for now swati molly was hunger strike has resonated with many angry at what they see as government inaction and a failure to protect the country's women and girls. here in germany all eyes today are on the western city of east boston where the struggling social democrats are meeting to elect a new leader for the first time a woman will be taking charge since both candidates are female the party's parliamentary leader and is running against the longer she's the mayor of the northern city of flint sports nonis widely expected to win the forty seven year old faces a huge chance in reviving have parties dwindling fortunes the s.p.d. had its worst election result last september winning just twenty point five percent of the national vote. standing by for us at the espy's party conference in v. spot and thomas sparrow political correspondent thomas nonis as i mentioned very likely to be the next social democrat leader she's well known of course here in germany not so abroad is that about to change is she going to how big is her role going to be from now on. it is certainly going to be big christop

for now swati molly was hunger strike has resonated with many angry at what they see as government inaction and a failure to protect the country's women and girls. and we can bring in our correspondent d.w. sonia found a guy who is in delhi so any of the indian cabinet approved the death penalty for child rapists today after an emergency meeting called by the prime minister narendra modi why the rush on this now and what does it mean. you're right i mean it is really rushed and this is literally the most of the meeting of course within literally hours of prime minister narendra modi returning today from his fight the trip abroad so that really underlines how urgent it was and i think you know the background to this is that the government of the ruling elite of the party compliments criticism and is on the intense fire for failing to do what many say is trying to do an architect of crimes against women there's also been a lot of international criticism by mr never in of all the compared to fix criticism over his dealings response to the problem and you know this is basically focused on two l