this is the end of the news live from berlin flights to freedom the saudi woman who fled her family is on her way to canada mohamed outcome new no made global headlines after barricading herself in a hotel room and bangkok airport now she's been given asylum in canada also on the program. the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential elections says he will challenge the result in court the disputed result to spark unrest with five deaths reported so far. and heavy snow sweeps into the balkans after burying

much of southern germany and austria the military has been called out in some areas and more snow is forecast. i'm still going to welcome to the program a new chapter has begun for the saudi teenager fleeing alleged abuse by her family time officials have confirmed she is now on her way to canada mohamed al canoe made global headlines earlier this week after barricading himself inside a hotel room at bangkok airport she'd been stopped on route to australia and threatened with deportation she launched a social media campaign to draw attention to her plight. speaking i think vent to short time ago canadian prime minister justin trudeau that canada has granted her asylum. the u.n. h.c.r. has made a request of canada that we accept. as

a refugee and we have accepted the un's request that we grant her asylum that is something that we are pleased to do because canada is a country that understands how important it is to stand up for human rights to stand up for women's rights around the world and i can confirm that we have accepted the un's request. ross case has put the controversial issue of saudi arabia's male guardian ship last back on the global agenda that he could badger from d.w. social media can tell us all welcome federica so what are you seeing as this debate plays out across social media we've seen that after a half dramatic escape many saudi many other saudi women have taken to social media to speak out against a system that requires them to have to have the permission of the male for many things to get married to open an account to get a passport to travel they even need a male permission to be freed from prison and we're seeing that there's

a remarkable movement on going on with many trending hashtags and we're seeing we've been asking to and male guardianship and the travel ban on saudi women remove guardianship and we won't all migrate so very strong messages and we can look at a couple of those comments from twitter this is for instance a woman called my she writes it's embarrassing that i'm thirty six mother of two an emergency room doctor harvard graduates and still viewed as a minor i am trusted to make a life and death decisions for patients trusted to raise kids but i'm not trusted to make my own decisions regarding my life and here's another woman who says a great company offers me a great job i couldn't take it because it's out. the country i couldn't travel because i'm a girl and other woman says here stop treating us as minors it's our choice our decision we can handle the consequences and we can do it for the sake of a new modern saudi arabia and we're seeing that many of these women are tweeting in

english some of them are protecting their identities but it really sending out really strong messages and we've seen similar online come pains in the past like the one to end the ban on women driving and they have been successful and now the debate is open again i'm not are you saying people defending the system. as well of course i mean it is very entrenched in the society and some people in saudi arabia still defending idea that the world is not a friendly place for women and that they should be protected through this guardianship system and here is a man who is a point who is making that point online saying you try to get a saudi woman out of her home dignity and her honor to be an easy target of the field of society is that violate freedom of people under the banner of freedom so that women will remain a fortress against old the full slogans all over the world and of course there's a lot of people who shared this view under crown print crown prince and mohammed

bin so some freedoms have been granted to saudi women he ended the ban on women driving for instance he also eased some restrictions on gender mixing for example by allowing women to serve in the army but at the same time while these changes have been accomplished they have also been accompanied by a crackdown on dissent and we know that a number of prominent women's activists have been jailed and saudi arabia does remain one of the world's nations with the biggest gender segregate one of the most sense gender segregated nations and rav gesture has really shed new light on this issue and also on the will widespread will to change things for the budget thank you thank you. take a look at some of the other side. as making news around the world police in sudan have five tear gas at the anti-government demonstrators in the capital khartoum demanding the resignation of president obama alba share of protests have increased over the last month posing the most serious challenge yet to his thirty here

presidency. the u.s. led coalition against the islamic state group house started the process of withdrawing from syria a pentagon spokesperson confirmed the move just a day after the u.s. secretary of state delivered a speech in which she said the when america retreats chaos often follows. form a nazi concentration camp guard deported by the united states has died at a care home in germany. poorly lived for decades in the u.s. hiding his past he was expelled in august after a long legal battle but did not face prosecution he was ninety five. and the democratic republic of congo has told the international community to back the outcome of its presidential election they had of the congolese election commission was addressing the un security council as it debated the results which saw opposition leader felix as she said she exchanged felix cicada declared the

surprise where the opposition rival a modern for you lou who came a close second has dismissed the result and says he will challenge it in the country's constitutional court. this may not look like what you'd expect to see from supporters of a candidate who just lost an election but these jubilant scenes are at a rally in kinshasa for the loser of the presidential vote in the democratic republic of congo the crowds are boy that runner up march and fight you lou says he's challenging the election result in court he claims that he won by a landslide. break up rise up sons of the congo take courage will go to the constitutional court to file an appeal. then to state there was old followed by about each polling station.

accuses outgoing president joseph kabila of making a backroom deal with the surprise declared winner opposition leader felix she cut katie the disputed results have sparked unrest with several deaths reported so far the country's influential catholic church also says its forty thousand election observers found a different winner from the official results but it has not released its tally. correspondent wendy bashi in kinshasa sent us this report but i love it for you making any case that all these people to come tomorrow night eight am to what we have the midst of course additional school because we want to them that they make sure no one knows. no fear and he also says that he has when did that with the one who would then have been put putting on the election what if people would waiting for the belief and now we have the result they're very happy with the result most of them because it is different than that one coming from the lake and

you've been in a lake and also all the things we defend also with the police you know different position of course if they decide to meet and i needed to think planes over me that we have to start begin to lift them that's been a very difficult skill i think all the guys indeed your. point is to do course edition of course we've been that i still owe it to our city. oh heavy snow this brought having to southern germany and austria has now reached the balkans and southeastern europe is in bulgaria say two snowboarders have died in an avalanche in the mountainous southwest and the rest of europe at least seventeen people have died in some of the heaviest snow falls for two decades and folk forecasters are warning of even more snow. if you still manage to enjoy the abundance of snow but for most it's girls only hard work and

danger german soldiers clear roof tops and backs just garden to prevent the collapse were fresh snow fall expected over the weekend it is a race against time. in the back of this garden community alone around one hundred rooms that still need to be cleared of snow they're carrying a very heavy load we all know prioritize and obviously we're going to do that as quickly as possible so the snow is gone before any new snow arrives. before then. and this winter wonderland the snow covers hidden dangerous helicopter clears the snow from the treetops next to this german highway to avoid them collapsing onto the road. a rise in temperatures on saturday will not bring a preview authorities and also warn that saw the snow will increase the weight bearing down on structures as well as the risk of avalanches. to food and doesn't

feel the fear is that people will say well there is a lot of snow the weather is better. and our experience from the last thirty years has shown that the first even prove weather is really dangerous it's when most avalanche accidents happen. for. avalanches have already proven a menace in switzerland i guess were lucky to survive snow masses that came crashing through the hotel on thursday. this is the devastation caused by a threat meter avalanche that swept into the building at the shack a mountain pass injuring three people. across the alps the snow is hampering transport him back to scott in the train stand frozen in their tracks. and while most roads in austria remain open conditions are so hazardous that shops have already run out of snow chains. and they don't do sameh seif is covering this story from the austrian town of altaie was a week she's struggling with a record snowfall another danger that they're experiencing here is the massive

amounts of snow that have fallen on the roofs the roofs are specifically designed to carry this weight but authorities have warned that even in this area the rules are at about seventy five percent capacity so people have been working around the clock to clear that off perhaps the biggest danger though is the danger of avalanches. the austin authorities have issued the highest avalanche warning for this region just up this mountain is one of those areas and a part of this village has actually been evacuated even the mayor had to leave his home the mayor told us that if it stops knowing if the sun comes out this does not reduce the danger of an avalanche because the snow could fall off the mountain at any time but he said that the villagers have come together they're trying to get through this and so far everybody has stayed safe and warm. i want to vote to germany gyptian dual nationals who went missing in egypt has arrived back in

germany twenty three year old mahmoud aziz was said to have been deported from egypt because authorities suspected him of trying to join the so-called islamic state of an eighteen year old else about remains in custody in egypt also on suspicion of terrorist activity for his family the uncertainty is hard to bear. it took more than three weeks for mohammed else about to find out that his son had been detained by egyptian authorities egypt reportedly suspects him of wanting to join terrorist islamic state fighters in the country that says mohammed is not true his last contact with his son was on december seventeenth yes from the whole family is psychologically exhausted i have breakdown at work this is really knocked me out . mohammed else about says his son flew to looks on route to cairo to visit his grandfather but never arrived in the egyptian capital the german government said on

thursday that is it was in an egyptian prison hardly reassuring news this. egyptian prisons are like a horror film even worse than a horror film even the words egyptian prison are terrifying people get beaten tortured and killed there i'm afraid for my son he could be in jail for ten years in detention without charges in egypt that's normal to nima ease or else about holds dual german and egyptian citizenship his father hopes that the german government will be able to convince egypt to send him back home too like the other dual german egyptian citizen. i'm situ up to date so i have most here at the top of the hour on a course that's more around the clock on our website as. i'm going to.

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