well look if if the arab spring is about the frustration with corruption and with the nepotism or with the lack of meritocracy with the enormous disregard for citizens' rights then it's absolutely continuation of the arab spring because frankly nothing has changed in the near decade that we've seen the first arab spring you know spring and partly that's because frankly the conditions continue to get worse corruption is on the rise i would say that nepotism is getting the worst and certainly the securitization of daily life which for so many citizens was one of the real frustrations with their government back in two thousand and eleven has gotten worse in many of these countries that experienced arab spring of course with the exception of two musea the situation is far worse on securitization so i think you know the arab spring there's a continuum until governments get the message that until they provide political liberalization until they provide economic dignity to the arab masses they're going

to keep coming out egypt's president sisi was in washington this week at the white house. what support can the people of sudan expect from the international community. well this is the real sad part because you know the international community is far different than it was in two thousand and eleven and sadly i think the international community is far more introverted certainly under a trump leadership if that's you know it sounds like an oxymoron to say it that way but if there is a merican leadership under trump it is one that does not care so much to really support or help many countries in their fight for democratization on the contrary there's only support for dictators and for autocrats and that i think is really going to make things very difficult for sudan he's so dani's don't have the allies that perhaps maybe to a lesser extent there was in egypt there was in libya and all of the other arab

springs that had a change of government there was international support again we can quibble about how much how little and whether it was of quality support but the end of the day the sudan has no they're on their own and this it any people are very competent and frankly one of the most amazing people that one could ever meet and if anyone knows sudan they know you know that they're up to the task and they're not going to give up professor really gets to achieve any thanks due to being with a special nobody there in. a weather update thanks to you and i was here at then u.s. reaction to the arrest of wiki leaks founder julian assange we're delighted watch. however we got some rather wet weather pushing into central and southern parts of

china at the moment that west so weather will gradually sink its way further southeast was as we go through the next couple of days the carrot out here you can see just pushing over towards shanghai stretches down towards northern parts of vietnam some wet weather just talking in here just around the gulf of funking just pushing up into high net hong kong generally does stay dry twenty seven celsius here. crowd of the right just pushing a little bit to the north of that and easing further north with still as we go through sas dates and really heavy downpours coming it might just catch a little bit of localized flooding as a result of that but bright skies do push back in of course so southern parts of china stays dry brought of course across a good part of india you can see the sun the heads just popping up on a satellite pitch and so we could still see a scattering of life as shallow as the heat wave continues forty to tell cells celsius steffen like cool forty degrees hydrabad and also for new delhi a little cooler in new delhi as we go on into saturday but just

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hello again this is al jazeera was for much of the main news this hour saddam's military has taken over in a coup after weeks of anti-government protests the defense minister says the president omar al bashir has been arrested and. being held in quote a safe place the army will be in charge of a transitional council for two years and a state of emergency has been put in place for three months. the u.s. department of justice system charge wiki leaks founder julian assange was with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion he's wanted in the u.s. after wiki leaks released hundreds of thousands of classified military documents in twenty ten earlier police dragged julian a solace from ecuador's embassy where he spent the last seven years the ecuadorians a victim for what they said were repeated violations of his political asylum is

currently appearing before a london cause the u.s. government wants him extradited let's take you live now to that court in london and i was here as rory chalons what exactly is he being charged with in that court. the court first to tell you about this so i media circus that of course is going up there over my left shoulder the lady with the gray hats on that stain vivienne westwood to the fashion designer who has been a long time supporter jude and there are large numbers of news crews down here inside the courtroom district judge michael snow found julian guilty of one of the issues that he was appearing here for which is the domestic issue skipping bail back in twenty twelve now the district judge said that julian is on

his behavior is the that's of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests and he has sent judy in a stone to a crown court for sentencing at a date that is yet to be decided. he would also appear on the second issue which is the extradition issue by video link on the second of may and the extradition hearing will begin in proper. at the beginning of june now of course that's a more serious matter because if he is extradited to the united states as the u.s. wants him to be then he could well find himself in front of a court there and sentenced to a considerable length of time for of course all those computer related charges that the u.s. wants him for essentially leaking secrets all right well let's find out about those charges were many thanks indeed let's go live now to washington now to syria shahab pretends he can tell us more about what it is the julian assange has allegedly done

she have. right and so the administration the troubled ministration is treading very carefully i'm not suggesting that could face up to forty five years perhaps on the espionage act for the act of publishing information which frankly was in the public interest about us war crimes contraventions of international law that's always been an issue that the obama administration wrestled with and the trouble destruction of power and has been wrestling with to if you publish if you arrest and prosecute a journalist a publisher for simply publishing information that might be secret is in the public interest where we can all be arrested and put in jail because frankly we will use all of wiki leaks information as well specifically the twenty ten information to publish from chelsea manning the what will became known as the collateral murder tapes among other things showing what appeared to be u.s. war crimes in iraq and elsewhere to say the least all sorts of other things too so

the u.s. government isn't charging him with simply publishing the information he isn't charged on the espionage act for disseminating secret information that charging him with hacking one comes of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion that charging the actively helped chelsea manning in twenty ten crack apos would which then allowed access to these secret documents in fact this is the only evidence of it that they give they they say that only. twenty ten modding it already given tens of thousands of documents but nothing said just look through this upload that's all i really got left to which i saw and sheds curious is never run dry in my experience and clearly giving chelsea manning some encouragement to go and that's what journalists do they do tend to try and encourage sources to give any information of wrongdoing that they can but then the d.o.j. set off to a vast shell see manning a hot into the idea get on top and then subsequently all the state department

cables are published which showed all sorts of wrongdoing by u.s. diplomats and the. it's a huge cost of admission we still use whenever something happens around the world now it all is sure that julian assange involved in the hacking there it says although it is modeling provided the psalms with part of a pos was stored on the d.v.d. computer connected to a secret network and then later on march the tenth assault requested more information and he said he'd been trying to crack the pulse of what he indicated this is what sort of vague indicated that he had been trying to crack the policy by stating that he had quote no luck so far up so that's it that's the evidence that the u.s. is giving to the u.k. to try to help the case for extradition extradition of a song and it's a bit thin really because that if that's all they have that one point of. yeah you gave me a bit of luck in really helping you know about i mean that's that doesn't just that he helped chelsea manning materially become

a better haka or he actually contributed to the hacking or anything else is that enough then for the u.k. to extradite to the u.s. it will have to be seen it's interesting though that the u.s. is saying look the most he could face is five years up to five years for this however once once a song was in the u.s. there's nothing stopping the d.o.j. from adding charges and that's the fear that's what once the u.s. house of fear is more and more charges will be leveled against him for all the other hacks and indeed allegations that he's colluded with the russians or whatever which will then lead it once again to those those those concerns by journalists no one should do with the interest of the public interest about the precedent it sets for a country to be allowed to extradite a journalist from anywhere in the world anywhere in the world just because a particular country doesn't like the information that he's publishing fascinating she had but he thinks days. britain's prime minister tourism is resuming talks with the opposition to find a way out of the briggs in depth look easy you need to have agreed to

a six month extension until october thirty first for britain's departure from the market but may told parliament that she's hoping to get a deal passed next month to avoid the u.k. taking part in european elections. the choices we face are stark and the timetable is clear i believe we must now press on at pace with our efforts to reach a consensus on a deal that is in the national interest i welcome the discussions that have taken place with the opposition in recent days and the further talks which are resuming today this is not the normal way of british politics and it is uncomfortable for many in both the government and opposition parties reaching an agreement will not be easy because to be successful it will require both sides to make compromises live out of london al-jazeera bernard smith is outside the houses of parliament what was the reaction in westminster bernard to that. watching the labor party particularly described may's necessity of asking for this

extension as a second extension as a diplomatic failure jeremy corbyn though has said that the talks at the parties are taking part in a genuine they are serious and they are going on again today but the problem is both sides remain very far away on reaching some sort of consensus on the way forward particularly for the labor party because they want the u.k. to remain in a customs union with the e.u.'s century being closely aligned with the e.u. rules import tariffs on the conservative government has always said that's one of its red red lines it is not going to move on so they're in maine a long way away parliaments are gone it's easter break it's not back for another week so about the twenty fourth of april that only leaves. month or so before they can try and get this withdrawal agreement before through polland before the european elections but it's looking extremely remote so it looks like britain will

most inevitably end up taking part in your clean elections a what about a second referendum of the chances increase or decrease of have a holding a second referendum. well it seems from some quarters that almost inevitably britain is heading towards a second referendum and jeremy corbyn has said that that remains an option on the table because the one of the big problems for both the political parties is that even if they get together and find some way forward to present the withdrawal agreement to pollinate the withdrawal agreement will always contain the irish box this is the agreement that maintains an open border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland joining any future e.u. and u.k. negotiations and it's not buck stopped at a stop this withdrawal agreement getting through parliament mainly because of

bracks it supporting members of the conservative party so that will always be in the withdrawal agreement of the challenge will be how would you get this through parliament next time when every time before it's failed because of this backstopping. many thanks indeed i was there was voted smith live in london. polls have closed the first of six weeks of voting in the world's largest election nine hundred million indians are registered to vote in what's seen as a popularity test for the ruling b.j. and from mr modi's five years in charge fest jamail so how the massive exercise in democracy stances in the capital new delhi. these people were among the first to vote arriving early at this polling station in the pradesh to cast their ballot in the first of india seven phase election ninety one parliamentary seats are being decided in twenty regions this first round. security

personnel and kept the watch why nine hundred million registered voters there are many different concerns. our main issue is development so i will vote for development others have different priorities so. we hope that the next government will reduce unemployment and improve security moreover roads should be made and poverty be reduced corruption is also a major problem. among india's youth unemployment is at its highest in decades subset and the first issue for the us is the issue of there can be no big issues in this jobs of the biggest. many of the b j p supporters are small traders and it said it's made it easier to do business and improve services for the poor and middle classes but opposition parties blame it for high youth unemployment exploiting divides in communities and the ongoing debt crisis facing farmers opinion polls suggest the b j p is heading for reduced majority. but some analysts

say many indian voters do not decide whom to vote for until the last minute the previous big. everybody was thinking. and there was a slogan. but it. it put out so you would never know what is going on there. the main opposition congress is hoping to capitalize on this uncertainty by promising voters millions of new jobs as well as the guaranteed minimum income for the poorest twenty percent but it's uncertain if that's enough to persuade voters. this election is just getting started and there's still six more phases to come whether voters give the b.g.p. another chance elect the opposition or coalition of regional party takes power will be seen over the coming weeks camille al-jazeera. a strenuous prime minister has called a general election from may eighteenth this with

a campaign expected to focus on taxation climate change and inequality scott morrison is conservative coalition is seeking an office but opinion polls put the opposition labor party well ahead it was. really this morning i visited the governor general here in cambridge and he accepted my advice for an election to be hilda on the 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. it is good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in the headlines this hour i'll just say are sudan's military has taken over in a coup after weeks of anti-government protests the defense minister says the

president obama al bashir will be arrested and held in close a safe place the army will be in charge of a transitional council for two years and the state of emergency has been put in place for three months or more good reports now from the heart to. it seems that more and more people are getting disappointed by the announcement initially as i suppose that not all of them had gotten the news the only thing that they were listening to the fact that president bashir is no longer the president of the gov of the country after thirty years of rule but now more of them are becoming aware of the fact that the military council has taken over and that they will be. for two years until elections are held that's according to them not what they protesting for protesting for a new government new faces led by civilians by the military the u.s. department of justice has charged wiki leaks founder julian songs with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions he's wanted in the u.s. to wiki leaks released hundreds of thousands of classified military documents

twenty ten earlier police in london dragged julian a songs from ecuador's embassy where he spent the last seven years the ecuadorians a victim for what they said were repeated violations of his political asylum he's just appeared before a lot of the course of this been found guilty of breaching bail conditions in the u.k. the u.s. government wants him extradited rory chalons reports from london. inside the courtroom district judge michel snoeck found julian guilty of one of the issues that he was appearing here for which is the domestic issue skipping bail back in twenty twelve now the district judge said that judaism just behavior is the that's of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests and he is saying today in a zone to a crown court for sentencing after dates that is yet to be decided the news

continues here on al-jazeera right after today's edition of the stream next. the latest news as it breaks while this is a training exercise the dangers are real because the situation melby is slowly deteriorating with detail coverage and how much as you don't know toss to reason may makes it clear that the current political impasse simply can't go on from around the world aid agencies are warning people of the dangers of cholera and distributing vaccines many are still using rivers from thing and cleaning. imo they could be here in the stream if you as prime minister has been widely praised for pushing through major changes during the first year of his term but can i be ahmed build on his breathless start and solve a series of seemingly intractable challenges send us your thoughts or twitter and

you tip. i'd be mania swept parts of if he and the wider region sensibly ahmed became prime minister a year ago before his election by the country's ruling coalition abby was a little known politician now he is a leading nominee for nobel peace prize this clip from al jazeera somehow made it out highlights just some of the changes and at the opi out under abbott's watch. it's been a good frosty for the prime minister from the time at forty two ethiopian the day is the youngest and off you can continent so far. including freeing thousands of political prisoners and closing the country's infamous torture chambers in the capital addis ababa ethiopia had long been known as one of the world's last journalists within months of taking office released them. he has appointed women to

hof the cabinet posts parliament has also accepted his female nominees for president and head of the supreme court but it's the speed with which he ended the twentieth conflict with nibbling at a tree and the published. science of what it can. but it's not all good news i began his government must tackle long simmering ethnic tensions as well as economic and environmental problems threatening people's livelihoods and he pulled it off well joining us to discuss this we have a bad break allow a journalist with if the o.p.m. satellite television and radio known as east that. is that are in chief at the idea standard she joins us from frankfurt germany and. is a political analyst he joins us from the capital at this hour welcome to the stream everyone a bad day i want to start with you because it's so good to have you back in the studio thanks so much but i want to remind our audience especially for the ones who are true stream fans they might remember this take

a look at my computer here the last time you were here june twenty sixth two thousand and twelve we both look a little bit younger in this clip here from an old set but you were here under not such great circumstances we were talking about the country's human rights record because you were living in d.c. in exile after having been charged in absentia for terrorism because of your journalism and so i want to fast for just a little bit to this photo posted on facebook went viral and see why a baby you posted this if you hope you know we are coming at last we're ready to fly home and minutes anything it's possible for almighty god free at last free at last this was in february fourteenth talked to us about this moment going home for the first time in what twenty twenty years yes. for two decades i lived in ninety eight. the conflict

went. from london in oil live to london for. nine years and came to the us. so returning home after three years of exile was a unique experience for me because i didn't even see some members of my family including my mom and dad so it was really a great moment for me very emotional moment at the same time what struck me a lot was that the changes that were. going on in ethiopia. i witnessed that people are free now they can speak up their mind. i'm not afraid of security forces anymore but still there is anxiety and a lot of concern because of the security situation there is some sort of a breakdown of law and order in many parts of ethiopia. which is dampening you know

the success of the prime minister he has achieved a lot in one year because it appears the country which has a lot of challenges especially during the last five years or so you mentioned that he's achieved a lot in this past year do you chalk up the fact that you were able to get on this plane and go if you appear with others and see your family for the first time in twenty years is that one of his successes do you attribute that to absolutely his administration absolutely because he opened up the political space is there were a lot of people groups which would ignite the terrorists including myself and i was charged with terrorism as you say there and sentenced in absentia for fifteen years so it is going back home also through person was a unique experience for me. you heard here what every had to say looking at this from a journalist perspective over this past year how would you rate the administration . i would just add

a few points to run out. say yes ever since over the last one year there has been a great opening up of the political space. to my concern that was not a campaign by opening up or let's say the economy where a strengthening of the security and you know that when it were for your buck so this great opening up of the political space that sort of some unimaginable things happen such as the return of the himself and hasn't been matched was added. particularly in the security area it has not been matched with the same enthusiasm put it like that so yes only one side it's what he has the prime minister has achieved or mazhar i must say here that it is what the party wanted as

a means of survival but the prime minister has some sort of put that put that on the on an outer pilot so or deserve it cannot deny the speed and the how impressive it whereas we can also not deny the concerns that are now particularly when we sent menses that are a cabin in this growth horrific an opening so as a direct consequence of the opening. you know particularly when they have met political parties to come into their countries and there was some lack of clarity on terms and conditions or are made members of some opposition party for example or there or yet on how they will be conducting their activities in the country there was some great lack of clarity on that and so as a result of that political opening we are seeing now the breakdown of rule in iraq . no sir but i think you know you cannot have your cake and eat it too that is that

kind of sick. we are facing today so i hear the nuance there i want to share this tweet we got from olga who writes on twitter he's one of a kind if he'll be a has never seen he already raised the bar achieving what most could not in just three hundred sixty five days yes he has oppositions both healthy and unhealthy ones but these are challenges and i'm sure the healthy ones will be tackled by the prime minister's leadership eventually so just sharing with our audience what one of these achievements was what it looks like and of course this is also something that relates to the story you heard at the top of the show the baby being able to go back this headline from courts africa this was december of last year for the first time in decades there are no it's the opium journalists in prison and the picture there of another former stream gas skender nega a journalist who was released that year so just another one of the successes that people online are speaking about about going tom how would you rate this past year . i think it's done. well. relatively speaking i think

what you can achieve in this type of situation is is limited it's essentially about minimizing. given what he's inherited and given the challenges that you face we sort of have to raise the prime minister on his ability to minimize the damage. i think the results are mixed in that regard. i was very happy that we had an internal reform rather than a revolution because there was a much more violent and much more messy obviously. but. it looks like the consequence of revolution. simply being delayed rather than eliminated. and i would attribute this primarily to. one misgiving i have with the whole process and that's the fact that. the reform has been anchored in the persona of the prime minister and i think that made it bound

to minister be fair about face lots of challenges from the get go and that has to do with the type of state that if you're it's federal state first of all and secondly its ruling party that you're going to people's revolutionary democratic front it's. a front composed of four at the national parties so both de facto and if you're a power is very much decentralized and it's your guy and. no matter who the prime minister is their power is going to be constrained and limited by many forces. and so in that regard i thought it was very unfortunate that the prime minister spent most of the first year in gauging opposition groups and opposition individuals politicians who amongst themselves i don't know the capacity to me be at the end to disagree with. that little hit here. now i think i'm going to

have to do a little bit of pushback on this. personality cult building narrative about the prime minister i do have a lot of criticism or not some of the things some of the ways he set you know articulating he's a mess it's in everything but i think that's this this this narrative of personality cult of the prime minister is coming in the background or you know. people want to you know there were a lot of openings and got stuck he needed to feed where they're traveling around the country or restoring the country's foreign policy and diplomatic shuttle and everything he comes in the background whereby that last piece of the prime minister is almost like a you know a vacuum almost like we didn't have a prime minister in the office so he comes also from the buy ground of a country that was on the verge of course not so everybody wanted to see him he

needed to go everywhere and of course. he was doing that and the other is i think that changing their way of communicating with ethiopians where they're using the social media or using the state television and radio they have to change that dynamic trickly from what we knew it before so that has somehow brought you more into each of our own devices our own telephones and our own computers and i think some of the things that he did are necessary to have been done. he store in country to where necessary to have been done some of the measures they took in terms of improving the communication from the prime minister's office are necessary to have been done more needs to be done of course there are more clarity and more access to the media and everything and restoring the diplomatic standoff ethiopia is also something necessary that needed to be done so i think it was brought to our own kind of levels of in here. i think one of the problems that the prime minister fest

is the fact that he inherited very weak in assistance including the ruling party. pointed out you know this is the only party of college and of ethnic parties that doesn't actually pop this is that it's nick movements. which have conflicting. ideologies and agendas. this weekend edition. the main problem for the prime minister if you look. for demented the security apparatus is very. divided. grassroots liberal party officials. part of the problem because in. order they instigated a nickel for this in many parts of ethiopia and this is i think one of the crisis that the prime minister is facing so i'm glad you raised that and i've heard it in there and yes i'm going to go to you with this but i just want to bring in our

community because they're watching this live and one of the points that was just raised is something that so many of them want to talk about because we can't talk about successes without talking about what some see as failure so let's agree to disagree that's our handle they say the ethnic conflict and if the opium has gotten worse since a prime minister took power i d p's and if you are now top in the world the shocking reality is that every contributed towards the crisis both directly and indirectly want to share just one more time this is from the real chris says there is more chaos killing and internally displaced people day in and day out since he took office he talks a lot but he never put that into practice about releasing a political prisoners it's due to people's true years of continuous protest that is not because of him so the idea of ethnic tension simmering and not being something that is being seen as a priority for the administration but you make about yes i was going to come to the

point earlier. my criticism of the. former has been anchored in the personality of the prime minister is the fact that your state is intertwined with the. party structure so this means. if the idea is at odds with itself it means that the state is at odds with it means that they're going to be able to provide security they're not going to be able to contain rebel groups ethnic clashes and so forth and i think the last year had i.b.s. and much more time trying to build the. some sort of a more of a coherent political organization reach some sort of political settlement amongst the different parties. i think that would have helped avoid a lot of the clashes that we see today and without it. i don't think you can make much progress in terms of rebuilding security you know the thing is

yes. a key element in the whole political process there's no question about that it's it's the ruling party we terminated politics for the last twenty seven years twenty eight now but us we are largely interplays in a transition from or through terror and rule to a democratic and peaceful order that is only settling for any nation especially a country like utopia which has been ethnically fragmented and you know deliberately the coalition itself is a problem as we all know because this is a divided people along ethnic lines who have ethnic federation but don't consider these regions ethnic enclaves that are not highly kwezi even united so the whole structure itself is extremely weak we cannot

hold its political problem with the same mindset in the minds of the state of the ruling party so in order to transition utopia to a democratic order i think abby house too. bring on board key stakeholders other political parties including the opposition. there need be a transitional. process if not a government is needed to restore faith in the past transition to a democracy course i can interrupt and i think what we have seen the last year is that the opposition forces literally have no constituency. they were you know invited from abroad before they actually came into the country they had some great . were seen as some sort of political force the moment they came into ethiopia it was obvious that these people could not mobilize more than one hundred people amongst themselves and. the conflict and

a solution to the conflicts i think is rooted in the purity of these are the people with the guns but. let me. let me correct you. there are one there are one hundred eight political parties in ethiopia most of the . parties. the majority of these parties did not come from abroad the they were not in exile the problem is highly fragmented and ethnic based which is why we have i mean here i'll get this to you said earlier we have a tweet here just picking up on that from ron howard who says i think stand still the better choice what's more concerning to me is that none of the one hundred plus political parties including the ruling coalition have inspired new ideas are we going to say that early. that's a great idea that right there since you put up the tweet but i like to add on to it being somewhat of a state about being at an eclipse fragmented and everything i think or talk has

written a very good article the other day on our disease itself saying that you know if your grass not ethnically divided itself says twenty seven years it was ever since it was built as a state one hundred and thirty something years if you're perhaps always been an ethnic state if we call if we use the word ethnic which i do not agree to even describe the constitution itself as an ethnic constitution i have responded to go into my own a debate on twitter in that way but let me add this one obviously and that inherited a country that has a population of more than one hundred in median one who are you know whose horizontal relationship has always been mediated by an authoritarian state this is not obvious making if your parents have always had a state that was media thing their horizontal relationship you know the community relationship which has always been mediated by

a state what is happening see it after i became is the losing will start this is one day not because the other one is sort of the area the prime minister is reforming if we use that word is the security what does that mean when he is reforming the security who is left this granted you know what was the previous standoff that the security in being loyal to the constitution versus real to the political party that security forces are coming from this is what he has been targeting for the last one year has it been completed nor have said that it's not completed but he has staged areas where a lot of people are being a lot of people who are army tabin leftists granted and wanted to leverage that by instigating intercommunal vitus's. in many places so these are the two factors that we always need to keep in mind what you're going to have always had the government that was needed in their relationship the second is you know touching the security

there when how it's all said we're leaving that. so i want to bring up this idea from to touch you on twitter because he's not convinced and i hear what you're saying there about keeping in mind that history and what if the opium has historically been just as the regime he calls it has failed in controlling ethnic violence and if the international media is lenient on his failure sprint since the humanitarian crisis in humans and just one place is alarmingly horrific hundreds have been massacred and around a million displaced i want to get this one to you a bit because minutes before we went live on air you were talking about the history of your fabulous blazer you're wearing today and we talk about violence and ethnic tensions to talk to us about what year it has to do with that. you know of. a message. we went to. a city in the

southern part of it. and. a group of journalists from where awarded we displayed you know in owner of our contribution for the changes that come to the opera the elders who gave us this letter from the governor need to there was an amazing story last september the roads a conflict between the or most. in an area called bra you know so many people were massacred in around fifteen thousand people were displaced as a result of communal ethnic attack so there were young. people who wanted to attack or most horrible businesses and what these elders did was they knelt down holding up lives in. a bunch of crosses and calm it down the situation so this is the kind of example we also need the traditional way of

resolving conflict which is very important and also civil society can also play a significant role in. you know calming down conflict is in bringing about conflict resolution because it's really saying i'll go do you get on with your wavelength with this person or go on twitter he says internal displacement has been one of the big issues of this past year but i believe the prime minister's office can and should do more but i don't believe that we as citizens are also doing our part to be part of the reform and be proactive on such issues so he's talking about the civil society and the role of everyday people but what if you want to. i was going to add that a lot of the violence is being perpetrated by organized groups rather than you know neighbors attacking neighbors and i think this is really a function of the breakdown of law and order rather than some culture developing.

or some culturally rooted behaviors and. again i'll go back to my same. argument that this has to do with the breakdown of law and order in the state infrastructure security infrastructure of the state which is essentially again. so i think this is such a serious issue that we have to think about mediate actions and the first and only sort of serious measure that i can think of is the ability of parties coming together sitting down agreeing on a political settlement and then containing these organized groups that are going around displacing people in creating havoc. we're going to have excellent suggestion and one that we will have to look forward to seeing if that happens ahead of the twenty twenty parliamentary elections i want to get the last word to i

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al-jazeera. every year. this is zero. hello and welcome i'm peter told me you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes sudan's military deposes president omar al bashir after widespread protests but uncertainty remains

over what happens next. the wiki leaks founder julian are so on she's been arrested and found guilty of failing to surrender to a court in london in twenty twelve his seventy years inside the ecuadorian embassy is over plus. please. do not waste this type. of warning for u.k. m.p.'s since the european union gives britain six more months to sort out its departure. also ahead polls close in the first phase of the indian election campaign widely seen as a referendum on the prime minister narendra modi's five years in power. you can begin this news with breaking news in sudan where the president omar al bashir has thirty year rule is over after months of protests calling on him to quit the military announced but she has been detained the country is now under

a three month state of emergency but she has been replaced by his vice president and army general. enough he'll lead a military transitional council for two years after which elections will follow said all political prisoners will be released immediately tens of thousands of people are on the streets in the capital khartoum celebrating but the sudanese professionals' association which has been leading the protest movement rejected bush's ousting as a military coup and plans to hold more demonstrations one hour from rob matheson. this could be the end of thirty years of one man's rule in sudan looks like tanks rolling through the capital cheered on by protesters demanding that president omar al bashir steps down. i declare being the minister of defense the chairman of the committee to get rid of this regime and to the head of the regime in a safe place i also declare the formation of

a mandatory transitional council so supervise the to be a year of period. more than one hundred officials and close aides to president abbas here i said have been arrested an order is reported to have been given for political prisoners to be released. you know for it's beautiful meaning nothing is . already out in the street of breaking in here or in the car thing women are singing and dancing everybody happy protests over rising bread prices began four months ago they quickly widened into demands for the president to step down president al bashir declared a state of emergency in february. but since saturday thousands of demonstrators have been camped outside the military's khartoum headquarters several people have been killed as security forces try to break up the demonstration five of the dead

are reported to have been soldiers said to have been defending the protesters the military says it understands the demands for bashir to go it says it's also determined not to let saddam fall into chaos what happened in the last twenty four hours it was obvious that. people demand has increased the number of participants of the people has increased as well there was more direction to the military in part of the leadership in particular and i think that put more pressure on the military institution as a whole for that reason i think they felt the heat and they have to make action but some protesters say they won't support a transitional government which involves the army others fear the government will collapse and sudan will descend into the chaos the army says it wants to avoid rob matheson our disease. live to khartoum and my colleague our correspondent hiper

morgan what's going on on the streets right now. well peter at the moment the anger is continuing to rise people are not happy with the announcement they're saying that this is not what they've been protesting for for the past four months they've been demanding a change but it was not just bashir that they want to they want to behold regime gone they wanted anybody who had anything to do with bashir and his government and his ruling party gone that's not what they've got and what they've got was the defense minister of ours in the office saying that he is now the effectively leading the country he's the head of the military council and the military council will be steering the country for the next two years now people on the streets are saying things like you know what thieves have been replaced with another we've gotten two sides of the same coin xtal the same things so there will continue to protest we've stepped out of the streets temporarily briefly to see more people heading towards the army headquarters now that has been happening for the past five days but that was before before that announcement that was to try to make the

military and the army side with the protesters and bring down bashir is a rule now people are going they're very angry they're saying that as much as they were happy that president bashir is no longer the president they're still angry and they're not going to stop with the protests now it's not clear if this is going to be the situation are part of the announcement includes a curfew that will start at eleven pm local time which is around twenty one g.m.t. and it's not clear if people will abide by the curfew and go back home and the system that has been going on for six days or if they will continue until they see a civilian rule which is what they've been asking for for the past four months do we know where bashir is as of this hour. well still no word about where the defense minister would have me off said that bashir is under arrest in a safe place he did not specify where that safe places nobody knows where that safe place is that remember we're talking about a president who is indicted by the international criminal court for work crimes and

crimes against humanity one thing that i would have known of the defense minister said is that people who have been committing crimes in the past government will be held accountable it's not clear if bashir is one of the people who will be held accountable or if he'll be free to let go of his just being kept in a safe place for his own safe safety and eventually will be flown out of the country and it's not clear how many countries would be ready to receive a president who is wanted by the international criminal court so at the moment bashir is whereabouts unknown and his fate very much alive in the hands of the military and specifically olive nor his former vice president and defense minister the s p a a saying they're not happy with either what's happening on the streets or how it's being interpreted in certain quarters does the s.b.a. want to extradite sued to the international criminal court. yes that's what they've been saying they've been saying that anybody who was part of the regime was responsible for not just work crimes and crimes against humanity which are let's remember bashir was not the only one indicted. in the ruling party

the the acting head of the ruling party is also wanted as well as other officials so they're saying that these people should be held accountable for the crimes that they have been charged with and they've also been asking the mandate that people who have been also accused of embezzlement corruption and ruining sudan as they put it should be held accountable so what they're saying is that this military council is still very much part of the old regime our technology is part of the ruling party he's has been incident in bashir of government he continues to represent largely what the ruling party is in terms of military so people are not happy with that the sudanese professional association has been asking for a civilian room right now a military council will be taking over sudan for the next two years that's not what they've been asking for but they have been spear spearheading that the process that the sudanese professional association have been the ones organizing the schedule organizing the calls and everything that had to do with the protests so it's not clear how many people will be listening to them but it doesn't look like they've

lost their influence at the moment so maybe a lot will be turning out breaking curfew demanding a civilian rule rather than a military rule and briefly here if you can have your reporting in the past has been the way that the airspace over the country has closed the border checkpoints are closed so clearly for twenty four hours nobody is really going anyplace. well except to the army headquarters even before the announcement announcement was made now it was supposed to be made at five o'clock local time or three g.m.t. people have been flowing there were specific groups which were secured by the army with that big news to head to the army headquarters and continue with their threats and continue with celebrations that's what they have been doing before the protests before the announcement was made they were going to the to the army headquarters dancing carrying sudanese flags saying that the army has organized the school very excited about the developments but lately over the past hours we've seen that people are getting more agitated more frustrated they're still going are using specific routes also secured by the army and the army did come out with

a statement after all of that made his announcement saying that they will continue to protect civilians so at the moment people are still flowing to work the army headquarters demanding a new rule even though this one has been in place for just a few hours later i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much well al jazeera looks back at omar al bashir is decades of rule which have now come to an end. all model bashir a man whose career has been defined by war he led sudan through various conflicts and during the breakup of africa's largest country he was the last man to lead a united sudan al bashir who came to power in a bloodless military coup in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine overthrowing a democratically elected government he ran the country as a military ruler for more than twenty five years where conflict was almost constant . to civil wars between the north and south cost the lives of one and a half million people. and the continuing conflict in the western region of

darfur killed more than two hundred thousand people and forced two million others to flee their homes a fragile peace took hold in two thousand and three and after two years of negotiations the rebels signed a peace deal with the gun. meant to end the civil war. that's agreement led to a referendum for independence in south sudan making it the world's newest country in twenty eleven. alba she was the only serving head of state to be indicted for war crimes international criminal court in the hague issued to arrest warrants charges stem from the war in darfur all human rights groups say the charges are valid or always she has been charged with very serious crimes including the crimes of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity these are all related to the country's very very abusive counterinsurgency campaign in daraa for over the last

ten to fifteen years that has resulted in numerous numerous you know deaths up to you know hundreds of thousands in mass displacement despite arrest warrants and force al bashir has visited a number of countries in the region including syria. while the rest of the region has been experiencing an arab spring al bashir had faced little political unrest until late twenty eighteen when the government decided to triple the price of bread. it triggered protests nationwide and calls for his resignation as they accuse him of mismanaging the economy sending food prices high and causing regular fuel shortages all muddled by she would have served as president until the end of his term next year but now he'll be remembered as one of the last remaining african strong men brought down by a people's uprising.