way . one played always keeeeping up - -- hopingg to keep u up the pressurere ainst nicolas maduro the oppositition leader hasalled for the lalargest marginn venezuela's history this meetin. on tuesday scenes of chaos erupted in caracas after quite - appeared in a videdeo alongside members off the natational guard anand o opposition politicians you'llll pull the lopez. h. was the most significant show of forcece against nicolas maduo to datee he has quite a a addressing his supporters in

caracas a little. ouour sacrifices haven't been in vain. they were for our families for ouour future. to reach our objectives. which is to unite the cocountry. and we can see that they're starng to feelel the pressssure that our m movement continues to grow and thehen we wl stay inn the streets. yesterday they thought they could divide us butut they can'. we w will stay in the streets unti we secure v venezuela's freedodom. for more on n the sty we can bring in other hands will vesco associate professor of modern and latin america. at and why you thank you very much for joining us on the program today. now w we see that one quote whi- hahas calledd for this largest march in venezuela's's h histort at the same time we doo havee supporters o often n nicolas mao who have e been gatathering in caracas. how divided i is venezuela exex? well it's divided in soo f far s polarization is banned a

trademarking for the lasast twey yearars of first of f which alis presidency and then my litittle but the r reality is thahat -- whwhether all right now has much more sigignificantnt p popular t and my dauauter does -- as a result of the e significant cris that -- itself within minututes wewell at the c challengege fory though is thatt h he now has a y significant credibility cririsis he h has beenn promising a agaid again that the g government is ababout to fall yesterdrday of cocourse he called on the mility to rise up and they did and and to some. tetent he hahas to continueue to demonstrate that he does have back i in the s streets otherwi. his own support it's going to rain.. he has p popular support he has internatational supportrt how ds he maintain this momentntum because he has had you known burst inn the past butut it'ss t gotten h him whatt he wants nics maduro out of power. no exactly and that is s thmajor question and to o some extxtenta he h has t to do in fafa he sorf forced himself in a corner to do is as he saiaid in that speech.o continue to o show t that he cat

people out on the streets. it's worth mentioning that -- even thougugh the prorost -- tht he has called foror his large is nowhwhere near the larargest.. demonstration minutes welll at o that you know w suggests thahat peperhaps our sectors eveven wi- why does supppporters a and the opposition that perhaps you're losing a little bit of faith an- in his m movement faith and potentially even patatients i wanteded to ask you. you knonow the fact that leopolo lolopez is out -- a alpha house arrest does that change anything for one e white ---- yes andnd i mean certainlyly. one of the things that wewe've known over e past seveveral months is that wy though andffice aree pretty constant communicatition -- assistant to some extentt that's not gonna changnge a a to o the extent that no passeses now retreated into a foreign embass. actually cururtail some of his abilityy to be able to move because of coursrse -- t to to contininue t to advise -- why th it's cost or any problems -- for the spanishh embassy or the

spanisish governmentt so it't'su know.. things mayay not necessarily changes every the relelationship between why though and andnd office but it definitely pututs them in a different diffiltlt spot. now the usus secretary of s sta- michael mayo has spopoken to his russian couounterpart tannining russia to o back off and talso tellll the cubans not to interf. in whahat's happeningng in v vea how invololved are the russians really.. significantly -- - and o of cour it's's a better yeah it's a bitf a rich a and ironic --- your statement for thehe united stats to say you know russia thank you but should not be all. but t instead i it should be involved in whwhat's happening - russia's involved in the contt of i its interests financially in the oil sector but it's mostly intererested in n that as well --- iofar as it can contain curtail us influen in other parts o of the world -- ad to the extent that t it's been successful s so far in w wardine effort o of the u united states government to actualally help te overthroww my littlee -- it's actually so shown itself to be okay i'll handle -- velascol pl.

thank youou very mumuch for your insight and joining us o on the program totoday. thank you in otheher news polole you're in for a paris fired a tear gas on demonstrators who use the a annual may day rally o protesest against the pololicie. of the french presisident thehet has comee a week o off a manual michael announced measures intended to quell the yellow mass protests. which have grippeded the cououny since the end of november measures whihich includeded scrapping that number of lawmakers and cutting taxes for middlele incee workers.. nearlyly three hundred dedemonstrtrators meanwhile have been taken into custody this wednesday. chaotic scenes ithe streets araround on a train station. even a massive police presence failed to stop the small group of ptesters from wreaking havoc. rises storage traditional m may day demonstrated.

with the server outs to voice their dissatisfaction with president dominionicrons economic policies -- only bebecause iwould bebeing crushed under the weight of texas pensns have f fallen. i went into r retirement. savings now i havave a little ls caught make ends meeeet. some criticize thehe pleas for that use of force. the goal othis willl be solved did she found grenades damagages and makeke you stataff the tech askedd doesn't distitinguish between good abouout protests as it destroys your lungs and bronial. authorities were particularly wary about the so called black bloc. last and he did on n a case bent on destroying what they see as captain. symbol. labor unions disistanced protesters calling for peaceful may day mahes. but summmming kraus who move for giving. i think. ifif you think about thehe viole the government is inflicting on us what little violence we use amounts to absolutely nothing.

it's just a warning sign. if we have to resort to that it means that we don't have any other solutionons. hundreds of shops and rerestrants are closed as they braced for the m. rest. police also carried out to preventive such as a majorrain stations and arrested dozens befofore rallies beganan.. no meaeaty r rallies were heheln cities around the world t the first o of may i is alslso knows inteternationanal workers day. a day when thousands r rally for better rigights incluluding higr salaries a and improved w workig conditions more julia takes uss to some of ththe media rallies held around the world. a dozen peoplpl were arrested in saint petersburg for carrying portraits of the russian president. and c chanting putin is a a thi. abouout t two thousand took p pn the demonstrationon against the gogovernment of courseas just double click with syststem must change. some support -- - her we won t e elections in saint petetersburgo

be fat. as long as there are no fair elections her. the international community will not respect us. there were also arrests in istanbul the symbolic taxing square is cordoned offo thousands gathered i in the district of becky corey at cornerstonone done. if the countntry's not mananage democratically enough it's impossible for ourur economy toe strong at the unitit. justst. a month ago the position w won local elelections in istanbul te econonomic capital. and the president's re check type air to one asked for the vote to be counseled. international workers day in gas has served as an opportunityty r palestinians to demand better working conditions. in a territory badly affected by an israeli blockade. they say no one earns a decent wage. theree isn't a single employee n gazaza or rafahh he's living in good condiditis workers are exhausted and want dignity we've had it with lights anand humiliation. in iraq'q's capital there was

music in the streets as the secretary general of f the communist party called for the job m market to be rerevised. ii would like to tatake this opopportunity to o call for job opportunities andnd the re openg of all close factorieses today there was a decline in all countryy..ctivities in t the in sales number ten or jakarta thousands of employees demonstrated to demand a raise and bebetter working conditions. ththe britisish defenense secrey hass been fired to gavin williamson said to be replaced by pennyny mordant often secretet government meeting abot chchinese t telecoms f from hig. the investigation wasas launched last week aftfter reports of the national s security council h hd agreed to let flyly away particicipate in somome aspspecf britain's five g. netetwork. early i spokeke to our correspondent benedict have you in london and a also to give us some context to williams inspiring.

news is still a breaking hat and this firing this stocking all of of the former i now need to say defense secretary kevin williamson has come as a huge shock. he has been in the post since. two thousand seventeen was a trusted. prime minister and that no oneo quite so this coming. now the fact of the matter is that all receipt -- a big post is to be defen secretatary but to be accused of what to eat it seems toto be accuse of and that is. leaking from a national security cocouncil meeting which of coure is attended by the p prime minister b by the defense secretaryy -- by t t home sesecretary theququipment to the french ministeter the interior e intetelligence servivices -- ovr such. a meeting is s absolutetely monumemental what i shshould pot out. is that hehe denieies being at e sourcece of this w wall wayay la

hallway leak -- that the cabinet had been d discussssing. mamasses of nationalnterest and amongst others w whether we shod or shoululd note e involved. in the developopment -- posossiy in a limimited way of t the fiv. twork herere in ththe united kingdomm. an investitigation was swiftly laununched a b bot many y were skeptical about how long it would takee and iff they would e real results what is crucicial.o sasay as i speak is that governr wilson h has spokeken t to somee top political. media journalists this evening andd he is continuiuingo deny that he is the source of any leak regarding alway. leaks and information what published in the national paper the daily telegraph. so i need to alalso say that the has been no. confirmation of what. if any role will be better paid by played by walkway in the running out of the five g. we

have a replacement that was swift anymore wouldn't she becomes the first female defense secretary. in this coununtry and she i am hopeful opposed as intntnational secretary developments actually has beenn replalaced. by r rory stuart so swift action from the prime mininister cou we see prosecutions because this is a very serious matter particularly as the defense attorneyays he's not the source of what is a very seririu and national. league. i ray mucuch thinking this is going- to actually wrote last in the next few hours ande'll see where t this where this leas but real -- chaos of the continued really leaks thatt continue in this very divided up by briggs it't's a governmenentf trees in may. benedicta papappy reportiting tt from londodon. sising lonondon accent accord -n the e city has sent is julia missiles to fifty weeks behind barsrs for skikipping bail seven yeyears ago. when delivivering her rulingg je deborah taylor told thehe wikileakaks founderer that nobos above or beyond the reach of the

law?? as house faces a separe hearing tomorrow regarding a an extrtradition reqequest from the united s states. to some he's a cyber hero who exposed government abuses of power. to others he's a tool of russian intelligence a cririminal he undermined the s security of the westst. julian sands was born in townsville australia in. nineteen seventy one as a teenager he showed exceptional it skikills cracking several sesecure s systems. including those at nasa and the pentagonon. but he was eventuallyy caught. conditioion thahat he didn't re offendnds. the sun's funded wikileaks in two thousand and six but the whistle blowing webebte didn't make international headlines until tnty ten n when it published a series of leaks from bradley manning. the us army intelligence analys. including a v video of f a us hecocopter f firing on iraqi civilians killing twelve people inclcludin t two reute

joururnalists it'ss clear t tha. it w will fadede. an understandiding of what thee past six years of war has been wiped - -- and that the course f the war needs to change. wikileaks has since disclosed hundreds of thousands of sesecrt militatary files and diplomatic cacables this time sayss totalal transpsparency is in the p publc interest. as it makes companies and governments accouountable to the masses. the forty six year old however has beenn criticized for receiviving support from countrs like russia venezuela and ecuador states out of line with these ideals o transparency and freedom of speech. some have gone as far as accusing it sosounds of beiningn instrurument of the kremlin. in thehe lead up to the twenty sixteen us election wikileaks releleased thousands of emails from the democratic national committeeotentialally damaging hillary clinton's campaignn. some us officials believe this wasart of a r russian intetelligence operaration to disrupupt t the electionn i'm be

donald trump's presidential debates the sun has also come famouslyly receieiving nigel fez an ally of trump's and a vocal advocate of clososer links with russia at the ecuadoreanan embay in london where he took accel until his arrest on april eleventh for breach of bail. his eveve had directt ties ton russia. but his agenda and that of the kremlin have often overlapsps. now japanan's new empereror inheritedd a sacred sword and jl today the symbolize emperor naruhito's ascensision to o the throne. his wife a and daughter were babarred from itt attending the cereremony w which only adult ms oioils are allllowed to witnesse by now what's. a seveven and a a steep in tradn anand shinto symbobolism. as a sacred sorting j jul were brought into the imperial palace's state room andnd presented to prince naruhuhito. japan's on june twenty six the empeperor was offfficiallyy cro.

queen -- i swear that i will act accocording to the conststitutin and fulfill my responsnsibilitys the symbol of thehetate and of the unity of the people of japan will. while always turningng my y thos to the people and standining wih them a anymore although it's ki. now he says first speeches emperor saw h proromise to stand with his people. thousands of them turned out to celebrate the end of the oldd. in thehe beginning of the new. i really like ththe heisei erar. and i wanted to mamake this my most memorable. but when i'm s sound but hey the is ending i r really like t the sosounds of right w well. i want to have fun in very well. the whole country is now eager to see if now ito will follow in thee footsteps of father akikit. known for bringnging the monarcy cler to the japanese peoeople. well live by those he served ito dedicatated his life to caring for the most vulnerable and atoning for japan's actionss

in wororld war. two his reignhe first p peaceful one in the country's modern history. big boots to fill for the new emperor. the hopopes a high the oxfxford educated now he'd so and wife mexico a former diplomats will be more than up to ththe task. and bring with h them a breath f fresh air to the two thousand six hundred yeyear oldld monica. it'sime for businesess s so with that kate movie good evening cases ana how we've been following the story here and use of the sacking of the brititish defense secretary gavin williaiamson. over it leaks to the media about the e futurere of while we aim t ththe u. k.. you u know thahat the chinese th firm it's s very conontroversiat they havee the know w how cleary absolutely most analysts actutually agree that while whie is the most advanced. in terms of technologogy in the budding i technologogy o of fiv. and that of course is the next neration mobile network at the succesr to three anand f fr g. itit only just starting to be tested in south k korea. andd some chihinese cities p poy

by s some carriersrs in n the uy the end off the year. now the trump administration along with many of its allies and indusustry e experts feaeart hallways involvement in five g. networksks could allow i it to s it on n to officials in beijing. well wait denies having close ties to the chinese governmentt althoughgh reports last month suggesteted thatt the cia belies it has received funding frorom e cocommunist p party andnd other official b bodies there. but n now backing up t those concererns this weekk mobile operatator vododafone admitted t it h had disiscovered vulnababilities in huawei eqequipment it was u using for d internrnet connectctions in itay about eight years ago. thoughgh the phohone said howevr that those security flaws had sincnce been dealt with. the us pososition is broadly tht it's worth holding back on thehe laun off five e g. networks i in order t to alloww more trusted h firms to catch up p with well wh developments. the u. k. . had r reportedly ben alallowing it to been beeeen ben planningng rather att to o allow while way a limited rolee in what's calle the non core elements of itss five e g..

ththat's the league for whihich gavin williamson has now been fired. it had a angered us o officia wo intelllligence from the u. k. if it went a ahead with that decisn againsnst washington's urging of cost of coursese the situauation still develeloping. as indeed i is the technolologyr five g. morore on this to come p from both t the politicalnd business angles in the days to cocome. a pensnsion refeform it was onef the key p pillars of presidentt emmanuel macros anannouncements last week anand improving purchasing p power and the standard of living here e in france.. but mamany senior citizens say e proposals s won't help them e eh they turned out to participate inednesdayay mayay day protests across t t countryomes waterhouse explains. the hem might be tururning grayy but that determination is unflinching. just dayays after that president tied to appease steph is france's senior citizens have been out i in protest oncnce ag. this lady's pension totals one thousand three hundred euros a month but her rent is.

eight hundred it's's really titt i have about five hundred andd fifty euros for food it's not enough living costs are going u. last week the president's pledge to lift a a freeze on pension incrcreases for the m most hardp as p part of his r response to yellow vests discontent. last year pensisions went up by just to the north point 3% that's a fraction of the level of inflation which stood at one point 8%. next year however my colon says pensions of less than two thousand euros a month are expected to rise one point 8% that small closely in line with many o of i believe tha my conos plans just don't cut the musta. the bottom of the soon bototh of those beieing practicalal no increase in pensionsns thiseing a a small race for the less well off with for the rest of us there's nothing. for meme it's black and white o on the one h d costss are going u up on the otr hand thingngs d't change. tension i is atill consumers and we oft havee to help parents our chchildren and grachildren.

his own fault. the finance ministry expects the pension overhrhaul to cost one popoint f four billion euros net year. twenty t twenty we'l'll price ie phones slightly this wednesdsd despite the ongoing uncertainty inin venezuela. us crude stockpiles rose to their highest level in about eighteen months easing some concerns about supplies. us wti crude trading at about sixty three dollars sixty one cents per barrel you consider its pared back some of its steeper losses from earlier on the international brent turning up slightly about. seventy two sixteen now is homee to the world's largest proron reserves vezuela is a a key plplayer in the globall oil mar. but it hass long struggle t to produce at fulll capacity. ii spoke to chris for hands of energy aspects. the us sanctions are putut on on exports is really a limiting wa- venezuelan oil can guide but also at the kindd o of destructn domeststically with the power

sector -- thihis is pretty importrtant becausese we've s se huge o outages huge blackouts across parts of venenezuela andd because of the heheavy or i was talklking about -- it needs t te upgraded it needs to be blended with -- kind of likeke to strers in order -- to be -- of an exportrt the kind of a quality thatat can be exportrted -- evet needs s power so without thatt power t they're unable to run tt the oil they prproduce from that parts of the coununtry and again this is what i was saying -- significantltly reduced -- expos frfrom venezuela mine. now we are seeining reall pololl tuturmoill invent as welell at e momentnt this realal struggle fr power. what a are the possible implications for production -- so agagain i think if you look t the where the protests are where the you knoww the the reaeal kid of bacacklash is it's mainlyy in the cities it's not necessarily. around the production areas or the port areas i'm at the moment at least. so i t think what we'll do with

the m main risksks in the shorte is certainly going to be links again so the e wer -- so. it's imperative -- for whohoever is actuaually in c control of te oil s sector t to try and maintn is as much stabilitity i in the popower sector in order. to t tt that -- that heavy or blend it's so they can get it onto ships -- but ultimately yeah this has some -- very. ng lead time projects that arar- it's just t not gonna happen. you can s see that intererview n full o on this week'k's people. what we're seeing limiteted movement on n global s stock mas many of ththem are close to o mk inteternational workers day? just london's footsie one hundred was active in europe a dropped about half a perercentae poinint on the clothes. wallststreet is trading at we're seeing stocks. broadly. mixed there as you can see they were up high earlier on the sp five hundred down about a quarter of a percentage point there have been some strong jobs data coming out of the u. s.. investors though are watching taking place in bebeijing.rereny

meanwhile the e us federal resee has kept its interest rates on hold and said it would be patient in determining it next moves. the key federal funds rate will be maintained betweween two anda quarter and two and a half percent. at a place meeting the fed exexpressed more concerns about inflatation which remains below its 2% target. german drum powell indicated he dodoesn't expect another rate he in the comoming months. president dononald trumpmp has e ururging the central banank to r interestst res he says thatt the key way to boostt economic growh alalthough most economists donot believe that's neeeeded at this momoment. tradititionally american presidents don't weigh in on fiscal p policy. facebook is tryiying tmove p pt a ring of privavacy scandalals o mamark zuckerbg amomounts and anannounced a major redesign for the world's t top social network at its annuaual developer conferencece really sick one has the details -- we'ree also ree write facebook wilill soon look like this no blue all white and clean as mark zucuckerberg puts.

but the real change is t that social media will now focus o on private messaging encrypting converersations to make users fl more secure. i knono that we don't exactly have the the strongest reputation on privacyy right no. to put it lightly. cacause in recent years facebook hahas been n criticicized for nt protecti its users privacy. sharing informationon belongingo mimillions with polititical consulting firm cambridgege analytica in one scandal prpropaganda was poor down to is platform. bubut going private means the mpany will h have to review its revee souourc. last year almost allll o of its fifty six billio dollar revenue came from targeted adsds. clearly if busininesses and andd facebook has lesss access to information a about people becae they're e communicatingg in a privivate environmement. that makes it haharder to delivr

tatargeted advertingng and thats what face whwhat's business is built upon. so tre's questions ahead a new toto potentiallyly repeplace sof that a ad revenue mk zuckerbrbeg l. o origin you eat comommerce . allowing to buy easily directlty through facebook and its apps. his book is beieing investigated inin several cases over its data and privacy practices the companany says it expects the us federal trade commission's.o find it up to five bilillion dollars over privavacy violatio. your will t that new look bee enough to convince people o facebook i is indeed the future. for meme not to be seen i saw ts morning i was cononfused as tott it mildlyy. katete thank you veryy much forr thatat kate moooody there with a look at the daday's business u e goining to take a q quick breake coming up stayay with us. this was

05/01/19 05/01/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> the political leaders of the extreme right, promoters of this adventurous coup, go from embassy to embassy, falling between embassies and subjecting the whole country to this anxiety, t anguish of uncertainty. circumstances that could have been very serious. amy: venezuelan president nicolas maduro is claiming tuesday's coup attempt has