i am. i am. this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin ricky leaks founder julian assange is under arrest in dundon police take a solution into cost to do it ecuador's embassy shortly after his asylum was revoked for quote aggressive behavior apologise confirm his been held over an extradition request from the u.s. also the program the pelletier rule of saddam's president bashir is over sudan's defense minister has announced a transitional government run by the military and the state of emergency to last

for trivia it's. also coming up it's the biggest election there was a scene in deals are lining up at the polls in the first of seven phases of voting nine hundred million people voted cost them ballots they'd be deciding the future of prime minister. plus difficult decisions in germany a down syndrome no vehicles are debating whether to ease access to early detection testing about nine out of ten german women choose to tilman it such pregnancies. pattern of able. we begin with some breaking news the founder of wiki leaks julian assange is under arrest and london police have confirmed he is being held on behalf of. u.s.

authorities this video shot by iraq part of the broadcaster russia today shows a sign is being taken into cut police custody at the ecuadorian embassy assigned to presage there in two thousand and twelve to avoid extradition to sweden over accusations of sexual assault his arrest came after the ecuadorian government been through his asylum. for more let's cross over to our correspondent big mass was standing in the heart of london bigot what more can you tell us about the arrest of julian a songe. well from the video footage that we're seeing here seem to be dragged out of the embassy against his will we know that the embassy the ecuadorian government has invited this is what the metropolitan police says has invited the police to come in they were not happy with julia soundest behavior is what they say and we know that there is

a further and further arrest this is what is being said by the u.s. authorities so he has been arrested by the u.k. or thirty's but this also already an extradition request from the u.s. so this is important because the u.k. authorities have arrested him because he has. acted against his bail conditions those seven years ago since easy when he came to the embassy when he sought shelter here so this is the reason why they arrest him but of course the much bigger reason is is politics and his publishing and his activity with wiki leaks and this is the question whether he will be extradited in the end to the u.s. and we were just seeing some pictures where we saw all the arrests in the seem to be scuffles going on now the ecuadorian president lyndon marino has just explain why doing a song was thrown out of the ecuadorian embassy in london let's first take a listen to what he had to say. today i announce the. the discourteous and

aggressive behavior of mr julian assange the hostile and threatening declarations of its allied organization against ecuador and especially the transgression of international treaties have led the situation to a point where the asylum of mr assange is unsustainable no longer viable ecuador sovereignty has decided to terminate the diplomatic asylum granted to mr song in twenty twelve. so we get a strong words from ecuador us president talking about aggressive and hostile behavior what's behind this. well it seems like the new ecuadorian government is not as positive towards julian assange as the old government was. is a game of accusations and counter-accusations the ecuadorians accuser innocent of having acted against some understanding that they had that he would not we can leagues publish any material that would harm their relations with other countries

but they think that julian assange has not acted according to this understanding that he had with him there's also an accusation from wiki leaks says he was spied upon inside the embassy there was secure video footage taken of him this is what we can say so but the bottom line seems to be that the new government doesn't seem to look at him as favorably as the last government has done. has many supporters it for some it was almost like a cult figure what has been the reaction to news of his arrest. well we have heard from from russia that they say this is anti democratic and against freedom as well from edward snowden who said something similar it was a dark moment for for press freedom also here in front of the embassy i mean it's really interesting because julian assange has been held here for four for all these years has not been able to get out not held but he was here by his own accord but

he was unable to leave for fear of being arrested by the british police he's been confined and had very few appearances on these on these balconies but whenever this happened the is supporters were there and equally today there are some supporters here i saw some skirmishes when the ecuadorian president entered this building behind and there were there was a couple full and one wiki leaks supporters said that ecuador ecuadorian per. zidan is a traitor. for did have giving. for inviting the metropolitan police to arrest him so strong feelings for sure from his supporters here in london and across the world. big mass in london thank you very much. to not to sudan where we also have breaking news president omar al bashir has been

ousted by the military and thirty years of rule the country's defense minister has announced a two year transitional government run by the military along with a three year state of the often merge and see you also said a lot of bashir is being held at a secure place in the capital khartoum tens of thousands are out in the streets celebrating the sudanese strong man's departure comes after months of anti-government protests. joining me now is a. man who is monitoring that story for us a welcome i assume the long awaited statement from the military has come the defense minister has just announced in the last few minutes that the she had a model but she has been sacked and thrown out does it come as a surprise it doesn't come as a surprise early this morning the military said that it would be making them pronouncement it just has and i've just heard part of that statement and listen to it very closely since the morning there have been speculation that this would indeed to happen so no it doesn't come as

a surprise i think what comes out of surprise is the details in the speech that the transitional period would be two years that. three months that there would be declared a three month state of emergency and a curfew for for a month further they've also announced that all exit and entry points to sudan would be closed for the next twenty four hours pending further notice i think the details we must wait and see the reactions on the ground true to the conditions of the removal of the sheet i think that remains pieces of the question of i wish it is not known but as we have the defense minister has said he is in a secure location as we've seen the true tests have been going on for a while in sudan especially in the last six days people have been out on the streets will they be satisfied that this development do you think i think when i was talking to activists throughout the past couple of months they've always said you know we want a civilian government and military rule is nothing new to sudan and the shooter himself came to power as

a result of terry in one nine hundred eighty nine so my impression is this two year transitional period i'm not sure how this might sit with some of the protesters so the news union of professionals which has in the past couple of months led many of the protesters already said that they would like in civilian transitional government so i think this point and we should we should follow this this debate very closely this. transitional council that has been proposed the suspension of the constitute. the state of emergency the curfew etc i think these might be calm points of contention in the early hours of this development also in the days and weeks to come for everything that one has heard from what the defense minister said it sounds more or less like a cool how long this will last one doesn't know but they've said it two years transition military government the rights of people have been withdrawn the constitution has been abrogated and this is a military supported amount of the shoes for thirty years why do you think they

pulled the plug on him now i mean i think the key is in the words in the in the preamble to to the to the defense minister's statement there i mean he made a great effort before he announced all of these conditions to mourn the people that have lost their lives or of these protests even going so far as to call them martyrs and to say that the measures the military the military has now chosen to take is precisely to avoid the shedding of even more blood so i think that what has happened is that the military as an institution has realized that perhaps supporting a bashir is a lost cause does make sense to do it anymore and to avoid the people perhaps even if the protests have gone on for a few more weeks for the people to even turn against their military or perhaps that they would even be divisions within the military so to avoid that scenario. my assessment is that they sort of more or less had to had to take that move to appease the mass protests in the country as we've seen in the past couple of days. the heavy protests a symbol like the woman who stood on top of the car in her white traditional

sudanese sudanese garb became became a symbol for this protest and put a face on it and you know. just fall just go became the clarion call and the one clear demand of the protesters it has evolved over the past four months but in the past six days really made the message very clear and the demands extremely clear that bashir from the side of the protesters can no longer be the leader of that country. this is the next few days of course will be critical because depending on how the civilians respond to this military move because we've already seen in these protests the military has fired and they have been fatalities thank you very much fail assessment and analysis on this breaking news story. that we now bring you up to date with some of the news in the headlines around the world south korea's constitutional court has overturned a decades old ban on abortion to mixed reaction prior to the court's decision the country had been one of the few industrialized nations where the procedure remain

illegal except in cases of rape incest and when the mother's health was a chris. australian prime minister scott morrison has announced a general election on the eighteenth of may the constitution says the election must take place about then but polls show more conservative coalition to be trailing the opposition labor party taxes climate change and inequality looks set to loom large in the campaign. algerians have kept up their protests against the country's political elites and that's despite the new interim leader announcing an election for the fourth of july the country has been dropped by weeks of true test which pushed out the president. you've been years coming up ahead indians. exercise. on the planet look at what's driving people to the ballot box. but first here in

germany attention is focusing on a blood test that can leave expectant mothers facing a moral dilemma the test determines whether an unborn child has down syndrome this pressure now for the test to be covered by a pawlick 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 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. of course i was scared 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 anna who was also working as a geriatric nurse she read all about down 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. carolyn 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 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. the indian prime minister has called it a festival of democracy this as voting is underway in the wilds biggest parliamentary election nearly nine hundred million indians are eligible to vote now enabling them to do so is a mammoth logistical operation and 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 now according to the election guidelines voters should have to travel north other than two kilometers to cost a vote so one million polling stations would be set up across the country to reach

voters even in the most remote areas here's a look at what's driving them to the polls. 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 there are a lot of thing which i want from the next government both is education let's put all that education put everybody feel free no matter how much it cost them but i think that is necessary. for the progress of my country and i want that to be more in india we want a prime minister like. the employment situation is really bad and we want jobs more must also be done to address pollution but 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 its hindu nationalists the prime minister has styled 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 qatar pradesh is the first day of gender elections in india hundred million people very be voting in a new government and i am right now at

a polling booth in the city of noid 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 six 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. for the vegas disco so to delhi video. is standing by welcome so i did have problems in that in the movie send 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 war voting seems to be proceeding largely smoothly though there's been some reports 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 the prime minister of all the came into power the last time on a on a platform of good governance but as we heard now report some people are disappointed with issues like job creation will this be reflected in the poor do you think. 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 unemployment 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 half india's population is below the age of twenty five it's about romance a big problem and it's one of briefly what about the opposition specially the opposition party the congress party led by the what is it hoping to achieve. so the opposition congress thought he 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 abandon up against the so there's there are fears that this could split the anti b.g.p. vote. thank you very much for that. and returning now to our breaking news story developments in sudan with the defense minister within the past hour has announced that president on lot of the she has been from office let

me get from from a costume on the line we have hemant and shake a journalist welcome to you and let's first of all tell me what more did the defense minister have to say yes. can't you be certain that there will be two hundred fifty thousand will be for. our. military people. that are not to be detained. and why on behalf of our knowledge so no doubt the president has not been disclosed. no. i'm like i'm the. only one reading doesn't it katie that their lawyers at least. if you get in. so mike to the contrary it is good to be

transitional military council is that right. some people would look at. what is now. the biggest guns economically counted those that we will. see all that and also you know. what do you hope people who will make. in their book. but not the. year. two i think the american people think. they'll be many protests you know costume and in the thirteen days what's been the reaction to the news that omar as the she's has been sacked. we will be able to

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with that breaking news coming out of your country and i don't know. if that line to. let me just recap the doc story that we're following for you at this hour british police have arrested the wiki leaks founder julian assange this video by roughly part of the build cost of russia today shows a sausage being taken into custody at the ecuadorian embassy he had been living there for the past seven yes. and as you were just hearing so the defense minister has announced that president amman alba sheed has been arrested and that a military council will run the country for the next two years now the move comes after mass protests calling for a model bashir to step down after ruling for nearly thirty years. and you also know that the defense minister has announced that there will be an emergency for three yeahs and a curfew for one month the constitution has been abrogated and the rights of

civilians have been drawn up next we have conflicts so in the hot seat today even as with us ambassador to the european union thank you very much for your company on the news.

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