anti—government protests, the president of venezuela, nicolas maduro, has called for a new citizens' assemblyh powers to rewrite the constitution. he said it would bypass the opposition—controlled parliament. the palestinian militant group hamas has published a new policy document, in which it declares for the first time a willingness to accept a transitional palestinian state, although without explicitly recognising israel. chancellor merkel of germany will travel to the russian black sea resort of sochi to meet russian president vladimir putin at his summer residence later. since the conflict in ukraine, ties between russia and germany have worsened. now it's time for world business report. back in the black — after two years of losses, bp‘s set to reveal it's making profits again thanks to the rise in the price of oil. and, can the thrill of the auction room be recreated online? we investigate the digital challenges for the likes of christies and sotherbys. welcome to world business report. i'm sally bundock. bp‘s expected to say it's been making a profit in recent months, drawing a line u

of anti—government protests, the president of venezuela, nicolas maduro, has called for a new citizens assemblyith powers to rewrite the constitution. he said it would bypass the opposition—controlled parliament. let's take a brief look now at some of the morning papers. and we start with the daily telegraph, which reveals it has seen documents that show eu officials are trying to prevent the prime minister securing a deal for british expats in europe. like many of the papers, it also features a large picture of princess charlotte which was released to celebrate her second birthday. the financial times says the european commission is preparing to issue plans to control the city of london's lucrative euroclearing market. the high cost of calls to and from bedside phones in hospitals is highlighted on the front page of the metro. the i claim tax laws used by hmrc are so complex taxpayers who fill out their returns on—line may end up overpaying. the furore surrounding the now infamous meeting between theresa may and jean claude junker is on the front of the daily express, with the prime minister c

of anti—government protests, the president of venezuela, nicolas maduro, has called for a new citizens assemblyth powers to rewrite the constitution. he said it would bypass the opposition—controlled parliament. now on bbc news, hardtalk. my guest nearly drank him self to death. he is one of the founding members of guns n roses, the rock band who became as well known for their bad behaviour as for their music. for mckagan that stopped when, as he puts it, his pancreas exploded. it prompted him to sober up, go to university and now alongside his finance column for playboy, he has his own wealth management firm. how does a bad boy of rock become a businessman? duff mckagan, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me here. tell us about that moment, i suppose it was the moment that saved you, when your pancreas just gave up? well, yes, i kind of found myself getting closer and closer to insanity as my drinking got worse and the drug intake got worse. i knew something would give. i even got to a point... the reason i wrote this book, so many people have asked me how did you get so bad? how many drug

after months of demonstrations, venezuela's president says he's creating a new citizens assembly which could give him much greater power. and the faces of war. a new exhibition focuses on the americans who fought in iraq and afghanistan. president trump has now said he would be willing to meet the north korean leader, despite weeks of tough talk against the pyongyang regime. in an interview with bloomberg, mr trump said he would be honoured to meet kim jung—on in the right circumstances. but then, speaking to fox news, the president reverted to a stronger line, calling north korea's stance on its missile programme inflammatory and very threatening to the united states. he said he'd take action if he had to. barbara plett usher reports. during the election campaign, donald trump said he might be willing to sit down for a burger with kim jong—un. but he dropped that notion of burger diplomacy after the north korean leader declared he was working on a missile powerful enough to hit the united states. you do you have to do, and you don't talk about it. so when people say — i was asked a qu

the president is of venezuela is to create a new national assembly made up of citizens.liament. it has been another day of violent clashes. it has become a familiar sight. running battles through the streets, protesters versus police. hand—held catapults versus teargas canisters. this marked a month of deadly protests in venezuela after the courts tried to strengthen the president's grip on power. 0ver the courts tried to strengthen the president's grip on power. over the last four weeks nearly 30 people have been killed in clashes. addressing the rival pro—government march, president maduro delivered his new idea. translation: today i announce by using my presidential powers i summon the constitutional powers i summon the constitutional power so powers i summon the constitutional power so that the working classes and the people organise a national assembly. his plan would be to create a new body to circumvent the country's opposition controlled national assembly. he says he will defeat what he calls the fascist coup threatening his country. the response from his opponen

after months of protest, venezuela‘s president says he is creating a new citizens assembly, which could

he wants what he calls, a citizens assembly to draft the document.anti-government protesters say an attempt to delay elections. polling suggests the socialist party will not do well. the announcement came amid a violent confrontation during a may day demonstration as protesters marched on a government building in the capital. >> taking a look at a new report. sex assaults in the military at of a ten year low. more than half victims say they were retal yalted against after coming forward. overall pentagon estimates show the number of sex assault dipped from 20,000 in 2014 to other 15,000 in 2016. defense officials say they're encouraged by that decline. but that the battle against sex assault in the m from over. survey found 58% of active duty service members indicated experiencing some sort of professional retaliation or mistreatment after reporting sexual assault. roughly unchanged since 2012. >> the government has urgent warning abut hoverboards after a fatal house fire. people are being told to stop using and charging lay-z board hoverboards. link

venezuela where the unpopular president says he will press ahead with plans to create a tocalled citizens assembly draw up a new constitution. opponents say the new body will be filled with government loyalists. 55 people have been killed in protests since the beginning of the month. looting and writing are commonplace and there are severe shortages of food and medicine. thousands of dissidents have been rounded up. the canneso head to film festival with their daily updates from there. ♪ reporter: we all fancy ourselves as filmmakers. he made his name with the iphone movie, tangerine. he followed up with the florida poetry, portrayed of enjoyed to the eyes of a little girl who lives in a motel. >> excuse me, miss, could you give us some change, please? have anye we don't money, we just have five cents. the doctor say we have asthma and we've got to eat ice cream. we are not lying. thank you very much. let's go, come on. >> sean baker, hello. how are you? you have my favorite film at cannes this year so far. i want to congratulate you on the casting. there are three main characters. one is willing

maduro wants a citizens assembly to draft the document. now, anti-government protesters say the move is an attempt to delay regional elections. the announceme c violent confrontation during a may day demonstration in caracas. >>> now for a look at today's weather. >> we are getting a closer look this morning at the power and devastation of those storms that happened over the weekend that killed at least 17 people across 5 states. after nearly a foot of rain this lake in carterville, illinois, is just spilling over its sides after rising more than feet five. >> at this hour, it's putting some 40 million people from georgia to new york in the storm zone. but by later today most of the east coast should actually start drying out. >>> coming up on that show of emotion from jimmy kimmel. >>> plus the new facebook craze about concerts you have attended an why experts say it is a hacker's dream come true. >>> also, the annual so-called oscars of the east hits and plenty of misses at the met gala ahead. they only gave me one. >>> tense momentness

place here and across the country in direct response to the president's idea for a new citizen—led national assemblyline the country's opposition—controlled congress which has been calling for his resignation. but with pots and pans in hand, these people made it clear the only change they want is a new president. translation: we are not scared. i am sick and tired of this disgusting corrupt government. president maduro wants at least half of the new assembly to come from his traditional powerbase, the poor and the working classes. but opponents have vowed to fight the decision. translation: we venezuelans do not have to accept the elections different to those set out in our constitution. the government has two choices. they can approve the constitution among themselves, or they can have a referendum. if they hold a referendum, we will defeat them. the united states has condemned president maduro's announcement as a bid to cling to power. the move has been denounced by brazil, chile, and bolivia. with no sign of the end, the protesting looks set to continue. a mega—protest will take place on wednesda

protest at in taking place here and across the country in direct response to a new citizen led national assemblye president. in a televised address nicolas maduro confirmed it would sideline congress which has been calling for his resignation. with pots and pans in hand, these people made it clear the only changes they wa nt made it clear the only changes they want is a new president. we are not scared, says this woman, we are sick and tired of this disgusting government. mr maduro once at least half of the new assembly to come from his traditional powerbase, the poor and the working classes. the government has two choices, they can approve the constitution among themselves or they can have a referendum. if they hold a referendum, we will defeat them. the us has condemned the announcement is a bid to cling to power. brazil, chile and olivia also denounced the statement. the months long campaign of street protests look set to continue. they are calling for a mega protest across venezuela on wednesday. sally is here with all the business news. what does that mean? thumbs up, like... i do not know.

>> instead of defending my clients in court, i will defend my fellow citizens in the government and hopefully at the national assembly. >> her first mission, getting to know those fellow citizens. >> do you know car line? >> we have heard about her recently. >> i know she is a lawyer. that's it so far. >> for her first public meeting, she chose to talk about security, a topic that has become a priority for voters in nice since last july's bastille day attack. >> we propose recruiting 7,500 police officers, 2,500 national guard. this is a necessity. >> i thought she was very clear, confident, determined, passionate. >> compared to traditional politicians who we couldn't relate to, candidates like her are young. they want to start a movement. they think like us. >> she now has one month to adjust to the media spotlight and convince voters in nice to join her on the move. >> the party is still reeling from its poor performance in the presidential race. the party leader calls for politicians to unite, socialist heavyweight and the paris mayor is launching a movement herself called from tomorrow. to talk more about that,

assembly. but citizens from my state are asking for a clear unified message from federal law enforcement and from our federal government. and you and the administration have gotten that message. 100 senators joined a letter back in march calling for d.o.j., d.h.s., f.b.i. to take swift response to widespread bomb threats against j.c.c.'s and i'll just submit for the cord it's pretty rare that 100 of us agree on anything. chairman grassley, ranking member feinstein led a letter to attorney general sessions saying the d.o.j. needs to directly address the number of motivated hate crimes. mr. treene, i have a few questions for you. how do you establish priorities when there are so many different groups that are feeling unsafe, they feel threatened? they feel the percent portion of threats against them, as you suggested in your testimony, steadily going up. how do we pursue prosecution, and how do we change the temperature? my second question, frankly, follows on what senator franken asked. i am encouraged by your state that you've gotten a consistent message from attorney general sessions, to keep pr

citizens. the concentration in getting the assembly back up, we are focussed on that, many of the electorate willceptable. that we wa nt government is not acceptable. that we want to see equality for all our citizens and we want to see rights protected in law. john o'dowd, thank you very much. we will be talking to the other northern ireland parties when they launch their manifestos as well. if we asked you to picture marlon munro you will probably picture her wearing that dress. 80 million photographs from the getty archive are being stored in one location. graham satchell has been given exclusive access. they are some of the most remarkable, memorable and culturally significant photographs ever taken. and they all belong to the picture agency getty. this is their new home, it is now the largest commercial archive of physical photos anywhere in the world. so, matt, how many pictures have you got here? there's about 80 million images on—site. 80 million? yeah, 80, eight zero. it's a bit like an iceberg, so if you go to our website, for every one image on the website, there's 200 prints in the fil

assembly. but citizens from my state are asking for a clear unified message from federal law enforcement and from the federal government. and you and administration of gotten that message. 100 senators. have joined a lender back in march calling for doj, jhs at the agitate quick response to widespread bunkers to jcc and i will submit for the record it is pretty rare that 100 of us agree on anything. and in april ranking member feinstein wrote a letter in the doj needs to directly address the steadily increasing number of religiously motivated hate crimes. i've two questions. first how do you establish priorities when there are so many different groups that are feeling unsafe? they feel threatened, they feel that the proportion of drugs against them as a percentage of the population as you suggested steadily going up. and how do we pursue prosecution and had to be changed the temperature? and my second question follows up on what senator franken asked. i hear that you have gotten consistent message from attorney general sessions to keep prosecuting hate crimes. but this is in response to a signifi

citizens. look at sweden yes where it's possible to assemble furniture and read them a fish are the best exportid we do need more jobs so more people can afford health care that the economy. she is not a feminist. would that be were to parade around in a bikini begging for points if you considered yourself philosophically aligned with lena dunham? now the brave soul is the miss usa but because she does not march in lockstep with the left she is being attacked. an easy life ahead that wears the crown but that's because she has such big rains. it's harder to hold. thank you for watching the show tonight and you can follow us on twitter and instagram @ kennedy nation on face the kennedy fbn e-mail kennedy fbn@foxbusiness.com. tomorrow night on the show kimberly guilfoyle returns along with andy andy levy and dr. mico kaku. some physics. and freedom. goodbye, goodnight. the gowanus canal. >> a flood of questions. >> you think it's something sinister? >> i do think there's something going on. >> are the answers locked in storage? >> i just shook my head and i go, "oh, my god, this is a nightmare." >

assembly. the wider the gap, the easier it will be for macron to say to the french citizens, you voted for me with, so let's be consistent. you should give me a majority in the national assembly. francine: what are the chances of that? he doesn't have a party. you don't have any establishment party in the round. how is he going to muster support? will people swap, so his people can go into parliament? francine: i think we have to look at different political scenarios between the second round and the national assembly. the you will -- the usual scenario is, there's a clear momentum for the winner. we know that the turnout ratio in the national assembly election will decline considered -- significantly. francine: even if this is not a party we've heard about before. he calls it a movement, not a party. >> there is no longer any socialist party. most of the key guys in the socialist party endorsed macron. normally he should have a better momentum than other parties. now there is another scenario, a fragmentedave political situation in france. we saw that in the first round. basically four political f

. >> reporter: ai wei wei assembled a team of activists to interview the parents, many of whom had lost their only child. he called it a citizens investigation. china had never seen anything like you were trying to get to the truth. why did that make the chinese government so angry? >> to control the information, to limit the truth as most efficient tactics for a totalitarian society, for the rulers. >> reporter: he gathered the names of more than 5,000 dead children and published a list on the internet, shaming his government. and across china, people took notice. there was a challenge to the government's authority. >> and they couldn't accept it. it was an act of radical transparency. nobody had ever done that before. and they didn't immediately know how to respond. they had never really encountered a person like ai wei wei. >> reporter: what were they worried that he might do? >> inspire people. inspire people to do and live the way that he did. >> reporter: the chinese authorities responded brutally, ai wei wei says police beat him hospitalized. doctors discovered bleeding in his brain, which he says could have killed him.

assembly rejected the part of the bill calling for equality for transgender people. so, does she agree that the transgender community are still considered second-class citizens? >> yes, they are a group that has suffered a great deal. we must tackle -- they still do not have the same chances. the same possibilities of integrating into society that a majority of people have. reporter: many things have changed in cuba recently, not just in gay rights. the death of her uncle, fidel castro, and the departure of her father as president has generated much uncertainty on the island. however, mariela castro guaranteed one thing, the next president of cuba whether a man or woman will not have the surname castro. >> i can guarantee that. i hope not. it is not a dynasty of succession. what happened is that in historical context, two castro brothers came together and shared a struggle. there was much confidence between, but those conditions do not exist anymore. reporter: i pointed out to her that also rules her out. >> i know, but i do not want it. i want to be a citizen with other responsibilities. reporter: true believers are holding on ever more tightly to the image

assembly. shall that is would have done, i'm sure of that. i'm did -- i did what my conscience commands, to summon the absolute power of the sovereign people of venezuela. made up of ordinary citizens with no political parties involved, the super body would hold general elections and rewrite the constitution. how theys vague about would be chosen. the president has opponents describe the move as a power grab. >> it is a scam to deceive the venezuelan people with a mechanism that is nothing more p and to find au way through the constitution t destroy the constitution itself. opposition leaders have vowed no let up in their protests. rewriting the constitution would forestall elections and work in maduro's favor whose approval rating is hovering around 20%. to calm down the situation on the korean peninsula. north korea has been threatening nuclear action. tensions rising on the korean peninsula, china is trying to play peacemaker, urging the united states and north korea to set up talks as soon as possible. >> the situation on the korean peninsula is sensitive and complex. we need to avoid an escalation. we all need to do our part in order for the situation to cool down. of most eff

know, excuse not to >> williams: weiwei assembled a team of activists to interview the parents, many of whom had lost their only child. he called it a "citizensn." china had never seen anything like it. so you were trying to get to the truth. why did that make the chinese government so angry? >> ai weiwei: to control the information, to the limit the truth. it's most efficient tactics for totalitarian society-- for the rulers. >> williams: he gathered the names of more than 5,000 dead children and published a list on the internet, shaming his government, and across china, people took notice. it was a challenge to the government's authority? >> osnos: and they couldn't accept it. it was an act of radical transparency. nobody had ever done that before, and they didn't immediately know how tsp encountered a person like ai weiwei. >> williams: what-- what were they worried that he might do? >> osnos: inspire people. inspire people to do and live the way that he did. >> williams: the chinese authorities responded brutally. ai weiwei says police beat him up, and he later had to be hospitalized. doctors discovered bleeding in his brain which he says

assembly. he said he is not protected by the first amendment. what are your thoughts? >> i think it speaks for itself. wikileaks has released lots of information governments don't like. it is overwhelmingly information citizens should have. it is information about what their governments are doing and perfectly natural systems of power don't want to be exposed so they will do what they can to prevent exposure. i think it is disgraceful. in fact, i think it is disgraceful to keep him held up in the embassy even. i did visit him there once. but you can guess yourself, it is in many ways worse than implies -- imprisonment. he is in a small apartment where you can't go out. you can go to the balcony but that is about it. a couple rooms inside a side a small apartment. it is not a big embassy. the embassy is like an apartment in london surrounded by police and so on. there has been no credible basis for any of this and to go on to try to raise it to a level of criminal prosecution, which i think, is again, in one of these efforts to look tough at home, and the kind of effort that a government would carry out that is dedicated to trying to protect itself from exposure of facts that citizens should have but the syst

citizens report having to pay for bribes to get a public service. even higher for the lowest income class, 75%. 34% of recent electoral candidates were under criminal indictment. it pays to be in the assembly there. when you look at a recent general economy article or you look at argentina bronzer kirchner's more recently and anyone who has traveled to argentina under the kirchner there are three different exchange rates and the best one is typically the corner bakery where the suites are good in argentina but the foreign exchange was trading more briskly. some of the challenges in the eu , hans warner simms in his book the-year-old trap, some of the challenges they beat the european union faces -- than the periphery countries. these issues apply to china and the u.s. whether we look at china under mao or more recently under xi. an interesting read is the most recent economist issue and the consolidation of the power under xi and the upcoming congress and the fall and the words will that trend continue. also in the united states there is a chapter that deals with some of the challenges we face. we are the world's largest democracy. whether it's more professional congress and tenure of bein