this is g.w. news from berlin tonight more clashes on the streets of venezuela's capital caracas national guard troops using tear gas and water cannon on supporters of opposition leader. he has again called on the army to turn against president maduro we'll get the latest from caracas also coming up clashes in the streets of paris on may day there was disruption in other cities as well take a look at how may day was marked across europe and it did he lie to congress and

the public u.s. attorney general william barr rejects accusations that he misrepresented the conclusions of the report when he wrote that the report did not support criminal charges against president. it's good to have you with us violence has hit the streets of its way for a second day running as demonstrators clashed with the armed forces over president nicolas maduro has ruled the upheaval the biggest challenge to yet anti-government protesters flooded the capital caracas with opposition leader one making it impassioned speech promising that change will come quite it was a thirty five year old lawmaker who was recognized by more than fifty countries as of its way. into room president. let's go now to our correspondent oscar

actually here he was out on the streets earlier in caracas good evening to you oscar i mean talk to me about what you've been seeing right now and these demonstrations in particular them turning violent. yes well a lot of people went out to protest today after planned a march that was called upon for weeks now and traditionally people protest on may day for labor rights and the worker unions but today it was political and people were very nervous because of that yesterday's violence but they still went out they still went out to support longways all. workers or national workers went to support the government and now we saw some clashes in the opposition rallies the opposition rallies all over the country in major cities t.v. stars only concentrating that access but we did see some clashes not asked violent

yesterday but there were a lot of people that were nervous about how violence would occur today and we know that one why don't he spoke to his supporters earlier today and do we know if he had more supporters out on the streets for him today yesterday he was telling supporters to bring more people out is that happening today. well we did see more people out on the streets today and because it's a traditional day to go out and protest and most of the protests that we saw today were in favor of one way though we have to understand that the opposition here had been disbanded for the most of last year and one way though has managed to bring the opposition back together and people do support him they see him as the only option to bring back the mockers him but i swear to and one of the white house managers of resistance understood he's now asking followers to start

a new wave of protests that will paralyze the country until mother leaves power but it's all in the hands of the military they are key to end my little government but at this point the fracturing the armed forces is just not wide enough to break their support of any corner we see one going to today we are waiting to possibly hear or see nicolas maduro later today do we know of anything about the whereabouts of nicolas maduro right now. one on the whereabouts we don't know yet we will see him eventually at some point we're expecting him to talk yesterday that was the same question where was my thought of that events of yesterday were significant enough to. have a speech or televised speech that's usually been enormous here however we did not hear from either until later in the evening and that's possibly what we will expect today as well wait and see if we do indeed see president maduro deceive me our

correspondent auster sleeker with the latest from caracas oscar thank you. well it is may day and what started centuries ago as a folk festival to welcome the spring has become a twenty first century annual eruption of demonstrations here in europe in some places it has been a day of protest tear gas and arrests let's take a look at how the day played out in a few of europe's hotspots. parasol violent demonstrations as police used tear gas to disperse mass demonstrators. yellow vests protesters opposed to the government's economic policies joints trade unionists in what's traditionally a day to honor organized labor it's been seen as another marker of the unrest sweeping france in recent months. thanks of course with the violence the

government is unfit to own 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 of a solution to fix if there were clashes in turkey as well as police detained demonstrators taking part in may day protests in istanbul this came after protesters tried to march towards the city's main square the site hold symbolic value for the country's labor movement. sitting in russia the traditional international workers day saw a trade union marches in moscow it was a pretty good lives really after that was the government while police detained dozens of opposition activists in st petersburg honestly. and in germany's capital berlin the mood was distinctly more relaxed families gathered for an officially sponsored a may fest and there were no molotov cocktails in view i think it's

a very nice or just for their family and also to teach their kids about what is the first off my. hearing. money at the scene battling crites where. they weigh how people are separate these past my very nice if we compare we france all we think spain i came here to meet my friends and enjoy the atmosphere. as the sun was setting however protesters lived up to a berlin tradition hurling bottles at police it seems that for some may they celebrants old habits die hard. so here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u.k.'s defense secretary gavin williamson has been fired prime minister to resign may said that he was responsible for leaked details of a national security discussion related to the chinese take for poor way williams and has denied that his department was involved in that leak a london court has sentenced wiki leaks founder julian assange to fifteen weeks in

jail for breaching the terms of his bail broke bail and entered the ecuadorian embassy back in two thousand and twelve to avoid extradition to sweden over rape allegations he was arrested or arrested last month after ecuador withdrew his asylum as a sit in protests continue in sudan's 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 it toppled president omar al bashir three weeks ago. the government of mozambique says that forty one people have died as a result of cycle kenneth the second major storm to hit the country in six weeks aerial footage shows the damage done on the island in the north the death toll could rise as aid regencies reach more areas in thailand the long term income sort of the king has been given the official title of queen so theda at

a ceremony in bangkok the former flight attendant is the monarch's fourth wife of the king is due to be crowned in elaborate three day ceremonies starting on saturday. that the head of the u.s. . on the head of the u.s. justice department attorney general william barr has defended his handling of the report into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election speaking at a hearing of the senate judiciary committee more rejected accusations that he misrepresented its conclusions when he declared in a summary that the report did not support criminal charges against trump that prompted strong to tweet that the report had totally exonerated him and before today's senate hearings it emerged that special counsel robert muller had complained to bar about the way that he had characterized the report's findings saying it did not fully capture the reports substance at the expression of the

joining me now is our correspondent in washington oliver sally good evening to you oliver so bring us up to date this story and this is a saga if you will what are the 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 is a debate that has been more open lead discussed every day right now within the democratic party for all 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 has only just begun. i'm sure you like all of his you've read the letter that robert muller wrote to you that was just released. in that letter basically moeller is saying to bore you hate about my report are there no 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 barton understand this we do all remember the four pages summary that he wrote of all of them on 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 president of struck to justice but it's unlikely that william vall will resign for this at this point all right our correspondent overselling on the story for us tonight in washington all over thank you as she is an olympic champion but today the court of arbitration for sport told custer seven years she'll have to change what's inside her if she wants to compete again so when you lost a legal challenge against the international association of athletics federations regulations on female athletes and their testosterone levels the court ruling that she'll have to take drugs to suppress her testosterone level the twenty eight year

old was trying to overturn new rules that are aimed at regulating testosterone levels of intersex athletes the i double a f. says that so many other female athletes classed as having differences in sexual development to gain an unfair advantage because of their raised testosterone. the court however expressed its concerns about the regulations that it uphill today. the plan then found out that the is the regulations this criminal but the majority of the panel found that's on the basis of the evidence submitted by the parties in the procedure such discrimination is a necessary resolvable and proportionate means of achieving the i do believe ifs objective of preserving the integrity of female athletics isis forces down football and in the semifinals of the champions league barcelona have beaten liverpool three

nil in the first leg there was juarez opened the scoring for the spanish hose in the twenty sixth minute then the you know messi scored the second fifteen minutes from time and he struck again just seven minutes later the second leg will take place in liverpool next tuesday to decide who will face either i.x. or tottenham in the final. the legendary spanish footballer you characterize the u.s. as suffered a heart attack and is in the hospital in portugal the porto goalkeeper who played most of his career at real madrid and was captain of the spanish national team that won the world cup in two thousand and ten suffered the attack during a morning training session with his club the local media say the thirty seven year old is noel the danger thirtysomething on. you're watching the w. news still to come indeed business will visit a company here in berlin with the concept of work as a novel as the fraud dog itself janell's going to have that story and

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