around 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 first gathering in fifteen million in coming together as one people coming from faith mission wife to go to phoenix visit an army headquarters there adding to the course of protest that would have been here since before president almost here with me and the three 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 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 say they've come too far to back off from their demands now demands they hope will shape the dance feature and. morgan al-jazeera. thousands of demonstrators are back on the streets for the tenth successive friday despite the departure of the press. abdelaziz bouteflika earlier this month the

crowds are maintaining pressure for the removal of the military's chief of staff and what remnants of the old government gone police have been unable to break up protests despite the announcement of a presidential election in july. they often start out as temporary shelters for people fleeing war food shortages and famine then grow to become massive refugee camps in a new series a life displaced we'll take a closer look at the plight of refugees worldwide we start in jordan these the tare refugee camp is home to eighty thousand refugees from the war in syria has been a smith reports more than half of them are under the age of seventeen years old. hi 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 fame and this they say and 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 tents 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 explain 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 five dollars third 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 make 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 up to high could well grow up here he'll be safe and fair 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. plenty more still to come for you here on the news including is china's belton road initiative designed to be an economic marvel or a death trap. and in the sport the new stanley cup favorites personal and impressive performance in the n.h.l. playoffs details later in the show in about thirty minutes. the chinese leadership is defending the so-called belton road infrastructure scheme which critics call a death trap for countries receiving chinese investment xi jinping welcomed thirty seven heads of states 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 katrina new has more now from

beijing. president xi jinping was very much on the defensive addressing some of the criticisms that have been leveled against the bolton 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 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 has actually been implemented over recent years that 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. as well as other major european countries who still remain deeply suspicious of the political agenda of this summit by china. soldiers have been celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the cease fire agreement but it's not the national army on parade scott the report. along myanmar's northern border with china rests. and this month the united states army celebrated thirty years since a peace agreement with me and my as army was signed it's the largest ethnic armed

force in the cause. three 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 us from myanmar central government. we have to trust each other there is still a long time it's been thirty years without rule but we are still negotiating to keep the peace the united 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 anniversary celebrations and punks are the capital of the region and myanmar's leader aung sang suu kyi sent a message to the white 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 zero but so far the u.w.s.

say and six other major groups have refused to sign was 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 state scott hodler al-jazeera. to europe because income tax cuts are being promised and from so long with other reforms in response to several months of the so-called yellow vests riots the president emanuel made a t.v. address the nation following townhall meetings nationwide dubbed the great debate he's vowing to quote transform france by tightening tax loopholes stopping the closure of schools and hospitals and making it easier to hold a referendum on important issues. which will be. today above all public order must return and with it an essential a code 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. after his first

ever face to face meeting with the russian press. event on thursday north korea's leader is accusing the united states of acting in bad faith in february is filled denuclearization talks but in your putin says he wants to help kim jong un resolve the nuclear disarmament dispute which is causing tensions with the americans. a caravan of around three thousand central american migrants has been broken up by immigration officials in southern mexico it appears to signal a shift in policy from providing humanitarian support to one of containment more in line with the demands of the us president donald trump when will repeal or reports now from the mexican state of chiapas. the central american migrants are being chased by mexican immigration agents in coordination with federal police immigration officials now appear to be adopting a more aggressive approach toward migrants tearing through mexico's southern border . is traveling from us she and her family ramon

a group of thousands of central american migrants that was recently rounded up. they came and started rounding people up it was very violent mothers ran screaming and children were crying foul and it was. some three hundred seventy five people were captured during a raid. many who managed to escape ran off into the surrounding countryside over the next few days migrants were forced to move about in secret under the scorching mexican sun and with very little food or water. that caravan which had numbered as many as three thousand people has since split up mexico's president has maintained that the nation's immigration policy hasn't changed saying instead that mexico's national migration institute is trying to achieve a more orderly and safe movement of people but the reality on the ground here in southern mexico is very different. checkpoints like this one along the highway

leading north from the mexico guatemala border have seen an increase in federal police officers interviewing motorists and searching vehicles for undocumented migrants the growing criminalization of migrants traveling through mexico could mean the mexican government has caved to pressure from u.s. president donald trump. but mexico is now stopping people coming in very easy for them to do stopping people coming in through mexico as you know they keep it down if they keep doing that now if they don't or if we don't make. it legal with congress the border is going to be closed. hundred percent i'm going to argue it everywhere along with a crackdown on migrants mexico is also no longer issuing humanitarian visas but despite efforts to dissuade central americans from leaving their countries the flow of migration shows no signs of easing official estimates suggest three thousand

bikers have transited through mexico so far this year. for families like the nessus who are fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries and are unwilling to return to central america the only choice is to continue their journey north through mexico toward a country whose president has repeatedly said they are not welcome. at mexico and almost seventy people have been killed and hundreds fled their homes after heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides in south africa it has once again raised concerns about cool government infrastructure. 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 the sun have tried to salvage a few positions things that can't be easter replaced under 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 realise how dangerous a downpour was until it was too late so as a surprise costs which are so huge during the night. during the during the week just think it's raining. every folks. in. some here say part of the reason for the flooding is the government's failure to regularly maintain drainage systems. plainness says he i don't think it's because of what's happened but it's nature this. weakness or.

heavy rain also fell in other parts of south africa but is the hardest hit province the landscape in some areas has completely changed as 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're. standing. and with more heavy rain and gale force winds forecast the risk of further flooding and landslides remains how to. pinetown south africa. top u.n. officials are visiting running a refugee camps in bangladesh the u.n. says more international support is desperately required to help nearly a million refugees from me in ma the aim is to raise nearly a billion dollars in humanitarian aid and if a grounding is un high commissioner for refugees he joins us here on the news are from cox's bazaar philippa grundy welcome to al-jazeera how do you solve this

crisis. the best solution is that people voluntarily go back to their country. in order to do that the reasons why they left need to be addressed and this is going on very slowly if at all so until that is done until those conditions are recreated for people to go back we will have to support bangladesh in hosting this million people and today we visited the camps the conditions that difficult the host communities in fact that there's a lot of work to be done and we as you said we desperately need the help of the international community this must not become another program crisis there are clearly feel abandoned in one sense they look as if they've been abandoned how do you also counter that narrative. well the reason why

the head of the un humanitarian body the head of the international organisation of migration and myself came here was precisely to pen first and foremost the ranger refugees you're not programming we're here we continue to have a look at coming here of course times in the last couple of years and i can see that a lot of work has been done the resources donated by so many generous contributors happy news and well. in improving the living conditions but that effort needs to continue and there needs to be more assistance to the communities the bangladeshi communities hosting these refugees who in the world of the is ready to take one million people in an area right very basic resources this generosity must not be taken for granted it has to be supported so you want voluntary repatriations at what point do you combine that desire with what you've just said to us here on

al-jazeera and say that to the military in me in ma because obviously you've got to say to the military at some point. the u.n. my organization u.n.h.c.r. the u.n. development program have an agreement with the government of myanmar. we are accessing the villages from which these refugees are coming we are starting to implement from projects to improve the conditions but the real piece of work that needs to be done is on the fundamentals the reason why the people that. movement liberal activists who have jobs and prosperity says it back to equal citizenship these are the difficult issues there are difficult issues but these are the issues that need to be tackled and we inspire in the refugees here. that we've got them to think ok i am voluntarily going back. there has been very respectful of the

voluntariness of recurrent there's been a lot more streetcar this has to continue and that choice becomes possible can i just remind you respect for what you said in february of last year you were talking about the camps there and after your last visit you were talking about disillusionment and radicalization these are your words you said it will expose refugees to protection risks including sexual and gender based violence trafficking other forms of abuse or to. it's different now as of today that would convince the world that those issues that part of the crisis is not happening as we speak right now. that those risks continue to exist and you know today i visited with visited the way many in the fight against violence have men engaged in that same fight so this is there's

a lot more initiate these within the community to address this which is good and we have become more expert in oppressing them but the risks are there he says why the thing gage meant to support the refugees needs to continue i know it's a difficult point when you have so many crises i just this into your program and on the natural disasters in other parts of the world the complication you think that we have to do it because it's not supported if the situation is not have addressed properly also from the humanitarian point of view in the medium term the risks not only for the refugees but for the region as a whole are going to continue to be quite quite the significant would it help you and what you want to achieve for these people if she was more involved in this and also nailed her colors to the mast if you will and took the debate about the right and the debates about accountability in a different direction. you don't my my role is really

to help the refugees that's the role of america amazing so we're listening to them today i spoke to many of them and tomorrow i'll do the same and we hear all the time the same answer we want to go back our whole is in myanmar but we want these issues to be addressed so my message is to the myanmar leadership in a way is always the same address those. development projects improving infrastructure of resting in the right kinds of things this is what the where the refugees come from these are all very important and necessary things and we're working on that beginning to work on them it's quite slow but it's the other piece it's the it's the if it's the right the end of discrimination that's the difficult one and that's the message that we're passing through the government of myanmar i hope to visit stall in myanmar and i hope to pass these messages personally deliver

grandy thank you. thank you. in a few moments we'll have staff here with us bringing you the very latest weather where you are and also ahead by voters in benita having the choice is restricted on sunday. this college american football star makes history at the n.f.l. draft explain how and why in about fifteen. hello there let's have a look at what's happening in mozambique where of course we are not long after. kenneth made landfall is that very well defined died just before it did make landfall around eighteen hours ago now and as it made landfall it suddenly brought

in lots of very dry air which has killed it somewhat you can see there's barely anything left to it on the satellite picture now we do have some video from not too far away showing what the conditions were like there and you might look at this and say well it's rough seas there's a bit of rain this strong winds it's not too bad this is actually one hundred kilometers from the center of the storm so you can see it affected a huge area and at the center the winds were two hundred thirty kilometers per hour those were the steady winds so clearly it would have been far more damage there. now fortunately then for mozambique the worst is over but if we had up towards the northeast which is the issue gerry of cloud over sri lanka at the moment that's also been giving us some very heavy rain colombo there is had fifty two minute meters of rain in the last twenty four hours and in the east of the island we've had eighty four millimeters of rain so even more rain here it looks like there's more to come because this system now seems to be developing some kind of circulation within it so it looks like we've got a cycling developing here now it's going to intensify very slowly over the next few

days gradually tracking northwest woods but all the time they'll be lots of cloud and some rain over sure lanka. sponsored. sweat tears and sometimes blot but for them it's what their dreams are made of. just their work tells the story of a young moroccan boxes from humble backgrounds for training for the rights of the lives. and the former champion who gives his old friend that six casablanca by car on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks. out of north are done. throughout. the burning to start raining to the threat of detailed coverage of the protesters walked up to the coffee pot odds than present at a concert of those awful day the streets from around the last few days and that is

where the water is once more rushing down river it's a welcome thing for communities that had fairly big i believe. welcome back you're watching the news from the headquarters here in doha mining speech at all the top stories security remains tight across all the sri lanka time churches the police say they're still searching for seventy people they believe have ties to eyesore following the easter sunday suicide attacks but death toll has been revised to around two hundred sixty. top u.n. official there in bangladesh appealing to the international community to provide more support for the remainder refugees they're trying to raise

a billion dollars to help nearly one million he fled me in march. and for the first time judges in sudan i joined the three week mass sit. at the military headquarters to demand civilian rule tens of thousands demonstrated overnight in the capital city to. independence for catalonia and discontent with the economy are major issues in spain's general election on sunday the opinion polls suggest a right wing coalition may be on the way which will include the far right vox party join the whole now from seville. bursting on to the political scene vox and its leader santiago of a skull are spain's answer to a surge in far right populism elsewhere in europe often seen as mainstream media shy the party prefers to communicate with its supporters in person and online the

major themes immigration and nationalism. who is santiago of us go asks this whatsapp campaign video his grandmother explains that as a child in his native bilbao the proudly spanish of a skull was bullied by basque separatists on the playground today it is separatism in catalonia that box and of a skull stand against the party's most passionate battle call is for the unity of spain vox is clearly using very very true spanish feeling i think you meant in present spence invokes years this feeling this n t independence is coursing in spain to gain votes and they do it all very successfully that one frequent vox promises to make spain great again if you think you recognize it this might be why steve bannon donald trump's former chief strategist is a strong supporter seen here with a prominent vox official. there's also a familiar ring to the party's nostalgic appeal to the traditions of the past among

its policies for instance is restoring bullfighting to what it says is its rightful place as a grand spanish institution vox bears the hallmarks of fire and populism those are labels your party rejects so how do you see vox how does vox see itself. to help. with votes as a party of common sense many say we're a necessary party for one main reason because we're the only party that openly confronts cattle and separatism the only party that opposes the divisions created by regional autonomy and the only party that confronts the ideology of the left. it was only last december that fox emerged from political obscurity winning a surprise twelve seats in the regional parliament under here in seville and becoming kingmaker in a three way coalition of the political right in regional government while many people wonder whether vox could do it again this time at national level. spain

everything for spain comes the cry from the podium. journal al jazeera severe. so your furnace. is a senior lecturer in european politics at the university of surrey he joins us now live from london theophanous. how well do you think the right wing will actually do here. i think they will they will fare relatively well compared to similar counterparts that they have across other european countries. when there has been the missing link on the far right in spain in terms of the space that this part these occupying so i think they have a dynamic that can give them some visibility i'm not sure whether they're going to be able to go as far as of more than fifteen percent of the vote however.

they are certainly occupying some some political space right now but is there a bigger space it's not political vacuum created by what happened in council and they're trying to move in there as well. i think so that is a correct observation i think one of the major drivers behind the surge of vox as a political force is its stance against capitalism in independence but also to give backing on the failures of their government with the catalan referendum a couple of years ago so i think that is a combination. of discontent with the popular party. and the demise of the idea of independence of the lumia so i think it's going back to the idea of a centralized spain one that is not about the regional autonomy and that is of

course picking up supporters who are not longer. supporting the popular party do they have good solid reasonable economic policies and indeed to be have the same when it comes to a stance on foreign policy or is it just going to be see thirteen fourteen fifteen percent of a protest vote. i think so. there is usually what you see with these parties is that they're the united on their one major headline and in this case is sensor laissez sion of spain i don't think that they have a particularly clear economic policy or any other policy for that matter and this is quite common among those parties so for the time being the party is looking like a protest party how that will evolve if it manages to to enter the spanish parliament that will be a different story that remains to be seen after the election usually such parties

have the capacity to transform themselves from marginal parties into more mainstream looking parties and managing to attract support there is from both the left and the right so currently it is a protest party and. depending on how it fares it will it will have the potential of turning into more mainstream party with more policies vailable ok we have to leave at the exit like the last thank you very much. will have just one choice to make in sunday's parliamentary election for the first time in thirty years the opposition will not be taking part election was. only two parties are qualified to stand in the election and both allied to the president patrice tello. is in the city of new for the final day of campaigning just explain . to the big the main issues here.

well this situation has come about because. now what the electoral commission is saying. we're able to get through that process if you like failed on a technicality and so now we have unprecedented situation. and that's what's cool is such an outcry. saying how can this country go to an election . where. elections and it's very ironic because this president came to power as an independent and people had high hopes that. taking the country back decades so one of the main concerns of the electorate if this process goes ahead as it currently stands. well the concern is

that this will. not just. trading partner with nigeria. such a key port for this region that there are so many. protests. very very bad not just for the country but. a process so far have been stifled by the police and they haven't been able to get. what they're planning next. thanks very much. in mozambique tens of thousands of people have been rescued from their homes office.