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 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 in fifteen million in coming together as one people coming from faith nationwide to go to phoenix visit an army headquarters there adding to the force of growth that would 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 margin renew our commitment to the task given to us in our constitutional duties and national juices 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 one hundred united command to defend the country these protesters did they've come too far to back off from their demands now demands they hope will shape sudan's future. so there's a big difference between what the military council wants and what they're trying. and in the meantime rachele protesters have been gathering since yesterday in front of the army headquarters there will be more protests today after the friday prayers all to demand the military council listen to the opposition and hand over power

something that doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon with a vast difference between the two sides all right i've been working with the latest from carter thank you. north korea's leader kim jong un has accused. bad faith in february's failed talks with president. annoyed that is kim made the comments before departing from his first summit with russian president vladimir putin a lot of us stock in eastern russia wants to help resolve north korea's nuclear standoff with the united states but still ahead on al-jazeera the president promises tax cuts and response to protests over economic inequality. long distance dispute between two of the best runners of all time as they criticize each other's behavior will have more.

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as al jazeera and these are the top stories right now judges in sudan have joined opposition protests outside the military headquarters demonstrators are demanding full civilian rule not for the army said it wants to keep many of the presidency's powers through the transition period. security has been placed outside mosques ahead of friday prayers i'm sure along looking for a seven day suspects connected to eisold and may have played a role in that easter sunday suicide attack a series of attacks the death toll has been revised down to around two hundred sixty people after his first ever face to face meeting with russia's president on thursday north korea's leader is accusing the united states of acting in bad faith

and february's failed to nuclearization talks on repairs and says he wants to help ease tensions with the americans. after twice running for u.s. president could it be third time lucky for joe biden the former vice president as a name to return to the white house to replace donald trump seventy six year old hopes to make his eight years of barack obama count a white house correspondent kimberly how that explains the challenges facing him in what's already a crowded race 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 bronx or 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. i did a stronger bigger than any 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 and both sides are new through tuesday. like any are the ever seen in my lifetime biden argues that despite looking a lot like trump his views are starkly different or in 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. change.

given five and shifting positions of 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 measures of biden's vulnerability comes from his former running mate president barack obama america's first black president obama's spokesperson so far has praised biden's candidacy but stopped short of endorsing biden river windsors. when the remember joe biden will have to convince the diverse and useful members of the democratic party that a 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 can't really help get al-jazeera

the white house i often start out as a temporary shelter for people feeling war food shortages and famine but fans fried out to become massive refugee camps and a new series to life displaced we take a closer look at the plight of refugees worldwide starting in jordan the story refugee camp a song to eighty thousand refugees from the war in neighboring syria as bernard smith reports more than half of them are under seventeen years old. high is adjusting to the light he's just a few minutes old the very latest refugee to arrive in zaatari camp around eighty babies are born here every week. is exhausted mother fatma is twenty years old this is her third child last year they say that since it's not their wishes to get figure on this. they say this is normal for our community we are supposed to have

this number of babies like ten babies our mom my husband once more and this is the usual culture here that's there just to give birth to this large number if they've it's the norm for them. this was atari seven years ago rows of hastily erected tens on a patch of desert in jordan near the syrian border today it's home to almost eighty thousand refugees forty percent of them under eleven years old they've known no other life almost everyone here knows someone a relative killed in syria's civil war and doctors tell me it's explained the particularly high birth rate because some of the women say that the help making up the people lost in the bombing and fight. conflict has left people here uncertain of the future and that say the doctors means many more women being married off in their teens as families look for stability health workers put in

a lot of effort trying to promote birth control. this is rima twenty two year old. child and that'll do for now she says. i dream of a better quality of life for me and my children i don't want any more now but maybe i will after three to five years and i dream to have them in syria but my use of says three children is enough. i want my children to learn to be educated to have a quality of life much better at the mine and i want to take them back to syria but syria will take years to rebuild so i could well grow up here he will be safe and will get an education but like almost everyone else his life here will be lived in limbo unable to leave and unable to make a life elsewhere bernard smith al-jazeera zaatari on the jordan syria border income

tax cuts are being promised and france along with other reforms in response to months of yellow vests protests president man made a t.v. address to the nation following townhall meetings nationwide the great debate is valid to transform france by tightening tax loopholes stopping the closure of schools and hospitals and making it easier to hold a referendum on important issues. of people each day above all public order must return and with an essential cooled but i don't want the actions of some people to eclipse the just demands that would at the start of this movement and would broadly supported indigenous people have traveled from all over the largest country in south america to the capital brasilia they set up what's called the free land camp it's been held annually for the past fifteen years to demand government leaders do more to protect and lands triss about reports on why this year's event is a way to challenge brazil's newly elected president at. a so moving north as they

march towards play. they're members of brazil's indigenous communities and every year they come to the capital brasilia to make their voices heard. that came all the way from with his son he belongs to the iraqi tribe. we want the president to have respects because since the europeans came to our london invaded is the destruction of our communities it's 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 side dubbed the free land camp recommends i do work for an ad i said that he would like to separate and a little later countries in getting rid of any fish he said that he would like to explore the amazon rain forest the national resources for the best people the

precedent development strategy is a clear threat to their survival shortly after taking office president signaled he was transferring control of land and environmental issues from the ministry of justice to agriculture that department's dealings with a powerful agriculture industry have been questioned by critics. we see in both scenarios the possibility of an increase in the massacres of people like it was seen in the past they want to prevent us from defending our rights want to prevent further land demarcations we want to live according to our traditions it's in the constitution to. indigenous organizations have denounced deforestation and land seizures and attacks on indigenous peoples in the past year they say the luggers and farmers feel emboldened by the actions of those at the top. and yes says brazil's top prosecutor is money toeing the situation. the government's

discourse is brutal because it encourages the invasion of indigenous land in the last fifteen years brazil has consolidated itself as a commodity exporter especially in the agricultural sector and that has increased the price of land we need to work and show that there is plenty of land for an agricultural project that is not blood. but for now brazil's government is not giving into the demands made by indigenous groups thank you and has the support of senators like. this when he takes the community's progress on the possibilities to what we need public policies held in indians give them education and give them an option of particular fight life. but brazil indigenous people say that their dignity is one of the few things they've been able to retain and safety with fight to ensure that is not taken away from

them. brasilia. to the biggest names in athletics are locked in a bitter dispute. he was robbed at a hotel by haile gebrselassie a legendary runner is accusing britain's four time olympic champion of assault in the famous reputation david stokes reports. what should have been a straightforward promotion day for the london marathon was anything but after most far up without any prompting decided to talk about something that happened during his training camp and the train is gone or well whenever. there was a slightly bigger problem in my hotel a stayed in. who broke into therapy money a watch and two phones were taken from his room at a hotel owned by haile gebrselassie he felt the ethiopian great should have done more to help get his property back. on it was very disappointing to know someone who has that photo not kind of support couldn't do nothing and just like they

couldn't do nothing so just disappointing highly she said. ok ok well. on my birthday. ok. i want to ok thank you. all could exchange did not go down well with gabe or selassie back in ethiopia he says the theft was fully investigated and that for a turn down the use of a safe he also revealed text messages that he claims were sent to him from fara threatening to bad mouth him at the press conference in london selassie says it was premeditated and a clear attempt at blackmail he told me before he lived he told me to. destroy. this. selassie describes paris conduct during his stay is disgraceful even alleging that

he attacked a married couple at the hotel gym and that it was him that convinced police not to press charges he also says far left without paying his three thousand dollars hotel bill farah denies these claims but gave her some lassie says he intends to take legal action years season as possible when. he has to be responsible. with a potential legal battle on the horizon foreign must now do his best to focus on the job at hand this weekend winning the london marathon to do that he'll need to beat the defending champion and world record holder elliott keep choky david stokes al-jazeera. pick up the headlines for you now on al-jazeera security is tight for friday prayers at mosques and sharia law and police are looking for seventy people suspected of having links with eisel following the easter sunday suicide attacks

the number killed is being revised down to around two hundred sixty one hundred fewer than previously thought as your largest prime minister told al jazeera a thorough investigation will be held. why warnings about imminent attacks weren't shared. we have to admit the fear. 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 by police have ordered these three hundred fifty the health ministry said it's more about two hundred sixty so i was going to verify their numbers and they may know how you do the show i mean if not for the lapse many of them would be alive to be judges in sudan have joined opposition protests outside the military headquarters demonstrators are demanding full civilian rule after the army said it wants to keep many of the president's powers through the transition period. relieves the possibility. of combat.

because. it's a yes. i think we're not. quite and this means that. agreement. between the ability to see. any kind of course he will comes. after his first ever face to face meeting with russia's president on thursday north korea's leader is accusing the united states of acting in bad faith in february's failed to clearance ation talks i've hidden says he wants to help kim jong un is tensions with the americans former vice president joe biden announced she is in the race to replace donald trump and the white house the seventy six year old hopes to make his eight years with barack obama count for the democratic party nomination biden is up against nineteen other

candidates including senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. try the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera and sad story is that next and then more news at the top of the hour here on al-jazeera. the shortest lived administration in spain's modern history has been forced to call a snap election on april the twenty eight with the polls suggesting a fragmented vote and the rise of the far right populist movement for the socialist alliance hold on to power stay with al-jazeera for the latest on the spanish election. it was not supposed to be a controversial issue but the united states checked in to a u.n. resolution on sexual violence in conflicts and the text was amended so has the u.s. 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' pasta resolution to combat sexual violence in conflict zones but it was watered down the u.s. oppose the use of the words sexual and reproductive health which geisha and fed employed it supported abortion thirteen countries eventually voted for an amended text without the controversial phrase the fun of also removed a reference so u.n. monitoring body that would report acts of sexual violence are difficult to get its 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 as embassadors arrived here for the meeting it was clear there was deep division this is a dark cloud on this group a concert or an issue that mr posed to be closing ranks and i agree we're on unfortunately 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 amal 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 who 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 is era of the united nations. let's have a look at some of the sexual violence cases in different war and 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 ninety ninety 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 on march 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 raping us as a weapon of war and 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 its gone to complete different direction now just for a story just very quickly are you still a republican after this is such an. 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 if 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 of this going to have on us 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 she's actually disappointed in this decision what did this decision mean for you. i'm not acts. of domestic foreign policy and or on 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 map 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 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 how it's used as part of war and it's it's going against a 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 on heart 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 back tough in this legislation 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 in subjected to sexual slavery when they crossed the border from south sudan into uganda there was also not be availability of these services so the u.s. is this is a culmination of its policy of not just support organizations to assist women who have been survivors of brutal sexual violence and i think we have to look at 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 it as a framework to move forward. 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. at 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 fifty 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 thought 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 are 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 a little 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 an exact tense 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 which this resolution could do however i think we get to the root of why this administration being is 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 taxpayer 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 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 far you know seemingly be allies follow that really means that things down the road 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 knowable. 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 are not united states and state houses across the country that seem to legislate 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 this as security council it's opinions count and they 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 a 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 stand some 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 as 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 uniting gnome and i mean if we look at international just. this and the us it is very dismaying we saw recently for the first time the us has taken away as we understand it the i.c.c. prosecutor has a visa to enter into the us and threatened i.c.c. judges i mean what does this say for the us 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 and 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 if i think it mean that it well that depends i mean i think that on sexual violence and women peace and security edge and out 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. really gets flagged 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 administration 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 it is very individualistic and exceptional last position until. we are running out of how to do want to bring in rina from d.c. here 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 i'm successful 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 a whole team head by for now. china's

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al-jazeera where every. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs and the matter to al-jazeera. tight security outside mosques ahead of friday prayers in sri lanka as police continue to hunt seventy suspects following sunday's bomb attacks.

i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up charges in sudan join mass protests demanding civilian rule but the ruling military council aims to retain control. china's president promises more profits for those doing business and his country telling world leaders that a second belton road conference and beijing. for us continue to disappear at a rapid rate an area the size of england was lost last year. and there is tight security in sri lanka outside moscow head of friday prayers police say they're also hunting seventy people suspected of having links with eisel following sunday's wave of bombings the death toll from the easter sunday suicide attacks has been revised down to around two hundred sixty that's about one hundred fewer than before the country though does remain on high alert with further bomb

warnings being may has more from colombo. 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 a number of people have 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 or the first is to round up people intelligence services and the government has been criticized for not acting on warnings about possible attacks defense secretary hemisphere if a non don't was asked for his resignation by president may three palace or a center has agreed to stand down 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 is 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 one 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 bomb as they have said they

came from well off families some of them multi-millionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock. me that muslims who are 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 louis al-jazeera. showing as prime minister has also told al-jazeera a thorough investigation will be held into why warnings about eminent attacks weren't shared. really have to admit the fear. the breakdown in the flow of information. and that's one of the matter that are being investigated. he went in regard to the number of dead by police after three hundred fifty the health

ministry said it's more about two hundred sixty so i was going to verify their numbers and that me know what he did to the truck i mean if not for the lapse many of them would be alive. well fernandez joins me now from columbus and all the president has had an off camera meeting today what was the purpose of what came out of that meeting. present to paula serious in a briefing the media about what and how things stand so far talking about the progress of investigations mentioning that of the one hundred thirty to one hundred forty. leading terrorist operatives that the authorities have brought in more than seventy that operations are conducted around the country by the three armed forces and the police these obviously as we've been telling you are happening all around the country and the president saying that these are continuing

saying that neither he nor the government will shock response ability that they must take responsibility for the glaring a breach. of the failure of the intelligence terms of the fact that there will be warnings on the fourth of april from want he described as a friendly. country's intelligence agency going into detail about the name kind of attacks that might have been he also said that the suspected sort of masa mind behind these incidents is suspected to have died in the blast and he did continue to update as to want exactly is transpiring with regards to the state of security here in sri lanka so it does tell us more about what is happening on the ground particularly it's friday there are prayers today what's what is the situation with security. the sort of

heavy security presence continues in then or even colombo and around the country there is obviously the friday deal security had been beefed up in mosques we did have some of our staff who were at some of the mosques to film the proceedings and that was set mosques where worshippers were being frisked before the entered the premises were just also hearing within the last few minutes reports. confirmed by the police spokesman that up to almost fifty small words had been uncovered from a location so very much the noose tightening around all the members of the police and the armed forces it's all hands on deck as they try to fan out and try and bring all those at large back into the cordon and try and get a handle on the situation. with the latest out of colombo thank you very much. for

the first time judges in sudan have joined a three week mass sit in a military headquarters to demand civilian rule tens of thousands demonstrated overnight in the capital khartoum following the overthrow of president omar al bashir military leaders say they're willing to hand over top government positions to civilians but they're insisting on retaining control of a transition process to morgan has more. from almost every corner of the country they've travelled to the capital to make their voices heard these protestors from the southern state of white nile joined the sit in at the army headquarters in hutton in a parade as the million people march their demand the military hand over power to. you guys i'm not going to come here to join our brothers in the street and i'll be here until we get a civilian government that would cheat my demands. a little we've been you know i came here for a civilian government that represents all of saddam with political consensus

a government that represents. it's all races with 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 discriminated shouldn't 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 in front to proceed in coming together as one people coming from faith mission wife to go to phoenix visit an army

headquarters they're adding to the course of a process that will have been here since before president almost. and they say 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 amounts that they would resume negotiations on forming a transitional government three members of the military council submitted their resignations after the coalition accuse 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 one hundred united command to defend

the country. these protesters feed they've come too far to back off from their demands now demands they hope will shape sudan's future and. morgan dizzy or a little. china's leader has defended the belton road and for structure scheme which critics call a debt trap for countries receiving chinese investment she's in pain walk i'm thirty seven heads of state in beijing for the second international conference on the project he defended the new silk road initiative to link two thirds of the world's population with improved roads railways and ports continue has more from beijing. president xi jinping was very much on the defensive addressing some of the criticisms that have been leveled against the belgian road initiative in recent years namely that this policy is simply a form of debt trap diplomacy a lot of the countries involved have been saddled with the millions potentially billions of dollars of worth of debt and some of them unable to pay that back default on their loans and are then vulnerable to chinese political influence so

that isn't one of the main criticisms other criticisms are about how the plan is actually being implemented over recent years at the hasn't been a high standard of implementation resulting in corruption resulting in environmental damage as well as unfair deals where chinese parties really take advantage of local parties so president xi jinping in his half hour address really did address some of the points saying that going forward the belt and road policies will try to be more transparent that they'll try to be more inclusive and and also china will try to offer more green and sustainable financial options financial financing options as well as that he's also said that they're going to not devalue the one that the yuan they going to try to keep chinese currency stable so very much of the speech today was an effort to reassure the thirty seven heads of states and all the other representatives from about one hundred fifty countries who were present today but of course the absence in the room was also very clear there was no significant representation from the u.s.

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