that's increasing hope among the leadership of the protest but the people are heeding the call that they have the power of numbers they can impose their views and they can make the military impose make the military listen to their demands so they are hopeful and they have been negotiating and the military are also giving question after concession because they have seen these crowds getting bigger and bigger days go by they know that now this time around that the sudanese are not going to relent so that has seen. popular uprisings like this in the past but they were short lived because the military took over in the name of the people they said they would listen to the aspirations and fulfilled with demands of the people but no sooner the people went home than the military to power and instituted particularly the last one of them one of my machine lasted for thirty years the sudanese have learnt from this lesson they say now that they will not allow that

that experience to be repeated discussions have been going on and negotiations there are hopes that the two sides the leadership. of the protesters and the military council are getting closer and closer to a kind of solution they agree to form a committee a joint committee to see how to implement the transition and the understanding is that there will be or agreement on the formation of a joint sequel in a military. supreme council to rule the country during the transition they are still discussing how many years is it four years as the opposition leaders want or is it going to be only two years as the military council wants or personalities hopped in the designations there were officers in the military council there are one wanted by the protesters however i just learned that. that resignation has not yet been accepted by the leadership of the military council it's being studied but

it will not sit well with evolutionary is they want these people not only to be a way to be ousted from the council but they want them also to be try put in jail and tried. still a lot to discuss the crowds are staying they say will not move until they see a clear a clear solution to work to this problem and until they see civilians all in this country the expectation is that this is going to take some time. live in khartoum thank you there are three weeks into the fight for control of the libyan capital and the international committee of the red cross has warned that residential areas are gradually turning into battlefields the aid agency says hospitals are struggling from chronic shortages of medical supplies along with power outages more than thirty thousand people have fled their homes and sheltering with relatives or in public buildings rubble fire is a spokeswoman for the i c r c and she says civilians and their property should be

spared in the fighting. depending on the areas it can be more difficult i speak with my colleagues in tripoli every day we have committed colleagues that are working on the ground so libyan colleagues even some of them have told me that they've had friends or relatives that are on able to leave their neighborhoods because of ongoing fighting so so it can be pretty difficult and unsafe for people to move out and this is where again we remind the parties to the conflict. that fighting in densely populated areas in urban areas in civilian areas. the damages should be minimized a civilian should be protected their properties should be protected essential infrastructure should and should be protected also were fighting is taking place right now there are power cuts and this could potentially get worse so we were in

a room mind to avoid as much as possible spare the civilian population and their properties from the fighting and of course guarantee that they can leave the area their area safely should they wish to or and that they have access to essential humanitarian needs. the russian and north korean leaders have had their first ever face to face meeting that he may appear chain has described the talks with kim jong il new stock as substantial president putin says denuclearization can only be achieved through international law and that north korea needs security guarantees conditional it with binoculars or what is denuclearization it is to a certain extent disarmament of north korea of course i have spoken about it all the time and can confirm once again the north korea site speaks about it as well democratic people's republic of north korea needs guarantee of its safety and

sovereignty you exciting on top of the people of the two countries who share a valuable friendship that was created and strengthened while overcoming every hardship and challenge thrown to us by history have a deep understanding that the ceaseless development of north korea russia ties not only serves our mutual interests but is also indispensable for securing the region's peace and stability there's a calm here and they're right it may be cheaper in the philippines now but the pharmacy it's they who are paying the price. and i most of the culture that was around only a week ago is just about gone now so even though you see a northerly breeze coming down through the caspian after western russia was still talking about temperatures in the teens so sixteen in tara is

a result maybe that for twenty in baku and pleasingly if you're in turkey or in syria temperatures are on the rise i say please may because being cold and wet fairly recently well there's a potential for showers here in turkey as you can see on saturday we're still talking about pretty warm weather for the most part clear skies try to around i seventy in toronto particularly warm if you never asked afghanistan it's just up in the north sea. it could be cloudy enough for a shower or two so dry as picture temperatures rising to be expected michelle finally is drawing down its strength the time to get to friday's or temperature rise in bahrain you a counter the cloud indicated here on the return of this wind could well develop into were two big showers in the society somewhere meccas held short of forty and the cloud extends across to bahrain and qatar on saturday but the wind has more or less disappeared. the heavy rain of late around durban isn't going to be repeated in fact as you watch the rain is forming well off shore breeze.

china is a problem has become famous for its large number of elderly many aged one hundred years one i want to investigate if the raging holds the secrets to a long and healthy long on al-jazeera the shortest lived administration in strange modern history has been forced to call a snap election on a full twenty eight with the polls suggesting a fragmented vote and the rise of the far right populist movement. the socialist alliance hold on to power stay with al-jazeera for the latest on the spanish election.

top stories here about. security services in sri lanka have carried out raids and arrests is the u.s. and the u.k. a warning about the possibility of more attacks in this confusion about the actual death toll from the easter sunday bombings the government now says two hundred fifty three people were killed. during these protests is a troubling from all over the country to join the three week long sit in that military headquarters in call to hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are demanding the military council hand power over to a civilian government immediately. the red cross' or residential parts of libya's capital are turning into a battlefield in the. hospitals are struggling with power cuts and shortages. plies. the french president emanuel micro is addressing

issues raised by the yellow vest protest says in a speech that you're looking at now he's already said that more people should be involved in the democratic process and he's made referendums easier. he wants to involve more people in government. meeting members of the public to try to resolve the yellow vest protests listening to all of that is our correspondent. we're getting an idea of what the president is offering quite substantial stuff it sounds like he's been talking for over an hour. that's right his speech and he lost an hour he's continuing to talk now you'll see him continue to talk to us because these are questions from the press is actually the first press conference about on mark or has ever held on to mystic affairs in france even though he's been president for two years so it's quite an unprecedented

move but what he did was with the beginning of his speech was he basically said that he had heard the concerns of the french people that he knows that the yellow vest protests have highlighted the fact that many people in france not just those who've gone into the streets but many people feel really frustrated and angry over what they say social inequality in france they feel fed up with the political system and they feel doesn't represent them so no marco says look i've traveled across the country i've heard people are taking part in these grand debates an initiative he launched in january to give people a form a platform to air their grievances and he said look i've come up with some policies based on the findings of these grand debates on all of what i've heard in there i think there are things like a tax breaks for middle classes he wants to reduce the number of m.p.'s in parliament he wants to make it easier for people to be. part of the political process and also a greater focus on things like education and early childhood all policies that he

hopes will convince people that he has heard them and he has a list and that's an impressive range of policy initiatives but he himself is a figure of a certain amount of disaffection isn't he in the country he himself is seen as being part of that cozy elite being quite divorced from the the ordinary person in france. yes that's right i mean during the yellow vest protests a lot of the anger has actually been directed at him and or mark or himself who has become for some people a figure of the elite as you say he's as you know he's been tagged the president of the ridge and this is a president who after all came to power is in a way a political outsider yet over the past two years he hasn't managed to persuade people that he is a political outsider they say that he has simply governed like every other president before him that he's out of touch and he doesn't understand so that's

what this speech was aimed at is really trying to convince people that he is listening that he does understand that he is trying to fix these social inequalities that people feel so strongly about now whether or not he'll be able to do so and convince people persuade them is another matter we'll have to see whether or not we continue to see these protests or what the opinion polls suggest but recent opinion polls taken just before the speech do seem to show that the french public appreciate that he has at least listened that he has made an attempt to talk to people to travel around the country and to come up with some form of solutions natasha about their lives in paris thank you very much. the former u.s. vice president joe biden has announced his bid to replace donald trump in the white house in a video announcement he warned americans there in a battle for the soul of the nation biden served under barack obama for eight years he's among twenty hopefuls looking for the democratic party nomination. mexican

immigration agents have detained more than three hundred people have attempted to cross into the united states this week is the largest raid carried out for more than a year the detainees were part of a caravan that was traveling northwards through mexico large groups of misers have been trying to get into the u.s. through mexico over the past year mexico is under increasing pressure from the u.s. to take action. south africa's president has promised government to help to rebuild the lives of floods and mudslides victims cyril ramaphosa has been assessing the damage for himself in and around the city of durban at least sixty people have been killed during the tarsa has more from pinetown. risky efforts are ongoing but they are slow part of the reason is because the landscape in some places has completely changed for example this water wasn't here a few days ago it used to be a piece of land with

a few houses on it and some house there were in this area were swept away by the violent waters we're told that they are rescue teams in and around this area body was recovered a few hours ago and they're now currently looking for an elderly woman who's been missing for a couple of days no one knows whether she is alive or dead but they are looking for using sniffer dogs and people from the military the police and divers as well the main concern now of course is helping people who've been displaced many are staying in community halls but they need things like blankets food medication they are getting so with that but they still need more to come in officials say they worry that some people are becoming increasingly frustrated believing the safety of community who's coming back to areas and going into houses like this trying to look after the few positions that are still inside because if ray those positions could be stolen that's another challenge officials are facing but right now the priority is finding people who may still be alive who may still be stranded who need help

and of course that's going to be increasing difficult because of the rough terrain in some areas and if it does start raining again filters are worried they could be more displacement and more landslides farmers in the philippines say their income has been how after the introduction of a tara from rice imports president to turkey says it will help curb rising prices but others are warning it could damage the livelihoods of millions to meall and bogun has more now from the philippines. here in the see how in the northern philippines it's time for harvest the province is one of the country's major rice growers but like many farmers margery do is leaving her rice fields untouched she's holding in the hope the price of grain. will go up and . this is a very hard we have been feeling this land for months and yet the price of grain is down to half we don't even know where to get our food now. the philippine

government to cindi's so-called rice liberalisation bill into law which aims to ease restrictions on the volume of rice imports and impose tariffs the price of rice going south may be a welcome development for consumers here but for the more than two million filipino farmers the cost of producing hasn't and many are struggling financially to survive now they are calling on the government to help them out immediately the government says the law will help create revenue to help bring down to price of rice which is the philippines staple food. this is a huge burden for us farmers and consumers because the industry we believe that the government will be able to say out of ten billion every year but what they are seeing is that just like in the past it will end up in corruption and they let that go to small farmers like us. rice accounts for around fifteen percent of the

nation's agricultural output and yet farmers association say they need more government subsidies if they are to survive we understand the concern of farmers we have been supporting the rice farmers for decades since. the. sixty's we do not see significant gains in their productive and their. living standards are not significantly better so something must be wrong with our previous policy we are providing. per year to improve productivity of farmers through mechanization and more productive or higher yielding seeds farmers see they used to earn around six hundred dollars for hectare every four months but now. the only gets around two hundred dollars they're already among the poorest people here in the fear their lives are going to get worse and this by them being

food producers they're the ones. hungry. dog and al-jazeera province northern philippines. scientists say a catastrophic breeding failure is taking place after thousands of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out three years ago the british antarctic survey says the emperor chicks drowned when the sea ice they were being raised on was destroyed by severe weather in two hundred sixteen since then mrs virtually nothing as hard. which is the second biggest emperor penguin breeding site in antarctica. time for us to take a look at the top stories here and there are security services in sri lanka have carried out raids and arrests as the u.s. and the u.k. warn about the possibility of more attacks there is confusion as to how many people

died in the easter sunday bombings. speaking to our jazeera prime minister running a woodcut i'm a singer says some suspects are still at large. a number of people have been taken in am sorry i cannot be ignored the number but yes some are on the run and the third from them remains for the first is to round up those people we have to admit the failure in intelligence the breakdown in the flow of information. and that's one of the matter that are being investigated. even in regard to the numbers of dead while the police have already three hundred fifty the health ministry said it's more about two hundred sixty so i've asked them to verify their numbers and they mean no need to the truck i mean if not for the lapse many of them would be allowed to be. so these protests is a traveling from all over the country to join the three week long city and military headquarters in khartoum hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are demanding the

military council immediately hand over power to a civilian government. the red cross says residential areas of libya's capital are turning into battlefields when the aid agencies hospitals there are struggling with power cuts and shortages of supplies. the french president emanuel micron's been addressing issues raised by the protesters in a speech on french t.v. he said more people should be involved in the democratic process making referendums easier and involving people in government he spent months meeting local lads and members of the public to try to resolve the protests. the former u.s. vice president joe biden's announced his bid to replace donald trump in the white house in a video announcement he warned americans there in a battle for the soul of the nation he served under barack obama for eight years

he's among twenty hopefuls looking for the democratic party nomination. today those are the latest headlines from us here at jazeera coming up next it's inside story and i will be back in about half an hour with a news hour. it was not supposed to be a controversial issue but the united states checked in to a un resolution on sexual violence in conflicts and the text was amended so has the us failed right victims in walls and how much politics is at play here this is inside story.

hello welcome to the program i'm in wrong can the international community agrees that rape must stop being used as a weapon of war the united nations passed a resolution to combat sexual violence in conflict zones but after it was watered down the u.s. oppose the use of the words sexual and reproductive health which geisha unfed employed it supported abortion thirteen countries eventually voted for an amended text without the controversial phrase the final version also removed a reference to u.n. monitoring body that would report acts of sexual violence are diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations in new york. the german foreign minister presided over this meeting about one of the greatest issues possible women

and peace and security sexual violence in conflict you'd think there'd be unity and joint resolve but there's ambassadors arrived here for the meeting it was clear there was deep division this is a drug cloud on this with a concert on an issue that was supposed to be closing ranks and i agree one unfortunately it's a politics of this if we believe in the values of the u.n. we believe in the values of women rights this is a real fight. and ironed out their attitudes that we just. as the council heard from the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists a nobel laureate snoddy him around and dr dennis mccuaig a tense negotiations continued about a draft resolution written by germany the us authority fought to get references to the international criminal court removed but backed by china and russia it also wanted changes to the words sexual reproductive rights because it argues that

phrase implies support for abortion the campaigner and lawyer a mole clooney made it clear the council would be judged by its actions this is the your nuremberg moment your chance to stand on the right side of history you owe it to nigeria and to the thousands of women and girls you must watch i think members shave off their beards and go back to their normal lives while they the victims never can in me end the german delegation rewrote their resolution it passed with the u.s. support but with abstentions from russia and china after the controversial wording was removed the council effectively caving in to u.s. pressure. thank you very much. hard work. european nations say they are dismayed by the u.s. position and believe this battle is not over yet they detect the hand of the u.s.

vice president mike pence in trying to roll back the internationally agreed position on women's rights for the last quarter of a century one diplomat described the alliance between the u.s. china russia and others outside the security council including saudi arabia and the vatican as the axis of the mediæval james plays out zero of the united nations. let's have a look at some of the sexual violence cases in different war in conflict zones it's estimated that more than twenty thousand muslim women and girls were raped during the bosnian war between one thousand nine hundred and one thousand nine hundred five the u.n. says more than six thousand iraqi izzie women were kidnapped and sold as slaves by eisel fighters in two thousand and fourteen in the democratic republic of congo a report found that there were average forty eight rapes every hour i mean more troops were accused of systematically raping rangar women in iraq in state.

let's bring in our panel joining me on skype from washington d.c. rhenish are republican strategist and consultant from new york and tonia maulvi executive director of legal action worldwide and also on skype from uppsala in sweden. sellstrom university of uppsala as department of peace and conflict research welcome to the program let me begin with you in d.c. first what should have been a easy resolution to pass was made more difficult because the u.s. had a problem with just a few words sexual and reproductive health can you just explain to us why this administration has such a problem with something so simple. well i think we have to look at the source here and the driver on this issue is vice president mike pence if you look at his record back in the indiana state house and and frankly all the way to the u.s. congress i was on capitol hill as an aide at the time he was

a congressman he has been fervently pro-life and he's had a problem with the lexicon around pro-choice language for a very long time so i think that this could be coming from secretary pompei o or anybody else within the administration would be misguided this is entirely coming from vice president pence and it's coming now because of seen as a political chip this is a win for the evangelical base of the republican party that brought donald trump to power in two thousand and sixteen so i don't even think president trump has anything to do with this i think this is purely a political move and it's ideological entirely for vice president so those of us who've been pro-choice in the party for a very long time there is no changing the minds of those who are driving this and it's simple it's not it's something that they're doing because donald trump is any back on the ballot and they want evangelicals to feel certain that this administration supports life so this is about domestic politics not about

international politics not about foreign policy correct the end they're not thinking about the foreign policy implications they're not looking at the record of president george w. bush who made exemptions when we looked at non-governmental foreign organizations that were doing so much good in places like africa to help it rid us of these these awful things you know each i.v. let's talk about what's happening to young girls again and raping us as a weapon of war i just want to add really quickly a little bit of color in two thousand and eight i was a capitol hill staffer and i at the time i happened to work for the only member of congress who still was against abortion in the case of incest and rape so the republican party was not always this way it was shocking when i found out the member of that i work for did that but it also told me that the party was still very understanding of this issue and willing to flex it's got a complete different direction now just for a story just very quickly are you still a republican after this decision. i am i've made my career in the party and though

i have not been very supportive of this administration i'm willing to look at the good they do it this is not an area where they're doing anything right they're not listening to advisors they're not understanding the implications of the bad implications that this could have on u.s. foreign policy moving forward even after president chavez of office they're in there just being very box stand and this is about domestic policy as you put it so it's hard for me to support the party but i also believe that i'm part of this next wave of agents of change that will be here to hopefully get back to the core principles of the party after the trumpet ministration is long gone. in sweden let me bring you in hey you've heard a republican strategist say that he's actually disappointed in this decision what did this decision mean for you. well i'm not an axe murderer you know domestic foreign policy and or are you know the republican party's internal dynamics and

pres vice president pence's views i've i mean everything that has just been said points to the fact that this decision and the sort of obstruction of language around sexual and reproductive health or around mechanisms of accountability in this in this security council resolution resolution all of these mathematicians are really against evidence they're not based on the evidence of what sexual violence in armed conflict is or are the kinds of app of initiatives that are necessary for helping her virus or sexual violence rebuild their lives heal physically integrate better into society after a walk after war. or just in general for our to have a greater sense of accountability for perpetrator here perpetrator or

perpetrators of these acts so what i have and what i really feel is the the obstruction of that kind of language is just a way it's a it's a political act and it's it's going in the thesis of a lot of evidence of that of how this violence occurs in war and how it's used as part of war and it's it's going against the distinguishing between whether or not such violence requires particular measures to help people who are completely innocent and have really been victimized by these horrors and i just i really wish that there would be more effort to educate evangelicals to educate domestic constituencies to educate the public and. really raise awareness about what is sex sexual violence and casting it really truly is and sonia in new york

you've heard our guest in sweden say that this is this is seemingly a political thing legally speaking is there any recourse the security council has kind of come but toughen this legislation up or is the legislation in your opinion now we can because of the the change by the u.s. . well we have to look at the facts on the ground and as a former u.n. investigator for sexual violence i interviewed hundreds of rango women who'd been subjected to brutal gang rape and when they crossed the border from me a mile into bangladesh there was a lack of access to reproductive and health sexual services and it resulted not only in some of the women and girls dying but them being having children born of rape so we have to look at two parts of it one is the security council resolution itself and the absence of these services but what has been the impact on the ground and how are we going to improve services to women and girls were representing women

and girls in south sudan who were brutally gang raped and subjected to sexual slavery when they cross the border from south sudan into uganda there was also not be availability of these services so the u.s. is this is the culmination of its policy of not to support organizations to assist women who have been survivors of brutal sexual violence and i think we have to look at it in the bigger picture and what is happening i also want to add that if we look at that resolution it was not only the absence of reproductive sexual services but it mentioned did not mention the rights and also women rights defenders and so the u.s. also did nothing to address that matter and that's also extremely concerning do you think now that her antonia that this resolution is a nonstarter or do you think yes it has been weakened down but we can still use that as a framework to move forward. well you know i think overall it is actually going in the right direction so we have three losses that i just mentioned but i would say

there are five wins in this resolution firstly it focuses on the victim centered approach and we saw not the security council speaking secondly it emphasizes the role of civil society organizations like mine legal action worldwide that represent victims in a quest for justice thirdly for the first time it mentions about sexual violence against men and boys physically it took forty eight talks about children born of rape and fifty about the role of the recognition of un investigations and fact finding missions of commissions of inquiry and that's really important so i think we are moving in the right direction and we should look at those winds as well. in sweden what do you think do you think you are moving in the right direction with this are used but more pessimistic. i'm. i don't i tend to be more optimistic and has a mistake i think that i agree that there are really important steps within this

resolution and even in the process of negotiating the resolution and and far i mean you can see from the text and the coverage of the debate that civil society has been really active and recognizing contributed to finding solutions and to developing different operate tactical measures around a whole range of things and i think that's really important but i'm a little bit alarmed that we seem to be moving along you know backwards most of the women peace and security resolutions since two thousand and now we are in almost twenty years since the first resolution on women peace and security was passed in the u.n. security council most of these have received you know increasingly sort of. a universal approval and acceptance and so now we find a situation where china and russia have abstained from the resolution on sexual violence and we find that their language has been watered down and that

the country that has been pushing the resolution had to make an important compromises not that it's not a deal breaker i think that it's better we live in a better world today because of this resolution than without it but i do think that there are some real cause for alarm that now that this is become much more politicized than it's it has been in the past and so that would be my my concern rina in d.c. the americans seem to this administration seems to be taking a go it alone approach it's not listening to its allies certainly not as much as previous republican administrations or even democrats for that matter it went against the germans the italians and the british in this particular decision you're going get your allies now i mean how alarming is that for you. well it's less alarming that it was two and a half years ago because it's been two and a half years of watching this administration forget who its allies are and forget

about what america's real role of the world is and i think overwhelmingly the american electorate still is that very philanthropic we are the number one most philanthropic population in the world we believe in doing good across the world spreading that good in ways in in in in in which this resolution could do however i think we get to the root of why this administration being as this action in this way it's because of. our role with the u.n. what is the u.n. need to us would do mean to the u.n. there's almost no regard for it and that frankly if they go it alone be isolationist approach this is just the trademark of this administration he the president of the united states donald trump has come to disrupt and so if he isn't turning things on his head in his mind and in the minds of those around him he's not really doing his job so essentially i think what this really is and this is really sad is that there is a sense that americans they think the administration thinks that americans don't

want their tax code dollars to go to or it's funding abortion and i think again if you look at how the of the partisan breakdown is on this issue obviously we know that more republicans care about that but it in at the end of the day i just don't see any movement is forward and that's what also troubles me is i think we're going backwards on women's issues and we're not doing what we should be doing as good stewards of issues women's issues we've been leading the way for years where it is quite as now and if our you know seemingly be allies follow that really means that things down the road who are our women's reproductive rights and sexual health so i'm really concerned i am just there are a number of countries in the world there are a number of people in the world will be watching this and wondering why abortion the woman's right to choose is such a hot button issue in the u.s.

i wonder if you could just very quickly explain to all of us why this is so controversial in every other country it's just noble. yeah well we have separation of church and state here but if you look at this issue you would think that's the case because again there are so many lawmakers there but the united states and state houses across the country that seem to legislate it with their holy books and so you know there is a sense that people do come to public service with their views and tact and a lot of those these are guided by religion however i think if we had more servant leaders people would be willing to accept other ideas and opposition to their views but we're just in this moment of hyper partisanship where this hot button issue that it's been for years is even more hotly contested now and republicans are unwilling to bend because it all comes down to my taxpayer dollars we pay high taxes and there's a sense of what does that go to is it going to nation building outside of our borders are we going to start building with that and that's what this

administration is trying to guide the narrative down that road and turn in new york clearly the u.s. is a very big player when it comes to the says security council its opinions count and can do things like change the language and united and united nations resolutions but i have to ask the question how do you fight what reno has described as being a hard right religion religious wing of the u.s. how do you get what you want what you see as being right into the language into the united nations. i think it's quite shocking what the u.s. is stance and what we saw during the security council resolution debate the four weeks prior to it and during the discussion and i think we can't distance ourselves from the administration's decision and and say that trump did not support this because he could have stepped in and if we look at the u.s. increasingly it's isolating itself as you mentioned with the european states i hope that they will come together and band together to to to stand up against the u.s.

and maybe this will be a you nineteen moment i mean if we look at international justice and the u.s. it is very dismaying we saw recently for the first time the u.s. has taken away as we understand it the i.c.c. prosecutor has a visa to enter into the u.s. and threatened i.c.c. judges i mean what does this say for the u.s. and was a lot more outcry about it so i think that we you know i would like to see european states certainly civil society organizations like mine will be lobbying them and how can we reach out to other civil society within us to stand up against this administration because it's going to affect let's be honest hundreds of thousands potentially millions of women girls also men and boys who have been subjected to brutal sexual violence let us not forget that in syria right now there are. persons have been raped and they have very little recourse to access to justice and the

u.s. is not supporting. passing to the i.c.c. for many of these situations or the ability to even take cases when the within the u.s. so i think it is a very concerning moment. in sweden it's a very concerning moment also what antonia said was that this was a moment that needed that needed more outcry we haven't seen that kind of outcry from individual nations particularly european nations what do you think that is a walk tougher stance can you take against the united states. i think it mean that it well that depends i mean i think that on sexual violence and women peace and security edge and i do think that many of the not permanent members of the u.n. security council have a really strong role to play sweden where i sit now has been instrumental for example in this stablish thing and really pounding its flag down and around

a lot of these issues around and making big commitments to multilateralism to accountability and rule of law in the international system to strengthen anywhere. and it has a feminist foreign policy the first family's foreign policy in the world so i do think that many other countries will step up and they have stepped up in the past and in a way they they are the ones who have really pushed this agenda forward because i mean let's be honest i am i think that what's happened now ins extreme this with this resolution and what this particular group ministration the trunk administration has done is very extreme but i do think that there has been a there is a. document sort of tendency was in the greater american.

public sphere to really distrust international system the international system and multilateral organizations and to really pursue and to distrust the u.n. . and to pursue a kind of. special road and very individualistic exceptional last position until. we are running out of time and i do want to bring in rina from d.c. hear from our other guests you have heard let's say cautious optimism this is a good resolution however we're very disappointed in the u.s. as language and we hope the u.s. language changes i just want to ask you very quickly do you think this is ministration is capable of wheeling this back and it will change its mind or do you think this is set in stone i think as of right now because of the way the political winds are shifting in this moment there's no change there's no going back they need

this when donald trump is on the dollar twenty twenty this is a political check that they will say we got something the evangelicals are not happy despite getting two justices on the supreme court they want to know that this president really means business when it comes to the issue of life and so this is their best way of showing that and this is about ensuring reelection so there is no going back i think this is set in stone which is very sad because i do think of a good child the daughter of the president may have quietly lobbied about this but was unsuccessful thank you very much to all our guests richelle and ternium all of the and the all new sellstrom and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site out is there a dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me in wrong car and the whole team here by phone now.

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security services in sri lanka have carried out raids and arrests as the u.s. and the u.k. warn their nationals about the possibility of more attacks and there's confusion about exactly how many people died in the easter sunday bombings let's go live now to our correspondent now from and is who is in the sri lankan capital colombo within the last couple of hours also the official number of the death toll has been revised downwards minute now that's right martin from nor less than the prime minister on a vehicle missing when he spoke to our jazeera earlier in the day he's did see there the death to all the numbers we had last heard of three hundred fifty nine.

seeing that the health authorities had been looking at the figures and it was more in the region of two sixty but they are sort of confirming that number bear in mind martin with multiple locations the sheer scale and ferocity of that easter sunday sort of blitzkrieg that authorities were struggling with coming to terms and making sort of the correct figures in terms of putting together the exact dead towards the needs of the injuries or fatalities had made things quite confusing so this has been the situation but so far that's what authorities are looking at and everyone awaiting to see this being pinned down for certain martin mel fernandez live in colombo thank you very much another of our correspondents in colombo is florence louis. armed patrols random searches the increased

security can be seen everywhere on the streets of colombo as the hunt goes on for anyone involved in sunday's attacks it's not just the police and the army but the navy an air force are mobilized to the prime minister running. told al-jazeera that the extra security measures are necessary. but i've been taken in i'm sorry i cannot be you know the number but some are on the run and the third following them remain for the first is to round up the. intelligence services and the government has been criticized for not acting on warnings about possible attacks defense secretary hemisphere if anon was asked for his resignation by president maître palace or a center has agreed to stand down a limited state of emergency has been enforced since tuesday giving security forces greater powers to detain and interrogate further details of those emergency powers are emerging among them a censorship of the media and internet and limiting the right of assembly the wider

powers given to authorities are reminiscent of what happened during twenty six years of civil war the fighting ended ten years ago and sri lanka is once again on edge more arrests have been made and police have released the names and photos of suspects in the capital bomb scares cost a temporary lockdown at the central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagoda forty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want told the sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bomber as they have said they came from well off families. some of them multimillionaires some lived in this

suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock. me that most of my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim sri lanka's police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence al jazeera colombo. now to sudan where the transitional military council has indicated that it would like to retain what it calls sovereign authority whilst giving executive power to civilians there are thousands of people who are demonstrating outside the army headquarters in khartoum gathering in number the numbers are swelling and three senior members of that military council who'd been accused of cracking down on protesters well they resigned on wednesday sillies of the latest developments but

the numbers of people in that square in khartoum are growing by the minute we understand now we can speak to a friend he's professor of politics at the institute for graduate studies. first of all i think what it what do you make of this this offer if you like of the handing is executive power to a civilian authority retaining sovereign power i think there is a problem now because the military suspended the constitution so no rules at the moment does it it doesn't appear we don't know what authority the government will have and we don't know what or thirty the source of a council would have to you to drive them not to accept this i think they should try to work out something i myself have suggested that the course teachers should be restored and should be amended so that. once or thirty years which is where

the presidents in the past should go to the civilian government and it's really tough as much or as possible with other councils like a judicial council or a constitutional council also having oversight on the on the civilian government and the military council just retaining a kind of. nominal authority and back up power because i think we are going now through very times indeed externally and we lead steady hands and how important is it to keep sight of the security issue because this is what the army transitional council's keep reiterating given the fact that there has been conflicts in sudan raising for the best part of twenty years in various corners of the country i think yes at the moment if for example. the

situation breaks down for example if the army just hands. have nothing to do with it and boast about acts i don't know how this hundreds of thousands or millions who are in the cities would. do so we. fear of reprisals. fear of force of armed groups fighting each other so i stink. the more orderly. transition is the better for everybody and we're hearing what maybe just slogans that what we're hearing from the outside is the demand for complete and utter power in the hands of civilians they want no vestige of military authority whatsoever is that a realistic is that a plausible aspiration given some of the challenges you've just outlined. it is a possibility but i think it's better for everybody if it's whatever happens is

negotiated i mean. i have been saying for a long time that if for example. you might. come and have power at that time there was no agreement is what's government would be house should be for. there's a lot of differences among groups within the. coalition so there are problems ahead there's no nobody knows now where money is going to come from for the next few months of course. and the saudis have some money but they haven't handed it in the liver. so a lot of things. on the horizon a chaos might loom any government which takes power the billionaire military is going to have already to remember seeing passed on so this is a very very precarious moment isn't it for a change in sudan are you confident that the right people are in the correct

positions all the main the casey aces the ones that you actually have confidence in what i think for the moment yes i think the military thousand has your flexibility as yesterday by for example removing. these people. the preventive of the freedom and change coalition have also shown this. talks. also sponsor if you agree that they should have a joint committee i think the african union have now given them three months that should be enough for their work i think the people on the street need to see a government imposed this into the new government. into the start so that people should go back to work so that we start rebuilding the country i hope people should listen at least i hope that by next week we should have

a government. a friendly thank you very much indeed. now to mali where the fighting continues for years after peace accords were signed in the latest attack of violence one hundred sixty seven people were killed our correspondent nicholas hark has met a rebel leader who is facing un sanctions because he refuses to stop fighting. mohammad who's man our mohammed tune is not ready to give up the fight from his rooftop home environment though the leader of the coalition for the people who commands hundreds of troops in the region of timbuktu. mohamedou is under sanction from the u.n. security council for conducting attacks against u.n. and french forces. so these attacks have been claimed by the size of islam while mostly need an umbrella organization including al qaeda. mohammed who denies any wrongdoing.