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build another is mexico's new airport a legacy project or a white elephant. japan's emperor akihito is expected to formally abdicate in just over an hour from now at the imperial palace in tokyo now this will be the first time such an event as happened did not two hundred jazz the abdication ceremony itself will take just ten minutes. this is a scene from just outside the imperial palace people are gathering to witness the event but as our correspondent wayne hable tellus now because he's joining us live from there the weather is not being terribly helpful is it is that the reason why we're not seeing vast numbers of people outside today.

well quite possibly it's also in the middle of a very long holiday as well so people are taking advantage to travel but we are expecting some significant crowds to assemble around the imperial palace within the next hour to simply be here there are no big screens are born anything like that but it's a historic moment as you mentioned publicly they're going to see very little it's all taking place inside one room inside the imperial palace behind me it will be broadcast live around the country on television they'll be more than three hundred people inside that room when the abdication takes place you can see a line of vehicles now entering the imperial palace grounds they are some of the ip guests that will be in there the prime minister shinzo will be among them and he will be the one that will actually formally announce the abdication there will be mixed emotions martina i think around this country today about this historic moment there will be excitement about the new era coming sadness that this reign of

emperor akihito is coming to an end but for many people it will provide an opportunity for them to reflect on what it cheve during his thirty plus years on the throne and some of the challenges that he faced. it's been eight years since the earthquake and tsunami which changed the lives of so many people here. as home was destroyed that day and while he finds it difficult to put it behind him there's one moment he clings to. you walked over to where i won't. it must have been difficult for you i will never forget his words. the eighty three year old says meeting the imperial couple in an evacuation center gave him the strength to rebuild his life akihito his compassionate response to the disaster became one of the defining moments of his reign say for those affected by this terrible tragedy i feel deeply pain.

akihito succeeded his father in one nine hundred eighty nine and spent much of his reign trying to address the legacy of japan's actions in world war two but the emperor holds no political power and he's stepping down as the prime minister wants to revise japan's pacifist constitution to allow for a military instead of what it calls a self-defense force it's also believed that the emperor is adults with the government over the very future of his family the imperial family is generally regarded as fairly liberal but it's still a male dominated institution only men from the male line of the family can become emperor and the family has no power to change that it has to come from the government. once not all he told becomes emperor there are only three men left in line one of them is eighty three. of the donkey this time there have only been

female emperors from a male line in the past and there has never been a female line emperor we should talk about this it may mean changing tradition but we have to be flexible and reflect modern day society at fifty nine not he too is considered one of a new breed of royals and may relate to a different generation some of whom question the relevance of the imperial family the japanese such as die soon the relevance is very personal from time to time he proudly weighs the same clothing he wore when he met the emperor. i have been treasuring this cardigan and whenever something happens look at the cardigan. akihito retires at a time when the imperial family's popularity is high according to opinion polls but the transition will raise more questions about the family's future and whether more change will come to ensure it survives. and so when you've outlined so many of the challenges facing the imperial family for the future but he took himself

a very popular is a much support then they his decision to abdicate. yes according to polling much overwhelming support for that decision if we go back to two thousand and sixteen when he made that surprise announcement that he felt that he's advancing age is deteriorating health meant that he possibly couldn't continue to do his formal g.t.s. to the best of his abilities polling after that suggested that there was overwhelming support for his desire to step down although in that speech he couldn't actually say that he wanted to abdicate because it was effectively illegal there was no law allowing for abdication but after that public support after the clear message from the emperor himself in that message the government was really left with no choice but to pass that one off floor the following year allowing for education yes there are still conservative elements within society within the

government itself that are not in favor of education but it seems that the overwhelming majority of japanese want to see this happen they want to see akihito be able to retire and live a quieter life for now wayne thank you very much wayne hand correspondent to take you right across developments of the abdication as it happens here on out is here now to sudan where the main protest group has accused the military of trying to break up the sit in that is outside army h.q. in the capital khartoum that's where the protests have been gathering in their demand for immediate handover to civilian rule the military toppled the longtime president omar bashir three weeks ago but the army has been under increasing pressure to give up power mohamed vile as the latest. sudden tension at the sitting outside the sudanese defense ministry demonstrators worried about an imminent attempt by the army to remove the barricades and disperse the protest

earlier the army had to nost it had agreed with the protest leaders to clear the roadblocks and allow traffic to resume on several roads near the city but the opposition denied of such an agreement target reached. it came shortly after third round of talks that concluded on monday the tools sides agreed on writing a constitution of the collaboration that will organize the work of three transitional government structures a joint civilian military sovereign council a cabinet of technocrats and the transition of parliament. what all the details are still being discussed including the number of seats in the sovereign council how many members from each side and how long the transition should last before a general election can be held. very close to reaching an overall solution that will make everybody happy. to get the country out of this crisis we're still in negotiations to define powers in specialized roles so they can act as

a base for us to define the different levels of representation in the government. the proposal will be submitted within the next twenty four hours which will identify the power and relation between the transitional bodies and the different transitional institutions our city and will continue till our goals of the revolution for a civil transitional authority with all its executive powers is executed nothing will discourage us our peaceful resistance will continue. more than two weeks since the fall of the regime of model bashir the crowd at the sitting in front of the army headquarters only grew larger their commanding a speedy and from transfer of power to a civilian government. the city has turned into an open exposition ground for labor unions social movements come to the group's professional and artistic associations young painters artwork on a colostomy mural that's intended to gain

a place on the guinness book of records figure in mind and how. we wanted to create a list of one million signatures of protesters then we decided to decorate it with paintings that represent in fela break the revolution will be three thousand meters long and will go around the army headquarters as that's the space occupied by the stated. that the decay sion with which these artists work is matched only by the unabated vigor of this crowd that's been braving the summer heat for weeks refusing to go home until a real change is achieved. i mean go live now to values. in khartoum for a summer it seems as though there is. a pretty regular scenario of tension between the military authorities and the protesters in that the military want to clear away much of the city and allow for the capital to get back to normal but the protesters are adamant that they want to keep their city in as it is.

that's right martin. speak about what is in their interest in the interest of the military to see the roads cleared and to see the city in dispersed so that they can you know have those negotiations in a better climate that suits them the protesters on the other hand they think that their strength their only strength is that presence of people in the street on behalf of change and on behalf of more more reforms so as these things happen also there are parallel developments inside the negotiation and outside in the street these two places are connected we hear statements that contradict each other when these people come from the negotiations when they come out on those negotiations the the army tends to tell the people that you know things are about to be resolved that you know the two sides are close to each other that agreements are being made but the protesters announced different things probably that's

because there are things that go on during those negotiations that are not really if you will to us there is tension inside the negotiation that is not really clarified to the public but it's clear from the statements of the protesters themselves we know that they haven't yet agreed on any specific details only that framework of a joint council and also that they will write constitutional declaration but the devil is in the details what is going to be in that in terms of how many years the transitional take how many members from each side in that don't sovereign council and and myriad of other issues that they have not yet agreed on so there is there is difficulty inside the negotiation sphere itself and that reflects on the ground in front of the military compound the protesters want to keep this momentum and to increase it today about three thousand people are marching not marching with a convoy of protesters coming from darfur. overnight have been testing they have

strengthened the body cleans across the area in front of the military headquarters to show that they're not going to relent they're not going to give in and are going to give concessions they need complete change. live thank you. that the united states says little chap down in defeat the surviving leaders of the islamic state movement this comes after i saw released a video saying that this is the leader who backa al baghdadi if that is indeed the case it will be his first appearance in five years in the video baghdadi talks about the battle of battle guus isis last stronghold in syria which ended in defeat for the group's fighters in march at the end of the video there's an audience message that added on and it mentions the attacks in sri lanka al-jazeera can't confirm the authenticity of the video nor where it was filmed she have returned he

has law and now only u.s. reaction from washington. the pentagon says it's aware of the video or other and that it will continue to fight the islamic state with coalition forces a message also record by the state department in its statements of this fall is not over the state department says so it will also says the video will now be analyzed by u.s. government analysts for its authenticity the u.s. government has long believes baghdad is hiding in the desert either in iraq or in syria meanwhile plans to draw down the u.s. troop presence in syria continue however that's been watered down considerably since president trump announces intention to withdraw all two thousand troops from the area it's now thought that around a thousand troops will remain especially as coalition partners expressed their reluctance to join the u.s. and some sort of enduring presence in the region prominent afghans are meeting for a second day in the capital kabul to discuss talks between the afghan government

and the taliban the meeting of which is known as the loya jirgah has been a way to bring afghans together for centuries but many including the taliban have boycotted the event saying it wouldn't be productive among them the second most powerful man in the country afghanistan's chief executive abdullah. on a show that banished reports out from kabul. this is the day where the action truly begins at the loya jirga more than three thousand people in the big white building you see behind me have broken into groups broken into fifty committees to try to discuss and define what page should look like in afghanistan they will be in these groups debating that question anywhere between three and seven days they will do that by trying to answer a simple question and those four questions are what needs to be done to achieve long lasting pain what value should be safeguarded if the government does get to talk with the taliban what value should be safeguarded in those talks what type of

personality should represent the afghan government in those talks and lastly foreign policy what should the afghan government foreign policy be towards countries that do support the taliban in that in that time there are more than three thousand people they are meant to represent different ages different ethnicities different religions they mean to come from a very district across afghanistan and truly represent the afghan population and trying to answer these questions there is some criticism that that is not entirely true because the taliban does control can taste about forty six percent of the country and they are not in support of this loya jirgah if people from those areas came here they would face real danger upon returning to those taliban areas because the taliban does not support it via for the government's workaround has been to pull people in originally from those areas who may not live in kabul to represent the home districts they may have been away for ten or fifteen years so whether or not they do truly represent those areas that is up for debate. we've got

a lot on to come here at al-jazeera including take we've taken place and look at just what the abdication of japan's emperor means when a future of the country. spain's nation is policy begins told to form a new government a day after falling short of a majority in the election. get it welcome back to your international weather forecast well it is going to remain quite messy here across much of southeastern europe over the next few days we had this area of clouds are here with this air of circulation and as we go towards tuesday we really begin to develop some organization whether we do see is a lot of rain across much of this area anywhere from parts of romania up here towards the ukraine as well we could be seen as very heavy rain over the next few days and temperatures remain into the teens so as we go towards wednesday

a little bit of movement up here towards the northeast we see a little bit of a break in the overnight hours but the rain continues across much of this area for western europe though it is looking quite nice we're going to be seeing a lot of clear skies temperatures into the high it teens in low twenty's paris at about twenty degrees for the u.k. though it is going to be clouds and rain coming in towards mid week across much of northern africa we are going to be seeing some clouds not a lot of rain though where we are going to see a little bit of rain here is across parts of central libya we don't expect it to be too heavy but it is associated with this mass of clouds right here as we go towards wednesday that starts to push up here towards the northeast we're going to be seeing maybe some clouds for bogosity but for cairo it is could be quite a warm day across much of the interior down towards khartoum the heat is on as well attempt there forty three.

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been demanding an immediate handover to civilian rule. deposit emperor akihito is expected to formally case in just under an hour from now at the imperial palace in tokyo this will be the first time there's been an abdication to two hundred years right now we can speak to nancy snow who's a professor of public diplomacy at kirkuk a university of foreign studies and she's joining us from. thank you very much indeed for talking to us we're talking about this is being the start of a new era how would you define the era of akihito. it was quite extraordinary he really set a different tone all together from his father the imperial war emperor hirohito and akihito became the emperor of the people

along with his wife the empress michiko they were super popular with the japanese people because they had the common touch they were always there to comfort and console people in a country that lives through a lot of natural disasters they also went abroad and they represented a more moderating tone about more reconciliation between japan and some of its neighbors not delving into politics but offering an acknowledgment of what you pan had been during the war time it's an incredible moment for japan because where year out and some months from tokyo twenty twenty japan will host the g. twenty in osaka in a few months and the eyes of the world are on japan and you have this continual monarchy the longest in the world at the same time that there's

a lot of change and dynamism certainly in construction with a lot of buildings going up so and also taking in a lot of foreign visitors and tourists yet let me let me ask you then a little bit about the challenges that. that face not just the imperial family but japan specifically at this moment because there are a lot of problems as you've already alluded to the fact that japan's had its fair share hasn't it of natural disasters not least the tsunami. and there's also this demographic which is really really concerning for japanese people. that is true there is the low fertility rate which actually appears in a lot of other countries but japan is often used as the exemplar of the declining japan and prime minister has really spoken to this i think even with the choose saying of this new era of this beautiful harmony the idea is to go

forward and be positive knowing that there will be limitations due to the demographics the rising debt also the gender equality issues that seem merging even in the in the presentation of the royal family the the new empress will not appear in the actual ceremony one of the ceremonies tomorrow when when we have a new emperor and there's been some discussion about that but it will be very challenging for japan to deal with some of these social issues and the reason why there are now there are these a. worker or workers coming in a new v. says because they have to fill a lot of the service industry jobs and also agricultural jobs that they don't have enough japanese people to fill you also have

a lot of houses out in the hinterland who are abandoned her they've been left behind because more people are congregating in the major cities and japan so it's a lot more. of a picture that the world sees the challenges but i think that japan can offer though solutions that the rest of the world is going to have to deal with too as these demographics also occur in other places all right can be. a real sort of trend setter for that all right thank you very much indeed sir i would be have to admit that we are running out of time now live from tokyo thank you so much. now spain session is safely meeting to consider their next steps after their victory at the polls they failed to win a majority say may have to form a coalition which could take weeks the socialist won twenty nine percent of the vote but they still hope to govern independently. about three hundred thousand

bengal liam ranger refugees living in pakistan are hoping that some of them could soon get pakistani citizenship after a statement by the prime minister kong any of them have been living in the country for forty years in the second of a series on the plight of refugees come all hyder reports from karate. if come from burma and bangladesh with nothing except a load some looking to escape persecution in their homeland and others are extreme . they've set up temporary homes such as these by the arabian sea some have been here for about four decades and for them this unplanned urban sprawl is now a permanent settlement finding a job or deferred go there now here in our country where the high unemployment and a guy strapped economy might have your door and have basic identity papers it makes

it even more difficult. there's sixty one years old is life or death fisherman is hard uncertain brame had three days home and workplace and today he's reading your french crab others are preparing their nets before the height they may be away from their families up to ten days working from dilapidated pork but these people have few options what about it a little more you know my kids of forty years old twenty twenty five and eighteen my children are not rigid and have no documentation if we don't have proper documents then hell we get access to basic human rights like education employment. exis to hospitals and even to travel abroad well look i mean people here also say harassed by the local police and then it is in the us can that but it will it's not a good there's no mercy from the police here they harass you for not having

identity papers whenever your confronted by them or they put you in prison declaring you're a terrorist or collect bribes the poor are suffering. and many children here scavenge for recyclable waste to help their families sort of way. through a balance that other from the regulars will you can see all these kids around me they should be in school rather than in the streets but they can't get access to education as they don't have any identity papers but now prime minister emraan haun declared the plight of people here a humanitarian challenge same children born here should have a right to citizenship and the united nation a very big issue is of course their documentation and i think this is something that as you know the prime minister himself has mentioned the fact that afghan children and thinking of his children born and brought up in pakistan should have access to citizenship but in terms of that i mean i think the primary issue is

really documentation we applaud the prime minister proposal and we stand ready to assist the government of pakistan in any way for these people permanent citizenship had long been just a dream now many are daring to hope it could finally become reality. karachi. and in the next part of our series we talked to refugees who fled but her arm in nigeria. the mexican president andres manuel lopez obrador has announced construction of a new international airport in mexico city but he's being criticized because he's previously canceled another multibillion dollar airport project that was almost half built and well the apollo reports from mexico city thank lane the symbolic first of all mexican president and this man will look this over that announce construction of a new international airport for mexico city the project builds on

a promise by president look is what i thought for more austere government. as it will make him blow this is a fundamental project because it will resolve the problem of oversaturation that mexico city's current airport but it also serves as an example of how a rational policy of austerity can be delivered under a framework of honesty which is needed by the government of our country. the mexican president has been criticized for his plans for the new air can't however mainly because his administration cancelled the construction of a thirteen billion dollar airport project that was already forty percent completed saying plans for the state of the art facility were marred by corruption but the decision to cancel the venture came from an informal referendum were only one percent of the electorate participated scrapping the proposal altogether not only angered investors it swept markets downward komo support us of what i don't know how could a multi-billion dollar project be abandoned just like that in minutes it would have

been easier to continue and finish the project than the thought of the money to the gods for his part the mexican president insists that these decisions however controversial are consistent with his promise to end government corruption during a recent visit to the center to see air force base which will serve as the site for the new philippe on his international airport the president oversaw the auctioning off of dozens of government aircrafts once again promising to put an end to the luxury and excess of past administrations forty five million passengers transited through mexico city's airport last year well beyond the thirty five million passenger capacity like delays are becoming more common and serve as evidence that the facility is overburdened yet one of the biggest oppositions to construction of a new airport is from the airlines themselves the general manager for air mexico has said the company would not operate out of two airports a sentiment shared by several other air travel providers the president says the new

airport will be finished by the year two thousand and twenty four by the time his mandate in office has ended but the uncertainty this project has created is already being felt uncertainty over the future of mexico city as a regional airline hub and uncertainty from private investors who worry the president will make similar decisions over future contracts in other industry. mexico city. traverses take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera japan's emperor akihito is expected to formally abdicate in half an hour's time at the imperial palace in tokyo this will be the first time such an event happened in two hundred years the abdication ceremony itself would take just ten minutes this is the scene live from outside the palace in tokyo people are gathering there to witness the event and the weather

seems to have improved somewhat. sudan's main protest group has accused the military of trying to break up their city and outside the army headquarters in the capital they've been demanding an immediate handover to civilian rule prominent afghans are meeting for a second day in the capital kabul to talk about the discussions between the afghan government and the taliban the meeting known as the loya jirgah has been a way to bring afghans together for centuries spain socialists of the amazing to consider the next steps after their victory at the polls they failed to win an overall majority so they'll have to form a coalition which could take weeks or i try to date those are the latest headlines for us here it is there coming up next it's inside story. the official story isn't there and i'm sure we'll show you i don't care about the official story what has the media been telling join me in the house and on the front of my guests from

around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and think issues here and i'll just say. it's a threat iran has made before but this time the stakes are higher to the u.s. strangling iran's oil exports threatening to shut off the strait of hormuz one of the world's most important shipping lanes but one of the consequences not just for iran but the region and the global oil markets this is inside story. hello and welcome to inside story on camels santa maria when you think of important waterways in the world you probably think of places like the sewage of the panama canal is vital manmade shipping lanes which transformed global trade but perhaps just as important is the strait of hormuz i.