rather than an authoritarian leader with imperial ambitions and many critics of politics are equally critical of the west meeting with russians from across the political spectrum under a neck or a soft discovers a complex attitude towards that country's leader and his policies in search of putin's russia are now jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up on the program a military coup attempt fails in gaol and with two suspected plotters killed and five captured sudan says it's arrested more than eight hundred people since anti-government protests began last month and president trump is to address the

nation and visit the border with mexico as they exist in over funding for his war. in sports a winning start one of the favorites to lift the asian cup south korea beating the philippines one in the opening three. we begin the news hour in bowen where the government says it's retained control of the country after an attempt to overthrow president ali bongo was undergoing medical treatment in morocco soldiers took over the state radio station in a dawn raid that security forces stormed the building and killed two of them arresting the coup leader and four other alleged plotters nicholas hoch has more. lieutenants who although beyond kelly from the presidential guards burst into the national radio and television center calling for

a popular uprising against iran's president. the eagerly awaited day has a right when the army has decided to put itself on the side of the people in order to save kaplan from accounts if you're eating stop if you're having a drink stop if you're sleeping wake up wake up your neighbors rise up as one and take control of the street on the. outside gunshots electricity in the internet are shut down as special. forces stormed the building in a statement the government spokesman says calm has returned the situation is under control the african union in france which maintains nine hundred troops in the country have condemned the attempted coup president goes in morocco seeking treatment after suffering a stroke last october and his new year's address to the nation he appeared frail a time slurring his words. go took over power in two thousand and nine after the death of his father who had ruled the country for forty one years. during the two

thousand and sixteen presidential election the bongo dynasty was challenged their opposition leader jumping to claim victory but the constitutional court ruled in favor of congo in an interview with al jazeera after the court's ruling he said he was accountable to the people i was the candidate of equal chance you know giving really every guy when he has a chance to really make it i'm not the i'm not the candidate you know or to restore privileges and yet high unemployment and a sluggish economy heavily reliant on oil exports have made life more difficult and costly many young people are now calling for change seeing their leader as absent and distant everything is crisis education health care and everything so they young people want to do something about it armed vehicles are now patrolling the streets of the capital the movie but with this latest coup attempt the bongo dentist has hold on power seems fragile and uncertain because hawk al-jazeera. let's talk

about the situation at the ball in more detail with formerly from the africa program at the london think tank chatham house thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera first of all your reaction to this failed coup i mean it didn't seem like anything to orchestrate it to that reached senior levels but what do you make of it i think it's as much as anything a symbol of discontent and frustration. basically came in in two thousand and nine elected in a fairly managed election in succession to his father who had been president for decades but he came in and said i am the new man i'm the face of reform even if on my father's son and he was pretty dynamic in those first few years that quite a lot of economic reforms a sense of a new economic vision an attempt to reach out to younger people more social justice but over the last couple of years the sort of shine has come off that

a bit the twenty sixteen election where he was reelected. was very very contentious the results were highly disputed international governments didn't really feel able to congratulate him on the result so many japanese many sort of question his legitimacy of it and then in late twenty eighteen end of october early november we don't know exactly when because he was traveling in saudi arabia he had a stroke and for a long time a lot of mystery was kept around his health condition. people didn't say exactly what had gone wrong it was only really when he was moved to morocco for convalescents the more openness and it's only last week in his new year's broadcast where he's actually appeared in spoken to the japanese directly on television still from convalescence in morocco and i think people feel they've been rather shots out

of the loop the the. has been a lot of sense of complaint from people saying well we may like a president who would want to know what's going on the government owes us more transparency and so they're almost discontents i think probably fueling this i mean one would think that if he can come back to get on from iraq now he would have to after this coup i suppose if he doesn't that in itself sends a message about his health young i'm pretty sure he will come back and i should think you'll come back quite soon because the t.v. interview that he gave last week was clearly designed to send the message that while he's don't completely recovered and a government minister openly admitted it on twitter that you could still see he's suffering some of the aftereffects of the stroke. he is on his way back and he's clearly much better than the very seriously ill person he was several months ago but it still opens

a question what happens after that once he does come back how much will he be able to resume the form of dynamism he had during his first term or how far will he have to step back and how will that also affect his power of decision making v.z. other people in the elites in the establishment to gobble up one's quite interesting country the population is quite small that's what two million people relatively wealthy though a lot of people live in poverty but it has been quite stable mainly due to two bowls father who for decades helped the stabilizing to the rest of the region that the surrounding countries do you think an unstable there would be is that a worry i don't think it's a major producer of crises in the way that for example the democratic republic of congo or some huge country like that would be but governs always been there as a stable parts of the furniture it's always been an active diplomatic partner it's

participated in peacekeeping for example it was critical in helping to manage the crisis in central. can the public it's always been scenes not a major power but certainly a sort of island of stability some people have even described it as the switzerland of central africa and in that sense also it's quite self-sufficient because it's got oil because it's got a really rich rainforest has a small population its main external dependence is actually being on migrant workers and ways so all of those things have been stable points in a region that's very troubled when you think of the neighboring countries all around the family from the africa program at the london think tank chatham house thank you so much i'm sure we'll be discussing the born in the very near future for the moment thank you now the attempted coup in get born has been huge news all rely on and some gagne's people abroad have staged protests outside their embassies for healing mohamed has been monitoring developments on social media. the gabon

attempted coup is generating international attention from kenya rwanda nigeria and zimbabwe to france and the united states people online to share in the hash tag keep it on after the government cut internet access after the attempted coup as you can see on the map at the bottom went almost completely dark especially around the capitol hill and the start said on twitter shows a drop in online traffic in gabon indicating the internet blackout and or monitors internet disruption it says connectivity was reportedly restored shortly after authorities regained control now aside from pictures coming out of some in the diaspora have also been getting involved in france this group of japanese gathered in front of the embassy in paris in support of the soldiers who attempted the coup they sang the national anthem and called on the soldiers to return to mock recy took up on. the suffering in the flesh not to be able to live freely under

democracy we tell our brothers who took this morning not to shoot or kill but to resist in a peaceful manner to restore liberty to the people of god. and others are sharing their thoughts on lying here's what french cabin is activists have to say. see if this is a coup d'etat it is very amateurish that's not how you do it first of all you got to have an operational commander place secondly you don't simply tell people to come ahead and join us you have units that are already deployed to all important bodies and then we know what they will act that's how you carry out a coup d'etat if this is what they want you to do going again is amateurs but maybe this is not even what they wanted to do it because i haven't read anywhere what their intention was. and some are drawing parallels to other military coups around the world some barboy thailand and egypt and this talk by pollen find maps out

attempted coups between nine hundred fifty and twenty ten as you can see the most common have been in africa with fifty one point five percent successful in gambia hearings have begun into alleged human rights abuses committed over more than two decades under the previous regime the truth reconciliation and reparations commission is looking into the twenty two year rule of a german who seized power in the west african nation in the military coup in one nine hundred ninety four his regime is accused of systemic systematic torture executions and this appearances against opponents and journalists john mayer was forced into exile after losing the two thousand and sixteen election. sudan says it's arrested more than eight hundred protesters since antigovernment demonstrations began almost three weeks ago the authorities say that at least one thousand people have been killed in clashes of the honesty international puts that number much higher and journalists covering the protests have suffered intimidation

and violence from khartoum heba morgan has this report when she was told to cover anti-government protests for her niece beeper rob i knew it would not be an easy assignment she'd heard of arrests in previous protests but didn't expect it to be her turn and just for carrying out her work. i went to cover the protests when a pickup truck came and fired tear gas at poor testers people fled in different directions i ran into a hospital with tear gas fired into the building mosques men came in and started threatening people and when they found out i was a journalist they arrested me along with the others they were beating people they arrested with battens as they took us to the station. protest in sudan started in december with a bread price rises and high inflation within two days they take into anti-government demonstrations with people demanding the president wanted to she has stepped down to twenty nine years in power the protests spread nationwide and some social media

platforms are blocked workers from various sectors went on strike many were arrested for saying they wanted a change in government. calling in a. thing that we were holding up posters and had barely come out of the university compound when men in pickup trucks came and started beating us and told us to get in the pickup they took us to the station and started humiliating us and calling us names. the protests are now in their third week with more to come in the days ahead sudan's government says eight hundred fifteen people have been arrested since the protests began but opposition groups and activists say that number is well over a thousand the opposition also says security forces are intimidating people and. news of the demonstrations from spreading the government says nineteen people were killed in the protests but amnesty international says the number was nearly forty in the first week alone the head of the police says his forces did nothing wrong.

with. the incidents and violence are caused by those who want to destroy and loot and those who have alternative agendas for used weapons and burnt institutions and instigated people to protest against the nation the place of handled the protesters with the highest level of professionalism and self restraint. demonstrate a state they will continue to protest against president the sheets from the government says it will remain in power more lives are expected to be lost and even more are expected to be arrested as the two sides remain defiant people morgan al-jazeera hot on the leaders of ethiopia and eritrea have reopened the border crossing between their two nations as part of the ongoing reconciliation between the former enemies ethiopian prime minister and their retrained president. cut a ribbon to reopen a border post closed twenty years ago if the magic ties were dramatically restored in a surprise the last july. well coming up on this news hour from london the u.s.

and china hold face to face talks to end the trade war that's that's true to the international markets last. a disused airfield turned into a giant truckstop a vision of post briggs it britain i'm going to hold in southeast england. and then sport for find out what lies ahead for competitors at this year's dakar rally. the white house has announced the president will visit the mexican border on thursday in an attempt to pressure congress to end the partial government shutdown donald trump also says he will address the nation on immigration and the southern border on tuesday trump is the man the more than five billion dollars to build a border war with mexico something the democrats strongly oppose he's threatening to use emergency powers to get it built that this feud over the funding of the wall

has led to a partial government shutdown which has lasted seventeen. jordan has more now from washington d.c. neither the senate nor the house are in session on monday here in washington and so there are no negotiations on trying to end the seventeen day long government shutdown this is a situation where the senate minority leader chuck schumer says that people are not only starting to run out of savings but they're also unable to pay their bills and he says this is all because of a fit of pique coming from the white house if every time president trump throws a tantrum and demands he get his way unless the government will be shutdown it will create disaster with his worst instincts which are bad enough now in march we've debt ceiling coming up people you know people go along with this. you know nasty way of governing imagine little happen when the debt ceiling occurs

imagine what will happen when the march budget occurs the government will only ravel further than it has there are other unintended consequences because of the shutdown the environmental protection agency in the army are postponing a necessary hearing on clean water practices because the e.p.a. doesn't have the money to be open and those who receive food stamps may find themselves looking at empty cupboards come mid february that's because the agriculture department doesn't have enough money to fully fund the program past the middle of february there's also real concern that the millions of american taxpayers who are counting on getting refunds on their tax returns as well as the millions of retailers waiting for them to spend that money are going to be out of luck the treasury department is also closed for business u.s. and chinese negotiators of how their first face to face talks since both countries agreed to a truce to try to resolve their trade this feud deputy trade representative jeffrey

garish led the talks on the u.s. side but few details having marriage so far from the the two sides will continue talks on tuesday but the u.s. says impose tariffs on two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods since july it covers a wide range of industrial and consumer items from handbags to railway equipment china retaliated imposing tariffs on one hundred ten billion dollars worth of u.s. products including chemicals coal and medical equipment and soybeans but china's economy is already showing signs of strain sales of i phones are down and house prices are falling in manufacturing profits have also dropped pauline is the managing director of asia and then later where she covers china's political economy she says she doesn't expect an agreement between the two countries before march when the truce is due to end. it does no good for them to come to an agreement in two days or if they did to tell anyone about it they have got until march this

truce and i think both sides are going to want to squeeze everything they can a jury in this this time to get the best out of you know the times that are remaining so i did not expect anything dramatic to be announced before march while the trade talks were happening a u.s. navy ship sailed near disputed islands in the south china sea china has lodged a complaint with the us asking for the vessel to leave the area the guided missile destroyer was close to the paracel islands which are claimed by china taiwan and vietnam. when will china says it will allow u.n. officials to visit the western state of xinjiang after a global condemnation of its treatment of we muslims beijing has been accused of keeping up to one million weaker is in prison like the tension camps and forcing them to renounce their religion and need to language some of been subjected to

forced labor with little or no pay china says u.n. officials are welcome to visit the region as long as they follow proper procedures . the head of brazil's environmental protection organization has resigned after a new presidential you both so not all criticize the agency spending also there is frequently criticize the bomber which is responsible for protecting the amazon rain forest the new rightwing president also announced that the funding of non-governmental organizations will be rigidly controlled. mexico's president says his government's approach to cracking down on fuel theft is working president and wrestling away lubbers over a daughter who took office just five weeks ago vowed to stop billions of dollars in petrol theft by gangs and or workers bankers are now being used to move the fuel instead of vulnerable pipelines but that's led to shortages at the petrol pumps.

changing the whole distribution system that's why shortages have appeared in some places but it's approaching normality because we're dedicated to making sure there aren't any problems with fuel shortages i can tell all my seconds that we have enough feel that the truth is that we were already seeing positive results we have a reduction in fifty has never been achieved before so we're going to keep moving forward. dozens of trucks have taken part in an exercise in southeast england the testing plans to deal with the long queues at the port of dover if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. with no deal the government says it needs to prepare for all eventualities with some experts predicting forty five kilometer queues once new customs checks come in but as jonah hill reports now from kent many weren't impressed. in the dual light a traffic jam emerges a convoy of trucks simulating the lone queues for customs checks at britain's porch

following a new deal brinks it. this was a live exercise operation broke the government's plan to ease congestion on major southbound routes by diverting trucks to the disused manston airfield from there forming and procession through the kent countryside on smaller roads to dover port the contingency plan or traffic management measures the department of transport described it was given another label by one of the drivers involved having is a last minute thing because it was in the floors of the stock and it just was itself it is a bit of fun. to prove what. i get a lot to do in something. that's all that's all it was but it will be done nothing like money not even the local m.p. from the governing conservative party was particularly impressed i welcomed the both the transport ramping up preparations for this trial. just about one hundred

lorries when that ten thousand lorries come to the port every single day this isn't the right thing the better thing is to use. an airfield. it's estimated queues for customs checks at dover in the event of a no deal briggs it will stretch more than forty kilometers involving thousands of vehicles and taking many hours to resolve it wasn't immediately clear what this exercise involving just eighty nine trucks was designed to demonstrate a cynic might suggest that all this is political theater part of the government's last ditch efforts to convince doubting m.p.'s the tories amaze brings a deal but they'll be voting on next week is better than the chaos of a no deal exit from the european union where this live test did succeed was in showing off the very last minute nature of the government's no deal planning and it served as a timely reminder of the vexed state of british politics then they were going to

agree they don't agree on anything so then a little. it was one thing conservative woman brought up an incident that is is never never going to be one thing said it was going to be a thought. beyond that the relatively clear roads and a largely traffic free dover port on the first working day for many of the new year were misleading you know hardy few expect no deal to be an easy ride jonah al-jazeera southeast england. the worst of the great fragile crisis may now be over but the government is still having to ask for help to pay for major projects it's now asking its own citizens the contribution towards replacing its out they to naval fleet in a massive crowdfunding scheme and as john psaropoulos reports from asons it could be a case of history repeating itself. greece's thirteen frigates form the backbone of its navy but they are now three decades old

refitting them would cost more than half the price of a new fleet and without the capabilities so the heloc navy is looking for a brand new fleet and it's taking donations gallagher's a little if there's a call on great ship owners and greek citizens to contribute something from their surplus in a special account set up to acquire a new fleet of frigates and a new flagship greek defense spending has fallen by forty percent to six billion dollars during a decade of recession and even though it's still one of the biggest spenders in nato greece says it cannot afford new equipment and its traditional rival turkey now spends three times as much the problem is greeks already have the highest taxes in europe in an attempt to pay off the national debt and half the population still owes the government money if you give us no i won't contribute the country has much bigger priorities than buying weapons we need better salaries better pensions better health care and education all the things that make

a country civilized and where greece has fallen behind. the european union is a real union it will help with our defense complicating masses to form a defense ministers are now in jail for embezzlement one of them for the contracts that upgraded the frigate fleet with greeks overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million gold francs this enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this in one thousand nine hundred ten the george ball the name of its benefactor and helped greece defeat the ottoman empire a second time and double its territory in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered or supposedly one of the reasons the greeks want to stop the last revised upwards is

the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between. greece and cyprus which is in the east med very far from where it's used to prowling sensually becoming for what they call green water navy to a blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners a constantly helping the armed forces but fleet renewal costs many billions of dollars to cover it greece will need friends as well as family. friends. more to come on this news hour including the u.s. television interview egypt's government did not want you to see forty years after the end of the come a rule how can. the law. and

sport india's cricket team celebrates a whole story. test series. get a welcome back here in the national weather forecast here across europe we're seeing a slight break in the snow here across central europe but it's not to be lasting for very long because we have a new round of snow and this one's going to be followed by some very gusty winds across parts of central and northern europe take a forecast map here on tuesday the snow returns across much of central europe and then behind the system look at the winds we are expecting to see here across germany poland also back here across parts of the netherlands as well we're also going to be seeing some rain coming in from the north as well for berlin it's could be a rainy day for you but for vienna the snow is back with a temperature there of four degrees down here towards the southeast we're looking at more snow for parts of turkey you will finally get that break as we go towards

wednesday but another storm is brewing here across parts of italy and that is moving towards greece as well well for the other part of africa we are talking talking still some windy conditions across much of the area out here towards the east though it is the rain we could be dealing with alexandria you'll be seeing some rain showers in your forecast for cairo a mostly cloudy day for you here on tuesday at eighteen degrees but by the time we get to wednesday it is going to be mostly cloudy and we're going to see those tempers drop slightly to about sixteen degrees there tripoli windy conditions few with a temperature of sixteen and by ghazi attempt at sixteen as well. short films of the road and inspiration. stories of three young women challenging the world around them.

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welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera two soldiers involved in an attempted military coup in poland have been killed and five others arrested among them the man suspected of leading sudan's interior minister says more than eight hundred protesters have been arrested since anti-government demonstrations began almost three weeks ago and president trump are set to visit the mexican border on thursday in an attempt to pressure congress to fund his border war and end the partial government shutdown which is now in its seventeenth day. the american network c.b.s. says broadcast an interview with the egyptian president the spread of requests by cairo not to air it of the fact in c.c. told the program sixty minutes his country's forces were closely cooperating with the israeli military than estabrook has more u.s. television network c.b.s. said the egyptian government demanded it not air an interview with journalist scott

pelley it which probably question egyptian president. about a human rights watch report that claims egypt is detaining sixty thousand political prisoners many of whom belong to the muslim brotherhood the political party l.c.c. outlawed. i don't know where they got that figure i said there are no political prisoners in egypt and whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene regardless of their numbers. l.c.c. claimed any extremists that were being held would receive a fair trial a contradiction for rights activists who say many are in prison and face long detentions. pelley also questioned about his government and israel cooperating in the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant would you say that this is the deepest and closest cooperation that you've ever had with israel side that

is correct and therefore sometimes needs to cross to the israeli side and that's why we have a wide range of coordination with israel other than a slightly futile sequence it's been estimated there are about a thousand terrorists in sinai with more than a billion dollars in us military aid to every year why haven't you wiped them out with them as a limb to start that went in and why hasn't the us eliminated the terrorists in afghanistan after seventeen years and spending a trillion dollars l c c's comments could inflame public opinion in his country which regards israel as an occupier of arab lands the two countries have a forty year old peace treaty and diplomatic relations but despite that many egyptians still think of israel as the traditional enemy last year egypt's military denied press reports that it was cooperating with israel to root out i still affiliated fighting groups in the mountainous sinai region bordering the two

countries c.b.s. says the interview with the egyptian president was taped a few months ago but didn't say why it had been held until sunday dion estabrook al-jazeera. a senior who the official says a new round of talks between yemen's warring factions to could take place soon in jordan u.n. envoy martin who these before heading to riyadh in an effort to ensure a deal reached in sweden is fully implemented. has more. peace in yemen won't be easy but the united nations of void martin griffiths remains confident it will one day become a reality griffith's destroying the region to ensure all the parties will implement the agreement reached in sweden last month the deal calls for the who the is to hand over control of yemen's red sea port of her data of the warring factions

remain divided over who should step in and run the facility where much of the food aid comes in. the exiled government says it's ready to take over and move dismissed by the who thiis who don't recognize the government of president abdullah muscle handy. we hope peace efforts kick off a gratian comes to an end to belittle prevails in airports reopen. the u.n. wants to bring yemen's rival factions to a new round of talks to discuss ways to improve the economy and tackle the deteriorating humanitarian situation on his arrival martin griffiths was shown children affected by the almost four year old conflict. the war has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes yemen faces the worst humanitarian catastrophe in warden times according to recent estimates as

many as eighty five thousand children may have died of hunger since the start of the saudi u.a.e. led war against the houthi is the deal that was reached in sweden was the first breakthrough since the start of the war in two thousand and fourteen but the deal remains fragile and fighting has resumed in some areas and a prisoner exchange is on hold. the internationally recognized government insists the who these must hand over their weapons and pull out of the capital sanaa before there is any final peace deal but the houthi is who controlled most of the country remains adamant there are yemen's legitimate leaders. celebrations are being had to mark forty years since the fall of the brutal camero . around two million people were killed under their rule january seventh is known

as victory over genocide they are simply nation day reports from. cambodian father and son reflecting on the darkest of times for this nation as it marks forty years since the fall of the camaro rouge seen by many here as a rebirth for the country. at sixty eight oatley is lucky during the four years the camero rouge ruled cambodia from one thousand nine hundred five to seventy nine almost one in five people died that's nearly two million from either execution starvation or disease lisa says he still has to feed his family and was tortured when he was caught. and i am thankful for what happened and you know what has happened. and my family from starvation. but the the i don't feel that we had the freedom from the floor and we lost that authority to the vietnamese but some feel that regardless of the deep emotional and physical scars

from the camaro rouge regime those four years need to be remembered through education and memorials like at one of the infamous killing fields just outside penn. so it's. very hard even though you want to but we cannot. so. almost seventy percent of cambodia population is under the age of thirty born at least ten years after the fall of the camaro rues now most of them feel as though this country is dark period it shouldn't and cannot be forgotten but that the government and the nation must not dwell on the past leeson any met was born after the camaro rouge regime he now has a son all three generations are hoping for more. i make an effort today for the next generation with my son to help them have much

more than i did try not to compare things in the past too much because even in my time things have changed so much. the only surviving senior camaro rouge leaders were found guilty of genocide just two months ago by war crimes tribunals. while the brutal regime came to an end thanks to a vietnamese led invasion the government underlines the need for independence conflict of the forty years ago was a mistake a foreign interference it was a mistake a cold war so that's why to prevent to have. me a new young state i things are going to be and dignity and independent is a must and it's a cambodian tradition to release birds to shed bad luck as the people here feel lucky the chapter of oppression and genocide is behind them and many still are hoping for more more freedom and more opportunity it's got harder al-jazeera phnom penh the french government is hardening its stance on unofficial demonstrations

introducing legislation to toughen sanctions on protesters it's in response to the yellow vests protests across france that started in mid november and have often turned violent the prime minister told french television the right to demonstrate must be preserved but people who break the law must be sanctioned by the highest profile trial yet in the french catholic church sexual abuse scandal has begun in the city of leone the archbishop of the onus charged with failing to report serious abuse allegations in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's there are even ports. sixty eight year old cardinal from the one of the most prominent catholic figures in france arrived for the start of his court proceedings the archbishop of leon is accused of helping to cover up abuse in one of his parishes five others from his diocese are also facing charges. the case is about father bernard crennel who has acknowledged abusing boys and is set to be

tried later this year more than eighty five people say he abused them during the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. his alleged victims came to court hoping for answers. that the cardinal is responsible for the diocese of leon.