people to take action. and were determined to do something here for the next generation. has been barmen series of three thousand on t.w. . this news coming to you live from berlin venezuela's president nicolas maduro expands the german ambassador he says ambassador daniel crean interfered in his country's politics by backing opposition leader bill the search proclaimed interim leader why don't also has the support of ecuador the ecuadorian vice president why

also coming up charge abuse for not prefers jailed in germany to lengthy prison sentences for manicures of running one of the was biggest child abuse barred on repeat homes on the dock net. and a new future for free spoke c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says that the focus on private messages that even facebook will not be able to see but critics are skeptical. plus is a jackal to say it really as harmless as the makers say the missile no more and court says officials must release studies on just how safe the controversial really is. the will continue. the european union has said its hopes venezuela would reconsider

its decision to expel the german ambassador daniel cleanout president nicolas maduro has accused the cleaner of interfering in venezuela as in turn and affairs after he expressed support for opposition media bill but why the one who has declared himself interim leader says the german ambassador should stay. on europe to tighten sanctions against them regime why there was speaking during ash wednesday in caracas. this regime the disease power has no right to declare anyone persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be same by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped bring in humanitarian i. think it's seems the madeira regime want tolerate anyone who wants to help and that's why law. until it is fun

mr heikal moss' also strongly condemned the decision to expel them back to caracas ma said germany would carry on supporting the opposition media one guy bill. kinds of lies the deaths of. this will in no way mean that we would reconsider our support for one why dollars in term president off with the task of organizing free fair and democratic elections is the right thing. to support is irreversible and it will stay there but just part of what why there has got the support of some fifty countries including ecuador he was there last week to meet the president and the country's vice president ought to a son in hopes that isn't political correspondents i mean young often want to ecuador was able to offer. well support for him he was proclaimed by the national assembly all sort of penance will spread interim president and we think since he's offering a way back to him ocracy we're backing him up on the way that's what all that he's

asked for and we're supporting the idea that one white all can call for a new election in venezuela your government has recognized as president interim president. as has the united states minister madeira say is that the united states is planning a coup against him or do you say to that that's all theories that he has been as well as of east who we are facing that issue in a quote every day with a hundred thousands of immigrants that are coming through our border colombia is also facing the venezuelan issue every day so there isn't proof over three million people three million people have less been as we left been as well in the last two years at least and it is clear that the only way to solve their own as well i'm problem is with democracy in the countries missing that venezuela has expelled the german ambassador and what does that tell us about whether this conflict is hotting

up those are issues between venezuela and germany we don't have an opinion on that a i know that germany is also backing in recognizing one way dawes as president in term of venezuela and in that sense we're all together in the contact group even with venezuela working on solutions for their own as well and people finally how destabilizing he's the conflict for the region generally it's the biggest. migration issue that we have seen in the in many years mean decades in latin america i cannot even think about another comparable with issue like that one as i told you colombia alone has over one and a half million call it a venezuelan immigrants in colombia we have around four hundred thousand but who are on eight hundred thousand chile these are people that are willing to go buy food from venezuela to chile i mean kendry magine the situation that they're leaving in venezuela so it's it is a big issue and we're thankful for all the support that we get from the international community in order to handle the siege you hopeful that it can be

solved without violence that's all hope yeah we're not we will not back a military intrusion in venezuela we are against that we think that it would not be a solution so we're working on the democratic solution thank you very much thank you. that was the union speaking to ecuador's vice president or to son and host now that we now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world canadian prime minister justin trudeau has admitted making mistakes in the handling of a growing political crisis but he insists nothing illegal happened trudeau blamed the scandal that's cost him two ministers on a breakdown of trust and communication that coleman justice minister jody wilson dribbled she accused trudeau of pressurising how to help a major construction firm avoid a criminal trial. french god no philip bobbitt says he will resign as archbishop of legal he announced the decision after

a court found him guilty of failing to inform authorities about sexual abuse allegations against a priest that priest has confessed to abusing boys in the nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's and will be tried later this year. the biggest mosque in turkey has opened in istanbul the can lick a mosque can hold up to sixty three thousand people its construction took six years and was strongly supported by president richard jones government the mosque features a library a museum and six minarets each one representing a war in which turkey was involved here in germany one of the worst cases of child sexual abuse on the so-called dark net has ended with long jail sentences for the perpetrators a court has handed down prison sentences of between three and ten years to four men accused of operating a platform called. it was one of the largest such websites worldwide until

investigators shut it down in june two thousand and seventeen. it took prosecutors months to gather the evidence the four men work used of setting up an operating and child pornography platform on the darkness and investigators said the men had managed the illegal pornographic content on the elysium network does not to be out of us of the material posted on elysium showed every kind of abuse imaginable of children and teenagers and always played on the victims included newborns and babies the platform was discovered in twenty seventeen and immediately shut down the case made international headlines due to the large number of subscribers investigators found one hundred twelve thousand user accounts paedophiles around the world were offered photos and videos of the worst kind of child abuse on a platform operated from germany prosecutors said the network allowed the exchange of illegal material to be as easy as online shopping investigators will continue to sift through the evidence and work with international authorities to bring

additional prosecutions. that is chief political correspondent melinda crean is following that story and joins me now melinda the convicted men received jail terms of between three and ten yes what is the in the basis of those sentences. they were convicted of possessing and publishing child pornography and in the case of one defendant he was also convicted of having molested children himself and then uploaded images of those acts to this website the sentences actually somewhat exceeded the sentences that prosecutors had asked for nonetheless child protection n.g.o.s here in germany are saying that the sentences in their opinion arch aren't as hard as they would have wanted to see now we have some a distressing details in our report tell us more about the investigation which came out of a cool peroration between germany and australia that's right there was

a tip off from australian investigators who had been working to uncover and expose a website there called the gift box and in their work they came across a german who was involved in that site and who subsequently became one of the people who administered this particular site called elysium so they did indeed work closely with the german police and that is perhaps not surprising given the fact that these operations like so much else on the web are global of those hundred ten thousand users of italy's e.-m. many were also in other countries and therefore the cooperation with fishelson other places was absolutely critical and i think it's also important to note that the german police work together with a platform called chap box which they praised in fact when the arrests were first

made saying that it had been very helpful to them well one reason that it was helpful is that chap box was working under u.s. law which required chat box to immediately inform authorities of any suspect content on that site that would be much more difficult under german data protection laws right. chief political correspondent thank you very much. now facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says his company plans to shift its focus to private messaging services in a post on his own profile page about said the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible he said people increasingly want to connect privately in the digital equivalent often livingroom. now additional report and shouted read is with us and welcome jad i'm not quite sure what mark sokolich is trying to do can explain what his plans are what's he up

to so we marry facebook really as a networking tool that can mix people all around the world and now mark zuckerberg kind of has he's our eyes sit on what we say in private to each other on the messaging services that facebook owns so platforms like whatsapp facebook and facebook messenger and instagram and he wants to make those compatible with each other as you say sorry if you write to me on whatsapp i'd be able to write back to you on facebook and missing and he wants to add a layer of security to this as well by making what we say the messages encrypted and that basically mains are in the eyeball to be read by the person they're intended for so facebook wouldn't get to get its hands on those messages and it wants to copy something that snapshot is doing way of by the messages would also delete after a certain period of time and i guess facebook's tapping into what is a growing messaging mock it because it's traditional business being

a social network isn't growing as fast as the messaging market so this is kind of part of the reason why he's doing so facebook is trying to meet more privacy friendly but in the past facebook and privacy haven't privacy hasn't been a strong suit of facebook facebook's had a pretty shocking time of it in the last little while when it comes to privacy i mean we just have to look at the cambridge analytic a scandal as an example where some eighty seven million people dot ended up in the hands of a political consultant see that worked for donald trump but it's got bigger problems to you know the russian interfering in the election hate speech abuse and extremism mox like a bug has had to go in front of various panels like congress and the european parliament to to defend himself and he's got a bit of a. challenge to convince us all that he's serious about privacy and also ward off the coals up every now and again people saying that facebook should be regulated he

wants i guess to stop that too what i need to point out though is that when facebook encrypts private messages to each other on its platforms it's still got everything else like it can still monitor what we do on facebook and elsewhere on the internet and work out how best to target ads to us to sell us things and that's how it makes its money so this is just really one one part of the story and that's why i didn't even think to me that is its business model is what critics say so about this latest move when it comes to private messaging people are pointing out the fact that just two years ago facebook said its goal would be to make the world more open and connected and now we've got to believe it's wants to do the opposite so people saying well hang on a minute. others are saying mark zuckerberg is trying to ward off competition regulators because i kind of want facebook to stop sharing dotter across these messaging platforms and if it can merge them into one man maybe he can get around

the competition regulators so people are a bit suspicious about it but they are saying he might be just be jumping on the privacy bandwagon to keep facebook being the dominant player in this messaging market because billions of people use it i found a funny tweet it said facebook putting a focus on privacy is like a fast food company prioritizing healthy eating so yeah bit of skepticism and we have to see how it plays out fascinating stuff thank you very much. you're watching the news coming up ahead. and in pantries and hungry as the ruling party there grease to replace a controversial set of antique you believe boards will step sooth tempers in brussels. and france the european union's top court has ruled that the block's food safety agency must release the details of research into the controversial. seat the european commission had classified classified it as safe based on

scientific studies presented by the manufacturers but when you know makers demanded access to this those studies their request was denied on the basis that it could harm this company's interests that now is about to change. easy to apply cheap and effective life as it destroys ball unwanted vegetation the only things it leaves growing other crops it's meant to protect the market and the name around up the herbicide is a bio monsanto product it's in use on forty percent of germany's farmland. it's also used in over one hundred fifty countries worldwide. since it was introduced in the one nine hundred seventy s. over ten million tonnes of life or so it have been sprayed on crops enough to fill two thousand three hundred lympics swimming pools that makes it the most widely used weed killer in the world. it's also the most controversial environmental

protection activists blamed life are set for the disappearance of many plants which once grew wild in nature and a corresponding loss of bird and insect populations. and they say trickles down into the groundwater scientists have found traces of blight for satan humans which has crept into the food chain the world health organization classifies blight for sate as probably carcinogenic to humans. we spoke earlier to haiti how tyler one of the lawmakers in the european parliament had fights that suits we asked if with the court's ruling she got what she wanted. yes we actually got more than we expected because it's a total victory in the key questions there's an overriding public interest which goes above the commercial interests of the companies in terms of disclosure so health and environment are more important than a company's financial and commercial interests this is wonderful and then the court

actually defy you to find the emissions into the environment which was a bit of a key element in the dispute as real that not something which would be just hypothetical so we have a landmark ruling also on the or who is going to mention on public access to environmental information which now confirms that when. substance is released into the environment by virtue of its function it will have real emissions and they have to be covered by public access to information so very good judgement for health and safety. that was a member of the european parliament haidee. in hungary the ruling a few days sparty is to take down billboards attacking the european commission president. and billionaire philanthropist george soros the move comes after the european people sparty of which both for this and your members in the european

parliament threaten to expel feed this on the posters depict younger and solaces leaders off a conspiracy to promote mass migration to europe. hungary's ruling field as party is killed in the art of provoking its critics this time even prime minister viktor orban is our eyes were offended thousands of taxpayer funded billboards across the country depict you commission president jacques rogge younker and liberal billionaire george soros as conspirators in a plot to bring migrants into hungry. hungry as partners in the european parliament the european people's party called the posters fake news saying there is no conspiracy. hungary's government now says the posters will come down next week according to the original plan they say but manfred veber leader of the e.p. p. welcomed the move as proof that hungary is willing to play ball. it is a good signal to putting down the posters there that was want to take the best sign

mate this week the posters are just the latest flashpoint in a long running quarrel several e.p.a. member states one hungry expelled from the party they cited or bonds and brussels rhetoric as well as its affective dissolution of the central european university on political grounds for hungary and nationalist hardliners this wouldn't be a bad move. leading pro-government newspaper magyar numbs it called on prime minister orbán to leave the conservative bloc and form a new populist coalition with italy and austria or bonn responded to the editorial with a call for cool heads fit as for now intends to stay in that you p.p. the e.u. is largest and most influential party for the us they will fight for dez is a member of the european peoples party and it wants to remain a member. for orbán the goal is to win over europe's conservatives to his anti immigrant politics not to go his own way. and for that they need to see

a joined by correspondent stefan both who is in it would at best seven first thing why has victoria been finally decided to put down those controversial posts as like the one behind you. well of course under depress your. own grouping of course that was one of the main reasons why he's putting it down but i have to say he is going to replace poster we saw a poster showing the vice president of the european commission to use except you dave and his name is from steamer most debt man will also be shall soon own posters here so it isn't over yet at the moment and this bill is to close a note of anger and does this issue have implications for the european elections coming out this summer well i certainly think it has a blue cation so. in effect because

a. prime minister viktor orban when he tries to get voters behind him days away there are many people in hungary actually still supporting his views only migration and of course this poster says all about we have to defend ourselves against muslim migrants that he says the european union is forcing the ball in hungary and the rest of europe so that he saw an important reason why i think he hopes to gain momentum we state sponsors ok stefan thank you very much for that update from the hunger games in the capital. turning to syria non-school as a suspect if isis for the so-called islamic state had escaped from the last pocket of territory had by the group hundred said been leaving the tiny stretch of land controlled by the i.a.s. it's kills to where the army's on alert to stop extremists from crossing the border . just two kilometers away is the last town still controlled by i guess.

he watches the siege of bug goods from this checkpoint the iraqi major hears the constant drone of u.s. fighter jets it's easy to see the signs of destruction about a thousand jihadi is a believed to be holding out on the syrian side in caves and tunnels beneath the destroyed houses and buildings on the syrian side. didn't die. i know they have no will left to fight. they have no chance against the kurdish use of us are under siege. according to the information we have they have hardly any food left and are now starting. to make. their mission is to seal off the border to about google's three hundred soldiers and special forces patrol kilometer long stretch. barricades and razor wire against the self-proclaimed holy warriors none of them will be allowed to break

away into iraq those who try risk their lives. when we recently observed a group of twenty five i asked fighters getting close to the border we called for u.s. fighter jets. they killed all of. them. but experts believe hundreds of other jihadi are thought to have fled to iraq and are now hiding out somewhere in the no man's land of the western desert where they can hardly be detected. they are believed to have two hundred million dollars with them reserves from when i still control. the third of iraq and syria devastation hatred and mistrust remain even as the end of fighting grows near. a key thanks also to the american airstrikes about ago but it should only be a few more days. the terror militias last fighters are trapped encircled and under

constant watch but it's a bittersweet victory. feat many of my friends and comrades lost their lives in the fight against i guess i pray they are now in heaven they are heroes. without their blood and their lives i never would have achieved victory well. but will this be a final victory iraqis now remain vigilant after years of war and terror abraham hopes iraq has learned its lesson. the u.s. secretary for homeland security has defended president on her decision to declare a national emergency on the mexican border intestine when he took on rational committee kissed a new listen describe the situation there as a real crisis a testimony came a day off to u.s. customs and border protection released new details on illegal border crossings.

the department of homeland security presented photos and data to show that illegal immigration has reached a level that makes it a legitimate emergency the agency counted seventy six thousand illegal entries in february alone a third more than in january most of the arrivals are families who hope that bringing children will improve their chances of getting into the u.s. . the message from this one of the organizations to parents and. door is clear if you bring a child you will gain entry to the united states and you will be allowed to stay. u.s. courts have in fact repeatedly ruled that authorities may not detain families indefinitely or deport them officials also say the truck administration's declaration of a state of emergency and its vows to improve border security has fueled the spike in immigration testifying before congress the head of the department of homeland security described a growing crisis one million illegal aliens at our southern border this year

our capacity is already severely restrained but these increases will overwhelm the system entirely the question now is whether the new data will persuade some lawmakers to support the president's state of emergency. government after next in africa. a look inside operation flintlock the u.s. backed military mission training african armies to face the growing threat from islam was in this i hate. to say that g.w. .

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capability of the african army. then we'll let you in on the grand plan syrian.