you know it's going to explore fascinating blond cultural heritage sites that will be the d w world heritage for sixty the good feeling. to put out a bit of. the be . this news coming to you live from berlin wiki leaks founder julian assange is under arrest involved and british police took a sandwich into custody at texaco dollars embassy in the british capital of his asylum has been rigged draw one after being cold up in the building for the past seven yes also the program to report says sudan's president has been forced from

office after thirty years of rule and thousands of protesters are said to break in cotland state t.v. says the military is poised to make an important announcement. also on the floor of the biggest election the world has ever seen indians are lining up at the polls in the first of seven phases of voting nine hundred million people are eligible to cost and ballots to be deciding the future of prime minister not in them or delete . just for your opinion didn't least breaks it again but tells the u.k. don't waste time that keep the prime minister to resign may get the backing of british lawmakers which he does not manage to do so far. to. begin. with some breaking news britain's home secretary has confirmed that the

founder of wiki leaks julian assange has been arrested in london a sources said to be in police custody and will face trial in the u.k. his arrest came after the ecuadorian government drew his asylum a song has been living at the ecuadorian embassy in london since taking refuge there in two thousand and twelve to avoid extradition to sweden over accusations of sexual assault. also fit extradition to the u.s. for publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic cables through wiki leaks. and for the very latest let's go now to our london correspondent big it must be good what more can you tell us about a soldier's arrest. well the interesting thing is that the metropolitan police are saying they have been invited into the embassy now for all these last seven years there was always this kind of standoff and the question was is joining us are

ever actually going to leave this embassy he was really confined to these spaces he had sometimes had some rare appearances on the balcony and then usually had crowds of supporters cheering to him he had the world's media speculating as to what will happen now this has gone on for a very long time and now he is in british custody and the police are saying that he will face the court the british magistrate court as soon as possible what will that happen remains to be seen there is. the accusation in the u.k. is that he violated his bail conditions all the way back in two thousand and twelve and this is that this is why he would face the courts here but then of course is the question about his about his wider future and whether he might eventually face trial in the u.s. ok and begin doing the search has been in the ecuadorian embassy since two thousand

and twelve as we mentioned remind us about how he got there in the first place. well he got there because he got asylum he felt that he was unfairly accused of sexual violations that was an offense that happened in sweden he was accused of sexual offenses in sweden and he said this was all set up against him that this was just in order to from sweden if he had to face trial in sweden that he would. that would have been a call to eventually extradite him to the u.s. so that was his justification as to whether he did never want to face that trial in sweden so that was the original well legal case against him now since then i understand that these charges have been dropped the swedish charges and the u.k. charges are still standing and of course his wife his wife faith is

whether he is going to face any trial in the u.s. and make it do we know why the ecuadorian embassy decided to hand him over to the police. well we know that since i quit i had a change of government the position towards julian assange has changed and i have been accusations by wiki leaks that julian assange has been closely monitored has been video and audio documentation of what he was was doing in the embassy this is something that wiki leaks. is accusing. the embassy of the whole conditions and the whole goodwill he had with the former i could during government seems to have evaporated. right the dramatic end to a long drawn out saga bigot miles in london thank you very much for that. turning now to sudan where reports say the military has forced president

a lot of bashir to step down ending thirty years of rule speculation that a coup was underway was fueled by state media promising that the country's armed forces would be making an important announcement the circumstances of the party and his current whereabouts remain unclear though there has been no official confirmation celebrations erupted in the capital khartoum where residents joined tens of thousands of protesters in the country's military headquarters it was the sixth consecutive day of mass anti-government protests calling for bushies resignation clashes between protesters and security forces have left dozens dead. joining me now is a reporter welcome i know we've been seeing reports thousands of people protesting in and some of them celebrating on the news that she may have resigned what are

these people demanding why are the out on the streets what were the complaints i mean people i mean this this what you're seeing today is the continuation of protests that have erupted in december of twenty eight thousand so he's been. there are protests that have been going on for about four months now and sustained on and off more or less during this time period it started out first was triggered by a steep rise in bread and fuel prices but then very shortly afterwards when the state responded with brutality with the violence into demands of regime change and that's that's but that sort of became the clarion call of these protests down with the regime down with the regime just go is a famous is a famous slogan that has been repeated that we've been hearing throughout these protests so that's what they're calling for the calling for the shoes thirty year rule to come to an end it seems that they have got to this this report suggests that one of the she has resigned but this be more confirmation what are you hearing from the country well i there's

a general feeling of jubilation i mean since this morning since the military announced and said listen up soon on t.v. we'll be giving you an important announcement and since then patriotic songs reminiscent of the military the military from the it is in seventies have been putting on t.v. people have. been celebrating bear anticipating that this is going to be the crowning jewel of months and months of protests that the military removes. the shoes of people are happy but i think you know one must be very very wary of this moment in the she'd needing does not necessarily equate to change especially if the military is involved in that region change and proof to that just looking around at instances in the region where the military stepped in to remove a leader after mass protests so we must we must tread carefully absolutely did you see as you said a lot of the she has been with thirty years he had the backing of the military old

this time why would the military want to pull the plug on him now. i think that the military and military institutions in that part of the world. support leaders until it's not beneficial for them to support them. anymore so i'm going to bashir is not a civilian president he himself came into power in one thousand nine hundred nine through a military coup he is the man of military and they have stood behind him so far but one can consume eyes from the events that have happened over the past couple of days that you know maybe they've just seen that supporting the figure supporting this president is no longer sustainable we saw a very similar eerily similar scenario unfold in algeria just a couple of days ago where after weeks and weeks of protest the military which had up until then been a great supporter of beautifully asked him. for the triggering of a of a constitutional article that would be capable position of the president so you have to wait and see what happens we still have no confirmation of a lot of no signs of aging mission but reports are coming in that he has stepped

down thank you very much for your assessment and for all that additional information and so much for having. a kid let me begin with some of the stories making news around the world south dakota's constitution of course is overturned a decades old ban on abortion to mixed reaction tried to the court's decision the country had been one of the few industrialized nations where the procedure remained illegal except in cases of rape incest and when the mothers was at risk. australia. has announced a general election on the eighteenth of may the constitutional cécile lections must take place about the polls show larson's conservative coalition trailing the opposition that leave us policy taxes climate change and inequality looks set to new knowledge in the campaign. but the security to india now by voting is underway in the was biggest bonaventure election with nearly nine hundred million indians

eligible to vote it's a mammoth in the just to kill operation blessing mystic place in seven phases across different regions from the eleventh of the fifth today to nineteenth of may should would have to travel no further than took along the terrace to cast their vote so one million people in stations will be set to reach even the remotest areas . day one of the largest election the world has ever seen many are casting their ballots for the first time and women voters could also outnumber men in this election. for many it's a referendum on prime minister narendra modi. see that a lot of the written word from the next government forces education like it all but education put everybody for free no matter how much it cost them but i think that is necessary. for the progress of my country and i want to be more in india we want

a prime minister like modi will be if. the employment situation is really bad and we want jobs more must also be done to address pollution it was partly because more than half of indians are aged twenty five or under and some twelve million enter the workforce each year prime minister narendra modi's plans for job growth have failed to materialise. it's an issue his main challenger raul gandhi has vowed to prioritise his congress party managed to win back three key states from modi's b j p in regional elections. 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 down himself as the watchman protecting his country by being strong on defense tough on terror but much will depend on his party's performance

in several key states such as here in our pradesh if the first day of gender elections in india of and by hundred million people very be wanting in a new government and i am right now at a polling booth in the city of noida in north india behind me you can see it all in with officials who are helping what does find their names in the electoral rolls now just to give you an idea of the scale of this election in noida alone there are about fixed hundred over six hundred polling booths all across this city if the pull of nationalism prove strong enough in this election modi supporters may well be celebrating come the twenty third of may. and for the vegas disconsolately. standing by welcome still ahead of problems in that interim or they sent us a tweet this morning calling on his supporters to turn out in huge numbers what is the how is the first phase of proceeding. so i mean

i think the first round of voting seems to be proceeding largely smoothly though there's been some reports off of some glitches of malfunctioning with some electronic voting machines that are being used in this process vacating those reports from several states in india another problem here is violence that accompanies the poll it's never really intense enough to threaten the electoral process but it's a threat that remains especially in the so-called red belt to areas where the government is you know fighting a maist insurgency for decades so today we've had reports from the state of maharashtra in the northeast about a blast though there have been no confirmation of any casualties that premise to movie came into power the last time on a on a platform of good governance but as we heard the report some people are disappointed with issues like job creation will this be reflected in the poor dear thing. that's right i mean that is a big concern you know more they did storm to power in two thousand and fourteen

promising to create millions of jobs and that simply hasn't materialized what's worse is that his government really stands accused of suppressing a major jobs report earlier this year that showed that you know unemployed the unemployment rate in india has risen to a forty decade high so that is really worrying given that india's population is so young you know more than hof india's population is below the age of twenty five it's about prevents a big problem and it's one of briefly what about the opposition especially the opposition party the congress party led by the whole gang the what is it hoping to achieve. so the opposition congress party led by a resurgent ground on the is really hoping i think to to mount a formidable challenge to more the party but many analysts here are questioning the electoral strategy and that's because the congress has decided to really go it alone rather than stitch up alliances with the regional parties of a band of up against all these so there's that a fears that this could split the anti b.g.p.

vote. or indeed thank you very much for that. thank you now in the countdown to the election political parties have lit up social media with last minute campaigning like anywhere else in the world these platforms are not immune to the menace of fake news. russian karate 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 the news or 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. just because it's. prime minister modi's 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 told 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.

the fall out from that is just as unpredictable election itself. tension is focusing on a blood test that can leave expectant mothers facing a moral dilemma that test to tell us whether an unborn child has down syndrome this pressure now for the test to be covered by public health insurance although 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. 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

ana to some was seven months pregnant when she got the diagnosis. 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. because she was so active and so feel 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 think about that. colleen hennig a gynecologist counsels 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 the issue goes deeper. she

says the blood test sends a message that society does not accept children like sophia. i asked 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. to you opinion and has agreed with britain to extend the bank's a deadline by more than six months to fill with the thirty first the deal was struck to lignite talks in brussels sparing the u.k. from a no deal departure at the end of this week now the political deadlock in the british

parliament is prevented the divorced from moving forward after winning the latest prefer the e.u. prime minister to reason he says she's working towards 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 i mix tension until the end of october if need be an european council president donald said he had a message for british lawmakers. this extension as flexible as expected. and little bit short expected about that still enough. to find the best possible solution. this time. 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 reason may 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 person this was not done too hastily. leaders say they will meet in june to review the progress made by british lawmakers aren't to reason may now has to go back and face the british house of commons. with a u.k. on the brink of leaving the e.u. the irish border question still has. it means lots of confusion over the fate of northern ireland because a return to a hard border with the republic of ireland could threaten the province's hard won

peace ever since the u.k.'s gregg's of referendum german photographer toby bindra has focused his attention on belfast and the fragile balance that is daily bread for its. teenagers in belfast after the good friday agreement they have not experienced the sectarian violence of the past still these images show that the deep divisions of a troubled past still resonate. with. the relationship between protestants and catholics and discovers that even after decades of peace that relationship has not fundamentally changed. people live side by side in peace but they don't live together in pace and the every day of the individual communities takes place completely in their own neighborhood there were times i got a lift in a car and here with a car this will only be a short trip but some people don't even want to drive through the other neighborhoods they'd rather take

a long detour they remain in their own communities and communities and. the story is not over. high walls and barbed wire still separate catholic and protestant neighborhoods these walls. the troubles went on for longer than thirty years and cost more than three thousand lives the sectarian conflict is see it deep into the consciousness of those living here even after the good friday agreement. of nine hundred ninety eight the mood remained extremely aggressive. the center of belfast away from the catholic and protestant neighborhoods here the economic boom the city enjoyed following the peace agreement is plain to see but what will happen when breaks a comes if indeed a hard border between the north and the republic of ireland were to be erected again. and what would a heartbreak that mean for the youth of belfast the first generation to have grown

up in peace time and. would they be doomed to repeat the mistakes of their fathers the same mistakes that have caused so much suffering on both sides. different who doesn't offer the idea of the book is to simply show that the similarities between the two sides are much greater than they are willing to admit that the kids have the same tracksuits they have the same hairstyles drink the same drinks they take the same drugs they have the same daily routine so you really wouldn't be able to tell the difference. of a gun but if it were to shout into toby bindles photobook lets the viewer experience something of how the young people of northern ireland surrounded by propaganda and threats of violence try to hold their lives together his work shows

how fragile the peace really is and how uncertain the future looks especially after breaks that. if you've just joined us that we're money at the breaking news that we're following for you wiki leaks founder julian assange has been arrested in london since two thousand and twelve yet taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy there we'll have more for you on that at the top of the hour up next conflict so stay with us for that if you can.

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when the water starts to fight for survival. is a dangerous. floods and droughts will climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and probably more of them to come to. the climate exodus started people thirty years on t w. the situation in venezuela could hardly be more complex the united states along with some two dozen countries is backing the new interim leader one way to go russia and china support the incumbent nicolas maduro how's it going to play out my guess this week here in brussels it is cloudy as salerno better who is venezuela's ambassador to the european union with the record of appalling human

rights abuses does mr montoro deserve to stay in office.