urgent assistance. family starts january twenty third. w. w news live from two women in india sacred hindu temple and make history tradition has been for centuries and their attendance today prompted clashes of protests from conservative hindu groups also on the program a train crash on the bridge in denmark killed six passengers off carriages when hit by the fell from a freight train a stalled force winds bat's of the reach of. the times twenty eighty was one of the

toughest two years of i'm going to political career twenty nineteen be any easier for the german chancellor. and. also coming up in the next top of the one liner that didn't travel well. it's my life but it's not the killing of a washington post journalist for everyone to go oh i guess he's really not a reporter a joke about a saudi crown prince falls flat and that flags. i'm for welcome to the program. we start in southern india where two women have defied a centuries old taboo and entered one of hindu isms holy shrines and spot violent clashes and we're acting on a supreme court decision from last year that ordered the lifting of the ballot on women of menstruating age that move has pitted traditionalists against women's rights activists. under the cover of darkness escorted by

police two indian women wearing black enter the shabby mala temple they offer prayers and quickly depart it was more an act of defiance than devotion the women were claiming the right to enter given to them by india's supreme court but so far blocked by protesting hindu traditional lists. of women and shapley malad today isn't a story when for us it's a victory of the movement for quality and women's power because after the verdict of the supreme court some people were still opposing the entry of women today that protest has failed because the women have entered the temple. the sharply mala temple is visited by some fifty million devoted speech here but it bans women aged ten to fifteen conservative hindus believe women of menstruating age would defile the temple which is devoted to a god believed to be celibate india's prime minister narendra modi has sided with

traditionalist who are against the supreme court ruling harvard is mother. india is of the view that everyone should get their jew rights in the stomach was a man there are some temples in india which have their own traditions that men should not enter a temple and men do not go there in this shot remodeler a woman judge in the supreme court has made certain observations. the issue has sparked an outcry in india on tuesday over five million women formed a human chain across the state of carroll are making a stand against gender discrimination. you don't mind what we want what. we want then that is why i did it this season. but they face fierce opposition from traditional lists women among them protests are

expected to continue as both sides voice their outrage. let's get more from the donors and then we should just well in delhi welcome and tell us more about reactions to today's events well unfortunately for their reactions to these them and making history have largely been negative temple authorities actually shut down the temple for over an hour for purification rituals protests broke out across the state of got a law even leading to clashes now and the injured more these bulkier just the party the ruling party in the country actually called for protests and ended up kalash in with the do in party in the states the communist party leading to police deploying tear gas and water cannons a template hartings as well as about theirs and the party has called for a strike for the next two days to protest women entering this temple. so this is not the first time these women have tried to get into this temple how do they get

around the people who've been trying to keep them. well the supreme court ruling came all the way back in september for the last couple of months women have been making attempts to end of the temple but this has been in broad daylight and in full only dead this also had to walk off the lord in the temple to block because of them and clique of kilometers before the temple does it's a three hour trek that leads up to them but more from and we're not able to get close even these two women however i left for the trek in the dead of the night at midnight reached at about three forty five am betting black rushton offered prez very quickly with the support of the small group of policemen products of that then too but they were not enough to stop these women from making history even though they had to do with full secrets of. the world one does just look at the political situation that is this about religion or about politics and carola state

well while this is an a religious issue that is definitely for to overtones more these parties on the party has been speaking out against the supreme court ruling from the time which came on the communist party in in far in the state right now is very supportive of the supreme court ruling not of course the what is has not only been exerting physical force which actually has led to arrests but they have not backed down they have even appreciated this decision in the supreme court the supreme court would be heard in the challenge to its own would act later on this month and so far primeness on that in some of these party has come out in support of many hindu traditional issues but has called for equality and issues when it comes to islam and other religions for this girl india despotic to this clearly politics involved in this religious issue as well could talk to you thanks for joining us now just well in delhi. six people have been killed and sixteen injured in a train accident on a bridge between two danish islands authorities say kalidas were hit by call go

that fell from a freight train and storm force winds but the region. the accidental occurred early in the morning on the western side of the bridge it looked like a strong storm had loosened up cargo being transported on a train belonging to the german rail operator dock siobhan debris was then ripped loose and smashed into the oncoming passenger train the police weren't able to give any further details at a press conference they held later the biggest was high first on the most important thing for us is to help the passengers and crew on board we ask everyone who was on board the train to contact their next of kin shipment or if someone doesn't have a cell phone so they should ask to use someone else's b.b.q. at the obvious who the man needed in the meantime cell phone footage taken on board shows some of the damage the police have now confirmed six dead and sixteen injured at the time of the crash the bridge had been closed to car and truck traffic because of the strong winds it's therefore unclear why the freight train from

deutsche of bonn was allowed on to the crossing considering it was also hauling trucks semi trailers. roger some of the other stories making news around the world parts of finland experience the strongest winds have recorded in the country as a powerful winter storm swept through from the north tens of thousands of people have been without power cell phone service and transport have also been disrupted authorities are urging people to stay indoors. and keeping us republican senator mitt romney has written a scathing opinion piece in the washington post newspaper targeting president trump the rights of the president has not risen to the mantel of the office and that his actions of alienated america's allies since are vomitous comments have prompted suggests that he's going to challenge friends to trump for the republican nomination in twenty twenty one time is president paying hastert declared the taiwan must and will be reunited with china during

a speech marking forty years since the start of improving ties with the breakaway self-governing island she called for peaceful reunification but was that beijing reserved the right to use force. japan's own private he's or has accepted new year's greetings for the last time before he abdicates eighty five year old appeared in front of tens of thousands of well wishers at the imperial palace of tokyo. and practice has been in power since and nine hundred eighty nine plans to abdicate in april the first emperor to do since move two hundred years. of twenty years he was one of the toughest years of angular machall so long political career it took the german chancellor months to form a new government to face stiff opposition from populist at home and abroad that are taking a blow in the polls she was forced step down as chair of her conservative party so will twenty nineteen be any easy it is a look ahead for the german chancellor. so far i'm going to america as gradual exit

from politics appears to be going to plan but remaining chance low over the coming year won't be that easy with a whole list of potential pitfalls. and if they had come calvin ball america got the successor as party leader she wanted a k.k.k. as she is known is a much needed ally who will help keep merkel's in the party critics say. but the political comeback of merkel's former rival free to fish mats has loosened her hold on the party mats aim to join the magical cabinet has been rebuffed for now but many back his claim to power direct threat to our machall. europe's crunch time elections in may could also be a turning point for the stability of germany's government.

if angela merkel's coalition partner the social democrats take yet another beating at the polls they may see no other way forward than withdrawing from the government that would most likely end i'm going to medicals time as chancellor. those polls are expected to see a further rise of the populist right across europe an angle americal is set to feel those effects back home. here in germany the f.t. publicly closed ranks with a rightwing extremist during street protests in the eastern city of kenneth's last summer united by a determination to end the magical era the populist movement in germany make gain new momentum. with three eastern states going to the polls this coming all to the a if d. will have to prove whether it can become the strongest political force in any of these states. if the far right are targeted for germany

manages to replicate its general election results from twenty seventeen it could become the strongest political force in saxony a defeat for the c.d.u. and yet more state elections would also be seen as a rebuke for chancellor merkel's leadership. all of those factors will also play a role in the half time assessed of the coalition partner of angular mackerels government the social democrats wrote an exit clause into their coalition deal if they trigger that anger machall could crash out of her last term in office. correspondent linda craig welcome linda will angela merkel still be in charge a year from now president. so difficult to say you heard how many factors could influence her ability to stay in power if germany were to hold new elections for

example because the junior coalition partner in the social democrats did decide to leave the government certainly i think we would not see her remain at the helm but very very difficult to say whether that will in fact occur what we can see is that there is no majority in the at the moment if you look at the polls two thirds of germans say that they are content to see her serve out her term only one third would like to see her leave earlier and germans do have a penchant for stability so i think that may argue in favor of her sticking it out we saw in our reports all the accounts ranged against her at home what about on the international stage you can she expect that an interesting one germany will now be on the security council as a non permanent member both the chancellor and her foreign minister have said that they are absolutely committed to using that position to really advocate for

multilateral solutions to complex problems those problems include and they have named them climate they want to really push for stronger climate leadership trade germany as a major exporting power stands to lose a lot from a further intensification of trade disputes it will be looking to strengthen the world trading world trade organization the w t o and the rule based trading order russia ukraine another very big topic for germany where it has taken leadership in the past that undoubtedly will involve some challenges this year as well and then various challenges on the front of security and arms control ranging from a possible u.s. withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty that's designed to control medium range nuclear weapons possibly stationed in the. central europe and germany certainly germany will be looking to hinder that any further escalation in that area and of course any fallout from further

hostilities in syria that let new lead to a new wave of migrants all of those could be issues on which germany will need to and want to make its voice heard within the context of this new role in the security council in terms of plenty of challenges for germany abroad and indeed at home but one wonders kind of government led by a given rise to those challenges there must be many who see her as a lame duck indeed that is often said but you could also say that a lame duck is free to start working for the history books as it were to really be looking to make the kind of decisions that will solidify america's place in those history books and interestingly enough she did devote a good part of her new year's address this year to the international challenges and mentioned the need for germany to take more responsibility to stand up for its advocacy of multilateral solutions and whatever challenges are out there

domestically and internationally the fact is that this remains a very prosperous country with a majority of citizens who are committed to multilateral perspectives and with a strong sense that germany needs to be in the boat with others there isn't a real strong nationalist demagogue on the horizon apart from that far right party that was mentioned in the report but for all of those reasons i think we can look to a certain degree of leadership and stability here still from germany and from angela merkel. twenty nine teams off to a rocky start for netflix the streaming giant has come under fire for withdrawing an episode of the puppet a comedy show patriot act in saudi arabia perhaps understandably the saudi crown prince was not amused as a joke about the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. can tell us more welcome so

what was it about this job that is so offended the crown prince i mean this is a show hosted by us comedian his name is a samba nashi he used to work in the daily show he loves these political jokes is what the show is all about right so one of his first episodes really focused on saudi arabia the crown prince mohammed bin some on and his alleged involvement in the killing of the chetry actually we have a clip of that episode here take a look. just a few months ago crown prince mohammed bin some on a k n b s was hailed as the reformer of the arab world needed but the revelations about to show his killing have shattered that image in a blows my mind that it took the killing of the washington post journalist for everyone to go on. i guess he's really not a reformer meanwhile every muslim person you know was like yeah you know. he's the crown prince of saudi arabia. ok well apparently the saudis didn't think that was very funny and surprise surprise and the country's communications watchdog they basically forced netflix to take that episode down in saudi arabia when news of

that got out people were not very happy about it in fact here's some of what people were saying this is the executive director of human rights watch in the middle east and she says that netflix is claim just a court artistic freedom means nothing if it bows to demands of government officials who believe in no freedom for their citizens not artistic not political and not comedic even jamal khashoggi former editor of the washington post speaking out here and she says when jamal khashoggi wrote about the need for free expression in the arab world that freedom is not just about journalists it's about freedom for artists comedians cartoonists musicians anyone who wants to express their views on . others though taking kind of a more nuanced view here one person writes look if they want to operate in a country they have to obey its laws a better position for netflix would be to boycott saudi arabia altogether and that might help increase pressure for reform there as for netflix phil the company defending its decision in a written statement they said we strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and

only removed this episode in saudi arabia after we received a valid legal request and to comply with local law. though this is not an isolated incident saudi arabia is not noted for tolerating criticism right yeah if they don't like it in saudi arabia they will ban it they'll censor it they'll do basically whatever they want overall the state of media freedom there is not very strong we can just show you some statistics from reporters without borders they do not have some nice things to say about saudi arabia ranks one hundred sixty nine thousand one hundred eighty nations in terms of press freedom it does not allow an independent media there and it uses a very broadly written cybercrime law this is used to crack down on anything from blasphemy to insulting religion inciting chaos and danger in national unity i mean that could basically mean anything right and even defaming the king and that seems to be perhaps what flagged this episode there from the flicks of the netflix not

the only as i look around the media landscape it's not the only media looking like it's going to have a tough time this year right i mean the state of media freedom for tech companies i think is only getting worse it's not getting better and twenty nineteen and as these companies expand into other countries i mean that flicks now is in about two hundred countries around the world you have to start making these decisions do we prioritize profits do we prioritize freedom of speech and we saw the concession that flicks made there in saudi arabia another country on the horizon now is vietnam this week they just passed their own version of this cyber crime bill this would criminalize criticism of the government and requires tech companies to hand over user data that could be important for a company like facebook for example so we'll see more battles like this with author authoritarian regimes in the future and twenty nineteen coalescent some good work for to thank you. favor president giani infantino who says that while football's

governing body is studying whether it's possible to expand the twenty twenty two world cup to forty eight teams he said favor should follow through with the idea which was first suggested last march neighboring states could help qatar or some of the matches the foam has already voted to increase the size of the twenty twenty six world cup from thirty two to forty eight teams that expansion may now come sooner. staying is for the january transfer window is open i want to does the club has already cashed in dortmund of sold american christian select poorly sick to english club chelsea the twenty year old were moved to london for thieves sixty four million euros with the sir most expensive for his legal transfer in history the producer came through the ranks of dormant having joined a youth team twenty fifty to remain at the club for the rest season before joining chelsea in june. but it was all in is here happy new

year thank you what did you talk us through what the stock exchanges have been during the end of twenty eighteen was a real rocky ride for stocks worldwide and twenty nineteen it started exactly the same a wobbly start weak data from china and fears its trade to speak with the united states will continue well into the new year have investors on edge just minutes into trading the dow fell one of the hospice and it regaining some of those losses volatility traders experienced at the end of the year as i said could be here to stay in europe germany's dax or the interest into positive territory as trading was coming to an end and some asian stocks fell by as much as four percent. soundbites joins us now from the frankfurt stock exchange the first days of trading reflect what we could expect this year. well to me ben the first day of training really looks like a gigantic hangover from trying to drown out all the worries from twenty eighteen

but it's not working we're still seeing the same problems and we're probably going to continue to see the same problems that worries over the trade relationship between the u.s. and china and how that might affect other countries. in asia as well as in europe. also. more u.s. politics going to influence the markets like donald trump tweets currently in the in the government shutdown. specially here in europe is going to cause more concern and even though the government just managed to turn the corner at the end of the year with its budget we may still want to have a close look at that exactly because italy and its banking sector is looking quite bleak to start off twenty nine with the e.c.b. taking control of it italian back. yes italian banks are closely watched on the stock market that's because they have a lot of bad debt now the e.c.b.

taking over one of the banks that has a very large bad debt that's a bunker. now and that's not too much of a worry right now but it's actually a positive sign that the seabees taking over because management stepped down after it got into a gridlock with one of its main shareholders the bank was trying to raise capital to to better its own situation but the main shareholder wasn't so keen on that because of course that would mean more falling share prices and so there was a blockage and now the path is open to find a new solution whether it's selling the bank or raising more capital or liquidation the e.c.b. you will find that out so much to choose from pakistan puts that you very much. shares with said sitting at electric can make a tesla on the first day of trading for him by eight percent fourth quarter deliveries fell short of analysts expectations test those been struggling to ramp

up production of its model three which is crucial for its long term profitability and tesla's decision to cut the prices of its vehicles by two thousand dollars did little to help the share price company says it wants to help customers deal with the gradual phase out of federal tax credits for electric cars. tourism is a pillar of the indonesian economy but there are concerns about the state investing even more in a region it by its tsunami on december twenty second it hit the coast without warning crushing one of the biggest beach hotels killing dozens of people the location is heavily exposed. this beach had been one of the highlights of indonesia's push to draw more tourists the hotel that stood here before the tsunami struck advertised excuse of one of the world's most famous active volcanoes. a member of the dutch. government did a study and it concluded that. could be made a top tourist destination because it was so close to crack

a tour of. the volcano is in the middle of the sea and it's still expanding. and that's why it became a major tourist draw. that volcano triggered the tsunami that killed more than four hundred people easily crushing the buildings of tanya lazar it's the top location on the government's ten year program seeking to make other parts of indonesia just as popular as bali which attracts more than forty percent of indonesia's tourists every year but the hotel's c.e.o. says the government needs to focus more on disaster preparedness. to do so after this disaster the government should construct more buildings that can survive strong waves along with break waters. so if there's a high wave it can be anticipated and its force can be minimized. indonesia's tourism minister brushed off concerns and says the town should be

rebuilt within six months i think and we have been in. any places in a nice what is important and the most important thing is we have to profile the mitigation plan. indonesia wants to increase its annual tourist from fourteen million to more than twenty million with its investment push but without disaster ready infrastructure included many fear the funds could be quickly washed away. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. filing clashes in india after two when the fighting. one of. the bright they were exercising their rights under a supreme court ruling that overturned the tradition and. from entering the temple . unions from berlin. place.

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