and we have ophelia harms i repeat from latin america desk with us good morning ophelia thanks for joining us we now know that it could last month party has as expected won control of the national simply what does this mean and no real surprises here sumi what it means is that he will continue to tighten his grip of power he has already ruled the country with an author in tehran regime but now the games the last institution that was in control of the opposition with this institution he gets the legislative power and that will only mean that he will continue to strengthen his his power in real practical terms it doesn't change much in the country though the bad news for the maduro regime is that the economic situation will probably continue because he will continue to be isolated from the international community what about the opposition here we saw images in the report of one though you know the opposition leader there was so much energy around him but it seems like they're now in a very difficult position so where do you think this leaves them well this election has shown that they are di

leaping into ophelia's grieve. millson said, do you come here to wine, leaping into her grave? i'll rant as well as thou. the most notable example of the use of shakespeare in congress occurred in 1830 during the famous debate between senators robert hain of south carolina and daniel webster of massachusetts. it was the first major debate about the relationship between the northern and southern states. after which webster gave a speech about public lands policy, han arghain argued that was a smoke screen. webster's real problem, hain said, was the disintegration of a coalition that webster hoped to establish between the north and west against the south. evoking a scene from mcbeth in which the ghost of the murdered person appears to lady mcbeth, but is invisible to the others who are sitting with them at a banquet table. senator hain asked, has the gentleman's tempered fancy been disturbed by new alliances in which he hinted? has the ghost of the murdered coalition come back to sere the eyeballs of the gentleman. d

the time ophelia since is is over. we know that we had a target and we are organizing ourselves to believe there is even some the response capacity that's necessary. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day in another lock down another one because the others didn't work after almost a year of starts and stops of unsuccessful restrictions aimed at flattening the coronavirus curb germany today entered a hard walk down the entire country is now shut down for at least 3 weeks everything except grocery stores pharmacies and gas stations the essentials and no one is joyful over the timing of this lockdown christmas and the new year will be observed in a muted manner unlike anything that we've experienced before traveling is almost taboo there will be few if any family gatherings there will be no parties on new year's eve and yet these interruptions these inconveniences do not begin to compare to the suffering and sadness inflicted upon countless families by the

countries signed on to prevent the rise in global temperatures the organization is sounding the alarm of ophelia's to curb greenhouse gas emissions. where some countries have acted on their commitments others have not . one country which has seen the effects of climate change is australia the world's number one exporter of coal its economy is heavily reliant on fossil fuels and over the past 5 years it has moved away from its commitment to cut carbon emissions. in recent years devastating bushfires have ravaged the country set off by record breaking temperatures as well as severe droughts and the us where in the past 4 decades the yearly wildfires in the west have grown 8 times larger the outgoing president donald trump controversially pulled the country out of the a court a policy that left many dismayed yet the commitment by president elect joe biden to rejoin the accords was welcomed at the virtual summit was a moment we find ourselves in an important moment days after the united states president elect joe biden has expressed his desire to rejoin the paris agreement and i really want to tell ou

tonya vivian's daughter, ophelia, was one of them. >> she's two years old. what's going on, and i can't wait to share with her as she gets older. this definitely resonates differently. as a black woman, it really means everything. it means that anything is truly possible for her. and i just am excited about the future, you know, and that's -- that's just something i haven't felt in so long. yamiche: even before this moment, harris had broken many barriers. she was the first black woman to serve as attorney general of california. she was only the second black woman to serve as a united states senator. the first was carol moseley braun, who told me it's hard to express how excited she is about harris's election. >> frankly, for me, on a personal level, it really is a matter of coming to grips with the fact that i really was more of a role model and not an object lesson. i mean, right now there are more women in the united states congress than ever before. and i think that's just going to continue. yamiche: yet even in her excitement, braun added that harris sh

i'm now joined by a failure informed did obvious live in america desk ophelia the international observers like the e.u. and the organization of american states agree with that b. election was a good shot what's at stake for the country well this election won't be recognized either by that you the u.s. and other main international actors this means that the diplomatic isolation of mother a will continue and maybe even worse than this also means that the blockade india and the international markets will remain as well as the sanctions that have been imposed to the country to venezuelans in their everyday lives not much will change the economic crisis will stay and they won't see any improvement in terms of for example human rights watch the opposition of venezuela seems very divided and fragmented wise that well they are for granted because their project failed basically. doesn't manage to establish this turn of regina that he was hoping for he lost a lot of strength when he attempted this military uprising last year that we can take him and the. position started to look for different strat

countries signed on to prevent the rise in global temperatures the organization is sounding the alarm of ophelia's to curb greenhouse gas emissions. where some countries have acted on their commitments others have not one country which has seen the effects of climate change is australia the world's number one exporter of coal its economy is heavily reliant on fossil fuels and over the past 5 years it has moved away from its commitment to cut carbon emissions. in recent years devastating bushfires have ravaged the country set off by record breaking temperatures as well as severe droughts and the us where in the past 4 decades the yearly wildfires in the west have grown 8 times larger the outgoing president donald trump controversially pulled the country out of the court a policy that left many dismayed yet the commitment by president elect joe biden to rejoin the accords was welcomed at the virtual summit was a moment we find ourselves in an important moment days after the united states president elect joe biden has expressed his desire to rejoin the paris agreement and i really want to tell our am