this is g.w. news flying from berlin tonight venezuela holding its breath as rival demonstrations get underway in the capital caracas so far supporters of president majeure wrote end of the opposition leader one have remained calm but there are fears of finalists as there was on tuesday we'll go to caracas to get the latest also coming up tonight did he lie to congress and the public u.s. attorney general william barker rejecting out accusations that he misrepresented the conclusions of the mobile report when he wrote that the report did not support

criminal charges against president trump and made a clashes in the streets of paris has police trying to disperse demonstrators trade unions and yellow vests protesters are rallying against president macro economic policies and it is the problem in her blood the court of arbitration for sport rules against south african the olympic gold medalist caster semenya after she challenges rules forcing female athletes to suppress their natural levels of testosterone. i'm gone off to all our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and around the world welcome violence has hit the streets of its way for a second day running as demonstrators clashed with the armed forces over president nicolas maduro rule the upheaval marks the biggest challenge to media rose yet

anti-government protesters flooded the capital caracas with opposition leader one making an impassioned speech promising that quote change will come quite who is a thirty five year old a lawmaker who is recognized by more than fifty nations as venezuela's rightful interim president. all right when we want to go now to his oscar's linker he was out on the streets of caracas earlier today good evening to you oscar talk to me about the atmosphere on the streets this morning compared to yesterday's violence. well the atmosphere is much more tense but calm in some areas although we have seen the curtain. appear death on. protesters and other kind of ambon its way that people went out to protest. and expertly leaving here and then israel

on a lever additional people march for what has ruled them over well today's demonstrations have more to do with politics state workers were called to march in favor of the government and opposition was called to kill the street in the direction of muddled up from the opposition side there is word of an outburst of violence directed from the government but there is also a sense of duty that the support on the streets is necessary to show the world how much people reject this government and for the seven circling on may first to remain in power and of hold who gets out of his legacy and it's amazing that we have the situation today when we used to go back twenty four hours there was real talk and even hope on one side of a quick transition of power in the country today that's not the case you've been speaking to people in the streets but what are they telling. well there is a lot of confusion on the street people want to believe in guangdong and they see him as the only chance officer sometimes right now to rebuild venezuela the

moccasin with every day that passes people become more impatient and even more so with the crippling crisis in venezuela dealing with blackouts shortages and the humanitarian emergencies it all becomes more complicated so there is a sense of frustration of the streets and then that all of keeps getting worse with every move that time church and one why don't he address his supporters earlier today oscar is that going to give him more support today i mean is he a leader in need of more followers. or whether those messages of resistance and resilience his support is with civilians and. you can see some images that his support and. the large numbers of people that are for has a concentration. of building on time to run around his opponent and time is money

the people in the opposition the fatah yesterday factions because they are a move forward for the goals although not enough to reach it now the military are key to any level of government that at this time the fracturing beyond forces is just not wide enough to break certain or. mother of the w's oscar actually her reporting from the visits where the capital caracas the german foreign minister home office has been to the colombian the capital bogota he commented on the situation in venezuela. this one guy door to look out for us one wydow 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. yes 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 or this kind of its kind of

article there was the german foreign minister speaking there earlier today in the united states the head of the justice department attorney general william barr is defending his handling of the mobile report into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election speaking at a hearing of the senate judiciary committee bart rejected accusations that he misrepresented its conclusions when he declared in a summary that the report did not support criminal charges against president truong that prompted trump to tweet that the report quote totally exonerated him before the senate hearing today it emerged that special counsel robert mohler had complained to bar about the way they who characterize the report's findings saying that the summary did not fully capture the context the nature or the substance of the report that. page after page after page of them on a report on veils unflattering material about president trump's conduct trump

himself has his own summary we have no no no no. however democrats in the house of representatives still believe the president obstructed justice and are demanding the release of the full report including redacted material this is perhaps the best kept secret in washington what's behind these we deck shin's and what they deliver any incriminating evidence against president trump and that's what the democratic led house of representatives vows to find out by subpoenaing the report itself and having everyone testify who could help to solve that possible. special counsel robert attorney general william barr refuses to hand reports democrats say he can't be trusted and that he pretty spot on the malo report in a positive direction for president trump. the big questions now could lifting the

redactions shed new light on donald trump's conduct or is the most important evidence on obstruction of justice already public and could any of this eventually lead to impeachment. of the presidential candidates only for openly support impeachment at this point but democrats say that could change if more evidence becomes public and the u.s. president insists this is a few political which. either way the question what's behind the blacked out lines remains washington's best kept secret as the fight for the full mala report continues. joining me now is our correspondent in washington oliver sally good evening to you oliver so bring us up to date this story if this is a saga if you will what are the stakes at the moment for donald trump. donald trump has been wildly defending himself in the last weeks and days and

especially today in the last hour as he's been writing countless tweets over and over repeating his stance and that is that he's exonerated that he's free from all charges if you will that the investigations are over the report is out and he's not even questioning the legitimacy of the mana report himself the democrats however they say that this is basically just the beginning that this report some of them say that this could be a road map to impeachment in fact and that debate that has been more open discussed every day right now within the democratic party four of the presidential candidates are already openly calling for the president to be impeached we have to take into consideration here that we still haven't seen the underlying documents all the report all the blacked out material is still held secretly and it's a political fight right now between the department of justice and congress and

a fight that is only just begun. i'm sure you like all of his you've read the letter that robert muller wrote to your bar that you know that was just released. in that letter basically moeller is saying to bore you hate you lied about my report are there now calls for you barred to be fired if you do that a possibility could he lose his job. well some democrats are in fact calling for him to resign. william bard to understand this we do all remember the four pages summary that he wrote of all the reports before the report was published and in this report he summarized and concluded that donald trump is exonerated from all accusations and that is something that the moller team reportedly was very frustrated about and now the letter you mentioned actually summarizes that and puts

it into the mouth of the special counsel robert mala as well the accusations here are that the u.s. president of struck to justice but it's unlikely that william barr will resign for this at this point or there has been that oversell the story for us tonight in washington over thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson has been fired prime minister to resign may have said that he was responsible for leaked details of a national security discussion relating to the chinese tech firm way we have seen has denied his department had anything to do with the leak the government of mozambique says that forty one people have died as a result of cycle kenneth it's the second major storm to hit the country in six weeks aerial foot in the capital khartoum the african union has given the country's military rulers another sixty days to hand power to a civilian authority or face suspension from the organization the army promised to

hand over power after a toppled president omar al bashir three weeks ago police in turkey have detained demonstrators taking part in may day protests it is stable after they try to march towards the city's main square authorities had declared to taksim square off limits citing security concerns the site holds symbolic value for the country's labor movement. there were demonstrations today in paris as well the annual may day rally turned violent as police used tear gas to disperse hooded and masked demonstrators more than two hundred people were arrested yellow vests protesters and trade unionists to took part in the marches many of them for testing against president emanuel 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 inflict is 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 to sell six service work in the same good we've been trying to make ourselves heard for six months and nobody is pretty simple we just want to know if no money said mrs. 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. 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 younger left in the country have been forced to realize that there is unhappiness in the country. and i think that it's a pity that. it's a country of only. it's a pretty good that's a french car. 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. they did obviously so louis is covering the paris demonstrations forestry reports that the police have adopted a much tougher stance than in previous may day rallies the police deployed more than seven thousand police officers in the streets today and they were using drones

they were using one hundred nine thousand mobile teams on and 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 diamond stem straightest but these five months of demonstrations sometimes very violence timed yellow vests demonstrations of the pot a fast pass the 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 a hand france. it was lisa lewis reporting in paris lawyers for the wiki leaks founder julian assange say they'll now focus on stopping him from being extradited to the united states it comes after a london court jailed him for fifty weeks for skipping bill songe breached his bail terms when he sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy back in two thousand and twelve he did then to avoid extradition to sweden over reap allegations he was

arrested last month after ecuador withdrew his asylum. judy in a soldier was whisked from the courthouse back to prison to begin his sentence. the wiki leaks find that had cleaned himself up since british police tracked him from the ecuadorian embassy last month and caught his lawyer at ita letter in which is songs apologized quote unreservedly but the judge appeared on moved she said the sound had used his privilege to evade justice and that his seven years in the embassy cost british taxpayers sixteen million times. outside the court supporters were vocal in their anger at the sentence many see a'sssos as a hero for exposing abuses of power and championing free speech and. i think it is by you as i did through wiki leaks that this sentencing here today.

is on the outrage. and this is vindictive in nature. but it doesn't give us a lot of faith in the u.k. justice system. or the fights that. the case against disowns in britain arose when to swedish women accused him of sexual assault and rape in twenty ten. a sones thought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy afraid that sweden could actually tied him to the u.s. he fears prosecution that if a wiki leaks release of millions of classified documents. associates lawyers tonight turning their attention to a u.s. extradition request. that have charged him with conspiring to break into a pentagon computer system the first hearing is on thursday in. this case is and has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states. we've been saying since two thousand and ten that that risk is real and we now have

a provisional extradition request from united states. the focus of our energies will now be on fighting that extradition request and that fight starts tomorrow. it's a battle the songs will be fighting from prison at least for the next fifty weeks but the legal tussle over extradition is likely to last much longer than that. you're watching d.w. news still to come there is no denying his artistic genius but it was lead in order to then she really a tell it's an inventor we'll meet a german author he was disputing some aspects of the division she's a legacy that story coming up in just a moment. whether it's the olympic champion caster semenya today lost a landmark legal challenge against the international athletics federations regulations on female athletes and their testosterone levels the court of

arbitration for sport dismissed the south african star's appeal meaning show have to take drugs to lower her testosterone levels if she wants to compete again but the court also expressed its concerns about the regulations that it held today. caster semenya became a sensation off the. if les six world championships in berlin in two thousand and nine she was only a teenager when she won the eight hundred meters the new world champion had been a virtual unknown. she was hailed as our golden girl back in south africa even meeting then president jacob zuma. i don't know if this. is pretty good. but a storm was brewing in the sporting world the i.w. f. the athletics governing body ordered her to take a gender test. servers worldwide speculated about whether the shyster manuf was

into sex she was initially suspended but was eventually allowed to keep her gold medal and returned to women's races. but the debate about her agenda rumbled on. in twenty eleven the idea introduced a testosterone limit it wanted athletes like semenya to take drugs to lower their natural level of the hormones to be able to compete with women but in twenty fifteen the court of arbitration for sport ordered it to suspend the practice and less it could prove higher levels created an unfair advantage in twenty eighteen citing a study it had commissioned the i.w. introduced even stricter testosterone limits. the clue value for the i don't believe the empowerment of girls and women through athletics the regulations that we are introducing are there to protect the sanctity. of fair and open competition

so many appealed to cas arguing that a sports federation should not have the right to force athletes to control their hormone levels. in announcing the verdict today cas expressed their own concerns about the effect of the i.w. rules and suggested delaying the implementation of the rules to allow time to gather more evidence. 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 the necessary resolvable and proportionate means of achieving the ideal beliefs objective of preserving the integrity of female athletics so many has self is responded on twitter saying simply sometimes it's better to react with no reaction. the outcome of the case will have major repercussions on the future of sports and on society's

understanding and interpretation of what defines. so where does it go from here earlier we spoke to custer's i mean his mentor toby sutcliffe we asked him whether we should ignore people who argue that swimming is higher testosterone levels give her an advantage. not in think you should just the same ways you shouldn't ignore anybody that says that in thought and vantage of all the others it was because he had a size thirteen ford and the others had a size not just the same as that some of the bosco players applies to seven for an hour compared to those of the six foot six. if you're born that way you have certain genes and genetics is something new that the world is going to be reading about the locks in the next few years the way you're born is the way you bowed and the way you grow up is the way you grow up and unite you can change that and we proved in two thousand and nine that she was a woman that sheep basically is born a woman was born

a woman and you slow women. look up to understanding of the competitors mining but the same thing is that anybody man when michael spence broke up you know the many records of them began because that vantage he had no. and as i solicit you the original interview i conducted with you custis listen broken the world's identity to record what's happened to that lady that i may have just turned the blonde on that lady augustus didn't but they did so for me the place you'll certainly on the level. there was speaking with this earlier leonardo da vinci is probably best known for his paintings you see the most famous were right there the mona lisa but the italian artist was a true renaissance man with interests ranging from architecture mathematics to engineering to natural sciences and even music we're now with the five hundredth

anniversary of the bench he's deaf this coming thursday a german scholar is challenging some aspects of the master's legacy. leonardo da vinci was not just an artist an architect but also a philosopher and engineer he's credited with some eighty inventions including submarines some fine machines but according to german author mathias acolyte he didn't really invent them all. it's widely asserted that leon out of really did build a flying machine himself and that the last will an employee of his tried out this flying machine i'll buy it and that leonardo recorded the flight in his codex topped with us leonardo dustin's i'm cool dick's therefore when i've read the codex and there's nothing in it about the flight. stuff on planet. the florence workshop of the mideast she's court painter became leonardo's master school he achieved

mastery of perspective better than anyone else and he sketched everything he saw whether in books or in his surroundings in the pages of his notebooks unable to make a living as a freelance artist at the age of twenty five he applied to work as a specialist for military equipment at the milan court of ludovicus force. often hot the equipment he promised was either unfeasible totally impractical more simply didn't work so much with him for instance if you look at the tank he proposed it's constructed to be driven by a hand crank and a. i'm completely broken design unquote and that hand crank is attached to a kind of gear a caged gear so that the front wheel goes backwards and the rear wheel goes forwards. but he has echo takes a skeptical view of the da vinci cult basing his research in the artist's own notebooks. it wasn't until the twentieth century that the image of layer

an art of the inventor which he himself never claimed to be first emerged driven by benito mussolini to support his fascist ideology the dictator recast eventually as a universal genius and a leading figure of italian creative strength was a linear had done and a great almost illini initiated an exhibition not just initiated he ordered it and it was done and for that exhibition models were created from davinci sketches for the first time delegate math models that simply ignored the errors in the original sketches the exhibition travelled from milan to the u.s. and then to japan where it was destroyed in an air raid last only hellfires it amazingly lost the exhibition is gone miscellany is gone fascism is gone but the layer nado cult of the cult of léonard of the inventor has remained believe they are not a was a visionary but he wasn't

a jack of all trades book doesn't question the boldness of divinities ideas but rather it worshipful view that distorts what he really was a person endlessly driven by curiosity. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the stick around for that.

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