out with the weekend rights groups say many of the mothers have been christened for political reasons. by having a home free glad you could join me venezuela s president because my daughter has won the backing of the military and his standoff with the opposition leader who has proclaimed himself president will be chief of the armed forces and defense minister accused of one of kwaito all needing a coup and said the united states and other governments that have recognized him waging an economic war against venezuela where there are key ally russia is also standing by. who was it was a bold move opposition leader one quite knows will himself in his venezuela s interim president thousands cheered him on he hopes these words can topple
tweeted announcement said venezuelans have spoken out against madeira and his regime and demanded freedom and the rule of law but russia has thrown its weight behind the door over saying that he is the legitimate president and it want the u.s. not to stage an external intervention. if you can just salute where especially concerned about the signals which are now being received from some countries about possible interference we call on those countries to forget such thoughts it s a good age to because it s up to the. president maduro meanwhile hit back at the u.s. by bowing to cut all ties with washington and told all u.s. diplomatic stuff to leave the country within seventy two hours of demands the white house rejects the opposition says it has the claim to defend the country from the majority government and one has said that he intends to act as an interim president only until new and fair elections can be held. and the w. s oscar shank
president nicolas maduro government was the aim is ending this usurpation and this treasonous government and holding free elections if this happens then let god and the nation reward us. why doe s declaration comes as hundreds of thousands rallied across town as well in support of his opposition. they call president maduro s government illegitimate blaming him for the country s economic collapse. but has protests continued violence took hold of. several demonstrators have been reported killed to meet clashes with police. authorities clamp down on protesters others a heaping pressure on the dollar and supporting the competent opposition including president trump who staunchly supported one was venezuela s interim president has
and covering the story from washington is our correspondent my and my what did mike i have to say. this whole situation in venezuela is actually quite a bit of a triumph for the trump administration because they have taken a very hard line against majority really from the moment they came into office and what we saw from pump air today was a real doubling down of what we heard president trump say right when this was all happening he was supporting the new president he s warning against the use of force on these mass demonstrations that we see happening he denounced what he called off their. all for a tarion regimes around the world which have been backing when he also said that the u.s. is going to be pledging twenty million u.s. dollars in aid to venezuela and he also went a step further and called the draw an illegitimate president and called for him to
step aside very similarly to what we heard president trump say my russia the united states again and intervening in venezuela presumably washington isn t looking at military intervention at this stage. we ve heard trump come out yesterday in the evening and say that all options were on the table and while he was pointedly asked about the military options he said well the military options never ruled out and all options are on the table so while i don t think the u.s. is going to be rushing into a military confrontation in latin america they certainly aren t above using the threat of it to push for their agenda a correspondent in washington good to talk to thanks miles. let s get you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world pope francis is in panama to celebrate world youth day the catholic church is annual celebration has built an estimated one hundred fifty thousand people from