this is a w. news line from garland the democratic republic of congo tells the international community to back its election results of the butter up says he will challenge the outcome in course the disputed results sparked unrest with as many as five deaths reported so far also on the program the flight to freedom the saudi woman who fled her family's on her way to canada she made global headlines after barricading himself in a hotel room at bangkok airport. every snow sweep since the balkans after burying

much of southern germany and austria the military is being called out in some areas and more snow is forecast. i'm filled welcome to the program. the democratic republic of congo has told the international community to back the outcome of its presidential election the head of the congolese election commission was addressing the un security council as it debated the results which saw opposition leader felix ashes to katie declared the surprise winner opposition rival mohsin for you lou who came a close second was to 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 boyd that runner up martin for 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. to state there was old by about each polling station. for you lou accuses outgoing president joseph kabila of making a backroom deal with the surprise declared winner opposition leader felix sheika 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. and

they don't because wanted to wendy bash is in the congolese capital kinshasa she joins us on the line or welcome wendy you went to modify it is that meeting today tell us more about what he said. everyone yes they were the. people to clearly to morrow early in the morning and there wouldn't be ethical position of course because he wants to go there and hold. me then he wants to have the result that even if they could give. you one quote and in one country and of course there are no cars there. now well we know that there have been deaths to this result was announced how great is the risk of civil unrest. for the moment everything we can from what's my stuff i always do tomorrow but you have to know that even today right after did

everything there was this phase they have should we've got is like it was and here in kinshasa so everything we did and the situational today and we don't know if we'd be allowed to go to the good position of course maybe then we'd be close to the street and you can be very dangerous to people so we are waiting for tomorrow to have more information on how to say we continue and everything we take all so if he does actually get this to court what are his chances of succeeding in overturning the result is a very good question and also if he can question to answer because everything is because from the court and we need to wait and to hope that the cool very independent. the answer is about the independence of the court where we receive probably next week we have more on to about the. when they bash me

and can show i said thank you. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world two voices journalists remain locked up in myanmar after a court dismissed their appeal against seventy year sentences of breaking the country's official secrets act they were investigating a chance to muslims other men's lawyers argue they were framed by the police. police in sudan have fired tear gas and i'm ticked off at anti-government demonstrators in the capital khartoum are demanding the resignation of president omar al bashir protests have increased over the last month posing the most serious challenge yet to his thirty year presidency. the u.s. led coalition against the islamic state group started the process of withdrawing from syria a pentagon spokesman confirmed the move just a day after the secretary of state's delivered a speech in which she said what america be treats chaos often followers.

now officials in thailand have confirmed that the saudi teenager fleeing alleged abuse by a family is now on her way to canada mohammed al cannot made global headlines of this week after barricading himself inside a hotel bedroom a bangkok airport she'd been stopped on route to australia and threatened with deportation she wants the social media campaign to draw attention to have plight thailand's immigration police chief also confirmed that the teenager's father and brother have left bangkok and i travel there to oppose a resettlement. regarding the request by her father and brother to meet her. still refuses to meet them. her father and brother are also returning home on a flight. there for this matter. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau has confirmed canada house granted this go asylum. un h e 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 god your ship last back on the global agenda for the budget 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 a movement on going on with many trending hashtags 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 outside the country i couldn't travel because i'm a girl and the other woman say it says here stop treating us as minors it's our choice. it's 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 and are you seeing people defending the system. as well of course i mean it is very entrenched in the society and some people in saudi arabia still defend the 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 tried to get a saudi woman out of her home dignity and her honor to be an easy target of the fields of society is that violate freedom of people under the banner of freedom saudi 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 chrome 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 with 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 of widespread will to change things fredricka back to you thank you thank you. but the heavy snow this port half of southern germany and austria has not reached the balkans in southeastern europe authorities in boulder area say to 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 heavy snowfalls for twenty years and forecasters are warning of more on the way. a few still manage to enjoy the abundance of snow. but for most it's belles only hard work and danger german soldiers clear rooftops and back just garden to prevent a collapse with fresh snowfall expected over the weekend it is a race against time. in the back of this garden community alone there around one hundred rooms that still need to be cleared of snow. they're carrying a very heavy load we'll now prioritize and obviously we're going to do lots of quickly as possible so the snow is gone before any new snow arrives. before the new economy. in this winter wonderland the snow covered hidden dangers 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 your previous authorities and also warn that soggy snow will increase the weight bearing down on structures as well as the risk of avalanche as. you flew to understand 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. avalanches have already proven a menace in switzerland i guess we're 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 shock at mountain pass injuring three people. across the alps the snow is hampering transport him back to scott the train stand frozen in their trucks. and while most roads in

australia remain open conditions are so hazardous that shops have already run out of snow chains. i mean i see face covering this story from the austrian town of say which is 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 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 as 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 is 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 mean honestly for forcing one of two german egyptian jewel nationals who went missing in egypt as arrived back in germany twenty three year old mahmoud as these as was said to be deported from egypt because authorities suspected him of trying to join these my mixtape group the other eighteen year old isa else about remains in custody in egypt also on suspicion of terrorist activity for his family the uncertainty is hard to back. it took more than three weeks for mohammed else above to find out that his son easy had been detained by egyptian authorities egypt reportedly suspects him of wanting to join terrorist islamic state fight is in the country that says mohammad is not true his last contact with his son was on december

seventeenth yes from the whole family is psychologically exhausted i have a breakdown at work this is really knocked me out. mohamed 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 easel 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 normal 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 to like the other dual german egyptian citizen

sport now in football's asian cup the second round of the group stage continues on friday australia got their campaign back on track by beating the palestine three nil the socceroos has suffered a shock loss to jordan in the opener and china stayed on top of group c. by easily downing the philippines were only scored twice in the three nil success favorite south korea barely squeaked by a stab at kim provided the only goal of that encounter. i tell is now when i start the bar is announced that he's to retire this year telling an emotional news conference he may even quit after the upcoming australian open murray roger federer rafael nadal and novak djokovic have dominated the men's game in recent years when the lion's share of major titles and earning the name the big four but the quartet could become a trio in just a couple of weeks ahead of this year's first grand slam of the season andy murray

ranked two hundred thirtieth addressed his lack of performance and dealing with chronic pain. i can still play it's a two level i'm happy playing. but also. you know it's not just that the pain is. you know is just too much really. having secured the u.s. open title in two thousand and twelve murray became the first british man since nine hundred thirty six to win wimbledon a year later bringing tennis fever back to the u.k. but it was in two thousand and sixteen when marie really shown he retained his olympic title in rio just weeks after winning wimbledon again. he then triumphed in the a.t.p. world tour finals the scot ascended to the world number one spot five

in two thousand and seventeen murray injured his hip and was forced to cut the season short missing the u.s. open in early two thousand and eighteen he announced he don't to go on surgery maurice keep the a stallion open french open and wimbledon the thirty one year old initially planned to quit after this july's wimbledon but cheerfully he now feels melbourne might be his final event. saying i think news because there's a chance for sure. there's a chance of that for sure because. like i said i'm not i'm not sure. i'm not sure i'm able to. to fly through the pain you know for another. four or five months with murray set to leave the koch men's tennis will have to do with that one of its cornerstones. oh anything about athletics are normally very

few reasons you might think of vatican city but the tiny state has just lowered to so international track and field team so will it be god's speed for the vatican routes to the olympics. a rare sight in st peter's square. this is part of the vatican city's new athletics team and they are ready to take on the world the vatican may be the smallest state on earth but the team as lofty ambitions. so they live. with regards to the olympics the dream we have is to be carrying the vatican flag during the opening ceremony of the games. a marathon running priest and a half marathon loving nun are among the team members. for me when i began running it gave me the chance to rediscover inner peace to find

a balance we need we would have time for silence. the vatican competing at the olympics may still be a way off but a leap of faith is all they need. all right business news now with how they gave us and who our way of making got the headlines again for all the wrong reasons that's right bill it seems like if you are a while where you executive you have to take care when you travel because after the arrest of the company c.f.o. in canada now another top executive of the company is being held this time by polish off already they are claiming that they have espionage charges against china says it is disturbed by the news. a chinese while we employee and the polish cyber security expert who served as a domestic intelligence officer they are the two men charged with spying by polish authorities. are suspected of espionage on behalf of chinese

intelligence services against poland is an important investigation into serious events that threaten the security of poland if you will not of the. western intelligence agencies have been warning the chinese government could use well ways products to collect data they say the tech giant which was founded by a former chinese army officer could have links to the chinese government some countries have already banned while away from supplying equipment for their five g. wireless networks the latest allegation will do little to help the company's reputation. to another executive in trouble accusations against nissan's former chairman carlos go on are piling up japanese prosecutors now filed two additional charges of aggravated breach of trust against the executive golan was the man behind nice and strategic alliance with french carmaker. when this footage was taken back in may two thousand and sixteen carlos ghosn was allegedly already

a big time fraudster or so his accusers say. then in november last year the bubble burst and was arrested in tokyo the sixty four year old was charged with repeatedly under reporting his pay to shareholders and embezzling company money but go on says he's innocent. carlos ghosn was famous for his luxury as a lifestyle including many villas around the world and fancy family holidays a glitzy executive with three passports born in brazil the son of lebanese parents became one of the most successful c.e.o.'s not only in his adopted home of france but across the world. in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. going to coven at the helm of embattled french comm a can't say no and oversaw a restructuring program that transformed the company's fortunes. he then forged an alliance between the no listen and mitsubishi which helped make

a turnaround. the scandal has shaken the international auto wells in particular there are tensions in the french japanese alliance. after his arrest go in was discharged from baseness son and mitsubishi he remains c.e.o. of renato. and earlier we spoke to michael penn president of the news agency in tokyo we asked him whether it was true that carlos go in could wait another six months before his case goes to trial that's right and on the way that it could be half a year before we ever see going publicly again because the prosecutors often will will make the case to the court so you would usually say he hasn't confessed he's maintaining his innocence of let him go you could flee the country or tamper with evidence so you know we may not see mr cohen again for a long time and all of this about a man who is completely maintaining his innocence and with the evidence against him

looking fairly flimsy at least from the outside. to argentina now where thousands took to the streets once again to protest against the austerity plans of the government president notice your market cut subsidies for public utilities and other services that sent electricity and gas prices up a whopping two thousand percent since the start of his presidency fearing no end in sight citizens have planned weekly protests until next month. protesters as far as the eye can see thousands have taken to the streets of going to cyrus. they are demonstrating against the government's austerity measures and rising prices inflation rate is now at a staggering fifty percent. and the thing is that it's not only about the price hikes it's also about precarious work a lack of work the closure of companies and the cost of food is increasing in the

disproportional way. argentinians of protests and many times since president took office about three years ago the economic crisis has worsened poverty has reached new heights affecting one in three argentinians that's more than thirteen million people according to the catholic university of. life has become especially precarious for those living in and around the most populous city when it's ira's. they will continue to take to the streets here. before we go a deal between brazil's national plane maker and its bigger u.s. rival boeing could be finalized before the end of the year the agreement would. eighty percent of its profitable commercial divisions and boeing for four point two billion dollars before taking office incoming president. had expressed concern boeing could eventually take over and completely the company is of strategic

importance to the country and the government as it also produces military planes but the government has now said it would green light the deal. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election has said he will challenge the result in court disputed results rest of the congolese government has told the international community to back. a saudi woman who fled her family is on her way to canada where she's been given asylum mohammed new made global headlines after barricading herself in a hotel room at bangkok airport. and heavy snow has swept into the balkans and southeastern europe after burying southern germany and austria the army has been brought in to clear snow in some areas but more is forecast over the next

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