this is the leader's line from an exclusive interview. president. supports his bid to remove president. hundreds of pro-government supporters takes the streets of caracas but the military remain totally loyal to him will bring in from his from the capital.

into. the country for more than two hundred years. back i'll back some film praising the. premier warns of. the champions league semifinals live an exclusive interview. ahead affect the boss about a. new type of spanish club will have a big challenge on its hands. welcome to the program. but as well a celtic president says there is no turning back in his bid to remove president

nicolas maduro the government says it is an attempted coup president dora has promised to put down the uprising declaring the army chiefs have pledged him that total loyalty. from adored ministration considers it a coup attempt the opposition is calling it operation freedom after his release from prison opposition politician leopoldo lopez stands in solidarity with the self-proclaimed president won quite zero and calls on his countrymen to join them. all venezuelans who want freedom show yourselves disrupt the system support our soldiers join us good morning venezuela let's stick together and finish what we've started. venezuela's defense minister tweeted that the military remains in my daughter's hands opposition leader why dog claims however that the prison freed lopez unquote owes orders. 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 to venezuela god bless you we will achieve freedom and democracy. due to the ongoing economic and political crisis two million people have already fled venezuela. in a day w exclusive we asked her how much back in he has from venezuela's military. he went away there are some key elements in his process and they are that the armed forces are not with nicolas maduro they are for change and as such they are with the people and the constitution venezuela is in a state of occupation of course there has been a lot of persecution within the armed forces even some carried out by the cuban intelligence and counter intelligence services but it's clear that not only the people the majority of the people and not only the international community do not support nicolas maduro but also the armed forces of our country and. most of what let's go straight to the venezuelan air capital caracas where we joined

correspondent to ask a welcome let's start with out the points about the military. says that the army is not with the president the president says the army has pledged its loyalty to him what do you see. well i said true situation there is a lot of unanswered questions from the with the military but they are not solid just gets closer now one way to go and support it as of now at least forty active military officials there are sending him into this uprising all to the end but they all the special leaders have said there at least ninety percent of the military is against the grass motto and they are just fearful of doing it kind of authorize it because of what we've seen in the past there have been several appliance here i'm going to spread out i guess he called us and all these military officials have been quickly captured and detained and are in prison i have either died or have been subject to torture not only that but also their family members these are issues

that are submitted to the human rights commission and at the u.n. any way yes so there is a lot of fear for within the military to do this but isn't there so there's a lot at risk of these military going to defending and supporting. and as you're speaking or we're seeing no one quite actually i dressing the crowds there. that this is not the first time people have taken to the streets is this uprising any different so the sort of riot some runners that we've seen in the past. there you see you know a lot of rallies and protests and marches here miss rather gather a lot of people but this is the first time that we're seeing that side by side with military officials that are supporting one where you go and it's a once you are on mention of who's this. uprising as well that is being supported by some military officials and that's why why don't some of the system

leaders have said that more military officials won't enjoy this uprising that this is a developing story we're still seeing what will happen throughout the day that there have been clashes already. there is repression is protesters and we are seeing something very different today that is new york was a lot as one of the most tolerant of political prisoners that we have a nice well that is free and he said i was freed by military officials that support one well so that is very different and that is the first i wasn't introduce. new standards woke us up to this morning so let's also talk us through the events of the day then from this morning when one guy to cold for this military uprising when did people start arriving on the street i want to hope to achieve what's what's been happening through the day. when we woke up to the news that he was calling people to supporting here just military police in i need

a section of got gas he was not in the military base as a as its own people started gathering there were some tear gas pots thrown at the people gathered near this military base they retreated towards the media there's a big square near exists and those are things they retreated to the leaking that to the legends where the last of the biggest concentration is for them now there have been some were first song clashes with protests there as you and besides holmes and the news is there won't we have also heard rumors. how military officials being detained by those military got support one way to go get it still not confirm and then the pictures that we're seeing one would be saying that these pictures all day of people gathering on this bridge what is the

significance of this bridge. well that bridge is right next to a military base in that military base. and therefore it's a military. if you're poor and they have a lot of the helicopters and you know terry your planes that were getting chinless were not bought. by russia that's where they are stored. have not entered the military because of some media which were. already there actually you know side of this military bullets but it is a very significant point. protest with no incidents where also the protests from the opposition has occurred in the past two years so it's a section that is controlled by opposition and is it just opposition supporters on the streets osca. do you know there are also supporters legal us now who will gather in near the presidential palace as they have been called for by the french

study style leaders instead to defend he going to some other room to support him by gathering well the presidential palace however the crowds are much less home neighborhoods as the ones are we're seeing in support of well they're not only here good outlets but also in other parts of the u.s. what he ceased is more concentrated in. names clerics who protest against the color smoke and we've heard reports of some civilians tripping over military against us as well their goals are still to be confirmed a would respond has there been from the majority government. there's been a at some response from them of the government is that this is a small group of military again have been confused act and why actual they have also announced that some of these military officials are against your smug or have stolen military weapons and there are some military audiophiles and

they are equipped for on some military bases and they are saying that they will act in response to. is it will squash this uprising like they've done in the past you've mentioned this opposition activist to lippold. who's been freed and tell us about him and his significance in this latest uprising. you're full of this is one of the most significant political prisoners and political activists here and i swear that it's been in prison for that past five years the past two years as head of the on house arrest and a gag order and we haven't heard much from him didn't last year but he's always been very prominent he's always there very present as the secretary general of the . political party formed up a lot of that research one way or as well. as was the presidential candidate

several times an hour for primaries and she's very much respected with the youngsters here actually five years ago we saw some of the biggest protests you're going to swell as well in support of you know we're going to enter a rejection is rest five years ago and it is first significant to see him free today eaters he's been one of the most watched political prisoners anybody's where one of the most the one that has had the most security around because our students see an importance to the officer shooting benchmark but now i just for people watching at home the pictures are both saying these are live from caracas and somewhere in the midst of a crowd. of self declared president. since you've been rallying the troops. in caracas and outside of venezuela b.c.s.

you appeared to have died down it had left the headlines so did today's events come out of nowhere. yes definitely you know a lot of people were so. speculating that one way they all have lost some leadership in has lost so much support from the opposition because he has in a way try to bridge this between the two he's one of the opposition and there's a big sector of the opposition that does not want to live in talks when you do she shouldn't we that's how these were the last move was done all of today's action is a surprise element that has taken by surprise the government they are not how do you choose state disarticulated. there are different accounts to one's going on in terms of overall on the government side and this all

seems to show that. why with all this we need some a leadership and some support as we're saying the crowds gather in his name here and the rest of the country and we seem to swell nationally we see that to support that and his leadership has we name the same. because we've seen the crowds that have gathered sport here not only here but in all of this one then we're watching the crowds as you've been speaking and they now moving on somewhere this and tomorrow is the first of may may day osca at the big demonstrations had been called for tomorrow while those now still go ahead given what's happened today. that's a good question why wait on said that the first of may starts today he didn't say well and tomorrow however there are talks within the hard government government

as to which they might suspend civilian guarantees fourth street protests tomorrow however that will be third it's a call to suppress the interest. so this will also march on may day and so does everybody but as well traditionally every part of the world where media is celebrating its own there are protests to be expected it would be hard she didn't stop and we'll see what happens now. as we've been watching the various feeds across the day it does seem very much that the government response depends on which part of the city in which part of the country you are in a one sided mood and saying a tanks rolling over people what sort of response what sort of government response have you witnessed on the streets. well this is much different than. protests that we've seen in two thousand and fourteen inches just

seventeen that were what by strong strong the government and for the military against protesters which is fine lots of deaths in the streets in the way several people being detained what we're seeing today is an escalation of violence and repression but not to the extent of what we saw in two thousand and seventeen and two dots and fourteen which does give people hope that the military does not want to act against civilians it is in these wave of protests however things can change quickly and swiftly as we've seen this morning you're going to sway them so we're very expectant to what will happen throughout the game i also believe in that phenomena doctors we will speak later in the course of this album. in caracas thank you. the united states has been reacting to events in venezuela have

a poem for you joins us from washington d.c. welcome hello who's been saying was. filled with scenes which support coming from the trumpet administration via twitter to today much of it from vice president the vice president mike pence tweeting directly to the people of venezuela saying that we are with you a sense meant which was echoed by secretary of state mike pompei or who said that a quest for democracy is never defeated we've also heard from national security adviser john bolton who urged the military in the military leaders to get on the side of one and that's certainly a policy that the united states has been pushing for quite some time alleged by the u.s. senate so marco rubio who's worked with the trumpet administration on its venezuela policy and he also took to twitter today speaking as well to the people of venezuela saying take to the streets come out this moment may not come again so what we're seeing from washington today is on one hand it's gone from backing the

opposition leader who they were quick to say was the interim president of venezuela to now appearing to throw their full weight behind what appears to be an aunt coup attempt and the potential violence and certainly the chaos which we're seeing on the streets of caracas as well of course is putting the united states once again in direct opposition with russia and with china and does this us wait and support does it go beyond words to. well many people in the past have looked to trump statements saying that nothing is off the table and reading in that implicit suggestion perhaps of u.s. military intervention that said there has been no meaningful u.s. military mobilization at this stage what we've seen from the united states is economic pressure we saw that with economic sanctions related to the madeira regime

and those in his entourage we saw that with sanctions on the oil industry of course fail remember that the oil industry accounts around ninety six percent of venezuela's foreign income in a country which is already in economic die a strait so that is what we have seen so far from the u.s. administration. washington thank you. no you don't just called last month has been tracking events in venezuela on line no welcome call what if you can see one of the big questions that i think a lot of people have watching these events unfold this morning was when will we hear from nicolas maduro himself i mean really the silence for a long time was deafening as this was playing out we had heard from him and eventually people were started suspect you know maybe because of all the events planned for able first he might have been taken a bit off guard and that silence was broken about two hours ago on twitter and this is what's nicolas maduro himself had to say he said nerves of steel i have spoken with the commanders of all the military forces of the country who have demonstrated

their complete loyalty to the people we keep hearing that both sides are claiming that loyalty loyalty also to the constitution and to the homeland i'm calling for maximum mobilization of the people to ensure that peace is victorious and we will win of course more draws officials they had been speaking calling former supporters to make it out into the streets as we heard to go to the presidential palace in caracas and as you can see people did make it there there are large crowds scores of people answering that call a large contingent even and you can hear them singing the lyrics you're hearing they translate to listen fascist we won't say it again if you mess with my drill the people will beat you up. now even as as one guy joe he was also calling his people on the streets we've seen them out there it did appear though that mud duro was doing his best to prevent that to make it difficult for why dose supporters to make it to these rallies really doing everything in his power and here's some of the things we suspect he was up to in terms of keeping people from these protests

for one thing shutting down public transit in caracas so you can see people rather than taking the subway which is not functioning right now they're walking just going by foot so these protests now we also know how important social media is to venezuela twitter one of the biggest platforms there one people communicating on one stop the biggest thing is that the national media is. told by the state so when . you do not see that on national television so twitter we're seeing is down to you tube is down in the country many people saying the only way to get online or on the social media is with a v.p.n. which can disguise your location and also even some radio stations being taken down say one radio station tweeting that the official broadcasts tell me communications agency had come in and said you guys are off the air. what are we hearing from their supporters well there are reports of course and pictures even of protests spreading across the country not just in caracas but in other cities and

additionally what we're seeing online is a lot of venezuelans in other countries speaking out as well we know this is a big humanitarian crisis three million people are living outside now they've they fled the country so this is actually a former venezuelan t.v. personality he's in miami florida you can see how emotional he is in this video he's saying it's now or nothing he's calling on the venezuelans around the world to go into the streets saying it's time to get our liberty back i think the sense is with a lot of venezuelans you see online a lot of the conversation is that this is an important day in the country's history and that this is the chance they may not get another chance if you're a guy goes supporter this is the shot told us and thank you for. well take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world because presidents lifted a nation wide social media about imposed after the easter suicide bomb attacks that killed both and two hundred fifty people a popular sites like facebook and youtube are all blocked by the government said

the obstructions what to curb the spread of misinformation. u.s. president donald trump is suing to stop it giving congressional investigators financial records about his company's bank is one of the president's main business creditors the two congressional committees have subpoenaed about because they've arrested allegations of foreign influence over u.s. politics. the chief executive of boeing has defended the company's safety record and refused to take any more than possible blame for two deadly crashes of its best selling play in the seven three seven box speaking after the shareholders meeting interest more than said the boeing had almost finished an update that would make the plane safer. japan's emperor akihito has formally stepped down from the throne in a ceremony in turkey as imperial palace is the first japanese emperor to abdicated more than two hundred years is eldest son and that he too are hito will assume the

throne in a short ceremony the emperor holds no political power but is revered as a symbol of the country's tradition and history. a simple ten minute ceremony ending a thirty year vein and breaking with japanese imperial tradition for the first time in more than two centuries. against an unpretentious backdrop emperor akihito performed the main ritual at the imperial palace to hand over what's known as the chrysanthemum throne to his son. the ceremony so the emperor of relinquish an ancient sword and secret regalia that tradition dictates should be seen by no one but the emperor. addressing those assembled in the palaces room of time okey hito paid tribute to his subjects. so. i am very thankful and happy as i have been able to fulfill my judi's as emperor

with trust and respect for the japanese people for the last thirty years. prime minister shinzo had warm words for the outgoing emperor reflecting on some of japan's recent challenges that included the two thousand and eleven tsunami and earthquake. and the empress were always there for the victims of disasters and gave them hope and courage for the future. a pipe there to fight. how could he too 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 eighty nine alki hito spent much of his early reign on diplomatic trips. especially to express his

deeper morse over his country's wartime transgressions. akihito advocation will make him the first japanese emperor to leave the throne without leaving his country into war for the japanese people it's an emotional moment. but i think that what are you honest i don't think it's settled in that he's abdicated so there is a bit of sadness in me. didn't you think even before he ascended the throne he was always thinking about the people. he was an emperor that really cared for the people. so i think it's the people who should really be saying thank you to him. but hearing his last words today in. really shows his personality and kindness so i'm happy to hear that. the eighty five year old remained emperor until the stroke of midnight local time on april

thirtieth the throne now officially passes to his elder son crown prince not a veto. and the country ushers in the new imperial era of. beautiful harmony. despite being reported dead and severely injured more than once it looks as though the danger of a slavic state militant group is still alive and iris propaganda video appears to show a back aisle baghdadi praising the easter sunday bombings in sri lanka and declaring them part of the group's revenge for losses in syria. if this is who islamic state claims it is then it would be about daddy's 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 the goose he also refers to other as losses in libya and in iraq but he tries to justify the defeats by saying yes doesn't have to

win it just has to continue carrying all jihad and he urges his followers to continue carrying out of ends attacks around the world 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 their brothers in bugaboos. despite his threats analysts say the purpose of this video is to show he is still in charge and at large and has managed to evade can measure it hooah. the video was also a topic during iraqi prime minister's visit with chancellor merkel one would assume he knows more but here in berlin he kept a low profile. not just there was some intelligence about the whereabouts of but from the video it is clear that the location is very simple they were isolated and

kept simple even his clothing provides information about his location. even though . we will have to concern ourselves for some time with the question of how i ask can be defeated and in my view this video supports that this is the correct assessment talked. about daddy remains the world's most wanted men the u.s. has a twenty five million dollars bounty on his head and says it will continue to hunt him down until he is found let's get more on this from dime back from the german institute for international and security affairs welcome to the. is this video authentic this i think so it looks like a daddy it sounds like but. the video is clearly an i.a.s. video it has an i.a.s. logo it has the logo of the media production company of us. perhaps most

importantly the old one the one that has used until the islamic state was founded in two thousand and fourteen so i clearly believe that this is by daddy and that this is an official video so the last time we saw him on video was wearing was two thousand and fourteen so why is he popped up now well i think because i was under pressure yes has founded a state and as it has lost the state in iraq and syria it has there are even some politicians who believe that i.a.s. has been defeated and now the organization has to show its supporters that it remains relevant by perpetrating attacks like in sri lanka saudi arabia on the easter sunday but also by showing that it's caylee it's presumed caleb's is still alive and able to lead the organization so this is a bit of a morale booster for the troops yes and you should never forget that there is

a different organization that is competing with i.a.s. namely al qaida which is still strong and in many jihad theaters like yemen or in libya it's stronger than we heard the german chancellor and the reporter talking about the defeat of her donald trump talking about the defeat of virus but one of the the problems that countries have had in tackling islamic state is that. it's amorphous almost it's as much an idea as as it is a group of people how do you defeat that what would a defeat for irish look like i think it's not an idea it's an organization it's an organization that has that originates in iraq but from two thousand and fourteen has bill. an affiliate network in libya on the sinai in nigeria in the philippines now right now we see that even in sri lanka it has supporters and it has fed this support network by sending money it has been an extremely rich organization and

this video shows us that know that the organization has been militarily defeated in iraq and syria.