a lot of people taking the president's threats too seriously to shut down the u.s. southern border given especially that this is now the second time that president trump has backed down on that threat to shut down the border there also demonstrations earlier today on the u.s. side both for and against the president's visit a lot of people coming out of their homes here in the city of mexico on the mexican side of the border peeking through the border wall wanting to catch a glimpse of the u.s. of the u.s. president but while we're on the subject of the border one of the things that president trump was out here doing was touring a section of the wall that the white house has characterized as a new section of wall but there are no new sections of wall actually under construction this contradicts the president's statements that there is quote a lot of wall being built there's reinforcement of the wall there repairs being made parts of the war being are being heightened a little bit given that you can see here it's not very high it's more or less easy for people to jump over into the united states but we should stress that there are

no new sections of wall being built still ahead on the most in the battle that could go on a sign much longer as to reason may seek send number today and the pharmaceuticals family under pressure in the u.s. from going on twelve to support. high once again we still have some rather large moving across parts of the middle east that does mean that we are going to see for the flooding concerns to the west inside of iran a lot of clouds still showing up here it's making its way across iraq so there will be some wet weather around as we go on through saturday those showers sliding over towards the caspian sea and the area cloud just rolls into wards deliver and. well

seasoned that weather from time to time just pushing across syria lebanon jordan or the process serious seeing the heaviest of the rainfall and hopeful by the time we come to sunday will turn somewhat draw into that western side of iran the cloud makes its way down across the gulf is still in with the possibility of a few spots of rain in this region i think that though we find in july and the temperatures they are starting to ramp up thirty one celsius on saturday similar values to go on into sunday a possibility of the all spotted right nothing much has bake up is there nevertheless meanwhile more than just the spots of writing to eastern parts of south africa has had some really big downpours here recently saturday looks a little drier showers just around the coastal fringes they move out of the way as we go on through sunday want to two of them coming into high rise and make fun and dry with some showers there the still intense and. the weather sponsored by countdown. thousands of people have been killed raped or mutilated in south sudan's

civil war u.n. report says government forces and other militia are financing the conflict with money from the country's oil industry you want to never allow that rape in south sudan and we will never tolerate this south sudan's oil minister told us to want to see her. good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories the u.n. security council has told libyan war and his forces to stop their advance on the

capital tripoli secretary-general antonio terrorists has met both the u.n. recognize government and hatha to try and deescalate the situation hundreds of thousands of algerians have rallied in the capital for the seventh week they are demanding changes despite the resignation of longtime president. and the lower house of the u.s. congress is sowing donald trump's government over has a merchant declaration to get funds for his for potus border war they say he acted unconstitutionally visited the mexico border and says the u.s. is. now to yemen where cholera is surging the number of suspected cases has doubled in the past but the u.n. fears that a mix of warm weather and seasonal rains will make things worse as report. this is one of yemen's main hospitals and it's for cholera cases are spreading fast bringing an influx of old and young. i brought my sick son to the hospital the

prescribed medicine but it's not available we have to go looking for it outside pharmacies. yemen has endured a series of cholera outbreaks since the beginning of the saudi u.a.e. led war four years ago last year doctors managed to contain the outbreaks but last month more than seventy six thousand new suspected cholera cases were registered the u.n. fears a latest outbreak could be as bad as the one in two thousand and seventeen which killed more than three thousand people. and that this hospital is considered a main health center the number of cases we've dealt with at up to about one thousand about forty percent have tested positive for cholera it's a crisis for the local government of tice. yeah most families in yemen can't afford to get sick prices are high and treatment is limited and most vividly death at them is that the hospital lab doesn't offer the tests that we need some of them cost

anywhere from seven to fifteen dollars outside the hospital and i don't have enough money we don't even have enough money to pay for the transportation to get here how can i pay this. cholera is spread primarily through polluted food and water the war has damaged the country's infrastructure making conditions ripe for contamination. these patients are fighting for their lives it's unlikely the disease will be brought under control until the war ends and rebuilding begins. lucas' with a young al-jazeera. the u.s. has revoked the entry visa for the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court for the one so that was planning to investigate accusations of war crimes by u.s. forces and afghanistan secretary of state by palm peo said the u.s. which isn't a member of the i.c.c. what were the draw what an i.v. is this to i.c.c. stop the vesta getting such allegations alan fisher has more from washington d.c.

. this is all been brewing since late twenty seventeen when for two of a suit the said that she wanted to investigate the potential of war crimes being committed in afghanistan not just by u.s. forces but also by the taliban and the haqqani network she was keen to concentrate on the period between two thousand and three and two thousand and four and not just things that happened in afghanistan but also so-called black sites were u.s. military u.s. intelligence to so-called high profile targets for interrogation know some detainees were suggesting that they had experienced torture they'd experienced rape and experienced sexual violence as far as the i.c.c. was concerned that was enough for them to begin the process of investigating the u.s. was very much against this idea saying that any investigation by the i.c.c. would impinge on u.s. sovereignty they were also saying that they would stop anyone coming into the

country hence the revoking of the entry visa and they also talked about the potential of economic sanctions if that was not enough to damp down these investor . gay sions haired un experts human rights experts have said this is improper infringement of the what of the i.c.c. but the us says that all they're doing is simply protecting american citizens who are doing what they were asked to do to protect the united states now when the prosecutor had her entry visa revoked that does not impact on the work that she does with the u.n. she can still apply as a diplomat to go to the u.n. to brief the security council as she's done in the past and she will do so again we are told by her office but it's also important to note that the united states is not a member of the i.c.c. now there are other big countries such as russia and china.

european council president on top of proposing a flexible twelve month delay for exit u.k. prime minister has asked the e.u. for a three month extension until the end of june but any delay must be agreed by all at a summit in brussels next week and the hayward has more with just a week to go until britain's already delayed departure date from the e.u. the u.k.'s prime minister unable to get a deal through parliament wants to delay brick yet again writing to the e.u. calling for an extension until the end of june none of our economy is growing fast enough to guarantee that a no deal scenario wouldn't push us into recession so it's a bad outcome all round and i think the french understand that i think germans understand that and you know what we are looking for. just to avoid a long extension the e.u. itself wants to avoid the u.k.

crashing out with no deal it also doesn't want a series of short delay so the idea of a longer extension possibly a year is being talked about in brussels but that would have to be approved by all the e.u. leaders at an emergency summit next week so the question will be has the prime minister got sufficient detail and sufficient. can you give your opinion is sufficient assurances that june thirtieth is a sensible day and has a plan of how to get there and will the e.u. think actually will be into play for domestic issues that the european parliament elections is that a sensible date for them and that will be the big question over the next week or so . and an extension could see britain having to field candidates but the parliamentary elections in may which will be unpalatable to many of those who voted to leave. to reason may is still trying to win support from both sides of the political divide she's still coming under attack from some within her own party and

talks with the opposition are challenging we all want to break this deadlock we want the talks to continue but compromise does require change writing on twitter the arch euro skeptic conservative m.p. jacob groat if a long extension leaves a stuck in the e.u. we should be as difficult as possible we could veto any increase in the budget obstruct the putative e.u. army and block mr mccraw integration is schemes and her letter to donald tusk to raise a may makes it clear that the current political impasse simply can't go on the public's faith in politics is being damaged and she acknowledges the e.u. is desire to move on from brick sets. britain could soon find itself out of the e.u. decision making process there's still no clear path as to when that will actually happen and he would westminster germany has asked the easier to find

a safe port for a mile and rescue ship that is stranded in the mediterranean sea sixty four migrants were rescued off the libyan coast on wednesday by the german charity c.i. of the ship was refused entry into malta and italy. now sunday marks twenty five years since the rwanda genocide when at least eight hundred thousand people were killed and one hundred days the french president has appointed a panel of experts to investigate has country's actions at the time kwan's also met a survivor in paris relations between france and one to have been strained since one thousand nine hundred four chemicals natasha butler reports from paris. at the lease a palace the french president met tutsi survivors of the nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide france's relationship with rwanda has been strained for twenty

five years of regulations by kigali that france was complicit in the massacre now emanuel markhor says it's time for truth he's appointed a commission to investigate france's role at the time and announced more resources to track down genocide suspects who fled to france. who lost family in the genocide welcomes micros initiative said. it's important for people in france rwanda for survivors and humanity to know what happened it's a step in the right direction because the narrative is no longer that there is nothing to say but that there is something to say. the killings were on a monstrous scale. by the hutu majority killed eight hundred thousand people mainly from rwanda's tutsi minority at the time the french government was an ally of the hutu leadership during the massacre the french military set up what was supposed to be a safe so but some say they did little to stop the killing for a quarter of

a century french leaders have been guarded and secretive over france's role in the genocide in twenty ten former president nicolas sarkozy admitted france made some errors but he stopped their. relations between paris and kigali to improve what he knows. for that to happen friends must face its past one president paul kagame a has rarely had patience for french politicians but last year in paris he praised mark rawls approach but not everyone is convinced that things will change this historian curated an exhibition on the genocide paresis show memorial she questions what will come out of michael's commission that kind of an. exclusive not my fear is it will be history written from an exclusively french point of view we know a lot about france's role alongside this criminal regime but the facts and nothing that could be much more emphasis on sarkozy's comments about errors it could be

seen as an act of courage if we could probably face one of the darkest chapters in france's history the commission's research will be revealed in two years if it finds that france played a role in the genocide it may anger those who believe the past shouldn't tarnish france's image today but it could also send a message to good golly that paris is ready for honest reconciliation with sasha butler al-jazeera paris. now the u.s. family that's well known as a patron of the arts has become the tourist for its role in a major drug epidemic the sackler family is facing several lawsuits alleging that its pharmaceutical company perjured pharma downplayed the risk of addiction to its opioid drugs now oxycontin is an opiate that doctors can prescribe directly to patients it was launched in the u.s. and one nine hundred ninety six in the next twenty years more than seven hundred thousand americans died from overdoses of painkilling drugs and twenty seventeen the us government declared opioid use

a public health emergency and that here forty seven thousand six hundred people died of opioid over dollars and twenty seventeen pharma pled guilty to misstating the risk of opioid addiction and other companies that sell or. being sued well the sackless have donated millions of dollars to galleries and museums around the world but the recent scandal has led to many organizations shutting their doors to new donations from the family kristen salumi reports. this sculpture is meant to call attention to an addiction crisis and those that the artist believes are responsible and just one year opioid drugs killed forty seven thousand americans the u.s. government estimates that eighty percent of people who use heroin like artists dominic esposito brother first became addicted to prescription opioids in spain is basically the symbol of sort of you know my mom would call me screaming at the top of her long as it should fall into the spoon this is really kind of at the peak of

his addiction six seven years ago and for me it's just kind of like this dark ugly truth pharmaceutical companies like produce in the family which owns it the sac lawyers stand accused of making billions of dollars by encouraging doctors to prescribe a painkiller whose highly addictive properties were downplayed. now sackler money tens of millions of dollars of which has been donated to museums all around the world is being seen by many in the arts world as tainted sparking demonstrations like these that major institutions after this one at new york's guggenheim the museum announced they'd no longer accept the family's donations after the guggenheim became the third museum to sever ties with the sackler family trust but trust announced that for the time being it would stop making donations altogether the news came on the heels of the announcement of a new federal lawsuit against the family in addition to several others already on

the books including one filed in massachusetts and another here in new york art experts say efforts by museums to publicly distance themselves from the sackler family is unprecedented it's very unusual it's the first time that i've ever seen anything like it usually the way that these things work if there's a sort of problem in terms of ethics and fund raising the institutions are giving out or accepting it usually ends very quietly the sac lawyers who are fighting some of the lawsuits and have settled. others say they don't want to be a distraction for museums for do was really the grandfather at all they were the masterminds behind why we find ourselves in this epidemic right now half a million lives lost all because of corporate greed but a family once known as patrons of the arts may now be better remembered for their role in one of the worst health crises in u.s. history kristen salumi al-jazeera new york.

and i then on one of the problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the un security council has told libyan border the ad has forced us to stop their involves on the capital tripoli secretary general antonio terrorists has met both the u.n. recognize government and half the to try and deescalate the situation where the security council fails to the fashionable threat and talks to rebuild libya's fractured political system it's very concerned that the events of the last two or three days in libya specifically the military activity was seen in the dance towards tripoli and we are very clear today in calling for. georgia previously held positions and to cease military activity there is no military solution in libya and we need to see everybody getting back into the political process. but i sense a low interest you don't. hundreds of thousands of algerians have rallied in the

capital for the seventh week they are demanding more changes despite the resignation of longtime president of the lizzie's beautifully the country's intelligence chief and close ally of beautifully was reportedly fired on friday. demonstrators in mali have demanded the president's resignation for failing to curb ethnic violence the protest was triggered by becoming a one hundred sixty religious from the hook for fighters from a rival community or suspected of carrying out last month's attack the democratic controlled lower house of the u.s. congress is sowing donald trump's government over her emergency declaration to get funds for his proposed border wall along mexico the lawsuit says trump acted unconstitutionally the u.s. president has visited the southern border and says his country is full cholera is surging in yemen with the number of suspected cases doubling in the past month at least three hundred people have died and more than seventy thousand cases have been

recorded. talk to al jazeera is coming up next thank you very much for watching. the official story isn't there and i'm sure we all see already i don't care about the official story what has the media been telling join me where the front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here when i visit. the. city. since december twenty fifth a bloody civil war is roundish the newly independent nation of south sudan on one side troops and militia backing the president salva kiir and the other those supporting his deputy and rival the shark the fighting has caused massive upheaval . all in all hundreds of thousands of been killed raped and mutilated millions forced to leave their homes many of them fleeing to neighboring countries a peace deal has been signed but the situation is far from settled clear however is

that atrocities of being committed by both sides essential question now how did the government troops and the militia manage to continue the fighting after all it's expensive to fight wars. the key is the country's number one source of income oil. the united nations human rights report in february said the oil industry is fueling the war the un report says quote the state owned oil companies operation have been characterized by a lack of transparency and independent oversight allegedly diverting oil revenues into the coffers of elites in the government the report goes on to say he was an income from other natural resources have continued to fund the war enabling its continuation and the resulting human rights violations the country's oil sector is supervised by the oil minister got coolth and today for the first time since the un human rights report talks to al jazeera. which is

a kilo get both thank you very much for talking to us and thank you very much for having me let's start with the rule off the oil industry in south sudan can you tell me how significant it is for the country. well the republic of south sudan became independence in two thousand and eleven. we took from sudan of course and we took seventy five percent of the oil from sudan and ninety percent of the budget of the republic of south sudan is from oil so significantly the role that the oil is playing in the republic of south sudan is very very significant and the data suggest that sixty percent of your g.d.p. is coming from oil how do you think you are going to going forward we've had some tumultuous years in the oil industry are you planning to diversify your economy or further consolidate the role of oil in your economy. our focus is

number one we need to increase the production because before the crisis in twenty thirteen we were producing three hundred fifty thousand barrels a day but currently we are producing hundred eighty thousand barrels a day so we want to go back to where we used to be that's one number two blocks that has been dormant for the last five years we had as you mean the production that in block one two and four we have resumed the production number three our focus is to make sure that the new blocks. view one and b. two then a one a six we want to have new players because the players that we are having in south sudan we have seen p.c. of butternuts of malaysia or d.c. of india these are the players and the now but which is the national oil company so we wanted to move quickly. to make sure that we resume the production increase the production that's want to we need to diversify we have a lot of resources so also don is blessed with

a lot of resources our goal culture is one of the longest river in the world. is one we have a lot of fish we have a lot of eco tourism secular part of the of the diversity that we can utilize to diversify our economy well those are the really great ambitions but would you agree that the benefits of the oil revenues of south sudan haven't really been able to translate into growth for the people of south sudan you mean for instance south sudan ranks one hundred seventy eight out of one hundred eighty countries in the corruption index so clearly there is more that needs to be done are you cognizant of the fact and what are you doing about well corruption is everywhere in the world even here in. corruption is the most important thing is what are you doing about it the president the secular having a policy which is zero tolerance on corruptions anybody would want to be corrupt that person will ocular face justice and this is what we have been doing of course in twenty thirty and we have a crisis in the country and this is

a killer setback to the country into the people of south sudan but thank god we managed to fix it because the president is a killer for peace he has been championing this peace for many many years and now we have an agreement signed last year in twenty eighteen and this agreement. we have decided to champion peace and implement the peace agreement so now the focus is now this we have peace who will now move forward to build this country and also to provide social services for the people of south sudan. but do you agree that so far it hasn't happened well we have been trying it has not happened in a way that we wanted to have it because of the crisis in the country but we wanted to make sure that we wanted to do better than what we are doing now so oil sector is crucial to this ambition to provide for the people of south sudan let's talk about the oil sector in itself who are the players and how does the oil ministry operate because there is as you mentioned there is a lot of investment that is coming in for from foreign investors who obviously want

to make money for themselves rather than people of south sudan well in the exploration production sharing agreement is very clearly articulated to who should get what as we speak now we have seen p.c. from china. we have. malaysia we have also and you see from india clearly it is stated that oil will be divided into profit oil and cost oil the cost of oil is go for the person of the project our production will go for cost or your sixty percent profit oil that will be shared by the partners and also by the government government of the republic of south sudan will take eighty percent of it so and this eighty percent of it this is what we will use to provide services to the people of the loss of that nobody is being cheated and we are very happy with the partnership that we have been having with the. p.c. and all the partners your website of your company says that you your ministry has a supervisory role in all dealings in the country whether it's local companies or

foreign companies can you describe to us what that supervisory role entails and what do you do to make sure that the laws of south sudan are implemented and letter and spirit well one thing that we are doing is to make sure that the environment is protected in the country all the oil companies that are operating in the republic of south sudan must abide by the rules and regulation of the environment so environment is one of the area we will not compromise on one is the local content the local people must benefit from the oil by providing so. this is a community development fund the billy schools to build clinics and also a new culture and what clean drinking water and that that has been happening in the republic of south sudan and this is what we are doing also to make sure that even the contracts that are being awarded out so sudanese are in the center of this extremely serious allegations have been leveled by the u.n. human rights commission in south sudan and against their revenue of oil being used

by various militias to carry out crying switch amount to him described and will go into detail over those crimes are you aware and what is your reaction to that report well the enemies of peace i killed categorizing us this way. people are a killer say the oil money is being used to fuel this war i have been in the ministry of petroleum. since two thousand and sixteen. and i can assure you there is no single dollar that has been used to buy arms in the ministry and even in the country the focus of the president of the republic of south sudan has been to bring peace because he knows very well that you will never never bring any sustainable development with peace or will continue to create problems to the country and he will continue to create miseries to the people of south sudan the focus is peace peace peace we are not investing in war and will not invest at all

in war accusations that have been leveled against these militias of the kind of crimes that they're committing it's it's rape it's there they're burning people inside their homes when they're alive and these militias are supposedly being funded by someone and this actually this report cites a paper trail which links companies like nile pet to be behind these behind the with the operations and funding that you said that there is not a dollar that is being spent by the oil ministry but it's not directly the oil ministry it's people who are related to the oil ministry who are spending that money now has not been financing and they had to vicki's that is related to violence in the country i chemical a tell you this because i know that it is and i know what they are receiving in terms of of money whether it is from the consortium where they are having five percent of this year's there or from downstream providing fuel to the country i'm not saying that there are no crimes being

committed in the country and that's why the president has constituted a panel to investigate all those who are killing committing their atrocities and some of them have been sentenced to death and they are kill or be persecuted and that's why it is that you're very important to note that the president will not tolerate any criminal activities whether you are in the army or you are in. the police or you are in the national security he has been so far in fighting those who are committing atrocities but that is a different between individual crimes in the uniform and i kill a crime being committed by the state that are individuals who are kill or committing crimes and they are in the service and when that is covered they are killing so early only any people from the oil sector there are who are being investigated right now no i'm not aware of any other so let me cite this u.n. report to you at the end let me quote this is the state owned nile pet oil company's operations have been characterized by a total lack of transparency and independent oversight and it's diverting oil

revenues into the coffers of elite in the government who are behind the funding of these militias carrying out these heinous crimes are you saying this is all made of thin air you know they're human beings they're writing reports and they have opinions some of them they're not have who are south sudan some of them are not happy with our leadership some of them are even now criticizing the agreement that we have signed if you are for peace why would you criticize peace that has been signed to transition the country and the people of south sudan from war to peace some people are killing not happy with this agreement simply because they don't like the players those who brought peace like the god region and also those who are regular continuing to participate in the government they are not happy with it i'm not surprised that people like. those that i have described are also participating in writing reports like this so that their brand the country as a bad country but for me south sudan is secular full of hope. yes future is very

bright we need to organize ourselves like what president salva did now bringing peace make sure that there is internal cohesion in the country and then we will deliver services and develop this country we don't need anybody from outside to tell us what to do we will do it ourselves but what these people are identifying is not branding south sudan as you said as any and in any brush they're very specific about the kind of people who are being funded by various state institutes to carry out crimes and you said that there are people who are involved in this on individual capacity so is this something which is endemic how deep does it go into the oil ministry into nile pet and into the government of such well in the us i said before if there are individuals that are individuals even in this country and in the world war achille criminally minded people commit crimes and what we do as a government is to help the hold them accountable and this is what we have been

doing in the ministry of petroleum now or the country we are not condoning criminal activities or those who are killing raping people i have daughters i have a wife and all of our leaders that. nobody will kili condone somebody else to rape your daughter or your wife anybody who are saying that the government is condoning it or he's supporting it was financing it they just don't know our culture so sudanese you will never allow rape in south sudan and we will never tolerate this but yet the rapes continue the violence continues does why vinylmation the violence against children continues yes you say that it is against the culture of south sudan but it is being committed by parties to the conflict in south sudan these are not people who come well outside most of the reports that you are killed reading majority of them are fabricated. they are not

actually telling the truth even the success we had now for the last three years they are not being reflected in the report it is not even the word we are sorry now in twenty twelve million two thousand and any t. . september twelfth two thousand and eighteen it is not being appreciated or not be reflected and that's why we have regular come to the conclusion that we need to bring peace to ourselves as a country as people of south sudan we need to reach out most of the oppositions now all of them that in the capital of south sudan we are working together by president went to the vatican week ago met with. the holy see pope francis and. prayed for the people of south sudan and the whole leadership will go into vatican first week of april to make sure that there is peace and reconciliation and healing in the country so that we can deliver now services to the people of south sudan we haven't started delivering services but with the small pockets of of

fighting here and there we will not be able to do more but i say as we speak now there is total peace in the country where there are four hundred thousand people who have been killed since the war started there are more than a few million who are displaced is fighting that still continues in like you said in pockets of the country i don't think that anyone is doubting here the intentions of your government but how much of those intentions are actually going to translate into actionable progress for the people that is something which your government so far has failed that's what i'm a killer sale you know the number one action that we have done is bring peace we have signed peace and the peace is being implemented that's one too we have allowed all the opposition leaders to come into the country they're now in juba they are in the country they are feeling secure and safe that's one thing number three the president has launched development projects now by building highways in south sudan using the crude oil to build roads and power this is

a killer some of the thing. that we are translated into action not words this is what we are doing and this is now myself and my colleagues in the government we are also working to make sure that the production is increased and we resume the oil blocks that has been dormant for the last five years this is also going to be translated into into money so that we can have more money and then we'll provide services to the people of south but that's the problem that we know that with more money comes more corruption and that's what various reports have been citing that a lack of transparency a lack of third party evaluations a lot of people giving people hope that their government representatives are actually going to deliver for them and the way this is been happening there is this talk about eighty million dollars which has been divested in from various oil revenues into these militias not exactly just for procuring guns but this is been going into the aviation industry which is held by you know various government officials who are currently part of the government and their wives and their

spouses so this is an endemic problem what is the concrete step that you taking so far what you've been telling me are great intentions but what has been done so far and how are you defeated people are being dismissed people are being held. while the former mrs were dismissed before me there are people who are killed in jail because of corruption we have binocular deal of targeting people who have been they kill involved in corruption and there and they are prosecuted to me the president is actually doing the right thing and we are open book in the ministry of petroleum or finance or the whole government we are open book because basically the sellers of the oil is international community and we transfer the money from the buyer to the to the central bank account in new york. not in juba we have an account in the federal reserve bank in new york and in the us usa this is a yes definitely i'm not saying that there is no core of. corruption everywhere in

the world but the most important thing is how you deal with it mr get go your background is from a criminal justice perspective you are in a position where your country can greatly benefit from the proper functioning of your ministry what do you bring into this mr you personally satisfied of sitting in that chair for three years in achieving what you have very proud of what i have done. under the presidents died inside leadership president salva kiir. i am also very proud that the colleagues that have been working in the government and also in the ministry of petroleum they are doing very well and very happy that also we have a neighbor sudan that is called pretty with us very well president bashir. managed to sit together with his colleagues president of uganda president of kenya president with the prime minister we thought here they work together and they brought peace to the people of south sudan so the explanation that we are having

with sudan is also contributing positively in resuming the production and increasing their dollar production so it so far i'm very very proud of what i have done and we will continue to do more under the leadership of president salva is there something that you wanted to achieve when you haven't been able to. kill a focusing to make sure that we have more investors to come and invest in block view one and two we have a one all the way to a six we have we also have eat two into blocks by the way it's also done is floating on oil. so sudan is full of oil only twelve percent of the whole country is explored eighty eight percent is ready to explode so that's why i'm here and i will be also traveling worldwide to make sure that the narrative of oil is not what the reports say the narrative of south sudan is peace

prosperity full of hope and we have a lot of resources that we can use for the benefit of the people well that's a great public relations campaign and i think you know you doing a great job in taking it abroad let me let me sort of legal listen let me say is the united nations the united states rather the commerce department right now because you said you need to bring foreign direct investment into the country the this is the u.s. states united states commerce department saying sanctions on fifteen south sudanese oil operators they were importing sources of cash for the government in an action aimed at increasing pressure on our present keer to end the country's conflict and humanitarian crisis so this is it's not just the united nations report this is the largest or oil producing company in the country in the world these are the united states government which is going to be either your partner or going against you how do you plan to bring in more investors when your country's prognosis is quite opposite to what you've been seeing speaking u.s. is a friend going to continue to be a friend because they have been with us during the war and they have been with us

when we were conducting a friend myself i was also privileged to be in new york and in washington at the same time. they will continue to be our friends what they have imposed is not a sanctions it's restrictions. these restrictions to these oil companies basically they're saying if you want to procure any equipment for the operation of oil you need to get permission from the department of commerce we this is a very unfortunate and we're also appealing to the u.s. government to release that restriction because it is not allowing us. to do what we want to do. by the way we will continue to be friends to the u.s. just like what we are also doing now we are friend to china we are also a friend to russia we want to make sure that everybody in south sudan is highly welcome and we will use of the resources that we are having. very. greedy and

keeping it for ourselves the best ages peace and friendship your friendship with china we all know every single blog that you cite is about forty percent of their investment they are coming in but your friendship with the united states does not seem to be heading in that direction because like you said these restrictions have come because these individuals or companies have been found to have some sort of ties with the violence in south sudan you can't escape it unless you can take some real action that the world would look and see and say now that's a place we can do business with well just to tell you that yes we are a friend to us but we want to also appeal to the u.s. that you don't punish your friend when you are trying to advise them you have vice them politely tell them you are going wrong here and then you can fix it here and that's why we are regular appealing to them to ease those restrictions so that we were low continue to be in the same road we wanted to make sure that us continue to be our ally. in the region. will continue to work together whatever what i'm trying

to get at is that you are going to appeal to them and you are going to say that what you said was either true or false and this is what we have done so what is it that you have done which is going to persuade the americans to lift those restrictions but sometimes you know your friend can sometimes. say things about you which are not true and then you have to discuss them quietly and say this is what you have stated by me by me but this is what i am and i believe that these restrictions will be lifted but right now what you are saying is that you denying the united nations you denying the united states you are denying allegations that have been leveled by your own. tribes people in the new our tribe have leveled allegations against the government of that you represent so all of this can't be completely false there has to be some truth to it honestly speaking. the conflicts in south sudan has nothing to do as tribes whether it is doing. body or

other tribes you know. it has something to do with the political struggle the power . if you for example. water took over from president salva kiir. using violence what are you going to do then definitely that is a recipe for disaster and that's what we we went through in twenty thirteen and we want we don't want to repeat this again. anybody the focus now have peace make sure that we focus in implementing that women and then in three years from now we will go. and will that he's elected by the people of south sudan will be the president of the republic of south sudan we don't need to fight again we don't need to subject all people into this something we just want to have peace so that president salva kiir well contest. if he's elected them to it he will be elected that he will be the president of the republic of thoughts about that as in the people can wait for another five years mr growth the petroleum minister if without saddam thank you

very much for talking to other there thank you very much for having. me. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all syria in the race but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudice some pride in hungary on al-jazeera. for nine hundred forty six to nine hundred fifty eight the united states detonated dozens of atomic bombs in the marshall islands when the us was carrying ready to clean up and leave at least nine hundred seventy s. he picked the pit that had been left by one of the smaller atomic explosions and

dumped a lot of who tony i'm another radioactive waste into the pit the bottom of the dome it's permeable soil there was nowhere for the wind it and therefore the sea water is inside the dome when the storm was built there was no factory. sea level rise is caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out radioactive isotopes from underneath the door and roll out with it if it really we're not talking just a marshall at times we're talking the whole smooth motion. the environment doesn't know any boundaries what goes up into the environment goes around the world. best the sides are pushed that it's a very modern way to do. believe me the measure of progress the domestic

population has become organized enough and active enough to believe. in the ideas if you will or more circle of poison zero. the united nations tells a libyan border to stop his advance on tripoli. welcome to life for my headquarters in doha with me in iran also ahead hundreds of thousands of algerians continue to protest saying they want

a complete change of the old guard. the u.s. is set to call iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist group we'll look at why that is significant and a new cholera outbreak in yemen kills hundreds of people and there are fears that it will get worse. the united nations security council has told a libyan war lord to end his offensive to seize tripoli an emergency meeting was called off the how the forces began advancing south of the capital of fighting has been reported around tripoli international airport half the us says he wants to as he puts it liberate the city but the government in tripoli has the u.n. supporting fighters loyal to it so they've captured one hundred of hafez feiss without the head has more from tripoli. the prime minister of libya as you and back to government face meeting the troops thirty kilometers west of tripoli i was in

earlier fighters loyal to the warlords and for have attempted to enter tripoli but eventually surrounded dozens of their vehicles you'll see used a setback for hathor who has ordered his troops in his words to liberate tripoli it's raising fears of a major confrontation with the u. and recognized the government the united nations secretary general antonio arrived in tripoli this week he flew to eastern libya to meet hafter in an attempt to ease tensions he also visited tobruk whom to libya's parallel parliament which is backed by have to i still hope it will be possible that a lobby of station in and around tripoli. and united nations remain. available facilitate political solution able to

unify the libyan institutions here in tripoli libyan officials say the capital remains calm and there reassuring people who live here that government forces are ready to repel any attack on the city no doubt that very well the situation is normal and there is no form of fighting prime minister fayyad satirized has given orders to the air defense to stand up to any possible threat to the lives of civilians. libya has been in turmoil since the need to bag the removal of its long time ruler in twenty eleven and since twenty fourteen it has had two competing governments have to do we need to the east of libya leading a lose alliance of factions but his repeatedly expressed his intention to march on tripoli beyond his military ambitions some analysts say have to his goal is a loud voice in diplomatic efforts to secure

a peaceful future for the last several years general haftar has stalled. for rio and processes in paris last year which both of which. paris would have to move towards tripoli and hugo she hated settlement to this crisis looks more difficult but the u.s. and other world leaders will apply more pressure to try to pull libya back from the brink. of tripoli. where the u.n. security council fears that the higher were fresh in talks to rebuild libya's fractured political system. we are very concerned about the events over the last two or three days in libya specifically the military activity was seen in the vans towards tripoli and we are very clear today in calling for. to withdraw to previously held positions and to cease military activity there is no military

solution in libya and we need to see everybody getting back into the political process being so expertly chaired by ghassan salama and to resume dialogue like hanna has more from the united nations. the emergency meeting concluded and the german ambassador in his capacity as president of the council issued a short statement he said the security council was united in its call for all parties to withdraw all their forces in particular the rebel l n a he said the council called to one all parties to resume a process of dialogue the un was due to sponsor a conference of national reconciliation in libya later this month that was aimed at creating a road map through a political process leading to national elections that conference now in jeopardy because of this upsurge in conflict secretary general antonio good terrorists had

been in libya to actually organize this conference it turned instead to a mission of shuttle diplomacy way held a series of meetings with senior figures including the prime minister in tripoli and rebel leaders in both to brooke and benghazi he held a meeting with. the warlords and sources say this did not go well after reportedly said that he was competent and defiant and the characterization of the meeting was that half to insisted he was not going to back down the be accounting for the bleak tone of the secretary general statement when he left libya at the end of the day. to other news now and hundreds of thousands of algerians have rallied in the capital for a seventh friday demanding more changes to spot the resignation of longtime president of the law is both a flake and the intelligence chief who is

a close ally. reportedly fired on friday child stress federal poll. oh dear is military might be disappointed if it was hoping that the resignation of president abdulla's ease beautifully would dampen enthusiasm for anti-government protests millions of people came back on the streets for a seventh friday for them beautifully because resignation earlier this week is only a first gesture all of that here we demand change these gangs to go all of them including so. that we cannot remain silent anymore we are no longer afraid of you you have killed our children and started the whole nation to magna charta and we have seen nothing from day james i'm forty one years old and i can hardly make a living we are hoping for a better. moved to sideline beautifully can allies are continuing the intelligence chief bashir talked to has been fired and earlier this week eight businessmen had

their passport sees as their investigated for corruption state television showed a clearly frail eighty two year old beautifully kept handing in his resignation on tuesday and i think what's happened now is that certain grad schools are being settled the result is that tartaglia is now out of office and that begins to remove some of the infrastructure of the boot of the go regime but it will only be a beginning and whether it really lies a change in the institutions of a state or not that i doubt very much. it is now in the hands of a caretaker government but the protesters have made it clear they won't accept a new president from look prove why that's the nickname for the trench the war veterans and business tycoons of the country. and what julian just wants is a civilian government they want to get a little destructive that exist to date statements by the chief of staff suggest

that he will listen to the people obviously we didn't these drones issue and the goal of the military will be supervising in from a distance all still with it but eventually would want the bill to go back to its box and leave the politicians to do the business. one in every four algerians under the age of thirty is on employed the economy is dependent on oil and gas because attempts to stand for a fifth term as president frustration with the status quo to the head now those elections will be three months time so far no obvious successor has emerged strafford al-jazeera. thousands of protesters in mali have condemned the government for failing to curb ethnic violence the march to the capital bamako demanding the resignation of president katha the protests one of the biggest in recent years has

been triggered by the killing of one hundred sixty villages from the ethnic flaw in the group fighters from vile doggone community are suspected of carrying out last month's attack the. president. is not capable of solving the country's problems we must accept the people's will which is democratic change and not. each other they are really not a couple of solving security problems they are a state department expected to label iran's revolutionary guard a foreign terrorist organization it would be the first time that washington has put such a designation on and on the country's military as a culhane has more from washington d.c. . it would be unprecedented this would be the u.s. basically saying i'm a part of a another country's military is part of a terrorist organization so what does that mean that allows the u.s. to designate them and that restricts their travel it makes it a crime to provide material support to the revolutionary guard and it would

potentially freeze any assets that they have the united states although it seems highly unlikely that iran's revolutionary guard has any assets inside the united states so there's concern here according to the wall street journal there's might pump a low secretary of state john bolton national security advisers long time hawks on iran that they're pushing the president to do this the other side you have the cia and the u.s. military warning that it's unlikely that this will do the amount of damage to the iranian economy that they would like to see and at the same time saying that this could put u.s. troops at risk in so much so that central command might issue a warning to u.s. troops to be on the lookout for any potential reaction so these are two sides that are squaring off trying to move the debate to the public sphere whether or not they do this we don't know and it is potentially going to have a lot of blowback the other countries and forget example those who are in the nuclear agreement they're already trying to come up with a workaround for the u.s. pulling out of the nuclear deal this could provide even more incentive for people

and those companies to try and find a way to work around the u.s. financial system to yemen now where cholera is surging the number of suspected cases has doubled of the possible and the u.n. she is that a mix of warm weather and seasonal rains will make things even worse kushal lopez what a honorable. this is one of yemen's main hospitals and schools cholera cases are spreading fast bringing an influx of old and young. hearing about it i brought my six on to the hospital they prescribe medicine but it's not available in the hospital we have to go looking for it outside pharmacies. yemen has endured a series of cholera outbreaks since the beginning of the saudi u.a.e. led war four years ago last year doctors managed to contain the al breaks but last month more than seventy six thousand new suspected cholera cases were registered the u.n. fears a latest outbreak could be as bad as a.