in their country and inspiring with belly africa, watching no w documentary. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a head on train, collision in greece killed at least 36 people. police are now investigating what caused 2 trains to crash and burst into flames between athens and felony. he more than 50 people are seriously injured, and that death toll is likely to climb. also coming up, nigeria has

a new president elect ruling party. candidate, viola to new book is declared the winner of last weekend's election. but opposition party. you say that the vote was a sham and are demanding a re run ah, i many cubes. mcclendon. thank you for joining us. at least 36 people have been killed in a head on train, collision in greece, and more than 50 others are being treated in hospital with serious injuries. greece is transport minister has resigned in the wake of the accident. lee say they've arrested and charged a station master in the nearby city of larissa. the man is denying any wrong doing and has attributed the accident to a possible technical failure. it was just before midnight when the 2 trains collided. authority,

se both were traveling on the same truck for several kilometers before hit to each other. had dawn at high speed, the force of the impact was so strong that the front to carriage is that the passenger train, who almost completely destroyed while several others were derailed and engulfed in flames. emergency teams and rescue crews worked through the night. and in the thick smoke, searching for survivors scouring each broken carriage by torchlight for signs of life. and the bodies of those killed in the crash, many of whom a thought to be university students. around 350 people were bought the service from athens to the northern city of felony key at the time. those who escaped with their lives describe the chaos when the 2 trains collided. but i'm a girl,

obama. we heard a big bang like it was 10 nightmarish seconds, unable to get it, and were thrown around in the wagon, eventually falling on our side. so from a busy, the commotion stopped, and there was panic. cables everywhere. amazon has one of course, go over, the fire was everywhere. you love, it was unable to get as we're rolling. we're burning if what you have, if i was everywhere at the video, like i thought, yes, we landed a fire up. did right next to was made this man his or whole, we managed to get out through there. all of we was specialist equipment has now been deployed to how clear the deborah and the greek prime minister who later visited the scene as vow to find out what happened in the problem with what we are experiencing today. his very, very difficult as a country. here we are talking about an unspeakable tragedy from

our thoughts to day a 1st and foremost with the relatives of the victims. from what our duty is to treat the wounded. and from there to identify the bodies. cooper and the one thing i can guarantee is we will find out the causes of this tragedy. and we will do everything in our power to make sure it never happens again. let me transfer people to her the government has announced 3 days of national morning as an investigation gets under way and to walk cause this crash has already been described as the worst train accidents in greek history. so were there any warning signs for this crash of potential safety issues on the great railway system? we put that question to michelle is buddhist director of behind like both and asian think tank in felony. unfortunately,

one cannot say that this was completely unexpected. it said from the very beginning, the largest, around with room for possible doings and all trained personnel are now working with systems without any traffic lights on the 3rd a system is using a ton of traffic lights, and this is also one of the reasons why on february, the european commission decided to refer to the court for fame, a single man, we are active. and i mean, just right now with the fact that it was fire 2017. the national company was sold for just 4 to 5 years back and then a lot of major reforms, not

a lot of the major investment company ever since. and today. ready with once the market for the country development, 19th century with failures as is not on the to carry a safety. but it's also carrying just one percent of the goods that are going through the country each year. so we're going to be talking about walter 3 that was mitchell as good as director of the hind rush, both hunt ation and fair salon nicky. now my dear is electoral commission has declared bala to new boot president elect. he was the candidate of the ruling. all progressives, congress policy, but the labor policy led by peter o. b says it will mount a legal challenge against to news election. the electoral commission and nigeria

said mr to new 18800000 votes, while his main challenger a t q, a car took almost 7000000. the labor parties, obee, one just over $6000000.00 votes. he proved a popular candidate for young voters, but turn out was just 29 percent with technological glitches undermining trust in the voting process. now the labor party will challenge the votes, legitimacy t w's, america acoya joined us earlier from nigeria is commercial capital lagos. and i asked her, of the opposition's challenge means that there's a lack of confidence in the election process as a whole. absolutely like you did mention, there is just lack of trusts, you know, dangerous, are now express in, in the credibility of the process, particularly when we're started collation of the results and the results we have not been applauded in record time on the portal and that delay also,

people began to show figures there was not corresponding with what the electra body was projected across board ad nigerians particularly say look, we got, we came out and we have the fear goes from pauline unit on it. and also confirming that he have figures from polygons that does not represent, you know, what was projected. so there is almost a few like that national outcry, especially, you know, from different parties and different people, different sets of niger and same. this process is not credible at all, you know, the trust. there's no trust also in the technology which a lot of people had placed their hope. especially young people that you mention that for once, you know, technology is going to work in this election. but unfortunately, that has proven not the case and that has shown as a level of mistrust in the process. and people i see, you know what this election is, is, shall, the should be, you know, a constellation of the whole result. i like you did mention in parts, is like labor party already going to court and say into wants to seek redress the new legitimately. and to see that these election for you know,

something has to be done really this. it's not representative of what the people are one said if you like hannah is so is something going to be done. i mean, are the election authorities taking the accusation seriously? i suppose that's a very crucial question. you know, even before the final announcement of the results, where when party agents begun to revolt under protest to said no, this is not correct. there are a lot of inaccuracies. there are things that are not adding up, especially the figures and the procedure and a lot of complaints the electoral body, the head of the letter body. if i decide you know, you can go to court, you can seek redress in the court of law. but so far, that's what we know, that's what they've said, but there is really no firm as does in terms of saying, okay, these are the solutions. as i did practical things, i suppose the answer is, well, if you have a problem with this result, you can go to court, we meet in court and lead the court decide what is right or what is wrong. all right, it only is on michael coyer in lagos. thank you so much. let's take

a look now at some of the other news headlines from around the world. turkish president, wretch, hep type ada one has confirmed that general elections will be held on the 14th of may as planned as despite the disruption caused by the castle traffic earthquakes. in february, it was unclear whether organizing a pole would even be possible in the regions devastated by the quakes. she 20 foreign ministers gathering in delhi for a meeting expects it to be dominated by russia's invasion of ukraine and the economic challenges created by the war. the host, india says it hopes, climate change and debts in developing countries won't be overlooked. in the discussions, the german chancellor will have shot. it has promised to ramp up ammunitions productions to support ukraine. he made the statement after meeting with latvian prime minister, christiane is karen's for bilateral talks in berlin, chugs also reaffirmed nato's commitment to protect its territory. in the event of

an attack, georgia on those demonstrations in israel have blocked roads and railway lines to protest. a planned overhaul of the countries, justice system, critic say the changes by prime minister benjamin netanyahu is right when coalition government will weaken the role of the supreme court and undermine israel's democracy. netanyahu's pushed ahead with plans despite weeks of protest. now finland's parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of the country joining the western nato military alliance. the decision to and decades of finished neutrality came after the russian invasion of ukraine. the fiddler still has a few hurdles to clear before its membership can come into effect. dw correspondent terry schultz in brussels, explains the finished parliament, has just given its final approval to the country. joining nato,

an overwhelming show of support at a $184.00 votes in favor and just 7 against what has to happen next is for finished president. sell the meanest o to sign the exception protocol, and then for it to be deposited in washington after which time a finished flag can go up at nato headquarters. if another 2 things happen 1st and those have to take place in budapest and on kara hungry and turkey are the only remaining allies that have not approved finish in swedish membership. the hungarians haven't said so much about why they've been lagging behind, but the turkish shortish groups that president wretched type air to one considers enemies, especially the p k. k, which is considered a terrorist organization in all european countries. of course, the linens we've included, but in suite in this group is very visible holding demonstrations flying, it's flex and so air to want is not willing to let sweden join nato until it does more to stop this. finland, meanwhile, air to one says may just be allowed to join in the near future. and so,

while the swedish government is not at all happy about this and does not want to be left behind, this is in fact what we're likely to see possibly in the next few weeks is to the u . s. now an n b, a superstar. coby bryant's widow is set to receive nearly $29000000.00 from the county of los angeles. the power comes after police shed graphic images of the helicopter crash, in which kobe bryant and his daughter died in 2020 vanessa bryant claims the pictures were taken and shared though, quote, no reason. other than that gossip california has since passed to state law, prohibiting 1st responders from taking unauthorized pictures of people who die at the scene of an accident. and civil news. france is mourning. the loss of one of its greats used to have fun. 10 in the 1958 world cup fun, 10 scored 13 goals for france. that the record that still stands today on 10 was

instrumental in helping the french squaw to reach the semi finals of the tournament in sweden, a prolific strike. he was once named as one of pallet's greatest footballers, and as a coach, fontaine helped patty sandra mount, gain promotion to the 1st division that was back in 974. he was not 89 years old when he died. this is dw news from berlin and his reminder of our top story today. great police have arrested a rail official from the city of larissa, tops after a head on train, collision killed at least 36 people. dozens was seriously injured when the trains collided between athens and festal. nikki, late on tuesday, and paula to new booth, nigeria is ruling all progressives. congress policy has been declared, president elect off to the electoral commission, said he'd won all an 8 and a half 1000000 votes. for the 2 main opposition parties are calling for

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