that ends it for good malaria must die so millions can live. this is g.w. news from berlin tonight a guilty verdict for the man known as el chapo a u.s. court has convicted of the notorious mexican drug lord walking he could spend the rest of his life behind bars also coming up tonight marching for food and medicine in venezuela thousands attend a rally in caracas to demand humanitarian aid be allowed into the country as

a position leader. tells you that hundreds of thousands could die if president maduro doesn't open the border and the. time for iran is based on the novel by. a movie about a group of stop at nothing teenagers in naples italy who decided to take over the mafia. i'm good to have you with us the notorious mexican drug cartel boss walking good smut known as el chapo has been found guilty of drug trafficking by a court in the united states. was extradited to the united states in two thousand and seventeen after breaking out of a mexican prison twice the sixty one year old could well spend the rest of his life

in prison the jury found him guilty of smuggling tons of cocaine and heroin into the united states through his global drug empire he's expected to be sentenced in june. now a short while ago the u.s. attorney spoke outside the courthouse where the guilty verdict was delivered his 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 has suffered so long and so much want guzman made billions pouring poison over our southern border. and that was the u.s. attorney there richard donahue speaking let's take the story now to the u.s. capitol washington d.c. our correspondent helen humphrey is standing by good evening to you helena so we've

been saying all day that the u.s. government has really been playing a game of cat and mouse with el chapo for years so how big of a deal is this guilty verdict. brant this is a huge deal for the united states in so far as it wraps up that as you say a decades long cat and mouse game between your enforcement and chapel a chapel of course guilty of very serious and at times violent crimes and in doing so in masterminding that huge drug trafficking cartel he himself pocketed fourteen billion dollars at least in doing so when we talk about serious organized crime this man is the epitome of it his organizational capabilities meant that he was able to mastermind a network of tunnels which allowed him to traffic millions of tons worth of cocaine and heroin into the united states at one point he boasted that he'd trafficked

enough cocaine into the united states so that there could be a line for everybody in the united states and using those same tunnels he was then able to escape from prison in mexico not once but twice most recently in twenty seventeen when he escaped from his prison in mexico through a hole in the shower of his prison cell and it was at that point in twenty seventeen that mexico and the then mexican president arika opinion yet to then agree to his extradition fearing once again that he would escape their clutches that they would not be able to serve justice essentially if they couldn't keep tabs on him it's a story that you know that's made almost for hollywood you could say i mean he was able to was from prison to taunt successfully so how worth ortiz how were they able did the camp sure there may. well talking about hollywood there's another page from the hollywood playbook and that is the thought that sean penn the actor turned

activist meeting with el chapo in the mexican jungle ofter his escape may have led then to his arrest and extradition they were meeting in the jungle sean penn said that he believed that his communications with el chapo then had been tracked by u.s. authorities and in doing so they were able to find him in a mexican hideout chaplet tried to escape through a network of so was no less a running gun battle ensued five members of his car tell this in a low a cocktail were killed in that battle as el chapo emerge from the soon as he was then apprehended x. extradited then to the united states in a rifle back on well on u.s. soil on the final day of u.s. president barack obama's presidency. w.'s helena home free on the story for us tonight in washington with the latest on that guilty verdict for the drug cartel leader known as el chapo well the thank you will from north to south america

tonight in venezuela tens of thousands of taking to the streets to demand the military allow much needed humanitarian aid into the country opposition leader one why go cold for the demonstrations he says the government's blockade is in danger in 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 that aid in he says it's part of a u.s. plot to overthrow his government. was tens of thousands on the streets of caracas backers a venezuelan opposition leader and self declared president won by doe. i say 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. again 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 the w.b. why don't condemn the blockade in 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 down there will throw 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 hands off venezuela yankee empire yankee go home we're not sure you're going to do the job here was quite a 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 refuse to step aside i when he. spoke with the opposition leader and i asked him whether one is confident that he can win the power struggle against the president. yes definitely there actually one of the things he said this time is playing against the government they're very confident they've they've said that this is a point of no return for the opposition and the struggle that's been building up for twenty years so they are very confident that there is a welcome change in a balanced way that they don't know when exactly but they say that time is actually

playing against nicole's mother who at this point i was. speaking with us earlier here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in spain twelve leaders of the kettle on separatist movement have gone on trial for their role in the twenty seventeen independence referendum madrid deemed the referendum illegal there facing various charges including rebellion and misuse of public funds the trial was expected to last for at least three months 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 britain's prime minister has asked parliament for more time for talks with the european union to renegotiate who breaks a deal theresa may told lawmakers today that she can still reach a deal on leaving the e.u.

that they could support despite their previous overwhelming rejection of her current deal britain is scheduled to leave the e.u. on march twenty ninth the. only economists have long been warning of a crisis here in germany in the labor market now in addition to being the world's fourth largest economy germany also happens to have the world's second oldest population japan is number one that means employers here need an influx of young skilled workers a new study has just revealed how many immigrants will be required each year to fill that gap. i'm to hafez sulaimani is a project manager for machine builder rembert he is 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 renmark 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. . 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. making the from when it comes to granting resident says rights to migrants who come here to work or study course it's all especially have to make the condition 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 president. 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 and. well they can finally get to work ok. 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 elin 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 be excluding it from the german market this after china blasted the u.s. for attempting to stop countries doing business from who way. yeah i mean there's a lot at stake here in the talk about that now i'm joined by our very own juno damali own from our business does good to see you juno so first of all what the german government what is it trying to achieve with changing goals year they don't want to get rid of who were correct indeed and you know for some contacts in germany is a really specific position it badly needs five g. you know that internet here is a vis mall 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 you have is 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 in we are banning them so essentially what the german government now is trying to do is find a way to include way 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 no 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 to 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. requests to cooperate could be an obligation so while they what might have to spy on the germans if the intelligence authorities asked it to others is very very low for exactly what we have now are proposals and what this can do is buy time for the german a for a while wait for germany to respond and to make a decision all right it's our very own tamale on there from our business to us thank you general the palestinian territory of gaza has one of the highest youth

unemployment rates in the world more than seventy percent of young people there can't find a job they double used on your grammar has been talking to young gazans who are determined to find a way to make a living. it might not be his dream job but it's better than having no work at all. who not only helps out in his uncle's carpentry shop have a new job in gaza is precious for a young person like him. then the only economic situation today is tough but if you lose 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 the law 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 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 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 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 in india they say if you lose hope you lose life and gas no matter how hard life is the only thing we have is hope but 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. tonight the refugee footballer hakim. is back with his family in australia he spent the past two months in police custody in thailand where he'd been facing extradition to his native bahrain as well as a long prison sentence or human rights groups say that the charges were trumped up today when he arrived at the airport in melbourne he received a hero's welcome. 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 metal pieces because the diet is my candidacy didn't i didn't he didn't fit me but . my guess is that it is i would be dead instead i don't live on abroad he

was granted refugee status in australia off the free in his native bahrain back in two thousand and fourteen i lost a wall 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 and toi governments the extradition request was rescinded and thailand freed him his case though is not the only one that human rights lawyers are pursuing with regards to the gulf kingdom. today a testament to everyone if it gets really won tonight that there are not that not raney's time who remain in detention today in bahrain and we have to maintain the fight and we have to make sure that i'm how 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 and australia. well first of all thank you for having me on tonight. you know this case really is is of a player who and 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 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 is 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 hopkins' case and that's what happened and

that's what people saw and what a bell and other sports organizations i'm thinking about for example the governing body of world soccer i mean are the 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 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 sports 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 this is the center for sports and human rights the name itself suggests 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 mr evers we appreciate you talking with us tonight and putting all of these events in perspective for us thank you for the sixty ninth berlin international film festival has reached its halfway point there's a walk the talk about to do that i'm joined by the w.c. i mean s.s. who is i think just down on the red carpet alone tonight that's right you're by

yourself tonight hi 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 from years tonight we just recently had an italian film premier called puranas boccaccio joven 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 very the now the 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 a 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 premier today it's called yeah the journey in art house film called i was at home but now this is by angular seana lack 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 she's part of the berlin school which

is a school that emerged after the fall of the berlin wall and like i said 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 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 treat our very own the army and as if they are on the red carpet at the bill or not i mean thank you. well you're watching t w news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight in venezuela a promise to try those responsible for the silent genocide.

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