this is deja vu news live from berlin the next phase of india's vast general election kicks off this time the rest of region of kashmir goes to the polls security there is tight local separatists are calling for a boycott of the election after a recent escalation of violence in the area. also coming up germany calls a special session of the united nations security council to discuss the crisis in libya but members are split over a surge of the violence in the capital tripoli. and in the champions league quarter finals an unforgettable evening manchester city and tottenham share seven goals on

a breathless night of soccer we take a look at a game that had fans biting their nails for ninety minutes. i'm sumi so much got to thank you for joining us polling stations have opened in parts of india as the second phase of the country's general election gets underway one of the constituencies voting today is in sri lanka the main city in indian controlled kashmir a security lockdown has been imposed on the city were several parties have called for a boycott of the election kashmir featured heavily in campaigning after a suicide attack there brought india and pakistan to the brink of war in february a total of ninety five constituencies across india are casting ballots today and his election is taking place in seven stages over a six week period ending next month. let's bring indeed of usenet. following the

elections for us from delhi hina misha so kashmir really is taking center stage in this second round a second round of elections. well definitely so many it's not just the second round in fact it's through the selection that has been talked about very closely warning me it's happening over five years and they actually decided against another level of elections in fish we have because of security concerns in srinagar in the capital there's a heavy deployment of security there's actually a watch was shut down in the city and because the separatist calls to boycott this election many waters are concerned so far warning tone out in that it has been little while another constituency has seen a strong water to not push midis are wilting on the one hand on the very strong b.g.p. retarded to be jimmy's prime minister no religion will be spotty to almost crack down on the freedoms that kashmiris enjoy as of now a special status for the state while the opposition sees it to protect the status

with not just fish midis watching for they don't see this all over india will focus on the issue of kashmir all right so this has been a central talking point in the lead up to the vote tell us more about this election you know india is the world's largest democracy and this is only the second of a seven stages of voting. that's right so me every time india goes toward the general election it's the largest exercise in democracy in the history of the world essentially seven phases and from the fourth to affording people actually have to wait six weeks to find out who the next prime minister is going to be so large just sickly it's a massive challenge indeed and the requirement from the election commission is that water should have access to a polling station within a two kilometer radius and that nine hundred million people are going to the board that is quite a task in itself this is the second phase off to five more years of the mean nineteenth will be the last day off polling and just four days later all seven

stages off elections the numbers will be counted and we'll find out a crime scene that is more the will be given the national mandate again or the opposition challenger not only gandhi will be chosen by the country and the mission you know we've also seen social media really playing a big role in campaigning tell us more about that. well so we social media is definitely essential because just coming back to the numbers because the selection is about numbers you know just the just by the number of smartphone users have actually tripled since the last under lection for fifteen million users of smartphones in the country right now smartphone penetration have skyrocketed and you have the largest markets off whatsapp and facebook and even the election commission a stick a note and for the first time the election commission of endeavour's is basically the authority that monitors the election is watching candidates online behavior so candidates have to toe the line the way they have to do in japanese and offline advertising for the first time ever in india's electoral history we actually went

down to the southern state of car not to crowd to meet with one such young candidate who heavily uses force and we did reach out to waters to find out how he's appealing to the masses while also ensuring that he told the line that the election commission a strong. well we're going to go party or this is be just recently he's about to turn to the south indian city of bengal to have a lawyer and an aspiring member of parliament for joining us but out of order because there are people at twenty eight he is the youngest candidates from the ruling b.g.p. to contest these elections. as temperatures soared above thirty five degrees on this afternoon be just three goes out of his read to greet him the knowledge every constituent t.c. each not in week is on the beautiful works. but despite the palpable excitement of supporters and party locals the politician is at best reaching a few hundred overtrain sweltering odds. on twitter just we can reach over one

hundred thousand followers in a flash most of our young people today who are going to forums. are really foreign to the our my wife want to be is a point of. no for information as well as entertainment so our political with the greatest political good that we. have to be is a small loss mark for not hands. since the last national board smartphone usage in india has tripled to a stack of ng for fifty million. election authorities trying to ensure free and fair elections have taken no. one's going to catch your eye is the colorful talk behind me which belongs to the beach every candidate who is holding an election rally but no lipstick with a friend is this very far to my right which belongs to the election commission of india election commission close even when it does everything a candidate does being don't drag on advertising but for the first time ever in getting a job in history the election commission of india is also watching what can be done

online on course of media platforms like twitter and facebook that. policing the world wide web is no easy don't. work which is all for a high degree of customization to the advertisers which are good political parties the information off with users. so what you have is the perfect. them for political messaging in india which makes it incredibly powerful. but social media can also be problematic dangerous he has been criticised for all tweets opposing reservations for women and supporting the b j p's hindu nationalist agenda he has even want to gag order on the media to prove entry courting one what he called stephanie tree allegations. but now a group of friends and supporters is harder to work to boost his online image. the

content to skeptic young and peppy to resonate with the just response on the political cartoons like these in addition help directly establish prime minister narendra modi's support for the young candidate. solution we did to you must also ensure ethical content that all those official guidelines. too should go to willis ford works with is really more door in control of what happens online and since it was no use abuse were goes online from this music own. group. supporters meanwhile to exuberance to rebut it about privacy and peek moves but it is what happens online that may well decide this election. so their mission we saw there how important social media is to candidates and to the parties what impact is it having on voters that so many many voters are definitely consuming what's coming off of social media but it's actually how discerning

a water is that's going to be a challenge many waterless off last time forcing me to you was invited actually the mission is watching the candidates towards the border for on dr lane which is basically not making communal safe was not making hateful statements candidates have the option of using proxy for you just parties can be bought and funds into bridges that are not official pages and that's why the election commission is not monitoring them another challenge is what's up what's up has and to an encryption for the election commission cannot monitor what goes out there but the waters are often susceptible to fake news that is why you so created on whatsapp so it really comes down to how well would does even to engage unfortunately don't want to and that not only the bodies are putting out but their proxies are putting out to make sure they're making the right decisions consuming what is being pitched as the hook for the future of the candidates while also rejecting what is clearly freaking out and i did have used as well covering the ongoing indian election for us there in delhi thank you very much. all right let's get

a roundup of some other stories making headlines around the world north korean state media say kim jong il and has observed the test firing of what it describes as a new type of tactical guided weapon it did not specify what the weapon is the talks have deadlock between kim and u.s. president donald trump over north korea's ballistic missile and nuclear program. the u.s. justice department plans to release a redacted version of special counsel robert molders an investigation into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. elections which put current president donald trump in office democrats are calling for the publication of the entire report in an unproductive form. a bus crash on the portuguese island of madeira has killed at least twenty nine people on board most of them were german tourists the coach overturned or rolled down a steep bank and struck at least one house authorities say they are looking into the cause of the accident. and cathedrals across france ran their bells at six

fifty local time on wednesday to commemorate the fire at notre dame tributes took place in paris leone and strasburg despite the destruction much of the cathedral could be saved france plans to hold an architectural contest to design a new spire for the cathedral. to elections in another part of asia now indonesia's ruling party looks set to remain in power after the country's presidential and legislative elections final poll results will not be announced until next month but unofficial vote counts show the incumbent presidential we don't know with a comfortable lead yet his challenger. is also claiming victory the former general made a similar claim in the last poll five years ago even though he was narrowly defeated by we don't know about one hundred ninety three million people who are eligible to vote in indonesia's election. and i'm joined now by have us say no he's the ambassador of indonesia in germany mr baster thank you very much for joining us here on this morning i want to ask you about that point that we just brought up

that. is claiming victory his supporters say they're going to take to the streets for a rally are you concerned that there could be a prolonged period of uncertainty not really. before. a lot of rhetoric they have put on the ground we go around in jakarta today in different parts of indonesia is all. i thing the bad and the noises are mostly in the social media and lots of groups and facebook and twitter but the actual the whole thing with so it's you know it's a different reality in the ground you know we saw people cheering at the polls yesterday as they're going to vote so the polls so far do appear to give joke will be due to a lead so the. i would give him a second term in office is that good for indonesia i think in terms of democracy the most important part is that manage successfully i would say to have this election this is one of the most complex elections in the world i would say this

one day elections to elect the president vice presidents political party. legislative member of the lower house as well so it's just watch the cesspool and i think. the next five years of course for the kind of government does that continue the previous projects and it gives more stability i would say what can we expect for the next five years we saw joe what we do to for example promise to lift economic growth to seven percent he was unable to meet that target some farmers say they haven't seen their income rise there's also been criticisms of he hasn't done enough to protect minority groups what do you think we can expect for the next five years in the next five years. we will see more on the human resources development because the last four years and it's more on the infrastructure. and you have to look at why we can only deliver five percent we deliver five point one

percent in the world full of prices in the world full of trade wars in the world full of uncertainties so we're actually doing fine as opposed to the rest of the world economy so the country is doing well and will continue to do so i do want to ask you about the role of islam there were some yes sir that both candidates here even though it was considered a moderate muslim centrist that they were both making overtures to conservative muslims how big a role does conservative islam really play in indonesia people forget about the span of the analysis they only look at today says if you look at the nineteen fifty five we have seventy. political parties that has. roots no need for the number of the voters for islamic believe that political parties are going. continuously so this is not a trend running with no noise not people forget about it and the people mostly

forget about the fact that the extremist wahhabi tried to enter in the nation at the end of it in one hundred and as a result of that the early one nine hundred the in the nation people decided for them to come there were hobbies seeing their own organization be and muhammadiyah they are these two major. middle ground islam wondred. indonesia and who has seventy million members has forty million members so as long as these two are powerful powerful and strongly embedded in i will call the church as an open society when we were all right ambassador have possible to say no thank you so much for join you read her grammar there was a. now germany has called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss the search and fighting in the libyan capital tripoli forces loyal to libyan army commander. battling to seize control of tripoli from

the internationally recognized libyan government shelling of tripoli has increased and more than two hundred people have been killed since the offensive started this month. images of war intended to demonstrate the progress of khalifa haftar tars troops this may be propaganda but it does show that the battle for tripoli is escalating. this week the city center was hit by rockets for the first time emergency workers reported civilian casualties according to the u.n. at least a hundred ninety people have been killed since fighting began in early april. for libya's interior minister the conflict has reached a new level of illegality on this is a community. and it is in that it is beautiful but you cannot believe that the one he killed his people like this and that the united nations is evacuating migrants and refugees from camps in tripoli's south to rescue them from the

fighting but two thousand seven hundred people are trapped close to the front and could get caught up in call but they're trapped by the fighting so it's a race against time to try and relate them to safety because it's really a matter of life or death so it's really critical that we say relocate them to safety the bombs are getting closer worries that fighting may escalate even further are growing the libyan government is warning of a new wave of refugees with europe as their goal. to the gambia now and the legacy of its former leader he fled to equitorial guinea in january twenty seventeen after he refused to concede defeat in a presidential election neighboring countries threatened a military intervention in the gambia on last may gave way to his opponent adama barrow but jamie went into self-imposed exile after two decades in power during his tenure critics say he and his supporters plundered state funds debby's funding for

char travel to the guy to find how much has changed since his departure they are polish every second day even though no one ever drives them these cars are visible relics of a regime that ruled the gumby oh for over two decades all of this because once belonged to the former president president says reappear right here on the license plate it's cause you a story about these lavish lifestyle while at the same time these people didn't have enough food didn't have proper housing i lack access to health care. internationally met was a welcome guest despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in his country in twenty seventeen he lost the election and fled into exile a possible grave site is being excluded on the outskirts of fungible a number of support and spread killed or disappeared during his rule as gambia has

begun to deal with the past jemez once again all over the papers focusing mainly on the money he and his associates store people are angry because they got off scot free it's like an insult to gambian people want to see people that you know. we would like to but in corruption to pay for it to go to the right to a little more hundred of them but just how much money was stolen according to the investigative reporting organization. jumma and his cronies fluted at least nine hundred seventy five million u.s. dollars the official ministry of justice figure is much smaller three hundred four million u.s. dollars here meeting a local journalist who believes the research is figures are closer than the government estimates i have more trust in god indorse people than i were in the government still. because you can't police yourself he says the government is still

full of the same elites only the head of the government changed after the election in twenty seven to be sort of what you need to be high. in twenty seventeen to change this country for good policy isn't in gridley mr we've not sort of in the past we are moving in drawing on seven feet joe that's dangerous johnny has left but a lot of his associates did not none of them responded to our interview requests except this man momodu sub ali he was secretary general on the agenda. we are small country small society big complex. it's not going to be easy to get to the bottom of things somebody says he knew about the looting of public funds but he did not do anything wrong and. he has a possibility of coming back here i don't know when and where was one of the things

going for him here right now he says that his party is still very strong that's the see is still very popular in some parts in this country gambians enjoy new freedom since gemma's departure but many politicians from his government have been recycled into the new administration the country still awaits justice for crimes committed during the past regime. to sports now and there was an unforgettable night of football in the champions league quarter finals we have john expect from d.w. sports with us hi i'm nick anyway so manchester city to contact tottenham and it was a pretty unbelievable match tell us what happened yeah i definitely couldn't believe what i was seeing it was an absolute belter of a game seven goals four goals in the first eleven minutes like this doesn't happen i was watching the game just going what on earth is going on here it was absolutely incredible and i can imagine that a few spurs a man city fans are probably still feeling the effects of it this morning but yes seven goals meant a city one the match for three but i still didn't go through the top because

tottenham who won the first one nil so they went through in a way goals and there was a lot of drama especially late in the game city thought they'd won it right at the end but we'll see what happens throughout the game and why they are not the ones going through to the game as they examine. the pre-game atmosphere in manchester suggested a memorable much awaited and it didn't disappoint his right name sterling put city ahead after just four minutes a quick fire double from shaun min sun soon put spurs back in the driver's seat but city's bernardo's silva brought the game level again moments later to two or four goals coming in the first eleven minutes of the match city scored twice more through stirling in sergio aguero are the side of part time to take a full two advantage on lisa fernando the red tape to give spurs a novel a precious away goal in the seventy third minute city thought they sealed a true matic last gasp winner through stirling in injury time. but the video

referee ruled it out for off saw it. elation turned to devastation for city despite a full three win spurs on cloud nine after sealing their spot in the final four. can of what a night for tottenham and. and for manchester city you know this was really such a blow wasn't because they were going for four trophies exactly so i mean of course the champions league is the pinnacle of european football and have got all of their coach obviously really really wanted this this big trophy for the club he struggled in the past few years with manchester city in twenty seventeen they lost to monaco which was a shock results and then last year they fell out lupul after losing the first like three nil and so this is another blow for pat and the club and it's pretty devastating for them because they've put a lot of money in the spend a lot of cash and they were in some people's eyes the favorites for the tournament and so now of course they do have two more trophies to fight for but pep guardiola

is obviously going to hurt with this one and he'll be wanting to come back but let's say his reaction after the match is cruel but it's where he's with accepted so it was a. nice game for everybody a little tentative to twenty minutes you know. we were we did everything forcefully i.d.n. was in foot as congratulations to. his team and he's. the best for this infant. yes they're clearly still in a bit of shock after that late drama but we'll have to see how they respond as i said still to throw if used for the season let's talk about the other match last night liverpool beating porto four one seems like it was an easy run for liverpool yet on paper it looks like a loophole went into the game with a two nil advantage but they were absolutely petted in the first half puerto really took the game to them and they should have scored

a couple goals but they didn't take their chances and then as we say study zero money comes in scores the first goal the sausage away goal and they end up winning four one so for one of the not six one an aggregate a clear dominant victory for liverpool and now they're looking pretty good going into the semifinals where they'll face and you're going quote will be wanting to i guess make up for the loss in the final last season yeah well let's take a look at the draw for the champions league because that is now fixed and we can take a look at who's playing let's bring up this right here if you can see it yeah tottenham's reward for that win over city is a clash with the tournaments a pricey my exams are down and as you just said barcelona stand in the way of a second consecutive final for liverpool the first likes to kick off in just under two weeks' time so you know who are you tipping to win this tournament it's a tough one i think all four teams have their credentials especially barcelona they've got leo messi the best price in the world and you can count them off but for me i think i x.

other team to be because they look like attain they play a really attacking football and they don't have the money of the other three clubs but they're looking strong they're looking you know i did and i'm tipping them to continue the underdog and really take this competition all the way all right and expect from d.w. sports thank you very much. and are minor now of our top story out there we're following for you here on d w voting has begun in the second phase of india's vast general election polling in kashmir is taking place under tight security after a recent flare up of violence in the beautiful region. coming up tensions between washington and have on a region a new high and that could play a role in u.s. trade talks with europe. hurt al first we'll have that story all of your business headlines coming up in just a few minutes don't go away. the

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