this is you know we news live from berlin unfit to rule algeria as president faces fresh calls to step aside this time from the country's powerful army chief general ahmed sala is calling for a constitutional process to declare the nation's ailing president medically unfit for office as as his was a fluke and has faced two weeks of sustained protests calling for his resignation we'll go live to algiers also coming up a major blow to internet giants and some supporters of online freedom as european lawmakers back controversial copyright reforms well despite protests ahead of the vote from critics worries the changes could lead to censorship the majority of any

piece approve the new rule saying they will compensate content creators more fairly also deliver kids balancing act a french president in milan mccall hosts talks with the leaders of china germany and the e.u. on the need to find ways to resolve security and economic concerns as chinese investment pours into europe and a window of hope for abused women in jordan we take you inside the country's first protective shelter for women whose lives are at risk from family members. are a very warm welcome to all of you what we begin this broadcast with breaking news is army chief has called for the president to be declared unfit to rule president.

lizzie's beautifully guy has been in power for two decades and is now in bad health after weeks of peaceful mass protests calling for his resignation the military is now intervening and saying it wants to trigger a constitutional process that would put a caretaker leader in his place well let's take you now straight to the algerian capital algiers to journalist so if you now sir who is is standing by for us can you fill us in what's the latest. really this is that we had protests going on the whole the whole day calling for good to speak up to step down and against next tension altered mendeleev but now after the physical ration off the young the chief it's so many quiet in the capital there's no celebrations ongoing. we have a lot of security forces some police forces being deployed in the city quite well i

think present the keepers know exactly that there is no rules and no reason to celebrate right now because this step was long overdue. now or it's up to the constitutional process also finding out how to continue with this political crisis and so it looks like the algerians are taking a wait and see approach where you are why did it take the army chief this long to make a statement like this and what does it mean. then took it to have the statement is that it's actually not about the army chief he has not for the constitutional rights to declare the president an unsecure order it's a it's first it's up to the constitutional council but the fact that also the whole . you know nigeria right now is taking up the statement so that very clearly whom isn't chaunced for everyone knows that it's the army who was the kingmaker in this political divide now all right the algerian journalist sisyphean us are reporting

from algiers thank you and let's get you now the back story on this developing story with d.w. arabic said bashir ahmed and he's with me here in the studio bashir talk to us a little bit about what influence this movie is likely to have on this along developing story now are things that have been a struggle for power in for the last three weeks. the call of the two. of. the article one hundred and two has to be applied is of course that it's too late the people in algeria has been calling for this since six years because it would think it had been hit by a stroke in two thousand and thirteen and he was not able to to talk or to take any decision since then so what would happen now the constitution says that

both chambers of parliament have to vote have to approve. the vacancy of presidency with a tooth majority and the president of the council of the nation. will take over power as interim president for four forty five days and after forty five days look a second time and see if this they can see is not and it will be of course then he will be charged with organizing new elections within another forty five days so we will have in three months i think in three months new president new elections of course if the protesters accept this move all right and that brings me to my next question of course you have had these sustained protests for over a month now on the streets in l.g. are calling for which if we could to step down it appears now that the military felt for starr its hands were forced to intervene is this what the algerians want

for the military to intervene are they reassured by this what we have to say now that this is not a direct intervention of the military the streets of the military is calling for the both chambers of the parliament to take their responsibility but what the protesters did when they went to the streets for five weeks they were only calling for a renouncement for this fifth of the fleet and the regime didn't accept it at the beginning they were. only for the hundreds of thousands but now we have more than twenty millions. investing just calling for the objection of the whole they're not interested of all the solutions. to the whole of the not only the cloud of what's to come but that brings me to my final question i've got twenty seconds for this is it tough on you but i want to

ask it nonetheless you're referring to because they said this is the end game for british wake up but he has that entire infrastructure all these tentacles everywhere of his clan i just people just going to disappear no. i think his client is finished but we have money clowns at least street clowns inside the regime who had this struggle of power in the last years and the tool rest to rest in closet will try to recycle themselves to in order to stay in power all right to be continued going on from the arabic thank you for providing us with the back story and we had to jordan next where years of campaigning for the government to provide a better protection for women threatened by domestic abuse is beginning to bear fruit when the country's crime prevention law it has been common practice to jail women at risk of abuse supposedly for their own protection but last year the

government finally opened a secret shelter and is due to the news found out it's giving vulnerable women hope of starting new lives in safety it's been years since mona last saw her husband but the abuse she suffered at his hand is still fresh in her mind. when the beating got really bad i would run away to the neighbors when my husband suspected i was having an affair with my neighbor so he beat me again and strangled me. authorities feared minutes husband might kill her in the name of family honor so they put her in prison. the forty two year old mother of eight was incarcerated for seven months under georgians crime prevention law which has long been used to indefinitely jail women consider to be at risk of so-called honor killings supposedly for their own protection. a jailed me with women facing the death sentence women convicted of drug crimes were the

ones on death row are hard to be with the whole lawyers were able to get more out of prison after her husband left the country but the circumstances of her release are extremely rare. a woman is usually told that someone must come and bail her out in guarantee has safety usually a brother or a father her son or her husband and that's difficult because these are often the same people who were threatening her they had to do well. it is estimated that hundreds of women have been jailed under the pretext of protection with some spending over a decade in prison but after years of campaigning things are finally starting to change. according to the government cases like more out won't have to spend any more time in prison for their own protection and twenty eight in the jordanian ministry for social development opened this home known as the purpose of it is to house women whose lives are under threat by members of their family today we're

being given a rare look into the home and the lives of its residents. the shelter is subject around the clock protection and surveillance its location is kept secret. and is one of the first to be transferred from jail to the shelter after spending almost six years in prison. for safety reasons we cannot give details about the twenty six year old story only that her life is under threat from multiple members of her family. and. when i arrived here for two days i could not believe that i could just go out on the balcony and see people the world and life it had been almost six years and i had not seen the site and i had not seen people. shelter director does that insists this is not just a place for the women to eat and sleep here they also receive psychological counseling legal aid and vocational training with the aim of reintegrating them into society children up to the age of six can remain with their mothers

according for ted and when a woman comes to us she's entering an unfamiliar situation we let her know that being here is voluntary one of her choices on our first task is to comfort her help and once that happens working with her becomes much easier. since its opening twenty women have been transferred from prison to the shelter around twelve still remain in prison but the ministry intends to gradually move them here as well three of the women transferred from prison have left the shelter after they were deemed to no longer be in danger if a woman wants to leave beforehand she's informed of the risks and cannot be held against her will. my goal is to one day be able to leave and find a suitable place to live i do not want to be threatened anymore and you heard the opening of the shelter has been hailed as a major step forward but activists say the law which allowed for these women to be

held in the first place must be repealed to guarantee this never happens again. the reporting there from jordan next up i want to bring up to speed with some of the other stories making news around the world the european parliament has voted to end the practice of changing the clocks between winter and summer time by twenty twenty one well it follows a poll in which millions of or europeans said they wanted to stop the by annual timeshift and each member state will now decide which time zone to keep. the authorities in romania say they've seized more than a thousand kilos of cocaine from a boat that capsized in the black sea last week officials say the drugs have a market value of up to three hundred million euros the two suspects have been detained. a berlin court has upheld the murder convictions of two men whose midnight car race resulted in the death of another driver investigators say the to

reach speeds of one hundred seventy kilometers an hour on berlin's qudama boulevard the case was a retrial after federal court overturned a previous life sentence for the pair. meanwhile our supreme court has finished hearings in the appeal case for two borders journalists the defense team for a while the wine and jobs how low is seeking to overturn their seven year sentences they've already spent fifteen months behind bars on charges of lying to their reporting on the crisis they deny all doing. the interview parliament's instructors word has moved to prove made. changes rather to european copyright law the controversial proposal prompted tens of thousands of europeans to protest against the new measures well they're worried about how these new rules will affect free speech online at the heart of the matter is article

thirteen of the legislation under formal regulations if a user uploaded content to a platform like you to that person was responsible for respecting copyright restrictions now the new legislation will make platform operators liable facing fines if the laws are broken well that the issue here is that opponents fear it could lead to big tech companies censoring a user's content by many artists but many artists writers and other creative professionals have come out in support of the change we're going to now explore both sides of this issue with their one opponent who is a composer and a car last minute d.w. social media all right warner want to start off with you you are a musician you are a composer to be more precise how is this new piece of legislation going to protect your rights well hopefully very well i mean it's don't know exactly how particular is going to protect the mid it's definitely good start. to turn to equal

was a level playing field a little bit because these big companies like facebook you tube google have been earning a lot of money from a lot of creative people's efforts over many years now and the creatives and up and see very much of the you know the selling a lot of advertisements and very little is trickling down facebook for instance pays twenty percent less and spot of you know and so the hope is that maybe we'll get to renegotiate to do. they split their rent some revenue call we'll see hundreds of people take to the streets over the weekend what are some of the concerns being voiced to be clear i think a lot of these people on the streets they're not asking for. you know free m p three or free downloads of hollywood music i think a lot of these protesters they share a lot of the same concerns they want artists to be paid as well but there's a few things that they're worried about i mean one is that this is a very sweeping directive and also very vague i mean this will handle all kinds of content we're talking of music but also of videos photos text unclear how forms are

supposed to filter out something that is copyrighted from something that is not and what many of these protesters fear is that these platforms like you something called upload filters essentially automatic algorithm that's going through a system and blocking something that has a copyright but of course there's legal ways to use copyrighted material you could we mix a song you could take a clip from a video and talk about it that's protected usage of copyrighted material so the fear is if you have this blanket filter all this stuff could be caught up in it and it limits free speech you won't be able to post what you want so really it's maybe well intentioned but it's a poorly written directive it's very vague so basically if you're is that there's going to be this dragnet effect you don't share that concern you know i mean i understand where they're coming from because i mean the letter of the law is vague and i mean all things legal to be complicated all things brussels soon to be complicated no so it's going to be

a while until they actually get that sorted out but the upload filters aren't place and they've been working quite well as for as i'm informed you know this big there's been a lot of hype on the issue you know the a lot of fear mongering you know almost from from my perspective and so i don't i don't quite share the same fears i mean there's there's some there's some issues but you think that could be worked out basically you know in nobody can expect a silver bullet you know we could but we have to start someplace you have to start something maybe the change will be incremental oh ok well karl how is this affecting platforms especially the small i mean we're talking about the big ones you tube and facebook and the smaller ones all the big ones you tube facebook twitter that they have the resources they have the technology to implement a sin. to check for copyrighted material but say you're a start up you want to start a new social media company you want to start a new video service you won't have the money to develop your own technology and put this into place and that's what other people are fearing as well could you how can you have a new start up company and compete with something like you tube because you don't

have the technology and a lot of the technology to the law as it stands right now says they just have to make a reasonable effort to comply so you know who knows what that means and i think that that's really i think the you know the problem that they have i mean it's not like every is going to have an upload filter but they're going to try to do some business is they don't want to do they want to be clear about what they should do that there could be big fines associated with having copyrighted material on your signed no no sort of wants that either so this is a problem and you also now have two sets of regulations you have e.u. regulation and u.s. regulation facebook is treated completely differently in the u.s. as we know than it is in europe how will the small company handle these to regulate it be easier because at the moment there is u.s. and there's french and there's an english and there is german regulation so maybe it'll actually turn these are no reason. to streamline it somewhere what i want to end up i want to end with you when do you expect to see your money. it's going to take away the countries of the countries of two years to be implemented from the

very end who knows where that's going to lead us. thank you so very much for warner poland and carl as men thank you for this interesting discussion. and we are going to shift our focus now to france where chinese president xi jinping is in paris for talks with the european union after other meetings in some of the continent's major capitals while his host france's imran along with the younger and germany's angela merkel are trying to find a common approach to china's rapid economic expansion which has led to aggressive investment in europe and the takeover of numerous companies by chinese competitors will present she though is on a charm offensive it came bearing. it's. an order for three hundred airplanes it's a game changer for airbus giving the trance european aircraft maker a leg up in its never ending rivalry with u.s. competitor boeing china's cheating ping signed the deal during his visit with

french president. a move that seems to have caught policymakers a little off guard. mark hong together with german chancellor angela merkel and e.u. commission president. is cautious about china's multi-billion year old belt and road initiative also called the new silk road project it's aimed at bringing china closer to other partners internationally and making it a stronger force in global trade and paris the europeans made a strong appeal to china to cooperate. we have to have trust in multilateral cooperation and the fact that everyone wins multilateral cooperation does not work if one partner is another partner sloss we have seen that before and that's why i'm a firm believer and convinced it's worth fighting for it. duffield to kim. she responded that the e.u. and china should advance together despite an distrust that has recently hit the

progress that includes business with chinese telecom equipment maker who are way which has been accused of being in beijing's pocket the u.s. has banned to take giant from its domestic infrastructure projects the e.u. is also currently discussing whether or not to allow the chinese company to help build its new five g. networks. in paris the european leaders and she set the stage for the upcoming china summit but the real work will happen behind closed doors over the course of the next few weeks. and want all twenty eight members to assume a common stance on china it won't be easy to push through. as some member states are eager to strike deals with the asian superpower last week italy became the first member state to become an official partner in the new silk road project when its science deals worth over seven billion dollars including partnerships between

china and the ports of tree este and gain. to the u.s. now and the controversy surrounding minnesotan congresswoman ileana omar well she's one of the country's first female muslim congress women and has courted controversy with recent comments that some have interpreted as anti semitic but in her home district her constituents are firmly on her side as you w's alexander van ommen found out. a busy morning at the village market with the barber shops and it would be the most highly popular among the members only the american community they tell me they're proud to be represented by. an immigrant like them despite the recent controversy we will support a hundred percent like she she should she should talk about the truth she shouldn't fear anybody shouldn't feel like any group and that's exactly what she's doing we don't believe it's on to some. fellow jews and muslims and everybody else we just.

in washington however. drew an intense backlash for a tweet suggesting american support for israel was all of all the benjamins baby a reference to a hundred dollar bills and for remarks you made about a pack of prominent aides realm of the people. in this country that says. we're only chance to point the country. i want. why is it ok. for me to be in movies of the n.r.a. fossil fuel industry pharma and not. whole lot. of . comments steve hoenig things play dangerously on anti jewish stereotypes the

director of the jewish community relations council in minnesota met with omar three times when we met on february nineteenth i brought along this picture on the site is a picture of my maternal grandfather barney and this gentleman gerald sunny cohen said he would have been my cousin hetty lives. november sixteenth nine hundred forty four son is killed in action in france northeast france laid to rest in the military cemetery lorraine france so i brought the picture with to make the point to represent of omar to understand american jews you have to understand their profound patriotism. walmart's critics here in minneapolis their comments are especially problematic amid a recent spike in anti-semitic incidents in the us which rights to talk to one omar

about her controversial statements but the congresswoman declined our request for an interview stating that she wants to focus on her constituents and not the media . law. in august twenty seventh the center was a target over. the man mohammad omar thinks the controversy over the congresswoman is a distraction from growing aggression against all kinds of minorities the problem is we are always getting caught up in the corner of not paying attention to what is going on what's going on. what's going to white supremacy wide missions and this is the new threat that's emerging to this world a threat he says that is targeting both jews and muslims and this country. and we have to speak now with some of the top stories that we're tracking for you

this hour the head of the algerian army has called for the country's president to be declared unfit for office on grounds of ill health advice he's beautiful economy has faced a weeks of protests demanding he step down on out the military's intervening saying it wants to trigger a constitutional process that would pretty caretaker leader in his place and despite break protests here in europe the european parliament has approved a controversy. reform of copyright one of the measures aimed to protect intellectual property but critics say it will hamper the free exchange of information on the internet. you're watching the w.'s coming up next stay in d.w. news asia the capital of laos is to look around and classic we look at what the city is doing to solve the problem and fired for being sick the filipino domestic worker who was sacked by her employer because she has cancer which means she also

lost her access to medical care all of those stories and a whole lot more coming up next we'll be richer bannerjee after a short break on we'll our rock n roll and i'll see you again at the top of the hour.

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