this is t w news coming to you live from berlin the standoff in venezuela hardened opposition leader one calls on his supporters to return to the streets to force the government of nicolas maduro to allow humanitarian aid into the country why there says three hundred thousand people or at risk of dying. says he will not budge also coming up a flight to freedom for football or hockey i'll ride me. release him after both

rain drops its fixed tradition requests. how to find a job you thought appointment in the palestinian territory is one of the highest in the world we speak to young people determined to make the best of the situation. plus the fundies but the man around these are smart man around he does it through comedy the name through that you actually get incredible emotion from it you know it's a very moving film hollywood actor christian bale is at the berlin film festival and praises the director of his new film. where he plays former american vice president dick cheney. oh i'm terry march and welcome to the program and when i was opposition is renewing its push to bring in badly needed humanitarian aid from neighbor. in countries in

defiance of the government and military with the country facing dire shortages of medicine and basic supplies more than one hundred tons of u.s. aid is still waiting in the colombian border city of kut embattled president nicolas maduro has ordered the military to block the supplies from entering venezuela he's called the aid a trojan horse and part of the u.s. plot to overthrow is government. in exclusive interview with g w news quite has called on the military to switch sides and put the people's needs first i would have to see him but an old has appealed to the conscience of the armed forces to pick the constitutional side we've been very clear to the armed forces that they have to allow the humanitarian aid to enter into or blocks of will be tried for human rights violations. and

we'll have more now for you on the standoff over a. one donna has been speaking with some venezuelan migrants who made it across the border to colombia. one why though it says the military blockade of this border bridge is a crime against humanity with the border sealed foreign aid including desperately needed food medicine and big sticks appliance have been piling up across the border in the colombian city of kuta now quite a once venezuelans who fled the country to bring the eight back across the frontier thousands have volunteered to do so even if that means confronting venezuelan soldiers guarding the border and we have to talk to them because we are the people but we are unarmed and without weapons we can't do anything we have to talk to the military but it's the military that should be helping the people not the other way around. the law doesn't but if we have to face the minute tray of course we will but peacefully there are lots of people that do need this medicine i'm healthy i

can manage to get something to eat but children and the elderly cons remember nonzero. take a look at some of the military is always persecuting people instead of helping they just fire on ordinary citizens the government orders them to fire to kill people it shouldn't be that way. though has been urging venezuela's military to abandon model and let the supplies into the country but the armed forces have been demonstrating loyalty to the president in a series of military drills. montevideo says allowing the aid to enter would be the start of a u.s. led invasion. really heal many more thousands of men and women have shown their ability that training their physical and moral strength to go for probably somewhat out of this strength that we need to tell the empire to get out of its way. hands

up and as well a. yankee go home. quite though says he still has faith that the country's armed forces can be won over but he hasn't ruled out authorizing the u.s. to intervene militarily in venezuela. refuses to step aside. and we're joined now in the studio by ophelia harms a routine from our lesson american desk just returned from colombia tell us the majority government is blocking delivery of aid from colombia it's piled up there at the border what is the government's justification for blocking that aid well my dear oh says this is a power show from the opposition a show that is backed by u.s. powers powers that he things are interested in the oil reserves of his country and he also keeps denying the humanitarian crisis that is becoming evident has been

becoming evident for years he has been denying it for years but now we see two point three million people fleeing the country and three hundred thousand in risk of death that is why this humanitarian help is becoming more. and more urgent that's what the u.s. and the opposition are saying now the opposition leader who is backed by a number of foreign governments including the united states and germany he's called for more protests ophelia just how likely is that that we will see a showdown at the border. well why don't has put up a website he has said that one hundred thousand people are already volunteering to bring the help in and would also be volunteering to protest against a blockage he has also said that there will be more borders around venezuela where they will be bringing aid from international actors and we heard this from the new

ambassador to colombia from venezuela he said that probably or i'm a in brazil at the border to venezuela and also a caribbean island most probably will be centers where the humanitarian help will be gathered and they will also ask people to help bring this aid in so if there was a showdown it will most probably be if the military tries to stop the people at the border so this pressure building inside the country but also outside the country there's quite a bit of pressure at home which sway do foreign powers have in this crisis the united states russia and of course but as well as neighbors in the region all have interests in this conflict well yeah venezuela keeps being backed by russia and china who have big interests they have invested a lot in venezuela because they got a lot of oil from venezuela very cheap prices but at the same time it is surprising

how quickly. this reaction from the u.s. came this backing of why do and this help and so what some analysts say it's not only the interest in venezuela for the u.s. because of the oil and the crisis but also because they want to see more new a liberal conservative governments getting stronger in the region after colombia and brazil had elections last year but really thank you so much to freely harms a route from our left in america this. now to some other stories making headlines around the world today u.s. lawmakers have reached an agreement on border security republican and democratic negotiators agreed to build fifty five miles of fence along the border with mexico at a cost of around one point four billion dollars the funding deal fall short of president donald trump's demands but lawmakers hope the deal will be enough to avoid another

government shutdown. anti-government protests in haiti are growing increasingly violent demonstrators took to the streets of the capital port au prince for a fifth day on monday clashing with police and vandalizing shops the protests were fueled by anger over corruption and the government's handling of the economy. rescue workers in the south african city of durban have told a newborn baby alive from a storm drain after passers by heard her cries and alerted emergency services it's believed she was in the drain for at least five hours don't tourers have held the babies survival as american. football or hockey team arrived he who was detained in thailand has arrived now in australia he was freed after rain where he was born withdrew its extradition request arrived he claimed asylum in

australia in two thousand and fourteen saying he feared torture and even death if he was sent back as a rest in thailand during his honeymoon sparked an international outcry. a rabies nightmare is finally over. on tuesday he made his emotional return swashed radio. the battle. is there are. people here there are the big boys media is the world to me and i just think that there are. people. the bahraini football is back in his adopted home after three long months spent in a toy jail he was arrested in november while on his honeymoon in bangkok on an interpol warrants for his arrest. in his native bahrain had been convicted of vandalizing a police station even though he was playing in a televised football match when the alleged offenses took place. al-arabiya is

released as much to form a footballer craig foster who led a campaign to pressure the bahraini government i think what's occurred over the last almost three months to fight incredibly hard for not just the young player who . virtually no one knew but a refugee who was under protection and who we felt that all of us needed to step forward and protect to see him back here on home soil to die speaks volumes about the character the values and the pride that we have as australians tolerate the fled bahrain on political ground in twenty fourteen and was granted refugee status by australia his family fit extradition would result in his torture and possibly death at the hands of far range justice system. now back in australia he say from persecution. published in territory of gaza has one

of the highest use unemployment rates in the world all the seventy percent of young people there are without work. on your kramer has been talking to so young to song some young gazans determined to find a way of making money. it might not be his dream job but it's better than having no work at all. now he helps out in his uncle's carpentry shop have a new job in gaza is precious for a young person like him. don't know what the economic situation today is tough but if you lose your job you won't find an alternative but i don't want to give a whole lot imo who. the twenty nine year old used to work for an ngo but lost his job recently with ethan employment at seventy percent the law says the situation for the young is desperate for them if the situation doesn't get better there won't be any future for young people in gaza and all of them will try to live in a. tight travel restrictions mean many of his generation have never been outside

gaza. israel and egypt have sealed off the hamas controlled territory for more than twelve years. those restrictions have led to try to build a future in the virtual world. here the borders which have been closed for half her life don't matter she's trying to establish herself in online marketing. one at seventy some young people gave up after graduation they just hang their certificates on the wall others refuse to accept this reality and keep trying to spite all the difficult circumstances we're not trying to invest in digital media a lot robert says she won't give up despite her home being a place where conflict can erupt at any time that we see if you lose hope you lose life in gas no matter how hard life is the only thing we have is hope. for most

young people in gaza crossing borders is not an option online or in real life may well remain the only thing they have to cling to for a long time to come. of german society is aging and a new study by the bettles month foundation says foreign workers are the answer independent think tank found that two hundred sixty thousand new people are needed each year to keep the german economy going currently germany expects one hundred fourteen thousand workers to arrive from e.u. member states annually that still leaves one hundred forty six thousand jobs that may need to be filled every year by people from known e.u. countries the german government has already agreed on an immigration law designed to make it easier for people from outside the e.u. to work here but the whole still needs parliament's approval. bring in our political correspondent hans von. first of all what's behind this

apparent apparent demographic deficit in germany well it's the baby boomers basically that's the answer that's a that's the people that were born soon after the second world war there was a huge number of children that were born at that time sometime in the late fifty's and the early sixty's not only here in germany elsewhere in the world as well and these people are about to retire they're reaching retirement age within the next ten years about half of people in employment in germany will be retiring and the second factor of course is that in the years after that after the baby boom he has not as many children were born so they are matched much fewer people sort of moving into the employment then they are moving on to employment it's this gap that needs to be filled ok so stagnant birth rate aging population got a problem now the study's authors says that this country urgently needs a comprehensive immigration law how soon can we expect to actually see that all past well in fact lol was only approved by cabinet by the political parties late

last year and it's going for its first reading in parliament only in march next month in other words it will take some time for this law in fact to come into force but it can be expected by next year shell the better spun foundation which commissioned that study it says that germany's demographic problem can't be fixed with laws alone what else does it say is needed well basically germany has to change the way society welcomes people foreigners that come into the country and live here and work here and so on germany is not a traditional immigration country at the moment and there is some resistance in society to receiving people from outside so that's one of the major factors that there has to be a greater willingness on the part of germany to actually take these people and and also office such as. you know education for children language courses integration of people into german society it's a complex problem and

a very difficult solution hans ponts thank you so much fun spun from our political desk. nigerians head to the polls this weekend in a crucial general election and we'll be bringing you reports from the countries throughout the week we kick off our coverage by introducing you to people working to assure that voters have access to accurate information they say fake news is increasing in nigeria as the election approaches. in ones in her team and the guardian's digital newsroom check the top social media topics every morning on twitter and advisor to the nigerian president alleges that an opposition party is offering food and money in exchange for votes the news spreads quickly so the guardian team decides to investigate. the image found out it was an eye i mean photographs dated as far back as twenty seventeen it was

a photograph from an outreach done by charlie to foundation in the us so it wasn't what she said it was. shortly after the guardian publishes its findings the politicians tweets are deleted the team here say they see fake stories like this every day. so if it's text it's a lot easier in the sense that you just need a few people. who are making this kind seen this happen you know the press and if it. is somewhat easy i mean it's like my dish quite simple to handle you can be said to be tonight as a whole lot of them but when is video to be considered to be complicated because once we do get some social media. you have the metadata stripped off and sometimes that's what you need actually to track of video so. complicated and then the audio files. to check these kind of stories the guardian has teamed up with some twenty other media outlets they formed

a collective called cross check nigeria to support each other in the research process a story only goes online when four of the different media organizations have looked at it. there's one of the coordinators around fifty journalists involved in the project. everywhere in the world even in the u.s. in the most advanced technology. would always use any means to gain advantage if you've seen information do we do that what you see the important thing is that. we want to be do we try to make museums use of technology that can also. reduce the incidence of you know weaponize information for advantage. the number of fake stories has increased in the run up to the elections nigeria is the most populous

country in africa and it's divided along ethnic lines which often leads to conflict according to nigerian police they have already been cases of false reports causing violence so it's not only your spare first of all reacting to increasing levels of baking us also facebook. the issue. but for ten steps this is how the tech giant is advertising in the traditional newspaper. in one's observes a change in the news business rather than publishers competing against each other to be the first to break the story they are now working together to separate fact from fiction in times of newspaper circulation she says this could be an opportunity for nigerian media companies. you know because adrian crees reporting there well rolling on now to pakistan amid the hustle and bustle of the country's

dusty highways there's always a few bright spots trotting along truckers pay top dollar to adorn their rigs with intricately painted murals it's a kaleidoscope of moving are reflects social trends often tracking the ups and downs of the country's political leaders and channeling this zeitgeist are talented artists who have become a source of national pride. hi there ali first picked up a painting brush at the age of six. the karate based artist spent his childhood playing at truck painting workshops. we took. the life on the train while i was playing whatever games were appropriate for my age i started by coloring in the pictures of small bells that were over my hands to reach at the time i was just a small child starting a kindergarten and for nothing he gave you know over them. today he runs his own workshop where he and his team decorate trucks like this one truck art has become

a reflection of local pride as well as social and political trends after the assassination of prime minister benazir bhutto in two thousand and seven paintings of her became hugely popular more recently portraits of the current prime minister amman khan are in demand. but he says his art transcends political and national boundaries. internationally but the message is also one of love and peace internationally where look princess diana was not from our country the people who got her picture painted. the earlobe and the trucker see those pictures can attract more business but it's not cheap pimping your truck can cost anything between three hundred to nine thousand euros. but this one customer thinks it's worth it. or not most of what it all my kids live in this country but now the entire world can see the beautiful pakistani vehicles plying the roads. truck art has become one of pakistan's best known cultural exports

he has seen his work exhibit overseas in the u.s. europe canada and other parts of asia. but the only thing i've got an opportunity god gave me an opportunity to show the world the colorful face of pakistan through there is art. or meant it because. these dream is to build a museum for his work but without the money for that right now the dream could be a long way down the road. to the berlin international film festival where the w. is of course on the scene correspondent short of chelsea till called a screening of a vice biting biopic about former u.s. vice president dick cheney. give it a. half true wants to be and you have fears that vice is more than just a biopic it's a full frontal attack back to christian bale says his inspiration for playing us

vice president dick cheney with satan and it shows on the show true our presence. i want you to be my v.p. vice it's out to prove that from the shadows of the george w. bush administration cheney was one of the most menacing figures in recent history willing how without conscience on everything from the iraq war to global warming bush approval. or standing organism with amy adams as his ambitious wife elin. you know we're going to bomb commodious and steve carell is political ally donald rumsfeld satirical and at times upset us device will have between often and hora we were. and it was that of said it's humor that christian bale brought with him to palin at the film's german premiere so we'll just have sex with the belly but i have passed us there and that you guys can see it it's a very intriguing belly by such the biggest lens you have seen in their arsenal to

. box humorous side bale was also asked a question about his enormous weight gain for this role and the impact on his body it streams out loud you're going to keep you're going to die soon if you keep doing this. vice was written and directed by the man behind the oscar winning docu drama the big short about the two thousand and seven financial crisis now adam mckay is back shining a light on one of the most significant periods of all time the funny he's got the man around he's a smart man around he does it through comedy and then through that you actually get incredible emotion from it you know it's a very moving film at first glance an international audience could be forgiven for dismissing this film as being too entrenched in u.s. politics but they'd be wrong by surprise cheney to some of the darkest moments in recent history and passionately auntie's that his actions still work is shaking around the world today you know it's the old cliche you know it lets you know

history will repeat itself so hopefully it will have the facts in that way and vice is already making waves while it may not be in competition at the ballot nala has been nominated for eight oscars including best film director and i. just remind of the top story we're following for you here venezuelan opposition leader one why there are calls on his supporters to return to the streets try to force an end to the standoff over aide to president nicolas maduro is refusing to allow humanitarian supplies into the country saying it would be a pretext for a foreign. invasion. to take a short break when we come back christophe coble from our business desk be here with this china's giant automotive market is losing steam as it appears that new car sales dropped the first time in decades what does this mean for the global it call the phone. don't forget you can always get news all the guy just download our app from google player from the apple store that will give you access to all the

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