thing that was being spoken about by donald trump and not necessarily by other republican candidates these concerns were heightened as trump played to existing anxieties. ted division has been in politics for forty years for him it would be a mistake to think that fake news has no impact on american i like toro behavior here's what's happening in our politics people are consuming information entirely different ways that we used to you know when i started doing presidential campaigns when jimmy carter you know has an office i mean if we turn on the news at six thirty at night we'd watch three networks at once and that was the way america essentially consume news now there is a constant flood of information both on television in the cable environment and particularly online you know that that online consumption of information is having a real effect on things because what's happening is the legitimate media is being

supplanted by you know this fake news where people get information which sounds like it's real and true but has no basis in fact and in fact much of it is just made up and delivered you know by people who are attempting to you know affect the outcome in an election by introducing false narrative and information into the flow of information so you know so yeah i think it does have a real impact. like of regard for the truth became more apparent than in any other us presidential campaign. according to politico fact an independent fact checking websites only four percent of donald trump statements during the campaign were true false information was constantly circulating in fact it became self-propagating you have to look at our media landscape and how americans get their news nowadays conservatives get their news only from fox news or alternatives. it's like breitbart so that's the only news they see and they view

the manged what they call the liberal media the mainstream media with distrust and they don't believe the kind of c.n.n. new york times washington post so they are only getting their news or large most of their news from very slanted sources and so what trump will say trump picks up his information from the same news sources these voters hear something conspiracy theory and breitbart news or something on fox trump here is a two says it and the voters are for i've heard that heard on the news and i heard that from president trump so he must be telling the truth there and a silo and it's really hard to break out silos so it's a self reinforcing cycle of mystery. it became more difficult to discern fact from fiction and the traditional press was brushed aside sort of a way that these campaigns have you know traditionally been covered and. and that model of campaign coverage was not sort of created with donald trump in my hands

trump's disregard for making true statements is something that a lot of reporters have had trouble dealing with as we're not used to it we're not used to politicians or press people just sort of straight out lying the mainstream media is disrupted and because the mainstream media is disrupted truth is disrupted and if truth is disrupted you can just spread your advantage that. i didn't know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. eighty three eighty three will serve boulevard and address among the most prestigious offices in los angeles behind these windows at number one thousand or a few companies that would seem to have no connection. the first is brit regarded as a platform for the so-called right. the second is going to ring steel it's

a small audio visual production company and these companies are linked to a billionaire who's rarely in the public eye. his name robert mercer. he is co c.e.o. of a hedge fund firm renaissance technologies whose ranks he's been climbing since one nine hundred ninety three. carol cadwallader has been investigating this computer engineer turned billionaire robot is he is an absolutely brilliant scientist. really pioneering work. in the sixty's and in the field of natural language processing which is the base of. basically and he was that royce at the start of it and working out how to do my machine translation between languages so that google

translates which we use all the time. to send and of the work that he did you know he is without doubt one of the brilliant computer engineers of his generation and he was just an ordinary middle class guy doing a professional job and he got an offer from renascence technologies this hedge fund . and he did. it was in the early ninety's that robert mercer left i.b.m. to work for run a song technologies. there he applied his methods of calculation on the stock exchange in order to predict its fluctuations. at technologies he pioneered. algorithmic trading which now is you know massive field written source so it's something which still remains

a big secret about hard to make profit in markets but the origin of it is in applying a. computer techniques to the data we've got worrying about fear of where the economy is going or what are the actual meaning of instruments or trading if you're buying wheat. or if you're buying a car company. you don't really care that it's a car company or that it's wheat you just look at the performance of these futures or these stocks and the key thing was to view this just as a set of numbers by applying his mathematical tools robert mercer revolutionized renaissance technologies investment methods making it the world's most profitable fund into this. mess it became very rich source because the performance of the fund which he had his own money and. was extraordinary i mean if it goes up thirty

percent thirty five percent every year then pretty quickly you become very rich. robert mercer is known to be very private he almost never speaks publicly. even google has a difficult time producing photos of the few that exist are always the same. there is also a poor quality video a public speech in twenty fourteen during a ceremony in his honor. i. found out after i sure i'll accept this award that i would have to make it all right some topic or other for an hour now which by the way. is more than i typically talk and in a month. robert mercer might have quietly enjoyed his new fortune but he decided to invest in politics. he's been

recognized as one of the most generous republican donors since twenty ten. merce's donations appear to be motivated by his own special interests. the political system in america is so broken right now because of the special interest money which floods campaigns i mean what happens is when the special interests have an agenda and if you're annoyed company for example and you'd like to continue you know drilling for fossil fuel you know or your polluter and you want to make sure you can continue to pollute you go in and you support politicians who believe in your agenda politicians who will say for example that you know climate change is not happening because of manmade activities you know they will they will promote that publicly because that protects the special interests who fund their campaigns. robert mercer set up his own

foundation. the mercer family foundation. headed by his daughter rebecca. but what exactly are these special interests he's protecting. it's hard to say since robert mercer never expresses his opinions publicly in a way you'll never know what's going on in robert nurse's brain so just look that's what is funding a little money that way and i think back on a bill for the page. to understand the ideas that robert mercer wants to promote we can look at where he's been spending we can do so with tax documents declarations of the foundation's fiscal allocations for the years twenty twelve to twenty fifteen mercer financed a number of institutes and lobbies among them the heritage foundation which fights taxes and economic regulation one point five million dollars the media research

center which fights leftist media bias twelve million dollars the government accountability institute which tracks government corruption and publishes books against hillary clinton three point seven million dollars the heartland institute which defends climate change skeptics two point eight million dollars. in new york he even paid for an ad denouncing the construction of a mosque near ground zero in just two years robert mercer became one of the ten most influential billionaires in politics according to the washington post's. in twenty eleven breitbart news the right wing online newspaper was in financial difficulty. mercer saw an opportunity and he invested ten million dollars in the website. the executive chairman of breitbart was

a prominent figure closely linked to trump's campaign stephen bannon. a former goldman sachs trader he became a hollywood producer in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he wanted to make films and t.v. series to. his ultra conservative political views. mercer and bannon are very closely associated and by mercer associating himself with somebody like steve better that maybe that may be a clue to his interpret versus personal views. in a few months abandon made breitbart an outlet dedicated to reactionary ideas. you see that with the breitbart publications over the course of many years it was someone like bannon who just proclaims this publicly that they're going to take on these a situations and they're going to try to deconstruct the government of the united states to pursue the agenda that they have which is to you know

fundamentally change this nation and turn it into you know a place where people experience a level of division that i don't think we've seen since you know going back to the civil war. robert mercer had built a political media network. to promote his ideas he was only missing one thing a candidate. in twenty fifteen he began by supporting texas senator ted cruz a figurehead of the american far right. but after donald trump surprise victory in the republican primaries he placed his bet on trump. robert mercer created a pro trump political action committee called make america number one endowed with fifteen million dollars his role in trump's campaign quickly expanded. in july twenty sixth seen a dinner was held in

a hotel in new york. it brings together among others rebecca robert mercer's daughter and donald trump the dinner resulted in key campaign changes. trump's campaign manager was replaced. the chair of making america number one rebecca mercer whose family also fund the super pac. was able to influence the trump campaign to hire stephen bannon as campaign c.e.o. . steve benen became donald trump's campaign director. kellyanne conway who headed the mercer political action committee for ted cruz became number two. david bossie a mercer family stalwart became number three. robert mercer has assembled team was in place. bannon basi and conaway would from this point forward steer the republican candidate strategy. when the merc versus decide

to support a candidate they expect the candidates to be responsive to their needs both in terms of how the candidate runs their campaign it also also after if the kid is successful and there are and they are elected as an office holder it's reasonable to presume that the mercers expect that the office holder will be responsive to the mercer's needs needs as well and their policy preferences. robert mercer his plan was proving to be successful. but a mistake was made that made steve bannon's role controversial. here is what was discovered by looking at donald trump's official campaign books each of these lines corresponds to an expense during his five month tenure there was no trace of payments for steve benen. but when we look at the payments made by robert mercer as political action committee one name appears several times. glittering steel

a video production company. in total the company received three hundred two thousand five hundred dollars from the committee in five months the company is run by steve benen. that would mean that his work for trump's official campaign might have been paid via glittering steel which would be illegal campaign financing . the campaign legal center decided to file a complaint. and . steve bannon faced a fine and an investigation by the justice department. we

believe or we think it's possible that the super pac make america number one was subsidizing stephen bannon's work for the trump campaign of ai making payments abandoned through glittering steel at all see this consulting firms last movie production company located in california at the same address as an ins own consulting firm. glittering steel and breitbart are not the only companies tied to the trump campaign eighty three eighty three will serve boulevard in los angeles also hosts cambridge analytic a company that came under the spotlight for its influence in politics around the globe. cambridge analytical claim to have revolutionary data modeling techniques that can change political campaigning. it was a subsidiary of an english firm and its role in donald trump's campaign is regarded as manipulation of public opinion.

until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was about covering khuda todd's tragedies of quakes and that was it but not well how can people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go. five and a half months out demanding it when education system that was introduced to. latin america this year as i have to fill a void that needed to be filled. in search of a safer neighborhood it was a huge blow making a house into our stuff being a man who can put my family in a hole did they deserve that's a problem for me struggling to secure a home through a really quite of our military does all that and though we don't we could potentially lose our house and living paycheck to paycheck there's nobody to blame

and live with the consequences every day of the choices that have made hard. on al-jazeera. your children their arms are horrible in doha these are all top stories mourners have attacked a police vehicle at the funeral of one of the latest victims of weeks of

antigovernment unrest in sudan they were seen turning over a police vehicle hundreds have been attending the burial of sixty year old man who was reportedly killed by security forces local media say he was offering refuge to armed protesters in his home when he was shot but because of the army the doctor was also killed as was the teenager amnesty international says at least forty people have died since protests against price rises and the president began last month as the latest from the capital. protesters are once again in the streets particularly in the eastern suburbs and that has been going on since the early hours of the morning after the burial of sixty year old maja bashir a man who was shot yesterday during the protests but he succumbed to these wounds only this morning in the hospital anger has mounted after the killing of this man and also two other people fourteen year old boy and doctor. leading years democrats

say a president told trump who would have obstructed justice if you instructed his former personal attorney to lie before congress trump is reported to have told a lawyer michael cohen to lie about building up a building project in moscow the chairman of the house intelligence committee alum schiff says that he will do all he can to establish the truth. the african union has called on the democratic republic of congo to perspire own the announcement of its final presidential election results saying there are serious doubts over the vote but the government has rejected the call. for an appeals panel at the international criminal court has granted a last minute request to extend the detention of the former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo prosecutors of us to keep him in jail while the appeal against his acquittal he was tried over post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed by both still faces a twenty year jail term back home for financial crimes. israeli forces have

demolished the family home of a palestinian teenager accused of murdering an american israeli civilian israeli soldiers surround the home of jeopardy in the occupied west bank village of friday the seventeen year old is charged with stabbing a u.s. shopping well in sept about those the headlines about the al-jazeera news in hoffa to stay with us. the election of the forty fifth president of the united states raised ethical and potentially legal questions. the possibility to undermine basic democratic principles has significantly increased. there will be no allies we will honor the american people with the truth and nothing else. the headquarters of

a firm little known to the general public called s.c.l. group strategic communication laboratories is located in the harder for london. in these offices data scientists compiled and analyzed terabytes of personal information. their objective was to determine what motivates human behavior in order to influence a. they specialize in psyops. which is. a military term psychological operations it's a whole discipline it's an academic subject it can be used in different ways. the firm is very clear about its services on its.

clients include nato the british ministry of defense the n.s.a. and the u.s. state department. as c.l. has helped identify key leaders in afghanistan facilitating u.s. intervention. it's also organized communications for vaccination campaign in ghana. but the company's practices remain questionable. it's a way of not change people that's the working towards better outcomes for them but it also can be used to manipulate people without being aware and it can and has been used by authoritarian regimes. the company organized protests in nigeria in two thousand and seven to win fluence the elections. s.e.a.l.

also intervened during an election on the island of st vincent in the caribbean. as . he did for example it is not just on his own what he meant to have he just really moved it clear program of occlusion a stance pretty for school of candidates to preserve a can have once program for kids over four hundred to four for a player of his who. ensured. c.l. sets up ultra targeted influenced strategies. the advent of the web and the vast amount of data circulating created an entirely new dimension of business. in order to extend their market as c.l. group created a new subsidiary in the us cambridge analytic tech seven i wanted to suggest that a structure just doesn't take them but it is it does it was it says you need can bridge and into the cue ball fit on the ball and i'm so just. to create

cambridge analytics partnered with the american billionaire robert mercer a mathematician specialized in data. steve bannon served as vice president of the firm. from the outset the objective was clear nothing less than a revolution in the election campaign process despite multiple interview requests cambridge analytical has refused to speak with us. but it's possible to understand the work they did by simply watching their advertisements political campaigns have changed they're no longer about running the most t.v. spots sending out the most direct mail or spending the most money they're about who spends the smartest money in today's political world what campaigns are getting more expensive in elections are won by small but crucial numbers of votes putting

the right message in front of the right person at the right moment is more important than ever this is where cambridge analytical in our revolutionary data modeling techniques can help. it sounds like a more logical approach to campaign strategizing however the reality is more complex and above all much murkier than cambridge and in that it was willing to admit it. since coming to the. united states the firm embarked on an unprecedented operation to compile data on the american population without its knowledge here's how it works. imagine that inside this car is mr x. like anyone he leaves thousands of pieces of personal information on the internet his address age income hobbies purchases religion and whether or not he owns a gun. cambridge analytic legally bought this data from credit companies

banks social security and web giants like facebook google and twitter. in total the firm claim to possess about four to five thousand pieces of data for over two hundred thirty million adults living in the united states. this is how they plan to use its traditional political campaigns use geography and demographics like age and gender to break down voters into target groups this can work up to a point but it misses the important personal details that really drive voter behavior we combine geographic and demographic information with up to five thousand data points of national political consumer and lifestyle behavior for every voter in the united states then we add a unique extra layer of data about personality decisionmaking and motivation. this

creates an unparalleled rich and detailed view of voters in the issues they care about so you know exactly who to target with exactly what type of message we call this behavioral micro targeting our team of data scientists psychologists and campaign experts can show you which individual voters you need to win over in order to secure victory. the idea is to give people psychological tests and then compare the results with the in from. nation they already have on them to know what motivates them and thus influence their vote it's a technique that existed before cambridge analytical one of its inventors teaches psychometrics at stanford university california his name is michelle kosinski metrics is basically a science of psychological measurement so basically have not is that instead of using question to ask you about your thoughts feelings experiences and past

behavior such as are you a well organized person you can basically look at your digital footprints and see whether you in fact i well organized person in real life. tests to determine a person's psychological traits are called ocean tests they measure personality based on five criteria. openness conscientiousness extroversion agreeableness and neuroticism. it's done with seemingly innocuous questionnaires that can be completed online like these. in two thousand and eight said michelle kosinski created the most famous of these tasks on facebook called my personality a questionnaire to learn more about yourself. became really popular we had over six

million people to take the question there and a large fraction of these people also donated their facebook profile information to us and from this information you can use. algorithms to transform this information into a very detailed and very i curate intimate profiles so as a result of michelle kosinski hospital largest psychometric database in the world a database he can cross-reference with the facebook profiles of the six million people who respond. so basically you can ten your facebook likes into an accurate prediction of your political views religious views your personality intelligence happiness sexual intake or even what are your parents were divorced or not people often ask me how accurate those algorithms are at predicting our intimate traits and i think that a great example comes from our recent study where we have compared the curacy of

algorithms with accuracy of other people so what we did we took friends and family members of our participants and we asked these friends and family members to feel in personality question as in the name of our participants now we would provide algorithm with a set of facebook likes and have it do the same thing so based on your facebook likes trying to predict your personality the results of this experiment are staggering by studying ten of your likes on facebook the algorithm knows you better than your call the. with one hundred likes it knows you better than your family. and with two hundred thirty likes it knows you better than your spouse. now given how much footprints how many footprints we're living every day while using internet and splaying of our phones. it basically means that computers can clearly know us

better in many ways than even our close family member this. prediction of human behavior through the combination of personal data and psychological tests is shockingly accurate. david garrow is a media professor at parsons university in new york. he battled for months to retrieve the data that cambridge analytical had on him. he was amazed by what he discovered. this is the excel spreadsheet that they provided it is broken into three tabs core data election returns and models the model on the one hand personal data that the firm has gathered from the web and then my registered now this is all the voter data here and this is what would

normally be public in voter records but it it's all accurate it has the day i registered to vote it has figured out my birthday my address the zip code down to you know all of my address it's connected it to census information and it's connected to all the different kinds of elections so u.s. congressional state senate state house state legislative then you have some consumer information here like the designated mark information and f i p s it is another kind of consumer voter code and when you're on the other hand the psychometric interpretation of his personality together that's how you can really zero in and target the model is my profile so you can see the different topics were ranked in order of importance my registered. artisanship my underage mr partisanship you clearly see who their client was it didn't measure me as a democrat or republican just a very unlikely republican and you can also see sort of the model itself is in the

interest of sort of finding. conservative voters especially conservative voters who might be registered as a democrat but are actually going to vote republican so being able to go down to the zip code level and then reus o.c. that to all other election districts allows you to geo target. so precisely and that's how you're going to move the needle in u.s. elections i think if americans knew this was happening and happening internationally they would be outraged. funded by robert mercer and headed by steve benen naturally cambridge on a little car would offer its services to candid donald trump. by late june twenty sixth seen the partnership with a done deal. on july the twenty ninth the first payment was sent to the company you can find it's in the campaign account. with four payments between july and

october twenty sixth in cambridge an emoticon would receive nearly six million dollars. at the same time the political action committee for donald trump funded by robert mercer paid cambridge analytic top five million dollars between november twenty fifth in november twenty sixth in. ultimately the firm would receive eleven million dollars to work with the trump campaign. a digital targeting strategy was made possible and set to run for donald trump. all that was needed was a way to put it to use in the american elections certainly beat some camp which include cambridge analytical saw something in the american electorate that the clinton campaign and the media certainly did not see. it's been reported that thanks to cambridge analytic has knowledge of the electorate trumps advisors devise

the highly targeted strategy based on the particularities. of the u.s. voting system. in the united states the president is not elected directly by the people but by the electoral college appointed in each of the fifty states. not all states have the same number of electors making some states more important to win than others. the trump camp suspected that they would not win the national vote so with strategists decided to concentrate on the state. knowing that they would lose the national popular vote. how do you win well you win by capturing the electoral college how do you do that you try and figure out a way of where you can go to appeal to relatively small numbers of people he was going to places that a lot of people thought why is he doing that he shouldn't be doing that he should

be going someplace someplace else we didn't there was a strategy of looking at places that had been thought of as consistently democratic states states like michigan wisconsin and pennsylvania all three of which mr trump carried on in november. this was the strategy reportedly recommended by cambridge and america not to try to convince millions of voters across the entire nation to vote for trump but rather to target only the tens of thousands that the firm knew through its analyses were hesitating. if you are somebody who's. clever. and you're just you're looking i mean what he does algorithmic trading it's all about finding the tiniest edge is that tiny tiny tiny edge that you have of your competitors that you can leverage and make a massive difference and that's the money and i think this idea of using data

and the potential manipulation through a platform facebook is that just enough to give you that edge that then you can exploit through things like faith and all these other techniques and tactics. here are the techniques that motion by the data scientists i cambridge i'm. using the information they had on the other words they defined thirty two types of personalities throughout the country. it's believed that individualized messages were sent targeting those considered to be the most concerned about issues. as discussed by trump during his campaign. the firm identified many such voters in three states wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania three states bay believed could swing in favor of trump. in

a press release cambridge analytical openly explained its strategy. there remains one question that the firm does not address just how did they reach these targeted voters. they did it using a little known facebook feature dark posts. they do sit in on top is when bashed his book. massage. and book readers from determined that it christmas search for certain movies you said because one of them a certain about but it's all of. those i cannot expect out of it if the decline the

depth of but only design to yourself is a book i make them as such but also when they get if not conjured up make critical mistakes are not so i thought as for this christmas as the above but i had the manuscript it. is so dark posts are very personalized messages visible only to the person for whom they are intended how does that work exactly let's go back to mr x. analysis of his online data i can determine whether or not he's in favor of carrying firearms a message can then be created targeting him did you know that hillary clinton wants to take your gun away. he'll receive this message in his facebook news feed at a specific time courting to has happened and digital fingerprints. no one but him will see the targeted ads and it will disappear a few hours later. as no record of them you've got no way of investigating that

you have no idea who saw what and this is democracy taking place in darkness it's not democracy if you're going to have a political debate have you out in the open you know who is arguing what and here is being told what and the idea of just sort of like sneakily targeting people with who know what's on their phones and on their computer and anything to make you think they could have been saying anything we'll never know because that's gone when it's on facebook said it's is interesting thanks but they're not giving up. this digital strategy for the trump campaign was focused on the last few weeks. on november the eighth twenty sixteen against all odds trump took wisconsin by twenty three thousand votes michigan by eleven thousand and pennsylvania by forty three

thousand. in total seventy seven thousand votes in these three key states kerry trying to victory when he was three million votes behind over the entire country. the digital targeting strategy had proved effective we can see that approximately seventy thousand voters made the decision for everyone else because they were the ones in the districts that ended up deciding where they think this highlights as well our electoral college system is a vulnerability that if software and data allows the most important voters to be easily. found it and diminishing the vote of everyone else effectively. politics and democracy was the next industry to fall we knew that technology interrupted newspapers. and music and it was like actually

harry we've been talking all this time about how great you know technology is it. the next disruptive technology and i was like this is technology disrupting politics and and it's not just politics it's democracy and donald trump is the great disrupt. after trump's election when two former employees of cambridge analytic claim that the front collected the data of tens of millions of facebook users. collection was done in violation of privacy policies. christopher wiley was the first whistleblower he's the former director of research at cambridge analytics. britney kaiser the former business development director was the second. on march the twentieth twenty eighteen c.e.o. of cambridge alexander nix was suspended after secret recordings were broadcast off

next boasting if using fake news campaigns and honey traps to affect election campaigns globally. on may the second twenty eighteen s e l group announced that it was filing for insolvency and closing all of its operations including its subsidiary cambridge analytical. cambridge analytical stated that it has been vilified for activities that are legal and widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arena. however the acceptance of this digital strategy continues to be challenged as the manipulation of public opinion becomes clearer. donald trump's campaign strategy expose democracy to new threats however it also

drew more attention to data technologies role in politics around the globe. unless there were a significant change in privacy policies personal online data can continue to be used to destruct politics all over the world. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis however there is still flooding in the argentine pompous extending across the border into europe wide touching bits of brazil as well the

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cause the whole role and this is the al-jazeera news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes mourners turned on sudanese police not the funeral of one of the latest victims of government violence. also democrats say the investigate claims that president from border has attorney to lawyer to the u.s. congress. also the african union says it has serious doubts about the democratic republic of congo's election and asks for a decision over the final results to be delayed. and i'm peter all of your supporters coming up including. at the asian cup qatar beat saudi arabia in the first match between the scenes since. saudi led blockade of qatar began nineteen months ago. welcome to the news of mourners in sudan have attacked the police vehicle at the funeral of one of the latest victims of antigovernment and rust hundreds have been

attending the burial of a. sixty year old man who was reportedly killed by security forces amnesty international says at least forty people have died since protests against price rises on the president began last month also jabari as the latest for you know how i was the anger of these protesters was clear at the funeral of one of the latest victims who was killed on thursday at the hands of security forces was according to reports he was six years old and was shot on wednesday for offering refuge to protesters you know what is going on a little. he is not the only victim a doctor and a child were also killed at the hands of security forces on thursday in the capital hard to. and at the doctors funeral on friday further protests broke out.

chanting freedom at an impromptu sit in outside a hospital in khartoum was these protesters were initially under way to the presidential palace to demand president omar bashir to end his nearly three decades in office. but the latest victims bodies were brought here so they change their path. freedom peace and justice is their slogan and these people are not showing any signs of going away on thursday demonstrators clashed with police yet again in the capital hard to know. the activists say at least fifty people have been killed since the protests began on. december nineteenth that's when the government decided to raise the price of bread but the authorities say that number is twenty eight well believe me here still more on either one of our demands or the demands of everyone and god willing we will continue in the group be successful our protest today is large and we are going in

the right direction. soaring inflation and high unemployment have led to these protests that are fast becoming the most sustained challenge to the rule of omar al bashir in three decades. without going to the will he remains defiant for now saying they are being organized by external agents and ordering the security forces to use tear gas and life and initial against the crowds both the e.u. and the un have urged restraint be we reaffirm that we care about the young and their concerns we call on the young to be positive and preserve their country and not listen to cause that they stabilized today and it's security. but it's not just the young on the streets they seem to be coming from all walks of life. and this period of discontent in sudan looks set to continue. the door such a pari al-jazeera. the have

a morgan sent us this update from the protest in. i'm back to bristol with the leaders of the protesters and once again we see hundreds of people coming out for testing that the police used live ammunition and tear gas to protect to kill them such as you know speak on a shop you know we see people saying that they've had enough of this the fact that they come up peace with the fact that they've left and you feel that they're met with force is very frustrating for them because they're just trying to avoid their demand that president obama should step down that they want to very decent lives will start to be used to talk to people to get to this day that all they want is for their demands to be heard all they want is for him to step down and handle partit interim council now these protests are going on for a month three people were killed yesterday two of them from the area where i am right now people are saying that they want the police to be back for what they have done they want the police to be held accountable it's not clear how far this would go where this was and obviously this has been going on for months like i said amnesty international says at least forty people have been killed activists to flee

safety with the government saying that the death toll it's taking for now people are saying that it doesn't matter what the government with who the president is going to try to treat or form the president that he's going to try to prove the economic situation but people are saying they put his promises over and over again and the only thing they want is for him to step down and be somebody else to control the crossroads or to define president with that he's not going to step down and between the people who say they will continue to protest until he does. so. is president of doctors union in the united kingdom she joins me now from warrant ch in the east of the country good to have you with us on the program just your initial reaction to what's going on in sudar from what your colleagues in the medical world are telling you. it has been very. sad that we have lost one of our biggest a day

before yesterday when he was trying to say lance. the medical sector as part of this provision that's it's huge and has the enhanced right now for four weeks from elected. court cases but they have been part of this is an uprising and they have been participating in that industry and supporting and helping out rescuing casualties and what happened yesterday on. am is a tragedy that i got going towards peacefully doing his job but he was shut down the ports from the hospital home why police want to get tried to save his life that we had only worry about the shoot to kill him attitude to the fact that the bullet that was used seemed to be explosive and that's just the you know like an object and therefore he said bible. is impossible and that don't you

think it's height ok mr in terms of the types of in terms of the types of injuries that your colleagues in sudar not treating can you tell us the types of injuries but they have been treating and what sort of volumes of people we've got conflicting reports about how many people generally are injured across the country might be of course hard to get to a ballpark figure but perhaps you can paint the picture for us. and it's very difficult to know to look at number of injuries we know of heart serious injuries and those who have been doing that get those who have and. or those who had any operation but then why did you people who have been injured minor injuries or were they to spread into really sentence because of gas because you have to know that had been thrown inside hostage goes inside imaginative apartment inside houses and in synagogues and as we had recently. shoot to kill even inside

houses so this this that my only hope. is. for protests there to come inside to protect them that we have to remember these are not criminals they should not be chased they should not be should not be killed . himself and. there in terms of your colleagues across sudar many of them will be working inside government run hospitals run under the all spaces of khartoum so are they concerned about that position as doctors having to treat those that are demonstrating knowing that the authorities could enter the hospital at any time and the rest any demonstrator accuse them of crimes against the state. so we are very aware of these risks and people are discussing them but again that then we have an obligation. so people couldn't

seem to cover the you know emergency departments public hospitals are going to have been escalated now that they have decided not to cover the military and security forces hospitals seriously has stepped up. the feeling of. really it's going to sleep peacefully for the moment i will have to leave it there sara julie in norwich thanks so much for joining us from the u.k. appreciate your time. leaving us politician says a new allegation about donald trump is one of the most serious so far the u.s. president is reported to have told lawyer michael cohen to lie about a building project in moscow the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff says that he will do all he can't with stubble is the truth when our white

house correspondent joins me now from washington d.c. and one wonders how damaging and dangerous these latest accusations are for president trump now that the democrats are saying that they're going to investigate . well you know we've heard this story and percolation have it for so long that it's easy to kind of dismiss this latest development as just being another chapter but in this case this is pretty serious what essentially the reporting here is from one us publication is that donald trump directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie to congress in testimony essentially lying under oath so he has the allegations are that the president directed michael cohen to commit perjury this is certainly an impeachable offense because it's against the law but what we have here right now is an allegation from one publication citing two i named law enforcement officials so it has to be proven and the task is now on the

democrats in order to do that but the reporting it is coming out also says that within these allegations there is also apparently according to these law enforcement officials evidence in the special counsel's office and in his investigation that concludes not only that this is true but that there are text messages as well as e-mails to back up these claims and of course. feeds into sort of the trump rush occlusion investigation it's highly damaging as a piece of information if it is true and that's the issue that we have to highlight here if it's true kimberly full the pressure is all the president and his team the pressure is on because we've had sort of further revelations to some of the things which have been known but not to this detail what seems to be coming out of this reporting and from these law enforcement sources is not only that the

president directed michael cohen to lie to congress about that trump tower project in moscow but also that he supported a plan to visit russia.