this is. a guilty verdict for the man known as el chapo a us court convicts the notorious mexican drug lord walking goods much he could spend the rest of his life behind bars also coming up thousands attend a rally in caracas to demand that the government allow humanitarian aid into the country and this as opposition leader. hundreds of thousands could die if the president does not open the border. and the end of an ordeal he was jailed in

thailand facing deportation to bahrain but now refugee football team. has made a triumphant return to. golf it's good to have you with us the unit tory is mexican drug lord has been convicted of crimes spanning a quarter of a century a us court today found him guilty on all counts walking good smith 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 spend the rest of his life behind bars the jury found him guilty of smuggling tons of cocaine and heroin into the united states through his global drug. his sentencing is scheduled for june.

well a short while ago the u.s. attorney in the case gave a statement outside that u.s. courthouse. 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 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. capital washington d.c. or correspond helena 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 decades long cat and mouse game between nor enforcement and el chapo a top 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 but he was able do was from prison to taunt successfully so how worth ortiz how were they able did to capture their male. 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 which tried to escape through a network of super hendricks extradited then to the united states in iraq back on while on u.s. soil on the final day of u.s. president barack obama's presidency. w.'s helena humphrey on the story for us tonight in washington with the latest on that guilty verdict for the drug cartel leader known as el chapo now in the thank you. it into a load tens of thousands of taking to the streets to demand the military a well much needed humanitarian aid into the country opposition leader one called for the demonstrations he says the government's blockade is in danger and hundreds of thousands of lives more than one hundred tons of food and medicine are waiting at the border in neighboring colombia but president nicolas maduro is refusing to weathered in he says the aid is 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. was there responding to glide those 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. 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 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.

surely are we asked our visits where the correspondent oscar schlink is there any chance of president maduro agreeing to hold fresh presidential elections that is not in the plants of nicolas maduro to hold elections actually he's. said that he would hold elections but for the parliament which is the only democratically elected or recognize them a credit we elected is just in a minute all these countries so there aren't any elections in the near side for nicolas maduro as of yet but that's what the opposition strategist you that's one way though has said he's only an interim president and his role is to enact the constitution to allow. elections in thirty days but he can't do that unless another little steps down so it's very it's a very difficult situation because there is a power struggle

a very strong power struggle between the opposition and what remains of the support they need or as my who are housed within the institutions it was de w.'s oscar schleicher there reporting from caracas 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 look at this video of the explosion captured on c.c.t.v. at least seven people were injured no deaths reported there has been no claim of responsibility. britain's prime minister has asked parliament for more time for talks with the european union to renegotiate her breaks a deal theresa may told lawmakers. it's a day that she can still reach

a deal on leaving the e.u. they can support despite their previous over whelming rejection of the current deal britain is scheduled to leave the european union on march twenty ninth right. and staying here in europe the trial of twelve cuts along separatist leaders has begun in the spanish capital madrid the defendants face charges of rebellion and sedition over their roles in the two thousand and seventeen independence referendum now that referendum was deemed illegal by spain's supreme court if convicted the defendants could be sentenced to decades in prison. dawn in madrid spain trial of the century begins twelve catalan defendants formally regional government ministers now stand accused of rebellion and sedition by the spanish state. kim torah catalonians current president who's not facing charges talks to his colleagues before the trial

you can see if you can pick up that it's being seen as a test of spain's unity and of its judicial system and it's being televised to fend off potential accusations of not being fully transparent but. outside protests some pro independence. and some anti here supporters of the far right vox party which is in a quirk of the spanish justice system actually part of the prosecution. they definitely could be in for a long time the separatists have been challenging the unity of spain the constitutional order they have been doing that due to the systematic an action of several spanish governments you know these people we have know this by now as the trial began in madrid in berlin carlos put him on who spearheaded the catalan independence vote in two thousand and seventeen that was then declared illegal by the central spanish government spoke from self-imposed exile. about a few of the only issues than what we've hellish but you know from today the

spanish traditional system is being tested and we are going to hear it we're in a democracy in a rule of law government the judicial system is one of the fundamental pillars. in all this is a stress test for spanish democracy. after work thousands of pro independent supporters congregate in barcelona spain's government may hope this trial draws a line under a constitutional and political crisis but for thousands of supporters of catalonia is independence the trial might not resolve anything at all. or tonight the. refugee football or hockey is back with his family in australia he spent the past two months in police custody in thailand he'd been facing extradition to his native bahrain as well as a long prison sentence human rights groups say that the arrest warrant and the extradition request were based on trumped up charges. at last.

he is back on australian soil after more than two months spent as a prisoner in thailand he was finally committed to return to his adopted home of noble causes that i have is my candidacy didn't i didn't see didn't fit. my can but it is that i would be doing it is that i don't know if i'll abroad he was granted refugee status in australia off to fleeing his native bahrain or 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 toy governments 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

a testament to everyone's ethics i think it's really one tonight that there are not that my brain needs i'm here to 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. you're watching the w. news live from berlin coming up next a business a new songs for office fall dramatically the japanese carmaker warning of that slowing demand and financial fall well from the arrest of its former c.e.o. carlos going. to be here with that and all your business news in just a moment don't forget you can get the latest news at any time on our web site that's at the u. dot com for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company. it's

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