b.t.w. . this is the news live from berlin rival protests in venezuela opposition supporters clashed with police in caracas venting their anger over a nationwide blackout and calling for president by drove to resign but his supporters are also rallying against what they say is foreign intervention in venezuela's us players also coming up germany's two biggest banks could soon become one soldier bank's board reportedly agrees to merger talks with troubled rival after years of losses for both banks. and

a massive anti-government demonstrations in algeria now officials are hoping an early spring vacation can quell the student uprising at the heart of the protests. i'm calling assman welcome to the program opposition protesters have clashed with riot police in the venezuelan capital caracas one point zero the country's self-proclaimed leader had urged his supporters to take to the streets they're venting their anger over a nationwide power outage and are once again demanding an end to president nicolas maduro government but madeira has also called on his supporters to rally today as the power struggle between the two rivals intensifies. the day in caracas begins with anger and arguments the police are trying to stop opposition supporters

gathering all that protest. going to join us let's hug each other. don't shoot us don't kill us come on cops. an elderly woman faints so far the opposition has been able to demonstrate peacefully and unhindered but then the police start to use pepper spray. you're going to make sure that you're not pushing it they say they have orders to prevent us from assembling so there will be no demonstration. but we're not giving up citizens have a right to freedom of expression it is time said the secret police arrive on scene the workers who wish to erect the state to a self-proclaimed president who have been arrested making tensions was is the biggest power failure in the nation's history the government says it's the result of an attack by foreigners and declares that it will defend itself it is an attack on the homeland without any doubt it is an attack on venezuela supporters of

president maduro have also been gathering to hold their own protest against what they say is imperialist aggression. the board of germany's largest bank has reportedly agreed to merger talks with the second largest according to the delta newspaper the board of will discuss a fusion with its traditional rival spock the german government has been urging the two banks to merge after losses over several years has also faced scrutiny for several recent scandals including accusations of money laundering and an interest rate scam. and joining me now to break that down is lars also he's with business look large we've been talking about this we've been hearing these rumors about a merger between these banks for a long time now how likely is it that will happen this time around i think it's actually pretty likely and the interesting thing as call we don't actually need

anonymous insiders here to give us any hints because we're getting pretty good clues if we just listen to leadership maybe let's just take a listen to what c.e.o. martin see it is that just a couple of weeks ago. strategy is right and it's working just the profit is increasing because we are growing in a core business. because their action is the right one the atmosphere of negative interest and price pressure severely limit the profitability of banks in germany and out of this the current speculation of a merger with dr blank is understandable. but you also understand that don't participate in that one of the day nor in general. so we hear a lot here about the reasons why they are in trouble we hear about the speculation of a merger between commercial and what we don't hear is the denial and that is of course pretty a rare one ever in the business community you have rumors about a merger and they don't want you to know of course it's going to be denied right

away you don't have that here and you have the same answers coming from deutsche bank c.e.o. kristen saving just recently said exactly the same thing of course a merger is an option we might not be talking about it right now but it's pretty clear that they're really looking at that ok so some clues there sorts of on for one i mean this was a global powerhouse this was a respected bank i mean what happened talk about the fall of the oh well first of all of course the financial crisis happened that of course happened to the entire global financial sector and that brought down with it what happened after that of course might have been even worse for the arch of punk than most of its competitors it was scandal after scandal you mentioned some of them earlier whether it was the man you palatial of interest rates of the gold price whether it was tax evasion moving clients people love money abroad just think panama papers whether it was breaking sanctions there was no financial scandal in the last decade that was not

part of or even leading the pack and that cost them billions and billions of dollars and what happened now is just have a look at where deutsche bank stands now in comparison to other into. national banks if we just want to rank them by assets under management you have tortured bunk with just the bald one point eight trillion dollars that is far less than the european competitors if you look at u.b.s. or a b c over in england it is far less than the american competitors and of course they are way way far away from the chinese competition some of those things are three times the size so today deutsche a punk ranks just about under the top twenty and is not really much of a global player anymore i don't mean left behind we could see if maybe this will be a potential marriage made in heaven so to speak lars also from the business thanks very much you're welcome. now to some of the other stories making news around the world supporters of the far right national core party of clashed with police in

kiev the demonstrators were protesting corruption in the army ukrainian president petro poroshenko has made tackling corruption a key issue head of elections on march thirty first. the mexican navy says it has seized six tons of illegal drugs and operations off the country's northwestern coast the navy released footage of a nighttime seizure of a boat at sea ferrying marijuana and these synthetic drug known as crystal or conics were also found in vessels hidden on the shore. armed militia men have attacked an ebola treatment center in congo for the second time in two weeks one policeman has reportedly been killed there are many armed groups in the region hampering efforts to contain the disease ebola outbreak in the east of the country has killed almost six hundred people. rb singer r. kelly has been released from a chicago prison after child support payment was made on his behalf a judge had ordered him jailed until he paid more than one hundred sixty thousand

dollars that he owed kelly was separately charged last month with ten counts of aggravated sexual abuse relating to four women three of whom were minors. thousands of yellow vest protesters marched in paris today for the seventeenth straight weekend and while the violence of past weekend was absent tensions in france remain high the movement began over i feel prices but it's now taking broad aim at president emanuel mccrone government which protesters say is out of touch with the working class. yellow vests in the streets of paris once again they came in the thousands organizers had hoped for stronger turnout a show of force to answer president manuel mccollum's call for dialogue. it's good that there's a dialogue it's a first step by the government. has done all these useless just like to listen to him so. most protesters don't care much about microphones town hall debates which

the president's held for the past two months more concerned about the police response to the demonstrations also the topic at the u.n. this week we curse the government to continue dialogue and investigation of all report cases of assess if use of force it is the images like these that have cost french police in a bad light. the police have also been criticized for the use of rubber bullets found in many e.u. countries government estimates put the number of injured protesters at above two thousand. but the police have an escaped unhurt. some of our colleagues have almost been lynched fifteen hundred police have been injured in the last four months. the tension was palpable in paris today but there were no major clashes between police and protesters. algerian education of bizzle officials have rescheduled spring vacation for university

students moving it forward to sunday more than a week earlier than planned it's being seen as an attempt to quell growing protests against president's beautifully students have been at the heart of demonstrations against the president's bid to extend his two decade rule the protests have mostly been peaceful but on friday police used tear gas to block the road to the presidential palace hospital sources say more than one hundred people were injured in clashes. joining me now in studio is a bus share a room he's with arabic now but your you actually just returned from algeria just a few hours ago you were at yesterday's protests what did you see there in algiers is this a turning point for the country well for me it was quite overwhelming that around one million people going out in the streets of algiers alone they were peaceful the atmosphere was very very nice they were also friendly to each other they were

playing music it was quiet festival is they were not chanting political slogans so for the people they are very proud to have managed such demonstrations peacefully and i think from a psychological point of view it's a turning point dismissing these unprecedented i mean one million people a lot one million people alone in the capital of g. is unreal. have also dozens of other cities how much political support is left for the president i think he has no supports since the last five years if not even long most of his supporters supported him. opposed to his and all by thea and now the people have no fear to say it loudly that they are fed up with him and his clan so that's why we see now that it's getting increasingly silent around but a few come we're also hearing about some pressure on algeria's military to defuse

this crisis me just tell me what role does the military play there it's not quite the military as an institution you have inside the regime consisting off positive the military of the intelligence services and the all the guards and they have internal struggles with each other that still is in office is because they didn't or couldn't agree to have one person as his successor but not with the protests getting stronger they really need to have a plan b. to choose another successor and the crucial point is that the people of this point speaking of plan b.'s what about algeria's political opposition i mean how strong are the opposition parties could they come in and fill the void if just because that's down not at all in these two have no real opposition but the flickers of g.-man it in the last twenty years to destroy every real position and movement from

inside that infiltrated them they bought them so really really powerful position for the people tell me about your experience there you just returned from algeria what was it like as a reporter is it safe to be reporting there but i wasn't as a reporter officially i had family visit and of course at the airports for example the police told me that they. well that i'm a journalist and they have i have no credentials for working as a journalist inside a very for the moment all right bashir i'm broun from r d w arabic service thank you so much for that insight thank you. all returning to sports now in legal football for an eel champions by munich have demolished vosburgh six nil to snatch first place away from dortmund six different players found the net for by on who now lead dortmund on goal difference dormant had been at the top of the table since if you can believe this match day six that's all the way back in september. let's

take a look now at all the bundesliga results so far this weekend as we saw byron beat. dortmund defeated stuttgart fibered stuck past heads of berlin it was a scoreless draw between leipsic and alex berg and in the late game beat minds on friday bremen down shaka on sunday will see hoffenheim taking on nuremberg and one over will meet laver coups and then on monday it's dusseldorf against frankfurt. don't forget you can always get the news on the go just download our app from google player from the outlet store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for the breaking news you can also use that d.w. app to send us your photos and videos. that's all for now we'll have more news for you at the top of the hour but stay

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