i am. subscribed to the documentary. this is d w news live from bunny twenty nine team begins out with a bang and a choose. hong kong ring with eight at the new year with victoria harbor providing the backdrop to

a spectacular fireworks display also on the program bangladesh's prime minister says her conscience is clear she has ina rejects calls for a new goes after winning her third consecutive election despite this latest being mauled by deadly violence d.w. hears from voters who say they were forced to vote for. congo meanwhile is awaiting the outcome of its landmark presidential election sunday's votes have been counted tensions are high following allegations of widespread voting irregularities. in. five hundred homes very glad you could join me. revellers so around the world all ringing in the new year in hong kong is one of the latest to welcome the start of twenty nine team all the traditional fireworks of the victoria harbor for accompanied by music canada. sure watched by hundreds of towns.

and audio australia kicked off the proceedings in spectacular style sydney staging its largest ever fireworks display and of course there are still plenty more parties to come. we'll have new year's updates from around the globe as the world says goodbye to twenty eighteen and good morning twenty eight nineteen now to some other news and bangladesh's prime minister has been declared the winner of sunday's national elections country's electoral commission says she has seen as alliance won two hundred eighty eight of three hundred parliamentary seats but her victory has been overshadowed by allegations of vote rigging and now opposition members are demanding fresh elections. for someone who has just won

a record fourth term as prime minister shake a scene that has kept a low profile her party reportedly told supporters not to celebrate their lopsided victory on sunday she addressed allegations of vote rigging commission listeners are totally free independent no doubt about. it this comes amid mounting concern over voter intimidation there were reports of voters forced to cast their ballot openly in front of ruling party officials but the electoral commission dismissed these as stray incidents yet several voters told about intimidation at the polls. one man who wishes to remain anonymous says a voting official took his thought an ink the ballot that had already been filled out for him without his permission. it was. expedient it was due to experience and. i actually

i can't express whatever you feel right the moment but i just felt like i was. there somewhere and an expert on bangladeshi politics described the effects of intimidation on a generation of young people who had never voted before. young. expected but there are some reports that so this is this is a very good for. during the campaign the opposition said thousands of its members had been arrested for political reasons. and opposition leader khaled at c.n.n. has been in jail since february but shaikh has seen a says the opposition would have done the same if they had been in charge and she's the one leading the country now for a record third time in a row. and now some of the other stories making news around the world u.s.

senator elizabeth warren has taken a key step towards running for president eight twenty twenty the democrat from massachusetts has formed an exploratory committee she's had several run ins with president donald trump who's called her pocahontas pointing to doubts about her claims of having native american roots. at least three people are dead and dozens of missing following an explosion in an apartment building in russia the blast in the nine story block in the city of mecca neato gorse cap and early in the morning when many residents were asleep on thora g.'s believe it was caused by a gas leak. security forces in sudan have fired tear gas at protesters who were planning to march on the presidential palace anti-government demonstrators want to step down crowds gathered in the capital khartoum and they were confronted by riot police who blocked a much. after

a tense wait in congo as the votes from sunday's presidential election are counted means of people took part in a event that could see the first peaceful transfer of power in decades but questions over its fairness amounting with accusations of delays and irregularities especially in opposition areas. thirty's in many parts of congo returned to polling stations today to study lists of initial results posted outside provisional nationwide results are not due out for another week. day was plagued by technical problems and allegations of vote rigging. i don't think the elections were credible too many people found their names won on the electoral lists they were told to go to other centers and even there they didn't find their names so as a result many didn't get to vote. scenes like this one in the letter district of conscious are not uncommon long lines formed as voting machines malfunctioned.

we've been here since this morning and it's dark already but we're here and we will vote that on. the national conference of catholic bishops deployed thousands of service across the country they reported numerous problems but declared the vote overall relatively calm. to ensure the credibility of the results we asked the electoral commission to continue posting the results of the manual count in front of the polling stations and to undertake any other action that guarantees the transparency of the process. as vote counting got into way across one of africa's largest countries the significance of the election was clear this could be congo's first peaceful transition of power since it gained independence from belgium in one nine hundred sixty long time leader joseph kabila is stepping down after nearly eighteen years at the helm. opposition candidate

martin for you though is considered one of the front runners he and others allege the vote was fraudulent with wreaked machines. emanuel ramasamy should diary this could be pretty good success as a former interior minister he's on the european union sanctions for violent repression of protests. there and now fear is that violence could return to congo particularly if saddam is declared the winner. to yemen now where the latest ceasefire between government troops and his the rebels is holding and it's hoped that this will bring relief to the population millions of whom all suffering from starvation but an investigation by the associated press is found that much of the aid arriving in yemen ends up in the wrong hands united nations world food food program has also said today that its food is being stolen. goods on sale at a market in yemen desperately needed wheat and cooking oil

a closer inspection shows these products come from the united nations world food program and charity groups aid that should have been given away after nearly four years of war more than half of yemen's twenty nine million people aren't getting enough food. other than we came here they wrote down our names but they didn't give us anything they gave to other people but nothing to us they left us without anything the mother said the large volumes of aid have been flowing into yemen donors sent more than four billion dollars worth in twenty eighteen but the u.n. says it can only track twenty percent of the deliveries observers say who the rebels are blocking or diverting aid some of the food goes to their own troops or is sold on the black markets. this is a it is not present on the ground it has no direct impact. on the contrary the more

years pass the worse the situation becomes especially in the areas controlled by the who things we're seeing very painful pictures of. the who thieves were due to hand over control of the whole data ports under a peace deal recently negotiated in sweden but the un says rebels are failing to fully on of their agreements the residents of her data are still waiting for relief . their doubts about her data has become a city of ghosts it's an empty city because of the war see jenna gresham prices have become very high in a crazy way you know any better than that. i get out of buying and selling has become difficult we live in a desperate situation we can't meet our daily expenses it's not living we are physically and spiritually dead at the end of a year they said the eneral on a months long investigation by the associated press also found problems with aid distribution in areas controlled by the yemeni government and it's the weakest who

are suffering the most unique says some four hundred thousand yemeni children aged under five are at risk of death from malnutrition. germany's chancellor has delivered had traditional new year's message marking an end see one of the toughest years of her political career and going to call for germans to come together and show more openness tolerance and respect. a little light at the end of the tunnel here at the chancellor in berlin germany's leader sure hope so. chancellor angela merkel describes two thousand and eighteen and her new year's address as an extremely difficult year politically she vowed to look ahead pressing for more solidarity in two thousand and nineteen that i laid that mystique about so it will i am guided by the conviction that we will only master the challenges of our time if we hold together and if we work with others across boundaries and borders. two thousand and eighteen saw the infighting that brought

on america's coalition government to the brink in october she announced she would not run for a fifth term in office medical stressed in her speech the importance of shaping the future for generations to come referring to the challenges of migration climate change and terrorism a staunch supporter of the e.u. and diplomacy she warned against self isolation. because this heightened it and that's of course have been certainties of international cooperation and now coming under pressure in such a situation we must stand up more for our convictions we must argue and fight for them and in our own interest we must assume more responsibility on january first germany is joining the united nations security council for two years now called promised her country will use the term to fight for what she called a global solutions she also said germany would spend more on humanitarian aid and security and medical spoke with uncharacteristic passion about these images taken

by german astronaut alex and a guest during his time at the international space station she said his pictures captured a new view of our planet testifying to the dangers of a changing climate but also to earth's overwhelming beauty. sports news now japanese ski jumper rio you kobayashi has won the opening round of the prestigious four hills tournament in germany he edged out the competition on obits toffler see thanks to his huge first one hundred thirty eight point five meters the victory gives him a chance of becoming a first japanese athlete to win the four hills since nine hundred ninety eight. rush is running out of time to meet an end of year deadline to handover computer data from its moscow drug testing laboratory access to the data was a condition of the controversial lifting of the three on the lab that followed allegations of state sponsored don't think in russian sport this month officials

from the world doping agency were denied access to the data russia risks another ban if it does not comply. well workers in china are celebrating a three day long new year's holiday and for many it is the perfect time to visit some of their national treasures giant pandas now visitors have been flocking to this panda breeding center in chengdu in southwest china sea the baz doing what they do best which is eating bamboo and there are even now a few will best to say hello to you last week the changing panda base debuted two new cops a boy and a go. underminded now the top story we're following for you it's farewell twenty eighteen and hello twenty nineteen hong kong has been ringing in the new year with a huge bodyworks display. and if again you can always get news

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