and on what happens here. nor is there more within the 4 to circle stuart's december 21st t.w. . this is d w news live from berlin the results are in for venezuela's parliamentary elections president nicolas maduro socialist party wins control of the national assembly the opposition boycott of the vote as a sham but just more power for mother little mean for the nation also coming up the threat of a no deal divorce mounts with talks stalled and the brakes

a deadline just days away british and european negotiators meet again today with an outcome still highly uncertain. i'm sumi so much kinder it's good to have you with us all the results are in and as expected president nicolas models party has won parliamentary elections in venezuela consolidating his grip on power opposition leaders called on supporters to boycott the vote they and many western nations have condemned it as a fraud the pandemic has deepened the country's long running economic and political crisis and with no upturn in sight venezuelans are growing more and more pessimistic about their future. a humble tarr night few venezuelans came out to cast their vote on election day perhaps because there was so little to choose from with many opposition figures. and from participating the ruling socialist parties

victory was all but assured that would give president maduro control over the national assembly the only institution not yet in his hands then his will is economy was already in a downward spiral when punitive u.s. sanctions meant to dislodge material made everything worse the trumpet ministration policy hit venezuelans hard with many struggling to meet basic needs and hunger rampant. 5000000 citizens have left the country. president would do are the opposition to join him and asking the incoming u.s. administration to rethink the policy. and you're not on your mouth i call on our opposition to abandon the extremist route. and to call in one voice for the new us government of joe biden to lift all sanctions in one voice

but u.s. backed opposition leader one has called for sanctions to be increased instead enthusiasm for quiet or who declared himself interim president and 2019 has fallen drastically ever since he failed to oust material his campaign are doing venezuelans to boycott the selection did not prove popular thea will be given regardless of a person's political position it's a civic duty to vote. it stands and does not promote democracy or change change is achieved through mass participation as a head symbol that i wouldn't. dare look at this because we must see what. nicolas maduro his victory is likely to be hailed by his allies russia and china but for ordinary venezuelans they have little reason to expect swift change. and we have ophelia harms i repeat from latin america desk with us good morning ophelia thanks for joining us we now know that it could last month party has as expected won

control of the national simply what does this mean and no real surprises here sumi what it means is that he will continue to tighten his grip of power he has already ruled the country with an author in tehran regime but now the games the last institution that was in control of the opposition with this institution he gets the legislative power and that will only mean that he will continue to strengthen his his power in real practical terms it doesn't change much in the country though the bad news for the maduro regime is that the economic situation will probably continue because he will continue to be isolated from the international community what about the opposition here we saw images in the report of one though you know the opposition leader there was so much energy around him but it seems like they're now in a very difficult position so where do you think this leaves them well this election has shown that they are divided again as they have been in the past and has been

losing power and strength in the last 22 years we haven't seen him very active some people say he might have needed more support from the international community but the problem now is that he will have to step down he has parliament even if he tries to continue administrative powers as he has said he will do in a referendum he will have to step down and he might even face persecution and will have to end up in exile as many other opposition leaders the opposition will have to really gain power together they are divided and they will have to find a new leader that might help them you mentioned the economic crisis and the humanitarian situation also in venezuela right now is dire i mean how do venezuelans see this election well the low participation that we have seen so far shows that. people really didn't have much interest in this election not only because the outcome was clear to everybody but because people are very much more

worried about how to get food and how to get every day's needs that are really a struggle in day to day lives for venezuelans. what we see now is that the economic situation won't change much the madura team doesn't have a real clear strategy on how to tackle the crisis and so the situation for venezuelans won't change much we might see even more venezuelans fleeing the country joining those 5000000 migrants that already have fled venezuela and what about the international community here we know that the u.s. also called the election a fraud that there were no international observers from the european union for example what role does the international community and its view on the selection play well they didn't send any international observers because there are no real signs that there is and the transparency of the electoral body is controlled by the majority in the judiciary is controlled by them as well but it is important that the international community doesn't support them because this will continue to

strengthen the sanctions that will continue to affect venezuela and we can throw a bigger analogy worldwide you can see that the liberal democracies haven't really found a way to deal with the authoritarian regime as a venezuela and this can apply to many other countries as well i feel your hands are at the from latin america desk thank you so much for analysis. now to some of the other stories making news around the world iran's revolutionary guard says a remote controlled weapon was used in last week's assassination of a top nuclear scientist officials said no attackers were present when most emphatic sunday was shot by a high precision machine gun fitted with a camera and artificial intelligence iran has previously blamed israel for the attack. the polls have opened in ghana for presidential and parliamentary elections the vote is expected to be a tight race between the 2 main candidates incumbent president. and his longtime

rival john muhammad the west african country is experiencing a financial downturn after decades of groats. british and european negotiators will today resume talks to secure a post brags that trade deal with an agreement hanging in the balance the latest round of talks is taking place in brussels ahead of an e.u. summit later this week the e.u. is offering a tariff free access to the single market in exchange for britain agreeing to e.u. rules on state aid environmental and labor regulations britain will lead the single market trading block at the end of this month. and for the very latest let's go over to brussels barbara vessel is standing by for us there hi barbara good to see you so negotiations that were tense over the weekend there resuming today has any progress been made. no progress has been made because from what just emerged by a very early morning briefing by show bunya the e.u.

lead negotiator to the european ambassadors who are 1 the point people off the member states here in brussels there is no. mood of victory absolutely not the talks are slowed talks are difficult they are dragging on and there has been no breakthrough we heard last night that supposedly somehow on fisheries the 2 sides had come together but that was as so often before in these in this drama it was a false hope and so they are continuing throughout the day well that's not a good sign we know that the british prime minister boris johnson and the european commission president was on a funded line they will evaluate tonight whether and nothe progress really has been made now barbara you mentioned the fisheries but remind us what the biggest sticking points are right now. nothing has moved on the 3 big questions you mentioned already the level playing field that's what we call fair competition that

is britain has to sort of more or less acknowledge the rules that the european union has on environment labor laws and so on very big donor of contention is the question of governance the e.u. wants rather tight clauses to punish the united kingdom if they sort of don't obey the rules of the agreement in the end something that we have seen was the result drawn all agreement and that is another big problem it will be coming back the contentious internal market lot will be coming back into parliament today in london and supposedly be voted through that is a point for the european union where they say if you don't stick to the 1st agreement we did how can we ever believe that you will stick to the 2nd agreement we you do so there is a complete lack of trust and then of course there is fishery they can't agree on how and where and how much the 2 sides the fishers of 2 of the 2 sides will be

allowed to use each of those waters and what fish to pull out and just quickly barbara if they don't get a deal what happens. it will be the mother of all contest or fees we have will have trucks picked up through the arisan on in cali and dover of course everything will break down we'll need emergency agreements on aviation on transport to 4 trucks to be able to roll at all the whole cooperation between the u.k. and the united and the european union 40 years of that will suddenly all be void and they will really have to scramble to sort of come across the 1st of january of next year it will be a very difficult time all of that hanging in the balance today. for us in brussels thank you. let's take a look now at the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic the serum institute of india says it has applied for emergency use authorization of its corona vaccine in india britain says it will administer the 1st doses of the

biotech pfizer vaccine on tuesday health care workers and seniors will be the 1st in line there and a covert 1000 infections in germany are still trending upward despite the partial lockdown imposed in early november health departments reported more than 12000 new infections about 1000 more than on monday last week. and in the german state of bavaria new corona virus infections remain among the highest in the country after a crisis meeting on sunday the regional government has decided to toughen restrictions started when state variants will be asked to stay at home with only a few exceptions. the state premier of the very a market has long been wanting to implement tougher restrictions. his state has recorded the country's highest coronavirus death toll and after weeks of consistently high numbers despite new restrictions he says it's time to go further . the largest lighter the situation is unfortunately serious it's simply

not enough we must do more we have to take action that is why i convened a special coronavirus cabinet meeting today so that we can implement various measures before christmas. said announce a number of new measures as of wednesday people in bavaria will only be able to leave their homes with good reason for example to go to work to the doctor to go shopping or for exercise curfews from 9 pm to 5 am planned for hotspots with the highest infection rates and there will be stricter rules and checks on the borders with austria and the czech republic. schools will remain open but 13 year olds and above will only be expected to attend on alternate weeks. with the move said and his bavarian cabinets are breaking ranks with the other state premiers in germany. kovac 19 restrictions are up to the individual states but so far they've agreed to

take a unified approach. the 16 federal states have agreed in recent weeks to a number of stricter measures as part of the country's current lockdown. your chancellor angela merkel has often said she thinks the steps don't go far enough so while the new measures might be welcomed the chancellor in berlin there were mixed reactions on the streets of bavaria. it's going to say the numbers are going down i think it's necessary about us to this making it this tough i think it's a bit excessive but i think of my workplace for example where i sit with sometimes up to 30 colleagues and then i can only spend new year's eve with 5 people. with new infection rates remaining consistently high in germany the question is if other or all of germany's federal states will now follow bavarians lead. so let's get a reminder now for a top story on d w president nicolas maduro socialist party has won control of the legislature in

parliamentary elections in venezuela but the little is expected to pass the national assembly with his supporters the opposition boycott of the vote which was also denounced as a sham by the u.s. and the european union. comment coming up next a report on donna as hopes for an oil boom and the disappointing reality that's on our docket felt series that you. guys call neo and i'm game did you know that 17 trillion run down the list are killed worldwide but it's not just the animals little suffering it's who you are but if you want to know how it went to the priest alcohol shows strange to us as we think to listen.