this is g w news live from berlin a major power change in the making in north africa a jury is in babel president pulls out of the upcoming elections protesters are celebrating after weeks calling for. the kid to step down he's postpone the elections and promise the country a new constitution after ruling out a bid for a fifth term in power. also coming up tonight investigators recover the black boxes from that crashed ethiopian airlines flight it's hoped that the information will

contain clues as to why the boeing seven thirty seven crashed sunday killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board the weather was clear the plane was new so what went wrong and venezuela still in the dark reports of looting and people dying in hospitals as the catastrophic blackout enters its fourth day the country's self declared president calling for lawmakers to declare the status of a long. time off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with some breaking news from algeria where president bill is easy beautifully and has pulled out of the race for reelection the decision not to run for a fifth term comes after weeks of nationwide protests against his renewed candidacy in the letter to the. derian people beautifully said the election that was planned

for mid april will now be delayed until after a national conference on political and constitutional reform the eighty two year old you see right here is reshuffling the government he has been in power since one nine hundred ninety nine but if lee can return to algeria on sunday after spending two weeks in a swiss hospital. well i'm now joined on the line by journalist sophie on notice you're from the jury in the capital algiers sophia what more can you tell us about this decision by mr burton to the first of all it was kind of expected to have got to be pretty far we're not to run against the president of the protests were simply tollbooth and sure in then let's put her to. his planned candidacy for this is not a surprise that you are now and that you were not running again. on the other hand

i wouldn't call this a major power change the clean energy appointed to doing their current month off into your year as prime minister and create a fifth of advice on them if there was nowhere. to occupy but i'm told my mum about someone who was described by by a person in marion argued i. know we could have a major power to change yet another order and it's completely on you. and your government for a national conversation you've heard how critical it or your government will look like and you're pretty good you're included government on not and what a what reaction can we expect then from the algerian people if as you say it is the case that this is not a true power change that we're seeing but simply a a reshuffling of the government and moving power from one person to the next. so for tonight we definitely see celebrations and people already heading out to the

city celebrating that. fifth and then date of the current president will not happen . for the time being for right now that we definitely see people celebrating but it's a question of. people in the street the opposition party the civil society. actions included in the new. kind of regime and what we are witnessing since the beginning of this crisis earlier person. of the hour here in these trying actually trying to get rid of so long as you know reason is composed of. and. clan simply multiply in recent years and in the next twelve months is that other people who are acting are behind closed doors are now trying to regain momentum and to gain power. has been in power since ninety ninety nine we've had an

entire generation come of age that knows nothing but beautifully any change that will not include him has to be significant especially for the young people in the country. yeah definitely but it's simply a question of what kind of people we have in the transitional government. and also our presidential election with her would look like young would do him good don't know when you connect with her take great it might take a while and get all the talk about for a new constitution. to be put on the popular for and on so we can conclude no yes. like you constitution it would look like an old old tradition of period where you go on it within one cooper from the current. government and all during the current conflict from. what. cool people you have your vote for her that's buttered on the long way to go ok journalist and sophie and nasser reporting from algiers in

algeria sophia thank you very much. well crash investigators have recovered the black boxes from an ethiopian airlines flight that crashed outside addis ababa on sunday the boeing seven thirty seven max eight bound for nairobi went down six minutes after taking off killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board raising concerns about the safety of boeing's best selling new design. remembering the dead families and ethiopian pilots and crew remember the lives lost in sunday's crash. earlier at the crash site red cross workers retrieve the personal items of those on board while investigators recover the wreckage. a large crater marks the spot of impact eyewitnesses describe the horror of the crash and the

aftermath the. fire was coming out from its tail and then it tried to lift its nose but it couldn't was going from side to side it went straight into the ground nose first then exploded i'm looked at it but they could you know pointed out look there were a lot of kenyans on it i saw identification documents of the universe the student from america. i saw pictures of ethiopians and chinese people. in new york the united nations flag has been flying at half mast among the dead are twenty one united nation staff. a global tragedy as it's close to home and united nations is united in grief. i extend my deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims to the government of people of each. and these affected by these. ethiopian

authorities are leading the search aided by the u.s. kenya and others. the airline has announced its grounding at seven thirty seven max fleet and other countries are following suit the same boeing model crashed just five months ago in indonesia. as investigators look into the air plane's flight recorders people around the world are hoping for answers to why their loved ones didn't make it home. and for more on this tragedy now i'm joined by the journalist . standing by for us in addis ababa good to see you ask you we know that these black boxes have been recovered do we know any more about the cause of the crash tonight. you know at the moment well you know what is that there is some relief after the recovery of the black boxes because now that you've been elements and at that and even at the citizens are saying that now it would be easy

to get a guy playing to where the investigations should flow because though they can be able to get to the audio recording of the of the pilot maybe he's fast of the search and their fleet i mean the fleet professionals on board and they can also be able to understand what really happened before the last why it's to guide them what you have been and also the black boxes and that is that if you leave because now they can be able to meet at the flight status how hard was it before it reaches you went down so that is all is happening and all that is happening from now on the technical support teams easiness about ready to assist ethiopian airlines to go forth it needs investigations we understand that if airlines have grounded their boeing seven thirty seven max fleet what more can you tell us about that. yes i. have six of these and respect him more but it says now none of the five remaining ones can go back to the skies until. there is proof that there was no technical

each with a plane that went down now this means that deep in and it has to try to dig into their feet and try today that to use some of the interplay that was supposed to go to other groups to get up with it was that we had these fleet of seventy seven eight months as a bull that was supposed to go but at the other i mean not that one hundred is also a sure of the ls trying to shore each seat is it i mean sort of it's it's the same has its potential customers that each kid has that he put sixty five and just also going at it to really emphasize that grounding i mean if it doesn't mean that this isn't the goal but the disguise but at the moment not once did he care if this guy i mean this week you go back and he's getting these guys and this story of course getting a lot of international attention but what has been the reaction from the ethiopian government. with a given company must have been the most short because they cannot imagine that

happening just fifty kilometers away from the company and the prime minister was the first person to treat even fully completed alan's just came out to say it was a plane crash he tweeted and sent up to miss it does that mean that shows you these kind of reaction and also be cheap is also really pretty because we know that lots of egypt is the board apart from the for the crew members also of the citizens what plan to nairobi of connecting to other friends through these through these particular flight so if you please come to eat and not me out flights like that's tough must be punished has declared it a deal of money to deal with the deal one in the media here is that really in the introduction grannies there should be because of condos condos i'm keeping this it is often used to be nice it is cool and all that because it does really touched each and even possibly understandably so. want joining reporting from ethiopia tonight with the latest on what is now an investigation into the cause of that plane crash collective thank you. here's some of the other stories now that are

making headlines around the world that u.s. backed syrian forces say they're making slow advances into the last village held by islamic state jihad has a spokesman saying that troops are battling militants holed up in underground tunnels in switches near the iraqi border in eastern syria the offensive resumed on sunday after a deadline for militants to surrender expires. japan is marking the eighth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck its north east back in twenty eleven officials and members of the imperial family attended a memorial service in tokyo the disaster killed more than eight hundred thousand people and called a nuclear meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power station. spain has been marking the fiftieth anniversary of the terror attacks that killed one hundred ninety three people in the capital madrid the prime minister. and city officials

laid a wreath at the memorial on march eleventh two thousand and four bombs planted by terrorists exploded four crowded commuter trains. several people have been left injured after a powerful storms swept across parts of southern poland force winds toward a ruse toppled trees and power lines and damaged roadway traps hundreds of thousands of households suffered power cuts. and that's even its way live in its way that has been forced to hold most of its oil exports following a power blackout that has paralyzed its main export terminal and its oil processing facilities along of course with much of the rest of the country on the fifth day of power outages as the people of venezuela are struggling to cope there are reports of looting authorities have been unable to say when the problem will be resolved when the whites will be turned back on the country's president blames it on an act of sabotage backed by the united states but critics say that the power outage is

a result of corruption and. mismanaged. well as you can imagine venezuelans have been using social media to share their experiences and to do what they can do to help each other our digital reporter i mean as it has been looking into that i mean i mean it's terrible it's bad enough when the lights are turned off but then to find out that people are dying or in hospitals for example what have you found online well it seems that in a lot of ways venezuelans are using social media first and foremost as a media journalist in venezuela have reported that if you turn on the t.v. you're more more likely to see a soap opera than actual coverage of the disaster that's going on there right now so people are sharing information reports about lootings water shortages i mean it's unbelievable how how much having a power outage can wreak on a country it's not just electricity it's everything so they're sharing reports about this. we've also found a photo that somebody posted to social media of

a phone charging station where people can load their their cell phones it cost a dollar it says for ten minutes charge and i keep in mind that in venice with us dollars are kind of hard to come by as the definite privilege to charge your phone there is charging the dollar he was charging for this i don't know it's unclear but there's also people sharing videos of more personal things like this photo of a child doing homework by candlelight but also the stories of people sharing things on social media trying to share resources and to help each other as well you know what kind of help are they offering well everything from one one big thing is doctors trying to share their resources now if you know that hospitals are just as affected by this even more so than the rest of the country because they depends of critically on electricity they're so they're having to rotate people out on certain things like dialysis which is a matter of life and death so people with less critical condition conditions get

pushed to the back of the line and we've seen doctors posting on social media offering. their services for free for less pressing conditions we've also encountered food preservation as a major complaint of people there if you can imagine without a refrigerator you can't keep your your meat your milk fresh and so you might go hungry if you're not able to buy food or to keep preserved so we found a video that a chef a young chef in caracas posted to instagram where she explains how to keep your food fresh without a refrigerator. think there can we do to preserve our food while we have no electricity proteins can be rolled in silt by posting sultana bowl and covering the protein with us keep the continue in the fridge to stop us absorbing too much air and prevent it spoiling next bills be kept in vinegar and only use vinegar if there's no water to cover it with cloths to keep it cool yeah that's how to conserve that doubles and i want to do it isn't. just subsidy is the mother of

invention there you'd find ways to survive i mean this is it's a horrible situation but you say you've found something uplifting in all this darkness it's right journalist from venezuela. gonzales posted a video of a wedding that she attended almost completely in the dark with just people using flash as we have a video for you here as you can see it was kind of a special moment they decided to go through with it without electricity and she wrote in the tweet where she posted this in the midst of chaos and pain that all venezuelans feel this image shows that no one can stop our determination to overcome adversity so there's a lot of stories of there of people dealing with this blackout and clever and creative ways but of course if this continues not only things are going to get worse for venezuelans but social media will be an active and we won't get these stories is exactly what many people fear will be the next step in this. blackout if we appreciate your reporting of their fascinating information about the blackout

but it's where the thank you. and in the asian woman held on suspicion of killing the half brother of north korea's leader kim jong un has been freed after charges against her were dropped you know sitting there was accused of poisoning kim jong nama with a nerve agent at kuala lumpur airport two years ago the trial against her vietnamese codefendant dante huang is still scheduled however to continue. the relief. even though its mild city ayesha is finally a free woman often murder charges against her unexpectedly dropped. a feel so happy. i didn't expect it. today is my freedom day. it was. the indonesian was one of

two women held on suspicion of killing kim jong nam this strange tough brother of the north korean leader kim jong un. c.c.t.v. footage from february twenty seven teen shows him a kuala lumpur international airport in malaysia at this point it's alleged the women smit the deadly know of agent x. three on his face here he's seen describing to security guards want to happened and is a schoolteacher to the medical clinic at the airport. just minutes later he collapsed he died on the way to hospital. city ayesha has always denied claiming she and another woman were tricked into carrying the nerve agent by north korean spies part of a prank for a reality t.v. show the stoop three believed that she's really a scapegoat and she's innocent. there was no better evidence that she had played

anything on it until now the fact that those that will follow did not have to be in need of c.g.i. shot but don't t. one of the other person accused of kim jong un's assassination no such reprieve the vietnamese seen here on the left is sent to be traumatised that she has not also been freed. it's still unclear why city ayesha has been released but having faced execution she can now enjoy getting one life back. here in germany ten years ago today a seventeen year old gunman in the small telling of vended in southwestern germany stormed into his former high school and opened fire on students and teachers killing fifteen people and then turning the gun on himself it was a rare and shocking act of violence here in germany germany has only seen

a three school mass shootings since the nine hundred sixty s. a decade later relatives and survivors of winnenden still bear the emotional scars many of them are calling for tighter gun control. visiting the place where her daughter was gunned down ten years ago is still incredibly difficult for gisela meyer the day she heard the news of her daughter's death in the high school her life changed forever. if my world just fell apart if it pulled the ground out from under my feet i absolutely couldn't grasp what how. and it took months for my to understand she was ten to fifteen i kept resisting the very thought of it. her daughter nina was one of fifteen victims that a gunman shot at the school and during his askin. she was a student teacher in the school and buried under twenty fifth birthday. the seventeen year old shooter had stolen his father's gun from an unlocked bedroom cabinet in the end he killed himself.

today this memorial room pays tribute to those who lost their lives in this former classroom the gunman shot the students at random. gisela meyers acted in the against violence in schools foundation to prevent such acts from ever happening again. one small step forward is stricter laws on private individuals storing firearms. trauma counselor i'll bet b. singer was one of the first on the scene after the shooting he helps students who had lived through the horrific experience process their emotions. i try to talk with them so they could process what they went through. that's a principle of trauma counseling people to express their feelings can because it's far more harmful to suppress someone to let them cry and scream if they need to see those miners fight in in the decade since the shooting security measures in the

school have been stepped up all doors are more difficult to open from the outside and teachers try to identify challenging students early on. the mission for example we have a school xhosa worker who's deeply involved in a school where yes we have projects name but social cohesion with and getting along with others. relatives of the victims try to somehow to go on with their lives. meier has finally managed to find some inner peace. to this point child hood shooter came across as a monster but he was really just a young boy full of it because he didn't have to like in others and that image of him really helps me understand what made him commit such an evil. spirit. this memorial called the broken ring symbolizes the suffering in winnenden a brutal cut contemplate of place in the shadow of

a fateful day. for u.s. forces now we've got some stunning news from spain all the media from our sports desk is here to talk about the shock return of xina dean zadar is that correct what you see was going through it as head coach at real madrid for what just nine months exactly yeah it's kind of a bolt from the blue that he's come back over the last few days people have been tipping another form around the draco joe's on the radio to make a sensational return to what would have been that they said even though it's a surprise this does make a lot of sense you know saddam was incredibly successful in his first ball as coach he knows the club inside out he knows the players from having met with him just nine months ago and you know he is definitely a legend around her as well his reputation is as good as untouchable let us have a lot he was out of work so they didn't have to pay compensation to another club to get out of it out long enough to have a baby exactly but of a shock but it's all the books is what he was forced to give back is it up. it all

went downhill after he left a friend i mean first they had the kid sassed your fee if you are not a tag you basically got fired from the spain national team job on the eve of the world cup because wral announced that he was coming in as a down successor it didn't work out and he was gone after a few months a complete catastrophe that. laurie came in actually played with done back in that player that things didn't really improve much thought that why off the pace in the late the white van boss line to have. rivals humiliated in the champions league as well and that's where the don was so good he won three champions league titles in just two hospitals and yet a one hundred percent success rate of winning the champions league and that's what really not just around the trade as well so he can't win it this season because they're already out but nobody would bet against him winning it next season with record i mean i guess it's not easy either to say goodbye disease e.g. never say before the show but i mean is he risking an incredible legacy the at real madrid by coming back like this absolutely brand new perfect legacy that he had

been in football as in life they say never go back to your ex is never the same the second time around and risk. of a legacy right now is much less it's like he would say because things just can't get a whole lot worse than i happen for the misses and they've been diabolical that being said they're going into a really key phase of the club and at the moment they've got a stadium refurbishment in the works that's going to cost a lot of money the squad needs a rebuild even more drastically in the stadium does that's going to cost a whole lot more money so they don't need to get it right needs to rekindle the magic and he needs to do it fast to see if it's easy virtue is easy the second time limited more sports this is always only thanks. art here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you. the president has eased what is needed and has pulled out of the country's upcoming elections after weeks of protests against his leadership he's now reshuffle his government and promise to reform the country's constitution. coming up next close up on how german

agriculture could unleash an environmental disaster with its appetite for peat spill explain i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day that just you've been.

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