these are some of the remotest areas of the d.r. congo. as dawn breaks free men are preparing for a long journey. they're traveling salesman training in kosov a flower and palm oil in the villages they work for smile. before going on a mobile going there should be a should know be on what it was you were doing what you do does your mom work on the topic or you want obama's to kill them all so much do you go one on one ok one your big. man and his companions a setting out on an arduous one hundred sixty kilometer journey through villages in the country south. it'll probably take them around four or five days. if.

you look at the little. ones with. most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on dirt tracks so the congolese improvise. they converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to three hundred kilos of merchandise.

if you'll live with son of. a walk into the market if you know school you know them be sure to put a foot or put a foot in the kitchen and i will put. my name was difficult to see. to shoot. it takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. sixty six. leap. to.

make me go no go no we are no more but was there. was. john jones or was there something good going to clean up we end up. by nightfall they reach a village. to once they won't sleep by the side of the road but in the church. this will be their only meal for the day. here in this you post your mobile to focus on. one unit guys you can a woman with son which is enough to go forcing you not one thing going that was sort of us here. you know funny you know something. come

out we know the book. good new york attitude good luck with the muscle was just if we made up fun it was just too much fun in the muslim world to live place you don't like the cause it was a joke when the window muscle bit the foot did look will come and go say do you look at the measures didn't we don't know what they don't see. the village of his statue is sixty kilometers away. another three days of hard labor. yeah there are photos of yeah the forwards coach. a

man and his family are on the tracks. by waving a red scarf he's been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of the bush go up up. up so i'm just done with my not going to that would you please just really i don't know yet what what when where i mean i'm sure. it's often like this. holiday work for little pay. mr malone go belly ends one hundred forty dollars a month. or never ever survived never mind it out of the gutter never have thought of first of all what they did for the motel but. it

was going to separate what it. see ever go get your pick up a bottle. and let up on that. but right now his main concern is the state of the truck. he has to reduce speed to less than ten kilometers an hour. at this point the rails are not really aligned any mill should but that's where the that our lawns are for loaded up with this stop in. this outfit from a simple societies of much. of the fish show. that i said you've got. to get up obligates i just must run to the

dump risky up i said about lasts just that turn dodger go with reversion to the said bucket box argue it out yet is good i will not do it. back in the bush man and his two associates have covered a third of their journey but the day is off to a bad start as one bike has had a puncture. somebody get out the welcome. for it's the fifth time in one day. without a repair kits or new in a cheap. patch is the puncher with a piece of rubber from an old cheap one hopes for the best.

most men and his companions still have another thirty kilometers to go to reach the next village. and your phone on your show you pick up with on what i've. read a good deal for you open up what. we came in. with a few up on. the ngo hunger. and fatigue. they barely had the strength to push their bikes any further.

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arrives. when no. room for a long queue one yeah. well here you. go up one more woke while the world was on your mind you know. you're going to. need a. bit of a. minute to know. oh you. mean i saw. you on the scalp was the sun no. longer going in the. sun. will be just the up on.

your wall vocal. the three companions jenny will soon be over. when they get home in a week's time they'll of earn enough money to feed their families. back on board the swallow the danger has passed the rails all straight again. some from there. but just when everything seems more or less normal missed him along go is confronted with a new problem. the train is losing speed. eventually comes to a complete stop. to find that it does so

in the middle of a village is no coincidence. mr malone go believes it's sabotage if he suspects the vendor is the one known as traffickers in the congo. this is for the. people who saw. her go through the world of doctors that does that it's. just to get lucky. but we go back to the stuff. that gets a bit of time i would love to get to the time i. bought a. picture has been riding the swallow for ten years

on this trip he's selling soldiering while the next time he'll sell something else about it to the way the train provides him with a living i want to do so much i should go so to my children and to government to do it to them it would have to be my lot more isn't it not just so it's a look we're not but the. if a bit. nervous about going to see the most i know this about the no we're going to succumb was an absolute does only one about the time that the other no muslim. center moto motor would find out about.

mr molong goes still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching a labor the train's final destination. if all goes well the sixteen hundred kilometer journey will have taken eight days. to swallow continues on its way. despite the obstacles it's a necessary but precarious lifeline to thousands of congolese. a face can tell a story without uttering a single laugh. and now england. can guide us. a simple touch inform us. the un convention manatee have lived witness through the man's of the human nine. is what inspires us. witness

documentaries on al-jazeera. the dissolute mother waits on the border between ukraine and russian occupied crimea for news of her missing son. numerous young three men have disappeared following her arrest these disappeared other victims of a crackdown on the top population of crimea by russia since its occupation in two thousand and fourteen. before the invasion of two thousand and fourteen crimea was a part of another country ukraine we formed when the soviet union broke up into separate states but many russians including the president vladimir putin were unhappy with this. russia is determined to keep its alleged abuse of human rights away from public scrutiny. as the only indigenous group still openly opposing the

truth is russia sees this muslim minority as a threat. this was wrong to take children away from their parents and herd them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put us in a big player and we sort of looked after ourselves i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget that counted as dark secret on al-jazeera. this is zero. by michelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty

minutes striking a conciliatory tone when sudan's an interim leader looks a nighttime curfew and promises to uproot disposed deposed president omar al bashir is regime. a wave of air strikes as fighters from eastern libya and tense a fire their efforts to take control of the capital tripoli. president is accused of inciting violence and dividing americans after a tweet attack on one of the first muslim elected to congress. and a rock star reception for the nation's president as he rallies voters for the final time ahead of wednesday's elections. sudan's ruling military council has begun talks with organizers of the mass protests and the opposition it comes on the same day when the country's third leader and three days promised to hand over power to a civilian government and his first address to the nation abdel fatah poor han

vowed to uproot the regime of former president omar al bashir and restructure the government he assured the public that this transitional period will last for a maximum of two years brown also lifted the nighttime curfew in the heart of a lot of the un human rights will be reinforced in line with international laws the provincial rulers will be relieved of duty and an invitation will be given to all the people political parties and organizations to engage in dialogue a ceasefire will be enforced across the country and we invite those carrying arms to lay them down. at the negotiation table and agree to peaceful coexistence or another victory for protesters the intelligence chief resigned. because oversaw the crackdown of the protests which eventually led to al bashir is removal from office now the former president's party is demanding his release it's condemned the coup is a constitutional violation of all begins our coverage. in sudan

a stunning turnaround as the new leader general abdul fatah struck a more conciliatory tone and promised inclusive efforts to establish a civilian government. in order to provide an atmosphere for your desire to establish a state we declare that the curfew be lifted all detained under martial law will immediately be released human rights will be reinforced in line with international laws the provincial rulers will be relieved of duty and an invitation will be given to all the people political parties and organizations to engage in dialogue a ceasefire will be enforced across the country and we invite those carrying arms to lay them down sit at the negotiation table and agree to peaceful coexistence moments earlier a group of opposition leaders held a news conference and once again called for a civilian government. workers the army together with the people have been victims to those people cloaked as good virtuous men it is the juicy and responsibility of

the armed forces to protect the people and enforce the rule of law the armed forces men who are full and have done their best in alstom dictatorship and establishing a civil state we and all the opposition parties refused to hand over power to the military we want a totally civil leadership assume power on friday when another general. the man who had orchestrated the end of president omar bashir is thirty year rule resigned after that announcement was made there were celebrations on the streets many sudanese hope that one who is this specter general of the military and perceived to be less tainted than either of his predecessors may be able to bring solutions to the problems that led to months of protests what is it is it is a great thing for us with. our hopes will be really we are not moving to streets until everything goes to advantage on saturday another high profile resignation

when intelligence chiefs. also step down some analysts believe these are encouraging signs that there could be talks between the military and civilian leaders. as of probably no more chances of success since somebody to have removed a number of the first relatives who you were just as a professional association would have liked to be. the protests began in december over a sharp rise in bread prices and the deep t.d.o.t. to me. but it's not clear how the protest as what we got to these promises of change over the coming days. of disease. thousands of protesters are still outside the army headquarters in khartoum demanding an end to military roll him organise their. base area is right around the army

headquarters and tell them that course of the river run courses and the air force and as you can see there is still good pass through i think that they are no help that i don't remember saying that because the mc recount has taken leadership and the period is not what they have been the same there are a certain point the protesters think that this might be right that they wanted a new government despite not president bashir thinking and beside the regime of president obama god that was the leader for twenty four hours before stepping down i mean of a mark to happen but the one power you have there mark made me remember that he's much because he has been here i think won them both have have said that they want people to would expect him to continue to protest their power and all the people around our headquarters think that this cannot be and they're going to wait to his professional association and sometimes confront him and let them know whether they

have managed to reach an agreement with the military council and the other political parties on the way forward the opposition including protest organizers have released a list. their demands after a meeting with the transitional council also they include arresting all political and security leaders accused of corruption and murder including from crimes committed and are for a complete overhaul of the country's security and intelligence services the release of all political prisoners and the cancellation of all laws which restrict freedom . as a spokesperson for the democratic truth party it's been detained in the past for his political views and he shared some of his experience as a prisoner. in the military during the first two days i was detained we were tortured they made us live tyra's face the wall would come and beat us and the officer passing by would beat us we got marks on our bodies they

interrogated me twice the first two days and then move me to the detention center and change the station. to t.v. some of them were. the movement is not over yet it's on the white to being completed but we are aware that after thirty years of a police state things won't change smoothly other nights but we think what's happening is an important step towards change there are indications that the movement is going to be inaugurated with the complete removal of the regime but we're realistic about the fact it won't happen immediately and they will be challenges let's bring in former u.s. diplomat peyton can often washington d.c. has an advisor on the africa program at the united states institute for peace we appreciate your time very much so what do you make of how it seems that at least so far the military is being somewhat responsive to the protesters. i think that there's a fundamental dissonance here however shuttle between what the demonstrators have been demanding for some months now including as you said in the segment as recently

as this morning in terms of calling for a civilian led transition and what we haven't seen in the ups and downs of the last week is really anything that looks any something that looks anything like that and so i suspect that this is not this is really not even probably the end of the beginning of the story certainly heartening that the demonstrators have have constituted a negotiating team that has met with the military council and certainly that's an important step but i think we have to be very very cautious in terms of thinking that there is any narrowing of the vast differences between the path for the military council has charted and what the aspirations of the demonstrators and so house majority seemingly of the people of sudan or are you saying that it seems that a lot of it has been cosmetic am i going too far by saying that. i think that's certainly a big question and you know you referenced in your segment the seeming firing of

the intelligence chief today. ceding the powerful figure and i think one of the questions that remains is whether he may be down but is he out and i think we've seen very clearly from the demonstrators and others a desire for accountability for the very figures such as solid goetia who they believe have been responsible for human rights violations and other other atrocities over some decades so actually i do we just kind of went down the list of what the protesters demands are and referencing what you said they want political and security leaders accused of corruption and murder to be arrested a complete overhaul of the country's security and intelligence services and the release of political prisoners that's a big listen so you see the military being some point being able to be pushed to be responsive to at least some of the. i think the real question is is

precisely that and i don't think we've seen anything so far that suggests that they are and so i think every expectation should be as we watch this from outside the country that the demonstrators will continue to push for those very specific conditions and for very specific characteristics of a transition that they would find credible and we haven't certainly seen that emerge yet in sudan so this is a critical time then is what you're saying do do you see the potential for this to kind of a stalemate for now do you see the potential for this to disintegrate. i think there's a very real potential i think one of the great risk is that not only do you have members of the previous regime and indeed the current regime who have control over different factions of the regular security forces that could potentially begin to splinter but you also have a number of a regular militia that have arisen over the last ten fifteen years that are also accountable and report to different different members of the elite and so that's

really a recipe for possible fragmentation should the political situation not achieve a greater degree of stability and i think that's really going to require as we were just speaking about the difference but the distance rather between where the the military council seems to be and where the demonstrators are i think the other real risk and the thing that merits watching or shell is the role that the regional split states are playing in this i think the worst case scenario for sudan would be for some of the rivalries within the middle east to be exported into the country at this very volatile and volatile and fragile moment i. think given us a lot to think about thank you for your insight we appreciate it. thank you for having your show judges in algeria have announced they will boycott supervising presidential elections expected to take place on july the fourth judge at the

algerian magistrate's club says the refusal to oversee the vote with me to defend the country and says.