this is d.w. news live from berlin not backing down protesters in sudan demand democracy now leaders of the protest movement want a civilian government and they reject the military council's pledge to hold elections in two years thousands defied to do curfew to keep up the pressure by gathering for friday prayers outside army headquarters also coming up an exclusive report from the island of mindanao in the philippines two years after the so-called islamic state trying to establish an ancient caliphate there the risk of conflict

remain. and be high tech spy and a growing number of homes to take a closer look at services like amazon the likes of the smart speaker listening to go everywhere. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us reports are just coming in that sudan's military chief is stepping down just one day after he was sworn in as the country's new leader as after pro-democracy demonstrators again flooded khartoum's streets in rejection of the new military regime protest leaders oppose the military's stated plan to rule the country for two years before calling elections. another day of protests in khartoum with barely a trace left of thursday's ecstatic mood demonstrators here feel they've been

cheated. after three decades under president omar al bashir a new strongman takes his place defense minister i want to know if the head of the country's military transition council the council is spun in talks with protesters . but a book they will all attend and listen to what we want and listen to what they want to prefer for dialogue and for the exchange between us so we accomplish what we aspire to. and that that. much 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 consulates and they stop all the government sectors will keep protesting and the regime will fall again you know . the people have lost that trust and blushes 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 and has promised a new c billion government within the next two years but patience among sudanese protest as has already worn thin. in new york saddam's u.n. envoy told the u.n. security council the transition period could be shortened depending on how quickly factions on the ground can reach an agreement. with me is adam biharis a sudanese human rights activist currently living ember lin thank you so much for joining us first of all now you fled sudan you were facing persecution under

president omar al bashir i'm sure you've been watching what's been going on in your country every minute of what's going on now a member of the military council says what we've seen there is not a coup it's simply what they call a tool of change that could take up to two years what do you make of that and the timeline. it is not. so much people who don't it's not. going to change as we're done in democracy because what is happening is also. acknowledged he is one of. the military structure in the former bush you just mean just to the people who run before it's in the running now i see just national congress party. not things that this national council but they have to stop to see is a people again is this. and that's what people need to have to change. fairly people they're not happy with this they're in the streets they're angry what are you hearing from back home but what about your friends and family what are they

telling you. every every minute and look what's going on because also for me it's a situation is that because i have to have to look what's going on and they tell you know the time they were not going back people is. somehow born in this time and has been appreciated but the good deed is a point of this is government in the things you've done for. say we don't need any more military just like it's like something really clear to hit on this percentage of people also live from what's going on for in egypt for example in other countries so they are watching what happened during the arab spring for exactly exactly but also the people in sudan they have wanted to see videos about this issue over of illusion they have made of pollution in one hundred forty six in the region in nine hundred fifty eight but. the end of it it was again a new military and says these are people we don't need to do it again we can fight until the end to get democracy is for them so that's part of the reason why they're

so suspicious of what's going on right now to talk more about the role of the military there i mean so the military backed of course bashir in the past how united is the army now and who are they support. i can't say that. especially people who are not still in high powered position in the army really united because they are all the time and the beginning of the six of the. protest and they are defending the process or the time. to get it but it's a surprise for people who have a. high position in this army together because it was a hobby for as i said before this is now having a. national contest. and some other people who is in for example two days they have this conference and they announce they will try to bring.

a little bit. of what to do but they don't talk about to bring people to justice for example and this is point when the people say no we cannot accept that especially if you see. what is happening in darfur. i don't know no one no where is it just as a point out of the harm rights activists here in berlin thank you very much it will come. that discussion was recorded earlier this evening just before sudan's military chief stepped down be tracking that story for you as it develops now to the southern philippines on what could become the new front in the battle against the so-called islamic state the island of mindanao is the place i asked shows to create a so-called caliphate in southeast asia even before the arrival of i asked mindanao had seen a long running power struggle between the christian majority and muslim minority in

may twenty seventeen fighters made their move a few hundred fighters seized the city of morale with the battle to flush them out devastated the region reporters sunday papers men and hans christian man went to see what life is like there today. we are on patrol with the largest muslim rabbit group in mindanao the moro islamic liberation front or m.i.l.f. for decades they fought for independence tens of thousands were killed. but since the self-proclaimed islamic state burst onto the scene in two thousand and seventeen the muslim rebels have joined forces with the philippine army both sides feel threatened by us fight has now laying low. the muslim minority strongly supports the m.i.l.f. only five percent of filipinos are muslims and almost only live in mindanao or the

areas are among the poorest in the philippines. many here blame the christian majority government for their plight. we visit the military headquarters of the m.i.l.f. the government needs the rabbit support to secure a peace and to fight terror president rodrigue has promised them a far reaching autonomy is. the chief of staff isn't in uniform a sign perhaps of the shift from insurgency to politics the m.i.l.f. has seen defectors joining i as we ask him what might happen if the autonomy project goes badly our credibility daughter people really become diminished. the isis with. all. the will go in there grow. and become bigger.

he tells us that they will disarm up to thirty thousand fighters but only with full muslim autonomy. not. the men we will not do commission our forces and we will not give up our arms which we promised to the government. this is what both sides are trying to avoid and not more ravi the largest muslim city of the philippines lies in ruins bombed out after a few hundred fighters had occupied maradi for five months two years ago. more than one thousand people were killed tens of thousands remain displaced. it was president to territory who ordered the bombing but he's also a strong supporter of muslim autonomy his form of peace adviser tells us. it is

a strong signal to the bad guys. around with this country i have been in the peace process under several presidents and we have not moved far as we have this time the president feels that we can improve. if we give more authority and power for the locals but it must be under one flag the philippine flag. but if the autonomy dr fay it's more disaffected muslims could join radical outfits in addition after the loss of their caliphate in syria and iraq more foreign i guess five tests might also decide that mindanao is the new front now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world in algeria lisa fire tear gas at protesters in the capital algiers hundreds of thousands rallied for the eighth consecutive week to demand political change their basic last week's resignation of longtime president abdelaziz bouteflika is not enough they want the

complete departure of the ruling elite and an overhaul of the country's political system. judges at the international criminal court have dropped their plan to investigate war crimes allegations in afghanistan they say the prospect of successful prosecution is quote extremely limited this comes just days after the u.s. revoked the visa for the chief prosecutor in the probe statement. britain's opposition labor party has urged the government not to extradite wiki leaks founder julian assange onj to the united states after his arrest on thursday in the ecuadorian embassy in london he's wanted in the u.s. for revealing state secrets but his supporters say he will not be given a fair trial. now it's been just over a month since psych lone die almost wiped out the port city of baby in mozambique people there are still grappling with the devastating consequences more than one thousand have died in southeastern africa since you die struck and color of cases

cholera cases among survivors have risen as well to more than four thousand medical facilities in beirut are overwhelmed with patients while officials and belief agencies are frantically coping with a shortage of supplies. just over a month after cyclometer hit mozambique the city of pira is two and rubble local health clinics and hospitals were badly hit by the storm. every day people flock to get medical help. but doctors and medicine are in short supply many biro have lost everything to the cycle including their livelihoods. now they can't afford to buy medicine at private pharmacies. so they're turning to the national health service which is straining on the surgery patients. here at this health center sometimes they only give even profound but

with what i'm suffering from that just isn't enough but still they are only give me even profound when i went to the central hospital i didn't even get that just tests tests tests and i'm still in pain today we are seeing here i received a number then they sent me to another place to the tents but there are many queues in the tents there are a lot of people too i don't know if it's because the doctors are tired or i don't know that they ask us what we have and we explain it and then they give us another number to queue somewhere else so we have to go back to the health center. to portuguese red cross has pulled a field hospital and pira to help out. they deal with a complex range of problems. that you have to really fisheries we feel we're doing external examinations adult examinations pediatric examinations checking on pregnant women and giving psychosocial support

then there are medical emergencies we do surgery as well as accept more serious cases close we have a maternal health nurse looking after patients but we also have several births a day and seen some parties into the into the doctors who focus on foreigners they see more than three hundred patients every day. the red cross expects to stay at least six more months here in barrow as a city recovers. germany has resumed exporting machine parts that could be used in weapons to saudi arabia by way of third countries now if that sounds complicated bear with me it is complicated germany had imposed a blanket ban on exporting arms to saudi arabia in november after the murder murder of journalist jamal khashoggi and because of concerns about its weapons being used and yemen's civil war but german leaders have gradually chipped away at those strict rules to allow the lucrative flow of exports to the middle east to resume.

saudi arabia is back on the delivery list. it receives military equipment from germany indirectly through france. germany also supplies the united arab emirates with radar tracking systems these arms exports are controversial because both gulf countries are involved in the war in yemen and they're thought to be using german technology and i need go weapons to be delivered to a country that's waging a brutal war in yemen where women and children and civilians are heavily affected come on kind of awfully from the federal government defends these exports saying they're the result of cooperation among several countries to which germany is committed to sleep in consultation with our partners we will strive to ensure that joyner produce military equipment is not used in the war in yemen and that no assemble military equipment from this joint programs will be delivered to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. during the nine month extension period. if it but the green party says the

technology for low bed semi trailer production for example could be used in conflicts it could and i have over there you can build a simple truck or you can build an almond transport vehicle full of weapons so it's like opening pandora's box. the greens on the left are demanding an immediate halt to these arms exports. german chancellor angela merkel has bowed to stand by ukraine in its effort to maintain territorial integrity merkel's pledge came during talks in berlin with ukrainian leader petro poroshenko but the meeting was overshadowed by another issue or shrink those bid to keep his job in a closely fought election back home. this comedienne used to play the ukrainian president on t.v. now the aspiring politician will not amuse olinsky this rehearsing for the real thing by meeting with french president. and paris but he did not get an invitation to berlin german chancellor angela merkel to criticism for welcoming only ukrainian

president petro poroshenko in the german capital and not his contenders olinsky at a joint news conference merkel deflected a question about her appearing to favor the incumbent. and she didn't mean it was my decision to invite the president we maintained steady contact with plenty of exchange during the election campaign as well i think it's important to keep talking. to houston's family. ukrainian voters head to the polls and the runoff election on april twenty first some this miss the candidacy of poroshenko scrivens and then ski a political novice as a joke. but recent polls suggest he leads the president by a wide margin poroshenko headed to paris after his visit french president in monterrey choose to receive both candidates and the ad is a palace. well

a new exhibition here in berlin sheds light on the puzzling legacy of the artist milne oldham he was a key member of the expressionist movement but his sympathy for the nazis as cast a shadow over his artwork chancellor merkel recently removed two of his paintings in fact from her office now they're part of a show that aims to present the unvarnished truth about nelda and his art. was known as a master of bold colors and a star of germany's expressionist movement which was banned by i don't have words nazi regime ironically nod to himself was a fervent anti-semite and nazi documents detailing his views are now part of an exhibition at berlin's hamburger bun hole. in a letter to his wife in may nine hundred forty three nada wrote handful of jews are sitting grinning safely behind governments banks and the world powers financing and

stoking this gruesome global war. the archives of nor does the state were sealed for decades it wasn't until six years ago that a state director christiana thing decided to open. even installed i'm astounded it's not the result i was expecting this belief in the nazi regime to the bitter end of the second world war this revolting anti semitism i really wish noted rejected these ideas or earlier. in one nine hundred thirty seven the nazis declared modern art to be culturally corrupt. a member of the nazi party was shocked to see many of his works confiscated and shown in an exhibition of so-called degenerate art she considered it a mistake as he counted many nazis among his admirers escaped. neednt in fear and i know there was very aware of the hostility towards his work but there are quite a few clues pointing to an impressive number of top level nazis who are fans of his

work and their guns. killer however despised know this work so it's all the more remarkable that no the ranked among the top earning german painters in one nine hundred forty one thousand nine hundred thirty eight and older wrote a letter to propaganda minister yosef once a fan of his work knowledge of how it is art as being german strong last year and intimate he so wanted approval from the nazi regime that in one nine hundred thirty eight he began painting pictures of vikings castles and fire nordic mystical motifs favored by the nazi ideology. but it didn't work because he was banned from selling his art anyway after the war not to successfully rewrote history painting himself as a band artist the fictive of the nazis his paintings even graced the walls of german government buildings. were wooden knowing what i do

now after this exhibition i wouldn't hang any of note as works in my apartment. nor it seems would chancellor under the america she's had two pieces by knowledge have removed. would you allow a stranger to listen to what you do in the privacy of your own home well if you own one of amazon's smart speakers you could be doing just that. waiter is here to talk about eavesdropper that millions of people have right in their living rooms i see you've brought a guest with you did this one this was unplugged so i think it's not listening to us but you never know in this day so if this were plugged in this is the echo device what is this. the smart speaker from amazon and one of the jokes that was floating around when they first came out was oh you never know when it's listening it says it's not always listening but might be and then it turns out that yes in fact it is always listening to you not only is it listening but there is a person on the other end of the speaker that is the thing to what you're saying

and recording it now things. thing about this the good news is that it's anonymous your name's not attached to it your address is attached but there are account numbers attached to it and there is a stranger listening to whatever you say to the speaker in the intimacy of your own home and if we can take a look at the original amazon alexa ads they really were very very strong on this idea of this little robot being integrated into your family it was a comforting device that was going to help you live your life. it was going to help i was going to see if it was going to be your friend with you but exactly this is going to be this little passive friend in your life and now this story coming out is kind of blown back to smithereens no amazon has said that this is all about quality control improving the mechanism one of the advertising points they said is that it looks to lives in the cloud and she's always getting smarter but it's not

this magical machine learning by which she's getting smarter it's people people are using her and teaching her how to be smarter so there is someone listening. you know what if i don't want this thing listening to me can i turn that feature off for example the good news is yes you can there is an opt out option but of course as just as people don't know that there's someone listening they also don't know that they can opt out of it and this is a trend that we've seen with a lot of these big tech companies recently for instance it turned out that facebook was still tracking users for months after users deleted their facebook accounts we can see the ad preferences page here on facebook where you can see just how many advertisers have your information you can control a little bit but that is there long after you leave facebook and even google there was a report last year saying that people were still being tracked by google after they turned off their location services in google so it's not only impossible not to

live your life without these services but it's also impossible to. make them stop paying attention to yours or if you are one of the seventy eight million people who bought one of these a lexus speakers last year you should assume that yes there is someone listening to you and they are recording what you are ok amazon is listening to us maybe we should be surprised by that possibly but use my slater and alexa thank you for joining us. two nollywood now bets the i jury in the film industry it's the world's second largest in terms of volume it's only just behind india's bollywood but for years of struggle to keep up with a cutting edge techniques often used in global cinema one man though is trying to change that make up maestro a team and a warning for our viewers this next report contains scenes of a graphic nature. it may look like an operating theater but it's actually a movie set and a key is working his magic on an actor. who has special effects makeup artists create zombies for nollywood and he's built

a reputation as one of the best in the business. in the special effects hunger isn't how good a turn a hose you make in control of the world not only in nigeria but with a lot of the professionalism of the quality. to the one i came to the release of the used me. to change to have a turnaround in spite of the facts of job in nigeria. with or without the hand of god nigerian film is booming talent techniques and production standards are improving all the time says. the green are the better but sourcing quality materials to work with can be a challenge. so it's very it's even a problem that the industries freeze and now to get in the multitude of those who

do have their own patents in the shops. while filmmakers around the world increasingly turn to animated characters nollywood still thrives on the hand crafted magic of ottis. using low tech special effect to create zombies like this. good work you're watching the news i'm calling aspen and i'll be back after a short break for a deep dive into friday's stories including new restrictions on transgender troops us military that's coming up next on the day state of.

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to have plenty to talk about here. it's time to take a look at what all that means for the table for. the mundus league every weekend here on t.w. . there are troops who proudly serve on the front lines and sometimes pay the ultimate sacrifice there's an estimated fourteen thousand of transgender soldiers and u.s. military but now their status is in doubt today a new trump administration policy goes into effect which critics say will ban transgender people from joining and force others to choose between their country and their gender identity i'm called aspen and this is the day.