i work at the w. this is you know we do use line from berlin canyons leading opposition figure stages a monarchy ration in the nation's capital tens of thousands turn out to witness relative think is challenge to the newly installed government will have a symbolic protest spark more deadly unrest after kenya's disputed election we'll get an update from nairobi also coming up. this story

a vote to ireland confirms it will hold a referendum on abortion the prime minister leads the push to liberalize the country's restrictive abortion laws and a public vote planned for may well look at why lawmakers are pushing to legalize this divisive issue right now. thank you so much for your company everyone we start off in east africa kenya's opposition leader raila odinga has taken a symbolic presidential oath of office at a mock inauguration ceremony in the capital nairobi a day ago disputed the outcome of the presidential election last august and when the supreme court ordered a rerun in october he refused to stand saying the election was a sham while after the market gratian relegating updated his twitter profile to call himself. president of the republic of kenya and in

a tweet showing him at the ceremony a dingo described himself as graciously accepting the mandate granted us by the kenyan people but the government has reacted by outlawing a dingo's national resistance movement. kansans gathered in the kenyan capital to support opposition leader. supporters had been assembling in and i ruled the park since early this morning. is an important day for us and our come one time i don't want to miss our show we. are. not allowed to this will be a summer here and the left all presidents as well because. the police initially used tear gas to disperse the crowds. new a dangerous i said an oath of office and an improvised swearing in ceremony and pronounced himself the people's president he also used the opportunity to denounce

a regime he says was brought about by election rigging. it's a has sorry field day for the first time kenyans have taken the decision to reject a dictatorship government that came through the ceiling of votes. shortly after the speech disappeared kenya's attorney general has threatened to charge him with treason which could lead to capital punishment president who can yasser his reelection is widely recognized internationally to spice low voter turnout has had three private broadcasters shut down to prevent a live transmission of the event wasn't upsetting very difficult. because of the right information center and the petition but the good thing is that you have social media which are not used and there is a. big to get information audience was mainstream media always been known for its it remains a calm day despite the turn of events in the kenyan capital over the past few

months more than ninety kenyans have been killed in election related disputes. all right catherine i'm wondering is covering the story for us in nairobi a catherine set the scene for us how did this mock inauguration in the middle of the capital happen. well it started out with throngs of people coming from especially kid barrow which is one of the opposition strongholds and mud and also far and wide they all came to the central park. to just see this inauguration take place. before the documentation did take place there was some skirmishes between protesters and police but we did see police restrain themselves compared to the protests that we've seen over the last couple of months and after the swearing in. said that you know this is the beginning of the end of electoral injustice and this is the beginning of that children forms

what he means by that they get to see so that's what we saw and then when you spoke when we spoke to some of the people on the ground off to the swearing in they said that they're willing to work with the previous government is a joke and you know the previous government referring to now the ruling party but the country seems to vida because if you look at the ruling party strongholds that saying that this could be the end of right loading and his legacy given that it seemed like a sham because it was important to notice that he wasn't in the presence of his running mate. or two of the principals which showed that maybe nasa is a house divided however. said that there will be an explanation as to why the principals were not with him and why he was standing alone but the support his supporters seem to not really mind that he would he took the oath knowing his own all right well let's talk a little bit about the government's response how did they go down with that. well

the government has responded in two very contradictory ways in the sense that the police did restrain themselves we have had reports of police killing at least close to one hundred people if you if you look at the kenya national human rights commission report but then other human rights organizations say that over the past couple of months more than two hundred people have been killed in protests including ten children so today we saw some restraint which seems like the government was almost compromising but then we saw the shutdown of television stations including. affiliate station which is one of the strong local stations they have been shut down and you know until now people ask why are we not seeing why we're not seeing this news on or why are we not having news or information on our t.v. screens so people are questioning the government's motives in that in that sense because that saying that if the government can get the media then when no different

from uganda there were no different from ethiopia and that's that's a big concern right now briefly if you can catherine give us a sense of the mood in kenya are there still a lot of people out there contesting the outcome of the election well now it's a matter of who which president do you follow so we have two presidents we have a president of the people and we have the officially placed president a president who kenyatta so but then the people who are saying that who can yes or should be the first to start dialogue because that's the only way to move forward otherwise if it continues like this it will be a country that is more divided than it was before. catherine and wander reporting from nairobi kenya thank you. ireland will hold a referendum on reforming the country's near total ban on abortion the country currently has some of the world's strictest abortion laws prime minister earlier over cars says he will be campaigning to change the legislation which irish

parliamentary committee recently recommended allowing abortion up to twelve weeks into a pregnancy suggest a majority of voters are in favor of reform. all right i'm joined now here in the studio by d.w. news journalist jennifer collins so good to have you here with us jennifer abortion laws in ireland arguably are a very divisive issue where is this current push for a referendum coming from well i would say there's always been a fair level of pushback against arlen's abortion laws but i would say the catalyst for this big push that we're thing was that in twenty twelve when thirty one year old indian dentists. and died after complications after being refused a abortion and an irish hospital she presented at seventeen weeks with. a septic miscarriage i was told early on in the process even though she'd request an abortion that that wouldn't be possible because there was still

a feeling of the doctor's hands were tied and a nurse informed her that this was a catholic country and after that there was massive outrage from the news broke and the movement that we're seeing now is culminated really in the past here too in protest massive protests in the streets of. oakland all over the country by our people around the world and it's kind of stemmed from the spots but the pressure on the irish government to put forth this referendum so these current laws have a very significant effect on women's health in ireland oh yeah absolutely and women in cases where in the women the child been diagnosed with a fatal vehicle of the mother see if the child with the where maybe you will not live after very long after the. after labor day cannot access an abortion so even for medical reasons not even for medical if it's there and if the if the mother is at life is in danger a true suicide suicide or for health reasons then it is possible but even in those

circumstances though there is legislation for that it's very difficult for doctors to assess those situations so it's really difficult for irish women most women are resort to travelling to britain for abortions they do so in their thousands every year but in that case they have very little aftercare they might have to go alone because there's still the lot of shame around the north end and there are many women in crisis pregnancy who cannot access abortion they don't have the money to go abroad so they have to have their name bush in algeria or have the baby in twenty fifteen arland have a referendum on the same sex marriage majority of irish people voted in favor now we're going to have a referendum on abortion and these topics were of course a very contentious in irish society are we so witnessing a change a sea change happening in r.l. and i think it's kind of it started i would say in the ninety's when the catholic church which was extremely powerful influential institution in orland was rocked by

a series of scandals surrounding child sex abuse and also revelations about treatment of married mothers and their babies and mother and baby and ever since then we've seen more and more people fall away from the church and we had. divorced her from them in the ninety's and then the marriage equality referendum just a few years ago and no this is kind of seen as shaking off the last vestiges of the catholic church influence in our land right to jennifer collins thank you so much. russia's president has criticized the decision by the u.s. to release a list designating some rich and powerful russians as potential targets for sanctions lottery putin said the move could damage international relations as a whole as prime minister dmitri medvedev made the list as well as dozens of ministers and nearly one hundred all of guards the release comes in response to alleged russian of meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential campaign the cia has warned meanwhile it fears russia will interfere in this year's u.s.

midterm elections. the world anti doping agency says it's looking into a possible security problem with the bottles that are used for drug tests all this after a lab in cologne told the organization that the bottles could potentially be opened manually the international olympic committee says it's concerned by the findings. they're meant to be tamper proof but these sample bottles are said to be easily manipulated the revelation first reported by german journalist. comes after the bottles were examined at the anti doping lab in cologne the lab found the bottles could be opened manually when a frozen this sports lawyer is furious he says testing at next month's winter games will be floored. in south korea where we can forget it because the head of germany's olympic movement has urged the world anti-doping agency to act. in the coming

days to clear out this matter and if you'll pardon the pun they need to plug the hole in these tests once and for all. the problem dates back to sochi in twenty fourteen russia success at the home undone by evidence of state sponsored doping the man who provided that evidence former director of is now in hiding in the united states among his allegations the security service the f.s.b. was ordered to break into sample bottles. and russia have consistently denied state sponsored doping but these latest revelations raise questions about the security of samples worldwide on investigative reporter several to help break the story of this potential security

flaw here's what he had to say about how easy it is to manipulate the sample bottles. it was a very very easy read two steps a first step we want to check if sample bottles i talk about some proposals from two thousand and sixteen and two thousand and seventeen are easy to falsify that means to copy that worked we succeeded to do that by then finally so it was very easy to manipulate the process even with that method but then danger we said ok let's try to see if it works a different way because we have received information from a secret informant said to seize a new generation of bottles is. it possible to open and exactly that we didn't stay seventy two hours put them in the fridge and after seventy two hours according to them and to the information we received from and from a secret source it was able easily able to open them without any other big problem . what they're reporting and watching the news we still have

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