this is g w news live from berlin a guilty verdict for the man known as el chapo a u.s. court convicts the notorious mexican drug lord. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars also coming up tonight marching for food and medicine in venezuela thousands attend the rally in caracas to demand humanitarian aid be allowed into the country as opposition leader one tells d.w. news hundreds of thousands could do it president doesn't open the border and we go

to the for the premiere of a movie based on. news book about a group of stop at nothing teenagers in naples italy who decide to take over the mafia. it's good to have you with us the notorious mexican drug cartel boss joachim known as has been found guilty of drug trafficking by a court in the united states of chapo was extradited to the u.s. in two thousand and seventeen after breaking out of a mexican prison twice the sixty one year old could now spend the rest of his life in prison the jury today found him guilty of smuggling tons of cocaine and heroin into the united states through his global drug empire. he will be sentenced this

coming june. and in the last few minutes the u.s. attorney just spoke outside the courthouse take a listen to this conviction we expect will bring a sense of life without the possibility of parole is a sense from which there is no escape and no return. this conviction is a victory for the american people who is suffered so long and so much law guzman made billions pouring poison over our southern border there was the u.s. attorney there richard donahue let's take this story now to washington d.c. our correspondent helena humphrey is on the story forest good evening to you helen in that we know the u.s. government has been playing cat and mouse with for years of how big of a deal is this guilty verdict. i think for the u.s.

it certainly will be seen as a big success brant bearing in mind as you say this wraps up a decades long cat and mouse game between chapo joaquin guzman and a u.s. law enforcement i think it's fair to say the el chapo the world's most notorious drug trafficker essentially was the bane of luring foresman life here in that not only did he manage to mastermind a network of tunnels through which to traffic many class a and other drugs to through the united states he also used those tunnels to escape from prison not once but twice in fact in interior so he achieved a new mythological like status but of course you have to bear in mind these are very serious crimes he was accused of drugs trafficking as well as murders larger corruption as well so for the u.s. to certainly brings to a close decades long chapter you know he escaped from mexican prisons on two

occasions most recently actually through a shallow hole in his cell and it was at that point that his extradition to the united states was granted the then mexican president and the u.k. pena nieto fearing another attempt possibly disappearing from the radar altogether just could not risk that mexico had promised to deliver justice and it was that point in twenty seventeen which mexico agreed to chapel and how was the united states able to actually capture their man i mean you have to give it to him and he was able to break out of prison successfully twice. right and it does sound like something from a scene from a hollywood movie but it's understood that communications with the hollywood actor sean penn turned activist may have led actually to his capture sean penn was in the jungle in mexico meeting with

a chap oh it's understood that they were talking about even the possibility for a film about a chap whose life and that may have been his hubris his fatal flaw or some vanity that he wanted his journey his notoriety recorded and sean penn said that he believes that us in forstmann were tracking his communications which then led to them tracking what tina goodman joaquin guzman was hiding out in a house in mexico try to escape through a network of suicide it led to a running gun battle with or thirty's five cartel members dead and el chapo then arrested and handed over to u.s. authorities on the last day correct obama's presidency or held a home for you almost or forced tonight's in washington with a guilty verdict for. oh no thank you. from north to south america in venezuela tens of thousands have taken to the streets to demand the military allow much needed humanitarian aid into the country opposition leader

. called for the demonstrations he says the government's blockade is endangering hundreds of thousands of lives more than one hundred tons of food and medicine are waiting in neighboring colombia but president nicolas maduro is refusing to let the aid in he says it's part of a u.s. plot to overthrow his government. tens of thousands on the streets of caracas backers of venezuelan opposition leader and self declared president one why do. i fear responding to glide to his call to put pressure on the military to withdraw its support for president nicolas maduro support that is making possible the blockade of desperately needed aid. and i think that today we are here in support of our president one quite oh we are here first because i want my family to return to venezuela second i want the elderly to eat well and live well because the elderly

have been abandoned we need urgent help. earlier in an exclusive interview with d w why don't condemn the blockade and the strongest possible terms. what's happening in venezuela could be considered aside and genocide and hundreds of thousands have died because of a shortage of food and medicine. so this regime is responsible for direct deaths like in the case of the special forces that killed over seventy people in a week for protesting and for indirect deaths because they're not doing anything to solve the food and medicine crisis food and medicine from the u.s. has been piling up at the border with colombia for material rejecting that aid with the help of his loyal military is part of the fight to keep venezuela free of u.s. influence me the only way to go thousands of men and women have shown their. ability their training their physical and moral strength the strength that we need to tell the empire to get out of venezuela. venezuela yankee empire yankee go

home. he. says he has faith that the country's armed forces can be won over but he has not ruled out asking the u.s. to intervene militarily in venezuela should madieu to fuse to step aside. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world u.s. president donald trump says he may extend his march first deadline for reaching a trade deal with china mr trump says that he might do so if the two countries are close to reaching a deal if there's no agreement u.s. tariffs are set to more than double on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports a car bomb has exploded at a border checkpoint in northern syria near turkey the explosion was captured see it right there on c.c.t.v. at least seven people were injured but no deaths reported there's been no claim of responsibility in spain twelve leaders of the catalog separatist movement have gone

on trial for their role in the twenty seventeen independence referendum madrid deemed the referendum illegal is facing various charges including rebellion and misuse of public funds the trial is expected to last at least three months. i'm saying here in europe economists have long been warning of a crisis in germany's labor market now germany is the world's fourth largest economy it's also home to the second oldest population on the planet japan is number one we're now a new study has revealed just how many young immigrant workers will be needed each year to fill the gap and to keep the economy going. i'm still hafez sulaimani is a project manager for machine builder rembert he's palestinian and has been in germany for ten years last year after finishing college in berlin he started working for the northern german company

a stroke of luck for runner which like many companies has been anxious to attract qualified workers the next thing ya gotta do is on the coming years large numbers of qualified workers will be retiring that means we expect increased shortages of these workers shall form the end process for germany's economy and social system it's not just trades people and caregivers who will be needed but also highly skilled workers according to the study two hundred sixty thousand more qualified workers will be needed each year only one hundred fourteen thousand immigrants could come from the e.u. since all european countries are struggling with low birth rates so an additional one hundred forty six thousand immigrants would need to come from outside the e.u. . i at the end of december the german government passed a skilled labor immigration law following thirty years of debate but it has yet to come into effect the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. continues to pour all over the details just how difficult the issue of migration is

for germany's conservatives became clear last weekend when the party discussed chancellor angela merkel's refugee policy. when it comes to granting resident says rights to migrants who come here to work or study its will especially have to make the conditions such that we do not increase attractiveness along the lines of somehow gets in with asylum then everything else will work out this process must not serve as a precedent. while german businesses are calling for an immigration law to take effect as soon as possible the conservatives view the draft skilled labor immigration law as still in need of rigorous debate that means that some skilled laborers and some companies will have to wait even longer until they. finally get to work. germany's interior minister is calling for a change in the wall that would see stricter conditions applied to foreign producers of telecommunications equipment and this is a big deal berlin is mulling on whether to let china's cool way be part of building

germany's five g. network the telecoms equipment maker has close ties to the chinese military now under the proposed changes companies taking part would need to undergo security certification and they would need to sign a new spy agreement the interior minister here in germany says that that would be aimed at monitoring who weighed better as opposed to excluding it from the german market this after china blasted the u.s. for attempting to stop countries doing business from who way. you know there's a lot at stake here in the talk about that now i'm joined by our very own janiero damali own from our business does good to see you know so first of all what the german government what is it trying to achieve with changing the waltz year they don't want to get rid of who were correct and did and you know for some contacts then germany is in a really specific position it badly needs five g. you know that internet here is

a business model and if it wants to retain its position as an industrial leader that has to change and it is having those five g. networks built out in fact how does the next generation of formats of wireless technology and so you have a next month the spectrum auction and it has been this big question do we let wall way and are not so on the one hand you have a company that has high quality technology at a good price on the other hand there is this fear that they could be building back doors for espionage and what could be a crucial piece of infrastructure and those are the kinds of concerns that have already made countries like the u.s. the u.k. australia and new zealand say nope we're not letting them and we are banning them so essentially what the german government now is trying to do is find a way to include to allow it to participate while blocking concerns of espionage or failing that finding a legal basis with which to exclude how wildly if it had to fit isn't sufficiently satisfy that it's networks would be protected and what about this node spy plane i mean how do you trust who way i mean who can pledge not to spy but that doesn't

mean anything right indeed and you know like i said earlier other countries have already decided they can't and germany has yet to make up its mind but there's also the chinese laws to consider there is something called the national intelligence law in china which gives the intelligence authorities sweeping powers to investigate foreign and local institutions and individuals and there's a particular article in there article fourteen that says that the intelligence authorities may request cooperation from from organizations when conducting their investigation so depending on how you read a law or. a quest to cooperate could be an obligation so while they would might have to spy on the germans if the intelligence authorities asked it to give us a very very tough for exactly what we have now our proposals and what this can do is buy time for the german for a while wait for germany to respond and to make a decision or write our very own to mali and there from our business to us thank

you general of the palestinian territory of gaza has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world more than seventy percent of young people are without work is talking your kramer she's been talking to young gazans determined to make a living. it might not be his dream job but it's better than having no work at all. helps out in his uncle's carpentry shop have a new job in gaza is precious for a young person like him. then well the only economic situation today is tough but if you do your job you won't find an alternative but i don't want to give up polo mogul. the twenty nine year old used to work for an ngo but lost his job recently with ethan unemployment at seventy percent below says the situation for the young is desperate. 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 out of 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 trying to build a future in the virtual world. here the borders which have been closed for half her life done masha. she's trying to establish herself in online marketing. when at seventy some young people give 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 now trying to invest in digital media a lot of says she won't give up despite her home being a place where conflict can erupt at any time they say if you lose hope you lose life and ghassan 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 hope may well remain the only thing they have to cling to for a long time to come. all the refugees a player hakeem arrival is back with his family in australia tonight after being detained in thailand for more than two months he'd been facing extradition to his native bahrain and a long prison sentence on what shimon rights groups say was a trumped up charge arriving at melbourne's airport he received a hero's welcome. back he is back on australian soil after more than two months spent as a prisoner in thailand he was finally permitted to return to his adopted home of noble causes that i it is my identity that didn't i didn't see didn't fit yet but.

my guess that it is that i would be doing instead i don't know if i'll abroad he was granted refugee status in australia after fleeing his native bahrain or back in two thousand and fourteen last year while in bangkok on his honeymoon he was arrested on an interpol warrant which was later rescinded on legal grounds because of his refugee status he'd been convicted in absentia in bahrain of offenses related to the twenty eleven arab spring protests and sentenced to ten years in prison but after a campaign of pressure on the bahraini anti-government the extradition request was rescinded and thailand freed him his case though is not the only one that human rights lawyers office suing with regards to the gulf kingdom. today is testament to everyone's effet i think it's really one tonight that there are not that bad rainy time who remain in detention today in bahrain and we have to maintain the fight and we have to make sure that i'm had came is not the only one that gets to go home to his family for

a ride be at least the ordeal is over he's back in his adopted home. reunited with his family at last. well the effects of the kings have been global and to talk about that i'm joined by mary harvey she is head of the center for sports and human rights in geneva and that's where she is joining us tonight and harvey it's good to have you on the show i know you are a past member of the u.s. soccer team and also a former fever executive so how did this case which is very much about human rights how did it reach beyond thailand bahrain in australia well first of all thank you for having me on tonight. you know this case really is is of a player who in an athlete who never should have been detained in the first place and the case of hakim really hit a chord he's not only a refugee he's a human rights defender and the fact that so many people all immediately

found that what had happened to him was an injustice on and the fact that he was a football player really captured the imagination of so many people who really wanted to go to bat for him and do you think because he is a football player that's why he's a free man tonight if he had not been a football player do you think he would have still been let go. that's a good question what we've been seeing happen in the past three years is a movement around sport and human rights and which is how the center was founded but what you have here is a situation where. you know this this player captured the imagination of so many who feel that sport has an obligation to uphold human rights abuses when they occur and so there was a platform that had been built over time to really mobilize around collective

action to bring many many voices to hakim's case and that's what happened and that's what people saw and what about other sports organizations i'm thinking about for example the governing body rolled soccer i mean are they willfully ignoring human rights issues i know that in bahrain every year there's a there's a formula one race there was just a golf tournament in saudi arabia i mean are these things being willfully ignore words human rights ignored so that sports can go forward. i don't but i think it's the contrary i think what you're seeing now is particularly in the case you mention fee for. several years ago commissioned drawn rugby to write the rugby report on how cumin rights could be embedded into its operations and so what you're seeing is you know feet following through on its obligation to abide by the un guiding principles on business and human rights and they are the largest sports governing body that has adopted the un g.p.'s and so as

a result of that you start to see new behavior out of players like you see a letter from their general secretary to the prime minister of thailand these things wouldn't happen three four five years ago so you're seeing both an increase institute of human rights abuses in sport so there's more action and more visibility to it but what's different now is you're also seeing sports behave differently when these abuses occur and how do you think an organization like yours i mean does the center for sports and human rights the name itself suggest there's a connection between the two how can you have an impact on politics and political leaders or even royal families like the bahraini royal family how much power do you have. well the answer is we don't know but what we do know is is that the center is a collective of many different groups that all have a role to play in the ecosystems of sport you know sports governing bodies you have international or intergovernmental organization such as the aiello or the office of

the high commissioner for human rights you have sponsors you have n.g.o.s like human rights watch the a trade union so all these actors over the past three years with all the issues that happened in sports have come together as a collective and so what you're seeing and what the center does is we mobilize collective action to bring protections to human rights in sports and that's mega sporting events but that's also day to day sports and so the center was very active around the case of hakim and mobilize itself collectively mary harvey with these sort of her sports and human rights in geneva ms harper's we appreciate you talking with us tonight and putting all of these events in perspective for so thank you thank you for the sixty ninth berlin international film festival has reached its halfway point to there's a lot to talk about to do that i'm joined by the m e n s of who is i think just

down on the red carpet alone tonight that's right you're by yourself tonight so i there what's been happening today. well brant you have where we're having fun here on the red carpet there's been a lot of there's been several premieres tonight we just recently had an italian film premier called puranas boccaccio driven a.z. he's a he's an up and coming talian director it's really an honor for him to be out here on the six out of ten today of the better than other film festival he's going to be in competition competing for the prized golden bear award out of seventeen films which will be awarded on saturday and this film peron those i mean what's the film about. well puranas takes us into the heart of chaotic naples italy it portrays the lives of a group of teenagers thirteen fourteen fifteen who get involved in the life of

organized crime it follows the story of nicola who's a very intelligent young man fifteen years old in another situation if he wasn't in a poor neighborhood in naples he might be well on his way to university starting a career but in his situation he's using this intelligence to get ahead the best as he can and that is through organized crime he rises quickly up through the ranks of the mafia there of course it's also a love story he's got a crush on another on a girl who at some point he can't go into her territory because it's owned by another gang almost roly romeo and juliet story romeo and juliet in the mafia while that's an interesting combination what else have you seen today. well there was also a german film the premiere and today it's called yeah the journey it's an art house film called i was at home but now this is by angular seana like it's not for general public i would say very long scene she's known for her wide shots she

said in a press conference today that she doesn't move the camera unless she has to that kind of describes her style not much dialogue as part of the berlin school which is a school that emerged after the fall of the berlin wall and like i said it there was some people who you know fell asleep during the film but i appreciated it just because it gave me something i hadn't seen in a film before very strange very moving yeah well you know i mean there's late night parties at the berlin wall that are known for making people drowsy and sleepy the next day st our very own army and as if they are on the red carpet at the berlin wall i mean thank you. and here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you the notorious mexican drug cartel boss joaquin known as el chapo has been found guilty of drug trafficking by a u.s. court he faces a possible sentence of wife in prison. you're watching the news coming up

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