and i really want to thank tony newman because tony newman -- [applause] and she's a force and is committed to this work and she has hit the ball rolling with staffing up and working with folks in the community and making it clear what was needed, which makes it easier to provide the funding right to the places where we know that it's needed the most -- rental subsidies and wraparound support and services and making sure that we have the right people in place to get the job done so that we can get people off the streets and to get them into housing. so thank you so much to tony and the work that you do, to the mayor's office on housing and community development, and to the coalition, to larkin street and youth services and especially to the san francisco transadvisory committee who i have mentioned before the work that they continue to do to make sure that we call attention to all of the inequities and the various city departments as it relates to funding and how it needs to change to make an impact on the lives of people who are a part of this amazing community and a true important part of

and i really want to thank tony newman because tony newman -- [applause] and she's a force and is committed to this work and she has hit the ball rolling with staffing up and working with folks in the community and making it clear what was needed, which makes it easier to provide the funding right to the places where we know that it's needed the most -- rental subsidies and wraparound support and services and making sure that we have the right people in place to get the job done so that we can get people off the streets and to get them into housing. so thank you so much to tony and the work that you do, to the mayor's office on housing and community development, and to the coalition, to larkin street and youth services and especially to the san francisco transadvisory committee who i have mentioned before the work that they continue to do to make sure that we call attention to all of the inequities and the various city departments as it relates to funding and how it needs to change to make an impact on the lives of people who are a part of this amazing community and a true important part of

and i really want to thank tony newman because tony newman -- [applause] and she's a force and is committedfing up and working with folks in the community and making it clear what was needed, which makes it easier to provide the funding right to the places where we know that it's needed the most -- rental subsidies and wraparound support and services and making sure that we have the right people in place to get the job done so that we can get people off the streets and to get them into housing. so thank you so much to tony and the work that you do, to the mayor's office on housing and community development, and to the coalition, to larkin street and youth services and especially to the san francisco transadvisory committee who i have mentioned before the work that they continue to do to make sure that we call attention to all of the inequities and the various city departments as it relates to funding and how it needs to change to make an impact on the lives of people who are a part of this amazing community and a true important part of san francisco. so i want to thank... (♪) (♪) >> our you

paul newman plays a kind of washed up lawyer who is an alcoholic ambulance chaser.vie stars, big movie stars, he manages to bring them down in the case of "the verdict" to the boston streets. you can see the stars in the movie, but they have not turned the movie into something glamorous but on the opposite have entered the drudge and reality that he is painting. >> i should have never taken it. there was no way i could win. >> snum was asked -- newman was to be the leading man and be charming and funny. when he does "the verdict," it makes you cry. newman shows you what he is made of as an actor. >> i think you are making a big mistake. you should reconsider. get the principals back together again. >> to see that scene where he is calling the insurance company to rekindle the deal he turned down. >> okay. no, no. i understand. >> it's really one of the greatest pieces of acting i've ever seen in my life, no cuts. i mean, lumet just goes, here we go. >> how is your life? >> great. how is yours? >> not so great. >> oh. we're telling the truth? >> "the big chill" is ab

>> hemy newman was a killer.ed mistress told the jury. even hemy newman himself said he did it, a police detective testified. >> he admits to the shooting, correct? >> yes. >> but hemy newman's defense attorney said their client shouldn't go to prison because the 48-year-old engineer, outwardly so calm and rational, had one more secret to confess. he had been tormented by demons since he was a boy. defense attorney bob rubin -- >> mr. neuman's problems really began years ago, and they went undiagnosed over the course of his lifetime and, as a result, he got progressively worse. >> and the defense made a bold allegation to the jury that hemy's violent act against rusty was triggered by none other than rusty's wife andrea. >> she had planted the seed, she had stoked the fire. and she knew that what she set out to do with somebody who was sick, that she had accomplished. >> his psyche was so fragile, the defense argued, that it hadn't taken much from andrea to send hemy over the edge, and if the defense could prove

newman last year out of. the captions know well the challenge that awaits them. i don't need to know the money we handle the such a way to get me on the. india done by the name of the india indian it's a bomb. they didn't write the following and are. oh not only the i cannot i'm going to. kill much as lie ahead and 5 hours of being tossed about by the river. bank i. thank. god good good good luck. i'm hungry. the time is the hold the bamboo are slowly loosened every time the raft hits some rocks. the raft risks breaking up. the hook . thank you thank. you the old i stood you level old boy hold me lead the way i mean help me all my all but i'm too big the weak you'll be on the ground and you can go they go south warning me that you'll be on the detail the help when you all can. go. i hope you know that. we have. the men know well the dangers of the long river. up ahead the cave ghost passage will test. thank the legendary mekong river old mother of waters is vietnam's main waterway. it nourishes the 6 countries through which it flows including laos which borders v

newman's condition. >> reporter: it was a pretty emotional news krns from this family, joif newman.y to help him eat and breathe. he has never regained consciousness since this attack happened on saturday and they don't think he will. at least that's what doctors are telling the family at this point. i want to show you a picture, though, of his condition in the hospital. i want to warn you that this picture is very graphic. the family released it. that's why we're showing it to you. they say they want people to see this picture because they want everyone to see the extent of his injuries. you can see how horrific the condition he is in right now. it's important to know what happened here in their community. i want you to take a listen to more of what they said about this attack. >> the doctors do not have high hopes for him. he may never be -- i mean, if he wakes up, he may never be able to walk, talk or even process speech again. we want our kids to go to school and feel safe. we want to go to our synagogues and feel safe. we want to go to groceries and malls and feel safe. >> jake

that mission i critique say they still way too much newman interpretation and that the costs are inconsistent and that the delays take the punch out of goal celebrations. one of germany's elite referees mom would prefer who was in charge of the doj mundra says outspoken match on the weekend is pushing for an n.f.l. like system where the coaches have 2 challenges per game and referees can explain their decisions to fans in the media it's an idea that is slowly gaining some ground in the bundesliga. and we're working on how far we can integrate the referees to communicate directly on the field they may even sometime in the future explain their decision and clarify the process that the impetus of. that clarification could go a long way in appeasing the system's critics. and just reminded of the top story that we're following for you chinese authorities are closing transport networks in the city of the heart of the corona virus outbreak that is spreading across asia and the. the government source revised inhabitants not to it leave the city 17 people have died from their spiritual illness in the

a man wounded in the hanukkah stabbing in new york says he may never recover. 71-year-old joseph newmanle stab last saturday night at a rabbi's home by a man with a machete. doctors have reportedly told the family newman may have permanent brain damage and be partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. since the attack of the governor of new york has directed police to increase patrols in orthodox jewish neighborhoods. >>> pope francis apologizing now for smacking a woman's hand as he was making his way through a new year's eve crowd in st. peter's square. cameras capture the moment when a woman forcibly grabbed his hand for me see if they're yanking it. the startled hope and slapped woman's hand before pulling his hand free. francis addressed the incident today saying quote , so many times we lose our patients. meet you and i apologies for yesterday. >>> new year's brought the best gift of all three and little boy in bakersfield. take a look. >> who's that? who's that? >> mommy! mommy! mommy! mommy! >> that is so cute. army sergeant elaine moran i was greeted at the airport by her th

we're expecting to hear from the daughter of josef newman in about a half an hour.ment giving an update on his condition as you said. it's not a good one. essentially he was stabbed multiple times in this attack over the weekend. his family saying that he has not regained consciousness. he's not woken up since this attack. and they don't know if he ever will. not only does he have multiple stab wounds to his head but also a shattered arm that doctors can't operate on because he is not awake. and doctors have told the family that if he does ever wake up, he could have serious brain damage. about what happened on that night as we believe she was also in the house at that time. so again, he's the most seriously injured in this attack, but this whole community is certainly having prayers out to everyone who was injured over the weekend. >> i've spoken to members of the community, as i know you have, and many of them are calling for increased security around the area, and the statistics show this attack was not isolated. there are an increasing number in new york state.

newman? >> yes. thank you. >> excellent presentation. this report is thorough, comprehensive and it's a beautiful report. paul is getting jealous over there because he's been working on his drafts this year. >> i did notice all the good pictures. >> it's very accessible and easy to get that information from it. i think the chief touched on this, but the issue of assignments and where people end up and administration versus patrol. and i might have missed this, but was there anything in your data about their preference? meaning just to clarify, if people are requesting administration, we have a notoriously long list for our airport division, which is the source of consternation for many of us, but if people are requesting administration, and the administration numbers are high, that means one thing, but if they are requesting patrol and the administration numbers are high, that means something different. >> yeah. just to speak to, one, we do know that there are many women who prefer to be in an administrative assignment because it does al

marcus newman heads this environmental measuring station. 11 institutions use this exposed location on germany's highest peak including the german environment agency. no man has brought a new measuring instrument for chemical engineer said he could take the french scientists to studying air pollution. we can measure impurities that come from very far away from africa or canada. enough to buzz feed for instance so horrid doest we can measure very high concentrations of. the location is ideal for studying the atmospheres microstructure the latest findings have shown a greater rise in c o 2 than the long term average. from inside the station in the 100 meter long tunnel where tourists were once cautioned about the thin air we it's through the mountains geophysicists to theme looks after equipment that measures melt water. despite global warming the permafrost the ice frozen into the rock is currently fairly stable. and offers a spectacular natural display in a side tunnel. after a disastrous avalanche in 1965 an avalanche warning service was established here. specialists like michelle get

. >>> a dire situation this morning for hanukkah stabbing victim joseph newman.y released a statement saying that doctors are not optimistic about his chances to regain consciousness from his injuries. newman was one of five people stabbed during a hanukkah celebration in new york. he was stabbed in the head. the knife, we are told now, went into his brain. alarming news to hear. the family is urging jews across the country to share their own experiences with anti-semitism using the hash tag #mejew. >>> the gop might not call witnesses at president trump's impeachment trial, but the man at the center of the ukraine scandal now says that he himself is willing to testifies. what rudy giuliani's testimony, would it be good for the president? i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. if you listen to the political it sounds like we have a failed society. but nothing could be further from the truth. americans are compassionate and hardworking. we aren't

we want to warn you, one of the images you're about to see is disturbing >>ep joÉf newman spent his birtbirthday in the hospital tonight, his family wants you to see this photo to show how severe the attack was. his daughter says he may not wake up from his coma >> i'm begging you, if you are watching this, please stand up and stop this hatred it cannot keep going on >> reporter: the accused attacker, 37-year-old grafton thomas, has pleaded not guilty to state charges of attempted murder and burglary. his attorney says thomas has a history of mental illness and found these medications in his apartment. >> there's been no history of anti-semitism with htoryan that anybody of violence with tman. >> reporter: but connected to the unsolvovf a jewish man walking to a synagogue. >> i have no evidence none still a very active investigation. with a number of leads being pursued. >> reporter: the jewish community here is shaken. >> it's possible the person has mental, medical conditions but he is certainly normal enough to be obsessed with jews and then execute a planned attack >> reporter: the s

newman comes out and he's trying to pretend he's religious. alfred e. newman. right? buttigieg. you say boot-edge-edge. >> nobody can pronounce his name so they call him mayor pete. >> the president questioning mayor pete's dedication to his religion and it seems that the president is worried about keeping that evangelical vote. >> the president is a twerp, really, who does this? anybody who questions somebody's commitment? he'd be laughed off the stage and so the president will be the president. he's going to say these things. it's not presidential. look, this guy's got a great economy going which he's primed by tax cuts for billionaires and he's at less than 50%. in fact, i think he's at less than 40%. so that speaks for itself and if you want to attack someone's religion you're welcome to do that. i don't think most americans think that's a very smart thing to do. >> yet he's at 95% as he tweeted today. always colorful. good to hear from you former governor howard dean. have a great weekend. thank you. >>> coming up, growing fears of all-out war. how ishlgs

into this weekend all without a loss but now he was facing his biggest test yet byron munich with newman suspension coming to a close after the byron game with this the surest last chance to prove himself. his opposite number man while neuer began the match with a misplaced pass that nearly put shelter in front but that was no it was only slip but it would be others making the mistakes in this match. it was a day schubert won't soon forget after just 6 minutes played he made an absolute mess of it thomas with the cries the bulk bell to rub it in the fans ask you any inevitable happens when they're. playing by and is another animal entirely in munich every mistake is brutally punished. bitter lesson remarked schubert consolation for noir likely didn't help much. as you say it's an experience everyone has to go through he's given good performances and i wish him only the best for the future when she introduced a lot of us west. after this outing the most shocking hope for is a bright future their trip to munich made it clear that despite a strong season they're way behind what a. the bigge

person who was held under conditions not able to meet other human beings not to speak with other newman beings never hears human voices then he will speak with the 1st human being he's able to speak with even if it is the. other methods of persuasion and punishment were less subtle. this is the basement section of hunching has been known as the u. boat where water torture was deployed. able to break lang's felled the authorities expelled her from her homeland. on one level links fold was lucky she was able to keep her children but under a policy introduced by more gold hanukah education minister and wife of the east german dictator erik konica the state routinely took children from politically undesirable parents. incognito out of the would see why. does this. dress lack who is called while trying to escape with his pregnant wife and was jailed. when his wife gave birth the child was taken for a forced adoption. it took like 29 years to find his son. other parents have also tracked down the children but it's impossible to make a time when he often in high mention any less money. nish to

newman? >> yes. thank you. >> excellent presentation. this report is thorough, comprehensive and it's a beautiful report. paul is getting jealous over there because he's been working on his drafts this year. >> i did notice all the good pictures. >> it's very accessible and easy to get that information from it. i think the chief touched on this, but the issue of assignments and where people end up and administration versus patrol. and i might have missed this, but was there anything in your data about their preference? meaning just to clarify, if people are requesting administration, we have a notoriously long list for our airport division, which is the source of consternation for many of us, but if people are requesting administration, and the administration numbers are high, that means one thing, but if they are requesting patrol and the administration numbers are high, that means something different. >> yeah. just to speak to, one, we do know that there are many women who prefer to be in an administrative assignment because it does al

or a vase bought for $4.99 this rolex is in pristine condition, a model known as a daytona, a paul newman watch he kept all the paper work and never wore it makes it even valuable he purchased it while serving in the air force in the 1970s and the price back then, about a month's salary and the value now. >> $500,000 to $700,000 >> reporter: yes, enough to knock you off your feet. harry smith, nbc news. >> you okay? >> that's "nightly news." i'm lester holt. thank you for watching, everyone, and good night >>> everybody understands the urgency. >> only on nbc, the bay area company searching for a cure to the coronavirus, and how the outbreak is putting a strain on tech giants in silicon valley. the news at 6:00 starts right now. in our nbc bay area studios, i'm terry mcsweeney. >> and i'm janelle wang. we'll get to that in a bit. but let's go to south beach, florida and raj mathai. he is following the 49ers and their quest. >> we've been covering since sunday in miami. as each day pass, the excitement and the anticipation is growing. we have four reporters here in south florida covering a

you know who alfred newman is, right? you say boot and then he goat edge edge. nobody can pronounce his name so they call him mayor pete. i like him to win because i don't want to knock him. i don't want to knock these people. mayor pete, i hope he does great. boot edge edge. and all of a sudden he is become extremely religious. that happened about two weeks ago. these extreme radicals want to impose absolute conformity by censuring speech and terry down crosses and symbols of faith and banning religious believers from public life. that is what they want to do, they have gone crazy. but we will not back down, we are standing tall for the values that we hold dear and everybody in this room feels the same way. [applause] we believe every citizen has the right to live by the dictator of their conscience and the teaching of their fae. we believe that's the dictates of their conscience and the teaching of their faith. we believe and the freedom of worship and the right to life. [applause] thank you. you remembered during their abates -- during the debates when we hav

comes as the syrian army recaptures one of its limp promises largest and most strategic towns are all newman the backing from the russian military the former hot spot for anti-government protests had been held by rebels since 2012 ask how to open humanitarian corridors for those seeking to leave the areas before the operation the u.s. and says that russia and syria should stop the offensive accusing them of attacking civilians and as more i've got to report it seems that washington has a rather different standard on its own actions. the fall of my new month came as a shock to everyone it was a cradle of the revolution late to the jihad against the assad rebels 2nd largest remaining city and they gave it up without a fight a fight for the city that is it self had been a battleground for the past month. in december the syrian military set off an operation taking dozens and dozens of towns and villages in mia weeks the promise he kicked in russia and turkey mediated a season which didn't last the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger. about islam and the reason for the

i predict say they still way too much newman interpretation and that the cards are inconsistent and that the delays take the punch out of goal celebrations. one of germany's elite referees mom would prefer who was in charge of the doj month versus out spoke match on the weekend is pushing for an n.f.l. like system where the coaches have 2 challenges per game and referees can explain their decisions to fans in the media it's an idea that is slowly gaining some ground in the bundesliga. we're working on how far we can integrate the referees to communicate directly on the field they may even sometime in the future explain their decision and clarify the process. of. that clarification could go along way in appeasing the systems critics. coming up next on news. as a new and potentially deadly virus outbreak spreads how does china than to fight it amid the huge lunar new year travel rush. and the trash from europe that's forced a girl in indonesia to take up the matter when germany's leader uncle america. those stories all coming up on the news asia shortly i'm on the thought she may have inte

. >> by -- >> one gary newman only a half hour show.ler pick it up, man. >> all right welcome back to "fast money. it would not be a day, would it, without a discussion about tesla. we talked about it last night. we're going to talk about it again. shares of the company topping the tape in today's session. it passed a major milestone after it delivered more than 100,000 cars in a quarter for the first time ever. and tesla says it delivered 112,000 in the fourth quarter. far above wall street's estimates. the stock touching new all-time highs on the news. will tesla's record rally hold strong what do you think? >> so, you never know what to look at this as. is it a battery company, is it a car company? was it a going out of business company? is it the sec company? that's what we're worried about slaps on it. and all that stuff seems to be sort of analogous to the overall market it shook off a lot of different headwinds, and right now, technically, the stock is just helium and i see overshoot levels of around 500 to 520. every day we come

the fall of newman came as a shock to everyone it was a cradle of the revolution later the jihad against asaad rebels 2nd largest remaining city and they gave it up without a fight a fight for the city that is it self had been a battleground for the past month. but then. in december the syrian military set off an operation taking dozens and dozens of towns and villages in mia weeks the promise he kicked in russia and turkey mediated a ceasefire which then lost the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger. about an ellipse and the reason for the escalation is the reason is the militants control totally or nearly totally by chop out all nusra and i at ariel sharon which al nusra has turned into and uses as a cover constantly bring the cease fire with the cease fire arrangements create special corridors for noncombatants so they can leave the combat zones by the way the terrorists keep striking those corridors hindering the departure of peaceful civilians trying to retain them as human shields are seen at all before in ghouta rebels caged the women and pensioners on r

out of yale and nyu, newman drove this conversation forward.the president is going to say today as he is speaking to his core constituency. lindsay: what the president will say is this is a promise kept. he has kept his promise to confront iranian aggression. the killing of qasem soleimani was part of that. according to pompeo, it would have been negligent not to take him out according to an imminent threat. very clearly, this was a promise kept. and weu are the academic have been talking to the military people. they are all screaming for a political strategy. is our political strategy jacksonian? lindsay: it is a tactical one. it is tactical responses rather than a larger scale strategic plan, butfor trump -- for trump, that is a way he is moving forward. criticism from democrats whether the u.s. is safer as a result of the killing, but what about the endless wars and the question of moving the u.s. troops out of the middle east? kuwaitoops are going to and the ongoing question of the islamic, what does this mean for a potential resurgence? th

elton john will do i'm going to love me again from rocket man and randy newman will perform i can't lethrow yourself away from toy story >>billie eilish has released her music video for everything i wanted which he also directed eilish co wrote the track with her brother phineas who costars in the video siblings are also working on the theme song for the next james bond movie, no time to die which opens april 10th. >>the human rights campaign is honoring janelle mon a the singer producer actor and activist will receive the hrc quality award for using her global platform to share a message of celebrating authenticity and embracing all of who we are the hrc notes that man a dedicated her 2018 album dirty computer to young lgbtq people. >>she'll be honored at a dinner in la march 28th in hollywood, i'm david daniel. >>i want to take a little peek outside we're checking in on conditions around the bay area pick up the bay bridge toll plaza there's your line and getting a little busy in the cash lanes but no major problems coming in and you're waking up to temperatures in the 40's and 50's t

a paul newman watch he kept all the paperwork and never wore it makes it even valuable he purchased it0s and the price back then, about a month's salary and the value now? >> $500,000 to $700,000 >> reporter: yes, enough to knock you off your feet. harry smith, nbc news. >> you okay? >> that's "nightly news." i'm lester holt. thank you for watching, everyone, and good night [phone rings] >> rafe: hey. talk to your mother? >> shawn: yeah, yeah, i did. >> rafe: well, what'd she say? >> shawn: she said that she thinks that you're... having trouble getting over the divorce and, uh, you don't want to let her go. >> rafe: well, what do you think? >> shawn: i don't think my mom is lying... because i don't think that that woman is my mother. >> rafe: okay, if that woman is not hope, then who were you talking to? >> shawn: listen, i can't be totally sure, but from everything that you've told me and the way that she was acting once we were alone... i think we're dealing with princess gina. >> hope as gina: finally... a moment of peace. [door opens] >> kate: i've had it. i want to know what you a

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newman? >> yes. thank you. >> excellent presentation. this report is thorough, comprehensive and it's a beautiful report. paul is getting jealous over there because he's been working on his drafts this year. >> i did notice all the good pictures. >> it's very accessible and easy to get that information from it. i think the chief touched on this, but the issue of assignments and where people end up and administration versus patrol. and i might have missed this, but was there anything in your data about their preference? meaning just to clarify, if people are requesting administration, we have a notoriously long list for our airport division, which is the source of consternation for many of us, but if people are requesting administration, and the administration numbers are high, that means one thing, but if they are requesting patrol and the administration numbers are high, that means something different. >> yeah. just to speak to, one, we do know that there are many women who prefer to be in an administrative assignment because it does al

adam newman, your other example took everybody by surprise. soft bank, and certainly adam himself.ant to take a look at chart we're showing inside the terminal. i can't put it out on social ecause we don't have the terminal number for it, but we've created this customized index, if you will, this watch list, showing the number of the board. the most is oracle at four. he goes down the list. two., it seems good. not great. we done enough? >> it is clearly more work to do, and i think what we're howing here are some of the larger companies, so on the smaller company side, you do examples. not looking at the chart right now, but i'm surprised hp didn't show up there because i like to a pretty good example. oakland., also, we've got stitch fix, survey monk monkey. they all have good examples of diversity on the board? >> you all talk about and mention those are california-based companies. think the question is if we needed a law, it probably shows that we weren't doing enough. make of that? >> this is at the 826, which is a california law that you are to.rring capitalist at heart. 40 c

nicolas maduro orchestrated a takeover of the opposition controlled congress out of the associate newman has more. the headline reads congress wakes to 2 speakers of the house in a country which already has 2 men claiming the presidency. understandably confused and frustrated our muslim but as the saying gars we lift as if we were lost and spice. on sending national guardsmen prevented opposition majority leader and other deputies from entering parliament to initiate the years session as the constitution stipulates. in his place the pro-government minority swore in as speaker and deputy recently expelled from his opposition party. that showdown you just watched that didn't and for more on this political crisis we're joined by latin american editor for al-jazeera english to see an event you were just watching never thought to see here it looked like chaos how do you make sense of what is going on well that was just on sunday you should have seen we don't do that. glide all and accompanied by his 90 deputies j.m. to the palace as you like legislative palace in this case they managed to pus

to stay in spoke to a latin america editor this year newman in the capital caracas. first there's a dictatorship in venezuela and yes i underestimated the malice the ability to inflict damage of maintaining power through force control assassinations co-option blackmail all at the expense of peace in venezuela. the government has a very obvious strategy it's recognising a former opposition deputy as. speaker of the house and they will very soon recognise that assembly and. appoint we are. electoral council and then call for parliamentary elections what is going to be your strategy. i want to clarify that in venezuela there are no 2 parliaments there is one parliament one that confronting a dictatorship that uses the military to take control of the legislature on tuesday we were able to overcome the obstacles and the dictatorship will do what it always does whether you like it or not they will say there will be parliamentary elections this year it's in the constitution so what would you do but. you know this pressure demand take to the streets because the solution is n

failure of theirs it's one more failure by the gringos in venezuela a latin america at its alysia newman has more now from venezuela's capital. right now we are at the nasional newspaper which is no longer printing it's only online and it's being used as a makeshift version of the national assembly inside are there more than $100.00 opposition deputies who have just voted for the law to have another term as the president of the national assembly and also to be the interim president of venezuela now how did this happen it happened because the the official session at the national assembly building which should have taken place early this morning turned into absolute mayhem and chaos as members of the opposition to the lawmakers were not allowed in some were little by little groups and drabs while the pro-government. reviews were there and a handful of others who have turned on one of them is luis right so he has now 6 turned against and has just been sworn in or was sworn in rather in a very very unofficial impromptu vote in which people just raise their hands nobody counted the votes nobo

tried to stop the opposition leader for siding over the national assembly in america ditto this year newman has more from caracas it was a very dramatic moment yet the 3rd one in a row in this month around the national assembly it was not the opposition leader one by the who was attacked it wasn't in the caravan but rather other members of the opposition who had gone ahead of him and there were armed gangs as well as soldiers around the national assembly building called the legislative palace at the same time the pro-government constituent assembly was meeting inside there knowing full well that why they had called for a meeting of the national assembly they share the same building but in different chambers they were attacked they were shot at and what at least one of the cars had their windows broken with a crowbar or a stone it looked more like a stone to me but in any case no one was injured quite miraculously and they have already convened another part of the city and it looks like they're going to have to keep doing that from now on because the government is clearly making a plea is ma

is resigning but when he spoke to paul newman last week in iraq he said that he had been threatened. that if he did chinese oil deal he was going to be assassinated and so there would be protests against him which would then be shot by snipers killing both protesters and police officers which is pretty similar to what happened in modern square and elsewhere and. now in other words there's all these possibilities floating around zelinsky saying not to jump to conclusions he's absolutely right but on the other hand it's inevitable everybody is trying to spin this because we're in the middle of a basically a war situation where everybody's trying to get advantage trying to control the narrative. so when i ask you a bit more about the role of the the media in situations like this everyone's looking for somebody to provide answers in this case around who would seem to be leading an investigation often what happens though you get news outlets major ones saying we have information is pretty clearly come from a government source usually the u.s. or western government they won't divulge who t

though and his allies from getting into the building ahead of the vote unless america editor lucien newman reports from caracas. inside been israel is legislative palace punches were thrown insults hurled in a chaotic to an even more chaotic vote for the presidency of the national assembly . for hours national guards have been prevented dozens of opposition deputies from entering the premises. inside the chamber minority pro-government lawmakers organized a vote with a show of hands that no one counted. at least in opposition deputies choose to corruption and recently expelled from list. party was instantly sworn in and the material had model like all brothers and sisters we have differences but we must end all this confrontation. but outside the confrontation of this intensifying the opposition deputies are trying to break their way into the national assembly but the national guard is outnumbering about this fight and i see no place in the building. in a desperate last bid to get in opposition leader. tried to climb over the spiked middle fence surrounding the building. security forces fo

who has declared himself as the head of the national assembly for more latin america editor lucia newman joins us live on the phone from caracas so this year just on there were some extraordinary scenes before this happened how significant is it. absolutely extraordinary we were at the national assembly we were waiting for hours and hours for the city to be good at the opposition deputies were being allowed to get past the national guard to. block it as to where they were asking for their documents but wouldn't let the 4 hours 5 hours try to get it was by wide and as long as i thought who was until the short while ago the president of the national assembly at the says declared president of the country was also waiting for another group for libertarians to get in so that he could go into that something he wasn't allowed to go retirees or it to be tied to a. former opposition deputy who has now turned around why goal was proclaimed the president of the national assembly 5 sometimes it was all as i say very very chaotic the calls were actually counted people took to the stage there was goin