part. truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on t w. this is deja vu news live from berlin the standoff in venezuela escalates in an interview with opposition leader on why don't calls on the military to allow humanitarian aid into the country otherwise he says as many as three hundred thousand people could die but my google says he will not budge also coming up in the dock the trial opens in madrid for twelve cattle and separatist leaders who

tried to break away from spain if they're found guilty the politicians could face up to twenty five years in prison. and a hollywood star christian bale praises the director of his latest film finds. the funniest god the man around these are smart men around b.j. does it through comedy and then through that you actually get incredible emotion from a you know it's a very moving through each of you caught up with bell on the red carpet of the berlin film festival you'll also find out how the actor transformed himself physically to be able to play the former american ice president dick cheney. i'm sumi so much scott it's good to have you with us then as well as opposition is renewing its push to bring in humanitarian aid from neighboring countries in defiance of the government and the military. with the country facing dire shortages

of medicine and basic supplies more than one hundred tonnes of us age is still waiting in the colombian border city of kuta embattled president nicolas maduro has ordered the military to block the supplies from entering venezuela he's called the aide a trojan horse and part of a u.s. plot to overthrow his government now the opposition leader and self-proclaimed president of venezuela one guy though has repeatedly called on the military to switch sides and he did so again in a one on one interview with d.w. news though told. her that mother would all should stop putting the people's needs first he also mounted some serious accusations against mother. and we will always appeal to the conscience of the armed forces and ask that they pick the constitutional side we have been very clear with the armed forces that they have to allow humanitarian aid to enter and whoever blocks it will be tried for human rights violations what's happening in venezuela could be considered

a silent genocide when you have hundreds of thousands who've died because of a shortage of food and medicine and this regime hasn't protected people's right to life this regime is responsible for direct deaths like in the case of the special forces that killed more than seventy people in a week for protesting and for indirect efforts because they're not doing anything to solve the food and medicine crisis. we managed to hand out a small portion of the humanitarian aid to save lives today four thousand five hundred nutritional supplements for malnourished expectant mothers to save unborn lives we also handed out eighty five thousand nutritional supplements for malnourished children to stabilize them that represents over one million portions but it's not enough that can only be enough for a small period of time that's why we need to open a humanitarian corridor the. time is running out for nicolas maduro regime it has no future because he has no proposals and does not have public support he has

no direction he's not protecting his people and this is against the popular movement that is growing being mobilized and gaining international support it's also presenting plans for the country presenting a plan to stabilize venezuela it's unstoppable they can continue to do the only thing they know how to do and that's repression torture persecution or simply robbing money from venezuela but what is unstoppable is that we are going to have a peaceful democratic transition in venezuela for the good of the people. we have. latin america desk with us a covering the story for us hi ophelia we just heard one of those say they're a peaceful democratic transition is that really possible when in the same interview he's essentially accusing president maduro of making moves that lead to genocide well we all we all hope that it's going to be a peaceful transition we have been very tense in the past couple of days following this story because of the crisis at the border calling it a genocide i think is

a bit difficult it's certainly been a myth mismanagement of the oil resources in venezuela for years but. calling it a genocide is going a bit far but as you mentioned before there are three hundred thousand people that are in of risk of dying if the medicine doesn't come in early and we have seen two point three million people fleeing the country because of this economic crisis that has been going on for years now so people in the country also feeling facing a dire situation we know the mother of government is blocking that aid at the border at the same time we also heard though in that interview say that they had distributed some aid how is that possible where did it come from well we all want to know how he managed to do that he tweeted it then he told our correspondent in caracas that he had been distributing the help we we don't know exactly where it happened but people can sneak in and out of the country and know that there's

a porous border for example to colombia for for two thousand kilometers that's two thousand kilometers long so it possibly came in somewhere i think this is to provoke my guru as well to show him that he's not powerless and that he's still managing to get some help in even if mother accused blocking the border and he's trying to drum up popular support as well he's calling for more protests do you think it's possible that we could actually see a showdown at the border well we have been waiting for. were things to happen it's been peaceful for now the protests today might be massive why don't has put up a page where he has already one hundred thousand people that have volunteered to help him bring in the aid to his people has also been saying that they will put up centers for humanitarian aid at the border with brazil of the border to some caribbean islands and so we might see more people gathering on the borders and

putting more pressure on murderous regime ok so it could become a really tense situation even more so than now how has one guy though managed to do this to really plunge mother those government into crisis well many people wonder how someone so young and basically unknown before has managed to get the role to be the leader of an opposition that has been divided for so long but what we have heard from reports and investigations on the spot is that why door was blocked and has been planning this with the u.s. intelligence with the governments around been as well out with the colombia with brazil so this has been planned it wasn't as spontaneous as they have been trying to show our right to. arms our would be from our let america just thank you so much for your analysis thank you. now to spain where the trial is underway for twelve leaders of the catalan separatist movement and their charge for their role in the two thousand and seventeen independence referendum that the spanish

government in madrid said was illegal some face decades in prison if they're found guilty of rebellion and the trial is expected to last three months with verdicts coming several months later now the head of the independence movement carlos push him out he is not in court he's living in exile in germany right now. well let's go to madrid a journalist i don't even ask as is near the supreme court building there and he's joining us jaime good to see you this is being billed as spain's trial of the century there's so much interest in this it's being broadcast on television there are people there behind you what's been happening outside the courthouse well exactly i'm a few meters away from the crowd at the courthouse it goes up or leave us the demonstrators from getting close to two of the court here and you can see there's some banners you still there was a demonstration earlier in the morning showing the support holding.

what they call the political prisoners and we've seen also isolated moments of tension with all the people waving on these blogs and yelling not to tell them but it has been quite quiet. in the whole morning and things are. quite normal of the moment doing in the space what's happening inside the court as you know who is in court and what charges are they facing. well you got to learn. even on the bench nine of them like vice president of the law and a former vice president of your own comparison. think of this speaker of the council in parliament and do social. activities you are also with everything on the bench and they face a very harsh. rebellion you know. i mean orchestrations really for the sake of a movement you and a plan that ended up with

a unilateral declaration of independence. thanks accordingly all the hundreds if wishing for and their search of a. solution would be six years in prison men present at the moment a prosecutor it's important to enter five years for all you care and. the nine name accused being court of the moment ok some very serious charges with serious consequences now the leader of the separatist movement we mentioned carlos push he's not on trial there madrid he's here in berlin he spoke a little while ago at a press conference here let's listen to what he said at the trial. starts of in madrid this morning he's a test for the whole judicial response system. therefore is a stress test for the spanish democracy because the judiciary system is one of the

basis of the rule of law in our democracy. so forgot all democracies around the world must be inspired by the struggle for democracy. so i mean we heard there a stress test for spanish democracy now the spanish government is saying the same thing is this really a stress test. well i think that obviously for some on the dependent movement to do it is a whole a stretch of you trying to make the trial i believe those trials i think that one hundred one is government. is really to show us trust. can this is why for example the trial is broadcast live on t.v. and they want to show that you know bain is a democracy doesn't work and the judiciary independent independent before and so i think that's going to be true. story

around the whole trial. this is what went with think all right journalist jaime speaking to us from madrid thank you so much. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world at least seventeen people have died in a fire at a hotel in india's capital delhi most were sleeping when the blaze broke out early on tuesday morning rescue teams saved thirty five people from the building the disaster has raised questions about poor safety standards and a lack of government regulation. anti-government protests in haiti are approaching 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 are fueled by anger over corruption and the government's handling of the economy. rescue workers in the south african city of durban have pulled 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 doctors have held the baby survival was a miracle. and the u.s. republicans and democrats appear to have reached an agreement over border security that will prevent another u.s. government shutdown the deal includes plans to finance new barriers along the us mexico border but it's only a fraction of the money president trump wants to build as wall of the agreement still needs to be approved by congress and signed by trump. draw. there was no escaping the message at this rally in el paso texas president donald trump has promised to build a wall on the us mexico border and despite a political backlash he says it will still happen. setting the stage we're setting the table we're doing whatever we have to do the walls being built it will continue it's going at a rapid pace. the rio grande up and go check with. what

trump was on stage a tentative agreement was being thrashed out in washington the deal between republicans and democrats will fund fifty five miles of new fencing in the rio grande valley to prevent migrants crossing over from mexico but it is far less than trump wanted and has been agreed only to avoid another government shutdown this is really a difficult one because the issue is so important and we all said that we did not want to shut down the government we want to reach agreement. back in el paso one trump was delighting his people across the street a protest rally was being staying just. only. former democratic congressman betterer rope is not only against trump school but he's also a potential rival in next year's u.s.

presidential election. we stand for america and we stand against war was. won the war continues to divide the u.s. it looks set to play an even more prominent role in the twenty twenty election. you're watching news still to come in this half hour cow controversy how farmers in northern india are battling to prevent stray cows from destroying their products. the first german economy minister pitta is holding talks with american officials in berlin today on the possibility of importing more natural gas from the us l. and g. is the liquefied form of natural gas once it is cool down to minus one hundred sixty degrees it has a much smaller volume making it easier to ship and trade around the globe now the u.s. has long been the largest producer of natural gas but the country's only recently

begun to break into the l.n.g. market still it's expanding quickly x. first say that the u.s. could become the third largest exporter in the world by twenty twenty africa tarr in australia that the u.s. currently has three pool ports to load alan g. at the company air operates two facilities in louisiana and texas and the dominion energy operates out of maryland more than a dozen other terminals are currently under construction or planned and receiving terminals in germany are also being built and forty other countries around the world now today's german american talks come amid heightened tensions between the u.s. and e.u. on the issues of energy and trade germany is moving ahead with a controversial gas pipeline with russia to the u.s. strongly opposes saying it would give russia leverage against europe washington is meanwhile pushing brussels for a new trade deal and dangling car tariffs over european carmakers all of which makes american allergy sales an important topic for both sides. right let's talk

about all of this with your jelinek from d.w. business eric thanks for joining us ok why does germany want to import liquefied gas or germany will turn off all of its nuclear power plants in twenty twenty two and a few years later germany will also get rid of cool as a source of power that means we have to replace more than fifty percent of our energy needs that's an enormous task and we need stable reliable sources of power power that works when there's no electricity coming from wind turbine winds as you know there's no wind blowing. stable sources of energy that we need when it's dark outside and solar panels don't provide electricity and the answer to that is gas so why get that gas from the us and not from russia if that's the cheaper option it certainly is the cheaper option but you know we have mutual interests on both sides of the atlantic. the head of the commission promised donald trump that we will

import more american liquefied guess if he doesn't increase taxes on european goods such as cars cars made in germany so there's a mutual interest also you talked about russia the growing influence of russia when we get rid of nuclear power and we get rid of coal as sources of energy and we when we need to import more gas and that means we would have to increase our. imports from russia that's something that donald trump for instance doesn't want he even says that germany is a kept of of russia and he is right about that and we need to diversify our sources of energy star it's important political considerations there it looks like the u.s. gains a lot from this certainly you know the u.s. is going to end very important market a market where there will be one of the major players in those world and of course they want to sell it to germany to europe in order to make a profit all right interesting stuff there your neck from business thank you so

much. now nato secretary general against byrd has warned against a new nuclear arms race after a cold war era pact between russia and the us collapsed earlier this month sulzberger urged russia to comply with the i announced treaty which bans the development and possession of intermediate range nuclear missiles the us put the deal after blaming russia for not sticking to its obligations and moscow followed suit the i.m.f. is topping the agenda at a meeting of nato defense ministers in brussels this week ahead of the munich security conference. call part. of the state of what are privy to find out. just how come join her is no stranger to the hardships of farming in india. but he's now confronting a new menace which has been causing havoc across the brutal economy. street cause.

they're coming out of their childhood tom says the animals have gobbled up his crops twice causing huge financial losses. so seeds and laid on fertiliser the one the crops grow the cattle destroy it in the hard work of time and money goes down the drain there's a big garden. many farmers have been forced to patrol the fields and trees the way the animals with little success. i chased the cattle off my field but the neighboring farmer will do the same and they'll come back here all run after them again and this goes on all day every ten minutes. others are trying to keep a constant vigil over the crops should they because god says wheat fields from straight from six thirty in the morning until dusk at night his younger brother takes over. their cattle come at night sometimes entire herds of them someone has to be here

all night too with a stick and a torch. frustration is boiling over among farmers here recently they took matters into their own hands they rounded up around eighty stray cows and locked them up here in this public school to protect their fields only to have the police come and free them a few hours later. the position alone is estimated to have more than one million street cattle two years ago the state's hindu nationalist government imposed strict laws banning slaughter and killing to protect the cows many hindus consider holy but it's had the opposite effect. this is a big problem across the countryside here. tough restrictions on the cattle trade mean that villagers can no longer sell their old unproductive cows for me to offer heights villagers here say many farmers are forced to abandon their all cows

leading to a spike in the stray cats a population. the government has pledged funds for districts to deal with the problem and set up temporary shelters to take in strays. but the facilities like this one in the nearby town of calgary ill equipped there's little hope of things changing. the government has built this shelter but you can see for yourself there's no one to maintain it every two weeks or so at least one count dies here the government's doing nothing. that doesn't surprise political scientists. he says protection is largely a symbolic issue for the hindu nationalists. protection movement historically has been about the protection of the call as a symbol and she gave the embodiment to an incarnation of the know both the mother and the nation it's never about sound. economic policy

so it's not so much about protecting the cow but it's a book killing which. as he's taking no more chances he's now secured in this field with. the prices of sword because of high demand. the hope is that this will keep stray calls out at least until the harvest next month. not to the berlin international film festival currently underway here in the german capital our correspondent charlotte shell simple went to see vice a biopic about former u.s. vice president dick cheney starring british actor christian bale as she explains it's a film that makes you laugh but also cry. he did it take. after him once to be and you have fears that vice is more than just a bio pic 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 are all true our

friends. i want you to be my baby vice it's all to prove that from the shadows of the george w. bush administration cheney was one of the most medicine figures in recent history willing how without conscience on everything from the iraq war to global warming bush approval. for stanek organism with amy adams as his ambitious wife lynne. you know we're going to bomb commodious and steve carell as political ally donald rumsfeld satirical and at times upset as device will have between laughter and horror we were tickled. and it was that absurdist humor that christian bale brought with him to palin and to the film's german prem yeah so we'll just have sex with the belly but i have cast us there now you guys can see it it's a very intriguing belly but that's the biggest challenge of the scene in there so

to hear that. box humor aside 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 and if you keep doing that. 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 these are smart men around he does it through comedy and then through that you actually get incredible emotion from you know it's a very moving field 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 that his actions were still working around the world today you know it's the old cliche you know it unless you know history will repeat itself so hopefully it will have

a faction 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 an actor. all right a reminder now of our top stories here on venezuelan opposition leader one why the calls on the supporters to return to the streets to try to force an end to the standoff over eight president nicolas maduro is refusing to allow humanitarian supplies into the country saying it would be a. pre-tax for a foreign invasion. the trial opens in madrid as twelve leaders of catalonia as failed bid for independence in two thousand and seventeen they face charges including valiant and sedition. coming up here and you know if you will take a look at what's behind the mass demonstrations that have been taking place in strands of the last few months france has a yellow vest rebellion a movement against a star coming right up there and g.w. of course you can always get the latest news on our web site e.w.

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every week on t.w. . following violent protests on the streets of paris the french government declares a state of economic and social emergency. almost i believe it was down to boil over at some point this is really dangerous if . the yellow vests protest against tax increases and demand a greater say in the running of the country.