this is the w. news live from berlin the deepening political crisis in on me at least arrest the opposition leader this after the country's new prime minister walked out of talks with him the government is fighting to calm days of unrest on the streets also coming up in. the afghan capital kabul is rocked by a suicide bombing dozens of civilians are killed as they line up to register to vote in elections later this year. and germany's social democrats

elect their first female leader but with far fewer votes than expected it does on the day and alice has the support to turn the party around after years of decline. from having a home free thanks for joining me police in yet of an all moving to calm protests against army news ruling party authorities say police have arrested opposition leader nicola question ian who was leading the demonstrations this off to new prime minister sarkozy and walked out of a televised talk with him the country seen ten consecutive days of protests since sarkozy and became prime minister he was handed the job directly after serving ten years as president protesters are demanding he step down. well on the line it now we can speak to and not

a fairy an independent research in yet a van the capital of netiquette several opposition leaders have now been arrested on what grounds and what will this mean for the protests. the opposition leaders were first taken into custody and after a while the police issued a statement alleging that they are organizers of illegal protests that happened deemed illegal before but until today the police was showcasing much more restraint but today they have all been formally arrested and there is a legal question surrounding this point because three of them are members of parliament the national assembly has to approve of their being arrested the rallies and protests continue throughout the. country there is a major clash happening at the thought where at least two of the three detainees are

known the main leader nico question you know there are rumors about his whereabouts but there's been confirmed yet for the past week or ten days every evening at seven pm local time there has been a huge rally in central here that on the republican where president bush and recent political history alright and there was a question about whether or not a pick but but well ok so help us on the sound and the background to all of this why have the demonstrations against the prime minister become so angry now. as such there are questions of legitimacy surrounding politicians in this country and election time not to be free and fair they're often rallying after a national election with a new constitution now in the new regime the president who has already served two terms have taken on the role of prime minister with the same power actually serving a third term but after explicitly promising out of the new constitution was being

developed to not run for office again so this seems to have. much more indignance than one might have expected and the opposition leader question young who has a track record of organizing public broadly has been riding this wave for the past two weeks now it appears that the government seems unwilling to negotiate with the opposition so what happens next. it is an ongoing and quite honestly a ball of trousers shueisha rushing and have presented a plan in which the prime minister would resign and a new transitional government would receive a vote of no confidence thereby precipitating elections which will be free and fair this time but as you saw this morning prime minister stairs are present refused to negotiate on this point he considers the position to be one of a very uncompromising ultimatum and he accuses the opposition of having not very much public support because they only got six or seven percent of the vote last

time however we have seen tens of thousands of protesters and so the opposition is . used by this. society and independent to reset it yet have on thanking and. in afghanistan a suicide bomber has killed forty eight people and wounded more than one hundred in the capital kabul the bomb and detonated explosives at a voter registration center a government official said those killed included women and children scans are concerned such attacks could inhibit elections later this year. it was around ten am local time sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd outside a versa registration center in. the school's died instantly dozens more were injured the a if most of the victims had come here to collect

identity cards so they can participate in elections later this year but your mum and your boat would help my son he was wounded and taken to hospital every icons of many dead bodies on the ground right here and others over there one of our father father of war particularly after doubled. my three brothers and i will all enjoy it we come here to get our id cards the only thing we want from this government is a peaceful country. he was almost all the more that. the so-called islamic state claimed responsibility via its news network i is has repeatedly struck the area but authorities believe this attack is a direct attempts to inhibit the country's election process afghanistan will hold parliamentary elections in october the government has added police and military troops to protect polling centers but this attack is one of several in recent days that underscores the concern for security leading up to the poll. now some of the

other stories making news around the world in china seventeen people have drowned during a boat race practice on a river near the city of queen it official state media said two drunken boats packed with cutler's overturned in an area of the river where the current was strong local media also say that the paddlers were not wearing life jackets in syria chemical weapons inspectors have finally taken samples at the site of a suspected chemical attack in the town of duma experts from the chemical weapons watchdog wants to determine if internationally banned substances were used to attack residents that earlier this month several western nations have blamed syria for the suspected attack which syria denies. and nicaragua funerals are underway for those killed during days of deadly protests against social security reforms authorities say at least ten protesters died but one human rights group says twenty six have been killed since wednesday now president daniel ortega says

he's considering withdrawing the unpopular reforms images of the unrest that has roche the central american nation of nicaragua for days now police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters the violence erupted as nicaraguans took to the streets in an unusually direct challenge to president daniel ortega is rule. protesting a proposed change to the social security system forcing workers and employers to pay more towards the retirement system. as the funeral service was held for one of those killed in managua there were renewed calls for the government to act. violence doesn't bring anything good here we have a fifteen year old student who's been killed blood which has been spilt unjustly. i mean we believe that the government needs to stop this violence. the country will

not go anywhere with such violence against our youth. who wouldn't. in a televised address president ortega has sought to defuse tensions saying that changes were not due to take effect until july and that there was time for the government and the private sector to negotiate. but the important thing is to get this agreement for consensus call it to the family of nicaragua to all nicaraguans to keep the peace. of course. but nicaraguan business leaders have rejected his comments they say the government to mr and the police repression of the protests and the violent confrontation that has already changed so many lives. now germany's center left social democratic party has elected

a woman as leader for the first time in its one hundred fifty five history and they are not as was elected a short while ago to special conference in the western city of. she won sixty six percent of the vote greetings and want to learn or the man of the city or friends work forty seven year old not his face is a huge task in reviving her policies when dealing fortunes the s.p.d. at its worst election result last september. and that s.p.d. party conference for us is all political correspondent thomas sparrow good to see thomas now not as is the first woman to lead the s.p.d. how significant is that oh it is very significant and i just think about this this is the party described as the oldest party in germany now led by probably one of the most difficult moments in the party's recent history now in germany for all of the parties arrive a lead a code led by women so it's certainly incredibly important but it will all

obviously also come down to what she manages to achieve here at the s.p.d. because the s.p.d. is facing a very deep crisis not only divided here that somebody can clearly see the party conference but also having lost many voters in the last federal election and she took sixty six percent of the variance to become leader how convincing is that what challenges will she now face. the sixty six point thirty five percent obviously reveals that many are not necessarily so hopeful. about the future with an they are not a list but i think the s.p.d. still has nightmares about the result of the previous leader martin shows in mach twenty seven thousand one hundred percent but then he was the bearer of hope in the s.p.d. and it all turned very very sour for them at the federal election so i think the s.p.d. is now hockey to maybe not have had one hundred percent and have

a probably more realistic and if you went down to earth approach instead of how to get one hundred percent of market share so it depends how you view it you can view it positively you can also see the internal divisions within the s.p.d. reflected in the six point thirty five percent that prices wasn't just in germany of course social democratic parties across europe has faced flagging support in recent years i mean is there any chance that nonis can pull back voters from the fringes and revive social democracy perhaps in europe as well. not in europe such a strong will be in germany but probably some of the challenges faced by not just a similar challenges faced by other similar parties in europe namely watch the social democracy stands for now in europe while the call ideals are not and more importantly how to achieve those core ideals or summit on that are not as promised here that she would try to achieve and if she is successful that would certainly be

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