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they have been leading protests in sudan since december i am the demonstrations were initially over price hikes that then turned into anti-government protests leading to a sit in in front of the army headquarters in early april the coalition says their vision for the transitional period is based on the demands of the protesters it's includes a four year transitional period a presidential or sovereign council an executive council headed by a prime minister with a civilian majority representation as well as a legislative assembly made up of one hundred twenty to one hundred sixty members forty percent of which must be women and an independent judiciary. this is our message to all demonstrators the peaceful work is what has led to our victories and that's what will help us achieve all the goals of the sudanese revolution and we shall not respond to provocations meanwhile the sit in continues with protesters saying they'll keep the revolution peaceful and keep their demand for civilian transitional government. we are the people of the revolution here
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we're all demanding a civilian government no matter what will be here to the demand is met and that is the popular demand. polish our demands is to continue. and continue our strikes. the military council and the opposition coalition may have more talks in the future as it tries to steer sudan out of the impasse it's currently with the ultimate decision makers are the protesters here who say if the outcome of the negotiations doesn't appease them they'll continue with their states and until they see the change they've been demanding. people here say they started their revolution that ended a regime of thirty years and they're happy to continue until the military council hands over power no matter how long that takes morgan to zero. talks aimed at restoring northern ireland's power sharing government to resume belfast it follows an admission by a dissident republican faction that it killed journalist londonderry last month and
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it's raised fears of a return to sectarian violence as reports. a smile from the woman who was first minister of northern ireland until the power sharing arrangement fell apart after the first day of tentative talks involving the five major parties ali and foster said her d u p was taking part with a good heart i hope everybody is coming to this process not just the democratic unionist party i hope everybody's coming to this process with a willingness to look forward instead of looking backwards because i think if we look forward then we have a chance to build something again here for the people of northern ireland that's what i want to say how playing on i hope it's what up the other parties want to see happening as well the stormont assembly arose from the good friday agreement which ended the violence in northern ireland but the assembly has been suspended since january twenty seventh teen the trigger was a scandal over a green energy project when foster refused to step down the late martin mcguinness
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then deputy first minister quit his post and power sharing ended now his should faine party the largest nationalist party says a return to devolved government is long overdue we are here to to do the business obviously the current stalemate is now six sceptical and it's not sustainable. there are outstanding issues that need to be resolved we believe they can be resolved but other issues of course in the way of a breakthrough in fein wants a law to protect the irish language and marriage equality for the community something the assembly actually voted for in twenty fifteen for the d u p those are red lines they're not prepared to cross and they like she would fain can veto legislation on such sensitive issues still some observers see signs shifting public opinion could lead to compromise in the current talks clearly people are stated at the lack of action in relation to the politicians and we could see that by the resupplied selections for the middle ground for the first time in northern ireland
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maybe in we always think that our politics here strike rate annoying the sceptic right to be in is quite mild quite a story but nobody's talking about a quick resolution of all the issues which divide the biggest parties here at stormont with european elections coming up later this month any real shift in policy could be a way down the line the dean barber al-jazeera belfast. coloring on the headlines on al-jazeera iran stopping its sale of enriched uranium and could restart high level production if world powers don't follow the terms of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreements afghanistan's capital has been hit by several explosions one of the blasts happened close to the attorney general's office in downtown kabul there are also reports of gunfire at least eight people have been killed in
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a blast outside a popular shrine in the pakistani city of lahore police say the death toll could rise a some of the injured are in critical condition. voters in south africa are casting their ballots in national elections the governing african national congress is expected to win by it but by a smaller margin it's been hit by a series of corruption scandals in recent years and accusations it's failed to provide basic services the opposition leader my money from the democratic alliance party cost his votes polls opens in the township of soweto a pakistani christian woman who spent eight years on death row in a blasphemy case has left the country. lawyers say she's headed for canada six months after her acquittal by pakistan's supreme court the verdict led to protests in parts of the country. the international court of justice is here in qatar as case right now against the united arab emirates for violating human rights council as government as the u.a.e. targeted its citizens based on their national origin when it expelled all
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categories and stopped them from entering the u.a.e. after the twenty eight seventeen blockades those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera. is coming up next to stay with us. to. your just. what was the glimpse of the country to go listen the children are deeply affected because we meet with global news makers and the stories that matter just zero. could breck's it bring violence back to ireland today we're discussing how an armed group is using britain's exit from europe to recruit disaffected youth join the conversation tweet us stream or leave your comments in our live you tube chat and you will be in the stream.
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not months island to mark the twenty first anniversary of the belfast agreement the a court also known as the good friday agreement is widely credited with bringing peace to northern ireland after thirty years of violence but could practice it undo it all an armed group known as the new ira responsible for the killing of journalist leader micky has already used it as a recruiting tool though the group is small and marginalized its recent activities underline the threat may pose to peace joining us from the island to talk about this another journalist susan mccann. damien mcguinness he's the chief coordinator for the organization and border communities against say it mark chris smith and also unionists. the town of them are i mean donald go in the republic of ireland pierce dirty is a shame famed t.d.o. m.p. for gonna go southwest hello everybody thanks for joining us on the screen i'm
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going to start susan on your twitter feed as a story here you've pinned it to the top of your twitter feed. why we're all talking here susan mckay on your twitter feed my tribute to lira near a mickey didn't die in the cause of irish freedom she was irish freedom and this is your tribute to. the whole world was watching what happened and how this young journalist died what does it tell us about where we are in northern ireland and i and right now this staff with this journalist how would you explain where we are. i think that there's enormous. grief and distress about the death of layer of maccie and i think that's not just because she was a young person she was only twenty nine years old. i think that's partly because in her personality and what she did was kind of like a personification of what we wanted our land to be after the good friday agreement . she was a young gay woman she was
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a journalist who looks into the deeper darker aspects of society she was very concerned about this shadow that the conflict in northern ireland which ended when she was only a baby really. has cast over her generation so i think that she represented life and forward thinking and progress the people who kind of seem to represent going back and violent past that most of us hope that we had moved on from and i think as well you know gerring the years of the conflict people in ireland and northern ireland in particular had become quite hardened to the killing of people on our streets and we have become used to not having to hear that kind of news so it was just deeply deeply shocking to hear this and to hear is on the streets of a beautiful city like terry where you know tourism is now one of the main industry is. you all have to remember the travelocity or your autograph. and understand
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what happened after the belfast agreement at the place that followed so when you heard about where. well it was probably late at night and it was you know watchman. riots had broken out and darien and terrible news can through that somebody had been shot and then later on it was confirmed that it was clear. i didn't know earlier it spoken to people in your personally you know obviously it's clear that anybody who can usually are it was was was touched by a remarkable person book or that was we didn't know where we were able to get to work because we could see your body was we could see your folks we could feel her personality come across. in our voice and her and her mission her activism and term rights. or the future but also about investigative journalist that was
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in a very early age and was just absolutely i mean i. read the following morning where the community can respond to what happened that night or there was hundreds of people there all. and. you know. the leaders of all the political parties where there was something that was it was refreshing to see that everybody spoke one voice. what happened the night before but also one thing would be the end of that type of activity and cheering from community leaders there and sometimes these communities get scary look i. don't people that are also dissidents but actually what was quite refreshing to hear it was you know people actually were trying to dissidents and carry on as well so there was a lot of there's a lot of what a lot
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a lot of shot missed and you know listening to lyrics partner and i still to this day i don't know where she got the strength to utter the words that she did on the streets of crank and not just you know just. hundred yards from where our. project lead. to subscripts pierce you mentioned hope and you mention the fact that the leaders of different political parties were gathered there and that is what the latest talk is online and what this means now and what the death of this journalist has meant and will mean this is alan mary this is just one of the tweets that circulating with this sentiment ellen writes as new talks among night northern ireland's leaders attempt to reestablish devolved institutions after earlier i mean he's murder my message to them is simple please make them murder our dear friend lead to better things work together please damien i'll direct that one to you about the political climate right now in this idea that it had to take
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a murder or something so tragic to lead to. change to lead to some movement. here and i started unfortunately so you know the slow to the slow will suck but if you a street are you know it forced to political leadership you know to realize that this is the image that we have been in for two and a half uses of acceptable we citizens who live here expect that we can have a government you know. somebody used the people who were up for a road the time of the sighting of the good friday walk the low of cruelest new society for our country. shocking with the sheet is all acceptable we don't want to see any more deaths here. the political leaders have a responsibility there was an agreement last spoke of it wasn't up to the moment of the politics that speed revisit the status of society you know wants to see the
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establishment of evolution i don't breaks it how it was conveyed to the i was polluted to the political process and house coast to. for stem it you know hopefully and in the weeks ahead we will see that breaks it will be the result to a degree deliver a conservative party in the u.k. are in negotiations about how the end may have pos this agreement to be a kid has agreed with the and so there are lots of things in the mix but with the recent a look at elections that happened here just last week that has been a move that we have from from some of the that what people call the extreme sides that breaks a tierce and that has moved to cork rock into the more moderate alliance party we saw. the democratic unionist party you were the brakes to your party or. you know how to kill it off some of the more rate we know minutes and moderate
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people within the agonising morrow voting for the alliance harpy particularly people who support remaining in the e.u. so we do see i came to the ship to a caller in on the ground ok. tell me if i'm making typically here the violence that seems to be bubbling up right now in northern ireland seems that they coinciding with the black that and go sanctions is that the impact of bright think on nov an island that's. a leap i think that's certainly feel that people who. are exploiting a political vacuum. but let's be fairly clear i don't believe there are politically motivated i think there thought i don't think we should be treated as much. they are exploiting so to asians and it's always going to be
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a difficult. time for the u.k. they're exploiting it if it was a break that they would try and find some other. situation to try and exploit because they. will not sort of vacuum i think the fact that there is no government instrument is probably a bigger vacuum but. i think. it was probably at the same gathering as pierce was it was really heartening to see political leaders from all of me and parties together i think you know talk is cheap and i think we really need to see. we need to see some action as a result of that and if we can't in the backdrop of a lot of the horrible horrible events if we can't make some progress in the backdrop of that i think it's really clear that we're not. so chris i want to break this down for our international audience who may not be just as clear because you said absently are exploiting it so they here is this group here have the headline
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from the irish news on my screen new ira that's the group that has admitted to the murder of journalist leader mickey and offers quote sincere apologies but just like you there are members of our community including someone who is watching right now and wrote on you tube that still these two things are not related so low says how can we expose the breck sit with the unfortunate death of leroy mchugh so easily i still think that violence specifically is in protests there generally caused by deep for problems so for someone to have us out of a. text i knew you would first i want to give us some context on these two things being breck's it and the violence that's bubbling up without a video comment from someone who researches this she's the assistant professor in political science and she talked to us from belfast alison breaks it has kind of pulled an issue of the border and ireland back into the mainstream in a way in which it hasn't been in recent years but it to vary from groups such as
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the new is not a consequence of breaks it as they are the traditional republican campaign for our issue ninety however breaks it and the instability that it has created is seen as an opportunity to be seized upon by such groups and the unlikely event that a hard border is directed it would undoubtedly be seen as a target. so pierce what do you make of that context i think is spot on there we have to remember that when it wasn't on the agenda when the issue of the referendum when we had functioning and power sharing between in paisley and martin mcguinness in the executive and the other parties or party to the executive there were little was going switch call themselves republicans who were attempting to argue on the on the streets zero zero zero and elsewhere and so on and. this it yes fund it and didn't you know that with her you know and. i wouldn't you know
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in any way suggest that this is because of your see these gangs do need to be frisked you know what was happening on the streets of derry was what happened the yearbook or where they try to shore stage a short hearing their easter commemoration and there was also some media attention and gary which there was a bit of a short four or a particular chatham or a. particular show and not lead to the riots and to the. terrible murder all of miramichi but that there will always be tight groups trying to exploit different situations that are right there our job is to base them dime not your money and. car bomb or simply. just the recent elections he's lost his seat and want to what i think is right it's also agree with chris these are republican these are. the republican there is
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a there is a way to achieve irish unity that has held that question still is disputed question but it made people think about the issues people that would help for it but it's been able to do it in a peaceful and democratic way what these. yes actually. our season. season is never just show you and guess that's why i know you've probably seen this but i want to i want to give an example of what it means when. facing down violent. so here have a look here my laptop has the originals of. twenty nineteen army unfinished revolution that is from the new ira and then you can see really closely on is taken out of the. local saying we are getting. can you help us understand what is going on here with the clash between the course
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and the new i i r. well i think to go back just quickly to the brics issue i think. the first thing that broke that represents is the disregard of the british government for northern ireland. as a country under the impact of the border with its and it represents a complete observation of responsibility by the british government towards the good friday agreement to which it is a coup signatory and that is profoundly destabilizing to northern ireland and that is a kind of destabilized context into which groups like the so-called realize can step but i think the pierces wrong to just describe them as kind of being like a gang that has to be faced on because you know dairy is a place that has really not prospered properly during the years of the good friday agreement and i think that's the scary thing about something like the realize is
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that they are able to find young people who are susceptible to their rhetoric you know that there is a better world that they can go and fight for using armed struggle and i personally feel that our armed struggle has been over a glorified in the city of terror. you know there's still a lot of murals and things around which glorify the armed struggle of the past and i think it's very difficult for adults to have moral authority in relation to those young people you know in a situation where others are there saying well look the good friday agreement hasn't worked the british government isn't honoring that sinn fein has been self into a situation where it's not there is no respect being shown to the nationalist and republican community and i think as well you know the local elections which have just happened here for the local councils has shown shouldn't fane losing quite a lot of support and area and i think it's got to listen to that it's got to see
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that you know some of the socialist candidates. or others including a dissident republican have received a lot of votes that would previously have gone to shit and failed and so i don't think it's really a good idea for shin fein to be too dismissive. i think that young people are vulnerable here because they haven't been given opportunities to share and the benefits of the peace process and tragically that's one of the things that we are in the key was kind of leading in her journalism and she was really really interested in trying to find out why the benefits of the peace process hadn't reached into working class youths of her generation past the half hour to. go on a book. problem. so that all right. we have a heart breaks that will really try to poverty to our father skills for. being
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calm but well especially in the border areas correct. income in the north says twenty so just so far. we haven't developed from the good friday agreement economic and. stock it seems to all because of. lucian stone because a lot of investment people are too afraid to invest with the uncertainty of rights yeah and i want to present a group of satan's point in terms of the issue of poverty and it's very clear to be seen particularly west of and i think him across this dismissive in relation to this organization then that's not my intention but i do believe that we need. republicans actually need basic dyna make it very clear and. actually addressing some issues and it clear this is not about eat it streets i can and should a young girl. not be can't on behalf of people cross the be able to pardon which
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republicans are also reckoning who are all it is not. you know a republican thing to do it to to organize the typos that have been organized and orchestrated by. people the youth organizations do not have popular support yes i did in candidates can you explain to us as an international community what is it that the new law and once one of the doing well look i think which i think trying to get rid of and i'm going to show i want incense and i've been trying to get rid of a point out between northern ireland an island and a child just like i don't. unified is that you haven't looked at that. they would like it that they believe in it and i want to argue that they're actually not a republican organization but they're a gang and that so i don't know about that you very very strongly believe that they don't have an agenda that was strategy and. you know that they should respond and. that's what they will create in the yard but it will also argue that they want to
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it's much dormant to the idea that they would want to see started off on if you want and it will also say very openly. look at exploiting the issue of right to try and recruit. people. to talk to the new ira you know well there's no dial in no and she. said on many occasions that we will sit with the dissident republicans and discuss but let's let's be very clear but this year public enemy number one for the dissidents archon are republicans because in these communities we tried our best to ensure along with a lot of community leaders right across to make sure that every. off of the type of activity we have with the issues that susan mentioned and damien as well in terms of already i think it is it's it's work noting that we have finally some good news in relation to bury the city feel an injection against just announce watson on
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investment and so we have a very very very we for what we need a lot more than just one hundred million dollars that just in our under one hundred million under five million starting up investment into the north and that's that's very clearly and the northwest area which is very badly needed ok so i guess just bear with me from as i do a little bit of an animation fry international audience and everybody clear about the u.k. where this border is between overnight and then on and said let's just put up the united kingdom and also the public eye and say you will see that let's go straight to it ok. and then we're going to go a little bit closer because i want to show you where the porter is between overnight is an island that's where it is and his this or of the united kingdom so you'll see that all coming up there you go to the united kingdom and then what is left fifteen doppler of that is the republic of ireland this is the island's republican to the united kingdom want to know one what is really really important
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is that who was there that that line damien that line right now where you live what does that look like right now. lastly how somebody from the light. stopped. leaving the european union many critics of yours would say that lie is house coast all of the storm by. the government within the opposition labor party as to how they would deal with the e.u. . why it has become such an enormous issue but i'm not going to take them because we talked about is the very beginning so about the peace accord so there's an there's an international peace agreement so you can't just rip it up and say where where where and leaving the european union so i'm just going to do that very quickly so you can tell international money is what is up i want to look like. the borders invisible to border i cross don't think order ten fifteen times a day does the road markings change on one side you go from yellow to white dots it
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those that europe's in the size of the sterett in the north i keep those currencies in my pocket the good friday agreement on the stump wish cross-court our institutions to e.u. framework and there are a whole lot of e.u. regulations on a lot of people who work. and we have a completely free open society here tonight i don't work where you want i mean i grew kosher yeah there are a hundred thousand jobs and all of us we use an awful lot and so wouldn't you and it was an enormous jobs risk across tourism i grew closer pharmaceuticals and also because so much of what we produce it up goes by my hand and you can see that we can see that animation which is why i spent some time just the. audience make out well chris i want to bring you back in here with this tweet from dieter and even if bracks that brings a soft border ireland will still be divided and thus the likelihood for occasional attacks exists with or without a hard border your thoughts. i suppose that's
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a fair point but if you then the important thing to remember is why it is divided and divided because the majority of the people in northern ireland want to remain part of the u.k. and when people talk about the belfast agreement which my party was instrumental in writing. they forget the part that part is vital and it was the settlement. and pierce is an absolutely entitled to his right to to seek a different to seek a different. constitutional position there is no question that at the minute and on every point since it was announced creation the majority of the people want to stay in the u.k. . so that's why our party's grand lines for any sort of saddle meant is that we simply remain there is no sort of border between one part of really in another opposition thank you so much seizing mackay. and thank you so much for getting us
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