mr coup and eventually became president while consider dating his grip on power his government has a rusted thousands of activists and opponents many facing death penalties the trials were widely condemned by human rights groups as a travesty. over the last few years a predominantly loyal parliament has introduced a series of reforms expanding the military's influence the referendum is also asking people to vote for a provision that declares the military the guardian and protector of the state the opposition is calling for boycott our agreement to have a president elected once every two terms i can't and but since his will is not without challenges he faces armed groups in the sinai peninsula who have launched attacks against security forces and international calls for political reforms but the general turned politician seems defiant he's launching mega projects across the

country and hoping to be able to fix an economy in tatters and win the trust of the people. sedans attorney general has ordered the formation of a higher committee to oversee the investigation of corruption public money and criminal cases the chairman of the african union commission has also been holding meetings with sudan's military leaders in khartoum. is also scheduled to hold consultations with opposition groups say you has warned sudan's military rulers to hand over power to a civilian body by the end of april or to risk suspension so here's mohammad bell now in khartoum to talk us through some of this a committee being set up to look at the issues of finance and corruption i mean that will be something different that the people were looking for. exactly what the people here are demanding because remember one of the reasons why

this protest took place in the first place. in december was short shortage of cash or to do everything including the public capacity to buy food and i've heard this is cities including oil and so on from the outside world and i think you need to the sudanese market and defining it took people at this decision today by the attorney general comes up with a critical moment at the time when. into the house of a shoe the former president found a lot of cash a lot of hard currency to the six million euros six million dollars and more than the three hundred and fifty thousand u.s. dollars and five million sudanese sudanese that pounds in cash no explanation no paperwork why this money has been moved from the central bank to the house of the president and that situation is being investigated the president himself in the full book is and is being questioned about it so he may go to trial

about this particular situation so also i assume a shock that the attorney general has ordered the lifting of the immunity for intelligence office says it will continue to do the trial today and killing a teacher i don't know if that so out in the scottish science military college yes i think that that was that was made now god i hope you can now out with some extraordinary things there in sudan mohammed identify you can still hear me but i mean the passion amongst these protests is my goodness. i'm ok yes sounds like we've lost our link to mohammed but i mean the pictures tell the story don't they have the strength of feeling that still exists even with on what al bashir being removed from power the people want

full change and those protests getting quite lively on a saturday evening in touch him. and our correspondent somewhere in the middle of that. well protests are also camped outside the army headquarters as well demanding the handover of power to a civilian government or morgan has more on that. the sounds of sudan's uprising made loud and clear in front of the army headquarters in the capital shots and these protesters have been here for nearly three weeks demanding change. i mean i was thinking that we are continuing with our sit in so that we can guarantee that our demands will be achieved demands that we came out and that people have to sacrifice their lives if their demands are not met then this certainly will not end with them was there demanding that the military council the body that ended president obama to the shoes thirty year rule hand over power to a civilian government and to hold all former officials to account for alleged corruption and the lives lost during the three decades that bashir and his ruling

party were in power the military took over and eleventh of april in a move that was condemned by the african union which gave the council and till the end of the month to transfer power to the people foreign diplomats have expressed similar demands and the united states stated that it will not recognize the council if that doesn't happen. on saturday the head of the african union commission. council leaders and political parties in hearts on the council had stated that forming a transitional government was a task for the parties but some say they need more time to make that happen. reid told them as political parties must mean that regardless of our vision and number we must meet with the a u and agree on transitional government and we've asked the e.u. to extend the deadline they gave for handing over power for the consultation. it's . a position that is not held by all sides the sudanese professional association

which led the calls for protests that started in december continues to encourage the sit in in front of the army headquarters along with twenty two other parties it wants power to be handed immediately to an independent transitional government for a period of four years a proposal that shows that's not all parties are united and that forming a transitional government may not be an easy task some say they'll hold on to their demands hoping for a different sedan for a future generation does it have to be under going to be able to fix it when there is a civilian government because through a civilian government who will have a permanent constitution to preserve the rights of they didn't have any rights what they did what happens now will largely depend on these protesters and those leading the military council for more than a week and the most important president no matter what is here done it without a government rule and the military council is under pressure to hand over power pressure let them know how to manage it while reading

a lot of the international diplomats as well as the weeks not going by wrong i. don't want the military to deprive them of a victorious revolution if you are going under there are times when you know how i would like him or have you on this news our afghan security forces the form of attack in kabul is high security zone. and also in sports manchester city get revenge for their champions league loss against tottenham the big name in the premier league paul will have that and the rest of the sport. police in northern ireland have arrested two teenagers in connection with the killing of a journalist more on this in a european news center with barbara sarah. come out thank you yes police are warning of what they call a new breed of terrorists threatening the area politicians are calling for calm after thursday's shooting added to concerns about the stability of the region's

twenty one year old peace deal bernard smith has more now from london there he. of course the murder of a key has been a shocking reminder here of what life was like during thirty years of violence between irish republican and pro british communities while the signing of the good friday agreement twenty one years ago brought peace there is still a lot of frustration in what remains the poorest part of northern ireland whereas in music that doesn't going to get us anywhere killing well as some people think it is anyway. it's just to play senseless there's no reason can justify it even if you don't agree with the agreement nason justifies technically or mickeys i say oh it wasn't. riots began in this pro irish estate in london derry on thursday as police raided homes looking they say the pattern bombs and other weapons the might be used in a march planned for easter monday lire was hit by someone who fired

a gun apparently randomly towards a crowd of onlookers the twenty nine year old journalist had been named as one of the thirty under thirty in media by forbes magazine and had signed a two book deal to write about the conflict in northern ireland it has shocked people who thought they were on shock a local politician a man mccann lives in an area with the highest unemployment in the u.k. almost half of working age adults in derry don't have a junk young people who are living in poor circumstances and they're not getting any better they can't see any future in which there's a decent job for they are angry at the situation and watch the growing up and it's understandable and inevitable that some of them are going to see an outlet for their anger and frustrations in taking up the costs were behind the syria historically and they see it has been abandoned by their elders police officers here say they've noticed

a palpable change in the community as people offer cooperation following the murder the police also say they're dealing with what they're. calling a new breed of terrorist two years ago in northern ireland power sharing of ministration between pro british and pro irish parties broke down and that's left a power vacuum which groups opposed to peace could be trying to take advantage of bernard smith al-jazeera dairy. well for more on this we can speak to jonathan moore who's an analyst on irish affairs sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so we hear the police speak of a new breed of terrorist what do you make of that what do you see as a potential new breed of terrorist i'm not sure it's a new breed of terrorists it's a new generation certainly the arrest of these two young men teenagers who were not born when the good friday agreement was signed in one thousand nine hundred eight these people have never suffered under the troubles because they were born in their own so they're a new generation but they're not really

a new breed in the sense that this is always been there since the creation of the state but we all thought and hoped that with the signing of the good friday agreement this was a sin of the past and the organization which we believe that they are members of is attempting to undo the good friday agreement and it's made up of very young people like perhaps these two young men but also former ira operatives who are a lot older numbering no more than one hundred one hundred fifty with very little community support but as i showed in the horrors of thursday night you can do substantial damage with petrol bombs and guns with a relatively small number of people very interesting to see the pictures of the head of the in the new president of shin fein effectively standing side by side you know one morning at the death of this young journalist what did you make of that image and what have you made of the community response to this killing the that the pictures of mary mcdonald and. the detail leader are indeed relatively

unique and in foster would have been going into an area of fear of terry which normally do you people don't go to it i think genuinely quite moving and i think it reflects genuinely shocked people across the communities across the political divide everything we know suggests that the people of derry are truly shocked by this it would not surprise me although i have no firm evidence that. part of the reason that there have been arrests is that following the c.c.t.v. pictures that would show that the people most of the community got in touch and said the this could be the people have no evidence to prove that the certain but i would not be in the least surprised everything i'm hearing from people on the ground suggests that there is absolutely no sympathy with the news no sympathy before this young woman's mom's murder there's obviously even less now these are obviously quite tense times in northern ireland first of all there's the whole breck said shambles going on and the uncertainty about what's going to happen there

northern ireland hasn't really had a government in about two years because power sharing collapsed the situation is rife for people to exploit it and yes i mean groups like the new ira in the realise they've come of the different names have been trying to restart the troubles since the one nine hundred ninety s. and have failed there is no question that the atmosphere is getting worse and the whole briggs's and the hard border question has just made it a little bit worse and so in these times there's a history of republicanism you know people turn to groups that have relatively simple solutions to complex problems and that is part of this but everybody i speak to in northern ireland has said the atmosphere is powerful be worse than it has been for years and this event was it was only a question of time when something like this would happen for those of us who follow the events very closely almost every week there is a report of a bomb been defused people being arrested and attack which has been stopped and

that's happening on a regular basis so this does not come as a major surprise this is not a bolt bolt out of the blue it's something that was tragically on the way and the results are appalling we're going to have to leave it there thank you so much for your expertise thank you. now police in paris have the tamed more than one hundred twenty people during another weekend of yellow fest protests arrests follow violence breaking out between police and demonstrators who were angry at a huge donation given to repair the not. so they go has the latest. a saturday of fire and fury of the twenty third week in a row yellow vests protesters came out in paris as well as other cities across the country. this was one of the most intense day of confrontations between the crowds and the right least in the mix it was driven by outrage over the nearly one billion

dollars donated by some of france's wealthiest families and corporations to repair the not good. days after a blaze nearly destroyed the famous building but the message here france has bigger problems to solve. it's about decency these their nations could help for its people but it's so short sighted. all this money is going to save those old pebbles and stones it's not right something's not right i think it is just it's shocking given the current situation whoever is giving to that may be a good thing to do but perhaps it's not the moment to do this kind of thing the inclusion of an accused group such as black bloc have led authorities to place paris and other major cities on a state of high alert throughout the day protest has lit fires on blocked off streets destroying vehicles parked in the vicinity others attempted to break into

buildings the police responded by firing tear gas at the crowds and using water cannon to disperse them. if the government had hoped that protesters would take a break over this holiday weekend it was not the case. the movement that began last november a rich. over fuel price hikes and the high cost of living has not gone away just said spread into a broader movement against president it might well back home his attempt to reform the economy. is expected to announce a series of measures in the coming week that includes tax cuts for poor households the protest as anger at the wealthy has flourished in recent days partly stoked by the not fire but also himself who is seen by them as a president of the rich in a deeply divided society sunny. kosovo's government has brought back

a hundred and ten of its citizens from syria with the help of the u.s. the group included a thirty two women and seventy four children who were taken to a detention center near the capital pristina for suspect that i saw five years were also brought back the cost of oil and arrested the government says about four hundred citizens left to join i saw in syria iraq and that is it from me in london now let's go back to come arlindo thank you for that at least thirty five syrian soldiers have been killed in clashes with eisel fighters in central desert areas of the country the battle between the government forces. took place in syria's western homs province with dozens of soldiers also injured. they've been four civilians and three soldiers killed in a gunfight in kabul afghanistan capital the attackers appear to have detonated an explosive device before storming the communications ministry have been relative calm in kabul in recent weeks coinciding with talks between the u.s.

and taliban officials but the taliban has denied responsibility for this attack more from kabul was shot at. this attack began around eleven thirty am local time a loud explosion was heard reverberated across central kabul been following that there was three to four minutes of heavy gunfire. that it was inside the ministry of communications building ministry of interior came out they said we understand this is a complex attack there was a suicide bomber and then gunmen into the premises it took about five hours for security forces to get in and get control of the situation and they have just they've managed to secure the scene and we've seen security forces coming in going as intelligence people come in and try to assess what happened here the whole central kabul was on lockdown people could not come and go cordons a still in place a lot of these people are very frustrated that they haven't been able to get inside central kabul and congestion. is very high was very difficult to move around kabul

is the heart was under lockdown during this attack intelligence. on the serena hotel and neighboring government buildings still this reno hotel is right next to attack happened and that intelligence. some type of explosive. elements on the screen or neighboring buildings in that state they didn't at the time but they said that there were. whether or not. what we're seeing today. something like this could happen now security has been very high it. was. spring offensive last friday so there was. heightened security and we are in the ring of steel with a lot of checkpoints if you go into government buildings you get searched the bags this is the last walls there's a lot of security in place there will be questions now as to how this could happen how could most politicus get inside the string and stage an attack of this nature.

in the news ahead new developments in the search for two cuban doctors who were kidnapped in kenya. to rebuilding iran after a month of heavy rain victims of the flood say they are left with no food no shelter and all and produces a bit of magic in the n.b.a. playoffs was that enough to push them to victory their points got out of the light . and oh they were going to big swearing massive cloud over many parts of the middle east at the moment for a look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds stretches all the way up well actually towards kazakstan there but the big swelling center that's here just working its way towards the caspian sea so heavy downpours here and that system is gradually edging its way eastwards an easing as we head through the next few days

but as it works its way away from us the next system is pushing its way in so plenty of showers here for many of us in syria and through turkey and it's cold as well so we'll also see a lot of that turn to snow that system will then work its way eastwards as we head through the day on monday so we'll see more of that in parts of iraq and into parts of iran as well so generally speaking still rather unsettled across this whole region a bit further towards the south and there's some cloud for the arabian peninsula including for us here in doha that's also going to be affecting us in bahrain so a little bit gray at times but still really feeling quite warm now with the top temperature of around thirty three degrees to the south of all of us it's a lot of it's humid here so it's up temperature no higher than around thirty degrees down to was a southern parts of africa erin you can see. is that we've had from angola and to working a little bit further towards the south we're also seeing some wet weather over the eastern parts of south africa and that's gradually edging its way eastwards as we head through sunday and monday.

in syria citizens are collecting evidence that you know more about it bill has shot of crimes committed against civilians moved out of syria six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human tricks syria witnesses for the prosecution on al-jazeera. on counting the cost it's been called trojan horse while russian banks moved to hungary is picking up a short. populist governments threatening the independence of central banks and isn't the end of the runway with jet airways counting the cost.

you were on the news already al-jazeera stories heavy fighting near the libyan capital as the war his forces continue to attack tripoli battling the un recognized libyan government south of the city near the international airport which is on the have to control. so the answer to. the general has ordered the formation of a committee to oversee the investigation of corruption public money and criminal cases the african union has warned sudan's military rule is to hand over power to a civilian body by the end of april suspension and egyptians are voting in

a referendum that could keep president. in office to twenty thirty they're also deciding whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military. today saturday is twenty years since the columbine high school shooting in the united states twelve students and one teacher were killed when two teenagers carried out a planned attack in colorado of course there's been several mass school shootings since then which brought calls to change the gun laws and as unofficial reports anti gun campaigners do believe change could be on the horizon it was until then the watch school shooting in american history a nation watched twenty years ago as terrified students run for their lives the lucky ones could hug their parents but twelve students and one teacher never would they died when two students took their guns and their reach into the corridors of their high school and columbine became new in the world over among the community

it's among the american people there really was at the time a sense that ok maybe maybe this will be a change maybe change will come from this and there was quite a popular appetite to see it happen but the colorado shooting brought copycats and contagion it wasn't the first mass school shooting but somehow it became a fresh starting point and a heart breaking list that grew every year. for junior tech with thirty two people were killed. sandy hook in connecticut where twenty children were shot dead and moved the president to tears the majority of those who died today were children. beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old. roseburg in oregon parklane florida and many places in between eleven more school shootings eleven places that said enough eleven places changed forever. but not

in the we many who act in australia after a mass shooting where thirty five died they changed the laws in scotland where children were gunned down in a school in dunblane they changed the laws and the recent attack on to mosques in new zealand brought an almost immediate change in gun laws so this new generation to really are the ones that are going to be the ones to bring change because they've grown up knowing nothing but the fear of school shootings their entire life columbine was twenty years ago. people who were born after columbine are now voting and that matters because they don't want this fear for the next generation they had a memorial service for columbine this week they wanted to send a message of hope and strength to the community which has lived with the tragedy every day for twenty years and the other places that no must also live with the same pain the same scars alan fischer. is a policy analyst for gun violence prevention at the center for american progress and

he spoke to earlier she told us the u.s. political system makes changes to the gun laws more difficult in places like australia new zealand. in the united states gun violence is an every day occurrence it takes the lives of more than ninety five people every day and i think what we're seeing now and the optimism that your story shows i think it's showing that people are saying school shootings are tragedies and our congress our leaders in congress and state legislators need to act and they also need to address these other issues that are completely related to gun violence it's a public health crisis that affects all communities in the united states not just our schools not just our youth so i think what you saw in new zealand most recently is what people should expect of their elected leaders there was a horrific tragedy that took the lives of dozens of people and impacted the entire country the prime minister came forward she offered thoughts and prayers and then provided a very strategic commonsense solutions that instantly became law that's what you

want from your elected leaders you want them to take up their places in office and protect the people make communities safer now there is a one major distinction between new zealand and the u.s. and that's the political system new zealand has a unicameral system so the prime minister and her coalition want a law it's going to happen that's not the case the united states i think sandy hook with president obama is a good example of that he was on board the democrats in congress were on board but because republicans controlled pieces of the congress and had the ability to filibuster you didn't see an assault weapons ban go forth after twenty five and six year olds were gunned down in school and so i think the political system and the fact that the gun rights lobby in this country has created so much misinformation around what gun violence prevention laws are i think that's one of the main challenges for our movement and most of what my work is addressing is trying to make sense that this is this is a common sense solution that the majority of americans actually want it is not an

infringement in freedom or rights at all. the first democrat to declare for the twenty twenty presidential election is calling on congress to impeach donald trump senator elizabeth warren says the house of representatives should begin proceedings she made those comments just after the release of the model report investigating the possibility of collusion between the trumpet ministration and russia. police investigating the abduction of two cuban doctors in kenya are now questioning the driver to terror police are looking into whether he had links with people in somalia has gotten so he reports now from and there. it was on this street in the town of two cuban doctors were abducted last week the sergeant and his ition had been heading to a government hospital where they'd been working for close to a year treating patients from kenya somalia and ethiopia. they were kidnapped right outside muhammad ahmed shop the security guard was shot that you see here. i heard

a load of bunk and gunshots after i opened the shop. we are all in shock. and landis' rodriguez are part of an exchange program between kenya and cuba that started last year. that doctors are being held in somalia and government forces from that country and kenya are watching with us from both sides of the border to try and secure their release security has been beefed up in mind there at this checkpoint for example wasn't there before that. when you check your documentation and just trying to make sure the bills were getting into town i'm not carrying anything that a lot of people think they want the government to. make sure that the doctors get back to the. it's in everybody's interest especially that of people here like. he's due to zainab had an operation two days before the incident she died on friday

something her family says might not have happened if her doctors had still been there. when the doctors were taken she was not a did it again and was badly infected. from the hospital. the local health minister has told al jazeera that zainab proper medical. but died from a blood clot in an autopsy no one has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings but the driver of the government vehicle carrying the doctors is in cassidy police are investigating with a had communicated with people in somalia the armed group in that country has often been blamed for carrying out attacks in kenya this is just a broken because of the proximity to the. moderate town hasn't been attacked in the last few yes but several other border

areas farther north hov some of these people are heading there and they're being escorted by police a sign of how dangerous many believe life is becoming and pots of this region catherine saw al jazeera northeastern kenya. ten million people have now been affected by the recent flooding in iran people are slowly cleaning up but thousands of homes and roads are beyond repair and as more rain begins to fall people are fearing the devastation could happen all over again reports from. everyone we meet invites us inside their homes they want people to understand what they're going through when the first floods came a month ago. says there was no government warning no alert system just talk of the possibility of floods when it happened they read and they may have to run again. to the. water came up two or two and

a half meters were worried because there is no dam here after more rain water will come up when there is any rain we just run away. all night i pray to god not to that to happen again but there's nothing left for us to lose now just our lives. upstream rivers are picking up pace. these waters are headed for iran's western city of pul dr. there's been more rain in this part of the country in the last few days and that is meant that water is once more rushing down the river it's an unwelcome thing for communities that had barely begun to recover. as people watch the skies on the ground there seems to be no end in sight to the work that needs to be done. many people in this neighborhood say the same thing supply trucks only stop at main roads never making it as far as the back alleys where they live everyone else they say is getting more help than them.