i think this is not going to be just like this transitional. council i think it could be also for the. going because well but that's just part of being you know. part of the game that people don't really think that you know. council can be trusted and can lead to contrary see a spot. so often to say well look tough you know i speak out against. the question so i will look a few being ignored again tonight. yes yes yes that's what appears to be just the situation nobody's talking about the curfew as if there is no curfew. yes so people to ask is coming people still protesting here. still be. going to curfew.

this is. no. time to set any sanctity down when they see their protests cars or anything near the army headquarters in khartoum let's bring in someone once again a researcher at the africa program at chatham house joins us now via skype from london. astroid altogether then what do you make of what you've heard in the last hour or so. well i think you know very significant developments a lot more information provided by admitting. the i think the key points that he made was that the government is that to secure stability to ensure security and to provide aid the right atmosphere for political actors to take the process forward i think that the army the military has been appealing to the sympathies of the protesters and people to side with the army but clearly there

is a disconnect between the words that have been said. by omar being an admiral and and also the actions and the framing of those and because the he's saying the military's not intertwined with the political leadership of the previous political leadership and i think that most people think that that is not the case that the leadership represented by an attorney general i have been known and by the other military commanders those within the security services those within the militias that will mention the other units yet they still represent the hierarchy and the old guard so there is that disconnect that is very clear and really there needs to be some way of moving that conversation forward and what can be an acceptable option that will build trust and that needs to take place i think when when we see the following outreach between the military transitional council and

some of the political leadership and then this would need professional association those discussions and you know thinking just on the whole really outlining some form of short term plan to transfer to an interim civilian led administration and one of technocrats that maybe would stand during this two year period and then. step down and help with that transition house that would be an acceptable option of sharing power and sharing in this transition between the civilian people who have been protesting and also the military who are saying they are safeguarding the future of sudan another thing he said that's making headlines around the world right now about former president omar al bashir we as in the military transitional council will not extradite him overseas we will try him here however any future civilian government may choose to do so what do you make of that. that's very

interesting and i think probably in the mando that many answer your knees would wind welcome any future. justice and accountability that is carried out is carried out domestically in sudan rather than providing president bush kerry and others within escape route outside of the country it may also be something that president bashir himself would prefer rather than to be exiled to another country strangely enough so i think saying that that would be left to that that matter would be left to the judiciary in the courts is a is a positive step but of course there has to be implementation and follow up of that and of course part of people's concerns will be that the current military transition. is you know not not long ago less than a week ago and if you days ago worked for president obama and bush is so they may

have vested interests in ensuring a type of soft landing to the president and some of the allies that have been arrested so there will need to be further assurances made in this with me to be part of the the environment and diet of this created with a range of sources that come together to negotiate the future part of the sudan he was quite clear that the military council's the transitional council's top priority is stability security and order if those protests to continue on the curfew is broken again. just tonight but in the days ahead how long do you think that the military will tolerate thankful. i think it will be a grace period of course the army does not and the military does not want to be seen to be turning on the people that it is reaching out to it wants to create this environment it's the ability it wants to convince people. it is working in their

interests and of course and of course that will take some trust building and of course what we're seeing what hitler was saying is that people are already emerging on to the streets to continue their protests and saying that really this doesn't represent their vision for a future sudan so then you will need to be a bit more moving a little movement along the path towards the transition before people. of the armed forces intentions and i think part of that will be restraint continued strength from the armed forces with regards to the protesters articulating their demands peacefully quite good to talk to many thanks indeed. ballots move on to the rest of the day's news at least twenty people have been killed in a bomb blast in the pakistani province of. police say that it happened in a fruit market in the southwestern city of course a market is owned and run by members of the minority who've been targeted by sunni

groups in the past al-jazeera as andrew symonds reports. a powerful bomb a soft target the explosive device is believed to have been hidden among bags of potatoes those shopping in the open air fruit and vegetable market took the full force of the blast along with the people serving them. we were busy at a watermelon auction then there was a huge blast the blast happened in a potato warehouse when we rushed over there there were bodies lying on the ground . police suspect the motivation of the killers was sectarianism. a senior officer said several shias were among the dead along with people thought to be working on the stalls also among the dead was at least one power military police officer part of a patrol group that was protecting the shia people. the shias from the

community they've been targeted before more than five hundred of them had died in attacks over the past five years and community leaders are calling for more protection. pakistan's prime minister imran khan and the president are if alvey issued statements of condemnation saying the resolve of the nation in the fight against terror would not be weakened. andrew symonds. live now to caracas. what more do we know about this bomb attack in quest of the. community members. particularly because. less than two kilometers from mazar gunjan where the ranch to berlin food market there situated every day that is guarded by security forces for their safety because these people have come under

attack over five hundred of them have been killed in the past five years still today was another routine day and there arrived at the vegetable market under the car by the apparently the attack taking place as these people entered and you store in and through the lens report it was a ball when explosion that. took down a lot of story left a lot of casualties but also shattered windows in the nearby buildings or indeed a deadly attack according to the source and now that dead daughter climbing as well as the number of wounded now is said to be over fifty why kemal would. this marketplace have been attacked why now. it's. well that's a good question actually the security forces have prevailed they have succeeded in limiting the number of deadly attacks across pakistan this attack also coming after

several months of a call. by the daughter of community has been targeted other people have also been targeted lawyers have been targeted and it's people from all the faith communities have also been targeted but the daughters are particularly. wilder but it dogget because of some of the radical groups that are operating from across the border in afghanistan including the islamic state and of calling other parents who are responsible for carrying out attacks like the last great junglee so far no one has taken responsibility but that's pensions are higher that those groups would be involved because of the sectarian nature of the attack al jazeera come on her reporting live from karachi a moment thanks. voter turnout was more than sixty percent on the first day of india's six week election

nine hundred million people eligible to vote will do so in seven phases the results are expected in late may from the city of noida pradesh it is with four on a report on the main issues for voters. happy to have their say voters lined up across the country to choose who ran the world's largest democracy for the next five years from indian administered kashmir in the north to answer petition the south ninety one constituencies across twenty states voted in the first phase of a six week election which ends on may nineteenth where the two hundred million people author predations india's most populous and politically important state they say the road to the prime minister's office cuts through and the big issues affecting the country are in sharp focus here. i want overlap meant for my village

electricity good draw good to cities for my children good schools they have not. let into more he came to power promising development jobs and a stronger economy but unemployment is at a forty five year high and the economy has slowed. i heard a lot of expectations from who i watered and now i want someone new but third world whatever it is going to be in that manner but the main opposition congress party is hoping to capitalize on that sentiment that promised voters millions of new jobs as well as a guaranteed minimum income for the poorest. and the government is facing criticism elsewhere too many voters in the northeastern state of us some are against a bill which will grant citizenship to refugees from neighboring countries so long as they're not muslim while that legislation has. criticizes anti muslim and other parts of india those who oppose it and say they'll become a minority in their own state or to take the citizenship bill should not pass

otherwise our future in assam is in danger but despite all these issues the government has focused its campaign on national security following february's attack in indian administered kashmir in which at least forty soldiers were killed a group based in pakistan claimed responsibility and india responded by launching airstrikes against targets across the border. fighting this election once performs its. own. weather that pays off for the b j p will be known when the results are announced on may twenty third elizabeth purana al-jazeera noida. live now to new delhi al-jazeera is faster male is with us first the election commission has stepped in to prevent a t.v. station there airing material that could be seen as promoting the j.p. and prime minister modi tell us more about that.

adrian the channel titled namo t.v. short for narendra modi television it quietly began broadcasting at the end of march and they did so actually without a license because of a loophole in the law now if you saw the channel what you would see is speeches by prime minister modi as well as programming crazy the party and the government opposition parties quickly pounced on this as a clear violation of election laws but it took this long until the day after the first phase of elections for the election commission to take action and adrian is not just this film not just this channel there is a film and biography called pm there and for a movie that was supposed to hit theaters this month now this was a film praising the prime minister in a dream if you ever saw the poster you would see of photo of the actor playing most of the surrounded by smiling children never before in india has there been a film of a serving prime minister of this was again a clear violation of election laws but it took time for the election commission to

act now the election commission is being accused by many of being biased towards the big j p despite that i mean why the concerns about its independence. adrian supposed to be an independent institution governing election laws that are in forest during election time cite one example is carrying large amounts of cash is illegal jaring elections and they always find various party members carrying it but now lately when a member party worker from an opposition party's carrying cash the election commission has been seen as acting swiftly but when someone from the governing party is caught carrying cash the criticism is that the commission is acting slowly it's gone to the point adrian that several retired civil servants have handed letter to the president of india complaining about what they called the weak kneed response of the election commission there. crn is that the election commission's

independence is being threatened by taking slow action or no action at all this has been a growing concern in some parts of the country that there's been a slow growing erosion of the independence of several so-called independent institutions the election commission just being one example has many thanks indeed i was there as festival there live in new delhi. next up on the news out meteorologist kevin corriveau here with a forecast still to come on the program in sports one of the world's fastest horses is set to race for the last time we'll tell you more a little later. as we edge or way into april this is the transition season where we tend to get really really big storms that have

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children of apartheid for the third time and like their country much has changed over the past fourteen years the teen who are twenty one up south africa i'm noticing. hello again it's good to have you with us adrian for the good to hear and know how with the news from obviously the other main news this hour saddam's military has defended thursday's coup which removes president omar bashir from office it says it has no ambitions to hold on to power but the protest organizers are calling for further demonstrations all the head of sudan's transitional council says the army's role will simply be to maintain order. limited and helpful but

we will not interfere we will closely monitor from a distance but we will not dictate any orders but we must be practical and realistic this is simply to maintain security and public order that's why i request the sudanese people support the military to stand behind the military we are unknown figures you have just come to know us may god bless the leader of the previous coup we are his children we will support all the peoples demands we will protect the people's demands yet we will respond firmly to any chaos on the line now from khartoum is ruby a member of the sudanese congress party one of most outspoken parties against the posse of the forma now former president omar bashir the national congress studier good to have you with us on al-jazeera what do you make of what you heard there from the head of the transitional council. thank you for having me i think

that one of the clear obvious things about what's going on is at the beginning we heard a very emotional appeal he seemed like he was. extremely you know the traffic and saying that he's here to serve the people in the voice of the people but when within a few minutes we could see the contradiction in what he was saying. speaks of justice and but at the same time he takes on a description of victimizing the role of something like iraqi forces or of course being a victim of the n.c.p. which which we all know is it's untrue i think that the streets will definitely respond by continuing to resist to the speech you know that the emotional tone hasn't really gone well with us i think that has assumed that we have forgotten and it's important to be clear that we haven't forgotten. his praise of the record support for his is worrying his his promises that justice will happen for those who

were killed during the protest while gosh who was part of the security services continues to be in and government so it doesn't make sense that these people are still in transition so i think that the general perception is the inconsistency the emotional approach. just hasn't had a positive effect definitely very happy with the anger at us that the assumption that it will be. consistency he hasn't been often to get people off the streets. definitely not and it's friday prayer now and the streets are definitely getting fuller i think he hasn't despite his approach to do so i think but there's no trust and it's not enough has been done to actually gain the trust and the words were too inconsistent like the speech was very consistent what does he have to do them to build trust i suppose. only time will tell him to use that

well well and cliche we'll just have to see how you know the military behaves and how soon. people are invited into today to express. their opinion on home saddam's political future. yes i think that there are some people who are at war thinking that way but with the presence of of course in the rapid support forces it's not just about trust it's about the history i mean it's very simple street the role of the r.s.s. unfortunately self in the brutality that has happened in this country we cannot just a city saying look you know justice if if the people will not are not part of this process he also says something about i.c.t. and how you are not handing over. your kind of i think we have had experience of representation of us with the people of government representing us while they wanted criminals whenever we moved in and whenever the even the airplanes you know

there were looked at as representatives of something else i was barbaric and brutal and i don't think that we should be giving more space we took thirty years i think asking for that is it's kind of a picture. it undermines the barbaric experience it has had this is the best buy's is very people or she is one of. the symbol of a lot of brutality and detentions and the torture that he has never been a moderate person neither had direct support forces so you know reframing them and reshaping them into a completely different entities is just it's unreasonable to ask for for us to trust. on a really good talk to many thanks indeed for being with us tanya a ruby that. at least five civilians have been killed in fighting on the outskirts of libya's capital rockets and show is fired by forces loyal to the warlord holly for hafter hit a residential area west of tripoli more than fifty people have been killed in

fighting over the past week thousands more have been displaced live down to tripoli . for us but with people living in tripoli must be pretty concerned that this fighting is go encroach on where they live. definitely yes. we've spoken to civilians lay people or small business owners in tripoli city center they're very worried that the fighting could reach their neighborhoods as you know adrian that have to as forces have been told was declaring the are planning to take over the capital tripoli the are fighting to proceed towards the capital city center in order to take control of their state institutions and also the vital facilities in this city center like the libya

central bank and also the ministers headquarters but also we have concerns from international institutions about civilians lives the world health organization is very concerned about civilian safety on live especially those who have left their homes in the fighting area as. the head of the organization is concerned about. infectious diseases might spread among those who left their homes because of the. dirty water and other causes in this situation as you know adrian the fighting sporadic fighting still continues in the outskirts in the southern out. the libyan capital forces loyal to the warlord highly for have to are trying to proceed to and to gain more territory to does tripoli city center

while the forces loyal to the d.n.a. of the government of national called art of pushing are trying to push have to the forces back to their old locations now strategic locations have been the focus on both are a valve sides especially the military camps on the way towards their tripoli international airport that's the disused airport which both drivers have exchanged control of over the last week now when we've spoken to civilians in tripoli city center they show a big concern if they're fighting gets into their neighborhoods. a quiet day for abraham in his barbershop since fighting erupted on the southern outskirts of tripoli last week not many customers have come through his doors he's afraid his business might suffer further if the unrest continue and ahead of. the

current wars resulting in low traffic a business and an increase in the price of goods including the materials that i use here i hope they can get back to negotiations. others from outside libya are just as worried about his sofie says he's brought his life savings from his home country sudan and started this green grocery. my fear is that if war comes to this area i'll have to leave and then i'll lose my grocery store it's my property but unfortunately i can't get rid of it overnight life looks normal in tripoli city center but actions are not responding to international calls for deescalation civilians here are worried that the fighting on the outskirts of tripoli is not going to end anytime soon. forces loyal to the world have to our fighting forces allied with the and backed government in several

locations. the battle for control over strategic sites including military camps and the disused international airport. civil rockets have landed in civilian areas forcing thousands to leave their homes. in the north of the city after the planes also untag to eighty get airport the only operational airport in the city the fighting has led to the postponement of a you peace conference due to be held within days in the city over the dam is it playing the fighting each other. parts of the city he says and you unity government should be formed to include the rival factions to help in the conflict thirty he says it doesn't matter who wins as going as he doesn't lose what he has built up over the years. so

as we have just seen in the reports civilians are very concerned life might look normal service but deep down people are very worried especially another axis and new fighting axis has been opened by her for his forces in the eastern southern. outskirts of tripoli namely in a neighborhood which is twenty kilometers all the twenty kilometers from the city center and after that have to warplanes targeted the only operational airport in tripoli made for it people here are very worried that the is collation is going to reach their neighborhoods adrian now for the very things do don't. live in tripoli police in kenya have confirmed reports that the gunman kidnapped two cuban doctors in the northeast of the country the attackers shot

a police officer dead in mandela before driving off with the city's close to kenya's border with somalia and ethiopia let's go live now to nairobi katherine sawyer is there tell us more about this could now. in this incident happened nine am local time that's about six g.m.t. and this doc two doctors dr harrier who's a general practitioner and landy rodriguez surgeon are part of an exchange program between the kenyan and gov and huband governments that started last year so they were heading to work at the main far all government or far off hospital in mid-air a town which as you mentioned is right at the border with somalia and they were company by these two police officers ease their procedure in areas like that considered hostile so these gunmen intercepted the vehicle there were using the

gunmen were in the saloon vehicles that came out. shooting and as you mentioned killed one of the police officers also in the last two hours or so hard from the police spokesperson who has said that they have recovered the government vehicle that was carrying the cuban doctors and they are interrogating the police officer who was driving that vehicle the police spokesman also said adrian that the joint effort by the military and the police and particularly the anti terror terrorism police units pursuing this have entered somalia now time is of the essence because they feel the father age and they move into somalia and specifically territories that are controlled by al shabaab the more difficulty told before kenyan security agents to rescue this dock to safely dimension. assuming that that's behind this and are incidents like this pretty common in that

area. has not claimed responsibility yet and yes incidents like this are quite common in areas along the border areas like monday and they have increased in the last few years and particularly after kenya send its troops to fight al shabaab with the african union forces alongside and alongside the somalia national forces so we've seen such incidents assassinations kidnappings a toxin who tells pools of basses cory's and areas like that and we are talking about a boat about these are quite.