the council a coalition of opposition parties have submitted draft proposals for a way forward for how my daughter's life for us now in khartoum model mamadou or in any indication how they are protesters are going to react to this military suggestion. well it's. not clear how of our position will react of the moment but their proposed two. transitional council slot will have both representation of civilians but one heavily living on the military side which will deal with defense and security muds is another which will have a civilian majority which would be led by a head of state if it was the position of the opposition group that calls itself the forces for freedom and change which is basically sudan's constant opposition and civil society organizations and professionals of sudan who've been

behind the protests these proposals have come from some and men and then these personalities who have been tasked with the. task of mediating between the military and the opposition and then come up with these two councils and it will be very interesting to see whether the transitional military council will allow or a good we the military to get in the gated to the confines of just defense and security and see it power to the civilians mohammed just in the last twenty four hours the seems to have been some cracking in the solidarity that the opposition has had so far with the opposition still continue to speak with one voice. well not at all if you look at the events of the past forty eight hours the first salvo was fired by. the one of the needing well positioned leaders in this country

are former prime minister who said that a vision of presented to the military council by the civil society activists was very shallow and did not put into consideration or did not address the issue of how the military was actually going to hand over power to civilians he was supported by as strongly worded statement what it statement from the communist bertie with only the sudanese professional associations later on issuing a statement accusing the opposition of seeking narrow interests and quick gains from the negotiations so if you look at the kind of tit for tat that's been going on it looks as if the crux of the split within the opposition and this is the worst nightmare of the people of the done because that really weakens their on and sometimes the military is in the negotiations that are currently going on thanks very much indeed. still ahead on al-jazeera why people abused by catholic priests

in argentina want pope francis to return to his home loan. and want to turn the water in pakistan's largest lake into what else was a. hell of a we've had some rather surprising weather over parts of europe recently it's may we should be heading towards summer but instead we've seen an awful lot of wintery weather these photos of from the northeastern parts of italy but we've also seen snow in germany through parts of france and in switzerland as well and as well as some very wintry weather we've also seen some very strong winds for some of us in the southern parts of france and the northwestern parts of italy we've seen those winds gusting to around one hundred kilometers per hour now all of this is edging

its way towards the southeast and as it does say a cold day will continue to plague the northwestern part so a top temperature in london just of twelve degrees on monday for the southeast where things are going downhill we're going to see more cloud more rain and some of the rain is going to be pretty heavy the temperatures will be dropping as well as we head into tuesday so a maximum in vienna on cheese day just a fifteen and bucharest of thirteen and hey there's likely to be some rather heavy downpours around for the other side of the mediterranean here we've seen a fair amount of clapper to kigali over parts of libya and into egypt and you can see that trailing area of cloud is still with us at the moment still there as we head through monday and generally speaking to the south of that is pretty hot about thirty five a cooler to the north with twenty one as a maximum in benghazi. sponsored by catalona. people you all recalled on this channel in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel i do not

believe in a two state solution the official story isn't there and. i don't care about the official story if you were going to visit today you would say what has the media been telling. there's lots of great join me from my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here on al-jazeera. and what you know just a reminder about top stories this is a ceasefire agreement between israel and palestinian groups in gaza and egypt brokered the deal to end days of cross border attacks twenty four palestinians and four israelis were killed in this latest violence. u.s.

president donald trump says the u.s. will raise tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products to twenty five percent on friday this comes two days before both countries are settled to resume trade talks. the u.s. is deploying extra warships and bombers to the middle east in a message to iran national security advisor john bolton says it's in response to indications that iran may be preparing an attack on u.s. interests in the region. the international criminal court is expected to rule in an appeal by jordan for its failure to arrest form a sudanese president omar al bashir two years ago the court had requested the jordanian government to arrest the shia and to surrender them to the hague bashir. it was in amman to attend the arab league summit in march twenty seventh teen is wanted by the i.c.c. for crimes committed in darfur by militias aligned to his government well for more on this stephanie decker is joining us now live from the hague stephanie find

a center correctly but she had had trouble to several different countries not just jordan joining this particular trip but they seemed the i.c.c. seems to be focusing on jordan what are we going to hear in court today. we've been listening to the reaction to the appeal over half an hour now you can still see the judge. has findings there the reading between the lines of what is a very complicated legal speak let's say for us layman terms is that the judges have unanimously agreed that jordan continued to be in violation of its legal obligations as a signature to the rome statute or this is of course the underlying principles that founded the i.c.c. to hand over their share to the hague when he visited as you said there in two thousand and seventeen also yes you mentioned not the first time he visited a foreign country he visited south africa in two thousand and fifteen he was also not handed over the question really has to do with whether a signatory to the i.c.c.

must respect the immunity of a head of state who is not a signatory sudan is not a signatory to the i.c.c. but the judges here have you not unanimously agreed that that is not the case that jordan should have handed him over i think there are two bigger questions here when we look at the case is how effective is the international criminal court when it comes to these kinds of cases because it is at the mercy of member states carrying out what it calls legal obligations number two what is going to be happening to the former sidney's president omar al bashir we just heard from mohamed there in sudan we know bashir is in a high security prison in khartoum the military's already said it's not going to be handing him over that they intend to try him themselves in sudan you have various different aid organizations calling for him to be extradited citing basically that saddam's legal system is not up to the tossing that he needs to breed brought here to face trial on charges of genocide war crimes crimes against humanity for what he executed in darfur at the end of the day rob this is been an arrest warrant out for

ten years and he still hasn't made it here to the hague so he thanks very much indeed. voting has begun in the fifth phase of india's monthlong general election where eighty seven million people eligible to vote across seven states that includes two constituencies in the top of their shred opposition congress party president raul gandhi is seeking reelection for a fourth consecutive time the results of the seven phase elections is expected to be declared in may twenty third this election is being seen as a referendum on prime minister and the interim ots five years in office pope francis is in the ball garion town of a coffee screen delivering a sermon for the first communion of hundreds of catholic children but he's being urged by campaigners to return to his native argentina to deal with revelations of child sexual abuse committed by roman catholic clergy to international organizations campaigning on the issue are in argentina meeting victims has more

from want to say it is. these are victims of abuse by catholic church clergy those who have found the strength to speak out to demand justice they say there are many many more who are still too traumatized still summoning up the courage to talk . for ten years i could not speak about what had happened to me throughout my adolescence i could not put it into words i couldn't ask anyone for help. thirteen years old when he was sexually assaulted by a priest at his school he did finally manage to name his abuser who have ventured he was tried and jailed. testimonies voices and stories in public stimulation energize other victims to lose the shame to feel that they can share and take a step forward but the tide he says is turning in argentina in the around the world activists from the united states are in argentina to meet victims the share

experiences of a global scandal if we can cite several cases where bishops recently have refused to disclose information to prosecutors about crimes by their priests. and they can get away with it here because they operate with legal impunity. that has to change if the church here is going to become lawful and if it's ever going to become safer kids ninety six priests in argentina have been accused of sexual abuse but it's estimated there are hundreds more just a harmful have been prosecuted and thrown out of the church only now is the full extent of abuse in the catholic church coming into the open as more and more of these victims speak out so why they're asking is the vatican not listening to them not doing more to tackle the scourge of child abuse. the head of the roman catholic church pope francis has called the abuses ravenous wolves who must prepare for

divine justice zero tolerance and pope francis needs to get back here earth has zero tolerance. for that as assaulted a child from the. from their responsibility. then message is that if he can't tackle the issue in his own country which he's not visited since he became pope in two thousand and thirteen he won't be able to deal with the scandal in the rest of the world in the meantime the voices of the abused only growing louder. and shrine al-jazeera when osiris the un food agency says it's finally gained access to food aid in the yemeni port city of hard data for the first time since february the mission had been delayed because of security reasons the world food program had accused who the rebels of blocking access to

a warehouse in april it has wheat they can feed three million people affected by the war. in the republic of north macedonia a victory by the ruling party and a presidential runoff is being seen as a vindication of the country's controversial name change stevo penned it off scheme of the social democrats supports that switch he beat. from the opposition conservatives who wanted to retain the country's former name of macedonia the presidency in north macedonia is largely ceremonial but the election is the first since the name change and it's dominated campaigning marco so with each has more from the victory press conference in the capital scorpio. of the newly elected president of north with the dawning of their will point out of it is to bring the balkan country to the membership of the european union to create a unified council people selected the first president in the country changing thing

after three decades you got there that they signed press agreement last year on bridge with the don't you know. that agreement knew when they were consistently over like the complete opposition candidate it was an athenian of the dark over what the. casteth agreement fairly small to still do everything so it could be a lot of wind out of you who want a juror to your vote said that bullets politics of peace rival will leave the country to the divisions and uncertainty he's politics to needs to make more than country which is a member of the way nato newly elected president of the office is going to stick to a lot from the you summit in july hoping this country will get the states to start the negotiations for the membership everyone hopes here in skopje the outcome of presidential elections will bring stability to the country the prime minister's own insight said you'll work side by side and out of promising peace and economic prosperity to baseball the state. pakistan's largest freshwater lake has become

a dumping ground for industrial waste and to report some near munch on lake the pollution is risking the lives of people who depend on it. what is left of the water sprout mohannad dry. at one time hundreds of boards harder to get indeed shallow water now there are just a few dozen left. for these people or the boats have been their homes for as long as they can remember. i know that nobody and i got in the previous new had about fifty varieties of fish in much a lake but when polluted water came through many fish took a wiped out. here we used to have a good catch now we on the brink of ruin we don't even have drinking water here we have to buy it from the city for fifty rupees for a small drum. it's lunchtime and bread is begun a small stall stocked away in one corner of the book even the firewood above the

water line costs money budgets they say. living off the lake is less struggle and read out he does not know what really happened to his family let him out of dharma we don't even have houses here how can we give education to our children if someone among us gets sick we need one thousand rupees tolerance to take them to the nearest hospital from where will these poor people arrange the government to provide a service and houses we could live a normal life by doing other jobs like farming and such. here remember the happier . when there was plenty of fishing and the rich plant life including located provided a digital food for the people of montreal lake fishing i mean their main livelihood but because of industrial pull your parents now being putin did it ward a body awarded nor drink it was the first stocks are down the flora and fauna is

gone and it may destroy a whole way of life for death be put. as we traveled deeper into this watch the expanse of water we find more problem these people who had boats and lived along the side of the lake conditions now are the worst they have known. the world can a moment for them we request our government to make arrangements for cleaning this water so that we can resume our normal life it's the government was. sponsibility to facilitate us by providing schools hospitals houses and other facilities. lakemont jordan if their own used to be a popular dating ground for the magnitude e-book. more than forty different fish but the only ones to be small and used for animal feed for some fishermen to. come. they have been dory by the program that they would get

but haven't received any buggers on new prime minister jim rohn connors promised a clean and green country but the people who hate they made running out for day. care. and you can find a lot more information and more pictures as well on our websites that w w dot al-jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. this is all just in of these of the top stories the ceasefire between israel and the palestinian groups appears to be holding off the days of cross border airstrikes and rocket attacks so far there have been no reports of any violations since the cease fire came into force qatada in egypt brokered the deal after the mediation twenty four palestinians were killed in the gaza strip and four israelis

have died in southern israel during the violence in the past few days. israel as part of the fire reading to take measures. on the gaza strip notably is that basically what was asked by hamas. previously made during. for the israeli election president of trans stepping up pressure on china to resolve the trade dispute trump says the u.s. will retire of some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products to twenty five percent on friday is an announcement comes two days before representatives from both countries to shuttle to resume trade talks russia says it won't grounded sukhoi superjet one hundred planes a crash that killed forty one people an aeroflot flight caught fire as it made an

emergency landing and was forced to return to moscow's main airport shortly after taking off. the u.s. is deploying an aircraft carrier group to the middle east to send what it calls a clear message to iran the u.s.s. abraham lincoln and support ships have been dispatched national security advisor john bolton says it's in response to what he calls troubling developments in the region. four civilians have been killed in russian and syrian government airstrikes in northern syria the white helmets rescue group says the two week attack on rebel how they live as now killed at least sixty eight people the victims include a volunteer from the white helmets. the international criminal court is expected to rule on an appeal by jordan for its failure to arrest former sudanese president omar al bashir two years ago the court had requested the jordanian government to arrest by shia and surrender him to the hague but she was in amman to attend the arab league summit in march twenty seventeen is wanted by the i.c.c.

for crimes committed in darfur by militias aligned to his government and those are the headlines coming up next analogy that al-jazeera it's out front. on counting the cost this week from the world economy shutting down iran's ability to sell oil . in the structural phone screen of chinese tech giants of the f.b.i. sting. we'll talk to the inventor who suspects this technology is still counting the cost. as india goes to the polls what's the future for muslims christians and other minorities if they're in the remote the in the b j p when again. i met the arson in the recent easter sunday attacks that left hundreds dead across sri lanka reports now suggest at least one of the suicide bombers trained in syria

with i thought so is it too dangerous to allow former eisel fighters who've been in syria or iraq or even their family members to return to their home countries that's our debate but first the world's biggest exercise in democracy is underway in india with more than one hundred million eligible voters and two thousand political parties prime minister there in the modi and his right wing nationalist party the b j p looking to secure another victory but given the dramatic rise in hate speech and communal violence why should indians reelect modi for another five years all of this week's headliner spokes person alan kohler. alan kohler thanks for joining me on up front india is in the midst of elections and your party the b j p has been in power since twenty fourteen when they're in the remote is your country's prime minister but given your term in office has been marked by a nearly thirty percent rise in communal violence according to your own government's

home ministry figures why should the people of india especially people from minority communities reelect the b.g.p. . there are two reasons that you would see increase in statistics when i speak also and as as an advocate is there too we also encourage greater reporting for example sometimes it said that rapes in india have increased simultaneously you also have importing which means encouraging weak teams to come out and call and report so that's one part to it so statistics don't always give you the complete picture so if you would ask me as a government why should minorities or as a matter of fact why should any indian citizen look at the b j p back to power and prime minister more these specifically so michael the question is now show me a single deet of prime minister more these government that distinguishes between a into a muslim a christian a bulldozed a jew parsi or any other religion that is in india in any way show us the skin that

is discriminatory in any sense violates the constitutional principle of equality before the law so therefore i don't see it basically charges are made on us but i don't deny that agenda and work ever show us that well we're coming to inequality discrimination in a moment just on the attacks so when the u.n. high commissioner for human rights michel basher warns of increasing harassment and targeting of minorities in particular muslims and balance she's just a victim of misreporting in your view. well actually i personally reject it i don't hold them in very high regard personally because i think if they would like to travel it'll be on the can try in their offices i think they'll have enough work to do in the world that we live in india it's not the place that they need to be focusing on indians are focused on what's going on in india according to a study by india's and the t.v. network since your government came to office the use of hateful and divisive language by top politicians in india shut up by nearly five hundred percent they say your party's president for example i met shar recently referred to undocumented muslim immigrants from bangladesh as quote termites and infiltrators are you ok

with that kind of basically nazi like dehumanizing language just the kind of language this preceded ethnic cleansing and genocide in countries across the world infiltrators termites william use multiple questions into one so let's try and address each one of them so let's basically look at the analogy of a termite essentially and in india we are used to it because we do have a lot of it's they come from the ground and they eat you up hollow from inside and therefore in india if you would travel and ask people who live in the east india which has been inundated by millions of illegal immigrants we have districts in the state of assam that no longer have indian citizens and when i see indian citizens we including indian muslims too who are just on the language. and infiltrators that's not dehumanizing language no i think it's an analogy and it's a perfectly apt analogy because we make for cases when we raise these issues of illegal

immigrants we point out that they are the security of us because we in terms of india's reports coming out of links to terrorist networks and we have been of terrorism for almost three decades particularly from pakistan the second part is in terms of draining resources meant for indian citizens indian citizens are including muslim citizens and if you are going to have people who are not not. citizens of yours coming in there and let's look at it immigration is a problem that many countries in the west or whether it's you or whether it's the united states a lot and i'm going to jump in there was a different terminologies and donald trump has been criticized for racist language so not the best analogy maybe how about the b j p government ministers union minister on a day who said and i quote as long as there is islam in the world there will be terrorism until we uproot islam we can't remove terrorism you're ok with that rhetoric you're ok with him being in government representing the b.g.p.

well number one i do in my position to basically say that every individual has a right to articulate their point of view and as individuals we have as individual capacity and he has not spoken that in terms of a government policy to you ask me in my view i think i respect every religion and as far as i see it i am concerned about violence in the world but then i have the greatest respect for islam as much as i die for any other religion which is. someone who respects islam and indian muslims how do you feel about a b j p minister saying until we uproot islam we can move terrorism if you'd said until we were hindu ism would you be ok with that we wouldn't be ok with that why are you ok with this one is he not designed when he was you know as any fired. well i get that is that if we start looking at it only from the perspective of what b.g.p. says it then i'd say that you'd first have to do it if you want to make a case against egypt you have to look at the performance of every government and the statements and wild statements and quickly see i mean coming from

a lot of the. lawyers you know there was a lot and i'm. going to tell you you're going to but this is what about is about you know saying what about congress what about other people i'm not asking all of them when they're on my show i've interviewed shooter on this show happy to ask him all those questions i'm asking you on behalf of the b.g.p. you have a minister in government who says i repeat until we are islam we can't remove terrorism how does he stay in his job after making such an outrageous claim well i think there are three parts to it so if you ask me i'll say it also frankly. if we look at the global terrorist map there is the misuse of the slot by a large number of people and i know that it's not going to be without a fight it too will know that what he said we just respect let me know you love to hear this because it's uncomfortable so let's stop the encompass a lot of trouble we've devoted into isis and to muslim terrorism yeah but you know i'm not going to let it finish that until we are brute islam yes the world you're ok with so let me just no one really you're trying to get an answer from me without

letting me complete it so i will get this is the only color of authority but ok who has he spoken after perhaps. ten years coming and blowing up a few individuals we see as hundreds and thousands of people who have suffered from terrorism so that it may be more in that context he may be giving up point of view which may not be what you and i me use the same kind of language but he's entitled to under the constitution to have a point of view these as a point of view interestingly you mention kind of islamist terrorism and clearly muslims are involved in terrorism around the world christians have been involved in terrorism jews have been involved in terrorism and yet your prime minister nuri in the modi said last month that quote nowhere in history have any hindus been involved in terrorism that's a ridiculous statement to make isn't it of course they have. well in the vast majority you would look at it in a somewhat of a legitimate issue and save our planet i'm giving a straight answer you're not going to but i don't assume you're literally jumped away and i asked what i wrote he said nowhere in history i'm quoting your prime minister no where in history have hindus been involved in terms of that's not true

we can both agree on that right when i have not heard of anybody using it. as a. just so the most famous probably terrorist in indian history who murdered mahatma gandhi the rightwing hindu nationalists not to run god say member of the r.s.s. the volunteer group that mr modi is also a member of he's not a hindu terrorist he's not a hindu committed an act of terrorism or well i mean i don't want that then perhaps you are looking at every murder to be touted as a that's a new death and i think the assassination of mohamed gundy was an act of terror i think that's fair to say it's a murder ok it's as simple but you're defining it as ted or ok i'm looking at it as this so let's go one by one how do we define in fact this is an interesting you know you define terrorism by a number of muslims let me just do my understanding of terrorism is when an individual in any capacity individually or backed up by a group in any pieces picks up and goes out and kills more than single individual human being by a bomb blowing themselves up picking up a gun and that's also an you know an act of terror in that sense because it's

terrorizing more than a single human being that's not what i want to sort of terrorism that the un uses or the us or the e.u. it's not about numbers of people dead it's about the political objectives but even if you take your definition of multiple people in to look a little security just get them to two thousand people going to finish an action of the result i got i got a lot i need to ask a question the. hundreds of people were killed by hindu nationalists terrorists were there not that was hundreds of people killed by hindu nationalist i will disagree with you completely because you see on the good routings i worked on that too so while everybody looks out the best to be korean looks at the muslims who got killed while we also talk about the indians who went out and seemed the muslims why don't we talk of the good job police that went into the new i mean by splitting. in short i don't mean i thought this is not a terrorist group because iraqi police fight them that's a weird analogy you know that we're not talking about the people who killed people in the drop whether or not terrorists yes or no have you finished so let me put it like this. number one you are looking some way to make

a interesting headline that terrorism is defined in a new way when it comes to look at it at the dia i'm going to reject that outright as a political person and as an advocate i can not count you out all the lights in india which is the part of india's history starting from one nine hundred forty seven right up still no one's ability to speak i mean no no no no no no so there's no no there's a lot of things we have i don't disagree with genocide i'm sorry let's you know but what about the genocide of eighty four again you're not about a motive you're literally saying what about about i'm not going to think that i don't question it a lot i get it in fact i begin to holland's editors and not to let me get under i saying muslims jews christians sikhs all carry out acts of terror you're the only one saying hindu there is not every act of violence and i disagree with you and i will continue to disagree because you are looking at defining every act of violence as dead or doesn't and i making a qualified well let's take it that if it is running out of time let's take

a specific case right now the g.o.p. has nominated for parliament a radical hindu nationalist name praga singh tuck or who is currently on bail facing tara charges under your indian legal system for her alleged involvement in a two thousand and eight bomb attack that killed six people can you point to a governing party anywhere in the democratic world which nominates candidates for office who are on trial for terrorism. well you should have come in attended her getting in the honorable supreme court where within that to go. in so many years of investigation under different regimes of government and i'm talking pragmatically of how to position body the congress party which went in and couldn't find an iota of evidence against you can't incarcerate a person just because you believe that she may have committed an act of dinosauria he did confused it as similar to that played out on bail maybe i'm mistaken she's not on trial for terrorism not she is i'm saying that on your account which i wasn't on trial for terrorism standing in power.