you know. this is the news live from venezuela holds its breath as rival demonstrations get underway in the capital caracas so father supports the present. position leader of . the state tom there are fears of violence and. the latest also on the program. on the streets of paris as police try to disperse demonstrates his trade unionists. against the present economic policies.

for sports rules against south africa. after she challenges rules forcing female athletes to suppress. welcome to the program tonight to their office survival demonstrations in the venezuelan capital caracas could turn violent supporters of president nicolas maduro out on the streets first now supposes of opposition leader one. day after his call for a military uprising. gone unheeded the new demonstrations follow violent protests on tuesday and some of quieter supporters have already clashed with police today. let's go straight to latin america correspondent how i gave this welcome how do today's the gatherings in caracas compare with the violent scenes we saw on tuesday

. well i think there is one word that marks the difference and it's predictability let's not forget that one way or had initially called on his people to go on the streets on may first which is an international holiday so many people were preparing to go out on the streets today not really yesterday and on the other camp on the campus of equal as my little well they were also planning the regular protests of the international workers day and also movements in favor of the president and that also means that authorities and police forces were preparing to see these a big protests in many different cities of the country now what is so yet to be seen if that is if the fact that these protests were planned in advance and that people were preparing not only the participants but also the police forces if that is going to mean that we will see a quieter day today or if that will mean that there will be more clashes and even more violence. why don't has been addressing his supporters what did he say.

well he's trying to stay on message telling people to go out in the streets and not only call for the good as a little to resign but also to pressure the military forces why don't knows that the military forces are key in his battle and that means that the population has to ask the military forces to back one way to and not to stay loyal to the cause no to that is the most important message but he also knows that he's addressing a very impatient population people are suffering from the economic crisis in the country and from the moderate government suppression and they also have been disappointed so many times by so many opposition leaders that they are very impatient they want to see results especially when they hear one way those saying things like there is no turning back this is the definite phase this is the end of our mission well then they want to see the result which is a change of government and he knows that this is going to take time that's why he's telling people to be patient and to wait and to know that this is going to take

time and one of the president maduro himself we heard any comment from him today. well the comments of my doodle have been more related to the international workers stay to the holiday honoring the workers a very presidential message if you will and he has also mentioned the fact that the country needs to stand up against a coup attempt that is how he regards the efforts of white all but also always dismissing this movement as a minor thing and reiterating the fact that he is in control of the country and no one else. thank you so much german foreign minister heiko massa's been in the colombian capital bug he commented on the situation in venezuela. for us one guy doe is the transitional president tasked with organizing new elections that's the goal we're pursuing we

want free and fair elections in venezuela and the election of a new president. we're going to talk to members of the opposition about what could help them whether additional sanctions could be a way to speed up those processes in venezuela but will also clearly tell them that what we want is for this to be a peaceful process with no escalation of violence with this kind of it's kind of their guard called. it's german foreign minister heiko mass now let's turn to some of the other stories making news around the world britain's defense secretary gavin williamson has been fired but his prime minister to resign may set an investigation suggested that he had leaked details of a national security discussion about whether chinese technology giant huawei should be allowed to participate in the u.k. five g. network. the government of mozambique says forty one people have died as a result of cycling canada the second major storm to hit the country in six weeks

and aerial footage shows the damage done on the island in the north the death toll could rise as aid agencies reach more areas. of court in london has sentenced wiki leaks founder julian assange to fifteen weeks in jail for breaching the terms of his bio brogue braille and to the ecuadorian embassy in twenty twelve to avoid extradition to sweden overripe allegations he was arrested last month after ecuador withdrew his asylum. in thailand the long term console. vegeta long court has been given the official title of queen of theda at a ceremony in bangkok a former flight attendant is a monarch's a fourth wife when she logged on is that due to be crowned in an elaborate three day ceremony starting on saturday. police in turkey have detained demonstrators taking part in may day protests in istanbul after they tried to march towards the

city's main square i thought you said declared taxon square off limits citing security concerns sites hold symbolic value for the country's main movement. been the demonstrations and the paris said today the annual may day demonstrations turned violent as police used tear gas to disperse who did mask the demonstrators well than two hundred people were arrested a yellow vest protesters and trade unionists took part in the marches many of them protesting against president macro economic policies. it was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration but quickly devolved into violence trade unionists and yellow vests protesters made common cause but they were joined by the so-called black bloc violent protesters who often show up at demonstrations across the continent. which of course with the violence the government is inflicting on us and everything that follows what little violence we can inflate

does absolutely nothing and it's just a warning sign if we have to get to that level it's because it's a real problem and we don't have any other solution just some fix so to see what they say good we've been trying to make ourselves heard for six months and nobody can as it's pretty simple we just want to know if no money so this is. may first usually sees mass demonstrations by french unions this year the traditional holiday honoring labor movements comes after months of so-called yellow vest protests large scale demos that have seen crowds trashed public spaces and upscale stores the government has often seemed unable to stop them. jobs i make will top model speed wessex there's a real discontent in this country and it will be expressed today and in the coming days and it's been expressed for five months those who said the protests don't make any difference that there wasn't any anger left in the country have been forced to realize that there is unhappiness in the country and you may be well and i think

that it's a pity that in france it's a country that it was only by a river lucia. it's a pity but that's the french character it seems. the authorities have adopted what they call a zero tolerance approach after a particularly violent demo earlier this year that's being put to the test yet again today. this los has been covering those demonstrations and reports that the police adopted a much tougher stance today than in previous may day rallies. the police deployed more than seven thousand police officers in the streets today they were using drones they were using one hundred nineteen mobile teams on motorbikes actually at that we're trying to when something happened be there really quickly and intervene the police have already oh also change strategy because before hand they would stay

away from the dome and stem straightest but these five months of demonstrations sometimes very violent stemmed yellow vests demonstrations of the part of foster's past five months and that actually has the effect that the police has now changed its strategy because this day today was announced as a day of how here in france isn't reporting alone pick champion caster semenya has lost a landmark legal challenge against the international athletics federations regulations on testosterone levels for female athletes the court of arbitration for sport dismissed the south african star's appeal a meaning that she will now have to take drugs to lower testosterone levels if she wants to compete twenty eight year old was trying to overturn a new idea but i have rules aimed at regulating testosterone levels of intersex athletes. i don't laugh says that so many and other female athletes classed as having sexual do differences in sexual development again unfair advantages because

the very brains testosterone levels for the court also expressed its concerns about the federations regulations. i looked around and found out that the years the regulations discriminatory but the majority of the panel found that on the basis of the evidence submitted by the parties in the procedure such discrimination is a necessary result of all proportionate means of achieving the other beliefs objective of preserving the integrity of female so let's see if we can pick this river movie from d.w. sports welcome. so first of all submit his reaction to this ruling caster semenya herself has not said much on the ruling yet she did give a statement with her initial kind of response saying that the i.w. always targeted me specifically that a decade at the i'd have left has tried to slow me down that this has actually made

me stronger the decision is cast will not hold me back she says now i think the first thing to read into this is that she doesn't say whether she accepts the cast decision or not whether she's going to take further action kind of be appealed it can be appealed yes it can still go to a swiss tribunal but i think the other thing to read into the statement is that it's an incredibly defiant message you know this is someone who has had years of doubts raised publicly about her very nature as a human being and had to deal with all these invasive questions and that must just have a an incredible effect on somebody who is in the public eye all the time i think regardless of which side of this debate people come down on you simply have to admire the strength of character that caster semenya shines through at the time the dignity with which she's dealt with this is she's now meanwhile the general secretary did find a rules discriminatory so this is this case is far from clear cut and far from clear cut the cast did say that the implementation should actually be delayed the

implementation of these rules so that more evidence can be gathered on the actual science that underpins it will in fact independent research as recently checking on the study so that they found flaws. the data they said quote the data that's presented is not solid and this is just on the scientific side of the issue so this is even before you get to the kind of the moral nature of it as you said council called the rules to discriminate three there are many people on each side of the debate here involved in women's sport enough let's fix who have very strong opinions on this people like martina navratilova billie jean king these icons of women's tennis they support someone yet in her campaign on the other hand you've got someone like paula radcliffe who holds the record for martha in math and who supports the measures saying that they protect women's sports there really are no easy answers on this phil and i think i can't see that changing in the near future either so where does the case go from here well as i said so many can still appeal

to a swiss tribunal that has to take place within the next thirty days if she's going to do that however the rules a currently due to go into action on the eighth of my now this could mean already that women who want to compete at the world championships in september may have to start taking medication to lower their hormone levels already next week so this is something we're going to be hearing a lot about is already in the next couple weeks i think all the way up to the champions chips in september we're going to see who is actually competing if anyone pulls out because of these rules and then of course how competitive those athletes are who have had to. alter officially reduce the level of testosterone which are being told to take drugs by your very international athletics federation all of a movie thank you so much. this is coming up next in business news africa nigeria has huge oil reserves but still cost to import much of its fuel to find out

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