this is it only news live from berlin from world player of the year two presidents soccer star george weah is elected as liberia's next leader and his supporters are celebrating far into the night in the capital monrovia but we're on el faces huge expectations guiding his country through recovery from years of civil war and

a recent ebola outbreak also coming up. triple tell up on its way out in india in a women for women parliament inches closer to stamping out the contentious islamic practice of saying divorced three times to end the marriage. and a syrian a wrestling a champ gets a second sporting chance as a refugee in egypt passing on his athletic knowledge to this committee treads in the country. only rock it's great to have you along. liberia is poised to usher in its first democratic transfer of power in more than seven decades international soccer star turned politician george we out won a landslide victory in this west african country's presidential runoff while

a little while ago his opponent joseph conceded defeat liberia a country founded by freed american slaves is africa's oldest modern republic and will be the first democratic transfer of power since one thousand nine hundred forty four the country was devastated by a fourteen year long civil war that ended in two thousand and three and the recent ebola outbreak. to the cheers of jubilant supporters liberia's new president weeps tears of joy. george weah has waited a long time for this moment after past election defeats this time he's won a landslide victory. supporters on the streets celebrate the triumph of the rags to riches candidate. because certainly the korean is not a kid to own up to it is to manage to open

a side to the reality present the euro. has long been a familiar face to liberians born in a slum he shot to soccer stardom in the one nine hundred ninety s. playing for europe's top clubs since retiring he's been active in liberian politics for over a decade. in this year's election he stood as a candidate of change running against outgoing vice president joseph barak i. we as promises to fight corruption and boost the economy went down well with voters well enough to dispel concerns about his running mate jewel howard taylor the ex-wife of former president and convicted war criminal charles taylor. despite rumors that taylor was pulling the strings there was only one name on everyone's lips when the results were announced the

ok we will take the reins from incumbent president ellen johnson sirleaf in january it will be the first democratic transition of power in the country in over seventy years. are all standing by for us in the capital monrovia is it of yours evelyn the pre-date segue a very good day evelyn a landslide victory for georgia way of walking on the edge. well i can't just you know the air is that my jerry can of the country's population the young people have a yearning for this man to become president and interestingly this election music other two will nothing like to have been done one and not the unity party so because of days to feel that this is the time and that's why the votes at the rate of what does that is one thing. the age of all the other eighty kennedys that were

in a race all right but evelyn and george away it's no secret doesn't have a background in politics as he surrounded himself with to help him lead the country . just we're not is by schools of quality since in as well as formal reaches of government from the unity party in my interest it's an on back to a full on speaker of the house of representatives and its title was because of alleged corruption allegation had a coalition of this judge we have he stands up with that by judge and then who have their four month senate put simply was present got feeney he's also a chemical judge we have all the comments many styles of government also supporting judge we are on the ground so he's someone that by and halls of support us current and past with us but i'd like you to address the fact that of course one of the controversial choice says is that the ex-wife of warlord or charles taylor who has

been convicted by the special court of sierra leone for some very serious a war crimes are liberians ok with her being his running mates and having a very prominent position and whatever administration elites. and the people saying that we answered election of their former wife of president taylor westcott seagate drive how to love whose husband is in the here is a household name and it counts if she yells from guys central liberia in one county is also one of the populate that county is so the name to learn their name to well in that county i mean is nothing to play with so his choice according to him was one of the five don't want to because he said he wanted to so what a woman's platform so these are the factors that he said made him to have chosen do i have what you are as is one of mate but from whence everything stay and do well

detail on the in is the most would be no matter what i say well there's something differ as humans but draw how would you know his choice you felt was a better way to alleviate the way years now all right evelyn today segue reporting affirm the liberian capital monrovia thank you. or i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. officials in egypt say gunmen killed at least nine people after storm had coptic church just south of the capital cairo want to say led to a shot dead in the second has reportedly been taken into custody no who passed claimed responsibility just yet. south africa's top court has ruled that lawmakers failed to hold president jacob zuma accountable over upgrades to his private home last year the constitutional court ruled that zuma benefited in appropriately from state funding now the judge just say parliament must establish rules for impeachment proceedings that could remove him from office. in india at least

fourteen people have been killed by a large blaze in the financial capital moon by officials say the fire started in a popular restaurant and quickly spread through a four story building more than fifty people were injured. stay in india the lower house of parliament has passed a bill proposing jail time for muslim men who try to divorce their wives through a practice known as instant divorce or the law outlaws the build rather outlaws the practice of ending a marriage by saying or writing the word luck arabic for divorce or three times in succession while india's supreme court ruled in august that instant divorces were on constitutional more than twenty muslim nations around the world have already banned the practice. and. is in delhi for us for more on this story issue good to see you how did this bill come about was it something that muslim women were pushing for.

but what we've seen in the last couple of months here has been truly significant in the sense that you know this is a instant triple toe lock is a practice that has been outlawed in many muslim majority countries for quite a while already but in india perhaps because it is not a muslim majority country the situation is a little tricky here you see there were a lot of concerns about potentially upsetting india's secular fabric by by interfering in what could be seen as the as a religious minorities. religious minorities personal law in india different religious groups have their own personal law when it comes to dealing with issues like divorce and marriage that said instance is not a practice that has had very much support in the muslim community and as as you as

you pointed out there have been a lot of muslim women who have been advocating for it to be banned to be outlawed for quite some time and so in many ways what we've seen here in the last few months first with the supreme court ruling in august that ruled instant triple the life to be unconstitutional and now with yes it is ruling in many ways the this is a result of the work of these women all right so an important win for them was there any resistance from opposition parties and if so what were their objections. well there had been a lot of concerns actually with the nature of the bill certain aspects of it or in some cases some people even opposing the bill itself some of going to doubt the idea that that it could be redundant since the supreme court's ruling voided the practice basically rendering the practice of saying to lock three times meaningless people have wondered then what's the point in having a law that criminalizes it and if the practice is meaningless then you've got

situations perhaps in the future where couples are still going to be legally married but because the man has done this he's in jail and so there's a lot of questions about family unity and how women are going to be supported in those situations and then finally there's a lot of concerns about whether this is a law that's going to really be targeting in demonizing the muslim community the reason for this is that. police are not actually going to need a warrant to arrest the men under this charge and so people are worried that this is going to go down a slippery slope in a situation where we already have some simmering religious tensions between communities here in india people are worried about what this could mean whether they could be over veatch with this law all right. thank you all right now back here in germany the fatal stabbing of a fifteen year old girl has had

a national nerve the suspected assailant is in police custody after fifteen year old unaccompanied refugee from afghanistan the two teenagers who were dating until recently they have reportedly ended their relationship earlier this month the girl's parents filed a police complaint for harassment and threatening behavior before this incident took place they want to show their grief and mentos for the girl who was killed in this drug store prosecutors say her ex-boyfriend chanced upon her in the city followed her into the drugstore then stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife. he was captured at the scene of the crime. he just was taken to the magistrate this morning the judge issued an arrest warrant based on suspicion of manslaughter the accused is in prison awaiting trial. after authorities are investigating whether or not the young afghan is really only fifteen years old as he declared upon entering germany. according to

the latest facts he has been living in germany eggs and spring twenty sixteen. teams that in april twenty sixth seen here arrived in the german area of heston as a so-called unaccompanied minor. the case has been much discussed on social media and among the right wing populist a.f.d. party some have been linking the crime to chancellor angela merkel's policy on refugees. maybe we shouldn't let me pull in who come without documents. two years ago i warned of the consequences of america's policy put it to the small town of congo mourns a teenage girl as the country at large debates the circumstances and media coverage of the case. a handful of syrian athletes who were forced to flee from their home country due to civil war are now in egypt where thanks to the un refugee

organization they get another shot to practice their beloved sport. a mirror awad has won so many wrestling medals. for everything he it's tough to count them all in the middle and captain amir a wad from the syrian national team for. i am the champion of the asian arab and syrian wrestling championships. the former champion now in alexandria is a night shift worker at a restaurant amir be friended other syrian refugees who are also athletes but with only memories and nowhere to train amir witt to the you when for help and what will be when we are good for us instead of giving us fish every day they taught us how to hunt down the amount. the u.n. agency gave amir a bit of funding to kick start his idea and this syrian sports academy was born

over twenty refugees are training here. this academy means everything to me this is where i started from and it is here where we'll train to qualify for berries championships. and i have to create another champion. with a family of support behind him amir hopes he'll have the chance to add more medals to his tally. power that brings the city and that this edition thank you so much for watching the news continues at the top of the hour. that's not just germany it's a strong country. that we have achieved so much we can do this and if something hinders us we must overcome it in the.