margaret. you. know this is you know we knew his life for a brawl and not backing down protesters in sudan demand democracy now leaders of the protest movement once a civilian government says they reject the military council's pledge to hold elections in two years' time thousands to find the new curfew to keep up the pressure by gathering for friday prayers outside army headquarters also coming up u.s. president donald trump's ban on transgender troops serving in the military goes into effect he says it will improve the army's effectiveness but at what human cost

and a high tech spy in a growing number of homes we take a closer look at services like amazon's alexa a smart speaker listening to dark and deep work. on will iraq thank you so much for your company everyone. pro-democracy demonstrators as saddam has flooded her to streets once again protesting against the military council that has taken over the country or protest leaders say they're against the military state a plan to rule the country for two additional years before calling elections well the army has taken over after arresting president omar al bashir but the last thing most sudanese want is soldiers in charge of their country.

the music of defiance these protesters refused to go home after the army declared a curfew some have been here through the night for many the moodies extatic yet they also feel they've been cheated after three decades under president omar al bashir a new strongman takes his place defense minister ignore the head of the country's military turns ition council the council is planning talks with protesters. but the book all attend and listen to what we want and listen to what they ought to prefer for dialogue and for the exchange between us so we accomplish what we aspire to. but mistrust is running high among the very people he's trying to win over many fear the army is replacing the old regime with a new one. that of the military is acting under which

constitution. we don't know what this constitution is because the consulate and they stopped all the government sectors will keep protesting and the regime will fall again. jobs the people have lost that trust in bush's national congress party we don't want anyone from the n.c.p. we want someone else who can represent the transition. we want a new system of governance and a new era we want to rebuild the country those people have no clear plan. the army has denied any greed for power it has retreated its promise of a new civilian government within the next three years but patients among sudanese protesters has already more and thin. are i don't like to welcome now mark from hans he is a german a party member of the german parliament he is a leading member of the committee for economic cooperation and development with

a special focus on african nations great to have you here with us mr holes just for the sake of clarity you're not talking on behalf of the german government you're here on a personal basis ok ok now i'm asking you are not talking about ok just to make sure you follow the events in sudan very closely how concerned are you about what's going on right now at the moment i'm actually very concerned when i see this report because. the worst that could happen on saddam is when the people try it so the new government let's call it then the new government must do everything to try to get those people involved in what is going to happen now in the future do you foresee that the e.u. or germany can play a role in facilitating that. is to say i'm not a part of the german government the member of the parliament asking the government

what are you going to do get involved that is what you want to because. in the past we always say don't cooperate with us year but now the time the things have changed now we can stick to that story now we must force the government to get involved and to. put pressure on the sudanese military to take those people and let them be part of the change plans but the thing is though germany and the e.u. have cooperated with bashir answered on because they wanted to keep the migrants out so in two thousand and fourteen they established this whole heart to process to keep people from crossing into libya why was it ok then to get involved with somebody who's wanted by the i.c.c. for genocide well me as a member of the green party in parliament always criticize this the cooperation with just for the purpose of trying to close the migrant jutes because we say this is not the real there right way of dealing with the issues that we must strengthen

the democratic forces in the civil society in sudan that money that has been used to close the borders just for the purpose of closing migrant routes could have been spent for much better. issues in sudan how worried are people here in germany and just in you at large that the current there's not unrest but there's a lot of you know demonstrators and a possibility that this could turn in the wrong direction that it could have repercussions for this continent. well i don't think that there are a lot of what is there but what i think must think the other way around we have a huge chance of the change in his g.o.p. that if he's got that change in sudan now this could have an impact on the whole region of is used in ways maybe even libya i don't think that's the perspective there but having s'posed countries to change in sudan as we have the change in the

no could be very good thing and we must work into that gee mr out more from hans member of the german bundestag for the green party search for your time. i'd like to tell you now about some other stories making news around the world. thousands of algerians have again marched in the capital algiers to demand meaningful political change protest leaders say last week's resignation of longtime president are busy with a few is not enough they want the complete departure of the country's ruling elite in an overhaul of algeria's political system. in pakistan a bomb in a market in the southwestern city of quetta has killed at least sixteen people and injured almost fifty the attack appears to have targeted at make it has sorrows and shii muslim minority no group has claimed responsibility for the bombing but these groups have often been targeted by sunni militants before. talked about prisons

opposition labor party has urged the government not to extradite wiki leaks founder julian assange to the united states a songe was arrested on thursday in the ecuadorian embassy in london after ecuador drew his right to asylum he's wanted in the u.s. for revealing state secrets but his supporters say he will not be given a fair trial. that germany is donating fifteen million euros to help with reconstruction in south eastern africa one month after the region was devastated by cyclon each day the storm destroyed infrastructure and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi the world bank has estimated the cost of recovery at close to two billion people have lost their homes and us president donald trump's controversial ban on trans gender people in the military takes effect today the ban exams transgender people are already serving in the military as well as soldiers who started treatment for gender dysphoria before the

ban the deadline has led to some soldiers rushing their decision to begin treatment . for under her cage the transgender kicked off a dramatic race against time the army intelligence analyst had to decide whether to start gender reassignment surgery or risk losing his job in future. where i initially was planning to you know spend several months probably you know really just taking my time in figuring out what i wanted to do and figuring out my identity suddenly turned into this crazy race where i was you know missing days on days in a row of work and in stressing and really just doing everything i could to get the diagnosis done in time to meet that deadline around fourteen thousand transgender people currently in the military trump announced the ban in twenty seventeen reversing obama's efforts to end longtime restrictions on transgender soldiers as you know it's been a very complicated issue for the military it's been

a very confusing issue for the military and i think i'm doing the military grade for. the president says allowing transgender people into the military increases costs and lowest operational effectiveness the claim is being rejected by some of the pentagon's top officers i'm not aware of any issues i am not aware of any issues in those areas activists have condemned the ban for the first time. one of our national institutions will be turning back the clock on equality. shutting its doors to people who have already proven their ability to do the job trumps decision is being chimes in four separate appeal courts whatever their verdict the banners are ready for an army specialist because your life into turmoil . now would you allow a stranger to listen to what you do in the privacy of your home while if you own

one of amazon's smart speakers you could be doing just that and you know because my server is here to talk about the eavesdropper that millions of people have right in their living rooms creepy my god we're going on well this was not plugged in so i think we're ok but you can never tell these days it does turn out in fact that alexa is listening to you not only is alexa listening to you but that wouldn't if people across the world in offices or amazon all over the world are on the other end of these speakers listening to potentially anything that you're saying to it now the good news is it's anonymized so they don't have your name or your address but there are account numbers. associated with it and they are listening to you in the intimacy of your own home though if we look at these early ads for alexa they're really projecting this idea of it being this little helper in your home it's a member of your family it's part of your friends it's there to be this is a little assistant to you and this is really blown this whole image of

amazon up now the reason why the it's this way it works this way is amazon said it's part of kind of quality control and improvement of the the robot the mechanism that it's teaching alexa how to be a better assistant but it's not some machine learning magic that's happening it's actual people on the other end of it who are teaching alexa how to be a better robot now we've seen a lot of reactions some people of course our age but a lot of users have just shrug this off saying well of course this is the way it is our phones work very much the same way it's just probably a good idea that if you're one of the people who bought one of these seventy eight million units that were sold last year you should assume that there is someone on the other end who is always listening to you recording you and you don't know where that recording is going to end up that's pretty scary i have to say. gary can this voice recording be disabled so the good news is yes you can opt out of this if you

are someone who owns an amazon echo you can tell amazon that you don't want to participate in this because it is for sort of customer service research but of course they're not publicizing this and this is a trend that we've seen in a lot of these media giants for instance facebook it was discovered that even when a a user deletes their facebook page facebook continues to collect data on them for months after they deactivate their facebook and there are things you can do in your ad preferences in your privacy settings to mitigate this but even if you delete it they're still following you similar findings were found with google last year that even if you disable that your location services on your phone google was still tracking you even if you told them not to do so this is the the thousand bargain that we've made nordell of our lives this is a very orwellian much i had to take your so my degree or your vision thank you. a ceremony to award this year's prestigious world press photo were took place in

amsterdam last night the top prize went to veteran photographer john moore and it is for this very poignant photograph it shows undocumented migrants a two year old you know sanchez and her mother sondra as they were taken into custody after entering the u.s. from mexico while the picture fueled outrage about the trumpet ministrations policy of separating parents from their children led to merge later that in this particular case mother and daughter were not separated but ended up in a detention center before being released a few weeks later and allowed to apply for asylum. well this year's contest also presented a new award for photo story of the year and the winner in that category is dutch swedish photographer peter pan hopen or his focus was also on migration he followed families and children trying to make their way from honduras to the u.s. as part of the migrant caravan that made headlines last year the judges said his pictures showed quote

a high sense of dignity. your washington uses still to come. a new generation of tech savvy environmentally aware africans tackles waste and other social problems on a gay mean platform. that story coming right out from iraq and i thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us have a great weekend. bursts . home to hundreds of species. a home worth so you can. get those are big changes and most start with small steps and became a little bit more than two years tell stories of credence to people into.