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this is deja vu news live from spain socialist when the country's general election but faced some tough choices prime minister pedro sanchez his party falls short of a majority that means difficult coalition talks are ahead meanwhile on the far right and to parliament for the first time in decades we'll get the latest from madrid. original rains and flooding strike mozambique just days after cycling in 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 republic rising walking around you
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can feel the pride they have not only in reclaiming public space but also their freedom to gatherings like this would not have been possible under the old regime and. 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 turkish international broadcasters including respond to the government's crackdown on independent media with the launch of the new you tube channel. i'm sumi so much convents good to have you with us we start in spain where the governing socialists are claiming victory in sunday's general election they won twenty nine percent of the vote but they are well short of a parliamentary majority that means they'll have to enter a potentially difficult coalition talks to stay in power the vote also saw far
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right party enter parliament for the first time in four decades with ten percent of the vote. the 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 one likely ally is the anti austerity far left party put de must lead by pablo iglesias. the election mobilized a huge number of people over seventy five percent of the electorate including those who support the far right. and her vox and anti immigration anti-feminist party that's the first time
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a far right party has gained seats in spain's parliament since the days of general franco. thank you mr so no three see below 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 extreme right would win a lot more but spain reacted to stop that so i'm very very happy.
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to socialists one 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 iran 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 the fall if he does put in most but then would have to bring in other smaller parties such as for example the catalan separatists of 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 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
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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 govern on its own as a minority government probably not the best option for them but they're not excluding that option either lisa let's talk about another side of the political spectrum there was a breakthrough for the far right party in 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 laws without but 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
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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 there tried to grab 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 interesting times ahead here in spain our correspondent lisa lewis reporting from madrid thank you lisa. now the united nations is giving thirteen million dollars in emergency
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funds to mozambique that as people there are struggling in the aftermath of a second cycle in as many months cycle of kennett slammed into northern mozambique on sunday causing massive flooding more torrential rainfall is expected in the days ahead ken it comes just six weeks after cyclonic died devastate the region around bera further south. 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 cycling on it i devastated the south of the country killing some six hundred people on kenneth is predicted to cause twice as much rainfall as its predecessor already communities have been up ended by the storms destructive force . the wind destroyed the farms and the palm trees the farms don't have anything
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we lost everything on the farms here in the village as you see three hundred houses have been destroyed to do this. 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. now to some other stories making headlines around the world in canada flooding has forced thousands of people to evacuate homes along the auto while river soldiers have been helping homeowners 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 sri lanka has banned all face coverings that could
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conceal people's 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. the stockholm international peace research institute says global military spending world's two point six percent last year to its highest level in three decades more than one third of that spending was by the united states its military budget was greater than the next eight countries combined. 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 omar al bashir was ousted by the military earlier this month after mass protests one photographer has been capturing some of the images of the uprising. for him and melanie corrida ball talked with him in the capital khartoum. for thirty two year
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old muhammad this is history in the making has been documented the sudanese uprising since it started in the suburb today he's taking pictures of the incoming fire during demonstrators in front of the army headquarters in the capital hard to . sort of. my pictures of the coming generations the suffering experienced by people in my photos should not be forgotten that what we took to the streets we were just calling for runs we should not have been met but some of the violence we see in the pictures of the sort. of the heart of the pie. hysteria mohamed displays his photos for his fellow sudanese. in many ways the ongoing fit in has become a microcosm of what the people here want their student 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
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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. the summit says his photography not only documents the revolution it is also a way to help the people who need it. i say get out of this picture shows a man waving a flag as he is being loaded on to the back of a truck but i think i will be using him and punching him so that he put the flag down. on 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 to locate him and have him freed. because for passers by mohammed's work reflects a turning point for sudan and its people. i feel loved when i see the details of
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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 that this newfound 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 p. we've the sudanese people have to accept each other. with. hama does not know what exactly the future holds for sudan 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 the indian politics we have the campaign trail with one of the few
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female candidates running in india's national election. but first interview is teaming up with other major international broadcasters to launch a new source of independent information for people in turkey plus ninety starts today on you tube now the pictures are you're seeing here are from the new channels content it's a joint venture of the b.b.c. front and voice of america the channel was launched in response to the turkish government's growing restrictions on reporting and the jailing of independent journalists. let's bring in our reporter jared reed he is in istanbul plus ninety has been launched by jared tell us more about this channel and what's it what it's going to be like. well it's going to be telling the stories about various aspects of turkish society speak is that they might not get from their traditional
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media here and these are stories for example of how refugees various minority groups are fairing how we're gay and lesbians what's their life like here in turkey but posing also important economic questions like why is the building industry in such a crisis and what can be done about it but i guess the idea too is that plus ninety becomes a platform where people can debate the issues that are important to them and talk about what really matters to them and their friends and this is all on an independent platform and i guess this is where the expertise of the cost is comes in publicly funded broadcasters who have journalistic experience and who are pooling their resources together in a way that hasn't been done before and that's that's pretty exciting why it's important to build a channel especially for turkey. well as you mentioned there's been
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a lot of upheaval in turkey recently including crackdowns on free and independent press and that means there's been a demand particularly among young people for verified to trusted information fact checking and this is the kind of gap that plus ninety is hoping to feel here and this is a question that i asked to d.w. use director general peter lindbergh a little bit earlier. i think it's important because the situation in turkey around freedom of press is scary difficult lots of journalists in jail and it's also important because in the recent years there have been 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 comes 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 just.
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surplus offer to bring in more information and more opinions into turkey. so jared who is tossed ninety intending to reach. well the target audience is people aged in their need twenty's to thirty's because under thirty five's make up around all of. their group that increasingly feels like they're under represented in the media the issues that matter to them aren't being told and the. demographic that is consuming the news online like a lot of under thirty five's their online their own social media and this is key because this channel is being hosted on you tube which is of course the world's biggest video sharing sites and. the most important one used in turkey too and like
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i said appealing to a group of people who have a lot of questions who want to know more about their own country and the world around them and and basically curious young connected people are reporting there in istanbul thank you. to india now and the halfway point of the country's mammoth thirty nine day general election the biggest the world has ever seen polling stations have opened and constituencies across nine states it's the fourth of seven voting days in the staggered parliamentary election the fans on may nineteenth and of all women make up half of india's nine hundred million voters they are still massively underrepresented in politics and this election less than eight per cent of candidates are women our correspondent sonia went to meet one of them on the campaign trail in west bengal. it's only morning in. district politics here is the festival. it's dominated
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by the ruling t.m.c. congress party. and the start of the show here is the party's. she quit her prestigious job as president of j.p. morgan in london in two thousand and eight. return to india and plunged into politics fulfilling a long held dream. when i was a kid if you asked me what i wanted to become i never said that. i was i want to be the i want to be in a position to change. my thrones been doing that as an elected local lawmaker 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 route the former investment banker is a rest site in indian politics still largely a boys' club she draws curious crowds mainly women in these parts but the forty two
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year old who is 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 very women's issues if you're fighting such basic grassroots politics if 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 road 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 hope political rise to hard work and passion it's a part she believes is open to any woman willing to take. her own party to the t.m.c. is heavily promoting women candidates the push has come from the very top where when all is currently the only state in india that's led by a woman chief minister month. he's often described as a firebrand leader and is a balkan opponent
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a prime minister removed and in this election it's fielding women in a record forty one percent in the field of party contesting and. 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 and also all political parties have set up separately and that's necessary but the question is how many of them are there and decision making in general committee executive committee is the other big. issue is how to make the environment more suitable for women more comfortable for women to actually enjoy. this mystery now on their own accord. back on the campaign trail throw makes 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
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in the next two days. that means many more shows like this one every handshake and an appeal for votes. to preachers have already soared to more than thirty five degrees but there's no way. it's going to get to d.c. any time soon. oh poor. we can now speak to meghna pants from mumbai she's a journalist and speaker and one of india's foremost female writers she also curates a regular mumbai panel discussion on feminism feminism called feminist ronnie magna 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 running in this election are women why is that. thanks for having me you know the question you bring up is so imperative. that in million women politics
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is considered almost as good because it was on the representation of women and this is of course of all you know the group feeling cultural attitudes that i would call society where women are not always given a voice you know a lot of women do enter politics because of the household response abilities they do not the kind of confidence all the financial backing to enter for the deuce and those who do manage to enter a lot of big fees deeply rooted and so it's a mistake to politics is deeply antagonistic towards women in general so this is leading since one thousand nine hundred seventy s. when you know and historically and all these photographs in a dollar bill paraded by the opposition as collateral damage all the had one of them will call for female leaders. who saw me with that threw the ball and go on in the halls of parliament so if the female leaders such as. you are even today
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face huge to the sex it's from august so yes politics is a brain that. diminishes women oh there's a lot of character assassination 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 where she is a us educated woman she worked for j.p. morgan in london in new york is she really representative of women in indian politics. you know unfortunately you know i think we need more educated voices in a hunt you need more female voices in parliament but the fact remains that she is actually an exception and definitely not the rule there's a statistic and yet almost a stand off politicians have a clue. that means that if anything criminal cases against them for crimes as they are we just have to model and yet consider paul because it's not considered
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a negative trait to be a criminal in politics and that's what she's dealing with what i have seen small. like she should be should stop she's standing up to all of the deep rooted in the stall gene and sexism oh we agree and i think we need more leaders say that and definitely more than that in the hunt and get make that 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 a strong leader that he may represent just representation is so annoying in politics that means they go deep into decision making up to fifty percent of the population and that he is because of the quality of his palm and your progress then i've competed in the gated so i feel that a few women need to come to be at that collective in order to increase the will ban and to have old women in parliament to have more women and to have more room and
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board because it's facing such big gender issues from the fact that there's a real phenomenon to every thirteen minutes. to domestic violence that's three percent of women that's two hundred million women so if you do not have some of these 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 to. really to do with the right magna 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 byron munich failed to take advantage of dortmund's loss to shock on saturday could have taken a giant stride toward the title but instead they were held to a one one. hi with nuremberg to take us pereira to the home side a surprise lead a win could have boosted norm birds outside survival hopes but
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a lackluster byron did level to surge not break fifteen minutes before the end of the match of the drama did not and they are norberg missed a penalty in injury time higher now have a two point lead with three games left to play. it was a good weekend for vosburgh as they hammered home in time for one away to keep their chances of qualifying for the europa league alive all spurred took advantage of some four goal keeping i hope sometimes only the. a strike of what's a course here scored the first of his two goals of the day all spread now sixty eighth place in the table just one point behind call center. and some tragic news the czech republic international has died after a bus crash sorel and six other players from turkish top tier side alone yes four were returning home from an away match the twenty eight year old forward died in the hospital turkey's 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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that the driver is under investigation for allegedly falling asleep at the wheel. coming up on our show global three thousand more we're looking at the future of cities as rents keep rising and affordable housing is trying to come back we're taking you to lunch it takes a turn for the. the
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bold whoa becoming a city above an ascension it's a megabuck numbers ok let me answer does cost story kind of challenge us all grow into college you gonna make a long list. what the future transportation concepts be like is affordable living space for everyone on a table. from. the book. is
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the basis of. many of the body. and groundwater reserves are in danger. but now there's an innovative water purification project and women who can make a living from it. and see how an environmental activist is giving new life to dozens of lakes. in sixty minutes. when the water starts rising people fight for survival eliminating a set up i get from a bunch of money but when there's a flood the water comes up to our waist when you're close fast to everyone but. the lack of water is equally dangerous. there's junkie will move south
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so they can plant crops and find food. floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any going to peace net if you want and probably most of them will come from. the climate exodus starts thirty s. on d. w. . welcome to global three thousand today we're going to take a look at life in cities that have been sent his of booming particularly those in asia and africa.

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