so what has the national assembly in law and amnesty. but it's been the reaction today by the military and the public and i would ask you to be brief and concise in your response. i will give you another opportunity to speak and to ask a series of questions because i am sure this of interest to everyone. just very briefly. before we talk above the three ingredients come the three pillars. the military fully supported and in recent times. there have been seven at times coup d'États. as david smolansky urosa was saying, several officers have been imprisoned. they have detained and are brutally torturing some officers. so the military plays an extremely important role. but let's be clear without exaggerating 99.9% of the military do not support maduro. but we understand if they do not react at because they have been -- they have had their hamstrung by a system that doesn't allow them to operate as they will and that has presented them from now to engage in a process amongst venezuelans as something that's been delayed. [inaudible] maintaini

was it to me at the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg and he tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction and the grenade went off and our sister channel r.t. france spoke with the father of the protester who lost his hand and a fellow yellow vest demonstrator. we stayed in the hospital into late night to find out what's going to happen with him he's lost everything from the wrist down then we met the ophthalmologist to talk about his eye he's only wasn't affected too much there's some superficial wounding but his hand is gone we'll file a complaint and then see what happens he's sick his mum does on a sunday and yesterday sebastian basically lost his hand in front of the national assembly he's crippled and he's a plumber he needs his hand to deal with basic daily stuff he's lost and because i don't know if you understand how symbolic it is but sebastian lost his hand in front of the national assembly the house of the people and the government hasn't said a word they are concerned abo

although the arson attack on the home of the head of the national assembly wasn't directly linked to protestors similar tactics were used on saturday with several car set on fire the yellow press release began last november over rising in the vain course and quickly morphed into a broader anti government protest campaign authorities estimate that more than fifty thousand people rallied nationwide on saturday four thousand often in paris. so what has the government done to try and stem these protests well the president gave a big speech back in december where he announced that the minimum wage the cynic would rise by a hundred jews a month he also said that people doing business is the n.b.a. they wouldn't have to pay social contributions and that tax and people over time would be in a similar situation no tax new social contributions on that and the government is in the middle of a national debate across france getting people together to add a concerns to talk about the things that matter to them so the government can decide whether to make changes that people say or not however this

s in the lower house in the national assembly and they've approved that now that law is going to move on to the senate before it goes on the statute books but that law would essentially limit some of the individuals from going to protests if they deem to be a public threat also part of them who is the idea. that if you cover your face going into a protest even with the simple stuff you could be liable to up to a year in jail and a fine of fifteen thousand euros so many people claiming that this new law which is set to pass in the next few weeks here in france is actually contra against their civil liberties what i'm against islam because where is the proof that these are real hooligans the government can choose who's a hooligan and who's not critical this law is against the marches it's to stop people rallying to scare people. gives or to this war against the rioters crazed question i find it appalling i guess it's a complicated issue will they determine the real writers that's the real question or will they just pick up any you know a vast i've seen just ordinary people who are going

on a sunday yesterday sebastian basically lost his hand in front of the national assembly he's crippled and he's a plumber he needs his hand to deal with basic daily stuff he's lost it because i don't know if you understand how symbolic it is but sebastian lost his head in front of the national assembly the house of the people and the government hasn't said a word they are concerned about the fact that the house of mr for iran the president of the national assembly was burned but is just material resources while in front of the second residency of mr for iran the president of the national assembly a person has lost his hand. as our guest just said to me there was an attack on the home of the head of the national assembly though it's not been established whether this had any link to the l.f.s. protests paracel several call set on fire. began last november as a protest against a field hike and quickly morphed into a porter anti-government revolt authorities estimate the more than fifty thousand people rallied nationwide on saturday at least four thousand of them in paris. starting next mo

yesterday sebastian basically lost his hand in front of the national assembly he's crippled and he's a plumber he needs his hand to deal with basic daily stuff he's lost and because i don't know if you understand how symbolic it is but sebastian lost his head in front of the national assembly the house of the people and the government hasn't said a word they are concerned about the fact that the house of mr feraud the president of the national assembly was burned but it's just material resources while in front of the second residency of mr farrar and the president of the national assembly a person who has lost his hand well as he was saying and britain knew there was an attack on the home of the head of the national assembly though it's not been established whether beside anything to do with the yellow vest protest. or several cars set on fire of course the. last november as a protest against fuel high eggs and quickly morphed into a broader anti government revolt for his estimate that could be well now more than fifty thousand people who rallied across the nation on saturday four th

position leader meets the national assembly he wants to bypass the president and bring in humanitarian aid. oh i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al jazeera also coming up on the program c c to stay on and it gyptian parliamentary committee approves a proposal to extend the presidential term to six years. prime minister may tries to reassure old business leaders in belfast that there will be no hard forder across the island off to breaks it and a once in a century rainfall causes catastrophic flooding across the australian state of queensland. we begin this hour in venezuela where the self declared intermedia. meeting national assembly members in the capital caracas is been calling for the safe passage of humanitarian aid into the country u.s. trucks carrying food and medical supplies have left bogota bound for the colombia venezuela but it's unclear how the aid will arrive without the cooperation of the military which has remained loyal to embattled president nicolas maduro. joins us live now from caracas and tell us stories of what is hoping to achieve in his meeting today. as

as our guest just said in brittany there was an attack on the home of the head of the national assembly though it's not been established whether this had any links to the l.f.s. protests parasol several cars set on fire then a vest rallies began last november as a protest against fuel hike and quickly morphed into a broader anti-government revolt authorities estimates that more than fifty thousand people rallied nationwide on saturday at least four thousand of them in paris. starting next month one of the biggest names in football returns to r.t. if latham is full of chase a mean year wasn't enough for you the legendary coach is back cross special coverage of the twenty nine thousand new way for champions league from pre-match predictions to gain post-mortems his new bi weekly show how that all make sure you go on the touchline with a marine you. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone one of the. what i was going to do next the baltic from clubs in one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the

you know though the world is not on the side of why why go in the national assembly that is really a bit of the side of the venezuelan people we need to build a democracy and the world must rest assure that every step that state and. every time we call for cessation of the usurpation of the dictator. the sound his. apologies there we are having a bit of a difficulty with the connection there in caracas the opposition leader has been addressing reporters outside of the national assembly in caracas venezuela this is coming on the day that several european countries including. france britain spain formally recognized him as interim president of venezuela they joined the u.s. canada and many latin american countries in a doing so. of course has declared himself venezuela's president nicolas maduro is still the country's leader officially russia backing nicolas maduro and condemning what it calls european interference in venezuela's crisis let's listen once again to one we like to recognize friends. with it for turn it to. equality and spain belgium germany the czech republic go portugal.

the push for aid in the national assembly he says is wrong. it is not only the united states that is an evolved it is the labor group that meeting canada nobody can say justin trudeau is the extreme right or pedro cinches in spain i want to see the message to the world venus why this constitutional order is broken we won legislative elections and i took our wife from us we asked for a referendum and they did not want it they do not want to get out of power what we are offering is not a liberation army just the ability to choose a future and a new election in the same building but in another room met the rival constituent assembly the legislative body created by the government two years ago to redraft the constitution now it is proposing to call for legislative elections to replace the opposition controlled by a man whose mandate expires next year. the opposition wants elections so we could call for legislative elections because parliament is controlled by the extreme right at that stage in a coup by the only power that has not been revalidated

is very urgent french government now us to call the french people and that mr dissolves the national assembly it came. from the issue of patrician neon regional councillor for the national party thank you. we can now cross live to our reporter charlotte dubinsky and charlotte some disconcerting videos coming in how bad exactly is the situation in paris. was situation seems to be something that we've seen for many weeks here in paris clashes between the police and the protesters with tear gas being used to disperse protesters and also grenades also being shot into the crowds but of course the protesters are normally the ones who do start off these scuffles by throwing projectiles such as rocks in and broken glass towards the police but what we've seen today is it seems one of the protesters one of the who's actually photographing the event for the social movement she had his hand blown off in a grenade not sure where he picked that grenade up or it was a direct hit but this is not the first time we've seen injuries like this since the movement started back on november seventeenth basically bac

in 2015, for example, when we won the national assembly.critical situation in the country and also the migration and refugee crisis, that venezuelans are crossing in colombia, in the us, in the european union, for example, has made venezuela a global issue. that's why many countries and the us particularly are having a role in this situation. the movement in venezuela has very deep roots. the crisis with venezuela people. the role that the us or colombia or brazil, or the european union or chile, argentina, many countries, is supporting the leadership at this moment. let's get some of the day's other news. the government of the central african republic has agreed a peace deal with 14 of the armed groups operating in the country. it comes after peace talks were held in sudan, sponsored by the african union and the un. the treaty is to be signed next week, but six previous agrements have failed to hold. the car has been torn apart by six years of sectarian and ethnic violence. australia's prime minister, scott morrison, says all children deta

and then maduro created a constituent parallel national assembly.ons and then the presidential elections in may of 2018 where the spire -- the entire world saw that no one participated. and only the transition candidate of that election denounced the electoral fraud, and he withdrew his candidacy. trish: well, there's certainly a lot going on, and tomorrow is very important p. tomorrow is a big day. muchas gracias, rafael. >> translator: thank you. trish: [speaking spanish] coming up, okay, far-left democrat elizabeth warren doing a whole lot of backtracking this week. wait until you hear what she's now apologizing for. and then you've got senator cory booker, yes, one who tried to derail brett kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, he's running for president. but do any of these dems even have a shot at the white house? they sure hope so, but what would that mean for our country? what would that mean for our economy? we're on it. ♪ [ doorbell rings ] janice, mom told me you bought a house. okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter clicks ] so, now tha

the patriotism of the venezuelan national assembly and the incredible courage of interim president juanuaido. the people of venezuela are standing for freedom and democracy and the united states of america is standing right by their side. let me begin by thanking the great leaders here today who have been such incredible champions for the cause of liberty. these people love you and they love venezuela and they love cuba and they love all of the places we are from. newly elected and already doing an incredible job, governor ron desantis. [applause] a man who i call especially when we are talking about cuba, venezuela, nicaragua. he knows a lot. your friend and mine, senator marco rubio. a great governor, he gave ron a little bit of a head start. he did a fantastic job in florida. former governor and now senator rick scott. somebody that i have gotten to know very well, especially as to the fact that my heart is in venezuela, representative mario diaz-balart. ambassador, the lieutenant governor, your new and great attorney general, and to so many other dedicated public officials in this r

because they have just thrown us out we came to venezuela with an official invitation from the national assembly a body that is recognized internationally and even recognized by the venezuelan president we are the first international delegate. that was visiting the interim president one guy do when in a country a dictator closes the windows and turns off the lights that is when he goes from words to actions long live a free venezuela. as the standoff intensifies to present the door of venezuelans continue to leave the country in droves the crumbling economy has already forced more than three million to seek a new life abroad on time james back to some of them in the brazilian border town of packer rymer one hundred a crossing every day. on brazil's border with venezuela the migrants continue to arrive many of them relieved at least for the moment to have seemingly put their desperation behind them back home jackson maria just twenty three years old had quit school to work in a bakery and a lot of innocent young people like us couldn't achieve our goals of it as well i had to stop my academic stu

that's why i recognize the national assembly and the national assembly speaks for me for the people of venezuela which is why our focus should be on having free and fair elections in venezuela. i am concerned about the conversations that the president is having with the threat of sending military into venezuela. what our focus should be is to make sure that we are doing all that we can, supporting the lima countries and the oas and others to have a free and fair election conducted because the venezuelan people believe in democracy and that's why you see the national assembly now where the opposition is and i am continuing to talk with members of the opposition, members of the national assembly and members of the military about working together so that we can have a free and fare election so that the voice is not that of the united states and the people of venezuela is clearly heard. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank our witnesses are being here today. it is really sad to see one of the biggest countries in our hemisphere, venezuela which was one of the wealthiest countries in latin a

visit venezuela have been refused entry to the country they would use a meter of the country's national assembly and opposition leader. to discuss the ongoing political crisis according to the opposition and members of the delegation they were denied entry it's airports and then expelled and this is the most you know at this moment we're being expelled from venezuela they've retained our passports they've not told us the reason of not provided any documents that justifies why they're throwing us out of the country we came to venezuela on the official invitation of venezuela's national assembly which is an internationally recognized institution even if i migiro it's a constitutional institution yet even invited by a constitutional institution they've not let us enter we are the first international delegation that was going to visit the interim president one guy you know this is not about letting us in but about preventing interim president one guy you do from seeing any dignitary from outside venezuela when a dictator closes the window and turns off the lights it means he's going to go from words

venezuela's opposition leader meets the national assembly he wants to bypass the president and bring in humanitarian aid and. hello again on this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. knowing this president he will rely on distortions and made up. senior democrats pull no punches as the war of words begins ahead of president trunk's state of the union address. to stay on and they chip shop parliamentary committee approves a proposal to extend the presidential term to six years the climate change catastrophe facing the himalayas with serious consequences for almost two billion people. usa trucks carrying food and medical supplies have started arriving at venice colombia's border with venezuela as pressure builds on president nicolas maduro to resign in the face of a challenge from opposition leader. hundreds of venezuelans in knees have been lining up border towns trying to buy meds the aid is being delivered those requests we declared himself into in president last month but isn't clear if military forces who remain loyal to president maduro will allow the supplies into the

the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy who tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction and the grenade went off well the situation seems to be something that we've seen for many weeks here in paris clashes between the police and the protesters with t. a gas being used to disperse protesters and also grenades also being shot into the crowds but of course the protesters are normally the ones who do start off these scuffles by throwing projectiles such as rocks and broken glass to wards the police but what we've seen today is it seems one of the protesters one of the shell asians who's actually photographing the event for the social movement actually had a his hand blown off in a grenade on television on me and volunteer medics were first at the scene two of ours rushed up to help him to the general commotion another team of medics surrounded him to wall him off when a person is in that condition he needs to breathe properly you don't want crowds gathering around watching and filming that would f

may not know where the opposition leader meets the national assembly he wants to bypass the president and bring in humanitarian aid. alarm sits us and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. to stay all night an egyptian parliamentary committee approves a proposal to extend the presidential term to six years prime minister may try to reassure business leaders in belfast that there will be no hard border across ireland after breck's its. dance and. bringing in the glare of the big chinese communities around the world celebrate the most important holiday. weekend in venezuela where self declared interim leader. has been meeting national assembly members in the capital caracas he's calling for the safe passage of humanitarian aid into the country u.s. trucks carrying food and medical supplies have left bogota bound for the colombia venezuela border but delivering the aid would require the cooperation of the military which has remained loyal to president nicolas maduro stories about bo has the latest from caracas. we're here outside of a national assembly where you are makers

empower the national assembly to do what he has done it simply does not apply in. this case whereas the elections on the twentieth of may of two thousand eight hundred were up served by international observers and. just forty seven percent of the population went to vote. in the opposition and republican got twenty one percent of the boat better to achieve got eleven percent of the vote but to go to about sixty eight percent of the vote now if you see sixty eight percent of the forty seven percent that still gives him a good third of the venezuelan population actually going to the. elections and voting for him so that the problem here is that you have. at least seven million commit to chavez does and who are not going to roll over and when i was the first reporter on the united nations in venezuela and i spoke with the opposition and i spoke with members of the national assembly i told them. look whether you like it a lot there are these seven or eight million venezuelans who are really committed what are you going to do with them they're not going to roll over they

world by surprise the until now barely known president of the opposition controlled national assembly declares himself interim president justification is that my bhutto is not a legitimate leader but a usurper and a dictator. one country after the other recognizes the thirty five year old engineer as president as hundreds of thousands of venezuelans take to the streets again to show their support now we have a new leader. in venezuela who has promised to bring elections and constitutional order back to venezuela and security back to the region we cannot delay this critical conversation which has the world's attention for the sake of venezuela and the region we must support the venezuelan people and do so right now. because president denounces a coup d'etat instigated by the united states which says it won't rule out military options to oust if necessary but has powerful allies to russia and china the u.s. to stay out of in his way. one point he maintains the loyalty of the military crucial to his prominence in power. venezuela now has two men claiming to be their leader one who holds

inspired by juan guaido, leader of the national assembly and interim president, millions of protesters have rallied in the streets across the country and stood up to the maduro dictatorship. bolstered by the leadership of the united states, many nations around the world are standing with them as the tv monitor shows. i commend the president for recognizing juan guaido as the legitimate interim president, for supporting his efforts to call free and fair elections, and for imposing sanctions that hold the regime responsible for their criminal actions. i will be introducing a resolution. i continue to work with the chairman to condemn the criminal actions of nicolas maduro and countries like cuba, russia, china, and syria for supporting his regime. it also recognizes juan guaido as interim president and urges the international community to support the humanitarian assistance for venezuela. the people need to know that america is on their side. we do not aim to choose their next leader. we simply want the conditions that would allow the people to choose for themselves. our role must be a s

they broke into the national assembly in caracas and opened fire. they have done this before. bly member once walked out all bloodied because maduro's thugs, the colectivos fired before. they are terrorizing neighborhoods. i got more video of a particular neighborhood in caracas, and you can see them driving through on their motorcycles. they are heavily armed. this is the shadow military group, the para military groups funded by cuba. they are terrorizing the people of venezuela and terrorizing the opposition. breaking into the national assembly. ambassador ryke it's good to see you. how do you characterize how venezuela has deteriorated most of recently, and what else your concern for the country right now. i look at that and say what the heck do you have going on there? that's some kind of civil war. >> it's very close to it. what you are seeing is a cuban tactic. the cubans have don't same thing in terms of training these paramilitary thugs in many countries. they did the in nicaragua and daniel ortega recent lid killed 450 nicaraguaians who were peacefully demonstrating. a

is the al jazeera news our live from london coming up venezuela's opposition leader meets the national assembly he wants to bypass the president and bring in humanitarian aid. knowing this president he will rely on distortions and made up for senior democrats pull no punches the war of words begins ahead of president trump state of the union address on c.c. to stay on on egyptian parliamentary committee approves a proposal to extend the presidential term to six years. among the ones with the sports news including go in go in. the incredible lindsey vonn crushes of the last of the event and she isn't quite finished yet. we begin this new. self declared interim leader has been meeting national assembly members in the capital caracas he's calling for the safe passage of humanitarian aid into the country u.s. trucks carrying food and supplies out of left bogota bound for the colombia venezuela border delivering the aid would require the cooperation of the military which has remained loyal to him battled president nicolas maduro well in the last hour has been speaking to business leaders in caracas

the european parliament from entering the country a group had been invited to meet venezuela's national assembly by the opposition leader one day and meanwhile trying to enlist the help of volunteers to confront a government blockade on. the border hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to try to take supplies through on saturday and in the moment those numbers you know we're being expelled from venezuela our passports have been withheld we've not been informed of the reason nor do we have any document that justifies it because they have just thrown us out we came to venezuela with an official invitation from the national assembly a body that is recognized internationally and even recognized by the venezuelan president we are the first international delegation that was visiting the interim president one guy do when in a country a dictator closes the windows and turns off the lights that is when he goes from words to actions long live a free venezuela. meanwhile hundreds of venezuela migrants continue to cross into brazil each day as the standoff between venezuela's president and opposit

and february nine hundred nineteen the freely elected german national assembly max environment the citymade famous by good turn shila strays a man was the chairman of the newly formed german peoples party which wanted a constitutional monarchy but now it was the social democrats like friedrich who had to say. that it was by far that i think that i have but. i think even i can hear. that you are. even. in the national assembly the advocates of a republic had a two thirds majority based on the social democrats the left liberals and the catholic center party. strays a man and his german people's party mourns the passing of the old days as a result many saw him as yesterday's man. it is just not going to confront got his caucus to stop by. for the first time women can. also votes and stand for election in the u.s. coming. up the first on clinical homelessness but the. man. strays a man had gone to weimar with mixed feelings to his wife he wrote today was the solemn opening of the german national assembly or rather it should have been in my heart i live in the old days and it hurts to see ho

who surrounded the national assembly building during the session but. if one way the once the chair then you can buy it at the store because here no one would allow him to sit on the presidential seat a political crisis where nobody really knows how or when it is going to end. the united nations says is push for an agreement between yemen's government on the hoof the rebels is beginning to pay off it says days of talks between the warring parties are bringing them closer to a deal to pull back their forces from the city of data the port is crucial for getting food and aid into the country the newly appointed head of the un's mission to monitor a truce agreement michael god has arrived in yemen he is facilitating further negotiations on board a ship in the red sea. the u.s. central command in the middle east is calling for an investigation into allegations american weapons are making their way into yemen general vote or raise the concerns to a senate committee a recent media report alleges weapons provided by the u.s. to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. were