you know we're interactive documentary. the world to bring you tame returns home on t.w. dot com. this is the news live from berlin bangladesh is stepping up security ahead of sunday's general election government orders to block the mobile internet are adding to concerns about whether the old will be free and fair to look at the two women were facing on that issue politics is also coming up syrian and turkish backed forces closing in on a kurdish held town in northern syria damascus says the kurdish forces requested

the regimes of force will break down the situation with an expert on the region. and egypt says its security forces have killed forty suspected terrorists in raids one day after a deadly attack near the kids appear. on call naslund welcome to the program final campaigning has wrapped up in bangladesh as the country prepares for elections on sunday one hundred four million voters in the predominantly muslim country are eligible to cast their ballots prime minister shaikh has seen a is thinking seeking her third term in office and her fourth overall tensions are running high in the country the opposition says thousands of their supporters have been arrested by authorities at least ten people have been killed and hundreds injured. in pre-election violence. a former prime minister and the leader of the

main opposition bangladesh nationalist party has been barred from running she's serving prison time for corruption a move the opposition says is politically motivated opinion polls put a siena on course for a resoundingly win on sunday but the two women have been boxed in a decades long fight for control of bangladesh. even if you can find a few posters of a kind of as a hanging across dhaka she won't win this election against prime minister sheikh hasina zia the leader of bangladesh is conservative nationalist party or b.n.p. is in prison on corruption charges her supporters remain optimistic. this is so people sentiments is growing there but i did in five out of the sentiment is. he was. and who support in favor of the bag.

during the campaign in peace supporters were repeatedly violently mistreated thousands of them were arrested. this year supporters of the b.n.p. and other opposition groups are not safe in their homes police or arresting them this isn't an election this is a process of removing voters. the prime minister however doesn't agree with the opposition that the holidays yeah they only want to sabotage the elections. the power struggle between shaikh hasina and hunted as he has lasted for decades it all began with a coup against shaikh has seen his father in one thousand and seventy one shaikh graffman became the first president of bangladesh he tried to introduce a secular democracy but many people in the country were opposed in a military coup in one thousand nine hundred five he was killed along with much of his family sheikh hasina and her sister were. the only survivors. kind of disease

largely benefited from the coup her husband zio or rock money came to power in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven he founded the nationalist party and began a re islamisation of the country but he too was assassinated shortly after that. his widow took over leadership of the nationalist party in one thousand nine hundred one hundred asea became the country's first female prime minister but in one thousand nine hundred six she was voted out of office and replaced by sheikh hasina since then both camps have been in a battle for supremacy and one party takes office the other makes accusations of corruption or fraud or they call for an election boycott with their leader how that is even now in prison it only seems to make the nationalist more determined this time they hope to show that even without their party chairwoman they can win a majority in parliament. now to some of the other stories making news around the

world yellow best protesters are turning out in paris and elsewhere in france even as momentum for their movement appears to be waning scattered clashes broke out in western paris with riot police firing tear gas at demonstrators. a strong earthquake has shaken the southern philippines the magnitude seven tremor struck the southwest of mindanao city mindanao island a tsunami warning was later issued and then lifted the quake shook buildings and about cities some two hundred kilometers from the epicenter so far no casualties or major damage have been reported. thousands have joined demonstrations across the sudanese capital khartoum calling for president omar al bashir to step down as broke out in sudan earlier this month first against bread and fuel prices since then demonstrators have begun directing their anger at president bashir. is

a turkish military assault on kurdish forces on the horizon a turkish t.v. station as broadcast images of what it says is a convoy of turkish military vehicles heading to the border with syria views the kurdish military in northern syria as terrorists and this thread military action kurdish forces have been left vulnerable after that shock announcement that their ally the united states will withdraw all its troops from syria and they have requested help the syrian government has now sent troops to the flashpoint town of money beach setting the scene for a potential shutdown. joining me now in studio is daniel galaad he's the editor in chief of zenith magazine which focuses on middle eastern affairs so if syrian forces are indeed in beach could this be a game changer in a civil war no i don't think so i don't think it's going to be a game changer i think this has been much more of a symbolic move and we've seen actually

a repetition of the scenario of the second turkish military offensive about a year ago to the capital of frame where the kurdish forces had called for help from the syrian regime and the syrian regime symbolically moved incentives and the militias with the syrian national flag and said no we are in control of. somehow they could also be a face saving solution for the turks because turkey now can buy time and doesn't have to move in as it promised. what about the kurds so that the kurds have now asked syrian troops to move into that city what do they want why ask for those troops well. kurdish forces have paid dealy when they conquered. couple of years ago from the so-called islamic state militias and this was they last about three hundred people so this was a highly symbolic victory for them and since then monday has been contested area at the. location because from there if you if you can you can enter both.

areas that are still held by the force of forces in the east very close to the shores of the river and therefore it's a strategic place and it's very important to keep this and it's also very important for the turkish forces of course to take it if they want to defeat the wipe e.g. the kurdish militias but if the syrian regime says no officially in control of it then this is at least a political victory because a military offensive in this area would be very costly for them because i don't think the courts are going to. if this a lazy president added on you mentioned him he's been sending his own forces to the border what do you think i mean you mentioned this before about how likely is a turkish attack it's been announced several times not specifically a month a month we have french troops in the area we also have russian troops in the area we have the syrian regime so numbers itself has not been announced by the by the by

the turkish president specifically but an intervention in the eastern part the northeastern part of syria where you have a lot of oil and gas resources and a lot of turkish kurdish troops or control of this area this has been of course strategical for turkey and what i think they're going to do is they're going to try to provoke an uprising of arab tribes against the kurdish forces there that are very discontent with the situation there with the control of the kurds and they are trying to i think more and in direct approach but of course they could continue cross border operations aerial operations in this area but i don't think i'm not sure if we will see a heavy thankful fledged military offense in this area now briefly about twenty seconds where does this leave us now. i was not surprised by the withdrawal of u.s. troops to be honest and i think let's hope that the u.s. have talked to the turks about it and to the russians about it but i think america has taken itself deliberately out of the game at the moment it could continue

aerial attacks or whatever to be in the game militarily but you can say politically they have withdrawn completely and deliberately so. thank you very much for being with us thank you authorities in egypt say police have killed forty suspected terrorists following a deadly attack on two wrists near the giza pyramids the interior ministry said three raids were carried out simultaneous the end and northern sinai where the government is fighting an insurgency they targeted militants who were allegedly planning further attacks on key sites. the crackdown comes less than twenty four hours after three vietnamese tourists and a local guy were killed by a roadside. the vietnamese tourists were on their way to a light and sound show at the pyramids of giza instead they were struck by a deadly blast three of the fourteen tourists on the bus were reported killed another eleven were injured including the driver the group's egyptian guide was

also killed. i was in a minibus returning from work when we heard a big noise and thought a car had fallen off the bridge. after that we saw people and taxi drivers running in saying that a bus was hit. with security forces descending on the smashed bus investigators from the scene said the bomb was an improvised device hidden next to a wall along the road which went off as the bus drove by egyptian officials noted the bus had deviated from a more secure route a claim the driver denied in local media the tourism industry vital for the country's economy has been struggling to recover from years of high profile terrorist attacks that have scared off isidore's yesterday's bomb attack broke a period of relative calm that had seen a tenuous uptick in tourism officials were quick to try to contain the potential wider damage. sometimes attacks such as this one can occur.

it may even happen again in the future. and there isn't a country in the world we can say is one hundred percent safe. haven of anything. egypt's government has pledged to find those behind the attack which no one has dust far claimed responsibility for. the search for survivors continues in indonesia after last week's tsunami that killed more than four hundred people and left another forty thousand homeless but as search teams scour the disaster zone survivors are struggling to get by so an army of volunteers stepped in helping survivors and search teams alike caught up with one of them who is making a difference using the most basic equipment. in disasters and people don't just save lives with spades and borders is. equipped with pots pans and spatulas the volunteer cooks at this field kitchen also hugely important for

survivors side because you need since day one i who work here every day from five in the morning to eight in the evening. so i can get with the other women because we can cook faster and better than the men i can't just stay at home it's a calling for me to help our friends. when the tsunami crashed into coastal villages of western java yeah a heist wife first made sure her family was safe then she immediately set back to help others. and although my family was not affected by the tsunami some of our friends and neighbors were i consider them a part of my family two. volunteers are busy working in this twenty four hour field kitchen where meals of chicken and noodles fish and vegetables are being cooked for those who have been affected by

the tsunami this particular field kitchen serves about two thousand five hundred to three thousand evacuees a day for them have lost so much in the tsunami a hot homemade meal provides a world of comfort but they also cook meals for rescuers like these gentlemen behind me they've just come back from a search and rescue operation and they tell us that it takes a lot of work a lot of energy to do what they do and it makes them feel good to know that someone is cooking for them. is the man although all i can do is give my time and energy it makes me happy to know that i am helping those in need. i would give her. one last weekend the times and. and edges of west java where literally torn apart by the waves that that has only brought the community here closer together to some people helping is a way of hearing. and the reminder of the top story that we're following for you

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