could truce between hootie rebels and the saudi m. iraqi back yemeni government the monitors won't wear uniforms or have weapons the initial deployment will be for thirty days it's hoped this will lead to an eventual breakthrough in the civil war. at least fifteen people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in somalia's capital the injured reportedly include the deputy mayor for security and a member of parliament and one of the explosions targeted a security checkpoint near the presidential palace katia lopez reports. the first car bomb exploded at a military checkpoint soldiers and civilians among the dead. moments later the second explosion also a car bomb bodies were scattered on the street just a few hundred meters from the somali presidential residence in mogadishu the go out while the getting's good i was at the scene of the attack first i saw a vehicle driving back and forth and we tried to stop people walking here and there

and then within the blink of an eye the vehicle exploded causing havoc. police say government officials have been travelling in the area earlier in the day now the road is covered with charred cars and debris we know explosion today up in mogadishu somali capital and the first to explosion was your suicide bomb and try to get to a secure point. in the national. somali but eventually and then it got local who surely was stationed in the area and it is a very good abilities. mogadishu is often targeted by the al qaeda linked group al-shabaab its members want to dislodge the government and impose islamic law the group maintains a foothold in some regions of somalia that was forced mogadishu in two thousand and eleven. thousands of somalis have died in this divisive decade long battle many of them civilians. this little young al-jazeera also ahead on al-jazeera

when we come back a state of emergency and more school closures in sudan where anger is growing and brian price was thank you meet. the. emotions run high as the drawing of the richest in the world. hello again welcome back to well let's start this hour here across parts of the vod we have seen some choir days and that's going to continue over the next few days that's some good news there but the temperatures are a little bit cooler take a look at these temperatures here on sunday tehran is going to only get to about ninety degrees there not too many clouds on the forecast map but coup at nine in kuwait city winds are coming out of the northwest so we don't think you're going to

get above twenty if that and as we go towards monday pretty much the same forecast for you there well here across the gulf we are looking at summer a big cooler conditions for the overnights and of course the daytime highs only getting to about twenty two here in doha as we go over towards abu dhabi though maybe a few clouds in your forecast here on sunday but looking a little bit better as we go towards monday most got a nice day if you are twenty four in salalah is looking quite nice also at about twenty seven degrees well down here across parts of the southern reaches of africa we have some clouds down here along the southeastern part of africa making their way towards durban a few showers could be a problem there but we are watching a psych load here in the indian ocean that is going to bring some very heavy rain possibly to mauritius not making landfall there but we will be watching as it passes towards the east as we go towards monday afternoon some war heavy rain across parts of madagascar with a temperature of about twenty eight degrees. kidnappings

amandas in crimea since russia's four stanek station of the black sea. i don't understand why it was called now. schools of crimea into towns have been arrested. most believe by russian security forces. crimea russia's as he secret on al-jazeera. well again you're watching i just see a reminder of our top stories this hour the top u.s. official in the fight against isis has quit over president donald trump's sudden

decision to pull troops from syria brett mcgurk departure follows the resignation of defense secretary james mattis who had opposed withdrawing from syria and cutting the u.s. presence in afghanistan a partial shutdown of the federal us federal government has began after politicians failed to end their dark deadlock over spending trump refused to back down on funding for his border war forcing the congress to adjourn without a budget deal. the head of the u.n. team tasked with monitoring a cease fire in the city of data has arrived in yemen on friday the security council vote to send observers to oversee the truce between the rebels and the saudi and iraq backed yemeni government. at least ten people have been killed in sudan in protests against the rising cost of food and fuel schools and universities are closed in the least five states cities of bata and get out of the state to

right now under emergency rule inflation is at seventy percent among the highest in the world. at the head of the sudan opposition party and maddy says their positive about the protest movement a good motive for our party reiterate is support of the demonstrations by the masses who have taken to the streets the party has released a statement to that effect and you can rely on the contents of such a statement regarding any talk of a compromise i see no we are now talking about what we need to call a new regime a new system a new structure that will be in nationalist model to follow. a driver has died in a car crash at a roundabout block by so-called yellow vests protesters in southern france it is the six saturday of rallies they were triggered by rising fuel prices the turnout in paris now appears to have dropped significantly after the government canceled

the new taxes but many kept up traffic destructions to protest president emanuel micron's other economic policies burn a smith is with the protesters in paris. this has been an all day protest march nonstop through the street. from. the right on. the day they've been away. to call them all away as police try to block various groups as low as for the have been a couple of support from the stations but they all of us protestors have wanted it to be peaceful and they try to make sure that everybody has stayed on the right side of the law there are about a thousand people left this time of the day number similar to last week and many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual from how to make they say they don't go far enough they're too little too late and they will keep protesting right into the new year. one hundreds of people

have taken part in the funerals of four palestinians killed on friday by the israeli army mourn. as gathered in garza for the burial of the men who were killed in protests against the israeli and egyptian blockade palestinians have demonstrated at the border every friday since march. the palestinians say they feel increasingly frustrated and helpless living in the occupied west bank they say it is made worse by a greater israeli military presence stephanie decker reports from ramallah. it's been especially tense few weeks in the occupied west bank palestinian shootings in israeli incursions have killed people on both sides palestinians tell us they have not seen this amount of israeli soldiers on the streets of ramallah in years is the seat of power for the ruling palestinian authority and supposedly under full palestinian security control it's outage an already pessimistic atmosphere. what's

needed is that the palestinian authority stop security coordination with the israelis stop working together we don't benefit anything where a lost people in the situation has become very bad every time i come to. it's so hard to reach checkpoints all over the road so the traffic is a nightmare we hope that the world will do something to change this political situation a recent poll across the occupied west bank and gaza indicate that almost two thirds of palestinians want the resignation of president mahmoud abbas and other shows it increasing support for how math particularly off the mouth of the escalation here in the west bank and also in gaza and the poll also suggests that the idea of an armed intifada as opposition to the occupation is gaining support that's moving away from diplomatic negotiations. carried out the survey he says the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas are facing increasing questions about

their credibility the lack of palestinian unity between the rival political groups fatah and hamas is a major issue significant. for the lack of progress on the reunification of its most of the public to blame the pm two to one the blame is being placed on the bars on the rob a ban on hamas this is a significant change from the past in the past most of the blame was being put on hamas most people here say that if palestinians were united they would be stronger to deal with israel everybody hoping for beast but you know everybody knows the other side is very strong very strong every time we come a closer to make abuse than they stop it excuses all the time they have excuses our view were they are ready for peace but the other side are not ready you see the smile is seventy six years old and has lived in the ramallah all his life. in the palestinian authority to is controlled by israel just like us they should be

a sovereign palestinian state every time the israeli want to read the terms they go in they go out they do what they want. as another year draws to an end palestinians say they seem to be moving further and further away from their hopes of one day achieving their own sovereign state stephanie decker al-jazeera in the occupied west bank iran's revolutionary guards have conducted military drills in the strait of hormuz the passageway for nearly a third of all traded all traded by sea. on friday the iranian army trailed a u.s. aircraft carrier that entered the persian gulf iran is under increasing pressure from the u.s. after it renewed sanctions on iran over its nuclear program. appears to be tightening its grip on a region that has long opposed the government the eastern region of gorno but that sharon has its own culture and languages in the latest in his series from inside to

take a stand charles stratford reports from cog where the army was sent in after protests earlier this year. it takes fifteen hours to get to the town of cork the capital of the semi autonomous gorno but action region in eastern tells you to stand the broken road winds its way through the primary amounts of those bordering afghanistan the people here have long complained that demands for better infrastructure jobs and respect for their distinct culture are ignored by central government the mountains about it seana provided a natural defense against all those who tried to impose their wealth already on this region for centuries the chinese the russians the british all have struggled to control a people with a distinct culture a distinct identity and recent protests here in horror all suggests that the government intrusion bay is facing similar challenges even today the majority of go

no but actions approximately two hundred seventy thousand population. in september there were demonstrations against what protesters say has been gears of neglect and intimidation by the predominantly sunni muslim government. unemployment is estimated to be around fifty percent there are no major industries which could offer jobs. president and oman iraq a man whose roots as you can stand for more than twenty five years has banned opposition parties imprisoned political leaders and journalists and crushed any independent media across the country he's also criticized local leaders often described as warlords as well as regional government officials for what he sees as their failure to crack down on drug smuggling from afghanistan it's a national and she narcotics agencies say corrupt officials are involved. tons of heroin and opium a smuggled across the border every year. this government mind refused to let us

interview anyone on the streets and wanted names of anyone we had tried to talk to . we contacted one person by telephone and recorded disk on the sation. unleased say president is aware of the risks of a crackdown in gorno box on a region that accounts for almost half of to. which. the people of that action are easy to mobilize it's a conservative society it's enough to just call someone

a brother to him today and bring a thousand five hundred people from his village to support your thirty's no there's a risk of crossing a line that's what president rahmani scared of president sent the army into the region in two thousand and twelve off the bottom intelligence chief was stabbed to death around fifty armed men civilians and soldiers were killed in the fighting that followed the risk of renewed violence is testing the government again one that critics say has to be years relied on its intelligence services police and army to silence dissent. zero hawg tajikistan a change in hungary's labor laws is uniting both sides of the political divide it would allow employers to force people to work more over time and even delay payments for up to three years protesters are calling it a slave robin far as the a walker has moved from budapest. after ten days of public discontent hungary's

opposition hoped their president would think twice about signing two new laws they say will make their country less european and more like a dictatorship he signed them anyway this week so protesters marched to his palace to express their anger i don't know reality keep telling me that nothing is going to change my life we shall see. if there's a protest i won't be there the first floor of the opposition says will force hungry stretched workforce to work harder a second gives the government will control over the judiciary there is in direct pressure to do judges fear a bad atmosphere and the courts prime minister viktor orban has accused the protesters of being violent agents of the hunk arion liberal philanthropist george soros but on friday demonstrators with discipline and diverse agenda and movement

is no one behind nothing strange nor strange movements in all soros or just normal people pensioners students housewives star a sock sort of as a technique or bottle the government should take note that unions and parties and citizens and everybody else is demonstrating together and this is unprecedented but what's different about these protests is that this time for the first time. on both sides of the political spectrum you know it's it's in their criticism of victor government. hundred straight unions and now organizing the nationwide strike action the government hopes they will go home for christmas and for their robin first year walker al-jazeera for the past. now it's called el gordo the fat one and it doesn't get much fatter than two point seven billion dollars in total prize money as spain held its annual christmas lottery approved

a little too much for at least one of the children who got to call the list of prizes on live television. c.s.n. dan. thank. you. that's our prize for a winning ticket is four hundred fifty five thousand dollars but there are also plenty of smaller prizes two hundred year old lottery is ranked as the biggest in the world. are my friends you know it's a very special day i hope all we know and i'll spend it on holidays and i don't know on what else but also to pay off the mortgage. because you know you can win and today we're going to win because twenty nine hundred is our year our abundance and our moment. hello i'm the lucky bunny i'm going to win all the prizes.

this is going to round up of our top stories the top u.s. official in the fight against isis has quit over president donald trump's sudden decision to pull troops from syria brett mcgurk departure follows the resignation of defense secretary james mattis who had also opposed the withdrawal john hendren has more from washington. and he'd been in that position since two thousand and fifteen leading the fight against i so and i can tell you from having been on the ground in northern iraq with the kurdish and american forces working together that it's a close relationship and it's gone back for years mcgurk was embarrassed when trump announced the withdrawal of two thousand troops from syria by tweet last week at the time he was with masoud barzani the kurdish leader and he had just reaffirmed days before from the state department podium that the united states was committed to its role in syria and the us federal government has partially shut down off the

politicians failed to end the deadlock over spending president trump refused to back down on funding for his border war forcing congress to adjourn without a budget deal the impossible odds hundreds of thousands of federal workers facing christmas without pay the head of the u.n. team tossed with monitoring a cease fire in the port city of data has arrived in yemen on friday the security council voted to send observers to oversee a u.n. brokered truce where two explosions in somalia's capital have killed at least thirteen people suicide car bombers attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in mogadishu it's not clear who is behind the blasts. ten people have been killed in sudan in protests against the rising cost of food and fuel schools and universities closed in at least five states and cities of the bottle and get out of and the entire white nile states are on the emergency room protesters are angry at high inflation is running at around

seventy percent those are the headlines we're back with more off to inside story. he's ruled for thirty years but he's facing unprecedented street protests public anger is growing in sudan over rising food prices so the president omar al bashir survived what is the to offer and this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey sudan lost most of its oil reserves when the south seceded in two thousand and eleven ended a struggle to recover and rates have skyrocketed more than double the value of the sudanese pound its plunge protest against the worsening situation started on wednesday in the eastern region quickly spreading across the country into the capital khartoum the government of omar al bashir reacted to demands that resign by imposing curfews and state of emergency he morgan has where from khartoum. it's the fall of protests in sudan and today people have come out in the southern state of south kordofan they've burned down the ruling party's headquarters the national congress party's headquarters have been burned down to the ground and people are once again protesting the same thing they're protesting vacant on the crisis they're protesting the fact that there is no bread in bakeries and that the government is trying to increase the price of bread when there is no bread to begin with they also protesting the fact that they are they have to wait in line at and

a coup up at a.t.m.'s and banks to be able to access their own money and that they have to queue up at fuel stations to access fuel and also dance economic situation has been deteriorating rather quickly over the past few months in january the dollar was one one dollar to thirty pounds but this but today this morning it's nearly sixty seven it's snoozed if this were to move on to a dollar and for many people that is very very an affordable and it makes market prices go higher and make it makes it very hard for them to be able to feed their own for a million families this by the income that they earn it's now sudan's inflation right now is at seventy percent and and the government is saying that they're going to try to elevate the degree to try to ease for people they're going to try to make things easier for people and try to make sure that they have what they need so that they don't go out and protest and they also told the security forces not to use excessive force and nine people have been killed so far and dozens have been injured but the minister of information this morning also said that they are not going to tolerate people vandalizing things in the street that they're not going to

tolerate houses cars and shops being burned down to the ground and it's quite concerning and for too many rights groups such as amnesty human rights watch which of issued press statements saying that the government should not use excessive force to respond to these protesters now the protesters are very clear in their demands they want the government to go they want new economic reforms they want new economic policies that would simply make it easy for them to be able to afford daily goods and go on with their lives here morgan for inside story so who is omar al bashir he came to power in a military coup in one thousand nine hundred ninety. israel sudan with an iron fist since then he's been reelected president several times and most recently in two thousand and fifteen when most opposition parties boycotted the vote this government signed a peace deal to end the twenty one year civil war between north and south in two thousand and five and he oversaw the secession of south sudan into an independent state in two thousand and eleven faces to international arrest warrants and a travel ban on charges of genocide and war crimes and there are four region

despite this he's made several diplomatic visits and was the first arab leader to visit syria since the war began there. let's bring in our guest now from khartoum feisal mohamed salah a political analyst and former director of programs at the press here in doha. elephant a professor of politics at the doha institute and in oxford in the u.k. douglas johnson author of the book south sudan a new history for a new nation welcome to the program all of you faisal i want to start with you the focal point of these protests has been why was why there and why was this the breaking point well that is news to play mission but maybe the history of that had been the video long history of you to go. national. to one of the sudan then we. had quote there was any doubt but i.

see you where it is on the way does have a very long these three o p. part of the national movement and all of the union movement which started from arbor and i think a better preserve his history and was part of of all the struggles either during the colonization or even the national government when we had. dictators or military governments so that i think part of the history of call today to rezone was the rise of the food prices pushing the brit but that was all over the country but the start came from about ok let's talk about that yes there it seems at the tipping point was the rise in bread prices but talk us through a goddess to this point. for the first greetings to face learned their loss and i think the i know this. from barbara next door to add but i would say also

was the start of this. the established relations and for all for a while i think people have been really reaching tipping point in the sense that. the not only the prices but the the literacy of the government self and the way it has been dealing with the problems the insensitivity to be showy to the to the feelings and the people and. it has been sometimes provocative in its in its approach i mean only a couple of days ago the president was saying that we have to lift up the prices of of fuel that's all the solution and people at the end of their tether i mean they don't they can't even get their hands on the cash they have in the banks

and a lot of people for example when they go to hospital is also the government has done a lot for the health to destroy the health service if you go to a hospital even an emergency you have to pay in advance as a hospital and the people at the hospital would not accept except cash and i margin say in an emergency so you might have a dying child and the middle of the night when there's no banks open and they will say you have to pay for example ten thousand pounds or we won't even look at your patient so i think this combination of. of lack of cash lack of any people have low salaries but when they put their money in the bank they can get you thought you know that they what they should expect to be able to go get their money yes they expect you to come up with cash but where can i get cash in the middle of the night. if i have an emergency so i think this is this is only one

level of insensitivity the government has been showing they just are not listening to the people so this is something more than only bread or just fuel and cash but the people seem to see that this government is completely incompetent completely insensitive completely does not feel it's part of the country or the people ok i was only bring you into this when you listen to the conditions at our best describing and you say the protests were there were some sort of protests almost inevitable. well i think one of the things that is new here is that the protests have been right across the country. not just in the three terms of the capital. one of the things that has also emerged from the protest is is that in addition to mismanaging the economy in addition to our highly corrupt system of government you have an extremely repressive government you have

a national the national intelligence and state security will arrest detain and torture dissidents you will have the police going around shaving people's heads of hair off because they disagree of the supposed to be an islamic afros that people were supposed to be a voice of dissent or of a symbol of dissent people are arrested for brewing alcohol and killed in detention all of these things are bubbling up in addition to the fact that there are still wars being fought in the blue nile the nuba mountains in darfur and the government is spending money on the military and those wars rather than fixing the economy or the infrastructure of the country so ok all right i mean laid out quite a less there faisal the president omar al bashir. it seems that a lot of these problems are of his making actually the person to fix any of it i

don't think so they don't have the vision they don't have a plan and actually as a deterrent a fantasy the idea insensitive to the problem that people are facing as if they are not living with the people in the same continue the president actually behave as if there is no problem that he's very stable he's parties here will be in power and that there are some problems that can be dealt with after twenty twenty lection where he's no go just looking to twenty twenty and i think he. is maneuvering around he's also targeting twenty twenty lection and using all the government power all the government resources all the government organs just toward towards that goal of reaching twenty twenty election and when he appointed a new prime minister the new prime minister promised that he's going to solve the economic crisis but it appears that also they don't have any plan simply because it

is actually a political crisis more than an economic crisis you cannot solve the economic crisis without going part to the political crisis is looking to a political reforms as mr i don't want said we have war in three areas in sudan we have corruption and that is a political problem need to be dealt with before you are going to face the economic crisis and i think the government is insensitive to that the president himself they said whenever he's on t.v. or speaking to people in any event as if he's not feeling well the people is feeling so why is all is said that he's been insensitive and you also he's been insensitive to that but has he he's never really had his hand forced he can be insensitive to it if he chooses to. thus just probably his mistake is that if you sometimes people tolerate being slammed by people don't. give you

a chance for for various reasons because they're afraid of what might happen but i think here are stick in people yes he has taken people to a level where there is no hope. for a while for example people have been saying if only if the american sanctions were lifted then things will improve so the american sanctions were lifted lawsuits over but things actually got completely ruined and the worst. can i ask you about that too that's actually something i wanted to bring up that yes that the sanctions were lifted but sudan is still labeled a sponsor of terrorism and there's still so much baggage that comes with dealing with sudan even with the sanctions being lifted it seems that people still are afraid investors are afraid to interact with sudan well i think. the thing is that

when the sanctions were lifted especially in the banking sanctions that actually has led to the deliberation of the of the of the currency value. very fast and this might be actually a direct. consequence of that but in any case i think the government itself has been. as i said in art before it has been imposing sanctions on itself for example. as a sudanese person who cannot travel freely in and out of the country so a lot of sudanese ex-pats various don't want to go to sudan because if you go they take you very difficult to to come out so they could for example have counsel the exit visa for sudanese that would have improved things out of. the government is crushing and corrupt at the same time so investors do not actually

a problem is not the sanctions but the problem with that the government itself that if you are a investor you can move to the country first of all there's so much broker to care deals that will put you off but even then if you can. succeed in in dealing with that the officials will say if you have to give me this you have to give me part of them percent or so in a civil war how many people just get fed up so the government itself i think is the cause and the fact that the hopes have been. the hope of street. people have been saying ok this will happen this will happen this will happen but the last meeting of the of the ruling party they came out who has wanted to get the president reelected for twenty and the constitution to look at allow him to do that ok they want to i mean the constitution and this is not the concern of the people so the consent of the government seems to be sort of the difference or what the people me bring you into this is there a possibility that the president could actually be overthrown like where or where

is his support coming from. the situation is going to be very volatile because as. sudanese colleagues have pointed out people have now got no hope when they have nothing to lose then they can or the situation can develop in all sorts of different ways there are armed groups in sudan operating without too much support from from around the country but there could be a coalition of opposition that would emerge now the army is not entirely behind the government and of course the there are factions within the ruling party itself there could be. a coup would. be sheer he of course is not the only problem the problem is rooted in the n.c.p.

and in the structures of government but there has been a long history in sudan of people being willing to turn to the army or to a faction of the army to remove an incompetent to a corrupt or oppressive government of course that hasn't always resulted in an improvement but. there is the opportunity when if a government is overthrown and removed there is the opportunity for a new coalition of political interests to try to set the country to derogate the army isn't. proved to be the best. of politics as we've seen after all bashir came in with a military coup but there is the possibility whether it's likely or not i really don't know faisal i'd like your thoughts on that do you think that that there

really is a possibility that the government could be overthrown. yes i mean there are many expected to see not use of course the demonstration could go on and then maybe this is one nine hundred sixty four and one nine hundred eighty five so you know you repeated again that the military intervene not just as ability to shoot a boy civilians for shorting to rebuild that have been again twice in the history and it was only one year in three videos and then they have an election and they hand them over to this if you didn't but also one of the scenarios other than expected that the interest groups around the president could sacrifice the president to protect their own interests and they could try to portray that to the people as if this is a real change that they have trouble the president and of course also the total collapse of the country repeating the libya yemen and so money you know he was also

expecting the absentee not you which you can be asked why he's not here within this you know it was that the government could use forms wasn't really to the people to months and and the government go for a real political reform because there is no any signals no indication that the government would do that there was militant suntans in terms is if the government want to do that the national dialogue was one of them unfortunately they were not serious thought of that so hard would there ever mean it the way files of the site are laid out that the government really isn't open to changing but is there any possibility that for their survival they would have to be open to the opposition in some way madi opposition figure he is back in sudan is there any chance of that ever happening. i think that. i for me the government has already fallen from what i look at at the moment there has never been even in the. sixty four and

eighty five there hasn't been this level of uprising i mean you knew only a week and there was. the with as i said a few in the in the outside but they were not the pressure now we have people really in revolt. and so what the government is doing now at the moment to survive a shoot at people so more victims and this more anger in the people. this is if this continues then we are facing a very dark scenario already in this evolved there is a hint of populism. the voices from many from young people angry sometimes from the periphery all of them don't want to have to this not only in the government but also in the opposition more tweets and facebook attacks on

the and the other opposition leaders than the government or no it's not equal so we are the people there is not one revolt. tens of revolts very similar to the syrian scenario where every town has its own uprising so i think what what is what what is me is that if the army doesn't move quickly enough to remove or bashir i don't think anybody and i will to rest of this year with any reforms he has given he has his chances he has been actually setting all reform i mean the only way for for him to go now. yes let me let me bring back into this for for just a moment doug what other countries could have some sort of influence in this. this is this is i think it's a mistake to think that external countries can have any real influence on what is

a very serious so internal problem it's a matter of in fact several serious internal crises that have not been resolved i think that many of sudan's neighbors are going to be very nervous about what is happening. right now the western countries like the u.k. and the united states have very different interests in the u.k. well first of all the u.k. government can do nothing while it's in broiled in this breck's it vate and the only interest they seem to have in sudan is to stop the migrants coming to europe and in that case they seem to be quite willing for a repressive government in khartoum to be in power the united states where we don't know what the u.s. has any policy could be changed by a telephone call between president trump and his friend mohamed bin selman. so i don't think you can look to external intervention or external influence to bring

anything to an end one of the problems with the u.s. proposing to lift sanctions on the khartoum is that there has been an insistence on an improvement of the human rights situation and in the particular in insistence on the improvement of religious freedom this isn't happening so. certainly there are voices in congress that will prevent the united states from really. trying to throw a lifeline to to be sheer but whether there will be anything in the coming out of the us that would have a positive impact on the internal politics of sudan i doubt that very much at this point as a what do you say is happening next. sit down. again and they said all the scenarios are expected. it depends on if the protests

continue and i think they well i expect. i think i mean to do for cost because it is not the working days whodunits not like yesterday did not like the deal before. new it is actually there is a demonstration in new cities in the north called the fun again in my denny. again how to miss a beat car converting with was yesterday but is expected to be in the knives and i think all scenarios are expecting. also you know it's not subjective the only one i expect is you know who is a positive response from the government of these again as i said to the people to my unfortunate until hob how do you see this playing out do you think that these protests will continue and perhaps even escalate i think it's looks like. the government is trying probably to play the cards of the fact that violence is

involved in this. especially burning a lot you know from forty's this might scare the middle classes of course. a bit. already not very uneasy with this the fact as i said that the the people who are leading the revolution and the useful radicals who do not have trust in the elite as a whole might play a part but i think the anger no which we've seen is unprecedented and less from seeing the radical and drastic is done by the government like sidelining and bashir and getting a national unity government for example. the army is most likely as we have seen the last light said the army has long been a hundred percent behind the government in this ok and and so one of the snidely was you that the army would do what it what was being done in egypt and get rid of

the president and then we see how it goes from there all right it is certainly a volatile situation and we appreciate you weighing in on this all of you. fondly and douglas johnson thank you gentlemen and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time if you visit our web site al-jazeera dot com you can also join the discussion on our facebook page facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story and you can join the conversation on twitter our handle as a.j. inside story for me richelle carey and the entire team i for now.

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forces out of syria. we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we can do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes the u.s. senate's refusal to fund donald trump's border wall leads to the third government shutdown this year plus and then within the blink of an eye the political exploded causing. more than a dozen people killed during two car bomb attacks in somalia as captain. you just normal people pensioners students how the housewives pressured to change what they're calling the slave law mounts in hungary thousands protest the bill forcing workers to do more overtime. the u.s. president donald trump is dealing with another high profile departure over his decision to pull troops out of syria this time america's envoy to the global

coalition against i so brett mcgurk has quit in his resignation letter he said i saw we're on the run in syria. not yet defeated as the president believed will go follows defense secretary jim mattis out of the administration he quit on thursday telling president trump he had a right to have someone at the pentagon whose views were better aligned with his chums decision this week to pull all two thousand u.s. soldiers out of syria has rattled the s.d.f. a kurdish led force american troops have been supporting they too say the war against eisel has not ended all mark kimmitt is a former assistant secretary for political military affairs under president george w. bush is in our studio in washington thanks very much for being with us so just because a lot of people may not have heard of brett mcgurk and the job that he did dare ask

how how how big a loss is he to the to the administration and where did he he he stand in all of this well first of all i think it's important to note that bret was plainly been to leave by the end of february anyways i think he left early because of his disagreements with the president he has worked this portfolio since about twenty fifteen he and i served together in iraq in two thousand and three he has continually been on the iraq desk so to speak since twenty three is a very knowledgeable expert on the issues he's very knowledgeable expert on syria he's been in syria since the first troops went in so it will be a bit of a loss but like everything else we have somebody to pick up the slack that bret left behind that's ambassador jim jeffrey and as far as where where the u.s. policy is in the region right now in particular in syria this comes of course on

a couple days or after. and the u.s. it defense secretary quit went with where does this leave things now. well i don't think it's as perilous as you would suggest the fact remains is the president made a decision on an issue that he has said since he was on the campaign trail a decision he was going to make obviously since two thousand and fifteen there are some people that felt that they could talk president trump into a different direction they were not able to sustain their arguments in front of president trump and they did they are honorable thing if they can't serve the president but they can't agree with the president's policy then they ought to honorably resign from the position and that's exactly what secretary maddest did and that's exactly what special envoy mcgurk did as well as one of the things that . madison said in his resignation letter is that he believed very much in

this system of alliances that the u.s. has has built up in the region over many many years many decades and he felt the this was it was it was suggested that this is not something the president trump . agreed with how much of a disconnect there is there between president trump and so many of these seasoned professionals in his administration on the u.s. role in the world. well first of all i think it's important to note that in many ways jim mattis contradicted himself in many ways the decision on syria to pull out was made because president trump was trying to improve the relationships with turkey which had shattered so significantly since the united states started aligning itself with the kurdish organization a kurdish fighting group so the one who is not seeking the alliance in this

specific incident incident it's was secretary mabus president trump felt that the alliance with turkey was important and in many ways the decision on pulling out of turkey and letting pulling out of syria and letting the turks come in bolsters that alliance there are those though who support the president's decision they feel that they did the u.s. presence in syria is is kind of overstated and there is still the option that the u.s. has has to launch attacks from the air and if and when they need to if they feel that the threat from isolates is going you think where do you stand on that one position is i think we need to take a look at what's been done in iraq since two thousand and fourteen american ground forces have not gone in america has provided trainers it has provided air strikes it has provided logistics support this provide intelligence support and we had two

thousand troops on the ground inside of syria that's what's being withdrawn so if we were to take the iraq model train equip provide intelligence provide air strikes and transfer that over to syria i don't think that there's any reason why we can't finish off the last remaining elements of isis particularly if we use local forces and in this case our allies the turks. what does this say about. the confidence that. u.s. allies would have in the united states now off to the president's decision. in terms of how reliable the u.s. is and as a pawn in the region well let's in one way stronger because it looks like we're now working with a rally in this case turkey the fact remains of your referring to the white p.g. the kurdish force that we've been using i don't think that america has anything to

apologize for the code word in the term that was constantly used with the white p.g. which is a known affiliate of a declared terrorist organization our policy was temporary transactional and tactical and at this point the temporary is over we no longer need the services of the white p.g.a. because we're pulling out now i will tell you that that's a very controversial view i think a lot of people believe that since we had them fighting and dying to kill dosh that we have a responsibility to them there is some moral issue revolved around that but in terms of the contractual language that we use virtually with the white p.g. we have lived up to our commitments and nobody should doubt what we promised but more importantly what we didn't promise to them good to get your perspective on this kimmitt in washington thanks for being with us on modern bashara is

a senior political analyst and he joins us now from london thanks very much for being with us again one first of all your reaction to the news that brett mcgurk is quitting surprised not surprised when does this and when does this leave president tom's policy. well from the way we heard it reported the last twenty four hours is that president trump made that decision without consulting or if he consulted he did not listen to his advisors and that's secretary of defense might this and clearly others who have a stake in that kind of decision making process when it comes to isis and syria so when the president make a decision like that and doesn't listen to those who are directly concerned and implicated in this whatever operation and when they disagree with the president

about his decision and some of them justify it with such you know with such examples as trump claimed that obama and clinton created isis in the way they would do from iraq now they order their supporters are saying that president promp is recreating isis in the way he is withdrawing from syria afghanistan and possibly iraq if so it's not rejects the question overdraw is for them is the question of how. the president made made this decision and how quickly he once it employed meant it so in so many ways why would they go oh might be the responsible thing to do it is irresponsible of the way the president has made his decision yeah i want to play a clip in just a moment of brett mcgurk who was just speaking in a spent state department briefing just eleven days ago in which he was updating the

media there about the importance of the u.s. staying the course in the fight against eisel in syria we're going to we're going to going to play some of that now. well we multiple objectives in syria so the military objective could very clearly the military objective is the enduring defeat of isis and if we've learned one thing over the years and during defeat of a group like this means you can't just to feed their physical space and then leave you have to make sure the. internal security forces are in place to ensure that those gains security gains are enduring we have obviously learned a lot of lessons in the past we know that once the physical space is defeated we can't just pick up and leave us or we're prepared to make sure that we do all we can to ensure this is enduring no sign of that areas that we have cleared of isis they have not returned or actually seize physical space there's clandestine souls and nobody is saying that they're going to disappear nobody's that naive so we want to stay on the ground make sure that stability can be maintained so when you hear that model and i suppose it's not surprising that that the the u.s.

envoy in the fight against i saw in syria has chosen to resign and off the president trumps decision does does this send a message that people in his in administration can be undercut at any point yes exactly and i think that's why the very president who said he loves the generals and the generals love him now has basically got rid of all of the generals that were that are around there whether it's mcmaster kelly matt this and others so and then to the days really ending up with that much of generals are on him those who for many in the establishment you know saw them as the sobering influence on the president now a president that's left what the likes of john bolton who is seen as you know quite an extremist if you will in his approach to syria iran.