this is news coming to you live from berlin algerian president put the faces pressure calls to step aside demands that the ailing president be declared unfit to rule come from the country's powerful army chief after weeks of protests will the move bring an end to the nation's political crisis also coming up turkish president friendship type there the once ruling party prepares to be tested in local elections discontent is widespread with many turks feeling the pinch of the

country's economic recession. and she survived a gang rape ordered by her village council now she's fighting for justice for herself and other women we speak with as she awaits a verdict from pakistan's supreme court over whether to uphold for alleged attackers acquittal. and what to do when you get a craving for pizza but you're in the middle of the sahara desert well you could call hindu money we have this self-made woman's remarkable story coming up. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program the political crisis in algeria is coming to a head after weeks of anti-government protests algeria is. army chief has now

demanded that the country's president be declared unfit to rule the army is calling for the start of a constitutional process that would put a caretaker leader in place president abdelaziz bouteflika has been in power for two decades now and is in failing health many algerians want him out. pushing forward algerians seize the momentum and renew their demands for political change. students teachers and workers again called for an immediate end to the administration that has ruled algeria for twenty years. they were spurred on by a declaration by the country's chief general. who in front of his troops declared the ailing president abdelaziz a beautifully too ill to serve. the general wants to trigger an article of the constitution that could bring down the president he said the move would respect the demands of the algerian people and ensure the continuity of the state.

if parliament approved the request the senate president would take charge until new elections can be held a presidential vote was for april but in february the eighty two year old beautifully announced his intention to run for a fifth term before withdrawing his bid and postponing elections indefinitely. as announcement came as a welcome news to many. this is a brave decision and it's the first step on a path toward democracy a path that is still long we appreciate the step and we are waiting other steps the movement will continue until the realization of a democratic republic the second republic. it's a good step for the algerian people but we won't stop here we'll keep up the movement and we will keep watching what happens until we reach our aim which is the change of government. they all have to go.

protests continue the president's fate may now be in the hands of parliament which is likely to soon vote at the military's request. straight over to algiers we have journalists on the line so some protesters have welcomed the army's call for president but if we're going to be removed but is everyone really convinced that the military is on the side of the people. enough to really i don't think so to be honest i mean just announced and by the army she's for just. that looting and her trying to avoid a lot of minutes to take over however. this is supposed to be disobedient procedure and not in the middle of the procedure and. this or that the opposition parties and activists were since yesterday quite loudly. rejecting this announcement and

rejecting that the army chief is actually doing politics a directv states still don't know how the street will react many people know that this is a political maneuver. which would lead to transition a period sleep by the parties and that will post on all of the protests in recent weeks. but on friday if this political maneuver worked out and if the army chief or the able to divide and to sector the protest movement for now at least the present mood of plecos fate is in the hands of parliament what are lawmakers likely to do. the first steps are actually not to invoke the politics of the constitutional council and the constitution through to account for the supposed to be the institution that has the constitutional right to apply off from one hundred to so that's the article. which makes it legal and possible to remove.

due to being on for two while the second step would be that the parliament convenes and votes on this decision it's still not clear what will happen but the parliament are in the hands off of former ruling poppy so it's quite. likely that lawmakers will actually vote for it. as one of the major parties the at and the already because of the union for the statement of the army chief yesterday sophia and thank you very much for bringing us up to date data journalist so if you're not sore there in algiers turkey is gearing up for key local elections on sunday fifty seven million voters across the country will choose mayors councillors and local chiefs known as move targets with the turkish economy in trouble though the election presents a stiff challenge for the a.k. party of president wretch of type an a one the polls on sunday are being widely

seen as a referendum on anyone's rule our turkey correspondent julie holland went to meet a local politician with a very familiar name. this tea house in the town of istanbul is more crowded than usual. because today regift our don is making a companion biz it so long that it was not the one you know this regift bad one is twenty years old and the political newcomer in turkey has local elections he wants to become a mukta and neighborhood chief he's not related to the turkish president but the name he says has helped him with his career choices somewhat in the mood of the audience people often don't believe me at first and ask if i'm joking on the net i get it you know then i show them my id card it's an honor for me to have the same name as our president on this because i'm a he's the respected and beloved leader of our country so you're lumbered what about people say they will vote for me. both cause of my personality and my name

that i believe this name will help me six yards and more donovan in honor of. edwin's namesake the president is also complaining hard. he's making several speeches a day at dryly. even though he's not up for election. and one is hoping his own personal popularity will help make the difference because after a decade and a half in power his ruling party is facing losses. to have it that down there that's mainly because of the worsening economic situation last year's currency crisis sent annual inflation soaring to about twenty percent and sept growth unemployment is on the rise. not just here in istanbul people are now queuing for subsidized vegetables in state run markets solid growth

and rising living standards have driven the president the electoral success in the past sixteen years but now turkey is in the midst of a recession and many voters say. they're frustrated about the economy poll suggests this could erode support for add ons ruling a high potty especially in the largest cities in the capital ankara and here in istanbul. losing them would be a symbolic blow says journalist is most simas both cities have been under a.k.p. control throughout ad once time in power water for its own quarter of a stumble if that opposition wins istanbul ankara we may begin to discuss the possibility of snap elections here in turkey. istanbul is strongly associated with adam. first he was elected as municipal mayor here then he became mayor of istanbul . after that prime minister and then president. if is a k.p.s. defeated in istanbul it would be a political earthquake for. the lawn the want to get. back to the tea house

where the young rajah type ad one is trying to win some votes he also he has many complains about the economy being just young people don't have jobs it's become very hard to shop owners nothing is good here anymore nothing. the young at all and says he wants to tackle these problems at least in his neighborhood but he can't be sure victory as he's facing two challenges much is at stake in the local elections from both the edge of town it's. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today beginning with your brags it details have emerged about the process for a series of votes to be held by british lawmakers later on wednesday it's part of efforts to reach a consensus on the way forward for the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. m.p.'s will receive a list of different breaks it options and will be asked to rank their preference is

. a boeing seven thirty seven max operated by southwest airlines has made an emergency landing in florida the crew reported engine problems shortly after take off and return to orlando international airport airlines worldwide have grounded the passenger jet after two recent crashes southwest was returning an empty plane to stories for the band's duration. in thailand seven pro-democracy opposition parties have formed a coalition in order to in a bid to stop an army backed party from staying in power this comes amid allegations of fraud in last sunday. election which official results with official results delayed until may a partial vote count showed that the ruling junta has a proxy party with a slightly. and the e.u. is set to scale down its anti migrant trafficking program operation sophia in the

mediterranean rescue missions at sea will be suspended although air surveillance will continue decision is aimed at resolving a dispute with italy rome threaten to stop the entire mission unless rescued migrants were taken to other countries. pakistan's supreme court is expected to decide today whether to uphold the acquittal of men accused of an infamous gang rape in the country the case has gripped pakistan for almost two decades and made headlines worldwide survivor look tomei who is appealing against the acquittals comes from a rural area in pakistan's punjab province she was gang raped in two thousand and two on orders of her village council they wanted to punish her for her younger brother's alleged relationship with a woman from a rival tried out of fourteen men my cues to involvement only one is serving a prison sentence while the rest have been acquitted. my now

a prominent human rights activist has never stopped fighting for justice in the pakistani courts in an exclusive interview she told the w.c. is keeping up the struggle not just for herself but for all women in pakistan. isn't easy to always repeat what i've gone through. it is very hard for me. but i want those people to be punished because i don't want anyone else to become another mukhtar mai. but this is my aim. well for more let's cross over to islam journalist nosheen standing by for a. look tom lies legal case has dragged on for nearly seventeen years how did we get to this appeal today and what's at stake so basically in two thousand and two six men were sentenced to death for the repeal. in two thousand and five

five of the men. and then in two thousand and eleven the green party even the nostrums accused was also open to most that my submitted in the u.s. and that's why we have reached. and hope that that they will review this case again to me look into this they may be best again however there is a lot at stake because if he is not accepted it's not heard in the sense this case is dead but if they do if they do listen to the appeal then there is a very small glimmer of hope that the me. look at this case. what does his case mean for women in pakistan and why is it still so relevant after so many years. well it's relevant because this these kinds of

incidents happen every day. and look am i going to drag. this woman who basically came forward and she did not wear a veil to come of these essentially. to protect on the she came out with everything that happened she was she's from a rural area and she came out into the world and people supported her and lot of media coverage so this was a very rare incident and she became a symbol and she still is a symbol for anyone who's ever been whether it's a boy of god and she kind of give that courage to people to be able to speak up that even though culturally these things are accepted in a lot of areas in pakistan where they are it's revenge rape and it's fault that you can fight for it that you can't compare with this new machine so it is extremely relevant today and it's also extremely disheartening for those who are supporting

her to see that justice has not been and that the case has been dragging on for so many yes and also globally when we were in a me to air out where now people are being held accountable across the board for abuse for rape for harassment and it is more relevant now from f. up machine thank you so much. a journalist there in islamabad. you're watching the news still to come delivering pizza in the desert we meet a young woman who's built a successful business serving up tasty food in refugee camps. the united nations is appealing for more than two hundred eighty million dollars in aid for mozambique to help that country recover from cyc loan die the u.n. says three million people are affected by the store in the country and in neighboring zimbabwe in malawi nearly two weeks after the cyclon struck fears are

now rising that epidemics such as colorado will break out some of the worst hit rural areas are just now beginning to receive international aid. speed boats are still the only way to get help to people outside urban areas in the worst hit region around the city of beirut these portuguese marines carried medicine food and drinking water to settlements along the still swollen basie river where an unknown number of people remain without aid more than ten days after the storm. devastated large areas of southern africa leaving thousands homeless and destitute like here in this makeshift camp in beta the world health organization is warning of what it calls a second disaster if highly infectious diseases like cholera start to spread through crowded camps like this one. is expected to any spray disease will be

will be spread more easily in the zone and that's why it's important to have a good medical staff here so you can be for any kind of control eating in the beginning that danger is made worse by the almost total destruction of the region's medical infrastructure. because most of the health centers have been destroyed and this clinic here has an open field with a lot of space we started setting up the tents here to take the load off other health centers because they have had an increase of patients but don't have the capacity to deal with them. and there are no reports of cholera cases yet but the w.h.o. is scrambling to fly and nine hundred thousand doses of cholera vaccine. and material and practical aid continues to flow in from all over the globe like these tents being set up by a kenyan emergency response unit important as the only non-medical way to fight the

spread of disease is to improve living unsanitary conditions these people have already been robbed of everything now even their physical health is at risk. moving on to north africa we have a remarkable story of entrepreneurship the algerian sahara desert is home to tens of thousands of refugees from western sahara who've been living in camps for decades ever since their homeland was an expired morocco but one young woman was determined to carve out a life for herself offering a unique service to other refugees. this car is delivering pizza out in the desert. that it makes me proud to have established the first pizzeria in the refugee camps and that i've done it alone as a woman using my own resources. a lot of that. up pizza delivery service in algeria is such a desert with

a young woman at the wheel twenty eight year old hindu money is one of the ingredients in this rather unusual story. hundreds of thousands of side are we the indigenous people from western sahara have lived in these refugee camps for many years now they fled here after morocco annexed their homeland money grew up in a camp like this it's all she's ever known but now she can live her dream of having her own pizza service she delivers to families like many a saddam's whose daily routine is defined by this wasteland they want to stay here until they get their homeland back. we're suffering under these difficult conditions for forty years we've lived in tents in extreme temperatures with no livelihoods that yet.

i can help people with my service because it brings a bit of variety they're happy to see me. and then she shows us her pride and joy her fast food stand in a refugee camp it's specialty is pizza with camel meat called pizza south are we. in the morning she meets with her employees all young women. who single wants to help other women find a job. with a shout out and that's a day it's my goal to hire women young people can hardly find work in the refugee camps and it's even more difficult for young women. but money has made it with advertisements like this she promotes her project and her camel pizza's. business is busiest in the evenings at the refugee camps you can get a pizza for the equivalent of two year rose. many people here are looking for

a change from the monotony of life and money has achieved cult status she's a young woman with her own business who travels the region on her own with a pizza's that his own to respect. and i'm so happy there's finally a pizzeria in the camp and i hope she will also pursue other projects in the head to. the next day money is on the road again as she drives she passes by reminders of the sixteen year insurgency by the sun are we again small rock or are some wreckage remains. some of the injured war veterans live in a dilapidated home outside the camp it's important from money to show solidarity. she brings a free pizza hut harvey who was paralyzed when his spine was damaged in an air

strike in one nine hundred eighty. i regret nothing i'm proud of my wounds because i got them fighting for a fair and legal moves. many people here have lost hope in a brighter future but not money she shows us her recently opened second pizzeria which is of course staffed by women. money is next plan is to open a bakery. football now and there were plenty of goals on offer in last night's euro two thousand and twenty qualifiers the next group matches are not until june two thousand and eight in two thousand and twelve champion spain secured a two nil win in malta while italy thrashed liechtenstein denmark came back from three down to draw three three in switzerland and there was another thriller with scandinavian rivals norway and sweden also drawing three three. well german

football fans were left in shock earlier this month when by and munich dortmund and shaka all crashed out of the champions league but there are still two german teams left in the women's champions league including. they host defending champions league in their quarter finals second leg tonight it may be a repeat of last season's final but resources are still nothing compared to the men's game wolfsburg suffered a tight two one defeat in the first leg in leo but the next round is still up for grabs the team has top international talent with five german national team players joined by did mark spend a lot in a european championship runner up and by eva pay your the wolves polish gold score . i'm grateful and happy to be able to coach a team like this when they're great players they challenge me to their joy and ambition are infectious guides in two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and

fourteen wolf in the champions league however their success doesn't mean their facilities are on par with their male counterparts who have never won the champions league the women strain in separate facilities from them in the distance to the changing room is long with only containers for holding their clothes but it's not just it there's a lot of catching up to do in the women's business league as a whole until that day though fans of the successful wolfsburg women hope to celebrate the one team in the city challenging for the champions league. the u.s. space agency nasa is facing criticism for canceling what would have been the first all female space walk due to a lack of available space suits in the right size astronaut christina call seen here on the left was going to be joined by her colleague and the claim but as only one medium sized suit is ready a male astronaut will now join call on the walk on friday according to nasa mccain

only learned during her first spacewalk last week that a medium sized suit fits her best and a new suit could not be configured in time. streamliner the top stories we're following for you here today on d.w. the head of the algerian army has called for the country's president to be declared unfit for office on grounds of ill health abdelaziz bouteflika has faced weeks of protests demanding he step down now the military wants to trigger a constitutional process that would put a caretaker leader in place. you're watching t.w. news still to come we've got business with gas understand you've got a very interesting interview coming up yeah we're talking to this c.e.o. of. the world's largest tourist service and we've been discussing. trade and these very important things with them and it's going to be interesting everything affects logistics companies looking forward to that and of course you

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