climate impacts majority greater than what we see already. it's really frightening to. have. played. why are people more concerned. as little yellow. stars move through 1st on d w. a landslide victory narendra modi's hindu nationalist b j p party claimed significant gains in india's elections what could term number 2 hold i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. i was. up to my vote he said that this election is not far by the majority. it's not fast by the hopefuls. it's not fought by politicians

this election is being fought by the people of this country. here is. a lot of things for the you're going to call this a go the country i've come up with good plan for the next 5 years. what matters is that the people of it go because i think that 1000000 people who could be privatised. and also coming up on the day the end is in sight for a long legal challenge in kenya it's highest court poised to issue a ruling on whether to uphold or strike down a colonial era law on same sex relations. what does that mean it would mean that it . will be free to be yourselves. and i hope you'll be able as as a community in kenya as a queer community in kenya to be free to party i've known about minorities and

we've asked who are still fighting. the party of india's prime minister narendra modi has declared victory and the country's election data released by the election commission shows that the hindu nationalist b j p is on course to increase its majority in parliament with a mandate of business friendly policies and a tough stand on national security mr modi was given a. rousing welcome by b j p supporters at a rally in delhi in an earlier message on twitter the prime minister promised to unite the country and build what he called a strong and inclusive india this after running what commentators have described as a divisive campaign. and after those results were announced you correspondent sent us this is c'est ment of that jury. so this is the head. of the ruling. party is

a key thing. for me any. kind of a suit that have. been done. no no catch a glimpse of a new prime minister coming from this movie into this election might even consider it a referendum on the game to movie and if you look at me and if you look at the books that have more then it looks like that effort underway is an extremely positive one it is likely that he has an even stronger on the parliament than they did the last time i don't know how. all of this greet all that out of the way. which actually have pictures of prince noting to motif say thank you. thank you for your blessings and the congress that were in the national congress in the opposition has pretty much had to accept defeat as

a very marginal gains of their it's not even sure that the leader of the opposition but a national mandate is b.s. you know but you know we're actually getting very often nationalistic johnson saying long live modern india and even some hindu just coming in all around and basically the country has been not only want more of you again but they want them again more than they did back in 2014 india have decided another 5 years. that was our correspondent there in delhi let's get more now we're joined by the casing he is an analyst with the center for strategic and international studies welcome to the program sir we've heard modi say that he will build a strong and did inclusive india do you buy it well i think if the machinery wants a stable and secure india one of the things that he's certainly going to have to

tackle is the issue of economic stability and the creation of jobs. and so that's going to have to be an inclusive vision. of a country where some have jobs and others don't so it's cool he's going to have to hearken back to the campaigning days of 21000 on the promise of good days some of which we we actually didn't see that this time around in the campaigning the economic arguments for a 2nd term were kind of caused by the wayside and in favor of a more nationalistic stance but he's going to have to go back to some of his reform agenda in order to build and deliver on the dreams that the people want which is the development and i'd like to ask you more about that agenda but 1st we really just have to address the fact that i mean he has really run a very in do 1st. you know platform and a lot of people have been saying that that is increasing social tension in the

country what's your view. i think that is i think that's correct and that there has been like i said in stark contrast to the platform that he used last time there was a lot more of a hindu agenda this time around and certainly there are elements of the right wing that were emboldened as a result. the majority that the egypt he won last time will certainly be emboldened again and so that is there are trouble it's troubling to see that there has been a lot of division created in the lead up to these elections and one would hope that now that the elections are done that they can get back to more of a development agenda maybe that's the messaging we're seeing coming out of the prime minister he has been seen as a champion of the or you mentioned you know these proport policies that he's been running on including free medical insurance relief for distressed farmers but you know if we look at back at his track record so far how is he on helping the poor.

yes so in terms of what helps the poor so here at the center for strategic and international studies of the one chair in the lead up to the last elections we actually convened a group of stakeholders to look at what were the 30 most important economic reforms that the modi government would have to undertake in order to unleash the economic growth in the country you know hundreds of millions out of poverty and create jobs one thing that can be said from a very objective standpoint is that the movie administration actually only implemented 9 of those reforms and has 15 of them in various levels of progress but most of those reforms were actually not just in the 1st 2 years and he did undertake a lot of f.b.i. reforms which was bought a lot of money into the country in order to again create the business friendly environment that's required to create jobs and eradicate poverty but the question

is can he now deliver on the rest of the economic reform agenda and we were hoping to add more to that list of 30 for his 2nd term he has had major national visions or missions if you will address things like health care through them or the care program energy access for all i mean for the 1st time since the history of the of the modern nation state nearly every household is connected to electricity thereby hopefully providing electrons for productive use and job creation so these have been some big ticket items that have benefited the poor cooking gas is another another good example ultimately why do you think he's been so popular because i mean this is not the result that was expected in this election he wasn't expected to do this well. yeah yours truly is guilty as are many others that try to predict in terms of what his victory would look like i think most people thought that certainly would come back thanks to support of

a coalition that would win certainly because the opposition is just remains to remains an inspiring and we saw that as a result we saw that a number of the major. opposition candidates particularly the congress party did not win their seats. with weak opposition. we knew that he would be likely to win but i think many did not predict that the b j p would get an even bigger mandate i mean it's you know they don't even need their coalition partners to run the government. i think he has been quite successful. according to some analysts in sort of politicizing some level of identity politics i wouldn't say religion politics but certainly cost base politics in forging a new coalition that is going to be more difficult to manipulate by both major parties as well as regional parties and it's important to highlight that regional parties have played

a big role in india's governance and sort of king making over the last several decades that seems to be on the decline let's talk a little bit more about the gandhi family now because we know that they are actually one of big losers in this election gandhi losing his seat and pradesh. you know what does this mean now for that dynasty. i think one has to sort of face the music do some real enter introspection and one thought that they had been doing it you know post the previous election results but clearly that hasn't played out and you know they did have major victories in state assembly elections last november which kind of gave them a new lease you know they could breathe a little bit easier by winning state assembly elections and rajastan in the hindi heartland of mother for the nation and shot these guys but you know they installed leaders there that maybe didn't resonate with the electorate maybe they were more

part of the old guard and maybe it was seen as the dynasty family not choosing young fresh faces so there's there are some real questions that the party has to answer in terms of where its future really lies so much to chip away at in this election we thank you so much for giving us some perspective the casing from the center for strategic and international studies thank you. thank you. now voting has begun in elections for the european parliament to britain and the netherlands where the 1st e.u. countries to go to the polls voters across the bloc will be casting their ballots until sunday germany is also taking part but its best known political leader chancellor angela merkel has been conspicuous by her absence from campaigning w.'s chief political editor mahela found out why. europe's most powerful woman also used to be the poster girl for her conservative c.d.u. party in new elections but that history this time angela merkel

left the e p p's widely unknown top candidate monthly to be mostly out alone to face the public and it was merkel successor a c.d.u. party leader and a great cum combo of many already see as potential next chancellor it took on the heavy political lifting in the talks. in search of her ass conservatives right wing populists are not potential coalition partners we don't want to and we won't work with them. with nothing less than the future of europe at stake this raises the question where was. busy governing is the sort of answer within each of you summit in romania a climate dialogue in berlin and a trip to africa merkel focused on big picture politics. one of her few

appearances with the e.p. peace top candidate man was in croatia where she took a stance against nationalism. part 2 to small hatred chisholm and the e.u. aren't contradictions nationalism is the enemy of the european project we must make that clear in these final days ahead of the polls. the social democrat top candidate tells us merkel's absence is also a symptom of in a party divisions think it's honest that you have the european candidates on the in the campaign and not the national figures on the other hand you see that the conservatives are really split you have longer serving m.e.p. . insists there was simply a division of labor from chancellor and party leader share responsibility for the results no ducking away. and america land and it could come canberra know that their current division of power between the chancery and the party headquarters

can't last forever though publicly both say they are determined to continue until 2021 when merkel's final term as chancellor officially ends these e.u. elections will tell us more about the chances of getting it come to also succeed anglo-american or here in the chancery and about the stability of the current american led government itself but they're an important test for both. and let's get more now on that test we're joined here in the studio by the berlin correspondent for the economist venda lean radio welcome to the program hello why do you think meryl is seemingly sitting this one out i think it's a number of reasons but but in some ways i think she wants to leave the stage to who's probably going to be a successful husband has success as head of the party mrs kind. and i think maybe

she thinks it's good for you know not to play too dominant a row good form perhaps but i mean looking at the bigger picture here i mean there is so much at stake for europe in this election we have populous euro skeptic far right parties polling really well do you think that merkel is playing with fire. i'm not sure yes i think it's the most important election in the european union's history it is also the 2nd biggest democratic exercise in the wood off the india's election which is which is interesting just in terms of the sheer number of voters 100000000 voters participating so it is hugely important and the european parliament has gained in of putin's in the in the sink years. would not make such a different if she were more active at the moment yes she's still very popular but i think people want a new generation to take center stage so i think it's probably not such a big deal ok we have to talk about britain because they kicked off voting today.

there we can really see big gains for nigel per from raj in his pro rags it policy how do you see that influencing the dynamic in the european parliament we don't have results yet but niger for office is forecast to do well and it shows one thing is that the supporters of practice have not really changed their mind myself. as an opponent of franks i was obviously hoping that after 2 years more than 2 years people would change their mind that's not the case and so it's reflected in the results and if he's not going to win to come in 1st he's likely to do quite well with his new party you mentioned that this is the most important election that we've ever seen do you see any potential surprises here i think the thing with which people haven't focused on the off we talk a lot about the rise of populist party but i think it's a general fragmentation we've seen the rise of the demise of not the demise of let's say that the weakening of the old monolithic parties of the ones under the

umbrella of the e.p. piece of the center right or the s. and d. the center left these 2 big blocks are weakening but you have also so you have the greens you have the populists you have the the radical left rising and i think that's going to change the nomic of the european union and of the work is this going to become far more. political with with more for debates and maybe more interesting too it's been called the netflix's ation in fact of politics there's some sort of something for everyone you can pick and choose what you will would you agree with that assessment yes it's a flippant assessment but there is some truth to it and surely i think we will see a much more complicated europe a much more fragmented one with centrifugal forces eating away at something that was basically dominated by these 2 blocs the p.p. and the s.d. european commission president we know that potentially a german could be at the helm do you think that that's what we'll see. not certain the e.v.p. is likely to be the strongest party still so the center right and of course munford

way but it's candidate. so that would speak for him getting the job but i think it's not a done deal could you think the best candidate would be. difficult to say i think he's he's he's good he would be sol it's to have a real aton if no it would basically play though into the argument of nigel farage for example who says the germans are running the show here in europe absolutely and in that sense it be better if an historian read very strong kind of it being in or you know another country that has not played such a big role in the e.u. i agree with that because it feeds into his spent 3 and. for the economist thank you so much for joining us with i think us for having me. kenya is preparing for what could be a landmark ruling on the legality of same sex relations the country's highest court

is due to reveal its decision on whether a law dating from the colonial era of banning gay sex is legal or unconstitutional now observers say that if the ban is struck down it could have a ripple effect across africa expect ruling follows years of work and campaigning by. activists in kenya. the rainbow flag is a symbol of gay pride across the world but in kenya it's rarely seen flying. the national gay and lesbian human rights commission is one of the few places that displeases proud and it's here that the fight to repeal an anti homosexuals law in kenya is being fought the law it is somewhat vague given was taken from very very old laws which were previously formed from canon law so the law is very vague in its wording however what it intimate is that carnal knowledge against the order of nature that is same sex activities specifically

between males is criminal and shall be punished with up to 14 years in prison. the kind of high court was expected to give a ruling on decriminalizing homosexuality in february but the judgment was pushed back. it's very tense as one would expect it to be we've been waiting for this for a long time and with the postponement in february where obviously really hopeful that the courts will read and judgment and of course it will be in our favor. the l.g.b. to community is actually reaching the ruling and the public's reaction to it the lot is a big unknown can public opinion on this issue is really anyone's guess and that's because here in this country conversations about homosexuality or the queer community don't happen openly and one person is saying that violence is part of the problem. that person is telling what she wrote he hopes the upcoming court's ruling will encourage constructive dialogue it could set

a precedent for other countries that are trying to do to go down the do community. and i strongly believe it's the right thing to do and the right people can i ask him what it would mean to him personally if the courts ruled to repeal the law. what does it mean it would mean that. would be free to be yourselves. and i hope we'll be able as as a community in kenya as a queer community in kenya to be free to parity. of minorities and we have asked who are fighting to be recognized. at the national gay and lesbian human rights commission they're preparing for any outcome and they promise to stop fighting if this friday doesn't and operation. and i have the great pleasure now of being joined from nairobi by the activists that you just saw in there that he is kevin

much hero kevin thank you so much for joining us 1st of all and we'd like to ask you because you know as we've heard same sex relations could soon be legal in kenya this has been a hard fought battle how are you feeling today. or are. the 1st time i'm more hopeful than when their previous was for many in february i'm really hopeful that this will be good for the country. tell us a little bit more about what you do and what other activists have gone through basically to get the country to this point. this is going to be. with. the national really human rights commission. report this week discussions and.

that has taken place when i came back to kenya almost 18 years ago this is a question that we have and within the movement about. this we thought is impossible 5 that we do our. own time. through. the way. to get to where we are is so for me sticking with 10 years and i'm really really proud of the organizations that have. come out of the closet. tell us because we heard in that report that basically this is really not an issue that is discussed in kenyan society when you've gone out there and you've been having these conversations quite openly what is the reaction that you have encountered i mean are you experiencing opposition are you experiencing silence or are you experiencing support.

so you've won a war says kenya's. silence nationality silence and in some cases we do get on our silence or a light launch in 24 people who are for it who are created and there are people who just went quiet obviously there is or position to read but i think people are afraid to come out. in support of the movement because there is that guilt by association unfortunately people are afraid of that and that. is the biggest thing as an anti business woman who we want to highlight as you on our friends and i want my hands on my friends to come out in public but for some people there is that. thinking standing up for us and. i'm really hoping that they also get to. this is this is important this is

important not just for us as a special minority as a minority group or for the country we're also speaking with and as you we've mentioned earlier i mean it could be quite a big day coming up you know aside from that what more do you think still needs to be done. i think. you're getting people. to. gender characteristics and language. for me. to morrow is an opportunity for us to end. our old explaining to people. their genius are. actually trying. to educate people about. sexual characteristics and social sexual different issues thank you so much

for joining us with that perspective kevin much errol joining us from kenya where as we have heard the country is preparing for what could be a landmark ruling on the legality of same sex relations we appreciate. you. the day is done i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks for watching. to move.

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. the. place. to play. this is deja vu news live from berlin exit poll results from the netherlands after the 1st day of the european parliament elections populist and anti immigration candidates were expected to do well against their traditional conservative and labor counterparts but we will tell you about an apparent touch surprise. also coming up in the run to a modis hindu nationalist party the b j p into players victory in india's elections early results show them handing heading for and increased majority.