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this is due to the news live from berlin a push to punish violence against women fronts unveils a new plan to tackle assault and harassment president amount of a phone calls from society sick with sexism this i have hundreds take to the streets of paris to demand more funding to protect them also coming up. what's next for germany as it faces a political crisis times i believe merkel says she wants a new government as soon as possible and rejects the idea for a fresh election. and egypt fights back after friday's deadly attack on a mosque in the sinai peninsula footage released by the tree a set to show egypt sion jeff targeting suspects as medicines by terrorists.

welcome to the program demonstrations are being held around the world to protest violence against women and girls on the international day for the elimination of violence against women people are demanding greater scrutiny of crimes such as assaults and even murder perpetuated against women here in germany an increasing number of cases are coming to light highlighting the prevalence of these crimes this is early thirties mother of three she does not want to be recognized the fear in the shame of too much for years she endured violence at the hands of her husband but still kept up the appearance of a happy family two weeks ago the situation escalated her husband punched her in the face and called the police. there for this time the child was involved he saw the whole thing right in front of his eyes he wasn't hit himself but he saw how it was done and that was a red line for me no more. the police banned the man from living at

home and they suggested contact the domestic violence intervention center in magda berg such facilities listen to the victims and help them through the next steps here women from all social classes often talk about their experiences for the first time. this week with it even happens in quite a few academic families who also have public reputations. and you can imagine that they try to keep it quiet and not let it go public because careers are on the line . is an academic herself now she's getting legal advice but prosecuting domestic violence can often be difficult although the physical injuries a usually easy to prove emotional and financial dependence on the part that make it a tough decision. in many cases the women later withdraw the allegations and then the judge has no choice but to acquit that in turn means

that the prosecutors refrain from indictments so lots of cases are not prosecuted at all alice says she wants to give other women a piece of advice get help sooner rather than later when france president and i know micron has proposed a raft of measures to address violence against women as he pledged to make gender equality a major cause of concern for his administration mccraw and promised victims of sexual abuse more help and said aggressors will face harsher measures. a moment of quiet in the normally bustling elisei palace in remembrance of one hundred twenty three women who died in france last year all of the murdered by their own partners french president emmanuel mccall is marking the international day for the elimination of violence against women in his official residence mccrone

one stricter controls on pornography and higher fines for harrison women. we have to do more to help women overcome fear and shame that is why we are setting up an online platform for victims to report violence heris mint and discrimination . several thousand people took to the streets of paris on saturday to protest against the physical and sexual abuse of women two hundred twenty five thousand women suffered abuse by their partners last year in france alone. we have to shed light on this problem change the way we educate people and show men that it's not ok to harass women it has to stop it's just not normal. statistics show that more than half of all french women have suffered sexual assault. a protester also halle's in

france for micron held his speech earlier we are joined by journalist on elizabeth take in paris and watch where the reactions across france to the khan's new plan. well you know at this time i don't think we can still have actions against brawls you heard the usual suspects being on television and radio. all the left wing feminists said that this was not nearly enough it was not nearly enough money that one hundred fifteen million euros or three hundred eighty million euros was not enough they were not hear about figures and the rest of the country was away for the weekend and by and large thought this is interesting we agree with that it's i mean it was not it was not a huge thing and there were a few hundreds of people in the streets so people are still looking at this and they see a political but unity of something that most people agree what now france still has a long way to go to progenitor equality and to combat violence against women how

does that mccrone propose to do that. but your first of all gender equality and hard stopping violence against women are two entirely different things but let's go about this michael says that it should be easier to report violence there should be a telephone number talking about you know reporting vanity decry the fact that only five or one out of five acts of violence against women actually go to the police because women think that they will not be believed he specifically said you know there are too many of those women who say when you notice that they have bruises oh i ran into a door and he says this must stop so that's one thing and a series of measures and instructions to the police the authority has movements. to the effect that that should be there that should be sort of a flag that much sooner and that there should be a combination of belief in the women when they come and talk about it and immediate action and violence against women he includes

a. female genital mutilation pools and briefly why this show of solidarity with the women in france. well you didn't all of this i think is a side effect of the weinstein and the miramax and the fact that it was very obvious that you had a great deal. sudden interest in the way that women were mistreated in many ways so michael has never seen me your patootie that he doesn't want to control and he felt anywhere that this was something that is politically you want to do this and it's also stuck to the left at the time when you get accused because of cost cutting to reduce. the stage expenditure and the level of deficit in the budget but at the same time he's married to a woman who's always defined it was up as a feminist who feels very strongly about this movie has a very equal partnership that and i suspect that this is something that i mean it's

called that he's hardly got to go all his life thank you very much an elizabethan would take in paris for that thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world pakistan has applied its army after these clashes between police and hundreds of resumes protesters in the capital islamabad several people have been killed and many others wounded as the religious hardliners have blocked the main routes into the season for more than two weeks they're demanding the resignation of a government minister of blasphemy. thousands of residents in the russian city of have protested a spike in radioactivity in the air over your own mountains as a spectacle present a nuclear fuel processing plant denied it was the source of contamination of the plant has been responsible for at least two of russia's biggest radioactive facts

right. here in germany political parties are rethinking their positions after the failure of coalition talks between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives the liberal free democrats and the green party now all eyes are on the social democrats who praises previously ruled out forming another grand coalition under chancellor merkel but for her part says she's strongly against fresh elections. and in the merkel speaking political base at a party conference in northern germany voters here want to know what's going to happen next in berlin merkel says she does not want new elections and for going back to voters and telling them that they have to vote again i don't agree with that at all that's why she's now reaching out goods is that we work well together so now we need to talk about the things that didn't work and try to do them even better. but the social democrats are so sure one of their most senior members of

the party's youth wing to take a long hard look at themselves and their party in very sure it's still not clear how much of what happened is our responsibility we shouldn't let anyone put us under pressure will feel like we need to dance to anyone else's chin in. order the amanda's start since the party's vice chairman ralph's taken a takes a similar view. if the german president says the party should talk then that's what they should do with the free democrat leader christian lynch who broke off talks with the conservatives and green says the s.p.d. is found. if we can be in talks for weeks on end then so can the s.p.d. that ministers is still sitting on the government benches it's not such a long way back into government for them. the german president is now in the driving seat he's invited the party leaders back for more talks next week.

egyptian warplanes have hit back at madison suspected of carrying out fight is attack on a mosque in northern sinai the jets struck vehicles and hideouts said to be used by the militants in mountains nearby and the death toll from yesterday's attack has gone up to three hundred five so far no one has claimed responsibility but prosecutors say the militants were carrying flags of the so-called islamic state. action intended to reassure a shaken nation the military says these egyptian fighter planes of bombing those responsible for the recent attack on a mosque in cairo they say they had a number of the militants vehicles and properties but details of the strikes are hard to verify reaction in cairo though seems to support the retaliation. and i. want to strong response to deter this kind of attack we should not wake up to a whore every day every day now we hear someone who has been cured. i am sick of it

. and it was i think for him and this is where the attack took place the house of prayer turned into a place of carnage. gyptian t.v. showed images of the horror of what went on inside the mosque. the attackers came in vehicles surrounded the mosque and bombed it worshippers were fired upon as they try to escape. more than one hundred were injured many were rushed to nearby hospitals some even had to be taken two hours away to the city of is my. one of those who managed to escape recounted what he had seen. when the sheik searched in the name of god for most merciful and compassionate to begin the sermon heard gunshots and saw bombs being thrown and people all of them say referring and everyone within that small some friends and families of the dead have

already said goodbye to their loved ones and many find the pain too hard to bear. it is unjust that person should die holding his child in his arms. did god order this where is the faith the religion and islam that they hold full. regardless of the government's latest show of military might they're still coming to terms with how a place of peace can become a target of such hate. so narrow and in boxing germany has a new world champion for the first time since nine hundred thirty two. sander enough to take the heavyweights crown and become the first german to take a global title since the legend remarks. fighting on home turf in oberhausen char

took the title on unanimous decision it marks a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for the fighter who survived being shot in the stomach and twenty fifteen recently underwent a double hip operation. that's actually your news raf for now that's it from me coming up next though pablo for latest and we'll be adding all of the golds from the weekend books because soccer action there was no shortage of them lie there as dortmund clashed in the hard boston local darby. i'm more in just one minute to do stay with us if you can.