this is news to live from berlin cameron's constitutional council says no to a degree run after the country's contentious presidential election the vote has been marred by violence adding to the ongoing bloodshed in the country's region our reporter challenges the local governor about the army's behavior. to complain about the human rights abuses and this is our border it was good to talk with shoes or to go over to call graves you are going to address google groups or you mother earth moves into through the far north of english. also coming up

a powerful afghan police commander is killed in a taliban attack shortly before polls are due to open in afghanistan's parliamentary elections it's seen as a significant victory for the taliban and a major blow to the afghan and u.s. counter insurgency campaign plus. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program cameron's constitutional council has rejected an election rerun after the west african nations contentious presidential election in october the opposition says that the vote was marred by fraud it's not likely that president paul bio will be reelected he's been in power for thirty six years and he has won each election amid accusations of fraud it's the latest in a voter turnout to namely english speaking west of the country may have been just.

five percent in that particular area separatists there had called for a boycott the government of the mainly french speaking country is determined to quell the insurgency four hundred civilians have been killed so far this year and crease brings this exclusive report from by manda. city to. come forth. with just nineteen when he was killed the seminary student had just walked out of a church when soldiers suddenly appeared and opened fire. on the i think the it is that they're worried. it is just i'm just confused i don't even know what i can see. that is the only. several eyewitnesses say they saw killed it's closed range execution style even though he was clearly recognizable as

a member of the church. the archbishop of mend is calling for action but fears there will be no response. people are afraid of the army to come for her. and nobody. because you are guilty. or you're not even given a charge. just . execution of people and. security forces are visible all over but we're not allowed to film them openly nearly every resident of this northwestern city has a story about their violence tactics many blame the president the body of a separatist has been on the streets for three days locals say it's the army's way

of warning the population not to embrace independence for cameroon's english speaking region the governor is a close ally of president paul b. he consented to meet us but only if we received our questions before then he rejected all but one of them. of security. the screw should be under control all over the region. so. too must. diligent complained about human rights abuses and this is already asked. there it. is your mother read this interview. we venture out of the regional capital to get a sense of people's daily lives and how they're fairing in these tense times so we

just left we already noticed the drivers on the road giving each other sign over cars coming from the front you will tell. you can continue to say if you should be careful possibly stop. we drive through nearly empty villages whose main streets eally quites after half an hour we reached the first separatist road block. with these weapons they're fighting for their own state on the train to secure it people sorrow in their words real issues they cause. people so this way. what do you do have the military come. do we have of. we. don't do. strong leads.

into the bush several separatist groups are active in the region a few kilometers further we observe some of them intimidating local residents as well as people passing through they have threatened us too demanding protection money. the village of numbers often caught between friends according to a local priest roland tells us that pressure from the separatists forced the school here to close two years ago. so he tries to set up a kind of playground near the church to give children a place to go. it's is difficult because. anything can give you some consolation i also hope to attend these people have to even come around to us to pay money in the group to come it is true you can find is asking these people to make some conditions to give to them to support their money

people their kids do anything they just have to give they just have to give so now you don't know where. to run to the boys to go into this because everyone is afraid to know fear is a cultural back and once the commercial center of the region now its economy is in ruins fear overshadows everything as a sign of protest against the government so-called ghost town days have been taking place for almost two years every monday most people remain at home and shops are closed it's just vendors who are coming out to do some business because they needed to survive and many of them told us they're still facing threats from separatists. and the archbishop of sees no end to the spiraling violence without a total amnesty as. stressed the archbishop appeals for dialogue between the warring parties with the hope of sparing lives.

let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world an official memorial ceremony is being held in russian annexed crimea for the victims of a school shooting that left twenty people dead the region is observing three days of mourning russian media is calling the attack in the black sea port of courage by an eighteen year old man the russian columbine. mexico says that it will ask the united nations for help with the arrival of. around three thousand one door in migrants at its southern border the migrants have passed through guatemala city heading for the united states president trump has threatened to close the u.s. border to mexico if authorities there fail to stop. and the european union says that it is willing to extend the brags that transition period after a two day summit of the blocks leaders in brussels the european council president said that a decision would be made if and when decisive progress came installed talks british

prime minister to resign may said that the option to extend the transition could help calm the current impasse over the irish border all doing is working to ensure we have the afghan election commissioners are calling for a suspension of voting in the southern province of kandahar after killing after the killing of a powerful police commander and a local intelligence chief by the taliban the killings happened at a meeting in kandahar province to discuss security for saturday's parliamentary elections which would be the first national elections for eight years the taliban has said that the top u.s. general in afghanistan who attended the meeting was the actual target survived the attack so. let's get more on saturday's elections in afghanistan i am joined now by markus puts old the german government's special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan and a former german ambassador to afghanistan ambassador welcome this morning thank you . looking at the security situation is it possible to conduct

a poll in this climate of violence things going on. while there one third of the police stations cannot open but to put it in a positive way two thirds can open and i think that elections can be held to. i feel a sense of hope on your side perhaps i mean i have heard that there has been hope because there is this new generation of younger politicians. you know really out with this push to fight corruption to encourage democratization. do you think that a stable afghanistan can be achieved in the future i mean seventeen years of war now in this country it's truly a but if i didn't have hope i can do the job i mean you have to be able to mistake and they have a very they optimistic signs as well as the set young young women and men actually want to be members of parliament and they want to go to politics and they want to change the country and that gives me hope given their insider knowledge of the country how eager i mean is is there

a difference now than there was before how eager are people for change at this particular moment i mean it's also generational change people are tired of war i mean a tired of war lords of power brokers them of attacks they want to live in peace and prosperity and that's what actually they want to achieve and we helped them let's talk about the peace process now and there's been some controversy in recent weeks we know that the united states is now engaging in direct talks with the taliban without the afghan government the new york times reports the following about this initiative they say that president donnie that he found out about the talks through reports and that he was furious about what has been categorized as a breach of trust between allies is this the correct or just i can't comment on that but i know that you can't talk to your friends that these are no no peace talks pretty talks and also americans and we are holding talks with talking about his bones so a lot of people talking to the taliban which is important i think but these are prieto is the son of peace talks and also the americans and are of the opinion that

peace talks should be held between afghans between the taliban and the f m government because it's a conflict of first place it's an internal afghan conflict fueled by from outside of course but afghans have to talk to other groups but the precursor for the taliban is that the afghan government not being included in these talks are you ok with that precursor. i mean the afghan government knows that i mean the americans talking to them and them both so it's ok for you that the afghan government not be involved as i said these are pretty talks these are no no peace talks peace between the government and taliban ok. the conflict as you mentioned going on for seventeen years now what is the international community's biggest mistake. can we talk about achievement as well i mean those of his achievements there i mean first let's start with the mistakes then we'll go to the achievements. i think that we have probably put. too much money into this country with out of control and that has fueled

corruption that's probably obvious mistakes. and the achievements. of consonance not a breeding ground for terrorists anymore although the attacks and security is far from being perfect but there have been a lot of achievements in terms of that cation life expectancy has risen for instance for from forty five years to six years now so good boys are going to school and the taliban regime only one million boys went to school no it's about ten million boys and girls so that and dick asia is key to developing of any country and here that so often education is really key and i'm wondering what you see you know as a german diplomat somebody who has extensive knowledge of the country how do you see germany's role in particular contributing to a safer more stable more secure afghanistan with an important role to play we are the second biggest true contributor to the second biggest by the through don't know

we have. made a lot of diplomatic efforts we have put us back one conference because but two when friends and we enjoy a lot of trust from the afghan people especially from the afghan government and also to a certain extent taliban want us as a facilitator thank you so much that hopeful assessment this morning sharing with us former ambassador to afghanistan marcus puts all ahead of those polls on saturday they appreciate it thank you for the full flow if you do not like the idea of spiders now might be the moment to look away a bizarre natural phenomenon has left the shores of a lake in northern greece with a writer rather ghostly appearance hundreds of thousands of tiny spiders have spun a massive lab around like this still need a biologist say that the one kilometer long wonder where is caused by unseasonably warm weather and an abundance of speedos and math that encourage armies abuse sorts of creatures. and with that now

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