this is d.w. news live from berlin showdown in venezuela in a video posted on twitter opposition leader one why don't backed by soldiers launches what he says is the final phase and a visit to oust president nicolas maduro will have the latest also coming up the end of an era in japan emperor akihito abdicates in a solemn ceremony in tokyo's imperial palace it is the first abdication the country

has seen for more than two hundred years. with the champions league semifinals looming we have an exclusive interview with liverpool so much love coach you can clock ahead of their clash with barcelona he tells us why the spanish couple have a big challenge challenge and. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start with a developing situation in venezuela south declare president one why though has called on the armed forces to join what he calls the final phase of a plan to oust president nicolas maduro why though appeared near a key military base in the capital caracas surrounded by armed men in military uniforms he was accompanied by leopoldo lopez a prominent opposition figure who had been under house arrest now though has said he'd been freed. by soldiers responding to an order from why though now the us

government has said it is dealing with a small op rising troops loyal to a mother would all fired tear gas at the opposition leaders in a video posted on his twitter feed weibo called on the military and the people to join protests against motherhood oh let's listen to what he said or you will be to see and think i'll go and suddenly he today as the legitimate president of venezuela as the legitimate commander in chief of the armed forces that's all i am calling on soldiers and the military to join us keeping within the framework of the constitution as we always have. peace the moment is now it is not just a moment for peace and decency it is also a moment for bravery so that peace can be restored in venezuela god bless you we will achieve freedom and democracy for venezuela. our latin america correspondent javier out of gave us is monitoring the situation for us from bogota in colombia i have yet what have you been hearing and seeing and reports there this is

a story that is moving very quickly it is moving very quickly and as it is normally the case in these types of situations is very hard to tell what is true and what is not true so far what we have seen for sure is of course that liberation of the opposition leader leopoldo lopez and several movements that seem to be turning rather violent with tear gas launches by the police but so far we haven't seen any type of what we would expect to be a military action so the situation seems to be calm and that is what the government has been very quick to say that the situation in the country is normal and under control but videos from many users that are of course hard to tell if they're true or not seem to be showing a rather escalation of the violence and we've seen a lot of people gathered on the streets in caracas have you had who is supporting by the right now he says that he has the support of what he calls a brave soldiers who is out on the streets. well out of the street on the streets

are the supporters of kwaito that we have seen for many many months now the question is and will continue to be if that if support is enough in order to actually force a change of government in the country that can only happen if the population of the country really supports wedo and there is where has been at least so far a separation of classes if you will the more popular classes tend to still continue to be on the side of an equal as my little but that has been changing quickly now as for the military forces what we have seen so far are members of the air force in venezuela that is known to be the more disciplined part of the military and the part that is least the least corrupt and therefore has been citing the strongest way possible however of course we know that is only a part of the military and you could have a little has shown as many times already that he is in control of the majority of the military forces we'll see if that changes today i've got we've just been looking at some pictures from a little bit earlier work one by the was on the street there in caracas joined by

some of his supporters and he said remind us again what the mother little government has been saying how it's been reacting to the situation. work well the little government is treating this as an insurgent movement and in some members of the government even though nico as a little himself has not really referred to this but they have said that this is a coup or at least a trial to force a change of government through military action and that is the discourse that we have been seeing so far so the government in this is in a state of alert and in a state of suppressing these movements in order to maintain the order they have been very quick to say again that the situation in the country is under their control but you know it is very early in the morning still and a lot can happen throughout the day have it in that twitter message from the south to claim president won by bill he called this the final phase of his plan to oust nicolas my little. that is a very striking phrase what does that mean. it is

a very tough one to answer to me because we know that one way bill has said it repeatedly that his movement is a pacific movement that would discard any possibility of a military intervention and then we see him backed by military force so it is a dual discourse there that is very difficult to really decipher what exactly does he mean by that in the most romantic idea if you will we would see very very big movement of the population going to the presidency and asking a good as model to resign that will be the more peaceful eternity of but from what we've seen and from the preparations that we've seen in the last couple of weeks and months there always have been important components of the military forces there the military officers that have come here to colombia even preparing for a scenario that might include a military intervention and more worryingly neither colombia the neighboring

country nor the united states have to scarred at the possibility of a military intervention and we do not know what negotiations have been happening behind the scenes for today as good developments are coming yeah indeed have you and that is it definitely the case that we don't know exactly what's been happening behind the scene and i want to ask you about nail fall down at this activist who we mentioned also a key opposition leader he says he was freed by the military and we saw him on the streets a little bit earlier and he said pictures we're looking at now how significant is that. it is very significant from a symbolic point of view it as was the symbol of the oppression against the opposition in venezuela he himself had initiated a movement that had a lot of popular support in order. to force a change of government in the country however let's not forget that we have seen scenarios like the one we're seeing today many times before but as well a position leaders have come and gone without real change in their got to. but without changes in the policy of because my little and innocent can guarantee that

this time it will be different the bold office is the face of a leader who was jailed after trying to achieve what one way or is trying to do today have it what can you tell us about the timing of this why are we seeing the launch what he's calling this in this final phase of his plan now i mean he had basically planned to lead a big protest tomorrow. yes many are wondering why this is happening today and the only reasonable explanation so far is the element of surprise he wanted to surprise the government that was certainly preparing for a mass of the relations on may first that is the traditional date as we all know in many parts of the world and that was supposed to be the day where the change of grammar of the reset would come into place by the government of one way or however we are seeing him act today and this can only be to anticipate the movements of the government and to be quicker than it could have been a little it has to be all right our correspondent have you had a good that's monitoring the situation for us thank you very much

that appends emperor akihito has formally stepped down from the throne in a ceremony at tokyo's imperial palace he's the first japanese emperor to abdicate in more than two hundred years his eldest son that he told will officially assume the throne in a short ceremony tomorrow the emperor holds no political power but japanese people were view him as a symbol of the nation's tradition and history. a simple ten minute ceremony and being a thirty year reign and breaking with japanese imperial tradition for the first time in more than two centuries against an unpretentious backdrop and akihito perform the main ritual at the imperial palace compound over what's known as the chrysanthemum throne to his son. the ceremony saw the emperor relinquish an ancient sword and jewel sacred regalia that tradition dictates should be seen by no one but the emperor. addressing those assembled in the palaces

room of pine africa hito paid tribute to his subjects. so. i am very thankful and happy and i have been able to fulfill my duties as emperor with trust and respect for the japanese people for the last thirty years. prime minister shinzo abby had warm words for the outgoing emperor reflecting on some of japan's recent challenges including the two thousand and eleven toonami and earthquake. and the empress were always there for the victims of disasters and gave them hope and courage for the future. five years before us. akihito was granted permission to abdicate on grounds of age and declining health but his reign has

left an indelible mark on japan's tradition bound monarchy after succeeding his father hirohito in one thousand nine hundred nine. to extend a hand of peace to those harmed by his country's imperial ambitions. it was in his father's name that japan committed many of the atrocities that shook the pacific during world war two after hito spent much of his early reign on diplomatic trips where he expressed his deep remorse over his country's wartime transgressions after he took his application will make him the first japanese emperor to leave the throne without leading his country into war. but after he to hasn't bid farewell quite yet the eighty five year old technically remains emperor until the stroke of midnight that's when the throne officially passes to his eldest son crown prince norah hito and the country ushers

in a new imperial era over a you are beautiful harmony. is following the story for us she grew up in japan and reports from there for us hi keogh put this into context for us what does this event mean to the japanese people it is a very big event basically nobody. who lives today has ever experienced an abdication the last one was two hundred years ago and it is a complete change of era imagine we are now in the western world in two thousand and nineteen and all of a sudden tomorrow it's the first day of something completely different so it is a very very big event and it is marked with celebrations in japan social media is completely full of it it depends this incredible combination of a country that is so future oriented and high tech incredibly developed but also really steeped in its own history and tradition what did you make of the ceremony this morning it was very formalized it was incredibly short it was just ten minutes

it was over before you really could concentrate on it basically and i found it very interesting because it was very very short. to be. basically and it showed also the mix of the japanese traditional gods and pro-war as you can see in the background in the morning and he was also very in the modern western style dressed like about you know we see those images there of him wearing those modern western clothes he to really has been an incredibly popular emperor has any yes he has i think more than eighty percent of the population is in support of him and i think about fifteen to twenty percent basically the rest is indifferent almost no opposition to him tell us about the new emperor now his son not who he took fifty nine years old what can we expect from him. is more of

a more just because he's also younger but he's also the first emperor to study abroad actually his wife as well and. he's also known to subtly have criticized district court traditions which his wife suffered a tremendous lot because she's a commoner and she had to basically. adjust to life and maybe in the new era it's going to be a more approachable royal family so we could possibly see some changes being brought to brought to the throne we mentioned that the emperor in japan doesn't have a political role but does have the political significance doesn't he is especially in a time of such uncertainty in the region yes especially of the emperor akihito he was known to be. to travel a lot he wasn't diplomatic missions a lot and he also apologized for as we also saw for the atrocities that japan

committed during the war and that was a very new stance and i think also that his son is going to follow in his footsteps to try and make amends or also speak diplomatic matter without all of the politics included because that is a quite a difficult matter but as a symbolic figure he can be more neutral but also more unifying i think all right well the end of an era in japan as we said is that he abdicates our reporter kyodo thank you so much for your insights. and we'll have more on the store a day for japan a little bit later on news asia now to some other stories making headlines around the world u.s. president donald trump is suing deutsche bank to stop it from giving congressional investigators financial records about his company's dacha is one of trump's main business creditors two congressional committees have subpoenaed the bank as they investigate allegations of possible foreign influence on u.s. politics. sudan's ruling military council says it is willing to negotiate with

opposition groups but the generals have called for protesters to stop disrupting trains and roads the council also said the general would head a new joint civilian military council when it is formed protesters have been demanding civilian leadership to pave the way to democratic elections. because president has lifted a nationwide social media ban it was imposed after the easter suicide bomb attacks that killed more than two hundred fifty people the band had blocked facebook whatsapp you kill and other popular sites the government said it blocked social media to curb the spread of misinformation in the wake of the bomb. he's been presumed dead more than once but the leader of the so-called islamic state could be alive a propaganda video released by us shows of a backer of a diety praising the easter sunday sunday bombings in sri lanka he says they are part of the group's revenge for its losses in syria but. if this is

who islamic state claims it is that it would be abu bakr al baghdadi first appearance in five years. in the video shot in an unknown location he acknowledges the group's recent defeat in its last syrian stronghold of bug juice he also refers to other i.a.s. losses in libya and in iraq. but he tries to justify the defeats by saying i asked doesn't have to end it just has to continue carrying out to jihad any urges his followers to carry out revenge attacks around the world. and. he goes on to praise the deadly bombings in sri lanka on easter sunday which killed two hundred fifty people saying they were ordered in revenge for what he calls the brothers in. with his for the despite his threats analysts say the purpose of this video is to show that he's still in charge and larch and has

managed to evade capture. since this moment back in twenty fourteen when he announced the establishment of a caliphate in the iraqi city of mosul. but he remains the world's most wanted man the us has a twenty five million dollars bounty on his head and they say they will continue to hunt him down until he's found what are you still to come on our show sits down for an exclusive interview with liverpool coach jurgen klopp we ask him whether it's team's fans would rather win the champions league or the premier league this season thank you for that. but first in mozambique which is struggling with severe flooding in the wake of cycle in kenya more torrential rainfall is forecast in the country's north where the powerful storm made landfall on sunday so far thirty eight people have lost their lives the poor weather

conditions have been complicating aid efforts flights are grounded it is the second cycle to hit the country in as many months six weeks ago cyclonic died devastated the region further south. they can't get rid of the water quickly enough the rain here in pember in northern most san baek keeps on coming. wrote snare resemble rivers or actual rivers have burst their banks leaving huge areas underwater. the aid agencies say psych loan kenneth's will bring twice as much rain is e.t.i. entire crop fields have been whites' out and people a shortage of food. you know the real business making business because these people need this for a fact i think they owe them something that the people here. the sheer amount of

water on the ground is making it difficult to access the affected areas rescuers from brazil are on the scene they've come with boats because at the moment it's too dangerous for helicopters to fly but helicopters are what's really needed with many stranded without supplies. and want to help. police people young people men to help. until help arrives all they can do is wait counting the cost of the latest tropical disaster to land on mozambique shores. to have these other increased is in mozambique covering this story for us he sent us at this update on relief efforts from the city of pemba in the north. the weather became much better in the last hour as it stopped raining and as you can see here they are packing these planes of the world food program in the united nations and

bringing food items to rural areas the question is how long will the weather remain like this that is where you can see they're really hurrying up there really try to get as many helicopters out as possible before the weather possibly it's getting worse again. after increased reporting for us there to football now and anticipation is reaching fever pitch ahead of the champion's league semifinals this week tottenham take on i.x. tonight the english team will be without some key players a home first leg a striker harry kane is injured and a forward man will miss out to the suspension i axes hoping to continue their streak after knocking out around the dreaded and you ventus. on wednesday liverpool coach you're going cluck takes his team to mighty barcelona club is still waiting for his first champions league title after losing in the final with dortmund and liverpool in the past but in an exclusive interview with g w club proved to be as relaxed and unflappable as ever are still lonna the warrant.

liverpool coach your gun club is on the cusp of possibly the most important few weeks of his career as a loner awaits in the champions league semifinals and a premier league title is on the line but the german still has time to fool around showing d.w. his normal worn mogue a reference to former rival josie marino once labeling himself the special one book club is special his team are enjoying a dream season and now look holmes with favorites barcelona something new for the fifty one year old i saw so many games from out of teams going to puzzle because i never played them in a competitive game and so many times i was a failing by doing it that's how it is because i trust so good and i always thought it would be interesting to try it yourself once liverpool overcame porto in the champions league quarter finals and are looking to reach a third european final in four years on the club they lost the previous two but he

would still be proud of the feat. impressive. i don't know we would see it's a pretty good team to face so it's possible and. that's a really good football team but i don't see how it is in sports so if you're in their dens you should try to win and of course that's what they will do and we are not a dream draw i would say it's not that you're thinking of a poor little messi and his barcelona team mates including clubs fellow german mark dagon are not the only ones occupying the former dalton boss at present manchester city topped the premier league by a point from liverpool and the priority for fans is clear. on wednesday which i was seeing then on sunday he said when you go from a link then on tuesday he went into his league and then said are they after that or something i think we have probably saw. becoming. decision we have to play our best

for him but if you are so people that's. very. serious also for the people who would be winning the league liverpool of not won the english titles it is ninety ninety. the glory days are back there's nothing noble about your going club. to poland now where the simple act of eating a banana has become a form of protest it started when authorities removed the work of video art from warsaw its national museum showing the artist eating the fruit in a sensual way poland's culture ministry says it is obscene but some poles think that's an ass. occasionally protesting can be a tasty affair hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the polish national museum in warsaw to eat bananas together look at this when you move on in the name of volunteers stick freedom. we fully reject censorship in arts over the past few

years our freedoms have been increasingly compromised and now it's our turn to look at the story on the issues we're protesting against the removal of our freedom of speech artistic freedom. the debate centers around this installation by leading polish concept artist natalia el al in one nine hundred seventy three she photographed and filmed herself sense you eating a banana for sixty is the installation has been on display at the national museum now it's been taken down that's gold many under the hash tag banana selfie exasperated polls have been posting pictures of themselves with a banana including many celebrity artists and generalists the museum's new head. appointed by the conservative peace party says the work is a potential danger to young people. this is the national museum as such it's not the place for gender related content to be so explicitly portrayed. opposition

politicians have long complained about what they call attacks by the peace government on artists just under two years ago the culture minister pulled it subsidies to the multi festival in poznan saying the curator was too progressive the festival still went ahead thanks to donations. of shows that we have i'm always anti-censorship it's especially dangerous in art and culture and suggest the government has no interest in artistic freedom. the protests are having an effect even before the demo the national museum and nonstate would put the artwork back on display but many here a skeptical. it's likely to end up in one of the museum storerooms i have no illusions about museums head and his decision you're going to see here on the museum says this won't be the last time it may remove works from its exhibition. recapping our top story now venezuelan opposition leader won by the always posted

a video on social media and what she says the final phase of a plan to oust president nicolas maduro has begun the government has responded saying it's confronting what it calls a small group of traitors. coming up on news asia from wealth and education to terrorism we ask why well heeled young people committed suicide attacks in sri lanka and elsewhere. chad will have that story and much more coming up on news asia thanks for watching.

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