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two stories of people who ended up killing their. women born first starting may third on g.w. . this is easy to use live from bali the afghan capital kabul rocks by exit was bombing dozens of civilians are killed as they line up to register to vote in elections later this year also coming up. the political crisis in all media deepens police arrested three prominent opposition politicians among them the man leading days of commands anti government demonstration. than germany social
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democrats alike the first female leader but with far fewer votes than expected and dozens and islands have the support she needs to turn the party around three years of decline. from hell and a home free thanks for your company in afghanistan a suicide bomber has killed fifty two people including at least five children and wounded more than one hundred in the capital kabul the woman detonated explosives as a voter registration center afghans are concerned such attacks could prevent elections from going ahead they too this year. it was around ten am local time sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd outside a voter registration center in. schools died instantly dozens more were
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injured the work if most of the victims had come here to collect identity cards so they can participate in elections later this year but your mom and you will quote a bombing i was here with my son who was wounded and taken to hospital you know what if i counted many dead bodies on the ground right here and others over there of our father father had more particularly after doubled. my three brothers and i were all injured we had come to get our id cards the only thing we want from this government is a peaceful country. and what does. the so-called islamic state claimed responsibility by it's news to it 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
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that underscores the concern for security leading up to the pole. in armenia police have arrested nearly two hundred demonstrators as well as three prominent opposition politicians including nicola passion ian he had been leading anti-government demonstrations in the capital yet of on his arrest came just hours after prime minister said sarkis yan walked out of a televised talk with him media has seen ten consecutive days of protest since saturday became prime minister he had just served his ten year term as president protesters have been demanding he step down. well on the line that now we can speak to and not a casus said he an independent research in yet a van the capital of netiquette several position leaders have now been arrested on what grounds and what will this mean for the protests. the opposition
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leaders were first taken into custody and after a while the police issued a statement alleging that they are organizers of illegal protests that have been 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 so the national assembly has to approve of their being arrested the rallies and protests continue various drugs. across the country there is a major clash happening at the thought where at least two of the three detainees are known the main leader nikos question you know there are rumors about his whereabouts there's a confirmed yet for the past week or ten. every evening at seven pm local time there has been a huge rally and actually had gone through public square presidents and recent
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political history all right and there was a question about whether or not pick fights but well ok so help us on that sound and the background why have the demonstrations against the prime minister become so angry now. at such there are questions of legitimacy surrounding politicians in this country and election time not to be free and fair they're often rowdy after a national election with a new constitution now and 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 probably has been riding this wave for the past
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week 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 a crowd situation rushing and have presented a crime in which the prime minister would resign and a new transitional government would receive a vote of no confidence thereby precipitating elections which would be free and fair this time but as you saw this morning prime minister six are present refused to negotiate on this point even so there is the position to be one of the very uncompromising ultimatum and he accuses the opposition of having not very much public support because he only got six or seven percent of the bill last time however we have seen tens of thousands of protesters and so the russian is. used to participate in that a society an independent research of it yet of on thank you and that
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some of the other stories making news around the world in china seventeen people have drowned during a boat race practice on a rivet near the city of cleveland official state media city dragon boats packed with paddlers overturned in an area of the river where the current was strong local media also says the part of this 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 what show wants to determine if internationally banned substances we used to attack residents that only this month several western nations have blamed syria for the suspected attack which syria denies. any could argue a journalist has been shot dead while drew costing lives on facebook he was reporting on a wave of anti-government protests that have left at least eleven people day thousands have taken to the streets in recent days if the proposed changes to the
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pension system. images of the unrest that has rocked 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's rule. that 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
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not go anywhere with such violence against our youth. in a televised address president ortega has sought to defuse tensions saying the 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 is to the family of nicaragua to all nicaraguans to keep the peace. process. a little. suppose. but nicaraguan business leaders have rejected his comments they say the government must first end the police repression of the protests and the violent confrontation that has already claimed so many lives. germy center left social democratic party has elected a woman as leader for the first time in its one hundred fifty five year history and
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they are not as was elected a short while ago to special conference in the western city of these biden she won sixty six percent of the vote beating as the morning allana the mayor of the city of friends book forty seven year old knowledge faces a huge task in reviving have parties when dealing for choose the s.p.d. at its worst ever election result last september. and that s.p.d. party conference for us is all political correspondent thomas thomas not as the first woman to lead the s.p.d. how significant is that. it is indeed significant because we're talking here about the party described as the oldest in germany and also because knowledge has a very important task a very important challenge ahead of namely to push the renewal of a party that has suffered a lot in recent months has gone from one crisis to the mapes which is also important if you look at germany's political spectrum because knowledge is not the
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only woman now leading a party we've got four women in germany why the lead of co-leader political parties so it is significant that knowledge has been chosen for a wide variety of reasons all right sixty six percent of the vote that is what she's taking from her policy how convincing is that. it shows first and foremost and not everyone is happy with this and everyone believes that she will be able to push the party forward so from dr spektor for her it is not necessarily a fantastic result but on the other hand i don't think the s.p.d. was expecting another one hundred percent which was what martin shows the former leader had that one hundred percent which was at first a dream quickly turned into a nightmare for the s.p.d. then how did it worst result in the german elections so from that perspective it is certainly possible and certainly a bit more realistic if you will instead of having high hopes and their knowledge
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is now passed to work and try to unite the party and try to make clear what the party stands for and how they plan to achieve a lot but pakistan's will well let's be realistic social democratic parties across europe has faced existential crises in recent years any chance now that not is can revive social democracy in germany and potentially in europe. pope goal will be to try and revive social democracy in germany but some of the challenges that social democracy facing in germany are also challenges that other parties around europe face and that's something that we clearly saw here today by the way the social democratic parties are facing a very important question namely what they stand for some of the voters not traditionally voted for the social democratic parties have now gone elsewhere so the challenges are not as house are also challenges that all the parties share right thomas spyro political correspondent at the s.p.d. conference in these biden good to talk to.
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the wind as we go witnessed a spectacular tie yesterday between abhi leipsic and hoffenheim both teams still have qualification for european competition next season if only within their sights not in their last encounter leipsic suffered its biggest win is legal defeat to date and embarrassing for nil defeat and as it turned out there was more of the say in this encounter. so goes the fight hoffenheim to within touching distance of the champions league places so it was no surprise to see the by loney in the thick of the action once again he started the move which ended in march stopping the visitors into a fourteenth minute leet each left with a simple finish to mark his return from suspension. lights exactly when making life easy for themselves caught in possession and gnabry doesn't miss chances like this . place his seventh goal in as many games in hindsight
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dominants even the defenders wanted to get in on the act of a cottage on back scoring his first ever been to sleep echo. problems galore for light six roughhousing heard so and they multiplied after the break and no forced back was sent off for his action petulance and not being awarded a foul. and though the host pulled the go back through substitute nappy kates the little bit of help from the hoffenheim keeper and he joy was very short lived because the visitors went straight up the other range in his second of the game a toss up which of the two was easier to school. but six defense was non-existent because rook made it five. at least the home attack was fairing slightly better as i'm only looking in scale setting up a late consolation for die of the macondo five two it finished you did now government getting another one over on house and hurt so. i said if we lost our
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champions league chances would be over we have three games left and eight nine points if we get less it'll be tough. to go in with that's now eight sleek games unbeaten for hoffenheim they have the momentum might see it seemed to be in free fall. and that's the latest coming up at the top of the hour thanks to a company and it's for testing again. make your smart t.v. even smarter quickly people who mr smart. watches what you want to. up to date. extraordinary. decide what's on. sunday to double.
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