what sort of signs or movements are you seeing on the ground that that is going to happen. well organized as all the protests are calling it the mother of all the most socialists or what they're calling a million man march they have a called supporters to come out and sudanese people to come out in the numbers and we're already seeing signs of people are coming from places as far south but does either and all have been us first for to come and take part in these much which they say is going to be about exerting more pressure on the military council to cede power to civilian rule is now with more and more people coming to the city and then governing outside the defense headquarters we're going to see whether they're going to achieve force numbers they want but everyone here in ca tomb is convinced that this is going to be

a big day which will follow with you through the day we have it out there in khartoum thank you. now still ahead here on al-jazeera under huge fire the u.s. president vows to find attempts to impeach him as democrats push the new investigations. on the u.s. tries to deal with the largest measles outbreak in nearly a decade those stories on the other side of the book. hell or rather reminiscent of last year is warming up in central and eastern europe there's not much cloud there on the circulation driving that warm season the west where temperatures are dropping particularly in the british isles and in france for example temperatures in the teens federal breeze cloud and rain which stretches down through france to spain and portugal which is not big change but ahead of it

still war in europe twenty three degrees and that's reflected in slightly higher temperatures still almost the whole of central and eastern europe if moscow has a twenty three now overnight this circulation will run slowly in bold across the alps dropping some snow briefly i think that will be the case in the pyrenees as well bonjour exceeds dropped under eleven degrees and we're still in the teens for paris and for london but we're in the high twenty's efford vienna and also and if this keeps going that will again be something of a heat wave in development where we'll watch that so that's over land in europe the mediterranean will see not much happening as a result but we are drawing asked a lot of these sorry she's quite hot it's about forty degrees or more both north and south as the horror on that is being brought up through libya so it's thirty in benghazi dusty as well quite windy in twenty eight hundred tunis which beats for about. whether sponsored by katherine.

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bomb attacks a nationwide alert has been issued with police searching for nine vehicles suicide bombings on easter sunday killed three hundred fifty nine people and wounded hundreds more russian president vladimir putin and north korean leader kim jong il and have become the first face to face meeting which is taking place in the city of divorced they discuss potential denuclearization of the korean peninsula and bilateral trade. also sudanese protest leaders are calling for a large rally on thursday in their demand for civilian government that's despite three members of sudan's ruling military council resigning they were accused of cracking down on protesters. south african presidents are all wrong oppose a pledge to help those along the eastern coast affected by floods and mudslides here says the damage in and around the city of durban at least sixty people have been killed and more than a thousand displaced more rain and gale force winds. our forecast for the area for the very latest we can join her room with tasso who's in pinetown in and around.

the devastation around you is pretty horrific and one wonders where the rescue operation begins and how recovery even starts. well they are trying but as you can imagine because many roads and bridges have been washed away or damaged is hard to reach some people they think are missing or stranded in this area the ground is still unstable but we've seen some people come back trying to solve is some of their personal belongings the house there you see belong to a man we just spoke to and he told the story about how when it started raining and flooding really heavily and the landslides came he heard a friend's house just up the road had collapsed and eight people were killed so he went to see thing go and help but he left his daughter inside his house a few minutes later this house his house started collapsing she miraculously managed to climb out and neighbors helped her but as you can see

a lot of the personal belongings parts of a toilet some clothing some personal things were washed down this area which used to be a busy road this part of the province is generally very hilly and people build on top of each other you can see that piece of brown. sand up there they used to be a small house see that collapsed during the landslides even though some of these houses here are still standing they are fears if it rains again even if it's not a serious flood there are fears this house they also collapse so lots of people still very wary about where things are going to rescue efforts we're told that although there is an official death toll some rescue workers say they have heard or have seen some bodies in the river they're trying to retrieve and that means of course the death toll will rise and of course there are several storms from the eastern coastline of the african continent the weather looks pretty stable where you are right now but what are forecasters saying about the coming days.

well list of raining for now and durban in this area is that it's usual hot humid self but people have been warned to expect more rains they may not be as strong or heavy as the ones you saw in the last few days but they are coming of people being told to be careful using the roads and bridges because they are still many of them still submerged in water a big concern of course is this lake on heading towards parts of eastern africa and also mozambique they say they may not be as strong a second you die that we saw but it could have another effect terrible effects on countries in the surrounding areas particularly southern africa which had been ravaged by cyclonic die so people are being told to remain cautious don't be complacent just because the sun has come out just because it's hot more rains are expected and people are being told to be vigilant because will follow vents with you through the day of the momentarily tasso there in pinetown thank you. another round of talks on syria has begun in because that capital of. russia turkey and

iran believe they've played pivotal roles in the conflict and now want to know what's in it for them or progress on a political solution is expected there are still sticking points on other issues so makoto has more from beirut russia is further cementing its foothold in syria government leaders in damascus granting russia access to the mediterranean port of tartus for the next forty nine years it's the latest deal between the two countries as russia strategic and financial rewards in post-war syria syria's other main ally iran seems to be doing the same after partnering to keep president bashar assad in power the iranians and russians are talking about dividing the spoils of war. there's a structure well it's. just because. it's yours.

russia and iran cooperate with turkey iran's foreign minister mohammed sadiq visited turkey's capital ankara following a trip to damascus the iranians are trying to mend the relationship between syria and turkey hoping for an increased diplomatic role for a while iran of course also trying to get more leverage and resolve your russia in this process because the issues that are most important on the ground in the north east these are issues i would say. between russia and turkey more than between turkey and iran the three countries are major stakeholders in syria and initiated the so-called astronaut process. they haven't tainted their alliance this by disagreements because their strategic interests intersect beyond syria they have strained relations with the united states russia and iran want to keep turkey on their side but at the same time they don't want the turks to expand their presence in northern syria. but also weak countries need wider international support in the

west if syria is to end its isolation and receive war reconstruction funding russia is pushing for progress on the political track sending diplomats to the syrian capital as well as to the saudi capital to meet the opposition. so you know. russia wants. the russians and iranians believe they won the war for us said but turkish troops and their local allies remain in northern syria u.s. troops and their kurdish allies are in the north east multiple players are involved in syria all maneuvering for their place went peace eventually comes senator beirut doldrums vowing to fight all the way to the supreme court to stop any impeachment or terms the us president's opposing all the terms to subpoena a former aide to testify in congress democrats are demanding the full uncensored

version of the report into russian interference and transfer elections so congress can decide whether he's broken the law or lot can be held at the white house. unconditional war on his opponents is a tactic donald trump has used for decades in the business world and now it appears in the political arena as president i say. get back to infrastructure get back to cutting taxes get back to lowering drug prices that's what really that's what we should be when we're fighting the other subpoenas we need these materials even though the u.s. congress has a cause. situational obligation to investigate the white house trumps declared he's prepared to take his fight to the highest court in a wednesday morning tweet trouble threaten congressional democrats if they try to get rid of him through impeachment he'll go straight to the supreme court trump is upset democrats continue to question his legitimacy and want to probe is taxes and

financial records it follows the release last week of the much anticipated report by special counsel robert muller on whether the truck campaign worked with russia during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign. mode concluded there was no evidence they did but he did suggest congress could pursue the matter of whether the president obstructed justice during the investigation from the white house a top adviser mocked congress's oversight efforts even suggesting the white house might block any testimony by former employees so what else is there to know and what else is there and i believe it matter what we all know is director mueller and his investigators wanted to or felt that it was right to indict they would have done your committee will come to order many top democrats in congress including democratic presidential candidate and senator elizabeth warren believe trump should be investigated and even impeached we cannot be an american that says it is

ok for a president of the united states to try to block investigations still senior democrats like house speaker nancy pelosi are pushing for oversight without attempting to remove donald trump from office as an election year approaches she's director democrats to win votes by talking about issues voters care about like health care and approving wages impeachment is a political gamble most polls show a majority of americans think that impeaching the u.s. president is a mistake that means instead of inflicting damage. donald trump it could build support among swing voters potentially aiding trump's reelection can really help get al jazeera the white house will stay in the u.s. missiles break in the country is at its highest levels and it was said to be eliminated almost two decades ago the center for disease control says there are now

six hundred ninety five cases of the illness reported across twenty two states with new york being the worst hit my county reports from washington d.c. earlier this month the brooklyn preschool was closed by health authorities after refused to provide access to health records or proof or facts anation this in the middle of a measles outbreak that had begun in the bar in october last year the majority of patients were drawn from the orthodox jewish community and the outbreaks believed to result from an unfair to traveler who was infected with measles abroad. the c.d.c. points out that while breaks don't occur in a highly vaccinated population they do in communities that for religious or other reasons have resisted that nation in many of the twenty two states where cases of measles are reported a major causes the belief that the disease is no longer a threat i think

a lot of people are complacent they say measles doesn't happen our community measles doesn't happen to our family they don't realize that it's really just one plane ride away. the world health organization reported this month a three hundred percent increase in the number of measles cases worldwide compared with the first three months of last year the c.d.c. says this increase is part of a global trend as other countries struggle with declining vaccination rates excess abating the situation within the united states. washington fans of indigenous people from across brazil gathered in the capital demanding protection for the london riots protesters from hundreds of indigenous tribes of also accuse the far right present. of closing government offices responsible for the education and health of their communities. from near brazil's congress

where the indigenous people camped out. were here in brazil capital brasilia were members. of communities have started to arrive through the capital for a three day event even though this event happens every year this particular event is very very meaningful for them because they think they're using it and they're very strong message to president putin one from the other who is threatening their very existence the president taking office for example i have taking a measures that they say threaten their communities for example moving abrasive indigenous. here's office from the ministry of justice to the agricultural sector that they say generate a very serious conflict of interest. since january the president has taken measures causing the deterioration of indigenous rights they transferred the right to demarcate all land from the indigenous office to the ministry of agriculture which

is led by a representative of agribusiness. some of the people we have spoken to say that it is already starting with the feet because the government has deployed hundreds of members of the security forces they were hoping to initially camp in front of congress but they were actually. in fifth grade. with communities where the roads railways and agriculture but people here say that this is going to isolate even more they're already suffering from persecution from farmers miners among others there is around three hundred tribes in brazil today and many of them are represented. the problem. of being friends with the united states president donald trump has said that he would like to explore the amazones would be united states for them and that we present a threat to their very existence. members of the climate change activist group

extinction rebellion or going to extreme measures to disrupt london as police have been removing protesters who glued themselves to train in london's canary wharf station earlier they removed a group that had stuck themselves to the walls of the london stock exchange to get attention to tackle issues with the environment more than two thousand activists have been arrested since the civil disobedience campaign last week and of course you can find more on the story at all the stories that we're covering here on by logging on to our website at al-jazeera doctor. reminder of our top stories security services in sri lanka remain on high alert following sunday's multiple bomb attacks a nationwide alert has been issued with police searching for nine vehicles catholic

church services in colombo have been suspended but many will resume on sunday subject to an all clear the central bank was locked down following a warning about an imminent explosion suicide bombings on easter sunday killed three hundred fifty nine people and wounded hundred small. we're seeing a very visible increase in security presence and we've seeing it here on the streets of colombo. it shows that it's not just the armed forces and the police but also the naval and air forces who are involved patrolling the streets to keep. people in. safe now of course this is after we've learned that sixteen people were arrested in a special operation overnight but just the day before police have also said that they believe that several people involved in sunday's bombings are still at large. now russian president vladimir putin and north korean leader kim jong un have begun

their first face to face meeting which is taking place in the city of blood of vos talked putin says that they've had a substantial discussion on the deep nuclearization of the korean peninsula kim jong un told the media that he wants to talk about ways to strategically promote stability and jointly manage the regional situation the two are also expected to talk about bilateral trade. sudanese protest leaders are calling for a large rally on thursday in the demand for a civilian government that's despite three members of sudan's ruling military council resigning they were accused of cracking down on protesters. south african president cyril rather poser hers pledged to help those along the eastern coast affected by floods and mudslides he assess the damage in and around the city of durban at least sixty people are being killed and more than a thousand are displaced more rain in gale force winds are forecast for the area those were the headlines when i was there of course you can follow the news on our website at al-jazeera dot com back with more news in half an hour the stream is

next. shortest lived ministration explains modern history has been forced to foolishness election on a field of twenty eight with the polls suggesting a fragmented vote and the rise of the far right for the speed of the socialist alliance hold on to power stay with us for the latest on the spanish election. hi i'm femi oke a. year in the stream today remembering china's pro-democracy movement how of the tiananmen square protest massacre were men but i made heavy government censorship the topic is one of the most censored on china's internet so what questions do you have about its history legacy share your thoughts in our you tube sad or via twitter stream.

this month mot's thirty years since the start of student led pro-democracy protests in china's tiananmen square where weeks of peaceful demonstration later ended in a deadly military crackdown known as the taliban square massacre on june the fourth incident hundreds and perhaps thousands of believed to have been killed by the people's liberation army the initial protests were sparked by the death of reform minded former communist party head heriot gang in late april one thousand nine hundred nine tens of thousands of students filled the square to mourn his death and carry on his message of political change and an end to corruption students were later joined by civil servants and others calling for democratic reform so today we'll speak to those who witnessed events at tiananmen square thirty years ago and look at how their history is being remembered on and off line in taipei taiwan we're joined by. a chinese dissident and student leader in the one thousand nine hundred ninety annum and protests in toronto canada jan

a journalist and author who was an eyewitness to the mask. adamant square and in irving california in the us a most toe a fellow at the u.c. irvine school of law he studies free expression and online content regulation it's good to have you all here guess i had to and i want to start with you that atmosphere in april of one thousand nine hundred ninety think back on it's a long long long time ago what was happening in terms of protests and demonstrations what if feel like to be a reporter in beijing. it was super exciting and there was an air of optimism and it was a strange time and these were the first spontaneous demonstrations really since the bounding in the people's republic in the center of the country in beijing and so the weather was beautiful the students were out and everybody was quite optimistic everyone thought this was this is going to be wonderful things are going to change

and so there's a lot of excitement and lots of ordinary people joined in and i want to show our audience tannin square a port a twenty second one thousand nine hundred nine running back thirty years there were protests there were demonstrations have a look at this have a listen to this. i know you're going to come from the surplus at least you get a clue a lift us live thank you he said what's happening here in town and square is that people are gathering hate to commemorate official chinese official who died called hugh yaobang he was really well known for his political and economic reforms have a look at the students in this class. you know he

was a. move were you one of the students in the square right that. the major achievement.

and one of the iconic images from that time is this one that people are remembering online if you do any search for tenements where on twitter you see images like this this is a guest and this is a man who is commonly referred to now as tank man this is a photo that was taken by an a.p. photographer jeff why did there in the middle of that square a man who stood in front of a tank jan i know you were there this day what do you remember about this incident . this happened on a monday but the massacre itself happened on a saturday night into sunday morning and then there were still protests on sunday and then by monday because the soldiers kept shooting at people by monday morning this streets were really dead quiet and i was working in that hotel room overlooking that street and my husband was with me and he said you better get out of here and so i

a rat rushed up to the balcony and i saw this and i started to cry because i had seen so many people killed and and wounded the day before and then i thought i can't cry because i have to witness this i have to watch what happened and so i watched and you know when this happened. the streets were completely silent and the lead tank tried to go around him and then after a while that driver of the lead tank turned off his engine and so you didn't even hear anything there wasn't any noise and then the young men tried to climb out on to the gun turret and. they would open up the turret the soldiers went open it up so he claimed climbed back down and then i remember the tank started at the engine again and the young man jumped in front again and i was just sure he was going to die but then suddenly i think about two guys maybe three guys from the

sidelines there was a small crowd on the side of the street they they ran in and grabbed him and jag him off and he melted away and i don't think anyone really knows who he was or what happened to him jan i heard you describe this moment as a magical moment and you described it as stepping to the heroes yes that day in that moment that just a little bit more for us. it took me a while because the world's attention was focused on tank man but the man who tried to stop you had a simple shopping bag with me who knows who he was but later it occurred to me that the second hero was the driver of that leech chain because he stopped he didn't run him over and he just waited and i'm sure he must have been punished because this created this dramatic moment and this photo that went around the world

and it wasn't good for the chinese authorities and they knew who it was though i think that that driver of the lead tank is a real hero and he's never really been recognized as that the pictures from june the fourth one thousand nine hundred i would stored unary pictures and also when you took two look at them i know you've seen them many times before because bearing in mind that we have. who was watching for him about kony we had john who was right there i'm curious about what you wanted to ask john about these moments have a look festival. frank i'm glad our truck was proud he showed up i don't plan call cheeta. was.

was. was was was and also what stands out for me is no weapons no weapons but i think tanks what did you want to toss john about that day. so the trend i buried witness as a journalist to violence and tragedy and the acts of bravery and courage how was that like. well we were shocked we didn't expect that level

of violence and when i say we i mean the foreign correspondents based in beijing most of us were china experts we had devoted our careers to studying the language and studying the history but we had no idea how to cover war we didn't know what battlefield weapons were and so we were just shocked and stunned and i guess we had never dreamed that the china story would come to this and i remember. just wondering what am i supposed to do and what is that blowing through the sky there was this red. well it and i thought it was a flare and later on i realized it's a tracer bullets which is what you use to measure your range if you're a gun owner but only things i didn't know but you know the chinese people were equally naive and ready for the violence because

a lot of students were in the square and they held out their coats they had coats even though it was june fourth because at night it was chilly so they had these big army coats and they would hold them up assuming they were rubber bullets and that a cult would stop them and so you can see let later on i went to the universities and i saw these coaches you know displayed with all the blood over them and i just i just remember being horrified but also feeling like i have to be a journalist i can't let myself fall apart i have to take notes and a lot of it i simply felt ok let me let me time how long the gunfire is going on let me see what corner of the city is coming from and i felt pretty helpless and and very upset and very angry at what was happening just shocked that people were being killed in front of me but anyway i was just like the chinese people they were

shocked too if you could you saw the pictures of how angry they were and how they're attacking a tank with their bare hands or at most a wooden stick so it was i felt very much. in sync with all the people. and listening to that story from you know thirty years ago brings me to a couple comments were getting on you tube right now live this one is from nor saying who says does it still have any importance in the minds of young people in china under xi jinping another person but the patel says chinese know about the massacre their internet is highly censored so it must not give this to you because particularly that last comment about the internet being highly censored writing something you know very well about. yeah i think you know it's censorship infrastructure in trying to be constructed on the basis of technology based restrictions legal risk.