in the future. the jew political. story mostly due to. this is due to the news live from berlin venezuela braces for rival protests opposition leader won by though calls on supporters to take to the streets again to demand the election by the government supporters say they also plan to demonstrate also coming up algerian police arrest nearly two hundred as clashes break out going huge demonstrations calling for the country's leader to step down but will he look

at the latest. and the women who document more a new exhibition shows the work of female or talk or first in the images from the front lines that only they could capture. i'm sunni so with god it's good to have you with us more big protests are expected in venezuela today one why 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 mother little has also called on his supporters to rally today the power struggle between why though and has brought the country to a standstill and that is a huge electricity blackout has paralyzed much of the country. dialysis patients we say their wards unable to receive treatment from these pirate

day machines and in a maternity unit nurses fight to keep babies alive in intensive care manually. blockades are nothing new in venezuela this latest one began just before thursday evenings rush hour 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 living 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. algeria has seen the biggest demonstrations against president abdullah since protests started two weeks ago the eighty two year old has ruled out jury a for the

past twenty years and is import health but he wants to run for a fifth term in 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 into the crowds of demonstrators ahead. armored police vehicles plows 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. high and 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 has also lashed out against the protests saying they have been infiltrated by foreign powers some even doubt that boof lekas still alive political activist rashid neck us staged 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 are during president those he's going to flee to is there 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 what so he's half dead and he really has to be for our now. we're really grateful for all he did but it really is time for him to leave and allow other kind of. to run for president if the president is listening from his hospital bed he shows no sign of honoring the. let's get more on the story with journalist sophia philip necessarily he's an honest out geria has been tracking the story for us and joins us on the line so if you have that we've seen the biggest demonstration since these protests began two weeks ago what is the situation like today. today very quiet in the morning it's a user weekend day as always almost

a major protest of yesterday what would you would do and she is a pretty civilized protest movement it's very quiet all supporters like this during the protests you see people teaming up. just. to the at night to go home today if you like goes on so we're not talking about a country that probably with the most protests the unions that is heading to the peaceful protests but at the same time going to school on people have been sitting in partition of these incidents it's usually because it's. sophia 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 been saying we don't really know where he is do you think these protests could convince him to step down . because it will prevent the convention him to step down it's about convincing the people behind him to step down just because he can insert it in power for years due

to his due to its account which is he says he started to walk all talk so it's cheaper to heinsohn who were not able to were it to be on someone who could replace them so these people are up until today sticking to power. and what we were what we didn't do we but with different view she is that which if you just learned will start a fight with equal within the alliance that was done with the idea to secure in the last twenty years is that support has to include even within the powerful trade union federation. the biggest million each and the political policies that are blocking the president's support is withdrawn all right journalist sophie and philip nasr speaking to us from algeria thank you very much for your analysis. police in the turkish city of istanbul have fired tear gas the demonstrators taking

part in a band international women's day march many of the protesters 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. mixed messages in turkey first lady m.n.a. i do on on friday saluted women in a speech at the istanbul stock exchange later for police women repelled from bus burst bridge to highlight women's contribution to society but the peace was broken when thousands congregated at taksim square to demonstrate for women's rights police fired tear gas into the crowd and charged the demonstrators. even before the police intervened marches have plenty to criticize. the good and all that but each me she added as women we do not exist in the eyes of your thirty's if you think it was you know equality. it lives in a male dominated society these are all well among political leaders you can either

have to take to the streets and make our voices heard because the turkish justice system won't listen to us. in madrid women also took to the streets the demonstrators there were no less defiant but were not met by police aggression. many skipped work to protest inequality in gender violence a bicycle parade ended in a protest at the headquarters of the conservative people's party which had refused to take part in women's day activities. in india several hundred women month the occasion by marching through the capital delhi like their counterparts in other countries they called for full equality and an end to discrimination in the world's largest democracy. it is perhaps the most dangerous job in journalism or fatah. griffey photo journalists 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 german photographer i need to ring house who took the photo behind me 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 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 is 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 jack is an ever present theme. back in the one nine hundred seventy s. in iran or in the western sahara photographers such as christine staying there 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 cannot only 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 to. german reporter and you need to being house was shot dead in afghanistan in twenty fourteen her photos are also on 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 in 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 no less than their lives. you're watching your back or rivers will have an update on your news at the top of the hour for now we'll leave you with some images of the space x. capsule's flashing down in the atlantic capping off a successful test mission that should lead to the return of human space flights to the u.s. for the first time since the space shuttle program ended eight years ago enjoy.

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