the dreams coming through making money, having a son with non falls injunction stuff. december 13th on d. w. the. this is dw news line from berlin, gunner selections to get underway today and go to the polls to elect a president and parliament amid widespread discontent. over soaring prices, we'll hear what people or demand the i'm mike local, welcome people in gunner or voting in a general election described by one candidate as a defining moment for the nation. the poll is largely a contest between the current vice president my mood of bummed me out of the ruling

. new page roddic party, and john jermanti, bahama of the main opposition national democratic congress party, who was previously present in from 2012 to 20. 17. gunnar is one of africa's most stable democracies, but as dw edith kamani report to the country is currently suffering the worst economic crisis in a generation of the she's the picture of a successful gimme and business woman. but julia lobby can't afford any luxuries. despite the blistering cra heat, she keeps her fond of utility bills, a soaring, and as a primary provider for her family. she must carefully balance conflict and survival . like many in gunners, middle class disposable income has shrunk. i'll be there lots of sacrifices where, but i need to buy myself a pair of shoes. i need to buy myself, maybe a car to boost my business to do something. but at the moment you can't do that. so

i may have to use my personal cost to run my business, run my personal life, the price of gonna families are struggling, high inflation, currency depreciation, and mounting national debt have tightened. the group and middle class households pushing more people into poverty as a country heads into its next elections. to presidential candidates joined my hama and my home with the but with me at each claim, they have the solutions to fix the economy. the top concern among voters here that when and where the living conditions have been harsh these days. even if you work hard, what do you earn as income? can't sustain you long as it's a struggle. i'm just when i put that, why would you put entry? and many businesses, a barely surviving, like juliet's serial factory. she tells me supply costs keep rising. a work has also faced high a bills at home, but julia can't afford to raise the pay. instead,

she sometimes offers free food to take home julia some other grease works, the corn meal. she's here to help her daughter out, but she doesn't really have a choice. a farming google gun no longer produces an income. she can live on a new one without my daughter who's always pushing hard to keep us in business. it would be difficult for me and also for other workers to model 14. honda and cutting back is what many canadians are forced to do right now. even those who are highly educated lament that this skews a stick to mismatched for what the job market clues and at least up to mid says for political leadership is partly to blame for governance, economic troubles, of course mismanagement, despite the ritz carlton is 5, the re lock of 4 sides of the leadership based on the lack of a long term planning. there's also another um, excessive fight design for this gap. i advise you,

sir. i was concerned for us the due date and time of the like many in gunners middle class struggling to hold on, hoping for change to them. the choice of who to elect is more than political. it's about personal survival. let's get more on this from our correspondent edicts kamani in across who filed of course, that report it is. what's the mood at the polling stations? well, the mood is very electric at the moment. it's not so it wasn't this way when we 1st started looking at the polling stations, but many of them that we visited, look quite similar to where we are. this one is quite unique because it's right in the middle of the street. but this is not unique to gonna be do like the process to be very transparent and open to the public as to what people do is they get to the register where they verify that they are indeed in the register. and once that's done, they've been moved onto the voting with which again,

in the full glare of the people, it's only when they get into the, the actual thing, but then they get the big, get some level of privacy and be found desmond here who go to a disappointing station and does what i just want to ask you how the process works for you. oh, the process is very smooth. there's no must price is trace. so as like, taking the staves is very cool income. so i'm a show at the end of the day that will be 3 fate and before the lesson. all right, you seem to be very confident that the election is going to go off without a hitch, but i knew you were saying, but you're surprised a bit on that. many people. yeah. is because this place used to be a very busy place but to day looking at it and now it's just like people are not coming much to with but maybe at the end of the day they will come ok. thank you very much. those moaned, well, may be more people to know to the afternoon, but the situation as is, is that people are slowly trickling and certainly a lot at stake. their edith, let's dive a little bit deeper into the main issues. driving people as they cast their votes.

by most accountants, it appears to be the economy. and do you, this is a new kind of go 10 steps here without somebody telling you how difficult life has become for them. and part of that is because of the current regime and the president a couple i the went on and checked the borrowing. and that meant that a lot of people here who do give the investments to the government, other ones who are left looking at the empty coffers, is the story of a famous businessman. who said that the lack of re payments by the government to he was killing him and he did indeed pass the way up to her. yeah. so there's a lot of pressure being exhausted on families. there's a lot of pressure being exerted on individuals and businesses, and that is a main concern for them today. the. what are the candidates promising well, president of, or rather vice president my how much do, but will me a, has very little to say about the economy is very difficult for him to defend what

has been happening over the last 8 years when he has been at the helm, instead, he's offering to digitize the economy, saying that things are going to progress into, you know, the 1st industrial revolution on his part from a president of john my how my says that he was a 24 hour economy on his billboards. he's saying that he will create the gun that that's going and once with that's going to happen is obviously going to be known as of the day. and our thanks as always do what you did kamani in across south korea's problem and is set to vote on impeaching president human circle after he declared martial law on tuesday. this comes just hours after you and appeared in a televised address apologizing for the public. anxiety caused by his declaration. thousands of people have gathered and sold to protest the head of the impeachment vote. the motion is being driven by the opposition coalition, which folds

a majority in parliament, but ruling party. lawmakers have said they will oppose the manager. earlier i spoke to journalists probably in questionnaire in sol. i asked them about the impeachment vote and president humans party not supporting the move so um, for this impeachment motion to pass to be successful. it needs a 2 foot my majority uh, within the apartment and in the national assembly you have $300.00, the seats and uh roughly $192.00 are um in the hands of the opposition parties, the main opposition party and all the minor opposition parties but that means that you need 8 or 9 members of the ruling party to also vote and save of the emotion that it will pass. and now the ruling potty chief has said that they want to oppose this motion. but it doesn't mean that every member, every parliamentarian of the routing policy will actually follow that order. i

think that remains to be seen. but actually some members of the opposition have already mentioned that it will be hard to get to the necessary majority of 2 thirds for this bill to day. but actually that would not mean an end to the attempt to impeach president doing so. going because the opposition, it's very likely even in that case, is it very likely to try again and that could be another attempt in the coming days . so it's really very open right now. how the vote will turn out to be. so there's a little drama on top of the political drama here earlier. you apologize for imposing martial law, but didn't resign. what can the public expect? yeah, so the public is really um, i mean that is not giving him any more support. if you look at the numbers than most of the south koreans actually want to use out of office, there was a lot of concern that you wouldn't put the democracy here at risk. that it was an

unresponsive, like really not a good behavior by him to dekalb martial law. you still have some support us. they are actually gathering dust behind beads in downtown solar and they still support you. so the only, but the majority of demonstrators today are gathering and go you to in front of the parliamentary building and also in downtown. so a little bit west of you and the organizers of this demo are actually expecting of around 200000 demonstrators. this number is not yet to be, it's not yet confirmed, but it is really, i mean the amount of them on straight us that we're seeing today is actually really quite large for avi and give us a, a sense of the procedure that will unfold here. what happens in the upcoming moment and then what are the next steps after the vote? yes, so it's if the motion will not pass, if it is not successful, then probably the opposition will try again in the coming days. but if this

a motion vote passed, if the impeachment most of the successful, then that means that the case will be referred to the prosecutor and then they will investigate and will the site. and at least from previous experience, the f. one of the former presidents was also um, impeached, and that took actually almost half a year if i remember correctly. so it's not expected that there will be a final decision in the coming days, but rather in the coming months. i mean let me just briefly am at that in the meantime, present june. so if you all but not to have will not keep us paula. it will be the prime minister who will be in charge for the meantime. ok, thanks for adding that on. file being pressure on top of what is clearly a dynamic situation there in so many, many decks we should mention. it's not the 1st time military rule was imposed in south korea. the last dictatorship ended in 1988 and remains fresh in many people's memory. a conversation in south korea grab the soldier's rifle. after the

imposition of marshal the images have already gone viral will no doubt play a role when it comes to writing the history of what happened on december. the 3rd 2024. the events of that day closed insecurity around the clue. many will lead us with taking a back that such turmoil could erupt in a country where they just seemed to democracy this family and could thousands of south koreans also move to pretest. many still remember the most recent dictate to ship. some of that they said the nation could be on the verge of returning to the past. for many, a painful period. it was only after this man was forced to step aside after mass demonstrations in 1987. that democracy became established in south korea. military dictator chung,

do one seized power after sending soldiers tanks onto the streets of sold in 1979 to this late to accused him a violent list of pressing and uprising in the city of glen jews and a time that the haunted survivors for years south korea's 1st successful code took place decades earlier at the start of the 1961 of the dictates of talk to him. he rode the country for nearly 20 years before being assassinated by his spike chief in 1979 to several years after a previous attempt in his life mistakenly killed his wife. the port name became associated with control to see once again in 2017 when the dictates his daughter and south korea's 1st female president. pox getting hey was impeached and imprisoned. the corruption of or offenses yet many so her removal and the

application of the rules of law as a testament to the maturity of south korea's young democracy. and in another twist, it was the current president used to p o who was a prosecute at the time. i played a key role in pox imprisonment and who now faces an uncertain future are you there? i mean board for hovel we and some other stories making news at the moment, syria and revel say they have seize control of the southern city of dora. birthplace of the 2011 uprising against president bush, all assad in the north rebels are now closing in on the city of homes. taking homes would bring them a step closer to capturing the capital damascus. in the united states, new york police now believe with a gunman who killed the ceo of a major us health ensure has left the city, the f. b. i is offering a $50000.00 reward for information leading to his arrest,

public reaction to the killing. it has exposed deep frustration with america's health care system and will be back after a short break and you'll be watching sports liability control the the one of mankind's oldest ambitions to be within reach. what do you see? it really is possible to reverse the researchers and scientists all over the world for you know, race against time they are peers and what.