twenty four correspondents around the world. she lives in paris in front twenty four the headlines this hour. venezuela's self proclaimed president accuses authorities her of her resting his f family as he outlinines plans to steal te country out of crisis one white -- has not been recognized by more than twenty countries. and the european parliament has joined them in a few moments we'll be going live to caracas to speak to a correspondence an arab. the european union unveils a new mechanism designed to help european companies bite costs us sanctions and continue to trade with iran. wawashingtonon says the plat will have limited impact. and some relief in sisight r mimillions o of freezining americans the polar vortex

is set to head back to normal following a near record cold snap. that sent temperatures plunging to minus thirty degrees celsius . first i venezuela's self proclaimed president has accused security forces of intimidating his family amid the country's political crisis. during a speech in venezuela's central university today one quite those said police had visited his home. and also to sesee his wife o was that with his young daughter. i live in brooklyn and what role did the armed forces play for example. we've spoken of the amnesty guarantees that have been given. by the armed forces also have a role in the reconstruction of the country.. it is in security to stabilize the borders all of

us have a role in this moment. the european parliament is the latest international body to recognize why dole as venezuela's president. and it's urging european member states to follow suit the us canada and twenty other countries already recogngnize glider russia ad china. often now maintaining their support for nicholas yes our correspondents and herrera is that and i can you tell us a bit more about what one why do have to s say today. saying -- and he was at the central univiversity o of venezuelai gave in and given out at a speech about how the government the next government a transition government gonna look like. why they're going to do their p plans andnd suddenle was -- advise that -- day group -- five which is the spepecialn a s special groupup off ther national police -- was near his house on well i

asking for h his -- his wifee and t their at tht place it was his on twenty month old daughter so he quickly a and that althoughe could see them i really calm but he quickly and that. on the speech and when there andd also he invited everyoe there was around to go with him and with his wife. to his house -- to protect his f family ands he said the rest of the family well now when the they went there the files was nowhere to be found on they were already -- out of there i'l'll but he addressed. the country again there with his i was tryrying to break thee minnesotata familyy tht they wouldn't. do are they couldn't do it and he ask the rest are better as well as to keep fifighting to keep going t o the streets a and to keep followingg the instructions

all the oppositioion. as he said this is something the government is doing because they know their little saying they know they have n no where are they hae nothing else -- to use but for us but it threatens and at two thirty his family to grin on hisis life and his wife and his baby -- now and nothing else happened but this this goes into a context this is coming.. from the context of of the of persecution o of the rest of the opposition leaders ththis is not something that surprising. the only thing that surprised. us right now is that the governrnment is s doing thia lilittle bitit too latate is been almost two weeks now -- or we can now says he was turning this interim president in front of hundreds of thousands of people and we you u know tht the government quickly. all right sounds like a

pretty frightening situatio- for the family at me one on the international front and that there are signs that -- european countries all coming round at two recognizing klein and why does all people encouraged by that way you won't. definitely there are they think the international community on supports them support this indiscreet movement the opposition movement and if the porting best new transition government. that it's already i think it's already starting or at least it looked like and the government -- seems to be acting so slowly with. so cautious against the one way bill and gas and again at the rest of the opposition leaders. so that is why people for the first time after so many protests after almost twenty years of all the redeemable good job as anyone else my daughter. for the first time people are feeling -- supported and they are they are actually today i many

were discussing what to do this saturday remember this saturday the opposition call for another huge demonstration. they're hoping to get the same amount of people on the street that they did -- pastor -- january twenty third. we'll have to wait. the institutions around and and also and then this long though the poor neighborhoods everyone is on the same path. i thank you very much indeed an ira that reporting from caracas. well two french journalists who were arrested in venezuela while reporting on the political time off and now be freed according to the program they work full fatties demo ca and check i will soon be back in paris. according to their employees to forces from chile was deported from venezuela this week. the european union is rolling out a mechanism to allow european companies to get around us sanctions and continue to do business with the wrong.

britian france and germany are behind the in steaks or instruments in support of trade exchanges which europe hopes will encourage tehran. to keep up its sense of an international nuclear agreements are best is just. three circumventing us sanctions. the financial mechanism introduced by britain germany and france will allow companies to trade with iran without direct financial transactions. and therefore without using the us dollar. the bartering system was hailed by the use diplomacy chief as an important incentive for tehran to abide by its nuclear commitments european union is fully behehind the full. implementation of the when it on for the simple reason said we see it is working. thirteen reports now by the i a is fully compliant with his commitment and we believe this is a key element. of our security in the region. washington warnedd that any company trading with iran would risk severe consequences including

losing access to the u. s. markets. and while it didn't directly condemned the mechanism the state department said they didn't expect it to have any impact. as it believes most corporations compromising their business interests in the u. s.. belgium's foreign minister admitted it was up to individual companies to decide whether they would use the new payment vehicle. yep of generals off alternately it's up to the companies they will choose to join the steak or if they drop in on trade with iran. butt this is a strong messae that we can send our radian colleagues to continue on this also it also. for donald trumps d decision last year t to pull out of a nuclear agreement with iran was widely criticized by other signatories including china russia and several u. countries. who said to ron had not broken its side of the deal? since then the u. n. atomic agency has certified iran's compliance with its commitments thirteen times. and even the c. i. a. said earlier this week that

tehran was abiding by the court. a rescue boats c carrying dozens o of migrants h has finally arrived in a city the c. watch three had been stranded at sea for twelve days in a standoff with italian authorities. italy has not struck a deal with all the european countries to take in those on board including fifteen children peter o'brien reports. see what't's three finally comes into ports. there was a bold move rescued from a sinking ship in a libya i'm within kept c. for nearly two weeks. the ship has docked in content yet it to the offer deal to shed the migrants agreed between six all the countries. on the ship and as an ororganizationon and i was - as a civivil societye have - absolutetely confident we haven't dodone in a going on kitten is public prosecutor has launchedeveral investigatations against rescue boats operated by aid

groups. in march twenty eighteen impounded the open arms ship as part off an investigation into the crew for allegedly aiding illegal immigration. the ship was r released following the court's r rulg that libyaya couould not be considered a safe country. italy's prime minister matteo salvini says he's considering legal actioion againsnst thehe c. wawatch w which he accuses of sailing straight for it today ralph of imports in libya. tunisia. german ngos says it tried but failed to get a response frfrom tripoli old jununis. already taking a hardline stone some rescue boats by blocking them from its ports the italian government says it's looking into banning them from even entering its wawaters. the french government is under mounting so skepticism over the life he returned all french citizens from syria critics say those who fought alongside the islamic state group should lose their citizenship. but the justice minister has

soared to a life is and says most of those returning from syria would in fact be children concerned if it has more. the fate is in the hands of the french government. this group of french nationals the majority of women and children are being held by the stf a syriann militia dominated by kurdish forces. after the islamic state group lost most of its territory in syria. french justice minister any corbin base of the government's preference is now to repatririate them. let's walk -- cd faucet goes w without saying that a french nationals detained by the kurds. are going to be free expelllled extent i belieiee it's in our collective intererests to take c contrf their fate. ratherer than allowing theho be set free they are close since several weeks. the justice minister said the government believe 75% of children under. seven and that older minors would be judged in children's courts ball adults would face seven to thirty years in jail. it's a major you turn

previously france's stance like other western european countries. has been to leave captured for fighters to face judgment locally. the game changer the us's decision to withdraw its troops from syria. leaving ally kurdish forces in a vulnerable position as a potential offensive agagainst them lose from turkey. however though -- every country has led its responsibilities and we had to take on the problem alone on all fronts financial security humanitarian and political values in the world unlockable -- cut that new quotes complicating the situation is that international coalition forces of pulling out of the region of the month without securing its it because they've got our money will force him out because it meant the car. around five thousand fighters are believed to have left europe to fight in the middle east in recent years with over a thousand having make their way back

home since. french -- my kids look set to approve a law which would ban people from wearing mosques and protests. along with another which would stop specific people from taking part in demonstrations wearing a mosque could result in a one year prison sentence and right violent rioting on the sidelines of the universe movement. at least a a twelvlve people have dieied a as a result oa cocold snap in the uninited states city of chicago recorded near record lows of minus thirty with the wind chill. frfrom the great lakes makig it feel substantially colder the cold snap. is now headed north. temperatures offset to warm upup over the next forty eit hours but could drop even further before that happens millions of people have been caught up in the deadly. polar vortex which is put out by c. f. from the north pole vice gotta husband. in a bid to stop transport grinding to a halt completely fire is being used to heat is freezing

rail tracks in chicago day. with temperatures reached a low of minus thirty degrees celsius on wednesday the sixty second coldest d day n record. america's third largest city has resembles a ghost town for the past few days as the arctic weather known as a painter vortex forced hundreds of offices schools all my g god is reallyy. freezing is really bad yeah is dentures. see this on my glasses this is this is not juju fogs frost. is ridiculous are here is gonna get worse. three two till the west to grip the area and the generation of school to transportatation knocked out electricity andd burst water mains a across e region. the us postal service to the rest of suspending mail deliveries in parts of ten states. a more than one thousand eight hundred flights were canceleled at chicago's two major ask. officials in dozens of cities have for hold

including the homeless in the elderly. several people have died from the extreme weather some from hypothermia freezing others from fatal car accidents. the deadly cold snap is expected to ease on thursday for the national weather service says temperatures could still full to record lows in some places before the region begins to four out. well to tell more a about tt i'm joined by richard alley he's a professor and associate of the us and to environmental systems institute at pennsylvania state universrsity. thanks for being with us on front twenty four tonight at the first lady and and he got a bit of gooood news for the e midwestt it is all thy over the worst of this teterrible weathther. yeah itt looooks like t thee open the worst of them sinc- where we're looking at actualally well above a avee temperatures by the end of the weweekend? because this things coming out of chicago in other places have been pretty horrific and can you tell us a bit more about the science

behind this potable tex. sure so first of all please remember the wororld is stil warming the world today is a baba off natural levels the antarcrcc is a above natural levels the s southern hemisphere is above natural the tropicscs a are above naturall t the norththern hemispsphere is above naturl the artiticles above natura. and we've been freezing. and so this is the world's warm. but normally the winds dream around the the arctic in the polar vortex and they sortt of keep the cold airir lockd up in the arctic. and occasionally t that cold air sneakss out and comeses downwn and and since over places that are not used. to this is whether it is always h happened it will always happen. but there is some thougught that mayaybe the warming has made this more white -- as you warm the world theree

is a reaeason c. icece it changes where there is or is not now that affects where the storms go. inspects the strength of the polar vortexx and it's possible that humans of actually change things that made it more likely for that hold to come down to chicag. and legal warm in alaska whwhere they just cancecel e sled dog r race because it's raining. i'm wondering what your reaction was an early this week when the donald trump tweeted. that said there was records cold weather in chicago so much for the local warming what would you say to him.. yeah i k know all weather ad climate are actually different things and so it's it's very common. eighty surveys show that -- people's views of climate are affected by weather and you will find more people who are concerned about globobal warming during a ht waveve you well during a cod

snap so this is somewhat. natural but the science is actually very clear all.. oldest air masses have been getting warmemer -- and it s still is think warming. and so if we can sit down and chahat i hope we can actually sort this. as as you say this is the kind of change all people just gonna have to get used to these horrible freezing winter's. well it is an interesting question because the coldest air masses are getting warmer the winters are getting warmer and averaged. araround the world the coldt places in the coldest times have been warming the fastest -- whether we will these. shots and cold coming out let's say this is a an inteststing thing we we want to worry about. we are in some ways seeing more extreme send and so it sort of more greenss and it generally warming world as

it's happening several thingsgs -- certainly we get more heat waves when conditions are right to make rain or snow we're getting more intense because there's more moisture in the air. eight tries out faster after. rain or snow or don. we may indeed seeing some of these old chunks ending up in places that they should not bad at all right professor alley thank you very much but still ta. well let's get an update on the business days for it out at cape may de is with us in the studio and the pressure on k. as the us and trying to continue these. high stakes try to yeah absolutely billions of dollars are at stake lauren all kinds of industries a time is ticking here we're counting down towards the end of this ninety day tariffs truce. comes to an end on march the first american and chinese negotiators are wrapping up two days of talks in washington it's their second round of negotiations this year. now beijing is said to be willing to buy m more agricultural products frorom the united states but the

main stiticking point really relates to the tech s secto. the protections for intellectual property rights international scandal over the chinese company for white has added further attention to the latest round of discussions. that dononald trump will be meeting with china's of white house in the next hour or so but he has now said that a final deal won't be made. until he meets with his counterpart shijing paying in person. that time frame has yet to be defined. the american president that sounded optimistic about the progress that's been m me so far. china was opened up. because of us. to the financial services industry which is a big thing nobody thought that was possible. and they've opened up -- to financial services and things of the like button -- i just wanna let everyryone know we we won't have a deal if we don't open it up to the farmers. and we want to dodo if they don't openn it up t to our manufacturers a and and just all that i think that probably the final deal will

be made if it's made will be made between myself from president chief. as a candidate trading action now wall street's makes the s. and p. five hundred is heading for its best january overall. since the nineteen eighties the dow jones still dragging behind there a little bit nasdaq being pushed by facebook. its shares are up 11% this hour after it said its profits soared despite recent privacy scandals. general electric shares meanwhile jumped twelve massive efforts t to re organize the company. major european indices were fairly muted shares of german lenders deutsche bank and commerce bank down four and 7% r respectively.. on rumors s of a possible merger. here is on the economy was practically stagnant at the end of last year expanding just point 2% in both the third and fourth quarters. its weakest pace in four years. overall the block grew one point 8% and twenty eighteen compared to two point 4% in. twenty seventeen the slowdown was in line with expectations and is expected

to continue. its political uncertainty weighs on already uncertain global outlook. among the weak weakest links with italy europe's third largest economy contracted point 2% in the last three months of the year. following a point 1 1drop the previous period two consecutive quarters of negatitive growth are officially defined as a recessionn. italy's thihird in a decade tracker reports. with two consecutive quarters of negative growth giving rise to recession italians a down beat. granted that it'ss g going o be difficult for everyone everything is going backwards. what can we expect aspect that? some of the let's say it's an unstable moments in the sense that we need signals that can give us more security singing out. to jump in on the secrets of signals the government says it's giving. rooms blamed the situation on decreased exports following the trades between washington and beijing. and insists itsts economic

reforms the transition phase there are no worries on our side we care about is to concentrate on our re launch on the re launch the economy which will take place for sure in twenty nineteen six now the economic measures we put in a budget local. stopping of facts your resume and they love and all that. italy's populist governmenet wants to ramp up spendiding boosting social security payments something it believes will be 21% growth in the second half of the year. analysts t though unless she the forecast and declared that the talent economy in - two thousand nineteen will grow more or less at the same. ace of two thousand eighteen or maybe less -- the government tries to give some -- some trust the tool tool consumer sent to fair because we know that trust. is an important ingredient all the economic dynamics it comes just months off to rome found itself at loggerheads with brussels over budget and failure to

reduce public debt shaking business confidence. went o over from t t 30% italian public debt is the second highest in europe of degrees. investment in the british car industry plunged by almost half in twenty eighteen this fears over break that weigh heavily on the sector. organizations wanted no deal breaks it would be catastrophic for the industry. relies heavily on parts and finished cars moving seamlessly in and out of the u. television reports. a sector on n red alert britain car manufacturers are sounding the alarm on brexit. the uk society of motor manufacturers said that investment in the auto industry was cut nearly in half last year. it fell to six hundred and seventy y three a slashing f investmentss that the head f the e smm t. says is partly due to jitters over brexit. as you get closer to the leaving dates -- companies looking to vessel way and say we want to know

what the future relationship is. before making multi million pound investments. sending the industry's annual data the head of the trade association said car production in the uk has fallen by nearly 10% and that figure could get worse. the group says the cost of cars could jump by the equivalent of some seventeen hundred euros from terrorists if there is no deal. a hike that would send the sector spinnining. the prospect of no deal would be. incredibly damaging for the sector to leavave without to de w would be. quite frankly catastrophic for the industry. the united kingdom the car industry employs over eight hundred and fifty thousand peoplelend accountnts 412% f exports over half of those cars are sent to the e. u.. but brexit fears aren't the only thing that's been squeezing the british car industry. falling sales in china and confusion over global diesel policies have also hurt the

industry but the car so see asian sayays b brexit has already done enormous damag. more warninings as the clock ticks dow yet kay thank you very much today's k. review that with the business listing so right to go away

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