abandoned police were given enhanced powers to crackdown on dissent president obama did bashir has stepped down as head of the ruling party but protest those are demanding he go further and quit as sudan's leader he has ruled the country for nearly three decades mamadou up his aides as an activist who was at the demonstrations today he says the protests will continue to escalate the good thing is that it was completely peaceful there was no disturbance. david police forces than people were able to voice their concerns and it was it was it was a smooth rally if you think about it it started in december nineteenth and until now the longer it takes for a bishop to step down the bigger the protests will get but if you walk down the street it was a just from five years old up to fifty or sixty years old it all coming out of the same thing they want him to step down once more head on the al-jazeera news hour including more on the sculpture that calls attention to the u.s. opioid addiction crisis and those the artist thinks are responsible how rape used

as a weapon of war and rwanda has affected generations and thousands of lives in sports law time continues his m.l.s. scoring details coming up with peter a little later. first venezuelans have been gathering for rival rallies in the capital caracas after president nicolas maduro and opposition leader called on their supporters to take to the streets they remain locked in a better standoff but maduro is resisting pressure to step down our latin america editor to see a new man is joining us on the phone from caracas where you're at a pro why don't tell us what you're seeing. very well it's just ended long wide all spoke to a very very large group of people this is not them this was something the largest rally he's ever held but it was fairly impressive and it was very important because

the idea was to show that the opposition still can bring people out onto the streets that it still can keep up the momentum after more than two and a half months of this standoff that you've just described some people are beginning to get tired dissolutions they had believed that first that victory was going to be at any moment but one wide all that made it very clear that this was going to be a long battle he said and that people not only had to have. be prepared to continue out on the streets but also that they would have to make more sacrifices and i think the important thing of all was that he made a reference to a statement made by donald trump's. man prevented elliott abrams who said that to the shock of many that israel is that this was not the time for u.s. military intervention at least not current now of course that is waning who think the only way to get president last mughal out of power is for a u.s. invasion but very clearly that is not the case and why don't address that he said

we have to be the ones the venezuelan people to organize and to and to call on the international community we can't expect them to do the work for us this is going to be a long long battle they say again and they're going to have to keep coming out on to the streets this was a peaceful march so far but in other parts of the country where they were also rallies held riot police we understand did come in to break up the gatherings the protest. with an update from qatar thank you we also have jim i'll show you all there he is following maduro supporters and sent us updates. the crisis in venezuela has been on for more than two months now involves lots of office a standoff between president nicolas maduro and his supporters on one side and one great joke the president of the national assembly on the was over the other costs called much deeper levels if you have constant public want to talk to the sort of

pull people to the brink but despite this the supporters of nicolas maduro say that they very much support their president despite all these challenges they say that they must gather cure to show that the president still has support not only that they say they're gathering here in a clear message against the united states against foreign intervention they say the u.s. is trying to defeat the revolution here the socialist revolution the consonantal for that to happen and that's why you have so many people gathered here could not seem very frisky however the people here are angry they say about that pull the car american sanctions that have been imposed on venezuela to say that this is an authentic acts productive punishment and it's time to get them to bring the people to the news and try to get the government or not they reject this and that they will continue to support nicolas maduro for

a third straight day migrants have been fighting with police in greece's northern border tomorrow mozzie with more from our european broadcast center. yes that's right arena angry riot police have been responding with tear gas and stun grenades at the hundreds of migrants including children who have been trying to cross the border to neighboring countries this is as you say the third consecutive day of unrest near that northern city a felony migrants have been counted there off to false reports on social media of an organized movement over the border catherine stansell has more. police pushing back against migrants and refugees trying to reach northern europe they arrived in a camp in the greek town of d. of us on thursday after hearing that the border controls had been lifted and buses were compared to take people to mars macedonia but the reports were false rumors

circulated on social media stoking the anger and frustration of the migrants many of who have been stranded in greece for a year. greek security forces have been preventing them from breaking through a cordon near the border with north macedonia tear gas and stun grenades are regularly used to keep back the crowd but they aren't giving up on friday thousands arrived at the cordon demanding to be lets through setting small fires in the field and confronting police the unrest also sprach athens dozens of refugees blocked the main railway station demanding access to other e.u. countries but the greek government and the un say the borders remain closed off to the because of his role as well these refugees don't have any but intentions they're just looking for hope many of them don't want to stay in our country some have serious problems we have to explain what the truth is. tens of thousands of refugees and migrants are living in greece part of a wave of immigration from syria iraq and afghanistan which began in twenty fifteen

they became stranded in greece when balkan countries shut their borders three years ago cutting off the path to northern europe half and stansell al-jazeera. war in a story we can speak to journalist and honest us he has been at the camp this week and joins us live now from thank you very much feel patience and bearing with us can you start by telling me about the situation in and around the day of art account and what you what you witnessed while you were there. israeli decision was made very this might be. the beautiful name there were a lot of families of the small baby sitter that we've and when i was talking with them there were sit telling me it seems things that they were getting in the middle no even we walked in the hall there is the borders were going to be open there we go on facebook going to be

a pizza was cold war the grocery grease and we believe then what we get up in the borders. the biggest problem we saw what we see people is the big guns here accept it the file but they ship to stay in greece that goes from the six or or two thousand seven deep all the little kitchen programs have stopped and the only way for us you don't is to stay greece so they were very fussy they were very disappointed because the borders are closed there would be easy marks you could walk to the borders or about the open of course. because if they shared the problem either maybe. the very big. police and i thought can i indeed these clashes as you say were triggered by these false reports on on social media that travels restrictions had been lifted is there going to be some sort of investigation until into where these reports came from and how this

happened. yes the police is sensing who is behind all of this whole he states this . they say they're going to do iris because there were some certain if you just rips out certain towns that they were uploading videos and they were calling people to join in this in that in that place an endeavor the first white men it was the first of all it was even lined up you see every junior by the borders but when you see betty but i shall be all the boss of the world book who you are you know from the fire from us it goes. to show when this salt flows through here i'm into in the states border crossing in greece this you'd see the sort of that even if you go people go to. the last few days from wednesday or the boss is going to work on a sunny day and then he said we're going to the sun and you were stopped from the

police and hear what it said inside even when finally any official migrants they what they think are down of the of the buses they were it then you then move on i guess and the migrants that the migrants that you spoke to can you give us a flavor of where they are mostly from and where they want to go on to because presumably none of these protesters want to stay in greece. yes this is funny nobody wants to say it's nobody wants to stay in greece and i was you know. wrong you know just easy to believe they couldn't find any jobs there is no big wrong. or job and find some job something good so i. understand governor when they see you don't want the state to say who these. people over there were either. but of course there were troops here that went on for studies there were other g.m.'s who

were moral grounds. there were people from all over. for places but most of the were c.m. gould's all of them were getting the same thing we don't want to stay greece we're here to go further out we have to go to germany one of them they want to go to germany. thank you very much thank you yeah get a no thank you very much really appreciate you sharing your thoughts and insight with us on tony joining us there from thessaloniki with the latest on what's been happening there at the camp on our islands prime minister says he's confident that the e.u. will agree to delay breck city of herat because as it's unlikely any member of nato the latest request for an extension by a minister to resign may's asking for an additional three months to secure withdrawal agreement the u.k. set to leave the bloc next friday but a deal has not been approved by the british parliament despite this it's a measure the u.k. has started issuing passports with the words european union removes. elsewhere

thousands of taking to the streets across germany to protest against rising property rents in the capital but around six thousand demonstrators gathered in the city's main square they say property developers have bought up thousands of apartments driving up the cost of rent activists have started a petition for the government to take back properties from large scale landlords about eighty five percent of the city's residents rent now homes rather than own them and just a bit of news from france protest is from the yellow vest movement have rallied across the country in the twenty first consecutive weekend of demonstrations there in riot police fired tear gas to break up the protests activists right across the country are demanding social and economic reforms leave that prompted president emanuel to open a national debate in january and the measures are expected to be announced on monday in a bid to quell the protests that's it from london for the now i will be back with more a bit later on let's get back to during. q well the prime minister of libya's tripoli

based government has just spoken about the escalation in fighting around the capital zeros mahmud at the white house is joining us from tripoli with an update on what the prime minister had to say mahmoud. well the prime minister has just spoken and that's by the way following his meeting with the u.n. special representative to libya of the sand after the meeting today survived is confirming that the international community is calling on the international community not to put all the factions together meaning that he said that he's he's he's demanding the international community to differentiate between the what he calls the aggressors and those who are defending themselves also he said that. we they the government of russia called has been providing

options and. has been wanting peace with the other factions he's also calling on the international community to look at the libyan issue he said he said he literally said that the international community should differentiate between the aggressors and those who are defending themselves and between those who want a military country and those who want a civil war now we understand that. was was with have to four weeks ago in abu dhabi in terms of the peace talks sponsored by the united nations also today the government forces said that they have taken control of the civil locations in the southern outskirts of the libyan capital

tripoli including the international airport which was briefly taken control of by forces loyal to the the world the khalifa haftar are right ahead thank you. so had on the al-jazeera news hour why an increasing number of palestinian israelis say they will boycott tuesday's general election and those wrestle mania heads to new york peter will explore why fans take it so seriously. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast where we are seeing some stormy conditions that are pushing across parts of iran and then towards the east so we have seen some rain showers across the region things are going to get a little bit better as we go towards sunday maybe a few showers will continue to lag there up towards tehran though rain in your

forecast clouds as well attempt a few of twenty degrees baghdad it twenty four but here is the clearing that we do expect to see and fortune for the northern part of iran we could see more heavy rain in your forecast in a few spotty showers down here along the coast we're still seeing some stormy conditions across the gulf war since a partly cloudy conditions then it gets cloudy and in the evening in the afternoon timeframe we are seeing those thunderstorms develop across much of the area we do think by the time we get towards monday things will be improving particular here in doha but we could still see a few clouds in the area with the temperature there of about thirty one degrees thirty one degrees for you as well and then as we make our way down towards the southern parts of africa we did see quite a bit of stormy conditions here across much of the eastern part of south africa things are now getting better and we're going to see temperatures a little bit lower for this time of year where johannesburg at twenty one durban to twenty four and then up towards harare rain is up towards the north but the temperatures are still quite warm with the time to there of about twenty eight degrees.

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east explores why indonesian soccer fans fight and die for the sports analogy a doctor. here with the top stories this hour forces loyal to libyan warlords are moving to recapture tripoli's former international airport the fighting is continuing thirty kilometers south of the capital thousands of protesters in sudan have marched to the army's headquarters in the capital khartoum it's the first time they've reached the building since anti-government demonstrations began in december venezuelans have been gathering for rival rallies in the capital after president nicolas maduro

and opposition leader called on their supporters to take to the streets they remain locked in a bitter standoff but maduro is resisting pressure to step down. iraq's prime minister has begun his first official visit to iran. this trip comes just a month after a visit by iranian president hassan rouhani to baghdad relations between the neighbors are strengthening despite efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region. we wish to see our well developed relations bilateral relations to be an example to follow and also to be a precursor to similar ones with all the regional countries iraq not only aspires to maintain such healthy relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt could tar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put an end to wars dorsett job ari has more from baghdad. the iraqi prime

minister arrived in tehran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at south palace in the capital the two held meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger ties in the coming years of course the iranian president has just been to baghdad last month and he pledged many many developments to come in the in the future between the two countries the iraqi prime minister for his part stressed the importance that iran has for iraq and that he said that if according to iraq's constitution there will be no iraq's oil will not be allowed to be used by foreign troops or fighters to launch any attacks against iran you know a new president also stressed that iran wishes to increase its exports to iraq to a revenue of about twenty billion the current figure is at about thirteen billion dollars of course the two sides have made very strong gains in the past few years

they've developed stronger relationship and they continue to work on that or the visit comes as reports say the u.s. is preparing to declare iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist organization iran in turn may put the u.s. military on its terror lists to go and 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 us to designate them in 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 wall street journal there's might pump a low secretary of state john bolton the national security adviser's 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 it 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 u.s. sanctions are being blamed for impeding aid efforts as flash floods continue to batter large parts off iran seventy people have been killed in the last few weeks washington is accusing to her on the government's of mismanaging its emergency response priyanka to report. the floodwaters are rising and there are signs off

more rain to come iran's government has ordered the evacuation of six cities in southern cause a stern province out of us said we have moved our belongings to the rooftops we have no choice we are surrounded by water and soon we are going to have to leave. it's a tough side to bear a life's worth of belongings destroyed but the immediate danger comes from the rising waters all our home how can i take my family away from here even if i want to for almost three weeks heavy rain and flash floods have battered most of iran's thirty one provinces about nine hundred cities and villages are affected in lauriston province alone entire neighborhoods have been washed away families are taking refuge in emergency shelters thousands of kilometers of roads and farmland are damaged in the bad the but now we have to make a choice between bad and worse not between good and bad but choosing bad we have to

pay a costume and the people a pain that cost us aid workers are struggling to reach at least three hundred fifty villages that are completely cut off iran's red crescent society the lead agency in the rescue efforts it's confronting yet another challenge in reaching those in need u.s. sanctions u.s. president donald trump renewed old sanctions and imposed new ones against iran last year accusing their on off not complying with the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal his government has withdrawn from that agreement signed impaired the transferring of the money to the iranians at customs societies i can't so none of our or our foreign currency is not working now because of the situation on the ground there are many mountainous growth that are washed totally so we have to use our helicopters you can imagine how the relief operation john be invaded by. spare

parts of florida copters u.s. secretary of state mike compare who has dismissed the allegations and blames the government for the damage caused by the floods the european union u.n. agencies france and germany meanwhile have announced more funding and relief supplies for those affected priyanka gupta is here the emir of qatar has called for greater cooperation in the fight against extremism set i mean but how much if any made the comments of the opening of the enterprise the mentor union and bellhops he also condemned the american recognition of the golan heights as israeli territory heads of eighty parliaments from across the world are in qatar to discuss ways of improving global security yon's promoting human rights i meet them and i want to work out how to not have just as we call for it in fighting terrorism we must cooperate in combating the causes of extremism and addressing them experience proves over and over again that extremism is not confined to one civilization then

the other nor to the a difference of a specific religion than the other and that every generalization of this crime is nothing but at the racism and the war on terrorism should not mean fighting extremism of only one color while we see that there are extremist terrorist forces and movements that are not on the agenda of this war in which we all partake in tennessee as first democratically elected president says he won't seek reelection ninety two year old the sipsey says he's stepping aside to make way for someone younger he urged his party to overcome internal divisions ahead of the november votes and as he has struggled in recent years of the faltering economy and attacks by armed groups a subsea came to power after a long time dictator is a lobby demon ali was toppled during the arab spring.

rape is often used as a weapon of war during conflicts one thousand nine hundred ninety four genocide happened though the scale was unimaginable the u.n. estimates that between two hundred fifty and five hundred thousand tutsi women were raped and those born as a result is one of the most underreported aspects of the genocide andersen's visited one woman who wanted to speak for the first time about her suffer through. this young woman may not have physical injuries from the genocide of rwanda but since birth her life has been blighted dion e.-mu. is a child of the genocide she was born of rape and she's grown up an able to understand why her mother couldn't give her the love most children receive. to look at me and i'm sure she saw a flashback of what happened to her and they should be traumatized and was shot and chased me away many times i would stay in other people's houses. during the

genocide the only his mother was raped in the capital kigali by an unknown hutu militia men she gave birth to death in february ninety ninety five the stigma of rape in africa is profound and being father to hutu rapist much worse mother and daughter moved to ny but secrets last long there either some people in this district knew of down days background but she hadn't got a clue why she was being picked on in the school playground why she was being discriminated against mother couldn't face telling her the truth. this child in her formative years showed remarkable resilience but the worst was yet to come when she was eighteen she confronted her mother about the truth and there were repeated rounds. of i used to live in total despair to the point where i would think it's better if i was in town i. only thought she'd found understanding from

a boyfriend but things went drastically wrong. after he knew my history he developed a hatred towards me it took two other people and their plans to harm me. me he is the one who made me pregnant it was so we could because my mother got traumatised all of a. deal is being given support from a small charity this woman who counsels men and women born of rape she says instead of being treated as victims they are mostly persecuted by. the army says her baby daughter will never feel loved both she and her mother live in poverty they're unemployed and they're in a pain remains but the mother clements manages to sound optimistic in them with their time and i am proud of her and even love her daughter diane is gods and my

family is extended now a mother a daughter and her baby sharing the darkness of a crime against humanity that will live on through three generations and drew simmons al-jazeera in rwanda more than a million people in mozambique are relying on food aid as they start to rebuild their lives after the devastation caused by cyclonic die the storm washed away hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops leaving people without anything to harvest. has more. the heat is sweltering but these people in china macondo in central wasn't be equal queue for hours they're waiting for food one of them is also guster she says she lost her home and small farm to the psych loan and the floods also carefully shares the rice beans and oil she's collected with her neighbors she hopes these basic necessities will last two weeks but with seven miles to feed it's going to be difficult and i'm using to do this in the wet in the gable i feel

a bit better because accused i'm getting some help through at this time it has been suffering and more suffering i was expecting help from the government. people here usually farm rice potatoes and maize but those crops will last a flood waters up to eleven metres high now that the flood waters receded the aid agencies are able to reach remote areas that two weeks ago were submerged so far the world food program says it's helped half a million people and in the weeks to come once to triple that number the floods not only devastated farms and wasn't baek but to malawi and zimbabwe as well the un says one point eight million people urgently need emergency humanitarian assistance it's the worst natural disaster that's has ever faced and we knew that before even though the site on there was very high level of monks ration in the country and those levels are really pushed to another limits so it's quite pretty cool to be

here as soon as possible as soon as we can reach those people to provide assistance to everybody in his village because these are farmers in farming communities they've lost their crops the government estimates that more than seven hundred thousand hectares of agricultural land has been flooded people here say if they are to recover they need seeds to plant as soon as possible without them they fear they'll have to depend on help from outside when and if it arrives for me or al-jazeera macondo mozambique. israel heads to the polls on tuesday to elect a new government almost a fifth of the voters are palestinian israelis who say they're actively discriminated against recent polls suggest that an increasing number of them intend to boycott the election stephanie decker reports from northern israel. these ladies a getting ready to welcome guest political campaigning is intimate here. hopefully

these elections will bring something that will help all the arab towns someone who stands with us and helps us so we don't keep feeling like we live in a country without having a place in hopefully things will get better. as a candidate for the ballad party part of two palestinian israeli coalitions running in these elections she's trying to convince these ladies to vote for her. getting into parliament in this race is true why to win an extremist religious atmosphere is not an easy reality for us there is a direct policy by this government to target the palestinian community by publishing it through a lack of investment in education in various aspects of life in addition to land confiscations and house demolitions but recent polls suggest palestinian israeli voter turnout could be lower than the last elections adam an author says he intends to boycott this vote. boxes when they need to open the box like an instrument and we are not. we have

a history where after this we have life we have we have a homeland and we have roots the palestinian israeli parties are predicted to get around eleven c. .