best online. on to say that it's called upon to rescue their constitution and overthrow president nicolas maduro today. with his generals in a military parade in the capital caracas declaring victory over an attempted coup tonight from rising up to flat line he did democracy in venezuela just miss its only window of opportunity i bring golf in berlin this is the day. soldiers of the motherland the time to fight has come to. destroy our old company on our opportunities to and i went on our pursuit is for progress no to detritus no to the coup plotters nobody can be afraid it's time to defend the right to have

peace we want to maintain the best relations with the united states strong and veto power ministrations with the bring them for there to determination to defend democracy in a region i think has been very much for the better player in venezuela the national forces a consistent loyal united united is never before. defeating attempted coup plotters to sell themselves for the dollars of washington. also coming up the medium of the moment the lessons of the past tonight using instagram to keep the memories of the holocaust alive and well a bit for younger generations it's startling taught on instagram just because you know the stories about the holocaust and you know what happened there but then just the on instagram completely breaks the idea of what the media. has traditionally

been in the past side would say that was ill. taken aback by it. all to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the world watching but it's way low and wondering is this how a movement ends today president nicolas maduro appeared on national television standing beside his generals serving a military parade now if you had turned off the volume and just watched the images you could have easily thought that it was just a typical parade in a country where a strongman ruler is comfortably in charge or turn the sound on and the reality jokes you what you hear is mature oh proclaiming victory against an attempted coup which he says was led by the united states just two days ago but it's one of those opposition leader one quite zero surprised his supporters by announcing the start of the final push to overthrow president nicolas maduro there were demonstrations

and signs that the military would stand with. but it quickly took a different direction there were no major military defections the demonstrations against midyear were never reached that critical mass threats by the u.s. apparently did not convince mature was meant to turn against it here is what many said just hours ago that. i don't because loyalty is a value that either you have or you don't in the case of this historic moment loyalty is a collective value exercise does a nation exercised as a people and exercised as an institution as a collective value people can tell me how many deaths would they be if a civil war iraq today he because of the foolishness of the coup plotters and try to is how much physical destruction and how many years would be lost in

a war if they invite us because we're never going to give up how many years would we spend in a war of resist. what am i going to go now to our correspondent oscar shrinker he is standing by for us in caracas good evening to you oscar i want to start with the news of this arrest warrant that has been issued for opposition politician leopoldo lopez what do we know beyond that well ask you know what office why survives. on tuesday who is through its hands and he is now. spanish as against well what does this mean that the supreme court well the oldest house arrest just that for a couple of years and now wants to put him back in jail but this is a big complex that was in educational manner because one way to go off is recognize this president for fifteen inches including spending sounder her for his freedom on tuesday so now the difficulty lies in spain well there are. newly elected

plans to do it with their own laws and this complexity i don't want to go over his father was a citizen well elected as are all interior and you're you know last week we're standing spain in a basement and seek asylum in spain because yesterday he was standing there and. yet if he gets an oscar if we see this being done against lopez this evening what about one if says that was part of this attempted coup what are the chances of him issuing an arrest warrant for why don't you. well ok if that is as always there isn't there as always been the threat of one well being arrested and there have been more than what tends to do so i think that there is

a lot of pressure on the government from the base to arrest one might go but there's also a lot of pressure international not to do so and. sorrow absent now those security team if i may go that's increased their. their operations to madison's off with a lot of security and for that increase the numbers is it because of an increased risk to his safety yes there is definitely increased increased risk to the safety and we've seen that with this team there's not more security that they are keeping a low profile for much warms events that we've been seeing yesterday and the day before. he is not keeping such a low profile today compared to the past two days of the we saw him today with his generals at

a military parade in caracas what does that tell was about how he perceives his power tonight. well i think it's important for our rules to shall there is you didn't lose any our forces because what we saw on tuesday with the freedom of not want openness and with this quits and their lives and nation on to say is that there are structures within the armed forces and he does not have complete controllers or british in command for what went on tuesday and it's important for him to show there is unity supporting him within the armed forces so that's why we're seeing much more of them together with military and armed forces today and ask what about the influence of russia and the united states in venezuela tonight is russia tonight at least looking like it has the upper hand.

well there are analysts that suggest that in the future and that's what i was in advance of negotiations between russia and the united states and that's what we haven't seen that in the past you need it is evidence that both countries want to broaden what happens here i mean as you do with the little strategy and any kind of economic interest there is nothing in venezuela that russia can get a better price elsewhere in the world that their their presence here is priceless because that's my last oil resources and borders with a long yeah brazil and it's nearer to the united states and other countries in the region for russia there is more of a geopolitical be sent to key evidence for that and for the united states there's also an interest to keep russia away from the region but all this goes beyond the economic interests because there's little. times in the past years our infrastructure is not used to be a crime is rampant and constant crisis and turmoil make it and spencer richard just

said any kind industry so we have to take that into balance when we. go shish and play out between russia and not instance. spiritually the reporting from caracas tonight thank you where europe has been criticized for its relative silence this week regarding a binge had been its way low earlier we spoke to andreas nick he is a member of the german parliament with chancellor merkel c.d.u. party and he sits on the foreign affairs committee. i think we have a clear position that you undertow is a legitimate interim president of venezuela in accordance with the constitution of venezuela. we call on everyone involved to refrain from while and seek a peaceful solutions to a national dialogue and a democratic transition that can only be resolved through a fair and free elections and to enable that and to make that possible i think.

moderate has to step aside i think there were rumors of us from the base he was already. plotting he said refused to cuba not clear how. realistic that scenario is but it's clear that neither the majority i do at the moment can we can secure the full support of the of thier authorities in venezuela so that statement may continue for quite a while. but it would have been a strongly supportive of all the countries in the reaching the lima group working together for a peaceful transition in the country we should never forget that there's a refugee crisis was more than ten percent more than three million people and from an answer i would have left the country in two or neighboring countries of the region which is a significant risk of the stabilizing the region as a whole so we strongly support our partners in colombia and what or peru and other

countries who and why involved in that i was in the region myself in separate together with the federal president and we support in terms of giving refuge to the people fleeing even a sailor in terms of securing a humanitarian support for those remaining in missouri and working towards a peaceful transition and i think once it's gets going we can be even more helpful in terms of supervising and monitoring as you facilities an election process that should be fair and legitimate and profuse and you were government for an answer. and that was. speaking with us he's a member of the german parliament and sits on the foreign affairs committee so where are we now and of in its way to talk about that i'm joined by francisco marquez he is a political advisor to opposition leader one goh i do francisco was imprisoned by president nicolas maduro for four months after his release he left the country he joins me tonight from washington d.c.

francisco welcome it's good to have you back on the program i know that you've been answering this question today from a lot of people and it's still relevant tonight explain the last forty eight hours to which was this a political gamble that did not pay all well i would argue that we've seen the highest level defections in the last forty eight hours than we've ever had during this process i always call to mind my own well christopher he was the director of intelligence of the regime and it is widely known fact that he contributed an coronated with president i'd go and just to give another fact the highest level political prisoner of the regime paul opus was also able to leave the house arrest and he's currently on the street just like if this was such a coup d'etat or if the dude has full control of security forces why he's president

my dos still on the street still practicing politics still trying to restore constitutional order to my argument and president where does argument is that we've actually moved forum of those weaker and now than he was forty eight hours ago francisco do you know how many soldiers nail support one. well for city of purposes we can get into that but i can tell you that the majority of the security forces are with president i don't and it's no secret we have to be very a front with the people that are still some security forces with a regime that's not a surprise but what has surprised many people's the level of support the president i go has for security forces and we will continue to see more defections as days and moving forward for sure that this is that something you can confirm that the majority of the soldiers the majority of the military is no with one go i go. yes and as we have stated before the transition is

a process this sometimes take unfortunately more time that we would like but if i would have told you two weeks ago that the director of intelligence of the regime was was in court a nation with interim president why don't you probably would not have believed me but now that's a fact and it's so true that they they just replaced him with another figure just like it's true the modern right now is surrounded by people that promised that he would he would leave that day this is a complicated issue but rest assured that the people of venezuela millions of people on the street support president want to go and that's what's most important why go has the people's hearts and wedo has the people's interest in all his policies and everything he's trying to do for it's good but how do you explain the military parade that we sold today in caracas with nicolas maduro he was standing there with the is top military min the son to. yeah and i invite you to if you can post that clip where the minister of defense says

that people were trying to buy him off and the surprise face of the regime of nicolas maduro that this was an act a show is weaker than he's ever been and anybody can paint a picture with a couple of security forces around him and that's what trying to do but the fact of the matter is he's lost control as i mentioned before the polar opposite the top political prisoner left his house and he was surrounded by intelligence officials and counter military counter intelligence and he left with no problem that's because they followed interim president made those order i want to ask you there are reports that opposition leaders spent months in secret talks with top officials including that it's where he lives defense minister mr adreno lopez i mean did those talks really take place. yes i can confirm that we have a president i know and as we have said before there are other talks this is not

this is only the tip of the iceberg as we have mentioned before international pressure and the message pressure is working it is creating the conditions for more and more defections and more fractures and that is why the pressure will continue if the u.s. is the united states is it taking part in these talks as well. this is the venice one led movement by the venice own people and for the venezuelan people it's the same reason that january twenty third when president my dose for office we had the support of more than twenty countries that day obviously the u.s. supported us but now we have more than fifty six countries so everything we're doing is honest well lead but definitely supported by the international community what about the speculation that the opposition may have been tricked by mr adreno others close to me. into thinking that a deal was being put into place i mean you guys set

up. i don't believe that's the case again look at this or this was a nationwide movement by security forces this is only the tip of the iceberg and we will definitely see how everything plays out in the next couple days and next couple weeks as the pressure continues as we said before mother was surrounded by people that wanted his head on a platter and he knows that now and now it's public i want to ask you what about what elliott abrams the u.s. envoy for venezuela he he claims that the u.s. did not take part in the negotiations between the opposition and members of the regime but he says there is a document that talks about the play and. levy have you seen that document. i cannot comment on that matter but what i can say is that talks between high level regime officials and interim president did

take place and those talks were significant and in those talks these are some officials promise that madugalle would be out and as i said before this is a complicated and complex process but in the following weeks in the following days we will see more to come we going to bite of the u.s. president he was talking today about in its way let me see if we can play that right now take a listen to what he said about but it's whale like to begin by sending our prayers to the people of venezuela in their right to struggle for freedom. the brutal repression of the venezuelan people must stand and must and soon people are starving they have no food they have no water and this was once one of the wealthiest countries in the world so we wish them well we'll be there to help and

we are there to help we wish them well does that sound like a u.s. president he was ready to go to bat for you francisco with what are you hearing from the white health's. we definitely think the prayers of the president and the people and all the world and i would just like to say this is been a bipartisan issue for the last year is that right now we have the full support of the united states government to restore democracy in minutes so the commitment strong from the u.s. and from the most latin america today we've seen more and more. comments by colombia and by lima group members then they will support president why go in everything he's done and i would just like to highlight very quickly the unprecedented president the nature of what you've seen we have interim president ordering security forces to restore constitutional order against a usurping regime and the most of the international community led america supported

this movement there was no condemnation and there was no violence during this situation so it is very rare and unprecedented and so we have the full support for israel let me she's in our region and in the world before we run out of time but we just want to ask you do you believe that nicolas maduro is holding on to power with the help of russia. there are definitely bad actors in the us just like cuba and russia and this is a fact but i would like to say on russia there russia is not a monolith there are high level officials in russia that are not definitely not pleased with how some people are handling the vanessa and russia it is in the very interest of russia and china to restore democracy in venezuela because the fact of the matter is that russia or china will never get its investment back under the regime it will have an open and frank discussion with the democratic forces in the future once democracy of the store francisco markets political advisor to get its way liz opposition leader born francisco we've you taking the time to talk with

this. we talk again soon thank you. thank you for having me. israel today marked its annual holocaust. today the nation came to a standstill as people paused to remember the six million jews murdered by the nazis during world war two. this comes amid the largest spike in anti-semitic violence in decades experts say part of the reason is that memories of the holocaust are fading now there's a new project with an innovative way to keep those memories alive assman is here to tell us more coral how do you pass on these these difficult memories from generation to generation right i mean that's the question here and the idea is to use instagram to bring some of these difficult stories these emotional stories to a younger audience even kind of think of this brand as an frank's diary but imagine

if instead of a diary cian out a smartphone take a look. this film depicting the german army entering hungry during world war two might look like a hollywood film production but it's not in fact it was shot on a smartphone and portrayed format for an instagram audience it tells the true story of thirteen year old eva hyman in nineteen forty four she kept a daily journal for three months before the nazis deported to auschwitz but even a story is told in the first person as if she had a smartphone during the holocaust and could have regularly documented it on instagram is israeli tech entrepreneur mountie call javi personally financed the project and together with his daughter directed it with the help of social media they're trying to establish a new way to remember the horrors of the holocaust museums and books and bring them in a meaningful and serious way into the social media. and young people too. and

young uses are already starting to discuss story online many have suggested the effect heavy instagram portrayal is too superficial for a story of such suffering others appeared to be embarrassed we break yeah yeah but the media. has traditionally been in the past so i would say that is a little bit taken aback thousands are now learning about the fate of nun she gave her diary to a neighbor shortly before she was deported to auschwitz it survived she did not she was murdered in october of nineteen forty four. these are powerful stories this seems like a great idea was the background in a powerful story and to tell it you know this wasn't just your typical kind of low budget do it yourself instagram project there was a lot of money a lot of time invested in this other director who we saw in that piece spent millions of his own dollars with a cast and crew of nearly four hundred people there was no one terry costumes the

tanks the trucks you see there those are all authentic he also developed a camera i mean you can. see a lot of these shots they look like the main character there is filming on a phone he developed a special camera to get that effect there so far i mean the money here seems to be well spent in just a few weeks this account has eight hundred thousand dollars and counting a lot of people paying attention so the reception for the project has been good it's been good and you saw in the piece a lot of young people it's reaching its target audience however there is some pushback especially in israel itself or this topic is so sensitive some people there say hey look maybe this kind of selfie culture isn't the right way to tell such a sensitive topic i mean and if you look at some of these videos you know it's not shying away from the way that young people use instagram see hashtags they're like hash tag of life during war or location tag that simply says ghetto i mean one could argue that that is being potentially a little bit insensitive here when it comes to during about something like the

holocaust this though does have a very high profile supporter brant we're talking about israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu himself and here's what he said about the project the roots and will do for. now i want to encourage you each and every one of you to also make a story about people who were murdered in the holocaust so that the world will understand and this is that we will remember what we've lost and what we've gained back with the establishment of the stakes in israel. yemen branch we were talking you know this generation it's on its disappearing and how you want to keep these memories alive this is certainly one way of doing it you have to be careful though how the story is told but no matter what i mean this was meant to grab people's attention i think it's definitely succeeded in that there is the worry that you will have people. taking selfies which does happen right yeah which does happen i mean i think the way that this was told though the story here it was sensitively done the lesson is always thank you. thanks for watching we'll see you

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