w. w news live from berlin algeria's president faces fresh calls to step down but this time there from the head of the army and a key coalition ally who want the ailing president declared unfit to roll after weeks of street protests this spring and the country's political crisis also on the program turkish president magic wands reading a k party prepares to be tested in local elections this contends is widespread with many suffering in the country's economic recession. mozambique kids from six first

cases of cholera two weeks after being hit by cycling world health organization was of a second crisis if infectious diseases are allowed to spread. and what do you do when you get a craving for pizza and you're in the middle of the sahara desert well you could call into money this self-made woman's remarkable story in the next half hour. i'm from gayle welcome to the program algeria's political crisis is coming to a head. the leader of the ruling party is joining the calls from the head of the army for the president to be because unfit to rule president has been in power since april one thousand nine hundred nine during which time his critics say he has led a corrupt regime and ordered the country's wealth algerians have been protesting for

weeks to try to force him out of office. pushing forward algeria seized the momentum and renewed 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 army chief general salah who in front of his troops to clear the ailing president abdelaziz bouteflika too ill to serve. 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 approves 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'll keep watching what happens into. we reach our aim which is the change of government. they all have to go god willing. 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. let's get more on this from

journalist as sophie on the knesset who joins us on the line from the capital algiers so welcome sophia what has that prompted these two pillars of the establishment the army chief in the head of the ruling coalition partner to join the popular calls for the president's resignation. i wouldn't call i wouldn't call it an act of joining this movement it's an attempt of hijacking it's what you're seeing right now the attempt of a certain faction within your syrian holding to peter. to take off and to take advantage of the weakness of the ending president. so if if they get what they want. the president goes well people will necessarily be happy if the zionite in charge. who would definitely be happy about the first step because one of the major demands was that sort of her

current president would you remove but there have to. the national democratic are ready to have him here. in atlanta the former prime minister is someone who was also necessary attacked during all of these protests will in case she's coming back preparing a political comeback people would definitely not be happy and will continue to protest the at that at the heart of this this is a constitutional council explain to us what this constitutional council is that is due to rule on the president's fitness to rule. constitutional council will not rule that the constitutional council is an institution who wants presidents is appointed by the head of state and its task is simply to figure out if the head of state is unfit to rule on nots and the next step would be to refer this question to the parliament and the last word on this has as the parliament and

a new vote so this is the parliament has to rule by two thirds. and and. concerning this decision and only then. up innocent people will be removed from office well this is that clearly it interesting the development ok thank you for joining us so fan that nessa from james thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the e.u. is set to scale down its anti migrant trafficking operation in the mediterranean sea rescue missions from operations to feel it will be suspended though as surveillance will continue the decision is aimed at resolving a dispute with italy rome had threatened to hold the entire mission unless rescued migrants were taken to other countries. india says it has shut down a satellite in a missile test five minutes there and remote he made the announcement in a live address just weeks before the country's general election you said it

demonstrates the country's capacity as a space power alongside the united states russia and china. pakistan's supreme court has adjourned until mid april a hearing into whether to uphold the acquittal of thirteen men accused of a gang rape the survivor of the attack knocked on my ears appealing against the acquittals it happened in two thousand and two after have village council ordered it to punish her for her brother's behavior. seven of thailand's pro-democracy opposition parties have formed a coalition in an effort to stop an army fact party from staying in power this comes amid allegations of fraud in last sunday's election official results delayed until may the partial vote count showed the ruling as a proxy party with a slight lead. or turkey's gearing up for local elections on sunday fifty seven million voters across the country will choose massive councillors and local chiefs known as mocked us with a turkish economy in trouble president verge of time ones really make

a party faces a stiff challenge with sunday's vote being seen as a referendum on his rule p.w. correspondent yulia hogg has been to meet a local politician the ferry for millionaire within. this tea house in the town of gold you can hear you stumble is more crowded than usual. because today. on this. making a companion visit so long that it or not this regift one is twenty years old and the political newcomer in turkey's local elections he wants to become a more and neighborhood chief he's not related to the turkish president but the name he says has helped him with his career choices someone in the movement of the a lot of people often don't believe me at first and ask if i'm joking on that i get it you know then i showed them my id card it's an honor for me to have the same name as our president has done 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 because of my personality and my name that is i believe this name will help me succeed out more donovan in a new era. edwin's namesake the president is also complaining hard. he's making several speeches a day excuse 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 at that time that 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 drawn 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 polls suggest this could erode support for adams ruling a thai party especially in the largest cities in the capital ankara and here in his stumble. losing them would be a symbolic blow says journalist is most simas both cities have been under a.k.p. control throughout add once time in power moderate uncle of a stumble look if that opposition wins istanbul ankara we may begin to discuss the possibility of snap elections here in turkey istanbul is strongly associated with. the first he was elected as municipal mayor here then he became mayor of istanbul. after that prime minister and then president. it is a k.p.

is defeated in istanbul it will be a political earthquake for everyone in the south along the want to get. back to the teahouse and go to where the young rajah type ad one is trying to win some votes he also he has many complains about the economy being just the younger people don't have jobs it's become very hard to shop owners nothing is good here anymore nothing yeah the young out one says he wants to tackle these problems at least in his neighborhood but he can't be sure of victory as he's facing two challenges much is at stake in the local elections for both tragic time it's. a report from han who joins us now from istanbul welcome mr erdogan and his party controlled most of the media and the kurds they supposedly enemies of the state from the police the army and the civil service so is the result of sunday's vote a foregone conclusion. not necessarily it's of course hard to

tell what will happen on election day because polls here in turkey are considered to be notoriously unreliable but right now they do suggest a sharp fall in support for president adams a.k.p. and not a landslide victory as we did see in the last local elections here five years ago much of the focus is now on the big cities here in turkey and we might actually see some surprises there the capital ankara might get for the first time in sixteen years and opposition mayor and here in istanbul is symbol which is considered to be the biggest prize in these. we might see a tight race between president at once candidates and the opposition. the economy the economy and the economy many voters are complaining that their personal economic situation has worsened in the past year unemployment is at

a nine year high inflation is a twenty percent and many things basically from baby diapers to vegetables got so much more expensive i've talked to a few people here let's have a listen to what they have to say is. used to do a grocery shopping with fifty. but now we have to spend one hundred fifty. everything's terrible but they say everything's fine. we'll go fold. it will do. you think if the economy is not doing well everyone goes shopping with their credit cards now there's no cash in the cycle so an economy took to school i don't think the economy is telling us there's a crisis now but he says this can't be changed for the better. the economy has collapsed our external debt is huge but apparently half of the

population is dreaming in a stream they don't see the truth. our money has lost its value and. how our president and his party addressing people's economic fears well the president is in fact campaigning as if this vote was about himself i just saw him at one of his biggest rallies here in istanbul a few days ago and i've found it's striking that he is avoiding talking about the economic problems instead he's talking a lot about achievement or about completely different issues that he has focused a lot on the terrorist attacks against muslims in new zealand he's talking about palestinians in gaza and he's also trying to discredit the opposition blaming them for collaborating with terrorists and all these elections likely to be free and

fair. well in the past elections already the opposition has been complaining about vote rigging and irregularities so this is probably going to be an issue again especially in the south east eastern part of this country and so is a fantasist airline in his a.k.p. control the state resources and most of the media here are now owned by companies close to the government so opposition candidates were given much less air time than the hippies candidates the governments candidates and some counted as even got zero ad time and this has been criticize in postelection already by international observers as well really hot in istanbul thank you. health officials in mozambique have confirmed five cases of cholera the first since the world health organization warned of a possible epidemic in the wake of cycling a day two weeks after the powerful storm the united nations is appealing for more

than two hundred eighty million dollars in aid it says as many as three million people in mozambique and neighboring zimbabwe and malawi have been affected by the disaster. speedboats still the only way to get help to people outside been areas in the worst hit region around the city of bayda these portuguese marines carried medicine food and drinking water to settlements along the still swollen daisy 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 he'll be

will spread more easily in the zone and that's why it's important to have good medical staff here so you can be for any kind of control the team 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 of other health centers because they have had an increase of patients but don't have the capacity to deal with. 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 a risk. they were going to dublin years a lot from poland still to come delivering pizza in the desert meets a young woman who's built a successful business serving of tasty food in refugee camps. her so as british lawmakers discuss the next steps in their efforts to revive european union the e.u. parliament has also been discussing bracks it we were first briefed lawmakers on last week's summit at which member states offered britain to. new options for an orderly accents comparing the u.k. to the famously mysterious egyptian sphinx you commission president to show on claude a young said it remained unclear what london would do but you council president a don't want to ask urged lawmakers to give britain time to rethink its position you cannot be tray the six million people who signed

a petition to revoke article fifty. one million people. will march for it people vote all the increasing much already of people who wants to remain in the european union. they may feel that they are not sufficiently represented by day u.k. parliament but they must feel that they are represented by you in this chamber because they are europeans thank you. straight to strasburg than we do and i didn't just go matters welcome i go i'm strong words from donald tusk. absolutely a look donald tusk is known to be an emotional speaker he makes no secret of the fact that he thinks the u.k. should stay should change its mind and seeing that keep the tears are now falling in line behind to reason may's plan beyond her deal shows that there is a fear among the tears that there may be ofter all know president all that the

remains site suddenly gets a momentum and for that momentum that down the toast would like to see more time so long extension and do you think that lawmakers are likely to heed his words. i think frankly there is no the so secret that there is a proxy for teak and it's pretty much has reached its peak and so yes it would be unconvenient if the u.k. suddenly participates after all in the european elections the french president has said he's not in much in favor of a long extension but after all the u.k. e.u. summit last week has made that suggestion that that offer is on the table and i think so what dollar tuesday refers to is some any piece on the remains side on the pro european side who have said look if the u.k. would fall out if it would be a hot breakfast that would be a showcase that leaving the european union is just a bad idea and what else have you lawmakers been saying about.

well there is the price of negotiator of the european parliament for instance who has said he's a little less optimistic that donald tusk and he believes that remain has no chance but that after a couple of years the u.k. were returned to the family of a u. nations so there are some positive was here from a number of any piece and finally that was set downs from the labor party and i mean who said thank you donal to us your message is well received and we're grateful for it and i go back to say in strasbourg thank you. the algerian sahara desert is home to tens of thousands of refugees from western sahara who've been living in camps for decades since the homeland was annexed by morocco but one young woman is determined to make the most of her life by offering a unique service to other refugees. this car is delivering pizza

in the desert. i think 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 sahara 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. the lie that. 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 very she shows us her pride and joy her fast food stand in the 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 marnie who is 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 pizzas business is busiest in the evenings at the refugee camps you can get a pizza for the equivalent of two euros. 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 has own terror suspect. 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 side are we against

small rock or some wreckage remains. some of the injured war veterans live in a dilapidated home outside the camp it's important for 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 war wounds because i got them fighting for a fair and legal cause. 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. in the u.s. space agency nasa is facing criticism for counseling what would have been the first

all female space walk because they didn't have enough of the right size space suits astronauts christina call seen here on them after it was due to be joined by her colleague and mcclain but that's only one medium sized suit was ready mail astronaut will now join in on the walk on friday according to nasa it was only during her first spacewalk last week the mcclane realized that a medium sized suit fits best and a new suit couldn't be configured in time. it's reminder of our top story at this hour i'll jerry's army chief on the head of the country from voting coalition partner of calls for the president to be declared unfit for office on the grounds of ill health after the season we just were going to split was faced with weeks of protests demanding his resignation. coming up next year on that theme empowering the women off senegal something show africa a high five world news of the top of the hour i'm going to.

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