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this is d w news live from berlin i swing to the left in finland for parliamentary elections on t.v. then it is set to become finland's first leftist prime minister in over twenty eight years the leader of the social democrats led celebrations as news of his party's narrow win came in the populist finn's party will be the biggest opposition force in parliament. also coming up fighting rages near libya's capital tripoli with scores already dead the united nation calls for thousands of refugees caught in the crossfire to be evacuated to go find out what options they have left. and
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was this the greatest comeback in sports history as are many are saying after tiger woods sealed an astonishing victory at the u.s. masters it was the americans first major golf title in eleven years and comes after personal issues and injuries at threatened to end his career at the top. i'm irish waiter thanks for joining us finland social democrats have declared a razor thin victory in the country's parliamentary elections party leader is set to become finland's first leftist prime minister in over twenty years then to face stiff competition from the populist right wing finns party which has become the second largest party in the parliament and tightly fought campaign was dominated by debates over climate change welfare and immigration.
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political scientists make up out on and joins us now from tampa in finland where are these the results that you were expecting. certainly would be resold were in line with the most recent polling data in base bring it to the close it must end but we must bear in mind that there were very different outlook was very different in may two thousand nine hundred fifty changed in line with the data but it was a bit. late to change those pretty. tough a little bit more about this right wing true fans party which is looking to be the main opposition party how does it compare with other populist parties that we hear about in europe and measure pretty well the good standard of what the european party i mean you mean but i'm talking with gratian thought also. very willing to work with liberal. economists policy meetings not
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a one to face and so on and so forth i thought in finland the most change was the embrace of the. climate. conference. well if the if that's a truth and took off meaning that they do not want to build. a new i mean by climate change policy it says we're talking about climate change what other issues besides climate change were important to the fans in this vote when i've been both most again it was mostly on the gracious years and then the climate but with a should became the second strongest point but also you could say that the economic issues of trying to lower taxation increase economic opportunities for what was also. not so we know that the social democrats are going
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to be the largest party in the parliament what options do they have when it comes to building a coalition. well from the most likely prime minister is going to be on good enough social democratic party puppet that by no means certain the construction of the quotation cabinet this time around will be very different because so many parties were able to compete so very closely together meaning the social democrat group in tampa not the coalition now the national coalition is the most likely coalition partner but the social democrats because they have indicated that they're not ready or willing to work together with the party on this but it may be he won the final version will be in. prospect a prime minister i'm going to make and quickly if you can talk a little bit more about climate change why is this so important to finland well one
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out of five think been finished government should take more active measures and not combine climate change most fans are aware that our carbon footprint is larger are copied up by me and many other countries meaning we do have more. room when it comes to climate change issues but then again the fact that we're out of me is one of the five things you do not think finland should do more or it is nickel or big would be measured very propellant to do more on basically the base but the truth been. so very skillfully in the election political scientists nico pathan and for us in temporary finland thank you so much thank you very much. today was supposed to be the day for a united nations backed conference and that bringing peace to libya instead the u.n. is warning the lives of thousands of civilians including refugees are at risk and
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the death toll is already mounting the world health organization says fighting near tripoli has killed more than one hundred twenty people and wounded nearly six hundred strong men khalifa haftar are often offensive earlier this month to take the libyan capital. fighters from libya's u.n. backed government back to live forces of general highly for have tower. the government has offered an end to the fighting in exchange for half dollars with rule. from the government of national accord would welcome a ceasefire but that does not mean it welcomes the continuation of this current situation the invading forces must return to where they came from once and for all . the humanitarian cost is rising on the day of a planned peace conference the un instead warned the styles ins of civilians could be caught in the crossfire including refugees who have escaped conflict elsewhere only to find themselves again in danger some civilians have taken shelter in the
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school. my children and i had to leave our hosts because i was afraid we'd get bombed. government fighters are trying to hold their positions but they are faced with house towns heavily armed ground forces boosted by as support. on saturday and strike hit a schoolyard on the southern outskirts of tripoli where fighting between the factions has been fierce images of the damage are a stark reminder of the threat also facing those seeking refuge in this school according to the u.n. at least eight thousand people have fled the fighting for those who remain food and medicine are increasingly should supply. earlier we spoke with an ass out on marty the director of the static institute a policy think tank focused on libya we asked him about the humanitarian situation at. destruction i mean ten to ten thousand people have already displaced them that
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the numbers are going to reuters coming to or. people looking to the past and trying to get their homes for the last president this would be the war for five years since the beginning of the civil war. time the fighting to cover his father or mother and it really does create a very very story shoot you on that fuel supplies or rockets or i'm sure most of this is like water electricity at work destructed much going to that's causing more damage but it's the humanitarian support system the hospitals the places that host displaced people also be targeted ambulances for them because they're be targeted by doctors and and ethel's this is a psychology. that was an awesome go montes speaking to us from london about the situation in libya and now we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world in the u.s. the mayor of south bend indiana has launched a bid for the twenty twenty democratic presidential nomination it's already
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a crowded field but thirty seven year old people to judge surged in opinion polls in recent weeks and styled himself as the voice of the millennial generation he will be the youngest candidate and the first openly gay man to enter the race. supporters flocked to a key of stadium on sunday for a debate between ukrainian president petro poroshenko and rival volodymyr as a lansky however it's reported selenski failed to show up for the event the two go head to head later this month in an election runoff. fresh off his victorious reelection israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has convened to the first meeting of his new cabinet as you know who was narrowly awarded a record fifth term after elections last week although he is likely to soon be facing indictments on corruption charges stored. in sudan the interim military council held its first meeting today after seizing power from veteran leader omar al bashir the new head of that council lieutenant general abdel fatah
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chaired the meeting in the capital khartoum earlier he had responded to protesters demands by promising to form a civilian government within two years but the sudanese people are keeping up the pressure they presented a list of demands to military rulers including immediate civilian control of the government. outside the military headquarters in khartoum protesters are making their voices heard fed up with decades of autocratic rule they've been calling for democracy for almost four months. only accept a real change satisfying the revolutionary people who are looking for a good future. with. the sudanese people reject 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 but she had success or even who fled general link to the genocide in darfur lasted just one day in the top job before announcing his
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resignation many are unhappy that he was replaced by another commander although abdel fattah han is not wanted for war crimes the home immediately sought to appease the crowds on the streets he announced the end of a curfew imposed by his predecessor and promised that a civilian government would be formed within two years but the demonstrators want a clean break with the old regime. who will never leave this place we will shout it out together shut it out do our freedom liberty and do our. good it does this or this is the least we also give her for just as we all sit in for free the wizarding for another new government representing by out by by out by our own so there is be able protesters say the first step towards a new beginning is to replace the military transition council with a civilian one. d.w.
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has called on the venezuelan broadcasting authority to reinstate it obvious spanish language channel on its cable network after it was taken off the air suddenly on sunday germany's international broadcaster had been covering the escalation of the crisis in venezuela with special daily television. says the u.s. had been advised that news content can be accessed on social media and a you tube channel. correspondent asked shankar says there are serious concerns from the public about the move been getting calls nonstop since last night of people that watch the show that watch the news and are worried about how are they going to inform themselves now has acquired one of the highest ratings in news channels hearing as well in the past few years because all the other news channels that people were tuning in to inform themselves were taken off the air it's a shock to some that they will not be able to tune in to do it surveillance on the
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t.v. sets now. the internet here is quite terrible and so tuning in on you tube live is also a problem so a lot of people are worried they will just not give any information as they were getting before when they were tuning into the exuberantly tiger woods has kept an astonishing career comeback winning the u.s. masters his first major golf title in eleven years the american shot seventy in the final round to finish on thirteen under par and spark scenes of wild celebration at the augusta national. it was the moment of redemption for tiger woods was the significance of the forty three year old's first major in eleven years could be headed in the roar of the crowed was on scene an emotional embrace of his family to be to apologize that's an infamous twenty ten press conference after lou details of his personal life were made public
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was only two years ago he pleaded guilty for driving under the influence yet here he was again triumphant on the last day of the masters time the overnight leda italy's francesco molinari slipped up two bogeys on the back nine leaving the door open to the chasing pack move. and it was woods who took advantage by lying recent problems to grab the lead move the goal. was to crowed willing the ball towards the whole woods never looked likely to relinquish it was released and joy what his face as he claimed his fifth green jacket on fifteenth major he must know have his sights set on jack nicklaus's record was you watching t.v.
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