former british politician paddy ashdown who was a leading figure in the bosnian peace process has died from cancer at age seventy seven ashdown served as the u.n. high representative in bosnia and herzegovina between two thousand and two and two thousand and six helping the country to rebuild in the aftermath of the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. before that he led the liberal democrat party the u.k.'s largest political force at the time for eleven years he also served in the british army special services. taking part in the funerals of four palestinians killed on friday by the israeli army thousands of mourners gathered for the burial of the men who were killed during protests against the israeli and egyptian of the territory among the victims was a sixteen year old boy palestinians have demonstrated at the border every friday and . the weather is next then another resignation over downtown its decision

to bring american troops home from syria. the democratic republic of congo prepares for years delayed elections that have been pushed back by another week. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across europe fast moving systems moving from west to east across much of europe right now that's because the jet is going basically parallel and we're seeing those systems bring some very heavy rain across parts of central europe and that is going to continue so here on sunday rain anywhere from london all the way down towards paris we do have a couple of systems coming in off the atlantic that will be problems temperature wise not so much a problem we are looking at seasonal temperatures for this time of year out towards the east the it is going to be snow but it's going to be wet snow typical of those temperatures getting just above freezing during the daytime than overnight those

temperatures start to come down again so it's going to be a little bit mushy but down here towards the south we're looking a book or us seeing about five degrees or with a mix of rains don't you forecast down towards athens it's going to be a nice day at seventeen degrees there well here across the northern part of africa we are looking at mostly partly cloudy conditions across much of the area nothing in terms of rain though you can see the clouds coming in towards tripoli as well as been gazi with some clouds coming in from the north and winds coming in from the north as well over here towards cairo not looking too bad on sunday as we go towards monday we are looking at a few more clouds right there but up here towards the west we are seeing some clouds coming into parts of morocco and robot it's going to be clouded if you with a temperature of twenty degrees. a policy imposed decades ago. goods and boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences predict

a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people are everyone will be get being given money to agree destro zation money to get other people to be the story. examines the politics of population control. welcome back. a reminder of our top stories this hour a tsunami has hit indonesia killing at least one hundred sixty eight people and injuring more than seven hundred others waves between health needs and demands to high struck areas around the thunder straits between two of the country's biggest islands. sudan's main opposition party has asked people to join nationwide protests

on sunday against the rising cost of food and fuel at least ten people have died since the demonstrations started on wednesday. video has a match of a french police officer pulling out his gun and pointing it at protesters during the latest street battles linked to the yellow vest anti-government movement the protests began more than six weeks ago against high fuel prices. trumpet ministration has lost another important national security figure but the resignation of the u.s. is top diplomat dealing with i still look at christian protest against president donald trump's abrupt decision to withdraw american troops from syria here's our state department correspondent. us president donald trump made two major foreign policy decisions this week he said he's pulling seven thousand u.s. troops out of afghanistan and 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 loved 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 are 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 quit 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 long boy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a similar eleventh mcgurk knew everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues this 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 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 trumps unilateral decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting eisold now uncertain as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be u.s. forces and resources leading the charge rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. just days after the announcement of a u.s. troop withdrawal by trying there are reports the takesh on is sending soldiers to

the syrian border present at iran has threatened to strike y p g targets and within syria the cut is scrapers being bought by u.s. special forces in the fight against eisel many fan the u.s. pullout from syria could now lead to a power vacuum on the ground as anna coren reports from. these syrian refugees have been living in this turkish border town for three years they say they can't return home as long as their towns and villages are controlled by the syrian armed group the y. peachey while fighting eisel the why p.g. backed by the u.s. had taken control of predominantly arab and mixed areas across northern syria their residents say those territorial gains are about creating a kurdish state an accusation tonight by the y. peachey to the field. in two thousand and fifteen the white b.g. enter tel aviv under the pretext of fighting isis but they forcibly displaced the autopen looted their homes they started to impose the kurdish language and what

they call democracy clothes like preventing us from practicing religion. the y.p. she could lose the autonomous enclave government in north eastern syria a plan to pull out of american troops will leave it vulnerable the group controls an area rich in oil and agricultural land valuable economic assets for the government and to mask this which is struggling under sanctions president bashar assad has repeatedly said he wants to retake this corner of syria either by negotiation or force the y. p.g. may be trying to cut a deal. the u.s. is no longer planning a rapid pullout turkey has reportedly convince president donald trump to coordinate the withdrawal also that there will be no vacuum u.s. and turkish officials will meet in washington on january eighth it seems ankara wants the enclave to be handed over to representatives of arab majority towns that have been under the control of the white. turkey believes the y.p.

cheese link to the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. which has been fighting for self rule in south east turkey. turkey doesn't have the editorial ambitions in syria and they want to end project there and it wants to end the threat along its border it will cooperate with the syrian opposition. to give up its agenda and couplings with. a military option is still on the table president to tell you border guard says a new operational strategy to eliminate both the y.p. g. and i still is being worked on turkey and the u.s. may be in agreement on what happens next but there are other players in syria including russia that will also want its interests secured. a check on the turkey syria border. the u.s. government's expected to stay partially closed past christmas day and

a standoff over president money to build a border war with mexico. shut down this year and one. eight hundred thousand to act as out of pocket until it gets sorted out john hendren has more from washington . the two sides seem far apart in the government shutdown president trump met with republican leaders in the white house if he is negotiating with democrats he is not doing it at that meeting and the senate came into session and a bit of senate theater the republican leader mitch mcconnell came out in a red christmas sweater saying he hoped that they could wrap up business and everybody could go on to their christmas holiday but that does not seem likely to happen terribly soon and that is because democrats know the president does not have the votes in the u.s. senate in order to pass his five billion dollars in border wall funding that he wants for the southern border you need a supermajority in the senate in order to pass legislation like that and he simply does not yet have the votes so the two sides remain at an impasse and chuck schumer

the democratic leader told the president speaking on the floor of the senate if you want to open the government you must abandon the wall and he went on to say the wall will come not today not next week not next year so it does seem like the two sides are far apart monday and tuesday are holidays the full impact of the government shutdown probably will not be felt until wednesday and of course democrats may simply wait until january third that is when democrats take over control of the u.s. house of representatives and at that time they believe that they can definitively stop funding for the president's wall so the democrats believe time is on their side. a u.n. team has landed in yemen to observe the departure of saudi government forces and treat the fight as from her data the two sides agree to a cease fire in the port city during talks in sweden the area is the entry point

for most food aid into a country that some jordi is of war reports arriving in aid to. the head of the united nations monitoring mission patrick is a retired dutch general with experience in some of the world's worst conflicts the t r c sri lanka and cambodia other members of the un team touched down in yemen's capital sanaa the group will be heading to the strategic port city of the day where they're tasked with monitoring a franchise cease fire and overseeing the vital reopening of the port a gateway for food and aid supplies into a country where millions of people are in desperate need of both. the general for sure has an expertise in this domain and we know that he will meet with the other side very soon after that god willing the mission of the observers and head data will start. at her date her life is returning to the city streets the ceasefire between saudi u.a.e. backed government forces and hooty rebels is seen as the first significant

breakthrough in peace efforts since the war started in twenty fourteen and. we look forward to the ceasefire we hope it's going to be observed not only here but nationwide. and. we hope the saudi led coalition will learn a lesson after four years of war we haven't halted all retreated even if forty years pass we will never budge or abandon our basic principles of dignity freedom and independence. the monitoring mission comes a day after the un security council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the deployment of observers to data following negotiations in sweden the warring sides also agree to a prisoner swap of some sixteen thousand detainees. the u.n. calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian disaster has killed an estimated sixty thousand people as many as eighty five thousand children may have starved to death

because. it's hope that by bringing stability to her day to. the rest of this ravaged country by eventually follow. well it's been two years since al jazeera journalists love what he's saying was arrested in egypt he hasn't been charged with any crime his imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release. her diane reports. for two years saying has been locked inside an egyptian prison his right to trial denied his legal rights rejected the al-jazeera journalist who require zero in two thousand and sixteen to visit his family after he landed he was questioned and detained he's been in solitary confinement ever since without being formally charged he suffered a broken arm and was refused proper medical treatment egyptian prosecutors accuse the qatar based journalist of broadcasting what it describes as false news and of

receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he strongly denies the allegations and so does al jazeera echoing international outrage the un has been calling for his release rights groups have reported an unparalleled crackdown on adoption journalists since the military deposed the first democratically elected president mohamed morsi in two thousand and thirteen the suppression has increased under former general now president a bill for tal sisi the committee to protect journalists says at least twenty media workers are being held in addiction prisons. hussein's detention has breached egypt's own penal code since he's been held without trial for more than eighteen months the maximum period allowed for anyone being investigated for a crime who should have either been released or taken to court neither has happened two years in his family and others are left waiting for justice caught cielo

personal jaan al jazeera. nicaraguans government has raided and shut down a t.v. news station a week after a similar action against a newspaper the director of the hundred percent news channel nicole mora appeared in court charged with terrorism related offenses the court heard he incited hate with false news that provoked people to commit violent acts during protests against president daniel ortega earlier this year critics described the charges as made up and another sign of ortega's authoritarianism and industrial city in south korea is now home to the world's largest outdoor mural for what covers nearly twenty four thousand square metres as rob mcbride reports from intensity it's become a source of pride for locals. it dominates this part of incheon skyline and industrial i saw turned into an eye catching thing of beauty standing nearly fifty meters tall a facelift in

a city known for its industrial grime. in town is a city of manufacturing and industry we have many aging buildings like this which poses a problem for us this is what they were grain silos but with an imaginative by it wasn't hard to see them as a row of books on the shelf so that is what they became sixteen volumes that tell the story of a boy's journey from childhood to adulthood while depicting the complete cycle of the four seasons in john is probably best known to people outside south korea as the location for the international airport that serves the capital seoul but officials here seem determined that the city should be recognized for far more than just the place you fly in and out of with hopes that some of the millions of passengers who use the nearby airports can be persuaded to stay

a while in incheon the city has big tourism aspirations. and now other industrial buildings are being looked at as potential canvases not. a lot of companies with similar sized was have so that they want to paint them with what might please the public don't put those paint brushes away just yet robert bright al-jazeera incheon city south korea a charity in brazil has hosted a christmas lunch complete with gifts for homeless people in sao paulo they raised money for the event through an online crowdfunding campaign about twenty thousand sleep rough. the top stories a tsunami has hit indonesia killing at least one hundred sixty eight people and injuring more than seven hundred others waves between half

a meter underneath the high struck areas along the sunda straight between two of the country's biggest islands the opposition and don has asked people to join nationwide protests on sunday against the rising cost of food and fuel at least ten people have died since the demonstrations started on wednesday video has emerged of a french police officer pulling out his gun and pointing it at protesters during the latest street battles linked to the yellow vest anti government movement the us government remains partially shut down after politicians failed to break an impasse on budget spending the standoff is over funding for president trump plans mexico border war the senate has been adjourned until thursday when these negotiations show lucian. party which means sixty votes in the shadow of a majority and. a presidential should picture at that point we will

take it up on the senate floor senators will be no want to build a schedule. and in the meantime. a u.n. team has landed in yemen to observe the departure of saudi backed government forces and toothy fighters from her data the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in the port city during talks in sweden the area is the main entry point for most for you dade sunday marks two years since al jazeera journalist to say in arrest in egypt his imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release he's not faced any formal charges and is in solitary confinement former british politician paddy ashdown who was in needing figure in the bosnian peace process has died after a short battle with cancer he was seventy seven ashdown served as the un's high representative in bosnia and herzegovina between two thousand and two and two

thousand and six helping the country to rebuild in the aftermath of the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . join me here for more news of the inside story. brings a series of breaking stories joined in listening produced as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they record on the stories that matter demands on al-jazeera. is ruled for thirty years but he is facing unprecedented street protests public anger is growing in sudan over rising food prices so the president omar al bashir survived what is the out 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 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 more from car too. it's default 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 have to wait in line 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 so when it's in its new stick to sudanese onto 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 are 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 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 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 be a mission but maybe the history of that would be as a video long history of you to go. national. but a lot of the because of the sudan then we. had quote if there was any doubt but i. if we could is on the way does have

a very long history of be. part of the national movement and all of the union movement which started from arbor and i think. brazil is this 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 specially the brit but that was all over the country but the start came from about ok let's talk about that yes they it seems that the tipping point was the rise in bread prices but talk us through a goddess to this point. first greetings to face learned their loss and i think they know this because from barbara next door to out but i would say

also was the start of this. disturbance relations and for 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 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 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 protest war 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 list there faisal the president omar al bashir. it seems that a lot of these problems are of his making is 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 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 got 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 going to 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 when the people is feeling so faisal if you say 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. just just probably his mistake is that if you sometimes people can't tolerate being seen by people don't. give you

a chance for for various reasons because they're afraid of what might happen but i think he has taken 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 and get worse. can i ask you about that too that's actually something i wanted to bring up that yes 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 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 counseled the exit visa for sudanese that would have improved things out of. the government is cracking 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 broken record 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 ten 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 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 to. prove 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 a military coup to shill 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 their power to this if indian 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 topple 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 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 hard would there ever mean it the way files were decided out laid it 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 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 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 threatening 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 mohammed 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 a 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 convening with was yesterday but is expected to be in the knives and i think all scenarios are expecting. also 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 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 class is 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 mainly use the 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 something 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

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a state of emergency remains in parts of three don after violence triggered by soaring prices. a top u.s. diplomat in the fight against i.c.l. quits i don't try. it's decision to withdraw american troops from syria. angry confrontations in paris as you know best protesters continue their campaign to shrink the divide between the rich and poor and from. a tsunami has hit indonesia killing at least one hundred sixty eight people and injuring more than seven hundred others scientists say it was triggered by under scene than slides from the eruption of the volcano a lot krakatoa which means the baby krakatoa the tsunami which swept along the sunda strait washed twenty meters inland taking with it hundreds of homes and hotels on the shores of java and sumatra islands joyce adare reports. a

concert by the indonesian pop band seventeen in western java came to an abrupt and when waves from a tsunami swept away the stage musicians and fans. the water flowed up to twenty metres in land killing dozens and injuring hundreds. more and with history books in the morning so there was a forty two weeks of retreat you know under our leader to leader so this could have been much worse. indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency believes the waves could have been caused by undersea landslides from the eruption of kaka toa that's a volcanic island formed over years from the nearby carcass how a volcano search and rescue operation is now underway for survivors who risk your very stupid family kids i think it's we are people that are treated. worse because

this is a traumatic event especially given all of the things that. occurred in the last you know for months in september more than two thousand five hundred people were killed by a quake and tsunami that hit the city of palo on the island of soloway c. which is just east of borneo. indonesia is still in the ring of fire it's it's it's there's always volcanic eruptions happening now there are always sometimes there are tsunamis. and it's really no more active than normal actually it's just every now and then there's a confluence of events which unfortunately results in people being kind of literally swept up in these disasters and the number of casualties from this disaster over a holiday weekend is expected to increase as rescuers reach affected areas dorsetshire pari al jazeera simon redfern is a professor of sciences at the university of cambridge he joins us now on skype

from there simon we're hearing this was a tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption can you explain just how that works. so in this case the tsunami seems to be associated with this eruption of an a cricketer. in fact you know the crack of. a long history is famous for its its devastation and it had this huge eruption in one thousand nine hundred three that eruption nine hundred eighty three actually most of the fatalities from that eruption were associated with a very large tsunami affected the island blew itself apart in this case it's a much much smaller eruption from the from an a crocodile a child a cracker to and it's likely that it's caused by some collapse of the the slope. at the base of the volcano and these volcanoes in indonesia these are absolutely packed full of volcanic activity because of the tectonic

plates from the strain and plate going on plate eurasian plate so the line of volcanoes along here and that's why the earthquakes and volcanic causes a so devastating and an unfortunate common in the region so simon in your mind this wasn't a particularly unusual amount of activity for that for that area. it is unusual that there was the there was a tsunami which was just a. you know an accident of fate if you like the the volcano itself as is an active volcano that's been erupting the last few years and actually the island itself formed in the one nine hundred twenty s. out of the old collapsed cold era from its parent cricketer the there's a confluence of events here that is a high tide. tsunami from this this landslide collapse and

because of the nature of the arms like plants also no real warning of the tsunami so previous tsunamis in the region in the indian ocean remember the the boxing day tsunami which was also associated with an earthquake in sumatra. that. that earthquake gave the early warning in this case there was no expectation of those of the. of the plowed so that landslide essentially displaced a whole lot of water which created the tsunami how how is there no way to tell if that's going to happen there not tsunami warning systems in place. well there are all tsunami warning systems in place in the devastated areas very close to the volcanoes so the low lying coastal. regions that face towards cricketer along the jobber in sumatra coast there at the send some straight. is just doesn't give time for an early warning to happen in the situation is just

a very you know i mean it's devastating or obviously terrible for the populations along that coastline and in this case there was there would be little. expectation that there would be such an event to the cricketer itself and all of the volcanoes along the indonesian ark. are a threat and in this case it's it's the fact that you have a people living close to the shoreline. in an area where you can expect. some sort of geo tectonic hazard you know professor simon redfern speaking to us there from cambridge thank you for joining us on. the opposition in syria don is calling for nationwide protests on sunday against the rising cost of food and fuel at least ten people have died since the demonstrations started on wednesday schools

and universities are closed in at least five states and the cities of. emergency rule that speak now say have a morgan who is in the capital khartoum hit a protest as a now being encouraged to come out for a fifth day of protests is there any kind of resolution that's likely soon. well known us says and it really doesn't seem that the protesters are going to listen to the government's call yesterday when they came out on national television and radio selling them to go back home that they're going to try to solve the crisis the opposition have united some of the opposition forces of united and called on to protestors to march for the fifth or if day to come out and protest now that they really needed two people have already been going out for four days ten people at least ten people have been killed dozens have been injured and dozens more have been arrested as a result of the protests now let's remember that it started on wednesday when there were proposed upgrade hikes when they were proposed hikes and people basically said that they've had enough at the moment or

a loaf of bread is worth once denise pounds and to many people that's already unavoidable so high the same process would simply make it impossible now what the government is trying to do is trying to the trying to look for economic reforms and they're trying to find a way out of this crisis but then people have been complaining for quite a few months now about the rise in food commodities not just in different states but here in the capital khartoum as well. this is one of the main markets in battery north of the sudanese capital khartoum shoppers here see all the produce for sale have one thing in common good news here but for more than bombs you know prices are high tomatoes used to cost seven pounds and now it cost forty pounds on the other 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 one to the nice down to three there were demonstrations the government reacted by announcing a state of emergency in some cities curfews in others and it tried to block social

media platforms including facebook twitter and whatsapp 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 sudanese part of now it's almost worth if this isn't nice pounds which means higher market prices and people have to queue at banks to get their cash which with the inflation barely covers 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 to know it 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 effect 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 up official 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. while the government has also called for an emergency cabinet meeting to try to find a way out of this crisis they've also imposed a nationwide school ban so basically schools universities are not allowed together people are not allowed to go to schools and universities because of the state of

emergency in some places the curfews and others and because of the suspension they don't want to try to get people they don't want to masses to try to congregate to be able to protest there's also a report that the emir of qatar a share shift i mean bin hamad has phoned the president omar bashir and that he said his group who's willing to offer support how that's what kind of form that support will take it's not here yet the government is saying the sudanese government is saying that it's in the form of one billion dollars which would help ease the crisis now other countries have also been responding in the different ways for example has called into its citizens here in sudan to leave the country and they have said that they've issued a travel advisory advisory saying that sudan is not safe to travel to and that they're willing to facilitate the exit of the citizens here so it seems like this works as ours sparking concerns not just to the sudanese government but to other foreign governments as well as there is here the morgan that live for us in khartoum thanks about former british politician paddy ashdown who was a leading figure in the bosnia.