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you know it's going to explode passionated blonde cultural heritage sites. w world heritage three sixty good. player. this is news life from burlesque spain socialists when the country's general election but faced some tough choices for prime minister pedro sanchez his party falls short of a majority that leaves difficult coalition talks are have been walked to the far right will enter parliament for the first time in decades we'll get the latest from madrid. torrential rains and flooding struck mozambique just days after cycle in
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kenya as the flood waters claimed more lives many areas are cut off from rescue workers. plus the heady days of sudan's people's uprights walking around you can feel the pride they have not only in reclaiming public spaces but also their freedom gatherings like this would not have been possible under the old regime. as the demonstrations take on a festive flare we need a photographer committed to capturing the revolution from start to finish. and a fresh voice for turkey international broadcasters including you respond to the government's crackdown on independent media with the launch of the new you tube channel. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us. we start in spain where the governing socialists. claiming victory in sunday's general election they want
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twenty nine percent of the vote but they're well short of a parliamentary majority and that means they'll have to enter a potentially difficult coalition talks to stay in power now the vote also saw a far right party into parliament for the first time in four decades with ten percent of the thought. socialist politics triumphs in spain incumbent prime minister pedro sanchez says progressive politics one. spaniards have sent a very clear and categorical message to europe and to the world that it is possible to win against reactionary authoritarian and repressive politics with progressive proposals. but forming a ruling coalition won't be easy on likely allies the anti austerity far left party put a most lead by paolo iglesias. the election mobilized a huge number of people over seventy five percent of the electorate including those
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who support the far right. and her vox and anti immigration anti-feminist party that's the first time a far right party has gained seats in spain's parliament since the days of general franco. first or so no three c.p.o. this is only the beginning we told you about our goal to initiate the reconquista and that's exactly what we have done is that this is a reconquista with the voice of parliament as of today we can now say loud and clear to the entire country that vox has come to stay. the country's mainstream conservative party the people's party suffered big losses it was their worst election to date. spanish politics like elsewhere is becoming more polarized. the election was pitched by prime minister sanchez a socialist as a bid to stop the far right now i've been very happy because i thought that the
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extreme right would win a lot more but spain reacted to stop that so i'm very very happy. the socialists won but for the first time since the end of the military dictatorship the far right are now part of spain's national politics. let's bring in our correspondent lisa lewis is standing by for us in madrid hi lisa says we heard there the socialists are claiming victory with around twenty nine percent of the vote now they have to form a government so where do things go from here. well it's going to be a bit complicated for them but they have several possibilities they could for example team up with a father and he does put in most but then would have to bring in other smaller parties such as for example the catalan separatists or the basque separatist parties to come to get a majority in parliament another option would be to team up with the market liberals here that that last that's easier when it comes to the numbers because the
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two parties together would have a majority in parliament however when it comes to the ideology that might be a bit more complicated because during the campaign they were very much on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum so they would have to find a way to talk to each other and come to an agreement again the third possibility would be that the p.c.'s the socialist party would govan on its own as a minority government probably not the best option for them but they're not excluding that option either listen let's talk about another side of the political spectrum there was a breakthrough for the far right party vox party they're entering parliament for the first time since the one nine hundred eighty s. how will they influence politics in spain absolute. well it's been a political earthquake that day and a palm and for the first time as you said since the end of the dictatorship and it will have its impact they don't have that many seats a bit more than twenty and will not be able to block any major loss of that but
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they will certainly influence the political debate just like the half during the campaign which was at times very tense and very tough and spain. what about the conservatives lee so we saw that they suffered their worst ever national result is that really another sign that the political center in spain is eroding absolutely i mean the popular the people's party already moved quite far to the right during the election campaign they tried to grab they from the far right vox party and now obviously they will have to do some serious soul searching because you know see that and those the other the market liberal party they gained really quite got share of the vote for them and the people's party plummeted so now is the question will this trend continue will the people's party be able to stop the trend or will see that out and become the number one party on the right so certainly
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interesting times ahead here in spain our correspondent lisa lewis reporting from madrid thank you lisa. the united nations is giving thirteen million dollars in emergency funds to mozambique that's the people there are struggling in the aftermath of a second cycle on in as many months cycling kenneth slammed into northern mozambique on sunday causing massive flooding more torrential rainfall is expected in the days ahead kenneth comes just six weeks after cyclonic died devastated the region around bera in the south of the country. after the storm the rain. torrential downpours are swelling rivers and washing away houses here in the north of muslim beak nature's fury has been unleashed and the danger is far from over six weeks ago cycle on it i devastated the south of the country killing some six hundred people it's like on kenneth is predicted to cause twice as much
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rainfall as its predecessor already communities have been up ended by the storms destructive force that is the sound of the wind destroyed the farms and the palm trees the farms don't have anything we lost everything on the farms here in the village as you see three hundred houses have been destroyed. i'm not going to build anything else because i had two houses in the shop everything is destroyed i don't have the means to rebuild i'll just try to rebuild one home and i probably can't even do that. it is the first time in recorded history that muslim beak has seen two cyclons in one season aid agencies that have been working frantically to deal with the fallout from it i now have even more work on their hands. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world sri lanka has banned all face coverings that could conceal people's
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identities the law will especially affect muslim women who cover their faces for religious reasons it's one of a raft of security measures imposed after a series of bombings that killed more than two hundred fifty people on easter sunday. america's envoy to afghanistan says the taliban must accept changes the country has gone through since they were ousted in two thousand and one. making head of a grand council starting monday in kabul president called the meeting to push for direct peace talks with the radical islamists. in canada flooding has forced thousands of people to evacuate homes along the ottawa river soldiers have been helping homeowners to shore up flood barriers in the capital rising water levels have also closed at least one key bridge in the city ottawa and montreal declared a state of emergency last week. sudanese protesters are hailing a breakthrough in talks with army leaders they have agreed to form a joint council to pave the way for civilian rule sudan's veteran leader ahmad
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bashir was ousted by the military earlier this month after mass protests one photographer has been capturing some of the images of the uprising. and melanie core of the ball talked with him in the capital khartoum. for thirty two year old muhammad this is history in the making has been documented the sudanese uprising since it started in december two days taking pictures of the incoming fire during demonstrators in front of the army headquarters in the capital hard to. sort out. my pictures of the coming generations the suffering experienced by people in my photos should not be forgotten. when we took to the streets we were just calling for rights we should not have been met with some of the violence we see in the pictures of the sort. at the heart of the protest area mohammad displays his photos for his fellow students. in many ways the ongoing fittin has become
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a microcosm of what the people here want their sudan to be walking around you can feel the pride they have not only in reclaiming public space but also their freedom gatherings like this would not have been possible under the old regime. a larger art movement has emerged from the uprising even this billboard has taken on new meaning protesters have hung clothing in honor of military personnel who disobeyed orders and refused to open fire at them and there are. some it says his photography not only documents the revolution it is also a way to help the people who needed. to get out of this picture shows a man waving a flag as he is being loaded on to the back of a truck. i would be using him and punching him so that he put the flag down and see saddam holding up the flag high so. you know there's a picture help to get this man released because it spread so much so they were able
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to locate him and have him freed. for passers by mohammed's work reflect a turning point for sudan and its people. i feel love when i see the details of these pictures the sadness where. these pictures are an expression of the bravery the strength and the patriotism of people who have overcome thirty years of oppression under a corrupt regime to defend it to the display shows that sudan has a lot of artists and people with many talents. and good muhammad realizes to dismiss you found freedom is very fragile and that a lot of work needs to be done for the spirit of the citizen to be made a political reality and we learned as a people that we can be united and we can be one hand. in this transitional period we've the sudanese people have to accept each other. does not
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know what exactly the future holds for them but he is determined to bear witness to it with his camera. you're watching news still to come on the program women struggling for a voice in indian politics we hit the campaign trail with one of the few female candidates running in the national election. but first with other major international broadcasters to launch a new source of independent information for people in turkey it's called right here plus one thing it starts today on you tube now the pictures you're going to see here are from the news chat the new channels content it's a joint venture of the b.b.c. uncut and voice of america now the channel was launched in response to the turkish government's growing restrictions on reporting and the jailing of independent journalists our reporter jared reed is in istanbul where plus ninety has been launched good to see you so what is this channel going to be like.
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this channel is going to be telling the stories about various aspects of turkish society that a kind of underrepresented in the media here and some examples of the situation of muslims who fled persecution in china what's life like for them here in turkey and similarly for queer people across turkey how are they fairing and they're also asking economic questions like what can be done about the state of the building industry scene crisis these are some of the topics that have been covered in plus ninety but i guess the hope is to you that it becomes a platform where people can talk and debate the issues that are important to them and i guess this is where the expertise of these for broadcast is comes in they've got the journalistic know how and independent and can provide a platform like this in the pooling their resources together in
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a way that hasn't really been done before so i think it's quite exciting and it's going to also hopefully set an example for increased media freedoms here why it's important to have a channel specifically for turkey oil as you mentioned turkey has had. quite a bit of up people in the last couple of years and that's why there is a lot of international attention focused on turkey but there's also because of that because of restrictions on the media there is a demand here for independent verified information that people can trust and that is on a digital platform and this is something that d.w. the director general told me about earlier. i think it's important because the situation in turkey around freedom of press is swear difficult to journalists in jail and it's also important because in the recent years there's been
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a lot of tensions between our countries on the political side and it's always good if you can try to bring in an offer which has a lot of plurality in it and come from public service media and so we hope to help a bit to get over this polarization in the in the country but at the end we're just . surplus offer to bring in more information and more opinions into turkey. so jared we heard there this is an important source of independent information who is the target audience that will the target audience is people aged between in their mid twenty's to thirty's because people at aged and thirty five make up about half of turkey's population and the people who are savvy who get their news online like a lot of under thirty five's and this is also where you tube comes in which is the
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world's biggest most important platform for video sharing and it's widely used in turkey and i guess like i said earlier they're wanting to attract a curious audience that is connected that is interested not only in their country but of course the world around them and this is where i think plus ninety will feel this kind of gap here right plus ninety launched on you tube today our reporter jared reed in istanbul thank you. to india now and the halfway point in the country's namath's thirty nine day general election the biggest the world has ever seen polling stations have opened in constituencies across nine states it's the fourth of seven voting days in the staggered parliamentary election that ends on may nineteenth and although women make up half of india's nine hundred million voters there are still massively under represented in politics in this election less than eight percent of candidates are women our correspondent sonia
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found the car went to meet one of them on the campaign trail and. it's early morning in whistling district politics here is the fist of a few. it's dominated by the ruling t.m.c. alternate congress party. and the start of the show here is the party's. she quit to prestigious job as president of j.p. morgan in london in two thousand and eight. return to india and plunged into politics fulfilling a dream. when i was a kid and you asked me what i wanted to become i never said that. i was i want to be. in a position to make millions more throws been doing that as an elected local for the last four years. she's now i have a seat in the national parliament there's little doubt about who's in charge here she's angry about a change in the current the former investment banker is
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a rare sight in indian politics still largely a boys' club she draws curious crowds mainly women in these parts but the forty two year old who's also a national spokesperson for her party dismisses any questions about agenda and politics. i think of myself as a politician i don't think. i think the very use that on women's issues if you're fighting such basic grassroots politics that you've got a bad road it's a bad road that a woman walks on that it's a bad road that up a man walks on so i don't think that i can make a law that only women will walk on so i think most issues here are issues that are generic for everybody you know poverty infrastructure drinking water. through attributes hopefully to can rise to hard work and passion it's part she believes is open to any woman willing to take. her own party the t.m.c. is heavily promoting women candidates the push has come from the very top. when all
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is currently the only state in india that's led by a woman chief minister months about it is often described as a firebrand leader and is a vocal opponent a prime minister a great movie and in this election it's building women in a record forty one percent in the field of party if the definition. it's the highest number in this election but that doesn't mask the fact that india has one of the world's lowest rates of female lawmakers in parliament at just eleven percent so i mean the experts the parties need to do much more to change that women and also you know all political parties have set up separate women that's necessary but the question is how many of them are there a decision making provision in general committee executive committee the other big . issue is how to make the environment more suitable for women more comfortable for
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women to acting joy in all this this is only now on their own accord. here back on the campaign trail. mix a quick stop to meet voters. she's treated like a rock star. but she has little time she plans to cover hundreds of police stations in the next two days. that means many more trolls like this one every handshake and an appeal for votes. temperatures have already soared to more than thirty five degrees but there's no way. he's calling it a day anytime soon. oh poor dog. we can now speak to meghan a punt from mumbai she's a journalist and speaker and one of india's foremost writers she also curates a regular mumbai panel discussion on feminism feminism called feminist ronnie maggie thank you very much for joining us on d. w. we heard there in a report indian politics is still very much a boys' club and if you look at the numbers less than eight percent of the people
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running in this election are women why is that. thanks for having me you know the question you bring up is so imperative. that one million women but politics is considered almost as. good says groups on the representation of women and this is of course of all you know the true feeling. that i would call society where women are not always given a voice you know a lot of women do enter politics because to the powerful the sponsibility yes they do not possess the kind of confidence all the financial backing to enter for the deuce and those who do manage to enter a lot of the big feast deeply rooted in thoughts of mystic attitude politics is deeply antagonistic towards women in general so this is leading since one thousand nine hundred seventy s. when you know. these photographs and the dollar bill paraded by the opposition as
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collateral damage all we had one of them will call for female leaders. who saw me with that thought go on in the house of parliament so and every day top female leaders such as. iran even today face hugely sexist remarks so yes politics is a brain that. diminishes women there's a lot of carrot and i mean clearly it's not very conducive to women at all or to enter politics to survive in it even the wives and so there are deep rooted cultural barriers for saying what about the candidate we just looked at in our report. she is a u.s. educated woman she worked for j.p. morgan in london in new york and she really representative of women in indian politics. you know unfortunately you know i think we need more educated voices in a hunch and we need more female voices in parliament by the fact remains that she is actually an exception and definitely not. there's
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a statistic going to get it almost deep creek was sent off politicians have a clue. that means that impending clemente's is against them for crimes as they are we just have to model and yet consider paul because it's not considered a negative trait to be a criminal in politics and that's what she's dealing with but from what i have seen of its long. legs she should be should stop standing up to all of the deep rooted in the stodgy and sexism of we agree and i think we need more leaders say that and definitely more people like that in the hunt and get making it she also says that gender has nothing to do with it she said quote i think there are very few women's issues do you think that's the right approach. i know that's where i would disagree with her i don't leave that may represent just representation the solenoid in politics that needs to go to the decision making out of fifty percent of the population and that key indicator of the quality of involvement of progress then
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i've completely negated so i feel that actually women need to come to be at the moment collective in order to increase the whole band and have all the women in parliament who have more women actually have more room and board because it's based in such big gender issues but the fact that there's a reason out onto every thirty minutes. to domestic violence that's three percent of women that's two hundred million women so if you do not have somebody representing these voices representative agenda where are you going to see progress where are you going to see quality in the country if we do not have female leaders so we need more female and we need this really to do with the right punch joining us from mumbai a journalist and speaker and writer thank you so much for your insight today. thank you. to sports now and in the bundesliga league leaders
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byron munich failed to take advantage of dorman's loss to shock on saturday biron could have taken a try. stride toward the title but instead were held to a one one tie with nuremberg now let's take a look at the game herrera gave the home side with a surprise lead there a win could have boosted nuremberg outside survival hopes but elect lesser byron level research can operate fifteen minutes before the end of the match the drama didn't end there nuremberg then missed a penalty you see here in injury time fire now have a two point lead with three games left to play. and there are some tragic news from the football world as well czech republic international you have several has died after a bus crash several and six other players from a turkish top tier side alone yes for returning home from an away match the twenty eight year old forward died in the hospital turkey state run news agency says the players rented a minibus while the rest of the squad returned with the team bus the agency says
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