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elizabeth palmer is in caracas. >>> translator: what we need is maduro to leave.e must overthrow this government. >> reporter: without the armed forces, president nicolas maduro is finished. so state tv broadcasts pictures almost daily showing apparently loyal troops with their commander in chief. [ cheers ] in reality, vast numbers of them, on a salary of about $6 a month, have had enough. why are they ready to desert the president? >> translator: because they are tired. we are suffering just like the people are. my family, for example, my salary isn't even enough to buy food. >> reporter: is this something you can talk about among yourselves in the barracks, or is it too dangerous? >> translator: if we trust the people, we talk about what's going on in the country. but the higher ranks don't know what we're talking about. that is why i'm doing the interview like this -- to se. soldiers and their brass to defect to the opposition, john guaido, widely recognized as interim president, offers amnesty. but the rank and file need more than that. what will it take to g

elizabeth palmer is in tehran. >> reporter: today's celebrations featured the inevitable flag burning, of course, chants of "death to america." it's part of a ritual salute to a revolution that four decades on still has true believers. on stage, president hassan rouhani spoke about the revolution's achievements and boasted that iran would continue to expand its military power. that could provoke even harsher american sanctions. the trump administration says that u.s. sanctions are going to weaken the iranian regime. well, so far, the regime looks just fine, but the iranian people are having a very rough time. anher came to the parade for the free food. >> my family has proved ourselves, nobody has anything on their table-- on their cloth table. >> reporter: mr. trump and the administration say they are trying to target the iranian regime. >> bull( bleep ), bull( bleep ). >> reporter: he and millions more are furious with the u.s., but they're equally furious with their own government. >> financial corruption is everywhere. economic corruption. lots of thieves among them, who just stea

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elizabeth palmer in caracas, the capital, reports military leaders support maduro, the people, maybe not. >> what we need is for maduro to leave. >> reporter: without the armed forces, president nicolas maduro is finished. so state tv broadcasts pictures almost daily showing apparently loyal troops with their commander in chief. but in reality, vast numbers of them on a salary of about $6 a month have had enough. >> why are they ready to desert the president? >> because they are tired. we are suffering just like the people are. my family, for example, my salary isn't even enough to buy food. >> reporter: is this something you can talk about among yourselves in the barracks or is it too dangerous? >> translator: if we trust the people, we talk about what's going on in the country, but the higher ranks don't know what we're talking about. that is why i'm doing the interview like this, to protect myself. >> reporter: to convince soldiers and their brass to defect to the opposition, juan guaido widely recognized as interim president has offered them amnesty, but the rank and file need mo

elizabeth palmer is there, as the political crisis escalates. >> reporter: it was an upbeat crowd with a common purpose. rich and poor, young and old, all these venezuelans are telling president nicolas maduro the same thing-- he's got to go. tat are they singing? ♪ he's going to fall ♪ he's going to fall ♪ he's going to fall ♪ he's going to fall ♪ this government is going to rnll. ♪ >> this is a very old saying, for many, many years. >> reporter: the anti-maduro opposition feels that today qued be a turning point, and there's no question that a crowd iske this, this many thousands of voices united, will pack a punch. but all by itself, it's not enough to force president nicolas maduro from power. for the moment, the army-- publicly anyway-- is backing maduro, though the first high-profile defection came in a video post this morning. air force general yanez rodriguez says he's backing the opposition, and claimed that 90% of the armed forces, like him, have lost faith in maduro. maduro still has his supporters, and they staged a counter- demonstration today in caracas, but a new poll sa

elizabeth palmer is there. >> reporter: these students are making placards for what's shaping up to beother of all protest marches, and they know it could get violent. ana ferreira: >> we are really scared to go out into the streets, but we know that this time, it's something that is really worth fighting for. >> reporter: they're fighting to force president nicolas maduro out of office. but his rival and widely recognized replacement, juan guaido, warns it won't be easy. "dictatorships," he says, "don't give up without a fight." just this week, they've killed 70 people, most of them very young. alixon dos santos was 19 when he died. he joined several thousand venezuelans protesting against maduro just over a week ago. things got ugly, government forces started shooting and alixon died from a single bullet. he was carried to his grave by neighbors and family. nivea, his step-mother, has a shrine to his memory in their tiny apartment. she asked we blur her face for safety. "alixon died protesting against maduro," she tells me, "but the fight must go on," and says her other son will be o

elizabeth palmer is in venezuela's capital of caracas. morning. >> reporter: good morning. this gigantic political power struggle playing out right now in venezuela is powered by the fury and the misery of millions of people who not so long ago had perfectly decent lives. >> reporter: ari gallegos is one of them. his family now scrapes by on $10 a month. what would you say to america right now? >> wow. please help us. how long do we have to wait? we're hungry, and we have nothing. >> reporter: the people who poured into the streets blame president nicolas maduro for bringing venezuela to its knees and gallegos fears for his two sons. >> translator: i hope that they leave the country. >> reporter: even so, ari gallegos, crutches and all, is planning to join tomorw what promises to be the mother of all anti-maduro marches. the venezuelan opposition is determined to ratchet up the pressure now that the whole world is watching and taking sides. norah? >> the world is watching. elizabeth palmer, continue your great reporting in venezuela, than

elizabeth palmer is in venezuela where roman catholic leaders are helping maduro's opponents and others who just want to survive. >> reporter: misery and hardshi country from end to end. we decided to go and have a look upclose at one little community on the outskirts of caracas called lavaga. ♪ >> reporter: mass not only filled the church, it draws an overflow crowd. here, the father says a spiritual message carries a strong political context. it's not directly maduro, he tells me. people themselves. but the church has called his presidency unconstitutional. father takes me deeper into the slum where there's been no running water for four months. the church is also behind this sidewalk free lunch program. potatoes choose and a dose of vitamins. if not for this, some of these kids wouldn't eat at all. with average inflation last year surreal 80,000 percent, almost no one here or anywhere else in that the average teacher salary, $6 a month, would only buy this many eggs. in fact, almost half of venezuelans would be seriously hungry without some kind of charity or food pantry. meat is a t

elizabeth palmer has more from caracas, the capital, as the u.s. throwing their support to guaido. >> reporter: these students are making placards for what's shaping up to be the mother of all protest marches. they know it could get violent. >> we are scared to go to the streets, but we know that this time it's something that is really worth fighting for. >> reporter: they're fighting to force president nicolas maduro out of office. his rival and widely recognized replacement, juan guaido, warns it won't be easy. "dick startships," he says, "don't give up without a fight. just this week they've killed 70 people. most of them very young. alejandro santos was 19 when he died. he joined several thousand venezuelans protesting against maduro just over a week ago. things got ugly. government forces started shooting, and he died from a single bullet. he was carried to his grave by neighbors and family. nivea, his stepmother, his a shrine to him in the apartment. she asked we blur her face for safety. "he died protesting against maduro but the might must

. >> reporter: this soldier agreed to speak with elizabeth palmer on the condition we hide his face and disguise his fois. >> translator: we're suffering just like the people are. >> reporter: while maduro appears almost daily on tv to >> reporter: white house national security adviser john bolton says the u.s. would consider lifting sanctions for any senior military officer who switched sides to the opposition leader juan guaido. so far, the vast majority appear to be standing firm. >>> the wisconsin man accused of murdering jamie closs' parents will be arranged on march 27. we have more on the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. nearly two dozen of jamie closs' loved ones attended the preliminary hearing. it's the first time they came face to face with the man who allegedly confessed to causing so much pain. jake patterson walked into the courtroom wearing shackles and an orange jail jumpsuit. >> do you understand the charges against you at this time? >> yes. >> reporter: swiveling in his seat, he told the judge he didn't need to hear about the evidence investigators have

palmers green. and in fulham, there are water mains work and temporary traffic lights on wandsworth bridge road at the junction with ashcombe street. now the weather with elizabethet office weather warning valid until 11 o'clock for those fog patches towards parts of surrey, berkshire, and kent. visibility on some of our roads reduced to less than 100 metres. it's also a very chilly start to the morning with a touch frost out there. some of our temperatures below freezing. but they will rise, those temperatures, to around 1a—15 celsius by the end of the afternoon. the southerly breeze picking up a touch. very little in the way of cloud. and an awful lot of sunshine to enjoy. 0vernight tonight, we will keep the clear skies for a good while. and the cloud will start to push on from the west as we head in tomorrow morning. a touch of localised frost, i think, particularly out towards eastern counties as we head into the start of the day tomorrow. saturday is looking cloudier, sunday is looking sunnier, it will stay dry and settled. highs of 15 degrees. i'll be back with the latest in half an hour. until then there's plenty more on our website at the usual address.