that strain ties between sudan and saudi arabia and the united arab emirates in particular we've seen now what looks like an attempt by the saudis and the amenities to build new relations with. the shia the regional implications are there the egyptians have been really concerned about the situation now in sudan because of the border dispute with with the sudan the south sudanese government will definitely closely monitor the situation because it is their independence in two thousand and eleven there were still issuers not finally resolved with the sudanese government but above all the sentiment that has been leased by the two thousand and eleven arab spring you can see it reverberating across the streets of sudan with thought it would be immune in two thousand and eleven twelve thirteen but people are saying enough is enough because sudan has always been beset by military dictatorships and by a lack of political reforms and this time they say we've given all of us here thirty years we've seen nothing coming out of that no would like to try something

different but this thing has to be really led and owned by the civilians not by the military establishment but we all know what happened in egypt following the arab spring what are the dangers here for sudan what needs to happen to avoid a slide into chaos into civil war to further off a tarion move but sheet over the last thirty years he managed somehow to win the loyalty of powerful tribesman militia commanders across the country and that bettors network could you no way be used back to states in a comeback i think those are taken over now and in sudan are aware of this and they need to do things and this is exactly what i think they are doing now they are arresting potential threats at the same time they are ensuring that the control of the most powerful military bases across the country at the moment they do that and they understand or they realize it's under their control they will come out publicly and make it official. question many thanks for the events that has covered

saddam extensively here at al jazeera earlier we spoke to mamma to a sudanese activist in cotton who says the capitol is filled with people celebrating it's a carnival. metaphor is the beautiful meaning nothing is certain yet people are already out in the streets celebrating you can hear the horns of the car people are whistling women are singing and dancing everybody's happy if you marry me to be rooted. mechanism of how the whole structure of the sudanese government has been functioning since even before thirty years so the plan is. even older than thirty years but we can hope we can hope for the best that we can extract the whole party from its roots then the whole affiliation with the with their presentation of. the home of the machine and his followers i think i was in case that happens we're very optimistic it happens and we just pray for the best and if it doesn't with i'm going to go back again i'm going to process until we eventually get through and we

will get what we want then that the day we must. sacrifice when our journey of liberation we need to we need to give the sacrifice whatever kind of sacrifice it is i mean it will be better to to get beaten up by by by militias rather than rather than being able to defeat our own family or being able to express ourselves so many people are being restrained or we're being restrained but now this is a chance for us to prove that we actually did the right decision and we collaborate all over the needs public and we're just hoping for the best. this for months there is still to come on the program a former president's party stages a comeback in the democratic republic of congo and supporters of the current president happy. fears an influx of refugees as

warring neighboring libya escalates. and in sports find out which team grab the final sponsor in the n.b.a. playoffs. julian songs the founder of wiki leaks has been arrested in london ecuador withdrew his asylum because it says of repeated violations including accusations that a source leaked personal information about ecuador was president just wanted in the us off the wiki leaks released four hundred seventy thousand classified military documents concerning american diplomacy in twenty ten let's go live to london i was there as worry chalons is on the line and hopefully can tell us more rory why has ecuador withdrawn. asylum for. julia song.

well that relationship has being going for teabags the seventy is that shooting at sandwich is be taking refuge inside the ecuadorian embassy in london. in march they cut off his internet access and said that he was forbidden from having visit since he found his departure from the from the embassy was i think kind of previewed in a tweet from wiki leaks not saying that a high level civil within the ecuadorian state has told wiki leaks that june meeting at sandwich will be expelled within hours to days even enough type of politician will scandal as a pretext and that it's already agreed with the u.k. so you think the rest of the phenotype can scandal. basically allegations that ecuador is president let him in right now to benefit kids correctly from offshore accounts in panama and the ecuadorian banks would be

wiki leaks who's responsible for the leaks so to they have been getting increasingly annoyed with him and perhaps this was the last school and they have decided that it is time to surrender and hidden to british colleagues all right so we're looking at him being pulled out of the the embassy right now and scream ways he's been taken and what's going to happen to him. these includes custody as a monument and within tolerance b. are expecting him to be taken to westminster much straight school in london to appear then now the interesting thing about this is the the challenges in sweden . he was originally wanted full would drop by the swedish prosecution in two thousand and seventeen thanks be because they couldn't get the judean sound which

box the metropolitan police have it's all of the say that it sounds still faces the lesser charges paving to surrender to a cold and that's an offense punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine so the question now is what happens to judy in that song's easy going to wind up at some point in the united states the u.k. hasn't really ever commented on whether he's whether it's receives an extradition request from the west and you actual policies haven't really ever officially confirmed but they've challenged him talk about all indications that we have seen and in sealed documents. we will have to wait and see whether this is the beginning of a of a extradition to the us or whether he's just going to be prosecuted a new pay for the lesser charges and that's the end of it. rory many thanks indeed of zero for each one as they're reporting live from london.

voting is underway in the first phase of the world's biggest election people in india a casting their ballots in parliamentary in a poll of entry election prime minister narendra modi is seeking a second term pollings taking place of the seven faces so allow india's estimated nine hundred million registered voters this to take part results a due on may twenty eighth. al-jazeera as elizabeth for autumn joins us now live from the city of noida india's most populous state pradesh there's about tell us more about where you why and the issues that are of concern to voters there. that's right adrian i am in noida and india's most populous state for the two hundred million of those nine hundred million eligible voters that you mention come from this state and that is why that's one of the reasons why it's so important because it is so populous and also because so many of the big issues that are

affecting people in this country and that a key campaign issues are in focus here in look there were days we have been talking to people who've been coming in and voicing all day not just at this polling station but elsewhere in the constituency and they tell us that they want jobs that they want development and these are of course promises that met in from already made when he came to power in twenty fourteen these remain big issues and these issues are what the opposition parties are attacking this government on because. unemployment is at a forty five year high the economy has slowed down and those are two of some of the key issues other ones again that you see being played out here in the day it has a very large. minority muslim population twenty percent they feel that on the stand the national government their lives they live in the hundreds have come under attack so communal relations also very closely watched here as elsewhere in the

country five years ago. prime minister modi's p j p gave a landslide victory how is how is it live in the fed this time around. that's right. they did have a landslide victory and it wasn't just around the country but here they won seventy one out of eighty seats they are expected to do well in this election they are expected to have a ridge used to majority because here and also predation again as elsewhere in the country powerful smaller regional parties have formed alliances to try and chip away at the b.j. peace majority so it will be interesting to see you know a lot of people say that the main opposition the big eight the biggest problem in this election isn't going to come from the policy of india's founders from the indian national congress the main opposition but from those regional parties that

will be watching how they do over the next six weeks of this election very closely there's many thanks elizabeth for a live. in india today. is southeast asia political commentator and senior lecturer at lancaster university joins us now live via skype is it fair to say that this the world's biggest election. is all about one man. it is only what we have is a presidential style of election that is taking place with moment it is all about prime minister not in the mood you have from your correspondent in delhi what is happening it is that the opposition is not do not under country is divided along caste communal religious and regional unlined course and you mark the country at the moment happens to be in this movie. that is promised in the in the movie so

there is no effective up with this and there is no national leader who could power a low specific person in the form of lead in the movie and that is the reason why it kind of creates so much confusion so careless diatribe in indian politics at the moment the modi promise to launch five years ago he has managed to live to deliver much of it i mean to say that he could deliver any more with out of five years. he cannot because he had the kind of numbers on his side because back in two thousand and fourteen it was a landslide victory bertie promised a lot which he simply couldn't deliver so it is going to be more of the same if the party comes back to power this time around so the challenges are going to be much more for the next five years but having said that what all the old native indians are they said on the air there is no national leader who could be taken seriously

and the opposition party is in goldblum that is congress and everyone is pulling india in several different directions so what we are going to have is more of the same the party comes back to power so you're saying that basically squandered his his mandate but to what extent does it not really matter who is running the country the problems the issues the. challenge the verbs so challenging and so difficult that whoever was in. charged with face the same problems. indeed i mean we have to realize the challenges that he has for the last five years hasn't cropped up in those five years they've been accumulated over the past seventy years or so the problem of course is that he sort of raised the expectations of the masses so much that everyone thought that he would sort of with a magic wand and things will become. honey and mama all across the country and that hasn't happened so if you sort of points down that slogan of the law and if it

turns down the expectations of the masses then there will be less put this to kind of messes that is being put across the country unless he does that they need going to him and rested and as we said we're talking about at the moment we don't even know whether the party is going to come back with the majority again if it is a kind of simple majority so if it is going to be coalition politics then we are going to witness much more chaos than what we had seen in the past good. being with us. next up on that he is out evidence here with a weather update for us but still to come on the program. a strenuous prime minister announces the dates of the general election take a look ahead to the key issues that. will tell you why tugs of paying more for basic items like food. and sport

a baseball player breaking the wrong sort of records and he will be here a little later a little bodies. there when i'm sorry to say i think we may well see further showers returning to those flood affected parts of iran a fair amount of cloud rolling out of iraq a making their way the. next pockets of storms that are just rolling into the southeast of iraq is just around the basra area slide across the border into the southwest of iraq as we go on through the next twenty four hours this is the scene in the southwest of iran and you can see the sun is out it isn't running but the floodwaters do remain high and as

a result of those pending shallots people on there having to move their belongings to higher ground getting away from those flood certain see as we go on through the next twenty four hours thursday into friday how the cloud will build a few showers just creeping across the border still seated around us that they're not going to still be wall to wall right by any stretch of the imagination but the showers the cloud will be there nevertheless i think more so as we go on into saturday was some heavy rain just sliding out of kuwait and making its way eastwards afghanistan seeing some really heavy rain as we go on into the weekend could see a little bit of heavy rain across southern parts of the gulf as we go through the next couple of days big downpours may. in that way into the region. the weather sponsored by cattle railways. we live in a time of war and tragedies crimes against humanity. activist repression. enforced disappearance arbitrary arrests.

extrajudicial executions brutal torture the list goes on. who investigates who judges the criminals. who compensates the victims the international conference on national regional and international mechanisms to combat in kenya and ensure accountability under international law. organized by the national human rights committee. united nations human rights office of the high commissioner. european parliament. and global alliance of national human rights institutions.

it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha but the news of. the headlines army is due to make an announcement soon but it's understood the president omar al bashir has been relieved of his duties tens of thousands of people off on the streets of the capital khartoum and there are reports that some fool senior officials have been detained. the founder of wiki leaks julian assange has just been arrested at london's ecuador and ecuador's london embassy ways been holed up for nearly seven years ecuador withdrew his asylum accusing him of leaking personal information about ecuador as president. the first things on the way to india in the first phase of the world's biggest election polling in parliamentary elections is taking place over seven faces to an hour

a to allow an estimated nine hundred million registered voters to take office. let's return now to our top story the political situation in sudan is a protester who was arrested by sudan's intelligence agents in january he described the atmosphere right now on the streets. it's a lot of emotion lot of euphoria not everyone in the streets everyone is. happy finally there is hope for the country everyone is out on the streets the streets is a long way off base a small is no it is a signal say to everyone just everyone's excited it's unbelievable feeling. after thirty years of a government that is living off its people's fear and. torture and malicious and scaring people to keep it through corruption all

the company over the past years without sense of emotion in. a recent. after after thirty years of the same routine doing the same things. with the last few years with the international policy changing towards. a softer a softer. approach to government. for this president who wanted the i.c.c. to be overthrown this is. tough to bring up but have to be more prevalent so everyone everywhere but it's all clear it's unclear who's the head of the council right now we think statement we don't know what's going to happen but we have to hope that we can transition into. a democratic. government.

for collections. october thirty first is the new date set for briggs it's forty eight hours before britain was due to crash out of the european union an emergency summit of e.u. leaders agreed to the six month extension that warning britain's politicians not to waste the extra time to finally thrash out or prove to be impossible for them one of the main breaks at sticking points is what happens on the divided island of ireland the possible result of checkpoints between the irish republican northern ireland is a major concern not just on trade but the peace process too that's especially true in the second largest city in the north which is but at the forefront of decades of sectarian conflict stratford reports now from all of the very. the union flag know down which country the approximately four hundred people who live in this neighborhood identify with they describe fountain as the last protestant on play when the predominately catholic west side of londonderry the house is

a caged in by what people call a peace wall and everywhere you look there are references to the u.k. the neighborhood used to be a recruiting ground for protestant paramilitary groups during northern ireland's so-called troubles the three decades of violence between predominately protestants wanting to remain part of the u.k. and mainly catholic republican groups fighting for a united independent island most of the violence indeed with the good friday peace agreement in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight most people here voted for northern ireland to leave the european union but are aware of the challenges ahead down today as far as very important. how protestant culture as important to each undivided joe and we are also speaking for myself very much part of. we've never really had pace there's always the violence flared up jason carroll. deftly gin up on a back door lateral the british government the e.u.

and the irish government do not want a hard border between northern ireland and the irish republic if the u.k. don't leave the e.u. the british military checkpoints disappeared more than twenty years ago so series a maze breaks a deal rejected street times by the british parliament concerns the so-called backstop a last resort to keep an open border if the u.k. crashes out of the without a deal which is one of more than two hundred roads that cross the border and out the so-called stop would given all of a lot of this part of the u.k. some form of temporary special customs union status with the u. it seems inconceivable that they would have to be some form of mechanism of checking certain goods that cross this. and the issue is once again renewing phase of violence could well threaten so some people say the good friday agreement and are highlighting just how important notions of religion and identity are in

northern ireland in catholic areas of derry the murals tell a resistance to british rule in the fight for an independent united on and he talk aboard a chick's here is met with disdain and sometimes even threats. gary donnelly is a republican dissidents and activist he left the republican national party shin fein when they signed the good friday agreement he says he was recently shown when he heard children talking about attacking british soldiers never having seen one before to young children came around the corner and they were talking about. me. kerry says the republican national is like she had this self to blame for brakes it because they signed the good friday agreement for me as a republican i thank the good friday agreement. and ireland which is a violation a legal violation of irish sovereignty and that at. the you know the connection

between this part of ireland with. great britain and this community at the monitors and spiral particularly amongst young people there is a ravaged by drugs alcohol addiction there's a lack of hope amongst young people the republican army graffiti appeared about derry a couple of months ago people were afraid to remove it fear and distrust of the other runs deep among many in the protestant and catholic communities here chance trafford al-jazeera terry. let's go live to london alexandra as jonah hole is outside the house of parliament there so oct thirty first jonah the new date for briggs's what are m.p.'s there in westminster likely to make of that. well to resume a herself will be here in the next hour or two addressing the house of commons giving them the update on the details on that extension it's longer of course than she had hoped for but shorter than many had feared i don't think she'll get many

thanks for that particularly on her own backbenchers where a majority of m.p.'s voted against the idea of this second extension on tuesday night they'll be furious at the idea of britain now you know all likelihood having to take part in e.u. parliamentary elections furious that break cities once again delayed they'll be concerned i think that this further extension opens the door now to winds of change over which they perhaps have limited control maybe i should ring in a new form of bricks at a much softer deal done with the opposition labor party may be ushering in a general election that the conservatives are not guaranteed of winning may be assuring in a second referendum and i'll tell you first thing this morning there was chatter on twitter people pointing out that six months is exactly the amount of time the electoral commission says is required to organize a people's vote so what happens next when the prime minister to me first when she

gets back to westminster. well we may have some detail on that in this statement that she's due to give the commons how does she plan to proceed one assumes that she will have to tell them that she's continuing down the track of talks with the labor party those talks are due to continue on thursday of course she promised e.u. leaders that they were going well as a pretense of a pretext rather for the extension she was given e.u. leaders. the other end we're told by the labor party that they weren't going all that well that the government in fact it showed little willingness or sign of real compromise so will the first order of business be a real sense an intention to compromise to find a deal or there was a clue last night in the press conference she gave went off by the media whether she plans now to resign she said no she will resign when and only when withdrawal agreement is parsed by this parliament so they will be in fact that real priority

is once again to try to get briggs deal passed by this parliament to deal i'll remind you that's been comprehensively rejected three times already john of many things. australia's prime minister has called a general election for may eighteenth with the campaign expected to focus on taxation climate change and inequality and scott morrison is conservative coalition is seeking a third term in office but opinion polls but the opposition labor party well ahead a coalition slipped into a minority government last year and will need to win seats to govern its own right . i believe this morning i visited the governor general here in cambridge and he accepted my advice for an election to be hilda on the eyeteeth of my. we live in the base country in the world. but to secure your future the road ahead depends on

a strong economy. and that's why there is so much at stake at the selection. from i was there as under thomas in sydney. it's in the less affluent suburbs of australian cities like here in western sydney a long way from the beaches in the harbor that this election will be decided for the government their main liability is the political instability that's been within their own right of center liberal party since they first came to office in two thousand and thirteen they keep changing leaders have been three different prime ministers tony abbott malcolm turnbull now scott morrison since they first came to office the government is running a campaign against the policies of the opposition labor party they say first of all that they represent a threat to the economy already here house prices are tumbling they say that if labor comes in with its highest spending commitments they threaten to send this country into recession they also say that refugees would start flooding back to australia if labor were to get in under the government under very harsh policies

towards refugees bokes of refugees have stopped coming here they say that labor would bring in policies that would restart those boats labor but one of the well either of those things particularly they want to talk more about the environment and the lack of a climate change policy as they see it by the government well that's just over a month until the election in the end though it will all come down to a few people in places like this changing their minds in twenty thirty turkey's government has promised financial reforms in order to revive its ailing economy in the past year turkey has faced high inflation and a recession while the national currency the lira has plunged by nearly thirty percent in value many consumers are finding it difficult to afford imported goods need barker reports from istanbul. turkey is troubled economy is affecting more people who can afford to buy. onions a mainstay of turkish cuisine of almost doubled in price in the past few weeks

consumers are feeling the squeeze much greater. dissolute told me the prices all things i wanted i had to give them back they were too expensive for me turkey is heavily dependent on foreign imports on everything from food to building materials the national currency the lira has plunged by a third in value causing costs to saw for the past three months the government has been trying to control the soaring cost of food by buying goods directly from farmers and selling directly to consumers by cutting out the middleman they hope to push down prices they've also lifted some tariffs on certain goods as well but many are now questioning how long this manipulation of the market can really last overall inflation is now at twenty percent last year the economy went into recession for the first time in a decade some analysts fear there's more to come the country deliberately focused on. industrial production and services and for the last decade more so

on services so i grew a culture has been neglected and as a result obviously we became more dependent on foreign imports turkey's finance minister insists the worst is over the government to promise to inject billions of dollars into state banks and support turkish exports. turkey's main focus now is already forming the economy in order to achieve the goal of the instructor it's necessary to introduce structural reforms. the impact of the economic downturn could be seen on istanbul skyline it's a city of stalled building sites for the past sixteen years present turn construction into a vehicle of growth new developments have gone up or breakneck speed but with the leader of pulling the cost of importing raw. materials and surfacing all of the loaves have sought last year the u.s. double tariffs on turkish steel and alum india amid worsening relations the two

countries on all observe an increasing number of issues including turkey's growing ties with russia and plans to buy a russian missile defense system president said the u.s. tariffs were a big obstacle to turkish trade. rising prices were a major election issue for many turks the ruling party's popularity for so long built around strong growth and improved living standards now depends on creating a road to recovery the park al-jazeera is stumble here with the news from there is still to come in sports we'll hear from the australian cricketer his aiming for sporting redemption in england.