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  • Fridays are off.

  • Carlos, who's welcoming you to a brand new edition of our coverage of news Events from around the world begins in Venice.

  • Ongoing political and economic turmoil is growing internationally.

  • Here's what we mean.

  • The United States, in more than 50 other countries, support one Guido.

  • He's Venezuela's opposition leader, who declared himself it's new temporary president in January that followed last year's disputed re election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a series of economic and humanitarian problems that are getting worse.

  • China, Iran, Cuba and Russia are among a handful of countries that support President Maduro, who says he was fairly elected and that international assistance isn't needed in Venezuela.

  • Still, he appears to be getting some of that from Russia.

  • Two of its military planes arrived in the South American nation recently.

  • Russia says the deployment is legal and that it doesn't change the balance of power in the region.

  • The U.

  • S President Donald Trump says quote.

  • Russia has to get out of Venezuela.

  • Things were heating up on the ground there.

  • Yesterday.

  • Venezuela's government banned one Guido from running for public office for 15 years.

  • That announcement came as Guido has been pushing for a major protest to try to get President Maduro out of office.

  • So how does Russia factor in?

  • Well, one way is the fact that for years Rush has been loaning billions of dollars to Venezuela.

  • But the deployment of Russian troops there is troubling countries like the U.

  • S.

  • Theo.

  • Trump administration calls this a reckless escalation to Russian planes arrive in Venezuela this week, their presence confirmed by both countries, downplayed by Russia.

  • The mission, though a mystery.

  • We do send military planes to this country the same way Americans do, or more with the world, and it's not a big sensation.

  • Uniformed personnel seemed to huddle on the tarmac, although President Nicolas Maduro's communication Ministry would not confirm a true presence to CNN.

  • The follow, though, has already started.

  • US.

  • Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that the U.

  • S.

  • Will not stand idly by as Russia exacerbates tensions in Venezuela.

  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov fired back in a phone call Monday, with Pompeo accusing the U.

  • S of organizing a coup in Venezuela, and one Russian lawmaker seemed to offer annul tomato.

  • I am definitely against off seeing any country in the world as a place where the United States of America and Russia compete with each other.

  • They have to toe do just one single and equal, think to stay out.

  • And by that we will have a chance to reward air direct conflict between the United States of America and Russia.

  • U.

  • S.

  • And Russia remain dangerously at odds over who's in charge in the oil rich country.

  • Russia, saying Maduro is the legitimate president wth E.

  • U S backing opposition leader Long Guido.

  • That standoff continues with the stakes are getting ever higher now.

  • Russia's economic influence here is always helps sustain the Maduro government, but now it's increasing.

  • Military support could become a dangerous flash point in America's backyard.

  • Newly released satellite images posted and analyzed by the Israelis satellite and Intelligence Company I s I show what it claims are Russian s 300 air defense systems being deployed for the first time in Venezuela, presumably on alert for a U.

  • S.

  • Military attack.

  • All offensive weapons being shipped from Russia defence hardware and troops bring back memories of some of the Soviet presence in communist Cuba during the missile crisis.

  • Do you believe Russia is becoming Maur and Maur, influential in Venezuela.

  • Former Venezuelan Major General Cleaver Akala, who defected from the Maduro government, work closely with former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as he cultivated a closer military relationship with Russia.

  • One nurtured and encouraged, he says, by Cuba's Castro led government.

  • Russia is a great broker.

  • Samos, Cuba.

  • They have their economic interest in the country.

  • They don't care for the welfare or the protest off the Venezuelan people.

  • A Bone in CNN 10 7 trivia.

  • What is the only country in the world that currently has an emperor?

  • Sweden, Thailand, Morocco?

  • For Japan, though, the role is mostly symbolic.

  • Japan's emperor is the only person with that title on the planet.

  • The country is officially a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

  • Japan's decision making powers in the hands of its elected officials and the emperor functions mostly is a symbol of the nation.

  • But his birthday is a national holiday, and until 2017 he was required to serve in his role until he died.

  • The nation changed the law that year, and now, after 30 years on the throne, Emperor Akihito is preparing to step down.

  • On May 1st, he'll become the first Japanese monarch in 200 years.

  • To do that, his son, Crown Prince Naruhito, will succeed him as Japan's 126th emperor.

  • And on Monday, a month ahead of the new Monarchs appointment, a new era will officially begin in Japan areas, or what Japan's calendar system are based on, and they carry personal and political importance.

  • Too many Japanese has monster.

  • Pollo is a football player whose story is both harrowing and amazing.

  • Long before he became a star defensive lineman and running back years before here in the prestigious title of Mr Football for the state of Ohio, cast struggled simply to survive in the nation of Haiti.

  • His story is the subject of today's positive athlete report.

  • Nominations for this series can be made it CNN dot com slash positive Athlete My name, his cast and I'm a student athlete.

  • He is a survivor.

  • You don't really hear about many young people that are from another country, a child slave.

  • Every day was a duck moment there.

  • A bunch of us had a hard time finding food, and whatever we could find mostly came from the trash.

  • A lot of the orphans in Haiti aren't actually orphans there either turned over to the orphanage or they come in off the street or they come through.

  • The slave market cast came in through this when he was between three and four.

  • He was being sold and a missionary from the United States is walking by.

  • She saw him being auctions and then took him to the orphanage.

  • And he was there for three ish years.

  • I thought I was gonna be in Haiti forever.

  • I had no idea that I was going to be in America.

  • I'm very proud of you.

  • He found a passion and he's very dedicated to it.

  • After college, my dream has always been the play in the NFL because of those things I had to go through in Haiti.

  • I have really likes stop too soon my growth.

  • I'm headed to Gallaudet University that the right fit for my learning and my athletic ability.

  • What gallery it is famous for is it is a school for death.

  • Part of hearing as well as hearing cast wears to bilateral hearing just the thought of him next year.

  • Going to college at Sami's from that little boy that came off the plane whose malnourished you know, he had every excuse to be curled up in the corner in the fetal position, feeling sorry for himself.

  • What he never did.

  • 4 10 out of 10 today the comfort of a hotel in a different shape.

  • That's the idea behind domes Charlevoix, a place where you can stay in Quebec, Canada, that gives you a unique view of the snowy landscape.

  • OK, but why not just camp outdoors?

  • Well, the snow here can top 10 feet, and the temperature can drop to negative 22 degrees Fahrenheit so this hotel could surround you in nature while also surrounding you with warm force you're more likely to find shall A than valet parking.

  • Ever those prone to cabin fever and dome could make their heads spin so they may want a Charl avoided.

  • But for travelers who like to stay ahead of the curve and hang around their dome estimation, this could feel a Charl avoid making for a dome, right?

  • Awesome stay that makes them want to circle back on.

  • Carla Zeus and CNN, 10 hopes you'll circle back here next Monday.

Fridays are off.

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