play. play. this is v.w. news live from. the talk ensued on this jubilation on the streets as an army chief late to genocide in darfur steps down off to just one day in charge but another general has now taken over the protest of the stepping up that amounts to civilian rule also coming up thousands defy riot police in algeria to press that a month for democratic change if the country's eighth consecutive mass protests plus. the mom over just how

a funny sight on his chinese enrolls helped a german to become a social media stock in china. thanks so much for joining us. saddam's military chief has stepped down just one day off to he was sworn in as the country's new leader and the country's intelligence chief has now stepped down as well but demonstrators have again flooded the streets and processed at the interim military regime which took over after forcing president omar al bashir from power. the sit in protests remain largely peaceful and their message is clear the sudanese people do not want to be ruled by the military chiefs who ended the thirty year regime of president

bush here. but the army is still very much in charge here even though bashir is the immediate successor to even a general link to the genocide in darfur less it just one day in the top job another yes i announce the time stepping down as phillida of the transitional minutely council i'm selecting instead of someone whose expertise and competence i can trust. he will take the ship to the shores of safety i have chosen newton in general abdul fatah the rahman to succeed me as president of the military council. so one army commander has replaced himself with another on the plus side the new chief both is not wanted for war crimes. but the protesters want a clean break and reject outright the military's plans to rule the country for two

years before calling elections. because women christmas is no change our revolution is continuing change is still coming it will be much better we won't have any supporters of the regime among us only the city's people. lies and we don't want regime supporters at all we are free revolutionaries continuing on our course the regime must fall. the international community is calling on all sides to show restraint what is very important that now in the present very fluid situation that the human rights are observed and the right of assembly and we have to come to a credible and inclusive political process that will lead to the transition that we all all want despite placing him under arrest the military says it won't hand over former president omar al bashir to the international criminal court for his role in the darfur killings. the people are pleased to see the back of their old ruler but

the protesters have filed to stay on the streets until a civilian not military transitional council is in place. you're joining me now in the studio to talk more more about this is the. thanks for joining us the defense minister abruptly stepped down as head of the interim military council but he's been replaced by another military man is this the democracy the protesters have been calling full not really there was celebrating in the streets yesterday and her two men today also but the demonstrators are carrying their wryly rallying on bay want to. see what this new man. will come up with i understand that now there is a meeting underway with the new head of the military council and the leaders of the opposition groups and we don't really know what will come out and what's being

spoken about now there should be a declaration after that meeting nobody knows when this will take place but most of the protests are say ok we'll see what happens but we still insist on what we want we want a civil good transitional government and we want it now or the next few weeks and not in two years as the former head of the military council said on thursday so the protesters are carrying on and i don't think that they will go easily go home easily or they know that they reached what they wanted was a step in the right direction but the protests continue tell let's talk about the protesters tell me who they are on what's you nice now that the shia is gone most of the protestors they took the streets in december last year basically because of the high rise in the process of bread and fuel and they these protesters

quickly into the floor of the house or else i'm going to his room now we have been seeing that. organization governmental organizations like the association all. sudanese professional is being has been spearheading the protesters and now other parties parties and organizations civil society of civil society are taking part in these protests and the kind of leading the protests and as for done for them and we shouldn't forget also the demonstrators demonstrations are taking part in other taking place in other parts of sudan as well and i were going to come back to you in just a moment thanks for now we are going to talk about a similar story that has been unfolding in algeria thousands of demonstrators have defied riot police to stage a mass processed in the capsule algiers and this is the eighth friday in

a row the interim government has announced elections in july to replace the ousted president of the lezzies but opponents say the old regime is trying to cling to power just in the new guys i. spoke to journalist. algiers and i allstar about concerns people have about the presidential elections that are planned. perth easters i interviewed yesterday told me that they will boycott the election in july because they don't believe that there can be a new free election you know gloria as long as members good to speak of inner circle still in power they say that the new presidential election is only a strike if he's got the political elite to maintain this stage is called the demonstrators seem determined to take the streets and give their immense meant and today that humans are clear they want the end of what they call was carrying two

larger yes really unique protesters are asking for the three d. jubilee to leave this includes interim created an identity then get their last. last prime minister. and the head of the constitution confident to give bill a. all right jim in a world in algiers thank you so much for speaking to us. ok we're going to go back to that. strong similarities between the protests in algeria that we've just been hearing about sudan that we were talking about earlier it sounds very similar to the start of the arab spring living back in two thousand and eleven it really does and people say you know this is a kind of the arab spring to zero might be but we have to be these people say we have to be very cautious that it doesn't take the direction that it took in other are countries who. have this this are feeling like syria and like egypt mostly

egypt is. you know kind of a bad example for what could happen in sudan they don't want the military to take over but. specially the young people are leading these protests and they're not aware of what could happen they are actually it's i would say normal that this is taking place people are very fed up with the dire economy situation there the bad education the corruption and they take the streets are going against all these. situations but. we should not forget that sudan especially is you know. african country as well arab and african country and this what's happening now in sudan can be a very strong signal to other sub-saharan african countries mainly where most of the young people are unemployed and they suffer from the bad economy

situations and live under us that are authoritarian rules some of them not all of them but for a very long time so. i guess yes as we saw in two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven the young people are now. leading those protests in sudan and of curia. we will see in the next few months we're well there's go to. thank you so much now some of the other stories making news around the world north korean leader kim jong un says he's open to a summit with u.s. president donald trump but kim says washington will have to be more flexible i'm come to the table with the right attitude he said the end of the year as a deadline to salvage the nuclear disarmament talks. india has been marking the hundredth anniversary of the massacre of civilians by british troops at a ceremony opposition leader raul gandhi paid homage to the hundreds of victims of

the amritsar massacre and the british high commissioner to india called it a shameful event in british indian history. has announced it will allow more than sixty my friends to disembark a german charity rescue ship in the mediterranean sea the government says they will then be transferred to germany france portugal and luxembourg and migrants were rescued near the libyan shore ten days ago. it's to china next on a german man who's a viral hit each time he posts a video online so how does he do it here's a clue he draws inspiration from married life did i. found out more. when thomas darks also known as powerful strews through the streets of shanghai he rarely goes unnoticed.

thomas is a celebrity on the chinese internet seven million people follow him on social media when he posts clips about his life as a foreigner in china in his videos and talks and soon chinese about a broad range of topics. traffic. helps. thomas and his wife julie write and produce the clips together and they can make a living from them it all started when they came across a video by a chinese internet celebrity yet science gets done much she recorded a sketch about coming hung for chinese new year that's when people are asked the same questions over and over again when you're getting married how much do you when you're going to buy a car when you're going to buy a flat well julie then said to me you should film a clip about marrying into a chinese family as a foreigner. you want to go. over

to. his father in law is one of the main characters in our food thomas gets he's even written a book on him but since those easy first month their relationship has improved it's true i didn't like him at the start he's fat. they continue to joke about what has now turned into a wonderful friendship for his part thomas says he's lucky to have found a chinese family who share his sense of humor one sketch at a time. some football news now and there was late drama in the friday night when does the game between nuremberg and charlotte. put nuremberg ahead in the eighty second minute the home side looked to be on course to pick up just the fourth win of the season to hit back two minutes later she had enough to such diverse at the ball into the net one one the final school. in formula one

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