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this is deja vu news live from berlin more people taking to the streets in algeria police arrest nearly two hundred of clashes break out calling huge demonstrations calling for the country's leader to step down but will he do so we'll get the latest. also coming up the women who document walk a new exhibition shows the work of female photographers and the images from the front lines that only they could capture. and a space x. test capsule splashdown in the atlantic it successful mission is paving the way for
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a human space flights to resume from the u.s. . i'm sorry someone's got to thank you for joining us algeria has seen the biggest demonstrations against president abdelaziz bouteflika since 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 t.v. says almost two hundred people have been arrested. a force of blue helmets and riot gear pushes forward into the streets of algiers the police fired tear gas and the crowds of demonstrators ahead. armored police vehicles plows
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through the streets as protesters throw stones in defiance of the ruling government . for two weeks running demonstrations have become a common sight on the streets of algeria's capital city but now the movement has grown larger than ever before with tens of thousands of algerians demanding president abdelaziz bouteflika not run for a fifth term many say they've had enough of the current government and their appetite for protest is undiminished. by him 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 life. the president confined to a wheelchair has tried to ease public anger by promising political reform and has also lashed out against the protests saying they have been infiltrated by foreign powers some even doubt that boof leka is still alive political activists rashid
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neck us staged demonstration in front of the hospital in geneva where the president is reportedly being treated. there are forty million algerians who want to know where they all during president those he's going to flee to is because no one has seen him since his last speech and said chief on may eighth two thousand and twelve or he declared publicly in front of all of syria he would withdraw from algerian political life. tried 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 that. we want to get rid of. he can't even open or close his eyes anymore. he's half dead and he really has to be for power and now. we're really grateful for all he did but it really is time for him to leave in an hour of the kind of. to run for president if the president is
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listening from his hospital bed 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 he's been tracking the story for us and joins us on the line so if you have so we've seen the biggest demonstrations since these protests began two weeks ago what is the situation like today. today are very quiet in the morning it's a user weekend day as always off to major protest event just to do what we can always do and she is pretty civilized sir protest movement a very quiet all supportive during the protests to see people teaming up with chiefs who are wrong just. usually at night to go home to day like goes on so we're not talking about a country when we're talking with them of protest movements that is headed to the streets for protests but at the same time going to school on people of two children in coffee shops for the reasons you do these are just little digs. at the border to
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know that these protests have been largely peaceful until now why do you think that is and you think it will remain that way. this is something that is indeed really remarkable. and also the bear young population that little boy in the late ninety's when they saw. observing what was happening in the region since two thousand and eleven so in neighboring countries the tunisia egypt. and libya and they're very well sir the consequences of violent protests and she also has a bargain tossed when it comes to a popular uprising in one thousand eight 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 killed and so because of since teaches that this has to be engaged or the development in the region should be are very very cautious in how they are often for change. so
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if you know as we mentioned the president put a figure he's eighty three years old he's been president for nearly twenty years we mentioned he's been for helping is rarely seen in public leaves say we don't really know where he is do you think these protests could convince him to step down. because it will convince convention him to step down it's about convincing the people behind him to step down if you can insert it in power for years due to his deed to the edge and help the teachers are able to walk to talk so it's cheaper to heinsohn who were not able to were it to be on how much you could replace them so these people are up until today sticking to power. and what we were what we had that we do we but we differ with you she's the one to teach us china will step aside because even within the alliance that was done with the idea to secure in the last twenty years is supposed to include even within the powerful trade union
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federation. the biggest million each and the political policies that are backing the president's support is withdrawn all right journalist sophie and feel it necessary speaking to us from algeria thank you very much for your analysis. now to some other stories making headlines around the world fed as well of the opposition leader has called for his supporters to take to the streets again to step up pressure on the government for new elections president nicolas maduro has also called on his supporters to rally the latest power struggle comes after a huge electricity blackout paralyzed much of the country. police in the turkish city of istanbul have fired tear gas at demonstrators taking part in a march to mark international women's day many of the protesters were demanding the release of women imprisoned in syria authorities said the march was an authorized. that's perhaps the most dangerous job in journalism war photography photo
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journalists who risk 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 a german photographer anya kneeling house took the photo behind me she was killed in afghanistan just four years ago a new exhibition documents 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 each situation shown here are very difficult to get into those
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kind of situations where there is no one else there to show what's going on gives me a real sense of purpose. at this exhibition and dissolute 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 when. men who ventured with their cameras to the front line. their photos show that in war there are no winners day 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 fabled of being a woman as a war reporter is a big advantage women can not only use their physical power in this profession and stead death in the face but they also have the advantage that they can be
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androgynous women can be comedians. very subtle you'll 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 too german reporter and you need to be in house was shot dead in afghanistan in twenty fourteen her photos are also in display in the exhibition. 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
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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 spang their show parts of life that many people would be all too keen to blog. and in doing so. so you know less than their lives. a capsule built by the american company space x. has flashed down off the coast of florida ending its tests like to the international space station improvements still need to be made but the company wants to put astronauts on a flight later this year. a six hour descent. ending in a splash. with its landing in the atlantic ocean the unmanned space x. crew dragon capsule completed its six day mission to the international space
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station. it marked another milestone for billionaire iran musk's private space company. this mission was to demonstrate that space x. is capable of carrying astronauts to the i.s.a.'s. mission accomplished. ripley the capsules captain would have survived but she was a mere dummy covered in sensors but with no voice to return greetings to her space station comrades when her capsule docked by remote control on march third. welcome to the crew dragon. congratulations to all of the teams who made yesterday's launch and today's docking a success. is amazing feat. show it's not how easy our mission is but how capable we are of doing our thing. welcome to the new era in space flight. space x. is one of a handful of private companies around the world hoping to usher in
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a new era an extraterrestrial travel one in which entrepreneurs rather than governments hold the key to the heavens. in bundesliga football last year's league runners up shall continue their bad run of late this time with a four two away lost of better brain that their coach to death desperately needed the three points and his team we flee looked like they could oblige a midway through the first half the visitors went up one nil with this goal. but shock event took charge scoring four goals and ending the match for two winners this is the third straight loss for shaka their coach's job may well. dortmund will be in the spotlight when they host a cart on saturday dortmund have a nine point lead in the title race at one point the season but now perennial champions byron munich are level with them on point points with only goal difference separating the two sides of the pressure is on dortmund to refine their
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for. captain marco royce was sorely missed royce's injury started in december keeping him sidelined for a period where the team suffered a dip in form but even without the superstore the table toppers could have not stuck more points than they ended up doing. we have to stay positive we always create enough scoring chances to win we have to eliminate the individual mistakes. despite the bumpy weeks in the bundesliga and the sobering in to do it means champions league campaign the fans remain one hundred percent behind their team over the first month i believe that almost all teams have phases in the course of a season in which things don't go so well and that's what we just had. hoped . the club wants to believe the crisis is over on saturday we'll find out if
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opponents stuttgart are willing to play along. coming up next on new five years ago flight m h three seventy s bound for beijing disappeared from radar screens to this day no one knows what happened to the plane or where it's wreckage is to be found one that coming right up on our special report. where i come from we have to fly for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if you newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many cantors and the problems are always the same core to the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption weak on the fort.

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