leave that to the foreign intervention as they've described the particular from the united states is an attempt to defeat this alternate revolution here and they say that they are against any foreign intervention that they are in support of the president and that they are here to defend the revolution. one civilians being killed in protests against sudan's president the country's news agency says civilians and police were also injured and the demonstrations and on the woman ran out of the capital khartoum protesters marched on president omar al bashir the president and the nearby army headquarters and drama and awkward has more. the they are calling for revolution and these protesters headed for the army headquarters in khartoum the latest in a way for protests that began in december over the price of bread and escalated into calls for an end to president omar bashir is three decades. the longer it takes for a bishop to step down because the protests will get and if you walk down the

streets you will see a just five years old up to fifty or sixty years old all coming out of the same thing they want him to step down security forces have responded to the protest movement with a fierce crackdown killing at least sixty people since the protests began according to an international human rights group. despite the tough response to dissent the protests continue. an activist posted this video of herself on you tube. many will take back our dignity and will take back our country as well the people's will is above everything you need to understand that the people have spoken thats it. as one points there was sounds of gunshots other than that you can say the protest on saturday with peaceful. president bashir has stepped down as head of his ruling party in the hope of

calming the protests but the demonstrators insist they won't give up until he resigns as president. zuma. iran's supreme leader has urged iran to get u.s. troops to leave the country as soon as possible they're occupied minister met ayatollah ali how many and head on on his first official visit to the country the matthys trip comes a month after iranian president hassan rouhani visited baghdad relations between the neighbors us strengthen them despite efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region also jabari 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 iranian president also stressed that iran wishes to increase its exports to iraq to 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. still ahead on the look at why and increasing number of palestinian israelis say bellboy called tuesday's election and a loving family behind the smiles story of how the brain is being used as a weapon of war wanted.

hello again we're here across united states we are looking at severe weather that is in the making here across much of the south we have a system that's coming out of the rockies you can begin to see the clouds right here making their way across the central plains and with the storm we do expect to see some very heavy rain across parts of texas and then making its way across the gulf coast with this rain we do expect to see severe thunderstorms anywhere from sunday and also into monday and because it's going to be so heavy don't rule out the fact that we could be seeing some localized flooding across much of that region as well twenty seven degrees in dallas on monday for atlanta we expect to see about twenty three even looking quite nice in new york twenty one degrees you haven't seen that temperature in a long time up towards trying to though it is going to be a day with fifteen degrees there well here across the caribbean not looking too bad

we're going to see some scattered showers across parts of jamaica maybe some clouds up here towards the bahamas but in terms of temperatures it looks like it's going to stay to the high twenty's as well as maybe into low thirty's well parts of brazil is going to be seeing some heavy rain as well we're talking about rio de janeiro there that had been quite dry over the last few days but the rain is back temperatures are up but over here towards it is going to be a dry day and a nice day twenty five and what is odd is partly cloudy conditions few with a temperature of about twenty four and the pas at eighteen. counter because this week libya's wealth has pitted east against west we take a look at the war economy how it conflicts with brushing back fires this is what ukraine's most important economic region of white international investors a president a bodie with india's election turn to the polls to zero. it's

good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories the head of libya's u.n. fact government has accused the board of khalifa haftar of the trail of a has military offensive on the capital tripoli prob mystifies out of iraq since the forces will confront how fast troops to turn the nation they have been protesting venezuela's capital for and against president the little opposition they took on the old around the borders and caucus while in another part of the city thousands backed. and thousands of protesters in sudan have mobbed on president omar al

bashir his residence and the nearby army headquarters in the capital and it is the closest that got to that part of the city sudden anti-government demonstrations began in december a civilians also being killed in protests on both mon. israel heads to the polls on tuesday to elect a new government almost twenty percent of the palestinian israelis who said they're discriminated against or recent polls suggest that a growing number of them intend to boycott the election stephanie decker reports from northern israel these ladies are getting ready to welcome a guest political campaigning is intimate here. hopefully these along 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 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 when an extremist religious atmosphere is not an easy reality for us there is a direct policy by this government to target the palestinian community. 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 announced her says he intends to boycott this vote. when they need to open the box like an instrument and we are not. we have a history where after this name we have life we have we have a homeland and we have roots the palestinian israeli parties are predicted to get around eleven seats according to the latest polls out of one hundred twenty and

regardless whether it's benjamin netanyahu or his main challenger benny gantz forms a new government through a coalition the palestinian israeli parties say they will join them palestinian israelis make up almost a fifth of israel's population and they hold full israeli citizenship but have only spoken to say they face racial discrimination such as the controversial nation state bill that was passed last year which says that israel is the nation state of the jewish people and self-determination is also unique to the jewish people. are using this law and they will use it more and more in the future to make equality impossible. is a human rights activist he says this is the most right wing government in decades and little will probably change but he doesn't agree with those intending to boycott all of think that it spoils ability to welcome the election and then to say oh yeah we had the chance to you know to send his government home.

we boycotted the polls suggest that benjamin netanyahu is best placed to form the next government and it could be even more right wing than before stephanie decker al-jazeera northern israel. to disease first democratically elected president says he wants stand again a.g. chi the steps he says he's stepping aside are nearly five years to make way for a younger leader the ninety two year old has urged his party to overcome internal divisions ahead of november's election today as he has struggled in recent years with a faltering economy and attacks by armed groups. the internet's been shut down into towns and the minister made the government's trying to prevent protests after two rebels were killed in a shoot out of the military on saturday now researchers have found the disputed region has more web blackout than anywhere else in the world and that's costing indian businesses billions of dollars ben smith reports. reliant on the internet as most entrepreneurs anywhere she sells kashmir addresses

to customers worldwide but in india not administered kashmir is essential tool of modern business is cut sometimes several times a month without warning by the government i have to upload pictures to jog with my customers and i have. to do everything online only so for that i need him to. and right now we are in green the first century and we have every day to use it in but we had anybody tell you that by. almost half the internet blackout in india in the last five years we're in the disputed territory of jammu and kashmir that's according to a study from stanford university in the us online access is usually caught after unrest to prevent what the government calls inflammatory content spreading online the shut down of and of not to order and lost as ordered not to have been. run

over to get and some are not the visuals are for developers or to the blog where billions is riddled acquired. in twenty sixteen when there was sustained unrest across india not administered kashmir the government shut down the internet for two hundred three days it's. the students here denying them internet access stops their research cuts them off from friends and fuels resentment it just key it's you know and it must fear of fear and it must fear of just being in doing . so because having the internet's nastily it also affects us a heap because you feel like you're in a place where like this is a big issue you don't have the internet big this issue is affecting your life. the stanford university study says internet shutdowns over the last five years of cost indian businesses more than three billion dollars and the study found no evidence that taking people off line reduced protests or eased unrest bernard smith

al-jazeera. liz new york have arrested a man for threatening to kill muslim democratic congresswoman. patrick jr faces up to ten years in prison if convicted prosecutors say he calderon's office in march and threatened to shoot her and then left his contact details known as appeared in court and is being held in custody. now the u.s. president has ridiculed the system which gives migrants a safe passage donald trump says the people seeking asylum at the border with mexico look like mixed martial arts fighters he was addressing a republican jewish coalition in las vegas. well a program. is. some of the roughest people you've ever seen people that looked like they should be fighting for the u.f.c. . they read a little given great lawyers are all over the place your own lawyers tell him what

to say you look at this guy you said wow that's a tough cookie well meanwhile more migrants from mexico and central america heading for the u.s. border the president repeatedly threatened to close it if mexico doesn't do more to stop them well asylum seekers and activists have burned figures representing trump and mexico's president and protests at the mexican border they've been camping outside immigration offices waiting for travel documents where some accuse mexico's government of slowing down the awarding of so-called humanitarian visas following trump's threats. of bridges collapse in northern brazil after a ferry collided with a pole or two cars were not true the more true river and scuba divers are searching for survivors the collapses destroyed a highway to one of brazil's busiest ports and that could affect grain shipments in the north. more than seven hundred people have died in the latest outbreak in the democratic republic of congo health officials say around one hundred people have

died in the past few weeks but residents are now receiving vaccines on a large scale for the first time but the effort to stop the epidemic has been handled by the community as a reluctance to seek treatment and violence between armed groups in the region. now rape is often used as a weapon of war during conflicts but the sheer number of sexual attacks during the one does genocide twenty five years ago is imaginable the u.n. estimates up to half a million to see women were raped and those born as a result as one of the most under-reported aspects of the genocide anderson the summons of us and one woman who wanted to speak for the first time about what she's endured. this young woman may not have physical injuries from the genocide of rwanda but since birth her life has been blighted diaz. is a child of the genocide she was born of rape and she's grown up on 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 shouted and chased me away many times i would stay in other people's houses. during the genocide his mother was raped in the capital kigali by an unknown hutu militia man she gave birth to death in february ninety ninety five the stigma of rape in africa is profound and being fathered by 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 her 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. i used to live in total despair to the point where i would think it's better if i was in time i. thought she'd found understanding from a boyfriend but things went drastically wrong. after you 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 over again. dielman 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 he. says her baby daughter will never feel loved she and her live in poverty they're

unemployed and they're in a pain remains but mother clements manages to sound optimistic. i am proud of her and i even love her daughter deanna is all i've got and my family's extended now a mother a daughter and her baby sharing the darkness of a crime against humanity that will live all through three generations andrew simmons al jazeera in rwanda. and the headlines on. the head of libya's u.n. back government is accused. of betraying military offensive on the capital tripoli promise to fire. the forces will confront half troops what the determination.

we reiterate our cool to all libyans throughout the country east to west north to south to the necessity of giving priority to the interests of the country unifying the ranks and working together to lift libya out of this crisis i say to the international community that it should not equate between the aggressor and those who defend themselves or between those who seek the militarization of the state and those committed to a democratic civilian country or. the rain protests in venezuela's capital for and against president nicolas maduro opposition leader on why they will rally supporters and caucus while in another part of the city thousands back to where the . thousands of protesters in sudan have marched on president omar al bashir residents and the nearby army headquarters in the capital khartoum it is the closest they've gotten that part of the city since anti-government government demonstrations began in december meanwhile civilians been killed in protests and on the demand. iran's supreme leader has urged iraq to get u.s.

troops to leave the country as soon as possible iraq's prime minister. was making his first official visit to tehran relations between the neighbors are strengthening despite efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region . to india's first democratically elected president says he's stepping aside after nearly five years to make way for a younger leader ninety two year old. has urged his party to overcome internal divisions ahead of november's vote to nazir has struggled in recent years with a faltering economy and attacks by armed groups police in new york have arrested a man for threatening to kill muslim democratic congresswoman. patrick jr faces up to ten years in prison if convicted prosecutors say he called that march and threatened to shoot her and then left his contact details he has appeared in court and is being held in custody. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera counting

the cost of coming up next thank you very much for watching. benjamin netanyahu is fighting for a fifth term as prime minister of israel using his friendship with donald trump fears over security and race but he faces corruption charges and a trio of former army chiefs trying to gather to unseat an opponent's sense a chance in the upcoming israeli elections get the latest on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finighan this is counting the cost of al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week a war economy a divided nation two central banks debt piling up libya's wealth has pitted the east against the west. also this week our conflict with russian backed fighters has hurt you craves most important economic reach plus we find out why one of india's

most trusted economists has cast doubt on the nation's economic growth. almost eight years after the fall of want to get off his regime in libya the country is deeply divided between east and west a war economy has enriched armed groups at a battle to control the country's oil fields is ongoing as the forces of her after advance on tripoli al-jazeera is laura manley explains how he's funded after four years of recession improved political and security arrangements have seen the economy bounce back or has underpinned that growth but it's also the cause of the ongoing political tussle for control of the country's wealth. while the united nations backs the internationally recognized government in tripoli in the eastern city of al bayda there is a parallel government affiliated with

a to break base parliament and the warlords. and it's backed by saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt both governments have their own central banks the central bank in arbeit a city has sold bonds worth more than twenty three billion dollars to fund its wage bill watterson prints up money for tripoli russia has printed ten billion dinars for the parallel ministration in the east. libya is a wealthy nation it's eighty billion dollars in oil revenues and foreign reserves are managed by tripoli but have to has seized oil fields in the east and the south of the country to pay for this and to keep the economy's head above water libya state or national oil company plans spend fifty billion dollars to increase production to prepare two thousand and eleven levels as the country's debts keep piling up there's very little inclination for all sides to come together.

and the conflict in libya is not based on ideology thoughts or different situations or what's going on in libya is a conflict of well such a conflict has to be sorted out in a sense that what has happened during the last eight years should be stop the system before was a big failure as it was based on collecting money plundering the wealth and exploiting influence for more plundering records hearing and corruption. even as the un has bridge the divide for negotiating a ceasefire in tripoli a new thirty four billion dollar budget and in trouble in the all crescent selami slammed those benefiting from the chaos. is not normal of all the fun in libya and you million every single day at a time where the potentials of the medium class are shrinking where they are also in libya a lot of officials insist to stay in their posts which allow them to get fortunes that are not invested at all in libya unfortunately in libya in our region they seized the public money for investing it and laundering it abroad. the east

continues to set up its own government ministries and oil company hiring thousands of soldiers and civil servants the central bank plans to sell more debts to finance its new ministries raising doubts the two halves of the country have any desire to unify. sure there is a manly for counting the cost out to sea or well to serious economic status and it only spoke to ricardo fabiani a geo political analyst at energy aspects he began by asking if the united nations envoys assessment that the conflict had nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with the nation's wealth was true i would tend to agree with the u.n. special envoy on this i don't think ideology really police any significant role in the conflict if anything ideology tends to be a layer or an excuse that's what sides and to use in order to increase their

legitimacy especially abroad especially internationally actually when you look at me being called flip what emerges is that's what really matters is it's all of our controlling the rands whether it's all or whether it's access to foreign currency and the militias have been fighting each other particularly in places like tripoli exactly because they need and they want access to the rants your in order to reduce tribute it and to affect only support their patronage that it's and what do nations like saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt hope to achieve by supporting khalifa haftar. well there are long term goal is basically all about the beneath you first of all this and that is issue of libya particularly when it comes to country ejects the show has a very long and porous border with libya and is obviously concerned with the

problem of terrorist groups using crossing the border to in order to attack egypt but when it comes to you do the u.a.e. and saudi arabia. is equally important but obviously what they care about is their suppression of the is the most groups that are seen us part of the western libyan government the west and big corporation they believe the how we've asked our is part of their sort of ideological war you of anti islamism basically the opposition to that was the brotherhood in more intern or all across the region so if you are going to look into ideology people like heart there also is and on the other side used ideology to boast and to use their own legitimacy in the eyes of our nurses. and the way so is there an end in sight i mean if you consider what's happening on the east side of the country you've got

a parallel economy you've got institutions being created that doesn't seem like an end game where somebody wants to unify the country it's not necessarily a game and most importantly a military end game to the conflict in libya remains despite all the planes and all the posts from eastern libya from people after claiming that they can actually aim for tripoli it can conquer to tripoli in the next few weeks this is still remains on release day even though he controls now two thirds of the country yes he's trying to build parlow institutions in eastern neighbors trying to centralize . our most importantly the endgame here remains a negotiated settlement now the point here though is that in the eyes of people a hostile or a negotiated settlement right now with him controlling two thirds of the country is

a negotiated settlement on easter so somewhere like some sort of agreement where he can be the most important dominant player exactly because you controls two thirds of the country and it controls most importantly more than ninety percent of oil resources in libya so the conversation is shifted here it's now all about empowering hafter and convincing or the other parties to join him even though it might not like him it may not want him. as a teacher effectively in charge of the country and to that end the twenty three billion that the central bank in the east has raised and the money that's being printed and sent from russia is that to help him in these calls. well especially when it comes to support from russia which has been i would say quite a bit years in. the after do you want to support him but not want to be seen as

exclusively backing somebody like hastert who still want to look without room on these are the kind of measures that they can use effectively to support him you know her subtle way it can still be seen as supporting or hafter y.-o. not really throwing all their support so yes all these financial measures are i would say tools that are used to give some degree of some financial support to haftar who needs to entertain to support a very large other niche network and obviously to support. these of its army which continues there continues to grow balls in terms of color territorial control levels in terms of the number of soldiers and officers that are not part of it is this side or so after he controls the oil but he's not able to sell the oil so this is this of course the problem for him right. not necessarily i think

it's a misreading of what actually hearthstone seeming for what he wants is to be seen as a legitimate player in that you can call and most importantly as somebody who can bring stability and therefore can be trusted by international community so for him actually controlling the oil is an instrument this is a tool that he can use to boost his all legitimacy he can basically go to the international community and to the west in particular and say look i don't control the oil here and yet i'm not trying to sell it in. i'm still keeping everything as it is on the arrangements are still buying it or i am the person who can bring order and stability to your sector and i will not attempt to send an independent yes of course he did try to pass to do this then was more sort of isolated a tent rather than

a strategy that he was seriously pursuing ricardo fabiani thank you very much for your time thank you still to come on counting the cost it's bigger than apple alphabet and amazon combined we take a dive in the saudi aramco this financial. but first an actor who once played the president of ukraine in the hit t.v. show is leading the race to unseat president petro poroshenko whoever wins the second round one off will inherit a deadlocked conflict in the east with russian backed faces now into its fifth year the war has hurt ukraine's most economically important region drained public resources and exhausted voters and there's no end in sight now to zero as jonah hole reports now from the city of mary a pole where the conflict is never far away. in ukraine's war zone a new breed of entrepreneurs. alexi used his disability payout as an injured veteran

to set up a pizza business. being given a motivator in war people are happy to spend their money rather than save it because they know anything can happen at any moment. he's not particularly enthusiastic about the upcoming presidential election or have a better back. because of their spinelessness it took volunteers to protect this country where the leadership was too weak to protect it it's all soldiers like alexi from the port city of mariupol formed the hours of but tally in in two thousand and fourteen famous for preventing russian backed separatists from extending their territorial gains in the donbass region all the way to the sea but mario poll has paid a heavy price its once busy port sits idle empty of the cargo ships that carried steel and coal produced here to international markets russia's efforts to disrupt sea traffic off the annexed crimea and put in.