this is d.w. news wire from brazil and more people taking to the streets in algeria police arrest nearly two hundred people as clashes break out following huge demonstrations calling for the country's leader to step down but will he look at the latest. also coming up venezuela is struggling to recover from a huge power outage is a power struggle of a different kind continues the country's opposition leader is demanding the elections the president isn't backing down. and the women who document more of a new exhibition shows the work of female for talks first and the images from the

front lines that only they could capture. i'm serious almost got to thank you for joining us algeria has seen the biggest demonstrations against president. protests began two weeks ago the eighty two year old has ruled out geria for the past twenty years and is in poor health but he wants to run for a fifth term and upcoming elections the demonstrations were mostly peaceful but police used tear gas to block the road to the presidential palace and in several other areas of the capital state television says almost two hundred people have been arrested. but this has been a common sight on the streets of algiers for the past two weeks. president up to as he's beautifully just assertion to run for a fifth term has led to protests all over the country. many algerian say they've

had enough of the current government and the top type of protest is undiminished. i am saying no to the regime. we need a better future for our children we did not live the good life but we want our children to live a better not. the president confined to a wheelchair that's try to assuage public anger by promising reform. he has also lashed out against the protests saying they have been infiltrated by foreign powers some even doubt that beautifully guy's still alive political activist russian station demonstration in front of the hospital in geneva where the president is reportedly being treated. to be with you here are forty million algerians who want to know where they all german president and those he's going to flee to is because no one has seen him since his last speech in said chief on may eighth two thousand

and twelve where he declared publicly in front of all algeria he would withdraw from algerian political life to. make us a try to list himself as a candidate but was barred by the government he was later arrested after demanding access to the hospital. that young people in particular are desperate for change. but you. know we want to get rid of. econ to even open or close his eyes any more i watch him he's half dead and he really has to be for power now or you could look on the phone we're really grateful for all he did but it really is time for him to leave and allow other candidates to run for president if the ailing president is listening he shows no sign of honoring these demands. let's get more on the story with journalist sophia and philip nasr he's an on about algeria has been tracking the story for us and joins us on the line so he has always seen the biggest demonstrations since these protests began two weeks ago what is the situation like today. today had served very quiet in the morning it's

a user weekend day as always off to major protest of the us to do what we can with the g.b. is pretty civilized sir protest movement a very quiet all supportive during the protests you see people teaming up with cheap school along with justin. and juliet night to go home to day like goes on so we're not talking about a country that probably with the most protest movements that is heading to the streets for protests but at the same time going to school on people and things should be impossible for do these incidents are just little bits. of the burden to note that these protests have been largely peaceful until now why do you think that is and do you think it will remain that way. this is something that is indeed really remarkable. and also the bare young population still born in the late ninety's or on later not. observing what was happening in the region since two

thousand and eleven so we're in front of the tunisia egypt. and libya and they're very well sir the consequences of violent protests she also has a bargain tossed when it comes to a popular uprising in one thousand nine hundred eighty three went to the streets. to challenge the government and to a bloody civil the wall well what about one hundred fifty thousand who were kids so it is obscene speeches that this has to be any do you do the development in the region to be very very cautious in how they often for change. so if you know as we mentioned the president put a figure he's eighty two years old he's been president for nearly twenty years we mentioned he's in poor health and he's rarely seen in public these days we don't really know where he is do you think these protests could convince him to step down from. a political problem convincing him to step down it's about convincing the

people behind him to sit down to think if he can fill it in power hold here to constituents and help with the future which he started to walk or to talk with people behind him who were not a group who were agree on how money could replace them so these people are up until today sticking to power. and what we're definitely but we definitely see that interview just around winston scientifically even within the alliance that was standing behind him to secure in the last twenty years is very supportive to include even within the powerful trade union federation. that the view from the each and the political realities of getting the president's. support is. drawn are journalists soft and philip nasra speaking to us from algeria thank you very much for your analysis now more big

protests are expected in venezuela today though the country self-proclaimed leader is calling for his supporters to take to the streets again to step up pressure on president nicolas maduro and demand new elections now mother though has also called on his supporters to rally today the power struggle between why though and moto has brought the country to a standstill and that has a huge electricity blackout has paralyzed much of the country. the very beginning dialysis patients wait outside their wards unable to receive treatment from these pirate daryn machines. and in a maternity unit nurses fight to keep babies alive in intensive care. manually. blackouts are nothing new in venezuela this latest one began just before thursday evenings russia are sending commuters on lengthy tracks back home on fates in near

total darkness president nicolas maduro officials say it's sabotage. after all the statements from the north american empire and comments from those who support them here no one can be that naive to believe that this is a random event. it is an attack on the homeland without any doubt it is an attack on venezuela. not according to the country's self declared president one quite do speaking at an event marking international women's day on friday he launched his own attack on his government. even yeah because they have no idea what they are talking about. they are inefficient and corrupt. it cannot be normal that half our hospitals don't have generators and that the other half can barely deal with emergencies and some surgeries without any doubt

there is nothing normal about today these are not the looming nor normal you know your. power was gradually being restored across venezuela opiate szekely this latest blackout has been the country's longest yet in some areas lasting well over twenty four hours and people just want to get moving again. now it's mother stories making headlines around the world the newborn son of british teenager shabnam a bagel has reportedly died in syria they go who joined the islamic state when she was fifteen had said she wants. to go back to the u.k. to raise her baby in better conditions british home secretary said it revoked her citizenship to prevent her from returning. more than half a million people have demonstrated across spain to call for gender equality a major union says some six million people also took part in a two hour strike women's rights have become a key topic across the political spectrum ahead of elections in april. there was

a less peaceful picture in turkey where police in istanbul fired tear gas at demonstrators taking part in a women's day march that authorities have banned thousands of women had gathered at the city's central square for the protest police pushed back another group of women at the entrance to istanbul's main shopping street many of the protestors were demanding the release of women imprisoned in syria the organizers say nearly fourteen thousand women have been jailed there since syria's civil war began almost eight years ago. as yulia han in istanbul explains why turkey tolerated this protest for a little over an hour even though demonstrations have been banned since the attempted coup in two thousand and sixteen. well first of all it's of course the internationals the women's day it's a meaningful protest but as you rightly said especially since the sales coup here in turkey in some twenty sixteen we have witnessed

a massive crackdown on media organizations civil society organizations on private persons as well we have been criticizing the turkish government or president out on himself so all kinds of demonstrations be it workers unions or demonstrations the gay pride they have all been banned so that shows how difficult it has become for many people to voice their concerns that their anger how little space there is left and i think today tonight it is just another example and that's why actually women's day is so important for many people here not just for women but for many others as well. all right it is perhaps the most dangerous job in journalism were photography photojournalists risked their lives to bring home images straight from the frontlines among them have been some remarkable women who paid the ultimate price for their work german photographer oniony telling house who took a photo was killed in afghanistan just four years ago

a new exhibition document's her work and that of other women behind the lens. when she takes pictures carolyn cool has a clear and come on line but she doesn't normally find subjects for her photographs in museums she is a war photographer. you have to be curious about the world you have to have compassion for people around the world and you have to have persistence to get into these situations because many of this is so if situations shown here are very difficult to get into those kind of situations where there's no one else there to show what's going on gives me a real sense of purpose. at this exhibition and dissolute are the display is made up of one hundred forty works by eight female war photographers from the one nine hundred thirty s.

up to the present day all of the photos were taken by women who ventured with their cameras to the front line. their photos show that in war there are no winners today is an ever present theme. back in the one nine hundred seventy s. in iran or in the western sahara photographers such as christine spangler from france even had their cameras under headscarves by doing that they often gained access to areas that were off limits to their male colleagues the fate of being a woman as a war reporter is a big advantage women cannot have any use their physical power in this profession and stead. death in the face but they also have the advantage that they can be androgynous women can be comedians. very subtle like this women mother and soldier beauty and hoarder are never far apart in war

it's all about survival and not just for the locals for the photographers two german reporter an eating house was shot dead in afghanistan in twenty fourteen her photos are also an splay in the exhibition and. there's no specifically female eye when it comes to war photography just like their male counterparts women are also searching for the truth their lens is subjective they are there to give a voice to the people affected by conflict. they appreciate somebody coming and trying to tell their story it doesn't require even speaking to somebody there is it almost an instant connection that i make with people they know why i'm there they know what's going on in their country they want people to know what's happening. by paying attention to the people who are so often forgotten in the chaos of war photographer such as carolyn cool and christine spangler show parts of life that many people would be all too keen to blow. and in doing so the rest no

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