president to oversee this task the president. and also because if you don't over pierce up now venezuela's foreign minister is firmly on the duros side.

europeans and the americans are making a mistake but it doesn't bother us it doesn't distract us because we know who's making the decisions here. and our focus our time and our strength are geared to stopping imperialism. stopping donald trump's government from setting foot on sacred but as wayland soil. maduro insists he will never bow to his opponents he also refuses to let foreign humanitarian aid into the country for fear that aid could be coupled with a military intervention. but as the standoff intensifies life remains desperate for many venezuelans amid the country's bitter economic crisis many forced to rely on food donations to survive and millions of others have fled the country. or earlier and spoke with the w.'s oscars later in caracas and i asked him about the

significance of the e.u. states endorsements for been an opposition. well it's significant in the sense that by recognizing when or as president they're also recognizing modo as and then factor president and that can bring severe consequences into diplomatic arena that is i'm president of the opposition's focus at this moment is asking those nations to support way though to protect venezuelan assets in those countries from the mother rejean it is no test and this pressure mounts for my will i am concerned i reckon the officials there will be more sanctions sanctions and frozen accounts ahead so the support for the european states gives fun way though some negotiating power to force moderates to step down but that seems unlikely because there are so many there there are no many options for its government with open

investigations on human rights and corruption among other accusations waiting to be processed in international courts and despite all of that the president. government is still in power the president condemning the moves that came from europe so what can the government what can you do once it's threatening to do in response to this action by your. well there's not much that moved out and his government can do to threaten other countries other than break off relations diplomatic relations but that would mean that just like what he did with the us why the would have to name new ambassadors to these countries now we have seen better that's why bhutto has been sick in her in military parades from where he said he was going to collect signatures in all major squares and that's where they are from people who reject these endorsements to one day though and

interventions have been as well affairs but there's not much more that he can do other than completely break relations with these countries diplomatically which they have already done by increasing one of the long and announce who wants the situation tonight in terms of the morial teeth of the military is it still firmly in mature and scale well it seems that way but we have seen some generals. posting videos about their endorsement of one way though as president we've also seen military that have deserted during exile and have said they want to rejoin the armed forces with one great guys president we've also seen in the past year several reports from low and middle ranking our officers against nicholas miller and there are some serious allegations that there are a number of military that are in prisons and are being tortured because there was

a threat and suspicion of their revolt a correspondent on the story for us tonight from caracas oscar thank you. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a spokesman for brazilian president says the president has overcome a fever after a successful operation to remove his to me back. had one of the bags since he was stabbed during a campaign rally back in september his spokesman said the bulls in our would be hospitalized for another week in nigeria court has ordered the country's top judge to appear in person at the tribunal to answer corruption charges chief justice walter of on again who heads the supreme court was suspended ten days ago he's accused of failing to declare foreign currency bank accounts and breaching rules governing public officials

a new study warns that two thirds of the glaciers in the himalayas could melt by the year twenty one hundred if global emissions are not reduced scientists say even if global warming were limited to one point five degrees celsius a third of the glaciers would still disappear the region's glaciers supplied billions of people with fresh water. well the pope was speaking and i would be at an interfaith address ahead of a ground breaking mass on tuesday for the roughly one million catholics living there now francis is making the first visit by a pope to the arabian peninsula and his host pulled out all the stops to celebrate his arrival. pope francis is known for his preference for rather modest forms of transportation. today he was driven through abu dhabi and the compact his unassuming vehicle choice was somewhat at odds with the greeting his hosts had

prepared. a spectacular display including five digits information. and a military gun salute. the official program got on. away with the pope signing the visitor's book then greeting the crown prince mohammed bin saeed. on the way to the into religious conference the pope the crown prince and the grand image of i'll show that you walked hand in hand. three wanted to send a signal of fraternity intolerance and that religion should never be used to justify hate and violence. that is addressed to the conference the pope said that war only brings misery and that weapons only bring death. religious communities he said must work together against the arming of boarders the raising of walls and the

gagging of the poor he added that all people are created equal and that no one should be master or slave to another. so when. you're an observer suggest his comments refer to the united arab emirates participation in yemen's devastating war and the lack of legal rights for foreign workers in the emirates. on tuesday pope francis will hold an open air mass in a local sports stadium over one hundred thousand people are expected to attend. we're now into the united states the pentagon says it's sending additional troops to the border with mexico opponents describe the move as a political stunt designed to create the illusion of a crisis our correspondent alexander phenomena traveled to arizona and accompanied a border guard on patrol. 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 it 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 that are given themselves of the border patrol which brings in a humanitarian crisis images recently captured by a mobile surveillance 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 agents say their job is no more difficult than ever we're in the city of nogales agents 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 drop as i 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 to regard the economies on both sides of the border heavily depend on mutual trade. maybe president he says sometimes given a little bit and say you know what ok that's fine that's fine 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. thirty five days of shutdown the federal worker thin are we then i will be finally getting their paychecks but their role but the border wall is still far from over. the millions of hindu pilgrims have traveled to northern india to take part in the world's largest religious gathering of the pilgrims plunge into the cold waters where three rivers meet the concludes is considered to be a holy site in to say that taking a dip in the rivers cleanses them of their sins and brings salvation. they rise at dawn on so-called new moon day the holiest date of the combes male a festival their destination. 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 a moon day was a thing of beauty. did a very beautiful get a nice balance and also in that why did you come here. today it's very beautiful. and their mythology says that gods and demons fought a war over a sacred pitcher or come here containing the nectar of immortality the festival last for forty eight days during which it will host upwards of one hundred million people. you're watching the news live from berlin still to come in the w. business it looks like just another robot arm but scientists say they've given it a very human trait stephen is up next with that and other top stories from the day in business. stick around we'll be back just off the book.

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