and you know shankar with a college times in me thank you for sharing your perspective with us. thank you thank you. turning out to france for the unions of course the general strike to protest against the policies of president. demonstrations are set to take place across the country throughout the day some representatives of the ghetto vest protest movement have called for a total shutdown across the country. started demonstrating last year against policies they say favor the rich the deadliest catherine martins visited one of the people helped launch the movement but she now wants to set up her own political party have a listen. no longer takes out her yellow vests to protest she was one of the founders of the yellow vests movement but now she's moving on at age fifty one she's founding a political party. the emerging ones the goal is to fight for greater social justice and equality. continue to do my part we have to develop a network across the region. it will be a lot of work. for now the party headquarters are in her kitchen. also there's no time for lunch and the afternoon

and you know shankar with a college times in me thank you for sharing your perspective with us. thank you not too a problem occupying germany's policymakers how does europe strongest economy stay strong in the face of billions of chinese investment and the u.s. is a dominant position in digital tech germany's economy mississippi to lie has just given a speech outlining the country's industry strategy here's what he had to say. i mean we are achieving a turnaround as germany moves from being a passive reserve and the development of a switch or influence swing in the u.s. japan and selling them all to after that mark the article and we must approach it in an impartial and confident way the determination to succeed was a little. bit. of. ok joining me now is my colleague monica jones from business says welcome monica before we talk about the strategy first tell me i mean jelly is the largest economy in europe why does it need an industry strategy what if you've mentioned some of the things in your introduction already i mean for one there's this huge competition obviously and china

hope the presidential election will soon be held in venezuela and then it's a loss that's an oscar shankar in caracas that nicolas maduro has consistently said no to new presidential elections any sign of that changing. now there's no sign of an changing in fact a lot of. times we've seen him recently for the media is conducting military exercises. asking the people that support him to defend the country. with a very belligerent rhetoric in his discourse however he has started up trying to reactivate the health system and then as well as trying to get the medicine that they can't get to the hospitals that are. suffering from destroyed or of not only medicine but also actual implements to do their work so he's been reactivating this which gives you an idea of the situation and that this aligning crisis if humanitarian crisis is getting to the people and the government is stepping it up now to contradict these accusations that they've been neglecting so we can see how powerful the message of the opposition has been discussed lanka in caracas thank you. now to spain we have a trial of a twelv

it reaching its peak and it may well fall in hong kong so it's quite widespread it goes up towards shankar and the cold bit run well has produced some pretty interesting architecture sculpture if you like of snow and rhyme and ice on the trees pretty side and there's more to come otherwise it's rain but the ration dried up in hong kong but i only get first the starter when seabrook of twenty five degrees humid ish degrees but twenty five on site. and there's more rain developing in pakistan eastern iran and afghanistan you don't see much from this next system is coming in the picture for tuesday isn't that dramatic a little bit of rain or snow in the far north eastern afghanistan hindu kush and then you watch it overnight to see into wednesday all of a sudden the blue green which is rain and again it's focusing on pakistan significant amount of rain here obviously snow where gets colder and as hard ground in eastern afghanistan but the western edge still looks far i'm going to be very brief develop began through the go also doha temperature drops to a max of twenty two. talk to. you person

also shankar in caracas very german president hopes that presidential elections are going to be held soon i'm guessing nicolas maduro holds a comes review yes of course that is not in the plans of your last minute up to hold elections actually he's up to it he's said that he would hold elections but for the parliament which is the only democratically elected or recognized democratically elected institution of menace well of all these countries so there aren't any elections in the near side for us know who they are as of yet but that's what the opposition is striving to do that's one way don't have said he's only an interim president and his role is to enact the constitution to allow. elections in thirty days but he can't do that unless mother or steps down so it's very it's a very difficult situation because there is a power struggle a very strong power struggle between the opposition and what remains of the support they need or as my who're passed within the institutions. and caracas thank you. the trial of twelve cats and separatist leaders has begun in the spanish capital the defe