this is news live from berlin they are decades long rivalry looks set to shape sunday's general election in bangladesh and security is ramping up ahead of the boat after a campaign marred by violence and intimidation a look at the powerful women who have long held sway over bangladeshi colleagues also coming up egypt says its security forces have killed forty suspected terrorists in grades one day after a deadly attack here in the keys of the pyramids. and we head to northern china for

a look at the muscle power behind the construction of a spectacular city made entirely out of vines. i'm calm assman 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 is seeking her third term in office on her fourth overall tensions there 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. late as the a former prime minister and the leader of the main opposition a bungle desh 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 us on course for a resoundingly win on sunday but the two women have been locked in a decades long fight for control of. 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 sentiments is growing there but i did it in favor of heart the sentiment is clear. he was. ready and who supper in front of the back. during the campaign be in peace supporters were repeatedly violently mistreated

thousands of them were arrested. this is supporters of the b.n.p. and other opposition groups are not safe in their homes police are 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 yet they only want to sabotage the elections on. the power struggle between shaikh hasina and hunted as he has lasted for decades you know began with a coup against shaikh has seen his father in seventy one shaikh 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 shaikh hasina and her sister were the only survivors. kind of busy largely benefited from the coup her husband zio iraq 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 and it as he had 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 one party takes office the other makes accusations of corruption or fraud or they call for an election boycott with their leader that is even now in prison it only seems to make the nationalists more determined this time they hope to show that even without their party chairwoman they can win a majority in parliament. d.w. correspondent then we should just wallow is in dhaka and she sent us this report

from a polling station on the eve of the vote i'm here at one of the six thousand polling centers in dhaka and there are at least forty thousand polling centers all over the country now let me take you through some numbers that are crucial to this election this particular center isn't easy am sent out the electronic voting machine will be use here this is the false time that in bangladesh national elections that even am is being used now why is this important that even allows for results to come out the moment polling closes and this is an exercise which i also have to explain the numbers because of how impressive it is in this country now one hundred four million people are going to go to the water to morrow morning at eight am one thing closes down at four pm after the space of time the theme evening results are going to start rolling in e.v.a.'s and those are going to make this easier however it's also worth noting that in the three hundred seats across the country only six are

trying even and yet results like spectacles all in by the end of the night in bangladesh now also worth noting right now is that to make sure that this election goes off smoothly that of course concerns about the free and fair nature of the election and the concerns about why that's already internet services on. by the have been shut down to three thirty pm this afternoon we do not know if they will be continued and the army has been deployed security forces have been deployed across the country however people hostile can do wasn't even mean hopefully that to morrow not only will there be a free and fair election that the next government would continue taking the country on a stand off development and also support. that was w.'s new mission. now to some of the stories making news around the world the democratic republic of congo goes to the polls on sunday to elect a successor to outgoing president joseph kabila election has been delayed for more

than two years to be those preferred candidates emmanuelle ramadani should already faces a fractured opposition. thousands have joined demonstrations across the sudanese capital khartoum calling for president omar al bashir to step down oh test broke out in sudan earlier this month first against bread and fuel prices since then demonstrators have begun directing their anger at president bashir. yemen's rebels have started to leave the red sea port of data the withdrawal is part of a u.n. sponsored peace agreement signed earlier this month in sweden with data as a key point of entry for food supplies millions of yemenis are on the brink of famine. fights that hung over airport in germany have but the man thought he was doing egyptian authorities say security forces have killed forty suspected terrorists following a deadly attack on

a tourist bus near the giza pyramids this a day after the roadside bomb killed three vietnamese tourists and their local guide so far there's been no claim of responsibility ahead of new year's celebrations and next month orthodox christmas security forces remain on high alert for further attacks. this is egypt's response forty two suspects these pictures are from the interior ministry suspected militants killed by security forces although we have no way to verify the ministry statement it does not even explicitly link the suspects to friday's bombing but it called them terrorist elements and said they were planning a series of attacks. the ministry said security forces killed thirty suspects in the tourism hot spot where the roadside bomb was planted another ten it said were killed in north sinai the volatile province where egypt is fighting an islamist insurgency the bombing killed three vietnamese travelers and their egyptian guide

and left at least ten others injured the attack on the famed pyramids is another blow to egypt's tourism industry which has only just started to recover from the unrest following the country's twenty eleven uprising. the prime minister said all thora teams would try to contain the impact but admitted there would always be a risk. that. 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. the attack doesn't seem to have put these tourists self while british travel group thomas cook day trips to cairo others decided the risk was worth it. they can make a choice unlike the locals who call this home. now there's

a turkish military assault on kurdish forces on the horizon a turkish t.v. station has broadcast images of what it says is a convoy of turkish military vehicles heading to the border with syria uncle of use the kurdish militia militia as terrorist and a domestic threat prompting warnings of a military action across the border for his forces have been left vulnerable after that shock announcement that their ally the united states will withdraw all its troops from syria so now syrian kurds are requesting assistance from their former enemies in damascus which is sending troops to the flashpoint town of beach setting the scene for a potential showdown. meanwhile heavy rainfall in northern syria has caused widespread flooding and also hampered relief operations on the turkish border aid agencies say tents and relief supplies in several refugee camps and live province have been swept away by the floods food stocks and drinking water have

also been affected refugees fleeing the war have been waiting for days for assistance. china is gearing up for one of winter's biggest spectacles the harbin ice that's full featured more than two thousand ice sculptures across a freezing cold theme park but all that ice has to come from somewhere right we have this behind the scenes look at the heavy lifting that goes into building a winter wonderland. men pulling their special sawing machine onto the frozen song while river behind them you can just make out the skyline of the northern chinese megacity harbin at minus thirteen degrees celsius the diesel engine takes a while to get warm and then the men get to work here. we cut away the ice here and we built this machine ourselves we were. cut by cut they saw the frozen river into

a chessboard pattern. the river is the lifeline of harbin city and in the winter the source of the construction material for a city of ice. this is what it will look like when it's finished the famous ice festival will open soon hundreds of thousands of visitors will come to have fun in the cold as they marvel the elaborate ice structures. but first comes the hard work the ice has to be lifted out of the river a block of ice can weigh up to one thousand kilos in the few weeks before the festival begins they pull thousands of ice blocks out of the river. water to rock and ice and not make you tired i had to get up at three o'clock in the morning i go home at five pm one by one we have to remove thousands of. the workers are farmers most of the year but here they can earn thirty to forty euros per day it is so cold

on this ice that they have to always remain in motion if you stand still you freeze . a stream of trucks bring the ice here to the nearby festival grounds it is a giant construction site ten thousand workers are working around the clock here they have to finish on time these men are working on the main attraction well. may finish it will be an ice tower that stands forty meters tall. the full moon contour too low too don't let you know when we're finished it will be beautiful that's why we're working so hard with you know more of the. soon hordes of tourists will come to see the magical frozen city in the north of china an ice city that's bound to melt some hearts. and a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you right now security has

been stepped up in bangladesh ahead of sunday's general election the government's decision to block mobile internet access is adding to concerns about whether the vote will be free and fair. egypt as said security forces killed forty suspected terrorists following an attack on a tourist bus near the giza pyramids this the day after the roadside bomb killed three vietnamese tourists and their vocal god there's been no claim of responsibility. and don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google player from the app store and that's where you'll get access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the app to send us your photos and you won't be. there watching the news from more at the top of the hour and for all the latest news and headlines around the clock check out our website that's t.w.

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