dizzee other that's not going to be the case this has been a subject of concern among the opposition and also the protest. party decidedly made warning that if the two sides do not come to a strong agreement to preserve the results of the revolution then a counter-coup could be possible. again linda milligan a currency and out else is but among. all those who work with. thursday has seen probably the biggest turnout since the beginning of these protests and sit ins in front of the military headquarters the so-called one million person march took place in the late hours of thursday people are still gathering as i speak and that's going to continue probably into friday friday usually sees more people coming into the streets after friday prayers and this is

the strength of this protest they are capitalizing on the presence and huge support from the population and they think that this is what is going to gotti that this evolution doesn't get derailed by intensions there from the military side they accuse the military side of procrastinating and even refusing to give power to civilians. had them organise at the protest in khartoum and sent us this report. from almost every corner of the country they travel to the capital to make their voices heard these protesters from the southern state of white nile joined the sit in at the army headquarters in how to tune in a parade as the million people march there demand the military hand over power to. you that i'm not of them we've come here to join our brothers in the city and i'll be here until we get a civilian government that would cheat my demands. you go to the room with the new

york i came here for civilian government that represents all of saddam with political consensus a government that represents all races where the arab or african without any discrimination of a government for the people of sudan. protests started several months ago with thousands of people initially demanding that then president bashir step down from power that's happened on the eleventh of april with a ten member council appointed to run the country until a transitional government was formed but there's concern amongst the protesters especially from those outside the capital that the military may be reluctant to transfer power. there's been discrimination from the government for the past thirty years the sudanese people have been treated unfairly and we've come here to take our rights this regime will go and until we see a civilian government. demand echoed by judges who've joined the protests for the first time they're joining farmers doctors and people of other professions and from other states at the protests. gathering for tomorrow didn't need coming together as

one people coming from faith mission wife to join the phoenix mission and army had a positive they're adding to the force of growth that will have been here since before president almost. and they won't return home until the military council hands over power. after suspending talks with the military council last sunday the opposition coalition on wednesday and mounts that they would resume negotiations on forming a transitional government three members of the military council submitted their resignations after the coalition accused them of being remnants of the former government negotiations for a transitional government continue but the council says it will retain sovereign authority while civilians will hold the post of prime minister and head all government ministries it also says that the army is there to preserve the country's security marjah to renew our commitment to the task given to us in our constitutional duties and national judi's and in this critical time to defend the country and the people of sudan i want to confirm that the army and the rapid

support forces which are all over the country. under a united command to defend the country. these protesters did have come too far to back off from their demands now demands they hope will shape the dance feature. people morgan al-jazeera are told. now residential areas of tripoli are turning into battlefields that's the warning from the international committee of the red cross after three weeks of fighting for libya's capital at least seven fighters were killed in an airstrike south of tripoli on wednesday forces loyal to ward khalifa haftar fighting against the un recognized government of tripoli out of there as what other wahid reports. who died defending the libyan capital kerrick to its main square. they were killed in iraq just south of tripoli a crowd overwhelmed by grief as families mourn their dead not far from their

prayers portraits on display of international leaders they blame for supporting world. fighters were from the city. of tripoli left to and have to this forces took control last month. is lamenting the fall and fighters he says they were brigade mates. and life time friends. they were killed by have to warplanes in all here area we just took up arms to defend our city and on our forces came a thousand kilometers to enter our city we didn't go to their ears the homeland is our cause it has taken lots of blood and souls we will return to carry on no matter what it takes. them no one tripoli but have to this forces went through very yann since april fourth they have been fighting forces loyal to that you recognize

the government on the southern outskirts of tripoli. where. health organization says close to three hundred libyans have been killed in the three week battle for control of tripoli and turns over thousands forced from their homes many civilians including women and children were killed by indiscriminate shelling the government accuses have forces of targeting great potential areas with heavy weapons more than thirty thousand people have been displaced and aide workers are struggling to reach people trapped in parts of tripoli the forces of the un recognized government to push have to forces out of tripoli. for. a year and his comrades are determined to reclaim the city but with no sign of the fighting in any

time soon there are likely to be many more commemorations in this main square with the. ship really. well there's plenty more ahead on this news hour including not an exclusive club china's president reassures the wild about his signature foreign policy project. underwater communities in south africa forced from their homes after heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides. and there's a long distance dispute between two of the best runners of all time as they criticize each other's behavior he said we'll have more and spoke. russian president vladimir putin says he wants to help resolve north korea's nuclear standoff with the united states he was speaking after his fast face to face meeting with north korean leader kim jong un came remains and that of our stock

where in the last few minutes he's been laying flowers at the war memorial there is a pictures of that violent step fasten reports on the missing between the two leaders. it's almost a year since russian president vladimir putin invited the north korean leader kim jong un to russia now they finally met face to face for the first time i while russia and north korea and neighbors their ties have become more distant so instead collapse of the soviet union both leaders say they want to change that. i am proposing a toast to happiness and the beautiful future of our two countries people as well as the health of our comrades and friends here. do you dominated the two leaders nearly two hour long private meeting with and sad the united states and russia have mutual interests and that is

a north korea without nuclear weapons or will you look with. 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 side speaks about it as well democratic people's republic of korea needs guarantee of its safety and sovereignty even though no concrete results were announced came and put in both used this summit to send a message to the united states two months after denuclearization talks with donald trump and failed they praised each other extensively clearly showing the world that their very first meeting was a success it's a third foreign trip this year for kim who is staying here at the university campus his long and what he described as candid discussions would fly to me a put and not only show that he has to turn to but also that he has options before considering signing a. deal with the united states. has asked him to convey north

korea's position to the u.s. government the russian president will also meet chinese president xi jinping in the next few days while russia has not been included in talks about the korean peninsula for some time this summit might have brought putin's involvement a little closer step process al-jazeera. russia. person is now in beijing where he's among the many world leaders for what's been described as china's biggest diplomatic event of the year president xi jinping has just addressed a summit on his ambitious one belt one road infrastructure project linking two thirds of the world's population she tried to address concerns about china's investments putting countries deep in debt beijing is expected to invest in one trillion dollars worth of infrastructure projects in seventy countries well let's cross live now to katrina you who's in beijing for us katrina this is clearly

a very significant forum for china. yes that's right we have in beijing right now thirty seven heads of state including as you mentioned the to be a puritan from malaysia and there are seventy countries involved in these countries make up about thirty percent of the world's g.d.p. so this is a major event for china but i mean the belton road we have to understand isn't just a massive maritime and railroad infrastructure project what the belton road project is for china really is the country's attempt to move to to sort of change and reorder the global political and economic order what they're trying to do is move the power away from the west towards the east and put themselves squarely at the center of it china with the belt a road project wants to become the flag bearer for globalization while other western countries are shutting their doors but there's more protectionism china's trying to do the opposite we saw during his address president xi mention that he's

planning to sign more free trade agreement free trade deals with more countries here so understandably also as you mention assad said there has been some criticism specifically from the u.s. and from the e.u. about this really being just a big project for china devival political influence around the world search china has heard those voices but at the same time they are making some wins italy joined the ultimate project earlier this year and that was a very big win for china because that was the first g seven nation to do so and katrina even though it's been hugely ambitious the belgian red initiative has also received a lot of criticism in the past how is the chinese government been addressing this. that's right a lot of chris of criticism there's so much money involved in so many projects in different countries and what the problem has been is it that there hasn't been a certain standard set or infrastructure about how to actually implement these projects in a high quality ways so there's been lots of problems of corruption in these

projects there's been concerns about environmental damage and questions raised about whether these projects really do benefit local economies there was an example with a project in sri lanka where they were unable to pay back the loan for china so that big project was basically just given over to chinese ownership so there are there are a lot of questions about how this is actually working and whether this is a win win situation not just for china but for these countries so china is very aware of this and she didn't being mentioned during his address to the summit today that they're going to have more sustainable financing more green financing are going to find ways to really address the corruption issue and he's also emphasizing that this is this is not an exclusive club and china is not doing it for itself whether or not everyone around the world believes that it remains to be seen but what's certain is that as this project does have other players involved big countries like italy there's going to certainly be more scrutiny and china is going

to have to deliver more high quality deals catrina you there for us in beijing thank you katrina. well thousands of soldiers are on parade and new military equipment is on display and all the new animal but it's not the national showing off its weapons is while state. is the signing of the cease fire agreement it's got high in that report. along myanmar's northern border with china rests was state. and this month the united states army celebrated thirty years since a peace agreement with me and most army was signed it's the largest ethnic armed force in the country with more than twenty five thousand troops while state operates as a self administered region with its own taxation and judicial systems but its leaders want it recognized as autonomy for me and my central government for my work we have to trust each other there is still a long time it's been thirty years without rule two we are still negotiating to

keep the peace the united was state armies ties to china run deep and beijing's more than just its main supplier of military equipment chinese is an official language in wa and residents use china's currency a representative from the chinese government attended the end of verse three celebrations and punks are the capital of the region and me and mars leader aung sang suu kyi she sent a message to the wall people she's urging the watch state army to sign a nationwide ceasefire agreement which she's been pushing for since she came to power in two thousand and sixteen this agreement is aimed at all ethnic armies in myanmar there are at least twenty of them but so far the u.w.s. say and six other major groups have refused to sign while state leaders say they remain committed to staying part of myanmar but will continue to pursue self-determination and their efforts for the region to become an autonomy a state it's got hodler al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera a country torn between two groups placed into a rebel leader in mali who is refusing to give up weapons plus.

build indigenous communities to save the ancestral land amid reports that the promise is false and using its pristine forests. coming up in sports dakar rally will denies is a unveiled the route for next year's race will tell you. hello we've got the weather going downhill across southern parts of china over the next couple of days but some places the cloud into those central areas as clapp well links back with some sickening to out down to southern parts of china so there will be rather more in the way of wetter weather around hong kong lossie dry and settle

this we go through friday as a case to down towards the southwest of cool chance of want to spotify but they sponsored by become a little more widespread as we go on through sas day to fall back in hong kong to the route twenty seven degrees celsius bright skies the sunshine there for shanghai around nineteen celsius sudden shot in showers meanwhile across southeast asia philippines basi fine and dry malaysia low in positive indonesia at usual rash shift showers heat of the day south of the sunshine in the daytime come the afternoon you will just catch you out shafir around twenty minutes often as per usual little change as we go through friday and on into sas day a sticky thirty six celsius there for bangkok it is largely dried his law as you drive to see across much of south asia area cloud here we've been talking about the recently swelling its way some part of the badman gold moving rather recross does that i think over the next day or so we could see increasing rank coming in here saturday. sponsored by countdown anyway.

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on al-jazeera. hello again i missed. a reminder of the news this hour a tree lanka's health ministry has revised the number of people killed in sunday's suicide attacks down by more than one hundred the prime minister says some body parts were wrongly counted and the death toll now stands at two hundred sixty. three dollars military leaders say they're willing to hand over top government positions to civilians but insisted they will retain the leadership of the transitional process in the capital khartoum and tens of thousands of protesters including judges have been camping outside the military headquarters demanding

civilian rule. the international committee of the red cross is warning that residential areas of tripoli are being turned into battlegrounds at least three hundred people mostly civilians have died in three weeks of fighting in libya's capital. all to mali now where peace deals have done little to stop the violence by armed groups at least one hundred fifty seven people were killed in the latest attack there as nicholas hawk measure rebel leader facing u.n. sanctions over his refusal to give up. mohamed whose money muhammad doing is not ready to give up the fight to the from his rooftop home in bamako the leader of the coalition for the people who commands hundreds of troops in the region of timbuktu . mohammed whom is under sanction from the un security council for conducting attacks against un and french forces. so these attacks have been claimed by. the mostly need an umbrella organization including al qaeda. mohammed who

denies any wrongdoing saying he's only fight is for peace so. sometimes i specified and i'm disappointed i'm one of the principal actors for peace but i'm not being heard or listen to despite signing a peace agreement we have a deal but the fact is to get yourself heard you need to use force then people listen. france's president received a hero's welcome in two thousand and thirteen after french forces intervened in northern mali to push back rebel groups that had invaded part of the country among them the troops. since then and there summated for the thousand people have been killed in attacks despite thirteen thousand u.s. peacekeepers and four thousand french soldiers on the ground the violence hasn't stopped it's gotten worse now people are taking to the streets calling for french and foreign troops to leave. hope for peace in mali came in the

form of an agreement negotiated in algiers with various armed groups and the government but signed right here in by micro in the building right behind me some four years ago since there's been a multiplication of attacks with new armed groups involved in the conflict and so it seems that that agreement is no longer relevant to the current circumstances mali faces. that you drop are masters to me is calling out president cater for not doing enough to unite mali. and he's facing a wave of protests for failing to protect the population but the peace accord has to change the constitution and call for a friend of but there are demonstrations against it. this isn't going anywhere because it's not the constitution that needs to adapt to the agreement but the agreement needs to adapt to our constitution which is the rule of law ravel country people. despite so many sides calling for peace. is torn

increasingly divided and that is only feeding the conflict nicholas hoult al-jazeera but marco in mozambique tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. kenneth made landfall on the country's north coast mozambique is still recovering after the devastation from side to die just a month ago kenneth first hit the french territory of my alts on the indian ocean and killed three people on the. overnight. while further south and almost seventy people have been killed and hundreds have fled their homes after heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides in south africa it's once again raised concerns about poor government infrastructure also has more from pinetown one of the worst affected areas. this is what's left of several roads in pinetown he range in the last few days along the east coast of south africa to get catastrophic flooding and landslides wiping out homes and tearing down power lines. and.

have try to salvage a few positions things that can't be replaced and a six year old sister was nearly killed during the deluge. the houses collapsed and. she managed to get out just before. most people were killed in areas around the port city surrounded by hills prone to landslides and. lost everything when a house collapsed she didn't realize how dangerous a downpour was until it was too late for price costs which are so huge during the night. during the during the week just think it's rain. free folks. in. some here say part of the reason for the flooding is the government's failure to

regularly maintain drainage systems. plainness says i don't think it's because of what's happened it's nature this. weakness of the us here and also felt in other parts of south africa. is the hardest hit province the landscape in some areas has completely changed this water never used to be here it was just a piece of land with a few homes on it but many houses were washed away by water they are a few structures that managed to survive but they are standing. and with more heavy rain and gill force winds forecast the risk of flooding and landslides remains how to al-jazeera pinetown south africa. an eleven day campaign of climate protests designed to cause major disruption in london has now come to an end extinction rebellion demonstrators targeted the city's financial district on the final day of

demonstrations more than three hundred people glued themselves to the walls of the london stock exchange and blocked roads around the bank of england and goldman sachs protesters have been calling on the u.k. government to declare a climate of emergency and take radical action on climate change. or french president has offered tax cuts for workers and more money for pensioners living in poverty but supporters of the so-called yellow vest protesters who've been demonstrating against economic inequality say that still not enough and they're planning to take to the streets again on saturday from paris natasha but to reports . at his first presidential press conference on domestic affairs emanuel mark karr said he'd listen to people's grievances over social inequality and the french political system in response he offered a raft of new policies including a reduction of m.p.'s and income tax cuts for workers let me you're going to fuel the best way to address the needs of fiscal justice is not to increase the taxes of

dispersal of that person no it's rather to lower taxes for the greatest number of our fellow citizens in particular for those clothes and part of the middle class is you also touched on personal matters saying he regretted that some people considered him arak and. i've given the impression of always giving orders of being tough and at times unfair this i regret because it's not why i am and it's not helped our cause. macro's new policies were based on the findings of the great debate an initiative launched in january to give people a chance to discuss their concerns at a town hall meetings and online an attempt by the president to end months of yellow vests street protests if the cost of living in the state of politics emanuel not all hope that his speech in new policies will convince french people that he's heard their concerns over the social inequality and he's trying to help he knows that if he fails to persuade them his credibility his popularity i does

a policy to continue with his reforms will suffer. in paris yellow vests supporters gathered after the president's speech and said that not give up their battle the sort of my reaction to he says speech is one resign when a government does not answer to people it is necessary to hold elections again who will continue your demonstrations to convince mr mccrone to this of these government the real test for macro will be how the wider public will regard his new policies and whether he's managed to bury his reputation as a president who favors the rich this little doubt that the timing is vital halfway through his presidential term and just one month until the european elections he urgently needs to rebuild trust natasha buchla al-jazeera paris now former us vice president joe biden has officially entered the twenty twenty race to the white

house and marxist third attempt at the presidency and as our white house correspondent can really help it explains his candidacy is not without its challenges. so glad to be here with you today never before have the candidates to become the u.s. democratic presidential nominee been more diverse of the twenty running many are candidates of color and female joe biden is neither in the battle for the soul of this nation that might be one reason biden chose the issue of race in his announcement video to be a candidate for u.s. president talks america tonight dear my dear it is stronger than any army figure in the ocean more powerful than any dictator tyrant he's confronting his vulnerability and selling it as a strength. he says with u.s. president donald trump blamed the deadly twenty seventeen white supremacist rally in charlottesville on both sides are new through tuesday. like any art ever seen in

my lifetime fighting argues that despite looking a lot like trump his views are starkly different or touch with the issues progressive and younger voters care about but biden's decades of experience as a vice president and senator also present challenges will be scrutinized for past traditional views he says have changed over time on issues of race and women's rights last month he defended himself against accusations of inappropriate touching of women. changing. given five and shifting positions many younger a progressive voters continue to support senator bernie sanders candidacy. they see biden as the old guard washington fail to stop trump and the progressive see sanders as a consistent challenger of the democratic party's establishment wing joe biden has

a wealth of experience decades of experience the problem is joe biden's record is all over the map but perhaps one of the best men. years of biden's vulnerability comes from his former running mate president brock obama america's first black president obama's spokesperson so far has praised biden's candidacy but stopped short of a door survive it. joe biden will have to convince the diverse useful members of the democratic party that is seventy six year old white man is the only candidate that can defeat president donald trump it's a paradox that biden will have to work to overcome kimberlee help get al jazeera the white house on our mexican immigration agents have detained over three hundred central american migrants who attempted to cross over to the united states this week it's the largest raid they've carried out in more than a year the detainees were part of a caravan that was traveling north through mexico and with immigration checkpoints

now dotted around the south of the country people are taking more dangerous options they're resorting to sitting on top of a train known as the beast that has seen people die or lose limbs in the past after falling off. a huge amounts of tropical rainforest was destroyed last year to make way for large scale farming operations that's according to a report released by global forest watch it says forests were cleared at the rate of thirty football fields a minute that works out to one hundred twenty thousand square kilometers almost the size of england the highest percentage rises came in ghana and the ivory coast sixty percent and twenty six percent respectively the majority of those forests were protected there were also significant losses in the democratic republic of congo colombia bolivia and indonesia in brazil where president scenario has weakened forest protection a third of all primary pristine rainforest was lost that included indigenous lands

where the people have protected the forests for centuries and thousands of indigenous people have gathered in the capital. demanding that the government does more to protect their ancestral lands and the environment the protests called the free land camp have been happening for fifteen years and it's their biggest annual demonstration trees a bar reports on why this is event has become a way to challenge brazil's president. says she saw move north as they marched towards parliament there are members of brazil's indigenous communities and every year they come to the capital brasilia to make their voices heard it's just. that. all the way from my belittle with his son he belongs to the iraqi tribe and. we want the president to have respect because since the europeans came to our london invaders the destruction of our communities has gotten worse and they are finishing us that's why we are here to

ask them to stop. over four thousand people participated in a three day event held at a sign dubbed.