The Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles has criticized President Nicolas Maduro for declaring a state of emergency last week. Mr Capriles said the degree giving Mr Maduro extra power to deal with the country\'s economic crisis was unconstitutional and he said the president should stand down, The moment of truth is coming, it\'s time to decide if you with constitution or with Maduro and that\'s a decision that the Venezuelan arm forces will have to make. We don\'t want a military solution that\'s why we are seeking the removal of the president. Mr Maduro had accused the United States of leading a plot to deploy foreign troops in his country and force him from office.
The US senate has passed the bill which will allow families of the victims of the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, but a White House spokesman said President Obama had serious concerns about the bill and it was difficult to imagine he would sign it into law.
Mexico\'s President Enrique Peña Nieto has announced a proposal to reform the constitution to allow same sex marriages across the country, the President\'s move follows a supreme court ruling last year that declared a ban on such unions unconstitutional. Speaking at a national day against Homophobia, Mr Peña Nieto said he would seek to enshrine same sex marriage in the Mexican constitution and the federal civil code, This event I will sign is an initiative to reform the constitution to incorporate with all clarity the opinion of the nation supreme court to recognize it\'s a human right that people can enter into marriage without any kind of discrimination.
French riot police have fight tear gas and clashed with stone through protestors demonstrating against government plans to change French labor law. Seventy-five arrests have been reported, in coordinated actions truck drivers are blocking access roads to fuel and food supply depots and train drivers across France have gone on strike. President Francois Holland has said he is determined to see his labor market reforms go through.
The United States senate has proved a bill to provide more than a billion dollars to combat the Zika virus which can cause serious birth defects. Amount for short of 1.9 billion had been demanded by President Obama, Garey reports. The White House has already borrowed 600 million dollars from post side for Ebola , insisting that was only a stop gap measures. Since then Republicans has been arguing that the administration doesn\'t need as much money as it claimed for Zika, and the spending should be at least in part offset with cut in other areas. Now the senate is pass a bypartisan founding measure, short of what the President wants but significantly more than the Republican controlled House of Representatives was proposing. That means the two measures will have to be reconciled in some way.
.The presumptive Republican nominee for the US presidency Donald Trump has outlined the wide range of his policies including plans to speak to North Korea\'s leader and renegotiate the Paris Climate Accord. In an interview with the Reuters News Agency Mr Trump said he would have no problem discussing Pyonyang\'s nuclear program Kim Jeong-Eun, the move which would mark a major shift in US policy.
The United States has eased some sanctions on Myanmar but it has retained the sanctions against the Burmese military. The BBC\'s general offical reports from Rangoon, There is little done that this American decision has backing of Myanmar\'s dominant politician Aung San Suu Kyi. Sanctions against state owned business and banks which Ms Suu Kyi\'s new government now controll have been lifted. But restrictions remain on those closely connected to the Buemese military. Despite November\'s election and the subsequent hand-over of power. The army retains a major political role and continues to participate in ethnic conflicts and to commit Human Right abuses.
Firefighters in western Canada have been forced back from a blaze sweeping through accomodation site for oil workers, the entire population of town Fort McMurray have spent more than two weeks away from their homes with no word yet on when they can return. Speaking from a camp 70 kilometers of Fort McMurray. One of the oil workers BHA spheres described conditions of the oil facility before he was evacuated, Three pm, middle of the day, I expect to see a lot of sunshine but it was completely dark, I thought it was nearby so I ask what\'s going on and couple of my friends just said we were being evacuated because of the smoke. You know you are sole intimidated by the fire and smoke that, you know, you just want to get out of there.
The US senate has unanimously back President Obama\'s nomination of Eric Manning as secretary of the army, he will be the first openly gay person to become the top civilian official in any branch of the US military.
