international workers day with a major show of strength on the streets one to take to force the president from power the other to try to maintain. the sea in human. have an. african union has entered sudan's military council to hand over power to civilians within sixty days the military council earlier one protester's not to take the law into their own hands as the demonstrators accuse the army of clinging to power and are demanding an immediate transition to a civilian government the military council is warning demonstrators against further blockades or destructions to daily life thousands of people have been staging a sit in outside army headquarters in khartoum in the tree council wants protesters to take down the barricades and streets and bridges this is where they were earlier on choose day and somehow be moved day by day depending on the mood in the streets and you can see how they're blocking the main arteries near the river and the roads leading to the military headquarters that's where crowds have gathered since april the sixth five days before the coup that ousted president. mohamed reports now on

the changing nature of the protest. a confrontation outside the city and these military headquarters protesters are taking that demand for at a time to civilian rule to the gates of the building not tal's as the contest minute to proves these after the transitional military council last fall the reopening of roads bridges a block by the protesters now told a completely outpost for. almost immediately the protesters began very implicit in the body creates they say the military is the real intention is to disperse them. because. we're going to have to help but no one can remove those barricades that have been put by the protesters to particular lives and only day you can remove it . until now this has been a happy place for weeks the protests here chanting and singing of themselves they need. peace justice and freedom. rises the message to the transitional military

council is simply. the impact of the blockade of the somebody he did bridges is being felt across the cup at a traffic gridlock called one of the few streets in central hub. they follow has been a taxi driver here twenty is. business is bad my income has gone down by up to sixty five percent since the roads were closed. for men is sudanese the fault of going back to anything similar to their own what i would but she had a years is unbearable until now the protests. and the protests are destructive but it's oh well we would not have seen a close roads or even protests if we didn't have to even say it's talks between the military council position parties and protest organizers to form

a transitional government continuing but no deal has been pushed up to several rounds of negotiations the most optimistic hope that the lack of a breakthrough is just another glitch in what is undoubtedly going to be a long process on the talks will eventually bear fruit. out here. but they are tending not going. to all just needa hot. ok let's bring in mohammad vall he's live for us now in khartoum mohammed let me ask you first of all about this line that the african union is urging sudan's military council to hand over power to the civilian civilians within sixty days do you think that the military is likely to listen to that. well rob it looks like the military ordered the understand that there is pressure from outside and even from inside as well they have been received they have been talks

since yesterday with an envoy from the suburb are sent by the african union the african union how we have seen how the position of the african union changed from week to week at the beginning they gave them two weeks and at the end of the that summit about the crisis in sudan that was held in cairo they gave three months and now they talked about sixty days so there is a feeling here among the leadership of the coup but african union is known for its flexibility over time they begin with hard positions and then they begin to negotiate and then they begin to become more flexible than before so it doesn't look like that the particular type of pressure up with by the african union is going to be a game changer in what's going on in sudan they listen to them they receive their own voice but you know from the from the different experiences with the african union coups in africa they always turn into finally to the core leaders and that's

something that's being said here in qatar and it doesn't look like that's the strongest concern on the minds of the of the of that he to ship of the military council. as far as the process themselves are concerned we've heard that the military is patience is essentially beginning to run out and the protesters are saying that they are still determined to maintain the barricades and keep on the streets is there a sense in the country about where this is going to go next. nobody really can say until now as we speak what will happen next there is a standoff between the two sides the talks have been stalled there was no fishel announcement the talks have been stopped but they are not happening yes that they. were supposed to take place didn't happen today there is no single announcement about when they will meet next so the standoff is already here the stalemate is

here and the two sides have not spoken today statements expected every day we see statements but none today until now. we learned that the leaders of the protest are studying their next move and they have said they will announce their view about the structure of the government to the public the usual thing to do is to go to the negotiation table that's what's been happening there in the last few days and present their views now they're going to present their views independently from the negotiations to publish not to the public. later today that's what they said waiting also for more from the military council after that presser yesterday in which the language was very strong and the threats that the protesters should clear the roads and the bridges and possible titian of supplies to go as normal no statement came from the military council since yesterday the understanding is that

there must be a move african union envoys here he's trying to mediate between the two sides. expecting announcements to come as usual every day none has come yet well not thanks very much indeed ok because to so many of the eight hundred meter olympic and world champion from south africa has lost her appeal against new to starts to rules in a flat ics the court of arbitration for sport made this statement in the last few minutes. five majority of the cast panel has dismissed the request club iteration considering that justice to me is a work enable unable to establish that the regulations were in. the final found the d.s.d. regulations discriminatory but the majority of the panel found that on the basis of the evidence by the parties in the procedure such discrimination is

a necessary result of all proportion it means of achieving the underbelly of objective of preserving the integrity of female atlantics in some truck you dance international competitions that is from one hundred meters to one my. ok our sports correspondent me welling's is joining me now live from london late this has been called a landmark decision one way or the other what are the consequences of today's ruling . well this is such an important and indeed complex case this taken the three lawyers of the court of arbitration for sport an extra month to come to the verdicts and they were split which is unusual so it's a wonder that really does have implications that go beyond athletics that even go beyond sport into the area of human rights we heard what cars were saying there about unnecessary discrimination interesting word to protect the integrity of female athletics but what does this mean for caster semenya will it means that she

would effectively be forced to take medication in order to compete in the event of which she is a multiple world a little pick champion the hundred meters there is still potentially a question mark over the fifteen hundred meters and whether she could come back and challenge for that but if she doesn't take the medication and she showed no indication that she would be out of the world championships in doha she would then be forced into a completely new events the five thousand and ten thousand meters long distance running i say completely new she has already tried to make a transition with a couple of attempts in the five thousand meters that she won in south africa but she has an eight hundred meter champion and the way of course the matter has been dealt with from the start by the national at that exact federation has been open to question from the south african government i mean human rights groups for a lack of compassion they were really dealing with athletics and not thinking about the human be. levi understand it correctly i mean sports authorities have made it

clear for years that they're against chemically enhancing bin that from abilities of any athlete and yet it seems as though one of the options they're offering is the fact that it is to chemically reduce that her natural abilities i'm going to guess that this is not the end of this debate and it's what stage does i mean you know do what she can do next in order to try to clarify what her own position is and also the position for athletes in a similar position where there is now a spotlight on gender and athletics the binary of male and female and what can happen in the future not just of course with athletes that have raised testosterone levels but also with transgender athletes but you're talking about the taking chemical substances i mean this is a sport athletics that all the decades i've been covering it it is absolutely

poisoned by dumping drug use and yet they are effectively saying you are literally saying you will have to take this medication to lower your testosterone levels in order to compete would you want to do that would i want to do that it really is into an issue of human rights it really does challenge the integrity of art that it's i should say about the governing body the i w f the starting point for this was trying to protect all of fleets and make sure that there's what they called a level playing field that's the phrase they constantly use but in doing so what does that mean for caster semenya she has chile just come out with just before it came on they are just check her social media to check the twitter and i think this is so much she came out and said sometimes it's better to react with no reaction leave thanks very much indeed. there are plenty more ahead in the news including

the workers rallying in many parts of the world on may day demanding better conditions and more rights. than day in sports football's concussion rules are once again in the spotlight just going to be here to explain why. a new round of talks between the taliban and the u.s. has started in qatar the u.s. state department says its peace envoy is on me is visiting doha to meet representatives of the afghan armed group it's the sixth round of talks between the two sides who are trying to find a framework for peace in the country the afghan government has not been part of the talks with victoria gating is live from doha shark village where those talks jus to begin the last time these talks were held victoria in doha they came out with something of a vague result is there any indication that there might be some more concrete steps taken this time round. well the two and so are underway

here at the hotel complex in the qatari capitals i hogged the u.s. team of the taliban team are said to be discussing a specific issue during this round of pool and that is of a cease fire now that it won't be thought of a few days or a few weeks that aiming for a cease fire according to a school of up to six months in generation there was a cease fire last june during the break and that was seen as successful so aiming to replicate that but for a much longer period now as you say that have been multiple rounds of talks since last summer in the qatari capital and during the last round in march they ended pretty positively the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei said that he was encouraged by what he had heard from those schools then the political leader of the taliban hailed those people and said that he would abide by a draft agreement that had been reached during those talks now those previous two

had focused on two specific issues one of foreign troop withdrawals there are about fourteen thousand u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan currently and that's how the man would like those to be with his role within an eighteen month period and in return for that they would agree to not allow afghanistan to be used as a base for groups like i sold out qaida to launch attacks on u.s. troops now the movies it has positive it's the start of the six six rounds of full busy important to say that there are many other issues that need to be results and discuss the full and ultimate peace agreement can be signed not least those that are very tricky for the taliban and that is whether they will agree to talks with the afghan government direct full it's something they've always said they will do they regard the afghan government as a puppet of the american administration and it's also important to point out that the afghan government itself is not positive the school it's been skeptical about

them and says the any zif agreement if and when it is reached would have to be approved by the afghan government as well so there's a long way to go in these peace peace will be joining things very much indeed. u.s. special counsel robert miller has complained about how his report into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election has been portrayed as a justice department official says mother wrote to attorney general william barr off to bar said there was no evidence that president obstructed justice said that didn't fully capture the context nature and substance of the investigations conclusions but was due to testify before the senate judiciary committee in the coming hours well robert is an associate professor at lancaster university he's joining us now from there thank you very much indeed for your time sir what do you make first of all of this letter the robot has sent to william barr. well i think it's unfortunate for american democracy that that letter had to be

written you know certainly we come out with the report after visiting the white house after deciding what would be redacted in what wouldn't be read acted from that report which is supposed to be public and that information is supposed to be provided at least to congress if not to the american public because it might jeopardize ongoing investigations but not only did he do the white house consultation not only did he did every reductions but then he did an unusual press conference where he started to spin the report to his conclusions his interpretations and didn't allow the report maybe to stand on its own for for there to be open public discussion you say that in his press conference he put a spin on the report for his own ends when it comes to talking to representatives of the government other any restrictions or limitations that might prevent him doing the similar sort of thing when he faces democrat and republican

representatives. well you know there are certain things that that are you know that in his position he can't speak about if there's an ongoing investigation for instance he you know he may not be able to speak about those things but you know this is this is a ploy by the trumpet ministration unfortunately to present the facts maybe as they aren't miller didn't say that donald trump was completely exonerated in fact the context of all of these different investigations dozens of people investigated or indicted have around this investigation and bar didn't mention those things so this is you know two to boost republican power in politics certainly at the local level by informing the patriots of donald trump that he didn't do anything wrong when quite frankly that hasn't been determined by this report the one hearing that everybody's going to be hoping is going to happen is of

course for robot mode to appear before a meeting of representatives how likely is that that's going to happen and what do you think is likely to say in the light of what william barr may say it's his hearing. well you know i think it might be unlikely for me were to just appear on his own that seems to not be his style now if he's subpoenaed or requested then then that might be a different story certainly i think mueller is really interested in seeing this as an apolitical approach and we meaning one that isn't pushed by republican or democratic interests in keeping our ousting donald trump from from the oval office what well what he might have to say though is that this this impropriety may be continuing that we've been seeing with the trump administration in bars representation of this report that paints. that this picture that everything was

perfectly fine when we were actually says well there are some moments here that we really need to maybe take a look at further but the evidence wasn't completely clear that donald trump and that anything wrong but there are still lots of questions that this report brings up that bar seems to be ignoring so we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed i was fifteen security personnel have been killed in central india up to the vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device police say the attack was carried out by modest rebels in the guts italy district so the bus is a retired komodo in the indian navy is also director of the society for policy studies he's joining us now via skype from new delhi thank you very much that for giving us your time and al-jazeera so why do you think this attack happened no it's not going to. be we eventually the. on need to do anything can.

be a model court of the siege other he often asian beach you know we. have been on you'll be mulling this and almost one hundred thousand at each. so the investigation seemed to say yes this was some kind of an exhibition to mange that had been. and then use this particular phase of the national election because if you look at the sequence of events is that. an arson attack on a number that got off a long. as happened in the morning consequently the not believe sent out response team and q.r.p. the chinese sixty. when the troops this particular making with fifteen believe but ultimately they went ambushed and this is in the death of the

last of these fifteen. it's tragic and i'm sure that the not be believed will be. for those viewers who are not familiar with the situation in can you give us some idea of what the rebels are asking for by carrying out these kind of attacks. india has been facing with conflicts eternal think out of the challenge it is often . left way extremism sometimes that is not made up of by the maoists movement. still certain states in central india would be good only modest up to be their back and the state of chapter nine which is the joining the the tribal area and the local. t.v. that they have not been given they don't and that is a small cluster not all of them there is a small group that has taken up. and this has been going on for more than

a decade if you will sort of a thought that in two thousand and five then prime minister mom on thing not them on wanting identify the next thing extremism the most serious not a big challenge on india so this has been going on for some years and india would have to find the most appropriate the most. and the most affordable response conflicts. out of the challenge they offered to them the media good to get your thoughts on the survey by scott thank you very much indeed for your time. that a few moments we're going to have all the weather with rob but first still ahead on al-jazeera the. celebrations in japan as not he took assumes the throne. and in sports the best of the n.b.a. playoffs as the bucs get fired up in milwaukee joe's going to go with all the action.

and you can smell the incoming monsoon weather in sri lanka this obviously is speeded up but this is what it's like of a colombo has last twenty four hours occasional rain a lot of clouds now there has been heavy rain on the eastern side because an incoming monsoon start to develop these things tropical cyclons now we know about this one this spinning white disk here pronounced funny it's substantial strength already now is over the water but it's gusts are over two hundred kilometers for and it's steady winds just and now it's slowed down yes the twenty kilometers from the movie about five that's a bit dodgy as it means judging it steering is can be quite difficult to say it's currently over the wall to clear the the clattered spread right of the indian

mainland and its direction of travel is full cost to be towards or dishes has gone off the top of. this off it will go up in that general direction now clearly as a tropical starter it has more than one element to it and the dodgy ones usually all those containing water so storm surge against these fairly low coast particularly bangladesh and wave heights already have nine meters a life is the most damaging aspect but a dish is the place to watch at the moment so we will watch it. as a sponsor i can tolerate. when your fiancee leaves behind bars. the engagement also becomes a life sentence. zero world hears from three palestinian women whose lives have been dictated by their relationships with men in prison. wedding on hold on al-jazeera.

the latest news as it breaks he just did not have time to be killed. payments and. burning to start bringing to the truth details coverage of the protests to stop the coffee pot odds let us take a look at them both classical tables from around the last few days and that is that water is once more rushing down it's all the wealth of the community that has barely begun to lift up.

your jaw does it a reminder of our top stories this are forces loyal to libyan walter you have detained two turkish nationals on monday turkish president of egypt tell you about a one called huff does advance towards tripoli up plot against libya's people. think on the world eight hundred meter champion caster semenya has lost her appeal against new testosterone rules in athletics meaning she won't be able to defend her titles so many and athletics south africa said it will force in the ronald. to take medication to lower the level of the hormone switch events or one against men was unfair. the african union has ordered sudan's military council to hand over power to civilians within sixty days the military council or warned protesters not to take the law into their own hands. wednesday marks international workers day or may day in the russian communists and trade unionists have joined rallies and moscow's

red square the workers are calling for more job opportunities and decent wages in the philippine capital manila just as criticize the government for its relations with china which you say is that to an influx of cheap labor. i may day rallies also underway in taiwan's capital taipei where it's a designated public holiday protest as there are also demanding workers' rights and protections. and also in france paul brennan his joining us live from around me in paris and of course that has been the scene of many protests all with the yellow vest demonstrations that we've seen over the weeks what's it like there at the moment. while the crowd which is several thousand loan is starting to move away down good about the mood but not switches over to my left hand side or to the rights of your screen we will we won't pound away from it just yet but basically what we're expecting today is a couple of things it's first of all with a major test of results both on the part of the authorities who are under the

pressure from the president no less to clamp down on the violence parts all the protesters it's all sort of just the result of those violent protests now last may fifteenth on goods so-called black last stand up this time around it could be as many as three thousand the hard cold who are willing to smash up properties and small shop fronts the authorities have got a new tactic first of all david appointed a new police chief in the past month over to squat with his predecessor he's come in a real baptism of fire off the him there are back checks approaches to the mosque to try to prevent any materials that might be used for violence making it into the main body of the protest and the police are also threatens each very strong arm tactics if any trouble does break out at the moment i have to say that was serious fun you can hear the music there's a book advance to my left and saw it as well everything's ok the sun is shining

there and the expectation i have to say is that things could turn violent later on the afternoon paul thanks very much indeed i'm about to say there was a lockdown is a historian and founder of the group of geo political studies is joining us now via skype from the us on provost thank you very much indeed for being with us or give us some indication first of all of how may day protests and demonstrations over the years have changed. well to be honest it's always been a very important day for the workers' movement in france it has changed in the last ten years i'd say as the unionized they should not the workers in trans has lowered considerably so the big trade unions outlast members more and more especially the three big ones which are the. embers yet and so as this membership membership no word the nature of the protests has changed with the new protesters new demonstrators who don't want to walk and don't want to demonstrate inside. the union organized marches which

leads to look under kind of demonstrations some of them being violent last year end year end two thousand and sixteen led to some pretty hard. strikes between the police and some radical demonstrators so yes and in the last ten years we've seen a shift and in the way may day demonstrations that are happening and france. as far as the nature of may day demonstrations over the years has changed is there a sense that globally they have become overtaken by wider events you mentioned there before that the ones in france obviously have that have expanded the remit if you were as more people have joined the protests but has the nature of the the fundamental part of the may day protests protesting far for basic workers' rights has that moved on and it's now become a much more different thing iran the world. well i think that there is definitely

still that traditional aspect i mean that the unions are still protesting and demonstrating but obviously if you look at today's demonstrations in paris i think you have a walk against climate change there's obviously began arrests so there's deaf ears sense that the nature of the protest and what do the people with the people who are getting to the street and actually. protesting on this specific date is evolving and that some of the more global questions that have been raised in the international years that in europe and in the rest of the world are obviously changing your gender the traditional agenda but if you look at the demonstrations you also see that there are attempts at creating convergences between detroit the more traditional unions and more traditional movements and. you were when you were kids on the blocks if you mark for instance to do climate change walk is actually

going to converge with some of the unions and another union marches also advocating both better workers lights and defensive europe and defense of. the fight against global warming so it's more of a blending of traditional demands and newer demands then then a complete then a completely new. recruit to test really interesting to get your thoughts on this but is hardly luck and thank you so much for your time your welcome japan has welcomed its one hundred and twenty six the emperor in a brief ceremony in the capital talking and now he took taken over from his father after he took abdicated on tuesday wednesday as more from tokyo. less than a day after his father emperor akihito retired and to rid of any his oldest son entered the same room in the imperial palace to formally take over the transfer of

ancient family treasures signaled the arrival of a new era the reign of emperor not all he told this was the first time in more than two hundred years that japan saw accession as a result of abdication then just minutes later this time with his wife imprisoned by his side spoke for the first time as emperor. nick sitting to the throne i swear i will reflect deeply on the course followed by his majesty the emperor emeritus and bear in mind the path by past in paris into we'll devote myself to self-improvement his father akihito sought to modernize the imperial family and bring it closer to the people but when first ceremony provided an indication of how far there is to go no female members of the family including not all he tours wife and daughter were allowed in the room the people who reside in

this palace are of course very important to japan but they have no political power since one nine hundred forty seven the emperor has been a symbolic figure only even changes to imperial war have to come from the government's allowing abdication required a one off law change and only males from the male line of the family can become emperor with only three males in line to the throne their lineage is under threat one of them is eighty three another twelve so there is likely to be increasing pressure on japan's conservative government to make changes to try to safeguard the line of succession people who want to maintain the imperial tradition in japan. they actually have no other choice than to modernize it further by accepting gender equality. in the. also become increasingly. japan's diversity was on display outside the palace people of all ages and

backgrounds came just to be close to history and maybe catch a glimpse of the new emperor they'll get a better chance in october when a more elaborate ceremony is held and the imperial couple will travel around the capital city but japan is now in the age of now the one hundred twenty sixth emperor of japan. tokyo. inherited by the japanese.