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the renaissance for. storage of people twenty seven. w. . this is c w news live from berlin and sudan's new interim leader says the country will have a civilian government he addressed the nation saying a government will be in place within two years he also listed a nighttime curfew which many pro-democracy demonstrators had already defied and they claimed another victory as the country's security chief steps down hours after the country's new military leader also quit. also coming up
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a reporter speaks to the ecuadorian ambassador in the rooms occupied by julian a song in the london embassy in nearly seven years state that ended abruptly with his arrest earlier this week. thanks for joining us. the new head of sudan's military council says a civilian government will be formed after talks with the opposition in his first televised address earlier today lieutenant general abdel fatah said the transition period would last for a maximum of two years the leader also said he was canceling a curfew ordered by his predecessor demonstrators have been keeping up the pressure demanding civilian rule activists say sixteen people including a soldier have been killed in the two days since the army ousted longtime president
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omar al bashir sudan's military chief stepped down just a day after he was sworn in as the country's new leader and the country's intelligence chief has now resigned as well. this is sudan's naval headquarters inside the military transition council is holed up outside a largely peaceful protests but with a clear message the sudanese people do not want to be ruled by the military chiefs who ended the thirty year regime of the veteran president omar al bashir but the army is still very much in charge immediate successor. a general linked to the genocide in darfur lasted just one day in the top job before announcing his resignation he was replaced by another army commander on the plus side the new chief. is not wanted for war crimes but protesters want a clean break with the old many of the demonstrators are young and they're actively
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organizing including setting up their own security they say more than a dozen people have been killed by security forces in recent days and they have already intercepted one car with explosives. we also. call some of. the most important. civilian called we call comes through we call. this. so you see. this no one not even the old is immune from being searched emotions are high but mixed. still i feel like i was a. joy that you feel like yeah. i feel. that the same time not only are there still but i think. the protesters have
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vowed to stay on the streets until a civilian not a military transitional council is in place. and joining me now in studio is you debbie is not or all sonorous not her we've heard at the latest news saddam's interested on the interim leader announcing the formation of a limited civilian government after two years this seems promising but what do you make of this announcement it is promising but it's still unclear where is this heading the. protesters want as soon as possible a civilian the transitional government and now they're talking to this military council they're ok with this new guy the new military council chief but they're still very cautious they want to get rid of the military and they're still protesting people are still on the streets and this is not also but they still want to doubt the military. hands over power to
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a civilian government as soon as possible who is this new new interim leader. yeah you get a little bit makes up with these all these names he is actually a career soldier he was until now would be inspector general of the army in sudan and he's seen as less unpopular as his predecessor. quits yesterday after more than twenty four or a little bit more than twenty four hours in power as. and people have seen him during the protests in the last four months talking to protesters on the street so he has a kind of less damaged in agenda than his producer and he might be able to reach a kind of a compromise with the leading associations of the grassroots. protests and his would quickly if you can we've seen a few victories for these protesters the defense minister stepping down the curfew
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being lifted but what are the chances the military will actually ever hand over the government to a fully civilian government i think there's a good chance because the protestors know that they have this kind of a pressure they can step up the pressure they can say on the streets they can continue with their sit in but the trust is not there yet they have to trust the military and they still have to know that the military is honest about giving power to them and not us thank you so much thanks. and now to another african country shaken by protest algeria as magistrates have said they will boycott controversial presidential elections scheduled for july lawyers and a group of one hundred judges protests in the capital algiers magistrates play a key role in the electoral process this after mass demonstrations were held on friday for the eighth time in a row an interim government and now it's the elections to replace the ousted former
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president as he is beautiful because opponents accuse the old regime of trying to cling to power in a new guys. and out to some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of supporters of albania as opposition party rallied in the capital to run on saturday calling for the government's resignation and early parliamentary elections demonstrators threw flares and broke through a police cordon at the main entrance to the government building the opposition accuses the leftist government of prime minister any of ramah of corruption. a man has been arrested in london after driving his car at the police near the ukrainian embassy and according to london's metropolitan police the man crashed his car into parked vehicles he then charged at the police officers arriving at the scene causing one officer to fire his gun. after the arrest of wiki leaks founder julian assault on thursday did have a reporter on a maria to order the tour of the ecuadorian embassy in london that's where
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a staunch spent nearly seven years in self-imposed exile she gained access to the rooms for a song live and spoke exclusively with ecuador's ambassador to the u.k. about his turbulent stay. the ecuadorian embassy in london this had been julian assange just home since august twenty. fifth we believe. this is the main room in the embassy but it was use exclusively by mr sunshine. this is where he worked with his electronic and computer equipment connected to his followers directed aggressive interference in the political interests of other countries he did this in the us elections in spain with the sensitive issue of catalonia. also meddled with ecuadorian domestic politics claims that led ecuador to revoke
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a song just diplomatic asylum high much on the country's ambassador to the u.k. told the sun and this room i handed him the letter i was standing while he was sitting down. i said to him you have to leave immediately hurry up highest court you to the door. and he got up surprised. he stood up. and ran out. there was a code for this door which only he knew so he locked himself inside. you as sandra stopped trying to hide when he realized the embassy police were waiting for him outside the door. the room is a sound used have been cordoned off the now. as sanjay was holed out of the embassy on thursday it was the first time the wiki leaks co-founder had set foot outside the embassy and seven years of diplomatic asylum british police confirmed that his
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arrest relates to an extradition request from the united states the u.s. accuses a songe of conspiring with former u.s. army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to hack into the pentagon computer system and blames him for releasing classified information about military operations in iraq and afghanistan as sun just supporters view him as a fearless defender of free speech someone who has exposed a legit us war crimes his lawyers have found to fight his extradition to the us. chinese artist ai wei wei has unveiled a new exhibition in mexico city this week it is titled reestablishing memories some one million lego bricks form the portraits of the forty three mexican students who disappeared in two thousand and fourteen the case and conflicting information from mexican authorities about their possible murders sparked months of protests became a rallying cry against widespread violence in mexico way away at the exit mission
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opening said every crime committed damages human society as a whole. and for more on this i'm joined now by nicole research has been taking a closer look at the cases and the exhibition nicole i way is known for courting controversy through his art why is he now focusing on the disappearance of these students so this is his very unique way of saying enough is enough we really need to just as those who have disappeared and for years have passed if you look at the portrays these people these are the very faces that were printed out on posters to take them to protest by the family members to demand to know what has happened where my children actually met with some of the family members left and the shaken and stirred up in himself as a father so let's listen to what he had to say at the press conference forgot about
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the markers are human being to select few if you hear someone you heard. your neighbors. boy can never come back. and the government for years cannot be both concretion what kind of our government is that you know what kind of society would be. you're taking a really strong passionate stance there take us back to twenty fourteen when these disappearances happened what's the significance of these students well the students have a very strong significance because that was kind of the tipping point in mexican society as well forty three people disappearing at once they have witnessed years and years of corruption and violence in the country that was just the point where i said enough is enough not anymore we need the government to take action and so these forty three students were alledged me on the way to a protest in two thousand and fourteen and september and they would then that this was the governmental report says stopped and attacked by the police and then handed
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over to a drug gang who alledged me killed them and burned the bodies in a garbage dump that leaves very little trace there was also a second investigation which was independent and led by an international commission and a back in two thousand and fifteen demanded to reopen the investigation because they believed there were very strong links between the criminal and also governmental powers working together it wasn't reopened back then which left family members in the plight that they're in still so it's been for five years have there been any developments in the cases since then well last year there was a new government in place so. that our lord took over and in december you met family members promising that they would take care of the matter that the investigation is now reopened and they will collaborate and look into leads that haven't been followed up in the process so that might be a silver lining on the horizon really for the family even if it's only a little one and maybe i ways exhibition gives this
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a further push not only for the forty three students that this have disappeared but also for the fountains that have been disappearing over the years in mexico they call reason for us on the latest developments not only in mexico but with always arch thank you so much. moving to sports now these but as they go saturdays fixtures are in the bag was some crucial wins for the clubs at the top of the table in the late game thought one got their title challenge back on track with a win over meit's leipzig defeated two nil to boost their champions league hopes they have a cause in beach stuttgart one nil to move into seventh and continued their strong form with a win over freiburg box off one over by a single goal on friday there was a stalemate between know about and shaka in tomorrow's games byron munich will look to regain top spot against hoffenheim hosts by then and frankfurt face off against . you're watching news from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour to forget
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