Humanitarian crisis at home, international involvement, and the effort to restore democracy. This is an hour. Thank you to the press club. It is an honor for me to be here to discuss the venezuelan crisis and have a q and a session with all of you. Before going forward, i would like to give you details on how i got here. Born in venezuela but in a small town, far away from the capital. A small village and i had the opportunity to go to a Public School in venezuela. I went to caracas because they didnt have a university in my small town. And had anolarship opportunity to come to the states. At 14, i was demonstrating on the streets, proclaiming venezuelan rights and in a certain way, warning to the venezuelans and the International Community that we were facing a dictatorship and in 2014, the regime decided to issue an order of arrest against me. Only for defending venezuelan rights. After that, i spend more than 100 days in hiding inside of venezuela. They were trying to capture me. Vi
Yesterday and envoy for the venezuelan Opposition Leader spoke about political turmoil in that country. His remarks at the National Press club are about an hour. Thank you all for coming. Good morning. And welcome to the National Press club for todays newsmaker with carlos vecchio. Of venezuela to the United States. I am a past president of the National Press club and former International Correspondent for the associated press. Ambassador vecchio is here to talk about the latest developments of venezuela in the midst of what is widely ,nowledged to be constitutional political, and Economic Crises coupled with continuing strong u. S. And International Sanctions and the impact on the venezuelan population of 32 million people. The ambassador was appointed to he was appointed by juan guaido in his capacity as interim president in opposition to president Nicolas Maduro. Election indisputed 2018. Ro has ruled the country since the death of hugo chavez in 2013. More than 50 countries includi
Turmoil in that country. His marks of the National Press club yesterday are about an hour. Thank you all for coming. Good morning. Welcome to the National Press club. For todays newsmaker , carlos vecchio, the ambassador of the ball of are you in b olivarian republic of venezuela to the United States. He is here today to talk about the latest developments in venezuela in the midst of what is widely acknowledged to be constitutional, political, and withmic crises, coupled internationald sanctions and their impact on venezuelas population of 32 million people. Countries led the since the death of longtime leader hugo chavez and 2013. More than 13 countries, including the United States, have recognized juan guaido as the legitimate ruler of venezuela while russia, china, and their allies continue to recognize president maduro. Representatives of president maduro have had several rounds of talks mediated under the auspices of norway, most recently in barbados this month, ecchio canador v o
This deal . Do you support it . Are you opposed . You can also send us a tweet. Or tell us what you think on race book. Com the phone lines are open so start dialing in. Atlanta journalconstitution says here are the details those are some of the details of the Iran Nuclear Deal. What do you think, should congress support or oppose the president on this . Christina peterson talks about the review process by congress. Lets begin with yesterday and the initial reaction from Republican Leadership who control both the house and the senate floor agenda. Guest Republican Leaders made very clear yesterday that they are not going into this with great optimism, that this will be a deal they can support. They were sharply critical of announcing justin that upon further expansion inspection if the deal is what they think it is, they will try hard to block it. Host how would they do that much . Guest the bill has 60 days in congress for review and by the end of that which will probably be when they
North korea has been saying in response to a south korean invitation to co host the 2018 winter olympics. Lets go to mosul, in iraq, now. We have covered the story many times in the last three years. Back in 2014 the Islamic State group seized the whole city. In October Iraqi Forces mounted an offensive to retake it. These are the maps we have been collecting along the way. You can see how the territory marked in red controlled by is has got smaller and smaller and smaller as the months have gone by. Now we have this map, provided by the Iraqi Military i should say, this area is still controlled by is, we estimate it to be 2. 5 Square Kilometres in the centre of mosul. The bbcs team of 0rla guerin, nico hameon, bader catty and rich stacey, have exclusive access to the battle area. Heres their report. Gunfire heading to the front line in mosul. You have to run. And beware of snipers, troops from iraqs Emergency Response division are advancing every day. The target here, the hospital com