confidence among white supremacists in fact on friday the president drew criticism for once again saying there were fine people among those taking part in the unite the right rally in charlottesville virginia twenty seventeen which was billed as a racist anti-semitic gathering president some with nearly to defend the statue of a confederate pro-slavery general i was talking about feel this way because they felt very strongly about the monument to robert e. lee a great. one of the great. however it's clear that the president is attempting to use the rise in anti semitic attacks as part of his campaign strategy as the twenty twenty election approaches he's using increasing democratic party criticism of the illegal israeli occupation to announce the party as anti semitic a strategy long used by the right wing government of benjamin netanyahu against his opponents this shooting is likely to intensify a political debate already underway she.

also represents spain with the country's politics more divided than any time in its recent democratic history it's the country's third national election in four years no single party is predicted to win an outright majority after campaign that was dominated by the rise of the far right and cattle only as independents sania gago reports from madrid. the final cool to mobilize the policy faithful spain socialist prime minister pedro sanchez surrounded by a sea of supporters urges them to go to the ballot box the country deserves to turn the page in the last seven years and look to the future with hope and excitement which is precisely what we are offering our citizens to the young what we are asking is that you vote for your future and therefore vote for the socialist party . voters have a wide choice decades of dominance by two political parties has given way to

a multi-party system the largest players are still the socialist party and the people's party but their influence is gradually ebbing away. again socialists may be the head of the polls in the lead up to the election but the reality is that even if either side does where the most votes he will still have to go to coalition with the far left regional parties if you fail to do that goes on to the people's marty and they were have to do a deal with the far right either way it is a big compromise for both parties. the main spoiler in this unpredictable election box capitalizing on the populist wave spreading through europe the anti immigration policies have resonated amongst voters angered at the status quo the constitutional crisis caused by catalonia as attempt to secede has also dominated this campaign it's the first time a far right party has entered mainstream politics since the dictatorship of general

franco so what does it mean sovereignty won't be broken in catalonia it won't be surrendered in brussels we're not going to kneel down in front of those who don't respect the n.t. austerity together we can and center right citizens parties have a chance of being part of a national government. previous coalitions have struggled in spain disagreeing factions have failed to pass national budgets the makeup of the next government is far from clear polling ahead of sunday's vote suggested forty percent of voters were struggling to make up their minds there are some people in between p.p.o. there are some people that if they pay in between. and then some of them between. so we can see that is not a cure but on all four you know one party. whatever the result forming a coalition is likely to take time and in

a reflection of what's happening across europe the only certainty is that the politics in spain has become more fractured more polarized a sign of the times when increasing combative political stage. al-jazeera madrid and. joins us now live from the spanish capital staff how do we expect voting to go today. well i think it's probably one of the most unpredictable election in the country's democratic history age and no one can really predict if a particular because you have around forty percent of voters that are yet undecided while they're going to have to decide today what is clear is that this country is either going to go left or it's going to go right you heard. the two party system is no longer you have five parties we're just talking to one lady who is voting and she was saying that she was tired with the two main parties which ruled for the last couple of decades she said what people wanted was a breath of fresh air but she also said that according to those she knew and this

is a right wing area but a lot of people seem to be voting vox which is that right wing party that was mentioning in her package the one. platform very strong against independents they want to build a wall in this in the spanish they're against abortion so this is a question of people going to ask how well are they going to do however if you take a step back and ask what the people want the latest polls saying that the main issue on people's minds on voters' minds is the economy unemployment things like corruption the two main parties accused of corruption so a lot of question marks here today i think it's certainly going to be very interesting we will have results around ten pm local time but as you heard again there and so he's going to take a very long time to know what the government is going to look like because it's a fractious coalition that's going to be a coalition government whether it's left or right and of course whether they can even achieve that is going to be a question but again i think people very very curious to see what way this vote is

going to go today stephanie thanks and a weather update next. i know i'm not what i think and benny and i'll be reporting on an election with no opposition and what that means that if country. and from russia with love moscow seeks to use soft power to once again get a foothold in afghanistan. hello is unusually stormy in the northwest of europe it was the turn of arland on saturday then that spinning low you see the satellite picture trust england overnight is gerry's across the north sea the low countries is bringing cold air as well which actually spread a long way across europe so thirteen degrees london might feel a little bit better because of the sunshine but i wouldn't guarantee sunny eleven in paris and writing the white obviously shows how cold it can be was snow i mean

all those types of the out some beyond the temperature diffident it may not be the be obvious to you but it was things degrees on friday down to thirty nine sussex on sunday some to your recovery hungry in serbia but not much and this is miserable for germany for poland and austria we're down to the teens now and with that northerly breeze on a moscow is feeding more cold air into the mix so it's still miserable come monday the sun's out there for france in the british isles things are improving a little probably head east woods so that's the european mainland. which means nothing what is happening in the measured in fact spain portugal you saw guessing what's going on twenty seven in blue cloud maybe no worse than that the real heat that was around in libya has dropped off a bit and he's thirty four now and little known the coast we're down to about twenty well or better though in cairo.

in two thousand and eight. zero documented a groundbreaking school. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super thirty announces iraq. of the main. breakthroughs. between protesters military

leaders opposition groups and the army have agreed to form a joint council to discuss the transition to civilian. victims of the tax has been held. it's estimated that two hundred sixty people died at the. polls open in spain in the national election in four years the socialists hoping for another term but no process predicted an outright majority. polling is underway in the selection despite the absence of any opposition politicians on the ballot voters in the west african nation being forced to choose between two political parties who are both loyal to the president let's go live now to al-jazeera. is in the port city of new what's happening where you are.

the president. very unique situation. for each. individual election. and. the president. out and about on the streets trying to find out what people feel what's the mood around this election. this keep fit group meets regularly. and when they're finished they like to exercise their minds and this election has given them plenty to think about rove is retired he says he'll be making time on sunday to vote despite the fact that the choice is limited only candidates from two parties both linked to the president. to. what they

explained to us on t.v. is that one hundred fifty smaller parties came together to make up two parties and we have seen that to be the case i'm not a politician but what we want to speak is whether it's oppositional pro-government parties i don't care i only want peace. jack is about is a traitor and is unlikely to give up his time to visit a polling station he's disappointed with the current situation. we're already in the election period yet in the city it doesn't feel like there's a real campaign going on there's no competition because two parties are fighting for the same cause so ultimately there's no election because there is no competition. coming to a new electoral code was agreed in the national assembly aimed at reducing the number of political parties five years ago twenty parties field of candidates but eighty three positions this time only two newly formed parties met all the requirements that both worlds

a president who came to power in twenty sixteen as an independent there are around five million registered voters and twenty it's never going to know how many will find out because. the political fight that has overshadowed any faith around real issues making this election more about symbolism and substance. despite protests from opposition parties many been in these just want to get on with their lives julian county has been so. fabrics in the market for forty years under with the government. and with our government going to. have never seen the situation before but we must accept it. then he is proud of its democratic tradition since the transition to multi-party politics in one thousand nine hundred ninety but this election appears to be challenging that with the opposition arguing sunday's vote is not taking place on

a level playing field. while the opposition has not given its full strategy as to how it's going forward and how it's reacting to the situation in the run up to the vote today the opposition parties have been saying that asking their supporters to stay home to boycott the elections that people shouldn't turn out to vote when i spoke to an opposition politician he said that as far as the rest of the strategy they're not going to get information but they are prepared to fight not fight with violence but fight in other ways peaceful ways to try to bring about some kind of change regardless of this vote so that is the will and the energy there from opposition parties but as you heard in my report when you walk around the streets when you talk to people they want to see peace in this country and they want to see life go on as normal there have been protests by the opposition and these have been stifled there's also been a journalist who have also been in trouble with the authorities but for the most

part although the opposition say they're ready to protest peacefully they're fragmented and when that happens the question is how do you have an effective voice following a situation like this. are many thanks indeed emma boateng that lies in the. at least one fighter with the un backed government in libya has been killed and several others injured in asterix on the capital tripoli there's no detailed information on actual locations. journalists had reported the war of aircraft followed by loud explosions around big night local time people also uploaded video to social media showing apparent missile trails. leader of hamas is calling on palestinians to unite against donald trump's peace plan a small hania says that it doesn't include plans for a palestinian state the us president is favoring israel the white house says that it's planning to release details of the plan in the next few months but won't say

whether it indorse is two state solution and he is calling for a committee that includes national regional and international participants afghanistan is marking the anniversary of the overthrow of the pro soviet government in one nine hundred ninety two after soviet occupation in the one nine hundred eighty s. what's called liberation day signifies the end of russian influence in afghanistan thirty years on experts believe that russian influence is returning and that russia is looking to play a role in the country's future again charlotte palace reports from kabul. it's not feasible or has been learning russian for six months at kabul university that i was at first i chose this language as a hobby but after learning it i found it is very rich it gives me broader ideas and connects me with the world which can improve my life. the course was started in one nine hundred seventy nine as the soviets invaded afghanistan they were in

afghanistan for a decade fighting the mujahideen when the military retreated so did coach times. when nato forces came to afghanistan we only had one russian class now we have four classes because there's no sensitivities around that in russian. six thousand five hundred afghans a studying russian and three hundred sixty can apply for paid scholarships into russian university. i want to learn russian because it is an international language if i learn this language i will be able to introduce the russian culture in afghanistan and vice versa russia has turned towards afghanistan as the u.s. has turned away after eighteen years at war america is looking for a way out u.s. taliban talks are progressing seem to be around a foreign troop withdrawal without being asked moscow held parallel talks in march upstaging the us by getting afghan leaders and the taliban in the same or agreed

with on many fronts and the fall date in future can be succeeded made fun of that and on thursday moscow hosted a trilateral meeting with china and the u.s. would be agreed to work together to bring peace to afghanistan russia's rebranding afghanistan extends to a new cultural seem to hair in western kabul in the one nine hundred eighty s. this was the site for the sort of hit hard science and culture it was destroyed during the civil war the ruins became a refuge for kabul's drug addicts now they teach russian language cold arctic submissions and movie nights they have soccer tournament's with players from former soviet states this exception showcases one hundred years of diplomacy between kabul and moscow an hour for people to have an opportunity to compare it is yes and. you know. some colleagues. spent for afghanistan several deviance of draws

but. now russia is hoping for a fresh start in afghanistan one without u.s. interference shallot ballasts al-jazeera kabul. a canadian mining company operating in botswana as an earth the second largest diamond ever discovered the stone at one thousand seven hundred fifty eight carats is larger than a tennis ball it's second in size only to a diamond found in south africa in one thousand five that was more than three thousand carrots but despite its size this latest may not be worth quite as much the canadian owner of the car a says the rock is of variable quality. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories this hour al-jazeera a breakthrough has been made in sudan following weeks of deadlock between protesters and military leaders about the political future of the country protest

leaders and the army have agreed to form a joint sovereignty council to discuss a peaceful transition to civilian rule the military council took charge earlier this month after ousting president obama al bashir more now from the home of violent cartoon they have not yet come to an agreement about how many years the transition should take the military wanted to be only two years the protesters wanted to be four years they think that four years are the minimum needed for. but operations to be made for transition into a civilian government particularly an election. these discussions will continue as i said today and also during the next few days a special mass for the victims of the easter sunday attacks has been held in sri lanka's capital colombo with catholic churches shot across the country over fears of more attacks it's estimated that two hundred sixty people died in the bombings the president has banned two muslim groups are accused of being behind the attacks

but the security situation remains tense. polls are open in spain in the third national election in four years the socialists are seeking another term but no party is predicted to win an outright majority campaigning was dominated by the rise of the far right and the issue of cattle india's independence and polling is on the way and been in this legislative election despite the absence of any opposition politicians on the ballots those who sit with the west african nation being forced to choose between two political parties who both loyal to the president. at least want to fight over the un backed government in libya has been killed several others injured in asked likes on the capital tripoli journalists have reported the war of aircraft followed by loud explosions around midnight local time people also uploaded video to social media showing apparent missile trails. those are the headlines back with more news about half an hour after a quick studio change for today's inside story about. on counting the

costs as the u.s. slams the brakes on iran's oil exports will try to spill over they also have a secret world of high risk lending in the poor and a sting operation to catch a spy what's a play for control of the next generation of my boss counting the cost on al-jazeera. it's twenty five years since the end of apartheid in south africa the end of segregation of whites the north the rule so how different is the country a quarter of a century on how much is the racial divide still an issue in the rainbow nation this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan it was in one thousand nine

hundred ninety four that forty six years of apartheid came to an end and south africans voted for a new future with a new president nelson mandela during his five years in power he boosted spending on health and education trying to bridge the huge gap between black and white communities but today is african national congress party is accused of not doing enough and south africans head to the polls next month in a general election so one of the issues for voters now al-jazeera is how to tussle reports from johannesburg. mock them uneasy demand is a feeling of euphoria in one thousand nine hundred four when apartheid ended and nelson mandela became south africa's first black president she believed in the white minority rule would mean a better life for the poor black majority decades of oppression since then she's been waiting for the government to provide her with a decent home and she hasn't managed to find work in eons. and open up

my cupboards and see i have nothing no food i have to go outside and house in order to eat something before going to beit so why should i take my id book and go out there to vote when i'm suffering. in soweto township we meet steve. he was a member of the football club founded in the one nine hundred eighty s. by nelson mandela's wife winnie a group that was politically active during apartheid twenty five years after the end of racial segregation he says he's angry and disappointed with the african national congress led government. jobs. we are hungary is because of those guys not the. insane. thing for the people to protest over poverty poor public services and unemployment happen almost daily there's a general election on may eighth and the a.n.c. is facing mounting public anger over its failure to improve the lives of millions of black people we have not looked at people either no real knowledge we have all

the successes not just of challenges. and all over the road to accuse us. but everything must be done within the law the legacy of apartheid where black people were considered inferior to whites and not given the same opportunities is partly why africa remains one of the most equal societies in the world since one thousand nine hundred ninety four more people do have access to clean running water education and healthcare even though many say those services are poor these are some of the houses the bills by the government for the poor are provided for free others are subsidised millions i've been built since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but the housing shortages blamed many on corruption and millions of south africans continue to live in abject poverty they won the right to vote twenty five years ago today the struggle is with economic freedom which many

say still feels a long way off. al-jazeera dynasty or president says the day apartheid ended is one that won't be forgotten. project. what was done to you plays with great deliberation. south africans different races or was it an off the scale of human endeavor and. war going mad. the greek tragedy or front it was the deep division it's once on us all before we bring in today's guests let's take a quick look at how we got here apartheid began in south africa in one nine hundred forty eight when the white minority national party took power and introduced a system of segregation and discrimination against black south africans. in one nine hundred sixty in the township of shop phil police opened fire on protesters

who were demonstrating against a law that required black people to carry identification passes sixty nine people were killed sparking riots across the country four years later the leader of the a.n.c. nelson mandela was given a life sentence and spent twenty seven years in jail before being freed in one nine hundred ninety in one thousand nine hundred four mandela was elected president of the party it was ended the president then set up the truth and reconciliation commission chaired by archbishop desmond tutu which began holding hearings on human rights crimes. so let's bring in our guests for today joining me from johannesburg is a human rights activist with a special focus on african governments and developments from london joseph chain a commentator on south african affairs and former columnist at new africa magazine and from cape town via skype. ny to who's a researcher at the institute for global dialogue a south african think tank welcome to you all let's start with you ayesha have

notes and mandela's dreams of a rainbow nation where everyone is equal where people are able to access their basic human economic concern rights and those dreams been realized over the last twenty five years. not at all. there has been some movement in terms of the enrichment of a small number of black middle class and. elites in the economy but really you find that this is still a very very divided society socially culturally politically and economically and that dream of a rainbow nation has largely become a nightmare of a ghetto wise society where the poor are becoming poorer and the rich are becoming richer essentially where broad and deep levels of corruption have become endemic both within the public sector and the private sector and you have

a population that has become very very disenchanted with its government and with the promises of a better life that were made twenty five years ago joseph do you agree with that to what extent are race based inequality racism and racial resentment still rife in south africa i think it's total the only thing is the. president of all there was saying earlier that the tragedy of opportunity is the rush of discrimination but are actually for me you know now on the twenty five years later it is actually . economic injustice which is not a center bomb large i think. progress has been made a huge amount of it twenty five years on all of us must celebrate that father care is free and democratic but also celebrate the fact that perhaps the guys who are actually making the decisions of the end of it are people who are mandated by the

vast majority of south africans without buying lives that are hindrance but that having been said i think there's a huge amount of lost opportunities one when mandela was still alive and then to the early part of the liberation struggles where other already suggested we did not really radically sufficiently inject the resources in the direction that with this the south africa necessarily needed i think they probably needed to have big relief from tony blair not particularly popular these days when they came to power nine hundred ninety seven in the in the u.k. the proposed and indeed implemented it windfall tax i suggested some of these things to my friends in south africa probably ten or so years ago and many of them probably thought it was something rather too radical the idea was that actually to show how to shift the privilege the privilege is in the economic relations of africa which is in the hands still a lot of eighty percent eighty percent privileged eighty percent of the economy in

the hands of very few wise and even much fewer blocs into the hands of the vast majority of those other control the white and black but particularly black and that language that i don't particularly like colored. solution why do you have just saying that progress has been made we should celebrate that but there have been lost opportunities do you agree with that how much responsibility for south africa's current situation does the a.n.c. have to bear i think part of what joseph is saying is accurate there were lost opportunities but i think we've also got to bear in mind that it wasn't a go she added settlement and it is in those negotiations there were compromises that were made with the article being a party group beam around certain. kind of issues particularly the sunset clause which essentially guaranteed some kind of protection of the suitable service under the be a parted regime guaranteeing such exists except for now here's where the

structural issues come in because what when you allow those kinds of compromises to take place in the been negotiated settlement you've got to be able to understand what the structural implications are for you or your policy implementation the kind of inequality that you've been heritage both structurally as well as in terms of the inequality that pointed out into what currently underpinning the south african landscape and one potently with whether or not you feel so twenty five years later i think we can we can we have certain elements of the democratic process that we need to recognise and commence particularly the constitution but there are different difficulties that have set in particularly in terms of the unemployment problem and rick or the way the spatial inequality of our cities has not been. addressed in a in a pragmatic way or for that matter the fact of the issues around leadership you

asked you know is this the south africa that a mandela would have left behind i think one of the challenges we have in this country is assuming that everybody coming after mandela. behave like mandela and so we have a constitution that tends to not necessarily provide fail safe mechanisms checks and balances accountability in terms of holding the president and what some of the the government in power the leadership that emerges all. in terms of their accountability and transparency and culpability in but we are now seeing in terms of the capture corruption etc and the frustrations missed being amongst a generation on the board freeze the and so forth all right i mean frustrated i said i see you smiling that why does the inequality between rich and poor black and whites in south africa continue is it down to to the constitution. no i think i

think solutions right in that we do have a very good constitution unfortunately quite often the constitution and the supporting legislation are actually not upheld in practice that's one issue i also disagree with the new. you know whereas yes we had a negotiated settlement and sunset clauses etc twenty five years on the bureaucracy is fairly well transformed throughout government across all levels at national provincial and local government levels you find that there's you know there's a level of transformation that has occurred in the public service i don't think that's been a structural issue at least for the last ten years what have been issues i think are three major ones firstly there's been in sufficient economic transformation what people here young people here tend to call radical economic transformation so what we're left with is a very very small layer of

a black elite pretty much no black middle class and then many bad black people especially in rural areas and perrie urban areas still living at a level of poverty or just above the poverty line. added to that you know unemployment for the fact is decreasing health and education standards etc all play a role but that's the one though the economic plans from asia a second thing is the endemic corruption as as i mentioned. and the third is the lack of transfer of the land back into people's hands ok we'll come to those issues in more detail shortly solution just briefly before we go back to joseph you want to reply to that. yeah i think the challenge is that the sunset clause was created and you had to i mean there was this compromise where i was trying to imply what i had missed it my comment was that there wasn't policy that led created

a cut and of a drip best for the vacuum that that that this lead in terms of skills transfer in terms of yes we may have a transformed bureaucracy at all three levels of government we also have a bloated bureaucracy that has created a severe pressure on the wage bill in terms of g.d.p. we have a public sector that's essentially the point six million we have a structural condition we have all been ization rapid we have people in the age group between fifteen and thirty four that have a forty percent that employment this is all kind of the structures in which our education system is not meeting up to the standard the skills deficit is happening and we try to create growth at five percent which will take about twenty five years to address some of these structural challenges so what has happened is the impact of some of these policy decisions that have been taking place has been around trying to address some of the challenges in terms of transformation but not necessarily addressing transformation as if one in four south africans is

unemployed an estimated two hundred thousand people are homeless universal access to health care and electricity is still not guaranteed in your opinion what's going wrong. yes many things actually did go wrong and i would also suggest that it would be extremely unfair for the for us to to to to suggest that they're rather. if you're a consensus best course to titian is that is the cause of the problem is absolutely not if anything actually the fact actually that this guy's had it in negotiated settlements probably the more reason for the bloc majority leaders of the time to have actually blackmail if you like in a sensible way you know the guys who are going to hold power the problem is actually not even the size of government. miss him to be suggested is actually the structural element of the economy like i said before eighty percent of the south african wealth in this arc of steel is in the hands of

a substantial minority land has not learned from has not been met in fact unlike zimbabwe where a wonderful was part of the constitution of settlement you know as i understand it it is not necessarily and was not necessarily the case in south africa that is one of the reasons why you know i think the answer is sort of nearly to the vast majority of south africa and for granted before the various reasons the some of which have already been isn't it in the light of economy freedom body can mean so right now they're riding on it but the bottom line is still leadership is required in south africa or beyond the political leadership of the african national congress to create this tradition in which the vast majority of south africans actually see a gender vast to political opportunity and the dinner vaster economy coverage i just want to just forward just to pick up on what you were saying that to what extent are those growing up in south africa today those born after the end of apartheid still being affected by the apartheid systems policies and as you point

out that white people still have the largest proportion of wealth and yet form the smallest proportion of the population. oh i think it's going to continue for a very long time and my two colleagues will agree just walk into your home is big and it will not is the mindset of the people their manner of trauma which is actually good not necessarily talked about it is huge i think minutes of africans in the ordinary terms still will perhaps believe that it is business as usual and so came to see whatever they actually see you know i think it was incumbent upon the leadership including with mr mandela himself when they came into power to recognize this other they were taking over from it is interesting that the africans who actually fought with this of africans from a distance know look and see some of these issues there's no reason why the guys in charge in south africa could and should not see and i'm not saying they're not nestle seeing but see it enough for them to simply say that well they needed to

make sure that they enable and not really transform south africa politically but life which has been and in from the constitution is a strength rather than a weakness for that matter but economy the issue is i think the nearest person to attempt you know boldly to have some of those conversations with somebody probably a slightly different topic and as you know towards the end of his time he was not particularly very very popular isolation we talked about the negotiations that the concessions that led to the end of the past eight regime. to work said there was the failure of the state to completely implement the truth and reconciliation commission's recommendations further south africa's increasing inequality and led to where we are now. i think that the failure to implement the recommendations of the t r c is very very serious indeed because it

is what has led to the frustrations of many people in south africa today particularly young people because the mindset of those who were privileged under apartheid has in many instances not shifted at all and part of the reason for that is that there wasn't sufficient follow up from the t r c for example where in you know they were they were as amnesty for disclosure but in many instances full disclosure was not made in many instances people weren't actually brought to book so people haven't seen justice to have been done and that is why there is still a very very huge and deep level of resentment among south africans because they feel that those who really benefited from apartheid have not actually. paid any price whatsoever and are unwilling to even compromise for example on standards of living so that what you have today you asked about those people born frees we

call them here are people born after one thousand nine hundred four those people still have. an equal access to educational opportunities and equal access to justice and equal access to health care etc and that is. hardening and solidifying a very deep vein of resentment and frustration among young people we've seen this come up in things like the fees must for protest i was as you know working at wits university at the time and i've seen that the grievances that young people were bringing to the fore were actually legitimate grievances that you know that young people really don't know how to handle. themselves in this urban environment that is so very equal not just economically but also social culturally so joseph has transitional justice as a concept been

a success in south africa. i would suggest not and actually it's very very sadly. the case that it hasn't really been and others just been said it would appear that is something that is going to simply say that lead let's have a change without the gun and let guys basically go ahead and get away that is actually extremely unfair and unfortunate do you know want twenty five years on i really don't want to know how many born frees or south africa actually nor their own history and i'm talking about contemporary history how many of them know what and what of the rest of africa actually contributed in part partly surprisingly now many of these guys are blaming africans migrating into south africa when the reality of the battle this phase is actually right in south africa is of south africa which is a big challenge and on that i actually think there has been insufficient leadership from the guys who were leading the n.c. most of whom were people who would know very well they either leave brought and

supported abroad or actually they knew that they were leading this process that it was a global thing and the global support for the liberation struggles of africa was across the race so really the bottom while it privileged white in south africa remain if you like racial the vast majority of the inequalities and injustices is really grabbed my from the economy call and structural that necessarily racial or a solution. is the a.n.c. irredeemably corrupt would south africa twenty five years after the end of apartheid be betteroff now in the hands of the democratic alliance of the economic freedom fighters is it time to give someone else ago. i think the challenge here is what joseph has been in arguing and what. has been alluding to and that is the question of dealing with leadership and of course the question within the political part of the a.n.c. is the factional politics that seems to undo underpin the politics of the party and

tends to school over into the politics of the state and that in itself is something that needs to be looked at in terms of our electoral system in terms of how we vote and we in the in the in the last two weeks of an election process where we're going to be going to the polls on. mate and that in itself is going to be an important test of but the political party to see how much it winds and also of the opposition and then pulled out a suggested that at the democratic and has been through its own telescope and the internal part of politics you know in the west think it's been dealing with the beleaguered former mayor. it has not necessarily had success in the nelson mandela the debate with its coalition partner the effect the one political party that if there seems to be doing well in terms of its previous performance but the question then is other other political parties talking to this unfree generation and i think

that's the challenge because you as a born free generation that doesn't necessarily have the political loyalty to the in c. or ever but they're the one that has to understand the context of the political structure and the part that struggle and as a joseph rightly pointed out the country is made but the african country is in and its struggles so there's a sort of cut you short and i know that i should just if you want to come back on that but we're out of time i'm afraid thank you all of you for being with us today's inside story i should kasi joseph or chain oh and solution i do feel. q. for watching don't forget you can see the program again any time just by going to the website at al-jazeera dot com for further discussion join us at our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can join the conversation on twitter handle at a.j. inside story from adrian for the whole tape here though thanks for being with us i'll see you again i put out.

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four years. he said kitty tragedy. is sending his son mad and churches in sri lanka close the services being live streams as fears grow of further attacks. on the nineteen year old man arrested in the u.s. after a woman is shot dead at a synagogue in california. a breakthrough has been made in sudan between protesters and military leaders with agreement to form a joint council to discuss a transition to civilian rule it follows weeks of deadlock mass demonstrations along with the removal of president obama alba shia have a morgan reports from car too. a breakthrough in the very first night of talks between the committee of sudan's ruling military council and the coalition of opposition parties they've been trying to find a way to rule the country until

a deal can be reached on elections on saturday night the two sides reached a partial agreement to form a joint civilian military council that will supervise a transitional period so. the talks started with high spirits and great transparency and we've reiterated our joint regard for the country talks will continue and we are optimistic on reaching a final result that we can announce to the sudanese people as soon as possible. the coalition made up of opposition parties and the sudanese professional association has been leading anti-government protests which began at the end of last year. sparked by a rise in fuel and bread prices but they quickly why didn't into demands for bashir to step down and earlier this month a sit in outside the army headquarters in her tomb prompted the army to stage a coup since bashir was ousted the military and the coalition have been in talks on a future government over the usually continues until i give you a waiver for civilian government are certain sisters are we seeing the military

council is sensible enough drugs or stands out the longing something. the sit in for is now in its fourth week as people wait for a new government the two sides will meet on sunday to try to work out how to deliver that as negotiations continue on the formation of a transitional government continue to keep pressure on the military council over the past three weeks more people have been arriving from different states to go on the sets and they say they want civilian and not the military to be there want to have the ultimate say and to dance teacher protesters are now also focusing on foreign governments they accuse of interfering in sudan's affairs hundreds demonstrated in front of the egyptian embassy in her tomb on saturday egypt saudi arabia and the united arab emirates want to see the military retain control of the country. foreign interference is. only aim to keep the military in power we want aid to come to the sudanese people and keep relations soley between the people and not the military. or foreign interference impacts the decisions of the military

council which we don't accept because we want a civilian government and this is the will of the people. to dance revolution for change started more than four months ago and these protesters say they will not give up until they achieve their goal is to billion government even more going on just how to. live now to consume. what do we know about what's been agreed so far and how firm is that agreement. they agreed on libya on the formation of that council in principle it's going to be called the sovereign council so now we will no longer have the military council of say or a civilian council those who are opens it demands by the two camps now we have a sovereign council and that's just the first point the which they have agreed on they still have to discuss the details and the devil is in the details there are disagreements over several points how many numbers should form this council the

military say it should be only ten people ten seats seven for the military three for the civilians the protestor leaders they ask for a fifteen member council to have a majority civilian at least by one eight civilian versus seven military so these are points of discussion for more more meetings to come today on sunday and the following days they also have to to agree on how many years the transition should take is it four years as the opposition wants or is it going to be only thirty two years as the military want these are also just the beginning of many other points including the transitional justice the parliament the nature of the cabinet and many other things. we know that the protesters have been demanding for complete eradication of the remnants of the former regime that's a strong demand they are asking for and they are accusing the military of still

having among their members some of the offices and of politicians of the former regime so all of these things details are going to be discussed today and the next few days among the protesters behind it is there a sense that with beginning to see. a real political change happening here i mean could this spent a day in the to the protests. the protesters have these contradicts the contradictory feelings since the fall of the former regime on the one hand they are celebrating what has been achieved the fall of the former regime they are celebrating also these steps this agreement between them and the military but at the same time they express a lot of skepticism about the intentions of the military they think their foreign hands are there they think the military are listening to some foreign advise in foreign countries about what they should do they think that the military are be encouraged to stay longer in power and to get to hop

a bigger share in power they think that the military still have one food in the former regime and one foot in the in the new era of change so those things are that isn't why the protesters want to keep their presence in the streets and their leaders think that the presence of dollars in the streets is their main point of strength around the negotiation table and once people go home they will be weakened and probably they will not get the concessions they want from the military side. but many thanks. live in khartoum. polls open in spain for the country's national election in four years no single party is predicted to win an outright majority after a campaign that was dominated by the rise of the far right and the drive for catalonia is independent so we're going to go reports from madrid. a final call to

mobilize the party faithful spain socialist prime minister pedro sanchez surrounded by a sea of supporters urges them to go to the ballot box the country deserves to turn the page in the last seven years and look to the future with hope and excitement which is precisely what we are offering our citizens to the young what we are asking is that you vote for your future and therefore vote for the socialist party . voters have a wide choice decades of dominance by two political parties has given way to a multi-party system the largest players are still the socialist party so it and the people's party but their influence is gradually ebbing away. again socialists may be the head of the polls in the lead up to the election but the reality is that even if either side does when the most votes he will still have to go to coalition with the far left regional parties if you fail to do that but it falls on to the

people's marty and they were have to do a deal with the far right either way it is a big compromise for both parties. the main spoiler in this unpredictable election box capitalizing on the populist wave spreading through europe the anti immigration policies have resonated amongst voters angered at the status quo the constitutional crisis caused by catalonia as attempt to secede has also dominated this campaign it's the first time a far right party has entered mainstream politics since the dictatorship of general franco so what does it mean sovereignty won't be broken in catalonia it won't be surrendered in brussels we are not going to kneel down in front of those who don't respect the n.t. austerity together we can and center right citizens parties have a chance of being part of a national government. previous coalitions have struggled in spain disagreeing

factions have failed to pass national budgets the makeup of the next government is far from clear polling ahead of sunday's vote suggested forty percent of voters were struggling to make up their minds there are some people in between p.p.o. serranos there are some people that if they pay in between. and then some of them between. so we can see that there's not a cure but on all four you know one part. whatever the result forming a coalition is likely to take time and in a reflection of what's happening across europe the only certainty is that the politics in spain has become more fractured more polarized a sign of the times when an increasing combative political stage. al-jazeera madrid . stephanie decker is live for us now in madrid an almost impossible question to answer here stephanie what are we expecting to happen today.

the moment nobody knows the polls suggest that the current prime minister his socialist party will get the most votes and that it may be a left wing coalition but again you heard there. people undecided until today forty percent so could go either way where here are polling station in madrid and we've been talking to people and one of the most. enormous amount of people that they know will be voting for that right wing party say that they're sick of the two main parties that have been running this country for decades others say that they're sticking with them because they're the ones that will protect their values most it is impossible to call at this point in time what is clear it's either going to go to the left or it's going to go to the right when you also people if you look at the polls what is most important to the economy right up top corruption also major issue even though the parties have been really playing the independence card the right wing especially coming down very very hard on that people do still talk about

what affects them directly after the high cost of living no jobs even though the economy is better here aging these days the unemployment rate is still higher than most of europe so these are issues that people are also taking very seriously but again i think we'll have to wait and see how this day unfolds we're going to expect results around ten thirty tonight and i think people are concerned about a strong showing of that right wing party something that spain many people should be allergic to considering its history but again i think impossible to predict at this point in time very very. exciting times in a way because times are changing here politically we're just going to have to wait and see what the people vote for somebody thanks stephanie to life in the group. an elderly woman has been shot dead and three people including a rabbi have been injured in a gun attack at a synagogue in california a nineteen year old mom was suspected for.