this country as former mayor of chicago who was chased out, thrown in jail, both of them, i am not venezuelan but i ran the daily journal for many years in venezuela which i taught from vanessa's that is one of the leading industrialists came to the country and help to build venezuela and put people to work and modernize the country, but these two people are venezuelan exiles and will eventually hopefully go back to make venezuela great again. i think that is the important thing. both of them are obviously intelligent and a shining example of what venezuela has lost because they are giving us the benefit of their wisdom in venezuela, putting that wisdom to work to make that country, the largest oil reserves in the world instead of being on the brink of bankruptcy. having said that rather than taking away a minute from the things vanessa will tell us about i want to introduce ramon, mayor the chart show is a shining example of the future of venezuela and he will do the actual introduction for the incredibly intelligent vanessa. [applause] >> thank you for your kind words. i will speak spanish,

i'm not venezuelan, although i ran the daily journal newspaper for many years in venezuela. about that from vanessa's grandfather was a leading industrialist who came to the country and help bill venezuelan and put people to work and give it hope. these two people are venezuela next sales and will eventually hopefully go back and help make venezuela great again. i think that's the important thing. both of them are intelligent in a shining example what venezuela has lost. they're here giving us the benefit of their wisdom instead of in venezuela putting there was some to work to make that place the happiest place of the world. having said that, rather than take away a minute from the wonderful things vanessa will tell us what it introduce ramon. because mayor -- is a shining example of the future of venezuela. he will do the extra introduction for the intelligence author. [applause] >> thank you russ for your kind words. i went to go into spanish if that's okay with you. >> [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in

every day we have more and more venezuelans coming into colombia.far, we have been able to absorb them, but we are very concerned. i talked about this with the secretary-general of the united nations that went to colombia a few days ago. we are going to set up a scheme to see how we can deal with this increasing problem, because it's like a snowball it increases every day, and of course, it's a great concern to us. >> so, explain to our viewers, both in the united states and around the world, why they're so desperate. and by the way, apparently, a total of more than a million venezuelans have special cards to allow them to come and buy scarce goods in your country. >> unfortunately, the venezuelan regime has not accepted the help in terms of food or medicine. we have offered them, but they are in a state of denial ey say, no, we don't have a crisis. and therefore, they rect not only our offer of help, but the international community, which is absurd. people are dying of hunger and lack of medicine, and the government simply doesn't accept that there

all right precisely that is certainly what the venezuelans who are opposed to this and many people in the international community are discussing at this hour as i said they were caught off guard but they are looking we're searching for ways to increase pressure on them other little government and there is speculation that he needing that was set up for next monday of the so-called with representatives of the venezuelan government and the opposition these are the ones who have been negotiating some sort of of a sort of an important one for a way out of the impasse before the political crisis in venezuela that was supposed to take place in santa domingo some say that maybe what the government is doing is trying to ride there from a strong position to negotiate but if that is not the case the international community clearly still will have to up the ante slapping on more sanctions we don't know what or maybe they will begin to listen to people like and don't you know this man who is calling for stronger action not just words many things to see anyone bringing us the latest on the preside

of the disastrous state of the venezuelan economy and all spain is expelling the venezuelan ambassador it's in response to spain's ambassador being expelled from caracas on thursday just days after the european union announced new sanctions the venezuelan ambassador left the embassy in madrid at the start of the week. the diplomatic response to the principal means giving the same treatment given to the spanish ambassador in this case declaring him persona non grata give you seventy two hours to leave the country although the venezuelan ambassador has already been recalled was governments we know in spain. diego area is the former venezuelan ambassador to the united nations he's also former governor of caracas and he's joining us now on skype from new york thank you very much indeed for your time we heard the venezuelan political opposition leader told moscow on the fall saying that they were going to coordinate more protests. head of these elections in the run up to the elections but he's the opposition in venezuela actually in a fit state to fight these elections. you know if you allo

venezuelan has already closed eireann see traffic to the island as well is to neighbouring aruba andnezuelan is heavily subsidised but in caracas, empty shelves in severe shortages are common. spiralling inflation and low prices have crippled this economy. translation: it is painful to see the shelves because there isn't anything to eat. i bought three things, what could get, and honestly, heart hurts. translation: this seems critical to me because honestly, we are going through a very serious crisis. crisis so severe, opposition —— opposition politicians say the poorest are willing to risk dangerous journeys in search of work and the future. sarah corker, bbc news. let's turn to australia, where amy everett‘s funeral is to be held shortly. the 1a—year—old, better known as dolly, committed suicide on january the third following constant online bullying. as a child dolly was the face of the iconic australian outback hat firm, akubra. her family have since spoken out and have launched the hashtag #stopbullyingnow campaign. 0ur correspondent in sydney, hywell griffith, says this tragic

he who invested billions in refining imported venezuelan oil for the united states they were surprised many refineries in the united states are built for our oil and to to change that technology it's millions of millions of dollars i don't know if the president of the united states is aware of that and if he was aware of that before issuing these these sanctions but i believe these companies that are that have invested in venezuela and i are very happy in venezuela should talk to their own government and make them take within the world decisions and if anyone watching this interview which is a program on c.n.n. the statement in the b.b.c. corporate media in the states saying that you are torturing people imprisoning people killing people on the streets of venezuela what should they do we have made a big effort you know eight million venezuelans voted for the national constituent assembly not even savvis ever ever had these figures and what they did was they they were patient they saw people like them being burned alive being brutalized by this opposition gangs and they were patient we

there's no way to exaggerate the influence they have on venezuelan affairs.> and why do you think, i mean, why do you think that is? the sort of traditional story is that they helped get rick chavez back into power after the 2002 coup attempt. that's the story, who knows whether that's -- and that, you know, the cubans can't run a country, but they're very good at running an intelligence service. so, and they literally effectively command military and all sectors of society. so the irony is for those people who have asked for the u.s. for assistance and called those of us who have done that as traitors, asking for interference, you know, the perspective is we've already beenen invaded. there is no sovereignty. the debt is owned by russia and china. we are oppressed by iran and cuba. so what foreign interference? we've been laboring under it for years. [speaking spanish] i want to say gary, by the way, was my former boss. she was the head of the finance department at -- [inaudible] which was our business, and she taught me everything i've since forgotten -- [l

expulsions and as you mentioned the european union has already sanctions have been leading venezuelan officials has given them a charter travel ban of frozen and all this follows from a similar situation a similar conflict with both brazil and canada last month or so they say but this way they're increasingly isolated often criticized by the neighboring the president of neighboring colombia president santos and we've always elections throughout latin america which you see right of center governments moving in in argentina in chile where a venezuela could previously count on friends in the region and daniel airlink presidential elections being called amidst this dreadful economic climate the juror blames this on what he calls the imperialists. well he's always blamed source's united states neighboring countries the undermining of the venezuelan or venezuelan economy let's not forget one of the richest potentially richest countries in the region with its huge all wealth but the country really struggling financially the international monetary fund earlier this week saying it's predicting

of the disastrous state of the venezuelan economy. the u.s. gymnastics board has agreed to resign after a former team doctor was jailed for sexually abusing female gymnasts the u.s. olympic committee told the board to go after it was criticized for the way it handled decades of abuse claims that a nutter is serving up to one hundred seventy five years in prison for assaulting young gymnasts under his care separately a u.s. house panel has announced it will investigate sexual abuse in organized sports dion estabrook has the details. well this was a major housecleaning and now the usa gymnastics organization has to replace its entire board that includes about twenty people which also includes representatives for the athletes it has twelve months to do this the u.s.o.c. listed some other demands but this really was the most important one if it doesn't get that team in place then it risk losing its authority both the u.s. o.c. and the usa gymnastics have been under intense fire since the nasser scandal broke out about eighteen months ago and the f

for the venezuelan government this. would have been rather an embarrassing episode for them. well most definitely got a pretty has been on the run for six months since he stole that helicopter and launched those grenades and he's been appearing on social media on those demonstrations those strong demonstrations against the government and this also raises the question about what happens with the opposition right now the demonstrations in venezuela are over there's no demonstrations on the streets the states that demonstrate the opposition is divided many have left the country and what we have seen so far is that the government has consolidated power in the last months through elections but also through dubious maneuverings that many would say are undemocratic the situation right now is that members of the opposition like we all want to basically asking for the military to raise to speak up against the current administration but this point is this and likely that any type of court could happen because of this strong guy legions that exists between the venezuelan military and th

a staggering thirteen thousand percent which is almost impossible to comprehend for the average venezuelan hundreds of thousands continue to migrate from the country almost on a daily basis going around latin america and in europe and the same time the united nations children's fund unicef has said that it believes that malnutrition among venezuelan children is growing it doesn't have the statistics to prove that since it can't gain access to them but it says it's going problem indicative of the disastrous state of the venezuelan economy. police in canada are treating the deaths of a billionaire couple as a double murder the bodies of pharmaceutical billionaires barry and honey sherman were found six weeks ago at their home in toronto they say the couple who were in their seventy's were the victims of a targeted killing canadian plane make bomb badia has scored an unexpected victory against u.s. rival boeing that's after u.s. trade commission ruled in its favor in a trade dispute boeing had argued that bomb badia was benefiting from unfair government subsidies following allowing it to unde

key point of negotiations in talks that are taking place in the dominican republic between the venezuelan government and the opposition the foreign minister said quote the decision in the realisation of democratic transparent and credible elections that conform to the national standards and counters the democratic values and the good faith of those who are taking part in the dialogue between the opposition and government it also says that they demand that these elections be called but within an adequate timeframe there was no other announcement made about what could happen if the venezuelan government does not change its mind the foreign minister says that each country in the region is free to take its own decisions in terms of imposing. like the ones that canada has just recently announced in the meantime a well known opponent of the venezuelan government and this man who recently fled venezuela from his house arrest he is the former mayor of the city he came here to meet with the foreign ministers and called on them to take measures that go beyond words and solidarity he says would be a

the streets in the poorer parts of the capital caracas to protest the food shortage millions of venezuelans are unable to afford three meals a day. i don't think you can name where hungry now the people are hungry there is a famine the government says the local food supply committee should hand out food every fifteen days but it doesn't arrive you say you know you're not working anymore what the me and economists say the wage increase will only fuel the rampant hyperinflation but opposition politician same with duros refusal to overhaul venezuela's failed socialist economic model and stop excessive money printing will create more misery in the year ahead. but just businessmen richard cousins has died in a sea plane crash in australia along with four members of his family cousins was the c.e.o. of britain's compass core the world's largest food service company a seaplane plunged into the holes for a ribbon is it me during a sightseeing flight he said it would be days before the wreckage is recovered cousins was highly respected in the london financial community as a turnaround expert and. ch

i say he's caracas and i well joining me now is boris johnson's venezuelan counterpart or head. thanks so much for coming to our media hub more on media and how it manipulates opinion in a second why are you in london we have to say the truth about venice where i don't have to spread the truth of our democracy of our own model of democracy socialist democracy so we came to london to speak to the foreign office but to speak much more important for us to the to our friends to the trade union and to the grassroots movement it will be let's go to those moments in a second what about tourism is government because normally the not that as well as use is the butt of jokes by either to resume or for insecure boris johnson or any number of british cabinet ministers have just told. him that we need some respect that venezuela cannot be used as an internal issue in the internal political affairs of the u.k. now you cannot attack whomever using our country you have to respect our country we are suffering country and it's not fair and it's not polite even in diplomatic relations to do so so

as far as the venezuelan paymasters, these are a group of people that are on the run.ome of them, at their have been rated recently in venezuela. the people with the contracts, the company that contracted fusion gps, some are in jail, others are on the run. these are the kinds of clients that fusion gps has cultivated. i don't believe for a second pair of victims of anything. i am a victim. my family has been a victim. bill browder is a victim. i don't think they can say they are a victim. that is preposterous. in that op-ed they published in "the new york times" requesting the testimony to be published published, -- i should say that the whole world will certainly benefit from knowing exactly what they say during closed doors while they are testifying behind closed doors, but who will also benefit from knowing exactly what they have done for clients such as the venezuelan group that i just mentioned. and from russian clients that they have had and also from the dash you know, if they could divulge, how come they were working for the clinton campaign and russian intere

firing on all cylinders but political certainty would be the cherry on the cake also coming up venezuelans of the boss running out of food and even when that is something and stop they have no money to buy and we meet food producers who are looking a brawl to support their livelihoods and the once world renowned hardware hub of taiwan is having to do business differently how startups a dry. watching the transition and the asian tiger nation. i'm daniel winter and this is your business update the political uncertainty of the past few months has unsettled german businesses though just a bit that's because on the other side of the coin the economy is stronger than ever europe's economic engine saw a two point two percent growth search in twenty seventeen but since the election in september there's been a long laundry list of legislation building up now businesses say it's high time a government was for. full order books soaring exports and a shortage of skilled workers to handle the load germany's economy is thriving and exports are forecast to grow a further five percent this year as well fl

the streets in the poorer parts of the capital caracas to protest the food shortage millions of venezuelans are unable to afford three meals a day. i don't think yet that name where hungry now the people are hungry there is a famine the government says the local food supply committee should hand out food every fifteen days but it doesn't arrive you say you know you got what you can you don't want the me and economists say the wage increase will only fuel the rampant hyperinflation opposition politician same with duros refusal to overhaul the. failed socialist economic model and stop excessive money printing will create more misery in the year ahead. from today social media companies in germany will have twenty four hours to take down illegal material if they fail to remove hate speech or fake news for example they could face a fine of up to fifty million euros a post critics fear the likes of facebook and twitter could overcompensate and delete controversial but legal posts to avoid the hefty fines facebook has hired hundreds of new people in germany to comply with the controversial law bri

the venezuelan people do.ter: the announcement comes at the worst possible time for the venezuelan opposition. performanceespite of protests, heavily repressed by security forces that ended with more than 140 people dead, they failed to bring down mr. maduro. in the past, the opposition has called for early elections, but now it's main leaders are either in jail or self-imposed exile. >> the path of dialogue has been discredited by the venezuelan dictatorship. it is a parody of dialogue that the regime is taking advantage of to buy time while the country is drowning in despair. reporter: in a country immersed in a major economic crisis come where food and medicine are short in supply and criminality faith inmany have lost elections, which they say are rigged in favor of the government. mr. maduro says that sanctions and if your list are to blame -- and imperialists are to blame. sir elton john has announced he will stop touring to spend more time with his family, but only after one last extended encore. the le

this is all that is left of the small wooden boat used by up to 30 venezuelan migrants heading for theople, the boat broke into pieces and sank. police say they found the bodies of two women and two men. the search for the missing continues. 0pposition leaders said people were leaving venezuelan as an act of desperation as the economic crisis there worsens. translation: it gives us deep sadness to see how our young people fleeing terror because it is no longer a migration, it is a flight, an escape, a state of total despair which reached this sad and tragic end. the boat left from north—western falcon state to make the 80—mile journey to curacao. venezuela has already closed air and sea traffic to the island, as well is to neighbouring aruba and bonaire, because of alleged smuggling. food and fuel in venezuela is heavily subsidised but in caracas, empty shelves in severe shortages are common. spiralling inflation and low prices have crippled this economy. translation: it is painful to see the shelves because there isn't anything to eat. i bought three things, what i could get, and hone

over a thousand venezuelan are sleeping on the streets of this border town in tents in hammocks or lying on sheets of cardboard in pliers in sports fields escaping hunger back home in the way i would never have imagined living in these conditions the hardest is not having a bathroom or water there are children and pregnant women here during the day they look for any job they can find until recently most of the tens of thousands who cross through this first bridge into colombia with sell low cost food i think it's fair said says oranges are bread in exchange for hard currency and go back at the end of the day many still do but an increasing number is the saving to say. york city used to be a policewoman in beliefs where the butter salary was enough to feed their children . now she's selling what she can to buy a twelve u.s. dollar bus ticket to colombia's coffee fields i left hoping to find a job and send money back home but not in so far every other day to save enough and leave to work i am told i can walk. out or it is have started registering the new arrivals promising shelters with ba

contraction of the venezuelan economy would be by the end of 2018, a 45%. have heard and read all of the humanitarian consequences these have had. that is being translated into a huge migration into brazil and colombia. and health problems with a lot of health issues, not only materializing in the venezuela but migrating to neighboring countries. vonnie: you must have done some math, in case you get emergency request for assistance immediately. a tragedy. what kind of a size of the package would it take to help venezuela, if it requested? >> it would depend on the policies implement it by venezuela. financinggnificant facilities for countries that need significant financial support, and need a huge reconstruction effort that would take a very long time. we are there to support the country's and part of a global effort by the international community to help the country get back on their feet. vonnie: let's hope the leadership is listening. shery: and if we can see a vote. thank you for your time, alejandro werner, head of the imf western hemisphere departmen

but as one of those leading industrialist to help build venezuela but these two people are venezuelan and i and can hopefully go back but to be intelligent and the shining example of what venezuela has lost because they are here giving us the benefit of their wisdom. instead of putting it to work where it should be for the country where the largest reserves in the world instead of on the brink of bankruptcy. so rather than taking away one minute from what vanessa will tell us about i will introduce ramon because he is a shining example of the future of venezuela man doing the actual introduction. [applause] thank you for your kind words. [speaking spanish] [speaking sp] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [laughter] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [applause] now i will switch into english. is that okay? [laughter] [

between venezuelan special forces and members linked to a former police pilot. against the government the palace has been on the run for more than six months. greek protests is have fought police outside parliament as politicians voted to approve moral certainty measures twenty thousand people marched in anti government rallies in the capital and sprayed police with red paint they responded with pepper spray despite the protests the austerity reforms were passed they include cuts in family benefits and tougher conditions for union strikes john psaropoulos reports from athens. alexander above lose work as a translator of german novels dried up six years ago she couldn't pay her five hundred dollars monthly mortgage and nearly lost her house the reason she isn't homeless is that she now rents out her for apartment and uses the proceeds to pay the bank but she still has a lot of debt she cannot pay off. my original critic audition three or four thousand euros a shot up to ten thousand and today is around forty thousand in the interest was highway robbery i recently

the number of people having been killed during a shootout between venezuelan special forces a. police pilot accused of leading last year's rebellion against the government now the pilot times been on the run for six months after he stole a police helicopter that attacked government buildings or has posted videos of himself on social media showing his injuries from the fighting to jude last year president stole a helicopter to throw grenades and shoot at government buildings in caracas those were the headlines about the board use it thirty but it's next. it's the street do stay with us. a year in power america's controversy president continues to polarize opinion. in a week of special reports al-jazeera examines his impact at home and around the globe. donald trump's first year. tough talk on immigration policy has tens of thousands of people wondering whether they'll be forced to leave the country from the potential legal residency programs to the president's opposition to so-called chain migration we speak with a.

we could seize them, sell them put the money in trust for the venezuelan people. are you just going to let maduro run the company into the ground, loot it and abscond with the money? >> congressman, excellent question. >> if you need any legislation, why haven't you submitted it? i bet you we could pass it. >> thank you, sir. to your point we've, in fact, specifically moved to prevent maduro from being able to access any funds from citgo. the treasury department, and working with the white house, when the new executive order was issued a specific provision was issued, a specific provision was included -- >> could he sell the company and keep the money. >> can they just sell all the stock? could exxon buy the stock tomorrow? don't tell me about antitrust law. could amazon buy the stock tomorrow? >> the citgo ownership structure i'd have to get back to you on. >> if you don't want -- if you don't want to be here after the barn doors close, if he can sell the entire company tomorrow and i don't think you need cfius to deinvest in the united states, so anyway, just mo

a staggering thirteen thousand percent which is almost impossible to comprehend for the average venezuelan hundreds of thousands continue to migrate from the country almost on a daily basis going around latin america and in europe and the same time the united nations children's fund unicef has said that it believes that malnutrition among venezuelan children is growing it doesn't have the statistics to prove that since it can't gain access to them but it says it's going problem indicative of the disastrous state of the venezuelan economy. diggle idea is a form of venice when an ambassador to the united nations and a former governor of caracas and he described the crisis as the worst in latin america in decades this is the wealthy it's as high as always when the world start being like medicine well going to war and. the government will degree jean us alone selections elections constitution and our bill in the month of december. bunsen elections and actually invalidate the all the political parties obviously they have the intention to run a low my boy and be the only candidate there is sort

government to do so some strong words but what if anything really can be done to stop the venezuelans just going ahead with this. well actually that's really the fifty million dollar question apart from diplomatic words and sanctions which some countries including china does say that they will increase we've also had the european union that has just slapped sanctions on selected members of the mother government basically printing their asset with drawing their reserves but stronger measures are not have not been announced or at least they're not being discussed publicly sue we do have however any on the former mayor of caracas and going to live this man who was here who spoke to almost all of the foreign ministers he's calling on the international community to actually quality cause of urgent carry out what he calls a humanitarian intervention with including forces from the united nations or any other and i'm quoting him international group many thanks to say a thing is alive from santiago thank you so much more to come on the news hour including we're out the world economic forum in

. -- for venezuelan military officials linked to corruption.ricans are banned from doing business with them, and the u.s. authority sanctions dozens of current and former venezuelan officials. chuck attlee has asked the justice department about a disputed dossier about donald trump line to invest a -- federal investigators. the request was made to deputy attorney general robert rosenstein. asocrats criticized the move an attempt to distract from the broader russia investigation. the environmental protection agency's scott pruitt is interested in becoming attorney general. beis said to be willing to leaving the justice department should the position become available. this comes amid speculation about attorney general's jeff sessions tenure. his actions went against requests from the white house counsel. united nations security council is holding an emergency meeting on the protests in iran. ambassador nikki haley said the international community cannot let iran silence protesters. >> the arabian people are rising up and over 79 locations through

is firing on all cylinders a political certainty would be the cherry on the cake also coming up venezuelans fast running out of food and even when there is something and stop they have no money to buy it we need food producers who are looking a brought to support their livelihoods and the wants world renowned hardware hub of taiwan is having to do business differently how startups and driving the transition and the asian tiger nation. and on the winter. this is all business update the political uncertainty of the past few months has unsettled german businesses though just a bit that's because on the other side of the coin the economy is stronger than ever europe's economic engines two point two percent growth searching twenty seventeen but since the election in september there's been a long laundry list of legislation building up now businesses say it's high time a government was formed. full order books soaring exports and a shortage of skilled workers to handle the load germany's economy is thriving and exports are forecast to grow a further five percent this year as well a flying start f

a venezuelan staple, when it is available. wage hike comes after the government failed to deliver on a promise of lowering pork prices for traditional christmas meals. maduro blamed portugal for failing to deliver pork imports. last week, hundreds of people took to the streets in the poor parts of the capital to protest the food shortage. millions of venezuelans are unable to afford the three meals a day. >> we are hungry now. the people are hungry. there's a famine. the government says the local food supply committee should hand out food every 15 days, but it doesn't arrive. reporter: economists say the wage increase will only fuel the rampant hyperinflation. opposition politicians say maduro's refusal to overhaul the economic model and stop excessive money printing will create more misery in the year ahead. ben: the gulf has long prided itself on its tax-free cradle to grave welfare system, but it cannot afford it anymore. though oil prices have ballooned budget deficits in 2018 has ushered in the region's first value added

simply because at this for the last few months opposition leaders have been negotiating with the venezuelan government in santa domingo in the dominican republic these are talks that are barred by chile mexico and several other countries closer to venezuela precisely to to then go shape how to bring about democratic transparent elections in venezuela which everyone almost agrees could not happen before the end of the year the venezuelan government had indicated it would be in december so depending on whom you ask some people are panicking others saying it's too early to do that the foreign minister of parable i told me a short while ago that he believes that the venezuelan government may be bluffing right now that it's too early to say whether it will go ahead with what it is threatening to do with it what it says it will do and that is to hold elections in april but if it does he says that the latin american community will not recognize any election that comes from a decision made by a constituent assembly that it doesn't that they do not recognize that the only decision that they will bel

you said the other day and i was very surprised and so with the venezuelans that were near me that there is no hunger in venezuela but yet i see people and so i'm sure have you in your neighborhood picking through the rubbish maybe a community that i'm going to persona. kamin and i was better but going nowhere. in colombia. talking about and you know i do not know what they said but i might be so let me make this out somehow and i don't even know so i don't know the name upper limit the saudi company that even a seller put on the inside yet i cannot make up all the logo yet another letter he'll get you think a minister let me say that we need up ok yeah many many thirty susi for sociality to see a yes or no i meant the that to see first of sally so me and the lord this is an immensely rich country where is the money according to one of your former client in riyadh of a million disappeared. the name in history left at a corner seeing that most are not made to put some of the ideas that were in a toy but that all you use that are ready to believe that aren't a bit later. no energy to do wi

deal with former foreign minister and now president of venezuela nicholas duro to provide cheap venezuelan fuel for london's buses said mistakes were made on the chavez let alone the fact that killing some u.s. backed oligarchy could have prevented the current crisis that is one of the most cited scholars on earth he said when he shared the stage with the late a good chavez revolution it's not easy like to thank. us for the kind generous words he's going to send you but if he chose to say i'm not and if he doesn't allow us the media. that i write about peace criticize the barriers he's. going to pass because i can write a best women in a facet. which herders to create create a better world not to talk about. newly trained to fascinate her lebanese and what's so exciting about. the last visiting venezuela you can see how better world is being created. that sharing a stage with the late hugo chavez well joining me now is that journalist and filmmaker john pilger his latest film is called the coming war on china john thanks for coming back on before we get to the world in may and what did you

speak about the situation venezuela like you just did is that his policy of not speaking about venezuelan bella's day seems to be paying dividends he's favored to be the next prime minister in this country as well i'm not sure that the two actually together i think a lot of people were very pleased to hear germany speak up not only about venezuela but speak up about the arms trade not simply is the manifesto coals for an inquiry into britain support for saudi arabia and all the arms that britain gives it we know about it it should be an end to a commercial sales policy which was begun by a labor government then as healey set up the procurement office that began this this multi-billion pound. enterprise profitable enterprise of britain selling arms to some of the most unsavory unnamed countries in the world so they could use them against impoverished people that show day and completely and it would be good to see. to hear labor leaders say that but then he has these own problems within the party we should say very quickly because i would think most of his employees people who would be. mor

with contraceptives hard to come by, and the cost out of reach for most venezuelans, it's a problem that'sre from venezuela. margaret's pharmacies looking at the empty these days. she hasn't had any deliveries of contraceptive pills for a year, everyday people come looking for them and every day she has to turn them away. they are having to adapt. translation: has to turn them away. they are having to adapt. translatiosz used to be just men buying having to adapt. translatiosz used to bejust men buying condoms, but women are buying them now too because there is nothing else and the price of condoms has up 200%. dan ellis is learning that consequences of the shorters zoos, after becoming a mother in her teens, she is now expecting her third baby, unplanned because she couldn't get contraceptives. translation: my first reaction was to cry. at the moment, getting contraceptive pills is really hard. there is nothing. when you can get a hold of them, they cost so much and iam making hold of them, they cost so much and i am making plans to get sterilised because the idea of having another baby,

the streets in the poorer parts of the capital caracas to protest the food shortage millions of venezuelans are unable to afford three meals a day. i don't think yet the name where hungry now the people are hungry there is a famine the government says the local food supply committee should hand out food every fifteen days but it doesn't arrive you say you know you know what you don't want the meat. economists say the wage increase will only fuel the rampant hyperinflation opposition politician same with duros refusal to overhaul venezuela's failed socialist economic model and stop excessive money printing will create more misery in the year ahead. of time to get away from it all and a popular way for many europeans to spend their holidays no not topping up a tad in far flung corners of the world the fun north of the continent is attracting more tourists than ever and it's mostly thanks to its spectacular natural phenomena. this is the spectacular result of electrically charged particles colliding with atoms in the upper atmosphere the northern lights visible only in the nighttime skies abov

the streets in the poorer parts of the capital caracas to protest the food shortage millions of venezuelans are unable to afford three meals a day. i don't think yet that name where hungry now the people are hungry there is a famine the government says the local food supply committee should hand out food every fifteen days but it doesn't arrive you say you know yeah but you don't want the meat and economists say the wage increase will only fuel the rampant hyperinflation opposition politician same with duros refusal to overhaul venezuela's failed socialist economic model and stop excessive money printing will create more misery in the year ahead. the gulf has long prided itself on its tax free cradle to grave welfare system but it can't afford it any all low oil prices have ballooned budget deficits and twenty eighteen as us said in the regions first value added tax in the u.a.e. and in saudi arabia a big change for two super rich countries where the mole is king but the saudis are creating even more new year old mode. wrists with a midnight rise in petrol prices. one last fill up before ga

migration officials said more than 550,000 venezuelans are now living in colombia, mostly illegally.as returned not guilty verdicts for three men who were charged with criminal negligence following the lac—megantic rail disaster in 2013. 47 people died when a train carrying nearly eight million litres of shale oil came off the rails and exploded. the three former railway workers had been accused of leaving the train unattended, and allowing it to roll away without any control. two former us olympic gymnasts have been testifying in the case involving former team usa doctor larry nassar. the pair, who won gold at london 2012, are among more than 100 women to have accused nassar of sexual abuse. he's already facing 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. 0ur correspondent rajini vaidynathan has been speaking to one of his victims. they were nicknamed the fierce five, america's gold—winning gymnastics team. but four of these women were hiding a dark secret. they say they were sexually abused by this man, their team doctor larry nassar, who's been described

venezuelan security forces have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators gathered torying to move to a cemetery in eastern caracas where oscar perez was buried on sunday. three executives have resigned from the governing board of usa gymnastics as former team doctor larry nassar is about to be sentenced for sexually abusing dozens under his care. athletes have been giving testimony, for five days, many saying they felt betrayed by usa gymnastics. the trial has started of a man accused of driving a van into a group of muslim worshippers outside a mosque in north london.