this is the w.'s coming to you live from bali obviously this power in saddam the defense minister announces that president omar al bashir has been arrested and they'll be a transitional government run by the military for two years also coming up judah summers is a restaurant in london police remove the bikie leaks founder from ecuador's embassy

after his asylum plus revoked for quote aggressive behavior. also on the program it's 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 up a little bit to cast their ballots will be deciding the future of prime minister and the general of the. island welcome. we begin with some breaking news from saddam the army has seized power in the country president a lot of bashir has been ousted and arrested bring to an end thirty years of rule the country's defense minister announced a two year transitional government run by the way to treat along with a three month state of emergency you also said it was big hands on. a secure place

in the capital khartoum tens of thousands are out on the streets celebrating the sudanese strawman's departure comes after months of anti government to tell us. joining me now is deja vue a welcome i asked what do you make of these latest developments from cocktail definitely something that has been expected and very much anticipated all day the ouster or the removal of. bringing an absolute end to his rule at least as president before we get into detail let's take a look into the various stages that have defined. under omar al bashir has three decades of all thora tarion rule sudan has suffered devastating famine civil war and seen its territory divided democracy was just starting to blossom in sudan in one nine hundred eighty nine when bashir ousted a young civilian government in a military backed coup. he resisted multiple attempts by the west to weaken his

power including being added to the united states list of terrorism sponsors. a crippling drought in the darfur region led to a prolonged famine and fueled a rebellion by she has cracked down was brutal the international criminal court in the hague issued a warrant for his arrest it accused him of leading a campaign of rape hunger and fear that led to the deaths of over three hundred thousand people and left millions displaced in refugee camps. despite bashes attempts to prevent it the country split in two in two thousand and eleven when south sudan declared its independence from the north. but she was a friend to death sports the first arab leader to visit syrian president bashar al assad early in that country's civil war. to multiple elections and return bashir to power again and again were dismissed by observers as illegitimate.

but it was the rising price of bread and fuel that pushed sudanese people out onto the streets in late two thousand and eighteen demanding an end to the decades of suffering bashir attempted to respond to that the whole country is going through difficult economic circumstances it's hard to launch a portion of our society due to internal and external causes that you are aware of . what. but it was too little too late for months of deadly anti-government protests culminated in six days of mass demonstrations. that wallace you know after thirty years in power but she was forced to step down in the face of rumors of an impending military intervention if you will and i think. protesters are celebrating for now but with the military in power democracy may not yet be given a chance to take hold in sudan. so thirty long eventually yes but it

seems that a lot of the she's time is not off the in terms of governance let me not trying to talk to someone live in a car to journalist and she joins me now and what can you tell us about the developments there what is happening in cairo the way. you are welcome. to all of us you know association. if you. like this you know you well because. he came on. he believed about mine. so that. we expect we are obliged thinking nine in it by wendy. that. a blazing. ball mom didn't. marry.

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hamad and shake in costume a journalist keeping track of developments and thank you very much for that live update from there. and we still have him from the news with us i'll be listening to what shakes. maciek had to say but these so pictures of these people celebrating but from what the defense minister had to say a short while ago he said the military transitional council is going to be in charge for the next two years how's that going to go down just building on what i just told the sudanese a professional association is of course one of the main groups that was spearheading the protests that have been going on for almost four months now they have rejected the transitional plan because they see it as just an extension of military rule obviously bashir is gone but we have to remember that bashir comes

from the military institutions and it seems that with this declaration that might not be over and i think this is where a lot of the concern comes from of course there's still jubilation because the people feel like their demands have been heard somehow one has to ask themselves why would the military do that. bashir he is he is from the military but obviously the protests have reached such a point where it became. an wife for the military to stand behind them so perhaps the people feel like their voices have been heard that there is a need for change but perhaps there will continue to be disagreements as to how that change can unfold and how it will unfold and that's definitely something that i'm hearing from a lot of the activists on the ground that i'm constantly in touch with a two year transitional period under a military council is not what they wanted because it does not equate to regime change if you still have military rule and not civilian rule they would like to see a civilian transitional government right and of course the next few days will be critical because the obvious also declared

a curfew for one month and yet you have these tens of thousands of people on the streets i have been your keeping track of developments that thank you very much for the latest you've brought don't just right now. and turning to our other breaking news story the founder of wiki leaks julian assange is under arrest in london police have confirmed his b. has and behalf of u.s. authorities of this video shot by the broadcaster russia today shows being taken into police custody at the ecuadorian embassy assigned to british there in two thousand and twelve to avoid extradition to sweden over accusations of sexual assault his arrest came after the ecuadorian government has assigned them. and for the very latest on that breaking news let's cross over to d. ws correspondent big it must be standing by in london in front of the courthouse where julian assange is being can begin tell us more about what's going on where you are. well it's the westminster magistrates court so this

is where julian avant is going to appear now at the world's media really has descended on to this court quite a lot of police and also some protesters who are protesting for julian assange for press freedom there was a tiny little press conference just a few moments ago i understand that was from wiki leaks really the attention has descended on to this court away from the embassy where julian assange has had been had been inside for seven years and now it's all about his future and whether he will be extradited to the us. make it as we remind ourselves of julian assange which was arrested at the ecuadorian embassy in london the ecuadorian president then in marina explained why shouldn't assad had been thrown up let's take a listen first to what he had to say. today i announce that 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 very strong was there from ecuador's president lenin moreno what's behind this. well we understand that the new ecuadorian government doesn't look at julian assange as as favorably as the last government the new government is accusing him of having reached an understanding that they had with him that you wouldn't release through vickie leagues any material that could harm ecuador's foreign relations so they're accusing him that

he has released a wiki leaks has released papers for example the vatican papers that have compromised their relationships so that's that's one reason but just generally i think the new government doesn't look at him as favorably as the last government had done and because so many people julian assange is a hero and he has many supporters in different parts of the world what was the reaction been to news of his arrest out there. well we've just had to resign made the british prime minister welcoming this arrest and saying that it shows that nobody is above the law similar. ministers in the in the foreign office have said that this is something that they well calm and there has been some insinuation during the clinton e-mails so it's a highly political case his supporters of course are distraught i've witnessed one

skirmish just outside the ecuadorian embassy where the ecuadorian ambassador had just gone in and he was accused by one of julian assange just supporters of being. of acting unlawfully and he said that the ecuadorian president was a traitor so really high emotions we know that russia says that this is on democratic also add would snowden has said something along those lines against press freedom so it's really about which which side you're on the british health authorities seem very pleased with what's happening here today they used chanting outside the magistrate's court to tell us what happens to julian assange next to be thief who can they get. well we know that the euro rich know the conditions why he was arrested was because he breached bail conditions here in the u.k. and this is why the u.k. authorities are wanting to have him in front of the court but of course the larger

picture is what's happening in the u.s. and we know that the u.s. has already lost was extradition and the question is will the u.k. authorities granted they has they say that they will not extradite anyone to to any country where he faces the death penalty so it remains to be seen how this is being sold here first on the first of all in the magistrate's court here in london. to get mass in london thank you very much for that up. wait on that breaking news on the arrest of julian assange the founder of wiki leaks. time now to take a look at some other stories making news around the wild south korea's constitution of course has overturned a decades old ban on abortion to mixed reaction triage 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 the mother's health was at risk.

australian prime minister scott morrison has announced a general election on the eighteenth of may the constitution says the election must take place then the polls show larson's conservative a coalition to be trailing the opposition live auntie taxes climate change and in reality it looks set to during launch in the campaign but to secure japan has appointed should meet she says a key as the country's new minister in charge of the olympic games with japan will coast next year he replaces a yoshi doc who quit a day early over remarks deemed offensive to survivors of the two thousand and eleven tsunami for you know so many. you're watching the news coming up ahead jill be debates on whether to make it easier for women to have access to testing for down syndrome testing positive leads many didn't get to get abortions. but first to india where voting is underway in the vase biggest bottom entry

election with nearly nine hundred million indians eligible to vote it's a man let's just tick an operation voting will take place in seven phases across different regions from the eleventh of april to the nineteenth of may voters should have to travel no longer than further than two kilometers to cast their vote so one million polling stations will be set up to reach even the remotest areas of the country. 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 things which i want from the next government both is education they put all but education put everybody for free no matter how much it cost them but i think that is necessity. for the progress of my country and i want that to be more

in india we want a prime minister like never. will be a bit of. 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. the first year of gender elections in india by hundred million people to be wanting 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 because of a latest disconsolately daily video. standing by welcome still ahead of problems in the 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 war voting seems to be proceeding largely smoothly though there's been some reports of some glitches and malfunctioning with some electronic voting machines that are being used in this process for getting those reports from several states in india another problem here is violence that accompanies the polling 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 movie came into power the last time on a on a platform of good governance but as we heard no 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 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 whole gun 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 abandon up against

the so there's that a fears that this could split the anti b.g.p. vote. and if you are indeed thank you very much for that. the attention is focusing on a blood test that can leave pregnant mothers facing a modern dilemma that test determines whether an unborn child has down's syndrome this pressure now for the test to be covered by of the 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 an estimated nine out of ten women in germany decide to have abortions when they find out their unborn child has down's syndrome and it isn't 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. because she was so active in my belly so fear 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 on 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 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. thank you. now for sport starting with soccer untracked front on the last remaining hope in europe to visit benfica later and the europa league quarter final first leg coach andy who has a few injury concerns but he can count on top scorer which netted again at the weekend i'm going to stick a win over shocker he is on known at frankfurt from benfica but is rigid bill to face his former club the portuguese side of valves to end his european dreams as

a target a third final in seventy. australian rugby union international israel folau is to have here multi-million dollar contract terminated off his latest homophobic post on social media folau who has seventy three international caps posted a meme on instagram that said gay people would go to hell under state depend rugby a stranger and his club side new south wales watertown's have said they intend to terminate fuller's contract if no mitigating factors are found posted similar comments last year but escaped sanctions. you're watching the news here's a recap of the top stories that we're following for you at this hour saddam's defense minister has announced that president omar al bashir has been arrested and that a military council will run the country for the next two years the move comes after

mass protests calling for al bashir to step down after ruling for thirty years. and british police have arrested the wiki leaks founder julian assange this video by dropping of the broadcaster russia today shows of sausage being taken into custody at the ecuadorian embassy in london he'd been living there for the past seventy yes . coming up next in d.w. news. india embarks on the biggest election in history we look at the big issues facing the country's millions of young first time voters. plus a victory for pro-choice campaigners in south korea as a court orders the easing of the decades old abortion ban. all that and more coming up in the asia and don't forget you can always get use on the go just download the app from google play all from the store that'll give you

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