this is g.w. news coming to you live from reports the son sudan's president has stepped down after months of mounting protests against his rule thousands of protesters are camped outside army headquarters calling for it support satie faeces the military is poised to make quote an important announcement omar al bashir has held power for more than thirty years also coming up european union delays bragg's it again but tells the u.k. . britain now it's him till the end of october to approve the force arrangement

with brussels but ten prime minister theresa may finally get her deal through. voting begins in india today for the biggest election the world has ever seen nothing million people are eligible cast ballots to be deciding the future of the prime minister. also coming up difficult decisions here in germany about down's syndrome lawmakers are debating whether to easy access to early detention testing early detection testing for so about nine out of ten german women terminate such pregnancy. oh i'm terry martin good to have you with us as reports are coming in say sudan's president omar al bashir has stepped down. ending thirty years of rule the news

comes after state media indicated the country's armed forces would be making quote an important announcement that fueled speculation that a coup attempt was underway to oust all this year we have this exclusive footage from the capital khartoum where tens of thousands have been rallying outside sudanese military headquarters it's the sixth straight day of demonstrations calling for cheers resignation clashes between protesters and security forces have left around a dozen people dead. well joining me now from khartoum is alsono z adam a journalist there also doesn't tell us where we're getting reports that the president omar bashir has resigned can you confirm that for us sir i'm afraid we have lost the line to khartoum where hoping to restore that later

in this program if we do get else knows he's back on the line we'll be we'll be joining you again taking you again to khartoum again we are getting reports and that the president of sudan omar al bashir has resigned protests have been going on while we have to return that story in just a moment but first we'll move on to britain and brags it how when will it be a trick or treat this year for theresa may on a day much of the world associates with horror shows that's the one settled on as the new deadline for braggs it the deal was struck between the e.u. and britain during late night talks in brussels that spares the u.k. from a no deal departure at the end of this week after winning this reprieve from the e.u. prime minister theresa may says she's determined to deliver an orderly exit as soon as possible. british prime minister to resign may returning to the e.u.

summit to hear the response from the other twenty seven nations may request a delay to the brig's a deadline to prevent the u.k. from crashing out of the e.u. on friday the decision came after five hours of deliberations an extension until the end of october if need be and european council president donald tusk said he had a message for british lawmakers. this extension this flexible as i expect it. little bit shorter than they expected but that still enough. to find the best possible solution is. to not waste this stuff. but there are conditions if the u.k. cannot find a way to exit the e.u. before the twenty second of may britain will have to take part in the e.u. parliamentary elections many in the u.k. will be furious about the possibility of being involved in another round of e.u.

elections to resume a said she was fully aware of this and that she wanted to get a deal done as quickly as possible german chancellor angela merkel took a softer tone than some leaders at the talks she said she was pleased with the outcome and stressed the importance of making sure the process was not done too hastily. a year leaders say they will meet in june to review the progress made by british lawmakers and to reason may now has to go back and face the british house of commons. of more let's cross over to his bentley guess who's standing by for us in brussels and in london we're joined by did the us bill get lost good morning to you both starting with you belt we heard in the report their leaders expressing satisfaction with the result but getting an agreement wasn't easy was it. he stays that six hours to hammer out

a compromise and arrive accidentally at the halloween date the thirty first of october because it was right in the middle between the french and the german demands the french president the amount of michael want to date said to june because he wants to save his project to rename some sort of europe and he doesn't want a disease of pranks and as he put it to spill over to the european elections on the other hand the germans for a more practical pragmatic and said the brits need time so i'm going to malcolm pleaded for the thirty first of december and the compromise is right in the middle and now we have to see if britain actually can use this time and implement what is in this rather complicated deal that was found yesterday they can leave at any time but the last stage would be the thirty first of october and it is not excluded that nother extension will follow if they are not able to leave on the thirty first of october to get how does this extension look from teresa mayes perspective did she

get what she was looking for this time. well tourism a is really dreading have having to participate in the european elections and she's still hoping that she somehow will manage to get a deal before that so that doesn't need to happen the art of compromise. and show in brussels that now is the question whether this can be replicated here in london when she talks to the labor of position because this is still the talks are at she needs to find a compromise here with have partners with the opposition and order to persuade m.p.'s and the house of commons to come to some sort of conclusion so it's not what she wanted but she'd have to take this but what about these european elections it's looking increasingly likely that britain will be participating in them how does this how can the european union sell this to european voters that

a country that doesn't even want to be in the european union is going to be voting in these elections. it's very hard to predict what will happen in the next six weeks it's only six weeks until the elections are coming up nothing has changed actually in britain the majority in the parliament is that it stands the prime minister has no plan and also no authority authority to to implement anything so no the e.u. is looking at this election date and it's a it's a weird situation as to the commission she put it but it's manageable and the. preparations starting right now as we speak because britain has to come up with candidates return offices ballot boxes and stuff like that and everybody here in brussels things they will actually take part in these elections and then if they don't this is also in the compromise if they don't then the crèche out they put be the first of june. because there's still

a massive question mark hanging over brags that. no one knows if or when the u.k. is really going to pull out there's a new deadline the end of october how is this going down in london beyond downing street with or or breaks the tears open arms they are indeed terry we've had numerous calls what's reason me to go we've had david davis the form of brics it's secretary say that pressure on hall will grow now so it deep on happiness also within the conservative party base those are the people that have to go out and drop the leaflets in people's houses they have to do this for the local elections but also for the european elections and there are reports that they are getting a lot of use and that they're really not happy having to do this so brek city is a very incensed that this is happening that this is strain upon them but of course

there are others those who are fighting for a different outcome for a second referendum they are determined to use the time and use it to change public opinion and get their second referendum through and maybe change the course of the outcome of this of bragg's of process all together in a really dramatic way uncertainty on both sides of the channel baerga thank you so much bigger plus there in london and in brussels bentley good thank you very much to you both. it's three. now returning to sudan protests have been continuing there and they seem to be coming to a head the military said to watch out for an announcement that is going to be coming today to very soon we haven't gotten that announcement yet but we are getting reports that the president of sudan shere has resigned after thirty years in power we're trying to get that confirmed we can cross now live to khartoum were

i a correspondent journalist also knows he is on the scene as he is if you're with us now can you tell us what's happening there right now in khartoum we are having some trouble establishing the line to khartoum we're going to keep working on that for you we hope to get you back but again just bringing you up to date there does appear to be some movement in khartoum that the president of sudan may have resigned now. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today south korea. south korea's constitutional court has overturned a decades old ban on abortion prior to the court's decision the country had been one of the few industrialized nations where the procedure remains illegal except in cases of rape incest and when the mother's health is at risk. australian prime

minister scott morrison has announced a general election on may eighteenth reconstitution says the election. must take place about than but polls show more since conservative coalition trailing the opposition labor party taxes climate change and inequality looks set to loom large in the campaign. algerians have kept up their protest against the country's political elite that's just quite the new interim leader announcing an election for the fourth of july the country has been rocked by weeks of protests which pushed out the illing present but if we cut. through to india now where voting is under way in the world's biggest parliamentary election nearly nine hundred million indians are eligible to vote to neighboring them to do so is a mammoth logistical operation that's why there isn't just one election day instead

voting takes place in seven phases across different regions from the eleventh of april to the nineteenth of may according to election guidelines voters should have to travel no further than two kilometers to cast their vote so one million polling stations will be set up across the country to reach voters and even the remotest areas once voters in every constituency have cast their vote the results are due to be announced on may twenty third for more now let's cross over to delhi where sagna fall is standing by she's closely tracking this election for us voting in the world's biggest democracy is getting underway there but it's a massive logistical undertaking what's at stake here politically. well terry i think about all this election really boils down to a referendum on one man and that is prime minister great there in the movie now in

the last five years he's really dominated the political landscape in india like no other he is adored by many her for what you know many see as his hard work has integrity and his honesty but to this critics he remains a usually polarizing and desired divisive figure when you threaten secular secular fabric off india now this election campaign which is that unusually facility of it has really been all about more that you know he's the face office party in this government he's been he's a tireless campaigner he's been going huge crowds there's been lots of more the much of that is floating around t. shirts mosques even a t.v. channel dedicated to streaming his speeches so i think of all this election is a referendum on this kind of charismatic strong man leader and whether you can really live up to the tall promises he made off a new india when he was elected five years ago. for many in india the elections are a referendum on this man prime minister no render

a modi. modi came to power in two thousand and fourteen after a landslide victory but this time around things might not be as clear cut. although polls suggest the fiercely nationalist modi will hold on to the premiership the main opposition party led by rahul gandhi is in the ascendancy. after a disastrous general election result five years ago gandhi's congress party was jubilant recently after winning back three key states from moody's b j p in regional elections. and they have promised to prioritise the single biggest issue for voters the lack of jobs there schmidt in this country and in every state young people are searching for jobs wherever you go and ask a young person what they're doing they reply i'm not doing anything that they'll get there quickly got there. it's a giant challenge while the indian economy has gathered strength under modi and has

struggled to generate enough jobs especially for the country's young people. more than half of indians are aged twenty five or under and some twelve million enter the workforce each year. the recent spike in tensions between india and pakistan in kashmir however has put another issue on the agenda national security and that may well play into the hands of now render modi and his hindu nationalists. the prime minister has started himself as the watchman protecting his country by being strong on defense tough on terror in the army they are wrong going to be blair's in the brig up there are this is the on your india this new delhi india that phrase returned to their america out by their repeated there is. if the pool of nationalism proves strong enough in this election modi supporters

may well be celebrating come the twenty third of may. so here tell us how much of a factor is hindu nationalism the which of course is the party of the prime minister is a hindu nationalist party has a sensibly how important is that as a factor in the selection. well it's certainly a big factor you know modi the spotty have really differently mixed nationalism and patriotism to make national security really the number one issue in this election campaign you know on the campaign trail more the has really in his speeches hundred against pakistan he's he's made reference to these to this unprecedented ad with strike against pakistan and sacrifices of indian soldiers and attacked the opposition for being too soft on terrorism and all this i think is played really well to a receptive domestic audience here in india who feel that the stop action and pakistan has really made india you know stand tall on the world stage what about

the opposition congress party and its leader role what do they want to achieve in the coming weeks. once the congress is definitely hoping to you know mount a formidable challenge to mold the and his b.g. people but electorally analysts here are questioning the congress the strategy because they have really decided to strike out on their own and not form alliances with parties that have come together to opposition to more of these so i think there is a danger that the anti b.j. people could be fragmented and split so i think it remains to be seen whether the congress is the alternative narrative we're going to gain traction in the coming weeks. your father there in delhi thank you very much. when the countdown to the election political parties have raided social media with last minute campaigning like anywhere else in the world these platforms are not immune to the

menace of fake news. rushing to rise spends at least two hours a day going through election news on social media the shopkeeper says he almost always believes what he sees. when i watch news are obviously consider it to be true. popular in india think it's false. it's a view that sums up a growing problem in india technology experts say many users aren't able to identify this information on the internet. because. prime minister b j p party and the opposition congress party sent messages to millions of followers on social media but the user base is eager market for verified content critical of politicians india has three hundred million facebook uses more than any other country in the world meaning fake

news has the potential to spread like wildfire. india's election commission has now taught facebook to tighten its oversight one of the things that i've learned through working on election integrity is that it is an adversarial space where that means is that we will always see adaptation we will always see new threats emerge despite efforts by the social media giant while for the election commission to things fake news could have a big impact at the ballot box. and .

the fallout from that is just as unpredictable as the indian election itself. here in germany attention is focusing on a blood test that can leave expectant mothers facing a moral dilemma test a term and whether an unborn child has delved syndrome there's pressure now for the test to be covered by public health insurance the test has been around for years the payment issue has triggered a deeper debate about society's acceptance of children with disabilities. sophia is a year and a half old she's lucky to be alive and estimated nine out of ten women in germany decide to have abortions when they find out their unborn child has down's syndrome and to sing with seven months pregnant when she got the diagnosis. i was worried i was also feeling a bit desperate i didn't know what to do i was still in the last year of my studies

. but i had a lot of support and courage and because she was so active in my belly so feel also showed me that she wanted to live and she should be allowed to live. the weeks that followed were difficult for ana who was also working as a geriatric nurse she read all about down's syndrome which is a genetic disorder in which children are almost always born with physical and intellectual disability the doctor told her child would be born with a heart defect suddenly and a face the dilemma of whether to have an abortion. they immediately told me i could have an abortion but i thought if i have an abortion i'll have to give birth to a stillborn child. i didn't even want to sink about that. carolyn hennig a gynecologist councils women who decide to have an abortion when they get

a diagnosis of down syndrome she knows the pressure for all involved. as. there are so many factors to consider how old are my how stable is my relationship to my other children still need a lot of attention i like to tell my patients that they just have to decide what's easiest for them. hennig says the blood test that detects down syndrome as early as ten weeks of pregnancy gives families time to make difficult decisions early on that's also important to ensure that mother and child are well looked after if the mother decides to have a baby. for on it isn't because she goes deeper. she says the blood test sends a message that society does not accept children like sophia. i ask myself why. and if you then don't have to pay for the test these children

will simply not exist. even though they're perfectly happy children who radiate joy and have so much love to give. the blood test for down syndrome are already a standard procedure in denmark and france in those countries few children like sophia are born. sports news now in soccer there were more big games on wednesday as the champions league quarter finals continued in they don't come much bigger than manchester united against barcelona first leg in manchester was settled by a single goal luke shaw scoring past his own goalkeeper to give a one nil victory the only damage united managed to inflict on their opponents was a bloody nose and injured by for argentina superstar leo messi ouch but it's messy in bar so will now be confident of completing the job next week at home.

when say the other quarterfinal saw a clash of style axis exciting young attack against the dog a defense of you ventus italians took the lead with the last action of the first half a header from. wells putting them want to. break but the dutch side which beat real madrid in the last round came roaring back the naris levelled the game in the first minute of the second half but you baze away goal means i-x. have work to do in next week's second. and finally if you happen to be in thailand in the coming days get ready to be drenched the country is celebrating its most famous festival song it marks the beginning of the traditional thai new year water is

a key element of song and crowd celebrate by throwing water at anyone in their vicinity as you can see even elephants get to join in the pond songkran festival is often referred to as the world's biggest water fight tensing elephants look at the. times believes that water washes away and helps usher in prosperity. just reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on d w news server for say that sudan's president omar al bashir has stepped down after thirty years of rule thousands of protesters against him have been gathering outside army headquarters state media of analysis that the military is poised to make quote an important state. prosecutor for several ministers

there have now been arrested up next we got some business news for you chris cobra will be here he'll be looking at the elections in india and checking on the election promises made minor in growth mode the last time around seeing how many of them he has fulfilled with respect to reviving the economy nothing more still to come. the fluently good.

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