residence wall so the democrats believe time is on their side at least twenty people have died after a tsunami struck the coast of indonesia it hit coastlines along the sundaes between two of indonesia's biggest islands the country's disaster management agency says one hundred sixty five people were injured and dozens of buildings were damaged it suspected the tsunami may have been triggered by sea landslides following a local volcanic eruption. plenty more still to come including we're on the streets of ramallah where people are angry with the ineptitude of their politicians and the brutality of the israeli occupation also ahead a state of emergency at most school closures in sudan where anger is growing up rising food prices. from the clear blue sky of the doha moony. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of la. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts were here

across china we are seeing some spotty showers perfectly down here towards hong kong and those are going to lead to some clouds as we go towards the beginning of the week so here we start on sunday clouds in the forecast rain as well twenty one degrees there up towards shanghai though it is going to be mostly the clouds we're going to be talking about getting better by the time we get towards monday but over here towards taipei it's going to be quite rainy weeks back to see attempts there of about twenty degrees well also very rainy across parts of the philippines as has been the trend over the last several days we think it's going to be continuing by the time we go towards the beginning of the week there are those clouds right there making their way towards the northwest so for manila that is going to mean very heavy rain in the forecast at least for the next two days and there could also be some localized flooding so attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees pretty much staying the same as we go towards sunday maybe a little bit warmer there also some rain coming back for parts of thailand where it's been fairly nice over the last few days but there is that rain showers extending all the way down towards parts of malaysia as well as make

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha mining's peter dhabi these are your headlines today the top u.s. official in the fight against i saw has quit over president donald trump's sudden decision to pull troops out of syria brett mcgurk departure follows the resignation of the u.s. defense secretary james masters. the u.s. government remains partially shut down after politicians failed to break an impasse on budget spending the senate has now been adjourned until thursday. at least twenty people have died after a tsunami hit the coast of indonesia that struck here is along the sun the strait between to have been doing is biggest islands one hundred sixty five people were injured and dozens of buildings were damaged. two car bomb attacks in the somali capital market to shoot have killed at least fifteen people

a london based somali journalists among the dead the country's intelligence agency says the perpetrators of the attacks have been arrested. as the story. the first car bomb exploded at a military checkpoint soldiers and civilians among the dead. moments later a 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 one look at me 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 but. i was walking to my workplace and suddenly there was a huge explosion there was. smoke everywhere and people were screaming there were bodies all over the place the next time i was conscious i was at the hospital my leg was broken and i also lost my hand i was working to feed my five children i'm

their only breadwinner what was my crime to deserve this who is going to feed my children now. 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 explosion was. in the national. somali but eventually. the station in the area and it is really getting ablaze. 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 but was forced from mogadishu in two thousand and eleven. thousands of somalis have died in this divisive decade long battle many

of them civilians caught see a little of the young al-jazeera. sudan's government says at least ten people have been killed and dozens more were injured during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and fuel state of emergency has been declared in some cities and some schools and universities have been suspended. this is one of the main markets in the north of the sudanese capital khartoum shoppers here say all the produce for sale have one thing in common i do know a ship of the mountain behind saying across is a hive tomatoes used to cost seven pounds and now it cost forty pounds i was like i want everything is expensive the prices have been going up and there are so many things you can buy and then there is the bread crisis. their bread prices sparked protests around the country when the government announced its plan to raise the price of a loaf from wanted a nice pound to three there were demonstrations the government reacted by announcing a state of emergency in some cities curfews and others and it tried to block social

media platforms including facebook twitter and what's happened dozens of people have been arrested. the protesters are not just frustrated at the rising cost of bread in the past year inflation has risen to almost seventy percent in january the dollar was worth thirty pounds now it's almost worth it's this it is pounds which means higher market prices and people have to queue at banks to get their cash which with inflation barely cover their knee. the government has been using live ammunition and tear gas to disperse the crowds this is they're trying to solve the economic crisis but won't tolerate protesters damaging public property but. the government did acknowledge there is a crisis we did not tonight and we are working on resolving these issues when it comes to economic crises these things are not magically resolved overnight it takes time there are more than one party involved more than just one factor or another. president omar al bashir has ruled for almost thirty years he's been reelected

several times most recently in twenty fifteen when most opposition parties boycotted the vote now some opposition groups are calling for a change in the way the country's government eat. his lunch we need a new type of for regime a new system a new leadership the issue here is not who's ruling sudan but how to govern this nation first we need a new recipe for peace we need a national transitional unity government real consultations when it comes to the constitution. to protest on a scale not seen before dear time as president sudanese people seem to have lost patience and want to see an improvement in their living conditions sooner rather than later morgan al-jazeera. a group of protesters have attacked police offices during demonstrations in the french capital paris fighting broke out when demonstrates a started throwing objects at the officers one policeman took out

a gun to disperse the crowd but at the opposite effect a crowd surrounded the offices who were forced to flee on their motorbikes the so-called yellow vest protest began. more than five weeks ago and up against plans to increase fuel tanks those plans were later scrapped burnet smith is with the protesters in paris. this has been an all day protest march nonstop through the street. from owning right now the day they've been far away for me to follow them all the way as police try to block various routes as low peaceful happen a couple of small come in stations but they all of us protesters 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 that too little too late and they will keep protesting right into the new year. thousands of people have been demonstrating in hungary again over the past week in protest of changes to employment rights and pay the new legislation which the opposition is calling the slave law allows companies to demand more overtime from their employees from budapest is robin for a city walk hungry at christmas time with more than two percent average growth low taxation it's an attractive place to come and spend your money. hungary's economic model depends a lot on german car manufacturing and twenty seventeen it made up twenty nine percent of industrial output soon a billion dollar b.m.w. plants will provide thousands of jobs in the east but there's a problem a shortage of skilled workers. the government hopes its new labor law will fix that allowing over time of more than four hundred hours

a year but that has angered the working hunger areas more than eighty percent according to recent polls opposed to legislation that will make them have to work more opposition groups have united in protest from the left and the right calling it a slave law. andries government says that's not the case the hungary and regulation is fully in line with the european regulations and has nothing to do of slavery that's political cold which is being used by extreme support of the philippine and political activists on the ground the real problem is that as a matter of fact these political protests are nothing to do with the labor govt a lot of them are very educated some believe the law will only worsen the problem and variance have been working much longer hours in recent years than anyone in western europe so if you just check european union statistics eastern europeans work more than western europeans in hungary and work more than people in western europe so there's already a lot of overtime in the system and secondly wages are very low so if you make

people work longer hours for the same wages is just an incentive for people to move away the way that one gary in government sees it the garion economy is a victim of its own success with near full employment but it might have more to do with the fact that hungary has a strict immigration policy and skilled gary ans seeking better opportunities abroad. young hunger ariens like peter are increasingly interested in leaving hungry and starting their careers elsewhere i might add are hungry and syrians and i just saw exactly the same motivation and that they just wanted something better than hunger we can offer and at the same time they just so that. the trains are not looking promising and hungry hungry is not a load countries including poland slovakia and the czech republic are struggling with their own labor shortages. the showing of low cost labor powering europe from

its east is beginning to wear off. robyn versity walker how does era budapest. in neighboring serbia there have been protests to with thousands of people taking part in antigovernment demonstrations for a third consecutive weekend they claim the president alexander which is becoming more thorough tarion last week opposition politicians or course the fun of it was attacked with his supporters accusing the government of intimidation al-jazeera is marcos about it chance more now from belgrade. this was the largest protest in belgrade in the last month more than twenty thousand people gathered in the streets of belgrade protested against the government against the president alexander voltage and his serbian progressive party which is ruling party in serbia in the last six years the reason why they gather in the last three saturdays in belgrade you know also in other cities in serbia is the attack on the opposition leader

board stephano which that's why this brought this is called protest against the bloody shirts because it was bloody after this also this protest that's one more than it's called one in millions referring to the statement of serbian president alexander boteach which said last week that even five million people if they come to streets and demand something that he did he won't fulfill those demands and the elections are the only way that the minds of the opposition parties can be fulfilled and he called them on the election if they want alexander which said that they also want to be a prick and that they are responsible people for the killing of all evil evanovich he's the leader of the northern gulf he was killed in january this year this brought this real continue as an organization said the next saturday

that people will gather here they say more people to come to belgrade and we have to say that these protests are not organized by opposition parties but by some student organization and some public figures in serbia and backed by opposition here in serbia. have taken part in the funerals of palestinians killed on friday by the israeli army mourners gathered in gaza for the burial of the man who were killed during weekly protest against the israeli and egyptian blockade of the territories among the victims was a sixteen year old mohammed. demonstrated at the border every friday since march. palestinians living in the occupied west bank say they are increasingly frustrated and hopeless feeling made worse by a greater israeli military presence around the ineptitude of their own political leaders 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 ramallah is the seat of power for the ruling palestinian authority and supposedly under full palestinian security control its 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 the misery it's so hard to reach checkpoints all over the roads 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 indicates that almost two thirds of palestinians want the resignation of president mahmoud abbas and other shows it increasing support for how math particularly off 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 and the lack of palestinian unity between the rival political groups fatah and hamas is a major issue and significant criticism of the. for the lack of progress on the reunification efforts most of the public today blames the two to one the blame is being placed on the boss 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 beast but you know everybody knows other side is very

strong very strong every time we come a closer to make it because then they stop it they have some of the cues all the time they have excuses our view or they are ready for peace but the other side they're not ready you see the smile is seventy six years old and has lived in the all his life. in the palestinian authority do is controlled by israel just like us they should be a sovereign palestinian state every time these really want to read the towns 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. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories the leading u.s. official in the fight against eisel has quit over president donald trump's sudden

decision to pull troops out of syria brett mcgurk departure follows the resignation of the u.s. defense secretary james mattis the u.s. government remains partially shut down after politicians failed to break an impasse over budget spending is the result of a standoff over funding for president transplant mexico border war the senate's now been adjourned until thursday when the. british solution there is a triple of partage which means sixty votes in the shadow. a majority and. a presidential sugar at that point we will take it up almost out of floor senators will be no one a vote is scheduled and in the meantime. their discussions and negotiations can turn or at least twenty people have died after a tsunami hit the coast of indonesia it struck areas along the sunda straight between two of the country's biggest islands one hundred sixty five people were

injured and dozens of buildings were damaged it's suspected the tsunami may have been triggered by sub sea landslides following a nearby volcanic eruption a group of protesters have attacked police officers during demonstrations in the french capital paris fighting broke out from protesters started throwing objects at the officers the policeman was surrounded by a crowd of demonstrators and were forced to flee on their motorbikes so-called yellow vests protest began more than five weeks ago now against plans to increase fuel tanks which were later scrapped. fifteen people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu a london based somali journalist was among those killed the country's intelligence agency says those behind the attacks have been arrested sudan's government says at least ten people have been killed during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and fuel protesters are angry about high inflation which is running at around seventy percent the cities of. the entire white nile state and are under

emergency rule those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story i'll have more news in thirty minutes see that. he's ruled for thirty years but he's facing unprecedented street protests public anger is growing in sudan and will rise in food prices so the president omar al bashir survives what is the app 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 glacial rates have skyrocketed prices have more than doubled 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 if the fall of protests in sudan and today people have come out in the southern state of south kordofan they've burned down the 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 of a comic crisis the 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 have to wait in line at and who

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 vans economic situation has been determined rather quickly. with the hospital mom in january the dollar was one one dollar to thirty pounds but this but today this morning it's nearly sixty seven it's been 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 it's 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 have also told the security forces not to use brutal 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 industry 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 statement 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 people morgan for inside story so who is omar al bashir he came to power in a military coup in one thousand nine hundred nine in his role sudan with an iron fist since then he's been reelected president several times most recently in two thousand and fifteen when most opposition parties are kind of the vote as 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. to international arrest warrants and a travel ban on charges of genocide and war crimes and there are four regions

despite this he's made several diplomatic visits and was the first arab leader to visit serious since the war began there. let's bring in our guest now from khartoum faisal hametz 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 have been has a very long history during the lazy issues national struggle history. of the capital of the sudan then we. had court there was any doubt but it's.

where it is and the workers have a very long history of be. part of the national movement and of the union movement which is started for a model and i think a better preserved this history 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 called it a reason was the eyes of the food prices pushing the british but that was all over the country but the start of came from about ok let's talk about that yes that it seems that the tipping point was the rise and bread prices but talk us through a goddess to this point. for the first greetings to feisal and the last 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 a point in the sense that. the not only the prices but did that lead to most of the government's self and the way it has been dealing with the problems the insensitivity the the 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 of the hospital would not accept except cash and interaction say in an emergency so you might have a dying child in 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 patients so i think this combination 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 want 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 who simply see that this government is completely incompetent completely insensitive completely does not feel it's part of the country or the people ok that was only bring you into this when you listen to the conditions that have this 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 a symbol of dissent people are arrested for brewing in 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 they are insensitive to the problem that people are facing as if they are not living with the people in the same can be the british then 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 now you're 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 to work 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 is on t.v. or speaking to people in any event as if he's not feeling what the people is feeling so far is all is said that he's been insensitive and it also has 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 sticking 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 last two were 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 thinking of that when the sanctions were lifted especially the banking sanctions that actually

has led to the variation 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 article before it has been imposing sanctions on itself for example travel. 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 broken and corrupt at the same time so investors do not actually

their 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 street. that way people have been saying ok this will happen this will happen this will happen but the last meeting of the of that would be feisty they came out who has wanted to get the president to be elected to a t 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 governor seems to be sort of the difference in what the people of god let me bring you into this is there a possibility that the president could actually be overthrown like where 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 tradition could go on and then maybe this is one nine hundred sixty four and one nine hundred eighty five so you know your ability to get in the military intervene not just as ability to share boise videos 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 the power 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 produced forms wasn't really to the people to months and the government go for a real political reform because there is not 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 what harm would there ever mean in the way files of a 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 mahdi 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 a cartoon was there 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 do not have trust not only in the government but only 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 who. is not one revolt. tens of evils they receive it is 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 asserting all reform and he the only way of of 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 then the particular him 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. and 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 me intervene i think i mean today of course 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 big 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 extent is you know who is a positive response from the government again as i said to the people to my unfortunate and doha how do you see this playing out do you think that these protests will continue and perhaps even escalate i think it 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 for a fourth year this might scare the middle classes of course to beat. already not very uneasy with this but the fact as i said that the the people who are leading the revolution and the youth 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 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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may have been triggered by undersea landslides following a volcanic eruption the top u.s. official in the fight against isis has quit a president donald trump's sudden decision to pull troops out of syria brett mcgurk departure closely follows the resignation of the u.s. defense secretary james mattis as our state department correspondent. u.s. president doll trump made two major foreign policy decisions this week he said he's pulling seven thousand u.s. troops out of afghanistan and trump is pulling out all two thousand u.s. service personnel from northeast syria a decision he's been defending on twitter. on syria we were originally going to be there for three months and that was seven years ago we never left when i became president isis was going wild now isis is largely defeated and other local countries including turkey should be able to easily take care of whatever remains

we're coming home defense secretary jim mattis quit in protest on thursday on saturday it was revealed that a top u.s. diplomat in charge of coordinating the fight against eisold is also quitting the military mission is the enduring defeat of isis we have obviously learned a lot of lessons in the past so we know that once a physical space is defeated we can just pick up and leave this was brought mcgurk the special envoy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a symbol eleventh mcgurk knew everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues the week the president's new policy on syria would make it impossible for him to continue in his post. already both congressional democrats and republicans have called trump's syria decision dangerous and deployed jim matta says departure from the pentagon now those who had been fighting alongside the americans are looking to these legislators to try to change the white house's mind

dear senator lindsey graham south carolina kurds in syria appreciate your strong opposition on the wrongfulness of trump's unilateral decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting i so now uncertain as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be u.s. forces and resources leading the charge rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. the us government remains partially shut down after politicians fail to break an impasse on budget spending and it's the result of a standoff over funding for president trump's planned mexico border wall the senate's been adjourned until thursday expense when these negotiations produce a solution that is acceptable to all parties which means she actually votes on the side of a majority in the house and a presidential signature at that point we will take it up all the senate floor

senators will be notified want to vote to schedule. and in the main. discussion and negotiation she can turn a group of protesters have attacked for the softness is joining demonstrations in the french capital paris fighting broke out of protesters started throwing objects at the offices the policemen were then surrounded by a crowd of demonstrators who were forced to flee on their motorbikes so-called yellow vests protests began over five weeks ago against plans to increase fuel tax which were later scrapped. fifteen people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu a london based somali journalist was among those killed the country's intelligence agency says those behind the attacks have been arrested. sudan's government says at least ten people have been killed during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and fuel protesters are angry about high inflation which is running at around seventy percent the city is about data gathered up the entire white nile

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of the trenches then thousands get out of the trenches and they embraced each other a hundred thousand men. oh no man's that we could see as gray macaque there the west where people talk shaking hands exchanging names addresses after the war wrecked one another. everybody back in your trenches you know jumped the generals be on must have seen it and got a bit suspicious so what they did they gave all those for about three of guns behind us to fire on officers fired their revolvers but the gentry you know was not stopping their water again or we were christian i'm tapped out.

this was a war to end all wars. this was a war to make the world safe for democracy. at least twenty one thousand new millionaires were made in the us billions and billions of dollars would be piled up a few. innovation makers shipbuilders meatpackers. and let us not forget the bankers who finance the great war. to turn blood into gold. and their profits were secret as they were americans. all of whom are looking ahead to war. i was. before you tonight in my red chiffon evening.

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