seventeen beethoven says gone from september to october first. this is deja vu news live from berlin a new freedom for women in saudi arabia the old for a conservative kingdom set to allow women to drive activists of the fighting for years to get the ban lifted also coming out. of the push to defeat the hottest is

taking a heavy toll on the people of somalia we have an exclusive report. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show saudi arabia says it will begin allowing women to drive now it's a big leap for the ultra conservative nation the only one to ban women from getting behind the wheel a royal decree announced on state t.v. says the ban would be lifted in june and in the meantime a committee will be formed to work out how to implement this royal decree. the streets of saudi arabia have long been a battleground on one hand women wanting to drive on the other the religious conservatives who have called them too stupid their mobility a threat to society now it is the women who have won.

king solomon has issued a decree giving them the right to apply for driving licenses and the freedom of the roads that will be implemented by june next year it's a huge step for saudi arabia enough to warrant a special announcement at the united nations you may be interested to know that a few minutes ago our oil decree has been issued in saudi arabia giving women the right to drive. this is a historic day for saudi society for men and women. for years some saudi women have gone behind the wheel as part of a campaign with global support on social media even. this activist lost her job when she was caught others have gone to jail now they are celebrating their victory

. saudi law and forces a strict form of islam known as well harbison women have to obey strict dress codes they can't associate with unrelated men if they want to work travel access health care they need the consent or accompaniment of a male guardian. but slowly things are changing on saturday women were allowed for the first time in to a national stadium for celebrations marking the kingdom's anniversary the movie is part of a program headed by the crown prince to modernize society and saudi women are already wealthy well educated and ambitious and i do mean women at all levels there in the government advisory council that doctors now women are in big positions so why shouldn't we join the men that matter most to our nation. that boldness would suggest that saudi women will carry on the fight for greater

rights. and to talk about if they're going to get them i'm joined now by g.w. anchor reporter for a door karim good morning morning you know a women's rights activists have been pushing for this for decades have and say do we know what prompted this decision now i mean to now do a lot of questions about what we know to know is will rights activists have been doing a lot like every day the last six years the last years that's one thing the other thing is when we look on a long term process there is the vision of twenty thirty is done by the crown prince mohammed bin salon and it's about economy restructuring and reforms and you cannot have economic restructuring and reforms without having social reforms and today the women in saudi arabia they are educated they are the number of graduate of women in saudi arabia arabia is bigger than the number of men who are graduating they are going outside of the concert to study their knowing more about their

rights their knowing their rising their voice we just know in the in the video the woman said like why i cannot do it so there's kind of limit three to reach now where everyone is causing why it's not any more reasonable and it's not any more and can be justified why woman is not allowed to drive and i think it's a starting process into something in you but it's the first step the first step and there would be an important economic factor in this exam twenty thirty exams there's been a lot of reactions on social media let's take a look of that if we could saudi women's rights activist sharif who helped start a saudi women's right to drive campaigns that is just the start and long standing and just laws they've always considered saudi women miners who are not trusted to drive their own destiny but optimistically added the rain begins with a single drop but also many on social media remaining skeptical one washington d.c. based tweeter calls it a step in the right direction but as long as the male guardianship system exists saudi women will still lack true freedom of movement. despite the

euphoria a lot of a lot of details still out there that need to be looked at. what do you say house is going to work out i mean it would take time to date now is june but let's make it very practical if even a woman wants to have her own driving license there's the guardianship. and then she has to ask her husband her son or maybe her father if she is allowed to issue this license so it will take time does is that going to happen independent of the guardian that's there that's the first thing the other thing is now to today it's about hour since they since king solomon announced this announcement dead woman can get a driving license but we didn't hear now the conservative side yet the very conservative side will they allow it is it ok with this area will they find you know all questions they're going to be i could be a conservative backlash from the from the shari'a side of it could it could also be

there's nothing they could maybe some of the clerics who is a very conservative a conservative he will say it's a given kind of everyone who drives is whatever and this is are over scenarios that could happen before knol since the last hour or so you see there is a lot of happiness especially concerning the women who are fighting for this moment and they are celebrating but if we if we look to the next days it might be also a critical side of it but i think women in saudi arabia will not let go easy go for their rights it's time where they say we want to have our rights we are could be and be the same what is it briefly these things and this will be the beginning you kind of intimated that at the very start of our interview are we going to see a push for more modernization will saudi society modernize saudi saudi society has to modernize that's why there is this plan of twenty thirty because the rich oil

contract today has to water nice otherwise you cannot only depend on oil. why twenty thirty they're going to be less oil so they have to have to modernizing in social structure and economy structure in order to survive and you have a very young generation now this younger generation is knowing what's happening on their over and knowing what's going on say you cannot tell them just sit by side and we're the one who doing everything you have to integrate them into society and not only the social side but on the other structure in schools in working so things going on and they will keep going on there and this could be the very first step yes ok jeff are of dual kareen thanks so much right on again. now for some of the other stories making the news this hour thailand's top court has sentenced the former prime minister yingluck shinawatra to five years in jail for alleged negligence in the management of a rice subsidy program in look was not present for the hearing she's believed to have fled the country in august when that verdict was originally due. iraq's

kurdish leader has claimed victory in an independence referendum despite warnings in the central government in baghdad the final results of a monday's a vote or expected today iraq has refused to hold talks whatever the outcome is it's also threaten to impose a flight embargo on kurdish airports if regional authorities don't and them over to central control. and scuffles broke out in uganda's parliament over efforts to allow the president to extend his tenure lawmakers from the governing party want to remove legislation that bars anyone over age seventy five from running for president now that would enable president yoweri museveni to seek reelection in twenty twenty one he's been in power for more than thirty years. while staying in africa it's too small you know where the government has been struggling with the jihad ists insurgency for years with international support the efforts to defeat the al shabaab militia have picked up but the fighting has also

led to more hardship for civilians in somalia situated of course on the horn of africa and e.w. reporters sandra peters men and young fiddle shoals have this exclusive report on a civilian population already devastated by almost three decades of civil war in somalia. but to a means to survive in somali it's a fitting name for this refugee camp on the outskirts of mogadishu where life is a struggle for the next meal the next bucket of water. fatty mind her daughter found refuge here two weeks ago they're still waiting for official assistance. but that's preferable to starving in the village where the islamist militant group is in control and.

they would rather let us die than accept any aid from infidels. who are. not also malise hunger and up a few kilometers away in another refugee camp we need not a young man who is from barrier about sixty kilometers south of the capital at least ten civilians were killed there in an attack by somali and us forces almost a month ago marianne's husband was among the dead. we are used to the fighting but this was by far the worst we've ever seen. in march the u.s. president on a trump order at the u.s. military to intensify the war against al shabab bringing in special forces the militant group killed more than four thousand two hundred people last year its leaders and regions with al qaeda want to establish

a theocracy. and you government has been in place in mogadishu since february and it's getting a lot of international support but the drones and raids employed to combat terrorism are endangering the local population. and this is being exploited by al shabab one former member of the militant group tells us that the people in disputed . areas of the government backed soldiers just as much as the militants. but. the people here don't trust the government in the areas controlled by al shaab people fear the military will loot and rape them and al-shabaab has become skilled at tapping into those fears. peacekeeping troops from the african union also serving in somalia under the un the un special representative is convinced the conflict cannot be solved only through military means. while he welcomes u.s.

involvement he wants the main objective should be strengthening the new government and state institutions. too many civilians are being killed protected by insurgents particularly here in mogadishu because they're soft targets. yes if you are fighting an insurgency being very careful not to kill civilians is incredibly important because if you do you do support of the population. internally displaced somalis arrive in the capital every day almost seven million are dependent on emergency eight that's about half the country's population these women and children will likely have to wait years before they can live in a state that can keep them safe. here in germany chance for all americans conservatives have held their first parliamentary meetings and sunday's national election is now

preparing to build a new coalition government of christian democrats got down to business tuesday right party has its work cut out for it in finding coalition partners the most possible option is a three way coalition with the pro-business for democrats and the left leaning grains of also were holding some meetings on tuesday a survey by the public broadcaster a.r. de shows a majority of germans would back such a coalition. sports now tuesday's action in the champions league the biggest match of the night was here in germany where dortmund host the defending champions real madrid darkens hopes for an upset were dented in the eighteenth minute that's when . the spanish side on top rio added another just after halftime when who else from although fired home. did pull one back in the fifty fourth minute but with ten minutes to go and all those second. goal there sealed the points for you all dortmund have now played two and lost two in the champions league this season. as

a reminder now of the top stories we're following for you saudi arabia says it will allow women to drive for the first time ever king solomon has issued a decree officially changing the laws expect to go into a fact and. that's your news wrap for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us don't forget there's more news our website if you dot com terry martin's back to do at the top of the hour we hope you can join that. people of the world over information. opinions they want to express.